[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Jared Kushner is at the center of a highly classified whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard, an explosive new report has revealed.
Donald Trump's son-in-law featured in a conversation about Iran between two foreign nationals, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
So he did nothing wrong, but people were talking about him? Ooookaaaay…
The phone call between the pair was intercepted by a foreign intelligence agency and handed to the US last May.
The exact contents of the call remain unclear but include allegations about Kushner that would be 'significant if verified,' sources said.
A senior US official told the Daily Mail that the claims 'were nothing more than salacious gossip.'
A whistleblower accused Director of National Intelligence Gabbard of restricting access to the intercepted phone call for political reasons, according to the complaint filed last May.
Kushner's previously unreported involvement deepens the mystery surrounding the complaint which was deemed so sensitive that it was kept in a locked safe for eight months.
The timing could not be more fraught. Kushner, Trump's Middle East envoy, is currently leading high-stakes negotiations with Iran to end its nuclear enrichment program. The 45-year-old real-estate investor also maintains business interests in the region.
Members of Congress were finally briefed last week about the complaint which was made as Trump planned Operation Midnight Hammer, the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities at the end of June.
Kushner's name was redacted in the original report made by the National Security Agency (NSA), but those reading it - including the whistleblower - were able to understand that it referred him.
Kushner was discussed as pertained to his influence within the Trump administration, those familiar with the contents of the conversation told the Times.
The intercepted phone call included allegations about Kushner that were not supported by any evidence, the intelligence sources said.
Officials refused to divulge the contents of the intercept on the grounds it would expose the top secret source of the intelligence.
Intercepts of this type are notoriously difficult for spies to interpret without more concrete information which can be provided by documents or agents on the ground.
The whistleblower believed that the information should be disseminated more broadly but Gabbard - along with the NSA's top lawyer and the intelligence community's inspector general - disagreed.
And she’s the boss. As reported here, the thing reeks of sour grapes and attempted deep state shenanigans rather than substance. And if the Mail can’t find or manufacture substance…
The complaint's existence was first revealed last week, with the Wall Street Journal likening it to 'a cloak-and-dagger mystery reminiscent of a John le Carré novel.'
A heavily-redacted version of the complaint was reviewed on a 'read-and-return' basis by the Gang of Eight last Tuesday - a select bipartisan group of lawmakers who are briefed on classified intelligence matters by the executive branch.
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Is this whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard the same one that debunked a few days ago?
That was my question. The story appears to be 'evolving'. Eventually, perhaps maybe they can find some 'facts' that stick.
GCHQ used to be better a planting stories. I wonder if they are suffering from DEI along with their TDS.
(there is a joke in there about DEI being tee-di-ous, but I ain't going near it!)
[IsraelTimes] South Florida court rejects British broadcaster’s request to delay proceedings in which US president is seeking up to $10 billion in damages over misleading Jan. 6 speech edit.
Judge Roy K. Altman of the federal court for the Southern District of Florida rejected an attempt by Britain’s national broadcaster to delay proceedings. Discovery starts now, and it WILL be a bitch
He set a February 2027 trial date.
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"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" (alternatively "You'll own nothing and be happy") is a phrase published by the World Economic Forum (WEF)[1] and based on a 2016 essay by the Danish politician Ida Auken about a future in which a hypothetical person relies on the sharing economy for many of their needs.[2] The phrase from the article "Welcome to 2030", and the philosophies expressed within it, have been used by critics who accuse the WEF of desiring restrictions on ownership of personal property. Wiki
Assuming it becomes law it allows for some amendments or postponing.
Unfortunately, California goes the other way and if their Nov 2026 referendum passes, it becomes retroactive to 1 Jan 2026.
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Retroactive, too? Will that survive the massive lawsuits all those very rich Progressives will file in order to keep their money, Lord Garth? What is the U.S. Supreme Court likely to think about it?
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unlike criminal law, tax law does do retroactive but almost always it is a tax cut
the people who end up paying would likely be exempt from any under withholding penalty
in any event the tax due wouldn't be until Apr 2027
given that the exodus of billionaires is on going, I'm not sure how partial residency would work for the unrealized gain tax
I would expect that every single billionaire who would stay in California is taking steps to contest whatever assessment the State makes both on the constitutionality of taxing unrealized gains and the way such is computed
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First they came for the Billionaires
and I said nothing
Then they came for the Millionaires
and I said nothing
......
We know how this goes
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Unexplored is who/how/unconstitutional are the value evaluations of unrealized gains?
If you value my artwork (*Hunter*) at $200,000 for current taxation and it's a watercolor a 4yr old could've painted finally sold for $10, is that a deduction?
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We’ll be getting boat people from Aruba. The boats will look like yachts.
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[FoxNews] Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz was slammed online by Republicans after proposing a $10 million emergency relief package for small businesses across the state impacted by the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
If the state of Minnesota wants to increase the tax burden on the both citizens and remaining illegal aliens, go for it. But don’t expect the feds to help.
Walz unveiled the proposal Thursday after border czar Tom Homan announced that Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota would be ending. The proposal calls for forgivable loans ranging from $2,500 to $25,000 to be distributed to eligible businesses that are able to demonstrate "substantial revenue loss" during "specified dates" tied to the operation.
"The campaign of retribution by the federal administration has been more than a short-term disruption; it has inflicted long-term damage on Minnesota communities," Walz said in a statement. "Recovery will not happen overnight. Families, workers, and business owners are feeling the effects, and our responsibility is clear: we will help rebuild, stabilize these businesses, protect jobs, and ensure Minnesota’s economy can recover and thrive."
[Breitbart] Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is calling for the indictment of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) over accusations that he accepted campaign contributions from Somali fraudsters for helping them evade investigation by state and federal officials.
During a Senate Homeland Security hearing on Thursday, Hawley grilled Ellison about a report from the New York Post published last year that accuses the top Minnesota official of taking campaign contributions from Somalis involved in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, where some $9 billion in taxpayer money was stolen under the guise of feeding needy children.
According to the report, Ellison accepted several $2,500 campaign donations from Somali fraudsters after they raised concerns that federal investigators were unjustly looking at their financials.
“You are familiar with the $9 billion in historic fraud out of your state, including the $250 million in the Feeding Our Future program alone?” Hawley asked Ellison, to which he responded, “I am familiar with it.”
“Because the people who ran the Feeding Our Future program came to you in your official office in the state capitol, December 11, 2021, and asked for your help in getting investigators off their backs,” Hawley said.
He continued:
They complained to you for upwards of an hour about state investigators going after them, and they begged you to help them, and you agreed to it amazingly, and we know you did. That’s because it’s all caught on tape …why’d you help them? [Emphasis added]
Ellison denied helping the fraudsters, to which Hawley said Ellison had accepted “$10,000 from them nine days after the meeting.”
“You helped fraudsters defraud your state and this government of $9 billion, and you got a fat campaign contribution out of it. You ought to be indicted,” Hawley said. Ellison responded by accusing Hawley of lying.
“No, this is all on the record, sir. Did you bother to investigate where the money that you facilitated their fraud for, where it went? Do you know where it went, what it was used for, the fraudulent money?” Hawley continued. “I do because we just heard testimony about it yesterday … hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorist groups, to transnational criminal organizations, to the drug trade, to drug trafficking, to child trafficking, and you took $10,000 and helped them do it.”
Hawley also told Ellison that he should resign as Minnesota’s attorney general.
As of last December, 85 people have been charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal — nearly all of whom are of Somali descent. The investigation has led to 60 convictions thus far.
[ColoradoFreePress] Election Deniers Were Right About Everything
In January, FBI agents executed court-authorized search warrants at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center — and Tuesday the warrant for that seizure was unsealed.
I teared up a bit reading it.
It’s been quite the journey. The idea that these items — detailed below — would be useful for the purposes of investigation was, itself, a conspiracy theory like five minutes ago.
Now those records are in the custody of the DOJ. At least, most of them. Allegedly.
What records?
Missing ballot images from the original count and recount
Duplicate ballots in both the original count and recount
Inconsistent totals (different reported totals at different times)
Missing hashes (SHA files) used to verify the integrity of ballot images
Tabulator tape potential manipulation (e.g., inconsistency between machines’ reported votes and protective counter data)
Ballots with broken security seals and unexplained handling
The DOJ is clear: The records themselves may prove violations of federal election law.
I mean, yeah. That’s what we’ve been saying for literally years. It’s why the government obstruction on election records is so shocking. Apply that audit standard to any public company, and people go to prison.
The very existence of the records is in doubt and, if they no longer have what multiple courts have ordered them to retain, do you think that helps or hurts Fulton’s corruption defenses?
I think it hurts, and I think Fulton’s Fourth Amendment lawsuit is dead.
AI agrees with me.
I fed my legal model with Fulton’s complaint, Perdue’s testimony, and the unsealed DOJ warrant — just the documents, no commentary or framing — and it predicts that Fulton’s chances of winning are less than zero.
It’s not looking good for Fulton.
It is, however, looking good for the possibility of securing REAL elections. We’re closer than we’ve ever been.
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As things roll out, I expect that there will be coordination between the entities cheating in different states. I think there will also be evidence that judges participated in the conspiracy.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
