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July 8, 2025 – Speaker Johnson reveals new federal law codifies 28 Executive Orders signed by President Trump

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Speaker Mike Johnson has announced that 28 of President Donald J. Trump’s executive orders have been officially codified into federal law under the newly passed “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

“Last week, when House GOP passed the One Big Beautiful Bill, we codified into law 28 executive actions taken by President Trump.   More to come!,” Johnson wrote in X.

The legislation enshrines a robust America First agenda — ranging from national security to economic revival — making it nearly impossible for future administrations to undo without going through Congress. Among the codified executive actions:

  1. Securing our borders
  2. Declaring a national emergency at the southern border of the United States
  3. Protecting the American people against invasion
  4. Ending taxpayer subsidization of open borders
  5. Restricting the entry of foreign nationals to protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public safety threats
  6. Implementing the President’s “DOGE” cost efficiency initiative
  7. Protecting America’s bank account against fraud, waste, and abuse
  8. Continuing the reduction of the federal bureaucracy
  9. Stopping waste, fraud, and abuse by eliminating information silos
  10. Iron Dome for America
  11. Unleashing American drone dominance
  12. Restoring America’s maritime dominance
  13. Unleashing American energy
  14. Reinvigorating America’s beautiful clean coal industry
  15. Unleashing Alaska’s extraordinary resource potential
  16. Declaring a national energy emergency
  17. Immediate measures to increase American mineral production
  18. Immediate expansion of American timber production
  19. Clarifying the military’s role in protecting the territorial integrity of the United States
  20. Keeping Americans safe in aviation
  21. Improving education outcomes by empowering parents, states, and communities
  22. Reforming accreditation to strengthen higher education
  23. Establishing the President’s Make America Health Again Commission
  24. Further amendment to duties addressing the synthetic opioid supply chain in the People’s Republic of China as applied to low-value imports
  25. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) global tax deal (Global Tax Deal)
  26. Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
  27. Celebrating America’s 250th birthday – Garden of Heroes
  28. Making the District of Columbia safe and beautiful

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/8/2025)  (Archive)

July 8, 2025 – Biden doctor, Kevin O’Connor, refuses to testify on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, pleads the 5th

h/t Gateway Pundit

July 8, 2025 – Ten individuals charged with attempted murder of federal officers and firearms offenses in Alvarado police officer shooting

Ten individuals have been charged for their roles in the shooting of an Alvarado police officer at the Prairieland Detention Center.

Today’s announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy E. Larson, Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI R. Joseph Rothrock, and Enforcement Removal Operations Dallas Acting Field Office Director Joshua Johnson.

According to a criminal complaint filed today, the defendants, dressed in black military-style clothing, began shooting fireworks at the facility, as part of an organized attack.

After approximately 10 minutes of convening, one or two individuals broke off from the main group and began to spray graffiti on vehicles and a guard structure in the parking lot at the facility. An Alvarado police officer responded to the scene after correctional officers called 911 to report suspicious activity. When the Alvarado police officer arrived, one alleged defendant positioned in nearby woods shot the officer in the neck area. Another alleged assailant across the street fired 20 to 30 rounds at unarmed correctional officers who had stepped outside the facility.

As alleged in the complaint, AR-style rifles were found at the scene. The assailants fled from the detention center but were stopped by additional law enforcement officers. Some defendants were wearing body armor, some were armed, and some had two-way radios. A total of twelve sets of body armor were found during searches of vehicles associated with the defendants, on their persons, and in the area around the Prairieland Detention Center.

Additionally, officers found spray paint, flyers stating, “FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!” and “FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS,” and a flag stating, “RESIST FACISM – FIGHT OLIGARCHY.” One of the alleged attackers had cell phones inside a “Faraday bag,” used to block phone signals and commonly used by criminal actors to try to prevent law enforcement from tracking their location.

Ten individuals were charged in one complaint with three counts of attempted murder of federal agents and three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. Those include:

• Cameron Arnold
• Savannah Batten
• Nathan Baumann
• Zachary Evetts
• Joy Gibson
• Bradford Morris
• Maricela Rueda
• Seth Sikes
• Elizabeth Soto
• Ines Soto

As outlined in the complaint, officers photographed the graffiti, flyers, flag, body armor, and magazines containing ammunition:

“Make no mistake, this was not a peaceful protest,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy E. Larson. “This was an ambush on federal and local law enforcement officers. This increasing trend of violence against law enforcement will not be tolerated in the Northern District of Texas. Those who use violence against law enforcement officers will be found and prosecuted using the toughest criminal statutes and penalties available.”

“The incident at the Prairieland Detention Center underscores the dangers that officers face daily. We want to thank all the law enforcement agencies that promptly responded and assisted in apprehending the suspects,” said FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock. “The FBI stands with our partners and pledges that violence against law enforcement will not be tolerated. We are committed to thoroughly investigating this weekend’s incident and will hold those responsible accountable for threatening the safety of law enforcement.”

“Violence, threats of violence, and attempts of vandalism at our ICE Facilities will not deter our officers at ICE from fulfilling their duties, said Josh Johnson, Acting ERO Dallas Field Office Director. “This type of vigilante lawlessness is emblematic of the dangers federal, state, and local law enforcement officials face every day.”

A criminal complaint is merely an allegation of criminal conduct, not evidence. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. If convicted, the defendants face a minimum penalty of ten years in federal prison and a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

The investigation was conducted by the Dallas FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Office (ICE ERO), Homeland Security Investigations, ATF, Texas Department of Public Safety, Alvarado Police Department, and Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Frank Gatto and Shawn Smith are prosecuting the case.

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(justice.gov, 7/8/2025)  (Archive)

July 9, 2025 – Former FBI agent says Dan Bongino fired him because he was friends with Peter Strzok

Additional Resource

(New York Times, 7/5/2025)

July 9, 2025 – Marc Elias tells media to ignore the FBI’s criminal investigations of John Brennan and James Comey

July 9, 2025 – Documents reveal USAID PREDICT shipped thousands of virus samples to Wuhan Lab

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) transferred thousands of viral samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China over a 10-year period without securing a formal agreement to govern the exchange, according to newly obtained internal documents.

These documents, which were not previously disclosed, highlight significant gaps in oversight and accountability during a global public health program partially funded by the American government.

At the center of the matter is USAID’s $210 million PREDICT program, led by the University of California-Davis.

The initiative collected viral samples across several countries, including China’s Yunnan Province, a region known to host coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.

The program aimed to identify pandemic threats but lacked clear protocols for long-term sample storage and tracking once federal funding concluded in 2019.

Documentation from the program, reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), revealed that 11,000 samples were exported to WIV with no indication of safeguards to ensure the materials were not diverted for unauthorized use, such as bioweapons development, or that the U.S. government could later access them for investigation.

[predict] Re: Action required: PREDICT Close Out Sample Disposition Plan by Red Voice News

(LifeZette, 7/9/2025) (Archive)

As a sidenote, our PREDICT tag timeline reveals this story:

October 2009 – SoS Hillary launches USAID’s PREDICT, a project to study emerging pandemic threats; Metabiota founded by Nathan Wolfe in 2008 becomes a partner; Hunter Biden later invests in Metabiota in Ukraine

July 10, 2025 – Alan Dershowitz: “Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals; I know why they’re being suppressed; I know who’s suppressing them”

Dershowitz, who was named as John Doe in the Epstein court documents, said that he knows the names of the individuals on Epstein’s client list.

“Documents are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them. But I’m bound by confidentiality from the judge on the case and I can’t disclose what I know,” Dershowitz told Sean Spicer.

Full Interview:

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/10/2025)

July 10, 2025 – Senator Mike Lee: “I’ve been asked today why I think Jeffrey Epstein *might* have been a gov asset”

July 10, 2025 – Six Secret Service agents suspended from 10 to 42 days for failures in Butler, PA

The popular headlines read that six secret service agents were suspended last month.  However, a more fulsome review of the disciplinary action highlights a slight slap on the wrist as the suspensions were from 10 to 42 days.

The disciplinary action follows an internal review of the failures of the Secret Service during President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania that almost cost him his life.

WASHINGTON – Six agents were suspended by the U.S. Secret Service for failures connected to last year’s attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, an official told ABC News.

The personnel moves were confirmed four days shy of the anniversary of the July 13, 2024, shooting incident that left Trump’s ear bloodied.

Corey Comperatore, a firefighter attending Trump’s campaign rally that day, died in the attack.

[…] The discipline against the six agents was issued in recent months, and the agents were given the right to appeal. The suspensions ranged from 10 to 42 days, according to the official, who was briefed on the agency’s actions.

The positions of those suspended ranged from supervisory level to line agent level, a source familiar with the agency’s decision told ABC News. (read more)

(Conservative Treehouse, 7/10/2025)  (Archive)

EXCLUSIVE AND #BREAKING: The real story behind the six Secret Service suspensions over Butler failures:
Key supervisors who signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were on the final walkthroughs before the J13 rally were never disciplined but instead received BIG PROMOTIONS, multiple sources in the Secret Service community tell RealClearPolitics @RCPolitics.

One of those supervisors on the final walkthroughs, Nick Menster, was assigned this year as the No. 2 in charge of the Lara and Eric Trump protective detail. The other, Nick Olszewski, ironically, became the chief (special agent in charge) of the Inspection Division, which is responsible for ensuring the accountability and integrity of the agency’s personnel and operations.

Inexperienced agents positioned for failure and a more senior agent who spoke out about the ambiguity about the AGR roof coverage, according to Secret Service sources and Congressional testimony, are taking the fall.

Rank-and-file agents are incensed over the decision not to hold the supervisors accountable, further sinking the low morale and exacerbating retention problems throughout the agency. Secret Service Director Sean Curran was in charge of the Donald Trump detail at the time of the rally, and Menster served under his command.

Another big point – multiple Secret Service sources tell me that the original Secret Service disciplinary recommendations varied but maxed out at 52 days without pay. However, lawyers for the agents were able to scale that discipline down to 10 to 42 days without pay. This is a relatively light punishment for such egregious failures, but the fact that some of these agents didn’t receive the supervisory oversight that an outdoor rally of this magnitude required is likely a mitigating factor. If so, that begs the question of why key supervisors appear to have skated.

The agents being suspended may still decide to sue the agency.

“We avoided more severe sanctions, and now we’re assessing the next steps with respect to these discussions,” said Larry Berger, an attorney for several of the suspended agents who previously has served as a general counsel for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. Berger now has his own firm, Berger and Deplas.

Three of the six who are taking the fall (unpaid suspension) are:

Myotsoty Perez – an inexperienced agent (according to Congressional testimony, which did not name her) who was the “site agent” in charge of the security for the rally. She was part of the regular Donald Trump detail and was not chosen for the big outdoor J13 rally, but simply had her “rotation” come up, according to multiple Secret Service sources.

Meredith Bank – a far more experienced agent out of the Pittsburgh Field Office who was serving as the “lead agent” for the day of the rally – overseeing operations from the time then-candidate Trump arrived at the airport to the final departure. She told Congressional investigators that she informed Perez that her supervisor, Nick Menster, would be asking her where the local law enforcement were to be positioned in/on the AGR building. Menster, however, never specifically asked that question, according to the Congressional transcripts.

Dana Dubrey – a mid-level agent in the Pittsburgh Field Office who served as the “site counterpart.”

Tim Burke – the chief (special agent in charge) of the Pittsburgh Field Office.

Brian Pardini – the No. 2 in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office.

John Marciniak – the Uniformed Division counter sniper who was assigned to the rally late because of the Iranian threat to Trump’s life. Marciniak had just two days, instead of the customary five, to formulate his security plan.

More reporting to come — especially concerning Burke and Pardini.

There’s a big contingent in the Secret Service that believes the Pittsburgh office is unfairly taking the fall when the Trump Detail, and the team of Miyo Perez, Nick Menster, with Nick Olszewski, serving as an inspector assigned to rally, are traditionally parties that should be ultimately responsible for a rally’s overall security and failures of the security plan and execution.

July 10, 2025 – Rogue judge defies SCOTUS ruling on injunctions, blocks Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship for illegal aliens

Joseph Laplante blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order (Credit: X/joma_gc)

On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Laplante announced that he would issue a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for illegals and narrow the class covered to children only.

Laplante, who was nominated by George W. Bush, also said he would grant a 7-day stay of order for “court efficiency.”

As The Straits Times reported, Laplante made the ruling after the ACLU and other illegal alien activists begged him to grant class action status to a lawsuit they filed seeking to represent any babies whose citizenship status would be threatened by the implementation of Trump’s directive.

Laplante agreed to certify the plaintiffs as a class representing the babies and said the decision to issue a nationwide injunction was “not a close call.”

“That’s irreparable harm, citizenship alone,” he said. “It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world.”

This ruling came after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 27 restricted the ability of judges to block Trump’s policies using nationwide injunctions. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/10/2025)  (Archive)

July 11, 2025 – DHS rescues more than ten children used for slave labor at CA marijuana farm…Obama judge issues injunction that prevents more rescues

LAWFARE: DHS rescued more than ten children being used as slave labor by human traffickers in the Los Angeles area last week during a lawful raid on Glass House Farms. Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, issued an injunction preventing the DHS from rescuing more children in the Los Angeles area. Child labor in Ghana is NOT considered a bad thing with almost 25% of children age 5–17 engaged in child labor with approximately 14% in hazardous work such as pesticide use, heavy lifting, or exposure to risky environments.

The injunction by Judge Frimpong is a disgraceful obstruction of lawful enforcement. DHS executed a federal warrant to rescue trafficked children—actions fully within their mandate to combat human trafficking and protect victims. Blocking these operations under the guise of civil liberties prioritizes political agendas over public safety.

ICE raids targeting criminal networks hiring minors aren’t racial profiling; they’re necessary interventions against modern slavery. This ruling undermines border security, emboldens traffickers, and leaves vulnerable children in harm’s way.

Federal authority must prevail over judicial overreach that shields lawbreakers.

July 11, 2025 – Rep. Salud Carbajal doxxed an ICE agent by sharing the individual’s business card with a violent mob

Rep. Salud Carbajal (Credit: public domain)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has revealed that Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) was “part of a violent mob of protestors attempting to obstruct federal law enforcement as they executed a criminal search warrant at a marijuana facility” and that he doxxed an ICE agent by handing the individual’s business card to members of the violent group.

According to ICE, the doxxed agent was also “left bloody” after the mob hurled rocks at agents who were doing their job.

The officers were conducting criminal warrant operations at marijuana farms operated by the Glass House Brands Inc. in Carpinteria and Camarillo when the chaos unfolded.

Carbajal claimed in an X post that ICE agents were “using unnecessarily aggressive and militarized tactics against local farm workers and peaceful protesters.”


Following the operation in Carpinteria, Carbajal posted a video on X, where he goes on a dishonest rant about ICE, calling their job “deplorable.”

He further claimed that he was there to fulfil his “congressional oversight responsibilities,” despite participating in the violent riots. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/13/2025)  (Archive)

July 12, 2025 – A DOJ employee is married to the creator of ICEBlock, an app that is actively doxxing ICE agents

July 12, 2025 – Attorney General Bondi fired at least 20 officials with ties to Jack Smith investigation

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith addresses reporters in Washington, D.C. August 1, 2023 (Credit: Getty Images)

Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired at least 20 prosecutors and support staffers who assisted former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News Saturday.

Senior leadership at the department had already ousted most of the remaining prosecutors associated with the probes.

A DOJ spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to ABC News’ requests for comment.

Some of staffers who have been identified through the Justice Department’s “weaponization working group” may not have had any significant role in driving the prosecutions themselves and were, support staff, litigation assistants and U.S. marshals, according to sources.

The firings have sent a chill through the remainder of the DOJ’s career workforce, which had previously been left shaken by dramatic purges and reassignments of officials in the early days of Trump’s presidency. (ABC News, 7/12/2025)  (Archive)

July 12, 2025 – Biden’s senior climate policy advisor directed $5 billion taxpayer dollars to an NGO she worked for

Joe Biden’s Senior Climate Policy Advisor directed $5 billion taxpayer dollars to a NGO THAT SHE WORKED AT

“She previously worked for them — So she sent money to the organization — $5 billion. Is that not blatant corruption”

This wasn’t the only time this happened. Congressman Eric Burlison: ‘Democrats gave grants to their friends in NGO’s that they use to work for’ and gives more examples

“$5 billion is very difficult to spend. $5 billion is an absurd amount of money”

The Biden administration’s reckless distribution of taxpayer dollars to politically-connected NGOs highlights systemic corruption in federal grant processes. The $5 billion example mirrors the $2 billion Power Forward Communities scandal exposed in Bill Title, where Stacey Abrams-linked groups received massive funding despite minimal financial history.

This pattern of funneling public money to former employers and allies—like LaTricea Adams’ $20 million EPA grant to her own nonprofit—proves the urgent need for the Putting Trust in Transparency Act’s donor disclosure requirements.

When bureaucrats operate this brazenly, it’s not “oversight”—it’s theft from Americans struggling under inflation caused by these very spending sprees.

The paper trail behind these payouts demands daylight—see the evidence for yourself:

The Biden administration’s reckless distribution of taxpayer dollars to politically-connected NGOs highlights systemic corruption in federal grant processes. The $5 billion example mirrors the $2 billion Power Forward Communities scandal exposed in Bill Title, where Stacey…

July 12, 2025 – John Solomon confirms the DOJ and FBI have been secretly building a conspiracy case against the Deep State

John Solomon says he has confirmed that the DOJ & the FBI has been secretly building a massive conspiracy case against the deep state! 💥

“MAGA base, Americans, will be happy when they see where this is all heading in the next few weeks… I’ve got it confirmed. There’s a conspiracy case that was opened that looks at this window as a very large window.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a special prosecutor named by Pam Bondi in the next week or two. And why does this become significant? Because you don’t have to necessarily then bring the grand jury or the indictment in Washington, DC… it allows them to go to some place like Florida…

This has been going on behind the scenes… This is a REALLY big deal…

I think the most likely scenario is a large conspiracy case and it starts in the middle of July 2016, when John Brennan walks into President Obama two days before Crossfire Hurricane is launched… President Obama and Brennan knew… that this was a dirty trick by Hillary Clinton. That would be the first overt act and it would carry through…

It allows for a very large series of events to be wrapped into a single conspiracy, and all of them to be brought into the indictment.”

Patriots, it’s time. We knew it was heading this way, we kept the faith, but now it’s materializing right in front of our eyes!

July 13, 2025 – Biden tells NYT he did not individually approve names of many pardoned via autopen

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Former President Joe Biden admitted to the New York Times that he did not individually sign off on each of the pardons issued via his autopen signature to batches of criminals at the end of his term, though he reportedly delineated criteria to staff.

In the final months of his term, Biden issued four large sets of pardons, three of which were categorical clemency actions covering large swaths of people, the Times noted Sunday.

Per the outlet, Biden approved standards to give out categorical pardons to criminals in his final months in office, but staff ultimately ran a final list of names that supposedly met the criteria through the autopen, though it had been revised after Biden delineated the requirements:

Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people, he and aides confirmed. Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence.

Even after Mr. Biden made that decision, one former aide said, the Bureau of Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates, resulting in small changes to the list. Rather than ask Mr. Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version through the autopen, which they saw as a routine procedure, the aide said.

Citing emails reviewed among the Biden team, the Times noted that then-White House staff secretary Stefanie Feldman was in charge of the autopen.

The emails indicate that Biden would say what the criteria were for the batches of pardons in meetings with top advisers, including Chief of Staff Jeffrey Zients and White House counsel Ed Siskel, who would then relay Biden’s wishes to their assistants, per the report. (Read more: Breitbart News, 7/14/2025)  (Archive)

July 13, 2025 – Why was our FBI protecting Clinton for 30 years but somehow allowed an asset of a foreign government to get blackmail material?

1. Travelgate and Whitewater

In 1993, shortly after taking office, the Clinton White House abruptly fired seven nonpartisan employees from the White House Travel Office. These staffers had served under multiple administrations and were responsible for managing press and presidential travel logistics. The Clintons replaced them with close Arkansas allies, including a cousin of Hillary Clinton. Hillary initially denied involvement, but a 2000 report by Independent Counsel Robert Ray concluded she had played a “significant role” in the firings and provided “factually inaccurate” statements during the investigation. Nothing happened to her.

To justify the firings, the White House referred the matter to the FBI, which launched an investigation into alleged financial mismanagement by the Travel Office. Critics including members of Congress and press associations viewed this as a politically motivated purge. The FBI’s decision to involve itself in what was essentially a personnel dispute enabled the Clintons to frame the firings as criminally necessary, rather than politically convenient. In the only criminal prosecution, longtime Travel Office director Billy Dale was accused of embezzling $68,000. However, the jury acquitted him in under two hours after no personal enrichment could be proven. The case highlighted the use of federal law enforcement to legitimize a politically charged action—and the FBI’s role in facilitating it without pushback.

Whitewater, meanwhile, began as a real estate investment in the 1970s between the Clintons and their friends Jim and Susan McDougal. The venture failed, but when Bill Clinton became president, the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan—run by Jim McDougal—drew federal scrutiny. Dozens of Clinton associates, including both McDougals and former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, were indicted and convicted of fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction. However, despite emerging evidence and the discovery of previously missing Rose Law Firm billing records implicating Hillary Clinton, the Clintons themselves escaped prosecution.

According to FBI field agents involved in the Whitewater probe, promising leads were often ignored or sidelined by upper-level DOJ and Independent Counsel staff. Kenneth Starr, initially tasked with pursuing the Whitewater investigation, eventually redirected the focus of his probe to President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky—a scandal that led to impeachment, but not accountability for the original financial misconduct.

Pattern Established: The FBI allowed itself to be instrumentalized—first by providing cover for Travelgate, and later by failing to insist on rigorous follow-through during the Whitewater investigation. This marked the beginning of a long institutional pattern of deferral, soft enforcement, and political calculus when dealing with the Clintons.

 

In 1996, during President Bill Clinton’s first term, it was revealed that the White House had improperly obtained and reviewed over 900 FBI background files on former Republican officials, many of whom had served in previous administrations. This included sensitive and private information gathered through security clearances—data that, by law, should never have been accessed without specific authorization and legitimate purpose.

The files were requested by Craig Livingstone, the Director of the White House Office of Personnel Security, a Clinton political appointee with no prior experience in handling classified records. Livingstone claimed that the request was made in error, citing an outdated Secret Service list. This explanation was quickly adopted by the Clinton White House as a “bureaucratic mistake.”

Yet the scale and nature of the breach raised alarm across Washington. The victims of the data breach included James Baker, John Sununu, Tony Snow, and even former Reagan-era cabinet officials—a who’s who of Republican leadership. The fact that this treasure trove of political opposition research ended up in the Clinton White House without consequence prompted concerns of political espionage, misuse of intelligence, and a dangerous precedent of turning federal security mechanisms into partisan tools.

Despite the serious implications—unauthorized access to sensitive FBI files, potential violations of the Privacy Act, and improper handling of government records the FBI’s response was strikingly muted. The Bureau conducted an internal review but did not pursue charges against any White House officials. Instead, it allowed the administration’s narrative of “clerical error” to stand. Craig Livingstone ultimately resigned, but no one was prosecuted.

Congressional hearings led by Republicans were convened, and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr was asked to review the matter. Starr concluded that although the actions were “grossly inappropriate,” there was insufficient evidence to prove criminal intent. Hillary Clinton, who many believed had recommended Livingstone for his position, denied under oath that she knew him prior to his hiring—a claim later challenged by several witnesses but never prosecuted as perjury.

Institutional Implication: The FBI’s decision not to pursue legal remedies despite a clear breach involving politically sensitive data demonstrated an early pattern of deference. Rather than challenge executive overreach, the FBI enabled the administration to control the narrative, framing an invasive political act as mere clerical mishap. In doing so, the Bureau signaled to future administrations that violations committed in the name of political preservation could be tolerated, or at least quietly buried.

2. The Clinton Foundation, Foreign Donors and the FBI’s Silence

Between 2009 and 2016, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation came under growing scrutiny from journalists, watchdog groups, and law enforcement officials for allegedly facilitating pay-to-play arrangements involving foreign governments and wealthy international donors. While the Foundation branded itself as a global philanthropic leader, critics argued that it served as a shadow diplomatic network—one where access to the Clintons came with a price tag.

The Pay-to-Play Allegations:

The core allegation was simple: foreign donors made large contributions to the Clinton Foundation and, in return, received favorable treatment or access to the U.S. State Department. Examples frequently cited include:

The Uranium One deal: In which the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom gained control over 20% of U.S. uranium production after the State Department, under Hillary Clinton, signed off. At the same time, Clinton Foundation-connected donors reportedly contributed over $145 million to the Foundation.

The Crown Prince of Bahrain: Donated millions to the Foundation and secured a meeting with Secretary Clinton after previously being denied access.

Foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Algeria, donated millions to the Clinton Foundation even while they lobbied the State Department for weapons deals or regulatory decisions.

Multiple FBI Field Offices Launched Inquiries

According to reports from The Hill, Fox News, and journalist John Solomon, FBI field offices in Little Rock, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., began preliminary inquiries and even opened criminal investigations into potential public corruption and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The field agents compiled financial records, donor logs, and communication intercepts.

But almost uniformly, these investigations stalled or were shut down by FBI headquarters and DOJ leadership, including then–Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. According to congressional testimony and whistleblower reports:

Field agents expressed frustration that search warrants were denied and grand juries were never convened.

Senior DOJ officials declined to authorize subpoenas or interviews with key witnesses, citing lack of “predication,” despite agent-level consensus that the Foundation’s structure and activity warranted deeper scrutiny.

In a 2018 letter to Congress, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed that some agents believed the Clinton Foundation had “patterns of suspicious activity,” but the cases were not aggressively pursued. A subsequent report from Special Counsel John Durham (2023) echoed this pattern, noting that FBI brass showed reluctance to fully investigate politically sensitive subjects involving the Clintons, even when probable cause was present.

Institutional Paralysis

Unlike prior Clinton scandals, this one involved international donors, foreign governments, and embedded influence in U.S. foreign policy. The Foundation’s massive size and overlap with official U.S. diplomacy made it difficult to untangle corruption from conventional diplomacy. But rather than confront that challenge, the FBI and DOJ leadership chose inertia.

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy wrote that the case showed “all the hallmarks of an intentional stall designed to run out the clock before the 2016 election.” Meanwhile, FBI insiders like James Gagliano and whistleblowers from within the Bureau confirmed that agents pursuing Foundation leads felt “blocked from above” and warned not to “push too hard.”

Implication:

This wasn’t a failure to investigate it was a decision not to investigate fully. Despite compelling leads, financial trails, and circumstantial evidence suggesting transactional diplomacy through the Clinton Foundation, the FBI chose to avoid the political and institutional risk of pursuing charges. In doing so, it helped preserve the Clintons’ public image during a presidential election and protected the credibility of Washington’s most powerful networks.

Pattern Reinforced: As with Whitewater, Travelgate, and Filegate, the Foundation investigation followed the now-familiar script: preliminary activity, a show of interest, internal resistance, and ultimate collapse before charges could be filed.

3. The Email Server Scandal: “Gross Negligence” Becomes “Extremely Careless”

Between 2009 and 2013, while serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton conducted official government business through a private email server housed in her Chappaqua, New York home. This unapproved arrangement violated longstanding State Department protocols and federal records retention laws—but more seriously, it compromised classified information by circumventing secure government systems.

An FBI investigation launched in July 2015 after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit uncovered the existence of Clinton’s private server. Over the next year, agents examined tens of thousands of emails, several of which were later determined to contain classified national security information, including Top Secret/Special Access Program (SAP) material among the government’s most sensitive data.

The Comey Statement and the Shift in Legal Language

On July 5, 2016, just days after Hillary Clinton was interviewed by FBI agents—and notably not under oath—FBI Director James Comey gave a surprise press conference. In it, he declared that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in handling classified material but concluded that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against her.

What Comey did not disclose publicly at the time was that the original draft of his statement, prepared weeks earlier, had accused Clinton of being “grossly negligent”—a legal term with direct implications under 18 U.S. Code § 793(f) of the Espionage Act. That statute makes it a felony to mishandle classified information through gross negligence, regardless of intent.

According to Senate Judiciary findings and FBI email records released in 2017 and 2018, senior FBI officials, including Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, helped edit Comey’s statement. The phrase “grossly negligent” was replaced with “extremely careless”—significantly weakening the legal interpretation and removing the statutory threshold for criminal prosecution.

Immunity Deals and Evidence Destruction

Several of Clinton’s top aides—Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, and Bryan Pagliano—were granted limited immunity deals by the DOJ and FBI, which:

Prevented the government from using any of their testimony or recovered data against them in court.

Allowed them to retain laptops that contained classified information.

Permitted the destruction of devices after review, wiping evidence that might have otherwise been used to reconstruct events or establish intent.

Pagliano, Clinton’s IT aide, invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify before Congress, yet still received an immunity deal.

Furthermore, the Clinton legal team deleted approximately 33,000 emails that were deemed “personal” before turning over the rest to the State Department. These deletions were carried out using BleachBit, a software designed to render data unrecoverable. The FBI was aware of this activity but did not seek search warrants for backup servers or pursue obstruction of justice charges.

The Institutional Fallout

DOJ officials, including then–Attorney General Loretta Lynch, had privately recused themselves from the case—but only after a highly publicized tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton in June 2016, just days before the FBI’s final decision was announced.

Comey’s public announcement of no prosecution was outside DOJ protocol, as charging decisions are typically made by the Department of Justice, not the FBI Director.

Despite clear evidence that Clinton repeatedly violated protocols, removed classified material from secure systems, and failed to preserve public records, the FBI insisted there was no intent to break the law—despite intent not being a required element under the relevant statutes.

Implication

This case marked one of the most dramatic examples of institutional leniency toward the Clintons. By shifting legal language, offering immunity, and avoiding confrontation, the FBI created the appearance of neutrality while executing a de facto exoneration. Agents involved in the case reportedly expressed concern and frustration over how the probe was handled, but their objections were overridden at the leadership level.

Pattern Continued: Like Travelgate, Filegate, and the Clinton Foundation investigations, the email scandal was contained through selective definitions, procedural maneuvering, and political shielding—ensuring that a clear breach of national security protocol resulted in no consequences.

4. Embedded Allies in the FBI and DOJ

The handling of major Clinton investigations—particularly the 2016 email probe—was shaped not only by legal decisions, but by the personal and political entanglements of senior officials within the FBI and Department of Justice. The appearance of bias was not speculative—it was embedded in the very structure and staffing of the investigations. The relationships and actions of key players raised profound concerns about impartiality, and suggested a conflicted and politicized investigative environment.

Andrew McCabe – Deputy FBI Director

As the second-highest-ranking official at the FBI, Andrew McCabe played a central role in overseeing the Clinton email investigation.

At the same time, his wife, Jill McCabe, was running for Virginia State Senate, and received $675,000 in combined contributions from entities controlled by then–Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe—a close Clinton ally and longtime Democratic fundraiser.

Although McCabe formally recused himself from the Clinton probe in late 2016, he was involved in key decisions and briefings throughout much of the investigation.

The DOJ Inspector General report (2018) later concluded that McCabe “lacked candor” on multiple occasions regarding media leaks and had engaged in conduct that violated FBI policy, though it stopped short of declaring political bias.

Perception: The timing and magnitude of the political donations to McCabe’s family—paired with his direct role in sensitive Clinton investigations—created an unavoidable perception that the FBI’s leadership was not impartial.

Peter Strzok and Lisa Page – Senior FBI Officials

Peter Strzok was the lead counterintelligence agent on both the Clinton email case and the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into alleged Trump–Russia collusion.

He worked closely with Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer, with whom he was also engaged in an extramarital affair.

Thousands of text messages between Strzok and Page, uncovered by the DOJ Inspector General, revealed intense political bias, including:
Referring to Trump as an “idiot,” “disaster,” and “menace.”

Expressing commitment to an “insurance policy” in the event Trump won.

Messaging, just days after the start of the Trump-Russia probe:

“We’ll stop it.” (referring to Trump’s election)

While the IG ultimately concluded that their biases did not directly affect investigative outcomes, it confirmed that their conduct “cast a cloud over the entire FBI investigation.”

Impact: These texts severely damaged public confidence in the Bureau’s neutrality and suggested that senior officials guiding Clinton- and Trump-related cases were not ideologically neutral actors, but partisan figures shaping outcomes from within.

Loretta Lynch – Attorney General

In June 2016, Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton on the tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

The meeting occurred days before the FBI formally interviewed Hillary Clinton, and just a week before Comey announced no charges would be filed.

Although Lynch and Clinton claimed the conversation was purely “social,” the meeting was not disclosed to the public until after it was leaked, triggering national outcry.

In the aftermath, Lynch announced she would “accept the FBI’s recommendation” on whether to charge Hillary—but did not recuse herself or appoint a special counsel.

Result: The tarmac meeting reinforced suspicions that DOJ leadership was not operating independently, but was instead coordinating—or at least collaborating—with Clinton interests to protect political standing.

Implication: The Clinton investigations were not handled in a vacuum. They unfolded within a bureaucracy that included officials tied—directly or indirectly—to the Clintons themselves. This institutional entanglement blurred the lines between legal objectivity and political preservation, further cementing the impression that the Clintons operated under a different set of rules.

5. The Epstein Connection: From the White House to CGI

The relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons spans decades, forming one of the most persistent and unsettling threads in the broader scandal surrounding elite privilege and political protection. From frequent visits to the Clinton White House in the 1990s to Epstein’s deeper entanglement with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in the 2000s, the ties are well-documented—and increasingly difficult to dismiss as coincidental.

Early Access: Epstein’s White House Visits (1993–1995)

According to visitor logs obtained via the Clinton Presidential Library, Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times, sometimes multiple times per day, totaling 37 separate entries between 1993 and 1995. Each time, he was signed in by Mark Middleton, a Clinton aide and then–Special Assistant to the President. Middleton worked closely with White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty and was responsible for coordinating donor access and VIP introductions.

These visits occurred years before Epstein’s public emergence as a wealthy sex offender or financier. At the time, he was quietly ascending through the world of elite philanthropy, cultivating ties to scientists, politicians, and billionaires. His entry into the Clinton White House—typically reserved for donors, political allies, or key operatives—suggests he had established himself as more than a casual acquaintance.

Jet Flights and Clinton’s Travel

Between 2001 and 2003, Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet—dubbed the “Lolita Express”—at least 26 times, according to flight logs submitted in civil and criminal proceedings. These trips included international destinations, often tied to Clinton Foundation or CGI initiatives, such as anti-AIDS campaigns in Africa. Notably:

Five flights included no Secret Service detail, a rare and suspicious omission for a former U.S. president.

Flight manifests often included Ghislaine Maxwell and women later identified as Epstein trafficking victims, including Chauntae Davies, who later accused Epstein of abuse.

Clinton has denied ever visiting Epstein’s properties, including Little St. James island and the New Mexico Zorro Ranch, but survivor Virginia Giuffre testified that she saw Clinton on the island. While she stopped short of accusing him of misconduct, she quoted Epstein as saying, “He owes me a favor.”

Philanthropic Overlap: Epstein, CGI, and the Clinton Foundation

Despite his 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from a minor, Epstein maintained ties to elite philanthropic circles, including the Clinton Global Initiative, founded in 2005. According to court filings and his legal team:

Epstein was “part of the original group that helped conceive” CGI.

He donated at least $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation and was reportedly involved in coordinating donor circles during CGI’s early years.

Survivors and journalists allege that Epstein used his philanthropic persona to legitimize his presence among global leaders—and that his ties to CGI helped insulate him from scrutiny even after his conviction.

Ghislaine Maxwell and Clintonworld

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate and key enabler, enjoyed deep and enduring access to the Clinton inner circle:

She was invited to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010, two years after Epstein’s conviction.

She attended Clinton Global Initiative events through at least 2009, appearing in photographs with prominent politicians, foreign dignitaries, and billionaires.

Multiple sources, including Vanity Fair and The Daily Mail, reported that Maxwell was considered a fixture in elite political and donor circles—a status she retained long after the public knew of Epstein’s criminal record.

The Death of Mark Middleton

The man who had granted Epstein White House access, Mark Middleton, died under highly suspicious circumstances on May 7, 2022, at Heifer Ranch in Perry County, Arkansas. Authorities ruled his death a suicide, stating he:

Hung himself from a tree using an extension cord.

Sustained a shotgun wound to the chest.

Had a Stoeger 12-gauge shotgun found 30 feet away—an unusual detail, since it’s rare for a person to both shoot and hang themselves in a single act.

The crime scene photographs were sealed by court order at the request of Middleton’s family, citing online conspiracy threats. The official investigation concluded no foul play, but the bizarre nature of the death—and Middleton’s historical proximity to both Epstein and Clinton—has only fueled deeper suspicion.

Implication

This section of the Clinton–Epstein saga underscores the depth and persistence of Epstein’s integration into elite networks. He was not a fringe figure or rogue actor. He was a trusted donor, guest, and travel companion, embedded in CGI programming and personal Clinton family events—even after his criminal conviction.

The FBI never pursued Epstein’s connections to Clinton with the same vigor it showed toward other politically sensitive figures. Neither Clinton was subpoenaed. No grand juries were convened to probe Epstein’s role in CGI, nor were co-conspirators publicly named during Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. The failure to investigate these connections speaks to a broader pattern of protection and political calculation.

6. Institutional Self-Preservation Over Accountability

By the mid-2000s, the Clintons were no longer merely prominent political figures—they had become central nodes in a vast web of global influence, stretching across diplomacy, intelligence, philanthropy, media, and finance. Investigating them thoroughly did not just threaten their personal reputations; it risked exposing systemic vulnerabilities and implicating entire institutions. As a result, the FBI—alongside other elements of the Department of Justice and the intelligence community—opted for institutional self-preservation over legal accountability.

Covert Intelligence Operations

Bill Clinton’s presidency and Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State intersected with numerous classified and sensitive operations:

Clinton-era U.S. covert action in the Balkans, Iraq, and post-Soviet states created enduring relationships between the Clinton inner circle and intelligence operatives.

The Clinton Foundation and its international reach meant that many of the Foundation’s foreign donors and partners may have also served as informal intelligence contacts or fronts.

Epstein himself was rumored to be protected by or connected to U.S. and foreign intelligence services, which former officials such as Alexander Acosta alluded to when he stated, “I was told he belonged to intelligence”—justifying the 2007 non-prosecution agreement.

Implication: A full investigation into the Clintons’ dealings—especially their ties to Epstein—could have unspooled covert partnerships, clandestine funding channels, or proxy operations involving allies, adversaries, and strategic regions.

Diplomatic Backchannels

The Clintons—especially Hillary as Secretary of State—operated parallel diplomatic networks through the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. These channels:

Bypassed traditional oversight by the State Department and Congress.

Enabled direct contact with foreign heads of state, royal families, and private global actors under the guise of charitable partnerships.

Created situations where diplomatic negotiations, grant allocations, and policy positions were potentially shaped by donor relationships, not national interest.

A full probe would have drawn in sovereign governments, multilateral institutions, and high-level foreign intelligence officers, risking massive geopolitical fallout.

Foreign Donor Corruption

Between 2001 and 2016, the Clinton Foundation received hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign governments and corporations—many of whom had business before the U.S. government while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.

Investigating these donations seriously would have forced the FBI to:

Subpoena foreign governments and multinationals.

Follow financial trails into offshore accounts and tax havens.

Confront the possibility that U.S. policy decisions were influenced or purchased.

Rather than risk that confrontation, FBI headquarters reportedly shut down or blocked multiple field office investigations, including those in Little Rock, New York, and Los Angeles, as confirmed by journalists and whistleblowers like John Solomon.

Blackmail Networks (e.g., Epstein)

Jeffrey Epstein’s operation was not just about personal exploitation—it was about leverage:

Surveillance systems in his New York and Palm Beach homes were reportedly used to record high-profile guests engaging in compromising acts.

His proximity to politicians, academics, and royals across the globe allowed him to build a blackmail portfolio.

Bill Clinton’s deep and well-documented association with Epstein—37 White House visits, 26 private jet flights, CGI donor overlap—placed him at potential risk.

Prosecuting Epstein thoroughly—especially post-2005—risked exposing not just Clinton, but a broader network of compromised officials across multiple governments.

Why the FBI Chose Silence

Faced with this tangle of risk, the FBI and DOJ leadership made a strategic calculation:

Better to protect the system—even if it meant allowing elite wrongdoers to escape justice.

Better to preserve public trust in institutions than to open scandals that would implicate diplomats, donors, and potentially even the intelligence community.

This posture of institutional protectionism explains:

The refusal to subpoena key Clinton Foundation donors.

The rewriting of Comey’s findings in the email probe.

The destruction of immunity-sealed evidence.

The refusal to publicly name Epstein’s clients.

In each case, accountability was delayed, diluted, or dismissed in favor of stability, optics, and reputational defense.

Conclusion

The FBI’s failure to hold the Clintons accountable was not merely about favoritism—it was about the preservation of an elite architecture of influence. To indict the Clintons would have meant exposing how American power—across diplomacy, security, and finance—is wielded behind closed doors. In choosing not to pursue justice, the Bureau upheld a dangerous principle: that power can insulate itself from the law when the stakes are too high.

A 2024 Lawsuit Detailing the FBI Gross Negligence
1. Decades of Delay and Inaction

The plaintiffs claim the FBI received credible reports about Epstein’s trafficking as early as 1996, yet only opened a case in 2006—a delay spanning a full decade

This mirrors earlier political-era misconduct (Travelgate, Filegate), where internal political considerations or institutional caution led to delayed or superficial investigations.

2. Cover-Up Allegations & Political Influence

The lawsuit describes how victims were ignored—cases were dropped, interviews never conducted, and field office leads blocked .

This aligns with the precedent of claims that FBI senior leadership intervened, as seen with Clinton-linked cases, to avoid politically damaging associations.

3. Suppression of Evidence

Plaintiffs assert the FBI seized tapes, flight logs, and victim interviews—and then effectively hid them.

Decades earlier, the FBI similarly deflected on sensitive Clinton-related records. In the Epstein context, the DOJ’s refusal to release a “client list” or full document collection in 2025 reinforces a continuing cover-up culture.

4. Institutional Self-Preservation

Facing high-level risks—intel exposure, donor scandal, sex-scandal associations—the FBI consistently chose to sideline evidence or dismiss cases rather than face political fallout.

Doing justice to Epstein’s trafficking would expose interconnected elites, including the Clintons, and risk unraveling systems of influence—a scenario mirroring the institutional rationale discussed earlier.

Implications for the Lawsuit

Negligence Standard
Victims accuse the FBI under the Federal Tort Claims Act of negligently failing to follow its own protocols—just as it once did in politically charged investigations.
Damage Linked to Cover-up
The lawsuit asserts that victims were abused repeatedly because the FBI chose not to act—a legal reflection of the theory that the FBI shielded political and institutional interests above all else.

Demand for Transparency
Plaintiffs request the unsealing of records—flight logs, witness statements, tapes—mirroring demands for transparency in EB and Clinton investigations. The DOJ’s refusal to release “Epstein files” continues to raise deep suspicion

Ongoing Culture of Protection
The Espionage-like silence around Epstein parallels earlier silence regarding Clinton. The lawsuit suggests that Epstein was similarly protected from exposure by virtue of his elite ties.

Conclusion
The “12 Jane Does vs. FBI” lawsuit is not just a claim of investigatory neglect—it is a legal crystallization of the institutional behaviors described throughout this paper:

Delay and delay tactics

Suppression of evidence

Political calculation over justice

Protection of elites at the cost of victims

A culture of silence spanning decades

Whether intentionally shielding powerful figures like Epstein—and by extension, those with whom he associated—the FBI faces serious scrutiny: did it, once again, prioritize institutional self-preservation over accountability and justice?

Clinton has never been subpoenaed or questioned under oath about his relationship with Epstein—despite being:

A frequent flyer on the “Lolita Express”

A foundation partner with Epstein-linked figures

Present at multiple overlapping events

This lack of inquiry is consistent with the FBI’s longstanding reluctance to fully investigate figures at the top of the political hierarchy, particularly when those figures are as globally entrenched as the Clintons.

Citations and Sources
Independent Counsel Robert Ray. Final Report of the Independent Counsel Regarding the Travel Office Matter, 2000.

DOJ Office of the Inspector General (Michael Horowitz). Review of Allegations Regarding Various Actions by the FBI and DOJ in Advance of the 2016 Election, June 2018.

Giuffre v. Maxwell, Case No. 15-cv-7433 (S.D.N.Y.), Unsealed Documents, January 2024.

Flight Logs, U.S. District Court Exhibits, Southern District of New York (entered 2015–2020).

The Guardian, “Names including Clinton, Trump, and Prince Andrew found in Epstein court documents.” Jan 3, 2024. https://theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/jeffrey-epstein-list-names-released

Business Insider, “Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s jet many more times than previously known.” July 2019.

Politico, “FBI agents were told to stand down on Clinton Foundation probe.” Nov 2016.

Fox News, “DOJ ignored FBI agents who sought Clinton Foundation probe: sources.” Oct 2016.

The Hill, John Solomon. “FBI found ‘evidence of criminality’ in Clinton Foundation but never filed charges.” Jan 2018.

Wall Street Journal, “DOJ says there is no Epstein client list as it backs off promised releases.” Jan 2025.

Reuters, “Epstein victims sue FBI for failure to act on tips.” Feb 14, 2024.

U.S. House Oversight Committee, “Mark Middleton Visitor Logs.” Clinton Presidential Library Archives, released July 2019.

Vanity Fair, “The Surprising Guests at Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding.” July 2020.

New York Post, “Clinton Global Initiative events included Ghislaine Maxwell after Epstein’s conviction.” September 2019.

ABC News, “FBI confirms immunity deals granted to top Clinton aides.” Oct 2016.

Daily Mail, “Ghislaine Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding and Clinton Global Initiative events.” July 2019.

Testimony of Larry Visoski, Epstein’s Pilot. U.S. v. Maxwell, Southern District of New York, 2021.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz, 2018 Senate Judiciary Hearing Transcript, FBI Email Draft Edits.

Fox News, “Secret Service logs missing from Clinton’s Epstein flights.” 2021 report.

Court records: Virginia Giuffre depositions, S.D.N.Y., 2015, unsealed 2020.

July 14, 2025 – International buyers purchased $56 billion worth of US homes in 1 year

Foreign buyers purchased $56 billion worth of existing homes in the United States between April 2024 and March 2025, up by 33.2 percent from the previous 12 months, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said in a July 14 statement.

In terms of the number of properties, they bought 78,100 units, a 44 percent increase from the prior year. This was also the first annual increase since 2017. The average purchase price was $494,400, a “record high,” NAR said.

“International interest in buying U.S. real estate increased following the global economic recovery from several years of pandemic-related disruptions,” NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement.

“However, elevated home prices and interest rates continue to dampen overall potential sales activity and remain well below pre-pandemic levels.”

China was the top buyer nation of U.S. existing homes, making up 15 percent of all foreign purchases. Canada was a close second at 14 percent, followed by Mexico at 8 percent, India at 6 percent, and the United Kingdom at 4 percent.

The top housing market for international buyers was Florida, which accounted for 21 percent of all such deals. This was followed by California (15 percent), Texas (10 percent), New York (7 percent), and Arizona (5 percent). (The Epoch Times, 7/15/2025)  (Archive)

July 15, 2025 – The CEO of “Crowds on Demand” is offered $20,000,000 to recruit and pay demonstrators for the upcoming anti-Trump protests scheduled nationwide

Entin: Have the organizers of the July 17 demonstrations approached you?

Swart: Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17 movement have approached us, and in fact, we rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million.

Entin: $20 million?

Swart: Correct. I mean, this is a nationwide thing, right? It’s not to say I would have made $20 million personally, but the value of the contract would have been worth around that amount, nationwide, to organize huge demonstrations around the country, but personally, I just don’t think it’s effective. So, I’m not trying to call myself virtuous for rejecting it. What I’m saying is, I’m saying I’m rejecting it, not because I don’t want to take the business, but because, frankly, this is going to be ineffective. It’s going to make us all look bad.

h/t Gateway Pundit

July 15, 2025 – Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter’s confession letter has been released

Timeline editor’s note: AI interpreted the confession letter posted in this X thread, and there are several significant errors. I put a line through the errors, and for some, I was unable to interpret them, so I left with a question mark.

“Dear Kash Patel,

My name is Dr. Vince Lethorn Berthar Dr. Vance Luther Boelter, Ed.D. I am the shooter at large in Minnesota involved in the June 12 shootings, which happened in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 13 — sometime between approximately 2:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m.

I will probably be dead by the time you read this letter. I wanted to share some information with you that you might find interesting.

I was told trained by U.S. military people on the lakes during my release  off the books starting in college. I’ve been on many operations since then in Eastern Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Africa — all in the line of duty, doing what I believed was right and in the best interest of the United States.

Recently, I was approached about a project that Tim Walz wanted done. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Keith Smith were involved. I wasn’t originally aware of the project — but Tim wanted me to kill Amy Klobuchar and Tina Keith Smith to force a planned retirement.

Tim Walz and Amy Klobuchar (Credit: public domain)

Tim wants to be a senator and didn’t trust them to retire as planned. With Amy gone, Tim would stay in at the last minute, get one of the open Senate seats, and [someone named] Elken Keith Ellison would be rewarded with a large government contract ?.

I told Tim I wasn’t willing to do it. I said if he didn’t call off that plan, I would go public. He said he would “call it off” — but instead, he set up murders said he would hurt my family if I don’t play ball. including one involving someone named Jan, Mel, and others Then he set up a meeting with me and Mel — and — to “get the dark types” when I moved ?.

They had some people trying to kill me. I was able to get away by God’s mercy. I went back a short time later and shot several of them.

You should note: I didn’t fire a single round at any peace officers. I had plenty of opportunity, but I didn’t take it. Ask for the report on how many weapons and how much ammunition I had on me.

When the cops pulled up right next to me in their vehicles, I had an AK pistol aimed right at their heads. I could have left a pile of cops dead — but I didn’t shoot. You can ask them yourself. I support law enforcement. That’s why I spared them.

But if they come after my wife and kids next time, I won’t give them a pass.

I want you to get on the phone and tell Tim [Walz] you have a few questions. Then ask him if he knows me. If he says no — that he never met me — go look at the files. You’ll see that Tim Walz personally groomed me and put me on his Governor’s task force boards as a business representative. He’s now trying to destroy me for his public record. appointed me to the Governor’s Workforce Board ?, the business representatives. He is probably trying to destroy that info but it’s public record.

Ask Tim why they kept the SWAT incidents ? silent from the media when they first happened. Not a word in the press. Why? Because they needed to get their stories straight figured out first. They didn’t want anyone wanted everyone on the same page about “what happened.”

Tim’s probably crapping bricks right now because I’m still at large, and he knows what I can declassify do. He knows what I know. I know where all the buried skeletons are.

S0 I will be shot on sight — you can bet on that.  — because I know where all the buried skeletons are.

If I’m going to turn myself in, it needs to be directly to you, and I need to be held at a military prison near or in the Middle East — or at least on a ship. These guys have tour gains their guns everywhere, and can get to anybody.

I’m willing to spill all the beans. I just want my family safe. They had nothing to do with this and are totally innocent.

This was a one-person op.”

UPDATE:

NEW: Democrat Senator Tina Smith Hospitalized, 7/16/2025)

Smith is retiring after her term ends next year.

July 15, 2025 – OMG: Johnson & Johnson lead scientist confesses their Covid vaccine was ‘not safe and effective’

Johnson & Johnson Lead Scientist Confesses J&J COVID-19 Vaccine Was ‘Not Safe and Effective,’ Reveals “Lack of Research” From Rushing to Release Vaccine: “People Wanted It, We Gave It to Them”

“Do you have any idea the lack of research that was done on those products [vaccines]?”

“I mean we basically just had a race to figure out who could solve it best… At one point, we just canned it.”

Excerpt:

“We didn’t do the typical tests,” said Joshua Rys, a Lead Scientist in Regulatory Affairs for Johnson & Johnson (J&J), revealed on hidden camera that the typical clinical process was abandoned for the COVID-19 vaccine, knowingly bypassing standard testing protocols under pressure from the U.S. government and public demand. He added, “This was just, ‘let’s test it on some lab models… and just throw it to the wind and see what happens.’”

He acknowledged that the public wasn’t informed about the shortcuts, asking, “Do you have any idea the lack of research that was done on those products?” Rys claimed, “People wanted it, we gave it to them.”

While public officials claimed the vaccines were “safe and effective,” Rys pushed back. “There’s no proof. None of that stuff was safe and effective,” he said, adding that the industry relies on a benefit-risk tradeoff to justify product launches.

Rys also pointed to government pressure through Operation Warp Speed. “The government is like, ‘We need help… You’re solving this problem,’” he said. “People panic, so they try to solve it in whatever way they think is good.”

According to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson, “Even during a public health emergency, pharmaceutical companies are still required to follow strict protocols for clinical testing. For emergency use, companies must show that the benefits clearly outweigh the risks. Oversight doesn’t stop at approval — the FDA and other agencies also monitor products closely once they’re in use. That includes real-world safety tracking, independent advisory committees, and required reporting of any adverse events. These steps are in place to make sure public health decisions are based on solid science and strong safeguards — especially in emergencies.

Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad recently announced a new vaccine safety and transparency framework — one that’s built on gold-standard science, real-world data, and honest communication with the public and will require thorough safety testing before licensing. Their work is focused on strengthening trust, improving how we monitor safety after vaccines are in use, and making sure people have clear, accurate information to make informed decisions.

HHS remains committed to full transparency and evidence-based oversight — putting the safety of the American people first.”

OMG has reached out to Joshua Rys and Johnson & Johnson for comment regarding Rys’ statements.

UPDATE: 7/18/2025

July 15, 2025 – Project Veritas: Secret Service agent recklessly discloses White House operational details; Disparages his protectee, President Trump, FLOTUS and Cabinet members

Text messages show U.S. @SecretService Agent Marc Hendrickson inviting a stranger to the White House, sharing a photo from the @WhiteHouse grounds, disclosing operational details, and disparaging his protectee, President Donald J. Trump.

Evidence reveals a continued and dangerous lapse in the Secret Service’s sacred commitment to be “Worthy of Trust and Confidence.”

July 16, 2025 – Jill Biden aide, Anthony Bernal, pleads 5th; refuses to answer questions on autopen scandal

With the recent shocking admission by Joe Biden that he did not personally approve at least some of his sweeping presidential pardons and that they were signed by autopen, millions of Americans are questioning how many decisions in the Biden White House were actually being made by his unelected wife, criminal son, along with a shadow government of bureaucrats and aids.

Emails indicating that then-White House chief of staff Jeff Zients approved the use of the notorious White House autopen.  Biden’s team used an autopen on 25 warrants for pardons and commutations in December and January of last year, but two of those warrants granted clemency to thousands of people.

In a House Republican investigation on the autopen signatures and Joe Biden’s mental state, a former senior aide to Jill Biden, Anthony Bernal, became the second person to invoke the Fifth Amendment and decline to answer questions.

Biden’s pardons include his own family dating back to 2014 (coinciding with evidence that the Bidens may have received payoffs from foreign governments in exchange for political favors). They also protect Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has long been implicated in illegal gain of function research on coronaviruses in Wuhan, China which critics assert may have led to the outbreak of covid pandemic.

If the pardons were signed by aids using autopen and not by Biden, then there is a possibility they can be legally nullified. Though proof would have to be provided that Biden was not specifically aware of certain autopen signatures. Staff using the autopen to sign for a president without his knowledge or cognitive approval is potentially criminal, which is likely why aids are now pleading the 5th Amendment.

“Well, unfortunately, that was quick,” said Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, after the deposition ended. “I believe the American people are concerned. They’re concerned that there were people making decisions in the White House that were not only unelected but no one to this day knows who they were.”

(Read more: Zero Hedge, 7/17/2025)  (Archive)https://archive.is/jFfNo

July 16, 2025 – Department of Justice fires SDNY prosecutor Maurene Comey

h/t Gateway Pundit, 7/16/2025)

July 16, 2025 – Experts reveal how taxpayer-funded NGOs facilitated and profited from child trafficking

This week, the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing detailing how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) helped facilitate and benefited from the historic Biden-Harris border crisis, as well as how far-left NGOs are still working to help inadmissible aliens undermine federal immigration law under the Trump administration. Tuesday, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Josh Brecheen (R-OK) penned an op-ed in the New York Post outlining the importance of this hearing and the Committee’s investigation into these organizations.

Witnesses included Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project; Ali Hopper, president and founder of GUARD Against Trafficking; and Julio Rosas, a national correspondent for Blaze Media––all of whom have investigated or reported on how these organizations work with Democrat officials and open-borders advocates to advance a pro-illegal immigration agenda.

In the hearing, witnesses laid out in detail how NGOs received more than $6 billion from the Biden-Harris administration, including through grants from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and others. They also testified about how the Biden-Harris administration handed over unaccompanied alien children (UACs) to NGOs, primarily at the border, who then delivered them to poorly-vetted sponsors. The Biden-Harris administration then failed to ensure proper follow-up communications to check on the well-being of the children, leading to more than 300,000 children unaccounted for in the interior. Simultaneously, many of these NGOs and their executives enjoyed substantial revenue and salary increases thanks to the grants.

In his opening statement, Rosas revealed exactly how NGOs helped incentivize migrants to make the dangerous journey to the United States:

“The NGOs located along the border were often the first place processed migrants went to after being released by Border Patrol. These organizations helped the Biden-Harris administration avoid the bad optics of released migrants having to be on the street due to the large volume of overcrowding in certain sectors. Even with those efforts, the mass overcrowding still resulted in people sleeping on the streets, sometimes during the winter. 

“Ultimately, the goal of these NGOs was to get people to their desired destination within the United States and get them settled in, even though their legal status was far from being secured. I would often see volunteers or staffers at the airport when I left the border guiding these processed migrants to ensure they made their flight. A few times I saw them ushering unaccompanied minors. This is haunting to think back on now knowing Biden’s HHS lost track of thousands of minors once they reached their supposed final destination.

“By having this guaranteed help once they reached U.S. soil, illegal aliens had greater incentive to put their lives in danger by traversing through the Darien Gap and cartel-controlled territory in Mexico. One shelter in El Paso told me in 2023 around 80 percent of the women who came to them had been raped, sometimes in front of their children. This highlights that despite the NGOs having the stated goal of helping these people, their ‘help’ ends up harming the people who used their services. Yes, they made it to the U.S., but at what cost?”


Howell detailed how NGOs helped the Biden-Harris administration facilitate mass illegal immigration:

“Simply put—under the Biden administration’s open border policies, the government could only do so much to facilitate mass illegal migration, welcome the illegal aliens to the United States, and move them around the country. It needed help and open borders organizations jumped at the opportunity to fill the void. The Biden administration repaid them by driving an estimated $6 billion to a conglomerate of 15 UN agencies and 230 NGOs, as recently calculated by the Center for Immigration Studies, to do this work for them. In doing so, the Biden administration turned the Border Patrol into nothing more than a welcome center—a day care—and glorified Uber drivers that ferried illegal aliens to open-borders organizations. In turn, the open borders organizations facilitated mass migration of illegal aliens throughout the interior of the United States.”


Hopper’s opening statement provided first-hand accounts from contracted compliance officers, which detailed how the NGO Endeavors failed to protect the UACs in their care:

“‘Staff were hired without completed fingerprinting or thorough background checks.’ ‘Male staff were found inside female dorms.’ ‘A contractor led 150 teenage girls, minors in sexually explicit dance routines, teaching them how to twerk. He did it twice—once at the facility’s ribbon-cutting, and again months later—before an on-site compliance officer demanded intervention.’ ‘Children collapsed after being subjected to massive vaccination protocols with no parental consent and no clear medical follow-up.’ ‘Two compliance officers discovered a female housed alone in a dorm who was over 18 years of age. Endeavors was shielding her from ICE. In other cases, UACs on the verge of turning 18 were released early to avoid ICE transfer.’ ‘An Endeavors employee that raised concerns about too many children being sent to a single address was terminated.’ ‘A former ICE employee with a background in case management, serving as a contracted compliance team lead was actively stonewalled from reviewing child placements.’”


Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement Chairman Michael Guest (R-MS) detailed how NGOs like Southwest Key Programs and Endeavors benefited from the border crisis and taxpayer dollars:

“Endeavors received 97 percent of their funding from federal or local grants. They weren’t out raising money; they weren’t out there ringing the bell… They were instead an arm of the federal government in that they received 97 percent of their funding. And then Southwest Key Properties was an NGO that blew past that––99 percent of their funding came from grants from the federal government. And what did these organizations do with that?”

“In 2020, Endeavors reported $52 million in revenue. In 2021, they reported $658 million in revenue––a $600 million increase in a year, with 97 percent of that money coming from the federal government. And then in 2022, they reported a record $1.18 billion from the federal government––or at least 97 percent of that. You talk about how executives for Endeavors padded their pockets, that with this increase in revenue comes an increase in salary, that the compensation for the CEO doubled… In an article from the New York Post, they talk about another one of these nonprofits. They talk about Southwest Key. The headline says, ‘Texas non-profit housing migrant kids took $3 billion in grants from Biden administration and boosted executive salaries up to 139 percent to pull the plug.’”


Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) asked Hopper to share some of the most egregious examples of the activities NGOs engaged in to support the Biden-Harris administration’s open-borders policies: 

“Ms. Hopper, organizations that aided and embedded illegal immigration activities must be held accountable, and the Committee has identified countless non-government organizations that have appeared to have played a larger role in propping up the Biden administration’s border crisis, helping play a role in obscuring the true extent of the lawlessness that occurred over the last four years. Can you highlight some of the most egregious examples of the activities NGOs engaged in to support the Biden administration’s open border policies?”

Hopper answered:

“I think Florida’s grand jury review of the whole unaccompanied children process is a great place to start if people haven’t looked into that. There are numerous situations where you can look at the funding of what the NGOs took in, starting with the 990 [forms]. Then, when you start to zoom in, you look at the program mismanagement, waste, fraud, and abuse. This isn’t about the humanitarian mission. This isn’t about the religious component of the organization, the non-profit. We heard people bring up the religious component of the non-profit. That has nothing to do with that. It has to do with how the humanitarian organization handled the program, handled these children, handled these funds, and handled the sponsors. And they didn’t—they didn’t handle any of that.”

Subcommittee Chairman Garbarino continued:

“Can you also elaborate on the extent to which the Biden administration’s reliance on non-governmental organizations endangered the lives of those children.”

Hopper concluded:

“Once NGOs were sending children to their sponsors, they were supposed to have an individual traveling with them to make sure that they got to their destination. We were actually on a flight with numerous UACs. They were unaccompanied, couldn’t speak the language, and the airline struggled to communicate with them. They were traveling alone. When we spoke with the flight attendants, they outlined numerous situations where children showed up in correct locations [and] CPS would have to be called because the sponsor either didn’t show up [or] they were at the wrong location. They couldn’t communicate with these unaccompanied children, and they were not supposed to be traveling alone. Once they got to that state, there wasn’t a follow-up.”


Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security Chairman Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) asked Hopper about the Biden administration’s failure to keep track of UACs once they were delivered to sponsors:

“How many children do you think that DHS basically lost and didn’t have track of during the four years of the Biden administration that were in the United States?”

Hopper answered:

“The reports vary, but as of the last number that we were made aware of, it was over 325,000 children that went unaccounted for.”

Subcommittee Chairman Gimenez also explained why Democrats refuse to speak out about the atrocities of the Biden border crisis:

“My colleagues on the other side don’t want to speak about this hearing. They want nothing to do with this hearing. Why? Because of the failure. And one of the greatest failures in American history of the Biden administration, I believe, was not keeping track of children. And it wasn’t like the folks that sit on the other side of this aisle weren’t made aware by people sitting on this side of the aisle that it was happening. And they failed to do anything or speak out against this atrocity that was happening to the children that were coming through the border… What we’re trying to bring to light is—we want to make sure this never happens again. We need to bring it to light right now because it wasn’t going to be brought to light under the Biden administration… I thank God that we have President Trump in office who has controlled the border.”


Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA) blasted the Biden-Harris administration for facilitating human trafficking by partnering with these NGOs:

“Much to the chagrin of a whole abhorrent industry of child trafficking that prospered from the open border policies of the Biden administration for four years, 2021—‘22, ‘23, and ‘24. Much to the chagrin of these people that made bank… Mr. Howell, are you aware that ongoing right now, right now in our country, DHS, ICE, FBI, local and state law enforcement agencies [are] working on classified operations to locate, find, and rescue trafficked, tender-aged, mostly girls—we’re talking about girls 14 and younger—across the country that were trafficked into our country in 2021, ‘22, ‘23, and ‘24. Are you aware that those operations are ongoing?”

Howell answered:

“Yes, sir. They’re trying to find the children the Biden administration lost.”

Rep. Higgins continued:

“They’ve rescued so far, 35,000 [kids]…Now, according to Ms. Hopper’s research, which I find fascinating—everybody up here should—70 percent of the documentation turned in by so-called sponsors [were fraudulent or incomplete], which were lined up by who? The NGOs. Through whom primarily? HHS. It was a pipeline, man. We fed a pipeline of tender-aged children into sex trafficking and slave labor into our country. We’re finding these kids—we’re tracking these fraudulent documents.”


Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ) asked Hopper to detail how the Biden-Harris administration failed to protect these children:

“Our colleagues are very upset that we’re having this hearing today. They don’t want to talk about this stuff. They don’t want to talk about the 300,000 kids that we still don’t know where they are. They’re upset that President Trump got elected. They’re upset that he’s doing exactly what he said he was going to do, and we’re backing him up here in Congress. This is what the American people voted for because they saw four years of the carnage that these open border policies plagued on the United States. We’re talking about the NGOs that they used as middlemen to carry out their operations.”

“Ms. Hopper, you’ve worked closely with trafficking victims and survivors. I’d like to explore the role that the NGOs have played in enabling the trafficking and exploitation of unaccompanied alien children. Under the last administration, what safeguards were put in place to protect vulnerable unaccompanied children?”

Hopper answered:

“I previously discussed the post placement welfare checks, which consisted of two phone calls. Again, if the sponsor didn’t answer, the case was no longer followed up on. But there was also a notice of concern hotline where people could report concerns about the unaccompanied child’s safety. But what this administration found was from August 2023 to January of 2025, 65,000 calls went unanswered. Those calls spanned from complaints about stale bread all the way to being abused. One case where a child’s call was reporting that grown men were coming into his room at night, and they were touching him. Nothing happened with that call. That call went unanswered—until this administration took office [and] went through those 65,000 calls, made follow-ups, conducted a welfare check, and now that child has been rescued and that sponsor has been arrested. These are the safeguards that were put in place—but accountability and oversight was not had.”

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(House Homeland Security Committee, 7/17/2025)  (Archive)  (Oversight Project-Witness Testimony, 7/16/2025)

July 17, 2025 – Federal housing official submitted Schiff criminal referral to DOJ over mortgage documents

Longtime President Donald Trump political foe Democrat California Sen. Adam Schiff was referred to the Department of Justice to face criminal prosecution over alleged mortgage fraud that reportedly stretches back years.

Schiff, who was elected to the Senate in the 2024 election cycle following decades as a House lawmaker, is under scrutiny after the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a letter to the Department of Justice in May sounding the alarm that in “multiple instances,” Schiff allegedly “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from 2003-2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property.”

FHFA is an independent federal agency that oversees Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Bank System.

This week, Trump publicly lambasted Schiff over the alleged mortgage fraud, while Fannie Mae’s financial crimes investigations concluded Monday in a letter to the FHFA that Schiff allegedly engaged in “a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation” on five Fannie Mae loans, Fox News Digital previously reported this week. (Read more: Fox News, 7/17/2025)  (Archive)

July 17, 2025 – Trump denies WSJ article claiming he sent birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein; WSJ journalist has connection to Fusion GPS characters

Wall Street Journal reporter, Joe Palazzolo (Credit: X.com)

TRUMP’S ALLEGED EPSTEIN BDAY LETTER: The Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the “blockbuster” story alleging a letter Trump wrote to Epstein for his 50th birthday included some tawdry elements previously worked for Main Justice (his only prior reporting experience listed in his bio).

Main Justice was Glenn Simpson’s wife’s publication. Simpson founded Fusion GPS, which was paid by Hillary Clinton/the DNC (through Perkins Coie) to produce the Steele Dossier at the center of the Russian hoax against Trump.

Both Glenn Simpson and his wife, Mary Jacoby, worked for the Wall Street Journal before launching their own enterprises.

Trump is now suing the Wall Street Journal over the “blockbuster” letter story, arguing that it’s bogus and they never showed him it so he could comment.

UPDATE 7/19/2025

July 18, 2025 – Gabbard declassifies eerie email exchange over Steele Dossier FOIA – ‘We have a problem’

While the big news in the release of two key — and contradictory — documents about the role Russia played in 2016 election interference was the headline-grabber from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s document drop last week, buried in the report is an eerie email exchange about the so-called “Steele dossier” and how it got into intelligence assessments.

On Friday, Gabbard released a slew of information regarding how the intelligence community viewed Russian interference in the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the last days of Barack Obama’s administration. An initial Presidential Daily Brief found that there was little evidence of serious interference and that it “did not impact recent U.S. election results” via cyberattacks.

(…) However, Gabbard said, that Dec. 8, 2016, PDB was pulled and never presented. Instead, less than a month later, a new document, which showed far more confidence that Russia had interfered on behalf of the Trump campaign, was presented. Gabbard released evidence that Obama’s DNI, James Clapper, began working on it the day after the Dec. 8 PDB was pulled.

(…) At the back end of the 114 pages of documents that Gabbard released was an eerie email exchange between several intelligence individuals regarding the role that the Steele dossier played in the report and whether or not it was appropriately added as an annex.

The exchange involves a 2019 Freedom of Information Act request by Kimberly Hermann of the conservative Southeastern Legal Foundation, which looked for mentions of the dossier on certain government systems.

The dossier, eponymously named after former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, was initially assembled as opposition research for the Hillary Clinton campaign. It eventually found its way into requests for warrants against Trump campaign officials and assessments of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign despite the fact that most of its assertions could not be corroborated and many were provably false.

A Sept. 18, 2019, email from a redacted official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence raised some alarm about the fact that the Steele dossier was involved in the ODNI’s efforts at all.

The first part of the email dealt mostly with technical issues — the number of hits that match the query and how, due to their position, sorting through all his emails would be “impractical.”

July 18, 2025 – Kash Patel gives details about the secret room where the classified Clinton Annex docs were found, in burn bags

FBI Director Kash Patel, in a June interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, revealed that he found a room full of documents and computer hard drives “that no one had ever seen or heard of.” (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

FBI Director Kash Patel found a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in multiple “burn bags” in a secret room inside the bureau, sources told Fox News Digital.

Sources told Fox News Digital that the “burn bag” system is used to destroy documents designated as classified or higher.

Sources told Fox News Digital that multiple burn bags were found and filled with thousands of documents.

Sources told Fox News Digital that one of the documents FBI officials found in a burn bag was the classified annex to former special counsel John Durham’s final report, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed.

The declassification of the classified annex is being done in close coordination between CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi and acting National Security Agency Director William Hartman.

The declassified annex will be transmitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who ultimately will release the document to the public.

Sources exclusively briefed Fox News Digital on some of the contents of the classified annex — including that the U.S. intelligence community had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the alleged Trump–Russia collusion narrative — before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire Hurricane probe.

A source familiar with the contents of the classified annex told Fox News Digital that while it may not have been exactly clear in the moment what the intelligence collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight, it predicted the FBI’s next move “with alarming specificity.”

“Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” the source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters that have not yet been made public, told Fox News Digital.

“Mere days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane,” the source said. “It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey are going to be able to explain this away.”

Sources told Fox News Digital that Patel and his team discovered a previously undisclosed sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) in the FBI headquarters.

Fox News Digital reached out to previous FBI Directors Christopher Wray and James Comey for comment and has not yet received any responses. (Read more: Fox News, 7/30/2025)  (Archive)

July 18, 2025 – Newly declassified docs reveal Barack Obama helped “manufacture and politicize intelligence” to create Trump-Russia collusion hoax

ODNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified a presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.

Last week CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced that a new CIA report revealed former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper worked together to purposely corrupt the Trump-Russia investigation in 2016 before Trump entered office.

The three corrupt Obama officials even included the Steele Dossier in their quest to “screw Trump” knowing at the time that the Steele Dossier was complete rubbish.

On Friday it was revealed that Barack Obama knew it was a hoax and he was involved in manufacturing and politicizing the intelligence to create the Trump-Russia collusion canard.

“The IC is prepared to produce and assessment per the President’s request…” the report read.

Per Fox News:

The Obama administration “manufactured and politicized intelligence” to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise, Fox News Digital has learned.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Friday declassified documents revealing “overwhelming evidence” that demonstrates how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the yearslong Trump–Russia collusion probe.

Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the intelligence community consistently assessed that Russia was “probably not trying…to influence the election by using cyber means.”

“We assess that foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome this year. We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results,” the report said.

“We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure,” the report said.

Last week investigative reporter Paul Sperry said Barack Obama’s fingerprints are all over Brennan’s IC report.

He was right.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/18/2025)  (Archive)

July 18, 2025 – Durham testified that the FBI ignored the “Clinton Plan Intelligence” to link Trump to Russia

Last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the FBI for a criminal investigation. Some reports claim the referral relates to Brennan potentially having perjured himself before Congress. But on Wednesday, President Donald Trump may have pointed to another direction the FBI probe may take. In an interview with reporter John Solomon, Trump said he would declassify an annex to the May 2023 report filed by John Durham, the special counsel appointed during Trump’s first term to investigate Russiagate.

The annex, according to Solomon, deals with the “Clinton Plan intelligence”—and, says Solomon, “lawmakers and Durham have suggested it would provide damning evidence to any prosecutor.” Trump told Solomon, “I will absolutely declassify it.”

The “Clinton Plan Intelligence” refers to intelligence the CIA received in late July 2016 from a Dutch spy agency. The Dutch had penetrated a Russian intelligence agency that appears to have hacked the emails of Clinton allies and Democratic officials. And it was from these communications that the Russians learned the Clinton campaign had devised a plan to smear Trump as a Russian agent to deflect attention from her use of a private email server.

According to Durham’s final report in May 2023, the U.S. intelligence official “who initially received the information immediately recognized its importance—including its relevance to the U.S. presidential election—and acted quickly to make CIA leadership aware of it.” Brennan himself, the report shows, “personally received a copy of the intelligence.”

According to Brennan’s handwritten notes, in an Aug. 3, 2016, meeting at the White House, he briefed Barack Obama and other U.S. officials, including then Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then FBI Director James Comey, about the Clinton Plan intelligence. The notes claim that he alerted them to the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”

Ratcliffe declassified Brennan’s notes in late September 2020, when Ratcliffe was Trump’s director of national intelligence. He also declassified a second Clinton Plan intelligence document that Durham found during his investigation. This was a CIA memo dated Sept. 7, 2016, addressed to Comey and FBI agent Peter Strzok, that referred the Clinton Plan intelligence for further investigative action.

What’s odd is that virtually no one working on the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, saw the CIA memo. According to Durham’s report, “None of the FBI personnel who agreed to be interviewed could specifically recall receiving this Referral Memo, nor did anyone recall the FBI doing anything in response to the Referral Memo.”

For instance, former FBI general counsel James Baker told Durham “that he had neither seen nor heard of the Clinton Plan intelligence or the resulting Referral Memo prior to his interview” with Durham.

Same with Supervisory Special Agent-1, reportedly an FBI agent named Joe Pientka. According to the report, when Durham showed Pientka the information, he became “visibly upset and emotional, left the interview room with his counsel, and subsequently returned to state emphatically that he had never been apprised of the Clinton Plan intelligence and had never seen the aforementioned Referral Memo. Supervisory Special Agent-1 expressed a sense of betrayal that no one had informed him of the intelligence.”

According to the Durham report, Comey and Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, were briefed on the Clinton Plan intelligence. But there’s no evidence that Brennan, Comey, Clapper, or any other Obama official included the Clinton Plan intelligence in any of their preelection briefings on Russian interference to Senate and House leadership and oversight committees.

Same after the election—none of Obama’s spy chiefs ever mentioned the Clinton Plan intelligence. Obama reportedly told Brennan that he wanted his CIA director to include everything the intelligence community had on Russian interference in the 2016 election for the intelligence community assessment (ICA) that the outgoing president wanted completed before he left office. But there’s nothing about the Clinton Plan intelligence in the ICA. Of course, it would have been a powerful rebuttal to the ICA’s central conclusion that Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election. Or it would have made the assessment entirely invalid.

Brennan neglected to mention the Clinton Plan intelligence during his testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on May 17, 2017, or before the House Intelligence Committee a week later. And, obviously, the former CIA chief never talked about the Clinton Plan intelligence during his many TV appearances on NBC and elsewhere.

It’s clear why the Clinton Plan intelligence was buried and why none of the FBI officials Durham interviewed had seen the CIA referral memo. It exposed Russiagate as a hoax, despite the broad preelection media campaign insisting otherwise, including leaks from U.S. officials falsely alleging Trump’s ties to Russia. After the election, the CIA referral memo posed an even greater threat: It gave evidence of a conspiracy involving the top leadership of the American intelligence community, including at least Brennan, Clapper, and Comey, whose FBI investigated Trump as a Russia spy even though the FBI director was made aware it was a dirty trick.

It’s not clear how Brennan found out that Durham had discovered the CIA referral memo and was asking questions about it. Perhaps it was due to a rumor of Pientka’s rage after Durham showed him the document in a July 22, 2020, interview that got Brennan worried. Only two days before Brennan was scheduled to meet with Durham on Aug. 21, the special counsel had confirmed with a U.S. official that Brennan had personally received a copy of the Clinton Plan intelligence. Why, Durham would want to know, hadn’t the CIA referral gotten to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team?

One theory investigators may be pursuing relates to Brennan’s notes about his Aug. 3 briefing at the White House. Did Brennan doctor his notes after he learned Durham had found the CIA memo? Notes showing he’d briefed Obama, Lynch, and Comey would prove he hadn’t buried the memo or the Clinton Plan intelligence but had in fact read in the principals. It wasn’t his fault the Crossfire Hurricane investigators didn’t get the CIA memo—he told Comey about it, and the attorney general and even the president.

Durham interviewed Brennan for eight hours at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on Aug. 21, 2020. Durham’s ability to bring any charges was limited because he was under the watchful eye of Joe Biden’s attorney general Merrick Garland. But now? If the statute of limitations on the case is five years, FBI Director Kash Patel has a little more than a month. If, however, the onetime congressional investigator who uncovered Russiagate is building a conspiracy case, law enforcement may have much more time to make sure it’s airtight before bringing charges.

In any event, it’s worth noting that the only genuine piece of Russian intelligence U.S. spy services ever received during the Trump-Russia probe was intelligence that Russia knew the Clinton campaign was behind the effort to dirty Trump as a Russian agent. It seems appropriate that Russian intelligence may lead to the prosecution and conviction of Brennan and the intelligence officials responsible for the biggest political scandal in U.S. history. (Lee Smith/Tablet, 7/18/2025)  (Archive)

July 18, 2025 – Patel touts dozens of convictions in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded children’s nutrition program

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A $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded children’s nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic has been described by FBI Director Kash Patel as “one of the worst” in Minnesota history.

The FBI director told Fox News in a statement that 70 people in Minnesota have been indicted for their role in the sprawling “Feeding our Future” fraud scheme during the COVID-19 pandemic, which exploited a federal program designed to reimburse states for the cost of feeding children.

Conspirators falsely claimed to have served millions of meals during the pandemic, but instead used the money for personal gain. Of the individuals indicted, 38 have pleaded guilty, FBI officials told Fox News Digital. More than a dozen of the individuals are awaiting criminal trial, with the next trial beginning in August.

“Stealing over $250 million from hungry kids during a pandemic to fund mansions and luxury cars is as shameless as it gets,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. “I’m proud of the FBI and our partners for dismantling this web of corruption, holding dozens accountable, and sending a clear message: if you exploit the most vulnerable, we will find you and bring you to justice.”

Conspirators charged in the scheme are accused of fabricating invoices, submitting fake attendance records, and falsely distributing thousands of meals from hundreds of so-called food distribution “sites” across the state — taking advantage of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to waive, for the duration of the pandemic, many of its standard requirements for participation in the Federal Child Nutrition Program — including relaxing its requirement for non-school based distributors to participate in the program.

Charging documents show that roughly 300 “food sites” in the state served little or no food, with the so-called “food vendors” and organizations fabricated to launder money intended to reimburse the cost of feeding children. (Read more: Fox News, 7/18/2025)  (Archive)

July 19, 2025 – An illegal alien accused of decapitating woman and abusing the corpse, is nabbed by ICE after judge set him free 3 months ago

An illegal immigrant accused of decapitating a missing woman and stashing her body in a bleach-filled container was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — three months after an Illinois judge let him walk on the gruesome charges, officials said.

Mexican national Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, was nabbed Saturday afternoon at a Chicago market after being charged with concealing and abusing the corpse of Megan Bos in April, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News.

Judge Randie Bruno (Credit: public domain)

Lake County Judge Randie Bruno shockingly cut the perp loose after his first court appearance.

“It is absolutely repulsive this monster walked free on Illinois’ streets after allegedly committing such a heinous crime,” a DHS spokesperson told the outlet.

“Megan Bos and her family will have justice.”

Mendoza-Gonzalez was first arrested in April after police discovered the 37-year-old victim’s headless body stuffed inside a bleach-soaked storage bin in the yard of his Waukegan home, officials said.

He allegedly told police the woman, who was reported missing in March after vanishing in February, had overdosed at his home, and instead of calling authorities, broke her phone, hid her body in the basement for two days, and later moved it outside, the outlet reported.

The Mexican national will now remain in ICE custody after a Illinois judge cut him loose back in April.

But police said Bos’s corpse had been rotting in his yard for nearly two months before it was found.

Mendoza-Gonzalez was locked up but released about 48 hours later under the state’s controversial SAFE-T Act, which abolished cash bail and allows judges to determine jail time, no matter how severe the crime is, Antioch Mayor Scott Gartner said at the time.

“I was shocked to find out literally the next day that the person that they had arrested for this had been released from prison under the SAFE-T Act less than, detained less, I think, than 48 hours,” he said, the outlet reported.  (Read more: New York Post, 7/19/2025)  (Archive)

July 19, 2025 – New documents reveal Biden AG and White House conspire to chill local parents’ school board protests

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Damning revelations in federal documents obtained by a conservative watchdog group show the Biden administration’s Justice Department sought a “federal hook” so they could investigate and criminally charge parents protesting school policies related to COVID, transgenderism, critical race theory, and other issues.

Career attorneys in the DOJ argued in the released correspondence that such a move was legally baseless and would trample the First Amendment rights of parents.

The government documents, obtained by America First Legal, “conclusively prove” a memo from former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “mobilized the full force of the federal government’s firepower against concerned parents—not to protect schools, but to silence dissent”  and the ensuing investigation was “politically orchestrated and coordinated with the Biden White House,” America First Legal charged Friday.

The AFL in an extensive release on its website reported:

These never-before-seen documents—uncovered only because of AFL’s relentless efforts over the past three and a half years—expose not only the Biden White House’s involvement in pushing a weaponized DOJ, but also strong dissent from careers within the Department’s Civil Rights Division, who warned that there was no federal authority or legal basis to target these parents in the first place because their speech is protected by the First Amendment.

The photocopies of emails and documents involved were also published on the website.

Kevin Chambers (Credit: DOJ)

In one letter obtained by AFL, Kevin Chambers, an aide to the attorney general, wrote to a colleague on Oct. 1, 2021: “We’re aware; the challenge here is finding a federal hook. But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist in some form or fashion.”

Fox News reported that Garland issued a directive on Oct. 4, 2021, that directed the FBI to assist local law enforcement partners with a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” against school administrators.

Garland told a congressional hearing soon thereafter that he had given the directive after the National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the White House that had asked the Biden administration to investigate parents displaying threatening behavior at school board meetings as possible “domestic terrorists,” the news network reported.

The NSBA later retracted the request.

Career DOJ lawyers were concerned about any legal effort to take action on that letter, documents show. (Read more: Breitbart News, 7/19/2025) (Archive)

July 20, 2025 – Trump reposts an AI video of Obama getting arrested and the mugshots of a few of his accomplices

President Trump set the internet on fire on Sunday evening after he posted an AI video of Barack Obama being arrested by FBI agents and tossed in prison.

The video shows FBI agents ambushing Barack Obama during an Oval Office meeting with Trump, cuffing him and putting him in prison.

President Trump also posted mugshots of the Deep State coup plotters involved in the Russia collusion hoax.

On Saturday evening President Trump floated prosecuting Barack Obama and the Deep State thugs involved the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

ODNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified a December 2016 presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.

(…) On Saturday, White House spokesman Harrison Fields went on Fox News and directly called out Barack Obama and the lying media.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 7/21/2025)  (Archive)

July 20, 2025 – James Comey goes on a 5 minute rant about the firing of his daughter

JAMES COMEY: “Hey, everybody. Welcome back to my Substack. This week, I want to offer some thoughts about justice. The Justice Department’s ability to protect the American people depends upon a gift that every employee gets when they join the Department. It’s a gift they may not know they’re receiving until the first time they stand up and identify themselves as a Justice employee and say something—whether that’s in a courtroom, at a conference, or at a cookout.”

“And they find that total strangers believe what they say next. They’re believed because, when they speak, they aren’t seen as Republicans or Democrats. Instead, they’re seen as something separate and apart in American life—a group of people just trying to do the right thing.”

“For years, I’ve described that gift as a reservoir of trust and credibility—a reservoir built for them and filled for them, one drop at a time, by people they never knew. People who made sacrifices before they joined the Department and kept promises. People who made mistakes, as we all do, and admitted them and fixed them. People who made hard calls without regard to position or privilege, who looked only for facts and applied those to the law.”

“The job of every Justice employee—their sworn obligation—is to protect that reservoir, to pass it to those who come after them, who may never know them.”

“The problem with reservoirs is that it takes tremendous time and effort to fill them. But one hole in the dam can drain the reservoir quickly. The protection of the reservoir requires complete commitment to truth, and a recognition that what one person does can ruin what benefits everybody.”

“I came up with that reservoir metaphor years ago when I was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Patrice and I and our kids lived far north of the city—still in my jurisdiction, but more affordable for a family of five kids. We lived with reservoirs all around—that’s where the city’s water supply was held.”

“My five kids played around those reservoirs. One of the dams was across the street. And one of those kids grew up to be a federal prosecutor in that same Southern District of New York. She became a star there, holding the powerful accountable.”

James Comey read his daughter’s message to colleagues.

Last week, she wrote a letter that I want to read:

“Yesterday was unexpectedly my last day in the office. I was summarily fired via memo from Main Justice that did not give a reason for my termination. Every person lucky enough to work in this office constantly hears four words to describe our ethos: without fear or favor.

“Do the right thing the right way, for the right reasons—without fear of retribution and without favor to the powerful. For the majority of my nearly ten years in SDNY, fear was never really conceivable. We don’t fear bad press. We have the luxury of exceptional security keeping us physically safe.

“And so long as we did our work with integrity, we would get to keep serving the public in this office. Our focus was really on acting without favor—that is, making sure people with access or money and power were not treated differently than anyone else, and making sure this office remains separate from politics and focused only on the facts and the law.

“But we have entered a new phase where without fear may be the challenge. If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.

“Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place—a fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power, of commitment to seek justice for victims, of dedication to truth above all else. It has been an honor to fight for those principles by your side.”

And she signed it: Maureen.

At the end of the video message, James Comey went off on Trump and the “hacks” at the Justice Department.

JAMES COMEY: “I don’t have much to add to that, except to say: the reservoir is in grave danger right now. Trump and the hacks who lead the Department of Justice are hammering at the dam day after day, trying to turn it into just another gold-leaf-covered Trump subsidiary.”

“Our best hope is that good people will stay and do what Maureen asked—have the courage to do the right thing, always. You may get fired for acting that way, but there’s honor in that—and nothing but disgrace for those who don’t stand up.”

“There are going to be hard weeks in the Trump era, and this was one for my family. But there are plenty of good people still in the Department committed to doing things the right way, committed to the rule of law.”

“For them—because of them—keep the faith.”

WATCH:

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 7/21/2025) (Archive)

July 21, 2025 – Grassley releases a newly declassified annex from the 2018 DOJ/OIG report detailing how Comey sandbagged the Clinton email investigation

Sen. Chuck Grassley just released a newly declassified annex from the 2018 DOJ/OIG report detailing disgraced former FBI director James Comey’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s illegal private email server.

The annex shows that Comey and his corrupt FBI underlings deliberately sandbagged the Clinton investigation and refused to take basic investigative steps that would’ve revealed how seriously Clinton compromised national security.

“The DOJ OIG’s Clinton annex shows the FBI obtained thumb drives from a source during the Clinton investigation, but then-FBI Director James Comey, as well as then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and others, failed to perform additional, targeted searches of the drives, even though they contained information relevant to the inquiry,” Grassley’s office notes.

“The DOJ OIG report illustrates that the FBI failed to thoroughly and completely investigate the Clinton matter as a result, as well as vet the serious national security risks created by Clinton’s careless handling of highly classified information.

According to the DOJ OIG, the thumb drives contained highly sensitive information exfiltrated from U.S. government agencies, including the Department of State, as well as then-President Barack Obama’s emails and, potentially, congressional information. The thumb drives were never reviewed as part of the Clinton investigation, contrary to the recommendation of a draft FBI memorandum.

The DOJ OIG report also shows the drives should have been immediately reviewed for foreign intelligence purposes, but were not.”

July 21, 2025 – More on the never investigated Clinton thumb drives mentioned in the 2018 DOJ/OIG report and recently released by Grassley

Jason Foster was the Chief Investigative Counsel for Chuck Grassley and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

For the record, I have not been a source for this or any other story mentioning the classified appendix to the @JusticeOIG’s Clinton e-mail report.

However, I will state publicly—without revealing anything I’m legally obligated to keep confidential—that as @ChuckGrassley’s chief investigator at the time, we arranged a bipartisan briefing for Senators on the Judiciary Cmte.

Then-DOJ IG Michael Horowitz summarized the information in the appendix to the several Democrat and Republican Senators who chose to attend.

Each of them, from both sides of the aisle, expressed shock that the gov’t turned a blind-eye to the information at issue. Even prominent Democrat Senators acknowledged in this private setting that it required further investigation, even if it was likely to be politically embarrassing for their party.

IG Horowitz explained why his office was limited in conducting further inquiry due to jurisdictional issues. I urged him to partner with the Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) on a joint follow-up probe, an idea which several of the Senators present thoroughly endorsed.

To my knowledge, no joint DOJ/IC IG probe ever happened. But I left in Fall 2018, so I’m not privy to nonpublic developments that may have occurred after that.

One of the things I did before I left was to seek a briefing from the FBI to explain its failure to investigate the information in the DOJ IG appendix, regardless of whether the rest of the Intelligence Community did anything.

A first-term Trump-era congressional affairs official acknowledged to me that it was a huge and legitimate concern and that the FBI needed to answer for it—but asked for more time to “get their arms around it” before coming in to brief us.

No such FBI briefing occurred while I was still there.

July 21, 2025 – The FBI opens a criminal investigation after finding the burn bags

Opening of Criminal Investigations after finding the Burn Bags.

“A cursory inventory of the 9582 SCIF revealed the existence of classified documents, including documents believed to be official records, inside “burn bags” which appeared to have been placed in the SCIF around the timeframe of the 2025 presidential inauguration – Friday, January 17, 2025 through Wednesday, January 22, 2025. A brief review of the contents of the “burn bags” revealed that some of the documents left behind may have come from a collection of records held by certain unidentified senior government officials at FBI Headquarters

[Included docs] FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search, the January 06 capitol breach, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, as well as a copy of the Classified Appendix to the John Durham Special Counsel investigation. Moreover, an additional record discovered as part of this management review process was an original referral by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to former FBI Director James Comey, known as a Counterintelligence Operational Lead (CIOL). This CIOL, believed to have been missing for several years, was dated September 07, 2016 and contained certain intelligence related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign. The CIOL was found in a storage closet adjacent to the Director’s office and was subsequently transported to the 9582 SCIF. Former Director Comey previously testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was unfamiliar with this CIOL as well as its related intelligence.”

July 22, 2025 – There is ‘clear evidence there was collusion’ between Biden WH and anti-Trump lawfare operators

Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade criminally charged eighteen people, including former President Donald Trump concerning the Fulton County 2020 election interference in Georgia. (Credit: Alyssa Pointer/Getty Images)

On Tuesday’s “Charlie Kirk Show,” “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed details from his forthcoming book Breaking the Law: Exposing the Weaponization of America’s Legal System Against Donald Trump.

Marlow stated, “[T]here is clear evidence there was collusion from the Joe Biden White House with these various cases. One key example is Nathan Wade going to the White House two times for a total of I think it was about 16 hours of meetings at the White House, during the middle of this. … Nathan Wade was a family lawyer, he was a nobody, he would never be on a case like this in a million years.”

He added, “And him doing this somehow also got him invited to the White House, there’s no scenario that Nathan Wade was talking about in that White House other than how to get Donald Trump.”

He further stated that Congress will have to investigate this since people outside government can’t due to how disclosure rules work. (Breitbart News, 7/22/2025)  (Archive)

July 21, 2025 – Speaker Johnson has no issue compelling testimony from Obama

July 22, 2025 – Iran and China circumvent sanctions via notorious bank and Letitia James is implicated

Letitia James attends Trump trial, May 2024. (Credit: public domain)

The Standard Chartered Bank sanctions evasion case, now in court in the US Second Circuit, found at least $9.6 billion of illegal payments by the bank to Iranian and Hezbollah entities.

The case implicates NYAG Letitia James and the Federal Reserve for ignoring billions of these illicit payments and ignoring Treasury sanctions designations. Maximum Pressure is not being enforced because of the failures of the Fed and the NYAG.

Make sure this case continues.

** Call the Southern District of New York …. Office number: 212-637-2200

At least $9.6 billion of specifically identified illicit payments were made by SCB from its NYC branch to OFAC and known terrorist names. The $9.6 billion was found in internal trade reports turned over by bank whistleblowers and represents the first batch from SCB Dubai office that cleared through SCB NYC. There are estimated over $100 billion more of illegal payments that are more recent and from SCB China where it has 53 mainland branches that facilitate dollar trade payments for oil and war-making materials.

These payments were hidden by SCB from required disclosure in its ongoing Deferred Prosecution Agreement now under the jurisdiction of DCUSA Pirro and SDNY Clayton where both were briefed on SCB after their appointments. There are career blockers at each jurisdiction.

Involvement by the NYAG

In early 2024, NYAG was briefed by terrorist financing experts and the whistleblowers in detail on the illicit payments yet did nothing about it other than reapprove SCB annual license.

NYAG was briefed in two meetings in February and March 2024 about the $9,6 billion of illegal payments and did nothing but approve the annual renewal of SCB State banking license. One of meetings was recorded and clearly shows that NYAG officials recognized the payments were not previously known and not in prior SCB sanctions settlements. Five NYAG senior staff including Letitia James Deputy Scott Spiegleman were in all meetings. In late 2024, Spiegleman went to work for IBM which has a large tech contract running the SWIFT platform.  IBM Promontory advised SCB to hide currency trade data. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 7/22/2025)  (Archive)

July 23, 2025 – Grassley asks Kash Patel to review newly discovered thumb drives containing info on Clinton email scandal

Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi October 22, 2015. (Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) recently sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI Director Kash Patel requesting that the FBI review the unevaluated material related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and mishandling of highly classified information during her time as Secretary of State.

This untapped and unreviewed information has lived within thumb drives in the FBI’s custody inside a Northern Virginia offshoot office of the FBI’s Washington Field Office since 2018. This letter was sent in response to Chairman Grassley’s efforts to get the appendix to the DOJ OIG’s June 2018 report reviewing the DOJ and FBI’s handling of the Clinton investigation, also known as the “Clinton annex,” declassified.

Chairmen Crawford and Grassley wrote, “The revelations contained in the declassified OIG appendix are at the heart of why the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) became distrusted by so many under your agency’s prior directors: a failure to impartially conduct its law enforcement and intelligence mission. Concerning the issue at hand, Comey’s FBI shockingly failed to review and exploit evidence in its own possession, even though they admitted in written memos the information was necessary to conduct a ‘thorough and complete investigation.’ The FBI also failed to review and exploit other foreign intelligence information.”

They continued, “Therefore, we now write to stress the importance that this material be immediately dug out from hiding and properly assessed. How evidence which purportedly includes information related to ‘former President Barack Obama’s emails’ and ‘network infrastructure diagrams for U.S. government classified networks,’ remained unreviewed by the preeminent law enforcement agency in the world is mind-numbing. We know you will not similarly ignore evidence in your agency’s possession, no matter where its exploitation or conclusions might lead.”

Read the full letter here.

Notably, the declassified Clinton Annex revealed that:

  • Russian-language reports were also obtained by the FBI of discussions between then-DNC head, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, with suggestions concerning the deletion of evidence on Hillary Clinton’s email servers, mention of FBI’s investigation into the Clinton Foundation, and reports suggesting then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch was in contact with Hillary Clinton’s staff.
  • DOJ OIG also relied on the now-debunked Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on the Russia collusion hoax during its review, once again shedding light on the damage caused by the ICA’s widely spread tentacles.

(House Intelligence, 7/29/2025) (Archive)

July 22, 2025 – Senate Republicans reopen the Clinton email investigation

(Credit: Kelo)

Senate Republicans are re-opening the Clinton email probe. It had to be done. Several thumb drives were never analyzed, with a detailed report showing that the FBI came up with laughable reasons not to do it, deviating from department policy.

As Matt Taibbi, a former contributing editor to Rolling Stone, noted, the 35-page annex to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2018 report on the DOJ’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server and the 2016 election was a Keystone Cops operation.

With such glaring incompetence, it was reported last night that this probe will be re-examined.

Justice is coming, but before it does, many more media people are going to have meltdowns.

From Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) press release:

The DOJ OIG’s Clinton annex shows the FBI obtained thumb drives from a source during the Clinton investigation, but then-FBI Director James Comey, as well as then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and others, failed to perform additional, targeted searches of the drives, even though they contained information relevant to the inquiry. The DOJ OIG report illustrates that the FBI failed to thoroughly and completely investigate the Clinton matter as a result, as well as vet the serious national security risks created by Clinton’s careless handling of highly classified information. According to the DOJ OIG, the thumb drives contained highly sensitive information exfiltrated from U.S. government agencies, including the Department of State, as well as then-President Barack Obama’s emails and, potentially, congressional information. The thumb drives were never reviewed as part of the Clinton investigation, contrary to the recommendation of a draft FBI memorandum. The DOJ OIG report also shows the drives should have been immediately reviewed for foreign intelligence purposes, but were not.

The FBI also obtained intelligence reports discussing purported communications between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who was chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the time, and two different individuals who worked for the Soros Open Society Foundations. The intelligence reports alleged that the Obama administration took efforts to scuttle the investigation into Clinton and protect her candidacy. The DOJ OIG Clinton annex shows Comey, McCabe and Strzok, among others, did not make serious investigative efforts to determine the veracity, or lack thereof, regarding the intelligence reports.

On July 5, 2016, Comey exonerated Clinton in a public statement regarding the investigation and recommended DOJ take no legal action to hold her accountable. Grassley’s oversight revealed Comey planned to exonerate Clinton even before interviewing her. Weeks later, on July 31, 2016, Comey’s FBI formally opened the bogus Crossfire Hurricane investigation into President Trump’s disproven collusion with Russia. On that day, Strzok texted Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer, saying: “And damn this feels momentous. Because this matters. The other one did, too, but that was to ensure we didn’t F something up. This matters because this MATTERS. So super glad to be on this voyage with you.”

Grassley cited Comey’s handling of the Clinton investigation as evidence that Comey lacked the ability to maintain the public’s trust in the FBI, and was therefore rightfully terminated.

(Townhall, 7/23/2025) (Archive)

July 23, 2025 – House panel votes to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton over possible links to Ghislaine Maxwell

A House Oversight panel subcommittee voted to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton on Wednesday over their alleged ties to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) introduced the motion for subpoenas during a Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee hearing, and it was approved by the Republican-led panel via voice vote, with no roll call taken.

The Clintons and several former top Justice Department officials — ex-FBI Director James Comey, one-time special counsel Robert Mueller and former Attorneys General Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions and Alberto Gonzales — were included in the list of subpoenas sought by Perry in order to “expand the full committee’s investigation into Ms. Maxwell.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) would need to formally issue the subpoenas to the Clintons and the others for them to be compelled to provide testimony or documents to the panel.

“Subpoenas will be issued in the future,” a spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee told The Post.

(…) The subcommittee’s actions come after Comer subpoenaed Maxwell, who has been serving a 20-year prison sentence since 2022, to sit for a deposition with the Oversight Committee.

The deposition has tentatively been scheduled for Aug. 11, at the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, where Maxwell has been incarcerated since her conviction on sex-trafficking conspiracy charges. (Read more: New York Post, 7/23/2025)  (Archive)

July 23, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard new doc release: “Here are the top Obama Russia Hoax lies debunked”

New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history. Per President @realDonaldTrump’s directive, I have declassified a @HouseIntel oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election.

In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him.

Here are the top Obama Russia Hoax lies debunked by today’s release:

dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc

LIE: Putin and the Russian Government helped Trump win the 2016 election

TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax, suppressed intelligence showing Putin was preparing for a Clinton victory, manufactured findings from shoddy sources, disobeyed IC standards, and knowingly lied to the American people.

LIE: The fabricated Steele Dossier was not used as a source in the Obama Administration’s January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of the November 2016 election

TRUTH: Not only did CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, DNI Clapper and others include the Steele Dossier in the 2017 ICA, they overruled senior Intel officials who warned them it was fabricated and should not be used.

LIE: The Obama Administration’s January ICA was an independent Intelligence Community product, produced with apolitical analysis.

TRUTH: Obama ordered the Intelligence Community to create an Intelligence Community Assessment they knew was false, promoting a contrived narrative, with the intent of undermining the legitimacy and power of a duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.

Together, the @ODNIgov records released on Friday, the @TheJusticeDept’s June 2018 report known as the “Clinton annex” released earlier this week, and the @HouseIntel oversight report we released today confirm what many Americans have known: The Russia Hoax was a lie that was knowingly created by the Obama Administration to undermine the legitimacy and power of the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.

July 23, 2025 – Democrat from Russia hoax probe now top lawyer at Trump’s NSA – UPDATE: She’s been fired

April Falcon Doss (Credit: public domain)

A top lawyer for President Donald Trump’s National Security Agency previously worked for Senate Democrats on their discredited probe attempting to tie Trump to Russia and has a history of partisan anti-Trump activism.

April Falcon Doss is the current general counsel for the NSA, the powerful cyber-intelligence agency, according to the agency’s website. A longtime veteran of the agency, Doss also worked as an NSA intelligence lawyer from 2003 to April 2016. But in between those two stints, she worked on the highly-partisan congressional investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election.

Just months into Trump’s first term as president, she took a high-level job working for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on the Senate Intelligence Committee, investigating supposed Russian interference in the 2016 election. Doss was the Democrats’ Senior Counsel for the committee’s Russia investigation, which conducted hundreds of interviews in its failed attempt to find evidence of conspiracy between Trump and Russia.

Doss is a transparently partisan activist who has written publicly about her opposition to Trump. She has called for Trump to be permanently banned from social media for staging an “insurrection,” attacked Republicans for opposing a crackdown on “disinformation,” and defended the treatment of Trump aides Carter Page and Michael Flynn at the hands of the intelligence state.

reported in June 2022 that the NSA, during the Biden administration, had re-hired Doss for the top role. The intelligence agency didn’t publicly announce the hire, it reported, because it didn’t want to “stir the hornet’s nest among Capitol Hill Republicans.” That’s because in the interim, Democrats, “experts,” and intelligence officials had decried it as improper — and ultimately blocked it — when Trump had attempted to name a Republican former House intelligence committee staffer to the same role. (Read more: Conservative Roof, 7/23/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE, 7/29/2025

Anti-Trump Democrat Russia Collusion Hoax Investigator Fired as NSA General Counsel

July 23, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard holds a WH press briefing after releasing intelligence documents on a years-long coup against Trump

Intelligence officials under former President Barack Obama omitted information indicating Russia had damaging material about Hillary Clinton’s mental and physical health during the 2016 campaign but chose not to release it, as they worked to find support for a narrative that Russia intervened to help elect President Donald Trump, according to newly declassified records.

The revelation comes from a long-classified House Intelligence Committee report made public by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday. The report, dated Sept. 18, 2020, says Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service accessed internal Democratic National Committee communications in 2016 that contained detailed allegations about Clinton’s physical and psychological health, including claims she was on a daily regimen of “heavy tranquilizers” and suffering from a mix of “intensified psycho-emotional problems.”

July 23, 2025 – DNI Gabbard: Media is ‘complicit’ in Russia collusion hoax

Wednesday on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reacted to “crazy questions” from members of the media during a press conference about her efforts to expose so-called Deep State actors alleged to have knowingly promoted debunked claims of Russia-Trump collusion to alter the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Gabbard told host Jesse Watters the media were “complicit” in promoting those claims.

“You mentioned, Director, that there’s, I guess, Deep State actors who are still trying to prevent the truth from coming out,” Watters said. “What do you mean by that?”

Gabbard replied, “There are still people, it won’t surprise you, within the Intelligence Community who don’t want this information to see the light of day. Some of them may be implicated in the crafting of it, others are concerned about people being embarrassed, others are concerned about accountability, and what else we will discover as we continue down this path towards the truth and bring about accountability for the American people. That’s really what this is all about, and why it does such a disservice. I was standing there in the White House Press Briefing Room and hearing some of these crazy questions being asked by members of the media who are trying to distract and deflect away from the historic expose that we have brought forward, that once again, puts into question the American people’s ability to trust the integrity of our Democratic Republic.”

“And the reason why that is, and it’s similar to the Deep State actors who have been trying to stop us from releasing this, is that we have members of the media who were complicit in this from the very beginning, who were leaked early copies of this, or at least lines from this, January 2017 Obama manufactured Intelligence Assessment,” she continued. “They printed what they were fed, people like Ellen Nakashima from The Washington Post, who, by the way, went on to win a Pulitzer Prize because for years, she was so good at lying and not telling the truth to the American people that they gave her an award for it. These people are still here. Ellen Nakashima is still harassing people who work within the Intelligence Community who are calling up and reporting her using burner phones to try to ask them harassing questions. There are a lot of Deep State actors still here within Washington.” (Read more: Breitbart News, 7/24/2025) (Archive)

July 23, 2025 – The Russians kept quiet about DNC emails that said Hillary suffered from psycho-emotional problems, fits of anger, and took “heavy tranquilizers”

 

July 24, 2025 – Re-watch Comey’s 2018 interview with Bret Baier — after all we know now, it hits different…

Sometimes it takes a second watch for the truth to really slap you in the face, and this is one of those moments.

James Comey’s 2018 sit-down with Bret Baier may have flown under the radar back then, but now, after everything Tulsi has exposed and the DOJ’s new Strike Force aimed directly at Obama’s regime, yeah, this Fox Interview feels like watching a guilty man squirm under fluorescent lights.

Bret may not have realized it at the time, but he pulled off a master class in cornering a liar without even raising his voice. What we’re watching now, in hindsight, is Comey unraveling on national TV. Tripping over his words, dodging basic questions, and desperately trying to explain how the Director of the FBI didn’t know Hillary Clinton funded the Steele Dossier that sparked the entire Russia collusion hoax.

People’s dogs knew this, but Comey didn’t?

That’s a hard pill to swallow, and Bret let him know.

Comey launched a full-blown investigation into a sitting US president, based in part on a (fake) document he claims he didn’t even know was bankrolled by the DNC and Hillary’s campaign. It’s laughable. The man was either criminally incompetent or lying through his teeth. Most likely a bit of both.

Bret presses him, and you can see it: the darting eyes, the tight-lipped half-smile, and the body language of a man who’s praying the commercial break rolls in to save him. He even claims he never briefed Obama on the dossier, something Bret finds fantastical. You can practically see him thinking, “Are you serious, man?”

And now, in 2025, with the Strike Force knocking on doors and declassified intel crushing the fake narrative, you really have to wonder how many frantic phone calls this lurching buffoon has made to his legal counsel in the last 48 hours.

Watch the full interview again. This time, with 2025 eyes…

(Read more: Revolver News, 7/24/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE: More from the lying liars

h/t Daily Caller, 7/24/2025

July 25, 2025 – Media Matters in meltdown: Soros-funded censorship group on verge of collapse amid lawsuits, layoffs

Media Matters for America — the far-left censorship group that spent decades smearing conservatives — is on the verge of implosion after sustained legal and financial pressure from Republican leadership and X owner Elon Musk, the New York Times revealed this week.

Media Matters, the leftist nonprofit notorious for its scorched-earth campaigns against conservative media, is reportedly in a state of crisis, reeling from a series of lawsuits, federal investigations, mass layoffs, infighting, and donor panic. The New York Times now confirms what many on the right have suspected for months: the group’s legal and financial foundation is cracking, and its future is in jeopardy.

The collapse follows an aggressive legal response to what Elon Musk and Republican officials describe as Media Matters’ attempt to trigger a boycott of X, the social media platform owned by Musk. After the group published a report accusing X of placing major brand ads next to pro-Nazi content, Musk responded by accusing the group of manipulating data. X filed a lawsuit alleging fraud and defamation. Republican attorneys general in Texas and Missouri followed up with investigations into the group’s funding and alleged deception of donors.

Despite claiming it has “no plans to close,” Media Matters has quietly cut back its attacks, slashed staff, and even floated shuttering operations entirely, according to interviews and internal documents obtained by the Times.

The group has racked up over $15 million in legal bills in less than two years, alienated donors, and now reportedly faces a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation — revealed through documents obtained by Reuters and not yet publicly confirmed by the commission — into whether it colluded with other liberal organizations to suppress advertising on Musk’s platform.

Breitbart News has reported extensively on the group’s unraveling, including a federal judge’s decision to allow Musk’s lawsuit to proceed to trial in April 2025. The lawsuit accuses Media Matters of deploying “coordinated, inauthentic behavior” to mislead advertisers. This conduct, X claims, sparked an advertiser exodus. According to the New York Times, the advertiser boycott, which X attributes to Media Matters’ report, cost the platform more than $75 million in lost revenue.

The group’s president, Angelo Carusone, has blamed the Trump administration for using federal power to “silence critics.” In May, the FTC issued a sweeping investigative demand for documents related to Media Matters’ communications with other liberal watchdog and advertising groups, echoing concerns raised by Elon Musk that such entities coordinated advertiser boycotts under the guise of “brand safety.”

Once a powerhouse in Democrat-aligned media warfare, bolstered by billionaire donors like George Soros and nonprofit structures that shield donor identities, Media Matters now finds itself hemorrhaging cash, morale, and relevance. Even longtime allies have reportedly distanced themselves, and one top donor has allegedly urged the group to shut down altogether. (Read more: Breitbart News, 7/25/2025)  (Archive)

July 25, 2025 – Team Obama attempts to rescue themselves following the disclosure of Obama’s actions in the Russia hoax scandal

President Obama spoke with President-elect Donald J. Trump at the White House to discuss the transition of power. (Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)

Aides who worked for Barack Obama are desperate to shut down the burgeoning scandal surrounding their former boss and have devised a laughable plan to prevent it from reaching the public further.

(…) Now, NBC News reveals that Team Obama is desperate to find a way to ensure the scandal eventually dissipates and put a stop to more “unchecked allegations.”

From NBC News:

To former aides who worked in Barack Obama’s White House, the Trump administration’s allegations of “treason” carried the stench of desperation from a president straining to shift the focus from a burgeoning scandal around Jeffrey Epstein.

Still, they’re grappling with how to contain the unprecedented accusations National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has leveled, even as they dismiss them as asinine, interviews with more than half a dozen people who worked in Obama’s White House or on his campaigns reveal.

These people say the events of the last week have turned into a messaging balancing act between unnecessarily giving oxygen to the claims that Obama ordered a false intelligence analysis to show Russia had worked to help Trump win the 2016 election and leaving the potential for unchecked accusations to balloon. Many of those who talked to NBC News were not authorized to speak publicly about strategy.

What is their brilliant scheme? It turns out that they plan to reach so-called Republicans via newspaper editorial boards and via members of Congress.

“The battle now is to play this even to make sure that thoughts don’t start to creep into more mainstream” audiences, a former Obama administration official said. That person said it was important to reach “mainstream Republicans,” who would listen to editorial boards and those in Congress who deemed the allegations against Obama as “beyond the pale.”

Do they actually think any GOPer, even more moderates, care one bit what the Wall Street Journal or Washington Post has to say?

Moreover, how many are going to listen to leftists and RINOS in Congress who dismiss Obama’s treason as a nothingburger? (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/26/2025)  (Archive)

July 25, 2025 – Ghislaine Maxwell gives DOJ details about 100 people linked to Epstein

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Ghislane Maxwell (Credit: CNN clipping)

Ghislaine Maxwell told the DOJ about “100 different people” linked to Jeffrey Epstein, according to her lawyer David Oscar Markus.

Maxwell never pleaded the Fifth.

The comments start at 5:53 in the video:

I think Ghislaine did a wonderful job. She literally answered every question. She didn’t say, “You know what, don’t ask me that, I’m not gonna talk about this person.” She was asked maybe about 100 different people, she answered questions about everybody and she didn’t hold anything back.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after a jury convicted her of sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and conspiracy.

Maxwell has already said “she’s willing to testify before Congress on Epstein’s apparent full client list.”

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and his team questioned Maxwell for two days after Attorney General Pam Bondi reached out to Markus. (Read more: Legal Insurrection, 7/25/2025)  (Archive)

July 25, 2025 – 20 CIA and FBI agents confirm Obama was behind Russia hoax and reveal his hiding place

(…) According to new reporting from Fox News, twenty CIA and FBI agents have now confirmed that Obama didn’t just know about the Russia Hoax, he ran it. And to keep it buried, he locked the evidence away in a CIA vault, where it sat hidden for nearly a decade.

Yes, America, Obama could be in some very hot water.

Revolver:

This is a seismic shift, what many of you voted for. It’s a sign that the Obama regime’s protective shield may finally be cracking.

For the first time in about a decade, the barrel of our crooked government might finally be pointed in the right direction. Instead of targeting innocent Americans, the elite liars who abused their power and cooked up one of the most dangerous political hoaxes in US history are finally in the crosshairs, right where they belong.

But there’s something you need to understand about this “Strike Force” operation. It’s not just your average investigation. It’s a helluva lot more than that, and the Obama cronies, like James Clapper, are smart to lawyer up.

So… what exactly is a DOJ “Strike Force,” and why should it have Obama’s inner circle panicking and calling their lawyers

As Sean Davis, CEO of The Federalist, put it best:

You can read the entire piece here:

Important details you need to know about DOJ’s new ‘Strike Force’ against Obama…

The walls may finally be closing in on Barry. (Read more: Revolver, 7/25/2025)  (Archive)

July 25, 2025 – Lefties, illegals, & minorities are finally experiencing “Consequence Culture”

(Credit: Brandon Smith/Alt-Market)

Travel back in time to the year 2021 and you might find yourself in the middle of a bizarre debate over the virtues of “cancel culture”. At the time, the political left was aggressively trying to secure long-term power within the US through a multi-pronged psychological offensive – A war on the minds of the masses designed to force Americans into submission.

A big part of their strategy relied on the fundamentals of Cultural Marxism: The combination of Marxist mob tactics, artificial consensus and the exploitation of minority grievances as a vehicle for controlling speech. This was the rise of the “woke movement” to the halls of government.

The root of their power was not martial. In fact, the political left is weak and largely astroturf with minimal ability to project power in a physical way. If conservatives wanted to destroy them tomorrow the task would be relatively easy. We don’t because many of us still have hope that our problems can be solved through peaceful discourse.

What the leftists did have at their disposal was a massive institutional apparatus of government agencies, corporations, Big Tech and NGOs. The full might of the establishment cabal was on their side, which meant they had the means to enforce “cancel culture” and silence their ideological opponents.

I don’t think there has ever been a psychological war on a population that was more pervasive and tyrannical. Not since Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China has a citizenry been under such a siege by their own government. The fact that we survived this event, defeated the onslaught and actually grew a grassroots anti-woke movement without the use of social media forums is truly mind blowing.

Very few people today realize the level of victory that was achieved. We thwarted perhaps the largest 4th Generation “mind war” ever devised and we did it without any institutional access. We won by simple truth and word of mouth.

Another tool that the leftists and globalists used was the mobilization of illegal migrants, gays and minorities as a shield against criticism or counter-protest. If conservatives and moderates fought back with superior debate or our own protest groups, we were immediately accused of racism, xenophobia and homophobia. Merely presenting an opposing view to the progressive machine was considered an act of evil.

Large contingents within all of these groups were happy to go along with the agenda for numerous reasons.

First and foremost, DEI allowed them to easily game the system. They could snatch up grants, subsidies, welfare, and leapfrog over more talented and more intelligent competitors in education and business simply because of their “marginalized status”.

Secondly, the system under progressives was two-tier; leftists activists, illegals and minorities were given preferential protection while breaking the law and causing chaos. Conservatives were labeled terrorists for any act of defiance. We were banned from the largest web platforms. Some of us were targeted by the online mob and lost our jobs. Others were “de-banked” and threatened with ostracism from the economy. Still others were imprisoned.

This imbalance of the law bred a culture of entitlement, especially within the LGBT cult and the black community. Illegal aliens were given carte blanche to enter the country and feed like parasites. Not only that, but they were treated like heroes coming to save the US from “population decline” and “labor shortages”.

They all participated in the game willfully and joyfully.They were ALL part of the problem. But, of course, none of them ever thought the party would end or that they might end up facing consequences for their behavior. They joined in the feeding frenzy without considering the inevitable clap-back. (Read more: Brandon Smith/Alt-Markets, 7/25/2025)  (Archive)

July 25, 2025 – Devin Nunes discusses the DNI revelations released by Tulsi Gabbard; draws attention to the Mar-a-Lago raid

Former House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes appears on OAN with former Congressman Matt Gaetz to discuss the information released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

As noted by Nunes, why did it take this long for the information to surface?  That question showcases how corrupt the DC system -the Intelligence Community- is in its effort to protect itself from accountability.

Nunes also points to the raid on Mar-a-Lago as a possible entry point for investigative accountability.  WATCH:

Let me refresh on something that could potentially be a revelation down the road.

In 2022 a Florida judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Trump against Hillary Clinton. [65-page Ruling Here] The media enjoyed ridiculing Trump using the words of the judge who dismissed the case.  As noted by the Washington Times, “Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, said Mr. Trump’s filing was too lengthy, detailing events that “are implausible because they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached.”

When I originally read the 108-page Donald Trump lawsuit filed in March 2022, it took me a few moments, and then I realized this was not a lawsuit; this was a legal transfer mechanism created by lawyers to establish a proprietary information silo.

Here’s a totally different take on the issues surrounding the Trump -v- Clinton lawsuit, which -from the outset- I always believed was going to be dismissed because suing all of those characters under the auspices of a civil RICO case was never the objective.

In the aftermath of the filing, the silo created by the lawsuit is grounded upon attorney-client privilege, a legal countermeasure to a predictable DOJ-NSD lawfare maneuver, which unfolded in the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid and the subsequent Jack Smith targeting operation.

In March 2022 President Trump filed a civil lawsuit against: Hillary Clinton, Hillary for America Campaign Committee, DNC, DNC Services Corp, Perkins Coie, Michael Sussmann, Marc Elias, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Dolan, Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Robby Mook, Phillipe Reines as well as Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, Orbis Business Intelligence, Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Neustar Inc., Rodney Joffe, James Comey Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith and Andrew McCabe. [108-Page Lawsuit Here]

When I was about one-third of the way through reading the lawsuit, I initially stopped and said to myself this is going to take a lot of documentary evidence to back up the claims in the assertions.  Dozens of attachments would be needed and hundreds of citations to the dozens of attachments would be mandatory.  Except, they were not there.

After reading further, while completely understanding the background material that was being described in the filing, I realized this wasn’t a lawsuit per se’.  The 108-pages I was holding in my hands was more akin to legal transfer mechanism from President Trump to lawyers who needed it.

The lawsuit filing was contingent upon a series of documents that would be needed to support the claims within it.

Whoever wrote the lawsuit had obviously reviewed the evidence to support the filing.  However, the attachments and citations were missing.

That was weird.

That’s when I realized the purpose of the lawsuit.  In hindsight, things became clear when the FBI later raided the home of Donald Trump, and suddenly the motive to confiscate documents, perhaps the missing lawsuit attachments and citations, surfaced.

With the manipulative, and I said intentional, “ongoing investigation” angle created by the John Durham probe essentially blocking public release of declassified documents showing the efforts of all the lawsuit participants (Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax), in 2021 President Trump needed a legal way to secure and more importantly share evidence.

Think of it like the people around Trump wanting to show lawyers the evidence in the documents.  However, because of the construct of the lawfare being deployed against Trump, any lawyer would need a *reason* to review the evidence.   The Trump -v- Clinton et al lawsuit becomes that ‘reason.’

The “documents” (classified or not) were likely reviewed by lawyers in preparation for the lawsuit.  This is their legal justification for reviewing the documents.  In essence, the lawsuit was a transfer mechanism permitting the Trump legal team to review the evidence on behalf of their client, former President Donald Trump.

Once the formation of the lawsuit was established, the retainer and acceptance of the lawyers to represent their client cemented, the legal counsel, discussion and information within legal duties/obligations of those who represent the plaintiff (Trump) becomes an information silo.  In addition to previous executive privilege established by President Trump himself; outside government there is now another silo to defend against the motives of the Lawfare crew (DOJ), the attorney-client privilege.

The lawsuit itself then becomes a transfer mechanism permitting sharing of the documents and providing legal cover for the reviewers (lawyers).  The details within the 108-page filing constitute the claims of the plaintiff in the lawsuit, which were established by the evidentiary documents later seized by the DOJ and FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

“Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, said Mr. Trump’s filing was too lengthy, detailing events that “are implausible because they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached.”

There were no attachments and/or citations to the documentary evidence in the 108-page filing, because there was a legal risk to citing evidence with a status in dispute by the corrupt people in Main Justice and the FBI.

Secondarily, there was an obstruction risk to the President in 2022, if his legal team was to publish citations that were part of an ongoing investigation (John Durham).   However, this doesn’t negate the value of constructing the information silo, an attorney-client privilege.

The lawsuit was dismissed in March 2022.

In August 2022 the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago.

If the documents chased by the FBI were part of the lawsuit established by President Trump and his legal team via Trump -v- Clinton, then the material seized by the FBI would be -in part- attorney client work product.  Lawfully obtained, constitutionally declassified and legally protected material.

According to later reports all of the documents were returned to President Trump at the conclusion of the Jack Smith investigation.

I think Devin Nunes is right to draw attention to the motive of the FBI to raid Mar-a-Lago.

Given the nature of the FBI working collaboratively with the Clinton crew in 2016/2017, I genuinely suspect it was the underpinning evidence to support the claims of the Trump -vs- Clinton lawsuit the FBI were looking for. (Conservative Treehouse, 7/26/2025)  (Archive)

July 26, 2025 – John Bolton didn’t brief Trump on classified memo showing John Brennan manufactured Trump-Putin collusion intel

(…) Real Clear Investigations reporter Paul Sperry revealed last night that Bolton had a classified memo in his possession that showed how former CIA Director John Brennan helped manufacture intelligence linking Trump to Vladimir Putin. Still, he never briefed Trump on the matter.

Guess what he did instead?

He stuck it in a National Security Council safe because he supposedly believed the intel. What a snake.

“Sources tell me in 2018 former Trump Nat’l Security Adviser John Bolton received a classified memo summarizing the explosive report exposing how Brennan cooked up Putin-Trump intel, but Bolton stuck it in an NSC safe and never briefed Trump, believing the Brennan intel,” Sperry wrote on X.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/28/2025) (Archive)

John Bolton’s Classified Bombshell: How a Neocon Cover-Up May Have Sparked Criminal Liability and Prolonged The Russia Hoax Narrative Continue! RETWEET

In a stunning revelation, journalist Paul Sperry reports that in 2018, former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton received a classified memo exposing how CIA Director John Brennan fabricated Putin-Trump intelligence. Rather than briefing President Trump, Bolton allegedly stashed it in an NSC safe, a decision that could ignite criminal liability. By concealing evidence of a potential intelligence hoax, Bolton may have obstructed justice, a felony with no statute of limitations (SOL) if tied to an ongoing crime. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3282, SOL typically runs five years, but concealment can extend it—especially if the cover-up perpetuates a fraud against the government, as this might suggest.

Trump faced not just leftist vitriol but neocon ire for rejecting forever wars. He obliterated ISIS in weeks, deterred North Korean aggression, and bolstered the military, deploying it decisively—like the swift, clean strike on Iran that quelled its conflict with Israel. Yet, hawks like Bolton fumed as Trump spurned their Ukraine-Russia quagmire, refusing $300 billion in aid. This neocon backlash, fused with Brennan’s alleged ruse, fueled Trump’s first-term torment. Bolton’s silence may have shielded a narrative that painted Trump as Putin’s pawn, a charge now unraveling. As the truth emerges, the neocons’ war lust and Bolton’s vaulted secret could redefine this saga. (NOTE: any discussion about criminal statutes is personal opinion and not Legal advice)

July 25, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard discusses Obama’s Russia hoax on The Matt Gaetz Show

In an exclusive interview on The Matt Gaetz Show, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reveals explosive evidence tying President Obama, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper to the origins of the 2016 Russia collusion hoax. Gabbard details how senior intelligence officials were overruled, how discredited sources like the Steele dossier were knowingly used, and how a DOJ strike force is now investigating criminal referrals. She says this wasn’t about national security. It was a political hit job against Donald Trump.

July 27, 2025 – CIA Ratcliffe confirms more evidence in the Russia collusion hoax is about to drop and it implicates Hillary Clinton

CIA’s been working w DOJ to declassify for release–likely this week–explosive new info from long-class. Appendix to Durham Report showing FBI accelerated plan by Hillary to frame Trump as a Russian traitor. Underlying intel puts Brennan, Comey, Hillary in perjury jeopardy.

“What intelligence shows is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier, to those fake Russia collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and bearing the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to.”

New details have emerged regarding a highly classified intelligence memorandum relating to alleged plans by Hillary Clinton to tie Trump to Russian hackers. As Sleuth News previously covered, the memorandum was originally created by Russian intelligence and forwarded to the CIA by the Dutch, who had infiltrated Russian groups.

Hillary Clinton and Jennifer Palmieri on the 2016 campaign trail. (Credit: public domain)

According to sources familiar with the matter, the memorandum is based on an email sent in March 2016 from Jennifer Palmieri, a senior official in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, to Leonard Bernardo, a Democrat operative with ties to the party’s leadership employed by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. This email, sources claim, outlined a strategic plan that included leveraging the FBI to amplify allegations of Russian collusion against then-candidate Donald Trump, weeks before the Russians are alleged to have hacked the Democratic National Committee.

The latest report builds on Sleuth News’ earlier reporting and adds to 2023 reporting by the New York Times which took note of Special Counsel Durham’s inquiries relating to Bernardo. The Times report also suggested, without evidence, that US officials viewed the intelligence memorandums as Russian disinformation, and offered no explanation for why the Russians would have moved to cut off Dutch access if the memorandums were in fact a disinformation product.

For Special Counsel Durham’s part, he found no evidence of any attempt by the FBI to vet the intelligence:

As previously noted, Bernardo is also allegedly tied to the Renteria memo, involving an agreement memorialized in an email from Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Bernardo, which outlined an alleged conversation between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and staffer Amanda Renteria where Lynch agreed not to let the investigation into Clinton’s email server progress too far.

Jennifer Palmieri was previously known to be tied to an email released by Wikileaks which notes a February 2016 “swift boat plan”, further buttressing the core elements of the alleged Russian intelligence memorandums:

According to Sleuth News sources, Palmieri is the foreign policy advisor referenced in John Ratcliffe’s declassified memorandum regarding Clinton’s approval of a plan to tie Trump to Russian hackers. (Read more below)

July 27, 2025 – Schweizer: Former CIA Director Gina Haspel should be investigated

Gina Haspel swears in as the first woman to direct the Central Intelligence Agency, on May 21, 2018. (Credit: public domain)

On this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” GAI President Peter Schweizer said former CIA Director Gina Haspel should undergo further investigation regarding the alleged Russia collusion intelligence efforts by former President Barack Obama and his top officials.

Schweizer said, “One name I’d like to see out there more is Gina Haspel. She was the CIA director, appointed by Donald Trump. She certainly had access to this material. It’s interesting to me that she was the London chief of the CIA in the 2000s. In 2014, CIA Director John Brennan sent her back there, which was a highly unusual move, and she was there during this period. Much of the fake Russia collusion intel, from Steele and others, was coming out of London. So, what role did she play in creating this? And also, what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director and she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?”

On former staffers denying they saw any of President Joe Biden’s mental decline, Schweizer said, “The notion that White House staffers were insisting that ‘he seems fine to us’ is ridiculous. Just look at the numbers. In 2021, he had 58 known phone calls with foreign leaders. By 2024, that was down to 20. Look at the press conferences. He went from having nine solo press conferences to zero in 2024. There were conscious decisions being made to make sure he was not being exposed to the public.”

(Breitbart, 7/27/2025)  (Archive)

July 27, 2025 – Ratcliffe: Lisa Page confirmed under oath the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to arrest Hillary Clinton

(Timeline editor’s note: Although this story was covered on July 13, 2018, I realized the importance of revisiting Lisa Page’s timeline tag to refresh my memory. Be sure and check her tag below to see the broader picture that Ratcliffe wants us to revisit.

We have been compiling information all these years, for this moment. Please feel free to share far and wide.)

July 28, 2025 – Former FBI Peter Strzok deletes all of his @X posts; Wayback Machine excludes his @X address

July 29, 2025 – ‘The Real Russian Conspiracy’: Turley explains how media and Clinton campaign ‘derailed’ Trump’s first term

GWU law professor Jonathan Turley appeared on Fox News Tuesday to explain the timeline that led to the derailment of President Donald Trump’s first term.

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released declassified evidence showing that former President Barack Obama and his national security team “manufactured and politicized intelligence” following Trump’s 2016 victory. During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Turley noted the role of the media in perpetuating the narrative.

“It’s fascinating the response of the media with the Russian collusion narrative that was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign secretly. They denied that they funded the Steele dossier. But they took that, didn’t question it. And it turns out that all these other people had heard about Hillary Clinton’s plan, but these reporters that got Pulitzers for this didn’t seem to bother to pursue those types of leads,” Turley said.

Turley said pivotal moments unfolded as early as July 2016, when CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton’s plan to fabricate a Russian collusion narrative.

“Laura, we’re finally seeing parts of the timeline filled in, and it’s creating a very damning picture. Remember, in July 2016, [then-CIA Director] John Brennan went to Obama and briefed him that Hillary Clinton was going to invent this Russian collusion theory to distract from her email scandal,” Turley told host Laura Ingraham. “And so that was back in July. And then we now know, because of recently declassified material, that months later, it was Brennan who intervened, overruled people at CIA, and put the Steele dossier, this infamous debunked report, into the assessment being used by the Obama White House at the very end of Obama’s term.”

Turley laid out how foreign sources were aware of the FBI’s involvement before the investigation was officially launched. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 7/29/2025)  (Archive)

July 29, 2025 – Judicial Watch: ‘China is happy’: Emails reveal Biden DHS and FBI iInvestigations of Tim Walz and communist China

Judicial Watch announced today it received 47 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit about Gov. Tim Walz’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party. DHS and the FBI counter-intelligence investigation into Walz’s CCP connections determined that “China is happy” with Walz being selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket. Walz’s connections to the CCP were extensive and a concern to the intelligence community, according to the documents produced.

The documents were released in response to a Judicial Watch March 2025 FOIA lawsuit for lawsuit  (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:25-cv-00625))

(…) An email dated August 6, 2024, the day Walz was officially named the Democrat vice presidential nominee, shows Homeland Security personnel discussing how they were aware communist China had a plan to target politicians likely to end up in DC, specifically Walz and Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo.

A Homeland Security official whose name is redacted states:

Walt’s got the Vp. You all have no idea how these feeds into what prc [People’s Republic of China] has been doing here with him and local gov. It’s seriously a line of the intel. Target someone who is perceived they can get to DC

Another official responds: “this speaks too to the rin [raw intelligence] you reviewed for us”.

A participant adds: “the perception narrative that has been pushed with one of the local ngos [non-governmental organizations] had direct ties to the former Gov here in Nevada. FBI has lead on a couple of things the only issue is being in the 9th circuit.”

A participant states: “Good to know and yes there involvement with HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] and fbi on things here”.

Another adds: “If anyone has interest I can give provide context in a classified setting.”

An official noted: “But this has more of strategic impact then obviously the general public knows”.

A BBC article titled “‘Harris’s no 2 taught in China’: Chinese internet reacts to Walz.” is posted to the non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat, on August 7, 2024, by a redacted Homeland Security participant in the group.

The article states that Walz “spent a year in the south-eastern province of Guandong in 1989 – a topic that was trending on Weibo with 12 million views.”

 “The fact that it happened in 1989 – the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre – was not lost on those commenting on Chinese social media,” the article adds.

A participant in the August 7, 2024, group chat with a name states: “China is happy”

Another noted: “you need components”

Someone adds: “and CIFTs [Counterintelligence Task Force] too”

A group chat participant states: “with FBI mission in the CI [counterintelligence] field i believe they need to get included….” 

Another clarifies: “CITF [corrects the previous acronym above]”

A group chat participant adds: “I think this conversation is FOIA-able…”

A participant states: “makes a great point about CITF coordination, I will state though that folks need to be cognizant of who the primary players even with FBI being the executive agency for CITF. ie dealing with SAPs [Special Access Programs] here so CI depends on what the problem set is and who will take point”

On October 29, 2024, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said a Homeland Security whistleblower told the committee that Walz was a “target” of the Chinese Communist Party as “someone they can get to DC.” The whistleblower also disclosed “that officials from DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have been involved in the Department’s investigative and/or intelligence work connected with the CCP, the state of Minnesota, and Governor Walz.”

The documents show a skeptical internal DHS discussion about Wang’s contacts with Walz.

In the nation-state threat Bi-weekly sync conversation dated September 12, 2024, a DHS participant who has a redacted dhs.gov email address states: “I need someones thoughts (please keep internal to DHS)”

Another participant explains: “so this person requested a meeting with Walz due to the house investigation they have walz for his relationship china. Then he drafted this letter for upcoming travel he has to china assuming he will get detained”.

The person who requested the meeting with Walz, Chang Wang, is a U.S. citizen, an attorney, adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, and vice chair of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. Wang writes to Walz that he fears being “forcibly detained” upon an upcoming visit to China. He also includes a copy of his itinerary while in China which includes being a witness in a court case.

One participant responds: “I read this as TNR but what am I missing”.

Another adds: “that’s what it looks like…begs the question, if he anticipates being detained, why go? weird.” 

Someone replies: “I know right”.

Another group chat participant adds: “I am working with hsi (Homeland Security Investigations) on it”.

A question follows: “what is TNR?”

Another participant clarifies: “transnational repression”.

One person elaborates: “i’m not sure it counts as TNR since it seems to assume being snatched while in China, so it isn’t crossing borders. if he claims they have been pressuring or seeking to coerce him while he’s home in, apparently MN, that would count as TNR. I don’t know the background on him. [Redacted] is my TNR lead.” 

Another offers: “can reach [redacted] as well, my China lead.

A group chat participant writes: “mind you, if he’s a known dissident they probably were pressuring him while he was in the U.S. If he went back anyway, Navalny style, and got pinched, it’s just that part that might not be treated as TNR. There’s no TNR statute per se (only proposals) so FBI investigates it as elements of the underlying offenses (like the stalking, extortion, assault, kidnapping, etc.” 

Another group chat participant adds: “Not my area but his itinerary entry for 9/29 is interesting appears he is a witness for the plaintiffs in a court case. Could be related to why he thinks he may be detained. Also is there additional context on why he requested that meeting or the proposed topic?”

“These documents uncovered by Judicial Watch show that the Biden administration covered up intelligence concerns about Tim Walz’s connections to China. This is a major scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. (Judicial Watch, 7/29/2025)  (Archive)

July 30, 2025 – Clapper crony threatened DNI whistleblower who refused to sign off on fabricated Intel Assessment

A crony of then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper threatened to withhold a promotion from a senior intelligence official unless he concurred in the fake Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, notes obtained exclusively by The Federalist show.

The notes made public for the first time today recount a conversation the top analyst in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) had with an unnamed superior who worked closely with the then-Director James Clapper, according to sources familiar with the document.

The release of the notes represents the latest cache of documents declassified by the Trump administration official concerning the ICA that outgoing President Barack Obama ordered, which falsely assessed that Putin “aspired” to help Trump win the election. An earlier release by the current Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, revealed the senior intelligence official — whom her office identified as an ODNI whistleblower — had been charged with conducting a “scrub,” which is a review, of the intelligence in the non-compartmented ICA. Emails released last week by Gabbard show the top analyst expressing shock over the ICA’s reliance on the Steele dossier because the versions the analyst reviewed included no intel relying on the Hillary Clinton-based fairy tale of opposition research.

According to a person familiar with the notes, the analyst documented his recollection of the conversation on March 31, 2023 — more than six years after the conversation occurred. The delay, The Federalist’s source explained, occurred because the analyst’s efforts to share his concerns, first with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC), and then later with Special Counsel John Durham and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, proved unsuccessful. Only later did the analyst receive an inquiry for more information about his claims, leading to the drafting of the summary of his recollections.

Those notes capture the analyst claiming in early January that his supervisor told him, “There is reporting you are not allowed to see,” adding that “if you saw it, you would agree” with the ICA. After noting he concurred “with varying confidence with most of the 2017 ICA’s Key Judgements,” the analyst explained that he “would need to review any reporting myself in order to consider it.”

“You need to TRUST ME on this,” Clapper’s crony countered, stating to the analyst he “would need to demonstrate [his] ability to ‘outgrow’” his refusal to sign off on assessments he did not share, in order to be recommended for a promotion. The analyst remained firm, according to the notes, which led his exasperated superior to reply, “I need you to say you agree with these judgements, so that DIA will go along with them!”

The DIA is the Department of Defense’s “Defense Intelligence Agency,” and the notes explain that ODNI sought “to bring DIA on board as an additional IC Agency signing on to the 2017 ICA.” The ODNI whistleblower then relayed that the conversation turned to the “DIA’s supposed trust in me, and the necessity of me proving my ‘corporate IC officer’ bona-fides by doing what it took to bring DIA on board …” The analyst refused to alter his assessment, and the DIA did not join the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency (NSA) in signing off on the final non-compartmented versions of the ICA.

“I remember this conversation very clearly,” the analyst explained, stressing “it was a difficult situation and I listened, and chose my responses, with care.” “I was aware that I was defying the [National Intelligence Officer’s] direction to me (to misrepresent my views to DIA) based on a conscious decision to adhere to IC standards, tradecraft, and ethics,” the notes concluded. (Read more: The Federalist, 7/30/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE 8/17/2025

July 29, 2025 – Newly declassified Strzok/Page texts detail open “counter intelligence” investigations BEFORE Crossfire Hurricane

July 30, 2025 – California Grift: Adult school spends $180M on luxury trips, fake students, 6-figure salaries & contracts

Each member of the board of directors overseeing Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools in Sacramento either resigned or was removed weeks after the release of a report by the California State Auditor that found the school improperly received over $180 million in education funding.

In addition, the report, published June 24, says the adult charter school engaged in “questionable financial transactions” and conflicts of interest, including unlawful gifts, luxury travel and the hiring of unqualified individuals. The school avoided accountability for student progress and did not conduct standardized testing of students.

The Sacramento charter school board resigned after a state audit showed the school misused $180 million in taxpayer funding. They gave six-figure jobs to relatives, had fake students, and misrepresented attendance. They gave lucrative contracts out to their “star,” one Mr. King (see below).

And it’s a school for adults that received K-12 funding they weren’t eligible to receive.

The most remarkable thing is they got away with this since 2018 when they first went under scrutiny.

The audit report says multiple agencies are to blame for the lack of action since the 2018 report, including the charter’s authorizer, Twin Rivers Unified, the Sacramento County Office of Education and the California Department of Education.

“Twin Rivers conducted only minimal annual oversight of Highlands, and instead relied heavily on annual audits that we found had inaccuracies,” said California State Auditor Grant Parks in the report. “If Twin Rivers had conducted more thorough oversight, it could have identified some of the violations we identified as part of our audit and taken action to address them earlier.”

The Sacramento-based Highlands Community Charter School boasted star power across its hundreds of employees: an influential Black community leader, a retired police chief and a former Sacramento Kings player. (Read more: Independent Sentinel, 7/30/2025)  (Archive)

July 31, 2025 – Durham Annex: FBI never investigated evidence for Obama AG, Loretta Lynch, and her role in Clinton email coverup

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch stonewalled Congress on July 12, 2016, on the details of the Hillary Clinton email case, refusing to get into the specifics of her decision not to prosecute for mishandling classified material. (Credit: CSpan)

We now have plausible intelligence suggesting the attorney general may have assured Clinton allies that the FBI investigation into Hillary’s emails would go nowhere.

The FBI never investigated explosive allegations that Attorney General Loretta Lynch coordinated with the Clinton campaign to suppress Hillary Clinton’s email server scandal. Those allegations stem from a secret Russian intelligence memo that circulated inside the U.S. government in 2016. The memo was so concerning that it pushed FBI Director James Comey to break ranks with Lynch during the Clinton email probe. Now, thanks to the newly released appendix [annex]of Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, that memo is public, and it appears to confirm long-held suspicions about how the Clinton investigation was handled.

Some of the same intelligence recently appeared in the “Clinton annex” released by Sen. Chuck Grassley on July 21, but the newly released Durham Appendix [Annex] provides a more comprehensive account of this intelligence stream, tracing it from early allegations involving Lynch through to the later scheme to frame Donald Trump as a Russian agent.

While much attention has focused on the Clinton plan to smear Trump, the alleged coordination between Lynch and the Clinton campaign to suppress the email server scandal has so far received less scrutiny.

(…) Durham’s report acknowledges that while some of the phrasing in the intelligence may have suffered from translation issues or conflation, intelligence officials deemed it to be authentic.

According to one of the newly released memos, in a Jan. 12, 2016 conversation with Goldstein, Wasserman Schultz revealed that the Obama White House was applying pressure on Comey via Lynch to shut down the email investigation because the scandal was damaging the Democratic Party and threatening Obama’s legacy:

“Obama has no intention to darken the final part of his presidency and ‘legacy’ by the scandal surrounding the main contender from the DP [Democratic Party]. To solve the problem, the President puts pressure on FBI Director James Comey through Attorney General Lynch, however, so far without concrete results.”

Wasserman Schultz also allegedly noted that the FBI lacked strong evidence against Clinton due to the “timely deletion of relevant data from mail servers.”

But it’s the March 5 alleged follow-up conversation between Benardo and Wasserman Schultz that contains the most damning allegation: “The political director of the Hillary Clinton staff Amanda Renteria regularly receives information from Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the plans and intentions of the FBI.”

If true, this would mean that while the FBI was actively investigating Clinton, the sitting Attorney General was secretly updating her campaign on its progress, compromising not only the DOJ’s independence, but the entire premise of equal justice under law.

The memo further claims that,“Barack Obama sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from the FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department.” (Read more: The Federalist, 8/06/2025)  (Archive)

July 31, 2025 – DNI Tulsi Gabbard confirms 2020 election fraud revelations coming — Feds knew about voting machine vulnerabilities and stayed silent

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard confirmed that the 2020 election was compromised, and the federal government knew about it.

Earlier this year, during a high-level Cabinet meeting with President Trump, she disclosed that the Intelligence Community has been investigating election interference and tampering with electronic voting systems, including signs of foreign and domestic actors manipulating vote totals.

“I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard said.

She continued, “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.”

Appearing on Benny Johnson’s show, Gabbard revealed that a whistleblower from CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) came forward with alarming evidence showing the government was aware of massive vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines ahead of the 2020 election, but deliberately chose to stay silent.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 8/1/2025) (Archive)

July 31, 2025 – The Durham Annex is declassified and released to public

July 31, 2025 – Techno Fog offers more details on the declassified Durham Annex

Crossfire Hurricane Team (Credit: Conservative Treehouse)

The Classified Appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s report has been released. You can view it here.

To briefly summarize, the Classified Appendix provided further information about the matters covered in parts of Durham’s report – specifically, those relating to Hillary Clinton’s plan to link Trump and Russia; the threat of foreign influence by a foreign government; and the Carter Page FISA application renewals.

But the most material information covers the Clinton Plan, and provides further details on how that plan started, efforts by Clinton and her team to influence officials within the Obama Administration, and how the Clinton Campaign would use Crowdstrike to further their theory that the Russians hacked and leaked information from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).

The Clinton Plan Origins

Some context is needed to understand how the Obama Administration discovered the Clinton Plan back in July of 2016. And the Classified Appendix supplies just that.

From 2014 to 2016, persons affiliated with Russian intelligence hacked and gained access to the emails of numerous US public and private entities, including government agencies, non-profits, and think tanks. This included the Open Society Foundations, formerly known as the Soros Foundation.

Sources provided the U.S. with intelligence concerning these hacks and access, including emails and Russian reports analyzing the hacked communications. Some of the emails originated from Leonard Benardo (remember that name), who was the Regional Director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations (Soros).

One of the Russian reports obtained by the FBI concerned a discussion of confidential discussions with Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz concerning the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal, and included the following intelligence:

  • The potential of an FBI investigation of “possible corruption relating to Department of State (under the leadership of Clinton) preferential treatment of donors to the Clinton Foundation caused a significant negative reaction inside the party. . . According to Wasserman-Schultz, FBI, so far, does not have persuasive evidence against Hillary Clinton because of the timely deletion of relevant data from mail servers.”
  • To solve the problem of the investigation of Hillary Clinton potentially darkening the final part of his presidency, Obama “puts pressure on FBI Director James Comey through Attorney General Lynch, however, so far, without concrete results.”

Another Russian intelligence memo provide to U.S. intelligence – this time from March 2016 – stated:

  • “The political director of the Hillary Clinton staff, Amanda Renteria, regularly receives information from Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the plans and intentions of the FBI.”
  • By this time, Clinton staff had begun the process of formulating a plan to link Trump and Russia – potentially through Christopher Steele, who, at the time the memo was drafted, had already begun “preparing open source opposition research regarding Trump’s purported ties to Russian oligarchs.

High-level FBI and DOJ officials, including Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, were briefed on these materials in March of 2016. They ultimately dismissed this reporting and the FBI declined to investigate whether Attorney General Lynch had, in fact, communicated with Amanda Renteria (the “political director of the Hillary Clinton staff”).

More Evidence Concerning the Clinton Plan and Crowdstrike

In July 2016, U.S. intelligence received additional information from its source. This time, there were reports that summarized apparently hacked materials and “certain hacked emails allegedly sent by Leonard Bernardo of the Open Society Foundations.” This is the information possessed by CIA Director John Brennan that would be eventually briefed to President Obama and others within his Administration.

The memorandum stated that Hillary Clinton “approved a plan proposed by one of her foreign policy advisors, Julianne Smith” to smear Donald Trump by linking him to Russia. Clinton’s approval would take place on July 26, 2016.

By magnifying “Putin’s support for Trump” and alleging Putin was influencing the election, Clinton would “force the White House” to confront Russia. Importantly, the memo noted that “Clinton’s supporters in the FBI lack conclusive irrefutable evidence of the Russian Federation’s involvement in the scandal, tied to the theft of the DNC’s correspondence.” (Note: that assessment regarding the hack-and-leak turned out to be true.)

The memo also noted that without direct evidence linking Russia to the hacks, “it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated ‘attic-based’ technical structures that are involved in cyber security, in particular, the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect Companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading US publications.”

In other words, Crowdstrike would provide information to the FBI concerning the alleged hack and then feed the media the same. And that’s what happened.

Emails Discussing the Clinton Plan

The Classified Appendix contained further evidence illustrating the Clinton Plan and the strategy to weaponize the DNC/DCCC hacks – this time from emails sent from Leonard Benardo of the Open Society Foundations.

The first is a July 25, 2016 email where Benardo discusses the Clinton Plan, the “long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump”, and how, later on, “the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”

Another email obtained by U.S. Intelligence (foreign source unknown) from late July 2016 suggested a plan to link Guccifer 2.0 to Russia and how “Clinton sympathizers” within the U.S. government needed to condemn the alleged Russian actions and tie them to Putin:

That email attached a July 27, 2016 email from Benardo (Soros), which confirmed that Hillary “approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections” to “distract people from her own missing email.” Importantly, the Benardo email again discussed the use of Crowdstrike to further the Clinton Plan.

Some discussion is necessary concerning whether the Benardo emails were authentic. Durham and his team looked at that very issue, stating: “Certain [U.S. Intelligence] analysis and officers whom the Office interviewed, and who were well-versed in the Sensitive Intelligence collection, stated that their best assessment was that the Benardo emails were likely authentic.”

While Durham was unable to locate corresponding records from the think tanks, his Office did “identify certain emails, attachments, and documents that contain language and reference with the exact same or similar verbiage to the materials” we discussed above.

And while Julianne Smith could not “specifically remember proposing a plan to Clinton or other campaign leadership to try to tie Trump to Putin or Russia,” she conceded “that it was possible that she had proposed ideas on these topics to the campaign’s leadership, who may have approved those ideas.” That’s essentially an admission.

More corroboration concerning Benardo’s statements that “Julie says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump and that “the FBI will put more oil into the fire” came from texts that Julianne Smith sent to a Clinton foreign policy advisor. Smith was actively digging into whether the FBI or other government agency were investigating the hacks:

Wrapping things up, Durham concluded that it was his “Office’s best assessment that the July 25th and July 27th emails that purport to be from Benardo were ultimately a composite of several emails that were obtained through Russian intelligence hacking of the U.S.-based Think Tanks, including the Open Society Foundations, the Carnegie Endowment, and others.”

The Response of U.S. Intelligence and the FBI – and AG Lynch’s “weird reaction”

(Read more: Techno Fog, 7/31/2025)  (Archive)

August 1, 2025 – FBI whistleblower reinstated after case exposed political bias and abuse in security clearances

The whistleblower who threw open the curtains on the FBI’s weaponization of the security clearance process against Trump supporters, COVID vaccine skeptics, and 2nd Amendment advocates has now had his security clearance reinstated.  The Justice Department has also agreed to cancel his indefinite suspension after more than three years, provide full backpay with benefits, and rehire him at the FBI.

More than a year ago, Empower Oversight unveiled shocking documents that showed the FBI forcing its client’s co-workers to answer improper political questions during a security clearance probe. Those documents led to a Justice Department Inspector General investigation, which is still ongoing.

In the FBI Security Division’s investigative file of Empower Oversight’s client, a preprinted interview outline listed the following questions:

  • “Vocalize support for President Trump?”
  • “Vocalize objection to Covid-19 vaccination?”
  • “Vocalize intent to attend 01/06/2021?”

The FBI interview outlines indicated that co-workers were also interrogated about their colleague’s other First Amendment expression outside of work, including attendance at a rally in support of the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

“The FBI security clearance process was completely secret, with generally no oversight from the inspector general or Congress. That’s an environment ripe for abuse and easily taken advantage of. Without these back-room documents, we never would have known about the abuse within the Security Division, and that political considerations were right there in black and white as real factors in the decision-making process,” Leavitt said. “We appreciate the Trump administration giving this patriotic FBI employee an opportunity to move forward with the Bureau and look forward to resolving matters for other whistleblowers who suffered from the same bias.”

“The information brought to light through this whistleblower’s case showed clear government wrongdoing, and not just for this person, but for tens of others who suffered from the political bias of the FBI under the previous administration. We hope this is the first of many resolutions for those who have suffered for years without pay or a security clearance, leaving their lives in limbo. My work to find a resolution for other whistleblowers who’ve been wronged will continue,” Senator Chuck Grassley said. Grassley was a champion for the FBI whistleblower within the Department of Justice as they worked to restore the whistleblower’s employment and clearance

During a June 2024 interview with Tucker Carlson, Empower Oversight president Tristan Leavitt outlined the case about how these documents were discovered.

When Empower Oversight revealed the documents in June 2024, Leavitt wrote a letter to then Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, outlining the findings and asking for an investigation.

Empower Oversight had also previously provided the inspector general with evidence that the FBI’s Deputy Director told a large group of FBI executives that anyone who disagreed with the FBI’s handling of January 6th cases did not belong in the FBI. These whistleblower documents suggested that at least some FBI personnel believed they had a license to purge employees with certain views and abused their power to conduct security clearance probes as a pretext to achieve that goal.

When Rep. Tom Tiffany asked then-Director Christopher Wray in a House Judiciary Committee hearing about the so-called “Trump questionnaire,” Wray responded that the questionnaire was used by an outside contractor for the FBI’s Security Division who was no longer with the FBI. Empower Oversight subsequently revealed that such questioning is conducted almost entirely by contractors in the Security Division, but their work is often reviewed by career FBI employees. Furthermore, the contractor in question had been scheduled to retire at the time the questions were used and was not disciplined in any way for the use of the questionnaire as Wray’s comment implied.

August 1, 2025 – The NYT and other MSM outlets, gaslight their readers about the Durham Annex declassified docs

That’s not what it shows at all. The New York Times is straight up lying.

1) The Durham annex never states at all that the specific intelligence was “fabricated.” It says the opposite, that his office was never able to “determine definitively whether the purported Clinton campaign plan [intelligence]…was entirely genuine, partially true, a composite pulled from multiple sources, exaggerated in certain respects, or fabricated in its entirety.”

2) At the time the intel which Ben Smith says was “fake” was received, John Brennan took it so seriously that he briefed Obama about it, took notes about it, and stashed the notes away in his safe.

3) James Comey specifically went under oath and cited the Clinton plan intelligence as one of the major reasons he chose to unilaterally usurp the authority of Loretta Lynch and to declare that the U.S. government would not charge Hillary Clinton for her use of an illegal private email server.

4) Comey told Congress that he believed the Clinton plan intelligence was “genuine.” “So far as I knew at the time, and still think,” Comey testified on December 7, 2018, “the material itself was genuine[.]”

5) FBI general counsel James Baker said he was “greatly concerned” about the intel and specifically Lynch’s reaction when confronted with it. Durham’s report said Baker “did not dismiss the credibility” of the intel reports. Andrew McCabe likewise said he was struck by Lynch’s “odd” reaction to the allegations.

6) Everyone on earth knows the Clinton campaign launched a scheme to falsely claim that Trump colluded with Russia. This new claim that somehow it was a fabrication that the Clinton campaign ran an op to falsely tie Trump to Russia is beyond insane. It’s sociopathic.

It’s sad that we have to constantly go through this exercise with media figures obsessed with false narratives.

Sean is correct, as he lays out the fact pattern about the attempted takedown of President Trump.
I STRONGLY caution you against accepting media driven narratives about the collusion hoax, given their roles in promoting the hoax in the first place, and the discovery of new information since the Director and I took over.

One of the most striking revelations in the newly released Durham Appendix is that the steady stream of intelligence flowing from Russian sources throughout 2016 abruptly ended in late July. This intelligence covered everything from Hillary Clinton’s efforts to cover up her email scandal to her campaign’s plan to smear Donald Trump with false Russia collusion allegations. The documents span from January through late July 2016, the moment when U.S. intelligence discovered that Russian operatives were aware of Clinton’s plan to vilify Trump.

Here is where the story takes a darker turn. That crucial late July intelligence was briefed to President Obama by then–CIA Director John Brennan on August 3. The very next day, Brennan placed a direct call to his Russian counterpart, Federal Security Service Director Aleksandr Bortnikov. Officially, Brennan warned Russia to cease election interference. Yet at that time, no confirmed interference had occurred. In fact, even months later, both the FBI and NSA expressed strong skepticism about the central claim that Russia had hacked and leaked Democratic National Committee emails.

So what did Brennan really communicate to Bortnikov? The sudden stop of the intelligence stream right after the Clinton plan was exposed strongly suggests Brennan signaled to the Russians—either directly or indirectly—that U.S. intelligence had uncovered their knowledge of Clinton’s scheme. The result was the immediate drying up of that valuable intelligence channel.

In other words, Brennan’s phone call appears to have sabotaged a critical intelligence pipeline to protect Hillary Clinton from further scrutiny, prioritizing dirty politics over national security

August 1, 2025 – DOJ official who approved $2 million payout to Strzok/Page has been identified as left-wing activist Brian Netter

The Department of Justice official who signed off on $2 million in taxpayer-funded payments to disgraced Russia collusion hoax participants left the Department of Justice to help lead the “legal resistance” to President Donald Trump and other duly-elected Republicans, new records reviewed exclusively by The Federalist reveal.

FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, sued the Department of Justice over the release of messages detailing their role in pushing the Clinton campaign’s Russia collusion hoax. They said the release of the messages that were written using government resources violated their privacy. The Biden administration rewarded the duo with lucrative payouts. Strozk received $1.2 million in taxpayer funds while Page received an $800,000 settlement.

“[W]e have identified Brian Netter, Deputy Assistant Attorney General as the individual that approved the settlement agreements,” a DOJ official told the Center to Advance Security in America, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2024, when the payouts were publicly announced. Netter was the deputy assistant attorney general for the Federal Programs Branch during the term of President Joe Biden.

Netter currently serves as the legal director at Democracy Forward, a Democrat Party-affiliated group launched in 2017 to fight President Trump with lawfare. The group brags that it took Trump to court more than 100 times in his first term in office. It has continued its use of the courts to win political battles into his second term in office. “Liberal Legal Group Positions Itself as a Top Trump Administration Foe,” touted The New York Times last November.

Marc Elias, the attorney known for his work damaging the integrity of both the 2016 and 2020 elections, chairs the board of Democracy Forward. Elias, as the Clinton campaign general counsel, signed the checks for her campaign’s Russia collusion hoax. To hide the Russia collusion hoax’s origins, the funding was fraudulently run through Elias’s law firm as “legal services.” Clinton was fined only $113,000 for the false claims she made to hide her role. Elias also ran Democrats’ legal effort to destabilize the 2020 elections with the sudden expansion of unsupervised mail-in balloting operations staffed by Democrat-run nonprofit groups. (Read more: The Federalist, 8/1/2025)  (Archive)

Karen Dunn is an American attorney and political operative. Dunn is a former partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. As an attorney, she has represented clients including Apple, Oracle, and Uber, and in 2021, she defended Apple in a lawsuit brought by Epic Games. Dunn is a specialist in debate preparation in Democratic politics, particularly for candidates for president and vice president. Dunn and Ron Klain co-led President Barack Obama’s presidential debate preparation team in 2012 and led the presidential debate preparation for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Wikipedia

The couple that litigates together: Brian Netter and Karen Dunn, May 2016. (Credit: Evy Mages)

August 1, 2025 – There are yearslong examples of Hillary Clinton colluding with the media to push Russia Russia Russia

2016

At the July 25 – 28, 2016 Democratic Convention, Clinton foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan drove a golf cart from one TV-network news tent in the parking lot to another, pitching producers, anchors, correspondents and even some NBC network executives a story that Trump and his advisers were in bed with Putin and possibly conspiring with Russian intelligence to steal the election. He also visited CNN and MSNBC, as well as Fox News, to spin the Clinton campaign’s unfounded theories. Sullivan even sat down with CNN honcho Jeff Zucker to outline the opposition research they had gathered on Trump and Russia.

…On Oct. 31, 2016 Jake Sullivan hyped the story on Twitter, claiming in a written campaign statement that Trump and the Russians were operating a “secret hotline” through Alfa Bank and speculating “federal authorities” would be investigating “this direct connection between Trump and Russia.” He portrayed the discovery as the work of independent experts — “computer scientists” — without disclosing their connections to the campaign.

“This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow,” Sullivan proclaimed.

Clinton teed up that statement in an Oct. 31 tweet of her own, which quickly went viral. She warned voters: “Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.”

Also that day, Clinton tweeted, “It’s time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia,” while attaching a meme that read: “Donald Trump has a secret server. It was set up to communicate privately with a Putin-tied Russian bank called Alfa Bank.”

At the same time that Simpson was working Slate, he leaked to a friend at the New York Times that the FBI had evidence of the Trump-Alfa link, providing the Times and other friendly media outlets a serious news hook to publish the unfounded rumors on the eve of the November election. (Real Clear Investigations, 1/27/2022) (Archive)

(…) In September 2016, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” which is co-hosted by Stephanopoulos, aired parts of the Millian report. Later that day, Hillary Clinton tweeted out a campaign video incorporating heavily edited quotes from Millian and suggesting they were more evidence Trump was “an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” Above the video she posted on Sept. 22, Clinton personally tweeted: “The man who could be your next president may be deeply indebted to another country. Do you trust him to run ours?”

In effect, Clinton broadcast to her millions of followers a story her campaign had helped manufacture through a paid contractor.

April 5, 2016

October 19, 2016

October 19, 2016

2017

November 4, 2017

Trump campaign officials may have been drawn into contact with Russia via the promise of a mythical stash of Hillary Clinton emails. Joy Reid and her panel discuss.

2018

September 10, 2018 – Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman released a new secret recording in which President Donald Trump can be heard discussing Hillary Clinton and the Russia investigation.

November 28, 2018 – The Bill and Hillary Clinton road show opened in Toronto last night, where they had some choice words for President Trump. NBC’s Kate Snow and Philippe Reines, former deputy assistant secretary of state under Hillary Clinton, join Craig Melvin to discuss.

 

July 22, 2018 – Hillary Clinton has criticised Donald Trump’s performance at the Helsinki summit. ‘The great mystery is why the president has not spoken up for our country,’ said the former US secretary of state, speaking at OzyFest in Central Park, New York. She also said she believes Russian agents are targeting the November midterm elections

2019

May 2, 2019 – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with Rachel Maddow about the successful Russian interference in the 2016 election and the dangers of Republicans putting partisanship ahead of national security just because their candidate was the beneficiary of that interference.

2020

August 21, 2020 – The Russians actively interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump, Sec. Hillary Rodham Clinton warns on the heels of the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Report release, and the Trump administration has done nothing to stop them from interfering in the next one.

 

July 20, 2020 – On President Trump’s reluctance to criticize Russia from the 2016 election to the bounty plot, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says, “I am glad that Vice President Biden, with all of his experience in foreign affairs … is trying to warn the American people that what happened in 2016 is sadly underway again.”

2021

November 4, 2021 – Jesse Watters discusses how the media latched on to the Russia collusion narrative on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’

2022

September 16, 2022 – Hillary appears on Morning Joe and shares her thoughts on the FBI investigation into Donald Trump.

@msnbc On #MorningJoe, Hillary Clinton shares her thoughts on the FBI investigation into #Trump ♬ original sound – MSNBC

April 3, 2022 – In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, former Secretary of State and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton talks about American support for Ukraine as they push back the Russian invasion.

2023

September 25, 2023

2024

September 16, 2024

September 19, 2024 – During her appearance on #MorningJoe, Hillary Clinton emphasized the dangers posed by Donald Trump and his enablers, warning that the country is facing a stark choice between “freedom and oppression”:

“This is a contest between freedom and oppression, democracy and autocracy, bringing people together and further dividing us. And that’s what has to be communicated every single day between now and the election.”

@msnbc During her appearance on #MorningJoe, Hillary Clinton emphasized the dangers posed by Donald Trump and his enablers, warning that the country is facing a stark choice between “freedom and oppression”: “This is a contest between freedom and oppression, democracy and autocracy, bringing people together and further dividing us. And that’s what has to be communicated every single day between now and the election.” #hillaryclinton #trump #donaldtrump #kamalaharris #harris #freedom #news #politics #election #election2024 #democracy #republican #democrat ♬ original sound – MSNBC

September 18, 2024 – Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss how Hilary Clinton wants to threaten Americans’ free speech rights.

2025 – The tables turn

July 31, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard TORCHES Hillary’s ‘TREASONOUS’ Actions to RIG Election as She Drops ‘Smoking Gun.

July 24, 2025 – The Department of Justice is now going through the massive number of files in their investigation of what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said was a treasonous conspiracy by the Obama administration to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency and the 2016 election.

July 31, 2025 – THE DURHAM FILES UNSEALED: Clinton Exposed, Burn Bags, and a Deep State Meltdown*

President Trump’s administration has **officially declassified the hidden segments of the Durham Report**, and it’s even more explosive than anyone expected. For years, Americans demanded to know the full truth—and now, the curtain has been pulled back. Turns out, **the most damning evidence was classified on purpose**.

And it gets even wilder: *thousands of FBI documents set to be destroyed* were intercepted just in time. These “burn bags” were packed with **Hillary Clinton-related evidence**—including emails, handwritten notes, and intel summaries that point to her as the **orchestrator of the Trump-Russia hoax**. We’ve always known it smelled rotten. Now the **paper trail is alive and breathing**.

According to *John Solomon* of Just the News*, one key email from **Leonard Bernardo**, now revealed to be closely connected to George Soros, is sending shockwaves through D.C. Bernardo, who holds a top position at the Open Society Foundations, appears to be **deeply entangled in the planning and cover-up* of the false Russia collusion narrative. Two of his emails—once buried—now link directly to strategic misinformation campaigns.

*Glenn Beck* broke even more news, hosting *DNI Tulsi Gabbard**, who confirmed that **former Obama-era officials involved in the Russia hoax are still embedded in the federal government today**. Some of those recently named have **locked down their X (formerly Twitter) accounts* or made them private, attempting to vanish just as sunlight begins to expose everything.

**Karoline Leavitt**, press secretary for Trump 2024, issued a powerful statement on behalf of the campaign, saying the revelations prove the **FBI and DOJ were turned into political weapons under Biden and Obama**—but that justice is finally catching up.

The Clinton machine knew exactly what it was doing. Carefully worded media appearances. Doctored talking points. And a cooperative press that ran with it—all while Americans were told they were “conspiracy theorists” for asking questions. But now, *video clips of Hillary Clinton doubling down on the Russia lie* are resurfacing—and they did not age well.

Whistleblowers are finally speaking out, saying they were *threatened into silence**. One said: “We didn’t know who we could trust—it felt like everyone at the top was part of it.” Investigative analyst **Mike Benz* confirmed that *former agents from the CIA, NSA, and FBI* coordinated the entire operation like a shadow government.

It’s not just Hillary. *Adam Schiff**, **Jake Sullivan**, and even **Susan Rice* are back under the microscope. And while *Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez* try to dismiss the revelations as “old news,” this is the first time we’re seeing *physical documents**, **verified communications**, and **internal memos* directly implicating key players.

The swamp is deeper than we thought—but the declassification of these documents may finally be the match that lights the fire. *Hillary Clinton is no longer safe behind the curtain.* As Trump said: “In the end, truth always wins.”

 

July 31, 2025 – Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble’s “System Update,” and independent journalist Aaron Mate to discuss the emails revealed in the newly declassified Durham report annex that appear to lay out the Clinton campaign’s plot to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent, the involvement of the Obama administration, and more.

 

July 31, 2025 – The truth is finally coming out. Chuck Grassley just dropped declassified documents that were hidden in burn bags at FBI headquarters—documents exposing how Hillary Clinton’s campaign allegedly orchestrated the Trump-Russia hoax. This isn’t just about dirty politics—this was a coordinated takedown, and it’s time people go to jail for it.

August 1, 2025 – Google received a subpoena from FBI for copies of all Dan Scavino’s Google documents and via court order, kept Scavino in the dark

Imagine patriotically and proudly serving in the first Trump White House for four years, and departing in January of 2021 . . . Then, during the four years you’re out, BIDEN LAWFARE kicks in, and you receive the below email five weeks before re-entering the White House again in January 2025…

“Google received and responded to a legal process issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation compelling the release of information related to your Google account. A court order previously prohibited Google from notifying you of the legal process…”

I’ve never shared this—but this is a small taste of the INSANITY that many of us went through—right here in the United States of America. LAWFARE at its finest. A Complete and Total Disgrace!!!!!

Imagine working in the White House—
then getting secretly investigated by Google, gagged by the FBI, and legally muzzled without a whisper of due process.

Welcome to Biden’s America.

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It’s not just censorship.
It’s surveillance with a smile.
It’s digital espionage wrapped in court orders.
And it’s all hidden until the next election cycle.

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The regime doesn’t need to arrest you.
They let Google do the dirty work.
They let secrecy do the silencing.

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This isn’t lawfare.
It’s techfare.
A quiet war fought with servers and subpoenas.

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If they can do this to a White House official…
what do you think they’re already doing to you?

August 2, 2025 – The U.S. Office of Special Counsel opens an investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has opened an investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith, who may have unlawfully targeted President Donald Trump.

The OSC has Smith under a microscope regarding the possibility that he violated the Hatch Act, which says government workers are not allowed to take part in certain political activities, Fox News reported on Saturday, noting it received confirmation of the probe from the office and that Smith is not being criminally investigated.

The OSC is a government watchdog that operates independently as a federal investigative and prosecutorial office. In July, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked its members to investigate whether Smith, who was the special counsel for former Attorney General Merrick Garland, engaged in unlawful political activity to influence the 20204 presidential election and targeted Trump in doing so.

“President Trump of course vanquished Joe Biden, Jack Smith, every Democrat who weaponized the law against him, but President Trump’s astounding victory doesn’t excuse Smith of responsibility for his unlawful election interference. I therefore ask the Office of Special Counsel to investigate whether Jack Smith or any members of his team unlawfully acted for political purposes,” the senator wrote in is request.

It’s going to be difficult for the media and Democrats to dismiss the U.S. Office of Special Counsel investigating former Special Counsel Jack Smith on allegations that he improperly used his prosecutorial powers to stop President Trump in 2024.

Smith was widely disparaged for trying to rush his Trump cases on classified documents and January 6 trial scheduling to occur before the 2024 election, violating the standard DOJ 60 day rule that prohibits DOJ action before a vote for the purpose of influencing elections.

He disobeyed a court-issued stay of proceedings, submitting discovery and filings after the order anyway on his January 6 case, which Rep Elise Stefanik described as “a lawless breach of trial ethics.”

He’s accused of timing trial proceedings to coincide with election milestones—such as the Iowa caucuses.

He filed a super-lengthy brief (165 pages) in the January 5 case just one month before the 2024 election that included secret grand jury testimony and was widely covered in the media, thereby disadvantaging Trump. His disclosure of sealed grand jury materials was widely seen as an attack on Trump.

Critics said it resembled a campaign opposition research dump, timed one month before the election.

Smith also chose favorable legal venues (e.g., Washington, D.C.) and judges (Tanya Chutkan) perceived as unfriendly to Trump. D.C. jury pools were viewed by critics as politically hostile to Trump.

Also he previously prosecuted Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) for corruption, a case the Supreme Court unanimously overturned in 2016.

This case has been used by Trump and allies to argue Smith has a pattern of overreaching with high-profile Republicans. (Read more: Breitbart, 8/3/2025)  (Archive)

August 2, 2025 – Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith is under federal investigation

Days after Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas called for an investigation of former special counsel Jack Smith, it has begun.

On Saturday, the Office of Special Counsel confirmed it was looking into a potential violation of the Hatch Act, which bans politics on the job for federal workers, according to The New York Times.

The New York Post said it has seen an email from Senior Counsel Charles Baldis at the Office of Special Counsel saying it was reviewing the possibility of Hatch Act violations by Smith.

(Read more: Western Journal, 8/3/2025)  (Archive)

Sorry I am not impressed with an internal DOJ inquiry into whether Jack Smith violated the Hatch Act to interfere in the 2024 election.

I covered those thugs and both cases against the president more than anyone on this side—and I want handcuffs.

Not for election interference but criminal charges for systematically abusing their power to deny the president and his associates their constitutional rights.

Evidence was mishandled and destroyed in documents case. They threatened attorneys and witnesses. They completely made up the obstruction charges, finally admitting they didn’t know if the boxes that had been moved contained the bullsh*t “classified” papers Trump allegedly had. And God only knows what they pulled in closed door hearings.

Smith criminalized routine communication between executive branch officials in Jan 6 case until the Supreme Court stopped him. Two of the four counts in the indictment related to 1512c2 which SCOTUS also overturned.

He successfully imposed a gag order on the president and others involved in the case. And his top prosecutor, Tom Windom, had his dirty fingerprints on the case from the start leading all the way back to Biden DOJ and White House.

A grand jury not Office of Special Counsel probe. FBI raids not gentlemanly exchanges over process and privilege.

When they suffer what people like Jeff did—then we’re getting somewhere. Until then, it’s all a paper exercise.

August 3, 2025 – FDA Commissioner Dr. Makary says NIH ‘brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people worldwide’

Newly appointed FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary pulled no punches as he directly accused the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of funding the lab responsible for creating the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic and claimed the lives of over 20 million people globally.

Speaking to NewsNation’s Connell McShane, Dr. Makary blasted the former NIH leadership for pouring taxpayer dollars into unaccountable pet projects, including the now-infamous lab that engineered the virus that triggered a global pandemic.

Dr. Makary:
The way it used to be. We’re planning to change our health agencies for a generation or longer. Look at the NIH. When J. Bhattacharya came in there, it was a mess. Fourteen percent of the grants were descriptive studies on health equity.

And the NIH had just funded a lab that brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people worldwide. So they’re getting back to studying root causes, a cure for cancer, debilitating neurodegenerative diseases, and they’re going to do good work.

Connell McShane:
Right, but you have to do it with fewer people. Is that a challenge with the cuts, or is that not really what it’s made out to be either?

Dr. Makary:
The FDA is strong, and it’s going to continue to be strong. The cuts were consolidations. There were no layoffs to scientific reviewers or inspectors at the FDA.

There was consolidation of the twelve travel offices at the FDA. And so we’re going to institute teamwork and break up the fiefdom culture within the agency. It’s an interesting conversation.

Earlier this year, Trump’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) issued a new analysis on the origins of the COVID-19 virus, which favors the theory that COVID escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 8/3/2025) (Archive)

August 3, 2025 – Schumer extorts Trump for Dem support to pass appointments; Trump responds “go to hell’; RINOS then block Trump appointments

 

August 5, 2025 – Democrat Senator Adam Schiff is under federal investigation for mortgage fraud

Democrat Senator Adam Schiff (CA) is under investigation for mortgage fraud, Fox News reported.

Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Tuesday evening exclusively reported that the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland is investigating Schiff for possible charges involving mortgage fraud.

(…) Last month in an episode of The Ingraham Angle, Laura revealed that she had exclusively obtained a criminal referral for Adam Schiff — and the allegations are explosive.

The criminal referral, submitted to the DOJ by Housing Director Bill Pulte, accused Schiff of falsifying bank documents and property records over a period of 16 years in order to score more favorable mortgage terms and rates.

The fraudulent activity allegedly spanned from 2003 to 2019, and centers on a lavish Potomac, Maryland home — while Schiff simultaneously maintained a condo in Burbank, California.

“The referral, submitted to the DOJ by Housing Director Bill Pulte, alleges that Schiff has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms—impacting payments from 2003 to 2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property. Schiff owns a home in California and another in Maryland,” said Ingraham.

Adam Schiff lashed out at Trump last month in a video posted to X.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 68/25/2025)  (Archive)

August 5, 2024 – HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. cancels funding for mRNA vaccine development contracts

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 7, 2025

August 5, 2025 – DNI Tulsi Gabbard breaks down Russiagate with details and explanations of the silo systems

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appears for an extensive podcast interview with Miranda Devine.

It may create ‘splodey heads in Washington DC, but DNI Gabbard is now positioned as the tip of the spear to penetrate the fraud, lies, schemes and manipulations of the Intelligence Branch of government. Tulsi Gabbard is the leading voice for honesty and sunlight against the entire DC apparatus that participated in the Russiagate construct.

Gabbard now understands how the DC silo system was weaponized during the manufacturing of information against a political candidate, Donald Trump. Gabbard is speaking truth toward a corrupt system, and she will be the target of all fury that’s dependent on the retention of the corruption.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sits down with Miranda Devine to discuss, in her own words, Obama’s Russiagate plot to sabotage Trump, Hillary Clinton’s vendetta against her, and the evidence that could topple Brennan, Clapper, and Comey. WATCH:

(Conservative Treehouse, 8/6/2025) (Archive)

August 5, 2025 – House Oversight Committee is compelling Bill & Hillary Clinton, Comey, Barr, Mueller and others to appear for depositions

The House Oversight Committee is compelling the following individuals to appear for depositions through issued subpoenas:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: October 9

Former President Bill Clinton: October 14

Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland: October 2

Former FBI Director James Comey: October 7

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr: August 18

Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: August 26

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: August 28

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller: September 2

Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch: September 9

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder: September 30

August 5, 2025 – JPMorgan and Bank of America ‘debanked’ Trump under pressure from Biden admin over January 6th

JPMorgan and Bank of America “debanked” President Trump for his role in the January 6 Capitol Hill melee following pressure from the Biden administration’s banking regulators and the Federal Reserve, people with direct knowledge of the matter tell The Post.

The exact reason for Trump and his tens of millions of dollars in holdings being kicked off the JPMorgan banking platform, and then denied access to Bank of America’s services has yet to be reported.

But sources at the banks — the No. 1 and No. 2 largest in the US in terms of assets — confirmed the cause stemmed from the controversy surrounding Trump’s actions that day, and threats from Biden’s bank regulators that banking the former president’s money put them at in danger of falling afoul of rule that prohibit financial institution from doing business with individuals and companies that present a “reputational risk.”

People at the banks tell The Post that Biden’s banking cops at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve often used the nebulous nature of the edict to go beyond debanking money launderers and drug kingpins.

They were pressured to include people who have heterodox political and business ties that often included conservatives and anyone who participated in the January 6 protests. (Read more: New York Post, 8/5/2025)  (Archive)

August 5, 2025 – Beto O’Rourke PAC bails out Texas state lawmakers fleeing a new congressional map vote, and provides private jet, lodging, and logistical support

Beto O’Rourke campaigns on top of a table where people eat, March 2019. (Credit: Chip Somodevilla//Getty Images)

State lawmakers in Texas make just $7,200 a year. A group of Democratic legislators spent roughly four times that amount to take a private jet to Illinois in an attempt to block their Republican counterparts from passing a new congressional map. But they didn’t have to worry about the price tag—because Beto O’Rourke’s PAC picked it up.

That’s according to a report in the Texas Tribune, which cited two people involved in the effort to raise funds for Texas Democrats’ walkout. O’Rourke’s PAC, Powered by People, is “armed with a $3.5 million war chest” and has covered most of the costs associated with the walkout so far, including “air transport, lodging, and logistical support,” the outlet reported. Every dollar the group receives going forward will go toward supporting the walkout.

O’Rourke’s emergence as the walkout’s financier could land him in legal trouble. Lawmakers who flee Texas to prevent the state legislature from having enough members to pass laws are subject to $500-a-day fines under Texas house rules, which also prevent walkout participants from soliciting political contributions to pay those fines. Republican governor Greg Abbott has said that “any other person who ‘offers, confers, or agrees to confer'” such contributions to the “fleeing Democrat House members” may be in violation of state bribery laws.

That’s unlikely to faze O’Rourke, who has long spent sizable sums of money on questionable political endeavors.

O’Rourke ran three high-profile campaigns for Senate, president, and governor between 2018 and 2022. He spent nearly $200 million on the three races—including $19 million on his presidential campaign, which lasted just seven months—but lost all of them.

O’Rourke’s PAC also funneled $600,000 to a group of Texas Democrats who spearheaded a similar walkout in 2021 over a Republican-led voting bill. After spending nearly five weeks in Washington, D.C., several walkout participants returned home, giving Republicans the attendance they needed to pass the bill.

This time around, more than 50 Texas Democrats fled the state on Sunday to deny Republicans the quorum needed to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries, an objective they plan to complete during a 30-day special session that began two weeks ago. The Democrats traveled in style—photos showed them boarding a 76-seat CommuteAir jet chartered through Signature Aviation, a company that dubs itself “the world’s largest network of private aviation terminals” and maintains its own “state-of-the-art” private terminal at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. (Read more: Washington Free Beacon, 8/5/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE 8/6/2025

Texas AG Ken Paxton Launches Criminal Investigation Into Beto O’Rourke’s PAC For Unlawfully Funding Runaway Democrats

 

August 6, 2025 – OMG: State Department Foreign Service Officer dated senior CCP leader’s daughter, refuses to report her

“I Defied My Government for Love”: US State Department Foreign Service Officer Dated Senior CCP Leader’s Daughter, Admits “She Could Have Been A Spy,” Refused to Report Her

“Her dad was either a provincial or a federal minister of education. So he’s, like, straight up Communist Party.”

“I was supposed to, whatever, sort of report what I knew about her, but I always thought that was kind of unfair.”

I defied my government for love,” confessed Daniel Choi, a U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer, to a hidden camera, on a date with an undercover OMG Journalist. Choi admitted to knowingly violating diplomatic security protocols by failing to report a romantic relationship with the daughter of a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official.

Choi confirmed he chose not to file a required disclosure after beginning a relationship with Joi Zao, a 27-year-old Chinese national who entered the United States on a work visa in late September. Under federal regulations, Foreign Service Officers are required to report close and continuing contact with foreign nationals from adversarial nations, including China. Choi acknowledged this requirement but stated he believed it was unfair. “I was supposed to, whatever, sort of report what I knew about her,” he said, adding, “But I always thought that was kind of unfair.”

Choi also disclosed that Zao’s father was a high-ranking official in the CCP. “Her dad was either a provincial or a federal minister of education,” he said. “So he’s, like, straight-up Communist Party.” When asked whether Zao could have been engaged in espionage, Choi confirmed: “She could have been a spy.”

Choi admitted he deliberately withheld the relationship from his superiors “out of respect” for Zao. Choi added that he would have considered reporting the relationship only if it became serious or led to marriage, acknowledging, “If I were dating somebody and we were going to get married… then maybe I would do the report.”

August 6, 2025 – Top Obama lawyer Norm Eisen admits plotting color revolution against Trump

For years, I’ve told you about Barack Obama’s legal hatchet man and color revolution extraordinaire Norm Eisen. Look here and here.

The theory of the case is simple: the intelligence community and deep state tactics used for regime change abroad were turned inwards and weaponized against President Trump. Think impeachments, paid protests, propaganda, surveillance, and bogus indictments.

And he just admitted to this.

UPDATE 8/8/25:

August 7, 2025 – Whistleblower asks why Senate Republicans are thinking of promoting prosecutor who tried to destroy his life

(Credit: Revolver News)

A whistleblower doctor and his wife took to X recently to slam a man who is angling to become President Trump’s chief prosecutor in the Southern District of Texas. Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon who blew the whistle on illegal child sex change surgeries at Texas Children’s Hospital, and his wife, Andrea, contend that Pearson did nothing to oppose or block their persecution at the hands of the Biden-appointed US Attorney and AUSA Tina Ansari, who later had to recuse herself from the case due to her family’s close ties to the hospital.

John Park Pearson is still employed at the DOJ. (Credit: Dept. of Justice)

Pearson, a career prosecutor at the Southern District of Texas, has worked at the Department of Justice since 2004 and currently serves as the chief of the Criminal Division at the office, according to the Justice Department.

Dr. Etham Haim (Credit: NBC News)

Dr. Eithan Haim is a young Texas surgeon and father who noticed that Texas Children’s Hospital was still performing “gender-affirming care” after the state of Texas made it illegal. For that, the Biden administration came down on him like a ton of bricks, charging him with HIPAA violations despite the fact that he never shared any patient’s identifying information.

After President Trump was inaugurated, and thanks to the help of Senator Josh Hawley, the White House and the DOJ intervened to drop the charges against Dr. Haim right before he was set to go to trial. According to Dr. Haim, Pearson is now angling to be nominated as President Trump’s US Attorney for the Southern District of Texas (SDTX) and is gloating to the committee that selects US Attorney nominations that he helped end Haim’s prosecution. Dismayed by what he is alleging to be a man trying to profit off a false narrative, Dr. Haim took to X to again blow the whistle.

Also, according to Dr. Haim, Pearson did nothing to stop the case against Pearson, and as the Executive Assistant US Attorney (EUSA) under Biden’s Senate-confirmed US Attorney, he almost certainly would have had to sign off on the prosecution for it to go forward. Notably, Pearson didn’t blow the whistle on the Haim case inside the DOJ or Congress, he didn’t resign in protest, and he didn’t go to the media.

It gets worse: under Pearson’s leadership as EUSA, the SDTX tried to gag Dr. Haim when he took to X and the media to spread the word about his persecution under Biden.

Dr. Haim explains in full:

A top Fed lawyer who oversaw my prosecution snaked his way to become the top pick for US Attorney in SDTX.

John Pearson presents as a “Republican” but under Biden, he transitioned to Leticia James.

His nomination to Cruz and Cornyn is imminent unless we do something about it.

I’ve spoken with people on the nomination committee as well as SDTX prosecutors who personally witnessed Pearsons’s transition to radical left-wing sock puppet under Biden.

Now that he wants an appointment from President Trump, he pretends to be a staunch, conservative.

Pearson gloated to nomination committee that he signed my dismissal.

They were told Pearson had “nothing to do with” my case.

Impossible. He was involved, likely every step of the way. And he did nothing to stop it.

I outlined this in a letter I sent to Cruz/Cornyn’s staff.

Pearson is a long-time DOJ prosecutor. He got a major promotion by the Biden US Atty in Houston to become Executive AUSA (EUSA).

This alone is a red flag because the only “Republican” prosecutors promoted by radical Dems are apex stooges.

Among other things, the EUSA maintains legal/ethical standards for prosecutors and oversees high-profile, controversial prosecutions (like mine).

For DOJ to be weaponized, the EUSA position must be stooge-occupied.

Tina Ansari (Credit: Getty Images)

Lead prosecutor, Tina Ansari, started investigating me in June 2023. Protocol is the EUSA signs off on investigations into doctors.

While Ansari voraciously indulged in prosecutorial corruption, Pearson did nothing.

From the start this was 1) a high-profile case 2) fraught with ethical violations (as outlined in my lawyers’ letter to Congress).

Pearson assiduously avoided the two things his position was meant to oversee. He operated in full stooge-mode while Ansari brought third-world corruption to Texas.

Ansari and her DEI dream team doubled down with each failure, but there was a palpable shift in the attitude of the “Republicans” in SDTX leadership.

Guess when? November 6th, 2024. Trump’s election.

Suddenly Pearson and the other “Republicans” started talking to my lawyers.

Over and over, they said it was Ansari and the Dems running the show!

Even as the prosecution spiraled out of control, they continued to do nothing.

Pearson even sat 20 ft away as Judge Hittner issued his infamous de facto gag order.

Probably because he signed off on it.

DOJ wanted me gagged because of “online bullying.”

SDTX “Republicans” wanted me gagged because their complicity would hinder their political aspirations.

Judge was too much of a coward to sign the order.

Instead, he threatened to send me to jail if I continued to speak out.

After the Judge took away my ability to criticize the government or speak out in my own defense, I saw Pearson in the hallway by the elevators.

He and his buddies were laughing and smirking. That’s when the thought first entered my mind – were these guys playing both sides?

In the weeks leading up to inauguration, the chatter from the SDTX “Republicans” was getting louder.

Seemed like they wanted it resolved. I thought a dismissal might finally be happening.

Then, I got an email on January 3rd. I thought, could this be it?!

Nope.

It was dirty, rotten plea deal!! I didn’t even look at it before telling my lawyers to burn it.

An answer to that question outside those elevators started to materialize – Maybe I am getting played.

Leading up to the Trumps inauguration, outgoing Biden US Atty, Hamdani, makes Pearson Criminal Chief – big lateral move.

He goes from SDTX top advisor to operational manager of all prosecutors.

Including Tina Ansari.

Likely why she hasn’t been fired yet.

In another thread I will detail how Pearson came to sign my dismissal.

If he had his way, I would have been forced to sign an agreement (see image) that barred me (and my family!) from criticizing TCH, Baylor, the FBI agents, and the DOJ attorneys (i.e. Pearson)!

It was the perfect deal for someone trying to look really good by signing my dismissal while also shutting me up forever to ensure I can never expose what really happened.

Good try buddy.

The only way for us to do anything is to make our voices known. All you have to do is spend five minutes and send an email to Cruz/Cornyn’s staff.

Cornyn Staff: Adam_mcneal@judiciary-rep.senate.gov
Cruz Staff: Mike_Berry@judiciary-rep.senate.gov

But wait! There’s more. When the pressure from President Trump and the DOJ on the SDTX to drop the case against Dr. Haim became too much to bear, the office tried to force Dr. Haim into signing an onerous dismissal agreement. Revolver News has obtained an exclusive copy of the proposed agreement.

Under the terms of the agreement, Dr. Haim would have had to shut up about the abuse that was heaped on him by Biden’s DOJ for a period of one year. (Read more: Revolver News, 8/7/2025)  (Archive)

(Timeline editor’s note: This story came to our attention several months after it was published and it appears John Pearson did not get the nomination by President Trump to be the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, due to vocal opposition. Most are sad to see he is still a top official in that office.)

August 7, 2025 – Counting Illegals, Gaining Power: Democrats Rigged the 2020 Census

President Trump’s call for a mid-decade census has been met with the predictable clamor of objections, legalistic squabbles, and cries of partisanship. But strip away the politics, and one finds a more elemental issue: representation rooted in reality versus power propped up by error.

In 2020, the US Census Bureau, to its credit, admitted what is perhaps the most consequential mistake in its modern history. Through its own Post-Enumeration Survey, it revealed that it had severely undercounted Republican-leaning states like Texas, Florida, and Tennessee, while substantially overcounting Democrat strongholds such as Minnesota, Rhode Island, and New York.

The resulting distortion stripped states like Texas and Florida of seats they rightly earned and awarded phantom representation to states like Minnesota and Rhode Island. This was not a statistical quibble but a systemic fracture in our representative republic.

When population counts determine congressional seats and electoral votes, such errors do not merely skew data. They rig elections.

To appreciate the stakes, let us be blunt. The Census Bureau’s own post-count audit estimated that Texas was undercounted by over half a million people, Florida by over 760,000, and Tennessee by nearly 300,000. These errors alone deprived each of these states of not one, but two congressional seats apiece, had accurate counts prevailed. Meanwhile, Rhode Island, which was projected to lose a seat, managed to cling to both of its House seats by a margin of 19,000, only to have the post-enumeration survey later reveal it had been overcounted by 55,000. Minnesota, famously, retained its 8th congressional seat by just 89 counted individuals. It was later shown to have been overcounted by over 200,000. Had the Census Bureau counted with precision, Rhode Island and Minnesota would each have lost a seat. Colorado, too, gained a new seat, but only because the undercounts in Republican states freed up enough seats to permit it. In total, as analysts from the Heritage Foundation and House Oversight Committees have concluded, up to seven congressional seats were misallocated, distorting both the House and the Electoral College.

What makes this not just a mistake but a scandal is the funding, coordination, and deliberate politicization that preceded it. California taxpayers alone spent over $187 million on census outreach efforts, much of it targeted at ensuring that illegal aliens were counted. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan added millions more. Reed Hastings, too, poured money into nonprofits that work both to support migrants entering the country unlawfully and then to ensure those same migrants were counted in the census. This was not a disinterested exercise in civic engagement. It was a partisan play for power: flood blue states with migrants, count them whether or not they have a legal right to be here, and thereby inflate the representation of states with pro-migrant policies. Even if one avoids impugning motives, the incentive structure is perverse. NGOs that facilitate illegal entry into the country have every reason to pad census numbers, since more people on paper means more money and more political clout. That is not democracy. It is demographic manipulation.

Some will insist that the Constitution requires counting everyone, regardless of status. But this interpretation is neither necessary nor historically grounded. The constitutional language calls for an “actual Enumeration” of persons, not of citizens nor exclusively of legal residents. But context matters. The Framers were silent on illegal immigration because it did not exist as a legal category in 1787. Yet they made clear that representation was to be based on those who comprised the polity, not transient populations or foreign nationals residing unlawfully within the republic. James Madison, writing in Federalist No. 54, explicitly ties representation to those who are part of the body politic. A foreign national who arrives unlawfully and resides temporarily, outside the protection of the law, was not envisioned as a constituent unit of representation. To argue otherwise is to indulge anachronism.

But even if one grants the current interpretation, it does not follow that the government must count illegal aliens for purposes of apportionment. President Trump, in his first term, sought to exclude illegal aliens from the census-derived apportionment count. The move was blocked not on constitutional grounds but on technical ones, the administration had not completed the work in time. As Justice Alito noted in his dissent in Trump v. New York, the Constitution does not preclude excluding those who are here unlawfully from the basis of representation. It merely requires that Congress and the Executive act with clarity and statutory authority. President Trump, now re-elected, seeks to do just that.

A mid-decade census is both statutorily permitted and constitutionally sound. Critics claim that apportionment must occur only once every ten years. That is incorrect. Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution mandates that an enumeration occur at least every ten years. It does not forbid additional counts. The Census Act allows for a mid-decade census, and although it currently prohibits that count from being used for apportionment, this is a matter of statute, not constitutional command. Congress can and should change the law. If errors as massive and consequential as those in 2020 occurred in any other area of governance, say, counting ballots or recording GDP growth, they would be grounds for audit, correction, and likely removal of those responsible. Yet in the most fundamental count the federal government performs, the literal counting of who lives here and who is represented, we are told we must accept known errors for a decade.

Why? Because that is how it has always been done? That is not an argument, it is an abdication. If the founding principle of republican government is that representation follows population, then we are bound to ensure that population counts are accurate. When they are not, and when we know they are not, we have both a legal and moral obligation to correct them. President Trump’s mid-decade census is the first step in that correction.

Moreover, the exclusion of illegal aliens from the new count is not a distortion but a restoration. For decades, Democrats have blurred the lines between citizens and non-citizens, lawful residents and unlawful entrants, in pursuit of what they themselves called a “demographic advantage.” As early as 2001, political strategist Ruy Teixeira argued that immigration would yield a permanent Democratic majority. The census, under this view, becomes not a tool of representation but an instrument of demographic engineering. To reverse this trend is not radical. It is prudent.

Consider the incentives. If states know they can increase their House seats by increasing their population through illegal immigration, they have every incentive to adopt sanctuary policies, resist deportation efforts, and fund NGO programs that attract and count unlawful residents. This is precisely what happened in California, where nonprofits received government funds to ensure the enumeration of undocumented migrants. The same organizations that aid illegal border crossings were paid to boost census participation. This is, by any reasonable measure, a conflict of interest.

A new census that excludes illegal aliens removes that perverse incentive. It restores the proper relation between the governed and their representatives. It ensures that House seats are allocated based on lawful populations, not inflated tallies driven by political gamesmanship. It is both lawful and right.

Opponents will say a mid-decade census undermines stability. But stability based on falsehood is not stability at all. It is stagnation. The republic does not benefit from knowingly maintaining an incorrect apportionment. The fact that the law currently prohibits mid-decade apportionment adjustments is not a defense of that law but an indictment of it. Congress should change the statute, authorize the new census for apportionment purposes, and ensure that only legal residents are counted for representation. This requires no constitutional amendment. The Constitution permits it. Only inertia and politics prevent it.

Representation is not a game of margins. It is the beating heart of our democracy. When states like Texas and Florida, home to tens of millions of citizens, are denied proper representation, the injury is not just to those states but to the Union. When states like Minnesota and Rhode Island are awarded seats they do not deserve, the distortion multiplies through every vote cast in the House and every electoral vote assigned to a candidate. President Trump’s call for a new, accurate, and lawful census is not merely defensible. It is necessary.

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August 7, 2025 – FBI fires former acting Director Brian Driscoll, Steve Jensen and Walter Giardina who were involved in Jan 6 cases, Trump investigations

Brian Driscoll (Credit: public domain)

The FBI fired former Acting Director Brian Driscoll and other senior officials involved in January 6 cases and Trump witch hunts.

CNN reported on Thursday that former Acting Director Brian Driscoll, Acting Director in charge of the Washington Field Office Steve Jensen, and special agent Walter Giardina have all been fired.

Walter Giardia hunted down Trump Advisor Peter Navarro.

More FBI firings to come.

CNN reported:

Walter Giardina (Credit: public domain)

Steven Jensen (Credit: public domain)

Two senior FBI officials, including one who initially resisted the Trump administration’s effort to gather the names of agents who worked on cases related to the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, are being fired, multiple sources tell CNN.

Brian Driscoll, who was acting FBI director in the weeks before now-Director Kash Patel was confirmed, is being dismissed, sources said. Steve Jensen, the acting director in charge of the Washington Field Office, is also being fired, according to two separate sources.

The administration has also fired other agents in the bureau this week who were perceived to be opposed to Trump in the past, according to three sources familiar with the agency’s actions.

Earlier this year it was reported Driscoll refused to hand over the names of the officials involved in January 6 cases and Trump investigations.

According to NBC News, there were more than 2,400 cases in total – and approximately 5,000 FBI employees involved. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 8/7/2025)  (Archive)

August 8, 2025 – NY AG Letitia James is subpoenaed by Justice Department over $454M civil fraud case against Trump

Letitia James attends Trump trial, May 2024. (Credit: public domain)

New York Attorney General Letitia James was hit with subpoenas as part of a grand jury probe by the Albany US Attorney’s Office into her office’s $454 million civil fraud case against President Trump, a source familiar with the investigation told The Post.

John Sarcone (Credit: public domain)

Northern District of New York acting US Attorney John Sarcone convened the grand jury after coordinating with the FBI to launch an investigation into James in May.

One of the subpoenas related to the civil fraud judgment won by the Empire State Attorney General’s Office against Trump, which is still under review by the First Department Appellate Division.

A second subpoena reportedly dealt with the AG’s own probe into the NRA, the New York Times first reported. Other records were also requested.

“Any weaponization of the justice system should disturb every American,” a spokesperson for the NY AG said in a statement. “We stand strongly behind our successful litigation against the Trump Organization and the National Rifle Association, and we will continue to stand up for New Yorkers’ rights.”

(…) “If average New Yorkers went into a bank and submitted false documents, the government would throw the book at them, and the same should be true for former presidents,” the attorney general had said.

The well-placed source did not indicate whether the current US Department of Justice probe included recent claims of mortgage fraud by the AG on properties in Brooklyn and Virginia, which James denied as “baseless.” (Read more: New York Post, 8/8/2025)  (Archive)

August 8, 2025 – FBI Boston: Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins is indicted for alleged extortion

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins (Credit: public domain)

Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins, who serves as the Sheriff for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, has been charged with extortion involving the purchase of an equity interest in a Boston-based cannabis company.

Tompkins, 67, of Boston, Mass, was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of Extortion Under Color of Official Right. He was taken into custody this morning in the Southern District of Florida and will have an initial appearance at 11:00 a.m. He will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date.

“Mr. Tompkins is a sitting Sheriff, responsible for over 1,000 employees, who was elected by the good people of Suffolk County. Today, he is alleged to have extorted an executive from a cannabis company, using his official position as Sheriff to benefit himself. Elected officials, particularly those in law enforcement, are expected to be ethical, honest and law abiding – not self-serving. His alleged actions are an affront to the voters and taxpayers who elected him to his position, and the many dedicated and honest public servants at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department. The people of Suffolk County deserve better,” said United States Attorney Leah B. Foley. “Public corruption remains a top priority for my administration and we will continue to investigate and prosecute anyone who uses their position of trust and power for their own gain.”

“From his very first day as Suffolk County Sheriff, Steven Tompkins sought to portray himself as a man of the people – a principled public servant and reformer, devoted to the cause of justice. That’s why it’s beyond disappointing that he’s now accused of gaming a system instituted in the interests of public safety and fair play. The FBI took Sheriff Tompkins into custody today for allegedly extorting $50,000 from the owner of a national cannabis retailer seeking to do business in Boston. We believe what the Sheriff saw as an easy way to make a quick buck on the sly is clear cut corruption under federal law,” said Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division. “The citizens of Suffolk County deserve better, not a man who is accused of trading on his position to bankroll his own political and financial future. Public servants must be held to the highest of ethical standards, and those falling short will be rooted out.”

Tompkins currently serves as the Sheriff for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department (SCSD). He was first appointed Sheriff in 2013, elected as Sheriff in a special election in or about 2014, and thereafter elected to successive six-year terms. As Sheriff, Tompkins oversees approximately 1,000 correctional officers and other employees responsible for operating and maintaining correctional facilities in Boston at the House of Correction and the Nashua Street Jail.

According to court documents, in 2019, the cannabis company, Company A, sought to open a retail cannabis dispensary in Boston and applied to the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) for a dispensary license. To satisfy the Positive Impact Plan (PIP) requirement of the CCC, Company A entered into a partnership with the SCSD whereby the SCSD would help screen and refer graduates of its re-entry program to apply for work at Company A’s retail store.

Company A’s partnership with the SCSD was memorialized in a September 2019 letter signed by Tompkins and submitted to the CCC in its completed dispensary license application in or about March 2020.  In or about March 2021, the CCC approved a license for Company A to operate a cannabis dispensary in Boston. The CCC later approved license renewal applications for Company A in 2021, 2022 and 2023. In each of the renewal applications, Company A included its ongoing partnership with the SCSD as part of its fulfillment of the PIP requirement.

According to court documents, one of Company A’s goals was to raise capital to launch an initial public offering (IPO) and then continue its growth as a publicly traded company. Company A officials, including a company executive identified as Individual A, sought multimillion-dollar investments from institutions or other high net-worth, sophisticated investors in order to raise capital. Company A officials, including Individual A, were not looking to raise capital from the general public or small, individual investors. Beginning in or about mid-2020, Company A began preparing for an IPO of Company A stock, which included producing audited financial statements, hiring attorneys to ensure compliance with securities laws and obtaining additional financing from large scale and high net-worth investors, among other things.

It is alleged that Tompkins pressured Individual A for stock, reminding Individual A that Tompkins had helped Company A in its Boston licensing efforts. It is alleged that Individual A believed and feared that Tompkins would use his official position as Sheriff to jeopardize Company A’s partnership with the SCSD and thus imperil both the dispensary license for Company A, as well as the timing of the IPO. In fact, in October 2020, Company A asked Tompkins for an updated partnership letter to submit to the CCC for its yearly renewal of Company A’s Boston license. Within one month of signing the October 2020 SCSD partnership letter with Company A, and after increased pressure on Individual A, Tompkins allegedly obtained a pre-IPO interest in Company A stock after Individual A relented to Tompkins’s demands.

In November 2020, Tompkins allegedly wired a $50,000 payment from his retirement account to an account controlled by Individual A. Tompkins paid a pre-IPO price of approximately $1.73 per share of Company A stock (equity equivalent to 28,883 shares) and after a reverse stock split, Tompkins held approximately 14,417 shares at a price of approximately $3.46 per share.

According to court documents, in or about mid-2021, when Company A launched its IPO, the stock had a value of approximately $9.60 per share. Thus, Tompkins’s $50,000 purchase of 14,417 shares of Company A stock had appreciated to an approximate value of $138,403.

In May 2022, Company A stock decreased in value such that Tompkins’s equity interest in Company A stock was worth several thousand dollars less than the $50,000 he originally invested. However, Tompkins demanded a refund of $50,000 and, despite the decrease in the value of Tompkins’s investment, Individual A agreed to Tompkins’s demands for full repayment of $50,000.

Subsequently, from approximately May 2022 to July 2023, Individual A refunded Tompkins $50,000 investment by issuing Tompkins five checks. Allegedly in accordance with Tompkins’s wishes, Individual A wrote memos on certain checks that read “loan repayment” and “[company] expense” to disguise the nature of some of the payments: (Read more: Justice.Org, 8/8/2025)  (Archive)

August 8, 2025 – DC Circuit Court of Appeals tosses Boasberg contempt order against Trump

h/t Red State, 8/8/2025

August 9, 2025 – “Anonymous” author Miles Taylor on MSNBC: “Look, umm — uh — uh — I am — I am reasonably confident I did not commit treason”

Miles Taylor (Credit: MSNBC clipping)

“Anonymous” Author Miles Taylor PANICS that Trump Admin will *finally* arrest enemies of MAGA🚨

“Look, umm — uh — uh — I am — I am reasonably confident I did not commit treason against the — uh — United States of America.”

“Whether it’s going against me or Attorney General James or Adam Schiff — they want to go shine a light on these people and their lives and follow them as long as possible to find the traffic infraction that they can lord over them to make their lives very, very difficult.”

“And make no mistake — this is not for show.”

“The president is under enormous pressure from the MAGA base to put these people in handcuffs.”

“It’s why for years he talked about locking them up. They now want to see it. And I’m telling you — they are going to find it.”

“One of these newscasts … we’re going to be reporting sort of breathlessly that one of these people on this list has been put in handcuffs, has been picked up and is in detention.”

“We are going to cross that Rubicon during the Trump presidency. It brings me no joy to forecast that.”

August 11, 2025 – Democrat whistleblower told FBI that Adam Schiff okayed leaking classified intel to hurt Trump; also implicates Eric Swalwell as a leaker

A career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in 2017 that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate scandal, according to bombshell FBI memos that Director Kash Patel has turned over to Congress.

The FBI 302 interview reports obtained by Just the News state the intelligence staffer — a Democrat by party affiliation who described himself as a friend to both Schiff, now a California senator, and former Republican House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes — considered the classified leaking to be “unethical,” “illegal,” and “treasonous,” but was told not to worry about it because Schiff believed he would be spared prosecution under the Constitution’s speech and debate clause.

No publicly-disclosed opinion from the Attorney General or the Solicitor General can be found making that determination as a matter of law.

But officials told Just the News that DOJ officials showed little interest in pursuing Schiff when the allegations were brought to them years ago, citing the very same excuse the lawmaker had offered.

In his most recent interview with the bureau in 2023, the whistleblower, whose name is redacted, told agents from the FBI’s St. Louis office that he personally attended a meeting at which Schiff authorized leaking classified information.

“When working in this capacity, [redacted staffer’s name] was called to an all-staff meeting by SCHIFF,” the interview report said. “In this meeting, SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States DONALD J. TRUMP. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President TRUMP.”

The whistleblower told investigators that he “stated this would be illegal and, upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured that they would not be caught leaking classified information,” the 2023 interview report stated.

The staffer made similar claims to agents in the FBI’s Washington field office as early as 2017, shortly after Trump took office for his first term.

You can read the FBI interview reports here:

Democratic HPSCI Staffer – FBI Interview Notes

Schiff did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

The alleged leaks fall outside the statute of limitations for prosecution on most legal theories, but the revelations nevertheless come at a sensitive time for Schiff, who recently was referred to the Justice Department for possible prosecution for potential mortgage fraud, based on a story first written by Just the News.

Officials also said some of the DOJ officials who declined to prosecute a rash of classified leaks during the Russiagate affair remain employed in positions of power, a matter that may be of interest to lawmakers in Congress.

“For years, certain officials used their positions to selectively leak classified information to shape political narratives,” Patel told Just the News on Monday. “It was all done with one purpose: to weaponize intelligence and law enforcement for political gain.

“Those abuses eroded public trust in our institutions,” he added. “The FBI will now lead the charge, with our partners at DOJ, and Congress will have the chance to uncover how political power may have been weaponized and to restore accountability,” he said.

Schiff, who previously served as the ranking member and then chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) before ascending to the Senate, pushed false allegations of Trump-Russia collusion for many years, and touted British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier — even reading multiple baseless claims from it into the congressional record in March 2017.

The whistle-blower began approaching the FBI that same year.

In one meeting, the Democratic HPSCI staffer told the FBI that retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn — Trump’s first national security adviser — was to be a specific focus of the committee as part of a broader effort to target Trump. The whistleblower also specifically pointed to Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., as a likely source of classified leaks, the memos state.

Punishment for duty to law instead of party loyalty

The Democratic staffer also allegedly told a former Republican colleague on the committee that he was terminated because Schiff’s staff did not believe he had adequate “party loyalty” after he raised concerns about the leaks strategy, the FBI memos show. (Read much more: Just the News, 8/11/2025)  (Archive)

August 11, 2025 – MSM claims DC violent crime is down while quoting stats that exclude entire categories of assaults

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Media outlets are fact-checking President Donald Trump’s concerns about violence in Washington, D.C., by pointing to misleading crime statistics.

Trump has moved to increase federal law enforcement’s footprint in D.C.’s streets and take over the local police department after a former Trump administration staffer was assaulted by a mob during a carjacking on August 3. Legacy media outlets and Democratic lawmakers responded to Trump’s complaints about violent crime in D.C. by reporting that it decreased by 35% in 2024, citing local police data that leave out crimes such as felony and aggravated assault, thereby making D.C.’s crime problem appear better than it is since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020. (RELATED: Congress Took Over DC In The 90s — And It Worked)

D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) only includes homicide, sex abuse crimes, assault with a dangerous weapon and robbery in its overall “violent crime” numbers that show a decline in 2024. Aggravated assault and felony assault without the use of weapons are left out, despite D.C. law describing them as violent offenses causing bodily injury and despite the fact that aggravated assaults are increasing, according to the FBI.

“Felony Assault does not fall under the D.C. Index violent offense categories,” the MPD told the Daily Caller News Foundation without answering specific questions.

The FBI includes a broader range of assaults in its violent crime data for D.C. based on what local police provide to the bureau. Consequently, the FBI’s data show that the number of violent offenses in D.C. only decreased by 10% in 2024 and remained slightly higher than in 2018.

The FBI’s numbers also show that homicides have remained higher than pre-pandemic levels in the years since 2020, with the exception of 2021, a year when D.C. submitted incomplete data, according to Axios. Additionally, D.C. saw 12% more aggravated assaults with or without a weapon in 2024 than in 2023 and 37% more than in 2022, per the FBI. (Read more: Daily Caller, 8/11/2025)  (Archive)

August 11, 2025 – Grok AI interprets the redactions in recent FBI Notes drop on House Intel Cmte. staff leaking classified info to media

August 11, 2025 – Democrat whistleblower: Schiff was promised a CIA appointment if Hillary won

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(…) The Democratic whistleblower told the FBI in a December 2017 interview at his home that “the HPSCI work environment started to change around August 2016 as the U.S. presidential election approached.” He said that, during a September 2016 staff meeting, other Democratic staffers revealed they had provided “on background” information to journalists about “their impressions of Russian activity surrounding the upcoming election.”

The Democratic staffer told FBI agents during an August 2017 interview at the Bullfeathers restaurant in the nation’s capital that he was told by various HPSCI staffers in the October 2016 timeframe that if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the November 2016 election, Schiff would be offered the position of CIA director. The staffer told the FBI in December 2017 that “the mood within HPSCI was indescribable” after Trump’s win, and that Schiff “was particularly upset, as he believed he would have been appointed as the Director of CIA” had Clinton won the election.  (Read more: Just the News, 8/11/2025) (Archive)

August 11, 2025 – Nearly a decade later, the unmasking scandal comes full circle

Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Ranking Member Rep. Devin Nunes listen to Gordon Sondland, the U.S ambassador to the European Union, testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill November 20, 2019. (Credit: Doug Mills/Getty Images)

Devin Nunes was put under investigation in 2017 for looking into abuse of foreign intelligence surveillance programs, including by Barack Obama’s White House. New documents appear to vindicate him.

Last week, when Donald Trump’s Justice Department released notes of an FBI interview with a “whistleblower” from the Democratic staff of the House Intelligence Committee, the few media outlets to seriously cover the story focused on a grave accusation: then-Congressman Adam Schiff approved leaks of classified information in 2017 as a way “topple” the Trump administration. The document, which seemed to confirm mention of a “Committee Witness” in an Inspector General’s report last year, triggered heated denials from Schiff and fellow Democrat Eric Swalwell, who seethed that the only “real criminals” in Washington were in the White House.

Few noticed another passage deep in the report, in which the Democratic staffer described efforts to “unmask” identities of figures in Trump’s orbit. Typically, the names of Americans swept up in monitoring of suspected foreign terrorists or criminals are anonymized, and transcripts of their conversations are only available to non-intelligence personnel upon request from high-level officials. The whistleblower suggested these “unmasking” techniques had been abused by members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, or HPSCI:

HPSCI personnel contacted [redacted] and [redacted] and requested the number of documents the agencies had related to President Trump. The staff wanted to know how many of these documents were masked. They planned to request the unmasking of the individuals and then deal with them.

The report contains other mentions of efforts by “HPSCI attorneys” to unmask the identities of unnamed figures. It’s theoretically possible that the staffer was referring in certain places to actions by Republican HPSCI staffers, but it’s unlikely that’s the case throughout, especially in the above passage. Either way, there’s reason some of the Republicans who originally looked at this issue saw in that release a piece of overdue vindication, after being denounced for investigating these very practices nearly a decade ago.

Former House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes in 2017 was forced to recuse himself from the Russia investigation when Democrats launched a House Ethics Committee probe in response to his unmasking claims. Nunes was cleared later, but damage was done: investigation into Obama-era abuses of foreign surveillance programs ground to a near-halt, as everyone from the Washington Post to Talking Points Memo lambasted the “completely fake and stupid unmasking conspiracy theory.”

Over the years, however, evidence surfaced suggesting abuse claims were anything but conspiracy theory, and that Nunes was correct to raise an alarm about misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) program. Although a Trump-appointed Special Counsel, John Bash, issued a report finding no evidence of misuse of unmasking procedures for political purposes, Trump-Russia investigators in both the Senate and the House have long believed there was more to the story, and that Bash’s report ignored significant evidence of corruption. “Not gonna lie. The Bash thing was a gut punch for us,” is how one former Republican Senate aide put it. “It sucked.”

Now the unmasking story is back in the investigative picture. According to a Justice Department spokesperson, the FISA court in June unsealed more Carter Page materials for oversight purposes, giving Russiagate investigators new documents to examine. Along with last week’s FBI whistleblower release, hopes have been reignited that the issue of using FISA to spy on Americans for political reasons will finally be re-examined, after a nearly decade-long delay.

“We pushed for years for transparency and accountability for the Russia hoax and were continually disappointed,” a Nunes-era HPSCI staffer told Racket. “But right now, some of us are feeling a strange sense of optimism that we’re not used to.”

(Read more: Matt Taibbi/Racket News, 8/19/2025)  (Archive)

August 12, 2025 – Running down the leakers: The General Flynn Leaks – “Echos Fate”

General Flynn (Credit: Dustin Franz/Getty Images)

In May 2017, the FBI’s Baltimore Field Office received a referral from FBI headquarters to open a media leak investigation into a January 13, 2017 Washington Post article by David Ignatius, which contained highly classified information concerning calls placed between Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador:

According to a senior U.S. government official, Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29, the day the Obama administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian officials and other measures in retaliation for the hacking. What did Flynn say, and did it undercut the U.S. sanctions?

The Logan Act (though never enforced) bars U.S. citizens from correspondence intending to influence a foreign government about “disputes” with the United States. Was its spirit violated? The Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Baltimore Field Office would conduct a full investigation – named Echos Fate – into the leak beginning May 10, 2017, assisted by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, the DOJ National Security Division, and the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.

It also investigated the leak of information, again to the Washington Post, in an article written by Greg Miller, Adam Entous, and Ellen Nakashima published on February 9, 2017 and entitled “Officials Say Flynn Discussed Sanctions.” That article was particularly destructive, as the leaks concerning the Flynn/Kislyak calls were alleged to be “contrary to public assertions by Trump officials”, putting Flynn on the ropes and the Trump Administration on the defensive.

Various other articles were part of Echos Fate, including:

Part of the problem with determining the identity of those who leaked the Flynn/Kislyak information was that, beginning in late December 2016, the outgoing Obama Administration made those calls a matter of routine discussion – starting with January 2017 meetings in the White House.

As documented in Peter Strzok’s notes from a January 4, 2017 meeting at the Obama White House, FBI Director James Comey brought those calls to the attention of President Obama (and VP Biden, Sally Yates, and others).

As explained by the FBI, their investigative pool was “comprised of over 167 individuals” – not including all those persons “exposed to the ECHOS FATE material through verbal briefings and discussions.” The FBI’s investigative pool was essentially unknown.

For over a year, we’ve had our own FOIA lawsuit filed against the FBI for the Flynn/Kislyak investigation – and recently received the FBI’s opening communication on ECHOS FATE, though it was much more redacted than what was just released. We’ve been informed by the Government that the Echos Fate investigative file is over 2,000 pages and has an hour of video. Production of these records will be slow – and we will be sure to post what we get.

Those 2,000 pages don’t include the thousands of documents reviewed by the FBI in its attempt to find those who leaked. But it does include over 30 interviews, described by the FBI as including those from the FBI, DOJ, and US Intelligence Community.

On our own, we were able to determine that the initial leak of the Flynn/Kislyak calls likely took place around January 5, 2017 – just one day after the White House meeting where the calls were discussed. And the leaks weren’t initially made to David Ignatius but to Adam Entous (then with the Washington Post). Entous, in a public appearance, discussed how the leaks occurred, though he didn’t give names:

“Then, my sources start whispering to me that there were all these mysterious communications between Michael Flynn, who was then the National Security Advisor designate for Trump and the Russian ambassador, Kislyak.”

Back in May 2020, we asked Entous about the Flynn leak. He responded the leak came directly from “sources [who] saw a transcript and described it to [him].”

We suspect there were a host of officials who leaked the Flynn calls – including Sally Yates or her underlings, like Mary McCord or Tashina Gauhar. After all, Entous was suspiciously familiar with Yates’s concerns about the calls:

In any event, by December 2020, the Baltimore Field Office, in concurrence with the US Attorney’s Office for DC, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, and the FBI’s Washington Field Office, recommended that Echos Fate be closed, stating all investigative steps and methods, and all leads, had been completed or discontinued. (Read more: Techno Fog, 8/13/2025)  (Archive)

FBI Memos –  Classified Leaks Investigation

August 12, 2025 – Running down the leakers – Comey’s media mole – Arctic Haze

The FBI confirmed illegal intel leaks but rounded up no offenders. Declassified memos have unmasked Comey’s secret media conduit, a law professor whom Comey put on the government payroll.

The FBI concluded numerous legacy news media stories that crafted the false Russia collusion narrative contained illegally leaked classified intelligence but failed to definitively identify the leakers. But agents did force a stunning admission that ex-FBI Director James Comey used a special conduit to the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times in his bid to polish his image and push for a special prosecutor to take down President Donald Trump.

Daniel Richman (Credit: public domain)

Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman admitted to agents in interviews he routinely communicated on behalf of Comey, his longtime friend, with Times reporter Michael Schmidt, whose work was among the newspaper’s 2018Pulitzer-winning stories on Russian election interference. The goal, Richman told the FBI, was “to correct stories critical of Comey, the FBI and to shape future press coverage” outside of the bureau’s official press office, according to internal FBI memos that current Director Kash Patel delivered to Congress this week.

While Richman was known to have been publicly quoted in news stories as an advocate for Comey, he admitted to agents — who were part of the FBI’s Arctic Haze classified leaks inquiry — that he was given access by Comey to what turned out to be highly classified information up to the SCI level and sometimes provided information to reporters on an anonymous basis.

Richman insisted he did not believe he had confirmed or provided classified intelligence to reporters but said he could not be 100 percent, the memos state, noting he could only make his leak denial “with a discount.”

“Richman was pretty sure he did not confirm the Classified Information. However, Richman told the interviewing agents he was sure ‘with a discount’ that he did not tell Schmidt about the Classified Information,” one FBI memo recounted.

In the end, the Justice Department decided not to pursue any criminal charges against Comey or any of his lieutenants or now-Sen. Adam Schiff despite potential evidence of leaks, saying it could not be certain of who leaked what and when.

But its interrogation of Richman and his admissions of significant contact with the Times‘ Schmidt provide the most detailed account to date of how Trump critics like Comey — who was fired by the president — used the media to craft narratives that ultimately turned out to be untrue or misleadingly overstated, the memos show.

You can read the FBI’s Arctic Haze memos here:

FBI Memos – Arctic Haze – Classified Leaks Investigation

(…) Just the News also revealed this week that a career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in 2017 that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate scandal. Schiff has denied the allegation.

Newly-declassified FBI memos also include details on classified leaks investigations dubbed Tropic Vortex, Foggy Falls, Riding Hood, Sirens Lure, Echos Fate, and Genetic Christmas.

Comey, Richman, and “Arctic Haze”

(…) The leak investigation zeroed in on four news articles which contained leaked classified information.

The first was a New York Times article by four reporters — Schmidt, Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, and Eric Lichtblau — from late April 2017 titled “Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. from Politics. Then He Shaped an Election.” The second was a Washington Post story by Ellen Nakashima from early April 2017 titled “New details emerge about 2014 Russian hack of the State Department: It was ‘hand to hand combat’.”

The third was another Washington Post piece by Karoun Demirjian and Devlin Barrett from late May 2017 titled, “How a Dubious Russian Document Influenced the FBI’s Handling of the Clinton Probe.” The fourth was a Wall Street Journal article by Holman Jenkins Jr. from late May 2017 titled, “The Trump-Russia Story Starts Making Sense.”  (Read more: Just the News, 8/12/2025)  (Archive)

August 12, 2025 – Running down the leakers: Carter Page FISA Leaks – “Foggy Falls”

Former Trump campaign aide Carter Page in May 29, 2019. (Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

On May 10, 2017, the FBI opened a leak investigation – which it called Foggy Falls – into classified materials leaked to the Washington Post concerning the Carter Page FISA applications. The article at issue, “Court Let FBI Monitor an Adviser to Trump”, was written by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett, and Adam Entous and published on April 12, 2017. Another article containing criminal leaks of classified information was published by the same authors at the Washington Post and entitled “FBI Obtained FISA Warrant to Monitor Trump Adviser Carter Page.”

These articles included specific details from the FISA applications, including Page’s alleged “contacts with Russian operatives that have not been publicly disclosed.” Omitted from the article (and the FISA applications, of course) was the fact that Page had been an intelligence source in the years before Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Focus on Adam Schiff

As part of the investigative process, the FBI looked into those who had access to the FISA application during its certification and approval, including those at the DOJ and members of Congress and their staffers, who had been provided with “read-only” copies of the FISA applications in March and April of 2017.

As part of its due diligence, the FBI sent a March 2018 memorandum to the DOJ and to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia “regarding the viability of prosecution and willingness of DOJ CES and USAO-DC to prosecute.” The DOJ and DC US Attorney’s Office “never provided a written response.”

After Trump declassified redacted versions of the FISA application and the renewal applications, the FBI again sent memorandums to the DOJ and DC US Attorney’s Office “regarding the viability of prosecution and willingness of DOJ CES and USAO-DC to prosecute this matter given all classified material which served as the basis for leak has been declassified by the President.” And again, the DOJ and USAO-DC never responded.

From the recent disclosures, it appears conclusive that the DOJ and DC US Attorney’s Office were unwilling to take all investigative steps to investigate the FISA leaks to the Washington Post. Though some of the information remains redacted, it suggests that the DOJ/USAO-DC refused to subpoena records from Congress (likely those associated with Adam Schiff) and from members of the press related to the leak. Here’s the summary in full, with redactions:

The investigation wasn’t without one scalp – it appears it led to the opening of “Riding Hood”, which looked into Senate Staffer James Wolfe. A March 2020 letter from the DOJ National Security Division to the FBI concerning states:

“The investigation did identify James Wolfe, a former staffer on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as a subject. Wolfe was interviewed and pled guilty to violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001 for making false statements to the FBI about his contact with members of the media.”

If you recall, Wolfe had an ongoing affair with Politico/New York Times reporter Ali Watkins (sex for access, to put it bluntly) and leaked FISA materials – rightly assumed to be pictures of a Carter Page FISA application – to Watkins. Jessie Liu, the then-US Attorney for the District of Columbia, declined to prosecute him for the disclosure of classified materials. Ali Watkins is still employed by The New York Times, by the way.

Foggy Falls was closed in May 2020. (Read more: Techno Fog, 8/13/2025)  (Archive)

FBI Memos –  Classified Leaks Investigation

August 12, 2025 – Running down the leakers: Putin Hack Leaks – “Genetic Christmas”

Adam Schiff: Soon after the Democrat took control of the House Intelligence Committee, its review of the drafting of the intelligence community assessment was classified and locked in a Capitol basement safe. (Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

On October 23, 2017, the FBI opened “Genetic Christmas” – the investigation into leaks of classified information to NBC News published in their December 14, 2016 article “U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack.” The article alleged:

U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used. The intelligence came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said.

These conclusions by the Obama Administration would eventually be repeated in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which was provided to President Obama in early January 2017. We previously addressed the Intelligence Community’s reliance on bogus documents and whistleblower concerns about the politicization of the ICA.

As with the Flynn leak investigation, it was difficult for the FBI to determine exactly who knew about the “new intelligence” or the allegations (false) of Putin’s approval of the DNC/DCCC hack. They determined 46 FBI employees had access to the information and that there were “an unknown number of individuals, at least 15 based on names provided during interviews, who had access to the GENETIC CHRISTMAS information through verbal briefings and discussions.” The FBI also observed that US Senators were briefed on the Russian assessments on November 28, 2016 and December 9, 2016.

Thus, “the investigation revealed an unquantifiable subject pool because there is no way fully determine the scope of dissemination of the GENETIC CHRISTMAS information prior to its release.”

With the unknown subject pool and delays in witness interviews and the criminal referral (approximately 9 months after the leak), the FBI found it difficult to develop leads. Genetic Christmas was subsequently closed in February 2020.

Related to this investigation was a November 5, 2023, FBI interview of a former staffer with Congressman Adam Schiff. The staffer described a meeting with Schiff and his staff, where:

“SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States Donald J. Trump. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President Trump.”

As summarized from his interview, the former staffer was eventually informed that the DOJ would not investigate the matter further due to Congressional immunity, though there is no legal basis to conclude that leaks to the media or leaks by staffers are protected by the Constitution.

The November 2023 interview with the staffer was essentially a follow-up of other interviews with the staffer that took place beginning in August 2017, where he described how Schiff and Democrats would plan their “leaking process”, how staffers described their contacts with journalists concerning Russia and the 2016 election, and the identities of three staffers who were likely responsible for leaks. (These leaks and the DOJ’s process to obtain records of members of Congress, their staffers, and members of the media, would eventually be part of an Inspector General report, available here.)

After the 2016 election, Adam Schiff was particularly distraught, as he thought he would be appointed CIA Director under Hillary Clinton – a frightening proposition. In February 2017, hoping to create a public fervor surrounding the Trump/Russia hoax, the Democrats instructed their staffers to use their Intelligence Community sources “to gather [classified] information, which would then be made public through the media in order to compel public opinion.”

The leaks were “driven from the top” and “structured and intentional.” One of their targets was General Flynn, though their ultimate goal was trying to get Trump impeached. Democrat staffers justified leaks of classified information because they believed they were “in the middle of a constitutional crisis.” (Read more: Techno Fog, 8/13/2025) (Archive)

FBI Memos –  Classified Leaks Investigation

August 12, 2025 – Running down the leakers: The Kushner Leaks – “Sirens Lure”

Jared Kushner, 2025. (Credit: Andrea Hanks/Official White House Photo)

As part of the effort to sabotage Trump and to render ineffective his staff, there were also leaks to the Washington Post, The New York Times, and CNN targeting Jared Kushner, alleging improper and shady contacts with Russia. The FBI’s investigation into those leaks was opened in September 2017 under the name Sirens Lure.

As was the case with the other leak investigations, the FBI faced a daunting task: it initially identified “over 192 individuals in the subject pool” across various parts of the government, from the Intelligence Community to Congress.

Notably, some of the media reports concerning Kushner occurred after a “Read Room” was established for members of Congress to view classified information. House Democrats restricted access to at least one HPSCI staffer from an FBI interview “based on Speech or Debate privileges.”

This led the FBI to back-off attempts to interview other Congressional Democrat staffers. Though the FBI considered search warrants but either the FBI or the DOJ decided against that course of action. Without the capabilities to pursue the investigation further, and faced with the prospects of interviewing over 192 potential subjects (the number was likely much higher), Sirens Lures was closed in May 2021.

(Read more: Techno Fog, 8/13/2025)  (Archive)

FBI Memos –  Classified Leaks Investigation

August 13, 2025 – Victor Davis Hanson to Democrat Party: “You have been the most vicious and the most abject subverters of democracy”

PAYBACK.

Victor Davis Hanson just EXPOSED how the Left UNDERMINED democracy while pretending to defend it.

He laid out three UNDENIABLE examples.

Now they’re POWERLESS—standing atop a house of cards.

Then came one of the most BRUTAL indictments of the modern Democrat Party:

“You have been the most vicious and the most abject subverters of democracy, all for the short term gain of destroying Donald Trump.”

🧵 THREAD

Victor Davis Hanson just held a mirror up to the modern Democrat Party the reflection wasn’t flattering.

According to Hanson, their entire political strategy now hinges on a single claim: that they are “saving democracy” from Donald Trump.

But peel back the rhetoric, and the reality looks very different.

“The Democrats have a new narrative. The left in general does, that they are ‘saving democracy’ from Donald Trump, and that justifies almost any means necessary to achieve the end of destroying or preventing Donald Trump from governing effectively.”

Hanson laid out in simple terms the glaring contradiction: “The problem with all of this is they are destroying democracy to destroy Donald Trump.”

It’s not even a metaphor.

It’s a direct inversion of what they claim to stand for.

And to prove it, he walked through exactly how this mindset has played out in real-time.

Take gerrymandering.

Hanson pointed to it as a textbook example of the left projecting what they’ve already done onto their opponents.

Now that Republicans are playing by the same rules, Democrats are screaming foul.

But what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.

“One of the issues that they are agitating is the redistricting of congressional districts in Texas, in California now,” he said.

“And the general problem that the left has is if you look at gerrymandering to make these jigsaw puzzle piece-like districts, the left is way ahead of the right.”

He pointed out that in many states where Trump won 40–50% of the vote, Republican representation in Congress doesn’t come close to matching that.

And he backed it up: “There’s been sophisticated studies of gerrymandering, and it boils down to the Republicans are short, some 6 to 10 seats in the House based on the proportion of the national vote they have received.”

So why the outrage now? Because Democrats fear losing their edge.

“The Democrats know that, but they’re angry about the Texas reapportionment and gerrymandering, and their attitude is we’ve already gerrymandered our states to the maximum. Don’t dare try to emulate us.”

When Republicans do, suddenly it’s a threat to democracy.

In response, Democrat blowhards like James Carville have doubled down on a new mantra: get tougher.

But as Hanson explained, the Democrats are already there.

“James Carville said that they have to get tougher. That’s the new mantra.”

And yet, he argued, they’ve been anything but restrained.

“Got to get tougher, got to get meaner. Cory Booker screams and yells and throws a fit about every three weeks in the Senate. Hakeem Jeffries picks up his baseball bat. There’s usually a video with the squad or representatives using the word ‘sh—’ or the F word, kind of pornographic.”

“Jasmine Crockett periodically calls Donald Trump names that are—can’t be repeated on air. But you can see the anger.”

He paused before making the point crystal clear: “They have been too tough.”

That set the stage for Hanson’s most serious charge.

The three earth-shattering scandals Democrats have orchestrated to cripple Trump weren’t just aggressive…they were unprecedented.

They make Watergate look like a tea party on the South Lawn.

“There’s been three great scandals in the 21st century,” he said.

“The first was the Russian collusion hoax that was prompted by Hillary Clinton and facilitated by the Obama administration on its way out, that almost destroyed the Trump campaign, sabotaged his transition, and ate up 22 months of his first two years.”

He continued:

“The second was the Biden, FBI and CIA—but especially the CIA and the intelligence agencies—got 51 people, former intelligence authorities, to LIE to the American people on the eve of the second debate to affect the 2020 election, and claimed, falsely, that Donald Trump was lying about the laptop of Hunter Biden.”

“That was a complete lie. It was Hunter’s laptop. We know, because the FBI had it in its possession and authenticated it.”

And then came the third.

“The great scandal,” Hanson said, “that the Democratic Party and the obsequious media knew that Joe Biden was non compos mentis, he was not cognitively able to fulfill the office of the presidency.”

He described how they hid it from the public…until it became impossible to hide.

“When he finally challenged Donald Trump to a debate and melted and before our very eyes, sort of like the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz, he melted into a non-entity.”

What an image.

Maybe this could be used as a metaphor for the current state of the Democrat Party.

Melting.

Hanson broadened the lens.

He argued that when you line up the pattern of actions, from media lies to lawfare to ballot bans, one thing becomes clear: the Democrats aren’t protecting democracy.

They’ve been gutting it.

“If you look at the Democrats, they have staged three great scandals to try to destroy the Trump administration and by extension, democracy.”

Then he listed more.

Each transgression against democracy, stabbing like a dagger.

“They impeached Donald Trump twice. No one’s ever done that.”

“They tried him as a private citizen. Nobody’s ever done that.”

“They raided his home in Mar-a-Lago. That is a terrible precedent for an ex-president. No one has ever done that.”

“They tried to get him off the ballot in 25 states. No one had ever done that.”

“There were two assassination attempts during the campaign that had never happened before.”

“They tried to debunk him and make it impossible for Donald Trump to write a check, whether from Morgan Stanley or Bank of America or any bank.”

So when Carville says Democrats are now going to get tough?

They already did.

Hanson says it’s TOTAL gaslighting.

“When James Carville says, we’re going to get tough, we’re going to get really tough, and we’re going to let in Puerto Rico and Washington, DC to get four senators, or we might have to pack the court to 13 justices, I’m thinking, well, you always were going to do that.”

He went even further.

“If you had not lost the House and Senate during the Biden administration, had you had a normal president that was in control of his mental and physical abilities, then you would have not only packed the court and not only, as you promised, let in two states, but in addition, you would have gotten rid of the Electoral College by the hook and crook of the National Voter Compact.”

“And more importantly, you would have abolished the Senate.”

That’s why the Democrats’ narrative is collapsing under its own weight.

“So the problem, James Carville, and Democrats, is that you have sabotaged democracy, and you’ve done things that no one has ever done before to an oppositional candidate, presidential transition, and president.”

Now, the consequences are finally catching up with them…not because they were too soft, but because they pushed too far and failed.

They are both powerless and rudderless, lost at sea.

“You’re furious because you’re on the 40% side of every issue that’s dear to you, from the trans issue to the border issue to the crime issue, to the Green New Deal issue, to foreign policy, and you have no political power.”

“You don’t have the White House, you don’t have the Congress, you don’t have the Supreme Court.”

“And your institutional power—the media, academia, the foundation—they are under assault.”

So now, he said, they’re spinning a new story to distract from what’s really happening.

“You’ve created this completely false narrative that you have to get tough… In fact, the opposite is true, everybody.”

Then he delivered the final blow with the grace and eloquence only Hanson could bring. It was knockout punch after knockout punch.

It cut directly to the core of Democrat Party….bare for the world to see.

“You have been the most vicious and the most abject subverters of democracy all for the short term gain of destroying Donald Trump.”

“And now that’s boomeranging upon you, and you don’t like to see it happen to you, what you tried to do to Donald Trump.”

“There’s a whole vocabulary cross-culturally for what is happening to you now. It’s called payback is a ‘blank’, karma, boomerang, do unto others as you should do unto you, only eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.”

“But this is called retribution and it’s fully earned for what you’ve done to democracy, as long as it’s legal and it’s necessary.”

“You’re angry because you’re impotent, and you created false narratives that Donald Trump is doing what you have actually done.”

“And what is that? Destroying democracy.”

Wow, that was BRUTAL, but accurate.

VDH: Democrats Betray Democracy to Stop Trump

The Left claims they’re “saving democracy” from Donald Trump—but their actions tell a different story.

Democrats have pushed some of the most brazen political scandals in modern history—from the Russia collusion hoax, to burying the Hunter Biden laptop, to hiding President Biden’s cognitive decline—all in the name of stopping Trump.

@VDHanson exposes how the Left has undermined democracy in the very process of claiming to defend it on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

“  The problem, James Carville and Democrats, is that you have sabotaged democracy. And you’ve done things that no one has ever done before to an oppositional candidate, presidential transition, and president. And now you’re furious because you’re on the 40% side of every issue that’s dear to you—from the trans issue to the border issue, to the crime issue, to the Green New Deal issue, to foreign policy. And you have no political power. You don’t have the White House, you don’t have the Congress, you don’t have the Supreme Court. And your institutional power—the media, academia, the foundation—they are under assault.”

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(0:00) The New Narrative
(0:22) The ‘Tougher’ Mantra
(1:25) Gerrymandering and Redistricting
(3:01) The Three Great Scandals
(4:54) Unprecedented Actions Against Trump
(6:15) Democratic Frustration
(8:09) Conclusion

August 13, 2025 – The Clinton Foundation cover-up timeline the FBI didn’t want you to see

Credit where it’s due: investigative journalists John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy at Just the News have just pulled the curtain back on one of the most brazen examples of political interference in law enforcement we’ve seen since the bad old days of J. Edgar Hoover’s private files. And, just like back then, the stakes were presidential.

Thanks to a newly declassified 2017 FBI memo—kept hidden until now—we have a play-by-play timeline of how the Obama-era Department of Justice and FBI brass ran interference for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, smothering a serious investigation into the Clinton Foundation while going full throttle on the Trump–Russia “Crossfire Hurricane” probe.

The memo lays out, in black and white, the internal orders to “shut it down.” That’s not my paraphrase. According to the memo, then–Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates literally told agents to stop pursuing the Clinton Foundation case—even as field offices in New York, Little Rock, and Washington believed they had enough to move forward.

Key Timeline Events

As documented by John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy, Just the News:

  • Feb. 2016 – DOJ signals to FBI that it “would not be supportive” of investigating the Clinton Foundation.
  • Mid-Feb. 2016 – Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe orders that “no overt investigative steps” be taken without his personal approval.
  • Spring–Summer 2016 – Agents in Little Rock move to a full investigation but are denied permission to collect even basic documents.
  • June 2016 – Attorney General Loretta Lynch meets privately with Bill Clinton on the tarmac in Phoenix; both deny discussing the case.
  • July 2016 – FBI Director James Comey announces “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against Clinton, effectively ending the investigation in public view.
  • Late Oct. 2016 – McCabe leaks details of the Clinton probe to The Wall Street Journal.
  • Nov. 1, 2016 – McCabe recuses himself from the case, days before the election.
  • Contrast – At the same time, the FBI opens “Crossfire Hurricane” against Trump in a matter of days based on minimal evidence.
  • 2025 – AG Pam Bondi authorizes a strike force and grand jury to investigate possible criminal conspiracies tied to the 2016 suppression.

Meanwhile, over in the Trump camp, the bureau opened a full investigation within days based on the flimsy “Australia tip” about a bar conversation involving George Papadopoulos. The Durham Report later called it “immediate.” In other words, when it was Trump, they floored the accelerator. When it was Clinton, they yanked the emergency brake. (Read more: Larry O’Connor/Substack, 8/14/2025)  (Archive)

August 13, 2025 – The Clinton Foundation cover-up timeline: FBI was investigating 19 Clinton Foundation bank accounts for campaign finance fraud before DOJ shut it down

The newly released Clinton Foundation Investigation Timeline reveals that the FBI Los Angeles Field Office was investigating 19 Clinton Foundation bank accounts for ‘campaign finance fraud’ in 2016-2017, but the investigation was shut down.

August 23, 2017

August 13, 2025 – Marco Rubio says US working to designate Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization

Marco Rubio (Credit: public domain)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that the United States is actively working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.

In an interview with Sid Rosenberg on Sid and Friends in the Morning, Rubio was asked about the support New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is receiving from groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood. Rosenberg pressed Rubio on whether the administration would move to officially designate the group, and possibly the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as terrorist entities.

“Yeah, all of that is in the works,” Rubio said, noting that the Brotherhood operates in multiple branches, each requiring its own designation. He stressed that the process is lengthy and must be thorough, but confirmed that it is a priority. “We are constantly reviewing for groups to designate, for what they are: supporters of terrorists, maybe terrorists themselves. We haven’t done this in a long time, so we’ve got a lot of catch-up to do. And you’ve mentioned a couple names, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, that are of grave concern.”

The move follows increased calls from lawmakers to scrutinize groups with alleged terror ties. Earlier in August, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) urged the Internal Revenue Service to investigate CAIR’s tax-exempt status, citing “longstanding evidence” of its connections to both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a letter to IRS Commissioner Billy Long, Cotton argued that CAIR’s public image as a civil rights organization belies its deeper associations. He noted that in the largest terrorism financing case in US history, CAIR was listed as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee.

According to The New York Post, previous court proceedings have shown links between the Council on American-Islamic Relations Foundation Inc. (CAIR) and the terrorist organization Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. In March, CAIR settled a case with a former employee rather than open its financial books to reveal its sources of foreign funding.

CAIR, which presents itself as a civil rights group focused on advocating for Muslim Americans, was identified by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General as an unindicted co-conspirator in the United States v. Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case, the largest terror financing trial in US history, as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, an entity formed to support Hamas in the US. According to government evidence, the case “linked CAIR leaders to Hamas, a specially designated terrorist organization.”

In a November 2023 speech, CAIR’s national executive director and co-founder, Nihad Awad, said he was “happy to see” Palestinians “breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land,” in reference to Hamas’ October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians that left 1,200 dead and over 250 taken hostage. The comments led the Biden administration to remove CAIR from its White House task force on antisemitism shortly thereafter. (Read more: The Post Millennial, 8/13/2025)  (Archive)

August 13, 2025 – The Clinton Foundation cover-up timeline uncovers Obama Deputy AG Sally Yates’ email ordering FBI agents to shut down the CF corruption investigation

Investigative journalist John Solomon has uncovered a smoking-gun email from Obama’s Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates explicitly ordering FBI agents to shut down a criminal corruption probe into the Clinton Foundation.

(…) The most damning piece, however, according to John Solomon, is the document uncovered by FBI Director Kash Patel.

In it, Deputy AG Sally Yates directly instructs the FBI to “shut it down” the Clinton Foundation investigation, effectively granting the Clintons immunity from further scrutiny during the 2016 election cycle.

According to Solomon, several prosecutors have now stepped forward and are willing to cooperate with Congress and Trump-aligned investigators.

Patel reportedly has more explosive emails from Obama-era officials, which he intends to turn over to lawmakers.

John Solomon:
Tonight, we’re going to tell you about the other Clinton investigation — one that was running in three separate FBI offices: New York, Washington, and Little Rock. It was a predicated criminal investigation that was examining whether Hillary Clinton ran a pay-to-play scheme that delivered favors from her perch as Secretary of State, while foreigners and others paid large sums of money to her family foundation — the Clinton Foundation — run by Bill Clinton and their daughter, eventually Chelsea Clinton.

Three separate agencies, three separate bureaus — offices of the FBI — believed they had predicated evidence to pursue. But every time they tried to move the ball down the road in the shadows of the 2016 election, they got shut down. I mean, they got shut down at the highest levels of their agency.

Andrew McCabe, the Deputy Director — a man who potentially had a conflict of interest with Hillary Clinton; his wife got money from Hillary Clinton’s former allies to run for a Virginia State Senate seat — attended the meeting where that assistance was solicited. He eventually was conflicted out, but not before he gave the order to his agents that: You won’t investigate or do anything on this unless I approve it.

Downstream from them, four different U.S. Attorneys’ offices under Barack Obama were asked for help by the agents. Agents need help. We need a grand jury. We need to get evidence. We want to move the case down the road. All three of those four offices told the agents: You’re on your own. We will not assist you in your pursuit of criminal charges against Hillary Clinton.

Then, perhaps the most extraordinary statement in the document — that we are going to show you on screen now — the Deputy Attorney General for Barack Obama, Sally Yates, explicitly told the FBI: Shut it down, meaning the corruption probes of Hillary Clinton.

Think about this: while Donald Trump was out on the campaign trail chanting Lock her up, maybe there was a good reason to lock up Hillary Clinton — he would argue that every night — the Obama Justice Department was telling the FBI agents who also thought there might be a reason to lock up Hillary Clinton: Shut it down. Remember those words.

[…]

But one last piece of note before I bring in Amanda: we have now confirmed tonight there are some prosecutors who have come forward and are willing to cooperate with Attorney General Pam Bondi and, of course, FBI Director Kash Patel — who found this document. He found this document based on some whistleblowers that Just the News had. He went and got it. He has other emails that he’s going to be turning over to Congress that I think will further this narrative.

This is the beginning. But we told you this was a double-headed scandal. The first part was pursuing false allegations against Republicans. The second was forming a protection racket around Democrats — a racket around Democrats like Hillary Clinton and the Biden family and others, including Joe Biden himself, when it came to classified documents.

(…)

You can read the timeline here:

Declassified Timeline on Clinton Foundation Investigation

WATCH:

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 8/13/2025)  (Archive)

August 14, 2025 – Solomon reports there are multiple grand juries investigating conspiracy involving Clintons, Bidens and Obama administration

Megyn Kelly is joined by John Solomon, founder of “Just The News,” to discuss reports of multiple grand juries investigating alleged conspiracy involving the Clintons, Bidens, and figures in the Obama administration, the key dates in the timeline involving possible corruption, and more.

August 15, 2025 – The New York Times is pro-military coup and then calls for the destruction of the Constitution within 48 hours

Over the course of the last 48 hours, the supposed ‘paper of record’ has advocated for a military coup against Trump and called for the abolishment of the U.S. Senate and the Electoral College, and to pack the U.S. Supreme Court.

These are the people who claim to want to save Democracy? Really?

This column by two members of the Obama administration was published yesterday:

From the column:

We Used to Think the Military Would Stand Up to Trump. We Were Wrong.

By ordering 800 National Guard troops to Washington, on the pretext of an illusory crime wave, President Trump has further dragged the U.S. military into domestic law enforcement, in a move credibly perceived as an ominous “test case.” This continues what the administration started in California in June as part of the its deportation efforts.

Unfortunately, though we (and others) had hoped that the military would only respond to calls to action in American cities and states kicking and screaming, we no longer expect resistance from that institution. Once, perhaps, traditionalist officers might have leaned on protocol and refused to heed a lawless order, taking inspiration from the generals — Mark Milley and James Mattis — who resisted the uprooting of established military standards in the first Trump term.

Then today, the New York Times published this:

These are the same people who will then turn around lecture the rest of us about democracy. They are basically admitting that they can’t win unless they radically change the rules. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 8/15/2025)  (Archive)

August 15, 2025 – Federal Housing Director Bill Pulte refers Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to DOJ for possible mortgage fraud

Trump Federal Housing Director Bill Pulte issues bombshell revelation that Biden-appointed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook likely committed MORTGAGE FRAUD.

“[Jerome] Powell must look into it or he is complicit.”

“Ms. Cook: why did you designate your Atlanta Condo as your primary residence two weeks after declaring your Michigan home as your primary residence?”

Another mortgage fraud investigation may be opened. Wow.

August 15, 2025 – Key DOJ witness says Biden FBI threatened, coerced him to secure Proud Boy convictions

Proud Boys member Jeremy Bertino (l),  joins other Trump supporters at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., Dec. 12, 2020. (Credit: Luis M. Alvarez/AP)

National File has obtained exclusive video of Jeremy Bertino’s newly sworn affidavit in which he describes his own malicious prosecution at the hands of Biden’s and Merrick Garland’s prosecutors.

The Biden Department of Justice’s key Dept. of Justice witness in the case against the Proud Boys is recanting his testimony that resulted in convictions and decades of jail time.

Bertino, who was previously a member of the Proud Boys, provided the key testimony that was used to secure the high profile conviction of the leadership of the Proud Boys in the aftermath of the controversial certification of the Nov. 3, 2020 election on January 6th, 2021.

Now, the former Proud Boy says he was coerced by the FBI to provide the damning testimony used to secure high profile convictions of Proud Boy leaders – and to secure their imprisonment.

Now that Joe Biden is no longer in charge of Merrick Garland’s DOJ, Bertino is coming clean.

Jeremy Bertino, in a sworn affidavit provided to attorney Nayib Hassan, affirmed that his prior statements used to convince the so-called “Seditious Five” were coerced under threat of decades in prison.

Federal agents and prosecutors engaged in a sustained campaign of disingenuous negotiation, characterized by a hide-the-ball style of negotiating in which they concealed the true nature of the final charges they would finally levy against Bertino, he says.

By making several much less severe proffers at first, federal prosecutors groomed and cajoled Bertino into a place where he had only two options: testify how they wanted him to, and go free – or tell the truth and face up to 25 years in prison.

The final charges the DOJ would slap on Bertino were not revealed until the prosecutors had sufficiently coached and groomed Bertino in order to elicit a particular testimony desired by the DOJ that would ultimately lead to conviction of Proud Boys for seditious conspiracy, Bertino says.

This act of bringing charges against someone without probable cause and with malice is known as malicious prosecution.

(…) “Then I believe it was the third proffer when they told me what the charges were gonna be. They were the gun charges and seditious conspiracy. So all along they were playing it along, like, ‘We’re not gonna charge you. We just need you to help us frame this story this way,” Bertino explained.

“That’s when they put the pressure on, and were like, “Hey, you’re either gonna play ball, or you’re looking at 25 years’.”

In his sworn affidavit, Bertino describes a process in which prosecutors dangled freedom in front of him before ultimately threatening to drop the hammer on him out of the blue.

To avoid the hammer, Bertino was coerced to carefully choose his words in order to create a specific kind of picture surrounding the Proud Boys’ involvement with January 6th and the 1776 Returns document.

“They were like, “You can’t outright lie, and tell me that something happened that didn’t happen, but you’re gonna have to bend your statements. Basically, “Help us frame this story the way it needs to be framed.”

“They said that without saying that directly to me, it was kinda communicated to my attorneys, you know, “We’re not using these words for this. We’re not using [the word] ‘plan,’ we’re using [the word] ‘goal’’ These were the things that were communicated to me, were the things that I had to say,” Bertino detailed.

(Read more: National File, 8/15/2025) (Archive)

August 16, 2025 – ActBlue money laundering operation exposed through fake home mortgages and is under investigation

MASSIVE ActBlue money laundering operation exposed through home mortgages and is now officially under investigation.

ActBlue is laundering cash through phantom real estate deals, turning thousands into hundreds of millions of dollars. You just can’t make this stuff up.

Democrats get a $200,000 home, create a fake $200,000,000 mortgage on the home and then launder the money through wire transfers.

This is just ONE layer of the Democrats enormous money laundering operation through ActBlue.

Over 400 carbon-copy donations on a single day led investigators to tons of hyper inflated property “sales” in California and Texas.

It was all made up. Multiple transfers in a single day, private cash lenders, no public loan records, and addresses that don’t exist.

The pattern mirrors classic Bank Secrecy Act violations, pumping millions into federal races around each election cycle, and is now in the Justice Department’s hands for potential charges under the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020.

This also ties into everything currently transpiring including the 2020 election, the fake IDs, ballots, and every NGO and non-profit, including connections to cartels, and big banks, such as TD Bank, who was already fined over $3 billion for letting dirty money be laundered through their systems completely under the radar or with proper oversight.

You wonder why they’re so desperate and begging for cash. USAID and ActBlue are two of their largest cash flow operations and they are either completely shut down or under investigation and about to be.

It’s only a matter of time.

Source: @stinchfield1776

August 17, 2025 – James Comey declares himself a ‘Swiftie’; says her music helps him oppose Trump

Former FBI Director James Comey declared himself a Taylor Swift fan, a.k.a. “Swiftie,” in a video posted to social media on Sunday, saying the pop star’s music gives him the strength to oppose President Donald Trump.

“I’m in a family’s Swiftie group chat. I know all her music, and I listen to it in my headphones when I cut the grass,” Comey said in the video, adding that his favorite songs are “All Too Well” and “Exile.”

The former FBI Director said that Swift’s music has been a major part of his family for several years as they have dealt  “with adversity and celebration,” saying that the pop star’s example has helped him to resist “bullies.”

“But I gotta be honest, it also leaves me with a strange feeling at times because I don’t want us to become like Trump and his followers,” he said. “There are far more decent, honest, kind people in America than there are mean jerks. And don’t get me wrong, we have our jerks, millions of them.”

(…) In July, the FBI launched an investigation into former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey over their roles in the investigation surrounding President Donald Trump and Russia’s alleged collusion. (Read more: Breitbart News, 8/17/2025) (Archive)

August 17, 2025 – Trump warns rampant judge-shopping Is the left’s ‘final weapon’ that could ‘take down America’

In a piece published yesterday, I documented how anti-Trump activist Judge James Boasberg was assigned a series of “Trump cases” in the early weeks of the second Trump administration. He then blocked and stalled part of the president’s first wave agenda.

So, how did one left-wing judge get assigned so many sensitive cases? Part of the answer is the legal tactic known as “judge-shopping,” which was patented by lawfare general and activist attorney Marc Elias.

In an exclusive interview I conducted as part of my research for Breaking the Law, President Trump has called out the practice and warned that “judge-shopping is rampant at levels never seen before. You know the outcome of a case as soon as the judge is picked.”

“And the radical left is using this, their final weapon, to take down America,” the president told me.

Judge-shopping is a straightforward idea: A politically interested party will bring a case to a court with mostly favorable judges to make it likely they get their desired outcome. For example, some courts have only one judge, so it can be easy to anticipate how a judge will rule if you bring the case to that judge’s court. Other powerful courts, such as the D.C. District Court, is composed of mostly of judges who appear to be ideologically on the left. The venue rules for federal cases (28 U.S.C. § 1391) make it so that virtually every case brought against the federal government can be filed in that court since it is often where the defendant resides or where the relevant events occurred.

Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer credits Marc Elias, a high priest of lawfare if there ever was one, with popularizing the venue-shopping tactic. According to Schweizer, Elias was able to swing the highly contested 2008 Minnesota senate race for Democrat Al Franken over Republican Norm Coleman by finding a specific court to legitimize over a thousand ballots that had previously been rejected because they had potentially been cast by convicted felons.

(…) The left has used Elias’s tactic to great effect, politicizing the courts and ensuring there is no equal justice under the law for political conservatives.

It is imperative we move to end judge and forum-shopping immediately. The damage a politicized judge can do goes beyond injunctions and TROs. These judges decide the rules of the court, who and what goes in and out, what decisions juries can and can’t make, etc. As was the case in Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom, the jury instructions and other peculiarities of a particular judge’s courtroom can determine the outcome of the case. (Read more: Breitbart News, 8/17/2025)  (Archive)

August 17, 2025 – Ed Martin puts Jan 6 Committee members and Adam Schiff on notice: “When this comes out, it’ll take the whole of these people’s hoaxes down”

On Sunday, Ed Martin, DOJ Pardon Attorney and Director of Weaponization, appeared on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss Adam Schiff’s mortgage fraud, the Trump-Russia hoax, January 6 Committee members and the Biden autopen scandal.

Ed Martin revealed the DOJ is investigating members of the unconstitutional January 6 Committee.

The nine members of the January 6 Select Committee included: Chairman Bennie Thompson, Vice Chair Liz Cheney and other members were: Adam Schiff, Zoe Lofgren, Jamie Raskin, Pete Aguilar, Stephanie Murphy, Elaine Luria and Adam Kinzinger.

Separately, Rep Loudermilk recently announced he will be creating a subcommittee with subpoena power to investigate the January 6 Committee.

Ed Martin suggested January 6 Committee members will be subpoenaed… they… should ‘keep an eye on their mailbox.’

“Trust me – a lot of people did not get a pardon that were involved in the Select Committee. They ought to be keeping an eye on their mailbox because there’s a lot to be asked about,” Ed Martin said.

“Pam Bondi has let us loose and when this comes out, it will take the whole of these people’s hoaxes down and we’re doing it bit by bit,” he said.

“There’s a referral from Bill Pulte about mortgage fraud…but now there’s more on Adam Schiff. And all we’re gonna again and get to the facts of this,” he added.

WATCH:

(Gateway Pundit, 8/17/2025) (Archive)

August 18, 2025 – Bill Barr testifies to House Oversight Cmte. that Trump never intervened In Epstein case, no evidence of crime

(Credit: Fox News)

Former Attorney General William “Bill” Barr said he never saw any evidence that President Donald Trump intervened or committed a crime relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s case, a source familiar told the Daily Caller.

During Monday’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee, Barr testified Trump never offered any input or direction regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case or his death.

(Read more: The Daily Caller, 8/18/2025)  (Archive)

August 19, 2025 – An FEC complaint is filed against US Senator Amy Klobuchar for “smurfing” millions $ from ActBlue funds

BREAKING: an FEC complaint has been filed against US Senator Amy Klobuchar today.

$9,633,912 is what she Smurfed into her three campaign committees. I know it is more however, a lot more and that will probably be an addendum.

Stop Smurfing, its criminal money laundering by politicians.

More details in retweet here:

The Fox News video I re-posted was from April 24th. But something brand new: by next week I will have filed an FEC complaint against US Senator Amy Klobuchar.

KLOBUCHAR FOR MINNESOTA takes $3,946,364 USD in 46,448 Smurfing Contributions, from 5,160 Contributors.

AMY FOR AMERICA takes $4,880,382 USD in 66,796 Smurfing Contributions, from 7,724 Contributors.

AMY KLOBUCHAR VICTORY COMMITTEE takes $807,166 USD in 309 Smurfing Contributions, from 239 Contributors.

Totaling $9,633,912 of her federal campaign committees Smurfing, i.e. criminally laundering money into her campaigns. And I know it is higher yet. @amyklobuchar @SenAmyKlobuchar

Meaning Klobuchar cheated, she committed massive election fraud and in no way is the duly elected US Senator from Minnesota. Resign now Klobuchar.

President Trump orders US DOJ to launch full scale investigation into Actblue. America you’re welcome from: @immutablechrist @TheTVConsPiracy @smurfsearch @PatriotsACT @jewelsHND @JamesOKeefeIII, myself and many others who spent years researching, exposing, getting criminal investigations opened at the states’ level and then federal level against Actblue.

NOTE: @Actblue is just one campaign committee committing Smurfing, i.e. structured criminal money laundering typically using computer bots. There are over 1,300 identified committees committing Smurfing.

Including @WinRed – with US Senator Lindsey Graham being a big one out of many as just one example.

August 19, 2025 – New documents show Biden’s own DOJ threw red flag on auto-penned pardons

August 19, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard strips security clearances from 37 Deep State officials tied to the Trump-Russia hoax

Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right. Those in the Intelligence Community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold. In doing so, they undermine our national security, the safety and security of the American people and the foundational principles of our democratic republic.

This is why, at @POTUS’ direction, @ODNIgov directed the revocation of the security clearances of 37 current and former intelligence professionals who have abused the public trust by politicizing and manipulating intelligence, leaking classified intelligence without authorization, and/or committing intentional egregious violations of tradecraft standards.

Our Intelligence Community must be committed to upholding the values and principles enshrined in the US Constitution and maintain a laser-like focus on our mission of ensuring the safety, security and freedom of the American people.

August 20, 2025 – Federal judges can no longer block Trump nationwide; rulings affect only their local district

August 20, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard axes a Biden-era censorship office that was working with social media companies to censor conservatives

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just AXED a Biden-era censorship office that was working with social media companies to censor conservatives and anti-establishment voices.

“This Center was going and working with different social media companies saying… ‘we have to censor these dissenting voices.'”

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just delivered a win for free speech by dismantling Biden’s censorship pipeline. The Biden-era Domestic Terrorism Prevention Center wasn’t about security—it was a taxpayer-funded censorship factory. Their strategy weaponized federal agencies to pressure Big Tech into silencing dissent under the guise of “countering misinformation.” Section 3.2 of their declassified plan even pushed digital literacy programs through USAID, blurring lines between national security and ideological control.

Gabbard’s move exposes how bureaucrats hijacked counterterrorism funds to police speech instead of threats. This is why audits matter: $50M+ wasted on policing tweets while real security gaps fester.

Defund the thought police, refocus on actual threats.

August 20, 2025 – Kash Patel exposes Obama-Clinton Grand Conspiracy; confirms Russiagate, FISA court abuses, and Mar-a-Lago raid were a political hit job

FBI Director Kash Patel joined Larry Kudlow in a bombshell interview this week, and it’s ten minutes every American needs to see.

On Larry Kudlow’s show, FBI Director Kash Patel unleashed a series of bombshells that confirm what millions of Americans have long suspected: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were the masterminds behind the phony Russiagate hoax and the illegal invasion of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

Now, Patel has confirmed it on national television, Obama and Hillary Clinton were at the very top of the conspiracy.

Kudlow pressed Patel on how the FBI could justify invading the private home of a former president, something unprecedented in American history.

Patel laid it out plainly: Russiagate, the FISA Court abuses, and the Mar-a-Lago raid were all connected. A “political operation,” not a legitimate investigation.

Kudlow also asked Patel point-blank if Obama and Hillary were the architects of this grand conspiracy.

WATCH:

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 8/21/2025)  (Archive)

August 20, 2025 – Peter Navarro: Time to investigate the FBI agent who tried to take down Trump and me

(Credit: Pete Marovich/NYT/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

They call Walter Giardina a Marine hero. The media portrayed him as a martyr in FBI Director Kash Patel’s recent “purge” of politicized FBI agents.

In my new book, I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To, I call Giardina something else: the tip of the spear in a weaponized FBI campaign to destroy Donald Trump — and a disgraced FBI agent who personally targeted me and my fiancée.

(…)

Target: Navarro

In early 2022, the Democrat-controlled January 6 Committee subpoenaed me. I refused their witch hunt, citing executive privilege — not as a tactic, but because it has long been the Department of Justice’s settled policy that senior White House advisers to the president have absolute testimonial immunity from compelled congressional testimony about their official duties.

This protection exists to preserve what the Supreme Court calls candor and confidentiality in presidential communications. This is the very essence of George Washington’s doctrine of executive privilege, first asserted in 1796 to protect sensitive deliberations from legislative intrusion.

But in my case, a partisan and weaponized Biden DOJ turned its own policy on its head and indicted me anyway. I was Giardina’s huckleberry, and he went after me like a jackal — discarding over two centuries of Constitutional separation of powers protection to score a political hit.

On May 19, 2022, at 4:50 PM, Giardina emailed a group of FBI agents with the news: DOJ wanted to indict me within two weeks. His email read like a military op order: find my location, get my phone and iCloud data, plan the “knock-and-talk,” time the arrest. Every detail accounted for.

By May 24, the plan was locked: indictment on June 2, arrest on June 3 or June 7. “Media attention is anticipated,” one of the emails noted. They weren’t just planning an arrest — they were scripting a Perp Walk Media Circus.

Internal FBI emails later released by Sen. Grassley would show that after Walter Giardina updated everyone on the DOJ’s indictment plan, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault replied, “Wow. Great” — a revealing glimpse of the partisan enthusiasm behind the operation. (Read more: Breitbart, 8/20/2025)  (Archive)

August 21, 2025 – Peter Schweizer: “Clinton’s Russia vulnerabilities were turned into Trump’s burden, projected onto his campaign in a haze of innuendo”

(…) Appearing on an OANN program this week, Schweizer told host Matt Gaetz that the government’s double standard is unmistakable. “At the same time, they are killing an organic investigation into Clinton corruption… they were also creating a completely fictional investigation tying [Donald] Trump to Russia,” he said.

Five FBI field offices had been involved before being shut down, including a satellite office in Africa. Schweizer called the saga proof of a new kind of corruption — “offshored, globalized corruption,” complete with political dynasties selling access and foreign oligarchs buying influence.

The contrast between the scuttled investigation of the Clinton Foundation and the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the Trump campaign’s purported ties to Russia is glaring. While the Clinton probes were heavily throttled, the FBI raced to open a full investigation into Trump’s campaign on the flimsiest of tips — a conversation in a London wine bar — green-lighting it within three days. Clinton’s Russia vulnerabilities were turned into Trump’s burden, projected onto his campaign in a haze of innuendo.

Put together, the picture is damning: an IRS that dropped the ball in 2019, and an FBI and DOJ that throttled their own field offices in 2016. The whistleblowers are still pressing their case, six years later.

But the old memos are now re-surfacing, and the “deep state” may yet face a reckoning from what may prove the largest political scandal of modern times. (Read more: Zero Hedge, 8/22/2025)  (Archive)

August 21, 2025 – An IRS memo reveals abrupt end to Clinton Foundation probe In 2019

Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers: Doyle, Moynihan vs. IRS in a December 2018 Congressional hearing. (Credit: Fox News)

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) abruptly shuttered an investigation into the Clinton Foundation during the first Trump administration, according to internal IRS memos, emails and related notes reviewed by Just The News.

The whistleblowers, John Moynihan, a retired Drug Enforcement Agency financial crimes analyst, and Larry Doyle, a corporate tax compliance expert, had submitted extensive documentation to the IRS, according to Just The News. The whistleblowers alleged the Clinton Foundation had mishandled funds, mingled personal and charitable finances and possibly engaged in quid pro quo arrangements.

“Can’t talk about the CF,” one IRS agent allegedly stated in a memo, cutting off communication with two whistleblowers who had been working with the agency for months, according to Just The News.

Between January and April 2019, the whistleblowers met repeatedly with IRS investigators, presenting detailed evidence, including thumb drives with thousands of pages of documents, charts mapping financial networks and lists of potential witnesses, the outlet reported. But by July 2019, all investigative activity had ground to a halt.

The whistleblowers contend that there is “absolutely no doubt that somebody up the chain of command blocked this pursuit,” Just The News reported. Moynihan and Doyle are currently pursuing two cases in the U.S. Tax Court, arguing they were wrongly denied an award for identifying alleged tax irregularities at the Clinton Foundation. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 8/21/2025) (Archive)

August 21, 2025 – NY Appeals Court makes critical ruling in Letitia James’ civil fraud case against Trump

Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State (Credit: Wikipedia)

A New York appeals court tossed a nearly half-billion-dollar civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump on Thursday.

The penalty, which now stands at over $515 million with interest, is “excessive,” a panel of five judges found.

Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump last year to pay $355 million in penalties in the case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who alleged Trump inflated his net worth to secure better loans.

“While the injunctive relief ordered by the court is well crafted to curb defendants’ business culture, the court’s disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” Justice Peter H. Moulton wrote in a concurring opinion joined by Justice Dianne Renwick.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that he “greatly respect[s] the fact that the Court had the Courage to throw out this unlawful and disgraceful Decision that was hurting Business all throughout New York State.”

“This was a Case of Election Interference by the City and State trying to show, illegally, that I did things that were wrong when, in fact, everything I did was absolutely CORRECT and, even, PERFECT,” he wrote. “Every single Dollar was thrown out, even the penalties imposed on us by the Corrupt Judge, one of the most overturned in History, Arthur Engoron.”

Two other judges, Justices John R. Higgitt and Llinét M. R, said they would have vacated Engoron’s judgement and ordered a new trial.

Another judge on the bench highlighted James’ political motives in bringing the case, arguing the complaint should have been dismissed in its entirety.

“Plainly, her ultimate goal was not ‘market hygiene,’ as posited by Justice Moulton, but political hygiene, ending with the derailment of President Trump’s political career and the destruction of his real estate business,” Justice David Friedman wrote. “The voters have obviously rendered a verdict on his political career. This bench today unanimously derails the effort to destroy his business.”

Trump wrote on Truth Social that he was “honored by Justice David Friedman’s great words of wisdom, which should be read by everyone.” (Read more: The Daily Caller, 8/21/2025)  (Archive)

August 21, 2025 – Kash Patel announces settlement with 10 FBI whistleblowers — Backpay, security clearances, and reinstatement are secured

Suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle, FBI Agent Steve Friend, FBI Agent Marcus Allen and Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt are sworn in at a hearing on Capitol Hill. (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

On Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that 10 FBI whistleblowers who were targeted, punished, and silenced by the corrupt Biden–Harris regime have finally reached settlements that include full backpay, restoration of their security clearances, and reinstatement to their jobs.

Patel posted the news on X, thanking President Trump and Senator Chuck Grassley for standing up for these brave Americans:

Patel did not disclose any further information about the deal. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 8/21/2025) (Archive)

August 21, 2025 – Prosecutors secured evidence Comey authorized classified leaks, but declined charges

James Comey testifies before Congress in March 2017 after his misleading “Gang of Eight” private briefing for top lawmakers. (Credit: AP)

Federal prosecutors gathered evidence from James Comey’s top lieutenants that he authorized the leak of classified information to reporters just before the 2016 election but declined to bring criminal charges, according to recently declassified memos that call into question the former FBI director’s testimony to Congress.

James Rybicki (Credit: The Associated Press)

The bombshell revelations involving ex-FBI general counsel James Baker and ex-Comey chief of staff James Rybicki were memorialized in documents that FBI Director Kash Patel discovered earlier this year, but the passages were originally redacted by the Justice Department in versions sent to Congress earlier this month.

Attorney General Pam Bondi intervened and eliminated the redactions, dispatching new versions of the memos this week to the House and Senate Judiciary committees, officials told Just the News.

The memos detail evidence and interviews gathered by U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents concerning classified information leaked to The New York Times in October 2016, ahead of the November election in which Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.

James Baker (Credit: Twitter)

“The USPIS Investigation also revealed Baker disclosed USG [U.S. government] classified information to the NYT under the belief he was ultimately instructed and authorized to do so by then FBI Director James Comey,” one summary memo reads. “For example, during interviews, Baker indicated FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki instructed him (Baker) to disclose the information to the NYT, and Baker understood Rybicki was conveying this instruction and authorization from Comey.”

The memos don’t identify the specific pieces of classified information that were leaked or whether Comey or anyone else was authorized to declassify them for the media.  But they were investigated by multiple prosecutors, including the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., under Trump’s first administration and by future-special prosecutor John Durham, and all declined to bring criminal charges, the memos show.

Bondi told Just the News on Thursday she was committed to bringing accountability for the yet unpunished leaks.

“This document produced at my direction confirms what many Americans have long suspected: former FBI Director James Comey and his chief of staff engaged in abhorrent conduct,” she said. “There must be accountability for those who were entrusted with safeguarding our nation’s secrets and failed to do so.”

Comey previously denied during congressional testimony that he had ever been a source in news articles related to the FBI’s investigations into Trump and Clinton and further denied that he had ever approved of anyone else at the FBI being such a source. He has long denied any wrongdoing and insisted he has been politically attacked because he stood up to Trump.

Patel told Just the News the evidence he uncovered raised concerns that one of his predecessors may have authorized illegal leaks and lied about it.

“These newly declassified memos show how former FBI leadership authorized classified leaks and withheld the truth from Congress and the American people,” he said. “Thanks to President Trump’s commitment to transparency, the cover-up is being exposed. The public deserves nothing less than full accountability.”

You can read the declassified FBI memos here:

Declassified FBI Memos – Tropic Vortex Investigation – Baker, Rybicki, and Comey

A recent barrage of declassified documents showing Comey and current Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., may have been behind national security leaks over the last decade designed to harm Trump may prove more than just an exercise in historical accountability.

Legal experts say the statute of limitations for prosecution under espionage laws for leaks back in 2016 or 2017 can be extended to 10 years if the act was knowing and willful and harmed national security or was part of an ongoing criminal conspiracy that continued into the last five years. (Read more: Just the News, 8/21/2025)  (Archive)

August 22, 2025 – Iryna Zarutska: Left-wing MacArthur Foundation gave Charlotte NC a $3.3 million grant to reduce the jail population as part of “racial equity” goals

Another factor in the death of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail–the left-wing MacArthur Foundation giving Mecklenburg county a $3.3 million grant to reduce the jail population. Specifically as part of “racial equity aims.

Like Soros’ Open Society, the MacArthur Foundation incentivizes local municipalities to make residents less safe by leaving threats like Decarlos Brown on the streets.

LAWFARE: Did you know that many of the judges releasing violent criminals into your communities aren’t even lawyers? Judge Teresa Stokes who released the career criminal who murdered the Ukrainian refugee on a promise he’d return to court for trial is NOT a lawyer. In states like North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Texas and Arizona the magistrate signing your arrest or search warrant, or deciding bail amounts might not be a lawyer.

(Timeline editor’s note: We are using the August 22, 2025 date when adding base information to the Iryna Zarutska timeline entries, because that is the day she was killed. It did not become apparent to the public until  September due to a total lack of mainstream media coverage.)

August 22, 2025 – FBI raids John Bolton’s Maryland home in national security probe

FBI agents raided the DC-area home of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning in a high-profile national security probe, The Post can exclusively reveal.

Federal agents busted into Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post.

“NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” he said in a cryptic post to X shortly after the raid began.

The probe — which is said to involve classified documents — was first launched years ago, but the Biden administration shut it down “for political reasons,” according to a senior US official.

Bolton has previously been accused of including classified information in his 2020 book, “The Room Where It Happened.”

President Trump fought to quash its publication over its inclusion of national secrets — saying Bolton broke an NDA signed as a condition of his employment — but was ultimately unsuccessful. (The New York Post, 8/22/2025)  (Archives)

August 22, 2025 – Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse

Lt. General Jeffrey Kruse (Credit: public domain)

The firing follows a June preliminary assessment from the DIA — the Pentagon’s main intelligence wing — of the Iran military strikes, which prompted vicious backlash from the Trump administration.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest senior military or intelligence officer to lose his position in a wider purge of national security agencies’ top ranks, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, didn’t immediately cite a reason for the dismissal other than “loss of confidence,” a catchall term Hegseth has used to justify the sacking of other senior military officers this year.

The firing follows a preliminary assessment from the DIA — the Pentagon’s main intelligence wing — of the military strikes on Iran’s three main nuclear sites in June, which prompted vicious backlash from the Trump administration after it was first reported by CNN and the New York Times.

That preliminary report assessed that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had been set back only a matter of months, in contrast to Hegseth’s and President Donald Trump’s statements that the capabilities had been “obliterated.”

The Pentagon and the Defense Intelligence Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Since entering office, Hegseth has fired a slate of America’s most senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles “C.Q.” Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan and Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife.
Last week, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin announced he would step down in November, after being forced out of his position.
The Trump administration has simultaneously purged a number of spy agency heads, whose roles, like the military’s, are supposed to be apolitical.
In April, Trump fired the head of the powerful National Security Agency, which conducts electronic and digital eavesdropping. Gen. Timothy Haugh and his deputy, Wendy Noble, were dismissed after far-right activist Laura Loomer advocated for their ouster.
In May, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard removed the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, Michael Collins, and his deputy. The move came after the NIC, a respected analytic hub, wrote an assessment that contradicted Trump’s rationale for invoking the Alien Enemies Act and deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members without due process. (Washington Post, 8/22/2025)  (Archive)

August 22, 2025 – The murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska and the magistrate judge who set her killer loose on society

Horrific footage captured the moment a madman fatally stabbed a Ukrainian refugee from behind as she sat on a train in North Carolina.

Iryna Zarutska (Credit: public domain)

The sickening attack unfolded on August 22, soon after Iryna Zarutska, 23, boarded a South End light rail train in Charlotte.

Cops identified the stabber as homeless man Decarlos Brown Jr., 35, who has a lengthy rap sheet, including an arrest for assaulting his sister.

He was seen in the footage watching Zarutska for some time after she sat in the seat in front of him, eventually taking out what appeared to be a blade from his pocket.

He then stood up and loomed over the 23-year-old, swinging the knife at her as she sat with her phone.

Brown was shown leaving a trail of blood throughout the train as other passengers appeared not to realize the killing that had taken place, before he rips off his shirt.

He was arrested soon after and charged with first-degree murder. His bond was subsequently denied by a judge and he remains in custody.

Zarutska’s heartbroken family said on a GoFundMe page that she had only arrived in the US in 2022 ‘seeking safety from the war’ in her home country, and ‘hoping for a new beginning’ before the slaying. (Read more: The Daily Mail, 9/8/2025)  (Archive)

Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes (Credit: LinkedIn)

Teresa Stokes, the DEI-appointed magistrate judge who isn’t even admitted to the North Carolina bar, and released DeCarlos Brown Jr. before he brutally murdered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, is married to a woman.

She’s a lesbian. But, not just any lesbian.

Teresa Ann Stokes and Ayanna Rosalyn Ballard applied for a marriage license in Ingham County, Michigan, in April of 2019.

Teresa and Ayanna are a married couple that apparently enjoys working together. In 2021, they were working together at their halfway house fried chicken joint, Wing Heaven Sports Haven, in Lansing, Michigan, and they are both directors of Pinnacle Recovery Group, a nonprofit corporation in Lansing, Michigan.

Since the married lesbian couple relocated to North Carolina, Teresa Stokes was appointed as a Mecklenburg County magistrate, and her wife, Ayanna Ballard, is a “health care provider” affiliated with a Charlotte, NC, mental health and addiction clinic that specializes in court-ordered evaluations.

It’s worth mentioning that Charlotte, North Carolina is located in Mecklenburg County, within the same jurisdiction that her magistrate wife presides over.

This extreme connection deserves further scrutiny.

Did they coordinate in their respective professions?

Perhaps there should be an investigation into these mental health and addiction “court evaluations” overseen by Teresa Stoke’s wife.

How convenient for her wife that she is married to a magistrate judge with a soft spot for violent criminals and drug addicts.

Very alarming!

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EXCLUSIVE:

🚨Teresa Stokes, the magistrate judge who let career criminal DeCarlos Brown Jr. walk free before he violently slaughtered Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina, sold chicken wings to drug addicts in 2021 before becoming a DEI magistrate judge in April 2023.🚨

Decarlos Brown Jr. (Credit: Mugshot)

Mecklenburg County Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, the DEI Shaniqua magistrate judge who released DeCarlos Brown Jr., the feral career criminal, in January 2025, who was caught on video viciously murdering Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte, NC light rail train last month, sold chicken wings before she became a judge. @LoomerUnleashed has uncovered an old news clip about Teresa Stokes and her chicken wings.

See video below 👇🏻

Perhaps she should have focused on selling chicken wings instead of unleashing dangerous predators back into our society.

Magistrate Judge and fried chicken restaurateur Teresa Stokes, co-owner of Wing Heaven Sports Haven, openly admitted in a March 15, 2021 interview in Lansing, Michigan with FOX 47 to losing a brother and a nephew to drug addiction in 2020, revealing a clear bias for those struggling with substance abuse—and her statements suggest she extends excessive compassion to such individuals, perhaps too much so in the case of DeCarlos Brown Jr.

Wing Heaven Sports Haven described itself online as a “sober and recovery atmosphere” that catered to drug addicts and criminals before it permanently closed.

The interview also confirmed that Teresa Stokes is co-owner of Pinnacle Recovery Services, a Lansing nonprofit housing program.

Radical leftist judges who are deliberately ignoring our Constitution and common sense are unleashing an uncontrollable violent black crime wave on innocent civilians in our country. These radical activist judges are literally just as dangerous as the killers they are unleashing upon us.

How do you go from selling chicken wings to being a magistrate judge?

This is insane. And it’s one of the most obvious examples of how DEI= DIE.

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August 22, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard bars intel community from sharing classified intelligence regarding Ukraine negotiations with Five Eyes partners

On Friday, CBS News reported that Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, banned US classified intelligence regarding the negotiations on Ukraine with Five Eyes partners.

The Five Eyes Alliance (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The organization has its origins traced back to World War II.

This information was leaked to CBS News by current intel operatives. They spoke under condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters.

They should be tossed out the door like the other dirty leakers in the intelligence community.

In 2018, The Gateway Pundit was the first to report that the Deep State was using foreigners to spy on then-candidate Trump in 2015 prior to the 2016 presidential election.  President Trump tweeted our report by Joe Hoft the following day and the fake-news mainstream media immediately attacked him for promoting what they called a “conspiracy theory.”

We later discovered more evidence in 2020 that we were 100% correct in our initial reporting.

Joe Hoft reported on this development at the time.  In June of 2018 The Gateway Pundit posted an article identifying unredacted words in previously redacted texts between corrupt cops Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two individuals supposedly having an affair and key players at the top of the FBI involved in spying on candidate and then President Trump.

The discovery came from an individual on Twitter who was later removed from the platform, named Nick Falco, who identified a word uncovered in a Senate text that the corrupt DOJ previously redacted.

In our 2018 post, we noted that hidden in the information released by the Senate at that time were unredacted Strzok–Page texts that revealed that the FBI initiated actions to insert multiple spies in the Trump campaign in December 2015. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 8/23/2025)  (Archive)

August 23, 2025 – John Solomon and Russiagate: After 9 years of investigation, here’s what I uncovered

August 25, 2025 – Chinese spies, U.S. Agriculture officials, and city mayors secretly meet to help China buy farmland

U.S. Heartland China Association meet in Chicago with America’s agricultural leaders to help the CCP embed in America’s agriculture, food and healthcare systems. (Credit: Natalie Winters)

A secretive Chicago meeting ignored by the mainstream press brought several dozen Chinese Communist Party officials face-to-face with America’s agricultural leaders.

The U.S. Heartland China Association (USHCA) pitched it as a harmless “forum,” but the real agenda was far more consequential: embedding Beijing into U.S. agriculture, food, and healthcare systems. The USHCA has a long history of enabling the CCP takeover American farmland.

Held August 25, 2025, the “Heartland Connect for Trade and Investment” event was co-hosted with the China General Chamber of Commerce–Chicago (CGCCC).

Who Was There (And Who Wasn’t)

The press release admits more than 150 participants from 17 states and D.C. attended, while a Chinese delegation of 45 representatives flew in from Beijing, Shanghai, Henan, Liaoning, and Shaanxi. Senior representatives from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) were present. Both organizations are well-documented instruments of Beijing’s espionage and influence strategy.

Among the Americans lending legitimacy to the gathering were Kim Norton, the mayor of Rochester, Minnesota, and Nathaniel Booker, the mayor of Maywood, Illinois.

Even more troubling was the corporate lineup. Jim Sutter, CEO of the U.S. Soybean Export Council, moderated multiple panels — sitting side-by-side with CCP officials.

Jim Sutter (l), Kim Norton (Wikipedia), and Nathaniel Booker (DUI mugshot) are selling out America’s heartland to the Chinese Communist Party.

The organization refuses to publish a complete attendee list. There is no disclosure of who signed commitments, who brokered side deals, or which U.S. institutions left with new Chinese partnerships. Noticeably absent were watchdogs, critics, or any national-security voices.

This was not an open exchange. It was a carefully staged access point for CCP-linked groups to burrow deeper into America’s heartland.

The Influence Pipeline

(Read more: Natalie Winters/Substack, 9/26/2025)  (Archive)

August 26, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard discusses the hidden documents related to corruption in the 2020 election; promises to make public

President Donald Trump announced that current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has uncovered bags of hidden documents related to corruption in the 2020 election.

Trump, speaking in front of his administration as they continue a historic federal crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., and push for peace negotiations in the Russia-Ukraine war, directly addressed the bombshell findings.

According to a statement by President Trump, these files contain “massive” evidence of wrongdoing and will soon be made public.

President Trump: “And you’ve also found many bags of information. I think they call them burn bags. They’re supposed to be burned, and they didn’t get burned, having to do with how corrupt the 2020 election was. And when will that all come out?”

Tulsi Gabbard, serving as Director of National Intelligence, confirmed the shocking find:

Tulsi Gabbard: “Mr. President, I will be the first to brief you once we have that information collected. But you’re right, we are finding documents literally tucked away in the back of safes in random offices in these bags and in other areas, which again speaks to the intent of those who are trying to hide the truth from the American people and trying to cover up the politicization that was led by people like John Brennan and James Clapper and others that have caused really immeasurable harm to the American people and to our country.”

(…) “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.” (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 8/26/2925) (Archive)

August 26, 2025 – Michigan Republicans find and eliminate $5 billion budget fraud scheme

Michigan Speaker of the House Matt Hall holds press conference to discuss cutting waste, fraud and abuse in past budget. (Credit: Video clipping from Fox News)

Republicans in Michigan have exposed one of the most blatant examples of budgetary abuse in recent memory.

House Republicans say their review of the state budget revealed more than $5 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse, hidden through the creation of 4,277 “phantom jobs.”

These positions do not exist in reality but were used to justify line items that allowed Democrats to funnel money toward radical priorities rather than essential services.

Among the spending categories tied to these fake jobs are taxpayer-funded gender surgeries for convicted criminals and millions in “arts and culture” grants for organizations that cannot even be identified.

Under complete Democrat control, Lansing has allowed the budget to balloon to over $82 billion—the largest in state history.

(…) Roads remain among the worst in the nation, insurance rates continue to weigh down families, and basic services show little improvement. Yet Democrats diverted billions toward programs that would not survive public scrutiny if debated honestly.

Republicans have presented a clear alternative. Their plan eliminates the fake jobs, strips out the fraudulent spending categories, and redirects those funds to priorities that ordinary citizens actually value. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 9/o1/2025)  (Archive)

August 26, 2025 – A declassified FBI memo reveals months after probing Clinton private server scandal, Comey’s FBI had its own private email issue

Months after he refused to charge Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election for using a private, unauthorized server to transmit classified information, then-FBI Director James Comey’s inner circle used personal email accounts to further a plan to make an “unauthorized disclosure” to journalists, newly declassified memos reveal.

When investigators in a criminal probe codenamed “TROPIC VORTEX” sought permission in 2019 to gain access to those private emails, federal prosecutors turned them down, according to the memos recently uncovered by current FBI Director Kash Patel and declassified for release to Congress by Attorney General Pam Bondi.

James Rybicki forwarded a communication to his private email address in furtherance of an unauthorized disclosure of classified information to journalists. (Credit: Minnesota Lawyer)

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington DC “issued a prosecutorial declination decision for TROPIC VORTEX,” the FBI memo shutting down the probe stated.

The memos are the latest evidence that FBI agents on the front lines had serious concerns about illegal leaks and abuses of classified information allegedly involving major figures in Washington like Comey, now Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Clinton. The efforts at investigating were repeatedly thwarted.

Just the News reported last week that agents gathered eyewitness evidence from Comey’s top lieutenants, including former chief of staff James Rybicki and ex-FBI General Counsel James Baker, that the former FBI chief authorized the leak of classified information to reporters just before the 2016 election. No charges were ever filed.

(…) The newest declassified memos detail evidence alleging that in March 2017, Rybicki forwarded a communication to his private email address in furtherance of an unauthorized disclosure of classified information to journalists directed by Comey.

Federal prosecutors originally issued a preservation order for the private email account based on the findings by the FBI’s Washington Field Office that the communication was in furtherance of a media leak. Ultimately, though, the prosecutors decided against pursuing “additional legal process” because the communication was itself not classified.

(…) You can read the memo below:

(Read more: Just the News, 8/26/2025)  (Archive)

August 27, 2025 – A detailed look at George Soros and why he may have violated RICO laws

This is the DEEPEST most incriminating most detailed thread on George Soros you will ever read.

George Soros built an empire on chaos. Now, his son Alexander inherits the throne. But what if this ‘philanthropic’ empire is actually the largest, most sophisticated criminal organization in modern history? We have the evidence. We have the law. It’s called RICO.

Here is the 24-part indictment the DOJ is too cowardly to bring.

To win a RICO case, prosecutors must prove four things. First, the existence of an “Enterprise.” The law’s definition is brilliantly broad: it’s not just a formal corporation, but ANY group of individuals with a common purpose, including a loose “association-in-fact”. The Soros network—the Open Society Foundations (OSF), its legion of grantees, and its web of shell PACs—is a textbook criminal enterprise united by a single goal: the destruction of American sovereignty.

Second, a “Pattern of Racketeering Activity.” This is the key that unlocks the entire conspiracy. The law requires at least two major crimes, or “predicate acts,” from a list of 35, committed within a 10-year period. These acts must demonstrate relatedness and, crucially, “continuity”—a threat of long-term criminal conduct. The Soros Enterprise hasn’t just committed two. It has engaged in a decades-long pattern of criminal activity across the globe. A dynasty of crime.

Meet the bosses of the Soros Crime Family. At the top sits George Soros, the architect who built a $25 BILLION empire by manufacturing chaos and profiting from the wreckage. Now, he has formally passed control to his hand-picked successor, Alexander Soros, who has publicly vowed to be “even more political” than his father. The formal handover of power is the single greatest piece of evidence for “continuity” under RICO. This isn’t charity; it’s a criminal succession.

The Open Society Foundations (OSF) is the enterprise’s primary front. It is not a foundation; it is a sophisticated money-laundering operation for a radical political agenda. With a $25 billion endowment and over $1.5 billion in annual expenditures, it has the scale and reach of a rogue state, operating in over 120 countries. In 2017, Soros personally injected $18 BILLION into the organization. He wasn’t making a donation; he was capitalizing a criminal enterprise.

The “soldiers” of the Soros Enterprise are its grantees. Radical groups that organize riots, advocate for open borders, and push anti-American propaganda are not independent “partners.” They are instruments of the enterprise’s will, funded through a labyrinth of pass-through entities like the Tides Foundation and shell PACs designed to obscure the chain of command. RICO was written specifically to pierce these veils and hold the bosses accountable for the actions of their subordinates.

The pattern of racketeering began with economic terrorism. On “Black Wednesday” in 1992, Soros launched a massive speculative attack on the British Pound, earning the moniker “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England”. He pocketed over $1 billion in profit, while the British treasury—and its taxpayers—lost an estimated £3.4 billion. This was not a “trade.” It was a predicate act: Interference with Commerce by Threats or Violence (18 U.S.C. § 1951) against a sovereign nation. The original sin that revealed the enterprise’s character.

This was not a one-off event. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad publicly accused Soros of using his financial power to punish the nation for its political decisions, referencing Soros’s Jewish background to imply a conspiracy. Soros’s own fund later admitted to short-selling the Malaysian ringgit and Thai baht. This establishes a clear global pattern of using predatory financial power to destabilize entire economies for profit and political leverage.

The Soros Enterprise then brought its destabilization playbook to America. During the 2014 Ferguson unrest, OSF funneled at least $33 million to a network of “civil rights” groups, including the key on-the-ground organizers of the protests that devolved into riots: the Organization for Black Struggle and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE). Businesses were looted and burned. An American city was torn apart. This is the funding of domestic terror.

In the summer of 2020, as American cities burned during the most destructive riots in a generation, the Soros Enterprise announced it was pouring a staggering $220 MILLION into “racial justice” groups, including many at the heart of the violent protests. This was not a donation to heal the country. It was pouring gasoline on the fire. They funded the chaos, then profited politically from the division and fear. This is racketeering on a national scale.

OSF maintains the legal fiction of an “arm’s length” approach to its grantees, claiming it doesn’t pay protestors or coordinate their actions. Under RICO, this defense is irrelevant. By knowingly and repeatedly funding groups whose tactics foreseeably include violence, arson, and looting, the Soros Enterprise is criminally liable for the destructive results. The widespread destruction of private property constitutes a massive violation of the Hobbs Act (18 U.S.C. § 1951). They paid for the riots. They own the consequences.

Perhaps the most insidious predicate act is the systematic takeover of our justice system. The Soros Enterprise has spent over $40 MILLION to elect a slate of radical, pro-criminal district attorneys in America’s largest cities. Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, George Gascón in Los Angeles, Kim Foxx in Chicago, and Alvin Bragg in Manhattan. These are not public servants; they are agents of the enterprise, installed to dismantle law and order from within.

Once in office, these Soros-backed DAs implement the enterprise’s agenda: a systemic refusal to prosecute entire categories of crime, from theft and drug offenses to resisting arrest and assault on law enforcement. This is not “criminal justice reform.” It is a coordinated conspiracy to commit Obstruction of State or Local Law Enforcement (18 U.S.C. § 1511) on an industrial scale. They are actively preventing the law from being enforced, by design.

August 27, 2025 – Soros converts tax-deductible donations into political campaigns through a $34 million pipeline

We exposed how George Soros converts tax-deductible donations into political campaigns through a $34 million pipeline where Tides and Working Families Party coordinate to support candidates like Zohran Mamdani

Our investigation uncovered a $2+ billion tax-exempt network that systematically converted charitable donations into political power. The numbers tell the story.

FULL INVESTIGATION: [link]: ➡️

THE BASIC SCHEME: George Soros donates to his Foundation to Promote Open Society (501c3) – tax deductible → $8.4M flows to Tides Foundation (501c3) → $29.3M flows to Tides Advocacy (501c4) for “political advocacy” → Coordinates with Working Families Organization supporting candidates like Mamdani

THE SMOKING GUN – REVERSE FLOWS: After receiving $9.71M from the Soros pipeline, Working Families Organization sent $325,000 BACK to Tides entities. Independent charities don’t do this. It’s mathematical proof of coordination.

Janiece Evans-Page (Credit: public domain)

SYSTEMATIC CONCEALMENT: Tides Advocacy (501c4) lists Janiece Evans-Page as Director, while she simultaneously serves as CEO of both Tides Foundation (501c3) and Tides Center (501c3), yet Tides Advocacy filed NO disclosure forms for 5+ years while receiving $29.3M.

THE EIN SCANDALS:
➡️Working Families Organization reported $80,000 to “WFP National PAC” but used an EIN that actually belongs to “International Earthlight Alliance.”
➡️Tides Center reported a $343,753 contribution to “Tides Advocacy” using an EIN that belongs to “Think Outside Da Block Inc.

PROFESSIONAL AUDITOR CONFIRMATION: Deloitte auditors confirmed operational integration between Tides Foundation and Tides Center, requiring consolidated financial statements. Yet Tides Advocacy – sharing the same leadership – systematically concealed these relationships. 6/

THE SCALE:
➡️$34.4M in documented flows between supposedly independent entities
➡️$16.1M in government grants flowing to organizations with political arms
➡️$36.5M in admitted “political transfers” by Open Society Institute
➡️Over $2B in total network operations

OUR EVIDENCE: Every dollar amount traced to original IRS Form 990 filings. We’ve filed a Fifth Supplemental IRS whistleblower complaint documenting potential $500M+ in tax recovery from this coordination system.

THE MAMDANI CONNECTION: This network manufactured his “grassroots” campaign while maintaining the illusion of independent charitable work. The infrastructure that created his political rise operates continuously, creating candidates nationwide.

WHY IT MATTERS: If charitable tax deductions can be systematically converted into political coordination through concealed control structures, it undermines the entire tax-exempt system. Donors get tax breaks, candidates get “grassroots” cover, taxpayers subsidize political operations.

The mathematics don’t lie. When organizations engage in $34M+ flows while concealing key relationships and sending money backward through the system, these patterns warrant investigation.

August 28, 2025 – Mark Warner is “Loomered” for a town hall event he was to join with head of Nat’l Geospatial-Intel Agency, and instead, it was cancelled

NGA Director Frank “Trey” Whitworth

Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner said that a scheduled intelligence meeting was canceled after interference from right-wing activist Laura Loomer.

Warner, the Senate Intelligence Committee vice chairman, said Wednesday that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency visit scheduled for Friday was called off after Loomer publicly attacked him and the NGA’s director, Vice Adm. Frank “Trey” Whitworth, NBC News reported.

“This is the kind of thing that happens in authoritarian regimes,” Warner said.

Loomer, who does not have an official position in the Trump administration, took credit for the meeting cancelation

“Following my expose of Biden appointed NGA Director Trey Whitworth, who was Mark Milley’s handpicked Director for NGA @NGA_GEOINT, Whitworth’s scheduled September 5th fireside love fest with anti-Trump Democrat Senator @MarkWarner Mark Warner has been CANCELED!” she posted Tuesday on X.

“How can a Biden appointee and someone with such bad judgement that they would invite a rabid Trump hater and Russia Hoaxer like Mark Warner to speak at NGA be allowed to remain in their job, especially under the Trump administration? @PeteHegseth should fire Trey Whitworth for insubordination.”

Warner first mentioned the incident late Tuesday, saying it was a “nakedly political decision” that “undermines the dedicated, nonpartisan staff at NGA.”

He said that the meeting was canceled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office, not the National Geospatial Agency leadership.

Warner added that he was told that such visits needed to be “bipartisan” and not carried out by a member of one political party.

A Defense Department official said that “the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency visit was rescheduled, not canceled, in order to accommodate bipartisan participation in the town hall event.” (Just the News, 9/6/2025)  (Archive)

September 5, 2025

Trump selects top military intel advisor to run the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Lt. Gen.Michele Bredenkamp

President Donald Trump has nominated Army Lt. Gen. Michele Bredenkamp to lead the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon announced Friday.

NGA is both a principal member of the U.S. intelligence community and a Pentagon combat support agency. Its personnel supply the military, IC and first responders with data and intel to address their analytical and operational needs.

Bredenkamp currently serves at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as the director’s advisor for military affairs — a position she has held since January 2024. Her previous assignments include commanding general of Army Intelligence and Security Command, director of intelligence for U.S. Forces Korea, and vice director for intelligence, J-2, on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, among others, according to her official bio. She also deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan during the post-9/11 wars.

If confirmed by the Senate, Bredenkamp will become the ninth director of NGA, succeeding Navy Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, who has led the agency since early 2022. (Defense Scoop, 9/5/2025)  (Archive)

August 29, 2025 – The War On Reality is Over

“. . . this time the story has escaped the narrative guardrails and some real reckoning looms.” —Jeff Childers

Unwittingly, that New York Times headline is a wondrous case of the self-solving mystery. You come here to understand the many social and political mysteries of the day. I will attempt to unravel this hairball.

Most obviously, the suspect, now dead, in Wednesday’s Minneapolis school shooting was not a “her.” He was a him, a 23-year-old male, Robert Westman, who had been pretending to be a female for some years since undergoing puberty, with the encouragement of his parents and the cultural leaders of his city, including Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, backed by the expressed principles of the national Democratic Party.

The essence of all that was a gigantic game of pretend, a broad and deliberate dissociation from reality for the purpose of maintaining a political racketeering operation, which is what the Democratic Party had become. Pretend that men can become women. Pretend that Covid vaccinations are safe and effective. Pretend that national borders don’t matter. Pretend that crime is not a social problem. Pretend that riots are mostly peaceful. Pretend that our elections are free and fair. Pretend that “Joe Biden” is president. Pretend that Ukraine is fighting for democracy. And so on. All pretend.

Since the Democratic Party has zero useful ideas for improving the lives of this country’s citizens, all it has is pretend theater, which is public performative psychopathology, otherwise known as acting-out. Mass murders of school-children by so-called trans people are the most garish and horrific actings-out, the most offensive to society, a slaughter of innocents. Such an act grabs everybody’s attention. The New York Times pretends that all this is “a mystery” because to tell the truth would inculpate them in the ongoing criminal racketeering operation of their patron, the Democratic Party.

They all know what the truth is in this matter: that Robert Westman became insane, at least in his time of puberty, possibly earlier, and that his parents resorted to persuading their child that he was born in the wrong body — as the trendy theory goes — to remedy his psychological distress. He was thereafter influenced to play-act as a female. Possibly, he was induced to go through some stage of medical “treatment” to supposedly advance his transition to the opposite sex — for instance, a hormone regimen. This has not yet been reported. (Has it even been investigated by police or the news media?)

Of course, “gender-affirming medical care” is a vicious fraud, as is the preposterous idea of “sexual assignment at birth” (as if it is some kind of error-ridden clerical function). Males cannot be changed into females no matter how much their hormones are altered or how much surgery they endure. It is all just costuming and makeup, to an extreme degree, to enhance the game of pretend. It is also bound to be nightmarishly disappointing to the person undergoing such malign rigors.

As in the case of psycho-killer Robert Westman, he discovered his tragic mistake in exactly the period of life — emerging into adulthood — when emotions tend to be most labile. If he also happened to be on psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, etc.), known to produce suicidal and homicidal thinking, combined with his emotional instability, there you have an obvious recipe for disaster. None of that is mysterious. (Read more: Robert Kunstler/Clusterfuck Nation. 8/29/2025)  (Archive)

August 29, 2025 – Democrats trend on X with conspiracy theory that Trump may be dead; Tim Walz fantasizes about it in a Labor Day speech

Liberal critics spread unfounded rumors of President Donald Trump’s death across social media Friday night, only to see the president emerge Saturday morning for a round of golf with his granddaughter.

The hashtags #TrumpIsDead and #WhereIsTrump trended on X throughout Friday night and into Saturday morning after Trump hadn’t appeared publicly since Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting. Google searches for “is Trump dead” and “Trump dead” topped trending lists by noon Saturday, according to Forbes.

The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson posted to X on Saturday: “Waking up to #TrumpIsDead and #whereistrump reminds me that JD ‘Popekiller’ Vance has been spending a lot of time around Don lately,” referencing how Pope Francis died shortly after meeting the vice president in April, the New York Post reported.

Ben Meiselas, co-founder of liberal media outlet MeidasTouch, fueled speculation Friday, Newsweek reported. Meiselas posted, “Where did Trump go?! Where is he? What is happening?” Social media users amplified the conspiracy, with one account claiming “Donald Trump is dead. He has been since Wednesday.” (Read more: The Daily Caller, 9/2/2025)

August 28, 2025 – Pulte sends second criminal referral on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook after she’s allegedly caught lying on 3rd property

3 strikes and you’re out.

Today, U.S. Federal Housing sent a 2nd Criminal Referral in the matter of Lisa D. Cook, related to a mortgage on a 3rd property and alleged misrepresentations about her properties to the United States Government during her time as Governor of the Federal Reserve.

On April 7, 2021, Cook entered a 15-year mortgage for a condominium in Cambridge, MA, representing it as her “Second Home”. Only eight months later, on December 1, 2021, Cook signed an ethics form with the U.S. Government that this property was an “investment/rental property”.

In subsequent filings from 2022 to 2025, Cook consistently listed this property as an investment/rental property, not a second home. Representing the property as a second home may have allowed Cook to secure a lower “Second Home” mortgage down payment and rates, as investment properties typically carry higher down payments and higher rates due to increased risk.

Additionally, Cook allegedly misrepresented her Atlanta, GA property from 2022-2025 to the U.S. Government as her residence, despite evidence suggesting it was being rented out to tenants. Similarly, Cook declared in a 2025 government filing that her Ann Arbor, MI property was her personal residence, however, we have reason to believe that as of 2025, the Ann Arbor property is being used as a rental property, not a personal residence. These inconsistencies appear Cook made additional, multiple false representations, including to the U.S. Government, regarding the status of her mortgages and properties.

August 30, 2025 – Ex-Postal fraud investigator allegedly stole more than $330K from elderly scam victims he was meant to protect

Ex-Postal fraud investigator stole more than $330K from elderly scam victims to pay for home renovations and escorts. (Credit: New York Post)

A former U.S. postal investigator tasked with protecting elderly fraud victims allegedly stole more than $330,000 from the very people he was supposed to help, spending the money on escorts, pool renovations and vacations, Fox News reported.

Scott Kelley, 51, of Massachusetts, faces a 45-count indictment including wire fraud, mail fraud, mail theft and money laundering charges, the Justice Department announced Friday, according to Fox News. The former team leader of the Postal Inspection Service’s Mail Fraud Unit allegedly intercepted 1,950 packages between 2019 and 2023, the DOJ said.

Prosecutors say Kelley sent deceitful emails to postal workers, instructing them to intercept packages from victims of Jamaican lottery scams and forward them to him, according to the outlet. The scammers had convinced victims they needed to send money to claim fake lottery winnings.

Kelley allegedly spent $15,400 on escorts, sometimes during workdays, $30,188 on a swimming pool patio and lighting, and $4,300 on a Caribbean cruise, the outlet reported. He laundered the stolen cash through postal money orders and spread deposits across four bank accounts at two banks. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 8/31/2025) (Archive)

September 1, 2025 – Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her husband’s net worth is close to $30 million

Timothy Mynett: Ilhan Omar’s husband and the progressive money man you’ve probably never heard of

Ilhan Omar’s wealth headlines ($30M net worth 👀) are dominating today’s feeds. But behind that story is someone far less visible: her husband, Tim Mynett.

Not the ex with the bizarre “married her brother” rumor. This one is far more interesting, and far more connected.

For nearly two decades, Mynett has been the quiet operator raising millions, plugging into D.C.’s progressive networks, and eventually pivoting into global business ventures.

📚 From poli-sci undergrad in New York…
⚖️ To moving foundation money at Alliance for Justice…
💼 To consulting alongside Obama’s inner circle at New Partners…

He’s climbed rung by rung through the fundraising machine that fuels progressive politics.

This thread unpacks:
➡️ His rise through nonprofits & campaigns
➡️ His deep ties across the progressive donor universe
➡️ The surprising pivots… from digital firms to wine, cannabis, and impact investing with ex-ambassadors

👇 Let’s dig in.

September 1, 2025 – Finally, President Trump questions COVID-19 vaccine efficacy

In a stunning Truth Social message, President Trump notes the pharmaceutical companies privately show him information that the COVID-19 vaccination program is a massive success helping many.  However, for the first time, President Trump notes that those same positive results are not being shown to the American people.  He questions why.

President Trump notes the COVID-19 efficacy question is creating massive confusion and conflicts within the CDC.  When you stand back and overlay our previous conversations about the information bubble around President Trump, this Truth Social message is remarkable:

(Conservative Treehouse, 9/1/2025) (Archive)

September 2, 2025 – US Intel leads to capture of cartel-linked baby trafficking, organ harvesting ringleader

(Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Image)

U.S. intelligence aided in the capture of an alleged female ringleader of a cartel-linked baby trafficking and organ harvesting network, officials announced Wednesday.

The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), provided intelligence that supported the arrest of Martha Alicia Mendez Aguilar, also known as “La Diabla,” according to an agency press release. Aguilar’s network lured pregnant women to remote locations, forced cesarean procedures, harvested organs from the mothers and sold the babies to couples in the U.S. for up to 250,000 pesos (roughly $14,000).

“This is one example of what terrorist cartels will do to diversify their revenue streams and finance operations,” NCTC Director Joe Kent said in a statement. “NCTC delivered critical intelligence on ‘La Diabla’s’ location and developed comprehensive analysis that enabled U.S. and Mexican law enforcement partners to take action. I am proud of our team’s ability to work with our forward-deployed U.S. partners and Mexican law enforcement to stop these horrific acts.”

Thanks to @POTUS, cartels are finally being treated as terrorists. @ODNIgov’s NCTC recently provided intel to Mexican law enforcement partners that led to the arrest of Martha Alicia Mendez Aguilar, known as ‘La Diabla’ — a CJNG cartel-affiliated baby trafficker, in Juarez, Mexico.

Her network lured pregnant women, carried out illegal C-sections, harvested organs, and sold newborns. Just one example of how far these terrorists will go to diversify their revenue streams and fund their operations.

I could not be prouder of our team and partners @CBP, @USMarshalsHQ, @StateDeptDSS, @FBIElPaso, @DHSgov.

Read more about the efforts behind the arrest of “La Diabla” here:

Thanks to @POTUS, cartels are finally being treated as terrorists. @ODNIgov‘s NCTC recently provided intel to Mexican law enforcement partners that led to the arrest of Martha Alicia Mendez Aguilar, known as ‘La Diabla’ — a CJNG cartel-affiliated baby trafficker, in Juarez,… pic.twitter.com/CRNgJWVHkV

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)-affiliated baby trafficking ringleader was captured in Juarez, Mexico, on Sept. 2, according to ODNI. The operation was executed by Mexican law enforcement partners and Fiscalia Especializada en la Mujer (the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Women) with the support of the U.S. Marshals Service El Paso, the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation El Paso, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to the press release. (Read more: Daily Caller, 9/25/2025)  (Archive)

September 2, 2025 – A leaked memo from a secret trade-association (BIO), plots the removal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

You’ve likely seen all the buzz online about the planned attack gearing up against RFK Jr. People are circling the wagons and calling this a “coup.” But that’s not what it is. This isn’t just some political “coup” against RFK Jr.; this is a capture.

What Big Pharma, Big Food, and their political operatives are pulling off right now isn’t about bruised egos or little partisan dustups. It’s about full-blown, unadulterated control. They’re not just trying to shove Kennedy out of the way and install a puppet. They’re moving to seize the levers of power that he has dared to touch. They see what he’s doing, and they know they need to lock down those levers before he can blow the lid off decades of corruption.

(…) Now, thanks to two explosive leaks, we know just how far the machine is willing to go to capture and shut him down.

Eric Daugherty:

Yes, RFK Jr. needs support, no doubt… but even more than that, he needs a public that’s wide awake and won’t fall for the capture tactics Big Food and Big Pharma are running against him.

This X post highlights some of what he’s up against, and it’s war. The memo lays out a very detailed, very costly plan to capture and neutralize RFK Jr. without ever debating him head-on. They’re using every lever they control, from lobbying to PR and media, even conservative influencers, to make sure Kennedy’s voice gets drowned out before the public can fully hear what he’s exposing.

(…) When you read the memo, keep in mind just how evil these people are. Remember that $2 million “Why We Vaccinate” campaign? That was never about education; it was all about manipulation. Their own documents admit it, using phrases like “inspire and frighten” and targeting the “movable middle” with fear triggers like national security risks or economic collapse. That’s not public health policy… that’s psychological warfare. People this evil don’t bother with simple coups. No, this is something far darker, a full-blown capture on a demonic level.

Dr. Robert Malone:

A detailed secret trade-association memo plotting the removal of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has leaked. It reads like a coup attempt against regulatory reform—and they are spending millions to make sure Kennedy is out of office by September.

It seems that the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), whose membership includes Pfizer, Merck, Novavax, Vaxcyte, and hundreds of biotech firms that profit from regulatory insulation, has a mole.

When the nation’s leading pharmaceutical trade group convenes a closed-door strategy meeting and openly discusses the need to “go to The Hill and lobby that it is time for RFK Jr. to go,” the issue is no longer health policy—it is democratic integrity.

According to the apparent leaked minutes, verified by the name of the creator of the file, on April 3, 2025, BIO held a “Vaccine Policy Steering Committee” (VPSC) meeting whose internal summary, soon to be publicly available thanks to whistleblowers, reveals a campaign of strategic deception, institutional capture, and psychological warfare and exposes a campaign of institutional deception, investor protection, and coordinated sabotage of the MAHA reform platform.

According to the leaked document, titled “BIO Vaccine Policy Steering Committee – April 3, 2025”, BIO has committed $2 million—half of its cash reserve—to counter what it calls the “threat” posed by Kennedy’s rise. But this is no ordinary PR push. It is a multi-pronged campaign designed to deceive the public, silence dissent, and preserve industry dominance through influence operations masquerading as science.

The Plot Exposed

The document opens with a blunt political calculation: Kennedy’s candidacy threatens investor confidence, regulatory predictability, and the long-term viability of the vaccine business. BIO leadership in the apparent leaked document states plainly: “It is time to go to The Hill and lobby that it is time for RFK Jr to go.”

To achieve this, according to the document, BIO intends to deploy surrogates across the political spectrum, co-opt conservative influencers, and bypass direct engagement with the Kennedy campaign altogether. Among the figures named as potential allies in this covert effort: Dr. Mehmet Oz, former Senator Richard Burr (former Senator NC; Advisor DLA Piper Health Policy Steering Committee), Senator Bill Cassidy (in a section of the document focused on strategic influencer engagement and legislative positioning), and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). These individuals and institutions, the memo suggests, can provide a veneer of bipartisan legitimacy to BIO’s core aim: neutralize Kennedy without ever addressing the substance of his critique.

Follow the Money

The most revealing detail is that $2 million—precisely half of BIO’s entire $4 million reserve—has been allocated to vaccine communications, specifically a D.C.-area pilot campaign called “Why We Vaccinate.” The purpose is not education, but behavioral influence: to combine “inspire and frighten” tactics in order to manipulate public sentiment and legislative behavior.

Internal documents state clearly that the campaign’s goal is to appeal to the “movable middle” using emotionally charged messaging, capitalizing on fear messaging tied to national security, workforce resilience, and economic productivity.

We encourage you to read Dr. Malone’s full piece here.

What we’re seeing isn’t just about sidelining RFK Jr. and going about business as usual. It’s about capturing the very spirit of freedom, accountability, and truth that he represents and locking it away in the deepest, darkest dungeon they can find, never to be seen or heard from again. That’s the game. And unless people start waking up to it, they’ll keep playing it, and they’ll win.

BREAKING UPDATE:

The plot against RFK Jr. just got a heck of a lot darker. Whistleblowers from inside HHS and the CDC have confirmed what many of us already figured out: there’s an active sabotage/capture operation underway against Trump’s Health Department and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the prime target.

Career left-wing pencil-pushers are in a full-blown panic mode right now. They’re sweating bullets because Kennedy is cutting off their Big Pharma cash pipeline. It’s so bad, that they’re willing to burn down the agencies to protect it.

Podcaster and influencer Benny Johnson says his inside sources claim the bureaucrats are literally passing out a CIA manual titled “Simple Sabotage” to their staff and following bullet point by bullet point.

Walkouts, staged media attacks, fake protests, Senate hearings designed to create chaos, the works. And none of it is organic… it’s all CIA dinner theatre. The manual even spells out the tactics: demand endless paperwork, drag out deadlines, “act stupid” to slow progress, recruit others to spread disruption and create mass confusion.

Benny Johnson:

Here’s what happens next and why we must FIGHT for @RobertKennedyJr right now.
Read and bookmark this thread: The manual instructs employees to purposely slow operations by demanding written orders and pretending not to understand, while carrying out acts that spread blame across as many people as possible.

It even gives explicit examples: “On the street sabotage after dark against a military vehicle.” “Do everything possible to delay the delivery of orders. Don’t deliver until completely ready.” “Try to commit acts for which large numbers of people could be responsible.” Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion Employees are encouraged to develop a “non-cooperative” attitude, and get others to do the same. Paired with this is “acting stupid” to lower morale, confuse the department, and undermine efficiency.

Think that’s extreme? There’s more.

The manual teaches staff to make perfection the enemy of good on even the simplest tasks. It directs them to over-criticize, drag out work, and deliberately submit illegible documents so they have to be redone.

Meanwhile, staff are instructed to spread propaganda internally to recruit others, turning minor sabotage into mass disruption. “The saboteur may become discouraged unless he feels that he is a member of a large, though unseen, group of saboteurs operating against the enemy or the government of his own country and elsewhere.”

While employees are being trained internally to sabotage the Trump administration, a public pressure campaign is being pushed at the same time. 1,000 previous and current HHS employees have signed a letter demanding RFK Jr’s resignation. This is how you know he is doing something right.

Benny’s onto something. Look:

This is the “capture” we’ve been warning about and it’s happening in real time. These people don’t just want to stop Kennedy or “overthrow” him in some chaotic coup. They want to bury him, bury reform, and keep America chained to the same corrupt Big Pharma racket that got us into this mess.

The fact that the CIA’s own sabotage playbook is being openly deployed against a sitting Cabinet official should terrify every American. If they can do this to RFK Jr., they can do it to anyone who threatens their power. (Read more: Revolver News, 9/2/2025) (Archive)

Link to BIO memo:

BIO-Vaccine-Policy-Steering-Committee-April-3-2025.docx

September 2, 2025 – House Oversight releases 33,295 pages of Epstein-related documents

Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released 33,295 pages of Epstein-related records that were provided by the U.S. Department of Justice. On August 5, Chairman Comer issued a subpoena for records related to Mr. Jeffrey Epstein, and the Department of Justice has indicated it will continue producing those records while ensuring the redaction of victim identities and any child sexual abuse material.

Epstein-related documents can be found here.

Backup access can be found here.

Read more:

Chairman Comer: DOJ Complying with Epstein Records Subpoena

(Archive)

September 3, 2025 – Schweizer: Is George Soros a racketeer?

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, Peter Schweizer highlights recent research by the Government Accountability Institute that explains the deep connections between Soros, fellow billionaire Bill Gates, and a dark-money funding organization called Arabella Advisors.

The Arabella network has funded various left-wing groups that have been tied to the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and the “No Kings” protests this summer in several cities.

“It’s not illegal for Soros, or Elon Musk, to make contributions to political causes,” Schweizer explains. As far as funding groups that incite violence, however, “you don’t have to prove that the head of the [funding] entity knew that they were going to engage in criminal activity. All you have to show is they should have known… So, if I as a funder said, ‘you know what, I’m going to fund this group,’ and I know they have a history of violent protests, and I fund them anyway, even if I never directed or was involved in making the decision to engage in violent protest, I could still be charged under RICO.”

Trump’s threat against Soros is really a rhetorical warning shot aimed at Arabella Advisors and other dark-money funders. Soros gives money to Arabella, which in turn distributes it. Arabella provided nearly $5 million to two left-wing nonprofits involved with protests that turned violent against immigration law enforcement in Los Angeles, according to recent financial disclosures available. One of those groups, Community Change Action, supported the L.A. protests and provided protest tips in Spanish. Its “brainchild,” the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, has trained children how to aggressively protest.

Another Arabella-funded group, the “Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles,” has been accused by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) of fomenting “unlawful” unrest during those riots. That group also received more than $50 million in state and federal grants during the Biden administration, according to an investigation by the Washington Examiner.

Some large philanthropists have already noticed. Bill Gates has terminated his relationship with Arabella. His foundation was one of Arabella’s earliest patrons back in 2008 and the Gates foundation has given $450 million to various causes through the Arabella network since then.

Other Arabella groups in the crosshairs are the 1630 Fund and the New Venture Fund, which was the one affiliated most directly with Gates.

The pro-Palestine cause is part of the action, too.

“The nonprofit Tides Foundation has given over $22 million to different causes in this area,” Schweizer says. “Tides, of course, has received money from Soros and has worked at some level with his organizations. They gave $650,000 to the Jewish Voice for Peace, $710,000 to the Adelaide Justice Project, $86,000 to If Not Now, $38,000 to the Center for Constitutional Rights, $600,000 to the Mass Liberation Project, $132,000 to Westpac Foundations, and that includes Students for Justice in Palestine.”

“Now, some of these groups are not engaged in violent protests, but some are,” he says. He goes on to mention groups that violently protested construction of a police training facility in Georgia, and another group, called The Indivisible Project, that was reportedly involved in funding the violent attacks on Tesla dealerships as a protest against Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts. (Breitbart News, 9/3/2025)  (Archive)

September 3, 2025 – The Epstein victims press conference and observations

Shady Hillary Clinton Ally Gloria Allred Repping Jeffrey Epstein Victims!

Famous lawyer and Hillary Clinton ally Gloria Allred spoke at the press conference for Jeffrey Epstein survivors today and said she’s representing some Epstein victims. This is extremely troublesome due to allegations in the past that Allred has worked against sexual abuse victims and a clear conflict of interest since she’s a friend and ally of Epstein’s close pal and associate Hillary Clinton. Furthermore, she’s been accused of paying off women to make false sexual assault claims against President Trump!

Allred and her firm reportedly have pressured sexual abuse victims to agree to settlements in cases and to destroy evidence, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

They also claimed they were made to sign agreements barring them from suing their lawyers or publicly raising any issues they had with the firm. Furthermore, the victims were instructed to delete text and video evidence, and some claimed the nondisclosure agreements they were urged to sign were likely to protect alleged predators.

Allred also allegedly recruited, represented and paid fake victims to make false claims against President Trump. In 2016, Trump called Allred a “phony” and said she was working with Hillary Clinton’s campaign by sending hundreds of letters to current and former Trump employees looking for sexual harassment victims.

Allred is not just a low key Hillary Clinton supporter, she was a California delegate for her at the Democratic National Convention in 2016. It’s a clear conflict of interest for Allred to represent any Epstein survivor considering that Epstein was not only very close to Bill and Hillary Clinton, both Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell worked for the Clinton Foundation & the Clinton Global Initiative. For those of you who have been following me a long time know the Clinton’s used their foundation to sex traffic children.

Furthermore, Allred’s lawyer daughter, Lisa Bloom, represented Harvey Weinstein. Bloom was accused of attempting to pay off Weinstein’s victims and she also worked to discredit them by painting them as mentally ill among other things.

There are tons of red flags blowing in the wind here with this one! If Allred had a shred of dignity or accountability, she would step down as an attorney for all Epstein survivors she’s currently representing.

Phony lawyer Gloria Allred speaking at the Jeffrey Epstein survivors press conference today should tell you everything you need to know to understand why President Trump has called Epstein a Democrat con job like the Russia hoax.

Look closely at what Trump also said: “Everyone should see what is there, but people who are innocent should not be hurt.”👇🏻

The Democrats for years have put out fake news and very selective information on Epstein and his ring to muddy the waters and to deflect and that’s exactly what they continue to do.

Also, never forget that the Me Too & Times Up movement was another Democrat and intelligence-backed PSYOP they orchestrated and ran to distract and deflect from Pizzagate and to protect Hillary Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein and other elite pedophiles and sex traffickers in his ring!

Proceed with extreme caution regarding any Epstein info that comes out.

Needless to say, I have faith the truth will prevail as it always does.

Look at the signs held up at the Jeffrey Epstein survivor press conference today — almost every single one of them is attacking President Trump including many falsely accusing him of being a pedophile.

I don’t see one name of a real Epstein client or co-conspirator in any of these signs held up, you know, like Epstein’s bestie and serial pedophile island visitor Bill Clinton!

This should come as no surprise since Hillary Clinton operative Gloria Allred — and DNC propagandist according to the DNC as I detailed in my below tweet👇🏻— was part of this charade.

This was an obvious coordinated Democrat PSYOP to muddy the waters and to distract and deflect from the truth, period.

This is the most important video on X right now:

Attorney for the Epstein victims standing outside of a Florida Courthouse CONFIRMING that Donald Trump was the ONLY high-profile figure who HELPED him prosecute Epstein:

“The only thing I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who picked up the phone and said ‘lets talk, I’ll give you as much time as you want, I’ll tell you what you need to know.’ Trump was very helpful in the information he gave and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever but had good information that checked out and that helped us.”

This video is nearly a decade old. The story has NOT changed. Trump is the only high-profile individual who directly assisted in putting Epstein behind bars. Today, the attorney Bradley Edwards once again CONFIRMED Trump’s assistance in prosecuting the Epstein during a press conference in DC.

“He helped me. He got on the phone with me. He told me things that were helping our investigation and our investigation wasn’t looking into him.”

Libs do NOT want you to know the truth.

So share this.

Oversight Committee Releases DOJ Epstein Files, Most Already Seen Before 9/3/2025

September 3, 2025 – DOJ moves to dismiss the $100M Proud Boys lawsuit

DIRTY DOJ EXPOSE!!! We name names!!

DOJ attorney Siegmund F. Fuchs just filed paperwork to kill the case brought by Enrique Tarrio and the “Seditious Five” — men who say they were politically persecuted by Biden’s DOJ after J6.

The Department claims there was “no misconduct.” But that doesn’t square with the facts:

⚖️ Jeremy Bertino, their star witness, has now recanted — admitting the FBI threatened him with 25 years in prison unless he lied.

He says FBI agent Nicole Miller (who still works at the Bureau) coached him into perjury during off-the-record meetings with Biden’s DOJ.

⚖️ Meanwhile, entrenched bureaucrats like prosecutor Joselyn Ballentine are still inside the DOJ, clinging to power and undermining Trump’s pardons of J6 defendants.

Siegmund Fuchs (Credit: public domain)

And the man trying to shut down the Proud Boys’ $100M lawsuit? Siegmund F. Fuchs — a DOJ lawyer who moonlights as a playwright. His last play, “In the Closet,” is about four gay men hiding in a safe space. Experts say he should stick to writing fiction — instead of using his imagination to defend DOJ corruption.

👉 The bigger picture: Legal experts say the real aim of these Proud Boys convictions was never about them — it was to create a direct link to President Trump, setting up his own Seditious Conspiracy case.

The fight for justice after J6 is far from over. Reporter @CaraCastronuova White House Correspondent, LindellTV

Star Witness Implodes Under Oath

Just days ago, Jeremy Bertino — the DOJ’s key witness — recanted his testimony, admitting under oath that FBI officials threatened him with 25 years in prison unless he lied on the stand.

Joe Biden’s star witness (in yellow hat) recants his testimony at Proud Boy trial- says FBI agent Nicole Miller and prosecutor Jocelyn Ballentine coerced him into a fictional testimony on the stand. (Credit: public domain)

Bertino further alleged that the DOJ and FBI conspired to construct a false narrative to guarantee convictions, and that FBI agent Nicole Miller, who still works at the Bureau, personally coached him into perjury during illegal, off-the-record meetings with Biden’s prosecutors.

See Bertino’s sworn affidavit here:

jeremy-bertino-affadavit

Legal experts now believe the real purpose of convicting the Proud Boys was never about them, but about creating a direct link to President Trump — laying the groundwork for the regime’s dream scenario: charging Trump himself with “Seditious Conspiracy.”

Deep State Bureaucrats Still Pulling Strings

Despite President Trump’s pardons, Biden loyalists remain embedded inside the DOJ. Figures like prosecutor Joselyn Ballentine, who played a key role in the Proud Boys trial, still occupy powerful posts and continue to corrode the halls of justice. And FBI agent Nicole Miller — the FBI agent accused of coaching false testimony — is still on the Bureau’s payroll today.

Joe Biden’s star witness Jeremy Bertino alleges FBI Agent Nicole Miller coerced him into perjury.

Jason McCullough — the lead prosecutor who orchestrated the kangaroo court Proud Boys trial, paving the way to convict President Trump in his own J6 case — was quietly demoted to handling misdemeanors. Yet he’s still drawing a government paycheck, when in reality he arguably should be facing trial himself for prosecutorial misconduct and conspiracy with fellow prosecutor Joselyn Ballentine and FBI agent Nicole Miller, who allegedly together coached witnesses, coerced testimony, and deprived Trump supporters of their constitutional rights.

Jason McCullough (Credit: public domain)

The Real Conspiracy?

The DOJ is asking a federal judge to throw out the Proud Boys’ lawsuit, but the contradictions are glaring. How can the Department claim there was no misconduct when its own star witness admits to FBI coercion — and when the entire case appears to have been manufactured to target Trump himself?

As more Americans demand accountability for Fuchs, Miller, Ballentine, and the rest of the Biden-era operatives still clinging to power, one truth stands out: the fight for justice after January 6th is far from over.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit. 9/3/2025)  (Archive) 

September 4, 2025 – Clueless Senator Tim Kaine says founding principle of the United States and Declaration of Independence is “extremely troubling”

In a hilarious show of cluelessness, Democratic Virginia Senator Tim Kaine denied the existence of God-given rights, the primary principle in the Declaration of Independence, during a Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Wednesday.

“The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator, that’s what the Iranian government believes,” Kaine said while attacking Trump’s nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Riley Barnes.

The opening words of the Declaration of Independence, however, state that the separation of America from Britain is justified by the notion that we as humans have God-given, unalienable rights and that a new government founded on these principles is necessary.

From the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

This is the founding principle that the entire Constitution is based on, creating a government that derives its authority from the people, not the government.

But Kaine says this is an Iranian belief, and because they don’t believe life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are God-given, the notion of God-given rights in the United States is “extremely troubling.”

Instead, like all Democrats, Kaine believes that basic human rights can only come from the government.

WATCH:

Kaine: The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator, that’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.

Senator Ted Cruz responds:

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 9/4/2025) (Archive)

(Timeline editor’s note:  [Kaine] entered Harvard Law School in 1979, interrupting his law studies after his first year to work in Honduras[10][11][a] for nine months from 1980 to 1981, helping Jesuit missionaries who ran a Catholic school in El Progreso.[7][14]  –  Wikipedia)

September 4, 2025 – Bombshell memos: Biden aides believed he should sign pardons by hand, he outsourced approval to VP

(Credit: Perfect meme in public domain)

Internal memos obtained by Just the News show President Joe Biden’s aides believed at the beginning of his administration that he had an obligation to personally sign official presidential actions, including pardons, and chronicle how the former president later outsourced clemency decisions to then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

The memos were gathered as part of a sweeping review by the Trump White House into Biden’s use of autopen signatures for official business, an inquiry that now raises new questions about whether the former president actually attended four meetings late in his term dedicated to making clemency decisions.

Those clemency decisions included pre-emptive pardons for Biden family members as well as commutations for federal death row sentences.

No records of Biden attending meetings that resulted in clemency

The National Archives and Records Administration told the Trump White House Counsel’s office that “we did not find specific meeting notes that clearly mention or note that the President was present” for any of the four meetings, according to the documents reviewed by Just the News.

“President Biden’s decision memo on commuting federal death row sentences is unmarked, and NARA cannot find a version indicating President Biden’s approval,” the documents added.

The Office of Joe and Jill Biden did not respond to a request for comment sent through its contact page.

The Pew Research Center reported that Biden “granted more acts of clemency than any previous chief executive on record” and noted that “overall, Biden granted 4,245 acts of clemency during his four-year tenure in the White House.”

In June, President Donald Trump ordered the White House Counsel to lead an investigation into whether any senior administration officials had “conspired to deceive the public” about the former president’s mental state and exercise his authority and responsibilities.

Trump then specifically directed the investigators to probe the use of the autopen on official documents or clemency actions.

More on:

Memo: Policy started out requiring hand signature on pardon letters

Biden claims to have made clemency decisions, but passed off some to VP Harris

More doubts emerge about staff fully informing Biden on actions

Biden’s interaction with autopen managers became less and less frequent

You can read the internal memos obtained by Just the News below:

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Biden White House autopen & clemency memos.pdf

(Read more: Just the News, 9/4/2025)  (Archive)

September 4, 2025 – Biden promised 8000 new American jobs at Hyundai electric car plant in Georgia; ICE raids plant and arrests 475 illegal aliens, many from S Korea

Workers are escorted by federal agents following an immigration raid at Hyundai’s battery plant construction site in Georgia. (Credit: ATF) Atlanta)

The Hyundai electric car battery plant construction site in Ellabell, Georgia that was the scene of a massive immigration raid on Thursday by the Trump administration was created as part of a deal announced by Joe Biden during a trip to South Korea in 2022.

Biden promised the Hyundai plant would create “more than 8,000 new American jobs.” The ICE raid Thursday resulted in the arrest of hundreds of illegal aliens from South Korea among the 475 illegals arrested, according to Homeland Security.

Excerpt from a May 2022 AP report on Biden’s Hyundai deal announcement made in South Korea:

President Joe Biden tended to both business and security interests Sunday as he wraps up a three-day visit to South Korea, showcasing Hyundai’s pledge to invest at least $10 billion in electric vehicles and related technologies in the United States.

…Hyundai’s investment includes $5.5 billion for an electric vehicle and battery factory in Georgia.

Appearing with Biden, Hyundai CEO Euisun Chung said Sunday his company would spend another $5 billion on artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicles and other technologies.

“Electric vehicles are good for our climate goals, but they’re also good for jobs,” Biden said. “And they’re good for business.”

…Hyundai’s Georgia factory is expected to employ 8,100 workers and produce up to 300,000 vehicles annually, with plans for construction to begin early next year and production to start in 2025 near the unincorporated town of Ellabell.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 9/5/2025) (Archive)

READ THIS, REPOST IT PLEASE every time you see someone trying to justify what Hyundai did.

I just spent the last few days outside the Hyundai plant in Savannah. Between local, state, and federal incentives Hyundai rec’d $10B. They, in turn, promised good paying jobs for AMERICANS. The local and state government sold it to the ppl of GA and locals as JOBS in exchange for a massive industrial complex in the middle of farmland and southern pine tree farms. They installed hideous European traffic circles on the exit interchanges that don’t really accommodate semis and it was hilarious to watch them navigate it. Keep in mind it’s for an industrial plant.

So in exchange for sitting quietly by and watching their local community drastically change so they and their children had a chance at high paying jobs the community, they watched dumbfounded as S Korean after S Korean flooded their community. It’s a small community outside of Savannah. The mayor knew. The city council knew.

There was suddenly a shortage of housing. They didn’t speak English. The entire county only has 40,000 ppl in it. According to the 2020 census, it was the 6th fastest growing county in America. No one blinked an eye. The secret was hidden in the census THAT COUNTS ILLEGALS which is why citizenship MUST be a part of the census. Dark to light. Turn the lights on.

It took one brave local person to be vocal about what was happening to have a national impact as
@GenFlynn always says.

For those ignorant ppl who are posting on here that it’s Hyundai and they didn’t know or it’s S Korea blah blah blah. False. They do it in S Korea. S Korea has illegal immigration issues. Many of the illegal aliens in S Korea are supporting the LG owned appliance industry and the LG car manufacturers (Hyundai’s parent company). They knew exactly what they were doing. They even tried to get visas for many but they were not granted bc the whole idea was to provide manufacturing jobs for AMERICANS. So their answer wasn’t to hire Americans it was to hire illegal aliens from S Koreas who routinely work an entire month with 2 days off. That was was the preferred route. Illegal aliens employed in S Korea do not get the same perks as legal citizens. They know that. Not a mistake, not unintentional. Biden gave them $5b incentive AND opened the border for their illegal workers.

Even the union, @AFLCIOGeorgia spoke up supporting Hyundai hiring illegal aliens. They are not your friend. As a note on this particular union, AFL-CIO works with NED on CIA efforts overseas to ensure locals can not unionize against US oligarchs exploiting foreign country’s workforce. That’s why they were given their own pot of money in NED. This is a historical fact.

See something, say something. Save America.

Bookmark this and repost it every time someone tries to justify the unjustifiable.

September 4, 2025 – HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withstands cluelessly indignant Senators in hearing on Covid vaccines, autism and America’s chronic disease epidemic

RFK Jr. just walked into Congress and took down his biggest critics in one fell swoop.

This was a masterclass.

Elizabeth Warren erupted over Kennedy “taking” COVID vaccines away—only to have her $855,000 in pharma bucks exposed.

That’s when Bernie Sanders made a fatal error:

He blurted out that nearly EVERY POLITICIAN is taking Pharma dollars — as if that somehow excused Warren, himself, and his colleagues.

This is one of those head-scratching moments that leave you wondering… did he really just say that?

Before CNN starts spinning this hearing, watch all these clips they don’t want you to see.

For the past week, Democrats have been mounting pressure to get RFK Jr. to resign. They hoped this hearing would be their chance to make it happen — but things didn’t go as planned.

Right out of the gate, Kennedy announced that the CDC will be cleaning house — removing the health officials responsible for the catastrophic COVID failures.

“The people at CDC… who put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who WILL BE LEAVING.”

Moments later, Kennedy articulated further exactly why he’s cleaning house. He grew emotional and dropped a harrowing statistic that brought the room to silence.

“This morning, I got the latest numbers from the CDC that 76.4% of Americans now have a chronic disease. This is stunning. When my uncle was President, it was 11%. In 1950, it was 3%… That’s why we have to fire people at CDC. They DID NOT do their job. This was THEIR JOB to keep us healthy. I need to fire some of those people to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”

RFK Jr.’s Senate testimony just BROKE the Internet.

“We were lied to about EVERYTHING.”

Kennedy spent 3 hours EXPOSING the TRUTH about vaccines and autism, the CDC’s coverup of vaccine injuries, and why Trump just FIRED corrupt CDC leadership.

And he named names—he called out corrupt Senators to their faces for taking Pharma money.

Bookmark this thread.

You’ll have to see this to believe it:

First, RFK Jr. broke down the TRUTH about Pharma’s Covid-19 coverup:

“We were lied to about everything.”

Democrats accused him of “politicizing” HHS—but he exposed that EVERYTHING about Pharma’s Covid narrative was a lie.

“The whole process was politicized.”

“We were lied to about natural immunity.”

“We were told again and again the vaccines would prevent transmission, they’d prevent infection.”

“It wasn’t true.”

“Probably the most famous scientist on ACIP was Martin Kulldorff from Harvard … and he criticized the Covid booster mandates.”

“President Biden came in, he mandated it, and then he fired the two top health officials at FDA, Dr. Gruber and Dr. Krause,” for their REFUSAL to bow to Covid orthodoxy.

Then, RFK Jr. held Sen. Michael Bennet accountable for REFUSING to acknowledge Covid-19 vaccine injuries.

“Are you saying, Senator, that the mRNA vaccine has never been associated with myocarditis or pericarditis in teenagers?”

Sen. Bennet: “I am simply trying to say that the people that you have put on that panel, after firing the entire—”

RFK: “You’re evading the question.”

RFK Jr. looked Senator Hassan in the eye and called her out for lying.

Sen. Hassan: “People who want to exercise their freedom of choice (on vaccines) are being denied that because you are citing data you won’t produce to the public.”

RFK Jr: “You’re making things up to scare people—and it’s a lie.”

“You are lying right now, Senator.”

RFK Jr. exposed the TRUTH about the CDC vaccine schedule that no Democrat would admit.

“Only one of those vaccines have been tested against an inert placebo.”

“When I was a kid, I got three vaccines … today’s children have to get between 69 and 92 vaccines.”

Here’s the major reform that RFK Jr. is pushing for:

“Any new vaccine, before it’s approved, will have to demonstrate safety against an inert placebo.”

“And we’re gonna go back and do observational studies on the existing vaccines to see if they’re linked to any of these chronic disease epidemics.”

Senator Ron Johnson dropped the biggest truth bomb of the day.

You’re not going to see this part in corporate media coverage…

His team has over 8 million pages of information about Pharma’s Covid-19 coverup.

“Here’s the facts … ”

“Somebody in the federal health agencies … admitted there was a signal on myocarditis and they hid it.”

“They didn’t warn the public. They didn’t warn doctors. So that’s just one instance of corruption and lies told by the CDC.”

“VAERS shows that there have been 30,742 deaths reported on VAERS worldwide associated with the Covid vaccine.”

“9,252 of those deaths occurred on the day of vaccination or within one or two days.”

“This is hard evidence.”

Then, RFK Jr. blew open the TRUTH about vaccines and autism.

The CDC itself found a link between MMR vaccines and autism.

Then, they “destroyed” the data.

Kennedy: “In 2002, CDC did an internal study of Fulton County, Georgia children, and looked at children who got the MMR vaccine on time and compared those to kids who got them later.”

“The data from that study showed that black boys who got the vaccine on time had a 260% greater chance of getting an autism diagnosis than children who waited.”

“The chief scientist on that, Dr. William Thompson, the senior vaccine safety scientist at CDC, was ordered to come into a room with four other co-authors by his boss, Frank DeStefano, who’s the head of the Immunization Safety Branch, in order to destroy that data.”

RFK Jr. closed the hearing by EXPOSING the insanity of giving newborns the hepatitis B vaccine.

“There are two hepatitis vaccines, and one of them had a safety study that lasted for four days.”

“It was on 143 kids… a product that’s going to be given to 76 million kids.”

“The risk profile for babies prior to the introduction of the vaccine from hepatitis B, was one in seven million.”

“That means you need to give 7 million hepatitis B vaccines to prevent one death.”

Update 9/5/2025

September 5, 2025 – Catherine Herridge uploads, then deletes, exclusive release from FBI (Kash) showing FBI docs “Flynn Timeline”

David Ignatius (l) and Michael Flynn

Something odd is going on with this.  Catherine Herridge reports that she “exclusively” gained a copy of the FBI files on Michael Flynn from FBI Director Kash Patel [SEE HERE].  Herridge uploaded the documents while she began reporting on them via Twitter [SEE HERE] then, mysteriously deleted her upload [SEE HERE].

Fortunately, I kept the tab open, because there are two pages that really caught my eye.  The pages are labeled the “Flynn Timeline” and were created by someone in the FBI.   Check these pages closely, and you can find things quite remarkable.

First, I have always suspected the greatest likelihood of who leaked the transcript of then National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s December ’16 phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak to David Ignatius at the Washington Post was Mary McCord.   Well, check out January 6, 2017:

01/06/17: “McCabe provides McCord [REDACTED]” Likely, almost certainly, the thing being discussed with DNI Clapper on 01/03/17.  That would be the “Flynn Cuts,” which is the transcript of the phone call between Flynn and Kislyak.

The next entry is:

01/13/07: “Ignatius editorial” – Washington Post, David Ignatius – the reporter who received the leak of the Flynn transcript.  A massive national security breach.  The leaking of TSCI classified information, the Flynn transcript.

McCabe gives the transcript to McCord.  Suddenly, Ignatius writes about the transcript. The Washington Post’s David Ignatius was the first to report on the Flynn/Kislyak call on January 12, 2017.

Stuff about Clapper calling Comey then going to the FBI I previously wrote about.  Obama asked Clapper who was leaking all this stuff to the media. 01/03/17 Clapper calls Comey and asks him about the Flynn call.  “Director describes” transcript to Clapper.  01/03/17, Clapper goes to FBI to retrieve transcript, which he then takes back to Obama.

The next page is even more interesting.

After the FBI interview with Flynn, 1/24/17, Sally Yates and Mary McCord go to the White House to discuss the Flynn/Kislyak call with White House Counsel Don McGhan (WHC).

Then on 01/30/17: “Play Flynn [REDACTED] for DOJ.”  Is that redaction a recording?

“Play Flynn [cuts] or [tape] for DOJ”?

There’s a recording of Flynn?

I’m not sure why Catherine Herridge deleted her original upload, other than she wants to play up the exclusive aspect similar to John Solomon.

Apparently, FBI Director Kash Patel is feeding his outlets (Solomon and Herridge).

(Conservative Treehouse, 9/15/2025)  (Archive)

September 5, 2025 – Activist judges tell NBC they are furious at Supreme Court for overturning their unconstitutional decisions

Five words that tell the whole story…

The left seriously has no shame. Ten anonymous, very butt-hurt activist judges ran crying to NBC, whining that the Supreme Court keeps overturning their anti-Trump rulings and… wait for it… making them look like biased hacks in the process. Imagine that, right? These are the same shills who trip over their black robes to rule against President Trump, just to throw a monkey wrench into the system and jam up his administration with endless political lawfare.

We recently published a piece on the king of activist judges, Jeb Boasberg. His rulings have gotten so nonsensical that people are now wondering if he’s trying to get President Trump killed.

Revolver: 

Judge Jeb Boasberg has done it again, folks. And this one is almost too outrageous to believe. It’s so bad that many people are now wondering if the partisan Deep State judge is actually trying to get President Trump killed.

Our story starts with a deranged left-wing woman who went on Facebook threatening to kill the President of the United States.

Nathalie Jones wants to be a martyr for the left and “sacrifice” her life to murder President Trump.

That’s some serious terrorist-level dedication. And the fact that she openly shared her desire to dismember President Trump shows just how dangerous and mentally unhinged she is. But it gets worse. She actually traveled from New York to DC in order to carry out her plans. She took a photo of herself in front of the White House.

When the Secret Service confronted her, she didn’t back down… this violent left-wing jihadist actually doubled down and confirmed her intent to murder President Trump.

Between her Facebook threats, mental illness, and her outright admission to the Secret Service, it’s pretty obvious this woman is on a mission to assassinate President Trump. Any reasonable person, and even the federal magistrate, could see she was a danger, and she was ordered to be detained.

Good. Case closed? Not so fast…

In walks Deep State Judge Jeb Boasberg, the same Obama-appointed judge who threw the book at Trump supporters for the hard crime of trespassing on January 6th, swooped in and handed this violent lunatic a “Get Out of Jail Free” card.

You can read the entire article here:

Obama-appointed judge does the unthinkable. Is he trying to get Trump killed?

Activist judges like Boasberg will slam their gavel down for anything, even siding with Venezuelan gangbangers over the American people, just as long as it hurts or stalls Trump.

And when the case finally reaches the Supreme Court and they get hip-checked for their garbage rulings, they get offended.

Well, maybe, instead of playing dutiful puppet for the uniparty and Deep State, they could try doing what they’re actually paid to do… apply the law fairly. But no, it’s much easier to turn the federal bench into a Resistance fan club and then pout and cry when the Supreme Court tosses your garbage ruling in the dustbin.

Look:

(…) And it probably won’t surprise you that these activist judges think Chief Justice John Roberts, a RINO if there ever was one, should be rushing to their rescue.

NBC News:

Federal judges are frustrated with the Supreme Court for increasingly overturning lower court rulings involving the Trump administration with little or no explanation, with some worried the practice is undermining the judiciary at a sensitive time.

Some judges believe the Supreme Court, and in particular Chief Justice John Roberts, could be doing more to defend the integrity of their work as President Donald Trump and his allies harshly criticize those who rule against him and as violent threats against judges are on the rise

This isn’t law. It’s an elite political club, protecting its own and pushing an agenda.

Take a look:

The United States judicial system is so broken, almost beyond repair. Almost. The good news, at least for now, is that the Supreme Court isn’t playing along.

But this whole thing gets a lot more revealing in the next section. Just look at the shameless arrogance from these anonymous activist judges. They really do see this as a club, and they’re upset their buddies aren’t covering for them. NBC News goes on:

“It is inexcusable,” a judge said of the Supreme Court justices. “They don’t have our backs.”

All 12 judges spoke on condition that they not be identifiable, some because it is considered unwise to publicly criticize the justices who ultimately decide whether to uphold their rulings and others because of the risk of threats.

These five little words say it all: “They don’t have our backs.” Let’s really think about that for a moment. Is it the Supreme Court’s job to cover for activist judges, or is it their duty to uphold the law and the UA Constitution? That single statement, “They don’t have our backs,” tells you everything about the mindset and agenda of these activist judges and reveals how broken and weaponized our judicial system truly is. And it should scare every single American citizen. (Read more: Revolver News, 9/5/2025)  (Archive)

September 5, 2025 – The Grifters’ Lament

“We are the sickest country in the world. That’s why we have to fire people at the CDC … They did not do their job! This was their job to keep us healthy!”

– Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

What a gruesome spectacle it was to see HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. take on a conclave of vicious grifters on the Senate Finance Committee straining to warp reality in defense of their mighty patron, the nation-wrecking pharmaceutical companies.

Do you understand how deep, convoluted, and grave the political sickness is?

Over the years, the public health agencies and “big pharma” had evolved into a symbiotic vector driving the nation into chronic illness. They allowed the population to poison themselves on a diet of corn syrup, engineered snack foods, and chemical additives. Result: epidemic obesity, diabetes, and many other illnesses. To counter that, they dosed everybody to-the-max with sketchily-tested pharma products while the agency employees raked in royalties and pharma got a get-outa-jail-free card in the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) — legal liability cancelled.

Then, they all badly mis-stepped, conniving in the Covid-19 operation, a still poorly-comprehended scheme to punk the American people and enable mail-in ballot fraud to steal the 2020 election. First, there was Dr. Fauci’s years’ long effort to hatch a novel corona virus, Covid-19, in labs here and overseas. Then, there was the opportune release of the virus in 2019. Then, the pharma response to the virus: a “miracle” mRNA vaccine that was likely already developed in secret, even before Operation Warp Speed was acted-out to pretend that pharma just came up with it. And, of course, there was President Trump 1.0 getting hosed by his Covid Response Team (Fauci, Birx, et al.) on all this.

Thus, you have that battery of US Senators all paid handsomely by Pharma to defend the industry with hysterical obfuscation against the lone figure, Mr. Kennedy, striving to correct all that fantastic corruption. He retorted to their malign nonsense honorably, revealing their conflicts of interest, their cupidity, the bales of dollars paid by pharma to the likes of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and the rest over the years, and their longstanding silence on the afore-mentioned poisoning and drugging of America.

Incidentally, to understand how this grift got so exorbitant, look to the unfortunate 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (558 U.S. 310). In a 5-4 ruling (by majority conservative justices, then including Alito, Thomas, and Scalia), SCOTUS decided that previous prohibitions on corporate money in election campaigns were unconstitutional because corporations enjoy legal status as persons, that is, as citizens, and giving money to election campaigns is a form of free speech under the first Amendment, which can’t be abridged by any law.

And so, the spigot opened on vast fortunes laid on politicians by corporations seeking to protect their interests. If anything went to warp speed, it was the Beltway lobbying industry. The Citizens United decision was a singular tragedy for our country. The legal reasoning behind it was specious because corporations, unlike real human citizens, do not have duties, obligations, and responsibilities to the nation, entailed in their citizenship. Rather, corporations have duties, obligations, and responsibilities solely (and explicitly in law) to their shareholders, whose interests are not necessarily consistent with the public interest. Why has no one noticed this?

Well, they haven’t and that is exactly where American politics went badly off-the-rails. The resulting accelerated corruption in the public health agencies of our government has been a disgusting side effect of all that, which RFK, Jr., has been called to clean up, a Herculean task. The most visible manifestation of that corruption is the chronic illness of the people — 76.4 percent of all of us, he told the committee, with eight out of ten young men physically unfit for military service. We’re the sickest nation in the world.

When the senators confabulate over “the science,” what they really mean is the armature of medical authority that has enabled the money-flow to their campaign committees (and eventually to their own bank accounts.) It’s that very scaffold of authority that has collapsed. Why? Because the medical authorities lied over and over about the Covid-19 episode, and especially about the vaccines, which were never properly tested, and were neither safe nor effective.

Your own doctors got paid extravagantly to push the vaccine. The so-called Pfizer Papers, collected, collated, and analyzed by Naomi Wolf’s organization (because nobody else would do it) showed the sloppiness of the whole process behind the vaccines’ development and release, and the pharma companies’ evasion of responsibility for the damage done. The medical journals lied about everything from the origin of the virus to the efficacy of the vaccine. The CDC campaigned against viable, inexpensive treatments for the virus. The CDC pushed the worthless, gamed PCR tests to jack up the case numbers. The CDC pushed the idiotic mask rules, school closings, business closures, and the vaccine mandates. The hospitals killed people with remdesivir and respirators, and got paid for it! The authority of all these parties is blown, especially the CDC’s — and these perfidious senators have the gall to hide behind this “science”?

What Mr. Kennedy is challenged with is sorting through all the official lies told by these agencies — the so-called “data” — to arrive at a comprehensible picture of what really happened. And then to inquire beyond Covid into many other pharma products that might be making Americans sick. Neither the politicians nor the people employed by the agencies when Covid went down want that to happen. (James Howard Kunstler, 9/5/2025)  (Archive)

September 10, 2025 – ‘Delete This’: New emails reveal Fauci COVID coverup

“Emails obtained by the Committee appear to contradict your testimony,” wrote Paul – referring to Fauci declaring under oath that he never ‘engaged in attempts to obstruct the Freedom of Information Act and the release of public documents.’

“In an email dated February 2, 2020, you directed then-NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins to “Please delete this e-mail after you read it.”

(Read more: Zero Hedge, 9/10/2025)  (Archive)

September 10, 2025 – Ghoulish Democrats mock and celebrate Charlie Kirk’s assassination; House Dems boo and yell against a call for prayer

Despicable MSNBC is scrambling to tell their audience that political violence is not just a liberal thing.

They just compared J6 and the hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

“We’re seeing this from extremists on both sides of this… It’s not just coming from one side.”

Absolute bullshit.

A). January 6th was a fake setup by the Democrats and Americans were protesting a stolen election.

B). Paul Pelosi was attacked by a deranged liberal.

Unbelievable. These people truly are our enemy.

… It’s not just coming from one side.” Absolute bullshit. A). January 6th was a fake setup by the Democrats and Americans were protesting a stolen election. B). Paul Pelosi was attacked by a deranged liberal. Unbelievable. These people truly are our enemy.

Statement from MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler: “During our breaking news coverage of the shooting of Charlie Kirk, Matthew Dowd made comments that were inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable. We apologize for his statements, as has he. There is no place for violence in America, political or otherwise.”

This was one of the most disgusting and evil things that I’ve ever seen. Just before we learned Charlie had passed, we tried to lead a prayer on the House floor – praying for his recovery after he was tragically shot. The Democrats started booing and yelling at us. It was absolutely disgusting. Their rhetoric caused this, and their actions today show they have no remorse!!!

UKRAINE: Remember that Ukraine had Charlie Kirk on its hit list. The Center for Countering Disinformation led by Zelensky associates labeled Charlie Kirk a Russian asset. I’m not saying they killed him, but it might be smart to realize just how many American conservatives are on this list.

“Let me hammer something home. I am sick and I am tired of hearing people say, like Barack Obama did, like Hillary Clinton did, ‘oh, we condemn this violence’.”

“Guess what? You can’t call the President of the United States for ten years Adolph Hitler, and you can’t say that he’s a fascist dictator, and you can’t say that anyone who voted for Trump or advocated for him… are Nazis…”

“And then when someone tries to kill us, you can’t suddenly say, ‘oh, we condemn this violence’.”

“You caused it… when you tell people that someone is Hitler, you are telling crazy people ‘go k*ll them’!”

@ClayTravis has got this exactly right. You can’t engage in non-stop character assassination without expecting there will be political assassination.

(h/t X22 Report, 9/11/2025)

This is Brian Stelter, referring to Charlie Kirk on CNN, 9/10/2025

September 10, 2025 – The last few videos posted on The Charlie Kirk Show Rumble page

I follow The Charlie Kirk Show on Rumble, which has 1.64M followers and over 20,000 videos.

These are the last few videos posted to his account. You may have to skip ads if you don’t have  Rumble Premium:

 

 

 

 

September 10, 2025 – Amid Iryna Zarutska furor, a Black Lives Matter account posts video clip declaring ‘we have a right to violence’

The official Instagram account of Black Lives Matter posted a brief video clip appearing to justify violence on Wednesday in the wake of the Aug. 22 murder of a Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina.

Iryna Zarutska, who worked at an area pizza restaurant, was stabbed to death while returning home from work on a Charlotte light rail train by DeCarlos Brown, a black man with a lengthy criminal history.

The BLM account posted a reel from the “moviesofcolour” Instagram account that consisted of a 15-second clip from “Born in Flames,” a 1983 movie, on its Instagram Stories, videos that stay up for 24 hours before being deleted.

“We have a right to violence,” a character named Zella says in the clip.

“All oppressed people have a right to violence. And I want to tell you something, it’s like the right to pee. You got to have the right place. You got to have the right time. You got to have the appropriate situation. And I’m absolutely convinced that this is it!”

(Read more: The Daily Caller, 9/10/2025)  (Archive)

September 10, 2025 – Charlie Kirk is assassinated while holding an event at Utah Valley University

Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk has died at age 31 after being shot at a speaking event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday.

“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL.”

“It is with a heavy heart that we confirm that Charles James Kirk has been murdered by a gun shot that took place during Turning Point USA’s ‘The American Comeback Tour’ campus event at Utah Valley University on September 10th, 2025,” a statement from Turning Point USA provided to the Daily Caller said. “May he be received into the merciful arms of our loving Savior who suffered and died for Charlie. We ask that everyone keep his family and loved ones in your prayers. We ask that you please respect their privacy and dignity in this time.”

A gunshot rang out while Kirk was talking to students for an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. A spokesperson with the university told the Caller that Kirk was shot from a building about 200 yards away. Security was seen on video carrying Kirk’s body away from the scene.

Kirk was rushed to the hospital after being shot and was in critical condition before he eventually passed away, Turning Point USA said in official statements and sources close to Kirk’s team told the Caller. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 9/10/2025)  (Archive)

Update 9/11/2025

September 11, 2025 – Far-left website warns the left: Violence is bad for us

The execution of Jacobin leader Maximilien Robespierre and others during the French Revolution in 1794. (Credit: mikroman6/Getty Images)

Progressives and left-wingers should denounce political violence because it will hurt their cause, says a magazine named after one of the most bloody-minded, pro-guillotine factions of the French Revolution.

The two authors at Jacobin.com wrote the day after Charlie Kirk was murdered by a sniper:

The assassination of [Charlie] Kirk is a tragedy. Morally, it is unjustifiable. Politically, it is cause for serious alarm. A larger spiral into political violence would be a catastrophe for the Left.

But the Jacobin’s anti-violence authors are still telling their pro-revolutionary supporters that Kirk’s popular politics are indefensible:

Kirk ran a well-funded political propaganda machine that promoted a simple message. “Liberals,” “radicals,” and “socialists” — he rarely bothered to make fine distinctions — were ruining the country … His politics have trended in an even worse direction over the years since [2021], flirting with much uglier forms of nationalism and xenophobia, but even in 2021, the substance of Kirk’s side of the conversation was indefensible.

The killing reduces the room for non-violent debate and may cause a crackdown on the left, Jacobin warns its left-wing readership: “The Trump administration could very well use it as a pretext to crack down on left-wing activists.”

The Jacobin authors spend much time trying to get their radical readers to back down from their dream of revolution by violence:

If history is any guide, the Left faces serious dangers from this development. The theory that acts of individual political violence will somehow spark mass movements for justice (what used to be called “propaganda of the deed”) has been tested, in a variety of circumstances around the world, for centuries. It’s very consistently been a disaster, almost always leading to enhanced repression of the Left and attacks on democracy writ large.

…

Kirk’s murder is likely not to demoralize but to embolden the conviction of the far right, who will no doubt turn Kirk into a martyr for their cause … Kirk’s murder at age thirty-one will no doubt convince many of his millions of viewers and listeners to dedicate themselves to his cause, thus hastening the coherence of a militant right-wing political bloc that will be an obstacle to our own project for decades to come.

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In the short time since Kirk was slain, most on the Left have rightly condemned his murder. A not insignificant number, however, have reacted with an almost competitive lack of empathy. Not only is their anti-moral posturing likely to turn off ordinary Americans, who abhor political violence, but it is also politically misguided and strategically naive. There is nothing to celebrate here. Indeed, there is much to fear.

But the authors are still standing by their revolutionary goals, such as the mass migration of poor people into Americans’ housing and job markets:

In the last eight months, green-card holders have been arrested and locked in detention for attending protests or even writing op-eds critical of Israel, federal troops have been sent to cities over the protests of mayors and governors in response to small-scale riots or even street crime, and immigrants merely suspected of crimes have been sent to dungeons in El Salvador without a whiff of due process.

The magazine is named after the Jacobin faction in the bloody French Revolution of 1789. The name reflects the left’s political juvenile romance with revolutionary violence.  In the 1790s, the Jacobin faction helped launch the mass murder of French people by the guillotine. The movement was brutally suppressed after the public grew frightened of the revolutionaries’ violence. (Read more: Breitbart News, 9/12/2025)  (Archive)

September 11, 2025 – European Central Bank President Lagarde calls on European governments “to rapidly establish the legislative framework for a digital euro”

Say NO to CBDC!

A CBDC, like a digital euro, is centrally controlled by the issuing authority, enabling transaction surveillance and data collection, which undermines privacy.
Unlike cash, it leaves a digital trail, allowing governments or banks to monitor spending habits, restrict transactions, or freeze accounts.

This centralization threatens monetary sovereignty by consolidating control, not safeguarding it. Accessibility and universal acceptance are possible but don’t offset the privacy erosion inherent in a trackable, programmable currency.

September 11, 2025 – Bluesky members celebrate Kirk assassination and create a Kill List for more of the same

The left loves to point the finger at MAGA and cry “radicalization.” Everyday people, suburban moms and dads, mowing their lawns, paying their bills, and wanting a safe country are suddenly painted as “radicals.” It’s hogwash. The real radicalization is staring us in the face, and it’s far uglier than anything they’ve ever accused us of. On the left-wing social media app Bluesky, the assassination of Charlie Kirk is being celebrated like a national holiday. The entire site reads like a grotesque party, with users cheering, laughing, and even dancing over the murder of a young husband and father, shot down for the simple crime of thinking differently.

And it doesn’t stop there. The mob on Bluesky is now taking it even further by openly naming other conservatives they want to see assassinated next. Like this is some kind of “Hunger Games” to them. And spoiler alert… it is.

The message here is clear: If you dare to think differently, you’ll end up on a “list.” (More screenshots at Revolver link below.)

This is where the so-called “party of love and tolerance” has landed… calling for blood in the streets, all while accusing others of hate. It’s beyond hypocrisy; it’s downright depravity.

(Read more: Revolver News, 9/13/2025) (Archive)

September 12, 2025 – Tens of thousands #WalkAway after seeing celebrations of Charlie Kirk’s assassination

There’s a movement happening that you need to know about.

It’s a massive trend sweeping TikTok right now, where lifelong Democrats and even self-described liberals… nose rings and all… are announcing they’re done with the Democrat Party. What brought all this on? Watching their fellow Dems openly celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Many of these people admit they didn’t like Charlie or agree with his politics. But they believe in his right to speak, debate, and live without being gunned down in the United States of America. That’s the line their party crossed when thousands poured onto social media to celebrate a 31-year-old man being shot in the neck in front of his wife and young kids. So yes, the outrage and shock are very real. And for countless voters, this was the very moment when the wool came off their eyes and they saw exactly what their party has become — a radical, bloodthirsty, and proudly Marxist group of terror extremists.

There are literally tens of thousands of these videos, but we pulled together the ones we felt were most powerful. Honestly, we encourage you to watch as many as you can, because seeing these people finally open their eyes is exactly what Charlie worked for in life… to open hearts and minds.

Even hardcore liberals are horrified, with many saying they’re proudly praying for Charlie’s family.

@garden_variety_jessMy prayers are with Charlie Kirk and our country.

♬ Sad Emotional Piano Instrumental Background – Ian Laurence

(Read more, see more: Revolver News, 9/12/2025)  (Archive)

September 12, 2025 – Virginia state representative Nick Freitas responds to Democrats: No more pretending we are “one people”

I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I’m supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.

But we aren’t “one people” are we?

The truth is we haven’t been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.

We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.

I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a “threat to democracy” for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.

And now the “effect” is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.

I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.

It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.

Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.

And the other side murdered him.

Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.

I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.

Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.

I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.

I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.

I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.

There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.

But then there will be a reckoning.

My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism…quite the opposite.

So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.

Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.

Ours is just beginning.

September 12, 2025 – ‘You have no idea what you have unleashed’: Erika Kirk addresses supporters for first time since Kirk’s assassination

Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, addressed supporters Friday evening for the first time since her husband’s assassination, saying that her late husband’s movement will “never surrender.”

Kirk, 31, was shot and killed Wednesday while debating students at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Speaking for the first time since the fatal attack, Erika Kirk thanked those who have supported her and her late husband, including both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, as well as other officials.

“I honestly have no idea what any of this means. I know that God does, but I don’t. But Charlie, baby, I know you do too. So does our Lord. And our world is filled with evil, but our God, you guys, our God is so good,  so incredibly good. And we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good,  for those who are called according to his purpose,” Erika said. “Already, I have seen the worldwide outpouring of love for my husband. I’ve heard the testimonies from people my husband inspired to get married, to start families, to seek out a relationship with God. It’s the most important, most important one of all.”

“The evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination  have no idea what they have done. They killed Charlie because he preached a message of patriotism, faith, and of God’s merciful love. They should all know this,” Erika added. “If you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea. You have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country and this world. You have no idea. You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.”

 

Kirk, who regularly spoke at college campuses to debate students on their political beliefs, made his latest stop in Utah, with videos online showing the campus packed with attendees. About 20 minutes into speaking with students, a shot rang out through the crowd, hitting Kirk. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 9/12/2025)  (Archive)

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September 12, 2025 – Trump: Someone close turned in Charlie Kirk’s killer

“Essentially somebody that was very close to him turned him in.

Somebody that’s close recognizes even a little tilt of the head, which nobody else would do.

And somebody that was very close to him said, hmm, that’s him.

And essentially went to the father, went to a U.S. Marshal, who was fantastic, by the way.”

September 12, 2025 – The mugshot of Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson, has been released

The Utah Governor says Charlie Kirk’s assassin became “more political” in recent years, spoke about his hatred of Charlie Kirk, and coordinated with a friend on Discord to retrieve the rifle used from a drop point.

Inscribed on the bullet casings:

“Hey Fascist! Catch!” And a song dedicated to the WW2 Italian antifascist resistance titled ‘Bella ciao’

Great Job Director Kash & UTAH
Charlie Kirk Assassination update in Arrest of suspect Tyler Robinson.
Kash Patel ” I WANT TO THANK THE AG BONDI & TODD BLANCHE..ITS AN HONOR.”
Spencer Cox Utah Governor ” THIS IS BIGGER THAN AN ATTACK ON AN INDIVIDUAL..ITS AN ATTACK ON ALL OF US & THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.”

September 13, 2025 – Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, lived with transgender partner

Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, was living with a transgender partner who was in the process of transitioning from male to female, a law enforcement source confirmed to The Post Saturday.

That individual, who has yet to be publicly identified by the authorities, is fully cooperating with the FBI on its investigation into the fatal shooting of the conservative activist, the source added. The relationship was first reported by Fox News’ Brooke Singman.

According to public records, Lance Twiggs, 22, resided at the same address where Robinson lived. A relative of Twiggs confirmed to The Post Saturday that “yes, they were roommates.”

According to public records, 22-year-old Lance Twiggs (above) resided at the same address where Robinson lived. (Credit: Lance Twiggs/ TikTok)

The family member, who asked not to be identified, said Twiggs was the “black sheep” of their St. George, Utah, family, but declined to speculate on a romantic relationship between the two men.

She said she didn’t know her relative’s politics or whether Twiggs was transitioning to become a woman, but added that it wouldn’t surprise her.

The family member said she knew Twiggs was brought in for questioning by police. The Post observed Saturday that no one was at the $1,800-per-month townhouse Robinson and Twiggs were believed to have shared.

A neighbor claimed that two weeks ago, several people, driving cars with out-of-state plates, were seen going in and out. “They did not give off a good vibe,” the neighbor said.

Kirk, 31, was struck in the neck by a single bullet shortly after being posed a question about transgender mass shooters at his American Comeback Tour college speaking engagement.

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” asked attendee Hunter Kozak. (Read more: New York Post, 9/12/2025)  (Archive)

A 22-year-old wannabe professional gamer who lived with Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin gave cops incriminating text messages leading to his arrest.

Lance Twiggs turned over Tyler Robinson, who lived with him in a three-bedroom apartment in Saint George, Utah, Daily Mail can reveal.

Twiggs showed police texts from Robinson about stashing a gun linked to Wednesday’s shooting of the prominent conservative activist at Utah Valley University (UVU), a law enforcement affidavit said.

His identity was revealed as separate reports emerged from Fox and the New York Post which stated that Robinson was living with a ‘transgender partner’ who is co-operating with the investigation.

(…) South Utah native, Twiggs, studied at Utah Tech University, according to his Facebook page. Robinson, 22, was also taking electrician training at a nearby technical college.

And like Robinson he was an avid gamer, posting shooting game videos on a TikTok account with the bio: ‘Becoming TikTok pros one terrible video at a time.’

(…) Friends told Daily Mail that Robinson and Twiggs were part of a large group chat of dozens of gamer friends mostly from Robinson’s alma mater, Pine View High School, hosted on online chat network Discord.

Robinson’s alleged incriminating texts to Twiggs were also sent on Discord, according to the affidavit filed Friday.

(…) Investigators were seen carrying out paper bags, envelopes, and a personal computer. A forensics team photographed the exterior and worked their way inside the property.

(…) An affidavit supporting the murder, obstruction, and felony firearm charges against Robinson described the roommate handing over bombshell text messages to police after the shooting.

Robinson sent messages to Twiggs, who was not named in the law enforcement filing, ‘stating a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point’, according to the affidavit by Utah Attorney General’s officer Brian Davis.

Robinson allegedly texted about ‘leaving the rifle in a bush, messages related to visually watching the area where a rifle was left, and a message referring to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel.’

‘The messages also refer to engraving bullets, and a mention of a scope and the rifle being unique,’ the affidavit said. ‘Messages from the contact Tyler also mention that he had changed outfits.’ (Read more: The Daily Mail, 9/13/2025)  (Archive)

FBI Reportedly Attempted to Hide the Identity of Charlie Kirk Assassination Suspect’s Transgender Boyfriend

September 13, 2025 – Debunking The Biggest Lies Told About Charlie Kirk

(0:00) – Intro

(10:58) – On Second Amendment

(12:48) – On Empathy

(15:42) – On Gay People

(17:58) – On Trans People

(24:21) – On Racism

(28:21) – On Affirmative Action

(30:58) – On Critical Race Theory

(34:56) – On Illegal Immigration

(39:12) – On Abortion

(44:22) – Charlie’s Why

(49:48) – Liberal Threats

(50:55) – Leaving The Left

(52:29) – My Thoughts

September 14, 2025 – Depraved person tramples on Charlie Kirk community memorial at TP USA Phoenix

September 15, 2025 – Utah’s state mental health programs under fire: Bannon, Matthews expose Roblox AI, shooter’s mother, and Governor Cox’s role

(…) Just a few months ago, corruption in behavioral health was thrust into the national spotlight for a historic federal crackdown on Medicaid fraud, underscoring deep vulnerabilities in the state’s oversight of behavioral health contractors – the people who are contracted to handle the State’s mental health obligations.

In June of this year, the FBI and federal partners led the largest health care fraud takedown in U.S. history, charging 324 defendants nationwide for schemes involving nearly $15 billion in fraudulent Medicaid and Medicare claims.

Highlighting the State’s oversight vulnerabilities in Medicaid and behavioral health services shines a light on the shooter’s mother, Amber Robinson and whether her connection to the State’s behavioral health contractors may have played a role in the assassin’s access to the university’s campus.

In Utah, behavioral health vendors with Medicaid contracts were under intense scrutiny as part of this crackdown. The accused assassin’s mother, Amber Robinson, is employed as a support coordinator for Intermountain Support Coordination Services—a behavioral health vendor holding a significant state contract exceeding $750,000 to coordinate care for children with mental health and developmental disabilities through Medicaid waiver programs. These waiver programs allow for the design of flexible home and community-based services. Greg Magnesen, a partner in the company, described its role to AbleChild as facilitating access to services, not providing direct treatment. In other words, this company is the middleman between doctors and end services.

So far, the State of Pennsylvania and now the State of Utah have shielded the parents of the alleged assassins from accountability. Both families, in both of the shootings, possess vital information regarding the state of mind of their adult children but have, so far, remained silent about what was known about their children prior to the attacks.

To date, law enforcement is still collecting information from others who may be involved including Robinson’s self identified trans partner, Lance Twiggs.  What is clear is the critical connection to Utah’s Medicaid behavioral health system through Amber Robinson and her employer—a state contractor with importance and privileged information.

Utah’s credibility in conducting an impartial, conflict-free investigation is under intense scrutiny. Transparency and accountability will be essential if public confidence is to be maintained in this politically charged case. (Read more: AbleChild, 9/14/2025)  (Archive)

Via Gateway Pundit, 9/15/2025

Steve Bannon did not hold back Monday as he unleashed a fiery takedown of Utah’s weak-kneed Republican Governor Spencer Cox.

On War Room, Bannon tied Cox directly to the cultural rot and radical leftist ideologies fueling the chaos that ultimately set the stage for the assassination of conservative figure Charlie Kirk.

Bannon didn’t hold back, calling for Cox’s administration to be “rolled up” in a full-scale investigation, accusing the governor of betraying parents, embracing DEI madness, and even coordinating with the White House to push a “group hug” narrative that contradicts President Trump’s unyielding stance against the left’s cultural destruction.

Bannon said Cox’s embrace of this ideology created fertile ground for radicalized youth, pointing to multiple violent incidents in Utah, including a case in St. George where a young man murdered his parents and burned down their home.

Governor Cox, who has become the darling of the corporate media for his “measured tone” in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s killing, claimed that the White House specifically asked him to appear on national television.

Bannon called that claim an outright lie.

Full transcript: (There are some misinterpretations in the script)

Steve Bannon:
I also don’t understand. You’ve got this guy, Cox, out in Utah. I’ll play a clip and I’ll get to Cox after the next break. He got Cox in Utah, putting out—well, the transgender love interest, roommate, whatever, furry. He didn’t know anything about it, but he’s cooperating. How do we know that? He should be rounded up and put under arrest now as a potential accessory before the fact or co-conspirator.

These LGBTQ and furry sites that were all taken down instantly—got to go back to all those. It looks like some of those might even have put up stuff before Charlie Kirk was there. But they certainly knew about it almost instantaneously, particularly the Discord. His Discord chat group knew about it instantaneously after he shot it. He was making jokes. Why are they not rolled up like the Boston Marathon bomber roommates?

Remember the four or five guys that were the younger guys’ roommates in college? And they knew immediately who it was. They saw them as soon as the videos came up. They said, “Hey, that’s our roommate.” They never informed police. When they got their doors kicked in a couple of days later, they all went to prison.

In fact, I think one of these guys might have been killed in a shootout later. This is cut to the chase: Cox is part of the problem. He’s been the biggest—and maybe it’s deeper than that.

What did Cox say? Charlie said very inflammatory things. Charlie Kirk said very inflammatory things, but he also said some other things that are good. Charlie Kirk, right there on scene, said very inflammatory things, but he also said some other stuff that’s okay, that’s good.

Cox represents the dead Republican Party that just is too gutless to engage here and just wants to look the other way. He’s also a bald-faced liar. Let me tell you what he’s a bald-faced liar about: the White House did not contact him and ask him to go on TV and do a full Gainsberg yesterday. He notified the White House that a couple of Sunday shows were reaching out to him. “Do you have some things?” And they sent, “Here’s what the President’s been saying.” Because what the President’s been saying is not what you’ve said. That’s why the President called him when he had the press briefing.

And he took the role of really the FBI director and gave the details and then went on that long—felt like a 15-minute speech. Cox is part of the problem because he’s been governing there for a while and he drove the transgender agenda. Remember, he went out to all the schools, had a Zoom call, and talked about their pronouns—laid into it.

Temperature needs to be raised. We’re not looking—Cox, we’re looking for you to do your job in Utah. Why are all these kids killing their parents and burning homes and coming up through your education system? Why? You’ve got to be held accountable, dude. We don’t need you preaching to the rest of the nation, and particularly preaching to President Trump about the way things should be.

This is why my strongest recommendation is to get in front of this and do a briefing and stop having Cox. Cox is part of the problem. Cox went against the parents in Utah, went against the parents in Utah, and he was brazen. He totally embraced DEI. He totally embraced the whole transgender ideology. Remember he had that call on Zoom? He’s talking about their pronouns and acceptance and all that. No—you’re just playing into it.

Now you’ve got two massive instances: you have this thing in St. George with the boy, the dude that killed—I think—killed his parents and burned the house down, Norman. And now you’ve got another young Norman that allegedly assassinated Charlie Kirk, although he’s not cooperating anymore. He shut up.

It’s time now to make a stand. No, Cox. We’re not looking for unity. We’re looking for victory. We’re looking for victory—no unity. We have nothing to unite around in that regard. We’re not going to unite with that. You might. You can get on there and do your pronouns and all that—it’s a free country. Do it. But we’re not going to do it.

Cox should be investigated. Why the White House allowed—and they’re saying, “We had nothing to do with this guy,” but even the first time when cash flowed out there—why was he allowed to have a speaking role? Who made that decision? He needs to be investigated. His administration needs to be investigated. The mother works for behavioral health. When you get into that thing, it’s a rat’s nest.

You’ve seen it all the time. We’ve had Brandon Showalter and Dr. Miriam Grossman and people on here for years, and Sheila—what you’ve done is a magnificent job over Abel Child—where they’re pushing these drugs and they’re pushing all this stuff on these young men.

This is why the young men are revolting. This is why they saw Charlie as a breath of fresh air. “Hey, I’ve got something that can get you out of the dumps: read the New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” How about that? This is why they killed him. He’s a martyr.

What’s the odds of the guys asking a transgender—the Sheila Matthews, where she’s putting forth every day about how the transgenders are radical, violent, killing people—particularly killing children, striking out? As you saw in the manifesto—remember, “Oh, we don’t know what the motive is.” Well, you read the manifesto: the guy says, “I was brainwashed. I hate myself. I want to figure out how to undo this. If I can, I can’t. I got my hair. I was brainwashed.” I think I got a motive, right?

Which they never want to talk about because it’s a racket. The governor of Utah needs to be investigated full stop. He’s been pushing this stuff for years, and now you got this Roblox, and people can put these games up. The other day, they had to go in and take them down. People were putting up games for children to play about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Think about that for a second. Think of the perverted mind that would do that. Well, that’s what you’ve got in a lot of this stuff. And Cox is not free—he’s not a truthful narrative. He’s part of the problem that needs to be investigated.

That’s why it’s a mass investigation. When is the FBI going to go talk to him? When are they going to roll the mother up? The mother needs to be rolled up. You can’t sit there—they’re destroying our children, and they’re destroying our children for money. You tell the parents to get engaged.

In private schools—worse than the public schools—you tell the parents to get engaged. The Coxes of the world are setting up this thing that the parents—you get pushed out. You get pushed out by the school counselor, you get pushed out. That’s what Cox supported. Cox supported taking away the power of parents.

This is my question back to not just the state of Utah, but the Roman Church. Is that okay with you guys? I didn’t think that that was what the Mormons stood for. I’m shocked after spending a couple of days in Utah. There’s something wrong up there, and somebody’s got to look at it. And Cox is a problem. He’s not a solution. He’s being held up now by, of course, the leftist media that he’s the voice that we need in this time.

This is why we got here—he and the wife. They ought to be under—They’re part of the investigation. The reason this whole kid, the turning, the furry of it, the furry, all of it, the radical nature of these transgenders, and they’re getting away from it, they’re getting away with it. And now you got the AI therapist.

It’s all part of the same problem—taking power away from parents that want to “spare the rod, spoil the child.” She was the wife of the governor, pushing SEL in the school systems out there as part of an empathy crisis.

When these people say we have an empathy crisis, it’s when parents are trying to be parents and saying, “No, you can’t do that,” or “You shouldn’t be able to do that,” or “Son and daughter, come here. I’m your parent, and here’s the way it’s going to be in our household.” Is that what the empathy crisis is?

They put it back and blame the parents so they can get away under the cover of night to basically form your children and have them end up being a furry. My brother, who’s a Navy pilot and one of the nicest guys in the world, tells me that like a week ago, he’s in a store and there’s some mom there walking around.

They’ve got like an 18-, 19-, 20-year-old son with her. He’s in pajamas with the furry hat on in broad daylight. When everybody should be in school or at work, he’s walking around the grocery store with mom in the middle of the day with pajamas on in a furry—one of these furry things. He’s a furry. Think about it.

These are the young men that back in the 1940s stormed the beaches at Tarawa, stormed the beaches of Peleliu, stormed the beaches of Normandy, flew over Nazi Germany in the Eighth Air Corps, bombed Japan back to the Stone Age to victory there.

That’s the same—and look what they’ve done. And look what they’re attempting to do to destroy these young men, ma’am.

[…]

Steve Bannon:
That is a bald-faced lie. The President has been very, very on-message on this, right? This is about radical Democrats. It’s that whole education system, the therapy system. This is why Cox—him right there, that brother right there—he’s got to be part of the investigation.

His administration, what they did, how this whole thing came up on his watch, and the wife’s—Abby Cox’s—empathy, the empathy crisis. Charlie Kirk, get empathy? You see him dancing around on video. You see these people are monsters. You see them dancing around on video, mocking Charlie Kirk, mocking the family.

Some of you are saying the kids ought to get it. Don’t take it from me. Just watch it with your own eyes. Don’t get filtered. Just go on and watch it. And they’re proud of it. They’re not back. I’m seeing them this morning—Brian Stelter, the guy—they’re with knitted brows. With knitted brows, they’re sitting there going, “This is very bad because it’s a right-wing cancel culture. You need to take the center grab.”

We got too much Cox. And Cox is a bald-faced liar. He was not asked by the White House. I know this from people that directly told me. Because I said, “Are you asking Cox to go do a full Ginsburg when his message is opposite of President Trump?”

President Trump is very focused on getting to the bottom of this and making sure these radicals don’t take over the country. And he’s been, I think, superb in just going through—bang, bang, bang—on message the entire time. And Cox’s message is, “Let’s have a group hug.”

We’re not having a group hug. If we have a group hug, the country is going to be destroyed. Sam Hyde—it was very profound what he had to say. He cut right to the chase. It was unvarnished. And I know it’s a little hard for people, but right now the empathy crisis is going to continue.

An adult supervision—we’ve got a crisis of that and we need to set things right, and we’re going to set things right. The way to start that is a massive investigation by the authorities on something that’s real.

WATCH:

(Gateway Pundit, 9/15/2025) (Archive)

September 15, 2025 – Kash Patel confirms DNA evidence match in Kirk assassination, reveals details of note

DNA evidence matching that of Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer was found at the crime scene, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Sept. 15.

Tyler Robinson, the suspect arrested for the Sept. 10 assassination of the conservative Christian influencer at Utah Valley University, also left a note expressing that he had an opportunity to kill Kirk, Patel said.

In a Sept. 15 interview with Fox News, Patel said, “I can report today that the DNA hits from the towel that was wrapped around the firearm and the DNA on the screwdriver are positively processed for the suspect in custody.”

Patel also referred to reports of an alleged note left behind by Robinson, saying that the suspect wrote that he had the “opportunity to take out” Kirk and wrote, “I’m going to take it.” That message was written before the Sept. 10 shooting, he said.

Patel said that it was both a “note” and a “text message exchange,“ adding that it was ”destroyed“ but that investigators recovered it. Other evidence in the case, Patel said, was ”shocking,” although he didn’t go into more detail.

Touching on a possible ideologically based motive, Patel said that Robinson’s family said that he “subscribed to left-wing ideology,” echoing a statement made by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox during several Sept. 14 interviews about the suspect’s viewpoints. (Read more: The Epoch Times, 9/15/2025)  (Archive)

September 15, 2025 – The FBI investigates social media posts of seven accounts that indicate foreknowledge of Charlie Kirk’s assassination

September 16, 2025 – FBI’s Patel confirms 1,700 domestic terrorism cases being investigated

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed on Tuesday that the bureau is investigating more than 1,700 domestic terrorism cases, as he was speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“We have 3500 international terrorism investigations … 1700 domestic terrorism investigations, a large chunk of which are nihilistic violent extremism … those who engage in violent acts motivated by a deep hatred of society,” Patel told lawyers in a prepared statement.

The FBI has experienced a “300% increase in cases opened this year alone versus the same time last year.”

In his remarks, Patel also made reference to the “764” group, a decentralized international network of online predators that has been classified as an extremist group.

His appearance on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee represents the first oversight hearing of Patel’s tenure amid mounting concerns about political violence inside the United States.

Patel returned to the committee for the first time since his confirmation hearing in January. (The Epoch Times, 9/16/2025)  (Archive)

September 16, 2025 – New Russiagate documents expose media/government collusion

Recently declassified documents indicate that people close to former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff were connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies as being in league with Russia.

Reporters from the New York Times and Washington Post shared a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for articles that used classified leaks to advance the Russigate hoax. (Credit: Eileen Barroso)

Written in 2017, the FBI documents expose how selected Washington reporters, including Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post and Michael Schmidt of the New York Times, scored a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning scoops in 2017 by repeating false and inflammatory leaks during President Trump’s first term.

Much of their reporting has been debunked – and shown to be part of a smear campaign by high-ranking officials to undermine Trump, but the identities of those leakers have remained hidden because of the government’s apparent unwillingness to expose its own and the refusal of reporters to identify the people who misled them and the nation.

Although the heavily redacted recent disclosures do not specifically identify the suspected leakers, an RCI analysis of the documents strongly suggests that people close to Comey and Schiff, among others, were feeding the reporters information to advance the Russiagate hoax.

The documents reveal a cascade of misdeeds and failures. These include the effort of government officials to create and leak misleading classified information to favored reporters and the failure of reporters to scrutinize the information they were given before rushing it into print; and the subsequent failure of federal investigators to hold anyone accountable for the breaches of security.

The documents also detail the incestuous nature of media-government relationships inside the D.C. Beltway. In some cases, spouses and friends of government officials and reporters were used to spread damaging misinformation about Trump, making it difficult for federal investigators to follow the trail of illegal disclosures.

“All of these cozy friendships of leakers and leaker recipients, many of whom are married to each other, are precisely why reporters adore hiding their sourcing behind walls of ‘senior administration officials’ or ‘senior U.S. officials’ and associated disguises,” said Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, a Washington-based journalism watchdog group.

‘Topple the Administration’ 

FBI documents suggest Rep. Adam Schiff weaponized U.S. intelligence to smear Trump in the media. (Credit: AP)

The new disclosures include the previously sealed testimony of an FBI informant who’d worked on the Democratic side of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for more than a decade, who told agents that “all hell broke loose” after Trump’s surprising 2016 election win. In February 2017, he asserted, Schiff, then a House member, hatched a plan to weaponize U.S. intelligence to smear Trump in the media as a Kremlin conspirator with the goal of triggering his impeachment. Schiff was the ranking Democratic member of the committee at the time.

“Leaking the information was one way to topple the administration,” the source told the FBI in August 2017, adding that “everything is directed at Trump and trying to get him impeached.”

To that end, Schiff formed a “Russia team” within the committee to view and disseminate classified material on Trump that it requested from the CIA and FBI, the informant said. Main team members allegedly included Schiff staffers Rheanne Wirkkala and Timothy Bergreen. Schiff’s staff director, Michael Bahar, and his communications director, Patrick Boland, allegedly “orchestrated” the smear campaign.

A spokesperson for Sen. Schiff “categorically” denied the allegation against Boland, now Schiff’s chief of staff, and claimed that the FBI informant was “a disgruntled former staffer who was fired by the House Intelligence Committee in early 2017 for a pattern of inappropriate conduct, including mistreatment of staff and compromising activity on foreign official travel.”

Records, however, show the informant left the committee in September 2017, and had made his allegations to the FBI in interviews with agents while he was still on staff, according to FBI-302 summaries.

Wirkkala, Bergreen and Bahar did not respond to requests for comment.

The FBI source, “who considered Schiff a friend,” told agents that he was called into the 2017 meeting during which Schiff specifically authorized leaking classified “dirt“ to reporters.

“In this meeting, SCHIFF stated that the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States Donald J. Trump,” said the FBI interview report, known as an FD-302, which noted that the whistleblower memorialized the Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, staff meeting in an email he sent to himself the next day.  “SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President TRUMP.”

Schiff has denied the allegations. The FBI subpoenaed some of the California lawmaker’s communications records, but never charged him with a crime. (Schiff is currently under investigation for possible mortgage fraud.)

The anonymous whistleblower – whose name is blacked out in the FBI reports, but according to multiple sources is Robert Minehart – worked as policy advisor to Schiff on the minority side of the intelligence committee. He first joined the committee in 2005, after then-ranking Democratic Rep. Jane Harman of California recruited him from the National Security Agency, where he worked as an engineer.

Minehart left the panel in late 2017 after he said Schiff loyalists “marginalized” him for complaining to both the committee’s security chief and the CIA’s inspector general about “the rampant leaking” of classified information. He told FBI field agents he believed the classified leaks were “unethical and treasonous,” but was reluctant to complain about them to the FBI congressional liaison office because he viewed the officials there as “too embedded with HPSCI staff and cannot trust them.”

Former committee staffers who worked with Minehart said he was a well-respected intelligence professional who was concerned with safeguarding classified information. They viewed him as credible, reliable, and nonpartisan.

More topics included:

  • Leaking to the Press
  • Cozy Relationship
  • Whistleblower Allegations
  • Ineffective Investigations
  • A Curious Claim
  • Media Collusion

(Read more: RealClearInvestigations, 9/16/2025)  (Archive)

September 16, 2025 – Senator Grassley reveals Biden’s FBI Arctic Frost project went after Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA and 91 other Republican targets

September 16, 2025 – State Department & UN ties to the leader of Armed Queers Salt Lake City, is confirmed

First, credit to @SKDoubleDub33 for the crucial tip, PLEASE follow, they’ll be doing a podcast on this soon.

Here’s what you need to know:

🔻 Armed Queers SLC is under investigation for possible foreknowledge of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

🔻 Their leader, Ermiya Fanaeian, was recognized by a State Dept–affiliated NGO, Utah Global Diplomacy, as a recipient of the “7 for 17” Award for advancing the UN’s 17 Goals

🔻 Utah Global Diplomacy has since scrubbed Fanaeian’s presence from their website. Unknown when this purge happened. The receipts remain.

UPDATE 9/17/2025

A State Department source confirmed to Blaze News that any ties to Utah Global Diplomacy, “which existed indirectly via an external implementor, are being completely severed and dismantled.”

This could prove greatly consequential for the NGO, as the bulk of its funding takes the form of government grants.

“We are taking aggressive action to ensure that any implementor that has any relationship whatsoever with this radical organization is completely cut off from any State Department engagement,” said the source. (Read more: The Blaze, 9/17/2025)

September 16, 2025 – Fani Willis is permanently disqualified from prosecuting case against Trump and many others

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, appears in court on Nov. 21, 2023, in Atlanta. (Credit: Dennis Byron/Politico)

It’s just breaking that the corrupt Fani Willis has been permanently disqualified from prosecuting her case against President Trump, which she brought last year in hopes that Trump would lose the election.

According to Jeffrey Clark, Acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the OMB, who was one of the subjects of the criminal case brought by Fani Willis, she was denied cert by the Georgia Supreme Court and now a decision on her replacement in the case will be decided by the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia.

He writes:

I’m pleased to announce that Fani Willis has now been permanently disqualified from prosecuting the indictment that she brought against President Trump, me, and many others.

The Georgia Supreme Court denied cert to Fani Willis, who was attempting to get that Court to take her case, so that she could try to get un-disqualified after the Georgia Court of Appeals threw her off the case.

The case now moves to the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia. They will decide on a replacement for Willis.

Praise the Lord for progress in this case. It never should have been brought in the first place.

(Read more: The Right Scoop, 9/16/2025)  (Archive)

September 17, 2025 – Soros’ Open Society gave $80 million to pro-terror groups

Since 2016, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF), now run with his son Alexander, has poured over $80 million into groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence. The evidence is stark: Open Society has sent millions of dollars into U.S.-based organizations that engage in “direct actions” that the FBI defines as domestic terrorism. These groups include the Center for Third World Organizing and its militant partner Ruckus Society, which trained activists in property destruction and sabotage during the 2020 riots, and the Sunrise Movement, which endorsed the Antifa-linked Stop Cop City campaign, in which activists currently face over 40 domestic terrorism charges and 60 racketeering indictments. At the same time, Open Society awarded $18 million to the Movement for Black Lives, a group that co-authored a radical guide that glorifies Hamas’s October 7 massacre and instructs activists in the use of false IDs, blockades, and economic disruption.

Nor is the danger confined to America’s streets. Open Society has funneled more than $2.3 million into Al-Haq, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in the West Bank and long accused of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the European Union and the United States designate as a foreign terrorist organization. Grants to Al-Haq between 2016 and 2023 ranged from $400,000 in general support to an $800,000 institutional award. In September 2025, the U.S. State Department sanctioned Al-Haq, citing its role in advancing campaigns that “directly engaged in the [International Criminal Court’s] illegitimate targeting of Israel.” That means Soros’s foundation has not only financed extremist groups within the United States but also funneled millions abroad to entities now formally sanctioned by Washington.

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(CapitalResearch.org, 9/17/2025)  (Archive)

September 17, 2025 – Trump designates Antifa as a “major terrorist organization”

President Trump on Wednesday evening announced he designated Antifa a “major terrorist organization.”

“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump said on Truth Social.

President Trump on Monday told reporters that he is “100%” willing to designate Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week.

“I think it would start with Pam [Bondi],” Trump said.

Charlie Kirk, 31, was assassinated by a leftwing terrorist, later identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, during a speaking event at Utah Valley University last Wednesday. The shooter was revealed by law enforcement to have engraved his ammunition casings with Antifa and transgender slogans.

Trump said he will designate Antifa and other far-left radical groups as domestic terror organizations and said he wants RICO charges brought.

“Are there other groups that you can think of?” a reporter asked President Trump.

“There are other groups, yeah, there are other groups. We have some pretty radical groups, and they got away with murder. And also, I’ve been speaking to the Attorney General about bringing RICO against some of the people that you’ve been reading about that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation. These aren’t protests. These are crimes what they’re doing, where they’re throwing bricks at cars of ICE and Border Patrol. They come in a beautiful new car. They’re so proud and it’s Border Patrol, ICE, you know, it’s got whatever it is, and they’re throwing rocks at it. And after 50 yards, it looks like an old, beat up vehicle. It was just brand new. It was just bought for the purposes, and they don’t have to take that anymore. Let it be known, we’ll take responsibility. They don’t have to take it anymore, and they don’t want to take it. They were told by a past administration, it became almost a culture, if somebody throws a rock at you, do nothing. If somebody spits in your face, do nothing. And I say when they spit, you hit. Do whatever you want. You do whatever the hell you want,”

Trump continued, “I watch it. I watch it, so sick it made me. For four years, I had to sit home and watch people screaming at policemen and spitting in their face, and they weren’t able to do anything. They just had a grin and bear. They’re standing up like a piece of steel and they were women, in many cases, women. You can see, they’re professional agitators. I had one the other night. I had four the other night, all in one group, total phonies. And they started to scream when I got into a restaurant. Oh, you know something with Palestine. I said, well, I’m doing a great job for peace in the Middle East. I should get lots of awards for that, right, with the Abraham accords and everything else. But a woman just stood up and starts screaming, and she got booed out of the place too, the people, a lot of people in the restaurant. I went there to show how safe, and it was safe. I mean, a woman is just a mouthpiece, all she was. She was a paid, she was a paid agitator, and you have a lot of them, and I’ve asked Pam to look into that, in terms of RICO, bringing RICO cases against them, criminal RICO, because they should be put in jail. What they’re doing to this country is really subversive.”

(Gateway Pundit, 9/17/2025)  (Archive)

September 17, 2025 – Hillary Clinton promotes book “Why Fascists Fear Teachers”

Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton promoted a book written by President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten titled, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers” just one week after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

(…) According to court documents, one bullet was engraved with “Hey fascist! Catch!”

Hillary Clinton fanned the flames just one week after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

“Congratulations to my friend @rweingarten on Why Fascists Fear Teachers. From banning books to controlling curriculum, authoritarians go after public education because it’s a cornerstone of democracy,” Hillary Clinton said.

“Randi’s new book is a critical read for this moment,” Hillary added.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 9/17/2025) (Archive)

September 18, 2025 – Joe Biden’s Chief of Staff Jeff Zients confesses Hunter was “directly involved” in pardons

September 18, 2025 – Trump accuses Ilhan Omar of committing immigration fraud by marrying her brother

Ihlan Omar and her brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (Credit: public domain)

On Thursday evening, President Trump went scorched earth on Muslima Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar and accused her of potentially committing immigration fraud by marrying her own brother.

“Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence. 70% of the population lives in extreme Poverty, and widespread Food Insecurity. Somalia is consistently ranked among the World’s Most Corrupt Countries, including Bribery, Embezzlement, and a Dysfunctional Government. All of this, and Ilhan Omar tells us how to run America! P.S. Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship??? What SCUM we have in our Country, telling us what to do, and how to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” President Trump said.

Earlier Thursday, President Trump responded to the Justice Department’s announcement it charged eight people with wire fraud for their roles in Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization program.

Here are the defendants:

Defendant Moktar Hassan Aden, age 30
Defendant Mustafa Dayib Ali, age 29
Defendant Khalid Ahmed Dayib, age 26
Defendant Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, age 27
Defendant Christopher Adesoji Falade, age 62
Defendant Emmanuel Oluwademilade Falade, age 32
Defendant Asad Ahmed Adow, age 26
Defendant Anwar Ahmed Adow, age 25

“Does Ilhan Omar know these people? Are they from her wonderfully managed Home Country of Somalia?” Trump said on Truth Social.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 9/18/2025) (Archive)

September 19, 2025 – The Socialist Rifle Association attempts to hide names of leaders after members linked to string of violent attacks

Socialist Rifle Association logo (Credit: public domain)

A group called the Socialist Rifle Association, made up of over 10,000 members has been conducting training for socialist and transgender extremists, and the group has now been linked to four major crimes, according to an investigation from the Daily Wire. As the report has been published, the leadership on their website appear to have attempted to hide their names.

As the report from the outlet was released this week, the leadership link on their website has been redirected to the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up, in a move commonly known as a Rick Roll. However, archives of the website as of August 14 this year still display the names and contact information of the leadership officers in the organization.

The president goes by the first name of “Hope” and identifies with “she/they” pronouns. Many others on the leadership list use “they/them pronouns, indicating those in leadership of the socialist organization identify as transgender or nonbinary. The rest of the leadership only goes by their first names as well.

According to the investigation from the Daily Wire, members of the Socialist Rifle Association get membership cards with the quote, “Any attempt to disarm workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary,” with a picture of Karl Marx. They stock up on rifles and other gear. A common logo used by the group is the transgender flag with the phrase “defend equality.” However, the videos presented by the group do not look like they are training for self-defense, but for combat.

The crimes that were linked to the group include the shooting of correctional officer in Texas on July 4, when a group of militants opened fire on DHS officers near an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. Benjamin Hanil Song, who was charged with shooting an officer in the neck, is part of the Socialist Rifle Association’s Dallas-Fort Worth chapter.

Paul Hyon Kim, the suspect charged with setting fire to and shooting up five Teslas in Las Vegas, also appears to be a member of the organization. Court documents said, “Kim has an Instagram page where he follows the Socialist Rifle Association’s page. In a post from October 2018, on the Reno Socialist Rifle Association’s Instagram page, is a picture of a subject that appears to be Paul Kim training with firearms.”

On January 20, Adam Matthew Lansky allegedly firebombed a Tesla dealership in Salem, Oregon, and in charging documents, prosecutors said, “Lansky is a competitive shooter and a former member of the Socialist Rifle Association. He is skilled and well-practiced in the use of firearms and combat scenarios. The [improvised incendiary devices] used by Lansky were all manufactured by him.”

Danel Alan Baker, who was sentenced to 44 months in prison for threats for offering “cash rewards for information leading to the verified identification of an and every individual in this video [from January 6]. Don’t worry, I wont ne [sic] going to the cops. We have decided to handle this ourselves.”

“Baker has made multiple violent threats to those he claims are white supremacists, fascists, United States persons with different ideologies than his, and allies of the United States. In addition, Baker has promoted the killing of United States military officers.” In 2017, Baker joined “a sub-affiliate of Kurdistan’s Working Party, which has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization,” prosecutors said.

The Socialist Rifle Association chapter in Utah said that Tyler Robinson, the suspect charged with murdering Charlie Kirk was not a member, but did not provide an answer when the outlet asked if Lance Twiggs, Robinson’s transgender roommate and romantic partner, was a member, citing confidentiality policies when the Daily Wire requested comment.  (Read more: The Post Millennial, 9/19/2025)  (Archive)

September 20, 2025 – A pattern of transgender violence and mass shootings emerge

According to Grok:

Origins and Definition

Portmanteau Origin: The term combines “trans” (short for transgender) and “Antifa” (anti-fascist), coined around 2023 on social media to describe the growing presence of transgender individuals in far-left anarchist protests. While some sources trace early ironic or memetic uses within trans communities (e.g., as a joke in bios or posts), it gained mainstream attention through right-wing commentators like Andy Ngo, who popularized it in reporting on violent incidents. By mid-2023, outlets like Newsweek, Fox News, and the Daily Mail were using it to highlight an “increasing trend” of extremism, citing UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem’s warnings about violent trans activism.

Self-Identification: There is an active “Trantifa International” Facebook page with over 2,000 likes, explicitly describing itself as “the transgender arm of Antifa” and focusing on issues affecting transgender and gender non-conforming people. Social media accounts, stickers, T-shirts (e.g., sold on Amazon with slogans like “Trans Rights or Else”), and banners at rallies further indicate self-identification. On X (formerly Twitter), posts from 2023–2025 show activists using the term, often in contexts like protests against women’s rights events or calls for armed self-defense.

Activities and Incidents

Trantifa has been linked to disruptive and violent actions, particularly in the U.S. (e.g., Portland, Seattle) and U.K., often intersecting with broader Antifa or leftist protests. Key examples from 2023–2025 include:

Protests and Harassment: In 2023, Trantifa activists protested an LGB Alliance conference in London, harassing attendees for not being “trans-inclusive.” Similar disruptions occurred at women’s rights rallies in Edinburgh (2024) and events featuring swimmer Riley Gaines, who opposes trans women in women’s sports—e.g., a 2023 ambush at San Francisco State University where Gaines was allegedly hit and chased. In Seattle (2025), groups swarmed journalists at Cal Anderson Park, stealing items and chasing them.

Violence and Extremism: Reports describe assaults, such as a 2025 flagpole attack at a California stadium and paint-throwing at Sorbonne University professors in Paris (2023). A Facebook group called “Trans-Army” (over 500,000 followers) has urged recruiting ex-military members, stockpiling weapons, and preparing for “vengeance” against perceived oppressors. Incidents like the 2023 Nashville school shooting by trans shooter Audrey Hale and a 2025 Minneapolis church shooting have been tied to “Trantifa” rhetoric in conservative media, though experts like those from the Center for Strategic and International Studies note violence is not the norm for Antifa-affiliated groups but a “legitimate option” for some.

Recent Activity (2025): As of August 2025, X posts document Trantifa counter-protests at a Christian concert in Seattle’s Gas Works Park, involving screaming, drums, and barriers to separate crowds. Other posts reference assaults on journalists and calls to “end Trantifa terrorists,” with users like Andy Ngo highlighting organized violence in Portland (e.g., 99% of ICE arrests there involving Trantifa per one claim).

September 20, 2025 – Trump withdraws nomination of Erik Siebert as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia due to several conflicts of interest

Today I withdrew the Nomination of Erik Siebert as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, when I was informed that he received the UNUSUALLY STRONG support of the two absolutely terrible, sleazebag Democrat Senators, from the Great State of Virginia. He didn’t quit, I fired him! Next time let him go in as a Democrat, not a Republican. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!President DJT

The far-left media complained that the President’s firing of Siebert was outrageous and only done because Siebert wouldn’t prosecute radical Letitia James for her multiple instances of mortgage fraud.

What the Legacy Media won’t tell you is that President Trump had every reason for firing Siebert. Erik Siebert the US attorney fired by Trump had prepared a 51 page Memo outlining why Jim Comey should not be charged for crimes he committed while at the FBI. However, Siebert did not disclose that his father-in-law, his wife’s father is the godfather to Comey’s daughter, a stunning conflict of interest. Siebert should have recused himself but he never did.

Roger Stone shared this moments ago:

The Washington Post confirmed this relationship with Comey when former VP Mike Pence obtained Richard Cullen as his attorney.

Vice President Pence became the latest member of the Trump administration to lawyer up Thursday, announcing that he had hired an outside attorney, Richard Cullen, to deal with the ongoing probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections.

News reports described the sterling reputation of Cullen, 69, a former Virginia attorney general and longtime Washington insider who played crucial roles in some of the most high-profile political investigations of the last several decades.

But other parts of his resume attracted even more interest. For three years, Cullen worked at a Richmond law firm with a central figure of the Russia investigation: FBI Director James B. Comey, who was just fired by Pence’s boss, President Trump.

And not only is Cullen his “close associate,” as news reports described, but he is also the godfather of one of Comey’s daughters.

(Read more: Joe Hoft, 9/26/2025)  (Archive)

September 20, 2025 – Hunter Kozak who asked Charlie Kirk his last question, was part of the “Unf**k America Tour”

The man who asked Charlie Kirk his last question before his assassination is tied to a radical left organization.

Hunter Kozak asks Charlie Kirk the last question before his assassination. (Credit: public domain)

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, we performed a review of the last series of questions asked of Charlie, which had to do with violence and transgenders.  Then, after the assassination, we learned that the reported shooter had a roommate who was a transgender.

The Suspicious Connection Between Charlie Kirk’s Position on Transgenders and the Assassin and His Associates

We also learned that the man who asked the last question appears to have been connected to Antifa as well.

Did HUNTER KOZAK drop the question to Charlie Kirk as the “CUE” for the assassin to take the shot?

The “CUE” question was not only for the assassin to take the shot, it was a political statement and a signature.

There are no coincidences.

Destiny who is an online streamer was planning an “Unfu*k America Tour.”

Hunter Kozak who asked Charlie the last question was part of Destiny’s tour.

The entire “Unfu*k America Tour” was scheduled to go to every major TPUSA event specifically to harass and protest them.

Destiny was just openly calling for all Trump supporters and people with conservative views and beliefs to be sh*t and murd*red.

In Hunter Kozak’s first public appearance on the news, something about his body language and his facial expressions showed almost laughter and happiness explaining what happened to Charlie.

Body language alone speaks 80% more than words and can tell you a lot about someone because they’re extremely harder to control.

It’s likely Hunter initiated the “CUE” question for the shot, especially being associated with Destiny’s tour, his acquaintances, but most importantly, the complete change of dialogue and the question itself when Charlie was shot.

It’s all connected.

(Read more: Joe Hoft, 9/20/2025) (Archive)

September 21, 2025 – Charlie Kirk Memorial is held – Elon Musk gives most poignant answer to why he was killed

Charlie Kirk’s memorial service was held on September 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. This was a large public event organized by Turning Point USA (the conservative organization he co-founded), attended by tens of thousands of people, including President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk, and other prominent figures. It followed his assassination on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University in Utah. The program began around 11 a.m. local time (MST), with doors opening earlier.

Elon musk was asked “Why was he killed?”

September 21, 2025 – Various examples of Charlie Kirk addressing racism

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