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January 27, 2025 - Acting US Attorney Ed Martin initiates probe into former US Atty Matthew Graves’ unlawful use of 1512(c)(2) obstruction charges against J6ers

SCOOP: New DC US Attorney Ed Martin has opened an inquiry into the DOJ’s unlawful use of 1512c2, the post-Enron obstruction statute filed against 300+ J6ers. Martin called the use of 1512c2 a “great failure” of the office and directed staff to immediately deliver “all files, documents, notes, emails and other information” related to 1512c2 charging decisions to two other prosecutors, who will prepare a preliminary report for Martin by this Friday.

Martin further indicated his team will reach out to prosecutors who left the office but nonetheless were involved in the unlawful prosecution of J6ers under 1512c2.

The Supreme Court determined in Fischer v US that the DOJ had misapplied the felony statute, which requires proof of documents/evidence destruction. After the June 2024 ruling, defendants–some of whom had already served years-long prison sentences–filed motions to vacate convictions, drop existing indictments.

The DC circuit slowly overturned those cases but DC US Attorney Matt Graves tried to work around Fischer by bringing an alternative charge that was equally as dubious.

Further, despite the fact the 1512c2 conviction animated long prison sentences, Graves tried to keep 1512c2 defendants in jail for the same amount of time EVEN AFTER THE CONVICTION WAS DROPPED by asking for new sentencing enhancements.

Of course DC judges were only too happy to comply.

The unlawful application of 1512c2 represents the dark heart of the abusive, reckless prosecution of J6ers. Every prosecutor signed their name to court documents related to 1512c2 and every DC judge except two–Carl Nichols and Greg Katsas–endorsed the statute’s unlawful use.

They all must be held accountable.

January 27, 2025 - Trump admin fires over a dozen DOJ officials who worked under Jack Smith

Special Counsel Jack Smith as prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in the Hague. (Credit: public domain)

The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen officials involved in former special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of President Trump, The Post has confirmed.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry ordered the terminations because he believed the officials could not be trusted in “faithfully implementing the president’s agenda,” a DOJ official said in a statement to The Post.

Trump appoints James McHenry as Acting Attorney General on January 20, 2025. (Credit: public domain)

“Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” the statement read. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”

The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

McHenry notified the DOJ officials — who have not yet been identified — of their firings in a letter. It’s unclear exactly how many officials received termination letters from McHenry.

The firings were first reported by Fox News on Monday.

The move comes days after the DOJ reportedly reassigned at least 15 career officials at the agency, including one who pushed for the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, to roles with less influence on the department’s major decisions.

Some were reassigned to the DOJ’s new Office of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement the Washington Post reported last week.  (Read more: New York Post, 1/28/2025)  (Archive)

January 27, 2025 - Top USAID career staff are placed on immediate leave

A USAID staff member stands as Gaza aid on a truck is about to enter a U.S ship at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus, on June 26, 2024. (Credit: Petros Karadjias/AP)

The Trump administration has ordered dozens of top career employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development to go on administrative leave, according to six people told of the decision.

The order — sent via email to members of the senior executive and senior Foreign Service — was issued close to the end of the business day Monday and was effective immediately, according to two current USAID officials and three former USAID officials told of the communication. It comes as USAID and the State Department have been ordered to impose halts on a vast number of humanitarian and related programs around the world.

The decision appears to affect nearly every career staffer who holds a top leadership role at the agency, at least in Washington — around 60 officials, the current and former officials said. (Read more: Politico, 1/27/2025) (Archive)

(Timeline editor’s note: Be sure and check our USAID tag timeline for a good look at some of the corruption connected to this program.)

January 28, 2025 - Congress summons sanctuary city mayors to testify about protecting criminal aliens from federal law enforcement

(L-R) Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams (Credit: The Gateway Pundit)

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has initiated a bold inquiry into the protective policies of notorious sanctuary cities against federal law enforcement.

This inquiry targets mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City on their controversial stances on non-cooperation with federal immigration authorities, which Comer criticizes as “misguided and obstructionist policies that jeopardize American safety.”

Each of these cities has enacted measures that limit cooperation with federal efforts to apprehend and deport illegal immigrants, particularly those with criminal records.

Read the letters here:

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/28/2025)  (Archive)

January 28, 2025 - Birthright Citizenship: The 14th Amendment does not confer automatic citizenship

Claremont Institute scholars, including me, Ed Erler, Tom West, John Marini, and Michael Anton, President Trump’s incoming Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, have been contending for years—decades, really—that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause does not provide automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil, no matter the circumstances. Other prominent scholars, such as the late University of Texas law Professor Lino Graglia, University of Pennsylvania Professor Rogers Smith, and Yale Law Professor Emeritus Peter Schuck, have come to the same conclusion based on their own extensive scholarly research.

Claremont scholars have made the argument in books, law review articles, congressional testimony, and legal briefs. President Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General, Edwin Meese, even joined one of those briefs, in which we argued against treating enemy combatant Yaser Esam Hamdi as a citizen merely because he had been born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while his father was working in the U.S. on a temporary work visa. Perhaps as a result of our brief in that case, the late Justice Antonin Scalia referred to Hamdi as a “presumed citizen” in his dissenting opinion.

Our argument is straightforward. The text of the 14th Amendment contains two requirements for acquiring automatic citizenship by birth: one must be born in the United States and be subject to its jurisdiction. The proper understanding of the Citizenship Clause therefore turns on what the drafters of the amendment, and those who ratified it, meant by “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Was it merely a partial, temporary jurisdiction, such as applies to anyone (except for diplomats) who are subject to our laws while they are within our borders? Or does it instead apply only to those who are subject to a more complete jurisdiction, one which manifests itself as owing allegiance to the United States and not to any foreign power?

Think of it this way. Someone from Great Britain visiting the United States is subject to our laws while here, which is to say subject to our partial or territorial jurisdiction. He must drive on the right-hand side of the road rather than the left, for example. But he does not thereby owe allegiance to the United States; he is not subject to being drafted into our army; and he cannot be prosecuted for treason (as opposed to ordinary violations of law) if he takes up arms against the United States, for he has breached no oath of allegiance.

So which understanding of “subject to the jurisdiction” did the drafters of the 14th Amendment have in mind?

Happily, we don’t need to speculate, as they were asked that very question. They unambiguously stated that it meant “complete” jurisdiction, such as existed under the law at the time, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which excluded from citizenship those born on U.S. soil who were “subject to a foreign power.”

The Supreme Court confirmed that understanding (albeit in dicta) in the first case addressing the 14th Amendment, noting in The Slaughterhouse Cases in 1872 that “[t]he phrase, ‘subject to its jurisdiction’ was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.” It then confirmed that understanding in the 1884 case of Elk v. Wilkins, holding that the “subject to the jurisdiction” phrase required that one be “not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction, and owing them direct and immediate allegiance.” John Elk, the Native American claimant in the case, did not meet that requirement because, as a mem­ber of an Indian tribe at his birth, he “owed imme­diate allegiance to” his tribe and not to the United States.

Thomas Cooley, the leading treatise writer of the era, also confirmed that “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States “meant full and complete jurisdic­tion to which citizens are generally subject, and not any qualified and partial jurisdiction, such as may consist with allegiance to some other government.”  More fundamentally, this understanding of the Citizenship Clause is the only one compatible with the consent of the governed principle articulated in the Declaration of Independence.

All of this matters a great deal because on the first day of his second term in office, President Trump issued an executive order, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” which adopted the view of the Citizenship Clause I and other Claremont scholars have espoused. It directs every department and agency of the U.S. government to accept our view henceforth as the correct interpretation of the Constitution’s Citizenship Clause.

This may be the most legally controversial executive order issued by the president on day one. And because of that, it is already being challenged in court, as 22 states have filed a lawsuit trying to block its implementation a little more than 24 hours after it was signed.

In the coming days and weeks, just as with that lawsuit, there will be lots of pundits opining that the president had no authority to issue such an order because the Constitution mandates automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil, a mandate that cannot be changed with the stroke of a president’s pen. They will contend that the Supreme Court already settled the issue more than a century ago in the 1898 case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark.

But even if Wong Kim Ark was correctly decided (as Ed Erler points out, it was not), honest scholars must acknowledge that Wong Kim Ark involved a child born to parents who were permanently domiciled in the United States, not those who were only here temporarily or illegally. Indeed, honest scholars will be forced to acknowledge that the Supreme Court has never held that the children of illegal immigrants, or even temporary lawful visitors, are constitutionally entitled to automatic citizenship merely by virtue of their birth in the United States. And they will be forced to acknowledge as true the claim in Trump’s executive order that “the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted [in any formal, binding way] to extend citizenship universally to everyone born in the United States.”

Alas, when it comes to anything related to Trump, there are very few honest scholars. Instead of acknowledging the Supreme Court’s limited, actual holding in Wong Kim Ark, they will point to dicta in which the Court’s majority falsely claimed that the Citizenship Clause codified the old English common law rule known as jus soli—that anyone born on the king’s soil owed perpetual allegiance to the king.  They will overlook that our Declaration of Independence was an explicit and eloquent repudiation of jus soli, stating in its closing paragraph that “these United Colonies…are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown.” They will overlook that Congress did not view Wong Kim Ark as mandating automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil when, a quarter century later, it extended citizenship to Native Americans pursuant to its power under the Naturalization Clause, an act that would have been superfluous if Wong Kim Ark had already settled the matter that everyone born in the U.S., including Native Americans, were automatically citizens. And they will overlook that when a 1920s guest worker program ended in the wake of the Great Depression and more than a million Mexican workers were repatriated to Mexico, the repatriation included their U.S.-born children. No one at the time claimed that the children were U.S. citizens.

Nevertheless, despite the original meaning of the Constitution’s text, its initial interpretation by the Supreme Court, and its compatibility with the social compact “consent of the governed” political theory of the Declaration, our government agencies have for more than a half-century, without any formal amendment, court decision, or official authoritative pronouncement, been acting as though birth alone is sufficient to confer citizenship. And many children of illegal immigrants or temporary visitors have organized their lives in reliance on those informal views. (President Trump’s executive order does not disturb those interests. It makes the order applicable only to children born on U.S. soil more than 30 days after the order’s effective date, to parents who were unlawfully present, or lawfully but only temporarily present, in the United States at the time of their birth.)

As a result of this order and the inevitable legal challenges to it, the Supreme Court will now, for the first time, have the opportunity to acknowledge that the Claremont Institute’s long-standing view of the Citizenship Clause is the correct one. With the Court currently composed of more originalist justices than has been the case in more than a century, we anticipate with great optimism a careful and considered assessment of the clause and a restoration of the fundamental notion that ours is a country rooted in consent, not in the old feudal notion of jus soli that was so thoroughly rejected in our Declaration of Independence. (American Mind.org, 1/28/2025)  (Archive)

January 29, 2025 - DOJ moves to drop classified documents appeal against Trump’s co-defendants

Carlos De Oliveira (Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion on Jan. 29 to voluntarily dismiss its appeal in the Florida classified documents case that has reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

“The United States of America moves to voluntarily dismiss its appeal with prejudice,” a filing with the appeals court reads.

Hayden O’Byrne, the interim U.S. attorney in Miami, noted in the filing that the government had conferred with counsel for two remaining appellees, Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, who were named as defendants along with President Donald Trump.

The motion was made after former special counsel Jack Smith’s office asked the court to dismiss the appeal as it related to then-President-elect Donald Trump—something the court granted last year.

The DOJ was in the process of appealing Florida Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case. Cannon had ruled that Smith was unlawfully appointed.

The DOJ’s motion was made after Cannon blocked the release of the second volume of Smith’s report on the classified documents case.

Cannon sided with an emergency motion brought by Nauta and De Oliveira. The previous administration had sought to allow certain members of Congress to read a redacted version of the report. In her Jan. 21 order, Cannon said that “there is certainly a reasonable likelihood that review by members of Congress as proposed will result in public dissemination of all or part of Volume II.”

“That reasonable likelihood risks substantial prejudice to the due process rights of Defendants, who remain subject to the protective order in this case.”

The motion is part of a wave of changes that have occurred under the new administration, which has expressed an interest in halting what it views as weaponization of the department, or politically-based prosecutions. (Read more: The Epoch Times, 1/29/2025)  (Archive)

January 30, 2025 - Tulsi Gabbard exposes deep state corruption in her opening statement; mentions the 51 Intel Officials, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat Party

Gabbard:
For too long, faulty, inadequate, or weaponized intelligence has led to costly failures and the undermining of our national security and God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. The most obvious example of one of these failures is our invasion of Iraq, based on a total fabrication or a complete failure of intelligence.

This disastrous decision led to the deaths of tens of thousands of American soldiers, millions of people in the Middle East, mass migration, destabilization, and the undermining of the security and stability of our European allies. It also contributed to the rise of ISIS, the strengthening of Al Qaeda and other Islamist jihadist groups, and the empowerment of Iran.

The American people elected Donald Trump as their President—not once, but twice—yet the FBI and intelligence agencies were politicized by his opponents to undermine his presidency and falsely portray him as a puppet of Putin.

Gabbard’s testimony ripped into the coordinated efforts of the Clinton and Biden campaigns to manipulate intelligence agencies for political gain.

She highlighted how the now-discredited Steele dossier—funded by the Clinton campaign—was used as “evidence” to illegally spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page via FISA warrants.

Gabbard also targeted the now-infamous 51 former intelligence officials who falsely labeled Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” to help Joe Biden secure victory in the 2020 election.

She exposed Biden campaign operative Tony Blinken as the mastermind behind the disinformation letter.

Gabbard:
Title I of FISA was used illegally to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, using a Clinton-Biden campaign-funded false dossier as their so-called evidence. Biden campaign advisor Tony Blinken was the impetus for the “51 former senior intelligence officials’ letter,” dismissing Hunter Biden’s laptop as disinformation and specifically intended to help Biden win the election.”

Gabbard also blasted former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for blatantly lying to Congress about mass surveillance programs that targeted American citizens.

And she didn’t hold back on ex-CIA chief John Brennan, who she reminded the world spied on Congress, got caught, and faced zero accountability.

Gabbard revealed one of the most chilling abuses under the Biden administration: the FBI’s targeting of devout Catholics.

“Under Biden, the FBI abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil Catholics who attend traditional Latin mass, labeling them as radical traditionalist Catholics.”

Gabbard also exposed how, just 24 hours after she criticized Kamala Harris’s nomination, she was placed on a secret domestic terror watchlist called “Quiet Skies.”

Gabbard dismantled the left’s predictable playbook, warning Americans exactly what was coming: false accusations, fear-mongering, and outright lies designed to discredit her before she even steps into office.

Gabbard:
Those who oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal to something or someone other than God, my own conscience, and the Constitution of the United States—accusing me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, a guru’s puppet, and Modi’s puppet—without recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the puppet of five different puppet masters.

The same tactic was used against President Trump and failed. The American people elected President Trump with a decisive victory and a mandate for change. The fact is, what truly unsettles my political opponents is that I refuse to be their puppet.

I condemn those actions as a Democrat in Congress at the time, as religious bigotry must be thoroughly condemned by all of us, no matter the religion. Unfortunately, some Democrat senators still don’t understand the principle of freedom of religion and Article VI of the Constitution: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

Unfortunately, they are once again using the religious bigotry card—this time, trying to foment religious bigotry against Hindus and Hinduism.

If anyone is sincerely interested in knowing more about my personal spiritual path of Hinduism, I welcome you to visit my account on X, where I’ll share more on this topic.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/30/2025)  (Archive)

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January 30, 2025 - Grassley, Johnson release whistleblower records revealing DOJ and FBI plot to pin Trump in Jack Smith elector case

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are releasing legally protected whistleblower disclosures that prove the genesis of the federal election interference case brought against President Trump began at the hands of a prolific anti-Trump FBI agent who acted outside of established protocol for opening cases.

Internal FBI emails and predicating documents provided to Grassley and released jointly by the two senators show Timothy Thibault, a former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) who was forced to retire from the Bureau after Grassley exposed his public anti-Trump bias, authored the initial language for what ultimately became Jack Smith’s federal case against Trump regarding the 2020 presidential election. Records show Thibault essentially opened and approved his own investigation. The FBI titled the ensuing investigation “Arctic Frost.”

Richard Pilger leaves the FBI’s election crimes division in November, 2020 after Barr authorizes fraud investigations. (Credit: public domain)

Records further reveal Richard Pilger, an official in the Justice Department (DOJ)’s Public Integrity Section, reviewed and approved the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation, authorizing DOJ to move forward with a full field criminal and Grand Jury investigation that ultimately transformed into the Trump elector case. Grassley published a 2021 report that raised concerns regarding Pilger’s troubling record at DOJ.

Grassley in 2022 additionally questioned Thibault’s role at the FBI, writing, “I remain very concerned that political bias by a select group of Justice Department and FBI officials has infected the Justice Department’s and FBI’s usual process and procedure to open and pursue high-profile and politically charged investigations.” Grassley and Johnson in November called on Jack Smith to preserve all records related to Trump-targeted investigations.

The records released by Grassley and Johnson are linked below:

Grassley provided an overview of the records in his opening statement during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Kash Patel’s nomination to be FBI Director. Excerpts from Grassley’s opening statement follow:

“In my hand are a series of FBI emails.

“The first is an email that Thibault sent to a subordinate agent on February 14, 2022.

“He said, ‘Here is draft opening language we discussed.’  The draft opening was attached, and it included material that would later become part of Jack Smith’s elector case.

“The second email is a February 24, 2022, email from Thibault to John Crabb, a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, saying, ‘I had a discussion with the case team and we believe there to be predication to include former President of the United States Donald J. Trump as a predicated subject.’  This FBI case would later be codenamed Arctic Frost.

“The third email is a February 24, 2022, email from Thibault to John Crabb noting that Attorney General and FBI Director approval will be sought to open the case.

“The fourth email is a February 25, 2022, email from Thibault’s subordinate agents saying they added Trump, and others, as a criminal subject to the case.  Thibault responded ‘Perfect.’

“The fifth email is a March 22, 2022, email from Thibault emailing a version of an investigative opening for approval.  This didn’t include President Trump as a criminal subject.

“The sixth email is an April 11, 2022, email from Thibault approving the opening of Arctic Frost.

“The seventh email is an April 13, 2022, email from an FBI agent to Thibault stating that the FBI Deputy Director approved its opening.

“The eighth email on that same date had Thibault emailing John Crabb that the elector case was approved.  Crabb responded, ‘Thanks a lot. Let’s talk next week.’

“Between March 22 and April 13, other versions of the document opening the investigation existed, because a ninth email shows that the FBI General Counsel’s office made edits on March 25.

“Was Trump still removed as an investigative subject?  If so, which Justice Department and FBI officials – other than Jack Smith – later added him for prosecution?

“I expect the production of all records on this matter to better understand the full fact pattern and whether other records exist.”

(Grassley.gov, 1/30/2025)  (Archive)

January 30, 2025 - Did Obama and Eric Holder get paid to rig a court case?

(Credit: Revolver News)

There’s a new video making the rounds, and it’s raising a massive red flag and asking: Did Obama and Eric Holder get paid to rig court cases? That’s the question many are now asking, and the allegations are so serious that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel should take a closer look once they get their offices setup.

The video was posted by an account “Against the Giants,” and it exposes a shocking timeline that suggests Big Tech, the Obama regime, and his DOJ may have colluded to rig our nation’s courts.

The building blocks of the left’s lawfare?

This disturbing story centers around a small, relatively unknown innovator who developed some cutting-edge wireless technology—and then had it allegedly stolen by Qualcomm.

When he sued for patent infringement, the court ruled in his favor.

But here’s where things get deeply disturbing and very interesting…

In shocking twist, that decision was mysteriously overturned right after Eric Holder’s DOJ was caught tracking the case. Suspicious? Yes. But there’s more…

The White House Executive Office was apparently busted visiting the inventor’s website, specifically looking at information related to the lawsuit against Qualcomm.

This has many people asking some very serious questions: Did the company Qualcomm grease the wheels inside the Obama regime to protect their billion-dollar empire?

Many would argue that the dots are connecting fast and furious (pun intended).

And to make matters more curious, Qualcomm’s founder met with Obama White House officials just days before the case was overturned, raising more concerns that perhaps campaign cash or political favors may have been exchanged for some favorable court rulings.

Take a look for yourself:

If this is true, it means Big Tech and the government worked together to rig the courts, crush competition, and sell out American innovators—and they did it while China swooped in and profited from stolen US technology. (Read more: Revolver News, 1/31/2025)  (Archive)

January 30, 2025 - During his confirmation hearing, Kash Patel tells Sen. Marsha Blackburn he will expose the people on the Epstein list

“Child sex trafficking has no place in the United States of America and I will do everything, if confirmed as FBI Director, to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened in the past, and how we are going to counter man missing children and exploited children going forward.”

December 6, 2023 – Durbin accused of blocking subpoenas, lying about Jeffrey Epstein flight logs

A whirlwind of controversy surrounds U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and flight logs belonging to the family of Jeffrey Epstein.

The plane was allegedly used to fly underage girls to Epstein’s private Caribbean island. Epstein pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges and was later found dead in his jail cell.

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, has publicly called out Durbin for blocking her request to file a subpoena for the flight logs and then lying about any knowledge of the request.

During a recent Judiciary Committee hearing, Durbin said he wanted to go on the record and asked Blackburn about the matter.

“You and I have never personally discussed this, have we?” said Durbin

“We talked briefly on the floor,” said Blackburn.

“You never mentioned what the subject matter of your amendment was,” said Durbin.

“In committee I brought up the subject matter of my amendment,” said Blackburn.“Not in my presence,” said Durbin.But during a Nov. 9 hearing presided over by Durbin, Blackburn did, in fact, mention the subpoena of flight logs.“Since we’re in the business of issuing subpoenas now, here are a few more I have filed,” said Blackburn. “A subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to provide the flight logs for his private plane. Given the numerous allegations of human trafficking and abuse surrounding Mr. Epstein, we’ve got to identify everyone who could have participated in his horrific conduct.”Blackburn has called Durbin’s actions a “sad day in the history of the prestigious Judiciary Committee.”

On Wednesday, Blackburn posted questions on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

“Why did Senator Durbin appear to not know about my subpoena request for Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs? Why are the Democrats stonewalling this issue?”

January 30, 2025 - The RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel inquisitions prove the intelligence community and big corporate interests control government

That’s the inescapable conclusion for anyone who watched the grand pantomimes being displayed in the past 24 hours.

There’s a debate amid the newly awakened and many who do not want to believe it; but there is no denying that Trump 2.0 is revealing even more layers of how far astray the Republic has gone.

Institutional Democrats hate Trump, and institutional Republicans are lukewarm, at best, in defending Trump.  Both wings of the DC UniParty fear Trump.  Extreme efforts at control are always a reaction to fear.  I make my case not on supposition, but on empirical reference points that most should understand.

Within the politics of it, the DNC wants power. The RNC wants money. The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC uses power to get money. The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity. The donor activity of the RNC drives their ideology. This is the only current difference between the two clubs, two wings of the same vulture.

Multinational corporations do not like capitalism because within the process of capitalism they do not have control over the financial outcomes.  Capitalism breeds competition: multinationals abhor competition, they are totalitarian in ideology and want the entire pie under their control.  Multinational corporations do not like capitalism; underline it, emphasize it, do not forget it.

Capitalism is based on the principles of a free market.  Multinationals do not want a free market; they want a controlled market.  Their effort toward promoting mandatory vaccine compliance is an example of yet another control they can manipulate for maximum financial benefit.  It really is that simple.

Meanwhile the crew of UniParty politicians behind DC know they can benefit from their corporate allies.  The multinationals will pay the politicians for control and the politicians will construct defensive legislative outcomes that protect the multinationals.  That is what is happening in exponentially increasing sunlight.

(Consevative Treehouse, 1/30/2025) (Archive)

January 30, 2025 - Days after Dr. Francis Boyle agrees to testify against Gates & Bourla over the deadly COVID mRNA shots, he is found dead

Just days after Prof Francis Boyle agreed to testify against Bill Gates & Albert Bourla over the deadly COVID mRNA shots…he was FOUND DEAD.

Boyle authored the US Bioweapons Act & called the mRNA injections ‘Bioweapons & Franken-Shots.’

Where does the Pentagon fit into this?…

Just when you thought you’d heard it all, this resurfaced interview with Prof. Francis Boyle—the man who literally WROTE the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act—will leave you speechless.

He states on record that both SARS-CoV-2 and the mRNA injections were DARPA-funded offensive bioweapons programs from the start. Gain-of-function? That was the cover story.

According to Boyle, the real goal was always “lethal yet vaccinate-able” population reduction tech. And yes, he names names: UNC, Wuhan, Fauci, Daszak, Baric…the whole club.

He goes further—calls the shots “synthetic biological weapons of mass destruction” because they trigger autoimmune carnage, prion-like misfolding & turbo cancers.

Boyle filed lawsuits, begged Congress & warned the world. Just 20 days after agreeing to testify for the prosecution, he was found dead. The same pattern we’ve seen with dozens of doctors & whistleblowers since 2020. Pure coincidence?

If a man who drafted the actual law defining bioweapons says we just lived through the biggest biowarfare attack in history…why isn’t every news channel screaming this from the rooftops?

The most chilling part? Boyle predicted exactly what we’re seeing now: myocarditis, strokes, infertility & cancers exploding in the injected.

He said the spike protein itself is the weapon & the lipid nanoparticles were engineered to cross the blood-brain barrier. This wasn’t a mistake. It was a military-grade kill vector dressed up as “public health.”

So here’s the question that keeps me up at night: Who gave the order? Who profits the most? And when do the Nuremberg-style trials begin?

January 30, 2025 - Senator Whitehouse demands RFK Jr support “forced mandatory vaccinations” or no confirmation support

If this is indeed representative of half the country, then we are dealing with half the country having a severe mental illness.

Sheldon Whitehouse tells RFK Jr during his confirmation hearing today that support for forced, mandatory vaccinations is required as the baseline for supporting his nomination to HHS Secretary.   The moment comes at 00:50 of Whitehouse reading his script.  The intensity and vitriol behind the statement is a testimony to the scale of money from Big Pharma to these senators.  WATCH:

January 30, 2025 - FBI whistleblower: The senior leadership of the FBI has been purged

(…) FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin revealed last night that the purge went beyond the six Executive Assistant Directors; it also included 25 Special Agents in Charge.

According to Seraphin, there are three individual leadership positions at the top of the FBI:  the Director, the Deputy Director, and the Associate Deputy Director.

Below that, there are seven “branch heads” known as Executive Assistant Directors, while the Special Agents in Charge (SACs) lead each of 56 field offices across the country.

One of those SACs, according to Seraphin, was Special Agent in Charge Spencer Evans, who led the field office in Las Vegas, Nevada, and who recently spearheaded the investigation into the alleged suicide of a Green Beret who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside of the Trump Hotel on New Year’s Day.

He was also the SAC that denied Seraphin his religious exemption from the COVID vaccine, which in part led to his indefinite suspension.

Seraphin also mentioned the widespread terminations of a group of former agents known as “The Suspendables,” which include former agents Steve Friend and Garrett O’Boyle.

O’Boyle was suspended in September 2022 after he blew the whistle on the FBI using threat tags to target pro-life individuals after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

Friend blew the whistle over the exaggeration of statistics regarding the threat of domestic terrorism, as well as the overzealous tactics used against Jan 6 protesters by the bureau. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 1/31/2025)  (Archive)

January 31, 2025 - Justice Department fires January 6 federal prosecutors in the DC U.S. Attorney’s office

David Sundberg (Credit: public domain)

Earlier Friday Trump fired the head of the FBI Washington Field Office, according to NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian.

David Sundberg is the highest ranking FBI official to be fired in Trump’s second term. Trump fired FBI Director James Comey during his first term.

Sundberg oversaw the January 6 investigation and the investigation into the so-called DNC pipe bomber.

According to NBC’s Ken Dilanian, the purge is much larger than originally reported and includes more than 20 heads of FBI Field Offices.

(Gateway Pundit, 1/31/2925)

January 31, 2025 - Top Treasury official resigns; his manager, an Obama insider and BlackRock advisor, resigns; DOGE team discovers Treasury is funding terrorist groups

David Lebryk’s was placed on administrative leave after resisting requests from Mr. Musk’s team. (Credit…Bill O’Leary/Washington Post/Getty Images)

The Trump administration pushed out a top Treasury Department official this week after he refused to give Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team access to the government’s vast payment system, part of a bid by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to choke off federal funding.

David Lebryk, a career civil servant who oversaw the more than one billion payments that the federal government makes every year, was placed on administrative leave this week after resisting requests from Mr. Musk’s lieutenants, according to people familiar with the circumstances, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal dynamics.

On Friday, Mr. Lebryk — who had briefly served as acting Treasury secretary until the confirmation of Scott Bessent this week — told colleagues that he would retire after more than 35 years of working for the government.

(…) Mr. Musk, a billionaire, has dispatched aides across the bureaucracy to try to radically reduce spending. He has told Trump administration officials that he aims to take control of the Treasury computers used to complete payments in order to identify fraud and abuse, according to three people familiar with his remarks.

The Treasury Department executes payments on behalf of agencies across the government, disbursing $5.4 trillion, or 88 percent of all federal payments, in the last fiscal year. The system is run out of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a little-known but critical office that is responsible for getting money to Social Security recipients, government employees, contractors and others. (The New York Times, 1/31/2025)

February 2025 - Democrats' 'comeback retreat' suggests party should 'embrace patriotism' and 'reduce far-left influence'

In early February, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials and party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a day-and-a-half retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback.

The gathering — organized by Third Way, the centrist Democratic think tank, and operated by Chatham House Rules — resulted in five pages of takeaways, a document Playbook obtained from one of the participants. (Not all attendees endorsed each point.)

“In the wake of this election, where it became so evident that the things that the left was doing and saying deeply hurt Harris and down-ballot Democrats, a lot of people are looking to us, not just Third Way, but the moderates in the party, and saying, ‘We got to do it your way, because the other way ain’t working,’” said Third Way’s Matt Bennett, who helped organize the February retreat.

The document itselfis perhaps the most comprehensive of its kind following the election — both in its analysis of what went wrong and how to fix it.

The retreat’s conversation centered on a disconnect with the working class. Among the causes of that disconnect: weak messaging and communication, failure to prioritize economic concerns, overemphasis on identity politics, allowing the far left to define the party, and attachment to unpopular institutions such as academia, media and government bureaucracy.

Those gathered then laid out 20 solutions for how Democrats can regain working-class trust and reconnect with them culturally.

(Read more: Politico, 3/02/2025)  (Archive)

February 1, 2025 - USAID website goes dark as Trump plans to shift agency under State Department

The website of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) went offline Saturday evening amid reports that the Trump administration was preparing to curtail USAID’s independence by placing it under the direct oversight of the State Department.

An error message on USAID’s website read: “This site can’t be reached Check if there is a typo in www.usaid.gov. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN.”

Two sources familiar with the transition told Reuters that a major overhaul is expected in how Washington allocates US foreign aid, with USAID losing its independence and most likely coming under the control of the State Department.

By late Saturday, a new ‘lite’ page for USAID appeared on the State Department’s website.

(Read more: Zero Hedge, 2/03/2025)  (Archive)

February 1, 2025 - Trump Fires Head of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who threatened banks that refused to give credit lines, loans to illegal aliens

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, speaks as President Joe Biden meets with his Competition Council to announce new actions to lower costs for families on March 5, 2024. The CFPB said Thursday July 18, 2024 that apps that allow workers to access their paychecks in advance, often for a fee, are providing loans and should be subject to the Truth in Lending Act. (Credit: Andrew Harnik/AP)

President Trump fired Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Saturday.

Rohit Chopra received an email Saturday morning informing him that he had been terminated, CNN reported.

On Saturday Chopra announced he was leaving the post.

Rohit Chopra was a toxic Biden holdover who previously threatened banks that refused to give credit lines and loans to illegal aliens.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the DOJ warned banks and lending institutions in a joint statement in October 2023.

“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Justice Department today issued a joint statement that reminds financial institutions that all credit applicants are protected from discrimination on the basis of their national origin, race, and other characteristics covered by the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, regardless of their immigration status,” the CFPB said in a statement.

“The CFPB and Justice Department are issuing this statement because consumers have reported being rejected for credit cards as well as for auto, student, personal, and equipment loans because of their immigration status, even when they have strong credit histories and ties to the United States and are otherwise qualified to receive the loans.” they said.

“Fair access to credit is crucially important for building wealth and strengthening household financial stability,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra. “The CFPB will not allow companies to use immigration status as an excuse for illegal discrimination.”

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke warned banks that they may be violating federal law if they don’t give illegal aliens loans. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 2/1/2025)  (Archive)

February 1, 2025 - Elon Musk’s DOGE locks federal human resources workers out of computer systems at Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Elon Musk’s aides have locked career government bureaucrats out of computer systems that operate a federal government human resources agency.

Musk, the owner of social media platform X and the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency — which is tasked with slashing government waste, fraud, and abuse — installed allies at the government resources agency known as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Reuters, citing government officials who spoke to the outlet anonymously, said career bureaucrats have had their access to governments systems revoked.

“We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,” one official said.

“That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications,” the official claimed.

OPM has sought to remove many in the federal government; the agency has sent out memos encouraging bureaucrats to take buyout offers to quit and take a vacation to a “dream destination.” The buyout package includes eight months pay if the civil servant chooses to retire.

Musk’s allies have figuratively set up camp at the OPM headquarters so they work round the clock:

A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency’s headquarters, which contains the director’s office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said. The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said.

“It feels like a hostile takeover,” one employee lamented.

The OPM is reportedly run by Amanda Scales, a former Musk employee, who now serves as the agency’s chief of staff. Riccardo Biasini, a former engineer at Tesla, also works as a senior adviser to the agency. (Read more: Breitbart News, 2/01/2025)  (Archive)