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One Impact Of The Trump Administration

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It is becoming obvious that when you deport criminals, crime goes down. What  is interesting is the extent that crime has gone down during President Trump’s second term.

On Monday, The Daily Signal reported:

  • Data from the Census Bureau’s National Crime Victimization Survey shows violent crime victimization fell 25% and property crime victimization fell 19% during President Donald Trump’s first year in office.
  • The survey estimated Americans age 12 and older experienced about 7.5 million violent victimizations in 2025. That’s down from 8.2 million in the final year of the Joe Biden administration and the biggest drop in the survey’s history.
  • “This report is proof that President Trump’s ‘Make America Safe Again’ agenda is working,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward says.

The article concludes:

Among the most common crimes, property crime victimization fell 19%, from about 18.4 million incidents in 2024 to 14.9 million in 2025, the data says.

Burglary and trespassing victimization fell 25%, from 1.87 million incidents to 1.41 million, while motor vehicle theft victimization dropped 30%, from 1.19 million incidents to 841,000.

The Justice Department argues that crime is falling because more effective policing encourages victims to report offenses. It also credits the increased immigration enforcement at the southern border, citing the removal of more than 400,000 illegal aliens previously charged or convicted of crimes.

The Justice Department further points to stepped-up drug enforcement, citing a reported 25% increase in fentanyl seizures, as another factor contributing to the declines in victimization.

Further, the department notes the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reported a 57% increase in criminal charges associated with its gun-trafficking enforcement efforts, while the FBI disrupted 1,800 gangs and criminal enterprises.

According to AI, 60 percent of felony arrests are repeat offenders. If you deport the felons, you cut down on the crimes.

If you want America’s streets to be safer, vote Republican. The statistics prove that the Republicans tend to enforce the law, punish the criminals, and protect Americans.

This Is NOT Acceptable In America

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On Tuesday, Break Free Media on Substack posted an article about charges against Dr. Fakhruddin Attar and Dr. Jumana Nagarwala by the Department of Justice.

This is the Press Release from the Department of Justice (from 2017):

A Detroit physician and his wife were arrested this morning and charged by criminal complaint unsealed today for their alleged participation in a conspiracy that involved performing female genital mutilations (FGM) on minors.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch of the Eastern District of Michigan, Special Agent in Charge David P. Gelios of the FBI’s Detroit Division and Special Agent in Charge Steve Francis of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) Detroit Field Office made the announcement.

Fakhruddin Attar, M.D., 53, and his wife, Farida Attar, 50, both of Livonia, Michigan, are charged with conspiring to perform female genital mutilations on minor girls out of Fakhruddin Attar’s medical clinic in Livonia. According to the complaint, some of the minor victims traveled interstate to have the procedure performed. The complaint alleges that the FGM procedure was performed on girls who were approximately six to eight years old.

Both defendants were arrested this morning and are scheduled to appear in federal court in Detroit this afternoon.

The defendants are alleged to have conspired with Jumana Nagarwala, M.D., who was arrested in Detroit on April 12, 2017, and ordered detained on April 17, 2017, pending trial. Nagarwala, Fakhruddin Attar and Farida Attar are believed to be the first people charged under 18 U.S.C. 116, which criminalizes FGM.

A complaint is merely an allegation and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

The FBI’s Detroit Division and HSI investigated the case with the assistance of the Livonia Police Department and with support of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Michigan and the FBI’s International Human Rights Unit, Criminal Investigative Division. Deputy Chief Sara Woodward of the General Crimes Unit of the Eastern District of Michigan, Fraud Section Assistant Chief Nick Surmacz and Trial Attorneys Amy Markopoulos and Malisa Dubal are prosecuting the case.

The FBI’s Detroit Field Division has set up a tip line for anyone who has information pertaining to the illegal practice of FGM or Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, Fakhruddin Attar or Farida Attar at 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324). To submit an e-tip, please visit FBI.GOV/FGM.

The article posted at Substack on Tuesday reports:

Meet Dr. Fakhruddin Attar and Dr. Jumana Nagarwala. In 2017, charges of performing FGM on young girls were brought against these two Detroit doctors. However, the charges were dropped as it was ruled Congress did not have the right to criminalize the practice of FGM.

…So, let me get this right. Doctors federally charged with facilitating and performing genital cutting on minor girls are actively marketing pediatric services and receiving reimbursement from taxpayer-funded insurance programs.

The article at Substack notes:

Judge Bernard Friedman threw out the main charges in 2018. He ruled the federal FGM law unconstitutional because Congress had no power under the Commerce Clause to ban what he called a local criminal assault.

“Congress overstepped its bounds by legislating to prohibit [female genital mutilation],” Friedman wrote, calling it a “local criminal activity” for the states to regulate, not Congress.

In 2017, Michigan enacted MCL 333.9159, part of the Michigan Public Health Code, which prohibits cutting, removing, or sewing closed any part of a girl’s or woman’s external genitals for non‑medical reasons. The question then remains as to why Michigan hasn’t done anything about these two doctors.

Indeed, state prosecutors never filed charges, and the Michigan licensing board took no action. Both doctors simply renewed their unrestricted licenses and went back to practicing.

What good are laws if they are ignored.

This is unacceptable in America.

The Tip Of The Iceberg?

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On Monday, American Greatness posted an article about some arrests for illegal voting in California.

The article reports:

Federal agents arrested more than two dozen foreign nationals across California on Monday, for fraudulently registering and voting in U.S. elections.

Specifically, the 28 suspects are being charged with a combination of illegal voting, making a false claim of U.S. citizenship in order to vote, and “knowingly depriving the residents of California of a fair and impartial election process,” Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter announced at a news conference in Los Angeles.

The statewide sweep was executed by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and other federal law enforcement agencies as part of “Operation Protect the Vote.”

“This operation marks an important step in ongoing efforts to investigate election-related crimes. HSI will continue to investigate alleged voter fraud and hold those responsible accountable under the law,” HSI stated on X.

Operation Protect the Vote spans all four federal judicial districts in the state, with Homeland Security Investigations leading the coordinated arrests. One prominent case involves Alexander Muñoz, a 72-year-old Belizean national in Commerce, CA, who allegedly claimed U.S. citizenship in 2019 to register and subsequently voted in 2020, 2022, and 2024.

The crackdown follows a DOJ lawsuit filed against California on October 15 after state officials refused to review a list of over 20,000 suspected noncitizens on voter rolls within a 48-hour deadline. While federal prosecutors assert these arrests confirm widespread noncitizen voting, California Governor Gavin Newsom and state election officials dispute the scale of the issue, characterizing the federal intervention as an attempt to bully and suppress voters ahead of the November 3 midterm election.

An American citizen should have no fear of the government reviewing voter rolls.

The article notes:

President Donald Trump issued his own warning on Friday, advising California election officials they could face lengthy prison sentences if they count ballots cast by suspected illegal aliens and noncitizens in the upcoming midterm elections.

“They will all go to jail for a long period of time!!!” Trump declared Friday on Truth Social, sharing a DOJ letter warning to Los Angeles County officials.

This is a small number, but if the Department of Justice carries through on its threats of serious jail time for illegal voters, it may discourage the activity.

Unbelievable Abuse Of Power

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On Tuesday, American Greatness posted an article about the questionable activities of former Special Council Jack Smith during his investigation of President Trump.

The article reports:

Former special counsel Jack Smith and his team acquired at least 4,782 checks from Americans who had made mainly small donations to President Trump or Trump- aligned entities between September 2019 and August 2023, according to bombshell records provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) via legally protected whistleblower disclosures.

Smith subpoenaed the checks of thousands of Trump supporters across all 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, as part of its Smith’s “Arctic Frost” election case against President Trump.  Checks for as little as $1.00 were obtained by the special counsel, providing anti-Trump investigators at the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with the home addresses, bank account, routing numbers and signatures of Trump supporters.

Whistleblower records show the checks were routed to former FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina, the anti-Trump agent who had allegedly begged to be on the Crossfire team and was involved in many cases against Republicans.

According to Grassley,  Smith’s investigators also obtained records containing communications between 44 journalists and Trump administration officials after subpoenaing text-message records associated with dozens of White House phones during the federal election investigation into Trump.

The article concludes:

Additionally, Grassley revealed Tuesday that Smith’s classified documents case against Trump was based on a “non-criminal” referral that was initially dismissed by the FBI as a “spillage” issue with “little likelihood of being pursued as a criminal matter.”

“Jack Smith’s operation was a partisan weapon,” said Grassley. “He broke the rules, lied to the court and engaged in bad faith throughout. His operation has no credibility – only to the partisan media and Democrats who cheered him on,” Grassley said.

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It appears that he has lied to Congress as well as violated peoples’ civil rights. He should be referred for criminal charges. That is what would happen if he were a Republican.

Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out

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On Friday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article about the departure of 300 of the 400 Civil Rights Attorneys at the Justice Department. I am not going to accuse the Justice Department of becoming political, but I was somewhat amazed when under President Obama the Justice Department dropped the charges of voter intimidation against some members of the New Black Panthers.

This is a picture of a Philadelphia voting location in 2008:

The case of voter intimidation was dropped by the Obama Justice Department.

The Gateway Pundit reports:

Assistant Harmeet Dhillon just confirmed what every honest observer already knew: the old Civil Rights Division was a woke fortress inside Main Justice.

When President Trump’s team told those lawyers the American people had voted to end illegal DEI discrimination and scrub dirty voter rolls, about 300 of the division’s 400 attorneys walked out.

Dhillon did not mourn them. She called it what it was.

In an interview this week with Col. Kurt Schlichter filling in on the Hugh Hewitt Show, Dhillon said the Civil Rights Division is one of the largest shops at Main Justice in Washington.

When she arrived, it had about 400 attorneys. After her office made clear it would implement the president’s , “prioritizing getting rid of DEI and cleaning up voter rolls,” “eventually about 300 of those attorneys quit, and so they self-deported.”

Then she rebuilt.

“We then had the task of, while we had DOJ restrictions and budgetary constraints, building back the Civil Rights Division,” Dhillon said. “And I’m really happy to say that I recruited over 100 great legal professionals here to the DOJ.”

The article notes:

The numbers line up with other reporting. Bloomberg Law reported this month that more than 300 of the division’s 400-plus lawyers departed over the past 19 months as Dhillon redirected the office toward voter-roll enforcement, campus discrimination, and religious-liberty cases.

What did those lawyers refuse to do?

They refused to treat race discrimination as race discrimination when the victims were Asian students, white applicants, or anyone else locked out by DEI. They refused to help states stop illegal voting. They refused to treat dirty rolls — dead registrants, movers, duplicates, and noncitizens — as a civil-rights problem for actual American citizens.

The Gateway Pundit has documented that fight for months. TGP reported last December that a limited review of 47.5 million records turned up more than 260,000 dead people still on the rolls and thousands of noncitizens registered for federal elections.

In March, Dhillon said a review of 50 to 60 million records had found hundreds of thousands of ineligible registrations, including more than 300,000 dead voters still listed. The division has sued states that stonewalled the data and put election officials on notice that knowingly leaving noncitizens on the rolls can be a federal crime.

It’s good to have impartial justice return to the Department of Justice.

Holding People Accountable For Election Fraud

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I don’t know how rampant election fraud is in America. I have a feeling it is more common in some places than in others. I also think that we have to consider that electronic fraud is possible and deal with that also.

On Monday (updated Tuesday), Just the News posted an article about a Department of Justice crackdown on election fraud and noncitizen voting.

The article reports:

Since the Trump Justice Department warned state and local election officials that they could be charged with allowing fraudulent voting activities, more than 200 arrests and indictments have been secured in a crackdown on election fraud and noncitizen voting, and that number could double soon, a top official revealed to Just the News.

…Dhillon (Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon) also hinted at further developments in the coming weeks, suggesting her department has developed evidence calling into question New Jersey’s claim that a computer glitch allowed thousands of foreigners to register to vote in that state and about 400 to actually cast ballots in violation of law.

“I’m not sure we have the correct numbers from New Jersey. They’re not really cooperating with us, and so we will get to the bottom of what happened there. And you know, New Jersey tried to blame a vendor for a mistake or a glitch, quote unquote. But you know, I think there’ll be another side to that story,” she said.

…Dhillon further stated that in the past several weeks, her office has indicted or convicted 67 individuals for election-related crimes, while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made more than 160 arrests.

“What we care about is that noncitizens who voted in a federal election canceled out the votes of American citizens. It does happen. It happens a lot more than anybody says. It wasn’t being prosecuted under the Biden DOJ. In the four years of the Biden DOJ, they prosecuted a total of 13 people for election-related crimes, and we’ve done more than that in the last week here at DOJ,” she said.

Please follow the link to read the entire article. We need to secure our elections. Every vote by someone who cannot legally vote cancels out the legal vote of an America.

The Unjustice Department

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The Justice Department during the Biden administration was a disgrace. It had been politicized under President Obama, but with the help of holdovers from the Obama administration, President Biden took the politicization to a whole new level. Some recent facts about the case against General Flynn are genuinely disturbing.

On September 10th, Just the News posted an article about the case against General Flynn.

The article reports:

Retired General Michael Flynn, whose life was turned upside down by the Russia collusion investigation, told Just the News he would never have accepted his 2018 plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller had he known the full FBI evidence in his case.

“Had I seen that evidence that you have broken, no way in the world,” Flynn told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Wednesday night hours after President Donald Trump’s administration declassified the fully unredacted versions of the FBI’s 2017 handwritten and typed notes of his interview with agents during which prosecutors alleged the former three-star general lied about his contacts with a Russian diplomat.

Those documents showed there were conflicts and discrepancies between what the agents wrote in their handwritten notes and what they put in their typed interview about his recollections the day he spoke with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. 

Flynn said Wednesday he believed the discrepancies were enough to undercut the charge that he lied to the agents.

The case against General Flynn is a prime example of political lawfare. It really would not have mattered if he had been found guilty or not guilty–the legal expenses and the damage to his reputation were used to serve as a warning to anyone who supported President Trump and was willing to work in the Trump administration. General Flynn was forced to sell his home to pay his legal expenses.

Congress and the Supreme Court shut down the idea of President Trump using the money he won in his lawsuit against the IRS to start a fund for the victims of political lawfare. That is unfortunate because the Flynn case would have been a very appropriate place to use that fund.

Those responsible for hiding evidence from the General need to go to jail.

There Is A Difference Between Creating An Incident And Reporting On An Incident

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On Tuesday, The Daily Signal posted an article about the church invasion charges against former CNN anchor Don Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort. Major media outlets have joined an amicus brief urging a court to dismiss the charges.

The article reports:

Forty-five media outlets and nonprofit organizations joined the brief, including The Associated Press, Dow Jones (which owns The Wall Street Journal), MS NOW, The New York Times, The NewsGuild, PEN America, ProPublica, Slate, and The Washington Post.

Lemon and Fort stand accused of violating federal civil rights laws for their alleged activity in the invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 18, protesting the pastor who works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Justice Department brought charges against Lemon and Fort under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act, claiming they took part in the agitation that violated congregants’ civil rights. Lemon and Fort have said they were present at the invasion in their capacity as journalists.

The amicus brief, led by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, argues that if Lemon and Fort are convicted, “federal law would be within arm’s reach of prosecutors to muzzle reporting in the public interest.” Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko of the U.S. District of Minnesota added the brief to the court record Monday.

The article notes:

Agitators, who said they targeted Cities Church because one of its pastors works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, allegedly stood up in the middle of a service, refused to leave when asked, blocked members of the congregation from getting to their children, and chanted, “Who shut this down? We shut this down!”

The indictment notes that Lemon livestreamed the planning meeting before the church takeover, but he told his audience he was leaving out key details to avoid revealing the target beforehand. It also claims Lemon said “the whole point” of the activity was “to disrupt” the service. It further accuses Lemon of confronting the church’s pastor, refusing to leave when asked, and obstructing churchgoers as they left the building.

The indictment presents fewer concrete claims about Fort’s alleged involvement in the agitation. It alleges that she confronted the pastor and that she blocked a minivan from leaving the church’s parking lot by conducting an interview in front of it.

The actions of Don Lemon were not reporting and are not protected by the First Amendment. As soon as you block someone from exercising their right to participate in a religious service, you have broken the law. I hope the people involved in this protest, which involved trespassing if they stayed after they were asked to leave, are punished for their actions. This was not a protest–it was unlawful activity.

When The Punishment DOES NOT Fit The Crime

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On Tuesday, Yahoo News posted an article about Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, 34, of Lakeville, Minnesota.

The article reports:

A Minnesota man whose food site received more than $5.4 million after falsely claiming to serve about 1.6 million meals to children has been sentenced to 6½ years in federal prison.

Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, 34, of Lakeville, received a 78-month sentence on Aug. 18 for wire fraud in the massive Feeding Our Future case, according to the latest reporting from FOX 9.

But the fraud itself was not the only conduct that affected his punishment. While another Feeding Our Future trial was underway in February 2025, Abshir approached a cooperating witness who was preparing to testify and asked the man to go into a courthouse bathroom with him to talk.

Abshir later acknowledged that the encounter amounted to obstruction of justice through attempted witness tampering. At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel said the courthouse conduct was a primary reason for the 78-month term.

According to an article posted at Power Line Blog on Tuesday:

Abdinasir Abshir, Feeding Our Future defendant No. 10 (out of 80), was sentenced to 6-and-a-half years in federal prison in a hearing this afternoon. He was ordered to repay the more than $2 million he personally took out of the scheme.

Where do the taxpayers go to get the rest of the $5.4 million?

Yahoo News reports:

Abshir transferred millions of dollars from Horseed Management to himself and other people involved in the scheme. Some of the money went to Calikamin Enterprise, another shell company Abshir created. He also used fraud proceeds to purchase a 2021 Range Rover, which federal authorities seized for forfeiture.

Prosecutors say Abshir paid more than $100,000 in bribes and kickbacks to Abdikerm Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee, in exchange for helping sponsor and facilitate Stigma-Free Mankato’s participation in the federal nutrition program.

Feeding Our Future received nearly $420,000 in administrative fees for sponsoring the site, according to the Justice Department. Abshir also paid $5,750 into a GoFundMe account created for Feeding Our Future in December 2021.

I am not impressed with the sentencing. Six and a half years in prison is not enough of a penalty for that amount of criminal activity or to deter someone else from committing a similar crime.

Accountability

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On Wednesday, The Conservative Treehouse posted an article about the Southern Poverty Law Center. The organization has been charged with money laundering.

The article reports:

SPLC Chief Financial Officer Heidi Beirich was previously identified as one of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) leaders who assisted in “opening bank accounts” with “fictitious companies’ names” to make payments to hate group leaders.  Apparently, she was in a romantic relationship with a Nazi whom she funded.

According to CNN: Beirich has been charged as part of a superseding indictment with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank and conspiracy to conceal money laundering.

Obviously, the CNN reporting of the story has a slightly different slant than The Conservative Treehouse story.

CNN reports:

The SPLC has fought the case, arguing that the government is mischaracterizing a long-standing informant program designed to gather intelligence on hate groups, and accused the Justice Department of charging them for political reasons. Attorneys for the SPLC have also said that law enforcement officials have used information gathered by the organization’s informants in the past.

The charges are part of the Justice Department’s case against the SPLC over the alleged payments, which prosecutors say were done through shell companies. In earlier court documents, the department gave details on nine unnamed informants it says received payments through the program, which began in the 1980s.

Despite her role in overseeing the payments — some of which were directed to an Imperial Wizard in the KKK — Beirich allegedly had a romantic relationship with one source who infiltrated a White Supremacy group and stole documents for the SPLC, according to the indictment.

…The documents that person allegedly stole were used as part of an article that the SPLC later published. Beirich then allegedly paid a second informant $6,000 to take the fall for the stolen documents.

“Dr. Beirich is innocent, and this case is without merit,” her attorney, Michael J. Proctor said in a statement. “We believe the charges against her and the SPLC are politically motivated, and Dr. Beirich has been targeted in this case because of the important work she has done to combat hate groups and extremists.”

When you can’t defend yourself with facts, you simply claim that the charges are politically motivated. That is straight out of the Clinton handbook on how to handle scandals!

Pot, Meet Kettle

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On Wednesday, Victor Davis Hanson posted an article at The Daily Signal about some of the precedents set by the Democrat party in years past.

The article reports:

Recently, the Left in general and Democrats in particular have been criticizing a lot of things that this administration has done. This came up with the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Todd Blanche, and people suggested that, though he may have been qualified, he had too close a relationship as a personal attorney, or he acted in a legal capacity with [President] Donald Trump, and therefore there would be an incestuous relationship between the [Justice Department] and the White House.

But who broke that standard? I think it was broken during the JFK administration. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic president, appointed his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, as attorney general. They conferred daily. If we were worried that that was an aberration, remember Eric Holder bragged that he was, quote, Obama’s wingman. So, the Democrats have had a long history of a close relationship between the DOJ and the White House.

We’ve been told that the Democratic Party is very angry because some local, i.e., state or county or municipal, prosecutors might take a look at Anthony Fauci and see if he had criminal exposure other than federal exposure. And people said, well, what business do these local prosecutors have looking at Anthony Fauci, who was a federal bureaucrat? And if he did anything wrong, it would be a federal offense. You can’t have freelancing prosecutors all over the United States going after—yes, you can. We established that principle with Donald Trump. 

Remember that Letitia James went after him for a real estate deal in which Deutsche Bank, the lender, had no problem with the loan as it was conducted. She was the attorney general of New York. Alvin Bragg could not get Donald Trump on anything other than to bootstrap a federal campaign violation that even federal prosecutors didn’t want to touch. He was just the municipal DA of Manhattan.

The article goes on to cite the charges of a partisan IRS, election denying, and weaponizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and how those charges relate to past Democrat actions.

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. It includes great examples of the pot calling the kettle black.

Todd Blanche Has Been Confirmed As Attorney General

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On Saturday, Legal Insurrection reported that Todd Blanche has been confirmed as Attorney General.

The article reports:

The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as Attorney General early Saturday, permanently placing President Donald Trump’s former personal criminal defense attorney in charge of the Justice Department. Critics argued the transfer of authority was an unprecedented conflict of interest; the administration’s allies insisted it was a straightforward exercise of presidential appointment power.

Blanche was confirmed 50-49. Senators. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined every Democrat in opposing the nomination. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was absent due to his ongoing health issues.

Blanche has served as acting Attorney General since Trump fired Pam Bondi in April. Before that, he was Deputy Attorney General, confirmed in March without any Republican defections. His latest confirmation was considerably more difficult.

Republicans raised concerns on three fronts: the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files; a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, established as part of a settlement of Trump’s lawsuit over his tax returns, that critics feared would compensate January 6 defendants; and an IRS immunity provision shielding Trump and his family from future audits, a measure with no clear statutory basis that drew objections from tax law practitioners across the political spectrum.

First of all, the two biggest problems in the first Trump administration were the constant lawfare against President Trump and the fact that not all of his cabinet members were people he could trust. I am totally in favor of this appointment because a President deserves an Attorney General who will not stab him in the back.

The article concludes:

Blanche joined Trump’s legal team in 2023, leaving a partnership at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He represented Trump in the hush-money trial, helped win the Supreme Court’s landmark presidential immunity ruling, and secured dismissal of the classified-documents indictment in Florida. Trump later tapped him as Deputy Attorney General, saying he would fix a justice system “broken” by years of political weaponization.

As Attorney General, Blanche now holds permanent authority over an institution he has already spent months reshaping. The confirmation changes little operationally, as he has been running the department since April, but it removes the political vulnerability of acting status and gives him a freer hand. Whether the written assurances he made to secure Republican votes constrain him in practice, or whether they dissolve the moment the Senate leaves town for recess, is the question that will define his tenure.

This Is NOT The Way To Solve The Problem

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On Tuesday, The Daily Signal posted an article about the Biden administration’s strategy to track the fentanyl shipments that were coming into America and bring a bigger criminal case against traffickers.

The article reports:

A third whistleblower came forward about a Biden-era operation involving alleged massive shipments of fentanyl into the United States that federal agents were told to track and not seize.

The U.S. Justice Department is conducting an internal probe of the operation that critics say likely led to numerous deaths. The most recent whistleblower complaint details a November 2022 fentanyl delivery from Arizona to New Mexico where Drug Enforcement Administration agents were told to monitor the shipment but not arrest anyone.

“Agents believe the courier made a minimum of at least five large deliveries over the following months, each time bringing 50,000-100,000 fentanyl pills and 20-40 pounds of methamphetamine per trip,” the complaint says. “The DEA did not arrest the courier until June 2023; at that time, agents found him with 19 kilograms of methamphetamine and 7 kilograms of fentanyl.” According to the DEA, as few as 2 milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal depending on a person’s body size and tolerance, and 1 kilogram of fentanyl has the potential to kill 500,000 people.

The new complaint also notes that during a training session, one DEA agent dismissed concerns about the operation, saying, “We walk fentanyl,” but adding that federal prosecutors were aware of it.

The complaint comes after the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General interviewed two other whistleblowers—former DEA Special Agent David Howell and financial investigator Kevin Small, who worked as a contractor for the DEA’s Albuquerque office—on Friday and Monday, respectively.

The article explains the theory behind the actions:

Howell was the first to blow the whistle on the operation, alleging that the DEA allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills into New Mexico because Justice Department prosecutors wanted to track the shipments and bring a bigger criminal case against traffickers. Former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico Alex Uballez oversaw the program, Howell said. Uballez publicly defended the operation, telling The Associated Press it saved lives, was key to intelligence gathering on drug traffickers, and that “the bigger fish are worth catching.”

I don’t think that the people who lost loved ones because of fentanyl would agree with that strategy.

Working Together To Eliminate Fraud

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On Friday, The Daily Caller posted an article about seven states that have signed a data-sharing agreement with the Department of Justice aimed at rooting out fraud.

The article reports:

Across the seven states, officials have uncovered roughly $350 million in alleged fraud, according to information shared with the Daily Caller. Under the Memorandum of Understanding signed Thursday, the states will give the DOJ access to “publicly available corporate registration and public benefits payment data held by these state agencies.” It is data officials said will help the department spot fraud patterns faster.

Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, met with dozens of state officials before his press conference to discuss their work and how the federal government could better support it. The Daily Caller was the only outlet allowed in the room.

“To state partners here and across the country is this: the fraud division and our U.S. attorneys’ offices are ready to help you scale your efforts to strengthen your cases and deliver results for the taxpayers of America,” McDonald said at a press conference following the roundtable.

“Your partnership with us is the antidote to the fraud epidemic facing our nation. And my message to the fraudsters is this: Our team is getting bigger, our resolve is getting stronger, and your time is getting shorter,” he added.

The article concludes:

The administration’s focus on fraud came after YouTuber Nick Shirley exposed nearly a dozen Somali-run daycare centers in Minnesota that were not actually providing services.

The Trump White House later launched a task force dedicated to rooting out fraud across the country. The effort has been led by Vice President JD Vance, who McDonald reports to in his newly created position.

“The fraud-fighting team assembled here today is resolved to work together to break those cycles and bring the fraudsters out into the light,” McDonald said Thursday.

“When federal prosecutors work with state agencies to share leads, data, strategy, the American people win. Better intelligence, better cases, better training, more money returned to victims, and more fraudsters behind bars where they belong,” he continued.

If you want the fraudulent use of our tax dollars to end, you need to vote for Republicans for Congress. How many years has this fraud gone on without any administration willing to do anything about it? Do you really believe a Democrat Congress will allow these investigations to continue?

Getting The Money Back

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On Monday, Open The Books posted an article about the fraud involving Covid payments and the efforts by the government to get back the money.

The article reports:

COVID-19 programs to help families and businesses stay afloat inadvertently diverted hundreds of billions to scammers who spent thousands on wish-list items like luxury cars and plastic surgery.

The actual amount of pandemic-related fraud, however, is unknown not only to us but also to the federal government. What’s more, the amount that the federal government has recouped makes up a scant 0.47% of the government’s fraud guestimate.

The difficulty of recouping these ill-gotten gains makes it even more critical that government programs are designed with far better guardrails in place. Scrutiny on the front end, even at some added investment, is imperative; the Covid era demonstrated that once money has left public coffers, it’s incredibly challenging to recover all or even much of it.

…Congress authorized about $4.6 trillion in emergency COVID-19 relief between 2020 and 2021 for vulnerable businesses and struggling families, but fraud was identified in at least 19 different pandemic-relief programs, according to an April 2025 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. If the government’s $300 billion fraud calculation is correct, then 6.5% of all pandemic aid was incorrectly distributed. What we have compiled is just a fraction of the hundreds of charged cases and undetected schemes.

The last update from the Department of Justice regarding how much stolen COVID-19 relief funds were seized or forfeited — over $1.4 billion — was in April of 2024. While this is described more broadly as “stolen COVID-19 relief funds” by the DOJ, the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force classifies the figure as Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) funds seized or forfeited. This means that the federal government has only recovered $10.55 per household. That leaves the remaining fraud tab nearly untouched.

Please follow the link to read the entire article. The government may have had good intentions, but they messed up royally. Their efforts to help people they hurt by shutting down the government only provided avenues for dishonest people to get rich quick. The federal government is not the best vehicle for helping people in need. Local organizations have a much better idea of which needs are real.

Who Is Voting In America?

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On Friday, Breitbart posted an article about America’s voter rolls.

The article reports:

President Donald Trump released documents on Thursday evening that detail problems with the nation’s election system, including revealing that a portion of foreign nationals are illegally registered to vote.

The document, which focuses on noncitizen voting, was posted to the White House website. Multiple investigations from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the document states, have exposed that more than 250,000 foreign nationals are illegally registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada alone.

“State election officials in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada have been notified of this serious threat to national security and DHS stands ready to support their efforts to identify and remove ineligible registrants,” the document states:

The investigation is expanding to include multiple additional states. In addition, DHS will support the Department of Justice’s review of voter files obtained pursuant to their enforcement authority under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002. [Emphasis added]

The article concludes:

Most recently, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by former President Joe Biden, issued an order to prevent the Trump administration from using the streamlined version of the SAVE system.

“There is an undeniable pattern emerging as DHS begins to unravel the horrific damage done by the open border policies of the Biden administration,” the document concludes. “States that have adopted alien-first policies instead of American-first policies have a disproportionate number of non-citizens on their voter rolls.”

People vote for their own interests. People who are here illegally are often here simply to collect American safety-net benefits. Americans are a generous people, but they are also a practical people. We have an obligation to take care of our citizens before we take care of anyone else. When Americans who pay taxes are in the majority, theoretically there will be different priorities.

America’s Crime Problem

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There has always been and always will be some degree of crime in America. Not everyone is taught right from wrong or respect for other people’s things. However, crime in America has increased due to the number of people who have come here who have not assimilated and have no respect for western culture. On Saturday, The Conservative Review posted an article about crime in America.

The article reports:

New Department of Justice data shows that the vast majority of violent crimes committed by noncitizens are being committed by illegal aliens, not legal residents — and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey, alongside her brother, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas Justin Simmons, believes this needs to change.

“A few weeks ago, they released stats for fiscal 2025. And one of the stats in there said that of the 66,000 people sentenced in the United States, 28,000 were noncitizens. Now, not 28,000 were illegal aliens because there’s a difference. You can be a resident alien and have legal status here,” Simmons explains.

“So 28,000 were noncitizens, but of those 28,000, 91.6% were illegal aliens,” he says. “Now, I will say, most of those illegal aliens were charged with those immigration offenses we talked about earlier, illegal entry, illegal re-entry.”

The article notes:

“You can just imagine how much money we would have saved if we didn’t have to incarcerate all those folks who have broken the laws of the United States, who have shown their unwillingness to follow the laws of the United States upon entering the country,” he adds.

Stuckey points out that among the charges are “murder, manslaughter, sex abuse, child sex abuse.”

“The vast majority of those heinous crimes among the noncitizens are being committed by the illegal aliens,” she says.

“Most of the most heinous ones, stalking, harassing, kidnapping, drug trafficking, the vast majority of those are being committed by these illegal aliens, which just shows how dangerous the situation is,” she continues.

“It’s a human rights issue.”

America was founded on a Judeo-Christian legal code. The Ten Commandments are the basis for that code. Regardless of the efforts of some on the political left to remove the Ten Commandments from the public square, they remain as the basis of our society. Other countries do not necessarily have that foundation. When large numbers of people from other cultures enter America, it is very hard for them to be absorbed into our culture. Bringing small groups of immigrants legally into the country allows those immigrants to assimilate and become valued members of our society.

Broken-Window Theory On A Federal Level

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In 1994, Rudy Giuliani became Mayor of New York City. The prior Mayor was David Dinkins who became Mayor in 1990. In the early 1990’s the crime rate in New York City was staggering. There were 2,245 murders, over 100,000 robberies, and over 200,000 burglaries (source here). When Rudy Giuliani was elected, he instituted a broken-window policy.

Basically, the broken-window theory says that visible signs of disorder and neglect lead to more serious crimes. It supports the enforcement of laws preventing broken windows and other seemingly minor crimes to deter more serious crimes.

By the end of the 1990’s, New York City was one of the safest cities in the nation.

On Sunday, The American Thinker posted an article suggesting we use the broken-window policy in the Department of Justice.

The article notes:

The left is outraged that Trump is seeking retribution.  Duh!  Retribution is a key component of the crime-punishment equation.  The punishment must be severe enough to deter future crimes.  That the left continues to attack our right of self-governance proves that the punishment has not reached adequate severity — yet.

The left insists that the DoJ is not Donald Trump’s tool to use against his enemies.  We know that — Merrick Garland isn’t the attorney general anymore.  The Trump DoJ is actually going after our enemies — those who attacked our constitutional republic.  The left attacked our institutions of law and order and must be held accountable — or there will be no law or order.

When a law enforcement officer is attacked, the system reacts far more energetically than it would for other assaults.  That’s because an attack on a police officer is an attack on the institution we have commissioned to maintain social order.

When an ICE agent was struck in Washington, D.C., it wasn’t one guy hitting another guy with a sub sandwich.  It was a citizen giving “we the people” the finger by attacking our agent.

When E. Jean Carroll sued Donald Trump, it wasn’t a ditz with a bad memory trying to get a windfall from a billionaire with a big mouth.  It was part of a planned conspiracy to undermine our right to choose our leadership.

When James Comey posted “86 47,” it wasn’t an innocent photo of sea shells.  It was a threat against our president, using the same symbolism violent protestors are using to call for his murder.  The fact that there have already been numerous attempts against on the president’s life makes Comey’s posting all the more egregious.

The article concludes:

Rudy Giuliani used the “broken window” strategy to clean up the mess that the Dems had made of New York City. He punished delinquents for misdemeanors to deter them from becoming felons. It worked.

Is the DoJ using Giuliani’s strategy in its pursuit of Comey and Carroll, or are they just pieces of a much bigger strategy?

As silly as James Comey’s posting was, it was an illegal implied threat against a president. Carroll’s alleged perjury was an illegal undermining of our justice system. Both acts had a shared objective of preventing Trump from being our president. That makes both offenses something far more important — recent acts of an ongoing conspiracy. As such, Comey and Carroll have reset the statute of limitations for all acts of the conspiracy that came before them.

Now the conspirators are faced with the necessary consequences of their actions — without a statute of limitations shield. James Comey, John Brennen, James Clapper, Letitia James, Fani Willis, Jack Smith, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and numerous others must be held to account for the crime-punishment ledger to balance. Their combined offenses undermined our right to free and fair (i.e., honestly informed) elections, and all should be treated as such.

Perhaps prosecution of the Comey and Carroll “window breakers” will lead to the eventual downfall of the traitorous conspirators.

Using a broken-window policy may be the only way to stop the weaponization of the Justice Department in the future.

 

Finding The Fraud

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On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. They seem to be taking their work seriously and are doing a good job. The orange jumpsuits are coming. On Thursday, Fox News reported that the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit was reportedly sentenced Thursday to nearly 42 years in prison for orchestrating a $250 million pandemic relief fraud scheme.

The Daily Caller reported:

The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud — quarterbacked by Vance — hit the ground running this year. After uncovering massive fraud in Minnesota, the task force and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paused over $250 million in Medicaid funding to the state. “People are billing the government millions, tens of million, billions of dollars, saying they are providing a service, but there’s no actual confirmation,” Vance explained.

In just three months, the team has “uncovered tens of billions of dollars in defrauded taxpayer money, prosecuted dozens of fraudsters, and stopped billions in suspicious payments,” said Vance. The VP then added: “we’re just getting started.” He wasn’t kidding

Just last week, Dr. Mehmet Oz — the administrator for CMS — announced that his agency had identified nearly 800 suspected fraudulent providers of hospice and home health care services in the Los Angeles, California, area alone, resulting in over $1.4 billion of potentially fraudulent payments. When CMS cut off all 800 providers, fewer than 20 even attempted to contest the move, Oz reported. “Unbelievable. So at least 780 are not even trying to claim that they’re not fraudulent,” Vance exclaimed. “It’s just completely insane.”

The article concludes:

And Vance has the weapons to execute the mission. The Trump administration just launched a brand new National Fraud Enforcement Division at DOJ in April, led by Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald. In an unusual arrangement, demonstrating how aggressively Trump and Vance want to crack down on the fraudsters, McDonald reports directly to the vice president via the anti-fraud task force.

The division has been hard at work, hitting a $50 million Medicare fraud scheme in Los Angeles and executing 22 search warrants against fraudulent day care centers in Minnesota, including the infamous “Quality Learing Center.”

In just a few short months, the task force has unearthed massive amounts of fraud by utilizing a robust and effective whole-of-government approach.

Vice President Vance’s task force has proven it’s a serious effort which is producing real results. If they can keep pace over the coming months and years, the wins are only going to pile up. All Americans should be proud that this administration is finally looking out for their tax dollars.

I am thoroughly impressed by Vice-President Vance. I don’t know if it’s his Marine training that aids him in getting things done or something else, but this is a wonderful change from Kamala Harris as the Border Czar.

This Is NOT Normal Politics!

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We have two major political parties. Theoretically both parties want what is best for America–they just have different ideas as to what that is and how to get there. Lately that doesn’t seem to be the case. I used to be a Democrat. I believed in ideas that I thought the Democrats believed in–equal rights (even though the Democrats were the ones who filibustered the Civil Rights Act), a strong safety net (which has been majorly abused), and equal pay for women (which according to the statistics is now a fact). However, somewhere along the line, the Democrat party got lost. They don’t seem to have a platform now except hate Israel and get President Trump. At best that is unattractive, at worst it is just plain stupid.

On Tuesday, Just the News reported:

In the final weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency, FBI agents tied to Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation memorialized anew their belief that President Donald Trump broke the law in contesting the 2020 election and secretly arranged to preserve their evidence until 2030 in memos that raise alarm they could revive their prosecution after Trump leaves office.

The FBI memos and emails closing out the controversial Arctic Frost investigation – obtained by Just the News – show the bureau chose not to relinquish the evidence it gathered after Smith went to court to dismiss charges against Trump, even though that is the normal practice for agents. Instead, they created a preservation order keeping the evidence in FBI custody for two years after Trump’s second term ends, claiming it was necessary to do so because of ongoing litigation, the memos show.

Do the charges still make sense with all of the evidence now showing serious voter irregularities in swing states?

The article notes:

FBI emails and memos obtained by Just the News dating back to early 2025 show how the FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors who had been working on the criminal prosecutions aimed at Trump and his allies worked to close the 2020 election-related case against the incoming president, while also seemingly leaving open the door for the criminal case to be revived once Trump leaves office and a Democrat again holds the reins at the Justice Department.

“The American people deserve to know how this egregious weaponization of power to target political opponents and President Trump happened inside an institution meant to protect them,” FBI Director Kash Patel told Just the News. “We shut down the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we are going to keep following the facts until there is full accountability. The FBI exists to protect the country, not to preserve political prosecutions for a future administration.”

Following Trump’s victory in November 2024 over Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Smith sought to dismiss his case against Trump “without prejudice” – leaving open the possibility that the charges could be refiled in the future.

Please follow the link to read the entire article. This is not acceptable behavior on the part of the Biden Justice Department.

The Obstacles To Voter Integrity

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Oddly enough, one of the obstacles to voter integrity is America’s courts. I can’t imagine why a judge would not want to clean up the voter rolls, but here we are.

On Saturday, The Epoch Times reported:

A Rhode Island judge on April 17 delivered another blow to the Trump Administration’s quest for voter-registration rolls nationwide.

U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy denied what she called “unprecedented demands for unredacted voting rolls” from the state of Rhode Island.

In a ruling that echoed similar decisions from judges in several other states, McElroy said Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers provided neither a legal nor a factual basis for the records.

Two federal laws require each U.S. state to make a “reasonable effort” to ensure that its voter-registration lists are accurate, the judge noted. But those laws do not allow “DOJ to conduct the kind of fishing expedition it seeks here,” McElroy wrote.

DOJ lawyers, in a demand letter issued to Rhode Island, stated that they sought the records to ensure the state’s voter rolls met legal requirements. Yet the lawyers cited no specific evidence suggesting problems with Rhode Island’s voter records, the judge said.

In contrast, in a demand letter issued to Michigan, the DOJ “pointed to several purported anomalies” in that state, including “a high percentage of registered voters, a low confirmation notice rate, a low voter removal rate, and a high duplicate registration rate,” the judge said.

McElroy noted that judges in “nearly identical cases” ruled against the DOJ’s requests for unredacted voter-registration information. Those cases occurred in California, Oregon, Michigan, and Massachusetts.

While supporters of the federal effort to obtain voter rolls say it could help ensure integrity of U.S. elections, opponents raise concerns over voter-data privacy and ways in which the government might use the information.

If these judges really believe that the government doesn’t already have every bit of information on every American, they are seriously naive and should probably seek other employment.

Uncovering The Crime

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We are hearing a lot about government waste and fraud and voter fraud recently, but we are not seeing a lot of results of the information being revealed. I hope that changes soon. Government fraud and voter fraud will continue until there are serious consequences.

On Saturday, Just the News reported:

The Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office has been served with a federal grand jury subpoena seeking access to certain voter records as part of an investigation into whether non-citizens may have registered or voted illegally, according to sources cited in a report.

The probe, led by the U.S. Department of Justice in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, marks an escalation in a broader dispute between federal authorities and several states over access to voter data and election oversight.

No criminal charges have been filed so far. Investigators are looking for information that is linked to more than 125 individuals, a source said.

The subpoena is the latest development in an ongoing push by federal officials to examine voter rolls and verify eligibility, an effort that has drawn resistance from state leaders who argue that sharing sensitive voter information raises legal and privacy concerns.

The article concludes:

The criminal inquiry is separate from a civil lawsuit already underway, in which the Justice Department is attempting to compel Minnesota to provide a complete, unredacted voter registration list.

The fact that some states are refusing to allow investigators to see their voter rolls might be an indication that they are hiding something. We need an audit of every state’s voting list that compares the voting list to the list of  American citizens living in that state.

When You Have Friends In High Places

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Anyone other than Hillary Clinton would have gone to jail for a secret, unsecured server containing classified information, but Hillary Clinton was never prosecuted. We all sort of knew why. Now we know for sure.

On Wednesday, Just the News posted the following headline:

‘Shut it down’: Bombshell FBI timeline exposes political interference in Clinton corruption probe

The article reports:

FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered a bombshell memo written in 2017 chronicling the extensive political obstruction that career agents in three cities faced from their own bosses and the Obama Justice Department during the 2016 election as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving her family foundation.

“Shut it down!” then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is quoted as demanding in the detailed timeline of political impediments that agents in New York City, Little Rock, Ark., and Washington D.C. reported. 

The agents tried to get the help of federal prosecutors to determine whether or what crimes occurred while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, most notably, because at that time, her family foundation solicited hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign and U.S. interests with business before her department.

The timeline — written by a DOJ lawyer assigned to the FBI under former bureau Director James Comey — was recently secured by top aides to Patel along with several corroborating internal emails and was obtained by Just the News. Together, they make clear that both the DOJ and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe placed significant impediments in front of agents who believed they had evidence to justify a public integrity criminal case.

The article concludes:

The differences in how the Justice Department and FBI handled cases related to Clinton and Trump were stark — publicly exonerating Clinton for her mishandling of classified information when using a private email server as secretary of state and not even allowing the Clinton Foundation investigation to get off the ground, while launching a sprawling and baseless Russia collusion inquiry into the Trump campaign and the candidate (and then the president) himself.

Special Counsel John Durham later pointed out that “the immediate opening of Crossfire Hurricane as a full investigation contrasts with the care taken in connection with the investigation of the Clinton Foundation and other matters.”

A lot of Americans are waiting for perp walks. I am considering joining that group.

Cheating To Get A Lower Mortgage Rate

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On Wednesday, Hot Air reported that the Department of Justice was opening an investigation into Congressman Adam Schiff for potential mortgage fraud.

The article reports:

Democrats created the lawfare model. Adam Schiff enthusiastically promoted it. Now the model has turned on them, and on Schiff specifically.

According to Fox News host Laura Ingraham, the Department of Justice has opened a criminal probe into potential mortgage fraud involving Schiff. The allegations have floated for months, similar to those surrounding New York Attorney General Letitia James, that Schiff claimed primary residency in Maryland for personal gain while representing California in Congress:

The article quotes msn:

The investigation comes a month after a story broke about the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sending a criminal referral to the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleging that Schiff, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms.

In a 2011 affidavit signed by the then California congressman, Schiff certified that a property in Montgomery County, Maryland is his primary residence.

Schiff also owns a condominium in Burbank, California, which he has also claimed as his primary residence as recently as 2023, during his campaign for Senate.

The article notes:

Beege wrote about this last month, so be sure to click through and read the background on the case. This doesn’t just involve potential mortgage fraud, by the way, but could also involve tax fraud in either California or Maryland. States offer lower property tax rates for primary residences (homesteads) in exchange for the benefits communities receive when owners occupy their own properties. If Schiff claimed and received homestead benefits in both states at the same time, both states could file civil or criminal claims of tax fraud. 

Neither California nor Maryland will be likely to do that — to a Democrat, anyway. But the possibility still exists.

It is quite possible that the statute of limitations has run out as Schiff changed the Maryland property to a secondary residence in 2020, but that doesn’t change the fact that he broke the law.

Applying The Statute Of Limitations

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On Sunday, The Daily Caller posted an article explaining how the Statute of Limitations applies to the potential case against the former Obama intelligence officials who obstructed the investigation and concealed evidence in the Russia Hoax.

The article reports:

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Sunday that the clock began “ticking” on a potential case being brought against former Obama intelligence officials for obstruction the moment “deliberately concealed evidence” was discovered by the Trump administration.

The Russia investigation, which alleged President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to sway the election in his favor, received new scrutiny in July after the FBI reportedly placed former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan under criminal investigation. With allegations and new intelligence surfacing about how Comey, Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper played a role in targeting the Trump campaign, Jarrett was asked by “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo if he believed the Department of Justice (DOJ) “will act” and whether “the statute of limitations apply to conspiracy or not.”

“I would say yes to all three. This does look like a broad criminal conspiracy by unscrupulous officials, dishonest people. I would look at conspiracy to defraud the government, deprivation of rights under color of law, but importantly, obstruction of justice and the cover up,” Jarrett said. “The elaborate cover up has been going on for years, as Stephen Miller pointed out, which extends the statute of limitations in any conspiracy case against malign actors. That’s because the clock begins ticking when deliberately concealed evidence is discovered, which is actually quite recently.”

“So, for example, you were talking about the burn bags that were discovered incriminating documents hidden at the FBI, as well as other records, hard drives squirreled away under lock and key by Comey recently found,” Jarrett added. “So attempting to conceal or destroy evidence relevant to investigations, that’s obstruction. The last overt act in a conspiracy starts the clock anew. So that’s the value of bringing a conspiracy case that includes obstruction.”

If the information we are receiving is proven to be correct, the people involved belong in jail. If we do not deal with this type of illegal behavior, it will continue. There have to be consequences for the illegal actions.