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It Was Always About The Money

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On Monday, Just the News posted an article about where a lot of the money designated for ‘green energy’ actually went.

The article reports:

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin says he has made several criminal referrals after uncovering a major political enrichment scandal that routed billions in Biden-era green energy grants to Democrat cronies. “It’s about self-dealing,” Zeldin tells Just the News.

Zeldin said he has canceled or stopped about $29 billion in EPA grants – including one for $2 billion to a nonprofit tied to longtime Georgia Democrat election activist and failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams – after unmasking a series of pass-through groups used to route taxpayer monies to the politically connected.

“As you look through all of these pass-through entities, you’re seeing so many connections to former Obama and Biden administration officials and Democratic donors, people who were former Cabinet members, other high-ranking administration officials,” he said during a wide-ranging interview Monday on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

Zeldin said he has referred several of the transactions to the EPA inspector general, the agency’s chief watchdog, and the Justice Department for possible prosecution or further investigation. “Those referrals have been made,” he said.

Zeldin said some of the allegations have their roots in legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, when Congress and the White House were all in Democrat hands. “They included all of this funding in this so-called Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. And then they would work with these different agencies of the Biden administration to get it out to their unqualified friends. The whole thing just feels criminal,” he said. “[…] This is clearly something that falls into the category of blatant waste and abuse.”

The article concludes:

Zeldin said he is confident that when all litigation is complete most of the $29 billion in grants he has flagged and blocked will be returned to the Treasury as savings for taxpayers.

“We’re not taking money from left-wing NGOs to give them to right-wing NGOs,” he said. “This is about getting that money back to the taxpayer. This is about making sure that that money coming through an agency like EPA doesn’t have any amount of waste and abuse, that there’s a zero tolerance for it.”

Always remember the following quote:

In March 2016, I posted an article with the following:

…Then listen to the words of former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer:

“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,” said Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.

So what is the goal of environmental policy?

“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy,” said Edenhofer.

It’s never been about the environment!

Good News From Colorado

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On Monday, Red State posted an article about the release of Tina Peters from prison in Colorado.

The article reports:

Tina Peters is free.

The 70-year-old former Colorado elections clerk was released Monday following Gov. Jared Polis’ May commutation of her nine-year sentence on felony charges for her role in breaching the county’s election voting systems and equipment in 2021. She was concerned that there were irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, where Joe Biden received a mind-bending 81 million votes despite campaigning mostly from his basement.

…Although the mainstream media constantly refers to her as an “election denier,” and many Democrats portray her as the personification of evil, it was nice to see a Dem actually speaking up for free speech and against prosecutorial overreach:

In an interview with 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark, Polis said he commuted Peters’ sentence because he felt she was oversentenced for expressing inaccurate, but constitutionally protected views.

“She committed a crime. What’s an issue here is how long the sentence is,” Polis said. “I agree with the appeals court that in the sentencing hearing, the judge incorrectly looked at and considered her bizarre viewpoints, her speech, and held her speech against her.”

According to a Just the News article from November 2021:

Peters said in August at a news conference, “The Mesa County Clerk and Recorder’s office directed her staff to turn off the video surveillance of the voting equipment,” CBS 4 Denver reported.

Peters explained that she had copied files on the voting machines for security before the update was made.

“I was concerned they were going to delete important election files, I did a backup image before and after they did that,” Peters told the news outlet.

She alleges that the images showed numerous voter files were removed during the update and her job was to supervise the files.

In October, Peters was prohibited by a Mesa County judge from overseeing the county’s election in a ruling on a lawsuit filed by Griswold, according to Colorado Politics.

I don’t know if the corruption Tina Peters exposed will ever be dealt with, but at least she is free.

Working Toward Honest Elections

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On Thursday, Just the News posted an article about an executive order by President Trump to help make elections more secure.

The article reports:

A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to implement his executive order tightening mail-in voting, slapping down Democrats’ arguments for now that federal efforts to police voter rolls with citizenship checks was illegal.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointed jurist, ruled that Democrats failed to show they have standing at present to challenge the order or have suffered any harm that would warrant a preliminary injunction.

“Given that the Executive Order does not command Plaintiffs to do anything, and that no agency has yet acted pursuant to the Order in a way that could harm Plaintiffs, they have not suffered any harm at present,” the judge wrote.

But they will suffer harm in the future if they can’t cheat!

The article notes:

Nichols rejected several of the Democrats’ arguments that Trump’s executive order could disenfranchise millions of voters, including that creating state-by-state citizenship lists to check voter rolls would somehow be harmful, even if they were inaccurate.

“It remains speculative whether the State Citizenship Lists, if and when they are initially compiled, will contain inaccuracies,” he wrote. “Even if they contain initial inaccuracies, the Executive Order requires the adoption of procedures that will allow individuals to access and, if necessary, update or correct their information in the Lists.”

The judge also rejected the notion that the federal government sending information to the states about voters would somehow violate voters’ privacy.

The provisions of this Executive Order are similar to those of The SAVE Act, which about 80 percent of Americans support. If Congress can’t pass a law to make elections more secure, the President should!

More Information On Bad Behavior By The Biden Justice Department

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On Sunday, Just the News posted an article regarding a recently uncovered memo about the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

The article reports:

A top Biden Justice Department official and key ally of then-Attorney General Merrick Garland raised legal “concerns” about the FBI’s raid on Mar-Lago, warning that then-former President Donald Trump may have actually declassified the records seized by agents, a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News shows.

Patty Stemler, a decades-long DOJ veteran who was reportedly picked by Garland in 2022 to help consult on Trump-related cases, sent an email just two days after the bureau’s Aug. 8, 2022 raid of Trump’s Florida resort home, where Stemler said she had “a few concerns.”

Stemler sent the email to Sophia Brill, a future Biden White House lawyer and then an attorney inside DOJ’s National Security Division, which played a central role in this anti-Trump inquiry.

The memo was recently discovered by the Justice Department as part of its investigation into the weaponization of federal law enforcement.

“I didn’t know about this search in advance, but I have been worrying about it ever since and worrying more now,” Stemler wrote to Brill on Aug. 10, 2022. “Doesn’t Trump maintain that he had the authority to declassify documents while he was still President?

“Has anyone in NSD or OLC [Office of Legal Counsel] looked at that? I know we have procedures for declassifying, but is the President as Commander in Chief bound by those procedures? We also have procedures for granting pardons, but the President doesn’t have to follow them,” she added.

President Trump claimed that he had declassified the documents. The argument is about whether or not he had the power to do that. At any rate, those conducting the search should have had a detailed warrant as to what they were looking for and where they were authorized to look. Looking for classified documents in Barron Trump’s room or Melania’s private spaces was harassment–not a search covered by a warrant.

Unfortunately, Peace May Not Be Possible

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On May 21st, Just the News posted an article that may explain the problem in negotiating a peace treaty with Iran.

The article reports:

Iran’s supreme leader reportedly won’t consider removing the country’s supply of enriched uranium, a key Trump administration requirement in negotiations to end the United States’ war with the Middle East country.

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei’s directive to retain that supply will likely impede an end to the conflict, according to Reuters.

The United States launched a war on Iran on Feb. 28 following failed efforts to get Iran to end its program to enrich uranium to develop a nuclear warhead. 

Iran’s top officials say removing the material will leave the country vulnerable to attacks from the U.S. and Israel, which also joined the U.S. in air attacks starting Feb. 28.

Just for the record, no one is going to attack Iran if it stops funding terrorism and starts getting along with its neighbors.

Another thing to consider as these negotiations drag on is the Islamic concept of hudna. Hudna simply means declaring a truce until you can rearm enough to win the war. According to some sources, Iran is using the cease fire to rearm and reinforce its missile launching sites.

According to Yahoo News:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As negotiations with the United States hang in the balance, a hard-line Iranian general linked to notorious attacks at home and abroad over the past decades is believed to have seized a place near the center of power.

Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, who heads Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, has become a major player in formulating Iran’s tough stance in negotiating a possible end to the war with the United States, experts say. He is believed to be part of a small clique in direct contact with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who remains in hiding after being reportedly wounded in the Feb. 28 Israeli strikes that killed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Until the Revolutionary Guard is removed, I seriously doubt we will have peace.

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.

Finding And Plugging The Leaks

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On Thursday, Just the News posted an article about the investigation into possible leaks of classified information by Democrats or their staffs on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The article reports:

The NSA made the referral last summer concerning reports, including one in The New York Times, earlier that year during Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation process that quoted information from an intercept of two Hezbollah terrorist figures who claimed Gabbard, during a 2017 trip to Syria, had met with the “big guy.”

The Times suggested the reference was taken by some to mean Gabbard had met with a top Hezbollah terrorist leader, a claim she adamantly denied.

NSA concluded the leak accurately contained information from one of its intercepts but that Gabbard had not in fact met with Hezbollah leaders.

…Over the last 15 months, that crackdown has led to major indictments by the Justice Department of figures ranging from former National Security Advisor John Bolton to a former Army employee accused last month of leaking to a journalist.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has been the focus of past major leaks probes, including a case in 2018 that eventually led its former security chief James Wolfe to plead guilty to lying to the FBI about his leaks of nonpublic information to a reporter.

Unfortunately, there are people in our government agencies that truly believe it’s okay to do anything as long as it damages President Trump. That idea forms the basis for many of the bogus claims against the President that frequently show up on Fake News.

It we are going to move forward as a country, we need to stop playing silly games and learn to support each other.

Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop

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I believe that bringing James Comey to trial for his beach shells incident is a mistake, but evidently there is more to the story.

On Sunday, Just the News reported:

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday that the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey goes beyond his “8647” Instagram post about President Trump.

“Rest assured that it’s not just the Instagram post that leads somebody to get indicted,” Blanche said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

“The career FBI agents, the career Secret Service agents that investigated this case, didn’t just look at the Instagram post and walk away,” he added.

Blanche declined to elaborate on the matter.

“So I am not permitted to get into the details of what the grand jury heard or found,” he said.

I hope that whatever other charges the government has against James Comey are substantial. I disagree with the solo charge of shells on the beach.

I believe that James Comey is a sleeze who should have gone to jail for previous crimes, but the statute of limitations has passed, and the law is the law. If Facebook posts similar to his resulted in indictments, our courts would be full. Yes, his post was tacky, unnecessary, and petty, but I question whether or not it was illegal.

Someone with a different opinion than mine told me that he was glad James Comey would have to use his resources to defend himself–much like the pain his lawfare caused to others when he was in office. I see his point, but does this indictment further polarize the country?

We can’t  undo the damage the Biden administration did to the concept of equal justice under the law, but we can avoid making the same mistakes.

A Reasonable Law

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There has been some discussion lately about the misuse of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. I agree with the idea of not using them for soda and candy or fast food, but some of the rules seem a little picky. Senator Fetterman has decided to fix one rather strange rule. Under current SNAP rules, SNAP recipients can purchase cooked rotisserie chickens that have been cooled down, but it does not allow the purchase of hot prepared foods (hot rotisserie chickens). That makes no sense at all.

On Thursday, Just the News reported:

A bill that would allow recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to buy hot rotisserie chicken is one step closer to becoming law.

On Thursday, the U.S. House voted 384-35 in support of an amendment to the Farm Bill, which would modify the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to law to allow the purchase of hot rotisserie chicken for SNAP beneficiaries.

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., introduced bipartisan legislation labeled the “Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act,” in the Senate a week ago to change the current statute, which allows SNAP recipients to purchase cooked rotisserie chickens that have been cooled down, but it does not allow the purchase of hot prepared foods.

He took to social media on Thursday evening to celebrate its passage in the U.S. House.

“Doesn’t only include my crew’s favorite + affordable $4.99 Costco rotisserie — but ANY hot rotisserie,” he said in part of social media post. “Feeding families: a (rotisserie) chicken in every pot.”

SNAP to include HOT ROTISSERIE CHICKEN.384-35! Doesn’t only include my crew’s favorite + affordable $4.99 Costco rotisserie 😜 — but ANY hot rotisserie. Feeding families: a (rotisserie) chicken in every pot. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/N9bNfynRKx— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) April 30, 2026

The article concludes:

Fetterman, a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, has also backed other efforts addressing SNAP benefits including Bennet’s Hot Food Act, which would allow all hot foods to be eligible under the program, and the Cybersecurity for SNAP Act, which would increase the security of EBT cards to prevent skimming.

The measure now heads to the Senate for consideration as part of the farm bill, according to The Hill.

A number of stores sell rotisserie chickens both hot and cold. This law will make life easier for working parents.

Unfortunately, This Is How Washington Does Business

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On Friday, Just The News posted an article about the investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell regarding the renovation of the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C.

The article reports:

The Department of Justice on Friday ended its criminal probe into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced that she had ordered her office to close the investigation while the Federal Reserve’s Inspector General reviewed the matter.

“I have directed my office to close our investigation as the IG undertakes this inquiry.  Note well, however, that I will not hesitate to restart a criminal investigation should the facts warrant doing so,” she posted on X.

Pirro’s office had investigated the renovation of the Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., which has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.

In January, Senator Tillis stated that he would oppose the confirmation of any nominee for the Fed—including the upcoming Fed Chair vacancy—until this legal matter is fully resolved–meaning that he wanted the investigation halted. I hope that the Inspector General and the Department of Justice will continue the investigation after the new Federal Reserve Chairman is confirmed. Jerome Powell lied to Congress about the renovations and was attempting to turn an office building into a personal palace.

Making Our Roads Safer

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On Friday, American Greatness posted an article about Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDL’s) being issued to people who are here illegally or who do not speak English well enough to read road signs or follow verbal directions.

The article reports:

Over $73 million in federal highway funds are being withheld from New York state after an audit found more than half the state’s commercial drivers licenses (CDL) were issued to foreigners illegally.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced yesterday that the state failed to revoke “illegally issued nondomiciled commercial learner’s permits and commercial driver’s licenses.”

According to a December press release from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation, a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) nationwide audit of non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) uncovered a shocking 53 percent failure rate in the records sampled, indicating serious problems in New York’s CDL program.

Among the failures documented were New York DMV systems defaulting to issuing eight-year licenses to foreign drivers for non-REAL ID licenses, regardless of when their legal status expired, and the state issuing commercial licenses to foreign drivers without providing any evidence that it had verified their current lawful presence in the United States.

Just the News reports that Derek Barrs, administrator of the motor carrier administration, stated, “FMCSA’s mission is safety. That means ensuring that every commercial driver on the road is properly vetted and qualified. New York’s continued refusal to fix these failures undermines that mission, and we will not allow federal dollars to support a system that falls short of the law.”

The article concludes:

Just the News reports that with the forfeiture of nearly $74 million in funding, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration is losing 4 percent of its National Highway Performance Program and Surface Transportation Program Block Grant Funds.

Duffy, in a post on X, posed the question of whether pulling federal funding from non-compliant states worked before responding, “Just ask Gavin Newsom,” referring to how California revoked more than 17,000 licenses issued to undocumented people after the DOT pulled over $160 million in federal funding from the state.

We don’t need people who cannot read road signs driving multi-ton trucks.

I Think Most Of Us Suspected This

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On Sunday, Just the News posted an article about newly released information concerning the 2019 impeachment of President Trump. The truth is coming out, and it saddens me to see the length one political party went to in order to hinder the Presidency of someone from the other party.

The article reports:

The U.S. intelligence watchdog developed derogatory evidence about the CIA analyst who prompted the 2019 Ukraine-focused impeachment against Donald Trump, including that he submitted false information in his whistleblower complaint, offered hearsay to support his allegations and had the “potential for bias,” according to newly declassified memos that were kept from Americans during the failed bid by Democrats to remove the president from office six years ago.

The documents declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at the request of Just the News provide a starkly different portrait of the alleged whistleblower whose name and face were never shown to the public and whose lawyerly written letter accusing Trump of hijacking Ukraine policy for political gain was heralded by Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings.

Investigators for the Intelligence Community Inspector General documented several concerns about the Trump accuser’s political motives, noting he admitted he was a “registered Democrat” who had worked closely with Joe Biden on Ukraine issues and who disliked some of the conservative figures in the president’s orbit, the memos show.

The danger to the Biden family was that President Trump was going to reveal the corruption in Ukraine (which I believe is still going on).

The article concludes with some information about the Russia Hoax:

The 2016 ICA ((Intelligence Community Assessment)) was written at the direction of then-President Obama and largely overseen by Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had pushed in December 2016 to include Christopher Steele’s debunked dossier in the 2016 ICA on alleged Russian meddling. The dossier was included in an annex to the assessment and was cited in the most highly-classified version of the ICA.

The House Intelligence Community report, declassified last year and the CIA review released last year, sharply criticized Brennan for allegedly joining with these anti-Trump forces in the FBI in pushing to include Steele’s baseless anti-Trump dossier in the ICA.

A declassified bombshell House Intelligence Committee report revealed that, despite repeated denials, the 2016 ICA on Russian election meddling pointed to the Steele Dossier when attempting to underpin the conclusion that Russian leader Vladimir Putin aspired to help Donald Trump win — with the ICA also allegedly ignoring evidence that the Russian leader may have favored (or at least fully expected) a Hillary Clinton victory instead.

Please follow the link and read the entire article. The people responsible for the impeachment and the Russia Hoax belong in jail.

The Truth Is Seeping Out

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On Monday, Just the News posted an article about the lawfare used against President Trump. I need to mention that Just the News is one of the few news sites right now that is doing unbiased investigative reporting.

The article reports:

What did he know and when did he know it? That’s a question former Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland may soon face as the size and scope of Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s dragnet to criminally prosecute Donald Trump comes into fuller focus.

Evidence released in the past week by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley shows Smith’s team prepared a briefing memo in January 2023 – as the presidential race between then-President Joe Biden and Trump was heating up – which alerted Garland that prosecutors were obtaining the communications of as many as a dozen Trump private lawyers and allies and Congress. 

The memo made clear that those gatherings were being done despite legitimate claims the lawyers and members of Congress may have for attorney-client and Debate and Speech Clause privileges. 

The “AG BRIEFING” document by Smith’s office – dated Jan. 13, 2023 – provided Garland and his office with deep insights into the anti-Trump special counsel’s ongoing inquiry, and its future plans.

The documents were released this month by Grassley, an Iowa Republican, in coordination with Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts.

Garland’s intimate knowledge of Smith’s inquiry comes as little surprise. 

Recent evidence also shows that Garland, then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray signed off on the launch of the so-called “Arctic Frost” inquiry into Trump related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. 

Garland also said he “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant” for the FBI’s unprecedented raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022. The Biden White House was also directly linked to the classified documents investigation into Trump, despite its denials, records show.

Jack Smith does not have a great track record–his case against the former Republican governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell was overturned by the Supreme Court 8-0. How often does the Supreme Court agree on anything?

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is becoming clear that the government was weaponized against President Trump. The people responsible need to go to jail.

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.

Confirming What We Already Suspected

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Ukraine is probably the most corrupt country in Europe. I have compassion for the Ukrainian people–not only have they been invaded by Russia, they have been betrayed by their own government. There is a reason that the government of Ukraine has refused to account for all of the money that America has sent to it.

On Wednesday, Just the News reported:

U.S. intelligence intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing a plot to route hundreds of millions of American tax dollars earmarked for clean energy in the war-torn country and move them to the United States to enrich then-President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to a declassified intelligence report summarizing the intercepts that was obtained by Just the News.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of the intercepts and has asked the U.S. Agency for International Development officials to scour for records to see if the plot actually was carried out and whether a criminal referral should be made to the FBI.

Gabbard’s team has not found substantive evidence the intercepted allegations were thoroughly investigated during the Biden administration, and the communications are not believed to be tied to Russian disinformation efforts, officials said.

There is a reason that the deep state has been attempting to remove Tulsi Gabbard from her position. This is part of the reason.

The article concludes:

Grassley (Senator Chuck Grassley) in 2023 released an FBI-generated record — known as an FD-1023 — dated June 2020 and detailing allegations made by an FBI confidential human source (CHS) about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Zlochevsky.

The CHS — later revealed to be Alexander Smirnov — said Zlochevsky brought Hunter Biden onto the Burisma board to “protect us through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” Regarding the Shokin investigation’s possible impact on Burisma’s ambitions in North America, Zlochevsky reportedly said, “Don’t worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.”

Grassley recounted that “Zlochevsky reportedly stated that he had to pay $5 million to Hunter Biden and $5 million to Joe Biden, an arrangement he described as ‘poluchili,’ which is Russian crime slang for being ‘forced or coerced to pay,’ according to the document.”

The Biden DOJ charged Smirnov in February 2024 with making a false statement to federal agents and with creating a false and fictitious record. Smirnov pleaded guilty to four felony counts in December 2024, “including creating a false and fictitious record and three counts of tax evasion.”

The Trump DOJ in April 2025 told a federal judge that “the United States intends to review the government’s theory of the case underlying Defendant’s criminal conviction.”

Please follow the link to read the entire article. We are only beginning to find out what went on during the Biden administration.

Good News For Alaska

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On Tuesday, Just the News posted an article about oil and gas lease sales in Alaska.

The article reports:

The Department of Interior held an oil and gas lease sale this week for the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska (NPR-A). It was by every measure a huge success. The sale resulted in 187 leases and generated $163 million. 

The sale brought in some of the big players in oil and gas, including Shell, Exxon, and ConocoPhillips. It signaled a lot of interest from the industry in oil and gas development on Alaska’s North Slope.

It was a big win for Trump’s unleashing American energy policy, but it’s also a win for the North Slope Iñupiat Alaska natives.

Resource development provides over 95% of the North Slope’s tax revenue, which supports essential services in the remote region, including schools, health clinics, water and sewer systems, and wildlife management. 

The Biden administration would often say it was listening to indigenous voices, but when those voices collided with the administration’s climate goals, Native Americans took a back seat. Former President Joe Biden passed regulation after regulation restricting resource development, including oil, gas, and mining.

The Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat (VOICE), a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that advocates for the Arctic Slope communities, spent years trying to get a meeting with Deb Haaland, Biden’s interior secretary. She finally sat down with them in the summer of 2024. 

“Things have changed quite a bit. And I think it’s a testament to our membership, our advocacy and our constant, consistent messaging, no matter who’s in office,” since the VOICE was founded in 2015, Nagruk Harcharek, president of VOICE, told Just the News. 

The article concludes:

One of the few projects that was allowed to move forward under the Biden administration was ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project, which is expected to produce 180,000 barrels of oil per day at its peak. Harcharek said representatives of the company had to meet with the North Slope Borough and its constituents in the assembly as part of its local permitting process. Before it could move forward, the borough had to sign off and issue a permit for it. 

As projects move forward to develop the acreage sold in the lease sale this week, as well as those in the future, the industry will need to work with the boroughs as part of the permitting process for each project. Harcharek said the members of VOICE are finally getting a seat at the table — not only in allowing resource development but also in how it’s done. 

“We have a say. When the time comes and these proposals move forward, they will have to go in front of the North Slope boroughs as well as the other organizations and elected leadership on the North Slope to be able to sell them and get them to move forward,” he said. 

In What World Is This Acceptable Behavior?

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Mark 3:25 in the New King James Version says, “And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” Some of the people who work for the American government need to learn that principle.

On Tuesday, Just the News, reported the following:

Analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community sought to conceal evidence of Chinese influence efforts from President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, with analysts saying they didn’t want their intel used by “that vulgarian in the Oval Office” to pursue policies toward China they personally disagreed with.

The revelation is found within a January 2021 report written by — and never before reported upon comments by — analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf, who conducted a review of the spy community’s handling of Russian versus Chinese meddling efforts during the 2020 election. Among his conclusions was that intelligence analysts downplayed China’s actions because they had disdain for the “vulgarian” Trump and did not want to support the policies and priorities of the Trump administration toward China with which they “personally disagree.”

Just the News reported this week that the U.S. intelligence community has known since early 2020 that Beijing also gained access to American voter registration data and used that information to conduct opinion analysis related to the presidential election between Trump and then-former Vice President Joe Biden.

That is totally unacceptable behavior. They were hired to do a job–inform the President of terrorist threats and activities–not to act on their own political views.

The article notes:

The Justice Department, FBI, DHS, and CISA put out a “joint report” in March 2021 which argued there was “no evidence that any foreign government-affiliated actor manipulated election results or otherwise compromised the integrity of the 2020 federal elections.”

The report downplayed or dismissed the impact that Chinese meddling may have had.

“We identified several incidents when Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government-affiliated actors materially impacted the security of networks associated with or pertaining to U.S. political organizations, candidates, and campaigns during 2020 federal elections,” the joint report said. “In most cases, the IC has assessed that it is unclear if those actors sought these accesses to inform broader foreign policy interests or election-specific operations. Several such actors gathered at least some information they could have released in influence operations, but ultimately we did not see any such materials deployed, modified, or destroyed.”

The people responsible for holding back the information should be fired and barred from ever working for the government again. I don’t know if any criminal charges would be applicable, but this is borderline treason.

What Could Possibly Be The Motive?

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On Thursday, Just the News posted an article about the attack on a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

The article reports:

One person was injured Thursday after a man drove his car into a synagogue in Michigan, and the suspect was found dead in his vehicle, according to Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard.

Officials identified the suspected driver as 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized citizen born in Lebanon who came to the United States in 2011 on an immigrant visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen. 

No children or staff were injured in the incident at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, but one of the security guards was taken to the hospital after being hit by the vehicle, Bouchard said, CNN reported. The guard is expected to recover.

Officials said 30 other law enforcement officers have been treated for smoke inhalation after the vehicle caught fire following the crash. 

No motive for the incident has been reported so far, though the FBI has described the crash as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.”

Bouchard said that the suspect drove through the doors of the building and down the hall, and that officials believe there was only one person in the car. He also noted that security saw and engaged the suspect in gunfire.

If the FBI describes the crash as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community,” how much more of a motive do you need?

The article concludes:

Michigan State Police’s Second District said troopers are increasing patrols at other places of worship in the district.

According to its website, Temple Israel is the largest Reform synagogue in the U.S.

West Bloomfield High School, West Bloomfield Middle School, Doherty Elementary School, and Bloomfield Hills Schools are currently in secure mode, CBS News reported.

The Jewish Federation of Detroit urged all Jewish organizations to go into “lockout protocol.” 

Some news sources are bold enough to call this an act of domestic terrorism. That is accurate. We will never solve the problem if we fail to identify it.

A Year Of Economic Changes

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On Monday, Just the News posted an article about The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom.

The article reports:

The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom showed the U.S. reversing a five-year decline and having its biggest annual increase in 25 years.

The score increased by 2.6 points from last year, to 72.8. And the U.S. ranked 22nd among the more than 176 countries that had completed scores in the index, FOX Business reported. 

The increase was the largest since 2001, and is the second-largest jump the U.S. has had in the index’s 32-year history.

The index assesses 12 economic freedoms that fall into four categories: rule of law, government size, regulatory efficiency, and open markets.

“The U.S.’s score improvements in monetary freedom, government spending, fiscal health, and investment freedom have outpaced the relatively lower score in trade freedom, reflecting the net positive impact of major regulatory and tax reforms on economic growth, investment, and business confidence,” Heritage’s Anthony Kim, the editor of the Index of Economic Freedom told FOX Business.

Note that this reverses a five-year decline. Elections matter.

The article concludes:

Kim said that the “impact of restrictive tariffs on the global economy has been far more muted than feared, in light of increased investment in such critical sectors as energy and AI (among many others),” adding that the lack of tariff retaliation by countries other than China, Canada, and the European Union mitigated the potential impact of a trade war.

The countries with the highest overall scores in the index were Singapore at 84.4, Switzerland at 83.7%, Ireland at 83.3, Australia at 80.1, and Taiwan at 79.8.

The countries that scored the lowest as the most repressed in the world were North Korea at 3.1, Cuba at 25.2, Venezuela at 27.3, Sudan at 32.5, and Zimbabwe at 35.2.

Our Founding Fathers funded the government with tariffs. It wasn’t until 1913 that the Wilson administration convinced Americans that we needed both the Federal Reserve and the income tax. They  were wrong on both counts.

Protecting Americans On Our Highways

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On Wednesday, Just the News posted an article about the Wyoming Highway Patrol’s crackdown on Commercial Drivers License holders who are here illegally and don’t speak or understand English.

The article reports:

High-profile fatal accidents on America’s highways involving semi-truck drivers with limited proficiency in English have led to a nationwide effort to crack down on the issuing of commercial driver’s licenses (CDL) to such drivers. 

Statistics that the Wyoming Highway Patrol released last week show how widespread the problem is. Out of 16,676 inspections on commercial vehicles in 2025, 676 resulted in violations where drivers failed the interview because they weren’t proficient in the English language. 

This was the eighth most frequent violation Wyoming officials cited drivers for, and these are the numbers for just one state. Recently, the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office in southern Wyoming, Cowboy State Daily reported, had a three-day operation in which 82 commercial trucks were stopped, and 32 illegal immigrants were arrested. 

The article notes:

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced this week it had begun targeting “CDL mills.” More than 550 training schools for CDLs were closed following 1,400 sting operations by 300 investigations in all states, according to The Center Square. 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration found that many of the shuttered schools had no qualified instructors, used fake addresses, and provided inadequate training for things like transporting hazardous materials. 

Last month, the USDOT announced that all commercial driver’s license tests will be administered in English. 

The article concludes:

One well-regarded CDL school explains the dangers of big rig crashes on the highway. At 50 mph, the energy is almost three times greater than at 30 mph, and at that speed, in collisions with cars, the smaller vehicle is often crushed or pushed aside violently, leaving little chance for its occupants’ safety. 

But at 70 mph, the forces are overwhelming. Fatalities become the expected outcome, not the exception. At this speed, a truck crash is often indistinguishable from a demolition event, with energy levels beyond what crumple zones or airbags can counteract.

An 80,000-pound truck cruising down the interstate at 80 miles per hour may not be carrying 200 passengers as would an aircraft. But it can do a lot of damage, and accidents — especially at higher speeds — are more often than not deadly. 

How many unemployed Americans are capable of getting a CDL license and driving a truck? It seems as if we could find some.

A Question That Needs An Answer

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On Sunday, Just the News posted an article titled, “Did Founding Framers intend for the Census to count Illegal aliens? Courts could soon decide.” This is an important question because it impacts the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The article reports:

Historical evidence suggests the framers did not intend for illegal immigrants to be counted for apportionment. A new lawsuit filed by the State of Missouri urges the Census Bureau to return to that original understanding.

The Constitution’s text 

Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution requires an “actual enumeration” of the population for purposes of congressional representation. The Fourteenth Amendment later clarified that this enumeration must count the “whole number of persons” residing in each state.

The Constitution, however, has never been interpreted to require counting every individual physically present within a state on census day. For example, no cases have contended that the Census Bureau must count temporary visitors, such as foreign tourists or short-term travelers. 

While there is broad agreement that the phrase “whole number of persons” does not require a literal counting of every individual physically present in a state at a given moment, there is disagreement over whether it requires the Census Bureau to include illegal immigrants.

For much of American history, whether illegal immigrants should be included in the census was a purely academic question. For nearly a century after the nation’s founding, there were few meaningful federal restrictions on immigration. Congress did not enact the first statute excluding certain classes of immigrants until 1875. Numerical limits on immigration were not imposed until the Immigration Act of 1921, and unauthorized entry across the border was not criminalized until 1929. 

Because lawful immigration was relatively accessible, illegal immigration remained limited for much of the nation’s early history.

The article concludes:

The framers’ and early Congresses’ repeated use of the term “inhabitant” is significant. In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century legal usage, the term was closely associated with the concept of domicile—a fixed, lawful, and enduring residence. That concept stands in sharp contrast to transient presence or unlawful entry, suggesting that the Constitution’s original understanding of apportionment was tied to lawful, settled membership in a political community.

Will the Supreme Court decide?

Missouri’s lawsuit may finally force a definitive answer. If the case reaches the Supreme Court, the justices may be asked to determine whether the Constitution permits counting illegal aliens for purposes of apportionment. Missouri has asked for expedited resolution of its case.

The census should be limited to citizens–the people who have skin in the game.

The Corruption Runs Deep And Is Not Localized

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On Saturday, Just the News posted an article about commercial drivers licenses (CDLs) issued in Illinois. I would like to note that Just the News is one of the few unbiased investigative news sources on the internet.

The article reports:

The Illinois official whose agency issued potentially thousands of illegal licenses to truckers, received more than $300,000 in donations from the trucking industry in recent years. The Illinois Secretary of State, Alexi Giannoulias, is in a standoff with the Trump Transportation Department over its review of the state’s commercial drivers licenses (CDLs) which found that 1-in-5 licenses issued by Giannoulias’ office were done so illegally. 

Giannoulias, a Democrat who is reportedly considering a run for Chicago mayor, is facing scrutiny over his office’s role in issuing those licenses from the Trump administration after a series of high profile big rig crashes across the country that exposed issues in how states issue non-domiciled CDLs to foreign citizens, or in some cases, to illegal immigrants. 

In Illinois, the U.S. Transportation Department found the Secretary of State’s Office, through the Director of Driver Services, issued illegal CDLs, in some cases, to individuals who have failed to provide evidence of lawful presence, let alone proficiency in managing big rigs.

The article concludes:

In August, an illegal immigrant driver made an illegal u-turn on the Florida Turnpike in his 18-wheeler truck, causing a crash that left three dead, the Homeland Security Department said. The immigrant was identified as Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India.

Before the fatal crash in Florida, Singh reportedly failed his CDL driver’s test 10 times, before finally being granted a license in 2023 in Washington State, according to Fox News. Instructors also noted a lack of English proficiency, with video evidence showing Singh struggled to speak English with police in the wake of the crash. 

The Transportation Department’s audits in other states also uncovered what it says is “systemic non-compliance in issuing non-domiciled CDLs.” In California, the department’s audit found that “more than 25% of non-domiciled CDLs reviewed were improperly issued.” In New York State, it found that more than half of non-domiciled CDLs were issued in violation of federal law. In Colorado, the fraction was 22%. 

These findings led the administration to pull federal funding until the states remedy the license issuing process to prevent such failures. Secretary Duffy’s agency issued a final rule last week that would prevent foreign drivers from receiving a non-domicile CDL without undergoing a consular and interagency screening. 

Ending the fraud in CDL licensing will make the roads safer for everyone.

Cleaning Up The Mess Left Behind

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On Friday, Just the News posted an article about some of the changes being made by the Trump administration in the Intelligence Community.

The article reports:

In a dramatic repudiation, CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Friday rescinded or revised 19 intelligence reports the agency produced dating back to the Obama era because they were politically biased or used poor spy tradecraft, including one analysis suggesting that women who pursue traditional motherhood were at danger of becoming violent extremists.

A senior CIA official told Just The News the reports were initially flagged during a review by the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, then reviewed by career agency officials before being retracted, recalled or revised.

“There is absolutely no room for bias in any kind of the CIA’s work,” the official said. “So when we find instances where our tradecraft did not reach that high bar of impartiality, we must correct the record. And that’s why we’re taking steps to reinforce analytic integrity by ordering the public release, substantive revision or retraction of these products that do not meet CIA’s tradecraft standards.”

The article notes:

The CIA assessment also said that it defined “white REMVE(racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist)-sympathetic” actors as “individuals or groups who may not openly advocate violence but amplify white REMVE narratives regarding their perceptions of racial and ethnic hierarchy, as well as perceived threats from those they see as advocating multiculturalism and globalization.”

“White REMVEs and their sympathizers have claimed in online posts that it is essential for white families to have as many biological children as possible to counter the rising birthrates among non-white populations; white REMVEs allege that this rise is a conspiracy, which they have termed the ‘great replacement,’ according to an Open Source Enterprise assessment,” the since-withdrawn agency assessment said.

So women who chose to stay home and raise their children or who encouraged other women to stay home and raise their children was considered a threat. Good grief!

The article concludes:

In the U.S. intelligence community’s anti-DEI efforts during the second Trump administration, Judge Anthony Trenga last April blocked efforts by the CIA and the ODNI to terminate intelligence officers who had been tied to DEI initiatives during the Biden administration. The Justice Department, on behalf of the two spy agencies, quickly appealed the ruling to an appeals court, where a ruling has not yet been issued.

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Know Your News Source

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It  is amazing how differently two news sources can cover the same story. On Wednesday, Fox News and Just the News both reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was seen scouring the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Georgia. Evidently someone is finally looking into voting irregularities at the city. Despite what you may have heard, Fox News is no longer the conservative bastion of objective news it once was.

Just the News reports:

Post-2020 election investigations and reports have confirmed irregularities in the election process in Georgia’s most populous county. Just the News, for instance, found in 2021 that the tally sheets the county used for audits and recounts did not match totals from ballot images, appearing to duplicate counts.

Gob. Brian Kemp, in 2021, issued an official complaint about “sloppy” processes in the county and later referred the 2020 election results to the State Election Board after separate reviews confirmed errors in the absentee ballot counting process.

Fox News reports:

President Donald Trump lost the election in Georgia in 2020 by a wafer-thin margin and claimed various instances of fraud had tainted the results. Those claims did not survive court scrutiny. Fulton, which includes Atlanta and is the state’s most populous county, drew significant attention at the time.

A machine count and two recounts confirmed that former President Joe Biden had won the state, leading Trump to feud with Georgia’s leaders for years.

The DOJ sued Fulton County last month seeking access to ballots related to the 2020 election. The county is fighting the lawsuit, saying the DOJ has not made a valid argument for accessing them.

Fox News is ignoring the fact that Fulton County officials admitted they did not properly sign tabulator tapes after the 2020 election, a violation of state regulations. They are also ignoring the fact that the county says approximately 315,000 votes cast during early voting were certified without the required signatures on tabulator tapes from poll workers. No, the record does not confirm the fact that Biden won the state. We can’t change the past, but we need to make sure all future elections include accurate and valid vote counts. Meanwhile, could someone please be held accountable for the fraud.

Not Even Remotely Surprising

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California has increased taxes many times to try to balance its budget. If the people who live there are willing to put up with that, that’s fine. However, trying to collect taxes from people who no longer live there is questionable at best.

On Monday, Just The News reported:

According to documents posted online by a family who formerly lived in California, the Golden State is trying to collect income taxes years after the family moved to Florida.

The documents, sent on Jan. 6, 2026, asked for receipts, invoices, canceled checks and other documentation showing that the family moved from California to Florida nearly four years ago. The California Franchise Tax Board, which sent the letter, also asked the family for a “narrative of the circumstances” surrounding the family’s move out of state.

Hari Raghavan, who with his wife, Mitali Gala, was the subject of the investigation by the California Franchise Tax Board, said he and Gala moved from California to Florida in 2021. They tried to sell the home they owned in California when they moved, but weren’t able to do so immediately, Raghavan told The Center Square.

“That spilled into 2022, but it was by no definition a primary residence anymore,” Raghavan said about the California home. “We moved to Florida to establish residency in 2021.”

New Jersey actually does have an Exit Tax. For example, if you sell a house in New Jersey for $800,000 (that you bought years ago for $200,000), you could owe as much as $15,000 in Exit Tax. I think this is taxation without representation, but as far as I know, it  has not been challenged in court.

The article at Just The News notes:

In an emailed statement to The Center Square, the Franchise Tax Board said individual tax records are confidential and information about one individual or family’s tax records can’t be shared. Investigations that determine if someone owes taxes can be lengthy, officials said.

“FTB’s audit program serves as the compliance mechanism for administering California’s tax code,” Andrew LePage, an official with the Franchise Tax Board, wrote to The Center Square via email. “A residency audit determines if an individual is a resident, non-resident, or part-year resident for tax purposes. Residency audits take about 18 – 24 months to complete, depending on a wide range of variables.”

Those who live in and receive income in California for at least nine months out of the year owe personal income taxes to the state, LePage told The Center Square via email. Officials also told The Center Square that the board doesn’t share its criteria for when to conduct a residency audit.

Officials with the Franchise Tax Board would not make anyone from the agency available for an interview with The Center Square.

Moving forward, Raghavan and Gala are assembling a response with their accountant, Raghavan said.

While he believes in everyone paying their fair share of taxes, he’s found much of the experience with the agency off-putting, Raghavan told The Center Square.

“My issue is with how they go about it,” Raghavan said. “I can’t truly say they have been unreasonable with us, with one exception. I can’t believe they would ask someone for their moving inventory list. Who maintains that?”

It is easy to understand why people are leaving some of our blue states.