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Government Corruption
Maurene Comey, daughter of ex-FBI Director James, fired from top US Attorney's Office job after working Diddy, Epstein cases
2025-07-17
[NY Post] Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was fired Wednesday from the powerful Manhattan US Attorney’s Office — where she prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, sources told The Post.

The reason for Comey’s firing, which law enforcement and Department of Justice sources confirmed, was not immediately clear. President Trump has a long history of conflicts with the elder Comey and fired him as FBI director in 2017 during his first term.

Maurene Comey, who served as an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York since 2015, worked on the prosecutions of the disgraced financier pedophile Epstein and Maxwell, who was found guilty of multiple sex crimes at trial and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The nearly month-long trial ended in a jury acquitting the disgraced hip-hop mogul of the most serious charges against him — racketeering and sex trafficking — that could have landed him life in prison.
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Home Front: WoT
Who is Benjamin Song? New details emerge about anti-ICE suspect captured after major Texas manhunt
2025-07-16
[FOXNEWS] Benjamin Song, who was captured by the FBI in Dallas on Tuesday afternoon for his alleged role in an anti-ICE Texas attack on Independence Day, was previously sued over his alleged involvement in an Antifa protester that resulted in assault charges in 2023.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation spent over a week trying to hunt down Benjamin Song, 32, for his alleged role in the Alvarado, Texas, attack targeting ICE agents, which left a local police officer shot in the neck and cars vandalized. The police officer is expected to recover. A $25,000 reward was offered for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

"The FBI has worked tirelessly to arrest everyone associated with the shooting at the Prairieland Detention Center," FBI Dallas Field Office Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock said. "We would like to thank all the entities that publicized this case and assisted in our efforts to successfully locate Benjamin Song."

There were ten suspects already facing federal charges for the attempted murder of federal officers and for "discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence." Song is now facing the same charges.

Song is a former U.S. Marine Corps reservist,
…oh dear…
and the FBI warned during the manhunt that he should be considered "armed and dangerous."

Song was mentioned as an alleged member of an Antifa group in a 2023 lawsuit after three people protesting a drag queen brunch near Fort Worth, Texas, were assaulted by the members, according to the Post Millennial.

According to KERA News, Song was part of the Elm Fork Brown Gun Club that was both counter-protesting and doing security at the event, with the outlet reporting that they wore face coverings.

The group made headlines at the time for its Fort Worth counter-protest, including Rolling Stone, as those protesting were part of a Christian nationalist group.

Song's father is Tailim Song, a registered Democrat and partner at the Dallas-based law firm, Song Whiddon PLLC, according to online records reviewed by Fox News Digital. His law firm bio says he "has been handling and trying cases for more than 20 years" and "has represented businesses and individuals across a wide variety of industries and practice areas, including litigation, real estate, land use, zoning, manufacturing, intellectual property, technology—environmental, aviation, consumer products, insurance, entertainment, transportation, medical devices, oil and gas, and renewable energy."
Ah. A generalist.
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Prairieland Detention Center: 2025-07-09 Ten charged in connection with shooting at ICE facility in Texas, wounding an officer
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Antifa: 2025-07-10 As many as six U.S. Secret Service agents have been suspended for conduct during the assassination attempt on President Trump.
Antifa: 2025-07-03 4 more Portland Antifa militants charged for criminal offenses carried out during ICE facility occupation

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Alvarado: 2025-07-11 DACA Green Card holder busted with anti-gov’t, anti-Trump docs after Texas ICE ambush suspect jailhouse phone call, feds say
Alvarado: 2025-07-10 Woman charged in armed Texas ICE ambush urged husband to hide ‘anti-Trump' evidence from feds in jail phone call: sources
Alvarado: 2025-07-09 Ten charged in connection with shooting at ICE facility in Texas, wounding an officer
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Government Corruption
Soros machine hands Mamdani millions for his socialist quest for control of New York City - American Thinker
2025-07-17
[AMERICANTHINKER] Investigative reporter Paul Sperry has uncovered an interesting fact about leftist mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani:

BREAKING: Alex Soros has funneled $24 mil to the NYC mayoral campaign of Muslim Zohran Mamdani thru his fundraising arm Working Families,which means Soros' wife HUMA ABEDIN,whose parents are Muslim Brotherhood, "will control the mayor of NY," a lawyer investigating Abedin told me
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 12, 2025


The New York Post reported something similar:

Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn't exist, but it's unlikely he'd be the front-runner to become the Big Apple's next mayor if it wasn't for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.
...
... in less than a decade, Soros' ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation's records show.


So this freak is no maverick. He's not a fresh face, an independent voice, a new political concept. He's a creature of the tired old Soros project, a pawn, a foot soldier in the great Soros quest to dismantle rule of law and create chaos, just as the Soros catspaws have done in virtually all blue cities where Soros-backed district attorneys no longer prosecute crime, and in blue states where Soros-backed secretaries of states preside over elections filled with fraud and long, long delays in counting.

Now the Soros plan is to take mayoralties, the better to finish off cities in ways district attorneys and secretaries of state cannot.

Yet they present this boob as an independent. He's a puppet on some strings.

The New York Post notes the irony of Soros backing a candidate who professes to want no billionaires to exist. But billionaires can always escape the consequences of such demagogues, free as they are to park and move money around the globe. It's always the little guy who takes the consequences of this doggerel against 'the rich' as any Venezuelan can tell you. Under communist regimes, the billionaires exist just fine -- as the nomenklatura ruling the government or else the rootless globalist class of the Klaus Schwab variety.

Sperry notes the additional detail that Huma Abedin, who must be viewing control of the New York City mayor's office with irony given that she almost had it when she was married to Anthony Weiner, and now sees it within reach again, has ties to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, as does Mamdani himself. That's an ugly twist, if not the center of the plot.
Related:
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Paul Sperry 08/05/2024 D.C. Court to hear $30 mil Ashli Babbitt wrongful death lawsuit starting Aug. 6,
Paul Sperry 06/26/2023 Clarice Feldman: Wilmington: The Next Netflix Series?

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Zohran Mamdani 07/15/2025 NYC mayor feuds with comptroller over Israel bonds investments
Zohran Mamdani 07/15/2025 Blue city officers flocking to cop-friendly red states, police leader says: ‘Why would anyone stay?'
Zohran Mamdani 07/11/2025 NYC hopeful Mamdani’s vow to arrest Netanyahu likely oversteps what US mayors can do

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Alex Soros 06/18/2025 Huma Abedin and Questionable Relationships That Shaped Her Public Life
Alex Soros 06/15/2025 Clinton aide Huma Abedin weds billionaire Soros heir in lavish Hamptons ceremony as Mother Nature weighs in on nuptials
Alex Soros 06/15/2025 Hakeem Jeffries, is this true?

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Muslim Brotherhood: 2025-07-08 France on Edge: Macron Demands "Concrete Solutions" on Islamist Threat
Muslim Brotherhood: 2025-07-01 Elderly woman dies of wounds sustained in Colorado attack on activists for hostages
Muslim Brotherhood: 2025-06-30 US envoy says Turkey to have key role on ‘new road’ for Mideast after Israel-Iran war
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George Soros 07/10/2025 CCP-Linked Billionaire Neville Singham ‘Literally Hiding' from Congress, Faces Asset Freeze Push
George Soros 06/30/2025 Asra Nomani: How Socialist Muslims pulled off a 20-year takeover of the Democratic Party
George Soros 06/17/2025 Hungarian Government to Release Documentary Exposing Alleged USAID Scandal

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Open Society Foundation: 2025-06-30 Asra Nomani: How Socialist Muslims pulled off a 20-year takeover of the Democratic Party
Open Society Foundation: 2025-06-17 Hungarian Government to Release Documentary Exposing Alleged USAID Scandal
Open Society Foundation: 2025-06-14 DataRepublican has scans of George Soros’s old Open Society Foundations tax returns
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Working Families Party: 2024-04-01 Fetterman's Top 3 Comms Staffers Have All Resigned In The Past Month: REPORT
Working Families Party: 2023-12-20 NY candidates pressed by WFP to support $40 billion tax hike, voting rights for asylum-seekers
Working Families Party: 2022-02-24 The Squad will deliver the far-left response to Biden's State of the Union: Rashida Tlaib chosen to react to President's Tuesday address for the progressives with Democrats increasingly divided
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Andrew Cuomo 07/15/2025 NYC mayor feuds with comptroller over Israel bonds investments
Andrew Cuomo 06/26/2025 After NYC primary upset, anti-Israel activist Mamdani vows not to ‘abandon my beliefs’
Andrew Cuomo 06/25/2025 Socialist Wins Democrat Primary for Mayor of NYC

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Klaus Schwab 05/12/2025 From Power To Perversion: The Corruption And Depravity Of The World Economic Forum
Klaus Schwab 04/25/2025 The man replacing Schwab at WEF—Peter Brabeck-Letmathe—is even worse
Klaus Schwab 04/22/2025 Klaus Schwab steps down as Chairman of WEF Board of Trustees

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Huma Abedin 06/18/2025 Huma Abedin and Questionable Relationships That Shaped Her Public Life
Huma Abedin 06/16/2025 Hillary Clinton's attempt to troll Donald Trump's 'low-energy Dear Leader parade' spectacularly backfires
Huma Abedin 06/15/2025 Clinton aide Huma Abedin weds billionaire Soros heir in lavish Hamptons ceremony as Mother Nature weighs in on nuptials

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Anthony Weiner 06/18/2025 Huma Abedin and Questionable Relationships That Shaped Her Public Life
Anthony Weiner 06/15/2025 Clinton aide Huma Abedin weds billionaire Soros heir in lavish Hamptons ceremony as Mother Nature weighs in on nuptials
Anthony Weiner 09/28/2024 AOC's 'red light' district overrun with prostitutes as locals call out MIA 'Squad' member

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Home Front: Politix
How the Epstein Debacle Has Overshadowed Historic Success at the DOJ
2025-07-16
[Declassified] The hollowing out of the 100,000+ workforce of the Department of Justice is drowned out by a cacophony of discord, demands, and empty promises over the "Epstein files."

As I reported on X on Sunday, it appears Attorney General Pamela Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino have agreed to a truce. Bongino was prepared to imminently resign over Bondi’s botched handling of the Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein
...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whores sex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He was really surprised when he commited suiciede in jail...
matter; President Trump told news hounds on Sunday he had spoken with Bongino and indicated his longtime friend was "in good shape" without any plans to depart soon.

, the development represents good news since the clash of wills pitted the White House against some of the president’s most loyal influencers, prompting one of the biggest political crises in the administration to date. Trump appears to have successfully calmed the waters both behind the scenes and online.

Unfortunately, not only did the Epstein matter create deep division in MAGAland, fixation on the topic sucked the oxygen out of the media sphere related to significant achievements within the Department of Justice. Bondi and her team continue to clean house at the systemically corrupt department as longtime employees are either fired or leave voluntarily amid "differences" with the president’s policies. The most recent purge includes members of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team, J6 prosecutors, and the spokeswoman at the most powerful U.S. Attorney’s office in the country.

But rather than take their well-deserved firings on the chin like grown ups, self-proclaimed "victims" of the personnel wrecking ball emote on social media or to slavish news hounds proving that DOJ employees are a partisan, sanctimonious, and downright annoying bunch of humans.

POOR POOR PITIFUL ME, PART 1,306
For example, Bondi last week fired Joseph Tirrell, head of the DOJ’s ethics office. (LOL). Tirrell, according to Bloomberg News, is "a career attorney who’d spent nearly 20 years at the department," meaning Bondi was stuck with him until the DOJ could find a reason to terminate. No details are available as to why Tirrell finally got the boot but he reportedly did, among other things, oversee Special Counsel Jack Smith’s operation.

Last February, Tirrell reviewed Smith’s last disclosure report, which revealed the special counsel had received $140,000 in pro bono legal advice after the 2024 election. (The president promised to investigate Smith, who handed down two criminal federal indictments against Trump in 2023.)

It’s unclear whether Tirrell approved that free legal work, flagged any excessive expenditures—the special counsel’s office spent roughly $50 million in a little over a year—or identified any conflict of interests within the office. But instead of simply updating his resume, Tirrell followed in the light-in-the-loafers footsteps of his former colleagues by penning a tale of woe on social media.

VOLUNTARY SELF DEPORTATION
Many DOJ employees are leaving voluntarily rather than anxiously refresh their email inbox for a message with the subject line, "Notice of Removal From Federal Service." Dozens of employees working at the DOJ unit responsible for defending the administration against a nonstop deluge of lawsuits have resigned, according to a Rooters analysis this month. Prosecutors complained of a heavy workload--boo hoo!--and ideological differences with the new boss.

"Many of these people came to work at Federal Programs to defend aspects of our constitutional system. How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?" one lawyer who recently quit told Rooters.

A similar exodus is underway at the DOJ’s civil rights division where nearly 70 percent of the division’s attorneys have headed for the exits rather than work for Harmeet Dhillon, the president’s pick to run the office. Apparently the totally nonpolitical lawyers object to doing things like keeping boys out of girls’ sports, protecting children from surgical mutilation, and combating religious bias—just a few of Dhillon’s stated objectives.

All of this comes on top of months of success in identifying and firing known partisans at both the DOJ and FBI, an historic purge with no signs of stopping. The moves are "creating rampant speculation and fear within the workforce over who might be terminated next," former staffers told the Washington Post.
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Home Front: WoT
Either These Guys Were Very, Very Lost, Or They Were Up to No Good
2025-07-16
[PJMedia] After the U.S. strikes on the Iranian nuclear program, there was considerable concern about sleeper cells within the U.S. being activated; now it is clear that they’re not the only threat from Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
that American officials have to be worried about. Are agents of the Islamic Theocratic Republic also taking advantage of the still-vulnerable northern border? A news item on Tuesday certainly suggested as much.

Fox News reported that "a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) front man confirmed Tuesday that five Iranians were arrested while attempting to illegally cross the U.S. northern border with Canada." CBP's Swanton Sector stated that "on July 1, Border Patrol Agents from the Champlain, New York Station, responded to suspicious activity near Mooers Forks, NY. Agents located a minivan occupied by five citizens of Iran and two citizens of Uzbekistan." Swanton, Vt., is a small town just south of the U.S.-Canadian border.

It's important not to jump to conclusions. Maybe these guys were really, really lost. Or maybe they were sneaking across the border in search of a better life, ready to do the jobs that Americans aren’t willing to do. It’s also a genuine possibility, however, that they were coming into the United States to try to make good on what by now are repeated threats from the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran to assassinate President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
, along with members of his administration.

Increasing the suspicious aspect of this incident is the fact that "CBP said that all seven men had been previously arrested for attempting to cross the border illegally." Now, however, because Donald Trump is president rather than Old Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant....
’s autopen, "all seven aliens are detained and awaiting deportation." One hopes that none of them will ever see delightful Swanton ever again.

This comes amid concerns that the Islamic Theocratic Republic is bent on avenging the strikes on its nuclear program with strikes of its own inside the U.S. Jonathan Gilliam, a former FBI special agent, explained: "Where these sleeper cells may be is in plain sight. And that's the real terrifying part of this is that putting people in place, as we've seen over the past four years, everyone's scrambling because certain amounts of people could come in here and get in here."

Old Joe Biden’s border free-for-all helped bring this situation about, as Gilliam noted: "They could even go to the border and say they [want to] seek asylum, and the Biden administration, instead of putting them into DHS housing or ICE housing and holding them there so they could have their first appearance, to be vetted and whether or not they get asylum," would allow them to walk freely into the country. Despite the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts, many of them are still here.

Their gratitude toward the U.S. for taking them in when they were in their hour of need cannot be taken for granted. Back in November 2024, an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps operative, Farhad Shakeri, was indicted for plotting to kill Trump. And in 2021, the Islamic Theocratic Republic mounted an audacious operation to kidnap Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident, in New York City and take her back to the Islamic Theocratic Republic, where she would have faced imprisonment, torture, and possibly even judicial murder.

Fox noted that the rogue regime in Tehran does this sort of thing in other countries as well: In 2023, "a United Kingdom court found a man guilty of attempting to collect information for terrorist purposes on the London-based Iran International, a media company that is critical of the Iranian regime." And "in recent years, Albania, Belgium, and the Netherlands have all either arrested, convicted, or expelled Iranian government officials implicated in various terrorist plots in their respective territories. Denmark similarly recalled its ambassador from Tehran after learning of an Iran-backed plot to kill an Iranian dissident in that country."
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Government Corruption
Here We Go. Obama Under Investigation for Corruption Scandal
2025-07-16
[GatewayPundit] FBI Director Kash Patel has launched a "Grand Criminal Conspiracy" investigation into the decade-long weaponization of the federal government — a probe that specifically circumvents the statute of limitations, allowing Sherlocks to finally pursue justice for long-buried crimes.

According to a report by JustTheNews, Barack Obama
I am the change that you seek...
, John Brennan
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
, James Clapper, James The spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
, and other high-level Obama-era operatives have been named in the investigation, which shows a coordinated criminal conspiracy to target political enemies, shield Democrat allies, and manipulate multiple presidential elections — from 2016 through 2024.

But it gets better: The probe may now shift jurisdiction to Florida — thanks to none other than Special Counsel Jack Smith’s own raid on Mar-a-Lago.
File under Petard, Own, Hoisted By. Every blessed thing the Trump team does proves the universe exists independent of my imagination.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Solomon teased that within the next 10 days, bombshell revelations would be made public — possibly exposing how weaponized federal agencies colluded to rig the political landscape against Trump and deceive the American people.

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Government Corruption
FBI opens 'grand conspiracy' probe on weaponization, opening door to special prosecutor
2025-07-15
How exciting— happy hunting, guys!
[JustTheNews] The FBI has quietly launched an investigation into a decade of Democratic party and deep-state antics from Russia collusion to Jack Smith, opening the door for the appointment of a special prosecutor to examine whether the well-documented episodes amount to a criminal conspiracy to meddle in three U.S. elections to the benefit of Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
and the detriment of President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, Just the News has learned.

The "grand conspiracy" case was opened several weeks ago after new FBI Director Kash Patel took over, and it could get a significant boost if Trump were to declassify two secret tranches of evidence that identify a potential ignition point to the alleged conspiracy in the summer of 2016, according to several people directly familiar with the inquiry, who spoke to Just the News on a condition of anonymity.

The first piece of evidence is a classified annex to a years-old inspector general probe of Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
’s improper email server sought by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. That annex is believed to show that credible information about possible wrongdoing was intentionally ignored by the FBI.

The second tranche of evidence was identified by former Russiagate Special Counsel John Durham in his final report. The evidence was dubbed in the report as the "Clinton plan intelligence," and it was also placed in a classified annex kept from the American public and even many members of Congress.

Excerpts from the publicly-available and unclassified Durham report show that U.S. spy agencies were aware that Clinton’s 2016 campaign was concocting a bogus Russia collusion narrative to harm Trump’s election chances before the FBI opened its now-discredited Crossfire Hurricane probe, in part using evidence created by the Clinton campaign or offered by Clinton associates.

Both pieces of evidence have remained sealed from public view for nearly a decade and are highly classified because they reveal sensitive intelligence-gathering methods, officials said.

The FBI declined comment.
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Government Corruption
'Disturbing pattern' of Secret Service 'failures' exposed in new report on Trump's Butler assassination attempt
2025-07-15
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] One year after President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
narrowly missed getting struck by a bullet at a campaign rally, a damning new report faults the Secret Service for a 'disturbing pattern of communication failures and negligence that culminated in a preventable tragedy.'

Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, on Sunday released the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee's final report from its investigation into the attempt on Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania.

It outlines what Paul called 'stunning failures by the United States Secret Service that allowed then-former President Donald J. Trump to be shot on July 13, 2024.

'The truth is, President Trump and the nation was fortunate,' Paul wrote of the shooting that took the life of firefighter Corey Comperatore and left two others maimed before a government sniper killed the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. 'The once-again president survived despite being shot in the head.

'Since that day, there has been another attempt on his life and further threats to do him harm, including most recently, a renewed threat from Iran.'

Paul added that the actions of the Secret Service that day were 'inexcusable and the consequences imposed for the failures do not reflect the severity of the situation' despite six agents being temporarily suspended.

Yet the report offers few new details about the liquidation attempt and largely echoes a preliminary report on the investigation put forward by then-committee chairman Sen. Gary Peters in September 2024.

Instead, it focuses on 10 different instances leading up to the Butler rally in which the Secret Service denied or left unfulfilled requests for additional resources to support the Trump campaign, including an enhanced counter-drone system, counter-assault personnel and counter snipers.
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Corey Comperatore 07/10/2025 As many as six U.S. Secret Service agents have been suspended for conduct during the assassination attempt on President Trump.
Corey Comperatore 11/02/2024 Trump assassination attempt: Secret Service failures may warrant discipline, agency report says
Corey Comperatore 10/04/2024 Iran Plot To Assassinate Trump Was FBI Setup

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Home Front: Politix
Clarice Feldman: Beware ‘Ragebait Engagement Farming’
2025-07-14
By Clarice Feldman
See also here.
[AmericanThinker] Cynical Publius, a poster on X, accurately describes for me the fantastical conspiratorial posts this week about Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Jeffrey Epstein records and death as “ragebait engagement farming.” I hate mobs and mob thinking, and I think Bondi has achieved a remarkable courtroom record against a tsunami of judicial insurrection.

For example, this week the Department of Justice, which she heads, just won its 13th Supreme Court victory in six months. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms that the President is proud of her and considers the “continued fixation or sowing discord on [his] cabinet is baseless and unfounded in reality. On Saturday, the president reiterated his strong support for Bondi. I will endeavor to explain how absurd this furor is and why this (like the ludicrous Pizzagate-like fantasy before it) has so many dupes believing in unsubstantiated nonsense.

A very detailed portrait of Epstein’s background and operations can be found in a 2003 article in Vanity Fair, which reveals a shrewd operator who cultivated celebrities, business figures, politicians, scientists, and people of note to amass a considerable fortune. He was also a man with a perversion for sexual relations with underage young women.

There has long been a widely held belief that he maintained a list of notable people with details of their crimes. Bondi said she had the Epstein list “on her desk,” and indicated it would be released. This was a mistake, because if the belief was that there was a roster of prominent people engaged in pedophilia, there is no such list. (If there ever had been, he most likely scrubbed it long before any criminal investigation.)
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Jeffrey Epstein 07/12/2025 FBI's 'Raw' Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Doctored: Wired

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Home Front: Politix
Trump Calls 'Epstein List' Democrats' Fabrication Against Him
2025-07-14
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
See also here.
[Regnum] Supporters of the American Democratic Party have invented documents related to financier Jeffrey Epstein. This was stated by US President Donald Trump.

"For years, Epstein, over and over again. Why release documents written by [former US President Barack ] Obama, corrupt [former Secretary of State] Hillary [ Clinton ]... They created the Epstein dossier, like they created the Hillary Clinton fake and the [former British intelligence officer] Christopher Steele dossier that they used against me," he wrote on the social network Truth Social.

The head of the White House clarified that the Democrats invented the Epstein dossier together with the former heads of the CIA and FBI and representatives of the administration of former President Joe Biden. According to him, if there was anything in the documents, they would have been published.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the US Justice Department and the FBI had previously concluded that there was no evidence that Epstein, who was convicted of sexual crimes against minors, blackmailed influential people and kept a so-called client list. On July 8, the White House denied the existence of Epstein's "compromising list."

However, American entrepreneur Elon Musk expressed doubt and said that Americans would not be able to trust the US president if he refused to publish documents on the case.

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Home Front: Politix
The Trump Administration Is About to Make a HUGE Move Against the Deep State
2025-07-13
[PJ Media] In a bombshell revelation, investigative journalist John Solomon confirmed to Steve Bannon on Real America’s Voice that the Department of Justice and the FBI have been quietly building a major criminal conspiracy case targeting the Deep State’s decade-long effort to derail Donald Trump. According to Solomon, the scope of the investigation could finally deliver the accountability that many in the MAGA movement have long demanded.

"I think next week, over the next 10 days... the base, who’s been wondering, ’Where is all that accountability?’—they’re gonna get some big surprises," Solomon said. He claimed the case reaches back to the summer of 2016, before Crossfire Hurricane was launched, and extends all the way through to 2024, encompassing "a large series of events" aimed at stopping Trump from winning the presidency.

Solomon said the massive case has been built largely out of the public eye, obscured by media theatrics and political infighting. "It’s been masked by a lot of this infighting and drama and soap opera stuff," he said. "But the truth of the matter is, MAGA base Americans are gonna be happy when they see where this is all heading."

I hope so!

Bannon pressed Solomon to clarify whether this was, in fact, a formal investigation by federal authorities. Solomon didn’t hesitate. "There is a conspiracy case that was opened that looks at this window as a very large window," he confirmed. "I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a special prosecutor named by Pam Bondi in the next week or two."

This is the most interesting part of the revelation to me, especially in light of the blowback Bondi has received over the whole Epstein client list debacle that has FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino threatening to resign unless she is removed. Could Bondi be reassigned to be special prosecutor to keep Bongino and Patel at the FBI?
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California: The State of Sleeper Cells
2025-07-13
[Townhall] In recent days, a chilling warning came from one of America’s top counterterrorism experts: Iranian sleeper cells may already be embedded inside the United States—hiding in plain sight, waiting to strike. With tensions climbing after the president’s strike on Iran’s nuclear capabilities, that warning has taken on new urgency. The threat isn’t hypothetical. It’s now a likely reality.

And while most states are coordinating with federal law enforcement, tightening security, and staying alert, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, has done the unthinkable:

It’s opted out.

California is the only state in the Union that has withdrawn entirely from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force—the primary engine for federal, state, and local cooperation in detecting and disrupting terrorism. And they did it proudly, in the name of "civil liberties."

Let’s be blunt: the FBI’s JTTFs have disrupted plots targeting New York, Boston, and cities across the country. They are essential to homeland security. Pulling out of that network—especially now—is the domestic equivalent of turning off radar at Pearl Harbor.

Add to that the fact that California is also a sanctuary state, where local officials are barred from cooperating with ICE or federal immigration authorities. That means someone could cross the border illegally, find refuge in Los Angeles or the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
, and never be flagged—no matter how suspicious they may be.

Now layer in this: In the last several months, over 700 Iranian nationals—designated as "special interest aliens"—have crossed our southern border illegally. They’re subject to enhanced vetting for good reason: Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has publicly stated that it may activate foreign agents in response to U.S. military action. These are not idle threats. These are strategic assets being put in place.

Let’s remember San Bernardino. In 2015, two radicalized individuals opened fire in a California office building, killing 14 and wounding 22 more. They were American residents. They were radicalized online. And they executed their attack without ever triggering alarm bells—because back then, the systems weren’t integrated enough.

Now, California has gone even further backward. It has intentionally severed those alarm systems.

And here’s the national threat:

If a terrorist cell can establish itself in California—where oversight is limited and federal cooperation is absent—then they are only one plane ride away from New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
, or any other high-value target in the country.

California’s refusal to act responsibly doesn’t just endanger Californians. It endangers all of us.

By withdrawing from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, California has handed those blind spots to America’s enemies on a silver platter.

Supporters of the move will argue it’s about protecting civil rights. But the Constitution was never meant to be a suicide pact. Security and liberty are not opposites—they’re partners. And without security, liberty becomes a memory.

Iran has already activated its cyber units. It has already coordinated with proxies like Hezbollah to threaten U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide. Tehran doesn't need to smuggle operatives in via shipping containers—they walk across our border, disappear into sanctuary cities, and remain in the dark, thanks to California’s political theater.

We are not just at risk. We are exposed.
Related:
Iranian sleeper cell: 2025-06-27 College campuses could be ground zero for Iranian sleeper cells plotting to harm Americans, experts warn
Iranian sleeper cell: 2025-06-24 ICE arrests 11 Iranian nationals in 48 hours as Trump slams Biden for letting 'sleeper cells' into US
Iranian sleeper cell: 2025-06-14 The Z-Man: We Are Doomed
Related:
Special interest aliens 06/23/2025 Iran 'threatened Trump with sleeper-cell revenge terrorist attacks inside US' days before nuclear strikes
Special interest aliens 03/22/2025 Trump to revoke temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
Special interest aliens 01/05/2025 MSNBC host blames US Armed Forces for 'terrorism in this country'

Related:
Joint Terrorism Task Force: 2025-05-22 2 people with Israeli embassy ties shot dead near DC's Capital Jewish Museum, murderer shouted “Free Palestine” as arrested
Joint Terrorism Task Force: 2025-05-15 Former Michigan Army National Guard member charged with plotting mass shooting at Army base on behalf of ISIS
Joint Terrorism Task Force: 2025-04-19 Afghan teen admits to plotting terrorist attack on US Election Day
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