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A former Drug Enforcement Administration official who rose to the rank of deputy chief of the Office of Financial Operations under Barack Obama has been raided by the FBI and now is facing charges of conspiring to launder millions of dollars for a Mexican drug cartel.

The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York identified the suspect as Paul Campo, who along with a friend, Robert Sensi, was indicted on charges of "narcoterrorism, terrorism, narcotics distribution, and money laundering."

The announcement was made by Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the district, and Terrance C. Cole, the chief of the DEA.

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President Donald Trump has labeled the far-left governor of Colorado, homosexual Jared Polis, a "SLEAZEBAG" for keeping an "elderly woman" in prison.

Trump's comments targeted the case of Tina Peters, a former Mesa County clerk, "who was unfairly convicted of what the Democrats do, cheating on Elections."

In fact, the leftist court system in Colorado, which is run entirely by Democrats in the executive branch, through the Democrat-majority legislature and into the all-Democrat state supreme Court, which is so far left its members unsuccessfully tried to remove Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot, convicted Peters of nine counts for her acts of trying to preserve records from the 2020 vote.

Trump said, "The SLEAZEBAG Governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, refuses to allow an elderly woman, Tina Peters, who was unfairly convicted of what the Democrats do, cheating on Elections, out of jail! She was convicted for trying to stop Democrats from stealing Colorado Votes in the Election.

"She was preserving Election Records, which she was obligated to do under Federal Law. She has now served more than one year in jail, and has eight years to go. On top of everything else, she is a cancer 'survivor.' This lightweight Governor, who has allowed his State to go to hell (Tren de Aragua, anyone?), should be ashamed of himself. FREE TINA!"

The Washington Examiner explained Trump decided to "scold" Polis over the case involving alleged "unauthorized" access to the county's election system.

Interestingly, the Democrat secretary of state in Colorado, Jena Griswold, allowed hundreds of election systems passwords to be posted on the Internet, and she was given a pass over her behavior.

It was District Juge Matthew Barrett who had claimed, while sentencing Peters to years in prison, she "abused" her position.

"I am convinced you would do it all over again if you could. You're as defiant as any defendant this court has ever seen," Barrett ranted in extra-judicial comments at the time. "You are no hero. You abused your position, and you're a charlatan."

The Examiner documented, "Peters was found guilty on 'three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state.""

Peters has maintained her innocence.

Trump is not allowed to pardon her, as he has done for others, because her charges were state counts.

WND previously reported that the Department of Justice already has asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to research paths for Peters to be moved out of state custody and into a federal facility.

Long has there been the suspicion that the Democrat state's actions against Peters over her concerns about the 2020 election integrity were "oriented more toward inflicting political pain that toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives."

It was the office of Deputy Attorney General, led by Todd Blanche, that dispatched an email to Bureau of Prisons Director William Marshall, calling on the BOP to do the necessary research.

"At the request of the Deputy Attorney General, please have the Bureau of Prisons explore any and all avenues within BOP's authority to seek and request the transfer of Ms. Tina Peters from the Colorado Department of Corrections to a federal BOP facility," the DOJ instructed.

"We ask that BOP send out a request to Colorado as soon as possible and that BOP begin preparations for any possible transfer into federal custody."

In fact, Trump several times has called for the state to "FREE TINA PETERS," describing her as "a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail-In Ballot supporting the governor of the State."

Of course, evidence of vast levels of serious misbehavior remains in the state, and not just in the halls of state government in Denver. Records show the sheriff's office in one foothills county, Gilpin, had to pay out $700,000 some years ago for maintaining in official records references to a black resident as "N—– Roy." And Todd Vriesman, a state judge in that same county, recently had a case overturned because he violated the U.S. Constitution by clearing his courtroom out and sealing the doors, thereby depriving a defendant of a public trial.

Further, Colorado leftists repeatedly have used government power there to attack Christians, trying to deprive them of their constitutionally protected religious and speech rights, in cases that have ended up before the Supreme Court, and which the state has lost.

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Jack Smith, the Democrats' hand-picked special prosecutor to run some of their failed major lawfare cases against President Donald Trump, used subpoenas liberally to access any and all information he wanted.

At least, that was before Trump was elected to his second term and the lawfare cases died.

In fact, Smith is facing criticism, and more, right now for orchestrating subpoenas for the telephone records of multiple Republican members of Congress, a move that leftist judge James Boasberg supported apparently without even knowing the facts, like who was being targeted.

That move may very well have violated the Constitution's protection for congressional speech, under the speech or debate clause, and that's bound to be fully investigated in the coming weeks and months.

But now members of Congress, investigating just exactly what Smith did, have told him to prepare to testify.

A letter from U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chief of the House Committee on the Judiciary, was terse.

"The Committee on the Judiciary is continuing to conduct oversight of the operations of the Office of Special Counsel you led—specifically, your team's prosecutions of President Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants.1 Due to your service as Special Counsel, the Committee believes that you possess information that is vital to its oversight of this matter. Based upon communications with your counsel, we understand that you are available to testify at a deposition on December 17, 2025.

"Accordingly, please find enclosed a testimonial subpoena for a deposition at 10:00 a.m. on December 17, 2025 and a document subpoena for the requested materials to be produced to the Committee by December 12, 2025. Pursuant to Rule X of the House of Representatives, the Committee has jurisdiction to conduct oversight of the Justice Department to inform potential legislative reforms.2 Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter," the letter said.

Smith was given the lawfare assignment by Democrats after their scheming to falsely tie Trump to Russia during his first campaign, and to undermine his presidency with failed impeachment agendas, proved fruitless.

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A report published at Infowars is accusing Anthony Fauci, who was Joe Biden's top adviser regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the China virus that circled the globe and killed millions, of largely being "responsible for green-lighting a myriad of destructive responses to the pandemic, not only covering up the US's gain-of-function research, but also rubber-stamping questionable policies like social distancing, face masks, and the deadly COVID jabs."

And now that President Donald Trump has canceled the executive orders, and pardons like the one delivered by Joe Biden to protect Fauci, because they were signed by a machine, allegedly without specific authorization, there's a campaign to have him arrested and tried.

"One thing that's extremely obvious that very few people realize, and certainly hardly anyone in the medical establishment where I come from realized, is that [Fauci] was involved in a massive cover-up of the origins of COVID, a massive cover-up," Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary recently stated.

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Alina Habba, a MAGA warrior for President Donald Trump, was disqualified Monday from serving as U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.

The decision came from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, as the three-judge panel concurred with the defendants who claimed her appointment was unlawful.

"Habba is not the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey by virtue of her appointment as First Assistant U.S. Attorney because only the first assistant in place at the time the vacancy arises automatically assumes the functions and duties of the office under the FVRA," the court stated.

"Additionally, because Habba was nominated for the vacant U.S. Attorney position, the FVRA's nomination bar prevents her from assuming the role of Acting U.S. Attorney."

"Under the Government's delegation theory, Habba may avoid the gauntlet of presidential appointment and Senate confirmation and serve as the de facto U.S. Attorney indefinitely," the judges wrote. "This view is so broad that it bypasses the constitutional (appointment and Senate confirmation) process entirely."

In August, Middle District of Pennsylvania Chief Judge Matthew W. Brann, a Barack Obama appointee, said Habba was disqualified and noted her actions "may be declared void."

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In the wake of the last week's murder of Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom allegedly by an Afghan national let into America by Joe Biden, a top Republican senator is sounding the alarm on both legal and illegal immigration policies, calling it a "civilizational issue for us here in the West."

U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., a key member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" with guest anchor Jackie DeAngelis on the Fox News Channel.

"The American people have had enough of it," Schmitt said. "It's one of the big reasons they sent President Trump back to the Oval Office. He campaigned on this.

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A Democrat senator from Minnesota has gone to social media with an attempt to slam President Donald Trump by making claims about "surging" electricity prices, but instead actually delivered the facts about the massive economic failure of President Joe Biden.

A report at ZeroHedge called the work by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a "propaganda blunder."

Klobuchar posted online a chart she said shows electricity prices are "surging – up 11% — leaving millions behind on their utility bills."

However, the chart showed only "past-due utility" balances, not electricity prices.

Community notes online immediately delivered a correction to Klobuchar: "Joe Biden was president from January 20 2021 – January 20, 2025. Also, this chart is not representing the cost of electricity. It is showing the average past-due balances of Americans, which soared since 2022 under Joe Biden's presidency."

ZeroHedge explained, "Leftist Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota should be investigating the claims of a sprawling welfare-fraud network tied to the state's Somali community – schemes that reportedly funneled taxpayer dollars overseas, including at least one terrorist group. Instead, her office's social media team attempted, one day before Thanksgiving, to launch a propaganda campaign on affordability on X that backfired spectacularly, culminating in a humiliating Community Note that exposed her sheer cluelessness."

The online scolding just got worse, with a modification of Klobuchar's original post to show what happened under Biden's regime.

And, the report added, "Kyle Bass, founder and chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management, pointed out that the entire post mirrors the same blunder the Democratic Party made with grocery prices propaganda earlier this year on X – what an epic screw up that was."

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An expert has explained, in an online commentary, that President Donald Trump now has an opportunity to fix what Rep. Nancy Pelosi broke in America's trade agenda during his first term.

It is Andrei Iancu, who helped negotiate trade deals during Trump's first term, who explained what Pelosi damaged, and how a fix could be in the works now.

It was during work on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a plan that replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement, that the damage happened, he said.
And he noted a fix is possible soon, as the three nations soon are to meet to discuss how it is working.

He explained there had been a provision protecting drug manufacturers in America from knockoffs created by overseas competitors in the original plan.

But "that provision designed to reduce foreign freeloading was stripped from the agreement at the insistence of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose support was necessary to pass the USMCA's implementing legislation through Congress," he explained.

Trump's administration, he said, now could push for the restoration of the original provisions during the coming discussions, he said.

The benefits for Americans are obvious: "Strengthening regulatory data protection in our neighbors would end the freeloading and help bring lower prices to American patients," he said.

It would be, he said, "a political and economic victory."

"During the first Trump administration, as under secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, I worked on the intellectual property aspects of that pact," Iancu explained.

"The president, U.S. Trade Representative Bob Lighthizer, and the rest of the team secured numerous concessions from our northern and southern neighbors to strengthen intellectual property (IP) protections — which help prevent foreign rivals from stealing technologies and designs from innovative American companies, reduce foreign free-riding on America's investment in innovation and incentivize American firms to boost their research spending and expand into foreign markets."

The biggest issue, however, was "a requirement that Mexico and Canada offer 10 years of 'regulatory data protection' to cutting-edge biologic medicines grown from living cell cultures."

That is what Pelosi cut out of the plan, he said.

It is during that time period that rival companies aren't allowed to use the clinical trial data of a biologic developer to create their own "knockoff" products, he said.

Those protections allow innovators to recoup their development investments, which often are costly, and that "incentivizes them to pour more resources into research and development, creating research and manufacturing jobs in the process," he said.

Trump's goal at the time was straightforward: "Raise protections abroad, so that foreign manufacturers can't free ride on American biotech inventors by prematurely introducing knockoff products," he said.

He said support was needed from Pelosi, then House speaker, for the legislation to move forward, and she refused to allow the protections for American companies.

"Now, though, there's a new Congress. The second Trump administration would be wise to push for the original terms, which Canada and Mexico had already agreed to, during the upcoming USMCA review," he wrote.
"Stronger intellectual property protections would mean more new treatments for patients — at lower prices for Americans — along with more high-paying jobs in the industries of the future, and continued leadership in critical 21st-century industries for the United States."

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A Wisconsin judge who is accused – and soon on criminal trial – for allegedly helping a criminal illegal alien try to escape from federal officers has been handed a series of defeats in a motions hearing.

A federal judge handling the immigration-related case for suspended Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan said Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI chief Kash Patel are not going to be on the defense's list of mandatory witnesses.

Further, he said she could not argue that her behavior, allegedly criminal according to an indictment, had to be allowed because they were part of her judicial duties.

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Indian venture capitalist Asha Jadeja Motwani has publicly claimed credit for President Trump's sudden "change of heart" on H-1B visas, a program the White House itself admits has been "deliberately exploited to replace" American workers. Indeed, Trump's September 2025 Presidential Proclamation states that H-1B has undermined both America's "economic and national security."

Yet within months, Trump reversed course and began welcoming more H-1B workers, declaring that H-1B is "MAGA" and stating that unemployed Americans cannot fill these jobs.

Motwani boasted that she spent "almost one year battling for India in Washington D.C.," enjoying "unusual access" at Mar-a-Lago while pressing U.S. leaders to adopt India-aligned immigration positions. Indian media profiles describe her as a key power broker in Washington behind Trump's H-1B shift.

On Nov. 15 she posted on X that she met Trump at his private club and spoke to him about "my favorite country India" and "how crucial it is for the U.S. to have India strongly aligned with us," adding that he replied he "loves both India and Modi."

Under U.S. law, direct political engagement with a sitting president on behalf of a foreign nation is not a social courtesy. It is foreign political activity. The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires anyone who seeks to influence U.S. officials "at the order, request, or under the direction or control of a foreign principal" to register with the Department of Justice so the American people can see who is trying to move their government.

Motwani did not present herself as an American citizen sharing a personal opinion. She described herself as lobbying for "India," complained that "not a single other high net worth individual (HNI) Indian American is helping India in D.C.," and urged more wealthy Indian-origin donors to join her. That is a self-portrait of someone acting for a foreign principal while enjoying the benefits of U.S. citizenship.

A search of the official FARA database shows no registration for Asha Jadeja Motwani or her foundations, despite a years-long pattern of India-aligned political advocacy stretching from the White House to Silicon Valley, elite universities and national-security think tanks.

Blueprint for a foreign lobby

This is not a one-off brag. In a detailed thread on X Motwani laid out a step-by-step plan to build an "India lobby" in Washington.

She wrote about targeting "Trump circles," explicitly distinguishing them from the State Department and urged Indian conglomerates such as Reliance and Adani to spend "substantial amounts" to "build influence in D.C." and "build relationships in Washington D.C." That is a call for foreign corporate money to reshape U.S. political outcomes.

Foreign governments and foreign companies can lobby in the United States only through registered agents who disclose their activities under FARA and lobbying laws. Motwani's own words describe the same conduct – lobbying for a foreign principal – without registration or public accountability.

She repeatedly frames America as an instrument for India's geopolitical strategy and describes her goal as keeping India "in the American pocket and not with anybody else." That language tracks directly with India's official diaspora strategy, which calls on Indian-origin elites in the United States to advance Delhi's strategic agenda inside Western institutions.

H-1B as 'slave labor'

Motwani has also openly described how the H-1B system she champions actually works. In a Sept. 21 post she wrote that the "dirty little secret" of H-1B labor is that foreign workers are treated as "a bit of slave labor," pointing to 80-hour work weeks, "no complaints" and no overtime demands.

She added that this arrangement "would be impossible if American workers replaced these foreigners," because employers would be forced to pay overtime, provide benefits and face litigation from workers who are free to report abuse without risking their immigration status.

Her own description of H-1B labor conditions, illegal hours, unpaid overtime and silence enforced by fear of deportation points approvingly to unlawful practices under U.S. labor and employment law, regardless of a worker's nationality. This is not a "talent pipeline." It is a system built on vulnerability. Employers exploit H-1B workers precisely because their immigration status can be used as leverage. Motwani's statements reveal the program's real function: securing a cheaper, more compliant, more easily exploited labor force.

Motwani is not a detached commentator, but rather is a long-time Silicon Valley investor with ties to firms repeatedly scrutinized for H-1B abuse, including Google, PayPal and multiple venture-backed tech companies she has funded, mentored or partnered with. Her statements are not guesses; they are admissions from inside the investor class. Yet she continues to press U.S. leaders to expand the very pipeline she admits is built on "slave labor," while American workers are displaced and U.S. wage laws are undercut.

Foreign ideology and political access

Motwani's political influence campaign is paired with explicit support for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). As documented by the Encyclopaedia Britannica and AP News, RSS provides the doctrine while BJP executes that doctrine through state power.

Motwani has repeatedly praised RSS as "India's crown jewel," said she is "studying it on a war footing" and urged Indians to "defend it."

In another post, she argued that anyone in the West who "defames" RSS should be "taken to court."

Reporting by the U.K.-based Byline Times notes that Motwani's father served in the RSS and identifies her as part of a U.S.-based network amplifying Hindutva-aligned narratives.

At the same time she boasts of influencing U.S. lawmakers, senior officials and even President Trump on H-1B and U.S.-India policy. Under FARA, "foreign principals" include foreign governments, foreign political parties and foreign ideological movements. RSS and BJP fall squarely into those categories. When someone with direct RSS lineage and open ideological alignment gains access to U.S. leaders and uses that access to press for foreign-aligned policies, it raises exactly the foreign-influence concerns FARA was enacted to address.

Nonprofit fronts and foreign defense pipelines
Beyond her personal lobbying, Motwani runs U.S.-based foundations including the Motwani Jadeja Global Foundation and the Motwani Institute for Thought Leadership in Innovation.
These entities state that they aim to shape government policy in India and the United States, promote "Indian voices" in U.S. think tanks and "open doors at Davos and Washington."

Her foundation funded a major initiative at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), one of Washington's most influential national-security think tanks. With her support, CNAS launched a program on the "U.S.-India Strategic Partnership" focused on defense cooperation, intelligence sharing, drones, space, semiconductors and the Quad, the exact areas where India seeks deeper U.S. alignment.

At the same time, Motwani is partnering directly with foreign defense institutions. In 2024, her foundation launched DRISHTI, an India-Israel initiative built with Israel's Directorate of Defense Research & Development, part of Israel's Ministry of Defense, to advance dual-use technologies in AI, drones, robotics and autonomous systems. She then opened the Motwani Jadeja Centre of Excellence at T-Hub in Hyderabad as the hub of this corridor.

This creates a closed loop: A U.S. private foundation is embedded in Indian and Israeli defense-adjacent tech pipelines overseas while funding U.S. think-tank work that shapes how Washington views and manages its defense relationship with India. Under FARA, foreign-aligned policy programming combined with direct work alongside foreign defense ministries is a textbook indicator that registration and disclosure are required.

The Department of Justice has already brought cases in response to similar patterns of undisclosed foreign influence, including charges against think-tank co-director Gal Luft for alleged China-linked activity, scrutiny of Qatar's funding of the Brookings Institution and the indictment of former Trump adviser Thomas Barrack for acting as an unregistered agent of the UAE.

Pipelines into Silicon Valley and American institutions

The Rajeev Circle Fellowship, run by Motwani's foundation, is marketed as a program that "induces" founders from South Asia into a "tight knit community" in Silicon Valley. Fellowship materials say participants are groomed into a "distributed network of budding Scout VCs," signaling a foreign-national investment and influence network embedded inside the U.S. tech ecosystem, not a typical scholarship.

The program promises that fellows "acquire a permanent home in the Valley" after their first visit and enjoy "unprecedented freedom" to return to the U.S. for sales, fundraising and business development, with all expenses covered by the foundation. A private foundation cannot grant immigration status or lawful residency. Yet the language describes a privately funded system giving select foreign nationals repeated, structured access to U.S. tech and capital markets.

According to the foundation's own descriptions, fellows become a "living and breathing corridor between South Asia, Europe and the U.S.," a South-Asia-only network connecting founders directly into U.S. venture, technology and commercial platforms. That structure mirrors the diaspora-mobilization frameworks promoted in India's own policy documents.

The same approach appears in Motwani's work with U.S. policy institutions. In February 2024, the foundation announced a partnership with the Atlantic Council to send U.S. foreign-policy and national-security experts to India's Raisina Dialogue, co-organized by India's Ministry of External Affairs, with the stated goal of "advancing India's global ambitions" and "shaping India's trajectory on the world stage."

Then in October 2024, the foundation made a major gift to the 21st Century India Center at UC San Diego to fund an India fellowship, leadership program and courses hub targeting U.S. federal and state officials, U.S. military officers, journalists and business leaders and to place them inside Indian institutions for weeks at a time.

At the Stanford India Conference 2025, on a panel titled "Geopolitics and Defense in the Changing World," supported by the foundation, Motwani joined national-security scholars to discuss India's military strategy, defense posture, AI-enabled warfare and its alignment with U.S. frameworks such as the Quad and I2U2.

At Davos 2025, her foundation sponsored a panel on U.S.-India relations featuring former U.S. Ambassador Eric Garcetti and executives from major Indian multinationals to promote deeper alignment on defense, technology, trade and security.

These are not casual networking events. Rather, they are structured programs that bring U.S. officials, experts and capital into forums built around India's strategic priorities. Under FARA, when such programs are carried out "for or in the interests of" a foreign principal, particularly when they target U.S. decision-makers, transparency and registration are not optional.

A pattern the law was written to expose

Viewed together, the pieces form a clear pattern. Asha Jadeja Motwani tells the world she is "battling for India in Washington," claims to have helped flip a U.S. president on H-1B, urges Indian corporations to pour money into "building influence in D.C.," praises and defends the RSS-BJP ideological machine that governs India and runs U.S. foundations that partner with foreign defense ministries, move foreign founders into Silicon Valley and embed U.S. officials in Indian institutions.

She openly states that the "dirty little secret" of H-1B is that workers are treated as "a bit of slave labor," describing conditions that, if imposed on any employee in America, violate U.S. law. Yet she pushes U.S. leaders to expand that program while American workers are sidelined and their wage protections are weakened.

Finally, as noted earlier, under American law, anyone who acts "for or in the interest of" a foreign government, foreign political party or foreign ideological movement and tries to influence U.S. policy or public opinion must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Failing to register while doing that work is a federal offense.

Americans should not have to decode legal jargon to see what is happening: A powerful Silicon Valley figure is using U.S. citizenship, U.S. institutions and U.S. access to advance the agenda of a foreign government, including a visa system she herself describes as built on exploitation and "slave labor," without the transparency federal law demands.

The record of Motwani's statements, her political outreach, her foundation's partnerships and her role in programs involving U.S.-India defense, technology and immigration policy fits the very pattern of undisclosed foreign influence that FARA was designed to bring into the open. The harm is not abstract. It falls on American workers, American institutions and American security. Whether those protections are enforced in this case is a test – not of India's power, but of America's willingness to uphold its own laws.

The documented records