Introduction by The Editor:
Donald Trump is a political outsider, starting his political career at the top. One of President Trump's
biggest obstacles is the Washington Establishment, also known as the Deep State. These are the career
bureaucrats, especially those in the Pentagon and the three-letter spy agencies who are quite comfortable
with the way Washington works and don't want anyone to rock the boat, to say nothing of draining the swamp.
The
Deep State Exposed Itself. The Deep State promised that Trump would crash the economy
and impetuously start wars. Instead, he stopped wars, reduced the cost of energy, and
expanded middle-class opportunities. The Deep State insisted that he had "colluded" with
Russia. In reality, Hillary Clinton's campaign and Barack Obama's espionage chiefs invented
the Russia Hoax in order to illegally spy on Trump and pressure him into leaving office. The
Deep State claimed that Trump engaged in an illicit quid-pro-quo arrangement with Ukraine in order
to get political "dirt" on Biden. In truth, he exposed both Biden's and other Deep State
players' financial corruption with foreign regimes. The Deep State says President Trump must
go to prison for leaving office with classified documents (even though the president possesses
inherent classification authority) but that Jim Comey, Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence, Joe Biden, and
countless other Establishment offenders should be excused for unlawfully possessing classified
documents of their own. The Deep State says that it was perfectly fine for Barack Obama to
use drone strikes to murder U.S. citizens without any form of due process and to deliver political
speeches that encouraged violence against police officers (and resulted in a number of targeted
assassinations during his presidency). At the same time, the Deep State claims that President
Trump's January 6, 2021 speech questioning the 2020 election's legitimacy in the wake of
rampant mail-in ballot fraud was an act of "treason" deserving of the death penalty. For
eight years now, the Deep State's two-tiered "justice," overt propaganda, and malicious political
targeting have been too conspicuous for rational people to ignore.
Gitmo's
Unsolved Deaths. If street thug prosecutors manage to railroad President Trump to
prison, could he be Epsteined? Many Americans would be shocked to know that the government
has previously covered up horrible prison deaths with outrageous lies. One of the most
notorious incidents happened at a secret CIA facility located just outside the perimeter of
Guantanamo. [...] The incidents at Guantanamo starkly reveal how easy it is for the Deep State
to conceal crimes of murder. Instead of being forthright, they spew out nonsense with
impunity. The big question is whether Trump needs to fear being their next victim.
The
Invisible Power Controlling the US Government. Inverted totalitarianism does not have an authoritarian leader,
but instead is run by a non-transparent group of bureaucrats. This unelected, invisible ruling class runs the country
from within. They are easily influenced by corporate interests due to both the lure of powerful jobs after federal
employment and the capture of our legislative bodies by the lobbyists serving concealed corporate interests. One
element of inverted totalitarianism is that the administrative state typically inserts stricter and stricter rules and
regulations to control the populace. Not at the behest of Congress or the President, but rather by and for the
interests of the administrative state itself. Power begets power. We the people are forced into compliance by an
unknown and unknowable invisible ruling class, with no way to even understand who, what, or how they are forcing this
compliance upon us. As if that is not bad enough, in these modern times, the globalist corporations and financial
groups have come to play a larger and larger role in controlling this administrative state.
The Silent Coup.
Many historians and folks who just read the newspaper every morning and watch the news at night felt that something quite
different and very odd was occurring. Where were all the leaks coming from? Why all the Russia Russia Russia
talk? What was all this 25th Amendment talk about? Why was there immediate talk of impeachment? What was
with the quick firing of Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn by Vice President Mike Pence? Why did the progressive liberal
media obviously show that they had a favorite? Why the criminality in the 2020 election? Why the Jan. 6
roundup of citizens who only wanted free and fair elections? Now it is clear for all to see, the Deep State was running
a coup against Donald Trump. A coup against candidate Trump. A coup against President-elect Trump. And a
coup against President Trump while in office. The Deep State, including the Fourth Branch of government (the
intelligence apparatus), went after Trump from the moment he came down the escalators. Not a military coup that we once
thought of from a banana republic. No rifle fire, hand grenades, nor mortar launchers. But a soft and silent, yet
deadly coup done by people with suits and ties and dresses and skirts in law firms and excutive offices.
Trump
uncovered a spirit of racketeering running the country. When I look at the last four years and how our country
seemed to get more divided than any time since the Civil War, it's easy to conclude that President Trump is the reason it
occurred. From the moment he declared war on the corruption in D.C., he became a target of all those entrenched power
brokers who have been able to hide their venal activities from an unsuspecting public. Trump became the loudest
whistleblower in history when he talked about draining the swamp that had been operating like an organized crime family for
generations. In order for a Mafia-like mob to operate effectively, it must keep its nefarious pursuits from public
exposure. Hence, President Trump had to be destroyed!
The
Insect Politicians of the Administrative State. The United States Civil Service, sometimes called the
"administrative state" or "deep state," is supposed to be professional. It ought to be apolitical, like an ant colony
or beehive, serving a queen, the sovereign people, as they express themselves, under law, through their representatives in
the elected offices. Whether the designers of the modern progressive civil service intended it to be apolitical is an
open question. Even if it were so designed, civil servants are not and cannot be ants or bees. They are
people. Without robust mechanisms — prompt dismissals, firings, and swift and unfeelingly severe
sanctions for misconduct — to enforce the political will of the sovereign people, they are bound to express a
political will of their own. They will become insect politicians.
Federalist
Co-Founder Notes The Real Reason Behind The Media's Trump-Ukraine Obsession. Since the 2016 election, the media
has just been engulfed with Trump Derangement Syndrome. They hate Trump. They hate Republicans. And this
has blinded them to being hit with buckshot on a near-daily basis. For two years, they peddled the Trump-Russia
collusion myth that was a manufactured lie based on the infamous Steele Dossier, aka Trump dossier, that was compiled by
ex-MI6 spook Christopher Steele. It was never fully verified, most of the allegations in it were trash, and even
members of British intelligence were skeptical. The FBI was not, as evidenced by their lack of due diligence in
verifying this biased piece of political propaganda. A Google search could have pointed out the glaring errors within
the dossier. This was a political opposition research project funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democrats.
It was based on second-hand sources, some of which were still active in the Kremlin. If anything, this proves
Clinton-Russia collusion and interference in the 2016 election. The report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller debunked
this entire project. So, the Democrats had to suffer humiliation, as did their media allies — but
impeachment was still the end goal. It was why they retook the House in 2018.
Lets
Call the Russian Collusion "Hoax" What it Really is. Euphemism, the counterfeit of good manners, is the enemy
of truth, which is the only ally worth having. I have been thinking about this constellation of ideas recently as the
news has been full of talk about the "Russian collusion hoax." Use of the term "hoax" got a big boost in the aftermath of
the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on the question of whether there was actionable cooperation, coordination, or
collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Two years, $34 million, and a wide swath of debilitating rumor,
innuendo, and unrelated indictments and prosecutions later and we know that the answer to that question is "No, there was no
cooperation, coordination, or collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin." [...] But thinking about it, I conclude
that the term "hoax" is wholly inadequate to describe the enormity of the political scandal that was perpetrated against
Donald Trump, against the office of the president, and ultimately against the American people.
Sally
Yates -vs- Michael Flynn. After the November 8th, 2016, election everyone within the Obama network associated
with the Trump surveillance operation was at risk. This is the impetus for the "Muh Russia" collusion-conspiracy
narrative that was used as a mitigating shield. Within a few days after the election ODNI James Clapper and CIA
Director John Brennan began pushing the Russia election interference narrative in the media. Without notifying anyone,
NSA Director Mike Rogers went to Trump tower on November 18th, 2016. Despite his compartmentalization it appears
Rogers identified the NSA database abuse as the likely underpinning for some form of political surveillance. By
mid-December 2016 the Obama administration was deploying a full-court-press using their media allies to promote the Russia
conspiracy. However, despite their public proclamations Clapper and Brennan were refusing to give any specifics to congress.
USA
Today Calls For Investigation Into Obama-Era Deep State Election Manipulation. Interesting indeed! Here
is the left-leaning USA Today finally calling for an accounting of Obama-era officials, (including Mr. Obama himself)
and the roles they played in what became the 2+ year-long, multi-million dollar waste of time known as the Mueller
investigation that saw the U.S. intelligence agencies politically weaponized to alter the Election Day outcome.
Treason, sedition, intimidation, corruption, you name it they seemingly did it all.
Real
Scandal Of Trump Term Starts To Unravel. The most immense and dangerous public scandal in American history is
finally cracking open like a ripe pomegranate. The broad swath of the Trump-hating press that has participated in what
has amounted to an unconstitutional attempt to overthrow the government are reduced to reporting the events and revelations
of the scandal in which they have been complicit, in a po-faced ho-hum manner to impart to the misinformed public that this
is as routine as stock market fluctuations or the burning of an American flag in Tehran. For more than two years, the
United States and the world have had two competing narratives: that an elected president of the United States was a
Russian agent whom the Kremlin helped elect; and its rival narrative that senior officials of the Justice Department, FBI,
CIA, and other national intelligence organizations had repeatedly lied under oath, misinformed federal officials, and meddled
in partisan political matters illegally and unconstitutionally and had effectively tried to influence the outcome of a
presidential election, and then undo its result by falsely propagating the first narrative. It is now obvious and
indisputable that the second narrative is the correct one.
The Enemy Within.
What we learned in the wake of the 2016 Presidential election in the United States was the most shocking secret our country
has ever had to come to terms with: the US Government had become a criminal enterprise controlled by a cabal of elite
insiders; "The Enemy Within". This was decades in the making, but we were warned this day would come. We were told
in the founding fathers own words about governments turning on their people, and the people's right to 'throw off the chains
of Tyranny', to President Eisenhower's famous speech warning us about the grave danger posed by a large military alliance and
partnership with the private sector companies that make up the defense contractor community — what he called
the Military Industrial complex. Decades after President Eisenhower warned of the Military Industrial complex, his
nightmare has come to life. [...] America's rise to this National Security State was driven by the cold war, but it has
become a permanent fixture for two ever present reasons: money, and power.
Criminality
Of Deep State Investigation Of Trump Confirmed — Has U.S. Become A Banana Republic? Both the Justice
Department and FBI have maintained they didn't really know that Trump Dossier compiler Christopher Steele had any bias at all
against Trump. And, even when they got their hands on Steele's unverified dossier on Trump, they claim they didn't know
that Steele's employer, Fusion GPS, had any conflicts of interest. Moreover, when they appeared before the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court to get the OK to spy on former Trump aide Carter Page, they didn't tell the court what they
knew. They lied. Or at the very minimum, concealed the truth. This is a crime. How can we be sure
that top officials at Justice and the FBI knew all this? Ohr said so.
Red
Handed: All the Collusion was in the Deep State. Let's begin with the obvious — if President
Trump's foreign policy views warranted an FBI investigation, then why didn't the bureau probe the pro-Russia stances of
former American leaders such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? Many forget that President Obama once told his
Russian counterpart at the time, Vladimir Putin lackey Dmitry Medvedev, that he would have "more flexibility" after his
re-election in 2012 — an ominous indication that Obama was cutting secret deals with the Russian government behind
the scenes. Remarkably, he then stood by and did nothing as Putin invaded Ukraine. Likewise, Hillary Clinton was
never investigated for her disastrous "Russia reset" in the early years of the Obama administration and received no meaningful
scrutiny for the sale of Uranium One to Russia despite receiving $145 million in donations from some of the people
involved in that transaction through the Clinton Foundation. [...] Then there's Senator Dianne Feinstein, a member of the
"Gang of Eight" and a member of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, who employed a Chinese spy for 20 years.
Did the FBI treat her as a Chinese asset? No, they went directly to her and briefed her on the problem.
Democrats:
A plague on the nation. Our once most revered institutions, the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA, have been thoroughly
corrupted. Mueller, a willing participant in that corruption, is up to his eyeballs in the cover-up. Will any of
these people at the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA, ever be held accountable? To date, they have not been. The power
they have within the Deep State is beyond formidable; it is seemingly absolute. It appears that America has become a
sort of medieval oligarchy. Trump, as the outsider he is, is a grave threat to all of those who believed they were in
control in perpetuity. They are ready and willing to do anything, no matter how illegal or immoral, to depose him, to
expel him from office.
The War On
Trump Is All About Keeping Liberals And Their Lackeys In Power. [T]his year ends with our loser ruling class
shedding any pretense of legitimacy in its quest to reclaim the power we took back from it in 2016. The reaction to
Donald Trump by our alleged betters [...] is instructive. They have abandoned all the principles they once claimed to
support — democracy, civil rights, due process, and equality. None of those principles help them to keep or regain
power anymore, so they are expendable. As are you. Liberalism was always a lie and a scam, right from its sordid
beginnings among the progressives with their creepy messianic fervor, their infatuation with "expertise" (and hence, their
embrace of evils like eugenics), and their contempt for the Constitution. Liberals consider themselves the anointed,
divinely entitled to rule over us lesser folk, and they aren't going to let anything get in the way of retaking the throne.
Are
the Investigations the Cover-Up? Those of us who have been paying attention know that serious crimes were
committed at the highest levels of government in an attempt to exonerate Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump. There
was collusion between government agencies, including collusion with foreign agents, to illegally influence the 2016
Presidential election. There is enough evidence on the table to be confident of these claims. And those of us who
care about rule of law, who want to see justice done to the criminals in this conspiracy, have been waiting for years to see
that happen. We hear that these serious matters are being investigated. We hear that there are whistleblowers
inside the government who want to come forward and expose the corruption. We hear that there are many, many more
documents which will substantiate our worst fears about one of the greatest scandals in the history of our country. We
have been assured that there are several investigations looking into the various aspect of this abuse of power.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz, prosecutor John Huber, and others are looking into the corruption. Mueller is
supposedly tasked with exposing foreign influence on the Presidential election. But what if the 'investigations' are
really the cover-up? What if the investigations are carefully structured to protect criminal actions rather than expose
them? What if the investigations are actually being used to hide evidence from the citizenry?
The Democrats Are the
Threat to Democracy. In fact, Trump has spent the last two years having the legitimacy of his unprecedented
election to the presidency challenged by unelected and unaccountable members of the U.S. intelligence community —
all of whom have partisan axes to grind against Trump. The president fired FBI Director James Comey; he helped to
remove senior FBI officials, like Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page; Trump revoked the security clearances of former
officials, like John Brennan, not because he was hiding something from the world. Rather, Trump took these actions as a
means of self-defense against former Obama officials masquerading as unbiased intelligence officers. Fact is, the
intelligence community — like the rest of the federal government — was weaponized by former President
Barack Obama and used to punish political enemies of the Democratic Party.
Fake
bombs are not bombs. Fake news is fake news. The American left to this day is unable to accept the results of the 2016
election. So certain that their candidate would prevail, they have suffered a psychotic break from which they have not recovered.
Every sentient being now knows that it was Hillary, the DNC, the FBI, the DOJ, and the NSA that collaborated to prevent Trump from becoming
president. She and they fabricated the "dossier," planted spies in the Trump campaign, falsified FISA warrants, and leaked to the
media. Their plan was a Deep State coup like nothing else in U.S. history.
Spygate:
The True Story of Collusion. The sudden legitimacy of Trump's candidacy was not welcomed by the U.S. political
establishment. Here was a true political outsider who held no traditional allegiances. He was brash and boastful,
he ignored political correctness, he couldn't be bought, and he didn't care what others thought of him — he
trusted himself. Governing bodies in Britain and the European Union were also worried. Candidate Trump was openly
challenging monetary policy, regulations, and the power of special interests. He challenged Congress. He
challenged the United Nations and the European Union. He questioned everything.
Yes,
The Deep State Is Real — And Working To Undermine Our Nation. President Trump earlier this week said
that he would release a trove of documents related to the Russia investigation and declassify their contents. Included
are 21 pages taken from a June 2017 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application used to spy on former Trump aide
Carter Page. Along with those pages, Trump also seeks release of unredacted FBI notes made during interviews conducted
for the FISA application, along with text messages related to Russia and notes from FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, the No. 4
official in the Justice Department. Why is that key? Ohr had close ties to former British spy Christopher Steele,
who authored the so-called Trump dossier for Fusion GPS. Steele, whose work was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and
by the Clinton-controlled Democratic National Committee, served as an informant to the FBI until he was let go for leaking to
the media. But Ohr's wife, Nellie, continued to work for Fusion GPS, a fact that Bruce Ohr didn't reveal on his mandatory
federal disclosure filings.
Knowing
What We Know Now, We Must Remind Ourselves. As we absorb the corrupt evidence within what the DOJ, FBI, CIA and
intelligence community was willing to do to stop the Trump administration; as we absorb the totality of all methods deployed
by the professional political establishment to destroy Donald J Trump; as we begin to quantify the scale of corruption within
our political institutions, and continue bearing witness to the ongoing war against our the presidency; it is worthwhile
revisiting a warning, a call to arms, from two-years-ago. The lies, the severity of hatred and opposition, now make
much more sense.
How
Anti-Trump Leakers Moved From Offense to Defense. RCI has found that the anti-Trump leaks fall into two broad
categories, or phases. Initially the leaking was an offensive operation aimed at disrupting Trump's agenda, especially
through leaks alleging connections between his campaign and the Russians. Its early successes included leaks of highly
classified material that led to the firing of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and the recusal of Attorney General
Jeff Sessions from overseeing that probe. The second phase — which began roughly a year into the Trump
administration — has been more defensive, pushing back against congressional oversight committees that had
uncovered irregularities in the FBI's investigation of Trump. This phase has been marked by the willingness of press
outlets to run stories backing off earlier reported leaks that proved to be deeply misleading — including the
roots of the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign and the relationship between Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr and the
opposition research firm that produced a central document of that probe, the largely discredited "Steele dossier."
The Three Hard Truths
of the Trump Era. [#3] The deep state is real. Despite the media's obsessive and positive coverage of
Robert Mueller's "collusion" investigation, and their willful shooing aside of its numerous shortcomings and inconsistencies,
the truth is slowly but surely coming out. And it appears Trump was right all along. There can be little doubt
that, given what we know now, federal agencies were harnessed to both excuse Hillary Clinton's transgressions and impede
Donald Trump's Presidency. The facts are: [A] Partisan agents loyal to Hillary were hugely influential in both the
investigation into her emails and the investigation into Trump's collusion with Russia. [B] The FBI relied heavily on
the Steele dossier, which has been largely debunked, to justify its collusion investigation. [C] There were numerous
conflicts of interest in both investigations: in regards to Hillary's emails, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe's wife had ties
to long-time Clinton ally and former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. In regards to Mueller's "collusion" investigation, the
wife of a top DOJ official was hired by FusionGPS, the firm behind the notorious dirty dossier, specifically to investigate the President.
Mueller,
Comey, and the Deep State Rescue of Sandy Berger. [Scroll down] Republican presidents struggle against a collective of entrenched
careerists, soulless opportunists, and left-wing ideologues — the so-called "deep state." The ideologues are in it for the power, the careerists
for the pensions, and the opportunists for the applause. Working together with their media partners, they follow the path of least resistance,
which is almost inevitably to the left. When a Democrat is president, they have his back.
You're
Surrounded Mr. Mueller, Give Yourself Up. [Scroll down] Seamus Bruner of The Epoch Times has
just put together a list of 25 DOJ and FBI officials who have resigned in the last year. [...] As I look at this list, I know
it includes only a fraction of those who have risked their careers and their reputations because they simply couldn't bear to
see Donald Trump in the White House. Before this is over, others will be added to the list. Perhaps even Rod
Rosenstein. And there will likely be former top-level Obama officials caught in the net as well. Perjurers John
Brennan and James Clapper come to mind. In addition to the men and women who have been working against Trump in the DOJ
and the FBI, there were/are employees in the State Department and the CIA, holdovers from the Obama administration, who are
complicit. The mainstream media has played a huge role in perpetuating this hoax. They have breathlessly
distorted events to influence public opinion. Instead of reporting the news, they have worked overtime to shape
it. For an example of how the mainstream media has aided and abetted the left's attempt to impeach Trump, we need to
look no further than their outrage over the revocation of John Brennan's security clearance.
Why
aren't the Democrats horrified by the corruption at the FBI and DOJ? It is becoming clearer by the day, after
over a year of investigations, that the Obama administration did indeed weaponize the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the ATF, the IRS
and the NSA. Over those eight years, each of the above agencies was transformed into an arm of the Democratic Party tasked
with crippling the opposition and abrogating the Constitution. Since all of the mainstream media already were arms of the
DNC, it is well and truly a miracle that Donald Trump prevailed throughout his campaign to win the election, as the entire DC
bureaucracy and media were aligned against him. Most of them still are.
The Deep State
Wears Black Robes. Freedom Watch Founder Larry Klayman discusses the bad legal advice President Trump is
getting about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia-gate probe and urges the president to hire new lawyers to go after
Mueller and the Deep State. He also declares Judge Brett Kavanaugh "uniquely unqualified and unfit" to serve on the
Supreme Court because of his controversial decision in favor of Barack Hussein Obama's illegal NSA mass surveillance program,
which targeted President Trump! Klayman is proposing the use of citizen grand juries to go after the Deep State
operatives who control the intelligence agencies and have "the ability to gather information to blackmail" people such as
Kavanaugh to do their bidding. [Video clip]
It's Oakland in Muellerville.
Wikipedia defines this autogleipsimous activity as "a self-perpetuating system that has no purpose other than to sustain
itself." The Mueller investigation and its attendant pseudo-pods in the media and "intelligence community" are indeed
self-perpetuating. But they exhibit a purpose that goes far beyond their own self-perpetuation. No, in this
safari, big game is the object, the end, the purpose, to wit the destruction of the president of the United States.
That is the true purpose of this charade: not the truth about "Russian meddling," not alleged wrong doing by Paul Manafort
in 2005, not a lack of candor under FBI questioning by George Papadopoulos (who?) or Michael Flynn. The one true purpose
(in addition to the welcome subsidiary effect of helping out the ratings of the MSM) is to hobble Donald Trump, a prelude to
removing him from office.
Just How Far Will
the Left Go? The Obama apparat and the proverbial deep state never imagined Trump could win and thus to ensure
that he would not just be defeated but humiliated, vied to use the power of government to destroy the Trump candidacy.
The National Security Council was weaponized and thus unmasked the names of surveilled Americans and leaked their names to
the press to undermine the Trump campaign. The Department of Justice was weaponized to ensure Hillary Clinton was
exonerated for her misdeeds concerning her email server and quid pro quo collusion with a variety of foreign and domestic
influence peddlers and buyers. The FBI and CIA were weaponized to subvert the Trump campaign, by peddling an unverified
smear dossier, paid for by Hillary Clinton, by implanting informants into the Trump campaign, and by undermining a FISA court
through dishonest presentations of evidence for warrants to spy on American citizens. All such behavior was assumed to
ensure the landslide Clinton victory and thus would be seen as sacrifice beyond the call of duty to be rewarded by a
President Clinton not as illegal behavior to be punished during a Trump administration. And as a result, the more
culpability that was exposed, the more the culpable went on the offensive — on the theory that constant attack is
the best defense against their own criminal liability. T
The
Real Threat to American Democracy. We know that the FBI and DOJ swept under the rug Hillary's gross negligence
in handling classified information and that Bill Clinton arranged a secret meeting with Loretta Lynch while the investigation
was ongoing. The only reason we know that the meeting occurred was due to the efforts of one brave local investigative
reporter. To this day, the FBI and DOJ are waging a war on the president — nothing less than an attempt to
nullify the people's vote in 2016. Clearly, the FBI's and DOJ's malicious attacks on the president indicate that they
think power belongs to the ruling elites, not the people.
Obama
single-handedly ruined the FBI and the DOJ. While the devious machinations of the Deep State are not new, it
was the Obama administration, most likely Obama himself, who brought us to this low point, the wholesale corruption of the
FBI and the DOJ leadership. Obama surrounded himself with like-minded globalist elites who thought no laws applied to
them: Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Valerie Jarrett, the Podestas, Ben Rhodes, Jonathan Gruber, and more. Eric
Holder was the most unprincipled attorney general, more even than John Mitchell, who served time in federal prison. We
learned from the I.G. report that Obama lied when he said he learned of HRC's private server from the media. He knew
because he, too, corresponded with her from a private email, just as Comey used a non-FBI email account. None of these
people, not one, respected our Constitution or the laws meant to govern their agencies. This is what Obama did to America.
He virtually destroyed the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ by turning them into weapons with which to destroy his opponents.
The Deep
State Is an Organism, Not a Conspiracy. The FBI folks like Strzok, Page, McCabe, Attorney #2 and so on appear
to have been an actual conspiracy (definition: a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful) but they alone
certainly aren't sufficient to justify people talking about a "Deep State." But that's beside the point. From the
point of view of the Administrative State, which survives on a diet of fresh government programs and mutual backscratching,
Trump's unexpected election was like a wound. It was a danger to the organism, and the organism responded using its immune
system — which is composed of "incompetence, idiocy, bureaucratic self-aggrandizement, and partisan hackery."
From
9/11 to Spygate: The National Security Deep State. [Scroll down] We know some of what Mueller was
doing. The same official who paved the way for raiding the president's lawyer, who illegally seized material from the
Trump transition team and whose case is based in no small part on illegal eavesdropping, fought alongside Comey against
surveilling terrorists. Materials involving the Muslim Brotherhood were purged. Toward the dawn of the second
Obama term, Mueller met with CAIR and other Islamist groups and a green curtain fell over national security. But the
surveillance wasn't going anywhere. Instead it was being redirected to new targets. Those targets were not,
despite the wave of hysterical conspiracy theories convulsing the media, the Russians. Mueller's boss was still quite
fond of them. Barack Obama did have foreign enemies that he wanted to spy on. And there were plenty of domestic
enemies who could be caught up in that trap.
Spygate: The Coming Storm.
A growing segment of the American public now knows that the country's intelligence community was spying on the Trump campaign, and then
attempting to sabotage the Trump Administration with false allegations of "Russian collusion." That's #Spygate in a sentence.
A long and tawdry web composed of lies, obstruction, and leaking has slowly been unraveled until the falsehoods of the FBI, the CIA, the
Justice Department, and other assorted deep state actors were revealed. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has been fired, and is
counting his GoFundMe cash in preparation for large legal bills. Former FBI Director James Comey publicly set fire to his
reputation during his recent book tour. James Clapper was hired recently on CNN to analyze all the nefarious stuff he did as the
former director of national intelligence. Last, but certainly not least, former CIA head John Brennan has had to settle for pompous
raging on Twitter — which is just about the most amateur thing that an ex-spymaster can possibly do. The erstwhile leaders
of our "intelligence community" have proven to be not very intelligent at all.
Why
the Mueller probe is really five scandals, not one. [Scandal #3] The calculated effort to undermine and
discredit then-candidate and now-President Donald Trump is actually a continuation of a deep anti-Republican bias in the
Justice Department. This Justice Department tradition is well catalogued in Sidney Powell's stunning book, "Licensed to
Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice." If you have any illusions about the Justice Department's
objectivity, keep in mind that employees of this department gave 97 percent of their 2016 campaign donations to Hillary
Clinton — while the department was supposedly investigating her for illegally using a private email server to send
and receive classified information as secretary of state.
An Unparalleled
Scandal. The Deep State is clearly out of control. Back when we uncovered the Clinton email scandal,
Judicial Watch fought tooth and nail with the State Department, the Justice Department and the FBI for documents.
Little did we know that, even as they were protecting Hillary Clinton, these agencies were also targeting her political
opponent, Donald Trump. And, since then, we've uncovered a scandal unparalleled in American history in terms of abuse
by government officials, offices, and agencies for political purposes. The Obama administration used the Justice
Department, the FBI, and other agencies to spy on its political opposition; and worked with Hillary Clinton and the
Democratic National Committee, to launder suspect intelligence from foreign nationals and use that as a pretext to spy on
Donald Trump and his associates. It's an incredible story, one that begins with the Obama White House and continues in
the Deep State today.
A
Conspiracy of Dunces. Imagine, if you will, a cabal of government employees expecting one person to easily win
the presidential election, and then the other candidate, the one they couldn't fathom leading the country, actually
wins. Now imagine those government employees aren't slogging away in the mailrooms of various departments, but they are
the upper-echelon of the nation's intelligence agencies and they resolve to cripple the newly-elected president anyway they
can. You don't have to imagine it, it happened. And we appear to be living in the aftermath of that effort.
Attacking
Trump's Attorney: Calling All Tea Partiers. Raiding the office of the personal attorney of the president of the United States is
the most outrageous of the Deep State's unprecedented, unhinged, and relentless attempts to overturn the 2016 election. This raid should tell
everyone that the Deep State will twist and bend the law to get rid of Trump. As stated by President Trump, the Deep State truly is engaged in
a disgraceful witch hunt. Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton are loyal Deep State operatives. They have been stealthily transforming America
into a socialist-progressive nation in which the federal government controls every aspect of our lives. Trump is the new sheriff in town
determined to crush the Washington, D.C. cartel by draining the swamp. The Deep State is determined to block and destroy Trump at any and
all cost.
The
left at work: Let's hope Trump survives. The country is at present enduring the dire consequences of the
depth and breadth of the Obama administration's many illegal activities. Former CIA chief John Brennan surveilled
American citizens, some of them senators, as Obama was pushing the horrific Iran deal, and he's never been charged with that
crime. In collusion with the Clinton campaign and the DNC, these Obama operatives used a fictional dossier to obtain
FISA warrants to spy on Trump campaign officials. They seriously meant to prevent him from getting close to a
victory. They conspired to clear Hillary Clinton of her many crimes so she could continue her bid for the
presidency. Who are the culprits? All upper-echelon bureaucrats who considered themselves above the law:
Comey, Holder, Lynch, Clapper, Brennan, McCabe, Rice, and Power are well known names, the public faces of Obama's
administration. Now we know there was a host of lesser known operatives working behind the scenes, as Lois Lerner did,
to manipulate facts and events in order to ensure Clinton's win. Without question, this bunch of white-collar criminals
has orchestrated the biggest, most serious campaign of political corruption in American history. One would think every
member of both parties in Congress would be outraged, that every American would be equally angry. But no. The
Democrats have all lined up to defend these felons, and the Democrats are absolutely without shame in doing so.
America Is In
Utter Jeopardy. The vicious hatred of President Donald J. Trump by people ranging from republican party
statists like Paul Ryan or the retiring Jeff Flake and democrats like Chuckie Schumer is not because Mr. Trump is the
most horrible person to set foot in the Oval Office. The hatred of Trump stems from his mission to reverse the curse of
putting the interests of foreign nations and illegal border-crossers over the interests of you and I, Americans born and
raised. The simple yet powerful mission to make America great again immediately became a dividing line between those of
us who love this republic and appreciate her many good attributes and the others who wish for her demise. As horrific
as the situation is politically with the swamp dwelling statists who are seeking to kill, steal and destroy our unalienable
rights, especially the right to bear arms and protect ourselves, family and property. That struggle pales in comparison
to the awful drumbeat of government school indoctrination that has literally caused the creation of legions of young
Americans who are literally seeking to destroy the republic from within.
This trap
was set well before Trump won. So this is the new standard for electing a president here in America, the
greatest living experiment in self-governance. A man can run the gauntlet against more than 20 professional politicians
and come out victorious. He can win more than 40 Republican primary contests and beat every professional political
campaigner out there, earning the votes of more than 14 million Republicans. He can then turn his attention to beating
the most powerful, entrenched political machine America has seen in nearly a half-century. (That corrupt machine had just
pulled off its most devious and dishonest scam ever — rigging a presidential primary to snatch the party's preferred
Socialist candidate away from Democrat voters.) In the end, President Trump won the presidency fair and square, earning the
votes of more than 60 million Americans and — crucially — winning the 30 states he needed to
take the White House.
Timely news and commentary:
The subsection about General Mark Milley is now at the bottom of this page.)
Trump
attorneys claim evidence of 'grave juror misconduct' during hush money trial.
President-elect Trump's attorneys have accused a member of the New York jury that convicted him of
wrongdoing, seeking to overturn the historic guilty verdict. In a letter to Judge Juan
Merchan unsealed Tuesday, Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove claimed the legal team has
"evidence of grave juror misconduct during the trial." "The jury in this case was not anywhere
near fair and impartial," they alleged. But prosecutors with the Manhattan district
attorney's office called the allegations "untested" and "unsworn," casting the claim as an effort
to undermine public confidence in the case. Details of the allegations were heavily redacted
and concealed from public view. Merchan said in a separate letter that he ordered the redactions
to ensure the safety of jurors, who have remained anonymous, and preserve the case's integrity.
Deep
State Officials Opposing Tulsi Gabbard's Nomination Have Close Ties To Defense Contractors,
Censorship Tools. Numerous officials that signed a letter opposing Tulsi Gabbard's
nomination for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) are tied to groups targeting "election
misinformation," left-wing organizations, intelligence agencies and defense contractors.
Certain members of Foreign Policy for America, the group behind the letter, are linked to entities
from Lockheed Martin to George Soros's Open Society Foundations. Nearly 100 national security
officials published a letter calling for a "thorough vetting" of Gabbard, and it was addressed to
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and soon-to-be Majority Leader John Thune. [Advertisement]
Former Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman criticized Gabbard's views on the Russia-Ukraine war,
former head of U.S. counterintelligence Joel Brenner blasted the nomination as "an insult to our
intelligence agencies," and former Senior CIA officer Melvin Gamble said her nomination "should
worry any American who cares about keeping our country safe." But these very same people are
part of the cohort of intelligence officials President-elect Donald Trump has signaled he wants to
remove from power. [Tweet]
Who's
Funding the Radical Trump-Hating 65 Project? — Now We Know. The 65 Project
is an NGO affiliate attempting to disbar lawyers including 7 attorneys general, a governor and a
couple of senators. All, of course Republicans. Common Sense Elections is using the
Fractal Dark Money Tracking System, built in 2024 to track not only the immediate funding source,
but show the connections to the thousands of Leftist NGOs in the Leftisphere. Leftist NGOs
operate with tax-exempt money, undermining American institutions, interfering in elections, with no
regulation. These groups can attack some of the country's most respected jurists, like
Professor Dershowitz or John Eastman, and nobody does anything about it.
Three
Russia Hoax Bombshells Hidden In IG Report On DOJ Surveillance Of Congress. Last week
the Department of Justice's inspector general released a report on some of the DOJ's tracking of
communications from media and congressional figures as part of its purported investigation into who
was leaking classified information against President Donald Trump in 2017. Three significant
bombshells about the Russia collusion hoax were hidden inside the dense and dry 100-page
report. For context, when Trump won the 2016 presidential election, anonymous Democrat
operatives in the federal government and Congress began leaking like sieves as part of a
coordinated effort to paint Trump as a mastermind spy who had worked with Russian President
Vladimir Putin for decades in order to steal the election. Two Washington Post stories, a New
York Times story, and a CNN story were all found to have included classified information.
None of the four stories are specified in the report, but they all appeared in the first half of
President Trump's first year in office.
Judge
Merchan Rejects Trump's Effort to Overturn Felony Conviction Despite Presidential Immunity Ruling
From Supreme Court. Judge Juan Merchan on Monday upheld the 34 felony convictions
against President Trump despite the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling. In April,
Trump was convicted on all 34 felony counts after he was accused of paying porn star Stormy
Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, 'hush payments' through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a
scheme to silence her and stop the story about their alleged affair from being published in the
National Enquirer. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleged Trump committed fraud
because the payment was labeled "legal fees." Late last month Judge Merchan delayed Trump's
November 26 sentencing in Alvin Bragg's lawfare case indefinitely.
Are
the Years of Madness Ending? Rarely have the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, the Department of
Justice, and the Pentagon become weaponized and so flagrantly and with impunity broken the law,
abandoned their mission statements, and served political agendas rather than the American
people. Not since the J. Edgar Hoover era has the FBI hierarchy serially lied under oath,
stonewalled Congress, forged a court affidavit, or partnered with the media to suppress the
news. Has the FBI ever raided an ex-president's home, spied on parents at school board
meetings, monitored Catholics, or tried to terrify and harass pro-life activists? Never has
the justice system, from local to state to national jurisdictions, so systematically and coordinately,
sought to bankrupt, render inert, and jail an ex-president and current presidential candidate.
The
Special Counsel Who Indicted Trump is Under Investigation. [Scroll down]
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary has been investigating Jack Smith and
his gang of persecutors. Specifically, the Committee has been investigating ethically and
legally questionable conduct by Jay Bratt, one of the Special Counsel's senior attorneys, including
his orchestration of the unprecedented Federal raid on Mar-A-Lago and efforts by Bratt to strong
arm one of the attorneys representing a co-defendant in the Florida documents case into getting his
client to help the government. The Committee is also investigating allegations that another
Jack Smith deputy, JP Cooney, spread "baseless" and "politically motivated conspiracy theories" in
Roger Stone's case and sought an extraordinarily long sentence for Stone. (You probably have
not heard about those investigations either, but that is yet another story.) During the
course of these investigations, the Judiciary Committee learned about a whistleblower from Jack
Smith's team. [...]
What's
Next for the Woke Bureaucrats in the Administrative State? President-elect Donald
Trump poses a serious threat to the woke bureaucrats and their left-wing allies who have injected
their ideology into the administrative state, but these activists won't be giving up easily.
As Trump staffs up for a second term, the bureaucrats have hatched at least three strategies to
oppose him: returning to the left-wing nonprofit sphere to act as a government-in-waiting; passing
new regulations to cement their ideology into the rules before Trump can reverse them; and
burrowing into the bureaucracy to oppose him from within, the same way they did during his first
term. Trump will enter office Jan. 20 with a mandate to drain the swamp, but the swamp is
working overtime to clog up the drains while it still can. [...] Even before Trump won the 2024
presidential election, bureaucrats had been gearing up to "Trump-proof" the administrative
state. In April, the Office of Personnel Management finalized a rule that will make it harder
for Trump to reinstate his "Schedule F" executive order — an order that would have
made it easier for the president to fire certain bureaucrats.
Mark
Levin Outlines Why Obama/Biden Administration are Talking About "Preemptive Pardons".
President Trump suggested on his Truth Social account to review the commentary by Mark Levin this
past weekend. Within his opening monologue, Mr Levin walks through the historic background of
the attacks against President Trump, and by extension the larger American electorate, and how all
of that White House triggered weaponization underpins the nervousness of the Obama/Biden
administration. It is an interesting review and revisit to the issues of great familiarity to
all of us. [Video clip] Why don't we ever hear her name? If there is one
Lawfare operative who has escaped scrutiny for her corrupt endeavors, it would be Mary
McCord. More than any other Lawfare operative within Main Justice, Mary McCord sits at the
center of every table in the manufacturing of cases against Donald Trump. Mary McCord's
husband is Sheldon Snook; he was the right hand to the legal counsel of Chief Justice John Roberts
when the Dobbs decision was leaked.
Jack
Smith's Partisan Prosecutors Lawyer Up as They Brace For Trump. Jack Smith's
prosecutors are lawyering up as they brace for President Trump. Late last month Jack Smith
moved to dismiss both federal cases against President Trump as Trump plans to go scorched earth and
fire the special counsel's entire team of prosecutors. Jack Smith asked to dismiss both the
January 6 case and classified documents case against President Trump. Both cases against
Trump were dismissed and now Jack Smith's investigators are fielding calls with lawyers in DC.
Get
a load of Fani now. It's been a bad few weeks for the people out to get Trump.
The stars are not aligning for Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, and now Fani Willis. [...] The Georgia
decision should give us all hope about abuse of power and political persecution. It's
completely un-American to use banana republic tactics to destroy your enemies. My guess is
that many Americans voted for Trump to protest these tactics. So what happens to Fani
now? I don't know, but a message should be sent to district attorneys that this kind of
politicization will explode in their faces, as we see here.
Report:
AG Merrick Garland is Begging Deep State Lawyers to Remain at DOJ. Joe Biden henchman
and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is reportedly urging employees of the Department of
Justice not to leave as the Trump administration prepares to take power. According to The
Washington Post, Garland is concerned that staffers plan to leave because they do not want to
be part of Donald Trump's DOJ. [...] Garland's pleas are likely a ploy to try and sabotage the
Trump administration from the inside, similar to what Obama holdovers did during his first term in
office. Last month, NBC revealed that many employees at the FBI and the DOJ were already
hiring criminal defense lawyers ahead of Trump's return to the White House.
Trump
Defense Attorneys Cite Biden's 'Extraordinary Condemnation' Of DOJ In Motion To
Dismiss. President Joe Biden, when he pardoned his son, conceded his own Department
of Justice (DOJ) is politically motivated, attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump wrote in a
Monday filing. In their latest motion to dismiss Trump's New York case, defense attorneys
pointed to Biden's claim that his son was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted" with political
motives that lead to a "miscarriage of justice" as further justification for ending proceedings.
"These comments amounted to an extraordinary condemnation of President Biden's own DOJ," Trump's
attorneys wrote. "This is the same DOJ that coordinated and oversaw the politically-motivated,
election-interference witch hunts targeting President Trump by disgraced Special Counsel Jack
Smith, the other biased prosecutors in Smith's Special Counsel's Office ('SCO'), and others.
This is the same DOJ that sent Matthew Colangelo to DA Bragg to help unfairly target President
Trump in this empty and lawless case."
Lawfare
Will End When the Left Is Too Terrified to Contemplate Continuing It. Now that Donald
Trump is headed to the White House, he has to make a decision vital to the Republic's health.
Over the last eight years, President Trump and his allies have been the subject of a non-stop
stream of lawfare attacks designed to cripple him while he was president and later, after he
peacefully turned over the reigns of power to the addled Joe Biden, to imprison him for what could
have been the rest of his life. The campaign to jail him was clearly a conspiracy involving
Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District
Attorney Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis. The extent
to which the civil cases against him were coordinated with the criminal cases has never, as far as
I know, been explored, but it is hard to imagine that it did not exist. This use of the
judicial system to attempt to impoverish and imprison political opponents is foreign to the United
States and to its founding principles.
Criminal
law Should be Inelastic. [Scroll down] In July the Court ruled that a
president has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and
preclusive constitutional authority. Moreover, he is entitled to at least presumptive
immunity from prosecution for his official acts. Since then, we learned how factually weak
the case was. For example, we learned what had previously been hidden — that he
had in fact asked for the National Guard to be present on January 6 to prevent any possible
rioting (as he had claimed) and that Pentagon leaders had deliberately delayed their deployment to
the Capitol. (Something they concealed for over three years.) [...] So, not only did Trump ask
that the demonstration be peaceful, he did everything in his power to keep it that way. That
case should never have been brought, but in any fair adjudication should have been dismissed,
unless you think that being a Republican deprives a president of a right to free speech. The
fate of the J6 defendants is still being considered by the District of Columbia courts, but the
Supreme Court's ruling in June of this year (Fischer v U.S.), makes clear the
prosecutors erred in an overly expansive reading of the relevant criminal law.
Jack
Smith and Merrick Garland Don't Look to Be Done With Trump Yet. Special Counsel Jack
Smith, as Townhall has been covering this week, has dropped his cases against President-elect
Donald Trump, with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreeing to end the classified documents
case. As Katie highlighted earlier on Friday, though, there's still a need for
accountability. Further, Smith and Attorney General Merrick Garland may not be completely
done with Trump, given that they're still looking to release a report. The New York Times had
actually teased some coverage about Smith two weeks ago, noting that he planned to resign before
Trump took office. There was also mention of a report for Smith to complete and Garland to
release, though. Following Smith's moves to drop the charges, CNN reported on some key
"takeaways," including a section on "What will we learn next?"
What
Part of Mandate Don't You Understand? [Scroll down] Because of
Mr. Trump being the primary target of DOJ / FBI enmity, blob publicists will try to color it
as "personal retribution," but it is really the proper response of an aggrieved nation. A
large number of current and former officials deserve to face charges for what they did, serious
crimes against their fellow citizens. They also deserve fair trials to determine their
culpability. The catch is, these proceedings ought to take place outside the DC federal
district court, which is itself parasitized and corrupted. Outside of these criminal
proceedings, the rest is executive process — just firing a lot of dead-weight and
bureaucrat officials who contribute nothing but inertia and impediment to the normal functioning of
a society. And deconstructing whole agencies. The blob will likely attempt to block
that effort by marshaling its own allied lawyer army to bombard the courts with suits and
writs. If the Trump team does its work carefully, with scrupulous attention to correct
process, that offensive can be overcome and worked-around.
Elon
Musk: Alexander Vindman 'Committed Treason,' Will 'Pay the Appropriate Penalty'. Elon
Musk said retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman "has committed treason against the United States"
by being "on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs," and will "pay the appropriate penalty." Musk's
comments came in response to Vindman accusing him of conspiring with Russian president Vladimir
Putin. "Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United
States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty," Musk said in a Wednesday X post. Musk
was reacting to a post by another X account that shared a video of Vindman accusing the Tesla CEO of
having ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and claiming Musk only supported President-elect
Donald Trump in the 2024 election because Putin told him to.
A
garbage case goes out with the garbage: Jack Smith drops his cases targeting
Trump. Was there ever anything fouler, trashier, stinkier, smellier than the six or
so lawfare cases directed at President Trump durin his campaign? I'd say 'no.' [...] All of
these cases were coordinated by the White House, with each prosecution team making trips to that
temple for instructions. The White House even seeded an operative in one of the New York
offices. They all came at the same time, as if to suggest that suddenly President Trump had
turned to a life of crime — right about when he decided to run for reelection.
They all employed flamingly partisan judges, prosecutors, and juries. Several were plagued
with conflicts of interests and even flaming corruption from both the prosecutorial and judicial
side. Some of the lawfarists were absolute pigs of no recognizable professionalism.
They all sought to interfere with President Trump's election run, through an artificially speeded
up court calender, illegal gag orders, and court dates prohibiting travel for campaigning.
That was what it was really about, wasn't it? Trialwise, they were rigged against the
defense, and denied President Trump key witnesses. The charges were invented, never used on
anyone in the past, and they even changed laws in order to make those charges. In several
cases, they employed massive numbers of felony charges and institute massive unprecedented fines.
Jack
Smith's Election Interference Case Against Donald Trump Is Officially Toast. As
reported earlier, Special Counsel Jack Smith formally moved to dismiss the D.C. election
interference case against President-elect Donald Trump, citing Trump's reelection and DOJ policy
not to prosecute a sitting president. (Smith also moved to dismiss the Government's appeal of the
dismissal of the classified documents case against Trump.) Now, Judge Tanya Chutkan has
granted the Government's request, ordering the dismissal of the D.C. case as requested. As
noted in the original article, the dismissal is without prejudice, and in the Memorandum
accompanying her order, Chutkan further explains why she believes such is appropriate in this
instance, noting, "Dismissal without prejudice is also consistent with the Government's
understanding that the immunity afforded to a sitting President is temporary, expiring when they
leave office." So... it's officially over. For now.
Adam
Schiff Copes and Seethes After Jack Smith Drops Trump Charges, but There's More to His
Crying. One of the most dishonest, slimiest members of Congress is speaking out after
news broke on Monday that DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith is moving to drop all charges against
Donald Trump. Adam Schiff, who California saw fit to elect to the U.S. Senate recently, blew
up on social media, attacking the Biden administration and the court system for supposedly failing
to uphold the rule of law. As RedState reported, Smith cited two OLC opinions on a sitting
president not being prosecutable in his decision. He also left the door open for future
charges after Trump leaves office by not dismissing the current ones with prejudice, though I'm
highly skeptical this isn't the end of the road for all intents and purposes. Regardless,
Schiff was none too happy. [Tweet]
The
Morning Briefing: Jack Smith's Pathetic Jihad Comes to a Fitting, Inglorious End.
A lot of loathsome government characters have been foisted upon American citizens since early 2020.
[...] It's difficult to choose the worst of that crowd — they're all awful human beings —
but kinda/sorta Special Counsel Jack Smith would probably get a lot of votes. Smith launched
lawfare jihads against Donald Trump on more than one front, which made him very popular with the Democrats.
They treated Smith like he was some kind of rock star as he carried out his obsessed vendetta. A
vendetta that is no more.
Judge
grants Jack Smith request to dismiss Jan. 6 charges against Trump, appeal dropped in Florida
docs case. A judge has dropped the charges against President-elect Donald Trump in
the D.C. case against him, following a request that Special Counsel Jack Smith made on Monday
[11/25/2024]. The decision concerns the investigation into the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol
breach. Fox News Digital previously learned of Smith's request earlier on Monday. "The
Government has moved to dismiss the Superseding Indictment without prejudice," U.S. District Judge
Tanya Chutkan wrote in a decision. "Defendant does not oppose the Motion... and the court will
grant it."
Trump's
sentencing is canceled. Will reality ever take a bite out of Bragg's outrageous
case? New York Judge Juan Merchan has consistently proven the point by his
maltreatment of Donald Trump in the ill-conceived, if not farcical, prosecution brought by
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The case resulted in preordained guilty verdicts
last May in a trial that stands as a monument to injustice. But on Friday, in the
aftermath of Trump's presidential victory, Merchan canceled next week's scheduled sentencing and
reluctantly agreed to formally consider a defense motion to dismiss the case entirely. A
sensible and fair judge would grant it. That may exclude Merchan.
The
2024 Presidential Election Landslide. The ruling elite, the elected representatives,
the Deep State, big tech, Globalist, and their allies, or as I call them, "the Cabal," acted
together, and all acted in lockstep and spoke with one voice. The Cabal knew what was best
for the people, which often coincided with enriching the Cabal. The Cabal manipulated false
narratives to scare the people. The Cabal attempted several coups to prevent Trump's election
in 2016, and it sabotaged his first term as a duly elected President. It successfully blocked
his election in 2020 and tried again but failed in 2024. It most likely facilitated the two
assassination attempts. The legacy media labeled President-elect Trump as being of poor
character, a convicted serial felon, a rapist, a racist, a misogynist, a Nazi, and a fascist who
would rule as a dictator. Trump, they warned, would ignore the Constitution and was an
existential threat to our Democracy. These labels were a bald-faced lie. The Cabal was
doing exactly what it accused Trump of doing.
Expect
the D.C. Administrative State to Defend Itself by Any Means Necessary. The Tea Party
wasn't cool when Barack Obama was thought to be cool. But nowadays, Barack Obama's hectoring
of the "brothers" for not getting on the trolley in supporting Kamala Harris has made him the
farthest thing from cool, yet the Tea Party's idea about shrinking the federal government couldn't
be cooler. This "commission" has taken life as the Department of Government Efficiency
(DOGE), which is both a funny reference to a meme-coin involving Elon Musk and, more importantly,
the greatest and most necessary idea in modern American history. As Charlie Kirk writes on X,
the "creation of DOGE will be the first federal program whose goal it is to eliminate itself.
It exists to shrink government, not grow it." [...] Americans are winning against the big
government threat in our own country, but we haven't won yet. The malignant Deep State has
been identified and openly targeted for eradication. We should only expect that its efforts
to maintain its own existence become more desperate from here.
How
the 'deep state' will fight tooth and nail against Trump's revenge presidency.
Following the election of Donald Trump and his appointment of Elon Musk to make swingeing cuts to
the federal government, civil servants are said to be quitting in droves. Government insiders
said employees were already resigning and looking for work in the private sector amid concern that
their roles will be "politicised" under Mr Trump's second administration. Others fear they
will be sacked. Mr Trump has drawn up unprecedented plans to take on federal bureaucracy,
promising to bring back "Schedule F" — a controversial order he introduced at the end of
his first term, which would have made it easier to remove civil servants who disobey him. The
move is one measure he has proposed to take on the Washington "swamp", which he says blocked many
of his policy plans between 2017 and 2021. "Either the deep state destroys America, or we
destroy the deep state," the president-elect told supporters at his first rally of the 2024
election cycle.
Trump
Clinches Another Win in Hush Money Case. We all knew the hush money trial was in trouble since
Donald J. Trump won the 2024 election. The now-president-elect wouldn't be sentenced to jail if he
beat Kamala Harris, and Judge Juan Merchan made a series of moves before Election Day to ensure that sentencing
could go either way. We all know this case was a political hack job, where the statute of limitations was
toyed with, and definitions of the crimes Trump stood accused of involving his alleged tryst with Stormy Daniels
were stretched to the limits of reason. Even CNN's Elie Honig, who is no fan of Mr. Trump, lambasted
the case, which has irritated liberals. Trump's win caused Judge Merchan to delay sentencing
indefinitely. The prosecution, helmed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, tried to
postpone until 2029. No way that's happening.
Trump's
Legal Team Requests Dismissal of Manhattan Case on New Grounds. On Tuesday, Judge
Juan Merchan was expected to rule on the post-trial motion filed by President-elect Donald Trump's
legal team in his Manhattan criminal case asserting that the verdict should be set aside on the
grounds of presidential immunity following the Supreme Court's ruling on that issue. He'd
already put it off by a week in response to a joint request by Trump's team and District Attorney
Alvin Bragg's office to postpone it. But when the moment came, initially, it appeared Merchan
had put that off indefinitely and postponed the sentencing set for November 26. Then we
learned that was merely an automated schedule alert rather than a substantive move by the
judge. Shortly thereafter, Bragg's office filed a letter with the court requesting that the
case be formally adjourned to allow time for Trump's legal team to file an additional motion to
dismiss based on the unique circumstances in play given Trump's reelection and impending
inauguration (and indicating they would be opposing such motion).
Exclusive:
Article III Project Head Wants Accountability for 'Criminal Conspiracy' Against
Trump. Article III Project founder and president Mike Davis emphasized that New York
authorities' postponing Donald Trump's sentencing illustrates how political the whole case was from
the start in exclusive comments to PJ Media. Davis, a Republican legal expert, has repeatedly
called out the judges, DOJ officials, and DAs involved in the many and various lawfare cases
against Trump. Now, corrupt Judge Juan Merchan and Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg
admitted that Trump's sentencing in the case involving alleged "hush money" payouts and records
falsification has been indefinitely delayed. Davis sees this as a vindication not only of
Trump but of all those who consistently exposed the corrupt lawfare. Davis stated, "The
postponement of the sentencing in New York proves that this case was always about Democrat lawfare
and election interference." If the case were legitimate, why keep delaying the sentencing?
Bragg
tries to control President Trump by delaying case — throw it out!.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg pushed Tuesday to create a new constitutional creature: the
layaway president. [...] In a filing before Manhattan Justice Juan Merchan, Bragg suggested that
the court should stay the pending criminal case and defer any sentencing "until after the end of
defendant's upcoming presidential term." That would allow a city prosecutor to put a leash on
a sitting president for four years. Trump would govern by the grace of this local judge and
district attorney. In the meantime, pundits and politicians could portray the president as
free on a type of work release program. The suggestion is appalling to most of the people in
the country, including the majority of voters who voted for Trump.
Bragg
Won't Drop Trump's 'Hush Money' Sentencing, But May Suspend It for 4 Years.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Tuesday [11/19/2024] that his office will oppose
President-elect Donald Trump's motion to dismiss his felony conviction in New York. Bragg
said that despite plans to oppose Trump's motion, his office would agree to hit pause on the
proceedings pending the judge's decision on Trump's motion to dismiss. Bragg also suggested
the case could wait until Trump finishes his term in the White House. "No current law
establishes that a president's temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a
post-trial criminal proceeding that was initiated at a time when the defendant was not immune from
criminal prosecution and that is based on unofficial conduct for which the defendant is also not
immune," Bragg wrote in a letter to Judge Juan Merchan. "Rather, existing law suggests that the
court must balance competing constitutional interests and proceed 'in a manner that preserves both
the independence of the executive and the integrity of the criminal justice system.'"
Beating
the 'Committee'. A lot of people put considerable effort into tying up Trump during
his first term. This was made possible by control of the institutions, cooperation from the
media, and considerable assistance from the GOP establishment. [...] Then came two impeachments,
intended to taint the Trump brand permanently, followed by a comprehensive program of lawfare
targeting every aspect of Trump's life with the goal of at the very least bankrupting him, but with
the hope of giving him a lengthy sentence. We can presume that this was to be followed by the
reelection of the committee's puppet president, with the hard Left's transformational wish
list — the Green New Deal, expansion of the Supreme Court, D.C. and Puerto Rican
statehood, universal censorship, and formalization of the woke and transgender agendas —
going into effect shortly thereafter.
Report:
Multiple DOJ, FBI Officials Weigh Lawyering Up in Fear of Being 'Criminally Investigated'.
Multiple former and current DOJ and FBI officials are considering hiring lawyers "in anticipation
of being criminally investigated" by the incoming Trump administration, three people with knowledge
of their deliberations told NBC News. The preemptive initiative underscores a serious belief
that President-elect Donald Trump will make good on his promise to purge the federal government of
rogue and corrupt actors within the administrative state. Last week, Trump transition adviser
Mark Paoletta warned DOJ career attorneys that subverting, undermining, or sabotaging Trump's
incoming agenda will be cause for termination.
DOJ
Apparatchiks Told to Lawyer Up and Flee the Country. Why? As I reported last
week, former and current apparatchiks for the Department of Justice are making plans to resign in
advance of Donald Trump's return to the White House in January. Those headed for exits
include Special Counsel Jack Smith and his top team of prosecutors, who just withdrew their appeal
of Judge Aileen Cannon's order dismissing the classified documents indictment in Florida and asked
for a halt to the proceedings in the January 6-related case pending in Washington. The
resume-burnishing appears to extend to main Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (housed
under the DOJ), and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia office, which oversees the
government's ongoing prosecution of January 6 protesters. Anonymous "sedition hunters"
who have aided the FBI in targeting and identifying hundreds of J6ers deleted their social media
accounts over the weekend for fear of reprisal; the FBI reportedly paid the "sedition hunters" as
FBI informants to help their pursuit of Trump supporters.
Georgia
appeals court cancels arguments in Trump election case until further notice. A
Georgia appeals court on Monday canceled until further notice oral arguments on an effort by
President-elect Donald Trump and other co-defendants to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani
Willis from the criminal election interference prosecution against them. The Georgia Court of
Appeals acted on its own in canceling the arguments scheduled for Dec. 5. The court did
not explain its reason for the move. Three other criminal cases against Trump have been put
in limbo since the Republican won the presidential election nearly two weeks ago. Trump and
the other defendants are charged in state court in Atlanta with crimes related to their attempt to
undo his 2020 election loss in Georgia to President Joe Biden.
The Editor says...
Bias alert! Questioning the outcome of a crooked election is not a crime. Maybe Mr. Trump
in fact won the 2020 election, and isn't trying to undo his loss, but instead confirm his victory.
Report:
FBI, DOJ Officials Freaking Out Over Announcement of Gaetz As AG Pick, Start Lawyering
Up. We've reported on how FBI officials were panicking when Trump won the
presidential election, worrying that there would be a "bloodbath" of layoffs as the President-elect
cleaned house after their endless persecutions of him. [Advertisement] But now FBI and
Department of Justice officials are freaking out even more with the announcement that Trump picked
former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general. [...] One official said he did
nothing wrong but expects they'll come after him anyway. For what, I wonder, if everything
they did while conducting endless lawfare against Trump was "aboveboard?"
Georgia
Court of Appeals Abruptly Cancels Oral Arguments in Fani Willis Trump RICO Case Against
Trump. President Trump's hearing to disqualify Fani Willis was set for
December 5, but the Georgia Court of Appeals abruptly canceled the oral argument. It is
unclear why the appeals court canceled the oral arguments. [Tweet] In August 2023,
corrupt Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicted President Trump and 18 co-defendants
for daring to challenge the 2020 election. [Exhibit] In March, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee
ruled that crooked and dishonest Fani Willis will be allowed to remain on the Trump case.
[Advertisement] In September Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee dropped two
criminal counts against President Trump in Fani Willis's lawfare RICO case. Judge McAfee said
two of the counts related to conspiracy and filing false documents are outside of Fani Willis's
jurisdiction since she is a local District Attorney and not a federal prosecutor.
The
Great 'Splainin' Cometh. The New York Times, your field-guide to blob-think,
is warning its dwindling readership of psychodrama addicts that Donald Trump will now take out his
"grievances" on the noble, self-sacrificing bureaucracy that manages things so well in this
land. As usual, The Times misleads and misinforms. These are the grievances of
the nation that has seen its law and its culture twisted into new orders of wickedness that leave
daily life in the USA perverted, dishonored, and grotesquefied. So now Mr. Trump has
picked a cabinet that scares the blob to death — for good reason. They are aiming
to systematically disarm and disassemble the blob. They are a team of serious and intelligent
warriors and they mean business, in particular Gaetz, Gabbard, Kennedy, Ratcliffe, and Homan, with
Elon and Vivek riding shotgun. (A new FBI Director has not yet been named.) You must wonder
how the blob is planning to defend itself, for it surely will resist.
Radical
Trump-Hater Who Supports Communist Antifa Allegedly Unmasked as Secret Service Agent.
Another shocking allegation involving the Secret Service could potentially endanger President
Trump's life further following two assassination attempts. Counter-extremism researchers with
the Justice Report say they have discovered that a lifelong anarchist, left-wing extremist, and
devout follower of Anfifa is working as a Secret Service agent. Moreover, the individual
reportedly has made a series of disgusting comments regarding Trump. The Gateway Pundit will
NOT be naming the alleged Secret Service agent until we confirm the person's identity.
WSJ
Reports Gaetz Nomination Doomed ... In Committee. Hoo boy. And that's
without reading the soon-to-be-leaked House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz, too. The
drumbeats around the GOP campfire yesterday already made Donald Trump's choice for Attorney General
look like a longshot. Even one of his top allies in the Senate caucus couldn't muster up any
enthusiasm for Gaetz; Ted Cruz just told Newsmax that the process would have to play out on the
"surprise" pick. A lack of enthusiasm isn't really the problem, the Wall Street Journal
reported this afternoon. The problem is outright hostility to the move, so much so
that Gaetz might lose half the caucus and fail to even have his nomination clear the Senate
Judiciary Committee: [...] Keep in mind that Gaetz has no track record of building bridges on
Capitol Hill — just the opposite, in fact.
Inside
the Uniparty's Effort to Destroy Matt Gaetz. Matt Gaetz, Trump's appointee for
Attorney General, was the victim of an orchestrated campaign of lawfare, a deliberate and cynical
manipulation of the legal system to undermine political opponents. As a tireless defender of
President Trump, Gaetz made enemies on both sides of the aisle, particularly during his vociferous
stand against the fake Russian collusion narrative, the subsequent impeachment witch hunt, and the
ouster of the Speaker of the House. Yet it is precisely this dedication to defending Trump's
legitimacy — and by extension, the will of the people — that has painted a target
on Gaetz's back. Gaetz, as Trump's Attorney General pick, epitomizes Trump's plan to transform
the Department of Justice from a tool of political persecution into a bulwark against overreach.
Secrets.
Would you like to know what the Deep State knows? Every dirty little secret? The
details of their campaigns against parents concerned about the political and sexual indoctrination
of their kids in public schools? Want to know who decided to surveil Catholics and other
Christians? How about who's behind the tyrannical pursuit of Americans who visited the
Capital on January 6? Want all the details about who's behind the Covid lockdowns and
lies? How about the real story on the 51 intelligence traitors who went after Trump, the
whole story on the Russia hoax and who decided to bury the Hunter Biden laptop story? And
wouldn't it be satisfying to know how anti-American thugs at the DOJ conspired against Americans
and America? How about knowing who was planning to put us in Covid camps? Wouldn't it
be nice, even dare I say it — democratic — for the public to know all of
this, and so very much more? [...] Absent the will to ferret out those who have betrayed America,
we'll never be able to hold the country together. We'll never be able to restore the republic
the Founders worried we could not keep. Me, I'm looking forward to the Epstein client list.
The Editor says...
I'd like to know who gave the order to implode World Trade Center Building Seven
and why. I'd like to know who shot down TWA Flight 800. I'd like
to know why a large part of Maui, Hawaii, burst into flames on August 8, 2023, with the exception of every
blue object, and why the news media doesn't really want to question the official explanation. Also, how did a 30-acre barn
catch fire so rapidly that 20,000 cows burned up, and none of them escaped? That was April 10, 2023, and again the media asks no questions.
I'd like to know who murdered Seth Rich and why. I'd like to know who
murdered Vince Foster. I'd like to know who murdered
John F. Kennedy, not that it really matter any more. I'd like to know who coordinated the theft
of the 2020 presidential election, and gave the order to stop counting votes in the middle of the night.
I'd like to know where Barack H. Obama was born, and why he uses somebody
else's Social Security Number.
On the other hand, I'd rather now know too much unless everybody else knows, too. Bad
things happen to those who know too much. Just ask Dorothy Kilgallen, Karen Silkwood,
Catherine Cesnik and Lee H. Oswald.
Lawmakers
Threaten to Revoke Security Clearances of 51 Hunter Biden Laptop Deniers. The 51
former intelligence officials who suggested Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation could
lose their security clearances, Republican lawmakers indicated this week. The potential
action of revoking the security clearances would fulfill a campaign pledge by Vice President-elect
J.D. Vance. "You cannot lie, take your position of public trust, and lie to the American people
for political purposes," Vance said. "It's disgraceful. And people have to suffer
consequences for it."
Exclusive:
Pentagon 'Scrambling,' Wiping Evidence of DEI as Trump Readies to Fire Woke Generals.
The Pentagon is in "absolute disarray" with "generals scrambling" due to the incoming Trump
administration's plans to fire woke senior military leaders who prioritized diversity, equity, and
inclusion (DEI) over combat readiness, according to sources. One source compared it to a
hornet's nest being kicked over and that "DEI pages are starting to disappear off the main websites."
Dana
Bash's Husband Calls for CIA Officers to Commit Treason. Jeremy Bash, Dana Bash's
ex-husband, can wave his hands all he wants, but it's clear he suggested that CIA officers commit
treason and that military officers disobey direct orders from the President of the United
States. You shouldn't be too surprised. He was one of the 51 "Intelligence officers"
who lied to the American people about the provenance of the Hunter Biden laptop. [Tweet]
I can't argue with the suggestion that military officers disobey "illegal orders." However, I suspect
that his definition is rather expansive and includes anything that the transnational elites dislike.
None of these officers, after all, will get an order that lawyers haven't vetted first. Still, his
suggestion that the CIA should obstruct presidential orders amounts to calling for treason under the
bizarre claim that officers whose power derives from the Executive Branch should ignore the orders of
the Chief Executive. Plenty of these same CIA agents have spent at least the last 8 years
going after the enemies of the transnational elite, pushing to censor (illegally) the free speech of
Americans and misusing their power to undermine and harm Donald Trump.
The
Deep State War Against Donald Trump Begins. In a video posted on X on
November 7, 2024, two days after the election, Trump detailed a plan to dismantle the Deep
State. In this three-minute video, Trump explained how he would take a series of measures to
"shatter the Deep State." In this video, Trump made the same mistake JFK made when JFK said
he was going to break the CIA into a thousand pieces after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. By
announcing his intention in advance, JFK signed his death warrant. Trump has now declared war
on the Deep State as president-elect. Because he spoke before he was inaugurated, giving him
the power to act, Trump alerted the Deep State that he represented an existential threat to its
survival. The bottom line is that the Deep State cannot afford for Trump to become president
on January 20, 2025.
I'm sure he does! Report:
Jack Smith Wants to Resign Before Trump's Inauguration. The New York Times
reported that Special Counsel Jack Smith plans to retire before President-elect Donald Trump's
inauguration in January. Trump promised to fire Smith right after he's sworn in. Smith
asked the judge in his election interference case against Trump to pause it since Trump won the
election. [...] The DOJ cannot prosecute a sitting president. Smith has faced numerous
setbacks in his case. It's doubtful everything would get wrapped up before Trump's
January 20 inauguration.
New
York case against Trump should be dismissed after Merchan's delayed ruling. As the
left's once potent lawfare campaign against Donald Trump continues to collapse, New York Judge Juan
Merchan delayed his plan to rule on Tuesday as to whether the President-elect's conviction in
Manhattan should be dismissed based on the recent Supreme Court's immunity decision. But
there is more to it than that. Merchan now wants to hear from Manhattan District Attorney
Alvin Bragg just how prosecutors believe the case should be handled going forward in light of
Trump's victory last week in both the Electoral College and popular vote. The judge surely
recognizes that there are constitutional concerns that militate in favor of dismissal. It is
well established in law that a sitting president is entirely immune from indictment, prosecution,
or any criminal process in state and federal cases. This doctrine was long ago enunciated by
the U.S. Supreme Court and has been strictly followed by the Department of Justice.
Jack
Smith Ditching His Case Against Trump Is Not A Concession, It's A Coverup. Following
President Donald Trump's decisive victory in both the electoral and popular vote, it's becoming
clear, based on multiple reports, that the weaponized Department of Justice (DOJ) is poised to
dismantle its baseless and frivolous criminal prosecutions against Trump in Florida and Washington,
D.C., and may even dismiss Jack Smith before Trump has the satisfaction to utter his most famous
line, "you're fired." While some might interpret this as Democrats waving the white flag in
the face of Trump's resurgence or as a premature gesture of goodwill, don't be fooled. This
move marks yet another self-serving, calculated maneuver, a legal sleight-of-hand designed to
protect the reputations of Attorney General Merrick Garland, Smith, and former Special Counsel
Robert Mueller and to distract from Smith and Mueller's unconstitutional appointments.
Mysteries
Revealed. There are already reports of frenzy among the culpable DOJ lawyers, and FBI
Director Wray is set to resign before Mr. Trump can fire him. Attorney General Merrick
Garland has gone radio-silent for his own good since Election Day. Expect many abiding
mysteries to get unraveled, such as exactly how many federal agents did work the crowd around the
Capitol on J-6, 2021 — which Mr. Wray has pretended to not be able to discuss "due
to ongoing investigations." Expect to learn more about the pipe-bomb caper at the DNC HQ a few
blocks away that same day. Prepare to be amazed at how deeply criminal these schemes
were. You must wonder if the document-shredding party is already underway, despite calls to
preserve all the emails, memos, and texts. Then there are the poisoned realms of the intel
blob located at CIA, DHS, State, DOD, and elsewhere being subject to inquiry and overhaul.
Think: John Brennan, James Clapper, Bill Barr, Michael Atkinson, Mayorkas, Judge Boasberg,
Mary McCord, Col. Vindman, Senator Warner, Avril Haines, Victoria Nuland, Samantha Power, Gina
Haspel, Marie Yovanovitch, Jen Easterly, all their deputies, and many more unknown to the
public. Some of these names may yet seem obscure to you. They were all neck-deep in
what looks a lot like sedition, treason, real conspiracies, not theories.
In
Other Countries We Call This Coup Plotting. The media and the left keep telling us
that the Deep State is a myth, and they are gaslighting you. During Trump's first term the
same people who denied that the Deep State existed also celebrated the #resistance within
government, even celebrating on the pages of the New York Times' editorial page a White House
official who bragged that he was working to stymie Trump's policies. Trump was unprepared to
staff up his administration the first time around, and establishment Republicans helped him staff
up with people who turned out to be swamp creatures. Trump won't make that mistake
again. He has surrounded himself with the cream of the crop--people who risked it all in
order to save America. That terrifies the Deep State, and they are plotting what amounts to a
soft coup.
There
appears to be a cancer in the Pentagon with sedition on its mind. If this story of a
cabal of Pentagon officials meeting to undermine the incoming constitutional commander-in-chief of
the U.S. military had been a rumor circulating on X or I'd received in an email from some random
source, I would have discounted it. But that's not the case; it comes from CNN. This
suggests that something is deeply wrong in the Pentagon — the same Pentagon that
"forgot" to send absentee ballots to U.S. troops serving overseas, a gross violation of their civil
rights, and one that ought to result in courts-martial all the way up to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
The
"Six Ways from Sunday" Problem. All information provided to the Office of the
President comes from the "six ways from Sunday" group. The Presidential Daily Briefing is
constructed by the "six ways from Sunday" group. The DNI position is legislatively the most
powerful position in the IC, yet that authority has never been exploited thanks to a DC silo system
in the control of the "six ways from Sunday" group. Barack Obama quickly learned the risks
within the "six ways from Sunday" silo process. Obama subverted the "six ways from Sunday"
control mechanisms brilliantly, he just ignored it and gave the info to everybody. President
Trump is vulnerable to a DC silo system that self-preserves and that almost no one
understands. The President of the United States looks out his window and sees and illusionary
world created by the "six ways from Sunday" group. The agenda of the "six ways from Sunday"
group can only succeed if the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branch are kept misinformed and isolated.
Sorry,
We Can Only View This Secret Pentagon Meeting as a Plot to Foment an Insurrection.
John Frankenheimer directed a movie called Seven Days in May in the 1960s, starring Kirk Douglas as
a military officer who uncovers a coup against the president of the United States by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, who signed a deeply unpopular nuclear disarmament treaty. That's a
movie. In 2024, the Pentagon brass plotted to countermand President-elect Donald J. Trump's
orders. If we're going by the Left's rules here, this is an insurrection. It's a
military coup. What's worse is that these anti-Trump meetings were held in secret and then
got leaked to the media. [...] CNN's Scott Jennings tore apart these unelected bureaucrats
yesterday. We're back to the same Deep State games, but this time, Trump, with no re-election
ahead of him, can go hard and fast to rid the Pentagon and any agency of troublesome government
workers who think they're above the law and not accountable to the will of the people. The
illegal orders narrative is also ridiculous, soaked in the anti-Trump hysterics that have engulfed
the Left.
Did
celebrities have to be paid to endorse Kamala? [Scroll down] Kamala
Harris will be quickly forgotten by all but the historians, who will one day write about the 2024
campaign and leftists' vicious plan to destroy Donald Trump because they so feared his outsider
status. Despite his fame and fortune, he was never part of the political establishment or a
denizen of the Deep State, those creatures of the black lagoon that is Washington, D.C. His
election in 2016 sent that cartel that runs the place into a frenzy of fear and loathing.
They immediately set about fabricating a dozen ways to destroy the man: the Russia hoax,
impeachments based on nothing, lawfare that led to countless phony lawsuits meant to bankrupt him
and hopefully imprison him, etc. Once he announced he was running again, they doubled down on
their vile tactics. God forbid he win and expose the way they do business, how they line
their pockets at the taxpayers' expense, provoke war because it makes them rich.
An
Electoral Awakening Worth Celebrating. [Scroll down] These public
revelations caught fire once Democrat prosecutors chose to engage in an unprecedented lawfare
campaign against President Trump that threatened his liberty and property. Americans have
witnessed the Clintons and other Democrat politicians in good standing with the D.C. "blob" escape
prosecution for real crimes (including Hillary's Russia collusion fraud against the American
people) too many times for the avalanche of criminal and civil cases against President Trump to
pass muster. There was a time when Americans would have placed credence in the serious
accusations coming from the mouths of U.S. prosecutors. After years of watching corrupt
judges assist in the political targeting of Trump confidantes such as Rudy Giuliani, Peter Navarro,
and Steve Bannon, though, the lawfare against President Trump has appeared malicious, unacceptable,
and un-American.
Judge
Chutkan Grants Jack Smith's Request to Cancel Further Proceedings in January 6 Case.
Judge Tanya Chutkan, the Obama appointee who is presiding over the 2020 election interference case
against President-elect Trump, issued a brief order on the docket today, vacating all proceedings
scheduled in the case, including any briefing on pending issues. She ordered that on or before
December 2, 2024, Biden-Harris DOJ special counsel Jack Smith must file "a status report indicating
[the government's] proposed course for this case going forward." The course for the case is to
dismiss it. Judge Chutkan's order was a result of a brief application by Smith's staff, unopposed
(naturally) by Trump's counsel, stating: ["]As a result of the election held on
November 5, 2024, the defendant is expected to be certified as President-elect on January 6,
2025, and inaugurated on January 20, 2025. The Government respectfully requests that the
Court vacate the remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule to afford the Government time to assess
this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with
Department of Justice policy.["]
Bill
Barr: Prosecutors should 'do the right thing' and dismiss Trump cases: 'Respect the people's
decision'. Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who served in President-elect Trump's
first administration, is calling on prosecutors at the state and federal levels to dismiss the
pending legal cases against Trump before he takes office once again. Barr told Fox News
Digital that voters were well aware of all the allegations against Trump when electing him to a
second term in office on Tuesday, and that it is in the country's best interest for prosecutors to
listen to them. "The American people have rendered their verdict on President Trump, and
decisively chosen him to lead the country for the next four years," Barr said. "They did that with
full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country and I think Attorney
General Garland and the state prosecutors should respect the people's decision and dismiss the
cases against President Trump now."
DOJ
Drops Jack Smith Lawfare Cases, Using 2024 Election Outcome as Justification. In
Florida, Judge Ailleen Cannon threw out the "classified documents case" against President Trump,
citing in her opinion that Special Counsel Jack Smith had no constitutional authority to target and
charge President Trump. Did you notice the missing DOJ appeal effort? In the J6 case
President Trump was accused of conspiring to illegally overturn the 2020 election. Charged
with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy
against rights. However, the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, again threw a
wrench into the Lawfare strategy. President Trump wins a massive electoral and popular vote
landslide election. Within 12-hours the DOJ announce that technical legal processes block
them from targeting a president-elect and sitting president. The non-pretending reality of
the issue is that Jack Smith and the Lawfare attacks were always going to end up in appeal to the
Supreme Court, and the high court had already put its opinion on record.
Asked
About Dropping Trump Charges, DOJ Says Policy Is to Not Prosecute Presidents. Special
counsel Jack Smith's office said the Department of Justice (DOJ) has a longstanding policy not to
prosecute a sitting president, in response to a query about whether it will drop its criminal cases
against President-elect Donald Trump, who won the 2024 election. Peter Carr, a spokesman for
the special counsel's office, declined to comment on whether the office will drop its cases but
directed The Epoch Times to a 2000 memo from the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel. It states that
"indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would unconstitutionally undermine the
capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions." Multiple
Republicans called on the DOJ and local district attorneys to end their prosecutions of Trump after
he won the presidential election on Nov. 5.
Corrupt
Special Counsel Jack Smith to Exit DOJ, Drop Cases. Corrupt Special Counsel Jack
Smith, the Keystone Cop who has serially failed to throw Donald Trump in prison or undermine his
reelection chances, will not wait for incoming President-elect Trump to fire him (as Trump has
understandably promised to do). Instead, since a special counsel cannot prosecute a sitting
president, Smith will leave the Department of Justice before Trump is sworn in as the 47th
president. The (phony) cases against Trump will also be dropped. Here's the Fox News
report: [Tweet with video clip] Since November 2022, Smith has sought to put
Trump in prison using four felony accounts that laughably claim Trump conspired to steal the 2020
presidential election. [Advertisement] Smith also filed 40 felony counts against Trump over the
documents the former president held at his Mar-a-Lago home. A judge dismissed that case.
Smith had plans to file an appeal to reinstate the charges. That won't happen now. [Advertisement]
Trump
victory should be death knell for Democrats' lawfare. One week after former President
Trump's smashing victory, there is slated to be action in a New York State court, where the
president-elect must still deal with 34 felony business-records charges on which a Manhattan jury
found him guilty this spring. Judge Juan Merchan is expected to rule on Trump's motion to
vacate the guilty verdicts. Team Trump argues that, under the Supreme Court's July 1
ruling that former presidents have presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts, the
case must be thrown out because District Attorney Alvin Bragg recklessly chose to include
official-acts evidence in the prosecution. Merchan, an activist Democrat, has ruled against
Trump with numbing regularity throughout the proceedings. Past being prologue, we should
expect Merchan to deny Trump's immunity claim. Then things get interesting. Merchan
anticipates not only issuing his immunity ruling on Tuesday but imposing sentence on the
president-elect on Nov. 26. And although the case is absurd — alleging that
Trump falsified his business records to conceal a legal non-disclosure agreement — the
judge indulged the D.A.'s farcical contention to the jury that Trump had conspired to steal the 2016
election. That ratchets up the pressure on the court to impose a prison sentence of some duration.
Actually,
The Democratic Party is Hitler. The Democrats complain that a Trump victory means the
Department of Justice will be weaponized against them. Is that rich, or what? It
actually tells the whole story since you know the Party always accuses its opponents of exactly
what it is already doing. Speaking of which, we must look forward to Judge Juan Merchan's
November 26th sentencing of Mr. Trump in DA Alvin Bragg's "Stormy Daniels hush money"
case. It's out there, looming, and it ain't going away. Judge Merchan is going to have
to do... something! The jury has pronounced Mr. Trump guilty of those 34 "felonies"
(based on 34 book-keeping entries, originally misdemeanors, and beyond the applicable statute of
limitations). I'd like to see the Judge stash the president-elect in the Rikers Island lockup
for a few hours. It'll be a better stunt than Mr. Trump's shift serving fries at
McDonald's, or riding the garbage truck after "Joe Biden" called more than half the country that
supports him "garbage." Because a few hours after Mr. Trump settles into his Rikers cell and
enjoys his first boloney sandwich, the SCOTUS is going to turn a flame thrower on Judge Merchan and
Alvin Bragg and vacate the absurd case and every half-assed procedure that was used to arrive at
it, and refer Merchan and Bragg for disbarment for professional misconduct, malicious prosecution,
and failure to uphold the law.
A
Little Sweet Revenge Against Democrats Threatening to Kill Careers of Trump Lawyers.
You'd think that there might be an ethical issue running ads that threaten the careers of any
lawyers if they work for Donald Trump, but this is the state of play in 2024 in the Democrats'
Lavrentiy Beria political police state. Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
Rules of propriety are for you, not for us. [Advertisement] Those ads, which you can see
[elsew]here, are running in swing states online and in legal journals in this election — in
effect promising the personal destruction of anyone who touches the Trump campaign. [Tweet]
But now these bullies and extortionists may finally feel the heat for intentionally chilling the
speech and threatening the livelihoods of any lawyers for working for Donald Trump in Election
2024. They may have to live by their own rules.
Whistleblower:
James Comey had FBI 'honey pot' spies infiltrate Trump's 2016 campaign. The House
Judiciary Committee is examining a new whistleblower report that the FBI targeted Donald Trump soon
after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015, an off-the-books operation ordered
by FBI Director James Comey that predated the Crossfire Hurricane operation. An FBI agent
involved in the probe revealed the off-the-books criminal investigation on Tuesday in a protected
disclosure sent to the committee. The whistleblower disclosure said that two female FBI
undercover agents successfully infiltrated Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign at high levels and were
directed to act as "honey pots" while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff on the trail.
Democrats
Are Already Plotting To Cripple A Trump Presidency, "These People Are Revolutionaries".
[Quoting Mark Levin:] Look what they did to Trump right out of the box. They impeach him
twice, they unleashed a criminal investigation of him and his family and the subpoenas. They
try to undermine them. They have lawyers in the shadows right now slip and fall lawyers who
they talk about democracy and they talk about the constitution. They are out of the George
Washington law school. They are plotting right now how to cripple a Trump presidency right
out of the box. These people are the revolutionaries whether it's revolution by immigration
or revolution by law and law fair. These people are trying to turn this country inside
out. They are a grave danger to our way of life, our prosperity, peace and security and our
family. That's why this election, every thing is on the line.
The
Best Laid Schemes of the Ruling Class Have Turned to Ashes. The alliance of the
Democrat Party, the legacy media, and NeverTrumpers entered 2024 brimming with confidence. [...]
The linchpin of the grand strategy was to make certain Donald Trump was the Republican
nominee. They did so by choreographing numerous indictments in Democrat strongholds
throughout 2023. [...] All 91 of the criminal counts were specious and without merit. The
main purpose of this absurd avalanche of indictments was to create wall-to-wall media coverage in
anticipation of the inevitable show trials. [...] With each public event or press briefing Biden's
accelerating mental and physical decline became increasingly obvious to the bulk of the American
people, particularly when compared to the boundless energy and vitality of Donald Trump. [...] Two
weeks from the election the Ruling Class's grand strategy is a smoldering heap of ashes as they are
faced with promoting the most undisciplined, unpopular, and unlikable presidential candidate in
modern American history against a candidate, Donald Trump, who not only has a successful presidency
to point to but has run an extraordinarily well-organized, disciplined, and optimistic campaign.
The
Three Layers of Culpability. The Great Fright among the elite of the party
ruling our country steals across the land chillingly now from sea to shining sea — as if
all those ghouls, werewolves, zombies, and tormented wraiths assembled in the front yard Halloween
displays send up one mighty wail of despair: Donald Trump will seek revenge against his
enemies if you elect him! they scream into the pale moonlight. Well, he ought to, of
course, and remember: they are your enemies, too — the FBI thugs battering down your
doors at five in the morning, the malicious US attorneys manufacturing phony felonies, the
Soros-owned DAs and party-owned judges, and the thousands of spooks from agencies both known and
unheard-of surveilling your every move, every purchase, every journey, every thought.
Consider that it is not whether Mr. Trump might seek revenge but whether justice, and the
mental health of the nation, require an accounting for the real crimes of actual persons against
the people of America lo these years of the Woke Jacobin Inquisition.
Judge
Releases Tranche of Redacted Documents Filed by Special Counsel in Trump Election Case.
District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan released a redacted version of the appendix to special
counsel Jack Smith's immunity motion on Oct. 18, offering more insight into the evidence
undergirding his prosecution of former President Donald Trump. So far, the tranche of
released evidence consists of four volumes and nearly 1,900 pages, although large portions of
the files are sealed or redacted. Trump described Smith's motion as "falsehood-ridden" and
said the Justice Department violated its policy on avoiding actions that could influence an
election. "This entire case is a Partisan, Unconstitutional, Witch Hunt, that should be
dismissed, entirely, just like the Florida case was dismissed!," the former president said in a
statement earlier this month in response to Smith's filing.
Our
Current Government Is No Longer Constitutional. In Washington Goes to War,
David Brinkley details how the DC bureaucracy exploded during the war, aided in no small part by
FDR's New Deal. Today, notwithstanding that the Constitution makes the federal government a
republic and, in Article IV Section 4, guarantees that each of the 50 states is a
republic, in all 51 jurisdictions, the republican form has been eclipsed by the administrative
bureaucracy that dominates the federal and state governments. These administrative
bureaucracies are, in effect, a fourth branch of the government in all 51 jurisdictions.
These fourth branches are wholly unelected, hence nullifying self-government. These fourth
branches enact more laws than their corresponding legislative branches and exercise their own
powers of prosecution, adjudication, and sentencing. Because the personnel of these fourth
branches are appointed by the corresponding executive branches and their superintendent deep
states, these fourth branch personnel exhibit a distinct cyborg persona, which renders them adverse
to the human citizens of the states.
About
whom is Trump speaking when he references the enemy from within? The media is having
a collective cow over the fact that President Trump said he worries about the "enemies from within"
who will pay a price for what they've done to this great nation. [...] Here is a sample of people
who Trump refers to as the enemies from within:
◦ People who say they want to remake (destroy) America. [...]
◦ Antony Blinken, 51 intelligence officials, and the DOJ staff who were
willing to lie to intentionally hide the Biden family corruption from the American people.
They clearly didn't care about a free and fair election.
◦ Politicians who used IRS bureaucrats to target and silence political
opponents, and all the people at the DOJ who didn't care about the abuse of power.
◦ All the bureaucrats at the DOJ who were willing to lie to the FISA court so
they could illegally spy on their political opponents, and all the bureaucrats who stayed silent on
this pure corruption.
Biden
Suggests He Wants Trump in Prison — After Kamala Warns Trump Will Prosecute
Opponents. President Joe Biden suggested Tuesday that he is looking forward to seeing
former President Donald Trump imprisoned — right after Vice President Kamala Harris
warned that Trump would prosecute his opponents. [...] The irony is that the Department of Justice
and elected Democratic prosecutors at the state level have been prosecuting Trump for several years
in highly dubious and, critics say, partisan cases. Trump's "34 felonies" relate to payments
to adult film star Stormy Daniels (née Stephanie Crawford) as part of a legal non-disclosure
agreement. George Soros-backed prosecutor Alvin Bragg claimed that Trump failed to report the
payments as federal campaign expenditures; the conviction is considered likely to be overturned on
appeal. (Under the same standard, Harris or her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, could
be prosecuted for his payments to a former nanny as part of a non-disclosure agreement relating to
his affair with her, which ended his first marriage.)
What
Is Fani Willis Hiding? Fulton County DA Fani Willis sent a scathing letter to the
GOP-led House Judiciary Committee demanding that her lover, Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to
spearhead the prosecution of former President Donald Trump on Georgia RICO charges, should not have
to answer certain questions before Congress, because the proceedings could compel Wade to
"improperly divulge confidential information." Willis contacted the committee's chairman,
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), ahead of Wade's deposition slated to take place Tuesday, arguing that
it could interfere with the Trump case.
The
Plot to Manage Democracy. The reality facing America now is that of widespread,
coordinated efforts to control our politics, carried out by a self-interested elite grown openly
disdainful of the nation's traditions. If not for a last-minute postponement, a Manhattan
judge would have sentenced Donald Trump for the former president's conviction last May by the time
this article appeared, in what could fairly be characterized by an objective observer as a
politically motivated trial, intended to hamper his 2024 presidential campaign. The charges
pushed the "outer boundaries of the law and due process," according to a former federal and state
prosecutor, now working as an analyst for CNN — not exactly a bastion of conservative
bias. The judge in the trial, Juan Merchan, previously violated New York State ethics rules
by donating to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign and to a group called Stop Republicans.
FBI
and the US Secret Service Plot Against Trump. New information released by Empower
Oversight (EO), a respected American civil rights watchdog, proves that the FBI high ranking
employees became way too supportive of the Democrat party. A September 19 letter from EO
president Tristan Leavitt to Jim Jordan, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on
the Judiciary, exposes mistreatment, and even the firing of agents because of their conservative
political views. It is a real story of a certain Marcus
Allen, a highly professional and decorated FBI employee, who had his security clearance suspended
and was later fired because of his conservative stance and doubts about whether the bureau acted
properly during the Black Lives Matter and January 6 incidents. According to the EO investigation, a dramatic change in the FBI
leadership back in 2021 allowed some agents, specifically those with pro-Democrat sentiments, to
experience a skyrocketing growth in their career. The letter reads that unnamed witnesses
describe these agents as deeply anti-conservative.
FBI
and the US Secret Service Plot Against Trump. A recent report shows that the
assassination attempts on President Donald Trump were facilitated by unacceptable misconduct and
unprofessional behavior by employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United
States Secret Service (USSS) stemming from deep-seated politicization within these agencies.
The increasing politicization of the U.S. government and its institutions has become a pressing
concern in many media. Conservative pundits have been sounding the alarm about that issue
since at least 2016, when the FBI plot against Donald Trump was initially dismissed as a conspiracy
theory. Now, after it became clear that the Democrat party has weaponized the Department of
Justice to destroy Trump's presidential campaign, it turned out the "conspirators" were telling
nothing but truth.
The
impenetrable arrogance of the left media. Those who support Harris do so because they
loathe Trump. Why do they hate him? He is a threat to the way they've been doing things
for probably a hundred years. It seems pretty clear that the "deep state" does actually run
the country, faceless, nameless operators who care nothing at all for the American people.
They care about keeping their own gravy train rolling. They value their wealth, their lofty
positions in government, and the power they wield. They, whomever they are, have controlled
Biden and will control Harris, a woman who cannot put a coherent sentence together. They do
not care about her lack of qualifications. They, (Hillary, John Kerry, Kamala Harris, etc.),
very much want to put into place the authoritarian government they've long dreamed about, one in
which they control everything, especially speech that is in opposition to their goal. We
cannot let that happen. Vote like your life depends on it because it does.
Lawfare
is Jihad Against Our Country. You think the bankers are up to no good? No band
of scoundrels has brought more chaos and grief to the life of this republic than the claque that
gathers darkly under the banner of "Lawfare." Its public face is Lawfaremedia.org, run by
Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings senior fellow, but that gang functions only to lend a false-front of
decorum to the operations of its Democratic Party activist lawyer-army led by Field Marshal Marc
Elias, architect of the ballot fraud that has caused Americans to lose faith in their
elections. Marc Elias was the original expeditor of the RussiaGate hoax in 2016 from his
perch at Perkins Coie, then Hillary Clinton's campaign law firm, which laundered payments to
Christopher Steele, front-man for Glenn Simpson's Fusion GPS political PR shop, which concocted the
fraudulent "dossier" and set in motion a train of DC intel blob legal shenanigans aimed at
defenestrating Donald Trump from the White House — the Mueller Investigation,
impeachment, etc. While all that was going on through the Trump term, and with the Covid-19
Op providing cover, Mr. Elias engineered the 2020 changes in many states' election laws and
bylaws to permit large-scale mail-in voting, organized ballot-harvesting activities, and introduce
the use of drop-boxes for receiving bundled votes.
Two
Trump Criminal Counts Dropped In Georgia Election Interference Case. The Georgia
judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's election interference case dropped two counts
against Trump on Thursday [10/10/2024], according to multiple outlets, though the former president
still faces eight charges including a violation of Georgia's racketeering act.
'Our
Democracy' Marks 'Their Duplicity'. Presently, we are embroiled in a presidential
campaign. It is the apex of political messaging, as both parties and their well-heeled allies
bombard the electorate with varying promises, claims, smears, and deceits. [Advertisement]
One of the Democrats' and their "Never Trump" cohorts' favorite narratives is that the GOP
candidate, former president Trump, is divisive and that he must be defeated to allow the Democrat
nominee, Vice President Harris, to unite the nation. To believe this, one must concur with
the Democrats and Never Trumpers on two counts: first, Mr. Trump, his MAGA supporters, and
the GOP are divisive; and, second, Ms. Harris and the Democrats are not divisive but rather a
unifying political force. [Advertisement] [Unrelated video clip] For purposes of this
piece, let us stipulate Mr. Trump and his MAGA and GOP supporters are "divisive," if only for
the simple reason they dissent from the Democrats radical, extreme, and dangerous agenda; and,
moreover, unapologetically champion the populist and conservative principles and policies they
believe will promote and protect the liberty, prosperity, and security of our free republic.
Whistleblower
claims Secret Service 'painting a false picture' of protection for Trump: Hawley.
Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley sent letters to U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) leaders on Wednesday detailing a new whistleblower claim that Secret Service
leadership is trying to hide the level of protection given to former President Trump. The letter
to USSS Director Ronald Rowe and DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari alleges a whistleblower's claims
that government auditors are being denied access to certain Trump campaign events in an effort to hide
these apparent protection shortfalls for the former president. "You of course have publicly
stated that former President Trump is receiving 'the highest level of Secret Service protection' and
that 'he's getting everything.' This new whistleblower information troublingly contradicts your
public statements," Hawley wrote in his letter to Rowe.
This
election isn't Trump versus Harris. Kamala Harris is running as the Democrat
candidate against Republican Donald Trump, but in reality, Trump is facing a 100-year development
of a Progressive government monolith. Harris is merely the "Borg Queen" who acts as the voice
of this monolithic, massive, solid government cube. It is so out of control in its reach and
power, that it has become effectively its own separate entity. How our own government turned
into a kind of living, breathing machine in its own right, and how it lives apart from the American
people who are constitutionally its master, is something that should be kept in mind as the
election nears. Trump and his team face the ultimate corporate restructuring job, and that is
probably the most rational, pragmatic way to look at the tasks ahead after Trump is elected and
forms his working team.
Postbellum,
not Antebellum. The war against America has come from within, by those in charge of
its most deadly and surreptitious weapons developed over decades at its disposal. How did
America engage in coups from 1946 on? The lineup is impressive and extensive and first aimed
at the United States in 1963. An agency that has outgrown control, beyond accountability for fear
of the safety of those attempting to control it. If that is not a danger to "democracy" I'd
like to hear a better definition. Were it not being used to the satisfaction of the current
regime there would be howls of constitutional objections. That is what they are worried about
when it comes to Trump, that their weapons might be turned on them.
Jack's
'October Surprise' is a Dud. On Oct. 2, prosecutor Jack Smith filed a 165-page
Motion against President Trump that contains nothing new. The document will be revered by the
MSNBC crowd, but those people already plan to vote for Kamala Harris. The rest of
America — MAGA and undecided voters — will see it as more evidence of a
corrupt DOJ. Before we delve into the details, consider this:
• By issuing the Motion in October, the DOJ violated its own rule, which precludes the release of
information within 60 days of an election, if the information could affect the election.
• After waiting three years, this prosecutor released his allegations just
33 days before the election — in time to affect voter preferences, but just late
enough to deprive Trump of time for a rebuttal.
• For several months, Trump had been subject to a gag order because Smith felt
Trump's comments could influence potential witnesses. Now, however, Smith has decided that it is
O.K. to influence potential witnesses — and potential voters.
• According to Trump's attorneys, the Motion was issued before Jack fulfilled his
obligations to provide all exculpatory evidence to Trump (Brady Rule).
I don't believe the American public will buy what Jack is selling.
The Editor says...
It doesn't matter if the public agrees with the allegations or the methods used by Mr. Smith.
He doesn't care if his accusations are thrown out of court eventually. His only objective appears
to be the obstruction of Trump's success in the November election.
Trump
blasts DOJ for unsealing evidence against him just before the election. Former
President Donald Trump blasted the Department of Justice on Tuesday, accusing the agency of
"election interference" for unsealing critical evidence against him about one month before Election
Day. A federal judge unsealed a 165-page court filing Tuesday chock full of Special Counsel
Jack Smith's argumentation and evidence against Trump in the ongoing election interference case.
"For 60 days prior to an election, the department of injustice is supposed to do absolutely
nothing that would taint or interfere with a case," Trump wrote on TruthSocial. "They disobeyed
their own rule in favor of complete and total election interference. I did nothing wrong,
they did! The case is a scam, just like all of the others, including the documents case,
which was dismissed!" Trump's comments Tuesday refer to the "60-day rule," the DOJ's practice
of avoiding major legal announcements just before the election. That rule was thrust into the
forefront when the FBI held a press conference about Hillary Clinton's emails before the 2016 election.
Trump
Slams DOJ, Jack Smith Over Unsealed Motion in Election Interference Case: 'Hit Job'.
Former President Donald Trump slammed the Department of Justice (DOJ) for unsealing a motion from
Special Counsel Jack Smith regarding Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential
election, describing it as a "hit job." In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the
Democrat Party was "weaponizing" the DOJ against him "because they know" he is winning, pointing
out that this unsealed motion came after Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), Trump's vice presidential
running mate, "humiliated" Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) in the vice presidential debate on
Tuesday. "Democrats are Weaponizing the Justice Department against me because they know I am
WINNING, and they are desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris," Trump wrote.
Why
They Hate Trump. Donald Trump dared to challenge the political status quo. By
publicly questioning the economic and foreign policy decisions of the Establishment Class in
Washington, D.C., he became an existential threat to a system that has long worked against the
interests of the American people. As David Plouffe, one of Barack Obama's closest advisers,
inveighed before the 2016 presidential election: "It is not enough to beat Trump. He must be
destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not be allowed to rise again." [...] Why is this one
American's voice so threatening to the old guard? It's simple: President Trump is
(1) a political outsider who (2) rejects the supremacy of the administrative state and
(3) prioritizes Americans over foreign nationals. It might seem strange to call Donald
Trump an "outsider." He's a billionaire. He's famous. He's served as president
of the United States. But for all his success, wealth, and celebrity, he is not a member
of the ruling political class.
Heroes
and Villains. [Scroll down] Just yesterday, former Attorney General
Eric Holder, speaking of Mr. Trump returning to office, told MSNBC's Jen Psaki: "They will
use the mechanisms of the DOJ to go after people who are their political foes. This is
something that has never really happened in the history of this republic." Mr. Holder may
have been born at night, but probably not the night before last. Apparently, he has not
noticed the uses to which current AG Merrick Garland has put "Joe Biden's" DOJ, bending heaven,
earth, and the law to put Mr. Trump behind bars and bankrupt him — not to mention
the scores of Trump-adjacent lawyers prosecuted in cockamamie cases based on their efforts to
pursue ballot fraud in the 2020 elections.
Trump
in January. To the Democrat Party bosses, as well, and to the Swamp, and to the
globalists, Trump is a monster only because he is a real and standing threat, again, to their own
long-term ambitions and vices. [...] The Democrats do not like being out of office, nor do they
hand over the reins in good faith. Look at Lincoln, Bush (see Al Gore), and of course Richard
Nixon, who got away with far less than your average rogue Democrat. Hillary Clinton took some
of the White House's bespoke dinner china when she left (that was hers, right?). The Obamas were
hideously ungracious to the incoming Trumps (the Obamas wouldn't even leave town, 'eva!).
Democrats are adverse to being nice, to playing fair, and to just going.
Appeals
Court May Overturn or Reduce Donald Trump's Massive $478 Million Civil Fraud Judgment.
A Manhattan judge found Donald Trump guilty in February of fudging his net worth and the value of his real
estate holdings to obtain favorable rates from banks and insurers. New York Attorney General Letitia
James wanted to criminalize what was a common practice in the cutthroat New York City real estate market
for two reasons. First, Trump spent ten years overstating his wealth. Second, the trial judge
did not detect any remorse or contrition from Trump or his sons who were the other defendants.
Apparently, the judge didn't like the fact that the Trumps failed to grovel. Then there was the
bonus that James is a Democrat and Trump is a Republican presidential candidate. 'Nuff said.
But the case has now reached the New York Court of Appeals. The five-judge panel seemed skeptical of AG
James's application of the particular fraud statute she used to stick it to the former president.
Another
Presidential Election, Another Deep State Letter Opposing Trump. Two weeks before the
2020 presidential election, Politico published a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officers
falsely claiming that a New York Post story about the infamous Hunter Biden laptop was Russian
disinformation. The letter was organized by Antony Blinken of the Biden campaign and former
CIA Director Michael Morell. The CIA cleared it for publication. Many Americans were
outraged over this letter because it represented former intelligence officers, several with
high-paid government contracts, misusing their profession to meddle in a U.S. presidential election
and mislead the American public. Undeterred by the considerable blowback generated by the
2020 Hunter Biden laptop letter, the Harris campaign has organized a similar letter against
President Trump in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election that claims he is unfit to be
commander-in-chief and endorses Kamala Harris.
The
least shocking endorsement of them all. The Drudge Report, the deep-state's
electronic bulletin board, promoted an NYT column it ran under General Stanley McChrystal's name:
"Why Kamala Harris Has Won Me Over." The column reflected much soul-searching and
deep thinking by the the general. [...] This is a phony epiphany. Character requires candor, which
this piece lacks. The retired general had no decision to make. He detests Trump and
would vote for Thomas Crooks if he had to. [...] Like Kamala, the general is silent on Biden making
Afghanistan the only war America ever lost. To be sure, Vietnam and Iraq were stalemates but
this was an all-out surrender with America giving the Taliban American arms in tribute.
McChrystal is a political player who got cashiered because he forgot the chain of commanded and
publicly dissed the commander in chief. This made him a media darling, especially when he
dissed Trump. This also made McChrystal a sham at the end of his military career, something
he carried over into civilian life.
New
York court is set to hear Donald Trump's appeal of his $489 million civil fraud verdict.
A New York appeals court is set to hear arguments in Donald Trump's fight to overturn a civil fraud
judgment that could disrupt his real estate empire and cost him close to a half-billion
dollars. The former president and current Republican nominee has given no indication he plans
to attend Thursday's hearing in Manhattan. Trump's lawyers are asking the state's
intermediate appellate court to nullify a judge's findings that he deceived banks, insurers and
others for years by lying about his wealth on paperwork used to make deals and secure loans.
They contend that Judge Arthur Engoron's verdict was "egregious" and should be reversed.
Kamalism
Will Destroy America. General Mark Milley committed treason when he told his Chinese
counterpart that he would be warned of an American attack. Before any voter fraud, the Trump
administration was overthrown by bogus investigations, impeachments, never ending character
assassination, and lies like those concocted by the infamous 51intelligence officers —
who most probably changed the outcome of the election by their authoritative lie that Hunter
Biden's laptop was Russian "disinformation." This was a coup, and Republicans should say so.
All these things are part of a concerted effort to destroy the American way of life.
The
truth of the latest bomb Trump assassination scare could be darker than you imagine.
News spread like wildfire yesterday of yet another assassination attempt against Trump as
explosives were allegedly found in a car near the location Trump was scheduled to speak at his Long
Island rally. [...] Almost as quickly as the story spread, the media swooped in to debunk it as
"misinformation." [...] Of course, it's quite possible that this incident is just a bizarre
fluke. That a random person just happened to be engaging in an innocent bomb sniffing
exercise at an event where the former President, who has survived two assassination attempts, was
to speak an hour later. It's also possible that there's more to the story. Revolver
News' Darren Beattie pointed out that the feds often run drills or training exercises concurrently
with suspicious or questionable events. That way, if the bad actors are caught in the act,
they have the plausible deniability of explaining their behavior as a training exercise rather than
something more nefarious.
Trump
Assassins: Off-the-Books Assets? Prior to their respective assassination
attempts targeting Trump, Ryan Routh and Thomas Crooks had extraordinary proximity to U.S.
Intelligence, demonstrated foreknowledge of Trump's schedule and security, and acquired skills that
intelligence agencies have a history of sharing with assets. Routh staked out Trump's golf
club for twelve hours, lying in wait behind bushes to ambush him during an unscheduled game of
golf. Unfamiliar with the locale, Routh managed to give security the slip, bringing an
AK-47-style rifle onto Trump's golf course. Routh managed to give a U.S. Secret Service agent
the slip again after being fired upon, losing his pursuer despite initially being only ten feet
away from the agent (whose gunfire somehow missed Routh), escaping in his vehicle only to be caught
later thanks to a witness who snapped a picture of his license plate. For the second time, it
was not the Secret Service, but locals who caught the gunman.
Is
Obama cash underwriting Iran's election interference? Now it is clear and
substantiated by our intelligence agencies that Iran has been funneling intelligence regarding the
Trump campaign to Kamala Harris. Like so much right now, the American people are expected to
swallow this outrage and 'move on,' while the Left shrieks louder that it isn't so. Of course
it is true and has been very arguably so since Obama got into office. The absolutely tiresome
ya-da-da about Russian interference again (concurrent with Hillary's return to the MSM main
ticket), is what the media, in the last three election cycles, is dragging out of its moldy box of
tricks. But not Iran — the MSM will stay away from Iran, as they have thus
far. They must have got the memo.
Iran
Hacked Trump Data, Sent It to Biden Campaign. Iranian hackers in late June and early
July sent what the agencies described as "unsolicited emails" to people associated with the Biden
campaign. This came weeks before Biden announced in a statement that he was suspending his
reelection bid before backing Vice President Kamala Harris, his then-running mate. The emails
contained non-public information that was stolen from the Trump campaign. The FBI and the
other agencies said that Iran has tried to send the stolen Trump data since June to media
organizations. In August, the agencies said that Iran had launched a multifaceted approach to
influence the U.S. election and sow discord among the American electorate.
Leftists
Deserve the J6 Treatment. Remember: illegally appointed special counsel Jack Smith is
prosecuting President Trump in D.C. for exercising his constitutional right to free speech after
the 2020 election. Smith's case essentially claims that Trump was not entitled to question
the legitimacy of the mail-in ballot-tainted election and that his refusal to concede to Joe Biden
directly led to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The fact that Biden and
his attorney general, Merrick Garland, are using the imprimatur of the criminal justice system as a
smokescreen to railroad and possibly imprison the leader of the opposition party is bad enough.
By treating President Trump's speech as the "proximate cause" of other alleged crimes (consisting
mostly of questionable trespass violations reimagined and inflated into felonies) committed by
strangers, the Biden-Garland-Smith Triumvirate of Tyranny has turned every American's
opinion into a potential criminal act.
Three
Types of Assassination: The Desperate Effort to Eliminate Trump. This article
is about three types of assassination. The first, which President Trump has endured nonstop
since he first entered the political arena, is character assassination. The second is legal
assassination, sometimes called "lawfare." The term is appropriate, because it is derived from
warfare. This is the attempt to lawlessly, but under the guise of law, bankrupt, ruin, defame
and even imprison a dangerous political opponent. [...] And finally, when all else fails, there is
actual assassination. These three types of assassination are connected, and typically one
leads to another.
Corruption
within the Secret Service and the Supreme Court. The big news from Sunday is that
Trump — thank God — survived a second assassination attempt and, just as
thankfully, no one else was killed or injured. Currently, we have no explanation for the
shooter's pinpoint accuracy regarding where he'd find Trump. What some may have missed,
though, was another story yesterday in the New York Times claiming that a massive Supreme Court
leak implied that Chief Justice John Roberts, a notable squish, manipulated normal procedures to
save Donald Trump via the Court's immunity decision. Both these events — the
would-be assassin's weirdly precise knowledge about Trump's whereabouts and the Supreme Court's
leaks — tell us that something is rotten in the state of the Deep State.
In
Huge Blow to Fani Willis, Judge Drops Two Counts Against President Trump in Lawfare RICO
Case. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Thursday dropped two
criminal counts against President Trump in Fani Willis's lawfare RICO case. In
August 2023, corrupt Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicted President Trump and
18 co-defendants for daring to challenge the 2020 election. Judge McAfee said two of the
counts related to conspiracy and filing false documents are outside of Fani Willis's jurisdiction
since she is a local District Attorney and not a federal prosecutor. A total of five of the
13 charges of the original indictment have now been dropped against President Trump. Judge
McAfee dropped three of the charges earlier this year.
Beating
the Cheat. It can't actually be said that the either the Butler assassination attempt
or Joe's bugout upended the 2024 campaign. That had already largely occurred by the second
week of July. Every last effort against Donald Trump by the progressive establishment and
their Deep State and bureaucratic allies had collapsed by that point. The lawfare campaign
miscarried completely, generating sympathy for Trump and anger against his tormentors. The
Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States put an end to that chapter and cleared the way
for Donald Trump's next move. Judge Aileen Cannon's dismissal of Jack Smith's demented records
case is simply icing on the cake.
Trump
May Not Win in Pennsylvania — Until After the Election. Donald
Trump is likely to win the most votes in Pennsylvania, but unless he leads by at least
3 percent on Election Day, it is likely that Kamala Harris will be declared the winner.
If that happens, the Republicans will have to take extraordinary steps to dispute the stolen
election. To understand the need for an extra 3 percent, we must review the serious
problems of the 2020 election, which remain today.
Guess
Who's Not Going to Jail Before the Election? For some time now the Left has been
salivating over the prospect that New York judge Juan Merchan would jail Donald Trump on
September 18, before the election. Reports were that a cell in Riker's was being readied
for him and even that he'd be denied Secret Service protection (such as it is) while
incarcerated. Not going to happen. The week stated off badly for Manhattan District
attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor of that case, when on a hidden camera Nicholas Biase, Bragg's
chief spokesman said, "Honestly, I think the case is nonsense." [...] Of course, the case
contending it was felonious for the way money paid to "hush" Stormy Daniels was reported is, in
fact, nonsense. A few days later, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik filed an official ethics
complaint against Judge Merchan for refusing to recuse himself despite "his family's increased
financial ties" to the proceedings (His daughter has garnered millions of dollars fundraising on
behalf of Kamala Harris.)
Judge
in Trump Non-Disclosure and Records Case Sued for Hiding His Disclosures and Records.
How many data points must you identify before you can identify a pattern? This is a question
I've pondered about in the case of New York's Acting Judge Juan Merchan. He is the judge
presiding over the bookkeeping and non-disclosure agreement case of Donald Trump. What
happens when you hide evidence of a pattern? Ironically — and
illegally — Judge Merchan and the people at the oxymoronically-named Ethics Commission
for the New York State Unified Court System have been hiding the judge's records and disclosures
since 2018. America First Legal is suing both Merchan and ethics overseers for illegally hiding the
judge's disclosures for the past seven years.
Jonathan
Turley Says He Thinks 'Merchan Was Aware' Sentencing Trump Before Election Would Help Him
Win. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley on Friday said that
Judge Juan Merchan's decision to delay former President Donald Trump's sentencing could be an
effort to avoid boosting his campaign. Merchan had scheduled Trump's sentencing for
Sept. 18, but on Friday, he postponed the date to Nov. 26 "if necessary," according to
his order. Turley, on "America Reports," claimed that Merchan's rulings against Trump during
his case were advantageous to his reelection bid, suggesting that maintaining the September
sentencing date would have further intensified support for the former president.
President
Trump Accurately Identifies the Institution at the Epicenter of Government Controlled Voter
Fraud. President Trump sends out a "cease and desist" message that absolutely nails
the institutional origin of the voter fraud process as it is permitted and facilitated.
Although slightly using a coded message, within the spelling, punctuation and pertinence, the
identification "DoJ" is transparently clear. I hope everyone can see it. [...] The
identification of the DoJ as the primary institutional silo that permits voter fraud is keenly
accurate. That same institutional silo has the capability to stop voter fraud by prosecuting
all of the public-private officials and NGO's who participate in the process. Main justice
facilitates voter fraud through a subsidiary of secondary divisions (sub-silos) within the main
institution. The Civil Rights Division of the DOJ is a critically compromised agency and must
be addressed accordingly in order to confront the weaponized bureaucracy underneath the leadership
level. This is why the Attorney General position is so critical in 2025.
No
Trial Date to Be Set in DC Trump Case Until Immunity Is Sorted Out. It.'s [sic] been
a while since Special Counsel Jack Smith's legal team and that of former President Donald Trump
faced off in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The 2020 Election case brought by
Smith against Trump has been in limbo since it went up on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on the
presidential immunity issue. [Advertisement] Since the SCOTUS July 1 ruling on the
scope of immunity, the parties have made various filings, and Smith has filed a superseding
indictment, but Thursday marked the first day the parties were actually back before Judge Tanya
Chutkan in person, a fact which Chutkan acknowledged as she greeted Trump attorney John Lauro. [Tweet]
Jim
Jordan Launches Inquiry Into Jack Smith's 'Latest Sham Indictment'. Last week, as Mia
covered, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a new indictment against former and potentially future
President Donald Trump to do with January 6. Days later, House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, taking issue with the "latest
sham indictment" and calling Smith's move out as "Election interference." As Jordan
began by reminding, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Trump v. United States
decision on July 1, which found that the office of the president has immunity from criminal
prosecution. The Court issued such an opinion "explaining the parameters of presidential
immunity and rebuking Special Counsel Jack Smith for violating this Constitutional principle in his
political prosecution of President Donald J. Trump," as Jordan put it.
Who
Really Is Barack Obama? A Counterintelligence Inquiry. Trump bears a grudge
against the Intelligence Community for the many leaks that spooks provided to the media during his
presidency at his expense (I reported several of them). Trump believes that there was a
full-blown secret conspiracy against him perpetrated by IC leaders to smear him with imaginary
connections to Moscow. He's largely right to think that. I spent the years of Trump's
presidency discussing allegations of his clandestine links to the Kremlin in detail. Those
connections to Russian intelligence were not wholly imaginary. From any counterintelligence
perspective, Trump's dalliances with Moscow were highly concerning. [...] Trump has nothing to be
proud of in this matter, but he was never a Russian spy, neither was he "installed to destroy us"
per the online "Resistance" wine-mom mantra.
Jack
Smith, Democrat-Lawfare Complex Hit Man. The modern Democratic Party operates like a
Mafia family. Like the Mob, Democrats have a specific organizational hierarchy. There
are the grand bosses who sit atop the entire food chain, such as the Obamas and the Clintons.
There are the trusted consiglieres, such as Attorney General Merrick Garland and outside
super-lawyer Marc Elias. There are caporegimes, such as Govs. Gavin Newsom and Kathy
Hochul. Heck, there was even a years-long omerta vow of silence surrounding President Joe
Biden's obvious physical and mental decline. [...] In the year 2024, so-called special counsel Jack
Smith — yes, only so-called, as both Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Aileen Cannon
recently concluded — is the foot soldier par excellence for the Democratic Party, and
the Democrat-lawfare complex that now serves as the party's tip of the electoral spear.
Trump
Will Seek Jack Smith's Dismissal in January 6 Case, Argues That Prosecution 'Must End as a
Matter of Law'. The joint status report presented to Judge Tanya Chutkan and
co-authored by the teams behind President Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith discloses that the
two sides are anything but synced on how the 45th President should be tried for January 6.
The filing is a preview of Trump's plan to stymie the prosecution. Judge Chutkan requested
the summary in advance of a hearing she has scheduled for Wednesday on how the election subversion
case against Trump ought to proceed. The prosecution has been upended — but not
entirely derailed — by the Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. United States that
official presidential acts are presumptively immune. Mr. Smith digested that ruling by
convening a fresh grand jury to hand up the same four charges from his original indictment, though
he pared down his recitation of evidence to omit those interactions between Trump and the
Department of Justice that the justices held were entitled to "absolute" immunity. His new
charge sheet is nine pages shorter, but otherwise much the same.
As
Campaign Enters Home Stretch, Trump Remains Bound and Gagged by Democratic Lawfare.
While Donald Trump continues his impressive pace of rallies and interviews and running mate JD Vance
continues to humiliate the regime press, Kamala Harris is re-upping Joe Biden's 2020 strategy of staying
out of the public eye as much as possible; her schedule regularly consists of "internal discussions and
briefings" rather than the sort of turf-hitting grind one expects of a presidential candidate.
Harris's disastrous pre-taped, partially-aired CNN interview before a nauseatingly-compliant Dana Bash
last week is a reminder why she was the most unpopular vice president on record and why her team plans
to keep her under wraps up to the finish line. At the same time Kamala coasts during this critical
period, the month of September will find Trump's lawyers in two courtrooms as the lawfare against the
former president reaches different stages in New York City and Washington, D.C. The proceedings
represent egregious election interference, which is infuriating considering it is unlikely either case
ultimately survives the Supreme Court's immunity test presented in the landmark Trump v US
opinion published in July.
Colorado,
Michigan and Wisconsin refusing to remove RFK Jr. from ballot, all to hurt Trump. The
rebellion of states has begun after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign and threw his
support behind Donald Trump in the 10-or-so battleground states that Trump has to win in order to
achieve an election victory. In his campaign suspension speech, Kennedy urged his supporters
in the other 40 states to still vote for him, but indicated that he is voluntarily removing
his name from the ballot in about 10 battleground states, some of which are refusing to cooperate
because they want Trump to lose.
The Editor says...
In other words, the election officials in several states are interfering with the process because of their personal preferences.
D.C.
Swamp-Dwellers Say It Doesn't Matter Who Wins the Presidency, They'll Do What They
Want. If he is reelected this November, will Donald Trump manage to drain the swamp
this time? The swamp-dwellers are saying no. Ever since he began his first run for
president, Trump has famously vowed to drain the swamp, that is, clear out the far-left bureaucracy
in Washington that bears so much responsibility for the leftward drift of the nation over the last
decade and a half. [...] In fact, before Trump was elected and the Washington bureaucracy rose
against him, few people, if any, knew that there was a swamp at all. One of the most
important results of the Trump presidency was not one anyone intended: it revealed the deep
corruption and politicization of the civil service. Now, a more experienced Trump is again
vowing to destroy the swamp, but the swamp-dwellers are insisting that they're not going anywhere
and will continue to run things. The gauntlet has been thrown down.
Will
Democrats Repeat the Fraud of 2020? Even before Trump became president, the Uniparty
establishment made their political and personal hatred for him well known and spent his entire term
working to delegitimize his election and remove him from office. Despite these attempts, the
Democrats 2020 campaign did not suggest they were serious about beating him. They nominated a
feeble and fading, two-time failed primary candidate in Joe Biden, used COVID as an excuse to
shield him from the public, and ran on a radically left agenda that was the antithesis of Trump's
increasingly popular America First one. It wasn't until the early hours of November 4th,
2020, that it became obvious why that was the case: It wasn't President Trump versus Joe
Biden, but rather their election theft machine. Now, we are once again seeing them use
similar tactics as we approach the 2024 election.
How
are Ukraine Stakeholders, CIA and U.S. Intelligence Community Going to Stop Donald Trump? • To stop him in 2016, the FBI and DOJ ran a comprehensive surveillance operation
against his campaign. The same people manufactured a completely fabricated case of Trump colluding
with Russia. Have you forgotten?
• To stop him in 2017, the DOJ and Congress ran a comprehensive Special Counsel
operation against his presidency. The justification of the SC operation was to prove a completely
fabricated case of Trump colluding with Russia. The real reason for the SC operation was to cover up
the FBI and DOJ completely fabricating the case of Trump colluding with Russia. Have you forgotten?
• To stop him in 2019, congress and the intelligence apparatus (Mary McCord and
Michael Atkinson) manufactured an impeachment hoax using Ukraine, a fabricated DoD plant on the National
Security Council (Vindman), the CIA (Ciaramella) and the Intelligence Community Inspector General
(Attkinson). Have you forgotten?
• To stop him in 2020, the U.S. Intelligence Community, working through the U.S. CDC,
seeded a global pandemic and quickly manufactured an election result using mail-in ballots to manufacture
81 million votes for a completely controlled candidate with dementia. Have you forgotten?
Our
Future. In the current presidential campaign the Democrats' main issue is that Trump
is a dictator who will destroy democracy. This from a Democrat regime that has turned law
into a weapon against political candidates such as Trump who is currently fighting four felony
indictments and as many civil indictments in the midst of the presidential campaign. Clearly,
the Democrat Department of Justice (sic) and the Democrat New York attorney general are using law
to interfere in the election. All of this is underway while one of the Democrats' indictments
of Trump is that he interfered in an election by the way he reported a business expense. The
corrupt Democrat judge presiding over this farce intends to sentence Trump next month. The
double standards are extraordinary and go far beyond mere mudslinging. We are watching the
party in power use the police powers of the state in an effort to control the outcome of an
election. As for the Democrats' commitment to democracy, how strong is this commitment when
some of them are saying that they will not accept the election outcome if Trump wins? Doesn't
this make them "January 6 insurrectionists"?
Watergate(s)
on Steroids. The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post bragged early in 2017, "Resistance
from within: Federal workers push back against Trump." The story said, "Less than two
weeks into Trump's administration, federal workers are in regular consultation with recently
departed Obama-era political appointees about what they can do to push back against the new
president's initiatives. Some federal employees have set up social media accounts to
anonymously leak word of changes that Trump appointees are trying to make." This was immoral,
unprecedented and unconstitutional. The press acted like not graciously accepting defeat was
a good thing.
Everybody
Knows the Captain Lied. The dice have been loaded for decades. The war was over
in 1963 when the CIA, on behalf of the Deep State, murdered John F. Kennedy. The American
people (the good guys) lost, and the Deep State won. They got their war in Vietnam.
They got their Welfare State. They got guns, butter, a currency unlinked from gold, and the
green light to create debt to infinity. The Deep State has consolidated their power and
control over every aspect of our lives in the six decades since they killed JFK. They have
used every crisis they create to abscond with more of our liberties, freedoms, rights and
wealth. In addition to the never-ending wars created around the globe to benefit their
military industrial complex, their wars on poverty, drugs, terror, CO2, and covid have enriched
them and their lackeys, while exacerbating the very things they declared war upon. None of these
wars are meant to be won. Keeping the masses in fear and ignorance makes them easier to control.
Site
Notes. Some people think DC corruption is really, really bad. Trust me, it's
worse than that. My thoughts on staffing, roles and responsibilities are from a pragmatic
place of what can reasonably be expected to be achieved. CTH has never joined this
nonsensical "trusty-planner" mindset. There is no plan. There never was a plan.
There is one guy, Donald Trump, trying to enact policies to the benefit of the American
people. Every democrat and every republican want him to fail.
Rage
Against the Machine. [Scroll down] Examples: The current lawfare
against Trump and others in his circle. Charging them with felonies for essentially
jaywalking, for doing things all administrations have done, pretending these are now crimes.
Literally trying to put their opponents in prison as third world countries and communists of all
stripes have done in the past. Using the bureaucracies to forward their pet nonsensical
ecological ideas to destroy energy creation, to destroy our economy, and the capacity of so many of
us just to keep up with living expenses. Using our foreign policy institutions and the CIA to
forward the goals of the corrupt and greedy military/industrial complex. Pushing us towards
WWIII without a sense of proportion as to what that would mean for the country and the world.
Opening the border to the control of the cartels, bringing us illegal drugs, human trafficking, the
sex trading of children, and the intent to replace our country with citizens malleable to the whims
of the left.
Democracy
in Name Only: How Kamala Harris Became Democratic Nominee. Just before his
election in 2008, Barack Obama famously (or infamously) said that we were on the threshold of
"fundamentally transforming the United States of America." He was right about that. But
the irony was that the transformation entailed the establishment of political stasis.
Throughout his first term, Donald Trump endeavored to change some important things, to roll back
that "fundamental transformation" that Obama had overseen. The FBI and other agencies of the
regulatory state, abetted by the propaganda press, intervened to stymie him at every turn. He
was investigated, indicted, impeached, nearly bankrupted, and, just a week or so ago, shot.
The Dems love the rhetoric of "change," just as they cherish the word "democracy." Their
actions show that they are hostile to both. Change is incompatible with the maintenance of
their perquisites and privileges, just as genuine democracy is fraught with peril for the
establishment. Take democracy seriously and who knows? You might wind up with someone
like Donald Trump.
How
far will the left go to eliminate Trump? Everything that Trump said about the
corruption in the Deep State has come to fruition. They used flimsy evidence and tyrannical
methods to imprison his supporters, including many of his top-level staff members and
attorneys. Not only did they charge the former president with accounting misdemeanors that
had expired under the statutory limitations' laws, but they upgraded them to felonies. He was
kept off the campaign trail for several months, forced to sit in courtrooms defending himself from
bogus accusations. With the American people watching the trials on television, the Biden
administration was hoping the public would be indoctrinated to believe that Trump was a
criminal. Then, with a New York leftist for a prosecutor and a jury of Trump-haters, they got
what they wanted when he was found guilty of 34 felonies. As fast as you could say "kangaroo
court," Biden was blasting his opponent as a felon who didn't deserve to be a candidate for president.
Deep
State Carnival Barkers Distract Us with Kamala. A manufactured cycle of psychological
highs and lows keeps Americans' attention directed toward anything that is glamorous and away from
everything that matters. Consider the roller coaster we've all been riding at higher and
higher rates of speed and evermore-dangerous heights these last few months: One New York
judge abuses a civil fraud statute to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from Donald
Trump. Another ignores settled law and relevant facts to help convict him of thirty-four fake
felonies. Democrats break out in euphoria. Then, the U.S. Supreme Court steps in to
recognize presidential immunity in a way that threatens three other criminal cases against bogeyman
Trump. Democrats scream obscenities in protest and demand the Court's "cancellation."
8
shots to Hell. "By any means necessary" they say. They cheated at the ballots
in 2020 and mostly got away with it. But that didn't defeat Trump or make his supporters
disappear. Trump decided to run for president in 2024. They tried lawfare, but he is so
honest they couldn't come up with any legitimate charges against him. Never mind, they came
up with transparently phony charges and got the whore media to make believe they were real.
Trump beat some of the charges, is contesting the ones he lost, and paid crippling bonds on the
crazy fines against him. He's still standing. He's still going to rallies that
regularly crush attendance at Biden rallies. He is more popular than ever. He debated
Biden, who came across as the demented sack of evil that he is. So, with nothing left, the
media started giving their followers permission to assassinate Trump by openly discussing the idea.
When
Democrats Incite an Assassination. [Scroll down] Right now, lawfare
assassin Jack Smith is arguing in front of black-robed tyrant Judge Chutkan that the
once-and-future President Trump should be tossed in the hoosegow for daring to question the
legitimacy of the 2020 election and "inciting" the so-called Capitol "insurrection" on
January 6, 2021. Anybody with a brain knows that there was never an insurrection, that
President Trump never encouraged any criminality of any kind, and that trampling on a president's
right to free speech pretty much assures that the rest of us will soon be prosecuted for our
political speech, too.
Trump's
Resilience And The Inevitable Endpoint of Democrat Politics. The Democrats conspired
to sabotage [Donald Trump] beginning before he was president and never gave up. There have
been lies about Russia, kids in cages, "Good people on both sides," suckers and losers, and (a
Biden favorite) Trump encouraging the drinking or injecting bleach. He was impeached for
talking with Ukraine, investigated for allegedly trying to coerce Georgia's Secretary of State to
create votes after the 2020 election, and impeached for inciting that January 6th
"Insurrection," even though no such insurrection occurred, that he urged people to be peaceful, and
that Twitter shut down his efforts to calm the crowd. The countless manufactured court cases
have just been more of the same. All this while Democrats and their mouthpieces in the
Propaganda Ministry have been telling Americans that Trump is a threat to the nation, calling him
Hitler, and suggesting that if he gets into office, he'll never leave. Donald Trump has been
on the defensive for the last eight years. What's more, his supporters have been abused,
harassed, thrown in jail and, as happened to Ashli Babbitt on January 6th and Corey
Comperatore on Saturday, killed.
Any
Assassination Investigation That Includes Merrick Garland Or Chris Wray Is A Coverup.
The FBI has been deeply intertwined with DOJ and other spy agencies' decade — or
more — of politicized corruption. As has been well established by years of
investigative work by The Federalist, other outlets, and congressional investigations, the FBI
worked hand-in-hand with other U.S. spy agencies to frame Trump as a Russian traitor. This
election-interference operation prompted a special counsel investigation that hamstrung Trump's
governance and deceived millions of voters with a constant campaign of leaks and lies. As
part of this operation, the FBI paid for Russian disinformation to take down the elected U.S.
president. Another special counsel investigation later found agency bias was to blame for
multiple FBI violations of law and policy to "prevent Trump from becoming president." The
bias that led to this federal effort to end democratic control of U.S. military and intelligence
agencies has not only continued since, it's expanded.
Note: All the discussion of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is now accumulating
on a page of its own, located here.
On
Day He Was Supposed to Be Sentenced, Trump Files Motion to Have His NY Convictions Thrown
Out. This was not the day the Democrats had planned. They were hoping to see a
handcuffed Donald Trump hauled to jail while Joe Biden cemented his lead in the presidential
campaign. Oh, how the tides have turned. On Thursday, July 11 — the day
Trump was supposed to be hauled off after his conviction on 34 counts of business fraud in New
York — we instead saw the resurgent former president angling to get those bogus charges
tossed even as Joe Biden desperately tried to salvage his flagging campaign. But times have
changed after the bombshell July 1 immunity ruling by the Supreme Court: [...]
Dems
Are Consolidating Absolute Power In The Name Of 'Democracy'. Colorado became the
first state to remove former president Donald Trump from the primary ballot after a left-wing
activist group backed a challenge from Colorado voters to disqualify him under the 14th
Amendment. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in December that Trump was ineligible to appear
on the ballot. Maine made a similar move, along with a county in Illinois where Judge Tracie
Porter ordered Trump be removed from the primary ballot after the board of elections
unanimously voted against removing him. Porter ruled Trump should be removed from the
ballot and ordered "any votes for him to be suppressed." The U.S. Supreme Court issued a
unanimous decision overturning the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling and found states did not have
the constitutional authority to boot Trump from the ballot. When that didn't work,
Democrats focused their efforts on tossing their opponent in jail.
Missouri
AG Sues New York For Lawfare 'Interference' In Presidential Election. Missouri
Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit Wednesday against New York alleging in part that the
lawfare trial against former President Donald Trump violated Missourians' First Amendment right "to
hear from a presidential candidate in the 2024 presidential election," as stated in a press release
announcing the suit. In a lawfare case brought by a D.A. who campaigned on taking on Trump,
the former president was found guilty by a New York jury in May on 34 charges related to a crime
that "nobody can quite articulate." Following the Supreme Court's immunity decision, Trump's
team moved to overturn his conviction, and Trump's sentencing was delayed until Sept. 18, less
than two months before Election Day. In the lawsuit, Bailey filed a motion for a preliminary
injunction, asking the Supreme Court to stop any further proceedings related to the New York
lawfare case until after the election.
Clarence
Thomas Raises Another Reason Jack Smith's Case Against Trump May Be Unconstitutional.
In a concurring opinion in Trump v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas highlighted "another way in which this prosecution" — led by Special Counsel Jack
Smith — "may violate our constitutional structure." Specifically, Thomas writes that
"the Attorney General purported to appoint a private citizen as Special Counsel to prosecute a
former President on behalf of the United States" but he's "not sure that any office for the Special
Counsel has been 'established by Law,' as the Constitution requires." "Few things would threaten
our constitutional order more than criminally prosecuting a former President for his official
acts," Thomas explains in his concurring opinion. "Fortunately, the Constitution does not
permit us to chart such a dangerous course." Thomas explains that the Constitution requires
Congress to create any federal offices "by law" as an "important check against the President" who
"cannot create offices at his pleasure." As such, if "there is now law establishing the office
that the Special Counsel occupies, then he cannot proceed with this prosecution" because a "private
citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a former president."
The
Lies We Have Lived Through. The October surprise laptop disinformation lie may have
cost Trump the 2020 election. But it was concocted so that Joe Biden could stare at the
debate camera and swear to the American people that Trump was a liar, citing "51 intelligence
authorities" who insisted Hunter Biden's laptop was a likely hallmark of Russian
disinformation. We were asked to believe that clever Russian disinformationists fabricated
all the sick photos and selfies of poor Hunter, knew the Biden family's intimate tensions and fault
lines as evidenced in the computer's texts and emails, and were able to package and deposit the
computer to either a Russian operative masquerading as a computer repairment or have it delivered
to the supposedly useful idiot. The truth was, the FBI had the laptop during the debate and
had long verified its authenticity — and thus kept mum as its brethren intelligence
apparatchiks lied to the nation. What the untruth did not fully reveal was that Biden's
campaign foreign policy guru, Anthony Blinken (the current Secretary of State), cooked up the
entire ruse.
Clarence
Thomas Questions Jack Smith's Authority in Blistering Opinion on Immunity Ruling.
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas questioned Jack Smith's authority as special
counsel in his concurring opinion on the high court's presidential immunity ruling. The
Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 that Trump has absolute immunity for his core Constitutional
powers. Former presidents are entitled to at least a presumption of immunity for their
official acts. The Supreme Court ruled there is no immunity for unofficial acts.
Be
careful, Donald. I am worried about President Trump. Now that he has demolished
Joe Biden in this week's presidential debate, many on the Left would like to see him vanish.
Democrats are desperate, and likely to try to stop him by fair means or foul. [...] There is no
shortage of evil people who would 'Epstein' someone if the incentive were big enough. Already
many people have mysteriously died if they crossed some former presidents, so it is no secret that
assassins are out there (look up "arkancide" and then when you're done with that, ask why security
cameras were "malfunctioning" when Epstein "hung himself" in his jail cell.) Trump cannot
afford to be put in a jail cell with iffy equipment. Donald Trump is deeply hated by the Deep
State, by many Democrats in politics, and by those with contacts in what passes in some pathetic
circles for the media. The communist, globalist, and Islamist agendas, foreign and domestic,
are in grave danger from Trump and his voters.
Put
a Fork in Him. [Scroll down] Democrats and liberals did not stand up and work to deny Biden his
reelection bid because they hate Donald Trump so much they could not believe he would survive the onslaught of the
legal cases against him and his own indiscipline. They believed he would sabotage himself as he did in 2020,
and that would be what mattered. They would be saved from their own weak candidate by the weakness of the
opposing candidate. The thing is, they never really had any substantive reason backed by data to think this.
Trump has never given any indication of being a weaker candidate than Biden in the eyes of the electorate.
Jack
Smith's January 6 Case Against President Trump Torpedoed After Supreme Court Overturns
1512(c)(2) Obstruction Charge. The US Supreme Court on Friday delivered a devastating
blow to Biden's corrupt Justice Department and overturned the obstruction charge used to jail
hundreds of January 6 defendants. Biden's corrupt DOJ charged more than 300 J6ers with
18 USC §1512(c)(2). Additionally, two of the four charges against Trump in Jack Smith's
DC case are conspiracy to obstruct so the Supreme Court's ruling on Friday torpedoed the special
counsel's case against Trump as well. The Supreme Court earlier this year heard oral
arguments in Fischer v. United States and at issue was statute 18 USC
§1512(c)(2):
Whoever corruptly —
(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so,
with the intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or
(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
On Friday, in a 6-3 vote, the court holds that to prove a violation of the law, the government must
show that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records,
documents, objects, or other things used in an official proceeding, or attempted to do so.
Decoding
New York's Legalese: President Trump Was Wrongly Prosecuted and Convicted. The
corruption of the law in the Manhattan case against President Donald J. Trump should shock every
American, and the devil is in the details of the law, the prosecution, the judge, the jury, and
the conviction. There were two financial accounts referred to in the prosecution. The
first is a revocable trust fund for Donald J. Trump which was created just after he became
president, and the second is the personal account of Donald J. Trump. The indictment
indicates that Trump received invoices from Michael Cohen where each invoice was then added to the
general accounting ledger with a voucher number, and then a check was issued to pay each invoice.
11 counts of the indictment are for receiving invoices from Michael Cohen. The first
invoice covered two months (January and February), and the other 10 invoices covered one month each
for legal services. How anyone can even suggest that receiving an invoice is falsifying a
business record is nonsensical — Joe Hoft at joehoft.com pointed out that this is
comparable to being in receipt of a bill for electricity. Yet, Trump was found guilty on all
eleven counts for falsifying business records for receiving invoices.
How
CIA interference with the 'Spies Who Lie' letter made Biden the president. It is
chilling to contemplate that, if it had not been for the malign intervention of the CIA in the 2020
election, Donald Trump would have won a second term and the wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza would
never have happened. We now see that the CIA staged a domestic disinformation campaign to
protect its favored candidate, the decrepit and pliable Joe Biden, from the political consequences
of his corruption. Now we are told that former CIA Director Gina Haspel was in on the "Dirty
51" letter in October 2020 that falsely claimed Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian
disinformation. This bombshell, revealed by former CIA chief operating officer Andrew
Makridis to congressional investigators, will go down in history as an act of sabotage against the
American people by a rogue intelligence agency.
Trampling
the 5th Amendment. Americans have long derided dictators for eliminating political
opponents by prosecuting them on dubious grounds and denying them due process. Hence, they
would have widely condemned the use of these techniques to obtain the criminal conviction of a
candidate for high office — were it not for the fact that the candidate was Donald
Trump. President Biden and most other Democrats found the sausage so appetizing that they
ignored how it was made. Although the court's violations of the 5th Amendment could be
corrected by higher courts if they took the Constitution seriously, much damage has already been
done to the credibility of the courts and the sanctity of the electoral process.
Attack
On Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was a CIA Operation. Congress just released a report
confirming that the effort to discredit the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop was a CIA
operation. The report reveals the Biden official who triggered the operation and active CIA
contractors involved in the operation. [Video clip]
Report
Says Mike Morell, David Buckley Were on CIA Payroll When They Signed Hunter Biden Letter.
A bombshell report released Tuesday afternoon by the House Judiciary GOP claims that at least two of the
51 "former" intelligence officials who signed a letter discrediting the Hunter Biden "Laptop from Hell"
as Russian disinformation were actually on the CIA's payroll at the time they signed the letter[,]
despite actively asserting that they didn't have access to any classified information.
Former Deputy Director Michael Morell and former CIA Inspector General David Buckley are the two
signatories named in Tuesday's report as being on active contract at the time they signed the
statement. Since the CIA "declined to declassify the entire universe of signatories who were
on active contract," though, it's unknown how many signatories were both colluding with the Biden
campaign and on the CIA payroll. In addition, the report states that the statement's co-author,
former Senior Intelligence Service Officer Marc Polymeropoulos, included classified information in
his proposed media talking points "that had to be removed before publication."
It
Was a Quiet Insurrection. The established oligarchy has a stranglehold on our
representative republic government and is choking the life out of our inalienable rights. The
legislature writes so many bills and laws that there is no possible way for Americans to know what
is what, and if and when we are "breaking a law." Because of their ability to twist words and
mold the laws for their own purpose, America and the world have watched as Biden and his Democrat
Party run one attack after another against President Donald John Trump. What they did to him
while he was president, and what they are doing to him now, is unlawful and unconstitutional, yet
they get away with it. Remember there were many republicans running interference for the
Democrats during both impeachments of President Trump, and there were republicans sitting on the
fake January 6 committee that set it all up, in order to "crucify" President Trump.
The
Poor Legal Arguments of Jack Smith. On Friday [6/21/2024], Judge Aileen Cannon,
overseeing the Florida-based records prosecution of former president Donald Trump, heard a lawsuit
regarding the legitimacy of the appointment of special prosecutor Jack Smith. On Sunday, his
office provided the response to those complaints. On Monday, the court entertained the oral
arguments regarding this issue. Based upon his arguments, even a non-lawyer such as myself
can see that the two cases (Florida and Washington, D.C.) are illegitimate. Now we must await
Judge Cannon's opinion. On Sunday evening, Mark Levin announced on Fox News that his Landmark
Legal Foundation had filed a brief concerning the validity of Jack Smith's appointment. He
laid out the legal arguments. Further information demonstrates the weakness of Smith's
argument. Levin noted that Ed Meese and Michael Mukasey provided briefs arguing against
Smith's appointment.
Imposing
a Permanent Gag Order on Trump. Gag orders, constitutionally dubious, are meant to
protect the integrity of a judicial proceeding. However, even with the trial over, the gag
orders imposed on former President Trump are not going away. DA Bragg's office (which had
just freed the antisemitic Columbia Hamas rioters) demanded a continuation of the gag order which
prohibits him from commenting on the individuals involved in the trial. Since Trump is also
running for president and Biden is spending $50 million to attack him over the various
Democrat trials imposed on him, this effectively bans a presidential candidate from debating a
campaign issue. The New York Court of Appeals claimed that "no substantial constitutional
question is directly involved" in gagging a presidential candidate when in reality several are
involved. But weasel words like "substantial" and "directly" give away the game.
Imposing a gag order post-trial on a potentially indefinite basis has no legal validity.
There is no longer a judicial proceeding to protect. The basis for Bragg's demands is the
DA's claim that he's still getting death threats and that Trump may seek revenge. There will
be plenty of people who hate Bragg regardless of what Trump says and the rationale that the
rhetoric poses a personal risk rather than a risk to a case allows for a permanent gag order.
Keeping
Trump Under Gag Order Likely Violates His — And Americans' — Rights, Experts
Say. With the trial over, former President Donald Trump no longer has to sit in the
courtroom each day, but even as the first presidential debate approaches, he still can't speak
freely about what happened there. New York's highest court declined Tuesday to take up
Trump's appeal, and Bragg's office insists the gag order is needed through sentencing.
Keeping a gag order in place after conviction is exceedingly uncommon, legal experts told the DCNF,
noting there is a strong case to be made that doing so violates Trump's civil rights, especially
when there was never much justification for issuing one at all. [Advertisement] "This really
goes right to the heart not only of Donald Trump's First Amendment rights, but the rights of the
American people to hear from the candidates running for president," former federal prosecutor
Jonathan Fahey told the DCNF, highlighting that Biden is making Trump's 34 felonies a "core
feature" of his re-election. "Biden is going to talk about it, and Trump has to walk on
eggshells to make sure he doesn't offend the judge," he continued.
Legal
Insurrection Through Lawfare, Part 2. The Department of Justice is the most heavily
politicized of the U.S. government. In 2016, 91.6% gave to Democrats. Homeland Security
employees came in at 75% Democrat, and the Department of Education was as high as 96%
Democrat. The National Education Association has never donated to a Republican presidential
candidate. All federal government departments have moved from very liberal to radical via the
red diaper/red thread chain of the Obama administration hierarchy. Critical theory and
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) remained practically undisturbed by Trump and then emerged
revitalized on the first day of Biden's administration.
Armed
Enemies Within Plot Trump's Murder. The House Committee on Oversight and
Accountability will soon hold a hearing on "potential vulnerabilities within the U.S. Secret
Service" that prevent this agency from protecting high-profile figures such as President Donald J.
Trump from assassination. This follows reports of fights breaking out among armed Secret
Service agents and "potential insider threats" that threaten national security. The federal
law enforcement agency has been plagued by sex and alcohol scandals but more recently its agents
have been trying to protect themselves from dog bites by the German Shepherd "Commander," the Biden
family dog. The Secret Service is a component of the Department of Homeland Security, run by
Open Borders architect Alejandro Mayorkas. That means that the federal official ultimately in
charge of the Secret Service "protection" for Trump is at the same time turning a blind eye to
hundreds of foreign terrorists entering the country, perhaps to assassinate Trump. The
handwriting is on the wall — Trump's life is in danger because the federal agency in
charge of protecting him has been seriously compromised and perhaps even infiltrated.
Trump
is a Marked Man. With right-wing parties making gains in European Union parliamentary
elections, it is apparent that a global rejection of the status quo is paving the way for President
Trump to win the U.S. presidency in a decisive manner. While some commentators are focused on
whether Joe Biden can make it all the way to November's elections because of his senility and old
age, the real question is whether the communists and globalists decide the time is right to take
out Trump by any means necessary. Communist groups are promising "Revolution Summer 2024," a
series of protests targeting Biden and Trump but Trump is clearly the main enemy of intelligence
agencies here and abroad and is being "Marked for Death," the title of a new report from my group,
America's Survival, Inc. The Marxist groups active in the Democratic Party believe their
street protests can force Biden to step down, but Trump is a different story. That will
require a sophisticated intelligence operation so that the fingerprints of the federal agencies
that are supposed to protect Trump and the American people can be obscured.
Russia's
KGB and Ours. [Scroll down] If the Deep State is in fact dominated by the
Soviet KGB, now known as the FSB, that would explain a lot. It would also explain why the
Russia-gate hoax against Trump was based on Russian disinformation. I have come to accept the
view of spy catcher James Jesus Angleton, the former CIA counterintelligence chief, who concluded
the CIA was hopelessly infiltrated by our enemies. It turns out so was the FBI, which
employed Robert Hanssen as a counter-intelligence agent assigned to catch Soviet/Russian spies,
when he was working for the Soviets and the Russians. When you understand how America's Deep
State has become a branch of the KGB, your view of America and the world changes. You come to
better understand the no-war wars of Joe Biden and the failure to back American allies and confront
our enemies. You come to suspect that characters like Hunter Biden were protected for years
by federal agencies like the FBI and the IRS because he (and his father) served the interests of
American intelligence agencies. I have been around too long to buy the excuse that federal
agencies are just incompetent.
Near
Half of Independents Say Biden Uses DOJ To Target Political Enemies. New polling data
suggests a significant portion of the electorate believes the Biden government "...has actively
used the Justice Department to investigate political enemies with little or no evidence of actual
wrongdoing." The data is troubling for Joe Biden as it shows a sizeable portion of independent
voters — 41 percent — agree that the Biden government has purposefully
targeted its political enemies. Additionally, even one in ten Democrats agree. [...] A large
number of independent voters in the Ipsos poll also signaled they believe major figures in the
Democratic Party played a part in pushing Bragg to prosecute Trump. Nearly 40 percent of
independent respondents said they believe New York Attorney General Letitia James was involved in
pushing Bragg to prosecute.
Joe's
Distemper Is Showing. Here in the Big Apple, through the workings of a depressingly
corrupted legal machinery — the New York state court system was once the envy of the
jurisprudential world (one of the major reasons the city served as financial capital of the
world) — the Democrats finally achieved what they have long sought: pinning the
appellation "convicted felon" (at least temporarily) on Donald Trump. They and their media
allies now create a deafening echo repeating the phrase incessantly. Yet if demeanor is any
indication, it is Joe Biden, and not Donald Trump, who has the look of a man being led to his
political execution. Perhaps he knows that while Mr. Trump looks forward to a successful
appeal of his phony conviction, Biden has lost nearly every appeal he's made to the American people
since his election.
Trump
Verdict Makes NYC 'Venezuela-on-the-Hudson'. A former president was convicted of 34
misdemeanors for paperwork errors (whose statute of limitations had run out) that were changed to
felonies because he had supposedly violated another state law — nowhere mentioned in the
indictment — that makes it a crime to use "unlawful" means to promote or oppose the
election of a candidate. And what was that "unlawful" means? Well, the defendant didn't
know because those other "unlawful" means (i.e., other crimes) weren't mentioned in the indictment,
either. The judge told the jurors that they didn't need to even agree on what other crimes
the defendant had committed, seemingly in conflict with hundreds of years of English and American
jurisprudence, including the Constitution's guarantee of due process of law. No, said the
judge, the jury could consider violations of tax law or a violation of federal campaign finance law
or of some other unnamed law for listing as a legal expense — instead of as a campaign
expense — a settlement payment made to an individual who was represented by counsel in a
perfectly legitimate, and perfectly legal, transaction. But no need for a unanimous decision
on that issue. A violation of federal campaign finance law? What were a local
prosecutor and a state court judge doing bringing up a violation of federal law over which they
have no jurisdiction whatsoever?
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and a Citizen. [I]t seems a good time to review who can be president and whether or
not you can give money to a person to shut up. [...] The feds — you know, the people who
absolutely adore Trump — looked at this issue and said no. The Federal Election
Commission did the same. But NY DA Alvin Bragg and his team apparently all sat around a bong
one night and had a great "highdea:" say the misdemeanor paperwork charges are actually a felony
because he futzed with the paperwork in the furtherance of another crime. They never really
did settle on what that other crime was and only brought it up in closing arguments so the defense
could not rebut the alleged but never filed charges and then the judge said to the jury that it
really didn't matter and that whichever predicate allegation you want to base your
conviction — sorry, your deliberations on — is fine and you can mix and match
them if you want, too. [...] Another funny thing about the trial is that what Trump
did — paying someone to shut up — is not illegal. At all.
Judge
Marchan [was] NOT Chosen Randomly — The FIX Was In. Democrat-appointed
Judge Juan Merchan went out of his way to stack the deck in favor of Manhattan Democrat District
Attorney Alvin Bragg's false criminal case against former President Donald Trump for allegedly
falsifying business records. Merchan was allegedly randomly assigned the Trump and Bannon
cases by the New York court system. That is a lie — he was also assigned to the
politically motivated cases of Trump CFO on tax fraud as well as his War Room Trump advocate Steve
Bannon whom he recently sentenced to 4 months for allegedly lying to Congress.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has filed a complaint with the New York State Unified Court System
over the claim that Merchan was randomly assigned the case. "If justices were indeed being
randomly assigned in the Criminal Term, the probability of two specific criminal cases being
assigned to the same justice is quite low, and the probability of three specific criminal cases
being assigned to the same justice is infinitesimally small," Stefanik wrote. "And yet,
we see Acting Justice Merchan on all three cases."
Time
to Jettison the Animals. [Scroll down] The putative replacements for
[Biden] — Newsom, Hillary, Pritzker, Whitmer, Harris — are political
creatures at least as loathsome to voters as "JB" has become. And the obvious pitfall for
Michelle O is that her husband looks like a wannabe American Caesar seeking a fourth term.
What else have they got? Nothin'. Some utterly unknown governor they can primp up in a
few months? Fugeddabowdit. They'll have to run one of the loathsomes, take the "L," and
hope for the best, perhaps make a get out of jail "deal" with dealmaker supreme Mr. Trump.
Or, they could attempt another mighty prank: kill him. You can imagine they'll
try it, having exhausted all other gambits. If they succeed, and it doesn't provoke an
instant civil war, Mr. Trump's faction has a pretty deep "bench" of capable figures who can
step in and run against the Party of Chaos, Hoaxes, and now Murder. If the assassins botch
the job, I wouldn't want to be them on that dreadful day.
Caution: May not have happened. See update below. Juror
Sent Cousin Message Saying Trump Was Convicted A Day Before Judgement. Aren't the
jurors supposed to be in seclusion? This is the kind of thing that should lead to a
mistrial[.] [Tweet] What should happen is that a mistrial is declared and a higher court
jumps in to say "stop. This is insane. It would get crushed on appeal, and Merchan and
Bragg are sanctioned."
There
was just a huge twist in the Trump case. His New York judge brought these social posts to the
world's attention. [T]he social media post of a very dumb person might have just
saved the Republic. [Numerous tweets] This little quip made me think this was a
nothingburger, but the New York justice system apparently thought it was reliable enough to put out
a formal letter on Friday evening, which means this guy likely is related to one of the jurors.
[...] They sent out a legal letter on Friday night without any vetting at all?? But if it's
real, is it a psyop that was designed to give Democrats an out after successfully pinning Donald
Trump with the label felon? Was a mistrial always the plan to keep Trump's numbers from going
even higher behind bars?
Update: Don't
Be Shocked If the Story About the Trump Juror Spilling the Guilty Verdict Ends Up Being
Fake. We knew the trial was a sham. The verdict was baked into the cake long
before opening arguments began, but now we have evidence. Judge Merchan's office issued a
letter to Donald Trump's defense team alerting them that one of the jurors discussed the verdict
with a family member, who later shared that foreknowledge on the court's public Facebook account.
[Advertisement] We'll see what happens. It could be troll bait, but this trial became
more of a circus if true. The person who posted about the verdict claimed to have a cousin on
the jury for Donald Trump's hush money trial. [Tweets] [Advertisement] Before we
discuss how this will impact the verdict, let's see who "Michael Anderson" is and whether he has a
cousin on the jury. All of this can and should be investigated. The New York Post's
Miranda Devine said the whole conviction should be tossed if true. UPDATE: Is this
fake? I wouldn't be shocked if this is too good to be true. The rigging and bias in
this trial were believable from the start, but this might be a stretch.
American
Prometheus Chained at Mar-A-Lago. The First Amendment protection given to a free
press so that darkness can be stripped away is a useless joke, as the majority of mainstream media
would rather cheerlead a lie than investigate corruption. The darkness shows that there are
indeed two sets of legal systems: one to protect Democrats and one to ruthlessly persecute
Republicans. The darkness professes that the Constitution simply does not apply to Donald
Trump, as the ends justify the means, believing it to be a righteous and noble deed to eradicate
him from Public service, no matter the costs. Two bogus, failed impeachments; five partisan
and political indictments; the twisting of the 14th Amendment Insurrection clause in an attempt to
disqualify Trump from appearing on the ballot, then unanimously rebuffed at the Supreme Court; the
absence of any such charges — much less a conviction — made such a notion
repulsive. Now, a kangaroo court conviction has been set in motion by a blindly biased judge
and a corrupt prosecutor. There seems to be no end.
The
Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do with the Prosecutions of Trump. The five criminal
and civil prosecutions of Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President
Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them. [Advertisement] But Joe Biden has
long let it be known that he was frustrated with his own Department of Justice's federal
prosecutors for their tardiness in indicting Donald Trump. [Advertisement] Biden was upset
because any delay might mean that his rival Trump would not be in federal court during the 2024
election cycle. And that would mean he could not be tagged as a "convicted felon" by the
November election while being kept off the campaign trail. [Advertisement] Politico has
long prided itself on its supposed insider knowledge of the workings of the Biden administration.
Note that it was reported earlier this February that a frustrated Joe Biden "has grumbled to aides and
advisers that had Garland moved sooner in his investigation into former President Donald Trump's
election interference, a trial may already be underway or even have concluded..." [Advertisement]
Mocking
the left's missteps. [Scroll down] Make no mistake: the verdict in the
sham that was the Trump trial was one of those watershed moments that brought everything into
focus. Up 'til now, you could fool yourself into thinking things were still semi-normal, so
to speak. But now we're talking about the serious consequences of the weaponization of the
government by one political party against its opponents. If that can be done against the man
at the top, what's to stop them from doing that to everyone else? All of this should be a
signal it's time to stop playing nice with the left. Leftists expect us to use their words
and follow their silly rules, while they use any means to attack the country and Western culture
and cancel conservatives.
America's
Corrupt Political Class Should Be Prosecuted, Not Trump. [W]ith the Trump conviction
in New York, we may well have just witnessed the nadir of abuse of prosecutorial discretion.
It's not just that a former president — and the leading contender to be the next
president — has been convicted of a felony on dubious and untested charges. For
all of the demands that we respect "rule of law" in the wake of the Trump verdict, it has become
patently obvious that prosecuting corruption is not bound by law or principle — it's
about gatekeeping. Those favored by our entrenched institutions get away with it, those who
threaten unaccountable power do not. The Washington establishment has kept its Sauron-like
gaze fixed on Trump in the hopes that you won't notice that nearly our entire political class is
corrupt in ways that threaten the country far more than paying off a mistress and classifying it as
"legal services." To understand how distorted the system has become, it helps to understand
how Trump's various court battles stack up next to his political peers.
Georgia
Court of Appeals Halts All Proceedings in Trump RICO Case. Fani Willis' trial against
Trump is most certainly not happening before the 2024 election! The Georgia Court of Appeals
on Wednesday halted all proceedings in Trump's RICO case until the court rules on the effort to
disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. "The proceedings below in the Superior
Court of Fulton County are hereby stayed pending the outcome of these appeals," the order read.
The
Trump Verdict Indicts an Angry Elite. The work of Trump's prosecutor, Alvin Bragg,
and his judge, Juan Merchan — consistent with their middling legal pedigrees —
is shoddy. Trumping up a charge on a clean man like a legal MacGyver takes talent.
These guys don't have it. Bragg and Merchan's show trial is hobbled by many grave errors.
Chief among them is that Merchan allowed jurors to disagree on exactly what unlawful conduct Trump
supposedly intended to commit or cover up. Practically, that meant Trump had to put forth
evidence that he had no unlawful intent once Bragg produced just enough evidence to convince some
jurors of one intent and others of another. But a prosecutor must bear to the trial's end the
burden of proving a defendant's guilt beyond all reasonable doubt. Merchan let Bragg get away
with leaving some jurors with reasonable doubt on what other jurors may have thought Trump's criminal
intent was and vice versa so that ultimately all jurors could have reasonable doubt yet still
convict. That's an unconstitutional outrage.
The Editor says...
The jury system in America is becoming one of its weak links. The prosecution doesn't have to
prove anyone's guilt — all they have to do is convince the jury to find him guilty.
So the most gullible dunces in the jury pool are selected, and after a few days of small-town theater
in the courtroom, the verdict is delivered. The outcome depends far more upon the performances
of the lawyers than the quality of the evidence.
Georgia
Appeals Court Halts Trump Election Case. The Georgia Court of Appeals ordered on
June 5 a stay on all proceedings in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's case against
former President Donald Trump and eight codefendants, challenging the district attorney's ability
to prosecute the case. "The proceedings below in the Superior Court of Fulton County are
hereby stayed pending the outcome of these appeals," reads an order by the court clerk, citing a
Georgia Supreme Court case ordering the stay of criminal case proceedings during an interlocutory
review. This comes as the court has agreed to review whether Ms. Willis should be disqualified.
Jesse
Watters: "There is Something Very Fishy About How Judge Merchan Came to Preside Over This
Case". The Gateway Pundit reported that GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) filed
a misconduct complaint with the New York State Unified Court System related to the "random"
assignment of far-left radical and conflicted Judge Juan Merchan to Trump's NYC 'hush money'
trial. Stefanik announced, "I just filed an official misconduct complaint with the New York
State Unified Court System related to the "random" assignment of Acting Manhattan Justice Juan
Merchan, a Biden donor whose daughter is fundraising millions off his unprecedented work, to
criminal cases against President Donald J. Trump, his companies, and his allies."
Stefanik is not the only one raising questions about the "random" assignment of crooked Judge
Juan Merchan as the judge to oversee the Trump Bragg case.
America
Has Crossed the Rubicon. Last week, America finally crossed the Rubicon from a nation
of liberty and the rule of law to a banana republic thugocracy where the ruling party indicts,
arrests, and imprisons its political opposition. [...] Donald Trump's conviction on nonsensical
misdemeanor process crimes, beyond the statute of limitations, a dispute over whether fees paid to
a lawyer were actually legal fees (as opposed to what, medical bills?), that these payments
influenced an election concluded a year before said payments were made, tried within a rigged
courtroom construct by a conflicted judge and attorneys guaranteeing a guilty verdict, and last but
not least federal charges inappropriately tried at the state level after the feds declined to
pursue these charges. These all blew up Lady Justice's scales and any premise of due process
or equal protection under the law.
Joe
Biden's Fingerprints Are All Over The Criminal Prosecutions Of Donald Trump. In
response to Americans' outcry over the political prosecutions of Donald Trump and a Manhattan jury
convicting the former president on 34 felony counts, President Joe Biden declared, "It's
irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don't like the verdict." Coming
from the Commander-in-Rigging, this proclamation means nothing. Biden and those seeking to
ensure his re-election have their hands all over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's
prosecution of the former president. A lead prosecutor for Bragg during the trial was Matthew
Colangelo. In December 2022, Colangelo left the Biden Department of Justice to "jump
start" the criminal case against Trump. Biden had previously named Colangelo his acting
associate attorney general — the third-highest-ranking official in the DOJ.
Trump's
Conviction Signals New Political Era. The rule of law means, above all, restraint,
predictability, and equal treatment. It is supposed to ensure that no single branch of
government has too much power and that the other branches, as well as mandatory processes,
constrain the government and its personnel. The rule of law is not merely a set of rules but
a culture. Over many decades, that culture has broken down and become distorted due to the
malevolent influence of legal realism, which has been amplified by the extreme partisanship of the
law schools and the managerial class. Collectively, almost every holder of institutional
power — the courts, the media, the military, and Congress, along with state and federal
prosecutors — has deviated from its normal course to deal with the allegedly
unprecedented threat from Donald Trump. The fact there has been a trial and a verdict is not
some vindication of the rule of law. Dictatorships also have laws, elections, and
trials. In fact, they are infamous for their "show trials," where the trial process becomes
an exercise in propaganda and mythmaking for the regime.
Mark
Levin's Legal Advice for Trump Is Spot On. Following the guilty verdicts against
Trump in the sham trial in New York City, radio host Mark Levin, who served as chief of staff to
former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, has sound legal advice for Trump: get the case out of
New York and to the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as possible. Trump will most certainly appeal
his conviction, but an appeal within the New York court system likely won't happen before the
election. There's always the possibility that Judge Juan Merchan, a Biden donor who basically
was a puppet of the prosecution, may, in fact, sentence Trump to prison before the election. "The
issue is how to get out of the New York system and bring the case to the Supreme Court, which
may or may not take it up," explains Levin in a post on X. "That is why I look to Bush v Gore,
where the [Supreme Court] decided to step in BECAUSE it was a presidential election. There was
another court involved, the Florida Supreme Court. And it was that court that the Supreme Court
believed was violating the Equal Protection Clause. That was the doctrine it settled on, given
the unequal treatment of voters."
'Intentional
Misfeasance' Makes Show Trial Conviction Ripe For Reversal, Legal Experts Say.
Leftist District Attorney Alvin Bragg's show trial delivered the Democrat Party's dream: A
felony conviction against their most hated political enemy. The prosecution and the trial
also were also littered with legal landmines and "reversible error" that should make former
President Donald Trump's looming appeal a slam dunk, legal experts say. [Advertisement]
Historical and stunning but not surprising to many who have closely followed left-wing lawfare in
recent years, the 12 angry Manhattan jurors after two days of deliberations found Trump guilty on
all 34 trumped-up felony counts against him. Judge Juan Merchan has scheduled sentencing for
July 11, just four days before the Republican National Convention is slated to begin in
Milwaukee, where the GOP is poised to again nominate Trump as its presidential candidate. He
will face President Joe Biden in the rematch of 2020's mess of an election. Trump also is
facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, depending on the vindictiveness
of a New York judicial system that has already proved to be quite vindictive.
Tyranny
Is Upon us: Law and Juries Are Weaponized. Keep in mind that these are 34
made-up felonies based on how an expense was recorded by accountants and attorneys. Trump did
not record the expense.The expense was recorded according to accounting standards. Keep in
mind that a single accounting reporting charge, a misdemeanor, was magically turned into 34 federal
felonies of election violations, if memory serves, the argument being that Trump won the election
by misreporting the expense. There are so many civil and criminal show trials going on
against Trump that it is hard to keep track of all the absurdities. Keep in mind that it is a
case without complainants, without harmed parties. It is a case brought by a prosecutor who
can show no party harmed. What is frightening is that legally this is a case for which there
are no legal grounds for bringing it. Yet, the bar associations, the law schools, the media
said nothing. Getting Trump was so important that law was sacrificed for the purpose.
Trump's demonization made a fair trial impossible, and few jurors can resist using their power
against a rich person.
Essential
Information For Understanding Why Trump's Appeal Will Succeed. Donald Trump has been
convicted by a jury in Manhattan. "I was convicted. I'm appealing!" Most of us have
a TV legal drama perspective. I rise to shine light on this process so that we can properly
understand how a guilty verdict was reached in a case where Donald Trump did nothing illegal,
immoral, or fattening. A prosecution must satisfy conditions laid out in the Constitution,
which is, should anyone forget, the highest law of the land. It specifies safeguards for the
legal process. In the 5th Amendment, we find "No person... shall be deprived of life,
liberty, or property without due process of law..." That due process is further defined in the
6th Amendment. ["]In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the
crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and
to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the
witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his
favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. (Emphasis
added)["] The prosecuting attorney is an officer of the court and is duty-bound to
guard these steps carefully. DA Alvin Bragg ran roughshod over them.
Beneath
the Law! "No one is above the law!" trumpet the progressive Democrat fanboys in the
wake of the Donald Trump sham conviction in New York for alleged crimes on paper. Joe Biden
literally tweeted those exact words. Nobody is above the law except thoroughly corrupt,
senile, and decrepit Joe Biden, who took classified documents when he was a senator and vice
president when he had absolutely no authority to do so. Biden either directed or allowed his
despicable son Hunter to accept millions of dollars in bribes from corrupt foreign oligarchs and
even our nation's enemies. [...] Judge Juan Merchan committed enough reversible errors to virtually
guarantee that the convictions will eventually be overturned by a more sane and reasonable court
still willing to follow the Constitution, but when the defendant's last name is Trump, don't
count on it.
Of
Course They'll Put Trump in Jail. Why wouldn't Judge Juan Merchan finish the job and
add to the left's glee in calling Donald Trump a "convicted felon" by sentencing him to jail?
That fact that Trump's sentencing is on July 11, mere days before the Republican National
Convention, would not impede a judge who, according to Trump attorney Alina Habba, covered his
mouth to laugh during his sentencing. It would be no impediment to the hand-picked jurist who
allowed prosecutors to hide the underlying "crime" for the entire trial, hide witnesses, and
overrule the majority of the defense objections in this goat rodeo.
Trump
Found Guilty — a Travesty of Justice for America. Trump was found guilty
of a crime, but can anyone say what it is? Prosecutorial misconduct is dripping. It's
the judge, not Trump who belongs in prison. [...] This case was convoluted in theory and dripping
with prosecutorial misconduct and should have been dismissed. If they can do this to Trump,
they can do whatever they want to anyone. And they will, for political purposes.
Ironically, people worried that Trump is dangerous and will abuse power. Think of what
Hillary did both in offense and gross obstruction. Nothing. The prosecutor was sent
directly from the DOJ. A state case. A misdemeanor, on which the Statute of Limitations had
run out, was used to produced 34 felony counts on committing a Federal offense for which he was not
charged. This is the emerging face of the US judiciary and legal system. Better hope
Democrats do not get the trifecta.
A
Guilty Verdict for Trump and Its Consequences for the Country. Twelve New York jurors
have found Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business records, a total of 34 felony counts, in
history's first criminal conviction of a former President. What a volatile moment for the
country. Will the judge jail Mr. Trump? Will voters re-elect him in November
anyway, in disgust of this concocted case? What if it's thrown out on appeal? Will
Republicans retaliate? The nation might soon regret this rough turn. Thursday's guilty
verdict wasn't entirely surprising, given the jury pool in Manhattan. If Mr. Trump had
lucked out, he might have drawn one or two stubborn skeptics, like the Henry Fonda character in "12
Angry Men," resulting in at least a hung jury. Instead the fortunate one was Manhattan
District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who filed the weakest of the four indictments of Mr. Trump, but
who managed to drag his case first over the finish line. Normally a felony conviction would
be politically fatal for a candidate appearing on the ballot in five months. But normally a
prosecutor wouldn't have brought this case.
Donald
Trump's conviction is nothing more than a 'thrill kill'. Political prosecutions are
something most citizens associate with dictatorships. But the Trump prosecution has forced
many to confront the undeniable reality of the politicization of our legal system. [...] Trump was
convicted in a trial with a Biden donor judge, who has a daughter who is a major Democratic
operative, a lead prosecutor previously paid as a DNC political consultant and a jury selected in a
district that voted roughly 90% against Trump. The trial itself was a travesty. Even
after sitting in the courtroom watching the trial and the verdict, I still have no idea what Trump
was convicted of in the case. The charges were built on a dead misdemeanor barred with the
passage of the statute of limitations. It was zapped back into life by alleging that the
falsification of business records occurred to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential
election. Merchan told the jury members that they did not have to agree on what those
unlawful means may have been.
Beware
the cornered rat! [Scroll down] Thus, Biden became president, and since
then the Democrats have been on an aggressive blacklisting campaign to destroy anyone who opposed
them. That campaign reached its summit yesterday with Trump's conviction in what could be
called the most ludicrous and disgusting legal case ever brought against any American. Not
only can no one name the crime that Trump was supposed to have committed, the jury was given
instructions that it could find him guilty even if they themselves couldn't agree on that
crime. As expected, the public's response to Trump's conviction has been to increase his
support. One quick poll suggested Trump's support had grown by six points almost immediately.
[...] In fact, all signs suggest the guilty verdict will help Trump win, because the public clearly
sees this as a show trail designed by the Democrats to destroy their number one political
opponent. And Americans don't like these kinds of bullying tactics.
Did
Judge in Trump Case Violate Constitution With His Jury Instructions? These Attorneys Think
So. Defense attorney Randy Zelin and former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore said on
Friday that Judge Juan Merchan violated the U.S. Constitution with his instructions to the jury in
former President Donald Trump's trial. Merchan instructed the jury that it is not a
requirement for them to be in unanimous agreement about what "other crime" Trump committed, instead
receiving a choice of three separate crimes they can select to convict the former president.
The two attorneys on "CNN Special Report" said Merchan's jury instructions were flawed to the point
that an appeals court could conceivably overturn the conviction. "I hate to do this, but I
would be remiss if I didn't," Zelin said. "Whether you are driving in a Ford or a Ferrari, if
someone gives you bad directions, you're going to end up lost. And those jury instructions
were just a complete, just take the Constitution, throw it out a window, burn it,
shoot it, and hang it."
It
was rigged, let us count the ways. Start with Judge Juan Merchan's infamous "gag
order," a blatant and arguably unconstitutional attack on President Trump's free speech rights, and
which Trump is suing Merchan over. That order, which supposedly prevents Trump from
disparaging witnesses, court officers, or their families, and which Merchan held Trump in contempt
of court for "violating" over 10 times, was issued for one reason, and one reason only:
because Judge Merchan's daughter, Loren Merchan, is a card-carrying member of the anti-Trump
resistance. No, really: she has a photo of Trump in jail as her X profile photo. And,
incidentally, she has made out like a bandit. She was paid $4 million by Democratic
Rep. Adam Schiff to push Schiff's since-debunked accusations of Russian collusion. Since
then, Merchan (the daughter) has raised around $100 million off the back of the trial.
Ordinarily, a judge with this kind of a compromising connection to such a viciously partisan figure
would be expected to recuse himself. It may even be grounds for an appeal. But Merchan
clearly didn't care. He wanted to be the judge who "got Trump" because even if he was
overruled, he and his daughter will dine out on that for the rest of their lives.
Bearing
Witness To The Downfall Of Our Constitutional Republic. My friends who believe either
that what happened to Trump was not such a big deal or that the rule of law is not yet totally
corrupted because Trump is likely to prevail on appeal miss the point. Anarchy at this level
in America is outside of any of our experiences. [...] What is it about New York City and the
Democrat party, in general, that's got it in for Trump so bad that a politician can run for office
on the single pledge that he or she will put Trump in jail, and no one bats an eye? That's
what a rogues gallery of politicians or political appointees espoused, including the New York state
Attorney General, the Manhattan District Attorney, and the U.S. Justice Department's number three,
who resigned and stepped down to prosecute Trump in New York. All of us bear stark witness to
something never before seen in American political life — the successful use of lawfare
in to nullify a political enemy. How else can you explain the wantonness of New York's
attempt to silence its conservative enemies?
Biden
declares it's 'dangerous' for anyone to say Trump trial was 'rigged'. On Friday, Joe
Biden addressed the guilty verdict reached the day prior in the falsified business records case
against Trump, declaring that it's "dangerous" for people to say that it was a rigged trial.
[Advertisement] "It's reckless, it's dangerous, it's irresponsible for anyone to say this was
rigged just because they don't like the verdict," Biden said. [Video clip]
[Advertisement] "The American principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed."
The Editor says...
There is little or no room on this website for statements by Joe Biden. Everything in
Biden's statement was a lie. Surely somebody else writes all of his public statements; but
even so, he willingly repeats the lies and puts his name on them.
Fear
Not, Patriots, Trump Just Won the Election. My lovely fiancee Jessica wanted to go to
the bar to sulk after the ridiculous verdict against Trump came down. It's easy to be
sad. Commie animals outside the courtroom — too stupid to see that they too can
now be politically persecuted — are cheering. Facebook dopes are taking victory
laps just as they have done after every nonsensical strike Trump has taken but always recovered
from. One thing I adore about communists is that they never learn from their mistakes. [...]
I suspect several things will happen next. I believe Biden, who has taken millions of dollars
from Chinese commies, will pretend to take the "high road" and refuse to debate Trump because he is
now a "convicted felon," which was always the plan. You don't need me to say this, but the
donations will continue to go through the roof.
Kangarooed. A
jury of shills rather than a jury of peers found Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of ... what
were the crimes again? Doesn't matter. The Democrats got the verdict they were looking
for. And it wasn't justice on their minds. They wanted retribution. They wanted
to hang an anchor around Trump's neck during the campaign. They wanted the equivalent of a
political execution. They got it all. Yet they still want more. The Democratic
Party is now officially the party of Stalin. Its operatives and functionaries have long
tilted much closer to Sovietism than Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson. Today they have fallen
fully into the arms of Uncle Joe. Maybe it's merely a coincidence that the titular head of
the party is also known as Uncle Joe.
I
Wish We Did Not Know Happens Next. After a conviction of any kind, the left will ramp
up to eleven on the "Trump as felon" narrative, and the anger on the right will boil over in
response. There will be efforts to disqualify Trump from the ballot, and a very orchestrated
preemptive political attack from the media and Congressional Democrats on SCOTUS to either prevent
an appeal or to discredit the court and their decision as partisan — proof of the need
to pack the court or personally destroy conservative justices. Those who've openly spat on
the rule of law will loudly claim to be its protectors. They will dust off the same winning
message from 2020 that the only way to get rid of the constant, loud anti-Trump unpleasantness
generated overwhelmingly by the left is to get rid of Trump.
Six
Week Trial And Nobody Knows The Crime. The trial entered the final arguments stage on
Tuesday, after a trial when the crime was never divulged. This trial was scripted with the
one intention of Biden being able to label his primary competitor a convicted felon. Every
day of the trial gave ammunition for an appeal, but the one remaining fact loomed over the trial:
there was no crime. [...] This trial is a classic con game that distracts people from the real
issues of the failed Joe Biden presidency. Look at Donald Trump, who is constrained to a
chair in a courtroom and unable to campaign. Don't look at the price at the gas pump.
Don't look at the thousands of young men crossing our southern border. Don't look at the two
wars we are funding. Don't look at Biden defying the Supreme Court and transferring student
loans to every American. Don't look at the cost of your weekly shopping cart of groceries.
This was the plan, but it is not working. The trial is not working out as planned by the
Democrats, and people are not falling for the gaslighting. Biden has been trying to convince
Americans he was on the right track and they needed to understand the new parameters. He
actually insulted the intelligence level of Americans, and Americans do not forget being
played for fools.
Trump
Verdict Is Indictment Of GOP Leaders Who Can't Be Bothered To Resist Republic-Wrecking
Lawfare. Former President Donald Trump was convicted Thursday by 12 jurors in
Democrat-dominated New York City for a crime no one can articulate that was brought by a George
Soros-funded district attorney and overseen by a Biden donor. But the conviction wasn't just
an indictment of Democrat lawfare — it was an indictment of how feckless Republican
"leaders" have become. As radio host Michael Berry quipped in a post on X, the sham verdict
in New York "probably made some Republicans in Congress so mad that they will even consider holding
some hearings." [Advertisement] [Tweet] It's funny until it's not. Republican
leaders have remained largely tight-lipped about Democrats' anti-Trump lawfare despite holding the
House and control of several states in which Biden surely could be brought up on charges pertaining
to the porous border or defying the Supreme Court. But Republicans did and continue to do
nothing. Take, for example, the belated and worthless response from Senate Minority "Leader"
Mitch McConnell.
Criminal
Convictions and the Presidency. On Thursday May 30, a New York court led by
Judge Juan Merchan convicted a U.S. President of 34 felony counts. [...] Pursuing political
prosecutions of candidates in order to interfere with an election is dangerous and likely to
boomerang rhetorically upon those seeking their own ends in this abuse of power. [...] The Justice
Department is showing itself to be a partisan organization that views its operations of law
enforcement to be subordinate to an ideological goal that is the defense of the Democrat Party and
its hold upon the executive branch. The American public should not cooperate with this plain
election interference and evident violation of among our most precious civil rights: freedom of
speech. The prosecution, conviction, and imprisonment of U.S. Presidential candidates is not
unprecedented, but it does not insure the reduction in political power or appeal to any such
candidate. These encroachments are the truest threat to our democratic republic.
The
Trump Verdict: Guilty. The dirty work of Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller
investigation failed, the Fulton County prosecution is stayed pending appeal, and Special Counsel
Jack Smith won't get his cases to trial before the November 2024 election. But they
always had New York — the State has made Trump and his company and his family a
political target — and District Attorney Alvin Bragg came through with the early
indictment. The target might have been Trump, but the real goal was to influence the 2024
election, no matter the shaky facts and dubious legal theories of the case. Democracy must be
saved even through unlawful and unethical means. The enemies of society must be hunted, the
obstacles to progress must be destroyed. Even when they're innocent[.] Especially when
they're innocent.
Manhattan
jury finds former President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts. A Manhattan
jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on all counts in his hush money trial and made him
the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. The verdict on 34 charges, reached
after deliberating for 11 hours over two days, means Mr. Trump will campaign against
President Biden as a convicted felon. Mr. Trump, seated, looked at the foreperson but
then looked straight ahead and briefly shook his head as the foreperson repeatedly said "guilty" to
all the counts.
Biden
campaign pounces on Trump's guilty criminal trial verdict: 'No one is above the law'.
President Biden's 2024 re-election campaign says the unanimous guilty verdicts Thursday in former
President Trump's criminal trial show that "no one is above the law." Trump was found guilty
by a jury in New York City on all 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in his
history-making case in which a former or current president for the first time was tried in court.
"Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law
for his own personal gain," Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement
minutes after the verdict was read in court.
The Editor says...
Yep, no one is above the law, other than Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Eric Holder, Hunter Biden,
Joe Biden, Henry Cuellar, Robert Menendez, Barack H. Obama, Nancy Pelosi, James Comey, the guy that
broke Jeffrey Epstein's neck, the "sleeping" guards outside Epstein's maximum-security cell,
the guy that rubbed out Vince Foster, the guy who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt,
John Doe #2 in the OKC bombing, the BLM and Antifa rioters in the summer of 2020,
the fifty-one former intelligence officials who vouched for a fictitious document to get Joe Biden elected,
the numerous coordinated criminals who stole the 2020 presidential election in the middle of the night,
and about 30 million illegal aliens.
Should
Garland be charged with lying to Congress? Merrick Garland recently testified before
the House Judiciary Committee, and among other things, was "battered" over his decision to keep the
recorded interview tapes between Joe Biden and special counsel Robert Hur hidden from the
public. Garland has the audacity to say that no one is above the law, and his Justice
department never considers politics in its decisions, but those statements are demonstrably not
true. [...] Alejandro Mayorkas has continually lied to Congress[,] and has never been
charged. Anthony Fauci has continually lied to Congress[,] and has never been charged.
Does anyone believe that "politics" aren't part of the decision-making process, as Garland has yet
to charge Jim and Hunter Biden for lying to Congress? The Justice Department has never cared
about the Biden family business of taking kickbacks. Why would they change now? Former
FBI director James Comey listed all the crimes Hillary committed, but let her off so as not to get
in the way of her presidential run. Comey and others continually lied to the FISA court to
illegally spy on people surrounding President Trump, and were never charged. The FBI never
charged drug-running terrorists, instead opting to let them off the hook, because Obama ordered
them to stand down for the sake of his Iranian nuclear deal. That is purely a political
decision. The FBI knowingly lied to social media companies, a scheme to censor the
information about the "Laptop from Hell" from the public just a month before the November 2020
election, but none of those involved in this coverup were ever charged. Isn't this election
interference? What about Garland himself? He clearly is above the law. He lied to
Congress about his involvement with the White House and the National School Boards Association on a
coordinated effort to target parents.
American justice?
The Biden Department of Injustice, the FBI, CIA, DIA, M-O-U-S-E, and other government agencies have
been so thoroughly compromised — and weaponized against anyone who would dare to
challenge them, that there appears to be no way back to decency, objectivity, and sanity.
This erstwhile constitutional, representative republic has devolved into a banana republic in just
a few short years. Barack Obama's stated goal of "fundamentally transforming" the (formerly)
United States has come to fruition. The nation that long did more to advance human freedom
and dignity than any other is now just another polity controlled by power-hungry madmen seeking
their own glorification over that of the Creator. Donald Trump has been convicted of, well,
being Donald Trump — and standing in the way of Biden's re-election. Nothing more
and nothing less.
Trump
is a convict, but will it matter? This is an extremely strange moment for American
democracy. Polls suggest that independent voters — the people who decide American
elections — will not vote for a man who is a convicted felon. But now Donald
Trump, currently the favourite to win re-election in November, has been found guilty, on
34 counts, of falsifying business records — and nobody knows if that verdict will
make him more popular or less. On the one hand, Trump has been traduced —
34 times over. A legitimate or at least actual court has decided that, yes, he
deliberately altered his financial accounts, possibly for election campaign reasons back in 2016.
He is now a convict. [...] On the other hand, this Manhattan case has always felt like a political
hit job — proof of what Trump has long claimed, that the system is rigged against him,
that the Democrats will stop at nothing to keep him out of power. Alvin Bragg, the District
Attorney, cobbled together various tax misdemeanours and turned them into an indictment.
The
Merchan Scale. [Scroll down] That wasn't Trump's problem in the case in
New York. That was straight-up Bolshevism on display. A judge instructing the jury that
they didn't have to reach a unanimous conclusion on every count? In front of the cameras and
everything? That is just flat-out amazing and a level of judicial malfeasance that requires
it's own scale. On a scale of 1-10 of judicial malfeasance, that's somewhere in the 12 or 13
range, requiring a different scale all together, the Merchan Scale of judicial malfeasance.
When a judge has gone completely off script and began making up his own laws right in the
courtroom, one must be rated on the Merchan scale that starts at 3 and goes to 15, because, on the
Merchan Scale, there is no innocence. That is just an archaic principle used way back in say
2015, before Trump had all of the rules of judicial practice altered to fit the level of lawfare
they intended to use against him from 2015 to the present.
Judge
Merchan's Instruction to the Jury Will Leave Your Jaw on the Floor. Fox's John
Roberts has since issued an update to his original "smorgasbord" interpretation of Judge Merchan's
instructions. He posted, "It is more nuanced than that. All 12 need unanimity that
Trump committed a crime. But the underlying unlawful means is a smorgasbord they can pick
from — and they don't all need to agree on what it was." [Advertisement] What this means
is that there must still be a unanimous guilty verdict, but the jurors do not have to be unanimous
about what the actual offense was. There are three to choose from, and all 12 jurors don't
have to agree, just so long as there are 12 votes overall. I'm told that's New York law in
these cases. Even with this correction, none of the underlying problems with the case against
Trump have changed. There's still no crime that the prosecution has defined, there's still no
magic math that lets two misdemeanors add up to a felony, and there's still no getting around
Merchan allowing the prosecution to do almost anything while shackling Trump's defense.
Trump's
Trial Has Already Damaged the Office of the Presidency. In the short term, polls
suggest that even a guilty verdict will have little effect on Trump's political standing. A
Quinnipiac poll reports that a conviction would make only 6 percent of self-identified Trump
voters less likely to vote for him. With Trump wrapping up the Republican nomination during
his prosecution and leading in polls nationally and in six of the seven battleground states, the
trials may have even helped him politically (though they might cost him in the general election).
Part of the blame for this rests with the Democrats who brought such farcical charges to knock
Trump out of the race. Win or lose, the weakness of the New York hush-money trial has put
Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's partisan motives on full display. He focused the
trial on the salacious details of the encounter between Trump and Stephanie Clifford (the real name
of pornographic-film actress Stormy Daniels), which had almost no relevance to the actual legal charges.
Four-Four-Four.
The more time we have to look through Judge Juan Merchan's byzantine jury instructions in Donald
Trump's "hush money" trial in Manhattan, the worse they look. The vague nature of the
instructions has even led to disputes among legal analysts who have struggled to make sense of the
case from the beginning. At Townhall, our colleague Matt Vespa has a good rundown of one of
the most glaring problems with the instructions. The judge gave the jurors the unheard-of
option of picking any one of three crimes that were "concealed" by the entry of "false business
records" and said that all twelve of them didn't necessarily have to agree on which of the three
crimes was committed. In other words, he appears to be opening the door to a conviction without
a unanimous finding by the jury. Matt warns that we "should be prepared for a conviction."
Stefanik
Complaint: Judge Merchan Was 'Intentionally Selected' To Ensure Trump Is Convicted.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., has submitted an official misconduct complaint to the New York State
Unified Court System regarding the allegedly "random" selection of Juan Merchan as the judge over the
ongoing case against former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, she announced Tuesday evening.
[Tweet] Her complaint comes toward the end of a criminal trial in which Trump has faced 34 felony
charges stemming from accusations that he instructed his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay "hush
money" to pornographer Stormy Daniels to conceal an alleged past affair. Trump is accused of
falsifying financial records by failing to label these payments as campaign expenses, an absurd
allegation given that labeling such payments as campaign expenses would have been illegal.
[Advertisement] Stefanik's complaint pertains to Merchan's assignment to three separate criminal
cases related to Trump, including his ongoing criminal trial, the previous trial against the Trump
Organization, and the upcoming trial against Trump ally Steve Bannon. The New York State
Unified Court System's rules state that criminal cases are assigned to judges randomly, but Stefanik
doubts this rule was followed in Democrats' lawfare crusade, which has proved to be their top 2024
campaign strategy.
Justice
Merchan gets even sleazier. New York State Justice Juan Merchan, who is presiding
over New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg's trial of President Trump over a bookkeeping issue is getting
sleazier now that Bragg's case is starting to fall apart, giving the Red Queen of the Alice In
Wonderland story a run for her money. At issue now are his instructions to the 12-person jury
as it goes into deliberations, telling them that they don't need to agree about what the supposed
'underlying' crime of Donald Trump was that would make his hush money payment to porn "star" Stormy
Daniels a felony, which is the legal basis for turning the bookkeeping issue into a 34-count
felony. They just need to think that Trump was thinking about commiting a crime when he
signed off on the check and what that crime was can be anyone's guess. But no matter:
Sentence first, verdict later.
Corrupt
Judge Says Jury Can Convict Trump Without Agreeing on Crime. Closing arguments in
former President Donald Trump's Manhattan "hush money" trial begin today, and the judge gave the
jury the green light to convict him without agreeing on the underlying 'predicate' crime he
committed.First, into the legal weeds: Trump's being charged for labeling "hush money"
payments to adult actress Stormy Daniels as "legal fees." That alone is just a misdemeanor crime,
and the statute of limitations has already expired. [...] Judge Juan Merchan sided with the
prosecution and ruled that the jury does not need to agree on the alleged felony in order to find
Trump guilty.
Will
Biden Take Us Down With Him? Biden's handlers thought it was a sly Machiavellian move
to coordinate local, state, and federal prosecutors to wear down Trump, bankrupt him, destroy him
mentally and physically, and brand him as a criminal felon — through a long winter,
spring, summer, and fall of lawfare of the sort never witnessed in America before. [...] The
judges — Lewis Kaplan (Carroll case), Arthur Engoron (James), and now, the most touchy,
and prejudicial of the three, Juan Merchan (Bragg) — have proved so imprisoned by their
Trump animus, so ideologically transparent, so intent on ignoring even the pretense of applying the
law equally to all parties, that they have lost the American people. Ditto Fani Willis.
The nation is daily becoming more embarrassed — and angry over — how the
world's once finest example of jurisprudence has been reduced to the status of the Soviet show trials.
Here's
why the case against Trump should end in 'not guilty'. With the closing arguments set
for Tuesday in the trial of former President Donald Trump, defense attorneys are in a rather
curious position. There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that
District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Trump's lawyers are defending a former president
who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations.
It was zapped back into life in the form of roughly three dozen felonies by claiming that bookkeeping
violations — allegedly hiding payments to Stormy Daniels to ensure her silence about a
supposed affair with Trump — were committed to hide another crime. But what is
that second crime?
The
Plan to Convict Trump. At last, we can see Alvin Bragg's underlying criminal theory:
he doesn't have one. Bragg and Judge Merchan are running the real trial in the court of
public opinion, not to deliver justice but to hurt Trump's presidential campaign by branding him a
convicted felon during the election. They seek to do this by lying to the jury —
for example, by pretending to have a criminal theory. The prosecution rested their case
without specifying the second crime, nor giving a shred of evidence for the first: even if we took
Michael Cohen's testimony at face value, ignoring that he's a serial perjurer who confessed to six
different felonies on Monday morning alone, his claim that Trump himself ordered the monthly
payments that were calculated from Cohen's loan reimbursement demand and deemed them "legal fees"
would not constitute a crime. That case is dead in the water on appeal, but Merchan's
parallel trial, which has little to do with established law and instead runs on innuendo and
vagaries, aims for a temporary conviction.
Prosecutors
Are Still Hedging on Exactly What 'Crime' Trump Tried To 'Aid' or 'Conceal'. Donald
Trump is charged with 34 felonies in New York because he allegedly falsified business records to
conceal "another crime." In the run-up to Trump's trial, which began last month and is expected
to conclude next week, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was cagey about exactly what that
other crime was. His prosecutors suggested several possibilities without picking one in
particular, and they are still hedging on this crucial point. It looks like the case will go
to the jury with that central question unresolved. That's fine, according to a ruling that
Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the case, made this week. For a verdict to be valid,
Trump's lawyers argued, the jury should have to settle on a specific legal theory. The
prosecution disagreed. Under "the standard application of the law," lead prosecutor Matthew
Colangelo argued, jurors can convict Trump as long as they unanimously agree that he falsified business
records with "an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof."
In Colangelo's view, jurors do not have to agree on what that underlying crime was.
Top
Dem Hakeem Jeffries Sent Over $1.4 Million to Trump Trial Judge's Daughter's Home.
Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has sent over $1.4 million to Loren Merchan,
according to investigative reporter Laura Loomer. Merchan is the daughter of the judge overseeing
Democratic District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg's election interference prosecution of Donald Trump in
Manhattan, Juan Merchan. "Hakeem Jefferies is a client of Judge Merchan's daughter, Loren
Merchan, and has sent her over $1,428,879.99 in payments to her PERSONAL RESIDENCE!" Loomer
posted on X (formerly Twitter).
U.S.
Intelligence Deserves the Distrust It Is Generating. President Obama sought to change
the demographics and the political complexion of the federal work force, and intelligence leaders
such as CIA director John Brennan (2013-2017) made clear that they intended to change the
organizational cultures of agencies in politically significant ways. They succeeded
brilliantly, with overt activism in defense of Obama/Brennan changes beginning in 2016, when Trump
emerged as a potential threat to the "progress" that Obama's policies allegedly had achieved.
This radical change became glaringly obvious when former CIA deputy director Michael Morell invoked
his CIA credentials in a New York Times op-ed to rationalize endorsing Hillary Clinton for
president while harshly criticizing Trump. Morell then became one of the "talking heads,"
along with Brennan, former director of national intelligence James Clapper, former CIA director
Michael Hayden, and several dozen less-senior people whom the mainstream liberal press promoted as
legitimate observers of everything relevant to their anti-Trump campaign.
Justice
Merchan's gagged witness goes public with what he would have told the jury. After
Michael Cohen's disastrous testimony, it would seem that the case against President Trump over the
bookkeeping entry in a hush-money payment case would be in tatters as it goes to the jury.
Many legal eagles have said as much. But the politically partisan New York justice in this
case, Juan Merchan, doesn't give up that fast and clearly wants to salvage the case. He's
instructing the jury to ignore the detail about the 'underlying crime' and treat the case the same
way a burglary case is treated. [...] We'll get to the burglary analogy in a minute from the
character named Vance, but the bottom line is, Merchan is trying to slant the jury the prosecutor's
way, telling them not to bother about the little detail about what the underlying crime was that
makes the hush money payment a jailtime felony. They can make it up, if they like. [...] The
underlying "crime" of course is trying to influence an election. Apparently no one is allowed
to influence an election, and especially not a candidate.
Alvin
Bragg is in a Lot of Trouble After Michael Cohen's Testimony. Here's Why.
Political allies of former President Donald J. Trump — and even members of the corporate
media — are criticizing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's decision to bring
Michael Cohen as his prosecution's star witness in Trump's hush money trial. The disgraced
perjurer's testimony may have undermined Bragg's entire case against Trump. Cohen spent four
days testifying, where it was revealed he stole upwards of $60,000 from the Trump
Organization — the payments being meant for a vendor.
Maybe
Trump knows what he's doing. After twice being railroaded by a New York judge and
jury, a third railroading is inevitable. The evidence doesn't matter. He is not on
trial for 34 tedious counts of election violations and bad bookkeeping. He is on trial for
being Donald John Trump. Guilty as charged. But The Donald's goal is not to avoid
prison. His goal is to return to the Oval Office in January. Once you understand that,
you see the logic behind having him testify because he makes himself defiant and worthy of our
respect and admiration. Recall that a year ago, Democrats and their handmaidens —
a polite way of saying massage parlor girls — in the media drooled over the prospect of
seeing Donald Trump in a mugshot. They convinced themselves that a mugshot would ruin him and
hand the nomination to Ron DeSantis. Much to their chagrin, there was no happy ending.
Democrats and the media watched helplessly as the mugshot improved Trump's poll numbers because it
made him a sympathetic victim of a rigged criminal justice system.
Hemingway:
The Point Of Trump Show Trial Is A Quick Conviction, Not Fairness. "There's no actual
crime. There's no evidence to support the crime. The star witness might be the worst
witness we've ever seen in American history. And yet, the whole point of a show trial is to
secure a quick and easy conviction. That's why it's happening in New York with a very biased
jury," Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway said on Fox News' "Outnumbered." [Video clip]
Jonathan
Turley Questions Why Judge Who Donated To Biden Was 'Hand-Picked' For Trump Trial.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Monday that the judge in the Trump
business records trial violated ethics rules with his donation to President Joe Biden's 2020
election campaign, and questioned why he was presiding over the case at all. Merchan made a
$15 donation to Biden's election campaign in 2020, a $10 donation to a group called "Stop
Republicans" and a $10 donation to a "Progressive Turnout Project," according to data from the
Federal Election Commission (FEC). Turley said that the small size of the donation was irrelevant.
"It is very clear, they say you can't make political contributions and he did," Turley said on
"Fox and Friends" after co-host Ainsley Earhardt mentioned the donations. "And the fact it is
'de minimus' or small, really, I think, misses the point. You make donations to show your
support, that is what that $15 did."
Sinking
the Republic. The trial going on in New York is a classic example of what we all have
coming in the years ahead. The judge, Juan Merchan, when asked to recuse himself due to
conflicts of interest simply declared himself "not conflicted" despite the fact that his daughter
is raising money for Democrat candidates on the basis of her father putting Trump in jail.
That is authoritarian rule and while the communists in the media scream about the threat of Trump
imposing authoritarian rule should he be re-elected in November, they are completely happy with
authoritarian rule when it's imposed against their political enemies.
What
if Justice Merchan has been compromised? Given what we know about what has been going
on in Justice Juan Merchan's Manhattan courtroom, including the preposterous, over-the-top bias of
this judge for the prosecution and his overt antipathy for the defendant, Donald Trump, what
explains his willing destruction of his own reputation as a judge? Each and every legal
scholar who has weighed in on the course of the trial, from Alan Dershowitz to Jonathan Turley and
countless others, (with the exception of those paid by CNN and MSNBC) is gobsmacked by Merchan's
thoroughly unconstitutional rulings, gag orders, contempt charges, exclusion of practically every
witness with relevant testimony for the defense, and his allowance of non-relevant witnesses like
Stormy Daniels. [...] We've known for years now that our judicial system has been corrupted,
transformed into an extension of the Democrat party by President Obama and Joe Biden, but Justice
Merchan has taken their unscrupulousness to a wholly new and shocking level.
Mark
Levin: 'Bragg Should Be Disbarred' — He Has Violated the Brady Rule.
Thursday on FNC's "Hannity," conservative talker Mark Levin laid out why New York prosecutor Alvin
Bragg may have knowingly violated former President Donald Trump's constitutional rights throughout
and other established legal precedents during his office's prosecution of Trump. Levin called
for Bragg's disbarment, referring to him as a lawless government official and citing the numerous
violations as justification. [Video clip, transcript.]
Defund
Jack Smith. Then Investigate Him. An increasingly toxic relationship with U.S.
District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, accusations of grand jury and prosecutorial abuse, and the
government's recent revelations that investigators mishandled and possibly misplaced key evidence
threatens to launch Smith into the Fani Willis/Alvin Bragg category — a corrupt,
egotistical clown with crashing public credibility and waning support from some of his most loyal
toadies. Smith's already shaky reputation isn't the only thing in jeopardy. As I
explained here, Judge Cannon has set a mini trial of sorts over the next several weeks that puts
Smith, in essence, on the defendant's side of the courtroom for once; even the leftwing blog
Lawfare recently acknowledged as much.
Trump
asks NY high court to intervene in fight over gag order in hush money trial. Donald
Trump is seeking to have New York's highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has
seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses,
jurors and others connected to his hush money criminal trial. The former president's lawyers
filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, a day after the state's mid-level appellate court refused his
request to lift or modify the restrictions. The filing was listed on a court docket, but the
document itself was sealed and not available. Trump presidential campaign spokesperson Steven
Cheung said it's a request for the state's Court of Appeals to take up the matter.
Cohen
Made Huge Admission in NYC Trump Case and Now the Tumblers Begin to Fall in Place.
We're just now beginning to understand a few more things about this Jenga-like prosecution of
Donald Trump. Other than the feds, in the form of the Southern District of New York federal
prosecutors and the Federal Elections Commission declining to prosecute Trump for his payments to
his attorney, we learned Tuesday [5/14/2024] that Robert Mueller's Special Counsel's Office wanted
a piece of Michael Cohen before he reported to prison in 2018. Indeed, when all the questions
are answered, we might discover that it was Mueller's pitbull, Andrew Weissmann, the FBI, and the
DOJ who were responsible for his bizarre plea deal that sparked the idea for this wrong-headed case.
Trial
Judge's Daughter Helped Campaign to Kick Trump Off Colorado Ballot. They aren't even
trying to HIDE the corruption in New York. After all, nobody will call them on it until an
appeals court reverses a conviction against Trump in the New York fake hush-money case. [Tweet]
It had been revealed earlier that Judge Merchan's daughter was making bank off the trial, and
now a Post Millennial report outlines how Loren Merchan has been working to destroy Donald Trump
for months and making a pretty penny in the process.
Legal
experts: New York hush money trial must end in Trump acquittal. As the New York
hush money trial of Donald Trump has continued to unfold, critics of the prosecution have marveled
at just how thin the case truly is, and according to some high-profile commentators, acquittal is
something that just now requires. In the estimation of observers such as former federal
prosecutor Andy McCarthy, writing for National Review, the bottom line is that Manhattan
District Attorney Alvin Bragg simply cannot prove that the former president has committed a crime.
DA
Bragg's office reportedly deleted critical phone records between Stormy Daniels and Michael
Cohen. DA Alvin Bragg, in his prosecutorial pursuit of former President Donald Trump,
has had a handful of serious setbacks over the past week or so. According to The Epoch Times,
that was evidenced once again after a paralegal from Bragg's office testified "that some phone call
records between Michael Cohen and Stephanie Clifford's (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels) lawyer were
deleted." The deleted records, of course, pose evidentiary issues for Bragg's prosecutors
that Trump's lawyers immediately seized upon.
Black's
Law Dictionary, 1991, page 1401.
The
Making of a Banana Republic. It is a presidential election year and a leading
candidate for president of the United States, who also happens to be a former president of the
United States, is currently a criminal defendant chained to a dingy courtroom four days of the
week — time that he should be spending interacting with voters out on the campaign
trail. That's terrible. But it's only the beginning. The daughter of the
presiding judge is a professional political operative for the presidential candidate's opposition
party, and the candidate himself is subject to an over-inclusive and unconstitutional gag
order. The George Soros-funded district attorney, who campaigned on a platform of prosecuting
that candidate, only pressed charges after his own left-wing predecessor opted not to do so due to
the frivolous nature of the charges. One of the Soros-funded DA's subordinates curiously
joined his team, just in time to prosecute the candidate, from a high-ranking perch in the
Department of Justice that is headed by the candidate's chief political rival.
Judge
Cannon Puts Jack Smith on Trial. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon may have
just indefinitely postponed Donald Trump's espionage and obstruction trial but that doesn't mean
her federal courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida will lie dormant over the next few months. In
officially vacating the existing May 20 trial date — an impossibility considering
the defendant will be in a Manhattan courtroom for the foreseeable future — Cannon
declined to set another date, calling it "imprudent" at this stage of the process. She noted
a "myriad" of unresolved matters in Special Counsel Jack Smith's 42-count indictment against the
former president and his two co-defendants, Mar-a-Lago employees Waltine Nauta and Carlos De
Olivera, for willfully retaining national defense information and attempting to impede the
government's investigation. Cannon, however, did schedule a number of proceedings that
could be considered a way to put the Department of Justice on trial. In a stunning turn of
events, Cannon, appointed by Donald Trump in 2020, is poised to make Smith a defendant of sorts.
Trump's
trial is a stupendous legal catastrophe. Some had asked whether a jury selected in
Manhattan, which voted overwhelmingly against Trump, could be fair in judging the former
president. But now that we have moved beyond this point, the real problem Trump has is that
his best arguments are legal in nature: prosecutors appeared to cobble together misdemeanours
and felonies in order to find something with which to "get Trump." The underlying crime is
seemingly a minor misdemeanour — falsifying business records — which long ago
expired under the statute of limitations. In order to turn it into a felony within the
statute of limitations, prosecutors will have to show that Trump falsified the records in order to
impact his election, thus constituting a federal election felony. The problem is, however,
that federal authorities have not prosecuted Trump for this federal election crime. Moreover,
state prosecutors have no jurisdiction over federal election law. Finally, we were not even
clear, when the trial began, as to precisely which federal election laws the District Attorney was
relying on.
Just
One More Thing, Stormy: Do You Know Anything About Trump's Business Records?
Ten years after the porno performer claims she and Trump had a sexual encounter, she ordered her
attorney to wring money out of Trump before the election while the getting was good. In all,
$130,000 was paid to her representative. The money was paid by Michael Cohen. And now,
18 years after the alleged sexual encounter, prosecutors put Trump on trial for stealing the
2016 election by listing his payments to his attorney on the balance sheet in 2016 as
attorney payments instead of campaign expenditures. The judge has given his blessing to
prosecutors to link these payments to Cohen as a conspiracy to steal the election and think
about breaking another law to elevate them to felonies.
Democrats
may be the dog that caught the car. [Scroll down] Now, if Alvin Bragg had
charged Trump with a single felony count of [blah, blah, blah] and a jury had convicted him, the
judge in the case could have sentenced Trump to probation and a substantial fine, perhaps even
requiring him not to leave the state or at least having him check-in in-person with his probation
officer on a regular basis, which would have allowed Democrats to significantly impede the Trump
campaign. Additionally, it would allow the Democrats to run advertisements claiming that
Donald Trump was a "convicted felon." But because TDS is real and the concept of "nuance" is
completely lost on liberals, they instead charged ahead like a bull in a china shop with 34 felony
indictments against the former president. This means if Trump is convicted, the judge will
have no choice but to impose an incredibly harsh sentence. Consider, if Trump is convicted of
34 felonies, offering a lenient sentence such as probation would be prima facie evidence that the
case were overcharged, especially if the judge postponed sentencing pending appeal.
Johnson:
Merchan not 'serious judge' after threatening Trump with jail time in election year.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., blasted Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday for fining former
President Trump 10 times for gag order violations during an ongoing presidential
campaign. Merchan is presiding over Trump's hush money case in New York. "The judge,
who is a well-known Democrat, is pursuing an indefensible gag order on President Trump. Now,
just think about that. Think about the magnitude of that. He's trying to override
President Trump's constitutional right to defend himself against the constant smears of his
political opponents, in an election year," Johnson said during a news conference on Tuesday after a
House GOP conference meeting. "You cannot call yourself a serious judge and threaten a
presidential candidate with jail time when he defends his reputation in public in the middle of a
campaign. And I think everybody of good conscience understands that," he added.
Democrats
are Silencing Voices of Opposition. In the 'Hush Money' trial, which began on
March 25, Democrat Judge Juan M. Merchan cited Trump's prior comments about him and others in
the case in granting the prosecution's request for what it termed a 'narrowly tailored' gag order
barring Trump from making certain out-of-court statements. Prosecutors cited what they called
Trump's 'long history of making public and inflammatory remarks' about people involved in his legal
cases when it asked for the gag order. Further damaging Trump's ability to campaign and raise
funds, Judge Merchan ruled that Trump must be in court when it's in session. Merchan gave a
warning "...that if Trump disrupts the proceedings, he could face jail time." In what has to
be the greatest case of chutzpah ever, Marchan said, "There's no agenda here. We want to
follow the law. We want justice to be done. That's all we want." He also said he is
certain of his "ability to be fair and impartial." He said that despite the facts he's contributed
to Democrats and his daughter is a party consultant.
FBI
Staged Fake Photo of Classified Documents for PR Purposes. You know that famous photo
of Trump's purloined Top Secret documents? The one that the FBI released that showed all
those classified documents hidden in folders? [Advertisement] It's kinda, sorta
faked. Staged. Not accurate at all. A sham. A con. [Photo]
No, it's not a photoshop. That would be worse, I suppose. Maybe. You see, those folders
that scream Top Secret were brought by the FBI and the documents were inserted in them by FBI
agents. Think about this for a minute. The General Services Administration shipped
these documents to Trump, which is why they are stuffed away in Mar a Lago in the first
place. Then, the Archives met with the Biden administration to prod it to investigate
Trump. Then the FBI raids Mar a Lago, armed with folders screaming "Top Secret," photographs
them, and releases the photo to the world, suggesting that Trump stole away with these documents in
these folders screaming Top Secret. Smells like a setup.
Will
the Supreme Court Let This Crisis Go to Waste? In Trump v. United
States, the Court is considering whether Donald Trump has immunity for actions taken while he
was president. The DoJ argued that the motive for presidential actions should determine
whether immunity applies and that the discretion and good motivations of DoJ attorneys should be
trusted to make that determination (try not to laugh). Justice Alito questioned the wisdom of that
argument, asking if the DoJ should be trusted, "given its history of abusive partisan prosecution."
That is about as close as a Supreme Court justice will ever come to telling a government solicitor
general that the latter has squandered his last ounce of credibility. It appears that the
Supreme Court justices are becoming aware that our justice system is now a tangle of broken
constitutional promises and inconsistent legal decisions. But do they realize that they
helped create this mess?
Judge
Cannon Indefinitely Suspends Jack Smith's Witch Hunt Against Trump. In a dramatic
twist in one of the most high-profile cases in recent history, Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of Florida ordered the indefinite suspension of Special
Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into former President Donald Trump. The ruling effectively
halts further pre-trial proceedings while the court sorts through a labyrinth of discovery matters,
disclosure issues, and other complex legal motions. In her meticulously detailed five-page
order, Judge Cannon cited the interconnected nature of numerous pre-trial motions, discovery
disputes, and Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) considerations as compelling reasons to
vacate the scheduled May 20, 2024 trial date. Instead, the judge alluded to the need for
additional time to ensure a fair and comprehensive legal process.
Judge
Cannon Indefinitely Postpones Jack Smith's Classified Documents Trial After Special Counsel Admits
to Evidence Tampering. Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday afternoon indefinitely
postponed Jack Smith's classified documents trial against Trump. As previously reported,
Judge Cannon on Monday night postponed a key deadline in the classified documents case after
Special Counsel Jack Smith admitted to tampering with evidence. Cannon on Monday evening
temporarily stayed a May 9 deadline for President Trump and his co-defendants Walt Nauta and
Carlos de Oliveira related to CIPA. On Tuesday afternoon, Judge Cannon set a second set of
pre-trial deadlines to manage pending discovery and disclosure matters.
America:
Goodbye my Country. Today America is governed by an illegitimate tyrannical regime,
and nothing has been done about it. The Republican Party is useless. Only Trump
soldiers on with four orchestrated criminal indictments and a number of civil cases arrayed against
him. The media, Democrats, and Rino Republicans are all against him. Only the people
are for him, and the people are powerless. They don't even have the vote as the Democrats
made clear by stealing the last two elections. Those prosecuting Trump have no concern that
they are destroying America's reputation and reducing the power of all future presidents, making
them even more subservient to the deep state. America's only representative —
Donald Trump — is so overloaded with criminal and civil prosecutions that he has no time
to campaign and even as a billionaire is overwhelmed with the legal costs of defending himself from
obvious nonsensical charges.
Bragg's
own witness, Hope Hicks, implodes case against Trump. In an epic miscalculation that
backfired spectacularly, prosecutors in the Manhattan hush money trial of Donald Trump called Hope
Hicks to the witness stand. The moment cross-examination began, their misbegotten case
against the former president began to collapse. Hicks, who served as press secretary during
the 2016 presidential campaign, explained that Trump's motive for suppressing salacious stories was
to protect his wife, Melania. "Absolutely... I don't think he wanted anyone in his family to be
hurt or embarrassed about anything on the campaign. He wanted them to be proud of him."
In an epic miscalculation that backfired spectacularly, prosecutors in the Manhattan hush money
trial of Donald Trump called Hope Hicks to the witness stand. The moment cross-examination
began, their misbegotten case against the former president began to collapse.
Biden's
Political Persecution of Trump Damages the U.S. and Aids the PRC. A fundamental
aspect of American politics is that it is simultaneously domestic and international. Domestic
events impact international ones, and vice versa. What happens within the U.S. also reaches
global audiences. In that light, the civil and criminal trials in New York City in Judge
Arthur Engoron's and Juan Merchan's courtrooms of former President Donald Trump have a world
impact, as do the trials in Fulton County, Georgia, and by the Special Counsel for Trump Inquires,
Jack Smith, in Washington, D.C., and Florida. While Trump's trials have multifaceted domestic
political effects which will play out to election day on November 5, 2024, these events also
have myriad and adverse international implications.
The
insanity at the heart of the Trump trial. Perhaps the weirdest, and by far the most
unjust, thing about former President Donald Trump's trial in New York is that we do not know
precisely what crime Trump is charged with committing. We're in the middle of the trial, with
Trump facing a maximum of more than 100 years in prison, and we don't even know what the
charges are! It's a surreal situation. Yes, we know that Trump is charged with
falsifying business records of payments made to the porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 and 2017.
But falsifying business records is a misdemeanor with a two-year statute of limitations, meaning
prosecutors would be prohibited from charging Trump with that crime after 2019, which was five
years ago. They obviously missed that deadline by a mile. We also know that New York
law allows falsifying business records to be upgraded to a felony if the alleged falsification was
done with "intent to defraud that includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal
the commission thereof." In that case, the statute of limitations extends to five years, which
would have allowed prosecutors to charge Trump as late as 2022. Prosecutors missed that deadline, too.
NY
Prosecuting Trump for Being Extorted. None of the liberals calling for Trump's head
know what he's accused of, they just know he did it. They don't remember how the previous
accusations ended or even what they were, despite having taken the strongest of positions; and here
they are, again, taking the strongest position on the one issue they want you to know they care
about: Donald Trump is Guilty. So that's the Manhattan jury pool. Almost all of
them read the New York Times so it's no wonder. But to be fair, no one else knows what
Trump's accused of, either. Not the lawyers, not the pundits nor the people they interview.
Three weeks in, no one on either side or on the outside knows what the crime is.
'Election
Interference': Bragg Case Gag Order Puts Unprecedented Limitations On Trump Campaign.
Allies close to former President Donald Trump are furious with the gag order imposed on him and his
campaign by New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, telling the Daily Caller it is
hamstringing his campaign like no other has been before. On Tuesday, the start of week three
of Trump's Manhattan trial, Merchan held the 2024 Republican presidential nominee in contempt of
court and issued a $9,000 fine for repeatedly violating a gag order. Merchan has also
threatened jail time if Trump continues to violate the order. Trump and his campaign have
been barred from speaking about Matthew Colangelo, a lead prosecutor in the case who spent two
years serving in the Biden administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) as acting associate
attorney general. After working near the top of the DOJ under Attorney General Merrick
Garland, Colangelo joined the Manhattan District Attorney's office as senior counsel in
December 2022.
Judge
Cannon Set to Unseal Information Related to Obama Judge's Order. Judge Aileen Cannon
is set to release information related to Judge Beryl Howell's order piercing through Trump's
attorney-client privilege. Cannon set a telephonic status conference for next Wednesday,
May 8. [Tweet] Jack Smith used a DC grand jury — and a radical Marxist
Obama-appointed DC judge (Beryl Howell) in the classified docs case before quietly roving down to
Florida to file the charges. Judge Beryl Howell ruled against Trump at every turn!
Trump-haters
hit a brick wall at SCOTUS. Trump-hating prosecutors' joy ride hit a brick wall in
the Supreme Court last Thursday, where six Justices doubted and ridiculed liberals' attempts to
prosecute Trump in federal court. This was so thoroughly a rout of Biden's minions that it
also diminishes the impact of the ongoing New York County prosecution of Trump. Delusional
Biden supporters have expected federal prosecutors to rescue Biden by putting Trump on trial before
the election. But a barrage of comments by a Supreme Court majority exposed fatal defects in
this legal strategy of anti-Trumpers to win the presidential election by prosecuting Trump.
Chief Justice Roberts did more than reject the decision by the Democrat-dominated D.C. Circuit that
went against Trump. Roberts mocked that decision for relying on a senseless tautology, which
is also known as begging the question — assuming the truth of a statement without proving it.
This
is 100% Obama: The Rigged Communist Show Trial Against Trump. The Intentional
Destruction of America. George HW Bush talked about "1,000 points of light."
Obama uses "1,000 points of destruction" to achieve his goal- the intentional destruction of
America. You can see it all happening just blocks apart right now — all built
around Columbia University and NYC. Upper Manhattan is where the anarchy at Columbia is on
display. The Jew-hatred. The America-hatred. The hatred of capitalism. The
desire to destroy the greatest nation in world history, ever blessed by God. And then a few
miles south to lower Manhattan is the courtroom where a rigged communist show trial is happening to
destroy the greatest symbol of everything Obama hates- President Donald J. Trump.
Harmeet
Dhillon Reveals Judge Juan Merchan's Sneaky Move To RIG Trump's Trial. In an
explosive appearance on the Megyn Kelly Show, Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney closely associated with
former President Donald Trump's legal affairs, vehemently criticized Judge Juan Merchan's conduct
in Trump's ongoing hush money trial. Dhillon has been actively involved in high-profile legal
cases, such as defending Project Veritas and participating in election integrity efforts during the
2020 presidential election. According to Dhillon, Merchan has made the controversial
decision to exclude campaign finance experts from testifying, a move she argued could unfairly
impact the trial's outcome. As the case is set to resume Tuesday in Manhattan, concerns over
judicial fairness have intensified. Dhillon described the situation that has been compromised
by biased judicial oversight.
The
Troubling Story of John Eastman and Election Lawfare. John Eastman gave legal counsel
to President Trump while he was still in office on cases dealing with election fraud. He
became nationally known after he spoke at the protest rally on the Ellipse prior to the events at
the Capitol on January 6, 2021 riots. He authored the "Eastman Memos," brainstorming
papers in which he analyzed potential means of responding to the illegalities in the 2020 election
that he had uncovered through investigation. Since Jan. 6, 2021, Eastman has endured
three years of malicious lawsuits, bar complaints, subpoenas, and testimony before the House
January 6 committee. The lawsuits include his inclusion in the indictment of President
Trump and 17 of his associates by Fulton County, GA, District Attorney Fani Willis on racketeering
charges. In June of 2022, FBI armed agents frisked him and seized his phone, which they have
kept in evidence for over two years. It prompted Tucker Carlson to host him on Fox News to
share details of the encounter.
The
'Deep State' Is Far Deeper Than Anyone Imagined. For decades, pollsters have been
telling us the electorate yearned for a third way, a nonpartisan who wasn't wedded to either party
and would represent the vast middle. Along comes the brash, imperfect real estate developer
who had worked with both sides of the aisle in "the art of a deal." The media elite loved it,
especially the most salacious exploits of the prowling Manhattan mogul. That is right up
until presidential candidate Trump embraced a reformulated version of America First that turned out
to be a direct threat to those global media empires. You know, the ones who profitably ran
all those Big Pharma ads while "reporting'" on COVID. It wasn't long before the crude tapes and
"hush money" stories started rolling in. Indeed, Trump's real sin was his desire to return to the
economic and foreign policy nationalism that had been summarily quashed by globalists in both parties.
And it was a grave enough transgression to warrant his destruction by any means necessary.
Jonathan
Turley Says Bragg's Case Against Trump Is 'Collapsing' After Witness Testimony.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley on Friday said the prosecution's case
against former President Donald Trump is failing as a key witness is benefiting the defense.
Trump is on trial facing 34 felony counts of allegedly falsifying business records in relation to a
$130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. The prosecution's
first witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, was helpful to Trump as the
prosecution made mistakes that the defense capitalized on during cross-examination, Turley asserted
on Fox News' "Outnumbered." [Video clip] "It's a breakdown in the courtroom.
They have a witness that is disassembling in front of them," Turley said. "The prosecution
never revealed to the jury in the direct that Pecker had actually killed stories for other
celebrities, that he had been working on stories two decades before the election with Trump that he
was suppressing. And now it's only getting worse. Yesterday was really bad In terms of
the cross-examination for the prosecution. Today is much worse. I mean, here Pecker is
saying that Trump didn't want to purchase the story. Yesterday when he asked him about
reimbursing Cohen, he said he didn't know anything about that."
A
Supreme Form of Election Interference. The president for America First Legal Stephen
Miller told Newsmax on Friday [4/26/2024] that the four criminal indictments against former President
Donald Trump amount to "the most supreme form of election interference." Trump is facing a total
four separate indictments for business fraud, unlawful retention of classified documents, and two
cases of election interference. Opening arguments for the business transaction case began
this week in Manhattan. Miller pointed out that because of Trump's various legal
entanglements he has been kept off the campaign trail.
Jonathan
Turley, Leo Terrell Say Bragg's Team Still Hasn't Proven Trump Committed Crime.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley and civil rights attorney Leo Terrell
said Thursday prosecutors still have not shown evidence former President Donald Trump committed a
crime in the "hush money" case pursued by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Prosecutors called former media executive David Pecker of the National Enquirer to the stand
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday to detail how the publication purchased the rights to stories
involving Trump while not publishing them regarding a $130,000 payout to porn star Stormy
Daniels. Turley noted that the prosecutors had not tied Trump personally to illegal actions
while questioning the media executive about Trump's alleged involvement in the schemes.
Democrats
Need To Be Held To Account For Denying Trump's Due Process Rights. Due process of
law, or at least its absence, is the heart of the unconstitutional lawfare aimed at Donald Trump
this week in a New York courtroom, ostensibly for hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. This
is a crossing of the Rubicon moment for our Republic. "Due process" is ancient shorthand for
the sum of all the procedures the government must comply with and honor before it may take a
person's life, liberty, or property. The right to due process is over 1,000 years old in
English jurisprudence. It is a right of every citizen and a duty of every government. A
year ago, I wrote about DA Bragg charging Trump with a crime, but not identifying the crime.
Within the past few days, Andrew McCarthy called the prosecution a "farce" and listed its many
failings. Prof. Jonathan Turley wrote that Trump is not being prosecuted for any actual
crime. Prof. Jed Shugerman called the prosecution unfounded, both a "legal embarrassment"
and a "historic mistake." Matthew Whitaker said that Judge Merchan, who presides over the
Manhattan kangaroo court, is hopelessly conflicted to a degree that would make Joe Biden blush.
'Trial
By Ambush': Former Federal Prosecutors Say Alvin Bragg's Strategy Is Unlike Anything They've Seen
Before. When defendants go on trial, the allegations against them are generally
clear. Not so with former President Donald Trump and his "hush money" case. Prosecutors
in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office offered new transparency not only to the
public, but seemingly also Trump's defense attorneys on Tuesday when, one year after indicting the
former president, they finally pulled back the curtain to reveal the motivating crime in their
case: a violation of state election law. Former federal prosecutors told the Daily Caller
News Foundation Bragg's lack of clarity is unfair to the defense, who can't prepare to argue
against a charge they don't know, and unlike what they've seen before. "I don't recall ever
having a trial where the defense didn't know what the government was trying to prove," former
federal prosecutor Jonathan Fahey told the DCNF, likening Bragg's approach to a "trial by ambush."
Trump's
Defense Attorney Cripples Alvin Bragg's Entire Case. During the cross-examination of
the prosecution's first witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, defense attorney
Emil Bove aimed to raise doubts about the core arguments in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin
Bragg's case against former President Donald Trump. Bove highlighted the tabloid's practice
of purchasing stories to prevent their release, a common tactic in what has been referred to as
"checkbook journalism." By pointing out that this practice was not unusual, Bove sought to
portray the deal with former playboy model Karen McDougal as standard procedure rather than part of
an illegal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. He emphasized other instances where
Pecker's magazine suppressed damaging stories for public figures like Rahm Emanuel, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, and others, suggesting that such actions were not out of the ordinary. [Tweet]
Supreme
Court Majority Is Sympathetic to Trump's Immunity Claim With No Trial Likely Before the
Election. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments stemming from Special Counsel Jack
Smith's prosecution of former President Donald Trump on felony charges that he conspired to
overturn the results of the 2020 election. Jack Smith sent his advocate, Michael Drebeen, a
veteran of over 100 Supreme Court appearances and Robert Mueller's unethical investigation of
President Trump, into a proverbial Cuisinart of hostile questions. If the questions and
statements of the justices are to be taken at face value, Trump's trial will not take place before
November's election and possibly not at all.
What is this, if not a conspiracy? Report,
Lawfare Beach Friends Meet Every Friday to Discuss Legal Filings and Best Trump Attack
Strategy. Politico is outlining how a group of Lawfare ideologues meet every Friday
to discuss their constructed legal filings and the next week of attack angles against President
Donald Trump. In essence, the core group inside the meeting are what Christine Blasey-Ford
called the "beach friends" when discussing who constructed the legal avenues for the ridiculous
attack against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. As we have noted for the past several
years, it's this same group of Lawfare ideologues, mostly former DOJ administrators and lawyers,
who are behind every anti-Trump effort. The primary trio is Mary McCord, Norm Eisen (left in
red tie), and Andrew Weissmann. These are the three members who write the briefs and court
motions that Jack Smith then files.
Can
the Swamp be Drained? On October 17, 2016, Donald Trump issued a press release
and subsequent Tweet stating, "I will make our Government honest again — believe
me. But first I am going to have to #DrainTheSwamp." in Washington, D.C. Thereby creating a
campaign slogan that was instrumental in his winning the 2016 election as Trump seized on an
extremely popular position that resonated with a majority of the electorate. Trump recycled a
phrase used by Ronald Reagan in reference to the necessity of reducing a bloated government
bureaucracy. [...] Both men failed in their respective attempts to "drain the swamp." Reagan was
stymied by a Democrat-controlled House for both of his terms. Trump, during the first two
years of his term, was hamstrung by an avalanche of politically-motivated leaks and inane
investigations as well as intransigence on the part of the Republicans in both Houses of
Congress. In his second two years, a malevolent Pelosi-led House focused almost entirely on
impeaching him twice.
A
Prosecution In Search of a Crime. Donald Trump is undergoing a criminal trial in
Manhattan. He is charged with filing corporate records that included a false statement;
namely, that payments to Michael Cohen that were described as being for legal services were, in
fact, to reimburse Cohen for making one or more payments to Stormy Daniels in exchange for a
non-disclosure agreement. But those payments to Daniels were perfectly legal, and filing a
false corporate document is a misdemeanor on which the statute of limitation has passed. So
in order to charge Trump, District Attorney Alvin Bragg had to allege that the false documents were
filed in order to cover up another crime. That would make it a felony. But what is that
other crime? Bragg has been coy about it. In truth, there was no other crime, and
Bragg's prosecution is election interference on behalf of the Democratic Party, plain and
simple. One would think that this case could not have gone to trial without a clear
specification of that other crime and evidence in support of it. But that appears to be what
has happened, courtesy of trial judge Juan Merchan, who is in on the scam.
Biden
should be more concerned than anyone about the precedent the Trump trials are setting.
[Scroll down] Alex Berenson's essay about the bad precedent these trials set drew me to
this idea. [...] He outlines the absurdity of the case, a ledger error within Trump's own personal
notes as at the crux of the case, and a claimed underlying crime of trying to influence his own
election, which is absurd. On that, he notes that the so-called crime happened in 2017, which
was after he was already elected president. The whole kangaroo case would be laughable if it
didn't involve jailtime for Trump if he is convicted by a Democrat judge and jury, meaning, they
could knock him out of the race to do their version of kangaroo "justice" as appeals go on.
Did
Letitia James Accidentally Reveal the Real Reason for Her Trump Witch Hunt? A New
York judge ruled on Monday that the $175 million bond judgment against former President Donald
Trump will remain intact despite New York Attorney General Letitia James's efforts to challenge
it. James's legal team argued that the court should nullify Trump's reduced judgment of
$175 million in his non-jury civil fraud trial. Her team raised concerns about the
ability of Knight Specialty Insurance, the company behind the substantial bond, to actually pay the
bond if necessary. That's a rather curious position since she had asked for a much larger
$370 million in damages — it's as if the entire point was to achieve a judgment
that would be impossible for Donald Trump to pay. It's as if the entire point of her case was
to seize his assets under bogus pretenses and be a hero to the radical left.
Gag
Order Hearing: D.A. Alvin Bragg Backs Down from Wanting Trump in Jail. Democrat
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg backed down from asking New York Supreme Court Justice Juan
Merchan on Tuesday to jail former President Donald Trump for allegedly violating a gag order,
according to court reporters. Trump appeared to call Bragg's bluff, saying in April that it
would be a "GREAT HONOR" to become a "modern-day Nelson Mandela" in the "clink" for speaking the
truth about Merchan. [Advertisement] Bragg called for the Tuesday hearing to ask Merchan
to punish Trump for allegedly violating his gag order. Merchan has the authority to fine and send
the former president to jail for up to 30 days for allegedly violating the order. [Advertisement]
Judge
Juan Merchan's 'Manifestly Unfair' Gag Order on Trump Comes Under Serious Legal Scrutiny.
A gag order that severely limits what former President Donald Trump can say publicly about a case where
a Democrat district attorney is seeking to put him in jail was the focus in court on Tuesday as part of
the business records trial he faces in Manhattan. Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg accused
Trump of violating the gag order 11 times for allegedly attacking witnesses and other members of
the court — even if they have attacked him. [Advertisement] [Promotional video]
New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the case and who imposed the gag order,
could fine Trump up to $11,000. As examples of attacks, Bragg's team cited in an April 1
filing some of Trump's posts on Truth Social, including one in which Trump called on Merchan to recuse
himself from the case, and called him "biased and conflicted."
In
Trump trial, Manhattan DA Bragg's hocus-pocus case exposed on first day. Hocus-pocus
is a meaningless distraction or illusion that is intended to fool. That neatly summarizes
District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump. The DA hopes to snooker a
Manhattan jury into convicting the former president with a bag of legal tricks. In most
courtrooms, the chicanery would never work. But in this Trump-hating venue the defendant's
jury of purported peers are likely predisposed to accept magic for magic's sake. [...] The first
sleight of hand happened the moment the lead prosecutor addressed jurors during opening statements
on Monday. Assistant DA Matthew Colangelo (formerly Joe Biden's number three official at the
Justice Department) told the panel, "This case is about a criminal conspiracy." Really?
Why, then, is Trump not charged with that? Even though Colangelo repeatedly accused the
defendant of participating in a criminal conspiracy, the word "conspiracy" can be found nowhere in
Bragg's indictment. It's not there because there was no criminal conspiracy.
Special
Counsel Jack Smith Lacks Standing to Defend the D.C. Circuit's ruling on Presidential Immunity in
the Supreme Court. [Scroll down] Jack Smith is in the eyes of the law a
private citizen, and all the acts he has taken since his appointment on November 18, 2022 are
null and void. This is as true of the acts Smith has taken in the Florida classified
documents case, against Donald Trump, under the eye of the 11th Circuit, as it is of the actions
Smith has taken in the D.C. District Court case, against Trump involving the events of
January 6, 2021. All those he has imprisoned or entered into plea bargains with are
free. Indeed, Jack Smith can be sued in torts for unconstitutionally depriving people of
liberty and property. The absence of standing to defend the D.C. Circuit's opinion below on
Smith's part cannot be waived by Donald Trump's or anyone else's failure to raise it sooner.
And, the absence of defendant standing must be raised sua sponte by any federal judge or
Supreme Court Justice who Jack Smith purports to appear before in any case whether the case
involves Donald Trump or anyone else. Standing must exist at all stages of litigation
including throughout all authorized appeals and habeas corpus petitions. We argue that under
the Constitution only Congress can create the Office of Special Counsel to which Jack Smith was
appointed. The power to create federal offices is an exclusively congressional power and may
not be usurped by the executive branch.
Unredacted
motion reveals collaboration between Biden White House and NARA to concoct classified docs case
against Trump. On Monday, a version of Donald Trump's motion to compel discovery in
the Mar-a-Lago documents case was released by Judge Aileen Cannon with much of the information
originally redacted by Biden's special counsel Jack Smith being unredacted. In one section
titled "Early Indications of NARA Bias," which was heavily redacted in its original,
January 16 version, it now states that NARA General Counsel Gary Stern sent an internal email
attaching a draft letter to President Trump's [Presidential Records Act] representatives.
Stern noted that he 'had several conversations' with [White House Office of Records Management]'s
[redacted] and that [redacted] had 'raised some of these concerns directly with David [Ferriero,
NARA's Archivist]." "Stern's draft concluded that 'things were very chaotic, as they always
are in the course of a one-term transition,' and he acknowledged that 'the transfer of the Trump
electronic records is still ongoing and won't be complete for several more months.'"
Judge
Cannon Unmasks Redacted Documents Revealing Biden White House Direct Ties to Mar-a-Lago Raid, Jack
Smith Investigation. Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday ordered key evidence in Jack
Smith's classified documents case to be unredacted. The newly unredacted documents revealed
Biden's White House had direct ties to the Mar-a-Lago raid. The Biden Regime was also
directly tied to Jack Smith's investigation despite claims to the contrary from US Attorney General
Merrick Garland. Before with redactions: Jack Smith wanted to hide the fact that the
National Archives had several conversations with the Biden White House.
'Conspiracy
Theories' Aren't Theoretical Anymore. There is nothing demented or delusional about
believing our government would willingly facilitate the murder of a political threat. The
actions of the DoJ in conjunction with the legislation proposed by the Democrats makes that
perfectly clear. The plot to place Donald Trump at the tender mercies of a prison's "genpop"
is not the only evidence of government criminal conspiracy. The ATF really did traffic guns
to Mexican drug cartels to promote gun-control legislation. One federal agent and countless
civilians were killed with those guns. The DoJ sought to remove a duly elected
President — even to the point of the Deputy Attorney General offering to "wear a wire"
to record conversations with the President (with cabinet support). The FBI really did set up
some useful idiots to advanced their domestic terrorist narrative (the Governor Gretchen Whitmer
kidnapping). It was a classic entrapment scheme in which federal assets planned the crime, and
hapless stooges stepped in the trap. All this is changing our worldview and is causing us to
observe our government with a new level of skepticism.
'Hush
money' is not a crime, and Bragg has no case against Trump. Opening statements get
underway in Manhattan Monday morning in Donald Trump's "hush money" trial — the
first-ever criminal trial of a former American president and, indeed, of a de facto major-party
presidential nominee. It got me to thinking: Why do we call it the "hush money"
trial? Well, sure, the media-Democrat complex loves the salacious overtones of that
spin. But that's not the real reason. If Trump had robbed a bank or, as he once
famously put it, shot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight, we'd be talking about Trump's bank
robbery trial or his murder trial. That is, we'd be talking about the crime. The
problem that Democrats and their note-takers have, the problem that the elected progressive
Democratic prosecutor Alvin Bragg has, is that what they want to accuse Trump of is not a crime.
CNN
Panel Finds It 'Pretty Remarkable' Juror Can Go To Dentist Appointment While Trump Restricted From
Major Events. A CNN panel on Monday said they found it striking that an alternate
juror in former President Donald Trump's case can attend a dentist appointment while the defendant
cannot attend momentous events. Opening arguments for Trump's trial related to a $130,000
payment to porn star Stormy Daniels began on Monday, and the judge overseeing the case, Juan
Merchan, reportedly will end the session early to allow one of the alternate jurors to attend the
appointment. Merchan previously ruled that Trump must be in the courtroom throughout the
trial because of his status as a criminal defendant, meaning he is not permitted to attend the
Supreme Court's Thursday presidential immunity argument and may not be able to go to his son
Barron's graduation.
Two
Former High-Profile Trump Critics Now Admit It: His Foes Are the Real Threat to
Democracy. Two high-profile Trump critics, one of whom was even touted as the
presidential candidate who could topple Bad Orange in 2020, have just shown that they realize that
the real threat to this tottering republic is coming not from the man they once happily joined in
on hating, but from his enemies[.] First it was the man whom Tucker Carlson indelibly dubbed
the "Creepy Porn Lawyer." Michael Avenatti, porn star Stormy Daniels' former lawyer, is now
doing time for a variety of crimes including theft and fraud. This has given him some time to
think about the man whose indictment he called for back in 2018, and whom he thought he could
defeat for the presidency in 2020. Avenatti has thought so much about the whole thing that he
has done a 180 and completely changed his positions. Now he is even willing to testify on
Trump's behalf. "The defense has contacted me," Avenatti said Saturday from the minimum-security
prison in Los Angeles where he is doing his time.
Yes,
They Want Him Dead: Dem. Rep. Introduces Bill to Make It Easier to Kill
Trump. The Democrats have been trying to destroy Donald Trump ever since he announced
his candidacy for president back in 2015. They've framed him for Russian collusion, election
interference, and even rape. They've impeached him twice. They've tried to bar him from
the ballot. They still may succeed in convicting him of bogus crimes and even sending him to
prison, all in the hope of making sure that he doesn't walk back into the Oval Office on
Jan. 20, 2025. Yet even all this isn't enough for some of these sinister authoritarians.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Racism) on Friday introduced a bill to "terminate United States Secret
Service protection for felons." Thompson evidently doesn't count a competent prose stylist among
his handlers, for the "Short Title" of this bill is as verbose as it is grandiose, self-important,
and silly: ''This Act may be cited," it announces on its first page "as the 'Denying Infinite
Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former
Protectees Act' or the 'DISGRACED Former Protectees Act.'" Thompson's bill stipulates that
Secret Service protection "shall terminate for any person upon sentencing following conviction for
a Federal or State offense that is punishable for a term of imprisonment of at least one year."
There is an unmistakable hint that the Democrats plan to imprison Trump for at least a year,
ideally so that he will be behind bars on November 5, 2024 and January 20, 2025.
Trump's
Jury Trial Will Be As 'Fair' As The Russia Hoax And 2020 Election. Jury selection for
12 jurors wrapped up Thursday in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's lawfare against former
President Donald Trump, with the next phase of the trial expected to begin as early as
Monday. But with two selected jurors booted for potential bias and perjury and at least one
juror who made clear she doesn't like Trump's "persona," can he really get a fair trial?
After two of the initial seven selected jurors were struck from the panel, another seven were
chosen Thursday. The jurors will hear Bragg's claim that Trump broke the law by allegedly
classifying payments made by his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pornographer Stormy Daniels as part
of a nondisclosure agreement as "legal fees" instead of campaign expenditures. Federal
prosecutors in the Southern District of New York declined to charge Trump in 2018.
Did
Letitia James Just Admit Her Persecution Of Trump Is Revenge For Obama? Yesterday
Letitia James asked the judge to disallow Trump's $175M bond. There will be a hearing on
Monday. Notice at the 45-second mark how Letitia says she is upset by how Trump treated
Obama. This prosecution smells like a Valerie Jarrett operation. [Video clip]
Alan
Dershowitz reveals why Trump has drawn 'a bad jury' for his New York hush money trial.
Alan Dershowitz, a longtime trial lawyer and former attorney for Donald Trump, says that the ex-president's
jury at his New York hush money trial is bad news for his one-time client. Following three days of
legal wrangling a panel of seven men and five women has now been selected and they will assess his guilt
or innocence over the coming weeks. Dershowitz, 85, says that the makeup of the jurors — who
include a corporate lawyer, an investment banker, a software engineer and a teacher — suggest Trump
will fare poorly.
Why
Is Judge Juan Merchan Refusing to Honor Trump's Due-Process Rights? I observed in a
post this week that, compared to some of Donald Trump's other recent complaints about Judge Juan
Merchan, there is more substance to his grousing about the judge's denial of his request that the
trial be adjourned for a day so that he may be in attendance at the United States Supreme Court
next Thursday, April 25. That's the day the justices will hear argument on the question of
whether the former president has immunity from prosecution in the 2020 election-interference
indictment brought in Washington, D.C., by Biden Justice Department special counsel Jack
Smith. There are competing legal and practical considerations here. Practically
speaking, if I'm a Trump appellate lawyer, I would prefer that he not come to the Supreme Court
argument. I don't think the justices would appreciate the spectacle.
The
big money bankrolling the Left's lawfare. As Manhattan District Attorney Alvin
Bragg's transparently political prosecution of former President Donald Trump began last week, it is
important to remember that the former president is not the only target of the Democratic Party's
campaign to use government power to silence political dissent. The Left's efforts to
intimidate conservative activists this month included Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) delivering a
congressional subpoena to Federalist Society Co-Chairman Leonard Leo. It was voted on by the
Senate Judiciary Committee last November without securing a single Republican vote. Durbin
has not explained why the subpoena was not delivered for five months. His attack on Leo comes
as another elected Democrat, District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb, has also used his
office to harass Leo. After a complaint filed by the dark money-funded Campaign for Accountability,
Schwalb opened an investigation into Leo's management of two nonprofit organizations.
Democrat
House reps stop just short of explicitly calling for Trump's assassination.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D. Miss.), who chaired the House J6 Committee, introduced legislation
that calls for President Donald Trump to lose his Secret Service protection if he's convicted and
sent to prison. Thompson fully understands that there is a strong likelihood that the current
Manhattan hush money trial or the upcoming Georgia RICO trial, both of which are open partisan
lawfare rather than justice, will see at least one felony conviction and prison sentence for
Trump. In other words, this legislation is an almost explicit call for Trump's
assassination. It's been apparent since the get-go that the myriad criminal actions against
Trump are a form of election interference. Each case has no basis in law or fact. All
are purely partisan actions intended not only to prevent Trump from re-taking the White House but
to tell anyone else who opposes the Democrat machine that the machine will go into
Destructor-mode. Now, though, we're seeing an even more sinister side to the Democrats'
anti-democratic and immoral actions, all of which are zooming the U.S. toward a constitutional
crisis as profound as that which faced America in 1861.
Prospective
'Hush Money' Juror Claimed to Be Unbiased, Admits Trump Makes Her 'Angry'. A
prospective juror who had told the court she was unbiased in President Donald Trump's so-called
"hush money" trial. However, that same juror has just admitted during a recent interview that
she is actually "not a fan" of Trump. Alarmingly, the juror then started listing various
reasons why Trump makes her "angry." She then continued by blasting Trump's handling of the
pandemic and his views on China and abortion. Worryingly, the juror wasn't dismissed over her
obvious bias.
Crazy
America. [Scroll down] Proof of Mr. Trump's rapey-ness has been
finally and formally declared in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial. It's certified, you
see, though the trial itself was a joke of performative pretense. All you really need is a
cast of characters, including the judge, Lewis Kaplan, who are sufficiently deranged and degenerate
to carry out the performance. New York State Attorney General Letitia James was up next to
attempt the financial castration of Mr. Trump with an artfully concocted civil case that
magically transformed a normal real estate transaction into a victimless fraud (say, what?),
prompting the Rumpelstiltskin-like Judge Arthur Engoron to declare an unprecedented cash penalty of
$354-million, designed to enable the confiscation and forced sale of Mr. Trump's
buildings. That hasn't quite worked yet, and may never work, given how appeals courts up to
SCOTUS might view the malicious prosecution based on Ms. James's repeated campaign promise
to... pin something on Trump.
Democrats
Move a Bill "to Ensure Trump Is Murdered". Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS)
introduced legislation on Friday to terminate Secret Service protection "for any person upon
sentencing following a conviction for a Federal or State offense that is punishable for a term of
imprisonment of at least one year." Democrats not only want to imprison Donald Trump for an
invented crime, they don't want him to have any protection. This is why we need the House to
remain intact. The DISGRACED Former Protectees Act claims there would be "potential for
conflicting lines of authority within prisons." It would also "allow judges to weigh the sentencing
of individuals without having to factor in the logistical concerns of convicts with Secret Service
protection." It is meant for Donald Trump. They filed 91 charges against him because
they want to imprison him until he dies. The bill's fact sheet says his "unprecedented 91
felony charges in Federal and State courts across the country have created a new exigency that
Congress must address."
Rigged:
Judge Merchan Let an Anti-Trumper Who Lied Onto the Jury. Judge Juan Merchan's
anti-Trump bias is so bad he isn't even pretending to make the jury selection process fair.
Earlier this week, Fox News' Jesse Watters reported on how the process has been rigged against
Trump, and he brought up how liberal activists are trying to sneak onto the jury. "They are
catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge. They're saying, 'Oh, have you ever
said anything on social media about Donald Trump?' 'No, I can't remember.' 'Well, what about
this post where you said he should be in prison?' 'Oh yeah, that one.' 'Strike!' and they keep
throwing these undercovers at him." [...] But not everyone who has been caught lying was booted.
One of 12 seated jurors includes a woman who lied on her questionnaire to cover up her anti-Trump
views. Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, sought to have Juror No. B133 removed because she had
posted a video on social media celebrating Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
"This is a woman who said she never attended a Trump rally," Susan Necheles, another of Trump's
attorneys, pointed out before adding that this was "clearly an anti-Trump event."
How
Alvin Bragg made (preposterous) history with Donald Trump's case. Alvin Bragg is to
be commended for getting to trial on the Trump hush-payments case. Lesser prosecutors would
have been daunted by the prospect of creating a national melodrama and a norm-breaking prosecution
of a former president over what is, in essence, a misdemeanor business-records charge. They
would have blanched at relying on serial perjurer Michael Cohen as a star witness. They would
have recognized the inherent ambiguity over whether the hush payments to Stormy Daniels were
personal payments or campaign expenses. They would have been reluctant to torture the law to
stretch the statute of limitations just far enough to cover the events in question, and would have
been too embarrassed by the chronological difficulty involved in arguing that events in 2017
influenced the 2016 election.
What
Won't the Swamp Do to Stop Trump? For nearly a decade, the D.C. swamp has used every
tool in its arsenal to take down first candidate, then president, and then citizen Donald J.
Trump. They've lied, connived, impeached, indicted, sued, misconstrued, cheated, deleted,
changed laws, ignored laws, and just plain broken laws to take The Donald down. [Indeed], they
used a pandemic virus — which wee Tony Fauci helped fund the synthesis of, and later
dissembled about the provenance of, all while becoming a saint to the left and filthy rich —
to unilaterally, and without consent of the people, change voting laws and lead many to believe that
the 2020 election was illegitimate. If they've half a brain in their head — which
precludes President Biden, his V.P., and his press secretary — creatures of the swamp
should be quaking in their hip boots about now. Because if Trump earns a second term,
vengeance — or restorative justice, if you prefer — will be for
the Lord of Queens.
Dems
want to send Trump to prison without Secret Service protection. Key Democrats
revealed new legislation Friday that would strip former President Donald Trump of his Secret
Service agents if he is convicted and sentenced to prison. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the
top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, said it's about making sure Mr. Trump
doesn't get special treatment for whatever crime he might be sentenced. He is worried that
having to accommodate a Secret Service protective detail could lead to accommodations for a former
president. "It is regrettable that it has come to this, but this previously unthought-of
scenario could become our reality," the Mississippi lawmaker said. "Therefore, it is necessary for
us to be prepared and update the law so the American people can be assured that protective status
does not translate into special treatment — and that those who are sentenced to prison
will indeed serve the time required of them."
It's a Bill of Attainder — of the worst kind. Democrats
Move to Strip Trump of Secret Service Protection. Democrats want Trump dead.
House Democrats on Friday moved to strip President Trump of his Secret Service protection if he is
convicted. Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson introduced a resolution that would terminate
Trump's Secret Service protection. The legislation dubbed the "Denying Infinite Security and
Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former
Protectees Act would apply to all Secret Service protectees convicted and sentenced under felony
charges. [...] "Obvious subtext here is that removing USSS would make it easier for someone to kill
Trump, which is arguably the goal of Thompson's bill, H.R. 8081," Byron York said. [Tweet]
New
Report Confirms Trump Won't Receive a Fair Trial. A Left-leaning columnist is
admitting that the 12-person jury selected to serve on former President Donald Trump's trial leans
more Democrat than not. New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman confirmed a common belief
among Trump supporters — which is that the 2024 hopeful won't get a fair trial in the majorly
liberal city of Manhattan. "One thing that's been striking during this round of voir dire is
there a lot of people who, based on their answers, are more left-of-center than not, politically,"
Haberman wrote. "But some seem to be trying to show they can consider alternative viewpoints, and
others seem to want to show they believe in the concept of jury service as independent from
personal opinions." Attorney and legal scholar Jonathon Turley pointed out that only about
12 percent of New Yorkers voted for Trump in 2020. In comparison, President Joe Biden won the
Manhattan vote by 86 percent that same year.
Trump
Could Be Jailed for Speaking About His NYC Case Due to Judge's 'Unconstitutional' Gag Order.
President Trump could go to jail if Judge Juan Merchan rules him in contempt of court in his New York City
bookkeeping trial. When court resumed on Thursday after a day off, New York City prosecutors argued
that former President Trump had broken the gag. Merchan imposed the order in March and later expanded
it to keep Trump quiet about the judge's daughter who works to elect Democrats, including Joe Biden.
She has used the trial as a fundraiser for her Democrat clients. Prosecutors claim that Trump has
broken the gag order ten times and have asked for higher fines and other punishment for him. They
want to raise the fine for each offense from $1,000 to $3,000. The judge will hold a hearing on
the gag order on Tuesday.
The
trouble with Trump's jurors shows the results of a post-truth society. This essay is
not about the fact that Trump's "hush money" trial is completely corrupt for myriad reasons.
These reasons include but are not limited to the fact that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg violated due
process by revitalizing invalid election fraud claims and time-barred misdemeanors allegations by
elevating them into unnamed felonies. I'm also not talking about the judge having a daughter
who is a highly-placed anti-Trump activist raising money off the trial. Instead, this post
focuses on one specific thing: The fact that it is impossible for Trump to have a fair jury
in this corrupt trial. The lack of fairness begins with the fact that Trump is the most
famous man in the world, and he is running for president. There is literally no one on earth,
unless they have the awareness of a potato, who doesn't have an opinion on the case, and who
doesn't understand that its outcome will affect the election.
Criminalizing
Trivialities. In the two federal indictments brought by Jack Smith, the Fulton County
indictment brought by disgraced District Attorney Fani Willis and her lover Nathan Wade (now
removed from the case for misconduct), and the indictment brought by Manhattan District Attorney
Alvin Bragg, state and federal prosecutors have abused federal and state fraud-type criminal
statutes. By my count, of the remaining 88 or so felony charges against Donald Trump, roughly
60 of them reveal egregious misuses of fraud-type criminal statutes. This essay analyzes the
34 counts in Bragg's indictment, the trial of which is just underway. What follows is
not an analysis of the elements of the offenses charged against Donald Trump, which are
often narrower than prudence dictates or legislatures intend. Rather, this essay explains how
honest prosecutors use common sense to evaluate "fraud-type" cases, an evaluation that involves
more than a mere hyper-technical application of facts to elements.
The
12 jurors picked in Trump's hush money trial, including a woman who called him 'selfish'.
Twelve Manhattan residents have been picked to decide the fate of Donald Trump in his historic hush money
trial. Seven men and five women — including a corporate lawyer and a woman who called the ex-president
'selfish' — will ultimately determine if Trump is guilty or not guilty of hiding a $130,000 payment to
porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about their alleged affair. The brutal selection process
which included extensive questioning and research into their backgrounds took three days to complete.
Grotesque
Bias Against Trump. [Scroll down] The [Access Hollywood] tape is not
actually an admission of sexual assault — it is the opposite, in fact — but
put that aside. Trump is charged with the misdemeanor (bootstrapped into a felony by the
prosecutor) of filing business records that were incorrect. What [...] does the Access
Hollywood tape have to do with Trump's accounting records? Nothing. I can see no basis
for this ruling other than an outrageous effort at election interference by the trial judge, Juan
Merchan. It does not bode well for the coming weeks — during which, by the way,
Trump will be required to be present at the trial and will not be able to campaign. More
election interference.
The
lynching of a president. [Scroll down] Law professor Jonathan Turley laid
into the whole premise of the 34-count indictment for maybe having sex with a hooker. Turley
wrote, "I have long been critical of the case as a clear example of the weaponization of the
criminal justice system. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this
time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the defendant was anyone
other than Trump. One does not have to like Trump to repel from the spectacle about to unfold
in Manhattan." I have a quibble. One must vote for Trump if one wants to keep any
semblance of a free country. Democrats not only have gone 10 bridges too far, but they have
burned them all down. Democrats are using race with black prosecutors Fani Willis and Mister
Bragg fronting the prosecutions in state courts. Ted Kaczynski-look alike Jack Smith is
handling the federal case. The problem for Democrats is they keep spiking the ball and it
keeps bouncing back, hitting them in the eyeball. For years they dreamed of a mugshot of
Trump on one of their trumped-up charges. They finally got one. It backfired.
Jesse
Watters Reviews First Seven NYC Jurors in Trump's Rigged Criminal Case. The first
seven jurors in President Trump's NYC lawfare case in liberal Judge Juan Merchan's court.
Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday accused Trump of intimidating a juror who admitted she posted a
pro-Biden video to her Facebook page. Jury selection was still underway on Tuesday in the
Stormy Daniels 'hush money' trial after more than 50 prospective jurors were dismissed from the
jury pool on Monday. One potential juror was brought in for questioning after Trump's lawyers
discovered she posted a pro-Biden celebratory video in 2020.
Trump
will Be Found Guilty in NYC And Bragg Will Try to Imprison Him. New York City is out
to destroy Donald Trump, and Alvin Bragg's criminal trial starts today — Monday.
We already know the outcome — Trump will receive nothing of a fair trial, and Bragg,
with the judges, will find Trump Guilty, and they WILL try to imprison Trump on Riker's Island and
cheer when an inmate kills him. I feel sorry for those who are blinded by their hatred of
Trump. This is tearing down the country, and whatever they do to Trump has opened the door
for rouge Republican prosecutors to do the same to Democrats. This is the start of the
American Civil War, and ironically, the first one began on April 12th, 1861, and here this one
will be instigated on April 15th, 2024 — 163 years later [...] Bragg, who has
called Trump a "rich white guy," is even introducing racism to this event in addition to Bragg
being a zealot Democrat. Of course, racism only works in one direction, like a ONE-WAY
street. Nobody will ever address that issue. New York is notorious for corruption in
the legal system.
When
Contempt Is Necessary. This week's Trump Trial of the Week is the bazillionth attempt
by the ruling party to nail the leader of the opposition on ...something, anything,
whatever's to hand. So naturally a certain artfulness is required. In this case, if one
accepts as true the charges of corrupt prosecutor Alvin Bragg, Trump paid former crony Michael
Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels. Which would be a falsification of business records.
Which is, under the "laws" of New York, a misdemeanour - albeit one in which the statute of
supposed limitations has already kicked in. So Bragg is arguing that the expired misdemeanour
is actually a non-expired felony, because it was used to cover up another crime. What other
crime he has not said. And, as is now familiar in the State of New York, the corrupt judge
Juan Manuel Merchan has been happy to indulge him. So we are in the quintessentially American
realm of the Higher Bollocks. That means so-called conservative legal scholars fill the
airwaves conceding that yes, it's an almighty stretch but, in the fullness of time (which, as I can
attest after twelve years in the choked septic tank of DC justice, can be very full indeed), Judge Merchan's
whims and caprices will likely be overturned on appeal. So the system works — eventually.
'Truly
Un-American': Legal Expert Mike Davis Slams Use of Unconstitutional Gag Order. The
first criminal trial against former and potentially future President Donald is moving forward, with
Tuesday bringing us more of jury selection. As Matt covered on Monday, the trial thus far has
been incredibly unfair to Trump, and not merely because it's such a weak case. Manhattan
Judge Juan Merchan, who has been criticized as "a Democratic operative in a robe," won't even let
Trump attend his son's high school graduation. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is no better, though,
as he's looking to punish Trump for violating the unconstitutional gag order thrust upon him.
The Article 3 Project's Mike Davis called out such a move from Bragg in his many posts shared to
his X account, as well as with his many media appearances. This included an appearance with
Jack Posobiec, who also shared coverage from The Post Millennial. As Davis has warned before,
when the gag order was first announced back in late February, "these are republic-ending tactics by
these Democrats." [Tweet]
The
Deep State's Accelerating Attacks On Trump Show A Consciousness Of Guilt. To cover
for the Democrat collective's illegal acts, the Biden administration, via the DOJ and FBI, is using
lawfare, in the form of malicious and selective prosecution, and vexatious civil litigation to
target Trump to make it impossible for him to be a viable in the 2024 election. The federal
government as self-evidently coordinated closely with state prosecutors. These cases, in
chief, lack merit and use convoluted stretches of the law.
The
Manhattan case against Trump is a travesty. The facts of the case starting this week
are simple. It's the legal theories that are convoluted. Donald Trump paid a porn star
named Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about their affair. (Leave aside for a moment whether it's
possible to have an "affair" with a porn star, and leave aside whether Stormy blackmailed him into
making the payment.) Despite the opprobrious term "hush money," this type of payoff is
perfectly legal and happens all the time. In fact, it's the most frequent outcome of a sexual
harassment case, where it's politely termed a "confidential settlement agreement."
Here's
the Real Reason the Soros-Bought NYC Prosecutor Put Trump on Trial. There's nothing
at all funny about putting a former president of the United States of America on trial for
misdemeanor record-keeping offenses and turning those into felonies through a badly done magic
trick. The underlying reason why the George Soros-selected prosecutor put Donald Trump on
trial starting Monday, however, is yet another reason why this case should be laughed out of
court. The avowed Trump-hating prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, is part of the effort by the left to
tie up the former president in court so he can't campaign for president. Additionally, they
hope that by ringing up all manner of charges against Trump, they'll smear his reputation.
Crib
Notes for the Trial of the Century. [Scroll down] Fast-forward to the 2020
election. "Joe Biden" manages to charm swing-state voters from his basement hide-out, moves into
the puppet-theater known as the White House, and unleashes the dogs of lawfare on former president
Trump so as to knock him off the political game-board for once and for all. "JB's" Attorney
General, Merrick Garland, sends Deputy AG Matthew Colangelo to work in DA Alvin Bragg's office, to
construct some kind of case out of the Stormy Daniels / Michael Cohen debris. The result is
an improbable farrago of 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to the Stormy
Daniels hush-money payments, converted from misdemeanors to felonies on the theory that the
falsifications were intended to conceal other election law crimes, including "influencing the 2016
election." Each count for which Trump is convicted could result in a prison sentence of up to four
years, to be served consecutively, meaning 136 years in jail. Mr. Trump thus
becomes the proverbial ham sandwich that an ambitious DA can convince a grand jury to indict.
A
serial perjurer will try to prove an old misdemeanor against Trump in an embarrassment for the New
York legal system. The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once
said, "The more laws, the less justice." This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to
prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump. After an absurd $450 million
decision courtesy of Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will
bring his equally controversial criminal prosecution over hush money paid to a former porn star
Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal
codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. This week
will highlight the damage done to New York's legal system because of this unhinged crusade.
They've charged him with everything short of ripping a label off a mattress.
FBI
Interrogated Trump's Valet Driver without Trump's Knowledge — And Turned Ambush
Interview Into Perjury Trap: Court Docs. Judge Aileen Cannon ordered the public
release of the FBI's interview of Trump's valet driver Walt Nauta. Walt Nauta is a former
White House employee and Navy veteran who worked valet for Trump and served as a personal staffer
at Mar-a-Lago. According to the transcript of the May 2022 interview, the FBI
interrogated Trump's aide Walt Nauta — without Trump's knowledge. The FBI agents
approached Walt Nauta and asked for a voluntary interview under the guise of national security
interest (similar to the General Flynn ambush).
Congress
Is Lying to You About FISA. A few years ago, we learned conclusively that, in fact,
the FBI and the federal intel agencies — the dozen or more federal intel agencies we
have, for some reason — had been working secretly against Donald Trump's presidential
campaign. Trump had whispered about this, then shouted about it, was roundly denounced as a
conspiracy nut, a lunatic. But in the end, he was vindicated. It was true. These
agencies spied on Trump, and they leaked some of what they learned to the media, which used it
against Trump. Then these agencies concocted false stories about Trump. They tried to
crush Trump completely in 2016 and then for the entire course of his presidency. Then they
did the same thing in 2020 during the presidential election. And they're doing it
still. They're trying to put him in prison for the rest of his life.
Jack
Smith Signals He'll Try To Circumvent SCOTUS If It Says Obstruction Charges Aren't Real
Crimes. Democrat hacks have claimed that Special Counsel Jack Smith's indictments
against Donald Trump over the former president's challenging of the 2020 election are legally
sound. So why is Smith grasping at legal straws in his latest court filing? On Monday,
Smith filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the nation's highest judicial body to
dismiss Trump's presidential immunity claims. Citing the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S.
Capitol, the special counsel indicted Trump in August over his speech questioning the administration
of the 2020 election. This prompted the former president's legal team to file a motion
essentially arguing that Trump "should be immune from prosecution because the conduct he is
accused of constituted official acts of the president," as Fox News summarized.
Judge
Grants Donald Trump's Request to Reconsider Gag Order. A New York appeals court judge
on Tuesday permitted the full Appellate Division First Department to consider relaxing a sweeping
gag order against former President Donald Trump. The appellate court could reportedly decide
to delay the criminal trial while it considers Trump's gag order appeal. Trump sued New York
Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan in an appeals court on Monday to challenge the judge's sweeping
gag order. Merchan, who is presiding over the New York criminal case, imposed the gag order
after news surfaced about a connection between Merchan's daughter and conspiracy theorist
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Letitia
James to Start Seizing Trump's Properties. According to former federal prosecutor
Eric Lisann, Knight Specialty Insurance won't be allowed to post a $175 million bond for
Donald Trump as he appeals a fraud judgment. This statement came in response to lawyer Dave
Kingman's assertion that the insurance company wouldn't be able to secure the bond for Trump. [...]
On April 1, Trump submitted a $175 million bond to prevent the seizure of his assets by
New York Attorney General Letitia James during his appeal of a civil fraud ruling. However,
the court's filing system rejected the bond shortly afterward due to missing paperwork, including a
"current financial statement." James later questioned the adequacy of the bond and highlighted that
Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC), is not authorized in New York, rendering it ineligible
to obtain a certificate of qualification from the Department of Financial Services. KSIC has
resubmitted its paperwork to restart the process.
Democrats
Slip and Accidentally Confirm the Campaign Is All About Throwing Trump in Prison.
Oops. Democrats just said the quiet part out loud about their lawfare campaign against Donald
Trump, his lawyers, associates, and former aides leading to the 2024 presidential election.
Since Democrats and their fellow travelers in the Department of "Justice" first pushed the cascade
of questionable cases, the political left continues to maintain that Trump is just a bad guy who
did bad things leading up to, during, and after the 2020 presidential election. All stories,
comments, and the like assume that Donald Trump has done something horrible and should be thrown in
jail. Orange Man bad. Sure, the forces going after Trump worked with the Biden
Administration to coordinate at least some of these cases, but these cases had to take jerry-rigged
convolutions to get us to where we are right now.
Report:
Donald Trump to Sue Judge Juan Merchan in Gag Order Challenge. Former President
Donald Trump will reportedly sue New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan in an appeals court to
challenge his sweeping gag order. Merchan, who is presiding over the New York criminal case,
imposed a gag order on Trump after news surfaced about a connection between Merchan's daughter and
conspiracy theorist Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). Trump believes Merchan should recuse
himself, citing a conflict of interest regarding his daughter's position at a Democrat consulting
firm that supported President Biden's 2020 campaign.
Democrats
Plan to Kneecap Trump's Candidacy. The deep state, swamp, blob, ruling class,
establishment, uni-party, or whatever is today's term de jour for the permanent
administrative state has been pulling out all the stops to vanquish Trump. Nonsensical
lawfare investigations, lawsuits, special counsels, and baseless accusations are thus far having no
effect on "Teflon Don." That could change, but the Democrats and Never-Trumpers are determined
and resourceful. What's their plan, given that Trump has so far been unstoppable? [...] Formerly
red, now deep blue, Colorado, with a feckless Republican Party as dysfunctional as a circular
firing squad, attempted via their far-left Secretary of State, to keep Trump off the Colorado ballot
claiming he is an "insurrectionist." Never mind that he has neither been accused nor convicted
(other than by Democrats and the media) of insurrection. That did not matter to the Colorado
Supreme Court which in their self-proclaimed wisdom deemed that Trump did indeed incite an insurrection.
Vectoring
Dangerously. [Scroll down] While all that is churning things up, the next
round of Trump trials are set to kick off in Alvin Bragg's New York and Fani Willis's Fulton County
(Atlanta), GA. Both cases have publicly wrecked themselves. In the New York case, you have
the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, Loren Merchan, 37, a Democratic Party consultant who has
multi-million-dollar contracts with Rep. Adam Schiff, the nation's leading RussiaGate hoaxer,
and working partner of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, a chief witness in the matter of a
hush-money payment made to porn-star Stormy Daniels (hush money, you might note, not being
illegal). Any political motivation to see in that cast of characters? And that is apart
from the sheer bullshit nature of the case, as packaged for Mr. Bragg by US Attorney Matthew
Colangelo, who was swapped out of the Main DOJ HQ in Blobville to the office of Soros-connected DA
Bragg in Manhattan specifically to engineer a political prosecution.
Biden's
plan to save the 'deep state'. The Biden administration is bracing for a second Trump
term by rolling out a rule that would complicate Donald Trump's pledge to fire tens of thousands of
federal workers if he wins in November. The new rule is also a huge gift to the public-sector
unions that Joe Biden needs firmly in his corner. The latest edict, issued by the US Office
of Personnel Management, is an almost direct response to Trump's stated plans to purge the
bureaucracy. That's not how the OPM is framing it, of course; instead, OPM deputy director
Rob Shriver said it "is about making sure the American public can continue to count on federal
workers to apply their skills and expertise in carrying out their jobs, no matter their personal
political beliefs." Those political beliefs caused never-ending ire in the Trump years, of course.
Trump's
Judges Aren't Using Legal Reasoning. Even if you don't happen to be a lawyer, law
professor or legal scholar, it isn't hard to see a big problem with many of the published decisions
made by judges who are hearing defense arguments and motions made by President Trump, in the
continued "lawfare" cases being used by the DNC (not the United States) to persecute him
financially, and block him politically. There are a number of these judicial positions that
are out in the press. I'd like to focus on just one: the most recent case in Georgia
involving free speech. I'm not going to write up a "case review" that is readily available
from several professional critics involving substantive and procedural law. What I want to
point out here, rather, is that the government's case, and the judge's opinion stemming from it,
rest on systematic logical fallacy.
Alvin
Bragg's 'hush money' case: No due process and a judge whose objectivity is highly
suspect. From the second it was filed, it was clear that Alvin Bragg's indictment
against Donald Trump for the payments he made to Stormy Daniels was a due process disaster.
The complaint alleges legal conduct and then concludes that this legal conduct constituted illegal
action of an undisclosed nature. The case should have been tossed instantly. But now
that we know that the judge trying the case has deep Democrat ties and is trying to prevent Trump
from exposing those ties, it's becoming clear why it's proceeding to trial.
Some
Basic Law Stuff for Conservatives Watching This Legal Chaos. There is almost no
resemblance between what is happening with Trump and the law as normally practiced among normal
people in normal times. Remember, there's a Trump Exception to all the rules and all the
norms that rejects any kind of precedent and procedure, as well as simple fairness, in its pursuit
of the Bad Orange Man and his allies. When you understand that, you will understand why I
shake my head when people ask me my legal opinion about what's going on. My legal opinion
about what's going on is it has nothing to do with the law at all. Understand that what we're
seeing now are attempts to frame Donald Trump and people affiliated with him to abuse and misuse
the legal system to gain a political advantage. This is nothing new. It is something
scumbags have been doing for thousands of years.
Time
is Running Out to Save Western Civilization. The U.S. is moving quickly towards a
centralized state. Our liberties, our culture, and our national greatness are being
subverted. Subverted by a corrupt, clever, twisted, amorphous blob of powerful people.
Most of the old media, the new technocratic media (i.e.,: Facebook and Google), one entire
political party, part of the other party, along with the unelected bureaucracies and spy agencies
of the U.S. are all a part of this blob. Evil that's difficult to overcome. What this
blob is doing is not new. These current evils have often been repeated. During the
French Revolution, Robespierre et al. terrorized their population, and thought they could control
people, not just what they did, but what they thought. Their ideas turned bloody. Would
our elites repeat those evils to retain power? Yes. Consider the horrid treatment of
the J6 prisoners and the Trump family as a beginning. More recently, the Soviet state and its
satellites controlled their citizens in horrible ways. China has been doing the same since
the Cultural Revolution and continues today. This is not new. Unchecked tyranny
corrupts, causing massive harm.
Jack
Smith's Case Against Trump Appears to Be Falling Apart. Special Counsel Jack Smith's
efforts to imprison Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents have hit a few snags
recently, and the latest snag is, indeed, a big one. "Special Counsel Jack Smith could be
blocked from using evidence against Donald Trump contained in grand jury investigation files, which
were transferred to the former president's Florida classified documents case this week, a former
prosecutor has suggested," reports Newsweek. "In 2023, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., heard
evidence from witnesses — including Trump's attorney, Evan Corcoran — while
considering whether charges should be brought against the former president and others for hoarding
classified documents. However, Trump and his co-accused were later indicted in Florida and,
under federal rules, the grand jury files were transferred on Monday to Trump-appointed judge,
Aileen Cannon's court." According to former prosecutor Bill Shipley, the transfer of the case
from D.C. to Florida gives Judge Cannon control over what evidence can be included —
especially testimony that may have violated attorney-client privilege. [Tweet]
Democracy
By Deception. These are people who have used every form of resistance, including
using the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign, hoping to discover some scandal. After he won, in
2016, they refused to recognize him as the winner, because of the "Russian collusion" they
invented. They made false accusations of criminality and kept alive the "investigation" for
three years to keep him from fulfilling his duties as POTUS, had organizations sue him every time
he enacted a policy, calling it racist or fascist. They sued him to keep from building the
wall. The whole power of the federal government was turned on him, a sight unimagined in
America. They kept him in constant legal conflict. [...] He suffered treachery from within
his own cabinet and advisors, apparently not understanding that having an "R" by one's name did not
mean they were not an enemy. They were proud of their interference in his administration,
planting agents to work against him, give him faulty advice, who refused to follow orders and
delayed every command to wait out his term. In the 2020 election, they had 51 former
intelligence agents and directors swear to a fraudulent document that called Hunter's laptop
Russian disinformation and not one of them have faced trial. They used the FBI to influence
social media sites to silence political opposition and critics of their crimes of election
interference. They are now disbarring and imprisoning any attorney who brought election fraud
cases to court.
Judge
sets new hearing date in 2020 Georgia election interference case. In a Monday
afternoon [3/25/2024] order, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set a new hearing date
in the 2020 election interference case. Attorneys representing former president Donald Trump
and former Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer are due back in court on Thursday for a
hearing to address three motions, according to the judge's order. [...] Former president Trump's
attorney, Steve Sadow, has asked the court to dismiss the indictment against Trump. He argues
that Trump's alleged criminal conduct was actually political speech protected by the First Amendment.
Cracks begin to appear: NY
Appeals Court Reduces Trump Bond in Civil Fraud Appeal and Extends Deadline. While
former President Donald Trump is in a New York courtroom Monday seeking to obtain a dismissal or
delay of the "hush money" criminal case brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin
Bragg, Trump notched a legal victory in a New York appellate court regarding the $454 million
appeal bond he was due to pay by Monday. Per initial reports, the appellate court reduced
the requisite appeal bond to $175 million and extended the deadline for paying it by
10 days. [Tweet]
This is still excessively high. Appellate
Court Rules Trump Can Post $175 Million Bond to Cover Letitia James' Judgment.
An appellate court ruled that President Trump can post a $175 million bond to cover Letitia
James' $464 million judgment. Trump has 10 days to post the bond. Marxist New
York Attorney General Letitia James last Thursday took the initial step to seize Trump's
assets. She filed judgments in Westchester County where Trump's private estate and golf
course named Seven Springs is located. President Trump had until Monday to either pay the
judgment or convince the appellate court to allow him to defer the payment pending appeal.
Turley for Attorney General! Judge's
'absurd' bond in NYC Trump case could have been reduced to almost nothing, says Turley.
Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley reacted Monday to former President Trump's bond being slashed
to $175 million in the New York City civil fraud case, calling the original $454 million
amount "absurd." Turley called the bond change a needed "restraint" to the legal system in New
York, warning the "political vortex" hasn't played well with voters or companies.
Donald
Trump: 'It Will Be My Honor to Post' $175M Bond. Former President Donald Trump vowed
to post an adjusted bond amount of $175 million within ten days, according to a court ruling
on Monday — while decrying the court cases against him as "election interference."
The new bond amount of $175 million is far less than Judge Arthur Engoron's order required
Trump to post. The five-panel New York appeals court ruled Trump could post a bond "in the
amount of $175 million" to cover the judgment. The court also delayed enforcement of the
$464 million judgment by ten days. The order also means Trump can still operate a
business in New York and obtain loans from New York financial institutions, CNN reported.
Finally —
House Subcommittee Chairman Pete Sessions Starts Looking at Root of DC Lawfare
Activity. Representative Pete Sessions is Chairman of the Subcommittee for Govt
Operations and the Federal Workforce within the House Oversight and Government Accountability
Committee. The subcommittee has a few key Republican representatives, including Clay Higgins
and Byron Donalds, who are aligned with MAGA, Donald Trump, pushback against the weaponization of
our modern UniParty government — and they appear as allies in the effort to stimulate a
larger awakening amid the American electorate. As readers here are very aware, I am
exceptionally frustrated with the willful blindness that permeates most of our Republican
representatives. The GOP reps ignore the root causes of the problems and choose to focus on
the politics of narratives. As a result, congressional hearings, soundbites, letters written
etc. generate nothing that stops the weaponization of govt. Quite simply, there are specific
people within the administrative state that are the core of the corrupt activity.
Change
in America. And then there is Donald Trump. We are a nation of laws, the
press and the Washington establishment say again and again. Yet Trump has stood against the
permanent elites, the permanent establishment, the permanent institutions. This is why they
hate him so. He has provided a voice to many who have believed for a very long time that the
system is rigged. We don't have voice. We don't have say. It's all an insider
deal. The swamp. Now Trump is expected to pay almost half a billion dollars in
fines because he supposedly overvalued the worth of his properties. He has said this would
never have happened to him if he hadn't been running for President, and, of course, he is
right. However, this is just another example of an institution, a permanent power structure
and the elites within it, trying to undermine the will of the people, rig the election, obliterate
anyone outside the system from representing the average Allan and average Anne, who feel they no
longer have representation within the system.
Fani
Willis Delivers a New Threat to Donald Trump, Sets Up a Constitutional Crisis. Does
Fani Willis, who is currently trying to throw former president Donald Trump in jail, want to be a
prosecutor or in a Netflix special? The Fulton County District Attorney was caught red-handed
having an affair with a prosecutor she hired, paid an exorbitant amount of taxpayer money to, and
then took lavish vacations with, providing no proof she reimbursed him for the expenses. It
wasn't her first brush with corruption, either. Willis was previously dragged before a judge
to explain why she hosted a fundraiser for the political opponent of one of the possible targets in
the Trump case. What was her punishment in both cases? A stern talking-to. The
system always protects its own, and that means instead of tempering her completely unprofessional
and out-of-bounds behavior, Willis is doubling down.
The
Music Stops as CNN Panel Guest Explains What Seizing Trump's Property Could Do. The
hands that grab former President Donald Trump's New York properties could hand him the White House,
a pollster says. Pollster Frank Luntz appeared on CNN Thursday amid talk that New York State
Attorney General Letitia James could begin seizing Trump's properties Monday. James sued
Trump in a civil fraud case that ended up with Trump being ordered to pay out millions, with
$464 million due Monday. Trump has indicated that making that payment — which
state rules say must be made for Trump to appeal — could be difficult, leading to
speculation that James is ready to seize Trump properties in New York state's swanky Westchester
County. Luntz said if James does that, she is helping Trump.
Frank
Luntz on CNN: If Letitia James Starts Seizing Trump's Assets 'You Are Going to Elect Donald
Trump'. Frank Luntz recently appeared on CNN and was asked about the possibility of
New York AG Letitia James seizing Trump's assets. He gave the far left network a stark
warning, saying that if James does this, she will essentially make Trump's case for him and he will
surely be elected. The point Luntz is making is a good one, but it may have already happened
in the mind of the public. People already see this happening. The mere possibility of
it is as real as if it already happened.
Never-Trumper
Frank Luntz warns seizing his properties will backfire bigly. Political pollster
Frank Luntz is no fan of Donald Trump but he sees the former president back in the White House if
the current persecution against him continues. Luntz issued a direct message to New York
Attorney General Letitia James and warned that the legal machinations against the presumptive 2024
Republican nominee could backfire, speaking specifically about reports that James may be preparing
to seize Trump properties as part of the civil fraud case she brought against him. During a
CNN panel discussion, Luntz cautioned the New York AG not to "play politics" lest her efforts
propel Trump to a victory in November.
New
York State Targets U.S. Citizen Donald Trump with Unprecedented Lawfare Maneuver. The
Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, but also mentions "excessive fines" and
bail. The "excessive fines" clause surfaces (among other places) in cases of civil and
criminal forfeiture. In New York state, Attorney General Letitia James, in coordination with
New York Judge Arthur Engoron, are seeking to continue the targeting of President Donald Trump with
a series of financial judgements, penalties and control mechanisms intended to isolate the leading
2024 Republican presidential candidate from his wealth. As if something akin to the John Galt
character in Atlas Shrugged was coming to life, no American individual has ever faced this level of
intentional weaponization of power. If the state appellate court does not intervene, I
predict a federal judge will have to get involved. The reason is simple; the State of New
York is clearly violating the 8th Amendment, and despite the compromised judiciary, the scale of
overreach is even beyond the ability of the pretending judicial system to overlook it.
Trump's
Third Act has begun. The Democrats planned to cripple Trump financially so he
couldn't spend as much on the campaign. Trump turned Leticia James into his best
fundraiser. Lots of interesting developments lately on the topic of the 2020 election.
The Simulation wants at least one of those fresh allegations to be a Kraken. Trump's legal
maneuvering is likely to keep him eligible for the election. You can fantasize about a heroic
Democrat such as Newsom swooping in and replacing Biden, but it's looking less likely every
day. If it had always been the plan, it would have happened by now. Looks like Biden
has to stay on the job to keep the Biden Crime Family out of jail. The predictable Democrat
Summer Hoax will add some excitement, but it will be forgotten and debunked by November.
Fairness
for Trump? Former President Donald Trump has just days to come up with a bond, a
nearly half-billion-dollar bond, to ensure that he will pay the outrageously excessive judgment
against him in the lawsuit filed by New York's Democratic attorney general, Letitia James.
Nailing Trump has been a longtime goal for James — in her campaign for state attorney
general, she pledged to "bring him down." Now, with the help of a compliant judge —
in New York, Trump did not have the right to a jury trial — James is threatening to
confiscate Trump's assets before he is even able to appeal the verdict against him. It's
happening because under New York law, James can force Trump to put up the whole judgment,
$454 million, before he can appeal. And if Trump doesn't produce the cash or
secure a bond for the money, James can seize his assets and sell them off. That is all before
an appeals court can review the highly questionable proceeding against Trump.
Radical
Judge Engoron Punishes Trump More, Orders Court to Oversee Organization's Finances for
3 Years. Not content with slapping former President Donald Trump with almost
half a billion dollars in fines for a "crime" in which there were no victims, New York Judge Arthur
Engoron ruled Thursday that the court will effectively take over the Trump Organization. At
least, that's how it reads, seeing as Trump will have to disclose his every financial move to his
government overlords. [...] Who will be monitoring the operations of the multi-national real estate
conglomerate? An experienced businessperson? A financial expert? No, it will
(continue to) be another judge: [...] That already sounds like enough, but there's even more.
The court has to be notified of just about every piece of paper shuffled during the workday: [...]
Trump's
Legal Team Fights Back as Letitia James Takes Initial Step to Seize Trump's Golf Course and Private
Estate. President Trump's legal team fought back as Letitia James took the initial
step to seize Trump's assets on Thursday after his attorney said he was unable to secure a bond to
appeal the massive judgment in the NYC fraud case. Letitia James filed judgments in
Westchester County where Trump's private estate and golf course is located. President Trump
has four days to either pay the judgment or convince the appellate court to allow him to defer the
payment pending appeal. Trump's legal team has filed an appeal and requested a stay on the
massive $464 million judgment.
Letitia
James appears to eye Trump's Westchester golf club and 212-acre estate as properties she could
seize. New York AG Letitia James may be gearing up to seize Donald Trump's
Westchester golf club and Seven Springs estate as the deadline looms for the ex-president to secure
the $454 million bond a judge imposed after his fraud trial. The attorney general
formally registered judgements in Westchester County where Trump has the two properties just north
of Manhattan on March 6. According to the county clerk's online database, the judgements
were registered against Trump, the Trump Organization and his two adult sons Don Jr. and
Eric. The action was first reported by Bloomberg News.
Donald
Trump may not pay bond — and instead let Letitia James seize Trump Tower:
insiders. As Donald Trump faces a Monday deadline to post a $454 million bond in
the civil fraud case against him in New York, insiders said he may be weighing a little-discussed
option: Doing nothing. The ex-president reportedly has been struggling to raise the
cash for the bond — either from banks or wealthy friends — with his lawyers
claiming on Monday that it was a "practical impossibility." While some reports have raised
speculation that Trump may "go nuclear" with a Chapter 11 filing to protect his prize real
estate assets across Manhattan, experts said bankruptcy would create unwelcome complications as the
2024 election season comes to a head.
Judge
Allows Trump And Co-Defendants To Appeal Fani Willis Ruling. Judge Scott McAfee ruled
Wednesday that former President Donald Trump and eight other co-defendants can seek review of his
decision not to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. McAfee granted the
certificate of immediate review sought by defendants, finding it "of such importance to the case
that immediate review should be had." The decision means defendants can appeal McAfee's decision,
which allowed Willis to stay on the case against Trump after special prosecutor Nathan Wade stepped
down, despite finding an "appearance of impropriety" in their actions. "The challenged order
is not one of final judgment, and the State has informed the Court that it has complied with the
order's demands," McAfee wrote. "Thus, unless directed otherwise by an appellate court, supersedeas
shall only apply to the order being appealed."
Trump
Team Says It's Unable to Obtain Bond in Civil Fraud Case. Former President Donald
Trump is unable to post a bond in his appeal of a New York civil fraud judgment against him,
according to a court filing by his attorneys on Monday [3/18/2024]. Trump, the presumptive
Republican presidential nominee in the 2024 general election, was sued by Democratic state Attorney
General Letitia James of New York for allegedly falsifying his company's assets in order to obtain
loans for business ventures, with the New York Supreme Court's Trial Division issuing a ruling on
Feb. 23 that ordered him to pay the state of New York $454 million. Trump, who has
appealed the decision, moved the court's Appellate Division on Monday to stay the execution of the
judgment and indicated that he is unable to obtain a "supersedeas" bond that would guarantee the
final amount pending the outcome of the appeal.
Democrats
Cannot Win a Fraud-Free Election. Under Biden, Americans are seeing unprecedented
weaponization. Jack Smith was appointed special counsel in the classified documents and
January 6th indictments of President Trump, both widely viewed to be politically
motivated. Smith was directly appointed by Biden's Attorney General, Merrick Garland.
Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis met directly with the Biden administration
shortly before prosecuting Trump for election interference. In the New York-based hush money
case, Matthew Colangelo, who previously targeted Trump during his time in the New York AG's office,
recently left the Biden/Garland DoJ and joined Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's team that is targeting
Trump. Beyond targeting the preferred candidate of millions of Americans, Biden's FBI has
also targeted traditional Catholics, labeling them as potential violent extremists, in addition to
Biden's White House encouraging major social media platforms to violate the First Amendment by
removing posts they disagreed with.
Joe
Rogan Rips 'Banana Republic' Indictments of Trump: 'Looks Like You're Trying to Prosecute Your
Political Opponents'. Joe Rogan slammed the indictments of Trump during a recent
episode of his podcast, calling it the stuff of banana republics. In his criticisms, he
singled out Letitia James and Fani Willis, questioning what their real motivations are and
suggesting that this looks like nothing more than the targeting of political opponents, which is
exactly what it is, of course. This is notable because if Joe Rogan is asking these
questions, millions of Americans are thinking the same thing, and not just Trump supporters.
Jack
Smith Gets 'Worst Possible Outcome' After Recent Ruling: Former Official.
Several former U.S. officials warned that special counsel Jack Smith appears to be struggling in
his classified documents case against former President Donald Trump — even after the
federal judge in the case denied an attempt to dismiss the charges against the former
president. This week, Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order that denied President Trump's
motion to dismiss the case on grounds of "unconstitutional vagueness." While she noted his
attorneys raised questions that warrant consideration, she said that their arguments relating to
the Espionage Act should be made in "connection with jury-instruction briefing." Andrew
Weissmann, a former U.S. attorney who worked on special counsel Robert Mueller's team, said on
MSNBC that the judge's ruling not to dismiss the case was the "worst possible outcome for the
government" and Mr. Smith. Because, he argued, if the judge had agreed to dismiss the
case, it could "have been appealed" to an appeals court in the meantime.
Adam
Schiff Is Big Mad at Justice Department for Taking Too Long to Prosecute Trump.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) railed against the Justice Department on Sunday for taking too long to
indict and prosecute former President Donald Trump in the various cases against him. He also
lashed out at Trump for seeking to delay his trials. While Schiff insists that his criticism
is motivated by a desire for justice, it is abundantly obvious that this is more about
politics. Schiff made his remarks during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union." The
host brought up Schiff's disagreement with Attorney General Merrick Garland's handling of the
investigations into the former president, particularly when it comes to the timing. The
lawmaker responded, noting that the Justice Department "did wait at least a year to look beyond the
foot soldiers, that is, those that broke into the Capitol that day and refrained from looking at
those who were the inciters of the attack on the Capitol." He continued, lamenting that the
cases against Trump could stretch beyond the election.
Lawfareland
gets nervous. This newsletter has noted that the elected Democrats, Biden
DOJ-appointed prosecutors, legal activists, and others who have filed criminal charges and lawsuits
against former President Donald Trump have crafted a multiple-redundant line of attack. If
one case fails, there is another to back it up, and if that case fails, there is another to back it
up, and so on. There are four criminal cases against the former president, all charging him
with felonies. At the beginning of this week, there were 91 felony counts against Trump, but
a judge in the Georgia prosecution threw out some counts, so the total number of felony counts
Trump faces now stands at 88. That is a lot of redundancy. All it takes is for Trump to
be convicted on a single count in a single case for Democrats and their allies to make a million
campaign ads branding President Joe Biden's challenger a "convicted felon." Polls have shown that
some voters who might otherwise support Trump will back away if he is convicted of a felony.
That alone might be enough to swing the election. So of course the Democratic lawfare team,
and its cheerleaders in the media, is desperate that at least one Trump trial start and reach a
verdict before the Nov. 5 election.
Judge
Questions Why Trump Was The Only President Charged Over Handling Of Classified Material.
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's Florida case questioned during a Thursday hearing
why he was the only president who has been charged over his handling of classified material, according
to multiple reports. During a hearing to consider various motions Trump filed to dismiss the case,
Judge Aileen Cannon noted no former president had similarly faced criminal charges over the handling of
classified material, according to NBC News. Trump's attorneys brought up special counsel Robert
Hur's report finding evidence President Joe Biden willfully kept classified documents, but declining
to charge him, according to CNN. "Even with other former presidents, there was never a situation
remotely similar to this one," prosecutor Jay Bratt told Cannon, according to CNN.
Andy
McCarthy Says Robert Hur Testimony Shows Why 'Biden Should Pardon Trump'. Former
federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy on Wednesday asserted President Joe Biden should pardon former
President Donald Trump after special counsel Robert Hur's Tuesday testimony. Hur testified on
his report that concluded there should be no charges against Biden despite him willfully withholding
classified documents. Trump faces charges related to classified documents and Biden should
pardon him to get rid of the alleged double standard, McCarthy asserted on "Fox and Friends."
Manhattan
D.A. Alvin Bragg Agrees to 30-Day Delay of 'Hush Money' Trial. More information is
now available as to the rationale for Bragg's office agreeing to the delay: "Specifically,
yesterday the USAO produced approximately 31,000 pages of additional records and represented that
there will be another production of documents by next week," the district attorney's office said in
a motion to the court requesting the delay. Based on our initial review of yesterday's
production, those records appear to contain materials related to the subject matter of this case,
including materials that the People requested from the USAO more than a year ago and that the USAO
previously declined to provide," the motion said.
Judge
Dismisses 6 Charges in Georgia Trump Indictment Ahead of Expected Fani Willis Decision.
The judge overseeing the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants
in Georgia dismissed six counts of the indictment Wednesday. Judge Scott McAfee, who is expected
to soon decide whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will be disqualified from the case
over an alleged conflict of interest, sided with defendants in a separate motion to toss certain counts.
He wrote that six counts did not "give the Defendants enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently,
as the Defendants could have violated the Constitutions and thus the statute in dozens, if not hundreds, of
distinct ways." McAfee's ruling said that the state can still bring new indictments on the six charges,
which all center on "Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer."
Judge
in Georgia election interference case dismisses three counts against Trump. The judge
presiding over the election interference case in Georgia has dismissed some of the criminal counts
against former President Donald Trump. In a ruling Wednesday, Judge Scott McAfee found that
six of the counts in the indictment against Trump and some of his co-defendants, including his
former chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, lacked sufficient detail. The
judge left open the possibility that prosecutors could re-file the counts.
Federal
Judge Sides With Trump, Allows More Time to File Motions. The federal judge
overseeing the Trump classified documents case handed defense lawyers a win on Monday, allowing a
10-day extension to file motions. In a paperless order on Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen
Cannon granted former President Donald Trump a 10-day extension, meaning that he shall file a reply
to their pretrial motions by March 24. His lawyers had made the request this week, arguing
that they are preparing for a separate criminal trial in New York over state charges that he
allegedly falsified business records at the end of the 2016 election. The former president's
attorneys wrote that both President Trump and his attorneys "are currently preparing for a trial in
New York, New York that is scheduled to begin on March 25, 2024, and the need to
simultaneously devote attention to that case. "This matter has been necessitated in part by the
discovery violations and strategic scheduling demands of the Special Counsel's Office that have
prejudiced President Trump in multiple respects," they added.
House
GOP opens probe into Democrat J6 panel 'collusion' with Atlanta prosecutor pursuing
Trump. Republican congressional investigators have opened an inquiry into the extent
of "collusion" between the Democrat-run House Jan. 6 committee and the Fulton County District
Attorney Fani Willis during her prosecution of Donald Trump. In a status report released
Monday, the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee chaired by Rep. Barry.
Loudermilk, R-Ga., said that it located a letter in which Willis in 2021 asked for the House
Democrats to send her any evidence that would further her prosecution of Trump. The committee
said it was concerned that the Democrat-run investigation led by Reps. Benny Thompson and Liz
Cheney may have shared evidence such as video depositions with Willis's office while not providing
them to the Republicans that took over the House chamber in 2023. The Republicans raised
their concerns in chapter of the report Monday entitled "collusion with Fulton County District
Attorney Fani Willis."
Infamous
Trump-Raffensperger Call at Heart of Fani Willis Prosecution Was Illegally Recorded.
Can an illegally recorded phone call be used to form the basis of a prosecution? That's a
question that is about to become very relevant following a bombshell revelation regarding the
infamous phone call between Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
On the call, Trump can be heard telling Raffensperger, "I just want to find 11,780 votes." That
statement was one of the centerpieces of the former president's second impeachment. Was it
definitive, though? In context, Trump had also asked Raffensperger to "find the fraud,"
indicating that he thought there were legitimate votes left to be uncovered. Regardless,
Fulton County DA Fani Willis used the phone call as the foundation for her RICO prosecution against
Trump and his associates. According to a new book published by Michael Isikoff (who was an
original pusher of the Russian collusion hoax), that call was illegally recorded by Jordan Fuchs.
New
Book Admits Fani Willis' Get-Trump Investigation Began With Illegal Recording.
Democrat Fani Willis' legal troubles extend beyond recent revelations that she deceptively hired
her otherwise under-qualified, secret, married lover to run the political prosecution of former
President Donald Trump and other Republicans in Georgia. A new book from Mike Isikoff and
Daniel Klaidman admits that a widely misunderstood phone call, on which Willis' political
prosecution rests, was illegally recorded. That means the entire prosecution could crumble
with defendants having a new avenue to challenge Democrat lawfare.
Trump
'Lawfare' Update. Former President Donald Trump's victory in the Supreme Court 14th
Amendment case, together with delay and disorder in the criminal cases against him, has set off
panic among Democrats who hoped to use prosecutions and other legal maneuvers to keep Trump from
winning a second term. "Supreme Court ruling darkens critics' hopes for a judicial curb on
Trump," read one headline in the Washington Post. You might find it outrageous that people in
positions of great power and responsibility, in the midst of a campaign, would use the justice
system to "curb" one of the two major presidential candidates. You might find it outrageous
that those people — a coalition of elected Democrats, Biden administration appointees,
Democratic Party activists and career lawfare specialists — are in fact desperately
pushing the system to work faster to win verdicts by Election Day. But there it is. The
anti-Trump coalition has launched six main attacks on Trump. [...]
Democratic
Panic: A Trump Conviction is the Only Way Biden Can Win. It's not like this was
a secret or something you couldn't have figured out for yourself, still it's sort of revealing when
Democrats say the quiet part out loud. I'm talking specifically about a new Thomas Edsall
column in the NY Times titled "'This Could Well Be Game Over.'" The game in this case is the 2024
election and the over refers to Joe Biden's chances of winning it if Donald Trump isn't convicted
of a serious crime prior to November.
If
Trump wins in November, expect a real insurrection from Democrats. The reaction by
Democratic Party politicians and pundits to the Supreme Court ruling on March 4,
2024 — voiding the effort by Colorado to throw Donald Trump off its ballot —
reveals some very fundamental realities that must be faced by all Americans. To put it
bluntly: These Democrats have no intention of accepting a victory by Donald Trump in the
upcoming election, even if he should win by a majority so vast that no amount of election rigging
can disguise it. The first reaction to that decision was a major tell. Jean Griswold is
the secretary of state of Colorado who had taken Trump off the ballot, claiming he was an
insurrectionist even though that was merely her opinion as Trump has not only never been convicted
of that crime, he has not even been charged with it. [...] Spurred by her blind hatred of Trump,
Griswold's refusal to deal with reality here is disturbing, to say the least. First, the
court made it very clear, unanimously, that the states don't have this authority when it
comes to federal elections. That she as a lawyer could not recognize the plain legal
arguments here that were agreed to by even the most radical leftists on the court indicates how
blind she has become to reasonable disagreement.
The
Consequences of Jack Smith's Rush to Trial. Jack Smith is rushing to prosecute former
President Donald Trump for the events of Jan. 6 so that the American people can have the
benefit of his evidence, and the views of the jury, before they vote in November. This rush
violates Justice Department rules. The Supreme Court now faces the question whether it too
will be a party to this rush and, if not, how it will avoid it.
House
Dems Prep an "Insurrection" Bill Barring Trump from Taking Office. The Supreme Court
didn't dig into the weeds of the entire insurrection debate, but one obvious issue with the various
efforts to remove Trump from the ballot in various states was that insurrection had been left
entirely to Democrat state officials to define. That kind of nonsense however won't fly in an
actual legislative process. Now that the Supreme Court blocked state officials from
announcing that Trump can't be on the ballot because he's an "insurrectionist", House members are
now trying to play the same game. [...] For now, in a GOP House, the bill is mostly virtue
signaling, but tellingly Raskin is not so much trying to define insurrection as trying to define J6
as an insurrection. It's the typical end run around the process of defining the thing because
otherwise Democrat BLMers might fall afoul of it. The Raskin bill conveniently defines J6 as
an insurrection and carefully defines the term so as to specifically apply it to Trump. It
does not however define what an insurrection is making the whole exercise into a bill that
specifically exists to block a particular candidate from being able to take office on grounds that
would be unlikely to apply to his own party. Does that raise some major banana republic
issues? Obviously. Still, has Raskin considered what kind of can of worms he's opening here?
The
Colorado Secretary of State says she now trusts the people to make the decision she didn't trust
them to make four months ago. The cabal that calls itself the Democratic Party of
Colorado nearly pulled a coup last fall. Unburdened by any inconvenient process that might
have been due, a Democrat state judge decided that Donald Trump was an insurrectionist.
Therefore, under a clause of the 14th Amendment designed to prevent former Confederates from
running for federal office, Trump was ineligible to run for president. Never mind that Trump
had never been convicted or even charged with the crime of insurrection. On appeal, four of
the seven Democrat-appointed justices on the Colorado Supreme Court agreed. The other three
in their strident dissent all but wondered out loud what kind of Colorado-legal weed the majority
was smoking. The next stop was the United States Supreme Court.
Maine
Secretary of State Withdraws Determination That Donald Trump Should Be Banned from
Ballot. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) withdrew her previous
determination that former President Donald Trump should be prohibited from appearing on the ballot,
doing so following the Supreme Court's nine-to-zero decision, which determined that states do not
possess the authority to ban a candidate from the ballot using the Fourteenth Amendment's
"Insurrection Clause." In December, Bellows determined that she believed Trump to be
ineligible to appear on the state's ballot based on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, the
Insurrection Clause. However, she said at the time that the decision would not be carried out
until the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in.
Democrats
Jump at Chance to 'Revive Legislation' to Kick Trump Off of the Ballot. The U.S.
Supreme Court ruled in a 9-0 decision on Monday that Colorado erred in removing former and
potentially future President Donald Trump from the ballot. As the Court ruled, though,
"responsibility for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates rests with
Congress and not the States." Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin (MD), Eric Swalwell (CA), and
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL) have thus wasted no time in their crusade to "revive legislation" to
kick Trump off of the ballot and deny the American people their right to vote for or against
him. As Raskin explained it when offering his reaction to CNN's Dana Bash, these and other
members are working "to revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could
determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th
Amendment." [Tweet]
The
Fani Willis Scandal Is So Much Bigger Than Trump. Is any public figure having a worse
start to the year than Fani Willis? The once-lauded Fulton County prosecutor was billed as
the savior of "democracy" not too long ago. [...] During the recent hearings on her misconduct,
Willis claimed that she paid Wade back. The proof? There is none. According to
Willis, she used a horde of cash she keeps at her home, but not a single receipt or bank statement
has been produced to prove any transfer of money was made. Things have gotten so bad that
both Wade and Willis are now facing discipline from the Georgia State Bar, but that may be the
least of their worries. What started as a prosecution of Trump has become its own story, and
it can't be ignored. Even if the former president weren't involved, this would still be a
major scandal. A top prosecutor in one of America's largest cities was funneling cash to a
married man she was sleeping with and then going on vacations paid for by that money. Forget
disbarment. We could be talking about removal from office and even criminal charges for
Willis at some point in the future.
Supreme
Court puts Trump back on Colorado Republican primary ballot. The Supreme Court on
Monday [3/4/2024] unanimously reversed the Colorado court ruling that barred Donald Trump from
appearing on the state's Republican presidential primary ballot because of a provision in the U.S.
Constitution related to people who engage in insurrection. The decision Monday said that
"States have no power under the Constitution to" enforce the provision disqualifying people from
federal office if they engaged in insurrection, "especially the Presidency." The ruling said states
could disqualify people from holding state offices on those grounds. The Supreme Court's
ruling mean that no other state can bar Trump, or any other candidate, from a presidential ballot
by invoking the insurrection clause in the Constitution. "For the reasons given, responsibility
for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates rests with Congress and not
the States," the ruling said. "The judgment of the Colorado Supreme Court therefore cannot stand."
American
Paralysis and Decline. Most accept that had former President Donald Trump just not
run for president in 2024 or was a man of the left, he would not now be facing four different
felony court cases. Most accept that three of the four prosecutors have either in advance
promised to get Trump or have proved grossly unethical. Most know it is wrong to try to
remove a leading presidential candidate from state ballots. Yet many shrug that this new
weaponization of America's legal system is the flamboyant Trump's own problem, not their own.
So they ignore the third worldization of our political system, which they quietly acknowledge is
otherwise leading us to a Venezuela-like mess.
Jack
Smith Asks DC Judge Boasberg to Decide What Trump Classified Doc Evidence to Show Florida
Judge. If you ever needed a good point to highlight the nature of political Lawfare,
this is a great example. Julie Kelly essentially notes that Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is
asking DC Judge James Boasberg to decide what evidence should be given to Florida Judge Aileen
Cannon. [...] There is a certain level of cognitive disassociation needed by the media to ignore
how the DOJ is using a DC court system to prosecute a Florida case against Trump. Boasberg,
an ally of SSCI Chairman Mark Warner, has intercepted several cases that brought sunlight upon the
corrupt DC system. In each case Boasberg ruled in favor of maintaining the corruption,
including his willfully blind support of the FBI searching NSA databases to conduct illegal
surveillance of Americans, and including Boasberg's personal appointment of Mary McCord to run
defense on behalf of the corrupt DOJ main office.
Is
Trump's Mega-Fine Unconstitutional? Although the Eighth Amendment is not explicitly
limited to criminal cases, its three subjects — bail, fines and punishments —
all relate generally to criminal cases. Trump's fine was imposed in what was denominated a
civil case. But it was not a traditional civil case between private parties, because no
private parties were allegedly damaged by Trump. It was a case brought by the State of New
York, which would receive the fine. Moreover, the fine was intended to deter the kind of
conduct of which Trump was accused. These factors make the fine seem closer to the usual
attributes of a public criminal case than of a private civil case. A functional analysis of
the fine in this case could well conclude that it is really criminal in nature and should be
covered by the Eighth Amendment. Trump's lawyers will certainly argue at this point, though
they are unlikely to succeed on the initial appeal. They will then almost certainly seek
certiorari, a review by the Supreme Court of the United States, by alleging a violation of the
Eighth Amendment.
Democrats
are determined to destroy not just the political career but the life of President
Trump. It is important to reiterate that there is no basis for any of these cases
against Trump. Had he not run for President in 2016 these cases would never have
existed. Perhaps if he had struck a deal with the establishment in 2020 to never run again
and to abandon the MAGA agenda, he would have been spared. The persecution of the
January 6th protestors is proof that Trump supporters will also not be spared. The goal
is to crush the MAGA movement, which is the first truly grassroots movement, one so successful that
it won the topmost elected office in the country and the world. For Trump supporters, the
real disappointment occurs when elected GOP officials either behave like bystanders or worse, join
the Democrats whenever President Trump is targeted. Many of these officials are there because
of endorsement from President Trump.
Illinois
Judge Kicks Trump Off The Ballot, Says Any Votes For Him Must Be 'Suppressed'. While
outlets like The Washington Post have tried to convince Americans that "Democracy Dies in
Darkness," it actually dies in Illinois courthouses where judges whose expertise revolves around
parking tickets kick former presidents off ballots. In the left's latest attempt at election
interference, Cook County Judge Tracie Porter kicked former President Donald Trump off the primary
ballot on Wednesday — but put her own order on hold because she knows it won't
stand. Porter ruled Trump must be removed from the state's March 19 primary ballot but
stayed her own order until Friday pending a likely appeal. Porter said the quiet part out
loud, ruling that the board of elections, which unanimously voted against removing Trump from the
ballot, "shall remove Donald J. Trump from the ballot for the General Primary Election on
March 19, 2024, or cause any votes for him to be suppressed." The suit was brought by
the left-wing group Free Speech For People, which argued Trump is ineligible based on the 14th
Amendment's insurrection clause. Trump has not been charged with nor convicted of inciting or
partaking in insurrection.
Politicized
Prosecutions Are A Warning Shot Across The Bow For All Americans. New York
Gov. Kathy Hochul knows she has spooked her state's business community. That's why she
went on a talk show last week to calm their very legitimate fears that they would be next. If
former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted and fined hundreds of millions of dollars for a
common business practice, who is safe? Hochul said New Yorkers are generally "honest people,
and they're not trying to hide their assets and they're following the rules... This judge
determined that Donald Trump did not follow the rules." Hence the $355 million fine levied by
the court. But the truth is Trump engaged in a common business practice for developers.
As "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary noted in a Fox News interview, "Forget about Trump, every single
real estate developer everywhere on Earth does this. They always talk about their asset being
worth a lot, and the bank says no. That's just the way it is." The broader effect of
such politicized prosecutions is clear — Americans are increasingly convinced we live in
a nation with a two-tiered justice system.
If
Illinois prevails in keeping Trump off of the ballot, our republic is finished. Cook
County has been labeled "Crook County" for good reasons. Chicago Circuit Judge Tracie Porter
decided that former President Donald Trump should be disqualified from appearing on the Republican
presidential primary ballot in Illinois. This decision was based on allegations tied to his
involvement in the events of January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol. The judge's ruling,
invoking the insurrection clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, has sparked a
significant debate over the balance of free speech, political activism, and the boundaries of legal
disqualification from public office. Insurrection? Give me a break. Trump was not
part of the demonstration and even if he were, it's free speech and not an "insurrection."
This ruling, while currently delayed in anticipation of an appeal, underscores a concerning trend
towards the politicization of legal mechanisms and the potential for judicial overreach, to say the
least; it is paramount to recognize the implications such decisions may have on the democratic
process, especially when considering the role of the judiciary in electoral matters.
Fani
Willis Plays the Stooge. Our master-criminal coconspirators came up with a plan to
return someone who is otherwise unelectable, Joe Biden, to the Oval Office. They'd use a
novel application of the law, to indict Trump and 18 others for doing absolutely nothing
illegal. Their plan was quite clever: prosecute Trump and his pals in a friendly venue,
and then see if the Donald can campaign from a cell as well as Joe can campaign from a basement.
The
8th Amendment comes out in favor of Trump. On February 16, 2024, a judge in New
York State imposed fines totaling just over $360 million on former president Donald J. Trump,
The Trump Organization, and several related Trump companies and trusts in the civil case brought by
the New York attorney general. President Trump's sons Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump were
fined just over $4 million each. The court imposed additional sanctions, including
injunctions against former president Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.; and Eric Trump from serving as
officers or directors in New York corporations for specified numbers of years, among other
sanctions. The media reporting on the court's decision has been massive since the decision
was rendered. However, little or no reporting focused on the constitutionality of the fines
under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. President Trump and his co-defendants
all have substantial 8th Amendment "excessive fine" challenges to raise. In fact, a review of
the facts and applicable law reveal that this decision is simply more election interference.
Trump
Appeals $450M NY State Fraud Judgment, Calls Out 'Fake Political Prosecutions'.
Donald Trump and his sons have appealed the stupefying $454 million (including interest) New
York civil fraud judgment determined by Judge Arthur Engoron. The former president was
accused of inflating the value of his assets to obtain better financing and deals for his
properties. It is unclear as of this writing whether Trump has posted bond, which according
to law could require the full amount of the massive fine. Trump and his lawyers argued that
the judge clearly overstepped his bounds: [...] Although there were no victims in the former
president's alleged "crimes," and no banks or other creditors claiming they were victimized, Judge
Engoron nevertheless ordered the seemingly vindictive penalty and also ordered that Trump and sons
could not do business in the state for three years.
Will
The Democrats Let Donald Trump Be President If He Wins? The Supreme Court will not
throw Donald Trump off the ballot through some sort of deus ex MSNBCmachina, and Trump's polls are
improving while President Crusty's are getting worse, so we face the real possibility of Donald
Trump winning the presidency. Obviously, it's not a done deal, but it is a bigger possibility
than it used to be. Well, the Democrats are facing it, and now they're trying to figure out
how to stop him from taking office if and when he wins the election. This is a really bad
idea. But of course, the Democrat Party is the Party of Bad Ideas, and the Party of Nanny
Fascism. And it is also remarkably free of any recognition of its own hypocrisy. It's
become popular to say that the issue is not hypocrisy but hierarchy, and that the Democrats feel
entitled to do whatever they want. They don't want Trump to be president, so what are they
going to do about it? Whatever they have to do to hold power.
Democrats
Plot An Insurrection To Stop 'Insurrectionist' Trump. We've now reached peak Trump
Derangement Syndrome. Democrats are actually making plans to prevent Donald Trump from taking
office even if he legitimately wins the election. In other words, they are plotting an
insurrection to keep the man whom they claim is an insurrectionist out of the White House.
Logic, common sense, the future of the country, [notwithstanding]. How do we know this is
what they are scheming? Because, as President Joe Biden's poll numbers continue to drop, his
mental and physical health rapidly deteriorate, and options to replace him on the ballot shrink,
Democrats are openly talking about it. The Colorado attorney arguing before the Supreme Court
to keep Trump off that state's ballot warned the justices that if they didn't stop him from being
elected "it could come back with a vengeance."
The
Persecution of Donald Trump Means Turning Ordinary Activities Into Crimes. Like
millions of Americans before me, I've done exactly what Donald Trump did; namely, sought a loan
based upon my best estimate of what my property was worth — and I didn't look to what
the tax assessor said in reaching that value. However, as part of the Democrats' lawfare,
Letitia James twisted a perfectly ordinary act into something evil, and a partisan judge put his
imprimatur on her efforts. If it's allowed to stand, the results will be devastating, not
just for the political class but also for normal Americans. [...] [O]ne would imagine that some
banks or insurance companies lost money because they loaned money to Trump or that Trump defaulted
on them. That didn't happen. Indeed, Trump paid back the loans with interest.
There were literally no victims, and banks still wanted to lend to him! But that didn't
matter. The bottom line is that, according to James, Trump used one set of books for getting
a loan and another set of books for taxes. But of course, outside of a politicized
prosecutor's office, that's normal, not actionable.
If
A President Can Have His Money And Property Snatched By His Political Opposition, This Isn't A Free
Country. Voters in a few months are supposed to cast a ballot for their preferred
presidential candidate. Meanwhile, we just watched one of our major political parties attempt
to literally bankrupt the likely nominee of the other, and seize his property. Whatever you
want to say of America anymore, it can't possibly be called free and our elections aren't anything
close to fair. A Democrat judge linked up with a Democrat district attorney in New York last
week, ruling that Donald Trump, who earned more votes in 2020 than any sitting president in
history, pay the city about half a billion dollars in penalties and fines, plus forego his right to
conduct business or borrow money in the entire state. The pretext for the obscenity is that
Trump in his years as a real estate developer routinely defrauded lenders by inflating the value of
his assets, a hideous crime that resulted in his victims' insolvency and buried by insurmountable
debt. Wait, that's not right. Let me check my notes. Sorry, what actually
happened is that the banks who took the risk of financing Trump's ventures raked in fistfulls of
profits and continued chasing him to continue their lucrative partnerships. In other words,
the parties "wronged" by Trump got richer. With each passing day, nearly $100,000 in interest
is tacked onto the sentence and the D.A., Letitia "peek-a-boo" James (as Trump calls her for
hilarious yet unknown reasons), has gone so far as to threaten state seizure of the former
president's marquee real estate properties should he fail to pay the sum.
Jack
Smith Will Annoy the Supreme Court. The Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause
provides that a congressman may not be put on trial for any "legislative act." [...] A president
has it harder, according to Special Counsel Jack Smith. In the Justice Department's
prosecution of President Trump for contesting the 2020 election results, Smith argues that he may
put Trump on trial for official presidential acts. All that's required to arrest Trump, says
Smith, is that just over half of a biased Washington, D.C., grand jury conclude that his words or
deeds fall within the vague wording of a rarely charged criminal statute. In Smith's telling,
he may put a president on trial for standing in the Speaker's Lobby off the House floor to urge
congressmen to vote against certifying an election — but because voting is a legislative
act, not the congressmen who stand three feet away and actually cast the votes as urged.
Smith admits that a president must be protected by at least a qualified immunity from criminal
prosecution — but he refuses to spell out exactly what that immunity is.
Blue
Laws for Red Citizens. There are eerie commonalities in all these five court cases
involving plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney
General Letitia James, federal special counsel Jack Smith, and Fulton County district attorney Fani
Willis. One, they are either unapologetically left-wing or associated with liberal
causes. They filed their legal writs in big-city, left-wing America — Atlanta, New
York, Washington — where liberal judges and jury pools predominate in a manner not
characteristic of the country at large. Two, they are overtly political. Bragg, James,
and Willis have either campaigned for office or raised campaign funds by promising to get or even
destroy Donald Trump. Carroll's suit was funded by left-wing billionaire Reid Hoffman.
Smith sued to rush his court schedule in hopes of putting Trump on trial before the November
election. Three, there would not be any of these cases had Donald Trump not run for the
presidency or not been a conservative.
The
Crime of Donald Trump. Technically speaking, Donald Trump is guilty of
something — he's guilty of the crime of being Donald Trump. He hasn't
broken any laws, but laws have been modified to break him. [...] The Democrats have been shown one
term of Donald Trump in power and they didn't like what they saw. Energy independence,
historically low unemployment, almost zero inflation, a strong economy... I mean, who wants
that? Not the Democrats, that's for sure. They prefer to keep a horribly corrupt,
senile old man in the White House by any means necessary, and that means a never-ending onslaught
of lawfare designed to bankrupt even a billionaire. Let's begin with the judgments already
issued against Donald Trump and then evaluate the ongoing court cases. We will break down
each case according to judge name instead of a state because New York has multiple cases against him.
New
York's Trump Fraud Findings Refute Judge's Conclusions. [Scroll down]
Notwithstanding that New York, for the above reasons, has no valid claim on behalf of itself or any
of the lenders for common law fraud and misrepresentation, New York is claiming under a state
statute that some immaterial mistakes or misrepresentations justify recovery, not for the banks,
but for the benefit of the state of New York, of all gains or profits that the borrower may have
made on each project where claimed illegality may have occurred. All of this results,
notwithstanding that the lenders suffered no financial or other loss, were not fraudulently induced
to do anything, and were aware and comfortable with the notion that the banks are totally
responsible for performing their own due diligence, securing of their own appraisals, and
developing their own valuations. In the Trump case, that approach has led to a claim that New
York is entitled to recover for its own account (not for the account of any lender) the sum of at
least $355 million, apparently just to teach Trump and others a lesson.
Pay
to Play: Trump Faces a Staggering Cost for Appeal. In the wake of the massive
judgment against Donald Trump, many in New York are celebrating the prospect that the former
president could be forced to sell off his property just to be able to appeal the $355 million
judgment against him. While Trump has good grounds to object to this excessive fine, he still
has to come up with close to a half billion dollars just to make his arguments to the New York
Court of Appeals. In order to file an appeal, the courts require a deposit for the full
amount of the damages or a bond covering the full amount. Even with escrow options, the call
for cash or collateral can be enough to put some executives in a fetal position. It can be
challenging enough for many companies drained from years of litigation. For Donald Trump, the
demand for $355 million plus $100 milion in interest could force a fire sale on properties to
pony up just the deposit.
The
Leftist Lynch Mob Attacking Trump. I really, really don't care if you hate Donald
Trump, think he is a threat to democracy, or honestly believe that he wanted to overthrow the US
government (if you believe that you have been successfully brainwashed and need a deprogrammer, but
whatever...). Even if all that describes you, I think you are a browshirt if you approve of
the lawfare being used against the former president. Whatever fantasy you hallucinate, it's
impossible to not see that none of the lawsuits, investigations, or prosecutions being used to
cripple Trump is anything but a distortion of our legal system in order to achieve a political
goal. The latest verdict — the outrageous fine imposed on Trump for harming
literally nobody — is beyond absurd. It is outrageous — worthy of any
third-world dictatorship in which El Jefe wants to cripple a political opponent without enduring
the PR nightmare of outright executing him.
Trump learns.
Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 without needing to dig up dirt on Hillary because the FBI
already did that with the email scandal. But he failed to dig up dirt on Biden in 2020. The
open secret in DC was Biden was easily bought. Everyone knew — except Trump.
Now as he faces lawfare — the act of tying a man up in court to bleed him dry from legal
fees — Trump apparently has learned to dig up dirt on at least one of his persecutors:
Fani Willis the George Soros district attorney in Atlanta who threw her weight and indicted President
Trump and associates, hoping to bring him down. Thus far, all she has done is boost his
electoral chances by forcing him to take a mugshot.
Private
Equity Fund Manager Announces He "Will NOT Waste Time" Researching New Business Opportunities in New
York After Engoron Ruling. On Friday, far left Judge Arthur Engoron fleeced
$355 million from President Trump for taking out loans in New York State and paying them back
on time and with interest. The charges were brought against Trump by crazed New York State
Attorney General Letitia James. There were no victims in the so-called crime. The banks
did their due diligence before they loaned Donald Trump the money and testified they would gladly
do it again. Judge Engoron called this a crime and ruled that President Donald Trump owed the
state $355 million. But that's not all. As Volokh Conspiracy reported Engoron also
put a Clinton-appointed judge in control of Trump business empire in New York State.
DA
Alvin Bragg Is Trying to Punish Trump For Something That's Not a Crime. Much has been
made of Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity as it relates to the criminal case in Georgia
and other legal actions against the former president. Special counsel Jack Smith and
prosecutor Fanni Willis claim Trump "unlawfully interfered with the 2020 presidential election by
trying to enlist state and federal officials in his efforts to stop Biden from taking office,"
according to Reason.com's Jacob Sullum. But Trump's claim of immunity isn't quite as "wild"
as some on the left suggest. Presidential immunity was designed to prevent "frivolous,
politically motivated criminal charges against former presidents," as Sullum points out. That
might not be the case entirely with the Smith and Willis cases. After all, there are statutes
that may have been violated. The three-judge appeals court hearing Trump's immunity claim
found the argument unconvincing. The court ruled that "the danger" Trump perceived "appears
slight" given prosecutors' "ethical obligations" and "additional safeguards," such as "the right to
be charged by a grand jury upon a finding of probable cause."
Democrats
weaponized justice system to punish Trump in business case. Oscar Wilde wrote that
"moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." Justice Arthur Engoron took
that line to heart with his absurd imposition of $455 million in fines and interest against
Donald Trump and his corporation. It succeeded wonderfully with New Yorkers, who celebrated
the verdict like a popular public execution. It also worked wonderfully to make it difficult
to appeal. Much of the criticism of the decision focused on the unprecedented use of the law
and the excessive size of the fine. The New York statute has been on the books for decades
and has always been something of an anomaly in not requiring an actual victim or loss to justify
disgorgement or fines. Even the New York Times agreed that it could not find a single case in
history where this statute was used against an individual or a company that did not commit a
criminal offense, go bankrupt, or leave financial victims.
New
York Governor Admits State Legal Targeting Was Only at Donald Trump. New York
Governor Kathy Hochul has admitted the lawfare deployed against the Trump organization and
President Donald Trump himself was a specific plan for his targeting and any other business
interests or people within New York should not be concerned. It's a rather brazen admission
all things considered; however, if it changes the public outlook as the various New York lawfare
cases against President Trump continue, is yet to be determined.
Update
Far Outside the Wire. [Scroll down] We already know if Donald Trump can
take the MAGA fight back to Washington DC, the entire apparatus of government, and yes that
includes your elected representatives, will fight to destroy him at every opportunity. So,
how exactly do we: (a) support President Trump, (b) push back against the weaponized state,
(c) confront our government abusers? There are more of us than them, yet each of our efforts
seems to face the full force of "them" against a divided sense of "us." One of the ways we have
discussed direct push back is a modern version of a workers solidarity movement. Essentially,
the creation of a system where targeted general work strikes can have an impact on the system that
is targeting us.
Biden
administration to put up 'roadblocks' in case of Trump win? Siccing federal
intelligence agencies on Trump, covering up his political opponents "shenanigans" and crimes, lying
under oath, arbitrarily changing states' voting laws, ushering in massive mail-in voting, somehow
receiving and/or counting hundreds of thousands of votes for Biden in the middle of the night with
almost none for Trump, launching endless spurious lawsuits against Trump with the intention of
preventing him from campaigning and putting him in prison, and threatening to pack the court and
end the filibuster are just some of the things Democrats, Deep Staters, and assorted other
never-Trumpers have done, almost all with the stated intention of "preserving our democracy."
Mindboggling. Joseph Stalin, Chairman Mao, and Pol Pot weren't much more opposed to
democracy, but were far less hypocritical. And yet Democrats, Deep Staters, and assorted
other never-Trumpers always seem to get away with it.
CIA
Manipulated Evidence To Hide Evidence Russia Wanted Clinton To Win In 2016, Not Trump:
Report. The Central Intelligence Agency manipulated intelligence information to make
it look like Russia wanted Donald Trump to win the 2016 presidential election despite having more
credible information showing that Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win, according to a new
report. The effort to manipulate the information was headed up by John Brennan, Obama's CIA
director, who disregarded evidence that the Russians preferred Clinton because she was more
predictable and highlighted questionable evidence claiming Russia favored Trump, sources told
independent journalists Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Alex Gutentag.
Is
Ukraine Bill a Pretext for Third Trump Impeachment? The Ukraine funding bill poised
to pass the Senate could be used as a predicate to impeach Donald Trump should he win a second
term, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, argued Monday. Vance joined a forum on X, the social media
platform formerly known as Twitter, along with Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Sen. Ron Johnson,
R-Wis., and others. Over the weekend, with 18 Republicans joining the Democrat majority, the
Senate moved to close debate and go to a vote on a $95 billion supplemental spending bill for
Ukraine, which is defending itself from Russia's invasion, and Israel, which is attempting to
eradicate Hamas after its Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. About $61 billion of aid would
go to Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel. "There is actually a very good argument that the
exact same legal justification for the impeachment of 2019 would hold with this legislation," Vance
said of Trump's impeachment by a Democrat-run House over his phone call to Ukraine's president.
Checking
The Scorecards On The Lawfare Contests Being Waged By The Biden Administration and Its Allies
Against Donald Trump. The big news here is the removal of the scheduled March 4
trial from the District Court's calendar this past week. [...] After an Appeals Court issues an
opinion resolving the appeal, the Court issues a "Mandate" returning jurisdiction over the case to
the District Court. Until that Mandate comes back, a District Court is powerless to move
ahead on the case for any purpose, and a defendant is not obligated to cooperate or participate in
any proceedings in the District Court. Lots of hand-wringing and teeth gnashing by the Lefty
Legal Beagles have resulted from the fact that waiting for the decision from the Appeals Court has
now derailed the trial schedule. [...] The final hurdle to getting the DC case back on track is the
other Special Counsel case filed in Florida. I'm 100% certain Smith regrets having filed that
case first. Filing the DC case second, and then advocating for a trial date in DC that came
ahead of the trial date ALREADY SET in the Florida case, really PO'd the Judge in Florida more an
anyone really understands. THAT IS JUST NOT DONE.
What
Trump's 'Retribution' Really Means. Trump's entrance into politics began as a mockery
but has now progressed into impeachments, indictments, ballot removals, arrests, and God knows what
else to come between now and November. These are real issues, and any candidate who suggests
that these things should be "left in the past" concedes that he either isn't aware of how
legitimate voter concern about these issues are or willfully ignoring them for political
gain. Either explanation is disqualifying. Republicans ignoring or not recognizing
these attacks as real issues is a wrong. But Democrats' current and most brazenly
hypocritical instance of gaslighting to date is even more alarming. Leftist TV panels can
frequently be heard shrieking at the thought of Trump indicting his political opponents. Yes,
they somehow say this without ever noting that Biden and his cronies have already set the precedent
for this. They almost deserve credit for getting through their TV segments with a straight
face. But despite all their theatre, it isn't "retribution" they truly fear, but rather
accountability, and perhaps with good reason.
Icing
the Puck, Supreme Court Style. In theory, or at least in cocktail lore, there's still
one last Japanese soldier in a cave somewhere who hasn't heard that World War II is
over — and, as the Emperor of Japan announced on the radio, that it was concluded "not
entirely to Japan's advantage." That last soldier may also be the only person who doesn't
realize that the various lawsuits filed against Donald Trump have nothing whatsoever to do with the
stated substance of the suits but are designed and brought solely to interfere with the coming
presidential election, which, polls currently tell us, Trump may win.
Further
Thoughts on Projection and the Truth. The palm for the funniest post on X, formerly
Twitter, this weekend goes to former national security adviser John Bolton. "There are," he
wrote, "clear dangers to a second term for Donald Trump." Like what, John? "For one, he
has made it known he will seek retribution against his political enemies using agencies like the
Justice Department. It's certain Trump has plans to repeatedly cross lines that will cause
conflict, often constitutional conflict." Imagine, a president of the United States
weaponizing "agencies like the Justice Department" to harass his political opponents! Whoever
heard of such a thing? Well, there are the 1,200 or so people who have been targeted by the
DOJ for hanging around the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. And, believe it or not, the DOJ
is planning to charge "thousands" more for "parading," "obstructing an official proceeding," etc.
Do you remember the name Enrique Tarrio? He wasn't even in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021,
but that didn't matter. He was a leader of the "Western chauvinist" group The Proud Boys.
So not only was he swept up by the FBI but he was given a 22-year prison sentence, the longest of
anyone so far who had been on that kinetic sightseeing trip to the Capitol.
Initial
3-Judge Panel Within DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Rules Against Presidential Immunity.
Three judges from the Washington DC Circuit Court of Appeals have denied the immunity request from
President Trump. In a rather stark decision reached by the panel[,] "We have balanced former
President Trump's asserted interests in executive immunity against the vital public interests that
favor allowing this prosecution to proceed," the court wrote in its ruling Tuesday. "We conclude
that the interest in criminal accountability, held by both the public and the Executive Branch,
outweighs the potential risks of chilling Presidential action and permitting vexatious litigation."
Supreme
Court Grants Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold 10 Minutes to Justify Her Position on
Disqualifying President Trump From Ballot. Apparently the Lawfare crew have been
working and coaching overtime to give Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold a framework to
explain to the Supreme Court how Colorado's very specific election laws allow for presidential
candidates to be disqualified despite meeting all constitutional requirements. State
Solicitor General Sharon Stevenson would be the legal mind representing Jena Griswold. This
should be an interesting attempt. Griswold asked the Supreme Court for 15 minutes to
explain how Colorado law supersedes the U.S. Constitution. In an order announced earlier
today [pdf here], the court has granted Ms. Griswold 10 minutes to make her case.
The oral arguments will take place on Thursday, February 8th.
Federal
judge in DC postpones Trump's March trial on charges of plotting to overturn 2020
election. A federal judge in Washington formally postponed Donald Trump's March trial
on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election as a key legal appeal from the former
president remains unresolved in the courts. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday
vacated the March 4 trial date in the case brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack
Smith but did not immediately set a new date. The move opens the door for a separate
prosecution in New York, charging Trump in connection with hush money payments to a porn actor, to
proceed first.
Will
2024 Be the Most Dangerous Election of Our Lifetime? We got a glimpse of how our
bureaucratic overlords view the voters in 2016; when the DoJ, FBI, and CIA worked to influence the
election. When their gal failed to win, they continued their efforts to unseat our electoral
choice. But all of that was just a warmup for January 6, when they took things to a
whole new level. When pipe bombs were discovered outside the Democrat and Republican
headquarter buildings in Washington D.C., it triggered a nationwide investigation. Thousands
of MAGA supporters were intimidated interviewed by FBI agents for the suspicious
behavior of being in the same zip code as the bombs on January 6 — oh, and
attending a Trump rally. Also on January 6th, an unarmed insurrection nearly took down
our government, at the encouragement of undercover federal assets planted in the crowd (snark
intended). Our federal criminal justice system has subsequently imprisoned hundreds, for little
more than trespassing and taking selfies — many at the invitation of Capitol
police. Now the DoJ has announced plans to prosecute thousands more for daring to cross an
unmarked line on the Capitol lawn that their taxes pay for. After the Republicans took
control of the House, the "stop MAGA" operation seems to have moved into the coverup stage.
The Swamp's desperation to keep something hidden reveals just how dangerous our own government has become.
Trump's
Federal Election Trial Postponed Indefinitely by Judge. The trial date in the
election interference case against former President Donald Trump was postponed, the federal judge
overseeing the case confirmed on Friday. "The court will set a new schedule if and when the
mandate is returned," U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote in the order, handing a victory to
the former president as he appeals the case on arguments that he was immune from prosecution.
More than 50 days have passed since Judge Chutkan paused the case amid the former president's
appeal to the D.C. Court of Appeals. Over the past several weeks, she has signaled that the
initial March 4 trial date would not hold. The judge on Friday also wrote that
prospective jurors who were asked to appear in court in the coming days won't have to fill out a
written questionnaire.
Verdict
Delayed in Trump Civil Fraud Trial as Judge Engoron Weighs Lifetime Business Ban. The
verdict in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in Manhattan that could see him banned
for life from doing business in New York has been delayed until mid-February, according to a court
spokesperson. Justice Arthur Engoron said during the trial's closing arguments on
Jan. 11 that he hoped to make his final decision by Jan. 31 in a much-anticipated verdict
that could, in addition to hitting the former president with a lifetime business ban, see him fined
$370 million. After the tentative Jan. 31 deadline came and went without a verdict,
a spokesperson for the New York State Office of Court Administration, Alfred Baker, said that the
judge is now expected to deliver his decision in early to mid-February.
Fani
Willis gets slapped with 22 articles of impeachment. Fulton County District Attorney
Fani Willis has found herself in hot water over the past few weeks as allegations of misconduct
have sprung forth, casting a dark shadow on her behavior in the legal world, particularly as she
continues to spearhead the Georgia election-related case against President Donald Trump. As
reported by RSBN, a story surfaced in the media that broke allegations concerning Willis's
involvement with an alleged romantic partner whom she hired to prosecute Trump, thus resulting in
reported financial benefits. This partner has allegedly been identified as Nathan Wade, a
private attorney.
The
Trump-Carroll Case is Blatantly the Greatest Miscarriage of Justice in Modern American History.
The awarding of nearly $90 million to the second-rate advice columnist E. Jean Carroll will
doubtless be remembered for generations as the greatest miscarriage of justice in contemporary American
history. Jean Carroll's case was not just ludicrous on the face of it, but between the judge, the
"experts" who testified, and the mechanisms by which the case even came to be, it's impossible for any
ordinary person in the West to see this as anything more than the continuation of a series of hoaxes
perpetrated on former President Donald J. Trump with the desire to keep him from re-entering the
Oval Office in January 2025.
The
extortion of Donald Trump. [Scroll down] Governor Hochul of New York signs
into law the Adult Survivors Act, a law that allows survivors of sexual assault to sue their
abusers regardless of when the abuse occurred. At face value, it sounds like a good and
righteous law. One of the first to file was E. Jean Carroll. She had no evidence except
what she said and what she told a few friends, which was eerily similar to an episode of Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit. She also had a photograph of her and Trump in a crowd
together. President Trump claims to this day he never met her. (Do you remember everyone who
was in a crowd when you were in the picture?) Nevertheless, the evidence, which was virtually
nonexistent, was irrelevant. President Trump could never get a fair trial in NYC. He was
found liable for sexual abuse and ordered to pay $5 million. Of course, President Trump
fumed about this. Wouldn't you fume about a law that was specifically designed as a political
attack against you and allowed no possibility of defending yourself and required no evidence? Now
another NYC jury has found Trump guilty of defamation and ordered him to pay $83.3 million. They
intended to send a message, but the message they sent has the exact opposite meaning of what they intended.
Why
is no one wondering how the Trump trials have such idiotic jurors?
[Scroll down] A jury consultant's job is to research, as closely as possible, each
prospective juror by any means necessary so that the defense can select the persons who may be most
disposed to find their client not guilty. Of course, prosecutors hire jury consultants as
well to determine who among the pool will be likely to find the person on trial guilty. On
its face, this seems to be an obviously unethical practice; depending on who got the most jurors of
their choosing is likely to win. How can this be legal, one might ask. It probably
should not be, but one thing is clear: Juries are rarely a "jury of one's peers"
anymore. They are carefully and deceptively chosen. We can be certain that jury
consultants were hired to select the people who would sit in judgment of President Trump for each
of the numerous trials to which he has been so unfairly subjected.
Secret
Service Agents [have been] Ordered to Not Wear Red Ties Because President Trump Wears Red
Ties. Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino revealed in his podcast Friday that the
Secret Service has ordered agents to not wear red ties. The order came down last week after
an agent guarding Trump was photographed sporting a similarly colored red tie as Trump as he took
the stage at a campaign rally in New Hampshire. Bongino warned, "They're gonna get this guy
hurt." Bongino said an email edict went out after the photo of the agent wearing a red tie
while guarding Trump was published in the Guardian last Sunday. Bongino said agents are
[angry] about the tie order. Bongino said Trump needs to clean out Secret Service management
when he returns to the White House next year, citing the agency's tanking of the White House
cocaine investigation last year.
Trump
demands Fani Wills is disqualified from his election fraud case because she 'inappropriately
injected racial bias'. Donald Trump has demanded Fani Willis be disqualified from his
Georgia election fraud case after she 'injected race' into the case, and called for the charges
against him be dropped. The former president's co-defendant Michael Roman alleged in court
filings that Willis had an inappropriate relationship with Nathan Wade, the lawyer she hired to
help run the criminal case. The bombshell court document has led to a flurry of allegations,
including Wade buying flights and cruises for Willis as they carried on their fling. The
scandal centered around Wade's divorce from his wife of 26 years has thrown the case into
chaos and now the president's legal team is demanding she is removed.
If
Fani Willis' Get-Trump Case Were Legit, Democrats Wouldn't Be So Desperate To Keep It In The DA's
Office. Democrats are desperately fighting to keep the Fulton County prosecutor's
office in charge of the Georgia criminal case pending against Donald Trump and his
associates. And that tells you all you need to know about the merits of the get-Trump
prosecution launched by the now-falling Democrat star Fani Willis. "Fani Willis's Grand-Slam
Indictment Against Donald Trump," blared one headline from last August, championing the news that
the Democrat-elected county prosecutor had charged Trump and 18 others in a sprawling 41-count
indictment. For months, Willis wore the crown of the country, being honored everywhere from
the local Atlanta Business League to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where she received the title of
2023's Most Influential Black American. She was reportedly even up for Time's Person of the
Year. But now The New York Times has run an op-ed calling for Willis to take a leave of
absence from the Fulton County district attorney's office.
Lawyers
for Trump urge the Supreme Court 'to put a swift and decisive end' to ballot removal efforts.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Thursday urged the Supreme Court "to put a swift and
decisive end" to efforts to kick him off the 2024 presidential ballot over his efforts to overturn
his 2020 election loss. In a written filing, Trump's lawyers called on the court to reverse a
first-of-its-kind Colorado Supreme Court decision that said Trump should not be on the state's
Republican primary ballot because of his role in the events that culminated in the Jan. 6,
2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The justices are hearing arguments Feb. 8 in a case
that both sides say needs to be resolved quickly so that voters know whether Trump, the leading
Republican candidate for president, is eligible to hold the presidency.
Trump
case could go off rails as Fani Willis love triangle, corruption investigation heats up.
A messy love triangle between the high-powered district attorney in charge of the 2020 election-fraud
case involving former President Donald Trump, the married lover she chose to be special prosecutor and
his estranged wife is imploding in Fulton County. Nobody on either side of the political aisle
understands what Fulton County DA Fani Willis was thinking when she hired her reported boyfriend, a
personal injury lawyer with zero high-profile felony trial experience, to be the lead special prosecutor
in what is likely the biggest case of her career. Nor do people understand why she'd blur her
personal and professional life by jetting off for a $2,600 cruise and romantic trip to California's
Napa Valley with still legally married Wade while working on the sprawling and complex racketeering
case against former President Donald Trump and his allies.
Trump
Team Renews Motion for Mistrial in E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case After She Deletes Emails that
Exonerate Trump. As Cristina Laila reported earlier[,] President Trump appeared in
court on Wednesday as E. Jean Carroll testified in a trial where the jury will decide how much
Trump has to pay for his so-called 'defamatory' statements about her. Judge Lewis Kaplan, a
Clinton appointee, previously ruled that Trump is liable for defamatory statements he made about
E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of rape. [...] Under cross-examination by Trump's lawyer Alina
Habba, E. Jean Carroll admitted she deleted emails under subpoena. [...] Carroll admitted to
deleting emails under subpoena because she didn't want to upset her lawyers. How is this not
a criminal act? Why was she not charged with destroying evidence?
Maine
Election Official So Desperate to Keep Trump off Ballot She's Appealing Judge's Hold on
Decision. Maine's Democrat secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, is so determined to
promote "trust in our free, safe and secure elections" that she wants to make sure voters in the
state aren't allowed to vote for the leading GOP contender, former President Donald Trump.
After Trump appealed Bellows' unilateral decision to keep his name off the Republican primary
ballot, Superior Court Judge Michaela Murphy called for a hold on her decision while the nation
waits for the Supreme Court to weigh in on a similar situation in Colorado. Waiting for the
nation's top court to render judgment was just too inconvenient for Bellows, evidently, as she
announced Friday that she was going to appeal Murphy's decision to the state's top court, and she
wants a quick answer: [...]
Fulton
DA accuses special prosecutor's wife of 'interfering' with Trump probe. Fulton
County's district attorney on Thursday fired back at allegations she has engaged in an "improper"
relationship with her top deputy, accusing his estranged wife of trying to obstruct her prosecution
of Donald Trump and his allies. Fani Willis has been subpoenaed to give a pretrial deposition
in the divorce case of Nathan and Joycelyn Wade on January 23, but in a blistering court
filing on Thursday the DA's attorney said that subpoena should be quashed. Joycelyn Wade "has
conspired with interested parties in the criminal election interference case to use the civil
discovery process to annoy, embarrass and oppress District Attorney Willis," argued Cinque Axam on
Willis' behalf.
Three
Former Attorneys General File Brief Insisting Trump is Constitutionally Qualified to Appear on
Ballot. Three former attorneys general, including Bill Barr who is not even
supporting Trump in 2024, have filed a brief insisting that Trump is constitutionally qualified to
appear on the ballot. This move comes as a response to the efforts in Colorado, Maine and
other states where leftists have sought to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot. The argument of
these former AGs was drafted with the help of law professors and is rock solid.
Trump's
Lawyers Accuse Jack Smith of Concealing Evidence, Working With Biden Admin. Former
President Donald Trump's lawyers alleged Tuesday night that special counsel Jack Smith concealed
evidence about his office's collaboration with the Biden administration. In a 68-page
Wednesday filing in the Florida case concerning his handling of concealed documents, Trump's legal
team claimed it obtained heavily redacted documents through a Freedom of Information Act request
revealing "politically motivated operatives in the Biden Administration and the National Archives
and Records Administration" have been involved in pushing the classified documents probe since
2021. Trump's lawyers asked the judge to require Smith to produce any "additional evidence of
bias and political animus," writing that the documents obtained through FOIA "should have been
disclosed by the Office, in unredacted form, at the outset of the case."
Collusion!?
Jan. 6 Committee Inserted Itself Into Fani Willis' Georgia Case Against Trump.
In the spring of 2022, Georgia prosecutors investigating Donald Trump over his actions related to
the 2020 election received an early boost from another set of investigators:
the House Jan. 6 select committee. In mid-April of that year, Committee staff quietly met
with attorneys working on the case in Fulton County for DA Fani Willis, right around the time she was
preparing to convene a special grand jury investigation[,] during which she employed her alleged
paramour, Nathan Wade, who would also coordinate with the Biden White House on their case.
So[,] Fani coordinated with both the J6 committee and the White House, who helped them assemble their
case against the former president. According to Politico, the Jan. 6 committee
attorneys allowed the DA's team to review (but not keep) a 'limited set of evidence' they had gathered.
The
14th Amendment's History Militates Against Colorado's Ruling Against Trump. A
doctrine used once in December 1868 to make sure that former Confederate President Jefferson
Davis never held office again has been revived to justify removing former U.S. President Donald
Trump's name from the ballot of the Colorado Republican primary. The doctrine, called
self-execution, allows the terms of the 14th Amendment to be applied without action by
Congress. Self-execution is inconsistent with the 14th Amendment's text, which provides for
enforcement by the U.S. Congress. If it were ever applied to cases beyond those of Davis and
Trump (and, as this essay argues, it's seriously doubtful it should apply to Trump), the results
would be chaotic. Trump has appealed on the grounds that the Colorado ruling violates his due
process rights. U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on February 8.
Lawfare
Against Trump Is Running Out of Gas. We should dispense with the tired narrative that
four conscientious state and federal prosecutors — independently and without contact
with the Biden White House or the radical Democrats in Congress — all came to the same
disinterested conclusions that Donald Trump should be indicted for various crimes and put on trial
during the campaign season of 2024. The prosecutors began accelerating their indictments only
once Trump started to lead incumbent Joe Biden by sizable margins in head-to-head polls.
Moreover, had Trump not run for the presidency, or had he been of the same party as most of the
four prosecutors, he would have never been indicted by any of them. Yet now they are in a
doom loop of discovering that the more they seek to rush to judgment before the election and gag
Trump from speaking publicly about these star-chamber proceedings, the more he rises in the polls.
[The]
White House [is] Coordinating Trump Prosecutions. In late 2022, when asked by
reporters about the probability that former President Trump would run for a second term, President
Biden pledged to make sure "he does not become president again." This was largely ignored at the
time because Trump had not yet been bombarded with the brazenly partisan prosecutions that he is
now fending off. In hindsight, it is clear that Biden was referring to a carefully planned
lawfare campaign coordinated by the White House. His administration's fingerprints are all
over every prosecution from the first indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to the
recent attempt to remove Trump from the Colorado primary ballot. The Colorado ballot case
provides the clearest White House connection. As The American Spectator noted last
year, the initial lawsuit was filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
in September of last year. Noah Bookbinder, CREW's President, was appointed to an advisory
council in March of 2022 by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and his name appears on White House
visitor logs multiple times in 2023, according to a recent Daily Caller report.
Lawmakers
and others are 'secretly' plotting a military mutiny if Trump is elected. Constitutional
norms are falling all over the place, but it's the left that's doing it. Shorn of his eccentric
rhetoric, Trump governed in the grand tradition of 20th-century American presidents: strong
national security, focus on the economy, an eye to energy independence, etc. It is Biden who has
broken every norm in American history: destroying the border, destroying energy independence,
and arresting political opponents.
What
Was That About a Deep State? Check Out These Plans to Deal With Trump If He
Wins. Joe Biden and the Democrats truly take the cake. Biden is down in the
polls to former President Donald Trump, who is the leading GOP candidate. So they're doing
all they can to play up the "threat to democracy" from Trump. Now I have no doubt whoever was
leading would immediately become "Hitler" to them, because that's how they do things. That's
their only play, given Biden has such a horrible record. He has no real accomplishments on
which to run. According to an NBC report, the powers that be are already trying to work to
put Trump in check. People talk about the deep state. Check out what they're saying
here, it's something else. They're worried that Trump may win so the unelected people want to
thwart how the elected representative of the people might exercise his power.
Fani
Willis and the corrupt mainstream media. Last week contained more than one terrible,
horrible, no good, very bad day for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. On Monday,
January 8th, Ashleigh Merchant, lawyer for Michael Roman (one of the 18 Trump co-defendants in
The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al.), filed a "bombshell" motion alleging
that Willis "improperly hired an alleged romantic partner to prosecute Donald Trump and financially
benefited from their relationship." The "alleged romantic partner" is special prosecutor Nathan
Wade. [...] According to RedState, on the same day that Ashleigh Merchant filed her motion against
Willis and Nathan Wade, Jocelyn Wade subpoenaed Willis to appear for a deposition in the Wades'
divorce proceedings. This whole sorry saga is a disaster for the Fulton County DA and her
efforts to prosecute the former president.
Judge
Cannon Smacks Down Hitman Jack Smith Again — Rejects His Request to Force Trump to
Reveal Defense Strategy. Judge Aileen Cannon denied without prejudice Special Counsel
Jack Smith's motion to compel Trump to disclose his defense strategy in the classified documents
case in Florida. In November, Jack Smith tried to force Trump to disclose his decision on
whether he would use an "advice-of-counsel" defense in the classified documents case. This
could have forced Trump to waive attorney-client privilege. Thankfully Judge Aileen Cannon, a
Trump appointee, denied Jack Smith's request.
Can
America Survive This Perversion of Our Justice System? Execution without due process
is murder by an officer of the state. According to Jack Smith, Obama is immune for
extrajudicial killing, but Donald Trump is not for trying to investigate election fraud in 2020.
We can also consider the immunity of the vice president, who admitted on video to strong-arming
the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor investigating his son's company. That was an
act committed as an official of the United States. Is there immunity for that? How
about taking bribes to skewer foreign policy while in office from foreign countries? Immunity
for that? News flash: The only thing preventing Biden's legal team from trying that
argument is that they do not want immunity to be extended to Trump.
Trump
14th Amendment Challenger Arrested on Federal Tax Charges. A man who filed a number
of lawsuits in different states to try to prevent former President Donald Trump from appearing on
election ballots has been arrested on federal tax charges. John Anthony Castro was charged
last week with 33 counts of aiding the preparation of false tax returns, according to
Department of Justice prosecutors. They said that he ran a virtual tax business that gave
customers returns beyond what they were really owed. "Castro would promise a significantly
higher refund than taxpayers could receive from other preparers and on many occasions, offered to
split the additional refund with taxpayers," federal prosecutors wrote in court documents. "In
order to achieve these larger refunds, Castro generated false deductions, that were not based in
fact, and which were submitted without the taxpayer's knowledge."
Jim
Jordan launches investigation into Fani Willis after revelations she hired romantic partner in
Trump case. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has launched an inquiry into Nathan
Wade, the prosecutor hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis with whom she had
allegedly been in a romantic relationship with. "The committee on the Judiciary continues to
conduct oversight of politically motivated prosecutions by state and local officials. Based
on recent reports, we believe that you possess documents and information about the coordination for
the Fulton County District Attorney's Office (FCDAO) with other politically motivated
investigations and prosecutions and the potential misuse of federal funds," the letter began.
Keyword: Cahoots. President
Of Left-Wing Group Behind Trump's Colorado Ballot Removal Visited Biden White House Multiple
Times. The CEO of the left-wing legal group behind former President Donald Trump's
removal from the Colorado ballot went to the Biden White House multiple times last year, visitor
logs show. Noah Bookbinder, president and CEO of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington (CREW), visited the White House twice in 2023, visitor logs from January to
September 2023 indicate. He first visited on Jan. 6, 2023, the two-year anniversary
of the 2021 Capitol riot, to watch Biden award the Presidential Citizens Medal to law enforcement
officers who responded to the unrest, a CREW spokesperson told the Caller. The visitor logs
appear to confirm Bookbinder's attendance at the event.
Fani
Willis subpoenaed in Trump prosecutor's divorce case — as it emerges he wasn't even
approved by board. Embattled District Attorney Fani Willis has been subpoenaed to
testify in the divorce case of the special prosecutor handling the Trump election interference
case, with whom she stands accused of having an "improper relationship." Furthermore, it has
emerged that the attorney, Nathan Wade, wasn't even approved by the relevant board before being
hired by Willis, who presides over Fulton County in Georgia. Willis hired Wade, an
Atlanta-based private attorney, as a special prosecutor in the case against former President Donald
Trump and 18 of his associates over their alleged actions following the 2020 election.
Despite Wade having no experience prosecuting a complex Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
(RICO) Act case like the one against Trump, he was handed a contract that has so far earned his
company more than $650,000 in legal fees from the DA's office.
Report:
Fani Willis Secretly Colluded with January 6 Committee; Could Blow Up Case.
Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis secretly colluded with the one-sided,
Democrat-run January 6 Committee to obtain tips that would help her prosecute Donald
Trump — and tried to keep it out of court, and public view, using a procedural
trick. The revelation could upend the prosecution of Trump and 18 co-defendants because the
evidence was concealed to keep it away from discovery requirements that would allow defense lawyers
to see what was shared, and the extent of the collaboration.
Biden
'Saves' Democracy by Destroying it. When faced with the possible return of President
Donald Trump, the current agenda of the Democratic Party is summed up simply as "We had to destroy
democracy to save it." The effort shares a common theme: any means necessary are justified
to prevent the people from choosing their own president, given the fear that a majority might vote to
elect Donald Trump. Sometimes the anti-democratic paranoia has been outsourced to state and
local officials and prosecutors to erase Trump from the primary and likely general election ballots
as well. One unelected official in Maine, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, is a Democrat,
an official never elected by the people, and a non-lawyer rendering a legal edict. Yet she
has judged Trump guilty of "insurrection." And presto, she erased his name from the state's
ballot. Yet Trump was never charged, much less convicted, of "insurrection."
Trump
[is] banned from speaking in his own defense in closing argument in New York fraud trial.
The judge in former President Donald Trump's New York fraud trial has barred him from speaking in
his own defense during closing arguments later this week. The former president, 77, is a
defendant in the case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. His business empire
in New York is on the line, and James has asked for his business to be fined $370 million for
inflating property prices to get favorable loan deals.
Judge
blocks Trump from making his own closing statement in NYC civil fraud trial. Donald
Trump won't deliver his own closing statement at his New York civil fraud trial after
all — after the judge said he needed to stick to "relevant, material facts."
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron emailed Trump attorney Christopher Kise Wednesday
saying he was assuming the 77-year-old former president wouldn't agree to the "lawful limits" and
"therefore, he will not be speaking in court tomorrow." Kise first notified the judge in a
January 4 email that after the lawyers give their arguments in the $370 million case on
Thursday, "President Trump plans to present argument at closing as well," court records show.
Andrew Amer, a lawyer with the New York Attorney General's Office, which is prosecuting the case,
opposed allowing Trump the chance to speak, warning that he "is prone to giving irrelevant
speeches, lacks self-control, is evasive in responding to questions and has repeatedly violated
court orders for which he has been sanctioned."
Letitia
James Visited Joe Biden White House Several Times Amid Trump Witch Hunt. Radical
Marxist New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) visited the Biden White House three times
between April 2022 and August 2023, according to White House visitor logs. In
September 2022, Letitia James announced a civil fraud lawsuit against former President Donald
Trump and his family. AG James has been investigating whether the Trump Organization inflated
values of some of its properties. "Today, I filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump for engaging
in years of financial fraud to enrich himself, his family, and the Trump Organization,"
Letitia James said in September 2022.
Have
No Fear, 'Big Brother' Is On Duty. [Scroll down] Has our federal
bureaucracy become a hive of worker bees, with no central leadership but with individuals
instinctively working for the health of the bureaucracy? [...] The hive perceived Donald Trump as a
threat, and it's still frenetically stinging those who might send him, or someone like him, back to
Washington. When a Washington prosecutor bee asks a jury of bees to sting a January 6
defendant, they respond instinctively and aggressively — with guilty verdicts for
virtually every charge. Evidence and the rule of law are apparently irrelevant when the
welfare of the hive is at stake.
Those
Behind the Efforts to Disqualify Trump Have Something in Common. All over America,
party loyalists whose preferred candidate is President Joe Biden are engaging in lawfare to win at
the ballot box by any means necessary. Some of the bad-faith actors spearheading the efforts
to defeat former President Donald Trump — the GOP's far-and-away
frontrunner — before Election Day even begins are beneficiaries of puppeteering
philanthropist George Soros. [...] Maine was the second state to officially declare Trump
ineligible. In Colorado, the state Supreme Court decided on Dec. 19 to enforce Trump's
disqualification. Leading the charge in the Colorado case to ensure Trump's removal is the
Orwellian-named Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Between FY 2017 and
2021, CREW was given more than $2.8 million in grants by the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
which acts as one of Soros's two chief grantmaking vehicles, for "general support" and "support[ing]
political advocacy on ethics in government," according to an Open Society Foundations database.
The
allegations against Fulton County's prosecutor. [Scroll down] Separate
from the vendetta against Trump, if the charges are true, it smells horrible that Willis illegally
appointed her boyfriend to a position that saw him receiving $625,000 from Fulton County
taxpayers. Let's not stop there, though. As the old Ginsu knife commercials used to
say... but wait! There's more. We can add a whole new level of stench to the smell
coming out of Fulton County. The same filing includes copies of the invoices from Nathan J.
Wade explaining why the Fulton County taxpayers owed him $654,000 dollars. In the bills,
aside from the usual lawyer stuff (team meetings, telephone calls, meeting with the DA, research,
writing, etc.), there are two that really stand out: [#1] May 23, 2022: "Travel to
Athens; Conf with White House Counsel." Willis charged eight hours for that day, at $250 per hour,
for a total of $2,000. It's unclear how much time was allocated to travel and how much to the
meeting. [#2] November 21, 2022: "Interview with DC/White House." Once again, this was
an eight-hour day at $250 per hour, the only difference being that it's clear that Wade's entire
eight hours was spent in conference with the White House counsel. That's a lot of time to
spend in conference. [...] I don't know if it's illegal for the White House to have worked with a
state prosecutor in this way, but it's certainly problematic, especially when the target is almost
certainly going to be the opposition candidate in the next election.
Ted
Cruz Has an Idea on How SCOTUS Could Rule Unanimously to Keep Trump on the Ballot. As
the senator explained to co-host Ben Ferguson, matters for the Court to address include both
whether or not there was an insurrection on January 6, 2021, which Trump was in charge of, and
which would thus mean he would be disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, as well
as whether or not Colorado was overstepping. Cruz also had strong words for the Colorado
Supreme Court, calling their decision "lawless." Sharing at one point how he believed taking up
this case was "a no-brainer," Cruz also said that "I think all nine [justices] agreed 'we needed to
take it' and I don't think they hesitated on it," given how major a Constitutional question it was.
"Under the Constitution, it is difficult to imagine a more consequential question and a question
that demands the Supreme Court to get it," he added. When it comes to the topic Cruz would
speak to throughout the episode, in the Court not wanting to be seen as political, the senator also
offered that "I don't think the Court was eager to get into this issue at all," explaining that
"the justices are not looking to opine on this, but once Colorado ruled, they had no choice and
they had no choice but to do it quickly."
Democrats
Want Criminals To Vote, But No Ballot Access For Trump. Although former President
Donald Trump hasn't been convicted of a crime despite two impeachments, FBI investigations, and
myriad prosecutions, Democrats want him stripped from ballots while their party supports ballot
access for criminals. The official who unilaterally stripped Trump from the ballot in Maine
did so based on her personal view that "Mr. Trump was aware of the likelihood for violence and
at least initially supported its use" on Jan. 6, 2021. She is not a judge, and even if she
were, such a pronouncement would be contrary to law. Trump's much-viewed public statements on
that day were not a clear incitement to violence, and therefore are First Amendment-protected
speech. Leftists are criminalizing speech by claiming it equals violence, breaking
constitutional standards. The claim is belied by the facts: The vast majority of people
listening to Trump that day were not incited to violence. There's plenty of evidence that
incitement occurred instead among the proportionally few rioters. Claiming Trump incited
insurrection is a political projection intended to promote a one-party state.
The
Roots of Lawfare. The first nationally infamous use of "lawfare" was most likely the
battle in 2005 to remove Tom Delay (R Texas) from his position as Speaker of the House. The
vendetta against Tom Delay was led by one Ronnie Earle, the DA in Austin, Texas who had a strong
dislike for Delay (One might call it TDDS). Ultimately the case was overturned on appeal, but the
battle was won, as Delay was removed from office. Recognize that one of the purposes of
Lawfare is to remove the person from the political scene.
A
Culture in Collapse. The post civilization civil bookend to that precivilizational
subterfuge was a systematic legal effort, for the first time in American history, to remove in an
election year the leading primary and general election candidate Donald Trump from various state
ballots. The Soviet-like charge was that he was guilty of "insurrection," a crime he has
never been charged with, much less convicted of. Meanwhile, three state prosecutors and one
special federal counsel — all leftists and some previously bragging in their own
election campaigns of their intention to destroy Trump — have charged candidate Trump
with an array of felonies. The vast majority of Americans agree Trump would never have been
so charged had he just not sought to seek reelection — or had been a liberal Democrat.
Here's
The Legal Question That Could Determine The 2024 Election. The disqualification of
former President Donald Trump from the ballot in several states may depend on whether the U.S.
Supreme Court believes that the president of the United States is an "officer of the United States"
according to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [...] Trump has since
appealed both decisions, with the Colorado case being granted certiorari by the Supreme Court on
Friday. One of the questions Trump has presented to the court in his petition for certiorari
is whether, as the president, he was an "officer of the United States" as the term is used in the
amendment, which elsewhere does not specify the president or vice president as such an officer, a
question that has divided legal experts considerably. [Tweet]
Over
80 Percent of Democrats Believe States Should Disqualify Trump from 2024 Ballot.
Eighty one percent of Democrats believe states should disqualify former president Donald Trump from
presidential ballots, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll. By contrast, 90 percent
of Republicans believe states should keep Trump's name on the ballot. Independents are more
closely split: 44 percent believe states should remove Trump's name from ballots, while
56 percent believe states should allow Trump's name to remain on ballots. Both Colorado
and Maine have disqualified Trump from their respective primary ballots because his actions in the
wake of the 2020 election allegedly violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which forbids
individuals who have "engaged in insurrection" from seeking federal office.
President
Nothing: Joe Biden is a figurehead for Obama. The press has never fully
explained why people voted for him. Oh sure, they said he was not Trump, but Bernie Sanders,
Pete Buttigieg and Pocahontas Warren also were not Trump in 2020 and each was well ahead of Biden
when they suddenly dropped out after raising millions and garnering far more votes than he
had. Whatever happened to the unspent millions they raised? No one in the media seems
interested in finding that out. The press is too busy advancing the Democrat Party line to
bother with holding Democrats accountable. We know what happened. Obama picked Biden
just as he had picked Hillary four years earlier. After Biden failed in Iowa and New
Hampshire, Obama paid off the rivals and had Jim Clyburn fix the South Carolina primary, which for
Democrats is largely a black primary. Unleashing a pandemic panic and race riots across the
nation, Obama almost pulled it off. He needed a last-minute mail-in forgery operation to take
key states to seal the deal. Knowing Trump had the votes to come back in 2024, Obama has had
him impeached, indicted and in civil court.
Iowa
AG Brenna Bird: Efforts to Take Trump off the Ballot 'Absolutely Election
Interference'. Efforts to take former President Donald Trump off the
ballot — particularly in Colorado — are "absolutely election interference,"
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird told Breitbart News Saturday. "What Colorado is trying to
do, what their Supreme Court did, is absolutely election interference," Bird said. "And it is
just wrong when Americans can't vote for the presidential candidate of their choice, and he's the
leading candidate on the Republican side."
27 states
file an amicus brief in Supreme Court to keep Trump on the Colorado ballot.
Twenty-seven states have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, urging the court to keep
former President Donald Trump on the Colorado ballot. [...] Attorneys general in the states of West
Virginia, Indiana and multiple other states argued in the filing that declaring Trump an
"insurrectionist" under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution would have "vast consequences that
reach far beyond Colorado." The Supreme Court is set to hear the arguments for the brief on
Feb. 8, according to Fox News.
Trump
is backed by more than two dozen states' attorneys general in Supreme Court fight.
Republican attorneys general from 27 states have filed a court brief supporting Donald Trump
in his Supreme Court battle to remain on Colorado's 2024 presidential ballot. In a 22-page
'friend of the court' brief filed on Saturday, the attorneys general called on the high court to
strike down a Colorado court decision barring Trump under the 14th Amendment's insurrectionist
ban. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case on February 8, and its decision
on Trump's eligibility to run for president will have far-reaching implications for the November
election, after Maine acted separately to ban Trump on similar grounds.
It's
the Same People — Politico Confirms Robert Mueller Agents/Lawyers Are Jack Smith
Agents/Lawyers. I have long been saying the Jack Smith special counsel team is the
reassembly of the Robert Mueller team. Today, inside an article outlining other ancillary
matters about the 2020 election challenges, Politico inadvertently confirmed my suspicions.
First, the non-pretending Big Picture. The Clinton exoneration FBI
Team became the Trump investigation FBI Team (Crossfire Hurricane) — which then became
the Robert Mueller FBI Team (exact same people, plus some additions) — which then became
the J6 Investigation FBI Team (exact same people, plus some additions) — which then
became the Jack Smith FBI Team (same exact people). Not only is it one long continuum, but
it's also the EXACT SAME PEOPLE.
What
happens if... ? This is a very scary essay to write, but it must be said and deeply
considered. Tucker Carlson has long opined that Trump's greatest threat is being "Epsteined."
Democrats have pulled out all the stops to prevent him from ever entering the White House ever again,
yet at every one of their attempts his popularity grows. Every new attempt to keep him off the
ballot spirals ever deeper into the "crazy zone" with reasons they seemingly pull out of thin air,
and judges that are O.K. to rule on these specious arguments; I won't belabor them because this
has been well-covered on these pages. Obviously, these attempts won't ultimately succeed
because the law is not on the side of the accusers (I know that many readers will say the law
doesn't matter anymore, but I'm going to pretend, for now, that it does). Therefore, Trump
will be the Republican nominee. But what happens if someone takes the final irreversible step
of removing Trump from the face of the earth? Tucker believes Democrat Plan B is to back
Nikki Haley.
President
Trump Asks the Court to Hold Jack Smith in Contempt For Violating Order. President
Trump's attorneys on Thursday asked the Court to hold Special Counsel Jack Smith in contempt for
violating Judge Chutkan's order staying all proceedings in the January 6 case against Trump.
"President Donald J. Trump respectfully moves this Court for an order to show cause why
prosecutors Jack Smith, Molly Gaston, and Thomas Windom (collectively, the "prosecutors") should
not be held in contempt for violating the Court's order 'stay[ing] any further proceedings that
would move this case towards trial or impose additional burdens of litigation on Defendant.' Doc.
186 at 2 (the 'Stay Order')." Trump's lawyer wrote in the order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
Trump's
brief to the Supreme Court is solid, well-written, persuasive, and underreported. Six
days ago, Donald Trump's lawyers filed a 34-page brief in the Supreme Court. In legal-speak,
their brief is called a "petition for certiorari." It asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review the
4-3 decision by the Colorado Supreme Court banning Trump from the Colorado ballot. This case
presents one of the most important legal and political issues of this century: Whether a
state can exclude a national candidate from the state's ballot on the grounds that he committed a
federal crime that he was never convicted of or even charged with. But the media has largely
ignored Trump's brief. I have not seen a single news report about it. Reporters
embarked on crazy endzone dancing when the Colorado decision came out last month, which has
apparently left them too woozy and hungover to report on a particular salient fact —
namely, that this play is almost certainly under review by the real Supreme Court. And
initial indications point to the on-field ruling being overturned.
Ex-CIA
Analyst Warns About Intel Agencies Being Involved in 2024 Election. Looks like
electoral mischief might be afoot again. According to ex-CIA analyst, now professor at
Georgetown University Dr. John Gentry, he believes the alphabet agencies will try to interfere
in the 2024 election. [...] Gentry termed the effort to downplay the Hunter Biden laptop as
"clearly political" and that "in no uncertain terms" it was done "explicitly" with the "intent to
help the Biden campaign." He said he was already seeing signs. [...] Gentry also pointed out
how the intel agencies had been compromised by politics, that the standard of not being involved in
politics was largely "gone" and political activism was "common." He pointed to two main reasons:
former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Gentry said that they did things pursuant to DEI and "policy actions, in terms of specific
recruitment efforts" that helped to precipitate this change.
Raskin's
Disturbing Defense of Removing Trump From Ballot Includes Chilling Words About SCOTUS.
CNN had Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) in on Sunday to talk about the efforts by Democrats to boot former
President Donald Trump from the ballot using the 14th Amendment. Raskin made some comments that
a lot of people are talking about. The first part was what he said about the disqualification
process. He had the temerity to claim that what they were trying to do against Trump was the most
"democratic" form of disqualification. This takes some kind of gall to attempt this level of spin; [Tweet]
Trump
Ballot Bans and the Specter of Bush v. Gore. It's safe to say that Chief
Justice John Roberts would rather keep the U.S. Supreme Court out of the legal battles that seem
destined to define the 2024 presidential election. Unfortunately for Roberts, it will be all
but impossible for the Court to avoid deciding whether state officials and courts possess the legal
authority to remove Donald Trump from primary ballots after declaring him guilty of a crime for
which he has never been charged. Because SCOTUS is likely to rule in favor of Trump, it will
produce outrage on the left and countless comparisons to Bush v. Gore. Consequently,
it's a useful exercise to debunk the myths still purveyed by the Democrats about that fabled 2000 ruling.
Destroying
democracy to save it: Maine shows the danger of zealots in our legal system.
Maine's Shenna Bellows issued a "decision" that declared Trump an "insurrectionist" and ineligible
to be president. She joined an ignoble list of Democratic officials in states such as
Colorado who claim to safeguard democracy by denying its exercise to millions of Americans.
Yet the most striking aspect of this poorly crafted decision was not its litany of conclusory
findings, but rather Bellow's implausible suggestion that she struggled over the decision.
Bellows was a natural choice for challengers, who have been searching for any officials or courts
willing to embrace this dangerous theory under the Fourteenth Amendment that they can unilaterally
bar candidates deemed rebellious or insurrectionalist. [...] In our cynical politics, Bellows and
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, among others, have become wildly popular for seeking to
complete the effort to defeat Trump by removing him from the ballot. This cynicism is
captured in statements from pundits who warn that Democrats can no longer rely on the election
process, given Trump's soaring popularity.
Conservative
Group Files Lawsuit Against Maine Official Who Removed Trump From the Ballot. Maine's
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has been under scrutiny ever since she decided to remove former
President Donald Trump from the ballot as part of a national effort to influence the outcome of the
2024 presidential election. She has been the subject of criticism from folks on both the left
and the right. As I wrote earlier, she already faces impeachment proceedings, which
Republican state Rep. John Andrews announced on Friday evening.
Maine
Secretary of State, a Non-Attorney, Makes Legal Ruling Striking Trump from Ballot Based on YouTube
Videos. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows unilaterally ruled that former
President Donald Trump is unqualified to appear on the 2024 primary ballot despite lacking a law
degree and substituting YouTube videos for due process. Bellows, who previously worked as
Executive Director of the Maine Chapter of the ACLU but is not an attorney and did not attend law
school, made the legal conclusion in her ruling that "the declaration on [Trump's] candidate
consent form is false because he is not qualified to hold the office of the President under Section
Three of the Fourteenth Amendment."
The Mastermind
Behind the Campaign to Thwart Trump. The intricate web of political tactics deployed
against former President Donald Trump unveils a key orchestrator: Norm Eisen. As a
co-founder of the Voter Protection Program and a significant figure in the Transition Integrity
Project (TIP), Eisen's involvement in shaping strategies to impede Trump's political journey is
becoming increasingly evident. His role extends beyond mere opposition; it represents a
calculated effort to influence critical decisions and events that have left indelible marks on the
American political narrative. Eisen's influence is particularly discernible in two major
political junctures: the absence of National Guard deployment on January 6th and the legal
maneuvers leading to Trump's disqualification from the 2024 presidential ballot. These
instances are not isolated events but rather elements of a broader, cohesive strategy aimed at
neutralizing Trump's influence in American politics. This article delves into Eisen's
multifaceted role, uncovering the tactics and implications of his actions in the grander scheme of
American political dynamics. From his advisory role in state-level decisions to his legal
orchestrations at the federal level, Eisen emerges as a central figure in the concerted efforts to
challenge Trump's political legitimacy and aspirations.
Meet
The Left-Wing Activist Politician Who Kicked Trump Off The Maine Ballot. Democratic
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, the woman responsible for kicking former President Trump
off the state's 2024 election ballot, is a longtime left-wing activist and Democratic politician.
Bellows unilaterally removed Trump from the ballot Thursday night under Section 3 of the 14th
Amendment, barring individuals from running for office if they engaged in an insurrection.
The former president has not been charged with, or convicted of, engaging in an insurrection.
Bellows became Maine's Secretary of State in January of 2021 after she was elected by the
legislature following two terms in the Maine senate from 2016-20, her official bio states.
Her second term began in January of 2023 and goes for two years.
Federal
Government Operatives And Soros Money Behind Plot To Keep Trump Off Ballot. Maine's
top election official removed Trump from the state's 2024 primary ballot on Thursday, joining the
Colorado Supreme Court in disqualifying Trump from running for president. Maine's Secretary
of State Shenna Bellows determined that Trump was ineligible to run under the 14th Amendment due to
his alleged role in the January 6 Capitol riot. [...] But the evidence overwhelmingly suggests
that the storming of the Capitol was a security failure, not a coup attempt, and that undercover
law enforcement informants or officers may have allowed, or even encouraged, it to happen.
January 6 prosecutors have failed to prove a clear link between the rioters and Trump or his
associates. And the fact that the Department of Justice declined to indict Trump for inciting
an insurrection is a tacit recognition that Trump's words leading up to the riot were legal speech.
Even some Democrats and mainstream news commentators agree the Maine decision has no merit.
The Mess in Maine.
Normally campaign season is a period of heightened engagement, as people scour the Internet to
research even the most inane questions, knowing that at the end of the process, they get to cast
votes on them. It's why news companies tend to fatten up in election years, like Grizzlies
during salmon runs. People are absorbed by dramas in which they feel themselves to be
participants. This year the public is being forced to research questions in which they have
no say. We all understand now that there's a disqualification clause in the 14th
Amendment. We also understand that this clause seems to have been written with deliberate
vagueness. I'm no lawyer, but I doubt the 14th Amendment was designed to empower unelected
state officials to unilaterally strike major party frontrunners from the presidential ballot.
If it was, that's a shock. I must have missed that in AP Insane Legal Loopholes class.
Is there any way this ends well?
Maine
GOP state lawmaker moves to impeach state secretary over Trump ballot removal. A
Maine Republican state lawmaker wants to impeach the Maine secretary of state who removed former
President Donald Trump from the primary ballot. GOP state Rep. John Andrews said he
wants to pursue impeachment against Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows after she disqualified
Trump from the 2024 Republican primary ballot on Thursday. In her ruling, Bellows cited
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which bans from office those who "engaged
in insurrection." Andrews said in a statement that he filed a request with the Maine Revisor's
Office saying he wanted "to file a Joint Order, or whichever is the proper parliamentary mechanism
under Mason's Rules, to impeach Secretary of State Shenna Bellows."
Persecutor
Jack Smith fears presidential immunity. A single executive is part of our
three-branch balanced republic, and the executive is restrained by impeachment and having to stand
for election for a maximum two terms. Unfortunately, the contemporary
democrat/Socialist/Communist Party recognizes no restraint, and impeachment has become a favored
strategic harassment, a weapon employed for the first time in history against Donald Trump when
he was no longer in office. Considering Congress has delegated —
abandoned — much of its power to an entirely unaccountable and increasingly aggressive
and totalitarian Deep State, that point can't be underestimated.
Maine's
Secretary of State Is An Anti-Trump Partisan Democrat. Maine's Secretary Of State
Shenna Bellows joined Democrats in their attack to take down former President Trump as the 2024
election was terrible news for President Joe Biden. The Trump campaign is accusing Bellows of
being a "rabid anti-Trump Democrat" who is relying on her interpretation of the 14th Amendment
despite not being a lawyer and never graduating from law school. She was also a Biden elector
in 2020. In March 2022, Bellows claimed Biden is fighting for democracy, saying, "In
speaking to the battle between autocracies and democracies, President Biden reminds us of a crucial
struggle of our time. Our democracy is worth fighting for. It matters." [Tweet]
She is such a leftist that she thinks that the New York Times is right-wing. [Tweet]
Jackboot
Smith Aims to Silence Trump. This is absurd, unconstitutional, and Putinesque.
Jack Smith should be immediately removed for even proposing this. In a move worthy of any
aspiring tyrant, Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking the court to prevent Donald Trump from making
arguments that he believes are relevant to his defense. Smith, as the prosecutor, may
disagree with Trump's arguments, but last I checked, in our justice system, it is up to a jury to
determine the facts of a case. [Tweet] Smith's sweeping motion would essentially silence
Trump — preventing him from criticizing the Special Counsel, law enforcement, the
electoral process, or just about anything else.
Maine
Democrat Secretary of State Determines, Without Judicial Hearing, Donald Trump is Disqualified from
2024 GOP Primary Ballot. At the same time the Colorado Republican Party files a
petition to the United States Supreme Court to overturn a disqualification ruling issued by the
Colorado Supreme Court, a challenge that will result in President Trump appearing on the Colorado
ballot, the Democrat Maine Secretary of State has ruled by fiat that Trump should be
disqualified. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows issued a public statement declaring
that under her independent determination, President Trump should be disqualified. [...] It is a
remarkable display of political hubris and hypocrisy to see the Lawfare leftists proclaim they are
defending democracy by trying to destroy the foundational "right to vote" of the American electorate.
Then again, the hubris and hypocrisy are a feature of communism, not a flaw therein.
Maine
tries to dump Trump: Secretary of state rules Donald is not eligible for election
ballot. Maine has become the second state to disqualify Donald Trump from the primary
ballot, citing the 14th Amendment's ban on anyone who engaged in insurrection from holding
office. The decision by Maine's secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, follows a similar
conclusion made on December 19 by Colorado's Supreme Court. Trump's team on Thursday
night said they will appeal the decision, as they will in Colorado. On Thursday, the
Republican Party in Colorado appealed against their Supreme Court's decision, meaning that he is
back on the ballot until an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Jack
Smith asks court to ban Trump from introducing evidence of Jan. 6 security failures.
Special Counsel Jack Smith's office asked a federal judge Wednesday to prevent former President Donald
Trump from introducing evidence at his Jan. 6 criminal trial concerning selective prosecution and
security failures that occurred at the Capitol or making arguments his actions were protected by the
First Amendment, suggesting such a defense amounted to politics. Trump has tried "to inject into
this case partisan political attacks and irrelevant and prejudicial issues that have no place in a jury
trial," Senior Assistant Special Counsel Molly Gaston wrote in the court filing. The special
counsel is seeking to bar Trump from claiming that he is being selectively prosecuted and introducing
evidence supporting such allegations.
Jackboot
Smith Aims to Silence Trump. This is absurd, unconstitutional, and Putinesque.
Jack Smith should be immediately removed for even proposing this. In a move worthy of any
aspiring tyrant, Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking the court to prevent Donald Trump from making
arguments that he believes are relevant to his defense. Smith, as the prosecutor, may
disagree with Trump's arguments, but last I checked, in our justice system, it is up to a jury to
determine the facts of a case. [Tweet] Smith's sweeping motion would essentially silence
Trump — preventing him from criticizing the Special Counsel, law enforcement, the
electoral process, or just about anything else.
'Under
the United States'.... The Colorado Court claimed that the [14th] Amendment was
"self-enforcing." This means that they completely ignored the plain language of the
Amendment. Section 5 says, "The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this article." One of the key principles of legal
interpretation is, expressio unius est exclusio alterius (the expression of one thing means
the exclusion of others). In short, as Justice Antonin Scalia noted in his book A Matter of
Interpretation (2018), this is the commonsense way to read the law. Section 5 says
Congress has to enforce Section 3. It is not self-enforcing. Scalia is in good
company here. Not one member of the Congress that wrote the 14th Amendment is on record to
suggest that it was self-enforcing. They were all agreed with the need for Congress to flesh
things out by statute. Strike one. The second issue is insurrection. Logically,
Donald Trump, the sitting president, could not commit insurrection against himself.
Michigan
Supreme Court rejects bid to take Trump off primary ballot. The Michigan Supreme
Court on Wednesday rejected an attempt to remove former President Trump from the state's primary
ballot under the 14th Amendment's insurrection ban. A liberal-leaning group had appealed a
state appeals court ruling that concluded, regardless of whether the 14th Amendment disqualifies
Trump from holding office, Michigan's secretary of state lacks the legal authority to remove him
from the ballot. The state's highest court, controlled by Democrats, let that lower ruling
stand, saying in an unsigned order that it was "not persuaded that the questions presented should
be reviewed by this Court." The decision hands a legal victory for Trump as his lawyers seek
to stave off 14th Amendment lawsuits filed across the country, aimed at preventing the former
president's return to the White House.
Saying
the Quiet Part Out Loud: Biden Might Lose, So Screw the Constitution. There is
a debate raging on the Left about the Colorado Supreme Court's unconstitutional decision to strip
Donald Trump off the ballot. The decision, as you know, is based on a claim that Trump's
behavior post-election amounted to "insurrection" and that the 14th Amendment precludes
insurrectionists from running for president. I am no lawyer, but I can see many problems with
this argument, including the obvious one that insurrection is a legal term with a specific
definition. As it is a violation of a law, an insurrectionist must be convicted to be defined
as such. In other words, you can't just say, "He is an insurrectionist," and Wham! he is
ineligible to be president. We have a legal system in which there is a presumption of
innocence, and, by the way, Trump is not even charged, no less convicted of "insurrection" or
"rebellion." Lots of lawyers have pointed this out, although there are plenty of Left-wing
lawyers who long ago gave up on the notion of laws being anything other than malleable tools for
enforcing their desires. One would have to assume that the US Supreme Court will overturn
this decision, but we still have to ask why the Left is going in this direction.
Trump
Attorneys: Appeals Court Should Toss D.C. Indictment On 'Immunity' Grounds.
"During the 234 years from 1789 to 2023, no current or former President had ever been criminally
prosecuted for official acts," the Trump lawyers wrote. "That unbroken tradition died this
year, and the historical fallout is tremendous. The indictment of President Trump threatens
to launch cycles of recrimination and politically motivated prosecution that will plague our Nation
for many decades to come and stands likely to shatter the very bedrock of our Republic —
the confidence of American citizens in an independent judicial system." Trump's lawyers urged
the appellate panel that's set to hear oral arguments on Jan. 9 to kick the case back to U.S.
District Judge Tanya Chutkan "with instructions to dismiss the indictment with prejudice."
Jack
(Smith) Not So Nimble. It seems clear to me that Jack Smith was appointed for the
purpose of besetting Donald J. Trump and finding a means to keep him from running for president
again. If I'm right, Smith's many strategies have come to naught this week and it is
extremely unlikely that the cases he instituted in the District of Columbia and Florida (meritless
as I think they are) will ever be resolved before the election. [...] Further complicating matters,
the Supreme Court just granted certiorari upon a petition by a person charged with obstructing an
official proceeding on January 6 — the Fischer case. And much of the case
before Judge Chutkan uses the same arguments against Trump that are at issue in that case.
Oral arguments in that case probably won't be heard until sometime in March or April, and surely it
will take time for an opinion by the Court, an opinion which has significant bearing on a great
deal of Smith's case. If the government loses that case, there will not be much left for
Smith to prosecute should by some miracle he gets a trial before the election.
Former
AG drops bombshell allegation against Jack Smith: 'Has no more authority' than Taylor
Swift. According to former President Ronald Reagan's Attorney General Ed Meese,
special counsel Jack Smith is a "naked emperor" whose requests should be rejected by the Supreme
Court because he was unconstitutionally appointed to begin with. Meese joined forces with law
professors Steven G. Calabresi and Gary S. Lawson to file a friend-of-the-court brief on Wednesday
arguing that, as a private citizen, Smith's appointment by Attorney General Merrick Garland
violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. [...] "Under the Appointments Clause,
inferior officers can be appointed by department heads only if Congress so directs by statute...
and so directs specifically enough to overcome a clear-statement presumption in favor of
presidential appointment and senatorial confirmation," Meese wrote, according to Fox News Digital.
"No such statute exists for the Special Counsel."
A
smart amicus brief says Jack Smith is an illegitimate special prosecutor. Leftist
judges usually write horrible opinions that are filled with bazillions of case citations and facts,
most of which are, at best, marginally relevant. They do this to hide that the conclusions
are intellectually and factually bankrupt. Rule of thumb in the law: The clearer an
argument, the stronger the position. That's true for any legal argument, as is demonstrated
by the amicus brief that former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and two law professors filed
before the Supreme Court. It argues with exquisite clarity that Jack Smith's appointment as
Special Prosecutor was unconstitutional, which would void everything he's done. [...] The operative
facts are simple. Despite having a whole host of Assistant U.S. Attorneys available to him,
when it came to investigating the allegations swirling around January 6, Merrick Garland
appointed someone who is not a U.S. Attorney but is, instead, a private citizen to investigate the
matter (and, naturally, to bring preordained charges).
Turley:
January 6 Wasn't Insurrection or Rebellion — 14th Amendment Doesn't
Apply. Thursday on FNC's "The Story," network contributor Jonathan Turley questioned
the merits of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the
2024 primary election ballot. According to Turley, the 14th Amendment didn't apply because
January 6 was a riot, not an insurrection. "It's nonsense," he said. "I mean, first of
all, there's really interesting analogies to go to Bush v. Gore, you know, a little over
20 years ago, they had another 4-3 decision by another state Supreme Court. And what the
court did is they were uncomfortable with the ambiguous standards being used by Florida. This
is even more so. When I read the 14th Amendment, I see the words insurrection or
rebellion. This was neither. This was a riot. [...]"
Supreme
Court Sends Jack Smith Packing — Denies His Request For Ruling on Trump Immunity
Argument. The US Supreme Court on Friday denied Jack Smith's request for a ruling on
Trump's immunity argument. Jack Smith last Monday asked the US Supreme Court to weigh in on
Trump's immunity claims. President Trump on Wednesday urged the US Supreme Court to reject
Jack Smith's request to expedite the ruling on his immunity argument. Trump's lawyers argued
that Trump is immune from federal prosecution for alleged 'crimes' committed while he served as US President.
Democrats
Are Staging A Coup In Broad Daylight. If it wasn't obvious before now that the left
will do anything to stop Donald Trump from winning a second term in the White House, the events of
the last few days should leave no doubt in any American's mind. Democrats, including
President Biden, are prepared not only to rig the 2024 election in broad daylight but also to twist
the U.S. Constitution and undermine the republic so they can hold on to power. As most
everyone knows by now, an infamous 4-3 majority of the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that
voters in their state will not be allowed to cast a ballot for Trump in next year's presidential
election. The court's outlandish claim is that Trump is ineligible to appear on the ballot
because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says candidates who have "engaged in insurrection" are
prohibited from holding public office. According to the court, which is dominated by
left-wing ideologues appointed by Democrat governors (all the judges on the Colorado Supreme Court
are Democrats, some are just more radical than others), Trump meets this definition because he
"incited" a riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Never mind that Trump has yet to be
convicted of a crime associated with Jan. 6 (or any crime for that matter) or that the 14th
Amendment doesn't include the president or vice president in a list of offices to which its
Section 3 provision applies.
Whatever
It Takes Won't Be Enough. And just like that — snap ! — the
news about the Colorado Supreme Court's droll action against candidate DJ Trump vanished from the
front page (or top screens) of The New York Times. Do you know why? I'll tell
you: Because the political Left has finally managed to embarrass itself with a "lawfare"
gambit so nakedly fatuous that it exposes the faction's drive to destroy the election process, and
with it our country. This is what you get from a regime that faked its way to power and
now must strain to cover up its long train of crimes, abuses, and effronteries to common sense,
while running out of tricks to keep fooling even its own deranged followers. Somehow, the act
of kicking a leading candidate off the ballot has finally registered as inconsistent with
"defending our democracy."
There's
A Direct Line Between Joe Biden's Deep State And Trump Getting Removed From Colorado's
Ballot. The left-wing legal organization behind Colorado's decision to remove former
President Donald Trump from its Republican primary ballot has a direct link to the Biden
administration. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) President and CEO
Noah Bookbinder is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Homeland Security
Advisory Council (HSAC) tasked with giving real-time advice to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,
the DHS website says. CREW brought the Colorado case against Trump and celebrated the
Colorado Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling to keep Trump off the state's GOP primary ballot. "Our
Constitution clearly states that those who violate their oath by attacking our democracy are barred
from serving in government. It has been an honor to represent the petitioners, and we look
forward to ensuring that this vitally important ruling stands," Bookbinder said in a press
release. Bookbinder is a former trial attorney for the Department of Justice's (DOJ) public
integrity section and former chief counsel for criminal justice for the Senate Judiciary
Committee. He repeatedly donated to former President Barack Obama's re-election campaign
during his tenure with the Senate, Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records show.
Four
Fascist Colorado Judges Tell Voters Who to Vote For. Let's remove the fact that this
insurrection accusation against Trump is objectively laughable. Former President Donald Trump
has not been convicted of anything, much less insurrection. Insurrection is a crime.
You cannot be guilty of insurrection until a jury finds you guilty. Nevertheless, these four
black-robed fascists ruled against a former American president as though he were a convicted
criminal. These fascists punished a man who, according to our sacred Constitution, is
presumed innocent. Whether we are talking about a former president or a convicted three-time
felon who now stands accused of a fourth felony, before a jury rules, it is un-American for anyone
to punish either as though they are guilty. Four State Supreme Court judges blithely ignoring
that basic Constitutional protection is nothing less than the stuff of banana republics.
What's more, in this particular case, Trump is not the only one suffering at the hands of four
belligerents with no respect for the Constitution and Rule of Law. We The People are being punished.
Here
Are the 16 States Where Efforts to Remove Trump from the Ballot Are Underway.
With their advocates buoyed by the apparent success of the Colorado-based lawsuit to deny former
President Donald Trump a place on the 2024 presidential ballot, efforts to use the courts to thwart
Trump's chance at the White House are underway in almost a third of U.S. states. The core
argument against Trump — the front-runner in the GOP primary race — is that a
part of the post-Civil War 14th Amendment bars those who have committed insurrection against the
government from seeking federal office, specifically listing the legislative branch. Success
requires two things. First, a judge has to rule that Trump committed an insurrection against
the country, which a Colorado judge did in a ruling equating the [e]vents of Jan. 6, 2021,
with an insurrection and holding Trump culpable. Second, the amendment has to be interpreted
as saying it includes the presidency, which the Colorado Supreme Court did this week in its ruling
that said the former president can't be on the ballot.
Washington
Post Editorial Board: The Supreme Court Should Toss the Colorado Decision.
People (including our own Ed Morrissey) have been saying this since the decision appeared Tuesday
but I'm still a bit surprised to see the Washington Post's editorial board making the same
case. After laying out the basis of the Colorado decision under the 14th Amendment, the board
points out "the law is not so clear." The board argues that section 3 of the Amendment should
probably apply to the president (which is what the Colorado Supreme Court found) but says that
doesn't really matter unless you've also concluded that President Trump did in fact commit
insurrection in connection with Jan. 6. And on that point, the Colorado court is way out
on a limb.
Trump
off the ballot? First, the reason Trump is being excluded is new, untested, and
profoundly controversial in its application here. Basically, the court is saying Trump cannot
appear on the primary ballot because of a subsection of the Fourteenth Amendment meant to exclude
Confederate officials who waged a civil war against the United States. Using that provision
to exclude Trump is utterly novel. Its unprecedented use here invites the conclusion that it
is being wielded as a political sledgehammer by Trump's opponents and that some of those opponents
wear judicial robes. Trump's supporters took a nanosecond to reach that conclusion, and they
are furious. But it's not just them. All his Republican opponents came out immediately
against the court ruling. The backlash against the ruling will also spill over to other Trump
prosecutions. Prosecutors waited three full years to bring these cases, and it is not a wild
conjecture to think they waited to inflict maximum damage on a presidential campaign. Special
Counsel Jack Smith strengthened that conclusion recently when he appealed directly to the US
Supreme Court to contest Trump's claim of immunity. Smith's argument for by-passing the
normal appellate process boils down to the raw claim that "I need to try this guy before the
election." That's a political declaration, not a legal argument.
Who
does kicking Trump off the Colorado ballot help? Does kicking a popular candidate off
the electoral ballot protect democracy? Or is that in fact deeply anti-democratic?
These are the questions that many Americans are pondering after Colorado's Supreme Court voted four
to three to block Donald Trump from running in its state in the election next year, citing the
insurrection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. [...] Donald Trump is
probably not going to win in Colorado — he lost comfortably in the state to Hillary
Clinton< in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020 — but that's not the point. The ruling is a
clear attempt to establish that Trump, by "inciting an insurrection" on January 6, is persona
non grata in American elections according to the Constitution. It could be used as a
precedent to block Trump from running across America in 2024. Similar cases are making their
way through courts in several other states.
Democratic
lawfare vs. Donald Trump. The story of the 2024 campaign so far is the effort
by Democrats and their appointees to use criminal charges and lawsuits to force former President
Donald Trump out of the race for a second term in the White House. The name for such an
effort is lawfare — that is, "the strategic use of legal proceedings to intimidate or
hinder an opponent," to cite one law dictionary. The latest development, of course, is the
Colorado Supreme Court ruling disqualifying Trump from being on the state ballot. All seven
members of Colorado's highest court were appointed by Democrats. The case was started by a
Washington-based, aggressively anti-Trump activist group called CREW, or Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which recruited local Coloradans to file suit against
Trump. The Colorado case, of course, comes amid a growing number of Democratic legal efforts
to bring down Trump. Here are five additional examples. All were brought by Democratic
or Democratic-appointed prosecutors, and three of the five are being tried before
Democratic-appointed judges.
California,
Maine Exploring Options to Keep Trump Off Ballot Following Colorado Ruling. The
states of California and Maine are now exploring options to keep former President Trump off their
respective state ballots in the wake of Colorado's ruling. As Breitbart News reported on
Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled "in a 4-3 opinion that the Constitution's 'Insurrection
Clause' prohibits former President Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot for the presidency in
2024." "The court found by clear and convincing evidence that President Trump engaged in
insurrection as those terms are used in Section Three" of the Fourteenth Amendment, the ruling
read. The ruling will partially reverse a previous ruling from Colorado District Court Judge
Sarah Wallace, who ruled in November that the Fourteenth Amendment would not apply in the case of
former President Trump, being that he is not an officer of the United States as was defined at the
time of the amendment's ratification following the Civil War.
The
Colorado Ballot Exclusion of Trump is Backfiring. The unconscionable Colorado Supreme
Court decision to exclude Donald Trump from the state's ballot, in what many believe to be a
political maneuver to sideline the former president on very dicey grounds, may very well may
backfire. Many prominent Republicans are now calling for President Biden to removed over his
complete mishandling of the border. The Colorado Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision rooted their
ruling in the 14th Amendment's "insurrection clause" that prohibits anyone who has sworn an oath to
uphold the Constitution, including members of Congress, officers of the United States, or state
executives and judicial officers, from engaging in insurrection. They made this determination
under the presumption that Trump was involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack even though
there has been no criminal trial against the former president.
The
backdoor insurrection conviction will not stand. The Colorado Supreme Court yesterday
decided that Donald Trump "engaged in an insurrection or rebellion" on or about Jan. 6, 2021.
Under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, he is therefore ineligible for the presidency and
would be removed from the Colorado ballot. A few points to consider: The Court on its
own volition stayed its order until Jan. 4 to give Trump an opportunity to appeal the case to
the real Supreme Court, the United States one. If he does so, and he will, and the Supreme
Court decides to hear the case, and they will, then the order is further stayed until the Supreme
Court issues its decision this spring or summer. The Colorado Supreme Court is comprised of
seven justices. All seven were appointed by Democrat governors. The U.S. Supreme Court
has a materially different composition. Six of the nine justices are Republican
appointees. Notwithstanding that the Colorado Supreme Court is unanimously Democrat
appointees, their decision was 4-3. Three of the seven Democrat-appointed justices sided with
Trump. The Colorado decision is contrary to decisions in Minnesota and Michigan, whose
supreme courts are also majority Democrat appointees. It's fair to say that the Colorado
decision is an outlier, even among Democrat jurists.
Colorado's
Supreme Court Blocks Democracy to Bar Trump on the 2024 Ballot. The Colorado Supreme
Court has issued an unsigned opinion, making history in the most chilling way possible. A
divided court barred Donald Trump from appearing on the 2024 presidential ballot. For months,
advocates have been filing without success in various states, looking for some court to sign off on
a dangerous, novel theory under the Constitution's 14th Amendment. They finally found four
receptive jurists on one of the bluest state supreme courts in the land. Even on a court
composed entirely of justices appointed by Democratic governors, Colorado's Supreme Court split 4-3
on the question. The majority admitted that this was a case "of first impression" and that
there was "sparse" authority on the question. Yet, the lack of precedent or clarity did not
deter these justices from making new law to block Trump from running.
Radical-Left
Colorado Supreme Court Disqualifies Trump from 2024 Ballot. As the Gateway Pundit
reported, President Trump will not be on the ballot in Colorado in 2024 thanks to their far-left
Supreme Court. The Court dubiously cited Section 3 of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment
which states public officials who have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against" the US may be
disqualified from public office. Trump did not engage in an insurrection nor has been charged
with one. As TGP readers know, this ruling came in response to a suit brought by the George
Soros-funded Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW). CBS News previously reported the
group filed its lawsuit against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Trump in September,
arguing the 45th president is disqualified from public office under Section 3.
The
Colorado Supreme Court 4-3 Decision Is Pure Nonsense. President Donald Trump was not
charged with "insurrection," is not accused of "insurrection," does not fit the complaint under the
definitions of "insurrection," and has never been found guilty of insurrection. The complaint
is moot before the court. [...] As long as President Trump appeals the decision to the Supreme
Court, the appeals court stays their own ruling — essentially indefinitely. The
Colorado primary ballots printed, and the primary election will be over, before the Supreme Court
puts this on their docket. In addition to the virtual guarantee the high court will overrule
this political nonsense, SCOTUS can make the entire issue moot before them by following their own
normal schedule for submissions, arguments, deliberation and opinions delivered by the court.
The Colorado appellate court knows this, that's why they put this self-stay into their 4-3 ruling.
'Election
Interference': Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump From Ballot. The Colorado Supreme
Court ruled Tuesday in an unprecedented 4-3 decision to remove former President Donald Trump from
the state's presidential primary ballot, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This is a
nakedly partisan, anti-democratic decision that ignores the law and prior precedent. Under
the text and history of the 14th Amendment, as well as court precedent, Trump is not disqualified
from running for office for numerous reasons. First, Section 3 of the 14 Amendment applies
only to individuals who were previously a 'member of Congress,' an 'officer of the United States,'
or a state official. Individuals who are elected — such as the president and vice
president — are not officers within the meaning of Section 3. Second, no federal
court has convicted Trump of engaging in 'insurrection or rebellion.' In fact, the Senate
acquitted Trump of that charge in his second impeachment. Third, some scholars assert Section
3 doesn't even exist anymore as a constitutional matter after the Amnesty Acts of 1872 and
1898 — a matter completely ignored by the court today. Fourth, prior court rulings
have held that Section 3 is not self-executing and Congress has never passed any federal law
providing for enforcement, meaning that courts such as the Colorado Supreme Court have no legal
authority to enforce Section 3.
A
Left-Wing Appeals Panel Is Rigging Trump's J6 Case Through Bogus Fast-Track Process.
For Democrats to succeed with their 2024 presidential campaign strategy of imprisoning the current
front-runner in the race, they need a massive assist from key judges. District Court Judge
Tanya Chutkan has done everything in her power to speed up the process for one of the complicated
cases Democrats have filed against former President Donald Trump. Whereas the standard
federal fraud and conspiracy case takes about two years to get to trial, controversial Special
Counsel Jack Smith and Chutkan have worked in concert to get the trial started in March, a
breathtaking seven months after Trump's indictment. Likewise, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Florence Pan is doing her part to assist the effort to give Trump far less time than other
defendants to prepare for a trial against him. Last week, she led a panel to fast-track an
appeal in order to facilitate Smith's goal of securing a quick conviction before one of Washington,
D.C.'s notoriously partisan juries. "Any fair-minded observer has to agree" that Smith and
Chutkan are acting based on the election schedule, conceded former federal prosecutor and left-wing
pundit Elie Honig. "Just look at Jack Smith's conduct in this case. The motivating
principle behind every procedural request he's made has been speed, has been getting this trial in
before the election." Election interference isn't incidental to this prosecution, then, it's
the entire point.
NY
AG Brags That the Judge Ruled Against DJT Before the Trial. NY Attorney General
Letitia James gave a very deceptive statement in a new video about the Trump family's alleged fraud
over the years. She must have been thinking of the Biden Crime Family. She mentioned
what we already knew. Judge Engoron determined Trump engaged in "significant financial fraud"
before the trial ever began, and any defense was presented. In fact, Engoron wouldn't even
let the family present some evidence verbally. "Before this trial even began, the judge ruled
in our favor and found that Donald Trump did engage in years of significant financial fraud,"
Attorney General admitted. "We uncovered throughout this trial, we revealed the full extent of that
fraud. We introduced extensive evidence and questioned more than two dozen witnesses."
They don't seem to realize this is Soviet-like. Even Russia pretends to have legitimate
trials. These communists are out in the open now.
Meet
Lawyer Michael Dreeben, The Man Behind Three Major Anti-Trump Operations. Eyebrows
were raised last week when it was discovered that Special Counsel Jack Smith had added attorney
Michael Dreeben to his legal team. "An interesting detail: Michael Dreeben somehow snuck
into Jack Smith's office. He was Mueller's appellate guy," enthused Marcy Wheeler, a
proponent of the debunked conspiracy theory that Donald Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding
with Russia. Fellow Russia-collusion hoaxer Rachel Maddow of MSNBC ran an entire segment to
announce the exciting news that Dreeben is "helming this part of the case," meaning Smith's request
to the Supreme Court to look at whether American presidents may be prosecuted for actions taken
while they are president. Left-wing legal activist (and, yes, another bitter clinger
Russia-collusion hoaxer) Joyce Vance said her "friend" Dreeben had "framed this petition" before
the Supreme Court. Mueller, of course, is Robert Mueller, the ostensible head of the Mueller
probe that treated the Russia conspiracy scam as credible and leaked information to the propaganda
press to ensure it had maximum effect.
NY
Attorney General Letitia James Admits Her Guilt in Denying Trump Due Process. In her
latest video, New York Attorney General Letitia James admitted her guilt in compromising former
President Donald Trump's right to due process. This comes after she claimed that Judge Arthur
Engoron had found Trump guilty of "significant financial fraud" even before the current trial
began. Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $250 million in 'damages' when there is
no victim in this fraud case and she is also seeking to ban Trump and his sons from operating any
businesses in New York. She accused Trump of inflating his assets and defrauding lenders and
insurance companies.
Dog whistle: Will
the Deep State actually assassinate Donald Trump? The inevitability of another Trump
nomination — and possible electoral victory next November — is something
Beltway elites are coming to grips with. Robert Kagan, the neo-con husband of liberal zionist
Victoria Nuland, said as much in a recent column for CIA mouthpiece The Washington Post.
Nuland is a bureaucratic parasite (what the media calls a "diplomat") who currently serves in the
Biden regime. Her primary job right now is to ensure yours and my tax dollars are funneled to
Volodymyr Zelensky's ever-widening pockets. Kagan's article is several thousand words long.
[...] It is an unhinged rant about how Trump will usher in a "dictatorship" if he ever gets
re-elected, which, Kagan admits, is looking very possible. Kagan theorizes that if Trump wins
the presidency he will "immediately become the most powerful person ever to hold that office."
Kagan then ominously asks his audience — most of whom are probably intelligence
agents — what they are going to do to prevent this from happening. "If we thought
there was a 50 percent chance of an asteroid crashing into North America a year from now,
would we be content to hope that it wouldn't?" he wonders. "Or would we be taking every
conceivable measure to try to stop it, including many things that might not work but that, given
the magnitude of the crisis, must be tried anyway?"
CNN
Legal Analyst Makes Concerning Statement About Prosecution of Trump. CNN had an
interesting discussion involving senior legal analyst Elie Honig concerning whether Jack Smith was
acting based on the election schedule. Honig believed that he was. [Tweet with
video clip] But Honig didn't leave it there. "The motivating principle behind
every procedural request he's [Smith] made has been speed, has been getting this trial in before
the election," Honig said. He noted how the trial date that Smith asked for —
"five months out" — was fast compared to Jan. 6 trial requests. "Donald Trump
is being given far less time to prepare," he said. Then Honig noted the DOJ policy that
you're not supposed to do anything that might impact the election.
Republican
Elise Stefanik demands ethics probe into D.C. judge who's ruled in Trump's January 6
case. Top Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik filed a judiciary complaint accusing
the judge in Donald Trump's January 6 case of engaging in 'highly inappropriate political
speech.' The staunch Trump ally and GOP conference chair requested an ethics investigation into
D.C. Circuit Court Judge Beryl Howell over her November remarks at the Women's White Collar Defense
Gala. During the address Howell signaled the January 6 Capitol riot had been the result
of 'big lies.'
Anything you have ever said can be used against you, years later. Jack
Smith Will Use Trump's Cellphone Data in Federal Election Trial. Anti-Trump special
counsel Jack Smith revealed that he plans to present data analysts to comment on Donald Trump's
White House cellphone and Twitter data in an upcoming Washington, D.C., trial in the federal
election case. Smith wrote in a court filing on Dec. 11, 2023, that the government
intended to call up to three expert witnesses to testify in the case. Trump is charged with
four counts related to his post-election efforts to challenge the process and results of the 2020
election, according to the Epoch Times. The filing also explained how leftist
prosecutors plan to use the mountains of data obtained under warrant from Twitter about Trump's
account, including location data.
Lawsuits
Against Trump Are So Transparently Political They're Backfiring Badly With Democrats.
It turns out that the American people know a scam when they see one — even
Democrats. A new I&I/TIPP poll shows indisputably that the lawsuits against Trump are
beginning to boomerang in the minds of Democrats. [...] Donald Trump is currently indicted on 91
obviously orchestrated felony counts, as well as other lawsuits in multiple venues around the U.S.
There's the indictment about legally held documents at Mar-a-Lago, there's the one about "inciting"
an insurrection, and there's the fraudulent civil lawsuit in New York on which the judge has
already ruled the former president is guilty without hearing the evidence. Then there's the
other New York case alleging "hush money" payments. There's the lawfare special from the
1980s alleged assault in New York. There's the racketeering lawsuit brought by Fani Willils
in Georgia alleging the former president tried to "subvert" an election. There are lawsuits
to keep him off the ballot in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, and 17 other states.
Jack
Smith Collected Images, Website Visits And Usage Data From Trump's Cellphone, Filing
Reveals. Special Counsel Jack Smith collected data from the cellphone former
President Donald Trump used in the White House, according to a recent court filing. Smith
revealed three expert witnesses he may call on during Trump's coming 2020 election trial in a court
filing Monday, including one who "extracted and processed data from the White House cell phones
used by the defendant [Trump] and one other individual." Data reviewed by Smith's expert witness
includes images and website visits, along with phone "usage" around Jan. 6, 2021, according to
the filing.
Jim Jordan wants a medal for stating the obvious. Jim
Jordan Claims Fulton County DA Fani Willis Colluded With J6 Committee to Indict Trump.
Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan's probe into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis'
indictment against former President Donald Trump has seen an interesting turn of events.
Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, has been looking into the indictment over
suspicions that it is motivated more by politics than by a pursuit of justice. On Tuesday,
Jordan sent another letter to Willis highlighting her refusal to comply with the demands in the
previous letter the committee sent. Of particular note, however, is a new revelation that
Willis' office reached out to the Democrats' House Select Jan. 6 Committee to get information
that could aid in her effort against Trump. In the letter, Jordan notes that Willis'
indictment and prosecution against the former president "implicate substantial federal interests,
and the circumstances surrounding your actions raise serious concerns about whether they are
politically motivated." The lawmaker pointed out, "It is noteworthy that just four days
before this indictment, you launched a new campaign fundraising website that highlighted your
investigation into President Trump."
Subtle
Like a Brick Through a Window - CIA Outlet Approves Donald Trump Assassination. I
have stayed away from this subject for eight years; however, everyone in/around U.S. politics knows
the Washington Post, owned by Big Tech Amazon, is effectively the PR firm of the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA). No one inside the DC beltway does not understand this basic truth.
Therefore, when the husband of State Dept official Victoria Nuland, a man named Robert Kagan,
writes an op-ed in the CIA newsletter, effectively calling for President Trump to receive the
Julius Caesar treatment, the non-subtle message is for the CIA to repeat their Kennedy performance
and kill President Trump. As alarming as this acceptance might sound, there are no
intellectually honest people who would deny it.
There
Are Games Afoot In The Scheduling of Trump's Two Federal Cases. First Commandment of
federal criminal trial practice: Thou shalt not take deliberate steps to disrupt a federal
judge's calendar. There is almost nothing that will bring a federal prosecutor or defense
attorney grief and vituperation more quickly or in greater volume than to deliberately do something
that forces a federal judge to alter his or her schedule to accommodate something an attorney has
done. At the top of that list for prosecutors there is probably a new entry now —
indicting the highest profile defendant possible in two different courts and then seeking a
schedule in the second case that makes it impossible for the earlier-indicted case to proceed as
scheduled. What's happening now with scheduling in the Florida and D.C. cases is that each
Judge is playing a game of "chicken" with the other court's calendar.
The
legal labyrinth facing Donald Trump. Donald Trump's children are due to give evidence
in a New York courtroom in a civil action against the family and their company. He, himself,
is due to testify in the case next week. Trump's journey through the courts is turning into a
legal labyrinth. You'd be forgiven for losing track, so here's a refresher guide.
Video
footage depicts gross misconduct by Judge Engoron's law clerk in Trump trial. The
civil fraud case against President Donald Trump has hit a snag after Judge Arthur Engoron's law
clerk, Allison Greenfield, was exposed for previously praising Joe Biden as the "best president in
the history of the United States." Greenfield made the cringeworthy comment while attending a
Democrat fundraiser back in October 2022. While she sat in the front row, Greenfield yelled
"Yeah!" while shaking her head in agreement with Democrat politician speakers as they bashed
Trump. All of this took place while the Trump civil fraud case was still pending, which many
say constitutes a mistrial. Greenfield's bias apparently invalidates her as a qualified law
clerk in the case.
New
York Appeals Court Reinstitutes President Trump Gag Order Without Any Explanation. In
the New York civil action against Donald Trump, all the banks and lenders did their own due
diligence on financing terms with Donald Trump. All operational loans and Trump Org. business
loans were paid back. There were no defaults or banking interests adversely impacted.
There are no victims of what the State calls "fraud," yet this judge is ruling the Trump
organization must dissolve all business interests in the state and exit. Inside the
insufferable nonsense represented by the trial Judge Arthur Engoron, acting on behalf of his
partisan political clerk Allison Greenfield, issued a gag order forbidding President Trump from
complaining about the political affiliations of the judge, clerk and any other court official or
possible witness. After an interim stay of the gag order by an appellate justice, the New
York appeals court has reversed the stay and reinstituted the gag order.
New
York Appeals Court Reinstates Gag Order on Trump in Letitia James' Show Trial. A New
York Appeals Court on Thursday reinstated a gag order against President Trump in Letitia James's
Soviet-style civil fraud case. Earlier this month a New York Appeals judge temporarily lifted
NY Judge Arthur Engoron's gag order on Trump. New York Attorney General Letitia James is
seeking $250 million in 'damages' in her lawfare case against President Trump. There are
no victims in this fraud case.
Judge
Chutkan Denies Trump Motion to Subpoena for Missing J6 Records. Judge Tanya Chutkan,
who is presiding over Special Counsel Jack Smith's case against former President Donald Trump for
2020 election interference, this week denied a motion by the former president to seek materials he said
the House Committee investigating January 6, 2021, had not turned over to the National Archives.
On Monday, Chutkan rejected Trump's motion, accusing him of going on a "fishing expedition."
Deutsche
Bank May Have Just Destroyed Letitia James' Civil Fraud Case Against Trump. Deutsche
Bank might have just blown up Letitia James's civil fraud case against President Trump.
Radical Marxist New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $250 million in 'damages' when
there is no victim in this fraud case and she is also seeking to ban Trump and his sons from
operating any businesses in New York. She accused Trump of inflating his assets and
defrauding lenders and insurance companies. A Deutsche Bank executive who worked to approve
at least one of Trump's loans testified on Tuesday that it is "atypical, but not entirely unusual"
to reduce a client's asset values and still approve a loan. This type of lending is typical
in high net-worth, high-profile clients like Donald Trump. Anyone with basic knowledge of
banking, lending, portfolio and credit risk management knows this.
Trump
is Winning Ballot Access Cases. The ongoing campaign by progressive activists to deny
former President Trump a place on state ballots received yet another serious setback late
Friday. After a weeklong bench trial, Denver District Court Judge Sarah Wallace issued a
102-page opinion in Anderson v. Griswold concluding that "Section Three of the
Fourteenth Amendment does not apply to Trump." She ordered Colorado's Secretary of State Jena
Griswold to place his name on Colorado's presidential primary ballot. This is the fourth
state in three weeks to reject efforts to keep Trump off their ballots. This case will
inevitably be appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court. On Oct. 30, a judge in New Hampshire
declined to hear Castro v. Scanlon because the plaintiff lacked standing to sue and
the complaint raised a "nonjusticiable political question." On Nov. 8, the Minnesota Supreme
Court dismissed Growe v. Simon, as follows: "Because there is no error to correct
here as to the presidential nomination primary, and petitioners' other claims regarding the general
election are not ripe, the petition must be dismissed." On Nov. 14, a Michigan judge rejected
LaBrant v. Benson on the grounds that the courts have no authority to prevent Trump's
name from appearing on the state's primary ballot.
Trump's
lawyer goes to battle with government over his ability to call January 6 trial witness a
'slimy liar'. U.S. Court of appeals court judges asked a series of probing questions
about a federal judge's 'gag' order that would prevent him from 'targeting' potential witnesses in
the January 6 case. The judges picked apart Judge Tanya Chutkan's order, which prohibits
Trump from targeting court personnel and witnesses, following his repeated attacks on Special
Counsel Jack Smith. But they also acknowledged the difficulty of managing the case, asking
whether the former president could use social media to in effect tell a witness 'don't act
treasonously — don't cooperate' as a form of intimidation. Trump's lawyer raised
repeated concerns that the order would infringe on the former president's First Amendment rights,
and members of the three-judge panel who are considering it weighed in with some of their own misgivings,
while asking questions about who the former president could go after and under what circumstances.
Trump
Might Just Enter 2024 Election Unscathed As Court Dates Are Delayed, Legal Attacks
Falter. As former President Donald Trump's legal difficulties continue to stack up,
scheduling conflicts and trial delays offer relief and highlight an emerging path for him to enter
the 2024 election without facing a potential conviction, should he be the Republican nominee.
Facing the strain of four separate criminal indictments while running a presidential campaign,
Trump has sought to postpone trials in his cases until after the election. At least two
judges — the one overseeing his Florida classified documents case and another overseeing
his New York case for allegedly falsifying business records — have signaled a
willingness to delay, while Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis believes the Georgia trial
may not conclude until early 2025.
In
win for Trump, judge stays gag order in New York civil fraud case. President Donald
Trump scored a judicial win on Thursday when an appeals court judge temporarily lifted a gag order
preventing him from criticizing court personnel and the prosecutors in his New York civil fraud
case. The gag order was originally imposed by Judge Arthur Engoron after Trump posted an
image of his primary clerk, calling her "Schumer's girlfriend." Judge David Friedman curtailed
the restrictions while the appellate process plays out, suggesting it ran afoul of Trump's First
Amendment rights, the Associated Press reported. The decision followed an emergency hearing
on Thursday after Trump's legal team challenged the gag order the evening prior. "I don't see a
reason for restrictions because Ms. James is continuing to disparage my client. Both
sides need to be able to speak and the fact that I, frankly, couldn't and my client couldn't speak,
for the past however many days, is so unconstitutional," Trump attorney Alina Habba argued.
Trump
Asks For Mistrial In Civil Fraud Case Due To 'Tangible And Overwhelming' Evidence Of
Bias. Former President Donald Trump filed for a mistrial Wednesday in his New York
civil fraud case, citing "tangible and overwhelming" evidence of bias. Trump's 30-page motion
alleges that Judge Arthur Engoron engaged in extrajudicial activities "publically commenting" in
the trial and is impremissably "co-judging" with his law clerk Allison Greenfield, who is involved
with "extensive, public partisan activities." He also attacked the gag orders Engoron issued
barring Trump and other parties from speaking publicly about members of his staff as being imposed
to prevent these issues from "becoming public." "Such evidence, coupled with an unprecedented
departure from standard judicial procedure, has tainted these proceedings and a mistrial is
warranted," his lawyers said. "Specifically, the Court's own conduct, coupled with the Principal
Law Clerk, Allison Greenfield's ("Principal Law Clerk") unprecedented role in the trial and extensive,
public partisan activities, would cause even a casual observer to question the Court's partiality."
Michigan
judge denies effort to keep Trump off 2024 ballot. A Michigan judge on Tuesday
dismissed an effort to keep former President Donald Trump off the state's ballot in 2024. The
judge said that under Michigan law, the secretary of state does not have the authority to intervene
in a primary election if the party chooses to list a candidate who would not qualify for the
office. "The ultimate decision is made by the respective political party, with the consent of
the listed candidate," the judge wrote. The decision comes after a group of Michigan voters
in September filed a legal challenge to Trump's candidacy, arguing that his efforts to overturn the
2020 election results and his and conduct surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot violated
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, making him ineligible for office.
Selective
prosecution against Trump. There are two brief but powerful statements about law and
justice etched in stone upon the two buildings in Washington, D.C. which house those most
responsible for carrying them out. On the Department of Justice building, on its most visible
Pennsylvania Avenue side, these words appear: "Where law ends tyranny begins." On the Supreme
Court building we behold: "Equal Justice Under Law." Both of these precepts can only have
authentic meaning if selective enforcement of the law for improper purposes is avoided. Where
law ends is where discretionary enforcement begins, and it will be tyranny if carried out
selectively for improper ends. Equal justice under law also cannot exist if carried out with
such selectivity.
Judge
rejects Donald Trump's bid to delay classified documents trial until after the election.
Donald Trump has been hit with a fresh legal blow after a federal judge rejected his pleas to delay
his classified documents until after the election. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon called
the request to postpone by the former president's defense lawyers 'premature', and signalled the
trial will start in May. The decision came as Trump tore into a CNN report that Mar-a-Lago
staff — including a maid, a plumber and a woodworker — could be called to testify.
Elise
Stefanik Files Complaint Against Judge Overseeing Trump Civil Fraud Trial. Republican
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik filed a complaint against the judge overseeing former President
Donald Trump's civil fraud trial, calling him out for "inappropriate bias and judicial
intemperance," she announced on Twitter Friday. Stefanik filed her complaint against Judge
Arthur Engoron with the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, alleging that he is "not
honoring [Trump's] rights to due process and a fair trial," according to her tweet. She
pointed to examples of Engoron's "clear judicial bias," including telling Trump's attorney last
year that his client is "just a bad guy" who Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James
"should go after." His "bizarre and biased behavior is making New York's judicial system a
laughingstock," Stefanik wrote. "If Judge Engoron can railroad a billionaire New York
businessman, a former President of the United States, and the leading presidential candidate, just
imagine what he could do to all New Yorkers," she told the commission.
Unfairly
Targeting Trump. The Left's never-ending attempts to vilify everyone in Donald
Trump's orbit never cease to amaze. From top advisors to future cabinet members, they are
taking down anyone who merely agrees with the former president. Even the waitstaff at
Mar-a-Lago are not immune. Are Democrats so intolerant that they cannot entertain an opposing
thought without massive, overreaching destruction? Does a challenge to a socialist's core
threaten them so much that there are no barricades to stop the crossing of the Rubicon and into
unconstitutional realms? If the Left's anti-Trump witch-hunt is indeed about obtaining power,
then there is no longer any schoolhouse rock in Washington, D.C. There used to be off-limits zones,
but that went away with Trump's first presidency.
It sounds like a Perry Mason moment! Trump
Pulls Out Paper from His Suit During Testimony, Says It Completely Vindicates Him. It
was a show-stopper moment in the political show trial of former President Donald Trump. On
the witness stand on Monday in his civil fraud trial in Manhattan, the former New York real estate
king and leading 2024 GOP presidential candidate drew a piece of paper from his jacket pocket that
he said would end the case once and for all. Naturally, he wasn't allowed to read it.
According to the New York Post, the document was likely a disclaimer notice, a kind that's routine
in major financial transactions, that warned potential lenders to the Trump Organization that they
needed to conduct their own valuations of Trump properties before deciding to lend the business money.
Trump
Lawyer Alina Habba: NY Judge Was 'Definitely Assisting' Anti-Trump Lawyers.
Justice Arthur Engoron was "definitely assisting" the opposing attorneys in espousing anti-Trump
sentiments on Monday, former President Donald Trump's lawyer and spokeswoman Alina Habba said
during a Tuesday appearance on Breitbart News Daily, outlining the absurdities of the New
York civil fraud case while discussing some of the drama around Trump's testimony. Trump
testified at the New York County Supreme Court on Monday and had a back-and-forth with Justice
Arthur Engoron, which went viral after the judge reportedly asked Trump's counsel, "Can you control
your client? This is not a political rally." Trump counsel Chris Kise reportedly
responded, "You're in control of the courtroom, not me." In another viral moment, Habba told
Engoron he was there to "hear what he [Trump] has to say" after repeated interruptions. "I'm
not here to hear what he has to say. He's here to answer questions," Engoron retorted.
Special
Counsel Jack Smith argues that Trump can still be convicted in Jan 6 case even if former president
genuinely believed he won the election. Special Counsel Jack Smith's team have filed
another blistering filing in Donald Trump's January 6 case, accusing him of 'deceit, trickery,
or dishonest means,' while arguing his own belief that he won the 2020 election isn't relevant to
charges he defrauded the government. The indictment that has Trump heading toward a March
trial in federal court in Washington, DC charges that he 'made knowingly false claims that there
had been outcome-determinative fraud in the 2020 presidential election,' then led a conspiracy to
try to overturn the results for Joe Biden. This included 'dozens' of claims of substantial
fraud, dead voters, or illegal alien voters, even while top officials in his own government were
telling him there was no such large scale fraud.
The Editor says...
I am convinced that tens of millions of legitimate voters — including myself —
believe that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, or he would have won in the absence of wholesale
fraud. Organized fraud. Premeditated fraud. Fraud that can only be carried out after an extensive
conspiracy. (There — I said it.) Someday the truth will be known.
Former
Trump Official Sues Biden Admin Over Committee With Members Who Signed Hunter Biden Laptop
Letter. Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Richard Grenell along with
America First Legal are suing the Biden administration, according to a copy of the lawsuit first
obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
announced the formation of the "expert" board to address issues of national security in September
to include Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan
and former CIA Operations Officer Paul Kolbe, who all signed an October 2020 letter casting doubt
on the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden laptop and suggesting its release was a Russian
disinformation ploy. The latest legal action alleges that the group's creation was done in an
illegal manner and that it lacks credible members, according to the copy of the lawsuit.
Court
Pauses Order Restricting Trump's Speech About Federal Election Case. A gag order
against former President Donald Trump related to his federal 2020 election case has been paused by
the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals after Trump filed an emergency request on Thursday saying the
order violated his First Amendment rights. The court issued an administrative stay, saying
that the decision was made to give the judges more time to hear Trump's arguments. The court
said that the ruling "should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits." U.S.
District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, had imposed the gag
order on Trump Sunday night after Trump criticized former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Chutkan is overseeing special counsel Jack Smith's federal election case against Trump, who has
denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
DC
Appeals Court Overrules Judge Chutkan Gag Order. A three-judge panel of the D.C.
Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted District Judge Tanya Chutkan's gag order prohibiting Trump from
criticizing the special counsel, Jack Smith, or "any foreseeable witness" in the case. In my
opinion, it was the generalized "foreseeable witness" part of the Chutkan order that became the central
issue for the appellate court. Jack Smith could name anyone as a potential witness, just to silence
the accused. President Trump's team previously indicated in their filing to the appeals court that
they are prepared to seek immediate relief at the Supreme Court. However, at least now, that
approach will not be needed as the DC Appellate Court has blocked the gag order.
Knowing
They Will Lose At The Ballot Box,Soros-Funded Leftists Turn To Lawfare To Defeat Trump.
If leftists have their way, the 2024 presidential election will be decided in courtrooms by liberal
judges — not by Americans at ballot boxes across the country. With President
Biden's poll numbers at all-time lows and public polling showing former President Trump
consistently leading in 2024, Democrats are scrambling not to win the support of voters but to
simply disqualify their opponent through Democrat operatives, attorneys, and judges. This
strategy is especially rich coming from the "democracy is on the ballot" crowd. Apparently,
"democracy is on the ballot" means only Joe Biden is on the ballot. I've been in Denver this
week witnessing the latest use of lawfare to defeat Trump in front of Democrat judges instead of
American voters. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is behind the
irresponsible and left-wing billionaire-funded lawsuit. CREW, which received funding from
George Soros' Open Society Foundations, has a history of frivolous lawsuits targeting Donald
Trump. The left-wing organization exists to abuse the legal system to harm Republicans, and
they might get lucky this time with their Hail Mary attempt to take out Trump. The judge
presiding over their case is Sarah Wallace, a Democrat donor who was appointed just last year by
Democrat Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.
Could
Be Interesting — Tucker Carlson Visits Julian Assange? For a brief moment
I will allow myself to imagine that Tucker Carlson's research team is aware of the information we
have previously provided. If so, an interview with Julian Assange could be exceptionally
interesting. Tucker posts on Twitter that he was visiting with Julian Assange today:
[Tweet] [...] Julian Assange was not a threat to Donald Trump, but he was a threat to those who
attempted to stop Donald Trump. In 2017, the DC system was reacting to a presidency they did
not control. As an outcome, the Office of the President was being managed and influenced by
some with ulterior motives. [...] Why would CIA Director Mike Pompeo be so concerned about Julian
Assange and Wikileaks in April 2017? In April of 2017 Pompeo's boss, President Donald Trump,
was under assault from the intelligence community writ large, and every deep state actor was
leaking to the media in a frenzied effort to continue the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy.
The Trump-Russia effort was so all consuming that FBI Director James Comey was even keeping a diary
of engagement with President Trump in order to support an ongoing investigation built on
fraud — yet, Mike Pompeo is worried about Julian Assange.
Colorado
Prosecutors Caught in Major Lie in Court Case to Remove President Trump from Ballot.
The Democrat Party's radical far-left attorneys in Colorado delivered their opening statement to
toss President Trump from the ballot in the state. During their opening remarks, the
Trump-hating attorneys shared two clips of President Trump's speech at the Ellipse to a million
supporters on January 6, 2021. They insist President Trump started a violent riot.
But they refused to play video of his statement calling on his supporters to peacefully march to
the US Capitol. But that's not all. The prosecuting attorneys also lied about their
timeline of events they showed the court on Monday. The attorneys misrepresented the time
stamps on the videos they played in court — not be minutes but by hours!
Complaint
Calls for Trump New York Trial Judge's Clerk to Be Disbarred for Excessive Political
Donations. The top clerk for New York Justice Arthur Engoron, Allison Greenfield,
appears to have violated judicial rules preventing officers of the court from making excessive
political donations, Breitbart News has learned. What's more, it appears Engoron was advised
of Greenfield's violations in a 72-page complaint addressed to his court via email that was also
filed with the New York State Bar Association the same day he decided to issue a gag order against
former President Donald Trump in his case currently playing out in Engoron's Manhattan
courtroom. Engoron has subsequently fined Trump a total of $15,000 for two alleged violations
of that gag order preventing the former president from criticizing his principal law clerk.
Trump
civil fraud trial is a sham. One of the central allegations in this trial is that
Trump and his associates used "false and misleading" financial statements to secure more favorable
loan terms. However, it is crucial to distinguish between aggressive business practices and
fraudulent intent. Trump's alleged inflated valuations of assets can be attributed to his
shrewd business acumen. Real estate values often vary and are subject to interpretation,
making differing valuations familiar in the industry. The prosecution must demonstrate that
Trump and his associates deliberately misled lenders and not simply that they had different
assessments of asset values. It is essential to emphasize that the charges against Trump and
the Trump Organization are civil, not criminal. In a civil trial, the burden of proof is
considerably lower than in a criminal case. The prosecution merely needs to show that
specific actions occurred and that they were fraudulent without having to prove malicious
intent. This lower standard for evidence makes it easier for allegations to be brought
forward but does not necessarily indicate wrongdoing.
Consequences
of American Communism. [Scroll down] Unfortunately, too many people are
looking at the political polls and think that it's just a matter of time before Trump is
re-elected. That's not an answer, that's a hope. Even if the globalist powerbase in
control of our politicians would allow a fair election to take place, Trump will be as hamstrung as
he was last time. Simply being the president does not eradicate the massive administrative
state that turned its back on him and his policies in his first term. Blue states sued him
over everything he tried to do just to gum up the works and get it into the courts, shutting it
down for years while the issue worked through the legal system and whether he won or lost, the
momentum and any benefit of it was drained out in the process.
Court
challenges to keep Trump off 2024 election ballots begin in two states. A legal
effort to use the Constitution's "insurrection" clause to block former President Donald Trump from
running for office in 2024 is becoming a more serious threat as hearings begin in two states over
cases that could reach the highest court. A weeklong hearing begins in Colorado on Monday
over a lawsuit that cites the Civil War-era provision of the 14th Amendment that blocks those who
swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and later "engaged in insurrection" from holding higher
office. Oral arguments over a similar question also start at the Minnesota Supreme Court on
Thursday. [...] The practical outcome for the challengers is to see that Trump stays off the
November 2024 presidential election ballot in both states.
The Editor says...
Has President Trump been tried and convicted? Even if Trump is guilty of insurrection, which he isn't,
why not let the voters decide, to "preserve democracy?" If Canada can put Castro Junior on the ballot,
the U.S. can hold a referendum on Trump and let the voters take him or leave him.
Trial
begins on whether Trump should be kept off the 2024 ballot in Colorado. A Denver
court began hearing arguments Monday in a lawsuit seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from
the state's 2024 ballot over his role in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. The trial
comes after Colorado Judge Sarah Wallace last week rejected the latest attempt by Trump to toss the
lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of six voters in Denver district court last month. The
lawsuit argues Trump should be prohibited from running in future elections, citing Section 3 of
the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which states no person may hold office if they "engaged in
insurrection or rebellion" after swearing under oath to support and defend the Constitution.
The suit alleges Trump violated his oath of office in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election,
leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Denver
judge overseeing Trump disqualification case won't recuse over political contribution.
On the first morning of a weeklong hearing to determine if Donald Trump is constitutionally
ineligible to appear on Colorado's 2024 presidential primary ballot, the judge overseeing the case
rejected Trump's request to recuse herself over a $100 political contribution she made prior to
taking the bench. Scott Gessler, an attorney for Trump, "reluctantly" filed a motion on
Saturday seeking Denver District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace's recusal. Gessler indicated he
only learned on Oct. 27 that, prior to her appointment as a judge, Wallace made a $100 contribution
to the Colorado Turnout Project. "Its website proudly proclaims that the group was formed
'shortly after Colorado Republicans refused to condemn the political extremists who stormed the
United States Capitol on January 6, 2021,'" Gessler wrote. "A contribution to the Colorado
Turnout Project shows support for the view that January 6, 2021, constituted an 'insurrection.'"
President
Trump Absolutely Destroys Lawless NYC Judge Engoron After Case Collapses. President
Trump used his Constitutional right to Free Speech on Friday to go off on the crooked Judge Arthur
Engoron, New York State Attorney General Letitia James for continuing this lawfare suit against
President Trump and his family after the star witness testified this week that there is zero
evidence that President Trump misrepresented the value of his assets to gain business loans for his
company. There is no victim in this lawsuit. President Trump paid off each loan and the
banks admitted they would readily loan him money for future projects. Engoron is the same
bizarre and unhinged judge who opened the garbage trial against Donald Trump and his business
empire by giggling to the cameras.
It's
almost like there's a conspiracy against Trump. The moment that Donald Trump won the
2016 election, the outlines of a conspiracy began. Obama, Biden, their staff, Democrat lifers
in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, the establishment media, woke billionaires and the Democrat
party, foremost among them House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, shaped a plan to wreck his presidency and
cheat to defeat him in 2020. [...] Dr. Anthony Fauci's Wuhan virus coincidently escaped the
lab. Aware, and against Trump, the CCP permitted thousands of infected passengers to enter
the U.S. where it created a pandemic. Anticipating it and seemingly prepared for it, the
Democrat party exploited it to create a seismic, unprecedented distortion in public policies around
economy-killing lockdowns, and in voting rules, increasing unverifiable ballots by previously
unheard of multiples. It coordinated with its champions in social, print and network media to
censor and suppress [embarrassing] information about its own candidate and his depraved family.
Trump
Exonerated in Years-Long DOJ Probe. Former President Donald Trump was exonerated by
the Department of Justice on Thursday in an investigation into the FBI's intentions to vacate the
prestigious J. Edgar Hoover building. The investigation determined that allegations of
collusion made to defend his Washington, D.C. hotel were without merit. Democratic members of
Congress were the first to request the report. They claimed that President Trump exerted
pressure on former Director Christopher Wray to authorize a relocation plan that would have
thwarted the development of a competing hotel on the site of the Hoover Building, but provided no
evidence to support their claims. This request resulted in the Oversight and Review Division
of the DOJ publishing the report. Once the Bureau realized that selling the Hoover Building
to a private developer would not generate sufficient funds to purchase a new structure, it
ultimately decided against proceeding.
Hole
opens in Fani Willis' RICO case against Trump. An analysis of the Georgia organized
crime case being brought against President Donald Trump and a dozen of his close associates during
the 2020 election fight has revealed a hole in the case. So far, among the four defendants
who have reached plea agreements, none has ended up with a guilty verdict to the core claim, the
RICO organized crime count. The charges brought by prosecutor Fani Willis claim that Trump
and others broke the law when they worked to reverse the decision that Joe Biden won the state in
2020. Willis famously claims that Trump's insistence to state officials that they look for
additional ballots was confirmation of a crime, even though similar comments are routine for
politicians in the heat of an election fight. Since then, of course, evidence of significant
outside election influence for the 2020 results has become known, including the $400 million plus
that Mark Zuckerberg handed out to recruit voters from Democrat districts to help Joe Biden.
Jack
Smith Asks Judge Chutkan to Impose Stricter Gag Order on Trump, Send Him to Jail If He Talks About
Witnesses. Special Counsel Jack Smith asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to impose a strict
federal gag order on Trump and send him to jail if he talks about any witnesses. In August
Trump was hit with 4 counts in Jack Smith's January 6 case up in DC: Conspiracy to defraud the
United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an
official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. Jack Smith is using the DC J6 case to gag
Trump. The special counsel's prosecutors accused Trump of attempting to "prejudice the jury pool
through disparaging and inflammatory attacks on the citizens of this District, the Court, prosecutors,
and prospective witnesses."
Romney is not stupid. He's either lying or incompetent. Mitt
Romney confesses he didn't know anything about Burisma when he voted to impeach President
Trump. Mitt Romney voted to impeach President Trump for a phone call in which the
president encouraged Ukraine to investigate allegations of serious corruption —
coincidentally involving the Biden crime family — but according to a new book, the
failed politician admits he had no idea what Burisma was when he voted to impeach a duly-elected
president for calling on foreign governments to investigate alleged criminality. That is
extreme ignorance (not to mention dangerous) when a senator is willing to impeach a
president just because he doesn't like him, all without knowing the facts.
[A]
Democrat-Appointed Colorado Judge [Enables an] Effort to Kick Trump Off [the] 2024
Ballot. A Colorado judge Friday denied a motion by Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP
to throw out a lawsuit seeking to block Trump from appearing on the ballot in Colorado. The
ruling was issued by Judge Sarah Wallace, a Colorado district court judge. Wallace was
appointed to the bench earlier this year by Democrat Gov. Jared Polis. Trump, the
frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, faces challenges to appear on the ballot in
multiple states based on his alleged role in events of January 6, 2021. Those lawsuits
cite the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War, which bans those
who "engaged in insurrection" from holding public office. Trump has not been convicted of
insurrection and was acquitted by the U.S. Senate of charges of engaging in insurrection.
Sidney
Powell's Guilty Plea Points to a Faltering Case in Atlanta. While the media spin will
be different, my first impression of Sidney Powell's guilty plea in the Fulton County
election-interference case is: It signals that District Attorney Fani Willis's much-heralded
RICO indictment — in which 19 are charged, including Powell's famous co-defendant Donald
Trump — is a dud. Powell is the second defendant in the case to be offered a
misdemeanor plea to dispose of what was publicized as an indictment of the grand conspiracy to
destroy American democracy. A bail bondsman named Scott Hall, who was implicated in the same
scheme as Powell in Willis's sprawling indictment — namely, a plot to access voting data
in rural Coffee County, Ga. — was permitted to plead guilty on September 29 to
misdemeanor charges involving intentional interference with the performance of election
duties. Like Powell (and Trump), Hall was hit with the big RICO-conspiracy charge, as well as
several felony charges. Like Powell, his plea to the minor charges will assure him of a
non-prison sentence.
Judge
temporarily lifts narrow gag order on Trump in 2020 election interference case. The
federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case in Washington agreed Friday
to temporarily lift her narrow gag order. The ruling gives Trump's lawyers time to prove why
the former president's comments should not be restricted as the case heads toward trial. U.S.
District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the gag order would remain on hold — for now —
while she considers Trump's bid to speak freely about the case as he challenges the restrictions in
higher courts.
A
federal judge's gag order against Trump may be satisfying. But it isn't constitutional.
Although I often wish that Donald Trump would shut up, he has a constitutional right not to. A
federal judge went too far in restricting his free expression Monday when she imposed a gag order on the
former president. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over the Washington prosecution
of Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, ordered him to refrain from rhetoric targeting
prosecutors and court personnel as well as inflammatory statements about likely witnesses.
Government
Gangsters: How the Deep State Imperils National Security. Like most Americans,
Kash Patel grew up believing that the country was run as a democracy, with a government that honors
the will of the people and is accountable to them. It was only much later, as an attorney and
then as a senior advisor to former president Donald Trump, that he encountered — and
confronted — what has come to be called the Deep State, people at the highest levels of
government, business, and culture who subvert democracy to serve their own ends. In his
recent book Government Gangsters: The Deep State, The Truth and the Battle for our
Democracy, Patel describes the Deep State in broad terms as the politicization of core American
institutions and the federal government. More specifically, this oligarchy includes elected
leaders, journalists, business leaders, and NGOs with leftist ideologies. But its most
entrenched and active arm comprises "members of the unelected federal bureaucracy who think they
have the right to rule America, not Congress or the president."
Donald
Trump fined $5,000 for violating gag order in New York fraud trial and warned twice about
imprisonment. Former President Donald Trump was fined $5,000 by a New York judge on
Friday for violating a gag order not to speak about any members of the court staff — and
was warned twice about possible imprisonment. "Donald Trump has received ample warning from
this Court as to the possible repercussions of violating the gag order. He specifically
acknowledged that he understood and would abide by it," Judge Arthur Engoron said in his order
Friday. "Accordingly, issuing yet another warning is not longer appropriate; this Court is
way behind the 'warning' stage."
Jack
Smith Gives Trump Huge Win — Withdraws Key Subpoena. Indicators suggest
that the ongoing federal litigation against former President Donald Trump, in which he is accused
of meddling in the 2020 election, is waning. Recent action by special counsel Jack Smith to
revoke a substantial subpoena demanding information regarding the president's fundraising
activities during the specified time frame. Smith is reportedly reducing the quantity of
subpoenas he has issued to facilitate an investigation into whether President Trump solicited funds
in support of allegations that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election fraudulently.
Trump
Files Notice Of Appeal For Gag Order Blocking Statements About Special Counsel, Witnesses.
Former President Donald Trump will appeal a gag order issued Tuesday by the federal judge
overseeing his 2020 election case. Trump filed his notice of appeal just hours after U.S.
District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, issued the written order. Chutkan
partially granted the Department of Justice's proposed order from the bench Monday, blocking Trump
in the written order Tuesday from making public statements targeting Special Counsel Jack Smith or
his staff, the defense counsel or their staff, court staff and "any reasonably foreseeable witness
or the substance of their testimony." The order issued by Chutkan also blocks Trump from
"directing others to make any public statements" falling into the prohibited categories.
Ex-Trump
lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case. Former
Trump attorney Sidney Powell pleaded guilty Thursday morning in the Georgia election interference
case just a day before jury selection in her trial alongside co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro was set
to begin. Powell pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts in Fulton County Superior Court as
part of a deal reached with prosecutors. Powell agreed to serve six years of probation and
pay a $6,000 fine and $2,700 in restitution to the state of Georgia. She also agreed to
submit an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia and to testify at related court
proceedings. Powell was one of 19 defendants named in District Attorney Fani Willis'
indictment, which also charged former President Donald Trump. Powell, who acted as one of
Trump's lawyers after his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, was charged with racketeering,
conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit computer theft, trespassing and invasion
of privacy, and conspiracy to defraud the state.
Sidney
Powell Flips, Cuts a Deal in Georgia. Sidney Powell finally delivered a real
"Kraken on steroids" in the 2020 election saga. Only this time, it won't prove that the
election got stolen — it will help Fani Willis build her RICO case against Donald Trump
and 17 other co-defendants in Fulton County, Georgia. Trump's key election attorney and
architect of "Stop the Steal" cut a surprising plea deal this morning. Powell will get
probation for six misdemeanor guilty pleas and testimony against her co-defendants: [Tweet
with video clip]
Prediction:
Sidney Powell won't be cooperating against Trump. Today, Sidney Powell accepted a
plea agreement from the Fulton County District Attorney, pleading to six counts of "Conspiracy to
Commit Intentional Interference with Performance of Election Duties." Those are all
misdemeanors. She faces six years of probation, a $6,000 fine, and have to pay $2,700 in
restitution. Call that a win for the defense. Here's why. Powell was indicted
with seven felony counts: conspiracy to violate Georgia's RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations) statute; two counts of conspiracy to commit election fraud; conspiracy to commit
computer theft, trespass, and invasion of privacy; and conspiracy to defraud the state. These
charges are felonies that carry heavy penalties. A conviction under Georgia's RICO conspiracy
statute, for example, requires a punishment of between five and 20 years of
imprisonment. See Ga. Code Ann. § 16-14-5. That gets us to our second
point — the risk of conviction.
The
Trump gag order should be struck down. The imposition of a gag order on former
President Donald Trump was overwhelmingly applauded by pundits and press alike. Journalists
described the order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan as "narrow" and "limited." Most of
them lionized Chutkan as an "unflinching" and "no-nonsense" judge who would not tolerate Trump's
penchant for personal attacks and reckless rhetoric. However, this order should concern
everyone who values freedom of speech. While the odds may favor Chutkan on appeal, this order
should be overturned as overbroad and dangerous. For years, many of us have been criticized
Trump for his personal attacks on judges and opponents alike. Undeterred, Trump has continued
such inflammatory attacks on "deranged" Special Counsel Jack Smith and the "biased, Trump-hating
Judge" Chutkan. Smith has pushed aggressively for a gag order, even though one of the major
issues in Trump's campaign is whether the Biden Administration has weaponized the criminal justice
system against him and other Republicans. [...] These orders come at a great cost —
limiting both parties and counsels in raising objections to alleged abuses of the government.
Judge
Chutkan Releases Official Gag Order on Trump and It's Worse Than We Thought. Judge
Tanya Chutkan released the gag order on Trump and it is worse than we thought. Judge Tanya
Chutkan on Monday imposed a gag order on Trump in the middle of a presidential election. Last
month Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion to gag Trump. "The need for the proposed order
is further evidenced by a review of the defendant's prejudicial statements in the weeks since the
Government initially filed its motion on September 15," Jack Smith's prosecutors wrote in the court
filing reviewed by this reporter.
Obtuse,
Thy Name is Chutkan. In one of the most disingenuously undefined judicial rulings in
recent memory, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan says President Trump may not "target" a
member of the court or prosecution in his rebuke of their official offices against him. [Exhibit]
Obviously, Judge Chutkan intends to give herself the most latitude possible when defining what terms
of speech may end up being considered "targeting." However, criticism is not a possible definition in
ordinary parlance. So, we'll see. Additionally, Chutkan did not outline what, if any,
punishment would be levied in the event she considers any statement to be considered "targeting."
Hate
Trump All You Like, The Gag Order Is Still Wrong. This week, U.S. District Court
Judge Tanya Chutkan overseeing United States v. Donald Trump issued a gag order
prohibiting a leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump, from engaging in speech aimed at
"government staff," among others, during his trial. Listen, I understand the disdain some
conservatives feel for the former president. I share the sentiment. But if you're
cheering on a judge who's inhibiting political speech on rickety grounds, you're no friend of the
"democracy" or the Constitution. [...] Who is Chutkan to dictate the contours of a presidential
candidate's political speech? What if one of the "participating government staff" or a family
member is compromised by partisanship? Moreover, preemptively suggesting that without
gagging, Trump will engage in a "smear campaign" is as prejudicial to the case as any of the
inflammatory things Trump has thrown around. It implies that any accusation now aimed at
prosecutors is untrue.
Judge
Prohibits Trump From Speaking Out Against Prosecutors, Others. Judge Tanya Chutkan,
presiding over the case against former President Donald Trump for allegedly interfering in the 2020
presidential election, ordered certain restrictions on what President Trump can say in relation to
his case after hearing arguments on the morning of Oct. 16. Judge Chutkan said she would not
impose restrictions on statements he makes about Washington, D.C., or criticism of the government,
including the Biden administration and the Department of Justice (DOJ). However, President Trump
will be prohibited from posting statements attacking special counsel Jack Smith, his staff, Judge
Chutkan's staff and other court personnel, and the families of any of these people. He is
also limited in part about what he can say about potential witnesses; for example, he may make posts
about former Vice President Mike Pence, but not in regard to underlying events connected to his case.
President
Trump Responds to Obama Judge's Unconstitutional Gag Order. Earlier today lawless
Trump-hating DC Judge Tanya Chutkan hit President Trump with a gag order in his DOJ lawsuit by the
Biden regime. President Trump will be barred from speaking out against Special Counsel Jack
Smith, court witnesses and more! This is complete lawlessness and is meant to silence
President Trump as Jack Smith continues to leak to the press on a weekly basis. This was an
unprecedented move by a Trump-hating DC judge who has openly spoken out against President Trump and
his supporters.
Chutkan's
Gag Order Is Pure Gold for Trump Campaign. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has
issued a so-called "limited gag order" restricting what former president Donald Trump can say about
his ongoing election interference prosecution in the District of Columbia. In granting the
motion of Special Counsel Jack Smith to silence Trump, Chutkan stated from the bench, "This is not
about whether I like the language Mr. Trump uses. This is about language that presents a
danger to the administration of justice." Judge Chutkan claimed that she was balancing
Trump's First Amendment right to free expression with prosecutors' concerns that his frequent
social media attacks might intimidate witnesses or imperil the integrity of the court's
proceedings. [...] In other words, we won't know exactly what speech Chutkan is forbidding until
she files her written order. But, regardless of its terms, there can be no dispute that her
gagging of the leading Republican candidate for the presidency is unprecedented and an alarming
milestone on this nation's descent into banana republic status.
Beyond
Orwell — DC Judge Rules President Trump is Not Permitted to Criticize Trial, Judge,
Witnesses or Prosecution. Yes, DC Judge Tanya Chutkan can decree from her perch that
President Donald Trump is not permitted to criticize his persecution, the court, the witnesses who
will testify against him or the political prosecution that is targeting the leading 2024
presidential candidate, but executing that decree is another kettle of fish entirely. It is
one thing to decree your control over independent speech, it is another thing entirely to try and
enforce that decree. Thankfully, and standing firm in his position, President Trump said in
response he is "willing to go to jail, if that's what it takes for our country to win and become a
democracy again."
Gagging Trump.
Another precedent-setting event related to the criminal prosecution of a former president is
scheduled for Monday morning in the federal courtroom of Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in
Washington. Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking Chutkan — an Obama appointee with
a record of biased and often inaccurate statements about Donald Trump and the events of
January 6 in general — to silence the leading GOP presidential contender on a key
campaign issue through the heart of the 2024 primary season.
Trump
Hit With Gag Order! Leading Presidential Candidate Barred from Attacking DOJ Hitman Jack
Smith. Lawless DC Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama-appointed judge, hit President Trump
with a gag order on Monday. President Trump will be barred from speaking out against Special
Counsel Jack Smith, court witnesses and more! This is complete lawlessness and is meant to
silence President Trump as Jack Smith continues to leak to the press on a weekly basis.
Tripling
value of Trump's NYC penthouse was 'minor' mistake, ex-CFO testifies at civil fraud
trial. Exaggerating the size of Donald Trump's Manhattan penthouse on financial
documents amounted to just a minor mistake, his longtime finance chief testified
Tuesday — waving off one of the key claims in the New York attorney general's fraud case
against the ex-president. Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg acknowledged that a
1994 document listed the Trump Tower triplex at its true size of 10,996 square feet —
rather than the bloated 30,000 square feet that Trump, 77, allegedly falsely claimed for years on
financial statements. But Weisselberg said the misstated value of the apartment was "de
minimis" — a Latin term frequently used in law to mean that something is too trivial to
warrant consideration. "I never even thought about the apartment," Weisselberg testified in
Manhattan Supreme Court during trial over New York Attorney General Letitia James' $250 million
fraud lawsuit against Trump.
Donald the
Inevitable. Readers may recall that I favored a DeSantis-Trump duel for the
nomination until the day they really did indict Donald Trump. It was then that the reality of
the depth of the evil we fight hit home. I will say it again: we have no choice but to
re-elect him if we are to retake the republic from the bananas. I am not alone. In its
report on despondent Never Trump donors, Disney's ABC said, "Trump hasn't polled at less than 50%
in 538's national average since late August." That is the immediate American reaction to the
Mugshot — which Never Trumpers thought was going to save them but actually sank
them. But they valiantly go down with the ship. The Washington Examiner —
owned by Philip Anschutz, a Never Trumper — blames Trump for the indictments.
America's
Armageddon. [Scroll down] I contend this scenario is not at all unrealistic,
as we've seen our justice system weaponized against one political party, the arrest of Donald Trump
for a misdemeanor, the attempted coup via the Steel Dossier, the purposeful undermining of our
energy security, defunding of police, release of felons whose felony charges are reduced to
misdemeanors, labeling parents as domestic terrorists, and ignoring of oaths of office and the law
by opening of our borders north and south to whomever wishes to enter. Anyone of the latter
events is cause for great concern, but together they paint a picture of a purposeful strategy given
such acts are not coincidental. In simple terms, the current actions by a set of radical left
progressive extremists are not ad hoc. It is more likely a well-planned, and staged,
implementation of a strategy. We must consider this a real possibility if we are honest in
assessing, imagining, and projecting what can unfold.
Trump
Scores a Significant Victory in Court. Leftist Judge Arthur Engoron's behavior and
actions in Trump's civil fraud trial have been questionable at best. His bizarre valuation of
Mar-a-Lago at $17 million when real estate experts put it at closer to $300 million has been
just one of many factors leading many to believe that the outcome of this trial has been predetermined
by anti-Trump partisans. Last month, Engoron even ordered the dissolution of Trump's
businesses, a move that prompted a swift response from Trump's legal team. Trump's attorney
Christopher Kise argued that the dissolution of Trump's businesses would have been a disaster for
not only the businesses but for the company's employees. On Friday, a New York appeals court
judge, Associate Justice Peter Moulton, reversed Engoron's order, though he did allow for the bogus
civil fraud trial to continue.
Jonathan
Turley Says New York AG 'Hell Bent' On Destroying Trump's Companies. George
Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Friday that Democratic Attorney General
Letitia James of New York was "hell bent" on destroying former President Donald Trump's business
empire. New York Judge Arthur F. Engoron issued a ruling finding that Trump's business was
guilty of committing fraud Sept. 26, ordering Trump's business licenses to be rescinded and seeking
to dissolve Trump's businesses, but the dissolution was placed on hold by an appeals court judge
Friday. Trump has spoken out against the trial, calling it a "sham" and calling for Engoron
to be disbarred. [Video clip] "Those employees don't really have a representative
in court for their interest and there is also this question of just overkill," Turley told
"Ingraham Angle" guest host Kayleigh McEnany. "You know, there is evidence of overvaluing and
undervaluing assets in this case. That has long been a problem in real estate."
In
Her Jan. 6 Courtroom, Judge Who Will Hear Trump's Case Is the Pot Calling the Defendant
Incendiary. At her first appearance in the criminal case against Donald Trump for his
alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan
repeatedly warned the former president's lawyers that politics would not be tolerated in her
courtroom. But even as she warns Trump about his "inflammatory" language, Chutkan has
routinely issued politically charged rulings and made incendiary statements of her own while
presiding over some 30 cases involving Trump supporters charged in connection with the Jan. 6,
2021, melee at the U.S. Capitol. These include her public assertions that the 2020 election
was beyond reproach, that the Jan. 6 protests were orchestrated by Trump, and that the former
president is guilty of crimes. She has described Jan. 6 as a "mob attack" on "the very
foundation of our democracy." Chutkan's strident language raises questions about her impartiality
in handling the case against the presumptive GOP nominee for president in 2024.
Georgia
Election Case Defendant Seeks Dismissal Over Prosecutor's 'Embarrassing' Mistake. An
apparent paperwork oversight could jeopardize the case against one of former President Donald
Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case, although one former state
prosecutor said the issue would "at worst" likely be considered merely "embarrassing" by the
presiding judge. An attorney for Kenneth Chesebro argued in a court filing Wednesday that
Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade was never qualified under state law to present the
case to the Fulton County grand jury in the first place. The motion to dismiss the charges
against Chesebro says that makes Wade's work on the case, including the indictment against
Chesebro, "void as a matter of law."
10
Ways Democrats Are Already Rigging the 2024 Election. Who needs free and fair
elections when you can just throw your political opponents behind bars ahead of a major
election? Spanning four separate cases and 91 felony counts, the DOJ and leftist prosecutors'
seemingly coordinated efforts to imprison Trump could not represent a more obvious attempt to
interfere in the election process.
Trump,
Citing Immunity, Seeks Dismissal of Federal Election Charges. Former President Donald
Trump filed a motion on Thursday seeking the dismissal of federal election conspiracy charges on
the grounds he cannot be prosecuted for actions he took while in the White House. Trump, the
frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is to go on trial in Washington in
March of next year for allegedly conspiring to subvert the results of the November 2020 election
won by Democrat Joe Biden. The former president's lawyers, in a 52-page motion to US District
Judge Tanya Chutkan, argued the charges should be thrown out.
Judge
Engoron Bars Trump, Trump Family Members From Transferring Assets without Notifying Appointed Court
Monitor — Former Clinton Judge Barbara Jones. Far-left Manhattan Supreme
Court Judge Arthur Engoron barred Trump and Trump's family members from transferring assets or
creating new entities without notifying an appointed court monitor on day 4 of Letitia James'
Stalinist show trial. The independent court monitor, Barbara Jones, is a former federal judge
appointed by Bill Clinton. [...] Judge Arthur Engoron ruled last Tuesday that Trump and Trump Org.
are liable for fraud. The judge also ruled that Mar-a-Lago is worth $18 million —
of course, no one in the real estate business is buying this.
MSNBC
Legal Analyst Says Letitia James Made 'Tactical Error' By Going After Trump For Court
Appearance. MSNBC legal analyst Rebecca Roiphe said Thursday that Democratic New York
Attorney General Letitia James made a "tactical error" by criticizing former President Donald Trump
on Wednesday after his court appearance. Speaking to reporters after the third day of
hearings in the civil suit brought by James herself, she said the "Donald Trump show is
over." "This was nothing more than a political stunt. A fund-raising stop, and now we
can continue to go forward with our trial, and we are confident that justice will be served."
You
can't drain a swamp from a raft in the middle. Democrats will pervert the law in
unimaginable ways to prevent a second Trump presidency, and the mainstream media will publish any
lie to help them. They will convict him a hundred times of a hundred crimes. They
impeached a former president for the first time in history; why not impeach a
president-elect? The legal maneuvers to prevent the inauguration of a president who is
obsessively hated by the federal government, the left-wing media and corporations, and who has
already been outlandishly persecuted for seven years, are unimaginable. If all else fails,
much of this nation will be burned to the ground. Other things too awful to speak of could
happen. Gullible, emotional people raised to a fever pitch of hatred against one man for
seven years might do anything.
Judge
presiding over Trump's Manhattan civil trial exclusively donated to Democrats. New
York City Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump's civil fraud
trial, has exclusively donated to Democrats, according to a report. Engoron wields unique
authority over Trump's civil fraud case. It is a jury-free bench trial, with Engoron
overseeing it and ultimately determining its outcome and penalties. New York Attorney General
Letitia James wants a $250 million penalty imposed on Trump's businesses after accusing him of
fraudulent practices. Engoron, meanwhile, has shown support for Democrats with his checkbook
in the past.
That's
not how it works. I appeared this afternoon on Fox Live Now to talk about the civil
trial of Donald Trump and numerous Trump organizations for allegedly inflating property valuations
to deceive banks and insurance companies. The backdrop to the interview was Trump's statement
as he entered court earlier in the day: [Video clip][...] The judge ordered New York
business certificates for numerous Trump entities cancelled. That alone could have a
devastating impact on the businesses. The current trial is just about the additional
penalties sought, including hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and an order barring Trump and
his organizations from doing business in New York State. That would be, as Trump has said, a
business death penalty. This all is egregious. There is no claim that consumers or
banks and insurance companies lost money, or were defrauded out of money. That may not be an
element of the offenses, but if you are going to destroy a massive business built over decades over
property valuations without any impact on the public, it's an overreach. And obviously
politically motivated.
Trump
Receives Another Dose of Political Persecution from a Democrat Judge. On 26 September,
a partisan Democrat judge in Manhattan determined that Donald Trump and his family business fraudulently
inflated the value of his properties and other assets to obtain business licenses over the years.
The decision paves the wave for Trump-hating New York State Attorney General Letitia James (who campaigned
on a "get-Trump" by calling him a "con man" and "carnival barker") to determine damages as she has been
reduced to prosecuting (suing) Trump and his family for what amounts to a victimless non-crime. A
secondary goal appears to be to destroy Trump's ability to do business in New York in the future because
the judge ordered the cancellation of certificates that let some of Trump's businesses operate in New York,
as well as the appointment of a receiver to manage the dissolution of those businesses.
Judges
are not business experts. A DNC-affiliated New York judge determined, in a highly
irregular summary judgment, that former president Trump's detailed financial valuation statements
used to finance or refinance certain real estate and related businesses were overstated, or
inflated, and suddenly an area of judicial concern, despite these valuations having been
unchallenged and in good standing, in some cases for decades. Why suddenly now is a judge
making such a determination against them, and more importantly, how? In summary judgments,
there can be no genuine dispute as to any material fact, and any such judgment must be made as a
matter of law. In Trump's case, facts were disputed, and no law was followed, while due
process was apparently an inconvenience in the court's rush to serve its political masters.
The
horrible NY ruling against Trump and the horrible judge who issued it. It was a given
when a judge ruled against Donald Trump on the suit that New York State Attorney General Letitia
James filed, alleging that Trump defrauded banks to obtain loans. The ruling revealed two
interesting and important things about how leftists and their fellow travelers use the legal system
and about the ideological corruption of leftist judges. It goes without saying that the
verdict was a joke. The claim was that Trump lied to lenders to get better loan terms.
Interestingly, none of the lenders complained, and Trump paid back every penny. More than
that, commercial lenders have a due diligence responsibility, meaning they're supposed to do their
own valuations before lending millions of dollars. At Trump's level, lying is virtually
impossible. Still, it should have been a big story: A judge claims Trump committed
fraud and banned him from conducting business in New York, the state where most of the properties
Trump developed exist. You'd think that this would have been news fodder for days.
Trump
Fraud Case: Democrat Judge, Democrat Prosecutor, Democrat City. Former
President Donald Trump, two of his sons, and two of his employees were found liable for fraud
Tuesday in a case brought by an elected Democrat prosecutor before an elected Democrat judge in a
staunchly Democratic city. Arthur Engoron, an elected civil Justice of the New York County
Supreme Court, issued a rare summary judgment that concluded that New York Attorney General Letitia
James proved her case before the defense mounted its own. He went further, sanctioning
Trump's attorneys and fining them $7500 each for filing repeated motions to dismiss that Judge
Engoron decided were frivolous, disregarding the expert opinion of a former judge, filed with the court.
Real
estate insiders bewildered by judge's $18M valuation of Trump's Mar-a-Lago: 'Would list at
$300M'. A New York judge's Tuesday [9/26/2023] ruling valuing Donald Trump's
sprawling, headline-making Florida estate at $18 million has left industry experts
perplexed. In his verdict, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron delivered a
bombshell ruling that the former president committed fraud by inflating the value of his wealth,
with details including the monetary value associated with Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. This
decision, which came down without a jury, has sent shockwaves through political — and
real estate — circles, especially that $18 million base value for the
property. One prominent Palm Beach real estate broker, speaking on the condition of
anonymity, told The [New York] Post, "It's utterly delusional to think that property is only worth
$18 million." The insider added, "If that property were on the market today, I would list
it at around $300 million, minimum ... at least. He also has the separate golf course
minutes away."
New
York Judge Rules Without Trial, Jury or Verdict, That President Trump Must Dissolve All Business
Interests in State. This is John Galt level government targeting. A New York
State judge has arbitrarily ruled, no trial — no jury, that President Trump overvalued
his real estate holdings in New York, which means he paid too much in taxes, in order to secure
financing and loans. All the banks and lenders did their own due diligence on the
financing. All operational loans and business loans were paid back. There were no
defaults or banking interests adversely impacted. There are no victims of what the State
calls "fraud," yet the judge is ruling the Trump organization must dissolve all business interests
in the state and exit within 10 days. New York Attorney General Latisha James campaigned for
office with promises to target the Trump Organization and Donald Trump himself. This is
malicious lawfare in the extreme.
Judge
In Fulton County Trump Case Reveals How Dangerous This Prosecution Is To Our Country.
Did former President Donald Trump ask then-Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark's legal opinion
concerning Department of Justice options for addressing voting irregularities in Georgia, or did
Clark volunteer his legal analysis on the question without the president's prompting? The
federal judge presiding over Clark's removal case, who will decide whether Clark must defend
himself in the Democrat stronghold of Fulton County or in a Georgia federal court, focused on that
question during last week's hearing. In doing so, the judge revealed just how
crazy — and dangerous — this political prosecution is to the future of our
constitutional republic.
Former
Trump Campaign Attorney Says Fulton County Case Based on Illegal Evidence. Kenneth
Chesebro, who served as an attorney for the Trump Campaign during the then-president's challenge of
the 2020 elections, is arguing that the Fulton County District Attorney's office is violating
attorney-client privilege in its pursuit of a case against him, former President Donald Trump, and
17 other defendants. In Thursday filings, Mr. Chesebro moved to quash the charges
against him in Fulton County, arguing that they were based on emails covered by attorney-client
privilege, and have any such illegally obtained evidence thrown out. The 19 co-defendants
were charged with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, as well
as 40 other charges, for their actions in the contesting of the 2020 election results.
Jack
Smith Adds Radical Left-Wing Democrat Donor to Special Counsel Team Persecuting Trump.
Jack Smith added Alex Whiting, a 'war crimes prosecutor' to his special counsel team of nearly two
dozen rabid prosecutors gunning for Trump. Whiting is a radical left-wing Trump hater who
previously praised Mueller's inquisition against the former president. Former special counsel
Robert Mueller's 'Trump-Russia collusion' investigation ended in a whimper and completely
crumbled. "Whiting has been a frequent commentator on the previous special counsel to
investigate Trump: Robert Mueller, who investigated links between Russia and Trump's 2016
campaign. Whiting wrote numerous articles and gave interviews assessing the strength of
Mueller's case against Trump, often siding with those who saw extreme legal peril for Trump over
his efforts to curb the investigation." Politico reported.
Jack
Smith Was Hired as Hitman to Take Trump Out. Don't be fooled. Special Counsel
Jack Smith was not hired to argue a brilliant case against President Donald Trump in a court of
law. Jack Smith was not hired to bring legitimate charges against President Trump. Jack
Smith was hired as a DOJ hitman to take out Trump. Period. Jack Smith has always been a
hitman. He was hired as a hitman before. He was hired as a hitman to destroy
Trump. Jack Smith is not a genius in legal theory. That's not his job. When
Attorney General Merrick Garland, top DOJ officials, and Joe Biden's handlers met to plan their
next assault on the former president they all agreed on one thing. They needed to destroy
President Trump completely and ensure that he never makes it to Election Day.
Special
Counsel Jack Smith calls for 'narrowly tailored' gag order against Donald Trump in January 6
case. Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked for a 'narrowly tailored' gag order
against Donald Trump, to stop him from making 'inflammatory' and 'intimidating' comments to the
judge and witnesses in the federal January 6 case. Smith's team has accused Trump of
engaging in a campaign of 'disinformation' and harassment intended to intimidate witnesses,
prosecutors and others involved in the trial. The extraordinary filing says Trump's efforts
to weaken faith in the court system mirror his attacks on the 2020 election and the results.
Fulton
County DA Accused of Burying Evidence That Could Derail Trump RICO Case. Sidney
Powell's defense attorney in the Fulton County, Georgia, RICO case regarding an alleged effort to
overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state accused county prosecutors Thursday of
withholding exculpatory evidence in violation of the law. Fulton County Superior Court Judge
Scott McAfee also made a key ruling in the case severing Powell's and pro-Trump attorney Kenneth
Chesebro's cases from those of former President Donald Trump and the 16 other defendants, CNN
reported. Both Powell, a former Trump campaign attorney, and Chesebro sought a speedy trial,
consistent with their Sixth Amendment right, while Trump and the other defendants want the case
slowed down to better prepare their defenses.
The
Mathematics of Democrat 'Justice'. Judge Tanya Chutkan of the D.C. Federal District
Court has ruled that the trial there against Trump will begin March 4, 2024. Many have already
commented on how badly that will impact candidate Trump subjectively, given the electoral
calendar's Super Tuesday primaries the next day. Attention should also be directed to how
Democrat "justice" is being imposed on defendant Trump in objective terms.
Weaponizing
the Fourteenth Amendment. By now, it is clear that the concerted effort to paint
Donald Trump as a criminal has backfired. After four indictments, including the most recent
13-count indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, Pres. Trump holds a commanding lead among
prospective Republican primary voters in Iowa and elsewhere. Evidence indicates that Trump's
criminal indictments strengthen, rather than shrink, his poll numbers. Enraged by Trump's
rising popularity, his political opponents are now looking to keep his name off the ballot
entirely. Already, this effort has gained momentum in Michigan, New Hampshire, and
Arizona. These states, egged on by elite law professors, have turned the 14th Amendment,
which was previously used to prevent ex-Confederates from seeking office after the Civil War, into
an improvised legal weapon designed to bar the former president from reclaiming office after his
actions in the weeks following the 2020 presidential election.
California
Attorney Files Lawsuit to Bar Donald Trump from 2024 Ballot. An attorney in Venice,
California, filed a federal lawsuit on Saturday to bar former President Donald Trump from
California's 2024 presidential primary election, arguing that he is disqualified due to his alleged
role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to a report. The lawsuit argues
that the Fourteenth Amendment states that no one can hold office who has previously taken an oath
of office to support the Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" or gave aid
to those who did, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
Trumpophobes
Seek to Keep Him Off '24 Ballot for Crimes He Never Committed. As if the four
previous prosecutorial cow pies that surround Donald Trump were not fetid enough, the U.S. Supreme
Court soon will step into efforts to bar him from state ballots. Assorted Trumpophobes are
using the Bill of Rights to deny Americans the right to vote for or against Trump for
president. Specifically, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies from high office
certain individuals who "shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the [U.S.
Constitution], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." This legal theory might make
sense if Trump had been imprisoned for insurrection or rebellion. It might hold water if he
had been convicted of insurrection or rebellion. This boomlet even might boast a thimble full
of steam, if the Justice Department, a state attorney general, or some county prosecutor had
indicted him for insurrection or rebellion. Unfortunately for Trump haters, that never happened.
They Are
Removing Trump From The Board. What Are You Going To Do About It? Regardless of
any delusions you, I, or anyone else may harbor on this issue, the odds that Donald Trump will be
saddled with at least one FELONY conviction out of the dozens he is currently charged with are
exceedingly high. It doesn't even matter whether the charges are with or without merit.
If a firing squad is pointing 91 rounds at someone, at least one of them is gonna hit the
target. This means that this time next year, instead of campaigning or even accepting the GOP
nomination in person, the former president could either be in prison or on house arrest, playing
golf with an ankle bracelet. Make no mistake. They are removing Trump from the board.
[...] It seems evident that the powers that be want to secure a GOP nomination for Trump while
making it impossible for him to win or even compete in the general election. A win was
already going to be an uphill climb, but now it's absolutely impossible, and they know it.
If
President Trump Is Not an 'Officer of the United States,' Section 3 Should Not Apply.
As President Donald J. Trump continues to dominate the field, some are looking to disqualify him
from the ballot in different states pursuant to Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, [...] The
gist of the argument is that Trump allegedly engaged in an insurrection against the United States
and is, therefore, prohibited from holding office. There are many reasons why this
interpretation or argument should fail. [#1] There was no insurrection. To begin,
there is no evidence that Trump engaged in an insurrection nor proof that an insurrection
occurred. As a matter of fact, the Senate acquitted Trump of such ridiculous charges during
the second impeachment.
Six
Republicans File Lawsuit to Remove Trump from 2024 Ballot in Colorado. A coalition of
six Republicans and unaffiliated Colorado voters, including former state and federal officials,
filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on the
state's 2024 presidential ballot. The plaintiffs are represented by Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit and "nonpartisan" watchdog
organization, alongside law firms Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, KBN Law, LLC, and Olson Grimsley
Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC. The plaintiffs are Norma Anderson, Michelle Priola,
Claudine Cmarada, Krista Kafer, Kathi Wright, and Christopher Castilian.
Trump
suffers big loss in E. Jean Carroll defamation case, judge says he's liable. A
federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Donald Trump is civilly liable for defamatory statements he
made about writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when she went public with claims he had raped her decades
earlier. Judge Lewis Kaplan, as part of that ruling, said the upcoming trial for Carroll's
lawsuit against Trump will only deal with the question of how much the former president should pay
her in monetary damages for defaming her. Normally, a jury would determine at trial whether a
defendant is liable for civil damages claimed by a plaintiff.
Democrat
Disconnect in D.C.. It should come as no surprise to anyone that a recent poll found
that a majority of residents of the District of Columbia would convict Donald Trump over his
challenge of the 2020 election results. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) once told me during an
interview that the people in D.C., particularly those inside the Beltway, have absolutely no clue
about what the rest of America is thinking, feeling, or experiencing. Granted, not everyone
or perhaps anyone who responded to the survey is a member of the Marble Mafia, but the response
reflects the attitudes of the coastal elites and those who faithfully adhere to the accepted
narratives as opposed to, say, anyone else. The poll, conducted by Emerson College Polling,
showed that 64% of Washington residents stated that if it were up to them, they would find Trump
guilty of trying to undermine the election results. Twenty-eight percent were unsure, while
8% said that they would find Trump innocent.
We're
all witnesses to an attempted political murder. Never before has the American people
been subjected to the obnoxious spectacle of a former president being relentlessly pursued by
craven partisans using government (read: taxpayer-funded) resources. One explanation involves
Mr. Trump's unique ability to bring out the worst in his enemies. Actually, it may also
be caused by a common character weakness among his opponents. One would need an enormous
score card to keep track of all the indictments and other litigations being heaped upon
Mr. Trump. He has thus employed an army of attorneys in order to resist the
onslaught. Being a billionaire has certainly come in handy for this effort — but a
few billion dollars can go only so far. The stubborn continuation of his candidacy for
re-election allows him to raise campaign contributions, some of which can be applied to his legal
defense — because they are an appropriate campaign expense, much like media
advertisements, mailers and travel. The prevailing countermeasure has been for the Deep State
thugs to add Trump's lawyers to their target list.
MAGA
vs. the DoJ. Along with all its other efforts to hamstring Donald Trump's legal
defense in the D.C. case, the DoJ has dumped 12.8 million documents on Trump's defense team,
leaving them without adequate time to prepare before the March court date. This is unlikely
to earn them much consideration from Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has exhibited open hostility to
Donald Trump. This appears to be a new tactic developed by prosecutors to cripple defense
efforts while remaining within the letter of the law. On August 25, prosecutors dumped over 4
million documents on the defense team of accused cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried while
at the same time making it next to impossible for him to actually view them. (Bankman-Fried is
being held at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, which has no facilities for accessing the
documents.) The solution for Trump's team is simple: utilize his vast personal following
as a crowdsourcing resource to analyze and sort out the documents.
Law
and Order: The Post-Constitutional Episode. When Donald Trump was inaugurated,
the city erupted in flames, store windows were smashed, cars were hammered, and protestors
attempted to tear down the fence around the White House. When George Floyd, a man with
serious health problems, a long criminal record, and a history of drug abuse, died in custody,
Black Lives Matter protests roiled cities with massive destructive protests. In D.C., without
authorization, on her own, the mayor painted a major thoroughfare with a giant "Black Lives Matter"
message. One District Judge was offended by the disparate treatment given these rioters and
the draconian measures against the J6 protestors, almost all of whom had only engaged in peacefully
seeking contested election results be sent back to the respective states for investigation before
the results were certified. [...] She is the judge in the pending case here against Donald
Trump. Julie Kelly, almost singularly, has been covering the preliminary proceedings in this
case and it is evident that Judge Chutkan has no interest in conducting a fair trial. The
judge has set a March 4 trial date (the day before Super Tuesday). This is a time frame that
will be impossible for the defense to meet. For one thing, they've just been handed 12.8
million discovery documents by the prosecution, an amount of material to review and prepare a
response to in a time frame which is grossly inadequate. "DOJ could not name a single case in
DC District that went from indictment to trial in 5 months," In fact, numerous J6 defendants
have been confined to the DC jail without trial for over two years. "Chutkan keeps saying case
won't go to trial in 2026 and grasping for reasons why. She continues to hammer Trump's
lawyer for not reviewing possible evidence related to an indictment that didn't even exist."
Anti-Trump
RINOS and the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment, one of three post-Civil War
amendments passed in 1866, contains several important legal provisions, including the Due Process
Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Citizenship Clause. But a lesser-known provision
in Section 3 of the Amendment — the "Insurrection Clause," targeting individuals who
have engaged in rebellion or insurrection against the United States, has gotten the RINOs excited.
Under the Insurrection Clause, no person shall hold certain federal or state offices if they
previously took an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and then engaged in
rebellion or insurrection against it. Historically, this applied to Confederate officers who
first swore allegiance to the United States, but then launched massive armed attacks upon the
United States complete with guns, cannons, and bayonets, and actually spilled oceans of American
blood. [...] To get Trump, RINOS and Democrats join together to twist the Insurrection Clause into
something opposite of its original meaning.
Federal
Judge Dismisses Case Trying to Keep Trump Off 2024 Ballot. A federal judge on Friday
dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Florida lawyer who claimed Trump should be banned from the 2024
ballot for inciting an insurrection. The legal theory is based on Section 3 of the US
Constitution's 14th Amendment which states public officials who have "engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against" the US may be disqualified from public office. Trump has not been charged
with engaging in insurrection or rebellion against the United States. Judge Robin Rosenberg a
US District Judge for the Southern District of Florida ruled the attorney, Lawrence Caplan, lacked
standing to bring the lawsuit.
Fani
Willis Threatens to Violate Rights of Defendants in Trump RICO Case Because She's Not Prepared For
Trial. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is now threatening defendants in
Trump's RICO case because she is not prepared for trial. Earlier this month Fani Willis hit
President Trump and 18 others with RICO and conspiracy charges for daring to challenge the 2020
election. A Fulton County grand jury returned a 41-count indictment which included RICO and
conspiracy charges against Trump. There are 30 unidentified unindicted co-conspirators.
Trump
Co-Defendant Eastman: If We Don't Fight Back, We Will Never Have a Fair Election
Again. Wednesday on FNC's "The Ingraham Angle," Trump co-defendant John Eastman
argued efforts to focus on alleged wrongdoing during the 2020 election were justified.
Eastman told host Laura Ingraham those aligned with former President Donald Trump had to fight back
or face the possibility of never having a "fair election" again. "The answer is not to just,
you know, take a powder and concede because then it will get worse on the next go around," he said.
"The answer is to fight it with everything we've got because what's at stake here is too important. [...]"
Yuscil
Taveras, the Mar-a-Lago IT director who flipped on Donald Trump, is a registered Democrat with a
history of money troubles. The Mar-a-Lago IT director who flipped on Donald Trump in
the classified documents case is a part-time DJ and registered Democrat with a history of money
troubles, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Yuscil Taveras, 45, managed to rack up
debts of nearly $750,000 despite holding down a string of well-paid tech jobs and moonlighting as
'DJ Juicy.' The dad-of-two battled back from bankruptcy but now finds himself a pivotal figure
in Special Counsel Jack Smith's efforts to convict Trump of mishandling top secret government material.
The
True Big Lie. The entire case against Trump and his fellow defendants in the 2020
election-interference prosecutions can't even get off the ground unless it is more or less
evidently true that the election was not stolen. The fact of the matter is that it's not
unreasonable to believe that the election was stolen, and consequently it isn't possible for it to
be (more or less) evidently true that the election was not stolen. That is why the case
against Trump and his collaborators necessarily collapses, whether or not a corrupted legal system
recognizes this. There is no case against Trump and his confreres insofar as it's reasonable
to believe that the 2020 election was stolen. Trying to stop an apparently stolen election is
what everyone should do.
New
York AG Seeks Immediate Partial Judgment, No Trial, in $250 Million Fraud Lawsuit Against
Trump. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking an immediate partial
summary judgment in her multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump,
court documents show. Documents dated Aug. 30 show that Ms. James urged Judge Arthur
Engoron to issue a summary judgment on one of seven claims in her 200-page civil lawsuit filed
against President Trump, The Trump Organization, and three of his adult children in 2022, alleging
"years of financial fraud to obtain a host of economic benefits." In her lawsuit,
Ms. James claimed that over a 10-year period, from 2011 through 2021, President Trump and the
other defendants had "engaged in numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation in the preparation of
Mr. Trump's annual statements of financial condition," which included deceiving insurers, tax
officials, and lenders by allegedly inflating the value of his properties, including his Mar-a-Lago
estate in Florida.
Dave Smith on Rogan: The
Deep State vs. Trump. If you've been following this blog for a a while, very
little in this Joe Rogan interview with Dave Smith will be new to you. But this is a nice
explanation of how the early part of the Russiagate hoax developed if you weren't paying attention
to the blow-by-blow revelations at the time. [Video clip]
The
criminalization of politics to get Trump is endangering everyone's rights. The U.S.
Constitution is clear: Political speech is protected by the First Amendment. Also,
battles over the acceptance of electors to validate a presidential election are wholly within the
political realm and should not be subject to criminal sanctions. Yet our nation is very close
to setting a dangerous precedent by criminalizing speech and politics, and one political faction is
rushing into this folly headlong. If the Biden administration is allowed to criminalize
speech and politics, we will become a nation where the losers of presidential elections are
arrested instead of being sent into retirement with book tours and libraries. The
criminalization of politics is a dangerous game that Democrats used to decry, when they thought the
shoe might end up on the other foot. No matter how you feel about former President Donald
Trump's activities after the 2020 election, the reaction of putting Trump in jail for his speech
and activities to organize opposition to Congress counting Electoral College votes would degrade
our political system and set the precedent that one party can criminalize the political activities
of the other.
Mark
Levin Says Trump's Fulton County Indictment Is 'A Perfect Case For Grand Jury Abuse'.
Fox News host Mark Levin called the handling of the indictment of former President Donald Trump in
Fulton County, Georgia, "a perfect case" of "grand jury abuse," citing the leak of a
document. Trump turned himself in at the Fulton County jail to be booked after a grand jury
handed down indictments the night of Aug. 14, charging Trump and other associates, including former
Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York City and attorneys Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Sidney
Powell. A document listing charges against Trump was posted on the website of the Fulton
County courts the afternoon of Aug. 14 before being deleted.
Georgia
Officials Didn't Follow Ethical, Legal Rules in Trump Indictment. A judge in Fulton
County, Georgia, failed to properly follow the precedent set by the state Supreme Court in allowing
the county's top prosecutor to go forward with a grand jury investigation of former President
Donald Trump after disquaifying the prosecutor from part of the probe for misbehavior. In a
legal analysis Aug. 15 in The Daily Signal, I pointed out the problems with the spurious indictment
of Trump and 18 codefendants orchestrated by Fani Wills, the politically ambitious district
attorney in Fulton County. This combination of factors has resulted in an unprecedented
attack on the First Amendment and the structure of the American legal system. So what is the
ethical problem above and beyond the constitutional and legal problems with Willis' indictment of
Trump? On July 25, 2022, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney disqualified
Willis from continuing to target then-state Sen. Burt Jones as part of her grand jury investigation.
Trump
[is the] Victim of a Radically Transformed Federal Judiciary. The judicial
persecution of Donald Trump has exposed the blatant political bias that animates many Federal
District Court judges. Packing the Federal Judiciary at all levels with left-wing judges is
the cornerstone of the Marxist Democrat Party strategy to permanently transform America. If
they win the presidency in 2024, they will have succeeded in packing the Federal Judiciary by the
end of the term on January 20, 2029. This process began in earnest with Barack Obama.
He came into office determined to fill the judiciary with left-wing judges, and he succeeded, as
virtually every one of his appointments has revealed their bias and leftist ideology while serving
on the various courts. Joe Biden has followed in Obama's footsteps by nominating equally if
not more ideologically bound left-wing judges. The following federal judges are not animated
by upholding the law or the Constitution but instead are motivated by political considerations and
their allegiance to statist ideology.
U.S.
Attorney Weiss Colluded With DOJ To Thwart Congressional Questioning, Emails Show.
Emails obtained by the Heritage Foundation following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
and shared exclusively with The Federalist establish that on multiple occasions, the Department of
Justice intervened on behalf of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss to respond to congressional
inquiries related to the Hunter Biden investigation. This revelation raises more questions
about the June 7, 2023, letter dispatched to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan under Weiss's
signature line, in which the Delaware U.S. attorney claimed he had "ultimate authority" over
charging decisions related to Hunter Biden. It also suggests Weiss and the DOJ may have
conspired to mislead Congress.
The
Left is 'willfully blind' to President Trump's rights. A senior law professor at New
York University Law, Professor Burt Neuborne, who is also the founding director of NYU's Brennan
Center, and perhaps ironically a former national legal director of the American Civil Liberties
Union, penned a Guest Essay ("There's a Good Chance Trump Will Be Found 'Willfully Blind'), which
is a fascinating example of falsification and post hoc fallacy: he aggressively advances with
astonishing mistruths that President Trump is already guilty based solely on accusations; makes
from that particular false assumption, a false conclusion that the former president has limited
legal remedies, and finally tries to sell the general reader on a legal theory that serves the
Plaintiff (the "government") in its case against the Defendant: that President Trump will be found
"willfully blind" by using false statements (questioning an election) to create an unlawful benefit
(overturning it).
Democrats
Aren't 'Interfering' In 2024 Election With Trump Trial, They're Blatantly Rigging It.
News broke Monday that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing the
Jan. 6-related case against Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., set a March 4, 2024, trial date
for the former president. It just so happens that March 4 is the day before Super Tuesday,
when more than a dozen states, from California to Texas to Virginia, will hold Republican primary
elections. What a coincidence! What this means is that Trump, the Republican
front-runner by a wide margin, will not be able to campaign ahead of the most important date on the
GOP primary calendar. It also means he'll likely be tied up in court a week later on March 12,
when four more states hold primary elections. But this isn't merely election "interference," it's
a naked attempt to rig the 2024 election. The timing here is important, because not only will
Trump be pulled off the campaign trail at a crucial time, he will almost certainly be convicted over the
summer. After all, the jury in this case will be drawn from a pool that voted 92 percent for
Joe Biden. No matter how outlandish and unconstitutional the charges are, no matter how utterly
politicized the process is, a D.C. jury is going to convict Trump.
Authoritarian
Ruling Class Mulls Post-Civil War Measures To Bar Trump From The Presidency.
Anti-Trump legal scholars have been arguing that the third clause of the 14th Amendment, a
post-Civil War measure barring Confederates from holding public office after participating in an
insurrection, can be used against Donald Trump. Attaching a broken boxcar to the back of this
moving train, an Aug. 25 essay at Politico casually compares the case for 14th Amendment
disqualification from the presidency to the disqualification of southern congressmen during
the Civil War. You may have already spotted a problem in that last sentence because the story
Joshua Zeitz writes about Trump and the 14th Amendment has nothing to do with the 14th
Amendment: It's a story about the refusal of the House of Representatives to take notice of
southern congressman in 1864, well before the Reconstruction amendments were ratified.
The
statistical fraud of multiple counts and courts. If "no reasonable prosecutor" would
bring a criminal case unless the odds of conviction were well above a mere coin toss, then what are
we to make of 91 counts, 34 in New York, 40 in Florida, 4 in D.C., and now 13 more in
Georgia? After all, it only takes one conviction for the Democrats to chortle: "See!
See! He's a criminal! Lock him up!" And even if each count against Trump had only,
say, a sixty percent chance of a guilty verdict, it would only take six counts for the overall
statistical odds of obtaining at least one conviction to be above a confidence level of 99 percent.
So what can not six but 91 counts mean? It means the Left can bring counts it knows are weak, yet
still gain "success" from a statistical trick. Even if each count has only a ten percent chance of
"sticking" — and any prosecutor bringing such a poor case should be dismissed — with
91 such counts, then the odds of at least one "success" among them would still be over 99.99 percent.
Here's
Proof That Trump's Trials Are Election Interference. Earlier this month, Fulton
County District Attorney Fani Willis proposed a March 4 trial date for her case against Donald
Trump. March 4 also just happens to be the day before Super Tuesday, on which 15 states hold
their primaries. However, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp threw cold water on that idea.
So naturally, Obama-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan went ahead and scheduled a
start date for Trump's federal charges (for his alleged crimes between the 2020 election and
January 6, 2021) for the exact same day. Coincidence? Please, don't make me laugh.
"Setting a trial date does not depend and should not depend on the defendant's personal and professional
obligations," Judge Chutkan insisted during the hearing. "Mr. Trump, like any defendant, will have
to make the trial date work regardless of his schedule."
New
Hampshire Secretary of State Backs Down, 'Not Seeking' to Remove Trump from Ballot.
New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan told NBC News on Monday he is "not seeking to remove
any names" from the Republican primary ballot after Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk urged
his supporters to call Scanlan's office following reports Scanlan was weighing using the Fourteenth
Amendment to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot. On Friday, Scanlan met with
New Hampshire attorney Bryant "Corky" Messner to discuss Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment,
which says public officials are not eligible to hold office if they "engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against" the United States.
Save the
Rule of Law By Destroying It? Three leftwing prosecutors are criminalizing politics
with more than 90 simultaneous indictments of Donald Trump, the ex-president and currently the
leading Republican primary candidate. While New York prosecutor Letitia James is hounding
Trump with a $250 million state lawsuit against the Trump organization and family, on the
pretense of supposedly Trump overvaluing his real estate and filing inaccurate financial
statements. Is there any Mafia don, mass murderer, or terrorist who has faced so many
indictments or suits in so many jurisdictions at almost the same time? [...] Americans ask
themselves questions whose answers are never given. Why are all these Trump prosecutors
leftwing or with Democratic connections? Would any of the 90 something indictments for
"crimes" of years past have been lodged against a citizen Trump who had retired from politics?
The
Establishment's 'Gallipoli Campaign' against the American People. Of all the
politicians in America, why did toads such as David Plouffe, Bill Kristol, and communist CIA chief
John Brennan eventually see Donald Trump as such a threat? First, because Donald Trump
has always been his own man — unowned and unbowed by the cabal of corporate oligarchs,
Intelligence Community shadow dictators, and institutional Marxist globalists that are now
correctly understood as the permanent Deep State. For all the ruling class's talk of
"democracy," it abhors anything independent enough to exist beyond the managed control of its
secretive clique. Second, because Donald Trump articulates a vision of economic
nationalism that threatens the interests of multinational corporations and one-world-government
enthusiasts. Enriching and protecting Americans, abiding by the limits of the U.S.
Constitution, and defending individual liberty and national sovereignty — these
straightforward goals are all antithetical to the Marxist collectivism and technocratic despotism
of the World Economic Forum's planned new world order.
Georgia
indictment of Trump is the same flawed product in a different package. The processing
of former President Donald Trump in the Fulton County jail followed a familiar pattern. First
came the mugshot, then the merchandise. Both the left and the right immediately started
selling mugs and t-shirts featuring the scowling image of Inmate P01135809. Snap, scowl, sell
and spin. Our legal and political dialogue has now been reduced to the substance of a
Benetton catalogue. Politicians and pundits continue to assure the public that this
indictment is not just the criminalization of political speech or election challenges. Much
of that spin returns to a familiar point of reference: Trump's call to Georgia
officials. Indeed, I have been criticized for even suggesting that "the call" is not evidence
of a crime, even though I continue to support the actions of the Georgia officials who resisted
Trump's requests, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Trump
and the Tower of Lies. Donald Trump is never going to prison. He is never going
to be sentenced. It's likely that at least some of the legal proceedings are never going to
come to fruition, simply because the end result would be too embarrassing to the
powers-that-be. If in fact Trump is ever convicted at all, it will last only until it reaches
an unbiased appeals court, at which point each count will be thrown out, one after the other. [...]
The entire purpose of these exercises is to see to it that he doesn't run again — that
there is no Trump '24 campaign — with the secondary intention of terrorizing anyone that
may run in his stead or otherwise inconvenience the Democrats. In this, they have failed
miserably. Despite this full-bore attack on all levels of the legal system from county to
national, despite a legacy media completely in the pocket of the elites, despite the full
cooperation of law enforcement and intelligence communities, despite last-ditch opposition from the
GOP establishment, Donald Trump is not only maintaining his status as a candidate, he is
prevailing. Recent polls put him up to 46 points ahead of all rivals, a lead unparalleled in
previous campaigns in which the frontrunners suffered none of Trump's problems. Furthermore,
Trump is running even with, and in some polls actually beating the incumbent. This is an
incredible achievement, and one for which Trump has received absolutely no credit —
itself a sign of cognitive dissonance.
Steve
Bannon Outlines National American Destiny as Attached to Trump Destiny. Steve Bannon
did an excellent monologue today [8/25/2023] outlining how President Donald Trump is one of only
three people who have the destiny of the nation attached to their own destiny. Together with
President Abraham Lincoln and President George Washington, the destiny of our constitutional
Republic as intrinsically tied to President Donald Trump. [Video clip]
The
election doubts of the DA prosecuting Trump for election doubts. The DA in Georgia
prosecuting President Donald Trump for his election doubts, and his statements about those, has
been revealed as having her own doubts about elections, and making public statements about
those. Trump was booked Thursday on counts in an indictment created by Fani Willis, who is a
hard-left activist who is fundraising on her agenda against Trump. It's one of four
indictments pending against Trump, and has been described as possibly the most political of the
four, as it appears to make criminal the act of making a phone call or having a meeting.
Can
the Trump-Hating Psycho Prosecutors Be Stopped? Most respected legal analyses of the
various charges against Trump agree that the law has been twisted into something unrecognizable in
order to "get" him. From a layperson's viewpoint, the Fulton County charges seem to be
particularly awful, as does its district attorney, Fani Willis.
Trump
Names 2 Democrats He Suggests Should Get Indicted on the Charges He Faces. Former
President Donald Trump suggested that under the standard by which he faces racketeering charges in
Fulton County, Georgia, for contesting the 2020 presidential election, former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams should also be indicted for
contesting elections they lost. "Hillary called me up and conceded," Trump told Tucker
Carlson in the interview released Wednesday night on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter,
just before the first Republican 2024 presidential debate. "Now the word is that [President
Barack] Obama said, 'You have to do that.' But she called up and totally conceded," Trump
added. "But now, every time you see her on television she's saying ... she's challenging the
election." Although Clinton, then the Democratic nominee for president, publicly conceded to
Trump in 2016, she later referred to her former opponent as an "illegitimate president."
Justice
Requires Fair Procedures. The late US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter once
observed that the history of liberty is largely a history of procedural fairness. Our
constitution embodies that history by reading "the due process of law. Lately, however, many
so-called progressives have been willing to ignore procedural safeguards and due process in their
campaign to get former President Donald Trump — to misuse the law in an effort to
prevent the leading Republican candidate from running against the incumbent candidate for
president. In doing so, they are violating the second principle of justice: "Do not recognize
faces." That commandment is the basis for the blindfolded statute of justice. Some
progressives who would ignore procedural safeguards to get Trump acknowledge that this is because
they regard him as especially dangerous and therefore undeserving of due process. Special
injustice for an unjust man! But in our system of law, which is based on precedent, there is
no such thing as special injustice. Injustice, once practiced against an unjust person, will
serve as precedent for deploying it against just persons.
5
Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Dismantle the Federal Bureaucracy. In America,
we're supposed to have three branches of government and a robust system of checks and
balances. What we're not supposed to have is an unaccountable fourth branch of government
that is impervious to the changes promised by winning presidential candidates. Yet, thanks to
the idea that government should be run by supposedly nonpartisan, apolitical experts, we have that
fourth branch. Some call it the administrative state; some call it the managerial state; some
call it the Deep State. For the sake of our constitutional republic, conservatives must
dismantle much of the bureaucracy and return the power to those who are elected by — and
accountable to — the American people.
Can
Democrats Constitutionally End Trump's Campaign? As the number of inane indictments
of Trump demonstrates, the Democrats will do virtually anything to keep Donald Trump from ever
again occupying the White House and threatening the Swamp's grip on the throats of the American
people. However, I don't think a traditional October Surprise is much of a danger in the 2024
election. Why would Democrats wait until the last minute to release some exquisite horror
that will send Trump packing? They wouldn't. The fact that they haven't released such a
campaign-killing bit of information already means that they simply don't have one. As such,
the Democrats are in trouble. Between having a guy who electrifies crowds like no one in
American history, on the one hand, and on the other hand, having as their presumptive nominee a
doddering Alzheimer's patient, means that Democrats really have two problems to solve, not one.
The
disqualification of Donald Trump and other legal urban legends. The popularity of
urban legends is a testament to the will to believe. The desire of people to keep Elvis alive
or prove that a Sasquatch could exist furtively in our backyards shows the resilience of
fables. Constitutional urban legends often have an even more immediate appeal and tend to
arise out of the desperation of divided times. One of the most popular today is that former
President Donald Trump can be barred from office, even if he is not convicted in any of the four
indictments he faces, under a long-dormant clause of the 14th Amendment. This 14th Amendment
theory is something that good liberals will read to their children at night. It goes
something like this: Donald Trump can never be president again, because the 14th Amendment
bars those who previously took federal oaths from assuming office if they engaged in insurrection
or rebellion. With that, and a kiss on the forehead, a progressive's child can sleep
peacefully through the night. But don't look under the bed. For as scary as it might
sound to some, Trump can indeed take office if he is elected, even if he is convicted.
Indeed, he can serve as president even in the unlikely scenario that he is sentenced to jail.
The
Corrupt DoJ has Charged Trump with a Fake Crime. First, the legal basics: a standard
criminal conspiracy comprises two parts: (1) an agreement among conspirators (2) to accomplish a
criminal object. For any conspirator to be liable for a criminal conspiracy, at least one
must also (3) commit an "overt act" — that is, do something — for the purpose
of accomplishing the criminal end. The overt act need not be a crime in itself, and the
criminal object need not ever have been accomplished. You can't be indicted without specific
facts alleged. You can't be sent to trial on an indictment that just says "you violated such
and such federal law." The indictment must say how. So a conspiracy indictment must do
more than merely list a provision of a criminal statute as the object of a conspiracy. It
must identify a specific result intended by the conspirators that is a crime.
Trump
Isn't Just the Target, He's the Pretext. Emulating the Biden administration's
Department of Justice's special counsel, Jack Smith, once again a partisan local Democratic
prosecutor in a one-party jurisdiction has stretched state laws to indict a former president from
their opposing party who is also the leading candidate for its 2024 nomination. As previously
demonstrated by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Georgia's Fulton County District Attorney
Fani Willis will receive the plaudits and votes of her partisans for her indictment of
Mr. Trump and 18 of his 2020 campaign associates. Given the electoral insularity of her
position in a Democratically controlled county, the enmity of Republicans and/or MAGA supporters is
impotent to unseat her; and, in fact, it is politically beneficial to her, as it burnishes her
credentials with Democratic primary voters. (Ironically, this is akin to how these political
indictments boost Mr. Trump's standing in the GOP primary). The Fulton County, Manhattan,
and the federal special counsel's indictments are politically motivated, even if juries agree in
the heavily Democratic jurisdictions of Atlanta, New York City, and Washington, D.C.
CIA
Sued for working with the Biden campaign to produce 'Dirty 51' intel letter calling Hunter's laptop
disinformation. The CIA has been sued for its role in helping to craft a letter from
51 intelligence officials discrediting Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation. The
letter that was signed by 51 intel officials in 2020 immediately before the presidential election
falsely claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop had all the 'classic earmarks of a Russian information
operation.' A Republican report released in May showed that the CIA was actively involved in getting
signatures for the letter which 'was a political operation to help elect' Joe Biden in November 2020.
Trump
Can Prove It. Establishment politicians and mainstream media have fought harder than
on any other issue to convince the public that voter fraud is a conspiracy theory. But
unconstitutional changes to state election laws, unsupervised ballot drop boxes, voting machine
errors, mathematically improbable voter turnout, and other examples of outright voter fraud that
were denied a chance to be presented in court between the 2020 election and Biden's inauguration
can't simply be chalked up as coincidental. All those things occurring simultaneously make
the fraud seem coordinated. In response to the most recent indictments, Trump's attorneys
indicated they finally have a platform to "fully re-litigate every single issue that occurred
during the 2020 election," of which there were many. The most important issue in America may
finally get its due.
Prosecutorial Bolshevism.
In the United States of America, there are roughly 3,150 counties. Most of them have
prosecutors or district attorneys. Each one of these can usually empanel a grand jury.
These grand juries can, with rare exceptions, meet in secret to consider indicting anyone at
all. There need be no publicity at all, but there usually is. These grand juries can
call witnesses and even require Americans to testify for days or even weeks on end on matters that
took place years before. The "defendants" in these matters are not allowed to have lawyers,
although sometimes they do. They are sometimes kept from their families and colleagues for
long periods. At any point the prosecutors can issue indictments for crimes, real or
imagined, felonies or misdemeanors based on the proceedings of the grand juries. In many
jurisdictions, but not all, the mere fact of being indicted bars an American from holding public
office or even running for public office.
Pollak
on Savage: Trump Could Take Oath of Office in Prison and Walk Free. Breitbart
News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak told Dr. Michael Savage on his podcast Friday that
it was possible Donald Trump could be railroaded by a D.C jury — but could take the oath
of office in prison, pardon himself, and walk out a free man.
Mehdi
Hasan Worries That World's Most Recognizable Man May Try To Sneak Out Of Country.
MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan worried Thursday that former President Donald Trump could pose a flight risk as
the trial dates for his various indictments approach. A grand jury indicted Trump late Monday
night for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Eighteen
others, including Trump allies Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark and
Kenneth Chesebro were indicted alongside the former president. "He's afraid of the law," Hasan
told "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough, referring to the former president. "I genuinely think we
need to start having a discussion about whether this guy is a flight risk. And I don't say
that lightly."
Georgia
State Senator Takes First Step to Impeach Trump's Fulton County Prosecutor. Georgia
state Sen. Colton Moore (R) took the first step on Thursday towards impeaching Fulton County
District Attorney Fani Willis for her actions against former President Donald Trump, a memo
exclusively obtained by Breitbart News shows. In a letter to Gov. Brian Kemp (R), Moore
announced an initiative to begin an emergency session to conduct a thorough investigation into the
actions undertaken by Willis. On Tuesday [8/15/2023], a Georgia grand jury indicted Trump on
13 counts. The lawmaker's investigation could lead to defunding Willis's investigation of
Trump and/or ultimately impeaching the district attorney. "We must strip all funding and, if
appropriate, impeach Fani Willis," Moore said in a statement.
How
Jack Smith Is Twisting Our Election Process. If Special Counsel Jack Smith has his
way, election integrity as we know it will be a thing of the past, and all election results in the
future will be suspect. I've got a particular interest in election integrity. As the
leader of Tea Party Patriots Action, I've spent the better part of the last two and a half years
traveling the country, training tens of thousands of citizens for work as election officials and
poll workers. Our work has been necessitated by the doubts raised about election integrity in
recent election cycles. Poll after poll demonstrates Americans' distrust of our
elections. Our hope is that we can help reestablish the public confidence in elections
necessary for them to function as they must — to allow the electorate to exercise its
right to choose our leaders.
Fani's
Fifteen Minutes of Fame. Poor Fani. Her moment of glory will be a short
one. Lawyers tell us that Fani's case against President Trump is likely to be moved to a
federal court — because it is directed at federal officials and because the accusations
are very similar to those made by Jack Smith in the January 6th indictments. In the end,
however, Fani may be happy to let the feds conduct the trial because some of the 161 "Acts of
Racketeering" (ACTs) in the indictment involve dangerous criminals doing dangerous things.
For example, here is ACT 6 (in its entirety): ["]On or about the 21st day of November
2020, MARK RANDALL MEADOWS sent a text message to United States Representative Scott Perry from
Pennsylvania and stated, "Can you send me the number for the speaker and the leader of PA
legislature. POTUS wants to chat with them." This was an overt act in furtherance of the
conspiracy.["] Exchanging telephone numbers: That is pretty scary stuff.
GA
State Senator Demands Emergency Session to Investigate Fulton County DA Fani Willis.
Georgia State Sen. Colton Moore (R) wants Gov. Brian Kemp to declare an emergency session
to investigate Fulton County DA Fani Willis. Willis is the one who brought charges against
President Donald Trump, including a RICO charge. A grand jury indicted him this week. [...]
Moore has been asking people to sign a petition to investigate Willis: ["]Corrupt
District Attorney Fani Willis is potentially abusing her position of power by pursuing former
President Donald J. Trump, and I am calling on my colleagues in the Georgia legislature to join me
in calling for an emergency session to investigate and review her actions and determine if they
warrant impeachment. The politically-motivated weaponization of our justice system at the
expense of taxpayers will not be tolerated. [... "]
Criminalizing
Politics In The Trump Indictments. I've made the point repeatedly that both the D.C.
and Georgia indictments of Donald Trump start from a premise that isn't true — that an
attempt to "overturn" an election in and of itself is criminal. The means by which an
election is overturned may be criminal, but the end goal is not. With regard to the D.C.
indictment, I questioned Where is the crime?
The
Purpose Of The Trump Indictments Is To Demonstrate The Left's Power. The latest
indictment of former President Donald Trump is even more outlandish than Jack Smith's blatant
attempt to criminalize free speech. The indictment Monday out of Fulton County, Georgia,
criminalizes mundane activities like asking for a phone number, texting, encouraging people to
watch a televised hearing, and reserving a room at the Georgia capitol. These activities,
according to Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, run afoul of the state's Racketeer Influenced and
Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. As far as Willis is concerned, Trump's legal efforts to
challenge the election results in Georgia amounted to a criminal conspiracy, with Trump as the
criminal mastermind. What that means, outlandishly, is that every phone call or tweet related
to those legal efforts, every step Trump and his team took to press their legal case, counts
as "an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy."
Fulton
County clerk responds to publishing Trump indictment ahead of grand jury decision: 'I am
human'. The Fulton County clerk who released an indictment document displaying
charges against former President Donald Trump before the grand jury voted said she inadvertently
hit "send" instead of "save" in an interview with WSB-TV Tuesday. The court briefly posted a
document on its website Monday afternoon listing 13 charges against the former president, Reuters
first reported, which ultimately matched the charges released after the grand jury made its
decision. The Office of the Fulton County Clerk of Superior and Magistrate Courts initially
responded to media reports by claiming the document was "fictitious," which Clerk Ché
Alexander told WSB-TV was "the best word I could come up with." "It was fictitious," she told
the outlet. "It wasn't real. It didn't have a stamp on it." "I am human," Alexander
said. [Tweet]
To
Understand The Latest Crazy Trump Indictment, Check Out The 6 Types Of Charges. Late
Monday [8/14/2023], Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged former President Donald
Trump and 18 other defendants in a 98-page indictment that included a total of 41 different
counts. The defendants are already fighting back, with Trump's former chief of staff, Mark
Meadows, seeking to remove the case to federal court based on a statute that protects federal
officials from state court prosecution for official conduct. More counteroffensives will
likely follow, with other former federal officials, including Trump, presumably also seeking
removal to federal court, while the remaining defendants will probably expeditiously move to
dismiss the indictment on a variety of grounds.
Dershowitz
slams GA indictment, says Trump used same tactics as Al Gore in 2000: not a 'crime'.
The former legal counsel for Al Gore who challenged — and lost — the
presidential election results in 2000 says Gore's team did "the same thing" as what a Georgia
prosecutor is claiming Trump committed as a crime. Donald Trump is facing a fourth
indictment, this time from Fulton County, Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, involving
allegations that Trump sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, speaking to Fox News Digital, criticized the pending indictment,
calling Trump's actions "very similar" to that of Al Gore's legal strategy in the Bush v.
Gore case that decided the 2000 presidential election.
Trump
Is Not Guilty Of Racketeering; The Deep State Is. Fani Willis, the district attorney
in Fulton County, Ga, charged former President Donald Trump and 18 colleagues with racketeering
under Georgia's RICO law. The charge is that he conspired with them to overturn the 2020
Georgia presidential election results. Experienced lawyers, such as those at Bochetto &
Lentz, a law firm that says it specializes in "messy, complicated, high-pressure, and high-stakes
cases," highlight the benefits of using RICO statutes, which enable prosecutors to tie numerous
crimes into one case, even if they have covered an extensive period. The person who didn't
"pull the trigger, set a fire, or commit a burglary" can be charged under RICO laws. It is
little wonder that RICO has been traditionally used against the Mob.
Destruction
of Rule of Law in Fani Willis' Georgia Star Chamber. The attack on the First
Amendment and the very structure of the American legal system by the Star Chamber of Fulton County,
Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis is a profound assault on our democratic republic and the
rule of law. There's no other way to characterize the politically partisan indictment of
former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants (along with 30 unindicted coconspirators) for
legally questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia. Willis is
trying to criminalize free speech and have a chilling effect on anyone in the future who might dare
to question the results of an election. Willis manufactured this egregious "case" with
seeming unforgivable ignorance of the freedom to speak, to engage in political activity, and to
petition the government for a redress of grievances that is protected by the First Amendment.
Mark
Meadows Seeks to Remove Georgia Indictment to Federal Court. Former White House Chief
of Staff Mark Meadows filed a motion on Tuesday to remove the Fulton County, Georgia, indictment
against him to federal court. Meadows was charged with two counts in a 41-count indictment
that named himself, former President Donald Trump, and 17 others. Meadows is being charged under
Georgia's RICO statute and faces charges for soliciting an official to violate their oath of office.
Georgia
Indictment Says Trump Telling People to Watch TV Is Proof of Racketeering Activity.
In their ongoing crusade to criminalize dissent, former President Donald Trump's persecutors might
have sunk to a new low. Trump's latest criminal indictment, handed up Monday by a grand jury
in Fulton County, Georgia, claimed the leading GOP 2024 presidential contender and his associates
"constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related
criminal activities." It included one assertion that defies belief. In a section that
detailed the supposed acts of racketeering, "Act 22" accused Trump of encouraging his Twitter
followers to turn on the television.
The
Level of Pretending Needed to Believe This is Jaw Dropping. The Fulton County clerk
of courts is putting out the third public statement trying to explain and justify why they posted
the grand jury indictment of Donald Trump before the grand jury had even met to vote on the
indictment. This latest explanation is so incredulous it's almost impossible to believe they
are making this public: [Document] According to the story above, the original indictment
before the jury met, was a trial run upload, made of a totally fictious construct, with totally
random charges, that just happened to line up with the exact same charges, in the exact same
sequence, as the indictment after the jury voted.
Radical
Georgia D.A. Fani Willis Launched Reelection Fundraising Site Days Before Trump
Indictment. Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis launched her
reelection fundraising website days before a grand jury returned a 98-page, 41-count indictment
against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, per Atlanta First News. The
outlet reported that Willis's campaign emailed supporters on Thursday, notifying them that the
website was up and running.
Democrats
Denied Election Results 150+ Times Before Trump Was Indicted for Challenging
Election. Although a Georgia grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump on
Monday for challenging the 2020 election result, Democrats have refused to accept the results of
elections they lost for decades. As Breitbart News reported, more than 150 examples show
Democrats denying election results, including President Joe Biden; two-time failed presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY); Reps. Barbara Lee
(D-CA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); and failed Georgia gubernatorial
candidate Stacey Abrams. [Tweet with video clip]
The
Democrats are Certain They Will Never be Held Accountable for the Trump Indictments and Biden
Cover-Up. Never in the 235 years since the ratification of the Constitution has an
administration premeditatively and blatantly prosecuted, on specious and conjecturable charges, the
titular leader of the opposition party and leading candidate for president. And doing so
while overtly flaunting their egregious actions to protect and cover-up for the incumbent president
who has been exposed as potentially complicit in massive bribery and fraud. In any previous
election cycle, these overt and unabashed actions would have been the death knell for the incumbent
president's campaign and his party. Yet the Democrats are blatantly unconcerned, supremely
confident that they will prevail in 2024 regardless of who they nominate.
Biden
Junta Goes Full-on Stalinist Against Trump. The Biden DOJ keeps hitting Donald Trump
with new indictments, including one that could possibly draw the draw the death penalty.
These mounting attacks on the former president have drawn comparisons to a banana republic or third
world dictatorship. A new development suggests a different dynamic is in play. Former
U.S. Attorney General William Barr was recently asked if he would be willing to testify against
Trump. "Of course," Barr responded. Special Counsel Jack Smith's case was "challenging," but
Barr does not think it "runs afoul of the First Amendment." That runs afoul of Bruce Thornton, who
makes a strong case that quashing free speech is what Smith's inquisition is all about. As
Robert Spencer contends, "we're racing past" the banana republic stage and America is "heading
toward becoming a new Stalinist regime in which critics of those in power are arrested by the
regime itself, tried on false and fabricated charges, and executed."
Trump's
Georgia Indictment is the Final Proof the 2020 Election Was Stolen. The 2020 election
was stolen. The debate is over. How do I know? Because both the feds and Georgia
just indicted our President for talking about, questioning, and trying to investigate a stolen
election. When the communist thugs, bullies and tyrants make it a crime to question a stolen
election, in a country built around free speech, it's 100% proof they stole the election.
There is a perfect precedent. In the NFL. The game was called "The Miracle in the
Meadowlands." Everything about that fixed game reminds me of the 2020 stolen election.
It's a perfect match.
Justice
Shrugged: The Persecution of Donald Trump. Here's what I dream of Donald Trump
saying when he stands trial on bogus charges proffered by his political opponents: "I do not
recognize this court's right to try me ... I do not recognize my action as a crime."
Those are the fighting words of industrialist Hank Rearden when he was put on trial for ignoring an
unjust law in Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged." Although the circumstances of the cases differ,
Rearden is a perfect avatar of Donald Trump, as both larger-than-life men are persecuted by the
justice system for seeking to pursue their own self-interest and for refusing to surrender to
government oppression. Self-interest is central to the Objectivist philosophy of Rand, who
grew up in Russia and witnessed first-hand the oppression of free thought and free enterprise
following the 1917 Communist revolution. Her masterpiece, "Atlas Shrugged," is the ultimate
roadmap to how American democracy can be subverted by leftist bureaucrats and a corrupt media to
destroy some individuals and intimidate the rest.
What
the Fulton County judge could do. Currently, there are more than 400,000 to 500,000
people — the number varies, depending on the source — charged with crimes who
are being detained pre-trial, even while they are still "legally" innocent. Many are jailed
because they can't afford the bail. There are hundreds of thousand cases where the judge set
an exceptionally high bail just to ensure they cannot flee the jurisdiction. However,
pre-trial detention also applies to those charged who are deemed a flight risk, regardless of how
high — or low — bail is set. There are even no-bail
situations — where prisoners are held just to make sure they don't disappear into the
woodwork of our jammed-up legal system. Former President Donald Trump is not a resident of
Georgia. His primary residence is in Palm Beach Florida, at Mar-A-Lago, while his secondary
residence is in Trump Tower in Manhattan. This makes Trump a "flight risk," at least in the
narrow definition of someone who might flee the jurisdiction of Fulton County, Georgia.
Trump
is now facing Ninety One criminal charges in four criminal cases. Donald Trump has
now been indicted in a fourth case, with the former president being charged Monday in Georgia over
his efforts to overturn his 2020 general election defeat in the state. The probe by Fulton
County District Attorney Fani Willis began shortly after the release of a recording of a Jan. 2,
2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the
then-president suggested that Raffensperger could "find 11,780 votes" -- just enough to overtake Joe
Biden. Trump, a Republican, has described his phone call to Raffensperger as "perfect" and
has portrayed the prosecution by the Democratic district attorney as politically motivated.
Trump
Attorneys: Georgia Indictment 'as Flawed and Unconstitutional as This Entire
Process'. Lawyers for former President Donald Trump responded after midnight Tuesday
morning to the late-night indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, by District Attorney Fani Willis,
calling it "as flawed and unconstitutional as this entire process." [...] Critics noted that the
41-count indictment (which include 13 counts against Trump) accuses the defendants of crimes for
simply arguing that the 2020 presidential election was flawed. That, in turn implicates the
First Amendment right to free speech and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel. The indictment
also attempts to use a county court in Georgia to charge the defendants for crimes allegedly
committed on a national scale and in violation of a federal election, which typically fall under
federal jurisdiction.
Fulton
County Georgia Briefly Publishes Then Removes Trump Indictment Document. Primed for
immediate nullification. The indictment was briefly unsealed before the grand jury
voted. This is clear and demonstrable evidence of a prejudicial and malicious prosecution.
Divine providence. The Fulton County DA Fani Willis has been preparing a malicious
prosecution against Donald Trump for over a year. The novel theories around the prosecutorial
approach have been widely discussed and the grand jury foreperson previously gave rather odd public
statements during gleeful interviews about the evidence the jury had received. It is and was
ridiculous in the extreme; however, that's how lawfare works. Today Reuters and other media
noticed the court filings against Donald Trump were briefly uploaded and then deleted from the
website. Again, more suspect and odd behavior from Fulton County, Georgia, a county widely
known as the epicenter of Southern fraud.
Trump
and 18 Others Indicted in Georgia; Charges Include Violation of RICO Act. A grand
jury in Georgia voted to indict Donald Trump on Monday over his efforts to expose the 2020 election
fraud in the state and reverse his loss. The 41-count indictment levied by Fani Willis, the
District Attorney for Georgia's Fulton County, includes: violating the Georgia RICO Act;
Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public
Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit False Statements
and Writings; Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the
First Degree; Filing False Documents; and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public
Officer. The D.A. also charged 18 others, including former Trump White House chief of staff
Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeff Clark, John Eastman.
Donald
Trump, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis Indictment in Fulton
County. Indictments were returned by a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury Monday
evening, against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, former North Carolina Sen. Mark Meadows, and
John Eastman. The 41-count indictment includes charges of racketeering, solicitation of
violation of an oath by a public officer, conspiracy, and filing a false statement.
New
evidence shows just how biased Trump judge is in Jack Smith's case. Judge Tanya
Chutkan, the D.C. federal district court's hanging-ist judge when it comes to the January 6
cases, was (quite coincidentally, I'm sure) assigned to Donald Trump's case after Jack Smith
essentially indicted him for believing that the November 2020 election was rife with fraud.
(A belief, apparently, available only to Democrats following elections.) The fact that Chutkan hates
January 6 defendants, of course, doesn't mean she's anti-Trump. However, Julie Kelly has
revealed a trial transcript in which Chutkan openly states her belief that Trump should be in jail.
Jack's
Schizophrenic Indictment. According to Jack Smith, the Electoral Count Act (ECA) gave
Mike Pence and the members of Congress only one job to perform on January 6, 2021:
collect, count, and certify. Smith calls it the "federal government function," and he
claims Trump and his six co-conspirators took actions aimed at violating that "bedrock" function of
our federal government. That is how the Special Counsel starts the Trump indictment, and
believe me, he lays it on thick. There are numerous references to the three C's and to
federal government function. However, the Special Counsel's supporting arguments seem
strangely incongruous. Starting around paragraph 12 and proceeding for dozens and dozens of
paragraphs, the Special Counsel supports the indictment by trying to prove there was no fraud in
the various swing states. Why would he spend so much ink on fraud in the states if the
ECA only involves the simple federal function of collecting, counting, and certifying?
Moderate
Republicans Sound the Alarm on David Weiss's Special Counsel Appointment. House
Republicans are seemingly unified in condemning U.S. prosecutor David Weiss's appointment as a
special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, including several moderate members of the GOP
conference. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss as special counsel in the
"ongoing investigation" into Hunter Biden, "as well as for any other matters that arose or may
arise from that investigation." Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said he hopes Weiss "gets to the
truth," but expressed concern with his appointment. [...]
The
Weaponization of Justice. Jack Smith, with a long history of partisan conduct, is the
prosecuting attorney in the case in the District of Columbia charging Trump with disinformation
regarding the 2020 election, a confection of dubious legal basis. This week, the parties
argued before District Court judge Tanya Chutkin the prosecution's right to muzzle Trump during his
campaign as he and his team poison public opinion and a potential jury pool with leaks and
accusations of wrongdoing. Judge Chutkin has a history of sentencing J6 defendants to longer
sentences than even the prosecution requested. She warned counsel for Trump that politics had
no place in her courtroom, but in at least one transcribed exchange with one of those defendants
she tipped her hand, expressing her view that it was wrong that Trump was not yet jailed: [Transcript]
A Sham
Special Counsel. Just when you thought the Justice Department's handling of the
Hunter Biden case couldn't appear more corrupt, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday
that he was appointing Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as "special counsel" in the case.
Not only is Weiss the same controversial federal prosecutor who has botched the investigation of
President Joe Biden's son so far, but the written rules governing special counsels call for the
attorney general to appoint "an outside Special Counsel." (Emphasis added.) In
other words, someone who doesn't have the inherent conflict of interest that any employee of the
Justice Department has — such as when the department is investigating the son of federal
prosecutors' ultimate boss, the president of the United States. Yet what does Garland
do? Appoint the same U.S. attorney for Delaware who, through either incompetence or
intentional action, already has compromised this investigation.
Obama-Appointed
Judge Tanya Chutkan's Former Law Firm Represented Huma Abedin in Clinton Email Server
Investigation. Following the recent indictment against President Donald Trump,
spearheaded by Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith, it has been revealed that the case was
assigned to an Obama-appointee judge, Tanya S. Chutkan. The Gateway Pundit previously
reported that Trump had requested an immediate recusal of far-left and anti-Trump U.S. District
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, to preside over his ongoing "January 6th" case in Washington D.C.
Trump characterizes the judge as a "biased" judge.
Obama
Judge Tanya Chutkan Signals She will Gag Trump in Middle of Presidential Campaign.
Judge Chutkan is going to gag Trump in the middle of a presidential campaign! Trump's lawyer
appeared before Obama-appointed Judge Tanya Chutkan Friday morning for a hearing on a proposed gag
order. Judge Chutkan gave Trump only ONE DAY to respond to a motion for protective order (gag
order) filed by dirty Jack Smith rather than give him the standard 14 days. Chutkan signaled
she will gag Trump in the middle of a presidential campaign.
Jack
Smith isn't even trying to hide it. Special Counsel Jack Smith has set court dates
for his various charges against President Trump — and what a coincidence —
they all coincide with key dates during the U.S. election. [...] But this is not about fairness to
the defendant. This is about swinging the election. He tried earlier to get this
so-called "speedy trial" done through his presidential records charges, where he sought a December
trial date, and was granted a May 20 one, well into the election season. So now he's gotten
even by moving his January 6 charges even more strategically through the court dockets, even
though legal experts have noted that they are pretty flimsy, meaning, he could theoretically
present a stronger case if he made time to build the case.
Don't
Be Surprised if Some Republicans Help Jack Smith Put Trump in Prison. Many
conservative patriots are gleeful today based on their belief that Jack Smith's most recent
indictment of President Donald Trump is going to afford the MAGA movement its first real
opportunity to litigate all the irregularities of the 2020 election and the events of Jan. 6
in a court of law. This is the evidence they think will be needed for the president to rebut
Smith's allegations that he is a fraudster because he knew all the time that the 2020 elections
were legitimate. But, before Trump's supporters pop the proverbial champagne bottle to
celebrate, they probably would do well to consider the implications of the following language
extracted directly from the first count of Smith's indictment: [...] Boiled down to the basics,
Smith has alleged that Trump knew his claims of election fraud were false and used them to
try to defraud the United States. Some have asked how Smith even hopes to carry his burden of
having to prove such knowledge ever existed in the president's mind beyond a reasonable doubt.
The
Latest Trump Indictment Looks Like It's Backfiring. If Joe Biden thought siccing his
Department of Justice on Donald Trump would keep him from returning to the White House, that
strategy appears to be backfiring. A new poll conducted Aug. 2-7, which is entirely after the
latest indictment by Special Counsel Jack Smith, shows that Trump now leads Biden in a 2024
rematch. The survey by Premise found that Trump garners the support of 42% of registered
voters, while Joe Biden gets 38%, giving Trump a 4-point advantage. If you're a Democrat
seeing this poll, it has to make you nervous. Trump was indicted earlier this month, and
Democrats have been accusing him of crimes from the moment he decided to run for president.
To them, the indictment not only represents Trump getting justice, but it's the key to keeping him
out of the White House.
What
Will Happen If Trump Goes to Trial for January 6 Charges? Each week I resolve to
try to write about some subject that does not include a reference to President Trump, but on most
weeks some subject involving him is the most newsworthy story in the world. The indictment of
him and others over the intrusion on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol exposes several new
perspectives. It was no surprise, as it had been telegraphed months in advance. The
Democratic political strategists must have inspired themselves with Russian army tactics in
mobilizing many weeks in advance ten divisions on the Ukrainian border under the direct gaze of
NATO aerial reconnaissance which was shared with the whole world: Democratic strategists had
been announcing a quadruple indictment of the former president by their drone-like marionettes in
the Justice Department for a long time. What was surprising was the vacuous legal argument,
yet it was received as plausible by some people who should have known better. The former
attorney general, William Barr, a man capable of profound reflection on the law and justice, and
Vice President Pence, who never would have been heard of outside of Indiana were it not for
Mr. Trump, have disclosed themselves as stage-four sufferers of inoperable Trumpphobia.
Special
counsel got a search warrant for Twitter to turn over info on Trump's account, documents say.
Special counsel Jack Smith's team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President
Donald Trump's Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for missing the deadline
to comply, according to court documents released Wednesday. The new details were included in a ruling
from the federal appeals court in Washington over a legal battle surrounding the warrant that has played out
under seal for months. The court rejected Twitter's claim that it should not have been held in contempt
or sanctioned. Smith's team repeatedly mentioned Trump's tweets in an indictment unsealed last week
that charges the former president with conspiring to subvert the will of voters and cling to power after
he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden.
Why
Wouldn't Americans See Politics in Trump Indictments? It is sometimes said that the
prosecutions of former President Donald Trump are "backfiring" on Democrats. That is, instead
of lowering Trump's political support, they are raising it. That is indeed happening among
Republicans and some independents. But many Democrats still hope the cumulative weight of
multiple indictments — there will soon be four, when the Georgia case is added to the
New York case and the two federal cases — will make it impossible for Trump to win the
general election. That is why there seemed to be a mini panic recently when a number of
political observers pointed out that, in spite of everything that has happened, Trump not only has
a very good chance of winning the Republican nomination — he also has a reasonable
chance of winning the presidency again.
Political
Prosecution: A Constitutional Crisis In The Making. We tend to think of
election interference as a fraudulent or nefarious activity directly connected to the election
itself, whether by manipulating voting machines, ballot harvesting, paying for votes, registering
votes from incompetent or non-existent people, voter intimidation, vote-count manipulation,
etc. But in the United States, we overlook the most obvious form of election interference
that's common throughout the world and throughout history: political prosecution. Imagine you
are the president of the United States, and you want to remain in power (or keep your party in
power). Now imagine that you control the Department of Justice, the FBI, and a host of other
intelligence agencies. What would stop you from bringing multiple criminal cases against your
main political rival? And if you are being investigated by Congress for bribery and other
crimes, what would stop you from bringing criminal indictments against those in Congress who pose a
threat? Political prosecution is the nuclear weapon of election interference. In the
hands of a corrupt politician, anything is possible.
New
York Times Op-ed Warns of 'Terrible Consequences' of Prosecuting Trump. Harvard Law
School professor Jack Goldsmith, a noted critic of former President Donald Trump, published a
"guest essay" in the New York Times on Tuesday warning of "terrible consequences" for the
country in the ongoing prosecutions of Trump. Goldsmith, who served in the George W. Bush
administration, warned Times readers that while they might enjoy the idea of Trump being
indicted and possibly imprisoned, the other half of the country did not see it that way, and would
seek revenge: [...]
Federal
Indictment of Donald Trump Is Weaponization of American Political System. The
indictment of former President Donald Trump by special counsel Jack Smith — with the
full approval of Attorney General Merrick Garland — is an attack on the American
political system and fundamental rights protected by the First Amendment to freely discuss, debate,
and contest serious election and political issues. It represents the ultimate weaponization
of the Justice Department, a transformation started by President Barack Obama's attorney general,
Eric Holder, and completed by Garland, to take out a viable political opponent of Garland's boss
and political patron, President Joe Biden. Nothing more, nothing less. Trump is charged
with four felony counts under three federal statutes — 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1512,
and 241 — for supposedly conspiring to defraud the U.S., obstruct an official proceeding, and
suppress the right of Americans to vote. Why? Because he "spread lies" questioning the
outcome of the 2020 election by claiming "that he had actually won," according to the indictment,
thus creating a "national atmosphere of mistrust and anger" and "erod[ing] public faith in the
administration of the election." That's the kind of language you would normally see in an
editorial from The New York Times, not in a criminal indictment. It is an opinion, not an
actual rendition of facts.
Trump
Indictment Is a Mockery of Common Sense. Politics arise from disagreements.
People disagree about their values and opinions, about who should rule and how, and sometimes they
disagree about facts, particularly complex ones. What caused a recession? Who started a
war? What is the best way to reduce crime? These are factual questions of a sort, but
beliefs about these kinds of facts are inseparable from one's values and loyalties. For
Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has now brought a second indictment against former President Trump,
the world is much simpler: There is only truth and fraud. There are no honest
disagreements, misunderstandings or debates. Thus, most of the indictment consists of
ridiculous constructs: The election was not stolen, and we know because Jack Smith told us
so. Someone told Trump this, but Trump disagreed. Because Trump didn't embrace the
conventional wisdom, he is now a liar committing criminal fraud.
A
Florida Trial and a D.C. Grand Jury for Trump. The elites may have to hold one of
their show trials in Florida, but the grand jury had to be in D.C. ["]Judge Aileen
Cannon on Monday asked the Justice Department to explain its use of an out-of-state grand jury in
the Mar-a-Lago case. While the Mar-a-Lago case is being handled out of her Fort Pierce, Fla.,
courtroom, much of the grand jury work ahead of the indictment was conducted through a Washington,
D.C., grand jury.["] A D.C. grand jury is an obvious rubber stamp for political
prosecutors. A D.C. grand jury would indict a ham sandwich, as long as it was a
Republican. That's why the real show is in Washington D.C. Going down to Florida is a
bit inconvenient because it's one of those provinces of the empire.
Prosecutor
Working With Jack Smith Donated Thousands to Biden, Cory Booker, the Democratic National
Committee. David Rody, a prosecutor working with special counsel Jack Smith on the
Trump indictment, is also a donor to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and the Democratic
National Committee. Rody is not a grassroots donor who gave $10 or $25 here and there, he
donated thousands of dollars, meaning that he is obviously a partisan. These people are
abusing our legal system for political reasons and it's so obvious.
The
Trump Indictment and 2024. What is happening to Trump will not be limited to the
Democrat's political opposition, but it will be directed at virtually everyone who oppose the
dictates and policies of a de facto one-party socialist state. The desperate and preposterous
indictments of Donald Trump must be a wake-up call to the American people, in particular Republican
and Independent voters. These unconscionable actions underscore the reality that is no longer
hyperbole to say that the 2024 election is the most important since 1860. As in 1860, in 2024 the
future of this nation hangs in the balance. If the judiciary is captive to the Marxists,
there is no turning back.
The
Weaponization of Justice. [Scroll down] Administrations and their efforts
to stock the justice department with supporters come and go. But in the last decade the Left
has viewed the Department of Justice as a political extension of the party — whose
unchecked power must properly be directed to hurt enemies and help friends. No wonder Eric
Holder described himself as Obama's "wingman" and became the first Attorney General to be held in
contempt for ignoring a congressional subpoena. Never in U.S. history have the Department of
Justice and sympathetic state and local prosecutors indicted a leading opposition candidate and
likely nominee of one of the two major parties, and at the beginning of a presidential
campaign. Donald Trump is currently charged with nearly 100 felonies by at least two
prosecutors. He likely eventually will be hit with more than 500 indictments, from four
prosecutors, every one of the latter with a long record of either leftwing associations or
Democratic service. The mass murderer Charles Manson faced less legal exposure. No
one believes Trump would have been indicted on such counts — most of them involving
allegations from years past — were he not running for President.
The
Three Politically Motivated Phony Indictments of Trump so Far. There are three
pending criminal cases against Donald Trump so far, with another one likely to arise in
Georgia. Biden-appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith is prosecuting Trump in Florida over
allegedly taking classified documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago. He's charging him
over J6 in D.C., and Georgia prosecutors may follow with a similar suit. State prosecutors in
New York have charged Trump with fraud over an alleged payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
No one actually believes the formerly most powerful man in the world, who had the top attorneys
and advisors surrounding him, would blatantly commit felonies. Everyone knows it's a fishing
expedition by politically motivated prosecutors to exploit the left-leaning justice system and take
lawfare to a new level — prosecution. In the latest indictment, regarding J6,
Trump has been charged with four felony counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy
to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights and witness tampering. It
essentially repeats the DNC talking points the MSM repeats ad nauseam; that he stoked violence and
pretended the election was stolen.
Can
Trump Get an "Impartial Jury" in DC? What the Law Requires. The Sixth Amendment to
the United States Constitution guarantees the accused the right to "an impartial jury." But it
also states that the trial should take place in "the state and district wherein the crime shall
have been committed." What should happen, therefore, when it is virtually impossible for the
defendant to get an impartial jury in that state or district? In federal cases, the law
provides for a change of venue under appropriate circumstances. The prosecution of Donald
Trump for the events around January 6, 2021 would seem to call for a change of venue.
The District of Columbia is the most extreme Democratic district in the country.
Approximately 95% of the potential jurors register and vote Democrat. Whereas approximately
5% voted for Trump. Furthermore, the anger against Trump is understandable in light of the
fact that the events of January 6th directly involved many citizens of the district.
Moreover, the judge randomly selected to preside over this case has a long history of bias against
Trump and his supporters, and her law firm has a long history of conflicts and corruption.
Why
Trump Wasn't Charged With Insurrection. For 31 months, the Democrats and their allies
in the corporate media have characterized the Capitol Hill chaos that erupted on Jan. 6, 2021
as an "insurrection." The House of Representatives reinforced this version of events by impeaching
then-President Trump for "incitement of insurrection." The Senate acquitted him, of course.
Nonetheless, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack referred the
case to the Justice Department for further investigation. Consequently, it was something of a
surprise that the formal indictment unsealed last Tuesday by Special Counsel Jack Smith failed to
charge Trump with fomenting insurrection. This must have been particularly frustrating for
those who have long insisted that the 14th Amendment prohibits Trump from serving a second
presidential term.
Will
the Biden Administration (sic) Let Trump — Or Any Republican — Take Office in
2025? As if there is not enough going on out there to trouble your mind already, have
you considered distinct possibility that the current PINO — the
president-in-name-only — and his crypto-fascist clique would not allow Donald Trump to
take office again if the Bad Orange Man somehow won the nomination and then defied the odds (I give
him 15%) to somehow go Full Grover Cleveland? Because there is a real chance they would
not. Crazy talk? Yeah, but the crazy talk came from the lying piehole of our dust
puppet alleged chief executive. He shamelessly told us — like he shamelessly told
us he fired that Ukrainian prosecutor as part of the Delaware Corleone crime club's
corruptorama — that he absolutely would not let Trump take office again. Sure, he
qualified it by claiming, in his own grammatically challenged way, that he would only employ
"legitimate efforts of the Constitution," but we have seen that, among other things, his idea of
the "legitimate efforts of the Constitution" includes using his DOJ to frame the ex-president/his
chief political rival.
Bartiromo:
The DOJ Is Waiting for More Evidence of Things to Come Out on Joe Biden — Then They Will
Give Georgia the Go Ahead to Release Another Indictment. Maria Bartiromo went on FOX
and Friends Weekend to discuss her upcoming show this morning. Bartiromo announced her guests
and then made a prediction on upcoming indictments against President Trump. Maria
Bartiromo: I will also tell you that all of the lawmakers I spoke with over the weekend, and
many of them are on board they want an impeachment inquiry started. They believe that a
Georgia indictment is coming in two weeks. So I assume the DOJ is waiting for more evidence
of things to come out on Joe Biden and the Biden Family taking money in and then they will give
Georgia the go ahead to release another indictment on President Trump.
The
Machinery of Government is Coated with Gunk. The charges depend on Trump's state of
mind and "proving the requisite intent on the part of Trump and his alleged co-conspirators on all
of these charges is likely impossible, at least in front of a fair jury in a fair courtroom."
More troubling is that "Jack Smith's theory of the case necessarily requires criminalizing
political speech," a core protection of the First Amendment. Trump is surely not the first
candidate to claim elections were stolen from them: In 1824 Andrew Jackson claimed John
Quincy Adams cheated him out of the election. More recently Hillary Clinton and Stacey
Abrams, to name but two, made that claim. [...] Of course, whatever infirmities there are in this
case, the most obvious is that the facts in this case were known in 2020, and timing it now while
demanding a speedy trial has "all the appearances" of Smith arrogating to himself the right to pick
the next president.
Trump
plans to ask for recusal of federal judge overseeing 2020 election case and for venue
change. Former President Donald Trump says he plans on asking the judge overseeing
his federal charges related to the 2020 election to recuse herself and he wants to have the venue
moved out of Washington, D.C., in order to get a fair trial. [...] D.C. District Judge Tanya
Chutkan, an Obama appointee assigned to oversee Trump's federal election case, donated thousands of
dollars to elect Barack Obama as president. Additionally, she ruled against Trump in another
case related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Chutkan is well known for dealing out
the toughest sentences on Jan. 6 defendants, giving longer prison sentences than requested by
prosecutors in more than 60% of those cases before her. Trump had said last week that he
hoped to be tried in an "impartial" venue such as a court located in nearby West Virginia, rather
than in Washington, D.C., where the district's citizens voted overwhelmingly against him.
Here's
the 'Democrat Dream Scenario' for the Trump Trial Ted Cruz Warns to Be Mindful Of.
[Scroll down] The senator not only brought up concerns about election interference in
how the Biden administration is trying to jail his most likely opponent. It's also "an
assault on democracy," Cruz explained, "because they don't trust the voters." He again spoke about
Biden's record in that "they don't want the voters to vote on Biden's record. Because if we
vote on Biden's record, Biden loses. Instead, they want to use the Department of Justice to
steal the election," also speaking once more to news coverage in that "they're trying to steal it
by dominating the headlines by bringing the full force of the federal government to bring case
after case after case."
Jonathan
Turley spells out how foul the Trump indictment really is. Every American's speech is
entitled to First Amendment protection. However, if the Biden administration has its way,
that protection does not extend to Donald Trump. With his usual clarity and insight, law
professor Jonathan Turley spells out just how foul the Trump indictment really is. As always,
when it comes to the latest Democrat "gotcha" against Trump, this one is stink and dangerous,
explains Turley. Hidden behind the legal language and statutory citations is a
straightforward effort to punish Trump for daring to speak his mind about the chicanery he (and
half of the American voters) perceived in the 2020 election: ["]Trump was not charged
with conspiracy to incite violence or insurrection. Rather, he was charged because he 'spread
lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually
won.'["] In other words, Trump is being accused of challenging the Democrat
establishment's insistence that it won the election fair and square. Any dissenting views
must not only be silenced but must be punished, both to keep Trump off the ballot and as a warning
to others.
Trump
demands Washington DC federal judge Tanya Chutkan recuse herself from case. Former
President Donald Trump claimed 'there is no way' he can get a fair trial in his alleged election
interference case, as he called for the judge in the case to be recused and for the trial to be
moved out of liberal Washington, DC. The 2024 GOP frontrunner announced on his Truth Social
platform on Sunday that his lawyers will be asking for a recusal of federal court judge Tanya
Chutkan on unspecified 'very powerful grounds.'
The Editor says...
As much as I like Donald J. Trump, I still think he needs to stay off of all social media and let his attorneys do all the talking.
Secretary
Blinken is appalled at reports that a president jailed his political opponent. [A]
hallmark of narcissism is that you're never wrong. No matter what happens, it's only bad if
the other guy does it. That's why I can't even pretend shock at the fact that Biden's
Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, took to Twitter to announce that the Biden regime condemns
Putin for convicting Aleksey Navalny, Putin's political opponent. Navalny has been a burr in
Putin's side for some time now. In 2011, after a contested election based on claims of
election fraud (sound familiar?), the Putin regime jailed him for 15 days "for defying a government
official." Navalny instantly became a leading voice in opposing Putin. He's been pushing back
against Putin ever since — except that Putin has been pushing a whole lot harder. [...]
Despite the Deep State's and Biden administration's conduct since 2016, Antony Blinken, Biden's
Secretary of State, officially tweeted out that the Biden administration thinks it's a very bad
thing when a sitting president jails his political opponent: [Tweet]
DOJ
Prosecutor Working on Special Counsel Jack Smith's Team Is a Biden Donor. One of the
veteran attorneys advising special counsel Jack Smith in his prosecution of former President Donald
Trump has donated thousands of dollars to Democrat politicians, including President Joe
Biden. David Rody left his role as a partner at the Sidley Austin law firm in 2022 to join
the Department of Justice (DOJ) as a senior counsel in the criminal division. Now, he is
helping advise Smith, who has indicted Trump twice for his alleged efforts to challenge the 2020
election and his handling of White House documents.
MSNBC's
Joy Reid savors the 'demographic reality' that Trump's J6 judges are women of color.
Joy Reid just can't help herself when it comes to inserting race into absolutely everything and the
upcoming trial of former President Donald J. Trump in a Wahington, D.C. courtroom presided over by
a hostile Obama-appointed judge is no exception. During MSNBC's coverage of Trump's traveling
to the nation's capital for his arraignment on Thursday, the "race lady" took great pleasure in
pointing out that both of the judges who the former president faced would be women of color,
seeming to suggest that their ethnicity could have an effect on how the trial will play out.
Reid was clearly savoring the "demographic reality" of the D.C. courts and suggested that the
Trump team's desire for a change of venues was rooted in racism rather than the reality that there
is no way that he will get a fair trial in an area where the overwhelming majority of the jury pool
hates his guts.
The
Stunning Lack of Self-Awareness of Biden's Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. On
Friday, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 19 years in prison on charges of
supporting "extremism." This is actually his fifth criminal conviction, and, according to a report
from USA Today, "Navalny and his supporters have repeatedly criticized his criminal convictions as
politically motivated and described them as attempts by Russian President Vladimir Putin to silence
his archenemy." Navalny has been incarcerated since January 2021. He has reportedly been an
outspoken critic of the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin and was found guilty of multiple charges,
including creating and participating in an extremist community, financing extremist activities,
organizing such a community, making public calls for extremist actions, and involving minors in
dangerous activities. Additionally, Daniel Kholodny, the former technical director of
Navalny's YouTube channel, was also convicted of similar offenses, receiving a lesser sentence of
eight years in a penal colony.
Turley
Raises Questions About Case Against Trump: Jack Smith 'Would Need To Bulldoze' First
Amendment To Convict. Attorney and law professor Jonathan Turley raised serious legal
questions about Special Counsel Jack Smith's path to convicting former President Donald
Trump. In an op-ed published Saturday by The Hill, Turley warned that the latest indictment
of Trump relating to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot threatens the First Amendment by giving
the government an unprecedented power to criminalize false statements. Trump was indicted
earlier this week on four charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to
obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy against
rights. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Bill
Barr Refuses to Say if He Assisted the Jack Smith Targeting of Donald Trump.
[Scroll down] Through research and eventually a stroke of luck, I was able to trace the
people Attorney General Barr assigned to review the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense. I found
the people working for Durham and questioned the lead investigator. Again, I immediately told
everyone there was nothing being done to confront the corrupt entities who fabricated the
nonsense. After those events I also outlined the institutional silo corruption, a process
Benny Johnson recently described as "the ghost in the machine". While Johnson has the big picture
accurate, these entities are not some unnamed random institutional bureaucrats. They are
people, they know exactly what they are doing, and they understand exactly how to control the
mechanics. These "ghosts" are the people AG Bill Barr was/is protecting.
Seriously
Sketchy — Judge Boasberg Sits in Back of DC District Court During President Trump
Appearance. In March, when I wrote the outline about Judge Boasberg being the corrupt
DC judge who broke the constitutional restrictions on executive privilege, which technically forced
Mike Pence to turn over his notes and testify to James Smith and the DC grand jury, I said at the
time, "The entire judicial system is corrupt, soup to nuts, all of it." I was not using
hyperbole. For Judge Boasberg (who is on vacation) to show up in court and sit in the back
row of the courtroom is a stunning visible display of judicial ideology and targeting. In
reality, Boasberg is bearing witness to the outcome he created by forcing a Vice President to give
testimony against the Chief Executive, thereby establishing the basis for the fraudulent
allegations Special Counsel Jack Smith was utilizing to target that same executive, President
Donald Trump. This is the same Judge Boasberg who sat as presiding judge on the FISA
court. The same Judge Boasberg who gave FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith a slap on the wrist for
manufacturing evidence used in the Carter Page FISA application that defrauded the court. The
same Judge Boasberg who appointed former DOJ-NSD head Mary McCord as amicus curiae advisor to the
court, after she knowingly and fraudulently submitted the FISA application to the court.
A
Country Descending into Madness. This is what it looks like when a country descends
into madness. Two standards of "justice" preclude any justice at all. Hillary Clinton
kept top-secret information on a home-brew private server that was infiltrated by malicious foreign
actors, and she suffered no legal consequence — even after having destroyed Blackberry
devices and other subpoenaed evidence of criminal culpability. President Trump keeps
personally declassified documents in his home, and the FBI sends a SWAT team into Mar-a-Lago so
that Merrick Garland's goons can throw Trump in prison. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
conspired with the Intelligence Community to frame Donald Trump as a Russian spy and remove him
from office, and not a single perpetrator involved in that incendiary plot has been indicted.
Trump correctly points out that mail-in ballot fraud irreparably marred the 2020 election, and the
violent thugs in control of D.C. level criminal charges against him that could lead to his execution.
The
Latest ABC News Poll Is a Disaster for Everyone Involved. We'll start with Donald
Trump, as there are several ancillary questions asked about his recent indictment to discuss. [...]
Specifically, the indictments of Trump are boosting his primary support while at the same time
harming him in regard to the general election. You have to remember that most people are
never going to read the various indictments. They are never going to see that the most recent
January 6th-related charges are, legally speaking, extremely weak. All they are going to
hear is political rhetoric, and Democrats will presumably own the airwaves in 2024 given the former
president's fundraising woes. We saw a preview of that when special counsel Jack Smith gave
his presser on Trump's latest indictment. Instead of speaking to the law and what evidence
existed, he gave an exposition on the events of January 6th. That despite the fact that
Trump is not charged with inciting January 6th. But again, all that most people will
hear is the rhetoric, not the legal realities.
Dershowitz:
Jack Smith Could be Indicted for Fraud for Omitting Trump's 'Peaceful' Statement.
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says that under his own "fraud" standard,
Special Counsel Jack Smith could be indicted for omitting a key portion of then-President Donald
Trump's speech in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. The indictment charges Trump with
four counts, including "conspiracy to defraud the United States." But in a portion recounting
Trump's speech at the "Stop the Steal" rally, Smith repeats the errors made by House Democrats in
Trump's second impeachment trial: he focuses on Trump's use of the phrase "fight like hell," and
omits a sentence highlighted by Trump's defense team: "I know that everyone here will soon be
marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
Vince
Coglianese Lays Out DOJ's 'Massive Credibility Crisis'. WMAL Talk radio host and
Daily Caller Editorial Director Vince Coglianese ripped the new indictment against former President
Donald Trump on the Wednesday edition of "Special Report with Bret Baier." Coglianese
questioned the credibility of the Justice Department and argued that Americans "fundamentally do
not trust this institution." "This is the prosecution and persecution of the leading
candidate for president against Joe Biden," Coglianese said. "I think we have a Justice Department
with a massive credibility crisis on its hands. Voters fundamentally do not trust this
institution. They have routinely gone after Trump through the years in the form of the
FBI-Russia collusion hoax and, of course now all of these prosecutions."
Trump
DC Indictment — Where is the crime? The indictment may make out a persuasive
case that Trump lied in the post-election period about election fraud, and disregarded the warnings
of his most trusted and most loyal confidants that what he was saying was not true, but that
doesn't equate to a crime. The core of the alleged crime is disruption of the electoral
count, but that took place because of the riot, and Trump has not been indicted (yet) for inciting
the riot. What the indictment purports to prove may be a reason not to vote for Trump, but
it's far from clear it's a reason to criminally charge him.
6
Ways Jack Smith's Latest Indictment Is Legally Flawed And Politically Shady. Special
Counsel Jack Smith's latest indictment against President Trump seeks to criminalize political
speech and taking incorrect legal advice. Americans of all political stripes should be
furious and deeply concerned by the course Smith has set this country on. I have reviewed the
new Trump indictment closely, and sadly, it is exactly what we have come to expect from Smith's
team — a highly political document, riddled with legal and factual infirmities.
This indictment should have never been brought to a grand jury in the first place. Moreover,
its timing, particularly in light of Smith's statements and actions in the Trump documents case, is
so highly suspect that it casts a political pall over the whole case.
Herridge:
Attorney Points to Big Problem With Trump Indictment — Allegedly Exculpatory
Evidence. Looks like there are more problems with that indictment from Special
Counsel Jack Smith, even as it just getting started with the arraignment of former President Donald
Trump on Thursday. Trump entered a not guilty plea to the four counts, which included
conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction
of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. According
to a report from CBS News' Catherine Herridge, Tim Parlatore, who is the attorney for former NYPD
Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, provided records to Jack Smith on July 23. Parlatore
thinks the Special Counsel may not have reviewed records before indicting Trump because he thinks
those materials are exculpatory.
Joe
Rogan: Biden DOJ's Trump Indictments Are the 'Actions of a Banana Republic'.
Podcast host Joe Rogan said the U.S. Department of Justice's multiple indictments against former
President Donald Trump are the "actions of a banana republic." Rogan spoke about how the
indictments against Trump galvanized his supporters. "Yeah, and the people that love Trump,
they feel like this is a witch hunt. And they feel like all the things he's getting indicted
for are [unfounded] anyway," Rogan said. "Not only does it not work, but it kind of hardens
their position that he's being targeted. And these are like the the actions of a banana republic."
Lawyer:
Jack Smith 'has the entire law wrong'. An attorney for former President Donald Trump
said Thursday that Trump's defense will use a "very simple" strategy should charges over the 2020
election be brought to trial. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges during his Thursday
arraignment after Special Counsel Jack Smith secured a four-count indictment of Trump relating to
his efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election. Smith previously secured a 37-count
indictment against Trump in June based on an investigation into allegations surrounding classified
documents. "The legal strategy in this case I think is very simple: You attack the
facts that Jack Smith put out that are wrong for instance, Jack Smith claiming, as you already
pointed out, that Donald Trump did anything other than call for peace and patriotism on
January 6th is wrong," attorney Jesse Binnall told Fox News host Jesse Watters Thursday
evening. "And then you attack the law, because Jack Smith has the entire law in this case
wrong, and more importantly, he is ignoring the Constitution of the United States."
Jack
Smith Admits Making False Claim to Court in Trump Case. Special counsel Jack Smith's
team made a startling admission in its case against former President Donald Trump, acknowledging in
a new court filing that it failed to turn over all evidence to Mr. Trump's legal team as
required by law and falsely claimed that it had. Mr. Smith's team said in a July 31
court filing (pdf) in its classified documents case against the former president that it had
incorrectly claimed during a July 18 court hearing that it had provided all Mar-a-Lago surveillance
footage to Mr. Trump's defense attorneys, as required by law. "On July 27, as part of the
preparation for the superseding indictment coming later that day and the discovery production for
Defendant De Oliveira, the Government learned that this footage had not been processed and uploaded
to the platform established for the defense to view the subpoenaed footage," Mr. Smith's team
wrote in the July 31 filing.
DOJ
Indictment Of Trump Is A Declaration Of War Against American Voters. On Tuesday,
President Joe Biden's Justice Department took the unprecedented step of indicting former President
Donald Trump — Biden's chief rival in the upcoming 2024 election — for
repeatedly expressing his opinion that the last election was stolen, rigged, and unfair. It's
an opinion millions of Americans share, and to which they are unquestionably entitled thanks to the
First Amendment. That includes Trump, who has said repeatedly (and recently) that the 2020
election was stolen. He'll probably keep saying it until his dying day, and he has every
right to do so. The idea that our Justice Department can indict someone, especially the
sitting president's main political rival, over speech that's protected by the First Amendment is
simply insane. It puts us firmly into banana republic territory, where tinpot dictators jail
their political opponents ahead of election day to ensure their "reelection." Simply put,
this indictment is nothing more than a declaration of war against American voters and their
constitutional right to free speech.
At
this point, why not bypass the legal niceties and just put Trump in jail? The Biden
Administration has clearly given up on the idea that the federal government exists to do anything
but satisfy Joe Biden's whims. So why not get it over with? Throw Donald Trump in jail
without due process, construct reeducation camps, and rename the FBI the Stasi? [...] If we lived
in a free country with a working press there would at least be some outcry. Stories about the
corruption would be printed and crusading journalists would be ringing alarm bells about the
destruction of democracy. Actually, on that latter point, they are doing precisely that, only
they are blaming the Republicans for not buckling to the inevitable. The current definition
of "democracy" is simply complying with anything the Left wants to impose on us.
The
State Farm Late Night Ballot Stuffing Video Was NOT Debunked. Once again, President
Trump was indicted on Tuesday — the DAY AFTER Hunter Biden's best friend and business
associate Devon Archer testified that the Joe Biden was included on 20 calls when his son was
sitting with foreign officials arranging influence peddling deals for the family. Archer also
testified that Joe Biden met with Russia's Yelena Baturina who invested $40 million into Hunter
Biden's real estate ventures. And she also paid Hunter Biden $3.5 million in consulting
fees. Joe Biden later excluded Baturina from his Russian sanctions list. So what
happened next? President Trump was indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith. For those
paying attention, this is not the first time this has happened. There have been at least six
times now where new evidence was released implicating the Biden Crime Family and then President
Trump is indicted by the Biden regime the very next day.
The
Judge Assigned to Trump's January 6th Indictment Is Going to Be a Nightmare.
Once again, the political world has been engulfed by another indictment of Donald Trump, this time
surrounding his alleged actions involving January 6th. The details include four
different counts, including two counts of conspiracy and two counts of obstruction. Those
four counts break down specifically to Trump allegedly attempting to obstruct an official
proceeding, which has to do with January 6th, while the conspiracy charges appear to center on
the supposed alternate electors scheme. Obviously, arguments about selective prosecution and
weaponization of the DOJ will be at the forefront for political circles, but even on legal grounds,
this indictment appears to be far weaker than the one charging that Trump mishandled classified
documents and conspired to obstruct the investigation into the matter. Specifically, counts
two and three sure seem like "disinformation" is being criminalized. Regardless, putting even
the legal arguments aside, one thing is certain: The judge assigned to this case is going to
be a nightmare.
Trump
Could Have Spent Jan. 6 Talking About The Weather And Still Would Have Been Indicted.
Former President Donald Trump was indicted for the third time on Tuesday when Special Counsel Jack
Smith unveiled charges ostensibly related to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. According
to Smith, Trump is guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy against rights,
obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding, all for raising
electoral objections that Democrats have made for decades. As protesters breached the first
police barriers at the Capitol, Trump was still speaking at the White House, with explicit
directions for demonstrators to "peacefully and patriotically make [their] voices heard." That
timeline itself undermines the left-wing narrative that Trump alone incited a deadly insurrection.
Jonathan
Turley and Andy McCarthy Rip Apart Flawed Nature of New Trump Indictment. As we
reported earlier, Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped another indictment on former President Donald
Trump, charging him with three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction on Tuesday.
At this point, it's getting a little ridiculous and frankly, transparent, as to how hard the Biden
administration seems to be working to try to take Trump out of the race with lawfare and
indictments. Fox News' Bret Baier shared how Republicans are describing the indictment for
what it is: Democrats looking at a box of chocolates, trying to figure out what was the best
box of chocolates to "prevent him from becoming president again." That's hitting the nail on the
head; that's what it's all about.
Special
Counsel Jack Smith Unseals Criminal Indictment of President Trump for Protesting Results of 2020
Election. Interestingly, nowhere in the indictment is anything criminally alleged
relating to the January 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC.
However, you will notice in the Lawfare delivery of the remarks, Special Counsel Jack Smith
factually speaks almost exclusively of the January 6th events. The absence of a
criminal charge (ie. seditious conspiracy or insurrection) when contrast against the extreme
verbal emphasis of the event as outlined by Smith in the presser, will be missed by most.
Speaking of the non-criminal event as the context for a fabricated/stretched criminal allegation,
is Lawfare in action. Why emphasize but not charge? Because the DOJ/FBI does not want
the risk of litigated discovery and evidence of coordinated government activity therein, that's
why. Jack Smith knows he is out on a limb with his Lawfare effort to criminalize the legal
and constitutional challenge to an election outcome.
Trump
Jan 6 Case [is] Assigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama Appointee. The DC grand
jury indicted Trump in the January 6 investigation. "Trump indicted in federal probe over
effort to undo election loss and subvert transfer of power in run-up to Jan. 6 riot" AP
reported. Trump was hit with 4 counts: Conspiracy to defraud the United States,
conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official
proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Indictment
3.0: Jack Smith Indicts Trump Day After Hunter, Joe Biden Implicated. Special Counsel
Jack Smith announced Tuesday evening that a grand jury in Washington, D.C., had indicted former
President Donald Trump on charges relating to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S.
Capitol. The indictment was announced the day after President Joe Biden had been implicated
in a long-running influence peddling-scheme by his son Hunter's former business partner, Devon
Archer, in testimony before the House Oversight Committee.
Donald
Trump Indicted For Third Time. Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for a
third time. Officials announced Tuesday that Trump has been indicted in relation to his
alleged attempt to interfere in the 2020 election and alleged involvement in Jan. 6.
Trump was charged with "Conspiracy to defraud the United States," "Conspiracy to corruptly obstruct
and impede the January 6 proceedings" and "A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have
one's vote counted." "This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued
pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere
with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and
leading by substantial margins," the Trump campaign said in a statement.
Trump
has been indicted again. A grand jury has filed an indictment connected to the 2020
election. At the moment the indictment is sealed and no official statement has been made
about who has been indicted or why but the Washington Post is reporting the target is former
president Trump.
Republican
Party Elites Want to Change Primary Rules to [Deprive] Trump of Delegates. A poll
released earlier this month projected President Trump would win in a massive blowout in the
Republican Primary. [...] This terrifies the GOP elites. They hate Trump and hate the fact
that they cannot sway Republican voters away from President Trump. Massachusetts is the latest
state where Republicans are playing with the rules to thwart President Trump in the upcoming primary.
They
are rubbing our noses in their filth. The false investigations, and fake indictments
of Donald Trump are ridiculous and aimed at showing his supporters and his distractors alike that
no one can escape them. [...] President Trump never really was in charge. Obama led the
resistance — an act of sedition — that thwarted Trump at every turn.
McConnell and the rest of the gullible guinea pigs in DC who call themselves conservatives aided
and abetted Obama. Trump's inability to govern properly is one of the reasons some commentators
want to abandon him. It is like telling a rape victim she should have fought harder.
It's
time to prosecute the prosecutors. With their lies about masks, vaccines, and
lockdowns all exposed, another pandemic won't work, because nobody's buying that trick again.
So now, it's banana republic prosecutions against the Republican frontrunner, on multiple,
coordinated fronts. Note the timing here — not two years ago, but right before the
election. What a coincidence! By bringing these prosecutions, Smith and Garland are
breaking federal law by violating the Hatch Act, which states that a federal "employee may not ...
use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result
of an election." But the unfortunate fact remains that few legal tools or weapons exist to hold
rogue prosecutors accountable for these wild shenanigans. Violators of the Hatch Act, for
example, face a maximum $1,000 fine and debarment from working for the government for a maximum of
five years. But does anybody think a thousand-dollar fine will deter Smith and Garland from
their rabid anti-Trump fixation?
Hemingway:
DOJ Playing With Fire Trying To "Literally Imprison" The President's Top Political Rival.
"The Federalist" senior editor Mollie Hemingway, during an appearance Sunday on FNC's "Media Buzz,
drives home the point that with the indictment of Donald Trump on federal charges over the
January 6 riot, the Department of Justice is "working to literally imprison the top political
opponent of the current president" over an issue of political speech. She said Trump not
being allowed to "do what everybody else was always allowed to do, which is protest election
results and challenge election results" is "very dangerous." "To criminalize that act,
something the Democrats have done every single election since Reagan... The Department of Justice
is acting in a very reckless fashion, and a competent media would be accurately talking about that,
what a problem it poses to the very existence of our republic."
Trump
attorneys: Fulton DA is raising political cash off her investigation. Former
President Donald Trump's Atlanta attorneys are making yet another attempt to disqualify Fulton
County District Attorney Fani Willis from further investigations into his alleged 2020 election
meddling in Georgia. On Thursday, Trump's attorneys filed a motion in Fulton County Superior
Court, arguing Willis should be disqualified from her investigation because she allegedly is using
the case to raise re-election funds.
Is
there a judge anywhere in the US with the courage to say that the Emperor has no Clothes?
[Scroll down] Again, is there an AG or a judge or justice with the moral core and the principles
to do what is right anywhere in this country, who remembers we don't have emperors? We all know that
all these legal actions that have been filed against Trump — the NY nonsensical stuff, the
documents case, the absurd Jean Carroll case, the numerous cases accusing him of election interference
or inciting the fedsusrrection of January 6, 2021 — are all, shall we say, trumped up.
There must be an AG in some state — Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan - states
we know the Democrats cheated in 2020 — who is brave enough to stand up against this Stalinist
offensive against the best President since Reagan?
Endless
Trump Indictments And Jail Threats Means Republicans Can't Quit The Weaponization
Fight. The deep state's incessant attempts to undermine the 2024 presidential
election by throwing President Joe Biden's number one political enemy in jail is getting old.
It seems like every day, Biden bureaucrats and Democrats manufacture new justifications for why
former President Donald Trump deserves to be behind bars. "Deranged Jack Smith, the
prosecutor with Joe Biden's DOJ, sent a letter ... stating that I am a TARGET of the
January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand
Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and an Indictment," Trump announced in a Truth on Tuesday.
Mark
Levin: Trump Attorneys Must File Motion to Investigate the Biden DOJ and Jack Smith.
Mark Levin called on the Trump attorneys to immediately file motion for order the Office of
Professional Responsibility to investigate the series of illegal leaks by Joe Biden's corrupt
Department of Justice and Special Counsel Jack Smith used to interfere in the 2024 presidential
election. [...] ["]This Department of Justice is destroying America. It's destroying
the 2024 election. It's violating every norm, every tradition, everything it inherited to
ensure that that department could be trustworthy and could be reliable. It has criminalized
politics.This Department of Justice is destroying America. It's destroying the 2024
election. It's violating every norm, every tradition, everything it inherited to ensure that
that department could be trustworthy and could be reliable. It has criminalized politics.["]
The
push to disqualify Trump from 2024 using the 14th Amendment. An effort to disqualify
former President Donald Trump's White House bid is being undertaken by two civil rights groups that
say the Jan. 6 Capitol riot could prevent Trump from holding office under the 14th
Amendment. Mi Familia Vota, a nonprofit organization to unite the Latino community, and Free
Speech For People, an advocacy group pushing for political equality, have joined forces to create
the "Trump is Disqualified" campaign. The campaign aims to inform voters and state officials
of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This section bars people from holding certain offices
who have previously taken an oath to uphold the Constitution and have "engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." The groups are
pushing efforts across the nation to bar Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot next November,
urging secretaries of state and chief election officials through letters to use what is known as
the insurrectionist disqualification clause of the 14th Amendment to block Trump from "any future
ballot," according to Free Speech For People.
Enough! I could
tell you that you will never get Donald Trump through the Republican Convention, that all of the
money is for DeSantis and the rules are being re-written at the state GOPs to get rid of Trump
during the primary for DeSantis, but most of you will not hear what I am saying. Should he
somehow manage that and it is still possible, I could tell you that there is no way Donald Trump
wins in 2024; that despite the cheating that is now a part of American Democracy (yes, the
capitalization was intended) as much as any Soviet-style election, except on a much grander and
more physically exhausting scale, having to overcome actual people voting opposite of the preferred
candidate rather than having but one name on the ballot.[...] Trump is a pipe dream. The GOP
won't even let him have the nomination.
217
Pages Reveal Obama Admin's Building of Trump-Russia Narrative. Heavily redacted
documents from the National Security Agency tell at least part of the story of a final-month rush
by the outgoing Obama administration to torpedo the incoming presidency of Donald Trump. The
Daily Signal obtained 217 pages of documents from the NSA through a Freedom of Information Act
request. The documents reveal that Obama administration officials, from Vice President Joe
Biden down to several ambassadors and many officials in the Treasury and Energy departments, gained
access to secret information about President-elect Trump's incoming national security adviser,
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
If
Alleged DOJ Misconduct Is True, A Judge Could Dismiss The Whole Case Against Trump.
Lost in the breathless headlines over the indictment of President Trump for alleged violations of
the Espionage Act is a story that deserves much more attention than it has received thus far: the
allegation that a senior official at the Department of Justice attempted to shake down Trump's
co-defendant's lawyer. It is a scandal in the making that could result in the investigation
of senior DOJ officials, which should lead to public congressional hearings, and that might even
result in the entire case against Trump being dismissed.
In
Defense of Donald Trump. Fulton County District Attorney, Fani Willis has some
formidable hurdles to clear in her quest to convict Donald Trump for interfering in Georgia's 2020
election. [...] Trump's "big lie" is fundamental to her case. To support her premise, she may
cite the dozens of judges who have tossed the Trump legal team's lawsuits from their courts, seeing
no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. She is not so likely to draw the court's attention
to the fact that millions of Americans, who are not judges, have seen a plethora of evidence that
amounts to nothing short of a calculated coup d'état, coordinated across several
states. Such evidence ranges from expert analysis to published graphs showing impossible
spikes in Biden votes in three battleground states: Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia. These
fantastic vote spikes were logged in the wee hours of election night when, according to reports, no
observers were present, as would be required by law. As J.R. Dunn has stated, "The
prosecution is going to have a very hard time stating a case without allowing in evidence that they
desperately don't want anyone to hear."
Koch
Network Plans to Spend $70 Million Exclusively to Block President Trump from GOP Nomination.
As if on cue, here comes another billionaire group by well-established political control agents in yet
another multimillion effort to block President Trump. This time it's Koch and his Americans for
Prosperity network. The Koch groups are planning to spend $70 million in their effort to
eliminate the support of Donald Trump in 2024. However, [it will be interesting] to watch how
the downstream media networks attack Trump in order to get a piece of the spending allotment.
That's where knowing where the Koch money flows comes in handy.
America's
justice system has been corrupted by political bias. Three very different
indictments — but one [bad] conclusion: America's blatantly politicized justice system
is broken. Daniel Penny. Hunter Biden. Donald Trump. 'Isn't it amazing,'
Trump is heard declaring on a bombshell audio recording leaked to CNN on Monday of a now infamous
2021 meeting at the center of a case against the former president over the mishandling of
classified information. 'These are the papers,' Trump says as he reportedly flaunts 'secret'
military plans detailing an attack on Iran. Yes, isn't it amazing? It's astonishing, in
fact, that explosive details of perhaps one of the most important and unprecedented legal cases in
America's history, against our most hated Republican president, keep leaking out as if from a
broken water main.
CBS
Report, Mysterious DoD Iran Attack Memo Does Not Exist and Is Not Part of Jack Smith Case Against
Trump. After a full media cycle of apoplexy and pearl-clutching, which included
Andrew Weissmann appearing on MSNBC to declare "It's the end of Trump," CBS is now reporting there
is no Defense Department memo about attacking Iran — the foundation of the media claims
surrounding the leaked audio tapes from Special Counsel Jack Smith. Worse still, and exactly
as CTH previously outlined, despite the claims by CNN about how this audio would be used as the
"central element" by the prosecution of Trump, the audio and mysterious memo are not part of the
Special Counsel case.
Four
Ways the Deep State Betrays Americans. Do you think it is an accident that the Deep
State has worked so hard to protect the Biden family from prosecution when the Chinese bought Joe
long ago? Do you think it is a coincidence that the Deep State is trying to put President
Trump in prison for the rest of his days, when he has been the lone voice on the national stage
calling for American independence from reliance upon foreign dictators? Could the Deep State
make it any more obvious that it works against Americans' interests and for the
interests of World Economic Forum scum such as Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bill Gates, and all the
other anti-American, Marxist globalists? For all intents and purposes, the Uniparty occupying
D.C. is a wholly owned and operated corporate subsidiary of the communist Chinese.
Why
is the Clinton Special Counsel Delaying Start of Trump Trial? Usually trying to delay
a trial is done to give your side more time to prepare. Jack Smith, the Clinton-linked
special counsel targeting Trump, is strangely asking for a significant delay on behalf of Trump's
people. [...] Why is Smith filing motions on behalf of the defense? If Trump's legal team
wants to delay the case, they're capable of asking to do so. And Smith's arguments perhaps
provide them with grounds for doing so. What's strange is the red team asking for a delay on
behalf of the blue team. It's a safe bet that Smith's concerns that Trump's lawyers have the
time they need are not the real story. Smith rushed to indict Trump, but now he wants to slow
down. Pushing the trial to December will, along with inevitable further delays, will take the
trial into the primary season[,] as it's intended to do. This isn't about winning the case,
it's about, much as with Russiagate, keeping the case in the public eye.
Donald
Trump's 2020 election loss was an inside job. There are numerous bombshells in the
congressional testimony of two IRS whistleblowers, but the most significant is that members of
Trump's Department of Justice helped to tip the 2020 election to his opponent by slow-walking the
investigation into Hunter Biden. The interference with the probe began as soon as it looked
like Joe Biden was going to win the Democrats' nomination. That's the allegation made by
supervising agent Gary Shapley, who detailed steps he and other IRS investigators wanted to take to
gather evidence against Hunter for massive tax fraud and other crimes. They planned to
execute search warrants in New York, California, Arkansas and Washington, DC. They also wanted
to search Joe Biden's Delaware guest house because Hunter spent a lot of time there. The
probers laid out their plan in a probable cause memo, but it was inexplicably rejected by DOJ lawyers.
Who
is lying? Merrick Garland or the whistleblowers? "I'm not the deciding
official." Those five words, allegedly from Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, shocked IRS
and FBI investigators in a meeting on October 22, 2022. This is because, in refusing to appoint a
special counsel, Attorney Garland Merrick Garland had repeatedly assured the public and Congress
that Weiss had total authority over his investigation. IRS supervisory agent Gary A. Shapley
Jr. told Congress he was so dismayed by Weiss's statement and other admissions that he memorialized
them in a communication to other team members. Shapley and another whistleblower detail what
they describe as a pattern of interference with their investigation of Hunter Biden, including the
denial of searches, lines of questioning, and even attempted indictments. The only thing
abundantly clear is that someone is lying. Either these whistleblowers are lying to Congress,
or these Justice Department officials (including Garland) are lying.
DOJ
Request For Delay Of Trump Florida Trial Has Nothing To Do With Strength Or Weakness Of The
Case. When Judge Aileen Cannon scheduled the trial of Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago
documents case for August 14, 2023, no one who knew the slightest thing about court procedure
expected that to hold. Among other things, Trump doesn't even have a full defense team (his
prior team quit), his new lawyers will need to get security clearances to view classified
documents, and procedures for the handling and control of classified material would have to be
worked out. An August trial never was going to happen. [...] It's really not difficult to
understand. Please ignore the people who are claiming that it reflects that the government is
afraid to present its case, or that it thinks the case is imploding. And most of all, please
ignore the conspiracy theorists who construct elaborate arguments and theories around it and so
many other things. These people are misleading — most of all — Trump supporters.
'Someone's
got to go to prison'. [Scroll down] Now, in Biden's America it is the good
guys who go to prison, as in the hundreds of J6 peaceful protesters who, in some cases, were merely
present in DC that day. The real bad guys, the Biden crime family, all those who invented and
perpetrated the Russia collusion hoax on the American people for nearly three years, did not go to
prison; not one of them: not Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page,
and the long list of their co-criminals at the FBI and DOJ and in the media. They were all
complicit in what was effectively a coup, the calculated overthrow of the President of the US.
Trump did serve out his term, but the same crowd made damn sure he wouldn't serve another no matter
what; even if he won, which he did! All of these people knew the collusion story was a hoax
but relished in its success at hog-tying the Trump administration. Despite their traitorous
crimes, Trump was the best president since Reagan!
Hearing
Highlights of the Plot to Take Down Donald Trump in 2016. On Wednesday, John Durham
explained the findings of his investigation into the FBI handling of the Russia-Trump hoax to the
House Judiciary Committee. In the opening statement, Rep. Jordan explained what John
Durham found. There was no predicate for the Beria-style probe. There was not one
single substantive allegation in the dossier, but it was used just the same to enable spying on
innocent Americans. Durham also found that the FBI failed in its mission to follow the rule
of law. [Tweet with video clip] After 40 years in the FBI, John Durham and
his fellow investigators called the findings sobering. Sobering is very
euphemistic. [Tweet with video clip] He answered questions on a purported plan by
one of Mrs. Clinton's foreign policy advisors to create a scandal tying Donald Trump to the
Russians. This plan was shared with then-CIA director Brennan, then-President Barack Obama,
and his Vice President Joe Biden, and James Comey of the FBI, and the DNI on August 3, 2016.
No one stopped it. In fact, they went along as if it were legitimate. Why does Hillary
and her advisor skate? [Tweet with video clip]
The
DOJ treats Donald Trump one way, Hillary and Biden another. The Espionage Act of 1917
has never been used against a former president, vice president, or even a cabinet secretary —
until last week. According to Mark Levin, the 106-year-old law was never intended to be used the
way it suddenly has been: to criminalize document cases. "Whether the documents are classified
or not, it doesn't matter who created them. They're in the possession of the White House, the
president, his staff," Levin says. "The Presidential Records Acts, which was passed in 1978 and
instituted effectively in 1981," Levin continues, "has no criminal penalty. So, you can't start
with a Presidential Records Act and all of a sudden say, 'Okay, let's move to the Espionage Act.'"
Levin notes that the Espionage Act wasn't even used against Lyndon B. Johnson, who had directed his
staff to remove top secret information involving the Vietnam War and illegally tapped Nixon's phone.
"Nobody even thought about charging anybody with the Espionage Act," he says.
This
kind of lawfare is evil. In today's United States, a lawyer can become a celebrity
for representing O.J. Simpson, but if you represent a former President of the United States be
prepared to be attacked by your fellow lawyers and be driven out of the profession. That is
the mission of The 65 Project, which is managed by former Perkins Coie attorney Michael
Teter. Perkins Coie is the Democrat Mega law firm that represents everybody who is anybody in
Democrat politics: the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Leadership Council, the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Other
political clients include most Democratic members of the United States Congress. It has also
represented several presidential campaigns, including those of John Kerry, Barack Obama, and
Hillary Clinton. The group's political law practice was founded by Robert Bauer who recruited
Marc Elias and made him chair of the group in 2009. Basically, Perkins Coie IS the legal arm of
the Democrat Party. This basically implies that for all intents and purposes, so is the 65 Project.
Were
They Spying on Trump All Along? Secrets are only for the bureaucrats to leak as they
please with no consequences, like the Flynn/Kislyak phone call, or to simply ignore when it
involves their friends, such as Hillary's email scandal. Neither James Comey nor the guy,
John Huber, finally appointed by Jeff Sessions to look into the Hillary emails, even bothered to
convene a grand jury. The whole fake Huber investigation is particularly galling.
After Trump demanded action for years, all his DoJ did was appoint a guy who stayed in Utah and
reviewed a few files. But Donald Trump, no secrets for him. As soon as he left office,
Joe Biden cancelled the usual classified briefings all former Presidents get. Then the hunt
was on to nail him for having classified/declassified documents; something all former Presidents
routinely possess. Biden's DoJ had no trouble getting a grand jury for Trump, barely a year
after he left office, and it was in the wrong venue, risking a dismissal of the whole case right away.
Washington
Post helps those who are intimidating lawyers into not working for Trump. The right
to counsel for defendants is sacred to our democratic republic. Preventing defendants from
obtaining counsel clearly adds to the darkness that the Washington Post endlessly tells us is fatal
to democracy. A highly organized group of people is attempting to deny Donald Trump the right
to legal counsel of his choosing by organizing a campaign of intimidation of lawyers who might be
asked to serve his defense in the criminal matter he now faces.
Our
Broken System Needs Disruption, And Trump Is The Disruptor. Andrew Jackson was an
irascible war hero known for his blunt manner, explosive temper, and inclined to physical
violence. He was elected President in 1828, his second attempt, as a reformer who promised to
clean out the "deep state" corruption of his day. By that time, our country's founders had
passed on, and power had been inherited by a motley group of inheritors and cronies (Hunter?
Is that you?) who established a cozy kleptocracy to ensure their continued access to the public
trough. Unsurprisingly, ordinary citizens were very unhappy to the point where southern
states, led by Sen. John Calhoun (S.C.), Jackson's future vice president, threatened to secede
via federal "nullification," while northeastern elites, represented by Daniel Webster, worked
assiduously to enhance federal control over the United States and its riff-raff citizenry.
Despite much howling, unceasing personal attacks, and violent opposition from the deep state of his
time, Andrew Jackson persevered, fixed it... and was re-elected in 1832. Andrew Jackson, in
other words, was a disruptor.
Beyond
a Banana Republic. As radio personality Jesse Kelly remarks on Twitter, there are two
ways to view what is happening with Donald Trump right now: ["]Either you see what's
happening to Trump as being about Trump or you see it being about a weaponized government planning
to make any opposition a crime. Only one of those views is correct. You don't have to
be a Trump fan to see it's the latter.["] For most Americans who've paid the slightest
bit of attention these past years, that's an obvious statement. But as George Orwell said of
his own time, we've "sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of
intelligent men." That particular phrase derives from a 1939 review of the book Power: A
Social Analysis (1938), by Bertrand Russell. What makes his observations interesting, and
why it serves as another example of Orwell's prescience, is how precisely his commentary reflects
what we are witnessing at this moment.
Trump
Lawyers Targeted by Dark Money Group. mong the unusual features of last week's
arraignment of former President Trump in Miami involved the difficulty he had finding a qualified
attorney to represent him in the classified documents case brought by Special Counsel Jack
Smith. The corporate media inevitably made much of this issue. The Washington
Post, for example, quoted various anonymous sources who claimed that Trump's reputation as a
"challenging client" caused several prominent lawyers to turn him down. In reality, the
problem resulted from an intimidation campaign by a radical pressure group called the 65 Project,
whose explicit mission is to ruin any lawyer willing to represent Trump.
There
Is No 'Moving On' From Corruption. A common sentiment expressed by some voters on
social media these days is the need to "move on." This viewpoint seems to be particularly popular
with those deeply desirous of a Republican candidate for president of the United States who is not
Donald Trump. They readily admit that Trump's policies were far better for the economy and
view Biden's administration as disastrous. Some even acknowledge that social media censorship
and changes to election procedures — many unlawful — cost Trump the 2020
presidential election. Even so, they say, "It's time to move on.["] It's easy to chalk
this up to "Trump fatigue" — weariness of Trump's ego and combative personality.
But an argument can also be made that this is the latest example of the public's reluctance to
confront corruption and the erosion of standards in American governance. What we're watching
transpire in U.S. politics right now should be galvanizing the country. But it doesn't seem
to be, and we need to ask ourselves why.
Carpetbagger! Dem
in Congress said the quiet part out loud on MSNBC, that Trump 'needs to be shot'.
Call it a "Freudian slip," where a person accidentally says what she really is thinking.
Stacey Plaskett is a nonvoting member of Congress, a delegate representing the US Virgin Islands
in the House of Representatives. She was born and grew up in New York City, and graduated
from the elite and expensive Choate Rosemary Hall prep school in Connecticut before going on the
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown and law school at American University. She says that
she and her family frequently visited St. Croix, where her parents are from, in her
childhood, and that apparently was good enough for the voters to choose her to represent them in
Congress. She's no loudmouth dummy, and instantaneously recognized what she said and corrected
herself to say "stopped" in place of "shot," but that bell can't be unrung. The word was there
in her mind and slipped out before her superego could intervene and stop it, to use Freudian terminology.
Trump
Indictment Timeline Reeks Of Deep State Information Operation. Former President
Donald Trump was indicted on the same day FBI Director Christopher Wray caved to House Republicans
and allowed members of the Oversight Committee to view an agency document demanded by the GOP.
The document, an unclassified FD-1023 form, is said to implicate President Joe Biden in a criminal
bribery scheme from his time as vice president. According to Republican lawmakers who viewed
the document in a secure room on Capitol Hill, the document from a credible confidential informant
contains evidence President Biden took a $5 million-dollar bribe from a "foreign national."
That foreign national, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley says, is an executive at Burisma, the
Ukrainian energy company that showered Hunter Biden on the board in excess compensation.
"According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses 15 audio recordings of phone calls between
him and Hunter Biden," Grassley said on the Senate floor Monday, with 17 recordings in "total."
Grassley's bombshell floor speech brought the Biden bribery scandal back into the news cycle
after FBI officials sought to suppress coverage of the scheme with Trump's second indictment.
6
Reasons DOJ's 'Get Trump' Documents Case Is Seriously Flawed. [#5] Why are they
bringing this case now? They know Trump is the leading candidate for president. They
know he is beating Biden in the polls. They must know how bad it looks for a sitting
president's DOJ to indict that president's primary political opponent. DOJ has long had
policies in place to prevent new indictments from being brought, or overt investigative acts being
committed, in the months preceding an election in order to avoid the appearance of political
timing. The same reasoning clearly applies here. The special counsel's team did not
have a statute of limitations issue, they could have easily just announced the facts as they saw
them after the search warrant was executed and all the documents were recovered, and then held off
on further investigative acts and the indictment until after November 2024. The fact that they
did not follow that course is strong evidence to me that a big part of this is the burning desire
among many on the left to "get Trump." They don't care about the law. They don't care about
the facts. They don't care about norms or propriety or anything else. They just want
Trump in cuffs.
The
Trump Indictment: Irresponsibility Squared. [Scroll down] That said, the
indictment charges Trump with multiple counts of what is essentially the same offense. This
aids headline writers who want to write that the former president, who turned 77 on Wednesday,
faces hundreds of years (310, to be exact) of imprisonment, but is at odds with Justice Department
guidelines. [Jack] Smith seems to be needlessly piling on here. And do indictments
usually include photographs of evidence, like the widely circulated view of the boxes in a
Mar-a-Lago bathroom? In addition, the indictment includes multiple quotations of Trump's
assertions that classified material should remain secret. Perhaps their inclusion can be
justified as showing intent — that Trump knew that what he was doing was wrong.
But intent is not required by the Espionage Act, and the material recited looks like the sort of
thing you see in negative political ads.
Trump
Indictment a Violation of Federal Law. The Presidential Records Act, the big red elephant
in the room ignored by [Jack] Smith, at 44 USC § 2205 (3), gives a former president
unrestrained access to the presidential records which he declares to be his and gives his designated
agents also access to such records. Yes, the National Archives can take control of those records,
after consultation with the former President, and any disagreement on the designation of a record is to
be resolved by a United States District Court in a civil proceeding, not a criminal prosecution.
But the Presidential Records Act simply does not create an exception prohibiting the former President's
access to records marked as secret, classified, or confidential. Under the Presidential Records
Act, Trump, even as a former president, has all the access he wants to all his presidential records,
even those which may have been classified, and may give such access to his designated agents.
End of story.
Trump
is Charged Under a Law Meant to Suppress Political Opposition. A year after the start
of WWI, President Woodrow Wilson addressed his message to Congress and warned that the "gravest
threats against our national peace and safety" did not come from "other governments", but from
"within our own borders". "Citizens of the United States," Wilson continued, "born under
other flags but welcomed under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity
of America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life."
Wilson, a notorious racist and a supporter of the KKK who had contempt for a wide variety of other
peoples, likely had German immigrants, but not just them, in mind when he called for what would become
the Espionage Act so that "we may be purged of their corrupt distempers." "I need not suggest the
terms in which they may be dealt with," Wilson concluded. While there were indeed pro-German
terrorist conspiracies in those days, including the Black Tom bombing which damaged the Statue of
Liberty and a plot to infect the country's horses, the Espionage Act of 1917 went far beyond prosecuting
criminal activities. Wilson had sought, but not received, the power to censor the press, he did get
the power to censor the mail.
Former
Asst. US Attorney Takes Apart Trump Case and Raises Some Important Questions.
[Will] Scharf is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who worked on two Supreme Court confirmations and
clerked for two federal appellate judges. He's also running for Missouri Attorney
General. Like many, he thinks the prosecution against the former president is "outrageous."
[...] Scharf notes that Article 3 Project's Mike Davis and Judicial Watch's Michael Bekesha's
argument: ["] ...distills down to the idea that the President's authority to retain
Personal Records, as well as his rights to access his Presidential Records, make it impossible to
prosecute him under the Espionage Act section at issue here, § 793(e), because the government
cannot prove 'unauthorized possession,' as required under the statute.["]
When
are enough Americans going to realize our government is a criminal enterprise? How
corrupt is our Department of Justice? In order to take Trump off the board, they have
indicted President Trump on a long list of made-up, fabricated crimes regarding the documents
confiscated in that misguided, illegitimate raid on Mar-A-Lago. These charges are ludicrous,
and a decent judge would and may well toss them. The thoroughly corrupt Jack Smith has chosen
to ignore all the precedents that should apply. Tapes stored in Clinton's sock drawer?
Legal. Sandy Berger stole docs from the National Archives? Slap on the wrist.
Biden's many hundreds of documents and Pence's possession of "classified" docs? Ignored by
the DOJ. Comey's disingenuous decision to give Hillary a pass for her oh-so-many and far more
serious crimes got a pass. So terrified of the most pro-America president since Reagan, the
left has gone to extreme and illegal lengths to destroy the best President since Reagan.
Biden's two years in office have brought the US to the brink of an abyss. This indictment of
Trump only proves the unfairness of our two-tiered system of justice.
The
Lilliputians are All in Conspiracy Against Trump. The framing of Donald Trump
continues. Fear and loathing are motivators, but, most importantly, the hope is to lash Trump
to the ground so that he can't rise to the presidency in 2024. Multiple indictments are the
ropes. Convicting Trump would be icing on the cake, but keeping him sidelined is
critical. Trump has now run afoul of the Espionage Act, say federal persecutors. It
might as well be the Escargot Act. Does it matter, finally? As establishment mouthpiece
Rachel Maddow suggests, federal charges can disappear if Trump scrams from the presidential
contest. Fat chance, knowing Trump. [...] Grasps the establishment: A Trump presidency would
be all-out war on their power and prerogatives, a war they worry they'd lose. More and more
Americans are against them. That's where the fear and loathing of Trump comes in because they
know that Trump 47 has every incentive to carry the fight to them.
Donald
Trump's Arraignment. First, the politics. The early indications are that
predictions that Trump supporters would rally around him in the event of an indictment appear to be
true. A poll by CBS News and YouGov found that 76% of likely Republican primary voters said
that the indictment was politically motivated. When asked if the indictment would change
their view of Trump, 61% said it would not change their view at all, while 14% said it would change
their view of Trump for the better. Just seven percent said it would change their view of
Trump for the worse, and 18% said it depends, meaning they weren't really sure. In a
Reuters-Ipsos poll, 81% of Republicans said "politics was driving the case." "The indictment did
not appear to dent Trump's standing in the Republican nominating contest for the 2024 presidential
election," Reuters reported. So the answer, at least for now, to the question of whether the
indictment would hurt Trump among Republicans is no.
Biden's Banana
Republic. It was amazing to see Attorney General Merrick Garland's appointed special
counsel, Jack Smith, step in front of the cameras and say of the indictment of former President
Donald Trump: "No one is above the law." Which is to say, Jack Smith looked the American
people in the eye and straight up lied. It was the stuff of a banana republic. Fact?
Joe Biden, who did the same thing with classified documents as Donald Trump — and four times
over — is not being indicted. He is above the law. Fact? As Rep. James
Comer's House Oversight Committee is revealing, Joe Biden now stands accused of routinely accepting bribes
from China to enrich his family. No indictment forthcoming. Because Joe Biden is above the law.
Ill-advised
indictments weaponize federal government against Trump. The indictment of former
President Donald Trump amid allegation of "mishandling national secrets" is the natural next phase
of the left-wing establishment's arrogance and corruption. The left has been desperately
trying to stop Mr. Trump since he announced his candidacy in 2015. (Recall the made-up Trump
Tower-Moscow scandal, the phony Russia-Trump collusion scandal, the made-for-TV impeachment effort,
etc.) The constant attacks have eroded Americans' trust in government institutions, a far
bigger problem than the left's hatred of Mr. Trump. There are several other indictments
that should have been announced to reestablish the rule of law.
Flashback:
Biden Promised to Use His Power to Prevent Trump From Returning to White House. As
Donald Trump faces charges from the Biden administration over his possession of classified
documents, many of his supporters and advocates have pointed out how the administration's actions
parallel corruption long associated with third-world dictatorships. And yet, during a press
conference last November, Joe Biden actually promised he would do exactly that when asked about
Trump's possible return to the White House. "So the entire genesis of that G7 conversation was
tied to your predecessor, who is about to launch another campaign. So how do you reassure
them, if that is the reason for their questioning, that the former president will not return or
that his political movement, which is still very strong, will not... once again take power in the
United States?" a reporter asked Biden. "Well, we just have to demonstrate that he will not
take power by — if we — if he does run," Biden said. "I'm making sure he,
under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next president again."
[Tweet with video clip]
The
National Security "Nuclear" Documents Outlined by Jack Smith Are Pure Lawfare Manipulation.
Devin Nunes was previously the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. In that very
specific role, Nunes was a member of the Gang of Eight who are briefed on all intelligence issues
at the same level as the President, the chief executive. The House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence Chairman, is the #2 ranking intelligence oversight member within the national
security oversight apparatus, exceeded in rank amid the Gang of Eight group only by the House
Speaker. As the HPSCI chairman, Nunes has a very granular understanding of intelligence
language and the way the intelligence apparatus uses words within national security documents.
When Nunes talks about national security documents, he is a subject matter expert on the
administration side of the process. Why is that important right now? Because Nunes
knows how to contrast the wording in the Jack Smith indictment against wording used to describe
national security documents. [Video clip]
Is
the Trump Indictment Part of Biden's 2024 Strategy? Any discussion of Joe Biden's
2024 election strategy would be incomplete without examining the context of Biden's threat to stop
Donald Trump from "taking power" after the 2024 election. Just what did he mean by that?
Recall that on November 9, 2022, shortly after the Democrats' surprising showing in the midterm
elections, Biden was speaking at a press conference in the state dining room at the White
House. There he made the infamous pledge to stop Trump in response to a sympathetic
journalist asking about the concerns of foreign leaders over a second Trump term.
Our
justice system is being weaponized to prevent Trump from becoming president again. In
case you didn't see it over the weekend, a Wall Street Journal editorial makes the point that the
long and complicated indictment of former President Trump never once mentioned the Presidential
Records Act that allows a president access to documents, both classified and unclassified, once he
leaves the office. And everybody should read that editorial. The Journal goes on to say
the indictment assumes Trump had no right to take any classified documents. This assumption
is completely false. The whole point of this discussion, going all the way back to the insane
invasion of Mar-a-Lago last summer, was about discussions and disagreements between Mr. Trump
on the one hand and the National Archives on the other.
Tulsi
Gabbard: Trump Indictment May Be 'Final Nail' in U.S. Democracy's 'Coffin'. Former
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard slammed the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump, claiming
the move is "not something that should happen" in the U.S., while warning it may be the "final nail
in the coffin of our democracy." Speaking this weekend at the 14th annual Western
Conservative Summit in Denver, Colorado — one of the largest annual gatherings of
conservatives outside Washington, DC — former congresswoman and presidential candidate
Tulsi Gabbard began by noting her love for the United States, her military service, and her later
role in congress.
Three
ways the indictment of Donald Trump hurts America. Former President Donald Trump has
been indicted for illegally storing and hiding classified documents. As conservative radio
host Steve Gruber describes it, the "bananafication" of our republic continues apace. There
are three reasons every American — even those of us not supporting Trump's 2024
campaign — should find this further assault on the former president repugnant.
First, it reinforces the view, shared by many conservatives, that our government delivers a
two-tiered system of justice — one for people on the right and another for those on the
left. Donald Trump, after all, is not the only public official found to have mishandled
secret documents. Special Counsel Jack Smith claimed, as he brought the indictment: "We have
one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone." History suggests otherwise.
Republicans
react to Trump indictment; suggest it is an attempt to 'preemptively steal the 2024 election'.
Former President Donald Trump revealed Thursday he had been indicted on seven counts in connection
with his handling of allegedly classified documents. Trump's attorney, Jim Trusty, called the
charges — which reportedly include false statements, conspiracy to obstruct and a charge
under the Espionage Act — "ludicrous." Trusty confirmed to CNN that the Department
of Justice sent a summons letter to the Republican presidential candidate's legal team via email
listing the counts and scheduling a Miami federal court appearance for Tuesday afternoon.
Former
DNI John Ratcliffe Accuses Special Counsel Team of Improper Actions in Effort to Get
Trump. Former DNI John Ratcliffe appeared with Fox Business's Maria Bartiromo on
"Sunday Morning Futures," and he ripped into the indictment of former President Donald Trump,
calling it a "travesty." Ratcliffe reminded everyone of the past abuses that have gone on in
the effort to get Trump and have been detailed in things like the Inspectors General reports and
the Durham report. He noted how the FBI lawyer made a false claim to the FISA court to get a
warrant to surveil a Trump team member. Ratcliffe said the same kind of thing was happening
in this indictment. He highlighted something that many reports are missing — that
they were allegedly "committing crimes to prosecute crimes." Ratcliffe alleged that a member of
Jack Smith's special counsel team had threatened "a lawyer representing President Trump's personal
valet," Walt Nauta, and that the lawyer had to "flip" Nauta. Otherwise, the lawyer might not
get the position as a judge he was aiming for.
How
the Left Learned to Love the Espionage Act. For a century after the Espionage Act was
passed by Congress and signed into law by Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, our friends on the
left have consistently denounced it as antithetical to democracy. They objected when it was
used to jail socialist Eugene Debs in 1918 and continued to condemn the statute 55 years later when
the Nixon administration deployed it against Daniel Ellsberg pursuant to the Pentagon
Papers. As recently as 2013, the Guardian accused the Obama administration of
McCarthyism for using this law to "persecute" whistleblower Edward Snowden. Yet, now that
Special Counsel Jack Smith has included 31 violations of the Espionage Act in his indictment of
former President Trump, the left has had a "road to Damascus" experience concerning the
once-reviled statute.
Can
Trump Clean The Augean Stables on the Potomac? I ask again, what was Trump's
crime? I think it was a dual manifestation of one crime. His original sin, his
unforgivable or eternal sin, was being elected president in 2016. The regime endeavored to expiate
that sin by hampering Trump, then by impeaching him. But here he is, persisting in his folly,
seeking to commit the same tort again. Conclusion: he must be destroyed. Hence the
treason trial masquerading as a legitimate judicial proceeding. Reflecting on the latest
chapter in the tale we might call "The Persecution of Donald Trump," the Wall Street Journal
noted that this is "a fraught moment for American democracy. For the first time in U.S.
history, the prosecutorial power of the federal government has been used against a former President
who is also running against the sitting President." Donald Trump is currently, and by a large
margin, the front runner of the opposition party in the 2024 presidential campaign. The party
in power is attempting to silence him, to take him out of the running, by mobilizing the police
power of the state against him. This is the sort of thing one expects from banana-republic
regimes in Africa and Central America.
Former Federal
Prosecutors Identify Several Flaws In Trump DOJ Indictment. A pair of former federal
prosecutors have identified a number of flaws in the 49-page indictment against former President
Donald Trump they suggest will work in his favor if the case goes to trial. Former DOJ Deputy
Assistant Attorney General Victoria Toensing and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
Joe diGenova noted that all the allegations are problematic for Trump if they are true, but that
doesn't mean the case is rock-solid. As reported by Newsmax, "Trump on Thursday was indicted,
accused, among other things, of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate. The
prosecution marks the first time in U.S. history that a former president faces criminal charges by
the federal government he once oversaw. He faces the possibility of prison if convicted."
Mark
Levin Reacts to Trump Indictment — Frivolous Documents Charges. I am deep
in the weeds and assembling notes for outlines to be delivered in the next several articles.
However, that said, perhaps the only time Mark Levin's shouting was tolerable was last night as he
responded to the indictment of President Trump. [Video clip]
Marjorie
Taylor Greene Outlines the FBI Document She Reviewed Highlighting Bribes to Joe Biden and
Family — Video and Transcript. Amid all the furor of the corrupt and
political indictment against President Trump, Congress was permitted to read the witness statement
from a Confidential Human Source who outlined allegations of bribery in testimony to FBI
agents. The FD-1023 report was written by FBI investigators in July of 2020. It became an
issue after the FBI seemingly took no action, and then recently claimed to be "investigating" the
claims of the "highly credible" FBI source. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) reviewed the report
and then gave her impression to the media. [Video clip]
Trump
Is Charged But Nobody Has Time To Investigate The Possibility That We Have A Spy In The White
House. Donald Trump is apparently being charged with seven counts of mishandling
classified documents. All of this is related, it appears, to boxes of documents allegedly
found in the former President's home in Florida after he left office. [...] I will note for the record
that the widely quoted claim that "nuclear launch codes" were amongst these documents is obviously
false. Outside of Hollywood's imagination, those codes don't exist in the way the public has
been told they do. The broader issue here is this. How is it that DOJ and the FBI have
found time to run this "crime" to the ground but apparently have dedicated no resources of any kind
to pursuing the massive trove of evidence suggesting strongly that Joe Biden is fully compromised
by the Communist Chinese and has taken literally tens of millions of dollars from individuals
directly connected to Chinese intelligence? If Trump was sloppy with classified
documents — a claim as yet unproven — we can probably agree that is less than
ideal. If the guy sitting in the Oval Office is in the pay of our number one foreign enemy
that seems like it would be a much bigger deal.
Jeff
Clark Gives Solid Take on DOJ Trump Indictment Scheme. First, it is important to
always remember why this indictment is taking place. The DOJ, specifically Lisa Monaco, are
continuing the offensive against Trump in large part to cover for the actions of the Obama
administration in the originating targeting of their political opposition. Originating
Spygate operations ('15-'16), Russiagate ('16-'17), Mueller ('17-'19), Impeachment #1 ('19-'20),
Durham ('19-'23) and Jack Smith '22-present, are all part of one long continuum of weaponized DOJ
and FBI operations. The entirety of the effort is to protect the actions taken by the Obama
administration. In this interview Jeff Clark gives his opinion of the statutory weaknesses
that exist in the case as outlined in the indictment. The first two defense approaches will
likely be: (1) the Presidential Records Act supersedes the issues of document holding as
noted in the use of the Espionage Act. (2) However, if the Espionage Act [Statute 793(e)] has
to be defended, the originating issue of "unauthorized possession" will be the second approach
heading to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. [Video clip]
Latest
Trump Indictment Proves Deep State Is Trying To Rig Yet Another Election. The same
institutions that tormented former President Donald Trump for years with false accusations of
collusion with Russia are making yet another brazen attempt to rig the next presidential election
against the wishes of the American people. Democrats and their cronies in the Department of
Justice and the FBI have a history of election meddling to achieve their political goals. The
raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and subsequent persecution of the former president by Special
Counsel Jack Smith, sanctioned by the same corrupt players who have targeted Americans for
wrongthink for years now, prove to be no exception. There's nothing the deep state isn't
willing to try to do to keep their biggest threat — Trump and his voters —
from regaining power. Democrats and corporate media are so committed to this goal that they
didn't even try to keep their desire to change election outcomes a secret.
Legal
Opinions On Trump Indictment Incoming. CTH has been hammering away on the Espionage
Act angle — 793(e). And with good reason. Obviously CTH is getting some good
legal advice. Here CTH highlights a common misunderstanding. Violations of the
Espionage Act need not involve "classified" documents. In fact, the entire classification
system is a post WW2 innovation: [...] CTH is absolutely correct that the Trump situation is NOT
what the Espionage Act purports to be about. The use of the Espionage Act has regularly been
prone to abuse, and it has always had its critics because of the very broad and vague language,
such as "relating to". Hopefully Trump's lawyers will attack from this angle in pre-trial motions.
The
Trump Indictment Is Much More Than An Interesting Coincidence. The very day that the
Oversight Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives canceled a Contempt of Congress vote
against FBI Director Christopher Wray after the latter agreed to turn over a witness file
containing bribery allegations against President Joe Biden stemming back to his days as vice
president of the United States, Donald Trump — former president and current poll leader
among prospective 2024 GOP presidential candidates — informed the public that he has
been indicted for mishandling presidential documents. This extraordinary coincidence
illustrates an important, baneful trend in American life: the use of criminal prosecutions and
civil lawsuits as a political weapon. With a gross profusion of federal, state, and local
laws in place, many of them hundreds of pages in length and larded with ambiguities and internal
and external contradictions, it is easy to find some legal breach with which to charge someone whose
policies you oppose or whom you simply dislike. This costs your enemy time, effort, and money.
How
to commit the perfect coup against a president and his supporters. Everything from
here on out is a theory, but it's a theory based upon readily available facts. If you look at
them in a particular way, those readily available facts show a sustained pattern of subverting the
will of the people to obtain total political power, something that culminated in the recently
announced indictment against Donald Trump. If I were trying to overthrow a duly elected
president, I'd start by saying he conspired with a foreign power to cheat in the election. [...]
When it became apparent that the president was hugely effective at governing on those things that
matter to ordinary people, such as the economy, national security, immigration, energy policy,
etc., and that the false charges of treason and cheating weren't sticking, I'd look ahead to
throwing the next election. What I would need is a way to prevent the president from
campaigning and a way to institutionalize election fraud. Thankfully, I would have gamed out
long before the election what a government can do if faced with a pandemic infection. COVID's
appearance was providential.
The Editor says...
Covid was, in my opinion, intentionally released as a biological weapon. Its appearance was not providential,
except in the sense of being fortuitously well-timed. Disease is not a gift from God.
Biden's
DOJ Tried to Bribe Attorney for Trump's Valet in Exchange for Testimony Against Trump.
On Thursday The Guardian reported that Joe Biden's DOJ attempted to bribe the attorney for Trump valet
driver in exchange for testimony against Donald Trump. Clearly, this is an illegal act and it
should threaten the case against President Trump. The only criminal act in this entire case is
the actions by the Biden DOJ!
Biden's
DOJ attempts to take out the GOP frontrunner. The inevitability has finally been
realized (if reports are true): Donald Trump has been indicted by the Biden DOJ. [...] After years
and years of prosecutorial and investigative abuses and crimes, the Department of Justice has
finally indicted Trump. In doing so, the DOJ has inserted itself into the 2024 presidential
election, again disenfranchising millions of voters. It's a sad day for the country and a
sobering day for those who wish for the equal administration of justice. This story is still
developing. The New York Times states there are seven counts; we expect these to concern
various provisions of the Espionage Act (18 USC 793), such as the dissemination of national
security information and the unauthorized retention of national security documents. We
understand that the indictment has been filed in the Federal District Court in Miami. Quick
analysis: this is a comparatively good venue for Trump, given the support he has in Florida and in
the Miami community. It is much better than DC, where Trump would face unfavorable judges and
a Democrat jury pool.
Who
is Really Conducting the Jack Smith Prosecution of Trump? On June 2nd former Mueller
special counsel and impeachment operative, Andrew Weissmann and Norm Eisen respectively, published
their current Trump prosecution memo using a novel and arcane interpretation of US Code 793.
Four days later media began reporting from leaks within the Jack Smith special counsel of the main
legal approach they were going to use against President Trump. What approach is Jack Smith
taking, US Code 793! This is not coincidental.
7
reasons to be highly skeptical of the legitimacy of the indictments of Trump.
[#3] As Julie Kelly put it, "The indictment represents the first time in U.S. history a former president will face criminal charges."
[#4] The indictments are the product of an unprecedented raid on the residence of a president, at Mar-a-Lago
[#5] The seizure that resulted from the raid was overly broad, otherwise known as a fishing expedition: [...]
[#6] The media circus was immediate and intense, part of the joint effort of the deep state. The legacy
media, and the Democrats to weaken President Trump's candidacy in the general election, while solidifying his
support among Republicans, so as to nominate a weaker (in the eyes of his opponents) candidate.
Report:
Trump's Legal Team Informed He Is a 'Target' of Classified Documents Probe. Federal
prosecutors have told the legal team for former President Donald Trump that he is a "target of
their investigation" into his handling of classified documents after leaving office, according to a
report. The New York Times reported Wednesday [6/8/2023] that the notification from
Special Counsel Jack Smith was the "clearest signal yet that the former president is likely to face
charges in the investigation."
Feds
inform Trump he is target likely to be indicted as DOJ rebuffs prosecutorial misconduct
claim. Federal prosecutors have notified Donald Trump that he is a criminal target
and likely to be indicted imminently in a probe into alleged classified documents — even
as the Justice Department declined to delay charges to give time to investigate allegations of
witness tampering submitted by the former president's legal team, according to multiple people on
Wednesday familiar with the case. The sources directly familiar with the case told Just the
News that DOJ declined to delay the planned indictment of Trump to investigate allegations that a
senior prosecutor working on the case tried to influence a key witness by discussing a federal
judgeship with the witness' lawyer. That allegation is still pending in a secret case before
Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, the jurist who oversees the federal court in
Washington, D.C., and the grand juries that convene in that courthouse, the sources said.
Indicting
a Former President over Nonsense Is Playing with Fire. Reports are circulating that
federal prosecutors are about to ask a grand jury to indict former President Donald Trump over his
handling of classified documents after leaving office. If those reports are true, and
prosecutors do move against Trump, it would be the first time in American history that the
government had prosecuted the leading opposition candidate. It would also destroy public
faith in the rule of law and voters' trust in democracy. The documents charges are incredibly
weak, from what has been reported publicly thus far. The president has full declassification
authority, and there is no formal procedure for declassifying documents. Breathless claims of
"national security" secrets, even nuclear codes, being brought to Trump's estate at Mar-a-Lago
turned out to be fantasies. Prosecutors may fall back on charges of obstruction of justice,
which seem to be just as speculative.
Leading
GOP Election Officials: Feds' 'Treasonous' Interference Is A 'Direct Attack' On U.S.
Elections. Several leading Republican election officials are sounding the alarm about
the federal government's persistent interference in U.S. elections. Jay Ashcroft and Mac
Warner, the secretaries of state of Missouri and West Virginia, respectively, recently told The
Federalist they are increasingly worried about the mounting evidence documenting federal agencies'
interference in prior elections to the benefit of the Democrat Party. Ashcroft pointed to the
long-awaited report from U.S. Attorney John Durham that confirmed what The Federalist has been
reporting for years: The FBI possessed no real evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump colluded
with Russian government officials when it launched its investigation into the Trump campaign
leading up to the 2016 election. The political investigation — which was "based on
raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence" — would continue throughout the 2016
election and well into Trump's presidency.
Durham
reports shows Biden and Obama knew truth of Trump collusion hoax but kept silent. A
silence kept in order to hide the truth is a lie. By that maxim, there are plenty of liars
among prominent Democrats who knew that the damning Trump-Russia collusion narrative was all a
hoax. But they chose to remain mum, preferring instead to watch contentedly as an American
president was vilified nonstop by a media-driven orgy of lies. It consumed the nation for
years and inflicted untold harm. None of them had the decency to volunteer the truth.
This is one of the key findings in the 306-page Durham report that the special counsel filled to
the brim with documented acts of deviousness, dishonesty and malice by high officials in government
whom we are supposed to trust but should not.
After
Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World. [Scroll down] Americans
had become vaguely aware of this thing called the deep state before the pandemic response but the
experience itself proved it. Democracy did not exist. We were at the mercy of
bureaucrats and their decisions. Courts did not step up. When they finally did, the
bureaucrats pushed back and said that no one has the right to control them. There are
hundreds of agencies and millions of deep-state employees who are accountable to no one and yet
exercise massive power over our lives. There is nothing about these institutions in the
Constitution. The bureaucratic state is a fourth branch of government when there are supposed
to be only three. The tentacles from Washington extend not only to every state and city but
all over the world.
Durham
reports shows Biden and Obama knew truth of Trump collusion hoax but kept silent. A
silence kept in order to hide the truth is a lie. By that maxim, there are plenty of liars
among prominent Democrats who knew that the damning Trump-Russia collusion narrative was all a
hoax. But they chose to remain mum, preferring instead to watch contentedly as an American
president was vilified nonstop by a media-driven orgy of lies. It consumed the nation for
years and inflicted untold harm. None of them had the decency to volunteer the truth.
This is one of the key findings in the 306-page Durham report that the special counsel filled to
the brim with documented acts of deviousness, dishonesty and malice by high officials in government
whom we are supposed to trust but should not.
[The]
Deep State [is] Quietly Starting to Fear the Worst: The Return of the Trump Wrecking Ball.
Worried about too much systemic rigging and fraud for a Republican ever to win office again? Good
news! The riggers themselves are quietly starting to worry it may happen. Politico ran a
story on Friday, and I must say, the title quickened my pulse. Tellingly titled, "Hurricane Trump
Is Coming — And Washington Hasn't Bothered to Prepare," the story ran with the subhead,
"After 2020, reformers vowed to erect guardrails against a rogue chief executive. They ran into
a wall of complacency, partisanship and distraction." As if Leftists would have done a single
thing to curtail executive overreach while they held office. Puh-lease. The article
fretted that the complacent deep state has done nothing to rein in a president who is on the wrong team.
51
People Who Should Never Have Clearances Again. The 51 Intelligence Community
professionals who signed a letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop showed "signs of Russian
disinformation" should have their clearances immediately revoked and their access to classified
information severed and never again restored. Their blatant disregard for the proper process
through which an intelligence investigation is conducted, as well as for national security matters
in general, is ground to terminate their clearances immediately.
The
Trump-Russia Collusion Conspiracy Was a Coup D'état. The bottom line is that
everything the Obama justice department, IC and FBI did, to include support from Republicans in
congress during the 2016 election and aftermath, was a coup d'état against U.S. President
Donald Trump and his administration. This is the truth of the thing. The U.S. media
participation and subsequent denial of their culpability looks increasingly pathetic in the
aftermath of the report outlined by Special Counsel John Durham. However, it doesn't take a
media admission of the coup effort for the demonstrable actions and evidence of the coup to be
factual. Read the report, all the evidence is there. The truth stands alone, regardless
of the discomfort it creates.
[During
the 2020 election, the] CIA had 'no evidence' Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, says top
intel officer. A former top intelligence officer with oversight of threats ahead of
the 2020 election said the Central Intelligence Agency had "no evidence" at the time that Hunter
Biden's laptop had anything to do with a Russian disinformation campaign, despite claims from
then-candidate Joe Biden's allies. Just before the election, 51 former national security
officials wrote a public letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a
Russian information operation." It was signed by former President Obama CIA Director John Brennan,
former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA director and Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta, among others. However, in an interview with Fox News Digital, former
National Intelligence Officer for Cyber Chris Porter said that claims from Biden's supporters "did
not reflect" the actual intelligence.
Pomerantz
Pleads Fifth in Deposition, Claims GOP's Trump Indictment Probe Is 'Political Theater'.
Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, refused to
answer any questions relevant to former President Donald Trump's indictment during much of a deposition
before Congress on Friday. Pomerantz warned in an opening statement he would do as much, according
to a copy of the opening statement leaked to CNN and other legacy media outlets. "It gives me
no joy to invoke my legal rights, but I am glad that the law allows me not to cooperate with this
performance of political theater," Pomerantz said, per his statement. The deposition ran for
roughly five hours. A source with direct knowledge of the matter told Breitbart News that
Pomerantz had invoked the Fifth Amendment for "most of his deposition."
John
Brennan's closed-door hearing 'confirmed' Hunter laptop letter was 'all political': Jim
Jordan. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News the
testimony his panel heard in private from Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan "confirmed" the
letter signed by 51 current and former intel officials was not on-the-level. "[Brennan] sat
for a four-hour interview and he further confirmed that this thing was all political," Jordan said
on "Jesse Watters Primetime." Jordan recounted his allegation that then-Biden campaign
adviser Antony Blinken was the "impetus" behind the letter, which he said was organized in-part by
former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, who testified before the Judiciary Committee earlier in May.
The
Staggering Flaws of the Biden Family. Good government should be non-partisan,
competent, and trustworthy. (It hasn't been for a long time.) Democrat partisans overwhelmingly
populate the vast majority of government departments, and no Republican administration has been
able to put a dent in that political slant. Constant leaks have become the story instead of
relaying the accomplishments of Republican presidents. Democrats don't have to use overt bias
to enforce a progressive liberal bureaucracy to do their bidding; instead, they step aside and
watch a parade of bias and salacious leaks flow endlessly to a media too willing to use unnamed
sources. President Trump faced an average of two leaks a day in his first 100 days, and to
this day, virtually no one was punished in any government agency, including agency heads, for any
leaks to reporters.
CIA
Solicited Signatures For Hunter Biden Laptop Letter, Congressional Testimony Shows.
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) both solicited signatures for and eventually approved
the infamous 2020 letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story was a Russian disinformation
plot, recent congressional testimony suggests. According to a report to be released Wednesday
by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, multiple former U.S.
intelligence officials testified under oath about the CIA's involvement in the distribution of the
letter, which was eventually signed by more than 50 former senior U.S. intelligence officials.
"One signer of the statement, former CIA analyst David Cariens, disclosed to the Committees that a
CIA employee affiliated with the agency's Prepublication Classification Review Board ('PCRB')
informed him of the existence of the statement and asked if he would sign it," the House investigative
report notes. "The Committees have requested additional material from the CIA, which has
ignored the request to date."
The
next step in the plan to remove Trump. Just last week the Proud Boys trial around the
events of January 6, 2021 concluded. Four leaders of the Proud Boys were convicted of
"seditious conspiracy" in a heavily biased DC court for their activities related to the mostly
peaceful demonstrations of that date. [...] To my mind, there are some dangerous precedents that
have been set for subsequent attacks on Donald Trump and on the GOP presidential campaign.
The first of these is having a court identify the J6 events as "sedition", meaning an attempt to
overthrow the legitimate government. Prior to this time, despite the J6 committee attempts to
label the events as insurrection, there has been no successful effort to classify them as more than
a riot. Being able to apply a label of "sedition" is a huge legal step, bringing into play
the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that prohibits anyone guilty of insurrection from holding
the office of President.
Is
Trump's Campaign and Reelection a Fool's Errand? [Scroll down] Can he even
win the nomination? Expect an endless stream of lawsuits and indictments tying up Trump in
depositions and a barrage of negative press from Big Tech and the corporate media. Expect far
left judges to rule that Trump is ineligible to appear on the ballot, with Soros-funded state
secretaries of state eager to keep his name off their state ballots. These trials will all be
timed to begin next year when primary season heats up. How can Trump run a campaign and hold
rallies when he is tied up in depositions and court? There will be Fulton County, Alvin
Bragg, and Special Counsel Jack Smith all planning their big trials for campaign season next
year. Expect scores of women to accuse Trump of rape, even if they have no recollection of
when or where it happened. Trials will be held in Trump-hating NYC or other deep blue
jurisdictions before leftist judges that will ensure that the trial is stacked against Trump.
That will be enough for lawfare to ensnarl Trump as the Lilliputians tied down Gulliver.
Expect the weaponized judicial and intelligence agencies to manufacture scandals against Trump, as
they did with "Russian collusion" and hide or ignore scandals of his opponents, as with Hunter Biden's
laptop. If Trump somehow prevails and wins the nomination, his troubles are far from over.
Savor
Trump's Electoral Landslide — Until the Phantoms Vote. RINOs, psyops,
controlled opposition like Breitbart and Fox and the grifter consultant class are selling the
narrative that Trump wins the nomination bigly — then takes the Electoral College.
Joe Biden is on wobbly knees, at the edge of the actuarial life chart, leaving America with the
most ridiculous replacement president. His own party doesn't want him to run — but
the party owners are stuck with him. That too favors Trump. Blissfully count the new
Senate majority, the expanding House majority, and the keys to a White House that will finally
drain the swamp. Then, have a coffee, sit down and remember 2022. That felt great
too — until the day after the election. To become president, Trump must win a
bunch of swing states. To win each state he needs more ballots in his pile than the other
guy. It's baked into the data — which we look at every day — that Trump
is not going to win those swing states. None of them. It's not his fault. He will
probably get more votes, just not more ballots.
Judge
in Trump's 'hush money' trial engages in blatant dissimulation. My assessment of the
probability of Donald Trump receiving a fair trial on the highly questionable charges (falsifying
business records) brought against him by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg just plummeted to subterranean
levels. The judge in the case [...] issued a gag order and specified that he was not issuing
a gag order and violated Trump's First Amendment rights while claiming he didn't violate his First
Amendment rights. The technical name [...] is dissimulation. [...] I don't pretend to be an
expert on the law, but Justice Merchan has destroyed my confidence in his ability to conduct a fair trial.
Uncovered
Recruitment Email Confirms Infamous 'Intel Letter' Was Meant to Interfere in the 2020 Election.
Former Obama-era CIA Director Mike Morell and current Secretary of State Antony Blinken were recently
exposed as being behind the infamous "intel letter" that sought to dismiss Hunter Biden's laptop as
Russian disinformation. Now, a new report is providing unassailable evidence of exactly what
the motive behind the gambit was. According to The Washington Examiner, Morell sent a recruitment
email to gather signatories for the letter. Notably, in the email, he admitted that the entire
purpose was to give Joe Biden a rebuttal to Donald Trump's attacks during the presidential debates. [...]
Morell sent the email with an admission that the entire purpose was to provide a "talking point" for
Biden to use. Sure enough, that's exactly how it played out. Trump brought up Hunter Biden's
laptop at the debate in question, and Biden responded by claiming it was Russian disinformation, a claim
that was bolstered by the supposed authority of all the intelligence officials who signed the letter.
"A
full-blown Color Revolution-style attack on the US Supreme Court as an institution is now in its
early stages". "Color Revolution" is a term that has been around for a while and
doesn't have a single clear definition. But the term most famously was used as to the
"Orange" Ukraine 2004 civil unrest that allegedly was manipulated by western intelligence agencies
to topple a pro-Russia regime. A color revolution then, is a form of manipulated mass civil
disobedience meant to accomplish regime change. We saw it used
against Trump after the 2016 election, where manipulated and hysterical claims of Russia collusion
were used to attempt to paralyze the Trump administration under the umbrella of "The Resistance" —
and it worked well in stymying many of Trump's planned initiatives. It all was highly organized
and manipulated.
The
Russia Hoax Orbiting Hunter Biden's Laptop Is So Much Bigger Than Blinken. Antony
Blinken represents neither the beginning nor the end of the info ops run to convince voters the
Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. Revisiting the contemporaneous coverage of
the laptop story in light of last week's revelations about Blinken reveals the scandal extends far
beyond the Biden campaign and involves government agents. Last week, news broke that a former
top CIA official, Michael Morell, testified as part of a House Judiciary Committee investigation
that Blinken, now-secretary of state and then-Biden campaign senior adviser, had contacted Morell
to discuss the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story. Blinken and Morell reportedly
"discussed possible Russian involvement in the spreading of information related to Hunter Biden."
According to Morell, Blinken's outreach "set in motion" what led to the public statement signed
by 51 former intelligence agents that falsely framed the laptop as Russian disinformation.
This revelation is huge — but it's only a start to understanding the scope of the plot to
interfere in the 2020 election by framing the laptop exposing Biden family corruption as foreign disinformation.
Dominion
vs. 'Russian Collusion' and 'Disinformation'. Compare Dominion's writ with the twin
"Russian collusion" and "Russian disinformation" hoaxes. Lots of journalists and guests on
network news, cable, public broadcasting, and internet news sites ran daily with the utter lie that
the concocted Christopher Steele dossier was accurate. Four years later, they were still
claiming that Donald Trump had won the 2016 election only by enlisting the aid of the
Russians — as an "asset" and puppet of Vladimir Putin. All that was demonstrably
untrue. No one on these news shows ever produced any information validating the dossier,
much less offered apologies to those whose lives they ruined, as in the case of Lt. General
Michael Flynn and Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page. The steady two-year drumbeat of media
and DNC-fabricated untruths neutered the first two years of the Trump Administration. Robert
Mueller's $40 million, 22-month special counsel "investigation" leaked wild and lurid rumors of
Trump indictments to come, and yet ultimately found no proof of collusion. No matter.
The agendas of the Democratic Party's collaboration with the media were fulfilled. The Trump
Administration was wounded, forced on defense to reply to countless new fabrications, and smeared
to the point of caricature.
Former
Clinton Labor Secretary Says States 'Must Refuse To Place' Trump's Name On 2024 Ballot. Former
Labor Secretary for Bill Clinton Robert Reich said states should refuse to place Trump's name on the 2024
presidential ballot due to his alleged "treason." Reich made the comments in an op-ed published Monday
[4/24/2023] in The Guardian. Reich argues that Trump is guilty of treason under the 14th amendment
because of his claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. The 14th amendment
prohibits anyone guilty of insurrection against the United States from serving in public office.
To put it another way... Bill
Clinton's Commie Secretary of Labor Says Trump Must Be Barred From Running Again.
Robert B. Reich was Bill Clinton's labor secretary; since then he has been keeping busy teaching at
Berkeley and gracing us all with his punditry on Twitter, where he has a million and a half
followers. Reich has become notorious for his unhinged far-Left rants; on Monday, he showed
yet again why he has gained a reputation as an upscale Keith Olbermann. In the UK's
neo-Stalinist Guardian, Reich called for Donald Trump to be barred from running for
president again — to preserve what Leftists love to call "our democracy," by which they
mean their hegemony.
Bragg
Drops Case Against Jordan, Allowing House GOP to Depose Ex-Manhattan Prosecutor.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has dropped his effort to quash a congressional subpoena to
a former prosecutor who worked in his office, a congressional aide told The Epoch Times in a
statement on Friday. "This evening, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office withdrew its
appeal in Bragg v. Jordan. Mr. Pomerantz's deposition will go forward on May 12,
and we look forward to his appearance," Russel Dye, spokesperson for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio),
chair of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote to The Epoch Times in a statement. "Bragg
caved. Jim Jordan won," the House Judiciary Committee wrote in a statement on Twitter
Friday. The development wrapped up a legal clash between Bragg and House Judiciary
Republicans, whereby Bragg had attempted to stop the lawmakers from requesting testimony from Mark
Pomerantz, a former prosecutor who investigated former President Donald Trump's finances.
Pomerantz left Bragg's office in February 2022 in protest of Bragg's initial unwillingness to bring
an indictment against Trump.
Ex-acting
CIA director reveals he had 50 spies sign a letter saying Hunter Biden laptop scandal was Russian
disinformation. A retired CIA leader coordinated a letter from former intelligence
chiefs claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation because he wanted to help Joe
Biden's presidential campaign. Mike Morell told the House Judiciary Committee that he was
asked by Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State — who at the time was a senior member of the Biden
campaign — to help discredit the laptop reporting. Morell was a former acting CIA director,
serving for two months in 2011 and four months from 2012 to 2013. He retired from the CIA in
September 2013.
Testimony
Reveals Blinken — As Adviser to Biden Campaign — Spurred Letter from 51 Intel
Officials Discrediting Hunter Laptop Story. An author of the now-debunked public
statement from 51 intelligence officials casting doubt on the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story
revealed this month to Congress that Antony Blinken, then a senior adviser to the Biden campaign,
was the impetus for the statement. Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell testified to the
House Judiciary Committee on April 4 that now-Secretary of State Blinken called him about the
laptop story just days after the New York Post published it and that the call "triggered"
Morell to draft the statement.
Ex-top
spy admits Hunter Biden laptop letter designed to influence 2020 election, Blinken involved.
A former acting CIA director has admitted to Congress that he organized the letter that falsely portrayed
Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation in an effort to influence the 2020 election in favor of
Joe Biden and that he did so at the direction of current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to
a letter released Thursday by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan. The extraordinary
admission by career intelligence officer Michael J. Morell provides stunning evidence that the
now-infamous letter from 51 security officials in October 2020 was not an organic intelligence community
initiative but rather a political dirty trick originating with Blinken and the Biden campaign.
Jordan sent a letter demanding Blinken answer a series of questions about Morell's stunning testimony,
as lawmakers weighed the enormity of America's top diplomat being willing to accuse a nuclear-armed
superpower of interfering in the 2020 election without evidence. That letter included major
snippets of Morell's testimony.
Donald
Trump's NYC case may be headed in only one direction, former prosecutors reveal.
Donald Trump was indicted recently on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records —
but New York City prosecutor Alvin Bragg's case against the former president faces significant
legal hurdles, experts told Fox News Digital. The 2024 Republican presidential candidate
pleaded not guilty to the raft of accusations against him and has characterized the legal offensive
as a politically motivated witch hunt. "If it wasn't Donald Trump, no prosecutor in the world
would have touched this," said former assistant district attorney Daniel Bibb, who spent more than
two decades trying murder cases in Manhattan. "If you and I did what Trump did, we never
would have been charged." Trump is the first former or current U.S. president to be indicted
for a crime, but the case is more half-court heave than slam dunk, experts say.
Trump
at the Gates. Perhaps brilliant Democrat strategists pulled the strings of the clearly
vacuous Manhattan DA, but to what avail? Bragg is merely the latest to advance a "Get Trump"
ploy. Democrats have tried to waylay Trump since he announced for the presidency in the
autumn of 2015. Anyone with eyes can see that there was no overarching strategy other than
nailing the Donald in the moment. The Mueller special counsel investigation ate clock
and spent $32 million of taxpayer money, only to report that no there was there. Two
goofy Pelosi-driven impeachments made impeachment a toothless, highly politicized gesture.
The January 6 "insurrection" is, with every new revelation, being laid bare as a political hit
job by Democrats and by two Republicans pawns, venal and dumb Liz
Cheney and equally spiteful and idiotic Adam Kinzinger. The Democrats' machinations were
piecemeal. Everyone of their nefarious gambits were thwarted by a wily street fighter, Trump himself.
Mike
Davis, Jim Jordan Slam Alvin Bragg's Lawsuit Against Jordan. "Bragg is now trying to
cover up his brazen violations of civil rights and his obvious election interference, through
today's frivolous lawsuit to obstruct a congressional investigation." Mike Davis, the founder and
president of the Article III Project (A3P) and an advocate for a constitutionalist judiciary,
ripped apart the lawsuit from Soros-tied Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg against
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Bragg last week revealed a legally laughable 34-count
indictment of Donald Trump. Bragg charged Trump based on Trump's supposed hush money payments
to porn star Stormy Daniels through lawyer Michael Cohen. Cohen's lawyer previously said Cohen
privately paid Daniels without a refund from Trump, but Bragg won't let up. Now, ultimately
in pursuit of Trump, Bragg is also taking aim at House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.
The
world's newest dictatorship. The United States can now join the ignoble list of
authoritarian regimes where the party in power is the government, and they decide who can oppose
them. In the U.S., become a threat to the ruling party or get too popular and you'll be
arrested and thrown in jail. You disagree? What do you call having President Trump
arrested for a non-crime? The NYC DA who arrested Trump didn't even bother to state a crime
that Trump committed. Oh, he listed 34 counts but no crime. Even anti-Trump Politico
questioned the legal basis for charging him. Trump's crime is he opposes the Dems and Biden's
authoritarian regime. Hey, Alvin Bragg, 75% of rural Georgia opposes Biden and his regime,
you gonna arrest us all?
Is
2024 Only A Mirage? [T]he elitists know that the indictment of President Trump last
week not only motivated him to want to hold them accountable for the witch hunts they have plagued
him with over the last six years, but has also opened for him the precedent he needed to be able to
indict them for their crimes. Moreover, all of President Trump's persecutors no doubt have a
very real fear of being held accountable should he regain power because they know in their hearts
such retribution is something they would do if they were him. Thus, whether or not President
Trump would actually follow through with such a purge of these corrupt elitist criminals does not
matter. What does matter today is that they think he would, and they will therefore do
anything they can between now and the next election to stop him.
Alvin
Bragg's Insane Clown Circus Adds a Kangaroo to the Court. We've been using the term
"banana republic" to describe what has been going on, and it's been fitting. At this rate,
however, the United States may find itself getting sued by other banana republics for being an
embarrassment to the team. If you've been reading various assessments of the 34 charges, you
know that even the left media is having difficulty finding a legal expert who will say that any of
it is legally sound. Someone just coming out of a coma and attempting to get up to speed on
this story might wonder if Alvin Bragg ever really went to law school.
Alvin
Bragg Might Be in Serious Trouble Following Trump Indictment. Alvin Bragg might fancy
himself a hero of the radical left for indicting Trump, but his desperate efforts, which included
charging Trump 34 times for the same alleged crime, may have serious consequences for him. A
source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital that the House Judiciary Committee is
contemplating summoning Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and two prosecutors who quit his
team last year to testify before Congress. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan
(R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) have been pressuring Manhattan
District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his office for answers since last week, just days before the
extraordinary indictment and arrest of a former U.S. President. Jordan and Comer have
requested that Bragg testify before Congress.
Jail
Him, Or They Lose. They've tried literally everything short of ordering a hit on him,
and he still stands. They have exhausted every avenue, option, and possibility, and they are
left with a bag of nothing. They tried a fake dossier, a made-up narrative that the media put
on repeat. They accused him of a high crime for a transcript of a phone call. They
accused him of advocating violence when his words said precisely the opposite. Now they are
trying to say he obstructed justice when he, in fact, followed the request of the FBI to the
letter. Now they are trying to say that another phone call is evidence of a felony when
again, his exact words prove otherwise. Now they have indicted him for something that if a
crime is even evident (and clearly it is not), the statute of limitations ran out years ago.
They tried to argue he avoided paying taxes, only for the record to show he followed the tax code
with precision. They want to argue now that he intends to defraud the government of what he
owes in taxes, even though during his four years in public office, he refused his $400k salary and
returned it in full to the government coffers. No elected leader has been more maligned, lied
about, and attempted to be neutralized as they have with former President Trump.
If
The Left Can Come After The President Of The United States, No One Is Safe. "In
reality, they're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in their way." Who can
forget that meme President Trump posted to Twitter after his first impeachment? In any event,
it stands as a reminder of just how hostile the left is to the American people in its desperate
attempt to maintain political rule. Now, as President Donald Trump has been arrested and
arraigned in New York City, we must consider the implications of his indictment, and what it means
for the United States and the 2024 presidential election. For all the criticisms of Donald
Trump and his defects, one thing is certain: liberals fear him. No other man has posed such a
threat to America's ruling liberal ideology. Whether it was calling to impose tariffs,
rebuild American manufacturing and industry, or reclaim any semblance of American political rights,
Trump upset challenged Washington's bipartisan orthodoxy. As for the indictment, there is no
case against the former president.
Trump is
not being treated normally and never has been. Earlier this week, former President
Donald Trump surrendered to the New York City courts to face an indictment on 34 felony
charges. The case arose from his accounting records of payments to a former paramour, Stormy
Daniels. The indictment itself is garbage, the product of an extremely ideological
prosecutor. Elevating these charges to a felony required that the bookkeeping errors
furthered some other crime, but the indictment does not even identify the other crime.
Indictments are usually bare bones, but the New York rule requires that an indictment "asserts
facts supporting every element of the offense charged ... with sufficient precision to clearly
apprise the defendant or defendants of the conduct which is the subject of the accusation."
Why did Trump surrender at all?
Bragg
violated Trump's 6th Amendment rights in refusing to disclose underlying crime: legal
expert. Former President Donald Trump's Sixth Amendment rights may have been violated
when New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg refused to disclose the underlying crime the
defendant intended to conceal through his alleged falsification of business records, legal experts
opined Wednesday. The Sixth Amendment provides in part for the right of a criminal defendant
to "be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses
against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor..." When
questioned by a reporter as to what the underlying crime the indictment fails to name is, Bragg
replied in New York State, he does not have to.
Fresh
proof Bragg's Trump case is a reach, and nakedly political. The numbers don't lie:
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's case against Trump is a massive outlier, not the "bread and butter" move
the crime-lover claimed it was. Turns out, his office almost never prosecutes cases on
charges like the ones he's mounted against the ex-prez — i.e., first-degree falsifying
business records with the "intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission
thereof." State crime data crunched by the Times-Union show that Bragg's office has gone after
people for this as a top charge only eight times in the past few years. Statewide, there have
been fewer than 300 such cases since 2019. This alone debunks Bragg's claim that the Trump
case represents just another day in the office.
America
Needs a New Normal. Casting aside the "norms" that the Left loudly pined for just a
few short years ago, far-Left Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg compelled the former president to appear in
a Manhattan court to enter a plea in response to an indictment containing 34 counts of "falsifying
business records," which is normally a minor misdemeanor charge. The facts surrounding the
case haven't changed in the years since multiple agencies of the federal government evaluated the
merits and declined to take legal action against Donald Trump. The allegations surrounding
payments made to sad little cuck Michael Cohen, supposedly to reimburse him for paying an adult
film star to keep quiet about her past alleged dalliances with Trump, aren't new and nothing in the
indictment indicates there is any new evidence. From all the legal analyses I've read about it,
the case is pretty weak, especially the justification for trumping the charges up to felonies.
FEC
Already Investigated Trump-Stormy Payoff and Concluded No Crime Took Place. The case
against Donald Trump brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is melting faster than the
Wicked Witch of the West. The DA is keeping everyone in the dark about exactly what
individual crime Bragg will try Trump on. This is sort of important because, without a
predicate crime, there's nothing to convict Trump of doing anything illegal. Bragg has taken
that crime and sliced it into 34 parts — a prosecutorial trick designed to make sure
the jury convicts Trump of something — anything — to justify charging a former
president with felonies. And if Bragg wants to try Trump for violating federal campaign
finance laws by trying to cover up the payment to Stormy Daniels, there's only one itsy-bitsy
problem with that. The Federal Election Commission already investigated the hush money
payment and found nothing illegal about it.
Trump
Pushes Legal Envelope Post-Indictment. Trump is now the first former president in
history to face criminal charges. According to the charging documents read in court earlier
that day and released by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, he had "repeatedly and
fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging
information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election."
The Editor says...
The news media, with the exception of the New York Post, covered up the story of Hunter Biden's
abandoned laptop, and the dirt it held, so one could rightly say that the news media also "hid damaging
information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election." Hiding damaging information
is nothing new.
Jim
Jordan Subpoenas Manhattan Prosecutor Who Resigned over Suspended Trump Probe. House
Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) escalated Republicans' investigation into
the Manhattan district attorney's indictment of former President Donald Trump by subpoenaing a
prosecutor on Thursday who resigned from the office last year over the district attorney's initial
reluctance to pursue Trump's case. Jordan's subpoena, reviewed by Breitbart News, directs
Mark Pomerantz, who resigned from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office in February 2022,
to appear before the committee for a deposition on April 20. In a cover letter accompanying
the subpoena, Jordan said his committee had legislative reasons to demand Pomerantz's testimony.
12
Anti-Trump Pundits And Lawmakers Who Think Bragg's Case Is Terrible. For weeks now,
former President Donald Trump and legal experts on the right predicted that the prosecution
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought against Trump was pathetic and partisan. Not
long after Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records during his
arraignment on Tuesday, some of his most outspoken political enemies also began casting doubt on
Bragg's attempts to send the former president to jail. Here are the notorious anti-Trumpers
who willingly admitted that Bragg's case against the leader of the Republican Party is a weak
attempt to keep him from winning the White House in 2024. [...]
Why
All The Other 'Get Trump' Cases Are Just As Weak As The Manhattan DA's. The grand
jury indictment against former president and 2024 contender Donald Trump hasn't even been unsealed
yet. But the corporate press has already moved on, redirecting the public's focus to the
other pending investigations — a subtle acknowledgment that the forthcoming charges by
the Manhattan district attorney will be both weak and properly perceived as political
persecution. But the Fulton County, Georgia investigation and Special Counsel Jack Smith's
probes of Trump are equally weak. Later today [4/4/2023], Manhattan District Attorney Alvin
Bragg will unseal the indictment returned last week by a grand jury against Trump. Selective
leaks suggest the former president will be charged with more than 30 criminal counts of business
fraud related to hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels.
Report:
Alvin Bragg Wants Trump Trial in January 2024, During Republican Primary. Manhattan
District Attorney Alvin Bragg reportedly asked Judge Juan Marchan to hold the trial of former
President Donald Trump in January 2024, which happens to be the middle of the presidential primary
season. Fox News reporter Jake Gibson, who was in the courtroom, said that prosecutors had
asked for the January 2024 trial date. The Iowa caucuses — the first contest in
the Republican primary — will be on February 5, 2024. That means prosecutors want
a trial that would undoubtedly affect the race for the Republican nomination, both by distracting the
current frontrunner, and by tarnishing him relative to other candidates in the race.
The
Judge Overseeing Trump's Case Might Have a Major Conflict of Interest. Meet the judge
presiding over President Donald Trump's criminal case: Acting New York County Supreme Court Justice
Juan Manuel Merchan, an apparent 2020 Biden donor whose daughter once worked for Vice President
Kamala Harris's presidential campaign. According to Federal Election Commission (FEC)
filings, Merchan donated three times to ActBlue in the summer of 2020, once on July 26, 2020, when
the judge's donation was — according to the FEC — earmarked for President Joe
Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. The other two of Merchan's contributions were pledged to
the Progressive Turnout Project (PTP), a left-wing PAC that rallies voter turnout for Democrat
candidates, and Stop Republicans, a PTP sub-project that's dedicated to "resisting" Trump and the
Republican Party. [Tweet]
Is
that really all there is to the Trump indictment? How pathetic. Is that all
there is? Yes, that's all there is. The charges against Donald Trump are almost exactly
as predicted. They are weak and, most important, political. As such, they are
shockingly blatant punishment for Trump daring to become president. In this sordid case, the
letters DA stand for Democrat Attorney. The charges are the crime. Shame on Bragg for
abusing his authority and turning his office into a partisan outpost. The prosecutor who
thinks most violent criminals are simply misunderstood youths just made history on a legal move
that is breathtakingly flimsy.
Legal
Experts Across the Political Spectrum Are Laughing at Alvin Bragg's Indictment of Donald
Trump. RedState's Nick Arama has had Alvin Bragg's number for quite some time,
predicting that the 34-count indictment would amount to charge stacking and that there could be
nothing a serious lawyer would put their name to in it. I wrote earlier that once we saw the
indictment we knew why Alvin Bragg wanted it to be sealed as long as possible, and that according
to one reporter who was in the courtroom Trump's attorneys laughed when they read it. Trump's
attorney Joseph Tacopino seemed to confirm this with an answer during a press conference after the
indictment: [Tweet]
Trump
Indictment: As Bad As We Thought. You can read Alvin Bragg's indictment of Donald
Trump and a supporting statement of facts [elsew]here. The indictment is what we
expected. It all has to do with paying $130,000 to Stormy Daniels for a non-disclosure
agreement, which was legal. The payment was made by "Lawyer A," Michael Cohen. Trump
reimbursed Cohen using Trump's own money, which was legal. The "34 counts" arise out of the
fact that by agreement, Cohen got reimbursed by sending monthly invoices to Trump or his revocable
trust. So for each monthly bill from Cohen, we get three counts of falsifying documents: one
for the invoice, one for the ledger entry, and one for the check stub. Pathetic. [...]
Bragg's statement of facts includes a long narrative about the National Enquirer and a woman other
than Ms. Daniels ("Woman No. 1"), but that appears to be solely for lurid context, as no
count of the indictment relates to that alleged woman.
Manhattan
DA Bragg Reveals the 'Crime' Trump Tried to Cover-Up — And It's an Absolute Farce.
Donald Trump's arraignment in a Manhattan court on Tuesday was carried out with the minimum amount of
fanfare — considering that this was a historic first grand jury indictment of a former
president. However, the court proceedings in the wake of ostensible felony leaks to the press
about the sealed indictment did produce a curiosity: How was radical activist Manhattan District
Attorney Alvin Bragg able to elevate charges that are misdemeanors past the statute of limitations and
stack them into 34 felony charges, when the facts of the case did not show there was a cover up a
more serious crime? As the eagle-eyed legal commentator Techno Fog noted, there was a critical
thing that the Trump indictment and statement of facts omitted. [Tweet]
Trump's
Indictment Is a Blunder of Historic Proportions. There is little doubt that news of
former President Donald Trump's indictment and pending arraignment will be met with jubilation on
the Left. The reality, however, is that the Left and the Right — the United States
as a whole — will suffer the consequences of this blunder of historic proportions.
New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg's decision to bring charges will be a moment that
historians, and society more broadly, will look back upon as a societal turning point. The
immediate reaction to the first criminal indictment of a former U.S. president has largely focused
on the legalities, with charges related to the hush money allegedly paid to former porn star Stormy
Daniels. If this is true — and with the indictment still under seal, we don't yet
know — it makes the situation worse not merely for Alvin Bragg, but for the entire country.
Daughter
of Judge Overseeing Trump's Case Worked For 'Kamala Harris Campaign'. The Gateway
Pundit previously reported New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is presiding over President
Trump's Stormy Daniels 'hush payment' case. Judge Merchan previously oversaw the tax fraud
cases of the Trump's Org and the Trump Org's former CFO Allen Weisselberg. Trump is not a fan
of Merchan and took to Truth Social last week and wrote "Juan Manuel Merchan, was hand picked by
Bragg & the Prosecutors, & is the same person who "railroaded" my 75 year old former CFO, Allen
Weisselberg." Merchan has been described as a life long Democrat and a bombshell discovery of
his daughter's LinkedIn account reveals his daughter is not just a Democrat but a Democrat who
previously worked on Kamala Harris' Presidential campaign.
Destroying
the Rule of Law. I could not care less if Donald Trump gave "hush" money to a porn
star back in 2016. What concerns me is why a misdemeanor is being upgraded to a felony offense
by a New York City District Attorney. The same DA who downgraded felony offenses to
misdemeanors and released violent criminals back onto the streets to continue assaulting innocent
citizens. Why does this same DA prosecute something that has gone past the statute of
limitations? Something his predecessor refused to pursue, along with the Federal Election
Commission and the Department of Justice. [...] We have entered a new era in America. The
progressive socialist left has no regard for the rule of law. They only care about the right
to rule. The Constitution does not bindthem, they only adhere to Saul Alinsky's "Rules for
Radicals." They do not want unity, they demand abject conformity, subjugation, and
subservience. Leftists do not want political opposition, they want no obstacles to their
rule, and those ends justify their means.
Proof
of Political Persecution Emerges, DA Bragg's Chief of Staff Wanted Trump Banned From
Office. Jordan Stockdale, the Chief of Staff for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin
Bragg, has been caught endorsing tweets calling for the impeachment, removal from office, and
future prevention of Trump from holding public office again. As Chief of Staff for Bragg,
Stockdale's obvious bias against former President Trump should raise questions about both his and
Bragg's ability to perform their duties impartially. Many Republicans have voiced their
concern about the partisanship and lack of objectivity from the Left during Trump's witch hunt
indictment. Screenshots revealed that Stockdale was liking comments from Bernie Sanders,
Hilary Clinton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and many other left-winged members that were bashing Trump
on Twitter. Stockdale has since deleted his Twitter account.
Donald
Trump: Civil Rights Hero. The persecution of Donald Trump continues. It seems
no accident that within the same twenty-four-hour window, anti-American prosecutors both confirmed
their intent to lock up a president for exposing the Deep State's vise-grip over government power
and celebrated the conviction of an American meme-maker who had used his First Amendment rights to
mock Hillary Clinton's voters before the 2016 election. Highlighting both events as further
proof of the country's two-tiered application of "justice," Tucker Carlson correctly noted that the
in-your-face double-standard is precisely the point: leftist authoritarians want Americans to fear
their power and meekly submit or respond unwisely and be crushed. Just as with the
government's outrageous persecution of J6 political prisoners for exercising inviolable freedoms
once constitutionally secured by the Bill of Rights, perverting the criminal justice system into
nothing more than an illegitimate vehicle for stomping on both Trump and his supporters is now official
government policy. As Carlson soberly concluded, "there is no coming back" from this moment.
Even
If You Hate Trump, You Should Be Standing With Him Now. Now that Donald Trump has
been indicted, everyone who loves America as a free society, no matter where you may be on the
political spectrum, should be standing with him. There are many reasons why this simple fact
has been obscured today, not least of them being Donald Trump himself. [...] Now that he has been
indicted, however, all those considerations must take a back seat to the fact that Donald Trump is
the man whom the authoritarian Left hates and fears more than anyone else, and is determined to
destroy. The Leftist establishment is so avid to destroy Trump that it has not hesitated to
take the wrecking ball to Americans' trust in our most respected institutions.
The
Final Fight Begins Now. The truly unprecedented indictment, and now possible arrest,
of a popular former president — not to mention current presidential candidate and
possible future president — goes far beyond any semblance of traditional party
politics. Other past presidents who had their own shares of legal troubles, from Andrew
Johnson and Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton, never faced nearly as much scrutiny, vitriol, and
endless resistance as President Donald J. Trump. The implications for this uniquely
horrifying development are not limited to the upcoming 2024 presidential election, although that is
certainly at the top of mind for many in the elite who desperately want to see President Trump shut
out of public office for the rest of his life. As the 45th president himself has said on
several occasions, in perhaps the single most powerful statement of his entire political career:
"They're not after me. They're after you. I'm just in the way."
There's
No Coming Back From This. Corrupt Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has decided to abuse the
nation's justice and legal system to persecute the Democrats' top political opponent. This
corrupt, Soros-backed DA, who was hell-bent on indicting President Trump over some made-up
"charges," used their usual strategy...pick a target, then find a "crime." Is America
officially a banana republic? Americans are seeing the weaponization of the legal system
before their very eyes. This is what happens in third-world countries, not here. The
party in power, for the first time in the nation's history, has indicted a former president of the
opposition party who is actively campaigning to take back the White House. This is
unprecedented and despicable. There's no coming back from this. If the leftist radicals
can come for Donald Trump, they can come for you — and those like us who want to bring
you the truth.
Tacopina:
If Trump Were Not Running for Presidency 'He Would Not Have Been Indicted'. Trump
attorney Joe Tacopina said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that if former President Donald
Trump were not running for 2024, he would not be facing an indictment in Manhattan. Anchor
Dana Bash said, "I'm going to speak to Michael Cohen's attorney next. He says that there is
actual evidence that your client, the former president, participated in falsifying business
records. Have you seen any such evidence?" Tacopina said, "Yeah. I know there's
no such evidence. I mean, look, Michael Cohen's lawyers spitting Michael Cohen's side.
Michael Cohen is a pathological convicted liar."
Trump's
indictment creates a new era for the GOP. Swamp Republicans hardest hit. The
indictment and pending arraignment of Donald Trump signals a new era for the Republican
Party. The move by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, not coincidentally timed to push aside
discussion of documentary proof of bribes funneled by China to Biden family members, has clarified
the nature of the actual political system we live under today. [...] But there is no going back now
to the pre-banana republic days when the norms of American politics made it unthinkable to trump up
highly questionable charges to take the leader of the opposition out of contention in the next
election. [...] Either the GOP contests the rule of Democrats by using all the tools that they use,
or else the GOP loses viability by sticking with the "rule of law" norm that is nothing but an
illusion at this moment.
Republicans
Risk Running Headlong Into The "Rally-Around" Trap. If Donald Trump becomes the
Republican nominee, he has Alvin Bragg to thank for single-handedly making Trump a martyr, causing
a substantial rally-around effect. It's understandable and predictable. We've
rallied-around Trump as a target, as has DeSantis. There is truth to the claim that Trump
serves as a proxy for the way many of us are abused by institutional rot.
Manhattan
DA Alvin Bragg Admits He Used Federal Dollars in Trump Investigation — Who Approved
This? Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg confirmed he used federal funds in his
investigation into Trump's so-called 'hush payment' to porn star Stormy Daniels. House
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House
Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil last week launched an investigation into DA Alvin Bragg,
accusing him of abusing his power. Last Monday the three House GOP lawmakers sent Bragg a
letter demanding testimony and documents related to his investigation into the 'hush payment' after
Trump said his arrest was imminent.
Trump's
Legal Team Makes Major Decision Regarding Indictment. Former President Trump's legal
team makes a significant announcement against Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's "politically motivated"
indictment against him. On Sunday [4/2/2023], Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina expects to make a
motion to dismiss any charges against the former president. "We will take the
indictment. We will dissect it. The team will look at every potential issue that we
will be able to challenge and will challenge. And, of course, I very much anticipate a motion
to dismiss coming because there's no law that fits this," Tacopina said during an interview on
CNN. The Trump lawyer said his team would not do anything at the arraignment because that
would be "showmanship." The indictment of Trump will be sealed until he appears at an
arrangement hearing, which is currently scheduled for Tuesday.
Trump
Spy Chief John Ratcliffe Flips Script, Says Indictment Leak Is A Crime. Leaked
details about Donald Trump's indictment are grounds for criminal charges, a top official from the
former president's administration said on Sunday [4/2/2023]. John Ratcliffe, a former U.S.
congressman and federal prosecutor who served as Trump's final director of national intelligence,
reacted to reports that Trump faces around 30 counts related to business fraud as part of the
investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. "The only felony of which we
can be certain to come out of this Alvin Bragg prosecution in New York is the felony committed
either by DA Bragg himself or someone on the grand jury that he's using for this perversion of our
justice system," Ratcliffe told "Sunday Morning Futures" anchor Maria Bartiromo. "The
accused, Donald Trump, and his lawyers, don't know what's in this sealed indictment. But for
the past, what? Seventy-two hours, the American public has been discussing supposedly 30 or
34 felony counts," he added. "Leaking grand jury information is a felony. And so the
only people capable of that would be Alvin Bragg's team or members of the grand jury itself."
Former
AG Barr slams 'pathetically weak' legal theory behind Trump indictment: 'An abomination'.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr reacted to the indictment of former President Trump over his alleged
2016 hush money scandal on Friday, calling it "an abomination." Trump was indicted by a grand jury
on Thursday. He is the first ex-president in U.S. history to be indicted. Barr appeared on
Fox Business to discuss the indictment with host Larry Kudlow. "Obviously, we don't have the indictment,
so there's a little bit of speculation involved," Barr began. "But based on the news reports, if they're
accurate, this is an abomination."
"First
Year Law Students Could Get This Dismissed" — Alan Dershowitz on Alvin Bragg's
Indictment Against President Trump. Esteemed Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz
joined Steve Bannon on The War Room on Saturday to discuss Alvin Brigg's indictment against
President Trump. The Soros-funded New York City DA announced charges against Trump last week
two days after bank statements were released showing the Biden Crime Family were being paid by
China for selling their influence. [...] Dershowitz is correct. The case should be tossed out
and Alvin Bragg should be disbarred. Americans better wake up to what the Communist-left is
doing to this country.
Yes,
we Have Gone Bananas. New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. has indicted former
President Trump. Arraignment is scheduled on Tuesday. Sometime before then we are
likely to see the charges against him, which reportedly — as is the normal order of weak
cases — run to over 20 counts. Charging so many counts is a prosecutorial trick
based on experience: Some jurors may think the more counts there are the greater the likelihood of
a pony hiding in the manure pile; others may just want to get out of the deliberations and agree to
one or two to get out of there. Almost universal criticism of this move, by even the editors
of the Washington Post, suggests there is ample reason to believe this is a meritless,
politically motivated prosecution. [...] Bragg's office (a New York state operation) received
federal funds to investigate Trump, and if you think Attorney General Merrick Garland was not in
some way involved in this matter, you and I are in disagreement.
Will
You Be Next? It finally happened. On Thursday, Soros-funded Manhattan District
Attorney Alvin Bragg got the indictment that so many on the political left have been pining for
ever since Donald Trump ran for president in 2016. Since then, Trump has had a target on his back,
with unhinged leftists desperately trying to find a crime to pin on him. The best they were
able to get was a misdemeanor campaign finance violation. This indictment is unprecedented in
virtually every way, and should scare you to the core. It is true that just because Trump is
a former president, he is not above the law, but he's not exempt from equal justice under the law
either. But the offense he's been accused of is so minor that it normally merits a
fine — just ask Hillary.
Pelosi's
Tweet Reveals the Real Intentions Behind Trump's Indictment. [Scroll down]
Back to Pelosi's tweet. Pelosi wrote: "No one is above the law, and everyone has the
right to a trial to prove innocence." This is nothing short of a shocking statement, especially
from a lawmaker with many decades of experience. The presumption of innocence is the standard
in any civilized democracy — anyone accused of any crime is considered innocent until
proven guilty. The legal burden of proof lies on the prosecution, which must present compelling
face-based evidence to before a judge or a jury. The prosecution must prove that the accused is
guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If reasonable doubt remains, the accused must be acquitted.
[...] This remains the goal behind the exercise, to make the process the punishment. To drag the
trial along, and to drain all their resources and spirits of the accused. To sully reputations
permanently. To make the accused feel worse than the worst of criminals in the U.S. They
know that these stories spread like wildfire and most people seeking a life of peace for themselves
and their families choose to refrain from challenging the Democrats merely to avoid hardships.
The
Trump indictment shifts American political tectonics. The day before yesterday,
Donald J. Trump was indicted on phony political charges. It may prove to be the day the real
America will be resurrected, for two reasons: One, the Left are petrified of MAGA politics,
politics that loves America as founded, that loves its military as originally constituted before
Woke happened, and whose capitalism is the greatest economic engine on the planet. MAGA is
for patriots and the Left are not patriots; they hate America. The second reason Trump was
indicted is because of the larger Soros & Co. plan to communize America, turn her into an oligarchy
with Soros at the helm, to use "climate change" as the Trojan horse for the terrifying Great Reset,
so Trump cannot stand in the way of that happening. Alvin Bragg and his Soros backers,
including Joe Biden, has just declared open warfare on half the American public. Except now
it's more than half, with this indictment. Americans have always loved an underdog, the
come-from-behind hero who battles evil against all odds and wins. Donald Trump is that hero
now and the Democrats have created him so.
Even
the Washington Post Admits the Case Against Trump Is Probably [Specious]. When you're a
far-leftist district attorney prosecuting the man the left hates the most, and you have lost the
Washington Post, you might want to rethink your position. This is the situation in
which New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg finds himself as he continues functioning as the head
of the progressive spear to be used to kill former President Donald Trump's chances of occupying
the White House once again. The Post's editorial board published an op-ed titled "The
Trump indictment is a poor test case for prosecuting a former president," in which the authors
cast doubt on the chances that Bragg will be able to carry out a successful prosecution of the
former president based on the Stormy Daniels matter.
After
Trump indictment, Manhattan DA accuses House GOP of 'unlawful political interference'.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has fired back at House Republicans who are demanding
documents and testimony about their case against former President Donald Trump, calling the GOP lawmakers'
demands "unlawful political interference" in an ongoing criminal case. In a letter sent Friday to
three top House Republican chairmen, Leslie B. Dubeck, the general counsel for Bragg's office,
slammed their "baseless and inflammatory allegations that our investigation is politically motivated."
Trump is the first American president to be indicted on criminal charges. "The Committees' attempted
interference with an ongoing state criminal investigation — and now prosecution —
is an unprecedented and illegal incursion on New York's sovereign interests," Dubeck wrote.
Trump's
lawyer says was 'initially shocked' by Manhattan indictment but is now feeling 'combative'.
Former President Donald Trump has launched a social media assault on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, the
Democratic prosecutor going after him for alleged fraud, and even took aim at his wife in the most
recent round of complaints since he was indicted last night. Trump, 76, will be arraigned in
Manhattan at 2.15 pm on Tuesday on an array of business fraud charges relating to 2016 hush money
payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. He has denied any personal wrongdoing, and says he is
the victim of a politically-motivated witch hunt led by the famously Democratic Manhattan District
Attorney Alvin Bragg. The charges are not yet known — only once he is formally charged
in person will the indictment become unsealed.
The
martyrdom of Donald J. Trump. Meanwhile, Bragg's office is trying desperately to
stuff this toothpaste back into the tube. The problem is that everybody's watching from front
row seats — while all of these rodents scurry around. And many already know that
there's overwhelming evidence that Trump never even came close to committing a crime. Leaked
information confirms that Trump has been indicted. Apparently, yesterday's earlier
announcement that the Manhattan grand jury was taking a month's hiatus was intended to lull the
Trump camp into complacency. But is Trump really being damaged? Or is this furthering
the compelling drama of his martyrdom? It is fortunate for America's destiny that
Mr. Trump is pretty good at taking a punch. It is problematic, however, as to whether he
may respond with sufficient elegance. But then again, he didn't rise to the top of the food
chain by bungling opportunities.
Justice
Department 'is irritated by Manhattan DA's indictment of Donald Trump. Justice
Department officials are said to be annoyed by the Manhattan District Attorney's decision to indict
Trump, as they believe it is a weak case which could undermine more serious legal probes Trump is
facing. Alvin Bragg's intention to criminally charge the former president for his payment of
hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels was revealed on Thursday, sparking consternation and anger
in Mar-a-Lago, and, according to The New York Times, in Washington DC. The paper reported that
'senior officials' at the Justice Department had concerns about the strength of Bragg's case.
Soros
family helped push Manhattan DA Bragg into power. The Manhattan grand jury indictment
Thursday night of former President Donald Trump is sparking new scrutiny of the George
Soros-supported district attorney who led the investigation into Trump's alleged violations of
state campaign finance laws. The former president is expected to surrender to District
Attorney Alvin Bragg's office early next week, following his indictment stemming from Bragg's
investigation into Trump's alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Fox News Digital previously reported that in May 2021, financier George Soros pushed $1 million
to the Color of Change PAC, which turned around and spent big, backing Bragg's candidacy.
Steve
Scalise: Indictment of Donald Trump 'Clearest Example' of Democrats Weaponizing Government Against
Their Opponents. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said in a statement on
Thursday [3/30/2023] that the indictment of former President Donald Trump was the "clearest
example" of Democrats using the government to target their political opponents. Scalise, the
number two Republican in the House, said in a written statement, "The sham New York indictment of
President Donald Trump is one of the clearest examples of extremist Democrats weaponizing
government to attack their political opponents. Outrageous."
Trump
indicted by N.Y. grand jury, first ex-president charged with crime. A Manhattan grand
jury has voted to indict former president Donald Trump, making him the first person in U.S. history
to serve as commander in chief and then be charged with a crime — and setting the stage
for a 2024 presidential contest unlike any other. The indictment was sealed, which means the
specific charge or charges are not publicly known. But the grand jury had been hearing
evidence about hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during Trump's 2016
presidential campaign, allegedly to keep her from saying she'd had a sexual encounter with Trump
years earlier. It comes after weeks of speculation about whether and when Manhattan District
Attorney Alvin Bragg might take such a step, setting the stage for a courthouse showdown between
one of the most combative politicians in modern American history and local prosecutors who have
pursued him for years.
A
Rubicon Is Crossed. So the Democrats decided to indict Donald Trump after all. (I
assume that Alvin Bragg would not have proceeded without a green light from higher-ups in the
party.) Here, as in so many other areas, we are in uncharted waters. The Democrats have
launched a sort of blitzkrieg against our traditions, our Constitution, our culture (at least, our
culture as it was), and every form of restraint that makes civil society possible. They have
unleashed a wind, and seem serenely confident that they will never face a whirlwind. I don't
know, maybe they are right. I do know that after today, our country will never be the same
again. [...] The Democrats are behaving like a party from a pre-Enlightenment, pre-constitutional
era. Seeing themselves in the driver's seat, they are making a naked grab for totalitarian
power across a broad range of issues and institutions. Indicting a former president on
frivolous grounds is shocking, but it is of a piece with the strategies Democrats are following in
Washington and across the country.
Chuck
Schumer Claims Trump 'is subject to the same laws as every American'. In response to
the Trump indictment, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is saying that Trump is subject to the
same laws as everyone else. This has become a Democrat talking point. How many times
have you heard Democrats say no one is above the law? It's a total lie. If it was true,
Pelosi, Hillary, Biden and countless other Democrats would already be in jail.
Donald
Trump Officially Indicted. In a shocking twist, Donald Trump has been officially
indicted by a Manhattan-based grand jury. In the weeks prior, the situation had appeared to
deteriorate for District Attorney Alvin Bragg. On Wednesday, it was announced that the grand
jury was being sent home for a month. The assumption, a fair one at the time, was that Bragg
needed more time to rescue his case. That was apparently wrong, though, as the grand jury
voted to indict on Thursday [3/30/2023].
A
Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century. For more than half a century,
McCarthyism stood as a defining chapter in the worldview of American liberals: a warning
about the dangerous allure of blacklists, witch hunts, and demagogues. Until 2017, that is,
when another list of alleged Russian agents roiled the American press and political class. A
new outfit called Hamilton 68 claimed to have discovered hundreds of Russian-affiliated
accounts that had infiltrated Twitter to sow chaos and help Donald Trump win the election.
Russia stood accused of hacking social media platforms, the new centers of power, and using them to
covertly direct events inside the United States. None of it was true. After reviewing
Hamilton 68's secret list, Twitter's safety officer, Yoel Roth, privately admitted that his
company was allowing "real people" to be "unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or
recourse." The Hamilton 68 episode played out as a nearly shot-for-shot remake of the
McCarthy affair, with one important difference: McCarthy faced some resistance from leading
journalists as well as from the U.S. intelligence agencies and his fellow members of
Congress. In our time, those same groups lined up to support the new secret lists and attack
anyone who questioned them.
Time
to End the Veil of Secrecy Inside D.C. Kangaroo Court. Judge Beryl Howell [...],
appointed to the D.C. District Court by Barack Obama in 2010 and elevated to the court's highest
post in 2016 — just in time to oversee numerous criminal investigations into Donald
Trump — finished up her seven-year stint as chief judge earlier this month.
Colleagues and staff assembled in her courtroom as the proverbial torch was passed to Judge James
Boasberg, another Obama appointee. But according to Politico, the retirement celebration
turned into a "roast" of sorts as one judge after another chided Howell for her closed-doors
dealings. "Howell seemed to freeze in her seat as the most senior jurist on the court, Judge
Paul Friedman, publicly described her still-secret rulings in grand jury-related matters,"
reporters Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney wrote on March 17. "[Her] fellow judges made
clear they were as tantalized as the rest of the political world by Howell's secret work presiding
over grand juries that could lead to charges against former President Donald Trump."
President
Trump Kicking Off His 2024 Campaign in Waco Sends the Right Message to the Right
People. The Trump 2024 presidential campaign will officially kick off Saturday
afternoon in Waco, Texas. The symbolism of former President Trump, beset by potential
political indictments at the state and federal level, starting his presidential campaign at the
site of the most egregious and unprovoked act of violence perpetrated upon US citizens by the
federal government in the history of the Republic can't go unnoticed by even the dimmest bulbs in
the ranks of NeverTrump.
Why Alvin
Bragg's case against Trump is falling apart. While an indictment was expected this
week, the grand jury looking into former President Donald Trump will go another week amid reports
of opposition in the grand jury over what is viewed as a "weak" case. The problem is that
Bragg has long been searching for a crime in the criminal code to fulfill his pitch during his
campaign that he was the man for voters who wanted to bag Trump. The falsification of
business records in reference to the $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels might have been a
possibility, but it lacked two things. First, it expired as a chargeable misdemeanor after
two years — and that was roughly five years ago. Second, it was a mere misdemeanor
that could be brushed off by Trump even if they succeeded.
New
Evidence Further Devastates Case Against Trump. A letter written by porn star Stormy
Daniels, which was shared by former President Donald Trump on his Truth Social account on Thursday,
has further undermined the case against him by Soros-funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin
Bragg. The letter, dated 2018, refutes any claims of an affair between the two.
Trump
could be in more danger than you think. One of the things I often have to remind
people about, including lawyers who should know better, is that each state has its own unique laws
and procedures. What is no big deal in most places may be a fiasco in another. For
Donald Trump, the upcoming New York "falsifying business records" charge he may be facing would be
laughed out of court almost everywhere, as no money was stolen and no harm to anyone seems to have
been done. Unfortunately for him, he is stuck in the Empire State. And as unfair as it
sounds, I think Mr. Trump is in some real trouble. The plan the Manhattan D.A. has is to
convict him on a trivial offense, then hope a vindictive judge will throw the book at him.
This happens all the time to suspected mafiosi in New York courts, and it may be what's going on here.
Memos
from 2018-19 shake up Trump case: Cohen denied having incriminating evidence on hush
money. An attorney who advised disgraced Trump organization lawyer Michael Cohen
provided Manhattan prosecutors with voluminous documentation, including contemporaneous emails and
memos, purporting to show that in 2018 Cohen wanted Donald Trump to help cover his legal bills and
repeatedly claimed he had no evidence incriminating the former president in a hush money deal with
porn actress Stormy Daniels. "Cohen said he had no information against Trump," one memo
summarizing attorney Robert Costello's interactions with Cohen stated. That memo, dated April
2019, recounted Costello's interview with federal prosecutors about conversations he and colleagues
had with Cohen a year earlier. Costello, a former federal prosecutor who has represented
famous clients like George Steinbrenner, Leona Hemsley, Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon, told Just
the News on Tuesday he provided Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office with more than
300 pages of emails, memos and texts chronicling his dealings with Cohen.
'Game-Changer'
Costello Testimony May Have Sunk Manhattan DA's Case Against Trump, Dershowitz Says.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's possible criminal case against former President Donald
Trump may have derailed this week, according to Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan
Dershowitz. On Monday, former federal prosecutor Robert Costello testified in front of a
Manhattan grand jury over matters related to a $130,000 hush money payment to a porn star in 2016.
Costello told the jury that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, expected to be Bragg's main
witness in any case against Trump, "couldn't tell the truth if you put a gun to his head."
Dershowitz appeared on Fox News on Tuesday night and told host Sean Hannity that "Bob Costello has
changed this case dramatically."
Trump
Responds to Latest Illegal Leak to ABC News on Special Counsel Probe. President Trump
responded to the latest illegal leak to ABC News. Judge Beryl Howell last Friday wrote that
special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutors have evidence Trump 'committed criminal violations' in the
classified documents case, according to a leak to ABC News. Trump lawfully stored
presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago residence but the Deep State is going after him anyway.
Memos
from 2018-19 shake up Trump case: Cohen denied having incriminating evidence on hush
money. An attorney who advised disgraced Trump organization lawyer Michael Cohen
provided Manhattan prosecutors with voluminous documentation, including contemporaneous emails and
memos, purporting to show that in 2018 Cohen wanted Donald Trump to help cover his legal bills and
repeatedly claimed he had no evidence incriminating the former president in a hush money deal with
porn actress Stormy Daniels. "Cohen said he had no information against Trump," one memo
summarizing attorney Robert Costello's interactions with Cohen stated. That memo, dated April
2019, recounted Costello's interview with federal prosecutors about conversations he and colleagues
had with Cohen a year earlier. Costello, a former federal prosecutor who has represented
famous clients like George Steinbrenner, Leona Hemsley, Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon, told Just
the News on Tuesday he provided Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office with more than 300
pages of emails, memos and texts chronicling his dealings with Cohen.
Chuck
Schumer Refuses to State Confidence in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) refused to state his confidence in Manhattan District
Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is expected to indict former President Donald Trump. Schumer's
remarks came during a press conference on Wednesday. "Do you have confidence in Alvin Bragg?"
one reporter asked Schumer. Schumer refused to answer, instead insisting that it is
"premature to comment" on the situation. "Look, the bottom line is, as I said, it's premature
to comment on what's happening, and we'll have to wait and see what he does," Schumer responded.
Bombshell
2018 Letter Delivers a Gut Punch to Manhattan DA's Case Against Trump. How much is
Michael Cohen's testimony worth at this point? I wrote that his legal adviser Robert Costello
told the Manhattan grand jury considering the case against Donald Trump that Cohen was a serial
liar, "far from solid evidence," and that Cohen had told him that he never told Trump about the
payment to Stormy Daniels, the crux of the case against Trump. Now there's newly-surfaced
evidence that also throws a gut punch into District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case. A February
2018 letter written by Michael Cohen's then-lawyer to the Federal Election Commission claims that
Cohen "used his own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford,"
a/k/a Stormy Daniels, in 2016. That also matches what Cohen told Costello. [Tweet]
Will
Alvin Bragg be a team player or is he in it for himself? Alvin Bragg openly admitted
during his election campaign that he would make it a priority, if elected, to prosecute Donald
Trump, albeit without bothering to select a law that's been broken. Bragg is only the next
batter up to try and make party politics a crime. He steps to the plate way down in the order
following such heavy hitters as the FBI, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Leticia James
and Merrick Garland. If he indeed does follow through and charge the former president with a
crime that he knows full well will never result in a conviction, he will do it against the express
orders of the Democrat party hierarchy. The power brokers on the left, from Barack Obama all
the way down to The Squad, understand that Trump the Martyr is a far more serious and dangerous a
candidate than The Donald of spring 2023, who lagged in the polls behind Florida governor Ron
DeSantis. Bragg must be fending off constant phone calls and messages passed on through
plenipotentiaries begging him to not file charges.
Prosecutor:
Secret Service Won't Allow Trump Handcuffing. Former President Donald Trump is
unlikely to be handcuffed if he's arrested, according to a Florida prosecutor who said the Secret
Service wouldn't "allow local law enforcement to put their hands on the former president."
Trump said last week that he expects to be indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin
Bragg. Trump's attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told Newsmax he expects police to handcuff Trump
during an arrest. "I had this idea in my head that they'd [prosecutors] be dumb
enough — if he [Trump] were indicted — to actually try to cuff him and walk
him. And then we can see how far we've really devolved in this country," Tacopina said on
"Rob Schmitt Tonight" on Monday. "I think that's what they're going to try to do."
Fake
"Trump Supporters" at Manhattan Protest Are Identified As an Actor And an Anarchist.
President Trump asked his supporters to "Protest!" in advance of his alleged indictment by the
radical Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg that was supposed to take place today. Many Trump supporters
believed it was a mistake for President Trump to call on his supporters to protest, as they feared
many would be set up by fake Trump supporters who were really undercover FBI agents or informants
or even members of Antifa. The radical Anarchist group Antifa has been known to create
violence at protests, making it appear as though the group who organized the event were actually
responsible. In Manhattan, during yesterday's protest in support of President Trump,
independent reporter Rebecca Brannon did an incredible job of uncovering the fake "Trump
supporters" who were supposed to be there to protest Trump's impending arrest by the radical
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Bragg had barricades placed around the Manhattan courthouse in NYC
in an attempt to give the false impression that they needed to protect themselves from Trump
supporters. [Tweet]
Trump
wants to appear in handcuffs if he's charged in NYC: report. Former President Donald
Trump has reportedly said he wants to be hauled into court in handcuffs if he's slapped with
unprecedented charges in the "hush money" case involving porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump, 76,
told advisers of his plan, saying that if he has to go through the ordeal of getting arrested and
arraigned, he'd prefer making it a "spectacle," the Guardian said Wednesday, citing unidentified
sources close to him. The ex-president — who's seeking the Republican nomination
for a third White House bid in 2024 — also wants to avoid any special treatment that
could make him look weak, the sources reportedly said. It's unclear how serious Trump is
about the plan, which could be stymied by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the Guardian said.
Tucker
Carlson Makes a Chilling Prediction About Possible Trump Indictment. On Monday night,
Fox News host Tucker Carlson made a compelling argument that indicting former President Donald
Trump could lead to the permanent destruction of the United States justice system. Although
Carlson acknowledged that former presidents could be indicted if they have committed a crime, the
undeniable fact is that Trump is the current frontrunner for the Republican nomination for
president, and the abuse of the justice system by partisan prosecutors to take out a political
opponent would be unprecedented and dangerous. In fact, as Carlson pointed out, Alvin Bragg
ran for district attorney on the promise that he would indict Trump. He has spent years
trying to find a way to pin several various crimes on him, and he's landed on the so-called "hush
money" payment to Stormy Daniels — a payment the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has
already said isn't even a campaign finance violation.
Tucker
Carlson Breaks Down the Lawfare Constructed, Banana Republic, Persecution of Donald
Trump. For his opening monologue tonight, Fox News host Tucker Carlson breaks down
the Manhattan case against President Trump as constructed by District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Carlson notes and contrasts recent almost identical situations
involving former Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards, and later Hillary Clinton.
The legal merits of the campaign finance case are farcical on their face as admitted by the Federal
Election Commission (FEC), previously litigated via legal precedent (John Edwards), and even
Supreme Court interpretation (VA Gov Bob McDonnell). Additionally, even if there was a legal
issue, there isn't, the statute of limitations on the claimed infraction has expired.
Furthermore, and seemingly overlooked by most pundits opining on the issue, the legal issue Bragg
is attempting to weaponize is a federal campaign finance issue, out of the jurisdiction of the
Manhattan district attorney. So, what gives?
Trump's
Lawyers Are Now Targeting the Georgia Grand Jury Probe. The past few days have made
it clear that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is determined to get Donald Trump for
something — so much so that his office is trying to turn a hush-money payment to
Stormy Daniels into a campaign finance violation. Bragg isn't the only one hoping to make a
name for himself by taking Trump down. Fulton County, Ga., DA Fani Willis is in the midst of
her own anti-Trump crusade.
Trump
Unveils Plan To 'Dismantle The Deep State'. Former President Donald Trump unveiled his new
plan Tuesday to "dismantle the deep state" by firing "rogue" bureaucrats and career politicians,
according to a new policy agenda video. Trump released a list of ten items that indicate how
he plans to "clean out the deep state," starting with re-instating an executive order that would
give the president the authority to fire bureaucrats, according to the video posted on Rumble.
The former president's plan would dismantle the "Washington Swamp," target corruption and ensure
that federal bureaucrats and politicians are held accountable.
Soros-Funded
DA Alvin Bragg [was] Caught Hiding Nearly 600 Pages of Exculpatory Evidence from NY Grand Jury in Trump
Case. Attorney Robert Costello, the former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, spoke to
Tucker Carlson on Monday night after he testified to the Manhattan Grand Jury investigating
President Donald Trump. Costello told the FOX News audience that he testified for two hours
in front of Alvin Bragg's Manhattan Grand Jury. Robert Costello told Tucker Carlson, "I spoke
to the jury for two hours... It was clear to me the Manhattan Grand Jury did not want to get to the truth."
Fulton
County, Georgia, is also contemplating lawfare to derail Trump's presidential run.
Hot on the heels of news that Manhattan's DA, Alvin Bragg, is planning to charge Donald Trump for
using private funds to silence a woman who later admitted that she never had sex with him, the
Fulton County prosecutor's office in Atlanta, Georgia, is going ahead with plans to prosecute Trump
and his associates under RICO laws for daring to challenge problematic vote counting in
Georgia. Tucker Carlson has warned that, if Democrats get away with using ideological
prosecutors to attack our election system, the great American experiment is over. [...] Fulton
County, of course, is one of the counties in which vote counting stopped for six hours in the
middle of the night after the election. Going into that six-hour pause, Trump was in the
lead. Coming out of it, Biden was in the lead. There were other significant
irregularities in Fulton County, all of which the political establishment protected from any
investigation. And of course, that's all Trump was asking for: An investigation.
Final
Grand Jury Witness Speaks After Testimony, Says Michael Cohen Is "Far From Solid Evidence".
While discussing Trump's potential indictment on Monday, Robert Costello, former legal advisor to Michael
Cohen, referred to Cohen as a "convicted perjurer" and suggested that his testimony may not be reliable in
any case. Recently, a grand jury has been investigating Trump's business practices, including his
alleged involvement in hush-money payments made to a woman who claimed to have had an affair with him
before the 2016 presidential election. As part of this investigation, Robert Costello, former legal
advisor to Michael Cohen, testified before the grand jury. Costello stated that he made the decision
to testify despite warnings from others that he had nothing to gain. He wanted to tell the truth to
the grand jurors and counter the lies being promoted in the media. Costello suggested that if
there is solid evidence to go after Trump, that's alright — but he believes that Cohen
is far from solid evidence.
Avenatti says
there's no case against Trump. Today is supposed to be I-Day — indictment
day — in New York City. For the 7th consecutive year, the loony left is predicting
the imminent indictment and arrest of President Trump. The walls are closing in!
Comey-Mueller-NYC DA have him right where they want him. He will be frog-marched and
perp-walked. Just like Karl Rove. Just like Dick Cheney. The charge is he paid
off Stormy Daniels, a hooker — or as the media now calls them, an adult entertainment
actress — who claimed she had sex with him. The case has bounced around in civil
court where a judge ruled that her lawsuit was so frivolous that the whore would have to pay
him! As for this I-Day, Republicans know the drill and frankly, the dog-and-pony shows have
become boring. Her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, is a man of his convictions — of which
there are three and he will spend the next 20 years in federal prison for being a crook.
Alvin
Bragg's End Run Around the Constitution. We've endured four years of Mueller's failed
"Russiagate" hoax, two failed, politically-driven impeachment trials from radical House Democrats
in Congress driven by Nancy Pelosi, not to mention the highly-partisan "January 6" Committee
that failed to call a single witness adverse to their pre-cooked "it-was-an-insurrection"
narrative, and a host of other Trump-related political prosecutions. But now, this weekend's
announcement from President Trump that he expects to be indicted on Tuesday in Manhattan forecasts
the most radical tactic yet that the Democrats will use to block Trump's return to power: lawfare
with unfounded charges in the criminal courts. Let's be clear. The feds have already
declined to prosecute anything surrounding Trump's civil settlement with Stormy Daniels.
Perhaps that is because confidentiality clauses are part of millions of civil settlements in
lawsuits around the country every day. I've seen hundreds in my own career as a civil
litigator. In other words, nothing to see here.
Manhattan
prosecutor's office reportedly 'in chaos'. When law is tossed out the window, is
anybody surprised that chaos follows? That's apparently what we have in the Manhattan
district attorney's office, where Soros-financed District Attorney Alvin Bragg is reportedly
presiding over a chaotic shambles in the wake of news that his men intend to indict President Trump
on politicized charges. [...] The root of it seems to be in Bragg's stated Trump-hate, which he
openly campaigned on when he ran for office in Manhattan. That's actually illegal, but the
matter was ignored by voters. As a Soros man, Bragg has a positively disordered view of what
the role of prosecutor is in the city's legal infrastructure and what rule of law is. Based
on his history, he has a problem with the law.
This article from the Associated Press reeks with bias: Will
Trump be indicted? What we know about the process. The decision whether to
indict former President Donald Trump over hush-money payments made on his behalf during his 2016
presidential campaign lies with a Manhattan grand jury that has been hearing evidence in secret for
weeks. An indictment of Trump, who is seeking the White House again in 2024, would be an
unprecedented moment in American history, the first criminal case against a former U.S.
president. Law enforcement officials are bracing for protests and the possibility of violence
after Trump called on his supporters to protest ahead of a possible indictment.
The Editor says...
The AP knows, or should know, that rioting and political violence come from the left. In the one
case where it appeared that Trump supporters got out of hand, it was (as I see it) due to leftist
agitators mixed in with the crowd.
Dems
will infiltrate Trump street protests to turn them violent. Donald Trump has
characterized his impending arrest this week as a political vendetta, and has urged his supporters
to take to the streets in protest. I agree with him that it's a political vendetta, but
disagree about taking to the streets. It is indeed a nakedly political act by the Manhattan
District Attorney. Numerous other prosecutors including sophisticated federal prosecutors
have reviewed this same evidence, and have declined to pursue this case. Rightly so.
It's a lousy case. The legal theory is a stretch. Moreover, the prosecution's fact
witnesses are not credible. One is a former porn star who has been caught numerous times
lying and the other is Trump's former lawyer who is willing to say anything he's told to say in
order to save his own hide. Layer on top of that a prosecutor who is not exactly a top-notch
trial lawyer and is known to get money from George Soros, and you have, as I said, a lousy case,
even in New York where Trump has gone from loved to reviled. The prosecution will lose.
A
potential Trump indictment is a sideshow gift to the Biden family. If Democrats
really wanted Donald Trump to fade away, as they claim, they would stop persecuting him.
Maybe they are so blinded by hatred that they can't see that every time they use the heavy hand of
the law against the former president, they just cement his status as a MAGA martyr. Or maybe
they are so terrified of running against Ron DeSantis in 2024 that they actually want to martyr
Trump to ensure he wins the Republican presidential primary ready for a repeat contest with Joe
Biden. [...] Whether or not Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg really is about to arrest Trump this week, as
has been reported, over trumped-up hush-money charges relating to a one-time assignation 17 years
ago with porn star Stormy Daniels, Friday's leak from the court could not have come at a better
time for President Biden.
Arresting Trump. On Tuesday, former
President Donald Trump will be arrested by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
Reportedly, the charges will pertain to alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels
which purportedly violated campaign finance laws. Alvin Bragg, the Soros-funded progressive
District Attorney, has yet to explain the legal theory underlying the charges. But, given his
alarming and astounding demolition of Manhattan's criminal justice system, it will no doubt be a
counterintuitive and inventive interpretation of the law. No matter what charges are brought,
it is clear that this prosecution will be just one more tawdry political hit job.
Indicting Trump Could
Get Him Reelected. If Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg actually indicts former
President Donald Trump this week and prosecutes him in what will inevitably become a show trial,
the Democrats will regret it. This is ironic considering their absurd yet oft-repeated
comparison of Trump to Adolf Hitler. If these people knew anything about the latter's rise to
power, they would realize that it was just such a trial that launched his genocidal political
career in Germany. Trump is no aspiring autocrat, but a politicized prosecution and biased
coverage by the corporate media will certainly energize his base. As former UN Ambassador
John Bolton told CNN, "Having very much in mind the one rule of law for everybody ... I think
historians would look back and say, that's the act that reelected Donald Trump president." Bolton's
allusion to equal treatment under the law was echoed in the New York Sun by Alan Dershowitz,
professor emeritus at Harvard Law School: "Mr. Trump should not be indicted for novel and
unprecedented technical crimes for which no one else would be prosecuted." George Washington
University law professor Jonathan Turley adds in the Hill that Bragg's case would be
exceptionally weak at the very best: [...]
Surprise
Trump Grand Jury Witness Revealed. A source with knowledge of the "hush-money"
investigation has confirmed to the New York Times that Rudy Giuliani lawyer Robert Costello, a
former legal advisor to Michael Cohen, will be appearing before the grand jury on Monday with the
sole intention of undermining Cohen's credibility. Meanwhile, Cohen, the former lawyer for
Donald Trump and star prosecution witness, has made himself available on Monday in case prosecutors
decide to call him to provide rebuttal testimony against Costello. [...] According to Trump,
Costello has "conclusive and irrefutable" evidence that should exonerate him. What is this
evidence? Who knows? But experts have already said that the case against Trump is
ridiculously weak. But hey, maybe Costello can provide solid evidence that will make it
impossible for even a partisan grand jury and a partisan prosecutor to go forward with bogus charges.
Democrats'
Daddy Issues With Trump Aren't Going to Work Out Well for Them. American Democrats
are continuing their descent into a Trump-induced madness from which there obviously won't be any
return. They've escalated their insane war on Donald Trump to a point that has the potential
to backfire in grand fashion. They really didn't think this one through. Then again,
they haven't thought any of their Trump tantrums through. They're blinded by rage and won't
stop until they get some red meat footage for the 14 viewers who still watch MSNBC and CNN. [...]
It's not likely that whatever [Robert] Costello has to say will be enough to change New York County
District Attorney Alvin Bragg's mind — he's chomping at the bit to get his moment in the
media as the guy who finally "got" Trump, no matter how fleeting the victory is.
Former
U.S. Attorney Argues Trump Could Be Indicted for Same Thing Clinton Was Fined For.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is essentially using the same legal theory to potentially
indict former President Donald Trump that Hillary Clinton's campaign was fined for, argued former
United States Attorney Brett Tolman. Tolman asserted Saturday [3/18/2023] that Bragg's legal
theory that Trump tried to hide a campaign expenditure by using his then-lawyer to pay porn actress
Stormy Daniels $130,000 in alleged hush money before the 2016 presidential elections would have
applied to Clinton when her campaign hid a payment for the phony Russian pee dossier against Trump
as "legal fees."
Lauren
Boebert: Democrats Believe Arresting Donald Trump Is Their 'Only Hope' of Victory in 2024.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) argued in a Twitter post that Democrats believe the anticipated arrest of
former President Donald Trump is the party's "only hope" of winning the 2024 election. Boebert, who
has closely aligned herself with Trump since she first ran for the House of Representatives in 2020,
argued, "Democrats know they won't be able to beat our ideas at the ballot box in 2024 so think
this is their only hope."
Arresting
Donald Trump. For much of the last two months the rumors have swirled. On
Saturday the former President acknowledged it. On Tuesday it may happen. [...] What happens
if they put handcuffs on a former President? If you've watched social media this weekend the
reaction has ranged. Trump supporters have asserted flatly that it insures his re-ascendancy
to the White House. Trump haters are mixed with some gloating "we finally got him!" Some
are accusing him of attempting to start a civil war. They say this because he merely said
"protest" in his post on Truth Social that went viral. Between the gloating and the accusing
there appears to be a good deal of panic on the left about the outcome. [...] The "evidence" is
non-existent and they already know in a deep place inside themselves that the American people are
fair-minded. They understand that Americans are watching the next iteration of a witch hunt
that has been long in the making and thwarted via self destruction at every point where they were
convinced they had stopped him.
Trump
and Hillary Have Been Accused of the Same Crime, but Hillary Never Faced Potential
Arrest. The justice system is supposed to be blind to political affiliations and
treat all individuals equally under the law. It's hard to deny that there seems to be a
double standard when it comes to the way justice is applied to those on the left versus those on
the right. The mere possibility of Donald Trump facing possible arrest and charges for
something that, at most, might result in a minor fine for a Democrat is a prime example of this
disparity. Just look at Hillary Clinton. Last year, the Federal Election Commission
fined Hillary Clinton for misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to hide
spending. The law firm in question was Perkins Coie, which hired Fusion GPS to conduct
research that resulted in the Steele Dossier, which was later used by Congress to impeach
Trump. Clinton classified these expenses as "legal services" and was fined $113,000 for the
misrepresentation.
Trump
Will Likely NOT Be Arrested, at Least on Tuesday. Donald Trump announced on Saturday
morning that he would be arrested on Tuesday, and the nation has been agog at the prospect of the
Leftist establishment crossing the rubicon of arresting its principal opponent on flimsy charges
and demonstrating before the entire world that the American republic is now the American banana
republic, in which foes of the regime can expect the full weight of corrupt government authority
pushing back against them for daring to dissent. But now it turns out that the Manhattan
district attorney's office, which has Trump in its sights, just may be stepping back from the
brink: Business Insider reported Saturday night that Trump's indictment is "on hold"
until one more witness testifies Monday afternoon. That's about all that has come to light, as
the relevant authorities are being quite closemouthed about this whole thing. Insider says that
"a source with knowledge of the investigation" told them on Saturday night "there is one more
witness." The indictment is apparently not a certainty until this witness testifies.
But who is this witness?
Vivek
Ramaswamy Warns Trump Indictment Would Be a 'National Disaster'. Entrepreneur Vivek
Ramaswamy, a 2024 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, decried the prospect of
former President Donald Trump being indicted. "A Trump indictment would be a national
disaster. It is un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its political
rivals," Ramaswamy tweeted on Saturday [3/18/2023]. He made a reference to the 2004
presidential election in which Democrat John Kerry lost to George Bush and his running mate Dick
Cheney. "If a Republican prosecutor in 2004 had used a campaign finance technicality to arrest
then-candidate John Kerry while Bush & Cheney were in power, liberals would have cried
foul — and rightly so," Ramaswamy said. "Principles go beyond partisanship."
The
coming Trump arrest is a very dangerous power play. The Tea Party emerged in 2009.
Even though its rallies were peaceful and always left the rally locations immaculate, Democrats in
and out of the media described Tea Partiers as dangerous, racist, wild-eyed activists. The
template was in place. Trump mulled the idea of running for president, and leftists were
initially excited because they foresaw an easy Hillary victory against him. Trump became the
primary candidate, the crowds turning out for him were unprecedented, and Hillary was revealed to
have violated multiple national security laws, only to limp into the election thanks to a James
Comey "fix." Trump won, and Democrats had a massive, very public, complete mental
breakdown. Shortly before Trump entered office, high-level Democrats (Hillary? Obama?)
instituted what came to be the Russia collusion hoax. Despite the Russia collusion hoax, the
Ukraine phone call hoax, a failed impeachment, and myriad other faux scandals, Trump looked like a
shoo-in for reelection. The economy was booming, China was being constrained, illegal
immigration was diminishing, peace was blossoming in the Middle East, and there were no new wars or
concentration camps. Something needed to be done. Enter COVID.
Calls
Grow on the Left for Trump to Be Held Without Bail — For a Misdemeanor.
The left is salivating at the idea that finally Orange Man Bad will be arrested and perp walked in
front of the media next week. But that is not enough for them. Calls have gone out on
Saturday for President Trump to be held without bail because they say he is a danger to the country
over his call for supporters to protest should he be arrested. The liberals are saying this
is an incitement to another January 6 and therefore Trump should be kept behind bars where he
could not post calls for protests on social media. New York has extremely lax bail laws,
making bail non-existent for most of those charged. However, the liberals think an exception
should be made for Trump.
Trump
now says Manhattan's DA should be investigated for 'interfering' with the election.
Donald Trump is claiming full innocence and isn't buying the narrative from some Republicans
defending him by saying the alleged hush-money payments he made to Stormy Daniels are a
'misdemeanor' at best. The former president said on Sunday that there 'was no crime' and
flipped the script on the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, demanding the Democratic
prosecutors be investigated for 'interfering' with the presidential election. Prosecutors
argue that he violated a New York law which prohibits falsifying business records when he marked a
$130,000 payment to Daniels as 'legal expenses.'
Jonathan
Turley Destroys Manhattan DA's Case Against Trump. The timing of the reported
indictment about to drop against President Donald Trump can only be called suspicious, given the
Stormy Daniels issue has been lying fallow for years, with President Donald Trump now a declared
candidate for the 2024 presidential nomination. It's about the perp walk and the
theatrics. Just like they tried the Jan. 6 Committee prior to the midterms, this is
going to be the continuing thing that they will throw out there to attack Trump and the Republicans
in the presidential race. It's about the optics to move the middle/the independents away from
Republicans. But what about the legal case against Trump? George Washington law
professor Jonathan Turley called it what it is: "legally pathetic."
Democrats
Have Nothing — President Trump Did Nothing Wrong — But They Will Arrest Him
Anyway. The world is in a financial meltdown right now and our economy is on the
brink of collapse. This is due to Biden's actions. Now the criminals running our
government want to arrest a good man who did nothing wrong because he threatens their power.
The GOP RINOs tried to stop candidate Trump from winning the nomination in 2016, they
couldn't. Hillary called Trump and his supporters "deplorable" and he beat her. Obama
spied on Trump, and he got caught. The Obama gang attempted a coup of the Trump
Administration, it failed, Trump did nothing wrong. The Democrats impeached him for daring to
ask about the Bidens' actions in Ukraine, he was doing his duty, the Bidens were taking millions
from foreigners in bribes and favors. The Chinese drop COVID-19 with the Deep State doctors'
help, they attempt to cover it up, Fauci and gang got caught. President Trump won millions
more votes than any President in history in the 2020 election so they stole it from him.
Manhattan
DA Pursuing Felony Against Trump Has History of Reducing Charges Against Others.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to bring felony charges against former
President Donald Trump next week related to payments made in 2016 to settle rumors of an
extramarital affair. The charges, which Bragg upgraded from a misdemeanor class, stand in
stark contrast to the prosecutor's history of reducing charges against the majority of cases on his
watch. Since taking office last year, DA Bragg has downgraded approximately 52 percent
of all cases brought before his office. A significant portion of these cases involved reducing
felony charges to misdemeanors. Under Bragg's predecessor, less than 40 percent of cases were
comprised of similar downgrades.
George Soros Exposed as Major
Force Behind Trump's Prosecution and Imminent Arrest. President Donald Trump reacted
to the news of his imminent arrest in New York by pointing out that the Manhattan District
Attorney's office's "leader is funded by George Soros." Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, whom Donald
Trump is referring to in his post, was elected in November 2021 with indirect backing from
left-wing billionaire George Soros, who gave $1 million to the Color of Change PAC, which spent
it to elect Bragg. The Color of Change PAC is a radical activist group that describes itself
as "the nation's largest online racial justice organization." Fox News reported that Soros has
"funneled $40 million dollars into district attorney campaigns nationwide," including
Bragg's. Former New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton spoke out against the "$1 million
donation that Hungarian-born philanthropist Soros gave to the Color of Change political action
committee, which supported Bragg," the New York Post reported.
Trump
Puts out a Post That Says Everything About His Legal Situation. As RedState reported,
Donald Trump put a statement on Saturday morning confirming that his indictment and arrest are
imminent. According to the former president, he'll be taken into custody on Tuesday after the
Manhattan District Attorney's office charges him over a hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels
prior to the 2016 election. The contention is that Trump broke the law by ordering Michael
Cohen to make the payment, which was ultimately classified as a legal expense. New York
prosecutors assert that election laws were broken because it was actually a campaign expense meant
to affect the election. As a legal matter, it's incredibly weak, and it relies on a
never-before-tried legal theory to upgrade the charge to a felony. That would bypass the
statute of limitations and put jail time in play for the former president. Now, Trump is
speaking out further, and I believe his latest Truth Social post says everything about his legal
situation. [Tweet]
Professor
Turley exposes the incredible weakness of the Trump indictment. Professor Jonathan
Turley, one of the few brave honest liberals in academia, is far too nice a person to speak with
utter contempt in his voice. But the substance of what he has to say about the indictment and
pending arrest of former President Donald J. Trump exposes contemptible behavior on the part of the
New State justice system. In two brief clips from an interview he did Saturday with Molly
Line of Fox News, he exposes the flimsiness of the case against Trump and the illicit origin of the
indictment. First, how Trump could end up convicted even though the charges are likely to get
thrown out on appeal: [...]
A
Trump arrest will just underline the Deep State's crackdown on freedom. What does
this forthcoming indictment signal if not the establishment's intent on rigging the 2024
presidential election by means of a phony-baloney political indictment? Consider the reaction
of Prof. Alan Dershowitz to a Trump indictment based on the Stormy Daniels matter, long ago
buried, but now revived by Manhattan D.A. Bragg. This is "targeted injustice" according to
Dershowitz. Note that only John Solomon's Just the News website carried Prof. Dershowitz's
response. Generally, the media — as usual — are compliant with a Deep State
move against the former president. What better indication of how utterly unjust the justice system
in deep red country when it comes to matters concerning Mr.Trump? Mr. Trump predicts he will
be placed under arrest Tuesday, March 21, and calls on supporters to protest. Look for
"Jan. 6" to be replaced by "Mar. 21" as the date of MAGA "insurrection" by the totalitarian
forces in the country.
GOP
Presidential Hopeful Responds to Possible Donald Trump Arrest: 'Dark Moment'.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said that rumors and reports claiming former
President Donald Trump could be arrested soon are a "dark moment" in U.S. history. "It is
un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its political rivals," Ramaswamy, a
tech entrepreneur who recently declared his GOP candidacy, wrote on Twitter Saturday. "If a
Republican prosecutor in 2004 had used a campaign finance technicality to arrest then-candidate
John Kerry while Bush & Cheney were in power, liberals would have cried foul — and
rightly so." "This will mark a dark moment in American history and will undermine public trust
in our electoral system itself," Ramaswamy also wrote. "I call on the Manhattan District Attorney
to reconsider this action and to put aside partisan politics in service of preserving our
Constitutional republic." Later on Saturday, Ramaswamy called on former South Carolina
Gov. Nikki Haley, who announced a Republican run for president, and Republican Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is also reportedly mulling a presidential bid —
to denounce Bragg.
Get
ready for Manhattan DA's made-for-TV Trump prosecution: high on ratings, but short on the
law. "The moment that we are waiting for, we made it to the finale
together" — those familiar words from "America's Got Talent" — could well be
the opening line for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg next week, when he is expected to
unveil an indictment of former President Trump. With Trump's reported announcement that he
expects to be arrested on Tuesday, it would be a fitting curtain raiser for a case that has
developed more like a television production than a criminal prosecution. Indeed, this
indictment was repeatedly rejected only to be brought back by popular demand. Trump faces
serious legal threats in the ongoing Mar-a-Lago investigation. But the New York case would be
easily dismissed outside of a jurisdiction like New York, where Bragg can count on highly motivated
judges and jurors. Although it may be politically popular, the case is legally
pathetic. Bragg is struggling to twist state laws to effectively prosecute a federal case
long ago rejected by the Justice Department against Trump over his payment of "hush money" to
former stripper Stormy Daniels.
Government
Tyrants Play with Fire. The communist thugs controlling America's legal system have
chosen to cross the Rubicon, it seems. President Trump says he will be arrested Tuesday now
that New York City's corrupt, Soros-funded district attorney has cooked up some cockamamie criminal
indictment against him involving Stormy Daniels — the same political pawn who was
already ordered to pay the president 300,000 dollars in legal fees as restitution in a prior
case. If anyone needed further evidence that we reside under a post-constitutional Uniparty
regime with utter disdain for the rule of law, add this to the long list of government crimes and
usurpations committed against the American people. No doubt the politicians and their
State-controlled agents in the press will actually hail President Trump's arrest as shimmering
validation that "no one is above the law." What poppycock!
A
Subtle Way for Establishment Republicans to Sabotage Trump. Having recently
re-elected Mitt Romney's niece to the chair of the National Republican Committee, the press is
giving Donald Trump the Ron Paul treatment, which is to say pretending he doesn't exist. Not
the least of these media outlets is FOX News, now spearheaded by Rupert Murdoch's liberal son and
failed vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. Similarly, in the mold of Uncle Mitt and Reince
Priebus, Ronna Romney McDaniel is now promoting the National Republican Committee's pursuit of a
loyalty pledge, binding campaigns to support whomever the press elevates to the nomination as a
prerequisite to participate in debates. Let's hope this loyalty pledge goes farther than the
loyalty of Florida governor Ron DeSantis. In 2018, DeSantis couldn't slap on another piece of
Trump flair fast enough. Now he treats MAGA like leprosy.
Judge
Overseeing Trump Georgia Grand Jury Weighs in on Crazy Forewoman's Media Tour. The
judge overseeing the Georgia special grand jury weighed in on the crazy forewoman who went on a
media tour last week. To be clear, the Georgia special grand jury cannot bring any
indictments, they can only recommend indictments and District Attorney Fanni Willis would then have
to pursue the case. Fulton County judge Robert C. McBurney recently ordered parts
of the grand jury report in the garbage Trump 2020 election investigation to be released as the
prosecutor considers charges against Trump and his allies. The grand jury concluded that "one
or more witnesses" lied under oath and recommended perjury indictments.
I not a lawyer or a judge, but this is a Bill of Attainder: Chinese
Spy Lover Eric Swalwell Proposes Bill to Ban Trump From U.S. Capitol.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif), who was kicked off the House Select Committee on Intelligence
because of his years-long affair with a Chinese spy, is trying to stay in the headlines by
proposing a plan to keep former President Trump out of the Capitol. The bill, introduced by
Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA), would permanently bar Trump and several top aides from the
Capitol because of their attempt to "undermine and overturn the 2020 presidential election."
The proposal asks the House and Senate Sergeant at Arms and the U.S. Capitol Police to take
"such actions as may be necessary" to keep Trump from entering the halls of Congress forever.
Why
the 2020 Election was Unverifiable. Joe Biden acquired his job through a legal process. However, he
did not earn enough verifiable votes to justify the certifications in six key swing states. This issue is
addressed in my new book, but here is some of my reasoning. I have limited myself to one example of unverifiable
votes for each of those swing states. [...] Before the 2020 election, the Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson,
implemented an illegal procedure that seriously undermined the integrity of the election. Benson announced that
all signatures would be presumptively valid — even if they were only slightly similar to registration
signatures. The announcement was, effectively, an invitation to fraudsters to grab all the unused ballot
applications they could find or buy; and fill them out and send them in. Trump opposed Benson's new procedure, and
he ended up winning in court — four months after the election. In March, 2021, State Court of
Claims Judge Christopher Murray: "Nowhere in this state's election law has the Legislature indicated that
signatures are to be presumed valid..." By using an illegal standard for processing of signatures, and by
announcing that new standard in advance so that fraudsters could exploit it, Benson effectively invalidated the Michigan
election certification.
Atlanta,
GA, "Special Grand Jury" Foreperson Speaks to MSNBC About Their Trump Investigation. Putting aside the
rules of grand juries speaking to media that do not apply because the Fulton County, GA, group was not a regular grand
jury — but rather a "special grand jury", you might be interested to watch the foreperson of the group speak
to MSNBC. [Video clip] [...] In May of 2022 Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis assembled what is
called a "special grand jury" to review claims that President Donald Trump attempted to coerce Georgia Secretary of
State Brad Raffensperger to find votes and assist him in winning the November 2020 election. The "special grand
jury" exists outside the traditional justice system and as an outcome cannot produce indictments. It was
assembled, for all intents and purposes, as a quasi-grand jury with the intent on creating a continual political effort
through a process best described as lawfare.
Georgia
Grand Jury's Report Is Garbage Because Fulton County D.A. Fed Them Garbage To 'Get Trump'. "Grand jury
says Trump's election team committed perjury." Without searching for the legacy media's coverage of today's
release of a handful of pages from the report compiled by the Fulton County, Ga. Special Purpose Grand Jury, I
tapped out that mock headline. Sure enough, the corporate press remains predictable. "Georgia grand jury:
'Perjury may have been committed' in Trump election probe," The Washington Post headed its coverage. "Georgia
Grand Jury in Trump Inquiry Sees Signs of Perjury By Witnesses," The New York Times echoed. USA Today
similarly headlined its reporting, "Georgia Grand Jury Recommends Perjury Charges for Unnamed Witnesses in Trump
Investigation." But color me skeptical that any perjury occurred — because of what the Special Purpose
Grand Jury said on page two of its report and because of what the partisan Fulton County D.A., Democrat Fani Willis,
said in various court filings related to her "investigation."
Rep.
Waltz Says DOD Told Him China Spy Balloons Crossed US During Trump Years But Gen. Mattis Did Not Tell
Trump. Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) joined Stuart Varney on Monday morning on FOX Business Network.
Rep Waltz says current Pentagon officials briefed him over the weekend and said Chinese spy balloons crossed over Texas
and Florida during the Trump years. Waltz then dropped this bomb. Rep. Waltz said that General Mattis
was Secretary of Defense at the time and decided not to inform President Trump because the Pentagon thought Trump was
"too provocative and aggressive!" This is a treason if true. Mattis put the US in danger, offered comfort to
the enemy, allowed Chinese spying on US installations, and then hid this from his superiors, including the President of
the United States.
The Stench of Fascism Is Suffocating
our Democracy. The Democrats have targeted their chief political opponent Donald Trump, who received 74 million
votes in the last election, with the longest, most determined, and most vicious campaign of character assassination in modern
history, and possibly ever. They have warned other potential presidential contenders like Governor Ron DeSantis that they
will get the same treatment. They have smeared Republicans as racists, white supremacists and white nationalists, and
has done this in the service of rigged elections in its drive to establish a one-party state.
Who
is running our government? Classified documents, everywhere, and by everyone: Joe Biden, Hunter Biden,
Mike Pence... and the list keeps growing. Now there are questions about Barack Obama, who took 30,000,000
documents to his Presidential library (it's doubtful he even knows what he has) and who has ignored the National
Archive's requests for their return. This is just more evidence of what the American people have learned really
exists: The Deep State. The Deep State successfully ousted Trump with constant leaks and political chicanery
against a sitting president, all to foment distrust and dishonor, and to make his life and office a living Hades.
Pelosi's Congress was no slouch either and impeached him a second time, even after he left office (with the first
impeachment over a phone call!).
50
ways for experts to lose their expertise. It turns out that everyone was lying, including those 50 experts
who called the laptop Russian misinformation. Can't wait to see one of the 50 explain it to Representative Jim
Jordan now that Hunter Biden admitted the laptop is his. Wouldn't you love to see the Trump-Biden second debate
now that we know that it was his laptop? As you may remember, President Trump kept bringing up Hunter and Biden the
experts. In other words, the whole Russia-Trump story, from collusion to the laptop to Hamilton 68, was fake.
Another
Trump-hating FBI lovebird flies out of the woodwork. A certain amount of foofaraw came about when FBI
bigshots Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were caught sending Trump-hating text-messages while in the throes of an
extramarital affair. And rightly, most of the attention went to the pair's illegal use of government property and
underhanded Borgia-style machinations against the incoming U.S. president. But their openly out there extramarital
affair is worth noting, too. Under FBI regulations, adulterous affairs are a firing offense, given that such
behavior puts national security at risk and automatically leads to the loss of one's security clearance. There's a
lot of this going on at that troubled wokester agency now that a new lovebird case has emerged in the bust of FBI
counterintelligence chief Charles McGonigal, yet nobody seems to be stopping it. Sure enough, an angry mistress
has emerged in McGonigal's case and she was reportedly instrumental in exposing his influence-peddling on behalf of a
sanctioned Russian oligarch.
Classified
Documents Are A New Potential Trap For Any Politician Who Crosses The Deep State. Procedural complaints
about classified documents are quickly turning into a catch-all trap that can depose duly elected officials, especially
those tasked with oversight of U.S. intelligence agencies. Last August, an unprecedented classified document
complaint provided a pretext for an FBI raid on former President Donald Trump's home, in an eerie echo of the use of
police and military resources against opposing politicians typical of banana republics. That administrative power
flex has now been turned into the unprecedented appointment of three special counsels, most recently against the
deeply unpopular current Democrat Party figurehead, Joe Biden. This all reverses the American structure of elected
officials maintaining oversight of unelected permanent administrators. Instead, we now have unelected bureaucrats
performing selective "oversight" of elected officials.
Clinton-appointed
judge slaps Trump with nearly $1M penalty for 'frivolous' lawsuit against Hillary. A federal judge has
ordered former President Donald J. Trump and his lawyer to pay nearly $1 million in sanctions to cover legal costs for
failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other defendants in a failed lawsuit against them for
promoting the Russia collusion hoax. On Thursday night, US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks tore into Trump and
attorney Alina Habba in a blistering 46-page filing that, in addition to blasting them for abusing the courts, ordered
that the $938,000 financial penalty be paid. "This case should never have been brought," wrote the Bill Clinton appointee.
Destroying American
Democracy — An Inside Job. Today we know that the "Russia hoax" was a lie. After a 22-month
investigation, no evidence of collusion between any element of the Trump campaign and Russia was uncovered. The
supposedly compromising evidence had never existed; the information in the "Steele dossier" was false — and
the FBI had known it was from the start. The entire fabrication had been an attempt to attack and politically
weaken Trump.
Just
What Kind Of A Republican Is Mitch McConnell? Following the November 2022 midterm election fiasco, the
evidence pointed even more strongly to an ongoing organized conspiracy among Republicans. Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell and Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel deliberately tanked the midterms by
denying funding and support personnel to pro-Trump candidates in many states, including Nevada, Arizona, New Hampshire,
and Pennsylvania. McConnell foolishly diverted $9 million to support Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, over Kelly
Tshibaka another Republican. [...] Why? Murkowski voted to impeach President Trump, while Tshibaka supported the
former president. The inescapable conclusion seems to be that Republican leadership only supports candidates that
support them, as opposed to those who support America and Americans.
Rebellion Against the People.
While it's important to justify one's position, to provide proof and evidence of crimes, betrayals and treason, I
believe we're past the discovery phase and need to move on to the resolution. What more do we need to know than
the CIA has been involved in some of the most treacherous acts committed against the republic, that they've had their
hands in the dirtiest of business? What more do we need to know than the FBI has worked with social media
companies to install a worthless, feckless president, perpetrating a treasonous coup in the guise of an election?
All of this, while recently verified, was information we had long since accepted as true. Such villainous acts
were known in 1992 when Vicki Weaver was shot down by a government sniper while holding her infant at Ruby Ridge.
Does that not speak of the inhumanity with which the government views all of us with dissenting views, those who will
not simply obey every outrageous law or dictate? To domestic enemies, patriots are scum. This is a division
between the people and those entrusted with power that cannot be ignored without the absolute destruction of the
republic in all but name. That is the current state of the union and has been, I would venture,
since 1963.
The Coming Split.
Trump was the first president since Ronald Reagan (or some would argue, since earlier than that) who seemed to
appreciate the dangers of unaccountable, unlimited, deep-state government. And I'm willing to bet he'd appreciate
those dangers a lot more in a second term, having fallen victim to them himself in the 2020 election. But, despite
the obvious differences, we're heading for a 1912-repeat, in which the Republican Party ignores its own voters.
The Republican machine has no intention of letting us choose Trump again: He is not a uniparty team player. They'd
rather lose an election to the Democrats, their brothers in crime, than win with Trump. That leads us to the inevitable
question: What should we do when a majority of Republicans want Trump, but the Republican Party says we can't have
him? Do we knuckle under and vote for Ron DeSantis because he would be vastly better than any Democrat?
Stewart
Rhodes warns Trump is next for politically motivated prosecution. Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath
Keepers militia who has been convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, said his case
is a harbinger of what the Justice Department has in store for former President Donald Trump. The former Army
paratrooper and Yale Law School graduate turned militia leader warned that his conviction on the rare Civil War-era
charge has set an ominous precedent that should alarm conservatives. "Their success in my trial is paving the way
for them to keep rolling through other people building up to Trump," Rhodes told The Washington Times. "It was a
warmup for what they're going to do. That's what that was: a political show trial."
Dems
Vote to Release Six Years of Trump Tax Returns in Stunning Invasion of Privacy. Add yet another government
overreach to the "Things You Didn't Think Could Happen in America" file: Democrats on the lame-duck House and Ways
and Means Committee voted Tuesday to release six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns. [...] But wait,
you say to yourself, that's not possible; your tax returns are private by federal law, and therefore protected from
release. The Dems of course found a sleazy way around that. The tax code allows the committee to look at
people's tax returns to provide "oversight" of the Internal Revenue Service, and by writing an official report on their
findings, then those returns can legally become public as part of the report.
Washington
DC Labels Donald Trump an "Enemy of the State" — [but] "That's Why We Voted for Him". The
entire reason why CTH supported Donald J Trump in 2015 and forward was because he was a disruption to the DC system that
few understood as deeply as an assembled bunch of politically homeless people right here on these pages and across
America. Since that original moment, Trump's presence has done exactly what we always knew it would do, EXPOSE THE
CORRUPTION. Trump is the Rosetta Stone, the physical embodiment of a massive unrepresented middle-class assembly
that despises Washington DC and the corrupt political establishment they represent. Republicans and Democrats are two
wings of the same vulture feeding on the carcass of the American worker, or what the FBI calls "domestic extremists,"
people who just want to be left [...] alone.
Alan
Dershowitz dismisses Jan. 6 committee's Trump referral: 'Worthless piece of paper'. Harvard Law School
Professor Alan Dershowitz denounced the Jan. 6 committee as a "kangaroo court" that produced a worthless report that
should be "thrown in the wastebasket." In an interview Monday evening on Newsmax TV, the eminent lawyer said that
"not only is [the Justice Department] not obligated to do anything, it is obligated not to do anything" in response to
the panel's recommendations Monday that former President Donald Trump be prosecuted. According to Mr. Dershowitz,
the panel operated against the spirit of one of only two civil-liberties provisions in the original Constitution, before
the Bill of Rights was added — a ban on "bills of attainder."
10 Steps to Save America.
Americans distrust the "swamp," administrative state, or deep state. Call what you will, the Washington nexus of
bureaucracies, media, and lobbyists has created a huge, unelected permanent army of auditors, regulators, investigators,
and punishers, all mostly exempt from audit and accountability and without fear of their elected overseers. The
easiest solution is to break up concentrations of power. Transfer out of Washington, in this age of zoom and
telecommunications, major cabinet departments like Health and Human Services, Energy, or Agriculture into the
hinterland. Restore the idea that lying to Congress, feigning amnesia, or pleading ignorance under oath to
Congress or federal investigators or in depositions is a prosecutable felony with jail time.
Cleveland:
FBI Lied About The Hunter Biden Laptop Story To Steal The Election From Trump. "Our FBI lied to the media
to get them to censor a story that directly impacted the 2020 election. This is outrageous and you have to
continue on to look at the other breadcrumbs we have," Federalist Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland said on "I'm
Right with Jesse Kelly." [Video clip]
A
Corrupt, Evil Regime Intent on Imprisoning Trump. Gunrunner, never-charged criminal, political hack, and
perpetually aggrieved former attorney general Eric Holder is back, bloviating about President Trump being imminently
arrested. Given that we live in post-Republic times and that the Department of (in)Justice has exhibited no shame
or remorse in its years-long campaign of political persecution and partisan double-standards, I'll take Obama's
contemptible "wingman" at his word just this once. So Democrats, Establishment Republicans, and the Deep State
Leviathan plan on humiliating President Trump by frog-marching him before the world and tossing him in the clink.
So what? They've been telegraphing this play for months, if not years. We get it. The U.S.
government is irredeemably corrupt, we've officially entered banana republic territory, and all the worst tyrants
in D.C. plan on rounding up and punishing anyone brave enough to fight back or dissent.
Trump
Isn't The Nation's Greatest Threat To Democracy. His Exile Is. Former President Donald Trump is back
as a candidate, but after leaving the White House, he never left the political arena — and therefore, the
investigations designed to send him into political exile never let up either. Trump's bid for a nonconsecutive
second term is faced with the same level of resistance that hampered his first, when Beltway actors weaponized the
levers of government to politically terminate their public enemy number one, beginning from before day one. In
February last year, Trump became the first and only president to undergo an impeachment trial in the Senate after he had
already left office. One week before Joe Biden took the presidential oath, Trump was hit with a snap impeachment
from House Democrats who sought to indict the outgoing president for the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump
v. Biden, the FBI, and the Deep State. It's no secret that deeply and thoroughly embedded within our
once well-reputed federal agencies, are members of what we colloquially call, the Deep State — perhaps
another moniker ought to be "American Stalinists"? Filed yesterday, the courts handling the Mar-a-Lago raid issued
a new ruling. The per curiam 21-page opinion in Donald J. Trump v. United States of America
decision overturns the federal district court's appointment of a special master to review the documents seized by the
politicized FBI at the direction of the viciously-partisan attorney general, Merrick Garland. (Can you believe
this man almost became a Supreme Court justice?) Strangely, I don't find the plaintiff and defendant an accurate
reflection of reality; rather it should read something like Trump v. the American Stalinists, or Trump
v. Biden, Obama, and Garland.
Democrats
Now Have Trump's Tax Returns. The battle over Donald Trump's tax returns has concluded, and it will either
be a bombshell development or a tremendous deafening silence, the latter of which has been the end to many hit pieces
and innuendos of impropriety about the former president. Democrats now have Trump's tax returns — which
has been an obsessive topic among members of the media and the Democratic Party. Liberals are convinced that some
felonious activity is hidden within the pages of these financial documents. Trump has fought tenaciously against legal
actions forcing him to release these files, but his last stand — the Supreme Court — was unsuccessful.
The
Trump Special Counsel is Another Clinton Payback. When Bruce Wasserstein, a billionaire backer of the
Clintons, provided a $25 million donation to Harvard Law, future Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, then serving as
dean, welcomed it. The gift built on the Wasserstein Fellows Program already established at Harvard Law which
brought "outstanding public interest lawyers" to Harvard and provided them stipends of up to $24,000 to meet with and
influence students toward social justice at the prestigious law school. When Jack Smith became a Wasserstein
Fellow, even while, unironically, serving as head of the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section, seemingly
soliciting and accepting a grant funded by a leftist billionaire (but who watches the integrity of the head of the
Public Integrity Section) he joined a list of leftist activist lawyers working for the ACLU, Earthjustice, the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Soros' Open Society, Catholic Charities and the UN.
Appointment
of Special Counsel Amounts to Election Interference and Sets Dangerous Precedent. While Republicans kicked
off the 2024 presidential race with the announcement that Donald Trump was running for president, in perhaps the
ultimate sign of our ignominious times, Democrats, in effect, kicked off their half of the contest three days later by
appointing a special counsel to escalate their political prosecution of him. This is where "our democracy" stands
today: with its purported defenders engaging in the singularly anti-democratic act of siccing a hyper-politicized
law enforcement apparatus on a candidate for the highest elected office, on dubious grounds, thereby subverting the
political process by which we decide who represents us. At a minimum, no doubt to an approving President Joe
Biden, his law enforcement arm is now engaged in what amounts to election interference against arguably the president's
top challenger — ironically probing in part then-President Trump's alleged interference with the transfer of
power in 2020, when Trump could make the case the Deep State did the same to him from the inception of Russiagate in
2016 onward. Worse, with Attorney General Merrick Garland's appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel, the
prospect of the former president being charged and convicted of something, anything, is more real than at any
time during the perpetual campaign to purge Trump from the body politic.
The coup-attempt
party. A political light bulb went on regarding Adam Schiff's remark on CNN's "State of the Union" as
reported by Breitbart's Pam Key. In the interview, Schiff again mentioned the Russia hoax he has promoted for
five years, if not longer. (Note that Dana Bash did not call Schiff on this huge lie.). With Schiff
continuing to assert this gross falsehood, the Democrat Party has, for years, switched from being a loyal opposition
party to priding itself as a party of the permanently-attempted coup. How dumb of me not to have taken seriously
the Democrat cries of "Resistance," as of the Trump inauguration, January 20, 2017 — but I then
understood such cries to be figurative and fanciful references of a politically romantic nature. But where were
the Republican political experts like House Speaker Paul Ryan back in early 2017 when the "Resistance" was gearing
up? Alas, the anti-Trump Ryan was silently supporting the Resistance. How could the Democrats have succeeded
with the Mueller probe if Ryan had spoken out forcefully against what was apparently a coup attempt to oust the
legitimately-elected president?
There's
Something Fishy About the Special Counsel Investigating Trump. Last week, the Biden administration's
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special counsel Jack Smith to investigate former President Donald Trump, days
after President Joe Biden's top GOP rival declared a third bid for the presidency. Garland's appointment marks the
naming of the third special counsel in five years to examine Trump-related matters. But this particular pick has
had some major misfires, one of which took out a high-profile potential Republican presidential candidate. More
than a decade ago, under President Barack Obama's leadership, Attorney General Eric Holder picked Smith to oversee the
Justice Department's public integrity section. A few years later, Smith's unit convicted former Virginia
Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, in 2014 on corruption charges for accepting over $165,000 in gifts and loans from
an affluent businessman in exchange for promoting a dietary supplement. However, two years went by, and the
Supreme Court overturned the conviction in a unanimous ruling that found that the jury was given faulty instructions
about what constitutes bribery under federal law.
Supreme
Court smacks Trump. Consider, please: the high court ruled, in Dobbs, that a right to abortion,
created in Roe v. Wade, is nowhere found in the Constitution of the United States. On
November 22, half a year later, the high court stated, effectively, that a house of Congress has a right, found
nowhere in the Constitution, to the tax returns of a president of the country. To boot, the justices bestow such a
right on a viciously partisan panel that was established to probe the four-hour disturbance at the Capitol on
January 6, 2021 — and not the tax returns of the former president. Not only should the
justices have dismissed the action against Mr. Trump as the fruit of a poisonous House panel, but the Court should
have denounced the subpoena demanding tax records as a bill of attainder — and noted that if tax records for
a former president are subject to (unlawful) congressional subpoena, who among the people is protected against a
tyrannical Legislature serving a dictatorial administration, with SWAT teams sent forth by a thuggish FBI to enforce
totalitarian subpoenas?
It's
Trump vs. the Establishment All Over Again. Since the "red wave" fizzled out, a consensus has quickly
emerged in the media that Donald Trump is no longer a viable political force. The newly anointed prince of the
Right, according to the tastemakers, is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Trump's more palatable, less chaotic
protégé. But DeSantis and Trump offer two very different things. DeSantis is a conventional
politician with Trump-like qualities, who can, at least according to his fan base, build a popular majority that is
beyond Trump's reach. Trump is a radical outsider to a rigged, illegitimate political system with which he has
been at war for seven years, and which his supporters see as an existential threat to their way of life.
Dueling Investigations.
Scott noted earlier that Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel, Jack Smith, to torment Donald Trump.
Garland said, I assume with a straight face: ["]It also allows prosecutors and agents to continue their work
expeditiously, and to make decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law.["] Indisputably!
Right. Smith will be returning to Washington from The Hague, where he is "chief prosecutor for the special court."
That will be good training for his role as the Democratic Party's agent in destroying Donald Trump. The Democrats have
been planning on indicting Trump for a long time, and appointing a special counsel is part of their plan. It allows them
to wash their hands of the investigation, pretending that impartial justice is simply taking its course. For the record,
Smith's charge includes both the events of January 6, 2021, and the innocuous documents that Trump stashed in his
Mar-a-Lago basement.
Biden
Says He's 'Making Sure' Trump Will Not Become President Again. Old Joe Biden, the ostensible president of
the United States, on Wednesday held one of his Potemkin press conferences before the gathering of sycophants and
propagandists known as the White House press corps. When a reporter said that Trump's movement was "still very strong,"
Biden laughed derisively and said, "Oh yeah?" He added, "Well, we just have to demonstrate that he will not
take power by — if we — if he does run. I'm making sure he, under legitimate efforts of our
Constitution, does not become the next President again." How can he make sure of that? He didn't say, and of
course the sycophants didn't ask.
What
Really Happened in the Midterms and Why. By every account, this was a strange election. Having had
some time to think about it, I have determined the best explanation for November 8 is that this midterm election
was intended to turn out pretty much the way it did. Who intended it? The Republican establishment.
Why? To get rid of Trump. [...] This was a midterm election, so there are no real consequences beyond the control
of Congress. This means that if you can control one house, even by a slim margin, you can stall the agenda of the
other side. How large a majority you have is secondary and, in the long view, not that meaningful. The
establishment Republicans were willing to settle for less than expected numbers in the House to eradicate what they see
as by far their biggest problem. This was their chance to bury Trump and avoid a great deal of damaging
unpleasantness at very low to no real cost.
It's
been two years since 51 intelligence agents interfered with an election — they still won't apologize.
Exactly two years ago, on October 19, 2020, one of the dirtiest tricks in electoral history was played on the American
people by 51 former intelligence officials, who used the false alarm of "Russian interference" to stop Donald Trump winning
a second term as president. Using the institutional weight of their former esteemed roles, they signed a dishonest
letter to mislead voters 15 days before the election, claiming that material from Hunter Biden's laptop published by the
New York Post "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." In their expert opinion, "the
Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue." Russia was "trying to influence how Americans vote in this
election ... Moscow [will] pull out the stops to do anything possible to help Trump win and/or to weaken Biden should he
win. "A 'laptop op' fits the bill, as the publication of the emails are [sic] clearly designed to discredit
Biden ... It is high time that Russia stops interfering in our democracy." It was all a lie. Their letter
was the culprit "interfering with democracy" in broad daylight. Not one of the 51 had seen any material from
the laptop or bothered asking for it, [...]
Why Trump Must
Run. The final take on the disastrous Mar-a-Lago raid and its noxious aftermath — the latest in
a series of "killing blows" aimed at Donald Trump and the movement he created — is that Trump must run once
again for president and must win. The logic behind this is simple: the Deep State, in its slow, dull-witted, and
utterly inept way, is making its big move, and Trump is the only visible figure who can stand against this. The
Left is well aware of this, and is terrified.
The
Establishment's Response to Trump's Presidency. In late July 2016, FBI Director James Comey notified
certain members of the Obama White House, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, about the FBI's
opening of the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation into the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump.
CIA Director John Brennan was already aware of the investigation since he was the one who had been providing the FBI
with information regarding the Trump campaign. [...] But here's the thing. The Intelligence Community (IC), the
Obama administration, and the political establishment never expected Trump to win. And when he did win, the IC was
suddenly faced with a very real problem: How would they properly cover up their actions? And how would they hobble
the new Trump administration? As it turns out, the timeline of their actions in the first few months of 2017 tells
a story; it's one of an establishment response to the very real threat that the young Trump administration presented to
the long-standing — and corrupt — political structure of our nation.
Connecting
the 87,000 Dots between Trump and You. Letitia James, the New York attorney general, has filed a civil
lawsuit of $250 million against Donald Trump, his children, and the Trump Organization. She alleges "Staggering
Fraud." [...] There is something deeper going on here. There is more than James doing this for political
reasons. Put all the pieces of the puzzle together, and we have a clear picture of the ulterior motives of the
entire Democrat party. Going back to the 2020 election, regardless of whether the truth about election fraud is
real or not, why are the Democrats so fearful of Donald Trump running again? If he was beaten as badly as they
claim, by seven million popular votes, he should be history. Apparently, he's not. There is much truth to
his claim that they are after the citizens of the United States and he is in the way.
Letitia
James parades her economic and entrepreneurial illiteracy. For years, most of the media, the
federal Justice Department, and other Democrats have waged a vendetta against Donald Trump, perpetuating endless
investigations in search of crimes. So far, their efforts have failed, but that's not stopping another leftwing
loon from boarding the Trump Derangement Syndrome train. Since New York Attorney General Leticia James, could not
find a crime, she has promised voters that she would destroy Trump, and now since election is coming soon, she's suing
Trump and his family for alleged fraud for supposedly claiming their property was worth more than it is. If the
Trumps committed bank fraud, as James says, they would have sued him and filed a criminal referral on him, but
they did not. The state was not a victim, nor the bank, nor the citizens of New York, so why is she suing?
The
Trump Raid — We're Missing the Point. Seeking to prove that Trump did nothing wrong in
possessing these documents is like trying to establish that the victims of Stalin's show trials weren't in fact
Trotskyites. Well, of course they weren't. But Stalin didn't care if his enemies — perceived or
real — were Trotskyites or "counter-revolutionaries." What mattered to him was that they were his
enemies. And that's why we call their legal proceedings "show trials." They weren't exercises in justice; they
were facades for political suppression. Did Trump commit a crime? I doubt it. Democrats have spent six
years and tens of millions of dollars investigating virtually every step he's taken in his life. So far, they've
come up with nothing. Which means that although Trump seems impetuous, he evidently hires excellent lawyers who
ensure he always remains within the bounds of the law. But at the end of the day, the question of Trump's
innocence is irrelevant. Because what we're witnessing is not a legal investigation but a political
crusade — aided by the Justice Department — to crush a man it can't stand. And if we allow
the left to win this battle, we will have allowed it to cross a line from which there may be no turning back. For
this isn't about Trump. It's about the left doing whatever it takes to retain political and ideological control of
this country. As one political commentator has pointed out, Trump represents everything the left hates, everything
they've spent 50 years trying to eradicate.
The
FBI Paid For Russian Disinformation To Frame Trump. The FBI put a contributor to the Hillary Clinton
campaign's Donald Trump smear dossier on FBI payroll as a confidential human source after investigating Igor Danchenko
for allegedly spying for the Russian government, revealed Special Counsel John Durham in a court filing unsealed by a
Virginia federal court yesterday. The filing contains this bombshell and seven other significant details about the
Democrat-led plot to use U.S. intelligence agencies to deny Americans the results of their choice for president in 2016.
The FBI made Danchenko a confidential human source, providing him and the FBI's use of him "national security" cover, in
March 2017 and terminated that designation in October 2020, according to the court filing unsealed on Sept. 13.
Danchenko is the originator of the false claim trumpeted all over global media that Donald Trump told prostitutes to
pee on beds the Obamas had slept in in a Russian hotel.
The
DOJ's opposition to the special master exposes a nefarious motive. When the federal judge ordered a
special master to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago to determine whether the FBI possessed documents subject
to "attorney-client and/or executive privilege" claims, I considered it a Pyrrhic victory because the DOJ had already
reviewed all the documents. I was more interested in whether the DOJ insisted that the appointed special master
have a security clearance to review for classified or top-secret material. Failing to do so would be a giveaway
that the whole "classified information" claim was a scam. On Thursday, however, the DOJ went one step further and
did something that, to my mind, strongly indicates that its raid on Mar-a-Lago was intended to obtain and protect
information that would be embarrassing to Obama, Biden, and the Deep State.
Clinton-Appointed
Judge Dismisses Trump Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton and FBI Crooks Who Manufactured Russia Collusion
Hoax. In April President Trump requested the Clinton-appointed judge overseeing his Russiagate case
against Hillary Clinton and others be removed from the case due to obvious conflicts of interest. President Trump
earlier had sued a number of individuals and former officials for their actions related to the Russiagate hoax and
attempted coup of his administration. Somehow this case was assigned to Clinton-appointed Judge Donald
Middlebrooks and Judge Ryon McCabe. Judge Donald Middlebrooks was appointed by Bill Clinton to the Southern
District of Florida in May 1997. President Trump urged the courts to replace the Clinton judge with someone who is
not biased in the case. Judge Ryon McCabe later recused himself from the case.
For
the Deep State, Trump Was Never President. There is something peculiar going on with the post facto
attempts to justify the search of Donald Trump's home. At first we were told that he had purloined American
nuclear secrets, complete with rank speculation that he sold them to the highest bidder. Then the magistrate who
authorized the search warrant ordered the release of a highly redacted supporting affidavit. The affidavit said
nothing about nuclear secrets and also had no specificity about the documents being sought; rather, it showed that the
whole affair arose from a spat with the National Archives, the presidential equivalent of overdue library books.
When the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, evidently they took everything, including personal effects, passports, and a large
number of sensitive documents protected by attorney-client privilege. In a separate lawsuit brought by Trump,
another federal judge appointed a special master to review the seized documents. This decision implicitly
recognized that Trump's claims of executive privilege may have some weight. After this, the leaks changed.
The leakers dropped the nonsense about American nuclear secrets, and said, instead, that Trump possessed a report about
an unnamed nation's nuclear capability.
Special
Counsel Must Choose: Risk A Russia Hoaxer's Second Acquittal Or Expose More Deep-State Dirt. Crossfire
Hurricane agents never intended to drop their investigation of Donald Trump, and therefore any lies he told the FBI did
not affect their decision-making, Igor Danchenko argued in a motion filed on Friday seeking dismissal of the criminal
charges pending against him in a Virginia federal court. With the trial set to start next month, Special Counsel
John Durham must now decide whether to acknowledge the deep state's complicity or risk a second acquittal. Durham
charged Danchenko last year with five counts of making false statements to the FBI related to Danchenko's role as
Christopher Steele's primary sub-source in the fake dossier the Hillary Clinton team peddled to the FBI and the
media. According to the indictment, Danchenko lied extensively when he provided Steele with supposed intel, and
then later made false representations to the FBI during a series of interviews.
Remember
that classifying documents usually protects the government, not you. The late Angelo Codevilla was a
brilliant political observer. A reader reminded me of one of his articles that is singularly appropriate to the
time in which we live. The article, written in 2018, suggests to Trump that, in addition to firing Robert Mueller,
instantly order the declassification of every document related in any way to the 2016 election. Had Trump taken
that advice, I'm certain we would today be living in a thriving America enjoying Trump's second term in office.
Aside from that wishful thinking, what's very clear is that bureaucrats too often classify documents not to protect
America and Americans, but to protect themselves. [...] Ultimately, what Trump really did wrong was allowing a
manifestly biased government process to take place. He should have trusted the American people with information
showing that the federal government is corrupt, possibly irredeemably so. That he trusted a corrupt government to
have an honest outcome reveals the dangerous naiveté that guided Trump during his first term.
When
Must a Good Citizen Become a Dissident? After Facebook's Zuckerberg recently confessed to censoring the
New York Post's explosive Hunter Biden "laptop from Hell" story (evidencing a compromised and most likely criminally
culpable Biden family) before the 2020 election in response to FBI pressure that the social media giant treat real news
as "Russian disinformation" (thereby corroborating that the national security Deep State helped rig the presidential
election), the FBI superciliously responded with the equivalent of a teenaged shoulder shrug and a haughty "so what?"
According to the FBI, our domestic spy agency regularly encourages censorship and secretive control over the free flow
of information. No big deal! Except it is a very big deal. Recent polling shows that nearly 80% of
Americans believe that President Trump would have won re-election had voters "known the truth about Hunter Biden's
laptop." In other words, the Deep State stole an election.
Never
Trump's Pursuit of Donald Trump Takes a Dark Turn. The pursuit of Donald Trump
continues apace by those who fancy themselves as Never Trump. Per RedState's Sunday prior
reporting, Adam Kinzinger recently did the one thing that makes him feel relevant by appearing on
Meet the Press. What followed was a ridiculous diatribe accusing Republicans of hypocrisy for
wanting Hillary Clinton charged but not Donald Trump regarding the handling of classified
information. Putting aside that Trump was president and had the power of declassification, do
you see how the game works? The rules get changed in order to protect a Democrat, but instead
of abiding by that new standard, Republicans are expected to play under the old rules. Yeah,
that's not how any of this works. It is not hypocritical to want the law applied evenly, and
while Clinton should have been charged, she wasn't and that changed things. Trump should not
be held to some arbitrary, "orange man bad" standard when it comes to enforcement of the law.
The
Primary Architect of The Trump Targeting Operation Surfaces on ABC News. For the past
five years Mary McCord has been one of a small and select lawfare group organizing the targeting of
President Trump. Mary McCord led the support team who created the Carter Page FISA warrant
using the Steele Dossier to replace the required 'Wood's file'. McCord was the DOJ-NSD official
who traveled with DOJ Deputy AG Sally Yates to talk to former White House counsel Don McGhan which
weaponized the Flynn-Kislyak call to remove Trump's National Security Advisor. Mary McCord
was the person who organized Alexander Vindman and Eric Ciaramella to construct the first
impeachment effort. Additionally, it was Mary McCord along with her former legal counsel,
turned Intelligence Community Inspector General, Michael Atkinson, who changed the ICIG
whistleblower rules allowing an anonymous complaint to underpin the false accusations from
Ciaramella against Trump. It was also Mary McCord who was appointed by FISA court Judge James
Boasberg as an amici curia to the court, intercepting issues of false information in filings from
the DOJ-NSD to the court as constructed by Kevin Clinesmith.
Mark
Zuckerberg Admits On Joe Rogan That Facebook Censored The Hunter Laptop Story At The Request Of The
FBI. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that before the New York Post
broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, the social media giant received a warning from the FBI which
prompted Facebook to limit the story's reach on the platform ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
The billionaire tech mogul said the FBI approached Facebook and warned it "be vigilant" before the
New York Post story on the contents in Joe Biden's son's laptop. [Video clip]
Trump
plans to take legal action against the DOJ and FBI. One of the major causes leading
up to the American Revolution was the "general warrant." This was a search warrant that was
completely open-ended, allowing the British government official to search anything, anywhere, at
any time. When they ratified the Bill of Rights, they explicitly banned general warrants,
requiring that all search warrants must be specific. The DOJ and FBI, though, went to
Mar-a-Lago with a warrant so broad it allowed them to take anything. Donald Trump has
therefore announced that he will be bringing an action against the government alleging his Fourth
Amendment rights were violated.
Dems'
war on ex-President Donald Trump is without precedent. When you cross the Rubicon,
there is no going back. Democrats are getting very close to that fateful moment. Their
dream to indict Donald Trump has turned into determination, putting them on a collision course with
history. No president has ever been prosecuted after leaving office, with even Richard Nixon
escaping that infamy after Watergate because of how it would tear America apart. Yet day by
day, the evidence shows Dems have liberated themselves from such concerns and are resolved that
this time will be different. The number and fervor of their army of prosecutors reveal a
contagious fever, and it often appears they are competing to be the first to file charges.
Will it be Attorney General Merrick Garland, who approved the raid on Mar-a-Lago and also has a
separate investigation of Trump regarding events before and after Jan. 6? Or will the first
shot come from Georgia, where the Fulton County district attorney is using a special-purpose grand jury
to investigate "election interference" in the state by Trump and his associates after the 2020 election?
Unconstitutional
security state targets Trump. Former President Donald Trump will soon be indicted by a federal grand jury.
He is the victim of a federal government that knows no bounds and has assumed powers nowhere granted in the Constitution by
the sheer force of its own will. It has created a security state, replete with three lettered acronymic-named
agencies — FBI, CIA, DEA, NSA, DIA — that are nowhere recognized in the Constitution, regularly break
the written and moral laws, and are themselves far more dangerous to human freedom than the folks they pursue. How many
laws have the feds broken? Ha. No one knows how many criminal laws Congress has enacted. Estimates range
from 4,400 to 5,500. How can this be? For starters, members of Congress in both parties rarely if ever read the
legislation they enact. House members were given 15 minutes to read the 132-page Patriot Act, which passed
overwhelmingly. And much federal law is so convoluted that a simple reading leaves even an experienced lawyer and
judge bewildered as to how many different behaviors were made criminal by the statute in question.
Spygate
Docs and Trump's RICO Lawsuit: Exploring the Real Reasons Behind the FBI Raid.
Following the FBI's raid of the residence of former President Donald Trump, there's been much
speculation about the Department of Justice's (DOJ) motivation. Was it done to prevent Trump
from running again in 2024, or was the raid related to documents and evidence surrounding the
January 6th Commission? While these factors may have had some bearing on the FBI's raid, some
entirely different, and potentially larger, factors may be at play. It is likely that the
FBI's raid on Trump was driven by intelligence community fears over information that was contained
within those documents relating to the RussiaGate hoax. The DOJ's coordinated FBI raid of
Trump was likely related to the potential unsealing and public presentation of this
information — particularly in relation to Trump's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act (RICO) suit against Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and former FBI officials like
former Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former agent Peter Strzok, and
former FBI lawyer Lisa Page — and his amended RICO suit, which added more defendants.
Quit Pretending.
What is the great offense? Answer: The people elected someone who was not approved. There is one permanent,
political and administrative deep state running the United States Government. It does not matter which color flag rests
atop the congressional spire, republican or democrat, it does not change the behavior of the participants.
Understanding
Why the Deep State Is Terrified of Trump's Documents. The CIA, with the knowledge of the Director of National
Intelligence, worked with British counterparts starting in the summer of 2015 to collect intelligence on Republican and at
least one Democrat candidate. John Brennan was probably hoping that his proactive steps to help the Hillary Clinton
campaign would ensure him taking over as DNI in the new Clinton Administration. Regardless of motives, the CIA enlisted
the British intelligence community to start gathering intelligence on most major Republican candidates and on Bernie
Sanders. This initial phase of intelligence gathering goes beyond opposition research. The information being
gathered identified the key personnel in each campaign and identified the people outside the United States receiving their
calls, texts and emails. This information was turned into intelligence reports that then were passed back to the United
States intel community as "liaison reporting." This was not put into normal classified channels. This intelligence
was put into a SAP, i.e. a Special Access Program.
Sources
Say Hillary Clinton Operatives Have Been Secretly Working With DOJ Officials For Several Months To Take Down
Trump. The FBI seized boxes containing records covered by attorney-client privilege and potentially executive
privilege during its raid of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News,
adding that the Justice Department opposed Trump lawyers' request for the appointment of an independent, special master to
review the records. Sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News Saturday that the former president's team was
informed that boxes labeled A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, A-33, and a set of documents — all seen on the final page of
the FBI's property receipt — contained information covered by attorney-client privilege. The FBI seized
classified records from Trump's Palm Beach home during its unprecedented Monday morning raid, including some marked as top
secret. But the former president is disputing the classification, saying the records have been declassified.
The
Establishment Has Emerged From the Shadows. They're Betting That You Won't Care. Our nation is under
siege. But this siege is not the result of some domestic or foreign terrorist threat. This siege on our great
republic comes from within the very institutions for which we have entrusted our nation with. The establishment, in
concert with their allies within the Department of Justice, have conducted an unanticipated, unprecedented raid on the
Mar-a-Lago residence of former President Donald Trump. Our institutions have betrayed us. They have engaged in
conduct that is more becoming of a third-world country where opposition battalions regularly raid the residences of their
political adversary and often kill them. They have proven themselves wolves, but they have not donned sheep's
clothing. This is a clear attempt to indict Trump for political gain; the establishment has shown their cards, and they
know that most will not bat an eye. A federal grand jury need only find probable cause to believe that Trump broke some
nebulous federal statute in order to indict him.
Stop
Assuming the Legitimacy of the Corrupt Establishment's Actions. [Scroll down] This was an atrocity, a
disgraceful, disgusting, and dangerous escalation of the War on the Normals by our enemies designed to frame Trump and send a
message to his supporters that we are second class citizens. There's no hidden, secret Trump crime that the garbage FBI
and the garbage DOJ are investigating. They spent the last six years trying to frame Donald Trump, but
right — this time it's for realsies! It would only be too perfect if it really was over possessing
classified info, which apparently is illegal again now. Here's the truth — it's all a lie designed to make
sure President Trump can never be elected again and finish what he started. I know it. You know it. They
know it. But some Republicans refuse to accept it. Instead, they still fall for this nonsense, pretending that
there's no way a government agency could be politicized and weaponized.
Their
Desperation to Stop Trump Isn't Just About Keeping Power, It's Fear of His Retribution. The raid on Mar-a-Lago
says a lot about where we are as a country but if you look closely it says a lot less about us and a lot more about the
Democrats. As I spent a lot of time explaining during Wednesday's RedState LIVE!, the Democrats have shown just how
desperate they are to stop Trump, so much so that they'll cook up one of the worst excuses to raid anyone in the history of
ever, and a former president no less. It's abundantly clear that they fear him running in 2024 and are searching
relentlessly for something, anything, that might prohibit him from being a candidate. But it's not just a loss of power
that they fear. Democrats do value it above all else... well, almost. The only thing they value above power is
self-preservation. They know that if Trump gets into the White House again, his work won't just be a continuation of
his first term.
The
Mar-a-Lago Raid is a Preview of a Rigged 2024 Election. On Thursday, FBI Director Christopher Wray cut short
his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee to fly the FBI's private jet to his family's vacation home. At the
hearing, Wray had admitted that disciplinary action against FBI personnel involved in Russiagate abuses had been "slowed
down" and refused to call Russiagate a "hoax". On Monday, President Trump revealed that Mar-a-Lago had been raided by
"a large group of FBI agents". Any warrant for such a raid would have been signed off on by Attorney General Merrick
Garland and his associates in the Biden administration which expects to face the former president in the next election.
Wray, who quietly listened to complaints about the politicization of the FBI from Senator Grassley and Cruz, among others,
would have known what was coming.
Deep
State Burns Its Bridges to Get Trump — and Now It's Fighting for Its Life. What are we to make of 30
or so FBI agents raiding President Trump's Florida home to collect maybe 35 boxes of records for what is perhaps the Deep
State's 7th or 8th impeachment attempt? First, why no raids on the Democrats who took the jet to Epstein's pedophile
island with its readily available sex with underage girls? Why no raids on Hunter Biden and the apparent crimes
documented on the laptop? Why no raids on Hilary Clinton after she destroyed evidence? The good news, and I think
it is great news, is that at least a third of the country no longer believes they can expect justice from the federal
department that bears that name.
The Existential
Threat. President Barack Obama's former campaign manager David Plouffe famously said of Donald Trump's entry
into politics: "It is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not
rise again." What was it that Washington DC and President Obama's team feared so much about Donald J Trump?
The answer to that question is why the FBI, DOJ and CIA targeted Trump in 2016; and why they continued the targeting in 2017 with
the Mueller investigation; and why they continued the targeting through two attempts at impeachment in 2019 and 2020; and why
they still keep targeting Donald Trump with the J6 committee and a DOJ investigation two years after he is no longer in
office. Donald J Trump is the existential threat. When your business involves gaining personal wealth by selling
out America, Donald Trump is bad for business.
They Can't Let Him Back In.
The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can't, and won't, if they can help it,
allow Donald Trump to be president again. In fact, they made this clear in 2020, in a series of public
statements. Simply for quoting their words in an essay for The American Mind, I was mercilessly mocked and
attacked. But they were quite clear. Trump won't be president at noon, Jan. 20, 2021, even if we have to use the
military to drag him out of there. If the regime felt that strongly back then, imagine how they feel now. But you
don't have to imagine. They tell you every day. Liz Cheney, Trump's personal Javert, has said that the 45th
president is literally the greatest threat facing America today — greater than China, than our crashing economy,
than our unraveling civil society.
Is
The J6 Committee Trying To Get Trump Re-Elected? Now that anonymous sources are leaking to The Washington Post
that the Department of Justice is officially targeting former President Donald Trump with criminal charges, this is a good
time to ask: Just how crazy are the occupants of Washington, D.C.? Do they really think they will indict, prosecute,
convict, and imprison the Republican frontrunner for president in 2024 without creating a massive amount of public backlash?
For half the country, trying to take down Trump for giving a speech over a mile away from the Capitol on Jan. 6 while
hardly anybody has been held accountable for the atrocious Russia collusion hoax that nearly destroyed his presidency
will be nothing less than total confirmation of a two-tiered and irreparably corrupt justice system and could permanently
tear the nation in two. This may come as a shocker to Washington, but Congress's J6 obsession is not high on Americans'
list of critical issues. Polls show the American people's top concerns are skyrocketing inflation and economic
uncertainty, not what happened on Jan. 6.
'US public
sphere has been poisoned by FBI, Obama administration'. The U.S. government under former President Barack Obama
employed obscurantist tactics reminiscent of those of Iran to overthrow Donald Trump before he even got started, according to
U.S. journalist Lee Smith. "Half of the country fell prey to an insane story about the president of the United States
working on behalf of a foreign power," Smith, author of "The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted
the American President," said this week in an interview with Ellie Cohanim. "Our entire public sphere has been poisoned
by what the FBI did, by what [former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency] John Brennan did, by what Hillary Clinton
did, and by what Barack Obama did." Smith was referring to the Clinton campaign plot in the fall of 2016 to share
information with a reporter about Trump being tied to a top Russia bank, and about Russia supposedly helping swing the
election for Trump. Ultimately, no evidence of conspiracy was found. [Video clip]
Why
Donald Trump Should Not Run for President in 2024. If Trump were to defeat the ruling elites a second time,
their nihilist radical left-wing allies and their media sycophants would be consumed with uncontrolled vengeance. Their
determination to destroy Trump on a personal basis would exceed that of his first term. Thereby, creating incessant and
ongoing media-driven national chaos and anxiety and diverting the citizenry's attention from the necessity of utilizing every
political tactic available to permanently defeat this malevolent cabal. Nor should Trump be expected to further erode
and further damage his family business ventures that would take significantly greater hits than what he suffered in his first
term during which he experienced a loss of over 33% of his net worth (or $1 Billion).
One Way Government.
We are still told that our government operates by the formal dictates outlined in the Constitution — checks and
balances carefully designed to limit the power any one side can wield while in office. But that is no longer the
case. In our desire to remove politics from public policy decisions we have replaced our constitutional republic with
governance by technocracy, i.e. governance by the deep state. And the deep state is a ratchet: it only moves in one
direction because that is what it is designed to do. The deep state ensures that our government, if it moves at all,
always moves to the left, especially when it is gaining power. This is why the Right has a very difficult time
establishing lasting change in the permanent machinery of Washington. By controlling the institutions that credential
bureaucrats, the Left controls the ideology that will guide the decisions of the technocracy, no matter who 'officially'
controls it.
Proof
Former Obama Admin Officials Committed Treason Under Trump. It's impossible to say that I'm shocked by the
latest bombshell courtesy of the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ). According to a memo obtained by ACLJ via a
FOIA lawsuit, several Obama administration officials held secret meetings with Iran during Trump's presidency. [Tweet]
Former Obama Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to undermine Trump by negotiating with Iran as Trump was working towards
pulling out of the nuclear deal have been known for years. But the memo obtained by the ALCJ is from October 2018,
titled "Notes From 'Iran and the US: An Off-the-Record Conversation with Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif" has never
been seen before now, and shows that Kerry wasn't the one working to undermine Trump.
FBI ignored
lies to get their hands on Trump. [Clinton campaign lawyer Michael] Sussmann claimed he was not representing
any client when he brought the FBI internet data that he insisted showed that Donald Trump had established a communications
back channel with the Kremlin, through servers at Russia's Alfa-Bank. In reality, Sussmann was representing the
presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. He wanted an "October surprise" to torpedo Trump's chances, and what better
way than to make it look like the FBI was investigating the candidate? It's clear from text messages and testimony that
Sussmann lied about not having any ulterior motives, and simply acting as a concerned citizen. But his defense presents
a problem — both to the FBI's reputation and special counsel John Durham's prosecution of the lawyer.
Sussmann argues that no matter what he said, FBI officials knew he was aligned with the Clintons.
Drain The Swamp.
The bureaucratic mire in DC is full of predatory beasts, noxious insects, and other unseen hazards. Directives from the
White House are apt to be ignored because there is no one translating those directives into marching orders for the lower
floors of government-owned buildings. This leaves the denizens of departments to their own devices, none of whom are
the slightest bit concerned with anything beyond the office water cooler. [...] If the Secretary of Department X decides to
go full MAGA, little or nothing will actually happen, since most of his underlings frankly don't [care]. They are
protected by Civil Service rules and can't be fired short of the next millennium. In other words, it's hopeless.
Yes, I know, Donald Trump claims to know what he did wrong and will do things differently next time. It all sounds
good, but so do all the claims from every politician. After all, they're "fighting for you!" But actually, they're
mostly trying to baffle you [...] so you'll vote for them again.
The Swamp Must
Be Drained. Trump ran against the corrupt back-scratching, log-rolling society of the OBushintons —
the Clinton pay-to-play schemes, the Biden sales of influence and access, the semi-disguised socialist racism elitism of the
Obamas, and the flabby sameness and ineffectuality of the Bush-McCain-Romney-McConnell-Ryan Republicans. Trump sensed
the people were dissatisfied with the bipartisan Swamp, and he ran as strenuously against the Bushes and McCain and Romney in
2016 as he did against the Clintons and Obamas. The anti-Trumpers of both parties, in the most legally questionable
presidential election in U.S. history, eased Trump out in 2020 with the aid of 4.8 million harvested ballots, 95 percent
of the national political media, and 70 percent of the campaign money, to bring in (unintentionally, one assumes, although there
was plenty of warning) the most incompetent regime in the country's history. In 2020, the Washington establishment
demonstrated the accuracy of Trump's claims of how corrupt and unscrupulous it was, and Biden has demonstrated that it's even
more incompetent at government than Trump alleged.
'Deep
State' Was Working Against Trump on COVID-19 Response: Paul Alexander. According to Paul Alexander, when
former President Donald Trump was trying to tackle COVID-19 in 2020, the "swamp" or the "deep state" was working against him,
using flawed data to tarnish him, locking down society, and keeping schools closed. "Can you imagine the president of
the United States fighting against the [teachers'] union, fighting against the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)], fighting against his own task force?" Alexander told EpochTV's "Facts Matter" program in an interview that will air
on May 3. "They're working against him. So you need to be there to understand when he said 'the
swamp' — and he talked about deep state — it is real. I dealt with them. It is the
bureaucracy. The entrenched bureaucracy is real." From late March till early September 2020, Alexander served as
scientific adviser to Michael Caputo, then-assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
Clinton
Campaign, DNC Misreported Opposition Research as Legal Services: FEC. Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential
campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) labeled payments that went to Fusion GPS for opposition research against
her rival Donald Trump as going to legal services, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has determined. A years-long
investigation into the matter, triggered by multiple complaints, led commission lawyers to conclude that payments reported as
legal services actually went to Fusion to dig into Trump, documents released on April 28 show. Invoices "demonstrate
that Fusion was providing opposition research services related to Trump and Russia, and there is no evidence that Fusion
provided services other than this opposition research," the lawyers wrote in a brief.
The
terrible unintended consequences of the Biden presidency (unless they were intended). From the moment Donald Trump
rode down that escalator, the American left began their campaign to destroy the man and prevent him from being elected. [...] For
nearly three years, with the aid of the FBI, the DOJ and the CIA, they sought to make absolutely certain he could not be
re-elected. The Clintons, Obamas and their activist worker bees in and out of Congress worked tirelessly to destroy
Donald Trump. For four years, Mark Elias traveled state to state to get election laws changed to facilitate the
cheating they planned. [...] But the NeverTrumpers cared not a bit about the American people. They cared only about
removing the outsider from their swamp. They feared his pledge to drain that swamp, to expose all their personal
get-rich arrangements, all of them essentially corrupt.
Newly
Obtained Emails Raise Questions About Department Of Defense Involvement In Spygate. After spending weeks
dismissing concerns about its work with Russia hoax-connected researchers, a newly discovered email from The Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency to a Georgia Tech researcher with the subject line "Mueller case" casts doubt on DARPA's
denials. Last month, The Federalist first reported that an email exchange obtained from Georgia Tech pursuant to a
Right-to-Know request indicated that Special Counsel John Durham's office was investigating the Democrat National Committee
hack. Manos Antonakakis, the Georgia Tech researcher branded "Researcher-1" in the special counsel's indictment of
former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, penned the email shortly after being questioned by one of Durham's top
prosecutors. The special counsel's office charged Sussmann last fall with lying to the FBI's general counsel, James
Baker, when Sussmann provided Baker with data and white papers supposedly showing the existence of a secret communications
network between the Donald Trump campaign and the Russian-based Alfa Bank.
New
Documents Suggest Democrats Sicced The CIA On Their Domestic Enemy, The President. Newly released CIA memoranda
suggest the tech gurus behind the Alfa Bank hoax also tracked Donald Trump's movements to devise another collusion conspiracy
theory. While smaller in scale than other aspects of Spygate, the Yotaphone hoax represents an equally serious scandal
because it involved both the mining of proprietary information and sensitive data from the Executive Office of the President
(EOP) and the apparent surveillance of Trump's physical movements. When Special Counsel John Durham charged former
Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann in September 2021, the indictment focused on the Alfa Bank hoax that
Sussmann, tech executive Rodney Joffe, and other cybersecurity experts had crafted. The indictment detailed how Joffe
and other tech experts had allegedly mined data and developed "white papers" that deceptively created the impression that
Trump had maintained a secret communication network with the Russia-based Alfa Bank.
One
Industry Insider Suggests The U.S. Government Plays A HUGE Role In Twitter. There aren't a lot of new insights
I come across where I sit dumbfounded, but this was one of them. A huge kudos to Sundance over at Conservative
Treehouse for shedding some light on the mostly-unknown world of Big Tech. As bad as Twitter and the entire tech
oligarchy is, it would appear that the situation is worse than even imagned. Shadow banning of conservatives isn't
fair — or legal, if Twitter is indeed the new public square — but things are about to really heat up if
Sundance's insights and Elon's recent actions prove meaningful. In short, Musk either intentionally or unintentionally
stumbled upon the fact that Twitter's servers might be, or probably are, owned by several world governments and almost
assuredly our own. The next time you consider the fact that the sitting President of the United States was banned, just
imagine THOSE ramifications.
News From The
Culture War Front. The GOP-E is notoriously skittish about the Culture War that's been raging in America.
The GOP-E preference, we've been told, based on fairly indisputable evidence, is to manage the devolution of America into a
Social Democrat utopia — managers of the Revolution. And they've been paid well to take on that role, so
it's small wonder that so much of the GOP-E were frankly appalled at winning. It wasn't just Trump — it was
all the deplorables coming out, getting involved, voting. The whole thing. That's the story behind what
investigations of Election 2020 are documenting — the coup against Trump was enabled in no small part not only by
DC Establishment GOPers but by the state party apparatus as well.
Durham
bombshell: Prosecutor unveils smoking gun FBI text message, 'joint venture' to smear Trump. Special
Counsel John Durham is revealing new smoking gun evidence, a text message that shows a Clinton campaign lawyer lied to the
FBI, while putting the courts on notice he is prepared to show the effort to smear Donald Trump with now-disproven Russia
collusion allegations was a "conspiracy." In a bombshell court filing late Monday night, Durham for the first time
suggested Hillary Clinton's campaign, her researchers and others formed a "joint venture or conspiracy" for the purpose of
weaving the collusion story to harm Trump's election chances and then the start of his presidency. "These parties acted
as 'joint venturer[s]' and therefore should be 'considered as co-conspirator[s],'" he wrote.
Biden
[is] Telling Staffers He Wants the Justice Department to Prosecute Trump. Joe Biden is telling staffers that he
wants the Justice Department to prosecute former President Trump and other political opponents. In an article about
Attorney General Merrick Garland 'facing pressure as the January 6 investigation widens,' The New York Times claimed Biden
wants Garland to prosecute Trump. The New York Times reported: "As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden
confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be
prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments."
CIA
Officer Who Signed Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Claims Credit for Trump Loss. One of the former CIA officers who
signed a letter claiming stories about a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden were disinformation says he helped swing
the 2020 election away from President Donald Trump. "I take special pride in personally swinging the election away from
Trump," John Sipher, who served for decades as a senior operations officer at the CIA, wrote in a recent post on
Twitter. "I lost the election for Trump? Well then I fell [sic] pretty good about my influence." Sipher and
50 other former U.S. intelligence officials signed the letter on Oct. 19, 2020, alleging that the effort to distribute the
laptop's contents "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," despite not knowing whether the laptop
was legitimate.
Clinton-Appointed
Judge Rules Trump "More Likely Than Not" Committed Crimes When He 'Attempted to Obstruct' Congress on January 6. A
federal judge on Monday ruled former president Trump likely committed crimes when he 'attempted to obstruct' Congress on
January 6, 2021. US District Judge David Carter, a Clinton appointee ruled that Trump "more likely than not"
committed felony obstruction. "Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly
attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," the judge wrote, according to ABC News.
Earlier this month the January 6 Committee said Trump may have engaged in criminal conduct to overturn the 2020 election.
Huh? Was Trump on trial? I must have missed it. This sure sounds like a verdict. Trump
likely committed felony obstruction, federal judge rules. A federal judge ruled Monday that former President
Donald Trump "more likely than not" attempted to illegally obstruct Congress as part of a criminal conspiracy when he tried
to subvert the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021. "Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that
President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," U.S. District Court Judge
David Carter wrote.
How
Bill Barr's Silence Impacted the Outcome of an Election. On May 18, 2020, then-Attorney General Bill Barr made
a statement to the media, declaring that special counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Russiagate hoax
wasn't focused on either former President Barack Obama or former Vice President Joe Biden, stating that "I don't expect
Mr. Durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man." In his new book, Barr has revealed that he
made that statement in response to a series of tweets by then-President Donald Trump. A week earlier, Trump had started
using the term "Obamagate" on Twitter, alleging that both Obama and Biden had "led the charge" on the FBI's phony Russiagate
investigation. Barr recounts in his book that he felt it was unacceptable for Trump to attempt to drag his presidential
election opponent into the Russiagate scandal and that Barr felt that it was incumbent upon him to make a public
statement. The corporate media immediately seized upon Barr's statement, with The Washington Post running a same-day
headline that "Barr says he does not expect Obama or Biden will be investigated by prosecutor reviewing 2016 Russia probe."
The New York Times' headline went further, claiming that "Barr Dismisses Trump's Claim That Russia Inquiry Was an Obama Plot."
AG
Barr Zeroes in on the Real Interference That Occurred in the Last Presidential Election. Former Attorney
General William Barr has a new book out, so he's making the rounds. He's rehashing some of the controversies of the
2020 election. Specifically, he's commenting on the Hunter Biden laptop story that has finally been realized as
authentic by the liberal media. Now, we knew this already back when it was originally reported by The New York Post in
October of 2020. The Post was censored by big tech over this piece of journalism that made Joe Biden look awful. It
wasn't Russian disinformation, though every intelligence official came out of the woodwork to say so without evidence.
They signed a letter. Joe even lied about his son's laptop during the debates which disturbed Barr immensely. The
former DOJ chief now says this story was weaponized to tilt the election, and it very well could be responsible for Biden's win.
Spies
who lie: 51 'intelligence' experts refuse to apologize for discrediting true Hunter Biden story. They are the
supposed nonpartisan group of top spies looking out for the best interest of the nation. But the 51 former "intelligence"
officials who cast doubt on The [New York] Post's Hunter Biden laptop stories in a public letter really were just desperate
to get Joe Biden elected president. And more than a year later, even after their Deep State sabotage has been shown
again and again to be a lie, they refuse to own up to how they undermined an election. The officials, including
CNN pundit and professional fabricator James Clapper — a man who was nearly charged for perjury for lying to
Congress — signed a letter saying that the laptop "has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
What proof did they have? By their own admission, none. "We do not know if the emails ... are genuine or not,"
the letter said. They're just "suspicious." Why? Because they hurt Biden's campaign, that's evidence
enough. Keep in mind this was written Oct. 19, 2020, five days after The Post published its first story. Neither
Joe Biden nor Hunter Biden had denied the story, they simply deflected questions. Didn't these security experts think
that if this was disinformation, the Biden campaign would have yelled to the heavens that the story was false?
Trump
Offers a Proposal to Destroy the Deep State. Virtually all Americans believed, until the inauguration of Donald
Trump as president on January 20, 2017, that when someone became president, he could begin to implement his agenda.
Certainly Old Joe Biden's handlers have done so with a vengeance since they took over; but when Trump became president, he
immediately began to encounter resistance from entrenched members of the government bureaucracy who refused to do as he
ordered. Some worked actively against Trump, while the establishment media assured us that these self-appointed "deep
state" saboteurs were the courageous guardians of "our democracy." At his South Carolina rally Saturday night, Trump
continued to tease a 2024 run and made a new promise about how he would break the power of the unelected "deep state."
Biden's
America: The inmates are running the asylum. [Scroll down] The swamp that is D.C. is known for
promoting the incompetent. How else to explain Joe Biden's rise to president? He was always a failed senator, a
grifter who used his position to cheat and enrich himself. The same goes for the Clintons, the Obamas, and a host of
other swamp-dwellers. They were all sold to us as the "smartest people in the room" but they are actually the most
venal people in any room. So enamored of their own superiority, they think nothing of fabricating a tall tale about the
outsider presidential candidate to take him out. When he won despite the cheating that they thought ensured a Clinton
victory, they doubled down on their criminality; they invented the Russia hoax that enveloped and hampered the Trump
presidency. That despicable stunt has possibly led us to the Russia/Ukraine war now dominating the world. Russia
never wanted Trump to win the 2016 election for now obvious reasons: he was a strong, American First leader. The
Russians wanted Hillary as they wanted Biden — thoroughly corruptible pols who would do their bidding.
The
Curious Case of Stefan Halper, Longtime 'Zelig' of American Scandals Who 'Crossfired' Trump. In the late summer
of 2016 Stefan A. Halper met with at least three of Donald Trump's associates in England and the United States, bragging
about his friendship with Russian spies who "can be very helpful to us at this time." As they listened to his tales of
foreign intrigue and promises of illegal foreign help, what George Papadopoulos, Carter Page and Sam Clovis did not know was
that Halper was not who he said he was. He was, indeed, a spy, but his handler was not the Kremlin — it was
the FBI. Armed with leading questions and on at least two occasions a hidden tape recorder, Halper had been tasked by the
bureau with finding dirt on the Trump campaign. Halper's undercover operation, which was documented in a report by the
Department of Justice's Inspector General, would prove largely a bust. Transcripts between Halper and Trump campaign
officials would show that none of them took the bait, or appeared to otherwise be soliciting Russia's help in the 2016
presidential campaign
The
Prosecutors Who Resigned Over Trump Criminal Probe Completely Expose Themselves. No president in history has
faced more corrupt lawfare than Donald Trump, and that didn't end once he left office. Numerous criminal probes are
going on in various far-left districts, including New York City and Atlanta, in an attempt to throw Trump in prison for
anything they can come up with. You see, unlike most criminal investigations, these probes didn't start with a clearly
defined crime that demanded justice. Rather, they started with a political target, and everything else has flowed from
there. As you'd expect, those corrupt practices have led to some hiccups, most recently with the probe happening out of
the Manhattan DA's office. In February, RedState reported on the resignation of two lead prosecutors who were upset the
newly elected DA (a Democrat) was expressing reservations about their case.
Former
AG Bill Barr outs himself as an establishment swamp creature. When I think of former Attorney General William
Barr, I think of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Part of him is an upstanding figure who respected constitutional
limitations; another part of him is a loyal swamp creature who desperately wanted to serve a milquetoast George W. Bush (or
George H.W. Bush) only to find himself working for a vigorous, aggressive Donald J. Trump. Both those aspects of
his personality apparently come through loud and clear in a new 600-page book (and doorstop) in which he narrates his stints as
U.S. Attorney General under both George Bush, Sr., and Donald Trump.
If
they spied on Trump, they will spy on you. If the revelation earlier this month that Big Tech executives
continued to spy on Donald Trump after the 2016 election and into his presidency was an isolated incident, it would not be a
grave concern. But once you step back and see the pattern of behavior by those in power to spy on and systematically
undermine a democratically elected president, every citizen should be concerned. When the FBI first opened its
investigation into allegations that candidate Trump was coordinating with Russia, the FBI inspector general reported that the
leadership of the FBI "hand-picked" the team that would conduct "one of the most sensitive FBI investigations" in the
agency's history. These were supposed to be agents of the highest character and professionalism.
Eulogy
for a Bureaucrat With a Conscience. A statesman died last week who did not sacrifice his conscience, and paid a
price for it. His death, so far as I know, had nothing to do with his conscience, but his firing from his public duties
had everything to do with it. And because he was removed instead of rewarded, the nation did edge toward chaos.
In July 2017, Rich Higgins was unceremoniously dismissed from his job at the National Security Council, forced to resign as
the result of a seven-page memo he wrote describing an internal and external threat to Donald Trump's presidency. "This
is not politics as usual but rather political warfare at an unprecedented level that is openly engaged in the direct
targeting of a seated president through manipulation of the news cycle," he wrote. "It must be recognized on its own
terms so that immediate action can be taken. At its core, these campaigns run on multiple lines of effort, serve as the
non-violent line of effort of a wider movement, and execute political warfare agendas that reflect cultural Marxist outcomes.["]
The
Case Against Trump (Predictably) Collapses in Manhattan. Two prosecutors leading the Manhattan district
attorney's probe into former President Donald Trump's business practices threw a temper tantrum and quit on Wednesday.
They'd spent more than a year trying to cobble together fragments of a ludicrously weak case, only to be told by the
newly-elected D-A, Alvin Bragg, that there is "no there there." It's not unusual for an elected D-A to take office and
undertake a review of ongoing cases, especially high-profile ones. And it's not uncommon when the line prosecutors —
who have spent months or years trying to build a case — get their knickers in a bunch if the new D-A takes a
different point of view by concluding that the case has serious problems with those pesky things called evidence and proof.
We
Can't All Be Traitors, Can We? [Scroll down] If "subverting democracy" has any meaning at all, the
organized and relentless campaign to overthrow Donald Trump takes the cake. If "treason" meant anything other than
"opposition to Democrats or their bureaucratic instruments in permanent control of the federal government," then Hillary
Clinton would be in prison, the FBI and CIA would be disbanded, and President Trump would be serving his second term as we
speak. Alas, totalitarianism always brings with it the death of meaning. And even lauded legal giants such as
Laurence Tribe and Merrick Garland prove that ideology alone controls their understanding of what is right and fair. At
the end of the day, anyone who dares disagree with them is likely a traitor and guilty of treason, just as those who dared to
stand up to the madmen of the past were demeaned as traitors, too.
'Those
Who Make Peaceful Revolution Impossible Will Make Violent Revolution Inevitable'. Every single American with a
functioning brain knows that Donald Trump won the election in 2020 and that everyone from Mark Zuckerberg to the mainstream
media to the Democrat party to Never Trumper "conservatives" conspired to steal it. And they did. Of course, the
theft of the election comes after four years of continuous attacks. The genesis of most of those attacks was the
activity John Durham laid out in his court filing: Hillary Clinton's funding the fabricated data suggesting Trump was
colluding with the Russians in order to steal the election. The Democrats produced, proffered, and peddled this pure
propaganda, and the media parroted and promoted it. Millions of Americans bought it, hook, line, and sinker, leading to
a Special Counsel to investigate ties between the Russians and the Trump campaign. That Special Counsel and the media's
constant promotion of the "Russian collusion" hoax kneecapped Trump's administration.
Vindman
and the rest of the Trump-hating Ukraine cabal have much to answer for. The Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine
has finally happened, and now the Trump-haters who tried to impeach President Trump over Ukraine have much to answer
for. Looking at you, Alexander Vindman. Looking at you, Alexandra and Andrea Chalupa. Looking at you, Fiona
Hill. These are all the crummy little supposedly pro-Ukraine operatives who did their [utmost] to undermine President
Trump during his administration. After all, the Russia invasion didn't happen on Trump's watch as they plotted and
schemed against him instead of doing their jobs.
Byron
York catalogs the effort to spy on the Trump campaign. Chief political correspondent for the Washington
Examiner Byron York appeared on Laura Ingraham's show Quake Media to outline all the different attempts to spy on
former President Donald Trump's campaign. York appeared on the program Saturday to debunk the cover-up behind the FBI's
investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. "We found out that the FBI employed a
confidential informant, the professor Stefan Halper, who had conversations and tried to get information out of George
Papadopoulos and out of Carter Page," York explained. Halper's conversations would go on to be cited in the findings of
the Department of Justice's inspector general report on FISA abuse. "Then, we learned that the FBI actually sent an
undercover agent with the alias Azra Turk to go and befriend [Papadopoulous], record Papadopoulous secretly in their
conversations. If that's not a spy I don't know what is."
Truth about techies
who targeted Trump. The usual suspects are already circling the wagons around the techie "experts" who spied on
Donald Trump. If their defense feels tired, it's because we've been through it before. It's Christopher Steele
all over again. Special counsel John Durham destroyed the last shreds of Mr. Steele's credibility last year,
proving that the paid-for-hire spook had relied on fabrications for the infamous dossier the Federal Bureau of Investigation
used in its Trump probe. The special counsel is now dismantling that other big claim of Trump-Russia
"collusion" — the Alfa Bank narrative. The wonder is that the press and others are stepping up for another
humiliation — when the disturbing actions of the creators of the Alfa narrative are already so easy to document,
and in their own words. The Alfa story came to life in October 2016, when Franklin Foer of Slate was gulled into
writing that a largely anonymous "benevolent posse" of "computer scientists," "spurred by a sense of shared idealism," had
discovered data showing secret communications between the Trump Organization and Russia-based Alfa Bank.
Six
Things Clarified By The Durham Probe. [#6] At this point, there is only one question left to answer:
How deep does this go? Unfortunately, there are so many twists, turns, cover-ups, misdirection, and layers to this we
might never get to the bottom. There's also the fact that Durham might not want to or be allowed to ever get there,
either. This whole thing is a mess, and the more we learn, the messier it simply gets. All of this means that the
lay newsreader can never quite keep up, and even when they do, bits of information are discussed here, obscure and unknown
names are dropped over there, and technical aspects are folded in everywhere, ultimately meaning that the Clinton campaign's
operation to lie, cheat, and steal will be given cover by the sheer scope of it all.
Those
responsible for the 'dirty tricks' against Trump need to face consequences. "Dirty tricks" was a term used to
describe the behavior of operatives within the Nixon administration to smear the reputations of opponents and undermine the
appeal of certain politicians. [...] Dirty tricks are not to be confused with negative campaigning, which at least has some
component of truth, but a filing by special counsel John Durham that alleges the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary
Clinton paid a technology company to "spy" — the word Donald Trump uses — on his presidential campaign,
goes beyond dirty tricks into the illegal.
Deep
State and Congress: Who Controls Who? Donald Trump warned Americans about the Deep State. Instead
of listening, Democrats (the Party of yore that actually cared about abusive government power) and their cronies in the
Mainstream Media mocked him for peddling an "Alt-Right conspiracy." Not only do we now have more than sufficient proof
that the Deep State exists, but clear evidence it has grown stronger, bolder, and more dangerous. In just the past
week, two shocking reports have come to light that detail the extent to which the Deep State has flourished in the
shadows. The first comes from Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich, who, in a just-declassified letter to the
country's top Foreign Intelligence officials, called for full disclosure of a previously classified, April 2021 report by the
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB).
Hillary
Clinton Spied on Trump Even After the Election — and I Think I Know Why. As RedState reported, John
Durham dropped an absolute bombshell of a filing on Saturday detailing Hillary Clinton's spying against Donald Trump.
Allies of the DNC used a sensitive government arrangement that was started under Barack Obama's tenure to then target the DNS
traffic of Trump. The purpose of that was to try to prove a nefarious connection with Russia, with the information
being passed back to the DNC and Clinton. That scheme bolstered now-debunked tweets like this from the failed 2016
presidential nominee. [Tweet from 2016] Yet, one of the most shocking parts of the filing was the fact that the spying
continued after Trump was inaugurated — which begs the question of why? At that point, what would be the
purpose? I think I have a pretty good idea, and to be honest, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. She was
trying to overturn the election. Ask yourself why she'd even bother to keep looking into Trump if the goal wasn't to
prove he was an illegitimate president?
Swamp
Thing: Who is Colin Kahl? With revelations from the Durham special counsel's investigation that the
Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 paid tech executives to spy on the Trump campaign, the Trump residence, and then the Trump
presidency, many political watchers think significant indictments are probably coming as a result of it. The tech
executive, for one, has fired back at Durham, which, if nothing else, signals how big of trouble he might be in. John
Ratcliffe, President Trump's former director of National Intelligence, thinks "significant" indictments are coming.
John
Durham: Democrats Paid to 'Infiltrate' Trump White House Servers. Special counsel John Durham's team
alleged on Feb. 12 that a tech executive aligned with the Democratic Party was paid to spy on former President Donald Trump's
residences and the White House when Trump was president. Lawyers for the Clinton campaign allegedly paid the technology
executive to infiltrate servers at the Trump Tower and the White House, Durham said in court filings, in order to establish
an "inference" and "narrative" to tie Trump to the Russian government. Durham's office made the claim as part of his
investigation that had brought charges against Michael Sussmann, a lawyer who had worked on behalf of the Democratic National
Committee and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and who is currently charged with making a false statement to the FBI.
Durham alleged Sussmann "had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients,
including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1) at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the
Clinton campaign," according to a section in the court filing, titled "Factual Background."
"I
Hope Donald Trump Sues Them All for Everything! ... This is the Biggest Scandal We've Ever Seen!" — Maria
Bartiromo. This weekend we learned that the Durham investigators uncovered evidence that shows Hillary
Clinton's team paid operatives to "infiltrate" the Trump Tower and then President Trump's White House servers to link Trump
to Russia. [...] On Sunday morning [2/13/2022] Maria Bartiromo exploded on FOX and Friends Weekend over the historic
findings in the Durham probe! Maria said this will go down as one of the greatest political scandals in US history!
Trump
accuses Hillary Clinton campaign of treason after Special Counsel John Durham said they paid tech firm to hack into his White
House servers. Donald Trump has furiously accused Hillary Clinton's election campaign of treason after a
special counsel said her team had tried to spy on his White House servers in a bid to find ties to Russia to smear him
with. The former president unleashed a furious broadside on Saturday, claiming that Team Clinton's behavior would once
have merited execution, after Special Counsel John Durham made a court filing explaining the alleged hack. Trump said:
'The latest pleading from Special Counsel (John) Durham proves indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were
spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia.
The
Latest Democrat/RINO Plan to Prevent Trump From Running Again in 2024. Why did Mitch McConnell break ranks with
the Republican National Committee and insist, contrary to a growing mountain of evidence, that the Jan. 6 incident was "a
violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified
election from one administration to the next"? [...] If it was an insurrection, then Trump, who has grown increasingly
critical and contemptuous of McConnell, can be barred from running in 2024. The initiative to do this is gathering steam.
[...] The Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 [...] was designed to keep unrepentant Confederates out of public office after the
Civil War (although many did hold office, as more often than not Congress did vote to waive the prohibition). As PJM's
Rick Moran noted Wednesday [2/9/2022], it's already being used against America-First Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.),
although he is fighting back hard. It's likely to be used against others who are associated with the Jan. 6
non-insurrection as well. But Cawthorn and the rest would just be a dry run. The great white whale these Captain
Ahabs are hunting is Donald Trump, and they hope that in the 14th Amendment, they have found their harpoon.
The
United States Government Is "Desperate to Hide the Truth". How are Americans going to respond when
Washington D.C, the Fourth Branch of the security and surveillance state, and all the institutions of the United States
government, officially declare that Donald John Trump will not be permitted to run for office? If you have not
thought about that question, we had better hurry up and get that conversation front and center. It's about to
happen, and President Trump knows it.
And the
Band Played On. In 2016, surrogates for the Obama administration, operating as a fifth column behind a curtain
of national intelligence and federal law enforcement loyalists, plotted for a de facto third term by initiating a corrupt
campaign against the candidacy of a populist Republican candidate. Crazed after the consequent loss to Donald Trump,
they commenced a broadside of straw allegations and conspiracies against the new president and his supporters. More
than a dozen Democrat-run subcommittees over two terms of Congress opened fifty probes of the Trump administration, harassed
political opponents with subpoenas, alternately withheld and leaked secret testimony without fear of reckoning, and staged
two theatrical impeachment proceedings replete with cutaway footage of silly walks between the chambers. Throughout,
the Trump presidency stayed off the ropes, fending off serial indignities while effectively tackling the business of the
people, securing the border, reducing unemployment, achieving energy independence, and sending more than 200 judges
to the federal bench, including three Supreme Court justices.
Durham
vs. Horowitz: Tension Over Truth and Consequences Grips the FBI's Trump-Russia Reckoning. As he
documents the role of Hillary Clinton's campaign in generating false allegations of Trump-Russia collusion, Special Counsel
John Durham has also previewed a challenge to the FBI's claims about how and why its counterintelligence investigation of the
Trump campaign began. At stake is the completeness of the official reckoning within the U.S. government over the
Russiagate scandal — and whether there will be an accounting commensurate with the offense: the abuse of the
nation's highest law enforcement and intelligence powers to damage an opposition presidential candidate turned president, at
the behest of his opponent from the governing party he defeated. The drama is playing out against the clashing
approaches of the two Justice Department officials tasked with scrutinizing the Russia probe's origins and unearthing any
misconduct: Durham, the Sphinx-like prosecutor with a reputation for toughness whose work continues; and Michael
Horowitz, the Department of Justice inspector general, whose December 2019 report faulted the FBI's handling of the Russia
probe but nonetheless concluded that it was launched in good faith.
The
Democrats Are Attempting A Coup By Lawfare. As a rule, the Constitution prevents Congress from prohibiting a
person who meets the basic requirements of Article I §2 (age, citizenship, residency) from competing in a federal
election or being seated in government should they win. [...] The only exception to this power written into our constitutional
law came with the passage of the 14th Amendment on the heels of the Civil War after 1,500,000 Americans were killed or wounded
and one of John Wilkes's distant relatives assassinated a president. That limited exception is that people who have
committed rebellion or insurrection against the U.S. may be excluded from running for office or excluded from office if they
win an election. The progressive left is going all out to paint conservatives as "domestic terrorists" and to claim that
the January 6 riot — a riot of a few hours by people with no weapons and carried out virtually without violence
(and that may have been part of an FBI entrapment scheme) — is tantamount to our Civil War of 1861-1865. This
is so far beyond ludicrous it is stunning. Yet progressives fully embrace this tactic as their only hope to stop a popular
vote that promises to be a wave election in 2022 and an Electoral College vote that might return Trump to power in 2024.
The
FBI's Broken Relationship with Us. All large organizations suffer from the occasional presence of bad
actors. The FBI is no exception. But it managed to retain a good relationship with the public in spite of its
flaws, because it was still solving rather than creating crimes. But something fundamentally changed in the last five
years. [...] "Crossfire Hurricane" was the investigation into alleged Trump collusion with Russia to steal an election.
Within a couple of months, the bureau knew that the whole thing was a hoax created by Hillary, yet the investigation
continued for three years — eventually transitioning into a special counsel investigation. Peter Strzok
called "Crossfire Hurricane" the bureau's insurance policy — against a Trump presidency. It was a good way
to show off for his mistress, Lisa Page — a rabid anti-Trump FBI lawyer.
Durham's
Investigation: Incriminating Inference in the FBI's Empty Russiagate Predication. The vaporous
predication for the FBI's opening of its "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation of "Russian collusion" is often attributed
solely to anti-Trump bias, with no more to learn from its study. But sustained examination shows it to be not only
pretextual but also designed to conceal American history's most insidious governmental treachery since Benedict Arnold.
According to the FBI, the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation was opened on July 31, 2016, because lowly Trump aide George
Papadopoulos had been told by one Professor Joseph Mifsud that Russia had emails harmful to Hillary Clinton. Two weeks
later, Australian (FFG) diplomat, British-connected Alexander Downer, pried from Papadopoulos that Russia had dirt on
Hillary, which he repeated in July to an American embassy in London. Because both Mifsud and Downer were Western
intelligence plants, without any knowledge of Russian designs, this was clearly a bootstrapped, circular predication.
That millions of common citizens also suspected Russia had email dirt on Hillary did not seem to dampen FBI ardor.
Biden's
Cabinet: A slew of mediocrity and incompetence. Most folks who were paying attention during the Obama
administration realized he was racializing and weaponizing each and every one of our law enforcement institutions, among
others. The damage done to law enforcement has been catastrophic. How did he do it? By appointing people
who were loyal to him and not because they were particularly smart or competent. Like the quote above about the
personnel who ran Chernobyl, Obama's people were chosen or kept for their dedication to the Obama agenda, which they assumed
Hillary would continue. By the time President Trump took office, all of these agencies were geared up to do Clinton's
bidding but instead set out to destroy Trump and his administration with a series of hoaxes, all of which have been
debunked. From Comey to Holder to Brennan, Clapper, and McCabe, all of them were dedicated to one project, one project
only: Sabotage Trump. And sabotage him they did, at every turn, right up to blatantly rigging the election and
then falsely accusing him of orchestrating the January 6 event.
We
Have Very Little Time To Act To Save American Elections. Communists are very good at the waiting game.
They take the long view and bide their time. They've been slowly, but efficiently, infiltrating American institutions
for more than half a century. [...] The accumulation of power within the deep state has been grindingly weakening the
constitutional government for a very long time. This slow-motion coup was the last remaining objective that needed to
be accomplished before any attempt was made to seize permanent control of the country and change America into something that
it was never intended to be. [...] The 2016 election of Donald Trump to the presidency was a massive shock and setback to the
left. That victory launched all the leftist hysterics that continue to this day. Trump's election, however, also
provided leftists with an opportunity for a dress rehearsal. If the deep state could somehow tear down the new
administration or at least render it ineffective, it would then be ready to implement the full scope of the left's elitist,
authoritarian "revolution."
Russia
hoax whitewash era begins (2). The Clinton presidential campaign's fabrication of the Russia hoax is the
dirtiest trick in American political history. Beginning with Glenn Simpson/Fusion GPS and the Perkins Coie law firm, it
enlisted co-conspirators in the Obama Department of Justice, the FBI, and the mainstream media. The principals are not
only still at large, they have achieved high office, wealth, riches, and Pulitzer Prizes. They will never be brought to
justice. They won't even break a sweat. We were never meant to be clued in. As the veil of the fraud was
pierced by Rep. Devin Nunes and others including, most recently, John Durham, we now have a good handle on the
con. It is almost unbelievable. It is also an inexhaustibly rich subject.
Looney
Bette Midler Wants Trump Arrested for 'Trying to Kill' Biden. Liberal activist, washed up entertainer and full
time lunatic Bette Midler is calling for former President Donald Trump to be arrested for trying to kill Joe Biden.
Midler claimed to her two million followers that Trump is the devil and attempted to infect Biden with Covid-19 during the
presidential campaign in order to beat him.
Bette
Midler: Trump is the Devil, Should Be Arrested for Attempted Murder of Joe Biden. When did Trump try to
kill Old Joe, you ask? Why, it all goes back to the sensationalistic recent fake news claim that Trump had tested
positive for the dreaded killer disease with a 99% survival rate before his first debate with Biden. As my PJ Media
colleague Matt Margolis noted here Thursday [12/2/2021], Trump's test was actually a false positive, followed by two negative
tests before the debate, so Old Joe was never actually in any danger. Midler, however, was unmoved by these facts.
The Editor says...
Not only that, she had a year to get her facts straight, and still didn't.
Here Comes
the Limited Hangout. Whether Hillary Clinton was aware of the crimes committed between 2016 and 2020 to further
her political ambitions is a question that may never be answered. What has been proved beyond any shadow of doubt by
the U.S. Justice Department over the past few months is that top operatives in her 2016 campaign used concocted falsehoods to
leverage active law enforcement officials who in turn used U.S. government programs and resources to spy on the Trump
campaign — a violation of American political norms whose only real parallel is Watergate. We also know that
under the pretext of "investigating collusion," at least 40 Obama officials, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, spied
on the Trump team. There is circumstantial evidence that Barack Obama knew what was going on, but since, miraculously,
no one has ever publicly asked him about Russiagate, not even once, he hasn't had the opportunity to either lie or come clean.
Emails
Show Researchers Who Alleged Trump Links To Russian Alfa Bank Were Anti-Trump. [David] Dagon's name first
became connected with the Alfa Bank story when Special Counsel John Durham indicted Michael Sussmann two months ago, charging
the Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer with lying to FBI General Counsel James Baker. According to the indictment, when
Sussmann met with Baker on September 19, 2016, and provided the top FBI lawyer with "white papers" and data files purporting
to establish a secret communications channel between the Trump organization and the now famous Russia-connected Alfa Bank,
Sussmann falsely claimed he was not there on behalf of a client. In truth, though, Sussmann was working both for the
Clinton campaign and an unnamed "U.S. technology industry executive," the indictment charged. The 27-page speaking
indictment then detailed the origins of the Alfa Bank story. In July 2016, a computer researcher, using the moniker
"Tea Leaves" and referred to in the Sussmann indictment as "Originator-1," "had assembled purported DNS data reflecting
apparent DNS lookups between Russian Bank-1 and an email domain, 'mail1.trump-email.com." "Tea Leaves," a business associate
of Tech-Executive 1, shared her information with Tech-Executive 1 and others, with Tech-Executive 1 alerting
Sussmann to the data.
We
are living in legendary times. Coupled with the China Plague, we have seen the theft of a presidential
election. I do not doubt that a major effort was undertaken to stop the obvious progress on every level that was being
affected by the Donald J. Trump administration. As bombastic as Trump was and is, he was effective and efficient (when
not overtly opposed by Democrats, leftists, FBI/CIA et al, media, and swamp dwellers), the exact formula despised by deep
state politicians on both sides of the aisle. Kicking the can down the road has become the go-to approach to problem
solving for Congress and the White House, spending like drunken sailors all the while. Trump made them look bad.
Very bad. Considering the rigged election, Molly Ball's Time magazine article did most of the bragging on behalf
of the victorious, detailing the depth and the scope of the effort. I have no doubt that some of the effort was
scripted and some of the effort was ad hoc on the part of the faithful. It was truly a team effort.
Durham And Big
Picture Stuff. [T]he abject failure of the original Russia Hoax, as well as the Mueller Witchhunt and the
Ukraine Hoax and the Faux Impeachment Theater probably insured that genuinely strong Dem candidates would not emerge to
challenge Trump. This, in this view, would have cleared the deck for the substitution of a puppet of a candidate who
was systematically protected by the establishment. [...] We find ourselves under the thumb of a regime — the word
I've been using since Election 2020 — a regime rather than a true administration, with a puppet president to front
for the puppet masters behind the scenes.
Iowa
Student Asks Turncoat Mike Pence Who Told Him to "Buck Trump" and Certify the 2020 Election Results. An Iowa
student asked Turncoat Vice President Mike Pence why he "bucked Trump" and went ahead and certified the clearly fraudulent
election results on January 6th. Pence did this while President Trump was speaking to over a million supporters at the
Ellipse in Washington DC. The people knew the election was stolen on Jan. 6th. And today a majority of American voters
still believe Democrats cheated to in in 2020. On Thursday night an Iowa student asked Mike Pence for the name of the
person who told him to buck Trump and certify the 2020 election results. Pence responded, "James Madison."
Yes, Virginia,
There is a Deep State. Six or seven years ago, "Deep State" was a term you would only see in left-leaning
media. Bill Moyers explored the theme on his site from time to time, and when The Nation asked Edward Snowden
about it, he said, "There's definitely a deep state. Trust me, I've been there." The "deep state" was on the
liberal left's front burner then because a spate of horrendously ugly revelations put it there. We learned via Snowden
that the NSA was collecting the communications of people all around the world in secret (Carollo might want to mark down that
congress wasn't informed) in a program the U.S. Court of Appeals just last year declared illegal. We found out top
intelligence officials like CIA chief John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied to congress,
among other things about the warrantless surveillance program, and got away without perjury charges despite a furious outcry
from legislators (another useful factoid for [Ben] Carollo, on the oversight front). We learned about the CIA's
systematic use of torture techniques, ranging from anal feeding to threatening to rape and murder relatives to induced
hypothermia, another fun set of pastimes the agency decided not to burden congress with knowledge of.
Justice
Department hasn't released Russia documents Trump ordered declassified on last day. Two top Republican senators
are demanding answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland because the Justice Department has failed to release anything in
the "binder" of Crossfire Hurricane documents that former President Donald Trump ordered declassified during his last day in
office. The memo from Trump said he had "determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the
maximum extent possible." The FBI said in mid-January that the bureau had "identified the passages that it believed it
was most crucial to keep from public disclosure."
The
CIA "Continued the Effort to Try to Destroy Trump and They Realized the Only Way They Could Do It Was They Had to Steal the
Election". Former CIA and State Department employee Larry Johnson was on with Joe Hoft and Kell Brazil at Real
Talk 93.3 out of St. Louis this morning. Larry discussed the beginnings of Obama's Deep State actions against
candidate and President Donald Trump this morning. When Obama's Ethics Czar Norm Eisen was discussed and his efforts
and the CIA's efforts using methods against President Trump before the 2016 Election through the 2020 Election, here is part
of what Johnson responded: ["]What we saw was the law enforcement and intelligence assets of the US government,
instead of serving to protect the interests of the US people, were turned and used in the most abhorent, partisan ways to
attack a Presidential candidate to discredit him. Despite all their efforts they initially failed in 2016. But they
didn't stop. They continued the effort to try to destroy Trump and they realized the only way they could do it was they
had to steal the election.["]
The Left
Got What It Wanted — So Now What? No sooner had Donald Trump entered office than scores of House
Democrats filed motions for impeachment, apparently for thought crimes that he might, some day, in theory, could possibly
commit. Foreign Policy published an article by a liberal Obama Administration lawyer outlining all the ways to
remove an elected president as soon as possible — including consideration of a military coup. The FBI and
the entrenched bureaucrats at the Justice Department continued their prior failed efforts during the campaign to seed the
lies of the fabricated Steele dossier and Fusion GPS. A 22-month-long and $40 million hoax ended with the special
counsel himself, a doddering Robert Mueller, swearing under oath that he essentially knew nothing about the dossier or Fusion
GPS — the twin catalysts that had prompted his very own investigation. Fired FBI Director James Comey —
a lion on Twitter, and a lamb when under oath — on over 240 occasions testified to the Congress that he either
did not know or could not remember, when asked details about the collusion fraud that the philosopher G-man had helped perpetuate.
Durham
Probes Pentagon Computer Contractors in Anti-Trump Conspiracy. Cybersecurity experts who held lucrative
Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances are under investigation for potentially abusing
their government privileges to aid a 2016 Clinton campaign plot to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia and trigger an FBI
investigation of him and his campaign, according to several sources familiar with the work of Special Counsel John
Durham. Durham is investigating whether they were involved in a scheme to misuse sensitive, nonpublic Internet data,
which they had access to through their government contracts, to dredge up derogatory information on Trump on behalf of the
Clinton campaign in 2016 and again in 2017, sources say — political dirt that sent FBI investigators on a wild
goose chase. Prosecutors are also investigating whether some of the data presented to the FBI was faked or forged.
Kash
Patel, A Trump Staffer Who Exposed The Russia Hoax, Aiming New Fire At Deep State. Former Trump official
Kashyap "Kash" Patel, who helped dismantle Democrats' Russia collusion hoax, will join the Center for Renewing America as a
senior fellow for national security and intelligence. Patel's primary focus in his new position at CRA, which is headed
by Trump alum and former Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought, will be continuing his work to
expose the deep state in the FBI, NSA, and other intelligence organizations, a spokeswoman confirmed to The Federalist.
[Video clip] Patel first started his work combatting the Russia collusion hoax as senior counsel for
Rep. Devin Nunes who, at the beginning of Trump's presidency, chaired the House Intelligence Committee. During
that time, Patel and Nunes criticized the hysteria that arose out of what turned out to be an operation secretly designed and
funded by the Clinton campaign to meddle in the 2016 election.
The Symptoms of Our
Insanity. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, does not deny that: 1) he
deliberately aborted the legal chain of operational command — that is, violated the law — by recalibrating
established protocols for using nuclear weapons in times of crisis. And he says his interventions were based on his own
diagnoses (after prompting from the opposition leader, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) that the commander-in-chief was crazy, and
thus could be circumvented. And 2), in freelancing style, Milley, on more than one occasion, called the top figure
of the Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army, General Li Zuocheng. He reportedly announced that his own country was
currently in crisis (experiencing "messy" democracy), reassuring the Chinese that if he, Milley, the newfound autokrator, sensed
there was any chance of hostile and aggressive action on the part of his own country, then on his own initiative he would
tip off the Chinese in advance. And far from resigning or being fired for his Strangelovian efforts, Milley would
then be hailed as a hero by the popular media and progressive civil libertarians.
'Our
Kids Carpooled Together': How Old Friends In High Places Assembled The Russia Collusion Hoax. The indictment of
Washington attorney Michael Sussman — accused of lying to the FBI in order to smear Donald Trump during the 2016
campaign — reveals the ace up the sleeve of high-powered Democrats. It's a card they played time and again
to advance the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory: friends in high places. They used friends in law enforcement to launch
secret investigations; they used friends in the federal government to broaden those investigations; and they used friends in
the media to spread the word about Trump and his organization being under investigation. The Russia fiasco metastasized
in large part because those involved in advancing the false allegations had important connections. They used
friendships with powerful federal officials to encourage investigations against team Trump.
Russiagate, More Like Watergate.
CNN Chief Media Reporter Brian Stelter hopped on the set of Reliable Sources last weekend, and offered his take on Special
Counsel John Durham's recent indictment of former Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussmann, calling Durham's probe a "total
bust." This was in the context of accusing other networks like Fox and OAN of a pattern of "lie, rinse, repeat." [...] A
long list of press figures — from Stelter's own CNN colleague and shameless intelligence community spokesclown
Natasha Bertrand, to reporters from The New Yorker, Time, MSNBC, Fortune, the Financial
Times, and especially Slate and The Atlantic — were witting or unwitting pawns in a scheme to
sell the public on a transparently moronic hoax, i.e. that Donald Trump's campaign was communicating mysterious digital
treason to Russia's Alfa Bank via a secret computer server. The story sounded absurd from the start, and was instantly
challenged by experts.
Biden
Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Tied to Alleged 2016 Clinton Scheme to Co-Opt the CIA and FBI to Tar Trump.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan figures prominently in a grand jury investigation run by Special Counsel
John Durham into an alleged 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign scheme to use both the FBI and CIA to tar Donald Trump as a
colluder with Russia, according to people familiar with the criminal probe, which they say has broadened into a conspiracy
case. Sullivan is facing scrutiny, sources say, over potentially false statements he made about his involvement in the
effort, which continued after the election and into 2017. As a senior foreign policy adviser to Clinton, Sullivan
spearheaded what was known inside her campaign as a "confidential project" to link Trump to the Kremlin through dubious
email-server records provided to the agencies, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Last week,
Michael A. Sussmann, a partner in Perkins Coie, a law firm representing the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic
National Committee, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements to the FBI about his clients
and their motives behind planting the rumor, at the highest levels of the FBI, of a secret Trump-Russia server.
Judge
in case of anti-Trump mudslinger is married to attorney for ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page. Last week, the special
counsel appointed to oversee the probe into the FBI's investigation of former president Donald Trump indicted Michael
Sussmann, a lawyer for the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Republicans and Trump allies are optimistic
about the latest development in John Durham's investigation but are still concerned that Attorney General Merrick Garland
might halt the investigation to protect allies and even the president himself. FBI notes appear to suggest that as vice
president, Joe Biden played a role in the Democratic Party project to smear Trump as a Russian asset by raising the obscure,
disused, 18th century statute the Logan Act as a possible vehicle for prosecuting Michael Flynn for speaking with the Russian
ambassador to Washington — even after FBI case agents had cleared Trump's incoming national security adviser of
wrongdoing. And now Republicans are raising concerns that the judge appointed to the Sussmann case has too many
conflicts of interest to preside over it fairly.
I See Free Speech Disappearing Before Our Very Eyes.
[Scroll down] But now we have a new and devilish threat: To understand it, we must know that the USA's founding
document is the Constitution. It is a uniquely perfect document, allowing for the maximum of self-government and
self-discipline in a world of confusing and aggressive men and women who do not always agree, often function with hatred in
their hearts, and sometimes do not wish well for our nation. But the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights,
allows us to function anyway, even with all of these shortcomings and dangers. If the citizenry can be allowed to
self-govern, the nation can work. If the rights of Americans to speak freely, to worship, to petition for a redress of
grievances, can be preserved, the nation will survive and flourish. It was to demolish that framework towards which Al
Qaeda worked. Again, Al Qaeda did not succeed. But now we have an alliance between the almighty Big Tech Internet
companies of this country and the Democrat regime of this country. Together, they have done the unthinkable: they have
hit the citizens with overwhelmingly potent restrictions on free speech. They have taken away free speech from a man
whom they hate — Donald Trump — and preserved it for the most wicked terrorists on the planet: Al
Qaeda, the Taliban, and their friends.
Ex-CIA
analyst: Anti-Trump officials politicized intelligence, undermined U.S. security. U.S. intelligence
officials waged a politicized campaign to undermine President Trump and his administration, and the politicization undermined
American security, according to a former U.S. intelligence analyst. John A. Gentry, a former CIA analyst, stated in a
journal article that former high-ranking intelligence officials were frequently used by sitting intelligence officials, to
leak damaging information. Many "formers" directly or indirectly helped elect current President Biden and defeat
Mr. Trump in the 2020 election.
Deconstructing
the Fourth Branch of Government. There is a way to deconstruct the current system of corruption within the U.S.
government that follows a path outlined by the framers of our constitution. In this series of articles we will outline
what I believe to be the way forward. It is a narrow path, and each step is dependent on the American electorate
understanding the challenge. [...] There will be ZERO institutional allies in this effort. Because of the scale of
their power, the Senate will not give up control easily; and every institution of society and government will attempt to stop
We The People from taking back control of the upper chamber. Every entity from Wall Street to multinational
corporations, big tech, banks, foreign governments and world organizations will be aligned against us. When you truly
understand the epicenter of the corruption, then you are able to see the tentacles extending from it.
Yes, the 2020 election was stolen.
Trump had made the USA energy-independent for the first time in 70 years, created more than 5 million jobs, reduced
unemployment to below 4% and brought African-American unemployment to its lowest ever. He brought America's southern
border finally under control including construction of over 450 miles of border wall, cut taxes and burdensome regulations,
raised household middleclass incomes and negotiated strong pro-American trade agreements in place of job-killing ones like
NAFTA. Early in the COVID pandemic, he marshalled all the forces of government, the military and private business to join
together to keep the mysterious new virus from overwhelming America's hospitals, manufacturing needed ventilators, bringing
military hospital ships to hard-hit areas, and launching "Operation Warp Speed" to develop a vaccine. Internationally,
he stood up to China — something no other modern president has done — withdrew from the Iran nuclear
deal, destroyed the murderous ISIS caliphate, ratcheted down the nuclear threat from North Korea's deranged dictator, moved
the U.S. embassy in Israel to the capital Jerusalem, and brokered peace deals between Israel and five different Arab-Muslim
countries, for which he was twice nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. All this while being attacked literally
non-stop — including two corrupt impeachment trials — by Democrats, virtually the entire "mainstream
media," the powerful tech monopolies and the permanent "deep state," particularly Washington's scandalously weaponized
federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Not
Incompetence: Afghanistan and Globalism. Democrats' actions are motivated by their goals. If we
understand their goals, then their actions should be clear. Trump was the first serious Republican president who
rejected globalism and believes in the nation-state — America First. That's why Democrats not only hated
him, but felt entitled to do anything and everything, legal or illegal, to stop him. Democrats were laser-focused on
removing Trump from office, by waging an unprecedented daily media campaign against him, using our Intelligence Community to
spy on him, impeaching him twice, and even fraudulently winning the 2020 elections. With Trump, globalists and
socialists now fear his 75 million supporters. They have become the new obstacle. That explains the intense hate
campaign to tarnish them as racists, "white supremacists," and dangerous insurrectionists against the state. Democrats
and their media are not looking for the truth or to dialogue with the Trump side over the pros and cons of globalism.
Democrats want to keep their goals covert because if they're open about their plan, the majority of Americans will reject it.
The Deep State
Comes for the Big Guy. Throughout his candidacy, presidency, and reelection campaign, Donald Trump was targeted
by the deep state, which undertook to subvert, defeat, and destroy him. In the 2020 election specifically, we saw
leaks, lies, and letters from "experts" and "leaders" attacking Trump with sundry false accusations, all intended to boost
the chances of his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden. Unlike so many of Biden's open supporters,
such as the National Education Association or the Service Employees International Union or even his billionaire supporters'
dark money, it is impossible to quantify how much the deep state contributed to him. But it is indisputable the deep
state is part of Biden's core constituency.
Cutting
to the Chase: Why Trump Was Driven from Office. There were essentially three called strikes against him, all that was needed to count him out.
[#1] He was not "presidential." He was considered crude in speech, rough-hewn in manner, and given over to bluster and hyperbole
unbefitting the highest office in the land. For these transgressions, he could not be forgiven.
[#2] He was an outsider, the first president in American history with no military or political experience. He was not a politician,
a general, a lawyer, or a holder of public office. He was never a member of the Beltway club, whether Republicrats or Democrats. He was not followed
by a train of professional lobbyists, owed no political debts, did not accept a salary, and did not enrich himself when in power. For these transgressions,
he could not be forgiven.
[#3] He was competent and proudly patriotic. He put America first, cutting taxes, renegotiating bad trade deals to the nation's
advantage, reducing a red-tape regulatory nightmare, making the country energy-independent and a net exporter of energy, rebuilding the military, defending the
southern border, re-establishing global prominence, and connecting with the commons. For such transgressions, he could not be forgiven.
AG
Barr Told Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer to Stop Looking Into Truck Driver Jesse Morgan's Testimony That He Moved More Than
200,000 Fraudulent Ballots from NY to PA Before the 2020 Election. This past week, Lt. Col. and President
of the London Center for Policy Research, claimed that former Attorney General Bill Barr told him to stop looking into the
transfer of ballots from New York to Pennsylvania he uncovered after the 2020 Election. LtCol Anthony (Tony) Shaffer
(retired), is the President of the London Center for Policy Research, a New York Times bestselling author, and CIA trained
intelligence operations officer with 35 years of experience in global and national security. After the 2020 Election
Shaffer was one of many Americans who offered to help investigate the results of the 2020 Election. Shaffer looked into
the events before the election where a truck driver for the US Postal Service reported that he transferred a trailer load of
ballots from New York to Pennsylvania before the election.
Dear
Republican Trump haters — What did you get for your trade? A little less than a year ago, a
significant number of independent and Republican voters decided to trade bad tweets for bad policy. Today, your Twitter
feed is void of President Trump's tweets. But the price was high. Gone are the good policies that drove the Trump
economy and made the world a safer place. In their place are policies antithetical to prosperity, freedom and
security. You traded energy efficiency for dependency on the Middle East. Whereas a year ago you enjoyed
inexpensive gas, high paying energy jobs, and fewer incentives to entangle ourselves in Middle Eastern politics, today
President Biden is begging OPEC to produce more oil. Apparently, his climate agenda can handle more oil production as
long as Americans aren't the ones profiting from it.
Remember
the Failed Coup Attempt against Trump. In my December 2017 column for the Providence Journal, I asked,
not altogether rhetorically: "Is Trump the target of a coup attempt?" To the consternation of many of my friends and
colleagues, I answered in the affirmative. I argued that if military officers had done to President Obama some of the
things that members of the intelligence community (IC) had done to President Trump, they would have been denounced as
conspirators seeking to undermine the actions of a duly elected president, and thus enemies of civilian control of the
military and the Constitution itself. Commentators would have called their actions what they were: an attempted coup
against a duly elected president.
Revenge:
Biden Department of Justice Directly Targets Trump, Directs IRS to Give His Tax Returns to Pelosi. The Biden
Department of Justice has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has to provide Congress with former President Donald
Trump's tax records. The opinion, which was written by the Justice Department's Legal Counsel team, stated that
Congress has a "legitimate legislative purpose" to request former President Trump's tax returns.
Trump's
Tax Returns Must be Released to Congress: Department of Justice. Tax officials must give former President
Donald Trump's tax returns to a congressional panel, the Department of Justice said Friday [7/30/2021]. The House Ways
and Means Committee has long sought the returns, only to be stymied by federal officials. Rep. Richard Neal
(D-Mass.), chairman of the panel, has said he wanted six years of Trump's tax returns as part of a possible adjustment of
federal law concerning tax policies. The attempt was blocked by the Treasury Department during the Trump
administration. The Department of Justice previously said that refusal did not violate the law, but under a new
president is saying officials must hand the returns over to Neal.
Trump
calls for Gen. Milley to be court-martialed if reports on what he said are true. Former President Donald
Trump issued a scathing statement against Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and called for him to
be court-martialed if he actually stated that he believed Trump was orchestrating a coup. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning
Washington Post reporters, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker made that alarming allegation in their anti-Trump book "I Alone
Can Fix It." In the book, they claim that Milley believed that the former president would attempt to remain in power through
a coup conducted in the final days of his presidency. Trump says it is absolutely untrue. "Despite the fact that
the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged and Stolen, and while numerous people, including the outside public, were saying we
should bring in the Military, I never even gave it a thought. The writings within these third-rate books are Fake News,
and 'General' Milley (who [former Defense Secretary James] Mattis wanted to send to Europe in order to get rid of him), if he said
what was reported, perhaps should be impeached, or court-martialed and tried," Trump proclaimed in a statement issued on Friday.
Barr's Mistaken
Choice. Suppose the laptop that made its way into FBI hands had belonged to one of President Trump's sons and
proved that the infamous phone conversation with President Zelensky forming the basis of Trump's impeachment was somehow a
corrupt attempt to protect the no-show job and salary of that hypothetical son. In that case, Barr's refusal to hand
over to House impeachment managers clearly incriminating evidence against the president would have placed him squarely
in John Mitchell territory — as an obstructer of justice, political hack, and possibly even an eventual target for
his own prosecution. So why is withholding exculpatory evidence not judged by the same harsh standard?
A
Reminder About Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley as a Political Operative. Statements made by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley
about his belief that President Trump was contemplating a post-election coup should not be viewed in a vacuum. [...] Remember, General Milley did some really
odd things as Joint Chiefs Chairman under President Trump:
[#1] Milley never removed Lt. Col Alexander Vindman from his White House post after the underling compromised his leadership position.
The pentagon left Vindman on assignment to the NSC even after Vindman attempted to take-down President Trump.
[#2] Milley was then slow to react to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer threatening President Trump; attempting to extort him into inaction over the
disciplinary plans against the SEAL commando, Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher. And perhaps worst of all...
[#3] Joint Chief Chairman Milley, and SoS Mike Pompeo traveled to Mar-a-Lago in December 2019, where they informed President Trump of military
strikes in Syria and Iraq *after* they took place. President Trump made Esper, Milley and Pompeo hold a press conference without Trump supporting them;
then President Trump remained silent on the issue for days.
Big
Tech are State Actors. A 'state actor' is a private company that either acts on behalf of the government or has
other special relationships with the government, which subject it to constitutional restrictions on government, including the
First Amendment. Google's YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have been state actors since about 2010. They claimed to
be neutral, non-discriminating in their political and scientific views, and denied any political bias — until
about a year ago. Then they reversed the narrative and said that they are private companies that can discriminate
against whomever they want. I can list half a dozen ways in which they are state actors. The pressure on them
from Democrat officials, asserted by Trump in his lawsuit, is one of them. Obamanet, or net neutrality, is another
one. But most obviously, they became state actors when federal and state government agencies opened accounts on their
platforms and started to use them for interaction with the public. By accepting (and luring) multiple government
accounts, they became public forums and state actors.
Trump
Reveals Letter from Pennsylvania U.S Attorney Detailing Bill Barr Blocking Philadelphia Vote Fraud Investigation. In the
middle of his CPAC speech President Donald Trump dropped a bombshell story about a Pennsylvania U.S. Attorney who was intending to
investigate voter fraud in Philadelphia and was blocked by Attorney General Bill Barr. [Video clip] [...] Can you see the
structure of the set-up in hindsight? President Trump was lied to about the motives and intents of Bill Barr and what he was doing
with the appointment of John Durham as a special prosecutor. It is very likely President Trump was frustrated by the DOJ information
that was given to him directly or indirectly. However, likely despite his own gut instincts, the president granted the benefit of
doubt to Bill Barr on that October date. It would be entirely understandable for President Trump to be exceptionally angry in 2021
about how Machiavellian and manipulative the apparatus of the justice department, the FBI and the aggregate intelligence apparatus
are. The Fourth Branch of Government is in control.
A
Coup Against The Constitution? The modern era of direct attacks by bureaucrats based on ideology came into full
effect when the IRS targeted Tea Party groups over their tax-exempt status. This happened during Obama's reign, but
really went into overdrive when Trump was elected. [...] The control of the permanent bureaucracy in government by the
political left has already been achieved. Around 90 percent of political donations by government union employees go
to Democrats. The partisanship became evident during the Trump administration as the intelligence community and Justice
Department were shown to be increasingly biased. They spent nearly four years pushing a theory that Donald Trump
colluded with the Russians in the 2016 election that was embarrassingly false. Special Counsel William Mueller spent
more than two years and untold millions of dollars yet found zero evidence of any collusion. But that was never the
point, and they knew it before he even began.
Bill
Barr re-emerges, spotlights total corruption of the Department of Justice. Six months after resigning as
attorney general, William Barr recently re-entered the spotlight, reportedly telling friendly news correspondent Jonathan
Karl that allegations of vote fraud during the 2020 election are bull. Now that civilian Bill Barr has jumped back into
the political fray, it is time to take unflinching stock of the degraded Department of Justice (DOJ) and how it became even
further corrupted during Barr's reign. In reviewing the attorney general's passivity during his tenure, it is difficult
to escape the conclusion that Barr's inaction was born of anything other than profound fear of the progressive, hydra-headed
agency he ostensibly led. Indeed, during his nearly two years on the job, the nation's top cop repeatedly gave
interviews in which he alluded to criminal wrongdoing on the part of the Obama administration and senior leaders of Obama's
intelligence agencies, which spied on the Trump campaign and later sought to remove Trump from office on a variety of
increasingly implausible and comically specious pretexts. Yet, despite all of Barr's talk, there was never any
accountability for the malefactors.
Rudy
Giuliani's Law License in Washington Suspended. A U.S. appeals court ruled on July 7 that Rudy Giuliani can't
practice law in Washington, a move that follows the suspension of Giuliani's New York law license two weeks ago. The
order from the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals comes after Giuliani, who served as the personal attorney for
former President Donald Trump, had his law license revoked for making what the New York Supreme Court described as "false and
misleading" statements following the Nov. 3 presidential election. Giuliani is "suspended from the practice of law in
the District of Columbia pending final disposition of this proceeding, effective on the date of entry of this order," the
July 7 order states. The filing cites the suspension of Giuliani's New York law license and says that his Washington
license is revoked pending the result of disciplinary proceedings in New York.
Did
Pence Intentionally Damage Trump? While many know that Pence downplayed allegations of voter fraud and
certified Biden's presidency, fewer are aware of Pence's actions on and leading up to that fateful day on Jan. 6.
Nor was this the first time that Pence engaged in seemingly specifically timed and crucial actions that impaired Trump's
presidency. Why did Pence make public statements supporting an election challenge before making an abrupt
about-face? What responsibility does Pence bear from heading the coronavirus task force and keeping Fauci in
place? And what responsibility does he bear for the firing of General Michael Flynn and the ensuing Flynn witch
hunt? [Video clip]
Every
New Republican Is the Most Evil Republican Ever. Donald Trump was less a revolutionary than an eccentric with
an inability to hide his contempt for his fellow caste members. He grew up and prospered in elite society, and he
enjoyed it — as his myriad amorous adventures splashed across the cover of the NY Post testified. What made
him dangerous is that he didn't participate in the framework of Mutually Assured Discretion that keeps the members of our
upper crust from telling the proles just how inept, corrupt, and unaccomplished our elite truly is. They know that they
are a bunch of clowns, posers pretending to be the best and the brightest, and they work together — Democrats and
Republicans — to preserve that status by not spilling the beans on how their class has none. They will tear
each other up individually, but to blow the whistle on the establishment as a whole is a no-no.
Trump
must be extremely clean if this is all the NY prosecutors came up with. After years of prosecutors targeting
Trump in search of a crime, Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg "surrendered early Thursday to New York authorities for
arraignment in the first criminal indictment arising from a two-year investigation into the former president's company,"
according to the AP. The charges relate to paying perks for executives without showing those perks on their W-2 forms,
and paying income taxes and payroll taxes on those perks. [...] All corporations, including the WaPo and the NYT, should now
be investigated to make sure that no executives ever get free stuff, like country club dues or special transportation,
without paying income and payroll taxes.
Cy
Vance's Trump case is straight from a banana republic — punish your political enemies. Donald Trump
has long claimed that investigations of him are a partisan "witch hunt." Manhattan DA Cy Vance seems determined to make
Trump's point for him by indicting the Trump Organization along with its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
The 15-count indictment throws a kitchen sink of charges, including grand larceny, conspiracy, scheme to defraud,and tax
fraud. But the whole thing comes down to paying perks to Weisselberg — such as his parking garage fees,
tuition for family members and reimbursement of holiday gratuities — and not reporting them as taxable income, or
reporting that the wrong Trump entity paid them. For this they slapped Weisselberg in handcuffs Thursday and paraded
him in front of the media — a stage-managed political show trial.
Outgoing
US envoy to Syria says he hid true number of troops from Trump team. Veteran diplomat James Jeffrey, the
outgoing US special representative in Syria, reportedly said he and his team were deliberately ambiguous in communications
with senior Trump administration officials about the number of American troops in Syria. President Donald Trump ordered
withdrawals of US troops from northeast Syria, where they partnered with Kurdish forces to oppose the Islamic State, in 2018
and in October 2019, saying that the terror group had been defeated. The withdrawal of the American soldiers was seen
as a major shift in US policy, and a betrayal of the Kurds — longtime, close allies to the US whose territory was
invaded by Turkey shortly after the US withdrawal.
Predictably
Bondo Barr Covers The Rot. There has been a lot of discussion today about an Atlantic article containing an
outline of former AG Bill Barr's discussion with reporters and the White House in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
In essence the nub of the article is Bill Barr stating to a journalist December 1st: "To date, we have not seen fraud
on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election," and then the article covers the fallout with
the White House from that AP interview.
There's
a Small Problem With Barr's Profanity Laced Claim About No Election Fraud. Yesterday, we reported how former
Attorney General Bill Barr left no doubt he was exiting the Trump orbit when he told ABC's Jonathan Karl what he thought
about the claims of election fraud. He sat down with Karl in a series of interviews for a piece in The Atlantic in the
spring. The piece regarding the interviews was published yesterday [6/27/2021].
How
American Journalism Became A Mouthpiece Of The Deep State. Reporters joke that the easiest job in Washington is
CIA spokesman. You need only listen carefully to questions, say, "No comment," and head to happy hour. The joke,
however, is on us. The reporters pretend to see only one side of the CIA, the passive hiding of information. They
meanwhile profit from the other side of the equation, active information operations designed to influence events in
America. It is 2021 and the CIA is running an op against the American people. Leon Panetta, once director of CIA,
explained bluntly that the agency influenced foreign media outlets ahead of elections in order to "change attitudes within
the country." The method was to "acquire media within a country or within a region that could very well be used for being
able to deliver a specific message or work to influence those that may own elements of the media to be able to cooperate,
work with you in delivering that message." The CIA has been running such ops to influence foreign elections continuously
since the end of WWII.
Can
New York Arrest Donald Trump? Leftists are fantasizing about Donald Trump being arrested, booked, and put on
trial. Well, they are fantasizing about that... again. The New York State Attorney General's investigation of the
Trump Organization is now "no longer purely civil in nature," Fabien Levy, the spokesperson for New York Attorney General
Letitia James, confirmed to Politico by email. "We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal
capacity, along with the Manhattan D.A. We have no additional comment at this time." It is important for political
observers, cowardly-lion Republicans, patriots, and activists to know what is happening here. More ammunition and
detail are needed to arm the reader properly for this latest tempest in a teapot being sold as a hurricane.
Trump
Celebrates News That Swampy Republican Will Not Seek Re-Election. Donald Trump is celebrating following news
that one of the swampiest Republicans in the country will not be seeking re-election. On Monday [5/17/2021], Georgia
Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan announced that he will not pursue re-election in the 2022 contest. Trump released a
statement on Tuesday saying that it is good for Georgia and the GOP.
On the January 2017
Felony Leaks. Back on January 5, 2017, who leaked intelligence about Russia's purported efforts to interfere in
the 2016 election — and info on the Flynn-Kislyak calls — to the Washington Post? One high level
official at the Office of the Director of National had a guess: "my bet is either the WH or SCCI Dem source on the Hill."
Those were the words of Brian Hale, the Director of Public Affairs for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in
response to a question of January 5, 2017 leaks to Washington Post reporters Adam Entous and Greg Miller. James Clapper,
the Director of National Intelligence at the time, was copied on that email.
Top
Mueller Henchman Lays Out New Scheme To Prevent Trump 2024 White House Run. Former President Donald J. Trump
may have been run out of the swamp, but the witch hunt goes on with his enemies fully mobilized to prevent his return.
While Trump continues to mull a 2024 White House run, efforts are underway to use every dirty trick in the book to take him
out with extreme prejudice. Now, a familiar cast of characters have emerged as conspirators. One of them is
Andrew Weissman, the vicious former prosecutor who was fondly referred to as "Mueller's pit bull" for his role on Robert
Mueller's sweeping investigation into the Russian collusion hoax.
The Deep State is Back.
ecently, the FBI searched Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan apartment. The search was made in connection with the prosecution
of two Ukrainian Americans for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Giuliani is a respected lawyer,
a former federal prosecutor, and was mayor of New York during the 9/11 attacks. FARA prosecutions are rare and
typically are dealt with through fines. The use of search warrants against a lawyer is also unusual, and the Department
of Justice handbook counsels the use of some lesser means, such as subpoenas, to obtain information when possible. In
his dealings with Ukraine, Giuliani says he acted as President Trump's emissary and lawyer. These "minister without
portfolio" employments have been used before, particularly where, as in Ukraine, American government officials may themselves
be corrupt, compromised, or resistant to the president's agenda.
The Giuliani
warrants. The Foreign Agents Registration Act is the last refuge of a prosecutorial scoundrel. That was
my reaction to the New York Times story yesterday reporting that Rudy Giuliani is under investigation for an alleged FARA
violation. [...] Yesterday's [New York] Times story vaguely reported that the criminal investigation involves Giuliani's
dealings in Ukraine. Today's Times story is ambiguous about Giuliani's status: "The warrants do not accuse
Mr. Giuliani of wrongdoing, but they underscore his legal peril: They indicate a judge has found that
investigators have probable cause to believe that a crime was committed and that the search would turn up evidence of that
crime." So is Giuliani a target, a subject, or a witness in the investigation?
Is the Deep
State targeting Trump allies? Federal agents raided the home and office of Rudy Giuliani at dawn, Wednesday,
April 28, seizing computers and cellphones. While he hasn't been charged with any crime yet, the DOJ has been
investigating Giuliani for his dealings in Ukraine while working as President Trump's personal lawyer, and charges
could wait in the future. Giuliani is far from the first Trump associate to face federal investigation for
allegedly violating laws that — not that long ago — were rarely actively enforced. Is the raid
about Giuliani's supposed lobbying in Ukraine without registering as a foreign agent? Or is the Deep State simply
targeting Trump allies because they couldn't get to the Donald himself?
John
Ratcliffe Discusses Severe Political Compromise Within U.S. Intelligence Community. Former Director of National
Intelligence John Ratcliffe appears with Maria Bartiromo [4/11/2021] to discuss the issues with Hunter Biden's laptop and the
severity of political compromise within the U.S. intelligence apparatus. Ratcliffe notes how politicized the
intelligence community and national security have become specifically in defense of lies being perpetrated by those behind
the Biden administration. Misinformation and disinformation is rampant as the Nat Sec community and Intel Community use
their political ideology to advance false assertions. [Video clip]
Prescient
Diatribe — As True Today as it was in 1976. I understand the scope of the enemy, the scale of the
war, the financial and economic power of the opposition, and the effort it will take to stop decades of willful blindness
amid 97% of the American people. I also see exactly what they are doing now, even with President Trump forcefully
removed from office, to destroy the threat he still represents. Donald J Trump was/is a walking red-pill; a
"touchstone": a visible, empirical test or criterion for determining the quality or genuineness of anything political.
I have been deep enough into the network of the Deep State to understand the scale and scope of this enemy. To think
that President Trump alone could carry the burden of correcting four decades of severe corruption of all things political,
without simultaneously considering the scale of the opposition, is naive in the extreme. POTUS Trump was disrupting the
global order of things in order to protect and preserve the shrinking interests of the U.S. He was fighting, almost
single-handed, at the threshold of the abyss.
New
York Prosecutors Subpoena the Personal Bank Records of Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer. Let's be
clear about the motives of a fully weaponized DOJ here. The DOJ is looking for any way to destroy Donald J Trump.
As long as he exists in the sphere of political influence, he represents a risk to their objectives. Direct targeting
of Donald Trump has not succeeded. Direct attacks against Donald Trump and his organization and personal finances have
not succeeded. The DOJ is not getting the results they need. So now they need a backdoor, some leverage, from
somewhere, anywhere, where they can use that leverage to destroy their enemy. THAT is what's going on.
No
Storm, No Reckoning, No Nothing. For years we have been hearing about a coming storm. It was to be
biblical and would bring pain to members of the deep state ruling class who, after exposure, would not be able to walk down
the streets. The storm was to begin with spygate, a coordinated effort among top officials in the nation's justice and
intelligence agencies, to prevent Donald Trump's election; then after failing, to undermine his transition, cripple his
presidency, then stop his reelection, the latter goals achieved. Then there were crimes against humanity: child
abuse, trafficking, and the like, all to be exposed via the Anthony Weiner laptop or the Jeffrey Epstein cabal. Both
seem distant memories now. In fact, we are now going in the opposite direction with the Biden administration suspending
FBI background checks for migrant children caregivers. We have lived in the "calm before the storm" for years and to
this day it remains calm. There are no storm clouds building, nothing on the horizon.
Conservatives
need to attack the tech monopolies aggressively. Conservatives need to acknowledge a paradigm shift has
occurred: Big Tech companies are not "free market capitalists," but are, in fact, agents of American socialism.
When Michelle Obama tweets out that Twitter and Facebook should deplatform the sitting President of the United States, and
they follow that directive within a day or so, we need to realize there is a new power structure in place. Keep in mind
that Hitler rose to power with the support of German industrialists. He never needed to have his government pass a
decree ordering the Final Solution; his followers knew what was expected.
The
21st Century Ugly Americans. The current American ruling class is the laughingstock of the planet. This
coterie includes among its number the Democrat party, the media/entertainment complex, Wall Street, tech oligarchs,
corporatists and the professoriate. This gaggle of buffoons are perhaps the most inept, egocentric and oblivious among
all ruling classes in democratic and free nations around the globe. This descent into absurdity began many decades ago
but accelerated precipitously over the past five years. The primary catalyst: the campaign and election of Donald
Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
Putin's
Former Chief of Staff Calls Trump a Champion against New World Order. Sergey Ivanov, Vladimir Putin's former
chief of staff, currently on the Russian Federation Security Council, has weighed in on the "historical scale of the
personality and achievements of President Donald Trump" in an op-ed for Eurasia Daily. I have changed not a word of
what he has to say. In his national ideology, Putin warns repeatedly of the dangers from the "Transnationalists"
(Proekt Rossiya [Project Russia], EKSMO Press, 2014). The Russians are joined by the British with their Brexit and the
French with their Front National led by populist Marine Le Pen. Populism actually straddles the Atlantic, and Donald
Trump is regarded as its hero. As Ivanov observes, if Joe Biden, the American Deep State, and the world global elites
have called Donald Trump the "worst president in U.S. history," well, it is because they know best who is the
worst — for them.
Deep
State: Rod Rosenstein Admits He And Andrew McCabe Discussed Recording President Trump. During Trump's
presidency, whenever he or anyone else discussed the Deep State, Democrats and the media would dismiss it as the stuff of
conspiracy theories. When Trump suggested that the Obama team spied on his campaign, Democrats and the media lost their
minds. Now former Justice Department official Rod Rosenstein is openly admitting that he and the FBI's Andrew McCabe
discussed recording conversations with Trump. Is this still a conspiracy theory?
President
Trump Targets the DeceptiCons, Those GOPe Establishment Politicians who Need To Be Removed. During his CPAC
speech President Trump named some of the DeceptiCons in congress who have blocked the MAGA agenda. President Trump
identified some of the politicians by name in both the House and Senate who need to get primaried. [Video clip]
President Trump has established the Political Action Committee that will fund primary opponents to those [R]epublicans who have
failed to support the America First agenda.
Storm?
What Storm? It Was Barely a Breeze. The only storm is what Trump dove into on day one of his presidency,
when calls for impeachment began minutes after his inauguration. Two unsuccessful attempts were made, with assistance
from cranks within his own political party. His own agencies including the FBI, DOJ, and CIA had their own storm
planned, illegally spying on Trump's campaign, transition, and administration. They spied and wiretapped Trump and his
circle, they fraudulently manufactured evidence to obtain FISA warrants, and destroyed real evidence as in phones and
emails. This was all cheered on by print, digital, and social media, political operatives rather than arbiters of
truth. We trusted Barr and Durham. Barr is retired, playing his bagpipes, serving up only one spygate indictment
of a mid-level FBI attorney who received a slap on the wrist. Barr acknowledged "spying did occur" but like his
predecessor, did nothing about it.
The Lies Aren't
Secret. Secrecy is the ultimateentitlement program for the Deep State. The federal government is creating
trillions of pages of new secrets every year. The more documents bureaucrats classify, the more lies politicians and
government officials can tell. In Washington, deniability is prized far more than truth. At the end of the Trump
era, the Deep State is triumphant at home and abroad. Trump's epic clashes with federal intelligence and law
enforcement agencies helped cripple his administration, and they illustrate the continued danger of Deep State secrecy.
If all of the FBI's shenanigans on Russiagate came to light, it would be far more difficult for the FBI to manipulate
American politics and presidents in the future. If CIA records on Syrian rebels were exposed, the Biden administration
would have far more difficulty dragging America back into the Syrian civil war. But both seem unlikely. Recent
court rulings make clear how badly Trump failed to drain the swamp.
Twenty
days of infamy: the January 2017 red flags the FBI blew past on Russia collusion. From its earliest moments,
the FBI's Russia collusion probe was always fraught with warning signs. Agents were told Christopher Steele provided
faulty information, had likely been compromised by Russian intel disinformation, wanted to defeat Donald Trump, had leaked to
the media and was being paid by Hillary Clinton, who herself might be carrying out an epic dirty political trick to vilify
Trump with false information to distract from her own scandals. Those intelligence reports alone should have given
agents pause. The fact that Steele had been terminated by the FBI as an informant for leaking also should have weighed
heavily. But if ever there were red lights screaming for the FBI to end the counterintelligence probe, they were
flashing during a harrowing 20-day window in January 2017 as Barack Obama was leaving office and Trump was coming in.
Between Jan. 4, 2017 and Jan. 24, 2017, nearly every major assumption of the FBI's Russia collusion theory was gutted,
according to recently declassified evidence reviewed by Just the News.
ABC
Now Looks to State and Federal Prosecutors to Get Trump in Court. Only after former President Trump was
acquitted for the second time in an impeachment trial did ABC finally give any form of credence to the Republican argument
that the Senate was not the right place to hold a former president accountable. And during Valentine's Day Sunday,
Good Morning America was trying to count the ways and charges Trump could face and the federal and state levels to bar
him from running for office ever again. "In his speech after the vote to acquit, after he, in fact, voted to acquit,
[Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell [R-KY] said, Trump, and I'm quoting here, 'didn't get away with anything, yet,'" co-anchor
Dan Harris noted to legal analyst Dan Abrams. "So, what legal consequences could Trump still face? Could there be
state charges, federal charges? What do you think?" According to Abrams, federal prosecutors would be too
intimidated by the "political imagery" to prosecute Trump for inciting the Capitol insurrection. So, he looked to the
states: [...]
There are already two anti-Trump parties. No need for a third one. More
than 120 former Republican officials hold Zoom meeting to discuss forming breakaway anti-Trump third party.
More than a hundred former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald
Trump, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters. The
early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan,
George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved
say. More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform
of 'principled conservatism,' including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law — ideas those involved
say have been trashed by Trump.
The Editor says...
If this group of RINOs and big-government centrists had any regard for "principled conservatism," they'd support Donald Trump.
Time
Magazine Details the 'Shadow Campaign' Against Trump. In a surprisingly brazen article, "The Secret History of
the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election," Time magazine chronicles a myriad of pre- and post-election actions taken
by a loose coalition of Democratic operatives, grassroots activists, mainstream media, tech companies, and corporate CEOs
before and after the 2020 presidential election. According to the article, the effort consisted of "a well-funded cabal
of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions,
change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information." In the post-election days, the author
refers to this disparate grouping of players as a "conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the
protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs" resulting in an "informal alliance between left-wing activists and
business titans."
Trump
aide Peter Navarro charges AG Barr worked to help Biden issue blizzard of early executive orders. Speaking with
Maria Bartiromo yesterday on her weekly Fox News Channel program Sunday Morning Futures, Peter Navarro made a startling
charge against his former Trump administration colleague, former attorney general William Barr. [...] I confess that I was a
defender of Barr, whom I saw as a righteous man aware of the sabotage the Trump administration faced from a politicized
bureaucracy seeking to frustrate the elected POTUS. Now it sounds as though he joined the conspirators, although it is
possible that the Office of Legal Counsel at the DOJ worked with Biden's handlers on the executive orders behind his
back. Was he always a plant, assuming that Navarro's charges are true?
Navarro:
DOJ Slow-Walked Trump's Executive Orders While Fast-Tracking Biden's. The Department of Justice (DOJ) put up
hurdles to executive orders prepared by President Donald Trump while fast-tracking the ones prepared by President-elect Joe
Biden during the transition period leading up to Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, according to former Trump senior adviser Peter
Navarro. "Bill Barr, President Trump's attorney general, actually turns out to be Joe Biden's first attorney general,"
Navarro told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo in an interview aired on Feb. 7. "We had over 30 executive orders queued after
Election Day, ready to go, but we kept running into all these roadblocks and hurdles. It turns out that Bill Barr's
Office of Legal Counsel was fast-tracking all of these Biden EOs [executive orders], and basically, it was a deep-state
coup." Navarro made the remarks when asked to explain how Biden managed to have dozens of executive actions ready to go
during his first days in office.
Conway:
Hey, I barely knew the guy with whom I founded The Lincoln Project and co-wrote anti-Trump op-ed. This
certainly could be possible in our online world, but is it credible? George Conway told Mika Brzezinski
on MSNBC's Morning Joe earlier today [2/1/2021] that he barely knew John Weaver, his co-founder of The Lincoln
Project. That group finally began distancing itself from Weaver yesterday after the New York Times reported nearly two
dozen men coming forward to accuse Weaver of sexually predatory behavior. Two weeks earlier, the Lincoln Project had
stood behind Weaver, but now everyone appears to be looking to conduct a rapid retreat, including his partner in the
anti-Trump effort.
Was
Trump Laid Low Just to Satisfy Barack Obama's Ego? [Scroll down] [S]ince President Trump took office,
it's hard to not smell Obama's obsessive stink all over a calculated effort to destroy a good man. Of late, those
carefully crafted plans include acrimony and suspicious ACORNish activity, not to mention a year-long lockdown and Rules for
Radicals-style chaos. Recently, Americans witnessed a sham inauguration and post-inaugural mischief where every
executive order Joe the Automaton signed reeked with the stench of Obama's malicious effort to reinstate himself as
all-knowing redeemer. Lest we forget, Kamala "I'm Speaking" Harris has had a longstanding relationship with former
president Obama. Thus the reason for her meteoric rise from the shadows of Willie Brown's love shack to the vice
presidency. Unfortunately for America, besides having a cackle from hell, "the best-looking" attorney general on the
planet also has Barry's slimy fingerprints all over her high tops. Then there's the return of the posse of familiar
co-conspirators who emerged from the political ash heap of history to take up where the Obama era left off.
Trump
Fought the Swamp, and the Swamp Won. Trump's accomplishments are even more impressive, given the unremitting
hostility and obstructionism to which he was subjected from the day he took office. The centerpiece, of course, was the
Russia collusion hoax, which was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign, adopted by the FBI and other government agencies,
and institutionalized in the form of a special counsel. No president has ever been subjected to anything similar, let
alone on such a flimsy basis. But that wasn't all: apart from the Russia hoax — supplemented, one should
note, by the Ukraine kerfuffle and the Democrats' comic-opera impeachments — Trump faced not just opposition, but
non-stop hate, from the press, Big Tech and big business generally, academia, Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment
industry, the public schools, almost all of the federal bureaucracy (including the bureaucrat/"expert" D.C. revolving door),
the China Lobby, and — to sum up — the rest of the Swamp.
Fascism is Back.
Today's fascist oligarchs comprise a formidable array: the deep state of unaccountable bureaucrats, academe, the
megalomaniacs of Silicon Valley, Davos elites, Hollywood, Wall Street, big banks, many of the largest corporations, legacy
media, some state governors, professional sports, New World Order kleptocrats, some functionaries of both parties. The
oligarchs' front men in legacy media are partisans. In the US, what on the surface appears to be two party governance
is in fact one party, the big state party, with two branches: the pedal to the metal fascists and the drive 55 fascists,
the latter renowned for their complicity in private but now exposed thanks to an American president. Their allies in
academe have been and are doing everything they can to obscure the evidence, cloud the issues with misdirection and
propagandize the young against Western liberalism.
FBI,
Justice Department knew there was no Russia collusion by spring of 2017. The top Justice Department official in
early 2017 overseeing the FBI's Russia probe testified he was briefed as many as six times on its status and was told there
was no evidence of Trump campaign collusion, a newly released transcript shows. The testimony of Dana J. Boente is
significant because during this time the FBI took major steps to expand the probe. And President Trump in May ended up
firing then-FBI Director James Comey, a stunning move that led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller and two
years of a White House under constant criminal scrutiny.
Senate
Releases More Documents Relating To Russia Investigation, All Transcripts. The Senate Judiciary Committee on
Friday [1/15/2021] released 11 transcripts of depositions conducted as part of the committee's investigation into the origins
of the FBI's Russia probe. Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in a statement that he "decided to release all
transcripts of depositions involving the committee's oversight of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation," adding, "We have
released as much material as possible, but some classified material has still been withheld." The 11 transcripts include
one from "Case Agent 1," who was identified as Stephen Somma by The New York Times in February 2020. As The Daily Caller's
Chuck Ross reported at that time, Somma was blamed for "some of the most significant problems laid out in the Justice Department's
inspector general report on FISA abuse against a Trump campaign." Somma was singled out by the Department of Justice's
Inspector General in a report documenting numerous inaccuracies and omissions included in the FBI's FISA warrants against former
Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
What Now?
Trump had denounced the swamp in apocalyptic terms, but it proved to be even deeper and more extensive than he knew. [...]
The news media, with very few exceptions, made it their task to thwart his progress and poison his name with a constant flow
of disinformation. They said Trump had told people to drink bleach. They said he'd called neo-Nazis "good
people." They said many other outrageous things that they knew were outright lies. They relentlessly repeated the
charge that he did nothing but lie, lie, lie, when in fact it was they, the media, who were constantly feeding us lies.
Trump thought he could rely on Fox News to report on his presidency with at least a degree of fairness. But no.
What Now?
In fact I can now see that these people are worse than I ever imagined. Worse than most of us ever imagined.
Worse, even, than Donald Trump, with all his insight, imagined. He went into office determined to clean up the
swamp. He was tireless. But not tireless enough. No mere mortal could have been tireless enough.
Trump had denounced the swamp in apocalyptic terms, but it proved to be even deeper and more extensive than he knew. It
reached into the upper echelons of the intelligence community and the military, into cabinet departments and the
judiciary. Not only did the Democrats try to derail his campaign and then his presidency. Even people whom he
appointed to White House jobs proved unreliable. Far from being too suspicious, he'd been too trusting. He'd
appointed two-faced D.C. insiders. He'd trusted people who turned out to be snakes in the grass.
Sometimes
you drain the swamp & sometimes the swamp drains you. The Trump Era is over after the incumbent announced in
the day after Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol that "My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless
transition of power", which was widely interpreted by friends and foes alike as the tacit concession that he previously
promised never to provide a little more than 24 hours prior during his speech at the Save America Rally. At that event,
he literally said that "We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. You don't concede
when there's theft involved", yet completely changed his tune following the day's tumultuous events and after mysteriously
"going dark" for over 24 hours, during which time some speculate that he was forced by his enemies in the permanent
military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies ("deep state") to give up the fight.
US
diplomats condemn Trump in State Department 'dissent channel'. U.S. diplomats issued a scathing rebuke of President Trump's
incitement and handling of the Wednesday attack on Capitol Hill in two cables sent via the State Department's "dissent channel."
The dissent channel is a messaging system through which career diplomats can send criticisms of U.S. policymaking or foreign affairs
decisions that are circulated to top State Department officials. In what the Associated Press called a "highly unusual" use of
the messaging system, diplomats said that the events from Wednesday undermined U.S. credibility on the international stage and hobbled
the country's ability to defend democratic values.
Remarkable
Duplicity — Former AG Bill Barr Attacks President Trump For Questioning Same Ballot Fraud Barr Previously
Outlined. During his tenure AG Bill Barr spoke out of both sides of his mouth. He outlined the abuses of
authority within the DOJ/FBI in the targeting of President Trump; and he spoke about the corrupt intent likely behind mail-in
ballots in the 2020 election. However, his actions did nothing to address either issue. Actions speak louder than
words. Yes, it is true that any corrupt activity that would be exposed would have initially weakened the DOJ and/or
FBI, and easily provided ammunition to any defense attorney in courtroom proceedings against those officers; but the corrupt
activity exists regardless of whether it is admitted publicly or not. President Trump has said nothing about the 2020
election outcome that AG Bill Barr did not himself warn about prior to the election. However, now that President Trump
notes the actual results... all of a sudden AG Bill Barr stands in opposition to those same positions and opinions he held
only a few months ago.
The
Swamp Is Scared of the Next 12 Days. [Scroll down] Pelosi has called the military and put 'em on standby
in case Trump launches the nuke codes. Who are we gonna nuke? The little pot-bellied dictator, Kim Jong-un?
What are they terrified of? They're terrified that Trump is gonna unleash classified documents. You know, he's
got a bevy of 'em, folks. He's got classified documents about the hoax, the four-year coup. The four-year coup,
the four-year effort to get the election results of 2016 overturned. There are all kinds of people who broke the law,
all kinds of people who are quaking in their boots. They're worried silly that Trump is gonna unleash some of these
classified documents. Do you know what else they're worried about? Do you know what else they're scared of?
They are scared to death — they are terrified — that Trump is gonna pardon people who are dangerous to
the establishment.
Intelligence
analysts downplayed Chinese election influence to avoid supporting Trump policies, inspector finds.
Politicization problems exist in U.S. spy agency assessments on foreign influence in the 2020 U.S. election, including
analysts who appeared to hold back information on Chinese meddling efforts because they disagreed with the Trump
administration's policies, according to an intelligence community inspector. Barry Zulauf, an analytic ombudsman and
longtime intelligence official, issued a 14-page report obtained by the Washington Examiner to the Senate Intelligence
Committee on Thursday, revealing his investigation was "conducted in response to IC complaints regarding the election threat
issue." In addition, he lamented the "polarized atmosphere has threatened to undermine the foundations of our Republic,
penetrating even into the Intelligence Community."
Yes,
it was a Fraudulent Election. [Scroll down] Election fraud in a democracy is pretty serious, no?
And yet, apart from a small though intrepid group pushing failed court cases, our fearless leaders and their media
propagandists just want to sweep it under the rug. YouTube will not even allow postings that suggest the
election outcome was changed by "widespread fraud or errors." Which, of course, is exactly what may have happened.
Why the silence and creepy censorship? The answer leads to a very dark place. Some of the people who occupy
positions of influence and power, including both Republicans and Democrats, saw President Trump as an existential threat to
this country, so getting him out by any means necessary was justified in their minds. That was a sinister, and also
very foolish, calculus. But stealing the election was a scheme that went too far; a scheme which would itself
pose an even greater threat to the country. They may see that now.
Report:
Vice President Mike Pence Does 'Not Believe' He Has 'Power to Block Congressional Certification'. Vice
President Mike Pence reportedly told President Trump Tuesday [1/5/2021] that he does not possess the power to block the
certification of the election — a remark that followed Trump asserting the vice president, who is presiding over
Wednesday's joint session of Congress, has the "power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." According to a report from
the New York Times, Pence reportedly told Trump "he did not believe he had the power to block congressional certification
of Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s victory in the presidential election despite Mr. Trump's baseless insistence that he did,
people briefed on the conversation said."
How
to Steal an Election in Four Steps. Note the scope of what has happened. When government agencies fake
the lethality of a disease, isolate people, impose lockdowns, and try to cause a recession, when they deceive via
unconstitutional laws, fake polls, mail-in-voting, and rigged software, when the fraud enlists the Centers for Disease
Control, the FBI and CIA, high-level plants within other agencies, state governors & attorneys general, the broadcast media,
& social media — all to take down one man because he's the choice of the people — that's not
"voter fraud." It's an organized coup. Are the Democrats that you know capable of this? Could Pelosi, AOC,
Swalwell and the rest pull this off? Or are just politically-aligned order-takers, like our media and social media,
from, likely, Soros and China, a pair that often work together because they share a common enemy? Today's Democrats are
controlled by far-left Alinskyites who produce tension & chaos, then blame capitalism, racism, & Trump. Look what they
did to us this year. How many Americans did they isolate to sell the virus lie? How much depression and loss of
income did they cause? How many breakups and divorces? How many elderly people had to die alone to serve the
Left's narrative? They even suppressed the effective covid drug hydroxychloroquine for months — they kept
medicine from people who needed it — solely because President Trump had said the drug was effective and they could
not allow Trump to seem to be right about anything. As noted, they suppressed the vaccine as well. The party is
no longer a political opponent; it is a US enemy and the most retrograde force in America.
The Etiology of Executive
Order 13848. The fate of Western Civilization, some three thousand years in the making, now hangs by a slender
thread. That thread is Executive Order 13848. So what is in that Executive Order? [...] It relies heavily on the
Attorney General. The hapless Jeff Sessions was in that role when Executive Order 13848 was signed. He was
replaced on 14th February, 2019, by Bill Barr. Barr seemed reliable but achieved nothing. The reason he
slow-walked everything, couldn't see corruption in the Hunter Biden laptop etc. became apparent when he recently referred to
President Trump as a "deposed king ranting." Barr outed himself as a Deep State operative too soon, and leaves his position
on 23rd December and so won't be involved in drafting the remedies report in response to the report by the Director of
National Intelligence. The fate of Western Civilization hangs on such small matters.
What an unfortunate Deep State coincidence. Census
Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan. The Census Bureau plans to announce it will miss a year-end
deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, a census official said. That delay could
undermine President Donald Trump's efforts to exclude people in the country illegally from the count if the figures aren't
turned in before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. A census official who was not authorized to speak publicly on
the matter confirmed the delay to the Associated Press on Wednesday.
Tainted
Electors in Post-Legal America. The American left has been working overtime to obfuscate the real issues at the
heart of whether or not the 2020 presidential election is being stolen. For instance, when Chris Krebs, the former head
of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), announced in a statement on November 12 that the 2020 election
was "the most secure election in American history" and President Trump fired him, the Left went berserk and cited the firing
as just more evidence that Trump is an illegitimate tyrant or something. [...] It appears that Mr. Krebs is not an
information technology professional, an electrical engineer, a computer programmer, or any kind of techie whose opinion on
cyber-security matters might carry some weight. You see, Chris Krebs is a lawyer. So his previous job at CISA
could only be as a manager, and when he says the election was the safest ever, it means nothing. He's merely repeating
what he's been told by his staff.
Trump:
The American David. Trump's enemies also want to take him out because he stands in the way of those who benefit
from lucrative political corruption rackets and others who embrace globalism. Many of those among the internationalist
establishment in and out of government and a growing part of the corporate elite have accepted the subordination of the
United States to a New World Economic Order. They embrace a world without borders for access to low-cost labor and
offshore manufacturing. Mainland China has been the number one destination, despite its communist government that now
threatens the security of its neighbors and the United States — a threat against which Trump is the first
president to push back. It was Democrats and members of the Deep State who engineered the highest crime and misdemeanor
of disenfranchising the American people through fraudulently obtained warrants for surveillance and orchestrating a coup
against Donald Trump based on Hillary Clinton's bought-and-paid-for phony Russian dossier of salacious and false charges of
Trump being compromised by the Russians. That led to the Mueller investigation. Then it was the House Democrats
who then attempted to impeach Trump based on another falsehood.
Tracing
the Genesis of the Swamp. Much has been made of the Washington, D.C. "swamp" over the last four years.
The vast apparatus of power that is now consecrated in the federal government is certainly immense and a far cry from what
the Founders envisioned. It contains programs and agencies that work for both domestic and foreign goals. The
question of how the swamp came to be has no one particular answer. Some can be laid at the feet of the 20th-century
Progressives during the Roosevelt-Wilson era. Other expansions of power originated with the New Deal. Certainly,
the last quarter-century has seen its fair share of new agencies, policies, and expansions of government. However, one
particular moment deserves its own focused attention if we are to truly understand the vast apparatus that is the swamp and
the rationale for its creation from a national defense perspective: the National Security Act of 1947.
The
Biggest Political Blunder in American History. If courts and state legislatures award Joe Biden the presidency,
the anti-Trump cabal, driven by a four-year single-minded obsession to defeat President Trump, will have committed the
greatest political blunder in American history — the unabashed and overt theft of the 2020 presidential
election. This myopic and oblivious group so misunderstood the depth and breadth of support for Donald Trump that their
blatant manipulation of the election would fall monumentally short of the planned for and anticipated landslide defeat of the
incumbent. A landslide they needed in order to dominate the political arena for the foreseeable future and avoid any
backlash from the electorate for their duplicity. Thus, this cabal, which consists of the Democrat party establishment,
Tech and Wall Street billionaires, the mainstream media and left-wing elitists, will find itself in a quagmire of being
unable to govern. The Democrat party's dominant and radicalized left-wing base will revolt over failed promises and
expectations while the extent of the fraud will inevitably be fully exposed, resulting in nearly half of the citizenry
viewing the government as illegitimate.
When does this guy's resignation take effect? Barr:
No need for special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, election fraud. Attorney General William Barr on
Monday said he saw no reason to tap a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden's finances or claims of election
fraud. Barr, speaking at a Justice Department press conference about new charges in the Lockerbie bombing case, did not
comment extensively on the Hunter Biden investigation but said it was being handled "appropriately." "I think to the
extent that there's an investigation I think that it's being handled responsibly and professionally currently within the
department," Barr, who is leaving office this week, told reporters. "To this point, I have not seen a reason to appoint
a special counsel and I have no plan to do so before I leave."
The Editor says...
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Deep
State Pushes to Deep-Six Intelligence Report Demonstrating Chinese Interference in 2020 Election. Director of
National Intelligence John Ratcliffe is considering not signing an intelligence report to Congress if it does not accurately
reflect an ongoing debate among intelligence community career analysts over Chinese attempts to influence American voters in
the 2020 election, according to a source familiar with the issue. The intelligence report on foreign efforts to
influence the 2020 election is due to Congress on Friday, but Ratcliffe is concerned it will not accurately reflect the
debate among senior intelligence community analysts as to the extent of China's influence operations during the election,
according to the source.
Is
the whole government in on this fraudulent election? As soon as Trump was elected president in 2016, the dark
state realized that it had blundered. Its members had underestimated the degree of fraud it would need to defeat
him. This time, they removed all possibility of failure, and even then, they needed vastly more fraud than even they
had anticipated. Stuffing the ballot boxes was not enough; they had to call time out, for a few hours, so they could
print yet more ballots. Indeed, they printed so many more that the sheer number of them made it obvious that they were
cheating. One might think they overplayed their hand, that they had used a sledgehammer to swat a mosquito. In
doing so, they removed all reasonable doubt — the election was clearly rigged. But the dark state was so
desperate that its operatives cared nothing for how it seems to the informed observer. Nothing. They just had to
make absolutely sure that there would be no way that Donald Trump would be declared the winner.
Mitch
McConnell congratulates Biden and lobbies colleagues to oppose a final-stage Republican effort to overturn his victory..
Breaking with President Trump's drive to overturn his election loss, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Tuesday congratulated
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on his victory and began a campaign to keep fellow Republicans from joining a last-ditch
effort to reverse the outcome when Congress tallies the results next month. Although Mr. McConnell's moves came weeks
after Mr. Biden was declared the winner, they amounted to clear effort by the majority leader, who is the most powerful Republican
in Congress, to put an end to his party's attempts to sow doubt about the election. They were also a bid to avoid a messy
partisan spectacle on the floor of the House that could divide Republicans at the start of the new Congress, pitting those loyal
to Mr. Trump against institutionalists.
Curiouser
and Curiouser. [Scroll down] This has NOTHING to do with electing Biden or heels up Harris. They're
simply puppets for the New World Order folks, the UN folks, the "Great Reset" folks. This is all about getting Trump
out of their sandbox. Trump's most prescient statement was when he uttered "They're not after me, they're after you,
I'm just in the way." And that's exactly right. Trump has frustrated the globalist elites at every turn. When
they wanted to tax us for "carbon" he got us out of the Paris climate baloney. When they wanted more wars, he said no,
and hasn't started a war in any of his 4 years. When they wanted open borders to rush in millions of illegal immigrants
like they've done with Europe, he said no, and started his wall. On and on it goes, and the Bilderbergers, the CFR, the
Brussels elites, hate his guts. He's raining on their socialist/communist/globalist parade, and they want him
out. You could have run a banana and a bunny rabbit against him and the bunny would be the "President elect" because it
has nothing to do with them wanting Joe Biden specifically. They just needed a crook they could depend on to advance
their agenda's and be a blank check to make it happen. His dementia in this case is actually a positive for them.
Trump:
Bill Barr 'Had An Obligation To Set The Record Straight' On Hunter Biden Investigation During Election.
President Donald Trump said in an interview with "Fox & Friends" that Attorney General Bill Barr "had an obligation" to
disclose the ongoing FBI investigation into Hunter Biden before the election. Speaking with "Fox & Friends" host Brian
Kilmeade in an interview that aired Sunday morning, Trump compared Barr's decision to not reveal the investigation to former
special counsel Bob Mueller intervening quickly in 2019 to label a BuzzFeed story claiming that Trump had instructed his
former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress as "not accurate." "Joe Biden lied on the debate stage," Trump
said. "He said 'there's nothing happening, nothing happening,' and Bill Barr should have stepped up. Say what you
want about Robert Mueller, when BuzzFeed put out a phony article ... Bob Mueller stepped out and he said that article was a
phony and then there was ultimately proven there was no collusion ... Bill Barr should have done the same thing."
Report:
Bill Barr Knew of Criminal Investigations into Biden Family in Spring and Worked to Keep It Quiet. A report
within the Wall Street Journal does not necessarily come as a surprise; however, it also does little to provide solace for
the lack of action by Attorney General Bill "Bondo" Barr. According to the article AG Barr has known about
at least two investigations related to the Biden family since early spring 2020, and he worked to keep them quiet.
Trump
retweets call for Bill Barr to 'be fired by the end of business today' if he knew. President Donald Trump on
Saturday retweeted a post demanding that he fire Attorney General William Barr if a published report earlier this week
claiming he knew in the spring about a federal probe into Hunter Biden was accurate. "If the Wall Street Journal story
is true and Attorney General Barr knew in the spring about the Biden investigation and kept it quiet — he should
be fired by the end of business today," former Fox News contributor Todd Starnes wrote Friday.
The
Honor of the Legal Profession. [Scroll down] Anyone who reads the complaint filed by Texas (and rejected
by the Supreme Court) must conclude that there are serious reasons to believe that this election was characterized by massive
fraud in certain swing states and that this fraud was prepared and executed by partisan party operatives who used litigation
to erode mechanisms of ballot security and control of the counting to consummate the win. Note that I do not claim that
the evidence is conclusive, though I personally think it overwhelming. I use the softer "reason to believe", which
means only that it needs investigation. A legal establishment dedicated to upholding process values would regard itself
as honor-bound to demand an investigation of these charges. [...] This is not the reaction of the real legal establishment,
which is demanding not just that the charges not be investigated, but that any lawyer who represents the president be damned.
AG
William Barr reportedly hid two federal probes into Hunter Biden for months. Attorney General William Barr knew
about two contemporaneous federal investigations into Hunter Biden for months — and worked to keep them from the
public ahead of the election, according to a new report. The nation's top law enforcement official avoided providing
information about the probes to Republicans in Congress without explanation, a person familiar with the matter told the Wall
Street Journal. One of the investigations was made public this week, when the 50-year-old son of President-elect Joe
Biden disclosed on Wednesday that he was being probed for possible tax fraud.
Congressional
Republicans Are Furious With Bill Barr, and They Are Right to Be. A new report is out detailing just how
furious Congressional Republicans are over Bill Barr hiding the Hunter Biden investigation. According to The Daily
Caller, Barr knew about the investigation months ago (which also leaves the question open as to why he didn't know years
ago). Instead of allowing the voters to be made aware of such a monumental development prior to the election, the DOJ paused
the investigation and refused to confirm it existed. [...] Barr knew about this in the spring but didn't tell the President,
nor any members of Congress that would usually be kept abreast of such a high profile investigation into the son of a
presidential candidate. Further, Barr allowed the investigation to cease during the election season despite the fact
that such steps were not taken for the Hillary Clinton, nor Donald Trump investigations during 2016. Why did Joe Biden
deserve this kind of protection? And how was it fair to the electorate to not give them all the facts?
Confirmed:
Barr kept Hunter Biden probe a secret until after Election Day. Someone on Twitter said last night that this is
the most ethical thing Barr has done as Attorney General and he's probably going to get fired for it. Which would make
this administration two for two in dispatching AGs for the crime of behaving ethically. I'll be a little surprised if
he survives the day. Trump was already thinking of firing him. Now he has confirmation from the WSJ that Barr
could have revealed that Hunter Biden was under federal investigation at any time before the election — and chose
not to.
Trump
tweets video of Chinese professor claiming that Beijing can swing US policy because it has 'people at the top of America's
core inner circle of power'. President Donald Trump has tweeted video of a Chinese professor suggesting that
China has managed to influence U.S. policy for decades thanks to a special network of relationships with people at the upper
echelons of American power. The video, which had originally been posted on Weibo but has since been removed from
Chinese social media according to Fox News, depicts Di Dongsheng, a professor and associate dean of the School of
International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing. Tucker Carlson shared a clip at the top of his show on Monday
evening [12/7/2020]. In the video Professor Di suggests that China has managed to influence American policies for
decades through a special undercover network of 'old friends' who were at the highest levels of the U.S. government and
financial institutions.
Justin
Amash Says Members Of Congress Have 'No Idea' Who Is Writing Legislation. Outgoing Michigan Rep. Justin
Amash claimed on Sunday evening that members of Congress are not aware of who is writing the legislation that they vote
on. "Legislation used to be crafted by legislators, not 'negotiators,'" he tweeted. "The public needs to know
that members of Congress have no idea who the hell is writing our legislation. It's certainly not us."
Where's
the Kraken? Where's the Storm? The deep state mobilized soon after Donald Trump rode down the escalator
at Trump Tower in June 2015 and polling showed he was a serious candidate. They attempted to undermine his campaign,
transition, and presidency, with impunity and without fear of punishment. Attorney General Barr and U.S. Attorney
Durham have accomplished little. One mid-level FBI attorney, Kevin Clinesmith, may or may not serve prison time but the
big players, Comey, Clapper, and Brennan, appear free and clear. Comey was rewarded for his seditious activity with a
teaching gig at Columbia Law School and his consigliere Peter Strzok got a similar deal at Georgetown. That's assuming
they have time to teach when not appearing on CNN or writing books. [...] Would the Senate be a bulwark against any of
this? What have their investigations into Benghazi, Clinton emails, Spygate, Burisma, Uranium One, and so on produced,
even under Republican jurisdiction, other than hot air?
Trump
campaign charges 'not a single' witness interviewed by DOJ. President Donald Trump's campaign on Dec. 1 fired
back at Attorney General William Barr after the nation's top law enforcement official reportedly claimed that officials
haven't seen evidence of widespread election fraud. "With all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn't been
any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation," Rudy Giuliani, a Trump lawyer, and Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign
attorney, said in a joint statement. "We have gathered ample evidence of illegal voting in at least six states, which
they have not examined. We have many witnesses swearing under oath they saw crimes being committed in connection with
voter fraud. "As far as we know, not a single one has been interviewed by the DOJ. The Justice Department also
hasn't audited any voting machines or used their subpoena powers to determine the truth.
The
Supreme Court and the Electoral Coup. Because Trump was an outsider committed to fighting corruption and
changing Washington's ways, multiple coup plots against him were contemplated even before he was inaugurated. Taking
down General Michael Flynn was just the beginning of the siege of President Donald Trump by the Deep State, instigated by the
FBI Director James Comey. Flynn's takedown was immediately followed by two years of the Mueller Commission
investigation into Trump's alleged ties to and collusion with Russia. Try as they might, no substantive evidence could
be found. Then the baton was passed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who commenced impeachment hearings. That too
failed for lack of evidence. Since there were no penalties from the previous coup efforts based on the fraudulently
obtained FISA warrants, it's only natural that the Deep State and Democrat Party operatives were emboldened to make a third
attempt by seizing on the coronavirus crisis to continue the coup effort in Trump's fourth year — this time
putting in the fix on the November 2020 Presidential election.
The
Deep State and Democratic Party join hands against America. Voters who imagine that they control what the
government does are mistaken. Our federal government is really at the mercy of the huge unelected bureaucracy, the Deep
State, that represents the "big" in our bloated federal government. Everybody who lives within 15 miles of Washington
is part of it, or so it seems. Of all the ways in which the Left is attempting to redefine America, its support for an
enormous bureaucracy has been the most successful. The people we elect — the president and Congress —
are merely a front for the Deep State. The federal government has become separated from the American public that it is
supposed to serve. Deep State power has reached the point where it is beyond the reach of constitutional safeguards.
"As the administrative state grows," says Mark Levin in Ameritopia, "the vote is less effective and the individual is
increasingly disenfranchised."
Senate holds
hearing on FBI's Russia investigation. The Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on the FBI's 2016
'Russia Investigation. On Thursday [12/3/2020], the Committee heard from multiple witnesses affiliated with the
'Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.' Republicans have frequently asserted the FBI's Russia probe was really a
Democrat-led means of going after President Trump, which led to a number of security compromises. During the hearing,
senators questioned former FBI Assistant Director of Intelligence Kevin Brock, who argued the partisan investigation violated
FBI regulations.
Is
the Democrats' Election Heist 'Too Big to Fail'? President Trump and Fox News enjoyed a mutually beneficial
relationship, until, loyalty already fraying, Fox betrayed Trump on election evening by prematurely calling Arizona for
Biden. Only stalwart reporters such as Mark Levin, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs, and Sean Hannity remain by Trump's
side. Republican elected officials who retained power are mostly mute. Although the predicted Blue Wave never
materialized as Republicans flipped House seats and Senate control is so close it will only be decided after the results of a
Georgia runoff election are known, feckless state governors and attorneys general overseeing election preparations stood idly
by as Democrats set up the apparatus for the big election steal. Republicans in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania were
the exception. Resisting the illegal power grab the Democrats had implemented by a massive mail-in-ballot scheme and
extending, by three days, the deadline to vote, Republican state officials appealed to the Supreme Court.
Trump
says DOJ and FBI are 'missing in action' amid voter fraud allegations during first interview since election.
President Trump said the Department of Justice and the FBI are "missing in action" in investigating potential voter fraud in
the 2020 presidential election. "Where is the DOJ and the FBI in all of this, Mr. President? You have laid
out some serious charges here. Shouldn't this be something that the FBI is investigating? Are they?" Fox News's
Maria Bartiromo asked Trump on Sunday during his first interview since Election Day. "Missing in action. Can't
tell you where they are. I ask, 'Are they looking at it?' Everyone says, 'Yes, they're looking at it,'" Trump
responded. "Where are they with all of this stuff, and what happened to Durham? Where's Durham? [...]"
Sidney
Powell Calls For the Complete Reconstruction of the FBI and Department of Justice. "It affects the bedrock of
our democratic republic," Powell started as she detailed fraud in the 2020 election. "It can't be allowed to stand and,
frankly, I'm about to think the entire FBI and the entire Department of Justice need to be hosed out with Clorox and firehoses."
Powell has been very aggressive in recent weeks as she presents her case of voter fraud to the American people. Last
Wednesday, Powell filed a 104 page bombshell complaint in the state of Georgia relating to alleged voter fraud.
Maria
Bartiromo gets an earful after asking Trump, where are the DOJ and FBI? Appearing on Fox News' "Sunday Morning
Futures," [11/29/2020] President Donald Trump took aim at the FBI and even U.S. Attorney John Durham for their apparent
refusal to exact justice against wrongdoers, including those allegedly responsible for voter fraud and impropriety in the
2020 race. "Where are they with Comey, with McCabe, with Brennan, with all these people? They lied to Congress,
they leaked, they spied on our campaign. I see Carter Page is bringing a lawsuit. That's good news. Where
are they with all of this stuff, and what happened to Durham? Where's Durham?" he asked incredulously. The remark
was made in response to host Maria Bartiromo asking him whether the FBI is investigating his campaign's allegations of voter
fraud and impropriety. His point appeared to be that the FBI and Department of Justice, in general, have been missing
in action for so long that he doesn't expect them to do anything.
Did
President Trump Spring a Trap on Treasonous Democrats on Election Night? After the November 3 presidential
election of 2020, a news story broke reporting the seizure of important computer servers in Frankfurt, Germany. Though
the event is disputed, what occurred, according to the Gateway Pundit, was this: "[a] unit under the command of USEUCOM
(i.e., United States European Command) did in fact conduct an operation to take control of computer servers. But these
servers belong to the CIA. ... Such an operation would have been carried out with US law enforcement present to take custody
of the evidence." The presence of federal agents of the court would guarantee a chain of legal custody for the servers that
would render their data admissible before a judge. Gina Haspel and Christopher Wray were supposedly not informed of the
raid in advance, leaving the CIA and FBI heads necessarily blind to this action and, therefore, unable to interfere.
This means that the CIA was certainly the target and that a law enforcement agency unrelated to the FBI, such as the U.S.
Marshalls or the Secret Service, was likely used to take control of the evidence. The timely firing of Mark Esper prior
to the raid would mean that the oppositional defense secretary was cut off from foreknowledge of the raid and, therefore,
would have been unable to disrupt what was going to transpire.
New
reports about election manipulation read like a Tom Clancy novel. On Friday [11/27/2020], a retired top Air
Force intelligence analyst stated with certainty during an interview that special forces had secured a CIA-run facility in
Germany that had computers showing election manipulation. If this report is real, we are witnessing the biggest coup
attempt, sabotage, and treason in American history. No matter what, though, because this report is out there and comes
from serious people, it deserves serious investigation. I have no idea whether this raid happened. Its having
taken place, however, is consistent with my ruminations about Trump's peculiarly-timed shake-up at the Pentagon: Firing
defense secretary Mark Esper and replace him with Christopher Miller, a special forces man; moving special forces into their
own command, rather than having them function as subsets of other military branches; and firing potentially disloyal members
of the civilian Defense Policy Board. These actions indicated that Trump was clearing the decks for something big.
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The
coming purge. In the end, the continuing control by Obama holdovers in this and other intelligence agencies
resulted in a fake Russian collusion investigation, spying on the president, and a fake impeachment effort. All against
the duly and legally elected president by a gang of partisan anti-American Democrats acting as a fifth column in the
executive branch. The saddest part of this story however is how so totally typical it is for Republican administrations
since the 1980s. Republican elected officials have routinely been very lax about cleaning house of Democratic
appointees, once in power. They make a few miscellaneous appointments, but in general let the previous Democratic Party
operatives hold sway. The Democrats however have never had any qualms about firing everyone if necessary to get the
policies they want enacted. In fact, both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were merciless in eliminating as soon as
possible any Republican holdovers, so that very quickly their administrations were being run by their supporters, with no
dissenting views. This was Trump's biggest failure. All he had to do was exercise his due powers and fire
a lot of people — like Clinton and Obama — replacing them with those who supported him.
No violence, no illegalities, no brutality was necessary, only the reasonable actions of an executive trying to implement his
policies. Trump, like the Bushes before him, did not do this.
Letting
the Democrats Steal This Election Is Real Appeasement. [Scroll down] They massively abused their power to
cripple and sabotage the presidency itself. The brilliant political scientist Angelo Codavilla is worth reading
here. He writes that Trump's win threatened to derail America morphing into a permanent oligarchy. And the
oligarchs wouldn't put up with that, which is why they mobilized the Deep State to destroy him and his team, by any means
necessary. And now we see how far they proved themselves willing to go. Do we really want to find out how much
further they'll dare to take things? People unafraid to annul the last presidential election, if they really tried to
steal this one, are coldly and deadly serious about holding onto power. They're willing to imprison innocent men like
General Mike Flynn, and Kyle Rittenhouse, and David Daleiden. To persecute innocent citizens like Brett Kavanaugh,
Nicholas Sandmann, and Mark Judge. To close all our churches, open our borders, create new farcical states, and pack
the Supreme Court with flunkies. What will they do to us and our cities if we try to resist them now? I think a
lot of Republicans consider this, and cower.
Why
the Status Quo Wants Trump Out. I confess to having been utterly naïve. I had wondered why on Earth
the business community would prefer a frail and corrupt president Biden over a pro-business president Trump. Trump has
a track record of economic growth and stands for lower regulations and taxes, fairer international trade, and a stronger
military. Biden wants to increase taxes and regs and put in place a number of new initiatives like the Green New Deal
that might bankrupt the economy. But Wall Street, the tech industry, and many more backed Biden, while even many GOP
congressmen seemed lukewarm to Trump. The choice for Trump seemed so obvious, what was I missing? The difference
is the status quo. A lot of people make lots of money the way things are now. They constitute a powerful force
that seeks to get rid of inconvenient obstacles — especially a serial disruptor like President Trump.
Outgoing
Syria Envoy Admits Hiding US Troop Numbers; Praises Trump's Mideast Record. Four years after signing the
now-infamous "Never Trump" letter condemning then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as a danger to America, retiring
diplomat Jim Jeffrey is recommending that the incoming Biden administration stick with Trump's foreign policy in the Middle
East. But even as he praises the president's support of what he describes as a successful "realpolitik" approach to the
region, he acknowledges that his team routinely misled senior leaders about troop levels in Syria. "We were always
playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there," Jeffrey said in an interview.
The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is "a lot more than" the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to
leave there in 2019.
Senior
Administration Officials Lied To Trump About Troop Levels So He Wouldn't Pull Out Of Syria. Jim Jeffrey, the
United States' retiring Special Representative to Syria and the special envoy in the fight against the Islamic State,
confirmed Thursday that he and other senior administration officials routinely misled President Donald Trump on troop levels
in the Middle East. Jeffrey, speaking to Defense One, explained how despite Trump's stated promise to withdraw America
from endless Middle Eastern engagements, he was able to convince the president to commit to keeping between 200 to 400 troops
in the region in 2019 to "secure" oil fields held by U.S. allies and other strategic positions.
Drain the swamp! One embedded lefty at a time, if necessary. Top
DHS official behind website debunking election misinformation says he is about to be fired — after directly
contradicting a Trump tweet. President Donald Trump's post-election purge is about to pivot to the Department
of Homeland Security, where a top cybersecurity predicts his head will roll after he set up a 'rumor control' website to
debunk false election claims. Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs has told associates he expects to be
fired by the White House, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Krebs, who heads the Department of
Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), did not return messages seeking comment.
CISA and the White House declined comment.
Deep
State Diplomat Lied To Trump About Syria On Behalf Of Military-Industrial Complex. Senior U.S. Diplomat and
special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey repeatedly lied to the Trump administration about how many troops were stationed in
Syria over the last four years. "We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops
we had there," Jeffrey said in an interview. While President Donald Trump announced late in 2018 that he would be
withdrawing troops from Syria following the defeat of the Islamic State, Jeffrey, whose term ended on Sunday, and his team
continually found reasons to prevent total removal from the region.
Pay
No Attention to the Drama Queen at DOJ who Resigned After AG Barr Authorized Fraud Investigations. On Monday
afternoon [11/9/2020] the Department of Justice put out a statement confirming that Attorney General William Barr had authorized federal
prosecutors and investigators to initiate federal criminal investigations into "substantial allegations" of vote fraud in the Presidential
election. The whinging and hand-wringing on the left began immediately, with claims that Barr was again using the Justice Department
as a weapon against President Trump's political opponents, and there is no evidence of vote fraud that warrants any federal investigations.
Then, to cap things off, late in the day on Monday the left-wing press — led by the NYT I believe — shrieked that the
Director of the DOJ's Election Crimes Branch had resigned in protest following the announcement by AG Barr. That individual's
name is Richard Pilger, who is a "career" official with the Department of Justice. But let's draw back the curtain a bit more so
everyone can understand what is happening here behind the scenes. [...]
The
Meaning Of Barr's Action Yesterday. [Scroll down] The point is that there's more to see here than just
another career DoJ drama queen flouncing off the election fraud stage. Barr took his action because he became aware
that investigations of election fraud were being blocked from within DoJ HQ. As SWC details, the drama queen, one
Richard Pilger, has been in charge of the Election Crimes Branch at DoJ HQ for quite a few years. During the Obama
years he wrote up a manual of procedures for the handling of allegations of election law violations. That manual
specified that the local US Attorneys (USAs) — including their Assistants (AUSAs) and FBI agents —
could take no action with regard to allegations of election law violations without DoJ HQ — meaning, without
Pilger's — approval. There's an important distinction here, one that might seem minor but which helps to
see events of the last week more clearly — those events leading up to Barr's action. First of all, that
provision in the manual didn't prevent the FBI or local USA offices from receiving allegations of election crime
violations. Now, you'll recall that shortly after the election, Barr had his DAG specifically state that FBI agents
could enter election centers armed. That was a clear sign that the FBI was receiving complaints of election law
violations and was responding to them by going to election centers — presumably because the complaints were coming
from workers at those centers. They were being blocked from entering because they were armed, and their complaints
about this obstruction got to Barr very quickly.
The
real story behind AG Barr authorizing investigations of vote fraud blows away the MSM narrative. Even some of
my most respected conservative correspondents have been taken in by pessimism over Attorney General William Barr's
authorization of investigation of vote fraud. The media cabal seeking to oust President Trump focused on the abrupt
purported "resignation" (he is keeping his federal paycheck and transferring to a different post) of Richard Pilger, director
of the DOJ Criminal Division's Election Crimes Branch. The narrative Pilger offers, all but universally adopted by the
media, is that Barr is violating established norms and acting out of (corrupt) political motives. [...] But there is LOT more
going on here, and despite the frustrated worries of some of my conservative friends and colleagues that nothing will come of
this, Barr's order is hugely significant, for it removes the obstacle that has prevented serious investigations of vote fraud
up to now. To explain, I turn to Mark Wauck, an email correspondent and contributor who has written important articles
here, often building on his wealth of experience as a retired FBI special agent. His blog Meaning in History is a daily
read for me.
Ex-Mueller
Deputy Andrew Weissmann Compares President Trump to Hitler. Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ex-deputy
Andrew Weissmann on Tuesday [11/10/2020] compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler in a tweet, amid Democrat calls for Trump
supporters to join together with the left and "heal." Weissman, a former senior Justice Department official until he
joined Mueller's team in 2017, tweeted Tuesday morning, "For those people who say we should appease Trump, how did that
approach go for Neville Chamberlain": [Redundant tweet] Weissmann, despite holding a top position at the DOJ until
2017, was reportedly very partisan. In December 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported that he attended former
2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's election-night party. Election filings also state that Weissmann
donated several thousand dollars to the Democratic Party, including a $2,350 contribution to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008
and $2,000 to the DNC in 2006.
Donald
Trump Jr: "Declassify Everything". I have spent a great deal of time thinking about this since the media
began their insufferable onslaught and "president-elect Biden" narrative. The time has long past for President
Trump to fully demand his executive cabinet members declassify the evidence outlining intrusive government surveillance upon
not only himself, but all Americans. CTH has a rather unique perspective on the declassification angle. This
conversation has traveled with me for over two years as I have talked to people inside the machinery. Ultimately the
discussion ends around something like this: ["]Is the DC political surveillance state, and all of the
ramifications within that reality, so fundamentally corrupt and against our nation's interests, that no entity dare expose
the scope and depth of it? And ultimately... is it the preservation of institutions that is causing so many
disconnected outcomes from evidence intentionally downplayed?["] If we assume the scale of unconstitutional
conduct has become systemic, that likely answers the questions. Personally, I believe this is the most likely scenario.
How
Trump Survives a Coup. [Scroll down] Most serious, however, is the ongoing intimidation of the Supreme
Court: only three Senators have publicly declared that the newly elected president should appoint more judges to overturn the
moderate majority. But of the three (Gillibrand, Harris, and Warren), one is now the Democrats' vice-presidential
candidate. That is highly relevant because it is the expressed opinion of the leaders of the Democratic
establishment — enunciated by former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton — that Biden should not concede
victory to Trump under any circumstances, i.e., regardless of the number of votes that he might win. Those are
words which would have been simply unimaginable in the past; now they do not even arouse much furor when spoken. If
therefore election-night ballot counting, or the belated counting of mailed-in ballots, fails to yield the required number of
votes for Biden in the different states, thus requiring an appeal to the courts that would quickly reach the Supreme Court,
the latter must do its duty and side with Biden, on penalty of being diluted with new appointments. Such is the logic
of the Democrats' party leaders.
Donald Trump,
Counterrevolutionary. Until Trump's arrival, Big Tech was three-quarters home on the road to Nineteen
Eighty-Four. Five or six companies monopolized most American — and indeed the world's — access
and use of the internet. In cynical fashion, Silicon Valley grandees patronized naïve conservatives that they were
the supposed embodiment of Milton Friedman libertarianism and 19th century robber baron daring. Yet to their leftist
kindred, the moguls of Menlo Park simultaneously whispered, "Don't worry about such necessary disinformation: we will enrich
only your candidates, only your agendas, only your foundations, only your universities — in exchange for your
exemptions." Antitrust legislation was as much an anathema to good liberals as rigging searches, institutionalizing
the cancel culture, and censoring thoughts and ideas were welcomed. For now Trump, almost alone, is battling that
revolution.
President
Trump Opens the Valve to Drain the Swamp With a New Executive Order. President Trump has signed an executive
order that removes civil-service protections from certain positions within federal government agencies. There has been
much whining and gnashing of teeth, but voters should be thrilled. Making policymakers in the Deep State "at-will"
employees, who are easier to dismiss if they attempt to obstruct the duly elected president's agenda, is a good thing.
Not being bound to hire according to a career-progression ladder will also allow agencies to bring in new people with new
ideas. This will be true whether or not Donald Trump is president. The need to reduce protections within the
civil service became apparent when training based on critical race theory was banned from the federal government.
Within two weeks of the order, whistleblowers started to report that their scheduled critical race training would
proceed — in direct violation of the order.
Trumpism: Then,
Now — and in the Future? [Scroll down] Aside from fundamental changes in foreign and
democratic policy, and renewed emphasis on class instead of race, Trumpism changed the political dialectic. Of course,
Trump could be crude, even at times bullying and profane. But much of his braggadocio and vulgarity were designed as
chemotherapy to kill the cancer of the administrative state and the lock-hold on permanent government by the revolving-door,
bipartisan coastal elite. The reasons why Trump just days after his inauguration faced a failed impeachment, or calls
for his removal by the 25th Amendment, or even talk of a military coup, or the Steele dossier hoax that led to a $40 million,
22-month effort by progressives to destroy his presidency, his person and his family, were manifold. But one cause
surely was that Trump was orphaned from the hard-Left Democratic Party and the Republican establishment and seemed either to
welcome the ostracism or not be fully cognizant of the cost that it entailed.
Why Does Barr Let Wray Lie and Flout
the Law? One is supposed to believe that Attorney General William Barr is in charge of the Department of
Justice, and that FBI Director Christopher Wray works for Barr. Both men purportedly work for President Donald J.
Trump. President Trump has been very clear about his desire and directives to declassify and release all materials
related to the "Russia!" hoax. The President is consistently ignored by his staff.
GSA
Gave FBI, Mueller 'Secret Access' To Trump Records. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the General
Services Administration (GSA) undermined the Trump transition team by violating a memorandum of understanding between the
Trump transition team and the GSA — when they complied with requests from the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller's office
to provide private records on members of Trump's team, according to a Senate report released on Friday [10/23/2020].
Senate
report: FBI, GSA undermined Trump 2016 transition by sharing private Trump team records. A Senate report
released today [10/23/2020] claims that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the General Services Administration
undermined the Trump transition team in 2016 by sharing private Trump team records in violation of an agreement between that
team and the GSA. The majority staff report from both the Senate Committee on Finance and the Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs claims that officials from both the FBI and Mueller's office "secretly sought and received
access to the private records of Donald J. Trump's presidential transition team, Trump for America, Inc."
Mark
Meadows Informs Court President Authorized Declassification of Documents [but] Did Not Order It. Federal Judge
Reggie Walton saw an opportunity to give media (Buzzfeed and CNN) their request for all documents from the Weissmann/Mueller
investigation when President Trump wrote a tweet on October 6, 2020, re-emphasizing declassification. Seemingly Judge
Walton wanted to interpret the tweets as authority for the declassification of material underlying the Mueller probe.
As a consequence Walton asked for clarification from White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Mr. Meadows
responded to the request from the court with a one-page statement: [...]
This
Is How the Left's Power Structure Collapses. The smartest people in the world actually believe they can be
successful in spiking one of the biggest stories to pop up in any American election cycle. Their hubris is so advanced,
so viral, so awful, that they can't see what they've done to themselves. They really believe they are going to keep a
cork on this. The derogatory phrase for the establishment has been "the swamp." How bad is this, how deep is this,
how criminal is this, how horrifying is it to find out the vast amount of corruption and collusion in so many of our
institutions and corporations? It's staggering. It's infuriating. These are the most powerful among
us. All rich. All corrupt. All once respected by Americans of all stripes. And here, in one fell
swoop, they reveal themselves to the average American. As arrogant bullies, as deceitful liars, as evil as anything
we've seen in our generation. They have revealed themselves as the cabal of darkness.
Obama, Clinton, Biden, Harris, Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, Rice,
Comey, Mueller, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff et al. must be charged with treason and sedition. There are countless
other co-conspirators in this extremely complex criminal conspiracy to overthrow the Trump administration. Loretta
Lycnch, Rod Rosenstein, Sally Yates, Andrew Weissman, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Bill
Priestap, Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud, Christopher Steele are just a few of the many other career criminals who subversively
used their offices within the U.S. Federal Government to carry out a soft coup against President Trump. [Chart]
What else needs to be said: all of these hardcore criminal co-conspirators are guilty of attempting to collapse the
government of the United States of America. After years of in-depth investigation, all of the hard evidence currently
points to myriad acts of treason and sedition on the part of the aforementioned coup plotters.
Why
Trump Must Never Stop Talking about the Russia Hoax. [Scroll down] Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's
apparent use of the CIA and FBI to frame President Trump as a Russian agent reveals such corruption and treachery at the
highest levels of government that no past political scandal compares. What is worse, supporters of the president have
been attacked for four years as delusional for correctly believing that everything from the Steele Dossier to Robert
Mueller's special counsel investigation was the product of a political hit job and setup. Many Americans have been
forced to watch a slow-moving coup against the president of the United States, while being told over and over again by
nefarious government actors and a complicit press that President Trump is the real villain. Never have Americans been
victimized by gaslighting on such a grand scale, and to downplay the psychological toll that has had on voters outside of the
Beltway is to ignore the irreparable damage caused by parties who have, as yet, have been neither fully named nor punished.
Debate
Commission Packed With Trump Critics From Both Parties. The leadership of the Commission on Presidential
Debates, which organizes the general election debates, includes many Trump critics from both parties. While the
commission is officially nonpartisan and includes a mix of both Republicans and Democrats, it is overwhelmingly made up of
members of the political establishment who are opposed to President Donald Trump. Majorities of both the commission's
chairmen and board members include people who have either taken aim at the president in the past or donated to Democratic
political candidates, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found. Trump has butted heads with the commission over its
decision to conduct the second debate virtually, which Trump cited as a reason to boycott the event.
Rigged:
The Chairman of the Presidential Debate Commission is Co-Founder of "Color Revolution" Org Linked to Steele Dossier and
More. From the failed Chris Wallace-Biden tag-team attempt against Trump, to biased moderator Susan Page's
shrill interruptions of Vice President Pence, to the Presidential Debate Commission's ridiculous and politically motivated
effort to force a "virtual debate" on Biden's behalf, patriotic Americans have caught on to the fact that there is something
deeply unfair about the presidential debates. This clear bias has justifiably led many observers to wonder what is
wrong with the Presidential Debate Commission. Just yesterday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called out
the Commission directly: [Tweet] Kayleigh's characterization of the Commission is of course correct. However,
its corruption and bias goes beyond the simple fact that it's in the tank for Joe Biden. The nominally Republican
Chairman of Presidential Debate Commission, Frank Fahrenkopf, is both a co-founder and current board member of the
International Republican Institute (IRI), a top "Color Revolution" propaganda outfit. The IRI was run by Never Trump
neoconservative John McCain for decades. It is closely linked to the thoroughly discredited Steele Dossier at the
center of the Russia Hoax.
John Brennan, Hillary's Helper.
It came out this week that John Brennan, the most partisan CIA director ever, briefed Barack Obama on Hillary Clinton's plans
to smear Trump as a Putin-besotted collaborator. Brennan's 2016 briefing notes to Obama refer to "alleged approval by
Hillary Clinton on July 28 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a
scandal claiming interference by Russian security services." Did Obama tell his CIA director to steer clear of this
partisan mischief? Clearly not. Brennan had already joined in it. Auditioning for a role in the Hillary
administration — Brennan had told his colleagues he wanted to remain as CIA director under her —
Brennan was pushing the Trump smear as hard as anyone. CIA interference in elections was once one of the gravest sins
in the liberal catechism. How times had changed.
An American Coup Attempt.
The U.S. is in a constitutional crisis. It began on the day of President Trump's election, when unelected bureaucrats
mobilized against his presidency. This is a crisis in the executive branch, perpetrated by subordinate officials who
don't see themselves as answerable to the president. They have effectively established a fourth branch of
government — a permanent, unaccountable bureaucracy. [Paywall]
Nunes
Suggests Shutting Down Intel Agencies Until They Turn Over 'Smoking Gun' Trump Information. Rep. Devin
Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, on Sunday suggested shutting down U.S. intelligence agencies
if they refuse to turn over information they collected on Donald Trump during the 2016 election. In an interview on Fox
News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Nunes said that he is aware of intelligence he described as "smoking guns" that should be
declassified and released to the public. "Every Republican senator and member of Congress should be saying... we want
every [...] bit of evidence that every intelligence agency has or it's maybe time to shut those agencies down," said Nunes.
Why Trump Contracting COVID-19 Will Reelect Him.
[Scroll down] Nevertheless, if we are to believe the polls (and I don't, really, but arguendo...) Biden enjoys a
sizable lead a month off from the election. This can largely be ascribed to the mainstream media whose hatred for Trump
was manifest the moment he rode down the escalator to announce his candidacy. Almost simultaneously, if you think about
it, a cabal of intelligence and FBI agents, evidently with the approval of the previous administration, began a treasonous
attempt to prevent Trump's election or, failing that, to discredit him. Then came the impeachment trial over Ukraine
when it was Biden & Son who deserved to be impeached for their activities in that country. All of this has resulted in
an unprecedented level of hate and vengeance in our country that seems unending. But as with the French Revolution,
eventually these things go too far and burn out. Now we have reached a kind of apotheosis of hate that portends some
kind of ending.
Did
The CIA, FBI And Hillary Launch A Silent Coup Against Trump? Former FBI Director James Comey plays dumb in
testimony before Congress, while CIA Director Gina Haspel blocks further declassification of documents in the Russia
scandal. That's the obstructionist Deep State in action, hiding the truth about a major scandal from the American
people. Listening to Comey testify this week about the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation into supposed
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 campaign has been revelatory. "In the main,
it (Crossfire Hurricane) was done by the book, it was appropriate, and it was essential that it be done," Comey said.
Later, under persistent questioning from South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, Comey maintained that "Overall,
I'm proud of the work." When he wasn't being proud, Comey played as if he were ignorant of the things going on around
him, including the fraudulent application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to spy on the Trump campaign.
Big
Tech's Backing of the 'Transition Integrity Project' Lacks Integrity. During Tuesday night's debate, while
fielding yet another softball from moderator Chris Wallace, Joe Biden promised to accept the outcome of the 2020 presidential
election. "I will accept it, and he will too," Biden replied. "You know why? Once the winner is declared
after all the votes are counted, that will be the end of it." But Biden, as usual, wasn't telling the whole truth.
The former vice president can publicly assure Americans he will abide by the voters' decision this year because he knows his
campaign team is part of a massive operation — cosigned by the most powerful media, business, and political
interests in the country — performing Biden's dirty work behind-the-scenes to make sure that he, not Donald Trump,
takes the oath of office on January 20, 2021.
The
Presidential Debate Commission Tried, And Failed, To Ambush Trump. Tuesday night's presidential debate was not
supposed to go down like that. Most everyone agrees that the debate, which quickly devolved into a chaotic shouting
match between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden (with frequent, one-sided interruptions by moderator Chris
Wallace), was a disaster. But for the Commission on Presidential Debates, the body that oversees and runs these things,
it was a complete failure. The debate was supposed to be an orchestrated ambush of Trump, with Wallace playing a key
role helping Biden land punches and avoid getting flustered by Trump.
Davis:
CIA Director Gina Haspel Is Blocking Declassification Of Remaining Russigate Documents. CIA Director Gina
Haspel is personally blocking the declassification of documents detailing corruption at the highest levels of the
intelligence community during the 2016 election, according to The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis. While new
information about wrongdoing at the FBI has recently been declassified, including recent revelations about Hillary Clinton
campaign's collusion with Russia, Davis reported on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Wednesday that Haspel herself is standing in the
way of the declassification of other relevant documents.
CIA
Director Gina Haspel Blocking Declassifying Critical Documents Related To Russia Investigation, Report Says.
Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, reported on Wednesday night that CIA Director Gina Haspel is reportedly blocking
the declassification and release of critical documents related to the FBI's surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
"I can report here tonight that these declassifications that have come out, those weren't easy to get out and there's in fact
far more waiting to get out," Davis told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. "Unfortunately, those releases and
declassifications, according to multiple sources I've talked to, are being blocked by CIA Director Gina Haspel, who herself
was the main link between Washington and London as the London station chief for John Brennan's CIA during the 2016 election."
The
Deep State Wins if Trump Loses. Donald Trump has done his level best to seek justice in the dank D.C.
quagmire. In addition to House and Senate committees, he's tasked Attorney General William Barr and federal prosecutor
John Durham with investigating the numerous ways the intelligence community — aided by the lying media, every
elected Democrat and lots of GOP pols — tried to get back at the President. But the Swamp is deep, wide and
treacherous. Thanks to unelected federal bureaucrats, the Durham investigation has been hindered at every turn.
Getting documents from the FBI, CIA, DoJ and State Department has been harder than pulling teeth on a unsedated lion.
It's become increasingly clear that U.S. voters won't learn the full extent of Deep State treason until after the election.
And should Joe Biden, the Democrats' dead-man-walking candidate, somehow win in November, we won't learn anything.
'Locked
safes, lost keys': Richard Grenell details 'crazy' excuses about classified reports. Former Director of
National Intelligence Richard Grenell said on Monday that officials make up "crazy" excuses not to release classified
reports. Fox News host Sean Hannity alluded to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham saying over the weekend that
"more damning" information about the Russia investigation will soon be released to the public and asked Grenell if he had any
idea what is in store. "We've heard every excuse in the book about why these reports aren't coming out: locked
safes, lost keys, all sorts of crazy stuff," Grenell said as he called for further transparency. Critics of such
declassifications have also warned about putting sources and methods at risk.
The
Head of the FTC Is Yet Another Tyrannical Deep State Swamp Creature. The Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) — is yet another one of those Executive Branch joints the Legislative Branch set up to be "independent."
Which is, of course, unconstitutional. The Constitution establishes three branches of government —
Executive, Legislative and Judicial. You can't create an "independent" fourth branch — unless and until you
amend our founding document. So in Reality, the FTC should be an Executive Branch agency. As with all the
Executive Branch agencies, departments, commissions and boards — the FTC is supposed to execute the policy
intentions of the duly elected Chief Executive. THIS duly elected Chief Executive — Donald Trump. Not
the PRIOR duly elected Chief Executive — Barack Obama. Whose nigh entire panoply of policy intentions were
diametrically opposed to this one's. But the FTC just yet again voted to continue doing the bidding of
Obama — who hasn't been president for nearly four years.
Seth
Rich: The Murder Washington Doesn't Want Solved. [Scroll down] Donald Trump received just 4.1 percent
of the District's vote in the 2016 election. Trump's election disrupted short-term strategies and long-term expectations in
every one of the capital's major institutions, local and federal, public and private, the legal community among them. According
to Hersh, Trump was a "circuit breaker," one who made a whole lot of enemies. Those enemies, as we have seen, would go to great
lengths to discredit Trump and anyone associated with him. The pressure they can bring to bear on even those who want to tell
the truth remains formidable.
It
WAS a coup attempt. In the past few days a number of news stories have confirmed, unequivocally, that the
effort in the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department to spy on the Trump campaign before the election and then pin the false
accusation of Russian collusion on Trump after his election were all an effort to dictate the results of the election, and
then overturn it when Trump won. It was an out-and-out coup attempt by these government officials, apparently aided and
abetted by Obama when he was still president. First we learn that the FBI agents working on the fake prosecution of
former National Security were so worried their misconduct would be uncovered by the Trump administration that they bought
liability insurance to protect themselves. [...] They all knew there was no evidence against Flynn, and to get his conviction
required blackmail against him as well as the faking of evidence, both of which were done. Those acts by the way are
outright crimes.
"Get
Trump" was the Dominant Theme of Special Counsel Mueller's Crossfire Hurricane "All-Star Team". Early on Friday
morning, I went through in summary fashion some of the highlights of the FBI 302 Memorandum of Interview of FBI Special Agent
William Barnett. Barnett was interviewed on September 17, 2020, but not for John Durham — it was
investigators working with US Attorney Jeffrey Jensen on his review of the Special Counsel Office's investigation and
prosecution of Gen. Michael Flynn. Barnett was the original Case Agent for the investigation dubbed "Crossfire
Razor" which was focused on the activities of General Flynn prior to and after he became President Trump's National Security
Advisor during the campaign, and later in the White House. Barnett led the Razor investigation from August 2016 until
early January 2017. As noted in the 302, and as I noted in my first story last night, he was "cut out" of the decision
to interview General Flynn on January 24, 2017, not being told about it having taken place until the following day.
Weeks after that he asked to be removed from the Razor investigation.
Stunning
revelations expose FBI's Trump probe as dirtiest political trick in US history. It was always a witch hunt
designed to "get Trump." Collusion was an illusion invented by a suspected Russian spy but zealously embraced by malevolent
actors at the FBI and later by scheming prosecutors on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team of partisans. These are
the stunning revelations contained in two sets of newly declassified documents that pull back the curtain on the Russia Hoax,
the dirtiest political trick in American history. In testimony that is corroborated by records, FBI Special Agent
William J. Barnett has exposed how the bureau's collusion investigation of Donald Trump was based on nothing more than
"supposition on supposition" and devoid of any credible evidence.
Secret
Report: How CIA's Brennan Overruled Dissenting Analysts Who Concluded Russia Favored Hillary. Former CIA
Director John Brennan personally edited a crucial section of the intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016
election and assigned a political ally to take a lead role in writing it after career analysts disputed Brennan's take that
Russian leader Vladimir Putin intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump clinch the White House, according to two
senior U.S. intelligence officials who have seen classified materials detailing Brennan's role in drafting the
document. The explosive conclusion Brennan inserted into the report was used to help justify continuing the Trump-Russia
"collusion" investigation, which had been launched by the FBI in 2016. It was picked up after the election by
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who in the end found no proof that Trump or his campaign conspired with Moscow. The
Obama administration publicly released a declassified version of the report — known as the "Intelligence Community
Assessment on Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent Elections (ICA)" — just two weeks before Trump took
office, casting a cloud of suspicion over his presidency.
D'Souza's
New Film 'Trump Card' Slashes the 'Deep State' to Ribbons. Dinesh D'Souza has become the master of the
conservative political documentary film genre, starting with his first offering, "2016: Obama's America," which examined the
roots of then-President Barack Obama's desire to fundamentally transform the United States. Obama, D'Souza argued, saw
the U.S. as fundamentally unjust, particularly in matters of race and wealth distribution. "Trump Card," the fifth of
D'Souza's films, picks up in a sense where "Obama's America" ended, but this time the enemy is the "deep state" and the
democratic socialists.
Transition
Integrity Project founder calls for execution of former National Security Council official, and mocks those who express
disgust. Now, here's a real charmer, wafting in from the Trump-haters — the founder of the
"civility"-preaching "Transition Integrity Project," who's now calling for public executions for wrongthink: [...] The
Brasillach that Gilman refers to is a French intellectual who was shot by firing squad in 1944 by French resistance forces
for his advocacy of Nazi collaboration and anti-Semitism. It sparked some controversy at the time, given that he didn't
actually kill anyone; it was premised solely on his vile ideas. He isn't exactly missed. Now Gilman has decided
he'd like the same thing to happen to Michael Anton, a former National Security Council official and powerful writer whose
"Flight 93 election" article made a huge impact in 2016, and whose more recent essay, "The Coming Coup," warned of plans for
a "color revolution" in the U.S. where elections are overridden by mobs, plotted by the very Deep-Staters connected to George
Soros, who invented the color revolutions elsewhere. The target in his piece is the Transition Integrity Project, as it
turns out, and rather than argue or defend his project, he called for killing his critics.
Forgetting
History and Misrepresenting History is America's Real Pandemic. [Scroll down] But here's what has taken
me by surprise. The extent and depth of treason going on within all these government agencies, and throughout every
level of government in America by government officials, elected and un-elected, military and civilian. There's a reason
the phrase "The Deep State" has been coined to explain them. Its been known for years the government of the United
States during the Roosevelt years was the most heavily infiltrated government in the history of the world. Senator Joe
McCarthy was contemptible in many ways, accusing innocent people of being communists, but he was right in his contention the
federal government was filled with communists, socialists, Stalinist agents and fellow travelers. All of which was
proven by the release of the VENONA intercepts, and by the release of the Soviet Union's files after its collapse.
Information FDR, Truman and Eisenhower all had to know about.
Rage for the Machine.
Donald Trump was an unexpected monkey wrench in their plans. He is an outsider expressing neither the palatable views
of the pro-business GOP, nor the globalist views of the neoliberal establishment. Thus, the government that Trump
ostensibly runs resists him actively or passively at every turn. In this, it is joined by big business, the media, and
pretty much every other established institution. They all believe in the same myths: that cops are racist, that America
is evil, that masks are magic, that the traditional family is oppressive, that nationalism is outmoded, and that America only
began to be worth anything starting in the 1960s when the old America began to become undone. The 1960s counterculture
is now just the culture. The rebels took over the institutions. What looks like "resistance" in the streets is
just the activity of shock troops defending the status quo. There is little daylight between the black-clad,
blue-haired Antifa terrorists, and the well-educated and wealthy leaders of the Google HR department.
NeverTrumpers
Unhinged Over Their Growing Irrelevance. Washington D.C. has always been a club, with decorum and strict
membership rules. Most of us are not in this club and would have no desire to join if offered membership based on our
morals, ethics, and a desire to look at ourselves in the mirror every day without being disgusted. George Carlin said
it best, "It's a big club, and you ain't in it." The club goes by many names — deep state, swamp,
uniparty — and the club charter is quite clear, outlined ironically by someone not in the club, blackballed by the
membership committee.
Debates
Commission Is Part of the Washington Swamp. It's time to debate. After months of political posturing,
Americans deserve to see President Trump and Joe Biden come face to face, explaining their policy platforms and outlining
their visions for the future. But the Commission on Presidential Debates stands in the way. Created in 1987 with
noble intentions, CPD's purpose was to ensure that general election debates remain a part of the electoral process.
However, as so often happens in Washington, D.C., the nonprofit organization has morphed into something quite different
today: CPD is now an entrenched part of the Washington swamp, leveraging its bureaucratic presence to exert undue
influence over presidential elections.
Paul
Craig Roberts: The US & Its Constitution Have 2 Months Left. When Generals and the CIA say that a
president is unfit and dangerous, they mean he is dangerous to their budget. By "unfit" they mean he is not a reliable
cold warrior who will keep hyping America's enemies so that money keeps pouring into the military/security budget. By
serving defense contractors instead of their country, generals end up very wealthy. Both Kennedy and Trump wanted to
normalize relations with Russia and to bring home US troops involved in make-war operations overseas that boost the profits
of defense contractors. To stop Kennedy they assassinated him. To stop Trump they concocted Russiagate,
Impeachgate, and a variety of wild and unsubstantiated accusations. The presstitutes repeat the various accusations as
if they are absolute proven truth. The presstitutes never investigated a single one of the false accusations.
These efforts to remove Trump did not succeed. Having pulled off numerous color revolutions in which the US has
overthrown foreign governments, the tactics are now being employed against Trump. The November presidential election
will not be an election. It will be a color revolution.
Investigators
May Finally Be Noticing Brennan's Top Secret Probe of Non-Existent Russian Collusion That Started Within Days of Crossfire
Hurricane. In what's hopefully a sign there's more to come, RedState emeritus Stu Cvrk posted a fantastic
column today titled, Digging Into the Corpulent Alexander Vindman. I won't spoil your pleasure and reveal any of the
interesting details except to say that I was both shocked and gratified to see this one: ["]Note that
Investigative journalist Paul Sperry reported on Sunday that John Brennan 'ran a secret task force out of Langley with its
own separate budget to investigate the Trump campaign and alleged ties to Russia.'["]
Digging
Into the Corpulent Alexander Vindman. The media's continued use of "unnamed sources" for their sensational
anti-Trump articles may actually mask something far more sinister. It is presumed that actual anti-Trump personnel in
the White House, National Security Council, CIA, and State Dept are the sources of the classified leaks that served as the
basis for many legacy media claims over the past four years. It is entirely possible that the real sources of the
classified information leaks were through electronic eavesdropping of White House communications with other federal agencies
and foreign governments. Thus, "unnamed sources" are misdirection to hide the real sources of the leaks —
unauthorized illegal electronic surveillance. The media stories could have been written and slanted as cover stories to
protect the non-human technical surveillance wiretaps.
Tom
Fitton: "There Needs to be A Criminal Investigation of the Special Counsel". There are a lot of tenuous
characters who report on the machinations of the swamp, Lou Dobbs and Tom Fitton are not part of that media system. In
this interview both Dobbs and Fitton deliver brutal honesty, call the baby ugly, and discuss the best approach that President
Trump should take to deliver sunlight upon the schemes. [Video clip]
Trump
Barred From Omitting Undocumented Immigrants in Census. President Donald Trump's policy excluding undocumented
immigrants from census data violates the law, a panel of federal judges ruled, blocking it from taking effect. Three
judges in Manhattan on Thursday ruled that Congress hadn't given the president authority for the policy. The case,
brought by several states including New York and advocacy groups, is notable because census results are used to determine
representation in the House of Representatives and to allocate federal funds. "Throughout the nation's history, the
figures used to determine the apportionment of Congress — in the language of the current statutes, the 'total
population' and the 'whole number of persons' in each state — have included every person residing in the United
States at the time of the census, whether citizen or non-citizen and whether living here with legal status or without," the
judges said in an 86-page opinion.
There
is something very wrong with some in the top ranks of America's military. It began to be clear last October
that the Obama administration (with some help from Bill Clinton's presidency) had seeded the Pentagon with leftist generals
whose allegiance was to the Deep State, to cultural leftism, and to the infamous and profitable "military industrial complex"
that Eisenhower warned about in 1961. In only five years, Obama had conducted a major Pentagon purge, firing almost 200
senior officers who held the old-fashioned belief that the military exists to protect America and should not be a social
justice institution with limited firepower. The upper-level officers who remained were hardcore Democrats. While
still in the military, Admirable McRaven gave bin Laden a respectful, private burial. Once out of the military, he
wrote an editorial for the New York Times, strongly suggesting a military coup against Trump. Barry McCaffrey, a
Clinton White House officer, likened Trump to Mussolini because he canceled the White House's newspaper subscriptions.
And Obama's Joint Chiefs Vice Chair, James Winnefeld, was deeply offended on behalf of ISIS terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
because Trump did the psychologically smart thing of telling al-Baghdadi's followers that he died like a coward.
Yet
Another Deep State Swamp Creature Committing Crony Insurrection. The way things are supposed to work is:
If you don't like what your new bosses are doing — you have two choices. Do it anyway — or
quit. However, this is not how untold thousands of federal government bureaucrats have reacted. These untold
thousands of bureaucrats — have engaged in a countless, simultaneous, ongoing, rolling insurrections. Either
slow-walking advancement of the agenda — or outright halting it. And in many, many worse case
scenarios — working against it. And if they can work against it — while simultaneously rewarding
Leftist cronies — so much the better. And there is likely no bigger Leftist government crony industry than
monstrously huge Big Tech.
'This
Investigation is a Sham': Judicial Watch President Slams John Durham for Going Easy on the Deep State. Trump
supporters are waiting with baited [sic] breath
for U.S. Attorney John Durham to come out with his explosive findings in regards to his investigation into the origins of the
Russian collusion probe against President Trump. Fitton said that he is inclined to believe disgraced former CIA
Director John Brennan when he says that he is not a person of interest in Durham's investigation. "I don't see grand
juries operating. I don't see a bunch of witnesses coming in. I don't see lawyers complaining about their clients
being brought in before Durham," Fitton said. He said that the Mueller investigation was run much more thoroughly than
Durham's so-called investigation, the goal of which appears to be protecting the deep state.
'Non-Partisan'
Transition Integrity Project Founder Dined With Soros And Biden Campaign Advisers. While the Transition
Integrity Project — which purports to thwart President Trump's refusal to concede the election if Biden
wins — claims to not undermine President Trump's candidacy, an email from May 13th 2015 highlights its founder's
deep ties to Biden-linked, Democratic party heavyweights. Brooks emailed Podesta, President Bill Clinton's Deputy Chief
of Staff, Counselor to Barack Obama, and Chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential campaign, a message entitled
"Following up on conversation at Soros dinner." Another recipient of the email, also mentioned in the text itself, is
Jake Sullivan, a former National Security Advisor to Joe Biden and Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton. Sullivan has also been dubbed by Foreign Policy as part of the "national security brain trust for a
Biden administration" and identified as playing a critical role in the campaign's formation of foreign policy.
The
Assassin Who Helped Create the Deep State. By now it is abundantly clear that President Trump faces furious
opposition not just from the Democrats, the establishment Republicans, and the mainstream media, but from a shadowy,
determined cabal of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who are deeply embedded in the government: the "deep state."
Paradoxically, the ability of such a cabal to grow and operate freely can be traced back in American history to well-meaning
efforts to end government corruption — as well as to the evil act of one deranged assassin.
It's
Trump's Republican Party Now. Before President Trump, the Republican Party, and the Democrat Party for that
matter, were controlled by the ruling elites of their respective parties. Neither party had any interest in those they
claimed to represent, instead bowing to big money donors in exchange for power and position. Once called the military
industrial complex, it is now the globalists, wealthy individuals and families happy to hide behind foundations and
corporations, ruling America without the consent of the governed, using coercion and force if necessary. This is what
candidate Trump railed against. [...] He was running against not only the Democrats and their allies in the media, academia,
Wall Street, Hollywood, and in the Beltway, but he was also fighting his own party. Republican elites, feeding off the
teat of the uniparty, wanted no part in replacing a political establishment that they controlled and benefited from.
A Tyranny Perpetual
and Universal? Our government in no way functions according to the elevated words on the parchment, and
President Trump does not control the executive branch. I say this not to disparage the president but only to state a
plain fact. No doubt, he has done his best. I doubt that anyone else could have done better. But while
facing a near-universal rebellion from every power center in our society, emphatically including the agencies he was elected
to lead, naturally he has found it very difficult to make the federal bureaucracy do what he tells it to do. That
difficulty has astonished even me. [...] Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that federal intelligence and law
enforcement agencies would try to frame the president with a phony "crime," launch a pointless two-year investigation over a
fraud, then impeach him over the timing of foreign aid payments, all the while lying daily to the American public.
All
The Republicans Who Have Endorsed Joe Biden For President. Though Trump has largely seized control of the
Republican party and the loyalty of GOP officials, a number of prominent former GOP officials, and even some of his
ex-staffers, have come out in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden. [...] Numerous Republican media figures, campaign
strategists and government officials have even organized PACs dedicated to supporting Biden, such as Republican Voters
Against Trump and, most recently, 43 Alumni for Biden. The most notable among them is the Lincoln Project, whose
scathing attack ads on Trump have captured the hearts of anti-Trump resistance-minded Democrats.
The Original
Deep State. Donald Trump is not the first president to face down a deep-state cabal, that is, an unelected
oligarchy of shadowy figures who wielded enormous power while being unaccountable to the American public. The first was
President Andrew Jackson, who faced down the Bank of the United States in the 1820s and 1830s; then as now, the deep state
has apparently included a significant financial element.
Trump
is Not the First President to Face Down a Deep State Cabal. The far-Left rioters who attempted to topple the
statue of Andrew Jackson in Washington, DC's Lafayette Square several weeks almost certainly know nothing whatsoever about
him. What they were told in the Antifa indoctrination camps that are called higher education these days is that he was
largely responsible for the forcible exile of Native Americans from the Eastern United States, the Trail of Tears, and is
thus to be reviled and hated forever. What they were not told is something that may have made them hate him even
more: Andrew Jackson was responsible for destroying the first deep state cabal of shadowy, unelected powerbrokers in
American history.
Graham
says declassified FBI documents show 'double standard' for Clinton and Trump campaigns. Following the release
of recently declassified documents, Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says he believes the FBI showed a
double standard in its investigations into reports of foreign interference at the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and
now-President Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election. Calling it "the ultimate double standard," Graham
said that the documents reveal that leaders at the FBI sought to give the Clinton campaign a defensive briefing before it
could pursue a FISA warrant related to a threat posed to the campaign by a foreign government. But instead of doing the
same for the Trump campaign, the FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane operation and pursued a number of FISA warrants against
people working with Trump's campaign.
Why
John Brennan, Peter Strzok and DOJ Needed Julian Assange Arrested — And Why UK Officials Obliged.
According to reports in November of 2019, U.S Attorney John Durham and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr were spending time on
a narrowed focus looking carefully at CIA activity in the 2016 presidential election. [...] It is interesting that quote came
from a British intelligence official, as there appears to be evidence of an extensive CIA operation that likely involved
U.K. intelligence services. In addition, and as a direct outcome, there is an aspect to the CIA operation that overlaps
with both a U.S. and U.K. need to keep Wikileaks founder Julian Assange under tight control. In this outline we will
explain where corrupt U.S. and U.K. interests merge.
State
Dept. 'Guts' Donald Trump's Curbs on Fortune 500's Visa Workers. The State Department is allowing Fortune 500
companies to freely import H-1B visa workers for jobs needed by American voters, despite President Donald Trump's June 22
Executive Order barring nearly all visa workers. "They have totally eviscerated the requirements" of Trump's E.O., said
John Miano, a lawyer with the Immigration Reform Law Institute. "There is no doubt about it — whoever
created this is thumbing their noses at President Trump," he said, adding, "you can bet that the guys who did this are voting
for [Joe] Biden."
No
Need for a Conspiracy Theory. In recent days, social media like Twitter and Facebook have taken action to
prevent Q-Anon, a shadowy entity that promotes various conspiracy theories, including the "Deep State," from using their
platforms. For those who haven't been following this matter, the "Deep State" is basically also a shadowy conspiracy,
within the government, that seeks to undermine the policies of Republicans. [...] I call such people the "permanent
government," people who have chosen to make their careers in and off government. The existence of these people is not
open to any serious debate: residents of the Washington area see them morning and evening, commuting in and out of the city;
they're why suburban Washington exists, why the Beltway has a near permanent traffic jam, and why it became necessary to
build a modern subway system. Some of these people, mainly at lower levels, are largely unaffected by what policies are
being pursued, while for others, those policies have direct consequences.
Would
the Military Side with Leftist Tyranny or with America? [Scroll down] Here, Trump and his populist
movement are agents of rapid and disruptive change. The military, in which these generals grew up and which gives them
their identities, is the least disruptive institution in American society. The lengthy and laudable tradition of
civilian authority over the military, as well as the hierarchical nature of the military itself, makes it instinctively
against rapid, disruptive change. Though the Democrats have moved left, they maintain a headlock on the institutions,
and the institutions are what the generals are loyal to even if the leaders of those institutions have morphed into rabidly
anti-American aspiring dictators. To embrace Trump and populism is to repudiate the whole establishment hothouse that
grew their power and prestige. They would be opposing themselves.
Must
We Fight Cancel Culture with Cancel Culture? Peace and stability — under liberty — leads
to real progress. Most of us today are not at all different. We want matters settled civilly, through discussion
and debate and at ballot boxes. There's no room for intimidation and violence. The Silent Majority awaits the
November elections. Trump's re-election would provide a critical firebreak. But a Trump win won't compel
Democrats and the left to go quietly into that good night. They've made it plain that they don't abide election
results. They not only conspired, via the Russia hoax, to derail Candidate Trump, but carried over their intrigues to
his presidency. They worked in concert with Deep State players. It was a historically unprecedented
conspiracy. The final gasp of their failed offensive, Pelosi-led Democrats impeached the president.
Meet
At The Old Mill, We Ride at Midnight. First, my sincere appreciation for all of your support as we have worked
through a complex process of information assembly, travel, and briefings to those who we hope will step forward.
Mid-August was always the most visible date to determine whether or not DC still retained any functional way to self-correct
from the severity of corruption that so many people are now familiar with. That date has stuck with me for almost two
years; and so it will remain. Long gone are the 'hopes' and 'trusts' attached to Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, Michael
Horowitz, John Huber, Matt Whitaker, John Laush, the House of Representatives or Senate; all futile in their efforts, perhaps
purposefully so. That leaves John Durham and AG Bill Barr, and hope is not a strategy as we enter the final
stretch. If no progress is made by Friday 5pm CTH will first share the names of the primary Durham investigator to
media previously briefed on the documents we assembled. From there, and within 24 hrs, we will make that name public
and direct inquires can begin. Barring some unforeseen shift in approach; and based on recent Senate responses to Sally
Yates during testimony; there's going to be no help in the delivery of sunlight from anyone on the Senate Judiciary
Committee. Senator Ron Johnson and the Senate Homeland Security Committee is equally useless; and by now every American
should know the Senate Intelligence Committee was an active participant; no help there.
The
Truth Doesn't Care About Your Feelings. [Scroll down] Yes, FISA abuse is a big deal; yes, crossfire
hurricane is a big deal; yes, the Carter Page FISA application is a big deal; yes, the Chris Steele aspect is a big deal; but
in the final analysis that's only the beginning of the effort. Look at what the special counsel was doing from May 2017
to April 2019 and the scale of the effort is stunning. Corrupt Republicans and Democrats worked together; the
legislative branch worked in coordination with usurping elements inside the executive branch; the intelligence apparatus and
the State Dept worked to assist both the legislative branch and the usurping agents inside the DOJ-NSD and Main
Justice. And, worst of all, none of it could have been carried out if there was not someone very close to President
Trump, someone very much participating with the effort, who was whispering in his ear about making appointments that were
specifically designed to allow the effort to continue.
Exploring Citizen Trump.
[Scroll down] As [Robert] Orlando perceives it, Donald Trump's choice of enemies are not without irony, given his
background. Trump comes from the establishment himself. Nonetheless, the brash, cocky New Yorker has brilliantly
pitted himself against the establishment. He would overcome the political system in 2016. That first included the
Republican establishment. How could one man, with no political resume, overcome a field of 16 highly credentialed
Republicans also vying for the job? Once he won the GOP Primary, how could he persevere when being out-funded by the
Democratic Party establishment, or when out-strategized by one of the most corrupt political machines in the history of the
presidency, the Clintons? Once in the Oval Office, could he survive an unprecedented blitzkrieg of media attacks still
going on today?
Former
US Attorney Joe diGenova on Today's Democrats. Former US Attorney Joe diGenova was on the radio earlier today [7/20/2020]
with Mornings with the Mall as part of his weekly interview. At the beginning of interview diGenova discussed the John Durham
investigation and how the Durham team is working on guilty pleas with members of the Deep State involved in the failed coup attempt of
President Trump. After this the subject changed to Democrat Represenative Adam Schiff. Lying Schiff did an interview on a
podcast this past week that was shared and discussed. Schiff was calling AG Bill Barr a criminal for upholding the letter of
the law and bringing individuals involved in the attempted coup of President Trump to justice.
Judge
orders DACA restart, including new applications, indirect pathway to citizenship. A federal judge on Friday
ordered the government to revive the DACA program as it existed before President Trump tried to phase it out in 2017, which
means opening it up to brand new applications. That's a key issue that had remained in limbo after last month's Supreme
Court ruling, which found the Trump phaseout cut too many corners. U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm, sitting in
Maryland, issued an order restoring all parts of the program back to where they were, which means not only protecting current
recipients but also approving new ones.
FBI Conspires
Against Trump. As we continue uncovering details of the coup against President Trump by top Obama/Deep State
officials, we've also noted the FBI and DOJ are still slow-rolling the release of information about the scandal. So,
frustratingly slowly — but surely — we're getting piece after piece of the Obamagate puzzle. We
received another batch of emails, 136 pages, between former FBI official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa
Page. They include heavily redacted emails showing Strzok, Page and top bureau officials in the days prior to and
following President Donald Trump's inauguration discussing a White House counterintelligence briefing that could "play into"
the FBI's "investigative strategy."
Pelosi
Says She 'Yearns' for Other Republican Presidents. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is so fed up with President Trump
that she said she actually "yearns" for other Republican presidents. "I yearn for other Republican presidents," she
said at her press conference on Thursday. "While we may disagree on many points, at least we had a shared commitment to
the governance of our country."
The Editor says...
In other words, Nancy Pelosi would get along quite well with a deep state uni-party "reach across the aisle" centrist RINO in the White House.
Robert
Mueller Was Obama's Shield — Graham Open To Mueller Hearing. Why is it important to understand the
duality of purpose for the appointment of the special counsel run by the figure-head (in name only) of Robert Mueller?
Because from the outset the seventeen Lawfare lawyers who formed the resistance unit operation took control over the DOJ.
That was a large purpose of their installation. The Mueller resistance unit controlled everything, including every
impediment to congress. Despite the fact they should have been aware of this, many individual Senators and
congressional representatives now claim they had no idea of this purpose. Setting aside their willful blindness; all
that stuff is in the rear-view and only leads to anger in a debate that needs to look forward; the issue now becomes putting
indisputable evidence, an actionable trigger, in front of them and forcing public confrontation.
Where [...] Is John
Durham? In May 2019, Attorney General William Barr made an announcement millions of Americans had been waiting
for: A U.S. attorney outside the Beltway would investigate the corrupt origins of the FBI's probe into Donald Trump's
presidential campaign and government efforts to sabotage the incoming president after he was elected. For the past 14
months, we have been waiting (impatiently, I confess) for news from John Durham, the Connecticut prosecutor Barr tapped to
lead the long-delayed inquiry. After all, by the time the attorney general initiated the targeted probe, there was
plenty of evidence of wrongdoing by top officials in the Obama Administration, including James Comey, John Brennan, and
Andrew McCabe among others. Special Counsel Robert Mueller had wrapped up his two-year partisan witch hunt and despite
unlimited resources — along with the unflinching support of Republicans on Capitol Hill — Barack
Obama's former FBI director could find no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. But Mueller
did plenty of damage in the interim.
U.S.
Army Sends Out Race-Baiting Email Calling 'MAGA' Slogan and More 'White Supremacy'. The U.S. Army sent an email
to its military and civilian members after the Fourth of July that included a graphic that claimed innocuous words and
phrases like "colorblind," "all lives matter" and the Trump Campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" are evidence of "white
supremacy." The graphic also listed "Celebration of Columbus Day," the "Denial of White Privilege," "Talking about
'American Exceptionalism,'" and saying "There's Only One Human Race" as behaviors that are indicative of white
supremacy. After Army personnel brought the offensive email to the attention of a U.S. Congressman, the Army said the
material was "unapproved" and sent out "in error."
US
Army Meddles in the 2020 Election and Declares 'Make America Great Again' to be a Sign Of Covert White Supremacy.
The US Army has ordered a 'handout' produced by Army's "Project Inclusion," which, according to the Army is supposed to 'improve
diversity, equity and inclusion across the force and build cohesive teams.' Because nothing builds teamwork or inclusion
like labeling people who support the Command-in-Chief as racist. [...] It is utterly impossible to believe that this handout was
created with no review or oversight by anyone with a brain. [...] It is barely this side of outright mutiny. The fact that
no one will be disciplined over this is all the proof you will ever need that this act was condoned by the highest levels of
Army leadership.
Army
investigates handout suggesting Trump campaign slogan constitutes 'covert white supremacy'. The Army Wednesday
night announced it has launched an investigation into how a presentation on racism and discrimination included a handout
suggesting President Donald Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" is considered "covert white supremacy." The
investigation was launched after a complaint from an Alabama congressman. Mo Brooks, a Republican who represents the
district where the handout was distributed at the Redstone Arsenal, called the handout a "violation of the Hatch Act"
designed to keep the military out of partisan politics. Brooks sent a letter to Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, copied to
Trump, Attorney General William Barr and others.
Alexander Vindman Is No Martyr —
He Tried To Overrule Foreign Policy Chain Of Command. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified
against President Trump, retired from the Army Wednesday. Per his attorney, the reason for his retirement was "a
campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation" for cutting short his military career. Of course, the mainstream
media has been all over his attorney's claim, and cite his testimony as a reason for the supposed bullying. The liberal
media ignored the fact that Alexander Vindman is no martyr. He was accused by a U.S. Senator of possibly being a leaker
who thought he could overrule the President's foreign policy decisions.
Alexander
Vindman, Trump impeachment witness, retires from military. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key
impeachment witness against President Trump, retired from the Army Wednesday, with his lawyer citing "a campaign of bullying,
intimidation and retaliation" for cutting short his military career. Vindman marked his retirement by tweeting a
picture of himself in a rumpled plaid shirt working on a laptop — a stark contrast to the many photos of him in uniform.
Chuck
Grassley: John Durham will be too late if prosecutions begin after 2020 election. A top Republican tagged
President Trump in a tweet encouraging U.S. Attorney John Durham to initiate any planned prosecutions as part of his inquiry
into the Russia investigation before the 2020 election. Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee and a longtime critic of the Trump-Russia investigations, warned Monday that waiting until after November's contest
might be too late.
Once
You See The Strings on the GOP Marionettes. Those who can see the maneuvers of the GOPe may have noticed the
recent positioning of two key players, Nikki Haley and Liz Cheney. Both Haley and Cheney are part of a decepticon club
positioning to undermine President Trump and the America First agenda. We have previously outlined the agenda of Haley
([elsew]here); so it's time to review Cheney. When Paul Ryan left congress he exited his role as the primary inside
resistance operative; however, he did not stop the agenda. Knowing President Trump was now officially the head of the
formal republican party, prior to departure Ryan positioned Liz Cheney as an influence agent with her role as Republican
Conference Chairwoman. Essentially an explosive anti-MAGA cell with instructions to activate at a time of maximum
damage. [...] If we can retake the House of Representatives this fall, Ms. Cheney is going to try and position herself
to become "speaker" or "majority leader". Neither position would be good for the America First agenda.
Heckuva Job, Biden's
Bushies! "Heckuva job Brownie" was a meme before there were memes. One might have thought that Michael
Brown would not be welcomed into a prominent role in a presidential campaign. One might have thought that he would
remain persona non grata forever. But, of course, one would be wrong. Brown has reemerged as the most
prominent organizer of a presidential campaign committee. The committee, whose formation has been reported in these
pages by Catherine Smith, is called "43 Alumni for Biden." As Dave Barry used to say, I am not making this up. Does
anyone want to know what sort of Republican intends to vote for Biden in November? There you have it.
Hundreds
of former George W. Bush officials set to endorse Biden: report. Hundreds of former officials who served under
President George W. Bush are gearing up to endorse presumptive Democratic Nominee Joe Biden. The group of
officials — which include members of Mr. Bush's cabinet and other senior officers — has reportedly
formed a political action committee dubbed 43 Alumni for Biden. Mr. Bush was the 43rd president. "We know
what is normal and what is abnormal, and what we are seeing is highly abnormal. The president is a danger," Jennifer
Millikin, one of the 43 Alumni organizers, who worked on Bush's 2004 re-election campaign and later in the General Services
Administration, told Reuters.
Devin
Nunes: 'We're up to somewhere around 14 criminal referrals' to Justice Department. House Intelligence Committee
Republicans have sent up to 14 criminal referrals to the Justice Department related to the Russia investigation and the 2016
campaign. Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking member of the panel, told Fox Business host Lou Dobbs on Monday their
inquiry has turned up "many unanswered questions" they hope the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr can
work out. "We have recommended many criminal referrals now, I think we're up to somewhere around 14 criminal referrals
that we have now made to the Department of Justice," the California Republican said. Nunes has been talking up a new
slate of criminal referrals over the past few weeks, which adds to the eight referrals to Barr last spring.
What's
Inside Grassley's Letter Demanding More About Deep State Role In Spygate. Last week, Sen. Chuck Grassley
wrote James Baker, the director of the Office of Net Assessments, seeking information concerning ONA's potential involvement
in Spygate. The chair of the Finance Committee had previously asked Baker for all records related to Crossfire
Hurricane's go-to informant, Stephan Halper, but as Grassley's follow-up letter made clear, Baker's response was greatly
lacking. In addition to pushing for more answers about Halper, Grassley is now demanding answers about Baker's alleged
role in leaking details about Michael Flynn's conversation with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, to the press.
House
Judiciary Republicans Refute Democratic Narrative On Fired US Attorney. Republicans on the House Judiciary
Committee released their own annotated version of a transcript of lawmakers' interview with fired U.S. Attorney Geoffrey
Berman Monday, refuting claims made by Democrats charging the Attorney General William Barr of unethical and potentially
unlawful conduct. "Chairman Nadler and Committee Democrats remain obsessed with attacking the President and Attorney
General for political gain," committee Republicans wrote. "This singular obsession has clouded their judgement and
colored their opinions." Last month, Berman was fired from his role as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
after he refused to transition to a new role following Barr's attempts to replace him. Berman and House Democrats
allege Barr placed undue pressure on Berman to step aside with an illegally apparent quid quo pro, a seemingly favorite
charge among Democrats used to slander their opponents.
Fired US Attorney Berman
Mistakenly Believed SDNY Stood for "Sovereign District of New York". The Wall Street Journal is reporting today
that a disagreement between the Justice Department and fired Southern District of New York US Attorney Geoffrey Berman,
concerning a letter that would have been critical of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio with regard to NYC's enforcement of
"social distancing" rules on religious practices, likely played a role in Attorney General William Barr's decision on Friday
evening to announce that Berman would be "stepping down" and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton would be
nominated to be the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Here is a link to the article, which is behind
the Journal's paywall. On Friday and Saturday, I covered what I called the "Rumble in DOJungle" in two parts, with Part
One detailing the dispute that broke out after a DOJ press release announcing the changes that would be made effective
July 3, 2020, followed later by a statement issued by Berman that he was not "resigning."
Attorney
General Bill Barr Removes SDNY Attorney Geoffrey Berman — Berman Refuses to Leave. Officially it's
being called a "resignation" according to the Associated Press. However, all the right Lawfare "beach friends" are
going bananas as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, is being replaced. According
to the DOJ release Berman is being replaced by the nomination of Jay Clayton, currently the Chairman of the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Additionally, "Craig Carpenito, currently the United States Attorney for the District of New
Jersey, will serve as the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, while the Senate is
considering Jay Clayton's nomination." [...] All of the exit moves and incoming replacements are coming to a head at the same
time; early July. The current SDNY move is effective July 3rd, which is the same time that FBI chief legal counsel Dana
Boente is leaving his position. Both Boente (FBI) and Jeffrey Berman (DOJ-SDNY) appear to be resigning by Bill Barr's
request; essentially being told to leave.
Standoff:
Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman won't resign after Barr announces ouster. The Justice Department
announced Friday evening that Geoffrey Berman is leaving his position as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York,
which the federal prosecutor quickly denied. Attorney General William Barr said Berman, who has overseen cases against
allies of President Trump, is stepping down after two-and-a-half years of service. "With tenacity and savvy, Geoff has
done an excellent job leading one of our nation's most significant U.S. Attorney's Offices, achieving many successes on
consequential civil and criminal matters. I appreciate his service to the Department of Justice and our nation, and I
wish him well in the future," Barr said in a statement. Within a couple of hours, Berman released a statement of his
own denying he is going anywhere.
Almost
Runaway Prosecutor Bows To Rule of Law. "What Would Happen If Trump Refused to Leave Office?" That question is
bruited in a headline the Atlantic issued a few months back. It's been echoing around the Democratic press for
months. The answer is that it would be an unsustainable constitutional affront. And what would happen were a
United States federal prosecutor to refuse to leave office? We came awfully close to finding out this weekend.
The would-be runaway prosecutor was the United States attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman. He was appointed in 2018
by the judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. They acted under Section 546
of Title 28 of the United States Code. In certain circumstances, it allows a federal district court to appoint a U.S.
attorney to serve "until the vacancy is filled." Mr. Berman seemed to think that language meant he could stay in
his post until the Senate confirmed a replacement, which could have run past the election.
US
Attorney Geoffrey Berman steps down, ends tug of war with AG William Barr. Geoffrey Berman on Saturday night
agreed to step down as one of the nation's most powerful U.S. Attorneys, ending a day-long power tug-of-war that stretched
from his Manhattan headquarters to the White House and Justice Department in Washington. In a statement issued at
6 p.m., Berman said he would leave immediately, and turn control of the office over to his Deputy U.S. Attorney, Audrey
Strauss. Berman credited his decision — which came after a day of refusing to step down — to
Attorney General William Barr backtracking on his original demand that his successor be attorney and Securities and Exchange
Commission Chairman Jay Clayton.
The
Left's Premature Revolution. The nation has been subjected to over three years of government abuse and
illegalities in the Establishment's unceasing efforts to destroy, impeach and/or derail Donald Trump. Almost every day
another revelation exposing the corruption of the so-called deep state is exposed in what is without a doubt the most
egregious political scandal in the nation's history. Consequently, an ever-growing percentage of the population is
becoming more aware of the pitfalls of the all-powerful central government which the left demands.
Senate
Collusion Theater. Sometimes, it seems Graham is after FISA abuse by the FBI in the Trump — Russia
investigation. Sometimes, it's the decision by then-deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein to appoint Robert Mueller as
special counsel to investigate the sitting president under circumstances where there was no basis for such an investigation.
Sometimes, the focus is described as the Mueller investigation itself: why it went on so long despite the lack of a solid
evidentiary predicate, why Rosenstein, in August 2017, defined its scope based on allegations long known to be either groundless
or far afield from purportedly suspected Trump-Russia collusion. Given that Graham has no power to send any good candidates
to jail, and the real investigative work either has already been done by the Justice Department's inspector general, or is in the
process of being done by prosecutor John Durham, one can't help but ask: What is the objective of this scattershot
production? This is a pressing question now that Graham, on a party-line vote of his committee, has been authorized
to carpet-bomb Obama-world with subpoenas.
Retired
generals who denounced Trump could be recalled to active duty and prosecuted, experts say. Retired four-star
military officers who lambasted President Trump could be recalled to active duty and prosecuted for violating the U.S. Code,
military law experts told Just the News. "Retired officers can't make contemptuous remarks of the commander-in-chief,"
said John Dowd, a former Marine Corps Judge Advocate and former Trump legal advisor. "They're all subject to
recall. They're subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice until they die." The pertinent law is Title 10
of the U.S. Code, Section 888, the experts said.
It's
Worse Than We Thought — DNI Ratcliffe Declassifies "Annex A" The Supportive Documents For 2017 Intel Community
Assessment. DNI John Ratcliffe has declassified the Appendix to the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment
(ICA). The appendix known as "Annex A" was the material the FBI and CIA did not include in the body of the ICA; however,
it was used to brief congress. There was always suspicion that "Annex A" was the ridiculous claims by FBI source
Christopher Steele; those suspicions are confirmed today [6/11/2020]. The ICA was written in late December '16 & early
January 2017, and the purpose was to politicize intelligence by making outlandish claims of the Trump-Russia conspiracy the
official position of the U.S intelligence apparatus (CIA, FBI, DOJ and NSA).
Fired
State Department IG Sent Confidential Info to His Personal Email Accounts. The State Department inspector
general whose recent dismissal ignited a political firestorm sent copies detailing a sensitive investigation to his personal
email account, according to a probe into his conduct run by the Defense Department's inspector general. The inquiry
report, dated March 17, confirms that fired State Department inspector general Steve Linick was the subject of a broad
investigation related to the leaks of politically charged materials to journalists, specifically a draft evaluation report
into Brian Hook, the State Department's top Iran official. The report, which was provided to the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, concluded that while Linick was permitted to send information to his personal email account to facilitate access
while traveling, he was the only official in that office to have done so. The disclosure is likely to raise new
questions about Linick's suspected role in leaking sensitive information to the press.
Lara
Logan: Retired Generals Waging Information Warfare Campaign Against Trump. Award-winning journalist and
war correspondent Lara Logan discussed how retired generals who are speaking out against President Trump are either
"complicit" with or waging an information warfare campaign against him, in an interview [...] on Wednesday [6/10/2020].
Logan reminded listeners of the Russian collusion narrative, and how many officials from the Justice Department, Director of
National Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and other agencies worked together to push the
idea that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
Stunning
explosion of cheers from Iran and China dissidents over booting of Obama holdovers at Voice of America.
President Trump was happy as heck at the news that Michael Pack, his choice for new director at the Voice of America, finally
got confirmed by the Senate. It came as a sort of miracle, given the dirty, protracted battle from deep state's Obama
holdovers to keep him out. It was so underhanded it involved a last-ditch Kavanaugh-style bid to smear Pack as corrupt
if for nothing else to delay his Senate confirmation to eternity. It was deep state at its worst and it failed.
Now, what's probably the last solid Obama bastion of deep-state government has toppled.
The
Rule of Doctors Threatens Trump's Reelection, American Well-Being. A couple of months ago, President Donald
Trump was riding high. The economy was going gang-busters, and the various Democrat and "resistance" coup attempts,
from the Russian collusion hoax through the Ukrainian phone-call impeachment gambit (Does anybody still remember what that
was all about?), had fallen short. Reelection, if not assured, looked very likely. And then came the CCP (Chinese
Communist Party) virus. In a stroke, and without a single constitutional shot fired, the country was given over to two
unelected doctors named Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, the Democrats suddenly discovered the virtues of federalism, and the
economy slammed into the brick wall of the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, as governors across the
country trashed the Constitution and began ordering their residents around like serfs. [...] And so everything from the
sacred (churches and synagogues) to the profane (California beaches) was shuttered, the hospitality industry cratered, the
airlines found themselves grounded, the Trump economy died, and the president's reelection chances are going up in smoke
along with the incinerated jobs of some 30 million American breadwinners.
Democrats Believe
More in the Swamp Than in Biden. Joe Biden's questionable competence demonstrates Democrats' unquestioned faith
in the Swamp. [...] If Biden supporters look at him at all, it is as a placeholder, a prop. They are looking through
Biden altogether and ahead to beating Trump. Their horizon extends only as far as November. For the rest of
America, so shortsighted a view raises the question: What happens then? If Biden cannot campaign, how is he to
govern? For Biden supporters, his ability — or rather obvious inability — to govern is the least
of their concerns. The reason is that they are not expecting Biden to govern. Truth be told, they do not even
want him to.
Grenell
rips DC swamp, Politico, Democratic leakers. Richard Grenell, who shook up the intelligence world in just three
months as acting director of national intelligence, used his first interview since stepping down to blast Washington's
insider culture of protecting itself and ruining outside reformers. In a 19-minute interview on the Mark Levin Show,
the longtime public servant who recently was ambassador to Germany said that the political-media axis in Washington is toxic
and geared to thwart reforms that threaten its operation.
Deep
State Plotters — Devin Nunes Targets Rod Rosenstein's Corrupt Activity to Initiate Robert Mueller.
When contemplating the malign activity of Rod Rosenstein; and how angered President Trump is with former AG Jeff Sessions; it
is worth remembering that Sessions requested Rod Rosenstein as his deputy, and then immediately thereafter Sessions recused
himself, effectively positioning Rosenstein to run the operation against President Trump. That's the background context
for a great interview by Gregg Jarrett where Jarrett walks through the timeline of events with former HPSCI Chairman Devin
Nunes. At the 5:30 point of the interview, Nunes identifies Rosenstein as part of the coup attempt and blasts him for
how Rosenstein structured the fraudulent scope memos. Nunes says his investigation is now looking at the part of the
effort where Robert Mueller's investigation was used as part of the initiating effort to remove President Trump.
An Open Letter to
the D.C. Right. [Scroll down] Then Donald Trump came along. He spoke of liberty and of putting
America First. Your public rage at him — and his supporters — was instantaneous. It was
visceral, full-throated, and constant. I didn't remember any of you getting that worked up about Barack Obama.
Ever. [...] Trump represented an existential threat to everything you had — your job security, your social status,
your sumptuous lives in places like Chevy Chase, Falls Church, and Georgetown. You knew — somehow all of you
could tell instinctively — that when Trump talked about liberty, he meant it. [...] And the economy boomed.
Jobs came back. Americans began to prosper as never before. And you hated every minute of it. You made that
clear in your articles and TV appearances and social media posts. When the Democrats tried to sell the patently phony
Russian-collusion narrative and impeachment case, some of you joined in the pile-on. Some didn't: such matters weren't
in your wheelhouse. Besides, at least some of you had to have realized early on that it was all lies. But none of
you blew the whistle on it.
The
Key Reason DC Hates President Trump — It's a Big Club, and He Ain't in It. Something 99% of American
voters do not understand. Congress doesn't actually write legislation. The last item of legislation
written by congress was sometime around the mid 1990's. Modern legislation is sub-contracted to a segment of operations
in DC known as K-Street. That's where the lobbyists reside. Lobbyists write the laws; congress sells the laws;
lobbyists then pay congress commissions for passing their laws. That's the modern legislative business in DC. [...] DC
politics is not quite based on the ideas that frame most voter's reference points.
Obamagate:
Of Course It Comes Back to Obama's Narcissism. For three years, the Trump administration attempted to find
their sea legs while actively being harassed and harried by Obama holdovers and self-dealing Republicans in the House and
Senate. None of this could have happened so easily had Congress provided oversight. Why would they want
oversight, though? It would expose themselves. It wasn't just Joe Biden's crackhead kid in Ukraine, after
all. Sens. John Kerry, John McCain, and, yes, Lindsey Graham, also had strange relationships there, too.
It's like Ukraine was one big money laundering scheme for political insiders. A lot of pols have a lot to hide, and
that's why this fiasco has gone on as long as it has. [...] The American system isn't equipped to handle this level of
injustice. Those who wait on justice likely wait in futility.
The U.S.
Senate Is the Heart of the Problem. This week, the depth, breadth, and scope of the swamp made itself
clear. It started with the unraveling of the case against former national security advisor Michael Flynn. The FBI
initially had accused Flynn of violating the Logan Act — an 18th-century statute that has never successfully been
used to prosecute anyone, not in the least because of its dubious constitutionality. Ultimately, Flynn was charged with
lying to federal agents — a process crime but hardly treason. This week, it was revealed that members of the
Obama Administration, many of whom had no real role in counterintelligence operations, repeatedly unmasked (that is,
requested their identities and activities from intelligence gathering sources) Trump's incoming staff — including
Flynn. [...] This is hardly a one-off for the Obama Administration, whose director of national intelligence lied to Congress
about spying on American citizens. That was before John Brennan, Obama's CIA director, spied on Senate staff and broke
into their computer files. And, of course, Eric Holder, Obama's attorney general, used the Espionage Act to surveil
journalists from Fox News and the Associated Press. And let's not forget the time they eavesdropped on the phone calls
of members of Congress.
Federal
court revives emoluments lawsuit against Trump over DC hotel. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday
revived a lawsuit from the Maryland and Washington, D.C. attorneys general that accuses President Trump of violating the
Constitution's Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses by benefiting from use of the Trump International Hotel by foreign and
U.S. officials. The case previously had been ordered dismissed by a Fourth Circuit panel. But the full roster of
judges reheard the case and, in a 9-6 decision, determined Trump cannot have the court overrule a lower court's decision to
deny him certification to appeal before trial.
Will
There Be an Obamagate Reckoning? You Betcha!. One can argue over who in the ObamaGate conspiracy wears a
black hat or a white hat. One can also complain about nothing happening, no indictments or perp walks. The deep
state has been the king in Washington DC for decades. To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "When you strike at a king, you
must kill him." Trump and his team have one shot at this and will take the kill shot on their terms and timing. [...] The
forces against Trump are huge — the DC establishment, media, Hollywood, academia, and even members of his own party.
Why
is Obama Panicking Now? — The Importance of Understanding Political Surveillance In The Era of President
Obama. Why is former President Obama calling forth all his defensive resources now? Why did former
national security advisor Susan Rice write her cya letter? Why have republicans in congress not been willing to
investigate the true origins of political surveillance? What is the reason for so much anger, desperation and
opposition from a variety of interests? With the release of recent transcripts and the declassification of material
from within the IG report, the Carter Page FISA and Flynn documents showing FBI activity, there is a common misconception
about why the intelligence apparatus began investigating the Trump campaign in the first place. Why was Donald Trump
considered a threat?
The FBI Did a Hatchet
Job in Their 302 Report on Michael Flynn, and Some Familiar Names Were Involved. The Trump-Russia collusion story was a
myth. It was a manufactured lie peddled by the liberal media that engulfed the nation for over two years. In many ways, we're
not over it. There are still hordes of liberals so deranged, so mind-broken over the 2016 election, that they think the Russian
colluded with Trump to tilt the race. Not true. There is no evidence this ever occurred. None. That's why every
single bombshell was a nothingburger. The report from the Mueller probe, which needs a review of its own in the wake of the Flynn fallout,
said there was no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion. It also tore the heart out of the document that started this whole circus:
the Trump dossier. An unverified piece of political opposition research compiled by ex-British spook Christopher Steele and funded by
the Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Department of Justice Inspector General's Office also delivered a kill shot
to this document in their report about FISA abuses during the Obama administration.
A
Key Obama Meeting Was Held to Ensure FBI Russia Collusion Probe Wasn't Discovered by the Trump Administration. [Michael]
Flynn has been vindicated, and more light is being shed on the scope of this whole operation. The deep state does exist.
They're malicious. They're ruthless. Just look at the mindset of Andrew McCabe and James Comey, who were determined to
ensnare Flynn, department policy, and constitutional rights [notwithstanding]. It's chilling. And now we're seeing how
Obama was the starting quarterback for how to ensure the incoming Trump administration would be saddled with the Trump-Russia collusion
allegations. It was coordinated chaos.
Beyond
Flynn: Indict Obama, Clinton, Comey, and Brennan. LTG Flynn was the first victim of what we now know was,
arguably, a coup d'é`tat to take down Trump. As I noted two years ago, DoJ's operation "Crossfire Hurricane" to
ensnare Trump by entrapping those connected to his campaign, and then his administration, devolved into a "Backfire Tornado."
As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy noted this week, the conspiracy to entrap Flynn was key to keeping the corrupt
Russia-collusion investigation moving forward. McCarthy notes, "If no way could be found to sideline Flynn, then Flynn
was going to find out about Crossfire Hurricane." On the charges being dropped, McCarthy also makes the case, "There was no
basis to believe Flynn, a decorated former US combat commander, would ever be Moscow's mole, much less that he had committed
a crime." The key deep-state operatives in this coup attempt were Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James
Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and former Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein — who colluded with Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the current House Intelligence Committee chairman.
Are
Russia Collusion Hoax Holdouts Still Operating Within the FBI? What is it like inside the seventh floor of the
FBI's Hoover fortress while revelations of constitutional abuses lash the walls like a never-ending hurricane season of the
FBI's own making? Newly released documents have refocused attention on the FBI's abuses in the Flynn prosecution.
The FBI's dirty tricks in the Flynn prosecution are almost too numerous to inventory. Does FBI Director Christopher
Wray fret over the increasing perception that the FBI has become a rogue police force unbound by constitutional checks and
balances? Is he feverishly working behind the scenes to root out perpetrators of spying abuses that targeted opponents
based upon politics and other non-law enforcement purposes? A new interview with former journalist Carl Bernstein
signals that there remains a Russia collusion hoax rearguard within the FBI in spite of the resignations, firings, and
departures of Crossfire Hurricane figures, including Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bill Preistrap, James Baker, James Comey, and
Kevin Kleinsmith.
Fmr
CIA operative, Dem voter bluntly says Comey, Brennan should get death penalty for coup against Trump. Former
CIA operative Bryan Dean Wright isn't pussyfooting around when it comes to fired FBI Director James Comey and former CIA
Director John Brennan, and their actions in the Russian collusion hoax. Declaring that Comey and Brennan, who went on
to become virulent Trump bashers, decided to "take out" a member of President Trump's administration, Wright said the two
are "traitors" and should get the death penalty, if convicted. His remarks are in response to the bombshell report last
week that former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, a retired three-star U.S. Army general, may have been set up by
the FBI. Wright, who is a Democratic voter, appeared on "Fox & Friends" over the weekend, and he was skeptical that there
would be any admission of wrongdoing.
James
Comey must be prosecuted. Andrew McCarthy, writing in the National Review, outlined the case that the FBI,
under the direction of James Comey, working through Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, and others, set up General
Michael Flynn for a perjury trap. Comey sent Strzok and another agent to entrap General Flynn on January 24, 2017. The
reason was to remove General Flynn as Trump's national security adviser because General Flynn, an experienced military and
intelligence officer, would have discovered the FBI's investigation of President Trump, titled "Crossfire Hurricane" but
otherwise known as the Russia Hoax. McCarthy answers the question of why to entrap General Flynn to remove him.
But the next question is, did Comey act on his own or on orders, explicit or implicit, from his superiors to entrap General
Flynn to remove him? In an interview with Nicolle Wallace, Comey bragged that he had sent two FBI agents to question
General Flynn.
America Has
a Jared Kushner Problem. If President Donald Trump is serious about draining the swamp, he ought to start with
his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Kushner raised eyebrows when he strutted into the role of pandemic point man for the
White House, alongside his former roommate and a handful of McKinsey & Company management consultants. As Chris Buskirk
wrote in these pages, Team McKinsey has "a history of doing little more than helping failing institutions fail in style while
growing rich in the process." Project Airbridge, Kushner's plan to take the reins of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
supply-chain task force and partner with private companies to fly health care supplies to New York City from China, lived up
to the McKinsey style.
Here's
'Anonymous,' Trump Aides Say. And Here's How They Outed Her. Ever since a "senior official in the Trump
administration" penned an anonymous 2018 New York Times column attacking President Trump as unfit for office, Washington has
been engrossed in a high-stakes whodunit. After an exhaustive investigation, the White House believes it's cracked the
case, identifying Trump's turncoat as his former deputy national security adviser, Victoria Coates, according to people
familiar with the internal probe. Rather than fire Coates, the White House has quietly transferred her to the
Department of Energy, where she awaits special assignment in Saudi Arabia — far from the president.
Despite
COVID-19, the Trump administration hasn't forgotten the Russia hoax. While everyone's attention is on COVID-19,
things are still happening around the Russia hoax. No one should ever forget that a weaponized Obama bureaucracy spied
on the Republican party's presidential candidate to prevent him from winning the 2016 election. Then, when that illegal
effort failed, the entire Democrat establishment, both inside and outside government, bent all of its energies to claiming
that America's duly elected president was a Russian asset who used election fraud to win. By first acting illegally and
then pushing a hoax, the Democrats and the Deep State (but I repeat myself) effectively handicapped Trump's first two years
in office. [...] The Trump administration, however, is making loud noises indicating that the Democrats' and the Deep State's
flagrant, unethical, unconstitutional, and illegal conduct is neither forgiven nor forgotten.
President
Trump Cleans House - Fires Multiple Deep State IGs in One Swoop. While everyone's focus is on the news and the
coronavirus, President Trump isn't letting this distract him from doing the rest of his job. He promised to drain the
swamp. He's been doing it and is still doing it even to this very moment. He has rid Washington of many of them,
but there are still many that need to be removed. Rest assured that investigations are still going on in the background
and we still have Deep State operatives being fired.
AG
William Barr on the Russia investigation: 'There's something far more troubling here'. The Russia investigation
into President Trump's 2016 campaign was "one of the greatest travesties in American history," Attorney General William Barr
said Thursday during an appearance on "The Ingraham Angle." Barr said he has seen troubling signs from U.S. Attorney John
Durham's ongoing probe into the origins of the two-year probe, which resulted in no allegations of wrongdoing against the
president. "My own view is that the evidence shows that we're not dealing with just the mistakes or sloppiness," Barr
told host Laura Ingraham. "There was something far more troubling here. We're going to get to the bottom of
it. And if people broke the law and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted."
Adam
Schiff Whines About Acting DNI Grenell Clearing Out His Deep State Friends. Failed impeachment manager Adam
Schiff has a new complaint: Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is getting rid of his friends
working in the deep state. In fact, Schiff is so concerned his stream of endless conspiracy theories about President
Trump might be coming to an end that he's written an accusatory letter to Grenell, which he leaked first to the press,
demanding to know more about what he's doing.
President
Trump Removes Coup Plotter ICIG Michael Atkinson — Effective 30 Days From Today. President Trump has
sent a letter to congress giving them 30-days advance notice and informing them of the removal of Intelligence Community
Inspector General Michael Atkinson: [...] The necessary, albeit politically controversial, move comes about two months after
President Trump assigned Ric Grenell to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Grenell is ultimately the
acting boss of the overall intelligence community. It is likely DNI Grenell provided some key insight into the sketchy
background activity in/around Atkinson's office, and the overall intelligence apparatus writ large.
What
if Hillary had won in 2016? If Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election, we would not know about the
enormously complex attempted coup she undertook, with a vast cast of characters, to defeat Donald Trump as a candidate and
then unseat him once he was elected president. Only because she lost, do we now know a great deal about all that.
We know Hillary commissioned and paid for the vaunted "dossier," that she hired Fusion GPS to deliver opposition research
that would take candidate Trump out of the running. We know that bad actors in the FBI (James Comey, Andrew McCabe,
Pete Strzok, et. al.), at the DOJ (Sally Yates, Rod Rosenstein, Bruce Ohr, et. al.), at the CIA (John Brennan) and James
Clapper at the DNI all coordinated with each other to destroy Trump by wholly fraudulent means. Thanks to the wisdom of
the voters, we now know all about their crimes against this country. Numerous books have been published by intrepid
actual journalists that have laid out what happened in tremendous detail. Hopefully when AG Bill Barr and prosecutor
John Durham release their report, we will be privy to all the details of the whole sordid story of the most venal political
scandal in American history.
Schiff
protects intel 'status quo' power by sinking wide-reaching FISA reform: Source. Attempts to rein in the
government's ability to spy on Americans fell flat after Rep. Adam B. Schiff intervened to protect the types of powers
that the FBI used to go after the Trump campaign in 2016. Mr. Schiff, California Democrat and chairman of the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, ran roughshod over House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, New York
Democrat, whose panel had control over the battle to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, said advocates on both
sides of the aisle. The power struggle created an awkward moment in which Mr. Nadler canceled the markup of his
own bill just minutes before it was scheduled.
Here's
Why the Deep State and Wuhan Virus Are Like White on Rice. Many people wonder why those working in federal
agencies — especially those who were politically-appointed — were involved in the crimes that we have
only just begun to see exposed in the DoJ, FBI, IRS, State Department, etc. What motivated them all to do what they had
to at least subconsciously know were criminal acts? After all, giving one's life towards "service to the country" is
supposed to be a noble endeavor — or at least that's what the political elite, legacy media megaphones, and others
have been telling us for decades, isn't it? Except that, in the Age of Trump, we're finding out that many of these
people — especially those in the upper echelons of federal law enforcement agencies — aren't as
altruistic as we have been led to believe. In fact, many of them are down-right crooks! I am still shocked by the
DoJ Inspector General's report on FISA abuse and the subsequent revelations/determinations by the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court that the Obama-era FBI and DoJ defrauded the court. These were "officers of the court" who willfully
committed the crimes! If they all don't receive harsh justice, then there is no such thing as justice in America
anymore. It's as simple as that. Why did they commit the crimes? The Deep State cabal (multi-agency) is in
it for fame, fortune, power, and career.
DOJ
Political Surveillance — From the IRS in 2011 to the FISA Court in 2016. An assembly of government
reports and public records now indicates a political exploitation of the NSA database, for weaponized intelligence
surveillance of politicians, began mid 2012. After an initial attempt to exploit IRS records, the legal tool used to access
the NSA database was the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. With research files on the '15, '16 and '17
political surveillance program; including information from the Mueller report and information from the IG Horowitz report; in
combination with the Obama-era DOJ "secret research project" (their words, not mine); we are able to overlay the Obama-era
domestic IC operations & gain a full understanding of how political surveillance was conducted over a period of four to six years.
Arrest
McGahn? House hints of possibility in court filing on subpoenas. The House hinted Friday [3/6/2020] that it might
have to arrest former White House Counsel Don McGahn and other Trump administration officials to force the federal courts to decide
whether congressional subpoenas can be enforced against current and former executive branch officials. Lawyers for the House
Judiciary Committee made the statements in a petition to have the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
rehear its lawsuit to force McGahn to testify as part of a probe into the actions of President Donald Trump.
Obama
National Security Officials Susan Rice, James Comey, John Brennan Back Joe Biden. Former President Barack
Obama's national security leaders came out this week right before Super Tuesday to announce their support for former
colleague Joe Biden, in apparent hopes to tip the scales against his non-establishment competitor, Sen. Bernie Sanders
(I-VT). Their endorsement signals that the national security establishment that has been excoriated by both President
Trump and Bernie Sanders for supporting the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and military intervention elsewhere, will also back Biden.
John
Ratcliffe's Interview With Catherine Herridge Has Brennan, Atkinson, and Ciaramella Panicked. Last week,
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) was nominated as the next Director of National Intelligence by President Trump. The
subsequent firestorm of protests from the Democrat-media complex is an indication that this was an outstanding selection by
the President. In addition to having served as a congressman from Texas (during which time he distinguished himself in
cross-examining the Democrats' witnesses during the House impeachment hearings), he is a former federal prosecutor who spent
five years at the Dept of Justice involved in matters related to national security and count-terrorism. He gave an
interview to Catherine Herridge, senior investigative correspondent at CBS that must have some members of the coup shaking in
their boots.
This should have been done years ago. Administration
Insiders: Pentagon House Cleaning of Never Trumpers Looms. President Trump's firing of John Rood, the top
policy official at the Pentagon, is a sign the agency is not immune from an effort to purge from influential positions across
the administration "snakes" who do not support the president, according to four current and former officials. Rood had
been on the chopping block for months, but his firing just last week amid a spate of other personnel changes shows that the
president is finally ready to clean house at a department that has tried to distance itself from politics, they said.
The Counter-Coup Has
Begun. [Scroll down] The administrative state, the permanent bureaucracy, the deep state, whatever you
wish to call it decided 19 minutes after he was sworn in as president, that Donald Trump must not be allowed to continue in
that role. The non-swamp, brusque outsider from Queens had to be sabotaged because he could not be controlled.
From Stormy Daniels to Michael Cohen, from subpoenas for his tax returns and bank accounts to fake "whistleblowers," from
subordinate [lieutenant] colonels born in Ukraine, to an impeachment trial in the Senate, the Democrats and their
co-conspirators, just like poor marksmen, repeatedly tried to "kill the king" and failed.
Senior
US Intel Briefer "Overstated" Assessment of 2020 Russian Interference. In a leak to the New York Times last
week, intel officials warned House lawmakers that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get Trump
reelected. Less than 24 hours later the hoax fell apart. Catherine Herridge reported on Friday that after pressed
for evidence to back up claims Russia was backing Trump in 2020, NOTHING was offered to the DNI.
Rep.
Ratcliffe on Russia reportedly trying to interfere with 2020 election: Dems 'leaked information that's not
accurate'. In an exclusive interview on "Sunday Morning Futures," [2/23/2020] Rep. John Ratcliffe,
R-Texas, addressed reports that Russia is allegedly trying to interfere with 2020 election, saying Democrats "leaked
information that's not accurate." Ratcliffe, who serves on the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees, made the
comment in response to host Maria Bartiromo, who asked him what happened during a meeting he attended earlier this month when
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., brought up the issue of Russia meddling. "You're
asking me about details of a classified briefing that was intended to remain secret, you're asking me about it because it has
been reported on by the New York Times," the Texas congressman told Bartiromo. "It's all too familiar."
The
Loser Establishment Is Rightfully Terrified of Ric Grenell. President Trump continued his unbroken streak of
awesomeness by appointing Ric Grenell the acting Director of National Intelligence, thereby threatening the intelligence
community's unbroken streak of failure. None of our media idiot savants — a term which is only
half-accurate — thought to ponder the question of exactly how Ric's appointment could possibly make the IC
worse. Its legacy of ashes is a national embarrassment. But then, the purpose of the currently-constituted
intelligence community, the foreign policy community, and every wing of our incompetent, inept, and corrupt establishment is
not to serve the people of the United States. Its purpose is to serve the personal interests of the
currently-constituted intelligence community, the foreign policy community, and every wing of our incompetent, inept, and
corrupt establishment. Its denizens fear that this fearless patriot is going to burn down their whole shoddy edifice,
and we can only hope they're right.
The case for repealing
FISA and reforming the FBI and CIA. The FBI, in its bungling partisanship, very likely swung the 2016
presidential election away from its preferred candidate, Hillary Clinton. The sprawling "community" of
intelligence agencies (led by the FBI and CIA) covertly used dubious foreign sources to justify monitoring an American
political campaign and, later, a U.S. presidential administration. To do so, it invoked daunting foreign-counterintelligence
surveillance powers, based on a fever dream that its bête noire, Donald Trump, was an agent of the Kremlin. And
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court recently chastised the FBI for feeding it false and unverified information —
the secret court apparently calculating that this extraordinary public expression of wrath will divert attention from its own shoddy
performance in approving highly intrusive spy warrants based on sensational, blatantly uncorroborated rumor and innuendo.
Deep
State snakes slither back after FBI, CIA swamp draining. [Scroll down] Soon The Washington Post had its
own scoop, a report that "Russia is trying to help Bernie Sanders' campaign." Whoa, Nellie! Inquiring minds are
confused. Whose side are the Russians on? How can it be that Putin is trying to help both the Republican nominee
and the likely Democratic nominee at the same time? Is he stupid? The better question is this: Do Deep
Staters and their media handmaidens think Americans are stupid? Yes, they do. They count on it. It is
troubling that Trump and Sanders were given conflicting information, suggesting that the intel officials don't have their
facts right. More telling about the aim is the fact that both briefings were leaked, demonstrating that nothing has
changed and that insiders are still using classified information for political purposes.
Key
Intelligence Aide Joins Acting DNI Richard Grenell. Kash Patel previously worked as Devin Nunes' senior staffer
on the House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI). It was Patel who was the lead author of the Nunes memo exposing corrupt conduct
of the FBI and DOJ officials during Crossfire Hurricane. Patel joined the National Security Council's International
Organizations and Alliances directorate last February and was promoted to the senior counterterrorism role at the NSC
mid-summer 2019. According to recent reporting Patel is now joining Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell
as a Senior Advisor and Catherine Herridge is reporting the objective is to 'clean house'.
U.S.
Intelligence Analyst Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Information to Media. U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA) counterterrorism analyst Henry Kyle Frese pleaded guilty on Thursday [2/20/2020] to leaking information to the press in 2018
and 2019. According to a DIA press release, Frese faces up to 10 years in prison for leaking sensitive military
information from five separate classified documents. Frese was employed by the DIA as either a contractor or employee
from January 2017 to October 2019.
Alexander
Vindman Is Not Owed an Apology, He's Owed an Investigation. Alexander Vindman was one of the more grating
characters that tried to make a name for himself during Trump's impeachment. An Army officer, he shamelessly shouted
about his "patriotism" in an attempt insulate himself from all criticism. Of course, the media (including some in
conservative circles) played along, pronouncing it absolutely off limits to question Vindman's reasoning and motives.
You may have noticed, but there's a clown nose on, clown nose off routine when it comes to the military and Trump
opponents. If it's Michael Flynn, you can trash him relentlessly as a Russian asset despite his decorated career of
service. But if a military member speaks against Trump, they immediately gain protective status and it becomes "gross"
to suggest they could be political.
Trump
says he knows identity of 'Anonymous' author. President Trump said he knows the identity of "Anonymous." His
statement to reporters on Tuesday indicates a multipronged search within the White House for the author of the tell-all book,
A Warning, which spoke of a resistance movement within the Trump administration, has been successful. "I know who it
is," Trump said as he boarded a plane at Joint Base Andrews destined for Los Angeles, adding that he could not divulge a name
just yet. "But I know who it is," he added. "We won't get into it. People know it's a fraud. I know
who it is, and I know who some of the leakers are."
Uncovering
'Anonymous' in the White House. In swamp news, Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates is reportedly
being pinned by senior officials in the Trump administration as the so-called "Anonymous," the hideous little operative deep
within the Trump administration who claimed to be the anti-Trump "resistance" on the inside, brazenly writing an essay in the
New York Times to 'assure' us that the Trump administration was full of such people.
Deep
State Revolt: Federal Judges to Hold Emergency Meeting Over Barr and Trump. Just weeks after President
Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate of bogus partisan impeachment charges by the House of Representatives, a group of
federal judges will hold an 'emergency meeting' on Tuesday regarding the intervention by Attorney General William Barr
against the abusive proposed sentence for Roger Stone and the criticism by President Trump of the proposed sentence and the
federal judge overseeing the case, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, as well as other actions by Barr and Trump regarding
'politically sensitive' cases before the judiciary.
President
Trump Starts to Drain the Swamp, Yanks Liu. This was the week that President Trump really started to drain the
swamp. It came when he yanked the nomination of Jessie Liu to a Treasury Department post. The decision was all
Trump's and occurred after Trump learned details about what was going on when she was United States Attorney for the District
of Columbia. Though Trump was most aggravated with Liu not clamping down on the outrageous sentencing recommendations
of her staff in the Roger Stone case, there was a long list of other concerns that made it clear to the president the extent
of ideological weaponization across the Justice Department. Let's start with Roger Stone for now. Liu's so-called
"career prosecutors" devised a sentencing recommendation of nine years in prison for behavior that became commonplace anytime
former Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before Congress under oath.
Army
Announces They Will Not Investigate Lt. Col Alexander Vindman. President Trump mentioned the likelihood
the military would take a look at the conduct of Lt. Col Alexander Vindman in the wake of his leaking classified
information to construct a fraudulent whistle-blower complaint with CIA ally Eric Ciaramella. Today [2/14/2020] Army
Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Vindman will not be investigated for his role in breaching national security protocol,
fabricating claims and breaking chain of command.
It
was Obama, not Trump, who weaponized government against political opponents. The media frequently buries
stories that might hurt political candidates or policies they support and will continually run false stories against
political candidates and policies they oppose. How else can it explain the years of fake stories on Russian collusion,
seeking to destroy white Christian boys for wearing MAGA hats, trying to destroy Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett
Kavanaugh with no evidence, the false "Hands up, don't shoot" narrative? How else do you explain the burying of stories
about all the mental and sexual abuse of women by the Clintons and the burying of stories or the lack of investigation into
the clear corruption and kickbacks of the Clintons and Bidens if not pure bias? How many people are the media willing
to destroy in order to get power back for the Democrats?
Has
the Deep State beaten Bill Barr? Willaim Barr assumed the reins of the Department of Justice (DOJ) a year ago,
succeeding Jeff Sessions as attorney general (A.G.) of the United States. By universal consensus, the tenure of
Sessions was an epochal shipwreck, disfigured as it was by Sessions, who infamously and needlessly recused himself from the
entire Deep State Russia Hoax while simultaneously declining to root out Deep State operatives obsessed with removing Trump
from office (to say nothing of maintaining and even extending legal protections afforded the likes of Hillary Clinton and
Lois Lerner, among other Democrat-friendly government officials). Like Pontius Pilate, Sessions washed his hands of the
matter and allowed the coup-plotters of the ironically named Justice Department to proceed against Trump unopposed.
Among law-and-order conservatives and defenders of Trump, it was widely hoped that Barr would be an A.G. unintimidated by the
Deep State, with the intestinal fortitude to push back against a DOJ corrupted by progressive lawyers and grandiose
bureaucrats blinded by their irrational and atavistic hatred for Trump.
The Counterattack
Is Underway. Trump supporters have been impatiently waiting for some real push-back on the Democrats and their
Deep State and legacy media allies for over three years now. Some well-earned Trumpenfreude is long overdue for those
involved in the various illegal investigations (e.g., Crossfire Hurricane), abuses of the FISA process, the impeachment
farce, and frivolous investigations into President Trump and his family (e.g., the emoluments clause lawsuit). With his
lifetime acquittal by the US Senate of the hyper-partisan impeachment charges brought by the Democrat-controlled House of
Representatives, President Trump is now counterattacking on multiple fronts.
Abolish CIA & FISA. America's
Intelligence agencies are the deep state's deepest part, and the most immediate threat to representative government.
They are also not very good at what they are supposed to be doing. Protecting the Republic from them requires
refocusing them on their proper jobs. Intelligence officials abuse their positions to discredit opposition to the
Democratic Party, of which they are part. Complicit with the media, they leverage the public's mistaken faith in their
superior knowledge, competence, and patriotism to vilify their domestic enemies from behind secrecy's shield. Pretenses
of superior knowledge have always tempted the Administrative State's officials to manipulate or override voters. Hence,
as Justice Robert H. Jackson (who served as chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials) warned, they often turn their powers
against whomever they dislike politically, socially, or personally and try to minimize the public's access to the bases upon
which they act.
About
Those 70 Obama Holdovers Cut From the NSC. Twitter and other social media outlets went nuts on Monday over a
slightly misleading report issued by the Washington Examiner. The report itself, filed by Paul Bedard, is accurate, but
requires some close reading to understand what is really being communicated. Unfortunately, as is so often the case, it
was the headline that misled most readers and caused the story to go viral on social media, which of course was the goal of
the misleading headline. [...] The misleading part of the story itself comes not in what the author said, but in what he left
out of the text. While it is apparently accurate that 70 NSC employees, most of whom were indeed holdovers from the
Obama era, have been removed from the NSC staff, nowhere in Bedard's story does he mention that this transition has been a slow
and steady process that has taken place since current National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien took over that job last fall.
Trump
Is Discussing Firing Corrupt ICIG Michael Atkinson — Whose Impeachment Testimony Is Still Hidden By Liar
Schiff. On Friday anti-Trump Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman was escorted off the White House grounds and
dismissed from the National Security Council. His twin brother Army Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, who served as a
lawyer on the NSC was also fired and left with Alex. There are unofficial reports that White House staffers stood up
and cheered as the twin brothers were escorted form the White House. But President Trump is not done yet. There
are reports that dozens more may be removed this week. And there are reports that crooked Intelligence Committee
Inspector General Michael Atkinson may be asked to leave.
The Rot
Is Deep (Part I). Last week, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, an Army Officer temporarily detailed to the
National Security Council, was relieved of his duties and escorted out of the White House and off the grounds. This was
ostensibly as part of a normal rotation, but more likely for defying the President and Commander in Chief, of whom he serves
at the pleasure. [...] LTC Vindman isn't some 4-Star General who, believing he is professionally bulletproof, allows his
staff to badmouth the sitting President to Rolling Stone magazine. This is a relatively junior officer who believes his
judgment is better than personnel 8 levels above him, 9 counting the President.
Being
Fired by Trump Does Not Make You a Holocaust Victim. Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes, one of the media's
favorite Donald Trump antagonists, took to Twitter this weekend to pen a transcendently nonsensical thread comparing the
firing of a handful of bureaucrats to the rounding up of political undesirables in the lead-up to the Holocaust. It's
wouldn't be a huge deal, except that this kind of hysterical reaction has now been normalized in American discourse,
illustrating that once-rational people have either lost all sense of history or are willing to belittle the past for
short-term political gain. My bet is on the latter.
Vindman
Twins Removed from NSC Posts, Escorted from White House. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a "star witness"
in the impeachment farce against President Trump, and his twin brother Yevgeny were removed from their National Security
Council posts and escorted out of the White House on Friday, Politico reported. [...] The president told reporters earlier
Friday that he was "not happy" with suspected leaker Alexander Vindman and suggested that he would be dealt with soon.
This should have been done years ago. Bigger
than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC. President Trump is making good on his promises to
"drain the swamp" and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National
Security Council. Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O'Brien have cut 70 positions
inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200. Many were loaners from other agencies
and have been sent back. Others left government work.
Report:
White House Has Identified And Will Cut Ties With 'Anonymous' Official Amid Sweeping Security Council Layoffs.
The White House has identified and will soon part ways with the "anonymous" official behind a recently released book and a
"resistance" focused editorial published in the New York Times, former U.S. attorney Joe diGenova claimed Monday morning
[2/10/2020]. DiGenova made his claim on WMAL's "Mornings on the Mall," but senior White House officials declined to
comment on the topic when asked by the Daily Caller.
The Purge of Colonel
Vindman. What is the official policy — today — of the United States in respect of Ukraine
and the Bidens? Is it that Ukraine should investigate the Burisma energy company's employment of the son of Vice
President Biden? The veep's son was pulling down something like $80,000 a month while his father was vice
president. Is it the policy of the United States that Ukraine's government should look into this? We pose the
question because of the reassignment of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindmam. He was an aide on the National Security
Council who testified during the Trump impeachment that he was uncomfortable with the President's request that Ukraine
undertake such an investigation. On Friday, the colonel was cashiered from the NSC as part of what the press is calling
a "purge." [...] When you help launch a constitutional process (a trial, an impeachment, an election) you're bound to accept
the constitutional conclusion — or you risk being purged.
On
the removal of Sondland and Vindman. [Scroll down] In any event, the bottom line for me is that the
president should have NSC staffers he trusts. He doesn't trust Vindman. Thus, it made sense to transfer him back
to the Pentagon. Had Trump gone further and taken some extraordinary measure of retaliation — e.g., firing
Vindman from the government, demoting him, or slashing his pay — that would be objectionable, in my view.
But Trump didn't. He simply moved Vindman back to his old posting (albeit unceremoniously), as is commonly done with
NSC staffers.
Trump
Should Absolutely Fire Witnesses. President Donald Trump fired Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman (shown) and
Gordon Sondland from their respective positions on the National Security Council and as ambassador to the European Union on
Friday. Despite media howls to the contrary, it was an action he absolutely needed to take. The only problem is
that he did not do so months ago. During the impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives, Vindman and Sondland
gave damaging testimony against Trump. Two days after being acquitted in the Senate of the impeachment charges leveled
by the Democratic Party-controlled House, Trump ousted both individuals. He also ridded the White House of Vindman's
brother, Lt. Colonel Yevgeny Vindman, who was a lawyer in the White House. Yevgeny Vindman has been reassigned to
the Army.
Medal Of
Honor Recipient Says LTC Vindman Was A 'Spotlighter' Whose Own Peers Wanted Him Out. Medal of Honor recipient
MSG Leroy Petry defended President Donald Trump's decision to fire LTC Alexander Vindman, saying that Vindman had shown he
couldn't be trusted. Petry made an appearance on Sunday morning's "Fox & Friends" and responded to the news that
Vindman had been fired from his post on the National Security Council and escorted from the White House.
Settling All Family Business?
Friday Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was escorted from the White House where he had served on the National Security
Council. His twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, was also dismissed from the NSC. Alexander had
testified against President Trump in the House impeachment proceedings. He had listened in on the President's
telephone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky and testified that Trump had abused his office by withholding aid to the
Ukraine until it announced investigations of his political opponents. Reportedly Alexander is believed to be the
primary source of information for alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella.
Thread reader: What Will
Democrats Lie About Next? [H]ad Hillary won in 2016, we would never have learned anything about the
Steele dossier and its origins, Crossfire Hurricane and FISA abuse, or Ukraine election meddling and Democrat corruption
there. James Comey would still be sweeping Democrat corruption under the rug with his able assistant-crook Andrew
McCabe, Sally Yates would be the attorney general, Victoria Nuland would secretary of state, and Peter Strzok and company
would be deep in schemes to take out Hillary's challenger in the 2020 election. Thanks to President Donald J.
Trump, the motives of the Democrats and their Deep State allies (NOT a conspiracy theory, Jeffries) are more transparent
to Americans than they have ever been before.
Impeachment
witness Vindman fired, escorted out of White House after Trump acquittal. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman,
who made waves as a witness during the Trump impeachment proceedings, was fired Friday by the National Security Council and
escorted off of the White House grounds, Fox News has confirmed. Vindman was on detail to the National Security Council
from the Department of Defense, and it is expected he will return there. It comes just two days after President Trump
was acquitted in the Senate on the impeachment charges brought by the House last year over his dealings with Ukraine.
Lt.
Col. Alexander Vindman Was Suspected of Leaking. Former National Security Council official Tim Morrison
testified during the House Intelligence Committee's closed-door hearings in the impeachment inquiry in October that
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman had been suspected by others of leaking information — apart from the
controversy over President Donald Trump's July 25th telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Vindman
was removed from his job at the National Security Council on Friday and escorted from White House grounds.
White
House Fires Alexander Vindman. Lt. Col Alexander Vindman, a key witness in the House Democrats' partisan
impeachment inquiry, was fired from the National Security Council and escorted out of the White House on Friday, CNN first
reported. Vindman's attorney, David Pressman, confirmed his client's termination and subsequent removal from the White House.
The
Deep State Is Alive and Well and Dedicated to Defeating Trump. The House trial gave us an up-close portrait of
several swamp-dwellers. They are dedicated to trying to take down Trump and are more than willing to use every
instrument at their disposal, no matter how illegal or intrusive. [...] On the witness stand, these Deep Staters revealed
themselves to be even more entitled and arrogant than we imagined. Yovanovitch referred to the U.S. embassy residence
in Ukraine as "my house." When asked who sets U.S. foreign policy, she replied, "We do," correcting herself only after it
was pointed out that the president sets foreign policy under our constitution. A puffed up Vindman wore his uniform to
the trial and insisted he be referred to by his full military title — how could anyone get more "entitled" than
that? You can bet there are many more Deep State agents where they came from, all with a fierce loathing of
Trump. Their one saving grace is that they do not appear to be terribly intelligent.
The
Vindman Twins Are Creatures of John Bolton. During his four decades as an accumulator of power in the nation's
capital, a holder of high offices in the State Department, and finally a stint as President Trump's national security
adviser, John Bolton has been well known for his scrupulous attention to the hiring and firing of his staff. He always
has demanded unwavering personal loyalty as well as fealty to his own — not his president's — policy
agenda. [...] The extremes to which Bolton goes to enforce his Bolton-centric scheme of things were exposed dramatically in
the episode of his handpicked choice as deputy national security advisor, Mira Ricardel. The latter had a well-deserved
reputation as "Bolton's Bolton" — that is, a screamer, a browbeater, and a toxic boss par excellence.
John
Bolton Praised Trump's Ukraine Call Before Getting Fired. U.S. President Donald Trump's former national
security adviser John Bolton changed his tune on how he felt about the commander-in-chief's July 25 call with his Ukrainian
counterpart after he was fired from his White House post. While Bolton claims he resigned in early September 2019,
Trump said he fired him. On August 27, 2019, Bolton described Trump's July 25 phone conversations with Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) as "very warm and cordial calls" and acknowledged
that corruption poses a significant problem for Ukraine. However, Bolton's story changed after Trump allegedly fired him.
In
2010 Fox Interview, John Bolton Confessed He Would 'Absolutely' Lie About National Security Matters. In a 2010
interview with Andrew Napolitano on Fox Business Channel, former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton stated
that he would have no problem lying to the public if he thought it was necessary to protect national security. Bolton,
who has written a book for Simon & Shuster based on his time working on national security policy for President Donald Trump
that is scheduled to be released in March of 2020, also said during the 2010 interview that government secrecy and protection
of classified material was necessary to protect the public
White
House told Bolton to remove classified material from manuscript before publication. The White House has told
former national security adviser John Bolton not to publish his upcoming tell-all about his time in the Trump administration
until classified material is removed from the manuscript. "Under federal law and the nondisclosure agreements your
client signed as a condition for gaining access to classified information, the manuscript may not be published or otherwise
disclosed without the deletion of this classified information," Ellen J. Knight, a National Security Council aide, wrote
in a letter to Bolton attorney Charles J. Cooper last week, which was obtained by Fox News.
Levin
Unveils Video of John Bolton Describing Trump's Conversations With President of Ukraine. Rather than wait for
his 6 P.M. show to begin, radio host Mark Levin chose Wednesday [1/29/2020] to unveil a video of former U.S. Ambassador John
Bolton earlier in the day — because it was too important to the nation that the video be seen while the Senate
impeachment trial of President Donald Trump was taking place. "I am linking to this now, rather than waiting for my
radio show this evening, even though I know the backbenchers will gobble it up & claim they're 'breaking news' with their
'exclusive' reports. So be it. It needs to get out there to a broad audience," Levin tweeted, introducing the
embedded video.
Bolton
and the Consequences of the Destruction of Executive Privilege. Fred Fleitz, a former deputy to John Bolton,
the national security advisor President Trump fired in September 2019, over the weekend published an opinion piece explaining
the dangers of his former boss's anticipated tell-all book. "Given the importance of protecting a president's
confidential discussions with his senior advisers," Fleitz wrote, "I strongly disagree with Bolton's decision to release the
book before the November presidential election and call on him to withdraw it from the publisher immediately." Bolton
is just the latest example of former advisors cravenly monetizing the confidential access to a president.
Codes of Conduct From the Swamp.
[A]pparently our country's intelligence community was out to put the clamps on Mr. Trump even before he was
elected. Slowly we are finding out that, for instance, FISA warrants included warrants that were illegal. We are
finding out that these agencies were eavesdropping on Trump and his aides. Conservatives always defended the CIA and
FBI against career civil libertarians. Now we are finding out that these agencies were used against President Trump and
his people. What did the Trumpians do to antagonize the intelligence community? Do the heads of these agencies
really think that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin? I have not seen the evidence. A two-year
investigation conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller could not find the evidence either. So let us come up with
the evidence that will convince Americans that, as John Brennan, formerly of the CIA, has said, Trump's behavior was
"treasonous." Treasonous? The evidence?
Think
there isn't a uniparty ruling class? Exhibit A: John Bolton. Whatever the protestations of John Bolton as
to who is leaking what to whom, the fact remains that Bolton has written a 'tell-all' book about his experiences as President
Trump's National Security Advisor, with the intent to release the book in the year Trump is running for re-election.
It's not easy to engage in behavior that is both petty and despicable at the same time, but Bolton has done it. He has
made himself into the poster child for an off-the-charts arrogant ruling class that an increasingly large portion of
Americans (maybe 63 million and counting?) are absolutely seething about.
The
Radical Dems: Masters of Projection. Trump-haters were waiting breathlessly for the Mueller report so
impeachment could finally proceed. But even after Mueller's impartial team of Hillary-supporters "issued more
than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants and interviewed more than 500 witnesses [and] likely compiled
thousands, if not millions, of documents and pieces of evidence," Schiff's secret evidence just couldn't be produced.
Agent Strzok's insurance policy did not pay out. Of course, its premiums had been tendered in fraud. Amazingly
enough, just when the scam of the entire Trump counterintelligence investigation puzzle was coming together, the House
Democrats did a breakneck pivot to Ukraine. If Russia didn't work, maybe the country that interfered in the 2016
elections by outing Paul Manafort's corruption would. Trump had to be impeached, so the manufactured Ukraine phone call
scandal would have to suffice for substantive impeachable crimes. The U.S. attorney general is investigating James
Comey, et al. for misleading the FISA court to spy on the Trump campaign based on unverified opposition research
paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
The
Deep State Tapestry of Deceit is Beginning to Unravel. The plot was simple. The Obama administration, in
2016 and before, wanted to preordain the 2016 electoral outcome. What better way to do this than to spy on the rival
presidential campaign? Since spying is illegal, a pretense was needed. That's where the Steele Dossier came
in. The DNC, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and top Obama administration officials colluded with multiple foreign
governments to fabricate opposition research on the Trump campaign alleging treasonous activities. This allowed the FBI
to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, and likely others as well. The Obama
administration colluded with foreign governments to influence an election. How ironic that this is exactly what
President Trump was impeached for, and why he is a "dictator" and an "existential threat to democracy".
Government
in the Shadows. The frenetic opposition to Donald Trump by the Washington establishment, the new progressive,
hard-left Democratic party, and in particular the veterans of the Obama administration has led to the ruination of a number
of hallowed protocols and customs. Impeachment has been redefined as a mere vote of no confidence and will become a
rank political ploy for years to come once an opposition party gains a majority in the House. It is taking on the
flavor of a preemptory device, a vaccination, rather than a medicine, as if to prevent future hypothetical crimes in the
absence of current impeachable offenses. Whistleblowers are now mere political operatives, who work with the opposition
party to disseminate second- and third-hand rumor to prompt impeachment frenzies.
NSC
Russia Expert Escorted From White House Under Intelligence Investigation. CTH held off reporting on this
explosive story until we could see if a tell-tale consequence surfaced; perhaps it has. On Friday the National Security
Council senior director for European and Russian affairs, Andrew Peek, was escorted from the White House grounds and is
currently under a security investigation. There are few details about why Peek was physically removed and is under a
very serious investigation; however, some of Andrew Peek's professional background details tell a story. The connection
to Gen. John Allen is a massive warning flare.
Fake
Investigations — Designed To Fool You. Many government officials with long entrenched power are
unwilling to give up any of that power. [...] Most of the big 'investigations' in the news in recent years have not been at
all what they pretended to be. The sham investigations of Hillary's email, or the Clinton Foundation, or Weiner's
laptop, or Uranium One, or Mueller's witch hunt, or Huber's big nothing, or the IG's whitewash, or the Schiff-Pelosi
charades, have all been premeditated deceptions. There are three types of investigations that call for different
deceptions by the Deep State. The first type is the rare honest investigation. Examples would be the attempt to
find the truth about Fast and Furious (Obama's gunrunning operation), or the IRS scandal (Obama's weaponizing of government).
In response to real investigations, the criminals do two things: lie and hide evidence. Key evidence, even if it
is under subpoena, just disappears. In the IRS case, Lois Lerner's relevant email and the email of 6 others involved in
the scheme was just "lost". The IRS "worked tirelessly" to find the email, but hard drives had been destroyed and back-up
drives were missing, so the subpoenaed evidence could not be provided. For the Deep State, hiding and destroying
evidence of guilt is standard operating procedure. They simply report a "glitch" that destroyed the key evidence and
that's the end of it. Or, they simply redact the portions of the record that would expose the truth. To my
memory, no one ever suffers any consequences for this.
No Bureaucratic
Drainage in the Washington Swamp. [Scroll down] With all of these exposures of the deep state
bureaucracy, will the swamp be drained? Don't hold your breath. None of these happenings reported daily here in
the capital (but mostly kept quiet elsewhere) has shaken in the slightest the Washington community's belief in the
"scientific administration" supposedly utilized by its centralized bureaucratic career experts to solve all of the nation's
problems. Nobel economist F.A. Hayek called this belief a "superstition" future generations will find impossible to
understand in the face of the obvious fact that no matter how secret this is kept from the "deplorables" it simply does not
work well. The people may resent it, the politicians may bark, and the media pontificate, but here in swamp
headquarters there is no danger of drainage. The four richest counties in the U.S. are all right here.
Comments
on the GAO Report. [Scroll down] The President briefly held up funds to Ukraine while probing accounts of
corruption. In fact, the administration released military aid to Ukraine three weeks early. Certainly not
coincidentally, the GAO issued a report in time to toss it into the impeachment debate, claiming that the president's several
week holdup of aid to Ukraine violated the Impoundment Control Act. As we argue below, it did not violate that
Act. The GAO report was a partisan ploy and if the report's findings were factual, it would violate the Constitution by
circumscribing the authority of the chief executive. [...] In any event, the GAO is not the finder of fact in
impeachment. If it were, Obama should have been impeached seven times in which the GAO found the Obama administration
had violated federal law. Any ruling that the President has no right to withhold Ukraine Funds (as GAO claims) would,
in any event, violate the Constitution.
Ex-Treasury
employee pleads guilty to leaking Trump team info, after dramatic bust with flash drive in hand. A former top
Treasury Department official pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy for leaking confidential banking reports associated with
members of the Trump campaign, following her dramatic arrest in October 2018 as she toted a flash drive full of sensitive
documents. Natalie Edwards, 41, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court, where U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods
set sentencing for June 9. Although the conspiracy charge carried a potential penalty of up to five years in prison,
Edwards signed a plea deal with prosecutors that recommended a potential prison sentence of zero to six months.
Nunes
Reveals: 'Republicans Have an Active Investigation Into Intel Community IG Michael Atkinson. Ranking member of
the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes told investigative reporter Sara Carter that Republicans are currently
investigating Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson. GOP lawmakers asked Mr. Atkinson to reveal who
changed the whistleblower complaint form to allow for second-hand info and office gossip. "We've mentioned it, but I
think people have just kind of ignored it because, of course, we don't have the subpoena power, so we can't bring Atkinson
back in but he's got serious questions to answer for because I believe that he either lied to Congress or he really needs to
correct his statements and he's refused to respond," said Nunes, who could not elaborate on Atkinson's testimony.
Deep
State Leaks Portion of Intelligence Briefing on Drone Strike That Killed Soleimani to NY Times Reporter in Order to Damage
Trump. The Deep State is once again trying to damage President Trump with selective leaks to the left-wing
media. Two 'sources' who had intelligence briefings (Obama holdovers) about the strike that killed Iranian military
officials leaked portions of the briefings to the New York Times in order to push the narrative that President Trump
authorized a drone strike that killed top Iran commander Soleimani with "razor thin" evidence that an attack on American
targets was imminent.
The Swamp is un-lovely, dark and deep. Inspector
General Report Shows Special Counsel Replicated FBI Abuses. Shortly after the release of the special counsel
report last year, I posited that Robert Mueller's failure to investigate whether Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential
election by feeding dossier author Christopher Steele disinformation established that Mueller was either incompetent or a
political hack. Now, with the release of the inspector general's report on FISA abuse, we know the answer: He was
both. The IG's report on the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI's handling of the Carter Page surveillance applications
established 17 significant inaccuracies and omissions in the FISA application and renewals. (Eighteen if you include the one
the IG missed). The 400-page report also established that the special counsel's office was complicit in the FISA abuse, the
probe was a witch hunt, and Mueller's report was a cover-up for systematic government malfeasance.
It's
Statistically Impossible For The FBI's Spygate Errors To All Be Mistakes. [Scroll down] There's no way
the cards can all fall one way, no way every "mistake" can redound in support of the government's "case" against Page.
There's no statistical way every single oversight, clerical error, unchecked box, unread file, misplaced document, unread
email, uncorroborated assumption, unverified assertion, omission of exculpatory evidence, and inclusion of false allegations
can all fall against Page, and in favor of the FBI's goal of providing probable cause to convince the court to believe he was
an agent of a foreign power. There's no way 17 glaring omissions, mistakes, mischaracterizations, and straight-up lies
can make their way, undetected, unquestioned, and uncorrected, through the now-legendary labyrinth of supervisory coordination,
from line agents to Woods Procedures to FBI supervisors to DOJ reviewers to FBI counsel, FBI deputy director, FBI director,
DOJ general counsel, deputy attorney general, and attorney general certification.
Does
William Barr Have the Guts? The recent I.G. report on FISA abuse was just another in a very long line of
disappointing indicators that equal justice may never be restored to our nation. [...] Is this guy Barr for real? Is he
ready to face the hellfire that will be unleashed if he takes real steps to hold coup conspirators accountable? It's
looking increasingly likely that he is for real, but what remains to be seen how far he is willing to go. [...] The first
question to be answered is exactly how far Barr needs to take it. If you ask MAGA country, they're calling for heads up
to and including Obama's. This is doubtful and certainly not prudent because the political and systemic repercussions
would be devastating and permanently destabilizing for the USA. [...] Care must be taken to avoid the precedent of high-level
political war. Otherwise, we'll morph into a banana republic in less than a generation. Ultimately, justice needs
to be done, so a compromise must be made.
The
Russia Hoax Was Aided by NGOs Peddling Junk Science. Some of the most vicious anti-Trump voices have come from
US government-funded Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), affiliated with the State Department, Big Tech, and Soros
afiliates. Many of these NGOs have existed since the Cold War, with a mandate to promote freedom and democracy
abroad. They are forbidden to operate in the US, especially in partisan fashion. Apparently, they have
disregarded that mandate and have instead positioned themselves as pillars or guardians of the "global civil society."
They found a reliable ally in State Secretary Hillary Clinton. They have been interfering in US political campaigns and
elections since at least 2016, frequently in coordination with their UN/EU counterparts. One such NGO is the National
Democratic Institute, headed by Madeleine Albright. It receives federal funding, which it mixes with money and influence
from the Open Society Foundation (George Soros), UN agencies, the European Commission, multiple foreign governments, Amazon,
Google and others.
Former
intelligence chiefs fit perfectly into media advocacy culture. Former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have lots
of things in common. One, they ran the nation's key intelligence and investigatory agencies under former President
Barack Obama. They were deeply involved in the "Russian collusion" hoax. And they participated in the
surveillance of the Trump campaign and transition. [...] In the advocacy culture of our new media, ex-government officials
such as Brennan, Clapper and McCabe can be paid to appear on news programs to analyze (or vindicate) their own unethical
behavior. As employees of the media, they sell their checkered government service to exonerate themselves while
confirming the anti-Trump biases of their paying hosts.
Secretary
Hillary Clinton and the Deep State: A RICO Criminal Conspiracy. The Deep State needed Hillary Clinton to
win the 2016 presidential election, or the dike holding back the truth would burst. Trump, the disruptor, was an
immediate threat to both the Republicans, Democrats, and the Deep State. If the truth were laid bare, it would expose
the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the Senate and House, and many executive departments for these abuses of power,
corruption, bribery, frauds, and thefts of public funds. High-level government officials and the Deep State committed
many serious felonies either in furtherance of or to conceal the crimes committed in the pay to play scam. In exchange
for favorable consideration by Secretary Clinton, those who benefited would donate to the Clinton Foundation. The FBI
started and stopped investigations into the Clinton Foundation at least twice as reported by the Washington Post.
[...] The collective actions of the Deep State are and were a silent coup to delegitimize a Presidential candidate.
Voters
Favor Jail, Firing for Rogue Officials Who Targeted Trump. Voters are ready to jail or fire senior law
enforcement officials who illegally targeted President Trump, but most think they are unlikely to be punished. The
latest Rasmussen Reports telephone and online survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters consider it likely that senior
federal law enforcement officials broke the law in an effort to prevent Trump from winning the presidency. Thirty-nine
percent (39%) say that's unlikely. This includes 36% who say it's Very Likely they broke the law to get Trump and 24%
who say it's Not At All Likely. These findings are virtually unchanged in surveying since February of last year.
Barr
gets the word out about deep state. Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson has an excellent rundown at the
Epoch Times of all the statements Attorney General William Barr has been making from various media appearances, noticing the
patterns in what he's putting out there. She calls him suddenly "chatty," which of course the guy is not, making the
point that he's releasing a lot of information with a hard purpose. What did she find? That there are quite a few
unpleasant coming attractions for the Deep State as the Russiagate scandal unfolds and more reports are set to come out.
Why
Is Our Society Degrading So Badly, So Fast? In Washington, the Democrats are attempting to subvert the will of
the majority of the American people, as expressed by the election results in 2016, by executing and plotting orchestrated
campaigns to remove President Trump from office before the next election. These efforts range from the recently
unsuccessfully perpetrated Russia collusion hoax, which is now being followed up by an illegitimate impeachment drive by the
House. These operations also revealed the mostly clandestine activities of a permanent and extensive Deep State, also
labeled "the swamp," actively working with the Democrats to subvert President Trump. A broken environment exists in
Washington that contributes to the perception that too many of our elected officials feel free to participate in and to
tolerate corruption without being held accountable for their actions. It is highly discouraging for many Americans that
up to this point, there have been no legal consequences or viable restraints in place to curb these types of actions that are
so fundamentally dangerous to the very foundations of our country.
Impeachment
Is Trump's Punishment for Questioning the Intelligence Community. The Intelligence Community has largely relied
upon Crowdstrike in reaching the conclusion that the Russians hacked the DNC servers in the 2016 election. The "favor"
Trump wanted, had nothing to do with Biden. It had to do with Crowdstrike. Is it treason (or bribery, or cattle
rustling) to ask Ukraine to look into Crowdstrike? Yes, according to Democrats. Because merely asking about
Crowdstrike implicitly questions the unquestionable conclusions of the intelligence community and nothing endangers our
democracy like an elected president's failure to submit to his spymasters in the CIA. We can know with near certainty
that the Left lacks confidence in their narrative by the effort they put into branding anyone who questions it as "traitors,"
or collaborators with Putin. Otherwise, they would use persuasion, not intimidation, to resolve the debate.
Ukraine
was the Origin of the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax. December 2015 was a pivotal month in many respects.
During the first week of December 2015, Donald Trump began to establish a substantial lead over his Republican primary
opponents. Vice President Joseph Biden traveled to Ukraine to announce, on December 7th, a $190 million program to
"fight corruption in law enforcement and reform the justice sector," but behind the scenes explicitly linked a $1 billion
loan guarantee to the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who had been investigating the energy company Burisma,
which employed Biden's son Hunter. On December 9, 2015, the reported whistleblower Eric Ciaramella held a meeting in
Room 236 of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with Daria Kaleniuk, executive director of the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption
Action Center, which was 59%-funded by Barack Obama's State Department and the International Renaissance Foundation, a George
Soros organization.
It's
Time for Civilian Control of the State Department. Everyone has heard about Marie Yovanovitch, the career
foreign service officer removed from her post in May as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. According to the Constitution, all
ambassadors and senior state department officials serve at the pleasure of the president. Foreign service officers
rotate between jobs and seldom stay in one post for more than two or three years. Yovanovitch, an appointee of
President Barack Obama, was overdue for reassignment. She served longer as ambassador to Ukraine — almost
three full years — than she did as ambassador to Armenia as an appointee of President George W. Bush retained in
office by President Obama. Yovanovitch and her supporters allege that some allies of President Trump made malicious
remarks about her to hasten her reassignment. Malicious gossip against anyone is always morally wrong, but its
existence is not exactly front-page news.
Trump's
Disruptive Energy vs. the Deep State. Although the president's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a rabid
Communist, the murder was almost instantly reframed as an expression of right-wing hatred. [...] There are contemporary
lessons to be drawn from the metamorphosis of Kennedy's assassination at the hands of a pro-Soviet Communist into an object
lesson in the perils of right-wing animus. The only Russian collusion on offer in 2016 was between the Hillary Clinton
campaign and various Russian and Ukrainian operatives, but somehow we all got saddled with a nearly three-year,
multimillion-dollar investigation into Donald Trump's supposed collusion with Russia.
The
Vindman Intelligence Operation Against Trump. [W]hat has been going on in Washington since Election Day 2016 is
not American politics as usual, but a sophisticated intelligence operation to destabilize and overthrow the legitimate
government of the United States. Each step along the path to impeachment is exactly what the CIA or the intelligence
agency of a foreign power would do to use non-military means to destabilize and eventually replace the leader of an
unfriendly government. So, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's actions at the NSC are best understood if one views
him as an intelligence operative acting to destabilize the government of the United States. And the techniques used in
the operation are all actions we've seen before in the ongoing operation to remove Donald Trump from power.
Misplaced
Patriotism Is Damaging to Our Constitutional Order. For most of the last three years, Donald Trump's critics
have scoffed at supposed "conspiracy theories" that claimed a "deep state" of bureaucrats were aborting the Trump
presidency. We have been told the word "coup" is hyperbole that reveals the paranoid minds of Trump supporters.
Yet oddly, many people brag that they are proud members of a deep state and occasionally boast about the idea of a coup.
Recently, former acting CIA chief John McLaughlin proclaimed in a public forum, "Thank God for the deep state." Former
CIA director John Brennan agreed and praised the "deep state people" for their opposition to Trump.
America's
Choice: Abolish Elections or Disband the National Security Council (NSC). Lt. Col. Alexander
Vindman, the latest star of the Democrat effort to undo the 2016 election, is still at work on the National Security Council.
[...] The National Security Council has been ground zero in the campaign against President Trump from the beginning.
General Flynn's appointment as National Security Advisor had touched the third rail because the NSC had been used to
coordinate anti-Trump operations in the Susan Rice era. The NSC doesn't answer to Congress. Its members are meant
to advise the president. (Except when they're actually working for a previous president.) They command the implements
of foreign policy, traditionally the weakest element in domestic politics, but not when they start treating their domestic
political opponents as agents of a foreign state. And the size of the NSC has gotten out of control. Under Obama,
the NSC staff hit 400 people. That's up from a dozen during its Cold War origins. And it's the staff that's
the problem.
Impeachment
Lesson: Cut Government. Every Republican president starts day one on the job in charge of a massive
disloyal workforce. Follow the money. Almost every single dollar, to the tune of 95%, donated by a federal
bureaucrat during the 2016 election went to Hillary Clinton. This is a massive challenge for every Republican
president. One of the easiest jobs in the world is being a Democratic president. The federal bureaucracy quite
literally worships you. The media, academia, and entertainment industries call in supporting fires to portray every
move as a Nobel Prize-worthy gesture. The corollary to this is that the hardest job in the world is to be a Republican
president. The executive branch workers you oversee despise you and seek to undermine every move. They are the
head of the resistance, the very heart of the deep state snake.
Let
None Dare Call It Sedition. Respectfully, Mr. President, this is not a witch hunt. This is a
coup. The objective and tactics have been clear from the start. It is no longer silent. The evidence grows
daily. The recently released tweets from the attorney for the "whistleblower" confirmed what we have long believed.
"Coup has started," he wrote prophetically. Indeed it had. And it continues. They almost succeeded. The
co-conspirators deserve much worse than to be sent packing in the next election. Long prison sentences are the only sure
deterrent to prevent this from ever happening again. Calling the "whistleblower" a whistleblower is a misnomer.
He is a partisan second-hand leaker. He is a coward and a traitor. He and all those who conspired with him
should be treated as such.
What
If They Gave an Impeachment and Nobody Came? Donald Trump's real crime is not deferring to the same D.C.
geniuses who were so relentlessly awful that they caused us to elect Donald Trump in the first place. The meme is going
around that "I hired Donald Trump to fire people like you," and boy — is it ever on point. That the
president — yeah, he's our president and he's going to keep being our president for five more long years —
refuses to submit to the bureaucrats of the ruling caste on foreign policy is not a bug. It's a feature — the
feature that closed the sale. See, our ruling class is utter garbage, as the televised circus on the Potomac proved.
But no one goes to circuses anymore.
Senate
GOP Leadership Warns Trump: Any White House Attempt to Dismiss Impeachment Charges Will Fail. They are
called "decepticons" for a reason. McConnell is king, and Cornyn, Thune and Barasso are his praetorian guards.
Senator John Cornyn (TX), a key member of the Senate GOP leadership; and a member of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence
committees; warns the White House that a vote to immediately dismiss articles of impeachment and avoid a trial won't work.
The Great
Gift of the Mueller Russian-Collusion Probe. [Scroll down] The president has the right to fire any
ambassador who does not support his agenda, so who cares that he fired some anti-Trumper in the Ukraine embassy, Marie
Yovanovitch or whatever her name is? Frankly, we elected him to fire her, whatever her name is. Was she so
deeply embedded in the embassy that she did not catch the chants back in America to "Drain the Swamp"? That was the
whole idea of 2016: we wanted people like her thrown out of the foreign service and sent off to host an MSNBC
show. If anything, we eagerly await the firings of hundreds more Marie Yovanovitches, or whatever their names are, who
comprise the vast unelected Deep State within the State Department, advancing agendas that we did not vote for.
The
Deep State Cabal Against Trump Is Very Real. [Scroll down] Donald Trump's exposed it. Whatever you
want to call it, the deep state, the elites, the Washington establishment, there's no question that it exists. And
there's no question that they are ticked off. And there's no question that maybe the center of it is the national
security apparatus, the National Security Council, because within that group is every other group we're talking about.
Director of national intelligence, CIA, military has people in there, State Department, diplomacy. It's all in the
National Security Council or apparatus. The whistleblower was on the National Security Council. McMaster, who we
now know had ties to the whistleblower, he was the national security adviser for Trump. And that seems to be the nexus.
The
DC Game Is Rigged to Favor the Deep State. The Trump-Russia witch hunt is an egregious example of the power of
the state being abused for partisan political purposes. That failed to deliver the goal of deposing the president, and
may even backfire as the investigations into it complete and there is a possibility of indictments for some of the
conspirators. Having come at the president and missed, they decided to redouble their efforts, so we come to the
impeachment inquiry currently operating in full kangaroo court fashion.
How
the Deep State Media Operate. The targeted, coordinated and swarming feeding-freezing journalism for political
ends appears to be, not just the product of individuals, but a collaborative effort between media outlets and the Deep State,
which is transnational and may have been and may still be an intimate element in the perpetration of the anti-Trump
narrative. In many ways similar to Journolist, the British Integrity Initiative describes itself as an organizer of an
international "network of networks" of "experts, opinion formers and policy makers" to "counter Russian disinformation."
Sunday
Talks: Kevin McCarthy vs Maria Bartiromo. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears on Sunday Morning
Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the ongoing details within the legislative impeachment process. As part of his
remarks Leader McCarthy states: "this is a calculated coup orchestrated by Adam Schiff" ... [Video clip]
Praetorianism and
the 'Deep State'. Defenders of President Trump have long railed against the "deep state," a name given to the
entrenched bureaucracy working from within to bring down the Trump Administration. [...] They point to the machinations of
high ranking members of the Intelligence Community (IC), including former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper, and fired FBI Director James Comey, who have worked assiduously to undermine the
president at every turn, and indeed even to mid-level drones such as the still-anonymous (officially) "whistleblower" who
touched off the investigation of President Trump and his dealings with Ukraine, as well as Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander
Vindman, who expressed similar concerns.
The
Justice Department is fishing for details about the anonymous 'resistance' op-ed writer. The Justice Department
is looking for identifying details about the anonymous Trump administration official who excoriated the president's "amorality"
in an unsigned New York Times opinion column last year, according to a letter the agency sent Monday [11/4/2019]. The
author of the column, whose identity has remained a secret for more than a year, has also written a tell-all book that will
publish this month — and Assistant Attorney General Joseph H. Hunt wants proof that the writer is not bound
by a government nondisclosure agreement. Either that, Hunt wrote in the letter, or the book's publisher and the author's
agents should turn over the official's employment information: where in the government the person worked, and when he or she
worked there. If the official had access to classified information, Hunt warned, the book should be "submitted for
pre-publication review."
Lee
Smith's Book Will Make Patriots' Blood Boil. Lee Smith's The Plot against the President is an invaluable
contribution to the history of America in the Trump era. [...] Every congressman and senator, and every American voter, ought
to read Smith's book. Americans who detest President Trump's personality and decorum will remain free to continue, but
if they are honest, they will be absolutely repelled by the behavior of the higher-ups in just about every so-called American
"institution" — the CIA, FBI, DOJ, State Department, and mainstream media, and yes, the Obama White House.
Concocting lies and leaks to the media, fabricating evidence, running "humint" scams to develop further lies and leaks,
manipulating courts by withholding evidence and declaring half-truths, carrying out orchestrated personal threats against
Nunes and anyone else who dared to expose the truth — these are nothing short of organized crime activities, with
each and every one of these institutions directly and knowingly involved.
Former
Czech Ambassador Bašta: CIA, FBI and Democrats Are Working Behind the Scenes to Remove President Trump, "It's a
Thing of Dictatorships". Former Czech Ambassador to Russia and then Ukraine Jaroslav Bašta spoke to
iDNES.cz news last week. The discussion centered around the 2016 US presidential election and the current political
situation in the United States. Bašta, who is familiar with the politics in Ukraine, accused the FBI, CIA and US
Democrats, along with the former Ukrainian government, of colluding in the interest of Hillary Clinton in the 2016
election. Bašta added, "And it is not just some conjecture, everything is well documented by the Ukrainian
authorities and now also based on the first court decision."
The Military-Intelligence
Complex. Donald Trump had been in office less than a month when the Wall Street Journal reported that
U.S. intelligence agencies had decided on their own to withhold information from the recently inaugurated president of the
United States: "In some of these cases of withheld information, officials have decided not to show Mr. Trump the
sources and methods that the intelligence agencies use to collect information, the current and former officials said."
What would one call that? Obstruction? A coup? A conspiracy? Most of the major intelligence heads in
the Obama Administration — James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper — either leaked classified
information aimed at harming candidate and then President Trump, later declared him a veritable traitor and Russian asset, or
earlier took measures to monitor his campaign or administration's communications.
Why Schiff. The
assignment of the impeachment to Adam Schiff and not the House Judiciary Committee shows what the real aim is.
Democrats assigned the House Intelligence chairman this task to protect the intelligence agencies who tried to overthrow
President Donald John Trump. America's spies and the FBI tried to frame him. They made false accusations of
treasonous collusion with foreigners to rig the election. 3 days before the inauguration, Chuck Schumer bragged
that the intelligence agencies can get you six ways to Sunday. That's possible. After all, Watergate was a coup
run by Mark Felt after Nixon passed him over for FBI director after J. Edgar Hoover died. Adam Schiff is a
tool of those politicized intelligence agencies that Schumer bragged about. Schiff is their spokesman.
Court-martial
the spy Vindman. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman ignored a direct order from the
commander-in-chief. A court made decide whether Vindman broke the military code of justice. President Donald John
Trump ordered him not to appear before a House committee. The Military Times played down Vindman's insubordination.
[...] But was he a whistle blower or a spy? He did not report any wrongdoing. He did not follow the
chain-of-command with his reporting. The story said he may get an Article 15 for his Seven Days in May defiance of the
president. Article 15 is a step below court-martial. But he spied on the president. He was not part of the
telephone call the president made. He had no reason to access the record of the phone call. Indeed, he tried to alter
the transcript. Also, there is evidence he worked for the Ukrainian government, at least as a lobbyist.
How
the Army officer who testified against Trump could end up in a court-martial. When Lt. Col. Alexander
Vindman appeared before members of Congress on Tuesday [10/29/2019] to discuss what he knew about President Trump's
conversations with Ukraine's president, he was violating an order from his commander in chief not to cooperate with the
House's impeachment inquiry. He is likely protected from legal ramifications from showing up to testify, a former Army
judge advocate told Military Times on Thursday. But it remains to be seen whether what he told legislators could get
him charged with a crime — and, of course, how his choice to rebel against his White House chain-of-command will
affect his career.
The
First Four-Star Flag Officer in US History Joins the Effort to Void the Election of the US President. From time
to time, I like to promote the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee, as their cause is righteous. I
agree whole-heartedly with almost all of their stances on issues. Here is one of those opinion pieces that I'm certain
will resonate with you, too. In fact, the topic makes me furious!
Media-Democrat
Tantrum [is] a Fear Response. In 1776, 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence, knowing that their
actions would be viewed as treason by the prevailing power. [...] Fast-forward a mere 240 years. A group of corrupt and
craven people gathered in secret to once again consider radical actions. But, unlike the Declaration's signers, they were the
prevailing power and intended to remain so, fully confident in their complete control of government, the media, the Judiciary,
academia, entertainment, and nearly every form of cultural power. They feared no consequences. It was simply
inconceivable to them that with so many hands on the scales, they could possibly lose an election. And then they did.
All of their treasonous misdeeds that were supposed to not only be covered up, but rewarded by the queen of corruption were
suddenly a real vulnerability. They weren't just shattered by the election loss. They were genuinely afraid.
A
stunning confession from a Deep State member subverting the constitutional republic. The arrogance and lack of
self-awareness among the mandarins that inhabit the top levels of our government bureaucracies has led to a smoking gun-level
confession. [...] A confession from a man who formerly ran the CIA came Wednesday at an event sponsored by a friendly
organization, the Michael V. Hayden Center and Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Former
CIA Acting Director John McLaughlin was among friends who share the same seditious outlook, speaking on a panel discussion, with
CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell. With
everyone sharing the same assumptions, McLaughlin apparently let down his guard and committed a "Kinsley gaffe" —
accidentally telling the incriminating truth.
Anti-Trump
Collusion by Media. According to a June 11, 2017, FBI write-up: ["]The purpose of the meeting, as it
was explained to SSA [supervisory special agent, redacted] was to obtain documents from the AP reporters that were related to their
investigative reports on Paul Manafort.["] No such documents were included in the documents released to us. During
the meeting, the AP reporters provided the FBI information about a storage locker of Manafort (the Mueller special counsel operation
raided the locker on May 26, 2017): ["]The AP reporters advised that they had located a storage facility in Virginia
that belonged to Manafort... The code to the lock on the locker is 40944859. The reporters were aware of the Unit number and
address, but they declined to share that information.["] The reporters shared the information that "payments for the
locker were made from the DM Partners account that received money from the [Ukraine] Party of Regions." The notes suggest the
AP pushed for criminal prosecution of Manafort[.]
Haley
Recalls Serving With Some Who Tried to Undermine Trump; 'What's At Stake is the Constitution'. Officials serving in
the administration are not free to push their "personal agenda" if they do not like President Trump, former U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations Nikki Haley said this week, arguing that "we have one president at a time, and that president attained his office
by the choice of the American people." Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute event in Washington, where she received
the conservative think tank's Irving Kristol Award, Haley recalled serving in the Trump administration "alongside colleagues who
believed that the best thing to do for America was to undermine and obstruct the president."
Trump
Admin Launches Investigation Into 'Deep State' Targeting Top Trump Iran Official. The State Department has
opened an investigation into a campaign of leaks targeting the Trump administration's top Iran official, including leaks of a
non-public inspector general report, according to multiple sources inside the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill who
have been briefed on the investigation and the report. Brian Hook, the special representative for Iran and one of the
longest-serving Trump appointees in the administration, has been a focus of an inspector general investigation alleging he
engaged in politically motivated staffing decisions involving a career State Department official who worked closely on the
Obama administration's landmark nuclear deal with Iran and other diplomacy with the Islamic Republic.
Trump
Asks, Was Today's Never-Trumper Witness 'On the Same Call I Was?'. As people inside his own administration rise
up against him, President Trump is fuming about it on Twitter. [...] Trump also retweeted Fox News's Laura Ingraham, who
noted that when he took office, Trump had "zero idea" how many career staffers working inside his administration "would be
working 24/7 to undermine his agenda." [...] At the beginning of that call, President Zelensky told Trump, "[W]e are trying to
work hard because we wanted to drain the swamp here in our country. We brought in many many new people. Not the old
politicians, not the typical politicians, because we want to have a new format and a new type of government .. You are a great
teacher for us and in that." The "swamp" that Trump supposedly drained is now rising up against him, with the full
support of Democrats and the liberal media.
The Editor says...
Mr. Trump is at least trying to drain the swamp, which nobody else has even attempted. Personally, I don't think
the swamp can ever be drained. The swamp is deep and wide. The swamp is all plugged up by a big wad of money that
has been taken out of our pockets and scattered around Washington, DC, to be spent on all sorts of things that nobody asked for.
The swamp is lined with the offices of hundreds of bureaucrats who live quite comfortably and don't like changes. The swamp
is good for the TV news business, so you know what the news readers will say if any part of the swamp is threatened.
And unfortunately, too many voters are blissfully pacified by their monthly government handouts, so they don't like changes, either.
Speaker
Pelosi Wasn't Informed. So What? Saturday was a great day for America. U.S. Special Forces killed
one of the most vile human beings on the planet, terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The leader of ISIS was
dead. The mass murdering terrorist was chased down a tunnel by dogs and blew himself up. But true justice being
dealt out was not enough for Democrats in Washington. Nancy Pelosi is upset, again. This time, the Speaker of the
House is upset because she was not informed of the raid to kill al-Baghdadi ahead of time. Well, President Trump was
right not to tell her, or any of the Gang of Eight, ahead of time. The Gang of Eight, a collection of top Congressional
leaders, are typically briefed ahead of such significant missions. But we are not living in normal, typical
times. We are living in a time when certain Congressional leaders would seemingly like the president to be open with
them, all the while trying to destroy his presidency. Military operations are not a game. National security is
not a game.
The
Walls are Closing In — but Not on Trump. Democrats and their media propaganda arm have been telling
us since President Trump took office that "The walls are closing in." [...] News this week suggests that the walls are indeed
closing in, but not on President Trump. Instead it's officials in the Obama administration, up to and including
President Obama himself, who notice the size of their rooms beginning to shrink. As many of us hoped, Attorney General
William Barr's investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion hoax is now a criminal investigation rather than
simply an administrative inquiry. For those patiently, or impatiently, sitting through the calm before the storm, the
storm has finally arrived.
Fear strikes deep
into the woke. It's not often we get a clear picture of how leftists actually think. [...] So "Is William Barr
the Head of DOJ or QAnon?" by Rick Wilson is an interesting surprise — for once, we're getting the true gem of
what a leftist thinks. [...] Wilson is truly terrified as to what is going to come out of Barr's and Durham's efforts.
What is he afraid of? It's hard to say. It's all amorphous and vague — nothing concrete to it. [...]
The obsessive secrecy of the "impeachment" process, Schiff running off to hide when confronted by GOP congressmen, McCabe suddenly
dropping his lawsuit, the visible nervousness of Brennan and Clapper over the past week. These people are afraid.
Multitasking
the Intelligence Community Roundup. [Scroll down] Big takeaway: it is "disconcerting" now to be "investigated
for doing our duty, what we were told to do by the president." And exactly what were they doing? Investigating a candidate,
President-elect Trump, with the end, said Clapper, of preparing a big, comprehensive report for Congress and "the next administration."
You see that James Clapper, despite appearances to the contrary, does have a wry sense of humor. He can say with a straight face that
the covert investigation aimed at destroying Donald Trump was actually an investigation intended at least in part for the incoming
Trump administration. Yuck, yuck, yuck. What a card! But note that Clapper, funny though he was, was not himself
laughing. I don't blame him. The spook-turned-media-lap-dog is as much in the crosshairs as anyone, except perhaps another
spook-turned-media-lap-dog, former CIA director and Gus Hall voter John Brennan, who now lends his authoritative anti-Trump commentary to MSNBC.
How
the Democrats are like mushrooms. Adam Schiff is learning more about the high price of his impeachment
posturing every day, it seems. Schiff was one of a number of congressmen who were not notified of the impending raid
against ISIS that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. This despite the fact that Schiff, as chair of the
House Intelligence Committee, would be automatically in the loop regarding any such effort. President Trump announced
that Schiff, among others, had been left out during questions following his Sunday speech announcing he successful
mission. He made no bones as to the reason why: "We were going to notify them last night but we decided not to do
that because Washington leaks like I've never seen before," Trump said. "There is no country in the world that leaks
like we do and Washington is a leaking machine." As befits a president, Trump was most concerned about the troops at the
tip of the spear: "A leak could have caused the death of all of them."
Bureaucratic Rule:
By What Right? The New York Times long has tried to school us in the rightfulness of the bureaucracy's
attempt to rule America contrary to the results of elections. Last year, the editorial board published an anonymous
piece, in an unprecedented move, purporting to be written by a "high official" arguing that mandarins like himself serve the
country by subverting the Trump administration. [...] That, in turn, means that the bureaucrats, whom we pay but may not
fire, are the rightful deciders and any notion of a sovereign people ruling themselves through representatives whom they
elect and fire is a quaint and outmoded one to be discarded by those of superior understanding, like themselves. Their
superior right supposedly comes from superior knowledge and morality. In short, they should rule us because they are
better than we.
Deep State
Hates America First Policy. After the longest war in the history of our country, it is time for our troops to
return home. In 2001, the United States responded to the horrific terrorist attacks of 9/11 by sending our military to
Afghanistan on a mission to destroy Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. We were successful in destroying their terrorist
camps, killing and capturing Al-Qaeda leaders, and forcing Bin Laden out of the country. Amazingly, our military is
still in Afghanistan, although the Taliban control over half of the country. Of course, President Trump and his
supporters want to bring these troops home, but he is facing enormous resistance within the government, including the
Defense Department.
Inside
Trump's White House: Deep State treason or conspiracy theory? Democrats and never-Trump Republicans have
waged a relentless campaign against Trump, accusing the president of being an intelligence asset of Vladimir Putin's
Russia — a treasonous act. But what began as a political dirty tricks campaign by the Democratic National
Committee, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, and Obama's Deep State, morphed into a coup plot intended to remove
Trump from office. A matter of deep concern for the Deep State plotters is US Attorney John Durham's expanded criminal
investigation into the origins of their Trump/Russia counterintelligence operation.
The
Deep State Does Not Truly Understand the Peril They Now Face. I do not believe in coincidence. I do not
believe that it is a mere coincidence that these three events occurred late last night [10/24/2019]: [#1] The investigation
of the roots of the plot to destroy Donald Trump and his Presidency is now a criminal matter. [#2] A letter from
Inspector General Horowitz announcing that his report on the FISA fraud would be out shortly with no major redactions. [#3] The
Government caved to Honey Badger Sidney Powell and allowed her to fully expose criminal conduct by Michael Flynn's prosecutors.
What is going on? Two words. Bill Barr. The Attorney General has pulled the trigger and altered the
landscape in the Russiagate saga.
The
State Department's War on Trump. House Democrats are grilling a stream of disgruntled career diplomats in a
basement hearing room of the Capitol. The hearings are supposed to be secret, but — no surprise —
Democrats leak snippets of the testimony daily. They're hoping it will add up to a case for impeaching President Donald
Trump. So far, all the testimony actually proves is that these State Department diplomats think they —
not President Trump — ought to be running the nation's foreign policy.
The
Deep State Is in Deep Trouble. On Thursday evening, the New York Times reported that U.S. Attorney John
Durham's administrative review of the origins of the Trump/Russia investigation has shifted into a criminal inquiry.
This major development grants Durham the power to subpoena witnesses and documents and to impanel a grand jury.
Speculation has increased in the wake of reports that Attorney General William Barr and Durham had twice traveled to Rome and
London to meet with intelligence officials recently and the news that Durham was interested in questioning both former
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan. My colleague, Bonchie, posted on
this story last night (here), writing that the mainstream media is portraying this as a political move. The following
excerpt from the Times will give you an idea of how they plan to spin it.
Mittens,
the Deep State, and the Ongoing Coup Against POTUS. Recently, one of my email pals sent me an incredible
opinion piece from Howell Woltz at The International Centre for Justice, in Warsaw, Poland. He is the author of
"Justice Denied: The United States vs. the People," a very interesting book about the US justice system and federal
prisons and the need for some serious reform. Occasionally, an opinion piece is so profound that it simply MUST be
disseminated to a much wider audience than a simple blog post. This is one of such article. In this commentary,
he opines on the DoJ/FBI cabal's ongoing coup against POTUS while explaining some key connections among John Brennan, Mitt
Romney, Cofer Black, Burisma Holdings (Ukraine), Bararck Obama, Hillary Clinton, and all the rest. It fills in a lot
of gaps and explains much about what is going on with respect to the Ukraine kerfuffle. While I can't vouch for the
veracity of all the claims here, this just rings true to me and connects a lot of very interesting dots. As usual, I
caution you to "trust but verify."
The Case for Indicting John
Brennan. Former CIA director John Brennan calls the Justice Department's widening probe into Spygate's origins
"bizarre." It has no "legal basis," he bleats. What's bizarre is that the expanding inquiry didn't happen earlier.
Brennan's responsibility for criminal leaks during the Obama administration's investigation of Trump has been obvious for
at least two years. Even Trump hater Peter Strzok, the FBI liaison to John Brennan, couldn't believe the leaks
coming out of his shop. Referring to Brennan's agents as "sisters," Strzok said to his mistress Lisa Page, "our sisters
have begun leaking like mad. Scorned and worried and political, they're kicking in to overdrive." The "leaking like
mad" began in the thick of the 2016 campaign, as the feverishly partisan John Brennan sought to sabotage Donald Trump before
Election Day.
Rand
Paul: There Are GOP Senators 'Whose Allegiance Is More to the Deep State' Than Trump. Monday [10/21/2019]
on Fox News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," host Tucker Carlson questioned Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as to why
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had not been aggressive employing his subpoena power as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee against various central figures involved with the effort to derail Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and
his presidency. Paul explained he had urged Graham to act. However, he said there were other Republican members
of the U.S. Senate that had more of an "allegiance" to the so-called Deep State than Trump.
Report:
CIA Deep State Actors Linked to Origin of Russia Hoax Lawyer Up. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) review
into the origins of the Russian collusion hoax probe has reportedly prompted some CIA analysts in the crosshairs of
investigators to lawyer up. NBC News made the revelation on Monday [10/21/2019], adding that DOJ "has found something
significant" and expanded the review.
The Deep
State Comes Out Of The Shadows. Two news stories published over the weekend had the same message. The
State Department was out to get President Donald Trump after suffering years of "frustration." At least these denizens of the
deep state are being honest. Politico's 2,000-word story — titled "The Revenge of the State Department" —
begins by reporting on the fact that "current and former Foreign Service officers have defied Trump administration orders and
trudged to Capitol Hill to testify before House committees investigating whether to impeach the president." These officials,
the story says, are "furious," "terrified," "incredulous," "disappointed," "fed up," "livid," with a "deep well of resentment,"
in an "unbearable" situation. Some of them, Politico reports, are using the hearings as a "platform to air long-held grievances
over Trump." And their colleagues are "hailing them as heroes." What, exactly, are these career State Department
bureaucrats angry about?
When Does It Count
as a Coup? Not only are we living in the most divisive time in the republic's history since the Civil War, but
we are also right now witnesses to an ongoing plot to subvert the duly elected President of the United States.
John
Durham Questioning CIA Officials About Intelligence Community Assessment. Against the backdrop of the DOJ
admitting FBI investigators never had access to the DNC servers to verify a Russian hack; and with new information about the
FBI receiving partial and redacted analysis from Crowdstrike; the review by U.S. Attorney John Durham toward the downstream
assessment/claims of the CIA takes on new meaning. CTH has previously outlined how the December 29th, 2016, Joint
Analysis Report (JAR) on Russia Cyber Activity was a quickly compiled bunch of nonsense about Russian hacking. The JAR
was followed a week later by the January 7th, 2017, Intelligence Community Assessment. The ICA took the ridiculous
construct of the JAR and then overlaid a political narrative that Russia was trying to help Donald Trump.
Licensed
to Lie: 2014 book exposes start of Deep State DOJ corruption. In the corruption trial of former Alaska
Sen. Ted Stevens, a key witness was intimidated into presenting false testimony. As in the Merrill Lynch case, the
prosecutors concealed exculpatory evidence from the defense, a violation of due process under the Supreme court's Brady
v. Maryland 373 U.S. 83 (1963) decision. In Senator Stevens' conviction, which led to a narrow loss in his
2008 re-election campaign and impacted the majority makeup of the Senate, the presiding judge appointed a special prosecutor
to investigate abuses. Confronted with the need to clean house as he came into office, writes Powell, Attorney General
Eric Holder failed to take action. Powell's book provides an expose of federal prosecutorial misconduct and introduces
us to some of the worst federal prosecutors who still reside at the top levels of our government.
NY
Times columnist admits there's an anti-Trump Deep State — But claims members are the good guys.
"There is no Deep State!" That's been the anti-Trump media argument ever since President Trump took office and his
administration started leaking like a cheese grater. Lots of major news organizations made the claim, interviewing
supposed insiders — from CNN to The New Yorker and The Nation. New Yorker Editor David Remnick rationalized
the pushback against Trump in 2017: "The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow man —
an untruthful, vain, vindictive, alarmingly erratic President." Now there's no attempt at hiding it. In one of the
more blatant impeachment stories of the week, New York Times columnist James B. Stewart went on NBC's "Today" show to tell
everyone that Trump is right. Stewart was pushing a new book, "Deep State," only he sees the Deep Staters as
heroes — the same way the rest of his media buddies do.
Trump
Issues Executive Orders Designed To Deconstruct The Deep State While Dems Focus On Impeachment. President
Donald Trump signed executive orders Wednesday afternoon that are designed to take much of the sting out of what conservatives
believe is an out-of-control administrative state. The orders will limit the use of a tool the Trump administration
believes short-circuits the rule-making process. They take aim at federal guidance, which agencies can use to explain
how they intend to implement policy. The Wall Street Journal reported on the orders Tuesday [10/8/2019]. The
orders are expected to dramatically reduce the impact a key element of the country's regulatory infrastructure has on
businesses and Americans, according to White House spokesman Judd Deere.
Meet
Kyle Frese: Trump Hater, Federal Employee, Arrested for Leaking National Security Secrets. Federal
employee Henry Kyle Frese was arrested today for allegedly leaking national security secrets to reporters at CNBC and NBC.
One of the reporters was his girlfriend. [...] Frese was a federal employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency. It
comes as no surprise that Frese — like so many other federal employees in Washington, D.C. — is full of
hatred toward Donald Trump and willing to use his personal power and government job to attack the president and
conservatives. Let's peruse his Twitter feed before it disappears.
Intelligence
agent arrested for spilling secrets to journalists. The feds busted a Defense Intelligence Agency worker
Wednesday for leaking classified national defense information to two journalists in 2018 and 2019 — one of whom he
was shacking up with. Henry Kyle Frese, 30, a counterintelligence analyst from Alexandria, Virginia, who had a Top
Secret security clearance, was indicted Tuesday [10/8/2019] on two counts of willful transmission of national defense information
to persons not entitled to receive it. "Frese was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information for
personal gain," said John C. Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, who cited ex-Attorney General Jeff
Sessions' vow to pursue leakers as the motivation for the probe.
Sex,
Leaks, Lies and Spies: Trump Takes Down Intelligence Community Leakers. Amidst a battle between the
President of the United States and the Intelligence Community that has sparked formal impeachment proceedings against the
president by Democrats in Congress, federal law enforcement officials have formally charged one intelligence community
official with leaking highly classified information to the media. This comes in the wake of a top-ranking congressional
intelligence committee staffer facing similar charges of leaking last year and sets the stage for a larger fight between
Trump and intelligence community leakers.
Democrats'
Fear of Durham [is] About to Reach [the] Panic Level. The important news of the day — far beyond the
inevitable tedious impeachment jousting — is that John Durham's investigation of the provenance of the FBI's
counterintelligence investigation of possible Trump-Russia collusion has expanded, according to several administration
officials. [...] In Churchill's words, "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants
on." Eventually, however, it does. And when it does, in this case, if the Democrats have already impeached a
president — if it turns out there was a coup plot or something close involving the CIA, the previous administration
and others — there will be [consequences] in this country like we haven't seen since the 1860s, maybe worse.
Activity
and Background of Sketchy IC IG Michael Atkinson Now Under Investigative Spotlight. Last week the Intelligence
Community Inspector General, Michael Atkinson, testified behind closed doors to congress. Atkinson testified about his
role in bringing the 'whistle-blower' complaint forward. The details of that testimony are now starting to surface and
thankfully congress is taking a closer look at the sketchy background of Michael Atkinson.
Stephen
Miller Exposes the Deep State: 'A Collection of Permanent Bureaucrats Enmeshed Inside the Federal Government'.
Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, joined Breitbart News Sunday [10/6/2019] [...] to expose the deep
state: forces he said are driving the effort by Democrats to proceed with impeachment against the president. "The attempt
at impeachment is best understood as a legislative coup against a democratically elected president, and the radical leftists in
Congress are working arm-in-arm with the deep state saboteurs and their allies in the media in order to try to effectuate this
illegal coup," Miller said.
The
Coup against Trump: Is John Brennan a Russian Agent? In the coming weeks, former CIA director John
Brennan will be meeting with Attorney John Durham about the origins of the Russia Hoax. There can be no question that
Brennan is at the center of the Obama White House campaign to use unconstitutional and extra-judicial means to target and
destroy Donald Trump. There is little doubt that Brennan and his compatriots in the Deep State have done more damage to
America than the Russians could ever do in 100 years. Obama, Clinton, and Brennan have much to answer for.
Trump
Orders Cut to National Security Staff After Whistle-Blower. President Donald Trump has ordered a substantial
reduction in the staff of the National Security Council, according to five people familiar with the plans, as the White House
confronts an impeachment inquiry touched off by a whistle-blower complaint related to the agency's work. Some of the
people described the staff cuts as part of a White House effort to make its foreign policy arm leaner under new National
Security Adviser Robert O'Brien.
The Real CIA.
The CIA is far from being the murderous threat of a KGB or Gestapo, and its tactics so far have been weasely, assaulting our
democratically elected leadership with sneakiness and innuendo. Nevertheless, its attacks on President Trump have been
the most significant attacks our president has faced. CIA employees have no intention of assassinating Donald Trump,
but they do seek to assassinate his presidency. The CIA's founders would be horrified. They insisted as a
condition of the CIA's founding in 1947 that it was not to be a KGB or a Gestapo that preyed upon its own citizens.
Whistlegate
Reveals Some Very Chatty Minders of State Secrets. As Democrats in Congress assess a CIA analyst's
"whistleblower" allegations against President Trump regarding Ukraine, one thing already seems clear: There has been a
breakdown within the government of traditional restrictions against sharing intelligence beyond those with a need to know
it. Unlike most whistleblowers, the CIA analyst was not a witness to events. Instead, he functioned as a kind of
investigative reporter who worked sources to develop the information detailed in the complaint. While some have praised
the informer for unearthing questionable behavior by the president, some experts in national security law say that the
whistleblower and his sources may have violated regulations aimed at preserving state secrets.
One dares
call it treason. The Constitution, in Section 3 of Article III, says those who give aid and comfort to the
enemies of this country are traitors to it. President Trump is an existential threat to the entrenched ruling
class. The Deep State is a part of that class, and it attacks the president on their behalf. Any and all means
are justified in attacking him and in defending their power. Their power is the center of the existence of the ruling
class, their most precious possession. Trump threatens it all, and all of them. So when Adam Schiff mockingly
impersonates the president's call to Ukraine, making it seem like a threatening call from a mob boss, he is giving aid and
comfort to the Deep State, the enemy of the people and the enemy of the United States.
Deep
State insurance policies, the press and Intelligence Community coups. When President Donald Trump told
Americans that the left-wing media are "the enemy of the people," he was only partially right. His presidential
candidacy and later election as the nation's 45th president triggered an unprecedented opposition campaign. A campaign
by Deep State infested US intelligence community (IC) services at home and abroad. That campaign against a duly elected
government official has been consistently advanced by the so-called independent press. It amounts to an ongoing
intelligence community coup against the president.
Clapper:
Whistleblower Fueling the 'Conspiratorial Fire' of the 'Deep State' Trying to Overthrow Trump. Former Director
of National Intelligence James Clapper said that there isn't a "deep state" effort to undermine President Donald Trump but
the whistleblower complaint about his call with the Ukraine president from someone in the intelligence community "fuels that
conspiratorial fire." "Well, I never heard of the term deep state, maybe I was, you know, ignorant or bliss or something,
but I never heard of that until the campaign and afterwards. Allegedly this is a conspiracy of career government public
servants who somehow organize themselves into a conspiracy to undermine or overthrow the president, which on its face is
ridiculous," Clapper said during the Washington Post's Cybersecurity Summit on Wednesday [10/2/2019].
Stephen
Miller: "The Deep State is Terrified of Being Exposed". White House Senior Policy Adviser, Stephan
Miller, appears on Fox Business with Lou Dobbs to explain the apoplexy coming from DC's administrative state. Miller
outlines the deep fear held by many in the professional political class in/around DC toward ongoing investigations by U.S. AG
Bill Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham. In framing the opposition to the Trump administration, Mr. Miller
identifies the Marxist roots that bind governmental ideologues in united resistance. Impeachment is their best hope of
defense. [Video clip]
Carl
Bernstein Warns Deep State Allies: Bill Barr is on to us. Carl Bernstein is an insufferable propagandist
for the political left; but sometimes you can get a sense of where things stand by listening to his partisan
protestations. Additionally, Bernstein was at the center of the media effort to engineer the Russia narrative by
pushing disinformation from the intelligence apparatus in January 2017. Bernstein was one of the key media figures
constructing and pushing the vast Russian election interference narrative. He also worked closely with Jake Tapper, Jim
Sciutto, and Evan Perez to promote the Steele Dossier as a valid intelligence product. In essence Bernstein is a part
of the 'resistance' agenda writ large; he travels DC circles accordingly.
Dan
Bongino calls the Russia investigation the biggest political scandal of our time. [Scroll down] [Quoting
Mark Levin]: You had spies inserted into the Trump campaign by the FBI You had lies fed to the FISA Court, a Federal
Court. Federal district court judges run the FISA Courts, by the highest levels of the FBI and the Department of
Justice. You had the unmasking of American citizens, including from people at the White House, as well as from the U.N.
and others on a scale we've never seen in modern times. You've had the leaking, the felonious leaking of information,
so-called investigative information, trying to push the ball with the public against candidate Trump, and now President
Trump. You had leaking by the head of the FBI, he denied it. He is a liar. And he also wrote self-serving
memos that belong to the government. And he leaked some of those. The number two at the FBI, McCabe, a leaker and
then lied about it, and is now potentially facing criminal charges. The General Counsel the FBI, forced to resign.
The top level the FBI wiped out. [Video clip]
Intel
Community Secretly Gutted Requirement Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge. Between May 2018 and August 2019,
the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of
alleged wrongdoings. [...] The brand new version of the whistleblower complaint form, which was not made public until after
the transcript of Trump's July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the complaint addressed to
Congress were made public, eliminates the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower complaints
even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only "heard about [wrongdoing] from others."
Key
Whistleblower Requirement Was Removed, Allowing IC Complaints Based on Hearsay. A key requirement for
whistleblowers to lodge a "Disclosure of Urgent Concern" complaint was secretly eliminated at some point in the past year to
allow submissions of second-hand material, it has been revealed. This allowed the August submission of an error-ridden
whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump to proceed, as the whistleblower — who is believed to be a
member of the intelligence committee assigned to the National Security Counsel — has admitted to having no direct
knowledge of wrongdoing on the part of the president. A previous version of the form only allowed first-hand
whistleblower complaints — not hearsay, rumor, or gossip about presidential diplomacy with a foreign leader.
Limbaugh:
Turns Out Ukraine 'Whistleblower' Was 'Deep State Plant From The CIA'. On his radio show Thursday, Rush
Limbaugh addressed the revelations from The New York Times about the identity of the "whistleblower" who sparked the controversy
of President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukraine's president that has given the Democrats a rationale to move forward
on their impeachment campaign. According to the Times, the whistleblower is "a CIA officer detailed to the White House,"
and, according to Paul Sperry, former D.C. bureau chief for Investor's Business Daily, rumors are "swirling" that the
whistleblower was one of former CIA Director and current NBC analyst John Brennan's "old CIA humps detailed over to —
planted inside — the White House to spy on Trump and help thwart the investigation of #Spygate which also involves
Obama DOS/FBI/CIA skullduggery in Ukraine."
Who
is responsible for the impeachment circus? [Scroll down] Paul Ryan was Speaker of the House from October
2015 to January 2019. He was also the 2012 vice presidential nominee for the Republican Party running with the hapless Mitt
Romney. When Donald Trump became president, this gave the Republicans control of the presidency, the House, and the
Senate. This was a golden opportunity to move the Trump agenda forward. And it would have been
accomplished — except for Ryan. As leader of the GOP in the House of Representatives, he engaged in
ankle-biting the president and dragging his feet otherwise. Trump has thundered that Ryan was "weak, ineffective, and
stupid" as House speaker. Ryan was all that only if one assumes he was on the same team supporting the president and
the American middle class. But if Ryan was instead serving big moneyed globalists and Wall Street, then he was smart
and highly effective — as a saboteur.
New
York Times identifies Trump whistleblower as CIA officer. The New York Times is claiming the whistleblower
behind a complaint made about a phone conversation between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart is a male CIA
officer who at one point had been detailed to the White House. The report, which the Times says was corroborated by
three sources, paints the most detailed portrait of the insider to this point, though he has yet to be named publicly.
The Times also reports that, based on the wording of his complaint, the whistleblower likely has extensive knowledge of
Ukrainian politics.
White
House hunt for identity of whistleblower and 'spy' who helped him. President Trump and his advisers are
frantically searching for the identity of the whistleblower who exposed Trump's phone call with Ukraine's president and those
in the White House who spoke to him. Trump demanded the identities of the sources as Democrats clamored for Trump's
impeachment for allegedly inducing Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter
Biden. "I want to know who's the person who gave the whistleblower the information because that's close to a spy,"
Trump said. "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right?"
$50K
reward offered to out Trump whistleblower. Two Trump supporters are offering a $50,000 reward for information
about the national security whistleblower at the center of the Ukraine phone affair. Controversial conservatives Jack
Burkman and Jacob Wohl said they would pay the money for "information relating to the identity of the 'Trump Whistleblower.'"
The New York Times on Thursday [9/26/2019] reported that the whistleblower works at the CIA and was stationed in the White
House when the call was made. The duo have said their goal is to provide full transparency on the issue in which the
administration has already released the transcript of the July 25 call and the inspector general's report on it.
It's
Not About Biden — Deep State Response to Ukraine Call [is because] Trump Questioned Crowdstrike. The
completely over-the-top response by a Deep State embed whistleblower and his/her political allies withing the
administrative state now makes sense; it had nothing to do with Joe Biden. President Trump asked President Zelenskyy
about "Crowdstrike." [...] According to the original FBI statements made by James Comey: Crowdstrike did the captured
imaging of the DNC network (servers/cloud), then conducted analysis, then provided a report to the DNC with their findings;
and that report was given to the FBI. At least that was the original 2017 claim. However, during court filings
in the case against Roger Stone, the DOJ/FBI later admitted they never even saw the Crowstrike final report.
Further
Evidence Intelligence Community Inspector General is Part of Lawfare Alliance. [Scroll down] The center
of the Lawfare Alliance influence was/is the Department of Justice National Security Division, DOJ-NSD. It was the DOJ-NSD
running the Main Justice side of the 2016 operations to support Operation Crossfire Hurricane and FBI agent Peter Strzok.
It was also the DOJ-NSD where the sketchy legal theories around FARA violations (Sec. 901) originated. The Intelligence
Community Inspector General (ICIG) is Michael K Atkinson. ICIG Atkinson is the official who accepted the ridiculous
premise of a hearsay 'whistle-blower' complaint; an intelligence whistleblower who was "blowing-the-whistle"
based on second hand information of a phone call without any direct personal knowledge, ie 'hearsay'.
Michael K Atkinson was previously the Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division
of the Department of Justice (DOJ-NSD) in 2016.
Dobbs
on whistleblower fiasco: Intel community insanely 'hostile' to Trump. Fox Business host Lou Dobbs slammed
the media for fomenting yet another "contrived, left-wing-inspired political firestorm" concerning whether President Donald
Trump had pressured Ukraine's president to investigate former vice president Joe Biden. As BizPac Review reported,
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko flatly denied unsubstantiated reports by the Washington Post and the New York
Times making this claim.
Let's
get real: Democrats were first to enlist Ukraine in US elections. [Scroll down] Nellie Ohr
testified to Congress that some of the dirt she found on Trump during her 2016 election opposition research came from a
Ukrainian parliament member. She also said that she eventually took the information to the FBI through her
husband — another way Ukraine got inserted into the 2016 election. Politics. Pressure.
Opposition research. All were part of the Democrats' playbook on Ukraine long before Trump ever called Zelensky this
summer. And as Sen. Murphy's foray earlier this month shows, it hasn't stopped. The evidence is so expansive
as to strain the credulity of the Democrats' current outrage at Trump's behavior with Ukraine.
He'll
have more flexibility after 2020 — and he's going to need it. The swamp is bottomless. Truly
undrainable. Unlike blood-sucking vampires that can be tamed with garlic necklaces, holy water and a stake driven
through the heart, this THING cannot be stopped. The Leviathan has become a glioblastomic tumor with roots so deep
beneath the Potomac that they can never be wrenched out. Its gnarly fingers of government intrusion slither into every
thin cranny of American life.
Trump,
Kavanaugh, Lewandowski and our malignant Left. Most Americans are by now familiar with the fact that higher-ups
in the FBI, DOJ, CIA and the Obama administration attempted to destroy the Republican candidate for the presidency.
Once Donald Trump won, they doubled down on their despicable collusion of fakery to see the man not only driven from office
but rendered guilty of treason. They did all of this knowing full well that none of it was true. It was all part
of a plan, their "insurance policy" to ensure Hillary Clinton's ascension to the White House despite her many crimes, which
they all worked to conceal. Much of this was likely done to ensure their own job security.
McCarthy
promises accountability as Barr reviews IG's FISA report: 'The closest we've ever seen to a coup'. House
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., promised that guilty parties will be held accountable after Justice Department
Inspector General Michael Horowitz releases his report on the FBI's alleged abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA) in the Russia investigation, and predicted that former bureau leaders James Comey and Andrew McCabe will face
criminal charges after what he described as an attempted "coup" to take down President Trump. The report will address
concerns with whether or not the FBI acted improperly in obtaining a FISA warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser
Carter Page in the early stages of their investigation of Russian election interference and possible Trump campaign connections.
The
Intelligence Community Works for the President. It's simply hard to know where to begin to respond to the
staggering chutzpah of Jennifer Rubin's recent Washington Post opinion column accusing the president of undermining
our intelligence community. Rubin used the recent leak regarding the exfiltration (a fancy word for "removal") of an
undercover "asset" in Russia as a hook to make the case that the president is somehow responsible for outing this source and
therefore harming U.S. interests. Her column is an example of the backward view elite leftists have towards democracy
and the Constitution. These elites, in desperate need of a remedial civics class, have convinced themselves that our
elected president must learn to take orders from the intelligence community.
New
State Department Documents Reveal Last-Minute Efforts By Obama State Department To Undermine President Trump.
Judicial Watch today [9/9/2019] released 90 pages of heavily redacted U.S. Department of State documents showing Obama State
Department officials' efforts to disseminate classified information to multiple U.S. Senators immediately prior to President
Donald Trump's inauguration. The information, which included raw intelligence, purported to show "malign" Russian
interference in the 2016 presidential election.
New
docs reveal frantic Obama State Department efforts to undercut Trump. On Monday [9/9/2019], conservative
watchdog group Judicial Watch released 90 pages of U.S. State Department documents revealing frantic efforts before President
Trump's inauguration by Democrats and their supporters to share classified intelligence information with various
senators. The documents, obtained through a June 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, are heavily redacted
but they still provide stunning evidence of intent to bring down the newly elected president by any means necessary.
Trump-Russia
and Clinton-Libya: A Story of 2 Probes and the FBI. Records recently posted online by the FBI indicate
that it did little to investigate allegations from private sources connected to Republicans about a scheme in which
associates of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to exploit their connection to her to profit from the turmoil in Libya
in 2011. The FBI received the documents in June 2016, around the same time it launched an exhaustive, three-year
investigation of the Trump campaign's ties to Russia based, in part, on information from private sources connected to
Democrats that in the main would prove to be false — the Steele dossier. The bureau's different responses to
these documents also came during the same period when FBI Director James B. Comey controversially cleared Clinton, in his
first of two exonerations, of criminal wrongdoing in the bureau's probe of her unauthorized and insecure email setup.
Trump
vs. Clinton 2020: Is the Deep State coming for the Oval? With Congress returning this week, the 2020
election, and impeachment quest ramps up. Numerous pundits and opinion writers have predicted that Hillary Clinton will
be Democrat savior. Including the artist, Ben Garrison, behind the lead cartoon. Is Hillary the one that, this
time, will beat Donald Trump? Can the mistress of the Deep State deny him of his second term? Will Hungarian
Billionaire and Deep State God Father, George Soros be willing to support another Clinton — Deep State run?
Because out of all the DNC contenders, Hillary Clinton alone reigns as the Queen of the Deep State globalist agenda.
Comey Tickles the Wire.
[Scroll down] In other words, when Comey met with Trump, the FISA surveillance had been underway for three months and
was ongoing. Given that no charges have ever been brought against Carter Page, it would appear that by the time of
Comey's approach to Trump, the FISA surveillance had been a dry hole. So it was that Comey resorted to the time-tested
technique of "tickling the wire" by meeting with Trump and trying to scare him with tales of Moscow hookers and compromising
tapes. And CNN's reporting on the subject only increased the desired level of agitation. Even if, as indeed
turned out to be the case, Trump did not blurt out anything incriminating during the meeting, the possibility remained that
he or his associates would be spurred to make damaging statements and admissions in their wire or oral communications.
And, if that happened, the FBI would be intercepting and recording every word. In short, although the OIG does not
address the possibility, the convergence of the FBI's previously unproductive FISA surveillance with Comey's reptilian and
manipulative approach to the president-elect leads to the inevitable conclusion that Trump was absolutely correct
when — despite the mockery of the mainstream media — he insisted that he was being wiretapped by the FBI.
Federal
Reserve Bank's 'myth of political neutrality' now is dead and gone. Donald Trump is only the most recent POTUS
to discover that the Fed wields enormous political power, able to speed up or slow down the economy via its manipulation of
interest rates and the money supply. He is far from the first president to complain about the Fed when he perceives it
as hampering his growth agenda. What is different is that one of the top officials of the Fed in recent years has
fought back and urged the Fed to operate so as to exert political influence against Trump.
Trump
Admin to Create Special "Office of Transparency" to Expedite Release of DOJ Documents Stalled by Deep State.
Investigate journalist John Solomon of The Hill released another breaking report in his appearance on Hannity on
Wednesday night [8/28/2019]. According to Solomon the Trump Administration is creating an "Office of Transparency" to
expedite the release of DOJ documents that have been stalled by Deep State operatives. This comes after months of
waiting for subpoenaed documents from the FBI and Director Christopher Wray who has done all he can to stall and protect
Hillary Clinton and the Deep State cabal. [Video clip]
Details
Behind Patrick Byrne Allegations of FBI "Political Espionage". Former CEO Patrick Byrne has given four primary
interviews where he outlines his knowledge of a 2015 and 2016 political espionage operation being run by the FBI. After a
review of the interviews, and extracting specific points therein, here's an overview. The substance of Mr. Byrne
claims does seem to align with what we already know about the DOJ and FBI activity during the 2016 election cycle, including
the FBI operations.
Patrick
Byrne Describes Maria Butina as a Walking FISA Virus. After appearing on Fox Business, former Overstock CEO
Patrick Byrne appeared on Fox TV with Martha MacCallum. In this interview Byrne explained his impetus for contacting
the FBI in 2015, about Russian national Maria Butina, surrounded a low-level security clearance he held and a responsibility
to report suspicious contacts. Mr. Byrne then names Peter Strzok, Bill Priestap, Andrew McCabe and James Comey as
the top of an operation where Byrne was instructed to guide Butina into the contact circle of republican presidential
candidates in 2015, and then back away.
Ex-Overstock
CEO Patrick Byrne says he got 'fishy' orders from Peter Strzok; former acting AG unsure of claims. Overstock
founder and CEO Patrick Byrne, who resigned Thursday amid ties to a government probe related to the 2016 election, claimed he
received "fishy" orders from former FBI official Peter Strzok. Byrne said Thursday [8/22/2019] on "The Story" he'd
helped the federal government with investigations twice in the past, including to "help them take down people on Wall
Street." Several years after Byrne's last contact with the government, he said FBI officials reached out to him in 2016.
"I was given some fishy orders and I carried them out in 2015-2016, thinking I was conducting law enforcement," he said.
Overstock
CEO Patrick Byrne resigns amid Russian spy link, 'deep state' comments. Overstock founder and CEO Patrick Byrne
resigned Thursday [8/22/2019] after 20 years at the company amid his ties to a government investigation related to the 2016
election. "In July I came forward to a small set of journalists regarding my involvement in certain government
matters," Byrne said in a letter to shareholders. "While I believe that I did what was necessary for the good of the
country, for the good of the firm, I am in the sad position of having to sever ties with Overstock, both as CEO and board
member, effective Thursday, August 22."
Founder
of Overstock.com resigns, goes public about his role in FBI surveillance of presidential campaigns. In a pair
of jaw-dropping interviews yesterday [8/22/2019] following his resignation from the company that he founded twenty years ago,
Patrick Byrne revealed his collaboration with the FBI as an informant, including involvement in surveillance of the
presidential campaigns including multiple Republicans... and of the Hillary Clinton campaign, too. In both interviews
he fingered Peter Strzok as the person responsible for sending the "men in black" from the FBI who visited him, but in the
second, he stated that higher ups, whom he would only identify as "X, Y, and X" — people whose names you would
know, directed the program.
John
Solomon: 10 Declassified Russia Collusion Revelations. Investigative journalist John Solomon joined Sean
Hannity to discuss his latest revelations in the ongoing Trump-Russia Spygate scandal. [...] John Solomon in his list
suggests that the FBI may have been giving Christopher Steele information on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation on Donald
Trump and his campaign. Solomon says the deep state also had exculpatory statements that would have cleared George
Papadopolous that they withheld from the FISA Court.
AG
Bill Barr's Other Problem — The 2018 DOJ and FBI Coverup To Protect The Senate Intelligence Committee. In the
first part of this research into the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) we outlined how the committee was engaged in the 2017
effort — with specific evidence of communication — to support Robert Mueller and the 'soft coup' team. When
you understand what the group was doing in early 2017, you understand why the FBI had to use DOJ official Bruce Ohr as a go-between to
contact with Chris Steele.
Lindsey
Graham: There Is Proof Of Systematic Corruption At Highest Level of DOJ and FBI. "Here's what we're
looking at: Systematic corruption at the highest level of the Department of Justice and the FBI against President Trump
and in favor of Hillary Clinton," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News.
Host Sean Hannity then asked Graham whether officials "lied purposefully" on a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
warrant application to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Trey Gowdy
Calls Secret Document 'Game-Changer'. [Scroll down] Gowdy, who was chairman of the House Oversight
Committee, said he was "clueless" as to why the documents have not been made public, because there is no information that
could damage U.S. relationships with allies. "It goes to a fundamental precept we have in this country. When
there is exculpatory information, information that tends to show that a person did not commit a crime, that information is
every bit as important" as any evidence that would suggest a crime," he said. "Show us the transcripts. Show us
the questions you coached the informants or the cooperating witnesses to ask of the Trump campaign officials. If it's
not about the campaign, then you're right. But if you're veering over into the campaign or questions are not solely
about Russia, then you've been misleading us for two years," said Gowdy.
Deep
State Center Holds — John Ratcliffe Nomination Withdrawn. Donald Trump was an outside candidate; a
disruption in the global way of things. He questioned NATO, he challenged "globalism", he challenged the perpetual war
machine. In essence he was a risk. Hence the SSCI aligned against candidate Trump and continued that opposition
into the "insurance policy" phase to remove President Trump. The pre-election operations of the SSCI is why the 2016
Vice-Chairman of the committee, Dianne Feinstein, abdicated her position as soon as Trump won the election. She knew
eventually the SSCI would be in direct confrontation with President Trump; and Feinstein knew what actions they had
taken. She didn't want to stick around for the bloodbath.
Transcripts
Obtained of Former FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki Testifying Russia Conspiracy Came from Obama's White House.
Transcripts obtained from the FBI in a request for information show that James Rybicki, the former FBI Chief of Staff under James
Comey, testified that the Russia Conspiracy sham came from Obama's White House in October 2016. We reported last week that
businessman Ed Butowsky filed a lawsuit where he outed reporter Ellen Ratner as his source for information that Seth Rich and his
brother provided WikiLeaks the DNC emails before the 2016 election, not Russia. This totally destroys the FBI and Mueller's
claims that Russians hacked the DNC to obtain these emails.
The
Deep State [is] apoplectic over the appointment of John Ratcliffe as DNI, for good reason. The testimony of
Robert Mueller signaled the end of Act One of the Russia Hoax story arc. The appointment of Rep. (and former US
Attorney) John Ratcliffe as the new Director of National Intelligence launches Act Two, where the events of the first act
begin to be understood in a new light. The miscreants and their friends understand very well what is ahead, and they
are acting accordingly.
Professor
Joseph Mifsud: a spy to be dragged in from the cold. Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio would like an
answer to a simple question: Who is Joseph Mifsud? He's the man the New York Times describes as "an otherwise
obscure Maltese professor with sketchy academic credentials who has stayed out of public view for more than a year and a
half." That may be so, but Professor Mifsud, along with British spy Christopher Steele' of Trump dossier fame, provided the
impetus for the US counterintelligence operation relentlessly waged against Donald Trump's 2016 Republican presidential campaign.
Who
has the most egg on his face after the Mueller hearings? Adam Schiff. From the beginning of the Left's
attempt to destroy the Trump candidacy, then presidency, it was Adam Schiff who was the most consumed by the fabricated hoax
that Trump had colluded with Russia to win the election. He believed every morsel of disinformation that was carefully
leaked by the collaborators at the FBI, DOJ, CIA, DNC and the Clinton gang. Once their fake news was leaked, they could
and did use those articles as evidence against the President. They used those columns of fabricated tales of Trump's
collusion to get FISA warrants to spy on every person who was part of the campaign. They spied, they set-up innocent
persons like Papadopoulos in service of constructing a complex but false narrative that would round out their coup.
Ex-FBI,
CIA Officials Draw Withering Fire on Russiagate. As Congress arrives back into town and the House Judiciary and
Intelligence Committees prepare to question ex-Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller on July 17, partisan lines are being drawn
even more sharply, as Russias-gate blossoms into Deep-State-gate. On Sunday [7/7/2019], a top Republican legislator, Rep. Peter
King (R-NY) took the gloves off in an unusually acerbic public attack on former leaders of the FBI and CIA. King told a
radio audience: "There is no doubt to me there was severe, serious abuses that were carried out in the FBI and, I believe,
top levels of the CIA against the President of the United States or, at that time, presidential candidate Donald Trump,"
according to The Hill.
When
Does the Deep State Morph into the Police State in Our Country? What makes the Democrats especially dangerous
these days is that they are highly united in their attempt to impose in an increasingly totalitarian fashion their progressive
and socialist agenda by any means possible. They often use the tactics of overtly attempting to silence and eliminate
conservative opposition and practicing the policy of personal destruction of their opponents. It reached a point where,
seemingly, an alliance of "Deep State" federal bureaucracy players, including high-ranking members of the Obama administration
consisting of the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA, united with Hillary Clinton to participate in a comprehensive campaign to rig the
outcome of the 2016 election in her favor. Gone are the days of Democrats attempting to win voters in the court of public
opinion with a free, open, and honest debate of ideas and policies.
This only means that the swamp hasn't been drained. Amash:
Republicans, High-Level Officials Thanked Me for Saying Trump Should Be Impeached. Sunday [7/7/2019] on CNN's
"State of the Union," Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI), who left the Republican Party earlier this week, said when he came out
in favor of impeachment, other "Republicans, high-level officials" contacted him "saying thank you for what you are doing."
Trump
hasn't drained the swamp. Here's how to do it. Donald Trump ran for president promising to "drain the
swamp," but even his sometimes valiant efforts amount to no more than removing marsh water one tin cup at a time. Three
Supreme Court decisions at the end of its term last week remind us that the federal administrative state, not the elective
offices, is the frustrating, sometimes abusive entity through which most citizens encounter their government. The next
president should make it a priority to radically restructure and reduce the administrative leviathan. The virtual GOP
campaign against President Trump must make massive administrative reform a galvanizing issue.
The
Left's Endgame Is Not Chaos. It's Worse. First, at present, leftists want to create a state of political
cultural chaos in the U.S. for a specific reason. They need chaos as a smokescreen to defend their current
leaders — that is to say, Obama, Hillary & Co. — from prosecution. Make no mistake: Obama,
Hillary, and their cohorts committed some serious crimes of an unprecedented nature for people at their level. We
executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for far less. [...] That is what the Left is doing with all this "chaos." For if Trump
gets enough political breathing space to lock on for the kill and hold them accountable, they are through. Their whole
program is derailed, and many principals will indeed wind up in jail.
Why
Ash Carter, Clapper and Brennan tried to get NSA's Mike Rogers fired. According to a November 19, 2016 Washington
Post report, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tried to get NSA director Admiral
Mike Rogers fired. In a deliberately leaked memo, "senior officials" attacked Rogers' abilities, questioned his leadership,
and otherwise tainted his record.
Multiple
fingers pointing at alleged leaker of plans for ICE raids today. The chronic problem of sabotage by bureaucrats
hostile to the outsider president shaking up the Deep State will never be solved until unmasking and punishment become the
order of the day. That's why it is so heartening that with unusual swiftness, accusations are pointing to the alleged
identity of a leaker who successfully delayed implementation of a key Trump policy initiative, the planned ICE raids on
illegal alien scofflaws who have defied court orders for theior deportation. This exercise will — if the
allegations are sustained by evidence — help establish a norm of exposing the rat finks that could discourage
future saboteurs.
Tom
Homan Identifies Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan as Deep State Leaker, Trying to Undermine President Trump. Today
[6/22/2019], Mr. Homan seemed to clearly identify Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan as the person working against the interests
of the President; leaking information to impede the immigration policy of President Trump; and likely the reason why Homan would only
consider entering back into the administration if the process was changed to allow him to work around a corrupt Acting DHS Secretary,
McAleenan. Suffice to day, after this interview Tom Homan and Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan will likely never work together.
Fired
up Tom Homan accuses DHS chief of 'resisting' ICE, leaking raids to media. Former Acting ICE Director Thomas
Homan unleashed a blistering attack against a government official he believes leaked information about impending mass raids
to the media. The Fox News contributor blasted Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan during an appearance
on "Fox & Friends" Saturday [6/22/2019], accusing him of "resisting" ICE and slamming the leaks that put the lives of agents
at risk.
Emails
Show Obama State Department's Role in Anti-Trump Coup Cabal. John Kerry, President Obama's secretary of state,
seems to be having trouble staying within the legal bounds of the Logan Act, so it's not surprising that his State Department
lieutenants were getting their hands dirty in the conspiracy to bring down Donald Trump. Judicial Watch now has received
more evidence of this anti-Trump conspiracy. With The Daily Caller News Foundation, they just released 16 pages of
documents revealing senior State Obama officials — Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Special
Coordinator for Libya Jonathan Winer — coordinated with incoming House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer's (D-MD) national
security advisor, Daniel Silverberg, to work on Russia dossier information provided by Christopher Steele.
Get
ready for the biggest 'skating' event of all time. No, it's not the traditional ice skating performed by elite
athletes on Olympic and NHL ice; it's the political skating performed by seasoned Deep State operatives on the thin ice of
lawless criminal corruption. Whether you're aware of it or not the big event has already begun. It's the
"spygate" investigation into how Donald Trump, a legitimate presidential candidate and duly elected president, was targeted
by deep state political operatives in an attempt to sabotage his candidacy and then over-turn his election as President of
the United States. The participants in the big event will include numerous elite skaters from within the Deep State;
headlined by top-seeded entrants from the elected and appointed political arena to the intelligence and law enforcement
communities.
Only
with Real Transparency Will the FBI Ever Be Trusted Again. When Donald Trump told George Stephanopoulos he
(Donald) might listen to "oppo" research coming from a foreign source and that he might not tell the FBI about it, the
mainstream media, as is so often the case, deliberately missed or misstated what he meant, went into one of their usual hissy
fits, and attacked the president, even calling him treasonous. Besides the obvious hypocrisy, pointed out with
characteristic aplomb by Andrew McCarthy, something else, likely more important, was at play. The media (and the
Democrats, of course) deliberately missed the point because you would have to be seriously intellectually challenged
not to get why Trump might have been hesitant or ambivalent about going to the FBI.
The CIA Is Running Scared.
Last Wednesday [6/12/2019] the intelligence community launched its first attack on Attorney General William Barr's
investigation into its illegal acts and abuses of power during the 2016 election. In a New York Times article
entitled "Justice Department Seeks to Question CIA in its Own Russia Investigation," the IC makes clear its fear of the
results of Barr's investigation of their spy operation on candidate Trump in 2016 that continued through his early
presidency. The article, obviously written at the behest of its intelligence community sources — "current
and former American officials" — is the first of many concerted attacks on Attorney General William Barr's
investigation of the joint CIA/FBI spy operation. Many other articles, based on carefully crafted leaks to the media
and Congress, are sure to follow because current and former high-ranking officials of those agencies (and probably the NSA
as well) have a lot to lose.
Rand
Paul: Deep State Ignored Order to Pull John Brennan's Security Clearance. Appearing Tuesday [6/4/2019] on
CNN, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed the intelligence community over a recent report claiming it defied an order from
President Donald Trump to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.
Deep
State: First, the attempted coup. Now, the political prisoner. What we are all looking at is how
criminal Deep State is, demonstrating how it can use the levers of power to turn a first-world country into a banana
republic. We aren't seeing normal things from these people, we are seeing some incredible abuses of power.
Manafort was convicted earlier and is doing time in Pennsylvania for white collar crimes around taxable income and foreign
agent registration. These are crimes few are ever prosecuted for, but they were real enough. Now he's a wedge
player in a new and very dirty deep-state political game.
Deep
State and Democrats Are Terrified of Doddering "Figurehead" Mueller Testifying — He's Unable to Answer Material
Questions. Mueller cannot get in front of a Congressional panel to address questions about his Mueller
report. Deep State won't let him. It would be devastating to their coup. "Placeholder" Mueller does not
know all that happened under his watch. For two years the Mueller special counsel was investigating the President of
the United States. The Democrats and their Deep State cheered him on. Numerous corrupt and criminal events took
place. The last thing that the Democrats now want is for him to testify in public about his bogus, dishonest and
one-sided report.
Lawsuit
Exposes How the Media and Deep State Hatched the Russiagate Hoax. [Scroll down] If the media repeats the
false narrative often enough, it becomes the conventional wisdom — it becomes the media's truth —
whether it is the press pushing the Russia collusion conspiracy with reports of the Steele's dossier, Carter Page's supposed
spying-inducing behavior, George Papadopoulos' purported inside knowledge of the WikiLeaks hack, the Trump Tower meeting, or
stories that Trump's team softened the Republican National Convention's platform on Russia. The stories began with
innuendo wrapped in unrelated facts, leaks from unnamed sources seemingly verified elements of the tale, and a complicit
media then wove the strands into a growing Russia collusion narrative. Unraveling that truth, though, is time consuming
and requires a depth of details that few Americans care to have.
Deep
State: The collusion between the FBI and Mainstream Media that everyone stopped talking about. The Office
of Inspector General's report on the FBI and Justice Department's handling and mishandling of the investigation of former
secretary of state Hillary Clinton's use of an unauthorized, non-secure email server to conduct secret government business as
Secretary of State revealed real and damning information on the mainstream media and their tight relationship with the
deepest members of the deep state. But for some reason this story has just disappeared into the ether. And with
all this talk of collusion you'd think this would be a hot topic. While the FBI was leaking classified information,
reporters were funneling bribes back to the leakers in the form of tickets to sporting events, golf outings, dinners, drinks,
invites to private exclusive parties and more.
Two-Tiered
Justice and Professional Escape Artists. First, if you remember when the 568 page IG report on FBI/DOJ conduct
was delivered in June 2018, you might remember how the 'executive summary and conclusions' were disconnected from the main body of
evidence within the report. In 2018 CTH warned this "disconnect" was by design; essentially the corrupt officials were laying
down a defense for any conduct, later outlined, that is connected to the body of the IG review. When IG Horowitz announced
last year he could find no evidence of actions taken as a result of political bias by FBI and DOJ officials; he also stated he
could not rule out bias within their investigation.
OIG
Finds Preponderance of Evidence Against FBI Deputy Asst. Director — DOJ Refuses to Prosecute.
Citing the ongoing internal investigation of FBI leaks to media, from the 2018 OIG report on FBI conduct, today [5/29/2019]
the Office of Inspector General outlined a preponderance of evidence against a corrupt FBI Deputy Asst. Director.
However, the DOJ is refusing to prosecute. [...] The most alarming aspect is the OIG finding of the Deputy Asst.
Director leaking grand jury information to the media, and yet the DOJ is declining to prosecute. Incredibly, the
inspector general (IG) indicated, without explanation, that "prosecution of the DAD [deputy assistant director] was
declined." Instead, the investigation's findings will be referred to the FBI for "appropriate action".
When
Barack Obama declared war on Donald Trump. The latest round of navel-gazing is the effort to name what has
happened to President Donald Trump. It is a hoax or is it a coup, and when did it start? I am a 2003 graduate of
the Naval War College. We studied "war." What happened to Donald Trump was an act of war. [...] President
Barack Obama marshaled secret government resources across the intelligence and law enforcement communities and declared war
on the civilian Donald Trump. "Hoax" suggests a humorous or malicious deception. "Coup" suggests a sudden,
violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. President Obama's actions were neither humorous nor malicious
but were an egregious abuse of power of the Executive. To say that what happened to President Trump was a
coup d'état, an overthrow or a type of revolution, or an illegal and overt seizure by the military or
other elites within the state apparatus, isn't adequate, either. President Trump's enemies declared war on him for one
reason and one reason only: vindictiveness. Vengeance.
Mike
Morrell, the CIA and the international house of Trump Russia collusion. President Donald Trump telegraphed to
the American people that Attorney General William Barr's investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion hoax is going
international. The first hint that something of an alliance existed between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
and the international reach of the Deep State was provided by Michael Morell. Morell has served as both acting and
deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2010-2013).
The
Deep State Wants Joe Biden to Win in 2020. Call it a hunch, but it looks like the intel agencies won't be
targeting Biden's 2020 campaign for surveillance and sabotage like they did to Donald Trump in 2016.
'A
Hard Rain's Gonna Fall' on Obama's Bad Cops and Spies. The skies are growing dark and increasingly ominous for
dirty officials at the top of Obama-era law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Leading the "I'm really worried"
list are James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Loretta Lynch, and their senior aides, all political appointees.
They expected Hillary Clinton to win in 2016 and bury any traces of malfeasance, just as they had buried hers. It
didn't work out that way. Now they need protection themselves. House Democrats and anonymous leakers are busy
providing it.
Congressman
Adam Schiff Is Getting Very Nervous These Days. He spent nearly two years claiming he had "irrefutable
evidence" of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. He then went on to make calls for impeachment (without
any evidence to support such a thing) and take money from voters who believed his increasingly wild promises of "taking down
Trump." These days Congressman Schiff is sounding a bit different, though, and a LOT more nervous.
Donald
Trump makes good on a promise but Dems cry 'coverup'. The president is going nuclear. Democrats who
thought control of the House gave them control of the agenda now will face stiff competition. Their expressions of
outrage will seem tired next to the sensational revelations about the actions of Jim Comey, John Brennan and others.
Based on what we already know, it is highly likely those revelations will prove the [Obama] White House, FBI and CIA engineered
the greatest scandal in American political history by unjustified spying on Trump and by trying to tip the election to Hillary
Clinton. Predictably, Dems are furious at Trump's decision, with many on the left launching personal attacks on Barr.
He's not getting Brett Kavanaugh-level smears yet, but give them time.
The
Declassification Directive Gives Pelosi, Schumer and Small Group Few Options. When President Trump announced
the futility of attempting an infrastructure bill with Pelosi and Schumer as they simultaneously tried to impeach him, the
president certainly knew he was going to issue a declassification memo within hours. The declassification directive to
AG Bill Barr creates a dynamic ensuring Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will align with the former intelligence officials and
further attack the offices of the President and Attorney General; they have few options. Those who participated in the
creation of Russia-Gate or Spy-Gate have few options except to manufacture a narrative shield and accuse the President of
unethical, immoral and criminal conduct.
Trump-Russia:
The Knives Are Out. Now that the Russia collusion allegations have evaporated, the long knives are out and
President Trump's antagonists are watching their backs. They have moved from accusing him of treason to pushing
revisionist narratives that try to shift the blame for the debunked probe onto others. This effort is expected to
accelerate following Trump's decision Thursday to empower Attorney General William Barr to declassify CIA, Pentagon, and
Director of National Intelligence documents as necessary to access "information or intelligence that relates to the attorney
general's review" of the Russia probe. In other words, he's gaining the authority needed to investigate the
investigators.
Declassification
and Cognitive Dissonance in the Media. When Nancy Pelosi decided to appease the impeachment hawks in her caucus
by accusing President Trump of engaging in a cover-up, the media responded with undisguised glee. The New York
Times, for example, ran a story that essentially congratulated the House Speaker for publicly goading the man.
Trump responded by giving them transparency good and hard. He not only instructed the various intelligence agencies to
assist Attorney General William Barr with his inquiry into the inception of the Russia investigation, but gave Barr authority
to declassify related intelligence material. Oddly, the media have suddenly lost their enthusiasm for transparency.
John
Brennan's prized Russia informant abruptly said to be imperiled by Barr's new power. The need for secrecy was
so great that CIA Director John Brennan hand-delivered information from a critical informant close to Russian President
Vladimir Putin in an envelope to President Barack Obama in August 2016. Now, one day after President Trump gave
Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal
investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, the New York Times reports this source is in jeopardy.
Sara
Carter discusses declassified docs, what she believes will be most damaging, and who should be worried. Shortly
after President Donald Trump granted Attorney General Bill "full and complete authority" Thursday evening [5/23/2019] to
declassify any and all documents tied to the Russia probe, investigative reporter Sara Carter provided a handy list of what
all the public should expect to soon see. Speaking on FNC's "Hannity" with guest host Dan Bongino, she specifically
listed what she believes will be the most damaging pieces of information to be unveiled in the declassified documents.
No,
Nancy. It's the Dems Who Are Engaged in a 'Cover-Up'. At this moment, since we know there was no Russia
collusion, the big "cover-up" is the provenance of the Mueller investigation itself. And some of that, at least, is
about to be revealed, as the Democrats are no doubt aware. [President] Trump called this investigation a "witch hunt,"
but that appears to have been an understatement. It was a "treasonous coup plot" — unprecedented in American
history — with many of the secret conspirators beginning to be known to those interested (Stefan Halper, Joseph
Mifsud, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec). Doubtless, additional names are to come, adding to the more
public ones already fired or conveniently laid off by the FBI and DOJ. (Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, James
Baker, James Comey, etc. As of August 2018, 25 were fired or "resigned." Not sure of the number now.)
Will
the Deep State Conspirators Ever Be Held Accountable? Democrats and their complicit media wildly overpromised
on how damaging the Mueller report would be to President Trump. They paid a huge price when Mueller did not deliver.
Collusion diehards like Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler look delusional with their ongoing search for something that never
existed. The Deep State coup attempt stands busted cold, its perpetrators caught red-handed in unbelievable and
un-American actions aimed at covering up Hillary Clinton's inarguable illegalities and overturning an election whose
result they could not abide. For Trumpservatives the schadenfreude was sweet. But now, those vindicated
supporters of the president must caution against being overpromised to themselves. To what extent, if any, will
Russia-Gate actors like Lynch, Simpson, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Strzok, Page and the rest be held accountable for their
alleged criminality?
Patriot
Act enabled Russia collusion hoax and further Deep State treachery. In October of 2001, and following 9/11,
President George W. Bush told the nation that the Patriot Act would "give intelligence and law enforcement officials
important new tools to fight a present danger." It was assumed — foolishly — that the threat was
from terrorism. But when and as reauthorized, the Patriot Act during the administration of President Barack Obama,
Obama claimed that tweaks to the act would allow US law enforcement to better target homegrown "lone wolves." Again, the
assumption — a foolish one — assumed that the targets would largely be self-motivated terrorists.
Terrorists like Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. But leave it to official Washington to stretch
any legal definitions beyond their original, intended scope.
MAGA
vs. the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The general public typically equates the Chamber of Commerce with local Mom
and Pop businesses in their area which meet for networking and mutual support in local chapters across the country.
This is erroneous. According to the Hill: ["]While local chambers cater to the needs of car dealers
and restaurant owners, the national Chamber operates as the lobbying arm of large corporations that have never met a big
government program they did not like. They are weapons dealers pushing billion-dollar battleships and telecommunication
lobbyists protecting slow Internet at the world's highest prices. They are lobbyists for pharmaceutical companies, big
banks, and Wall street traders who treat the American people as gullibles to be fleeced without mercy.["]
Mueller's
Copperhead Bill of Attainder. On the one hand, the second part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report reads
like a brief opposing presidential powers in a separation of powers dispute. But even more, it reads like a
justification for a bill of attainder or an ex post facto law — two forbidden forms of
legislation in the Constitution (Article I, Section 9, clause 3; and Section 10, clause 1).
Such constitutionally prohibited laws are designed and targeted to punish individuals (in this case President Donald J.
Trump) and are not general statements about the rule of law. A Congress devoted to identity politics, or politics about
personal traits, can only fashion laws that make personal attacks on people. Thus, as a defender of the Constitution,
Attorney General Bill Barr should dismiss part two of Mueller's report like dicta (unsupported viewpoints) in a Supreme Court
opinion, or a bizarre brief concocted in a stupor — as Barr evidently has done.
Trump,
Pareto, and the Fall of the Elites. Under the old elite, universities have become overfinanced monsters,
exploiting students whose futures are mortgaged by student debt. This outrage is allowed to continue because the
universities brainwash youth to support the old ruling class and because the universities provide intellectual support for
the policies of the old ruling class. Under the old ruling class, the government has become heavily populated by
time-servers whose continued employment would become unnecessary under a Trump-inspired reorganization of the
government. Change is a clear and present danger to those in charge. That is what is behind the fierce and
illegal attacks against Trump.
FBI
refuses to reveal if Daniel Jones' research on Trump exists. The FBI has turned down a request from The
Washington Times to disclose whether it has received any opposition research from Daniel J. Jones, the former Senate
Democratic staffer who raised $50 million to investigate President Trump. Mr. Jones has spread the discredited
Alfa Bank server conspiracy, which says Russia's largest commercial bank supposedly had a direct link to the Trump campaign
via a computer network. The FBI said The Times' request under the Freedom of Information Act has been closed. The
action should not be construed as acknowledging that the material does or doesn't exist, the bureau said in an April 25 letter.
Mueller
prosecutor: FBI began obstruction case before special counsel appointment. The FBI began its obstruction
of justice case against President Trump before the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, newly unsealed court
documents show. In a January 2018 hearing, a prosecutor on Mueller's team revealed the obstruction inquiry was prompted
by memos written by former FBI Director James Comey that contained notes from his one-on-one meetings with Trump.
Gohmert
sounds the alarm: 'Attempted coup' culprits must be held accountable, or we won't 'last much longer'.
Rep. Louie Gohmert ripped the "attempted coup" against President Donald Trump and warned that "we're not going to last
much longer" if those behind it don't go to jail. The fiery Texas Republican blasted the Robert Mueller report and
doubled down on previous criticisms he has leveled against the special counsel's investigation of now-disproved Russian
collusion with the Trump campaign in the 2016 election, telling Fox Business News host Lou Dobbs it "goes beyond the pale."
Was
Sergey Kislyak Part of the Russian Collusion Hoax? If the Trump-Russia election collusion hoax was a movie,
Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak would have a starring role. From Attorney General Jeff Sessions' fateful recusal to
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's resignation to the aftermath of FBI Director James Comey's firing, the former
Russian diplomat made more than just a few consequential appearances. The question is, were these incidental cameos or
was Kislyak following a script written for him by the collusion fraudsters? As Senate Republicans threaten to excavate
the origins of the corrupt investigation into Donald Trump's presidential campaign, they might want to take a closer look at
how Kislyak helped shape the bogus Russian collusion plotline.
Is
A Major Real Scandal About To Break Soon? The whole "Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress" was essentially a
sub-hoax perpetuated by Buzzfeed. Despite Cohen's sensational testimony before Congress in an effort to
ingratiate himself to prosecutors, we found out that even this "bombshell" was nothing. Taken altogether, what we know
is that the entire Russian collusion story was nothing but a huge hoax foisted upon the American public, but one we should
all be worried about. What has become increasingly clear is that there was a story developed by a strange incestuous
group involving the media, the Clinton campaign, deep state Obama bureaucrats and the DNC to derail the Trump administration.
How
The George Papadopoulos Story Was Manufactured To Justify A Hoax Investigation. As I never tire of saying, I
think the entire story that a conversation over wine between Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and former
Australian diplomat and alleged British intelligence asset Alexander Downer is such transparent [nonsense] that it shows just
how stupid the FBI and Mueller thinks the nation is. The story is wildly implausible on its face and the fact that
nothing in the story turned out to be true makes it, and the motives of the FBI, even more suspect. Today [5/6/2019],
NRO's Andy McCarthy goes through the Papadopoulos story with a fine-toothed comb and what he finds makes the whole premise of
the Papadopoulos story looked [...] silly.
When
Will Trump Finally Drop the Hammer on the Deep State? This country needs to get to the bottom of how this
nightmare all started. We have to find out who was responsible for putting these corrupt wheels of injustice into full
motion. If it leads all the way to the top and Barack Obama, so be it. What did Obama know and when did President
Obama know it? And if he did know, to what extent was he involved? All those who participated in this malfeasance
must now be held fully accountable. If these deep state actors are found guilty, then all of these people must be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This is no game; President Trump has basically been robbed of the first two
years of his presidency by the corrupt people in Washington and their leftist pawns in the media. This must not stand;
these corrupt politicians must not be allowed to run out the clock.
Shipp:
Coup Against Trump Is "Biggest Violation Of Constitution In History". President Trump says the Deep State tried
and failed to remove him from office in a coup. Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says the attempted
coup on Trump was a global conspiracy. Shipp explains, "Yes, this is a coup. This is the most shocking violation
of the Constitution and criminal activity in the history, not just of America, but of a western government..." [Video clip]
Listen to Joe diGenova.
If diGenova's track record holds, a legal rain of ruin is about to befall the deep state operatives who tried to steal the
2016 election and, failing that, to unwind the result. And if, in fact, the enormous surveillance powers of our
intelligence agencies were usurped by the Obama administration to spy for years before the election on the opposing political
party, then the implications go far beyond just one election and one presidential candidate. If that happened, then
there can be no doubt that, when candidate Obama promised to "fundamentally transform America," he really meant it. If
Obama's "fundamental transformation" involved not only the atrocious harassment and intimidation of the Tea Party patriots by
his Internal Revenue Service, but also included surveillance state spying on the Republican Party generally, there must be no
question about whether the deep state actors should be punished for their actions.
Listen
Carefully — Senator Lindsey Graham Outlines Deep State Exit. Pay close attention to this interview
and note how Senator Graham supports that narrative saying: "the Russians hacked into John Podesta's e-mails, the campaign
manager for the Democratic candidate for President. The Russians hacked into Hillary Clinton's e-mails, the candidate
for the Democratic Party." This 'Russia-hacking narrative' is the DC 'chaff and countermeasures'; when combined
with their 'by-the-book' justifications, it becomes their unified defense. Once you accept their baseline, it
becomes much more difficult to expose their unlawful conduct. [Video clip]
Trump Opponents Never Tire
of Losing. For well over three years, Donald Trump has been under attack. He has been subjected to
unprecedented slander by the media, dirty tricks by the Democrats, legally dubious investigations, and sabotage by the
deep state. Yet he is not only still standing, he has a record of accomplishments that any president would be
happy to claim after two years in office. One would think his opponents would be able to divine a message from
this. To wit, their time might be better spent working on behalf of the voters rather than launching further
futile attempts to bring Trump down.
John Podesta 2015 Email
Reveals Plot to "Slaughter Trump" by Linking Him to Putin and Russia. Of course, there was never anything there
between Trump and Russia. Russia was the furthest thing from the Trump campaign. But, as Jimmy Dore explains,
Hillary Clinton knew her biggest vulnerability was the fact that she sold off one-fifth of US uranium to the Russians for a
few hundred million and a half-million dollar speech to Bill Clinton from Putin. So John Podesta devised the lie to
project on Trump that he was the candidate colluding with Russia. It was all initiated by the Clinton inner circle.
Joe
di Genova explains where the Russia Hoax is headed. Throughout the unfolding of the Russia hoax, nobody has
topped the clarity provided by DC superlawyer and former US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Joseph DiGenova. In
his television and radio appearances, he has not minced words about the nature of the illegal coup underway, and has not
hesitated to name names. Undoubtedly, he has sources within the DC legal community that, combined with his experience
as the top federal prosecutor among US Attorneys, give him a bird's eye view of where this scandal — the biggest
political scandal in history — is heading.
Victor
Davis Hanson: "It was a coup attempt to destroy the presidency...". Last week as the Mueller Report was
about to drop, Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution and the National Review Institute was interviewed by The Epoch
Times as part of their American Thought Leaders series. He offered his thoughts on the Mueller investigation, the Trump
presidency, and much more. Hanson takes us back to the earliest whispers of Russia and walks us through the maddening
series of attempts to prevent Trump from becoming president, even after he won the election. You may have forgotten
some of the crazier details, such as the effort to get copies of the Steele dossier to members of the Electoral College.
Hanson has forgotten nothing, and his analysis cuts like a knife despite his cool demeanor. [Video clip]
U.S.
Intelligence [Agencies are] Institutionally Politicized Toward Democrats. The CIA and other U.S. intelligence
agencies have become bastions of political liberals and the pro-Democratic Party views of intelligence personnel have
increased under President Donald Trump, according to a journal article by a former CIA analyst. John Gentry, who spent
12 years as a CIA analyst, criticized former senior intelligence leaders, including CIA Director John Brenan, Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper, and former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, along with former analyst Paul Pillar,
for breaking decades-long prohibitions of publicly airing their liberal political views in attacking Trump.
U.S.
Intelligence Institutionally Politicized Toward Democrats. The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have
become bastions of political liberals and the pro-Democratic Party views of intelligence personnel have increased under
President Donald Trump, according to a journal article by a former CIA analyst. John Gentry, who spent 12 years as a
CIA analyst, criticized former senior intelligence leaders, including CIA Director John Brenan, Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper, and former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, along with former analyst Paul Pillar, for
breaking decades-long prohibitions of publicly airing their liberal political views in attacking Trump. The
institutional bias outlined in a lengthy article in the quarterly International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence risks undermining the role of intelligence in support of government leaders charged with making
policy decisions.
Justice Is Coming.
Let me make this clear: President Donald John Trump is not answerable to the FBI. The FBI is answerable to him.
It is not an independent agency but rather a government bureaucracy under command of the nation's chief executive. He
in turn is accountable to Congress and the America people.
President
Trump Has It Right, He Was The Target Of A Coup Attempt. [I]t is hard to draw many conclusions from what we now
know about the Mueller investigation and not see it as a tool that was created by James Comey for the express purpose of
causing the impeachment or resignation of President Trump. Whether there was someone calling the shots behind the
scenes, or whether the antipathy towards Trump was so great in the senior ranks of Obama loyalists and fanbois that a lot
of people acted toward a common purpose, there is no doubt that the Trump campaign was targeted for surveillance and
infiltration by the FBI and by, seemingly, foreign intelligence services who were, presumably, working in some way in
cooperation with the CIA.
Obama
State Dept Conspiracy Against Trump? Victoria Nuland, President Obama's assistant secretary of state for
European and Eurasian Affairs from September 2013 until January 2017, has been linked to the notorious anti-Trump dossier
fabricated by Hillary Clinton's opposition research firm. The author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, reportedly had
developed long-standing relationships with senior State Department officials, including Nuland. "Between 2014 and 2016,
Steele authored more than a hundred reports on Russia and Ukraine. These were written for a private client but shared
widely within the State Department and sent up to Secretary of State John Kerry and to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria
Nuland, who was in charge of the U.S. response to the Ukraine crisis."
Obama
judge blocks Trump from keeping illegals in Mexico. Democrat obstruction of the presidency continues as
Obama-appointee Judge Richard Seeborg sided with a liberal group in stopping President Donald John Trump from executing his
constitutional duty as commander in chief. Seeborg is the same obstructionist judge who earlier blocked the Trump
administration from restoring the citizenship question on the census that Obama had unilaterally removed in the 2010
Census. That unconstitutional decision is on appeal.
All the Progressive
Plotters. No reporter seems to care that Hillary Clinton hired a foreign national to work with other foreign
nationals to sabotage, first, her opponent's campaign, then his transition and his presidency, along with the wink and nod
help from key Obama officials at the Department of Justice, State Department, National Security Council, FBI and CIA.
The final irony? If the CIA, FBI, and DOJ have gone the banana republic way of Lois Lerner's IRS and shredded the
Constitution, they still failed to remove Donald Trump.
Diana
West Discusses The Red Thread: Why Did The Administrative State Target Donald Trump? Diana West discusses
her new book "The Red Thread" with Stefan Molyneux in a recent interview. Mrs West asks why the conspiracy against
President Trump took place; and she is one of the few people openly challenging the false narrative about Russia intefering
in the 2016 election. This is a great interview to watch: [Video clip]
The
Full Story of How Obama, Hillary and Brennan Carried Out The Crime of the Century. This is the information the
Establishment Media has been working very hard to ignore in order to keep enough Americans ignorant so as to avoid justified
marching in the streets of D.C. And know that this isn't the first time the Deep State has directly attempted to
manipulate an election outcome. It's just that this time because President Trump fights so hard, refuses to give up,
and his tens of millions of supporters stand by him, that the Deep State was caught in the act.
Devin
Nunes Op-Ed Reflects Intelligence Dance to Thread a Needle. By now everyone knows there were two parallel
operations, two investigative paths, at work in the 2016 election. There was an official government investigation,
Crossfire Hurricane via the FBI; and an unofficial investigation, dossier assembly via Chris Steele and Fusion GPS.
Both operations originated in synergy with the vast Russian conspiracy narrative. One operation was a function of
elements outside the traditional framework of government via Fusion GPS. The second operation was specifically happening
inside government spurred by CIA Director John Brennan and with the delivery of his "EC" officially creating the Crossfire
Hurricane counterintelligence investigation.
Team
Mueller and the Predictable "Leak Campaign" — But The Much Bigger Issue is the 40 FBI Agents. Sure,
we didn't expect the Mueller team to beg forgiveness for conducting the most ridiculous investigation in modern history;
however, I also didn't expect them to be so honest about the motives. In their own words, they are now admitting: it's
all about politics and maximum political benefit. Despite the proclaimed reason for the investigation, the greatest
concern amid the Mueller team is not whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election; but rather who gets to shape the
political narrative that comes after three years of weaponized intelligence ops.
Behind
and beyond the Mueller Investigation. Had Hillary Clinton done what she was supposed to do and won the 2016 presidential
election, the American people would never have known about the "dossier," the FISA court, Christopher Steele, or Carter Page.
Hillary and Hillary alone had to win, but she didn't, and so a true conspiracy to overthrow a duly elected President of The United
States commenced. By deciding to take part in the coup attempt, senior members in the FBI and DoJ risked going to prison for
up to 20 years according to 18 U.S. Code § 2385 — advocating the overthrow of government. But
not even a deep hatred for Trump would have been enough incentive for them to consider such a thing. [...] It wasn't about who Trump
was — it was all about what Trump promised. It was about the survivability of the swamp.
Mark
Levin Interviews John Solomon and Sara Carter. Journalists Sara Carter and John Solomon sit down for a lengthy
discussion of the multi-year weaponization of the DOJ, FBI and intelligence apparatus to target Donald Trump and his administration.
This is the biggest political scandal of our lifetime. [Video clip] The conspiracy to stop, undermine and overthrow the
presidency of Donald Trump is also the greatest opportunity in modern political history to confront corruption within the U.S. federal
government. There can be no 'moving on' until every measure is taken to hold these participants accountable for their unlawful and
unconstitutional effort.
Obama
Judge Decrees That Obama's Decisions Are Permanent and President Trump Can't Change Them. In the late December
2016, just a few weeks before his term of maladministration and race-baiting ended, Barack Obama decided to take one more
shot at the country he despised above all others. By executive order, he banned drilling in large swaths of the
Arctic. This had been done by past presidents, but always with a time lime. Obama, being the Lightworker, desired
his decisions to have immortality and he banned drilling in perpetuity. Shortly after he was sworn in, President Trump
issued an executive order overturning Obama's executive order an opening the Arctic to exploration and drilling. The
enviro-nazis sued and yesterday an Obama-appointed judge in Alaska handed down a surprising, yet unsurprising, decision that
because Obama had intended for his ban to last forever, it could not be changed by any other president, but only by act of
Congress.
Robert
Mueller used triangulation to promote and protect the Deep State. As special counsel, Robert Mueller became an
integral part of the ongoing Deep-State insurance policy to destroy and eventually impeach and unseat President Trump and
provide cover for Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration, and Deep-State operatives in the FBI and DOJ. What's shocking
is that Mueller operated under a cloak of secrecy and protection provided by our own government. A major part of
Mueller's objective appears to have been dragging out the Russia collusion investigation long enough to affect the 2018
elections in hopes of helping Democrats take control of either the House or the Senate or both. Mission accomplished.
The vast attempt to undo the 2016 election
has failed. John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Sally Yates, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, John
McCain, Christopher Steele, Glenn Simpson, and others did their best to undo the results of the 2016 election. The
Mueller investigation was their not-so-secret weapon upon which vast hopes rested. It has, unfortunately for them, been
increasingly clear for some time that Robert Mueller was coming up empty-handed, at least on the main task, which was to
unseat the President.
Dossier-Tied
Firm Pitches Reporters Daily on 'Collusion'. Key Democratic operatives and private investigators who tried to
derail Donald Trump's campaign by claiming he was a tool of the Kremlin have rebooted their operation since his election with
a multimillion-dollar stealth campaign to persuade major media outlets and lawmakers that the president should be
impeached. The effort has successfully placed a series of questionable stories alleging secret back channels and
meetings between Trump associates and Russian spies, while influencing related investigations and reports from Congress.
Someone
in State Department likely involved in bid to take down Trump: Herridge. Fox News' chief intelligence
correspondent Catherine Herridge believes a claim by Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows of a coordinated effort
to hurt President Trump — including "sitting ambassadors," the FBI and the Department of Justice — also
likely involves someone in the State Department. "I think the congressman is referring to someone within the State
Department based on my reporting," Herridge said Tuesday [3/19/2019] on Fox News Radio's "Brian Kilmeade Show." "Because
we have a pretty good sense now from these transcripts that have been revealed and then also records that were unsealed at
the end last week in the defamation suit with BuzzFeed that ... the government network was being pulsed with the dossier in
the final months of the campaign and then during the transition period. And that it was coming at the FBI and Justice
Department through many different lanes or many different avenues, and the objective was to lend it credibility."
Mark
Meadows: There Are Sitting Ambassadors Who Were Involved with Deep State Coup to Get Trump. On Monday
night Rep. Mark Meadows, reporter Sara Carter and FOX News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett joined Sean Hannity to discuss
the latest developments in the deep state coup of Donald Trump. Once again, Sean Hannity assured his audience that
criminal referrals are coming soon for the deep state operatives who worked overtime to criminally remove President Trump
from office. [...] Then Rep. Mark Meadows dropped this bomb on the Deep State — Sitting ambassadors were
involved in the coup to get Trump.
Graham:
Need A Special Counsel To Investigate "Potential Crimes" By Department of Justice, FBI. Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-SC) told FNC's Sean Hannity Wednesday night [3/13/2019] that the Department of Justice must answer two
questions: Did they stop the Clinton investigation because they wanted her to win? Did they start the Russian
investigation against Trump as an insurance policy in case he won? Graham also called for a special counsel to
investigate "potential crimes" committed by officials in the Department of Justice, especially the FBI.
Revelations
In The Deep State's War Against Trump Are Becoming Too Big For Them To Hide. The abuse of power by officials at
the top levels of the Department of Justice, including Obama's Attorney General Loretta Lynch, became clearer than ever due
to Rep. Doug Collins' (R-GA) release of transcripts from the 2018 Bruce Ohr and Lisa Page hearings in the last
week. Their testimonies both corroborated many of Devin Nunes' previous findings and provided new information. In
addition, Fox News obtained a copy of an internal FBI chart with a written comment next to the section of the statute which
most closely applied to Hillary Clinton which said: "Note: DOJ not willing to charge this."
18 Real Attacks
on the 'Rule of Law'. [#5] The Sally Yates insurrection: Shortly after President Trump assumed office, he
issued an executive order citing his power under the Immigration and Nationality Act to place a travel moratorium on
immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. Sally Yates, the Obama-era holdover who temporarily served as acting
attorney general, oversaw a vetting of this executive order and the Department of Justice issued a legal opinion confirming
the order was legal and proper. Nevertheless, Yates used her authority to instruct the Department of Justice to defy
the president. She clearly violated the president's authority under Article II of the Constitution as the chief
executive by refusing to carry out an order she acknowledged was legal. Unfortunately, this appears to have set the
tone for the Justice Department's continued resistance to the president ever since.
Fake
Hate, Fake Collusion: All in the Name of Destroying the Trump Presidency. In more ways than one, hate
crime hoaxer Jussie Smollet is far from alone. He's simply the latest in a long line of unhinged leftists with evil
intent bent on destroying Donald Trump's presidency. Be it fake hate or fake collusion, for nearly three years now,
Donald Trump has been the target of an unprecedented campaign meant to end his candidacy and his presidency. After the
recent revelations of former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, there should now be no doubt as to the existence of a
nefarious "Deep State." As revealed by McCabe himself in his soon to be published book, in May of 2017, angered by
President Trump's firing of his boss, then-FBI director James Comey, McCabe, and his like-minded cronies at the FBI and the
Justice Department foolishly plotted as to how they might invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the duly elected president
from office.
The
25th Amendment Talk Isn't The Real Scandal. The Spygate Coup Attempt Is. The true scandal is not the
swirling gossip that Rosenstein mentioned the 25th Amendment, but what has been front and center for more than two
years: It's the dossier, stupid! It's the dossier, its funding, its creation, and its use. It's the leaks,
the sabotage by political appointees and career DOJ and FBI agents, the media's complicity, and the triggering of a special
counsel, all with the end goal of removing the duly elected president by pressuring Trump to resign or face
impeachment. While we may never learn the full scope of this sting, what is known makes "Spygate" — for want
of a better term — the worst political scandal in American history: A dossier funded by the Democratic
National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, and authored by a former British spy (Christopher Steele, who despised
Trump), falsely claimed Trump and individuals connected to his presidential campaign conspired with Russia. The dossier
was shopped to multiple media outlets and passed off to the Obama administration's DOJ, FBI, and State Department, as well as
several members of Congress and their staffers.
Deplorable
McCabe Enabled by Dormant Pelley Brings '60 Minutes' and America to New Low. McCabe discusses his meeting with
Rod Rosenstein from the Justice Department and the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to take Trump out of
office. The fact that these two men would be discussing the 25th Amendment with so little knowledge of what the
language states are criteria for removing a president from office stupefies any knowledgeable person. McCabe says he
did not have much to contribute when Rosenstein brought it up. What he should have contributed was reporting this to
his superiors in the White House as a potential coup d'état. By not doing so McCabe became a
co-conspirator.
Confirmed:
John Fry, the IRS Analyst Who Leaked Michael Cohen's Tax Returns, is a Far Left Trump-Basher Who Supports Beto
O'Rourke. John Fry, an IRS Analyst was arrested this past week for releasing former Trump attorney Michael
Cohen's tax returns to creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti. Although Fry's social media accounts were suspended, what
was found wasn't surprising. CNN reported that Fry was charged by the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of
California with unauthorized disclosure of a suspicious activity report, or SAR. Banks file SARs on any transactions
that could be illegal.
IRS
analyst charged with leaking Michael Cohen bank records. A U.S. Internal Revenue Service analyst in San
Francisco has been charged in federal court with leaking information about the bank records of Michael Cohen, a former
personal lawyer to President Donald Trump. IRS investigative analyst John Fry, 54, was charged in federal court in San
Francisco on Feb. 4 in a criminal complaint filed under seal. The complaint was unsealed Thursday after Fry's
initial appearance before a federal magistrate.
Autopsy of a Dead Coup.
The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign's use of funds to create, disseminate among
court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed. So
has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency failed. There are many elements to
what in time likely will become recognized as the greatest scandal in American political history, marking the first occasion
in which U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president.
President
Trump is Slowly Stopping the Exfiltration of American Wealth. Every element of global economic trade is
controlled and exploited by massive institutions, multinational banks and multinational corporations. Institutions like
the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), control trillions of dollars in
economic activity. Underneath that economic activity there are people who hold the reigns of power over the
outcomes. These individuals and groups are the stakeholders in direct opposition to principles of America-First
national economics. The modern financial constructs of these entities have been established over the course of the past
three decades. When you understand how they manipulate the economic system of individual nations you begin to
understand why they are so fundamentally opposed to President Trump.
To
get Trump, FBI and Justice Department officials trampled the Constitution. Justice Department and FBI officials
spied on U.S. citizens with false warrants, gave a pass to one presidential campaign with a predetermined investigation,
investigated another political campaign on the basis of no verified evidence, and illegally leaked information on
investigations. They discussed wiretapping and using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove President Trump,
and appointed a special counsel as a retaliatory move for Comey's firing. It is now crystal clear that the highest
echelons of the Justice Department and FBI had morphed from the world's most professional law enforcement organization into a
Third World rump group. They had the hubris to believe that they — not the American people or their duly
elected representatives — should decide who governs and how.
Alan
Dershowitz: Ousting Trump via 25th Amendment is 'clearly an attempt at a coup d'etat'. Harvard Law
professor Alan Dershowitz on Thursday said the Department of Justice's discussions to employ the 25th Amendment to oust
President Trump — if true — amounted to an attempted coup. Dershowitz appeared on Fox News'
"Tucker Carlson Tonight," to give his take on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's descriptions of Justice Department
meetings where he said officials discussed ousting the president. "If [McCabe's comments are] true, it is clearly an
attempt at a coup d'état," Dershowitz said. Evoking the 25th Amendment, Dershowitz added, would be a fundamental
misuse of its original purpose. He said it was originally "about Woodrow Wilson having a stroke. It's about a
president being shot and not being able to perform his office."
House
Democrats Are Planning Another Trump-Russia Witch Hunt. The Department of Justice's Russia investigation headed
by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is said to be close to closing up shop, though we've had that for months and we're still
waiting on a report. So far, there is zero evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, the unicorn the Left is hoping to
physically take a hold of in order to impeach the president. They're still seething over their 2016 election loss.
They hate President Trump. And that animus extends into the liberal media who has been astoundingly wrong in their
coverage of this story. There have been so many so-called bombshells that have turned out to be nothing burgers.
It's hard to count them all. The latest is BuzzFeed's recent trip-up over ex-personal attorney Michael Cohen, who they
say was directed to lie to Congress about a Russian real estate deal by President Trump. That story was discredited — by
the Mueller investigation. And yet, even when this investigation ends, it won't stop there. House Democrats are
already planning another wild goose chase into Russia and the president[.]
Who
Knew About The FBI & DoJ coup d'état Planned To Oust The President? Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe — who seems to have taken part in what can only be described as an FBI and DoJ planned coup d'état
to oust the president of the United States of America — will now get to boast about it on this Sunday's CBS "60
Minutes"? How can this be? [...] In short, while some 63 million people who voted in Donald Trump were celebrating
their victory, forces within the FBI and DoJ were already working on removing the president from office.
House GOP Leader
Presses Adam Schiff Over Secret Meeting With Fusion GPS Founder. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is
pressing House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for answers about his interactions with Glenn Simpson, the founder
of the opposition research firm behind the Democrat-funded Steele dossier. In a statement released on Friday
[2/15/2019], McCarthy questioned whether Schiff, a California Democrat, should recuse himself from the Intelligence panel's
Russia investigation because of a meeting he had with Simpson at the Aspen Security Forum in July 2018.
Top
GOP rep demands answers after Dems hire anti-Trump investigators for Judiciary Committee. The top Republican on
the House Judiciary Committee is demanding to know why the panel's Democratic leadership made the "costly" and "unusual"
decision this week to hire two prominent anti-Trump consultants to conduct a purportedly impartial investigation of the the
White House. In a letter to House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., the ranking member on the
committee, GOP Rep. Doug Collins, asked how much taxpayers could expect to be charged for Barry Berke and Norman Eisen's
services — as well as what exactly the pair of vocally anti-Trump operatives will be doing. "Your unilateral
decision to hire two individuals with such obvious bias against the president will taint anything they touch going forward,"
Collins wrote to Nadler.
Senator
Mitch McConnell Announces He is "Especially Proud" of Legislation Rebuking President Trump. [Scroll down]
Every time this happens victims of battered conservative syndrome start a process of reconciling the reason for their abuse
by excusing and justifying their abuser, Mitch McConnell. Let's be clear, CTH has watched this process, on a very
granular level, for well over a decade; specifically about Senator McConnell. Mitch McConnell doesn't give a hoot what
any voter, constituent, or member of the national electorate thinks about his action. He is entirely unfazed and bound
to a power ideology that sets him above all considerations.
Black swans,
black ops, BlackCube, and red herrings. I'm not sure the indictments are working. The Russians are so far
from being shamed that now they're engaged in fake hacking. Dr. Megan Reiss notes Special Counsel Mueller's recent
claim that Russians are leaking discovery materials and pretending they came from a hack of the counsel's office.
Remember the remarkably adroit robot that turned out to be a Russian in a robot suit? That's what this reminds us of.
Who
Do Our Intelligence Agencies Think They Work For? This week's "Fake News" swirling around the Director of
National Intelligence's (DNI) testimony before Congress on his annual "National Worldwide Threat Assessment" isn't simply
dishonest. It is dangerous. While Capitol Hill has the mandate to exercise its oversight function —
and should use it — over the executive branch, the IC does not work for Congress. In fact, it exists solely
to support the national security policies and decision-making requirements of the commander-in-chief. As such, the
reports that the testimony of DNI Dan Coates, CIA Director Gina Haspel, and FBI Director Chris Wray contradicted or
undermined the president are not simply wrong-footed, they are reckless in the extreme.
Inside
DOJ and FBI: Anatomy of a bloodless coup? The word "coup" evokes imagery of bloody revolution, but does a coup
have to be bloody, or even happen all at once? What if, instead, a bloodless, rolling coup started with a snowball and
ended with an avalanche? Many believe this very thing happened in 2016, with a small political cabal determined to see
Hillary Clinton elected president. When she was defeated, the theory goes, they worked even harder to try to bring her
hated opponent, Donald Trump, down by any means necessary — even if this caused much of the American public to
believe the president of the United States is the tool of a foreign adversary.
Schumer
calls for CIA to stage 'intervention' with Trump. Chuck Schumer on Wednesday night called for US intelligence
chiefs to "stage an intervention" with President Trump just hours after the president called them "naive" in a tweet.
The Democratic Senate minority leader delivered a missive to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats that said Trump's
frequent disregard for their research puts the country at risk. Schumer asked that Coats — along with CIA
Director Gina Haspel and FBI Director Christopher Wray — set up a meeting with Trump to give him a reality
check. "You cannot allow the President's ill-advised and unwarranted comments today to stand," Schumer wrote.
Tripwire —
Chairman Adam Schiff Sends HPSCI Witness Transcripts. Frustratingly, there are those claiming to be on "our
side" who are oblivious to these political constructs. They are either intentionally trying to distract from the real
danger that is heading toward President Trump; or they are brutally naive people watching things unfold while having no
actual grasp of what forces opposes them. There is a very real danger here as the Epoch Times community keeps selling
"trust the plan" pitches and perspectives of honorable Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller while completely ignoring the
reality of what is taking place.
The real
evil of fake news. Leakers have been embedded in the Trump administration from the start to sabotage the
president's agenda. Although under-reported by the liberal media, text messages between former FBI agent Peter Strzok
and his lover Lisa Page blew the lid off this conspiracy. Strzok conducted the railroading of Michael Flynn and let
former secretary of state Hillary Clinton slide over her use of a personal email server for official communications. He
was caught dead to rights in a text saying to his mistress: "I had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you I
want to talk to you about media leak strategy with DOJ before you go." Entities such as the Washington Post and the New York
Times blow constant smoke with the hope that these crucial details can be forgotten down the memory hole, so you might think
the fact the FBI investigated Trump as a possible Russian agent is somehow noteworthy.
Crush
the Coup: Break Up the FBI. Given the last two years of continued assaults against President Trump by
Mueller and Obama-holdovers such as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the confirmation of a new attorney general might
not be enough. There may be one solution that preserves the patriotic agents who are protecting the nation while
helping drain the Beltway swamp: dissolve the FBI, fire all the senior political operators still in the Hoover Building, and
make the 56 FBI field offices across the nation — where the real agents work — the counterterrorism,
counterintelligence, and criminal investigations division of the Department of Homeland Security. This way we may
prevent the next palace coup.
Red
Handed: All the Collusion was in the Deep State. Washington, D.C. is plagued by political weaponization
of government, law enforcement, and media, the likes of which America has never seen — all coordinated and
perpetrated by the Democrats and their Deep State allies. According to The New York Times, the FBI secretly
investigated President Trump based on concocted claims that he was working with the Russians against American
interests. They officially launched the "investigation" — which they had long been running
unofficially — after the President rightly and justifiably fired James Comey. As a pathetic excuse, the
disgraced and fired former FBI Assistant Director Andrew McCabe and Agent Peter Strzok focused on isolated and innocuous
statements made by Donald Trump regarding Russia during and after the 2016 campaign.
The
Coup Against Trump Has Failed — Is the Worm About to Turn? It is now obvious that for two and a half
years, Democrats and their friends in the deep state have been peddling an elaborate hoax: the spurious charge that President
Trump conspired or colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election. The entire enterprise from the beginning was always
about defeating Trump — either by planting smears in the media in 2016 to prevent his election or if that didn't succeed,
by doubling down on the investigation in an effort to keep the president from uncovering their election-year espionage malfeasance.
For
Real 'Russian Collusion,' Look to the Democrats. In trying to lob a Molotov cocktail into the Trump White
House, the New York Times last Friday succeeded only in blowing off yet another of its appendages. Fixated on its manic
desire to destabilize the lawfully elected government of the United States (at what point does the "Resistance" become active
sedition?), the media has chosen to fight as down and dirty as possible, and in so doing hit a new low. [...] This is, in a
nutshell, the heart of the MSM's "case" against the president, a mixture of wishful thinking, venality, and downright
criminality. It is also one of the most egregious cases of psychological projection we've ever seen, for reasons that
will soon become clear.
The FBI is the
security threat. The Washington Post ran a column, "The FBI can't neutralize a security threat if the president
is the threat." The President of the United States is never a threat to national security. He is national
security. We elect him commander in chief. The FBI works at his command. Jimmy the Geek Comey and his crew
committed mutiny when they began an investigation into Our President. Their actions are treasonous and in violation of
their oaths to defend the Constitution.
Public
Disdain For Russia Probe Intensifies, Trump Approval Climbs — IBD/TIPP Poll. Most people think
President Trump's critics are trying to use Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation to delegitimize the 2016
elections, the latest IBD/TIPP Poll finds. And a plurality thinks the FBI investigation into Trump's alleged ties to
Russia was meant to rein him in. These findings come in the wake of a New York Times story Friday that claimed the FBI
had opened a counterintelligence probe into Trump several months into his presidency[.] The probe began, the Times says,
days after Trump fired then FBI Director James Comey and was meant to determine whether Trump was a Russian agent.
On
What Grounds Can the FBI Investigate the President as a Counterintelligence Threat? The New York Times reported
on Jan. 11 that the FBI "began investigating whether President Trump had been working on behalf of Russia against American
interests" soon after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. In other words, the FBI opened a counterintelligence
investigation on the president. The Times reports that my friend and former colleague, former FBI General Counsel James
Baker, said during testimony to House investigators in October 2018 that "Not only would [firing Comey] be an issue of
obstructing an investigation, but the obstruction itself would hurt our ability to figure out what the Russians had done, and
that is what would be the threat to national security." [...] If the story is accurate, then what the FBI did was
unprecedented and possibly — I emphasize possibly, since many relevant facts are not included in the Times
reporting — an overstep, or at least imprudent. The reason the FBI step might have been imprudent is that it
was premised on an inversion of the normal assumptions of Article II of the Constitution.
An
Open Letter to the President: How You Can Take the Fight to the Deep State. President Trump, please
release the unredacted Barrett and Cox Reports to the American public. Any sources and methods should be
protected. But the majority of the document — as demonstrated by the cover-up attempts on the part of
Democrat elites — should be seen by the American people. Let's find out what Hillary Clinton and her husband
were really up to when they occupied the White House for eight years. I fear that the lawlessness of the
Clintons set an ominous launching point for the Obama years. This escalation of "legalized criminality" must be
stopped. You can begin the process of healing our country.
Trump Is
Right: Most Federal Workers Are Democrats. Today [1/4/2019] Pres[ident] Trump tweeted that he wonders
whether Democrats have realized yet how badly our country desperately needs border security and The Wall because the U. S.
must stop drugs, human trafficking, gang members, and criminals from coming into our country. Then Trump went on to ask
this question: "Do the Dems realize that most of the people not getting paid are Democrats?" Trump's claim is
true. In 2016, 95% of nearly $2 Million from 14 federal agencies went to support Hillary's campaign. Several
agencies had more than 99% of their contributions going to Hillary.
The
FBI and DOJ Were Working to Protect Hillary Clinton a Lot Longer Than Generally Discussed. Arguably the biggest
story of 2018 is how much we have learned about institutional political corruption within the U.S. Department of Justice
(DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). With that level of new knowledge in mind, some earlier stories about the
DOJ and FBI take on an entirely different light. Here's one from late 2016 — You might not know the name
Marc Turi but if you are familiar with the Benghazi Brief, or more specifically with Operation Zero Footprint, you'll likely
know the issues.
Deep
State Caught: "So She Lied. BFD. No One At DOJ Is Going To Prosecute." So many have said so many
times how the rules don't apply to certain globalist politicians, right? Well, here are some FBI agents communicating
that very thing regarding Hillary Clinton's closet confidante, Huma Abedin, after thousands of classified/critical docs were
found on her unsecured laptop — and she lied about it. (A BIG no-no.) This was near the end of the
2016 campaign. Huma was photographed on the Clinton campaign in tears. (She knew she was in big-big trouble.)
Then, inexplicably, all that trouble went away. -Poof- Vanished. No doubt the Clintons called in
some big favors to some high-ranking Deep State officials and Huma and Hillary were off the hook — again.
Victor
Davis Hanson: We Are Witnessing a Soft Coup of the Trump Administration. Author and historian Victor
Davis Hanson joined Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night after the Flynn court hearing today [12/18/2018]. Hanson described
the fantastical stories building on the left and the US elite's unwillingness to accept the results of the 2016 election.
Hanson described it as a soft coup.
Emails
Reveal Obama Admin's Push To Create Russia Scandal Hours Before Trump's Inauguration. Close observers know that
the Operation Crossfire Hurricane strategy surfaced during the 2016 presidential election and continued well into Trump's
presidency, with General Michael Flynn getting snared in a Peter Strzok/Sally Yates ambush play in the early days of the
Trump White House. Now, Team Obama's documented effort to cook up the Russia story before Trump's inauguration
emboldens a narrative already proved by text messages involving Obama official James Clapper: the Obama people
actually thought they could stop Trump from getting sworn in.
When
Does Trump Say, 'Enough Is Enough!'? For his efforts, he is ridiculed and scorned. Not only by his
political opponents, but by those in his own party. NeverTrumpers in Congress and the media who would be ecstatic if a
President Bush, Kasich, or Rubio were implementing everything Trump is doing, yet Trump's conservative accomplishments mean
nothing because he tweets and calls his detractors mean names. He is not one of them, not part of their elite club, not
a dues-paying member of the establishment. So those who have been advocating for conservative policies their entire
political careers have turned on a dime, throwing their conservatism to the wind, embracing Democrat policies instead, all
because they don't like the messenger.
The fury of
the establishment. The Establishment's full fury has been unleashed against Donald Trump and is not about to
subside until its goal is reached: the removal of the president from office, either through impeachment or defeat in the 2020
election.
Trump's
Enemies: A Book for the Ages. Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have written a seminal book as critical
participants in one of the most historic events in American history. Their book is about the triumphs and setbacks of
the campaign of Donald Trump to be elected the 45th president and then his governance for the first eighteen-plus months.
Their book works on three important levels. First, it is a good read. The authors take a murky and complicated story
about the president's "Deep State" enemies and present names and events in an easy to understand linear narrative. By
presenting a timeline with names and specific examples of individuals who have demonstrated disloyalty to constitutional
safeguards, they make the horror of what happened understandable.
Does
'Make X Great Again' Ever Happen in History? [Scroll down] In some sense, if Trump's election as the
first president without either political or military experience was unprecedented, equally unparalleled was a 90 percent
hostile media, coup-like attempts to abort a presidency through absurd resorts to the Logan Act, Emoluments Clause, the 25th
Amendment, lawsuits, impeachment writs, and non-stop celebrity talk of assassination, and death and destruction to the Trump
family. Almost any other man Trump's age would long ago have collapsed under the stress and venom.
President
Trump Discusses His Decision Not to Declassify "Spygate" Documents. The New York Post has an article today,
surrounding an interview with President Trump, where the topic of declassifying the evidence behind 'Spygate' surfaced.
To say there is a massive schism amid supporters of the President on this issue would be an understatement. On one hand
the declassification would potentially, and finally, outline the scale of the FBI/DOJ politicization and weaponization of
intelligence against the President — exposing the entire 'spygate' scandal in all its glory. On the other
hand that potential is also seen as political leverage against the schemes of DC and all the characters.
Former
aides promise to expose 'deep state' plot to stop Trump becoming president. President Trump's former campaign
manager Corey Lewandowski and deputy campaign manager David Bossie this week will release a new book detailing how the
president's "enemies" inside and outside the White House are working to thwart his agenda. The two former Trump aides
are set to release their new book, "Trump's Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining the Presidency," on Tuesday
[11/27/2018]. The authors want the book, which is reported to describe an ominous and somewhat conspiratorial Washington
under the Trump administration, to show readers how there are establishment embeds within the nation's capital that are
actively working against the president and "the American people."
Is
The Deep State Feeling The Heat? Bad as it may have been, the worst of the Russia Hoax was not the abuse of the
FISA electronic surveillance regime for political purposes. Nor is the worst even the patent involvement of our
intelligence agencies — and in particular the FBI and CIA — in electoral politics. No, the worst
aspect of the Russia Hoax is that our intelligence agencies, including elements of DoJ and the State Department cooperating
with the Clinton campaign, enlisted the intelligence services of foreign powers — first in their effort to
defeat the candidacy of Donald Trump and, when that effort failed, turning their efforts to what can only be described as an
attempted coup against the elected President of the United States.
A
Deep State Motive Behind Conspicuous Releases? Throughout the research into the Machiavellian constructs of
"Spygate" and the subsequent Mueller investigation, there have always been larger questions behind the stories. It is a
fact that most of the evidence surfaced after General Michael Flynn entered a plea agreement with special counsel Mueller on
November 30th, 2017. Why were the original Page/Strzok text messages released to the public in December 2017, and
January 2018? Perhaps more importantly: Who did the redactions within the text messages prior to their release?
And why were those redactions ever made?
Democrats
have a plan if Trump fires Mueller in 'Saturday Night Massacre'. House Democrats have a Plan B to make sure
Robert Mueller's findings in the Russia investigation see the light of day if President Trump fires the special counsel, a
report said. Democrats, who regained control of the House in Tuesday's midterm elections, are preparing for a Saturday
Night Massacre situation in which Trump fires top Justice Department officials in an attempt to quash Mueller's investigation.
In that scenario, Democratic officials told Politico, Mueller would be immediately summoned to Capitol Hill, where he would
testify about his findings on national television.
FBI
Admits It Used Multiple Spies To Infiltrate Trump Campaign. The FBI, under the guidance of then-director James
Comey, used more than one spy in its investigation into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, the government disclosed
in a court filing on Friday [10/19/2018]. "The FBI has protected information that would identify the identities of other
confidential sources who provided information or intelligence to the FBI" as well as "information provided by those sources,"
wrote David M. Hardy, the head of the FBI's Record/Information Dissemination Section. The filing by Hardy and the
Department of Justice came in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to gain access to four of the FBI's applications
for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page. While the applications were released June 20,
they were heavily redacted, and "USA Today reporter Brad Heath has sued for full copies of the documents," The Daily Caller reports.
FBI
admits using multiple informants, some paid, to illegally target Trump campaign. The U.S. government revealed
Friday that it used multiple informants to obtain information against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. In
court filings, government officials also revealed confidential human sources were paid for their work. The FBI relied
heavily on an uncorroborated dossier to obtain warrants to spy on Page.
U.S.
Official Arrested, Criminally Charged For Leaking Confidential Documents in Russia Probe. On Tuesday
[10/16/2018], a U.S. official was arrested and criminally charged for leaking confidential financial documents relating to
former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, the Russian embassy and accused Russian spy Maria Butina. 40-year-old Natalie
May Edwards, the senior advisor in the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network who was arrested Tuesday
[10/16/2018], leaked the documents to Jason Leopold, a reporter for BuzzFeed according to a Wednesday announcement by Manhattan
federal prosecutors.
Senior
U.S. Treasury Official Arrested for Leaking Financial Forms To Media. Every organization from mortgage
providers, to international financial institutions, to local U.S. main street banks, all the way to Western Union and
convenience stores who generate money orders, are required to file CTR's and SAR's as part of the Treasury Department Banking
Secrecy Act; a law requiring anyone engaged in financial services to assist government agencies in detecting and preventing
money laundering. At some point every person reading here has likely had a report filled out by a financial provider,
submitting their details within a financial transaction, filed with the Treasury department. You never know about it,
because it's part of compliance reporting. According to the DOJ release Ms. Mayflower Sours-Edwards "was in
possession of a flash drive appearing to be the flash drive on which she saved the unlawfully disclosed Suspicious Activity
Reports, and a cellphone containing numerous communications over an encrypted application in which she transmitted SARs and
other sensitive government information to" journalists.
Treasury
employee charged with leaking financial info on Trump team was arrested with flash drive in hand, prosecutors
say. The top Treasury Department employee who was charged Wednesday [10/17/2018] with leaking confidential
financial documents pertaining to former Trump officials was apprehended the previous evening with a flash drive containing
the allegedly pilfered information in her hand, prosecutors said in court papers. The dramatic arrest late Tuesday came
on the heels of other high-profile, leak-related prosecutions under the Trump administration, which has pledged to go on the
offensive against leakers that the president has called "traitors and cowards." Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, 40, a
senior official at the department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), is accused of illegally giving a reporter
bank reports documenting several suspicious financial transactions, known as Suspicious Activity Reports ("SARs"), from
October 2017 to the present.
Ron Johnson Demands Records
Of FBI's Meeting With DNC Attorney During Campaign. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is calling on FBI Director
Christopher Wray to hand over documents related to a former FBI lawyer's meeting during the 2016 campaign with an attorney
that represented the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign. The meeting was revealed during a congressional
deposition that former FBI general counsel James Baker gave on Oct. 3. Baker told lawmakers that in September 2016
he met with Michael Sussmann, a partner at Perkins Coie.
Obama
Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results. The Obama White House plan, according to
interviews with [Ben] Rhodes and Jen Psaki, Obama's communications director, called for congressional Republicans, former
presidents, and former Cabinet-level officials including Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, to try and forestall a political
crisis by validating the election result. In the event that Trump tried to dispute a Clinton victory, they would affirm
the result as well as the conclusions reached by the U.S. intelligence community that Russian interference in the election
sought to favor Trump, and not Clinton. Some Republicans were already aware of Russian interference from intelligence
briefings given to leaders from both parties during the chaotic months before the election. "We wanted to handle the
Russia information in a way that was as bipartisan as possible," Rhodes said. The existence of the postelection plan
has not been previously reported.
Trail
Covering: As Predicted U.S. DOJ and Treasury Turn on Oleg Deripaska. Some things are just so predictable
they become funny. The story of Oleg Deripaska is a little bit convoluted and challenging to keep up with. The
short version is that former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, FBI Agent Peter Strzok and corrupt U.S. DOJ officials tried
to recruit Deripaska in 2016 for their vast Russian conspiracy plot against candidate Trump, President-Elect Trump and
President Trump. Because of the associations with the scheme and coup-plotters, Oleg has buckets of dirt on corrupt
U.S. officials who were trying to target Donald Trump. In the wake of a soft-coup failure, Oleg then became a
risk. So it comes as no surprise to see today the U.S. DOJ and Treasury turn on him and confiscate his U.S. assets.
Did
Hillary Clinton Direct Deep State's Trump Investigation? While America argued last month over Brett Kavanaugh's
nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, something momentous was happening all but off the media's radar: The Trump-Russia
collusion investigation narrative continued to collapse in spectacular fashion, as Hillary Clinton's leading role in the
scandal came into sharper focus.
Twelve
points to keep in mind on the NYT's Rosenstein 'wear a wire' and invoke 25th Amendment story. We are only getting started
on figuring out what this really means, but here are twelve points to keep in mind: [#1] The New York Times is comfortable
exposing deep state resistance to Trump. The idea that members of the federal bureaucracy are deliberately sabotaging and working
to oust a duly elected president of the United States has been dismissed as a conspiracy theory by all sorts of mainstream media outlets
and purported fact-checkers. But first with its publication of an anonymously-written op-ed, and now with this story, the Times
is eager to admit the resistance and celebrate it, presumably because it thinks the end is nearing for the Trump presidency.
[#2] Memos written by Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page were at least part of the basis for the report. Given the fact that McCabe
has been fired and has been referred by the DOJ's Inspector General for criminal prosecution, there may be self-protection motives in
releasing them to the leading journalistic opponent of Trump's presidency. [#3] Rod Rosenstein's denials are lawyerly and
self-contradictory.
The Resistance
is Everyday, Everywhere. We've learned that there are active efforts inside the administration to thwart
President Trump's agenda and policies. This person thinks he (or she) knows better than the tens of millions of
Americans who voted for Trump. But what should be sobering to Trump supporters — and to all serious
conservatives and Republicans, for that matter — is the fact that [the New York] Times op-ed represents
just a small sliver of what's going on inside even a Republican administration on virtually a daily basis. There is a
vast, unelected body inside the federal government that silently influences the ways in which our country is run. This
permanent, unelected elite views citizens and their elections as nothing more than white noise. Something to be
tolerated, but never heeded.
The
'deep state' leaves Trump with no good options. President Trump is not generally given to understatement, but
he soft-pedaled problems at the Department of Justice. There is, he said Friday, a "lingering stench" there. A
"stench" doesn't describe the situation. A snake pit is more like it. The report by The New York Times that
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein plotted to remove Trump, either by wearing a wire or invoking the 25th Amendment,
cements forever the fact that there was and still is a deep state centered in the nation's top law-enforcement agency.
This was a plot by power-mad individuals who aimed to overturn the 2016 election and thwart the will of voters.
James
O'Keefe vs The Permanent Administrative State. A very interesting speech by James O'Keefe at the Gateway-Eagle
Forum highlights an upcoming Project Veritas enterprise. What O'Keefe outlines is a preview for undercover research
within Washington DC to put actual names and faces behind those who operate inside the Administrative State.
[Video clip] What James O'Keefe outlines is highly pertinent as it applies to current discussions of corrupt
activity within the institutions of the DOJ and FBI. Specifically, the nameless and faceless administrators control
much more important outcomes than generally discussed; including outcomes from a recent series of questions we posed.
Project
Veritas catches deep state red-handed. We've long known that unelected leftist bureaucrats embedded in the
bowels of the federal government have been lawlessly targeting conservatives and abusing their power to thwart the agenda of
duly elected Republican policymakers. The proof keeps pouring in. The Obama administration's IRS deliberately
discriminated against conservative groups in their applications for tax-exempt status. This isn't an empty partisan
allegation from an imaginary "right-wing conspiracy." In 2013, an IRS official admitted scrutinizing groups with right-wing
identifying names, such as "Tea Party" and "patriots." An inspector general's report that year confirmed this nefarious
practice. At least two groups of cases were settled in 2017 with the IRS agreeing to a "substantial financial
settlement" in one and expressing "its sincere apology" in another. This is the kind of tyrannical behavior that
liberals used to care about.
Deep
State Unmasked: State Department on Hidden Cam, "Resist Everything," "I Have Nothing to Lose". Today
[9/18/2018], Project Veritas released the first installment in an undercover videoinvestigation series unmasking the deep
state. This video features a State Department employee, Stuart Karaffa, engaged in radical socialist political activity
on the taxpayer's dime, while advocating for resistance to official government policies. In addition to being a State
Department employee Stuart Karaffa is also a ranking member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America (Metro DC DSA.)
Metro DC DSA is a socialist group that works to advance progressive causes in the metropolitan DC area. Mr. Karaffa's
loyalties seem to be with DSA, not with his employer.
Delusional
Bill Kristol prepares 'war machine' to challenge Trump for 2020 GOP nomination. Swamp fever has taken a toll on
a number of DC-dwelling conservative pundits and driven them mad. They seem to be competing with each other to see who
can bark at the moon loudest. There's Jennifer Rubin, who has excoriated Trump for taking positions that she previously
advocated. There's George Will, who wished for a 50 state sweep for corrupt Hillary Clinton. But making a strong
move to capture leadership of this cohort is Bill Kristol, who still fancies himself a kingmaker, despite the ignominious
defeat of his second-choice Trump challenger Evan McMullin after first choice David French bowed out.
John
Kerry deserves jail for secret Iran diplomacy. In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, former Secretary of State
John Kerry admitted that he's been working behind-the-scenes to salvage the Iran nuclear deal. "What I have done is
tried to elicit from him what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East for the better,"
he explained. Kerry's backchannel with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif has not been a one-time
deal. "I think I've seen him three or four times," Kerry said, and acknowledged that his talks were occurring without
the Trump administration's approval.
Trump
Should Worry About "Human Sources" inside the U.S. Government. I'll give you long odds that the American Government is riddled
with foreign spies. Primarily Chinese, Iranians and Russians, I'm not talking about the hackers; I'm talking about the real thing, real
live humans, who have penetrated the government, especially the military, intelligence, and national security branches. They have two
main objectives. The first is to find out what we have in store for them. The second is to steal our technology. Both are
essential parts of the real, global war that is being waged against us by an alliance of jihadists and leftist radicals hell-bent on destroying
Western liberty. Some of this is done secretly, some of it — for example, former top Pentagon officials going to lucrative
jobs with enemy institutions — can be documented with public sources. I suspect that we can see a lot of anti-American activity
inside the government simply by matching the salaries of high-ranking officials with the costs of "normal" life in DC: mortgages, private
schools for the kids (which cost pretty much the same as college), insurance, nanny/housekeeper, et cetera et cetera. In many
cases we'd see that government salaries cannot cover the costs. How do these people pay for it all?
How to Stop
the Administrative State. Please check out Mark Pulliam's review of Peter Wallison's forthcoming short book,
Judicial Fortitude: The Last Chance to Rein in the Administrative State. Wallison, who served in two posts
during the Reagan administration and is now ensconced at the American Enterprise Institute, takes aim at the governing
apparatus in modern America: the administrative state. Functioning as a rogue fourth branch of government that
combines legislation, executive, and judicial powers all into one anarchical mass, the administrative state is the chief enemy
of republican government today. Pulliam sketches out Wallison's thesis on the problem of administrative rule (for one
cannot call it government) and how it could be countered.
Why
the swamp has little to fear. The midterm elections will either halt or hasten the current soft coup whose aim
is to overthrow a legally elected President now being conducted by the swamp. And if the history of Washington, D.C.
corruption is any indication of what will happen after the midterms, the swamp will survive regardless of its coup's success
or failure. But the efforts to expose the treasonous plot will fade away into the dustbin of political history after
being seen as just another waste of time and taxpayer money. The seemingly endless parade of corruption scandals and
mind-numbing criminal activity will go on unabated and continue to escalate to unimaginable heights because of an inescapable
fact of human nature.
John
Kerry slammed for 'shameful' shadow diplomacy after admitting to meetings with Iran. Former Secretary of State
John Kerry is being slammed for conducting shadow diplomacy with Iran after admitting to multiple meetings with Iranian
officials behind the backs of Trump administration officials — including over the scrapped nuclear deal. An
administration official on Thursday told Fox News Kerry's meetings are "shameful," pointing out what Iranian-backed militias
are doing to kill and injure people in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Other Republicans suggested it may not even be legal.
State
Dept. Email: Bob Woodward — Who Just Published Anti-Trump Book — Has Been FBI Asset Since
1970s. [In his new book, Bob] Woodward paints a portrayal of the Trump White House as having a "nervous
breakdown" and an "administrative coup d'etat". The book was meant as a hit piece on President Trump and his
administration. What comes across is what Trump supporters already know about Trump: He relies on his instincts,
he is learning as he goes and has been beset by disloyal operatives determined to preserve the ways of Washington, D.C., and
prevent him from 'draining the swamp.' Several top Trump officials have already disputed Woodward's facts as complete rubbish.
Report:
Obama climate change aides in shadow 'cabinet' to thwart Trump. A shadow government made up of former Obama
climate change aides and funded by wealthy environmental advocates is supplementing liberal governors in an "off-the-books"
operation to help them win approval of sweeping global warming changes and defy President Trump, according to a new
investigative report. In it's "Government for Rent" report, the Competitive Enterprise Institute published dozens of
emails detailing the scheme and the efforts by governments to have the activists draw up official state climate change agenda
paid for by private donations.
Real
'Collusion' — Deep State's Failed Effort To Elect Hillary Clinton Unravels. President Trump may soon
release classified documents related to top FBI official Bruce Ohr and former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. If so,
it's likely to reveal once and for all the sham nature of the FBI's "investigation" of alleged Trump-Russia collusion during
the 2016 election.
Mr.
Anonymous Exposes an Even Deeper State. The latest salvo in the resistance's efforts to nullify the will of the
American electorate is an anonymous New York Times op-ed purportedly penned by a "senior official" in the Trump administration.
[...] But this sounds far more like a damning admission of an unelected, self-important saboteur than a persuasive indictment
of the duly elected president.
Deep
State Official: 'There Are Dozens and Dozens of Us'. Another anonymous senior official in Donald Trump's
administration confirmed the existence of the "deep state" resistance in the presidency. "I find the reaction to the
NYT op-ed fascinating — that people seem so shocked that there is a resistance from the inside," an anonymous
senior official told Axios, admitting that some of them wished they had written the piece. "I hope he knows —
maybe he does? — that there are dozens and dozens of us," the source continued.
New
Schweizer-recommended book exposes extent of corruption at FBI and DOJ. The FBI and the DOJ have gone to the
Dark Side. Amazing, considering their longstanding promotion of their status and posture for decades as the defenders
of freedom and the American way — but times change, and the deep Deep State has no special affection for the
America conceived of and promoted by the founders. I have a friend and colleague who is retired from the FBI. We talk,
and he insists that the FBI basic hardworking field agents and such are concerned and upset about the misconduct of the many
miscreants in the leadership of the FBI and the DOJ. For example, he tells me of the perceived problems that were created by
FBI decisions to make cases headquarters cases instead of following FBI protocols that made the field agents the drivers of the
case. However, I see nothing of any effort by FBI agents to fix the corruption problem at the top. Wanna know why?
They are bureaucrats, and they have no taste for the risks of fixing corruption.
Congress
waits, waits, waits for Sally Yates documents. Obama appointee Sally Yates was acting attorney general under President
Trump for just 10 days — from Jan. 20, 2017 until Jan. 30, 2017 — but by any measure they were
consequential days. Even now, two issues from Yates' brief tenure are still of interest to congressional investigators.
One was the series of events that led Yates, in charge of the Justice Department, to reject the president's executive order temporarily
suspending the admittance into the United States of people from some Muslim nations. The second is Yates' role in the FBI's
questioning, apparently on dubious premises, the president's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, four days into the new
administration — questioning that ultimately led to Flynn's guilty plea in the Trump-Russia investigation. Both
are matters of great public significance and interest — and on both, the Justice Department is refusing to allow the
Senate Judiciary Committee access to documents from Yates' time in office.
Email
Logs Reveal Correspondence Between Clinton Associate, Fusion GPS, and Russians at Trump Tower Meeting. Attorney
Edward Lieberman, whose late wife Evelyn served as Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, exchanged numerous emails with the
co-founder of the controversial Fusion GPS firm and Russian participants in the infamous June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting,
documentation provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee shows. The correspondence, part of a series of exhibits provided
to Senate investigators and reviewed by Breitbart News, took place in the weeks leading up to the Trump Tower meeting.
How
a twenty-year-old movie foretold the Mueller witch hunt. These are evil people — Mueller, Rosenstein, and their cabal of villains.
They have shredded the Constitution, violated every legal precedent. Their mission is clear: destroy Trump by any means necessary.
This week, we learned that Bruce Ohr, who met seventy times with Christopher Steele after he was officially fired as an FBI asset, has never been
interviewed by Mueller. Ohr's wife likely wrote the infamous dossier meant to ruin Trump. Neither have the other players in the coup
attempt been interviewed by Mueller. In Mueller's world, they are the good guys. We have learned that China had in-time access to
Hillary's private server for four years. China knew every move the U.S. was making while she was secretary of state. Our FBI and
DOJ knew it and did nothing. They were all busy enriching themselves, selling access, selling secrets.
Ex-officials
actually use security clearances to get rich. Former CIA Director John Brennan's temper tantrum over the revocation of
his security clearance has inadvertently pointed a spotlight at one of the Swamp's favorite get-rich-quick tricks: the national
intelligence contractor hustle. On Aug. 20, President Trump escalated his attack on Brennan. "Everybody wants to keep
their Security Clearance, it's worth great prestige and big dollars, even board seats, and that is why certain people are coming forward
to protect Brennan," Trump said. The president's point is valid: Maintaining access to top-secret or classified information is
how former intelligence officials like Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey and others command millions of dollars from the private sector.
Former
Clinton Pollster: Hillary Clinton Broke Campaign Finance Laws, Not Donald Trump. Mark Penn, the former
pollster for both Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has penned an op-ed in The Hill Wednesday [8/22/2018] in which he
argues that Michael Cohen's guilty plea shows the double standard that prosecutors have applied unfairly to Donald Trump.
Penn argues that while what Trump is alleged to have done — paying Stormy Daniels for a non-disclosure agreement
she had sought for five years prior to the election — was legal, Hillary Clinton failed to report campaign
expenditures that led to the Steele dossier. If anyone broke campaign finance law, Penn argues, it was Clinton,
not Trump — but prosecutors want Trump out of office.
Fmr
Obama FBI hot-head explodes on CNN, cusses and screams at guest to 'get out! A CNN panel fell into disarray
Friday [8/17/2018] after an outspoken political commentator argued in favor of revoking the security clearances of people
like Obama era official John Brennan and former Trump White House official Omarosa Manigault on the basis that they've been
abusing their access to information to procure certain benefits, including monetary profit. "A lot of these people that
have these security clearances — and this is the secret in swampy Washington, D.C — they have them and they
keep them because it's profitable for them after they leave government," conservative commentator Paris Dennard pointed out.
Actually,
Brennan Should Be In Jail Right Now. [S]ecurity clearances involve principles precisely opposite to those of
free speech. In fact, it is a felony to violate security clearance rules in order to "speak out." [...] Stifling
speech is the entire point of security and clearances.
Bruce
Ohr Texts, Emails Reveal Steele's Deep Ties to Obama DOJ, FBI. A trove of emails and handwritten notes from
Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr exposes the continuous contact and communication between the DOJ attorney and
anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, according to notes and documents obtained by SaraACarter.com. The emails
and notes were written between 2016 and 2017. [...] In one of Ohr's handwritten notes listed as "Law enforcement Sensitive"
from May 10, 2017, he writes "Call with Chris," referencing Steele. He notes that Steele is "very concerned about
Comey's firing, afraid they will be exposed." This call occurred months after FBI Director James Comey testified before the
House Intelligence Committee and revealed for the first time that the FBI had an open counterintelligence investigation into
President Donald Trump's campaign and alleged collusion with Russia.
An embarrassment
to the CIA. From Rear Adm. Sidney W. Souers, who had the job for a few months in 1946, to the current CIA
director, Gina Haspel, selected by President Trump, it's a long list of names that most Americans would not recognize.
In other words, we don't see the CIA director in the headlines that much, unless there is something going on like September 11.
We definitively have not seen former CIA directors doing politics on partisan cable news shows. Enter John Brennan, who just had
his security clearance revoked. In the past, these clearances have been a courtesy to former officials, who may have to be
consulted at a moment's notice on an issue that they worked on. It's a good idea, but it's a two-way street.
New
Texts Reveal Steele Anxious Over Comey Testimony, Hopes "Firewalls Will Hold". In March, 2017, two days before
former FBI Director James Comey testified to lawmakers that the bureau had an open counterintelligence investigation into
President Trump's campaign, former British spy Christopher Steele sent an urgent message to Department of Justice official
Bruce Ohr hoping that "important firewalls will hold" when Comey testified. The text message from Steele, who compiled
the infamous unverified dossier on Trump, was sent on March 18, 2017, to Ohr and obtained by SaraACarter.com from a
government source, familiar with the ongoing investigation.
Trump
pulls security clearance of ex-CIA director Brennan. President Donald Trump on Wednesday revoked the security
clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, who has become a harsh critic of the president, and appeared to be targeting
others who have disagreed with the administration. "Mr. Brennan's lying and recent conduct characterized by
increasingly frenzied commentary is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation's most closely held secrets and facilities,
the very aim of our adversaries which is to sow division and chaos," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said,
reading a statement from Trump while briefing reporters on Wednesday [8/17/2018].
Brennan,
the Spooks, and Russian Collusion. The CIA is in charge of American government spy ops that occur in foreign countries,
not the FBI. While an American tourist can fly to Britain to see the changing of the guard and be in front of Buckingham Palace
within 24 hours, an American FBI agent can do nothing in Britain without intricate CIA approvals and supervision. If the
CIA were not involved, they'd be raising hell with the FBI for doing business on their turf. Turf is everything in bureaucracy.
CIA involvement is certain.
2016
Trump Tower Meeting Looks Increasingly Like a Setup by Russian and Clinton Operatives. The June 2016 Trump
Tower meeting between high-ranking members of the Republican presidential campaign staff and a Russian lawyer with Kremlin
ties remains the cornerstone of claims that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election. A growing body of
evidence, however, indicates that the meeting may have been a setup — part of a broad effort to tarnish the Trump
campaign involving Hillary Clinton operatives employed by Kremlin-linked figures and Department of Justice officials.
This view, that the real collusion may have taken place among those who arranged the meeting rather than the Trump officials
who agreed to attend it, is supported by two disparate lines of evidence pulled together for the first time here: newly
released records and a pattern of efforts to connect the Trump campaign to Russia.
Russian
Collusion Investigation Has Orwellian Roots. The existence of this investigation is vindication for those who
voted for Brexit and Trump because they believe an illuminati rules the world. The Washington establishment may not use
jet contrails to control minds. But, if crossed, they will seize your lawyer's files, put your one-time campaign
manager in solitary confinement, and tell your third wife that you slept with a porn star. They even dared to appoint
the same guy they once trotted out to tell everyone there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to do it. The
Washington establishment is less interested in the means used to influence voters than in the fact that the deplorables have
been prompted to defy them, which cannot be allowed.
Corrupt in Every Sense of
the Word. For years, now, many of us have pointed out that much of the radical leftist activity here and abroad has
been instigated and funded by a secretive group of fascist Democrat millionaires. [...] Now, according to an article in the
Washington Free Beacon, a shadowy group that calls themselves the Patriotic Millionaires is moving from behind the scenes
funding to out front activism. Their agenda appears to be classic fascism — a partnership between an
über-wealthy elite and government, with the masses (read: We, the People) providing the labor under a socialist
system. In furtherance of this goal, one of their members, Scott Wallace, is running for Congress as a Democrat in a
Republican district in Pennsylvania. As is often the case with Democrats, he has not resided in his district, but moved
there from, of all places, South Africa where he managed the Wallace Global Foundation, a funding source for all sorts of
odious leftist groups and projects. One of the groups his foundation funded, Zero Population Growth, advocates abortion
and families be "taxed to the hilt" for "irresponsible breeding." They blamed overpopulation on the "white middle-class"
that "use up more than their share of resources and do more than their share of polluting". South Africa, by the way,
has just declared open season on white people and is moving to confiscate all the white owned farms.
Highly
Suspect — Corrupt Senate Intelligence Committee Wants To Interview Julian Assange Behind Closed Doors. The
most corrupt part of congress is the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). The SSCI is the center of the deepest part
of the Deep State swamp. The SSCI never, ever, E.V.E.R. does anything that does not protect and advance the self-interest of
the corrupt Washington DC professional political class. The severity of the corruption within the Senate Intelligence Committee
is the one constant in an ever changing universe. Every action they take is for their own interests. Most of that action
is illegal (see the recent James Wolfe indictment); and all of their conduct is severely unethical (see the secret messages between
Vice-chair Mark Warner and Christopher Steele).
Privately,
Intel Officials Back Shutting Out Brennan, Clapper. President Trump has been criticized for politicizing the
intelligence community by threatening to strip the security clearances of former top officials including John Brennan and
James Clapper. But numerous past and present senior intelligence officials say that the Obama administration started
the politicization — and that revoking the clearances of those who abuse the privilege for partisan purposes may
help right the ship. "As is often the case with the Trump administration, the rollout of the policy is bad, but the
idea driving the policy is sound," said one senior intelligence official who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke
to RealClearInvestigations only on condition of anonymity. "Under some Obama-era intelligence chiefs, intelligence was
used as a political weapon. We need to root that out, not reward it."
Remembrance
of Russia's Past Meddling. After the president's summit with Putin last week, John Brennan tweeted, "Donald
Trump's press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It
was nothing short of treasonous." Sen. Steny Hoyer agreed and Democrat Steve Cohen, who wanted a Purple Heart for
Peter Strzok, was calling for a military coup. This is what happens when the nation allows a Gus Hall voter to become
head of the CIA. This is what happens when the nation neglects actual Russian spying and instead manufactures fake
collusion. This is what happens when a president deploys the deep state to install his designated successor, all part
of the fundamental transformation of America the Democrats' candidate spoke of in 2008.
Trump Is Right About Clearances. The legal
framework for security clearances was charted by a 1988 Supreme Court decision, Department of the Navy v. Egan.
The justices noted that a president has absolute power to grant, deny or revoke access to classified information. This
authority is inherent in his role as commander in chief. The court ruled that the president could form due-process
procedures for challenging an adverse decision — which President Eisenhower first did in 1960 — but no
appeal would be available through the courts. A body of law and policy has since developed around several key ideas:
First, a security clearance should be granted or continued only if it is "clearly consistent with the interests of national
security." Second, security clearance places an individual into a fiduciary relationship with the government.
Third, authorization of access to classified information must be joined with a demonstrated "need to know."
Taming
Swamp Critters with Security Clearances. At long last President Trump finally discovered, thanks to Senator
Rand Paul, the most potent weapon against large numbers of "swamp creatures" a.k.a., the abusive senior leaders of critical
sections of the Federal bureaucracy. Trying to fire a senior civil servant not appointed by the president is almost
impossible and it often is a double-edged sword when successful because nothing stops them from publicly stirring up trouble
after the fact. However, if the security clearance rules are used properly, they can become the president's greatest
clean-up weapon against the "swamp." Clearances are a true leash that can keep otherwise disruptive executive
bureaucrats to heel.
Docs
requested after ex-CIA Brennan is suspected of leaking intel to Harry Reid to hurt Trump campaign. Judicial
Watch believes former Sen. Harry Reid may have been used in efforts to undermine the Trump campaign.
Communications in 2016 between former CIA Director John Brennan and the former top Senate Democrat are being sought in
documents requested from the CIA by the watchdog group, according to Fox News.
Dear Mr. Brennan,. I understand
that you are a political opponent of the current President of the United States. I understand that you are an American
citizen, and you have the right to freedom of speech. I encourage you to utilize that right. I encourage you to
speak your mind. I encourage you, as I do all Americans, to be heard. I implore you, however to cease and desist
from continuing to attempt to portray yourself in the public media as some sort of impartial critic concerned only with the
fate of the republic. I beg you to stop attempting to portray yourself as some sort of wise, all-knowing intelligence
professional with deep knowledge of national security issues and no political inclinations whatsoever. None of this is
true. You were never a spy. You were never a case officer. You never ran operations or recruited sources or
worked the streets abroad. You have no idea whatsoever of the true nature of the business of human intelligence.
You have never been in harm's way. You have never heard a shot fired in anger. You were for a short while an
intelligence analyst. In that capacity, it was your job to produce finished intelligence based on information provided
to you by others. The work of intelligence analysts is important, however in truth you never truly mastered this trade
either.
Trump
is right to pull security clearances from those actively undermining his administration. President Trump is
considering the entirely proper move of pulling security clearances from a number of former government officials including
disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former DNI James Clapper and several others.
These are all people who have been abusing the credibility gained by their previous positions and potentially their continued
access to our secrets in a partisan political manner.
Why
should people out of power have clearances, anyway? Years ago, I remember hearing the story of President
Nixon's final flight from the White House to California. The president took off on Air Force One, but it changed to a
military flight as soon as President Ford was sworn in. In other words, the president of the U.S. was no longer on
board! The principle is that when it comes to matters of state, once you're out, you're out. Put me down as
someone who does not understand why former Obama officials have security clearances anyway. Why do we do that?
You are either in or out, or so I understood. President Trump should pull the security clearances.
Obama
Sought To Wipe Out Outdated Security Clearances Just Like Trump Wants To Do. The story began on Monday, when
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he's going to ask Trump to revoke former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance (the
guy who keeps calling every action by Trump "treason"). "Is John Brennan monetizing his security clearance? Is
John Brennan making millions of dollars divulging secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on @realDonaldTrump," the
Kentucky Republican wrote on Twitter. "Today I will meet with the President and I will ask him to revoke John Brennan's
security clearance."
White
House: Trump Has Started 'Mechanism' for Pulling Security Clearances from 'Certain Individuals'.
President Donald Trump has started "the mechanism" for pulling security clearances from "certain individuals," a White House
aide revealed Tuesday [7/24/2018]. White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told reporters aboard Air Force One
traveling to Joint Base Andrews in Camp Springs, Maryland, that the administration has begun taking the necessary steps to
revoke access to classified information from former top intelligence officials but declined to get into specifics.
NBC
Reporter: Trump Will Cause 'Financial' Harm to Clapper, Brennan by Revoking Security Clearances. NBC News
reporter Ken Dilanian suggested Monday [7/23/2018] that President Donald Trump would hurt the livelihoods of Obama administration alumni
by taking away the "valuable commodity" of their security clearances. Dilanian, who covers the intelligence community and national
security issues, accused Trump of "seeking to levy a financial penalty" on former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper — both of whom are paid contributors at cable news networks.
The Editor says...
If anyone is making a living as a TV commentator based on his or her access to classified information, that
monetization of government secrets is a gross abuse of power.
Clapper
Says It's 'Very Petty' That Trump Is Considering Revoking His Security Clearance. Former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper responded Monday to the news that the White House is considering revoking his security clearance,
along with the clearances of other former intelligence officials who have been vocal critics of President Trump. He
called the move "a petty thing to do." White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that the
president was "looking to take away [John] Brennan's security clearance, he's also looking into the security clearances of
Comey, Clapper, Hayden, Rice, and McCabe." She explained that it was due to these former officials politicizing and
monetizing their past service to make "baseless accusations" against the president.
All
The President's Hacks: Media Fake News Fueled Obama's Watergate. When Hillary Clinton cites the
"intelligence community assessment" to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the presidential election, she's really repeating her
own lie, that her campaign created, rolled through the media and the government, which used it to spy on the Trump campaign,
and then finally became an "assessment" under orders from Obama carried out by political allies like Clapper and Brennan.
The media, which once boasted of exposing Watergate, had played a key role in Obama's Watergate. The release of a redacted
FISA warrant application exposes the fact that the spying on Carter Page, a figure associated with the Trump campaign, relied
on no sources other than Democrats and media allies.
Lying
Liar James Clapper Just Lied Again About His Previous Lies About NSA Spying. In an interview with the ladies of
"The View" Tuesday afternoon [5/22/2018], James Clapper told another lie about his previous lies about the NSA program to spy
on American citizens. Meghan McCain confronted Clapper about a statement he made while testifying before Congress five
years ago, when he was asked whether or not the NSA was spying on Americans. "In 2013 when you were asked about it, you
said 'no,'" McCain said. "So that is a lie." "I made a mistake," Clapper said. "I didn't lie. I was
thinking about something else, another program."
John
Brennan Moves from Charges of Treason to Fomenting Rebellion. The former [?] Communist and CIA Director John
Brennan called Trump's remarks at a press conference with Putin in Helsinki "treasonous" and he is not letting up on his
attack. He is now urging the Intelligence community to "withhold vital intelligence", ostensibly to protect
information. That is the new line of attack — Trump is sharing secrets with Putin. Make no mistake,
the former [?] Communist is recommending a mutiny over a few inartful comments made by the President which he has since
explained. The Washington Times reported that Brennan made the comments in a private meeting. "Dan Coats and Gina
Haspel need to be on top of their game now and speak truth to power," he said, referring to Director of National Intelligence
Dan Coats and CIA Director Gina Haspel. "And make sure Trump doesn't get away with this."
Why
the 'Resistance' in the State Department is a Gift to Trump. The majority of our 75,382 State Department
employees do not support our president. Many are openly scornful. Several ambassadors, ready to retire anyway and
with full pensions locked in, have resigned dramatically. But because State Department protocols and diplomacy have
failed us for decades — in Libya, Syria, with the creation of ISIS, Russian expansion, and North Korean
belligerence — their "Resistance" has given President Trump the opportunity to do an end-run around them.
POTUS
TRUMP Calls Out Deep State — "Where Is The DNC Server?". It's a valid question and one that should
be front and center of any media coverage of Rod Rosenstein's bizarre "we're indicting twelve Russian nationals" performance
yesterday [7/13/2018]. Mr. Rosenstein (publicly) claims these Russians hacked the DNC while at the same time
keeping quiet about the fact the FBI has never directly reviewed the actual DNC server to verify said hack. This fact
raises a myriad of questions. Why did the DNC refuse access? Why were they even allowed to refuse access given
such a hack would be considered a potential breach of national security. What was the DNC hiding? What is the
FBI/DOJ still hiding?
Julian
Assange, CrowdStrike, and the Russian Hack That Wasn't. Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016
presidential election is predicated on Russian intelligence having hacked the Democratic National Committee's
computers. Russia's guilt is such an article of faith among our political class, that a Republican-controlled Congress
imposed sanctions and President Trump signed on, substantially worsening relations with an important and potentially
dangerous nation. Outside the Acela Corridor, however, one finds more skepticism. A lot of ordinary folks wonder
why the DNC wouldn't let any outside parties examine their server. Instead, the FBI accepted the word of CrowdStrike, a
private contractor hired by the DNC, without any independent confirmation. And a bunch of not so ordinary folks who
know a thing or two about computers thinks there may be a simple explanation for the DNC's unwillingness to let outsiders
have a peek at the evidence: There isn't any. The Russian hacking that's caused so much division and
turmoil at home and abroad never really happened.
CrowdStrike Bragged
About Purging Russians From The DNC's Networks. Now We Know They Were Wrong. Russian hackers retained
access to the Democratic National Committee's network until October 2016, despite private security firm CrowdStrike's claim
that it had expelled all intruders months earlier, according to an indictment filed Friday against 12 Russian intelligence
operatives. The indictment, filed by the office of Special Council Robert Mueller, reveals that CrowdStrike was
unsuccessful in expelling intruders from the DNC's networks in June and that a malicious program "remained on the DNC network
until in or around October 2016." The hackers also gained access to DNC computers hosted on a third-party
cloud-computing service around September 2016, which enabled them to steal data from the DNC by creating backups, or
snapshots, of the DNC's cloud-based systems.
Former
DNC Chair Brazile: DNC Allowed Russian Hackers to Steal Data. Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller indicted
12 Russian military officials days before President Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rosenstein
also planned his press conference at the same time President Trump was meeting with the Queen of England. With the 12
Russians indicted Friday, the corrupt Mueller team has now indicted 31 individuals and 3 companies, with more than 80% of the
indictments related to Russians who will never be prosecuted. [...] But dirty cop Rosenstein forgot to mention the DNC allowed
the Russians to infiltrate their servers. In her 2017 book, [...] Democrat operative Donna Brazile admitted the DNC
allowed alleged Russian hackers to steal data from the party's servers.
Attorneys:
The DNC's Lawsuit Against Russia Undermines Their Own Defense in the DNC Fraud Lawsuit. Disobedient Media has
consistently reported on the DNC Fraud Lawsuit and the disturbing, sometimes bizarre events surrounding the case.
Though the suit was initially dismissed on jurisdictional grounds, that ruling is in the process of an appeal in the 11th
Circuit appellate court. Last week, the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit submitted a supplemental authority
letter in the case, arguing that the DNC's suit against Russia was relevant to the DNC Fraud Lawsuit. The cited
relevance was due to arguments made by DNC defense counsel that stated donors did not contribute funds based on the promise
of impartiality by the DNC towards Democratic Party primary candidates.
Donald
Trump Calls on DNC to Hand Over Email Server. President Donald Trump called on the Democratic National
Committee (DNC) during his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland on Monday to hand over its
server to the FBI to prove Russia hacked into it. Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire asked Trump if he believed
U.S. intelligence agencies that say Russia interfered in the election or Putin's assertion that Russia did not and if he
would denounce that interference and tell Putin to never do it again. Trump said he had confidence in both parties but
added he would like to see the DNC hand over its server.
Trump
Will Win This Round With the Deep State. President Trump knew what he was getting into in holding a press
conference with Vladimir Putin. He knew the press would ask him whose version of Russian meddling in the 2016 election
does he believe? Putin's? Or that of former U.S. intelligence agency directors John Brennan, James Clapper, and
James Comey? The question came and President Trump quickly moved to the missing Clinton servers and 33,000 erased
Clinton emails under congressional subpoena. Trump's response causes the ultimate evocation to the voters in this epic
battle that has been lurching and raging over America and astonishing the world for two years.
Five
Things That Would Make The CIA/CNN Russia Narrative More Believable. I do not believe the establishment Russia
narrative. I do not believe that Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to rig the 2016 election. I do
not believe the Russian government did any election rigging for Trump to collude with. This is not because I believe
Vladimir Putin is some kind of blueberry-picking girl scout, and it certainly isn't because I think the Russian government is
unwilling or incapable of meddling in the affairs of other nations to some extent when it suits them. It is simply
because I am aware that the US intelligence community lies constantly as a matter of policy, and because I understand how the
burden of proof works. At this time, I see no reason to espouse any belief system which embraces as true the assertion
that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections in any meaningful way, or that it presents a unique and urgent threat to the world
which must be aggressively dealt with. But all the establishment mouthpieces tell me that I must necessarily embrace
these assertions as known, irrefutable fact.
Why Do The Democrats Refuse To Allow FBI
To Examine Its Hacked Servers? [Scroll down] Both the FBI and the Democratic Party agreed that the
crime-fighting agency based its decision to blame Russians for hacking into the DNC computers on a report commissioned by the
DNC and generated by a company called CrowdStrike. Yes, our intelligence agencies agree it was all the Russians
fault. But can one trust the veracity of that determination when the FBI relied exclusively on information from private
digital forensics company Crowdstrike who were being paid by the Democratic Party? Doesn't anyone besides the President
(and me) wonder what the Democrats are hiding and why the FBI allowed the Democrats to get away with obstructing their
investigation?
The Deep
State and Tyranny. The Department of Justice Inspector General's Report released last week didn't tell us
anything we didn't know, but merely added more damning evidence for the corruption of the FBI and its investigations over the
last few years. More worthy of comment, as Andy McCarthy writes, is its refusal to use common sense and note the
obvious interconnections among the various bad actors, and the bond of political bias, seasoned with careerism and arrogance,
that united them. But the problems we are confronting reflect deeper dangers than the professional corruption of some
functionaries of corrupt executive agencies armed with the coercive power of the state. The true moral of the story is
the dangers to freedom of centralized and concentrated power — the very dangers consensual governments, including
our own, were created to minimize.
FBI
agent fast-tracked Clinton email case to 'stop' Trump from being elected. FBI agent Peter Strzok put the
Trump-Russia investigation on a fast track during the 2016 election season at the same time he was sending text messages to
his lover condemning the Republican presidential candidate as an "idiot" and vowing to "stop" him. Justice Department
Inspector General Michael Horowitz, in a voluminous report, singled out as troubling Mr. Strzok's decision to move
quickly from working on Hillary Clinton's email case to investigating Mr. Trump.
Nadler:
FBI's Strzok and Page 'Did Not Bring Bias' to the Clinton Investigation. Referencing the Department of
Justice's Office of the Inspector General (IG) report on the actions of the FBI during the 2016 presidential election,
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said that FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page "did not bring bias" to their
investigation of Hillary Clinton's illicit use of a private server and email for State Department business and her
mishandling of classified documents. In 2016, Strzok was a senior counterintelligence officer at the FBI and Page was
a senior attorney. They were among the few top FBI officials investigating the Clinton case. Strzok and Page,
although married to other people, reportedly were having an adulterous affair at the time. Their text messages,
disclosed by Congress and the IG report, reveal that they despised Donald Trump and desperately wanted Hillary Clinton
to be elected president.
The
Bigger Story Behind the James Wolfe Indictment. It is important not to get so granular we miss the big
picture. The indictment of former senior senate intelligence committee staffer James Wolfe is filled with information
to highlight a much bigger picture. Keeping with custom and a very familiar pattern, you will note the big DOJ/FBI
investigative releases are timed to drop when President Trump is outside Washington DC. Note also, it was the Senate
Intelligence Committee where Wolfe worked. CTH has continually stated the SSCI is one of the most corrupt committees in
congress. It did not come as a surprise to see the staff from this specific committee leaking secret and top-secret
classified information. The committee rots from the head down.
Suddenly
the media cares about privacy. New York Times reporter Ali Watkins slept with the head of security for the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, who gave her classified information, which she used to build her career from college
student to a Times reporter, one leaked story at a time. Federal investigators seized her phone and her records dating
back five years ago, when she was in college. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is up in arms. [...]
Really? Seizing the records of President Donald John Trump's lawyer — breaking lawyer-client
privilege — is OK, but somehow a journalist's records are sacrosanct.
DOJ
Nails Senate Intel Committee's Security Chief as Deep State Leaker. Senior Justice Department officials
announced late Thursday criminal charges against Senate Intelligence Committee's long-time director of security James
Wolfe. The indictment charges Wolfe with making false statements to the FBI and details how Wolfe passed classified
information, including presumably information related to one-time Trump campaign aide Carter Page, to a series of media
outlets, confirming long-standing suspicions of the career intelligence community's complicity in leaks. The three-count
indictment charges Wolfe with separate instances of making false statements to the FBI, not directly charging him for leaking
classified information, but appearing to detail how he did allegedly leaked classified information to reporters and then
allegedly lied about it to the FBI.
Veteran
Senate Intelligence Committee staffer, in romantic relationship with NYT reporter, arrested in probe of leaks.
James A. Wolfe, former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, lost everything when he was arrested by
the FBI last night. A review of media reports on the background of the arrest suggests that the lure of romance with a
nubile female journalism school student was his undoing. This is a story with at least two compelling themes: the
apparent betrayal of national security by a veteran Senate staffer and the rise in a mere four years of a comely female
reporter in a romantic relationship with Wolfe from unpaid undergraduate intern at McClatchy to the lofty post of New York
Times national security correspondent.
There's
a huge difference between the Trump and Clinton probes. Clinton's core wrongdoing was publicly established fact from the
start — whereas the Trump investigation has always been an effort to find out if there was any wrongdoing. It was
actually the House Select Committee on Benghazi that started asking questions after a hacker unveiled Clinton's e-mails with Sidney
Blumenthal. Some of those e-mails were related to the 2012 Benghazi attack yet had never been handed over to investigators in
all the many Benghazi probes.
Report:
Sessions Is Key Witness in Mueller Inquiry into Trump Obstruction. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly
a key witness in Robert Mueller's inquiry into whether President Donald J. Trump obstructed the Russia investigation.
During a March 2017 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump asked Sessions to unrecuse himself from the collusion probe —
a request the Attorney General declined. "The confrontation, which has not been previously reported, is being investigated
by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, as are the president's public and private attacks on Mr. Sessions and
efforts to get him to resign. Mr. Trump dwelled on the recusal for months, according to confidants and current and
former administration officials who described his behavior toward the attorney general," reports the New York Times.
Clapper Disinformation Campaign. James Clapper,
President Obama's director of national intelligence, gained a reputation among liberals as a liar for covering up the
existence of secret data-collection programs. [...] Mr. Clapper not only exaggerates Russia's efforts, he crucially
overlooks the fact that it's the net effect that matters. Allegations and insinuations of Russian meddling
clearly cost Mr. Trump some sizeable number of votes. Hillary Clinton made good use of this mallet, as would be
clearer now if she had also made good use of her other assets to contest those states where the election would actually be decided.
Hillary's
Premonition. An attempt to rig an election using falsified evidence as the basis for an investigation a most
serious crime against our form of government and cannot go unchallenged or unpunished. An attempt to frame Donald
Trump and oust him from the presidency is even more grave.
Can
Trump lawfully investigate his investigators? Can the president investigate his investigators? Yes —
but not until the investigation of him is completed. That's because no one can fruitfully examine the legitimacy of the
origins of the case against Trump without knowing the evidence and the charges. Trump's allegations are of extreme
scandal — the use of FBI assets by the Obama administration to impede his presidential campaign. Yet if he is
exonerated, those allegations will lose their sting. If he is charged with crimes or impeachable offenses that do not
have their origins in politically charged spying, then his allegations will be moot. But if he were to force the DOJ to
turn over raw investigative files now to politicians who want to help him, he might very well be impeding the criminal case against
him. That would be profoundly threatening to the rule of law, for it provides that no man can be the prosecutor or the judge
in his own case.
The London-to-Langley Spy Ring.
Even before the first Republican primary, a London-to-Langley spy ring had begun to form against Donald Trump. British
spies sent to CIA director John Brennan in late 2015 alleged intelligence on contacts between Trumpworld and the Russians,
according to the Guardian.
'An
Abuse of Power': Rep. Biggs Says Mueller Is Investigating a Person, Not a Crime. Rep. Andy Biggs
(R-Ariz.) is one of several Republican lawmakers calling for a second special counsel to probe alleged abuses by the FBI and
Justice Department. On "Happening Now" on Wednesday, Biggs said the only way to get to the bottom of apparent
"improprieties" in the Russia and Hillary Clinton email probes is to investigate the investigators. "We can't rely on
them to investigate themselves. So we need to get a special counsel outside of them to get in there and investigate,"
Biggs explained.
The
Bipartisan Deep State. The deep state looks after its own. And this is why — whether "Republicans"
or "Democrats" — the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party hates Donald J. Trump.
Spying On Trump:
Was Obama Behind CIA, FBI Plan To Elect Hillary? As Robert Mueller's chimerical Russia-Trump collusion probe
grinds on, a real possible crime has been revealed: the collusion between the Justice Department, the FBI, the Clinton
campaign and, possibly, the Obama administration, to plant a spy in the Trump campaign. If so, as some say, it's bigger
than Watergate. The spy's name is Stefan Halper, a professor at Cambridge University who has high-level ties to both
U.S. and British intelligence, as Daily Caller New Foundation investigative reporter Chuck Ross discovered. The
revelation made Trump livid, and rightly so, as his tweet on Sunday afternoon plainly showed: [...]
When
did Trump-Russia probe begin? Investigators focus on mystery months. Revelations that an FBI informant
insinuated himself into the Trump campaign have led some congressional investigators to rethink their theories on how and why
former President Barack Obama's Justice Department began investigating the 2016 Trump presidential effort. Most
reporting has focused on the July 31, 2016, creation of a document formally marking the beginning of the FBI
counterintelligence probe targeting the Trump campaign.
Donald
Trump Goes to War with 'Disgraced' John Brennan. President Donald J. Trump said that former CIA director John Brennan had
"disgraced" himself, blaming him Monday [5/21/2018] for launching the investigation of his presidential campaign. The president
quoted at length Dan Bongino, who challenged Brennan in a Monday morning appearance on Fox News.
Mueller v. Trump.
Can special counsel Robert Mueller require President Trump to testify before a grand jury? It would be unprecedented,
and his effort to do so could lead to a major constitutional confrontation. The president could, of course, resist a
grand jury subpoena by asserting his right under the Fifth Amendment not to be a witness against himself. However, for
political reasons, he may not wish to do that. And he may not need to. Another off-ramp for the president, which
he may choose not to take, is to remove the special counsel. Mueller is an appointee of the Department of Justice, part
of the executive branch. He is therefore a subordinate of the president. Trump might have to jump through some
hoops to remove him — such as removing the deputy attorney general who selected Mueller — but he has
the power to do so.
We
Need to Know What Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Rice, Power and the Rest of Them Did. The FISA court failed
us. The FISA court failed us repeatedly. We have these so-called national security letters that are supposed to
be used in extreme circumstances. Instead they are being used by a cabal of FBI agents who took it upon themselves to
investigate a candidate and his campaign, and then we have of course actual spies attempting to entrap members of the Trump
campaign. [...] Why haven't Republicans called these FISA judges before Congress? Because they're gutless.
Trump
demands DOJ investigation of possible campaign infiltration. President Trump said Sunday that he is demanding
that the Justice Department investigate whether the U.S. government infiltrated his 2016 campaign for political reasons.
[...] On Sunday, Trump aggressively denounced special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of possible Trump campaign
collusion with Russia as a "Witch Hunt" and wrote, "Republicans and real Americans should start getting tough on this Scam,"
else they impact the 2018 midterms.
H.A.L.P.E.R.
Spells Game Up for Obama's Spies. Last week I reported that Internet sleuths had winkled out the name of the
spy/agent provocateur that Obama's intelligence officers had used on the Trump campaign. The New York Times and
Washington Post, the Democrats' semi-official newspapers this week megaphoned the instigators, offering up their
justifications without naming his name. Again, the name is Stefan Halper, who, as I wrote here last week, was paid a
substantial sum by the Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment. If it was for this work — and it
suspiciously looks like it because the payments were made in July and September of 2016 when he was weaseling his way into
the campaign — then we know we have the DNI, CIA, DOJ, FBI, Dept. of State and the Defense Department working
for Hillary's election and to smear and create a basis for further spying on Trump and his campaign.
Cambridge
professor outed as FBI informant inside Trump campaign. A Cambridge professor with deep ties to American and
British intelligence has been outed as an agent who snooped on the Trump presidential campaign for the FBI. Multiple
media outlets have named Stefan Halper, 73, as the secret informant who met with Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and
George Papadopoulos starting in the summer of 2016. The American-born academic previously served in the Nixon, Ford and
Reagan administrations. The revelation, stemming from recent reports in which FBI sources admitted sending an agent to
snoop on the Trump camp, heightens suspicions that the FBI was seeking to entrap Trump campaign aides. Papodopoulous
has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, while Page was the subject of a federal surveillance warrant.
What
Obama and his political Choom Gang did is far worse than Watergate. The Obama administration — with
or without the knowledge and direction of President Obama himself — perverted one of the most powerful,
clandestine spying operations in the world and used it at the very height of a presidential campaign to spy on political
opponents, punish them and, ultimately, silence them through extortion. If this was orchestrated without the express
knowledge of Mr. Obama, then it reveals just how blatantly he instructed by example the weaponizing of the entire
federal government to carry out his low, dishonest and unjust ideology. By any means necessary, one might say.
Only instead of being driving by visions of justice, these people were driven by visions of undying power.
Trump
demands of Mueller investigation, ranting about a '$20,000,000 Witch Hunt' that should be looking into Hillary Clinton.
President Donald Trump demanded to know Sunday [5/20/2018] when special counsel Robert Mueller was going to 'STOP!' probing into
alleged Russian influence on the presidential election and turn his investigative power onto Hillary Clinton. In a long,
bitter Twitter rant the president railed against the cost of the investigation, calling it a '$20,000,000 Witch Hunt' that has
found 'no Collussion with Russia, No Obstruction, but they aren't looking at the corruption in the Hillary Clinton Campaign.'
MSM
silence on Stefan Halper's name ends. The conspiracy to use the vast powers of the US intelligence community
spy on the Trump campaign and hobble his presidency with fabricated allegations of collusion with Russia is unraveling at an
accelerating pace. The latest evidence of the slow motion collapse of the cabal is that the name of Stefan Halper,
which has been known to readers of American Thinker for quite some time now (and which was first revealed by Chuck Ross of
the Daily Caller almost two months ago), suddenly is being published and broadcast by members of the mainstream media.
Stefan
Halper Agent Provocateur — In His Own Words. Stefan Halper has been identified and confirmed as the
intelligence informant used by President Obama's CIA and FBI to engage in contact with low level Trump campaign officials
during their efforts to conduct a counterintelligence operation against the candidate. The joint CIA and FBI operation
was codenamed "Crossfire Hurricane". Rather ironically, five days before the 2016 election intelligence agent provocateur
Stefan Halper gave an interview to Sputnik News where he outlined his agenda; in hindsight the aggregate agenda of the Obama
administration: [...]
Deep
State & Media Operatives Now In Full On Cover Up Mode As Illegal Spying On Trump Campaign Revealed. The Obama
era Intelligence community was determined to punish Donald Trump and his supporters for challenging the political status
quo. They didn't actually think Trump would win though. So what was initially a punishment operation turned into
a search and destroy operation that pitted the Deep State and its media cohorts against a duly elected President of the
United States? That attempt is now being uncovered in real time which in turn has led to a flurry of cover-up activity
from such powerful players as the New York Times. And not only are they desperate to save their own skins but even more
importantly protect the man at the very top of this political conspiracy food chain — Barack Obama himself.
DOJ
Frets About Source Outing While Deliberately Outing Source. U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials
have leaked extremely sensitive information about a top secret source three times in the last week while claiming that
confidentially sharing information about the source with congressional investigators could greatly impact U.S. national
security and potentially risk the source's life. The officials have leaked specific information that could directly
identify the source on three separate occasions to reporters at the Washington Post and New York Times.
This raises even more questions about whether current top intelligence and law enforcement officials can be trusted to obey
the law and to adequately protect the nation's intelligence secrets.
Where in the World Was Barack Obama? [Scroll down] Many
of those questions remain unanswered but we do know that the "deep state" referenced by the [New York] Times did have a boss in
2016. Yet Mr. Obama doesn't show up in this story until the ninth paragraph. Those inclined toward Watergate
analogies will say that it was some time before the break-in was connected to Richard Nixon, and of course we have no idea at
this point whether the current controversy will end up being a Trump scandal, an Obama scandal or a permanently murky partisan
battleground. But since this controversy goes to the core of our democratic process, Americans desperately want clarity.
How and why exactly did leaders of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies end up focusing on a domestic political campaign?
Cambridge Professor
Spied On Trump Campaign Advisers. A top-secret CIA and FBI source who spied on two Trump campaign advisers and
initiated contact with a third was all but outed Friday night [5/18/2018]. The New York Times and The Washington Post
provided a detailed description of the source in articles published Friday night, but did not identify him by name, citing
concerns about his physical safety. But the reports match up exactly with a Cambridge University professor first
described in a Daily Caller News Foundation report from March. That professor, Stefan Halper, contacted Trump advisers
Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis during the 2016 campaign.
Mueller's
team of Dem donors under fire from Trump as probe hits one-year mark. The long and winding special counsel
Russia investigation that President Trump has routinely decried as a "witch hunt" hit the one-year mark on Thursday —
giving Trump's legal team an opening to renew criticism of the probe's focus and its investigators.
The
"Crossfire Hurricane" Story Paints An Ugly Picture Of The FBI And Department Of Justice. A couple of days ago,
the New York Times ran a rather stunning piece on FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign. [...] This is the basic outline of
the story. The FBI, based on a semi-drunken conversation between George Papadopoulos and an Australian diplomat,
Alexander Downer, opened an investigation of the Trump campaign. What is missing from the story is any mention of the
Trump dossier which we know was briefed to the FBI on July 5, nearly a month before the Papadopoulos conversation jumped the
Atlantic and the shark. As the investigation grew, eventually four members of the Trump campaign — Michael T.
Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page and Papadopoulos — were placed under some sort of surveillance. Eventually,
Carter Page was the subject of a FISA warrant. This surveillance continued even while Flynn and Manafort were on the
transition team.
Is
Joe DiGenova Nuts Or Does He Know Something? First off, it is not unlikely that the DOJ IG, Michael Horowitz,
expanded the scope of his investigation. If Robert Mueller can investigate financial transactions from a dozen years
ago as part of looking at Russian collusion in 2016, Horowitz looking at FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign would be a
non-issue, particularly since Horowitz is the guy who uncovered the Page-Strzok texts as part of his investigation.
Based on what we've seen to date, there doesn't seem to be much doubt that Brennan, Clapper, and Comey were working in
concert to push the collusion narrative. Is that criminal? I don't know.
Levin:
NY Times Reveals 'Secret Cabal of FBI Agents' 'Crossfire Hurricane' Against Trump. On his nationally syndicated
radio talk show Wednesday [5/16/2018], host Mark Levin made the case that the New York Times, in an article titled "Code Name
Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation," has revealed a "secret cabal of FBI agents" against Trump.
Trump:
Obama FBI 'Probably' Had a Spy Inside Presidential Campaign. President Donald Trump on Thursday [5/17/2018] accused the FBI
of potentially spying on his presidential campaign and said doing so would be a bigger scandal than Watergate. Citing National
Review's Andrew McCarthy, former assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York, Trump said the FBI "probably" had
an informant embedded in Trump's campaign.
John Brennan's 'Exceptionally
Sensitive' Issue. It appears that Brennan's alleged "tips" were too flaky and unofficial for the Obama administration
to commit to print. Brennan had his own partisan hunches, fueled by his feverish hatred of Trump and perhaps a few spitballing
conversations with other Trump-hating spy chiefs abroad, [...] but he had no evidence to meet any reasonable threshold for a
counterintelligence probe of a presidential campaign, especially one undertaken by an administration supporting that candidate's
opponent. Brennan's espionage against Trump was as audacious as a paranoid LBJ wiretapping Nixon's campaign plane in the
thick of a race against LBJ's vice president, Hubert Humphrey.
Obama's
Army of Agents And the Entrapment of Donald Trump. High-level Obama officials, including John Brennan and John
Kerry, appear to have attempted to entrap Trump campaign officials and candidate Trump himself. This very likely
scenario is being closely looked at after Wall Street Journal editor Kimberly Strassel reported there was a mole placed in or
close to the Trump campaign. This isn't how things are supposed to work in the United States. "This is not who we
are," to quote Obama. Tying in what we know about spying, unmasking, and leaked texts, it appears the Obama administration
was actually attempting to entrap them, in other words, frame them. They might have believed they were doing it to
protect the nation, but it appears to be a set up.
Trump
officials on why they leak: This is a never-ending 'Mexican stand-off'. White House leakers used a raft
of excuses Sunday to justify sharing sensitive Trump administration information with reporters, reasons ranging from a way to
settle personal scores to dealing with a confrontational work environment within the West Wing. "The most common
substantive leaks are the result of someone losing an internal policy debate," a senior administration official told
Axios. "By leaking the decision, the loser gets one last chance to kill it with blowback from the public, Congress, or
even the President."
Harry
Reid sent sensitive Trump collusion letter over CIA objections. Then-Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid
released a letter in the heat of the 2016 election alleging Trump-Russia collusion even though the CIA director at the time
urged him not to, according to a person familiar with their conversation. Mr. Reid's Aug. 27 letter to the FBI
appears to mark the first time a Democrat officially accused President' Trump's campaign of colluding with the Russian
government to hack his party's computers. The letter has come to represent for conservatives the "deep state" —
Obama loyalists leaking unproven allegations to the press against Mr. Trump and his people to ruin the campaign, the
transition and the White House.
How
Obama loyalists conspired to undermine the Trump transition. Republican-driven investigative reports on Russia
have provided an unanticipated view into secret anti-Trump maneuvers by Obama loyalists during the span of the presidential
transition. Congress set out in early 2017 to investigate Moscow election interference and any coordination with the
Donald Trump campaign. As the collusion avenues led to dead ends, Republican investigators for the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Judiciary Committee traveled on a new lane. They discovered a number of
behind-the-scenes moves that they said transformed a traditionally acrimony-free transition into a partisan transfer of
presidential power.
Report: Secret Source
Who Aided Mueller Probe Is Deemed Off Limits To Congress. House Republicans are again battling with the Justice
Department over information related to the Russia investigation, this time over documents the intelligence community said
involves a top-secret source who has provided information to the CIA and FBI. The mysterious source has also gathered
information that was given to Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into Russian interference in the
2016 election, according to The Washington Post. WaPo reported Justice Department and intelligence community officials
issued a stark warning to the White House on May 2 against a request from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes. Nunes had submitted a subpoena to the Justice Department on April 24 for records related to the Russia probe.
How
a Febrile Press Whipped Up Anger At Trump, for Nothing. The New York Times' list of questions that the special
counsel wishes to put to the president is a farrago of psychometric inquiries into mood, motive, and opinion that has almost
nothing to do with the original canard about Trump-campaign collusion with Russia. Unlike the cases of the Watergate,
Iran-Contra, and Whitewater special prosecutors, there was no prior fact of a crime here. Nor has any emerged in the
year since Robert Mueller was nominated as special counsel in an already long-going investigation, except the very probable
untruthfulness under oath of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, former directors James Comey (FBI), James Clapper
(NIA), and John Brennan (CIA), and probably Hillary Clinton and others. Mr. Mueller gives no hint of pursuing
anyone but Trump and his collaborators, and right to the last week has packed his investigative team with rabid anti-Trump
partisans.
Ex-CIA
officer: Brennan's attacks on Trump 'cringe-worthy,' put national security at risk. A behind-the-scenes
U.S. intelligence community fight over the merits of publicly scorning President Trump has burst into the open recently, with
the CIA's former Moscow station chief accusing Obama-era spymaster John O. Brennan of crossing a red line through incessant
Twitter and cable news excoriations of the current commander in chief. In addition to claiming that Mr. Brennan is
aiding a Kremlin plot to deepen America's partisan divide, former CIA Clandestine Service Officer Daniel Hoffman says the
former CIA director has actually jeopardized national security by publicly insinuating that Russian President Vladimir Putin
may be blackmailing Mr. Trump.
The Deep Congress.
Today's approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee of a bill to gut the president's power to fire a special counsel represents
a shocking breach of the principle of separated powers. It's an attack by a cowardly congress on an executive branch whose
coequality, enshrined as it is in our national parchment, the members of the Congress are sworn to support. The measure's
approval in the Judiciary Committee is no less shocking for the fact that it is unlikely to be passed into law. The Hill
newspaper reckons it lacks the votes for cloture in the Senate and, in any event, it is opposed by the majority leader, Senator
McConnell. It stands less chance of passing the House. It would, in any event, be vetoed by any self-respecting president.
Trump-allied
House conservatives draft articles of impeachment against Rosenstein as 'last resort'. Conservative House allies of
President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the
ongoing special counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal investigation into Russian interference in
the 2016 election. The document, which was obtained by The Washington Post, underscores the growing chasm between congressional
Republican leaders, who have maintained for months that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III should be allowed to proceed,
and rank-and-file GOP lawmakers who have repeatedly battled the Justice Department during the past year.
Comey,
Fitzgerald, Mueller: Partners in Crime. It was no surprise that liar and leaker James Comey added Patrick
Fitzgerald to his legal team and is one of the three to whom Comey leaked memos of his private and classified conversations
with President Trump. The two go way back and have in common a relentless pursuit of the innocent to protect their
political favorites and targeting of the political opposition. Using government power to pursue their political agenda,
even if it means ignoring the truth and lying, is a trait both have in common: [...] President Trump's pardoning of Scooter
Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, corrected a grave injustice in which James Comey and Patrick Fitzgerald
were co-conspirators. It followed a D.C. Court of Appeals decision reinstating Libby to the bar in 2016. Comey, who
falsely claimed that no serious prosecutor would take the case of Hillary Clinton, was among those who found sufficient evidence
to prosecute and convict Scooter Libby.
Democrats Ignore Dossier
In Russia Report, In Stark Contrast To Their Early Rhetoric. At a House Intelligence Committee hearing just
over a year ago, Democrats on the panel focused heavily on the infamous Steele dossier, the salacious and unverified report
alleging that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election. California
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee, made numerous references to Steele's claims during an opening
statement for the hearing, which was held on March 20, 2017.
Conservative
House lawmakers draft articles of impeachment against Rosenstein. A group of conservative House lawmakers have
begun drafting a resolution that calls for the impeachment of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the top Department of
Justice (DOJ) official overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. The impeachment document makes
a series of charges against Rosenstein, the latest sign of escalating efforts among conservatives to oust the DOJ's No. 2
official, according to a copy of the draft obtained by The Hill. There has been no indication, however, that Speaker
Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and other House GOP leaders will act on the measure, having largely remained silent amid calls for his
removal by hard-line conservatives.
Indictments
Are Coming. Americans must open their eyes. Indictments of those responsible for this charade will
reaffirm America as a nation of laws and not of people, no matter how big and untouchable those on the left think they are.
More
Mueller Conflicts of Interest — His Former Employer is Manafort's Law Firm! The Special Counsel law
requires that the Attorney General or Assistant Attorney General ensure that the appointed Special Counsel has no conflicts
of interest. There is no way that Rod Rosenstein could have determined that Robert Mueller had no conflicts of
interest. Congress should request the data related to this assessment and address obvious flaws in approving Mueller,
remove Mueller and prosecute Rosenstein for lying and failing his duty as Assistant AG!
Losing
Patience with the Rollup of the Rogue Ruling Class. More information came to light this week about the
extensive, illegal operations of Obama's rogue bureaucratic corps. Like the Attorney General, the President, Professor
Alan Dershowitz, Joe DiGenova, former Clinton pollster Mark Penn and millions of others, we think this is taking far too
long, and the Mueller investigation needs to close its bunker door and fade away. I'm with them. Moreover, if
indictments of the Obama Bureaucrats who confected this nonsense and tried to cover it up don't follow quickly on the release
of the Inspector General's report — now due May 8 — it is hard to imagine how much more contempt
we will have for claims that we must respect the judicial system. Having seen the criminal justice system misused as a
vicious political weapon against Lewis Libby, Ted Stevens, and now General Michael Flynn while manifest lawbreakers,
including both the Clintons, McCabe, and Comey waltz home free, inspires depths of distrust that only the enemies of a
democratic state could hope to accomplish[.]
Collusion,
Anyone? [Scroll down] Contrast that with the collusion of Obama officials with the Clinton
campaign-financed Christophe Steele/Fusion GPS dossier alleging Trump ties with Russians. Comey and the Justice
Department used it, without divulging who paid for it, to get a FISA warrant to surveil former Trump campaign operative
Carter Page's future and past communications — the "wiretap" Trump was derided for mentioning. Similarly,
when Comey informed Trump in January 2017 of the contents of the then-unpublished Steele dossier, he didn't reveal that the
Clinton campaign had paid for it. Asked on his iatrogenic book tour why not, he blandly said he didn't know. And
maybe he doesn't actually realize he was employing J. Edgar Hoover-like tactics to keep his job. Maybe. In
any case, after he was fired, he immediately sent four of his internal memos, at least one of them classified, to a law
professor friend to leak them to the press, with the intent of getting a special counsel appointed — who turned
out to be his longtime friend and ally Robert Mueller.
Revolution
and Worse to Come. First came the failed lawsuits after the election alleging voting-machine tampering.
Then there was the doomed celebrity effort to convince some state electors not to follow their constitutional duty and to
deny Trump the presidency — a gambit that, had it worked, would have wrecked the Constitution. Then came the
pathetic congressional boycott of the inauguration and the shrill nationwide protests against the president. Next was
the sad effort to introduce articles of impeachment. After that came weird attempts to cite Trump for violations of the
emoluments clause of the Constitution. That puerile con was followed by plans to declare him deranged and mentally
unfit so that he could be removed under the 25th Amendment. From time to time, Obama holdovers in the DOJ, National
Security Council, and FBI sought to leak information, or they refused to carry out presidential orders.
Trump
is Guilty of Obstructing... the Bureaucracy! The charge that Donald Trump "colluded" with Russia to steal
the 2016 election was never serious. The Democratic National Committee's civil suit in that regard makes the
unseriousness transparent. "Obstruction of justice" is the charge Democrats want to use to remove him from
office. And in fact, Trump's campaign, his election, and presidency, have done a lot of obstruction. He has
thwarted longstanding bureaucratic policies and has fired bureaucrats. Whether that has obstructed justice or favored
it depends on the meaning of "justice."
Deep
State or Democrat State? The real climax of the Hillary investigation came when immunity agreements were handed
out to her associates like candy in exchange for their "cooperation". When Hillary and her people lied to the FBI, it wasn't
a crime. Not only wasn't it a crime, but the whole point of the exercise was immunizing her people from prosecution so that
a Trump administration would have little leverage against them. The investigations are also crimes. And they not only
abuse government power to suppress political opponents, but also work to suppress any counter-investigation of the crime being
committing. While Trump and Cohen had their attorney-client privilege shattered, Cheryl Mills inappropriately claimed
attorney-client privilege in her relationship with Hillary Clinton, even though she had been a government employee, and not
only did the FBI respect the claim, but she got an immunity agreement. What do these three cover-ups have in
common? All three abused law enforcement resources to protect Democrat political assets.
Jack
Goldsmith on the Deep State. Jack Goldsmith, writing in the Guardian, tells us that the "deep state" is real
and dangerous. His assertions carry weight for two reasons. First, Goldsmith should know. He was a high
ranking Justice Department official — head the Office of Legal Counsel — during part of the George W.
Bush administration. This placed him in the middle of issues regarding national security, electronic surveillance, and
the like. [...] Second, Goldsmith is a strong critic of President Trump. [...] It's also noteworthy that Goldsmith's column
on the deep state appears in The Guardian, a left-wing organ.
Fusion
GPS co-founders signal next phase in attempted Trump takedown has started. What is known about the Fusion GPS
role in stoking and implementing an attempted takedown of candidate and ultimately president Trump is one of the greatest
political scandals in memory. But it's a story that only partially has been told. We now know that
Russian-Collusion-mania had as its source-fuel Fusion GPS opposition research funded by the Clinton campaign and Democratic
National Committee. The culmination of that effort was the so-called Steele dossier, which was used to obtain FISA
court warrants to surveil Carter Page, and by extension, likely other members of the Trump campaign and transition team both
in real time and historically. What is less known, but almost certain, is how Fusion GPS pushed Russia conspiracy
stories through its close relationship with reporters, and likely continues to do so. Fusion GPS not only was tight
with reporters, it was tight with DOJ officials involved in pushing the Russia conspiracy narrative.
The
Supreme Court Already Said Trump Can Fire Mueller. A Republican President is under fire from his own party. Capitol
Hill Republican leaders have threatened to impeach him if he fires high-level appointees who are undermining him, and they pass
legislation to bar him from doing so. A constitutional crisis ensues when the President vetoes the bill, the veto is overridden,
but the President proceeds to attempt to fire one of the protected appointees claiming Congress has no authority to force him to keep
executive branch employees he doesn't want.
Ken
Starr on 'Troubling' Cohen Raid: 'All Americans Should Be Concerned'. Former Solicitor General Kenneth Starr
said Thursday [4/19/2018] that the investigation into President Trump's personal attorney is "very troubling." "Any time that a
lawyer's office is raided, I believe all Americans should be concerned about that," said Starr, who investigated then-President Bill
Clinton as independent counsel in the 1990s. FBI agents raided Cohen's home, hotel room and offices last week, reportedly
obtaining documents related to Cohen's payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
President Trump
vs. the Foreign Policy Swamp. President Trump's decision to postpone new economic sanctions against Russia on
Monday brought some clarity to the foreign policy fight in Washington. The issue isn't whether UN Ambassador Nikki
Haley gets confused, as she waspishly denied, but the fact that the president is fighting the swamp single-handed.
Comey
is a Pink-Hatted Women's-Marcher. It doesn't matter how James Comey voted when he discharged his duties as FBI director
as a partisan campaign operator for Team Clinton. As his book reveals, his actions were all directed toward electing Hillary
Clinton and discrediting her opponent. He wrote a letter exonerating Clinton long before he interviewed her and her campaign
associates. His October surprise, reopening the Clinton email investigation, was not to hurt Clinton, but instead to exonerate
her before the election. He read the polls, knew she would win, and wanted to clear the decks for her presidency by declaring
the email issue dead and buried. I wonder what Mr. and Mrs. Comey discussed in the year before the election?
He was supposed to be nonpartisan in his position, but she certainly didn't have to be.
Trump
and the attorney-client privilege.
[Scroll down] The federal prosecutors also argued that [Michael] Cohen was not truly performing legal work for Trump; rather, they said, he was a fixer of
Trump's image and a trickster to Trump's adversaries. Then they revealed that the source of their purported knowledge of the Trump-Cohen
relationship was surveillance of Cohen, whose telephone calls, emails and text messages the feds had been capturing for months. That means
that federal prosecutors have overheard the president of the United States in telephone conversations he believed were protected by privilege,
in which he was talking to a man under criminal investigation who he has said was his lawyer.
Dirty
Cop Mueller Will Threaten Trump Attorney with Life in Prison. Last week Dirty cop Robert Mueller stormed Trump
Attorney Michael Cohen's home and office collecting documents going back 30 years. Mueller may threaten Cohen with
life in prison for associating with President Donald Trump. Mueller will find the charges later. The deep state
doesn't play.
Winter Is Coming.
Domestic tyranny is spreading across the land as the Deep State attempts to maintain their stranglehold over the financial,
political and media levers of our surveillance state. Our hour of darkness, adversity and peril is approaching like a
deadly winter storm. The arrival of Trump through the wintry mist has not rallied the entire country to his cause.
His entrance into the Swamp has divided the country into two competing camps, unwilling to compromise or cooperate in doing
what's right for the long-term benefit of the country. The advent of Trump has exacerbated the three driving core elements
of debt, civic decay and global disorder. He is a lightning rod, not a healer. The vitriol, hate, and animosity
engulfing the country is reminiscent of the years leading up to the Civil War.
Coulter:
Cohen Raid Was Attempt By Mueller to Get Trump to Fire Him. Conservative author and attorney Ann Coulter said
special counsel Robert Mueller was "trying to get himself fired" by overseeing the office of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen being
raided by federal agents. Coulter said on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" that the probe into alleged collusion between President
Trump and Russia has morphed into probe into the president's alleged one-night-stand with pornographic film actress Stormy
Daniels. She said that fact "proves there's no Russian collusion" and that Mueller has no case for such.
Colluders
on the Loose. Ironically, collusion of all sorts — illegal, barely legal, and simply unethical —
has been the sea that Washington fish always swim in. Christopher Steele, hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign through a
series of firewall intermediaries, probably paid Russian sources for gossip and smears. If there is a crime of collusion,
then Clinton-campaign contractors should be under investigation for seeking Russian help to find dirt on Trump, to spread smears
around throughout the DOJ, FBI, and CIA, and to make sure that the dirt was leaked to the press in the final weeks of the
campaign — for the sole "insurance" purposes of losing Trump the election. Some sort of collusion likely
occurred when the Obama DOJ and FBI sought FISA-court requests to surveille Carter Page and, indirectly, possibly many other
members of the Trump campaign.
A
quick look at Michael Cohen's judge. Kimba Wood... Kimba Wood... where have I heard that name before?
Well, look at this. She was Bill Clinton's second choice to be attorney general, after the Zoe Baird nomination blew
up. Kimba's blew up, too, because she forgot to tell the White House she had employed an illegal as a nanny. Is
this amazingly great luck for the Mueller-U.S. attorney tag team or what? But don't be downhearted. Judge Wood
has it all doped out: "I have faith in the Southern District U.S. Attorney's office that their integrity is
unimpeachable," Judge Wood said. Remember how we were treated to glowing tales of how Comey and Mueller were "Boy
Scouts," straight arrows both, who played it straight down the middle, eminently fair? And besides, they're both
Republicans!
Judge
In Cohen Case Was Almost Bill Clinton's AG Nominee. Judge Kimba Wood, who is presiding over the case against
President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, was nearly nominated by then-President Bill Clinton to serve as
attorney general in 1993. Wood was hand-picked by Hillary Clinton, who had been asked to submit a list of possible
nominees for her husband's consideration. Wood first raised eyebrows when the Clinton White House learned that she had
trained to be a Playboy bunny while still a student. She was later forced to withdraw herself from consideration when
it was revealed that she had employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny.
Investigators
reveal bias against Trump. We should not be clamoring for special counsel Robert Mueller to be fired.
That ship has sailed. While the Russian collusion investigation seems to be withering away, having yielded no evidence
that might impugn President Trump, a new investigation has been spun off in New York City, targeting his attorney, Michael
Cohen. Since that investigation is separate from the Russia investigation, some are hoping Attorney General Jeff
Sessions can reauthorize himself out of recusement and squash it.
The
Real Investigation. President Trump now has real legal peril. The potential jeopardy stems from the
investigation that came to light this week when the FBI conducted raids on the office and residences of his lawyer and
self-professed "fixer," Michael Cohen. I've never thought "collusion with Russia" posed jeopardy. If there had
been anything criminal to that storyline, the politicized anti-Trump factions in the intelligence and law-enforcement
agencies would have leaked it. And, notwithstanding Trump's nauseating nods to Putin, the administration has taken
enough aggressive steps against Russia that it is past time for the Kremlin to broadcast the big kompromat file
if it exists.
Comey's
last stand for the deep state. They were among the most powerful men of the last decade. They commanded
armies of armed agents, had the ability to bug and wiretap almost anyone, and had virtually unlimited budgets. They
were the leadership of the FBI, the CIA and the director of national intelligence under President Obama. Each day, it
becomes clearer that they are the real abusers of power in this drama.
Raid
on Trump lawyer crossed the line into special prosecutorial abuse. We're supposed to be reassured that the FBI
agents who raided the offices and home of Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, were, in Cohen's words, "courteous"
and "respectful." The president's attorney was understandably grateful that the agents didn't replicate the FBI's
tactics at the home of Paul Manafort, Trump's onetime campaign manager. Busting in before dawn, guns drawn, with a "no
knock" warrant while Manafort and his wife were in bed, the agents frisked Mrs. Manafort while she was still in her
nightclothes. Perhaps Cohen thinks if he sounds reasonable, he can appease Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who
ordered Manafort's arrest, or his other federal prosecutors behind this raid. Or maybe Cohen simply developed the
quickest case of Stockholm syndrome in history. Whatever his reasons, a line has been violated. The government is
going after lawyers now, as part of an investigation that feels as though policy differences and partisan politics have been
criminalized.
American Greatness
and its Enemies. President Trump's railing against political correctness, and his disparaging of the deep state,
show that he has a visceral understanding of these two core fissures in American culture and society. It is that
understanding that resonated with the Americans who voted for Mr. Trump, a group that was enough to hand him a victory
in the electoral college. So committed are his enemies, so unyielding are their beliefs, and so dangerous is the
Kafka-esque legislative structure that we have created, that the American understanding of sovereignty and experiment
in popular government is now at grave risk.
Feds: Michael
Cohen is barely even a lawyer. Michael Cohen is a fraud of a lawyer who works exclusively for President Trump,
federal prosecutors charged Friday [4/13/2018]. "Cohen has told at least one witness that he has only [one] client —
President Trump," the lawyers wrote in court documents, challenging Cohen's claims that records seized in raids on his home and
office Monday [4/9/2018] should be protected by attorney-client privilege. And he's barely doing any "legal work" for Trump,
either, they claim.
How
a Republic Dies: The Federal Leviathan Wages All-Out War With a Duly Elected President. Political
operatives have now seized privileged communications between the President of the United States and his lawyer. Despite
fairy tales about a clean process, these communications will be harvested by the counterparts of Peter Strzok, who unlike him
are still on the case at the FBI, some of it will appear in the Washington Post and the New York Times, and
some will be passed along to other political allies. That's what happened at every juncture of Watergate 2.0.
And it only follows that it will happen again. Just like the eavesdropping, the process will be compartmentalized for
maximum plausible deniability. The leakers will be protected by their superiors. The media will shrilly focus the
public's attention on the revelations in the documents rather than on the more serious crimes committed in obtaining them.
Nixon couldn't have even dreamed of doing this in his wildest fantasies. But Obama could and did. Now his operatives
throughout the government are continuing the work that they began during his regime.
Never trust a Never
Trumper. We have a rogue prosecutor. He has sent agents to raid the homes and offices of the president's
former campaign manager and his personal lawyer. This outrage has liberals gloating, be they on the left or be they on
the right of your television screens. Decades of chatter about civil rights turn out to be a facade. They no more
care about the Constitution than a Canada goose does. And the Never Trump wimps once again side with the Big Government
Deep State.
Piers
Morgan: Left Can't Prove Trump-Russia Collusion, So They're 'Moving the Goalposts'. Piers Morgan said the
left has been unable to find solid evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, so Democrats are "moving the
goalposts" and going after President Trump's personal life. "They want to prove to the world that Donald Trump
collaborated with Russians to fix the election [and] that's why he won," Morgan said on "Hannity" on Thursday [4/12/2018].
"So far, they have singularly failed to establish that." He said that's why they're moving on to lurid allegations about
the president's private life, such as his purported 2006 affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.
'This
Is Third World Stuff': Former DOJ Attorney Suggests Legal Process Being Used to 'Terrorize' Trump. Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should have been fired months ago, former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams
argued, saying Rosenstein let Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation "get completely out of control."
Rosenstein met with President Trump on Thursday, amid recent calls for Rosenstein's ouster over his role in the Russia probe.
Adams explained on "The Story" on Thursday [4/12/2018] that Mueller originally was supposed to investigate possible collusion
between the Trump campaign and Russia, but the probe has expanded far beyond that.
DOJ
IG releases explosive report that led to firing of ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Andrew McCabe, onetime
acting FBI director, leaked a self-serving story to the press and later lied about it to his boss and federal investigators,
prompting a stunning fall from grace that ended in his firing last month, says a bombshell report released Friday by the
Justice Department's internal watchdog. Inspector General Michael Horowitz, appointed by President Barack Obama, had
been reviewing FBI and DOJ actions leading up to the 2016 presidential election. The report, handed over to Congress on
Friday and obtained by Fox News, looked at a leak to The Wall Street Journal about an FBI probe of the Clinton Foundation.
Justice
Department hands over Russia probe documents after impeachment threat. The Justice Department has handed over
all of the documents requested by the House intelligence committee after a congressman threatened to impeach FBI Director
Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein over the delay. A Justice Department official said the
documents, which were related to the FBI's probe of the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia, were turned over Wednesday
[4/11/2018]. That was just before the deadline set by Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican and the intelligence
panel chairman, had threatened to impeach Mr. Wray and Mr. Rosenstein for failing to comply with a subpoena for the
documents from last August.
DOJ
gives House Intel original document that prompted Russia investigation. The Justice Department has provided
House lawmakers with access to a two-page document that the FBI used as the basis for initiating its original counterintelligence
probe into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. All members of the House Intelligence Committee received access to the document,
a Justice Department official confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday [4/11/2018]. Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) had
requested access to the unredacted document, complaining that previous "heavily" redacted versions were not adequate for committee
Republicans' investigation into alleged abuses at the Justice Department.
Russia
Scandal: Will Devin Nunes Investigation Prove 'Deep State' Collusion By FBI, DOJ? Among the many
investigations going on related to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, one stands out as notable: The
investigation by the House Intelligence Committee and its hard-charging chairman, Devin Nunes, of how the FBI came to spy on
the Donald Trump campaign. It's now coming to a head.
Rand
Paul: Mueller abused authority; 'every American citizen' could be next. Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., says
that special counsel Robert Mueller has abused his authority by referring President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen,
to the FBI, which raided Cohen's office Monday morning, seizing business records, emails, and other documentation, including
a record of a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Paul said the special counsel is no longer looking at Russian
collusion in the 2016 election. "Going after someone's personal attorney is a great overstep, I think, in the authority
of the prosecutor," Paul said.
Facebook
[is] assisting Mueller probe into Trump 2016 campaign. Facebook is working with special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into
Trump campaign interactions with Russian operatives during the 2016 election, company founder Mark Zuckerberg told Congress on Tuesday
[4/10/2018]. Mr. Zuckerberg first said his company had gotten a subpoena from Mr. Mueller, then paused and said he wasn't
sure if there was a subpoena but his company is sharing information the investigation. He declined to go into more details.
"Our work with the special counsel is confidential," he said, testifying to the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees.
Nunes
Warns Rosenstein & Wray: Turn Over Unredacted Documents Or Face Impeachment. On Fox News Tuesday evening [4/10/2018],
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes issued a stern warning to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein: Hand over the unredacted documents that congressional investigators have requested or face not only the prospect of
being held in contempt — but impeachment, as well.
Guess
Whose House Wasn't Raided by the FBI. Can't find any collusion between Trump and Russia? Hey, why not
look for collusion between Cohen and professional whore and porn star Stormy Daniels? Was she paid to go away with
campaign funds? Even so, that's an FEC violation punishable by a fine and something that does not require a SWAT
team. It certainly does not compare with money funneled by Team Hillary and the DNC though a law firm to Fusion GPS and
British foreign agent Christopher Steele to put together a fake dossier on Trump using Russian sources. But where were
the raids on the offices of the DNC, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and Fusion GPS? This is the FBI of Andrew McCabe,
Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok, whose mission was to keep Hillary Clinton out of prison and Donald Trump out of the White
House. They never raided the home and office of Cheryl Mills, did they? They never raided Hillary's house or
seized the acid-washed server, did they? But Michael Cohen is a threat to our democracy warranting brute force?
Trump-Appointed
U.S. Attorney Was Forced To Recuse Himself So Cohen Raid Could Take Place. Over the last 24-hours, the
Establishment Media has repeated over and over again how the U.S. District Attorney who oversaw the raid on longtime Trump
Attorney Michael Cohen's New York offices was a Trump appointee — implying there must have been some serious
wrongdoing for the raid to then have taken place. Ah, there's one problem though. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman
was NOT part of the raid. He was forced to recuse himself from the case by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Outrageous — the FBI raid
on Michael Cohen. This morning [4/9/2018], the DOJ, based on allegations passed on by Bob Mueller, executed a
warrant on Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, sweeping up a host of material covered by attorney client privilege.
[...] This warrant is from the same [people] who have yet — two years after the fact — to execute a
warrant to verify that the single most basic fact of the collusion story, that the DNC server was hacked by the Russians.
This from the same [people] that allowed Hillary to maintain her private server for months after it became known that she had
run all State Dept. business through that server, all but certainly exposing thousands of confidential, secret and top secret
documents and items of information in violation of our state secrets laws. During that time, Hillary and her attorney
wiped that server clean. And now these [people], seemingly having found nothing on which to charge Trump relating to
Russian collusion, and having given Hillary and her team a pass on crystal clear felonies, go after Trump and/or his personal
attorney on a technical violation of election law? These worthless [people] are out of control.
Here
Are 8 Things You Need To Know About The FBI's Raid on Michael Cohen's Offices. [#7] The FBI Never Treated Hillary Clinton
This Way: This is perfectly obvious. Hillary wasn't merely allowed to delete 33,000 documents from her computer server three
weeks after revelations that she had a private computer server, she was protected by the DOJ and the FBI, which allowed her personal
attorney, Cheryl Mills — who was also under investigation — to invoke attorney-client privilege to stop the FBI from investigating
Hillary's email scheme
FBI
director, Mueller, Rosenstein are out to take down Trump: diGenova & Toensing attorneys. The tactics used in
the FBI raid of President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen are normally reserved for terrorists, according to
attorneys from the law firm of diGenova & Toensing. "Mueller and his gang have weaponized the criminalized justice
system," attorney Victoria Toensing said Monday during an interview with FOX Business' Lou Dobbs. "These no-knock raids
that were done on his personal lawyer's house and offices, those kind of tactics are reserved for dope dealers and terrorists."
Cohen Raid & Mueller Madness.
No one has seen the search warrants. No one knows why Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein pushed this warrant to New
York. What is known, according to the Washington Post, is that Cohen is being investigated for potential bank
fraud and election fraud. To the lawyerly among the Twitterati, there must be a there, there. One commenter
mused upon the "slow roll of the Nixon investigation" and saw an analogy. And he's right. There is an analogy.
The media hate Donald Trump just as they hated Richard Nixon.
The
FBI Escalates its War on the Trump Administration. News reports indicate that the FBI raid resulted, at least in part,
from a referral by Robert Mueller. The subject of the raid included "payments to the former porn actress known as Stormy Daniels."
Good going, Bob — you were assigned to investigate nonexistent collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russians, and now
you're down to liaisons with porn performers. Donald Trump allegedly spent one illicit evening with Ms. Daniels 12 years ago,
when he was a private citizen. (Lacking personal knowledge, I assume the allegation is probably true.) That might be a big deal
to Melania Trump, but to the rest of us it is utterly irrelevant.
The Editor says...
Twelve years ago, Donald Trump was a Democrat.
Alan
Dershowitz: Today is a 'very dangerous day for lawyer-client relations'. Harvard Law professor Alan
Dershowitz warned Monday that special counsel Robert Mueller's decision to raid President Trump's personal lawyer's office is
an assault on the privileged lawyer-client relationship. Dershowitz said on Fox News that he believes the decision to
raid Michael Cohen's office would be a sign that Mueller is trying to turn Cohen against Trump. "This may be an attempt
to squeeze Cohen," he said. "He's the lawyer, he's the guy who knows all the facts about Donald Trump, and to get him
to turn against his client." "This is a very dangerous day today for lawyer-client relations," he added.
Mr.
Mueller, I'd like to know what you are doing. I have some questions for Mr. Mueller: First, who is
getting fired for all of these leaks? In other words, somebody's leaking, and we know that's a crime. Why doesn't
Mr. Mueller fire somebody to show that he won't put up with any more leaks? Second, why so many Democrats working
in this investigation? Weren't there any Republican lawyers to balance the team? So we wait and wait.
The Mueller coup.
Robert Mueller's unconstitutional raid on the president's lawyer — with Democratic Party operatives grabbing
privileged communications — is the last straw. Mueller should not be fired. Mueller should be arrested
and charged with political espionage. That won't happen, but I trust that something calmer and more effective will
occur. I hope that the president will empower Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz to raid the
offices of Mueller and every one of the two dozen Democratic lawyers he put on the public payroll with absolutely no vetting
by Civil Service or Congress. Furthermore, Horowitz should raid their private law offices and their homes.
The
raid on Trump's lawyer: Why? And why now? In the absence of any public statements from Robert
Mueller's team or the FBI or DOJ — just leaks to pet media outlets — we can only speculate as to the
motives for a thermonuclear escalation of tactics being used against President Trump in the effort to reverse the
presidential election of 2016. They have extended the fishing expedition to include seizure of protected communications
between the president and his lawyers, now in the hands of the FBI, the same agency that has been stonewalling congressional
investigation into its behavior in launching the surveillance of the Trump campaign on charges of collusion with Russia.
It should be noted that no evidence whatsoever of such collusion has been developed and made public, which has to be a deep
embarrassment at a minimum.
FBI raids Trump
lawyer's office. The FBI on Monday [4/9/2018] raided the office of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen,
and seized emails, tax documents and records related to his payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels. Cohen's lawyer, Stephen
Ryan, said in a statement that federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained a search warrant after receiving a referral "in part"
from special counsel Robert Mueller. Ryan called the search "completely inappropriate and unnecessary." The New York Times
reported that the payment to Daniels is just one of "many topics" being looked at by the FBI.
Team Obama's
smear machine-in-exile mobilizes to destroy Iran-deal critics. "John Bolton is at the nexus of Russia's
interference in our democracy and the NRA's reckless agenda": The sentence is so bonkers, so pristine in its conspiratorial
insanity that it should one day grace a Museum of Natural History exhibit on early-21st-century US politics. Yet it
wasn't from an anonymous troll, or some Hollywood figure with tons of followers but little common sense. It was tweeted
by National Security Action — an outfit run by former top Obama officials. Described by the Washington Post
as a "political strike force," this NSA is a coterie of veterans from the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton's campaign,
acting as a shadow government to weaponize foreign-policy disputes. It's a fever-swamp-in-exile. And it exemplifies
everything that's wrong with top Democrats' partisan madness in the Age of Trump.
The
Democratic Party Collusion Story Gets Worse. We have barely begun to plumb the depths of the scandal arising
out of the 2016 presidential election. James Comey, John Brennan, Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, the DNC, the Hillary
Clinton campaign, the Perkins Coie law firm, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, unknown Russians, Andrew McCabe — the list
goes on and on, and it keeps getting longer.
Special
counsel investigating the FBI. The headline and accompanying story in the Hill made it appear as if Attorney
General Jeff Sessions is defying the Senate: "Sessions declines to appoint second special counsel." The story said,
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed in a letter to lawmakers Thursday [3/29/2018] that he had declined to name a second special
counsel to investigate allegations of surveillance abuse within the Department of Justice, despite pressure from the Republican Party
for him to do so." I read the letter. Sessions, a veteran prosecutor, said a special prosecutor isn't necessary.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his staff of 470 people are handling the investigation in the corruption of the FBI by Barack
Obama and company. Sessions named U.S. Attorney John Huber — an Obama appointee — of Utah to handle any
prosecutions that may arise from Horowitz's investigation.
Documents
suggest possible coordination between CIA, FBI, Obama WH and Dem officials early in Trump-Russia probe: investigators. Newly
uncovered text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page suggest a possible coordination between high-ranking officials at
the Obama White House, CIA, FBI, Justice Department and former Senate Democratic leadership in the early stages of the investigation into
alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to GOP congressional investigators on Wednesday [3/28/2018]. The
investigators say the information provided to Fox News "strongly" suggests coordination between former President Barack Obama's Chief of
Staff Denis McDonough, then-Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, and CIA Director John Brennan — which they say would "contradict"
the Obama administration's public stance about its hand in the process.
Collusion
Delusion: New Documents Show Obama Officials, FBI Coordinated in Anti-Trump Probe. Documents obtained by
congressional investigators suggest possible coordination by Obama White House officials, the CIA and the FBI into the
investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign. Those senior Obama officials used unsubstantiated evidence to
launch allegations in the media that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia during the run-up to the 2016 presidential
election, according to newly discovered documents and communications obtained by Congress. The documents also reveal
that former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, sent a letter on Aug. 29, 2016, asking former FBI Director James
Comey to investigate the allegations, which were presented to him by then CIA Director John Brennan. Brennan had briefed
Reid privately days earlier on the counterintelligence investigation and documents suggest Reid was also staying in close touch
with Comey over the issues.
DOJ
Inspector General reviews alleged FISA abuses by DOJ, FBI. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced
Wednesday [3/28/2018] he will review potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses by both the Justice Department and the
FBI, following requests from Congress and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The Office of the Inspector General released a statement
Wednesday outlining the start of the review. "The OIG will initiate a review that will examine the Justice Department's and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's compliance with legal requirements, and with applicable DOJ and FBI policies and procedures, in
applications filed with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) relating to a certain U.S. person," the statement
obtained by Fox News read. "As part of this examination, the OIG also will review information that was known to the DOJ and
the FBI at the time the applications were filed from or about an alleged FBI confidential source."
Newly-released
Strzok-Page texts suggest a sneaky cabal. More evidence was released yesterday indicating that the CIA, the
FBI, the Obama White House, and congressional Democrats were communicating about a possible charge of Russian collusion with
the Trump campaign three months before the November 2016 presidential election. There is nothing close to a smoking gun
here, I am afraid. Nonetheless, the new Strzok-Page text messages released yesterday — more than 49,000 of
their texts remain to be released — suggest that, contrary to Obama administration claims, White House chief of
staff Denis McDonough was a participant in the launching of an FBI counterintelligence investigation into allegations of
Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. Other members of what could be a cabal include then-Senate minority leader
Harry Reid; CIA chief John Brennan; and FBI officials, including Director James Comey and members of Andrew McCabe's
counterintelligence division.
The Deep State Media Game.
Let's recall that what got us to this point is that when to their horror, the friends of Hillary in various government
agencies like the FBI, the CIA and the DIA realized she had lost and Donald Trump was in fact set to be the next president,
they set to work. The critical part is the Trump/Russia collusion narrative would not have worked unless the likes of
Brennan/CIA, Clapper/DIA/ and Comey/McCabe/Strzok from the FBI started feeding leaks to various friendlies in the media.
Everybody leaked to the media and they had their constituency with this or that favorite reporter. The question now:
Is this still going on? Based on the evidence, the answer is yes.
Hey, Deep State, Americans know
you're hiding in there. According to a new Monmouth University Poll, a substantial majority of Americans
believes that an unelected, shadowy portion of government and the military secretly manipulates federal policy to its own
ends. Here's what's so intriguing about this finding: It's bipartisan, one of the few things in these
hyper-partisan days that members of both parties as well as independents share a fervent belief in.
The
FBI's McCabe and Bias in the Deep State. Andrew McCabe was fired from the FBI reportedly for lying. He
should have been fired for misuse of office and bias. Notably, lying to the FBI is a crime under the False Statements
Act. So what "Andy" did was arguably a crime, for which dismissal is normal. But bias, favorable or unfavorable,
is not a crime. That is why it is far more dangerous if left unchecked. And that is why Andrew McCabe should have
been fired for it.
The Deep State Is in Deep Trouble.
Why would some "concerned citizen" suddenly leak information to ABC that Jeff Sessions was under investigation for perjuring
himself (about Russia, of course) during his confirmation hearing now almost a year behind us? Could it have something
to do with the fact that the man who instigated that investigation was none other than Andrew McCabe, only recently fired by
Sessions? Was someone or some group — the ABC report specifies "sources" with an "s" — trying to
make the attorney general's act seem one of revenge, and thus illegitimate? No doubt. But the problem is that
Sessions was long ago exonerated of this charge by none other than Robert Mueller.
House
Probe Accuses Clapper of Misleading Congress. A House Intelligence Committee investigation of Russian election
meddling has concluded that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper misled Congress about disclosing
information to CNN. The committee's final report on the investigation was approved on Thursday and now awaits an
intelligence agency review. Despite 472 days of investigation and thousands of witnesses, the committee stated in its
list of final conclusions and recommendations that it found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump, his campaign
aides, and Russia. "The committee found no evidence that meetings between Trump associates — including Jeff
Sessions — and official representatives of the Russian government — including Ambassador Kislyak —
reflected collusion, coordination, or conspiracy with the Russian government," the list states.
Wait,
What? Andrew McCabe Launched an FBI Investigation Into Attorney General Sessions Because Dems Asked Him To? It's
been less than a week since former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions after a recommendation
for termination from the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility. The drama surrounding the lawful and
justified firing hasn't stopped since and late Wednesday night [3/21/2018], ABC News dropped a bombshell story alleging Sessions
was under FBI investigation last year for perjury. The man leading the charge? Andrew McCabe.
McCabe's
Bogus Witch Hunt Of Jeff Sessions Confirms Worst Fears About FBI/DOJ Politicization. Thousands upon thousands
of media reports over the last year and a half have intimated, suggested, or flat-out asserted that President Donald Trump is
a traitor who colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. What this widely held theory lacks
in evidence, its diehard supporters in the media and other anti-Trump bastions make up for with their faith-filled conviction
of its truth. An alternate storyline has been unfolding over that same time. The basic contour is that claims
Trump stole the election by treasonously colluding with Russia are the result of a coordinated campaign that was bought and
paid for by the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee, weaponized by the federal government, and promulgated by
a completely compliant media.
John Brennan,
Obama's Head of the Innuendo Community. [John Brennan] turned up on MSNBC to disseminate the smear that Russia
holds compromising material over Trump. This claim, he admitted, was based on nothing more than his own hunch.
So here was a former CIA director sliming a sitting president on his own vicious speculation, just days after one of his old
colleagues in the Obama administration had hinted at dark things to come for Trump — and that wasn't the story!
No, the story was the "alarm" felt by such a ruling-class worthy, as if the intensity of Brennan's feelings somehow made up
for his total lack of evidence. A similar subtext runs through many of the stories about the "respected" Christopher Steele:
they gloss over the absence of evidence in his dossier and focus instead on the depth of his "concerns." Who cares?
Where is the evidence? We know that if the Brennans and Steeles had any real evidence they would have leaked it by now.
Limitless
Investigation of Trump Was Always the Plan. A man can run the gauntlet against more than 20 professional
politicians and come out victorious. He can win more than 40 Republican primary contests and beat every professional
political campaigner out there, earning the votes of more than 14 million Republicans. [...] We can pick our president.
But then the powerful established bureaucracy must conduct a massive, sprawling, limitless investigation into any and all
aspects of the president we pick. The basis of this "investigation" is an increasingly debunked frame-up designed and
drafted by the Kremlin and paid for by President Trump's political opponent in the presidential election. And then
spread to all four corners of the globe by the oldest creatures of the powerful establishment in Washington.
John
Brennan: Deep State Political Hack. Considering that John Brennan once proudly admitted that he voted for
Communist Party leader Gus Hall and openly supports liars and perjurers like Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, and James Comey,
he redefines chutzpah when in a tweet he describes President Trump in words that sound as though they were plagiarized from
FBI lead investigator Peter Strzok: [...] The only "disgraced demagogues" in this scenario are John Brennan; James Clapper;
Andrew McCabe; James Comey; Peter Strzok; and, yes, Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller, all parties in a political resistance
whose purpose was to keep Hillary Clinton out of prison and Donald Trump out of the White House. And John Brennan dares
to talk about political corruption?
The
bad news is the swamp is deeper than we knew. For eight years (likely more) the Democratic Party has used
national security fears to spy on Americans. Do you think they began with Trump and confined themselves to political
opposition? Unmasking — disclosing to political operatives who was spied upon and what they said —
was common. [...] Transcripts were released to reporters. The New York Times used this wiretapped information —
that is what the Times called it — for a front page story on Inauguration Day designed to undermine the new president.
Samantha
Power and the importance of being very, very afraid of ex-CIA chief John Brennan. The rage wing of the
Democratic Party has gotten active again. Former Obama administration United Nations ambassador Samantha Power followed
former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan to make big threats to the Trump administration in the wake of the
firing of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe for lying. It's fascinating because it's something President Trump had
absolutely nothing to do with, given that it was apolitical watchdogs in the Department of Justice and the FBI's Office of
Professional Responsibility who made the call. Yet they are lashing out and now making threats — because
it's dawning on them that they too can be held accountable.
'Deep State' Alumni Rally
Around McCabe. Numerous former "Deep State" operatives, politicians, and media figures united behind former FBI
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Twitter in the wake of his termination Friday night [3/16/2018]. Former CIA Director
John Brennan sent an ominous tweet Saturday calling Trump a "disgraced demagogue" who will eventually land "in the dustbin
of history."
James
Clapper: Deep State Point Man. As the House Intelligence Committee on Monday [3/12/2018] announced its findings
that there was no collusion between Team Trump and Russia, more evidence of the collusion between Deep State swamp creatures and a
disloyal media to undermine the presidency of Donald Trump was also revealed. James Clapper has been exposed as both a perjurer
and a criminal leaker of classified information to the press. The cynicism of Americans regarding integrity and accountability
in government grew as swamp thing James Clapper avoided his part of the bog being drained.
The
Real Collusion Story. [Scroll down] With his jacket and tie off, the cuffs of his sleeves turned, and a
winning smile spread from ear to ear, Obama came to loan Hillary Clinton his common touch. Passing the baton to her was
a team effort, however. It demanded hard work from countless enablers. These included not just Democrats but also
many Republicans, who shared the conviction that Trump represented an extraordinary threat to our democracy. Desperate
times call for desperate measures. To block Trump, Clinton's supporters bent rules and broke laws. They went to
surprising lengths to strengthen her while framing him — both in the sense of depicting him in a particular light
and of planting evidence against him.
Eric
Holder Comes Unglued After GOP House Intel Committee Rules No Trump-Russia Collusion. House Intelligence Committee
Republicans announced Monday [3/12/2018] that they found "no evidence of collusion," between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin
in the panel's 'Russia probe.' The Deep State and Democrats aren't taking the news well. Leaker Adam Schiff immediately
blew a gasket and released a ridiculous statement claiming the Republicans don't care about the fact that the Russians may have
leverage over Trump. Former Attorney General Eric 'Fast and Furious' Holder was livid after the GOP House Intel panel
shut down the Trump-Russia probe.
Former
DNI James Clapper Allegedly Leaked to CNN, investigation revealed. Former Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper allegedly leaked information to CNN early last year regarding the classified briefings given to then
President-Elect Donald Trump and President Barrack Obama on the salacious dossier claiming the Russians had compromising
information on the president-elect, according to government sources, who noted the evidence of the leak was collected during
the House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation. Clapper, who was one of four senior Obama administration
officials to attend the briefing with the presidents, also stated his "profound dismay at the leaks" in an official statement
issued in January, 2017 and warned that the leaks were "extremely corrosive and damaging" to national security, according to
his press release.
Report:
James Clapper Was Leaking Intelligence Reports to CNN During President-Elect Trump Transition. This story today
from Sara Carter is really interesting because CTH outlined the foundation of this back in January of 2017. According to an
article published today by Sara Carter her congressional sources have told her of an investigation into former ODNI James Clapper
and his leaking of "intelligence information" to CNN in an orchestrated effort to damage the incoming Trump administration.
Former
Director Of National Intelligence, James Clapper, Caught Lying During CNN Broadcast. It is easy to get lost in the weeds
if you don't follow the details closely; however, last night James Clapper appeared on CNN to defend himself against mounting evidence
he leaked, and falsified the content of a presidential briefing of an Intelligence Discussion — including the "Steele
Dossier" — to CNN January 9th or 10th 2017.
'Can It Happen
Here? Authoritarianism in America'. [Scroll down] Some see these bureaucrats [of the American Deep
State] as a vital check on the law-breaking or authoritarian or otherwise-illegitimate tendencies of democratically elected
officials. Others decry the Deep State as a self-serving authoritarian cabal that illegally and illegitimately
undermines democratically elected officials and the policies they were elected to implement. The truth is that the Deep
State, which is a real phenomenon, has long been both a threat to democratic politics and a savior of it. The problem
is that it is hard to maintain its savior role without also accepting its threatening role.
Anti-Trump
bureaucrats accused of weaponizing security clearance process. The security clearance process has tied the
Trump administration in knots — and that is exactly what the bureaucrats running the White House personnel
security office intended, said a lawyer who has been battling the office. The problem is a small group of career
bureaucrats holed up in the Old Executive Office Building who turned security reviews into quicksand to ensnare President
Trump's team, said Sean M. Bigley, a federal security clearance lawyer who represents several senior administration officials
caught up in the process. "The security clearance process is being weaponized by anti-Trump bureaucrats who are using
it as a tool to not only thwart the president's agenda but to prevent him from installing appointees who will execute it,"
Mr. Bigley told The Washington Times.
Report:
Mueller's investigation takes a bizarre turn. The Washington Post reports that Robert Mueller is investigating
President Trump's "private comments and state of mind" during the period when he issued a series of tweets belittling
Attorney General Jeff Sessions. According to the Post, the thrust of Mueller's inquiry is to determine whether the
president's goal was to oust Sessions in order to pick a replacement who would exercise control over Mueller's
investigation. If this story is true, it demonstrates why the nation needs someone in the Justice Department to
exercise control over Mueller's investigation. It also confirms the suspicion that Mueller is either nuts, desperate to
get Trump, or both.
Doctor
Hamburger Diagnoses a Malignant Administrative State. The ominous nature of the administrative state (think
IRS, EPA, DOJ, DEA, Interior, FCC, SEC) transforms our government originally designed as limited and by the consent of the
governed. Emblematic of the administrative state problem is the slow-rolling special counsel coup being orchestrated by
intelligence and law enforcement agencies intent on overturning a presidential election, energized and perpetrated by human
creatures in the embedded federal bureaucracy that occupies a wide swath of swampland on the Potomac River.
Political Espionage, By the Book.
John Brennan, Obama's CIA director, gives himself this description on his Twitter account: "Nonpartisan American who is
very concerned about our collective future." In other words, Brennan is still in the disinformation business. Liberal
partisan who is very concerned about our collectivist future — that would be a more apt description for one of the
most politicized CIA directors ever, whose ascent to the top of the CIA began with a lie-detector test in which he revealed
that he was a supporter of the Soviet-controlled American Communist party. Brennan was the fox guarding the
henhouse — a role he played to the hilt for Hillary Clinton in 2016 as he set in motion a sham investigation into
the Trump campaign. NBC recently signed Brennan up as a "national security" correspondent. So the fox will now
get to comment on the henhouse he raided.
Trump's
agenda: Saving sovereignty and citizenship from the deep state. The 2016 election revealed American
citizens' crisis of confidence in their political establishment. More than a year on, that establishment ought to take
the opportunity of President Trump's first State of the Union address to think seriously about our politics, our Constitution,
and our cultural and political life together. More than anything else, President Trump spoke to Congress about individual
Americans and the meaning of American citizenship — often using criminals, adversaries and hostile foreign powers
as foils. The president's speech was about that most fundamental of political and human distinctions — friends
versus enemies — but it built to a vision of American justice rooted in the sovereignty of the people.
General
Mike Flynn, Rudolph Contreras and The Increasingly Sketchy FISA Application. On November 30th, 2017, Mike Flynn
signed a guilty plea; ostensibly admitting lying to investigators. The plea was accepted by Judge Rudolph Contreras; who
is also a FISA court judge. Six days later, December 7th, 2017, Judge Contreras "was recused" from the case without
explanation. The case was reassigned to DC District Judge Emmet Sullivan. The Contreras recusal always seemed sketchy.
If the conflict existed on December 7th, wouldn't that same conflict have existed on November 30th, 2017?
How
Obama's Hillary Clinton cover-ups destroyed DOJ and FBI. The Obama/Clintons' shadow government operatives will
stop at nothing to cover up their crimes against democracy, including the destruction of evidence and obstruction of
justice. Destruction of evidence has been a big theme throughout the Bill/Hillary Clinton era. Just take a look
at scandals involving the missing emails, Benghazi, and the Clinton Foundation. Based on the recent announcement from the
Department of Justice regarding the 50,000 missing texts written by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, it appears this trend is continuing.
The
Administrative State as opposed to the Deep State. The two terms overlap, but are not essentially the same
thing. The "administrative state" refers to the Progressive constitutionalism that consciously seeks to supplant
democratic self-government with rule by experts in permanent agencies, neatly skirting the principle of the separation of
powers. The "deep state" is actually a term of foreign origin (usually Turkey) that refers to what the left used to
call the "national security state," that is, a cabal of the military and intelligence communities. It is a curious
thing that an idea that once was the province of the left has become the property of the populist right. After all,
it used to be the left that hated the FBI; now it's our side.
The GOP memo
proves the 'deep state' is real. Because of the memo and previous revelations, we know that swamp creatures are
embedded in the top of the FBI and the Department of Justice. Some used their power to try to tip a presidential
campaign based on their personal politics. They conducted a sham investigation of the Democratic candidate and misled
federal judges to spy on at least one associate of her Republican challenger. To block exposure of their misdeeds,
these officials falsely claimed that national security would be damaged. Add that despicable lie — issued in
the name of the FBI itself — to their shameful records. Thanks to the battle over the memo, we also know
with 100 percent certainty that the mainstream media is part of the swamp.
Ex-Obama
intel bosses snipe at Trump from sidelines amid concern over politicized agencies. Once upon a time, former
intel chiefs employed a restrained and nonpartisan tone in the public eye. Now, they're diving right into the mud of
today's rancorous political fights. And the current battle between law enforcement circles and congressional Republicans
over the controversial memo on alleged surveillance abuse has pulled Obama-era spy guys even deeper into the brawl.
Deep State
Agent of Corruption. The confirmation of Rod Rosenstein as Deputy Attorney General by a lopsided 94-6 vote
should have set off warning bells. It is odd that a Trump nominee would get so much Democrat support, if any at
all. But Rosenstein's role in appointing his pal Robert Mueller to lead a fraudulent "Russian collusion"
probe — as well as his history of looking the other way when Hillary Clinton is involved — shows the
Democrats had high hopes for Rosenstein. These hopes were realized by his actions that have been documented in the
four-page House Intelligence Committee memo.
Rosenstein —
Agent of the Deep State Coup. The confirmation of Rod Rosenstein to be Deputy Attorney General by a lopsided
94-6 vote should have set off warning bells. It is odd that a Trump nominee would get much Democratic support, if
any. But his role in appointing his buddy Robert Mueller to lead a bogus Russian collusion probe and his history of
looking the other way when Hillary Clinton is involved shows the Democrats had high hopes for Rosenstein, hopes realized by
actions documented in the four-page House Intelligence Committee memo: [...] Steele's discredited "research," which relied
heavily on input from Russian sources, was paid for by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign, which puts Rosenstein in the
position of aiding the efforts of one political party to overturn the results of an election won by the other political party
by okaying domestic spying on an American citizen.
Desperation
Time As Democrats Seek to Stop Trump From Succeeding. [Scroll down] Then there's the never-ending
Trump/Russia/Tin Foil thing. The only conspiracy anyone has found yet was the Obama administration's conspiracy to rig
the election. Rigging elections is apparently okay when it doesn't involve the Russians. See, the problem was
that Trump's alleged plot was outsourced to foreigners or something. The Democrats are hoping against hope that Trump
will talk to Mueller, that beagle-looking lackey of the left, and get caught up in some [petty] perjury beef because he says
something happened on a Tuesday around noon and it really happened at 11:43 a.m. Trump should not let them bait
him — it's a trap, a trick, an ambush, and he needs to listen to his lawyers and not have [any] thing to do with
the people whose teen girl-like volumes of texting clearly reveal them as partisan agents determined to frame the president
if that is what it takes to overturn the election.
Donald
Trump Should Refuse a Mueller Interview. Let's cut to the chase: Donald Trump should not agree to be
interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and President Trump should not even be asked. See, there are two
Trumps to consider here. There is the very eccentric and volatile man who is the subject of Mueller's amorphous
investigation. And there is the president of the United States, who has responsibilities to that vital public
office. Here, the interests of both happen to align.
Unless
the Obamagate perpetrators do time, the republic is in peril. Obamagate is the greatest scandal in modern U.S.
history, and the mainstream media knows it. This is why they are desperately trying to ignore it. It won't
work. Washington is circling the wagons, trying to protect the FBI from the growing scandal. Yet, the
media-enabled "Deep State" conspiracy to implement a silent coup against President Donald Trump is slowly being exposed
by courageous congressional investigators.
Obama —
Leader of the Deep State Coup. In any criminal investigation where the suspect is not immediately known, the
first question usually asked is who would have the most to gain? As we follow the bread crumbs of the text messages of
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and await release of the House Intelligence Committee's memo regarding the collusion between the
DNC, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DOJ, and FBI to interfere with the 2016, ensure the election of Hillary, and the
defeat or impeachment of Donald Trump, the answer to that question is clear — one Barack Hussein Obama. [...] This
scandal did not occur in a vacuum any more than did the weaponizing of the IRS to target the Tea Party and other conservative
groups before Obama's 2012 reelection campaign occured in a vacuum. The agencies under Obama's control have been
politicized before and used to intimidate and destroy his political opponents[.]
FBI's
Secret, Anti-American Society. Deep State operatives dominate the FBI. They have never worried about
discovery. They believe they are too big to indict, and that they are somehow above the law. Except, now, the FBI
is under fire, and under examination, and the liberal left's wagons are circling the agency, not only to hide the corruption,
but to keep the public from learning that a secret society of leftism is running rampant through the nation's top bureau of
investigation. They are trying to even blame the Russians for the FBI's crimes, but fall short drastically. As
the investigators got close, text messages disappeared, and the members of the secret society clammed up. The
circumstantial evidence says the FBI under Obama was also complicit in using illegal activities and an abuse of power
in an attempt to defeat Donald Trump in 2016.
What Do We Do About the
FBI? Suppose what many are now suspecting is completely true — that the FBI, or parts of it,
exonerated Hillary Clinton and her cohorts with a mock investigation, attempted to swing our presidential election against
Donald Trump and then continued to undermine the new administration after they had won with illegitimate claims of Russian
collusion orchestrated by sleazy political lowlifes? While this is not quite Stalinist — no one was
tortured in Lubyanka or sent to the Gulag for life — it's not all that distant. It's tantamount to an
internal coup d'état that is still ongoing.
Trey
Gowdy: Newly revealed Strzok/Page texts exhibit 'manifest bias 'favoring Hillary Clinton over Trump. Text
messages that were exchanged between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page demonstrate "manifest bias" favoring Hillary
Clinton and provide the "unvarnished truth" for their feelings about President Trump, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said
Thursday night [1/25/2018]. Strzok and Page, both of whom were part of Clinton and Trump investigations, discussed
being cautious during the agency's investigation of the former secretary of state, since she might become president.
Another
'secret society' among the plotting boyars of Obamadom. The boyars were originally bureaucrats in its Kievian
Rus origins, and eventually became independent noblemen with land rights that couldn't be abolished by the Czar. Of
course they were jealous of preserving their fiefs and powers. So they formed secret societies that eventually went
after the Czar. They closely resemble the bureaucrats of FBI and DOJ who have since become powerful princelings in
Obama's era of Big State, and who retain a patina of "independence" under the guise of professionalism. Anybody
surprised that they too have formed secret societies to go after Trump? Weird, weird stuff in our supposed democracy,
which as Russian observers sometimes note, doesn't seem that much like a democracy at all when you look at the elections and
the rights of the political class up close. And that can only be attributed to the power of an increasingly centralized
government, which forms the heart of the Deep State, and which is the hallmark of Obama's 'change' for America.
Joe
diGenova: DOJ Officials 'Tried to Frame an Incoming President With False Russian Conspiracy' Tale. Former
federal prosecutor, special counsel, and prominent Washington attorney Joe diGenova said the scandal at the FBI and the
Department of Justice (DOJ) involves a "brazen plot" to exonerate Hillary Clinton of felony crimes involving her mishandling
of classified documents, and an ongoing "false case" to "frame" President Donald Trump with a "false Russian conspiracy that
never existed." The senior DOJ and FBI officials involved knew the Russian conspiracy story was fake, said diGenova, but
they "plotted to ruin" Trump as a candidate "and then destroy him as a president." The FBI now "has to be completely
reconstructed from the ground up," he said.
The
Obama Administration's Criminal Perversion of Government. A week after the election, groups inside and outside
the government, some calling themselves Obama Anonymous, had begun meeting to plan the "resistance" to Trump. Unlike
the angry protesters in the streets, this resistance wasn't a new organization. It consisted of Washington D.C.
government lifers. At the CFPB, there was a group calling itself Dumbledore's Army. Within the FBI and the DOJ,
there was a nameless "secret society". Its details are being derived from text messages exchanged between Peter Strzok,
a disgraced member of Mueller's team, and his mistress, Lisa Page, who worked for FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Previous Strzok texts had spoken of taking out "insurance" against a Trump win. This was all the more significant since
Strzok had investigated Hillary and interviewed Flynn. He was a crucial figure in both the investigations of Hillary
Clinton and President Trump.
Franklin
Graham warns of deep state coup against President Trump. "I believe we are in a coup d'etat," Franklin Graham
said Wednesday on the "Todd Starnes Radio Show." "There are people in this country who are wanting to destroy the president
and take over the government by force." Graham revealed his concerns as congressional Republicans ramp up accusations
that deep state actors within the FBI and the Justice Department may have been plotting against the president. The
evangelical leader did not name names, but he suggested the mainstream media was complicit in the silent coup. Click
here to listen to the shocking interview.
The Sinking
of the FBI. [T]he evidence is rapidly emerging that senior officials in our government, most likely up to and
including then-president of the United States Barack Obama, worked in concert to illicitly, and possibly criminally, derail
the candidacy of the opposition party's presidential candidate using fabricated information (or, as former FBI director James
Comey described it, "salacious and unverified") obtained by a private investigations firm from an enemy of the United
States: Russia. Even worse, once that effort to derail that candidacy failed and that candidate, Donald Trump,
was elected, those same individuals used the same manufactured evidence as the basis to launch an investigation, employing
the vast authority and technical resources of the United States government, whose ultimate goal, I believe, is to impeach and
remove that duly elected president. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a coup d'état.
New
Texts From Anti-Trump FBI Agents Mention a 'Secret Society'. New text messages from anti-Trump FBI agents
reviewed by investigators reportedly make reference to a "secret society," in what could be the nail in the coffin for
special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Investigators have reviewed 50,000 text messages on FBI servers
looking for all exchanges between anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page during the 2016 election, Fox
News reported. The revelation comes as investigators are seeking the whereabouts of approximately five months' worth of
text messages between Page and Strzok. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy told Fox
News on Monday [1/22/2018] that one of the newly-revealed text messages spoke of a "secret society."
Paul
Craig Roberts Slams The NSA: "It's A Blackmail Agency". The main function of the National Security Administration
is to collect the dirt on members of the house and senate, the staffs, principal contributors, and federal judges. The dirt
is used to enforce silence about the crimes of the security agencies. The blackmail mechanism was put into gear the minute
the news reported that the House Intelligence Committee had assembled proof that the FBI, DOJ, and DNC created Russiagate as a
conspiracy to unseat President Trump. Members of Congress with nothing to hide demanded the evidence be released to the public.
FBI
'Secret Society' Met [the] Day After [the] 2016 Election to Sabotage Trump. Yes, there was actually something
called a "secret society" at the FBI that included Peter Strzok and Lisa Page (the two hacks who's text messages suddenly
went missing) and they met the day after Hillary Clinton was crushed in the 2016 election.
Oops!
Those FBI Texts and 4 Other Times the Deep State 'Lost' Crucial Communications. [Scroll down] Many
believe, and not without cause, that this "insurance policy" is the phony Russian dossier funded in part by the FBI (along
with the Clinton campaign). The phony dossier was almost certainly used by the Obama White House to wiretap the Trump
campaign under the FISA program. These lost five months of texts also happen to coincide with the crucial months when
the Russian hoax blew up in the media and resulted in the appointment of special prosecutor Robert Mueller. Although,
on its own, the very idea that these crucially important text messages were "accidentally lost" defies belief, what makes
this news even more troubling is how frequently the Deep State loses communications that might prove to be inconvenient to
the Deep State.
Page
and Strzok Referenced FBI 'Secret Society' that Met the Day After the Election. There is serious talk on
Capitol Hill about the appointment of a second special counsel amid several new bombshell revelations swirling around the
Trump/Russia probe. First, there are the allegations of shocking and substantial government surveillance abuses under
President Obama outlined in the FISA abuse memo. Secondly, the FBI lost five months of key text messages between the
anti-Trump/pro-Clinton FBI officials Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page. And now there's talk of a "secret
society" of officials within the FBI that apparently met the day after the election of Donald J. Trump to plot
against the president-elect.
Missing
Texts? — Inspector General Horowitz Letter to Chairman Nunes. Remember, Intelligence Committee
Chairman Devin Nunes is first up; closely coordinating with House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte; closely coordinating with
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley; and all of them coordinating with the DOJ Office of Inspector General Michael
Horowitz. This is a long developed plan. In order to carry out the entire reform operation, communication is
made through public letters. Sunlight is part of the strategy. Questioning each other publicly and answering each
other publicly is part of the strategy... the media is not used to this.
Another
missing-email defense from the bowels of the Deep State. The FBI has told a Senate committee that it "lost" the
text messages of top counterintelligence officials attempting to undercut President Trump, conveniently during the five
months when their political activity was most fervent. This calls for its own investigation.
From
foreplay to foreknowledge. We learn from Senator Johnson's letter to FBI Director Wray that the Department of
Justice has turned over 384 pages of text messages between FBI counterintelligence officer Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa
Page. (We also learn that five months' of text messages between the infamous FBI couple during the critical period
culminating in the appointment of Robert Mueller as Special Counsel have disappeared.) What do the newly disclosed text
messages reveal? Strzok and Page seem to have been in the loop on then FBI Director's forthcoming exoneration of
Hillary Clinton.
Former
Federal Prosecutor Outlines Scope of FBI and DOJ Corruption. Former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova outlines
the majority of the events behind the unlawful surveillance of Donald Trump and each of the participating members within the
FBI and DOJ corruption. In essence, during this 30 minute discussion, diGenova outlines much of the back-story and how
FBI officials Bill Priestap, Peter Strzok, Jim Baker, Andrew McCabe and Jim Comey participated along with Justice Department
Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, John P Carlin, Bruce Ohr and Lisa Page. Mr. diGenova has a solid grasp on the
players and how they are enmeshed within the entire operation. [Video clip]
FBI
Shadow Figure Surfaces To Protect President Obama Amid Released FBI Text Messages. W.H. "Bill" Priestap is the
FBI Head of Counterintelligence. Priestap was one of the first FBI officials who caught our attention (spring of 2017)
because FBI Director James Comey mysteriously pointed a finger upon him during testimony to congress on March 20th, 2017
[Although Comey didn't use Bill Priestap's name, only his position]. James Comey said last year the reason the FBI did not
inform congress of the ongoing eight month counterintelligence investigation (required by congressional intelligence oversight),
which began in July 2016 into candidate Donald Trump, was because Bill Priestap specifically told Director Comey not to inform
congress or intelligence oversight.
AG Sessions
Resists the Resistance. The Supreme Court agreed yesterday [1/19/2018] to hear a challenge to the third
iteration of the Trump administration's travel ban. It had been struck down by lower courts — a Hawaii
district court and affirming Ninth Circuit — that seemed to place their hostility to the president above the law,
which grants the chief executive clear discretion on such matters relating to immigration and national security. Back
in February 2017, after the Ninth Circuit struck down the first version of the travel ban, Eric Posner, a liberal critic of
both President Trump and his policy, recognized that the courts may be creating a "'Trump exception' to settled law on
presidential powers," holding the current president to a different standard from that of his predecessors. He
recognized this aberration from the law could come back to bite us. One year later, it is clear that judicial
resistance to this administration is alarmingly broad and almost entirely unmoored form the law.
Yes, #ReleaseTheMemo —
And The FISA Docs It's Based On. Devin Nunes has uncovered an earth-shaking abuse of power at the DOJ in which
a dubious dossier was cooked up into a FISA warrant to investigate the Republican nominee for president for nakedly partisan
reasons. And the FISA Court, which is supposed to scrutinize warrants for probable cause, simply rubber-stamped the
application and went along. If that's true, that the entire Russiagate probe is a political hit on Trump with two branches
of government in on it, we need to know now. Yesterday. And by "yesterday" I mean "15 months ago."
Fierce
battle erupts over declassifying intelligence report. A battle erupted Friday over a push by Republican
lawmakers to release a report they say will reveal high-level government abuse around the federal investigation into possible
ties between Trump campaign officials and Russia. Even as Congress hurtled toward a shutdown, Republicans in the House
were buzzing over the contents of a classified memo on alleged surveillance abuses that was produced by House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). Scores of Republicans viewed the controversial memo in secure settings at the
Capitol and concluded it contains hard evidence that the special counsel investigation into whether Trump's campaign
officials had improper contacts with Russia were sparked by the politically motivated actions of senior FBI and Department
of Justice (DOJ) officials.
Republicans
are lining up to view the classified FISA abuse memo, while Democrats choose to stay in the dark. More than 130
congressional members have viewed the classified four-page memo detailing what senior government officials describe as
"disturbing and explosive" surveillance abuse by employees of the FBI and Department of Justice under the Obama
administration against President Trump and members of his campaign. But almost all of them were Republicans.
Since the document was released Thursday to House members "only Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have seen it,"
a congressional source with knowledge of the memo said. The classified memo was described by senior government
officials as a detailed account of the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into the FBI and apparent FISA abuse
associated with the controversial dossier that alleged President Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential
election. As recently reported, some congressional members who reviewed the memo said the revelations may end in the
removal or criminal prosecution of senior officials in the FBI and Department of Justice.
Up
To 200 Members Of Congress Have Read The Memo And NO LEAKS = Devastating To Dems. Word is as many as 200 members of
Congress have now reviewed what some are calling a "shaking the foundation of our democracy" memo that links high-placed figures within
both the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton campaign, the DNC, Deep State, and Establishment Media in an attempt to subvert the 2016
Election. It was never "Russian Collusion." It was our own government/the Obama administration/Deep State, attempting to
choose the next president — Hillary Clinton.
James
Clapper will skate on his perjury to Congress if not charged by March 13. Deep State stalwart James Clapper
provably lied to Congress on a matter of substantive importance, yet he was never charged with perjury. In less than
two months, the statute of limitations will excuse him from any criminal liability if he is not charged with lying to
Congress. Jonathan Turley, a liberal law professor who is honest, explains the outrageous process by which a "made man"
(his term) escapes prosecution for crimes that less connected others would be imprisoned for committing.
Deep
State DOJ Claims a "Glitch" is to Blame For 'Missing' Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting Docs. An attorney for Trump,
Jay Sekulow is furious after the DOJ blamed a "glitch" for withholding 'missing' Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting docs from the
ACLJ. How convenient. A glitch in the DOJ's sophisticated software. The American Center for Law and Justice
(ACLJ) filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ in order to obtain documents pertaining to the infamous Clinton-Lynch tarmac
meeting at Phoenix Int'l airport in June of 2016. The DOJ failed to turn over key documents according to ACLJ founder
and Trump attorney, Jay Sekulow. Sekulow and the ACLJ team sought to recover the key documents and the Deep State DOJ
responded by saying a "glitch" prevented them from locating the documents.
The
System is Actively Working To Defend Itself. People often attempt to describe the larger umbrella of control
with terms like "Deep State", the "Administrative State", the "Establishment", the "industrial media", and other descriptive
word assemblies. The inherent goal is trying to describe various alignments and connections of institutional government
with private sector social and financial interdependency. It is, in essence, what we generally describe as "The
System". [...] President Trump represents an uncontrollable, unaligned independent, free-thinking change-agent; a disruptor
who exists entirely outside of the system's ability to influence favorable action. It is a remarkable dynamic to witness.
Killing
Trump Is Deep State's 'Plan C,' Warns Adviser Roger Stone. Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser and confidant, certainly knows his way
around Washington, having worked as a senior campaign aide to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Senator Bob Dole as well as having held many other
political positions. This proximity to the Deep State is what makes his claim, expressed in a recent wide-ranging interview with The New American
magazine's Alex Newman, that much more eyebrow-raising.
Federal
Judge Deals HUGE Blow To Fusion GPS In Bank Records Battle. A federal judge has ruled against Fusion GPS in the
Trump dossier firm's quest to block the release of its bank records to the House Intelligence Committee. Judge Richard
Leon shot down all four of Fusion's arguments against the release of 70 records of transactions involving some of its clients
as well as journalists and researchers it has paid since Sept. 2015. Fusion sued its bank, TD Bank, in October, to
prevent it from complying with a subpoena issued by the House Intelligence Committee, which has been looking into Fusion's
role in putting together the dossier.
How
The FBI and DOJ Intelligence Units Were Weaponized Around Congressional Oversight. Oversight protocol requires
the FBI Director to tell the congressional intelligence "Gang of Eight" of any counterintelligence operations. The Go8
has oversight into these ops at the highest level of classification. In July 2016, the time when the operation began,
oversight was the responsibility of this group, the Gang of Eight: [Photo at left] Obviously, based on what we have
learned since March 2017, and what has surfaced recently, we can see a motive why the FBI and DOJ would want to keep hidden that
they were running a counterintelligence operation against a presidential candidate.
The Editor says...
The article above is quite lengthy, but it would be well worth your time to study it.
NeverTrumps
Renamed: AlwaysDemocrats. Trump is fighting Deep State imbeds in the Executive Branch. Just observe
the DOJ and FBI and how they concocted the Russia collusion story to prevent, then destroy, his presidency. In the
Legislative Branch, Trump is opposed not only by Democrats, but also by many Republicans. The judiciary is no better,
substituting personal animosity for the rule of law, especially regarding immigration policy.
The
Russian Collusion Narrative Was, As FBI Agent Peter Strzok Explained: "An Insurance Policy". Let us be
clear on what the "insurance policy" was. The insurance policy was, in totality, the entire fraudulent
Russian Conspiracy Narrative; and all of the accompanying — and subsequent — FBI and DOJ collaborative
actions that were taken, under the auspices of an FBI counterintelligence operation, in order to generate an entirely false
premise. The goal of using the "insurance policy" was to destroy, and possibly impeach, President Trump.
A Timeline
Of Treason: How the DNC and FBI Leadership Tried to Fix a Presidential Election. As an aside, this
appears to be the biggest political scandal in the history of the country. Never before has an outgoing administration
attempted to fix a presidential election. It's like something out of a third world country. But then, Obama
always admired dictators like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
Nagging
Questions for the Special Counselors. [#3] In an era in which "diversity" is a national mantra, why didn't
Mueller's law team reflect much geographical, institutional, political, ideological, and career diversity? Surely there
were hundreds of blue-chip attorneys with DOJ or FBI experience, who lived outside of New York and Washington, who did not go
to Ivy League law schools, who did not work in Mueller's former firm or even New York or D.C. firms, who were reticent about
expressing preferences in the 2016 election, who did not give, say, over $100 to a presidential candidate, who were never
involved in prior investigations of Hillary Clinton, and who had never represented or had contact with the Clinton Foundation
or Obama officials. Or was the political frenzy of early 2017 such that collusion was seen as a slam dunk, and many of
the current and former elite of the DOJ, the FBI, and Mueller's firm wished to get in on the hunt to show how a "dream team,"
"army," and "all-stars" could take down the obviously hemorrhaging Trump? In any case, in a politically charged era of
accusations of a deep-state, ideologically driven, incestuous swamp, Mueller's team has almost proved a caricature.
The
'Swamp' Trump Is Trying To Drain Isn't Really A Swamp — It's An Ocean. The nonprofit watchdog group
Open The Books has put out a new report, "Mapping The Swamp," that seeks to flesh out what has, until now, merely been a
metaphor. What it found is eye-opening, and shows the size of the challenge that lies before President Trump as he
seeks to drain it. "We found small and large agencies across the federal government gaming the system for personal
gain — and it's expensive for the taxpayer," said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks.com.
"Congress should hold hearings to bring transparency to all the information we're still missing, including performance
bonuses and pension payouts. It's time to squeeze out waste from compensation and stop abusive payroll practices."
Deep
State Boasts: We're Sabotaging Trump From the Inside. In a recent pre-Christmas interview with C-SPAN,
Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Trump, dropped a bombshell: Members of President Trump's own Cabinet are
plotting to remove him. According to Stone, his sources within the administration say administration officials have
discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to boot the president out of office. Stone's sensational charges came only a
few days after top members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), commonly known as "the American establishment,"
crowed that operatives of the "Deep State" (their fellow CFR members) inside the Trump administration are writing and
deciding policy contrary to President Trump's announced agenda.
Gaffney:
Court Ruling on Transgender Military Recruits Presents Constitutional Crisis; Trump Must Act Now. Center for
Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour on a special Friday night [12/29/2017] edition
of Breitbart News Tonight to discuss a recent court ruling that the military must accept transgender recruits and what
President Trump's administration should do about it. "The issue that really is at the heart of this matter as far as
I'm concerned is, does the president have the unquestioned authority under the Constitution of the United States Article II,
which vests exclusively in him, the role of Commander-in-Chief of the United States' armed forces, or does that authority now
get subjected to the whim of any federal judge in the United States judiciary?"
Don't
Fire Mueller, President Trump, Let Him Keep Making A Fool Of Himself Instead. I am old enough to remember back
when Robert Mueller's Russia-Whatever investigation was about collusion. [...] Well, we aren't hearing much about collusion
anymore. In fact, we aren't hearing anything about collusion anymore, except from Adam Schiff whenever he gets off the
phone with Tater Stelter at CNN long enough to essentially insist that the collusion is all so very, very obvious, and that
evidence is just a bourgeois conceit, and also please don't look at the scheming bureaucrats behind the curtain.
Mueller's
Sinister Coup Attempt. The unprecedented theft of thousands of likely privileged Trump transition emails by
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller's investigators is yet more proof that the open-ended fishing expedition is continuing to
move forward with its effort to reverse the results of the 2016 election. News of the misappropriation of the email
tranches comes weeks after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) urged that Mueller quit or be fired, saying the independent
prosecutor has "indisputable" conflicts of interest. "We are at risk of a coup d'état in this country if we
allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly-elected president of the United States," Gaetz said, echoing
earlier remarks by writer Michael Walsh who asserts the Left is engaged in a "rolling coup attempt" against President Trump.
Oh
Dear — Trail of Russian Dossier Origination Now Directly Leads to The Obama White House. Several new
developments happening today center around the FBI's use of the Christopher Steele Dossier in gaining FISA warrants to
wiretap and monitor the 2016 campaign of Donald Trump; ie. "The Trump Project". Doug Ross continues to update the
ongoing conspiracy Timeline. And that timeline just gained a big addition from a recently discovered visitor to the
White House. Before going to the White House visitor angle, it's important to express appreciation for Tablet Mag who
did a deep dive into the Fusion-GPS connection to the creation of the Steele Dossier, and more specifically how Fusion-GPS
head Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby were instrumental in getting the dossier assembled and into the hands of the
White House prior to the DOJ and FBI applying for the FISA warrant.
Why
swamp creatures are hard to kill. It's a wonder, in fact, that there isn't a Boeing logo next to the term
"crony capitalism" in the dictionary. The company's success in getting the federal government to act as its agent,
protector and bank ranks the aircraft company right up there with Tesla, wind farms and ethanol producers as an expert-class
crony capitalist. Boeing and 9 other U.S. corporate giants like General Electric soaked up more than 65 percent of all
the [Export-Import] bank's benefits before Congress pulled the plug in 2015 by allowing the Ex-Im charter to expire.
The greatest crime in American
history is being revealed in front of our very eyes. [Scroll down] Conclusion: this was a highly
organised and planned conspiracy by Teams Obama & Clinton to undermine a Presidential candidate, an elected POTUS and an
inaugurated POTUS. It was based on a LIE concocted by Hillary Clinton & the DNC: that Trump & Putin colluded to steal
the election. Such was Clinton's arrogance & contempt for Americans, as well as her supporters, she assumed that she would
win & then cover it up. Ditto, Obama. Obama and his key people conspired with Clinton to weaponize the lie.
A dossier was created to legitimize the lie, secretly funded by Teams Clinton & Obama.
Rand
Paul Calls For "High Ranking" Obama Officials To Be Investigated For "Colluding" Against Trump. Senator Rand
Paul is calling for a full investigation into alleged collusion between Obama administration officials in an effort to
prevent President Trump's election. "Time to investigate high ranking Obama government officials who might have
colluded to prevent the election of @realDonaldTrump! This could be WORSE than Watergate!" tweeted Rand Paul on
Thursday [12/21/2017].
Mueller's
Sinister Coup Attempt. The unprecedented theft of thousands of likely privileged Trump transition emails by
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller's investigators is yet more proof that the open-ended fishing expedition is continuing to
move forward with its effort to reverse the results of the 2016 election. News of the misappropriation of the email
tranches comes weeks after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) urged that Mueller quit or be fired, saying the independent
prosecutor has "indisputable" conflicts of interest. "We are at risk of a coup d'état in this country if we
allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly-elected president of the United States," Gaetz said, echoing
earlier remarks by writer Michael Walsh who asserts the Left is engaged in a "rolling coup attempt" against President Trump.
McCabe
Today, Ohr Tomorrow, And Deep State Predictably Runs Out Rooster Head For Chaff and Countermeasures.
Asst. FBI Director Andrew McCabe is testifying today behind closed doors to the House Intelligence Committee.
Important to note how there have been no leaks; that's the first indication of coordinated chaff and counter measures
deployed by the UniParty enablers of the Deep State institutional government. Bruce Ohr is scheduled tomorrow; again
behind closed doors, this time in the Senate Intelligence Committee setting. Again, dueling intelligence hearings
between House and Senate (on the same witnesses), indicates the UniParty apparatus has deployed Chaff and Countermeasures
and is protecting the administrative state.
Dubious
Trump dossier producer now targeted by Russian oligarchs for 'smear campaign'. Fusion GPS, the producer of the
infamous Trump dossier, is fending off in court three of Russia's richest oligarchs by painting them as corrupt bankers in
bed with President Vladimir Putin. The three primary investors in Moscow's Alfa Bank — Mikhail Fridman, Petr
Aven and German Khan — filed a libel lawsuit against Fusion in October. Fusion's dossier, written by former
British spy Christopher Steele, says two of them engineered cash bribes to Mr. Putin. The dossier also implies
that the bank colluded with Mr. Putin to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic Party
computers. The lawsuit describes the three billionaires as international businessmen who became "collateral damage" in
Fusion's war to destroy the Donald Trump campaign.
House
Panel Interviews McCain Associate Who Handled The Trump Dossier. The House Intelligence Committee met Tuesday [12/19/2017]
with a key figure a John McCain associate who handled the infamous anti-Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher
Steele. David Kramer, a former State Department official, was interviewed by the committee Tuesday morning, The Hill
reported. Kramer has been at the center of the dossier saga since January, when BuzzFeed News published the salacious
document online. It was revealed soon after the dossier was published that McCain and Kramer were first told about the
uncorroborated report in Nov. 2016 by Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Russia who is a business associate
of Steele's.
McCabe and
Mr. Mueller. As Fox News has reported, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe has rescheduled his testimony
before the House Intelligence Committee with the Justice Department telling the network that it was due to a "routine
scheduling error." More likely it is due to the need for everyone to get their stories straight as the details of the
fix that was in for Hillary Clinton are being, er... unmasked and the details of the deep state coup against President Trump
bubble to the surface from the depths of the swamp: [...] McCabe has many problems and is at the heart of the criminal
conspiracy to protect Hillary and unseat President Trump.
FBI
'offered British spy $50,000 to corroborate his claims in the dirty dossier on Trump-which he never did'.
Claims have resurfaced that the FBI offered the British spy behind the 'golden showers' dirty dossier $50,000 to corroborate
his claims about now-President Donald Trump. 'I believe, just from examining the public sources, that the FBI offered
Christopher Steele $50,000 if he could corroborate the dossier. He either couldn't, didn't, wouldn't, and they didn't
pay him the money,' news analyst Andrew Napolitano told Stuart Varney on Fox Business Monday [12/18/2017]. Former MI6
agent Steele's dossier claims the Russians possess compromising information that could be used to blackmail Trump, and
alleges the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
Senate
probing Jill Stein for possible collusion with Russia. The Senate is reportedly probing former presidential candidate
Jill Stein for possible collusion with Russia. The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday [12/18/2017] that
the Stein probe was one of two investigations about Russian collusion that his panel is pursuing, according to The Washington
Post. Stein dined with Russian president Vladimir Putin during a 2015 Moscow event that was also attended by President
Trump's former national security adviser, Mike Flynn. Politico reported in September that Stein — the Green
Party candidate for president — was the beneficiary of Russian-bought political ads on Facebook.
A
collusion bombshell, but not on target. You've got to give the Democrats and their acolytes in the media credit
for courage and a talent for tolerating bad taste and smell. It's not easy to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a
corpse. How else to keep alive the Trump-as-Russian agent investigation? Robert Mueller keeps hiring help,
reluctantly cutting loose his chief investigator who turned out to be a Hillary plant eager for revenge, and keeping skeptics
at bay with promises that he'll light the fuse on a bombshell just as soon as he can find one. Mr. Mueller may
have a secret witness or two ready to come forward, but Deep Throat is dead and gone, and secrets are never kept in
Washington. The Nation's Capital leaks like a month-old infant.
Why
Did Trey Gowdy Just Omit Peter Strzok From Key List of FBI Officials He Wants To Grill? This is odd. In a
letter sent to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday [12/19/2017], both Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Rep. Trey
Gowdy (R-SC) demanded the Justice Department make FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, FBI lawyer Lisa Page and FBI chief of
staff Jim Rybicki, available for "transcribed interviews." Why wasn't disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok and demoted Justice
Department official Bruce G. Ohr, along with his Fusion GPS-linked wife, Nellie, asked to be made available for interviews?
A
Time for War: Deep State's Strike and Trump's Counter-Strike. Today's cold civil war has seen a series of
strikes by the left on the presidency of Donald Trump. The overwhelming wave of negativity toward him, as reported
constantly by the old media, and the onslaught of wailing by the leftist Democratic Party, et al. have been a major part of
life in the United States since November 9, 2016. The strikes have been intensified by what is called "the Deep State,"
meaning the D.C. bureaucracy and the powerful government agencies of the DOJ and the FBI. Seeming chaos has reigned as leak
after leak came out trying to damage the Trump administration. What appeared to be damaging strikes were launched by the
Democrat-media-Deep State complex. The whole of Washington, D.C., along with the media, has never relented, going on a binge
of hate-filled rhetoric and actions. They are trying to convince an unwitting public that Trump is nothing but horrible news.
What's
really happening inside the DOJ and FBI. Strzok is just going to be the beginning. Strzok thinks he's now
part of a cool team that's going to investigate & expose Trump, maybe even impeach him. In fact, he's been put in a
holding cell where he's kept busy & distracted while he's thoroughly investigated & evidence collected of his political
fixing. For the past 11 months, even before DOJ IG started his investigation, Trump & Co. likely knew who the political
fixers in the DOJ/FBI were. These political fixers needed to be [#1] removed from where they could do real harm and
compromise real investigations [#2] given a cover story so they wouldn't realize they themselves are now being
investigated. Strzok was likely thunderstruck to realize the DOJ IG has been digging through his emails/texts/records
of the past few years, investigating him quite throughly as Strzok was busy trying to find Trump/Russian collusion.
American
Gestapo. Any government agency with law enforcement and surveillance authority that uses those powers for
political purposes is the definition of a secret police, no better than the Nazi Gestapo or the Soviet KGB. There is
indeed probable cause to conclude, meaning indictable offenses, that employees of the Department of Justice and/or the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), sympathetic to the Democrat Party, used the power of their offices and with the
assistance of foreign nationals to influence the 2016 election in favor of Hillary Clinton, first to exonerate her and then
obtain information to prevent the election of Donald Trump or to provide a basis for his impeachment should he win. It
is also abundantly clear from the Congressional investigations involving the Department of Justice and the FBI that those
institutions of government are protecting themselves at the expense of transparency and accountability to the American
people. In other words, the government employees involved consider the survival of the Deep State more important than
the survival of the Constitution. That is the definition of tyranny.
Washington
Bureaucrats Are Quietly Working to Undermine Trump's Agenda. In report after report following Donald Trump's
election, career staffers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration kept saying the same thing: climate change
is real, serious and man-made. That's surprising because Trump has called global warming a hoax. His political
appointees at the Commerce Department, which oversees NOAA, have complained to its staff, but stopped short of demanding
changes or altering the findings. So the reports, blog posts and public updates kept flowing. The bureaucrats
won. "Everything coming out of NOAA does not reflect this administration," said David Schnare, a retired lawyer for an
industry-backed think tank who served on Trump's transition team and is skeptical about climate change. "It reflects
the last one." That's true across the government as some of the roughly two million career staff have found ways to
obstruct, slow down or simply ignore their new leader, the president.
Digging
Ugly Holes — Robert Mueller Team Illegally Obtained Trump Transition Team Emails. According to
reports, in August 2017 the Mueller team went around the Trump administration in their quest for documents, by directly
demanding documents from the General Services Agency (GSA); the entity that hosted the communication network for the Trump
transition team. According to reports, the content of 12 email accounts was handed over to the Special Counsels'
office; consisting of thousands of pages of transition team communication. Innocuous, ordinary transition stuff, but
the method of procurement is jaw-droppingly unethical, possibly illegal.
Trump
transition lawyer: Mueller improperly obtained documents in Russia probe. A lawyer for the Trump
presidential transition team is accusing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office of inappropriately obtaining transition
documents as part of its Russia probe, including confidential attorney-client communications, privileged communications and
thousands of emails without their knowledge. In a letter obtained by Fox News and sent to House and Senate committees
on Saturday, the transition team's attorney alleges "unlawful conduct" by the career staff at the General Services
Administration (GSA) in handing over transition documents to the special counsel's office. Kory Langhofer, the counsel
to Trump for America (TFA), argues the GSA "did not own or control the records in question" and the release of documents
could be a violation of the Fourth Amendment — which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
How
husbands and wives figure in the latest government scandal revelations. We also have the swamp fighting
furiously for every important federal job to be credentialed and not made "political." What sort of person benefits from
that? The Lois Lerners of the world — connected East Coast liberals. There are 80,000 IRS employees
but only two appointed by the president. It is an irony worthy of a Charles Murray book that the liberal D.C.
Democrats, who have done so much to destroy the American family in general, have made family ties their secret weapon for
staying power in Washington, no matter who wins the elections.
Fusion
GPS admits DOJ official's wife Nellie Ohr [was] hired to probe Trump. A co-founder of the opposition research firm
Fusion GPS acknowledged in a new court document that his company hired the wife of a senior Justice Department official to
help investigate then-candidate Donald Trump last year. The confirmation from Glenn Simpson came in a signed
declaration filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and provided a fuller picture of the nature of Nellie Ohr's
work — after Fox News first reported on her connection to Fusion GPS.
Fusion
GPS Admits Nellie Ohr [was]Hired to Probe Trump. Married to now demoted DOJ hack and Rod Rosenstein's right hand
man, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr has been officially confirmed to have been hired by Fusion GPS to probe Donald Trump during the
2016 campaign. Yet, this doesn't seem to be getting much media coverage outside of Fox News.
Fusion
GPS Paid Top DOJ Official's Wife To Dig Up Dirt On Trump. Court documents reveal the opposition research firm
that put together a dossier filled with wild, unsubstantiated claims about Donald Trump hired the spouse of a newly demoted
Justice Department official to dig up dirt on Trump. Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS — the infamous
firm behind the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele — stated in a court declaration that his
firm hired Nellie H. Ohr as a subcontractor to help with "research and analysis of Mr. Trump," according to Chuck Ross
at The Daily Caller. Nellie H. Ohr is married to Bruce G. Ohr, who was associate deputy attorney general at the DOJ
until he was recently demoted.
Are
Anti-Trump Conspirators Using HAM Radio to Communicate? Christopher Steele, the former MI6 spy, was hired by
Fusion GPS in April, 2016. Months later, Mrs. Ohr joined Mr. Steele at the opposition research firm, after
being hired by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson to investigate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Additionally,
her husband, Bruce Ohr, reportedly met with Mr. Steele during this time period, and with Mr. Simpson after President
Trump's victory. It is not clear if Mrs. Ohr ever used her HAM license, or if she herself owns the equipment to
do so, but what is interesting, is the 1970s technology, when blended with modern day communications, can create an
untraceable protocol for clandestine transmissions.
The Editor says...
For those of you who are unfamiliar with ham radio, the transmission of encrypted messages by ham operators is generally illegal.
The use of the ham radio bands in connection with any illegal activity is itself illegal, too. Speaking to
business associates about business is also prohibited. And chatting across town from one's car, which was
once a novelty, is now done by cell phone; therefore, the only reason that I can imagine for Mrs. Ohr to get a
ham radio license — if her intent was to communicate secretly and send data files without using the
(presumably wiretapped) telephone — is to make it easier to buy transmitting equipment without raising
suspicion. The proprietors of ham radio shops tend to ask for your callsign when you buy anything —
especially anything with a transmitter in it. Having a license and a callsign would also make it unnecessary to
make unidentified transmissions, which would attract the attention of other ham operators, and then the FCC.
Incidentally, the "ham" in ham radio is not an acronym and is only capitalized by people who don't know much about it.
FBI's
McCabe To Face House Panel Next Week, Where He'll Be Grilled Over Strzok's Cryptic Texts. Deputy FBI Director
Andrew McCabe will appear next Tuesday before the House Intelligence Committee, where Republicans on the panel are likely to
grill him about Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and FBI agent Peter Strzok. McCabe was originally scheduled to
appear before the committee earlier this week, but the session was cancelled the night before the interview. The
Justice Department claimed the cancellation was due to a "scheduling error," but California Rep. Devin Nunes, the
chairman of the Intelligence committee, dismissed the excuse, telling Fox News that it was "not really believable."
Sources on the committee said they believed that McCabe cancelled in order to avoid questions about Bruce Ohr and his wife, Nellie.
Poll:
54 percent say Mueller has conflict of interest. A majority of polled voters say special counsel Robert Mueller
has a conflict of interest because of his past ties to former FBI Director James Comey, according to the latest Harvard
CAPS-Harris survey. When asked if Mueller has a conflict of interest "as the former head of the FBI and a friend of
James Comey," 54 percent responded that the "relationship" between the two amounts to a conflict of interest, including
70 percent of Republicans, 53 percent of independents and 40 percent of Democrats. Comey succeeded Mueller
as FBI director and the two have been described as "brothers in arms" for their working relationship, which dates back to the
early 2000s, although the extent of their personal relationship is unclear.
Stranger
Things and the Deep State. [Scroll down] The Upside Down may not be the world that CNN and MSNBC sees and
reports on. They only see a president suffering dementia, doing nothing but chugging Diet Coke and watching
television. His attorney general is asleep on the front porch hammock, while Special Counsel "Beyond Reproach" Robert
Mueller is preparing to throw the entire Trump family and administration into Supermax. Instead, as Sundance provides a
glimpse into the Upside Down, more may be going on. "Seeding false information into the blood stream of a closed unit
within the organization then waiting to see if/where/when it turns up is a specific way to identify leakers and black hats."
Watching ongoing fake news stories, based on leaks, this makes sense. With CNN and ABC playing the useful idiots.
Time
to End Mueller's Wild Reign of Malfeasance? Virtually all of Mueller's team-against-Trump is comprised of
Hillary Clinton Democrat donors and/or those who have rabidly supported her. One notable is Justin Cooper who actually
admitted to destroying evidence that would likely have been gained against Hillary Clinton by — on at least two
occasions — destroying her cell phones and "breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer!" Another of
the Mueller nightmare team — Aaron Zebley — was the attorney who represented Cooper. Yet, another
Mueller investigator — Jeannie Rhee — has strong ties to the (supposedly) dismantled 'Clinton Foundation'
and personally represented Ben Rhodes.
Spy
Wars: The Mueller Mess Is Just the Outcome Russia Wanted. I believe the Russians are involved in American
politics. It's an old story: There used to be organizations known as "Communist front groups" that were founded,
funded, and otherwise supported by the Kremlin, the most important of which was ANSWER. Such organizations undoubtedly still
exist, and their mission is still the same: destroy American democracy. They are part of the global war against the United
States. They hate and fear democracy and freedom, which — as the demise of the Soviet Empire abundantly
demonstrates — are the greatest threat to their own legitimacy and hence their continued tyranny. Hatred
and fear of the United States is what binds together such diverse regimes as those in Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, Pyongyang,
and Caracas. So I am not surprised when our counter-intel guys find evidence of Russian meddling. But if we had
an intelligence community worthy of the name, we'd probably know a lot more. And not just about Russians, either.
FBI
Agent Peter Strozk Anti-Trump Messages Released To Media — However, The Key Question is Not Content.
[Scroll down] As Judicial Committee Representative Jim Jordan rightly outlined, Agent Strzok would not likely be
removed because he had biased text messages with his mistress. So long as that bias did not interfere with his work
duty, there is no issue; and Strzok was not in a position of supervision over Lisa Page so they could encounter like rabbits
to their black-hats desire. However, if FBI Agent Strzok was a "leaker" to the media, or worse, well, that's an
entirely different kettle-o-fish. Getting caught as a leaker is likely the reason Strzok was removed and reassigned
to the HR post; not the bias.
An
Investigative Pattern Emerges. Consider what is at stake; and further consider that you were given the task of
revealing the outcome of an investigation of such consequence. How would you introduce the findings to the larger U.S.
electorate? Given the timing of the releases from the IG's investigation, I think that's what we are seeing in the past
two weeks. A prosecutor laying out his case over the course of multiple media cycles. For the past year plus, we
have heard generalized terms of investigations. However, since the beginning of December the information shifted and we
begin hearing about specific names caught within the IG investigation.
House
Judiciary Lawmakers Mull Subpoenas on FBI, DOJ After Text Messages Reveal 'Path' to Stop Trump. Republicans on
the House Judiciary Committee said on Wednesday it was time to issue subpoenas to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the
Justice Department, following the release of texts from FBI officials that suggested they wanted to stop Trump's election.
"It's time for subpoenas from our committee, not just from the intelligence committee, but from our committee. Subpoenas
for documents that we rightfully should have an ability to see," said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a senior member of the
committee. He also said he wanted to subpoena Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, FBI senior official Peter Strzok, and
senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie Ohr.
And Now We Know.
[Scroll down] What is obvious from the last 72 hours is that the Inspector General's office is selectively, and
strategically, letting out information that appears to be preparing the general public for a rather extensive, and troubling,
bigger story. Simultaneously, if we accept the IG investigation is ongoing, these releases would also be part of a
strategy, the ending of the sting, to see how each of the participants responds. It is likely all of the identified
plotters are being actively monitored to see how they are reacting.
Keywords: shifty, evasive, slippery, Clintonesque, flim-flam, insolent. Deputy
AG Won't Say Whether The FBI Paid For Dossier. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein refused to say on
Wednesday whether the FBI paid for the infamous Trump dossier. Rosenstein, who was grilled by the House Judiciary
Committee, suggested that he knew the answer to the question, which was posed by Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis. "Did
the FBI pay for the dossier?" DeSantis asked. "I'm not in a position to answer that question," Rosenstein
responded. "Do you know the answer to the question?" the Republican DeSantis followed up. "I believe I know the
answer, but the Intelligence Committee is the appropriate committee..." Rosenstein began. DeSantis interjected
to assert that the Judiciary panel has "every right to the information" about payments for the dossier.
Smoking
Gun Text? Strzok: 'We Have To Do Something About' Possible Trump Win. The anti-Trump text messages
between Peter Strzok — the recently demoted FBI agent on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team — and
his alleged mistress Lisa Page are worse than anyone imagined, as PJ Media reported here and here. But one of those
texts stands out among the others. The Justice Department provided the House and Senate Judiciary Committees with the
text messages late Tuesday night. Republicans on the Judiciary Committee then questioned Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein about them during the committee's oversight hearing on Mueller's investigation into Russia's influence in the 2016
U.S. election.
Ugly
as Mueller's investigation may look, it's on track to clear Trump. There was a rush to judgment last week on
Peter Strzok, a top FBI counterintelligence agent and one of the lead agents on the Hillary Clinton emails investigation,
after revelations that Strzok exchanged text messages during the 2016 campaign with an FBI lawyer that were pro-Clinton and
anti-Trump. The lawyer was Lisa Page, with whom he was having an extramarital affair. [...] Nevertheless, Strzok and the
Mueller investigation were slammed as Clintonian pillars of anti-Trump animus. Not only were there calls for a purge of
possibly corrupt bureaucrats in the FBI and Justice Department, but one Fox News host asserted that these government lawyers
and agents should be "taken out in handcuffs" and "locked up."
Things
fall apart: The decline of 'Dumbledore's Army'. Resistance to the Trump administration within the
intelligence community is beginning to unravel. When Mick Mulvaney was selected to lead the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (CFPB), he complimented the staff for being professional. There are a significant number of CFPB
employees opposed to the president and any of his appointees. They have formed a resistance group they call
Dumbledore's Army. Although members of other departments, agencies, and bureaus do not call themselves Dumbledore's
Army, they are essentially of the same mindset. Perhaps the largest number of these Dumbledores are in the Department
of Justice and the intelligence community. They are mounting an attack on the Trump administration and are suffering
one defeat after another.
Deepstate:
FBI Agents Texted About Protecting Country Against Trump. Two FBI agents who were assigned to the special
counsel on Russia, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, had texted each other during the 2016 campaign about protecting the country
against Trump, according to reports. One of them, Strzok, had also led the FBI's Clinton email investigation, and
watered down language that might have brought criminal charges for Hillary Clinton. Strzok cryptically referred to a
potential idea to thwart Trump's election during a meeting in FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's office in August 2016.
How
the biggest political scandal in history will play out in 2018. A lot of frustration has been expressed —
on these pages and elsewhere — over the slow pace of progress in unraveling the Deep State coup against Trump. But,
"the process of uncovering the worst political scandal in American history" as I called it a couple of days ago, needs to be done
the right way, or else it will founder under the waves of abuse that will pour from the media and political branches of the
establishment. Not only must legal niceties be observed, the rollout of information must be undertaken with a strategy
in mind. Each step builds on the previous, and addresses the probable response.
Strzok-Page
texts show hatred of Trump by the two ex-Team Mueller members. The text messages speak for themselves. I
would just add that the view of Trump expressed in these messages, and the language used to express them, are standard among
the lawyer and government worker class in Washington, D.C. In the Summer and Fall of 2016, I doubt that a week went by
in which I didn't hear them expressed. And I tried to avoid liberals during that period. I believe the
Page-Strzok hatred of Donald Trump is just the tip of the Team Mueller iceberg.
Deep
State Resisters at State Dept. Defy Jerusalem Directive. Following President Trump's historic declaration
recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, West Bank and Gazan Arabs took to the streets in rage. They burned U.S.
and Israeli flags. They cursed America, Israel and the Yahuds (Jews). Their imams cited verses from the
Koran and the Hadiths about the usurpers and interlopers and the "descendants of apes and pigs." In other words, it was
business as usual for the Palestinians. Nothing had changed. At the State Department too, it was business as
usual. In a transparent effort to placate the Arab bloc, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the process of moving the
embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would take several years. Tillerson is said to have counseled Trump against recognition.
Inside
the Trump dossier handoff: McCain's 'go-between' speaks out. The man who says he acted as a "go-between"
last year to inform Sen. John McCain about the controversial "dossier" containing salacious allegations about
then-candidate Donald Trump is speaking out, revealing how the ex-British spy who researched the document helped coordinate
its release to the FBI, the media and Capitol Hill. "My mission was essentially to be a go-between and a messenger, to
tell the senator and assistants that such a dossier existed," Sir Andrew Wood told Fox News in an exclusive interview with
senior executive producer Pamela K. Browne.
The
Swamp against the People. [Scroll down] These facts support two conclusions: [#1] The United States
Congress is the only constitutional body with sufficient political power to declare the current Mueller witch hunt null and
void. If President Trump or the DOJ exercises its constitutional rights to do so, the acting party will inevitably
be attacked by the corrupt media and the left. [#2] The office of the "special counsel" is inherently a corrupt and
partisan, cancerous growth on the U.S. Constitution. That made up office must be abolished, and if existing constitutional
prohibitions against arbitrary witch hunts are not sufficiently clear, a new amendment to the US Constitution should be passed
on an urgent basis to make it clear beyond any doubt at all.
Liberal Diplomat
Resigns From State Department. A supposed "rising star" at the State Department has resigned in anger over
President Trump's and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's policies. Elizabeth Shackelford gave her resignation letter to
the left-leaning Foreign Policy magazine, which was, of course, all too happy to publish it. Shackelford's letter says
she believes the new administration has abandoned human rights as a priority and shows disdain for the State Department's
diplomatic work.
Is
The Deep State Attempting A Coup? President Trump has been in office for nearly a year, and has yet to take
control over the federal bureaucracy that nominally reports to him. I agree with Professor Barnett that this is a
constitutional crisis. The most powerful branch of today's government is the Fourth: the permanent federal bureaucracy
that is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. The Trump administration can best be viewed, perhaps, as a struggle to
the death between American voters and the federal employees who are paid to serve them.
Sunday
Talks: Adam Shifty Talks Russia With Narrative Engineer Jake Tapper. After spending a reasonable amount
of time looking at the recent CNN Fake News story surrounding Donald Trump Jr; and accepting the leak that spurred that fake
news story stemmed from inside the House Intelligence Committee; and after applying a reasonable amount of common sense to
how it occurred; CTH believes Adam Schiff was the most likely source of the leak to CNN's Congressional Correspondant, Manu Raju,
that led to the fraudulent story. Today's discussion with Jake Tapper confirms that assertion: [Video clip]
Jim
Jordan Knows Exactly How To Expose The Entire "Counterintelligence Operation" Against Candidate Donald Trump.
It would be EXPLOSIVE if it turned out the October 2016 FISA warrant was gained by use of the Christopher Steele
dossier. That's a critical and key element to the sunlight upon the entire enterprise. If the counterintelligence
FISA warrant was obtained through deception, misleading/manipulated information, or fraud; and that warrant is what led to
the wiretapping and surveillance of candidate Donald Trump and General Flynn; and that warrant was authorized by FISA Court
Judge Contreras — who was the judge in Flynn's case, and is now recused — the entire tenuous FBI and
DOJ operation begins to collapse.
Rod Rosenstein
Overcome by Soros Swamp Gas. The most common question I am asked in interviews these days: "Why doesn't
President Trump fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein?" But the better question is: "Why doesn't Rosenstein just
quit?" It's clear that nobody responsible for picking him wants him around anymore. In case you missed it, even President
Trump called him out as a hack. What's clear is that Rod Rosenstein has been overcome by swamp gas. The deputy attorney
general — and more importantly, his top staff — seems to have forgotten why he has his job.
He has it because the American people wanted the swamp drained of Justice Department institutionalists.
Dossier
author was in contact with Obama Justice Department. It's been ten months since Washington learned that former
British spy Christopher Steele, author of the so-called "Trump dossier," took the Hillary Clinton-funded opposition research
document to the FBI, which considered sponsoring the anti-Trump work at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Now, congressional investigators have made what is perhaps an even more consequential discovery: Knowledge of the
dossier project, during the campaign, extended into the highest levels of the Obama Justice Department. The
department's Bruce Ohr, a career official, served as associate deputy attorney general at the time of the campaign.
That placed him just below the deputy attorney general, Sally Yates, who ran the day-to-day operations of the department.
Strategic
Omnidirectional MAGA-Winning is Ongoing. In the past week, President Trump has held three full cabinet
meetings. Why? Because common sense would tell us he's executing an omnidirectional strategic agenda-push, and
direct communication is critical. [...] Last weekend's FBI leaks to the New York Times and Washington Post were specifically
timed because the Department of Justice Inspector General is about to drop a years-long investigative MOAB bombshell into the
DC swamp.
Federal
judge says Trump administration can't stop funding sex-reassignment surgeries for military members. A second
federal judge has halted the Trump administration's proposed transgender military ban, finding that active-duty service
members are "already suffering harmful consequences" because of the president's policy. The ruling Tuesday [11/21/2017]
by U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis in a Maryland case comes just weeks after another judge in Washington blocked the
administration's proposal that would have stopped military recruitment of transgender men and women and possibly forced the
dismissal of current service members, starting in March. The preliminary injunction issued by the judge in Baltimore on
Tuesday goes further than the earlier ruling by also preventing the administration from denying funding for sex-reassignment
surgeries after the order takes effect.
Second
U.S. judge halts Trump's proposed transgender military ban. In a preliminary injunction issued Tuesday [11/21/2017] in
Baltimore, U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis ruled that transgender service members have "demonstrated that they are already suffering
harmful consequences" due to the proposed ban including threat of discharge, stigma and the cancellation or delay of surgeries related
to their gender transitions. The six plaintiffs in the lawsuit he reviewed have all been receiving hormone therapy.
9th
Circuit to president of the United States: You answer to us. This is not a joke. We now have judges
saying that not only can a president steal the nation's sovereignty and grant illegal aliens affirmative benefits, but that a
subsequent president must submit enough information to the courts before getting rid of the lawless program! Imagine if
a president granted Americans — not just illegal aliens — tax amnesty on the first $200,000 of their
earnings. Could you envision a court forcing the new president to retain the illegal program or demand disclosure of
the president's private information? Then again, illegal aliens and their powerful lobbies rule the roost, while
Americans are left paying for the tab as strangers in our own land.
A
judge permanently blocked Trump's 'sanctuary cities' executive order. A federal judge on Monday [11/20/2017] permanently
blocked President Trump's executive order to cut funding from so called "sanctuary cities." Trump's order would have removed some
federal funds from cities that limit their cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities. U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick
rejected the Trump administration's argument that the measure only applies to a relatively small pool of money.
Robert
Mueller IS the Cover-Up. [Scroll down] The obvious kicker in all this is that Robert Mueller is part and
parcel of the Hillary Cover-Up. We know more about Hillary's misdeeds, thanks to all those WikiLeaks plus FOIA
exposures of misfeasance and malfeasance galore, going back to the Bill Clinton and Paula Jones days, when Hillary ran the
Bimbo Eruptions intimidation campaign. We have huge amounts of believable evidence about these crooks and
corruptocrats, going back to Arkansas and the rest. The single most important fact is that nobody has ever been
prosecuted for these crimes. That fact by itself throws serious doubts on the entire justice system of the United
States. The farcical Mueller witch hunt against POTUS Trump is going to slather the whole U.S. Justice Department with
that same stinky swamp water. It's inevitable. You can't put a close friend of the perps in charge of the
"special counsel" — a made-up name that appears nowhere in the U.S. Constitution or the Federalist Papers.
It's just an eructation of swamp gas from the Watergate years, meaning nothing.
Department
of Defense Retweets Call For President To Resign. The Department of Defense retweeted a post Thursday [11/16/2017] calling
for the president's resignation. The Pentagon marred its Twitter presence briefly by retweeting a post from a Twitter user named
"PROUD RESISTER" that proposed a so-called "simple" solution to the sexual harassment situation going on in Washington. The Twitter
user appears to be a staunch critic of the right, as well as the president, and seems to be affiliated with the website proudresister.com,
which sells resistance merchandise.
Pentagon
Approves Gender-Reassignment Surgery for Service Member. The Pentagon approved a gender-reassignment surgery
for an active-duty military member, defense officials said on Tuesday, four months after President Trump abruptly announced a
ban on transgender people serving in the military. The surgery is the latest setback to Mr. Trump's effort to put
a ban in place. Two weeks ago, a federal judge temporarily blocked the ban, ruling that the justification for it was
suspect and most likely unconstitutional. Even before the ruling, officials at the Defense Department had been
slow-walking Mr. Trump's orders, telling transgender members of the military that they could continue to serve openly
while the Pentagon decided how to handle the ban.
Purchased
Politicians, Mostly Republicans in House and Senate, Write Letters Opposing Trump on NAFTA. Multinational
corporations and foreign governments spend hundreds of millions in Washington DC lobbying House and Senate politicians to
retain trade positions. It's generally a legal bribery business where congressional representatives get rich by selling
their votes to corporations and foreign governments. Most of you already know the game: It's a big club, and
we — the working class — ain't in it. Fortunately for us, President Trump won the election
without funding from the big corporations and lobbyists within the U.S. political system.
ICE
agents rebel, say Trump 'betrayed' them by retaining Obama's people. The country's immigration enforcement
officers launched a website Tuesday demanding that President Trump do more to clean up their agency, saying he has left the
Obama team in place and it's stymying his goal of enforcing laws on the books. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
supervisors in Philadelphia banned officers from wearing bulletproof vests during an operation in the dangerous "badlands"
section in the city's north for fear of offending the immigrant community, according to a new website, JICReport.com.
Meanwhile, officers in one Utah city are required to give city officials seven days' heads-up before arresting anyone —
and by the time they go to make the arrest, the immigrants they are targeting have taken off, the website says.
Intel
chiefs' botched Russia findings raise questions of motive. Fourteen days before President Trump took the oath of office, the
Obama administration's intelligence chiefs made public a unanimous assessment claiming Russian operatives, under orders from President
Vladimir Putin, had orchestrated an influence campaign to help Mr. Trump win the presidential contest. It was a watershed
moment: the CIA, National Security Agency and FBI challenging the legitimacy of a U.S. presidential victory. The conclusions
in the Jan. 6 document were sharp, but the findings unraveled 10 months later, raising questions about the basis for the
evidence and the motives of the Obama appointees leading the nation's intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Inspector
Clouseau pounces! [Scroll down] Everybody is afraid of indicting Hillary for crimes committed in plain view, because Hillary
might bring down the whole house of cards. But Americans who bother to pay attention to politics have a pretty good idea about
the Deepsters and the Democrats under Obama and Hilary. With any luck, the Mueller team will throw us a bone, too.
But it won't be the chief perps, because they have protection.
Focus
of Russia Probe Needs To Be on Clintons. The fact that, on the same day as the Manafort and Gates indictments,
Tony Podesta — who was intimately connected with the Uranium One dealings that were contemporaneous with
extraordinarily large pledges to the Clinton Foundation and the celebrated $500,000 speech-making payment to the former
president, Bill Clinton — retired as head of the firm that bears his name[,] may indicate that Special Counsel
Mueller is shifting gears with the evidence and broadening his attack, conducted by his largely Clintonian lawyer
group. Mr. Gates had so little notice of what was coming that he had not even hired a criminal lawyer; he had a
public defender enter his plea. I presume Mr. Mueller raced out with the Manafort-Gates charges in the hope that,
if there were anything Mr. Manafort could say that would be damaging to Trump, an indictment such as this —
the usual U.S. prosecutorial technique of throwing all the spaghetti at the wall ("conspiracy against the United States" is
one of the more extreme charges) — will bring him to the standard plea bargain: giving extorted and false
but incriminating testimony against the big target (Mr. Trump), in exchange for a reduced sentence with an immunity for
perjured testimony.
GOP
Would Rather Lose than Fight. America is at war. Not with a particular country, in spite of our endless
entanglements in the Middle East. Instead the war is against a more nebulous enemy. One that goes by many
names. The status quo. The deep state. The establishment. The elites. The enemy is
everywhere. Media, entertainment, sports, academia, and among the ruling class in Washington, DC. A ruthless enemy,
barbarians, willing to keep fighting despite setbacks and defeat. Singleminded in focus, the enemy wants to "fundamentally
transform America", creating a "new world order," to borrow phrases from both sides of the political aisle.
With
hoax dossier, the Left politicized US defense institutions. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic
National Committee have separately chipped away at America's treasured foundations and institutions. Leftist policies
over the past decade have done untold damage to America's culture, economy, global standing, and national defense. Yet
perhaps the most egregious and damaging actions from the Left was the revelation that they combined forces to undermine the
independence of the U.S. intelligence community. Our broad national security apparatus is tasked with keeping Americans
and national interests safe and protected, both at home and abroad. This past election season, it appears that that was
thrown out the window in a hell-bent effort to undermine Donald Trump's candidacy. Not since Watergate had politicians
used these sacred actors for the apparent purpose of going after the political opposition.
Russia
'Collusion' Story Is Blowing Up Like the Hindenburg. It is delicious to see, even more suddenly and completely
than anyone had anticipated, the breakdown of the steamroller media smear of Donald Trump. A trinitarian deus ex
machina descended. The Washington Post, struggling desperately in its discomfort, a few days ahead of the information
being forcibly extracted by congressional subpoenas, acknowledged that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National
Committee had paid for the assembly of the Steele dossier. This rotten fish of lies and gossip was universally regarded
at first as rubbish so scurrilous no one would publish it for months until Buzzfeed, the bottom of the web barrel, took it
up, which emboldened the flounder skimming the bottom, CNN, to present it as a major triumph of journalistic enterprise and
to popularize it.
Swamp Central: U.S. State
Department. Romania is heavily influenced by the United States government, specifically the Departments of
State and Defense, and at least the State Department seems intent on advancing the leftist agenda on LGBT issues in foreign
nations as aggressively as if Donald Trump had never been elected. U.S. Ambassador to Romania Hans Klemm has been an
outspoken champion of homosexuality, even marching for "gay marriage" in the pouring rain this past summer. The jury is
still out on the mixed messages coming Defense Secretary James Mattis, who has so far delayed the push for transgenderism in
the military but allowed the rest of the "gay" agenda to proceed. But just last week an Air Force colonel has been
punished for refusing to affirm "gay marriage," and Secretary Mattis has been AWOL in his defense.
How
the State Department is Undermining Trump's Agenda. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has isolated himself from
his own department and allowed subordinates to fill a handful of top positions with people who actively opposed Donald
Trump's election, according to current and former State Department officials and national security experts with specific
knowledge of the situation. [...] About 200 State Department jobs require Senate confirmation. But the Senate cannot
confirm nominees it does not have. More than nine months into the new administration, most of the senior State
Department positions — assistant and deputy assistant secretary posts — remain unfilled.
6 Examples of Jeff
Sessions' Cowardice. [#2] Sessions has shirked his responsibility to take control of his own Department,
overwhelmingly staffed by pro-Obama and pro-Clinton lawyers, 97 percent of which either voted for or donated to the Hillary
Clinton presidential campaign. As a result, Freedom of Information Act cases continue to be obstructed by lying DOJ
lawyers, after years in the courts. These lawsuits seek to force production of evidence about Obama and Clinton scandals,
which include, as we have just learned through a leak to Circa News, the cover-up of an FBI investigation over bribery during the
Obama administration — giving rise to Russia acquiring about 20 percent of America's strategic uranium reserves.
Judging
by Mueller's staffing choices, he may not be very interested in justice. What was supposed to have been a
search for Russia's cyberspace intrusions into our electoral politics has morphed into a malevolent mission targeting
friends, family and colleagues of the president. The Mueller investigation has become an all-out assault to find crimes
to pin on them — and it won't matter if there are no crimes to be found. This team can make some. Many
Americans despise President Trump and anyone associated with him. Yet turning our system of justice into a political
weapon is a danger we must guard against.
The
Clinton cover-up, brought to you by the same guys who are investigating Trump. [N]ew evidence appears to show
that Hillary Clinton used her office as Secretary of State to confer benefits to Russia in exchange for millions of dollars
in donations to her foundation and cash to her husband. But there's more. It seems it was all covered up for
years by the same three people who are now involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump over so-called Russian "collusion."
Federal
judge blocks Trump's third travel ban. A federal judge on Tuesday [10/17/2017] largely blocked the Trump
administration from implementing the latest version of the president's controversial travel ban, setting up yet another
legal showdown on the extent of the executive branch's powers when it comes to setting immigration policy. The decision
from U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson in Hawaii is sure to be appealed, but for now, it means that the administration
cannot restrict the entry of travelers from six of the eight countries that officials said were unable or unwilling to provide
information that the United States wanted to vet the countries' citizens.
Donors
to anti-Trump 'resistance' group revealed. The Center for Community Change, a Washington, D.C.-based 501 (c)(3)
progressive community organizing group that does not reveal its donors, has been involved in direct action against President
Donald Trump and Republicans before and after the November elections. The organization's members sit on the boards of
other prominent liberal activist groups. The [Washington] Free Beacon has obtained the group's unredacted 2015
tax forms that shed light on its funders, who provide millions of dollars in assistance. The group appears to rely
heavily on a few major liberal foundations, organizations, and unions.
Obama
holdovers, vacancies remain at top levels of State Department. While Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and
President Trump seem to have patched things up after a report claimed the top diplomat considered resigning over the summer,
another source of tension remains — Tillerson's department still has numerous vacancies, while several Obama
administration holdovers are in top positions. "There is a serious problem within the Trump administration," said John
Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. "Trump and Tillerson don't have full control over their State
Department. The way a president exercises control over the bureaucracy is to get as many of his people as possible into
senior positions."
Tom Price's Real Crime. Anyone
naïve enough to believe that Tom Price's ouster from HHS was actually about his use of chartered jets may wish to
consider this: The same transgression was committed on a much larger scale by numerous Obama administration officials,
yet neither the "news" media nor the Democrats ever exhibited any outrage over far worse abuses by repeat offenders like Eric
Holder and Loretta Lynch. This doesn't excuse Price's poor judgment, of course, but it is a reminder that he was
hounded out of office for one reason and one reason only — he was a fierce and powerful opponent of Obamacare.
Robert
Mueller Blocks Congressional Oversight of FBI Involvement in Trump Surveillance. A report from Reuters
highlights the DOJ and FBI refusing to hand over documents related to the Steele Dossier on candidate Donald Trump, and the
FBI (Via James Comey) involvement in assembling the content therein. However, the lede is buried in paragraph four of
the article. [...] This is genuinely much more alarming that might initially appear on first review. In essence the FBI
is protecting itself from inquiry into unlawful conduct of the FBI.
Mueller
Scorches the Earth. Robert Mueller's sprawling special-counsel investigation is playing hardball. It was not enough to
get a search warrant to ransack the Virginia home of Paul Manafort, even as the former Trump campaign chairman was cooperating with congressional
investigators. Mueller's [investigators] persuaded a judge to give them permission to pick the door lock. That way, they could break
into the premises in the wee hours, while Manafort and his wife were in bed sleeping. They proceeded to secure the premises — of a man they
are reportedly investigating for tax and financial crimes, not gang murders and Mafia hits — by drawing their guns on the stunned
couple, apparently to check their pajamas for weapons. Mueller's probe more resembles an empire, with 17 prosecutors retained
on the public dime. So ... what exactly is the crime of the century that requires five times the number of lawyers the Justice Department
customarily assigns to crimes of the century? No one can say.
Ryan
Zinke plans overhaul because Interior Department employees 'not loyal'. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said
Monday 30 percent of his agency's employees are "not loyal" to him or President Trump and he is developing a plan to overhaul
the department. "I got 30 percent of the crew that's not loyal to the flag," Zinke said in remarks to the National
Petroleum Council, a federal advisory panel.
78
Obama appointees 'burrowed' into career jobs, watchdog finds. A government watchdog found that 78 political
appointees of President Obama managed to "burrow" into career government jobs over a six-year period. A Government
Accountability Office report obtained by The Washington Times on Wednesday [9/27/2017] shows that seven of Mr. Obama's
political appointees switched to career jobs without obtaining necessary approval from the Office of Personnel
Management. Of those, four were later denied the jobs by OPM and three left their posts. Congressional
Republicans warned Mr. Obama last year against moving political appointees into career positions, and President Trump
has stated frequently that he believes some employees in the federal workforce are Obama holdovers working against his agenda.
Did
New York Mag Admit Mueller Investigation Is a Fishing Expedition? Yesterday's [9/24/2017] New York
magazine had the best summary of the state of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller yet
written. It was contained in a single paragraph buried deep in an article with no other surprises so you have to look
for it. Yet despite having to wade through material which basically tells us what we already know about that
investigation, that one paragraph is so stunning in its revelation amid an otherwise routine summary of what Mueller is
possibly up to, that it hits the reader like a hard slap across the face. Before reaching that revelatory paragraph,
New York magazine correspondent Cristian Farias reminds us that it is quite extraordinary that a private citizen, Paul
Manafort, was secretly surveilled twice via FISA warrants. Uh, yeah, it was stunning and it also confirms that
President Donald Trump was almost certainly right in his claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped. However, we have known
this for over a week.
WSJ
Openly Calls Mueller Probe a Sham Unless Wiretapping [is] Investigated. The Wall Street Journal editorial board
never minces words. The conservative paper late Tuesday [9/19/2017] posted an editorial openly calling for Special
Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate wiretapping allegations involving top Trump aide Paul Manafort. The paper says
Mueller's ties to the FBI and to its former director, James Comey, "make him too conflicted" to conduct the investigation.
"Congress is charged with providing oversight of law enforcement and the FISA courts, and it has an obligation to investigate
their role in 2016. The intelligence committees have subpoena authority and the ability to hold those who don't cooperate
in contempt."
Robert
Mueller's team is going back more than a decade in Paul Manafort investigation. Paul Manafort, President
Trump's former campaign manager, is being investigated special counsel Robert Mueller for his actions spanning 11 years.
Mueller, who is leading the federal Russia probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the
Trump campaign and the Kremlin, has told Manafort his team intends to charge him with possible tax and financial crimes, according
to CNN. This indicates the investigation is in the advanced stages and also signals the scope had exceeded Russia interference
in the election.
U.S.
Government Wiretapped Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort. The July/August 2016 time frame is interesting
because that coincides with the surfacing of the ridiculous opposition research "Steele Dossier" on Presidential Candidate Donald
Trump. Further recently revealed information about the "[S]teele dossier", interestingly surrounds the James Comey FBI paying
for the information contained therein. [...] So the James Comey FBI paid a British informant, former MI6 operative Christopher Steele,
for content within the Steele Dossier, which was originally financed by the Jeb Bush campaign and Never Trumpers, and later passed on
to Hillary Clinton allies via continued investigative funding by Fusion GPS. Christopher Steele is the same guy the DNC contracted
to research the "DNC hacking" (which many think was actually DNC leaking). Sometime in July 2016 the James Comey FBI was denied
a FISA warrant by the court (rarely done) and the general appearance is that Comey was interested in surveillance of the Trump
campaign. Note Comey has never denied this allegation.
Special
Counsel Mueller Tells Manafort He Will Be Indicted. The real trouble all started for Manafort while he was
still snoozing away in bed, early morning back in July. He was fast asleep when federal agents serving a search warrant
actually used lock picks to open his front door and started to raid his home located in Virginia. Everything was fair
game to the agents, they ended up taking binders full of papers, as well as computer files in which they had made copies from
off his PC. They really dug into the guy, even taking photo 'evidence' of his expensive suits, according to one source.
The
Deep State Wraps Its Protective Cocoon Around Hillary Clinton. Question: Now that the Republicans control
all three branches of government, my question is really simple. Why is it that when organizations have sued the Justice
Department and State Department — I'm, of course, speaking of Judicial Watch here — for documents
related to Hillary Clinton, Benghazi and all of the other Obama scandals... why is it that State and Justice are so slow in
releasing the documents that the judges have ordered to be released? And if it is the deep state that you talk about, then
why isn't Secretary Tillerson and Attorney General Sessions getting in there and kicking some tail to get this information out?
U.S.
appeals court rules against broad interpretation of Trump's travel ban. A U.S. appeals court on Thursday
rejected the Trump administration's effort to temporarily bar most refugees from entering the country, ruling that those who
have relationships with a resettlement agency should be exempt from an executive order banning refugees. A three-judge
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel also ruled that grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins of legal U.S. residents
should be exempted from President Donald Trump's order, which banned travelers from six Muslim-majority countries.
Murderers,
Rapists And Pedophiles Got Government Security Clearances. The head of the Pentagon's Defense Security Service
says the troubled and clogged process to grant security clearances has led to criminals receiving access to classified
information. "I've got murderers who have access to classified information," Daniel Payne, head of the Defense Security
Service, said during a conference Wednesday [9/6/2017], McClatchy reports. "I have rapists. I have pedophiles.
I have people involved in child porn." The Defense Security Service grants temporary security clearances for civilian workers
and contractors, and the Department of Defense (DOD) has been so hard pressed for employees with clearances that some criminals
have slipped through.
Report:
NSA Offered To Give FBI All Of Hillary Clinton's Missing Emails. Comey Said No. The New York Post's John
Crudele had an interesting column outlining how the bogus Democrat/Media/Deep State instigated Trump investigation is
backfiring on Democrats as the American people grow increasingly weary of repeated allegations without actual proof.
Beyond that fatigue is something even more concerning for Democrats. The investigation is actually shedding light on
wrongdoing by figures like Hillary Clinton and James Comey — NOT Donald Trump.
Reports:
Globalists in White House Oppose Trump's Border Wall, Reforms. The "West Wing Democrats" in the White House are
eager to sacrifice President Donald Trump's top campaign promise in exchange for Democratic approval of the tax cuts sought
by wealthy donors and business interests, according to an article in Politico.
Senate
Leader Mitch McConnell Is Actively Working To Undermine M.A.G.A Agenda. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
delivered a speech today in Kentucky. A speech which yet again personifies the disconnect between the insufferable
professional republicans within the party and the MAGA insurgency that has taken it over. CTH has been transparent with
our support for Donald Trump, and the specific reason for it. We want the GOPe machine torn down, dispatched to earth
orbit, and nuked while there regardless of consequence, because we're sick of having to be brutalized and used by Republican
liars hiding within it. Period.
Has the
Deep State Won? The title of this column reflects the first thought I had on the news of Steve Bannon's
resignation last Friday as President Trump's strategic advisor. Although I do not know Mr. Bannon personally, the
impression I have gotten from reading biographies of him, as well as my knowledge of his enunciated beliefs, his patriotism,
and the pivotal role he played in galvanizing Donald Trump's presidential campaign, caused me to believe that he was the one
individual with the intellectual firepower, intestinal fortitude, and strategic vision to check the unchecked growth of our
government. Now, with his resignation, I fear that that the barely-begun battle to retake control of the government and
pare it back to something resembling sanity, is lost.
Obama
Holdovers Still In Dozens Of Key National Security Council Jobs. Several Obama holdovers who led initiatives at
odds with President Donald Trump's foreign policy remain on the staff of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, The Daily
Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. About 40 of the National Security Council's (NSC)
250 officials — nearly one in six — are Obama administration holdovers, according to TheDCNF's
analysis. The holdovers include NSC directors for Korea, China, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Eastern Europe, Israel-Palestine,
South America, North Africa and sub-Sahara Africa. Holdovers also advise on weapons of mass destruction, counterterrorism,
non-proliferation, arms control, defense policy, immigration, and homeland preparedness.
Trump's
Unintended Consequences: The Unmasking of the Deep State. "Deep State" is hard to define, because it is composed of overlapping groups and
individuals with complex and differing agendas. It's an amalgam of people, agencies, and bureaucrats that changes. The current leakers are part
of it. For now, let's say it's a mostly unelected, mostly leftist group within our government that wants to govern us against the will of America's
founding principles. These people want the final say over our Republic. They want to rule, and they form part of a powerful alliance against
the current administration and its voters.
Why the Swamp Hates
Trump. Imagine that you were elected to a federal office several years ago and had a safe seat with all the perks attached,
including salary, expense account, and influence with corporate CEOs and other titans of industry. Suppose further that you knew
that the future would be prosperous when you left office because the connections you made would make you a fortune as a lobbyist.
Moreover, since unseating an incumbent is a herculean task, you felt that you were set for life. In fact, as soon as you got elected,
you began raising money and preparing for re-election. [...] Suddenly, a guy runs for office with a lot of ideas about "draining the swamp"
and making rules that include a prohibition on lobbying for at least five years after leaving office.
The New Tenure of Office
Act. Congressional Republicans have been waging a quiet war on their own President. The Senate voted unanimously to stay
in session thus denying President Trump the power to make recess appointments — and they themselves have refused to move his appointments
forward. They prevented Trump from even using private funding to build a border wall in a previous deal. They refused to even
repeal Obamacare, the cornerstone of every Republican campaign promise. And they have gone along with the Democrats with these
investigations, which the GOP knows full well are purely political.
Former
Obama Officials Operate Shadow Network to Push Science Agenda. An unofficial shadow office "stocked with Obama
loyalists" is quietly working in Washington, D.C. to carry out the previous administration's science agenda. The group
of science experts who left the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) after President Donald Trump took
office "is informal yet organized," according to a report from the health-oriented news website Stat. Members of
the new group — which numbers in the dozens — have provided counsel to Democratic lawmakers on Capitol
Hill, consulted with scientific societies, and have held group-wide strategy sessions, according to Stat. They have
also helped analyze the impact of White House budget proposals and policies, including the decision to withdraw the United
States from the Paris climate accord.
Here
Are The Major Scandals That Took Place When Robert Mueller Was FBI Director. What stands out most during
then-FBI Director Mueller's term in office is the two-tiered system of justice, when obvious crimes and scandals involving
government officials and private-sector elites were ignored or even covered up by the FBI. Much of the worst behavior of
government officials in the Bush and Obama administrations was given a pass by Mueller's FBI, as well as a megabank that
laundered billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and sponsors of terror. Simply put: Mueller helped to
create the swamp that needs to be drained.
Colossus
of Corruption: Ben Rhodes Unmasked. Somehow it does not surprise that former Obama Deputy Security
Adviser Ben Rhodes is now a "person of interest" in the probe of who illegally leaked for political purposes the names of
Team Trump players allegedly collected inadvertently in intelligence reports. He joins others on Team Obama such as
Susan Rice and Samantha Power in the unmasking designed to subvert the Trump administration in what amounts to a silent coup.
Mueller's
Investigators Are Worried They're Going To Get Sued. Department of Justice investigators purchased liability
insurance to guard themselves against potential retaliatory lawsuits brought by the subjects they're investigating as part of
the Russia probe. The Department would cover any legal fees incurred in the course of duty. However, a number of
investigators opted to purchase extra protection as the probe moves further into examining President Donald Trump's finances
and those of his associates, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN.
Dershowitz:
'Ethnic And Racial Composition' Of Mueller's Jury Pool Stacks Deck Against Trump. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's decision
to impanel a grand jury in Washington, D.C. will prove "very unfavorable" to President Trump, in part because of the "ethnic and racial
composition" of jury members, says constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz. "I think it's a tactical move designed to send a message
that if the prosecutor decides to prosecute, he will have a real advantage with the jury pool where the case will be held," Dershowitz
said in an interview on Friday [8/4/2017] with WABC radio host Rita Cosby.
Sources
Confirm NatSec Advisor H. R. McMaster & His Deputy Dina Powell Are Leaking To The Anti-Trump Media. Two separate National
Security Council sources have confirmed that National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster and Deputy National Security Advisor
Dina Powell have been leaking negative material about President Donald J. Trump to their allies in the anti-Trump media, GotNews
can exclusively report. "It's very hard when your boss, the President, and your boss, the NSC advisor, see the world so
differently," says one staffer, who opposes regime change in Syria.
'Everything
The President Wants To Do, McMaster Opposes,' Former NSC Officials Say. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster
is thwarting President Donald Trump's foreign policy prescriptions, two former senior NSC officials told The Daily Caller News
Foundation. "Everything the president wants to do, McMaster opposes," a former senior official said in a wide-ranging
interview. "Trump wants to get us out of Afghanistan — McMaster wants to go in. Trump wants to get us
out of Syria — McMaster wants to go in. Trump wants to deal with the China issue — McMaster
doesn't. Trump wants to deal with the Islam issue — McMaster doesn't. You know, across the board, we
want to get rid of the Iran deal — McMaster doesn't. It is incredible to watch it happening right in front
of your face. Absolutely stunning."
Mission
Creep: Mueller Grand Jury Fishing for Evidence Unrelated to Russian Interference Probe. Mainstream media
reports poured in Thursday and Friday indicating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has far outstripped the original
parameters of his investigation and begun digging into President Donald Trump's business dealings. CNN reported
Thursday [8/3/2017], that sources close to the investigation told them they are hopeful "the web of financial ties could offer
a more concrete path toward potential prosecution than the broader and murkier questions of collusion in the 2016 campaign."
H.R.
McMaster: Your Pro-Iran, Pro-Pakistan, Anti-Israel, McCain Ally in the Trump White House. [Scroll
down] One source claims that Trump's political advisers are afraid of how it will look if he fires another national
security adviser. But that makes no sense. Trump is being attacked for everything and nothing. Who cares if
he gets attacked for doing something that will actually help him to succeed in office? Why should fear of media
criticism play a role here or anywhere for this president and this administration? [...] And who recommended McMaster?
You won't believe this. Senator John McCain. That's right. The NSA got his job on the basis of a recommendation
from the man who just saved Obamacare. Obviously, at this point, Trump has nothing to lose by angering McCain.
H.R. McMaster Is Proof The Deep State Exists.
What would you say if Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council, who discovered the
Obama-era unmasking of the names of Donald Trump associates whose communications were perhaps illegally intercepted and leaked by the
Obama intelligence apparatus, was fired, and that Susan Rice, the person at the heart of the Benghazi cover-up and the unmasking and
leaking of the unmasked names, was granted a renewal of her Top Secret security clearance? If you said that could never happen in a
Donald Trump administration you'd be wrong, because H.R. McMaster, President Trump's National Security Advisor just did it.
The
Slow-Motion Coup d'Etat picks up steam. Since the election there has been an unprecedented attempt to unwind
the election result. Events have accelerated on several fronts lately with attempts from outside and within to paralyze
the Trump administration. What started as a collective media freakout on Election Night 2016 quickly progressed to an
unprecedented attempt to intimidate Electors into changing their votes. Some Democrats announced, even before Trump
took office, plans to impeach him, and Democrat politicians fed media-driven Russia collusion conspiracy theories for which
they knew there was no evidence. Chuck Schumer, for example, used the alleged fact of Donald Trump being under FBI
investigation as an argument against confirming Neal Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, even though Schumer (but not the public)
knew from intelligence briefings that Trump was not personally under investigation. All the while, the permanent
bureaucracy, particularly in the intelligence community, started an unending and almost daily series of leaks meant to
paralyze the administration.
McMaster's
NSC Coup Against Trump Purges Critics of Islam and Obama. Derek Harvey was a man who saw things coming. [...] Just like in Iraq, Harvey
began digging at the NSC. He came up with a list of Obama holdovers who were leaking to the press. McMaster, the new head of the NSC,
refused to fire any of them. McMaster had a different list of people he wanted to fire. It was easy to make the list. Harvey was
on it. All you had to do was name Islamic terrorism as the problem and oppose the Iran Deal. If you came in with Flynn, you would be
out. If you were loyal to Trump, your days were numbered. And if you warned about Obama holdovers undermining the new administration,
you were a target. One of McMaster's first acts at the NSC was to ban any mention of "Obama holdovers." Not only did the McMaster coup
purge Harvey, who had assembled the holdover list, but his biggest target was Ezra Watnick-Cohen, who had exposed the eavesdropping on Trump officials
by Obama personnel.
House
Judiciary Member: Mueller Must Resign Over Conflict — "Clear Violation Of Federal Code". House
Judiciary Committee member Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) is calling on Robert Mueller, special counsel for the
Department of Justice's Russia investigation, to resign over a "conflict of interest" resulting from a personal relationship
with James Comey — a person of interest in the investigation. [...] That relationship could come into play as
Mueller reportedly investigates whether Trump's dismissal of the FBI director constituted obstruction of justice amid the
bureau's probe into whether Russian agents coordinated cybercrimes with the Trump campaign. As we've pointed out
before, several of Mueller's early, notable hires have all been contributors to Hillary's and/or Obama's previous campaigns
and Jeannie Rhee actually represented the Clinton Foundation.
House
Intelligence Committee Leaks Ben Rhodes as "Person of Interest" in Unmasking Scandal. There's another
"explosive" and "exclusive" article from the latest chaf and countermeasures unit, Sara Carter, reporting Ben Rhodes as a
"subject of interest" for the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into 'unethical' and possibly 'illegal'
unmasking. Understandably all discussion, and likely a large segment of Sean Hannity's TV show, will focus on the
intended target of the newly drawn attention. However, what's more interesting to those who look into the deep swamp is
the identification of Carter's sources: ie. who's feeding her?
The
Deep State War on Trump's Foreign Policy Agenda. The State Department's own "deep state" is trying to sabotage
President Trump's foreign policy agenda. From the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Iran, Qatar and climate change, the
State Department, under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, is reported to be in "open war" with the White House. Key
high level positions remain vacant as Obama holdovers "continue running the show and formulating policy, where they have
increasingly clashed with the White House's own agenda," according to the Free Beacon.
Reports
of FBI General Counsel Leaker Investigation Bear Hallmarks of "Controlled Opposition". A few days ago we shared
a story from Sara Carter, a frequent guest on Sean Hannity, who surfaced immediately AFTER the inauguration of President
Trump and is often utilized to drive explosive headlines that lead to lengthy conversation but go 'no-where'. CTH has
spent years monitoring the interactions and interplay between the media and the various layers within what's called "The DC
Deep State". Almost immediately a very familiar pattern was noted in Carter's reporting. [...] You see, there is a pattern,
a very predictable shaping pattern with a great deal of media and stories that surround scandals in politics. The
'controlled opposition' pattern is never broken and the outcome of stories that check off each sequential part of that
pattern are always the same.
Deep State Calls For Coup Against
POTUS Trump. Disregard the blue jeans and open collar shirt. This is former CIA Director John Brennan
(who no doubt maintains very high-level contacts throughout the Deep State machine) attempting to make acceptable the premise
of a coup against a sitting president. Don't forget, it was Brennan who was caught lying about the Deep State's massive
data collection program on private citizens. He lied to Congress without penalty. That is the arrogance of Deep
State masters. They feel themselves superior to the laws of of this nation. They maintain authority and control
regardless of who is or isn't inside the White House. POTUS Trump is the single greatest threat to that power
monopoly — and they want him gone.
Congress
Could Halt Spy Authorization Over Obama Aides' Anti-Trump Leaks. Key lawmakers are threatening to cancel the authorization of
sensitive U.S. spy operations until congressional leaders investigate efforts by former top Obama administration officials to leak highly
classified national security information in what many believe was a targeted campaign to undermine the Trump administration, according to
senior congressional sources familiar with the situation. Key Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee are pressuring
Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.) to investigate former senior Obama administration officials believed to be responsible for these anti-Trump
leaks, including former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and National Security Council official
Ben Rhodes, according to sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about mounting frustration over Congress's failure to adequately
investigate these leaks.
Who
Paid for the 'Trump Dossier'? Democrats Don't Want You to Find Out. It has been 10 days since Democrats
received the glorious news that Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley would require Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort
to explain their meeting with Russian operators at Trump Tower last year. [...] Yet Democrats now have meekly and noiselessly
retreated, agreeing to let both men speak to the committee in private. Why would they so suddenly be willing to let go
of this moment of political opportunity? Fusion GPS. [...] Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson also was supposed to
testify at the Grassley hearing, where he might have been asked in public to reveal who hired him to put together the hit job
on Mr. Trump, which was based largely on anonymous Russian sources. Turns out Democrats are willing to give up
just about anything — including their Manafort moment — to protect Mr. Simpson from having to answer
that question.
Getting
a fix on Fusion GPS. The so-called Trump Dossier appears to be something like the Rosetta Stone that will allow
us to decipher the true story underlying the Trump/Russia "collusion" hysteria. The hysteria has been driven by the
Democrats and their media adjunct to explain the shocking outcome of the 2016 election. Ishmael Jones argued the
fraudulence of the Trump Dossier here on Power Line yesterday. The FBI apparently thought the Trump Dossier was the
real deal. John Brennan and James Clapper disseminated it in briefings to Presidents Obama and Trump. Leaks to
the media followed in due course. The provenance of the Trump Dossier lies with GPS Fusion. GPS Fusion is the
for-hire political outfit paid to dig up dirt on targets, as Kim Strassel put it in her Wall Street Journal Potomac Watch
column yesterday. For whom was GPS Fusion working in the matter of the Trump Dossier? GPS Fusion isn't saying.
Ex-Obama
Official Evelyn Farkas Urges Intel Community to Compromise Sources, Methods. Evelyn Farkas, a former top Obama
administration Defense Department official, has advocated for the intelligence community to consider compromising sources and
methods when it comes to "saving American democracy." "And I know that we have to preserve our sources and methods,"
Farkas said, speaking about the U.S. intelligence community. "But at some point you know, sometimes maybe you have to
actually compromise some kind of source or method if it comes down to saving American democracy."
Mueller's
Russia Probe Is A Political Hit Job: Either Rein Him In, Or Fire Him. If recent reports are true, Special
Counsel Robert Mueller has veered sharply off course to investigate matters that have nothing to do with Russia's tampering
with our 2016 election. He either has to be reeled in to do the job he was hired to do, or fired.
Chaffetz
on Kushner Being Questioned in Senate Meeting: 'They Would Never Do This to the Clintons'. On Monday
[7/24/2017], Fox News contributor and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) appeared on "Fox & Friends," where the topic
turned to the big news of the morning: Jared Kushner's written statement to the Senate. Chaffetz expressed
frustration with Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. being called to speak to the Senate Intelligence Committee, arguing a double
standard. "Republicans need to get a backbone," he began. "Every time the Democrats say they need to call up
Jared Kushner or Donald Trump Jr., then call up Chelsea Clinton. Call up the Clintons. There, we have an
inspector general who issues a report stating an actual crime."
Congress
ratifies Deep State manuever to limit President Trump. "Hacking the election" is a misnomer. Revealing
embarrassing information about the Democratic party is not the same as "stealing" or "hacking" the election itself. If
the Russian government was behind the hacks, they certainly deserve to be sanctioned. But the only question that
matters should be, will the sanctions interfere with the administration's diplomatic efforts to bring about closer
cooperation between Russia and the US? That is the question facing President Trump.
Mueller
Probe Team Starts Leaking Special Counsel Investigation Details to Press. The team charged with investigating
whether there was any collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia now appears to be leaking details of the
probe to damage him. "A person familiar with the probe" told Bloomberg that the special counsel is examining a broad
range of transactions involving Trump and his associates' businesses. The leak comes the day after Trump told the
New York Times in an interview that delving into his business matters would be outside the bounds of the Russia
investigation.
Target
Trump: Use of Police State Tactics Is Un-American. Never in American history has a sitting president (and
his family) been hounded with unfounded criminal investigations as has President Trump. While still a candidate, the
Democrats and their propaganda arm in the mainstream media brought forth the scurrilous charge of Russian collusion with not
a shred of evidence to support their charge. It's a fishing expedition in search of a crime. [...] The entire Russian
collusion affair stinks to high heaven. There is no smoking gun to justify an independent counsel. Nada!
Yet, Robert Mueller, best buddies with fired FBI director James Comey, who admittedly leaked classified information to ensure
a special prosecutor would be appointed is now extending his investigation to include the Trump Organization.
Lawyers
Who Donated Money to Dems Now Investigating Trump Administration. President Donald Trump hasn't been easy on Special
Counsel Robert Mueller. Recently, he blasted the investigator in a New York Times interview, while his surrogate White House
Counselor Kellyanne Conway characterized Mueller as leading a "witch hunt." She accused the investigative team as being
politically biased. According to Fox News, she has plenty of ammunition to back up that claim.
Newt
Gingrich: Mueller's Law Firm Gave 99.81% of Its Donations to Hillary Clinton. Former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich pointed out on Hannity Thursday night that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's former law firm saw 99.81 percent of its
donations go to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. "The Mueller investigation has so many conflicts of interest, it's
almost an absurdity," Gingrich said. "The people that he's been hiring are all anti-Trump lawyers." [Video clip]
Trump
needs to be smart about how he fires Mueller. Trump must eventually fire Robert Mueller, a partisan tool
carrying water for his Establishment pals as he oversees an utterly corrupt "investigation" where the only person we actually
know committed any wrongdoing is his bestest buddy Jim Comey. But Trump can't just lash out and do it, though it is
well within his political and moral right to do so. No, he's got to do it cleverly, with cunning, in a way that shows
the American people exactly why Mueller's witch hunt is a flaming dumpster fire of conflicts of interest and contempt for the
right of normal Americans to have a say in their own governance. Trump has to set the stage before he pulls the trigger
and puts the coup de grace into the temple of this appalling fiasco. He has to do it so the American people will
see and understand why ending this idiocy is so absolutely necessary to preserve our Republic despite the mainstream media's
best effort to hide the truth.
Mueller
Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions. The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the
Donald Trump campaign and Russia in last year's election is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump's
businesses as well as those of his associates, according to a person familiar with the probe. The president told the
New York Times on Wednesday that any digging into matters beyond Russia would be out of bounds. Trump's businesses have
involved Russians for years, making the boundaries fuzzy so Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be taking a wide-angle
approach to his two-month-old probe.
What
is Mueller investigating? It is basic criminal law that a criminal statute must be specific and clear to define
the conduct that is declared illegal so that one knows that the conduct is illegal. Similarly, if one is being
investigated, the investigators must be authorized to seek out some specific conduct that is illegal and have probable cause
to believe that the target of the investigation is involved illegally. There is no such evidence here.
Special Counsel
Reaches Down Russian Rabbit Holes. Who investigates the investigators? Bloomberg reports that special
counsel Robert Mueller expanded his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to include
"examining a broad range of transactions involving [Donald] Trump's businesses as well as his associates." The
transactions not only involve "associates" but, in some cases, date back a decade. The deals include Russians buying
apartments in Trump-owned buildings and the sale of pricey Florida real estate to a rich Russian in 2008. Why not also
subpoena disgruntled former USFL players angry at the Donald's role in the league's demise to testify?
Through
Selective Security Clearances, Unelected Intelligence Agencies Claim Power To Veto President's Advisors. On
July 8 The New York Times reported that President Trump's adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner's application for a
security clearance had failed to report his contact with some Russians. The media found this ominous. I do too,
but for a different reason. The national security agencies of the executive branch are demanding that the president
communicate about national security matters only with advisers to whom they issue clearances. Someone in the FBI had slipped
Kushner's questionnaire to the Times. Publication of the story underlined the threat to withdraw the clearance.
"Translator"
At Trump Jr. Russian Meeting Has Deep Ties To Clinton Machine. Long before the story broke public
regarding meetings between Russian operatives and members of the Trump campaign, Hillary Clinton was hinting at such a
connection. How was she so privy to that information? Yes, she likely was tipped off by the illegal wire tap
courtesy of Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other within the Obama administration, but Mrs. Clinton just as
likely received a heads-up from a man who was acting as an "translator" at that same meeting. A man who was former
employee of the Clinton State Department — Anatoli Samochornov.
Who's Colluding With Whom? [Scroll down] The
Russian lawyer wasn't even supposed to be here. She had been denied a visa for entry into the United States in late 2015, but given a rather
extraordinary "parole" by the federal government to assist preparation for a client subject to an asset forfeiture by the Justice Department.
That was in January. The client was Prevezon Holdings, a Russian company suspected of having been paid some portion of $230 million
stolen by Russian mobsters. When Sergey Magnitsky[,] a Russian lawyer representing a company that had been the victim of the theft,
reported it to authorities in Moscow he was promptly jailed and beaten to death. The American response to this atrocity was the 2012
Magnitsky Act, which sanctioned several individuals connected to human rights abuses. The Russian government retaliated by preventing
American adoptions of Russian children. But in June, she was permitted to fly back to the U.S., have the meeting with Trump Junior — at
Trump Tower, no less — and then end up in the front row for a congressional hearing involving testimony from a former U.S. ambassador
to Russia, then turning up at a D.C. showing of a documentary film on the negative effects of the Magnitsky Act, and later appearing at a
dinner involving Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and former Rep. Ron Dellums (D-CA) who is now a lobbyist for the Russians. The repeal
of that legislation is a priority item for the Russians and a personal project of Veselnitskaya's; it, rather than any Clinton dirt, was
reportedly the primary subject brought forth at the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. All of this without a visa!
Eric
Holder Rallies Liberal Lawyers Against Trump in San Fran. Former Attorney General Eric Holder told a group of
liberal lawyers to keep fighting at a San Francisco fundraiser Wednesday, continuing his message about using state power to
oppose the Trump administration. Holder, who served during the Obama administration, told his audience not to be afraid
of what President Donald Trump is doing, but he still affirmed that news from the White House is "disturbing," the San
Francisco Chronicle reports. He also said that he worries about the "moral arc of the universe" bending away from
justice, not toward it as Martin Luther King Jr. said. "It's the responsibility of all of us to keep our hands on that
arc," he said. "There is fighting to be done, there are lawsuits to be brought ... You can never underestimate the
power of the American people."
Top
Republican Demands Investigation into Comey and Purging of Obama Holdovers for Intel Leaks. [Scroll down]
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and chair of its
National Security subcommittee, also called on President Trump to purge Obama holdovers still working in the federal
government. In an exclusive interview with the Beacon, DeSantis claimed that "the holdovers and their allies outside
the White House are responsible for an unprecedented series of national security leaks aimed at damaging the Trump administration's
national security apparatus." And he singled out none other than Ben Rhodes, the creator of the Obama White House echo
chamber (which is still operational), as the person responsible for most of the leaks. DeSantis said he wants to get
Rhodes under oath to testify before Congress about his nefarious activities since he left the White House.
Former
FBI Agent: Deep State Exists and Is Trying to Bring Down Trump. Fifteen years ago, I would have suggested
a tinfoil hat for anyone who believed in the deep state. But recent events have made me rethink my diagnosis. The
term "deep state" intimates a conspiracy somewhere in the woodshed. But it's basically two or more people who get
together and agree on something bad. In the case of a shadow government, that something is to impede or overthrow the
legitimate government. The current political environment offers convincing evidence that individuals are attempting to
do just that. They utilize legal and illegal means in an effort to annul the will of the people. Their ultimate
goal is to end the presidency of Donald Trump.
Deep
State: Trump Facing Seven Times More National Security Leaks Than Obama or Bush. President Trump has
faced seven times more leaks during the first 126 days of his administration than the previous two administrations.
That figure includes many leaks from the intelligence community that were aimed at embarrassing Trump but have damaged U.S.
national security, according to a new Senate report. "Since President Trump assumed office, our nation has faced an
unprecedented wave of potentially damaging leaks of information," said the report from the Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee. The report showed that the Trump administration faced 125 leaks potentially
damaging to national security in 126 days — a "conservative estimate," it noted.
Federal
court blocks Trump EPA on air pollution. An appeals court Monday struck down the Environmental Protection
Agency's 90-day suspension of new emission standards on oil and gas wells, a decision that could set back the Trump
administration's broad legal strategy for rolling back Obama-era rules. In a 2-to-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the EPA had the right to reconsider a 2016 rule limiting methane and
smog-forming pollutants emitted by oil and gas wells but could not delay the effective date while it sought to rewrite the
regulation. The agency has proposed extending the initial delay to two years; the court will hold a hearing on that
suspension separately.
Can
Trump Win His Fight Against Leftist Judges And Open-Border Radicals Over Immigration? A battle is brewing between the federal government's
right to enforce U.S. immigration laws and some cities' and blue states' desire to provide "sanctuary" for illegal immigrants in the U.S. But unlike
the past four presidents, Donald Trump is willing, even eager, to fight this battle.
Trump may be right about the White House
being bugged. President Trump seems to be confirming something I wrote a couple weeks ago — the White House may be bugged. When
Trump finally admitted recently that he doesn't have tapes of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, the president also hinted that the US
intelligence and law enforcement officials might have his office bugged.
Obama-appointed judges dismiss
Supreme Court ruling, continue blocking Trump's immigration crackdown. President Trump may have won a partial victory at the Supreme Court this week,
but other federal judges remain major stumbling blocks to his aggressive immigration plans, with courts from California to Michigan and Atlanta limiting his
crackdown on sanctuary cities and stopping him from deporting illegal immigrants he has targeted for removal. The judges in those deportation cases have
rejected Mr. Trump's argument that he has wide latitude to decide who gets kicked out, without having to worry about district courts second-guessing him
on facts of the case. Instead, the judges said, they get to decide their jurisdiction, and that extends to reviewing Mr. Trump's immigration policy.
Sharyl
Attkisson Outlines President Trump as DC's Existential Threat. Sharyl Attkisson appeared on Tucker Carlson
Tonight for a discussion segment about the media, Washington DC, and President Trump as a threat to the established political
order. Attkisson presents a smart summary of President Trump, the media perspectives, and how his policies and agenda
items represent an existential threat to the administrative state of DC. [Video clip]
Not
So Special Counsel: Time for POTUS to fight fire with fire. John Eastman, law professor at Chapman
University, writes in American Greatness this week that the powers invested in Special Counsel Mueller to investigate
"Russian hacking/collusion/obstruction poses grave dangers to our body politic and our liberty." His advice to
President Trump: Fight fire with fire. Turn the law and the courts back on your opponents. Trump is being
investigated without any probable cause of a crime. The Obama administration, in contrast, is a target-rich arena of
criminal activity. It is unconstitutional to issue a search warrant when there has been no crime and there is no
probable cause. But that is exactly what President Trump's DOJ has inflicted on the president and his team with
Mueller's special investigation. It was not just cowardice, but folly for the DOJ to buckle to the left-wing media's
hysterical insistence to investigate our president's alleged collusion with the FSB.
Robert
Mueller Adopts Stalinist Tactics. Yes, Virginia, this is a witch hunt. Robert Mueller III was appointed
special counsel after his friend, the vindictive James Comey, committed a federal crime by leaking a memo which was a
government record to the press. Mueller has picked staff and prosecutors as if he were stocking Hillary Clinton's
Department of Justice. He has picked a bevy of Clinton donors, an attorney who worked for the Clinton Foundation, a
former Watergate assistant prosecutor, and even a senior adviser to Eric Holder.
The
Politics of Professional Procrastination. The election result in Georgia's sixth district is yet another
example of Trump supporters removing excuses the DC UniParty puts forth; yet the DC apparatus is so entrenched in their
opposition to President Trump's policy agenda, they sit idle spinning various congressional hearings-to-nowhere in an
increasingly transparent effort to avoid action. Anyone who believes Democrats own exclusive opposition to Donald Trump
are completely ignoring the deliberate construct of the 2015/2016 republican primary. There are just as many —
if not more — natural enemies within the Republican apparatus as there are within the Democrat group.
"America-First" is antithetical to the UniParty.
Can Robert
Mueller be trusted? The last few decades have not been good ones for those of us who believe in the rule of
law, who subscribe to our country's proudest boast, that ours is a government of laws, and not men (or persons). What
this means is that we are governed not by arbitrary political power, but that our republic is committed to the values that
endure from the founding generation. These core values include an appreciation that there can be no order without law,
no law without morality, and, indeed, that there can be no morality without religion. These traditional views have been
largely abandoned by our legal and political elites on the left, a trend that Duke's Dean Paul Carrington characterized as
"legal nihilism," the belief that law doesn't matter and that's it's simply all about politics.
Is
Trump honestly under criminal investigation by the FBI? [Scroll down] Because Comey presented a credible
case for the possibility that the president interfered with a federal criminal investigation, Mueller no doubt is
investigating that as one of the related matters. In that respect, President Trump is under investigation by the FBI,
which seeks to determine whether he attempted to influence a federal criminal investigation for a corrupt purpose. Yet
as a sitting president, Trump cannot be indicted for any criminal behavior committed while in office. Hence he cannot
be a "target" of an FBI investigation. I use the word "target" in quotation marks because it has a technical
meaning — namely, that the Department of Justice plans to seek an indictment. So though it is true that the
president is being investigated by the FBI, it is also true that he is not a target of that investigation. Of what
value is a criminal investigation of a person if that person cannot be charged criminally?
Fifteen Lawyers
in Search of a Crime. [Scroll down] So in one month [Robert] Mueller has managed to put five times as
many people on the DoJ payroll as Trump has since January. As has been noticed, no matter how many lawyers Mueller
hires, he only seems to know bigtime Hillary donors. If he wraps the investigation up in time, the Special Counsel can
change his title to Special Bundler for the Clinton 2020 campaign. But, even if they weren't so ostentatiously
partisan, the whole money-no-object profligacy sums up dysfunctional Washington at its most repulsive.
The GOP should
do something! Since President Trump's election, our president has been under daily siege from within and
without. Not a day goes by without an attack by the mainstream media and the press. The attacks range from
unfounded accusations of Russian collusion, which have been debunked, to obstruction of justice, since there is no evidence
of collusion. The whole scenario is a concocted schizophrenic scheme by the entire left to paralyze the Trump administration's
agenda with a mission to impeach and remove President Trump from office. This seditious plot is organized by Barack
Hussein Obama from his compound in D.C. and financed by billionaire George Soros, who favors a one-world government.
Robert
Mueller Hires Another Clinton Donor For Russia Probe. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has added another Democrat
to his growing team of Trump-Russia investigators. The former FBI director recently recruited Elizabeth Prelogar, a
lawyer in the Office of the Solicitor General, to work on the Russia probe, The National Law Journal reports. A former
law clerk for liberal Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, Prelogar has donated in the past to Hillary
Clinton's and Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, Federal Election Commission records show.
Is
Mueller Too Conflicted To Investigate Trump Fairly? Whether or not special prosecutor Robert Mueller is even
investigating President Trump for obstruction of justice is far from clear. What's becoming increasingly clear,
however, is that if Mueller does launch such a probe, he shouldn't be the one to run it.
We
need a Robert Mueller resignation or a second special counsel. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a
problem: He has a disqualifying conflict of interest regarding a large part of his work. It involves a choice
between investigating or relying on former FBI director James Comey, a longtime close friend of Mueller's. Ideally,
he'll recognize that and resign. But if he doesn't resign, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should appoint another
special counsel to take over the obstruction-of-justice part of the investigation, where Mueller is disqualified.
Trump's Way Out
of the Progressive Labyrinth. In every single week of the Trump presidency, the investigators and attorneys of
FBI Director James Comey or, subsequently, of special counsel Robert Mueller, have leaked information that President Donald
Trump was under investigation for either colluding with the Russians or obstructing justice — allegations so far
without any substantiating evidence. [...] Since January 2017, the Congress ceased being a legislative body. It is now
a Star-chamber court determined to decapitate the presidency.
How
the Deep State Built Its Field of Dreams. In the first place, the "Russian collusion" accusation is utterly
pretextual, concocted by the media and the Democrats, and it began when President Obama ordered the intelligence chiefs to
compose a report on Russian Interference. The Obama administration then spread the flimsy report, hastily put together
across the intelligence community, through a supine if not complicit media.
Very
Fake News: The Cover-up of Robert Mueller's Rather Unseemly Track Record. Simply put, [Robert] Mueller
can't be trusted to arrive at the truth. The anthrax letters case proves it. He should never have received the
appointment as special counsel. [Fred] Barnes' assertion that the deck has been stacked ignores the fact that he and
his associates in the Never-Trump movement helped stack the deck. Why didn't they blow the whistle on Mueller when he
was appointed? Why do they ignore his real record now?
The lawyer finds a
permanent client. Mr. Mueller knows better than anyone that once he marches up the hill, he has to march down with the corpse
of a president. When he does, he will be the toast of the great American swamp. The search continues for the evidence that proves the
president sold the White House, the Smithsonian Institution with all its treasures and maybe even the Lincoln Memorial to the Russians.
The lawyers' civil war.
The Trump-Russia collusion story is nonsense, as its disseminators know better than anyone else. The object of the exercise is not
to support the innuendo, but to launch an investigation which can provoke the White House into responses that might be construed as illegal.
The intelligence leaks involved in framing the story alone are probably sufficient grounds to put several dozen senior officials in federal
prison for double-digit terms. That consideration gauges the scale of the problem: the mutineers have committed multiple felonies,
and their downside should the mutiny go wrong is not ignominious retirement but hard time at Leavenworth.
Is
This Treason in Time of War? Two of our worst enemies, North Korea and Iran, are working in close cooperation
to develop nuclear weapons and ICBMs, which could destroy our cities with only 15 minutes warning time. We are
therefore at war, quite possibly a war that will end in national catastrophe for us and the civilized world. This is an
important point, because the U.S. Constitution defines "treason" as "aiding and abetting an enemy of the United States in
time of war." The President of the United States has been elected in a close election, and promises to clean out the
swamp in Washington DC. He is therefore attacked by the swampocrats, who have long controlled the media, the bureaucracy,
the judiciary and the legislature.
That
Was Quick: Reports Say Mueller Granted Comey Full Immunity Even Before Investigation Began. Thus far,
over the course of the utterly fraudulent "Russian Colusion" investigation, Democrats have accidentally uncovered crimes by
Obama's attorney general Loretta Lynch and his FBI director James Comey. And, as an added bonus, they may have also instigated
brand new investigations of Hillary Clinton's suspicious activities. So, by all means, let's continue this charade.
Are We
Nearing Civil War? We are approaching something of a civil war where the capital city seeks the overthrow of
the sovereign and its own restoration. Thus far, it is a nonviolent struggle, though street clashes between pro- and
anti-Trump forces are increasingly marked by fistfights and brawls. Police are having difficulty keeping people
apart. A few have been arrested carrying concealed weapons. That the objective of this city is to bring Trump
down via a deep state-media coup is no secret. Few deny it.
Time
to Shut Down the Partisan Witch Hunt against Trump. We-the-People already know — and have known for
almost a year — that the faux "Russian-collaboration investigation" into now-President Trump and his team is just
that: false. Despite the continued Deep State's attempts to try to have something stick to our president —
think lying James Clapper and John Brennan as well as pretend non-partisan former FBI Chief Mueller and his discredited BFF (and
student) former FBI Chief James Comey — it has been a partisan witch-hunt from its inception.
Comey
Wingman Robert Mueller Hiring Obama-Clinton Donors to Investigate Trump. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who
has been sainted by the establishment, is a longtime and very close friend of Jim Comey's, the easily "stunned" and
"confused" former FBI director. Mueller's begun hiring members of his investigative team and at least four of them are
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton donors.
Are
Mueller and Comey 'colluding' against Trump by acting as co-special counsel? It was obvious it would evolve
this way from the very moment Mueller was named on May 17th. Which is why I wrote a column two days later, arguing that
Mueller should resign as special counsel. He has a flagrant conflict of interest that disqualifies him from
serving. To wit, his personal and professional closeness to Comey. They have long been allies. Comey
regards his predecessor at the FBI as a mentor, while Mueller considers Comey his protégé. It was evident
at the outset that the fired FBI Director would be the pivotal witness in any potential obstruction of justice investigation
by Mueller. Therefore, it was incomprehensible that Rod Rosenstein, the Acting Attorney General, would choose
him. It was equally baffling that Mueller would accept the position.
Mueller's
disturbing staffing decisions. When people in Washington talk on the record about Robert Mueller, they
gush. Terms like "straight shooter" and "unquestioned integrity" flow freely. Of course, the same was once true
of Mueller's friend, James Comey. When I talk off the record to people I trust who know Mueller, there's less gushing,
but no expression of alarm. [...] Yet, there may be cause for concern. In my view, Mueller's friendship with Comey is
one. Some of Mueller's key staffing decisions are another.
Is
Robert Mueller conflicted in Trump probe? Fired FBI Director James Comey has emerged as the main figure in what
some Democrats believe will be an obstruction of justice case against President Trump in the Trump-Russia matter.
Comey's stories of conversations with the president, plus the fact that he was fired, ostensibly as a result of the Russia
probe, make him potentially the star witness in the case. Which brings up an intriguing legal question. Comey is
a good friend of special counsel Robert Mueller — such a good friend, for about 15 years now, that the two men
have been described as "brothers in arms."
Comey
and Mueller have a history as a Deep State tag team. Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection indicates that
Comey's testimony suggests that Mueller is already going beyond the narrow mandate of Acting Attorney General Rosenstein and
considering whether the president's discussion with him about General Flynn constitutes "obstruction."
Robert
Mueller Stocks Staff with Democrat Donors. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sparked a mini-meltdown in the
media Monday [6/12/2017] with a tweet challenging the fairness of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election.
Three
members of Russia special counsel team donated to Democrats: Report. Three members of the team hired by
special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russia's meddling in the 2016 election have donated primarily to Democrats,
according to records from the Federal Election Commission. Mueller selected James Quarles, Jeannie Rhee and Andrew
Weissman to make up members of his legal team, among the five lawyers identified by CNN. Those three lawyers have
collectively made more than $53,000 in political donations since 1988.
Mueller
staffs up to pursue obstruction of justice. "Personnel is policy" is an old truism that applies to the
staffing decisions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Jonathan Turley, an esteemed constitutional scholar who is an
honest liberal, examines a telling hire, Michael Dreeben, a deputy in the Solicitor General's office. Dreeben, Turley
informs us, argued to the Supreme Court for an expansive interpretation of obstruction of justice, one that would blur
intent. The details are technical, and Professor Turley's explanation is characteristically lucid.
The
Entire Deep State DC Institutional Apparatus Knew President Trump Was Not Under Investigation. When fired FBI
Director James Comey testified to congress he admitted to telling President-Elect Donald Trump, and President Donald Trump,
three times, he was never under investigation. FBI Director Comey told President-elect Trump on January 6th he was not
under investigation; Comey again told President Trump on January 27th he was not under investigation; and again on February 15th
Director Comey told President Trump he was not under investigation.
Someone
in Congress Put Trump's Name on Wikipedia's 'Obstruction of Justice' Webpage. Somebody with a House of
Representatives IP web address decided to put President Trump on Wikipedia's online list of people who faced prominent
investigations for obstruction of justice. [...] Trump's name was mostly likely added to preempt the major news that was
bound to come out of James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Comey's
'truth' crusade is really an anti-Trump one. By his actions, Comey reveals himself to be a fellow traveler with
Never Trumpers. His firing brought him out of the shadows and into the open "resistance" to the president.
Reality
Winner: Accused leaker wanted to 'burn the White House down'. The woman accused of leaking classified information once
wrote she wanted "to burn the White House Down... find somewhere in Kurdistan to live," prompting prosecutors on Thursday [6/8/2017] to
argue she would flee the country if she was released on bond. Reality Winner appeared before a judge in Augusta, Ga., on Thursday [6/8/2017]
who ordered her to remain jailed until her trial. Prosecutors argued that the 25-year-old might try to flee the U.S. if she was released on
bond. They added that Winner wrote in her notebook alleged plans to set the White House on fire, travel to Afghanistan and pledge her
allegiance to the Taliban, WSB-TV reported.
The
monumental idiocy of leaker Reality Leigh Winner. The online news outlet that unwittingly outed the Georgia
woman who has since admitted to providing them with classified National Security Agency documents may not be the dumbest
entity in this story. Reality Winner, 25, whose top-secret clearance gave her access to the now-leaked NSA information,
has been coaching family members via jailhouse phone calls, which are monitored, on how to manipulate investigators and the
press, according to prosecutors. Her plan, they said, is to portray herself as some sort of scared, doe-eyed neophyte.
For emphasis: Jailhouse phone calls are monitored. This is 100 percent normal, and it should come as a surprise
to exactly no one. If it's true she has been openly discussing the PR angle with family members over monitored phone calls,
it suggests she is a lot dimmer than originally estimated.
Total
Vetting Fail: Left-Wing Snowden Fan Girl Reality Winner Gets Access to Our NSA Secrets. The news reads
like something out of a screwball comedy: a far-left activist named "Reality Leigh Winner" somehow received clearance to work
for the National Security Agency, which she allegedly proceeded to rob of classified material in the name of the kookburger anti-Trump
"Resistance." In the post-Edward Snowden era, how does someone like this get anywhere near sensitive data? Speaking of
Snowden, Ms. Winner is a huge fan of his. He was one of only 50 accounts she followed on Twitter, along with WikiLeaks,
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, and the Anonymous hacker collective. Her own Twitter posts were filled with
foaming-at-the-mouth anti-Trump tirades such as, "Why burn a flag? Donald Trump thinks crosses burn much better."
Update: Federal
Judge In Georgia Sentences NSA Leaker To 63 Months In Prison. A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to
leaking classified information last June, is sentenced to more than five-years in prison. 26-year-old Reality Winner was
sentenced to five-years and three-months in prison Thursday [8/23/2018], following a plea deal with prosecutors. During
a court testimony, Winner claimed she did not mean to harm national security.
Reality
Winner's lawyer asks public to ignore her anti-Trump tweets. A lawyer for Reality Winner, the 25-year-old
government contractor who was arrested for leaking classified information to the press, said Wednesday that people should
ignore her anti-Trump tweets and instead take it from her parents when it comes to "who she is as a person." "For a
better idea of who she is, I think her parents have done a phenomenal job in explaining to the world who she is as a person,
not just this figure that's been created in the span of a week," lawyer Titus Nichols said on CNN.
Prepare the White House for President
Pence. The fact that [Robert] Mueller is, in effect, investigating the conduct of another FBI director, James Comey, is another significant
factor. Mueller and Comey are best friends. They will protect each other. Comey did not reopen the anthrax investigation in order to
get to the bottom of Mueller's incompetence, and Mueller will not hold Comey responsible for targeting Trump by using the phony "Trump Dossier" filled
with Russian disinformation. Hence, they both have reasons to go after Trump. They are a tag team against the President.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Acting
U.S. Ambassador to China Resigns Over Pullout from Climate Pact. The acting U.S. ambassador to China resigned on Monday
[6/5/2017] to protest President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change accord. [...] The resignation highlights
the level of politicization that has taken place in key U.S. government agencies during the Obama administration.
Kelly:
Courts Have Blocked Me 'From Doing Those Things I Know Would Make Americans Safe'. Homeland Security Secretary
John Kelly told Congress on Tuesday that he expects that some of the foreign fighters who traveled to Iraq and Syria to
return home to continue their plotting, and "we expect that some will look to travel to the United States to carry out
attacks." But because the courts have blocked President Trump's temporary travel ban, Kelly said he is "not fully
confident" that the Department of Homeland Security is doing "all that we can to weed out potential wrong-doers."
How The Intercept
Outed Reality Winner. Today [6/5/2017], The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA
leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor named "Reality Winner" was published, showing how they
tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to The Intercept. The document posted by the
Intercept isn't the original PDF file, but a PDF containing the pictures of the printed version that was then later scanned
in. The problem is that most new printers print nearly invisibly yellow dots that track down exactly when and where
documents, any document, is printed. Because the NSA logs all printing jobs on its printers, it can use this to match
up precisely who printed the document.
Alleged
NSA Leaker Is A 'Resist-Trump,' Bernie-Supporting Groupie. She is also very concerned about 'Climate Change'
and getting her home state of Georgia to be less dependent on fossil fuels. But concerned about leaking classified
information? Apparently, not so much.
NSA Leaker: 'Being
White Is Terrorism'. The woman charged by the Department of Justice with stealing "Top Secret" information from
the National Security Agency apparently believes being white is a form of terrorism. That's according to a tweet the
alleged leaker, Reality Winner, sent in February. Winner, who is herself white, tweeted at rapper Kanye West that he
should make a shirt declaring whiteness an act of terror.
First
arrest over Trump leaks: Intelligence contractor, 25, is charged under espionage laws. The federal
government has leveled the first charges against an individual in connection with leaks related to the Russian election
hacking. The government has charged Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a Georgia intelligence contractor, with removing
classified material from a government facility. 'Winner is a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation
assigned to a U.S. government agency facility in Georgia,' according to a government criminal complaint.
Alleged
leaker hid NSA documents in pantyhose, report says. A former National Security Agency contractor has reportedly
told federal authorities that she smuggled classified documents out of the NSA office where she worked by stuffing them in
her pantyhose. The documents reportedly contained classified data on Russia's alleged hacking during the 2016 U.S.
presidential election. Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a former Air Force linguist with a top-secret security clearance, was
asked by an FBI agent about how she managed to get the documents out of the agency's Augusta, Ga., office.
Update: NSA
leaker Reality Winner will plead guilty after admitting to FBI she smuggled classified documents out of the office. Reality
Winner, the former National Security Agency contractor charged with leaking a classified document to a US news outlet, has decided to
plead guilty. Winner, 26, is scheduled to plead guilty in US District Court on June 26, according to US Department of Justice
spokesman Ian Prior. Online court records show a plea agreement was filed on Thursday [6/21/2018]. Court documents did not
indicate what exact charge Winner will plead guilty to, although she was indicted for one count of violating the federal Espionage Act.
Why
is Hillary Clinton's private server man running the U.S. embassy in U.K and undercutting Trump's tweets? Lew
Lukens, the highest-ranking U.S. official in London, is a piece of work. The Chargé d'Affaires, or acting U.S.
ambassador to the United Kingdom, undercut President Trump's criticism of London's Mayor Sadiq Khan in the wake of the recent
terror attack by brazenly tweeting high praise to the leftist leader, whose hostility to Trump is well known.
The
easy trail that led the feds to Reality Winner, alleged source of NSA leak. Sources generally cover their
tracks, especially in an era when even the most innocuous computer activity leaves an electronic trail. Leaks are
common, but prosecutions aren't. Edward Snowden took extraordinary precautions when he leaked troves of classified
information on surveillance activity by the National Security Agency to journalists, and was charged only after he publicly
revealed himself to be the source. [...] In the case of Reality Leigh Winner, a government contractor accused of sending a
top-secret document to a news outlet, federal authorities brought charges less than a week after being tipped off to the leak.
Reality
Leigh Winner, federal contractor in Georgia, charged with leaking classified info on Russian hacking. A federal
contractor with top secret security clearance faces charges of leaking classified information to a news outlet, the Justice
Department announced today [6/5/2017]. Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a contractor with Pluribus International Corp. in Georgia,
is charged with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to an online news outlet. Winner
was arrested by the FBI at her home in Augusta, Georgia on Saturday.
DOJ
Arrests 25-Year-Old NSA Contractor Leaking Classified Intel. Reality Leigh "Sara" Winner is a Georgia resident
and an employee of NSA contractor Pluribus International Corp. She has held a top secret security clearance since at
least February. She made her first federal court appearance in Augusta, Georgia, Monday afternoon [6/5/2017]. [...] A
review of Ms. Winner's social media and on-line presence shows her ideology is rabidly anti-President Trump. She
is a vocal advocate for Black Lives Matter and various left-wing organizations. Her social media is that of a typically
well indoctrinated leftist.
NSA
Leaker Is A Bernie Supporter Who 'Resists' Trump. The 25-year-old woman who stole "Top Secret" documents from
the National Security Agency and leaked them to The Intercept appears to be a supporter of Bernie Sanders and other
progressive icons, such as Bill Maher and Michael Moore. Reality Leigh Winner's apparent social media footprint also
shows that she is a supporter of other liberal causes, including the Women's March and the Islamic Society of North America,
the Muslim civil rights group. [...] Winner admitted to FBI agents that she stole the documents and provided them to The
Intercept. The news site published an article on Monday that appears to be based on the stolen materials. The Top
Secret records show that Russian agents attempted to hack into U.S. voting systems prior to the November election.
Punishing The
Real Russia Crime: Leaking. The appointment of a special counsel, as well as the Congressional
proceedings to uncover and punish such associates of Donald Trump as may have colluded with the Russian government with
regard to the 2016 campaign, are a combination of partisan and Intelligence-bureaucracy warfare. No one has mentioned
any activity of anyone in that campaign that might qualify as a violation of any criminal statute. Moreover, these legal
and pseudo-legal proceedings abstract from the patently obvious felonies that U.S intelligence officials have committed each
and every time they have informed reporters of the Washington Post and New York Times about the targets, functions, and
results of U.S communications intelligence. 18 U.S. code 798 is, a "strict liability" statute, and
specifies ten years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine for each count. Trump's enemies, and Trump himself, treat this
parody of law as a game. It is not.
Should
a Special Prosecutor be appointed to investigate Obama's criminal behavior? I think it is a very valid question to ask if Barack Obama's
spying on American citizens during his time in office was worse than Watergate. I consider it to be massively worse. It was ongoing and
not limited to one event and yet Obama has not been called to task for it at all... yet. A series of subpoenas were just issued by the House
to former high-ranking members of the Obama administration for improper unmasking. Those include Susan Rice, John Brennan and Samantha Power.
But you'd never know it... ABC, CBS and other leftist media outlets are deliberately ignoring it and keep screeching Russia over Trump.
I'm all for a Special Prosecutor being appointed to investigate Obama's spying and criminal misdeeds. Watergate was a single event, very limited
in scope. Obama's spying spans eight years.
Leak
Investigation — House Intelligence Committee Issues CIA, FBI and NSA Subpoenas. Interesting report
from James Rosen via Fox News reveals the House Intelligence Committee has issued subpoenas for John Brennan (CIA), James
Comey (FBI), Susan Rice (National Security Adviser) and interestingly, Samantha Power — former U.N. Ambassador —
in relation to the unmasking and leaking of names contained within intelligence reports. [Video clip]
House
Intelligence Committee sends subpoenas to intel agencies. Three of the nation's intelligence agencies received
subpoenas Wednesday afternoon [5/31/2017] issued by the House Intelligence Committee, Fox News has confirmed, with each of
the three demands for documents explicitly naming three top officials of the Obama administration: Susan Rice, who
served as President Obama's White House national security adviser; former CIA Director John Brennan; and former U.N.
ambassador Samantha Power. The three subpoenas, among a total of seven signed by panel chairman Rep. Devin Nunes
(R-CA), were served on the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security
Agency, and all three explicitly referenced "unmasking" — a signal that the House panel is intensifying its
investigation into allegations that Obama-era aides improperly demanded the "unmasking" of names of associates of President
Trump that had appeared, in coded form, in classified intelligence reports, then leaked the data to news media organizations.
Forget
Russian Collusion. We Are Russia. What's a citizen to do when he or she no longer trusts the intelligence
agencies of his or her country? That's the terrifying situation evolving from the leaks and counter-leaks surrounding
the various investigations grouped under the rubric "Russia" — though it appears to have less and less to do with
Russia and more and more to do with us.
Former
CIA Agent: Deep State Targeting Trump Family Members to Damage President. A former CIA agent said the
Trump family is undoubtedly being targeted by intelligence agencies and other actors looking to damage the Trump
administration. Bob Baer, a former CIA case officer, made the comments Friday [5/19/2017] during an appearance on "The
Laura Ingraham Show." Ingraham asked Baer if right-wing populist political activists should be concerned about being
monitored by deep state actors. "For you and me, no ... we're not that important to the equation," Baer said.
"But you can count on it that people are after the Trump family right now."
10 Crazy Conspiracy Theories That
Became Conspiracy Facts. [Scroll down to #8] In his writing, [Mike] Lofgren emphasized the role of FISA
international surveillance courts. This was confirmed in a very interesting way when President Donald Trump accused
former President Obama of tapping his phones, a charge Obama aides deflected by saying that if such a warrant had been
issued, it would have been done through a FISA court. This shows how presidents are able to skirt the constitution by
outsourcing surveillance requests. It also shows the interconnectedness of these agencies. However you want to
describe it, it's the natural conclusion of Operation Mockingbird and most certainly a reality that the elites would have
rather kept under the radar. Fortunately for the people of the Earth, revelations from Wikileaks and other
whistleblowers have, over the last couple decades, made it abundantly clear that the Deep State (the New World Order) not
only exists, but also that it's far more sinister and powerful than early conspiracy theorists could have ever imagined.
As
Leaks Pile Up, It's Evident Trump Is Under Attack From His Own Staff. It's coming from inside the house. Throughout Trump's
presidency and increasingly in the past few weeks, leaks from staff members to the press are undermining the president. The New York Times
reported Friday [5/19/2017] exact details of Trump's meeting last week with Russian officials. The report cited a document read to them by
an "American official," which summarized the meeting.
CNN's
Chalian: 'There are People in This Government' Who Are 'Pretty Committed' to Taking Trump Down. While discussing the
New York Times' report that President Trump called FBI Director James Comey a "nutjob" and told Russian officials that firing
Comey relieved "great pressure" on Friday's [5/19/2017] broadcast of CNN's "Situation Room," CNN Political Director David Chalian argued
the Trump White House does have a point about leaks, and that while "It's not going to save them from their real legal and political
troubles," "there are people in this government who seem pretty committed to taking him down."
How
Many Countries Conspired Against Trump? The Guardian adds to our knowledge of how the Obama administration and
its allies overseas tried to discredit Donald Trump. (For purposes of this post, I assume that everything the Guardian says
is true, even though it is based on anonymous sources who are pursuing their personal and political interests.) [...] So just
about every Western intelligence service was collaborating with the Obama administration in trying to elect Hillary Clinton.
Yet, amazingly enough, they failed. The blindingly obvious point that the Guardian tries to obscure is that the combined
assets of all of these agencies failed to find any evidence of collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The
Frivolous Case Against the House Intelligence Chairman. Well it looks like the media won't have Representative
Devin Nunes to kick around anymore. This is the latest twist in the dueling investigations around alleged Russian ties
to President Donald Trump's associates and the Obama administration's alleged politicization of the surveillance state.
Going
Overboard with #Russiagate. Democrats in Congress and their allies in the media have officially become obsessed
with the alleged links between the Trump administration and Russia, and it has very little to do with concerns over the
integrity of the electoral process or the fate of American democracy. In reality, the president's opponents see the
investigations into Trump campaign associates and hangers-on as an invaluable weapon. With the electorate booting the
Democratic Party completely out of power, what better way is there to undermine the administration and cast a cloud of
illegitimacy over the duly elected commander-in-chief?
Why
the 'Trump' State Department still loves George Soros. The failure of the Trump administration thus far to
staff up the executive branch is hurting the conservative policy agenda and thwarting the will of the voters. And six
Republican senators who asked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to probe whether foreign aid is promoting a progressive agenda
around the world just got an abject lesson in how. They got their answer not from Tillerson or anyone around him, but
from a mid-level career official at the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Executive Secretary Joseph E. Macmanus. He
pretty much told the senators to take a hike.
Unravelling
the Team Obama anti-Trump leak machine. She didn't "leak," she only "unmasked." This is former National
Security Adviser Susan Rice's self-defense for having sought the explicit exposure, in highly classified intelligence documents,
of the names of US citizens inadvertently caught up in American surveillance of Russian officials. Moreover, she and
her partisans insist, seeking and achieving this "unmasking" (from either the director of the National Security Agency or the
FBI) was entirely within her legal right as national-security adviser. I'll take her word for it, though if it had been
so pristine, it's unclear why Rice had previously lied and claimed no knowledge of any of it. According to Eli Lake of
Bloomberg, Rice "requested the identities of US persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the
Donald Trump transition and campaign." Dozens of occasions.
FISAgate:
The Question Is Not Whether Trump Associates Were Monitored. [Scroll down] Nunes's disclosures further suggest that the communications
of others associated with Trump's campaign (perhaps even Trump himself) were also intercepted. During the press conference, a reporter
asked, Nunes, "Was the president [i.e., Trump] included in that incidental collection — his communication?" Nunes responded, "Yes."
Based on the little that has been reported, the interception and handling of these communications seems more disturbing because, according to
Nunes, they have nothing to do with any known government intelligence investigations of Russia. Unless there is some legitimate connection
to foreign activities, the specter of political spying hovers.
Nunes
Did Nothing New By Viewing Raw Intel At The White House. There is nothing new about House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes leaving the panel's secure room beneath the Capitol Building and
heading to the White House complex or a related facility nearby to view raw intelligence, The Daily Caller News Foundation's
Investigative Group has learned. For years, intelligence committee chiefs have trekked to the other end of Pennsylvania
Avenue or to an intelligence agency to view such super sensitive intelligence material, because the congressional secure room
can't handle such material.
Former
Obama Official Describes Last-Minute Rush to Spy on Trump Team, Conceal Intel Sources. A former top Obama administration official made a stunning
admission during a panel discussion on MSNBC's Morning Joe this week. Evelyn Farkas, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense under Obama, openly admitted
that her colleagues had gathered intelligence on the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia before Donald Trump took office and then tried to hide the sources of that
intelligence from the incoming administration.
Judge
Andrew Napolitano Stands by British Surveillance Report in Return to Fox News. Judge Andrew Napolitano spoke on
Fox News, Wednesday [3/29/2017], making his first appearance on the network after pushing a controversial report in defense
of President Trump's claims of wiretapping during the 2016 election. Anchors Bret Baier and Shepard Smith previously
said that Fox could not independently confirm the accuracy of Napolitano's claim that the British intelligence service GCHQ
facilitated the wiretapping. During Napolitano's spot on America's Newsroom today, Bill Hemmer noted that "you've had a
few quiet days." Hemmer then asked the judge whether he was still confident in the story, to which the Fox judicial analyst
said yes. [Video clip]
Comey,
Senators Try to Convince America That Trump-Russia Probes Are Apolitical. On Wednesday [3/29/2017], FBI Director James Comey and
the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee attempted to boost people's confidence in the government's probes into Russia's election
meddling — or at least distance themselves from the mess created by Nunes. During the election, Comey criticized Hillary Clinton for
her private email server and commented on the FBI's investigation numerous times. Yet he only confirmed last week that the agency has
been investigating the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russia since July. Comey has been accused of attempting to sway the election
himself, or at least displaying terrible judgement.
Protecting
Deep State: Republicans and Democrats Refuse To Review Oversight Intelligence. Chairman Nunes is the only
member of the Intelligence Oversight Gang-of-Eight who has reviewed the executive level intelligence product which caused him
concern. Nunes alleged in the last week he received evidence that Obama administration political figures gained access
to unmasked American identities through foreign intercepts involving the Trump transition team between November 2016 and January
2017. Media and congressional leadership intentionally skip the obvious questions: [For example,] Why don't the other
seven members also go look at the same executive intel?
Stopping
Trump's 'travel ban' a case study of the Deep State in action. Democrats own the Deep State, that network of
embedded bureaucrats, academics and media, judicial activists, and spooks that is operating to stymie, discredit, and
ultimately remove from office a president that is a threat to their mutual agenda. They are agreed that government
should control more of life's essential functions, and that benign rule of the enlightened can reshape society to match their
visions. The Deep State's horror at the Trump victory has led it to act rashly and thereby expose itself to view.
Understanding that this cadre of activists covertly manipulates events ruthlessly, it is now time to collect case studies.
The
Establishment Media Lied: Trump Was Right All Along About Obama Admin Surveillance. Since the moment
President Trump released his now infamous Tweet accusing Obama of wiretapping him, the establishment media has done
everything in their power to continually attack the White House while claiming that there is absolutely no evidence of any
surveillance. That line of disinformation was destroyed this week after multiple reports confirmed that the entire
Trump team was most likely under surveillance, conducted while Obama was the president, right up until the day of the
inauguration. The media manipulation on this topic has gotten so blatant that a highly respected liberal law professor
has even joined the argument, publishing a column in The Hill that not only confirms that Trump was right all along but also
takes the mainstream media to task for purposefully misrepresenting Trump's original Tweet and the subsequent clarifications
by the White House.
Will
Smoking Gun Documents Vindicate Trump? In the wake of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes's
statements to reporters on Wednesday [3/22/2017], the outline of what could become the biggest political scandal of the last
100 years is becoming clear. Obama administration officials, possibly aided by Obama's January 2017 order expanding
access to the NSA's raw signals intelligence data, are alleged to have misused the NSA's surveillance capabilities to spy on
the incoming Trump administration. The NSA's raw data includes names of US citizens, which are supposed to be "masked."
Obama officials allegedly "unmasked" the names of people associated with Donald Trump, and feloniously leaked information (which
may have been true or false) about those individuals to reporters in order to damage the incoming administration.
Did
Obama Surveil Trump? Sure Looks That Way. Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee, says that the Obama administration surveilled Donald Trump's transition aides and possibly Trump himself following
November's election. If true, it warrants a major investigation. "I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions
the intelligence community ... collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition," Nunes told
reporters. Nunes immediately came under intense criticism from congressional Democrats for his revelations.
What's both hilarious and sad is that these are the very same Democrats who have been nearly silent as a series of illegal
leaks from the intelligence bureaucracy have made their way into the mainstream media, in a transparent attempt by unnamed
intelligence officials to damage Trump's presidency.
Schiff
Slimes Devin Nunes. It is said that the Senate plays chess while the House of Representatives plays smash mouth hockey.
The revelation by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes that, yes, members of Team Trump were in fact surveilled and
the contents of their conversations and their names were recorded and disseminated set off ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff from the
People's Republic of California.
Here's
Why Nunes' Obama Spying Revelations Are Such A Big Deal. In the last three months of the Obama presidency,
significant personal information from and about the Trump transition was collected and widely disseminated at intelligence
agencies, according to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. Dozens of intelligence reports provided to
Nunes by an unnamed whistleblower were floating around during the sensitive transition period following the election, he
said. The information collection itself may have technically been legal, but the failure to properly mask the
information "alarmed" the California congressman, who notified the White House of the surveillance and dissemination of
information on Wednesday afternoon [3/22/2017]. Many of the reporters present didn't seem to grasp the significance
of what Nunes revealed.
Potential
'smoking gun' showing Obama administration spied on Trump team, source says. Republican congressional investigators expect a
potential "smoking gun" establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself,
will be produced to the House Intelligence Committee this week, a source told Fox News. Classified intelligence showing incidental collection
of Trump team communications, purportedly seen by committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and described by him in vague terms at a bombshell
Wednesday afternoon [3/22/2017] news conference, came from multiple sources, Capitol Hill sources told Fox News. The intelligence corroborated
information about surveillance of the Trump team that was known to Nunes, sources said, even before President Trump accused his predecessor of having
wiretapped him in a series of now-infamous tweets posted on March 4. The intelligence is said to leave no doubt the Obama administration,
in its closing days, was using the cover of legitimate surveillance on foreign targets to spy on President-elect Trump, according to sources.
John
Podesta, in bed with the Russians all along. Was there anyone more pious, anyone more inclined to stroke his
chin and intone for guarding national security in the wake of the WikiLeaks revelations than Hillary Clinton campaign manager
John Podesta? Turns out the wily Democrat operative was neck-deep with the Russians he intoned against all along,
through a Russian-financed company called Joule, according to a new report from the Daily Caller News Foundation. The
problem here is that the Russian oligarchs he's been consorting with are so dirty that even Putin is after them. That
blows apart Podesta's dishonest narrative about "Russians hacked the election" and rival Donald Trump supposedly colluding
with them, but also the issue of Putin's supposed animosity toward Hillary Clinton, as cited by FBI director James Comey Monday.
Intelligence
Reports Reveal Improper Political Surveillance of Trump, Transition Team. A House intelligence committee
investigation took a dramatic shift this week after newly disclosed intelligence reports suggested the Obama administration
improperly gathered and disseminated secret electronic communications from President Trump and his transition team prior to
inauguration. Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
indicated that the administration used its foreign intelligence gathering authority to spy on the discussions of Trump and
his transition team by improperly unmasking the identity of Americans who were swept up in foreign electronic spying.
"What I've read seems to be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but I don't know that it's right and I don't
know if the American people would be comfortable with what I've read," said Nunes, who uncovered the reports.
Report:
NSA To Provide "Smoking Gun" Proof Obama Spied On Trump. Yesterday [3/22/2017], Republican Devin Nunez Nunes
held an explosive press conference outside the White House in which he told reporters that communications from the Trump team
were picked up and disseminated within the government during the 2016 campaign. Not surprisingly, the comments ruffled
some liberal feathers and the mainstream media launched an immediate smear campaign calling for Nunes to resign his post immediately.
NSA
Whistleblower: NSA Spies On Congress, Supreme Court, White House, And Probably Trump. NSA whistleblower
Bill Binney, who left the intel agency in 2001, told Tucker Carlson not only was Donald Trump probably spied on but also
members of Congress and the Supreme Court. Binney also talked about NSA employees who spied on spouses and significant
others to see if they were being cheated on. Binney is a 30-year veteran of the National Security Agency.
Trump
was right after all about the Obama administration wiretaps. The curious thing about President Trump is that
his method and language in communications often mask legitimate issues or concerns. This may be such a case with the
disclosure that indeed some Trump officials may have been subject to surveillance under the Obama administration. Trump
triggered this particular jump scare with the tweet on March 4 that he "just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in
Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!" He followed with such tirades as "How
low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate.
Bad (or sick) guy!" The media pounced and rightfully demanded proof to support such a charge. When it was clear
that no evidence would be produced, the media (again rightfully) pummeled the White House for failing to support one of the
most alarming claims ever made by a president against a former president.
The
Obama Plot to Sabotage Trump. Devin Nunes just set the cat down among the pigeons. Two days after FBI
Director James Comey assured us there was no truth to President Trump's tweet about being wiretapped by Barack Obama, the
chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Trump may have had more than just a small point. The U.S.
intelligence community, says Nunes, during surveillance of legitimate targets, picked up the names of Trump transition
officials during surveillance of targets, "unmasked" their identity, and spread their names around, virtually assuring they
would be leaked. If true, this has the look and smell of a conspiracy to sabotage the Trump presidency, before it began.
The
11 questions you probably have about Rep. Nunes and Trump surveillance. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.,
made headlines this week when he told reporters the intelligence community incidentally collected information on Donald
Trump's transition team following the Nov. 8 election. The congressman's surprise claim raises many questions,
including whether the alleged collection was legal and who was involved. As the issue is a confusing one that likely
won't disappear anytime soon, I've compiled a list of the 11 questions you most likely have about this chapter in the
ongoing saga involving Trump and the intelligence community: [...]
What's
really hidden deep within all this intel squabbling. One of the tricks in political communications when
experiencing difficult times is to drag several other issues into the fray, muddying the waters to distract attention from
the main controversy. That's what you're witnessing now in the arcane kerfluffle over wiretapping, eavesdropping,
surveillance and congressional protocol. So, let's clear things up. Forget President Trump's unsubstantiated
tweets about being wiretapped by a certain ex-president who's fled to French Polynesia for a month. Forget about
Russians and what they may or may not have done last year. And ignore the manners expected of a House committee
chairman. In other words, disregard all the pots calling all the kettles black. Here's what really matters:
During the waning days of the Obama administration U.S. intelligence was indeed monitoring the conversations of foreign
persons of interest after the Nov. 8 election and before the Jan. 20 inauguration. That's normal and actually
encouraging given how many key things those agencies have missed in recent years.
In
Defense of Devin Nunes. One of the strangest turns in the story of Russia and the Trump campaign has been the
recent outrage from Democrats over politicization of the investigation. This all centers on Chairman Devin Nunes, the
Republican who is leading the House Intelligence Committee's investigation. He was an adviser to the Trump presidential
transition. The White House asked him last month to talk to a reporter to rebut news stories that alleged Trump
associates had many contacts with Russian intelligence officers. On Wednesday, Nunes briefed the president about new
information he had regarding dozens of widely disseminated intelligence reports on the Trump transition. He did this
before he briefed his committee's Democrats. All of this has prompted an outbreak of high dudgeon from the party of
Clinton. Representative Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the committee, says Nunes must choose whether he wants to
lead a credible investigation or be a surrogate of the Trump White House. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says Nunes
is a "stooge."
Trump
Is 100% Vindicated On Wiretapping, and 7 Other Things You Should Know. Yeppers, I said 100% vindicated, and
those who disagree are either being stubbornly hyper-literal about the word "wiretap," or the placing of a "physical wiretap,"
or Obama himself placing the wiretap, or standing by the point Ben Shapiro makes that Trump is still wrong because the
surveillance was "incidental." I'll touch on the "incidental" issue at length in the points below, but to immediately
address Ben's argument, even if the collection was incidental, once the unmasking and dissemination of that "incidental"
information occurs, that is the Obama administration illegally targeting Trump using surveillance, and that is the exact same
thing as outright spying. And being illegally spied on was, of course, Trump's overall claim. [...] Not for a moment do
I believe the Obama administration "inadvertently" or "incidentally captured" Team Trump communications.
The
Trump surveillance scandal just blew wide open. "We had an absolute bombshell" revelation about the Obama
administration's surveillance of President Trump's team on Wednesday [3/22/2017], said Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark
Levin. According to a report earlier in the day, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (D-Calif.) told reporters that
members of the president's transition team, and potentially Trump himself, were under surveillance during the Obama
administration following November's election, told reporters Wednesday [3/22/2017]. According to Nunes, not only was
"significant information" gathered on the Trump team, but identities of those surveilled were unmasked in the process.
Levin called it "stunning" and put it into perspective, saying. "...this is in addition to the ongoing counter-intelligence
investigation" announced by Comey that has been happening since July.
Freedom
Watch Notifies Congress of "Deep State" Intelligence Whistle-Blower. Freedom Watch notifies congress of a "Deep
State" intelligence community whistle blower, Dennis Montgomery, with hundreds of millions of documents showing CIA and FBI
and Intelligence Committees were spying on, and conducting surveillance on, American citizens for political purposes.
Mr. Montgomery is trying to use a legal "whistle-blower" process and not follow the same approach as Edward Snowden.
House's
Devin Nunes in Obama's 'Deep State' Crosshairs. Democrats and jealous losers like Senator John McCain have
ganged up on House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes for telling the truth about President Trump's personal email
being illegally spied upon and read by someone whose reach may have gone as far as President Obama. In fact, it might
have been Obama himself.
How
Team Trump's 'unmasking' by intel community may reveal illegal actions by Obama officials. Trump presidential
transition officials had their communications monitored and "unmasked" by the intelligence community, the chairman of the House
intelligence committee said Wednesday [3/22/2017], offering the first major piece of evidence of possible illegal activity by Obama
officials against Donald Trump as president-elect. Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, said Mr. Trump's own
communications might have been monitored. All of the information appears to have been scooped up legally and incidentally,
meaning the Trump officials weren't the targets. They may have been gathered by foreign intelligence and then shared with
the U.S. under existing agreements, one lawmaker said.
Democrats
Shouldn't Dismiss Nunes' Spying Claims So Quickly. House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes told reporters
yesterday [3/22/2017] that members of Donald Trump's presidential transition team possibly Trump himself had been caught up
in surveillance during the last days of the Obama administration. Nunes says the surveillance, by both the FBI and NSA,
looked to be legal "incidental collection" that had nothing to do with concerns over Russia collusion. If true, this
isn't the "wiretapping" of Trump Towers, as Trump claimed in his infamous tweet a few weeks ago, but it is spying in any
commonly understood sense of the word. The NSA routinely listens to calls and reads emails of Americans and collects
other data "incidentally" from third parties, avoiding warrants. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance,
which has been found constitutional, states that government doesn't need a warrant to collect information on Americans as
long as the target of the collection is a foreigner.
Nunes
'Unmasking' Report Vindicates Trump Claims on Surveillance. House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Devin
Nunes (R-CA) announced on Wednesday that he had learned that members of President Donald Trump's transition team had been
under surveillance by the Obama administration, that individual names had been "unmasked" by the intelligence community, and
that those names had been leaked to the media. Nunes's information which he said he would deliver to the White House
later vindicates the bulk of Trump's claims earlier this month.
Nunes:
Trump transition members were under surveillance during Obama administration. House Intelligence Chairman Devin
Nunes declared Wednesday that members of Donald Trump's transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under
inadvertent surveillance following November's presidential election. The White House and Trump's allies immediately
seized on the statement as vindication of the president's much-maligned claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped
Trump Tower phones even though Nunes himself said that's not what his new information shows.
Trump
team communications captured by intelligence community surveillance, Nunes says. Members of the intelligence
community "incidentally collected" communications from the Trump transition team during legal surveillance operations of
foreign targets, a top Republican lawmaker said Wednesday afternoon [3/22/2017]. House Intelligence Chairman
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said this produced "dozens" of reports which eventually unmasked several individuals'
identities and were "widely disseminated." He said none of the reports he had read mentioned Russia or Russians and he was
unsure whether the surveillance occurred at Trump Tower — as President Trump has suggested. Nunes also was
unsure if then President-elect Trump was captured by the surveillance, which occurred in November, December and January.
"I recently confirmed on numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally collected intelligence," Nunes said.
Democrats quickly criticized him for his comments.
Obama
Admin Loyalists, Government Insiders Sabotage Trump White House. The Obama administration worked in its final
weeks in office to undermine the incoming Trump White and continues to do so, according to multiple sources both in and out
of the White House. Behind the effort, these sources say, are senior government officials who previously worked under
President Obama and remain loyal to his agenda. These individuals leak negative information about the Trump White House
and its senior staff to a network of former Obama administration officials who then plant this information in key media
outlets including the Washington Post and New York Times. Meanwhile, holdovers from the Obama administration
are working to undermine the Trump administration's agenda through efforts to alter official communications, a number of
administration officials confirmed in conversations with the Washington Free Beacon.
Chairman
Devin Nunes: Post Trump Debrief on Surveillance Discovery. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes conducts a press conference following his debrief with President Trump discussing the surveillance of the Trump
transition team by former President Obama's intelligence community.
Independent
Journal Review suspends Benny Johnson for role in publishing Obama story: Report. The Independent Journal Review (IJR) has
reportedly suspended Chief Content Officer Benny Johnson and two editors for their role in publishing a conspiracy theory about former President
Obama. Alex Skatell, the conservative website's founder, suspended Mr. Johnson, viral editor Kyle Becker and content editor Becca Lower
for publishing the report last week that suggested Mr. Obama may have influenced a Hawaii judge's ruling blocking President Trump's second
travel ban, Business Insider reported.
The Conspiracy
Against President Trump. [Scroll down] Indeed, the lack of integrity of the FBI, NSA, CIA, and Obama
regime is evidenced by the sustained campaign of lies, distortions, and targeted "news leaks," that is, stories planted on
the presstitutes by the intelligence services about Russian interference in the presidential election. It is all about
protecting the massive military/security budget and powers. [...] Trump cannot even count on the Republican Party. Most
Republicans are also dependent on political contributions from the military/security complex, and Republicans know that the
intelligence agencies have all the dirt on them. To fight for Trump is to expose themselves.
FBI
bugged Trump Tower while probing Russian gambling ring. There's truth to President Trump's claim that there was
wiretapping inside his Midtown skyscraper during the Obama administration — only Trump wasn't the target.
The FBI listened in on phone conversations and monitored text messages between 2011 and 2013 while probing a gambling and
money-laundering ring tied to the Russian mob that operated out of a 63rd-floor pad in Trump Tower, ABC News reported Tuesday
[3/21/2017]. The $5 million condo, unit 63A, is located just three floors below the president's lavish,
triplex penthouse.
Evidence
Says Obama DID Wire Tap Trump's Campaign. On Saturday morning President Donald J. Trump put a bee in the
media's bonnet by tweeting how shameful it was that Obama tapped his phones during the late campaign for president. It
set off two full days of liberals acting shocked and outraged that Trump could say such a thing, got the media to covering
for Barack Obama, and spurred weak kneed RINO Republicans siding with the left in attacking Trump. So, what of all
this? Thus far, anyway, it seems completely true that Trump is right. Obama did spy on candidate Trump.
The media went into a feeding frenzy on Saturday morning when President Trump tweeted out his accusation.
James Comey and
the Art of the Shiv. "I'd rather not be talking about this at all," Comey said. "Now we are going to
close our mouths and do our work." Before Comey returned to his offstage role, he dropped enough bombshells to solidify
his reputation as the most significant FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover. Joined by his crusty sidekick, Adm. Michael
Rogers, who heads the National Security Agency, Comey gave an artful lesson in how to stick a shiv into a sitting president without
ever raising his voice or making a specific accusation.
The FBI's Coming Catch-22.
If the FBI finds evidence of some collusion or violation of U.S. laws, it's an epic scandal, will set up Democratic conspiracy theories
for years, will take a sledgehammer to public faith in the Trump presidency... and everyone will rightly ask why the FBI couldn't uncover
anything, or even inform the public about the investigation, until after the election. [Indeed], not even until after the inauguration!
If the FBI doesn't find evidence of some collusion or violation of U.S. laws, it's an epic farce, where the Trump administration can
rightfully ask where they can go to get their reputations back.
To
Truly Beat The Bureaucrats, Trump Needs To Shut Their Agencies Down. If there is to be real change in our form
of government, the Trump administration needs to avoid the fatal flaw of previous Republican administrations: choosing to
play the game by the Left's rules. Nearly every Republican administration makes some changes, but mostly lightly
exfoliates the elephant of the State. These are temporary gains at best, small pauses in the seemingly inevitable march
of government dominance. Most Republicans don't seem to understand what we are up against, that the game is rigged
against smaller government.
The
Flynn Leak Was the Only Felony We Know Of, But I Won't Say Whether We're Investigating. A Democrat
congresswoman asked James Comey to explain the process of an ongoing investigation. He said, "Well, that's pretty much
what it is, it's an ongoing investigation." She said, "Well, can you tell us how long it will take?" "Well, no." "Well,
can you give us the average time of an ongoing investigation?" "Well, there is no average time. Each investigation is
its own investigation, and we never limit or prejudge. We follow the facts. We follow the evidence." Well, they're
following a lot of nothing right now. Because there isn't any evidence. None whatsoever.
Draining The
State Dept. Swamp: Why It Must Be Job One for the White House. President Trump has proposed a 31 percent
cut in the State Department's budget, and the denizens of Foggy Bottom are howling. All the usual delusions about diplomacy,
foreign aid, "soft power," and "engagement" are being trotted out to rationalize the $47 billions of taxpayer money State
spends. What we don't hear about are examples of diplomatic successes that would justify maintaining an overfunded bureaucracy
mired in internationalist received wisdom. In fact, many of the defenses of "soft power" are positively surreal in their
disconnect from reality.
Fox
News Pulls Judge Napolitano Off Air Due To Prior Comments on UK Trump Surveillance. Apparently Rupert Murdoch
has taken action against Judge Andrew Napolitano as an outcome of his broadcast report on British Intelligence coordinating
surveillance activity with the NSA[. ...] A few weeks earlier Napolitano was on Fox Business News saying President Trump
was the first president to confront The Deep State.
F.B.I.
Is Investigating Trump's Russia Ties, Comey Confirms. The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, took the extraordinary
step on Monday [3/20/2017] of announcing that the agency is investigating whether members of President Trump's campaign colluded with
Russia to influence the 2016 election. Mr. Comey's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee created a treacherous
political moment for Mr. Trump, who has insisted that "Russia is fake news" that was cooked up by his political opponents to
undermine his presidency. Mr. Comey placed a criminal investigation at the doorstep of the White House and said officers
would pursue it "no matter how long that takes."
The
UniParty Congressional Swamp's Meaningless Political FBI/NSA Hearing. The Congressional Intelligence Committee
hearing today was everything we anticipated it would be. Which is to say it was: insufferable political posturing,
pandering and circular parseltongue swirling the drain of non-intellectual gobbledygook. These types of congressional
hearings are perfect feed pellets for media pundits to blather endlessly, wax philosophically, and engage in long-winded academic
esoteric analyses contrasting the implied meanings of stop signs. However, they are ridiculous for all other purposes.
Limbaugh
on Comey Hearing: Message to Trump Is Stop the 'Drain-the-Swamp Stuff' or Face Impeachment. Monday
[3/20/2017]on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh maintained a House Intelligence
Committee hearing that featured testimony from FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Michael Rogers was meant to send a
message to President Donald Trump and his administration. Limbaugh argued that although there were some good questions
from Republicans members during the hearing, it was meant to be a warning shot at Trump — allow Washington
Republicans to run the town or face possible impeachment.
Yes, Obama Did Investigate Trump.
Straining at the tweet and swallowing the camel has become Washington's favorite pursuit, and it was on tiresome display at
Monday's Congressional hearing with Jim Comey. Out of it came two clashing headlines: "Comey Denies Obama Ordered
Wiretapping on Trump," "The FBI is Investigating Trump's Links to Russia." In other words, the core claim underlying
Trump's tweets is true: people acting on the authority of Obama opened an investigation into Trump's campaign, then criminally
leaked mention of it to friendly news outlets in an attempt to derail his election. When is Obama going to apologize for that?
Oops!
CNN accidentally confirms story that Brit intell passed along Trump communications to Obama admin. Lawyers are
trained never to ask a question of a witness if they don't already know the answer. But it is quite different in
journalism — at least in principle, if the principle is getting at the truth. But alas, in these days of
fake news and fanatical dead-ender opposition to President Trump, those MSM TV networks committed to driving Trump from
office might want to consider retraining for their talking heads. Make them more like lawyers, and avoid embarrassments
like that suffered by CNN's Brian Stelter. Courtesy of Grabien, here is a disastrous interview in which the guest,
Larry Johnson, confirmed the story that Judge Andrew Napolitano told on air about British intelligence passing along
surveillance data involving the Trump administration.
Comey
confirms FBI probing Russia-Trump team links, disputes wiretap claim. FBI Director James Comey, in an
extraordinary House hearing meant to clear the air on a host of allegations relating to the 2016 campaign, confirmed publicly
for the first time Monday [3/20/2017] that the bureau is probing Russian meddling in the race including possible "links" to the Trump
team — while disputing the president's claim that his predecessor wiretapped him. The FBI director was called to
testify alongside National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers for a public session of the House intelligence committee.
Comey's testimony could serve to fuel tensions with the White House, which maintains there's no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.
Trump's war with CIA
was preceded by Kennedy's. The New York Times, in a front-page story, said that the president "wanted to
splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds." Whether that quote is accurate or not we don't know,
but it makes sense that after the agency damaged the president's reputation so badly, he would react with such anger.
If you are a student of history, you already know that the president who swore a vendetta against the Central Intelligence
Agency wasn't Donald Trump, but John F. Kennedy, and that although he did not abolish the agency before his assassination,
he did fire its director, Allen Dulles, in an effort to gain control over what was considered a rogue agency that had forced
Kennedy's hand in the Bay of Pigs disaster.
The
Judicial Insurrection against Trump's Presidency. If the judiciary is so hostile to Trump, then there is no
reason to think that hostility will stop with the immigration executive orders. So the fight over the executive orders
may really be a proxy fight over whether Trump will be permitted to exercise the executive powers vested in the office.
Wiretaps,
Media, and Judicial Skullduggery. While the Democrats have abandoned the counterfactual claim that the Russians interfered
with the election to help President Trump into office, Trump's claim that U.S. officials surveilled him still has legs.
Here
are 23 ways Trump should follow up his wiretap claims. President Trump is facing calls to retract and apologize
for his sensational claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower last year. The chances of that
happening are approximately zero, but Trump can meet his critics partway. Here's what he should say: [...]
The
Colossally Dishonest Swamp Attack On Dr. Sebastian Gorka's First-Rate Scholarship. [Dr. Sebastian] Gorka's work deserves to be
read, not attacked without merit. The attacks we see seem to be the work of a small group of Obama partisans indifferent to the carnage caused
on their own watch, based on their failed leadership and strategy. They are likely still in shock at now being exiled from the swamp, but their
own records speak to their responsibility for the rise of ISIS, and the spread of jihadist violence across the Middle East, North Africa and into the
heart of Europe. Now, they have launched a coordinated hit job against Gorka within weeks of his joining the administration.
Grassley:
Officials withholding info on Russia probe. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on
Wednesday said federal law enforcement officials were withholding information in his committee's probe of ties between Donald
Trump's presidential campaign and Russia. Grassley was asked by The Washington Post whether FBI Director James Comey
gave his panel the same information he gave the Senate Intelligence Committee. "Every time they come up here for their
nomination hearing and I ask them are you going to answer phone calls and our letters and are you going to give us the documents
you want? And every time we get a real positive yes! And then they end up being liars!" Grassley responded.
Assange
Claims Hillary, Intel Officials "Quietly Pushing A Pence Takeover". Over the weekend we noted chatter that some
saw Mike Pence as "the Deep State's insurance policy," and now, judging by tweets from Wikileaks' Julian Assange, that may
well be the Clinton/Intelligence Officials plan. [...] No matter what one makes of Trump — or his administration and the
policies that have been initiated thus far — the fact remains that Trump won the U.S. election. The people working
behind the scenes to oust him are not subject to democratic controls, nor are they working in the best interests of the American
public. We are left to ask ourselves exactly how renewing relations with Russia — a nuclear power —
could possibly endanger American lives. Either way, we are more or less left with two paths ahead of us.
How
Investigating the Trump Campaign Backfired on Obama's Embeds. Confirmations of the Obama administration's
investigation of the Trump campaign keep trickling out. Naturally, the media has shown no interest in them. It
wants evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, not evidence that Obama's embeds were sniffing around Trump's computer
server — an abuse of power no different than LBJ wiring Nixon's campaign plane to see if he was colluding with the
Vietnamese. In light of these new confirmations, an honest media would have called James Clapper back to explain his
elliptical denial. "The FBI investigated a Trump server in its Russia probe," reports the online publication Circa News
in a piece co-authored by John Solomon, the respected former Washington Post reporter and Washington Times
editor. Can Clapper deny that the FBI investigated a Trump server? Can Comey? Can Lynch? Can
Brennan? They have all fallen silent.
The
Beltway Assures Us the Deep State Doesn't Exist. [Scroll down] So is the 44th president setting up a
permanent campaign against the 45th president? Obama denies any such intention; he says that he and his family are
remaining in Washington so that his youngest daughter, Sasha, can finish high school. Of course, that explanation doesn't
quite tell us why former White House consigliere Valerie Jarrett has moved into the Obamas' 8200-square-foot home in the swanky
Kalorama neighborhood, just a couple miles north of the White House. In fact, the real goal of the relocation, according
to The Daily Mail, is to "oust Trump from the presidency either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment."
What
is Going On (Part III)? I must admit I love Trump's pugnacious style. I love how he treats the despicable
corporate media. I love how he responds to baseless accusations by his contemptible opponents on the left and right.
The representatives of the Deep State — Schumer, Pelosi, Obama, McCain, Graham, Kristol, CNN, NYT, Washington Post,
MSNBC, Soros, and anyone else willing to confront Trump are met with disdain, contempt, and abuse from the president. [...]
No punch is taken without two being thrown. He will never conform to the way the liberal corporate media and his
opponents want him to behave. Twitter is the dagger he uses to avoid the fake news media filter and plunge into his
opponents hearts. The faux journalists despise his use of Twitter.
Trump
Needs to Fire Thousands of Deep State Government Employees NOW! One of Trump's biggest problems is the thousands of Obama
toadies still infesting the federal government both in Washington and in government offices elsewhere. Because of this, the real
era of Trump can't take effect. Until these nests of insurrection are cleaned out, Trump won't be able to fully implement his
agenda. What I am saying is that if you work for the federal government, you need to be fired. Over the last two months
we have seen more leaks coming out of the deep state, left-wing, money wasting federal government than we've ever seen in American
history and it's all aimed at destroying Trump and preventing him from cutting down the un-American administrative state.
If it wasn't clear before it is now; the federal government needs to be slashed to the bone.
The
Environmental Protection Agency — Next Stop on a Guided Tour of the Deep State's Covert Resistance to Trump. The EPA, of course,
is right in the middle of the ongoing DC power struggle, which has spilled into open bureaucratic revolt. On February 16, for example, The
New York Times reported that EPA employees had brazenly been calling senators to urge them to vote against Scott Pruitt, President Trump's pick to
head the agency. It was, the Times' Coral Davenport observed, "a remarkable display of activism and defiance that presages turbulent times
ahead for the EPA."
FBI
prepares hunt for the source of CIA documents published by WikiLeaks after latest catastrophic breach for the US intelligence
community. The FBI is launching a hunt to unmask the source of the CIA document leak which has rocked the US
intelligence services. Thousands of documents were suddenly published by anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks yesterday [3/7/2017],
purportedly revealing hacking tools which the CIA uses to break into devices such as phones, computers and smart TVs.
It the latest in an embarrassing series of revelations, and WikiLeaks has promised more to come. Investigators are now
carrying out a massive operation to find who released the documents, with the source likely to face a long jail term if caught.
The
Beltway Conspiracy to Break Trump. The president has reason to be enraged. For what is afoot is a loose
but broad conspiracy to break and bring him down, abort his populist agenda, and overturn the results of the 2016
election. At its heart is the "deep state" — agents of the intel community, their media collaborators, and
their amen corner in a Democratic party whose control of our permanent government is all but total.
Details of a Watergate-style
conspiracy against Trump emerge. President Donald Trump caused a media firestorm by claiming over the weekend
that then-President Obama wire-tapped telephones at Trump Tower in Manhattan during the final leg of last year's election
campaign. Seeing the writing on the wall, tainted FBI Director James Comey promptly and publicly urged the Department
of Justice to reject Trump's claims. Although it is an attempt at a cover-up, it is an admirably transparent one.
Now the outlines of a Watergate-like conspiracy are emerging in which a sitting Democrat president apparently used the
apparatus of the state to spy on a Republican presidential candidate. Watergate differed in that President Nixon didn't
get involved in the plot against the Democratic National Committee until later as an accomplice after the fact. Here
Obama likely masterminded, or oversaw someone like the diabolical Benghazi cover-up artist Ben Rhodes, masterminding the
whole thing.
Hey, Clapper —
If there were no FISA warrrants, what [...] were the FBI, CIA, NSA and the rest investigating? It is only conservatives who are
concerned about what they are reading in liberal media. Have you you noticed that? The media is very confounded right now, they are very
confused. They don't know whether to trash themselves, trash their colleagues, or what. What did Obama know? We know he knows
this much: everything you just read, he knew. Because it's in the newspapers. That is pretty big. Number two, we know
that if a FISA warrant was secured, it is very likely in his daily intelligence briefing or a call from the Attorney General or the director
of the FBI the president would be given a heads up. There's nothing illegal about it but he would have been given a heads up.
Jim Comey
asserting power like no one in history. Each day, FBI director Jim Comey goes to work in a federal building
named for his most famous predecessor. Yet for all his storied accomplishments and sordid controversies, J. Edgar
Hoover never matched the singular feat of Comey. Only Comey simultaneously investigated the top two presidential
candidates during an election. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each battled Comey last year while they battled each
other for the Oval Office. How's that for power? Neither case led to charges, but that's almost beside the
point. Echoing Hoover's attitude, if not his methods, Comey is adept at using innuendo and leaks to remind the
powerful that he cannot be ignored.
The
Unbelievable Timeline of Leaks Relating to Donald Trump and Russia. After each and every major event advancing
Donald Trump's presidency, there is another leak to the media about Russia from within the intelligence community. In
the run up to the Electoral College; in the run up to the inauguration; and in the aftermath of President Trump's speech to
Congress — each time he has positive headlines someone leaks information about Russia to the press. That
looks an awful lot like someone or some group is trying to delegitimize his Presidency through rumor and allegation.
Wikileaks
CIA Dump Has Some Peculiar Timing. A Wikileak of this sort is not only rare and specialized (when was the last
time you saw a CIA secret splattered all over the Internet?) it was probably the work of Russian cyberspies, given that only
the Russians are likely to have such capacity, as well as potential human penetrations on the inside. If so, it means a
Russian power game is now in play, with just the right timing to support it. Consider the source of the Wikileaks
again: Julian Assange, someone who has repeatedly been accused of being a Russian agent based on the fact that his
leaks (always accurate) consistently support Russian objectives. He never leaks Russian secrets, just ours and those
of our allies, generally to serve Russian aims.
NSA
Whistleblower Backs Trump Up on Wiretap Claims. President Donald Trump is "absolutely right" to claim he was
wiretapped and monitored, a former NSA official claimed Monday [3/6/2017], adding that the administration risks falling
victim to further leaks if it continues to run afoul of the intelligence community. "I think the president is
absolutely right. His phone calls, everything he did electronically, was being monitored," Bill Binney, a 36-year
veteran of the National Security Agency who resigned in protest from the organization in 2001, told Fox Business on
Monday. Everyone's conversations are being monitored and stored, Binney said.
Trump
won't accept Comey's conclusion about Obama wiretap claim. President Trump does not accept FBI Director James
Comey's conclusion that former President Barack Obama did not order a wiretap at Trump Tower, a White House spokeswoman said
Monday [3/6/2017]. "I don't think he does," deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on ABC's "Good Morning
America" when asked whether Trump accepted Comey's denial. The president "firmly believes that the Obama administration
may have tapped into the phones at Trump Tower," she added. Sanders also claimed news articles supported Trump's wiretapping
allegation, even though none of the reports she was apparently referencing said Obama had ordered such surveillance.
Behind
the collapse of the 'Russia Hacking' narrative, is panic spreading in the Obama camp? [Scroll down] By
his tweet, President Trump forced the purveyors of this narrative to fiercely deny that any wiretapping took place at the
Trump Tower. It is a no-win situation for the president's enemies: either they repudiate their narrative of the last
several months about Russia, or they admit that under President Obama, a spying effort was launched against the candidate of
the opposition party.
Why
Dems will regret a probe into Russian election hacking. The investigation of Russian interference in the US
election could turn into a big headache for the Democrats. The phrase "Be careful what you ask for" comes to mind.
For months before the presidential election, I explained why the Democrats were making a big mistake by picking Hillary Clinton
as their candidate. And I correctly predicted that she would lose. The Democrats didn't listen, and now their party
is in shambles. They aren't going to listen to me now either about the unintended consequences of an investigation of the
Russians, but I'm going to explain anyway.
Long Knives.
This escalation represents a real threat to Obama. Suddenly everything is out of control. Nobody would have
minded much if Trump had gone after one of Obama's henchmen — which is probably what was expected — but
none can foresee how an exchange of blades between principals will end. It is safe to say, however, that unless the
combatants disengage, someone will get hurt. It will be a terrible moment for American political civility when a king
lies on the political floor. The whole point of a peaceful transition of power is to prevent a clash between
kings. Yet the very tragedy the electoral process is intended to prevent is happening before our eyes.
FBI
asked Justice Department to rebut Trump wiretap claims: Report. FBI Director James Comey asked the
Justice Department to publicly reject President Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the
2016 election. Comey argued that the claim is false and must be corrected, but so far the Justice Department hasn't
released any statement on the claim, the New York Times reported. The House and Senate intelligence panels, at the
White House's request, agreed to look into whether there was any government surveillance of political parties as part of a
broader probe into Russian interference with the election.
Ex-Secret
Service agent: Media missing 1 huge wiretap point. President Trump has caught plenty of flak from the
establishment media and members of Congress for his weekend statement that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had Trump Tower
wiretapped while Trump was still a candidate. Some believe Trump is lying, while others think he may have pressured the
FBI to tell him about an investigation against him. But Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, says there's a
third possibility no one is considering.
Exposing
The Obama Deep State. One is the elected President of the United States. The other is the Anti-President
who commands a vast network that encompasses the organizers of OFA, the official infrastructure of the DNC and Obama
Anonymous, a shadow government of loyalists embedded in key positions across the government. A few weeks after the
election, I warned that Obama was planning to run the country from outside the White House. And that the "Obama
Anonymous" network of staffers embedded in the government was the real threat. Since then Obama's Kalorama mansion has
become a shadow White House. And the Obama Anonymous network is doing everything it can to bring down an elected government.
Report: Obama In Hiding After Former
Secret Service Agent Outs Him in Wiretapping Claim. Ever since Trump became president, Obama has been behind
the scenes doing everything he can to cause massive chaos. But setting up a shadow government and training his violent
minions to take out Trump through his group Organization For Action (OFA) has just been the beginning of Obama's subversion
tactics. Over the weekend, we've learned that Obama secretly tapped Trump's phone throughout the 2016 presidential election
in order to spy. But unfortunately for Obama, his antics are about to blow up in a huge way after his former Secret
Service agent just came forward with a huge bombshell, sure to tighten the screws even more on Obama's self-inflicted scandal.
The
Enablers of Obama's Wiretapping Scandal. [Scroll down] Apparently, Barack Obama and his minions were
supremely confident that Hillary Clinton would win. Or if by any remote chance she did not, the assumption seemingly
was that Trump and the Republicans would be their usual spineless selves and succumb to the customary intimidation tactics
and would never retaliate once in office. Additionally, the Democrats could count on the mainstream media never
exposing their treachery. Despite all their voluminous opposition research and Trump's own words, the Obama-Clinton
cabal, brimming with overconfidence, refused to accept the reality that he was not a prototypical Republican or someone
easily extorted. Any cursory review of his business career and tactics would have disabused them of that mindset.
Investigate Obamagate. Note
well: Watergate began with an attempt to wiretap phones — which is to say spy on the target, in this case
the Democratic National Committee and its then-chairman, ex-JFK and LBJ aide Lawrence O'Brien. On his radio show and in
his Fox appearance, Mark Levin lays out eight specific examples of reporting by no less than the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the Guardian, the McClatchy news service, and Heat Street, the libertarian
website. Of all these sources cited, only Heat Street would be considered a "right-wing" site, as it is
libertarian-oriented. The rest, every one, are part of the left-leaning "mainstream" media in the United States and, in
the case of the Guardian, the United Kingdom. So, again, for the record, let's look at the stories Mark Levin
has found that emphatically bolster President Trump's belief that the Obama Administration was spying on him.
For
Obama, spying is nothing new. In what has already been a historically bad year for Democrats, it just may be
that they're about to lose again to Donald Trump, this time in a high-stakes game of Russian roulette. The Dems' Putin
smear was supposed to paint President Trump as a friend of the tyrant and beneficiary of Russian meddling in the election.
Instead, it is the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party, former President Barack Obama, who may take the fall.
Did
Obama spy on Trump? So President Trump set off a firestorm over the weekend with a series of tweets alleging
that Obama had tapped Trump Tower. But getting hung up on imprecise language in the president's tweets isn't the right
way to look at things. What seems to be at true is that the Obama administration spied on some of Trump's associates
and we don't know exactly how much information was collected under what authority and who was targeted. As former
prosecutor Andrew McCarthy summarizes in National Review, the Obama Justice Department considered a criminal investigation
aimed at a number of Trump's associates. When they didn't find anything criminal, they converted the investigation into
an intelligence probe under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Elements of that story have been confirmed by
The New York Times, the BBC and McClatchy newspapers.
The
evidence Trump was wiretapped laid out clearly by Mark Levin. Yesterday [3/5/2017], in 14 short and exciting
minutes of televised explanation, Mark Levin pointed out the evidence already on the public record indicating spying on
President-Elect Trump. In two early-morning segments on Fox and Friends, Levin cited chapter and verse with his
characteristic high energy and incisiveness. [Video clip]
ObamaGate
Is a Lot More than a Hashtag. [Scroll down] So now we have Trump's bold, brash, "unhinged" Twitter
accusations that Obama wiretapped him. This came after Mark Levin, Breitbart, Andrew C. McCarthy, Louise Mensch and
others I've forgotten about or am unaware of reported about two appeals to FISA courts (one denied last summer and one approved
in October) for permission to tap phones in Trump Tower. Did they happen? It seems that tapping of some sort
actually occurred because it was virtually acknowledged in tweets from Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, who sprang to action
only hours after Trump tweeted, writing: "I'd be careful about reporting that Obama said there was no wiretapping.
Statement just said that neither he nor the WH ordered it." Kevin Lewis, a spokesman for the former president, had almost
simultaneously declared: "Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any
U.S. citizen." Ordered? That's what we used to call plausible deniability and now is known as a wiggle word.
J.
Christian Adams: If It Happened, Trump Wiretapping Makes Watergate 'Look Like a Joke'. PJM's J. Christian
Adams was on Fox News' "Justice With Judge Jeanine" on Saturday [3/4/2017] to discuss allegations by President Trump that his
campaign was "tapped" by the Obama administration. The discussion was in response to Trump's Saturday morning tweet: [...]
Judge Jeanine Pirro read a statement from an Obama spokesman claiming, "As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any
White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen." Pirro said that the operative word in that statement was
"ordered." Adams, a former Department of Justice official, agreed. "That's exactly right," he said. "There's a big
difference between 'ordered' and knowing everything else about it."
Why Trump might
suspect Obama bugged Trump Tower. From the day Trump won election, his foes have waged a by-any-means-necessary
campaign to overturn the results. Officials (likely Obama-era holdovers) have broken the law and leaked what they hoped
would be damaging info. Groups tied to Obama have stirred up angry protests against Trump and other Republicans. [...]
Remember, too: Team Obama has a record of abusing power for political gain, as when the IRS targeted conservative groups.
Barack
Obama's Trump Tower Wiretap Denial Reeks of Orwellian Doublespeak. On Saturday [3/4/2017], President Donald
Trump shook the world by accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower in the final weeks of the 2016
presidential election — a scandal comparable to "Nixon/Watergate." While news outlets reported that Trump cited
"no evidence" to support his claims, there is a disturbing trail of breadcrumbs suggesting that the Obama administration did
indeed do this. Kevin Lewis, a spokesman for the former president, denied these allegations, but the very denial was
disingenuous at best. In fact, one might even call it Orwellian.
President
Trump owes Mark Levin a debt of gratitude. Just a week ago, President Trump was embattled. Democrats were
lining up to go before cameras to ask, "Did [Trump associate X] meet with the Russians? When? What did they
say? We need a full investigation!" Trump was clearly on the defensive. And then, on Thursday [3/2/2017], all
of a sudden, talk show host Mark Levin connected the dots. He asked himself a simple question: how did the media and
Democrats know that Trump associates had talked to the Russians, however innocuous the contacts may have been? The
information had come from government leaks. And how did the government know? Quite obviously, it must have been
monitoring members of the Trump campaign.
Josh
Earnest Won't Deny Trump Tower Was Surveilled By Obama Administration. When pressed by ABC's Martha Raddatz on
Sunday, Josh Earnest opted not to categorically "deny that the Obama Justice Department" monitored Trump Tower during the
2016 election. President Obama's former press secretary opened his interview by calling reports that "President Obama
ordered a wiretap" false, yet backpedaled when the "This Week" guest host asked him to "categorically deny" that President
Trump's campaign headquarters was under surveillance.
Russian Roulette.
Since the game is still in process, we cannot quite finish the chapter. But we know how it starts. It starts with
groundless accusations that Donald Trump and/or his surrogates somehow "colluded," had illicit ties with, the Russians.
Maybe he helped them "hack the election." Maybe he is Putin's puppet. We don't quite know. But this calls for a
"special prosecutor" (even though such a thing doesn't exist), a criminal investigation, the impeachment or at least the
delegitimization of Donald Trump and all his works. [...] So far, there is no evidence of malfeasance, of anything improper
or illegal. But there is plenty of anchorless animus directed at Trump by the Democrats and their media pets.
'The
Evidence Is Overwhelming': Mark Levin On Fox News Lays Out the Case On Obama's Spying. Conservative Review
Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin gave an interview on Fox News' Fox and Friends Weekend Sunday morning in which he laid out the
case against the Obama administration use of "police state tactics" against President Donald Trump. "The evidence is
overwhelming," Levin said. Using public records and mainstream media reporting, he showed how the Obama administration
obtained a FISA court warrant to surveil Donald Trump's presidential campaign last year. The question is, to what
extent did the Obama administration spy on Donald Trump's campaign?
What's
Good For The Goose. My advice to President Trump and team would be for them to tell Director Comey to go ahead
and hold a press conference and deny the wire-tapping/surveillance himself. And while he's at it, he can clear up all
of the nonsense surrounding these ridiculous media assertions which appear to be based entirely on leaks from his FBI
community. Go ahead Director Comey, hold your own [...] press conference. You did it for Obama and Hillary
Clinton, do it again now. Don't go looking to hide behind the skirt of Attorney General Jeff Sessions just because all
of the eyes are upon you now. I'd be telling FBI Director James Comey to defend his own [very] poorly run department.
The same poorly run politicized department that is apparently the primary source of all the leaks causing the trouble.
Yes,
If Trump is Correct, Even Partially, Then President Obama Might Be in Big Trouble. Robert Barnes at LawNewz has
a well structured outline showing how current public information does indeed appear to lay out a solid case that President
Obama manipulated the legal use of intelligence gathering tools to monitor candidate, then president-elect, Donald Trump.
Yes,
There Could Be Serious Legal Problems if Obama Admin Involved in Illegal Surveillance. President Trump recently
tweeted claiming that former President Obama wiretapped him during his campaign. One can only imagine how nuts the
media would have gone if the roles had been reversed: President Trump wiretapping either Obama or the Clintons, though
his DOJ could have authority to do just that given the expansive leaks of intelligence information by Obama and Clinton
supporters the last few months. [Indeed], he could wiretap the media at this point, legally and legitimately, as the
sources of these unlawful leaks, for which Obama himself set precedent. Do liberals understand what Pandora's Box Obama
opened up by Obama using the powers of the NSA, CIA and FBI to spy on his political opponents? Even Nixon never did
that. If the stories are correct, Obama or his officials might even face prosecution. But, we are still early in
all of this and there are a lot of rumors flying around so the key is if the reports are accurate.
Lt.
Col. Shaffer: Potential Obama Wiretapping Is 'Soviet-Level Wrongdoing'. Ret. U.S. Army
Intelligence Officer Tony Shaffer said potential wiretapping by a sitting U.S. president is "Soviet-level wrongdoing."
Lt. Col. Shaffer was a guest Saturday morning [3/4/2017] on "Fox & Friends Weekend" sharing his thoughts on President
Donald Trump's early morning tweets accusing the Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower prior to the 2016 election.
Weaponized
Government: The Only Obama Legacy. Here is what we know: In June 2016, the Obama Administration,
using flimsy evidence of Russian connections to the Trump campaign, made an initial request for electronic surveillance of
Trump and his associates under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and its approval body the FISA court.
It should be noted that approval requires a very low standard of evidence. Since its inception, the FISA court has
permitted 99.7% of requests. The fact that the initial request was denied, means that the basis upon which the request
was made must have been extraordinarily weak or excessively broad or both.
Why yes, Obama
did try to wiretap Trump Tower, and here are the details. The timing of Trump's tweet is a little strange, but
the facts are plain as day. I don't really know why Donald Trump decided yesterday to tweet about the Obama
Administration trying to wiretap Trump Tower. But what was weird about it was not the content of the tweet.
It was the timing. That this happened is not only beyond dispute, but it's been in the public's eye for weeks.
The
Obama Camp's Disingenuous Denials on FISA Surveillance of Trump. To summarize, reporting indicates that, prior
to June 2016, the Obama Justice Department and FBI considered a criminal investigation of Trump associates, and perhaps Trump
himself, based on concerns about connections to Russian financial institutions. Preliminary poking around indicated
that there was nothing criminal involved. Rather than shut the case down, though, the Obama Justice Department
converted it into a national-security investigation under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). FISA allows the
government, if it gets court permission, to conduct electronic surveillance (which could include wiretapping, monitoring of
e-mail, and the like) against those it alleges are "agents of a foreign power." FISA applications and the evidence garnered
from them are classified — i.e., we would not know about any of this unless someone had leaked classified information
to the media, a felony.
Revenge
of Obama's 'Former Officials'. Just 24 hours after Trump's address, a series of troubling reports involving
links among those in Trump's orbit to Russian officials reset the national discourse. Those stories make for a trend,
though, that has little to do with Trump and a lot to do with his predecessor. The Obama administration's
foreign-policy team seems to be campaigning to rehabilitate itself one leak at a time, and the press is helping.
Former
Bush attorney general: Trump right that there was surveillance. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey
on Sunday said that President Trump is likely correct that there was surveillance on Trump Tower for intelligence purposes,
but incorrect in accusing former President Barack Obama of ordering the wiretapping. "I think he's right in that there
was surveillance and that it was conducted at the behest of the attorney general — at the Justice Department,"
Mukasey told ABC's "This Week." Trump on Saturday [3/4/2017] accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower in New York City
just before the November election.
FISA
Is Not Law-Enforcement — It's Not Interference with Justice Department Independence for White House to Ask for
FISA Information. In my earlier post, I explained that the Obama camp is disingenuously responding to
revelations that, during the presidential campaign, the Obama administration conducted an investigation, including
wiretapping, against Trump associates and perhaps Donald Trump himself. As I elaborated, one avenue of response is to
conflate the Justice Department's two missions — law-enforcement and national security. We can see this
strategy playing out in the New York Times coverage of the controversy.
Chris
Coons walkback: "I have no hard evidence of collusion" between Trump world and Russians. When Donald
Trump sent out his series of tweets about alleged "tapping" of his phones and/or Trump Tower by Obama, the instant media
reaction was that Trump made the allegation without presenting any proof. As if proof were needed at the time of an
accusation for a media that has put Trump on trial for the last 6-8 months based on innuendo about Trump campaign ties to
Russia. As pointed out repeatedly, there is zero proof in the public record of such media and Democrat accusations, and
no proof was demanded by the media.
Fake
News From the Associated Press on FISAgate. Every time the AP mentions FISAgate, it includes this ritual defense
of the Obama administration: ["]Trump has offered no evidence or details to support his claim, and Obama's spokesman
has denied it.["] The AP's statement is false. It is a classic instance of fake news. Barack Obama's
spokesman has not denied that "the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower last year." He only denied that Barack Obama
personally ordered such surveillance. But that isn't the question. Presumably, the order to conduct surveillance came
from Loretta Lynch's Department of Justice. But no one thinks that Lynch would have ordered the opposing presidential
candidate's telephones tapped, or his computers hacked, without her boss's approval.
Huge
Obama Scandal: Illegal Surveillance/Election Tampering. The Obama administration engaged in surveillance
of Trump Tower communications during the 2016 Election. With that fact now front and center, voters would do well to
recall all of the "leaks" that were said to be coming from inside the then-Trump campaign. Were operatives working
under the direction of a then-sitting President of the United States, the source of those leaks? Some are already suggesting
YES, making what Barack Obama potentially did in 2016 MUCH WORSE than anything Richard Nixon did leading up to the Watergate
scandal. This is big. This is the Obama Shadow Government now being exposed in real time: [Video clip]
Worse
Than Watergate! Obama Administration Wiretapped Trump Tower Before the Election. President Trump
accused — based on evidence — former President Obama's administration of wiretapping phones in Trump
Tower in New York City during the presidential campaign. Former US Attorney Andy McCarthy says it's absolutely
true. The president made the claims in a series of tweets Saturday morning. The tweets come after an article
Friday on the right-wing news site Breitbart claiming that the Obama administration obtained authorization to eavesdrop on
the Trump campaign. The article was information compiled by Mark Levin and based on research by former US attorney Andy
McCarthy and others.
Obama
wiretapped opposing presidential campaign using federal intelligence services. If the reports are true —
and they certainly appear to be — Obamagate is 100 times bigger than Watergate. In short, a sitting president
wiretapped the nominee of the opposition party, before the election, using the security apparatus of the federal government.
Obama
Wiretapped Trump Tower Before the Election. Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin opened his show
Thursday night talking about the "phony scandal" plaguing Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [...] The "bigger scandal" here,
Levin explained, is that we've had unelected Obama administration holdovers within intelligence agencies surveilling the
Trump campaign and leaking information to the public, in hopes of getting Hillary Clinton elected. Those are "police
state tactics!" Levin said.
A
Revolutionary "Deep State" Conspiracy Against Trump. "This country is becoming unglued. We're in the stage
of a revolution here." Attorney Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch says an "alternative government" in the intelligence community
continues to target President Trump for the purpose of overthrowing his administration. "These intelligence agencies are more
powerful than the president himself." Obama is the "Wizard of Oz" working behind the scenes against Trump, Klayman says.
Trump
Asks If It's Legal for Obama to Wiretap Him — Here's the Answer. The best that we can tell, Trump is referring
to a Breitbart article which was published Friday night [3/3/2017] that makes reference to attempts by U.S. intelligence agencies
to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and
several advisers. The interesting thing is that this isn't a new development. In fact, several outlets including
Mother Jones, The Guardian, The National Review, and Heat Street have been reporting on this alleged activity over the last
couple of months. Here is the best summary we could find of the Obama administration's efforts to wiretap Trump associates.
The "Alternative
Government" Vs. Trump. President Trump gave a good speech on Tuesday night, but his presidency is still
hanging by a thread. Attorney Larry Klayman says an "alternative government" in the intelligence community continues to
target him. "These intelligence agencies are more powerful than the president himself," Klayman said on the Fox
Business Network. "They have the ability to blackmail people in this administration to the point that the American
people's interests are going to be subverted."
Investigate and Prosecute the Press.
[Scroll down] It is clear that he has inside information about the "alternative government," as attorney Larry Klayman calls this network of secret operatives, or
the "Deep State," as others call it. These are the "anonymous sources" who manipulate the press, reveal national security information, and threaten
the foundations of our constitutional republic. They are the real traitors, not the officials who had innocent conversations with Russians.
Does House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) have the guts to get to the bottom of this subversion of our democratic system?
Like President Trump, he says he is concerned about illegal leaks. It's time for him to take action. Otherwise, the illegal leakers will keep
picking off our elected officials and those they appoint, using secret information they twist and distort for partisan political purposes.
Mark
Levin to Congress: Investigate Obama's 'Silent Coup' vs. Trump. Radio host Mark Levin used his
Thursday evening show to outline the known steps taken by President Barack Obama's administration in its last months to
undermine Donald Trump's presidential campaign and, later, his new administration. Levin called Obama's effort "police
state" tactics, and suggested that Obama's actions, rather than conspiracy theories about alleged Russian interference in the
presidential election to help Trump, should be the target of congressional investigation. Drawing on sources including
the New York Times and the Washington Post, Levin described the case against Obama so far, based on what is
already publicly known.
The Shadow
Government Timeline. No matter which entrance hole you follow down into the labyrinth — eventually
you end up finding yourself in the same chamber, the treasury. Every motive seems to consistently boil down to money.
Donald
Trump Rejects Intelligence Report on Travel Ban. An intelligence report by the Department of Homeland Security
contradicts the White House's assertion that immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries pose a particular risk of being
terrorists and should be blocked from entering the U.S. The report is the latest volley in a struggle between intelligence
officials and the Trump administration that has rippled across several agencies.
The
Deep State's Coup Against Trump. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has reportedly interfered in countless
governments across the globe. Now, the agency has also begun an intelligence coup within its own government. Last
week, Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn was forced out of the Trump administration following leaks from the
intelligence community that revealed he had misled the public and the administration on conversations he had with a Russian
diplomat. Major news outlets, the Washington Post and the New York Times, both reported on the leaks. While the
mainstream media has blasted Trump and Flynn for these alleged ties to Russia, some of the more astute journalists out there
have taken a different approach. Although he asserted the leaks were justified, prominent journalist Glenn Greenwald
raised some very disturbing issues as to the possible motives behind the leaks:
The
'deep state' is real. The 'alt right' is fake. Here's a fact for the media to chew on: The "deep
state" is here. As outlined in Foreign Policy, the concept of the deep state is nothing new. But the Trump
presidency may serve as the galvanizing force that links some of the formal established Democratic opposition forces,
including MoveOn.org, government unions and Black Lives Matter with the informal deep-state cadre of disgruntled liberal
bureaucrats, the hostile mainstream media and the usual suspects on the left. It's a troubling phenomenon, with
anti-Trump organizations and Democratic-aligned civil servants conspiring to actively work against the incumbent government.
Clinton
Donor Quits CIA Because of Trump, Says Decision Not About Politics. A CIA employee who contributed thousands of
dollars to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and who is a registered Democrat announced his decision to leave the agency in a
Washington Post column published Sunday [2/19/2017], writing that his departure "had nothing to do with politics."
Edward Price resigned from the CIA last week and used the Washington Post to explain his decision that he could not "in good
faith serve this administration as an intelligence professional." Price wrote that his "decision had nothing to do with politics,"
and that he "would have been proud to again work under a Republican administration." "As intelligence professionals, we're
taught to tune out politics," Price wrote.
Hugh
Hewitt: Fire Obama's 'Deep State' Sleeper Cells Yesterday. Conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt
today [2/21/2017] pressed Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway to answer why the Trump administration has been so slow
to fire Obama holdovers throughout the government.
Disgruntled
CIA Officials Begin Self-Deporting From NSC. The Washington Post has an op-ed today [2/20/2017] from someone
who purports to have resigned from the CIA because his sensibilities can't stomach working for a Trump administration. [...]
This kind of malarkey has been my gripe with the intelligence community for a decade. They have simply been spoiled and
pampered and praised to the point that they think they are the masters rather than the servants of the President, the
Congress and the People. They've managed to do that while not serving the nation particularly well. Along the
way, the CIA, in particular, has taken on a quasi-political role.
Seven
Days in February. Currently, the political and media opponents of Donald Trump are seeking to subvert his
presidency in a manner unprecedented in the recent history of American politics. The so-called resistance among EPA
federal employees is trying to disrupt Trump administration reform; immigration activists promise to flood the judiciary to
render executive orders inoperative. Intelligence agencies had earlier leaked fake news briefings about the purported
escapades of President-elect Trump in Moscow — stories that were quickly exposed as politically driven
concoctions. Nearly one-third of House Democrats boycotted the Inauguration. Celebrities such as Ashley Judd and
Madonna shouted obscenities to crowds of protesters; Madonna voiced her dreams of Trump's death by saying she'd been thinking
a lot about blowing up the White House. But all that pushback was merely the clownish preliminary to the full-fledged
assault in mid February.
Watchdog Wants
Obama Held Accountable for His "Soft Coup". Sadly, many Americans are not aware of just how dangerous Barack
Obama is to the Republic. This is pure Alinsky. Much of the leaking which is damaging the Trump administration is
tied to Obama's last hour rule change which allows the NSA to send out unfiltered raw data to the other 16 agencies.
The agencies then decide how to use it. It makes it almost impossible, if not impossible, to track the leakers.
Barack Obama likely knew they had this information on General Flynn and others. He put the rule in place shortly before
leaving office to allow the leaks. This is a hole that must be plugged immediately.
Why
Was the FBI Investigating General Flynn? Anonymous intelligence officials (a category that may include the
FBI — though we do not know who the leakers are) outrageously revealed to the New York Times that [National
Security Adviser Michael] Flynn was subjected to FBI interrogation ("grilled," the Times says) and that the Justice
Department suspects that Flynn did not provide truthful, accurate information. That does not sound like a cordial,
"open and consensual" conversation. It sounds like an investigation. Why would Flynn be the subject of an
investigation by the FBI and the Justice Department?
The Obama-Bezos-CIA-WaPo Link Coincidentally
Lurking Behind Those Intel Community Leaks. [Scroll down] But you could still kind of buy that it's
coincidental factors making WaPo the path of least journalistic resistance, for the torrent of themed propaganda
coming out, we are told, from intel community officials. These are obviously unhappy officials, taking arms against the
Trump administration from inside the U.S. government. Not only that, but at least nine of them were clearly in
the Obama administration — something WaPo (perhaps unintentionally) clarified in its 9 February story
explaining that all of those sources had primary information from the time Mike Flynn had the supposedly controversial phone
calls with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Which was when Obama was still president. The rogue officials
behind the leaks are from the Obama administration. You can certainly buy the deduction that they'd know reporters at
WaPo, and would, in their unhappiness, "leak scoop" to them. (Even though it never turns out to actually be
anything, other than innuendo.) But it's really been noticeable that whatever the most sensational claim is, every couple
of days or so, it's that claim that ends up being leaked through the Washington Post.
Chaffetz
asks Justice Department watchdog to probe Flynn leaks. House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason
Chaffetz told Fox News' "The First 100 Days" Wednesday night that he would ask the Justice Department's inspector general to
investigate leaks of classified information that led to the resignation of former national security adviser Michael
Flynn. The Utah Republican told host Martha MacCallum that "no matter where you are on the political spectrum, you
cannot have classified information migrating out into a non-classified setting."
CIA
Analyst: Obama, John Brennan, James Clapper and Ben Rhodes Behind the Flynn Leaks. Former CIA analyst and
retired U.S. Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer in an appearance on Fox Business said the leaks coming out of the
White House will lead directly back to Barack Obama. The Democrats and some anti-Trump Republicans want an investigation.
Shaffer said, "be careful what you wish for". "I would put this right at the feet of John Brennan and Jim Clapper and I
would go so far as to say the Obama White House was directly involved before they left," Shaffer said. "Ben Rhodes and those
folks... The Democrats are behind this and some of the Republicans are involved with the leaks. So I say 'Bring it on!'
This is the kind of thing they do in police states.
The Deep State
Targets Trump. When Gen. Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser, Bill Kristol
purred his satisfaction, "If it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state." To Kristol, the permanent regime,
not the elected president and his government, is the real defender and rightful repository of our liberties. Yet it was
this regime, the deep state, that carried out what Eli Lake of Bloomberg calls "The Political Assassination of Michael
Flynn." And what were Flynn's offenses? In December, when Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats, Flynn spoke to
the Russian ambassador. He apparently counseled the envoy not to overreact, saying a new team would be in place in a
few weeks and would review U.S.-Russian relations. "That's neither illegal nor improper," writes Lake. Vladimir
Putin swiftly declared that there would be no reciprocal expulsions and U.S. diplomats and their families would be welcome at
the Kremlin's Christmas and New Year's parties. Diplomatic crisis averted. "Great move ... (by V. Putin),"
tweeted Trump, "I always knew he was very smart." But apparently, this did not sit well with the deep state.
Judicial
Watch Plans to Sue Agencies to Identify Obama Hacks Behind Disclosure of Flynn COMINT. President Trump had a
great response to the hysterical Democrat public relations flacks (you know, the guys who call themselves "journalists") who
questioned his approval of Wikileaks' DNC disclosures during the campaign while decrying the wiretaps of Gen. Mike
Flynn. His point was exactly right: John Podesta's Gmail account isn't a classified government system.
Hillary Clinton's private bathroom email server isn't a classified government system. The wiretaps that helped take
down Flynn related to his private (and, by the way, perfectly legitimate) conversations with foreign leaders.
I'm a Democrat (and
ex-CIA) but the spies plotting against Trump are out of control. Multiple reports show that my former colleagues in the intelligence community
have decided that they must leak or withhold classified information due to unsettling connections between President Trump and the Russian Government.
Said an intelligence officer: "I know what's best for foreign policy and national security... And I'm going to act on that." Some of us might
applaud this man, including a few of my fellow Democrats. In their minds, this is a case of Mr. Smith Goes to Langley to do battle against a
corrupt President Trump. One small problem. The intelligence officer quoted above was actually Aldrich Ames, a CIA traitor whose crime of
treason in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in the compromise of more than 100 assets. Many were tortured and executed as a result.
Hunt is on: Leakers pursued by Team
Trump could face hard time. President Trump has vowed to hunt down whoever is leaking classified information about him and his team, and if he
succeeds in unmasking the sources of illegal disclosures, they could face hard time. Trump himself has been plagued by leaks about his meeting schedule
and phone calls to heads of state. But the most damaging leaks to his month-old administration have been those that cost retired Lt. Gen. Michael
Flynn his post as national security adviser. Flynn had to resign after information came out about his December phone call to a Russian ambassador.
Donald Trump vs. the Deep
State. When one of two forces is going to win, if there's any moral difference between them at all, you have to
stand for the better. That's why I overcame my objections and voted for The Donald when the choice came down to him and
a corrupt leftist who would surely have imperiled the American experiment at every level of government. It was a painful
decision but not a difficult one. There's a similar choice to be made now. The President or the Deep State.
The
Lame Duck Timeline Strongly Suggests President Obama Set Up Intelligence Scheme To Undermine Trump. Jay Sekulow
outlines the case that President Obama set-up a plan for the intelligence community to target President Trump.
Specifically through the use of a lame-duck executive order, President Obama authorized multiple intelligence agencies to
have access to Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) including phone call intercepts.
Trump
launches bid to find leakers, as speculation surrounds Obama officials. President Trump is setting out to
uncover the saboteurs leaking damaging details about his administration, as speculation intensifies over whether current
officials or a cabal of Obama lieutenants — or both — are turning the faucets. One former senior
intelligence official told Fox News he suspects ex-intelligence and other security officials, including former CIA Director
John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, were in some way involved in revealing details of
Michael Flynn's conversations with the Russian ambassador.
Trump and
the leaks. After less than a month in office, President Donald J. Trump, who as a candidate embraced WikiLeaks
and a torrent of leaks about his rival Hillary Clinton's campaign, has become a champion of government secrecy. In a
rowdy, 77-minute press conference Thursday, Trump said he had personally instructed the Justice Department to open a criminal
investigation into the leak of embarrassing information about his conversations with foreign leaders and former National
Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn's contacts with Russia. While it is unusual for a president to ask for such a
criminal investigation, or to discuss it publicly, no law prevents him from doing so. "It could be perceived as a
political witch hunt," warned Susan Hennessey, a scholar at the Brookings Institution and former intelligence agency lawyer.
The CIA's affront
to Trump. The CIA has denied a security clearance to Trump National Security Council (NSC) official Robin
Townley without any allegation, much less evidence of disloyalty to the United States. Quite simply, it is because
the CIA disapproves of Mr. Townley's attitude toward the agency, and this is unprecedented. President Trump
appointed Mr. Townley to coordinate Africa policy at the NSC. The CIA did not want to deal with him.
Hence, it used the power to grant security clearances to tell the president to choose someone acceptable to the agency,
though not so much to him. This opens a larger issue: Since no one can take part in the formulation or
execution of foreign or defense policy without a high-level security clearance, vetoing the president's people by
denying them clearances trumps the president.
The
Left's Once Mighty Echo Chamber Is Losing Power. The tricks the left used to nominate and elect a man who literally had no business
running for any office — that's President Obama, who had no qualifications for the office — no longer work. These same
tricks were used to try to elect Hillary, they even doubled and tripled their usage of the echo chamber. Yet Trump is now president
instead of Clinton. However, we now have a more sinister power rearing its ugly head in the out-of-control leftists embedded deep in
the heart of our intelligence agencies and bureaucracies. Trump is now fighting a multiple-front war for his transformative agenda.
He is facing an unhinged left, some remaining obstructionist fools in the GOP establishment, and a malevolently powerful deep state itself.
NSA
Whistleblower: Agency 'Absolutely' Tapping Trump's Calls. William Binney, a former highly placed NSA
official turned whistleblower, contended in an exclusive interview today that the National Security Agency (NSA) is
"absolutely" monitoring the phone calls of President Donald Trump. Binney was an architect of the NSA's surveillance
program. He became a famed whistleblower when he resigned on October 31, 2001 after spending more than 30 years
with the agency.
FBI
Randomly Releases Trump Real Estate Investigation Records From The 1970s. The FBI on Wednesday released nearly
400 pages of records from an investigation it conducted on Donald Trump's family real estate company in the early 1970s.
The documents consist of interview notes, handwritten statements and FBI reports compiled during the bureau's investigation, which
occurred between 1972 and 1974. The FBI's investigation centered on allegations that the Trump Management Company, which was
owned by Trump's father, Fred, discriminated against applicants for apartment rentals based on their race.
Michael
Flynn and the revenge of the bureaucrats. The resignation of White House National Security Adviser Michael
Flynn on Monday was the result of a coordinated effort by current and former U.S. intelligence officials to undermine the
Trump administration using the disclosure of highly classified communications intercepts. President Trump voiced his displeasure
in a tweet Wednesday [2/15/2017] stating that misuse of the intercepts was un-American. "The real scandal here is that classified
information is illegally given out by 'intelligence' like candy. Very un-American!" the president stated.
US
spies reportedly keeping intelligence from Trump. Sensitive intelligence reportedly is being withheld from President Trump
by U.S. intelligence officials because they are concerned that the information could be compromised. The Wall Street Journal reported
Wednesday [2/15/2017] that in some cases officials opted not to show the president how they collected the information. The paper,
citing both former and current officials, said the decision to hold back information underscores the mistrust between the Executive Branch
and spies. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said he has heard about these
concerns in the past.
Is
This Trump's Watergate, Or Revenge Of The Swamp People? President Trump may have come to Washington to "drain
the swamp," but now he's finding out that it's full of nasty swamp creatures. And, as he's also discovered, they
bite. The debacle over national security advisor Michael Flynn's sudden departure over his ill-advised contacts with
Russian government officials shows that the Democrats in Congress and the bureaucrats that work with them mean to take as
many scalps and do as much damage possible to Trump's barely 3-weeks-old presidency. If they can fatally damage him
early in his first term, all the better.
Flynn's
fall should have the intel community in the hot seat. Why did Michael Flynn resign after just 24 days as
President Trump's national security adviser? Never before had so little certainty fueled such a political frenzy.
What's known is that Flynn spoke with Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States, on Dec. 29, 2016, the same
day President Barack Obama leveled sanctions against Russia for its alleged hacking during the US presidential election
campaign. US intelligence provided a transcript of that call to the FBI, which had been investigating Russian
hacking. In a breach of trust, someone in intelligence or law enforcement confirmed the call's existence to the media,
and then detailed its contents in a further leak.
CIA
broke the law to take out its critic General Flynn. Make no mistake, we have just witnessed an operation by
members of the CIA to take out a high official of our own government. An agency that is widely believed to have brought
down democratically elected governments overseas is now practicing the same dark arts in domestic American politics.
Almost certainly, its new head Mike Pompeo was not consulted. Senator Chuck Schumer, of all people, laid out on January
2nd what was going to happen to the Trump administration if it dared take on the deep state — the permanent
bureaucracy that has contempt for the will of the voters and feels entitled to run the government for its own benefit.
With
the Bureaucracy, Trump's Got His Work Cut Out for Him. During the Obama reign, the Federal Register grew by
some 18,000 pages. The Competitive Enterprise Institute estimated regulations cost the American people $1.9 trillion a
year, which is more than 10% of GDP or about $15,000 per household. Government regulations have gotten so that businesses
and even individuals are almost guaranteed to be violating one regulation (or de facto law) or another. Such an
administrative state is what Alexis de Tocqueville had in mind when he defined soft despotism as a 'network of small complicated
rules' that while maybe not obvious to the people, breed fear, uncertainty and doubt throughout society. President Trump
has promised to lasso government agencies and then bring back a constitutional understanding of their limits.
Subsection about General Mark Milley:
Biden
White House considering pre-emptive pardon for retired Gen. Mark Milley, who made secret phone
calls to China: report. Senior White House officials are reportedly considering
issuing retired Gen. Mark Milley a pre-emptive pardon over fears that President-elect Donald
Trump's incoming administration will go after the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. The potential pardon for Milley, who was the nation's highest-ranking military officer
for part of Trump's first term, was reported by the Washington Post Thursday [12/5/2024].
Milley, 66, faced intense scrutiny on Capitol Hill during President Biden's first year in office
after journalist Bob Woodward revealed that the Pentagon official placed secret phone calls to a
top Chinese official before the 2020 election and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.
Trump
Needs to Make an Example of General Milley. In short, Trump was not allowed to
govern, nor treated as other presidents were during his first term. [...] Trump was a threat to
business as usual. Thus, a cabal of intelligence agencies cooperated to stop him from making
changes to foreign policy or scrutinizing the outsized military-industrial complex. Contrary
to the media's dire pronouncements, these insiders were the real threat to democracy and
self-government. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, was one of the worst
offenders. As documented in Bob Woodward's book Peril, Milley spent a lot of time
after the 2020 election caballing with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and reassuring her that
the military would resist certain orders from President Trump. He met with the small group of
officers who control our strategic nuclear forces and demanded they pledge to get his approval
before executing any launch orders, even though, as head of the Joint Chiefs, he is merely an
advisor and is statutorily excluded from the chain of command.
Steve
Bannon urges Trump to rip apart the FBI and return Mark Milley to active duty so he can face court
martial. Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon says former Joint Chiefs of
Staff Gen. Mark Milley should be returned to uniform on the first day of the new
administration so he can be court martialed. Bannon, who was recently released from federal
prison, laid out his priorities for the next Trump White House and said he had been in close
contact with his former boss, advising him on appointments. The populist provocateur spoke to
former Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer in an interview that will be released at 6 pm on
Friday. And his recent stint in prison has clearly done nothing to dim his revolutionary
zeal. 'Number one thing is, I think Mark Milley has got to be recalled ... the first action of
President Trump,' said Bannon.
General
Milley's Attack on the Constitution. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General Mark Milley, recently called Donald Trump a "fascist to the core" and "a wannabe dictator."
That such a senior military leader would feel comfortable saying this about his former boss is
remarkable given that similar statements by officers have, in the past, resulted in severe
punishment. The U.S. Constitution makes the president — the only democratically
elected leader in the chain of command — commander in chief. Military leaders
serving under the president owe him both deference and respect, regardless of whether their policy
preferences differ. General Milley is challenging this foundational principle of American
government. Although General Milley's recent statements are not subject to Article 88 because
President Trump was no longer in office at the time the general made them, his previous attempts to
undermine Trump's authority could be. Indeed, General Milley has recognized as much,
expressing concern that he may yet face court-martial for his conduct during the Trump
administration. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has revealed that General Milley
discussed with her ways in which the military could ignore a hypothetical order from President
Trump to deploy nuclear weapons, and that he agreed with the speaker's suggestion that President
Trump was "crazy."
The
Silent Insurrection: General Milley's Hand on January 6. In the days and
weeks leading up to January 6, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, then-Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, was moving in lockstep with the political anxieties
of top Democratic leaders. These Democrats grew anxious as over 140 House Republicans planned
to contest the election results during the electoral college certification that day. Milley
was then deeply engaged with a circle of confidants including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate
Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and former
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, among others — all of whom shared a unified disdain for
President Donald Trump. At a House Oversight Committee hearing in April addressing the 3-hour
and 19-minute delay in mobilizing the D.C. National Guard on January 6, Colonel Earl Matthews,
one of four Department of Defense witnesses, testified about an "irrational" fear among a "clique"
of senior military officers concerning the potential misuse of the National Guard by the president.
General
Milley Ignored Trump Order to Deploy Nat. Guard at US Capitol Prior to Jan. 6.
Shocking new details were released by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee on Friday of US
military brass ignoring President Trump's request for security on January 6th. President
Trump knew there would be a massive crowd of Americans at the planned rallies outside the US Capitol
and at the Ellipse that day. So, Trump ordered the National Guard to be deployed to the US Capitol
prior to the planned protests on January 6. The newly surfaced transcripts, which were
previously concealed, reveal the truth that many in the mainstream media have ignored.
A
Decade of Conspiracists? For example, one contributor, Rosa Brooks, warns us about
what Trump might do in a second term to warp democracy. [...] Brooks' 2017 essay also proved eerily
prescient in retrospect, given that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley later chose
to violate the chain of command and purportedly ordered theater commanders in the field to report
directly to him, despite his strictly advisory role, in times of existential national crises to
circumvent the commander-in-chief. Milley also stealthily contacted his communist Chinese
military counterpart to assure the head of the People's Liberation Army that he would warn him
first should Dr. Milley, on his own, diagnose his own president as unhinged and thus any
supposedly dangerously warlike presidential order as invalid. Think of the Milley precedent:
are the Joint Chiefs in the future to diagnose the stability of their presidents to adjudicate when
they can contact their communist Chinese counterparts to warn them of their own
commanders-in-chief? Note as well that in August 2020, retired Lieutenant Colonels John
Nagl and Paul Yingling co-wrote an op-ed addressed to Milley, warning him that he should use the
military to remove Trump, should the military, in its infinite and vast political wisdom, assume
that Trump would not accept the verdict of the impending election.
The
Debate Revealed That Any President Voters Elect Doesn't Really Run The Government.
[Scroll down] However, because we've already had the benefit of a Trump presidency, we
can see that even a president as vigorous and defiant as he struggled to truly exercise authority
over the people and institutions that, constitutionally speaking, the president commands.
Some of the most egregious examples of this occurred among cabinet-level national security
types. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman under Trump Gen. Mark Milley was one of the worst
offenders. Washington Post and New York Times reporters say, according to excerpts from Haley
McLean, that Milley deliberately stayed in his position to sabotage voters' elected
commander-in-chief, saying to staffers of Trump, "I'll just fight him" and "I will fight from the
inside." Washington Post reporters say Milley led an internal military leadership effort to
prevent Trump from quelling the George Floyd race riots in 2020: "Milley began informally planning
with other military leaders, strategizing how they would block Trump's order to use the military in
a way they deemed dangerous or illegal." Milley also disobeyed Trump's order to pull U.S. troops
from Afghanistan, setting the stage for the disastrous Afghanistan pullout Milley oversaw under
Biden that seriously damaged U.S. foreign policy goals, killed 13 U.S. soldiers, and left stranded
thousands of American citizens.
Five
actions by Democrats which sunk Ukraine. Observers of American support for Ukraine
would likely consider the Democrats to be pro-Ukraine and the Republicans anti-Ukraine. This
observation would be a generally accurate portrayal of recent budgetary considerations in the U.S.
Congress regarding military aid for Ukraine. Nevertheless, the conclusion that Democrats in
the United States be considered pro-Ukraine constitutes a case of grand historic irony.
Indeed, the catastrophic invasion of Ukraine was largely caused or facilitated by five actions by
American Democrat politicians. Without these actions, Ukraine would likely be living in peace
and security. [...] General Mark Milley and U.S. intelligence predicted Kiev would fall within
three days of the February 2022 Russian invasion. This was ludicrous on many levels.
Anyone familiar with Ukrainian history over the past century will understand — after the
Soviet colonization of Ukraine, and the Stalin-imposed "Forced Famine" (The Holodomor) —
that Ukrainians will never voluntarily accept Russian colonization again.
The
Silent Insurrection: General Milley's Hand on January 6. In the days and
weeks leading up to January 6, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, then-Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, was moving in lockstep with the political anxieties
of top Democratic leaders. These Democrats grew anxious as over 140 House Republicans planned
to contest the election results during the electoral college certification that day. Milley
was then deeply engaged with a circle of confidants including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate
Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and former
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, among others — all of whom shared a unified disdain for
President Donald Trump.
Time
To Fight Dirty. [Scroll down] And when I say we need to fight dirty, let
me clarify what I am not saying. I am not saying that we should persecute
innocent people, like the Left does. I am saying that we need to go full-throttle,
no-holds-barred lawfare against those who do break the law and smugly get away with it.
[...] The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, in October 2020 and
January 2021, made calls to his Chinese counterpart, assuring the Politburo that if President
Trump attempted to launch a military attack against them in the waning days of his presidency, he
would warn them beforehand. For treason of this magnitude, he should be swinging from a
lamppost. Rather, he was vigorously defended by the Biden administration with not so much as
a reprimand. He retired this past February and... you guessed it... teaches at both
Georgetown and Princeton. Milley got away with it.
If...
Then... 2024. General Mark Milley refused a direct and constitutional order from his
commander-in-chief to fortify and strengthen America's southern border. General Milley
committed treason against the Constitution in working behind Trump's back in concert with the
Chinese. Milley knew all along that the balloon flying over America was a Chinese spy balloon
stealing America's national security secrets. The top brass of the Pentagon really did work
behind the scenes to diminish and destroy the Trump administration's capabilities. Biden,
Milley, the Pentagon, and national security officers know that cartels are trafficking children
through our open southern border and then refuse to do anything about it, which they most assuredly
could stop.
Report:
Army Official Says Mark Milley Delayed National Guard Response to Jan 6 'Then Lied About
It'. Colonel Earl G. Matthews, senior legal adviser to Major General William J.
Walker, who commanded the Washington D.C. National Guard on January 6th, 2021, has blamed
former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley for letting the protest get out of
hand. The colonel compared the now-retired Milley to the murderous Don Emilio Barzini, who
served as Don Vito Corleone's arch-nemesis in The Godfather. "Milley controlled the
Army," Matthews told reporter Neil McCabe, arguing that while the Joint Chiefs boss lacked legal
authority within the chain of command, he instead leveraged his profound influence and contacts in
the Pentagon to delay the Guard's response. "The problem was not with Donald Trump; it's Mark
Milley and the Army leadership in control. They stopped the Guard from coming then lied about
it and said the Guard acted at sprint speed," Matthews explained.
Army
Colonel J6 Witness: 'Milley Is the Don Barzini of the Deep State'. The colonel and
Army lawyer challenging the Army's official narrative of the events and leadership decisions during
the Capitol Hill protests on Jan. 6, 2021 — a narrative relied upon by the Colorado
Supreme Court when it struck President Donald J. Trump from the ballot — told
RedState then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley was the black
hand operating outside his legal authority to delay the District of Columbia National Guard from
responding the protests that day. "Milley is the Don Barzini of the Deep State," said
Col. Earl G. Matthews, the Harvard Law School graduate, who was the senior legal advisor to
Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the D.C. National Guard's commanding general from
March 2018 through April 2021. "He's the most powerful chairman of the joint chiefs
in history," Matthews said. "It was Milley all along, and I didn't realize it. Milley was
manipulating this entire stuff from point start."
General Coup.
To read the voluminous coverage of General Mark Milley's retirement as chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, one might mistakenly surmise that he is the greatest military patriot since George
Washington. But the opposite is far closer to the truth. Promoted as the supposed
savior of the republic by a well-orchestrated public relations campaign and a fawning press, Milley
exhibited ambitions more akin to those of a partisan military commissar than the nation's senior
military adviser under the authority of the president. His tenure proved destructive to
post-WWII civil-military norms, the integrity of the military chain of command, and the image of
the U.S. military as being worthy of public trust. Milley supervised a subversive revolution
in military culture. Under his watch, the various branches of the armed forces began allowing
drag shows on installations and stocked base libraries with pornography. Puppy-masked
military officers performed sexual acts on each other — and later boasted about it
online. On the battlefield, Milley was no better. He oversaw the greatest recruiting
crisis in history, the failed evacuation of Afghanistan, and the forced removal of thousands of
patriots who stood up to an illegal shot mandate.
General
Mark Milley to Step Down as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman. General Mark Milley, the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is departing from the highest-ranking military position in
the country at midnight on Sept. 30 and will be replaced by Biden-appointed nominee
Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. Milley received a clapout as he left the Pentagon on
Thursday for the last time. [Tweet with video clip] Milley's career, which began
in 2019 under the administration of former President Donald Trump, was marred by a series of
chaotic events, military disasters, and massive corruption. During his time in office,
General Milley faced unprecedented challenges, including the Capitol riots, the COVID-19 pandemic,
the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Ukraine war, Chinese spy balloons, and the June 2020
"Summer of Love" riots in Washington.
Outgoing
Joint Chiefs Chairman tears into the ex-president who said he should be executed.
Army Gen. Mark Milley delivered a full-throated defense of democracy and not-so-subtle swipes
at former President Donald Trump during a packed ceremony on Friday as he closed out his four,
often tumultuous years as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Under cloudy skies at Joint
Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Milley never mentioned the former president by name. But he
practically shouted on two different occasions that the U.S. military swears to protect the
Constitution 'against ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic.' 'We don't take an oath to a king
or a queen or to a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator,' he
said. 'We don't take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution, and we
take an oath to the idea that is America, and we're willing to die to protect it.'
Mark
Milley uses retirement ceremony to call Trump a 'wannabe dictator'. Army
Gen. Mark Milley delivered a full-throated defense of democracy and not-so-subtle swipes at
former President Donald Trump during a packed ceremony on Friday [9/29/2023] as he closed out his
four, often tumultuous years as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Under cloudy skies at
Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Milley never mentioned the former president by name. But he
practically shouted on two different occasions that the U.S. military swears to protect the
Constitution 'against ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic.' 'We don't take an oath to a king
or a queen or to a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator,' he said.
Will
General Mark Milley Ever Be Court-Martialed? Chris Farrell is the Director of
Investigations and research for Judicial Watch and a former U.S. Army Counterintelligence
Officer. Late last month, he wrote an opinion editorial for The Washington Times in an
article titled, "Why Gen. Mark Milley should be court-martialed: The most egregious
examples of treasonous subversion by a commissioned officer since Benedict Arnold." Since he
exposed himself and his deeds relative to the 2020 election, several people with backgrounds in the
military and military families have been asking, "Will General Mark Milley Ever Be
Court-Martialed?" Once again, this question is not related to politics but the simple rules of
law. Both before (October 2020) and after (January 2021) election, Milley bragged about
calling his counterpart in China to allegedly calm their fears relative to any instability in
America and assure them we would not be going to war with them without giving them a heads up first.
The
Deadly Untrustworthiness of General Mark Milley. General Mark Milley, who is Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has forgotten that he was a soldier. Now, he's only a leftist
bureaucrat in uniform. Milley's basic mode of operation is ingratiating himself to a
political class that values the servile. What makes Milley dangerous is his willingness to
lie unhesitatingly, particularly in public. He is the highest-ranking military officer in the
nation, and this matters. Technically the Secretary of Defense is a civilian post even though
the Secretary may have a military background. The President and Congress provide civilian
oversight but can only do so when presented with truthful, accurate information. In June
2021, Tucker Carlson made some very strong remarks about Milley's attempts to make teaching
Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the military seem benign. Nothing could be further from the
truth. Milley compared CRT to reading Marx and Mao, as if it's just part of educating the
troops about different ideologies. However, our military is not urging the adoption of
Marxism. (At least not yet!) What Milley is doing is cooperating with the
Democrat left to indoctrinate the troops in blatant racism.
Why
Gen. Mark Milley should be court-martialed. Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be subject to an Article 32 Hearing under the provisions of
the Uniform Code of Military Justice for his conduct and statements as memorialized in the Bob
Woodward book "Peril," and the Aug. 8, 2022, New Yorker magazine excerpt of a forthcoming book by
Susan B. Glasser and Peter Baker. An Article 32 Hearing is the military equivalent of a
civilian grand jury, and should probable cause of the commission of a crime be established, it
would lead to Gen. Milley's court-martial. The Army has an affirmative duty to maintain
good order and discipline, especially with regard to senior leader misconduct. History
provides an example of a senior officer engaged in misconduct. Assistant Chief of the Army
Air Service Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell was court-martialed in 1925 for remarks to the
press concerning two deadly military aviation accidents. [...] Gen. Milley called his
communist Chinese military counterpart in October 2020 and January 2021 with unauthorized promises
and assurances of advanced warnings of U.S. military intentions and actions. America learned
of these contacts through the book "Peril," authored by Mr. Woodward and Robert Costa.
Anti-constitutional
military leadership is becoming more brazen. One of the core values that has kept us
a republic (if we can keep it) is that of civilian control of the military armed forces.
Generals and admirals take orders from the commander-in-chief, who is the president of the United
States, just as surely as "buck privates" obey orders from the general. It is shocking to
witness the decline of that principle in practice. When General Milley assured our potential
wartime enemy, China, that he would give them advance warning if President Trump gave any orders
concerning China, orders of which Milley might personally disapprove — when he did that,
he was not charged with any of the numerous crimes, from insubordination upward, that he should
have. Because of that, other high-ranking officers have been emboldened, not only to follow
in Milley's steps, but to incrementally increase their open hostility — hostility not
against their woke president, but against the Constitution and the American voter.
The Insurrection of
General Milley. "The riots over the summer, you know, I could make a case that those riots were riots
organic to an aggrieved community that perceived that they had various injustices throughout their life," General Mark A
Milley told the J6 Committee. "It was sheer, unmitigated anger that expressed itself in the form of mass violence and
rioting. And, okay, I get it, it's illegal, it's wrong." The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had
previously justified the study of "white rage", went on to defend the riots and the double standard at the heart of the
J6 Committee. "I don't think the intent of those riots was to overturn the United States Government and to destroy
the Constitution of the United States of America," he argued. The mobs assaulting police officers, burning flags,
attacking federal buildings in sieges, like the one in Portland, reminiscent of Fort Sumter, and calling for the
destruction of America under the guidance of an organization of "trained Marxists" demonstrated that it was an
insurrection. And Gen. Milley's testimony showed that he sympathized with the insurrectionists.
Treason:
Gen. Mark Milley Hid Nuke Codes from Trump — Held Secret Calls with Chinese Defense Officials — Then
Surrendered to Taliban. According to the book "Peril" written by Bob Woodward, General Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs
chairman, told China in a secret phone call that he would give advance warning if the US was ever going to attack. "In a
pair of secret phone calls (Oct. 20 and Jan. 8), Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the PLA, that the U.S. would not strike, according to the new
book written by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political editor Robert Costa. On January 8,
2021, the same day Milley reportedly spoke to China in a secret phone call, CNN ran a story claiming Pelosi had gotten assurances
from Milley there are safeguards in place in the event President Trump wants to launch a nuclear weapon. According to Fox
News, 15 people were present when Milley called China on teleconference in October 2020, which was coordinated with then-Defense
Secretary Mark Esper's office (Trump eventually fired Esper).
Lawmakers
call on Gen. Milley to answer report he broke Trump's military chain of command. Congressional lawmakers
have called on Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley to respond to reports that he cut off the statutory
chain of command at the end of President Trump's term, undermining civilian control of the military. Gen. Milley
told lawmakers last year at a congressional hearing that he contacted his Chinese counterpart two times to tell him that the
U.S. had no plans to attack China. Rep. Jim Banks, Indiana Republican, said in a speech that Gen. Milley must
"set the record straight."
General
Mark Milley Admits Trump Was Being Managed By Administrative State Group Who Run Government, Mike Pompeo and Mark Meadows
Assisted. Years of agonizing and frustrating reviews and analysis of the Trump administration activity in
real-time are reconciling today. During Senate testimony today before the Armed Services Committee, Joint Chiefs of
Staff Chairman, General Mark Milley, clarified some very painful issues to accept. President Trump was being heavily
managed by operatives of the Senior Executive Service (SES), and his inner circle was willfully participating. What
follows is in no way a defense of Milley, quite the contrary, Milley is a brutally political, manipulative, entitled and
arrogant member of the United States armed forces. His delusions of grandiosity represent the worst of our nation and
can only be topped by one other, Anthony Fauci.
What
Does Gen. Milley's Conduct Say about Our System? Bob Woodward's new book, Peril, reportedly makes
allegations about the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Milley, which if true, make Milley a traitor to our
country. [...] First, the United States has a civilian military command. That is why the president, an elected official
is the commander in chief. He can be voted in or voted out. The role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
is to advise the secretary of defense. It is not to make military decisions on his own. The Joint Chiefs of Staff
is not in the line of command; therefore, its chairman has no authority to issue orders or to command anyone in the military
based on his own opinion. Going outside the chain of command is a violation of both federal law delineating the
chairman's scope of authority, as well as the limits on that authority (see U.S. Code Section 163). It is also a
violation of the Constitution itself. Such conduct is, in effect, giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Trippin'
With General Milley. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Gen. Mark Milley proves that
a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing when accompanied by a fevered imagination and barely a glimmer of analytical
ability and common sense. James Hohmann of the Washington Post gushes that Milley "owns thousands of books in his
personal library" and "attended Princeton before starting his climb up the officer's ladder." The general is also an
"amateur historian." [...] Of course, Trump wasn't interested in starting a war. If Milley had any sense to go with his
book learning, he would have understood this. No American president in many decades has been more averse to war than
Trump. The notion that Trump would start a war with China, of all adversaries, due to his anger over the 2020 election
is laughable.
New
Timeline of Mark Milley 'Treason' Invalidates His Defense. With all the news surrounding the border crisis,
Biden's crashing approval, and Hunter Biden's corruption, another story flew under the radar over the last couple of days
involving Gen. Mark Milley. You'll recall that Milley called the Chinese up to promise to commit treason (as
defined by the statute) in order to undermine then President Donald Trump. It was an astonishing revelation that showed
just how far our military leadership has fallen. Milley was, of course, at the head of pushing critical race theory to
servicemembers and the disastrous evacuation from Afghanistan that left 13 Americans dead. Now, the details of the
phone call to a PLA general are emerging, and the timeline is invalidating the excuses lodged by those who ran to defend Milley.
Lt
Gen Thomas McInerney: Fauci's Quack "Vaccines" Have Killed 15,000 Americans. Ivermectin? None.
[Scroll down] Next, General McInerney unloaded on General Milley for his contacts with a senior Chinese general, his failure
to advise still-President Trump of the talks, and his promise to the Commie that he would warn him if the U.S. was preparing to attack
China. For these offenses, Milley should immediately resign and face a court martial, General McInerney argued, although even
that will not remove the deep stain his actions have left on the U.S. military and its leaders.
Mark
Milley: Deep State Poster Boy. [Scroll down] Now all I have to say is "General Mark Milley."
Suddenly, they mentally step back and have to consider the obvious truth before them. After all, can there be any
reasonable explanation for the fact that General Milley called a Chinese general — Gen. Li
Zuocheng — to inform him, in October 2020, that if an attack was coming from the United States, General Milley
would call the Chinese military first to warn them? Clearly, this is a Deep State actor moving behind the scenes to get
his way — even if his way means committing treason down the line. General Milley has thus become the
personification of what conservatives mean when they say "Deep State": an arrogant, self-righteous, unelected, elitist
official who thinks he can circumvent the American people's will via our elected representatives. And so General Milley
has given us the pivotal moment in American politics that should have come when it came out that former FBI director James
Comey was leaking to the media. As a result, the Deep State now has a face and an arrogance that are palpable.
General Milley is so much a part of the Deep State that he doesn't even think he did anything wrong.
Mark Milley: Traitor?
Everyone knows by now that a forthcoming Bob Woodward book alleges that General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff (CJCS), may have committed sedition during the Trump years. According to Woodward, Milley contacted the top
Chinese general and assured him that everything was under control in spite of the eccentric Trump, that he (Milley) wouldn't
let Trump get us into war with China, and that he'd call them (the Chinese) if Trump were planning on that so there wouldn't
"be any surprises." If true, this is the biggest politico-military bombshell in American history. MacArthur was
insubordinate with Truman, but not since Benedict Arnold has a commissioned American officer in high office colluded with the
enemy. The problem isn't that the CJCS called up his counterpart to keep communications open between the two; he would
actually be derelict in his duties if he did not do that every few months. But Milley is alleged to have gone far
beyond that approach in expressing willingness to aid and abet a major potential enemy in the event of hostilities.
Trump:
'Only reason' Gen. Milley still has a job is because he knows Biden's secret. Former President Donald
Trump theorized this week that alleged traitor Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is being
protected by the Biden administration because he knows too much about last month's disaster in Afghanistan. Milley
allegedly twice called a high-ranking Chinese military official during Trump's final months in office to warn him about
Trump's alleged mental state. That's a claim being published in a new book called "Peril" from Washington Post
reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. Trump shredded Milley in a statement released earlier this week over the
claim. On Wednesday, he floated the possibility that Milley only has a job at this point because he knows too much
about President Joe Biden's chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Milley's
actions were [an] attempted military coup against Trump. In the continuing war for the truth, the good guys
went to battle with a lone pea shooter against miscreants that have a military. To be precise, it is the military of
the United States of America. Its leader is the latest to have been exposed trying to delegitimize Donald Trump's
presidency. First, it was the FBI, the CIA, the media, academia and others who crossed the line into political
activism, and now we have clear evidence that the top man in the Pentagon also succumbed to the siren song of power. It
turns out that the nation's most admired public institution is led by some people with very dirty hands. The reprehensible
actions of Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, take the cake for audacity and arrogance.
Is
treason no longer punishable? [Scroll down] President Donald Trump's secretary of defense Christopher
Miller said that he did not sign off on a call from Milley to his Chinese counterpart. Miller added that Milley's
action "represents a disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination by the nation's top military officer." We go
back to the basics. The main function of all personnel of the armed forces is not devising military strategies or
fighting wars, it is to defend and maintain democracy within the country. Since 300 million-plus people cannot
all run the country, they lend power to an individual through their votes. A duly elected president is hence authorized
to conceive, plan and implement the policies that he has the mandate for. The armed forces must always function as a
watchdog who is on the alert for even the slightest attempts to subvert democracy[.] A military officer must
always be loyal to the president and assiduously follow orders.
Gen.
Mark Milley defends calls made to his Chinese counterpart as 'routine'. General Mark Milley pledged to give a
full account of his controversial phone calls with his Chinese counterpart during the final months of Donald Trump's
presidency when he testifies under oath before Congress at the end of the month. On Friday [9/17/2021], Milley made his
first public comments on revelations he called Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People's Liberation Army to reassure him the U.S.
was not going to suddenly attack China. Milley defended his calls to his Chinese counterpart as 'perfectly within the
duties and responsibilities' of his job as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Treason's Greetings.
For anyone who doesn't know, in the waning days of President Trump's term of office, General Milley made an urgent,
foam-flecked emergency phone call to China to tell them that Trump was thinking of launching a preemptive nuclear strike on
them...but not to worry, because if Trump actually did it, General Milley would call the Chinese first. Presumably so
they could duck and cover, or quickly release the lethal contents of everything still mutating in the Wuhan Apocalypse Lab &
Grill. For this act, the media and even president Biden are praising Milley. "Wow!" they say, "Milley averted a
nuclear war that Trump [...] probably would have started for no reason!" Except Trump had no intention of starting a
war or igniting a worldwide nuclear holocaust. But ask yourself this: did Milley's traitorous phone call
really make nuclear annihilation less likely, or did it take us dangerously close to the brink of disaster?
No one elected
Mark Milley. A coup by any other name and maybe even a little light treason. Those are the accusations
flying over revelations in a new Bob Woodward book about what Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley did after the
January 6 Capitol riots. Milley reportedly held several phone calls shortly after January 6, with both Speaker
Nancy Pelosi and with his counterpart in China. According to Woodward, the general gave assurances to Gen. Li Zuocheng
that he would alert the Chinese to any possible coming attack, nuclear or otherwise. There is no evidence President
Trump was planning any kind of strike against China, or Iran, or Florida. No battle plans were being drawn.
Miller supposedly took these actions after Trump signed an executive order removing US forces from Afghanistan.
Woodward and Robert Costa write that Milley was concerned that Trump would 'go rogue' post election loss.
There's no candy coating on this headline:. Mark
Milley Is A Traitor. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, actively subverted the Constitution and
explicitly violated his oath and attempted to subvert the chain of command in the United States while pledging to our enemy
that he would give them a "heads up" if it necessary. People have been executed for less, and justifiably so.
General Milley called Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People's Liberation Army to reassure him that the U.S. would not make any
moves against China, pretty much no matter what. This is bad enough, treasonous behavior in and of itself. But
Milley went further, assuring the communist leader, "General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If
we're going to attack, I'm going to call you ahead of time. It's not going to be a surprise." There is, in plain
English, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military advisor to the President of the United States of
America, swearing to an enemy of the country, of freedom, that he will tip him off if the United States, for whatever reason,
were going to attack China. Milley is offering to put U.S. troops in jeopardy, to get them killed, on behalf of the
Chinese communists. That's treason.
They wanted
a coup all along. I am not surprised by the news that the head of the Pentagon, Generalissimo "White Rage"
Milley conspired with Red China and fellow officers to block President Donald John Trump. Appalled, yes.
Disgusted, yes. Hoping for a sentence of 20 years of hard labor, yes. But surprised? Nope because this is
what Washington wanted all along. The American press called for a military coup months before President Trump was
elected! During the Republican National Convention, the Los Angeles Times reported, "Americans viewing the recent
failed coup attempt in Turkey as some exotic foreign news story — the latest, violent yet hardly unusual political
development to occur in a region constantly beset by turmoil — should pause to consider that the prospect of
similar instability would not be unfathomable in this country if Donald Trump were to win the presidency.
Biden
says he has 'great confidence' in Joint Chiefs chairman Milley despite him admitting he DID call China and lectured staff on
nukes protocol. President Joe Biden said he has 'great confidence' in Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General
Mark Milley after the embattled military man admitted on Wednesday he spoke to his Chinese counterpart in coordination with
defense officials — but the acting Pentagon chief at the time said he 'did not' authorize the calls. Milley was
responding to a bombshell report that claims he phoned his counterpart there behind Trump's back over concerns the
ex-president would take rogue action to stay in office. 'I have great confidence in General Milley,' Biden said to
reporters on Wednesday afternoon.
CNN
and WaPo Write Devastating Articles Outlining General Mark Milley as Leader of Military Coup Against President
Trump. The headline stories today are large, and so is the background as these issues surface. Context
becomes increasingly important as each aspect is reviewed. [...] You think CNN and the Washington Post only recently came to
the understanding that General Mark Milley was a corrupt, politically motivated actor, working on behalf of the interests of
the Deep State [4th Branch]? Of course not. They are using the opportunity of this book by Woodward and Costa to hit
Milley, place the blame for Afghanistan in his lap, and make him the scapegoat so that Joe Biden and the other participants
can avoid further scrutiny. Their play is transparent.
Trump
Defense Sec. Miller denies giving Milley OK to China call. Then-President Donald Trump's last secretary
of defense said Wednesday that he did not sign off on a call from Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, to his Chinese counterpart days after the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol. Christopher Miller, who led the
Pentagon on an acting basis between the 2020 presidential election and the inauguration of Joe Biden, told Fox News that
Milley's action "represents a disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination by the Nation's top military officer".
The Jan. 8 phone conversation between Milley and People's Liberation Army Gen. Li Zuocheng is detailed in the
forthcoming book "Peril," written by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and reporter Robert Costa. The
authors report that Milley told Li that the US government was "100 percent steady. Everything's fine. But
democracy can be sloppy sometimes."
Milley
Confirms Reporting on How He Undermined Trump, Committed Treason. On Wednesday [9/15/2021], General Mark
Milley confirmed reporting of his two conversations with the Chinese military where he committed treason by promising to
notify them if then-President Donald Trump were ever to launch a military strike. Milley broke the chain of command in
these calls as he took matters into his own hands, breaking the law and committing treason. In a shocking statement on
Wednesday, Milley confirmed the reports of his conversations but claimed everything he did was legal and "within his
authority in the lawful tradition of civilian control of the military and his oath to the Constitution."
WH
defends Milley given 'context,' Joint Chiefs affirm calls to China. President Biden is standing by
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, despite accusations he committed treason during the final
weeks of the previous administration by reassuring his Chinese counterpart that then-President Donald Trump would not attack
Beijing. "I have great confidence in General Milley," Biden responded to reporters Wednesday, moments after press
secretary Jen Psaki appeared to excuse Milley's alleged conduct as acceptable in the "context of this period and time in
history" given that he did so while Trump was in his final days as commander-in-chief and amid the backdrop of the Jan. 6
attack on the Capitol. "What I can assure you all is that [President Biden] knows General Milley, he has been chairman
of the Joint Chiefs for almost eight months of his presidency, they've worked side by side through a range of international
events, and the president has complete confidence in his leadership, his patriotism and his fidelity to our Constitution,"
Psaki said when asked about the allegations against Milley in the forthcoming book "Peril" by Washington Post journalists Bob
Woodward and Robert Costa.
Milley's
Alleged Secret Calls To China Are Just Another Reason Americans Believe The System Is Rigged. The Washington
Post published extremely serious allegations against Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley yesterday,
although of course the paper tried to make the centerpiece of the story former President Donald Trump's erratic behavior.
[...] The story here, however, is not Trump, no matter how much the corrupt corporate media would have it be so. The
story is that a military leader defied civilian control over the direction of America's foreign policy, and did so through
secret talks with our chief adversary on the global stage. Under every president, we hear about "[name] derangement
syndrome"; there was Bush Derangement Syndrome, and Obama Derangement Syndrome. But only Trump Derangement Syndrome
seems to have led the ostensible upholders of "norms" and "democracy" to treat as no big deal actual violations of
democracy's most sacred norms in the service of thwarting Donald Trump. Civilian control over the military is not
something to be jettisoned when you disagree with the people's choice.
The
Manchurian Twins, Mark Milley and Tony Fauci. When Mark Milley wasn't diving deep into "White Rage" and
threatening Trump's Chief of Staff, he was (apparently) aiding and abetting China. Milley promised to tip-off China if
military action was coming. The fact the Trump is the only president since I was a teenager to not start a war is the
richest of ironies. If Milley dereliction of duty is true, or even close to accurate (based on what we previously
learned about Milley's hatred of Trump and his active measures to circumvent the chain of civilian command) it seems likely
that Milley actively stepped on the constitution and was willing to kneecap civilian command. Why did he do it?
Apparently, because he didn't like the president. It's an awful and scary precedent. If true, it's an
indefensible and a fireable offense. If true — it's a crime that should land him in prison.
Gen.
Milley admits he DID have calls with China but says they were held in coordination with the DoD. President Joe
Biden said he has 'great confidence' in Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley after the embattled military man
admitted on Wednesday he spoke to his Chinese counterpart in coordination with defense officials — but the acting
Pentagon chief at the time said he 'did not' authorize the calls. Milley was responding to a bombshell report that
claims he phoned his counterpart there behind Trump's back over concerns the ex-president would take rogue action to stay in
office. 'I have great confidence in General Milley,' Biden said to reporters on Wednesday afternoon [9/15/2021].
Rand
Paul: Gen. Milley should be removed, court-martialed if secret calls to China are confirmed.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Wednesday that General Mark Milley needs to be interviewed and face consequences if it is
confirmed that he spoke with Chinese officials out of concern then-President Donald Trump would cause conflict with the
communist nation. ["]It should be investigated immediately, today, he should be questioned under oath, if not
with a polygraph test, on whether it happened. If it happened, he should be immediately relieved of his duties and
court-martialed. You have to find out if it's true. This is innuendo and rumor and propaganda perhaps. But,
if it is true he absolutely immediately needs to be removed.["] [Video clip]
New
Twist to the Milley Story Raises Even More Questions. There's a new twist to the reporting about the actions of
Gen. Mark Milley and his alleged contacts with the Chinese that have raised so much concern. As we previously
reported, it's completely improper for Milley to have had any contact with them without it being at the behest of the
president and the reporting said it clearly wasn't. Now Axios and Josh Rogin, who is one of the few good reporters at
The Washington Post, are reporting some interesting information. [Tweet] Axios is saying that there were two calls
from Milley — one on October 30 and one on Jan. 8. But there was also a communication to the Chinese
initiated by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, that went from lower levels to the Chinese because of Pentagon concerns in October
that the Chinese were getting bad intelligence about our intentions. Esper directed his policy office to issue a backchannel
message to the Chinese to reassure them the U.S. had no intention of seeking a military confrontation. That the Milley call
later in October was a follow-up to those backchannel messages. The report says it is not clear that Trump was ever told or
knew about these actions.
CNN
and WaPo Write Devastating Articles Outlining General Mark Milley as Leader of Military Coup Against President
Trump. The headline stories today are large, and so is the background as these issues surface. Context
becomes increasingly important as each aspect is reviewed. [...] Yes, General Mark Milley is a power-hungry political
manipulator and collaborator with the Deep State, in the effort to undermine President Donald J Trump. We already
knew this. So, why is The WaPo and CNN hitting him now? The answer is in the problematic sunlight facing the
Fourth Branch of Government in the aftermath of the Afghanistan mess. CTH has been writing about this, because we knew
a time would come when the coordinating participants were going to fracture in order to protect themselves.
General
Mark Milley Seems to Have Been the Source for Bob Woodward's Story About Mark Milley Undermining the
Constitution. Yesterday [9/14/2021], most of us were stunned to find that in the aftermath of the January 6
disturbance on Capitol Hill, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark "White Rage" Milley had contacted his Chinese
counterpart to promise that he'd give him advance notice of any attack on China carried out by an unstable President
Trump. This is from the Washington Post's promotion of the book "Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. [...] There
is so much here to unpack that one doesn't really know where to start. If the word "coup" is to have any meaning, then
what Milley instigated here is certainly was one. [...] The underlying question here is how did this story come to be. [...]
From the tone and detail of the account, the most obvious source for the story is none other than Mark Milley. [Tweet]
Who is the hero of the story? Milley. Who is the villain? Trump. Quite honestly, there is no reason
for anyone other than Milley to have told this story.
Coup:
General Milley Secretly Pledged to Warn Chinese Communist Party if Trump Planned a Strike. Through secret
backchannels unbeknownst to then-President Donald Trump, General Mark Milley informed leaders from the Chinese Communist
Party and Democratic Party that he would not carry out "any kind" of military action ordered by Trump. The revelations
represent a stunning admission of an effective coup d'etat at the top of the U.S. government, with U.S. officials colluding
with the Chinese Communist Party in order to limit Donald Trump's powers. General Milley — who
controversially defended teaching Marxist "critical race theory" in the military — telephoned his Chinese
Communist Party counterpart, General Li Zuocheng, twice in the final months of the Trump administration. Milley's
calls — according to Bob Woodward's and Robert Costa's new book entited Peril — were aimed at
restricting the President of the United States' abilities to wage kinetic war against China. Stunningly, Milley even
secretly pledged to inform Beijing ahead of any potential U.S. military action.
Sen.
Rubio demands President Biden fire Gen. Milley immediately. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is urging
President Biden to fire Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley immediately. In a letter to the president, Rubio,
vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, writes with "grave concern" regarding recent reporting that Milley allegedly
"worked to actively undermine the sitting Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces and contemplated a treasonous
leak of classified information to the Chinese Communist Party in advance of a potential armed conflict." "Even more
egregiously, reports indicate that General Milley interfered with the procedures by which the civilian commander-in-chief can
order a nuclear strike," writes Rubio. "A senior military officer interfering with that civilian-controlled process is
simply unacceptable at best, and at worst, would cause ambiguity which could lead to war," he went on to say. The
actions are reportedly described in a forthcoming book, "Peril," by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
Alexander
Vindman Says Gen. Milley 'Must Resign' If Report of His Calls to China Is True. An upcoming book by Bob
Woodward and Robert Costa says the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff took some pretty drastic measures over his concerns
about how erratic and unhinged then-President Donald Trump acted after the 2020 election. Milley allegedly took steps
to prevent Trump from using nuclear weapons, and apparently he was so worried about Trump starting a war with China that he
called his counterpart in China.
Gen
Milley Planned Coup Against Trump, Called China To Warn Them Of Possible Attack. During the final months of
former President Donald Trump's term, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley made two phone calls to
Chinese officials in fear that Trump would create conflict with the communist nation, a new book has claimed. In the
book, authored by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political reporter Robert Costa, it is alleged
that Milley made two secret phone calls, both to his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People's Liberation
Army. The book alleges that the phone calls took place prior to the 2020 presidential election on Oct. 30, 2020,
and two days after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, on Jan. 8, 2021. [Video clip]
The
Gaslighting Begins After Mark Milley's Treasonous Actions Are Revealed. Earlier today, one of the most
consequential stories in a long time broke with the revelation that Gen. Mark Milley, now the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had
colluded with the Chinese to possibly commit treason. The discussion that led to the quote in question happened via
secret, unsanctioned calls between Milley and a top Chinese general. At one point, Milley is reported to have pledged
to the Chinese that he would tip them off about any possible attack coming from the United States.
Treason?
Resignation Calls Follow Report of General Milley's Secret Calls to China. After the Afghanistan withdrawal
fiasco, some said General Mark Milley should no longer be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, so Tuesday's Washington
Post blockbuster, excerpted from Robert Costa and Bob Woodward's new book Peril, only adds fuel to that fire.
[Tweet] Costa and Woodward report, "Twice in the final months of the Trump administration, the country's top military
officer was so fearful that the president's actions might spark a war with China that he moved urgently to avert armed
conflict." In two secret phone calls, they report, Milley assured Gen. Li Zuocheng of the Chinese People's
Liberation Army that the United States would not attack Beijing. One call allegedly took place four days before the
2020 presidential election; the second was two days after the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.
Talk
About a Coup: It Was Pelosi Who Pushed Milley to Act Against Trump. There's an incredible report that
broke today about improper actions by Gen. Mark Milley after the Capitol riot. According to the report, Milley
tried to interfere with Trump's ability to solely control a nuclear decision. [...] This, of course, is a brazenly improper
action as only the president can dictate the nuclear use and Milley was trying to do an end-run around him with this.
On top of that, as we reported earlier, Milley allegedly contacted his Chinese counterpart and told him he would warn him if
we were going to attack — another astonishingly improper action which was reportedly done without the knowledge of
President Donald Trump.
Woodward/Costa
book: Worried Trump could 'go rogue,' Milley took secret action to protect nuclear weapons. Two days
after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, President Donald Trump's top military adviser, Joint Chiefs Chairman
Gen. Mark Milley, single-handedly took secret action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military
strike or launching nuclear weapons, according to "Peril," a new book by legendary journalist Bob Woodward and veteran
Washington Post reporter Robert Costa. Woodward and Costa write that Milley, deeply shaken by the assault, 'was certain
that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with Trump now all but manic, screaming
at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies.' Milley worried that Trump
could 'go rogue,' the authors write. "You never know what a president's trigger point is," Milley told his senior
staff, according to the book.
New
Reporting Shows General Milley Committed Treason. New reporting from The Washington Post, detailing the
contents of a new book, shows General Mark Milley reassured China's People's Liberal Army General Li Zuocheng that he would
give the communist country a heads up if President Donald Trump launched an attack in the final months of his
presidency. He did so in a series of reported phone calls and reassured Li he would stand between Trump and an attack
on Chinese assets. [...] In other words, Milley instructed senior officers to obey his orders and to ignore those given by
the President Trump, the duly elected commander-in-chief. The outrageous behavior has sparked additional calls for
Milley to resign and even for his arrest.
Tony
Blinken must go for Afghan disaster, trying to bury its ugly truth. Day 2 of the Antony Blinken show was worse
than Day 1: Testifying to the Senate the morning after a savage House grilling, he still had no clear answers to basic
questions about the Afghan-pullout fiasco — only gray evasion. Even many Democrats hit hard. "The
execution of the US withdrawal was clearly and fatally flawed," said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ). "This committee expects
to receive a full explanation of this administration's decisions on Afghanistan since coming into office last January.
There has to be accountability." But Blinken, a yes-man at Biden's side for two decades of disastrous foreign policy,
took no responsibility, again fingering Team Trump for the whole debacle and sidestepping questions that would expose his own
culpability.
Gen.
Mark Milley Held Secret Pentagon Meeting, Told Staff Not To Take Orders From President Donald Trump Regarding Nuclear
Weapons. Two days after the January 6th riot at the United States Capitol, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark
Milley secretly took action to keep President Donald Trump from ordering the use of nuclear weapons. The revelations
come to light in Bob Woodward's new book "Peril." "You never know what a president's trigger point is," Milley
reportedly told his staff. According to CNN, who reviewed the book, Milley 'called a secret meeting in his Pentagon
office on January 8 to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons. [...] Milley
instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved.'
Can
we believe Bob Woodward's story about General Milley? Can we believe the shocking allegations of misconduct on
the part of General Mark Milley in a new book to come from Bob Woodward? His paper, the Washington Post has published
excerpts. [...] I already despise Milley for his focus on "white rage" and for his conduct of what became an abject surrender
to the Taliban. But I have express some caution about believing Woodward, who does not name his sources. [...] Mark
Levin pointed out on his syndicated radio show today that Woodward and the WaPo should not have sat on this story, if it is
true, until Woodward had a book to hype. Milley allegedly was, after all, discussing a wartime situation in which the
US was going to strike China, which would make his giving aid and comfort to the enemy treason, a capital offense.
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