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Fani Willis’ Radical Father Defends Keeping Huge Wads of Cash in House as a ‘Black Thing’

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The father of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testified on Friday that hoarding cash is a cultural norm for black people.

During a Thursday hearing, Willis testified on whether she should be disqualified from her election interference case against former President Donald Trump due to alleged financial favors from special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she appointed.

The district attorney said she reimbursed Wade for vacation expenditures using cash she had at home. Her father also backed this account.

“When you meet my father, he’s going to tell you as a woman, you should always have … at least 6 months in cash at your house, at all time,” Willis said Thursday.

“I’m not trying to be racist, okay? But it’s a black thing,” Willis’ father John Floyd responded to an inquiry about his daughter keeping cash on Friday.

“I was trained and most black folks, they hide cash or they keep cash,” he added. “You always keep some cash.”

He then recalled an incident of alleged racism in Massachusetts in which someone refused to take his payment unless he showed cash.

“I’ve always kept cash. And I’ve told my daughter, ‘you keep six months worth of cash always,’” he added.

Willis and Wade said she repaid her partner for their holidays and activities with cash. Wade claims he only has one receipt proving Willis compensated him for travel expenses since she usually paid him in cash.

Wade used a credit card to pay for cruises and flights during his travels with Willis, according to bank data.

John Floyd, who was a radical Black Panther, may have his testimony discredited because he was prepped for testimony with Fani in the room, according to George Behizy, who has been closely following the case.

The New York Post provided background on Fani Willis’ father in a profile piece in September 2023.

“The father of the Georgia district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump was a prominent Black Panther who called police the ‘enemy,’ new recordings have revealed,” the Post said.

“Floyd is extremely close to his daughter Willis, who has brought a sprawling anti-racketeering case against the former president and 18 others — including his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows — alleging that they plotted to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia,” the Post also noted.

 

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Judge Rules Trump Must Pay Over $350 Million In Civil Fraud Case

Judge Rules Trump Must Pay Over $350 Million In Civil Fraud Case

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Judge Arthur Engoron ruled Friday that former President Donald Trump must pay over $350 million in damages, according to NBC News.

Engoron also barred Trump “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years,” according to NBC News. His ruling follows an 11-week trial on the lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James alleging Trump perpetuated years of financial fraud to gain benefits while building his business.

Engoron already found in a September decision, which is on hold pending appeal, that Trump deceived banks and insurance companies by inflating his net worth and overestimating the value of his assets. He ruled in September that Trump’s business certificates should be revoked and his companies dissolved.

James argued in her closing brief earlier this month that Trump and his company should be required to pay $370 million, more than the $120 million she initially sought.

Engoron rejected in November Trump’s motion for a mistrial as “utterly without merit.” Trump had alleged there was “tangible and overwhelming” evidence of Engoron’s bias, claiming he was “co-judging” with his law clerk, Allison Greenfield, who has engaged in “public partisan activities.”

In October, Engoron issued a gag order blocking Trump from speaking publicly about members of his staff after the former president made a Truth Social post about Greenfield. He later imposed $5,000 and $10,000 fines for violations of the order.

Trump’s real estate empire is the only big business that had been threatened with dissolution under the state’s anti-fraud law, an Associated Press analysis of nearly 150 civil cases across 70 years found.

Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation

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U. of Colorado on ‘Lockdown’: Dead Body is Discovered After Police Said No ‘Active Shooter’ Threat

U. of Colorado on ‘Lockdown’: Dead Body is Discovered After Police Said No ‘Active Shooter’ Threat

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The University of Colorado Colorado Springs was closed on Friday morning due to reports of shots fired. A person was discovered dead at the Colorado university following reports of gunfire on campus.

Police earlier claimed there was no active shooter, but they did urge students to ‘shelter in place’ until further notice. Officers confirmed they are investigating the fatality.

“University police ordered a lockdown at 7 a.m. and warned people to lock doors, turn out lights and be silent,” CBS Colorado reported. “About 12 minutes later they said the situation was not an active shooter situation, but the shelter in place should continue.”

Residents in the Alpine Village dormitories remained under lockdown, but all other staff and students were permitted to leave campus. Police stated the school grounds will remain closed for the remainder of the day.

On Wednesday, a shooting broke out in Kansas City, Missouri after the parade and celebration of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory, killing one and injuring at least 21 others, including 11 children.

The incident occurred west of Union Station, near the garage, as Chiefs supporters were departing, according to Kansas City police. Three assailants are in custody and the shooting is believed to have stemmed from a personal issue between the suspects.

President Joe Biden seized upon the shooting tragedy to recall his effort to ban “assault rifles,” although it is not clear what guns were used in the shooting.

Meanwhile, U.S. mass shootings have hit a 3-year low, according to the Gun Violence Archive. A mass shooting is defined as an occurrence in which at least four persons, excluding the gunman, are injured or killed. According to the database, 75 people were killed and 140 were injured in 44 mass shootings between January 1 and February 12, which was prior to the Kansas City mass shooting.

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House Oversight Committee Releases Powerful Witness Testimony of Biden Foreign Influence-Peddling Scheme

House Oversight Committee Releases Powerful Witness Testimony of Biden Foreign Influence-Peddling Scheme

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The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability released the transcribed interview of former Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski on Friday morning.

Bobulinski provided forceful accusations of Biden foreign influence-peddling in his sworn testimony.

“I want to be crystal-clear: From my direct personal experience and what I’ve subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was the brand being sold by the Biden family,” he testified.

“His family’s foreign influence-peddling operation, from China to Ukraine and elsewhere, sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States Government,” he continued. “Joe Biden was more than a participant in and a beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability.”

“The only reason any of these international business transactions took place, with tens of millions of dollars flowing directly to the Biden family, was because Joe Biden was in high office. The Biden family business was Joe Biden, period,” he stated emphatically.

His testimony can be read in full below:

Bobulinski Transcript by Kyle Becker

As the House Oversight Committee pointed out on X, the Democrats railed against Bobulinski during his testimony.

Congressman Daniel Goldman (D-NY), for example, issued warnings to Bobulinski and was belligerent in an extended exchange on whether or not the witness was lying. Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is also shown on the record to have berated Bobulinski.

The witness’ counsel Stefan Passatino has since issued a statement blasting the ill treatment of Tony Bobulinski by Democrats at the hearing in a letter to Ranking Member Jamie Raskin.

As you know, I am counsel to Tony Bobulinski. It is with extreme concern that I see the Democrat Minority continue its abusive conduct and disingenuous mischaracterizations of Mr. Bobulinski’s testimony. We are watching the death throes of a political narrative that will be shattered upon the imminent public release of Mr. Bobulinski’s testimony before the House Committees on Oversight and Judiciary yesterday. The facts are before Congress and will soon be before the American people. Minority assassination of Mr. Bobulinski’s character and grotesque mischaracterizations of his words will only serve to highlight the gaslighting and vilification Mr. Bobulinski has endured since he reluctantly came forward almost four years ago to share with the public the facts of his business experience with the Biden family. As the public will see soon enough, Mr. Bobulinski has the facts and the receipts, and no amount of character assassination will change that.

In the interim, while we await the Oversight and Judiciary Committees’ release of Mr. Bobulinski’s testimony, a few of your scurrilous allegations must be addressed immediately. First, it is categorically false to assert that Mr. Bobulinski failed to “provide any evidence at all that President Biden was involved in his family’s business dealings” or that he did not testify that “Joe Biden was not part of [the Biden family’s] business structure”. Mr. Bobulinski’s testimony and motivations for coming forward will soon be available for all to see, and false mischaracterizations will have no place in this debate.

Equally concerning are the false allegations impugning Mr. Bobulinski’s character and statements about law enforcement. Unlike those making these accusations, Mr. Bobulinski has a proud and exemplary history of serving this country in the military and his patriotism cannot be questioned. As the transcript will show, Mr. Bobulinski did NOT accuse the FBI of lying about his voluntary statements before them in October 2020. The transcript will show that when Mr. Bobulinski was asked by the Minority about second-hand accounts of his words rather than asking him direct questions, Mr. Bobulinski simply corrected errors in the FBI’s internal 302 report about his statements. As Mr. Bobulinski testified yesterday, these errors could have been corrected years ago if Mr. Bobulinski had been shown the FBI’s internal summary or if ANY government agency had reached out to us at the time. If that had occurred, we would have happily made Mr. Bobulinski available for further testimony or to further highlight the thousands of pieces of evidence he made available in 2020. Mr. Bobulinski will vigorously defend his honor, reputation and patriotism against all who choose to ignore the facts and deflect from the truth by issuing falsehoods and engaging in rank character assassination.

The truth is coming – and those who choose to knowingly perpetuate false narratives by dishonestly attacking Mr. Bobulinski will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

The counsel’s letter to Congressman Raskin can be read in full below:

Counsel’s Letter to Jam… by Kyle Becker

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Jack Smith Accused of ‘Desperate, Partisan’ Attempt to Convict Trump Before Election in New SCOTUS Brief

 

Jack Smith Accused of ‘Desperate, Partisan’ Attempt to Convict Trump Before Election in New SCOTUS Brief

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Attorneys for former President Donald Trump reiterated on Thursday a request for the Supreme Court to intervene in the bid to dismiss the election interference case on the basis of presidential immunity.

Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to stay an appellate court ruling that determined he was not immune from prosecution in the federal election interference case, to which Smith responded on Wednesday and argued the American people have an interest in a “speedy and fair verdict.” Trump’s attorneys argued in the latest filing that Smith’s reply suggests to a desire hold the trial before the November election.

“The Special Counsel’s latest filing raises a compelling inference of a political motive—the motivation to influence the 2024 Presidential election by bringing the leading Republican candidate to trial before November 5, 2024,” Trump’s attorneys wrote.

“The Special Counsel’s conduct in this case refutes his own argument,” the filing continues. “The government waited nearly three years to charge President Trump, and now the Special Counsel violates every norm in a desperate, partisan attempt to bring President Trump to trial before the November 5, 2024, election and thus influence the election’s outcome.”

Trump was indicted in August on charges relating to his alleged efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election and alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol building. The charges include “Conspiracy to defraud the United States,” “A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted” and “Conspiracy to corruptly obstruct and impede the January 6 proceedings.”

“This Court should stay the D.C. Circuit’s mandate pending the filing and disposition of an en banc petition in the D.C. Circuit and, if necessary, a petition for certiorari in this case,” Trump’s attorneys wrote in the brief. “The panel opinion departed from its usual practice of withholding its mandate pending the filing of such a petition. This decision was ill-considered. En banc review is a vital component of the lower-court percolation that assists this Court, as the example of Nixon v. Sirica demonstrates. There is no compelling reason to disallow en banc review in this case.”

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MSNBC: It’s ‘Game Over’ for Fani Willis and Nathan Wade

MSNBC: It’s ‘Game Over’ for Fani Willis and Nathan Wade

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MSNBC is calling it “game over” for the Trump RICO prosecution team of Wade & Willis.

On Thursday, in the wake of stunning testimony from Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade in a Georgia court hearing before Judge Scott McAfee, his denials of a romantic relationship with Fani Willis prior to his appointment as special prosecutor fell apart.

When MSNBC calls it “game over,” it’s game over.

“It’s so legalistic-centric and yet so important and fascinating,”

“Right? Don’t let the legalese fool you,” MSNBC legal analyst Caroline Polisi explained. “This is epic. This is monumental. If things are going in the direction, we think Fani Willis lied to the court, it’s game over for her. She will be disqualified if they had a relationship prior to when they represented to the court. It’s a huge deal. I can’t overstate it.”

Polisi also remarked that Fani Willis’ case against Donald Trump and his associates appears to be “dead in the water.” Her remarks comes after bombshell testimony that shows that Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade lied to the court about when their affair began.

“This has been a bombshell, and it has been a slow burn, but if you parse the language, huge, huge issues here,” Polisi said. “And let me be very clear: this is not about a relationship between two consenting people. It has absolutely nothing to do with that. It’s about lying to the court; it’s about potential financial advantage for Fani Willis… The problem is that her credibility is shattered…If she lied to the court and presented something she knew to be untrue and inaccurate, what else is she lying about? It’s a terrible, horrible appearance on her. “I believe this case is lost.”

Wade stated that he paid for multiple luxurious holidays with his business credit card and was later reimbursed in cash by Fani Willis. Wade said that he and Willis paid for the vacations about evenly, but he only supplied a receipt to prove it. If he was reimbursed in cash, there would be no extra receipts indicating that the two shared the vacation expenses rather than Wade, who was recruited by Willis and paid a high salary, being the single purchaser.

Making matters worse for the couple is testimony from Willis’ “good friend” who claims the relationship with Wade began earlier than both had acknowledged in court. Robin Yeartie, who previously worked in the Fulton County District Attorney’s office, testified in court that she had little doubt that Willis and Wade were in a love relationship beginning in 2019, despite Willis’ claims that they were merely acquaintances at the time.

“You have no doubt that their romantic relationship was in effect from 2019 until the last time you spoke with her?” said lawyer Ashleigh Merchant. Yeartie replied, “No doubt.”

Yeartie’s testimony is bad news for Willis, who might face penalties for lying in court and get disqualified from the complaint she filed against President Trump.

In the lengthy letter given to the court last month, Willis admitted to having a personal relationship with Wade, which she claimed began in 2022, but maintained that the charges against her are “meritless” and “salacious.”

She stated there was no romantic relationship in 2019, yet Nathan Wade filed for divorce the day after being hired as a special prosecutor in Willis’ office. She went on to argue that the judge should reject any attempt by Trump or the other co-defendants to have her removed from the case, and that there was no proof that her relationship with Wade had an impact on her job.

That defense is moot, however. Fani Willis and Nathan Wade are, as one legal analyst put, “toast.”

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Trump’s Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade is ‘Toast’: Why His Testimony Spells Big Trouble for Fani Willis

Trump’s Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade is ‘Toast’: Why His Testimony Spells Big Trouble for Fani Willis

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Attorney Nathan Wade was confirmed in witness testimony on Thursday to have been in a “romantic” relationship with Fani Willis prior to the Fulton County D.A. hiring him as Special Prosecutor in Georgia’s Trump racketeering case.

Trump co-defendant Michael Roman in a Jan. 8 motion alleged that Willis improperly benefited from appointing Wade as special prosecutor when he took her on vacations using funds earned from his position.

In an affidavit attached to the state’s Feb. 2 response, Wade claimed that they “roughly divided equally” travel expenses, including a receipt showing Willis purchased a flight for him.

Nathan Wade struggled to reconcile earlier sworn statements that he did not have an affair with Fani Willis prior to his hiring as a Special Prosecutor.

It was further divulged by Wade that Fani Willis paid him back for various travel expenses that he paid for on his business card in cash.

“You said in the affidavit that you roughly shared travel with her, correct?” Roman’s attorney Ashleigh Merchant asked at a hearing before Judge Scott McAfee.

“Yes,” Wade said.

“So this roughly sharing trouble, you’re saying she reimbursed you?” Merchant asked.

“She did,” he said.

“And where did you deposit the money she reimbursed you?” she asked.

“It was cash. She didn’t give me any checks,” he responded.

Wade said the only documentary proof he had showing Willis paid for any part of their travel was the one receipt included with his affidavit.

“So you submitted the one piece of written evidence that you have that she paid for something, everything else is in cash. Is that accurate?”

“No,” he said.

“Please tell me, what other receipts do you have then that show she paid for things?” Merchant pressed.

“I don’t have them,” he said.

“So this is the only receipt that you have to show that she paid for travel?” Merchant said.

“That I have, yes ma’am,” he said.

Merchant would later tease out of Wade that he is distinguishing between physical receipts and bank statements.

Legal analyst Techno Fog provided commentary on the revelations.

“Witness: Fulton County DA Fani Wilis started her romantic relationship with Nathan Wade in 2019,” Techno Fog wrote. “This contradicts the filings of Wade/Willis that the relationship began in 2022. False statements to the Court. This is getting bad for Willis.”

Journalist Greg Price also provided his assessment of the new testimony.

“Former Fulton County DA employee and friend of Fani Willis since college says she was definitely in a relationship with Nathan Wade since 2019,” he remarked. This completely contradicts the filings of Wade and Willis in which they claimed it began in 2022. Giving false statements to the court is a crime.”

“Knowingly giving false statements to a court is punishable in Georgia by a $1,000 fine and up to 5 years of jail,” he added.

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley also weighed in on the Georgia court developments.

“Willis’ office just lost the motion to quash after a witness testified that Wade and Willis had a relationship going back to 1999,” he said. “Wade is now on the stand in what is now a highly perilous moment for him professionally. Willis’ office misplayed the challenge in my view.”

“Wade just said that all of the money that Willis allegedly repaid him for flights and other expenses were paid to him in cash,” he continued. “Thus, he has no receipts or proof of the repayments… He submitted only one receipt of evidence for a repayment claim.”

“He just testified, in discussing the California trip, that there was never a time when he asked for specific reimbursement but that the repayments in case ‘balanced out’ in her paying other expenses. She also allegedly gave him some cash,” he added.

“Wade said ‘in a relationship particularly for men . . . you don’t keep a ledger.’ He insists that she paid her own way in other ways than direct payments,” he said.

Megyn Kelly also gave her view of Wade’s testimony.

“Watching this Fani Willis/Nathan Wade hearing and they are toast. TOAST. 1. Her former close friend testified that their romantic relationship began well prior to when Fani hired him. By years! (Which means they lied to the court.) 2. Wade claimed Fani reimbursed him for all the expensive trips but no record of that bc … it was all in cash. (Omg) 3. He def got caught lying on his earlier court submissions in divorce court & attempted to say the reason he (falsely) he swore that he had no “receipts” was bc he only had ‘credit card statements’ reflecting the charges. I have second hand embarrassment.”

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New Report Hints at What Happened to ‘Missing Binder’ Showing CIA Involvement in Russia Hoax

New Report Hints at What Happened to ‘Missing Binder’ Showing CIA Involvement in Russia Hoax

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A new report follows up on the bombshell unleashed on Tuesday suggesting the location of the “missing binder” showing CIA involvement in an international espionage operation to frame Donald Trump as a pro-Russian traitor during the 2016 election.

The Politics Brief previously reported on a CNN report written by infamous Russia hoaxer Natasha Bertrand, along with Evan Perez, Zachary Cohen, Jeremy Herb, and Katie Bo Lillis and published in December 2023, which suggests the “real” reason for the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Its disappearance, which has not been previously reported, was so concerning that intelligence officials briefed Senate Intelligence Committee leaders last year about the missing materials and the government’s efforts to retrieve them, the sources said.

In the two-plus years since Trump left office, the missing intelligence does not appear to have been found.

The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.

The intelligence was so sensitive that lawmakers and congressional aides with top secret security clearances were able to review the material only at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where their work scrutinizing it was itself kept in a locked safe.

However, the real reason this binder would be so interesting to the Biden IC slips out in a subsequence passage.

The binder was last seen at the White House during Trump’s final days in office. The former president had ordered it brought there so he could declassify a host of documents related to the FBI’s Russia investigation. Under the care of then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the binder was scoured by Republican aides working to redact the most sensitive information so it could be declassified and released publicly.

The Russian intelligence was just a small part of the collection of documents in the binder, described as being 10 inches thick and containing reams of information about the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. But the raw intelligence on Russia was among its most sensitive classified materials, and top Trump administration officials repeatedly tried to block the former president from releasing the documents.

The day before leaving office, Trump issued an order declassifying most of the binder’s contents, setting off a flurry of activity in the final 48 hours of his presidency. Multiple copies of the redacted binder were created inside the White House, with plans to distribute them across Washington to Republicans in Congress and right-wing journalists.

Instead, copies initially sent out were frantically retrieved at the direction of White House lawyers demanding additional redactions.

Tucked into the following paragraphs in the story is a matter that would be a true cause for alarm in the FBI and CIA: The binder was reportedly not recovered in its FBI raid.

Just minutes before Joe Biden was inaugurated, Meadows rushed to the Justice Department to hand-deliver a redacted copy for a last review. Years later, the Justice Department has yet to release all of the documents, despite Trump’s declassification order. Additional copies with varying levels of redactions ended up at the National Archives.

But an unredacted version of the binder containing the classified raw intelligence went missing amid the chaotic final hours of the Trump White House. The circumstances surrounding its disappearance remain shrouded in mystery.

US officials repeatedly declined to discuss any government efforts to locate the binder or confirm that any intelligence was missing.

The binder was not among the classified items found in last year’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, according to a US official familiar with the matter, who said the FBI was not looking specifically for intelligence related to Russia when it obtained a search warrant for the former president’s residence last year.

There’s also no reference to the binder or the missing Russian intelligence in the June indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

Now, there is more information on the location of this “missing binder.” It is believed to be hidden by the U.S. government itself.

Public, a Substack by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag, provides more information on the suspected whereabouts of the “missing binder.”

Multiple sources believe that Trump’s possession of the binder, or one of multiple binders, led the FBI to raid his home in Mar-a-Lago, which led to the prosecution of Trump by Justice Department special prosecutor Jack Smith.

A source close to the House Intelligence investigation said, “We think a lot of that product in Mar-a-Lago is” what investigators “went through.” The FBI was “worried that there was a copy [of the binder] there,” said the person.

A source close to Trump said, “I think [retrieving the binder] was part of [FBI’s] motivation. It was Russiagate. It was years of FISA [surveillance warrant] abuse. It was doing a 702 [FISA] query to surveil 300,000 Americans. It was using taxpayer dollars to fund the Steele memo and get Justice Department lawyers when we fired Christopher Steele. It was the mountain of corruption we uncovered.”

But another source with significant knowledge of the Russiagate investigation was skeptical. “I don’t think the raid at all had to do with Russia documents. It started as a bureaucratic tussle. Look at search warrant returns. That’s what they were looking for. There was nothing in there that does that. If you talk to the lawyers involved, they never said they were looking for Russia collusion documents.”

Trump himself has not said that the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago to obtain the binder of information. “It’s uncharacteristic of him to stay quiet about anything,” acknowledged a source close to the current 2024 Trump campaign.

At the same time, the source added, “It’s easy to guess that his lawyers told him, ‘This is an active court case’ and so ‘Don’t say anything about it.’ It could be as simple as that. That’s the obvious explanation.”

CNN mentioned last August’s raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in its piece last December, suggesting there may be a connection between the “missing binder” story and the FBI’s search of Trump’s property while noting no such materials were found.

CNN’s own reporting suggests that the binder was indeed related to raw intelligence the U.S. and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents (in other words, intelligence on the Trump campaign).

CNN reported that Trump’s binder contained a classified House Intelligence Committee report about the IC’s assessment of Russian election interference, according to CNN.

“The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources told CNN.”

This “missing binder” may indeed be one of the most important sets of classified documents in U.S. history. It has the potential to expose the darkest secrets of the U.S. government, including an illegal operation to rig the 2016 election.

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Explosive New Report Hints at the REAL Reason the FBI Raided Trump’s Home at Mar-a-Lago

Bombshell New Report ‘Connects All the Dots’ That Russia Hoax Was CIA Op to Frame Donald Trump

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New sources have confirmed to a trio of independent journalists that the CIA fabricated the Russia collusion hoax as part of a sophisticated operation with the Five Eyes Intelligence Community (IC) to frame Donald Trump as a pro-Russian traitor during the 2016 presidential election.

Public journalist Michael Shellenberger, and his colleagues Racket journalists Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag, revealed confirmation of the U.S. government plot on Tuesday.

Now, multiple credible sources tell Public and Racket that the United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors long before the summer of 2016.

The new information fills many gaps in our understanding of the Russia collusion hoax and is supported by testimony already in the public record.

The journalists continued to unravel the espionage scheme to frame Donald Trump.

Until now, the official story has been that the FBI’s investigation began after Australian intelligence officials told US officials that a Trump aide had boasted to an Australian diplomat that Russia had damning material about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

In truth, the US IC asked the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies, say sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation. The Five Eyes nations are the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The CIA had compiled a list of 26 Trump associates to target in the intelligence operation.

After Public and Racket had been told that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the IC had “identified [them] as people to ‘bump,’ or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation.”

Unknown details about the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and raw intelligence related to the IC’s surveillance of the Trump campaign are in a 10-inch binder that Trump ordered to be declassified at the very end of his term, sources told Public and Racket.

If the top-secret documents exist proving these charges, they are potentially proof that multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference.

The fallout from the stunning investigation is still ongoing.

Dan Bongino had a blockbuster show on Wednesday as the former Secret Service agent and popular talk radio host laid out the massive ramifications of a recently disclosed CIA spy bombshell.

Bongino, the author of books on the matter like “Spygate” and “Follow the Money,” explained at length how the new reporting confirms what he has been saying for years and how it now connects the dots between a number of the biggest political scandals in American history.

“So, I don’t confuse anyone. Today I’m going to do everyone a favor and I’m going to tell you the summary of what I’m about to tell you, and then I’m going to go into the details,” Bongino opened.

“I say bluff a lot, bottom line, up front folks, every one of the stories and scandals I’m about to address in this next sentence or two, every one of them, it’s all the same story,” he continued.

“I have been telling you this for years,” he added. “There is absolutely no difference between the Ukraine story going on. Now, the Mar-a-Lago raid the effort to paper over the scandal with FISA, the collusion hoax Spygate, the impeachment hoax and the Biden document scandal.”

“It is all the same thing, and it is this: They spied on Donald Trump, and others by the way, they spied on Donald Trump using foreign actors,” he went on. “One of those foreign actors who assisted in the plot to take down Donald Trump was the Ukrainian government.”

“You don’t have to write it down,” he said. “I’m going to get to all of this. I’m going to go through a piece-by-piece right here so you have the whole story up front.”

“The Ukrainian government was deeply involved in the effort to spy on and take down Donald Trump,” Bongino said. “The Ukrainians know about this. Joe Biden was knee deep in Ukraine in a business operation in Ukraine while Barack Obama and his people were using Ukraine to spy on Donald Trump, the spying operation on Donald Trump.”

“There are documents that Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag say exist in a binder. It is something I heard about. They confirmed.”

“I give them all the credit in the world, but we addressed it on the show,” he went on. “The raid on Mar-a-Lago was an effort to get rid of that intelligence to go find it and make it go away. The FISA operation, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court operation to spy on Donald Trump was the insurance policy.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, it was nothing more than an effort to paper over what was a John Brennan, CIA, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama effort to spy on Donald Trump,” Bongino added. “The FISA operation was just nothing more than an effort to put paper behind it and give it the patina, the coding of morality and ethical behavior. It was a fake the whole time.”

“The collusion scandal was nothing more than a fairytale invented by Hillary Clinton and advanced by John Brennan and useful idiot Jim Comey,” he said. “The spying operation on Donald Trump was nothing more than an effort to set him up with a push-pull operation I described years ago where they kept pushing intel into the Trump team, fake intel, hoping they would suck up so they could frame them for being involved with the Russians. The impeachment hoax on Donald Trump only happened after Donald Trump started asking questions about Ukraine and their role in both Hunter Biden and their role to keep him out of office.”

“They impeached him for the phone call, the Biden documents scandal,” he went on. “The documents he was hiding were documents about Ukraine who was knee-deep in the Spygate scandal.”

“Folks, the Global Swamp, the Global Swamp is freaking out right now,” Bongino said. “Again, I’m going to say their names again. They deserve a lot of credit. A lot of people are freaking out today. I said this, I said that folks, pardon the language. Who gives a f-ck? This is about uncovering the deep state. Do you really give a sh-t? Who gets the credit? Is this what? This is a race? Oh, I said, who cares? Who said what? First Taibbi, Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag have a Substack out where a new source that  — yes confirms a lot of what we knew — but the source is new. They did it.”

“I don’t know who this source is,” he added. “Was it my source? Another source? I have no idea, but this is incredible. The Global Swamp right now is freaking out and the rats are jumping off the ship. Why? Because Donald Trump, after the Robert Hur letter and the hit from Obama in that letter… Obama’s team was absolutely involved in this takedown of Biden. With that Robert Hur letter that he’s mentally incompetent, I’m sure of it, I’m sure whether her knows it or not, they realized Biden’s done and that he is going to lose.”

“Everyone is freaking out because they know Trump is going to get back into office and declassify,” he continued.” Finally, all of this sh-t. Fire bureaucrats who get in the way because he doesn’t have to worry about reelection or anything else, and they are freaking out. Laws were broken. People committed crimes.”

“The biggest scandal in political history,” he said. “The CIA has been basically stealing elections around the world and in the United States for years now, and they got caught.”

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House Intel Committee Issues ‘Vague Warning’ About Serious Threat to National Security

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The chair of the House Intelligence Committee issued a cryptic warning on Wednesday about a “serious national security threat” involving Russia and space, Politico has reported.

While the D.C. insiders provided few details, one of them stated that the intelligence is related to Russia’s weaponization of its orbiting systems.

“A vague warning by the chair of the House Intelligence Committee about a ‘serious national security threat’ Wednesday is related to Russia and space, according to three people familiar with the matter,” Politico’s Pentagon reporter Lara Seligman shared on X.
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) stated in a statement Wednesday morning that his committee had released material regarding the national security threat and urged the administration to declassify the intelligence so that officials and lawmakers may consult with allies.

It’s unclear why Turner issued the statement now, given that the intelligence has been available to House intelligence committee leaders and their top aides in a secure room on Capitol Hill for more than a week, according to one of the sources.

Politico noted that House intelligence committee members opened the sensitive reports to viewing by both House and Senate members.

“It’s possible Turner was attempting to raise alarms about Russia’s advancements in space as a way of underscoring the need for lawmakers to approve additional aid to Ukraine,” the report conceded. “The Senate passed the supplemental bill including $60 billion in aid for Kyiv. It is currently under review by the House.”

There was harsh scrutiny of the “national security threat” on social media.

“Very interested to learn about this threat,” remarked Senator Mike Lee. “Also very interested to know why the spy guys are raising mysterious alarms right before we’re about to reform illegal domestic surveillance under FISA.”

“The national security threat is coming from inside the building,” quipped journalist Julie Kelly.

Twenty-two Republican senators voted for the Ukraine aid package, while 26 Republicans opposed.

‘The final vote was 70-29 with 22 Republicans voting yes. McConnell, Thune, Boozman, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Cramer, Crapo, Ernst, Grassley, Hoeven, Kennedy, Moran, Murkowski, Risch, Romney, Rounds, Sullivan, Tillis, Wicker and Young,” Greg Price on Tuesday noted on X.

House and Senate members in favor of passing the Ukraine provisions of the foreign aid package have been undertaking a full court press on social media platforms like X to persuade the public of its necessity.

“Gentle note to House Republicans,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries implored. “You work for the American people, not Vladimir Putin. Pass the damn bipartisan national security bill.”

However, there has been ample pushback from political observers outside of D.C. questioning how the Ukraine aid package advances the United States’ compromised national security.

“Gentle note for all House members,” Harrison Krank replied. “You work for the American people, not Ukraine, Putin, Israel, or Taiwan Spend our tax dollars at home or dont [sic] tax us.”

Speaker Mike Johnson has already spoken out on the unlikely passage of the Senate’s Ukraine aid bill.

“The Republican-led House will not be jammed or forced into passing a foreign aid bill that was opposed by most Senate Republicans,” Johnson remarked.

Several lawmakers, including Johnson, said there was no reason to be alarmed.

“I want to assure the American people there is no need for public alarm,” Johnson said at the Capitol. “We are going to work together to address this matter, as we do all sensitive matters that are classified and beyond that, I’m not at liberty to disclose classified information and really can’t say much more, but we just want to assure everyone steady hands are at the wheel, we’re working on it, and there’s no need for alarm.”

“People should not panic — that is unequivocal. People should not panic,” said Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) who is the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee.

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