Senate Democrat Fetterman says his Republican family was 'proud' after Trump praised him

Pennsylvania's Democratic Sen. John Fetterman admitted on Thursday that his family appreciated President Donald Trump's support for his recent rhetoric blasting calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Fetterman is known for breaking with his party on controversial issues like immigration, Israel, Iran and Ukraine. He also helped confirm several of Trump's Cabinet nominees and has met with Trump multiple times to find common ground.

The senator most recently condemnedmembers of his party for calling to abolish ICE, stating that it was "inappropriate and outrageous" to call for its end.

Trump praised the rhetoric in a comment at the White House, where he was meeting with African leaders.

“The new John Fetterman is exactly what you said,” Trump replied. “He’s right. He’s right. And we have to protect our police officers, and we will, and we have been.”

Fetterman told the Daily Mailthat the praise "probably made my parents proud."

"They’re big Fox News viewers," Fetterman said."My whole family is Republican."

Although the senator has embraced some more conservative stances, Fetterman has been insistent that he was not considering switching parties, stating that he would make a "bad Republican." He also sided with his party on Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" last week.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-democrat-fetterman-says-his-republican-family-was-proud-after-trump

So Trump noticed there’s a “new” John Fetterman. KEK

CIA’s Ratcliffe sent a criminal referral on John Brennan to the FBI for investigation July 10, 2025 1/3

CIA Director John Ratcliffe sent a referral to FBI Director Kash Patel related to possible criminality by ex-CIA chief John Brennan, a source on Wednesday told Just the News, following a review by the CIA that critiqued the actions taken by Brennan related to the Russiagate scandal.

The source familiar with Ratcliffe’s actions said the CIA director referred elements of Brennan’s actions to the FBI for an investigation into potential criminality.

The source, who asked to remain anonymous to discuss the sensitive matter, did not provide specificity on which activities Brennan had undertaken which Ratcliffe believed could be criminal.

Last week, Ratcliffe released a "lessons learned" review of the December 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment.

The review sharply criticized Brennan for allegedly joining with anti-Trump forces in the FBI in allegedly pushing to include British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s baseless anti-Trump dossier in the assessment. In the review, the CIA also critiqued the “high confidence” assessment by the FBI and the CIA that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had “aspired” to help President Donald Trump win in 2016.

It was originally revealed by Fox News on Tuesday that the FBI had reportedly openedinvestigations into Brennan and fired agency Director James Comey, according to anonymous Justice Department sources cited by the outlet.

The sources told Fox Newsthat Patel opened an investigation into Brennan after receiving the criminal referral from Ratcliffe. The source told the outlet that Brennan had "violated the public’s trust and should be held accountable for it."

As for Comey,DOJ sources reportedly told Fox News that an investigation into the former FBI director is underway, but could not share details ofwhat specifically is being probed. It is not clear what Comey is being investigated for, but two sources told the outlet that theFBI views the interactions between Brennan and Comey as a possible "conspiracy."

Ratcliffe tweeted last week, in announcing the CIA review being made public, that Trump “has trusted me with helping to end weaponization of U.S. intelligence” and that the report “underscores that the 2016 IC Assessment was conducted through an atypical & corrupt process under the politically charged environments” of Brennan and Comey.

A spokesperson for the DOJ told Just the News on Wednesday that “we do not comment on ongoing investigations.”

Brennan was not one of the recipients of then-President Joe Biden's thousands of pardons and grants of clemency, and lying to Congress can be a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, which forbids making false statements to the federal government, including Congress.

The statute of limitations of five years starts to run when the crime is completed, which is when the false statement is made or the false document is submitted. Thus, any alleged false statements Brennan may have made five years ago or more would not be prosecutable.

Nonetheless,Brennan spoke with special counsel John Durham in August 2020 and testified before the House Judiciary Committee in May 2023, which could put him in the crosshairs of law enforcement action until August of this year or until May 2028, respectively.

The largely declassified eight-page “lessons learned” CIA review from last week focused on the ICA about Russia and the November 2016 election. It was put together by the CIA's Directorate of Analysis (DA) at Ratcliffe’s direction and concluded that “the decision by agency heads to include the Steele Dossier in the ICA ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment.”

Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe pushed in December 2016 to include Steele's debunked dossier in the body of the 2016 ICA on alleged Russian meddling. The dossier was included in a classified annex to the assessment with the agreement of Brennan and Comey.

The new CIA review stated that “the ICA authors and multiple senior CIA managers – including the two senior leaders of the CIA mission center responsible for Russia – strongly opposed including the dossier, asserting that it did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards.”

The agency review memo also stated that the CIA’s Deputy Director for Analysis warned in a December 29, 2016 email to Brennan that including the dossier in any form risked “the credibility of the entire paper.”

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/cias-ratcliffe-sent-criminal-referral-john-brennan-fbi-investigation

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The review by the CIA also revealed that “despite these objections, Brennan showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness” and that “when confronted with specific flaws in the Dossier by the two mission center leaders – one with extensive operational experience and the other with a strong analytic background – he appeared more swayed by the Dossier's general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns.”

The CIA review memo stated that Brennan ultimately formalized his position in writing, arguing that “my bottomline is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.”

The new CIA memo also stated that “ultimately, agency heads decided to include a two-page summary of the dossier as an annex to the ICA” with an accompanying disclaimer stating that the dossier material was not used “to reach the analytic conclusions.”

The CIA review memo, however, found that “by placing a reference to the annex material in the main body of the ICA as the fourth supporting bullet for the judgment that Putin ‘aspired’ to help Trump win, the ICA implicitly elevated unsubstantiated claims to the status of credible supporting evidence, compromising the analytical integrity of the judgment.”

Brennan told MSNBC on Wednesday that “I know nothing about this reported investigation or referral to the DOJ” and that “nobody from the FBI or Department of Justice or CIA has reached out to me at all.” He said that "I am clueless about what it is exactly that they may be investigating me for."

The former CIA director said that “I’m very proud of the work that the women and men of the CIA and of the other elements of the intelligence community did … when they put together this intelligence community assessment.”

Brennan called the Ratcliffe CIA’s actions “unfortunately a very sad and tragic example of the continued politicization of the intelligence community.”

Brennan had testified before the House Judiciary Committee in May 2023, where he was mostly questioned about his role as one of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter in October 2020. But during the questioning – mostly when it was the turn of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) – Brennan was forced to talk about the ICA and the Steele Dossier.

The former CIA chief claimed that “I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all. I said the first time I actually saw it, it was after the election. And the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier. You can direct that to the FBI and to others.”

Brennan said he was aware of the FBI’s involvement with the Steele dossier “because there's an annex in the ICA, the Intelligence Community Assessment, that the Bureau asked to be included in there. It was their purview, their area, not ours at all.”

“I received a copy of it from the FBI when they were wanting to have a summary of that document put into the — or, attached to the Intelligence Community Assessment that was done. … And the CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment,” Brennan said. “And so they sent over a copy of the dossier to say that this was going to be separate from the rest of that assessment. And that's when the CIA was given formal access to it.”

The former CIA director said “no” when asked if he edited the ICA, and said “yes” when asked if he was aware of dissenting opinions about the conclusions of the ICA.

“There were individuals who had read the document within CIA who were not involved in the drafting or the analysis [who disagreed with the ICA conclusions],” Brennan said. “And so I listened to some of their concerns, but I deferred to the experts: the Russian, the counterintelligence, the cyber experts, and the analysts who actually drafted this. And so I did not overturn or change any of the judgments and language in that document.”

​​It is unclear what Brennan may have told Durham about his role with the ICA and the Steele dossier, because the transcript of Brennan’s August 2020 interview with Durham's special counsel team has not been made public. It is apparent that these topics came up during Brennan’s interview with Durham, despite quotes from that portion of Brennan’s interview not making it into the Durham report.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/cias-ratcliffe-sent-criminal-referral-john-brennan-fbi-investigation

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Then-Attorney General William Barr told The New York Times in a June 2020 interview that Durham was looking into the ICA.

“There was definitely Russian, uh, interference. I think Durham is looking at the intelligence community’s ICA – the report that they did in December [2016],” Barr said. “And he’s sort of examining all the information that was … the basis for their conclusions. So to that extent, I still have an open mind, depending on what he finds.” (Barr should be investigated when he said there was Russia collusion, sounds like he was involved in the conspiracy with Brennan and ComeyRemember the2020 article in Time, “The Coup Against Trump”, there were 100’s of not 1,000’s of people involved in the Conspiracy”. Comey and Brennan are just the start!)

Nick Shapiro, Brennan’s former deputy chief of staff and senior adviser, said shortly after Brennan spoke with Durham in August 2020 that Brennan and Durham met at CIA headquarters and that the former CIA director “welcomed the opportunity to answer Mr. Durham’s questions related to a wide range of intelligence-related activities undertaken by CIA before the 2016 presidential election as well as the Intelligence Community Assessment published in early January 2017.”

Shapiro said that Durham had informed Brennan that “he is not a subject or a target of a criminal investigation, and that he is only a witness to events that are under review.”

Brennan also went on MSNBC in September 2020 where he said of the Durham team that “I think they were testing various theories that they had heard and were asking for my views as well as my recollections on things. But it was handled in a very professional manner.”

Most of the references to Brennan in the Durham report are in reference to what Durham dubbed the “Clinton Plan intelligence” – although there are exceptions. Durham noted that, when interviewing Brennan about special counsel Robert Mueller declaring a lack of evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, Brennan offered that "they found no conspiracy."

Despite this admission, the Durham report then noted Brennan's contrary statements published less than a week before his interview with Durham.Brennan had written a New York Times opinion piece titled “John Brennan: President Trump’s Claims of No Collusion Are Hogwash” where Brennan wrote that “Russian denials are, in a word, hogwash. … Mr. Trump’s claims of no collusion are, in a word, hogwash.”

The rest of the Durham report’s mentions of Brennan largely centered on the Clinton Plan intelligence. Durham wrote that, when interviewed, “Brennan generally recalled reviewing the materials but stated he did not recall focusing specifically on its assertions regarding the Clinton campaign's purported plan. Brennan recalled instead focusing on Russia's role in hacking the DNC.”

Durham said Brennan's handwritten notes – declassified by Ratcliffe when he was the director of national intelligence in 2020 – reflect that Brennan briefed Comey, then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and others in early August 2016 regarding the "alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on 26 July of a proposal from one of her [campaign] advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services."

Brennan had repeated his claims about the ICA and the Steele dossier when speaking to Congress more than five years ago, but that testimony would likely fall outside the five-year statute of limitations on lying to Congress.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/cias-ratcliffe-sent-criminal-referral-john-brennan-fbi-investigation

FBI arrests suspect for allegedly threatening Trump in social media post about visit to Texas

July 11, 2025

The FBI and Secret Service on Thursday acted quickly to arrest a Texas man who allegedly made a threatening social media post against President Donald Trump over his Friday visit to Kerr County.

Trump visited the region on Friday to survey the damage caused by massive flooding in the area and to meet with the families who lost loved ones in the tragedy.

The Justice Department identified the suspect as 52-year-old Robert Herrera from San Antonio, who allegedly posted “I won’t miss,” on Facebook, along with a photo of Trump surrounded by Secret Service agents immediately after last year's assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

=A criminal complaint also detailed that another Facebook user told Herrera that he would not "get the chance" to try and assassinate the president, to which Herrera allegedly replied that he would "just come for you," along with a photo of an assault rifle and loaded magazines==. The posts have since been deleted.

“This case is an example of great cooperation between federal, state, and local law enforcement partners committed to taking down anyone who would threaten the life of the President or anyone else,” U.S. Attorney Justin Simmons for the Western District of Texas said in a statement. "To be clear, these types of threats will not be taken lightly, and we will always take a swift, aggressive approach, as was done here.”

The threat comes just days before the first anniversary of the Butler shooting, which occurred on July 13, 2024.

Herrera has been charged with making threats against the president and interstate threatening communications. He faces up to five years in prisonon each chargeif convicted, according to Fox News.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/fbi-arrests-suspect-allegedly-threatening-trump-social-media-post-about-visit

Presidential intel board prepping reform options for Trump, with an eye on shrinking DNI 7/5/2025 1/2

The chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), Devin Nunes, told Just the News that his colleagues are working on intelligence agency reform options for President Donald Trump,and his personal preference is to shrink the top spy agency and disperse more spies and analysts outside Washington.

“Having people in foreign countries for longer durations, in my opinion, is critically important,” Nunes said in a wide-ranging interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “And having fewer and fewer people (in DC), whether it's at the FBI or any of the Defense Department agencies.The more people you have in Washington, the worst things will be,”the former California Congressman said.

Nunes confirmed that his board, which provides civilian oversight of America’s 17 spy agencies and gives advice to the president, is preparing reform ideas for Trump.

“The President was clear to me that he wants us on the board and me as the chair,to get the politics out of the intelligence community, which would include, you know, the DOJ, the FBI, CIA and across DOD,” Nunes said.

“So we are looking at several big strategic items, which, of course, I can't talk about on this podcast. But we have a very good board, very involved. So we're looking at the overall strategies across defense and intelligence,” he added. “And then secondarily, you know,the board is used for a quick reaction teamthat can go in and analyze things on behalf of the President to try to solve problems.”

Not a knock on Gabbard, but DNI has grown "so large and out of control"

Nunes declined to describe any reforms the board is considering, saying they will be conveyed to Trump privately. But he described some of his personal observations and preferences based on his many years in Congress as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, clearly signaling a desire for a smaller DNI.

“Nothing against Director Gabbard at all, but the DNI has become so large andout of control. Andthey were the ones who were supposed to clean all this up,”Nunes said.

“I was in Congress when the Director of National Intelligence was created.It was supposed to be small and lean and stop this from happening. Instead, it became a massive bureaucracy. So, you know, the reforms have to start at the very top,” he added.

Nunes said he has an additional hope that dates back to his days in Congress: that more spies and analysts will be dispatched out of Washington to the field.

“We always wanted to limit the number of people in Washington, and no matter how hard we opposed the adding of positions, more and more people ended up in Washington D.C. And I spent my whole careertrying to figure out, how do you get more intelligence officers overseas, building relationships, learning things,” he said.

Nunes said his goal asboard chairman is to “be supportive” of initiatives like “streamlining, de-politicizing, getting people out of Washington and back into the field, where you get Americans who are patriotic, that want to work hard, that want to get out and work on behalf of their country.They don't want to be living in Washington, DC, and if they do, they're probably not the type of people that need to be in those.”

Leaks eroding trust in intelligence operations

Nunes’ comments come as the Trump White House, under acting National Security Adviser Marco Rubio, has vastly shrunk the size of the National Security Council to have it more focused on the president’s agenda. Rubio is doing double-duty as the Secretary of State.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/sunpresidential-intel-board-prepping-reform-options-trump-eye-shrinking-dni

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Meanwhile,spy agencies have been hampered by continued leaks of sensitive intelligenceranging from Israeli war plans to early assessments of the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Such episodes have eroded some of Trump’s trust in the agencies, and he openly quarrelled with DNI Tulsi Gabbard on how close Tehran was to making nuclear weapons in the days before American B2 bombers destroyed three Iranian nuclear development sites with bunker buster bombs last week.

Last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe delivered a devastating report disclosing that Obama-era intelligence agencies intentionally distorted intelligence and ignored career officials' objections in writing a now-discredited assessment in 2016 that Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 election specifically to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton. That assessment was incorporated into Democratic Party talking points and widely adopted by legacy media.

Ratcliffe identified numerous flaws and revealed the agency’s top two Russian experts directly objected to then-Director John Brennan expressing confidence in the assessment that Putin was trying to help Trump.

Brennan, now a senior national security and intelligence analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, was a signatory to the infamous letter signed by fifty other intelligence officials ahead of the 2020 election, claiming that the news about Hunter Biden's was a "Russian disinformation" operation. As a result, social media platforms and major news organizations censored stories challenging that narrative.

The FBI had possessed Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop since December 2019 and knew that files cited by the media in its coverage came from a Delaware computer repairman and not the Kremlin — but, after preemptively discrediting the news to Big Tech, "the FBI kept silent publicly as 51 ex-intelligence officials suggested and then-candidate Joe Biden outright alleged that the files came from Russia," The New York Postreported.

Ratcliffe's review "identified multiple specific concerns, including: a higher confidence level than was justified; insufficient exploration of alternative scenarios; lack of transparency on source uncertainty; uneven argumentation; and the inclusion of unsubstantiated Steele Dossier material.”

Nunes: "More information needs to be declassified"

Nunes raised similar concerns seven years ago about the assessment when he was still chairman of House Intelligence.He told Just the News that Ratcliffe’s report was helpfulbut that he is personally aware of additional intelligence that shows the conduct of the Obama-era spy agencies was even worse than the public knew.

“There's still more information that needs to be declassified,” Nunes said. “I think what Director Ratcliffe did is critically important to get this information out. It's stuff that we already, you know, basically knew," adding that"I do think that there is a lot more. And the question always comes up: how do you hold these people accountable?”(everyone knew most of Ratcliffe’s report,it seemed like it was a report to make people think the CIA are mostly honest. There was hardly any information on all the lies CIA said during Trump’s term, as if it was only Brennan lying)

https://justthenews.com/government/security/sunpresidential-intel-board-prepping-reform-options-trump-eye-shrinking-dni

BTW Ratcliffe’s sigh of relief that Trump would send arms to Ukraine was very telling, he’s now believing all the lies CIA is saying about Ukraine.Ratcliffe is captured.

>>23314203 Big surprises coming…..in two weeksPNfull article and video of Solomon

UPDATE: Kash Patel Not Resigning, Will Stay Unless President Says Otherwise — John Solomon Teases “Big Surprises” for MAGA Base in the Coming Weeks

by Jim Hᴏft Jul. 11, 2025 6:40 pm

Kash Patel is NOT resigning from his post at the FBI — unless the President himself removes him, according to new reports.

Earlier Friday, rumors exploded across social media, suggesting that FBI Director Kash Patel might join FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino in stepping down after growing friction with Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Dan Bongino reportedly took a day offfollowing a heated confrontation with Bondi over her suppression of critical evidence tied to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

According to CNN and The Daily Wire, Bongino has told confidants he is strongly considering resigning if Bondi remains at the DOJ.

Later Friday, The Daily Wire reported that Patel himself was “frustrated” with Bondi’s DOJ stonewalling and might follow Bongino out the door if the stalemate continued.

However, investigative journalist John Solomon of Just the News set the record straight with an update on Friday night.

According to Solomon,Patel is overseeing one of the largest criminal conspiracy investigations in FBI history—a decade-long look into the coordinated effort to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidency, re-election, and comeback bid.

Solomon teased that within the next 10 days, bombshell revelations would be made public — possibly exposing how weaponized federal agencies colluded to rig the political landscape against Trump and deceive the American people.

John Solomon: There are reports out there tonight that Kash Patel is considering resigning alongside Dan Bongino. It is not true. My reporting makes very clear:Kash Patel is going nowhere unless the President tries to move him. He’s there for the long haul.

Why is that?Because the FBI has a major investigation that looks at the last 10 years of what happened to Donald Trump as one large conspiracy case. No one’s going to give that opportunity up.

Now, it is true — Dan Bongino is taking a few days to reconsider whether he wants to stay in the job. That’s his decision. He’s gone through these things before.There have been times when he’s been on radio, he got mad, took a couple of days off. I bet you he’ll come back when it’s all done.

But Kash Patel is going nowhere.

And I think next week — over the next 10 days — the base who’s been wondering, “Where’s all that accountability?” is going to get some big surprises. Over the next week, we’ll learn where the conspiracy began— a few weeks before Crossfire Hurricane was opened — and ==when it ended, all the way in 2024•=, when they were still trying to pursue Donald Trump to keep him from winning the presidency.

There’s a big case that’s been built by the Justice Department and the FBI.

It’s been masked by a lot of this infighting and drama and soap opera.The matter is — MAGA-base Americans are going to be happy when they see where this is all heading in the next few weeks.

Kash Patel is going nowhere. I hope Dan Bongino isn’t going anywhere either — but I do think he’s going to take some time over the weekend to think that through.

WATCH:

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that sources told Fox News that both FBI Director Kash Patel and the Attorney General are fully committed to staying and continuing their service.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/update-kash-patel-not-resigning-will-stay-unless/

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Ok John is saying it’s not only Comey and Brennan starting “Get Trump” when Brennan did the CIA in Jan 2017, it’s all the people and agencies that tried to get Trump out. He’s talking about overriding Conspiracy almost like a class action lawsuit on all involved from 2017, along with the 2020 election, but a years long attempt of getting him out as President

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Here’s the docket for lawsuit Trump filed against Clinton and the whole gang that conspired against him.

Alina Habba was his atty. Trump is not done with any of this yet!

anons any Geremetria etc related to date filed by Trump?

March 24, 2022

Trump v. Clinton et al

Donald J. Trump

Hillary R. Clinton, Democratic National Committee, HFACC, Inc., DNC Services Corporation, Perkins Coie, LLC, Michael Sussman, Marc Elias, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Halliday Dolan Jr., Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Robert E. Mook, Phillipe Reines, Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, Orbis Business Intelligence, Ltd., Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Neustar, Inc., Rodney Joffe, James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith, Andrew McCabe, John Does 1 through 10, ABC Corporations 1 through 10, United States Of America, Adam Schiff, Rod Rosenstein and Neustar Security Services

Alina Habba, Michael T Madaio, Habba Madaio & Associates, Peter Ticktin, Jamie A Sasson and The Ticktin Law Group

2:2022cv14102

March 24, 2022

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Ft Pierce Office

Patrick M Hunt

William Matthewman

Ryon M McCabe

Donald M Middlebrooks

Bruce E Reinhart

Jared M Strauss

Alicia O Valle

Racketeer/Corrupt Organization

18 U.S.C. § 1962 Racketeering (RICO) Act

Plaintiff

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Docket Report

rickson-Pogorzelski, Anthony)

Filing 9 MOTION to Appear Pro Hac Vice, Consent to Designation, and Request to Electronically Receive Notices of Electronic Filing for Alina Habba. Filing Fee $ 200.00 Receipt # AFLSDC-15508371 by Donald J. Trump. Responses due by 4/8/2022 (Attachments: #1 Certification, #2 Text of Proposed Order)(Ticktin,

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/florida/flsdce/2:2022cv14102/610157

>>23315376 I remember later he added a lot more names

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This caselaw analysis by an atty or judge, doc is funny.IMO all the people named by PDJT in this lawsuit and those added later are targets coming soon

Despite this briefing and the promise “to cure any deficiencies,” Plaintiff's counsel filed the Amended Complaint on June 21, 2022. (DE 177).The Amended Complaint failed to cure any of the defects. See DE 267, Order of Dismissal (September 8, 2022).Instead, Plaintiff added eighty new pages of largely irrelevant allegations that did nothing to salvage the legal sufficiency of his claims. (DE 267 at 64). The Amended Complaint is 193 pages in length, with 819 numbered paragraphs, and contains 14 counts, names 31 defendants, 10 John Does described as fictitious and unknown persons, and 10 ABC Corporations identified as fictitious and unknown entities.

On July 14, 2022, the United States moved pursuant to the Westfall Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2679 (d)(i),to substitute itself as Defendant for James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Kevin Clinesmith. (DE 224). On July 21, 2022,I granted the motion to substitute. (DE 234).

Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose.Mr. Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer.He knew full well the impact of his actions. See Byrne, 261 F.3d at 1121. As such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba.

A. The Case Was Initiated By A Shotgun Pleading Designed To Serve A Political Purpose.

I find that the pleadings here were abusive litigation tactics. The Complaint and Amended Complaint were drafted to advance a political narrative; not to address legal harm caused by any Defendant.

The 819 paragraphs of the 186-page Amended Complaint are filled with immaterial, conclusory facts not connected to any particular cause of action. Consider the incendiary charge that Mr. Comey, the Director of the FBI, conspired with Ms. Clinton to maliciously prosecute him. Leaving aside the fact that Mr. Trump was never prosecuted, examine the allegations in the Amended Complaint pertaining to Mr. Comey. The first mention of Mr. Comey, other than identifying him as a party, was in paragraph 349:

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html

>>23315378 he did add more, I have both docs at my office. Seems like thisRICO Conspiracy membersare going to be held accountable

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I wish RRN would be confirmed as true, but his past articles turned out differently than he wrote

WOW! Trump Banned Secret Service Agent Connected to Butler Assassination Attempt From Getting Near Him

by Cristina Laila Jul. 12, 2025 11:

President Trump banned a Secret Service agent connected to the Butler assassination attempt from getting anywhere near him, according to RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree.

Trump told his Secret Service detail about his concerns about the unidentified junior agent at a Christmas party for the agents last year.

“As you guys can see, that person is no longer welcome here,” Trump said to the agents at the Christmas party at Mar-a-Lago, according to RCP.

Excerpt from RealClearPolitics:

Still reveling in his political comeback after surviving two near-miss assassination attempts, last December, then-President-elect Trump stopped by the Christmas party of the Secret Service detail that was responsible for both saving his life and the failures that nearly ended it.

Trump, at the time, responded to the mixed feelings in trademark fashion: He regaled the agents gathered for some light-hearted celebration after a turbulent few monthsbut didn’t mince words for one junior agent who was charged with leading security for the Butler and he appeared to hold responsible for some of the most glaring failures.

“As you guys can see, that person is no longer welcome here,” he told the crowd, elaborating thathe didn’t want this agent anywhere near him ever again, according to several Secret Service sources familiar with his comments.

Would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was able to climb on top of a roof next to Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally and put Trump in his scope.

A bullet grazed President Trump’s ear on July 13, 2024 during his Pennsylvania rally. One rallygoer was fatally struck in the head. Two other rally attendees were wounded, one critically.

A Secret Service sniper fatally shot Thomas Matthew Crooks after he took several shots at Trump and rallygoers.

Nearly a year later, six USSS personnel were suspended without pay.

On Thursday the names of the suspended Secret Service agents were revealed.

RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree identified the agents suspended and revealed the key supervisors who signed off on the final security walkthrough on Butler security plan were never disciplined.

“One of those supervisors on the final walkthroughs,Nick Menster, was assigned this year as the No. 2 in charge of the Lara and Eric Trump protective detail. The other, Nick Olszewski, ironically, became the chief (special agent in charge) of the Inspection Division, which is responsible for ensuring the accountability and integrity of the agency’s personnel and operations,” Susan Crabtree said.

Myotsoty Perez – an inexperienced agent (according to Congressional testimony, which did not name her)who was the “site agent” in charge of the security for the rally. She was part of the regular Donald Trump detail and was not chosen for the big outdoor J13 rally, but simply had her “rotation” come up, according to multiple Secret Service sources.

Meredith Bank – a far more experienced agent out of the Pittsburgh Field Office who was serving as the “lead agent” for the day of the rally – overseeing operations from the time then-candidate Trump arrived at the airport to the final departure. She told Congressional investigators that she informed Perez that her supervisor, Nick Menster, would be asking her where the local law enforcement were to be positioned in/on the AGR building.Menster, however, never specifically asked that question, according to the Congressional transcripts.

Dana Dubrey – a mid-level agent in the Pittsburgh Field Office who served as the “site counterpart.”

Tim Burke – the chief (special agent in charge) of the Pittsburgh Field Office.

Brian Pardini – the No. 2 in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office.

John Marciniak – the Uniformed Division counter sniper who was assigned to the rally late because of the Iranian threat to Trump’s life. Marciniak had just two days, instead of the customary five, to formulate his security plan.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/wow-trump-banned-secret-service-agent-connected-butler/#comments

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I’m retrieving the article by Crabtree, but it’s massively long. Link if anons want to read it. I’ll post some portions later.

One Year after Butler, Secret Service, FBI Face New Questions

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/12/one_year_after_butler_secret_service_fbi_face_new_questions_153040.html

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Susan Crabtree

@susancrabtree

==🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE AND #BREAKING: The real story behind the six Secret Service suspensions over Butler failures:

Key supervisors who signed off on the Butler security plan and two who were on the final walkthroughs before the J13 rally were never disciplined but instead received BIG PROMOTIONS, multiple sources in the Secret Service community tell RealClearPolitics==

@RCPolitics

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One of those supervisors on the final walkthroughs,Nick Menster, was assigned this year as the No. 2 in charge of the Lara and Eric Trump protective detail. The other, Nick Olszewski, ironically, became the chief (special agent in charge) of the Inspection Division, which is responsible for ensuring the accountability and integrity of the agency’s personnel and operations. (Holy Fuck they are giving them more authority )

Inexperienced agents positioned for failure and a more senior agent who spoke out about the ambiguity about the AGR roof coverage, according to Secret Service sources and Congressional testimony, are taking the fall.

Rank-and-file agents are incensed over the decision not to hold the supervisors accountable, further sinking the low morale and exacerbating retention problems throughout the agency. Secret Service Director Sean Curran was in charge of the Donald Trump detail at the time of the rally, and Menster served under his command.

Another big point – multiple Secret Service sources tell me that the original Secret Service disciplinary recommendations varied but maxed out at 52 days without pay. However, lawyers for the agents were able to scale that discipline down to 10 to 42 days without pay. This is a relatively light punishment for such egregious failures, but the fact that some of these agents didn't receive the supervisory oversight that an outdoor rally of this magnitude required is likely a mitigating factor. If so, that begs the question of why key supervisors appear to have skated.

The agents being suspended may still decide to sue the agency.

“We avoided more severe sanctions, and now we’re assessing the next steps with respect to these discussions,” said Larry Berger, an attorney for several of the suspended agents who previously has served as a general counsel for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. Berger now has his own firm, Berger and Deplas.

Three of the six who are taking the fall (unpaid suspension) are:

Myotsoty Perez – an inexperienced agent (according to Congressional testimony, which did not name her) who was the “site agent” in charge of the security for the rally. She was part of the regular Donald Trump detail and was not chosen for the big outdoor J13 rally, but simply had her “rotation” come up, according to multiple Secret Service sources.

Meredith Bank – a far more experienced agent out of the Pittsburgh Field Office who was serving as the “lead agent” for the day of the rally – overseeing operations from the time then-candidate Trump arrived at the airport to the final departure. She told Congressional investigators that she informed Perez that her supervisor, Nick Menster, would be asking her where the local law enforcement were to be positioned in/on the AGR building.Menster, however, never specifically asked that question, according to the Congressional transcripts.

Dana Dubrey - a mid-level agent in the Pittsburgh Field Office who served as the “site counterpart.”

Tim Burke – the chief (special agent in charge) of the Pittsburgh Field Office.

Brian Pardini – the No. 2 in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office.

John Marciniak – the Uniformed Division counter sniper who was assigned to the rally late because of the Iranian threat to Trump’s life. Marciniak had just two days, instead of the customary five, to formulate his security plan.

More reporting to come – especially concerning Burke and Pardini.

There’s a big contingent in the Secret Service that believes the Pittsburgh office is unfairly taking the fall when the Trump Detail, and the team of Miyo Perez, Nick Menster, with Nick Olszewski, serving as an inspector assigned to rally, are traditionally parties that should be ultimately responsible for a rally’s overall security and failures of the security plan and execution.🚨🚨🚨

(Sean is not a great leader, Dan Bongino thought it was a bad idea to assign him in charge of SS. Dan worked with him for years as a SS Agent. Dan is right!)

https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1943349185279070574

>>23315860KEK and excellent