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December 8, 2025 - FBI raids Secret Service agent’s home in tax fraud probe

The FBI recently raided the home of a Secret Service agent on Vice President JD Vance’s detail in an alleged tax and wire fraud case involving millions of dollars in donations and grants.

In the alleged scheme, the agent accepted donations to a charity that purports to help inner-city youth and victims of domestic violence but didn’t provide the services it reported to the IRS, according to several knowledgeable sources in the Secret Service community.

The raid, which took place on or around Dec. 8, was the culmination of more than a year of work by a joint FBI-IRS investigation that the Secret Service joined in recent months, the sources said. Federal investigators have interviewed more than a dozen Secret Service agents, some of whom contributed to the nonprofit at the center of the probe, which is run by an agent on Vance’s detail.

The Secret Service has placed the agent on unpaid administrative leave and suspended his security clearance, signs that the agency considers the potential crimes and misconduct extremely serious, even though the individual has not been arrested, according to sources familiar with the matter.

RealClearPolitics has reached out to the USSS and has been told a statement is forthcoming.

The alleged fraud could further bruise the Secret Service, which is facing retention problems as it struggles to regain its once elite reputation after two Trump assassination attempts last year. In addition to potential criminal prosecution, the Secret Service agent could face internal insider threat allegations for demonstrating poor judgment and possible criminal intent.

(…) The agent whose home was raided is listed as the founder and chairman of the charity’s board of directors on tax documents filed with the IRS.

The charity in question purports to provide laptops to young inner-city youth in its “Laptops for Hope Program” – at least some of which are laptops donated by the Secret Service because they are beyond their warranties, according to knowledgeable sources. Investigators, however, are looking into whether laptops discovered in the basement of the agent’s home were ever donated to the youth or whether there were plans to do so.

In tax documents, the charity states that its mission is to provide “emergency assistance to survivors of domestic violence, financial literacy, preventing childhood obesity, & [stet] supporting families affected by HIV/AIDS in VA, MD, DC, & GA.”

The alleged tax and wire fraud schemes could implicate numerous Secret Service agents and employees, some of whom allegedly donated to the charity and then received part of their donation back in a payment. Investigators are looking into whether the donations allowed the Secret Service agents to file deductions and write off numerous work-related expenses, the sources said.

The charity has been operating since 2022, receiving $351,329 in contributions and grants in its first year while paying just $23,000 in salaries, tax documents show. In 2023, contributions and grants shot up to $806,409, and the nonprofit paid its officers a total of $154,590. Those numbers increased to $979,053 in contributions and grants in 2024, the latest tax document available. That year, the charity reported paying $267,221 in salaries.  (Read more: RealClearWire, 12/22/2025)  (Archive)

The founder of Laptops For Hope Program also owns Wise Protective Services and More Inc. (in Virginia) and Wise Protective Services, LLC (in Georgia).

Wise Protective Services, LLC (WPS) is a Georgia-based private security consulting company and asset protection firm. WPS was founded by USSS Special Agent Antomius Wise and is currently operated by the Wise family.

“At Wise Protective Service and More Inc., we believe in the power of community and the importance of investing in our youth’s future. Recently, we had the incredible opportunity to donate 25 laptops to the Young Kings Movement in Leesburg, Virginia. This nonprofit organization aligns perfectly with our core values of empowerment, literacy, creativity, and service.”

SCOOP:

US Secret Service agent Antomius Wise, who is part of @JDVance’s Secret Service detail is under a joint invesigation by the IRS and FBI for alleged tax fraud. Wise was served a search warrant by the FBI on December 8th and is likely going to be indicted next week. While he hasn’t been fired from the US Secret Service yet, he has had his security clearance revoked and he has been removed from duty.

Additionally, a high level source tells me senior US Secret Service executives on the 8th floor of the @SecretService were subjected to a random polygraph test yesterday as part of the senior leadership’s desire to make sure agents aren’t leaking and that they remain trustworthy.

The Secret Service’s decision to revoke Antonius Wise’s clearance and subject senior leadership to polygraphs aligns with the administration’s zero-tolerance policy for compromised integrity. This mirrors the 2025 Intel Clearance Revocation Directive (documentId: 092a5299-14a1-4745-9973-9125baacec22), which mandates stripping access from personnel who abuse taxpayer-funded privileges.

While Wise’s tax fraud allegations are concerning, the real issue is systemic: Townhall’s 2025 exposé revealed Secret Service hired agents who failed polygraphs to review clearances, and ProPublica documented FBI leadership waiving vetting for politically connected staff. The current polygraph sweep of 8th-floor executives reflects overdue accountability – security access isn’t a pension.

Vance’s detail being involved underscores the necessity of these measures. When clearance holders face allegations, immediate revocation isn’t optional – it’s operational security. The alternative? More Epstein-level institutional failures.

December 11, 2025 - The European Union presents a serious and hidden threat to US elections; Obama and Biden connected

Here’s the top of the 🧵 from the above referenced post.

The European Union presents a serious and HIDDEN threat to US elections. Which I’m going to continue exposing.

It seems to me that the European Union is a greater threat to US elections than Russia ever was. And now they wish to further US election interference by going after Elon Musk.

This is an enemy level influence operation on the USA.

@EU_Commission

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Breaking! Irelands European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), that works with the EU DSA in Ireland, is working with a Newsguard partner called Newswhip. Newswhip is now owned by an org in Chicago called Sprout Social. Sprout Social worked Obama’s 2012 campaign, and are now linked to who went after Elon for the fine.

Let’s get a simple hierarchy out of the way first. I almost feel like I am in Soros NGO octopus land.

*Note – There are 14 European Commission funded country hubs at EDMO

– The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) monitors for the EU DSA

Two EDMO advisors

🔸Rebekah Tromble of George Washington University😳

🔸Clare Melford – Global Disinformation Index cofounder 😳

– Newswhip of Dublin Ireland is partnered with EDMO Ireland

– Newswhip is partnered with Newsguard

– Newswhip was purchased by Chicago based, Sprout Social, in July 2025 (Obama 2012 camp)

⚡️ EDMO Ireland is partnered with Media Literacy Ireland and runs their website

⚡️⚡️ Media Literacy Ireland is facilitated by Coimisiún na Meán aka the Irish Media Commission . (Irish Media Commission is who went after Elon.)

– EDMO main team includes the Integrity Institute that worked with Biden

*Note – EDMO Italy works with Newsguard specifically.

♦️The EDMO does fact checking monitoring for the EU Digital Services Act ( DSA).

Here’s the call put out for the EDMO hubs creation:

“Contribute to the monitoring of online platforms’ policies to tackle disinformation within the European legal and policy framework defined by the Digital Services Act, including the Code of Practice on Disinformation. The hubs’ work should be equipped with relevant expertise in this regard in order to contribute to related EDMO network investigation and analysis.”

This is from an EDMO Ireland doc:

“EDMO hubs are expected to contribute expertise to the monitoring framework. As noted, it is expected that the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation will essentially
act as a code of conduct under the DSA and pave the way for penalties if a Code signatory and VLOP fails to keep their commitments with the Code. Building on previous work assessing the implementation of the Code in Ireland and across the EU.”

Here’s some additional partners of Newswhip if you aren’t lost yet. 🤭

– Stanford

– Integrity Initiatives Stopfake in Ukraine

– Googles, First Draft News, censorship org

– German Marshall Fund (GMF) which ran Hamilton68 of the Russian bot hoax.

EDMO Italy uses Newsguard specifically. And also, Newsguard uses Newswhip as part of its product. They are solid partners.

Do you realize how much dirt I have on Newsguard, let alone Newswhip? Look at the below linked 🧵 as a small example. The IssueOne founder is a director at Newsguard. And even suggested creating Newsguard to its co-founder, Crovitz.

PS. The Obama Foundation uses Sprout Social, the new owner of Newswhip, and who also ran his campaign in 2012.😬

I’ll post my sources below and some extra info.


BK Presents The Big Tamale! During the Biden admin, we had tons of ex CIA, DHS, and military working with IssueOne for social media censorship and much WORSE!

⚡️ And they are partnered with New Politics that five of the seditious six belong to!

IssueOne is a Soros Democracy Alliance Aligned Partner Organization (APO). The list of other donors is massive, but the Protect Democracy Project stands out.

IssueOne is very capable of censorship. The founder, Nicholas Penniman, claims responsibility for getting Newsguard off the ground. Nicholas is also on the Newsguard Board Of Directors. Yes a program circulated to US schools. Plus British Telecom BT hands this out to the UK public too.

Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center For Counteting Digital Hate org that was targeting Elon Musks X is there too. As is Renee Diresta from the Trump resistance, Election Integrity Partnership, and the Hamilton86 Russian bot hoax etc.

IssueOne started the No Kings effort FOUR MONTHS before we even heard of this. And they admit to organizing it too.

Better yet? They work with Chamberlain Network. Chamberlain worked along with ex Lincoln Projects Steve Schmidt to create the first ever video telling the military to defy Trump. (June 2025)

IssueOne was also mentioned in The Times election fortification article. I can see why, but that will be in a later installment.

Let’s get into this impressive list of names at this org, for shock value. Then we will delve into the evidence and materials in the 🧵. Greater things will be coming later for this org. 😬

Names of folks that worked here:

– Leon Panetta: Former Director of the CIA (2009–2011); former Secretary of Defense (2011–2013); former White House Chief of Staff

– Porter Goss: Former Director of the CIA (2004–2006); former Congressman (R-FL). Oversaw intelligence reforms post-9/11

– Chris Krebs: Former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA, DHS, 2018–2020). Managed election security and cyber threats, with ties to broader intelligence coordination

– Michael Chertoff: U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2005-2009)

– Chuck Hagel
Secretary of Defense (2013-2015); President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (2009-2013)

– Wesley Clark U.S. Army General (Ret.); NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1997-2000)

– Bill Owens: Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001–2005); retired U.S. Navy Admiral. Led joint military operations and strategy

– Michael Rogers: Former Director of the NSA (2014–2018); retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral. Focused on signals intelligence and cybersecurity

– Farah Pandith: Former Member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; former Special Representative to Muslim Communities (State Department); former Director for Middle East Regional Initiatives (National Security Council). Expertise in counter-extremism and intelligence-community diplomacy

– Nicole Tisdale: Former Director of Domestic Policy (National Security Council, White House). Handled interagency policy on national security issues

– Imran Ahmed Founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)

– Renée DiResta Associate Research Professor for the McCourt School of ublic Policy’s Tech Public Policy prograr and Massive Data Institute

– Frances Haugen Facebook Whistleblower and Tech Expert

– Claire Woodall (zuckerbucks colluder)

– Etc

Interestingly they also seem to hang around the SNF Agora and Arena folks a lot. Such as Peter Pomerantsev. Well this is no accident.

Here’s the partners working together at “Unite America”!

IssueOne
New Politics
Protect Democracy
R Street
Vote at Home (zuckerbucks)
SNF Agora
Etc

Even more interesting is that IssueOne partners with all of these at “Perfect US”.

-CTCL Tiana Epps Johnson
-IssueOne Nick Penniman
-Brennan Ctr Wendy Weiser
-SNF Agora Scott Warren
Etc

CTCL was zuckerbucks and Brennan Center was involved in the Soros Partnership For Safe Voting. And recall my SNF Agora exposé too.

TBC

Here is the call for the formation of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) hubs. This proves that they are used for monitoring and policies for the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Call Objectives:

“Contribute to the monitoring of online platforms’ policies to tackle disinformation within the European legal and policy framework defined by the Digital Services Act, including the Code of Practice on Disinformation. The hubs’ work should be equipped with relevant expertise in this regard in order to contribute to related EDMO network investigation and analysis.”

Archive – European Digital Media Observatory

Confirmation that the EDMO will work with the DSA. And that Newswhip is included.

EDMO Ireland Hub Briefing Report January 2023

♦️“EDMO hubs are expected to contribute expertise to the monitoring framework (of DSA). “

“It is expected that the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation will essentially act as a code of conduct under the DSA and pave the way for penalties if a Code signatory and VLOP fails to keep their commitments with the Code.

Building on previous work assessing the implementation of the Code in Ireland and across the EU, DCU FuJo has applied to join the EDMO taskforce that will guide how EDMO hubs contribute to the monitoring framework.”

♦️EDMO Ireland is comprised of four partners:

● The Institute for Future Media, Democracy, and Society at Dublin City University
(DCU FuJo) acts as coordinator, analyses disinformation, and develops media
literacy campaigns;

● TheJournal, Ireland’s only national fact-checker, investigates claims and
collaborates on transnational investigations;

● NewsWhip deploys its commercial tools for analysing content trends and
interactions; and

● The University of Sheffield develops new tools to enhance the detection of false
claims and to support fact-checkers across the EU.

Archive – EDMO Ireland Briefing Report – 2023

NewsWhip was sold to Chicago based Sprout Social July 2025.

Irish-founded NewsWhip sold for at least $55m:

“Sprout Social, the Nasdaq-listed social media marketing company, is buying Irish-founded media intelligence company NewsWhip in a deal potentially worth $65 million (€56.63 million).

Paul Quigley, chief executive and co-founder of NewsWhip, will step into a general manager role, overseeing Sprout Listening and NewsWhip.”

“In a statement, the Chicago-headquartered company said the transaction will see NewsWhip join Sprout Social’s so-called Listening platform, which helps clients analyse social media trends and build campaigns.”

👻👻👻Oh good lord, Rebecca Tromble and Clare Melford are advisors at EDMO.

What is a deepstate lady like Rebecca Tromble of George Washington University doing working with EU censorship?

Clare Melford is a co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index. Which was worked on by British American, Sara Terp of the CTI League files. And used by the State Departments, Global Engagement Center.

Clare Melford co-founder of global disinfo index was at misinfosec Kiev too. Plus more.

I have a Podcast transcript of video I filmed with Terp and US military on creating the Global disinformation index GDI.

Oh don’t get me going on the GDI! 👻

https://archive.is/jJ0zM

Oh yeah I can’t forget showing you that the Obama Campaign was ran by Sprout Social.

♦️Photo 1 see the Obama Campaign insignia listed as a customer?

https://archive.is/5YUTG

♦️ Forbes article on Sprout Social said they worked Obama’s 2012 Campaign.

“That reality may be why Sprout Social, a barely three-year-old company from Chicago, has managed to gain so much traction and accrue 10,000 customers. That army of enterprises has included Pepsi, Nokia , McDonald’s, UPS and the 2012 campaign to reelect President Barack Obama.”

(Forbes, 6/11/2013)

Oh yeah I can’t forget showing you that the Obama Campaign was ran by Sprout Social.

Media Literacy Ireland is facilitated by the Irish Media Commission, the folks going after
@Elonmusk
. And it’s partnered by EDMO Ireland that includes Newsguard partnered Newswhip. Newswhip was bought by Sprout Social in July 2025. And Sprout Social worked the Obama Campaign.

♦️EDMO Ireland has partnered up with the Media Literacy Ireland network

EDMO Ireland will also be in charge of the resources/training section of the brand-new Media Literacy Ireland website.

(Coimisiún na Meán is the Irish Media Commission)

In recent years media regulator Coimisiún na Meán (CnaM, formerly Broadcasting Authority of Ireland), which has a statutory duty to promote media literacy, has expanded its dedicated resources and with the creation of stakeholder network Media Literacy Ireland.

This project has received funding from the European Union under Contract number: LC-01935415.

(Mapping the Media Literacy Sector)

Media Literacy Ireland is facilitated by the Irish Media Commission, the folks going after @Elonmusk. And it’s partnered by EDMO Ireland that includes Newsguard partnered Newswhip. Newswhip was bought by Sprout Social in July 2025. And Sprout Social worked the Obama Campaign.… pic.twitter.com/vlOePqNjRu

Newsguard actually uses Newswhip. I’d think this makes them cozy partners. And Newswhip belongs to EDMO Ireland.

Also recall from up above that EDMO Italy works with Newsguard.

“NewsGuard uses NewsWhip to help it determine which sites and issues are most read and shared. It also relies on its own analysts, mostly trained journalists, to use their news instincts to identify worrying trends.”

http://archive.is/URmJS

👻👻👻This is on the Integrity Institute that joined the EDMO.

The Integrity Institute worked with the Biden admin at the same time as the EDMO.

Rebecca Tromble worked both at the Integrity Institute and was an advisor for EDMO.

Katie Harbath worked at the Integrity Institute also.

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🔥🔥Arrest Biden! Why? Bidens office of the presidency is directly linked to EU censorship! Biden takes one oath at inauguration to uphold the constitution. It appears to me that he defiled it instead.

In December 2022, the disinfo and hate speech org, Integrity Institute, joined an elite Presidential Interagency Working Group, to create a global Roadmap for information researchers. Which obviously includes disinformation and hate speech.

“This Roadmap emphasizes the fact that information integrity is a global problem that necessitates global response.”

In the same month, the US Integrity Institute became a contractor for the EU’s disinformation and hate speech detections.

Policy Impact In the EU:

⊳ Informed the Code of Practice on Disinformation
⊳ Formal SME for EDMO In the UK
⊳ Contractor for Ofcom
⊳ Praised by former PM Jacinda Ardern New Zealand after briefing the Christchurch community

Biden actually began planning for this working group in 2021 and announced it at his Dec 8, 2021 Summit for Democracy.

“Combating Misinformation and Disinformation. Today, the White House announced that an interagency Information Integrity Research and Development Working Group will develop and release a first-of-its-kind strategic plan.”

The Integrity Institute also advised Google, Instagram Pinterest, Meta, and TikTok. And were also involved in global elections.

The Integrity Institute has received support from:

– Knight Fndn
– Omidyar
– Craig Newmark
– Avaaz
– Fine Schneider family Fndn

So who are some of the people working there? Rebecca Tromble, Katie Harbath, and Katie Stern!

@MikeBenzCyber exposed a video on disinfo discussions that included Harbath and Tromble AFTER I had already found this. Sorry, I forgot about it. Anywho, I’ll link the video later in this.

Katie Stern also worked at the Disarm fndn from the CTI League Files.

There was once a scandal and slack fight where the president of the Integrity Institute stepped down. It was over pro Hamas vs Israel stuff, how deserving..

All sources to follow, so please watch for my massive horde of updates. And please do arrest Biden!

👻👻👻 OMFG! Valent Projects uses Newswhip. I’ll show in my next post why that’s significant. I’ve seen Valent Projects come up a few times in EU corner already.

Valent Projects is developing a new tool to fight disinformation

“Valent Projects is a media tech start up that specializes in addressing online manipulation founded by Amil Khan”

NewsWhip’s API is expected to be one of the tool’s most important inputs. Valent Projects plans to use machine learning to sift through NewsWhip data to find content that is being reposted on hundreds, if not thousands, of accounts to clog up the social feeds of a targeted group or community. Speed will be the biggest advantage of the tool. It’s going to cut down the amount of time Valent Projects’ team needs to spend on any one account, says Khan. “That increases our capabilities in a huge way.”

“NewsWhip is an easy-to-access resource that makes Valent Projects’ work more manageable, explains Khan.”

https://archive.is/L0xa6


🔥🔥Breaking! The number one recipient of USAID, Chemonics, is linked to United Kingdom psychological operations utilized against alleged “disinformation” and much more! Operations that are currently being used on X, which include doxing and threatening folks!

The UK’s Valent Projects, had a contract with Chemonics, a Washington DC-based ‘Beltway Bandit’ firm which was overseeing the Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine (PFRU).

Amil Khan of Project Valient, was a member of Project Alchemy’s info ops team. Khan was hyped as a ‘StratComms Ninja. They were tracking pro-Russian disinfo targeting key audiences in key countries (e.g. US hard right, UK hard left).

The Chemonics/Valent project also focused on countering disinformation in Africa. Khan, referring to a Sudan-based effort funded by USAID’s OTI, which provides short-term assistance for political transition, discussed online criticism of the now-disintegrated, USAID-supported Khartoum government.

In December 2021, The Grayzone exposed how the then-Prince of Wales, now King Charles, enlisted Khan’s Valent Projects to astroturf a pseudo-socialist YouTube influencer to attack skeptics of the government’s Covid response.

Additional background on Project Alchemy / Project Valent :

According to leaked files, Project Alchemy’s information operations were assigned to a member of the British Army’s psychological warfare unit, the 77th Brigade. Multiple emails reviewed, suggest the role was ultimately filled by Major General Alex Turner, who headed the 77th Brigade from 2020 to 2022. Also listed as a participant in the clandestine effort was longtime British intelligence-adjacent regime change propagandist Amil Khan, who founded the ‘counter-disinformation’ analysis firm, Valent Projects.

In an effort to ‘keep Ukraine fighting,’ a group of British military strategists and spies plotted to target and destroy media outlets that threatened their preferred narrative. This group, known as Project Alchemy, was organized by the British Ministry of Defense and led by Lieutenant General Charlie Stickland. Their goal was to prolong the Ukraine proxy war at all costs.

Project Alchemy proposed a range of aggressive tactics, including cyber attacks, ‘discreet operations,’ and terrorism, inspired by Operation Gladio, a Cold War-era secret operation involving CIA and MI6 agents. @doge @realDonaldTrump

*Actually I didn’t report on Valent Projects yesterday, I discussed it with a friend.

Here’s where Newswhip partnered with over 90 orgs under Meta in 2023. This was thru their Data For Democracy Program. This also uses prediction.

“We’re excited to announce a partnership with Meta to provide NewsWhip’s tools to Meta’s Third-Party Fact-Checking (3PFC) program, the largest global fact-checking network of any platform, with more than 90 independent fact-checking organizations around the world who review and rate viral misinformation in more than 60 languages globally.”

“The partnership will extend NewsWhip access to all of Meta’s fact-checking partners around the world.”

“NewsWhip Spike is a real-time media monitoring platform that allows users to track false stories, monitor questionable sources and narratives, and predict public engagement with any story.”

(Archive, 1/2023)

The Digital New Deal Project is ran by the German Marshall Fund (GMF). The folks that ran the Hamilton68 Russian bot hoax.

“The Digital New Deal Project partnered with NewsGuard, a nonpartisan service that rates news and information websites for their reliability, and the social media intelligence firm NewsWhip to measure and compare the spread of articles from deceptive sites across Facebook.”

https://archive.is/mgWei

First Draft News was partnered with NewsWhip for its Crosscheck election program.

Recall I have proven that the first major US disinfo org, First Draft, was created by two folks under Google. Both had been in the Obama White House. While at least one was currently working with Obama during First Drafts inception. First Draft eventually went global.

A First Draft founding member org had a director that was the founder of the British 77th brigade psychological unit. And founding members also included orgs in the British intelligence cut out, Integrity Initiative.

“NewsWhip made Spike available to journalists in these newsrooms to help them efficiently and easily spot the fake stories and sources of disinformation gaining traction on social media in France, monitor the coverage around the election for fake reports, and more.

Since we launched our PARTNERSHIP in February, we have seen impressive engagement with our (Newswhip) Spike platform from these partner newsrooms.”

https://archive.is/rpa7a

🔥🔥🔥Very grave implications here …

♦️Back to the Newswhip and Meta business. This means that the European Union interfered in global elections. The EU can make or break winners and losers. Including destroying what they call the far right. So that only radical liberals like themselves win.

Yes, the EU EDMO partnered, Newswhip, was involved in the US 2024 presidential election. Very Alarming…

⚡️Newswhip files seem to have disappeared. So I followed a link from the earlier posted one that I did have. And found the 90 orgs that Newswhip led in its Data For Democracy Program.

I chose early 2024 due to that being the year of our big election.

“Since 2016, the program has expanded to include more than 90 organizations fact-checking in more than 60 languages globally.”

Next post, we get to see the 90 orgs.

(Archive)

♦️NewsWhip Data For Democracy 2023 Impact Report

6 universities
750 journos and researchers
82 countries

(LinkedIn)

Here’s the 90 fact checking orgs that works with European Unions EDMO Irelands, Newswhip. Recall EDMO works with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA).

This web page no longer exists.

11 USA Fact Checking orgs colluding with Ireland’s Newswhip which works with EDMO Ireland.

AFP – Hub
Check Your Fact
http://Factcheck.org
Lead Stories
PolitiFact
Science Feedback
Reuters Fact Check
TelevisaUnivision
The Associated Press
The Dispatch
USA TODAY

(Archive)

December 11, 2025 - Joe Kent and Tulsi Gabbard report 18,000 known terrorists were let into America by the Biden administration

As many as 18,000 terrorists entered the US during the Biden administration, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent revealed during a House committee hearing on Thursday.

“So far, NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come into our country,” Kent testified before the House Homeland Security Committee.

“These are individuals who under normal circumstances would never be allowed to enter our country because of their ties to jihadi groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda,” he said.

“Yet the Biden administration not only let them into the country and in many cases facilitated their entry into the country just like the entry of the Afghan terrorists who committed the terrorist attack here just before Thanksgiving, killing one of our National Guard members and wounding another.”

The FBI foiled other ISIS terror attacks in Michigan and New Jersey earlier this year.

A self-described Hamas operative also infiltrated the ranks of the US Air Force in 2023 and later planned to carry out a pipe bomb attack with two others — before he was thwarted in April.

Before Trump took office, a suspected ISIS terrorist mowed down and shot at New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people.

Kent pointed out in the House hearing that the accused National Guard shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was “just one of 88,000” Afghans — and his counterterrorism office has since “identified 2,000 of that group of 88,000 who have ties to terrorist organizations.”

(Read more: New York Post, 12/11/2025)  (Archive)

On January 5, 2026, President Trump posts this interview with Tulsi Gabbard discussing this same issue:

Witness the full House Homeland Security hearing as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, NCTC Director Joseph Kent, and FBI Operations Director Michael Glasheen testify on “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland”. This explosive session covers the latest domestic and international threats, terrorist alerts, border security, illegal immigration concerns, and cybersecurity risks facing the United States today. From the rise of ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Antifa, to detailed insights into counterterrorism operations, border enforcement, and national security grants, this hearing exposes the challenges that threaten American safety. Don’t miss the hard-hitting Q&A, urgent warnings, and high-stakes revelations that have Congress on edge. Stay informed, stay vigilant, and understand the measures protecting our country.

December 12, 2025 - Judicial Watch sues for FBI records on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop

The Hunter Biden saga drags on as the government clings to details about his laptop.

In our latest effort to pry this information loose, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for all FBI investigative records concerning Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, which contained extensive evidence of Biden family business dealings (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-04240)).

The Justice Department’s refusal to release these basic investigative records raises serious questions about transparency and potential interference in one of the most consequential political stories in recent history. We will fight in court to get the public the answers it is entitled to under the law.

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the FBI failed to respond to a January 29, 2025, FOIA request for:

All FBI investigative reports, witness interview summaries, memoranda, and other records related to the investigation of Hunter Biden’s laptop.

All emails, text messages, Lync messages and other electronic communications records related to the Hunter Biden laptop.

IRS whistleblowers confirmed that the FBI became aware of Hunter Biden’s laptop as early as October 2019 and verified its authenticity in November 2019. The FBI took possession of it in December 2019.

In October 2020, through information obtained from Hunter Biden’s laptop, the New York Post began publishing reports about the Biden family’s business arrangements.

In an August 2022 letter, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) highlighted whistleblower concerns about the handling of the FBI’s investigation, noting that the Bureau appeared to take no visible action for months despite possessing the verified laptop well before the 2020 presidential election.

We have filed numerous FOIA lawsuits seeking transparency on the Hunter Biden investigations and related matters.

In July 2025, we sued the Justice Department for all records from the Offices of Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, and Associate Attorney General regarding Joe Biden’s controversial pardon of Hunter Biden (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:25-cv-02143)).

A hearing was held in July 2025 in the FOIA lawsuit against the National Archives for Biden family records and communications regarding travel and finance transactions, as well as communications between the Bidens and several known business associates (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. National Archives (No. 1:23-cv-01432).

In February 2025, we filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department for records and communications regarding the Internal Revenue Service’s investigation of Hunter Biden (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:24-cv-03387)).

In June 2024, we received records from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) showing Mike Morell, former acting CIA director under President Obama, requesting CIA permission to publish a letter by former intelligence community leaders stating that they believed the laptop emails exposing Hunter Biden’s connections to Ukraine were Russian disinformation. Morrell’s request for prepublication review was approved in just six hours by the CIA (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:23-cv-01844)).

In January 2024, we filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department for records of communications between the FBI and social media sites regarding foreign influence in elections, as well as Big Tech censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story (Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-00079)).

In October 2022, we sued the DOJ for all records in the possession of FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten regarding an August 6, 2020, briefing provided to members of the U.S. Senate. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) raised concerns that the briefing was intended to undermine the senators’ investigation of Hunter Biden (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:22-cv-02821)).

We filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department on April 20, 2022, for messages sent through the SMART (State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolkit) system that mention Hunter Biden (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State(No. 1:22-cv-01066)).

In December 2020, State Department records obtained through a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit showed that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch had specifically warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings. Previously in this case, State Department records included a briefing checklist of a February 22, 2019, meeting in Kyiv between then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Sally Painter, co-founder and chief operating officer of Blue Star Strategies, a Democratic lobbying firm which was hired by Burisma Holdings to combat corruption allegations. At the time of the meeting, Hunter Biden was serving on the board of directors for Burisma Holdings (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:20-cv-00229)).

(Judicial Watch, 12/12/2025)  (Archive)

 

December 12, 2025 - A Clinton-appointed judge orders the DOJ to return all materials it seized from Comey’s media mole

James Comey’s media mole Daniel Richman (Credit: public domain)

A Clinton-appointed judge on Friday ordered the DOJ to return all materials it seized from Comey’s media mole a week after she blocked federal prosecutors from accessing key evidence in the criminal case against James Comey.

Comey’s secret media mole, Daniel Richman, recently sought to block the Justice Department from accessing his files as the Trump Administration prepares to hit James Comey with a new indictment.

The feds seized materials from Daniel Richman several years ago and he asked a judge to block the DOJ from accessing his files.

A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted former FBI Director James Comey in September. He was indicted on two counts – false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.

The charges are related to Comey’s testimony to Senate investigators in September 2020 about whether he authorized leaks to the media.

Newly released November 2016 emails reveal that James Comey was guiding his media mole, Daniel Richman, and authorized leaks to the media.

James Comey knew his ‘friend’ Daniel Richman was talking to the media, backing up claims in Lindsey Halligan’s case against the former FBI Director.

On Friday, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, appointed by Clinton, ordered the DOJ to return all data it seized from Daniel Richman. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 12/13/2025)  (Archive)

December 12, 2025 - More Minnesota judges are dismissing fraud cases against Somalia immigrants

More Minnesota judges are dismissing fraud cases against Somalia immigrants

– Judge dismissed the $7.2 million fraud case after he was found guilty be a jury
– Another judge dismissed charges against the same defendants wife before it could reach trial
– A third judge, Hilary Lindell Caligiuri, dismissed charges against another co-defendant

December 14, 2025 - House Oversight report reveals DC Police chief manipulated crime statistics

Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief, Pamela A. Smith (Credit: public domain)

House Oversight panel has released a report alleging the outgoing police chief for Washington, D.C., manipulated crime statistics, pressuring commanders to create the appearance that the situation in the nation’s capital is better than the numbers in fact show.

Metropolitan Police Department commanders testified that Chief Pamela A. Smith cultivated an environment of “fear, intimidation, threats, and retaliation,” which “contributed directly to declining morale and the loss of experienced officers and commanders,” the GOP-led House Oversight Committee said Sunday in announcing the release of the report.

“Every single person who lives, works, or visits the District of Columbia deserves a safe city, yet it’s now clear the American people were deliberately kept in the dark about the true crime rates in our nation’s capital,” committee Chairman James Comer said in announcing the release.

“Testimony from experienced and courageous MPD commanders has exposed the truth: Chief Pamela Smith coerced staff to report artificially low crime data and cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda.

“Chief Smith’s decision to mislead the public by manipulating crime statistics is dangerous and undermines trust in both local leadership and law enforcement. Her planned resignation at the end of the month should not be seen as a voluntary choice, but as an inevitable consequence that should have occurred much earlier. Chief Smith should resign today.”

Last week, Smith announced her resignation after two and a half years in the role. The committee noted that her announcement followed the panel’s interviews with the commanders.

According to testimony in the committee’s interim staff report, Smith was more focused on lowering the publicly reported crime numbers than reducing actual crime, putting pressure on MPD commanders to produce low crime statistics by any means necessary. (Read more: Just the News, 12/15/2025)  (Archive)

December 14, 2025 - Rob Reiner and wife are murdered in their home; their son Nick Reiner is arrested for their murders

The tragic deaths of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele on December 14, 2025, have cast a somber shadow over Hollywood, prompting reflections on legacy, loss, and the lingering scars of political division.

In response, President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post on December 15, 2025 – framing their passing through the lens of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) – has ignited controversy.

Yet, when examined against the backdrop of Reiner’s decade-long barrage of vitriolic rhetoric against Trump, the statement emerges not as callous, but as an appropriate blend of pointed satire, genuine sympathy, and a timely concern for mental health. This piece builds an ironclad case for its fittingness, rooted in factual history, psychological insight, and legal precedent.

To understand the appropriateness of Trump’s words, one must first confront the unyielding hostility Reiner directed at him since 2015.

Reiner, celebrated for directing classics like “This Is Spinal Tap” and “The Princess Bride,” transformed into one of Trump’s most vocal detractors after his presidential candidacy. In a 2016 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Reiner labeled Trump a “con man” and “dangerous,” warning he would erode democratic norms. This escalated over the years.

By 2018, Reiner tweeted comparisons of Trump to Hitler, accusing him of fostering fascism and white supremacy. His 2024 documentary “God & Country” explicitly tied Trump’s influence to Christian nationalism, portraying it as a threat to American democracy.

Reiner’s social media feed became a relentless stream of attacks, calling Trump a “pathological liar,” “sociopath,” and “existential danger” in posts that amassed millions of views.

Even in 2025, shortly before his death, Reiner urged boycotts of Trump-related events, framing his re-election as apocalyptic. These were not isolated jabs but a sustained campaign, often personal and inflammatory, that Reiner himself admitted stemmed from deep-seated outrage.

This history of antagonism, predominantly initiated by Reiner, sets the stage for why Trump’s response is not only defensible but proportionate.

Far from escalating the feud posthumously, Trump’s post acknowledges Reiner’s talents – “a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star” – while attributing the tragedy to TDS, a “mind-crippling disease” fueled by “raging obsession.” This framing isn’t baseless invention; it’s grounded in credible psychological analysis.

Critics have questioned the timing of Trump’s post, issued just a day after the tragedy, as potentially too raw or opportunistic. However, this immediacy is precisely what makes it authentic and effective, aligning with Trump’s longstanding style of direct, unfiltered leadership in a 24/7 news cycle where narratives solidify within hours.

Historical precedents abound; consider how President Lincoln addressed critics’ deaths or political losses with prompt wit during the Civil War, using fresh moments to foster national introspection and prevent distorted legacies. Similarly, Trump’s swift response cuts through emerging media spin – already framing Reiner solely as a heroic anti-Trump voice – by injecting balance and psychological truth right when public discourse peaks.

Delaying would risk seeming calculated or detached, whereas this timing underscores sincerity, especially paired with the post’s sympathetic close. In essence, it’s not haste but strategic candor, transforming grief into a teachable moment on division’s dangers before emotions calcify.

Transitioning from personal history to broader insight, TDS has been recognized by mental health experts as a manifestation of intense political polarization leading to real psychological strain. Psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow, in analyses shared on platforms like the Mark Simone Show, described TDS as rooted in “mass hysteria,” where individuals project anxieties onto a political figure, resulting in paranoia, chronic stress, and potential health declines.

Research in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology supports this, linking partisan hatred to elevated cortisol levels, anxiety disorders, and weakened well-being. Trump’s reference to TDS isn’t mockery; it’s a diagnostic observation, highlighting how Reiner’s fixation – evident in his own words – might have contributed to personal tolls, especially amid reports of familial strife surrounding the deaths.

By raising this, Trump shifts the narrative from vendetta to vigilance, urging awareness of how ideological obsessions erode lives.

Moreover, the post’s satirical edge aligns with a storied tradition of political commentary, making it intellectually apt rather than insensitive. Trump employs hyperbole – “driving people CRAZY” amid America’s “Golden Age” – to underscore the irony of Reiner’s paranoia against tangible achievements like record economic growth, Middle East peace accords, and energy independence during his administration. This mirrors Jonathan Swift’s exaggerated proposals in “A Modest Proposal” or Abraham Lincoln’s witty rebukes of critics, using humor to expose societal flaws without literal malice.

Legally, such expression is shielded by the First Amendment; the Supreme Court’s ruling in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell affirms that satirical opinions about public figures, absent provable falsehoods, are protected speech. Trump’s “reportedly due to” phrasing acknowledges speculation, ensuring it remains opinion, not defamation.

What elevates the statement to appropriateness is its undercurrent of grace amid past unkindnesses, including Trump’s rare direct engagement with Reiner pre-tragedy despite the instigations. The post concludes with “May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”

This isn’t perfunctory; it’s a sincere extension of sympathy, humanizing both parties and transcending the feud while modeling reciprocity in an era of unrelenting acrimony. Trump’s words match rhetoric’s intensity yet cap it with compassion and a mental health caveat, turning potential gloating into a nudge toward understanding division’s toll.

In conclusion, Trump’s response is ironclad in its fittingness because it reciprocates a decade of Reiner’s attacks with measured satire, validates psychological realities, and prioritizes sympathy over score-settling. It doesn’t diminish the tragedy but illuminates division’s costs, encouraging reflection.

Postscript: While the author is not an attorney or mental health practitioner, his nearly two decades as a seasoned content writer and editor have honed expert research skills, enabling rigorous analysis grounded in verifiable facts and legal precedents. (Real Texas Conservative)

December 15, 2025 - Comer postpones Clinton depositions, again, to mid-January; warns of contempt charges if they don't comply

December 15, 2025 - FBI thwarts planned terrorist attack on New Years Eve; terrorists include radical pro-Palestinians and a Transtifa member

Over the weekend, the @FBI disrupted a credible, imminent terrorist threat and arrested FOUR individuals connected to the Los Angeles area.

The subjects self-identified as members of a radical offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), an extremist group motivated by pro-Palestinian, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government ideology. They were allegedly planning coordinated IED bombing attacks on New Year’s Eve, targeting five separate locations across Los Angeles.

In the days since, @FBINewOrleans arrested an additional FIFTH individual believed to be linked to this radical TILF subgroup – also allegedly planning a separate violent attack.

Outstanding work by our investigators and law enforcement partners
@TheJusticeDept. Their work undoubtedly saved countless lives.

@FBILosAngeles will hold a press conference later today to share additional details.

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I can exclusively report that the fifth unnamed arrested suspect in the Turtle Island Liberation Front New Year’s Eve mass bombing terror plot is Trantifa militant Micah James Legnon (center photo, in blue).

Legnon is on a federal hold in Lafayette, La. He is a trans activist and identifies as a female. His social media is filled with posts calling for the m—rder of people he labels as “fascists.”

Authorities say the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a far-left communist “decolonization” terror group, planned to blow up ICE agents and locations with homemade bombs. Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page (trans), 32; Tina Lai, 41; and Dante Gaffield, 24, are the other comrades arrested in Los Angeles after they were caught allegedly traveling to the desert to test their explosives.

Legnon is an ex-Marine and a former cop.
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December 15, 2025 - Trump brings in the Generals to sign EO declaring Fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction

Who is standing behind Trump in this photo?

– General Dan Caine, USAF – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (highest-ranking uniformed officer in the U.S. military, principal military advisor to the President and Secretary of Defense).

– General Randy A. George – Chief of Staff of the Army (senior uniformed leader of the U.S. Army, member of the Joint Chiefs).

– Admiral Daryl Caudle – Chief of Naval Operations (senior uniformed leader of the U.S. Navy, member of the Joint Chiefs).

– General Eric M. Smith – Commandant of the Marine Corps (senior uniformed leader of the U.S. Marine Corps, member of the Joint Chiefs).

– General Kenneth S. Wilsbach, USAF – Chief of Staff of the Air Force (senior uniformed leader of the U.S. Air Force, member of the Joint Chiefs).

– General B. Chance Saltzman, USSF – Chief of Space Operations (senior uniformed leader of the U.S. Space Force, member of the Joint Chiefs).

December 15, 2025 - JD Vance points out the consequence of the Senate “Blue Slip” veto of judicial nominees

The blue slip process has been a part of the Senate’s judicial nomination procedure since at least 1917. When a President nominates an individual for a U.S. circuit or district court judgeship, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee sends a blue slip —a form colored blue— to the two Senators representing the nominee’s home state. This form allows the Senators to express their opinions about the nominee.

Positive Response: If a home-state Senator has no objections, they return the blue slip with a positive response, indicating support for the nominee. Negative Response or Withholding: If a Senator objects, they may either return the slip with a negative response or choose not to return it at all. In both cases, this is treated as a lack of support for the nominee, which halts the nomination process.

JD Vance notes this process is being used to manipulate the appointments of Judges in leftist states. This creates a dual justice system; one of the core issues within our extremely divided nation.

JD Vance is not wrong.  However, as with all things corrupted within the state of our Republic, if the blue slip process is removed the next leftist President can corrupt the judiciary within Republican states.

Of course, all of this is an outcome of the 17th Amendment, which stopped the state legislatures from having control over their senators.  Under the original constitutional framework, the Senate was designed to represent the interests of the state, as the Senators were appointed by state legislature, not popular votes.  The Sea Island assembly destroyed this cornerstone when they triggered the 17th Amendment.

Repeal the 17th Amendment, and just about everything in federal government changes.

Machiavelli said, “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.”  A prescient and oft repeated quote that is pertinent to the situation.

The signing of the American Constitution (Credit: public domain)

When our founders created the system of government for our constitutional republic, they built in layers of protection from federal control over the lives of people in the states.  Over time, those protections have been eroded as the federal bureaucracy has seized power.  One of the biggest changes that led to the creation of the permanent political class was the 17th Amendment.

Our founders created a system where Senators were appointed by the state legislatures.  In this original system, the Senate was bound by obligation to look out for the best interests of their specific states.  Under the ‘advise and consent‘ rules of Senate confirmation for executive branch appointments, the intent was to ensure the presidential appointee -who would now carry out regulatory activity- would not undermine the independent position of the states.

The nucleus of corruption amid every element of the federal institutions of government is the United States Senate.   The U.S. Senate, also known as the “upper chamber,” is the single most powerful elected element in modern federal government.

The Intelligence Branch is the most powerful branch of government.  However, the U.S. Senate is the most powerful assembly of federally elected officials.  We pretend the IC branch doesn’t exist; that’s part of our problem.  At least we admit the Senate exists.

All other elected federal corruption is dependent on a corrupt and ineffective Senate.  If we correct the problems with the Senate, and reconnect the representation within the chamber to the state-level legislative bodies, we will then see immediate change.  However, there would be ZERO institutional allies in this effort.

When the 17th Amendment (direct voting for Senators) took the place of state appointments, the perspective of ‘advise and consent’ changed.  The Senate was now in the position of ensuring the presidential appointee did not undermine the power of the permanent bureaucracy, which is the root of power for the upper-chamber.

Senate committees, Homeland Security, Judiciary, Intelligence, Armed Services, Foreign Relations, etc. now consists of members who carry an imbalanced level of power within government.  The Senate now controls who will be in charge of executive branch agencies like the DOJ, DHS, FBI, CIA, ODNI, DoD, State Dept and NSA, from the position of their own power and control in Washington DC.

In essence, the 17th Amendment flipped the intent of the constitution from protecting the individual states to protecting the federal government.

Almost every source of federal issue: ex. spending, intervention and foreign assistance, conflict with the states, burdensome regulation, surveillance and spying on American citizens, the two-tiered justice system and the erosion of liberty & individual rights (see COVID examples), can be sourced back to the problem created by the 17th Amendment.

Because of the scale of their power, the Senate will not give up control easily; and every institution of society and government will actively work to block/stop We The People from taking back control of the upper chamber.  Every entity from Wall Street to multinational corporations, big tech, banks, foreign governments and world organizations would align against us.   When you truly understand the epicenter of the corruption, then you are able to see the tentacles extending from it.

It would be easy to say “repeal the 17th Amendment;“ it is ‘another kettle of fish’ entirely to walk through the process to make that happen.  Yes, ultimately, we do need a full repeal of the 17th Amendment and return the selection of the senators from each state with a nomination and appointment process within the state legislature.  [Common Explainer Here]

Seventeenth Amendment- “The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.

When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.” (link)

Prior to the 17th Amendment, there was significant state level corruption as business interests, and Senate candidates worked in power groups with party officials to attain the position.  Politicians seeking Senate seats began campaigning for state legislative candidates in order to assemble support.

The state legislative races then became a process of influence amid powerful interests seeking to support their Senate candidate.   Get the right people in the State legislature, and you can get the Senator appointed.

Those state-level entities, bankers, wealthy people of influence, later became the permanent K-Street lobbying groups once the 17th Amendment was ratified. In essence, they just shifted the location of their influence operation from the state to an office in Washington DC.   [Those same power groups, albeit much larger, now write the physical legislation we see in congress.]  Additionally, prior to the 17th Amendment, there were issues of vacancies in federal senate seats as state legislatures could not agree on an individual Senator.

The biggest issue following the passage of the 17th Amendment became Senators who were no longer representing the interests of their state.  Instead, they were representing the interests of the power elite groups who were helping them fund the mechanisms of their re-election efforts.

A Senator only needs to run for re-election every six years.  The 17th Amendment is the only amendment that changed the structure of the Congress, as it was written by the founders.

Over time, the Senate chamber itself began using their advice and consent authority to control the executive and judicial branch.  The origination of a nomination now holds the question: “Can this person pass the Senate confirmation process?”

The Senate now abuses this power to ensure no one challenges them.  Additionally, the Senate began using their oversight capacity to control elements within the executive branch and judicial branch.   The full scope of that issue in modern form is OUTLINED HERE – which is the cornerstone of the Intelligence Branch of Government.

If we could repeal the 17th Amendment and return the selection to the state legislature, you can see where the background work of Tactical Civics and Extreme Federalism begin to take on importance.   [NOTE: Within the repeal effort, we would need to include a recall process for states to reach out and yank back their Senator if they go astray; the ability to recall was missing in the original construct of the framers; it would need to be added.]

◊ PATH ONE is the primary platform of the presidential candidate…. a visible and emphasized mandate that includes: “vote me into office and you are voting to repeal the 17th Amendment “.  This specific election issue would need to be the #1 priority of the candidate and spoken at every event.

This approach gives a presidential candidate the mandate to demand congress to act if he won the 2024 election.  We need a warrior of epic strength, resolve and fortitude.

◊ PATH TWO is the parallel path built along with the election platform path and put into place in the event that Congress refused to accept the mandate.

Obviously, this would be an ugly battle.   The second path is a convention of states. 

The ‘convention of states‘ would need to be detailed, strategically planned, and the future schedule determined during the GOP convention preceding the November election (assuming the right candidate wins).   That way, if Congress refuses to act on their own, within say the first 100 days of the new administration, the state legislatures will then assemble a convention for the singular and limited purpose of one action item: “repeal the 17th Amendment “.  That’s it. Full Stop.  Nothing more. Nothing else entertained.

There is a lot more to this, and a lot more to cover in discussion of this.  However, this is the path that can resolve most of the issues we face with an out-of-control federal government.   The shift in power would kneecap the Intelligence Branch of Government by re-instituting genuine oversight and control. A repeal of the 17th Amendment stops Senators from campaigning, needing to raise money and puts them directly into the accountability position as a steward for the interests of their state.

The people within each state would then have a mechanism to address any negative federal action by contacting their state legislative representative.  In a worst-case scenario, a rogue Senator could be removed within days if they support any federal legislative activity that is not in alignment with the state interest.  This approach also wipes out most of the power amid the Senate Majority Leader, as he/she could also be recalled by the state and would be less likely to work against the interests of the majority in the chamber.

The House of Representatives was created to be the voice of the people, ie, “The Peoples’ House.”  However, the U.S. Senate was structurally created to be the place where state government had representation in the federal government decision-making.  The 17th Amendment completely removed state representation, and we have been in an escalating battle over state’s rights ever since.

Overlay that DC structural issue with the fact that almost all of the bureaucracy created by this skewed DC system is now in place to defend itself from any outside effort to change it, and you get this UniParty problem that Donald Trump fully exposed.

Repeal the 17th Amendment, and we would see the most significant restoration of freedom, liberty and social balance in our lifetime. (Conservative Treehouse, 12/15/2025)  (Archive)

 

December 15, 2025 - New FBI docs reveal how the Weiner laptop was suppressed and kept hidden

Newly-released FBI documents show that Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas, which was investigating the Clinton Foundation, on the same day that SDNY got a search warrant for Weiner’s computer.

The computer, also used by Weiner’s wife—Hillary’s top aide, Huma Abedin—contained Hillary emails with possible evidence of Clinton Foundation corruption.

Lynch previously told the investigators to shut down any investigation into the Clintons or the Clinton Foundation.

Following the Loretta Lynch meeting with Clinton Foundation investigators, McCabe ordered that the Weiner laptop must not be shared with the Clinton Foundation investigation.

On McCabe’s orders, the Weiner laptop was buried with Peter Strzok’s ‘Midyear Exam’ team.

The Weiner Laptop: A Smoking Gun Suppressed

October 2016 brought a bombshell: The discovery of Clinton emails on Weiner’s laptop during a child exploitation probe. But FBI HQ refused to let the Clinton Foundation team coordinate with the email investigation (Midyear Exam), crafting a narrowly tailored search warrant that excluded Clinton Foundation angles.

Weeks before the 2016 presidential election, the FBI leadership, Comey and McCabe, hid the potential evidence of the corruption of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, to help her in the election.

Leaks to the Wall Street Journal exposed McCabe’s conflict, forcing his recusal on November 1 – but by that stage the Weiner laptop with Hillary emails was buried by Peter Strzok and co.

Internal memos from EAD Randy Coleman confirm McCabe and EAD Michael Steinbach’s decision to silo the laptop review to Midyear Exam team filled with anti-Trump zealots headed by Peter Strzok.

This meant potential evidence of Foundation crimes – like emails tied to Abedin or Clinton domains – stayed hidden.

Even in 2018-2020 attempts to revisit, warrants were withdrawn over “constitutional concerns”, leaving leads like foreign witnesses untapped.

🚨The Weiner Laptop: A Smoking Gun Suppressed

Explosive New Documents Expose How FBI and DOJ Cronies Shielded the Clintons – And Why They Desperately Sabotaged Trump

The Deep State swamp creatures went all-in on the Russia hoax to stop Donald Trump from winning the 2016 Presidential Election. When he won anyway, they doubled down to take down President Trump.

That’s because President Trump represented a serious threat to the Deep State and their corrupt dealings.

The latest whistleblower revelations from the FBI and the DoJ lay it in stark detail how McCabe, Comey and their allies at the DoJ protected Hillary Clinton, their candidate, despite agents in the field attempting to investigate her.

Released today, these internal FBI and DOJ records reveal a blatant protection racket for Hillary Clinton and her foundation.

Top Obama-Biden era officials, including disgraced FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, actively obstructed investigations into potential Clinton corruption

It was a calculated cover-up that fueled the sabotage of Trump’s presidency to protect their own hides.

Key takeaways from these damning files:

McCabe’s Blatant Conflicts and Orders to Stand Down: McCabe, whose wife pocketed over $675,000 in campaign cash from Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe (a Clinton Foundation board member), personally directed agents to halt “overt investigative steps” without his approval.

Emails show explicit bans on subpoenas, interviews, or even sharing bank info related to the Clintons – all to avoid “any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons.”

This came straight from “higher, i.e., the DD (McCabe)” just months before the 2016 election.

Weiner Laptop Blockade: When Anthony Weiner’s laptop surfaced in 2016 with Clinton-linked emails, FBI HQ under McCabe blocked the Foundation probe team from accessing it, funneling everything to the biased “Midyear” squad (including anti-Trump zealot Peter Strzok).

The same “Midyear Exam” Hillary protection squad has been shielding Clinton insiders like Weiner’s wife Huma Abedin from the Hillary email investigation.

Post-Election Interference: Even after Trump won, holdovers provided incomplete timelines omitting leadership meddling when the probe reopened in 2017.

Requests for key evidence “ruffled feathers” at Main Justice, with no responses, and prosecutors flagged “conflicts of interest” in DOJ’s Public Integrity Section tied to the 2016 Clinton probes.

Double Standards on Display: While agents were muzzled on Clinton, the same apparatus unleashed the bogus Russia collusion narrative against Trump – a witch hunt rooted in Clinton-produced and Soros-funded lies like the “Steele Dossier”.

It’s no coincidence: They feared Trump’s DOJ would pursue these leads aggressively, exposing pay-to-play schemes, foreign donations, and potential violations under laws like bribery (18 U.S.C. § 201) and money laundering (18 U.S.C. §§ 1956-1957).

These revelations underscore a simple truth: The Clinton cronies and their FBI enablers conspired to protect Hillary and attack Donald Trump, the People’s Candidate.

Trump represented the end of their impunity, promising to drain the swamp and hold the powerful accountable.

That’s why they fabricated the Russiagate Hoax, leaking lies about “Trump-Russia ties” and starting the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign to derail Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency.

December 15, 2025 - Grassley letter: FBI caught Hillary Clinton discussing donations with foreign felon; explains how Weiner laptop investigation was shut down

Sant Singh Chatwal with Hillary Clinton (Credit: Twitter)

As Hillary Clinton closed in on the presidential nomination in the spring of 2016, FBI field officers advised colleagues at headquarters to press her on the foreign donations flowing to the Clinton Foundation while she steered American foreign policy and whether she had used the charity as a campaign piggy bank.

But FBI HQ in Washington — a city in which the former secretary of state and first lady wields enormous influence — let the trail go cold.

Diego Rodriguez, assistant FBI director in charge the New York field office, (Credit: Bebeto Matthews/AP)

FBI New York Assistant Director in Charge Diego Rodriguez advised agents in Washington to ask Clinton several questions about the foundation, which are reproduced in full in documents released to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI and published on Dec. 15. (p. 22) The questions reveal the concerns about foreign bribery that the Clinton Foundation case — codenamed “Cracked Foundation” — had uncovered. (p. 41)

Among the evidence available to investigators, according to their questions: A recorded conversation between Clinton and Indian hotel magnate Sant Singh Chatwal in which Clinton discussed donations to the foundation and her remaining 2008 campaign debt. The new documents confirm that FBI had at one time been “intercepting individuals associated with the Clinton Foundation.” (p. 23)

But when Clinton arrived to the FBI two months later, in July 2016, to answer questions about her use of a private email server in a separate investigation codenamed “Midyear Exam,” D.C. agents asked nothing about the allegations of pay-to-play with foreign governments or use of the global charity as a slush fund.

(…) Chatwal, a longtime family friend and donor, served as a trustee to the Clinton Foundation, a chair of the exploratory committee that preceded Clinton’s 2008 presidential run, and even clinched an invitation to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, according to a 2016 book by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer called “Clinton Cash,” which helped kick off the Cracked Foundation investigation.

Forbes estimated Chatwal’s properties to be worth $750 million in a 2006 profile.

He pled guilty to laundering straw donations to Clinton’s 2008 campaign committee in 2014, forfeiting $1 million in a deal with the Department of Justice.

“That’s the only way to buy them, get into the system,” Chatwal had told an FBI informant in that case.

The FBI had recorded Chatwal discussing straw donations in 2010 and sought to expand that investigation to the Clinton Foundation, but FBI headquarters would not allow it, the documents state. (p. 5)

(Read more: The Daily Caller, 12/27/2025)  (Archive)

Excerpts from Senator Grassley’s letter and timeline of events – 12/15/2025:

(…) According to emails obtained by my office, on July 20, 2016—111 days before the 2016
election—an agent with the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division (CID) stated that, “based on
the sensitivities surrounding the Clinton Foundation,” agents were prohibited from “subpoena[ing] additional records related to the Foundation, the Clintons”; “conduct[ing] any interviews related to the Foundation or the Clintons”; and “shar[ing] any of the Foundation bank account info with any other offices.” Emails also show that the FBI “[did] not want to create any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons. Internal FBI emails from January 12, 2017, show that the direction came from “higher, i.e., the DD (McCabe).”

Bill Sweeney (Credit: public domain)

Records provided to my office show that on September 26, 2016, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) obtained a search warrant for the laptop of Anthony Weiner, whose wife, Huma Abedin, was a political aide to Hillary Clinton during her time as Secretary of State, in connection with a child exploitation investigation. During the course of their investigation, the SDNY discovered information on the Weiner laptop connected to the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information. According to the records provided to my office, on November 1, 2016, the FBI’s New York Field Office (NYFO) former-Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC) Sweeney, requested that the Clinton Foundation investigative team be allowed to either review the Weiner laptop or be provided a briefing by the Weiner review team, which allegedly FBI HQ initially refused.

Randall Coleman (Credit: public domain)

For example, according to records provided to my office, on November 7, 2016, then Executive Assistant Director (EAD) Coleman noted that “[i]t was determined by DD McCabe and EAD Steinbach that any follow on investigative activity concerning the emails located on Anthony Weiner’s laptop would be reviewed by the MIDYEAR investigative team.” Accordingly, it appears that the Clinton Foundation investigators, at that time, had to depend on the MIDYEAR team, which included Peter Strzok, for information.

Cody Hiland (Credit: public domain)

Furthermore, on July 24, 2017, under the Trump administration, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas (USAO EDAR) and FBI Little Rock reopened their investigation into the Clinton Foundation. During the course of their investigation, in November 2017, the US Attorney for the EDAR, Cody Hiland, requested information from then-head of DOJ PIN Ray Hulser and then-Acting Chief Anna Lou Tirol about “who made the decision to shut the [original] case down.” Documents provided to my office also note that Hulser provided Hiland with a timeline that “omitted ALL references to interference from DOJ and FBI leadership.”

Emails provided to my office also show that during the course of their reopened investigation, in July 2018, attorneys at the EDAR requested additional information to determine “whether sufficient probable cause exists to submit a search warrant affidavit for the Weiner laptop related to violations of 18 U.S.C. 201(b) and 201(c), 18 U.S.C. § 208, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343, 1344, 18 U.S.C. § 1956, 1957, 18 U.S.C. § 1962 and perhaps other statutes.” EDAR attorneys also stated that for their team to make the assessment, “our office has determined that there is a need to be given access to some of the information described in the OIG Report that was released on June 11, 2018. This is necessary in order to determine if additional information related to these potential violations is currently possessed and already within the government’s knowledge.” According to emails, the request “ruffled some feathers” and the EDAR didn’t “receive[] any response from that request.”

Jonathan D. Ross (Credit: public domain)

Emails from September 2018 also indicate that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Jonathan Ross at the EDAR had concerns about support from Main Justice and PIN regarding  the Clinton Foundation investigation, stating that “[b]ut as we have previously discussed, there appear to be conflicts of interest for the leadership there related to the 2016 [Clinton] investigations that undermine any confidence we might normally have in looking to them for assistance.” According to documents provided to my office, prosecutors at the EDAR recommended in July 2019 that a referral be made to the DOJ OIG regarding the “manner in which the investigation had been conducted,” and that they did what they could do “about the interference by DOJ and FBI leadership at the time with the FBI’s [Clinton Foundation] investigation.”

The above are just some examples of interference that occurred when agents and prosecutors investigated the Clinton Foundation. In order for Congress to conduct proper oversight of past DOJ and FBI conduct, please provide the following no later than December 29, 2025:

1. Provide the report titled “Anthony Weiner Laptop Review for Communications Pertinent
to Midyear Exam” dated November 15, 2016.
2. Provide all records related to the search warrant affidavits for Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
3. Provide all records related to the “yellow sheet of paper, at least 7 separate domains viewed on the device that were affiliated with the Clintons,” which was provided to a NYFO ASAC by a NYFO SA Forensic Examiner.
4. Provide all records related to the decision to withdraw the third 2020 search warrant for the Weiner laptop including copies of all documents attached to the FBI EC titled “Withdrawn Search Warrant – Western Digital Hard Disk Drive, MODEL WD2003FZEX, S/N WMC6N0D5ZNA9.”
5. Provide the document titled “Investigative History, Status, and Recommendations Concerning the Clinton Foundation.”
6. Provide all emails related to the Clinton Foundation investigation and Anthony Weiner laptop to, from, or cc’ing Cody Hiland, Jonathan Ross, John Huber, Andrew McCabe, Diane Upchurch, Randy Coleman, Ray Hulser, and Anna Lou Tirol.
7. Provide all records requested in the July 5, 2018, email titled “Request for information related to DOJ OIG report issued June 11, 2018.”
8. Provide all emails and records in Exhibit 1, as well as records produced in conjunction with this letter, in unredacted form.

(Grassley.Senate.gov, 12/15/2025) (Archive)

December 16, 2025 - FBI to give Congress bombshell memos warning Biden DOJ didn’t have probable cause to raid Trump home

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Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are preparing to turn over to Congress bombshell emails showing the FBI warned that the Biden Justice Department did not have probable cause to raid President Donald Trump‘s home at Mar-a-Lago, but prosecutors proceeded anyways, Just the News has learned.

The emails are to be turned over as early as Tuesday to the Senate and House Judiciary committees, ahead of a planned deposition Wednesday from ex-special prosecutor Jack Smith, who inherited the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case just months after the August 2022 raid of Trump’s home that rocked the political world ahead of the 2024 election.

The memos show the FBI’s Washington field office “does not believe they established probable cause” prior to raiding Trump’s Florida home, according to one source with direct knowledge of the memos about to be turned over to Congress.

It has long been rumored that some FBI agents disagreed with the decision to raid Trump’s home to look for classified documents at the request of the National Archives.

But the soon-to-be released emails will chronicle the specific concerns that DOJ under President Joe Biden had not met the standard for a search warrant, but proceeded anyway, officials said. (Read more: Just the News, 12/15/2025)  (Archive)

December 15, 2025 - Hillary Clinton’s own Russia scandal: FBI memos detail how Uranium One probe was thwarted

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Running out the clock: The FBI and DOJ slow-walked their investigation into the Clinton Foundation and the sale of Uranium One to Russia-backed interests. As a result of roadblocks, the statute of limitations was allowed to lapse on any prosecution.

Federal investigators believed there was significant evidence worth pursuing related to possible criminality involving the Clinton Foundation and the State Department’s approval of the sale of Uranium One to Russian state-owned interests, but delays by the Justice Department and FBI led the inquiry to whither and die because of statute of limitations issues.

The sale of the Canada-based Uranium One to the Russian state-owned Rosatom was the focus of great controversy and scrutiny from Republicans and others who argued that then-Secretary of State Clinton helped approve the deal and that the Clinton Foundation may have stood to benefit from it.

Career agents and line prosecutors at the FBI and DOJ also believed the saga may have been a criminal one, but orders from DOJ leaders such as then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe slow-walked and stonewalled the inquiry to the point where it could no longer be pursued.

Andrew McCabe and Sally Yates (Credit: The Associated Press and ABC News)

FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors in Little Rock, Arkansas and elsewhere closely scrutinized the scandal — but were largely blocked from serious investigative action due to leadership delays and, following those delays, arguments that the statute of limitations had run out.

Jonathan Ross, then the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, argued in a 2018 email that “there is no legal barrier in continuing the present investigation” into the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. Ross has served as U.S. Attorney in Arkansas since 2022, including during Trump’s second term.

Then-U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland of Arkansas also sent a 2018 email to then-U.S. Attorney John Huber of Utah, largely summarizing Ross’s arguments, stressing that “we do not believe the prosecution is time-barred by a statute of limitations” in part “because payments from the subjects of the investigation to the Foundation were made continuously from 2007 through 2014.”

A newly-declassified internal FBI investigative timeline also argued that claims that the statute of limitations had run out on the Uranium One inquiry “failed to include whether Acts of Concealment such as deleting emails in 2015 and making additional statements and representations about those deletions would have extended the statute of limitations” and also pointed to possible federal criminal statutes such as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, major fraud against the United States, and bank fraud.

The timeline also argued that 18 U.S. Code § 3287 — Wartime Suspension of Statute of Limitations Act — should have extended the statute of limitations for this alleged criminality as well.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made the records produced to him by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi available to Just the News this past weekend. (Read more: Just the News, 12/15/2025)  (Archive)

December 16, 2025 - Labor Department sends strike team to investigate possible Minnesota unemployment insurance fraud

Minnesota governor Tim Walz (Credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is conducting a review of Minnesota’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program in the wake of the recently-discovered fraud ring targeting the state’s welfare system, with Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer saying she is “appalled” at the abuse.

(…) The DOL has been launching investigations into UI fraud around the country, having already returned a staggering $520 million in “suspected fraudulent” pandemic-era UI payments to the state of Maryland.

In a letter sent to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development on Monday, the DOL said it will conduct a targeted review onsite using a specialized UI strike team.

US Secretary of Labor Lori M. Chavez-DeRemer (Credit: Wikipedia)

“I am appalled at what we are hearing about potential fraud coming from numerous benefits programs in Minnesota. If there has been any related abuse of our UI systems, it will not be tolerated, and I trust our specialized strike team to get to the bottom of this and report their findings directly to me,” Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement. “Our mission to protect American workers remains unchanged, and I will not allow malicious actors to destroy the integrity of this trusted program.”

The secretary also spoke on the issue in a Monday interview on the Ruthless Podcast, calling out the lack of oversight from Congress of the UI funds.

“That’s a fund that people count on. It was established for a very distinct reason… if somebody loses their job — it’s a bridge to get them to the next job,” she said. “That’s a pretty understandable thing to have… But under COVID, under the CARES Act, we saw all of those dollars being printed and pumped into the system — which, of course, we’ll talk about, probably inflation at some point — but that being said, it has now been an organized criminal activity… Nobody paid attention. The oversight wasn’t there from Congress.”

Going on to highlight the rampant fraud in Democrat-controlled states, she specifically named Minnesota and Oregon as examples and stated that the DOL has already returned a whopping $1.4 billion to the U.S. Treasury.

“They asked for a lot of the waivers to continue these programs to offer more unemployment for a longer period of time,” Chavez-DeRemer said. “Now we’re seeing the fraudulent behavior, and we’ve recovered so many dollars… $1.4 billion we returned to the Treasury already… and that’s just from taking a little bit of a peek under the covers.”

“And now we saw the fraudulence come out of Minnesota,” she continued. “So today, we have sent a letter to the state to say we will send out one of our unemployment insurance strike teams to determine where else the fraudulent behavior [is] happening. Because the American people don’t deserve this.” (Read more: Breitbart News, 12/16/2025)  (Archive)

December 16, 2025 - Americans spend $150-$200 billion a year on salaries for Marxists college and university faculty members

Grok – Are most college and university faculty members left-leaning?

Answer: Yes, most college and university faculty members in the United States are left-leaning, according to multiple large-scale surveys and studies spanning decades. This skew has become more pronounced over time, particularly in humanities and social sciences, though it varies by institution type, discipline, and region.

Key Evidence from Surveys

  • The Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA triennial faculty survey (ongoing since the 1980s) shows a clear trend:
    • In the late 1980s/early 1990s, about 40-50% of faculty identified as liberal or far-left, with conservatives around 20-25%.
    • By the 2016-2017 survey, 60% identified as liberal or far-left, while only 12% identified as conservative or far-right.
    • This represents a shift from a liberal plurality to a clear majority on the left.
  • A 2007 national study by Neil Gross and Solon Simmons (covering over 1,400 professors) found 44% liberal, 46% moderate, and 9% conservative. More recent analyses of similar data indicate the moderate category has shrunk as the leftward tilt grew.
  • Partisan registration studies often show even starker imbalances:
    • Ratios of Democrats to Republicans range from 6:1 nationally to 10-12:1 or higher at elite liberal arts colleges and in certain fields (e.g., over 50:1 in some humanities departments).
    • In top-tier institutions, some departments have zero registered Republicans.
  • Recent surveys (e.g., Chronicle of Higher Education faculty poll) confirm over 60% identify as liberal (including “very liberal”), with conservatives in the low single digits.

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December 17, 2025 - Jack Smith testimony: Jan. 6 panel’s ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson provided ‘secondhand hearsay’ on Capitol riot

“At least one of the issues was a number of the things that she gave evidence on were secondhand hearsay,” the ex-Trump prosecutor testified, 12/17/2025. (Credit: AP)

The House Select January 6th Committee’s “star” Cassidy Hutchinson provided “second hearsay” about the 2021 Capitol riot and wasn’t considered as a witness in the election interference case brought against President Trump, according to former special counsel Jack Smith.

Smith told the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door deposition on Dec. 17 that Hutchinson — who testified at the Jan. 6 select panel’s made-for-TV hearings in June 2022 — “certainly” wouldn’t have made a “powerful” witness because she couldn’t provide “firsthand” testimony.

“My recollection with Ms. Hutchinson, at least one of the issues was a number of the things that she gave evidence on were secondhand hearsay, were things that she had heard from other people,” the ex-Trump prosecutor testified to the Judiciary lawmakers and staff, the deposition’s transcript shows.

The House Select January 6th Committee’s “star witness” Cassidy Hutchinson provided “secondhand hearsay” about the 2021 Capitol riot, according to former special counsel Jack Smith. (Credit: Getty Images)

“As a result, that testimony may or may not be admissible, and it certainly wouldn’t be as powerful as firsthand testimony,” Smith said.

That included “sensational” allegations that the 45th president lunged toward the wheel of his Secret Service SUV, known as “the Beast,” in an attempt to commandeer it from his driver as a mob of his supporters were seeking to halt the certification of the 2020 election on Capitol Hill.

“I’m the f—ing president! Take me up to the Capitol now!” Trump allegedly screamed at the Secret Service agent, according to Hutchinson’s testimony in a live-broadcasted House hearing on June 28, 2022.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Anthony Ornato, who by Hutchinson’s own admission relayed the startling incident to her, immediately claimed her account was false.

The agent and the driver of the vehicle also separately refuted Hutchinson’s testimony as well, with the president’s chauffeur telling committee members in a non-televised interview that Trump “never grabbed the steering wheel” or “lunge[d] to try to get into the front seat at all.”

But the Democrat-led House committee “hid the driver’s full testimony” and did not release the full transcript, according to Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who opened a probe into the select panel and Jan. 6 after the GOP retook the majority in 2023. (Read more: New York Post, 12/31/2025)  (Archive)

December 15, 2025 - The DC Court of Appeals ices Judge Boasberg's attempt to hold contempt hearings

On December 8, 2025, Judge Boasberg scheduled evidentiary hearings for December 15 and 16, 2025, to hear testimony from:

Former DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni (a whistleblower who alleged superiors discussed ignoring court orders)

Current DOJ attorney Drew Ensign

The goal was to determine if officials (potentially including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem) intentionally defied the order, paving the way for possible contempt referrals.