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Retiring California Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi's partisan committee that was purported to be "investigating" the events in Washington on Jan. 6, 2023, spent some $17.4 million of taxpayer money.
Their result was an evidence-edited and message-orchestrated claim that President Donald Trump somehow was at fault.
That was the day Trump held a rally for supporters, encouraging them to peacefully protest what was perceived as the faulty results of the 2020 president election.
Some went to the Capitol, some went inside and some vandalized various parts of the building.
Actually that election now is known to have been skewed by several undue influences. One was that Mark Zuckerberg handed out cash like candy to local elections officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts.
The other was the FBI's decision to try to suppress information about Biden family scandals contained in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden. A poll after the election said had those details been reported routinely, like other election issues, Biden likely would have lost.
The FBI falsely claimed at the time the information was Russian disinformation, even though agents knew the evidence was factual.
Pelosi, then speaker of the House, assembled a partisan team, refusing to seat GOP nominees. She then picked Democrats and two Trump-hating Republicans to be on the team, which ignored evidence supporting Trump and amplified claims of his responsibility, even to the point of hiring producers and others to assemble videos "dramatizing" their claims against Trump.
Now a report at the Center Square explains its investigation has confirmed while the projected budget for the committee was $9.3 million, House disbursements confirm the political scheme cost taxpayers at least $17.4 million.
U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, is on a new committee appointed by House Speaker Mike Johnson assigned to review security failures that day and confirmed the original committee "didn't spend taxpayer money properly after The Center Square told him about the final costs of the panel's investigation."
"They wasted it, wasted it," he confirmed. "That was a sham committee. (Liz) Cheney. (Adam) Kinzinger. It was a joke."
He cited Cheney, who shortly later was thrown out of her congressional office by her own voters, and Kinzinger, another Republican who decided against seeking re-election. He later took a job with a leftist network.
Dan Savickas, of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a non-partisan nonprofit, told the Center Square the more than doubling of the budget was not appropriate.
"The median budget for a House committee is $6 million a year, so for the Jan. 6 committee to spend $17.4 million is excessive," he confirmed. "And anytime a committee is grandstanding, specifically Jan. 6, to fit a narrative instead of holding people accountable and getting the story is bad. That's why they hired documentary filmmakers."
Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who orchestrated the committee's work, wouldn't comment, but a communications director, Yasmine Brown, said, "The work of the committee speaks for itself, and the chairman continues to stand by it."
The report explained, "An undetermined amount was spent on three dozen contractors and consultants. Many worked for a few months or less than a year, rather than all 18 months like full-time staff. They are listed in the committee's report but do not show up in a list of expenditures the U.S. House posted online disclosing its spending."
Those include a former ABC News executive, a longtime ABC producer and more.
Boasted Melinda Arons, a former Nightline employee, "I was part of the first ever team of former television journalists brought in by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol to produce the historic live hearings laying out the committee's evidence to the country."
The J6 committee hired "freelancers with backgrounds in producing and editing graphics as well as video and audio footage – prominent features of the committee's 10 nationally televised hearings from June to December 2022," the report said.
The anti-Trump conclusions from the committee later have "come into question," the report said.
"In an op-ed for Politico in January 2023, Georgetown Professor Donell Harvin, who oversaw the District of Columbia's assessment of threat intelligence, wrote that '(t)he events of Jan. 6 represented the most telegraphed and predictable attack on the homeland in history.' Further, Harvin noted that the committee devoted only 44 pages in the annexes to the security and intelligence issues, roughly 5% of the 845-page report."
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It may be true. Or not.
But a stunner has been found in the release of convicted sex offender Jeff Epstein's emails.
One says it is his opinion that Hillary Clinton was "doing naughties with Vince," presumably the suicided Vince Foster.
Democrats since President Donald Trump re-entered the White House have been demanding the release of everything Jeffrey Epstein, suggesting that they include damning information about Trump.
Of course, the Biden administration had access to those items for years, and never was able to dig out anything that it could use against Trump. While Trump was acquainted with Epstein, he cut off the relationship years before the sex offender's lifestyle was known. In fact, one Epstein case insider testified under oath that she was not aware of misbehaviors by Trump.
But now, some of those messages are becoming available, and it appears to have rebounded on the Democrats.
As, according to a report at the Gateway Pundit, one 2016 message from Epstein to disgraced author Michael Wolff "appears to allege that Hillary Clinton has a sexual affair with former White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster."
Wolff had asked Epstein for a summary on "Nussbaum/foster."
The May 25, 2016, message includes, "nussbaum white house counsel . . hillary doing naughties with vince."
The Nussbaum apparently is White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum.
Foster, a longtime Clinton ally, was founded dead July 20, 1993, in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia.
Investigations concluded it was suicide, but, the report said, "Circumstances, such as the lack of fingerprints on the gun, inconsistencies in witness statements, and the missing bullet, have fueled decades of conspiracy theories suggesting foul play by the Clintons."
The evidence on site, the report said, suggested the body may have been moved there from elsewhere.
And, the report said, no fingerprints were found on the gun, a strange circumstance for a suicide.
One social media personality wondered, "Is this evidence that the emails are real?"
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A plan inserted by senators into the hotly contested short-term funding for the U.S. government, which would have allowed them to sue over the actions by Joe Biden's Department of Justice to confiscate their telephone records, has hit a dead end.
The DOJ, as part of its lawfare under Biden and against President Donald Trump, schemed with telephone companies to access records of the senators' telephone calling records.
Online commentators have suggested the records were obtained because special counsel Jack Smith, running some of the lawfare against Trump, was planning to use the records in further cases against Trump had he not been elected, and possibly include the senators in some of the cases.
Smith's cases disintegrated when Trump was elected.
But some senators had inserted into the recently adopted short-term funding plan a provision allowing them to sue, "for a whopping $500,000 each," over the snooping on their records.
The provision was buried in the legislation and actually allowed senators to sue "if law enforcement seizes or subpoenas their data without proper notification."
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the House would work immediately to repeal the plan.
Johnson said, of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, "He's a principled leader; I've enjoyed working with him. We've got a great working relationship and a good friendship. He's a trustworthy, honest broker. And that's why I was so surprised when we found out about that provision. It was put in our clean CR at the last moment. I'm—just to be honest, I'm very transparent with you all—I was very angry about it."
He said House members didn't appreciate the move.
He said Thune likely "regretted the way it was done, and we had an honest conversation about that. I didn't ask him for any commitment at that time because I had a lot on my plate today, and I've been busy ever since that conversation we had early this morning."
He said he's confident of a House repeal and expects the Senate to follow.
Some of the Senate Republicans already have said they do not intend to try to make their case under the provision.
CBS reported there were eight senators whose records were demanded: Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
And already at least three, Hagerty, Johnson and Blackburn, have said they have no plans to seek compensation.
"I am for accountability for Jack Smith and everyone complicit in this abuse of power. I do not want and I am not seeking damages for myself paid for with taxpayer dollars," Hagerty said.
Blackburn added, "This fight is not about the money; it is about holding the left accountable for the worst weaponization of government in our nation's history. If leftist politicians can go after President Trump and sitting members of Congress, they will not hesitate to go after American citizens."
She said she has no plans to seek payment.
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President Donald Trump has included in his Oval Office goals to fight the terror-like antics of Antifa.
That's a loose organization of leftists and extremists who have rioted across the United States in opposition to his enforcement of American law.
His actions already included designating the schemes and the schemers as domestic terrorists.
It was just weeks ago, the president said, "I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices."
He noted Antifa "is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that calls for the overthrow of the U.S. government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law—using illegal means, including violence and terrorism, to accomplish these goals."
Trump's order at the time instructed the federal government to "investigate, disrupt, and dismantle all illegal operations conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa."
He also targeted the "funding" schemes."
"Antifa engages in coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws, with the goal of achieving policy objectives by coercion and intimidation – this is domestic terrorism," the White House said. "Antifa has engaged in armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violently assaulted ICE and other law enforcement officers, and engages in routine doxing of political figures and activists, threatening public safety."
Now a report from Fox News confirms that campaign against terror is going global.
"The State Department will designate four Antifa-linked groups operating in Europe as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specifically Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) — putting them among the likes of ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah — Fox News Digital has learned," the report said.
It apparently is the first time the U.S. government has applied foreign terrorist designations to Antifa-linked groups, the report said.
The four Antifa-aligned cells designated are from Germany, Italy and Greece, and are accused of organizing or carrying out bombings, shootings and other politically motivated attacks.
The designation is significant as it now requires U.S. financial institutions to freeze assets of FTOs and SDGTs and ban entry of the group's members into the U.S.
Further, those organizations and their members now can be prosecuted criminally in the U.S., as well as those who offer support to them.
One group is Antifa Ost, whose left-wing members are linked to attacks during 2018-2023 in Germany.
"The International Revolutionary Front, also known as the Informal Anarchist Federation, is an Italy-based coalition of groups that endorse revolutionary armed conflict against the state," the report said.
Two other groups are based in Greece, the Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense.
All are suspected of attacking innocent people, government operations and industry.
"The anarchists, Marxists, and violent extremists of Antifa have waged a terror campaign in the United States and across the Western world for decades, carrying out bombings, beatings, shootings, and riots in service of their extreme agenda," an official confirmed.
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Yet again, a high profile politician who joined the Democrats' years-long lawfare against President Donald Trump has been referred to the Department of Justice for possible prosecution.
This time it's California Democrat Eric Swalwall, who schemed with others in a failed impeach-and-remove campaign against Trump. He's facing alleged tax and mortgage fraud charges,
Already, there have been cases filed against multiple politicians who attacked Trump through that lawfare, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, who campaigned for office on a promise to "get" Trump. She then accused him of mis-valuing his properties in a case in which the "victims" were happy with the results and wanted to do more business with Trump. An appeals court tossed the resulting unconstitutional penalty.
Also a defendant is fired FBI chief James Comey, whose charges stem from his alleged lies to Congress about leaking secret information to the media. He also prominently posted – just weeks ago – an "86-47" message online, claiming he found seashells in that configuration. The "86" designation was understood to mean end, or get rid of, and "47" is because Trump is the 47th president, after being 45 as well, of course.
The claims against Swalwell come from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, who brought allegations against James as well other Trump detractors, California Democrat Adam Schiff as well as Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
The allegations often stem from the individuals' own claims on federal paperwork, such as designating a home as a primary residence, when it's not, in order to get getter mortgage terms.
James had been indicted on one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution last month and pleaded not guilty. James' attorneys have argued the case is politically motivated, saying the administration is targeting her for her role in bringing civil fraud charges against President Trump in New York.
Pulte accused Cook of making misrepresentations on mortgage documents.
Swalwell immediately claimed to have been the "most vocal critic of Donald Trump over the last decade."
He claimed he would not stop speaking.
Swalwell, in fact, has repeatedly been the aggressor against Trump, suing him in 2021 over the Capitol riot that year.
He claimed then that the president incited the violence, an allegation that has failed in other forums.
It was only a day earlier that WND had reported on a columnist's conclusion that Swalwell apparently has no residence in California, which he represents, possibly running afoul of legal requirements.
It is columnist Joel Gilbert who charged that Swalwell, who has been criticized in recent years for his "alleged ties to the Chinese spy 'Fang Fang,'" and his "removal from the House Intelligence Committee over national security concerns," might be in serious trouble.
It's because Swalwell, on legal documents, formally has declared that his Washington, D.C., property is his "principal residence." That affirmation comes on his public Deed of Trust for his home.
He made that statement as a condition for a loan on the property.
He apparently has no residence listed, either as owned or rented by him, in California, the report said.
"Under Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, members of Congress must be 'inhabitants' of the state they represent at the time of their election," Gilbert wrote. "In California, maintaining this inhabitancy means holding tangible, verifiable ties to the state, such as owning or renting a residence, registering to vote, paying state income taxes, and possessing a California driver's license."
In fact, the California Elections Code insists a domicile is "the place in which his or her habitation is fixed" and "the place where a person intends to return and remain."
The report explained, "If Swalwell's true domicile is in Washington, DC, the city where he has declared his principal residence, he may no longer meet the basic requirement of being a California 'inhabitant.' Public records searches have not revealed any home ownership or lease under Eric Swalwell's name in California."
The report noted, "Failure to maintain a legitimate residence in California could expose Swalwell to legal, ethical, and electoral repercussions. A false declaration of residency risks tax violations, misrepresentation to lenders, and challenges to his eligibility for re-election."
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DELTONA, Florida – An 11-year-old boy was perp walked to his jail cell on Monday after allegedly writing a "kill list" of all the people he wanted to target at his school.
Video shows Karson Curry being marched into a cell after his alleged threats at Highbanks Learning Center in Deltona, Florida.
"The 11-year-old is facing a felony charge of making a written threat to kill," the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.
"While school threats are down recently, Sheriff [Michael] Chitwood is continuing to stress to students and parents that these types of threats will result in felony charges."
Authorities learned Curry had no access to weapons, but they sought to make an example out of him.
It was not immediately clear exactly whom Curry was allegedly targeting and if he would face any discipline from his school.
The Daily Mail called Curry's perp walk "surreal," and reported his arrest "comes just two weeks after an 11-year-old at another learning center in Volusia County was taken into custody over an alleged kill list.
"Aahriyanna Reed was accused of jotting down the names at her desk at Riverview Learning Center on October 27.
"Although she told deputies she was 'just playing,' she was arrested and perp walked from the police cruiser and into a jail cell."
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Republicans in the U.S. Senate, who agreed with Democrat demands to discuss extending heightened Obamacare subsidies in order to end the record-setting Schumer Shutdown of the federal government, have delivered more bad news to the minority party.
They are linking the Democrats' demands that emergency additional subsidies be continued to a new effort to enforce already existing federal abortion limits.
The shutdown triggered, and maintained, by many votes by Senate Democrats against opening the government, was partly over heightened subsidies for Americans getting health insurance through the hugely troubled Obamacare system.
The Democrats, then in the majority, had approved "emergency" additional subsidies a few years back. Then they continued those additional subsidies several times. But they scheduled them to end at the conclusion of 2025, and they are not in the majority now to push them into another extension.
The problem is that the failings within the Obamacare system are expected to trigger huge increase in premiums for Americans getting those policies starting January 1.
The shutdown is concluding now, with legislation being approved in the Senate, and House, to reopen government operations.
The GOP promise was that those Obamacare extensions would be discussed.
And discussed they will be, along with those abortion funding limits.
A report at Breitbart explains Sen. Majority Leader John Thune said, "A one-year extension along the lines of what [Democrats] are suggesting, and without Hyde protections — doesn't even get close."
Republicans simply want to block states from allowing people to access abortions through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces using state or other funding, the report said.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., has indicated he's open to extending the subsidies, but said Republicans won't support it without the abortion restrictions, the report said.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and a radical abortion advocate, claimed the GOP now wants a "backdoor national abortion ban."
He called for Democrats to "dismiss" the plan that would enforce existing abortion limits, and extend Obamacare subsidies.
The enhanced Obamacare subsidies first were begun during the COVID pandemic created by the China virus.
The report said without an extension of the subsidies, "individuals who purchase health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces will see steep premium rises — some by thousands of dollars a month — beginning next year."
Thune said the GOP requests aren't complicated, a "more stringent enforcement of longstanding restrictions on federal funding being used for abortion, known as the Hyde Amendment."
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Already, mortgage-fraud charges have caught up with New York Attorney General Letitia James and ex-FBI chief James Comey, both of whom were involved in multiple lawfare cases against President Donald Trump.
A third name soon could be on that list, ardent anti-Trumper Rep. Eric Swalwell of California.
A columnist's post at the Gateway Pundit explains Swalwell apparently has no residence in California, which he represents, possibly running afoul of legal requirements.
It is columnist Joel Gilbert who charges that Swalwell, who has been criticized in recent years for his "alleged ties to the Chinese spy 'Fang Fang,'" and his "removal from the House Intelligence Committee over national security concerns," might be in serious trouble.
It's because Swalwell, on legal documents, formally has declared that his Washington, D.C., property is his "principal residence." That affirmation comes on his public Deed of Trust for his home.
He made that statement as a condition for a loan on the property.
He apparently has no residence listed, either as owned or rented by him, in California, the report said.
"Under Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, members of Congress must be 'inhabitants' of the state they represent at the time of their election," Gilbert wrote. "In California, maintaining this inhabitancy means holding tangible, verifiable ties to the state, such as owning or renting a residence, registering to vote, paying state income taxes, and possessing a California driver's license."
In fact, the California Elections Code insists a domicile is "the place in which his or her habitation is fixed" and "the place where a person intends to return and remain."
The report explained, "If Swalwell's true domicile is in Washington, DC, the city where he has declared his principal residence, he may no longer meet the basic requirement of being a California 'inhabitant.' Public records searches have not revealed any home ownership or lease under Eric Swalwell's name in California."
The report noted, "Failure to maintain a legitimate residence in California could expose Swalwell to legal, ethical, and electoral repercussions. A false declaration of residency risks tax violations, misrepresentation to lenders, and challenges to his eligibility for re-election."
The report noted that Swalwell's listed indebtedness has remained unchanged mostly since 2011, and he holds more than $50,000 in student loan debt, more than $15,000 in credit card debt to American Express and Chase Bank, and more than $1 million for a home loan.
The column charges, "It is time for Eric Swalwell to come clean. As he declared his Washington, DC house as his principal residence, while not disclosing any verifiable domicile in California, he is deceiving both his lenders and his voters. The law is clear: a member of Congress must remain an inhabitant of the state they represent. By abandoning any genuine California address, Swalwell risks disqualification and betrays the very district that elected him."
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In a land that has been turned from a desert into lush croplands, a first-of-its-kind project is taking place: Israeli officials are replenishing a depleted water level in the freshwater Sea of Galilee with washed ocean water.
Precipitation in the drainage has been scarce in recent years, only 40% of what was expected last year, and the location provides water to vast regions around it.
So, according to a report in the Times of Israel, the lake with the "dangerously low" level was being raised as desalinated water is being pumped into it by the nation's Water Authority.
It is the first ever attempt in the world for such a project, the report said.
"The groundbreaking project, years in the making and a sign of both Israel's success in converting previously unusable water into a vital resource and the rapidly dropping water levels in the country's largest freshwater reservoir, was quietly inaugurated on October 23," the report said.
The water is flowing down the seasonal Tsalmon Stream to the Sea of Galilee at the Ein Ravid spring, near what is Israel's emergency drinking source.
The project is expected to raise the water level by a fraction of an inch each month, according to Firas Talhami, in which of water rehabilitation work in northern Israel.
The report noted Israel pulls hundreds of millions of cubic meters annually from the lake to supply local communities and augment its supply of desalinated water, however, that withdrawal is expected to be limited for a time now.
Currently, one pipe is sending about 264,000 gallons of water into the lake per hour.
The report said, "Tests carried out by scientists have indicated that the project will not have any significant deleterious effect on ecosystems, though there have also been some concerns that the desalinated water could harm local ecology by diluting the lake's relatively high salinity."
The work on the project was begun after drought years in 2013 to 2018, when the lake's level dropped significantly.
The report said Israel now desalinates enough water to supply most of its own population, with leftovers for nearby nations.
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Students at a Rhode Island high school have responded to one of their teacher's vitriol against slain civil-rights leader Charlie Kirk by starting a chapter of Turning Point USA in his honor.
Fox News reports on the controversy at Barrington High School and spoke to Brayden Ryan, vice president of the new Turning Point USA chapter.
"What inspired me personally to start this Turning Point chapter was the teacher at our school said after Charlie Kirk's death. He made a TikTok about how he has no remorse over him and how he was a hateful person," Ryan said Tuesday.
Kirk was assassinated Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University. Shortly afterward, social studies teacher Benjamin Fillo posted a video saying that Kirk "hated the LGBTQ community" and "hated women's rights." Fillo said that Kirk "thought he proved how tough he was with his words. … What a piece of garbage. Look what happens. … Bye, Charlie!"
Fillo currently is on administrative leave over the incident. Here is his video:
Ryan told Fox News: "I feel like we should give space to other students, a free and safe space to other students, other conservative students, to speak their own personal values, such as their religious beliefs and their political beliefs."
Caleb Kaplan, president of the Turning Point USA chapter, says part of the opposition the new club has received includes a petition drive to reinstate Fillo.
"I'm not going to name any names out of respect, but they have been campaigning or making petitions to get the teacher that we spoke about back in a position," Kaplan said.
"We don't reward hate with hate," added the high-school freshman. "All we do is we push harder and we try to recruit more people to join."