Before you get your hopes up about Kash Patel's capacity to do a good job, remember Wray was also a Trump appointee to replace the fired James Comey, and he turned out arguably worse than Comey.
Robert Mueller III was appointed by George W. Bush and assumed office exactly one week before 9/11/01. Neither of them kept us safe. And then they pursued the wrong guy in the anthrax attacks.
We have more than two decades of ugly feeling about the FBI to overcome.
Democratic National Committee finance member Lindy Li trashed Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed bid for the White House, calling her loss to President-elect Donald Trump a “$1 billion disaster.”
Ms. Li
told “Fox & Friends” on Saturday that she and other Democrats feel
that Campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon “misled” them into wasting
millions of dollars.
“The truth is, this is just an epic disaster — this is a $1 billion disaster,” Ms. Li said. “They’re $20 million or $18 million in debt. It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that.”
She added, “I have friends I have to be
accountable and explain things to because I told them it was a
margin-of-error race. I was promised, Jen O’Malley Dillon promised all
of us that Harris would win. She even put videos out saying Harris would
win. I believed her, my donors believed her, and so they wrote massive
checks.”
Mr. Trump’s resounding victory over Ms. Harris has had Democrats searching for what went wrong.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, blamed
President Biden for Tuesday’s blowout loss because of his late exit from
the race in July.
She argued that if Democrats had an open primary to find a new party nominee, the election outcome might have been different.
Ms. Li made a similar argument, that if Democrats truly viewed Mr. Trump
as a threat to democracy and the country, they would have allowed for
an open process to find a successor “instead of just coronating
somebody.”
Mr. Biden’s decision to endorse Ms. Harris quickly shuttered that possibility, she said.
“I actually think President Biden, the whole
endorsing her 30 minutes after he dropped out, I think that was a big ‘F
you’ to the party. ‘If you don’t want me, here’s somebody you may not
like, deal with it,’” Ms. Li said.
Nancy Pelosi, June 30th, defending President Applesauce-brains, right after Joe's disastrous debate with Trump:
"We know how attuned he is to the issues, we know how informed he is. I debate with him about the issues, not debate, but discuss it with him. He‘s right there."
Nancy Pelosi, September 18th, pushing back on the Kamala coronation:
"We had an open primary and she won it. Nobody else got in the race."
It is not clear when the first migrant of the 13,000 crossed into the U.S. Two
law enforcement officials familiar with the data told NBC News many of
the migrants on ICE’s non-detained docket, including serious criminals,
crossed into the U.S. under previous administrations, including former President Donald Trump’s. ... There are currently more than 7.5 million immigrants on ICE’s
“non-detained” docket, meaning they have pending immigration cases but
are not currently in detention.
The agency provided data to Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, about illegal immigrants with criminal charges or convictions. The data, as of July 2024, is broken down by those in detention and those who are not in detention, known as the non-detained docket.
The
non-detained docket includes noncitizens who have final orders of
removal or are going through removal proceedings but are not in ICE
custody.
There are more than 7.4 million people on that docket, up from around 3.7 million when former President Trump left office.
Zuckerberg's sudden regret only came after his company fought for
years to conceal the evidence of its work with the government to censor
opposing views. Zuckerberg was finally compelled to release the
documents by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and
the House Judiciary Committee.
Now forced to admit what many of us have long alleged, Zuckerman is really, really sorry.
"Praying for #Baltimore, but praying even harder for an end to a
capitalistic police state motivated by explicit and implicit racial
biases," Cherry posted in 2015 amid riots that were sparked following
the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man, in police custody in Baltimore.
"Apt (sic.) time to recall that the modern day police system is a
direct evolution of slave patrols and lynch mobs," he stated in a
separate post months later.
In 2018, Cherry called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), the Homeland Security Department agency tasked with preventing
cross-border crime and illegal immigration, to be abolished.
Cherry was also posting support for "Palestine" on social media in 2014 during the Gaza War in which Palestinian forces, led by the radical Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, launched hundreds of rockets into Israel, sparking a forceful Israeli response that involved airstrikes and a ground invasion.
"Cheersing in bars to ending the occupation of Palestine — no shame
and f--- your glares #ISupportGaza #FreePalestine," Cherry said on July
25, 2014, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Cherry also has a history of criticizing Republicans on social media, including in 2017 when he said that conservatives in the Republican Party were focused on "white grievance politics."
"The Tea Party was never about the debt/deficit but about racism and white grievance politics," he wrote on X.
The comment drew immediate criticism on social media from
conservatives skeptical of the portrayal of Biden as "calm" and
"steady."
"This doesn't work this time. Does anything feel calm?" conservative commentator Stephen L. Miller posted on X.
"Narrator: He's incredibly weak, has a history of anger problems, and
has so little integrity that he can't give a simple speech without
telling multiple, already-debunked lies," Red State writer Bonchie posted on X.
They're selling their brands that's all. These two are mere children who pretend that adults should never have to choose the bad Trump over the worse Biden.
Their ilk pretended over the weekend, for example, that Donald Trump made Memorial Day all about himself and his troubles, which, if you hadn't noticed, are unprecedented no matter how much he has brought them on himself.
The decline of religion in America has made America uglier and more vulgar on both sides, both incapable of showing mercy and of practicing self-examination. To do so is a gotcha, the specialty that provides the clicks and the revenue.
It's still all about the Benjamins.
That half the country still supports Trump is symbolic of its former better self and says less about Trump than it does about what is still right with us.
Melania, wife offormer President Donald Trump, will reportedly be attending a fundraiser for the Log Cabin Republicans later this month, multiple publications have reported.
Garvey, 74, said his experience with baseball has trained him how to put together a winning team, saying he's"been able to do it in Los Angeles and San Diego and in the community. ... I'll be a one-term, six-year senator who will step up to the plate every day and go to bat for the people of California who know there's a better life and need somebody to be their voice. They'll be the wind beneath my wings, too," he added.
Fox News correspondent David Spunt has the latest on the first son's refusal to testify on 'Special Report.'
The assistant U.S. attorney who was accused oflimiting questionsrelated to President Biden during the federal investigation into Hunter Biden is no longer employed by the Justice Department, Fox News has learned.
Lesley Wolf, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware, is no longer with the DOJ, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The source said Wolf had longstanding plans to leave the Department of Justice and did so weeks ago.
Wolf, who IRS whistleblowers claimed slow-walked the Hunter Biden investigation, is sitting for a transcribed interview before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning.
Specifically, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley alleged that Wolf worked to "limit" questioning related to President Biden and apparent references to Biden as "dad" or "the big guy."
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Brooke Singman is a Fox News Digital politics reporter. You can reach her at Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.
WASHINGTON — The former federal prosecutor who allegedly shielded President Biden and his son Hunter
during a criminal investigation testified 79 times to Congress that she
was “not authorized” by the Justice Department to answer questions
about the case, according to a transcript reviewed by The Post.
Former Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf repeatedly cited a
five-page authorization letter from Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer as she refused to answer questions during a House Judiciary Committee deposition last week.
Weinsheimer’s Dec. 12 letter, also reviewed by The Post, says: “[T]he
Department generally does not authorize congressional testimony from
line-level personnel, especially relating to an ongoing investigation
with charges pending in court. The Department has declined to do so in
connection with this matter.”
Wolf’s dozens of refusals to answer questions — just one day after the full House voted to authorize an impeachment inquiry
into President Biden — frustrated attempts to firm up the storyline
involving what whistleblowers say was a sweeping cover-up by Wolf and
colleagues to protect the Biden family.
A
former federal prosecutor who allegedly shielded President Biden and
his son Hunter during a criminal investigation testified that she was
“not authorized” to answer questions about her actions, according to a
transcript. AP
The near-blanket rejection of questions follows pressure from House
Republicans on the administration to allow witness testimony and could
bolster GOP arguments that the White House is obstructing the inquiry,
which itself could form an article of impeachment.
Two IRS agents who worked on the long-running tax fraud investigation
into Hunter Biden, which focused on his foreign income from countries
such as China and Ukraine, alleged in prior testimony to House
committees that Wolf tipped off the first son’s lawyers to investigative
steps and forbade inquiries into Joe Biden, even when communications
mentioned him.
Wolf served on the squad of prosecutors that signed off on a
probation-only plea deal in June for the first son on tax and gun
charges, which fell apart the following month under scrutiny from a federal judge.
Lesley
Wolf (above) repeatedly cited a five-page authorization letter from
Bradley Weinsheimer as she refused to answer questions during a House
Judiciary Committee deposition. Fedbar.org
IRS supervisor Gary Shapley, who oversaw the Hunter Biden
investigation for three years, and case agent Joseph Ziegler, who worked
on the inquiry for five years, made a series of specific claims against
Wolf, which she did not refute in her testimony.
Tax investigators learned in December 2020 that Wolf “reached out to
Hunter Biden’s defense counsel and told them” about investigators’ plans
to search a northern Virginia storage unit that contained business
records, “circumventing our chance to get to evidence from potentially
being destroyed, manipulated or concealed,” Ziegler testified in July.
Shapley testified that investigators were months earlier barred from
searching a guest house at Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home, where
Hunter often stayed.
Wolf’s
refusals to answer questions come one day after the full House voted to
authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. REUTERS
Shapley said that on Sept. 3, 2020, “Wolf told us there was more than
enough probable cause for the physical search warrant there, but the
question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze.”
Wolf also allegedly objected during a meeting on Dec. 3, 2020, to questioning a key Biden family associate, Rob Walker, about the president.
“Wolf interjected and said she did not want to ask about the big guy
and stated she did not want to ask questions about ‘dad,’” he said.
“When multiple people in the room spoke up and objected that we had
to ask, she responded, there’s no specific criminality to that line of
questioning. This upset the FBI, too,” Shapley testified.
Wolf served as a key point person for the investigation, serving under Delaware US Attorney David Weiss.
The whistleblowers accused Weiss’ office of giving Hunter Biden’s
legal team advance knowledge of a planned interview attempt in late
2020, scuttling a planned approach, and said prosecutors didn’t pass
along a paid FBI informant’s tip that Joe and Hunter Biden received $10 million in bribes from Ukrainian energy company Burisma,
which paid Hunter a salary of up to $1 million to serve on its board
beginning in 2014 when his vice president dad led US policy toward the
country.
Wolf allegedly instructed FBI agents in August 2020 to remove
references to Joe Biden from a search warrant affidavit, writing,
“Someone needs to redraft [the affidavit] … There should be nothing
about Political Figure 1 in here,” according to an email released by the Ways & Means Committee.
“That email, I think, is super important because it’s a one-off
example in writing of the constant concern of following investigative
leads that might lead to Joe Biden,” Ziegler said last week in a Fox
News interview.
“The FBI agents who drafted that affidavit, they believed that they
had sufficient evidence — probable cause — to support including
Political Figure 1 in that affidavit,” said the self-identified Democrat.
IRS supervisor Gary Shapley (not pictured) oversaw the Hunter Biden investigation for three years. REUTERS
“That related to [Ukrainian energy company] Burisma, access to Joe
Biden and access to the administration and there was ample evidence that
was included in that affidavit that’s supported including Political
Figure 1. That has a waterfall effect on the investigation because those
emails that we’re searching for might not come through to the team.”
Shapley and Ziegler said they were not allowed to get cellphone
geolocation data that could have proved Joe Biden was with his son in
July 2017 when Hunter sent a threatening text message to a Chinese government-linked businessman saying, “I am sitting here with my father,” and warning of retribution.
Within 10 days of that message, $5.1 million flowed to accounts
linked to Hunter and first brother James Biden from CEFC China Energy —
after a tranche of $1 million earlier that year, less than two months
after Biden left office as vice president.
Internal
Revenue Service whistleblowers Joseph Ziegler and Gary Shapley testify
in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing
about alleged meddling in the Justice Department’s investigation of
Hunter Biden. REUTERS
A May 2017 email penciled in Joe Biden, referred to as the “big guy,” for a 10% cut from CEFC dealings.
The IRS whistleblowers say that — in addition to preferential
treatment for Joe and Hunter Biden — Attorney General Merrick Garland
misled Congress under oath about Weiss’ ability to independently bring
criminal charges against Hunter Biden.
Biden-appointed US attorneys in Los Angeles and Washington have
confirmed in testimony that they declined to partner with Weiss, who in
August was elevated by Garland to be a special counsel, allowing him to bring charges independently outside of Delaware.
The DOJ didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about Wolf’s testimony.
According to multiple sources within the group,
officially known as "The Eight-Year Alliance," DeSantis is "a proven
winner," a contender with a depth of policy proven by what he's
accomplished at the state level, and a leader who "does what he says."
The
primary motivation of the group, the sources said, is to promote a
candidate they feel would be a viable contender for two presidential
terms, something they see in DeSantis. They also want to prevent former President Donald Trump
"immediately becoming a lame-duck president" should he win back the
White House, considering the polarizing affect his persona has had on
American politics.
Key point: depth of proven policy in Florida sustainable nationally over two presidential terms is a better choice than another drama-plagued and by definition ineffectual presidency under the best of conditions.
The GOP has now won 218 seats after the Associated
Press projected that Republican Mike Garcia will win reelection in
California's 27th Congressional District.
Democrats, meanwhile,
have secured 209 seats as vote counting continues more than a week after
Election Day. Eight seats are still in play.
"My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities,
and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and
friends. None of this is the government’s business."
''There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,'' Mr. Cheney said. ''There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us.''
Equity used to mean everybody had a reasonable expectation of receiving what they put into the system, but that stopped being true for high income earners in the 1990s.
Last year, a person making $200k taxed at the current 6.2% rate for 30 years would have to live 10 years beyond full retirement age of 67 to recoup all his contributions at a 2021 maximum benefit level of $3,113 per month, or to age 77.
But now his administration has taken a worse stance, in regard to protesters who are demonstrating in front of the doxxed addresses of the members of the US Supreme Court.
He hasn't called it inappropriate, and officially the administration won't take a position on where protests should and should not occur.
This is the sort of ugliness which leads people to forgo public service, and the worse public officials who replace them to assemble their own security forces.
Private armies can develop that way, which become a threat to the civilized order.
If you think I'm exaggerating the slippery slope here, imagine the guffaws heard all around when I was a kid when occasional firebrands then predicted there would be widespread public vulgarity, pornography, open homosexuality, gay marriage, anti-white racism, trillions of dollars in public debt, hostility to the police, refusal by the authorities to prosecute crimes, complete politicization of the FBI, CIA, DOJ, yada, yada, yada.
The reason they don't teach history much anymore is they don't want you to know how really far we have fallen.
In a press conference Monday, Rinkevics said that public opinion and
policymakers’ decision-making had shifted with regards to military
deployments, noting that now “we need a permanent stationing of NATO
troops, including U.S. troops, on our soil” — something he had called
for before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
On the day Russia invaded Ukraine (Feb. 24), Biden ordered the
deployment of an additional 7,000 U.S. troops to Europe, and moved
forces already in Europe to NATO’s eastern flank, including to Latvia. ...
Even though the Baltic states have been a part of
NATO and the EU since 2004, with all three using the euro as their
currency, their geographic location makes them vulnerable. Like Ukraine,
they all share a border with Russia. Latvia and Lithuania also share a
border with Russia’s ally Belarus, which is widely believed to be
supporting Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
Buchanan with Hannity and Colmes, November 26, 2007, Putin's seventh year in office:
COLMES: You want — yes, you want us to get out of Russia, too.
You want us to pull the troops back, get the troops out of all —
wherever we have United States troops.
BUCHANAN: Look, the
Russians got up and walked out of Eastern Europe. They moved their army
behind the Urals. They let Eastern Europe go free. They let 15 nations
break up. What did we move NATO into their face for?
