Trump is just like Mussolini

If you love Mussolini, you will love what Donald Trump is talking about for 2025 … Trump [is] the first major candidate in American history to say outright, “I want a presidential dictatorship.” I can’t think of anything that is more out of the American tradition.

Trump will use the Justice Department to destroy his enemies in a second term, former officials warn

Earlier this year, Rolling Stone reported that Donald Trump had taken to asking close advisers for the names of Justice Department staffers and senior FBI agents who have worked on federal probes involving him, because, in the event he wins the 2024 election, he wants them “quickly” and “immediately” fired. That level of petty retribution is, of course, totally within character for the ex-president, who regularly fired people over Twitter when he was in office and then insulted their intelligence to boot. But apparently it’s nothing compared to what former administration officials fear he’ll do to his perceived enemies — a group that includes Joe Biden — in the event he wins a second term.

Judge releases new information from Mar-a-Lago search warrant, including photos

The judge in former President Donald Trump’s federal classified documents case has unsealed part of the search warrant and revealed photos of the raid for the first time.

John Durham asked point blank if the FBI relied on information about Trump from political opponents

Barry Moore: Mr Durham I appreciate you being here today. Sobering, I think, is a pretty good word I think that’s a good description of what we’re talking about when I read your report and as we talk about it when I’m in the district very often one of the major concerns is a weaponization of Investigations in the Department of Justice against certain people in our society and so um yes or no did the FBI Place significant Reliance on information given to them by President Trump’s political opponents I’m sorry can you just repeat that one did the FBI did they place significant reliance on information given to them by President Trump’s opponents the crossfire hurricane investigation um well the fisa in particular the Pfizer and Carter page the bureau had concluded itself absentee dossier they wouldn’t have been able to Did the dossier come from Trumps political opponents establish probable cause did the dossier come from president Trump’s political opponents it was funded by the Clinton campaign um in the in the DNC um so in that that degree yes it came that’s how it was paid for can you connect the dots between the Trump I mean I’m sorry between the Clinton campaign and the investigation of the FBI um you know we we were investigating did investigate you know what was what was behind that investigation how did it get started was it properly predicated as a full uh investigation by the FBI and why did it then continue even after director Mueller had found a lack of sufficient evidence concerning conspiracy Mr Durham is that is that what you call sobering would that be sobering to you it’s sobering to me in connection to this investigation as the FBI the people who Did the FBI fail to take action were involved in the crossfire herd cane investigation ignoring exculpatory information uh discarding information that was inconsistent with the investigative narrative with using information in this instance from the Steele dossier to establish probable cause to electronically surveil the United States citizen who happened to be a a Naval Academy graduate those things are sober to me oh I would agree with that um did the FBI ever fail to make a delay taking action in an investigation involving Hillary Clinton um I did that wasn’t um well there’s a portion of the report that relates to the disparate treatment so did the FBI um a delay there are three instances that are identified in the report where the FBI’s investigative efforts uh were considered considerably more disciplined than was the case uh with respect to Mr Mr Trump more discipline you mean by us Did the FBI give the Clinton campaign a defensive briefing and let me move Mr I don’t run out of time did the FBI give the Clinton campaign a defensive briefing um they gave in a particular manner the FBI gave Mrs Clinton’s represent legal represent Representatives uh DB free of defensive nature yes why wasn’t the same done for the Trump campaign and president Trump we um explored that during the course of the investigation the um what we learned and set out in the report that it would appear from at least what we were told to very little uh thought went into whether they should give anybody in the Trump campaign a defensive briefing and they didn’t a lot of thought went into giving Hillary Clinton’s campaign a defensive briefing apparently but not president Trump in one instance the I think you’re referring to um the submission of a fisa application and that matter against the foreign interest was premised on them giving a Did the Clinton campaign collude with the Russians defensive briefing to Mrs Clinton and some other uh political Mr Durham is it safe to say that the Clinton campaign colluded with the Russians to accuse Donald Trump of colluding with the Russians I could not phrase it that way I could say is that the Clinton campaign funded the information that showed up in the in the dossier the Clinton uh uh campaign funded the information that’s put together concerning an alleged secret Communications Channel between Trump and Alpha bank which was presented to the FBI through Mr Sussman so yeah there are those things that definitely occurred in the evidence establishes that.

Thank you Mr Durham. I appreciate your service.

Supreme Court dismisses clash over Trump Hotel docs

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit by a group of congressional Democrats who had sought details about a government lease for a Washington hotel when it was owned by former President Donald Trump.

Harriet Hageman supports censoring Adam Schiff

FBI ‘verified’ authenticity of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop in November 2019

WASHINGTON — The FBI “verified” the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop in November 2019 and a federal computer expert assessed “it was not manipulated in any way,” IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley told Congress in explosive testimony released Thursday.

Jim Jordan rips FBI while grilling Durham

• “This is two of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of!”

House of Representatives censures Adam Schiff for role in Trump-Russia probe

• When he was chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Schiff announced sweeping probe into Trump’s finances and Russia

Russell Fry questions John Durham about Crossfire Hurricane

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John Durham says FBI agents ‘apologized’ to him for Trump-Russia investigation

Former Special Counsel John Durham on Wednesday said FBI agents had “apologized” to him for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into former President Donald Trump and his campaign from 2016 to 2019, per his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee.

John Durham dismisses a laundry list of Dems’ Trump-Russia collusion claims one by one

Special Counsel John Durham directly refuted claims by Democratic Congressmen that there was evidence former President Donald Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election, according to his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

The media lied about Trump not picking up the check in a Miami cafe

The media falsely accused Donald Trump of breaking a promise to get “food for everyone” at a Cuban restaurant, and had to quietly correct their reports on the subject.

MSNBC and CNN are muting Trump

This is great: neither MSNBC nor CNN is airing Donald Trump’s “speech” right now in Bedminster, NJ. Rachel Maddow emphasizes that there is “a cost” to MSNBC airing lies & she is exactly right. Glad the media isn’t giving Trump a free platform to lie & endanger democracy.

Bill Mitchell

I can no longer work in a world where a narcissistic, lying, criminal like Trump is my party’s nominee.

Making sure Trump doesn’t become president again

I’m making sure [Trump], under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next President again.

Special Counsel charging Trump once had conviction overturned by unanimous Supreme Court

Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to handle the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, has a checkered legal past that includes a brutal smackdown by a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court.

Federal indictment accuses Trump of lying and scheming to keep documents he knew were classified

• The court filing details numerous charges against the former president related to the more than 100 classified documents that were recovered from his Florida home last year.

Trump declassified docs the day before he left office

• Signed Letter by President Trump Reveals He Declassified Docs on Obama Regime Spying on Him the Day Before He Left Office — Explains Why They Raided Mar-a-Lago — CONFIRMS Our Previous Reporting

Election sabotage

On October 14th, 17th & 18th, Maricopa County performed secret testing on the tabulators