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Search warrant shows Trump under investigation for potential obstruction of justice, Espionage Act violations, Politico reported

As the Kiev regime forces continue to get routed by Russian and DPR/LPR forces, and Ukraine continues to lose even more of its territory, the question on everyone’s mind is: how will the Ukrainians get rid of Zelensky?Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky will have only two options in the end – facing a court martial or going back to his acting career, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev claimed, in an email interview published Friday.Medvedev, who is now the deputy head of Russia’s National Security Council, previously called Zelensky “an unshaved fellow wearing a green shirt” and compared him to Adolf Hitler...

A warrant shows the FBI took 11 sets of classified documents from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this week, US media report. On Thursday, the Justice Department asked a court to unseal the search warrant, a move considered rare amid an ongoing investigation. This has not yet formally taken place. Mr Trump earlier said he welcomed the documents being made public.

Rep. Tom Emmer has warned that thousands of proposed new IRS agents could easily be “weaponized against conservatives.” The Minnesota congressman appeared on Fox News Wednesday morning to discuss the recent FBI raid of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, saying “everyone should be concerned” about the weaponization of the Justice Department, which oversees the FBI. “Republican, Democrat, other — everyone in this country should be concerned when the Department of Justice has been weaponized against American citizens, and in this case by the Biden administration against their political opponents,” he said. Emmer added that the same dynamic could play...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford found himself in a squishy situation on Friday when a bee entered his mouth and got down his throat. Ford was taking questions from reporters in Dundalk, Ont., about the provincewide health-care staff shortage and the possibility of privatization when the bee flew into his mouth. "Holy Christ, I just swallowed a bee," he said, coughing violently. Members of the audience could be heard expressing their concern for Ford.

Let us take a trip back to 1996 this time, a time when when almost 1000 FBI files of top governmental officials, many of them Republicans ended up in the hands of the Clintons. Again, I do not remember the FBI raiding the Clintons estate after they left the White House. Again I off this disclaimer, Archive.org is not on the list of sites that require excerpts. Everything you find is fair game. So here is the full article, and any links take you follow will take you to another archived wayback file, none take you to the New York...

Video at link. Some fired up members of the committee. Watch until the very end or skip to it... Lots of "No one is above the law" directed at the AG. References all the way back to the baseball shooting, Hillary, etc. Let's hope they get their chance.

President Biden’s senior adviser, Anita Dunn, has revealed a vast investment fortune worth up to $48 million — as well as a series of conflicts of interest. Mandatory ethics disclosure forms made public this week shed light on Dunn’s finances after the longtime Democratic operative left the White House last year following a prior short stint — in what was widely seen as a way to avoid making the reports. Dunn and her husband, attorney Bob Bauer, hold between $16.8 million and $48.2 million in investments, according to papers released by the US Office of Government Ethics. The couple’s sprawling...

Newsmax host Eric Bolling and former National Security Advisor John Bolton had a blowout over Donald Trump’s foreign policy on Thursday. Bolling brought up remarks Bolton made in an interview with ABC News back in 2020 after he left the Trump White House. “I think we’re in a weaker position around the world,” Bolton said of Trump’s foreign policy at the time. “I think we have given up leadership in a wide variety of areas. Bolling confronted Bolton and juxtaposed U.S. standing in the world then under Trump with the country now under President Joe Biden. “Ambassador, under Biden, we...

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says it’s holding an open forum to rename the disease monkeypox, after some critics raised concerns the name could be derogatory or have racist connotations. WHO said the decision was made following a meeting of scientists this week and in line with current best practices for naming diseases, which aims to “avoid causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional, or ethnic groups, and minimize any negative impact on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare.” Monkeypox was first named in 1958 when research monkeys in Denmark were observed to have a “pox-like”...

The Russian economy contracted steeply in the second quarter as the economic consequences of its war in Ukraine took hold. The economy shrank 4 percent from April through June compared with a year ago, the Russian statistics agency said on Friday. It is the first quarterly gross domestic product report to fully capture the change in the economy since the invasion of Ukraine in February, when Western sanctions shut Russia off from much of the global financial system, and many countries severed trading relationships with Moscow. It was also a sharp reversal from the first quarter, when the economy rose...

McDonald's has announced plans to reopen outlets in Ukraine, which closed after Russia's invasion in March. The fast food chain said it hoped the move would help restore a "small but important sense of normalcy". There will be a phased reopening over the next several months in Kyiv and western Ukraine in areas deemed safe, the burger giant said. McDonald's had more than 100 restaurants in Ukraine before the conflict started. The company has continued to pay wages to more than 10,000 staff since then. "We've spoken extensively to our employees who have expressed a strong desire to return to...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has reinstated a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands that was imposed under former President Barack Obama and then scuttled under former President Donald Trump. Friday’s ruling from U.S. District Judge Brian Morris requires government officials to complete a new environmental review before they can resume coal sales from federal lands. Among President Joe Biden’s first actions in his first week in office was to suspend oil and gas lease sales — a move later blocked by a federal judge — and he faced pressure from environmental groups to take similar action...

(Translation) Actress Anne Heche died today at age 53 years after being disconnected from life support one week after being in a serious automobile accident that left her in a coma. Her family made this difficult decision following a brain-death diagnosis. It was said that Heche decided how to dispose of her organs since she was a donor. Her closest relatives thanked her fans who had sent the actress messages of support during the past few days and especially praised the work done by "the staff and the wonderful nurses" who cared for her at the hospital. Anne Heche was...

During the discussion of media leaks about nuclear weapons found at Trump’s home, Hayden retweeted and quoted a post by historian Michael Beschloss, who shared a photo of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg with the comment, “Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953:” “Sounds about right,” Hayden tweeted Thursday night.

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz explains the differences between himself and opponent John Fetterman and shows off a new campaign commercial bashing Fetterman's policies - via. "Greg Kelly Reports" on Newsmax.

Let us take a trip back to 2015, a time when when neither the FBI nor the CIA seemed to have any interest in what former Presidents, or current Secretary of State were doing. Even if it was of national security interest of Nuclear programs. I'm still waiting for a judge to sign off ion a warrant to raid Bill and Hilary Clinton's estate.As a disclaimer, Archive.org is not on the list of sites that require excerpts. Everything you find is fair game. So here is the full article, and all links take you to another archived wayback file, none...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Assistant House Speaker Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) responded to questions on whether the Inflation Reduction Act will lower prices in the near term by pointing to prescription drug provisions in the bill that don’t kick in for years and saying that “we’re already seeing gas starting to come down. The policies we’ve been working on are working.” Host Kate Bolduan asked, “You’ve named this bill the Inflation Reduction Act, which is really just asking voters to hold you accountable to do just that. And the CBO says that the bill’s going to...

Any mention of Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) makes her very angry, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) told the Atlantic in a published article by Mark Leibovich on Friday. Cheney’s anger comes after McCarthy led a vote of no confidence against her among Republican House members in May. The vote forced her to exit the third most powerful position in the GOP House caucus, the conference chair, whose responsibility it is to raise money for the party.

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer says the president and his family were able to watch much of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago from New York because a closed-circuit television system was still on. “I think the folks in New York — President Trump and his family — they probably had a better view than I did. Because they had the CCTV, they were able to watch,” Christina Bobb said Thursday on the “Real America’s Voice” program. Ms. Bobb said there was some confusion about whether the cameras had to be turned off during Monday’s raid. Ultimately, people on site determined...