Patrick Bet David Gives Solid P Diddy Recap

May 27, 2025 | Sundance |

CTH doesn’t follow the perverse Hollywood or entertainment industry debauchery much, there’s just a lot of evil inside the connections and factually it’s sick. The world of DC politics is filthy enough, we don’t need the sexual perversions of Hollywood and the music industry in our review cycle.

That said, I was sent this really good recap of the Sean Combs case by someone and Patrick Bet David gives a great 20-minute fact-filled summary of both the background and the current case.

I found it interesting because PBD starts with the money aspect, then weaves the timeline while remaining focused on the money dynamic. It is well worth 20 minutes, and you will likely hear some things within his research notes you may not have known before. WATCH:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/27/patrick-bet-david-gives-solid-p-diddy-recap/

https://youtu.be/yC2YNJk4jgk

Rubio just put anti-free speech foreign countries on notice. Things are about to change big time…

May 28, 2025 (2 hours ago)1/2

It’s about time someone in Washington stood up for Americans being harassed for simply speaking freely.

For years now, we’ve watched Western democracies, yes, the same ones our leaders love to call our “closest allies,” drift into full-blown authoritarianism. Think about it: in the UK, you can be arrested for a meme. And technically, the same thing can happen in the US; just ask Douglass Mackey, who was tried and convicted for sharing a satirical anti-Hillary meme back in 2016.

But countries like Brazil, China, and a laundry list across Europe are really cranking the draconian nonsense into high gear. In many of these places, if you misgender someone, question immigration, or say the wrong thing online, you could be fined or even thrown in jail.

Just look at these headlines from the UK:

And speaking of Europe, JD Vance was one of the first powerful voices to call out the EU, especially the UK. His speech to the smug, woke elites dropped jaws across the continent, but it also had plenty of everyday Europeans standing up and cheering.

Meanwhile, American citizens are being targeted by these foreign regimes simply for exercising free speech, something that, in this country, is supposed to be a constitutional right. Of course, some would argue we’ve already trampled that here, too.

President Trump isn’t taking this lightly. He knows that if our so-called allies in Europe, South America, and elsewhere are allowed to keep silencing Americans for speaking freely, the rest of the world won’t be far behind. That’s why he’s already putting a plan into motion.

Look:

With Team Trump back in office, there’s hope. And now, another powerful voice is stepping up and dropping the gauntlet on the woke EU and other nations who are crushing free speech. There’s a new sheriff in town, and things are about to change in a big way.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped a policy shift that will shake up the entire US visa system.

Rubio announced anew visa restriction policy that’s aimed directly at foreign officials and individuals who harass, censor, or punish US citizens for what they say or believe. Whether it’s a Latin American thug regime jailing dissidents or a Eurocrat punishing Americans for so-called “hate speech,” the message is perfectly clear: violate our people’s rights, and you’re no longer welcome here.

According to Rubio, the days of letting these censorship bullies waltz through customs with diplomatic immunity and a wink are over.

https://revolver.news/2025/05/rubio-just-put-anti-free-speech-foreign-countries-on-notice-things-are-about-to-change-big-time/

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Secretary of State Rubio:

For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights.Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans. Free speech is essential to the American way of life – a birthright over which foreign governments have no authority.

Foreigners who work to undermine the rights of Americans should not enjoy the privilege of traveling to our country. Whether in Latin America, Europe, or elsewhere, the days of passive treatment for those who work to undermine the rights of Americans are over.

There was a time when Western nations prided themselves on freedom. From Europe to Australia to parts of Latin America, these were the places that birthed bold thinkers, fearless artists, rebels, and unapologetic champions of free speech.But that version of the West is vanishing. Fast.

In its place is this global hive mind, where speech is policed, opinions are criminalized, and obedience is marketed as morality. Political correctness has become the go-to weapon of control, but it’s just social Marxism dressed up in soft, squishy slogans, and it’s being forced on people under the false banner of “doing the right thing.”

These aren’t the good guys. They’re power-drunk globalists who will use fear, guilt, and moral manipulation to crush political dissent. All while convincing you it’s for the greater good.

It’s not. And they know it.

https://revolver.news/2025/05/rubio-just-put-anti-free-speech-foreign-countries-on-notice-things-are-about-to-change-big-time/

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🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump has dispatched a team of FIVE U.S. officials to the UK.

Their goal is to engage with activists regarding the suppression of free speech.

Keir Starmer is a liar, and the world knows it.

5:52 PM · May 24, 2025

Mystery deepens over claims a Trump ally was illegally wiretapped inside the Pentagon… May 28, 2025 (6 hours ago) 1/2

Something stinks inside the Pentagon, and the White House knows it.

A leak investigation involving Pete Hegseth, top Trump defense aides, and a supposedly “top secret” document about reclaiming the Panama Canal has totally unraveled.The case began with firings, rumors of a traitor in the ranks, and even whispers of an illegal NSA wiretap on a Trump loyalist’s phone. That alone would be enough to trigger a massive scandal, right? But now,even that story appears to have been fake.

The real story is looking more andmore like this entire “leak” probe was a political hit job, used to purge Trump loyalists from the Pentagonusing shaky, sketchy evidence, personal rivalries, and shady, shadowy maneuvers. And the deeper you go, the worse this thing gets.

It all started when Pete Hegseth fired three top aides,supposedly because of a leak. The justification for thiswas a bizarre claimthat the NSA had wiretapped one of them, Dan Caldwell, without a warrant. That kind of surveillance would benot only unconstitutional but also a nuclear-level scandal. The White House was rightfully alarmed. But when they looked into it, theydiscovered the claim wasn’t true. Even worse, they werebeing fed that lie by Hegseth’s own lawyer, Tim Parlatore.(read article on Parlatore next)

The Guardian:The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigationthat Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap.The extraordinary explanation alarmed the advisers, who also raised it with people close to JD Vance, because such a wiretap would almost certainly be unconstitutional and aneven bigger scandal than a number of leaks. But theadvisers found the claim to be untrueand complained that they werebeing fed dubious information by Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who had been tasked with overseeing the investigation.

The episode, as recounted by four people familiar with the matter, marked the most extraordinary twist in the investigation examining the leak of an allegedly top secret document that outlined options for the US military to reclaim the Panama canal to a reporter. When the NSA wiretap story fell apart,any trust that was left broke down completely between the White House and the Pentagon. Hegseth’s team claimed Caldwell had leaked a classified Panama Canal document, but Caldwell denied it all.White House insiders started asking if this whole thing had been orchestrated to purge aideswho had clashed with Hegseth’s first chief of staff,Joe Kasper. (read following research on him)

Trump’s advisers also admitted they didn’t know what to believe andsuspected something far more political and sinister was at play. The Guardian piece goes on. Theadvisers were stunned again when Parlatore denied having told anyone about an illegal NSA wiretap himselfand maintained that any information he had was passed on to him by others at the Pentagon. (Did he tell who at the Pentagon told him this? Kasper???)

The leak was first attributed internallyto Hegseth’s senior adviser,Dan Caldwell, who was escorted out of the Pentagon and fired last month alongside two other aides, Hegseth’sformer deputy chief of staff, Darin Selnick, and the deputy defense secretary’s chief of staff,Colin Carroll. But the illegal wiretap claim and Caldwell’s denialsfueled a breakdown in trust between the Pentagon and the White House, where the Trump advisers tracking the investigation have privately suggested they no longer have any idea about who or what to believe.

In particular,one Trump adviserrecently told Hegseth that hedid not think Caldwell – or any of the fired aides– had leaked anything, and thathe suspectedthe investigationhad been used to get rid of aides involved in the infighting with his first chief of staff, Joe Kasper. (Read Politico article next)

Key staff has been removed, so Hegseth is now navigating a Pentagon front office deliberately left in disarray and chaos. A junior aide has stepped up to fill the gap, but the White House refuses to make it official.It’s not chaos of Hegseth’s making. This is the Deep State playing games with national security and trying to sabotage from within. The Guardian piece continues.

https://revolver.news/2025/05/mystery-deepens-over-claims-a-trump-ally-was-illegally-wiretapped-inside-the-pentagon/

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The fraught situation is sure to increase pressure on Hegseth ahead of a Senate hearing next month, and more broadly for his office, which has been roiled by the leak investigation thathas now continued for nearly a month with no new evidence or referral to the FBI. The fallout hasleft Hegseth with no chief or deputy chief of staff, as he relies on six senior advisers to run his front office, which is involved in setting the direction of the defense department that has a budget of nearly $1tn and oversees more than two million troops. (Put in a deep spy, to find out the details, he has to look corrupt, so the corrupt can trust him.) (Did they ever think this was done to sabotage Hegseth himself, because it has ruined his staff, and left him without his guys)

And while Hegseth’s formerjunior military aide Ricky Buria has in effect assumed the jobof the chief of staff, the White House has blocked Hegseth from giving him the job permanently on account of his limited experience and role in internal office drama.

The firings of the three aides were based on what officials claimed was “clear-cut evidence.” But after that claim, things got murky. Caldwell, who supposedly took a photo of a top-secret document and sent it to a reporter, went on Tucker Carlson’s show and said the whole thing was a setup. Then came word that thereal leak may have come from mid-level military staff, not Hegseth’s aides at all.Meanwhile, Parlatore, the lawyer supposedly behind it all,claimedthere might’ve been a wiretap on Caldwell’s phonebut couldn’t (or wouldn’t) produce any real proof. Read more from The Guardian.

The skepticism among the Trump advisers is widely seen as a product of several developments that started shortly after the suspensions of Caldwell and Selnick on 15 April, followed by the suspension of Carroll on 16 April, according to seven people familiar with the matter.

After the aides were fired on 18 Apriland issued a joint statement denying wrongdoing, theWhite House received its first briefing on the firings. At that juncture, a handful of Trump advisers in the West Wing and elsewherewere told there was evidencethat Caldwell had printed a document on US military plans for the Panama canal classified at the top secret level, took a photo, and sent it to a reporter using his personal phone. But theadvisers grew uneasy in the ensuing weeksafter Caldwell appeared on the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s podcast, denouncing their firings as the product of internal office politics at the Pentagon andalleging that the investigation had become weaponized against them.

They also then learned of a rumor at the Pentagon that the air force office of special investigations (OSI), which had been working the case for weeks beforehand, had possibly identified the leaked Panama canal document by virtue of the fact that it was a draft that lacked certain details that were in the final version of the document. As the rumor went, the document had led the air force OSI to focus its investigation on mid-level aides who worked in the US Southern or Central Command or for the joint chiefs of staff==, and had not been told to focus on the activities of the three aides until the weekend after they had been fired.

It was not immediately clear whether the rumor was correct or even from where it emerged. But it appears to have spurred theWhite House to press Parlatore to disclose the evidence against Caldwell, includinghow the Pentagon knew what was on his phone.

At first, Parlatore rebuffed the attempts to obtain the underlying evidence, noting it was inappropriate for the executive branch to insert itself into an ongoing criminal investigation that he said could still yield charges.But towards the end of April, according to what the Trump advisers shared inside the White House,Parlatore suggested that there had been a warrantless wiretap on Caldwell’s phone.

This isn’t just some botched leak investigation;it’s starting to look like a full-blown deep state op.Trump-aligned defense aideswere fired without due process. And some seemingly fake NSA wiretap story was floated to justify it.And now, no one can say who actually leaked anything, if there was even a leak to begin with.

If this was just internal drama, it would be one thing.But we’re talking about a purge inside the Department of Defense, targeting Trump officials. That’s not “office politics.” That’s sabotage.

President Trump should demand answers, fast. And anyone found to be manipulating investigations, lying about surveillance,or weaponizing national security to settle personal scores should be named and rooted out immediately. No mercy. No deals.

https://revolver.news/2025/05/mystery-deepens-over-claims-a-trump-ally-was-illegally-wiretapped-inside-the-pentagon/

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Pete Hegseth’s controversial chief of staff leaves post unexpectedly

April 25, 2025

Joe Kasper, the controversial chief of staff to the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who was central to a dramatic power struggle at the Pentagon, has left his post, in an unexpected departure.

Despite Hegseth’s assurances just days ago in a TV appearance on the Fox & Friends show that Kasper would merely transition to “a slightly different role” within the department, Kasper confirmed to Politico in a Thursday interview he will instead return to government relations and consulting, maintaining only limited Pentagon ties as a special government employee.

A senior defense official at the Pentagon confirmed the dramatic title change to the Guardian on Friday, saying Kasper would be “handling special projects at the Department of Defense”

“Secretary Hegseth is thankful for [Kasper’s] continued leadership and work to advance the America First agenda,” the official said in a statement, referring to Donald Trump’s protectionist policy push.

The quick exit comes after Kasper was implicated as the orchestrator of a power grab that led to the dismissal of three senior Pentagon officials – Dan Caldwell, Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll – allegedly as part of a leak investigation.

The administration’s first hundred days created a troubled tenure for Kasper, with anonymous sources claiming he was frequently late to meetings, failed to follow through on critical tasks, and displayed inappropriate behavior, including berating officials and making crude comments allegedly about his bowel movements during high-level meetings.

“He lacked the focus and organizational skills needed to get things done,” one anonymous insider told Politico.

Kasper previously worked at the Department of Homeland Security, the US navy and the air force during the first Trump administration before becoming a lobbyist.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/pete-hegseth-joe-kaspar-exit

(I don’t believe Kasper worked alone, anyone trying to cause chaos have many things going on, I believe Parlatore was involved. Sounds like Parlatore was in on it, tricked or used by others, he sure didn’t tell the truth, or was fed lies. I actually think a flow chart analysis could eliminate some theories and drill down to the person or people that started this. Are they investigating Parlatore? Read following article on Parlatore representing Trump.)

So were Pentagon personnel not only sabotaging his three aids, did they ever think they were also sabotaging Hegseth and still are?

>>23093092 (this is the attoreny that lied to Hegseth and the WH. Hegseth needs to get rid of Parlatore as his lawyer if he still is.)

Ex-Trump attorney explains why he left Trump's legal team

Former key Trump attorney says he left because of legal team infighting

By Kaanita Iyer, CNNMay 20, 2023

Former Donald Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore, who departed the former president’s legal team earlier this week, said Saturday he left because of infighting among the group.

“It had nothing to do with the case itself or the client,” Parlatore told CNN’s Paula Reid on “Newsroom.”

“The real reason is because there are certain individuals that made defending the president much harder than it needed to be. In particular, there is one individual who works for him, Boris Epshteyn, who had really done everything he could to try to block us – to prevent us from doing what we could to defend the president.”

In response, aspokesperson for Trumptold CNN,“Mr. Parlatore is no longer a member of the legal team. His statements regarding current members of the legal team are unfounded and categorically false.”

Parlatore played a key role in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation and organized searches for additional classified documents last year at several Trump properties and a Florida storage unit.

He also testified in December before a grand jury in the Mar-a-Lago case as Trump’s team and the Justice Department were embroiled in a dispute in which the DOJ unsuccessfully sought to hold the former president in contempt for failing to hand over all classified documents after receiving a subpoena in May 2022.

Parlatore said Saturday that Epshteyn “served as kind of a filter to prevent us from getting information to the client … In my opinion, he was not very honest with us or with the client on certain things.”

“There were certain things like the searches that he had attempted to interfere with, and then more recently, as we’re coming down to the end of this investigation where [special counsel] Jack Smith and ultimately Merrick Garland is going to make a decision as to what to do – as we put together our defense strategy to help educate Merrick Garland as to how best to handle this matter, he was preventing us from engaging in that strategy,” Parlatore said.

Epshteyn is an attorney and adviser to Trump, who first joined his orbit as a special assistant. He went on to advise Trump during the 2020 campaign and has remained close to him since he left office. Epshteyn has been involved in Trump’s legal response to the federal investigations into the former president, and he appeared at Trump’s arraignment in New York last month despite not being one of the lawyers on the case.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/20/politics/timothy-parlatore-donald-trump-cnntv/index.html

>>23093131 (Second article, he volunteered to go in front of the Grand Jury???? What atty does that?)

Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore testified before grand jury in Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe in December

By Sara Murray, CNN Fri March 24, 2023

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imothy Parlatore, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, said Thursday that he testified before a grand jury investigating classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago for several hours in December 2022 about additional searches for classified documents at Trump properties.

“I chose to go in there because I felt that it was a good opportunity as a trial lawyer for me to go in and be able to speak directly to the grand jury to explain to them what we did, to explain to them how we had complied with the subpoena, how there was no obstruction,” Parlatore told CNN.

ABC News first reported on his grand jury testimony.

Parlatore organized searches for additional classified documents last year at Trump Tower, Trump’s property in Bedminster, Mar-a-Lago, an office in Palm Beach and a Florida storage unit.

He testified before the grand jury as Trump’s team and the Justice Department were embroiled in a dispute in which the Justice Department unsuccessfully sought to hold Trump in contempt for failing to hand over all classified documents after receiving a subpoena in May 2022.

Parlatore appeared before the grand jury to respond to a battery of questions about how subsequent document searches were conducted.He was not subpoenaed to appear.Parlatore said he had provided the government copies of reports his team wrote on each of the searches of Trump properties. Prosecutors went over the reports with him in front of the grand jury, as well as details such as who conducted the searches, which properties were searched, how those locations were chosen and what was found.

The Trump attorney took issue with some of the questions prosecutors asked him during his roughly seven-hour appearance on December 22, 2022. “They repeatedly tried to ask me about my conversations with President Trump, which is totally outside the scope of what I was there for,” Parlatore said.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/politics/timothy-parlatore-testified-grand-jury-maralago-trump/index.html

MAGA’s Machiavelli: The Quiet Rise of Michael Anton

“Michael Anton saw where American politics was headed before almost anyone else,” writes Eli Lake.

A decade ago, the conservative intellectual shocked Washington with his ‘Flight 93 Election’ essay. He’s been gaining altitude ever since.

By Eli Lake

05.27.25 — U.S. Politics

Over the weekend, Iranian envoys met with their U.S. counterparts at the Omani Embassy in Rome. At the table was Michael Anton, a senior State Department official with a penchant for charcoal-brown suits, Italian neckwear, and fine wine. Earlier this month, Anton was in Istanbul. He was sent by the Trump administration to keep tabs on the first face-to-face talks between Ukrainian and Russian representatives after three years of war. It seems that wherever Trump’s highest stakes diplomacy is taking place, one will find Anton.

His name is not known to most people outside of Washington, but inside the Trump administration Anton has emerged as one of the most important intellectuals behind the president’s foreign policy revolution. In an administration beset with, at times, bitter ideological divides and an often chaotic style that has shocked both allies and foes, Anton has risen to the top by playing his cards close to his chest and deftly navigating the right’s warring foreign policy camps.

Anton has accompanied Secretary of State Marco Rubio on all but one of his overseas trips. He has been a key negotiator on U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff’s team to forge a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire. And last month, he was tapped to lead the technical talks with Iran over a possible new nuclear deal—a key role for any potential agreement that relies so much on devilish details.

Anton’s importance to the Trump administration was signaled early by the president himself.When he was appointed to be the director of the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department, Trump took the unprecedented stepof announcing the news personally, a job normally left for the incoming secretary of state. “Michael served me loyally and effectively at the National Security Council in my First Term,” Trump posted on Truth Social on December 8. “He spent the last eight years explaining what an America First foreign policy truly means.”

In an administration that often resembles the court of a European monarch, where even cabinet secretaries don’t know where they stand, Trump’s post sent a powerful signal.

Eli Lake is the host of Breaking History, a new history podcast from The Free Press. A veteran journalist with expertise in foreign affairs and national security, Eli has reported for Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, and Newsweek. With Breaking History, he brings his sharp analysis and storytelling skills to uncover the connections between today’s events and pivotal moments in the past.

https://www.thefp.com/p/magas-machiavelli-the-quiet-rise-of-michael-anton

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Michael Anton ended a stint at the National Security Council by cooking dinner for the president of France.

Michael Anton, a classically trained chef who favors French cuisine, resigned April 8 in a phone call with President Donald Trump, the night before Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster’s successor, John Bolton, started work.

By MARK LANDLER The New York Times

WASHINGTON — In the ceaseless churn of the Trump administration, there are many ways to leave the White House. Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the ousted national-security adviser, exited to the applause of colleagues who lined the West Wing parking lot. Reince Priebus ducked, alone, into a car on a rain-slick tarmac after being tossed out as chief of staff.

But nobody has matched the valedictory of Michael Anton, who ended a roiling 14-month stint at the National Security Council on Tuesday by cooking dinner for the president of France.

Anton, a classically trained chef who favors French cuisine, resigned April 8 in a phone call with President Donald Trump, the night before McMaster’s successor, John Bolton, started work. As he packed up his office the next day, he made a special request of the current chief of staff, John Kelly:that he be allowed to come back for a day to work as a line cook in the White House kitchen, helping to prepare Trump’s state dinner for President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

At first bewildered by the request, Kelly gave his blessing.

So on Tuesday morning — clad in starched chef’s whites and wielding a knife — Anton, 48, stood at a table in the middle of a compact, busy kitchen, rows of silver pots hanging behind him. He expertly sliced rows of tiny crescent-shape puff pastries that would be used to make shrimp canapés.

Around him, the kitchen was a tarantella of activity: Four cooks grilled racks of lamb, another rinsed lettuce and yet another arranged grilled vegetables on a platter. A television on the wall was tuned to CNN, with images of Trump welcoming Macron to the Oval Office — a constant reminder of the approaching dinner bell.

“I’m a rare thing in Washington conservative circles: a right-wing Francophile,” said Anton, who first served in the White House during the George W. Bush administration, when the Iraq war curdled relations with Paris.

“It makes it a special honor that I didn’t merely cook at the state dinner, but of all people, I cooked for the president of France. He added, “We’ve come a long way since freedom fries,” referring to an effort to rename French fries during the war.

Even in a White House of motley personalities, Anton stood out. Tall and trim, with bespoke suits, suspenders and crisply folded pocket squares (he once wrote a how-to book on men’s fashion under the nom de plume Nicholas Antongiavanni), he was a dandy in a sea of ill-fitting, rumpled suits (think Steve Bannon or Sean Spicer).

Anton had his dress rehearsal in February when Trump welcomed the nation’s governors to dinner at the White House. He was one of 15 cooks preparing 140 meals. Anton’s assignment was to help make risotto (“I minced an enormous amount of garlic,” he recalled).

For Trump’s first state dinner, the stakes were much higher. The White House billed the menu as “a showcase of the best of America’s cuisines and traditions, with nuances of French influences.” That translated into New Orleans-style rack of spring lamb and Carolina gold rice jambalaya, “scented with the trinity of Cajun cooking — celery, peppers and onions.”

It is not exactly Anton’s culinary sweet spot, but he said cheerfully, “I’ll do whatever I’m told to do.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/departing-national-security-aides-grand-finale-cooking-for-a-state-dinner/