Posted on 02/23/2026 4:16:24 PM PST by bitt
A confidential government report exposing the reach of an FBI dragnet of arbitrary spying published by Racket News last week did not detail specific matters that fell into its web, but new documents reveal that the legal team of President Donald Trump fell under the watchful gaze of the bureau while he remained the sitting president in 2020.
The FBI flexed its investigative muscle in the tense period between Election Day and the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, not bothering to wait for the formal transition of power to President Joe Biden before it began digging.
About a month after Americans cast their ballots, while Trump remained in the Oval Office as a lame duck, then-FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich urged the FBI Field Office in Atlanta to start interviews “as soon as possible” into what the bureau branded an “election matter,” a Dec. 8, 2020 memo reveals.
FBI agents sprung into action, alerting the public corruption unit and opening an assessment into a Georgia hearing five days earlier in which Rudy Giuliani, acting as Trump’s attorney, aired suspicions of fraudulent voting and other irregularities.
So-called “assessments” allow the bureau to deploy a range of prying methods including warrantless surveillance and confidential informants without a court order. These assessments do not require proof of wrongdoing or even suspicions of criminality.
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He also had a general going behind is back to the Chinese, saying don’t worry I’ll tip you off if he reaches for the red phone.
Find out what comms these Deep State hacks had with Maduro
Send every one of them to Guantanamo Bay. The first one to talk gets the deal.
And hang the rest publicly. This will never stop (recall Susan Rice’s threat last week) until the commies are no longer in a position to do anything, period. Our ancestors early in the past century knew how to deal with communists.
Hope someone is still looking for the woke traitors still in the FBI.
Otherwise holy vigilantes will have to do it later one.
Did they do anything that was not illegal?
I’d say this regardless of who was President.
Someone, probably several someones, needs to be publicly executed over this stuff; after a fair trial of course.
Once again if they’d done this to Joe Shitbag Biden’s legal team I would say the same thing.
Try them for treason then publicly execute them and anyone who complains about it is charged as an accessory to a crime.
What I’d like to know is who made the call during the transition period to have the FBI to be surveilling Trump in his last days in the first term when Biden wasn’t even sworn in yet? Who was running the deep state FBI from Nov 2020 to January 2021 before he was sworn in?
David Bowdich is an American former law enforcement officer serving since 2022 as Chief Security Officer of the Walt Disney Company. Prior, he served as the Deputy Director of the FBI from 2018 to 2021.
The Mouse owns ABC, woke Disney and Jimmy Kimmel.
...and the cartels
Which General? Milley?
I have pretty much given up on seeing anyone going to prison.
Anything goes when trying to save “our democracy.”
During Trump’s first term he never fully realized that the DOJ, CIA, NSA and FBI hierarchy and administrative leaders were controlled by Democratic elites. Russiagate, the fraudulent 2020 election and the post election persecutions could not have happened unless this cabal was already organized and functioning. After Trump won in 2024 he was determined to uproot these people. So far he has not been completely successful. Many if not most are still there.
And I bet Kash hasn’t fired them all yet.
Trump was still the President of the United States. Name every officer involved and publicly interview them so we can all hear it. Biden was elected, but not the president. And what luck, Trump is back. Cheer for who you want.
You’re going to see a lot of women names behind the treason.
Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Victoria Nuland, Lisa Monaco, etc. They should all be hanged but it won’t happen until the USA collapses and the militias take over.
It would be one silver lining in that type of scenario. Although I can think of a few more happy events coming forth living in a Resident Evil society. Those 5 would be gifted to the Muslim zombies.
I think so.
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