President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) should go to jail because he falsified loan documents, which is a crime.
Trump is understandably angry at Schiff for leading impeachment proceedings against him and for saying that his son would go to jail for defying a supboena in the Russia collusion investigation, which turned out to be a hoax.
“Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff is in BIG TROUBLE! He falsified Loan Documents. He once said my son would go to prison on a SCAM that Schiff, along with other Crooked Dems, illegally ‘manufactured’ in order to stage an actual coup,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“My son did nothing wrong, knew nothing about the fictional story. It was an American Tragedy! Now Shifty should pay the price of prison for a real crime, not one made up by the corrupt accusers!” Trump added.
Trump first brought the DOJ investigation into Schiff's mortgage up on July 15 in another post on Truth Social.
"I have always suspected Shifty Adam Schiff was a scam artist," he wrote. "And now I learn that Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff has engaged in a sustained pattern of possible Mortgage Fraud. Adam Schiff said that his primary residence was in MARYLAND to get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America, when he must LIVE in CALIFORNIA because he was a Congressman from CALIFORNIA. I always knew Adam Schiff was a Crook. The FRAUD began with the refinance of his Maryland property on February 6, 2009, and continued through multiple transactions until the Maryland property was correctly designated as a second home on October 13, 2020. Mortgage Fraud is very serious, and CROOKED Adam Schiff (now a Senator) needs to be brought to justice."
Schiff responded to the initial post by defending himself and saying that the accusations weren't true.
He said they were a "baseless attempt at political retribution."
He also accused Trump of trying to use the accusations against him to avoid the pushback over not releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Schiff hasn't commented on Trump's latest post.
Schiff's offense seems like a relatively minor one and not worthy of sending anyone to jail, let alone a Senator.
If anything ever comes of the investigation, he will probably just have to pay a fine.
Can't really blame Trump for harping on it, though, because the charges he faced were just as specious.
He probably figures what's good for the goose should be good for the gander, and he's right--but does he really want to stoop to Schiff's level? That's the question.
Two bills regulating cryptocurrency passed the House on Thursday, gaining bipartisan support after a GOP revolt over aspects of the bill earlier in the week.
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act passed with a 294-134 vote when 78 House Democrats joined all Republicans to support it.
The more conservative Republicans, including many in the Freedom Caucus, wanted to prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
President Donald Trump met with the dissenters on Tuesday and struck a deal that added this provision, but it turned so many others against the bill that it led to an extended debate on the House floor.
Ultimately, the provision was adopted after the longest House vote on record.
The main issue the bill wanted to deal with was when cryptocurrency assets would be considered securities and when they would be considered commodities.
Once these lines are drawn, cryptocurrency can be overseen by either the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
This isn't even the first cryptocurrency bill passed by the House. The earlier Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act was passed last May with similar bipartisan support, but was never taken up by the Senate.
With Trump pushing for the Clarity Act, as it has been nicknamed, there is probably a higher probability of it being taken up by the Senate this time around.
The other bill passed by the House was the GENIUS Act, which stands for Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins.
This bill would regulate payment stablecoins as part of the U.S. economy, and is intended to prevent Big Tech from dominating the stablecoin market.
It has already passed the Senate and was signed into law by Trump on Friday.
Part of the attraction of cryptocurrency was the lack of regulation around it, because it was such a brand new concept at the time.
But that lack of regulation is coming to an end, which may have an impact on the popularity of crypto and its attraction for businesses and investors in the future. Republicans and Trump want to see the regulation unfold in the right way, rather than overregulation by the government the way the left would do.
President Donald Trump has directed the DOJ to unseal the grand jury testimonies against late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein concerning allegations of sex trafficking.
At Trump's direction, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch filed a motion in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, “to release grand jury transcripts associated with” the indictment referring to Epstein.
Blanch also filed a separate motion to unseal grand jury transcripts relating to an indictment regarding Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving time in prison for her role as Epstein's right-hand woman.
This decision from Trump is an attempt to clear the air after Attorney General Pam Bondi shocked Americans by announcing that there was no evidence Epstein had a client list and that there was “no credible evidence” that Epstein had blackmailed prominent people.
These claims shocked Americans, as it had been suspected that Epstein had an extensive client list used to blackmail the rich and powerful individuals that he served.
While Trump has stood behind Bondi despite the intense criticism, often from his own supporters, Trump is still committed to transparency and is working to publicize as much information about Epstein as possible.
The pressure has been on Trump since Bondi's announcement, as not only are his supporters angry, but members of the Trump administration are also angry.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was reportedly furious with Bondi and threatening to resign over her handling of the Epstein case. FBI Director Kash Patel was also reportedly considering resigning in protest over Bondi's announcement.
However, it appears that internal talks have soothed over tensions as neither Bongino or Patel are walking, and Bondi has also survived pressure for her resignation from Trump supporters.
But Trump is determined to placate his supporters, and that is why we are seeing a push from the Justice Department to unseal every scrap of information possible related to Epstein and Maxwell.
Whether that will be enough after years of hope that Epstein's powerful clients would be outed remains to be seen. At this point, there seems to be no hope that the powerful people whom Epstein trafficked children to will ever face justice.
While Trump works to unseal the Epstein court files, he is also preparing a massive defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for a hit piece falsely suggesting that Trump was close friends with Epstein after revelations of him being a trafficker surfaced.
The Wall Street Journal's article essentially used Trump's prior relationship with Epstein, before the pair had a falling out, to imply that Trump was buddies with a sex trafficker at the height of the frustration with Bondi's Epstein client list announcement.
Trump has already scored major legal wins since beginning his 2nd term in the White House, and it is likely that the Wall Street Journal will end up settling to avoid a brutal and costly legal battle for their foolish decision to post a defamatory article.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz confirmed that there is no incriminating information against President Donald Trump in the case files related to the late billionaire child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dershowitz, a onetime attorney of the late sex trafficker, told Friday's "Newsline" that the Epstein case files are very light on bombshell information and will be a massive disappointment for Americans who have waited years to get information on Epstein's sex trafficking operation.
Dershowitz stated, "There's nothing incriminating about Donald Trump, nothing incriminating about Bill Clinton, nothing incriminating about me, nothing incriminating about other people. But there are accusations, and there are some women who collected a lot of money based on these accusations, but a lot of the money was collected even after Epstein died."
This interview from Dershowitz came after the Wall Street Journal's story claiming that Trump and Dershowitz sent Epstein 50th birthday letters years before he was exposed as a sex trafficker.
Trump has already filed a lawsuit for defamation, as the story appears to be completely fabricated or at least based entirely on speculation instead of any real evidence. The WSJ has reportedly refused to release the alleged letters to either Dershowitz or Trump.
Ever since Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the infamous Epstein 'client list' didn't exist, despite claiming she had it on her desk previously, the nation has been in an uproar and Americans want full transparency.
When Epstein died in prison in 2019 under suspicious circumstances, Americans quickly seized on the situation, with it becoming commonly accepted that Epstein had been murdered and did not commit suicide as the official narrative claimed.
Presumably, Epstein was killed to protect the rich and powerful people that he had compromising evidence on that he could have presented had he gone to trial for his sex trafficking charges.
Trump promised during his campaign to release all the information on Epstein and his criminal enterprises, and yet, Bondi's announcement came as a shock to Trump supporters. Now, the drama with Epstein refuses to die down, and it's a nightmare for the Trump administration.
However, claims that Trump is covering up the Epstein files because of his own involvement have quickly collapsed. Dershowitz's claims that Trump is not criminally involved are backed up by Trump's falling out with Epstein over twenty years ago.
It's becoming increasingly likely that the supposed client list didn't exist, at least in the form that many wanted, or that information on Epstein has been destroyed since his death over six years ago.
Trump himself has ordered the release of information on the Epstein files after uproar over Bondi's announcement. Alongside that, Trump is bringing hell down on the Wall Street Journal for their sensational story that sought to defame Trump using the uproar and attention on the Epstein story.
Dershowitz will likely be heavily involved with Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, as he is experienced in winning defamation cases.
Both Dershowitz and Trump had relationships with Epstein prior to his being outed as a child trafficker, but that won't be enough to save the Wall Street Journal from justice, seeing as they clearly didn't learn from Paramount.
While ringing the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange and launch the IPO of his latest business venture, "GrabAGun," Donald Trump Jr. said he thinks there would be an exodus out of New York City if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor later this year.
Mamdani has said he would raise taxes on the rich and has espoused ideas like defunding police and living in communes rather than owning property.
"If what possibly could happen in November happens, I mean, it's scary and, you know, perhaps that's what New York needs," Trump Jr. told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
"Maybe it has to fail to be able to come back, to be able to, you know, put the nail in the coffin of these ideas that have failed so many times around the world."
Trump Jr. predicted that more people would move from New York to Florida, continuing an exodus that has been going on since the pandemic in 2020.
"In New York, I think the stat I remembered, it was from like 10 years ago, but it was something like 18,000 people pay 80% of New York City’s city tax," Trump Jr. said. "Well, those people are all very mobile. They can go wherever they want. This new mayor could possibly be the greatest marketing campaign for Florida ever to exist."
Most Republicans and many Democrats are alarmed at the possibility of Mamdani being mayor, but it seems almost like Trump Jr. is wishing for it.
He seems to think that New York needs to fall in order to be rebuilt and to swing back pendulum-like to more conservative policies that actually work.
Trump continued, "But what happens to New York then? And as a lifelong New Yorker, as someone who grew up here, someone who changed the skyline here with my father for many years before he got into politics, that's a scary notion, but perhaps it's exactly what America needs. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom, and I think if this communist mayor gets elected, rock bottom is what New York's going to see."
Trump Jr.'s partner in GrabAGun, Omeed Malik, compared Mamdani to progressive former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was generally regarded as a failure.
"If you didn't see it on the writing on the wall with de Blasio I don't know what to tell you," Malik said. "I definitely don't want those people in Florida because if you haven't already moved out of here you've got the wrong politics."
President Donald Trump said earlier this month that if Mamdani gets elected, New York will "never be the same."
Current Mayor Eric Adams and former Mayor Andrew Cuomo are both running as independents, but they will likely split the vote if they both stay in the race and give the edge to Mamdani.
If all of Mamdani's detractors unite around one candidate, however, he will be easily defeated.
The questions about Jeffrey Epstein are only growing, and now it appears that an insider has a story about what really happened to the financier-turned punch line.
Epstein was known to be connected to the richest and most famous people in the world, but he was eventually also known for human trafficking, and that eventually caught up with him, as Fox News reported.
Epstein, who allegedly had dirt on everyone from A-list actors to the English monarchy, found himself behind bars just a few years ago and never lived to stand trial.
News broke well before his trial that Epstein had allegedly killed himself, but according to the financier’s former lawyer, he likely had help in doing that particular deed.
"It is clear from the evidence that Epstein committed suicide," attorney Alan Dershowitz wrote in an opinion article for the Wall Street Journal.
"What isn’t clear is whether he was assisted by jail personnel. That seems likely to me, based on the evidence of allegedly broken cameras, transfer of his cellmate, and the absence of guards during relevant time periods."
That death, which took place while Epstein was in federal custody, prompted plenty of questions about what might have been about to come out in court.
While lots of Americans believed that it was possible that people in the government who didn’t want Epstein’s dirty life details out, recent changes have shed new light on the issue.
Epstein’s infamous “list” was supposed to be released, according to a number of conservatives close to President Donald Trump.
However, earlier this week the president and the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, said that, actually, there was no list. FBI Director Kash Patel also backed that up, saying that it was all “conspiracy” and there was nothing to see.
That was confirmed by Dershowitz, who said it’s true, there is no client list, and Epstein didn’t keep those kinds of records.
However, he did say that some of Epstein’s accusers who were interviewed by the FBI alleged they knew of “clients" whose names were redacted from official documents.
"I know who they are," Dershowitz wrote. "They don’t include any current officeholders. We don’t know whether the accusations are true. The courts have also sealed negative information about some of the accusers to protect them.
"The media can and should petition the courts for the release of all names and information, so the public can draw its own conclusions," he added.
Democratic Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell’s trial for the 2024 burglary of her stepmother’s home began this week, and the details are a frightening combination of delusion and entitlement.
Mitchell was arrested by the Detroit Lakes police in April of 2024 after Carol Mitchell called for help upon discovering someone in her home.
Included in the case proceedings was body cam footage from officers who confronted Nicole Mitchell, who stood in her stepmother’s living room dressed in black.
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The Democrat state senator’s stepmother, Carol Mitchell, 75, took the witness stand, saying she felt “extremely violated” when she discovered her stepdaughter in her basement.
The defense brought up the assertion that she was just there to check on her aging relative, saying that what she did shortly after being found tells the story.
“A burglar runs,” said Bruce Ringstrom Jr., one of Nicole Mitchell’s attorneys, during opening statements. “A concerned child stays.”
The events took such a toll on Carol that she moved away from the home and into a high-security building for senior citizens over the age of 55: “I didn’t dare stay there … And I’ve only now moved back into my home after putting in a security system.”
But the Becker County Attorney Brian McDonald dismissed the claim, saying, “No amount of grief or frustration can justify a home burglary.”
McDonald firmly stated that Nicole Mitchell was “caught red-handed,” and was wearing all black, which included a black stocking cap.
She also allegedly took off her shoes to be more “stealthy,” according to McDonald. He also pointed to the fact that she entered through a basement window to support his case.
But despite all that she still woke up Carol Mitchell, who stepped on Nicole lying beside the bed at 4 a.m., causing the septagenarian to call 911 and report a break-in.
In January of this year, Mitchell’s co-workers at the state capitol moved, without success, to expel her from her position in the state Senate.
The measure was introduced by Sen. Jordan Rasmusson, who argued lawmakers didn’t “need the results of a criminal trial” to determine Mitchell was no longer fit to serve her constituents.
“We shouldn’t be complicit in delaying justice for the victim of a crime by allowing Sen. Mitchell to use her membership in this body to shield herself from criminal consequences,” said Rasmusson.
Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the ethics official who advises her and other top Justice Department officials of their ethical obligations, a source in the DOJ told ABC News on Monday.
Joseph Tirell posted about his dissmissal on LinkedIn on Monday, including a photo of his termination notice, which apparently didn't include a reason for the firing.
"Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics," Tirrell said in the post. "I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department."
His firing appears to be part of the DOJ purge of personnel who participated in former Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into and case against President Donald Trump.
Around 35 DOJ employees have been fired so far, and 15 more are likely on the chopping block.
While no official word about why Tirell was fired has been given, a theory has been espoused by several former officials.
Tirell was director of the DOJ's Ethics Office when Smith disclosed that he had been gifted $140,000 in pro bono legal services while he was special counsel.
Tirell apparently signed off on the gift as following the regulations and requirements of the agency, an ethical lapse that could have led to his firing.
The purge is itself a development that has arisen out of the "Weaponization Working Group" formed by Bondi when she first took office as U.S. Attorney General.
The DOJ leadership under Trump is concerned that its personnel could work against Trump the way various personnel did during his first administration.
It's a valid concern because it happened both while he was in office and after.
The DOJ reportedly has tried to distinguish personnel who were only obeying orders from the higher ups from those who seemed to have ill will toward Trump and acted against him on their own initiative.
Trump vowed while campaigning to get rid of what he called the deep state, which is made up of longtime officials who have more sympathies for Democrat administrations than Republican ones.
At least within the DOJ, Trump's pledge is being taken very seriously.
A former adviser to Democrat candidates including Hillary Clinton and Colorado Governor Jared Polis said he was "almost speechless" after hearing anti-police comments made by New York's Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during a 2020 interview.
Mamdani, who is Black and Muslim, has been strongly criticized by the left and right since winning the Democrat primary.
Among other things, he has refused to disavow the phrase "globalize the intifada," which is a de facto call for violence.
In July 2020, Mamdani appeared on the "Immigrantly" podcast espousing rhetoric to defund the police, and the interview recently went viral on social media.
He referred to the history of the New York Police Department (NYPD), saying, "You can see that we have invested in a system that functions in many ways to punish poor Black and Brown people."
He gave examples of the NYPD overstepping their bounds, such as removing a homeless person from a train or responding to someone "surviving, you know, going through domestic violence."
Former Democrat adviser Dan Turrentine blasted Mamdani on "The Morning Meeting Podcast" when co-hosts Mark Halperin and Sean Spicer brought up the viral podcast.
"I'm almost speechless. Like, that is so enraging," Turrentine said. "It's crazy. I hope it hurts him. Like, when I hear that, and I try to have an open mind, hope that whoever our next mayor is makes this city a great place. I live [here]. We have children here. New York City police officers put themselves in such harm's way. This city is full of crazy people on subways. I, our children go on it. The number of times that there are homeless people who are, like, out of their mind who come up to kids, who scream at them right near - to say the police are the [problem], I hope our party condemns him."
Turrentine said he thinks the city has made progress with crime until recently and can't afford to go backward.
Obviously, Mamdani is a bad candidate for New York City and will cause great harm if he is elected.
However, Mamdani has disavowed those earlier comments, which were made in the wake of the George Floyd death and all the protests that followed.
"I will not defund the police. I will work with the police because I believe the police have a critical role to play in creating public safety," he said during a mayoral debate in June.
Many candidates who called for defunding the police in 2020 disavow it now, so it's not surprising that he has changed his tune.
That doesn't mean anyone should vote for him, but it would be good to focus on the real reasons for not doing so rather than grasping onto something that doesn't represent his current views--or at least his current stated views.
President Donald Trump has thrown his support behind Attorney General Pam Bondi amid calls for her resignation after dropping a bombshell announcement about the Epstein client list case.
MAGA and members of the Trump administration want Bondi to step down after she announced that the infamous Epstein client list didn't exist, after telling Americans months ago that she had the client list on her desk.
Americans have been eager for the release of the client list as it promised to be a monumental moment in American history that would expose the rich and powerful people who were involved in billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's sordid business.
One of the big reasons Trump gained such strong support in last year's presidential election is promises to expose the rich and powerful, including many powerful politicians, for their involvement or knowledge of Epstein's child sex trafficking operations.
Bondi's sudden announcement that the list didn't exist and there is no evidence of who was involved shocked America, and it's painfully obvious that there is a cover-up happening.
Despite the outrage against Bondi's act of cowardice, Trump is standing behind Bondi and has loudly declared his support for her. Trump's decision to support Bondi came as a shock because of how bad this situation looks for him.
In a post to Truth Social, Trump said, "What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening."
Trump's appeal to unity seems to be completely missing the point. Americans do not care about unity, they care about finding out who the rich and powerful were that participated in the massive child trafficking operation Epstein ran for years.
Trump's post continued, "We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein." He capped off the post saying, "LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT!"
Nowhere does Trump acknowledge the fact that releasing the Epstein client list was a major promise of his campaign as part of his mission to drain the swamp and bring the corrupt elite to justice.
Bondi's cowardly behavior has been met with outrage among some of Trump's closest allies who have worked for years to expose the swamp and Epstein's associates to justice.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel are at the forefront of this rebellion in the Trump administration, and there have been rumors that both are considering resigning unless Bondi either comes clear or resigns from her position.
Bongino has been especially zealous, reportedly telling White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan that he "won’t stay at FBI if she [Bondi] stays at DOJ.”
This situation has been catastrophic for Trump, and it is paramount that he make the right decision in cleaning up this mess before it fractures MAGA and his own administration.