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Bongino: “They’re Gonna Get This Guy Hurt” — Secret Service Agents Ordered to Not Wear Red Ties Because President Trump Wears Red Ties
By Kristinn Taylor Jan. 27, 2024 6:40 pm767 Comments
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino revealed in his podcast Friday that the Secret Service has ordered agents to not wear red ties. The order came down last week after an agent guarding Trump was photographed sporting a similarly colored red tie as Trump as he took the stage at a campaign rally in New Hampshire. Bongino warned, “They’re gonna get this guy hurt.”
Bongino said an email edict went out after the photo of the agent wearing a red tie while guarding Trump was published in the Guardian last Sunday.
Bongino said agents are “pissed” about the tie order. Bongino said Trump needs to clean out Secret Service management when he returns to the White House next year, citing the agency’s tanking of the White House cocaine investigation last year.
Bongino said Trump’s “threat level is through the roof.” He urged Trump to make some calls, saying, “If this is what they’re worried about, you’re gonna get hurt.”
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BOMBSHELL: Just GUESS Who the Judge Who Ruled Against Elon Musk in Delaware Has Serious Connections With
Once again we are seeing our justice system being weaponized because of politics and even more evidence of it being two-tiered. It's odd to us how anyone could say otherwise when you see something like this ...
Gosh, why ever would a judge connected to Joe Biden rule against Elon Musk?
We just can't figure it out.
She worked with Biden's top donors and was nominated by Biden's close friend.
You can't even make this crap up anymore.
But wait, there's more:
Oregon GOP state senators who staged walkout over abortion can't run for reelection, high court says
The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that 10 Republican state senators are ineligible to run for reelection after they participated in a quorum-denying walkout for six weeks last year to stall legislation on abortion, transgender treatments and firearms.
The high court decided in favor of Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade, who had disqualified the senators from running for office again after voters approved a measure in 2022 to amend the state constitution to ban lawmakers with more than 10 unexcused absences from running again.
The measure to prevent walkouts passed after GOP lawmakers staged other walkouts from the Legislature in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
As WHO Pandemic Treaty Nears Completion, Critics Raise Red Flags for US Freedoms
This WHO CA+, which functions as a treaty, has gone through an opaque process of negotiation and amendments ever since, from which the public has been essentially excluded, with the goal of signing it this year.
Among the goals for the United States, as set by the Biden administration, are to “strengthen the global health security architecture, including WHO strengthening, and engage in ongoing negotiations to amend the IHR and develop a Pandemic Accord.”
A Dec. 30, 2023, White House fact sheet states, “Global health security is vital for international security and solidarity, and cannot be achieved alone.”
When a Treaty Isn’t a Treaty
Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, criticized the WHO draft document for being crafted in a way that the Biden administration can sign the United States up to it without Senate approval.“The WHO refuses to call the pandemic treaty a treaty,” she said at a press conference organized by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), chairman of the Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Subcommittee.
“It calls it an agreement, an accord, a framework—anything else. Likely because it does not want it to be submitted to the treaty process in the United States and worldwide,” Ms. Littlejohn said.
According to the WHO, the agreement, once signed by members, will be legally binding.
“Conventions, framework agreements, and treaties are all examples of international instruments, which are legal agreements made between countries that are binding,” the WHO states.
The U.S. Constitution gives the president the authority to enter into treaties, which are agreements between the United States and foreign entities, “provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.”
Given the opposition to the WHO treaty, particularly from Republicans, it seems unlikely it would pass the Senate.
“The United States has a more difficult treaty ratification process than most other member states,” said Andrew Bremberg, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“So there has been a recent history over the last several decades to develop new international treaties but not call them treaties, so as to avoid the ratification process.”
In May 2022, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) introduced a bill in the Senate that would have required the WHO treaty to be considered a treaty, hence obligating the consent of 67 senators. In February 2023, the bill received 47 votes in favor, with 49 senators voting against.
Some lawmakers have been frustrated by the Biden administration’s negotiations of the WHO treaty, which they say haven’t been transparent to the public.
Trying to pin down the terms that are being negotiated is “like trying to nail jello to the wall,” said Tony Perkins, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. “It continues to change with every meeting, every approach, and so we’re doing our best to analyze what the WHO is putting forward.”
“The reason that nobody is being told what’s going on here is because it can’t withstand the light of day,” said Frank Gaffney, chairman of the Center for Security Policy.
“If you actually went to the American people and proposed that we turn over their personal medical health and freedom to this body that screwed it up recently, they wouldn’t want any part of it.”
The WHO Faces Criticism
Beyond the secrecy, one reason that the treaty is facing hostility is that the WHO’s performance during the COVID-19 pandemic undermined many people’s confidence in the organization.
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“When the WHO needed to step up and help the world navigate this unprecedented event of a novel Coronavirus and a global pandemic, they instead ignored facts, they parroted back some of the narrative the Chinese Communist Party told them, and that’s what we got,” stated Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
“The WHO denied that COVID-19 was spread via human-to-human transmission, based entirely upon the word of the Chinese government—the CCP.
“I think maybe most appalling is that the WHO even delayed naming the pandemic a public health emergency of international concern because the CCP confirmed that the spread of the virus was ‘under control.’
“These are not actions of a properly functioning, transparent, nonpartisan organization ... we need a system where global public health and local public health entities do not mislead the American public in any way, shape, or form.”
Dr. Monique Wubbenhost, an OB-GYN and former global health administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development, said the WHO’s performance during other pandemics was no better than its performance during COVID-19.
“I was in West Africa during Ebola in 2014,” Dr. Wubbenhost said. “The WHO’s response was hampered by poor communication, a lack of realization of the seriousness of the outbreak, and inadequate action.”
During the pandemic in Liberia, “the WHO was not able to adequately manage the pandemic response, provide timely and accurate information, or hold member states accountable for their lack of data sharing,” she added.
She said the WHO hasn’t demonstrated that it has addressed the “institutional problems” that underlie those failures.
“Corruption, favoritism, inappropriate use of funds, collusion with terrorists, and sexual misconduct have been documented at U.N. agencies,” she said.
“Such incidents show that, sadly, the U.N. appears to lack effective mechanisms for oversight and accountability, and this would apply to any efforts to increase its authority over pandemic prevention, surveillance, response, and recovery.”
Treasury Dept. Admits to Using Political Search Terms to Surveil Citizens' Bank Transactions
On Friday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury confirmed, in a letter to Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), that the Treasury has been using political watchwords in searches during surveillance of the financial transactions of American citizens. Senator Scott is the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee.
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The Department of the Treasury is arguably in violation of the Fourth Amendment in this process, as they are flying in the face of the people's rights "...to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." The warranting process described in the Fourth Amendment is very clear, requiring that the warrant be issued only when there is probable cause and that it shall specify "...the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
None of that was applied here; it looks an awful lot like the Treasury Department indulged in a fishing expedition, seeking anyone who was even tangentially related to the January 6th, 2021, hooliganism at the Capitol.
If this isn't an abuse of power, then that term has no meaning.
Uproar over Biden classified documents report carries echoes of 2016 Clinton email case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The release of a harshly critical Justice Department special counsel report on President Joe Biden has triggered instant flashbacks to history-shaping events of 2016. That’s when FBI Director James Comey castigated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over her email practices despite recommending against charges.
In this year’s already heated election season, the Justice Department cleared Democrat Biden, too, of criminal wrongdoing but painted a politically damaging picture of his handling of classified information.
Both announcements were derided by Democrats for their potential to unduly shape public perception in an election year — and for the inclusion of what they saw as gratuitous swipes at their candidates. In particular, Hur’s detailed discussion of apparent memory lapses by Biden revived a long-running debate within legal circles about how much derogatory information is appropriate to place in the public realm about individuals like Biden and Clinton who are investigated but not charged.
CIA Started Russia Collusion Hoax By Asking Foreign Governments To Spy On Trump Campaign
On Tuesday, Substack publications Public and Racket revealed new details about the origins of the Spygate hoax the U.S. federal government perpetrated on the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
“Multiple credible sources tell Public and Racket that the United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors long before the summer of 2016,” the publications reported. “The US [intelligence community] asked the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies, say sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation.”
The “Five Eyes” alliance refers to the global intelligence apparatus that includes the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
“After Public and Racket had been told that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the [intelligence community] had ‘identified [them] as people to “bump,” or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation,'” the Substacks reported. “Unknown details about the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and raw intelligence related to the IC’s surveillance of the Trump campaign are in a 10-inch binder that Trump ordered to be declassified at the very end of his term, sources told Public and Racket.”
“If the top-secret documents exist proving these charges, they are potentially proof that multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference.”
Put A ‘Kill Switch’ On Gov’t Bureaucrats, Not Our Cars
The law describes this tech as being able to “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle” and “prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected.”
Critics immediately raised privacy, cost, and reliability concerns any such “monitoring” system would raise, only to be reassured by the mainstream press that this was much ado about nothing. The provision was meant only to keep drunk drivers off the road.
The fact checkers also said that law enforcement and government agencies wouldn’t be notified of an impaired driver or ever be able to remotely disable your car.
Phew.
But the law doesn’t specifically forbid such systems from communicating with third parties or allowing them to shut down cars remotely. And you can bet that cops, government agencies, insurance companies, and who knows who else will all want access to it.
What’s more, in its “advanced notice of proposed rulemaking,” NHTSA makes clear that such a system won’t necessarily be limited to preventing drunk driving.
“NHTSA is considering focusing primarily on alcohol impairment. But,” the agency says, “some options described in later sections provide the opportunity to resolve multiple states of impairment.”
In other words, once the government has its foot in this door, there will be no stopping what regulators will add to the list of “impairments” it wants to monitor – all justified because they will “save lives.”
More on the Secret Binder That Could Expose Officials in Russia Collusion Hoax
The report - written by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag - details how the Obama administration CIA allegedly and improperly called on foreign allies from the "Five Eyes Nations" (the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) to surveil 26 Trump aides as "targets for collection and misinformation.” The journalists got this information from sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation.
That's big news. Shellenberger told Fox News that it was both illegal and election interference.
Some of the information on this is in a binder, Shellenberger said. There has been a rumor about the binder and speculation that Mar-a-Lago was raided because of information that former President Donald Trump may have had on Crossfire Hurricane.
Shellenberger is now talking about his and fellow journalist's new report that gives more information about the secret binder.
CNN wrote in a piece co-authored by Natasha Bertrand about the binder in December saying it went missing in the last days of the Trump presidency, that it had “highly classified information related to Russian election interference” and raised concerns that some of America’s most “closely guarded national security secrets… could be exposed.”
Speaking of inky government secrets and murky non-declassification, independent reporters and former democrats Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi earned the respect of the American people by famously working with Elon Musk to break the so-called “Twitter files” story, which exposed government manipulation of social media companies to censor Americans and achieve dubious political goals, and which has fueled the generation-defining Missouri v. Biden First Amendment case. This week, Shellenberger claimed to have broken another government-corruption story — a much bigger story — in a series of remarkable Twitter posts.Useless corporate media is completely silent, which tells us a lot.
Shellenberger’s story involves that binder I reported on two months ago on December 18th, when CNN had just run a bizarre, hastily-written, long-form story about a missing top-secret intelligence binder — missing for almost three years! — blaming it all on Trump. The binder held a classified report about Crossfire Hurricane — the Russian Collusion hoax leading to Trump’s first impeachment — and according to CNN, to “election interference in 2016.” Whatever’s in it, it is a report that the deep state is desperate to bury in the Oceanic Trench as deeply and as soon as it possibly can.
Back in December, I suggested the surprise SWAT raid on Mar-a-Lago by a swarm of federal agents wasn’t actually about trying to find some vague nuclear-secrets records that Trump hadn’t returned to NARA after being asked nicely.
I suggested the raid was instead intended for one reason only: to find that binder. The NARA business was just a carefully staged predicate.
Two days ago, Jesse Waters covered Shellenger's developing story on Fox:
CLIP: Jesse Watters interview with Michael Shellenberger over Crossfire Hurricane scandal (4:21).
Multiple credible sources say that in the run-up to the 2016 election, the CIA asked foreign intelligence agencies — specifically the “Five-Eyes” group of nations — to spy on a list of 26 Trump campaign members. It was a setup, so that the CIA could cleverly evade U.S. laws against domestic spying. Specifically, the CIA asked the other governments’ spooks to try to develop relationships and interactions — called “bumping them” in the spook business — with each of the 26 Trump officials. That gave the FBI a legal predicate to “monitor” the 26 Trump campaign members, since they were interacting with covert foreign intelligence agents, which brought the Trump team within FISA and allowed Obama’s DOJ to wiretap and spy on them.
In the clip, Shellenberger also confirmed he now believes what I speculated about two months ago, which is that the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago to find the missing Crossfire Hurricane Binder, not because the binder implicates President Trump in any crime, but because it implicates U.S. intelligence agencies and agents in crimes. What kinds of crimes? Fantastically awful crimes. The worst imaginable political crimes. Crimes that, if proved, would make Benedict Arnold look like a patriotic, flag-waving nationalist.
I kind of like the way Lara Logan put it. She said it would “dwarf Watergate and every other scandal — combined”:
If anything, that understates the case. Then yesterday, more information emerged. Fox’s Jesse Watters followed up with another segment, this time interviewing Matt Taibbi, which was twice as long as the first one.
CLIP: Jesse Watters Valentine’s Day update (8:24).
In yesterday’s clip, Watters reported that Taibbi and Shellenberger claim to have evidence that Joe Biden has been coordinating all the Trump criminal cases as part of the Crossfire Hurricane coverup. I don’t need to tell you how that could affect the Trump prosecutions.
This is all still developing and fascinating and incomprehensible and the implications are staggering if not completely mind-boggling.
I’ll say this about the timing. It does not look accidental. As far as I can tell, as a close media observer, CNN got wind that the story was going to break and tried to get ahead of it in December. Then, as the 2024 election season got underway, the story began breaking, and now in early February, it is breaking into the open.
Remember, the binder went missing when Trump left office. It’s possible it just took this long to percolate into the public domain, but I doubt it.
It looks to me like we are watching a long-planned release. A release of evidence of crimes that will make all previous political offenses look like peccadillos. What appears to be rising to the surface of DC’s septic tank is a crime so big that, if not definitively addressed somehow, will shatter the Republic.
I think things are about to get much more interesting, which is saying a lot, since we’re talking about 2024.
If this is Trump’s plan to deep-six the Deep State, he’d better hustle.
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CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say
Now, multiple credible sources tell Public and Racket that the United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors long before the summer of 2016.
The new information fills many gaps in our understanding of the Russia collusion hoax and is supported by testimony already in the public record.
Until now, the official story has been that the FBI’s investigation began after Australian intelligence officials told US officials that a Trump aide had boasted to an Australian diplomat that Russia had damning material about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
In truth, the US IC asked the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies, say sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation. The Five Eyes nations are the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
After Public and Racket had been told that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the IC had “identified [them] as people to ‘bump,’ or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation.”
Unknown details about the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and raw intelligence related to the IC’s surveillance of the Trump campaign are in a 10-inch binder that Trump ordered to be declassified at the very end of his term, sources told Public and Racket.
Mass Deportation—It CAN Be Done
It’s going to be difficult to get tens of millions of illegals out of the country. If there were some fear of that happening, the Democratic Party would rise up and steal as much of the American taxpayers’ money as necessary to protect this future constituency of theirs. Corporations that want cheap labor would press politicians with threats of reduced campaign money, and everybody knows politicians love other people’s money more than they love anything else. The illegals themselves would disappear under rocks, into holes in the ground, and into every cavity and crevice they could find to escape deportation. All they would then need to do is occasionally find their way to the nearest Democratic Party-run welfare office, get their money, and then disappear again. Removing these people from America will be a Herculean task. The Democrats know that and are chuckling all the way to the mail-in ballot box.
FCC To Force Broadcasters To Publish Race And Sex ‘Scorecards’ Of Employees
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3 to 2 this month to require U.S. broadcasters to record and publicly disclose the race, ethnicity, and sex of their employees.
The now-pending regulation was first introduced after Congress’ 1992 Cable Act. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck it down in 2001 as unconstitutionally enabling the hiring of Americans for their skin color. The policy remained suspended until President Joe Biden’s FCC nominee received Senate confirmation in 2023 and flipped control of the commission to Democrats.
The FCC argued reinstating the race policy is “critical” because “it will allow for analysis and understanding of the broadcast industry workforce” and is “consistent with Congress’s goal to maximize the utility of the data an agency collects for the benefit of the public.” The commission claimed it could not generalize or aggregate racial and sexual data because it would be “less useful.”
“We find no basis to conclude that the demographic data on a station’s annual Form 395-B filing would lead to undue public pressure,” the commission claimed.
FCC member Brendan Carr, however, said the rule moving into place is not consistent with the Consitution nor employment confidentiality requirements in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“This is no benign disclosure regime. The record makes clear that the FCC is choosing to publish these scorecard
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The resignation letter was short and direct.
“I can no longer be under an oath to uphold the New Constitution of Ohio,” wrote Sabrina Warner in her letter announcing she was stepping down from the state’s Republican central committee.
It was just days after Ohio voters resoundingly approved an amendment last November to the state constitution ensuring access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care. For many, the vote was a victory after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion in 2022.
For Warner, a staunch abortion opponent, it meant she could no longer stand by the Ohio Constitution she had proudly sworn an oath to uphold just over a year before.
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“I can no longer be under an oath to uphold the New Constitution of Ohio,” wrote Sabrina Warner in her letter announcing she was stepping down from the state’s Republican central committee.
It was just days after Ohio voters resoundingly approved an amendment last November to the state constitution ensuring access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care. For many, the vote was a victory after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion in 2022.
For Warner, a staunch abortion opponent, it meant she could no longer stand by the Ohio Constitution she had proudly sworn an oath to uphold just over a year before.
Oaths and pledges have been routine for political officials. That's changing in a polarized America
Elected officials throughout modern American history have sworn oaths to uphold constitutions and pledged allegiance to the flag without much controversy.