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Dominion Voting Systems was a company at the center of election manipulation concerns during the 2020 elections. It defended the accuracy of its machines, its own integrity, and sued multiple defendants for defamation when they criticized.
It obtained a settlement in the range of $700 million from Fox News over the issue, and in the past few weeks frantically has been settling other cases, mostly for hidden terms.
On Thursday, the company was sold.
"As of today, Dominion is gone," said a statement from Liberty Vote, the new owner, which claimed its purchase was "a bold and historic move to transform and improve election integrity in America."
The buyer, known formerly as Knowink, was founded by Scott Leiendecker.
Reports revealed Leiendecker founded his company in 2011 with the creation of the Poll Pad – tech that provides check-in and voter verification procedures.
It has grown to the point it employs more than 150 people with some $55 million in annual revenue.
Leiendecker's team also recently acquired Election Administrators, another election tech company.
The company said it prioritizes paper ballots, but the exact future for Dominion Voting Systems vote-counting machines remained uncertain, likely the subject of a future announcement by Liberty Vote.
Leiendecker previously had been an election director for the city of St. Louis, where he worked to reform a series of outdated procedures to provide the city when a smoother election process.
A legacy wire service report explained, "Conservatives and other Trump supporters blamed the company, one of the nation's top voting machine makers, for the Republican's loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Many alleged, without evidence, that its systems were easily manipulated. Dominion had provided voting machines for the state of Georgia, a critical battleground that Biden won and which flipped control of the U.S. Senate. The web of conspiracy theories following the 2020 election not only caused headaches for Dominion but also undermined public confidence in U.S. elections, led to calls to ban voting machines and triggered death threats against elections officials."
ABC reported Dominion systems were used in 27 states in 2024.
The terms of the sale also were not made public right away, but Dominion's website immediately redirected to Liberty Vote.
A report at UPI revealed Leiendecker said, "Liberty Vote signals a new chapter for American elections — one where trust is built from the ground up. Liberty Vote is committed to delivering election technology that prioritizes paper-based transparency, security, and simplicity so that voters can be assured that every ballot is filled-in accurately and fairly counted."
President Donald Trump also has called for restoration of paper ballots across the country, in addition to requiring voter ID at polling locations, restricted mail-in ballots and more.
"This announcement raises a lot of questions, questions that I'm sure a lot of states with current Dominion contracts are going to want answers to," said David Becker, of the Center for Election Innovation & Research.
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Eight people have been indicted in Texas over a scheme to provide illegal abortions.
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on social media, "I arrested eight individuals, including foreign nationals, connected to a Houston abortionist. This cabal of abortion-loving radicals has been running illegal clinics staffed with unlicensed individuals who endangered the very people they pretended to help."
Paxton continued, "Beyond being illegal, it is evil. These dens of fake doctors will not be allowed to operate in Texas. Those responsible will be held accountable. I will always protect innocent life and use every tool to enforce Texas's pro-life laws."
The announcement came after Maria Margarita Rojas was arrested in March on charges of illegally operating a network of clinics in Northwest Houston.
"Rojas was accused of falsely portraying herself and employees as licensed medical professionals. She was also accused of performing abortions that violated restrictions set in place by the Texas Human Life Protection Act," the Washington Examiner explained.
The defendants allegedly worked with Rojas in Waller, Cypress, Spring, and Katy.
Those charged included Yaimara Hernandez Alvarez, Alina Valeron Leon, Dalia Coromoto Yanez, Yhonder Lebrun Acosta, Liunet Grandales Estrada, Gerardo Otero Aguero, Sabiel Bosch Gongora, and Jose Manuel Cendan Ley.
The indictments were handed up Sept. 26, according to Waller County court records.
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A radical group promoting abortion has lost its bid in court to overturn a parental consent law in the state of Missouri.
The American Center for Law and Justice reports it was a "decisive" victory for life, parental rights and the rule of law.
The court ruling, from the Circuit Court of Jackson County in Kansas City, dismissed the lawsuit filed by abortion promoters seeking to destroy "the state's commonsense parental consent law."
"This is a major win for Missouri families," the legal team explained.
The ACLJ, which filed a legal brief in the fight to defend the right of parents to be involved in the most serious life decisions in their children's lives, said, "A group of abortion activists backed by 'The Lawyering Project,' an organization devoted to expanding abortion through the courts, attempted to strike down Missouri's long-standing parental consent law."
The statute, which dated back decades, ensures minors cannot undergo abortions without the knowledge and consent of a parent or guardian.
The fight was taken by abortion promoters to extremes, the report said.
"In a shocking legal stunt, they sued a small handpicked list of prosecutors, asking the court to certify them as a 'defendant class' that could speak for the entire state – effectively silencing Missouri's elected attorney general and the millions of citizens whose voices shaped the state's pro-life protections. The ACLJ answered the Missouri AG's request to file in opposition to this attempt to create a class for a class-action suit," the ACLJ reported.
Now, with the dismissal, the result is "a resounding rejection of the abortion industry's underhanded tactics," the report said, and, "Missouri's parental consent law remains in full effect – protecting young girls from being pressured or manipulated into abortions without their parents' knowledge and preserving the state's rightful authority to uphold pro-life values."
It's also a win for Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway who has been defending the state's broader pro-life protections in a separate case.
"The court affirmed that Missouri has both the right and the responsibility to protect minors, defend parental authority, and stand against the abortion industry's reckless disregard for law and life," the ACLJ said.
The court ruling found that that plaintiffs were operating "as an unincorporated association," so they didn't even have the right to sue.
"In the absence of statutory authority, a voluntary or unincorporated association cannot sue or be sued as such. As a general rule, an unincorporated voluntary association is not a legal entity apart from its members and therefore cannot sue or be sued as a separate entity," the ruling said.
"Consequently, absent incorporation or other formal legal registration of Right By You with the Missouri Secretary of State, it remains purely a voluntary association with 'no entity status beyond the status of those persons who comprise the association.'"
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A video obtained by Politico reveals a strained Katie Porter, then a member of Congress during the Joe Biden administration, delivering a rant about the benefits of electric vehicles. Then she suddenly explodes on her own staff member who wandered into the camara's line of sight.
"GET OUT OF MY F*CKING SHOT!" Porter, who also recently melted down in another interview, said.
Editor's note: Be aware of offensive language:
Politico reported Porter is the frontrunner in next year's race for California governor.
The video is of a conversation, being recorded apparently to support Biden's war on America's energy industry and his demands for those costly electric vehicles, and includes comments about how work is going on to make them affordable for low- and middle-income Americans.
Porter is on audio with Jennifer Granholm, who at the time was energy secretary.
"Several minutes in, Porter's staffer interjected to correct something the Democratic representative had said about electric vehicles. Porter then reprimanded her employee, who had also previously appeared periodically in the background during the recording," the report said.
Porter unleashed, "You also were in my shot before that. Stay out of my shot."
When the Department of Energy eventually released the final version, the comments were concealed.
The report explained, "For years, Porter has contended with accusations that she was a difficult boss or abusive to employees during her time in Congress, along with unrelated domestic disputes."
Porter responded to a request for comment with, "It's no secret I hold myself and my staff to a high standard, and that was especially true as a member of Congress. I have sought to be more intentional in showing gratitude to my staff for their important work."
She also complained on the video she had not visited the White House "despite" raising a lot of money for Biden.
The behavior apparently is a pattern with Porter, as WND reported only a day earlier on what was being described as a "bizarre scene" when she had a meltdown during a TV interview.
She apparently was upset that she was being asked questions by a news reporter.
Porter was being interviewed by Julie Watts of CBS affiliate KOVR-TV in Sacramento when she objected to follow-up questions, stressing she did not wish to have an "unhappy experience with you and I don't want this on camera."
"I don't want to keep doing this. I'm gonna call it, thank you," Porter told Wells, indicating she was done with the interview.
"You're not going to do the interview with us?" an incredulous Watts asked.
"Nope, not like this I'm not. Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask," Porter responded.
"Every other candidate has answered our follow-ups," the investigative reporter noted.
"I don't care," Porter replied.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reposted the video, saying: "Crazy lady freaks out when journalists asks her actual 'questions.'"
Republican congressional candidate Ken Calvert said: "Her tirade is a window into the mentality of radical CA Democrat politicians. They can't stand those who disagree with them."
Martha MacCallum of Fox News told anchor Bill Hemmer on Wednesday: "I just love when she goes, 'Not if you have seven follow-ups. Six is my limit.' This is not going to serve her well."
And Hemmer quipped: "I think they were just sitting too close to each other."
John Ziegler, host of "The Death of Journalism" podcast, also reacted to the meltdown, saying: "When Katie Porter is our next governor here in CA, it will make us long for the days of the evil Gavin Newsom. She's a lot like him, only dumber.
"How are Democrats not enraged that she overtly states here that she plans to make sure she runs in the general against a Republican?!"
Kristinn Taylor at the Gateway Pundit opined: "It was a bizarre scene, like in a movie where the nurse is trying to calm the agitated mental patient in the psych ward before she picks up a tray and bashes her in the head."
In 2023, the New York Post reported on other alleged behavior by Porter, as her ex-husband in a 2013 divorce filing accused her of pouring scalding hot mashed potatoes on his head during a dispute.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday honored famed explorer Christopher Columbus, recognizing him as a "the original American hero," after years of leftists and activists trying to destroy his significance in history and his October holiday.
"Outrageously, in recent years, Christopher Columbus has been a prime target of a vicious and merciless campaign to erase our history, slander our heroes, and attack our heritage," Trump wrote. "Before our very eyes, left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments, tarnished his character, and sought to exile him from our public spaces. Under my leadership, those days are finally over — and our Nation will now abide by a simple truth: Christopher Columbus was a true American hero, and every citizen is eternally indebted to his relentless determination."
Leftists have objected to Columbus in terms similar to what they also apply to Christians, Republicans, and conservatives, like "racist," "white supremacist" and more.
Some leftist factions have insisted that America drop "Columbus Day" and replace it with a holiday honoring various other ideologies, most often "Indigenous Peoples Day."
"Today our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus — the original American hero, a giant of Western civilization, and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the earth," Trump wrote. "This Columbus Day, we honor his life with reverence and gratitude, and we pledge to reclaim his extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue from the left-wing arsonists who have sought to destroy his name and dishonor his memory."
He continued, "Born in Genoa, Italy in 1451, Columbus quickly emerged as a titan of the Age of Exploration. On August 3, 1492, following years of intense study, preparation, and petitioning, Christopher Columbus secured funding from the Spanish Crown to set out on a daring expedition that most believed to be impossible. Commissioned by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, Columbus and his crew boarded three small ships — the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria — to set sail on a perilous voyage across the Atlantic. He was guided by a noble mission: to discover a new trade route to Asia, bring glory to Spain, and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to distant lands."
It was on Oct. 12, 1492, that Columbus made landfall not in Asia, but in the modern-day Bahamas.
"Upon his arrival, he planted a majestic cross in a mighty act of devotion, dedicating the land to God and setting in motion America's proud birthright of faith. Though he initially believed he had arrived in Asia, his discovery opened the vast frontier and untold splendors of the New World to Europe. He later ventured onward to Cuba and other islands in the Caribbean — exploring their coasts and engaging with their people," Trump wrote.
"As we celebrate his legacy, we also acknowledge the contributions of the countless Italian-Americans who, like him, have endlessly contributed to our culture and our way of life. To this day, the United States and Italy share a special bond rooted in the timeless values of faith, family, and freedom. My Administration looks forward to strengthening our long and storied friendship in the years to come," Trump wrote.
"This Columbus Day, more than 500 years since Columbus arrived in the New World, we follow his example, we echo his resolve, and we offer our gratitude for his life of valor and grit. Above all, we commit to restoring a Nation that once again dares to tame the unknown, honors our rich cultural inheritance, and offers rightful praise to our Creator above," Trump said.
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Letitia James, the New York attorney general who campaigned on a platform to "get" President Donald Trump, then worked with a leftist judge to decide on a $500 million "fraud" penalty that turned out to be unconstitutional, now has been indicted herself.
The charge comes from a federal grand jury in Virginia and names her on a count of bank fraud.
She already had been under investigation by the Department of Justice over allegations she lied on federal forms to get better interest rates on mortgages.
James won a civil case last year against President Donald Trump and his Trump Organization over her claims of faulty business dealings, but the $500 million penalty created by Arthur Engoron, the New York judge in the case, and James was found to be unconstitutional and thrown out.
Federal Housing Finance Director Bill Pulte had alleged that James may have committed mortgage fraud by making false or misleading statements on property records, "like a loan application that said her property in Virginia is her primary residence, a building record stating her multifamily Brooklyn property incorrectly has five residences instead of four, and a mortgage application that falsely stated James was her father's spouse," Fox News reported.
It was U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, appointed by Trump after her predecessor, who returned the indictment.
WND has reported that the mortgage fraud allegations aren't the only problem for James.
It's minor, but it's still a problem that was cited. It's that the height of a fence at a five-unit apartment structure she owns in Brooklyn.
It's the same address that triggered a federal mortgage fraud investigation into her, as she obtained an interest rate on a mortgage for the property that was based on it having four units, when it actually has five, according to building records.
The Washington Examiner said James could face $500 in fines because the fence at the brownstone is five feet, five inches tall, beyond the 48-inch limit.
The New York Department of Buildings served James with a violation notice recently that deemed her front fence exceeded height limitations.
It was James who, after campaigning to "get" Trump, came up with a claim that his business operations committed fraud. She worked with Engoron on the case, which alleged that there was fraud even though the business entities that supposedly were victimized said their loans were repaid on time and in full, and they would like to do more business with Trump.
Despite the lack of evidence, the judge created a penalty for Trump and his businesses of almost half a billion dollars, a decision that subsequently was tossed by an appeals court ruling that said it violated the U.S. Constitution.
Further, WND reported that constitutional expert Jonathan Turley revealed that James may not be done losing to Trump.
A New York appeals court ruled that the civil penalty issued by Engoron in February 2024 violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against excessive fines. Turley told "Faulkner Focus" guest host Aishah Hasnie that while the ruling was a "tremendous victory" for Trump, more wins could be coming for the president.
"This is obviously a tremendous victory for President Trump, but it's long overdue. During this litigation, many of us described this entire effort as a grotesque use of this New York law. No one lost money in this case. The banks actually wanted more business from President Trump," Turley said. "No one had ever seen an effort like this. It was an effort by Letitia James to have a trophy win against Trump and what this opinion has done is reduce what was a mounted marlin to something of a guppy. It has removed the fine and left in place the injunctive relief that President Trump can now appeal. So, it is possible that even that could go to the wayside."
"The good news is really for the New York court system. This regains some of the credibility that was lost during this process," Turley continued. "Many of us stood there in disbelief that James was allowed to do this. She succeeded in securing or she was fortunate enough to secure a very favorable judge, Judge Engoron, and I want to note, by the way, that both the judge and James tried to effectively price Trump out of even appealing the case. They insisted that he would have to pony up half a billion dollars just to question what they did in the case and it was an outrageous effort to effectively price out an appeal. It didn't work. Now we can see that the appellate court said this should never have happened in terms of the fine."
James sued Trump in September 2022, alleging he overstated the value of real estate holdings to obtain loans after vowing to investigate Trump during her initial campaign for attorney general in 2018, during which she labeled him an "illegitimate president." Turley said the appeals court ruling would also calm businesses in the state.
"There are still legitimate questions here with regard to the injunctive relief," Turley told Hasnie. "The court obviously fractured on these issues. The good news for New Yorkers is that the court of appeals really sent a message to the business community, the legal community, that they are not going to allow raw lawfare."
Late Thursday, James posted a video saying the indictment is "nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system."
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Colorado has a novel concept in its state constitution. TABOR, the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, dates back to when the state was both Republican and Democrat, unlike its current leadership that is all-Democrat.
The provision simply calls for a vote of the people before any taxes are raised.
Now lawmakers frequently have run end-arounds to their own constitution, insisting that the money they demand is a "fee," not a tax. But that defies reality in that they charge "fees" for Colorado residents to use roads and bridges, but refuse to charge that same "fee" to out-of-state drivers using the same roads and bridges.
If it walks and talks like a tax…
Leftists in the Democrat-majority legislature also repeatedly have used a state Supreme Court ruling that appeared to allow "de minimus" or "incidental" tax revenue changes without a vote.
Now the lawmakers were faced with a serious budget shortfall, which was aggravated by their decision to replace millions of dollars abortionists lost because of congressional action and millions that wealthy EV buyers would have lost because of federal changes, with money from state taxpayers' pockets, and turned to their agenda of scooping up all the money they can.
Too much, came the warning, even from the state Supreme Court, which is so far left members tried to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot before being scolded by the U.S. Supreme Court.
A report at Complete Colorado revealed the state court has put officials on notice about those tax hikes.
The warning came in a court ruling that struck down two tax increases in the city of Lakewood.
"In doing so, justices raised issues that cast doubt on 'hocus pocus' incantations relied upon by legislators during the special session," the report explained.
The court, through Justice Richard Gabriel, said, "[A] taxing district (including the state) cannot exempt itself from TABOR's restrictions and requirements simply by declaring that a legislative change has a purpose other than revenue generation."
"This should be a cold shower for lawmakers who think they can alter reality with a legislative declaration. Passing a bill that declares, 'up is down,' doesn't make it so," the report said.
Further, the court found, "it was obvious when each (Lakewood) Ordinance was enacted that it would have the effect of raising revenue," and added, "although revenue generation may not have been the only purpose … revenue generation was not merely incidental."
To bring that back to state lawmakers, in their special session in August, they "passed several bills to raise tax revenue and partially fill the growing chasm between federal tax policy and progressive Democrats' insatiable spending," the report said.
The state's Democrat majority demanded Colorado taxpayers increase their state tax liability by adding back a 20% deduction allowed under federal law for business income received from partnerships, sole proprietorships and certain corporations, the report said.
That bill is expected to increase tax revenue by $97 million in 2025-26, the report said.
Further, lawmakers decided to reduce a tax deduction for insurance companies that keep at least 2% of their employees based in Colorado, resulting in an estimated $90 million increase in tax revenue, the report said.
Their thinking was that nearly $200 million in tax increases was "incidental" and "de minimus."
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A school board member at a California district that just recently defied leftist Gov. Gavin Newsom and state precedents to say that boys would not be allowed in girls athletics has revealed the inspiration for the common-sense move.
Kern High School District trustee Derek Tisinger was interviewed by Fox and said he and his colleagues "had to witness a Christian school forfeit to one of the schools in its district over a trans athlete."
It was difficult, he said.
"People try to say, 'Hey, it only affects a small amount of people,' but there were probably 30 girls that practiced and dreamed their whole life about playing volleyball, and they didn't get to play," Tisinger said. "To sit here and talk about this, it's almost ridiculous."
He said he has sympathy for the boy who was on the girls team, and created the dispute.
"This young man, he has every opportunity to play in any sport, men's sport, he can play golf, tennis, he can do whatever he wants to do, but I don't believe that he has the right to come in and displace a girl on a team and take her playing ability away and possibly taking away a chance for her to get a scholarship down the road," Tisinger said.
Kern, the largest high school district in the state, has joined more than a dozen other districts in the state in defying Newsom's leftist agenda.
The trigger for Tisinger was the decision by Bakersfield Christian to forfeit its freshman-sophomore game to Ridgeview High in the final week of September.
Bakersfield explained, "As a school grounded in the authority of Scripture, we affirm the biblical view that sex is determined by God at conception."
A report at Fox said the resolution was authored by Chino Valley Unified School Baord President Sonja Shaw, and was pushed through his own district by Tisinger.
There now are 16 districts in California defying the state.
"People in our community and our district know that we are concerned about biological boys playing in girls' sports, and we don't want it to happen," Tisinger added.
Tisinger was threatened by parents who advocate for the transgender agenda, but he cited the warnings from the federal government and President Donald Trump that schools who allow boys in girls athletics risk the potential loss of funding.
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In what is being described as a "bizarre scene," a former Democrat congresswoman now running for California governor had a meltdown during a TV interview, apparently upset that she was being asked questions by a news reporter.
Katie Porter was being interviewed by Julie Watts of CBS affiliate KOVR-TV in Sacramento when she objected to follow-up questions, stressing she did not wish to have an "unhappy experience with you and I don't want this on camera."
"I don't want to keep doing this. I'm gonna call it, thank you," Porter told Wells, indicating she was done with the interview.
"You're not going to do the interview with us?" an incredulous Watts asked.
"Nope, not like this I'm not. Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask," Porter responded.
"Every other candidate has answered our follow-ups," the investigative reporter noted.
"I don't care," Porter replied.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reposted the video, saying: "Crazy lady freaks out when journalists asks her actual 'questions.'"
Republican congressional candidate Ken Calvert said: "Her tirade is a window into the mentality of radical CA Democrat politicians. They can't stand those who disagree with them."
Martha MacCallum of Fox News told anchor Bill Hemmer on Wednesday: "I just love when she goes, 'Not if you have seven follow-ups. Six is my limit.' This is not going to serve her well."
And Hemmer quipped: "I think they were just sitting too close to each other."
John Ziegler, host of "The Death of Journalism" podcast, also reacted to the meltdown, saying: "When Katie Porter is our next governor here in CA, it will make us long for the days of the evil Gavin Newsom. She's a lot like him, only dumber.
"How are Democrats not enraged that she overtly states here that she plans to make sure she runs in the general against a Republican?!"
Kristinn Taylor at the Gateway Pundit opined: "It was a bizarre scene, like in a movie where the nurse is trying to calm the agitated mental patient in the psych ward before she picks up a tray and bashes her in the head."
In 2023, the New York Post reported on other alleged behavior by Porter, as her ex-husband in a 2013 divorce filing accused her of pouring scalding hot mashed potatoes on his head during a dispute:
The former husband of Rep. Katie Porter said the California Democrat frequently abused him verbally and threw "toys, books and other objects" at him during their marriage – even pouring scalding-hot mashed potatoes on his head during a fight, according to divorce records.
Matthew Hoffman, who filed for divorce from Porter in 2013, said in a request for a restraining order dated April 30 of that year that he was "routinely" called a "f***ing idiot" and "f***ing incompetent" by his rage-prone spouse, who also shattered a glass coffee pot on their kitchen counter in March 2012 when she felt their house wasn't clean enough.
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Julie Kelly, an investigative reporter with a Substack presence who regularly has shocked the nation with her documentation about the Democrats' lawfare against President Donald Trump, is out with a warning.
For Americans. About what the Democrats really wanted to do to Trump if Kamala Harris had won last year's presidential race.
She lost, in a landslide, with Trump capturing every swing state, the Electoral College by a huge margin, and the popular vote.
But the recent disclosure that anti-Trump special counsel Jack Smith, who was tasked by Democrats with running part of their lawfare against Trump, actually spied on GOP senators at the time, prompted a scary idea.
"The disclosure that Jack Smith spied on a member of Congress and 7 U.S. senators is part of a bigger picture: Had Trump not won the election, Smith was going to bring a superseding indictment against the president for seditious conspiracy (something I said for years) and implicate GOP lawmakers, White House aides, and campaign associates. Imagine what would be happening under that lawless, vicious, unaccountable thug had Kamala Harris won. Only part of the hellscape we avoided with Trump's victory," she explained.
Smith's lawfare campaign against Trump faded into oblivion when Trump was elected to his second term.
And actually, there already are calls for accountability for Smith's decision to pursue the telephone records of GOP Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and as well as GOP Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly.
FBI agents involved have been fired, and Sen. Lindsay Graham promised to sue "the crap" out of anyone in the federal government allegedly involved in monitoring his phone records.
Graham said, "Here's what I believe. If he [Trump] had never announced he was going to run for president, none of this would have happened. They were trying to destroy his comeback. This was all orchestrated by Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Letitia James to destroy this man so he could not win in 2024. I've seen this movie before. I am going to look at what happened to me and my fellow senators. If they did this without good reason and without cause, I'm going to sue the crap out of these people."
"Jack Smith released a document about why he thought Trump was guilty in October, right before the election, violating protocol of the Department of Justice. And October the 24th, about two weeks before the 24 election, Jack Smith released to the public his brief regarding the allegations against Trump. This stinks to high heaven. I'm tired of it. We've got new people in town to clean this mess up. And my goal is not to do this to Democrats, to make sure it's never done to anybody in the future. And those of us that were wronged, if we were wrong[ed], pay a price!"
A commentary at Twitchy noted Sen. Josh Hawley described the actions as being those of "Biden's Stasi."
It said, "Things in the U.S. would be far worse on every level, and now it's laughable to watch Democrats and the media use the Comey indictment as 'proof' that the Justice Department has just now been weaponized. The Left never expected Trump to win the first time, let alone the second, hence the ongoing meltdowns and violent outbursts we've been seeing. But at least those people no longer have an ally in the White House."