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President-elect Donald Trump on Monday continued his rapid-fire selections of names he would like to see serve in his administration, with U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., being offered the post of national security adviser.

The congressman from the Sunshine State is the first retired Green Beret to serve in Congress and is no stranger to defense matters, advising former Defense Secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates.

Waltz has been a critic of U.S. aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia. In November, he told NPR the U.S. had "leverage" to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table to discus a "diplomatic resolution" to stop the conflict.

Fox News noted: "Elevating a House lawmaker to the administration could complicate Republicans' ability to govern the chamber."

"Waltz is in a safe red seat on the eastern Florida coast, so it's highly unlikely to fall into Democratic hands. But replacing a House member is a process that could take several weeks."

Elise Stefanik: U.N. ambassador

Trump also selected his longtime ally U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to serve as ambassador to the United Nations.

"I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations," Trump said in a statement Monday.

"Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter."

Tom Homan: Border czar

Also selected by Trump is former acting ICE Director Tom Homan, who told Fox News he is "honored" to be tapped as the "border czar."

"I've been on this network for years complaining about what this administration did to this border. I've been yelling and screaming about it and what they need to do to fix it. So when the president asked me, 'Would you come back and fix it?' Of course. I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't. I'm honored the president asked me to come back and help solve this national security crisis, so I'm looking forward to it," he told "Fox & Friends" Monday in his first interview since being chosen for the role.

"I think the calling is clear," he continued, "I've got to go back and help because every morning … I'm pissed off with what this [Biden] administration did to the most secure border in my lifetime, so I'm going to go back and do what I can to fix it."

Lee Zeldin: EPA

Also Monday, Trump named former New York congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, saying he will "ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses."

"Zeldin also will maintain "the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet," Trump added.

On Fox News Monday, Zeldin said he'll look to ensure America is able to "pursue energy dominance … bring back American jobs to the auto industry and so much more."

Zeldin added he's excited to help manifest Trump's economic agenda: "I think the American people are so hungry for it. It's one of the big reasons why they're sending him back to the White House."

Stephen Miller: Deputy chief of policy

Trump also chose longtime adviser Stephen Miller as his deputy chief of policy, a selection that does not need Senate confirmation since it's not a Cabinet position.

Miller is among the longest-serving aides to Trump, dating back to his 2016 White House campaign.

Miller drew large cheers at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally, telling the crowd, "your salvation is at hand," after what he cast as "decades of abuse that has been heaped upon the good people of this nation – their jobs looted and stolen from them and shipped to Mexico, Asia and foreign countries. The lives of their loved ones ripped away from them by illegal aliens, criminal gangs and thugs who don't belong in this country."

Susie Wiles: Chief of staff

Miller will be working with Susie Wiles, Trump's senior campaign adviser he chose to be his chief of staff last week.

"Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history, and was an integral part of both my 2016 and 2020 successful campaigns," Trump said.

"Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected. Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again."

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JERUSALEM – Israel/Middle East Morning Brief

Iraq moves to lower 'age of consent' for girls to 9 years old

Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to nine, allowing men to marry young children. The proposed legal change – proposed by ultra-conservative Shia Muslim parties – also deprives women of rights to divorce, child custody and inheritance.

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JERUSALEM – Israelis watched the U.S. presidential election results with almost as much interest as the country for which President Donald Trump is the presumptive next leader. After one of Israel's worst years ever – which started on Oct. 7, 2023, and has continued at various levels of intensity since, the re-election of America's 45th president has provided the country with a much needed injection of hope.

As ennui set in with regard to Joe Biden's flailing presidency – both in the United States and Israel – citizens of the Jewish state looked to Nov. 5 as a potential springboard to radically alter the momentum in the Middle East. And the early signs that President Trump's return to the White House could be a catalyst for change are already promising. So, what can Israel and Israelis expect from a second Trump term?

In general, Trump has stated he would bring an end to each of the main wars, which erupted under the watch of his successor and predecessor Biden, including the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, and Israel and Hezbollah. Some fear in his haste to conclude an agreement he might "sell out the Ukrainians," in the Ukraine-Russia war, and amid concern he might be susceptible to a Putin charm offensive, enabling Russia to keep all or at least most of its territorial gains. An overlapping group of commentators and analysts think if a deal between Israel and Hamas and/ or Hezbollah is in the offing, the Jewish state might not end up in as advantageous a position as it thought.

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In the final hours of the 2024 election cycle, MSNBC is still engaged in its trademark promotion of far-left narratives that are the diametric opposite of reality.

Ja'han Jones, a regular at the cable network, penned a story headlined "Trump's incoherent campaign message on guns."

"Trump is ending his campaign," the story starts, "having never resolved his incoherent stance on access to guns. In a new ad, Trump falsely claims Vice President Kamala Harris wants to confiscate guns. Harris has said no such thing; she's even discussed the fact she is a legal gun owner, which Trump – given his felony convictions – is not."

In reality, far from Harris saying "no such thing," as WND reported Monday a now-viral video reveals Harris confirming that she would indeed be willing and indeed eager to override the Second Amendment if she wins the election.

Posted on X personally by the social media platform's owner, Elon Musk, Harris is heard telling reporters that if Congress fails to do something about gun control within the first 100 days of her administration, then she will "take executive action."

"I think it's a great idea," says Harris, "but I mean listen, I don't think we lack for great ideas, as I've said many times, we've been having great ideas for decades, the problem is Congress has not had the courage to act. That is why from the beginning I have said, my agenda includes attempting to get Congress to act, but if they don't in the first 100 days of my administration, I'm gonna take executive action. What we need is action."

Comments Musk, "She wants to break the Constitution."

Meanwhile, Jones, who has previously warned on MSNBC that "It's becoming increasingly clear that the United States is under siege by Christian fundamentalists and traditionalists," continues in this latest report: "The irony here is that there is a candidate in this race who's promoted gun confiscation – and it's Trump. As I wrote in August, Trump openly promoted the idea of taking people's guns during a Fox News appearance in which he suggested bringing back stop-and-frisk policing policies that have disproportionately violated the civil rights of people of color in urban communities."

In fact, however, "stop and frisk" is a time-honored police practice that has saved countless lives in high-crime areas, and been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in an 8-1 decision.

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With results from the 2024 presidential election now imminent, Democrats have been vocal in their plans to subvert the will of the American people and prevent former President Donald Trump from retaking the White House if he pulls out a win over his Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris.

In a February opinion piece by Russel Berman, published by the Atlantic, it details how the Democrats could could try to disqualify Trump if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't declare Trump ineligible to run for president.

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution bars anyone who has "engaged in insurrection" against the U.S. Those found guilty of such an act are unable to run for civil, military, or elected office without first gaining the approval of at least two-thirds of the House and Senate.

Berman states that during the end of the Supreme Court arguments concerning Trump's exclusion from the Colorado ballot as an insurrectionist, attorney Jason Murray – who represented Colorado voters – told the justices they would have another J6 situation on their hands if they refused to disqualify Trump. Murray told Berman the decision would "come back with a vengeance," when Congress meets to count and certify the Electoral College votes.

According to Murray, a Trump win would cause a "constitutional crisis in Congress," where Democrats would have to choose whether they confirm someone they "believe is ineligible," or defy the will of the people.

"Democrats have a serious chance of winning a majority in Congress in November, even if Trump recaptures the presidency on the same day. If that happens, they could have the votes to prevent him from taking office," Berman wrote.

However, despite House Democrats and a handful of Republicans attempting to impeach Trump in 2021 for "inciting insurrection," Trump has never been convicted of insurrection in a court of law, nor has he ever been indicted on an insurrection charge.

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said the Supreme Court is refusing to do its job by pretending Section 3 of the 14th Amendment "doesn't exist," and the justices' refusal to interpret the meaning of the amendment will lead to civil war.

"A great example going on right now before our very eyes is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment that they're just disappearing with a magic wand as if it doesn't exist," Raskin said, adding, "So, you know they want to kick it to Congress, so it's going to be up to us on January 6th, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified. Then we need bodyguards for everybody in civil war conditions."

During an interview with Bill Maher, Raskin said the Democrats are not going to "allow" the Republicans to "steal" the election, and despite his comments about not certifying Electoral College votes – Raskin said Democrats would honor the results.

"So when I say 'we will support a free and fair election,' no we're not gonna allow them to steal it in the states, or steal it in the Department of Justice, or steal it with any other election official in the country. If it's a free and fair election, we will do what we've always done, we will honor it," Raskin said.

The congressman then implied conservatives fit "hallmark characteristics" of a "fascist political party," despite his own admission he would use House Democrats to prevent Trump from being inaugurated.

"I'll tell you, the political scientists have told us the hallmark characteristics of a fascist political party, number one, they don't accept the outcome of Democratic elections when they don't go their way. Number 2, they embrace political violence as an instrument of obtaining power," Raskin said.

According to a report from Reuters, Harris' campaign team has said Democrats are preparing to flood social media and media outlets with calls for calm if Trump prematurely declares himself the winner.

"As soon as he [Trump] falsely declares victory, we're ready to get up on TV and provide the truth and tap a broad network of people who can use their influence to push back," a top official with the Democratic National Committee reportedly told Reuters.

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said conservative voters need to join forces and maximize votes for Trump, because the Democrats are willing to fight the election results.

"So, the election is a lot longer than next Tuesday … November 5th, we have to drive and converge all our forces on the 5th to maximize ballots and maximize votes. But man, it doesn't end there," Bannon said.

Bannon noted the Democrats will try to reverse the results, or try to hit Trump hard enough to delegitimize his second term in office.

Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, said Trump needs to win the election by at least three or four percentage-points to make the results definitive.

"The Trump supporters need to continue to show up and vote as early as possible in massive numbers, and we need to win this thing decisively on November 5th by three or four points," Davis said.

Davis further added the Democrats are being led by Marc Elias, who Davis called a "savage" attorney on election integrity.

"They're gonna try and do everything they can to prevent Trump from getting inaugurated on January 20th," Davis said.

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There's a new threat developing to those individuals who are terminally ill, and live in jurisdictions where assisted suicide is legal: Coercion from family members who are looking for an insurance payout after the death.

A report in the Telegraph explains, "It is understood that the insurance industry will similarly treat an assisted death to a death from any other illness, meaning that policies would typically be expected to pay out."

So, pro-life activists and doctors have begun warning that "families might coerce elderly relatives to opt for an assisted death to secure swift life insurance payments."

The Christian Institute explained that Bill Noble, former chief of the Association for Palliative Medicine, expressed concern that "if end-of-life protections were removed, the behavior of unscrupulous relatives could see some patients 'die before their time.'"

Gordon Macdonald, of Care Not Killing, noted the risk of coercion for monetary gain through insurance payouts typified the 'inherent dangers of legalizing assisted suicide."

An official for Zurich Insurance explained, "In practice, we would expect the large proportion of those considering assisted dying would be likely to have arrived at the terminal illness benefit stage and have claimed under that benefit."

And officials with Royal London explained, "If the individual who has passed away following an assisted death would likely have died naturally during the term of their plan, Royal London would likely pay such claims."

Macdonald pointed out that means, "there will be nothing to stop those with greedy motives from seeking a financial windfall by putting pressure on those who are vulnerable to opt for assisted suicide or euthanasia."

According to the Telegraph, there is a particular concern if someone experiences certain circumstances just as a policy is nearing expiration.

The Telegraph pointed out, "Polling by Action on Elder Abuse has previously found that almost 10% of those aged 65 and over in the UK report experiencing some form of elder abuse."

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The pollsters say the 2024 presidential race is too close to call. The difference in numbers doesn't always lean toward one candidate or the other and it's all within that "margin of error."

Gamblers are betting on Trump, and Wall Street likely is leaning the same direction.

Democrats, of course, insist Harris will win, and the great unknown is how the election results will be affected by various schemes that have been uncovered, from people living overseas being allowed to vote in states they've never lived in to courtroom battles over whether noncitizens should be on voter rolls. (Democrats demand that they should be.)

A commentary at Gateway Pundit said, "If Kamala Harris loses the 2024 election to Donald Trump, the meltdown on the left will be epic. Democrats from all corners of the country will be attacking each other over the way her campaign was run, the choice of Kamala as the candidate, the way she was chosen, the messaging, and on and on.

"Apparently, some of them are not even waiting for election day and are already assigning blame. This is just a preview of what is to come if Trump wins."

It was the Hill that confirmed, even before the election results, "fingers in Democratic circles are already being pointed behind the scenes, in the event that she falls to former President Trump."

The Hill revealed some Democrats "have expressed mounting frustration about a string of factors that have plagued the campaign from the outset.

Biden, in fact, has undermined Harris' campaign several times, whether intentional or not. She criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his work following two hurricanes in his state while Biden praised his work. She worked to try to separate herself from the massive failures of the Biden-Harris administration and he promptly confirmed she was at the center of all major decisions.

"People are nervous and they're trying to cover their a– and get a little ahead of Election Day," charged one Democratic strategist in the Hill report. "It's based on anxiety, stakes, and the unique nature of this cycle."

That strategist explained the party had no traditional process for this election. In fact, Biden won enough primary votes to capture the nomination, but then Democrat party elites tossed him under the bus after a poor debate performance and installed Harris in the top slot instead.

The strategist told the Hill that forced people to just "fall in line."

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Amidst the avalanche of charges of election fraud and vote-manipulation that erupted, claims often made by President Trump and his advocates, after the 2020 presidential election, Dominion was one of the voting machine companies often mentioned.

Officials defending their company so vigorously, claiming their results literally were untouchable, that they sued multiple organizations for statements made concerning suspicious developments in various vote totals.

Dominion settled with Fox News for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Actually, while there undoubtedly were malfunctions during the election, it always has remained a question whether any manipulation could have changed even the few thousands of ballots that would have been needed to overturn the results of one of the swing states.

However, the FBI did interfere, by falsely claiming that the Biden family scandals detailed in Hunter Biden's laptop were disinformation, when it was true, and Mark Zuckerberg handed out $400 million plus to mostly leftist election officials who used their cash windfall to recruit voters in Democrat districts.

But now Dominion is back in the news, and it's not a good way. In fact, the leftist secretary of state from Michigan, Jocelyn Benson, has confirmed that the Dominion machines are faulty, and it's "a nationwide issue."

Benson confirmed, "This is a nationwide issue with Dominion voter access terminals in uh in the counties that use them. The voter access terminals, of course not all all the machines just the ones that are accessible, have an issue with the uh straight party voting and a programming issue that's affected the machines nationwide."

She added, "And I think all of us that used Dominion machines were um were unhappy to learn about this uh during the uh the testing period and um as early voting began. So we're working with Dominion to seek accountability uh on that front uh. And also are working with our clerks to ensure voters are aware of this uh programming issue that will require them to ensure they are uh voting every section on the ballot."

A report from Newsweek said the "warning" from Michigan was that it will make casting a ballot harder.

"Voters with disabilities and others in the battleground state can use Dominion Voter Assist Terminals (VATs) to help them mark their ballots," the report said. But, "People using the machines will have to carefully follow instructions to verify their ballot selections or they will receive an error message, the department said in a press release."

It happens if a voter selects the "straight party" option at the beginning, and then casts various voters later.

The Michigan government said, "Although the issue will not stop people from voting or making their preferred selections, and it will not change anyone's votes, it will make the process more inconvenient for some voters using the VATs."

The report explained voters using VAT machines "will have to select either the 'straight party' option if they wish to vote straight ticket or vote for each race on the partisan selection of the ballot if they wish to split their ticket."

Michigan officials said it was not possible to fix the blunder.

Dominion Voting Systems said in a statement the Michigan government "confirmed there is no issue preventing any voters from voting or making their preferred selections and casting their paper ballot."

State officials later claimed that the issue affected only some voting machines in their state.

Elon Musk, on social media, had a basic question: "What's going on @dominionvoting?"

Comments on social media included, "Paper ballots would have no issue," and "What are they doing?"

Also, "It is disastrously easy to manipulate a single line of code and produce different results. Are they trying to provoke a civil war?"

Suspiciously, there already has been evidence of vote fraud in Pennsylvania and Colorado, in additional to the suggestion of that problem in Michigan.

And Colorado officials had voting machine passwords posted online, apparently for weeks, before Republicans called out the security breach. Interestingly, former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters had been sentenced to jail for allegedly misusing one password.

"Use paper ballots and hand count them instead. There. Problem solved" said one person.

Benson's graduate work was focused on white supremacy and neo-Nazism and she once worked with the extremist Southern Poverty Law Center, which routinely labels pro-family and pro-life organizations "hate" organizations, and even applies that label to Christian groups that do not support the ideology of transgenderism.

In Michigan, she pushed for election-day registration and unrestricted absentee ballots.

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North Korea is not preparing to send its most elite and experienced soldiers to Russia in its fight against Ukraine and is instead deploying new military recruits to the Russian front lines.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, available footage and intelligence analysis suggest North Korea is sending soldiers in their teens and early 20s, with experts noting the soldiers appear to be short and not as physically fit as you would expect from troops being sent to war.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed last week that 3,000 North Korean troops were already in Russia, and another 7,000 were still yet to be deployed.

Austin met with South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-kyun Wednesday, and assured him the U.S. is ready and fully committed to the defense of the Republic of Korea, including the use of nuclear weapons.

"I am increasingly concerned that the Kremlin plans to use these North Korean soldiers to support Russia's combat operations in Russia's Kursk region near the border with Ukraine … Turning to a pariah state like North Korea for troops just underscores how much trouble he [Putin] is in," Austin said.

The Pentagon urged Russia to change course, reiterating its awareness of the security implications in both Europe and the Indo-Pacific region caused by the Russia-North Korea alliance. Austin noted the U.S. is an ally of South Korea, and is prepared to use what is necessary to secure stability.

"This includes conventional missile defense, nuclear and advanced non-nuclear forces and means. We have also returned to large-scale exercises with our allies from the Republic of Korea. This enhances our joint readiness and operational interoperability," Austin said.

During an interview with Radio Free Asia, Tae Yong Ho, Secretary General of South Korea's Unification Advisory Council and former North Korean Deputy Ambassador to the U.K. detailed why Pyongyang is backing Russia.

"When I first saw that video file, I wondered whether they are North Korean soldiers or not because they seemed very shabby," Tae said, noting the North Korean soldiers looked much smaller than their Russian counterparts.

"They look very much malnourished, they look very hungry. But later on many intelligence agencies worldwide confirmed that they are really North Korean soldiers … I was almost shocked because during my days in North Korea, I was educated that North Korean soldiers would not fight for the interest of the other country."

Tae said the next few weeks and months will be a very crucial moment in the future of North Korea, and noted North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un will be calculating how much foreign currency he is able to get from sending soldiers to Russia.

North Korea has ambitions of using Russia's technology to advance its own weapons programs, according to Tae, and Kim wants to become a bigger player on the world stage.

"So North Korea is desperate to get their satellite technologies … Kim Jong Un wants to play a kind of role as a game changer in world politics. It is proof that North Korea can make a kind of new change in Ukraine war by sending its soldiers," Tae noted.

Tae stated the outcomes over the next few months will not only be important for North Korea, but also for world security overall, including the U.S., and further added North Korea and Russia have been ignoring sanctions imposed by the United Nations.

There was speculation on how current North Korean diplomats may be reacting to the soldiers being sent to Russia, with Tae stating they were likely surprised and possibly angry because the soldiers are being sent to the Ukraine war to be sacrificed for Kim's regime.

"They were sent to Ukraine to fight against Ukraine war, and Ukraine people, and now they are forced to kill Ukraine people and Ukraine children. So, actually, Kim Jong Un is making these North Korean soldiers guilty of a humanitarian crime," Tae stressed, further noting diplomats are not able to voice concerns against Kim's decisions.

Being a dictatorship, North Korean citizens and diplomats are expected to follow instructions from their leader without question.

"North Korea is a dictatorship country," Tae said, adding if a person dissents they "could immediately become the subject of persecution or even public shooting. So, unless you defect, like me, you can't say anything against North Korean policies."

According to the South China Morning Post, over 200 North Korean soldiers who defected to South Korea, are looking to wage psychological warfare against their ex-comrades by joining the Ukraine side's fight against Russia. Some are even asking North Korean soldiers already deployed, to not fight for Kim's regime, with Ukraine also offering refuge.

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WASHINGTON – Billionaire Patrick Byrne, founder and former CEO of e-tailing giant Overstock.com, has been relentless – risking his life to expose the "shadow government's" ongoing "soft-coup" against America and the Deep State's elaborate and ongoing scheme to frame, incarcerate and eliminate GOP presidential nominee former President Donald Trump.

In his explosive memoir published earlier this year, titled "Danger Close: Domestic Extremist #1 Comes Clean," Byrne reveals how he, the son of former GEICO chairman John J. Byrne, went from being one of the wealthiest men on the planet as Overstock's CEO to being deemed by the Department of Homeland Security to be "Domestic Extremist #1."

The whistleblower played an integral role in the "Russian collusion hoax," a seditious scheme devised by a politically weaponized FBI to frame a sitting president, Donald Trump. The fictitious "Russia, Russia, Russia" scandal would go on to plague the Trump presidency with the wrongful indictment and incarceration of numerous members of his administration.

The federal government has given Byrne numerous ultimatums, warning him that speaking out about the seditious operation he was tasked to execute by the FBI would become a death sentence.

On top of that, Byrne is reportedly in hiding as he faces off in a legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems and a defamation suit filed by Hunter Biden. Byrne insists he has irrefutable proof of widespread voter fraud implemented to rig the 2020 election, some of which he presented in the Oval Office to Trump. His allegations prompted Dominion to slap him with a $1.7 billion lawsuit.

In September, the Venezuelan government put a $25 million bounty on Byrne, who subsequently "fled to Dubai," reports Newsweek.

'The Russia probe – I set it up'

Last summer, Byrne called this reporter, who had previously interviewed him, with an astounding admission. The wind blared through the phone's speaker as if he were traveling at high speed in a car, or about to take flight in a helicopter.

"I worked with the Democrats on the Russia probe – I set it up," he said, before abruptly hanging up the phone. Hours later, Byrne, the mysterious billionaire and mentee of Warren Buffett, sent this reporter a link to an exposé published by Capitol Times Magazine's "Deep Capture" report. His hidden role with the government over the past decade must be widely reported to the masses to stop the steal and save America, he said.

"General Flynn says that the following story is the hypersonic missile," Byrne wrote in a September 2023 text message to this reporter, accompanying a link to the 99-page report. "[Flynn] says the single most important thing for the country is getting this story digested… This is all true."

Byrne summarizes his years-long involvements with the FBI, top law enforcement officials and Senate Judiciary dating back to 2005 in an extensive Q&A featured in the magazine, providing the most comprehensive insight in print of the James Bond-esque clandestine web in which he has been entangled.

Since the release of the Capitol Times Magazine report, the former Overstock CEO, once hailed as the "Messiah of Bitcoin," has spoon-fed the public parts of his story, incrementally, through a series of interviews with various journalists as he reveals what he knows about the FBI's attempt to seize control of the U.S. electoral system.

Excerpts of a video compilation of Byrne's interviews, in which he discusses the ins and outs of "Operation Snow Globe" – a one-time Deep State plan to control Hillary Clinton had she become U.S. president – is an expedient medium through which the public can "digest" Byrne's perilous crusade with the FBI, spanning more than a decade.

The hour-long video is now viral, but only on SpaceX founder Elon Musk's X platform, since Big Tech continues to employ outright censorship on speech damaging to the permanent government.

'Operation Snow Globe'

Like many Americans, Byrne grew up revering the FBI as the nation's premiere law enforcement agency, traditionally one of the federal government's most highly regarded institutions – at least, before it became increasingly clear that the Bureau had been "captured" at its highest levels by so-called leaders with a subversive and unconstitutional intent.

In 2005, Byrne began his first encounter with the FBI when he blew the whistle on Wall Street and the "mass crack in the financial system."

"Hedge funds were looting hundreds of billions and probably trillions out of the system," he told Capitol Times Magazine's "Deep Capture" feature.

After his highly effective exposure of fraud on Wall Street, which had led to the 2008 banking crisis, the feds pursued Byrne to undertake another mission, and then another.

Willing to serve, the next assignment federal agents would present to Byrne was risky, but a relatively simple task that would turn his life upside down and, ironically, incite the Department of Homeland Security to designate him "domestic extremist #1."

In December 2015, Byrne was assigned by FBI agents in New York to initiate "Operation Snow Globe." The mission consisted of facilitating a sting of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton via entrapping her in a series of bribes.

Byrne was told he was to bribe Clinton with millions of dollars to keep the scandal-plagued former secretary of state on a "Bunsen burner."

"They don't want any attention brought to me," Byrne states in the video that has been viewed 7.5 million times on X. "I bribed Hillary Clinton $18 million dollars."

"I caused Hillary Clinton to be offered to take a bribe in mid-July of 2016 by the FBI. The FBI had me bribe – had me facilitate a bribe for Hillary Clinton, which I accomplished," he explains.

"They also told me she had already taken one bribe for $20 million – and I got an $18 million bribe in her face and she took it. I've been shown the why – the bank records that show that she took it.

"So, they don't want me – any attention being brought to me. That is probably why they omitted my name when they leaked the story."

Byrne contends that when the FBI tasked him with bribing Clinton in late 2015, federal agents informed him that the Democratic presidential contender had already been compromised by accepting a bribe for millions of dollars from Turkey in a bid to entrap the former U.S. senator.

The Overstock CEO was to carry out the next step and facilitate the bribe with a "bagman" from Azerbaijan.

"I know what's in the Durham report," Byrne insists. "I facilitated a bribe for Hillary Clinton on Jan. 14, 2016, right here in this town on behalf of the FBI.

"They came to me on Dec. 1st, 2015, and they told me that Hillary Clinton had accepted a bribe from Turkey for $21 million. They told me that I would be working for a group in New York [with] FBI agents who had authorization to set Hillary Clinton up in a sting.

"The bagman from that other government was, I was to befriend and I was to get that person 10 minutes alone in a room with Hillary Clinton.

"I did," said Byrne.

"On January 16, Hillary Clinton was in this town and she met in a way that was kept off her schedule and she accepted an $18 million bribe. General Barr knows this – Durham – they know. This is what's behind it all."

'Scrubbed from the highest level'

Days after Clinton accepted the bribe from Byrne and met with the bagman, the FBI gave Byrne an ultimatum, recalls Byrne. There had evidently been a change of plans.

The "highest of levels" terminated the scheme to entrap Clinton with bribes, a ploy that could crush her electoral prospects. Instead, Clinton was to be installed as commander-in-chief, as long as she would abide by certain conditions.

"They came to me three days later and told me I 'had to forget about it' and 'forget that ever happened,'" Byrne admonished. "\I said, 'What are you talking about?'

"They gave me one excuse. They said – 'Hillary is going to win – they decided upstairs and there's nothing – nothing is going to be able to stop that now. She's going to win and she's going to send her people up to the FBI and they will ask who is part of investigating Hillary, and any of us who are part of it are going to be destroyed and that includes you too, Patrick.' And so, this mission has been scrubbed from the highest level.

"I thought about that, and I said, 'Yes, sir.'"

But the FBI was not done with Byrne – not yet. Hillary was scandal-plagued: In addition to the bribes Byrne has blown the whistle on, it was Clinton, not Trump, who had actually "colluded with the Russians," as Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton explained in a video interview with WND.

"Two or three weeks later, I was back with three federal agents [in Salt Lake City, Utah]," Byrne said, noting, "I let them know, 'This was not sitting well with me and I'd like to know why they had changed course.'

"We had almost a year before the election," he continued. "They could have me and another person in front of a grand jury in a week and gotten her indicted."

Bottom line: Clinton was going to be placed in the executive office only if she agreed to act as an arm of the shadow government, Byrne explained.

"They told me word for word, 'Patrick, what's really going on is this: President Obama has his people across the federal bureaucracy at this point, but especially the Department of Justice," said Byrne.

"Hillary Clinton is going to be president for eight years, and nothing's going to change that, but think of there being a 'Bunsen burner' within the Department of Justice,'" Byrne says the federal agents told him, verbatim. "That evidence about the two bribes you were part of gathering is going to be sitting on the Bunsen burner, and the hand on the Bunsen burner is going to be one of Barack Obama's people.

"If Hillary is a good girl and defends Obamacare, that flame stays low. If she's a bad girl and thinks for herself, it's going to get turned up high that way. Barack Obama's going to manage Hillary Clinton for the eight years she's president, then she's going to step down, and Michelle's going to run, and, Patrick, that's the plan.

"I was later to learn that this plan was called 'Operation Snow Globe.' Snow Globe we had, you know, Christmas kids get a little glass ball like a shake. And this was a snow globe they wanted Hillary Clinton, and a snow globe that Clinton, that Obama and Brennan and Comey could shake up anytime they wanted while she's president. My bribe was the lure, it was the bait to lure her to step into that snow globe."

The government continues to attempt to squeeze Byrne into compliance as he blows the whistle on foreign election interference.

In a video interview conducted in July 2022, Byrne revealed to this reporter that that he, Gen. Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell met with Trump in December 2020 for an emergency meeting. In the Oval office, Byrne presented the president with advisories issued by the Department of Justice and DHS, showcasing how U.S. electoral system had been hacked by Iran, which allowed Trump to invoke emergency powers.

In September 2023, five convicted Proud Boys leaders, four of whom were found guilty of seditious conspiracy, were sentenced to 22, 18, 17, 15 and 10 years in prison for their alleged roles in the U.S. Capitol demonstration on Jan. 6, 2021.

Byrne donated over $200,000 to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio's legal fund and continues to assist with legal fees of January 6 defendants. In fact, Byrne has offered to pay the $350,000 of damages the Capitol building sustained. Along with whatever other charges J6 defendants typically face, assessments for the damages to the building left behind after the riot are often added.

In addition, as "Deep Capture" reports, "Byrne has publicly offered to face all non-violent charges from that day: those accused can say they did it because they listened to Byrne, and Byrne will agree to stipulate to this, on the condition he can defend himself in televised proceedings."