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| Declassified FBI notes expose discrepancies between Flynn interview, official FBI records | |
| 2026-09-09 | |
| [JustTheNews] New evidence reveals differences between handwritten agent notes and the official report used to charge the former national security advisor. Two FBI agents' long-secret handwritten notes of their 2017 interview with Mike Flynn have been declassified and highlight fresh discrepancies with the bureau's official documents that were used to criminally prosecute President Donald Trump's first national security advisor and pressure him to reach a plea deal nearly a decade ago. The notes from former Special Agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka were released Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force at a time when federal prosecutors are ramping up a grand jury investigation into whether the FBI's probe of Russia collusion amounted to a criminal conspiracy to falsely impugn Trump and his supporters during the 2016 election and its aftermath. The contemporaneous notes show differences between what the agents wrote down when they interviewed Flynn on Jan. 24, 2017, and what was recorded in the official typed summary of the interview, known as an FD-302, that was entered into the FBI system more than 20 days later and later used to underpin his prosecution. Flynn was charged in federal court in Washington, D.C., in November 2017 with one count of false statements to the FBI agents investigating allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election. According to prosecutors, Flynn “falsely stated and represented” to agents that he “did not ask the [Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak] to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions the United States had imposed against Russia” for alleged 2016 election interference. On December 20, 2016, the same day that Flynn had at least one call with Kislyak, the Obama administration expelled 35 Russian diplomats and authorized the government to respond to Russian cyber operations. But Pientka's handwritten notes contain a tantalizing notation apparently attributed to Flynn in the interview about his conversation with Kislyak: "Hey, don't do anything." Likewise, the FBI summary report stated that Flynn recalled making four or five calls the day he talked with the Russian diplomat from a Christmas vacation spot in the Dominican Republic. But Strzok's notes quoted Flynn as saying: "If so, don't remember. If so, busy place to make phone calls." Though Flynn initially pleaded guilty to the charges, he later filed to withdraw his plea under new representation. His new lawyer, Sidney Powell, argued that the FD-302, which formed the basis for the charges against her client, had been altered by Strzok, one of the agents who interviewed Flynn, and Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who did not attend the interview. In the pair’s text messages, which were publicly exposed in 2020, Strzok and Page discussed how Strzok had made significant edits to the FD-302. In fact, Strzok told Page he was “trying not to completely re-write” the summary because of its poor original state. Page also provided edits, the text messages show. Trump pardoned Flynn in November 2020, ending the prosecution. Flynn filed a civil suit in 2023 alleging malicious prosecution, claiming DOJ investigators, under what he called “virulently anti-Trump leadership” within the FBI, had targeted him because of his association with Trump's 2016 campaign, and that he was “falsely branded as a traitor,” lost business opportunities and incurred significant legal costs. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2024, but he filed again when Trump returned to office. In March 2025, the Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi settled the suit for approximately $1.2 million, The Associated Press reported. Strzok and Pientka’s FD-302 file records show that Flynn said that he did not remember discussing with Kislyak the expulsion of diplomats and new sanctions. According to the agents, when asked whether he asked the Russians to refrain from escalating with their own sanctions, Flynn is said to have responded, “Not really. I don’t remember. It wasn’t, ‘Don’t do anything.’” But, the wording departs from how one of the agents first memorialized Flynn’s response in the interview more than 20 days earlier. According to Pientka's handwritten memo, Flynn was asked whether he had any recollection of such a conversation with Kislyak and he replied, “Not really. I don’t remember. Hey don’t do anything.” The agent separately records that Flynn said there was no “long drawn out” discussion “about don’t do anything.” But, the notes show that Flynn did not tell agents that he never spoke with Kislyak and never asked him to refrain from escalating with further expulsions and the sanctions, which prosecutors later accused him of lying about. In another instance, the agents appeared to have altered Flynn’s response to a question about the number of calls he remembered having with the Russian ambassador and others related to the diplomatic incident. In the FD-302, the agents write that “FLYNN remembered making four to five calls that day about this issue, but that the Dominican Republic was a difficult place to make a call as he kept having connectivity issues.” However, in both memos, the agents note that Flynn did not recall making four to five calls. “I [do not] remember making 4-5 calls,” one agent wrote, using a common symbol for “do not” or “no.” “If did lousy place to call,” he added to Flynn’s response. The other agent wrote that Flynn answered “if so, don’t remember,” to a question about the number of calls. You can read both sets of handwritten interview notes and the FD-302, released by the White House Government Transparency Task Force, below:
In fact, just weeks before that interview, the FBI agents in the Washington Field Office filed a memo arguing an investigation into Flynn should be closed after investigators had found “no derogatory” information to suggest Flynn committed a crime or posed a national security threat because of his contacts with Russian government officials, Just the News previously reported. The files show the plan was to provide Flynn with a defensive briefing so he could be aware of potential pitfalls with Russians as he started in his new job in the White House. But then the lead agent in the larger Russia case, Strzok, intervened to stop the case from being closed and pivoted the discussion toward seeking an interview with Flynn, FBI text messages released in 2020 show. The messages show that shortly after Strzok’s intervention, the discussion pivoted from closing the case to seeking an interview with Flynn. However, then-Assistant Director for Counterintelligence William Priestap, one of the FBI’s top counterintelligence officials, appeared to be concerned the FBI was being unfair to Flynn. Handwritten notes that a federal court released in April 2020 show Priestap harbored concerns in early January 2017 after a meeting inside the Obama White House that the FBI was “playing games” with the Flynn investigation and may have been trying to use the interview to “get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Strzok proceeded to interview Flynn anyway. There were several other issues with the way the FBI under Director James Comey handled the case against Flynn, Just the News previously reported.
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| Ending the Generosity Grift: A Crackdown on the UN and Nonprofit Fraud | |
| 2026-09-05 | |
| [Just The News] In this episode of John Solomon Reports, we shine a light on the alarming misuse of American generosity on a global scale. Host John Solomon reveals how funds intended for humanitarian aid have been diverted by the United Nations to support terrorist activities and fraudulent nonprofits. Solomon questions the extent of this abuse and outlines potential reforms to rectify the situation. Joining the discussion is US Ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, who presents a bold reform plan for the UN, drawing parallels to President Trump's successful NATO overhaul. The conversation delves into the need for accountability and transformation within the UN, especially in light of its current leadership and the challenges it faces.
Related: Mike Waltz 08/26/2026 How VP Dick Cheney led the charge in the War on Terrorism, got Saddam hanged and ended Libya's Gaddafi. Mike Waltz 08/25/2026 Dan Bilzerian, the Jew-Hating Conspiracy Tycoon Mike Waltz 07/22/2026 Epic Fail: Mamdani Finally Makes Humiliating Admission About His Threat to Arrest Netanyahu Related: John Solomon 08/19/2026 The long road to justice for survivors of AI-enabled drone wars in Nigeria John Solomon 08/06/2026 FBI opened probe into whether Trump was Russian agent after he fired James Comey, newly revealed memos show John Solomon 07/20/2026 Congressman Keith Self on Trump's Revelations: Intelligence, China, and the Fight Against Foreign Influence | |
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| Tish James snoozes as NYC charity burns tens of millions | ||
| 2026-08-19 | ||
| [NYPost] State Attorney General Tish James should be digging into the $100 million pit of waste, lost opportunities and likely self-dealing that is the West Harlem Development Corp., but she’s too busy posing for cameras and losing lawsuits against the Trump administration. Columbia University funded the WHDC in 2009 as a payoff to local powerbrokers as it got the state to use eminent domain to help it swallow a huge chunk of the neighborhood.
Instead, the WHDC became a spout of political patronage, handing out grants to small local Harlem arts or youth organizations, paying fat salaries to politically connected insiders and — bizarrely — allegedly helping to formulate the Council on American Islamic Relations’ “strategy on responding” to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks and hostage-taking.
Tingling, a retired judge, was just named to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new Jew-free advisory panel on judicial appointments. Ramadan is the central figure in a federal lawsuit against the WHDC, brought by its terminated director of housing development, Vincent Morgan, who taped his boss Ramadan’s allegedly racist rants about Dominicans, African-Americans, Zionists and Jewish control of New York City. (Ramadan has denied any wrongdoing.) The dysfunction at the WHDC is well-known among uptown pols, who won’t go on the record about the noxious organization; Columbia has washed its hands of the whole thing after years of peeping about the waste and abuse. But where’s crusading AG James, whose duties include policing New York tax-exempt charitable organizations? She hasn’t been shy about suing groups whose positions she dislikes, from the NRA to the Catholic Church, but declines to lift even an eyebrow about the scandalous WHDC. The West Harlem Development Corp. is a poster child for the neglect and deep-rooted waste that defines so much “economic development” in New York, and the “community benefits” blackmail surrounding most large projects. And that, no doubt, is why Tish James won’t do a thing to liberate the tens of millions still in the WHDC hoard for the actual good of the community. Related: Leticia James 01/22/2026 Being Emotionally Incontinent Does Not Help Leticia James 10/07/2025 James Comey Is Not an Innocent Victim of the Lawfare He Helped to Create Leticia James 11/08/2024 After Trump's Victory, There Can Be No Unity Without A Reckoning | ||
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| John Solomon unpacks a bombshell revelation about James Comey |
| 2026-08-15 |
[Just The News] n this episode, we unveil shocking new revelations from recently declassified documents regarding the FBI's handling of classified leaks during the Russiagate investigation. Join us as we discuss the implications of these findings, including accusations against former FBI Director James Comey and his team, and the lack of accountability in Washington. We also explore the ongoing issues of drug shortages in America and the government's response, along with insights into the potential risks of central bank digital currencies. Interviews include conversations with Congressman and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general Jack Bergman, John Knox, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Shannon Davis from American Alternative Assets. |
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| Retired General Mike Flynn reaches $1.25M settlement with feds over Russia collusion pursuit | |
| 2026-08-13 | |
| [Just The News] Retired General Mike Flynn on Wednesday settled his lawsuit accusing the federal government of malicious prosecution during the now-discredited Russia collusion case and will receive $1.25 million in compensation. Flynn, who was forced to resign as President Donald Trump's first national security advisor after a stellar career as a three-star general, overseeing the Defense Intelligence Agency, told Just the News he felt vindicated by the settlement after enduring what he called "the Russian Hoax FBI lawfare against me." "Nothing can fully compensate for the hell that my family and I have endured over these many years—the relentless attacks, the destruction of reputations, the financial ruin, and the profound personal toll inflicted upon us all," he said. "No amount of money or formal resolution can erase the pain caused by a prosecution that should never have been brought." "This ordeal stemmed from partisan government officials in a coordinated effort to pursue an innocent man as part of a broader campaign to undermine President Trump and his administration. It was a relentless, partisan pursuit that weaponized federal law enforcement in a brazen and unjust manner," he said. Flynn sued the DOJ for $50 million in 2023 for malicious and politicized prosecution by Special Prosecutor Robert Muel
Related: Mike Flynn 07/24/2025 DNI Tulsi Gabbard: White House Press Conference On The Declassification Of The Russiagate Documents Mike Flynn 07/24/2025 'Russiagate' in Reverse: Trump's Intelligence Agencies Strike Ukrainian Lobby Mike Flynn 06/02/2025 30%+ of Russian Air Force’s fleet of long-range nuke-capable strategic bombers damaged/destroyed during Ukrainian Security Service op. Related: Russia collusion: 2026-07-18 CNN Admits What They Are-‘Some network executives felt it would be dangerous to just air Trump's speech live’ Russia collusion: 2026-05-26 Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats? Russia collusion: 2026-04-25 The DOJ Has Found HOW MANY Dead People on Voter Rolls? Related: Robert Mueller 08/06/2026 FBI opened probe into whether Trump was Russian agent after he fired James Comey, newly revealed memos show Robert Mueller 05/31/2026 The Bureau of Missed Clues Strikes Again Robert Mueller 05/26/2026 Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats? | |
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| FBI opened probe into whether Trump was Russian agent after he fired James Comey, newly revealed memos show | |
| 2026-08-06 | |
| [NYPost] The FBI opened an investigation into whether President Trump was “wittingly or unwittingly” acting as a Russian agent when he fired then-Director James Comey in 2017, according to bombshell documents released by the White House Wednesday. The probe, called “Oxferd Comma,” grew out of Crossfire Hurricane, the bureau’s probe into whether Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with the Kremlin to get the 45th president elected. “Based on the facts and circumstances provided to date, the FBI believes that opening this investigation is the least intrusive method to address the serious national security risk posed by the activities alleged,” one of the declassified bureau memos shows. The Trump White House initially cited Comey’s handling of the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server as the reason for his dismissal — but it was later revealed the president fired Comey because he wouldn’t publicly state that Trump was not a target of Crossfire Hurricane. The May 16, 2017, memo opening Oxferd Comma was approved by then-FBI General Counsel James A. Baker and Bill Priestap, assistant director of the bureau’s counterintelligence division. The probe was meant to “determine if President Trump is or was directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with, the Russian Federation in a manner constituting a threat to the national security of the United States and/or a violation of federal
“In addition, this investigation will also seek to determine whether President Trump and others yet to be named obstructed and/or conspiracy to obstruct any associated FBI investigation.” Trump was not under personal investigation for collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign, but his firing of Comey raised questions about possible obstruction of justice, which triggered an investigation headed by then-special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director. Contemporaneous messages indicate that some FBI officials had misgivings about continuing to investigate claims of collusion in the 2016 presidential election after many leads had been exhausted. “I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there’s no big there there,” wrote then-Deputy Assistant Director Pete Strzok to FBI special counsel Lisa Page in a May 19, 2017, text message. But the new records could serve as fodder for an investigation by DOJ Counselor to the Attorney General Joe diGenova, according to former Just the News editor in chief John Solomon. Solomon, who is currently serving in the Trump administration on a task force focused on election integrity, announced the files’ release on X, before querying users: “Should Special U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova treat the opening of Oxferd Comma as an overt act in a criminal conspiracy to violate President Trump’s civil liberties.” The chairman of the White House Government Transparency Task Force also noted that the FBI probe was opened after bureau agents had cleared former national security adviser Michael Flynn of collusion accusations and debunked a dossier of claims produced by ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele. Oxferd Comma was closed on April 9, 2019, with no charges against Trump. Weeks before, the Mueller investigation also found no evidence that Trump or any of his aides coordinated with Russia as part of the 2016 election — but did find the campaign had some contact with individuals with ties to the Kremlin. Another probe conducted by former special counsel John Durham also concluded that the opening of the FBI investigation into Russian collusion with Trump was “seriously flawed” and had no basis in evidence, a May 2023 report found. Trump has frequently raged about Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller probe, calling the investigations a “witch hunt” and using them to claim the government was being weaponized against him. He accused the FBI of targeting him and has often referred to Comey as a “dirty cop.” Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in a May 9, 2017, memo to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions advocated for Comey’s firing based on his violation of long-standing policy for federal investigations by publicly announcing the decision not to charge Clinton with mishandling classified documents while America’s top diplomat. Comey “announced his own conclusions about the nation’s most sensitive criminal investigation, without the authorization of duly appointed Justice Department leaders,” that memo noted. | |
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| Friday Kunstler - Seth Rich events remembered and a trial imagined | ||
| 2026-07-11 | ||
Former President Barack Obama and former Sec’y of State Hillary Clinton, named as “unindicted co-conspirators,” are not present in the courtroom for the sake of decorum. Former MI6 agent, the slippery Christopher Steele, purveyor of the infamous “dossier,” is on-the-lam, whereabouts unknown. The charges against the bunch are Seditious Conspiracy (18 U.S. Code § 2384), Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice (18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1512, 1519), Conspiracy Against Rights / Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law (18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242), Perjury (18 U.S.C. § 1621), Concealment (18 U.S.C. § 1001). At 10:00 a.m., a “surprise” witness is ushered into the room. Gasps erupt from all angles. The witness is immediately identified by his snow-white hair and beard. Everybody sees it is Julian Assange. He is a surprise witness for security reasons. He has been flown from Sydney to New Delhi to Frankfurt, and finally to Miami in a US government airplane, the lone passenger. Recall: in June 2024, Assange reached a plea deal with the US DOJ: guilty on one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defense information. He was sentenced to sixty-two months (time served), crediting the approximately five years he had already spent in Britain’s Belmarsh prison while fighting extradition — but not counting the six years and ten months he was holed-up before that in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. There was no additional jail time, supervision, or financial penalty.
“Yes,” he says placidly. “It was a young man named Seth Rich. He copied it onto a thumb-drive directly from the DNC.” And that is how all the bullshit about RussiaGate finally dissolves into a rancid cloud of sedition for the folks slumped in their seats on the defendants’ side of the courtroom. Related: RussiaGate: 2025-08-15 Kunstler column a day early to Forecast Trump-Putin Summit: Carefully and Gracefully RussiaGate: 2025-08-05 Kunstler - Suspicious Minds RussiaGate: 2025-07-23 Monday Kunstler: the list of those who need to lawyer-up is expansive Related: Julian Assange 05/15/2026 Maduro sharing New York prison cell with 18 inmates, son says per German news mag., while Spanish newspaper claims he’s in solitary confinement Julian Assange 04/22/2026 Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies in Ukraine. [map] Update: HOAX ACCOUNT Julian Assange 01/06/2026 A Mouthy and Defiant Maduro Makes First Court Appearance, Enters a Plea | ||
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| Clarice: Tehran: Dog Day Afternoon Redux |
| 2026-06-15 |
| [AT] Every day, the negotiations with Iran remind me more and more of that wonderful movie Dog Day Afternoon, in which a couple of crazy guys pull a botched bank robbery, hold hostages, demand preposterous concessions to surrender the hostages, and finally, while under the impression they are being escorted to a plane that will carry them to freedom, one gets shot and the other arrested. In the matter of Iran, the hostages are the millions of Iranians being held by nutters who think that if they blow up the world, the 12th Imam, who is hiding in a well (Bi'r al-Ghayba) will return to eradicate evil and create world peace. President Trump has been economically and strategically squeezing the loony leaders and their proxies, while destroying as much as we (and Israel) can without harming the hostage population and without keeping them destitute for decades. Some critics assert that those leaders’ promises cannot be trusted, and, at best, they are just playing for time. (Hint: Trump knows this and will not agree to anything that does not assure compliance with the agreed-upon terms. Others say he must free the hostage population. Do you imagine landing troops on the Iranian mainland is more or less likely to save them than economic pressure and a negotiated end to the mullahs’ nuclear ambitions and piratical stranglehold on the Gulf of Hormuz? When you deal with irrational people, negotiations necessarily take longer than when you have rational negotiating partners.) In any event, the President distinguished the deal from the one President Obama had with Iran and said on Saturday that the agreement will be signed today. My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON! In fact, they no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement. The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL. Our relationship with Iran is a much different and better one than previous Administrations have had. Unlike Obama's Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in payments to them, including 1.7 billion Dollars in green, cold cash, no money will exchange hands. At the appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust, buried deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains, thanks to our beautiful B-2 Bombers and their brilliant pilots, and downblend and destroy it, whether in Iran, or the United States. We look forward to working with Iran, and the entire Middle East, long into the future. Hopefully, this process will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn't, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again! The other big news this week was the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Elon Musk’s Space X, which gave the company a $2.1 trillion market cap, and (on paper) made Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Naturally, leftists like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who never made a payroll or ran a business, are outraged that, as yet, they cannot strip this wealth to be distributed to their cronies or for the ongoing Democratic party graft. (He’s the only person I ever heard of who was thrown out of a commune for being lazy. And she, you may recall, lied about being an American Indian to get a slot at Harvard Law.) Musk, on the other hand, is a creator of things, things that benefit millions. He spent years being broke, trying things that went bust, and has now proved widely successful in many endeavors. He did not forget those who helped make SpaceX the world leader in its field. All employees of the company were offered the choice of stock or cash bonuses, and those who shared the risk with him are reaping the rewards. REPORTS: 4,400+ current & former SpaceX employees (welders, cafeteria staff, techs) have become millionaires. Massive wealth spread! Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving her post as the Director of National Intelligence within days, and on her way out, she’s declassifying a lot, with hints that there will be more to come. She links Obama to the origins of a conspiracy that set in motion events which eventually led to the raid on Mar-a-Lago, and confirms that those who ordered the raid believed evidence was hidden in Trump's residence. Russia did not sway the 2016 election, although the Deep State and its media lapdogs bamboozled people with lies to believe otherwise. It’s now confirmed that the raid was to capture documentary evidence that the Russiagate claims were false. They had been manufactured to defeat Trump, and Obama believed that evidence was hidden in Trump’s residence. She also revealed that, despite their repeated denials, the Obama Administration, including Dr. Fauci, had 120 gain-of-function biolabs in 30 countries, including Ukraine. Russia claimed they did; Russian claims proved true. GOING VIRAL☙ Saturday, June 13, 2026 ☙ C&C NEWS Grand juries in Florida are still sifting through evidence and listening to witnesses. CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirms that his predecessor John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are likely to be indicted in connection with their roles in this scandal. I wouldn’t be surprised to find indictments respecting the 2020 presidential election corruption as well. Remigration marches and rallies have expanded beyond Northern Ireland and Great Britain to France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Poland. I don’t know how much longer the European Union, which keeps demanding more third-world migration to Europe, will continue to hold together. Speaking of Europe, X viewers have been charmed by the accounts of various Europeans who have toured the South and other less-traveled spots in the U.S. while here for the World Cup. A young German, "Freddy," among others, was taken with local foods like Texas Barbecue, enormous stores full of wares like rifles and even shooting ranges, and fast food, ice for drinks, free drink refills, open roads, and the enormous geographic and demographic diversity of a country mostly familiar to them in movies painting dystopian pictures of America. Rod Dreher was inspired: Rod Dreher (@roddreher) on X "Proposal: resurrect USAID, and dedicate all its funding to sending Europeans on field trips to Buc-ee's, Costco, and Bass Pro Shop." In my experience, few Europeans appreciate the sheer size and variety of the USA. They look with astonishment at the offerings in big-box stores, not understanding that many people have refrigerators and freezers the size of many European flats, or the distances most of us travel to shop in cars, rather than on bikes or public transportation. European bien pensants have always worked to diminish the New World. In the 18th century, prominent French intellectuals believed North American animals were smaller and inferior to those in Europe. Thomas Jefferson, then our Minister to France, was, as you may recall, very tall (more than six feet), and he found the claim preposterous. He took time to compile comparative charts of mammals. After he was challenged on the matter at one dinner party in France, he responded by bringing at his own cost a massive bull moose, which he had paid to be hunted, stuffed, and shipped to Paris. In another, perhaps apocryphal account, he had guests line up by height, which he marked on the wall behind them to prove the Americans were taller. |
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| Ex-national security adviser John Bolton will plead guilty in classified information case: AP source |
| 2026-06-04 |
| [Yahoo] Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information under a deal with the Justice Department that could allow him to avoid prison time, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday. The deal would resolve a criminal case filed in October that charged Bolton with 18 counts of either retaining or disseminating classified information, including diary-like notes from his time in government that officials say he shared with his family members as he was preparing a memoir about his time in office. Under the agreement, Bolton would also face a $2.25 million fine, said the person, who insisted on anonymity to discuss a deal that had not been made public. Any prison sentence would be capped at five years, but the agreement allows for him to avoid time behind bars, though the punishment will ultimately be up to a judge. The case against Bolton, filed weeks after prosecutors secured indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, unfolded against the backdrop of concerns that the Justice Department was using its law enforcement powers to pursue perceived adversaries of President Donald Trump. The investigation burst into public view last August when FBI agents served search warrants at his Maryland hone and Washington office, Related: John Bolton 04/16/2026 Ex-Hunter Biden law firm seeks communications with ‘friends and donors' who were asked to pay his legal bills John Bolton 03/12/2026 The London Connection and operation Epic Fury John Bolton 03/02/2026 John Bolton warns the strike on Iran may deepen conflict, create a dangerous power vacuum ‐ and plunge the region into turmoil. |
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| Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats? |
| 2026-05-26 |
| [AmericanThinker] Just look at the nefarious behavior of Jack Smith. And he’s far from the only one. Reports last week confirmed that former special counsel Jack Smith “secretly arranged” to preserve evidence in his criminal cases against President Trump in order to maintain the threat of future prosecution once the president leaves office. This is not a big surprise. Democrats have thrown every civic norm out the window in their ruthless efforts to target Trump’s businesses and send him to prison for life. In his quest to imprison an American president, Jack Smith accused Trump of engaging in a conspiracy to “overthrow” the 2020 election, as well as retaining possession of classified documents after leaving the White House. Both allegations are ridiculous, and Smith’s own words make him sound like a lawfare hitman and anti-MAGA zealot. He told members of Congress in January, “Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump is the person who caused Jan. 6, it was foreseeable to him, and that he sought to exploit the violence.” Smith stated emphatically that Trump committed “serious crimes.” Serious crimes? You mean like using the FBI to spy on all the Republican presidential primary candidates in 2015 and 2016? Oh right, that was President Obama. Or fabricating intelligence in order to justify a counterintelligence operation against candidate Trump? Oh, that was Obama’s corrupt CIA director, John Brennan. Or paying British Intelligence operatives to manufacture a fake “Russia collusion” dossier implicating Trump? Oh, that was Hillary Clinton. Or using the FBI and CIA to frame President Trump as a Russian spy? Oh, that was Obama and Clinton, too. Or sabotaging President Trump’s administration by using a Democrat spy on the National Intelligence Council to construct a false story about an innocuous phone call in order to trigger a bogus impeachment? Oh, that was Intelligence Community Democrats attempting to hide Joe Biden’s corruption in Ukraine by, again, framing President Trump for a quid-pro-quo “crime” he never committed. Or submitting fraudulent documents to the FISA Court in order to maintain spying operations against President Trump? Oh, that was corrupt James Comey, corrupt Robert Mueller, corrupt Andrew Weissmann, corrupt Norm Eisen, corrupt Mary McCord, and their Democrat accomplices in the FBI and DOJ who covered up Obama’s illegal spying operations while framing President Trump as a criminal, spy, and traitor. Listening to Jack Smith call President Trump a “serious” criminal sounds ridiculous when serious criminals Obama, Clinton, Brennan, Comey, and legions of their Democrat colleagues, subordinates, and co-conspirators in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, D.C. courts, and FISA Court (see Judge James Boasberg’s impeachable offenses) have never been properly investigated or punished for undermining President Trump’s election, sabotaging his administration, and framing him for treason. The most powerful Democrats in the country organized a coup d’état in broad daylight and dragged the country through a barbed-wire field of partisan propaganda for the last ten years, and Jack Smith wants Americans to be upset that President Trump retained documents that he was entitled to possess? It’s just such lunacy. The constant gaslighting from D.C. operatives is equally infuriating and exhausting. Glossing over the Democrats’ monstrous Russia Collusion Hoax, their relentless efforts to subvert the Trump-led government, and their continuing obsession with tossing the president in prison for imaginary crimes is bad enough, but Jack Smith does what all Democrats do: He pretends that the January 6, 2021, protest for election integrity was an attempt by Trump and his supporters to overthrow the government. This lie is so brazen that it’s astonishing how Democrats can keep telling it with straight faces. The people who showed up at the Capitol that day had one objective: to express their strong belief that mail-in-ballot fraud, violations of multiple states’ electoral statutes, and numerous voting discrepancies had tainted the 2020 election. Several senators intended to make these very arguments before the certification of the election’s results. The people who gathered outside the Capitol were exercising their First Amendment right to assemble peaceably. They were unarmed. Most had no criminal records. A large number had served their country in various capacities. Most who entered the Capitol walked around as tourists, took pictures, interacted in a friendly manner with Capitol Police, and posed no threat to anyone. Only after law enforcement officers chose to fire flash-bang grenades on the assembled crowd did a section of the protest turn into something that could be described as a riot. Trump supporters — not police officers — died on January 6. Ordinary Americans exercising their constitutional rights were thrown into a state of fear of being hurt or killed. Nevertheless, Smith continues to propagate the lie that the three-hour event at the Capitol was somehow the greatest threat to the country since 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Civil War (real comparisons that Democrat propagandists continue to make). Smith and his fellow Democrats desperately wish for Americans to believe that a hot-chocolate-drinking gathering of grandparents, revelers, and veterans was somehow going to topple the government of the United States. If a crowd of retirees is capable of overrunning Washington, what’s the point of a trillion-dollar military budget? Smith’s perpetuation of the Democrats’ J6 propaganda is bad enough, but the fact that he treats that day as equivalent to the Civil War is all the more preposterous given that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their fellow Democrats openly encouraged Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists to burn down neighborhoods, loot businesses, and murder civilians throughout the summer of 2020. If President Trump “caused Jan. 6” and the events of that day were “foreseeable” to him, then the violence and mayhem of 2020’s so-called “summer of love” were certainly foreseeable to Democrats. The BLM riots of 2020 were the most costly in American history, and Vice President Harris encouraged Democrats to donate money to a bail fund that put arsonists, rapists, and murderers back on the street. Were the Democrat-organized riots of 2020 “foreseeable”? Of course. Did prominent Democrats “exploit the violence,” as Smith accuses Trump of doing with January 6? They absolutely did. Biden and Harris ran for the White House on the message that the violence would end once they were elected. Will preening, self-righteous Jack Smith investigate, harass, arrest, or prosecute any of these Democrats? Of course not. Will Democrat rioters be tossed into pre-trial solitary confinement and refused bail by partisan prosecutors and judges? Definitely not. To this day, Democrats celebrate BLM and Antifa domestic terrorists as champions for civil rights. When Democrats burn cities to the ground, the arsonists get statues. When MAGA Americans protest for free and fair voting, they are condemned for crimes they never committed. Unfortunately, this is how leftists all over the world now operate. Brazil’s communist President Lula has imprisoned his predecessor, President Bolsonaro, for supposedly trying to overthrow the government. French President Macron has permitted his political opposition, Marine Le Pen, to be prosecuted and convicted for similarly bogus “embezzlement” crimes. Germany has flirted with designating the popular anti-immigration party, Alternative for Germany, a “terrorist” organization and banning its candidates from running for office. When the “wrong” candidate won Romania’s presidential election eighteen months ago, the country’s Constitutional Court annulled the outcome by blaming “Russian interference.” If President Trump hadn’t possessed the financial resources and sheer grit to face down the onslaught of malicious and meritless prosecutions against him, he would likely be in a courtroom or a prison today. If he hadn’t been re-elected a third time, January 6 defendants would still be awaiting trial or serving time in prison for an imaginary “insurrection.” Forget about Jack Smith. He’s no lawman, and he has no principles. He’s nothing but a corrupt propagandist, partisan hack, and lawfare assassin. Nothing will change until prominent Democrats are prosecuted and convicted for their crimes. Until then, it’s open season on all of us. |
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| Comey: Trump Has ‘Bottomless Desire to Gain Revenge' |
| 2026-05-12 |
You misspelled "criminally persecuted", Asshat Host Nicolle Wallace said, "I went back and looked and Donald Trump first use Twitter to call for your prosecution in 2017 or 18 and some combination of Don McGahn, then the White House counsel, Jeff Sessions, and the US attorney, Bill Barr, who came next. There was one guy in between, and then Pam Bondi, I guess, who allowed this to go forward, but only at great cost of that office, which was essentially hollowed out. The variable isn’t Donald Trump’s desire to see you prosecuted, it’s Todd Blanch and so I wonder if you think there’s anything personal there?" Comey said, "I don’t think so. I think it’s just Donald Trump continuing to move through people until he finds those who will literally do whatever he says. Maybe he’s found that with Mr. Blanche, maybe not. Maybe his standards will be too high, as apparently Pam Bondi’s were, which is a bit of a shock. And so she’s apparently headed for some important private sector job we haven’t heard about yet. That may be Mr. Blanche’s future. Or maybe not, I don’t know, but Donald Trump has a bottomless desire to gain revenge against those who’ve criticized him." Comey confuses American justice system with revenge. Comey as the victim, yes of course. |
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| 'They're going to come for me': Dan Bongino reveals he's 'living in fear' as he issues astonishing warning | |
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The former deputy director of the FBI is worried 'thugs' will come after him after stepping down from the prestigious role, making him 'live in fear.'
Bongino was a controversial pick for the role, as it typically goes to a senior agent, and the Republican had no previous experience inside the FBI, an organization he had been critical of beforehand. After he stepped down, President Donald Trump said: 'Dan did a great job.' Despite the badge of honor from the US leader, Bongino told Fox's Sean Hannity on the journalist's podcast that he's terrified that 'they're going to come for me.' 'I'm scared, man,' he said on Hang Out with Sean Hannity during Tuesday's episode. 'I know what I did. And I'm proud of my work. And I am proud of what me and Kash [Patel] accomplished in the past year.' Bongino insisted he and Patel did everything 'by the book,' including hiring an outside lawyer to oversee things. But the former deputy director is convinced a Democratic administration would 'rewrite the book, just like they did for President Trump,' referencing when they charged the President after he left the White House. 'After reading what I read about how many people did this to President Trump, this Russia hoax, collusion, Crossfire Hurricane bulls**t, and not a single person stopped them,' he said. 'I'm terrified,' he continued. 'They’re going to send some thugs to my house.' Bongino has previously referred to FBI agents as 'thugs,' but it is unclear who he is referencing here. Crossfire Hurricane was an FBI investigation that linked Trump to the Russian interference in the 2016 election. The FBI became suspicious of Trump in 2017 after then-FBI Director James Comey raised questions about obstruction of justice, prompting an investigation. Trump has called the investigation a 'hoax' and has often said negative things about Comey. The Trump Administration recently indicted Comey over a social media post where it claimed the lawyer threatened the President. Comey had posted a photo of seashells with the numbers 86 and 47 in May 2025. The number 86 is a slang term for remove and Trump is the 47th president. The former director also declared his innocence in an April 2026 video, saying: 'I’m still not afraid and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary, so let’s go.' Now, Bongino said he is 'extremely concerned they are [going to] weaponize the justice system and start arresting people for jaywalking or mattress tag ripping. It worries me every day. I'd be lying to you if I said otherwise,' he told Hannity. 'I'm terrified that they're just not going to do the right thing when they're in charge,' he said, referring to Democrats. While in the role, Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, clashed with then-Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Epstein files, especially the supposed document that contained the sex trafficker's client list. Bondi and the Justice Department insisted the list did not exist and that Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell. Bongino reportedly took a day off work to contemplate his future with the organization due to the clash, reports at the time said. The security footage inside the jail on the night Epstein died was famously missing a minute of it, which Bongino was internally blamed for, Axios reported. Bongino also took issue with Bondi's overpromising when it came to the Epstein files, while saying he believes she underperformed the delivery. Related: Dan Bongino 03/21/2026 Oh My God, Please Fire This Secret Service Agent Already Dan Bongino 02/07/2026 New Epstein Cellblock Video - surprise visitor or assassin proof after all? Dan Bongino 01/14/2026 SS agent assigned to Jack Vance is leaking security info. | |
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