CNN is reporting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation now thinks the gunman who shot former President Donald Trump at an outdoor campaign rally last weekend did not write an anonymous message on the gaming platform Steam in the days leading up to the assassination attempt.
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Pro-Life Father of 11 Avoids Prison Time Sought by Biden DOJ
A Tennessee judge ruled Tuesday that pro-life activist Paul Vaughn will not serve time in prison for trying to stop abortions from taking place at a Tennessee abortion clinic.
Read MoreCommentary: Supreme Court Overturns DOJ’s Use of Key January 6 Felony Court
In a devastating but well-deserved blow to the Department of Justiceâs criminal prosecution of January 6 protesters, the U.S. Supreme Court today overturned the DOJâs use of 18 USC 1512(c)(2), the most prevalent felony in J6 cases.
The statute, commonly referred to as âobstruction of an official proceeding,â has been applied in roughly 350 J6 cases; it also represents two of four counts in Special Counsel Jack Smithâs J6-related criminal indictment of Donald Trump in Washington.
Read MoreJulian Assange Reaches Plea Deal with U.S. That Avoids Jail Time
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the United States on Monday that would allow him to avoid any time in prison, according to new court documents.
Read MoreTrump’s Former DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark Files Post-Hearing Brief Poking Holes in the D.C. Bar’s Disciplinary Panel Findings
Donald Trumpâs former DOJ official, Jeffrey Clark, is fighting a recommendation from the D.C. Barâs disciplinary panel to discipline him over his concerns about illegalities in the 2020 election. Last month, he filed a Post-Hearing Brief challenging a nonbinding preliminary finding of culpability for drafting a letter that was never sent to Georgia officials advising them of their options in dealing with the irregularities.
Read MoreCommentary: Trump’s Trial Is a Symptom of a Larger Crisis in American Justice
Naturally, the cataract of commentary on Thursdayâs Stalinist guilty, guilty, guilty verdict against Donald Trump has divided itself into two distinct pools. One is gleeful. The other is alarmed. Rather than anatomize the differences between the two, Iâd like to start by simply noting the size and fervor of the response. There are, I believe, two essential points to bear in mind.
The first is that the outpouring is only incidentally about Trump. You might find this a surprising statement since the news has been full of little besides Trump.
Read MoreNorfolk Southern Reaches $310 Million Settlement with EPA, DOJ over East Palestine Derailment
Norfolk Southern reached a $310 million settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice on Thursday over a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last year.
The settlement, which has yet to be approved by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, requires Norfolk Southern to spend an estimated $235 million for clean-up, $30 million for water quality monitoring, $25 million for a 20-year community health program, and $6 million to prioritize addressing historical pollution through a âwaterways remediation plan,â reported the Washington Examiner.
Read MoreBiden Attempt to Hide Tapes to Collide with Precedent from Past Democratic Probes
President Joe Bidenâs attempt to assert executive privilege over the tapes of his interview with federal investigators in his own classified documents case could run into the history of Democratic tactics to obtain information from former President Trump.
For example, recent court decisions surrounding Trumpâs efforts to invoke executive privilege over subpoenaed documents by the Jan. 6 Select Committee confirmed a legitimate congressional investigation is often a strong basis for requesting documents or information from the executive. Though, Bidenâs current control of the executive branch may allow him to stonewall successfully.
Read MoreCommentary: Defund and Investigate Jack Smith
Special Counsel Jack Smith was supposed to be basking in glory right now.
In his ideal world, Smith would be hot off a quick conviction of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. for the former presidentâs alleged role in the events of January 6 and attempts to âoverturnâ the 2020 election. The special counsel then would have immediately moved his victorious prosecutors to Palm Beach for the summer to prepare for Trumpâs second federal trial related to allegedly stealing national defense information and impeding the Department of Justiceâs investigation.
Read MoreCommentary: Judge Cannon Puts Jack Smith on Trial
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon may have just indefinitely postponed Donald Trumpâs espionage and obstruction trial but that doesnât mean her federal courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida will lie dormant over the next few months.
In officially vacating the existing May 20 trial dateâan impossibility considering the defendant will be in a Manhattan courtroom for the foreseeable futureâCannon declined to set another date, calling it âimprudentâ at this stage of the process. She noted a âmyriadâ of unresolved matters in Special Counsel Jack Smithâs 42-count indictment against the former president and his two co-defendants, Mar-a-Lago employees Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Olivera, for willfully retaining national defense information and attempting to impede the governmentâs investigation.
Read MoreFrom Watergate to Now: John Solomon Exposes Deepening Collusion and Tampering in Trump Investigations
From his studios at Just the News, John Solomon joined Steve Bannon on WarRoom on Monday to examine previous impeachment proceedings and investigations concerning Donald Trump. He exposed some breaking news, reporting that there is extensive evidence of tampering and witness tampering in the Ukraine impeachment and subsequent investigations.
Read MoreJulie Kelly Commentary: The DOJ’s Doctored Crime Scene Photo of Mar-a-Lago Raid
A few weeks after the armed FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, the Department of Justice released a stunning photograph depicting alleged contraband seized from Donald Trumpâs Palm Beach estate that day; the image showed colored sheets representing scary classification levels attached to files purportedly discovered in Trumpâs private office.
Read MoreD.C. Bar Disciplinary Panel Makes Nonbinding Preliminary Determination of Culpability for a âThought Crimeâ in Disbarment Trial of Trumpâs Former DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark
The disciplinary trial of Donald Trumpâs former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark wrapped up on Thursday with the D.C. Barâs disciplinary panel making a nonbinding preliminary determination that Clark was culpable on at least one of the two counts against him.
Read MoreFeds Crack Down on Pernicious Chinese Hacking Group that Targeted U.S. Govât, Dissidents
The U.S. on Monday announced actions aimed at exposing a sweeping Chinese hacking campaign that has targeted U.S. government institutions, critical infrastructure, media and political dissidents for more than a decade.
Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, Limited (Wuhan XRZ), served as a front company for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), which deals with overseas policing and espionage, allowing Chinese hackers to hide a multitude of malicious cyber operations, the Treasury Department said after sanctioning the organization on Monday in a statement alongside other U.S. agencies and the United Kingdom. In an indictment unsealed separately, the Department of Justice accused Chinese nationals Zhao Guangzong, Ni Gaobin and five others for their role âin furtherance of [Chinaâs] economic espionage and foreign intelligence objectivesâ over the past 14 years.
Read MoreImpeachment Probe Dramatically Pivots to Questions of CIA, DOJ Coverup in Hunter Biden Case
After a bombastic hearing with Hunter Biden’s business partners, House impeachment investigators are dramatically pivoting to allegations of a possible coverup in the first son’s criminal tax case as the inquiry transitions to a new phase.
On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee sued the Justice Department seeking to force two attorneys there to comply with subpoenas and testify about whether there was any political interference in Hunter Biden’s tax prosecution.
Read MoreCommentary: Biden’s DOJ Thumbs Nose at SCOTUS on Key J6 Felony Charge
Donald Trump filed his brief Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court to defend his argument that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution. Noting the lack of historical precedent and dire ramifications for the future, Trumpâs attorneys warned that âa denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future President with de facto blackmail and extortion while in office, and condemn him to years of post-office trauma at the hands of political opponents.â
Oral arguments on the groundbreaking question are set for April 25; a final opinion, which could be announced in late May or sometime in June before the current SCOTUS term ends, represents a do-or-die situation for Special Counsel Jack Smithâs four-count indictment against the former president for the events of January 6 and his alleged attempts to âoverturnâ the 2020 election. The case is now on hold awaiting a decision by SCOTUS.
Read MoreCommentary: America’s Intelligence Community is Broken
In the current discourse surrounding the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), a prevailing narrative has emerged, as highlighted in a recent Politico article, that mistakenly warns of a future Trump administrationâs destruction of the IC as we know it. This perspective is biased and misguided. The real crisis in the Intelligence Community is not what Trump will do if reelected but how to resolve the total erosion of public trust in the IC due to the actions of the D.C. intelligence establishment over the past several decades.
The intelligence officials quoted by Politico, in decrying politicization, ironically contribute to it, exacerbating the broader loss of faith in our institutions. The Intelligence Community, a cornerstone of our national security, must operate insulated from politics â a necessity for its credibility and effectiveness in safeguarding national interests.
Read MoreCommentary: In Prosecuting Trump, Democrats Have Exonerated Him
Despite their best efforts, have Democrats begun an inexorable elevation of former President Donald Trump? For the better part of a decade, Democrats and the Left have thrown everything they could think of against the man they live to loathe. In the process, they have created a quasi-caricature that appears to be decreasingly believable to an increasing proportion of Americans. The question is whether these attacks have come full circle, accomplishing what Democrats most sought to avoid. Have they vilified Trump to victimhood and prosecuted him back into the presidency?
Since Trump burst on the political scene in 2016, Democrats and the Left have busted their guts laughing at him. When that didnât work and he won, they burst all boundaries going after him. Their efforts have ranged from slights to a Russian dossier to two impeachments. Even after Trump left office, they refused to stop. Unquestionably, these efforts have had an effect â and equally unquestionably, Trump has given ample fodder to use against him: the result being that with Trump poised to win an unprecedented third successive major party presidential nomination (a feat last accomplished by Franklin D. Roosevelt 84 years ago), he has become a highly polarizing figure.
Read MoreMerrick Garland Vows to Fight Against Voter ID Laws
Attorney General Merrick Garland recently declared his intentions to actively combat voter ID laws being enacted in various states, falsely claiming that such laws âdisadvantage minorities.â
As reported by Breitbart, Garland appeared alongside Vice President Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) at an event in Selma, Alabama on Sunday. At the event, Garland described such efforts to protect election integrity as âdiscriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary.â
Read MoreJulie Kelly Commentary: In the Room at Friday’s Florida Hearing in Trump’s Classified Documents Case
I am digging into a few other matters related to this case, the contempt order issued Thursday against veteran investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, and a new appellate court ruling overturning the use of a sentencing enhancement for J6ers convicted of the controversial 1512(c)(2) charge so unfortunately I canât write a full article on yesterdayâs hearing that I attended in person in Fort Pierce. So I want to share my X posts about what happened.
A few additional observations: Judge Cannonâs approach and style is inimical from that of judges in D.C. For part of the proceedings, I kept thinking how DOJâs J6 prosecution in Washington would be so different if only half the judges were as careful and prepared and nontheatrical as Cannon. I shared this with a J6 defense attorney last night and he agreed.
Read MoreCommentary: Obama’s CIA Asked Foreign Intel Agencies to Spy on Trump Campaign
The revelation that the U.S. intelligence community, under the Obama administration, sought the assistance of the âFive Eyesâ intelligence alliance to surveil Donald Trumpâs associates before the 2016 election is a chilling reminder of the lengths to which the Deep State will go to protect its interests and challenge its adversaries. (The Five Eyes countries are the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.) This bombshell, reported by a team of independent journalists, exposes a dark chapter in American political history, where foreign intelligence services were reportedly mobilized against a presidential candidate.
The alleged operation against Trump and his associates, which predates the official start of the FBIâs Crossfire Hurricane investigation, is a stark example of political weaponization of intelligence. The involvement of foreign allies in surveilling American citizens under the pretext of national security raises serious questions about the integrity of our democratic processes and the autonomy of our nationâs intelligence operations.
Read MoreD.C. Court of Appeals Panel Gives Trump’s Former DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark a Unanimous Victory on Subpoena Violating His Fifth Amendment Rights
A panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Monday that the D.C. Barâs Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) unconstitutionally subpoenaed documents from former President Donald Trumpâs former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark in violation of his Fifth Amendment rights.
Read MoreCommentary: America’s Weaponized Intelligence Community
The Intelligence Community of the United States of America has been weaponized against the incumbent leaderâs political opposition, having even turned the spy agencies of our closest allies against the leading Republican candidate.
This is the inescapable conclusion to be drawn if a bombshell report released last week is accurate.
Read MoreBiden Defends His Mental Fitness After DOJ Report Calls Him ‘Elderly Man with Poor Memory’
A visibly upset President Joe Biden addressed the nation late Thursday to respond to news that the special counsel tasked with investigating his handling of classified documents had chosen not to charge him, but also detailed numerous examples of his memory loss.
The blockbuster special counsel report, while clearing Biden, sparked questions about Bidenâs mental fitness when it called him an âelderly man with a poor memory.â Biden is 81 years old.
Read MoreClassified Ukraine Documents Discovered in Biden’s Possession from Time of Hunter’s Burisma Work
According to the appendices listing the documents recovered in the Justice Department investigation into Joe Bidenâs handling of classified documents, the president retained talking points and a telephone call transcript with the Ukrainian prime minister from a key period in Hunter Bidenâs Burisma Holdings employment.
Read MoreSpecial Prosecutor Gives Scathing Assessment of Biden’s Mental Acuity
Though the special counsel investigating Joe Bidenâs possession of classified documents ultimately did not recommend charges after finding he âwillfullyâ kept and shared some of the memos, the prosecutor gave a scathing assessment of the Presidentâs mental acuity months before the presidential election.
Read MoreSpecial Counsel Robert Hur Says Biden ‘Willfully’ Kept, Shared Classified Memos but Won’t Be Charged Because of His Poor Memory
Special counsel Robert Hur concluded in a stinging report released Thursday that President Joe Biden willfully kept classified documents from his time as vice president, shared them with an author and knew he had them as far back as 2017, but he recommended against prosecution.
Read MoreCommentary: ‘Disturbing’ Collusion Between Biden White House and Trump Prosecutors
Before the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith in November 2022, Joe Bidenâs Department of Justice was in the process of conducting two separate criminal investigations into Donald Trump: his attempts to âoverturnâ the 2020 election and his alleged mishandling of sensitive government files.
Smith took over both matters to demonstrate the DOJâs âindependenceâ from politics, the public was told, although he took with him prosecutors and investigators already assigned to the existing inquiries. His team continues to insist their work is devoid of any influence from or cooperation with the Biden regime. Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland say the same.
Read MoreBiden DOJ Wants Former Trump Advisor Peter Navarro to Spend Six Months in Jail
The Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Thursday that Peter Navarro, previously a trade advisor to former President Donald Trump, should face six months in jail and pay $200,000 for failing to comply with a Jan. 6 select committee subpoena.
Prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo Thursday that Navarro âexacerbatedâ the âassaultâ on the rule of law that occurred on Jan. 6 by flouting the subpoena, stating that his âbad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt deserves severe punishment.â Navarro was indicted on contempt of Congress charges in June 2022 after he declined to testify during his deposition and did not produce the documents requested by the select committee.
Read MoreUvalde School Shooting Response Had ‘No Urgency,’ Plagued with ‘Cascading Failures’: DOJ Report
The mass shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, could have been stopped sooner if it were not for significant law enforcement failures, according to a scathing Justice Department report released Thursday.
Police had “cascading failures” in their response to the shooting on May 24, 2022, according to a nearly 600-page federal report, which slams first responders for a lack of leadership and demonstrating “no urgency” in creating a command post, among other things, per The Associated Press.
Read MoreDOJ Attorney Playing Key Role in Jack Smith’s Prosecution of Trump Worked on Case That Put Pro-Life Activist in Jail
One of the prosecutors helping special counsel Jack Smith prosecute former President Donald Trump for alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election also worked on a high-profile case against a pro-life activist.
Molly Gaston, a prosecutor who spent years in the District of Columbia U.S. Attorneyâs Office and is now playing a key role on Smithâs team, worked on the early stages of the prosecution of pro-life activist Lauren Handy. Handy had been in jail since August when she, along with four co-defendants, were found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access To Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for blocking access to a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic in 2020.
Read MoreCommentary: As DOJ Threatens to Charge ‘Thousands’ over J6 Trespassing, Judges Signal Skepticism
In a brazen act of political theater worthy of an ethics investigation, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves gave an hourlong rehash of the events of January 6 to a handful of reporters last week. Graves, a Biden 2020 campaign advisor who was appointed by Biden in November 2021, is overseeing the Department of Justiceâs unprecedented and ongoing criminal investigation into the four-hour disturbance that has so far resulted in the arrest of more than 1,200 Americans.
Read MoreDOJ Sues Texas to Prevent State from Arresting Migrants Who Enter Illegally
The Biden administration is suing Texas to prevent the state from arresting migrants who flout U.S. immigration law to enter the state illegally, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday.
The DOJ is making good on its threat to sue Texas over enforcing S.B. 4, a new law signed in December 2023 that would permit local and state authorities to arrest and prosecute individuals suspected of entering the U.S. illegally, according to the DOJ and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. Texas Illegal immigration has surged to record levels under the Biden administration, with Texas seeing a massive influx of migrants arriving at its border with Mexico.
Read MoreCommentary: Biden’s Lawfare Campaign is Crumbling
The leftâs unhinged lawfare campaign against Donald Trump is falling apart.
The extreme measures being taken to stop Trump reflect desperation, not strength. And it appears increasingly likely they will end with Trump returning to power.
Read MoreCommentary: Is SCOTUS Poised to Overturn Key J6 Felony Count?
An order published by the Supreme Court on December 13 represented a moment hundreds of January 6 defendants and their loved ones had been waiting for: the highest court granted a writ of certiorari petition in the case of Fischer v. USA.
In a nutshell, after more than two years of litigation before federal judges in Washington, SCOTUS will review the Department of Justiceâs use of 1512(c)(2), obstruction of an official proceeding, in January 6 cases. A âsplinteredâ 2-1 appellate court ruling issued in April just barely endorsed the DOJâs unprecedented interpretation of the statute, passed in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the aftermath of the Enron/Arthur Anderson accounting scandal.
Read MoreHunter Biden Charged in New Federal Indictment with Engaging in a Tax Evasion Scheme
Special Counsel David Weiss on Thursday secured a federal grand jury indictment charging Hunter Biden with multiple crimes alleging he engaged in a four-year scheme to evade paying federal taxes, adding serious new legal jeopardy for the first son on the eve of a presidential primary season where his father hopes to win four more years in the White House.
Read MoreNew House Report Asserts Special Treatment for Hunter Biden by DOJ and FBI
A trio of congressional committees on Tuesday released a new report asserting that Hunter Biden received special treatment from his father’s Justice Department.Â
The 77-page interim report, released by the House’s Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Oversight and Accountability committees is the “third prong” of House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
Read MoreCommentary: Where Are the J6 Committee Videos?
Special Counsel Jack Smithâs criminal case against Donald Trump for the events of January 6 is inextricably tied to the work of the special House committee that conducted an 18-month investigation into what happened before, on, and after that day.
In fact, one could safely argue that Smith lifted much of the language directly from the committeeâs findings to prepare his 45-page indictment. Three of the four criminal referrals made by the committee, formed by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in June 2021, are reflected in Smithâs indictment. As Kyle Cheney, Politicoâs legal affairs reporter recently noted, âthe words in Smithâs filing are almost verbatim the case that the committeeâs vice chair, Liz Cheney, made at the panelâs first public hearing.â
Read MoreCommentary: One in Every 39 Americans Will Die of a Drug Overdose at Current Rate
Despite the passage of state and federal laws that were supposed to reduce fatal drug overdoses, the annual U.S. drug overdose death rate has quintupled over recent decades:
Over the most current year of available data, more than 110,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses, a rate of 33 per 100,000 population.
Read MoreTrad Catholic Family Dragged Out of Home at Gunpoint, Locked in Van After FBI ‘Goaded’ Teen to Post Offensive Memes, Dad Says
A traditional Catholic family was allegedly âdragged out of their home at gunpoint, handcuffed and locked in a vanâ earlier this year after the FBI âgoadedâ their 15-year-old son to post âoffensive memesâ online. The teen, a volunteer firefighter and altar boy, was then hospitalized on mental health pretenses, according to his father, Jeremiah Rufini.
The FBIâs aggressive âinvestigationâ only resulted in a misdemeanor conviction against the boy for breach of peace, but financially devastated the family with substantial legal expenses.
Read MoreTech Giant Pays Millions to Settle Claims It Discriminated Against American Citizens
Apple will pay $25 million to settle claims that it unlawfully discriminated against U.S. citizens and some non-U.S. citizens in its hiring process, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday.
The DOJ alleged that Apple breached the Immigration and Nationality act (INA) in its hiring efforts for roles covered by the permanent labor certification program (PERM), according to the announcement. PERM enables employers to âsponsorâ employees for âlawful permanent resident statusâ in the U.S. and bars employers from engaging in unlawful hiring discrimination due to citizenship or immigration status.
Read MoreMark Houck, Family Sue Biden DOJ for ‘Malicious and Retaliatory Prosecution’
Pro-life activist Mark Houck and his wife, Ryan-Marie Houck, are suing the federal Department of Justice over the DOJâs treatment of their family, accusing the DOJ of a âfaultyâ investigation that led to an excessively forceful arrest and a âmalicious and retaliatory prosecutionâ that has severely impacted their entire family.
Houck is a Catholic father of seven who was arrested and charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Abortion Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act by President Joe Bidenâs administration. A jury found him not guilty of the federal charges in January, and he announced in August that he is running for Congress in Pennsylvaniaâs 1st Congressional District.
Read MoreDOJ Inspector General Finds ‘No Evidence’ of Wrongdoing by Trump in FBI HQ Decision
The Department of Justiceâs (DOJ) inspector general concluded in a Tuesday report that Former President Donald Trump did not inappropriately exert pressure on where to construct the FBI headquarters to protect his hotel from competition.
The investigation started in June 2019 following certain lawmakers and the media voicing worries regarding Trumpâs possible influence on the FBIâs sudden choice to abandon its plan to construct a $3 billion suburban campus in Maryland or Virginia for its 10,000 workers in 2017, according to the report. The closeness to his former hotel in Washington, D.C. led some lawmakers to question whether he aimed to obstruct the landâs use for a potential rival hotel project, but the report found no evidence of that.
Read MoreDOJ Charges Chinese National Who Operated Illegal Biolab in California
The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a Chinese national on Thursday for crimes related to operating an illegal biolab in California, according to a press release.
Jia Bei Zhu, 62, was arrested for âmanufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices in violation of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) and for making false statements to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),â according to a DOJ press release. Between April and June 2023, officials in Fresno, California, discovered at least 20 potentially infectious agents, such as HIV and Malaria, as well as mice genetically engineered to carry COVID-19, at an âunlicensedâ laboratory in Reedley, California, operated by Prestige Biotech Inc. (PBI), the successor of defunct Universal Meditech Inc. (UMI), Fresno County court records state.
Read MoreCommentary: DOJ Gag Order on Trump’s Political Speech Threatens All Candidates for Public Office
âA TERRIBLE THING HAPPENED TO DEMOCRACY TODAY â GAG ORDER!â
That was former President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Oct. 16 following a gag order by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chukan forbidding him from criticizing Special Counsel Jack Smith in the Justice Departmentâs criminal case against Trump over allegations he somehow committed election fraud by challenging the results of the 2020 election.
Read MoreDays After Joe Biden Became President, His DOJ Sought Briefing on Hunter Criminal Case, Memos Show
Amere 16 days after Joe Biden assumed the presidency, top officials in his Justice Department raised suspicion among career IRS agents by demanding a briefing on the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, according to evidence turned over to Congress that raises new questions about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s claims of an interference-free probe.
Read MoreImpeachment Memo: Biden Family Collected $15 Million in Foreign Money, DOJ ‘Obstructed’ Probe
The three House chairmen leading the impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden told fellow lawmakers Wednesday night that the presidentâs family collected at least $15 million in foreign funds and that there is evidence the Justice Department âobstructedâ federal agents from pursuing evidence leading to the White House.
âDepartment of Justice personnel blocked avenues of inquiry that could have led to evidence incriminating President Biden and impeded efforts to prosecute Hunter Biden for tax crimes relating to foreign business arrangements that could have implicated President Biden,â Reps. James Comer, Jim Jordan and Jason Smith wrote in a 30-page memo to colleagues on the eve of the first impeachment inquiry hearing in Congress.
Read MoreCommentary: Fact-Checking Merrick Garland’s ‘Fair’ DOJ
It might go down as the whopper of the year.
During his opening statement to the House Judiciary committee on Wednesday morning, Attorney General Merrick Garland attempted to head off expected criticism from Republicans by insisting his Department of Justice is blind to politics. â[We] apply the same laws to everyone. There is not one set of laws for the powerful and one for the powerless. One for the rich and another for the poor. One for Democrats and another one for Republicans. The law will treat each of us alike.â
Read MoreCommentary: More Evidence That U.S. Intelligence Analysis Is Broken and Politicized
Last week, American Greatness reporter Debra Heine reported a bombshell story that a âhighly credibleâ CIA whistleblower has told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that the CIA âbribedâ six of its analysts with significant financial incentives to change their initial conclusion that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a biolab leak in Wuhan, China and to instead conclude that the virus emerged naturally.
Read MoreWisconsin U.S. Senator Ron Johnson Leads Efforts to Seek Records on Saudi Arabia’s Role In 9/11 Attacks
On this 22nd anniversary of 9/11, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is demanding the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation turn over the complete, unredacted records of Saudi Arabia\’s role in the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
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