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Trump Considers Releasing Biden-Hur Audio
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-doj-release/2025/05/08/id/1210067/
Thursday, 08 May 2025 08:08 AM EDT
Trump administration officials are preparing to release the audio from special counsel Robert Hur's interview with former President Joe Biden during the mishandling of classified documents investigation.
Hur said he did not criminally charge Biden with mishandling documents due to the president's age and mental acuity following the October 2023 interview.
In May 2024, Biden asserted executive privilege over audio of the interview. The transcript had been released two months earlier.
Biden and his staff are girding for the possible release, though it remained unclear whether President Donald Trump and his advisers have made a final decision to make the audio public, Politico reported Wednesday night.
"The Hur audio will confirm what is one of the biggest cover ups in American history," Mike Davis, an occasional Trump adviser, told Politico.
The media outlet later reported that the former president had hired Chris Meagher, a former deputy press secretary and Defense Department spokesperson, to help schedule appearances and defend the former president's legacy.
Last month, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Americans would be "quite interested" to hear the audio recordings of Hur's interview with Biden
"I don't have an update on that, but I can certainly check," Leavitt said April 8 after being asked if the audio would be released. "I think the American people would be quite interested to hear that tape, but I'll double-check on the release of it."
The House Judiciary Committee last year sued to obtain the audio but that lawsuit has lingered since Trump took office.
Two Freedom of Information Act lawsuits brought by conservative groups have resulted in the Justice Department facing a May 20 deadline to say whether it will stand by Biden's assertion of executive privilege to block the release of the audio.
Until now, DOJ officials have said disclosure of the audio would invade Biden's privacy and could help convince other government officials to cooperate in future investigations.
The transcript of the interview indicated Biden lied to the American people when he rebuked Hur for asking about his son's death.
The transcript exposes the fact Hur never asked Biden about the timing of his son's death, contradicting the president's indignant public objections to that supposed line of questioning.
DOJ, FBI Sound Alarm About Online Child Predator Group
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/doj-fbi-pam-bondi/2025/05/07/id/1210018/
Wednesday, 07 May 2025 09:14 PM EDT
Federal law enforcement is sounding the alarm over an online child predator network called "764," with the FBI saying it has opened 250 investigations across all of its 55 field offices into a group an agent said looks to "sow chaos" and "bring down society."
The loose network of violent predators befriend teenagers through popular online platforms and then coerce them into escalating sexual and violent behavior, ABC News reported Wednesday.
"We see a lot of bad things, but this is one of the most disturbing things we're seeing," FBI Assistant Director David Scott told ABC News. He heads the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, which is now leading many of the government's investigations tied to 764.
On April 30, the Department of Justice announced the arrests of two alleged 764 leaders. Leonidas Varagiannis, 21, a U.S. citizen residing in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Prasan Nepal, 20, of North Carolina, were charged with operating an international child exploitation enterprise. Varagiannis was arrested April 29 in Greece; and Nepal on April 22 in North Carolina. Court hearings in Washington, D.C., are pending for both defendants.
"These defendants are accused of orchestrating one of the most heinous online child exploitation enterprises we have ever encountered – a network built on terror, abuse, and the deliberate targeting of children," Attorney General Pam Bondi said April 30 in a statement. "We will find those who exploit and abuse children, prosecute them, and dismantle every part of their operation."
Scott said the FBI has seen victims as young as 9, and federal authorities have indicated there could be thousands of victims from around the world, according to ABC News. Prosecutors alleged that Varagiannis and Nepal exploited at least eight minor victims across multiple jurisdictions, with some content traced back to children as young as 13. The network’s activities spanned from late 2020 through early 2025, with core leadership roles attributed to both defendants throughout that time.
Scott described one of the main goals of 764 and similar networks is to "sow chaos" and "bring down society." That's why the FBI's Counterterrorism Division and the DOJ’s National Security Division are now looking at 764 and its offshoots as a potential form of domestic terrorism, even coining a new term to characterize the most heinous actors: "nihilistic violent extremists."
"The more gore, the more violence … that raises their stature within the groups," Scott told ABC News. "So, it's sort of a badge of honor within some of these groups to actually do the most harm to victims."
According to an ABC News review of cases from across the country, state and federal authorities over the past few years have arrested at least 15 people on child pornography or weapons-related charges, and accused them in court of being associated with 764.
In a federal case, a 24-year-old Arkansas man, Jairo Tinajero, plotted to murder a 14-year-old girl who was resisting his demands. When he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and child pornography charges three months ago, Tinajero said he believed the murder would raise his stature within the 764 network, according to ABC News. His sentencing is set for August.
In another federal case, Jack Rocker, 19, of Tampa, Florida, amassed a collection of more than 8,300 videos and images that the DOJ called "some of the most horrific, evil content available on the Internet." He pleaded guilty in January to possessing child sexual abuse material and was sentenced to seven years in prison.