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September 27, 2025 - Newsom doubles down on calling White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, a "fascist"

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) spent all day on social media Saturday, defending his incendiary claim that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is a “fascist.”

Newsom decided to call Miller a “fascist” just days after the same accusation was carved into the bullet casings apparently used in the assassination Charlie Kirk. He had also called Miller, who is Jewish, “SS” — a reference to the Nazis who led the Holocaust.

As Breitbart News reported, several prominent commentators called on Newsom to stop the hateful rhetoric, including Andrew Kolvet, who co-hosted Kirk’s radio show and was close to the late conservative leader.

But Newsom persisted, and spent the entire day on Saturday defending and doubling down on “fascist.”

Often, Newsom appeared to imitate President Donald Trump’s rhetorical style, as he has done in the past.

(Read more: Breitbart, 9/28/2025) (Archive)

September 27, 2025 - A mass shooting at the American Fish Company restaurant in NC; suspect in custody

American Fish Company (Credit: public domain)

A gunman in a boat pulled up to the American Fish Company restaurant dock in the North Carolina coastal town of Southport’s Southport Yacht Basin Saturday night and opened fire.

The shooter killed three and wounded eight others according to a city official.

The shooter then escaped via the Intracoastal Waterway, however a person of interest was being interviewed according to a late update.

Nigel Max Edge was charged with three counts of first degree murder and five counts of attempted first degree murder. (Credit: Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office)

(…) The mass shooter was later apprehended by police.

Nigel Max Edge was arrested and charged with three counts of first degree murder and five counts of attempted first degree murder in Southport, NC.

Edge is a former Marine and Iraq War veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury and was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

According to Channel 2 Now – the U.S. Coast Guard detained Nigel Max Edge at the NE 55th Street public boat ramp, taking him into custody without further incident. He is currently being held at the Brunswick County Jail without bond.

Nigel Max Edge has several disturbing and rambling posts on social media.

Via We the People:

Max changed his name from Sean DeBevoise and lived in Oak Island, NC.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 9/28/2025) (Archive)

September 28, 2025 - Portland’s surrender to Antifa makes federal action necessary

President Trump’s decision to honor Secretary Kristi Noem’s request for federal and National Guard troops to defend federal facilities in Portland is not merely permissible, it is obligatory under the Constitution and the Insurrection Act. For over 100 nights, federal buildings and employees in Portland have been targeted by Antifa-aligned insurgents who openly declare the federal government to be an enemy that must be toppled. They block entrances, trap workers, assault officers, and obstruct immigration enforcement at an ICE facility. Local and state officials have abdicated their responsibility to protect federal property and personnel, adopting a policy of passivity that has allowed these camps to grow, resupply, and endure. In such a scenario, the President does not have discretion to look away. He has a duty to act.

The legal framework is straightforward. The Insurrection Act empowers the President to deploy troops when insurrection, rebellion, or unlawful obstruction renders enforcement of US law impracticable. Courts have repeatedly treated the determination of whether such an insurrection exists as a “political question” reserved to the President. In Martin v. Mott (1827), the Supreme Court made clear that the President is the “exclusive judge” of whether an exigency exists that requires calling forth military force. No governor, no judge, not even Congress, may substitute their judgment for his on this threshold matter. Once the President declares that an insurrection or unlawful obstruction exists, the only remaining question is whether the deployment comports with statutory limits. Protecting federal property and staff is unquestionably within those limits.

The Posse Comitatus Act does not bar this deployment. That Act prevents the Army and Air Force, and by policy the other branches, from acting as domestic police except when expressly authorized. The Insurrection Act is precisely such an authorization. Once invoked, the PCA’s restriction falls away. Historical precedent confirms this. President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne into Little Rock in 1957 and federalized the Arkansas National Guard to enforce school desegregation against the will of state leaders. President George H. W. Bush deployed federal troops to Los Angeles in 1992 at the request of California officials to restore order. In both instances, protecting the execution of federal law was paramount. Portland today falls squarely within this tradition.

Critics may insist that the Portland unrest does not rise to the level of an insurrection. But this is not a legal test administered by judges, it is a factual determination entrusted to the President. The sustained, organized, and violent attacks on an ICE facility and its personnel, combined with the refusal of local authorities to intervene, clearly meet the statutory standard. Sections 252 and 253 of the Insurrection Act expressly empower the President to act unilaterally when state officials are unwilling or unable to secure federal functions or protect the rights of citizens. Portland’s leaders have stated outright that their police will not assist federal officers at the ICE facility. That posture, by itself, establishes the impracticability of enforcing federal law through normal means.

The Department of Homeland Security has borne the brunt of these attacks. For over three months, DHS officers, U.S. Marshals, and Border Patrol tactical teams have stood as the sole line of defense against nightly sieges. They have cleared roadways so employees can enter and leave. They have protected transport convoys moving detainees. They have endured assaults with lasers, fireworks, and projectiles. Fatigue has set in. Secretary Noem rightly concluded that DHS needed reinforcement. Her request to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was not a plea for political theater, but a professional assessment that more resources were needed to sustain the defense of federal property. The President, faced with such a request from his Homeland Security chief, was duty-bound to honor it.

It is tempting to view this as a clash between federal and local authority, but that framing misunderstands the Constitution. Federal property, federal officers, and federal functions exist independently of local control. No city or state can lawfully decide to expose them to mob rule. The Supremacy Clause guarantees that federal law is supreme and binding in every state. When local officials obstruct that supremacy by failing to protect federal functions, the President has the authority, indeed the obligation, to intervene. To fail in this duty would itself be a dereliction of his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. (Read more: AmuseonX/substack, 9/28/2025) (Archive) (Videos in article could not be embedded.)

September 30, 2025 - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth must read all Generals and Admirals the following Riot Act for their COVID mutiny

Department of War

Quantico, VA

30 September 2025

Charge Sheet: To All General and Flag Officers of the United States Armed Forces

By order of the Secretary of War, the following charges are hereby preferred against those general and flag officers who, during the period of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, engaged in unlawful conduct under color of authority.

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

— John Adams

Mutiny (UCMJ Article 94)

Specification 1: That you, while entrusted with command authority, unlawfully combined to enforce directives in defiance of statutory and constitutional limits, thereby betraying your oath and undermining lawful military governance.

Specification 2: That you willfully allowed unlawful coercion of subordinates, compelling obedience to orders that contravened federal law and constitutional rights.

Dereliction of Duty (UCMJ Article 92)

Specification 1: That you failed to safeguard the constitutional rights of service members by denying informed consent and suppressing religious accommodation.

Specification 2: That you neglected your duty to protect the health, safety, and welfare of those entrusted to your care, thereby causing grievous injury, financial hardship, and death.

Conduct Unbecoming an Officer (UCMJ Article 133)

Specification 1: That you engaged in actions unworthy of commissioned officers by permitting unwilling medical experimentation upon service members.

Specification 2: That you betrayed the trust of the Armed Forces and the American people by prioritizing political expediency over fidelity to the Constitution.

General Offenses Prejudicial to Good Order and Discipline (UCMJ Article 134)

Specification 1: That your collective conduct caused the largest degradation of military readiness in the history of the Republic, inflicting greater destruction upon servicemembers than all combined wars of the past 250 years.

Specification 2: That you ignored communications and petitions for redress, thereby eroding confidence in lawful command and justice within the Armed Forces.

Action to Be Taken

  1. All currently serving officers named or implicated shall be ordered before general courts-martial pursuant to Articles 92, 94, 133, and 134.
  2. All retired officers who held command during the mandate shall be recalled to active duty under relevant statutory authority and likewise referred to courts-martial.
  3. Remedies shall be pursued to strip pensions and retirement income from those convicted of complicity.
  4. All such officers shall be barred from future appointment to senior executive service, advisory roles, or positions of public trust.

Directive

This charge sheet stands as notice that the Armed Forces will no longer tolerate betrayal of oath, dereliction of duty, or mutiny cloaked in administrative authority.

The Constitution remains the supreme law of the land. It will be enforced.

History will record this as the reckoning of an officer corps that abandoned its honor. May future generations see that when leaders failed, the Constitution endured — and justice was restored.

By Order of the Secretary of War

For the United States of America

If Secretary of War Hegseth is serious about restoring trust in the Department of War, he must do this. If he does not, he risks becomeimg an accessory after the fact. As a reminder, capital offenses such as treason, do not carry a statute of limitation. (Ivan Raiklin/Deep State Marauder, 9/30/2025)  (Archive)

(Ivan Raiklin is a retired lieutenant colonel who served in various roles in the DOD, Intel and Special Operations communities. He is known for his legal analysis of the illegally certified 2020 election and the constitutional violations of the Biden regime.)

September 30, 2025 - DC Police Sergeant arrested after crashing into federal agents’ car; found with machine gun and arsenal of unregistered firearms

A Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) sergeant was arrested last night after crashing his vehicle into a car carrying federal agents, and was discovered to be armed with a machine gun and a cache of unregistered firearms.

The suspect, Sgt. Montez Clark (age 27), was driving a blue Chevrolet Camaro when District and federal law enforcement officers attempted to stop the vehicle for what they described as an equipment violation, according to NBC Washington.

Rather than comply, Clark allegedly fled, colliding head-on with a vehicle carrying three Diplomatic Security Service agents.

Once the vehicle was immobilized, federal and local officers say they discovered a terrifying arsenal: two Glocks, one equipped with a “switch” converting it into an automatic machine gun, plus multiple types of unregistered ammunition and high-capacity magazines.

Clark, along with two passengers identified as Sakou Yates (25) and Russell Campbell (23), were taken into custody. Charges against Sgt. Clark reportedly include:

  • Assault on a federal law enforcement officer
  • Fleeing law enforcement
  • Leaving after colliding
  • Possession of a machine gun
  • Possession of unregistered firearms and ammunition
  • Carrying a pistol without a license
  • Violation of the National Firearms Act
  • Possession of a large-capacity ammunition-feeding device
  • Related firearms violations

Campbell faces an additional count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to WJLA.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 9/30/2025)  (Archive)

September 30, 2025 - FBI surveilled Rep. Scott Perry before seizing his cell phone as part of ‘Arctic Frost’ probe into 2020 election

Congressman Scott Perry (Credit: Scott Perry website)

The FBI surveilled Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) at his congressional office and private residence roughly a month before seizing his cell phone and demanding information for a sprawling probe into 2020 election interference, unclassified records reviewed by The Post show.

The files — which are part of a probe known as “Arctic Frost” that targeted nearly 100 Republican-aligned entities in the wake of President Trump’s electoral loss — show that Perry was trailed by bureau agents in July and August 2022.

“Goal from surveillance is to get a pattern of life, identify his vehicle, and possibly identify a location to serve him with a SW [seizure warrant],” one of the FBI’s documents stated.

Agents watched for Perry and took log notes on July 25 at his home “just south of Harrisburg,” Pennsylvania and at two workplaces in Washington, DC, other documents showed, while on Aug. 4, the congressman was surveilled at a “recreation center” in the nation’s capital.

The records were first obtained by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as part of his oversight of the Arctic Frost probe, referred to in the newly uncovered FBI files as a “sensitive election law investigation.”

“Why were apparently undercover FBI agents surveilling Rep. Perry while representing his constituents at the US Capitol?” asked Russell Dye, a spokesman for Jordan, calling it “a glaring separation-of-powers concern.”

“Was this something approved by Speaker Pelosi? Was it approved by the Democrat’s sham January 6th Committee? Should other Members be concerned that they were being watched for carrying out their constitutional duties?” he added.

The Office of Congressional Affairs was notified of the FBI wanting to conduct an interview with Perry, per the documents.

Five days after the last surveillance date, the FBI executed its warrant while Perry was on vacation in New Jersey on Aug. 9 during the congressional recess.

They had planned to surreptitiously record an interview with him the same date — just one day after agents raided President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.

“They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish,” Perry said in a statement to Fox News at the time.

“I’m outraged — though not surprised — that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland’s DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress,” he added. (Read more: New York Post, 9/30/2025)  (Archive)

September 30, 2025 - Law clerks hear a Federal District Court judge having sex with Atlanta PD Deputy Chief in her chambers

In 2023, we revealed to you that the current Sheriff of Fulton County (GA) previously moonlighted as a gay “soft” core porn star. We have more distressing & pathetic information out of Atlanta. As Law360, Reuters, & Bloomberg Law have all reported, the Judicial Council of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on May 22nd which affirmed a limp-wristed reprimand released in February that lets a sitting federal district court judge off the hook. The federal judge had sex multiple times during the workday in her chambers with a current deputy chief of the Atlanta PD. The judge even gets to remain anonymous! At least by the 11th Circuit, that is…but Marco Polo is not the self-protecting Judicial Council of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

There were several clues in the document released on May 22nd that led us to this conclusion (timing, appointment date, LinkedIn bios, etc). There are only 2 people that fit the clues: Judge Eleanor Ross of the Northern District of Georgia (which is based in Atlanta, as previously alluded to) and Deputy Chief Kelley Collier of the Atlanta Police Department. Both are also married to lawyers who are also paid by taxpayers. So not only were these two degenerates boinking on public property, they were also—along with their spouses—hauling in many hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in salaries paid for by you. Along with many other ironies, Collier has led the “VICE” unit within the Atlanta PD.

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October 1, 2025 - Chelsea Clinton launches an anti-MAHA podcast

Her Grace Chelsea Clinton — Queen of the Nepo-Babies, Heir to the Neoliberal Throne — has announced a brand-new podcast in which she resurrects the long-discredited “fact-check” scam in order to counter MAHA “misinformation.”

Lord, bring the asteroid!

Via The Hill (emphasis added):

Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is launching a podcast about public health…

Clinton is not new to the podcasting world. She hosted another podcast called “In Fact with Chelsea Clinton,” which stopped airing in April 2022…

Clinton teaches health policy at Columbia University and also serves as the vice chair of the Clinton Foundation.

The launch of Clinton’s podcast also comes amid heated debates over health policy in the U.S., especially surrounding Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his policy stances.

(Read more: PJ Media, 10/04/2025)  (Archive)

October 1, 2025 - Trojan horses in the fields of Education and Psychology undermine War Secretary Hegseth’s objective to remove DEI and CRT

Hey, @SecDef: DEI is NOT “Dead at DoD”, – I caught it on tape being covertly laundered through woke Universities lying about complying, to indoctrinate our warriors and military leaders with CRT & DEI, who take their civilian teachings right back to the DoD. Its paid for with federal funds, while the university President & Professors are caught *laughing* at you on video because they think they’ll get away with it. @DeptofDefense @matthewlohmeier.

Below is Part 3 of my continuing series reporting with  @JamesOKeefeIII  and @OKeefeMedia on the Defraud by DEI at Florida Tech, here upon the @DeptofDefense & @DeptVetAffairs (which administers GI Bill funds to woke universities indoctrinating warriors).

Why is the Department of Defense & VA (which administers GI Bill funds for tuition payments) still paying and partnering with institutions that actively violate Executive Orders of compliance for receiving federal funds? They are caught here subversively continuing to indoctrinate its students with the scourge of illegal #DEI discriminations and anti-American Critical Race Theory- while taking federal funds and partnerships with DoD facilities.

They will all continue this shell game of lying to you with words of compliance while doing deeds of non-compliance- until you require them to have full house-cleaning of their top leadership and Boards. A big task, but a needed one, to protect America. It is a great (though unfortunate) honor to have sacrificed my tenured professorship and job that I was recently fired for speaking up in reporting these truths, akin to @stuartscheller @matthewlohmeier, as a civilian in service of our service members and in service of our great nation.

00:01 @SecDef : “The era of DEI is gone at the Defense department”.

00:0 @JamesOKeefeIII

The President of Florida Tech, a man named John Nicklow, talking about changing the wording to get around the presidential executive order not to lose funding, for  @OKeefeMedia

00:17 President of Florida Institute of Technology: “And we’re not done, obviously.”

00:19 @Secdef “We’re done with that shit”

00:21 @TerryNewsome357: “The summarization was that we are going to pretend that we aren’t doing DEI, hahah, but screw you, give us the money” (on @XAmericaNews with @realMikeLauber).

00:33 President of @ Florida Tech, John Nicklow: So I’ve always used the claim that: “Oh, so your opposed to Diversity? Yeah. “so then how do you feel about the Veterans?” [he incorrectly conflates “veterans” as “diversity”, when they are not the same thing at all. Veterans have preference due to earned service and sacrifice they made- not due to melanin, genes, or other discriminations- and it is a disgrace for the President of Florida Tech to conflate the two things of great Veterans and illegal discriminations of DEI].

00:43 We opened the Patrick Space Force off campus instructional site, in the Fall [DoD Funds and Site].

00:49 Are you saying critical race theory? He said yeah, how do you feel about that? Well, I believe in teaching all of history: the good, the bad and the ugly. [so, he approves teaching critical race theory to students]

01:01 And am I saying to remove the course? Absolutely not, [DEI] is probably a very valuable course. [So., he says to keep teaching DEI and CRT to students, including those from DoD paying with DoD dollars and on DoD sites at Patrick Space Force Base]

1:07 Diversity is important, for a number of reasons. [So, he tells us the true “values” of Florida Tech under his leadership, and we know what is being hidden under different names]

1:11 I think [DEI/CRT] is a valuable part of an education [So, he tells us the true “values” of Florida Tech under his leadership, and we know what is being hidden under different names]

1:15 if we have to change some words so they are not being scraped and we are not targeted, then it allows us to do our work. [So, he admits to intentionally, deceitfully, and subversively undermining the Executive Orders of the Federal Government for receiving federal funds from @DODResponse. – this is fraud, on purpose, with intent, and intent to hide what he knows would get in trouble

1:28 Its 7 million dollars, that’s a lot of money, but if I lose 7 million dollars, we can live with it. [Oh… so he can do with out $7 million, you say? Perhaps that should be tested, @GovRonDeSantis and @DeptofDefense].

1:33 Wow, Florida Tech teaches DEI 101, because that’s no longer, is not allowed in a public university’s curriculum. [He knows his private institution is using public funds to do what would not be allowed to be done in public, further evidence of fraud and subversion].

1:43 My inclination is that you continue to teach those [DEI] courses. [Presidential instruction and approval given to college faculty to keep teaching DEI and CRT to indoctrinate students under the radar under the guise of different words. Complete disregard and disrespect for directives issued for complying for federal funds from @WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump @EDSecMcMahon @EducationFL & @PeteHegseth.

 1:48 I think the way I put it to the Diversity Cabinet was: we are going to continue to do what we do, lets not unnecessarily put a target on our back. [He admits the Institution will continue to “do what we do” in discriminating with DEI: is this a problem, @CivilRights and @AAGDhillon?] This is what they say when they think you aren’t looking.

2:01 We opened the Patrick @SpaceForceDoD off site instructional site off campus in the Fall 2025 at @SLDelta45. [Why is the @SpaceForceCSO partnering and paying funds to institutions that admit they are secretly indoctrinating Guardians with DEI and CRT teachings to hate America and denigrate American History while illegally discriminating against its citizens with DEI practices it admits is is continuing but trying to hide from their view so as not to get caught?]

2:07 They are not smart people… they are just looking for words. [oomph… not a good look to your tuition-paying partners and compliance inspectors at @WhiteHouse and @CivilRights, Johnny boy…]

2:15 So we modified some of the language- we have not change, if you noticed, the core values on our website.[So, he admits the fraud: words, not deeds; lies instead of actions; Deeds, not Words, am I right @JayCollinsFL @Bannons_WarRoom?]

2:23 Diversity is important, for a number of reasons. [Not according to Senate testimony of @SecDef.

2:38 If we have a course and it was called DEI 101….do we have that course? Yes! [roaring Laughter from the college faculty and president, because they know the joke is on you and they are getting away with indoctrinating your kids for millions in fraud].

2:50 President of Florida Institute of Technology: “And we’re not done, obviously”.

2:53 @SecDef: “We’re done with that shit”

2:56 President of Florida Tech: “It really does put a target on our back, and that could be problematic”. DoD happens to be quite good at handling ‘targets’. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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October 2, 2025 - FBI had three informants reporting Biden corruption in Ukraine, but no record of real investigation

Senator Chuck Grassley and Chris Wray (Credit: public domain)

(…) “Whistleblowers have provided my office with two additional FBI 1023 documents. These documents memorialize statements from FBI sources,” Grassley continued. “These two new 1023 documents are from separate FBI confidential human sources during different years.”

Grassley asked Patel directly at the hearing about how the FBI handled these three related allegations from human sources and whether the bureau made any effort to corroborate or obtain any of the records cited by those sources that could serve as proof of their claims.

“Regarding those records, did the Wray FBI make any effort to determine whether they existed? Did the Wray FBI make any effort to obtain those records?” Grassley asked.

“Not to my knowledge, Mr. Chairman,” Patel replied.

Both confidential human sources told the FBI about an alleged corruption scheme involving Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings and its founder Mykola Zlochevsky, who were under investigation by the Ukrainian government, the memos show.

Allegation: Biden money laundered by Burisma through Latvia

They told the FBI that they believed Joe Biden and his son were involved in the scheme while Hunter Biden served on Burisma’s board—a claim that House Republicans separately investigated in their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.

“Burisma Holdings (Burisma) owns 13 companies, which are used to pay dividends through fake consulting contracts. The contracts are paid to US investors and funneled through Latvia and the energy sector of Ukraine,” one informant told the FBI, a February 2019 1032 shows.

“Zlochesky [sic] owns between 30% and 70% of all companies in Burisma. JBIDEN and his son, HBIDEN, have money invested into Burisma. Their investment money was passed through a shell company in Latvia,” the memo reads.

The second confidential informant said that Joe Biden used his position as vice president to advance the interests of his son and Burisma in a meeting with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, echoing claims by the House Oversight Committee that Biden was engaged in an influence peddling scheme to win earnings for his family.

“The last time JOSEPH BIDEN visited Ukraine, BIDEN met with PETRO POROSHENKO to protect the interests of HUNTER BIDEN. JOSEPH BIDEN would “take care” of BURISMA HOLDING issues around the World and POROSHENKO would protect ZLOCHEVSKY,” a second informant said, according to an earlier June 2017.

You can read both memos released by Grassley below:

1023s_obtained_by_chairman_grassley.pdf

(Read more: Just the News, 10/2/2025)  (Archive)

Another whistleblower who was ignored – Andrii Telizhenko

GrayZone, 7/13/2023)

Former Ukrainian government official and diplomat Andrii Telizhenko joins Aaron Maté to discuss how, in his view, powerful US figures including Joe Biden have used Ukraine for personal corruption and the geopolitical aim of bleeding Russia — all to the detriment of Ukrainians.

Telizhenko worked for the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office in Kyiv before moving to Ukraine’s US Embassy in 2015. He went on to work for Blue Star Strategies, a Democrat-run lobbying firm that represented Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that appointed Biden’s son Hunter to a lucrative board seat.

Telizhenko, who cooperated with Rudy Giuliani’s effort to dig up information about the Bidens’ alleged corruption in Ukraine, has been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for “having directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign influence in a United States election.”

October 2, 2025 - Steve Bannon to Peter Schweizer: Charges against Comey ‘are just the appetizers’; historical roots of Lawfare

The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey has raised cries of “lawfare” from Democrats declaring that President Donald Trump’s administration is going after his political opponents.

It’s a rich charge to make given the number of prosecutions against both Trump and those in his orbit during and following his first term. One of those targeted during Trump’s first term, Steve Bannon, joins The Drill Down podcast on the most recent episode.

Lawfare — the strategic use of legal systems and processes to achieve a goal traditionally pursued through political means — tries to hamstring political opponents by tying them up in court, ruining their reputation, or bankrupting or even jailing them. Yet, as host Peter Schweizer notes, one man’s idea that “no one is above the law” often clashes with the tactical harassment of a political enemy. So, which one of those is the indictment of Comey?

“I do think we have to put this in perspective because the charges just went down — the lying to Congress and obstruction of justice — are just the appetizers,” Bannon says. He believes Comey’s indictment will lead to further accountability and speculates there will be additional perjury charges coming against former CIA head John Brennan, former National Intelligence director James Clapper, and former FBI official Andrew McCabe on broader conspiracy charges.

“I think that this is going to make Watergate look like the small-time burglary that it was,” he adds.

Schweizer references the charges brought against Comey and says, “It seems to me he’s guilty of those charges, but we’ll see what the trial brings up.”

Lawfare has grown as a tactic since the 1973 Watergate scandal, and there was plenty of it during the first Trump term, used against Trump aide Carter Page and many others. Comey departed from normal FBI procedures in going after retired Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump’s first chief of staff, interrogating him without lawyers present. His case dragged on for all four years of the administration, until the DOJ eventually requested its charges be dismissed.

Schweizer mentions two well-known proponents of lawfare — New York City DA Alvin Bragg and NY Attorney General Letitia James, who campaigned for their offices by specifically promising to get Trump. “It’s not like they said, ‘Hey, we’ve been digging through some evidence, and we’ve decided here are some charges that should be brought.’ No, they said, ‘If you elect us, we will find something to charge him with,’” Schweizer says.

“The state of New York changed its constitution so that big Tish James and Bragg could come after me,” Bannon says. “They’ll do anything.”

Lawfare has become the left’s go-to means of asserting power while being out of power.

(Read more: Breitbart, 10/2/2025)  (Archive)

October 3, 2025 - Biden DOJ partnered with hate group, SPLC, to weaponize civil rights enforcement

October 4, 2025 - FBI agent is fired for refusing to arrange a perp walk for Comey

(Credit: YouTube video clipping)

An FBI agent was relieved of duty for refusing to participate in a “perp walk” of former FBI Director James Comey, who was indicted last month on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice.

Comey was charged on September 25 with making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation.

The charges against the former director stem from his September 30, 2020, testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he allegedly made false statements and obstructed a congressional investigation into leaks of sensitive information related to the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, which spawned the bogus “Russian collusion” probe into President Donald Trump.

Comey was issued a summons directing him to appear before to appear a federal court in Northern Virginia for an arraignment on October 9. His lawyers have notified prosecutors that he intends to appear.

According to a report from CBS News, senior FBI officials have discussed the possibility of apprehending the former director and bringing him in for his arraignment as opposed to letting him self-surrender, according to a report from CBS News. According to the report, citing multiple sources familiar with the mater,  the bureau has weighed the possibility of having agents in “full kit,” including kevlar vests and “exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo” conduct the arrest.

Hundreds of January 6 defendants — the majority of whom were charged with non-violent trespassing crimes, as well as senior Trump advisors Peter Navarro, Roger Stone and other targets of the Biden-led Justice Department — were subjected to predawn raids by heavily-armed FBI tactical teams rather than being given the opportunity to self-surrender.

CBS News reported that Chris Ray, a supervisory special agent in the violent crimes division of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, was tasked with the order of putting together the operation. Ray refused, “believing it would be inappropriate and highly unusual for a white-collar defendant like Comey,” a source familiar with the matter told the outlet.

Ray was then suspended for insubordination, according to the source. (Read more: Trending Politica, 10/4/2025)  (Archive)

October 4, 2025 - Feds charge two with using their vehicles to assault, impede, and interfere with the work of Federal agents in Chicago; Chicago PD refuse help

Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz (Credit: public domain)

Two individuals have been charged in federal court with using their vehicles to assault, impede, and interfere with the work of federal agents in Chicago.

According to a criminal complaint filed today in U.S. District Court in Chicago, MARIMAR MARTINEZ and ANTHONY IAN SANTOS RUIZ used their vehicles to strike a vehicle being driven by an agent of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Saturday morning near the intersection of West 39th Street and South Kedzie Avenue on Chicago’s Southwest Side.  Two other CBP agents were also in the government vehicle. After striking the agents’ vehicle, the defendants’ vehicles boxed in the agents’ vehicle, the complaint states. The agent was unable to move his vehicle and exited the car, at which point he fired approximately five shots from his service weapon at Martinez, the complaint states.

Martinez drove off but paramedics discovered her and her vehicle at a repair shop about a mile away.  Martinez was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she received treatment for gunshot wounds, the complaint states.

Ruiz also drove away after the collisions, but law enforcement located him and his vehicle at a gas station about a half block away, the complaint states.  Both defendants remain in law enforcement custody, pending initial appearances in federal court in Chicago.

The complaint charges Martinez, 30, and Ruiz, 21, both of Chicago, with forcibly assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer.

The federal charges were announced by Andrew S. Boutros, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Douglas S. DePodesta, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the FBI.

The public is reminded that a complaint contains only charges and is not evidence of guilt.  The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

(Department of Justice, 10/5/2025)  (Archive)

The punishment could include DECADES in federal prison for Marimar Martinez.

18 U.S.C. § 111 — Assaulting Federal Officers
• This is the core charge: assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer or employee.

• Because she was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, the assault involves a “deadly or dangerous weapon.”

• Maximum penalty: Up to 20 years in federal prison.
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18 U.S.C. § 924(c) — Using or Carrying a Firearm During a Crime of Violence

• Simply having a firearm “in furtherance of” a violent federal crime (like assaulting an officer) triggers a mandatory consecutive sentence.

Mandatory minimum penalties:

• 5 years for possessing the gun
• 7 years if the firearm was brandished

These years are added on top of any other sentence — they must run consecutively.
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18 U.S.C. § 115 — Retaliating Against or Intimidating Federal Officials

• If her motive was to retaliate against or intimidate the officials (it was) because of their duties, § 115 also applies.

• Penalties: Up to 10 years (threats) or 20 years (actual assault or injury). Several federal officers were injured.
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Attempted Murder of a Federal Officer (18 U.S.C. § 1114)

•If the intent was to kill (it was) — and especially if she used the car as a weapon (she did) — prosecutors could charge attempted murder of a federal officer.

• Penalty: Up to life imprisonment
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Destruction of Government Property (§ 1361) or Vehicle as a Weapon (§ 111(b))

• The vehicle itself can be treated as a “dangerous weapon” under § 111(b).

She rammed a federal vehicle therefore adding additional charges for property destruction adding up to 10 years (or more if damage exceeds $1,000).

She injured and attempted to kill a federal official, federal prosecutors can stack several of these charges, leading to a sentence of 30 years to life in prison.

This footage is NOT from the attack in Chicago involving the 10 car caravan blockading our law enforcement, not involving “La Maggie.” This is from ANOTHER vehicular assault later that day in Chicago where an individual rammed an @ICEGov vehicle. This violence is rampant, as much as JB Pritzker wants to white wash the facts on the ground.

October 5, 2025 - Maria Bartiromo reveals the document deep state actors were looking for during the Mar-a-Lago raid but couldn’t find

(…) On Sunday, Maria Bartiromo invited former Congressman Devin Nunes on her popular morning show.

During their discussion, Maria held up a copy of one of the reports the FBI-Deep State- Biden regime was looking for during their raid on Mar-a-Lago in 2022.

The FBI was looking for  the Majority (Republican) Report on the Intelligence Community Assessment of the Russia influence campaign targeting the 2016 election.

** Here is a copy of the now declassified document that explains how the Democrats and Deep State apparatus worked to frame candidate Trump on bogus charges of Russia collusion to take the attention away from Hillary Clinton’s criminal email scandal!

NOTE: The Gateway Pundit posted a link on Sunday to the report that would not work later in the day.

So TGP downloaded the entire document — HERE IS A COPY OF THE ENTIRE REPORT.

The report was finally declassified in July 2025.

A synopsis of the unclassified report on the so-called Russian interference in the 2016 election:

** There was NO evidence that Putin wanted Trump to win.

** There is NO evidence Trump worked with Putin in anyway to swing the election.

** Leadership at the FBI, CIA, and Democrat leaders including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all lied to the American public in their attempt to bring down the Trump administration.

** President Trump survived a coup of gigantic proportions that was nothing short of a miracle.

** Numerous top officials committed crimes and participated in the attempted coup.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/5/2025)  (Archive)

October 5, 2025 - Russ Vought drops the hammer and freezes $18 billion of New York DEI mandated/Green Energy funds

Russ Vought just dropped the hammer on Schumer and Jeffries!

$8 [$18] BILLION in New York funding is now frozen.

The Hudson Tunnel project and the Second Avenue Subway extension, the crown jewels of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries’ New York empire, are suddenly on ice.

Why? Because Vought made it crystal clear: federal dollars will not be spent on projects warped by unconstitutional DEI mandates.

For decades, Democrats have treated the federal treasury like their personal piggy bank.

They demand billions for “infrastructure” in New York City, then quietly lace the contracts with race based quotas, equity requirements, and woke nonsense that has nothing to do with pouring concrete or laying steel.

It has always been about power, patronage, and ideology.

And every time, taxpayers from Iowa to Ohio foot the bill.

Not this time.

Vought’s move landed like a thunderclap.

Billions that Schumer and Jeffries were counting on just vanished overnight.

Projects they bragged about back home are now stalled because their gravy train runs on DEI fuel.

And when the watchdogs furloughed by the shutdown cannot rubber stamp the spending, the money does not move.

Cue the outrage.

Governor Kathy Hochul is already screaming about “political payback.”

Schumer and Jeffries are panicking because they know their constituents will blame them when the subway extension stalls and the Hudson Tunnel grinds to a halt.

But let us be clear.

This is not sabotage.

This is accountability.

This is what happens when you build billion dollar projects on an unconstitutional foundation.

The Left has grown comfortable with shutdown theater.

They threaten chaos, point fingers, and then quietly cash their checks while the rest of America pays the price.

But this time the script flipped.

Vought did not blink.

He froze their money and told them: if you cannot build without woke ideology, you do not get to build at all.

And that is why this moment matters.

It is proof that conservatives do not have to sit back and complain about waste and woke overreach.

With the right leadership, we can choke off the slush funds, dry up the equity mandates, and put America First in how our money is spent.

So let the Democrats howl.

Let the media rage.

At the end of the day, $18 billion is locked up, New York’s political machine just got kneecapped, and Schumer and Jeffries are left explaining to their voters why their pet projects are stalled.

The message is clear.

UNLEASH RUSS VOUGHT!

October 6, 2026 - Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson creates ‘ICE-free zones' to impede illegal alien arrests

During a Monday press conference, the left-wing Democrat mayor excoriated Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as “a rogue, reckless group of heavily armed, masked individuals” and claimed to have made certain parts of the city off-limits to federal law enforcement officers.

Johnson claimed that his order “establishes ICE-free zones.”

“In recent weeks, federal agents used several City-owned properties — including parking lots near Harrison and Kedzie, and a vacant lot at 46th and Damen — as staging sites for immigration enforcement. Such use of City property undermines community trust and runs counter to Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance, which ensures that all residents — regardless of immigration status — can live, work, and seek services without fear,” Johnson bloviated.

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids,” the mayor added.

At the press conference, Johnson blasted the Trump administration.

“We have a rogue, reckless group of heavily armed, masked individuals roaming throughout our city that are not accountable to the people of Chicago,” he exclaimed. “Their actions put all Chicagoans at risk.”

“Our school parking lots are not for ICE to load their weapons; they are for Chicagoans who drop their kids off to learn,” he said. “Our libraries are not for ICE to prepare for a raid; they’re for Chicagoans to read and relax. Our parks are not for ICE to set up checkpoints; they are for Chicagoans to play and enjoy.”

The mayor’s office later followed up by posting the order to social media.

“We will not tolerate ICE agents violating our residents’ constitutional rights nor will we allow the federal government to disregard our local authority.” Johnson’s office said after he signed this likely illegal order meant to impede federal law enforcement. “ICE agents are detaining elected officials, tear-gassing protestors, children, and Chicago police officers, and abusing Chicago residents. We will not stand for that in our city. With this Executive Order, Chicago stands firm in protecting the Constitutional rights of our residents and immigrant communities and upholding our democracy.”

Johnson also escalated his dangerous, violent rhetoric by claiming that center-right Americans “want a re-match of the Civil War” and that Trump has “declared war on the people of Chicago and people across America.”

(Read more: Breitbart, 10/6/2025) (Archive)

October 6, 2025 - A financier of international Antifa and the author of the Antifa Handbook, announces he is fleeing to Europe

Mark Bray @Mark__Bray, a financier of international Antifa and the author of the Antifa Handbook, has announced he is fleeing to Europe (believed to be Spain). The announcement follows the U.S. government declaring Antifa domestic terrorists, and the intelligence community looking to establish the international links to declare international Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization.

Without evidence, Bray says the reason is because of “death threats + doxing.” Bray is one of the major financiers of the International Antifa Defence Fund, which also announced that it was shutting down to relocate its operations abroad in an attempt to escape U.S. prosecution.

@RutgersU employs the violent extremist advocate as an assistant teaching professor. He previously taught at Dartmouth and earned a rare rebuke for his advocacy of Antifa political violence. Antifa believe in maiming and killing targets branded as “fascists” to further their terrorist cause. (Dartmouth)

October 7, 2025 - The Salt Lake Tribune incites violence with “Hole-in-the Head” cartoon

The Salt Lake Tribune published a cartoon calling for the assassination of Utah Republican lawmakers nearly one month after Charlie Kirk was murdered in Utah.

TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated during an event at Utah Valley University last month.

Earlier this week, nearly one month to the day that Charlie Kirk was murdered by a pro-transgender leftist, one of Utah’s oldest newspapers called for more Republicans to be assassinated.

“Less than a month removed from Charlie’s assassination in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune published this cartoon entitled “The Hole-in-the-Head Gang” depicting a wanted poster with elected officials from the state (with red around the neck?!),” said Andrew Kolvet, Executive Producer of the Charlie Kirk Show.

“Absolutely disgusting,” he added.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/11/2025) (Archive)

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October 7, 2025 - Violent protest leads to multiple arrests and injured officers in downtown Boston

At about 5:30 PM on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, officers assigned to District A-1, the Citywide Bicycle Unit, Special Operations, and multiple units citywide responded to the Boston Common for the commencement of a rally.

At approximately 6:46 PM, while officers were responding to an unrelated emergency three blocks away, the protest group, estimated at 200 to 300 individuals, blocked Tremont Street near Winter Street, preventing police vehicles from passing. Many protesters, wearing facial coverings and gloves, interlocked arms, chanted over amplified bullhorns, and refused to clear the roadway.

When officers attempted to move the group to the sidewalk to allow emergency vehicles to pass, protesters surrounded police cruisers, kicked vehicle doors, and resisted dispersal efforts. Several officers were assaulted during this period, including one struck in the face. Protesters also ignited smoke devices and flares, further endangering officers and bystanders.

As violence escalated, additional police resources were deployed to the intersection of Tremont and Winter Streets, where protesters continued to resist dispersal. Officers engaged in crowd control to restore order and effect lawful arrests.

During the disturbance, officers reported equipment being forcibly removed or damaged, including body-worn cameras, radios, bicycles, and other duty gear. Despite these challenges, officers made numerous arrests of individuals engaged in unlawful assembly, violent resistance, and the obstruction of emergency response efforts.

Four officers were transported to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. No arrestees required medical attention.

The following individuals were placed under arrest and are expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court:

  • Osama Khatib, 26, of Watertown charged with Resisting Arrest, Disorderly Conduct, Disturbing the Peace
  • Roder Atwood, 21, of Somerville charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Unlawful Assembly, Disturbing the Peace, Interfering with a Police Officer, Destruction of Property, Assault and Battery on a Police Officer, Assault and Battery Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury
  • Atalanta Carrig-Braun, 20, of Boston charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace
  • Haley MacIntyre, 24, of Dorchester charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace
  • Madeline Weikel, 27, of Watertown charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace
  • Jacob Pettigrew, 22, of Malden charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace
  • Amun Prophet, 25, of Allston charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace
  • Laith Hintzman, 19, of Boston charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace
  • Benjamin Choucroun, 20, of Medford charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace
  • Owen Woodcock, 26, of Boston charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace
  • Prahlad Iyengar, 25, of Boston charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace
  • Styx Hatch, 19, of Boston charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace
  • Gabrielle Smith, 28, of Cambridge charged with Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Disturbing the Peace

This remains an active and ongoing investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact District A-1 Detectives at (617) 343-4571.

Anyone with information related to similar illegal activity is encouraged to contact the Boston Police Department, or call 911 in case of an emergency. (Boston Police Department, 10/8/2025)  (Archive)  h/t Gateway Pundit