27 Jul, 2025 10:02

‘Corrupt’ Ukraine cannot be trusted – ex-Trump advisor

Zelensky’s recent attempts to suppress anti-graft agencies “smells like gangsterism, not democracy,” Steve Cortes has said

Kiev’s recent crackdown on anti-corruption agencies is yet more proof that Ukrainian leaders are leaning towards authoritarianism and “cannot be trusted,” Steve Cortes, a former advisor to US President Donald Trump, has said.

Earlier this month, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky moved to place the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) under executive oversight – which would essentially strip them of any independence – while claiming the agencies were under Russian influence.

The move, however, prompted mass protests at home and Western criticism, with EU officials warning that they could reconsider further aid to Kiev.

In an op-ed for Newsweek on Friday, Cortes, who is now the president of the League of American Workers advocacy group, described the crackdown as “an extra-judicial attack on decency.” “This raid reeks – and it smells like gangsterism, not democracy.”

The move by Zelensky, reportedly backed by his chief of staff, Andrey Yermak – whom Cortes described as “co-president” – shows that they “act in very authoritarian ways themselves – and increasingly reveal to the world that they are not transparent, reliable partners for the United States.”

Cortes went on to accuse Kiev of entrenched high-level corruptionand argued that continued US aid is unjustified. “It is no wonder that Americans increasingly realize that sending $175 billion of borrowed money to corrupt leaders in Ukraine is just not sound policy,” he wrote.

“Sending mountains of borrowed funds to kleptocrats actually harms America’s national security, all while making our country poorer,” he said while urging Americans tostop lionizing Zelensky and comprehend the reality of Ukraine’s corruption.

The American people have been unbelievably generous, but our patience is wearing thin… In this case, given the latest tactics and optics of the Zelensky/Yermak regime, it becomes ever clearer that these counterparts cannot be trusted.

Following domestic and international backlash, Zelensky backpedaled on the crackdown, proposing that the independence of Ukraine’s anti-graft institutions be restored.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova suggested thatneither NABU nor SAPO is really fighting corruption but rather are used by Kiev’s backers as tools “to control the flow of money coming to Ukraine from the West.”

https://www.rt.com/news/622046-corrupt-ukraine-cannot-be-trusted/

Devin Nunes Discusses the DNI Revelations Released by Tulsi Gabbard – Draws Attention to the Mar-a-Lago Raid

July 26, 2025 | Sundance |

Former House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes appears on OAN with former Congressman Matt Gaetz to discuss the information released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

As noted by Nunes,why did it take this long for the information to surface?That question showcases how corrupt the DC system -the Intelligence Community- is in its effort to protect itself from accountability.

Nunes also points to the raid on Mar-a-Lago as a possible entry point for investigative accountability. WATCH:

Let me refreshon something that could potentially be a revelation down the road.

In 2022 a Florida judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Trump against Hillary Clinton. [65-page Ruling Here] The media enjoyed ridiculing Trump using the words of the judge who dismissed the case. As noted by the Washington Times, “Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, said Mr.Trump’s filing was too lengthy, detailing events that “are implausiblebecause they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached.”

When I originally read the 108-page Donald Trump lawsuit filed in March 2022, it took me a few moments, and thenI realized this was not a lawsuit; this was a legal transfer mechanism created by lawyers to establish a proprietary information silo.

Here’s a totally different take on the issues surrounding the Trump -v- Clinton lawsuit, which -from the outset- I always believed was going to be dismissed because suing all of those characters under the auspices of a civil RICO case was never the objective.

In the aftermath of the filing,the silo created by the lawsuit is grounded upon attorney-client privilege, a legal countermeasure to a predictable DOJ-NSDlawfare maneuver,which unfolded in the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid and the subsequent Jack Smith targeting operation.

In March 2022 President Trump filed a civil lawsuit against: Hillary Clinton, Hillary for America Campaign Committee, DNC, DNC Services Corp, Perkins Coie, Michael Sussmann, Marc Elias, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Dolan, Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Robby Mook, Phillipe Reines as well as Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, Orbis Business Intelligence, Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Neustar Inc., Rodney Joffe, James Comey Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith and Andrew McCabe. [108-Page Lawsuit Here]

When I was about one-third of the way through reading the lawsuit, I initially stopped and said to myselfthis is going to take a lot of documentary evidence to back up the claims in the assertions. Dozens of attachments would be needed and hundreds of citations to the dozens of attachments would be mandatory.Except, they were not there.

After reading further, while completely understanding the background material that was being described in the filing, I realized this wasn’t a lawsuit per se’. The 108-pages I was holding in my hands was more akin to legal transfer mechanism from President Trump to lawyers who needed it.

The lawsuit filing was contingent upon a series of documents that would be needed to support the claims within it.

Whoever wrote the lawsuit had obviously reviewed the evidence to support the filing. However,the attachments and citations were missing.

That was weird.

That’s when I realized thepurpose of the lawsuit.In hindsight, things became clear when the FBI later raided the home of Donald Trump, andsuddenly the motive to confiscate documents, perhaps the missing lawsuit attachments and citations, surfaced.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/26/devin-nunes-discusses-the-dni-revelations-released-by-tulsi-gabbard-draws-attention-to-the-mar-a-lago-raid/

Devin Nunes Exposes Deep State Lies Behind Trump Russia Hoax | The Matt Gaetz ShowFull video

22:02

https://youtu.be/FNAq_46f4l0

Devin Nunes Discusses the DNI Revelations Released by Tulsi Gabbard – Draws Attention to the Mar-a-Lago Raid 1/2

July 26, 2025 | Sundance |

Former House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes appears on OAN with former Congressman Matt Gaetz to discuss the information released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

As noted by Nunes,why did it take this long for the information to surface?That question showcases how corrupt the DC system -the Intelligence Community- is in its effort to protect itself from accountability.

Nunes also points to the raid on Mar-a-Lago as a possible entry point for investigative accountability. WATCH:

Let me refreshon something that could potentially be a revelation down the road.

In 2022 a Florida judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Trump against Hillary Clinton. [65-page Ruling Here] The media enjoyed ridiculing Trump using the words of the judge who dismissed the case. As noted by the Washington Times, “Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, said Mr.Trump’s filing was too lengthy, detailing events that “are implausiblebecause they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached.”

When I originally read the 108-page Donald Trump lawsuit filed in March 2022, it took me a few moments, and thenI realized this was not a lawsuit; this was a legal transfer mechanism created by lawyers to establish a proprietary information silo.

Here’s a totally different take on the issues surrounding the Trump -v- Clinton lawsuit, which -from the outset- I always believed was going to be dismissed because suing all of those characters under the auspices of a civil RICO case was never the objective.

In the aftermath of the filing,the silo created by the lawsuit is grounded upon attorney-client privilege, a legal countermeasure to a predictable DOJ-NSDlawfare maneuver,which unfolded in the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid and the subsequent Jack Smith targeting operation.

In March 2022 President Trump filed a civil lawsuit against: Hillary Clinton, Hillary for America Campaign Committee, DNC, DNC Services Corp, Perkins Coie, Michael Sussmann, Marc Elias, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Dolan, Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Robby Mook, Phillipe Reines as well as Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, Orbis Business Intelligence, Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Neustar Inc., Rodney Joffe, James Comey Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith and Andrew McCabe. [108-Page Lawsuit Here]

When I was about one-third of the way through reading the lawsuit, I initially stopped and said to myselfthis is going to take a lot of documentary evidence to back up the claims in the assertions. Dozens of attachments would be needed and hundreds of citations to the dozens of attachments would be mandatory.Except, they were not there.

After reading further, while completely understanding the background material that was being described in the filing,I realized this wasn’t a lawsuit per se’.The 108-pages I was holding in my hands was more akin to legal transfer mechanism from President Trump to lawyers who needed it.

The lawsuit filing was contingent upon a series of documents that would be needed to support the claims within it.

Whoever wrote the lawsuit had obviously reviewed the evidence to support the filing. However,the attachments and citations were missing.

That was weird.

That’s when I realized thepurpose of the lawsuit.In hindsight, things became clear when the FBI later raided the home of Donald Trump, andsuddenly the motive to confiscate documents, perhaps the missing lawsuit attachments and citations, surfaced.

(https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/26/devin-nunes-discusses-the-dni-revelations-released-by-tulsi-gabbard-draws-attention-to-the-mar-a-lago-raid/

==Devin Nunes Exposes Deep State Lies Behind Trump Russia Hoax | The Matt

Gaetz Show== Full video

22:02

https://youtu.be/FNAq_46f4l0

>>23389019

2/2

With the manipulative, and I said intentional, “ongoing investigation”angle created by the John Durham probe essentially blocking public releaseof declassified documents showing the efforts of all the lawsuit participants (Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax),in 2021 President Trump needed a legal way to secure and more importantly share evidence.

Think of it like thepeople around Trumpwanting to show lawyers the evidence in the documents. However, because of the construct of the lawfare being deployed against Trump,any lawyer would need a reason to review the evidence. The Trump -v- Clinton et al lawsuit becomes that ‘reason.’

The “documents” (classified or not) were likely reviewed by lawyers in preparation for the lawsuit. This is their legal justification for reviewing the documents. In essence, thelawsuit was a transfer mechanism permitting the Trump legal team to review the evidence on behalf of their client, former President Donald Trump.

Once the formation of the lawsuit was established, the retainer and acceptance of the lawyers to represent their client cemented, the legal counsel, discussion and information withinlegal duties/obligations of those who represent the plaintiff (Trump) becomes an information silo. In addition to previous executive privilege established by President Trump himself; outside government there is now another silo to defend against the motives of the Lawfare crew (DOJ),the attorney-client privilege.(Trump took all the proof with him when he left, the FBI was looking for the “White Binder”. Remember Meadows transferred the documents to the Archived, and they never published them, and they sent all the docs to the Bidan WH. The Archivist started this when he reported to the FBI that he say, the day Trump was moving, he said he saw him taking “highly classified documents”, that’s why the FBI came for an inspection visit in Feb, they were looking for the docs. Thats why they conducted the raid in August. The goal was to block all the evidence from getting out.)

The lawsuit itself then becomes a transfer mechanism permitting sharing of the documents and providing legal cover for the reviewers (lawyers). The details within the 108-page filing constitute the claims of the plaintiff in the lawsuit, which were established by the evidentiary documentslater seized by the DOJ and FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.(I don’t think they ever seized the documents, no one could find them, so they took anything they could get their hands on)

“Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, said Mr. Trump’s filing was too lengthy, detailing events that “are implausible because they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached.”

There were no attachments and/or citations to the documentary evidencein the 108-page filing, becausethere was a legal risk to citing evidence with a status in disputeby the corrupt people in Main Justice and the FBI.

Secondarily, there was an obstruction riskto the President in 2022, if his legal team was to publish citations that were part of an ongoing investigation (John Durham). However, this doesn’t negate the value of constructing the information silo, an attorney-client privilege.

The lawsuit was dismissed in March 2022.

In August 2022 the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago.

If the documents chased by the FBI were part of the lawsuit established by President Trump and his legal team via Trump -v- Clinton,then the material seized by the FBI would be -in part- attorney client work product. Lawfully obtained, constitutionally declassified and legally protected material.

According to later reports all of the documents were returned to President Trump at the conclusion of the Jack Smith investigation.

I think Devin Nunes is right to draw attention to the motive of the FBI to raid Mar-a-Lago.

Given the nature of the FBI working collaboratively with the Clinton crew in 2016/2017,I genuinely suspect it was the underpinning evidence to support the claims of the Trump -vs- Clinton lawsuit the FBI were looking for.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/26/devin-nunes-discusses-the-dni-revelations-released-by-tulsi-gabbard-draws-attention-to-the-mar-a-lago-raid/

Lawsuits attached

>>23389026

Trump’s lawsuit starts off almost exactly how Tulsi described in her investigation. Did Tulsi read the document and copy a lot of what Trump and lawyers put in her reports.

Read this:

>>23389019

Here’s the HPSI report that Nunes says everyone should read the report. Synopsis by Crawford:

Crawford on the Release of the HPSCI Majority Staff Report Providing the Unprecedented & Overdue Truth on the Russia Collusion Hoax

Connects the Dots for the American People Once & For All

• WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01) released the following statement in response to the declassification and release of the 2017 HPSCI Majority staff report that exposes an unprecedented level of truth about the politically-driven Obama-era Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) which falsely legitimized and fueled the Russia collusion hoax against President Trump and the American people.

• “This report is the final nail in the coffin of the Russia hoax, which has perpetrated the greatest political fraud on the American people for over 8 years and undermined President Trump’s first term in office.This HPSCI staff report, for the first time, exposes in-depth details on how the Intelligence Community manufactured the Russia collusion hoax.

• “This garbage ICA exploited the credibility that comes with the word ‘intelligence’ in the eyes of the American people. In reality, the HPSCI Majority staff report documents this product was, at best, a failure to follow basic standards that would get a student expelled from school and, at worst, a direct and intentional misrepresentation of available information.

• “The Russia hoax will go down as one of the most troublesome events in U.S. history. A President of the United States was falsely accused, and a nation had to endure lies fabricated by rogue personnel within their own Intelligence Community. To this day, our country is more polarized than ever before, and the Russia hoax played a role in that. There are still Americans who passionately believe the fabricated narrative. That is why releasing this document to the public has been so important.

• “A handful of unelected bureaucrats at the CIA, with approval and encouragement from CIA Director Brennan and FBI Director Comey, were able to cobble together pieces of ‘intelligence,’ in some cases unrelated and unsourced, lacking credibility—to create a ‘Frankenstein’ report that supported the political story they wanted told.

• “When I became Chair, I swore we would address analytic integrity and start holding those who refuse to do the right thing accountable. I refuse to let this Committee become part of the problem that envelopes portions of the IC. Change doesn’t happen overnight, but it begins with bold action. As I’ve said before, the politicization of intelligence that policymakers depend on to inform decisions, and in this case, inform the American people, is never acceptable. This matters regardless of who is the President. Under this Committee’s oversight, change will happen. And under the leadership of DNI Gabbard and CIA Director Ratcliffe, the IC, specifically the CIA, is poised to undergo wholesale reform in light of this new information, placing them on the path to regaining the trust of the American people.

•“I want to thank former HPSCI Chairman Nunes for spearheading this effort back in 2017 and the staff who spent endless hours investigating and drafting this report under untold levels of obstruction by the CIA.Ultimately, thanks to President Trump, light is illuminating the truth.”

The Committee report clearly lays out that the IC had evidence that—

• Putin had no preference as to who won the 2016 Presidential Election, as evidenced by reliable intelligence that was ignored in the ICA

Putin expected Hillary Clinton to win

Russia had explosive information on Hillary Clinton’s poor health and on possible criminal acts by federal agency employees—information that Putin could have used to help elect President Trump—but Putin chose to keep the information in reserve so it could be used against Clinton after she was elected President

• The Committee report clearly documents how, to further the Russia hoax, the CIA career analysts who authored the ICA engaged in analytic tradecraft malpractice, including through:

• Ignoring intelligence showing that during the 2016 campaign, Russia declined to release explosive allegations about Hillary Clinton’s health and possible illegal actions by government employees to aid her campaign

Manufacturing evidence that Putin’s inner circle preferred Republican candidates over Democratic candidates

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Failing to follow mandated intelligence community standards

https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2576

Read more on the background of the 2017 HPSCI staff report here.

>>23389093

In March 2025, Chairman Crawford provided the Committee report to the CIA for a sanitation review for future release. Following Chairman Crawford’s letter to President Trump, the Chairman provided the White House and ODNI a copy of the report, at their request.

Rep. Rick Crawford

@RepRickCrawford

The CIA’s self-review of its 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference falls FAR SHORT of the full truth. It is abysmal CIA would put out a memo with half-truths, inaccuracies, and blatant omissions about the full extent of the Russia hoax and the deep state’s role.Even worse, they released this report while holding the Intel Committee’s report on the same issue hostage for 7 years.

Thanks to the swift response and intervention from @POTUS and the @WhiteHouse after receiving my letter, our investigative document on the Russia hoax has been handed over by the CIA and is back in the Committee’s custody.

3:24 PM · Jul 3, 2025

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>>23389110

Crawford is telling Trump Ratcliffe was covering for CIA when he released his pathetic report weeks ago, and the CIA was withholding their own HPSI report, and he asked Trump to help him get their own document back.

He also mentioned the CIA was also withholding information on “Anamolous Incidents and Covid”

>>23389131

Here’s the Ratcliffe with Maria video

https://x.com/TheStormRedux/status/1949478121465434129

>>23389133

It seems like Candace Owens is fixated on getting her prestige back. And apparently attacking Trump on Epstein files. I think she is out of balance but is a great researcher

>>23389008 prettynotable

Jason Cohen 🇺🇸

@JasonJournoDC

🚨NEW: Chris Matthews DOESN'T BELIEVE negative TRUMP polls🚨

"To be honest with you, the country is moving towards Trump. These polls, they come out and show him not doing well — I don't buy that."

"He is a stronger public figure than the Democratic people."

"Obama still has tremendous charisma —but Trump has strength."

"[Voters] want a president who is a strong figure. And he's got it. It's just there. And half the country buys it."

@DailyCaller

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Is he trying to get a pardon?

Tom Cotton

@SenTomCotton

James Comey’s bias against President Trump calls into question everything he did as FBI Director.

I’m working with Kash Patel on a full review of every FBI action Comey carried out during his tenure as director.

https://x.com/SenTomCotton/status/1949132036263817394

ABC News

@ABC

A ground squirrel was seen tossing wood chips, jumping around and flicking its tail at a southern Pacific rattlesnake who had likely just eaten one of its kind, according to the San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

https://abcnews.link/UpGIPC0

7:53 PM · Jul 26, 2025

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Chris Matthews on Trump, Democrats and The Future of Politics | A Charlie Rose Global Conversation

Chris Matthews loves politics and has expressed his love first as an aide to President Jimmy Carter, then to Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O’Neill, and later as a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle and host of Hardball on MSNBC.

He has closely watched the ebb and flow of American politics.

(I didn’t even know Charlie Rose was still alive. He should do another interview with Trump.)

45:28

https://youtu.be/VEsVC5snSnc

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

TRUMP DRAINS A PUTT AT TURNBERRY – NOTICE ALL THE CARTS.

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Epping: Police impose restrictions ahead of fresh protests outside migrant hotel

A major police operation is expected today as protests are set to take place outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Epping.

An anti-migrant protest and pro-migrant counter-demonstration are planned outside the Bell Hotel where there have been clashes after an asylum seeker living there there was charged with sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl.

Police were injured when violent disorder erupted at a protest on July 14, with 17 people arrested so far in connection and 10 people charged.

It remains unclear if far-right activist Tommy Robinson will attend the anti-migrant protest after earlier this weeksaying he would and bring “thousands” of his supporters, before suggesting he may no longer be attending.

Stand Up to Racism have a counter-protest planned. Police have imposed restrictions to curb any violence or disorder with a dispersal order in placegiving officers the power to remove anyone suspected of anti-social behaviour.

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https://youtu.be/YKm5er0u94k

HARNWELL: UK polls now confirm what WarRoom said for years — Nigel Farage set to have most MPs

Great News

10:51

https://rumble.com/embed/v6uiukw/?pub=4

>>23389383

On 23 June 2016 then UK prime minister David Cameron led the Tories to an epoch-defining 52-48% defeat over Brexit. Within the month, the Tories responded to the British people’s rejection of their most-cherished policy by replacing Cameron with another identikit Remainer — Theresa May. From that moment onwards, the British Establishment has been trying to sabotage Brexit. Such in-your-face contempt for your own electorate has consequences — and is one of the reasons the Tories are now on 16% and Nigel Farage’s Reform is on 34%.