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FBI Orchestrated Jan 6 Riots âto Entrap MAGA Americans,â Explains Congressâ Homeland Security Chief.Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who chairs the Homeland Security Committeeâs border subcommittee, is claiming Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents entrapped the U.S. Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. The four-term Louisana Republican, speaking with the Implicit Bias podcast, said he reached his conclusion after conducting his own investigation into the matter.According to Higgins, the protestors were incited to violence by âghost busesâ filled with FBI agent provocateurs. He added that when the House of Representatives finishes with the process of releasing the security tapes from that day, the federal prosecution of the January 6 rioters will fall apart.
âThe whole thing was a nefarious agenda to entrap MAGA Americans,â the Congressman said. He added: âThe original seeds of riotous or illegal or occupation behavior amongst these groups were planted by the FBI-embedded agents in those groups.âWhile there has been no conclusive evidence that the FBI instigated the January 6 riot, several law enforcement officials have admitted that federal agents were among the crowd on that day. The National Pulse reported in August of last year that former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund had told Tucker Carlson in an unaired Fox News interview that âthere was a fair amount of law enforcementâ in the January 6 crowd. Sund said in the days after the riot, he discovered that the FBI had at least 18 undercover agents in the crowd.In May of last year, an FBI whistleblower told the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government that the bureau withheld further CCTV footage from the riot over fears of outing âundercoverâ agents present in the crowd. In January 2022, FBI Executive Assistant Director Jill Sanborn refused to deny the FBIâs involvement in the January 6 violence.
Source: FBI Orchestrated Jan 6 Riots ‘to Entrap MAGA Americans,’ Explains Congress’ Homeland Security Chief.
Judge Truncale went out of his way to decline to “take judicial notice” of Brook Jackson’s Dec. 14, 2020 letter to DoD.
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Re: USDJ Michael Truncaleâs March 31, 2023 order dismissing whistleblower Brook Jacksonâs False Claims Act case against Pfizer, Ventavia and ICON.
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I’ve been reading Truncaleâs order, thinking about it, taking notes, tracking down citations, re-reading other case documents, and updating my files on six other federal cases that â with Jackson v. Pfizer â I think are the most useful cases for understanding the role of criminal judges embedded in American federal courts, and the pseudo-legal mechanisms through which they operate.
Like their historic counterparts in Hitlerâs Germany, Mussoliniâs Italy, Stalinâs Russia and many other mass murdering police-states, American federal judges have played a key role in maintaining and expanding the supranational covert biowarfare program run through the Trump/Azar-Biden/Becerra police-state apparatus since January 2020.
The six other cases include South Bay Pentecostal Church v. Newsom (USDC Southern California, 20-cv-00865-BAS-AHG); Butler v. Wolf (USDC Western Pennsylvania, 2:20-cv-677-WSS); Bridges v. Houston Methodist Hospital System (USDC Southern Texas, 4:21-CV-01774-LNH); Robert v. Austin (USDC Colorado, No. 21-cv-02228-RM-STV); Griner v. Biden (USDC Utah, 2:22-CV-149 DAK-DBP) and Ealy v. Redfield (USDC Oregon, 2:22-cv-00356-HZ)
Thereâs a lot to unpack.
While I work through the material, one interesting section in Truncaleâs order goes to the âWho knew what, and when did they know it?â question.
He addresses that question at pp. 33-34:
Payment despite knowledge: Whose Knowledge Matters?
A threshold issue that this Court must address is whether the FDAâs knowledge or the DoDâs knowledge matters when deciding how much weight to give to the Governmentâs decision to continue purchasing Pfizerâs vaccine.
The FDA has known of Ms. Jacksonâs allegations since September 2020, months prior to Pfizer submitting its first invoice to the DoD in December 2020. [Dkt. 17 at 69; Dkt. 37-2 at 2].
But the DoD, not the FDA, is the entity that originally purchased Pfizerâs vaccine. [Dkt. 17-1 at 303].
The well-pleaded facts require drawing the inference that the DoD did not have knowledge of the alleged fraud prior to February 22, 2022 , approximately two years after it paid Pfizerâs first invoice. [FN 20]
NOTES:
Feb. 22, 2022 was the date Jackson filed her amended complaint.
She filed her original complaint on Jan. 8, 2021.
But after a year of silent inaction by DOJ and Judge Truncale, and Truncaleâs gag order on Jackson, the Department of Justice notified Truncale on Jan. 18, 2022 that DOJ had no intention of pursuing Jacksonâs case.
Jackson then had to choose between quitting and hiring a private attorney to re-file.
She hired a private attorney and re-filed.
Because Brook Jackson is an extraordinarily courageous, determined woman.
Judge Truncale at March 31, 2023 order, Footnote 20, pp. 33-34:
FN20 – The Amended Complaint, which Ms. Jackson filed on February 22, 2022, pleads that Ms. Jackson had previously provided the DoD with the information that serves as the basis for her allegations. [Dkt. 17 at 15â16].
Defendants [Pfizer] ask the Court to take judicial notice of several documents, including a letter from Ms. Jacksonâs former counsel dated December 14, 2020, notifying the DoD about her allegations⌠[Dkt. 37 at 20â21].
Defendants note that courts routinely take judicial notice of facts published on a partyâs own website and contend that it is appropriate for this Court to do so here. Id. at 21 n.19.
These documents do not currently appear on Ms. Jacksonâs website. While these documents could potentially be introduced through a motion for summary judgment or at trial, they are not properly before the Court at this time.
Accordingly, the Court declines to take judicial notice of these documents.
In thinking through Truncaleâs question â whose knowledge matters? â set aside (for now) that his premise of separate knowledge bases is false.
DoD and HHS, including FDA, are demonstrably two federal agencies jointly engaged in a covert, dual-use biomedical/biowarfare operation with several other administrative agencies. Their executive secretaries and other high-level administrators share knowledge about the program through coordinating committees including the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise.
Setting that aside, Relator Brook Jackson stated in her original complaint (Jan. 8, 2021) and amended complaint (Feb. 22, 2022) that she had âprovided this information to the United States and DoD prior to filing a complaint by serving a voluntary pre-filing disclosure statement.â
Then in Pfizerâs April 22, 2022 Motion to Dismiss, Pfizer cited Jacksonâs website as the source of Jacksonâs Dec. 14, 2020 notice to DoD that they wanted Judge Truncale to judicially notice, and attached a copy of the letter as Exhibit E [Dkt 37-5 at 2-9].
Pfizer thereby entered the document into the public court record independent of Jacksonâs website and her own two sworn statements about having made âpre-filing disclosureâ to DoD.
Nonetheless, Truncale declined to take âjudicial notice.â
Why?
To protect the DoD from legal attribution of knowledge of the clinical trial fraud in December 2020, a time when DoD withdrawal from and cancellation of the purchasing and distribution contracts could have saved the lives of the people targeted with the bioweapons.
On Dec. 14, 2020, through Gregory Shilling, the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the South West Region, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, DoD was notified that Pfizer, Ventavia and ICON were endangering, sickening and killing human recipients of products which the contractors were using on human beings under the terms of DoD military weapons contracts.
Dec. 14, 2020 was three days after the Marion Gruber-led FDA panelâs sham EUA decision on Dec. 11, 2020.
It was the same day the first victims â outside the 44,000 people targeted through the fraudulent âclinical trialsâ â were attacked with the Pfizer-labeled DoD bioweapons.
Truncale has got DoDâs back.
Having carefully placed his blinders on by refusing to take judicial notice of the Dec. 14, 2020 letter Jackson sent to the DoD, Truncale concluded:
ââŚeven if the DoD was concerned about potential regulatory or protocol violations, the Project Agreement [Truncaleâs false conflation of Base Agreement 2020-532, which has been made public in redacted form, with Project Agreement 2011-003, which has not yet been made public] did not authorize the DoD to decide whether the vaccines were fit for purchase.
Instead, the [Base Agreement] vested this decision-making authority in the FDA.
Thus, what matters when evaluating the Governmentâs continued purchase of the vaccine is that the FDA granted authorization despite its knowledge of Ms. Jacksonâs allegationsâŚ
Bottom line: Judge Truncale has now added his own criminal federal judicial review to the sequence that includes:
Criminal âvaccineâ development and production contracts, which are actually contracts for the development and production of injectable bioweapons.
Criminal âvaccineâ clinical trial safety records, which are actually records of bioweapon potency results for mRNA and DNA classes of injectable bioweapons.
Criminal âvaccineâ regulatory review, authorization, manufacturing compliance and safety monitoring records, which are actually theatrical props intended to block public knowledge that the products mislabeled as âvaccines,â transported across state lines, and injected into military targets, are intentionally-lethal bioweapons.
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By Stefan Krempl April 6, 2023
Instead, there should only be digital documents. At the latest since the Corona pandemic, citizens would expect "the use of contactless technologies as a basic requirement for safe and smooth travel," writes the EU Commission. She wants to "strengthen security regulations with a view to a safer Schengen area", simplify travel "and thus increase the attractiveness of the EU".
"The exclusive use of physical documents makes efficient border crossing controls difficult, and issuing such documents in remote locations can pose problems, ultimately hampering international travel," reads a document that was the basis of a public consultation on the impact assessment in the autumn. "The use of biometric solutions" should enable "the authorities responsible for screening" and border controls to "determine the identity of travelers more reliably and at the same time reduce the risk associated with individual travelers". Of the 360 ââopinions on the impact assessment, almost all were negative.
Despite this, the Commission is going ahead and is now consulting several variants of the "Digital Travel Credentials" (DTC). Until June 28, anyone can give the EU Commission their opinion on digital travel documents via a questionnaire. As an option, the authority is proposing an EU regulation that would oblige the member states to implement the planned DTC standard of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Citizens should then be able to cross borders without conventional e-gates or control booths. In return, a "comprehensive comparison of biometric data" is carried out. For this purpose, the EU has been building a biometric super database for all IT systems in the security sector for several years. A legislative proposal is to be made in the third quarter of 2023.
In the autumn impact assessment, there were 360 ââopinions â almost all negative. For example, Sweden’s National Health Federation, which campaigns for natural medicine, severely criticized the project when it was explored in the fall: It was only the EU governments "that felt the need to monitor people’s health" and vaccinations that had been carried out. This is "an unhealthy approach" that destroys the idea that everyone with a passport or ID card can travel freely. In addition, the person who is carrying a travel document in their mobile phone can be tracked using the GPS function. This alone represents "a major threat to privacy".
Other participants also see the right to informational self-determination at risk. If the data from ID cards could be queried without contact, you would quickly lose control. Digital travel documents are insecure and reduce people to biological features such as fingerprints, face, and iris. With appropriate scans, artificial intelligence (AI) gets too much power, although it shouldn’t actually make such decisions.
Source: heise.de
2008 AUG. 10, 2018 By Noah Kulwin
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A decade now after the 2008 financial crisis, the cultural and psychological imprint that it left looks almost as deep as the one that followed the Great Depression. Its legacy includes a new radical politics on both the left and the right; epidemics of opioid abuse, suicides, and low birthrates; and widespread resentment, racial and gendered and otherwise, by those who felt especially left behind. This week, New York continues our retrospective on the crash and its aftermath by publishing interviews with some of those who were closest to the events. Here, Steve Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker turned face of Trump-era populism, on how the bailouts led directly to the 2016 election, why we need to break up the banks, and his goal to turn the GOP into a worker-based party.
I was hoping we could talk about the legacy of the financial crisis. How would you characterize it?
The legacy of the financial crisis: Donald Trump. The legacy of the financial crisis is Donald J. Trump. And I can give you the specific moment: When they put Lehman in bankruptcy, and the geniuses didnât understand that it was inextricably linked to the commercial paper market. Hank Paulson, Treasury secretary, and Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve, they went to see Bush three days later. They told him, âWe need a trillion dollars in cash, and we need it by five oâclock.ââ
And in a profile of courage, President Bush says, âNot my problem. You gotta go to Capitol Hill.â They go up to Capitol Hill, they put everybody in a room. They make them all put their BlackBerrys outside, and they walk in, and Bernanke, whoâs not an alarmist, says, âIf we donât have a trillion dollars by today, the American financial system will melt down in 72 hours. The world financial system will melt down in two weeks, and there will be global anarchy.â
And by the way, this was completely brought on by the elites of the country and Wall Street. When I got to Harvard Business School in 1983, a bunch of professors were coming up with a radical idea thatâs had a horrible negative consequence on this country and to the fabric of our society: the maximization of shareholder value; this was preached as High Church theology. The whole thing of the financialization of Wall Street, of looking at people as pure commodities and of outsourcing and globalization, came from the business schools and the financial community that had these radical ideas, and nobody kept them in check.
Go back and look at the postwar period. These companies had profit margins, and they traded on Wall Street, but there wasnât this maniacal focus on the financialization. Companies forgot about the social fabric, forgot about your workers. Everything became commoditized. That led to the financial crisis of 2008. It all came home to roost.
From the long-term credit crisis in the late â90s, to the implosion of the stock market in 2000 on the internet, to then the financial crisis â every couple years weâre having another financial crisis. And theyâre building in intensity. The one in 2008 was three orders of magnitude worse than the crash of 1929.
So write down, the match got lit that led to November 9th at 2:30 in the morning when Donald Trump was named president of the United States.
What does the impact of the financial crisis look like for the American people?
I think youâre starting to see it. I think youâre starting to see the deindustrialization of the country. We stopped investing in the country. Domestic investmentâs all going over to China. We deindustrialized Western Europe. Brexit and 2016 are inextricably linked, okay?
Workers know this. Itâs the labor vote in the midland counties that drove Brexit. This is whatâs so obvious the Democratic Party misses. Donald Trumpâs president because of working-class Democrats. The Trump movement is made up of people like my father, the Marty Bannons. My whole household was working-class Democrats. These are adamant Trump supporters because they understand Trump supports working-class people.
Hereâs the outrage about it: The balance sheet of the Federal Reserve in September 2008 is about $1 trillion. The balance sheet the day Donald Trump raises his hand, after eight years of the most progressive Democrat in recorded history, is $4.5 trillion. The elites save themselves. They just created money. They flooded the zone with liquidity. If youâre an asset holder, if you owned real estate, stocks, or intellectual property, if youâre an owner, you had the best run in human history, okay?
If youâre a deplorable, you got fucked. You know why the deplorables are angry? Theyâre rational human beings. We took away the risk for the wealthy. Look, you have socialism in this country for the very wealthy and for the very poor. And you have a brutal form of Darwinian capitalism for everybody else. Youâre one paycheck away from oblivion. Do you think the founders of this country, you think thatâs what they wanted to have in the 21st century? Dude, this is fucked up.
Hereâs what it should have been. We go into Goldman Sachs, everybody, every partner, every guy â zero. Youâre wiped out. Just like weâd do any deal at Goldman Sachs. I wipe out all the equity. Iâm getting rid of Lloyd Blankfein and Gary Cohn. But the guys that follow them, they can make beaucoup dollar after my moneyâs paid back and the companyâs successful, just like every transaction we do. You should have done that across corporate America and every bank.
Of all the criminal referrals that came out of the thing, where are the fucking guilty? Whereâs the accountability of the 200 criminal referrals made by Eric Holderâs Justice Department? Now Holder works for Covington & Burling. The biggest white-collar criminals, theyâre all Burling clients. Itâs a scam. Itâs a total scam.
You know why the deplorables are pissed off? Because they understand itâs a scam. The burden is on their shoulders. Weâre deplorables, the Bannons. There ainât nothing special about the Bannons. Weâre just a bunch of fucking hardheaded Micks. All blue-collar company guys, firemen, shit like that. Weâre just average people and they love Donald Trump. You know why? Heâs the first guy to tell the Establishment to go fuck themselves. And weâre just in the beginning stages, and thatâs why right-wing populismâs gonna win, because the left wing, youâre a bunch of pussies.
The Democratic Party is owned and paid for by Wall Street. And hereâs a great thing. You would think that after being 16 points down with 88 days to go, and having billions of dollars in cash, and Trump having nothing that to lose â youâd think thereâd finally be some accountability. But no, no. It had to be Russia. Had to be Russia.
Going back before the crisis, given that you had worked at Goldman Sachs â
Goldman Sachs changed. When I worked there, it was a private partnership. You had partners who understood that they had joint and several liability when they did the underwriting. And it was a place of tremendous middle-class values and tremendous work ethic. The partnership was predominantly Jewish, and these are the best guys in the world. They were absolutely about the client and about the people that bought the security. The term was âlong-term greedy.â Itâs not any one deal that makes things; itâs the reputation of the firm. After the Blankfeins and the Cohns and those guys came and started to run it, it became a totally different firm.
The dynamic that youâre describing more broadly sort of happened to all of Wall Street.
Yes. I think it started in the â90s, and a lot of it came out of the business schools. It became a set of numbers and mathematics. It led to the financialization and the securitization of everything. All value had to go back to the equity-holders. The employees didnât matter; the communities didnât matter. Nothing mattered. Thatâs not the capitalism this country is based upon.
The financial collapse talked about the rot at the heart of the system. And they all made it Bernie Madoff. Fuck Bernie Madoff, Bernie Madoffâs irrelevant. You have bad guys that scam people all the time in history. Itâs always gonna happen. Bernie Madoffâs a little nothingburger.
Iâm talking about systemic rot. Iâm talking about the people that during that financial crisis, the banks that looked the other way, the law firms that looked the other way, the accounting firms that looked the other way. The elite that looked the other way. The business media that looked the other way. They, everybody looked the other way. Theyâre still kind of looking the other way today. Theyâre living in the Hamptons and they donât want to rock the boat on the system. The systemâs too big, too complicated, so they just go along.
What was the moment when it sunk in for you that the crisis had hit?
My dad worked at AT&T, the phone company, for 50 years. AT&T is like the Catholic church, okay? It is a permanent part of your life. My dad would tell stories about his father owning one share of stock, and thatâs the thing that they would borrow against to get Christmas gifts with that. The concept of selling stock is not in his vernacular. Heâs still living â heâs 96 today â and the crisis was, what, ten years ago? So he was 86 years old.
Jim Cramer went on national TV and had a meltdown. He says, âIf you need any cash to pay for anything in your life, sell everything you have. Sell everything you have.â I mean, they had to throw a net over him. My dad is sitting there, and he blows. He sold his stock. That was when it hit me personally.
By the way, I would have told him not to sell it.
Would you say the financial crisis and the recession had a greater impact on the country than 9/11?
Yes, absolutely. I donât think thereâs any comparison. And by the way, you donât know that from reading the press, because the opposition-party media is bought and paid for by the advertisers and all the stuff in the financial community. People donât know today thereâs no criminal referrals, that nobody went to jail about that. Nobodyâs been held accountable for that.
Obama came in and had the stimulus, almost a trillion dollars, and nobody knows where the money went. Whereâs all the value-added jobs? Where are my hospitals? You know, Robert Moses built shit. We spent a trillion dollars â did we just repave everything? I mean, seriously, itâs a trillion dollars. Whereâs all our great shit? It looks like the same place it was ten years ago. Itâs worse than Afghanistan as far as the use of proceeds.
Where do you say it went?
I think it went to bail out the wealthy. I think it went into this stock-repurchasing thing, I think it went into supporting real estate and things like that.
Thereâs a direct correlation between the factories that left, the billets and jobs that left with them, and the opioid crisis. This is what the Democrats miss: Tariffs are more than economics, itâs about dignity and self-worth. Youâve got to get those jobs back. These guys said theyâre not coming back. I go, âIs that a law of physics?â You treat this like the second fucking law of thermodynamics. The jobs get shipped over there for financial reasons, we can bring them back. Those jobs can come back, and theyâre going to come back. Youâre seeing them already coming back today. Now weâre telling guys, âYou can build your factory here, or weâre going to throw big tariffs on you.â
Itâs about using your leverage to browbeat people, and Donald Trump has got a big enough set of balls to do it. So I donât want to hear all this yammering, particularly on the left, all these guys yammering about the tariffs. Fuck you. This time, weâve got to bring things back.
Hereâs the concept of right-wing populism. If the â80s and the way we got in this debacle was this radical idea of maximization of shareholder value, hereâs what right-wing populism stands for. Itâs very simple concept. Weâre going to maximize the value of citizenship. Weâre going to maximize citizenship value. If youâre an American citizen, you get a special deal. I donât care if youâre Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, black, white, red, pink, green. I do not care. If youâre an American citizen, you get a better deal.
Hereâs how many H-1B visas I want: none. Until we get Baltimore, Detroit, and St. Louis with, you know, youth unemployment down to zero, and people making high value-added jobs, I donât need any foreigners. And Iâm not a racist. What I want is our citizens to get the jobs. Right now illegal immigration is used as nothing more than a scam to suppress workersâ wages.
All the economic textbooks youâve got before 2008? Throw them out. Theyâre totally irrelevant.
Your generation, the readers of New York Magazine, youâre nothing but 18th-century Russian serfs. Youâre better fed, and youâre better dressed, and youâre better educated. But you donât own anything. And youâre not going to own anything.
The state capitalism of the big technology companies has taken away your digital, your data sovereignty. Theyâve totally taken it away. You generate intellectual property all day long, and they donât pay you for it. They take it for free, they monetize at huge margins.
But what right-wing populism does is break that. You agree with that?
There are parts of it that are not exclusive to right-wing populism â
But on the left, your problem is that identity politics is stronger than your populism, and thatâs why you canât lift out of it. You canât be a populist and buy into the globalist system â and the globalist system is open borders. Itâs the Kochs. Itâs Wall Street. The Kochs are the biggest open-borders guys in the world. The libertarian Cato Institute, look how radical they are. Cato hates my guts much more than the left.
In 2013, I sit there with Jeff Sessions at the Breitbart Embassy, and weâre looking at the 2012 election. A lawyer named Sean Trende did a three-part analysis of the working class on RealClearPolitics. About how the working class did not come out to vote for Romney. And I told Sessions, I said, âThatâs the path to victory right there.â So I tried to talk Jeff Beauregard Sessions into running for president of the United States. I said, âThe whole purpose of this campaign is, weâre going to make immigration No. 1 and trade No. 2.â I said, âTrade and immigration are just two sides of the same coin.â And Sessions bought in. Sessions goes, âWeâre gonna do it, itâs absolutely brilliant, and we can do it. But Iâm not the guy. Our guy will come along.â
I saw early on in 2013 that Dave Bossie started putting on these cattle calls. Little, mini cattle calls in New Hampshire and Iowa. And I noticed Donald J. Trump would get up there, and they had everybody. Iâd sit in the back, and I looked at the audience. These are all activists at this time, but theyâre principally working class and lower-middle class.
And this is in New Hampshire?
All over. I went to New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina. And May of 2014 was when it hit me. Iâm sitting in New Hampshire, I think itâs Hanover, New Hampshire. And I notice that Trump gets an amazing response, and heâs just laying bombs on trade, on China, stuff other guys arenât talking about. Theyâre talking happy talk. But itâs that political vernacular. But these guys are all loved, these guys are rock stars in the Republican Party.
Do you think that this was something that Trump believed, or just like a current that he picked up on and chose to run with it at that moment?
He was listening to Lou Dobbs. I tell people, âYou wanna know what Trumpâs economic policy is? Just get a show of Lou Dobbs from 30 years ago.â
He was talking about immigration ten years ago â
And China 30 years ago. And trade deals. Trump believes this to the marrow of his bones. So I had Trump come over and interviewed him at my little radio show with [Breitbart editor-in-chief] Alex Marlow. Donald Trump had one interview that day, on Sirius XM. Nobody else paid attention.
And then in 2015 he actually announces, and we have, as you described it, this Republican field that decades of donor cultivation has bought.
He goes through them like a scythe through grass.
Heâs talking trade deals â and nobody can respond to that. The seminal moment in that is, Ted Cruz goes to Wisconsin and he makes a 30-second spot on a state heâs got to win. He says, âWhat we need is fair trade deals.â That phrase comes across Ted Cruzâs Heritage Foundation lips, right? âA fair trade deal.â I tell the boys, I said, âWe got him.â Now weâre talking fair trade from Ted Fucking Heritage Foundation Cruz. Weâre winning.
So trade is picking up. And the Republicans go, âHang on, thatâs High Church Orthodoxy. You canât.â
And so when you start getting to the general election, where are you at?
Itâs very simple. I get announced [as the campaignâs chief executive] in August, okay? Heâs down by 16 points, all this stuff. Hillaryâs on the beach, in the Hamptons. She was raising money. Because you guys are gonna win. Now you gotta win the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Itâs all over. Conservatives are done. You guys basically run America for 100 years. Everybody says Trumpâs so far gone that heâs running a mad bomber from Breitbart just to tear his enemies on the way down. Theyâre not gonna win. Bannonâs never been in a campaign in his life. This Bannon is a bigger attack dog than Trump. Heâs going to go out to destroy his enemies. Okay.
She comes off the beach the next week to Reno, for her first big speech. And her speech is Steve Bannon, Breitbart, alt-right, white supremacy, misogynist. Iâm sitting there going, Good God, sheâs wanting to be the commander-in-chief, the most powerful job in the world, and sheâs talking about Breitbart? Are you fucking kidding me? I told the guys right there â Iâd already told Trump âYouâre gonna winâ â I told the whole rest of the staff, âItâs over.â I said, âIf sheâs going to run this, we got them.â For all their brilliance, they had no earthly idea what the campaign was about.
Then on September 9th, itâs a Sunday this year, the high holy day for the deplorables, is when she gave that speech where she calls these people deplorables. The backbone of the country. Trump understood where the people were in the country. Theyâre sitting there telling them, Do you think anybody gives a fuck about Breitbart or Steve Bannon or the alt-right?
So then you get to November, and these trends continue and continue, and then Trump narrowly wins.
But remember, part of our platform, one of the things I put in speeches all the time, was, weâre going to break up the banks. Weâre going to break Citi up. Weâre gonna bifurcate commercial banks from investment banking.
That was your agenda on day one? Well, what happened?
Well, we picked Gary Cohn as the Treasury secretary. They picked Jared Kushner, right? Picked a bunch of progressive lefties who are all stupid. Steve Mnuchin, Gary Cohn, progressive Democrats. You have to understand something, shipmate: Progressive Democrats on Wall Street are not populists. They want to throw you a few bones on social issues, that I think are kind of marginal, to cover the economic issues. Just look at it.
But now McMaster is gone, Cohn is gone, Tillersonâs gone. Look what Trumpâs done in six months. Heâs reorganized the worldâs commercial system. Weâre very close to having a massive reorganization in six months. The Wall Street stuff will all come. Trump wants to make sure first, get the economy revved back up again â
What if it doesnât?
Well, the economy is going to be at 4 percent growth. Wages are going to start to follow. Weâve got time. You canât do everything at one time. Letâs change the worldâs commercial relationships and change the supply chain away from China, okay? First off, that would be Herculean, because for 30 years we looked the other way and exacerbated and we helped its growth.
Trump is a truly transformational president. And youâre seeing it right now.
Youâve got to go for Wall Street hammer and tong. Iâm a big believer in Glass-Steagall. I think youâve gotta go up and break up these money-center banks. Iâm a huge believer in the Volcker Rule, right? I think all that stuff can be put back in prop trading. Weâre all on the same page. Youâve got to look at the leveraging of things. All of the problems we had pre-2008, the casino mentalityâs starting over again. Itâs all gotta be stopped. I think right-wing populismâs the only way to do it. The Democratic Party is much more bought and paid for by Wall Street than we are. It just is.
And what happens if the Democrats win the house?
The very first thing theyâll do is impeach him. Yeah.
On the basis of what the Mueller investigation digs up?
Who knows? And who cares? Theyâll think of something. It doesnât matter. Thereâs not a search for truth. Theyâll have the votes. You gotta remember, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Scarborough and Rahm Emanuel â all the smart guys are sitting there going, âItâs not about impeachment. Donât say impeachment. Itâs about your local congressman and making your life better.â Because theyâve seen the same data Iâve seen. The way to get the deplorables out is very simple: Itâs talking impeachment. They want to shut you up, and they want to impeach Trump. So if you like Trump, you gotta show up. Itâs very simple.
Look, my whole focus in life is very simple: Iâm trying to turn the Republican Party into a worker-based party. Because in a worker-based party, you can control the United States of America.
It strikes me that the only reason itâs even feasible to make the Republican Party something that stands for the working man is because ten years ago, a bunch of bankers got bailed out âŚ
Yes, exactly. Youâre 100 percent correct. At eleven in the morning on September 18th of 2008, in the Oval Office, when the secretary of Treasury and the chair of the Federal Reserve told the president of the United States, âWe need a trillion dollars by 5 p.m.â â boom. That lit a match, and the explosion was Trump.
(RightWing.org) â The nationâs restaurant industry took a big hit during the past few years. Sadly, any hope for a quick recovery after the businesses reopened fell apart as rising inflation gripped the country. Although Burger King is Americaâs third-largest fast-food chain behind McDonaldâs and Wendyâs, itâs not immune to the nationâs economic crisis, and one of its franchisees recently advised officials of the pending closure of all its locations in one state.
On March 22, EYM King LLC sent the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity an official notice under the stateâs Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act that it would permanently cease operations in the state. The Irving, Texas-based Burger King franchisee said it started closing restaurants on March 17 and expected to have its remaining locations closed âon or byâ the middle of April.
The WARN notice lists 26 locations, most of them in metropolitan Detroit and Flint. EYM also confirmed that it would lay off 424 employees due to the closures, none of them union workers.
HAVE IT NO WAY: As the Biden economy spirals, 26 Michigan Burger King franchises are slated to shut down by mid-April. https://t.co/XCEhKTbz7T
â Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 29, 2023
The notice didnât state an official cause for the closures. Instead, it attributed them to âunforeseen business circumstancesâ and an inability to âreach a resolutionâ to its problems with Burger Kingâs corporate headquarters.
Fox Business reached out to Burger King, but a spokesperson for the company declined to provide additional information âdue to pending litigation.â
On the plus side, Michigan residents will still be able to purchase Whoppers and their other favorite menu items in the state from stores that operate under a different franchise. While itâs unclear exactly how many other Burger Kings will remain open in the state, GPS Hospitality operates dozens of locations throughout the eastern two-thirds of Michigan.
Burger Kingâs problems this year didnât start with the Michigan closures. Nationâs Restaurant News reported earlier this year that TOMS King Holdings, one of the fast food chainâs top-performing franchises, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in January. The company operated 90 franchises throughout Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
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BY TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, MAR 28, 2023 – 09:25 AM
Staffer For Sen. Rand Paul “Brutally” Stabbed
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A staffer from Sen. Rand Paulâs (R-Ky.) office has been attacked in Washington, D.C., according to a statement from the congressmanâs office.
In a statement to outlets, Paul said that a member of his staff âwas brutally attacked in broad daylight in Washington, D.C.,â over the weekend.
âI ask you to join Kelley and me in praying for a speedy and complete recovery, and thanking the first responders, hospital staff, and police for their diligent actions,â he added.
âWe are relieved to hear the suspect has been arrested. At this time we would ask for privacy, so everyone can focus on healing and recovery.â
In a statement on Monday, the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPD) said the attack took place on March 25 and police were dispatched around 5:17 p.m. to 1300 block of H Street, Northeast, in response to a reported stabbing.
The victim was taken to a hospital for âtreatment of life-threatening injuries.â
There has been no update as to the stafferâs condition as of late Monday.
The victim was identified as Phillip Todd, who serves on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, according to The Independent, citing MPDâs report. Paul is the top Republican on the committee.
According to the MPD report, the attacker âpopped outâ from corner to attack Todd, who was walking down the street with another person at the time.
The attacker stabbed Todd and subsequently ran off.
The suspect, Glynn Neal, 42, was arrested on the same day of the attack. He was charged with assault with intent to kill with a knife, according to the MPD statement.
Neal had been sentenced in 2011 to more than 12 years in prison for compelling two women to engage in prostitution, according to a release (pdf) from the Department of Justice.
Neal was released from prison just one day before the stabbing, reported Fox5DC, citing Federal Bureau of Prisons records.
The attack occurred weeks after Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) was attacked in an elevator inside her Washington, D.C. apartment building on Feb. 9. The suspect, a homeless man, was arrested on the same day.
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The nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Labor is âthe worst choice the president could have possibly made,â a member of Congress says.
In an interview with Land Line Now, Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., spoke out about his opposition to Julie Su as the next labor secretary. Su is currently the Labor Departmentâs deputy secretary.
Kiley, who served in the California legislature for six years before joining the House of Representatives this year, is critical of Suâs tenure as California Labor Commissioner and the role she played in the handling of the stateâs unemployment system as well as the creation of Assembly Bill 5.
âHer tenure was one of the worst tenures Iâm sure there has ever been for any such position in our countryâs history,â Kiley told Land Line Now. âShe completely failed to run the unemployment office in California in a way that gave people the benefits that they were entitled to when millions of people lost their jobs because of the COVID shutdowns. You had millions of people who got their checks late or had to wait weeks or months, or in some cases, indefinitely.â
According to the Sacramento Bee, Californiaâs Employment Development Department was heavily criticized for how it handled claims and that payments were delayed for an estimated 5 million workers during the pandemic. In addition, the federal benefit programs for COVID were âriddled with fraud,â and an estimated $20 billion of lost claims occurred in California alone.
Opponents to Suâs nomination also point to her role in Californiaâs AB5, a controversial worker classification law that makes it difficult for workers in the state to be considered independent contractors. The law has received great opposition from truck drivers and numerous freelance workers from a variety of industries.
âThere is a lot of competition for bad laws in California, but I think it is one of the worst laws that has been passed in our countryâs history,â Kiley said. âIt simply has put thousands and thousands of people out of work in California and destroyed their careers and taken away their right to make a living by saying theyâre not allowed to be their own boss. Instead, you need to be in the employ of someone else, which is not the preferred model for those who choose to be independent contractors.â
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, which is currently fighting Californiaâs AB5 in court, recently sent a letter to the Senate in opposition of Suâs nomination to lead the Department of Labor.
OOIDA said that AB5 and the âhaphazardâ rollout forced independent contractor truckers to either leave the state, become an employee, attempt to reconfigure their business or abandon the profession.
âWe are concerned that Ms. Su would continue to pursue an ideologically motivated agenda toward worker classification that ignores the thousands of small-business truckers who depend on the ability to work as an independent contractor,â OOIDA wrote. âMake no mistake, if Ms. Su were to advance the same policies that she championed in California, it would force hundreds of thousands of truckers to change their business model and put their livelihood in jeopardy.â
Biden formally submitted Suâs nomination to the Senate earlier this week. As of March 17, the date of the hearing had not been announced. The road to confirmation could be a difficult one as Su narrowly became deputy labor secretary by a 50-47 vote in July 2021.
Although Kiley does not have a vote, the congressmen said he will be doing everything he can to make sure Su is not confirmed.
âIâm doing my best to make sure that adequate scrutiny is being given,â Kiley said. âIâm doing everything I can to inform people in D.C. about the havoc that she wreaked in California. In fact, she received a lot of bipartisan criticism in California.
âI think if we can just get the word out about what her tenure was in California and the damage that she did here, then we will have a good chance of stopping this nomination and getting a much better person in this position.â LL
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, NOV 07, 2022 – 08:20 PM
Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times,
Former President Donald Trump teased confirmation of his anticipated 2024 president bid to supporters on Monday, revealing he will make a âbig announcementâ on Nov. 15.
Trump was in Dayton, Ohio, on Nov. 7, holding a campaign rally for local Republican candidates, particularly J.D. Vance who is seeking the stateâs Senate seat. He told supporters that the midterms are a âcountry-saving election.â
âTwo years ago, we were a great nation and we will be a great nation again,â Trump said.
âThe first step to saving America is winning an epic victory for Republicans tomorrow.â
Near the end of the rally, Trump hinted that he will seek another bid for the White House in 2024.
âIâm going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, November 15, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida,â Trump said, without elaborating.
He added, âWe want nothing to detract from the importance of tomorrow.
Trump has been hinting that he will make another run for president for months.
At an Iowa rally on Nov. 3, Trump dropped a strong hint that he would seek reelection.
âAnd now, in order to make to make our country successful, and safe, and glorious, I will very, very, very, probably do it again, okay?â Trump said. âVery, very, very probably.â
The crowd at the rally cheered in response, erupting in chants of âTrump! Trump! Trump!â
âThatâs nice, well, get ready, thatâs all Iâm telling you, very soon,â Trump said. âGet ready.â
BY: HALEY STRACK
SEPTEMBER 08, 2021
2 MIN READ
The National Archives issued a blanket âwarningâ on cataloged documents, cautioning readers against âracist, sexist, misogynistic, and xenophobic opinions.â
The National Archives Records Administration placed a âharmful contentâ warning on the Constitution, labeling the governing document of the United States as âharmful or difficult to view.â The warning applies to all documents across the Archivesâ cataloged website, including the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.
âNARAâs records span the history of the United States, and it is our charge to preserve and make available these historical records,â the administration said in a statement. âAs a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views and opinions. In addition, some of the materials may relate to violent or graphic events and are preserved for their historical significance.â
The NARA, which is responsible for preserving and protecting documentation of American heritage, noted that so-called harmful historical documents could âreflect racist, sexist, ableist, misogynistic/misogynoir, and xenophobic opinions and attitudes; be discriminatory towards or exclude diverse views on sexuality, gender, religion, and more,â and âinclude graphic content of historical events such as violent death, medical procedures, crime, wars/terrorist acts, natural disasters and more.â
Along with committing to diversity and equity, the NARA said it would â[work] in conjunction with diverse communities, [and] seek to balance the preservation of this history with sensitivity to how these materials are presented to and perceived by users.â
This isnât the first time the National Archives has catered to a leftist view of history. In June, the National Archivesâ racism task force claimed that the Archivesâ rotunda, which houses founding documents, is an example of âstructural racism.â The task force also pushed to include trigger warnings around displays of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, which are all in the rotunda.
The warning is a blanket statement atop all documents in the archived catalogs that links to a âStatement on Potentially Harmful Content.â
As news of the websiteâs warning circulated on Twitter, the NARA issued a standard response to those concerned by the âharmfulâ label on the Constitution.
âThis alert is not connected to any specific records, but appears at the top of the page while you are using the online Catalog. To learn more about why the alert about harmful language appears in our Catalog, please go to âNARAâs Statement on Potentially Harmful Content,ââ the tweet said.
Haley Strack is an intern at The Federalist and a student at Hillsdale College studying politics and journalism. Follow her on Twitter @StrackHaley or reach her at halstrack@gmail.com.
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September 4, 2022 11:08pm
President Biden âdoes not careâ that his border policies victimize children: Rep. Beth Van Duyne
Timothy Thibault, the FBI agent alleged to have interfered with an investigation into Hunter Biden, was assigned by the Washington Field Office as âpoint manâ to manage whistleblower Tony Bobulinski, the first sonâs former business partner, before the 2020 election â but he suppressed his damning revelations, sources say.
Bobulinski spent over five hours secretly being interviewed by the FBI on Oct. 23, 2020, about his inside knowledge of then-presidential candidate Joe Bidenâs involvement in his sonâs business deals with China.
The previous day, he had revealed in a press conference that Joe Biden was the âBig Guyâ due to get a 10% cut of a lucrative joint venture with Chinese energy firm CEFC, according to an email found on Hunterâs abandoned laptop.
Bobulinski gave the FBI the contents of three cellphones containing encrypted messages between Hunter and his business partners, along with emails and financial documents detailing the Biden familyâs corrupt influence-peddling operation in foreign countries during Joeâs vice presidency.
But his evidence appears to have fallen into the same black hole at the FBI as Hunterâs laptop, never to be seen again.
The tale he told
Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, speaks to journalists in 2020.Tom Brenner/REUTERS
Bobulinskiâs FBI interview came the week after The Post published material from the laptop, including the âBig Guyâ message and an email from a Ukrainian energy company executive thanking Hunter for organizing a 2015 meeting in Washington with then-VP Biden.
On the day Bobulinski went to the FBIâs Washington Field Office, 11 days before the 2020 presidential election, he was told not to walk in the front door, but to drive into an underground parking garage at the back of the nondescript, eight-story building in northwest DC, one mile from FBI headquarters.
He was met by James Dawson, then-special agent in charge of the Criminal and Cyber Division, and FBI Supervisory Special Agent Giulio Arseni.
They turned him over to two younger agents, William Novak and Garrett Churchill, who conducted the videotaped interview and provided a receipt for Bobulinskiâs digital data.
He told them about the work Hunter, his uncle Jim Biden, and partners James Gilliar and Rob Walker did during Joeâs vice presidency, in 2015 and 2016, using the Biden name to help CEFC expand into Oman, Romania, Georgia, Kazakhstan and beyond. He told them about Hunterâs lucrative personal relationship with CEFC chairman Ye Jianming at the time the company was brokering Chinaâs $9 billion acquisition of the Russian state oil giant Rosneft. Ye was arrested in China in 2018 after the deal fell apart.
CEFC was the capitalist arm of Chinaâs Belt and Road initiative to extend the Communist regimeâs influence around the globe.
Bobulinski also told the FBI about Hunterâs associations with oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma, with Romanian billionaire Gabriel Popoviciu, and with retired FBI Director Louis Freeh, who was brought in by Hunter as a consultant to help Popoviciu escape corruption charges in Romania.
New York Post cover for Wednesday, October 28, 2020.
Novak and Churchill paused the interview to consult with Dawson a number of times, according to one insider.
Arseni came into the room occasionally and an FBI forensic team visited.
Bobulinski and his lawyer were given Thibaultâs cellphone number and told that he would be their âpoint manâ at the FBI thereafter.
That night, Bobulinskiâs lawyer phoned Thibault, who said he would soon advise on next steps and whether Bobulinski should do a follow-up interview.
But neither Bobulinski nor his lawyer was contacted again. Nor was Bobulinski brought before a Delaware grand jury investigating Hunter.
Dawson moved to the field office in Little Rock, Ark., last July.
Thibault retired from the FBI last week, amid an investigation by the Office of Special Counsel into his anti-Trump social media posts, and after Republican senators made public allegations that he buried Hunter Biden material that would have damaged Joeâs candidacy.
Whistleblowers alleged to Sen. Chuck Grassley that, in the same month as Bobulinskiâs FBI interview, then-Assistant Special Agent in Charge Thibault ordered that an investigation into Hunter Bidenâs alleged âcriminal financial and related activityâ be closed.
âIn October 2020, an avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of ASAC Thibault,â Grassley wrote six weeks ago in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
âItâs been alleged that the FBI HQ team suggested to the FBI agents that the information was at risk of disinformation; however, according to allegations, [it] was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants ⌠Thibault allegedly ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason, as required by FBI guidelines [and] itâs alleged that FBI officials, including ASAC Thibault, subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.â
President Joe Biden with his son Hunter Biden waves as they leave Holy Spirit Catholic Church.Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
Timothy Thibault recently retired. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Grassley also alleged that FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten had opened an assessment in August 2020, which was used by an FBI headquarters team to âimproperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease ⌠Verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation.â
Thibault denied Grassleyâs allegations last week. A statement from his pro-bono lawyer said he âdid not supervise the investigation of Hunter Biden which ⌠is being handled by the Baltimore Field Office.
âIn particular, Mr. Thibault was not involved in any decisions related to any laptop that may be at issue in that investigation and he did not seek to close the investigation.â
But Thibaultâs statement omits any explanation of what he did with Bobulinskiâs information.
Did he give it to the FBIâs Baltimore field office, which was assisting Delaware US Attorney David Weissâ four-year probe of Hunter for alleged tax evasion, money laundering and foreign agent violations?
If he did, then why has Bobulinski never testified before the grand jury convened by Weiss last year?
Other business partners of Hunter testified and at least one was asked the identity of âthe Big Guy,â according to a source.
President Biden with his son Hunter Biden waves as they leave Holy Spirit Catholic Church.Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
It seems inexplicable that Bobulinski â who met twice with Joe Biden in 2017 over the CEFC deal, and provided information that corroborates damning material on Hunterâs laptop â is not a star witness, especially since the FBI has been in possession of the laptop since December 2019, and knows it is authentic.
It is not as if Bobulinski is not highly credible. He is a decorated former US Navy officer with top secret security clearances from the National Security Agency and the Department of Energy. A successful businessman, he has donated to both sides of the political aisle.
In the interests of national security, it was the FBIâs duty to investigate credible evidence suggesting the future president may have been compromised by China via millions of dollars paid to his family.
Even if the FBI was reluctant, after its 2016 Hillary email debacle, to take action that could be deemed political during an election campaign, there is no excuse for not following up with Bobulinski afterward.
The FBIâs failure to do so amounts to interference-by-omission in the 2020 election.
The federal government colluded with Big Tech platforms to censor Covid info they deemed false, according to newly released emails.
Source: The Biden Admin Colluded With Big Tech To Censor Covid ‘Misinfo’
BY: JORDAN BOYD
SEPTEMBER 02, 2022
2 MIN READ
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Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake wants Democrats and the corrupt corporate media, which constantly demonize the more than 74 million people who voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, to know thereâs nothing wrong with asking questions about election irregularities. In response to a question from what appeared to be a journalist at a campaign event, Lake made that abundantly clear.
âYou said you feel like Joe Biden is dividing the country, but do you feel like Donald Trump is doing the same by falsely telling people that he won that election when he lost it?â the man asked at a recent âKari Lake for Governorâ event.
Itâs a dishonest, straw-man question meant to bait the Trump endorsee into giving the corporate media ammo for their incessant, ridiculous âelection denierâ smears against candidates such as Lake, but the Republican was unfazed.
âSince when can we not ask questions about our elections?â Lake asked. âAs a journalist for many years, I was a journalist after 2016 and I distinctly remember many people, just like you, asking a lot of questions about the 2016 election results, and nobody tried to shut you up.â
Lakeâs point is valid. Hillary Clinton, Bidenâs Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and a whole slew of congressional Democrats denied that former President Donald Trump was legitimately elected in 2016. Not only that, but they still tout and fundraise on the lie that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election.
âI donât see how asking questions about an election where there were many problems is dividing a country,â Lake explained. âWhat I do see dividing a country is shutting people down, censoring people, canceling people, trying to destroy peopleâs lives when they do ask questions.â
According to Lake, thereâs nothing wrong with Americans exercising their freedom of speech to ask questions about elections. Yet the free press that is protected by the same Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing a right to speech repeatedly uses it to tarnish election-integrity supporters.
âLast I heard, we still have the Constitution. Itâs hanging by a thread thanks to some of the work some people in this area have done. But weâre going to save that Constitution and weâre going to bring back freedom of speech. And maybe someday youâll thank us for that,â Lake concluded.
Attorney General Merrick Garland thought everything was going according to plan in his plot against Donald Trump.
But he never expected to hit this snag.
And Merrick Garland was just blindsided by this one surprising lawsuit.
The FBIâs raid on Mar-a-Lago is a move straight out of a banana republic.
One of the key figures in orchestrating this mockery of justice is federal magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who authorized the FBIâs search warrant.
Reinhart also worked with the FBI to release a highly redacted version of the affidavit for the search warrant of Trumpâs private home.
Reinhart is just another partisan hack helping to facilitate the latest witch hunt against Donald Trump.
According to unearthed social media posts, Reinhart is a left-wing Trump hater who ranted against the former President.
In one video, Reinhart defended the abuse of power by former Obama IRS Director Lois Lerner.
After Lerner targeted Tea Party groups with harassment, the IRS eventually paid a $3.5 million fine and apologized.
Reinhart also put his money where his mouth is with a donation of $2,000 to Barack Obamaâs 2008 Presidential campaign along with a 2015 donation to Trumpâs GOP Primary opponent, Jeb Bush.
Having a deeply partisan judge involved in the FBI raid is tilting the scales against Donald Trump.
But the conservative group Tea Party Patriots Action is fighting back with a new lawsuit against Bruce Reinhart.
The complaint against Reinhart accuses him of âunethical and prejudicial conductâ and of having a âconflict of interest and a pattern and history of hostility to President Trump.â
It asks that Reinhart be taken off of the case and removed from his job as federal magistrate judge.
âJudge Reinhart acted unethically in approving the warrant to search President Trumpâs residence,â said Tea Party Patriots Action Chairman Jenny Beth Martin. âJudge Reinhart is a Democrat who donated to former President Obama. The judge publicly denigrated former President Trump in social media posts.â
âJust two months ago, he recused himself from a lawsuit involving President Trump in his suit against Hillary Clinton, citing a âconflict of interest,’â Beth Martin continued.
Reinhart recused himself from a civil lawsuit by Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton over the Russian collusion hoax, citing concerns he couldnât be impartial in the case.
âHe should be disciplined and removed as a federal magistrate,â Martin said. âThe entire episode involving the search of former President Trumpâs home threatens the principle of âequal justice under lawâ and the confidence of the American people in an unbiased judiciary.â
Martin added that Reinhart should be removed as federal magistrate for âfailure to meet the standards of ethical conduct and character.â
The Tea Party Patriots Action lawsuit against federal magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart could throw a monkey wrench in Merrick Garlandâs plot against Donald Trump.
Renewed Right will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
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Mike Davis: The FBIâs Mar-a-Lago was a Political Raid to Secure the Operation Crossfire Hurricane Documents
President Donald Trump calls on his supporters to be peaceful on Jan. 6, 2021. (White House/Released)
AUGUST 23, 2022 LIZ GEORGE
On Monday, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration seeking a review and inventory of every item removed from his home during the FBIâs âunprecedentedâ raid on Mar-a-Lago earlier this month. Trump also asked a judge to block investigators from examining the materials.
Trump lawyers Lindsey Halligan, James Trusty and Evan Corcoran filed the lawsuit, which accuses the federal government of refusing âto provide President Trump with any reason for the unprecedented, general search of his home.â
âTo date, the Government has failed to legitimize its historic decision to raid the home of a president who had been fully cooperative,â reads the lawsuit, entitled Trump v. United States Government.
The lawsuit also blasted Attorney General Merrick Garland for his statement on the raid, in which Garland revealed he âpersonally approved the decision to seek a search warrantâ to raid Trumpâs home.
âThis public statement is deeply troubling, given that President Donald J. Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary and in the 2024 General Election, should he decide to run,â the lawsuit states. âThe statement clearly suggests that the decision to raid Mar-a-Lago a mere 90 days before the 2022 midterm elections, involved political calculations aimed at diminishing the leading voice in the Republican party, President Trump.â
The lawsuit seeks the appointment of a Special Master to review the materials seized during the raid. This third-party individual would determine if the items taken are protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.
âAccording to the Government, the agents seized documents, privileged and/or potentially privileged materials, and other items â including photos, handwritten notes, and even President Trumpâs passports â that were outside the lawful reach of an already overbroad warrant,â the lawsuit states.
âPresident Trump, like all citizens, is protected by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Property seized in violation of his constitutional rights must be returned forthwith,â it continues. âLaw enforcement is a shield that protects Americans. It cannot be used as a weapon for political purposes.â
After the lawsuit was filed, Trump said in an emailed statement provided to American Military News that the âMar-a-Lago Break-In, Search, and Seizure was illegal and unconstitutional, and we are taking all actions necessary to get the documents back, which we would have given to them without the necessity of the despicable raid of my home, so that I can give them to the National Archives until they are required for the future Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Museum.â
âThey demanded that the security cameras be turned off, a request we rightfully denied. They prevented my attorneys from observing what was being taken in the raid, saying âabsolutely not.â They took documents covered by attorney-client and executive privilege, which is not allowed,â Trump continued. âThey took my passports. They even brought a âsafe crackerâ and successfully broke into my personal safe, which revealedâŚnothing!â
âThe wrongful, overbroad warrant was signed by a Magistrate Judge who recused himself just two months ago, from a MAJOR civil suit that I filed, because of his bias and animus toward me,â Trump added.
The U.S. Department of Justice revealed in court filings last week that it opposes unsealing the affidavit that led to the search warrant approving the raid. The department claimed that unsealing the affidavit would compromise the investigation because it would provide a âroadmap to the governmentâs ongoing investigationâ and expose âspecific details about its direction and likely course.â
Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed off on the warrant, pushed back on the Justice Departmentâs opposition to unsealing the affidavit, admitting that the raid was âunprecedented.â
âThe Government argues that even requiring it to redact portions of the Affidavit that could not reveal agent identities or investigative sources and methods imposes an undue burden on its resources and sets a precedent that could be disruptive and burdensome in future cases,â Reinhart wrote, according to Fox News. âI do not need to reach the question of whether, in some other case, these concerns could justify denying public access; they very well might.â
âParticularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former Presidentâs residence, the Government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing,â he added.
Reinhart previously quit his job as a U.S. Attorney to represent accused accomplices of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a report revealed in the aftermath of the raid.
MIKE DAVIS
ON 8/15/22 AT 6:30 AM EDT
FBI Director Slammed For ‘Integrity’ Comments Over Trump Raid
For over a year, we’ve heard Democrats wailing about existential threats to “democracy!” Curiously, this has happened while these same Democrats in Congress have worked hand-in-glove with their fellow Democrats in the Justice Department to disregard all norms to hunt down and attempt to destroy President Joe Biden‘s chief political rival, former President Donald Trump, as well as Trump’s top aides and even his political supporters.
Last Monday, the Biden Justice Department crossed a red line by ordering an unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful FBI raid of Trump’s home and offices in Mar-a-Lago. The purported purpose of the highly controversial home raid with a brigade of 30 FBI agentsâa raid Attorney General Merrick Garland admitted he personally ordered after his aides initially denied itâis related to 15 to 25 boxes of presidential records, some of which bureaucrats at the National Archives claim are classified and which Trump took to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House over 18 months ago.
All presidents take mementos and other records when they leave office. They don’t pack their own boxes. The National Archives takes the position that almost everything is a “presidential record.” And the federal government, in general, over-classifies almost everything.
Even if Trump took classified records, that isn’t a crime. The president has the inherent constitutional power to declassify any record he wants, in any manner he wants, regardless of any otherwise-pertinent statute or regulation that applies to everyone else. The president does not need to obtain Congress’ or a bureaucrat’s permissionâor jump through their regulatory or statutory hoopsâto declassify anything. The Supreme Court reaffirmed this in the 1988 case, Department of the Navy v. Egan : “The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.’ U.S. Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security…flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.”
Thus, if Trump left the White House with classified records, then those records are necessarily declassified by his very actions. He doesn’t need to label that decision for, or report that decision to, any bureaucrat who works for him. It is pretextual legal nonsense for the Biden Justice Department to pretend Trump broke any criminal statute. Indeed, it is noteworthy that Attorney General Garland apparently did not seek an opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)âthe de facto general counsel for the executive branchâbefore ordering this home raid of his boss’s chief political enemy. Perhaps Garland knew OLC wouldn’t give him the answer he wanted.
In 2012, former President Barack Obama secretly told the Russian president he’d have “more flexibility” to negotiate with Russia after the 2012 presidential election. To convey that message is to clearly transmit highly classified information. So why not an Espionage Act violation? Well, because Obama was the presidentâperiod.
All former presidents also get a federally funded office, called the Office of the Former President. They get lawyers and other staff, security clearances, Secret Service protection, and secure facilities (SCIFs) for the maintenance of classified records. Even if Trump had classified records, then, they were protected and secure.
At best, then, this amounts to a dispute over the Presidential Records Act. If the boxes sought by DOJ contain presidential records, then the National Archives “owns” themâbut they’ll almost certainly stay with Trump in his eventual presidential library.
That’s the bureaucratic dispute. That’s it. This is not any crime (the Presidential Records Act is not a criminal statute), let alone one requiring a 30-person FBI brigade and unprecedented raid of a former president’s home and office.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland explains to reporters that he will not take questions after he delivered a statement at the U.S. Department of Justice August 11, 2022 in Washington, D.C.DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
It is routine for any Office of the Former President to negotiate with the National Archives. The Archives could have also alerted Congress. The Biden Justice Department could have filed a civil lawsuit. Or the Biden Justice Department could have sought more subpoenas. Instead, DOJ went nuclear, with its unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful home raidâeven knowing Trump had already been holding these records at Mar-a-Lago for 18 months. So why now?
To put this in perspective, former President Bill Clinton stole more than $190,000 in china, flatware, rugs, sofas, and other personal gifts from the White House. The Clintons eventually caved to public pressure and paid $86,000 for the items. There was no FBI raid.
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set up an illegal home server containing some of our nation’s most classified records. She openly admitted to stealing and destroying records herself, putting our national security at risk. There was no FBI raid. In fact, the FBI never even questioned her.
To add insult to injury, the Biden Justice Department obtained this unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful home raid warrant from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart of West Palm Beach. Reinhart had just recently recused himself on June 22, 2022, in Trump’s civil lawsuit against Hillary Clinton. What’s more, in 2017, Reinhart blasted Trump’s integrity on Facebook: “Donald Trump doesn’t have the moral stature to kiss John Lewis‘s feet.” So, what changed over the last two months to make Reinhart’s clear judicial bias (somehow) go away?
FBI Director Christopher Wray recently testified that the FBI was too busy to stop dangerous and illegal intimidation campaigns outside Supreme Court justices’ homes. This was after an attempted assassin was thankfully arrested outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh‘s home. The FBI apparently didn’t have the time to investigate actual threats to the lives of constitutional officers, but it had plenty of time to raid the home of a former president over an 18-month-old records disputeâwith which Trump publicly stated he was fully cooperating.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Chris Wray, the Biden National Security Division, and the rest of the Biden DOJ are dangerously blinded by their obsession with President Trump, his aides, and his supporters.
They missed this Iranian terrorist attack in America: https://t.co/iBaIGTZg1oâ Mike Davis (@mrddmia) August 14, 2022
Attorney General Garland attempted to defend the indefensible in his political press conference last Thursday. Garland left more questions than answers. As a former federal judge and prosecutor, he should be ashamed of himself for so recklessly politicizing the Justice Department. And the politicized, highly inappropriate, inaccurate leaks out of the Justice Department about the underlying grand jury investigation further demonstrate the Biden regime is out of control in its pursuit of punishing a past and likely-future political rival of President Biden.
House Republicans must impeach Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Wray for their unprecedented and destructive politicization of the Justice Department, when they reclaim power in January. And over the long term, House and Senate Republicans must dismantle and rebuild the FBI, so political raids like this never happen again. We cannot allow our law enforcement agencies to become third-world political hit squads.
Mike Davis, the former chief counsel for nominations to then-Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, is the founder and president of the Article III Project (A3P). A3P defends constitutionalist judges and the rule of law.
The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.
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