https://nypost.com/2019/03/25/bannon-predicts-trump-to-go-full-animal-now-that-russia-probe-is-over/

Now that the Russia probe is finally over, former White House adviser Steve Bannon believes President Trump will “come off the chains” and “go full animal” on his political opponents.

“He will use it to bludgeon them,” Bannon told Yahoo News during a series of interviews this past weekend.

“When I saw no new indictments — I thought, ‘Oh my God! They didn’t indict anybody regarding the Flynn investigation, they didn’t indict Don, Jr.!’ Maybe [Mueller] could have details about obstruction of justice that are not indictable, but are meaningful,” Bannon said. “But right now, it looks like they have nothing.”

The president’s former chief strategist said he predicted a clean escape for Trump, and at one point, even suggested that he start treating the probe more seriously.

“I kept telling him, ‘Don’t say Mueller’s bad, I don’t think he’s going to have anything,’ ” Bannon remembered.

Yahoo interviewed Bannon in Rome on Friday, when the Russia probe results were handed over to Attorney General William Barr, and again on Sunday as they were being released. The 65-year-old reportedly boasted about how the findings left Democrats “in tears.”

“On ‘Rachel Maddow,’ she went 10 minutes into her show before the words ‘no indictment’ crossed her lips,” Bannon said. “On CNN, they’re in the mumble tank. They’re crestfallen. They thought this would be it.”

Bannon in Rome

https://www.foxnews.com/us/2nd-death-democratic-donor-ed-buck-apartment-ruled-meth-overdose

The second man who died in the span of 18 months at the West Hollywood apartment of Ed Buck, a 64-year-old who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic Party candidates and is well known in LGBTQ political circles, died from a methamphetamine overdose, according to a report.

“Toxicology results are back and the cause of death is an overdose,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Investigator Quilmes Rodriguez told The Daily Beast on the death of 55-year-old Timothy Dean of West Hollywood, Calif. Rodriguez later said the drug was meth. Dean was pronounced dead at the apartment in January after police responded to a report of a person not breathing.

Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, told Fox News on Monday night: “This is a tragedy. … Mr. Buck had nothing to do with his death.”

Amster said his client didn't know where Dean “got the meth, and he came over to the apartment intoxicated.”

Amster blamed the L.A. drug problem on the West Hollywood City Council, which he said would rather focus on headlines than fix the issues of its community: “The meth problem is the issue in West Hollywood. … Drugs are out of control in West Hollywood.”

However, close friends of Dean in January said they knew him as a sober, spiritual soul who didn’t abuse drugs and wanted to stay “as far away as possible” from the California political operative.

Fox News reported last month that Dean had warned his friends to steer clear of the well-connected donor and referred to him as a “f—ing devil” and “a horrible, horrible man.”

Activists and family members have been calling for Buck’s arrest, saying if Dean and the other man who died, 26-year-old Gemmel Moore, had been white there would be more attention on the case.

Moore died of a methamphetamine overdose in July 2017. He was found naked on a mattress in Buck’s living room, which was littered with drug paraphernalia.

Prosecutors didn’t file criminal charges, citing insufficient evidence

http://time.com/5558585/islamic-state-detainees-tribunal-sdf-syria/

(BEIRUT) — The U.S-backed Syrian fighters who drove the Islamic State from its last strongholds called Monday for an international tribunal to prosecute hundreds of foreigners rounded up in the nearly five-year campaign against the extremist group.

The administration affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said such a tribunal is needed “for justice to take its course,” particularly after countries have refused to bring home their detained nationals. The SDF has captured more than 1,000 foreign fighters, including many from Western countries.

“We don’t have other options,” Abdulkerim Umer, a foreign affairs official in the Kurdish-led administration, told The Associated Press. “No one wanted to take the responsibility (of repatriating their nationals). We can’t put up with this burden alone.”

Western countries have largely refused to take back their detained citizens, fearing they would not be able to convict them in civilian courts and that they could pose a security risk. The problem has grown more urgent since President Donald Trump announced his intention to reduce the U.S. military presence in Syria, where American forces are fighting alongside the SDF.