TREASON TRAITOR 2 625
ESTB 6 25
devil term 1219 PRIMARY 5 25 BONDI EXECUTE PRESS LEAKERS
TWO 625
merri ok
right throws this term around pretty casually, but if can make the name stick?!
see disambig 9/20 on barr; sedition, insurrection "soft" coup
SEE RETALIATION LIE ANY MEANS FASCISM MALE STRICT FR
DEVIL TERM VS PATRIOT LOVE AMERICA
// TYRANT GUBMINT (ANY POLICY THAT TAKES Freedumb)
SEE OPPOSITE SYCOPHANT YES
SEE TULSI GABBARD RUSSIAGATE BS CRM 4 MAPPED INCITE POL VIOLENCE // ELIMINATIONALIST
SEE DEEP STATE BS
see matt walsh
see execution hang mike pence
see enemy
ENEMIES LIST
qanon map has 3 buckets, evil,traitor and __
SEE STRICT FATHER MAN VIOLENCE
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Trump has amplified attacks on a general caught up in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest purge, sharing a post calling the fired officer a traitor and demanding a stint in prison.
The controversy stems from this week’s ouster of Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, an Army strategist on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. Hegseth put an end to Sylvia’s tenure after he was accused of passing along classified details on Iran and Ukraine to the press.
On Friday, Trump put up two screenshots on Truth Social of conservative voices praising Hegseth’s decision and wanting the general prosecuted. In one such post, Sylvia was branded a “traitor” who ought to be “sent to Leavenworth,” the military prison for personnel convicted by court-martial. While Trump did not make the demand for incarceration directly, he saw to it that the call for retribution was put before his followers.
It is yet another senior officer to go from the department since Hegseth assumed command nearly two years ago.
Sylvia, ex-commander of the 101st Airborne Division, was the director for strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Staff.
The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon has put the case before the Justice Department for any legal action it sees fit, though the department has not publicly released supporting evidence. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said an internal probe led to the personnel move and that the department has zero tolerance for unauthorized disclosures of classified material.
CBS News cited a Pentagon official saying Sylvia failed three polygraph tests over the alleged leaks, but two other Pentagon sources disputed the accusations while still linking the firing to the tests.
This is part of Hegseth’s drive to root out officials he believes are leaking classified information to the news media, which has led to stricter rules for reporters and more polygraph testing.
When pressed on the allegations against Sylvia on Thursday, Trump had this to say: “She’s going to have big problems. Long-term problems.” He appeared to be referring to the male general as a woman. The president added that the administration was looking for those who let sensitive information slip.
At first, the Joint Staff issued a note of thanks for Sylvia’s 32 years in the military, then retracted it the next day, saying it did not accurately reflect the full circumstances. Sylvia, a recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his service in Afghanistan, has not publicly addressed the allegations.
One colleague told The Washington Post that Sylvia had denied leaking classified information but acknowledged having dealings with reporters in the past.
Sylvia is not the first to leave under Hegseth; his predecessor in the same post, Lt. Gen. Joseph McGee, was forced to retire last year.
As things stand, the case is under investigation. A referral is not the same as criminal charges being filed, and it is not known if the Justice Department will bring a case against the general.
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Trump keeps demanding criminal punishment for reporting he dislikes — including about his crowd sizes
After 13 treason accusations and a demand for an investigation of pollsters, a new low in his war on the press
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 10/06/26
President Donald Trump keeps demanding that journalists face arrest and prosecution for reporting that displeases him, and his purported standards for criminal sanctions are developing in bizarre ways over the course of his second term.
His war on the free press hit a new low on Monday when the president declared that unnamed persons at The New York Times “should be arrested” for reporting there were “empty seats” at his rally in Ohio, when instead, he claimed, the arena was “full to the brim.”
It feels crazy to need to write this, but journalists should not be arrested because the president doesn’t like the way they report on the sizes of his crowds. Trump’s declaration that they should demonstrates yet again his abhorrence of the First Amendment and the basic principles of free speech on which this country was founded.
And Trump’s statement mixes absurdity with its menace — not least because the Times report he cited actually described the president’s appearance in Alabama on Friday, not the event in Ohio on Saturday.
The slipshod authoritarianism of Trump’s Times attack
The New York Times published an article about Trump’s October 2 campaign rally in Mobile under the headline “In Alabama, Trump Relives His Glory Days (This Time With Some Empty Seats).” The report by Times White House correspondent Shawn McCreesh termed Mobile “the birthplace of the MAGA rally,” and contrasted the turnout Trump received at an August 2015 event early in his first presidential run to the lackluster crowd that came to see him that night.
“These days, Mr. Trump is in political trouble, even with members of his famously loyal base,” McCreesh reported. “The indoor arena that he spoke at on Friday was a fraction of the size of the football stadium he once spoke in — security concerns are such that he rarely speaks in outdoor venues anymore — and still the place was not full. Some upper sections were almost completely empty.”
The article featured a photo showing empty seats as Trump addressed the crowd on Friday.
The president lashed out at the Times on Monday, quoting from and denouncing McCreesh’s article — and calling for arrests — while misrepresenting or mixing up which rally that article had detailed.
“The Ohio Arena was already full to the brim — And yet these people were still trying to get in,” Trump claimed in a Truth Social post. “The New York Times said, ‘There were empty seats’ when, in fact, there were none, and thousands of people had to be turned away. The New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested for their dishonesty and disservice to our Country.”
“The Fake News New York Times ‘reported’ on my Great, PACKED Rally in Ohio that, ‘the place was not full. Some upper sections were almost completely empty,’” Trump wrote falsely in a second post. “In actuality, thousands of people were unable to get in. The Arena was totally MAXED OUT, including all upper sections.”
The president’s posts featured video and photos from in and outside the Ohio rally in an effort to disprove the Times report, which was about the Alabama rally. Notably, the Times article on the event in Ohio — authored by the Times’ Katie Rogers, who wrote she had been “covering Trump rallies, on and off, for almost a decade” — reported “several areas of an upper deck were empty by the time Mr. Trump finished speaking at a 4,500-capacity high school student activity center” and “attendees close to the stage were seated in neat rows” rather than the “old norm of standing room only.”
Trump positions what he claims are inaccurate statements about his rallies as part of a media conspiracy against the GOP. “My Rally crowds and enthusiasm are unbelievable!” he wrote on Tuesday. “Nobody has ever seen anything like it. We are flipping races all over the place. The Fake News knows it, but they don’t want to be truthful with their viewers. It’s all happening!”
Trump keeps demanding criminal punishment for reporting he dislikes
Trump and his administration have spent his second term engaged in a systematic assault on the free press, one that includes unhinged vitriol directed at journalists; lawsuits directed at news outlets that produce critical reporting; regulatory efforts to punish critical outlets and reward friendly media owners; cutting federal funding to some public media outlets and reducing the editorial independence of others, attempts to curtail the access of outlets that produce unfavorable reporting; and the use of the law enforcement apparatus against reporters.
Over the last two years, journalists have faced federal searches and seizures, investigations, and even arrest and prosecution over their reporting. Trump himself has routinely called for journalists to face such criminal punishment when they produce reporting he doesn’t like.
In April 2025, for instance, Trump called for an investigation into pollsters and the media outlets that employ them after surveys from the Times and Washington Post/ABC showed his actions were unpopular, alleging the outlets had been “looking for a negative result.”
“These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the FoxNews Pollster while you’re at it,” he wrote. “They are Negative Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I WIN ELECTIONS BIG, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.”
Trump has also accused news outlets and journalists of treasonous or nearly treasonous action at least 13 times since December, with the frequency and vehemence of such declarations increasing over time.
He has specifically described as “treasonous” outlets including the Times that reported the Iran war has left Iran in a strengthened position; unnamed “SCUM” reporting that the war reduced U.S. munitions stockpiles to a critical level; and The Washington Post for reporting that he is displeased with the performance of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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The Gateway Pundit's Joe Hoft: Jack Smith “should be hung, don't you think?”
Hoft: “He's so rotten. It's so bad.”
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published 10/06/26
As Media Matters previously reported:
Jim Hoft's website, The Gateway Pundit,“is one of the worst purveyors of false information on the internet.” The website — to which Hoft's brother, Joe, is a contributor — reportedly became “a favorite news source” of President Donald Trump after it “pushed false claims of a stolen election“ for years following the presidential election of 2020.
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CHRIS ALEXANDER (CO-HOST): What about Jack Smith, Joe? What about Jack Smith?
JOE HOFT (THE GATEWAY PUNDIT): What a — he should be hung, don't you think? I mean, he's so rotten. It's so bad.
DANIELLE WALKER (CO-HOST): Yeah.
HOFT: He's rotten. He's been doing — you know, he — there was a senator years ago that he took down. Do you remember that? It was under Obama. I think Obama's first year, there was a Republican senator out of Alaska they made a bunch of lies about. He eventually, I think, got either kicked out or resigned, and that gave Obama a 60-40 Senate, or he could push through with whatever he wanted. And Jack Smith was behind that takedown, and the guy died. And then he — they found out, no, he didn't do anything wrong.
ALEXANDER: Yeah.
HOFT: And that was Jack Smith so —
WALKER: How evil. How evil.
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20-Plus Times Jim Hoft And The Gateway Pundit Were Absurdly Wrong
01/25/17 10:21 AM EST
Calls for retaliatory prosecutions are the next phase in the right’s rewriting of January 6
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FOX BS VID] Conservative nonprofit names top Education Dept bureaucrats Trump should fire | Fox News
FIRST ON FOX - The American Accountability Foundation, a conservative government research nonprofit, assembled a "watch-list" of top bureaucrats at the Department of Education who it recommends President-elect Donald Trump should fire.
The AAF, which has received funding from the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation in the past, published a list on its website of 19 "dossiers" naming "America's Most Subversive Education Bureaucrats."
AAF President Tom Jones, a former Republican congressional staffer, told Fox News Digital that the "public-facing" list was not compiled at the behest of the Trump transition team, but rather because the conservative organization believes it's important that the American people "understand that there's a lot of civil servants within the federal government, and particularly within the Department of Education, who are not impartial technicians executing on the agenda of the president, but rather are ideologues who have an agenda that they're willing to implement despite the clear direction from the voters in November."
"At the end of the day, it's fundamentally undemocratic. What you get is a group of people who don't reflect the will of the American people implementing their agenda over that of what the American people said was their will in November....
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President Trump keeps casually accusing news outlets of treason
He’s accused journalists of almost or actually committing treason at least 13 times since last year
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 09/23/26
President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post published shortly before midnight on Tuesday, declared reporters at news outlets that produce reporting critical of his administration as “treasonous.”
Trump, in his rambling and confused message, expressed dismay that CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and other unnamed “SLEAZEBAGS” had been present to cover his Tuesday appearance at the United Nations General Assembly after he banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House on Friday. He added of Collins: “She’s got a ‘TRUMP’ addiction, and so does CNN and MSDNC [MSNOW]. They’re all sick, treasonous, and demented!”
The post marked at least the third time this month, and the ninth time since March, that Trump had accused news outlets of “treasonous” reporting, according to a Media Matters review of his statements on social media and transcripts of his public events compiled by Roll Call’s Factba.se. The president also said news outlets had nearly or almost committed treason on four additional occasions during his second term, though since May he has transitioned to making outright accusations.
Treason is “the only crime expressly defined by the Constitution,” which limits such charges to “levying war” against the United States or “in adhering to [its] enemies, giving them aid and comfort,” and the Supreme Court has narrowly interpreted that definition. Trump has nonetheless declared that a slew of figures — from Democratic congressional leaders like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to leakers within his administration to critics of AI to members of the group that filed suit to block his construction of a White House ballroom — have committed treason by defying his will.
But his frequent claims that news outlets are committing treason by publishing reports he doesn’t like are particularly worrisome and fit into a larger war on the press in which his administration has used state power to punish journalists for their work. The Justice Department, for example, argued in a Tuesday night court filing that the president’s banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House is justified because the outlets’ reporting on stories related to the Iran war and the ballroom “have threatened national security.”
In December, Trump responded to reporting on his apparent physical decline by calling it “seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.’” That was the first example we found of the president linking reporting with treason since his return to the White House.
But Trump’s treason accusations really picked up after the war he launched against Iran on February 28 began to falter. Since then, Trump has accused CNN, MS NOW, ABC, NBC, The Washington Post, and The New York Times of treason, singling out CNN’s Collins and Times reporter David Sanger in particular. He has specifically described it as “treasonous” to report that the Iran war has left Iran in a strengthened position, that it has reduced U.S. munitions stockpiles to a critical level, and that he is displeased with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The best case scenario is that the president of the United States is an addled old man who is impotently lashing out at his critics as his administration collapses around him. Possible alternative explanations — that Trump is encouraging his pliant Justice Department appointees to actually file charges against reporters, or his followers to take matters into their own hands — are more sinister.
Here’s a list of examples of the president’s treason rhetoric.
September 22, 2026: CNN, MS NOW are “sick, treasonous, and demented!” [Truth Social]
September 3, 2026: “For the treasonous SCUM that refuses to accurately report on our Military Operation in Iran…” [Truth Social]
September 3, 2026: “Media Outlets that keep harping on the fact that we have no ammunition … are actually treasonous.” [Truth Social]
August 6, 2026: “I really believe” The Washington Post’s “fake ‘reporting’” that Trump is displeased with Hegseth “is treasonous!” [Truth Social]
July 13, 2026: “I actually think it’s treasonous” that The New York Times reported Iran is “stronger today than they were four months ago.” [Interview, Fox News’ *Fox & Friends*]
July 13, 2026: “The fake news would rather see us lose the war than win the war, which is really treasonous, which is really treasonous in a certain way.” [Remarks]
June 21, 2026: The Times’ Iran coverage “is, in my opinion, ‘TREASONOUS.’” [Truth Social]
May 15, 2026: Trump tells Times reporter Sanger, “I actually think it's sort of treasonous what you write” about Iran, “I actually think it’s treason when you write, like, ‘They’re doing well militarily.’” [Press gaggle]
May 12, 2026: “When the Fake News says that the Iranian enemy is doing well, Militarily, against us, it’s virtual TREASON…” [Truth Social]
April 12, 2026: “CNN, The New York Times, ABC fake news, NBC fake news … they report things that they know are false. It's almost treasonous, actually.” [Interview, Fox News’ *Sunday Morning Futures*]
March 27, 2026: “If you read the Times, you think we’re doing poorly [in Iran]. It’s so — It’s almost treasonous.” [Remarks]
March 15, 2026: “The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!” [Truth Social]
December 9, 2025: “I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.’” [Truth Social]
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Trump denounces “TREASONOUS” New York Times over Iran reporting
06/22/26 2:14 PM EDT
As Trump accuses news outlets of “TREASON,” Fox models MAGA Iran coverage
05/13/26 1:23 PM EDT
Checking in on Trump’s war on the press since his White House Correspondents’ dinner speech
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In early August, GOP voters in Michigan's 8th Congressional District defied President Donald Trump when they nominated retired General Motors engineer **Thomas Smith over the Trump-backed Amir Hassan [XIAN MAGA] . The nomination drew increased scrutiny of Smith's background, and according to CNN's Andrew Kaczynski, the Flint, Michigan-based business owner has a long history of making extreme statements.
Kaczynski, in a KFile report for CNN, explains, "A Republican congressional nominee in a closely divided Michigan district deleted social media accounts containing thousands of posts that include a yearslong pattern of inflammatory and conspiratorial rhetoric — including amplifying a post that appeared to raise the possibility of the death penalty for political opponents of President Donald Trump … A CNN KFile review of some 13,000 archived posts from Smith's now-deleted accounts uncovered a substantially broader pattern of far-right rhetoric than previously reported, including repeated accusations of treason, attacks on Muslim Americans and Islam, birther-style conspiracy theories about Barack Obama, and posts in which Smith said he had been awakened before dawn with a message from God for conservative radio host Dan Bongino."
In the general election, Smith is up against incumbent Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-Michigan). The Cook Political Report moved the race in Michigan's 8th Congressional District from "lean Democratic" to "likely Democratic," and according to Kaczynski, Smith's "digital history" could "loom over" the election in a swing district that Trump won by roughly 3 percent in 2024.
"One of the starkest examples came in February 2025," Kaczynski notes. "The account, JarHeadSalsa, named for the Flint salsa business Smith owns with his son, reposted a message addressed to Trump: 'Do whatever it takes to take our country back from those who sought to have it destroyed.' 'There are traitors within who deserve to be put on trial for treason,' the post added. 'What's the punishment for treason again?' A person convicted of treason can be punished by death or be imprisoned for no less than five years … One racist repost that Smith shared urged the deportation of the 'Somali infestation' of America."
Kaczynski notes that the "February 2025 post … was hardly the only time Smith's account amplified accusations that political figures were traitors."
"In July 2024," the CNN reporter notes, "he reposted a message declaring that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer 'is a traitor.' Last November, after several Democratic lawmakers urged service members to refuse illegal orders, Smith's account reposted a message calling Rep. Maggie Goodlander a 'traitor.'
Days later, it amplified another calling for Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, to be stripped of his rank and court-martialed for sedition. He also shared numerous reposts accusing former President Barack Obama of treason, including one labeling him a 'Shadow President.'"
Kaczynski continues, "Another declared that 'treason charges are coming,' tagging Obama and adding 'you are f– –,' while asking whether he ordered Trump to be assassinated. Another repost on Truth Social called former Rep. Eric Swalwell treasonous and for him to be jailed."
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Trump denounces “TREASONOUS” New York Times over Iran reporting
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 06/22/26
President Donald Trump, stymied by a war with Iran that seems destined to end with the United States in a weaker geopolitical position than before he launched it, turned his sights on an easier target over the weekend: The New York Times, whose journalists he baselessly accused of “TREASONOUS” reporting.
The immediate impetus for Trump’s outburst was Times reporter Neil MacFarquhar’s Sunday news analysis headlined “What Changed After Almost Four Months of War? Analysts Say Not Much.” MacFarquhar wrote that in light of the memo of understanding signed last week by the U.S. and Iran, “skeptics are expressing bafflement over what exactly has transformed” in the region given that “neither the war nor the agreement ended what U.S. and Israeli officials regard as the main threats emanating from Iran.” His analysis detailed how Iran’s regime, ballistic missiles, proxies, and nuclear stockpile have endured, while its government “is set to receive potentially substantial financial rewards” and now knows it has the ability to disrupt the global energy trade by closing the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump denounced the story in a Sunday afternoon Truth Social post. He pointed to damage to Iran’s military and economy caused by the U.S. military and added: “the Hormuz Strait is OPEN, THE OIL IS GUSHING, and the U.S. Stock Market and Jobs are at record HIGHS. That’s what’s CHANGED, you corrupt and unethical cowards, and MORE!!!”
The president then moved on to accusing Times reporters of treason. “The way the Corrupt and Failing New York Times is covering stories on a very battered and beat up Iran, through FAKE & MADE UP ‘FACTS’ is, in my opinion, ‘TREASONOUS,’” he wrote in a subsequent post. “I will be adding all of their false and ridiculous reporting to my multi Billion Dollar lawsuit against them. They are Criminals!”
The president, who frequently launches legally baseless defamation lawsuits targeting news outlets whose coverage displeases him, sued the Times and three of its reporters last year. In recent months, he has reportedly been privately “raging” over the contents of a forthcoming book by Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
Trump frequently denounces reporters and threatens to bring down the power of the state against them because he has no regard for the First Amendment. His rage has been particularly acute since his Iran war began earlier this year: The president has railed against the press for its unwillingness to adopt his talking points in the manner of his loyal Fox News prime-time hosts, calling mainstream news outlets and reporters “almost treasonous” for purportedly lying about the effectiveness of the war effort because they are “rooting for Iran to win.” At the same time, Trump’s handpicked chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has leveraged his power to target Trump-critical speech and threatened reprisals against outlets that produce critical coverage of the war. [ABC AD THE VIEW]
But Trump’s denunciations of reporters go far beyond their coverage of war and peace. This weekend, he vaguely threatened ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl, suggesting that the reporter might be under federal investigation after he “was seen sticking his hand into the” Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, whose recently repainted bottom is deteriorating, “and trying to rip the rubber off of the surface.” And earlier this month, the president lashed out at CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins during an event in the Oval Office, saying: “I never see a smile off her face. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes, like she has hatred, because we had borders, because we have a strong military, because we cut our taxes, because we do things that everybody wanted, and then we win our election in a massive landslide.”
In related news, the rescheduled annual dinner for the White House Correspondents Association, which “celebrates the First Amendment” and will feature a speech by the president, is just a month away.
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In 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for a federal investigation of a conservative who served in his first administration: former U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief of Staff Miles Taylor. Taylor discusses Trump's actions against him in an article for the UK-based i Paper, emphasizing that the president's executive order became a blueprint for his efforts to use the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) against political foes.
Trump accused Taylor of "treason" — a claim that many legal experts and constitutional scholars attacked as ludicrous. Taylor was still serving in the first Trump Administration when, on September 5, 2018, the New York Times published his anonymous op-ed, "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." Trump was furious when Taylor later came out as the op-ed's author.
"A year ago," Taylor explains in the i Paper, "Trump issued an executive order directing federal agencies to investigate me for 'treason.' It was the first time in 250 years of American history that a president had signed such an order to open a specific inquiry into a specific critic. The crime? I quit his first administration and exposed the misconduct I witnessed. And I haven't shut up about it since. He came back into office determined to make an example. But it didn’t stop there."
Taylor continues, "As I later found out, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi used Trump's order against me as the flimsy justification to strip away longstanding protections for reporters."
Taylor argues that the "treason" probe of him has broad implications for U.S. democracy and free speech in general.
"Of course, the Trump Administration has made it sound like this is about stopping leaks of classified information," Taylor writes. "Unfortunately for Trump, criticism of a president is not 'classified,' no matter how badly he wants it to be. Trump's logic is obvious. He doesn't want dissent amplified, and certainly not the most damaging kind — from insiders who have seen his impulsiveness and corruption up close."
The former DHS official continues, "So, they're using mob-like tactics to scare news outlets and the sources who they rely on to expose what's really happening around the president…. Last year, the president's aides told Rolling Stone he was coming after me to 'send a message.' He certainly has, though it's gone far beyond me. He's out to make an example of people everywhere who say what he doesn't want them to say. If the U.S. president wants to conflate free speech with 'treason,' then we should proudly wear the label of traitors."
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- Zachary Leeman @ Mediaite: Trump Wildly Claims Seeking Congressional Approval for Iran War Is ‘Totally Unconstitutional’: ‘These Are Not Patriotic People That Are Asking’
President Donald Trump dismissed the idea of seeking congressional approval for his Iran war as “totally unconstitutional” on Friday, calling those asking for it unpatriotic.
- Anthony Orrico @ HuffPost: Trump Rages At 'Seditious' New York Times In Unhinged Oval Office Rant
The president lashed out at the newspaper after it published a scathing op-ed on Thursday, criticizing the U.S. military's readiness for the war in Iran.
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President Donald Trump went on a lengthy tirade against The New York Times on Thursday, accusing the newspaper of being “seditious” after its editorial board published a piece titled “The U.S. Military Was Losing Its Edge. After Iran, Everyone Knows It.”
During his rant, Trump continued to insist that Iranian forces had been “militarily decapitated” before accusing both the Times and CNN of reporting that Iran was winning the war.
“...And yet I read in The New York Times, I see it on that stupid CNN, which I only watch because you have to watch a little bit of the enemy,” Trump said. “So I watch it for a very short period. But you have to, you know, you have to be smart. And if you see CNN, you’d think they’re winning the war. If you read The New York Times, it’s actually seditious in my opinion. You read The New York Times, you actually think they’re winning the war.”
It’s unclear which specific CNN report the president was referencing. As for the Times piece, it, among other things, argued that Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz was the linchpin in the conflict thus far, and that the United States’ trillion-dollar military was “ineffective against cheaper, mass-produced weapons,” such as Iran’s vast drone supply.
“But the problem is bigger than any single commander-in-chief. The United States has left itself unprepared for modern war,” the Times wrote.
What the NYT didn’t do in its article was “conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States,” which is how seditious conspiracy is defined under 18 U.S. Code § 2384.
The last people convicted of seditious conspiracy in the U.S. were leaders of the far-right Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, who stormed the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Trump pardoned all those convicted in connection with the insurrection on his first day back in office.
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April 20, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Five
GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): The reason why he gets a warm embrace there is because they don't know what he's done. The only way he can get any recognition is if they don't recognize him. Who is this guy? They don't like Trump, he doesn't like Trump, that's okay. Again, it's a Trump alignment problem. If Walz goes abroad to bash Trump, he's also bashing America because he's the agent for America and he's seeking out an audience that actually appreciates it. He is, in effect, a traitor. But we already knew that.
Now I will defend Democrats because they are the opposition party, and you really only have one role: opposition. This is why when we talk about how politically divided we are, it's true, but it's also kind of baked in the system. You can't expect the Dems to embrace the Republicans when the Dems aren't in power. That's how it works. However, you do expect fierce opposition with a measure of responsibility, you know? If there are two boxers in the ring, you don't -- there's an agreement one isn't going to enter the ring with a switch blade. But they have decided that Hitler -- or Trump is Hitler, therefore you can suspend the rules. You can unleash lawfare, you can create hoaxes, you can involve foreign actors and you can fly to other countries to trash the president because he's different. He's different. But this is still the same thing. It's still treason.
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Leader of constitutional sheriffs group: “I don't blame Trump for not following the Constitution to the letter because he has no Congress that he can rely on or trust”
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published 04/03/26
As Media Matters previously reported last October about Richard Mack, leader of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association:
Mack is a former Arizona county sheriff and the founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, an organization which subscribes to the ideology that sheriffs “should be the ultimate law enforcement authority in the U.S.” The organization claims that sheriffs have the “Constitutional authority to check and balance all levels of government,” superseding “any agent, officer, elected official or employee from any level of government when in the jurisdiction of the county.” Constitutional scholars and other experts dispute this assertion, with some noting that the Constitution doesn’t mention sheriffs at all.
Mack and CSPOA have pushed for sheriffs to get involved with mass deportation efforts, even holding the organization’s November national conference in Washington state in part because its attorney general is suing a sheriff for aiding the Trump administration’s deportation efforts. Mack also said he has been talking to Homan about “getting sheriffs involved in deportation.”
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RICHARD MACK (FOUNDER, CONSTITUTIONAL SHERIFFS AND PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION): I think he’s always having to play defense, except maybe with the Iran war. Obviously, he took that offensive approach. And even on that, the Democrats and some Republicans have gone after him. And I don't blame Trump for not following the Constitution to the letter because he has no Congress that he can rely on or trust.
KELLY JOHN WALKER (HOST): Yeah.
MACK: He cannot. And so if he had gone to them before he invaded Iran, there's lots of Democrats in there that would have informed Iran.
WALKER: Yeah.
MACK: And it would have cost the lives of a lot of people and maybe even cost the entire operation. And when you have an enemy Congress like that, that obviously are traitors to America. And I'm not talking about, not, oh if they don't go along with Trump, then they're traitors. No. That's not what I'm talking about. This is far beyond just not going along, or going against the president. It's far beyond that. They will do anything, including compromise the safety and security of Americans.
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This is obvious that they are enemy and they bring in enemy combatants so they're the same as. They're the ones who brought in terrorists. They're the ones that brought in the cartels and that's the most dangerous situation in American history right now what they have done.
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Since returning to the White House almost 13 months ago, President Donald Trump and his allies have been pushing for federal prosecutions of critics and opponents — including former FBI Director James Comey, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and former National Security Adviser John Bolton (who served in the first Trump Administration but is now an outspoken critic of the president).
Other Trump foes who have been targeted by Trump allies in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) include Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan). In a video posted online in late 2025, Kelly and Slotkin, along with four Democrats serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, urged members of the U.S. Armed Forces to defy Trump if he asks them to do anything that is blatantly illegal.
In an article published by the libertarian Reason on February 18, reporter Jacob Sullum emphasizes that Trump's efforts to use DOJ against his critics is running into legal obstacles — from federal grand juries to judges in the lower federal courts.
"In 2013, several Republican senators questioned President Barack Obama's use of drones to kill suspected terrorists," Sullum explains. "The lawmakers, who included Sens. Rand Paul (R–Ky.), Ted Cruz (R–Texas), Mike Lee (R–Utah), and Marco Rubio (R–Fla.), were especially troubled by the possibility that drones might be deployed against American citizens on U.S. soil, which, they argued, would be clearly unlawful in the absence of an imminent threat. How would Republicans have reacted if Obama, assisted by a Justice Department eager to do his bidding, threatened to arrest and jail those critics? That is how President Donald Trump has responded to Democratic legislators who worry about his potentially illegal use of military power."
Sullum adds, however, that Trump's efforts to use DOJ against Kelly, Slotkin and four other Democrats for their video are hitting "roadblocks."
"Trump called the legislators 'TRAITORS' who had engaged in 'SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR,'" the Reason journalist notes. "But nothing they did came close to meeting the elements of treason or seditious conspiracy…. In this case, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., declined to cooperate with Trump's vendetta. Two days later, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that the video was 'unquestionably protected' by the First Amendment."
Sullum adds, "Leon was responding to a lawsuit by Sen. Mark Kelly (D–Ariz.), a retired Navy captain whom Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had censured for the video and other public comments that offended him. Hegseth, who equated criticism of him with 'conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline,' sought to punish Kelly, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, by reducing his retirement rank and pension."
Sullum argues that just as GOP Sens. Cruz and Paul were under no obligation to support Obama's policies when he was president, Kelly and other Democratic lawmakers have every right to call out Trump.
"Like the Republican senators who criticized Obama's military policies," Sullum writes, "Kelly and his Democratic colleagues indisputably have a right, as Americans and as legislators charged with overseeing the Pentagon, to speak their minds, even when it irks the president."
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Anthony Hudson, a Genesee County truck driver running for the Republican nomination for governor, has made a habit of threatening elected officials with hanging for “treason,” making such threats at least twice since the start of 2026.
On Jan. 4, in a video posted to Hudson’s social media, he says, “It’s time to get the rope” — while holding a large loop of rope around his arm — as a call to action to “Michiganians and patriots” against politicians who he alleges received kickbacks from former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, including Michigan’s U.S. Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters, both Democrats.
“My hope is that every one of them will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and may their names forever live in shame for their treason,” he says in the video.
Less than a month later, on Feb. 1, in a Mason City Council meeting, speaking in opposition to data center development, Hudson again threatened elected officials — this time local government officials — with hanging.
“You guys never listen, and that’s the problem. These people voted you into office so that you could be their voice in government,” he said. “When you go against that voice, you commit what we call treason. The punishment for treason is public hanging. So, I suggest you start listening.”
Hudson’s statements were strongly condemned by the state Democratic party, who also urged the Michigan Republican Party and the other Republican candidates for governor to similarly condemn the threats.
“Political violence is completely unacceptable, and this kind of dangerous, hateful extremism has no place in our state and country. Anthony Hudson must immediately retract these comments and issue an apology,” Michigan Democratic Party spokesperson Derrick Honeyman wrote in a statement.
The Michigan Republican Party did not respond to a request for a response.
But Hudson doubled down when asked to comment on his statements.
“Know the law and the consequences! I didn’t write the law, as governor I will enforce the law. Educating someone about the law and what the consequences are is not threatening anyone,” he wrote in an email to the Michigan Advance. “Don’t come at me for holding them accountable and saying the worst part out loud.”
Hudson’s comments are similar to those of President Donald Trump, who has accused six elected Democrats, including Slotkin, of committing treason after they recorded a video reminding military members that they did not have to follow illegal orders.
In reaction to the video, Trump called it “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS” later saying it was “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
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mma January 7, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Will Cain Show
WILL CAIN (HOST): What we don't need to wait for though today is judging the behavior of the mayor of Minneapolis who stepped up to the podium and without having all the facts chose to inflame and blame.
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That is not leadership, that is sedition. It's encouraging people to interfere with the lawful actions of the state. And when a mayor uses his office to delegitimize federal law enforcement in the immediate aftermath of a deadly incident, it's not protecting his city, he's putting people in danger.
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JUDGE NAP PUSHES BACK ON NEWSMAX ATTACKS ON MARK KELLY: "THIS IS NOT SEDITION"
01/06/26
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Donald Trump on Monday night went after the New York Times in a "deranged" rant on Truth Social, per a report from the Daily Beast, though the exact reason for the attack is unclear.
"The Failing New York Times, and their lies and purposeful misrepresentations, is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation," Trump's post read, echoing many of his recurring complaints about negative media coverage. "Their Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never-ending way, must be dealt with and stopped. THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DJT."
As the Daily Beast noted in its coverage of the social media blast, it is unknown what precisely set the president off this time, though the outlet highlighted two possibilities.
Last month, Trump was "triggered for days" by a report fromTimesdetailing his lightened schedule of public events and later start to the day, presenting these as symptoms of increasing "fatigue" due to his old age and observing that his "battery shows signs of wear." Trump lashed out against this report numerous times, at one point attacking co-writer Katie Rogers' physical appearance.
More recently, the Times published a piece about Trump's long friendship and history with deceased pedophile sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, describing the pair as having “pursued women in a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Trump has been dogged about his past affiliation with Epstein for years, but most intensely during his second term in the White House, when his administration appeared bent on preventing the release of files related to the late trafficker, prompting mass speculation that the president was implicated in Epstein's crimes, or was at least aware of them.
The report contained "one particularly damaging section," according to the Daily Beast, in which the mother of a 14-year-old girl invited to an event at Mar-a-Lago alongside other young models was confronted by Trump's then-wife, Marla Maples, who told her, “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband.”
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President Donald Trumpfutilely tried to delete his Sunday night Truth Social rant, but his typo-filled fury was captured by various screen shots, The Daily Beast reports.
“Ther [sic] are laws that effect our nation," Trump posted, but then quickly deleted, they note.
On Trump's second attempt at posting, he confused “effect” and “affect,” instead going with what The Daily Beast describes as "the less problematic word" “impact” instead.
Trump's edited version finally made it to Truth Social, with both ending in the taunt, "DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE!!!”
"Trump seemed to be quoting former U.S. Navy Commander Kirk Lippold, who now works as an inspirational speaker, as part of a rant against Democratic 'traitors,'" the Daily Beast reports.
Last week, six Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds released a video urging current U.S. service members to refuse any orders they deem unlawful, an action that aligns with U.S. military law.
Trump called them the “Seditious Six” andposted that the lawmakers, including former Navy captain and astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) had committed “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
This tear comes after another of Trump's Truth Social tantrums, in which he used an offensive slur against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) "in a scathing post at Thanksgiving, where he also called out political correctness," the Daily Beast explains.
"There’s something wrong with him, absolutely, sure,” Trump told reporters Sunday on Air Force One, refusing to apologize.
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- Brianna Sacks @ The Washington Post: Election denier tapped for FEMA leadership role
Gregg Phillips, who claimed that millions of “noncitizens” voted illegally in the 2016 election, will head FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
- Isaac Stanley-Becker @ The Atlantic: USAID Hired the Right-Wing Influencer Responsible for Its Decimation
Mike Benz was brought aboard to find evidence for his claims that the agency is secretly a spy operation.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Democrats score big wins in Florida and Georgia, as the GOP’s election woes continue
The more Donald Trump and his party pretend they don’t have an electoral problem, the more Republicans lose winnable elections.
- Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai @ The New York Times: How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed
Barred from leaving Romania, Andrew Tate courted powerful figures on the American right, from Tucker Carlson to Barron Trump. Then an extraordinary order let him go.
- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Trump Suggests It’s ‘Treasonous’ To Report He’s in Bad Physical Shape
President Donald Trump slammed The New York Times and unnamed “some others” for reporting unfavorably about the 79-year-old’s health.
- Steven Monacelli @ The Barbed Wire: He’s an Unapologetic Fascist Who ‘Despises’ Democracy. He Still Wants You to Vote for Him.
The court-appointed public defender in North Texas was once leader of the Proud Boys, has posted racist threats online, and sports a white nationalist tattoo. Now he wants to represent you.
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President Donald Trumpfutilely tried to delete his Sunday night Truth Social rant, but his typo-filled fury was captured by various screen shots, The Daily Beast reports.
“Ther [sic] are laws that effect our nation," Trump posted, but then quickly deleted, they note.
On Trump's second attempt at posting, he confused “effect” and “affect,” instead going with what The Daily Beast describes as "the less problematic word" “impact” instead.
Trump's edited version finally made it to Truth Social, with both ending in the taunt, "DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE!!!”
"Trump seemed to be quoting former U.S. Navy Commander Kirk Lippold, who now works as an inspirational speaker, as part of a rant against Democratic 'traitors,'" the Daily Beast reports.
Last week, six Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds released a video urging current U.S. service members to refuse any orders they deem unlawful, an action that aligns with U.S. military law.
Trump called them the “Seditious Six” andposted that the lawmakers, including former Navy captain and astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) had committed “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
This tear comes after another of Trump's Truth Social tantrums, in which he used an offensive slur against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) "in a scathing post at Thanksgiving, where he also called out political correctness," the Daily Beast explains.
"There’s something wrong with him, absolutely, sure,” Trump told reporters Sunday on Air Force One, refusing to apologize.
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11/26/2025
When six Democratic senators with military and intelligence community experience posted a video last week calling on people now serving to refuse to carry out illegal orders, President Trump and many of his supporters lost it – even though the video was simply reminding servicemembers of their obligation under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The White House has walked back Trump’s initial outbursts calling for execution of the senators, but he said Sunday he still wants to see “the traitors that told the military to disobey my orders” in jail. He reposted a Truth social post calling the senators “traitorous sons of bitches” and “pompous traitorous communists” who “should be impeached and prosecuted.”
The senators have reported receiving death threats, and Trump allies are fanning MAGA outrage with false characterizations of the senators’ video.
Many MAGA attacks ignored the essential point of the senators’ video, which was to urge servicemembers not to obey illegal orders.
Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who has overseen official brutality against immigrants and their defenders, falsely claimed, “Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection” and told Fox News viewers that it was “a general call for rebellion.”
Last week Libs of TikTok posteda claim that “Elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and DEFY orders from Trump and Hegseth.”
On Sunday, the Republican National Committee sent an email claiming “Democrats want to stage a military coup” and falsely claiming that the video “called for an all-out coup against President Trump and Pete Hegseth” by “directly asking troops to disobey their orders.”
The RNC called the senators “disgusting socialists” and claimed they were “urging INSUBORDINATION.”
On Monday, the Washington Examiner’s Elizabeth Stauffer wrote that “Democrats are openly calling for a military mutiny.” She said the senators’ video had “all the hallmarks of a psychological operation lifted straight from the CIA’s playbook.”
Political dirty trickster Roger Stone claimed Monday that the video “is a call to arms for a revolt” and complained that “congressional seditionists” were emboldened by the fact that the Justice Department has not moved quickly enough to prosecute former “Deep State” officials.
Gary Bauer—yes, he’s still at it—used his daily newsletter to attack the senators for “stoking division and fueling mistrust in our government, which is the goal of our enemies”—and, let’s be honest, is the hallmark of Trump and the MAGA movement.
The Pentagon announced that Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy Captain, would be investigated and could be recalled to active duty to face a court martial over what Hegseth claimed was a “seditious” video.
Kelly and the other senators made it clear that they were not cowed by Trump’s bluster, and many of their congressional colleagues came to their defense. Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado called it “a decisive moment.” Crow wrote on X, “Trump is trying to incite violence, intimidate, and punish those who speak up to hold him accountable. But the only thing we fear is not rising to this moment and defending the country we love.”
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger said in a videothat military officers are told on “day one” of their training that they are obligated to not follow unlawful or illegal orders. Kinzinger called the Defense Department’s threat “chilling” and said it was designed to strike the fear of God into former officers who are publicly critical of Trump.
A rare critical voice from a sitting Republican came from Rep. Don Bacon who wrote that he thought the senators’ video was a bad idea, but that talk of sedition and threats of court martial were “crazy.”](https://www.linkedin.com/company/people-for-the-american-way)
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Newsmax host says Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) “does have a great record, but so did Benedict Arnold”}:
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November 25, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): You're from Arizona. Why hasn't this happened? Why hasn't Mark Kelly already been court-martialed?
KARI LAKE (GUEST):Well, I hope that what we're hearing from the secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, is true, that they are investigating this and that these considerations are being taken. I'm appalled for the people of Arizona, that we have somebody who acts in such a seditious way who's representing us here in Washington, D.C.
But I'm not surprised. I mean, after all, remember, Rob, this is a guy, Mark Kelly, who went into outer space. I think he left his brain there, but he's been wining and dining off of that accolade for his entire adult life. And then he used it to run for office.
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He sold us out a long time ago in Arizona. So I'm not surprised by this new video, this seditious video for him calling for our military to disobey the commands of the commander-in-chief, President Donald J. Trump.
FINNERTY: And it just seems — go ahead.
LAKE: And I hope that we see some action on this.
FINNERTY: I do too. Mark Kelly tweeted this out. This is very bizarre. But he decided to tweet out all of his military achievements he was — and I'll read some of them. He was an ensign in the Navy. At 22, he served on the USS Midway, had 39 deployments in Desert Storm. He flew four missions to space for NASA. We thank him for his service, but he says he won't stand for anyone questioning his record.
He does have a great record, but so did Benedict Arnold, Kari. Don't you have a good record until suddenly you don't have a good record anymore?
LAKE: Yeah. When you call for — when you behave in a way that's seditious, your record immediately is tarnished. And his record, in my opinion, has been tarnished for some time. It's just that the American people maybe haven't known who he was or known much about it.
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I hope to see some action on this, because if we don't see action on the seditious six, we're going to see more of that kind of behavior and it could evolve into something truly dangerous for our great United States of America.
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the MAGA media response to six Democratic members of Congress reminding their former compatriots in the military and intelligence community of their duty to “refuse illegal orders” reached a fever pitch on Thursday. After President Donald Trump suggested earlier that day that the lawmakers should face the death penalty for sedition, his propagandists chimed in, describing the Democrats as “devious and subversive” and their actions as “border[ing] on treason.”
On Wednesday, Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), as well as Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Chris Deluzio (D-PA), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) released a video in which they urged current members of the military and intelligence community to disobey “illegal orders.” While they did not provide examples, the release came amid debates over the legality of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean and domestic troop deployments. The video drew a deranged response from many on the right, who accused the lawmakers of committing “treason” and trying to “trigger a military coup.”
The president himself weighed in Thursday morning with a series of Truth Social posts in which he accused the lawmakers of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR,” described them as “traitors to our Country,” and called for them to be “ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL” for crimes he described as “punishable by DEATH!” The lawmakers in the video and Democratic House leadership both condemned Trump’s posts, while White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that Trump did not in fact seek the deaths of the members of Congress.
Trump is currently operating from a position of weakness, with his support in polls in a tailspinand his congressional allies having successfully revolted over the Jeffrey Epstein files. He’s previously responded to such circumstances by seeking to reunify his coalition by pointing them at a common enemy, and that seems to be what has happened this week. To the extent that he’s given his most loyal propagandists someone to attack, it’s working.
Fox News prime-time host Jesse Watters claimed on Thursday night that the “Democrats sent a clear message to everybody in the military and CIA: You're free to commit treason.” He described their actions as “devious and subversive,” said they were “planting coup seeds inside the Pentagon and at Langley,” and accused them of “psychological warfare launched by sitting politicians against the American military in peacetime” and “trying to blow up the chain of command.”
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Watters’ colleague Sean Hannity argued the next hour, “The only question tonight [is] will these six Democratic lawmakers be held accountable in a court of law?” He then commented that he’s “not sure” they committed crimes punishable by death because he’s “not a lawyer,” and asked Fox contributor and former Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz to weigh in. Chaffetz assured him that “what they did borders on treason. It really does.” He added that “President Trump was actually exactly right” because “If you do commit treason, guess what? It is punishable by death. That's just the law. He's just reciting the law.”
Their competitors at Newsmax were similarly enraged. Carl Higbie declared that Trump’s posts show he “is done playing around with garbage,” pointed out that “George Washington did hang traitors many times, including Benedict Arnold's British counterpart,” and claimed that the Democrats “should be court-martialed themselves” because “that type of rhetoric from senators and congressmen is sedition.” Greg Kelly commented that “a lot of people” think the lawmakers committed “treason, or mutiny, or something along those lines,” and accused them of “plotting the seeds, I think, of another coup.” And The Right Squad’s Chris Plante said the Democrats were “inciting civil war.”
And Laura Loomer, whose influence in the Oval Office has triggered the firings of numerous administration officials for insufficient loyalty, wrote: “President Trump just re posted a post on Truth Social calling for seditious Democrat Senators to be hung for calling on members of the military to defy President Trump’s orders as Commander in Chief.”
“Trump is right,” she added. “That’s the type of justice Americans want to see.”
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Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) complained about a video featuring former military members and intelligence staff reminding service members they do not have to carry out illegal orders.
The video urged service members not to "give up the ship," explaining that their oath is to the U.S. Constitution and the law and not to President Donald Trump or other commanders under him.
Zinke argued that the Uniform Code of Military Justice instructs members to follow their command. As the Washington Post explains, the UCMJ doesn't define "manifest unlawfulness." It says only that service members must follow “any lawful general order or regulation,” or they could be “punished as a court-martial may direct.”
The Court Martial Manual reads the command to follow orders "does not apply to a patently illegal order, such as one that directs the commission of a crime."
Over and over, Zinke falsely claimed that the video was telling the military not to follow "lawful orders," prompting CNN's Pamela Brown to fact-check him, noting that they said "unlawful orders."
At one point, Zinke even claimed that the ad called Trump "unconstitutional." She asked the control room to play the full video, revealing that it was never said.
"When you look at it, what they're doing is they're advocating troops, not [obeying] orders for the president," Zinke claimed.
"Unlawful. Unlawful orders," Brown cut in.
"Unlawful orders," agreed Zinke. "But they also said this president is unconstitutional. Show me where the president is unconstitutional. Show me where the execution of a lawful order is unconstitutional. That's the definition of sedition. Now, both sides, and this is a larger view we need as Americans, to stop, is that we need to get the anger out of the equation."
He called the "anger" a distraction, but dodged questions about whether it was appropriate for the president to claim Democrats were committing treason or sedition and that the punishment was "death."
Trump then spent Thursday re-posting comments from his followers saying, "hang them" and alleging the Democrats in the video were "traitors" and "domestic terrorists."
Zinke tried to "both sides" the argument.
"When both sides [are] now coming out of a government shutdown and then going into this — look, everyone needs to relax," he claimed.
"Should they be making videos, you know, advocating that our troops don't follow lawful orders?" Zinke asked.
Brown cut in again, correcting, "unlawful orders."
She also noted it wasn't a "typical back and forth," where Democrats and Republicans disagree on policy or debate something Trump said. Instead, it was a case in which Democrats made a video reminding people not to break the law, and Trump called it "sedition" and said it was "punishable by death."
Zinke repeated that the UCMJ says "it is punishable by death, sedition. But if you, if you're advocating for troops to disobey lawful orders, that's the definition of sedition."
Again, Brown cut in to correct him. "But they didn't do that. It was unlawful orders."
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November 19, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus
HARRIS FAULKNER (ANCHOR): Critics are going after six Democrat lawmakers, in particular, over this plea to members of the military and intelligence communities. Watch this:
(VIDEO BEGINS)
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SEN. MARK KELLY (D-AZ): Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.
SEN. ELISSA SLOTKIN (D-MI): You can refuse illegal orders.
REP. JASON CROW (D-CO): You must refuse illegal orders.
SLOTKIN: No one has to carry out orders that violate the law –
REP. CHRISSY HOULAHAN (D-PA): – or our Constitution.
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(VIDEO ENDS)
FAULKNER: OK, you caught that, right? Refusing military orders; that would be treason. Reaction, as you might imagine: swift and fierce. Libs of TikTok posted, "Democrats are encouraging members of the military to commit treason and defy orders from Trump." And Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt says, "Sounds a little subversive to democracy-ish."
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President Donald Trump is targeting his former FBI Director in a series of social media posts, including a repost that accused Christopher Wray of treason.
Trump reposted a post on Monday that placed Wray among sixteen people — including several former FBI officials — and labeled them as “Obama’s Russia HOAX Treason Club.”
Those depicted as members of the alleged “Treason Club” include Wray’s predecessor, former FBI Director Jim Comey; former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe; former CIA Directors John Brennan and Gina Haspel; former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Another post that Trump reposted accused former Director Wray of lying when he testified before Congress that he did not put FBI agents in the crowd on January 6.
Trump wrote: “Wray lied!!!”
The president also reposted a post he wrote in September, that reads in part, “It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax.”
Trump did not appear to provide evidence that supported his allegations.
Wray has denied there were FBI agents in the crowd as some form of operation.
A September Associated Press headline reported: “Alleged FBI documents do not prove federal agents incited Jan. 6 Capitol attack.”
Trump has also been calling for the prosecutions of his political adversaries, including U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA), New York Attorney General Letitia James, former FBI Director Comey, and former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
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From the October 28, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Carl Higbie Frontline
CARL HIGBIE (HOST): Yeah, I think every one of those pardons and commutations should be considered void. Just as we said, for the last four years, we were called crazy that there might be even the possibility of a shadow government operating independent of the president — I mean, who appeared to be a vegetable at the time — and all these people said that these investigations were partisan and they were useless and they were a waste of taxpayer — it turns out a so-called conspiracy theorists were right again. These investigations are 100% necessary because why would you wish pardons to people if you didn't think they needed something to be pardoned for? }:}:
The January 6 committee, at a bare minimum, they deleted the evidence, which is a crime. Worst case scenario, they covered up for the FBI, embedding 274 undercover agents in assets and the crowd that day. Who knows if they were the ones who broke in first, which would make it entrapment, like the FBI did to Gretchen Whitmer's kidnapping case that got thrown out. Covered it up, obviously. They lied about it and then used those investigations to impeach Donald Trump to try to prevent him from running again so that he would never find out about the coup the deep state ran, undermining his entire first presidency.}:
Either way, people should probably go to jail. Doctor Fauci should be buried under the jail for conspiracy against rights. The architect of completely fabricated medical data to remove constitutional rights, like the right to peaceably assemble for, I don't know, church. Oh, and force you to inject an experimental vaccine. Then you got General Mark Milley. Remember, he had discussions with the Chinese counterpart saying that he would warn China if the president was planning any military action. That's like treason to me. Under 18 U.S. Code 2381, reinforcing Article three, Section three of the Constitution. He can be sentenced to death for that. I bet Milley's freaking out right now. And he should be.
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But if you've accepted that pardon, apparently you can't be incriminated. So what happens if these people — I mean, they have to talk at that point. So what happens if these people disclose information that incriminates themselves in being complicit with a fraudulent pardon? How about did Hunter sell any of those pardons to anyone? Want to ask him that? This has literally never been litigated before. Ever. And the reason it's never been litigated is because no White House was ever arrogant enough to conduct such a fast and loose autopen use procedure.}:
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During Wednesday’s White House roundtable on “Antifa,” Trump Cabinet secretaries compared it to international drug cartels and vowed to dismantle it “brick by brick,” while the President described Antifa as “treasonous, probably.”
Antifa, which the President has labeled a “domestic terrorist organization,” is widely seen as a movement of people opposed to fascism and racism. It is not believed to be a formal organization. BBC News describes it as “a loosely organized, leftist movement that opposes far-right, racist and fascist groups,” and which “lacks a distinct leader, membership list or structure. In 2020, then-FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress that Antifa was better defined as an ideology than as a formal organization.”
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem told roundtable attendees, “One of the individuals we arrested recently in Portland was the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.”
Secretary Noem said they are “hoping that as we go after her, interview her and prosecute her, we will get more and more information about the network and how we can root them out, and eliminate them from the existence of American society.”
READ MORE: ‘Full-Blown Authoritarianism’: Governor Fires Back After Trump Says He Belongs ‘in Jail’
She also said that “this network of Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TdA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them.”
“They are just as dangerous. They have an agenda to destroy us, just like the other terrorists we’ve dealt with for many, many years. And today is the day that we have a president that won’t tolerate it, and will stand up and fight for the American people.”
Similarly, Attorney General Pam Bondi said that “fighting crime is more than just getting the bad guy off the streets. It’s breaking down the organization, brick by brick. Just like we did with cartels. We are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa, destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We’re going to take them apart.”
“Their hatred for President Trump, and for law and order agendas, fuels their violence,” Bondi said. “We saw what’s happening in Portland and Chicago, and you saw what happened in Dallas. No longer. It is not activism, it’s anarchy. We can’t, and we will not, let masked terrorists burn our buildings, attack our law enforcement, and intimidate our communities.”
She declared that the Trump administration is “deploying the full might of the federal law enforcement to crack down on Antifa and other domestic terrorist organizations.”
READ MORE: ‘The Ground Has Shifted’: Experts Warn After Trump’s ‘Gnat’ Speech to U.S. Navy
President Trump said, “we’re going after Antifa criminals and all who fund and support their campaigns are in serious trouble, and we have a lot of records already, a lot of surprises, a lot of bad surprises — people that you would never think.”
He also asked the group to identify the “funders” of Antifa: “These are people that do not have good intention for the country, and that’s treasonous, probably.”
Critics blasted the event.
“After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly ‘carrying drugs,’ the US Attorney General says ‘Just like we did with cartels, we’re going to take the same approach…with Antifa,'” wrote Zeteo News’ Prem Thakker.
Attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council observed, “Cartels have actual leadership structures, central funding, command and control, and more. ‘Antifa’ is mostly a philosophy. That the Attorney General doesn’t know the difference is quite the thing to admit!”
Bill Kristol, the director of Defending Democracy Together, wrote: “Which is more alarming? That the Homeland Security secretary might actually believe that ‘Antifa’ is as dangerous as Hezbollah or Hamas? Or that she’s willing to engage in this level of lying and demagoguery? Neither is good!”
Olga Lautman, a Russian intelligence expert and senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, pointed to Bondi’s remark about cartels and asked: “Are they planning on sending missiles to American cities to carry out extrajudicial killings.”
SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah issued this warning: “Please understand that This is Trump regime explaining how they will use the government to prosecute Democrats. Page 1 of the fascist playbook is imprison political opponents so that the fascist has one party rule.”
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Joel Webbon Tells Christians To Join ICE And 'Make Jesus Smile' By Enacting ‘God’s Vengeance’ on Immigrants
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Christian nationalists have vocally supported the militantly harsh deportation campaign that President Donald Trump has enacted since returning to the White House, so it was no surprise to see racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic pastor Joel Webbon urge Christians to join the Immigration and Customs Enforcement effort on Monday's episode of his "Right Response Ministries" podcast.
"You can't be vigilante, but you literally can join ICE and be God's appointed avenger who seeks to carry out God's vengeance on the evildoer," Webbon told his audience. "Immigration is evil, at least at the level that we have it today."
"Those who are flooding our country—it's not theirs—they are flooding our country like a swarm of locusts and eating up the inheritance that your fathers, by their blood, sweat, and tears, laid up for you," Webbon continued. "It is a breach, a rebellion, against the Fifth Commandment to honor your father and mother."
Webbon declared that this nation, which belongs to "heritage Americans," is "being devoured by those who it does not belong to."
"And so to join the proper mechanism through ICE and to become, in that sense, God's appointed deacon to carry out vengeance on the evildoer who is devouring the inheritance of the children, that is a righteous thing," Webbon proclaimed. "You can join ICE today and make Jesus smile as you, with a gun, pack foreigners into the back of a van to be kicked out of the country. That is a godly, glorious endeavor."
Webbon's co-host Wesley Todd then noted that, as an added bonus, ICE agents "also get to throw libs to the ground too."
"That is also a God-glorifying endeavor," Todd said.
"These are people who hate you," Webbon agreed. "They hate the country. They're trying to destroy it. These are criminals. It's treason. These are traitors. They're traitors to America, and it's time to clean up our country."
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An Arizona Republican lawmaker on Wednesday called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman because she urged people upset with President Donald Trump to protest in the streets.
Kingman Republican Rep. John Gillette wrote on the social media site X that U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington, was calling for the the government to be overthrown and should be hanged.
“Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American government are tried convicted and hanged.. it will continue,” Gillette said in response to a video of Jayapal.
That clip uploaded to X was from a longer video, which was posted online in March, that is part of Jayapal’s “Resistance Lab” series in which she and others discuss protest movements and non-violent actions. The session in question featured a speaker who studied political violence and spoke about non-violence.
The post Gillette responded to claimed that Jayapal was making a call to violence because she said protesters should be “strike ready” and “street ready.” The Arizona Mirror watched the video in its entirety and found no calls to violence or advocating for overthrowing the government; it was focused on “non-violent resistance” to Trump and advising people on how to do that.
In contrast, Gillette has expressed support for the Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, who violently assaulted police officers and broke down doors and windows in order to access the building so they could stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election. In several posts on X, he called the 1,600 or so people who were prosecuted — and since pardoned by Trump — for their actions that day “political prisoners.”
He refused to answer questions when the Mirror reached him by phone on Thursday.
“You guys aren’t known for putting out accurate information,” Gillette said. “The comment is what it is, it is on the post. You can see what it is, there is no hidden meaning. No nothing. You report whatever you want to report. We are done. Stop calling me. Have a good day.”
Gillette then hung up and he did not respond to follow up questions texted to him about the post. A representative for Jayapal said that she is out of the country and currently unable to comment.
What will he need to say before Republican leadership in the House takes action? This is language that leads to violence. I’m tired of him putting us and our families at risk.
– Assistant House Democratic Leader Nancy Gutierrez
One of Gillette’s Democratic colleagues in the Arizona House of Representatives said the Kingman Republican’s call for an elected official to be put to death for exercising their First Amendment right was appalling.
“The Congresswoman was clearly talking about nonviolent protest and legal strikes — absolutely nothing violent,” Assistant House Democratic Leader Nancy Gutierrez said in a statement to the Mirror. “Representative Gillette misconstrued her words to once again put a target on a political opponent’s back, calling for her to be hanged. What will he need to say before Republican leadership in the House takes action? This is language that leads to violence. I’m tired of him putting us and our families at risk.”
Gillette’s recent comments come after some of his democratic colleagues have voiced concerns over his rhetoric after he castigated them for calling for civility and unity in the wake of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In a message to all his fellow lawmakers that included a racial slur, he placed blame for political violence solely on Democrats and the political left, accusing them of stoking hate and violence against Republicans.
“The tone was set by your party; unity is no longer an option,” Gillette wrote to the 59 other members of the state House. “We handed you an olive ranch (sic), and you broke it. Your party invited the radicals to the table and they took over. Now you own them. As the J**s did at Peral (sic) Harbor, Radical Muslims on 911, your party has woken the sleeping giant.”
He has also recently come under fire for Islamophobic comments that led to an ethics complaint that was ultimately dismissed. The Republican chair of the House Ethics Committee said that Gillette had a First Amendment right to say whatever he wanted on social media without consequence.
Jeff Sharlet, a professor at Dartmouth and author of “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” said he was “wary” to call Gillette’s words a direct call to violence, but said the comments were still worrying and part of a larger trend.
“I think it is grotesque what he is saying. I would be afraid that someone would maybe act on it,” Sharlet said, adding that if he were a Democratic politician who had to work with Gillette, he may be nervous. “If he got anywhere near the Congresswoman he is targeting, I’d want security to take notice.”
Discussions around political violence have reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, with high-profile conservatives laying blame on their political opponents and their rhetoric.
“We are having a punctuated burst — a historically high period of political violence that I would call America’s era of violent populism,” Dr. Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago who has studied political violence for 30 years, told the Mirror.
In June, Pape penned an op-ed in The New York Times saying that the country was on the brink of an “extremely violent era” in American politics.
“We are now … in the eye of the storm I was worried about,” Pape said.
Pape runs the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, a nonpartisan research center. In May, Pape’s organization found that 40% of Democrats supported the use of force to remove Trump and 25% of Republicans supported the use of military against anti-Trump protests, double what the numbers were last fall.
That violent rhetoric used by Gillette also could have an unintended consequence on him and his political allies, Pape said.
“It is going to push those supporters (of Jayapal) to becoming more defiant and probably more supportive of political violence against Republicans,” he explained. “Whatever his intentions are, it is increasing the danger to Republicans.”
Sharlet said that, although the intention behind Jayapal’s words was easy to discern, “this is not the time for ambiguous language.” Politicians, he said, should aim to speak to the public in a more truthful and concise manner.
“They need to know the way it boomerangs back in a negative way to their own community,” Pape said, adding that he’d advise them to be more like Kirk’s widow, Erika.
At the memorial service for her husband, she said she forgives the man who killed her husband, adding that “the answer to hate is not hate.”
“Erika Kirk offered an olive branch here, and we need more olive branches here,” Pape said.
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When far-right activist and "Stop The Steal" organizer Ali Alexander saw his career implode in 2023 after admitting to soliciting explicit photos from underage males, he announced that he would be "bowing out of public life."
But that was not entirely true, as what actually happened is that Alexander simply migrated over to the social media platform Telegram, where he has focused his attention on spreading overt antisemitism to his 21,000 followers.
On Saturday, Alexander did a livestream on Telegram to voice his concerns about the emerging narrative on the far right that Israel assassinated Charlie Kirk, allegedly for having voiced criticism of the nation.
During the livestream, Alexander did not dispute the idea that Israel could have murdered Kirk but argued that had not seen any convincing evidence or heard any sound arguments to support the allegation. That said, Alexander wanted to make it very clear that nobody "wants to take down Israel more than me" and so nobody could claim that they were "out flanking [him] on taking out the Jew."
Alexander said there was much to be suspicious about regarding Kirk's assassination, such as the behavior of George Zinn in the immediate aftermath.
"I find it incredibly strange that reportedly a Jewish man, that character Zinn, acted deeply suspicious and it does look like he distracted police while the assassin got away," Alexander said. "Has anyone established any connection between this weird Jewish guy and the shooter, this weird Jewish guy in Mossad, this weird Jewish guy and anything else?"
Alexander said there was another person on the scene who "looks Jewish" and was acting "autistically [and] retardedly" after Kirk was shot.
"He won't post his last name," Alexander claimed. "That's something a lot of Jews do. We call it shape-shifting."
"I don't know anybody who wants to take down Israel more than me in this audience," Alexander declared. "I believe it's theological. I believe this supersedes politics. I believe that the Jews are the synagogue of Satan. I believe that the Jews made up a lot of the Holocaust. I don't know a person who thinks more poorly of Jews as a consensus or culture than me."
"I blame the divorce rates on the Jew," Alexander added. "Most of you probably would not blame the divorce rates on the Jew. I do. So when I see people say, 'I'm out flanking you on taking out the Jew, Ali,' I'm like, no, you're just engaged in mindlessness."
Having spent 45 minutes establishing his antisemitic bona fides, Alexander then revealed what he ultimately wants to see done in response to Kirk's murder.
"My attention is going to be on trying to get [FBI Director] Kash Patel fired, trying to get Donald Trump off his fat ass to avenge his friend, trying to use state power to tell civil libertarians to shut up while we excise all of antifa from our country," he said. "I think 500,000 people need to be arrested, tried, and possibly killed if they're convicted for treason or something like that. I think America needs a penal colony. I do not want to coexist with these people."
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The Gateway Pundit's Joe Hoft calls for the National Guard to remove judges and “throw them behind bars”
Hoft: “You cannot have the rulings that these judges have and and be of a sound mind. And you're a criminal. And same with Jerome Powell.”
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Jim Hoft's website, The Gateway Pundit,“is one of the worst purveyors of false information on the internet.” The website — to which Hoft's brother, Joe, is a contributor — reportedly became “a favorite news source” of President Donald Trump after it “pushed false claims of a stolen election“ for years following the presidential election of 2020.
During Trump's second term, the website has enjoyed access to the administration. In August, Jim Hoft interviewed Vice President JD Vance, during which Vance said the far-right website was “so important,” and a Media Matters review found that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called on The Gateway Pundit 5 times at press briefings during the first three months of Trump's second term, more than The Washington Post (4) or The Associated Press (3).
On September 3, Joe Hoft appeared on For the Love of Freedom with Danielle Walker and said that judges, who he alleges are “sabotaging our legal system,” and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are “criminal” and need to be held accountable.
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From the September 3, 2025, edition of For the Love of Freedom with Danielle Walker, streamed on Rumble
JOE HOFT (THE GATEWAY PUNDIT): We have to deal with our judges. We have to get rid of these corrupt judges. We have to remove them from office. If it means, in my opinion, and I don't care what people say, if it means we need to send the National Guard in to remove these people from their office and throw them behind bars, then we have to. These people are not working for the country. They are sabotaging our legal system, destroying it by making these judgments that are grabbed out of nowhere because the judge just is a radical, radical, nonethical, disgusting human being. I think the same thing with Jerome Powell.
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The judges need to be removed from office, and I think it charged. They need to be, we need to hold them accountable. You cannot have the rulings that these judges have and and be of a sound mind. And you're a criminal. And same with Jerome Powell. He's costing this country a trillion dollars a year by not lowering these rates.
Trillion dollars to every, you know, split amongst all Americans. Trillion dollars because he won't lower those rates, which should be lowered significantly to the point that we'd save a trillion. And that would really help the economy. It helped the housing industry and all this. I don't know why real estate agents aren't screaming for this guy to lower the rates.
And he won't because he's a vile, disgusting human being. He did the same thing with Trump his first term, raised the rates, kept raising them, and just crashed the, almost crashed the economy himself. And so these kind of people, we just cannot allow them to continue. They're too damaging and the damage is too severe.
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September 3, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Now when you hear politicians like Brandon Johnson claim that they have solutions, remember videos like this one. They've gone out of their way to make violent crime much, much worse in Chicago. This is a deliberate effort that they've embarked on. Now it's true that in our federal system, states are not required to assist the federal government in carrying out certain policy objectives, but it's also true that states and local government cannot actively interfere with the federal government's decision to enforce the law. That is not states rights. That is treason.
Brandon Johnson is openly encouraging residents of Chicago to engage in treason against the United States. And for that reason, Brandon Johnson should be arrested, charged with treason, convicted, and then given the requisite punishment for a capital offense. Will that ever happen? Probably not. But then again, just a few days ago, Tren de Aragua, you know, they never thought that they'd be intercepted as they sped towards the United States on their drug boats. They certainly didn't imagine they'd get blown up without any warning.
All indications are that we are entering a new phase of federal governance, one where the U.S. military acts to defend the American people, where false narratives from NGOs are ignored, where criminals are actually punished when they violate the law in public. So who knows? Maybe Brandon Johnson shouldn't be so confident. Like Washington, D.C., which has experienced something like a 50% drop in violent crime since the National Guard moved in, Chicago is about to become a much safer place.
The more JB Pritzker lies about crime statistics, the more Brandon Johnson commits treason in public, the more obvious it becomes that this strategy needs to be applied to every major American city. Democrats have no response. They have no counterargument. The safer America becomes, the more they will complain. And in response, every American who's paying attention will recognize their party for what it is. They are the party of chaos, crime, and cartels, and they should be treated accordingly.
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Bulwark writer Will Sommer says President Donald Trump’s former attorney general Bill Barr caught flack at a recent Fox News appearance, but the reason for his condemnation couldn’t be less flimsy.
“Why did Fox just bring on traitor Bill Barr? He should be in prison,” posted MAGAinfluencer Gunther Eagleman, while another Trump enthusiast wrote “Bill Barr is on Fox News instead of a prison cell."
Sommer said X accounts and YouTube commenters are demanding Fox ban Barr from its airwaves, and wish him a prison term for treason.
READ MORE: 'That's how this ends': George Conway reveals 'the only way' to stop Trump's 'gangsterism'
“Why the insistence that Barr has committed a criminal betrayal of the country? Naturally, it’s a conspiracy theory,” said Sommer.
“Huge swaths of the right-wing media audience have latched on to allegations that Barr schemed with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and conservative pundit Armstrong Williams to hatch the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and 18 other people,” Sommer writes.
The controversy stems from right-wing video producer Project Veritas publishing reports from sole source Patrícia Lélis, who Sommer describes as a ”Brazilian national fugitive wanted by the FBI and last known to be hiding out in Mexico.”
Lélis claims she learned of Barr’s scheme to orchestrate Trump’s prosecutions while working as Armstrong Williams’ employee. Sommer said it does not appear to matter that Merrick Garland — not Bill Barr — was attorney general at the time. Lélis alleges Barr secretly met with Jack Smith and Fani Willis to “hatch plans to bring a RICO case against Trump and more than a dozen other defendants.”
READ MORE: 'Duty to disobey': A stunning number of US troops know they can defy Trump's orders
Project Veritas published three videos focused on Lélis’s allegations, and Sommer said much of the American right have taken her claims “at face value.”
“They’ve been promoted by InfoWars chief Alex Jones, pundit Dinesh D’Souza, and Mario Nawfal, the ubiquitous X personality with more than 2 million followers,” writes Sommer. “Lélis has appeared on online politics streamer Real America’s Voice News, the home of prominent right-wing figures like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk.”
“White nationalist figure” Nick Fuentes cited his own appearance on Bill Barr’s alleged “enemies list” to boost his credibility against allegations that he’s a federal informant, said Sommer.
Lélis’ believers ignore that she accused a Brazilian politician of rape in 2015, only to have police drop the case and request her own arrest, said Sommer, or that police determined her “texts” accusing the son of Brazil’s then-president Jair Bolsonaro of threatening her were forgeries. Sommer also points out that Lélis likely stole the photo of a baby from a social media account and photoshopped her own face onto the mother’s to make Lélis look like a mom.
READ MORE: 'Not looking great out there': Analysts warn this unexpected indicator predicts Trump slump
Still, Sommer reports Project Veritas telling him they stand behind her claims, and they plan more releases from her in the future, despite Brazilians familiar with Lélis being “aghast” at the company treating her like a credible source.
“She is a diagnosed mythomaniac!” one wrote to Project Veritas on X. “For God’s sake.”
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NY Times reported John Durham found the “Clinton Plan” emails were likely created by Russian spies. Right-wing media are running with them as legitimate.
Figures have suggested Clinton should be “behind bars,” argued the debunked scandal will “make Watergate look like a jaywalking ticket,” and likened it to a “soft coup attempt” and “treason”
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The right-wing media ecosystem has exploded with false claims about a newly-declassified annex to special counsel John Durham’s report on Russian collusion with Trump’s 2016 campaign. Right-wing media are claiming that the annex provides evidence of a “plot” by the Clinton campaign to undermine then-candidate Donald Trump. However, the newly-declassified assessment found that the documents in question were “not credible” and “likely made by Russian spies.”
Conservative media figures have ignored this assessment, instead calling for Hillary Clinton to be put “behind bars” for coordinating a “soft coup attempt.” And although they previously heralded Durham’s efforts, some in right-wing media are now arguing he “failed the American people.”
- ## Despite right-wing media claims, the declassified Durham annex found that the “Clinton Plan” emails “were likely made by Russian spies”
- On Thursday, the New York Post falsely claimed that newly declassified documents showed Clinton approved a plan to “smear” Trump with the Russia collusion narrative. The Post pointed to what it claimed are “explosive intelligence files declassified” this week, that purportedly show a “plot” in emails between Clinton’s campaign and allies to smear Trump with Russian collusion narratives. The evidence allegedly comes from Durham’s probe. New York Post, [7/31/25]
- In reality, the declassified documents show the opposite: the report’s conclusion was that the supposedly scandalous emails “were likely made by Russian spies.” Reporting from the New York Times noted that Durham’s assessment was that “a key piece of supposed evidence for the claim that Mrs. Clinton approved a plan to tie Mr. Trump to Russia is not credible” and was “probably manufactured.” Furthermore, Durham’s assessment was that the purported emails “were ultimately a composite of several emails that were obtained through Russian intelligence hacking of the U.S.-based think tanks.” New York Times, [7/31/25]
- The disclosure — which the Times called “the latest in a series of disclosures about the Russia inquiry, as the Trump team seeks to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files” — follows weeks of outrage from some right-wing media over the administration’s handling of Epstein’s case. While some outlets have aided the administration’s attempt to deflect attention from Epstein, others, especially the hosts of online shows, have called the disclosures a “distraction” meant to make supporters “stop paying attention to Epstein.” Media Matters, [7/9/25, 7/23/25, 7/28/25, 7/30/25; New York Times, 7/31/25]
- ## Right-wing media are pushing debunked claims about the declassified annex
- Right-wing podcast host Megyn Kelly argued “Hillary Clinton should be behind bars, and so should the people who work for her who did this.” Referring to the alleged bombshell news, Kelly continued, “She wanted to distract from her email scandal. She cooked up a plan to accuse Trump of being a Russian agent in order to distract from her own legitimate scandal.” SiriusXM, *The Megyn Kelly Show*, [7/31/25]
- Right-wing influencer Benny Johnson suggested the annex “confirms Hillary Clinton personally approved the plot to frame Donald Trump with fake Russia collusion—despite intel proving it was false.” He added, “This was a coordinated criminal cover-up to protect Clinton and take down Trump. Christopher Wray must be investigated immediately.” Twitter/X, [7/31/25]
- Johnson: “It would hurt the feelings of this audience if nobody did anything on this.”YouTube, *The Benny Show*, [8/1/25]
- Fox contributor Byron York said the documents prove the “Clinton campaign played an important role in creating the whole Trump-Russia narrative” and suggested, “All those Republicans who think Soros is a big villain, well, they’ll be confirmed in this one.” Fox News, *Special Report with Bret Baier*, [7/31/25]
- Fox host Jesse Watters claimed “George Soros’ people worked with the DNC to roll out the hoax and the FBI was in on it the whole time.”Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [7/31/25]
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- Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo claimed that the documents point “right, straight to Hillary Clinton as she was the key voice signing off on the entire Russiagate scheme” and pushed for punishment, saying, “The statute of limitations does not apply when it comes to conspiracies.” Fox Business Network, *Mornings with Maria*, [8/1/25]
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- New York Post: “Read the documents that prove Hillary Clinton OK’d plan to ‘smear’ Trump with Russia collusion.”New York Post, [7/31/25]
- Fox legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said the documents “further implicate Barack Obama as deeply embedded in the hoax.”Fox News, *Hannity*, [7/31/25]
- OnThe Will Cain Show, OutKick’s Buck Sexton said the annex proved a “soft coup attempt.”Cain replied, “I don't think there's any words that would rise to the level of hyperbole. You couldn’t outdo yourself if you said soft coup or treason.” Fox News, *The Will Cain Show*, [7/31/25]
- Fox host Sean Hannity: “I've been saying that this is going to make Watergate look like a jaywalking ticket in the end, and I believe this smoking gun out today proves that comment to be correct.” On his radio show, Hannity continued, “What I believe we are looking at is probably what Chuck Grassley classified as the biggest political scandal in American history.” Premiere Radio Networks, *The Sean Hannity Show*, [7/31/25]
- National Review news writer James Lynch claimed Clinton “approved a plan devised by her campaign to falsely smear Donald Trump with claims of Russian collusion.” National Review, [7/31/25]
- Gateway Pundit: “Declassified Durham Appendix Shows Hillary Clinton PERSONALLY Approved Trump-Russia Hoax.” The Gateway Pundit, [7/31/25]
- The Federalist wrote, “Hillary Clinton approved the Russia collusion hoax but then lied to the FBI about her knowledge of the plot.”The Federalist, [7/31/25]
- Washington Examiner: “Declassified Durham annex reveals FBI ignored evidence of a Clinton plan to create Russia hoax.”The Washington Examiner, [7/31/25]
- Former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer claimed, “The Clinton campaign in coordination with Team Soros weaponized US government law and intel agencies to manufacture a lie and media was complicit.” Twitter/X, [8/1/25]
- Fox & Friendsco-host Brian Kilmeade said the documents “appear to show that Hillary Clinton approved a plan to smear Trump in that summer prior to the RNC with the Russia collusion documents and brought Vladimir Putin along with her.”Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [8/1/25]
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- Infowars author Sean Miller claimed the annex revealed “a conspiracy between the Democrat National Committee [DNC], Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and the Barack Obama administration to formulate a fraudulent claim that then-candidate Donald Trump was a Russian asset.” Infowars, [7/31/25]
- ## Some in right-wing media attacked Durham, arguing he “failed the American people” with his initial report
- Blaze Media host Liz Wheeler: “How did John Durham miss all this evidence? Did he intentionally ‘miss’ it?” Twitter/X, [7/21/25]
- Right-wing commentator Bill Mitchell called Durham “the most useless special prosecutor in the history of Earth” and argued he intended to “kick the can down the road until they could install Biden and run this beyond the SOL.” Twitter/X, [7/27/25]
- Newsmax host Greg Kelly said Durham “failed the American people” because he was loyal to “the swamp.” Newsmax, *Greg Kelly Reports*, [7/31/25]
- Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell said “Durham clearly did not do justice” to the case. Twitter/X, [7/31/25]
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- ### Fox News has mentioned Obama over 3 times more than Epstein since Tulsi Gabbard released her report
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July 31, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
KELLY SADLER (GUEST): It also shows you how the media is played by the deep state. All of this sourcing was anonymous.
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): Right.
SADLER: This was Jim Comey, who after all of this came out, opened Crossfire Hurricane, which was the investigation into President Trump and his collusion with Russia, which there was absolutely no evidence of at the time. But that's what gave him credence to go to the media anonymously and say, hey, he's a Russian agent. And they just ran with this story with these anonymous sources. They never checked it —
FINNERTY: Well they were thrilled to do it —
SADLER: And they all have Trump derangement syndrome.
FINNERTY: Jake Tapper, these people — you know what I think is interesting, too? It's like if somebody told you — if your doctor said, look, if you smoke another cigarette, you know, there's a chance you might not wake up tomorrow morning and you get out of the doctor's office and you light up in the car, OK?
Half of these anchors and these hosts, I mean, we can go through the list, but many of the people that propagated this for a decade no longer work in television. OK? Every time another one bites the dust and Stephen Colbert has a podcast, you know what I mean? It just keeps happening. Yet they keep doing the same thing.
People have criticized James Comer, alright? Who's been in charge of Oversight for a while now. People have criticized Jim Jordan because for whatever reason, it seems like Republicans get weak in the knees when it comes to actually going beyond investigation and recommending something to Department of Justice.
I think Comer played a role in Kamala losing the race and Joe Biden getting out of the race, ultimately. I think they've done a great job, and I think they need to keep their foot on the gas because I think they are the first Republicans that are actually relentlessly pursuing the truth.
And it's not easy. Republicans want it like tomorrow. I want to see Barack Obama dragged out of his Martha's Vineyard mansion in handcuffs. I don't think it's going to happen tomorrow. But look, this stuff we are now — they are building a case methodically. And it could end there, Erin. It could end with arrests, indictments, people in leg irons.
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- Global Project Against Hate And Extremism: Tulsi Gabbard’s “Claims” that the Obama Administration Staged a “Coup” Fuel Far Right’s Fantasies of Political Violence
On July 18, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made a post on Twitter alleging “the most powerful people in the Obama administration,” including former President Barack Obama, were involved in a “years-long coup” and a “treasonous conspiracy” against Donald Trump. Her post quickly went viral, amassing over 13 million views over the weekend, and galvanized the online fringe to fantasize about violence against their political enemies. Trump fanned Gabbard’s flames, sharing a racist AI-generated video of Obama being arrested on Truth Social, which Trump owns.
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MMA
Right-wing media use Tulsi Gabbard's flimsy memo to call for imprisoning Obama
The right-wing media efforts to implicate Obama come as Trump tries to deflect from the Epstein files
Written by Gideon Taaffe & Chloe Simon
Published 07/23/25
As the MAGA world continues to rail against the Trump administration over the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a report suggesting former President Barack Obama pressured national intelligence agencies to fabricate or exaggerate Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election in favor of President Donald Trump.
Right-wing media have reacted to the story — which Trump has seized on as he tries to distract from the Epstein chaos — by demanding or predicting that Obama be charged for “treason” and “seditious conspiracy” in a “military tribunal” or accusing him of orchestrating “a three-year project to overturn the will of the American people and to destroy an administration.”
Tulsi Gabbard suggested Obama pressured intelligence agencies to fabricate or dramatize Russian influence operations in the 2016 election
- On July 18, Gabbard released emails along with a press release that misleadingly suggested intelligence agencies changed their assessment of Russian operations in 2016 at Obama’s behest following Trump’s electoral win.The press release concluded: “Tulsi Gabbard revealed overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how, after President Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, [7/18/25, 7/18/25; CNN, 7/22/25]
- :{:{Gabbard has previously acknowledged that Russia attempted to “influence our elections” in 2018.On Joe Rogan’s podcast, Gabbard cited “Russian troll farms” used to “influence our elections,” adding, “The American people need to be aware of where this information is coming from.” Twitter/X, [7/21/25]}:
Trump seized on Gabbard’s claims in an apparent effort to detract from the Epstein files}:
- After Gabbard’s release, Trump shared what seemed to be artificial intelligence-generated photos and videos of Obama in prison.On Truth Social, Trump shared images of an Obama mugshot and a video of Obama getting arrested in the Oval office. Time, [7/21/25]
- As Media Matters’ Matt Gertz pointed out, “Trump is seeking to reunify allies enraged by his administration’s repudiation of MAGA claims about late convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein by offering up spurious attacks on common and familiar enemies,” including Obama.Media Matters, [7/21/25]
- A spokesperson for Obama called the allegations “outrageous” in a statement, adding, “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.” “Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” the spokesperson said, “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one." NBC News, [7/22/25]
- ## Gabbard’s memo “conflates” different intelligence assessments to craft a misleading narrative
- The New York Times highlighted that Gabbard’s release conflated two things: attempts to hack election infrastructure and influence operations aimed at changing public opinion. As The New York Times wrote, “The Obama administration assessment never contended that Russian hackers manipulated votes. Russia also conducted influence operations to change public opinion. That included using fake social media posts to sow division among Americans and leaking documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee to denigrate Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee. Multiple reviews, including a Republican-led Senate report, backed the findings of American spy agencies in late 2016 that Russia was trying to influence the election by damaging Ms. Clinton’s campaign and bolstering Mr. Trump. … The new report by Ms. Gabbard’s staff conflates those two activities by the Russians and tries to suggest that the Obama administration forced the intelligence community to alter its conclusions.” The New York Times, [7/18/25]
- MSNBC noted that Gabbard alleged that an assessment claiming Russia “did not impact” the 2016 election “was abruptly pulled,” but a week later Obama acknowledged that the election infrastructure was not tampered with.MSNBC contributor Katty Kay said Obama told the press on December 16, 2016: “I can assure the public that there was not the kind of tampering with the voting process that was a concern and will continue to be of concern going forward. That the votes that were cast were counted, they were counted appropriately. We have not seen evidence of machines being tampered with. So, that assurance I can provide.” MSNBC, *The Morning Joe*, [7/22/25]
- CNN’s Daniel Dale noted that Gabbard “is emphasizing … that previous assessments did not find that Russia had altered the election results, altered vote counts. Well, the new assessment didn’t either.” Dale continued, “What the new assessment found was that Russia engaged in hacking operations targeting Democrats, had engaged in influence operations online to attempt to alter the results in favor of Trump, to hurt Clinton. That is not contradictory as far as we know.” CNN, [7/22/25]
- The National Review’s Andy McCarthy also noted that a report released a few days prior to Gabbard’s press release reasserted that Russia did attempt to interfere in the 2016 election. McCarthy wrote: “No new light is shed on this episode by Gabbard’s email disclosures last Friday, which, unsurprisingly, were accompanied by an overwrought and misleading press release rather than an analytical report. Perhaps that is because Gabbard’s intelligence community peer, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, did issue an analytical report just a few days earlier that contradicts Gabbard’s implication that there was no evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election.” The National Review, [7/21/25]
- NBC reported that Gabbard’s memo also contradicted then-acting Intelligence Committee Chair Marco Rubio’s claim that there was “irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling” in the 2016 election. In 2020, Rubio signed off on a bipartisan committee’s findings that while it found no evidence Trump colluded with Russia, “what the Committee did find however is very troubling. We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.” NBC News, [7/22/25]
- The Gabbard release suggested that the Obama administration changed its intelligence assessment in part to leak “false statements to media outlets,” but the press examples the memo cited are not inaccurate.The Bulwark highlighted Gabbard’s claims that media reporting on “cyberattacks on election infrastructure” from the Obama administration’s reports are misleading. Instead, these stories reported on hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign. The Bulwark noted: “Even the Gabbard memo is compelled to admit that there is ‘supporting evidence indicating the Russian government directed hacking of the DNC and [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee].’” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, [7/18/25; The Bulwark, 7/21/25]
- The Washington Post similarly flagged examples of Gabbard citing media reports about a “hack” and misleadingly suggesting media outlets were referring to a hack of election machines rather than the hack of the Clinton campaign.One example of this misrepresentation is an NBC News article about the “U.S. Election Hack.” The Post notes: “The NBC News report, which confirmed the earlier Washington Post reporting, does not use the phrase ‘’election hack’ — though the headline does. Moreover, Gabbard does not report the section of the article that makes clear that reporters are referring to the DNC hack, not general election systems: ‘Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used.’” The Washington Post, [7/22/25]
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- ## Right-wing media responded to the memo by suggesting Obama weaponized intelligence agencies “to sabotage an election”
- Right-wing podcaster Laura Loomer: “Obama WAS in fact spying on Trump and weaponizing the intel agencies against Trump.”Twitter/X, [7/18/25]
- Fox News’ Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery claimed the Obama administration created the Russia collusion scandal “because they wanted to stay in control.”She continued: “Donald Trump was operating so far outside the establishment that I think to a lot of people whom many would consider the deep state, he was uncontrollable.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [7/21/25]
- Fox News host Laura Ingraham claimed, “Once again, everything Democrats accuse Trump of — subverting the election, hurting democracy — is what they did.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [7/21/25]
- Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hansen said, “This was a three-year project to overturn the will of the American people and to destroy an administration. Makes Watergate … look like small potatoes.” Ingraham agreed, adding, “My God, I mean, it's a miracle that Trump was able to win in 2024. It is an absolute miracle from God that Trump could win. I mean, he was obviously fighting his way through, but still.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [7/21/25]
- Fox News host Jesse Watters complained that “the media spent years obsessed with the Russia hoax, and now that it’s been debunked and has Obama’s fingerprints all over it, they’re ducking their heads from the boomerang.”Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [7/21/25]
- On Newsmax’sFinnerty, presidential aide Sebastian Gorka called Obama a “traitor to the oath of office” for directing the directors of the FBI and CIA “to use the most powerful intelligence tools in the world to sabotage an election and go after an innocent man.” Newsmax, *Finnerty*, [7/21/25]
- ## Right-wing media also suggested Obama should or would be arrested for treason, should face a military tribunal, or is guilty of “seditious conspiracy”
- OnThe Benny Show, QAnon conspiracist and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn called for officials to take Obama’s passport and raid his house.Flynn said, “Starting with Obama on down, they all ought to have their passports revoked,” adding, “I do think that what the DOJ should be considering, if not getting ready to conduct, is a raid of Barack Obama's home up there at Kalorama, in Washington, D.C.” Rumble, *The Benny Show*, [7/21/25]
- Podcaster Benny Johnson and Flynn suggested the U.S. should explore a “military tribunal” for Obama.Johnson asked Flynn, “Could you have a military tribunal for the commander-in-chief?” Flynn responded, “It'd ought to be explored, Benny. It should be explored.” Rumble, *The Benny Show*, [7/21/25]
- Johnson claimed that Trump posted Obama mug shots because “accountability is coming.”Twitter/X, [7/20/25]
- OnThe Benny Show, right-wing legal activist Mike Davis claimed Obama needs to “lawyer up, buddy,” because he may go to prison. Davis: “I would say to Barack Hussein Obama, ‘Lawyer up, buddy.’ Because your conspiracy after you left the White House could land you in prison.” Johnson responded, “We’re waiting for those days.” Rumble, *The Benny Show*, [7/21/25]
- Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk suggested “Russiagate” was “demonic” and claimed, “We need perp walks. We need arrests.” Kirk: “We need perp walks. We need arrests. We need accountability. And if we do not smash the administrative state and the deep state in the coming 6-12 months, then we’re actually — we're not going to bring this entire intelligence apparatus to heel. We have to lance the boil because it’s gotten so out of control.” He added, “That’s why I think Russiagate really matters is that it's a way to hold them accountable, to see how dark and honestly, demonic, their activities have become.” YouTube, *The Tucker Carlson Show*, [7/21/25]
- Right-wing podcaster Liz Wheeler called to prosecute Obama for “treason” and “seditious conspiracy,” writing, “We demand JUSTICE.” Wheeler: “We don’t want silly perjury charges against Obama & his spooks for the high crimes they committed against Trump. We demand JUSTICE. Treason. Seditious conspiracy. Conspiracy to defraud the government. Deprivation of rights under the color of law. Grand conspiracy. … Arrest them.” Twitter/X, [7/21/25]
- Right-wing podcaster and Trump ally Roger Stone called for Gabbard to investigate “seditious conspiracy orchestrated by Obama.” Stone: “I demand that she continue to expose these seditious conspiracy orchestrated by Obama himself. What is Hines afraid of?” Twitter/X, [7/21/25]
- Right-wing outlet The National Pulse published a blog titled “Obama committed ‘treasonous conspiracy.’”The outlet wrote: “U.S. intel agencies first found no Russian impact on the 2016 election. After an Obama-led meeting, the assessment was revised to say Moscow helped Trump—triggering three years of investigations that dogged his presidency.” The National Pulse, [7/21/25]
- Right-wing influencer Catturd posted: “Arrest all the Obama traitors.”Twitter/X, [7/21/25]
- Right-wing podcaster Kyle Becker claimed the “Russia hoax” was a fraud perpetrated by Clinton and Obama and now it is “time for jail.” Becker: “The Russia Hoax is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated against the American people. Hillary knew it was false. Obama knew it was false. Rice knew it was false. Clapper knew it was false. Brennan knew it was false. They all knew it was false. They pushed it anyway. Time for jail.” Twitter/X, [7/20/25]
- Right-wing activist Mike Crispi posted, “Nobody’s above the law they tell us. So ARREST OBAMA!” Twitter/X, [7/20/25]
- The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh: “Either top Obama officials are arrested or Tulsi Gabbard should be fired.”Walsh: “The typical pattern by Republicans since forever is to make these kinds of claims, but to make them only on social media and Fox News and to never actually bring it to a court of law so the parties responsible can be held accountable.” The Daily Wire, *The Matt Walsh Show*, [7/21/25]
- Right-wing pundit Wayne Allyn Root said, “I hope Obama’s home practicing his mugshot because Trump set the bar high.”Root also suggested Obama could face the death penalty, saying, “Does the Trump DOJ have the cojones to charge Obama and Hillary with treason. And treason comes with either death penalty or life in prison.” Real America’s Voice, *War Zone with Wayne Allyn Root*, [7/21/25]
- Right-wing streamer David Nino Rodriguez said he would be discussing the “future arrest of Barack Obama.”Twitter/X, [7/21/25]
- QAnon influencer SunTzu posted, “Start by arresting Obama.”Twitter/X, [7/20/25; Media Matters, 4/24/24]
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Trump's spy chief claims the Obama administration 'manufactured' intel on Russia
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has published the latest in a series of reports that scrutinize years-old intel community...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, has published the latest in a series of recent Trump administration reports aimed at scrutinizing years-old intelligence community conclusions about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.
For years, President Trump has spread disinformation about those conclusions, calling the entire Russia investigation a "hoax," despite supporting evidence that has been systematically reviewed by intelligence agencies, lawmakers and Department of Justice lawyers.
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On Friday afternoon, ODNI published a press releaseasserting that its director, Tulsi Gabbard, "revealed overwhelming evidence" that President Obama and his national security officials "manufactured and politicized intelligence" to launch a "years-long coup against President Trump." Gabbard echoed those conclusions across social media platforms X and Truth Social, and in interviews on Fox News in the days that followed.
Among the materials Gabbard declassified are emails and memos published under the banner of the new "Director's Initiatives Group," formed to "execut[e] President Trump's Executive Orders aimed at rebuilding trust in the [Intelligence Community]."
In those files, Obama officials exchange correspondence about Russian attempts at election interference, concluding that it was unlikely Russian hackers would successfully compromise physical election infrastructure or alter vote totals without detection but might be successful in influencing voter confidence in the election.
"There is no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count through cyber means," wrote an ODNI official whose name was redacted in a newly published email. "However, as seen in recent media reporting, any cyber activity directed against the election infrastructure is likely to have an effect on public confidence," they continued.
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Gabbard also released a timeline that outlines events leading up to the 2017 assessment that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 election. The timeline focuses on the conclusions by intelligence community officials that Russia likely had not and would not use cyber means to directly compromise voter systems or change vote tallies.
Gabbard argues that these conclusions are hypocritical and poke holes – if not directly contradict – the intelligence community's 2017 assessment that Russian attempted to influence the election.
But Obama officials never claimed that Russian hackers had successfully changed votes or hacked election infrastructure at scale.
The 2017 assessment focuses on Russian influence, from social media disinformation networks, hack-and-leak campaigns, Russian bot farms and other more psychological efforts made by Russian actors. Intelligence community experts acknowledge that Russian hacking targeting election infrastructure was likely limited and aimed at gathering intelligence.
Democrats were quick to criticize the new ODNI publication as contradictory to previous reviews of the assessment, as well as dishonest and politically motivated.
"This is utter nonsense," wrote Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
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"It is sadly not surprising that DNI Gabbard, who promised to depoliticize the intelligence community, is once again weaponizing her position to amplify the president's election conspiracy theories," wrote Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on X.
Meanwhile, earlier in July, CIA Director John Ratcliffe published a separate report reviewing the CIA's internal processes while compiling the 2017 assessment. On X.com, he claimed that Obama officials had "manipulated intelligence" in an effort to "get Trump."
However, like the newly declassified emails and memos, the CIA report doesn't appear to directly contradict the central thesis of the 2017 assessment: that Russia attempted to influence the American public and their perceptions of the 2016 election.
The CIA's "lessons-learned" review of the analytic procedure behind the 2017 assessment identified several recommendations for stricter compliance with CIA standards, but ultimately said that the actual conclusions made in that assessment were "defensible."
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#DNI Gabbard concocts odd ‘treasonous conspiracy’ theory, eyes Russia probe prosecutions
Tulsi Gabbard's new findings on the Trump-Russia scandal have been panned as “ludicrous.” The DNI is seeking criminal prosecutions anyway.
July 21, 2025,
By Steve Benen
By all appearances, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been struggling for months. On Capitol Hill, she’s become the subject of bipartisan ridicule, with one Republican senator recently questioning whether she should be medicated.
In the White House, it’s worse. In recent months, there’s been reporting from major outlets about the intelligence chief being sidelined, being left out of important meetings, and falling out of favor in the Oval Office. Indeed, in the run-up to the president launching a pre-emptive military strike in Iran, Donald Trump twice told reporters — out loud and on camera — that he didn’t care what Gabbard thought.
If the DNI were looking for a way to return to the president’s good graces, she apparently found one. The New York Times reported:
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday issued the latest in a series of reports from the Trump administration attempting to undermine the eight-year-old assessment that Russia favored the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said the information she was releasing showed a ‘treasonous conspiracy in 2016’ by top Obama administration officials to harm Mr. Trump.
Late Friday afternoon, Gabbard’s Director’s Initiative Group (DIG) unveiled a report with a title that read, “Declassified Evidence of Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert President Trump’s 2016 Victory and Presidency.” In an accompanying press release, the DNI added, “The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government.”
It was over-the-top nonsense that Gabbard was quick to bring to Fox News during multiple on-air appearances, including an interview in which she raised the prospect of an anti-Trump “coup.”
The president appeared delighted. I lost count of how many items he published to his social media platform about Gabbard’s claims, but The Daily Beast tallied “at least 17 times,” which sounds about right.
Those who apparently believe it’s their job to parrot Trump played their predictable roles. House Speaker Mike Johnson, for example, wrote online in response to the DNI’s findings, “DISMANTLING THE DEEP STATE! New evidence from [Gabbard] confirms what we’ve long known: The Russia hoax was a political hit job manufactured by Obama officials and weaponized by intel agencies to take down President Trump.”
And if that were true, it would certainly be a big deal. But it’s not true at all.
Right off the bat, it’s worth noting that the hapless intelligence director could have better timing: The week before she released her weird report, Trump’s handpicked CIA director released the findings of his own internal investigation that concluded, once again, that Russia attacked the U.S. political system in 2016 because Putin’s regime wanted to put Trump in the White House — which is the same thing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found, and which is the same thing the Senate Intelligence Committee found when it was led by then-Sen. Marco Rubio, before he became Trump’s secretary of state.
But even if we put that aside, and consider Gabbard’s findings on their own, the DNI released a document that can charitably be described as an embarrassment to herself, her office and the U.S. intelligence community. An analysis from The Bulwark explained, “[E]ven a cursory look at the actual substance of Gabbard’s dramatic claims shows ... a nothingburger. There is no actual substance. Instead, there is blatant sleight of hand and manipulation of evidence, debunking a theory of Russian election interference that the Obama administration never endorsed.”
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Similarly, Philip Bump, who spent years covering the underlying scandal at The Washington Post, described Gabbard’s conclusions as “ludicrous.”
Broadly speaking, there are two main points to Gabbard’s pitch. The first is that Democratic officials in the Obama administration somehow manufactured the entire Russia scandal after Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 race, following a period in which the intelligence community was largely indifferent to Vladimir Putin’s tactics before. We already know that’s not true: Not only did administration officials warn Americans about Russian efforts weeks *before* Election Day, but those same officials famously brought their concerns to Congress, only to be brushed off by GOP leaders.
Gabbard focused heavily on the fact that the Obama White House sought a revised assessment the month after Trump’s electoral victory, and the changes that were made at this point. But as The Bulwark explained, “this supposed scandal rests on a crude bait-and-switch.”
A quick look at the media reports Gabbard cites shows that they weren’t talking about altering the election outcome through ‘cyberattacks on election infrastructure’ — that is, actual tampering with the vote count. Rather, the claims of election interference via cyber warfare concerned, as the Washington Post put it, ‘individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.’ ... Was this a new, post-election assessment, as Gabbard seems to claim? Hardly: The same conclusion was announced at the start of the October 7, 2016, joint statement issued by the DNI and the Department of Homeland Security on behalf of seventeen intelligence agencies.
All of this dovetails with the second problem with Gabbard’s findings: The DNI leaned heavily into the fact that there was no evidence of Russia targeting U.S. vote-counting machines and election infrastructure. That’s true, but it’s also irrelevant: Democratic officials never claimed that Russia targeted U.S. vote-counting machines and election infrastructure.
Looking ahead, the fact that Gabbard released a pitiful report might seem unimportant. The DNI already lacked credibility, so the fact that her findings make her appear like an even more brazen partisan activist will strike some as trivial.
But Gabbard has also spent the last three days claiming that she’s now pushing for “indictments” and “prosecutions” of Obama administration officials who committed outrageous crimes that don’t appear to have actually happened in reality.
In other words, the release of a misguided report on Trump’s Russia scandal wasn’t just a desperate ploy to make the president happy; it was also an apparent first step toward pushing the Justice Department to act on a silly partisan stunt.
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July 21, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): General, your name is mentioned in these documents. You've been on our program for years. You've been writing books. You've been crying out from the wilderness about what they did to you. What a remarkable moment. And the floor is yours. The landscape has been set. General, what do you see happening next?
MICHAEL FLYNN (GUEST): Yeah. Well, a couple of things. I — and I have made this recommendation that I think that all of these people that are involved, starting with Obama on down, they all ought to have their passports revoked, and people need to be checking private airplanes and private airfields for anybody trying to abscond the country and get the heck out of dodge here. So, that's number one.
I do think that just as was done to President Trump, when they when they raided his home at Mar-a- Lago because they thought that there was — and they planted evidence there in that case — but I do think that what the DOJ should be considering, if not getting ready to conduct, is a raid of Barack Obama's home up there at Kalorama, in Washington DC where he's been since he left — you know, physically left the White House. You know, he's been running the White House, you know, all during the Biden regime.
And I do think that there's some other places that need to be raided where there are likely, you know, a lot of evidence, a lot of receipts, so to speak, in many of these people that are part of the Obama White House as well as the Biden White House. I mean, I just heard the great David Schoen talking about the former deputy attorney general of Monaco who also was the homeland security adviser to Barack Obama. So that's number one. That's — those are, you know, things that need to be considered right now. And I'm — I was ready to wake up this morning to hear about some of these raids that should have been going on.
There should, as a minimum, be a task force assembled by — of federal law enforcement authorities as well as a assigned dedicated, you know, prosecutor at the DOJ level, at the attorney general level, someone who is working directly for her and for the president of the United States. This has gotta happen very quickly.
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July 21, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Final question, general. Since you are a military man, you rose to the highest conceivable ranks within the military and within the civilian structure in the White House. Your credentials are impeccable. When Stephen Miller calls this a seditious conspiracy, when Tulsi Gabbard calls it a traitorous act, treason against our country — those seem like legal terms, but also really military terms. And since Barack Obama was the commander-in-chief, what angle would it be to go at this from a military perspective? Perhaps you could explain what is treason and seditious conspiracy mean from a military perspective. Would you advise them to go after them on those terms?
MICAHEL FLYNN (GUEST): I would. I absolutely would. I would advise them to go after on those terms and make sure that they have them locked in tight in terms of the legalities.
But what I want people to understand is, you know, after World War II, we had the Nuremberg trials, and there was a lot of people that were found guilty. And because they stood at — when they got on the stand, they said, well, I was just following orders. Well, Jim Clapper, John Brennan, Jim Comey, Susan Rice, Sally Yates, and many others, Lisa Monaco, many, many others, you're not gonna get away with it.
If Barack Obama directed you, and it appears that he did — this is very intentional. This eight December 2016 meeting that they had where it looks like — which was something that was not on my radar, Benny. So this is a new piece of evidence that Tulsi has exposed.
That to me, you know, in addition to some of the other critical criminal evidence that has been discovered, yeah, I think that they're gonna have to look at conspiracy, treason, traitorous activities by some of these people and particularly starting at the very top, and that would be Barack Obama.
They were ready to convict and throw Donald Trump in prison for the rest of his life, Benny. And so, you know, all bets are off when it comes to immunity. There's no immunity for this president, not for President Obama for what he did.
JOHNSON: Could you have a military tribunal for the commander-in-chief?
FLYNN: I'm not — you know, I don't know. But, you know, but it'd ought to be explored, Benny. It should be explored.
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July 7, 2025, edition of Fox News' *Jesse Watters Primetime
STEPHEN MILLER (GUEST): Why is it that Democrats are so insistent that unlimited numbers of illegals from countries that are incapable of managing their own affairs come here? Countries like Somalia, countries like Haiti, countries that have no history of successful self-government, and they want unlimited numbers of illegals from those countries and refugees from those countries to come here with no chance -- at the pace, the scale, the scope of arrivals -- at being able to assimilate and integrate into the American way of life.
What has it done to our schools? What has it done to our hospitals? What has it done to just traffic in our cities? Every issue that affects our quality of life, Jesse -- public safety, drugs, crime, education, health care, waiting in the emergency room -- are all exacerbated, worsened, and undermined by mass illegal immigration. ICE officers are heroes and they need the support of the American people. President Trump is liberating our towns just as he was promised, just as the American people overwhelmingly voted to give him a mandate to do just five months ago.
JESSE WATTERS (HOST): It's straight up treason and everybody knows it, and we shouldn't be afraid to say it. AFRAID OF WHO?
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On Tuesday, a federal judge issued a 128-page ruling striking down President Donald Trump's ban on asylum applications for immigrants crossing the Southern border of the United States that he issued earlier this year via executive order. Some of Trump's most outspoken supporters are furious over the decision.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss — who former President Barack Obama appointed to the District of Columbia in 2014 — ruled that Trump's asylum ban violated the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) and was an illegal attempt to install an "extra-statutory, extra-regulatory regime for repatriating or removing individuals from the United States." He added that "nothing in the INA or the Constitution grants the President or his delegees the sweeping authority asserted in the Proclamation and implementing guidance."
According to Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney, Judge Moss also designated asylum seekers as a protected class. This would appear to insulate his ruling from the recent Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision that prevented lower court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions.
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Moss' decision was met with widespread outrage by Trump supporters on social media. MAGA influencer Gunther Eagleman characterized Moss' ruling as "ordering President Trump to reopen the border," adding: "Ignore this political HACK!" Charlie Kirk, who is the founder of far-right group Turning Point USA, also blasted the decision in a post to his X account.
"There are a lot of conservatives who recklessly call for judicial rulings they don't like to be ignored. I have fought against that; it would be hugely destructive to throw out our constitutional balance of powers for the sake of a temper tantrum," Kirk tweeted. "But it is 100% not acceptable for a traitor on the federal bench to side with invaders in abolishing America. Period."
Far-right influencer Chaya Raichik's LibsofTikTok X account, which has more than four million followers, also piled on after Moss' decision was announced. She accused Moss of being an "activist judge who wants to turn the US into a Biden-era open border disaster."
Even though Moss has been a member of the D.C. District Court for more than a decade, his legal career stretches back nearly 40 years, when he was a clerk for U.S. District Judge Pierre Leval (an appointee of Democrat Bill Clinton) in 1986 in the Southern District of New York. He then clerked for SCOTUS Associate Justice John Paul Stevens (an appointee of Republican Gerald Ford) in the late eighties.
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Click here to read Moss' full ruling.
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June 29, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Savage Nation
MICHAEL SAVAGE (HOST): I also want to talk today about the bombing, the most successful bombing of — the most successful bombing mission in history, which was immediately debunked by the vermin at CNN, which to me is sedition. I looked up what sedition is.
If it was up to me and I was president, I'd rip them out by the hair and I'd arrest them for what they did. Right after the most successful bombing campaign of our life with the B-2 bombers, took out the nuclear facilities in Iran, they leak a fake report. The bombs did nothing. You hear this? Do you have any idea what the force and power is of these bombs that were dropped? Each bomb? Do you know what the TNT level is? What it does? One bomb went into the Earth, burrowed a hole. The other one went into the tunnel that was dug by the first bomb and exploded. And they're saying it had no effect on Iran's nuclear capacities.
Look, I studied what sedition is. If it was up to me, I would arrest the — excuse me, the ownership of CNN for letting this go out on the air. They've undermined America in a time of war against radical Islamic terrorists who would kill all of us.
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June 26, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five
JESSE WATTERS: You know, everyone's feeling this huge swelling of patriotism and then CNN comes along and sullies it. Now, CNN says, "We didn't do anything wrong," but CNN spent 48 hours with guests at the top of every single hour saying, "The mission failed," saying, "The bombs didn't work," says, "The Iranians still have a nuclear program." What kind of effect does that have? You're basically taking classified information and using it to undermine the commander-in-chief and cast doubt on the effectiveness of the American military capabilities, and putting the commander-in-chief at a disadvantage when he's trying to maintain a ceasefire. It's treasonous. That's the t-word, Jessica.
And Kash and Bongino are going to be looking at these congressmen now, because I have a suspect list. I feel like I know who this person was, and you could easily find them, there's a limited amount of people that had access to this intelligence. You go and see who got access to it and then you narrow it down and then you get a warrant for their phone. So they better lawyer up, because someone's going to go to prison for a very long time.
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One of President Donald Trump's closest associates is now publicly calling for a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate to be killed over a bill he introduced to rein in "corruption."
In a post to his X account, Trump confidant Roger Stone insisted that Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) was compromised by the Chinese Communist Party because of a company he co-founded getting venture capital from a Chinese company. Stone wrote that Kelly should be "charged with treason and if convicted executed, consistent with federal law."
The Daily Beast reported Friday that Stone's remark was in response to Kelly officially submitting a cryptocurrency regulation bill for consideration that would prevent the president, vice president and their families from "issuing, endorsing, or sponsoring crypto assets." Kelly's bill specifically mentioned "memecoins," which is particularly noteworthy as Trump has specifically promoted memecoins named after both himself and First Lady Melania Trump.
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"Trump is cashing in on his presidency and making millions from his own crypto coins — this is corruption in broad daylight," Kelly tweeted.
The Trump family is also profiting from its crypto company, World Liberty Financial. His middle son Eric recently spoke at a conference in the United Arab Emirates, where the government of Dubai announced a $2 billion investment in cryptocurrency exchange Binance using a new "stablecoin" (a cryptocurrency with a price designed to be at or near $1 for a long period of time) from World Liberty. The deal could result in Trump directly raking in hundreds of millions of dollars.
It isn't just Democratic senators who are uneasy about Trump profiting from various cryptocurrency schemes. Republican Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) have also gently insisted that it's improper for the president to openly profit from cryptocurrency while in office, with Lummis calling for "regulatory framework" that would address the issue.
Stone was found guilty of lying to Congress about Trump's knowledge of Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election, witness tampering and obstruction. Even though he had been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison, Trump pardoned him during his lame-duck period in December of 2020.
READ MORE:'Civil war is coming to the Trump movement': Expert says MAGA could soon tear itself apart
Click here to read the Beast's full report (subscription required).
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Since the start of his second term in office, US president Donald Trump has cultivated a political atmosphere that discourages freedom of thought. He also actively villainises and punishes any dissenting opinion. Worryingly, this atmosphere looks like it is spreading across other democracies.
Commentators have described Trump as both narcissistic and authoritarian. Yet, running parallel to these factors, one character trait is glaringly common among Trump supporters: sycophancy.
You just have to examine the pre-election rhetoric of Trump loyalists. One backer, Stephen Miller, declared him “the most stylish president … in our lifetimes”. Miller is now deputy White House chief of staff.
And South Dakota governor Kristi Noem gifted Trump a four-foot Mount Rushmore replica – with Trump’s face added alongside the original four presidents. Noem, who is now secretary of homeland security, epitomises the elevation of loyal sycophants over those with arguably better credentials.
Research has examined the dangers of sycophantic behaviour in the workplace, finding it reduces peer respect and morale, and leads to dissonance and lower productivity.
Other research has shown that someone who chooses to employ these tactics can enjoy improved promotion prospects, rewards such as the first refusal on business trips, easier access to company resources and a higher salary compared to their peers. But studies have also shown sycophants often suffer emotional exhaustion from the dual stresses of manipulation and responsibility.
Ongoing research I (Neil) am doing on workplace sycophancy reveals similar patterns. Interviews, spanning from junior staff to CEOs, show reduced motivation, falling team morale and declining respect for sycophants.
One participant highlighted the effect on teamwork that sycophantic behaviour can have within the workplace.
Sycophancy means raising yourself in somebody’s esteem, at the expense of somebody else, on the ladder. And so… it’s going to impact upon on the ability to be part of a team.
Another participant offered a comparison to a different deviant workplace behaviour – intimidation.
I’d say that sycophantic behaviour is coming into the same category as bullying. And it’s hard sometimes, especially with bullying and sycophantic behaviour, you are dealing with a lot of people that are manipulative, and manipulating people are quite charismatic. And when you’re charismatic, you’re more believable because you’re a storyteller.
One solution that emerges from the research is workforce education – teaching employees to recognise and mitigate a culture of ingratiation.
As an employee, many people might find it difficult not to bow to peer pressure. If the senior colleague encourages and rewards those who suck up, how do other colleagues, who do not choose to utilise such tactics, compete?
Dangerous ideas take root
Another factor to consider is the tendency for some workers to “kiss up and kick down”. What this means is that staff who are lower down the hierarchical ladder suffer detrimental treatment from the colleagues who are trying to suck their way up the same ladder.
If workforces were educated on what these tactics looked and felt like, perhaps included in corporate codes of conduct, HR departments and management could identify potential issues and deal with them.
But this is not merely an HR concern. Previous research also shows a link between ingratiation, high turnover rates and poorer performance by the organisation as a whole.
Perhaps the most insidious aspect of sycophancy is the push for conformity when it comes to opinions. If leadership hears nothing but agreement, dangerous ideas can be reinforced. Things like the leader’s own skills or the competence of the organisation as a whole can become wildly exaggerated – with disastrous consequences.
When leaders are surrounded by “yes-men”, they’re deprived of critical input that could challenge assumptions or highlight potential flaws. This can lead to cognitive entrenchment where decision-makers become overconfident and resistant to change. Bad decisions then proceed unchecked, often escalating into systemic failures.
In return, this can lead to groupthink, a phenomenon where a desire for harmony overrides rational evaluation. Environments that suffer from groupthink often ignore red flags, silence whistleblowers and overvalue consensus. All of these things are damaging to an organisation’s ability to remain agile and competitive.
Which brings us back to Trump. In his case this isn’t a corporate crisis. It’s a geopolitical one. At stake is not shareholder value but national security and global stability.
With sycophants backing poor decisions, the risk ranges from damaged diplomacy to outright conflict. If loyalty replaces truth, the cost could be catastrophic. Trump’s regime may ultimately collapse under the weight of its own delusions – but the collateral damage could be profound.
Neil Beasley, PhD Candidate in Business and Law, Liverpool John Moores University and Madeleine Pickles, Reader in Organisational Transformation and Teaching Innovation, Liverpool John Moores University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Trump just issued a threat to all of us
Donald Trump gestures at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., December 22, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr/File Photo
Thom Hartmann May 06, 2025
In the dark corners of America’s halls of power, something sinister is unfolding. Attorney General Pam Bondi has launched an assault on one of the most sacred pillars of our democracy: the freedom of the press. And make no mistake, this isn’t just another policy change. It’s a deliberate strategy straight from the dictator’s playbook.
Late last month, Bondi quietly issued a memo rescinding vital protections for journalists that had prevented the government from forcing reporters to reveal their sources or surrender their notes during leak investigations. This wasn’t just any memo; it was a declaration of war against the very foundation of press freedom in America.
Bondi’s memo, released late on a Friday afternoon (a classic timing choice to minimize media attention), rescinded policies that had limited when and how Justice Department attorneys could pursue records or testimony from journalists, including in cases involving the unauthorized disclosure of government secrets to the press. The implications are chilling and immediate.
The Justice Department will now allow federal investigators to pursue communications from media outlets in government leak investigations, marking a complete reversal of Biden-era (and previous administrations’) policies that protected journalists from becoming targets of government intimidation.
Bondi’s justification? The Justice Department “will not tolerate unauthorized disclosures that undermine President Trump’s policies, victimize government agencies, and cause harm to the American people.”
Did you catch that? Not disclosures that threaten national security, but those that “undermine President Trump’s policies.” Since when did the President’s policies become sacred and beyond scrutiny? Since when did exposing wrongdoing by our government become a crime against “the American people”?
Throughout our history, ethical government officials who leaked information to the press have been essential to maintaining our democracy. They’ve exposed corruption, illegal wars, and unconstitutional surveillance, and in many cases they’ve paid a heavy price for their courage.
Take my old friend and correspondent Daniel Ellsberg, perhaps America’s most famous whistleblower. In 1971, Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, exposing how multiple presidents had systematically lied to the American people about the Vietnam War. He believed the documents contained “evidence of a quarter century of aggression, broken treaties, deceptions, stolen elections, lies and murder.” His brave act helped change public opinion and ultimately contributed to ending that disastrous war.
When Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, the Nixon administration tried to block their publication. The Supreme Court ruling in New York Times Co. v. United States upholding the press’s right to publish has been called one of the “modern pillars” of First Amendment rights with respect to freedom of the press.
That same Nixon administration that tried to silence Ellsberg created the infamous “White House Plumbers” unit to stop leaks, which later led directly to the Watergate scandal and Nixon’s downfall.
History shows that when presidents attack whistleblowers and the press, they’re usually trying to hide their own misdeeds. And it sure feels like that’s exactly what Bondi and Trump are now up to.
In more recent history, we’ve seen Edward Snowden expose the NSA’s mass surveillance programs and Chelsea Manning reveal troubling military actions, including the killing of civilians. Both were driven by their conviction that the American people deserved to know about government overreach and misconduct.
The Founders understood that a democracy cannot function without an informed citizenry, and citizens cannot be informed without a free press that can hold the powerful accountable. That’s why they enshrined press freedom in the First Amendment; they knew from bitter experience that power corrupts, and that the powerful will always seek to hide their corruption.
A free press serves as our early warning system against government overreach and abuse. When journalists can protect their sources, those inside the government who witness wrongdoing can come forward without fear of retribution. This critical flow of information is what Bondi is now trying to shut down.
Bondi’s actions come in the midst of an aggressive campaign against unauthorized leaking in Trump’s second administration. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has already referred “two intelligence community leakers” to the Justice Department for potential prosecutions, with a third referral on the way.
What we’re witnessing is step one in the dictator’s playbook: silence those who tell the truth about your regime. We’ve seen this pattern in Russia, Hungary, Turkey, and countless other countries where democracy has withered into authoritarianism. First, attack the press. Then, criminalize dissent. Intimidate lawmakers, lawyers, and judges. Finally, consolidate power in the hands of a single leader.
Bondi’s memo added that there will be procedures in place before members of the media are compelled to testify or their records are seized, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Justice Department is now prepared to compel journalists to testify, and their records will be subject to seizure.
But the most alarming part of all is what Bondi reportedly wants to do next. According to sources close to the Justice Department, she has argued that leakers — or even reporters — who provide information that she doesn’t like could be prosecuted for treason, a crime that carries the death penalty.
Let that sink in: the Attorney General of the United States believes that journalists doing their constitutionally protected job could be subject to execution.
I’ve been covering American politics for five decades, and just to be very clear: This is not normal. This is not just another partisan policy dispute. This is an existential threat to our constitutional system of government.
When a government official can decide that reporting unflattering information is “treason,” we’re no longer living in a democracy. We’re living in an authoritarian state where power flows from the top down, not from the people up.
Bondi’s actions reveal the Trump administration’s true nature. They have no interest in our democratic traditions or constitutional liberties. Their only goal is to consolidate power and silence dissent.
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, which documents threats to press freedom, has condemned Bondi’s decision and criticized Republicans in Congress who killed a federal shield law in 2024 that would have protected journalists from such subpoenas.
We’ve seen this before. Nixon’s attacks on the press were a precursor to his abuses of power. The Bush administration’s aggressive prosecutions of leakers after 9/11 helped enable his unconstitutional torture program and illegal surveillance. And Trump’s first term was marked by constant rhetorical attacks on the press as “enemies of the people.”
But this move by Bondi takes things to a new and dangerous level. By institutionalizing the persecution of journalists and their sources, she’s laying the groundwork for a full-scale assault on press freedom.
She claims that “subpoenaed news outlets are to be given advanced notice” and that the subpoenas will be “narrowly drawn,” but these are empty promises from an administration that has repeatedly shown contempt for democratic norms and the rule of law.
The time for polite disagreement or “strongly worded letters” is over. The time for waiting to see what happens next is over. We must act now to protect our democracy before it’s too late.
First, demand that Congress pass a federal shield law to protect journalists from being forced to reveal their sources. This is not a partisan issue; it’s about preserving the basic functioning of our democracy.
Second, support independent journalism with your dollars and your attention. Subscribe to newspapers, donate to nonprofit news organizations like ProPublica, and share important stories with your networks. A robust press is our best defense against tyranny.
Third, contact your representatives and tell them that protecting press freedom must be a top priority. Remind them that their oath is to the Constitution, not to any president or party. The phone number for the congressional switchboard, which can connect you to both your senators and your member of the House, is 202-224-3121.
Fourth, prepare to take to the streets if Bondi follows through on her threat to prosecute journalists for treason. That would be a red line from which there is no return to normal democratic governance.
Finally, remember that the press isn’t perfect — no human institution is — but it’s essential. When governments attack journalists, it’s rarely because they’re telling lies. It’s almost always because they’re telling truths that the powerful don’t want heard.
We stand at a crossroads in American history. Down one path lies a renewed commitment to our democratic values, including a free press that can hold the powerful accountable. Down the other lies authoritarianism, where “truth” is whatever the leader says it is, and those who disagree face persecution or worse.
The choice should be obvious. But making the right choice requires courage, from journalists who continue to do their jobs despite threats, from whistleblowers who risk everything to expose wrongdoing, and from citizens who refuse to be silent in the face of growing tyranny.
Pam Bondi and Donald Trump have shown their true colors. They’ve revealed their contempt for the Constitution and their fear of the truth. They’re trying to create a country where no one can challenge their power or expose their corruption.
We cannot — we must not — let them succeed. Our democracy depends on it.
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The time to act is now.
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Senator schools Musk on 'what makes America great’ after billionaire calls him a 'traitor'
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Is this the moment American democracy finally broke?
Thom Hartmann April 11, 2025
The highest form of freedom in a democracy isn’t just the right to vote or protest — it’s the right to speak truth to power. To call out corruption. To challenge lies. To stand firm when the powerful demand silence. This is the freedom that sustains all others.
And it’s the one Donald Trump tried to crush yesterday with the stroke of a pen.
When he signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to investigate Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor — two public servants whose only crime was telling the truth — Trump didn’t just abuse his office. He weaponized the government against honesty itself.
This wasn’t law enforcement: It was political vengeance. This wasn’t democracy: It was a warning shot from the edge of autocracy.
And if we let this slide — if we treat it as just another Trump headline — we are inviting the next strongman to do the same, only worse.
The freedom to speak truth to power is either sacred, or it’s gone.
Thus, Donald Trump just moved America miles down the road toward our becoming a police state. There’s no other way to describe it.
His Executive Order (EO) signed yesterday demanding criminal investigations into Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor — and his public statement that Taylor is a “traitor” guilty of “treason” — are nothing short of a blatant assault on the rule of law and a perilous step toward turning America into a dictatorship.
This isn't just about settling personal scores; it's a calculated move to instill fear, silence dissent, and dismantle the very foundations of our democratic institutions.
Can you imagine yourself being called a traitor by the president of the United States and thus facing prison? Having to hire expensive attorneys that may well force you to sell your home to pay for, just to defend yourself? Not to mention having to protect yourself and your family from the rightwing enforcers who are probably at this moment doxxing and threatening Krebs and Taylor?
This echoes tactics used by autocrats throughout history: Stalin’s purges, Nixon’s enemies list (though less successfully executed), and more recently, Orbán in Hungary, Duterte in the Philippines, or Putin in Russia. If normalized, it risks further turning the U.S. into an illiberal democracy or autocracy, where elections occur but power is retained through fear, manipulation, and coercion. Or worse, a violent kleptocracy like Russia.
Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), had the audacity to do his job by ensuring the integrity of our elections and debunking Trump’s baseless lies of fraud in the 2020 election. Miles Taylor, who served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security, dared to speak out against the administration's reckless policies and wrote a book.
Their “crime”? Upholding their oaths to the Constitution and telling the truth.
By weaponizing the Department of Justice to pursue these individuals, Trump is not only abusing presidential power but also sending a chilling message to current and future whistleblowers: “Cross me, and you’ll pay.” This is the hallmark of a despot, not a democratically elected leader.
But Trump isn’t stopping there. He’s extending his vendetta to the very institutions that safeguard our legal system and might defend Taylor and Krebs.
Law firms like Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, and Jenner & Block are being targeted with punitive measures — revoked security clearances, terminated federal contracts, and restricted access to federal buildings including courthouses — all because they’ve had the courage to represent clients like these two who have challenged Trump’s overreaches.
In addition to signing an executive order targeting two former employees yesterday, Trump also signed one attacking yet another law firm, this time Susman Godfrey, which helped Dominion Voting Systems get millions from Fox for their 2020 election lies.
This is a direct attack on the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees the right to legal representation. When the government intimidates law firms into submission, it erodes the adversarial system that is essential for justice.
The implications are dire. If attorneys fear retribution for taking on cases that oppose the administration, who will hold the government accountable? Who will defend people like Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor?
This orchestrated campaign of intimidation is designed to create a chilling effect, deterring legal professionals from defending those who dare to speak truth to power.
This EO is a tactic ripped straight from the playbook of violent, authoritarian regimes like Putin’s, Erdoğan’s, and Orbán’s, where the law becomes a tool of oppression rather than justice.
Moreover, this politicization of the Department of Justice undermines its very mission. The DOJ is meant to operate independently, free from political influence, to uphold the law impartially.
Yet, under Trump’s directive, it is being transformed before our eyes into his personal enforcer, pursuing baseless investigations to settle political scores in ways Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of. This perversion of justice not only delegitimizes the department but also erodes public trust in our legal institutions.
Let’s be clear: This isn’t just about Krebs, Taylor, or the targeted law firms: It’s about the survival of our democracy. When a president can wield power to punish dissent and dismantle checks and balances without consequence, we are treading dangerous waters.
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Trump’s actions are a direct assault on these freedoms, aiming to silence opposition and consolidate power.
The legal community is beginning to push back. Over 500 law firms have united to challenge these types of executive orders, recognizing them as a grave threat to our constitutional governance. Former top lawyers from major corporations have also voiced their opposition, understanding that this isn’t just a legal issue but a fundamental attack on the principles that underpin our society.
However, resistance must extend beyond the legal profession: we all must speak out. Every American who values democracy, justice, and freedom should be alarmed by these developments.
This is a moment that demands vigilance and action. We cannot afford to be complacent as the pillars of our democracy are systematically dismantled. The phone number for Congress is 202-224-3121, and another set of demonstrations are scheduled for a week from this coming Saturday, April 19th.
If there was ever any doubt, Trump’s authoritarian ambitions are now laid bare. His actions are not those of a leader who respects the Constitution or the people he serves: They are the actions of a man desperate to exploit and cling to power by any means necessary, even if it means destroying the very fabric of our nation.
This executive order is more than just a scandal — it’s a frontal assault on democracy. It shows Trump’s willingness to use the machinery of state as a weapon against truth and accountability, and underscores the urgent need to safeguard democratic institutions, enforce accountability, and reaffirm the independence of the rule of law in America.
If we fail to hold Trump accountable for turning the justice system into a tool of revenge, we are not just rewriting the rules — we're erasing them.
Democracy doesn’t “die in darkness.” It dies when truth becomes a crime and silence becomes survival. The time to speak up is now—while we still can.
NOW READ: The sickening secret sauce to Trump's political success
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Steve Bannon calls for a military tribunal to try retired General Mark Milley for treason
November 13, 2024, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): This is why this is an important moment and a seminal moment in the history of this republic, because President Trump seeing the forces arrayed against him, understanding that he had won 2020 but it was stolen from him and he kind of got kicked to the curb, and the whole established order in every aspect, including canceling his cards and bank lines and everything, every aspect they could surround the great lion, the jackals and the hyenas, to kill it.
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That's why the investigations must go on. You have to. You have to recall Milley immediately to uniform and let him - and have a military tribunal try him for treason. Has to. Has to happen. If you don't have - if you don't do that, you're not going to be able to exert civilian control over the uniformed services.
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