John Bolton's Classified Documents Lecture Tour Ends With an Awkward Plot Twist

For years, John Bolton has been one of President Donald Trump's loudest critics, happily appearing on television to explain why mishandling classified documents was practically the crime of the century. On Friday, that moral lecture tour hit an unexpected speed bump when Bolton pleaded guilty to a felony count of illegally retaining sensitive national security information.

Turns out the self-appointed hall monitor wandered off with the answer key.

Under a plea agreement, Bolton will pay a $2.5 million fine while avoiding prison. The court could still impose probation, home confinement, or another penalty, but the former national security advisor walked away with far less than the mountain of charges he originally faced, just like most high-level politicians.

Federal prosecutors initially charged Bolton with 18 counts related to retaining and transmitting national defense information, a crime that should result in capital punishment or at least a life sentence. However, most of those charges disappeared as part of the deal, but Bolton admitted guilt to one serious felony involving sensitive national security information that could have endangered the country if it landed in the wrong hands.

The case stems from Bolton's time serving as Trump's national security advisor between 2018 and 2019 and the tell all memoir he later published after reinventing himself as one of Trump's favorite cable news critics.

According to prosecutors, Bolton kept detailed diary style notes on his personal computer and stored them at both his Maryland home and his Washington office. The notes reportedly included information from intelligence briefings, meetings with senior officials, and conversations with foreign leaders, including material classified at the Top Secret and Sensitive Compartmented Information levels. But alas, no firing squad, no life sentence, just a big fine and loss of pension. 

Whoop-dee-doo!

Investigators also alleged Bolton handed more than 1,000 pages of these notes to two relatives who had no security clearance, reportedly so they could help with his book.

The FBI raided Bolton's home and office last August, recovering documents and other evidence. Bolton initially pleaded not guilty, insisting the notes were merely personal records used during the writing process. He also maintained that the published version of his memoir successfully passed prepublication review and contained no classified information. He lied.

The irony here could not be thicker if it were poured over pancakes.

Bolton spent years insisting President Trump belonged behind bars over the classified documents case Democrats aggressively pursued during the 2024 campaign.

"I think this is a potentially catastrophic turn of events for him. It certainly should be, because if proven in trial it should put Trump in jail for a long time," Bolton declared during a June 2023 interview with NPR.

He also argued that the government should "hold everyone accountable equally, and that does not exclude the president. I think this is a real issue that's going to have profound impacts on our national security if we don't take it seriously."

And still he gets no prison time or a rope.

Fast forward a few years, and suddenly accountability comes with a plea bargain instead of dramatic cable news predictions.

After the Justice Department indicted him, Bolton sounded remarkably familiar, claiming he had "become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he deems to be his enemies with charges that were declined before or distort the facts." He lied.

Funny how quickly someone discovers the dangers of a weaponized Justice Department once they're sitting in the defendant's chair instead of the commentator's chair.

The plea agreement closes the criminal case without any admission of wrongdoing related to the classified information that ultimately appeared in his book. Even so, Bolton's guilty plea leaves behind one unforgettable lesson: if you're going to spend years demanding that everyone else be treated equally under the law, it helps not to end up pleading guilty to the very kind of offense you insisted deserved harsh punishment.

Still, the walrus gets to stay out of the slammer.

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Former Ass't Principal In Deep Doo Doo re: 6-Year-Old Who Shot His Teacher

A former assistant principal at the school where a six-year-old shot his teacher is now headed to trial for her stunning failure to act before the nightmare unfolded.

Ebony Parker faces trial in Newport News, Virginia. She stands accused of blowing off multiple warnings that a six-year-old student had brought a loaded firearm to Richneck Elementary School in January 2023, right before he shot his first-grade teacher, Abby Zwerner.

Prosecutors hit Parker with eight counts of felony child neglect, one for each bullet in the gun the kid carried into the building. If convicted, she could spend up to five years behind bars.

Court documents charge that Parker “did commit a willful act or omission in the care of such students, in a manner so gross, wanton and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life.”

Cases like this, where school officials actually face criminal charges after a shooting, remain incredibly rare. But this one exploded into the national spotlight, as Americans rightly demanded answers for how a first-grader managed to sneak a gun into school without anyone stopping him.

Zwerner, who survived the horror, sued the Newport News public school system. She accused Parker of ignoring repeated alerts that the boy was armed. Zwerner is also expected to take the stand in the criminal case against her former boss.

The shooting happened while Zwerner was seated at a reading table. The boy had taken his mother’s 9mm pistol from home, stuffed it in his backpack, and opened fire. One round struck the teacher in the hand and chest. She spent nearly two weeks in the hospital, endured six surgeries, and still has the bullet lodged in her chest. Despite everything, she managed to get her students to safety before collapsing.

A jury later awarded Zwerner $10 million. The lawsuit laid out how Parker had a clear duty to protect her and the rest of the school after multiple staff members reported the student had a gun in his backpack.

The boy’s mother has already been locked up for nearly four years after pleading guilty to felony child neglect and federal weapons charges.

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Former Democrat State Rep. Forced to Resign: pleads guilty to felony fraud

Ajay Pittman (full name Ayshia K. "Ajay" Pittman) is a former Democratic state representative from Oklahoma but resigned due legal problems, to say the least.

Ajay "Not-so-Squared-Away" represented House District 99 (parts of Oklahoma City) in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2018/2019 until her resignation in late January 2026. 

Born on September 10, 1993, she is a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the daughter of former state senator Anastasia Pittman. She made Democrat history as the first millennial woman and first second-generation woman to hold that seat, and she focused on issues like health equity, economic development, and community advocacy during her tenure, authoring or co-authoring over 160 pieces of legislation.

Her political career ended abruptly in January 2026 when she resigned and pleaded guilty to felony charges. These stemmed from an investigation by the Oklahoma Attorney General's office and the Oklahoma Ethics Commission. 

This lovely lady was accused of submitting a forged/falsified cashier's check (around $2,500) to the Ethics Commission in an attempt to avoid repaying misused campaign funds. She pleaded guilty to:

Conspiracy to Commit a Felony
Forgery in the Second Degree
Violating the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act

This occurred just before the 2026 legislative session, and the seat became vacant following her resignation.

Pittman has a background in business administration, with professional development from Harvard Kennedy School, and has been involved in advocacy, including as a Senior Advocacy & Policy Strategist in intergovernmental affairs and community impact (per her LinkedIn).

She should have known better. Did I mention she's a Democrat?

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BREAKING: Wokester behind LAScanner account that doxed ICE agents busted and jailed in Calif.

Remember when leftists spent years screaming about "doxxing" being some unforgivable sin? Well, karma apparently has a sense of humor, because the guy behind the @LAScanner account, who spent months obsessively doxxing ICE agents, finally got busted.

Jack D. Quillin, the owner of the social media account, has consistently doxed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Previous posts from the LA Scanner account had doxed the location of ICE agents. In June, this twerp was posting the real time locations of ICE agents during operations in California. The doxing sparked accusations that he was endangering ICE as well as federal officers in their operations because giving out their home addresses to leftist thugs does indeed put those agents and their families in danger, and that was obviously Quillin's intention.

Quillin, a convicted felon with a 2023 stalking rap on his record, got nabbed by the Ventura County Sheriff Department on Friday while trying to fly into California from Texas. Turns out, as a felon, it's flat-out illegal for him to possess a police scanner, which, ironically, was the whole gimmick behind his account. It's akin to a felon possessing a handgun.

He was taken into custody at the airport "while attempting to visit CA from TX, with DHS possibly being involved in the arrest," a source told the outlet.

A source told the outlet, "The arrest may be related to his past doxxing of ICE agents, or his various parole violations such as possessing forbidden weapons or police scanners, which have been well-documented online." 

Another person who spoke to Inside Wire said that Quillin, a total loser, had been "accused of hacking DHS radios."

Of course, this all comes against the backdrop of a massive spike in threats and assaults on ICE personnel ever since the Trump administration ramped up enforcement. DHS has previously said that assaults on ICE agents have increased over 1,000 percent since Trump took office. In addition to the increase in assaults on ICE, there have been many instances of ICE agents having their personal information doxed.

Gee, I wonder what Quillin's home address is.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 

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Former SC court clerk in Murdaugh murder trial arrested on severa felonies

He killed his son and his wife; she tried to make a killing with a book

Folks, let me tell you, down in South Carolina, they’ve gone and charged Becky Hill, the former Colleton County court clerk who ran the show during Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial, with a whole mess of felonies. Now, this ain’t like spilling sweet tea at a church picnic; this is serious business.

Last year, the State Ethics Commission pointed their finger at Ms. Hill, 57, saying she was using her fancy title as clerk to fatten her wallet, pushing a book about the Murdaugh case. She even owned up to lifting some words for that book and said, “My bad.” 

But the Colleton County website’s whispering she’s also got a “hold for South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.” Sounds like she’s in hotter water than a crawfish in a Low-country boil.

Now, we don’t know the exact charges yet, but Dick Harpootlian, Murdaugh’s lawyer, ain’t shocked. He told Fox News Digital, “We are aware of the charges filed against Becky Hill, and while these developments are serious, they are not surprising. We have long raised our concerns about her conduct during and after the trial and this arrest further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the judicial process. Every defendant is entitled to a fair and impartial trial and we look forward to Alex Murdaugh finally getting that fair treatment.” That’s lawyer talk for, “We been sayin’ she was up to no good, and now everybody’s seeing it.”

Word is, Hill was playin’ fast and loose with federal money, sending herself nigh on $10,000 in bonuses disguised as child support. She was handing out Easter goodies, Mother’s and Father’s Day gifts, Valentine’s trinkets, paint supplies, flowers, fancy meals, office furniture, and—get this—dog food, bones, and a dog bed. Sounds like she was running the clerk’s office like her personal piggy bank.

Back in January 2024, Supreme Court Justice Jean Toal said Murdaugh, who got nailed for killing his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, in June 2021, didn’t need a new trial. Murdaugh’s team was hollering about jury tampering by Hill, but Toal wasn’t buying it. Outta 12 jurors who said Murdaugh was guilty in 2023, 11 swore Hill didn’t sway ‘em. One fella said he heard her talking about Murdaugh’s body language, but it didn’t change his mind.

Now, The State newspaper’s sayin’ Hill’s facing a perjury indictment. 

Eric Bland, a South Carolina lawyer who stood up for folks Murdaugh swindled, posted on X Wednesday, “I used to think that there was very little chance that our South Carolina Supreme Court would reverse former Chief Justice Jean Toal’s decision in February 2024 when she denied Alex Murdaugh a new trial on his double murder conviction because of Becky Hill alleged jury interference. I thought that if he was to get any relief, it would come after he exhausted his state court appeals and it would be on the federal level. According to the State Paper, the perjury charge arises out of her testimony that she gave in the February 2024 hearing in front of Justice Toal. I think this further complicates the situation and increases the chances that he will get a reversal and a new trial. 

It still will come down to whether the federal standard for alleged jury tampering should have been applied by Justice Toal or she was correct in applying the state standard.” 

That’s a mouthful, but he’s saying Hill’s fibbing might just give Murdaugh a shot at a do-over.

Hill, who was clerk for about four years, stepped down in March after those jury tampering claims but swore it wasn’t because of the trial ruckus. At a news conference, she said, “Another significant impact in our clerk’s office was in 2023, when we had to manage one of the biggest trials in South Carolina history. Our small town came together and made everyone proud. Managing a trial with such importance to the people of South Carolina, as well as to the national and international media interest and public scrutiny, has caused me to reflect upon decisions involving my stay in the office of the clerk of court.” 

She added she was quitting to focus on being a wife, mama, and grandma, and to give other Republicans a fair shake at her job in 2024.

Her old lawyer, Justin Bamberg, who also helped Murdaugh’s victims, said at a March presser that Hill’s exit had nothing to do with any investigations. But, folks, when the law’s circling like buzzards over a roadkill, you gotta wonder if the truth’s been stretched thinner than a politician’s promise.

So, there you have it—Becky Hill’s in a heap of trouble, and it’s shaking up Murdaugh’s case like a hurricane hitting the Carolina coast. Stay tuned, because this story’s got more twists than a backroad in the Palmetto State.

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Al Sharptongue's brother heading to prison

The Very Right Reverend Al Sharptongue's younger brother, Pastor and also Very Right Reverend Kenneth Sharptongue Glasgow has been sent to prison for two and a half years on charges of tax evasion [in the spirit of the Sharptongues], drug trafficking, and lying to obtain Social Security disability benefits from the suckers known as we taxpayers.

Glasgow, 58 and not Scottish, was sentenced after pleading guilty to embezzling $407,000 from two so-called non-profit organizations he created to funnel money to himself.

The organizations were The Ordinary People Society (TOPS), a felon voting rights advocacy organization designed to allow criminals to vote other criminals into political office, and is located in Dothana, Alabama. The other is the Prodigal Child Project.

According to the claim of prosecutors, Glasgow allegedly may have taken almost $1,000,000 from the nonprofits without reporting the income, but a judge rejected this claim. 

Sharptongue Glasgow is set to enter the slammer on August 17th, and his lawyer, Jumping Jimmy Parkman, said the 30 months in stir was a "fair sentence."

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Indiana person charged with a felony for threatening to kill GOP Rep. Jim Banks, his daughters

Guess the anti-gun woke Democrat

A Fort Wayne, Indiana person, whose self-identified gender was not revealed, faces a felony charge for ongoing threats he made to Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks and his three daughters. In one message this person tells Banks that he must choose between his own life or the lives of his daughters.

The person, who has a beard but still might think he's a she, is 34-years-stupid. He [I'm going out on a limb here] reportedly called the congressman's office at least eight times in April and left threatening messages, as per the Indiana Capitol Chronicle.

The woke Democrat admitted to making the calls when interviewed by the US Capitol Police, but claimed that he was intoxicated and because he disagreed with Banks' Republican political positions.

And here you thought he was wrong for making the threats, right?

In one call, the idiot allegedly said he owns a gun and gave Rep. Banks a choice between his life or those of his three young daughters.

"Here's the choice," the Democrat began. "Your daughters grow up without their dad, or you grow old without your daughters," he allegedly said. "… boom, boom you pick..."

The woke progressive also allegedly said he hoped Banks died in a car crash or "(got) his brains blown out" in the messages, according to the report. 

"The safety of my family is my top priority," Banks told Fox News Digital in a statement. "I've been instructed to refer all questions about the ongoing criminal investigation to the Allen County Prosecutor's Office."

Authorities arrested the leftist schmuck on Friday. He now faces intimidation and harassment charges.

According to the Indiana Capitol Chronicle, intimidation is a Level 6 felony in Indiana, while intimidation is a Class B misdemeanor.

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Former Dem congressman so dedicated to the Party that he's going to prison

Michale "Ozzie" Myers of Philadelphia was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison on Tuesday for stuffing ballot boxes, according to the DOJ. The dedicated Democrat served almost two terms in the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1980, representing what was then Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District. 

Myers' motto apparently is: "If you can't win, cheat." He copped to orchestrating the fraudulent stuffing of ballot boxes in PA elections each year from 2014 to 2018, the DOJ reports and worked with election judges Marie Beren and Domenick Demuro in his fraud operation, according to Fox News. 

In May 2020, Demuro admitted to taking bribes from Myers, and Beren “pleaded guilty to the scheme in October 2021.”

Myers arranged ballot stuffing in favor of Democratic candidates who had paid him “consulting fees,” according to the Justice Department, as per Western Journal.com.

The corrupt election workers would add ballots in favor of Myers’ clients and proceed to certify the compromised results.

But Myers hasn't learned from his past, as this isn't the first time he has been incarcerated for corruption. This Democratic dickwad did a three year stretch in con college for accepting bribes from FBI agents posing as wealthy Arab sheikhs seeking political favors in the so-called “Abscam” scandal, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. He was expelled from the House in 1980 for this scandal and thus became one of the few representatives in Congress ever to be kicked to the curb.

Prosecutors are correctly pointing to Myers’ crimes as poison to election confidence in Philadelphia.

“Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy,” United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero said in the Justice Department news release. “If even one vote has been illegally cast or if the integrity of just one election official is compromised, it diminishes faith in process.”

FBI agent Jacqueline Maguire was even tougher on Myers.

“Through his actions, Ozzie Myers pointedly disdained both the will of Philadelphia voters and the rule of law. He’s now a federal felon twice over, heading back behind bars, with time to consider the great consequence of free and fair elections.”

Yeah, but he's only doing a deuce and a half--he should have gotten buck rogers time--no less than a nickel. 

Myers was remanded immediately into federal custody after his Tuesday sentencing, with U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond expressing his belief that the corrupt politician had learned nothing 40 years after his first federal prison bid, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Myers’ son briefly interrupted proceedings in an attempt to “say goodbye” to his POS father before U.S Marshals prepared to haul him away, according to the Inquirer.

By the way, had Myers been a Republican, the opinion expressed here would be the same. Elections should be sacred in the minds of all Americans. This is a great example of why in-person voting is the best method of all.

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Tenn. BLM founder voted illegally: sentenced to 6 years

Pamela Moses, a Black Lives Matter chapter founder in Tennessee was busted for illegally registering to vote while she was still on probation for a previous crime.

Moses [not to be confused with the Jewish prophet who led his people out of Egypt and is also credited with writing the Torah, the Jewish. equivalent of the Koran but without all the beheadings and cutting] pleaded guilty in 2015 to felonies including tampering with evidence and forgery, and misdemeanor charges of stalking, perjury, theft under $500, and escape. For some reason, perhaps because it didn't happen in New York or California, this made her ineligible to vote in Tennessee due to her tampering with evidence charge and she was currently serving seven years of probation.

You might think that all these legal problems would have Moses think twice before committing another crime, but you'd be wrong.

"You tricked the probation department into giving you documents saying you were off probation," Criminal Court Judge W. Mark Ward told the founder of the BLM chapter in Memphis, on Monday.

However, Moses said at the hearing that she believed she could vote again despite her criminal past because the corrections department and county election commission both signed off on her voter registration application in 2019. 

And while it was not disclosed which party Moses belongs to, one might hazard a guess that she's on the Left of Bernie Sanders--most felons are.

As one might guess, the officials who signed off on her application admitted they were in error when they said her probation was over, according to the birdcage liner known as the Washington Post.

"I did not falsify anything. All I did was try to get my rights to vote back the way the people at the election commission told me and the way the clerk did," she claimed at the hearing.

Moses founded the local BLM chapter in Memphis. She also ran for mayor in Memphis in 2019, a position often held by criminals, but learned she could not be on the ballot due to her serving probation. It was also learned that her urine test came back angry.

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She is sentenced to serve six years and one day in the slammer, but her lawyer said Moses plans to appeal the sentencing.

"This case is one about the disparity in sentencing and punishment — and one that shouldn’t have happened," attorney Bede Anyanwu told the Washington Post. "It’s all very, very disturbing."

What's also very, very disturbing is that a Marxist ran for mayor and had she not been busted for her crimes, might have won.

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Arrested for assault, set free, then allegedly beats 2 random NYC women, set free again

A poor homeless 23-year-old man named Darrell Johnson is a victim of the system, but with New York City bail reform, he no longer is incarcerated and is free to live his life as he sees fit because of his victimhood status.

Mr. Johnson was charged last year of beating a man last year and under the old, inhumane ways, would have spent significant time locked up in a cage with nothing but a steel toilet, an aluminum mirror, and "three hots and a cot." But thanks to the Democrats and their humane treatment of Johnson and others in similar situations, he was free to go.

Then he allegedly attacked and violently assaulted two women in the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Thursday. One of the women was beaten so badly she suffered a "disfiguring laceration" to her face, according to law enforcement sources. [H/T The New York Post]

So Johnson was set free again because when bail is free, you're free to go.

Johnson has over a dozen arrests since 2014. Last year, on August 3rd, the poor guy was hit with assault and harassment charges just because he allegedly beat the crap out of a guy, punching him “about the face with a closed fist multiple times” in a Harlem building, according to a court complaint.

Johnson then allegedly “used his feet to kick and stomp” the man in the attack.

Maybe the guy deserved it. 

But Johnson was released without bail because none of the charges were severe enough to be eligible for restriction under the revamped state laws. Had he protested along with the others on January 6th, he'd still be in the slammer. However, it's likely that Johnson is not very political and certainly not a Trump supporter, so there you have it.

With last year's case still pending, our Mr. Johnson was back out on the mean streets of New York City where he allegedly approached a 50-year-old woman at Broadway and West 79th Street in Manhattan around 9:20 a.m. Thursday and assaulted her in a “violent, unprovoked” attack, sources reported. This was the women with the disfiguring facial laceration previously mentioned.

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Johnson waited a full three minutes later when he allegedly assaulted another woman just one block away. The court records show that he allegedly walked up to the 32-year-old victim on West 80th Street and began punching her in the face. She was taken to St. Luke's Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

In court on Friday, Manhattan prosecutors waved a finger at the young man and recommended he be released under [pretend] supervised monitoring. The judge granted the request and Johnson is currently back out on the streets, angry and misogynistic. 

A woke representative for the DA’s office said the charges were not harsh enough to allow the judge to order Johnson held on bail. Had Johnson actually killed even one of the women or men, or hurt a family member of the judge or DA, well that would be a different story.

We now live in a society where the lives of victims have less value than those of felons, and the people who make those laws that protect them are never themselves affected by their decisions.

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REPORT: Secret Service involved in Hunter Biden gun incident as Joe wants tougher gun laws

"Quit moving the damn Teleprompter"

Hunter Biden is knee-deep in swamp slime as a new report emerged Thursday enumerating allegations that the Secret Service helped him out in a firearm-related incident in 2018. This report comes after Hunter revealed in December that he was under federal criminal investigation regarding taxes and his overseas business dealings.

These new allegations from October 2018 stem from an incident between Hunter Biden and Hallie Biden, the wife of his deceased brother, Beau, with whom he was having an affair and fathered a child with a stripper with whom he was having another affair while living with Hallie.

According to the report, Hallie took Hunter's gun and threw it in the trash behind a grocery store, prompting an investigation by law enforcement officials worried about the fact that the store was in close proximity to a high school. Hallie had returned to the store to retrieve the gun but lo and behold, it was gone.

“Secret Service agents approached the owner of the store where Hunter bought the gun and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale, according to two people, one of whom has firsthand knowledge of the episode and the other was briefed by a Secret Service agent after the fact,” Politico reported. 

“The gun store owner refused to supply the paperwork, suspecting that the Secret Service officers wanted to hide Hunter’s ownership of the missing gun in case it were to be involved in a crime, the two people said. The owner, Ron Palmieri, later turned over the papers to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, which oversees federal gun laws.”

The report notes that the Secret Service agents at the agency’s offices in Wilmington, Delaware, would unofficially help manage Joe Biden’s security and that the agency does not have any official record of incident.

The report also stated that POLITICO obtained copies of the Firearms Transaction Record and a receipt for the gun dated Oct. 12, 2018.

In the question asking, "Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” Hunter responded "no," meaning that he lied because he had been discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine, and even he and his family admitted to his drug use.

The lie on ATF Form 4473 is a felony that carries up to a 10-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine, which for Hunter is a piece of crack as he has plenty of Chinese money at his disposal.

The irony is that this report comes at a time when Joe Biden is demanding Congress enact tougher gun laws. 

So Hallie told Hunter what she did and this is when he told her to get the gun from the trash. When she found it gone, the Delaware State Police and FBI responded to the scene to investigate Hunter. 

The police report said that Hunter Biden “became very agitated” when he was asked if the firearm had been used to commit a crime.

When the President's son was asked if he was doing drugs or drinking, Hunter answered by saying that Hallie Biden was concerned about him being mentally unstable, saying that she was concerned that he was going to commit suicide, which would be politically incorrect.

The report says that “an older man who regularly rummages through the grocery’s store’s trash to collect recyclable items” found the gun and returned it days later, although it does not say to whom the firearm was returned.

The White House claims that Biden “did not have any knowledge of, or involvement in, the Secret Service’s alleged role in this incident,” but if you believe that, you might be a liberal.

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Virginia Dem. charged with multiple felonies for allegedly involved destroying statues

State Senator Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) was allegedly involved in taking part in the toppling and destruction of a Confederate statue in Portsmouth, VA at the beginning of summer. She is facing two felony charges along with a bunch of cohorts from the NAACP, an organization that used to be non-violent.

“Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene said the charges are the result of a weeks-long investigation into the June 10 incident, which left a local man critically injured after the statue fell on him during a protest,”  according to the

Richmond Times-Dispatch. “Lucas and six others, including NAACP leaders and a local school board member, were charged with conspiring to commit a felony, and felony injury to a public monument in excess of $1,000," Greene said Monday.

The specific incident that Lucas was charge likely is the one that occurred on June 10th, where demonstrators knocked down a Confederate monument that fell on the head of another demonstrator and seriously injured him.

The demonstrators also went all terrorist on four additional statues which the Daily Press reported. “Demonstrators beheaded the four Confederate statues before pulling one down using a tow rope Wednesday night at the Portsmouth Confederate monument as police watched. A protester was injured as the statue fell, hitting him on the head. Louie Gibbs, vice president of the Portsmouth NAACP, said the man, who was in his 30s, lost consciousness. The man’s head was cut open, and he was transported to the hospital.” 

The injured man was merely trying to be part of the virtue signaling mob and is expected to make a full recovery.

According to WAVY TV 10, the following virtue signalers who are guilty of having negative thoughts about folks of races different from theirs are also facing "charges of conspiracy to commit a felony and injury to a monument in excess of $1,000":

State Sen. L Louise Lucas
James Boyd, Portsmouth NAACP representative
Louie Gibbs, Portsmouth NAACP representative
LaKesha Hicks, Portsmouth NAACP representative
LaKeesha S. “Klu” Atkinson, Portsmouth School Board member
Kimberly Wimbish
Dana Worthington
Amira Bethea

What are the chances of their being two LaKeeshas [although spelled slightly different] allegedly committing the same crime?

The local news station also reported the following list of individuals that are facing “a felony charge of injury to a monument in excess of $1,000”:

Brenda Spry, public defender
Alexandra Stephens, public defender
Meredith Cramer, public defender
Brandon Woodard
Hanah Renae Rivera
Raymond J Brothers

And what's with lawyers risking their licenses to practice just to virtue signal that they are better than everyone who has a different political view? So there are 10 women and four brave men with the courage to attack inanimate objects to feel as if they had done something to better society by wiping out lessons from the past.

What a bunch of woke losers.


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2 all beef patties special sauce, spit and shoe goo, served by McD's worker to police officer

A former McDonald's worker is alleged to have taken the sesame seed bun, rubbed it on the floor and launched a loogie on it before serving it to a police officer. She is now facing a felony charge and none of this is going to look good on her resume.

This 21-year-old woman also faces charge of willfully poisoning food and somehow sees herself as a victim in life.

Tatyana Hargrove  has been ordered to stand trial on a felony charge after she committed this vile act last November in a Bakersfield, California McDonald's. She is due in court March 23rd. 

Hargrove is accused of rubbing a hamburger bun on the floor of the restaurant's takeout window while preparing an order for a uniformed cop at the drive-thru, KGET-TV reported.

Along with her alleged behavior, the young black woman reportedly shouted, "Black lives matter" and "f**k the pigs!" during the incident. 

What a gift to Mickey Dee's. She'll go far.

The investigating officer, Deputy Carly Snow, testified that Hargrove admitted to yelling the insults because she knew the burger was going to be served to a police officer, according to testimony from a preliminary hearing.

The officer who was served and shouted at reportedly did not become ill from eating the burger because if you can tolerate a burger at McDonalds, rubbing the bun on the floor only gives it an added, indescribable flavor.

During the preliminary hearing, Hargrove's lawyer, Lexi Blythe, argued that there is insufficient evidence to prove her client willfully mingled poison or harmful substances with food, as the felony charge requires. However, she did not say whether she would consume such a burger.

Blythe said that it's unknown when the last time chemical cleaning products were used on the floor and that Hargrove's back was turned away from the surveillance camera when the alleged crime was committed.

So, it appears that if the floor was dirty because it wasn't cleaned with germ-killing chemicals, and she ran the bun on the floor and spat on it, that's okay. Had the floor been cleaned with chemicals, that would be a problem. Blythe still wouldn't say if she'd eat that same burger if all things were the same.

The prosecutor in the case, Gina Pearl, argued that another McDonald's employee heard Hargrove drawing saliva into her mouth while she prepared the order, and that Hargrove can be seen wiping her filthy mouth afterward, according to surveillance video. 

Fortunately for the police officer, it was merely Hargrove's spittle rather than a McDonald's hambugger that was consumed.

Prior to the November 2019 incident, Hargrove claimed to be the VICTIM of police brutality in a lawsuit filed against the Bakersfield Police Department in 2017. However, the police officer who was served the tainted burger was not the alleged officer involved in Hargrove's case.

Anyway, the suit went to a trial but the jury ultimately sided with the police department because Hargrove is full of crap and simply seems to hate law enforcement.


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GOP congressional candidate hoping to unseat Ilhan Omar allegedly gets caught shoplifting

If only she could have waited to be elected as a congresswoman running against Ilhan Omar before taking what didn't belong to her, like most political hacks do. Instead, a Minnesota congressional candidate hopeful to unseat the anti-Semitic Omar now Republican Danielle Stella ["Hey, Stella!"] faces felony shoplifting charges, according to a report.

Stella, a 31-year-old light-fingered supporter of President Trump, was arrested twice already this year, in the thefts of 279 items valued over $2,300 from a Target and $40 worth of goods from a grocery store, The Guardian reported. A grocery store sounds like it's privately owned--how terrible to steal from anyone, much less an independent merchant.

“I am not guilty of these crimes. In this country I am innocent until proven guilty and that is the law,” the special-education teacher told the news outlet.

But 279 items? Even if she didn't steal all 279 items, it seems very possible she may have stolen at least one. Allegedly. And a grocery store?

“If I was guilty of crimes, I would never run for public office, putting myself in the public eye under a microscope to be attacked by all political sides,” she added. This makes no sense as politicians are notorious for using money that doesn't belong to them for things they want.

This week Stella described Minneapolis as “the crime capital of our country.” And she should know.

Stella told the cops that she “remembers arriving at Target to purchase items but nothing else” due to post-traumatic stress disorder, and that “normally she goes to Target with someone because of anxiety around people,” according to a criminal complaint cited by The Guardian. 

Great--Stella has Social Anxiety Disorder and she wants to run for PUBLIC office.

Please don't do the Republican Party any favors. There are clearly better candidates out there and it should be relatively easy to beat the crazy Jew-hater, Ilhan Omar.

But after all is said and done, this is all going to end up being Trump's fault.

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BREAKING: Sucker-puncher of conservative at UC Berkeley arrested

It was only a matter of time before law enforcement arrested the leftist who assaulted a conservative activist with Turning Point USA on UC-Berkeley's campus.

The perp, Zachary Greenberg, 28, was arrested on a felony warrant Friday for allegedly [but there's video evidence] punching Hayden Williams.

"Greenberg was identified as one of two men who confronted a conservative activist who had set up a table in Sproul Plaza," CBS San Francisco reports. "Hayden Williams, a volunteer with conservative group Talking Points USA was displaying signs that read, 'Hate Crimes Hoaxes Hurt Real Victims' – a reference to the Jussie Smollett case – and another saying 'This is MAGA Country.'"

In a statement, UC-Berkeley wrote:

Today, an Alameda County Superior Court Judge issued a warrant for the arrest of the suspect in the matter involving a February 19 assault on Sproul Plaza. Zachary Greenberg was arrested by the University of California Police Department (UCPD) on the warrant and booked into jail at 1 p.m. UCPD will formally present the case to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for consideration of the filing of criminal charges. Once the matter is presented and reviewed by the District Attorney’s Office, additional information will be made available regarding a charging decision.

Greenberg was arrested in Berkeley "on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm with force likely to produce great bodily injury," according to the report. He is being held at Glenn Dyer Jail in Oakland on $30,000 bond with his arraignment set for Monday.

"This is really surprising," Charlie Kirk founder of Turning Point USA told Fox News a week after the incident. Kirk was upset that law enforcement was moving so slowly on the case. 

"From what I understand there’s been no arrest. I don’t understand why there’s no public arrest file on this guy. If he had been wearing a Make America Great Again hat and had punched a liberal in the face there’d be nationwide outrage and a manhunt to find him. The whole thing is crazy."

Kirk is correct: if Greenberg was wearing a MAGA hat and punched a pro-infanticide activist, the mainstream media would be all over the story.

"This is astonishing — what extra work needs to be done?" Kirk said in a separate Fox News report. "The assault was clearly captured on video. If the attacker was wearing a MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat this case would be wrapped up by now, daily press conferences would be occurring, and arrests would have already happened."

"When a liberal like Jussie [Smollett] cries wolf and fakes an attack he receives unmatched coverage, sympathy & support creating a tsunami of attention," Donald Trump Jr. tweeted. "When a conservative student literally gets punched in the face and it’s caught on video it barely makes a ripple."

"Freedom of speech is a staple American value... or it used to be!" Kimberly Guilfoyle tweeted. "Violent leftists at UC Berkeley attacked a @tpusa activist on campus. Video is disturbing @charliekirk11 is right. If attacker had been wearing MAGA hat this would be top story on every news broadcast in America!"

If the MSM didn't have a double-standard, they'd have no standard at all.


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Smollett now declared a suspect in the criminal investigation

Surprise, surprise, Chicago law enforcement officials have now officially declared ACTOR Jussie Smollett [aka "Smell It"] to be a suspect, not a victim, in their criminal investigation on Wednesday after he allegedly committed a felony--filing a false police report.

Chicago Police Chief Communications Officer Anthony Guglielmi tweeted:

"Case Update: Jussie Smollett is now officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation by #ChicagoPolice for filing a false police report (Class 4 felony). Detectives are currently presenting evidence before a Cook County Grand Jury."

CNN reported: "Chicago detectives investigating an alleged attack on Jussie Smollett are working to obtain the actor's financial records, a high-ranking police source said Wednesday. Smollett's attorneys met with Cook County prosecutors earlier Wednesday, according to Chicago Police spokesman Tom Ahern. But a source close to actor's team told CNN that he has not given police a follow-up interview and no such meeting is scheduled."

This was probably on the advice of his attorneys because if the cops questioned him and he lies, he's in deeper poo.

The case began on January 22, 2019, when the Smollett received a threatening letter at the Fox studio where "Empire" is filmed.

Two brothers, who are believed to have orchestrated the attack on Smollett at Smollett's instruction, claimed that Smollett was also behind sending the threatening letter to himself. This doesn't seem hard to believe at this time and I would go out on a limb and say he's probably in deeper poo than he bargained for--all he wanted was to implicate all white Trump supporters in a hate/homophobic crime and maybe stay on with the show instead of getting written off--but his plan was too "cartoonish," poorly thought out, and too perfect [i.e., too good] to be true.

"The FBI and the US Postal Inspection Service are currently investigating whether Jussie Smollett played a role in sending a threatening letter addressed to him at 'Empire’s' Chicago studio prior to the alleged attack," ABC News reported. "The accusation, made by the two brothers who were persons of interest, has not been confirmed."

CBS News reported Monday that Smollett is thought to have orchestrated the attack on himself because he was miffed that the letter did not get a "bigger reaction."

Interestingly enough, This is not Smollett's first brush with the law. He was arrested in 2007 for a DUI and giving a false report to the police.

TMZ reported over the weekend that Chicago law enforcement officials were suspicious of Smollett's claims from early on in their investigation.


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Kevin Spacey is not Frank Underwood but he's definitely nuts

President Kevin Francis Underwood Spacey has made a bizarre video where he speaks in character as his role in "House of Cards., Southern drawl and all, Like wind, Spacey broke his silence just when reports surfaced [like a Tootsie Roll in a swimming pool] that he will face a felony charge tied to a sexual assault allegation.

Spacey released the YouTube video on Monday, titled "Let Me Be Frank," which he, as President Underwood, appeared to criticize the #MeToo movement in a "House of Cards"-inspired monologue.

"Conclusions can be so deceiving," he says in the video. "Miss me?"

No Kevin. You are a sick man who allegedly sexually assaulted a boy, the teenage son of a former Boston TV news anchor at a Nantucket bar in July 2016, according to reports from the Boston Globe and NBC10.

The kid was 18 at the time, young, but old enough to have shot your sorry ass.

Heather Unruh said in a press conference in November 2017 that the Oscar-winning actor assaulted her son.
"Spacey bought him drink after drink after drink and when my son was drunk, Spacey made his move and sexually assaulted him," she said of the gay crap weasel.

"The complainant has shown a tremendous amount of courage in coming forward," Mitchell Garabedian, attorney for the accuser, said in a statement to Boston's NBC10. "Let the facts be presented, the relevant law applied and a just and fair verdict rendered."

Spacey is due to be arraigned on a charge of indecent assault and battery at Nantucket District Court on Jan. 7, according to the Boston Globe.

Spacey's video, posted minutes after the Boston Globe's story about him, features the actor at the kitchen sink, washing in hands while wearing an apron. "I know what you want," he begins in character. "Oh sure, they may have tried to separate us, but what we have is too He slithers on: "I told you my deepest, darkest secrets. I showed you exactly what people are capable of. I shocked you with my honesty, but mostly I challenged you and made you think.

"And you trusted me," he drawls. "Even though you knew you shouldn’t. So we’re not done, no matter what anyone says. And besides, I know what you want. You want me back."

It's all so obviously staged and creepy. He never actually goes into any detail about his legal problems, but that's to be expected.

"Of course, some believed everything and have just been waiting with bated breath to hear me confess it all," he says. "They’re just dying for me to declare that everything said was true and that I got what I deserved."


Spacey continues: "Wouldn’t that be easy? If it was all so simple? You and I both know it’s never that simple, not in politics and not in life."

"But you wouldn’t believe the worst without evidence, would you?" he says. "Anyway, all this presumption made for such an unsatisfying ending. To think it could’ve been such a memorable sendoff."

He makes an ominous promise.

"Because I can promise you this: If I didn’t pay the price for the things we both know I did do, I’m certainly not going to pay the price for the things I didn’t do," he says cryptically. "Oh of course they’re going to say I’m being disrespectful, not playing by the rules. Like I ever played by anyone’s rules before. I never did. And you loved it."

"Despite all the poppycock, the animosity, the headlines, the impeachment without a trial. Despite everything. Despite even my own death. I feel surprisingly good," he says. "And my confidence grows each day that soon enough you will know the full tru– Well wait a minute. Now that I think of it, you never actually saw me die, did you?"

Netflix declined to comment on the video, but I wouldn't be surprised if they sued him.

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Knowingly exposing others to HIV, no biggie in California

"I need to be excused; my brain is full"

Governor "Moonbeam" Brown (D-Calif.) apparently believes that if someone intentionally infects another individual, either through sexual intercourse, or blood transfusion, it should not be considered a felony but a misdemeanor. Even if the victim dies.

Brown signed a law on Friday that lowers the penalty for intentional exposure of HIV. It is now a misdemeanor, a minor offense, like indecent exposure on Muscle Beach.

"Today California took a major step toward treating HIV as a public health issue, instead of treating people living with HIV as criminals.," Sen. Scott Wiener (D. -- San Francisco).

So with that logic, someone who is a driver but uses his or her car to plow into people should be penalized with a misdemeanor because it's a driving issue.

The way intentionally plowing into people with vehicles is taken seriously today, exposing someone to HIV used to be treated more seriously under California law than infecting someone with any other communicable disease.

But this is a policy some libtards view as a decades-old AIDS scare that unfairly punished those who intentionally infected others. 

Under the old, morally appropriate law, if a person who knows they're infected with HIV has unprotected sex without telling their partner they have the virus, they have committed a felony for which they face significant time in jail. This not only prevented that person from infecting another innocent victim, but it also served as a disincentive to others with HIV who might have gone and done the same thing.

On the other hand, intentional transmission of any other communicable disease, even a potentially deadly one such as hepatitis, is a misdemeanor.

That's just as screwed up as Gov. Moonbeam's law to decriminalize the intentional spread of HIV.

Wiener appears to have the issue confused. He seems to think that because HIV/AIDS was an epidemic in the past and people were scared and ignorant about it, that it's okay to decriminalize its spread. "These laws were passed at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic when there was enormous fear and ignorance and misinformation around HIV," he said. "It's time for California to lead and repeal these laws to send a clear signal that we are going to take a science-based approach to HIV not a fear-based approach."

In other words, if people understand that there is treatment for the disease and they might live a longer life than people originally did in the past, then it's okay to make it a misdemeanor because the person infecting a victim probably knows the victim won't die so soon.

If I only intentionally nick you with my car, maybe to just break your legs, I should get a hefty fine, a finger wagging, and some points on my driver's license.

GOP lawmaker, Sen. Joel Anderson, voted against the senseless bill.

"I'm of the mind that if you purposefully inflict another with a disease that alters their lifestyle the rest of their life, puts them on a regimen of medications to maintain any kind of normalcy, it should be a felony," Anderson said.

Brown isn't just a bleeding heart liberal; he a bloody fool.

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Scaramucci's vulgar language makes Trump look bad

Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria

If I used even a smidgeon of the vulgarity the White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci used regarding Reince Priebus Google would shut down this blog. Even if they didn't shut me down you probably would go elsewhere to get your White House information and I wouldn't blame you.

Mooch, as he likes to be called, even made fun of Senior Adviser Steve Bannon in the same interview with Ryan Lizza, writing for the New Yorker magazine. 

In the story published on Thursday, Mooch asks Lizza to tell him who leaked the details of a dinner Trump attended and he goes on to accuse Priebus of being the leaker.

"Reince is a f***ing paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac," Mooch told Lizza in a Wednesday evening phone call.

"I fired one guy the other day. I have three or four people I'll fire tomorrow," Mooch said. "I'll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus--if you want to leak something--he'll be asked to resign very shortly."

He went on, doing an impersonation of Priebus: "Let me leak the f***ing thihng and see if I can c**k block these people the way I c**k blocked Scaramucci for six months."

Mooch said that unlike Bannon, he's not interested in inflating his profile to the media.

"I'm not Steve Bannon; I'm not trying to suck my own c**k," he said. "I'm not trying to build my own brand off the f***ing strength of the president. I'm here to serve the country."

At least he didn't say he was here to serve the 'f***ing country'.

He accused Priebus of leaking his financial disclosure to the media calling it a 'felony,' but the information was public record, so he was wrong.

"I've called the FBI and the Department of Justice," he said.

"What I want to do is I want to f***ing kill all the leakers and I want to get the president's agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people," he said, and told Lizza that he believed Priebus would resign soon.

Mooch ended the call with Lizza, telling him he needed to "start tweeting some s**t to make this guy crazy."

Interestingly, Scaramucci didn't deny any of the comments he made. "I sometimes use colorful language," he said. "I will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for @realDonaldTrump's agenda."

Then later on Thursday, Mooch made it sound like it was all Lizza's fault stating that he "made a mistake in trusting in a reporter. It won't happen again."

But whether the reporter was told that it was "off the record" or not, Scaramucci still displayed the unprofessional vulgarity and even homophobia the LBGTQ would say, that should render him wrong for this job.

We all remember what Trump said a few years ago about grabbing women by their genitalia. This echoes the same negativity and likely problems Trump will have in the future. 

Lizza spoke on the Crappy News Network (CNN) saying, "It's not a matter of trust, it's a matter of we as journalists trying to explain who these people are to the American people and when you do an on the record interview with someone, its standard operating procedure that the interview gets reported."

And you really can't disagree with that. Imagine if you, as a journalist, was privy to Sacarmucci's private rants, with all of its anger and vulgarity. If you didn't report it, you'd be guilty of journalistic malpractice.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Scaramucci saying that he gets passionate about his job. 

"This is a guy who sometimes uses colorful--and in many circles, probably not appropriate--language. And he's very passionate about the president, the president's agenda and I think he may have let that get the best of him in that conversation," she said.

That wasn't 'colorful' language, it was highly vulgar and totally inappropriate and cannot be justified, in spite of Sanders' intelligent handling of it.

One White House official leaked concern to Fox News saying, "This is getting out of hand. I am honestly getting concerned for my safety in the office tomorrow. This type of behavior is unbelievable. Working in the White House and something like that is said, it is a disgrace."

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Intel official who 'unmasked' Trump associates is 'very high up'

The U.S. intelligence official who exposed the names of private citizens affiliated with the President's team is someone "very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world," a source told Fox News.

Intelligence and House sources knowing about the disclosure of classified names told Fox that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) knows who illegally revealed the names. According to their sources, the person responsible is not in the FBI, but Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer have not yet been mentioned. (See how you can spin a story?)

To unmask a private citizen, or for that person's name to be revealed in an intelligence report is as rare as an intelligent thought by Whoopi Goldberg. When it normally happens the American in question is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or must be named in order to explain the context of the report.

A congressional source told Fox News that "The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia'a interference in the U.S. election."

But rather than being upset with the unmasking of the names of private citizens, the Democrats are attacking Nunes for focusing on the felony (i.e., the freaking crime) rather than the possibility, not the actuality, that someone in the Trump camp may have had something to do with the Russians tampering with our election, in spite of the fact that there isn't "even a smidgeon" of evidence, as Obama claimed about Hillary's email server.

Which there was enough smidgeons to fill a tome.

The mistake that Nunes made, in my opinion, was to go to Trump first about the alleged 'wiretapping' of President Trump's devices by the Obama administration during the 2016 campaign.

Nunes tried to get intelligence agencies to release the reports to him but he was stonewalled. Eventually, however, he got to see them at the only safe place available to protect the identities of the sources: the old executive office building on White House grounds in its Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), a required location to view classified or top secret material.

The White House did not tell Nunes about the existence of the intelligence reports, but assisted in helping him gain access to the documents at his request.

Naturally, the White House is pushing Nunes et al, to pursue what improper surveillance and leaks may have taken place before Trump took office. This now comes after an Obama administration official, Dr. Evelyn Farkas, told MSNBC that her former colleagues tried to gather information on Trump team contacts with Russia, which she is now walking back saying she used a 'shorthand' way of explaining that she enjoys opera and long walks along the beach and other non sequiturs.

House Intelligence Ranking Member Adam Schiff (Duh-Calif.) criticized Nunes' handling of the investigation, and as much as I think of Schiff as a leftist dork, he makes a point--he should not have briefed Trump first. Nunes apologized the following day but said the briefing he had with Mr. Trump had nothing to do with Russia, or as Democrats like to say, "Mother Russia."

As it turned out, the citizens affiliated with Trump's team who were illegally unmasked, were not tied to any intel about Russia or other foreign intelligence. 

At least the Democrats have been able to take the focus off our real problem: radical Islam.


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