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The FBI division probing former President Trump’s handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of Special Counsel John Durham’s Russiagate probe, Paul Sperry reports for RealClearInvestigations.
NEW: As Christian breakout successes like Jesus Revolution and The Chosen revolutionize faith entertainment, the latter offers an instructive parable in outflanking Tinseltown's controlling cash apparatus.
@maggiemphillips
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@RCInvestigates
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Although the former head of Russiagate’s “Crossfire Hurricane,” Peter Strzok, was fired after the disclosure of his anti-Trump tweets, several members of his team remain working in the counterintelligence unit, sources say ...
The FBI’s nine-hour, 30-agent raid of the Florida estate is part of a counterintelligence case run out of Washington – not Miami, as has been widely reported.
An examination of the top bureau officials involved in the Mar-a-Lago raid reveals other connections between them and FBI officials who played key roles in advancing the Russiagate hoax.
NEW: The judge named to hear Trump's Jan. 6 trial is prone to the intemperate comments she warns the former President against, as she makes politically-charged rulings in trials of defendants accused in the 2021 Capitol melee,
@julie_kelly2
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In addition, a key member of the Crossfire team — Brian Auten — is still involved in politically sensitive investigations, including the probe of presidential son Hunter Biden’s laptop.
NEW: Special Counsel John Durham is raising suspicions he's pulling punches in his waning Russiagate investigation. He has investigated and indicted unscrupulous anti-Trump informants -- but none of the FBI agents who handled them. Paul Sperry reports.
The new material also offers a look at the lengths Clinton-paid operatives went to in order to seed the government with unverified Trump-Russia rumors — including powerful Democrats in Congress such as Rep. Adam Schiff.
NEW: One of the world's most prestigious business schools, Wharton School, is shunning its industrial roots in favor of a new ESG program that skeptics say is progressivism dressed up in sheepskin clothing.
@bhweingarten
reports on corporate wokeism in PA.
OpenSecrets says Planned Parenthood saw a 4,000% uptick in donations after Dobbs. The org. says it plans to spend $50 million on elections this fall. But close observers say there's limited potential for PP to embrace a broader role.
@Heminator
reports.
NEW: Special Counsel John Durham, leading a multi-year probe of how U.S. intelligence officials conducted the Russia investigation, has yet to issue his final report. But according to the NYT, Durham has already come up empty.
@aaronjmate
reports.
But, as Aaron Maté reports for RCI, the president omitted that ISIS’ emir had been operating from an Al Qaeda safe haven in Syria secured with the help of policies advanced by some of his senior-most officials then-serving under President Obama.
The Times’ effort to cast doubt on the Durham probe has sparked a backlash that the newspaper has actively trumpeted. House Democrats, citing “alarming” disclosures in the New York Times article, are demanding a Justice Department investigation.
Sperry has pieced together the first comprehensive account, but Special Counsel John Durham may reveal more: Sources tell Sperry several Ukrainians have been interviewed in his Russiagate origins inquiry.
Harvard’s Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic gives course credit for “an externship with Protect Democracy,” an anti-Trump nonprofit founded by Obama administration lawyers.
Seventy-four percent of European countries entirely ban absentee voting for citizens who reside domestically. Most others limit absentee voting and/or require a photo ID.
NEW: As addiction & overdose rates soar with the influx of artificial opioids like fentanyl coming from labs in China along trafficking routes at the Mexican border, opioids are taking an immeasurable toll on the American workforce, James Varney reports.
As the cases against the informants have gone to trial, defense lawyers have revealed evidence that undercuts that narrative. FBI investigators look less like guileless victims and more like willing partners.
The 2016 Clinton campaign’s effort to trigger a federal investigation into Republican opponent Trump–based on the dubious story of a “secret hotline” to Moscow via a Trump Organization-Alfa Bank backchannel–was far more comprehensive than previously known.
NEW: Cutting gifted & talented programs & honors classes has set public school students nationwide back. Now, educators are warning that accelerated new efforts in the name of "equity" will make matters even worse. Vince Bielski for
@RCInvestigates
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With Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin calling for a probe into the withholding of merit-based awards in the name of "equity" at VA's top high school, schools in New York & across the country are ditching merit in favor of diversity,
@vincebielski
reports.
NEW: Long-term trends show that single, childless women are among Democrats' most reliable supporters, and their power is growing thanks to demographic winds (The number of never married women has grown from about 20% in 1950 to over 30% in 2022).
In an inhospitable election year for the left, Dems have forged ahead in the cultural & political war over gender ideology, advocating for hormone blockers, genital surgery, breast removal & otherwise for children.
@bhweingarten
reports.
Jake Sullivan, who now serves as Biden’s national security advisor, provided a concise articulation of this effort in a 2012 email to his then-State Department boss Hillary Clinton: "AQ [Al Qaeda] is on our side in Syria."
Although the Obama admin’s official stance was that the weapons funneled to Syria were intended for "moderate rebels," then-VP Biden admitted "there was no moderate middle" in Syria and that US allies were supplying weapons to "Al-Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis.”
Its “nonpartisan” arm, the Protect Democracy Project, had a major role promoting mail voting as part of the “well-funded cabal” that secured the 2020 election for Joe Biden, as detailed in Time’s “secret history of the 2020 election.”
“The Clinton machine flooded the FBI with pressure from a number of angles until investigations of Trump were opened and reopened,” said one of the sources briefed on an ongoing criminal investigation of the scheme. “The deception was wide-ranging.”
Some of Hunter’s foreign business was transacted during the Obama-Biden administration. It opened investigations into at least six Trump campaign advisers for alleged violations of the rarely enforced Foreign Agents Registration Act — but not into Hunter.
Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussman’s approach of the FBI with the Alfa Bank story in Sept. 2016 – which ultimately led to his recent indictment by Special Counsel John Durham – was one of many.
Investigative Issues: Rachel Maddow and Co-Stars Made 'Verifiably False' Statements About a Doctor They Called the 'Uterus Collector.' Now His $30M Lawsuit Is Headed For Trial.
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@bhweingarten
reports on a little (and little known) bank’s big impact. Amalgamated’s deep ties with Democratic Party may make it a new model for progressives to push "environmental, social, and corporate governance" outside the political process.
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reports that the Taliban is in possession of nearly $7.2 billion in U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons, ammunition, and aircraft as a result of the Biden admin's bungled 2021 military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
NEW: In recent years, a groundswell of antisemitism has received wide notice across the U.S. But what has not gotten much attention is the reticence to even mention the ethnicity of antisemitic perpetrators unless they are white. Richard Bernstein reports.
President Biden has promised that the Inflation Reduction Act will "lower the cost of prescription drugs and health care for families," but critics are skeptical, calling new federal drug-pricing legislation a "power grab."
@Heminator
reports.
Chinese nationals with ties to the communist government in Beijing offered to pay Hunter millions of dollars to make “introductions alone” with influential U.S. parties, according to other emails leaked from Hunter’s abandoned laptop.
NEW: Anti-white racism met new heights last week as President Biden decried Trump supporters as “white supremacists,” even as his admin. pursues race-based “equity” policies across gov.
@johnmurawski
explores how the new racism reached the Oval Office.
During this election, Democrats have insisted that--under Republican restrictions--women would not receive lifesaving care for miscarriages & other serious or life-threatening prenatal complications. Pro-lifers say that's misleading.
@Heminator
reports.
President Trump relented to uncooperative U.S. intelligence leaders in his final days in office by not forcing them to finally release secret Trump-Russia files, a former top congressional investigator tells Aaron Maté of RealClearInvestigations.
"The FBI’s efforts to mislead a federal court in order to wiretap an adviser to the Trump campaign were more extensive than previously reported, according to classified documents described to RealClearInvestigations."
Joe Biden was included as a silent partner in a proposed 2017 partnership, according to another partner in the deal, Tony Bobulinski, who has turned over evidence to the FBI.