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A plan is being developed that would set up a new congressional panel to investigate the disturbance, a protest-turned-riot, at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
That's already been "investigated" by a committee, but it was partisan entirely. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to let the GOP nominate any members, instead choosing "Republicans" who were in staunch opposition to President Donald Trump.
Evidence was limited, the committee hired professionals to create made-for-broadcast episodes with only some parts of the truth, to be broadcast to Americans.
While members were honored by Joe Biden for their work to create a storyline that tarnished Trump, one member, then-Rep. Liz Cheney was accused of tampering with at least one witness. And the committee was caught using some clearly unsupported "evidence," when one person claimed Trump had tried to commandeer the Beast, the presidential limousine.
The driver actually refuted the wild claim, stating, "I did not see him reach. He never grabbed the steering wheel. I didn't see him, you know, lunge to try to get into the front seat at all."
That was evidence the committee had at the time the claims about commandeering were made.
Further, the committee claimed Trump didn't ask for National Guard troops at the Capitol that day, but the evidence showed the request was the responsibility of Pelosi, and Trump actually made the offer and was refused.
Evidence shows he offered up to 10,000 for that day, and Pelosi refused.
The committee members were even accused of threatening witnesses who volunteered the truth about that day.
The committee's eventual report called for the Department of Justice to investigate and charge Trump.
The Democrats on the committee claimed he made false statements, defrauded the U.S., and participated in conspiracy and incitement, claims that were knocked down by constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has testified on the Constitution to Congress and represented members in court.
"The committee repackaged largely the same evidence that it has previously put forward over the past year. That is not enough. Indeed, the reliance on a new videotape of former Trump aide Hope Hicks seems a case of putting 'hope over experience' in the criminal justice system," he explained.
He said there was no criminal case supported.
He noted members like Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who long claimed he had seen evidence of the "collusion" with Russia by the 2016 Trump campaign, a conspiracy theory that long since has been debunked, insist that the committee presented "new evidence" of crimes.
Instead, Turley said, "The committee continued its pattern of rehashing previously known evidence with network-quality videotapes."
In fact, classified documents that have now been released show what apparently was a grand conspiracy involving Barack Obama and a number of other top Democrats to fabricate allegations against Trump to undermine the agenda of the duly elected president.
Turley noted Cheney's comments "left the impression of actors who are refusing to leave the stage long after the audience departed."
Pelosi's committee ignored the fact that Trump told his supporters to protest "peacefully," and its conclusions were described by many as "meaningless."
The committee further showed its partisanship by refusing even to hear evidence of Pelosi's own culpability, which she later admitted in a recorded video.
It is the Independent-Sentinel that revealed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., confirmed Republicans are seeking passage of a resolution to form a new subcommittee that would investigate events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.
Introduced by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., if the resolution is approved in the House, it would set up a panel, the report said, to "look at the role of corrupt Republicans and Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, who was responsible for protecting the Capitol building."
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An appeals court has determined that an arbitration panel was not allowed to change the rules of a contest after the fact in a ruling that voids a $5 million claim that Trump-supporting MyPillow guy Mike Lindell was supposed to have to pay.
The ruling comes from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and voided a contest "win" by Robert Zeidman, a software developer.
A report at Just the News explained Lindell had offered a prize of $5 million to anyone who could prove the data regarding Chinese election interference in the 2020 presidential race was "unequivocally" not related to the 2020 election.
Zeidman submitted a 15-page report claiming that was the case, but prize judges found he had not documented his claim adequately.
He took the fight to arbitration, where a panel ruled in his favor.
That panel "concluded the contract requirement that participants 'unequivocally' prove that the cyber data provided was not 'related to the November 2020 election' was unambiguous and Zeidman unequivocally proved the cyber data was not 'packet capture data,'" the 8th Circuit explained.
However, Lindell objected to providing the prize, and the 8th Circuit ruled he had legitimate reasons for doing that.
"We conclude that the [arbitration] panel effectively amended the unambiguous Challenge contract when it used extrinsic evidence to require that the data provided was packet capture data, thereby violating established principles of Minnesota contract law and our arbitration precedents. Accordingly, we reverse the grant of Zeidman's motion to confirm because 'the arbitrators exceeded their powers," the court said.
The opinion, written by U.S. Circuit Judge James Loken, said, "Fair or not, agreed-to contract terms may not be modified by the panel or by this court."
Two other panel judges from the appeals court joined in his conclusion.
According to Just the News, "The judges instructed a lower court to immediately wipe the $5 million arbitration award or conduct further proceedings in accordance with the appeals court's reversal."
Lindell said, in an interview with reporters, "This is vindication. This opens a door that no man can shut. I am so excited. I mean, this is an answer to prayer."
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The United States is withdrawing all of its support from UNESCO, the United Nation's "Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization," because of its anti-Israel bias, exhibited by its decision to claim Palestinian statehood.
The announcement was made by the U.S. State Department, in a statement from spokeswoman Tammy Bruce.
"UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy," Bruce explained. "UNESCO's decision to admit the 'State of Palestine' as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization."
The end of the relationship between the two will happen at the end of 2026, the announcement said.
President Trump earlier pulled America out of the leftist agenda, in 2017, a decision based then on the group's anti-Israel bias. Joe Biden quickly had the country rejoin.
The Washington Examiner explained the move "is in line with Trump's executive order from February that called for a 90-day review of federal funding and involvement in the U.N., including UNESCO. The general review specifically probed 'any anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sentiment within the organization.'"
Further, the U.S. review of UNESCO confirmed it also held a pro-China bias and promoted leftist plans like "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay expressed disappointment.
UNESCO became part of the discussion earlier, when Trump announced he was pulling American support from the U.N. Human Rights Council.
He also paused funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that was set up specifically to give money to Palestinians, an organization that was revealed to have had employees take part in the Oct. 7, 2024, terror attack by Hamas on Israel.
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Newly declassified documents about the supposed FBI "investigation" into Hillary Clinton's email scandal, which developed while she was running her second failed campaign for the Oval Office, reveal that the FBI declined to follow even the most basic procedures, like "due diligence."
Clinton's email scandal involved her decision to set up a private email server in her home and then run national secrets through the unsecured machine. Then-FBI head James Comey abruptly announced during the campaign that the investigation was being shut down.
Now released are details from a previously classified appendix to DOJ inspector General Michale Horowitz's 2018 report criticizing the FBI's conduct.
It was just days after Comey's announcement about Clinton came that the FBI launched its probe, now documented as based on fraud, into now-President Donald Trump and his campaign, an investigation called Crossfire Hurricane.
"This document shows an extreme lack of effort and due diligence in the FBI's investigation of former Secretary Clinton's email usage and mishandling of highly classified information," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said as the appendix was released.
"Under Comey's leadership, the FBI failed to perform fundamental investigative work and left key pieces of evidence on the cutting room floor. The Comey FBI's negligent approach and perhaps intentional lack of effort in the Clinton investigation is a stark contrast to its full-throated investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, which was based on the uncorroborated and now discredited Steele dossier. Comey's decision-making process smacks of political infection," he said.
A report at Just the News said Comey was "swayed" to preemptively announce the end of the Clinton investigation, "and that the FBI failed to investigate thumbdrives containing potentially key information about use of an illicit private email server."
Grassley confirmed in 2016 the FBI had "intelligence reports discussing purported communications" involving Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat who led the Democratic National Convention and others who worked for the Sorors Open Society Foundations.
Grassley suggested the intelligence reports alleged "the Obama administration took efforts to scuttle the investigation into Clinton and protect her candidacy" and there were no "serious" investigative efforts under the leadership of Comey, then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, an FBI agent later removed, and others.
The declassified documents confirm the FBI got various reports "purporting to discuss efforts to influence" that investigation.
The accusations included that Barack Obama's attorney general, Loretta Lynch and Comey were interfering with the investigation.
In the new documents, it shows Horowitz wrote that Lynch had been in contact with a member of Clinton's campaign to provide information and Comey, even though various reports were "not credible," insisted on ending the investigation in that July.
Those 'not credible" reports involved claims Russia was influencing the election in favor of Trump.
Comey handed Clinton a pass for her apparently chargeable violations of rules for handling classified information by claiming, "No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."
Horowitz already had explained Comey's comments were "insubordinate,"
The documents show Sally Yates, then a deputy attorney general, claimed to not recall the dispute as the FBI documented.
She recalled, the documents show, some information as "fake intel" or lacking credibility.
The report said the FBI also failed to review key information about Clinton's email scandal.
Grassley noted "the FBI obtained thumb drives from a source during the Clinton investigation" but that Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and others "failed to perform additional, targeted searches of the drives, even though they contained information relevant to the inquiry."
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An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent is hospitalized after being shot in the face Saturday night by an illegal alien with a deportation order who re-entered the U.S. during Joe Biden's presidential term.
The Department of Homeland Security released video of the suspected robbery that turned into an exchange of gunfire. One of the alleged perpetrators, Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez of the Dominican Republic, was reportedly wounded.
DHS explained: "On the evening of July 19, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection @CBP officer was shot in what looks like an attempted robbery.
"The officer, who was off duty at the time, is currently in the hospital in stable condition. One of the alleged perpetrators was an illegal alien with prior arrests for felony 2nd and 3rd degree assault and an order of deportation.
"The New York Police Department is currently investigating the incident."
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem indicated: "Suspect Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez is a national and citizen of the Dominican Republic.
"RE ENTERED and RELEASED under Biden— on April 4, 2023 the United States Border Patrol apprehended him at/near San Luis, AZ.
"This criminal has a criminal warrant in Massachusetts for kidnapping and had been charged with a series of offenses."
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin noted: "The other suspect is still at large. Pray for this agent and his family."
She also stated: "The first subject, is an illegal re-entry and has a warrant from Massachusetts for kidnapping. He is a final order from the Dominican Republic as of 2003."
President Donald Trump on Sunday sounded off on the shooting, saying: "Last night, in New York City, an incredible CBP Officer was shot in the face by an Illegal Alien Monster freed into the Country under Joe Biden.
"He was apprehended at the Border in April 2023 but, instead of being deported, was RELEASED. The CBP Officer bravely fought off his attacker, despite his wounds, demonstrating enormous Skill and Courage.
"The Democrats have flooded our Nation with Criminal Invaders, and now, they must all be thrown out or, in some cases, immediately prosecuted in that we cannot take a chance that they are able to come back. That's how evil and dangerous they are!"
The New York Post said the suspected shooter "got freed after every bust," as it outlined the series of events in the weekend shooting: "The 42-year-old federal agent and a female companion were sitting on a rock along the Hudson River in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan when they were ambushed by the two men on a moped around 11:50 p.m., according to police sources.
"After a brief exchange and tussle, one of the moped-riding men fired a gun and hit the victim in the face and left forearm. The agent then drew his own pistol and fired multiple shots at the perps, hitting the suspect.
"He was struck and wounded three times by the return gunfire, sources said. The alleged robber is currently in custody after walking into a Bronx hospital. …
"At the time of his arrest for the shooting, he was wanted on kidnapping and weapons charges out of Massachusetts, sources said. He also had at least four arrests in New York City – where he was let go without bail each time, according to the sources.
"Mora was nabbed twice just days apart in August 2024 for allegedly assaulting a pregnant woman and threatening to kill another migrant with a machete.
"Then he was arrested for violating an order of protection in November 2024, and had another bench warrant out for his arrest issued in January, sources said."
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Pam Bondi: 'Our federal agents are at the scene and we are working to learn more. Please pray for the families of the sheriff's deputies killed'
Three sheriff's deputies reportedly have died in a massive explosion at a training facility for the Los Angeles County sheriff's department.
A statement from the agency said multiple deputies died in the explosion Friday at the East Los Angeles site used for training operations.
The explosion was at about 7:25 a.m. local time at the Biscailuz Training Center.
"Sources said it appears an accident occurred when deputies were moving ordnances on the training facility property," Fox News reported.
Fox News cited Attorney General Pam Bondi's social media statement where she said she spoke with Bill Essayli, U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, regarding the "horrific incident."
"I just spoke to @USAttyEssayli about what appears to be a horrific incident that killed at least three at a law enforcement training facility in Los Angeles," Bondi wrote. "Our federal agents are at the scene and we are working to learn more. Please pray for the families of the sheriff's deputies killed."
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A Christian pastor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been fired from his post at a local public library when he resisted orders to lie about a coworker's gender.
The issue was that Luke Ash, pastor of Stevendale Baptist Church, was dismissed when he declined to address a woman as "he."
The Washington Stand reported, "The firing occurred despite a growing legal precedent supporting the free speech rights of those who say they cannot be forced to utter language that they believe is wrong."
The report explained Ash had a conversation with a coworker at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library about another worker, who was in training, and was told the woman wanted to be called "he."
"Ash continued to use biologically accurate pronouns in reference to her. When Ash's coworker attempted to 'correct' him into using the individual's preferred pronouns, the pastor declined to use them," the report said.
He first was reprimanded by his supervisor for not lying, then fired.
Such forced language fights have erupted over and over in recent years as the LGBT ideology, specifically transgenderism, ardently was promoted by the administration of Joe Biden. The ideology itself is based on a falsehood, as being male or female is embedded in the human body to the DNA level and doesn't change.
However, such speech restrictions and demands have been found to violate free speech protections of the Constitution.
The Washington Stand noted that another case involved Peter Vlaming, a high school teacher in West Point, Virginia who was fired in 2018 for refusing to refer to a student with trans pronouns.
He sued the public school district and won, eventually settling for $575,000 from the district.
Ash has explained there were "several things" in the library that made it clear it was not welcoming of Christians or conservatives.
On "Washington Watch" with Tony Perkins, he said, "There's a difference between telling me what I can't say and then telling me what I have to say, and so that was the line for me at that point."
He said, "I'm not going to lie. I cannot do it. I will not do it."
He noted, of the library atmosphere, "They think it's a sin to 'ban' books, and if you talk about banning books, putting a book on a list, then that's well within their wheelhouse to call you a Nazi or whatever. But they're absolutely limiting access to books by which books they decide to purchase for the library or even on the promotion of [the] books displayed. So there's a continuum of access. It's not just about banning a book on a piece of paper. If you can pretend that that book doesn't exist, that's even more effective."
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President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, over the paper's claim to report on a letter he allegedly wrote to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years ago.
Trump has said he never wrote the letter, and the report is false.
The lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District of Florida against WSJ, Dow Jones and Murdoch, according to a Daily Mail report.
The claim by the newspaper is that Trump "wrote a 'bawdy' 50th birthday card to Epstein which concluded: 'Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret,'" the report said.
The publication claimed to have seen a typewritten letter with Trump's signature, "framed by the seemingly hand-drawn outline of a naked woman."
Trump's response to the claim is that it is "false, malicious, and defamatory."
"I look forward to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit against him and his 'pile of garbage' newspaper, the WSJ," Trump said on social media.
The paper claimed Trump wrote, "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey" and that both of them know that "there must be more to life than having everything," the report said.
Trump had told the WSJ, "I never wrote a picture in my life. I don't draw pictures of women. It's not my language. It's not my words."
On social media, the president reported he warned the publication that the "supposed letter" was a fake.
"The editor of the Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn't want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway."
Trump pointed out, "If there was a 'smoking gun' on Epstein, why didn't the Dems, who controlled the 'files' for four years, and had Garland and Comey in charge, use it? BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING."
Trump has urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to release additional Epstein files.
The Mail explained, "The late financier was charged in 2008 for soliciting prostitution with an underaged girl and received a modest jail sentence in Florida. He was later charged with federal sex trafficking crimes in 2019. He hung himself in prison awaiting his trial, feds say."
But evidence shows he socialized with Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and others.
"Anyone who believes Trump got markers out to draw the figure of a woman and write what sounds like some weird Democrat fan fiction inside it to Jeffrey Epstein is an imbecile with a room temperature IQ," commentator Robby Starbuck wrote.
Trump previously has sued several networks over their false allegations about him, and has settled several of the cases for payments amounting to millions of dollars.
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Only hours after President Donald Trump described Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., one of the most ardent Trump attackers in Congress, as a scam artist, it was revealed that Schiff was named in a criminal referral on suspicion of mortgage fraud.
In a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump said: "I have always suspected Shifty Adam Schiff was a scam artist. 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.
It was during the Ingraham Angle podcast that Laura Ingraham revealed she had obtained access to a criminal referral submitted to the Department of Justice naming Schiff.
The Gateway Pundit reported the referral was from Housing Director Bill Pulte and it accuses Schiff of falsifying bank documents and property records over a period of 16 years "in order to score more favorable mortgage terms."
Ingraham explained, "The referral, submitted to the DOJ by Housing Director Bill Pulte, alleges that Schiff has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms—impacting payments from 2003 to 2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property. Schiff owns a home in California and another in Maryland."
Former federal prosecutor Jonathan Fahey joined Laura Ingraham to analyze the criminal referral, saying, "Well, when Trump does it, they make it seem like the biggest deal ever—like they alleged in the New York case. That's a fun irony here. But basically, it's lying on a mortgage application to get more favorable loan terms. When you say it's your primary residence, you get a more favorable loan term than if it's a rental residence or something else. What's really interesting about this—Adam—this was not just coming from President Trump. In 2023, CNN reported on this issue. He's, on one hand, saying he's a resident of California to run for office—to run for the House, and then for the Senate—and also taking a deduction in California based on claiming residency in California. For the IRS, also, you can't claim residency in both California and Maryland. He's got a lot of issues, because it seems like, however this breaks down, it looks like he's saying one thing here, one thing there. He can't be a resident in both places. So it's either: was he lying in California, or lying in Maryland to get more favorable loan terms?"
Schiff first went to Congress in 2000. Then in 2003 he apparently bought a home in Maryland, stating it would be his primary residence.
But he continued to vote, as a resident, in California.
Schiff, who wildly claimed during the Russiagate conspiracy theory that he had seen the evidence of Trump's criminal actions, and later insisted on leading a failed impeach-and-remove campaign against Trump, has never desisted in making scandalous claims about him.
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Federal authorities have issued a subpoena for New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy to appear and answer questions about his boast to be housing an illegal alien.
The subpoena is from the Department of Justice regarding Murphy's statement he would house an illegal at his home, and he dared the federal government to intervene.
A report from Just the News noted the FBI already has sought interviews with at least four witnesses regarding the comments.
The report said three sources have informed the New York Times that Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney in New Jersey, is investigating.
It was in February when Murphy, as Democrats were orchestrating their attacks on the Trump administration for its efforts to secure the national border with Mexico and deport illegal alien criminals who were invited into the country under Joe Biden's regime in Washington, made the statement.
Murphy pointed out there was a person in his social circle "whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to."
He boasted, "And we said, 'You know what? Let's have her live at our house above our garage.' And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her."
Tom Homan, President Trump's border czar, promised at the time, "We'll look into it."
Murphy later tried to backtrack, insisting then that the woman he was talking about was in the U.S. legally and never lived at his house.
A report at Shorenewsnetwork said, "The investigation appears to be distinct from any existing Justice Department inquiries into New Jersey's so-called sanctuary policies, which limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement."