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We've had a couple of days to digest that damning classified documents investigation report and the Biden administration's disaster of a response to it. This morning I did some browsing around to try to determine where the dust is settling in terms of the White House, the Democrats, the GOP, the media, and even foreign countries. Karen already picked apart what the Biden team's response has been thus far and what will likely happen going forward. That will mostly be nothing aside from optics and cosmetic attempts (in some cases literally) at getting people to forget about it and go...

Special counsel Jack Smith is asking Judge Aileen Cannon to reconsider a ruling that would allow former President Trump’s legal team to publicly disclose witness identities and their testimony to the court docket. Trump’s lawyers have sought to attach evidence given to them during the discovery process in other court filings set to be publicly posted in connection with the Mar-a-Lago documents case. The Justice Department argued late Thursday that Cannon erred in her legal rationale for allowing them to do so, a decision they say risks exposing some two dozen witnesses to harassment, as she requires no redactions. “That...

Former President Donald Trump has called on special counsel Jack Smith to immediately drop all charges against him in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case after President Joe Biden was found to have wilfully retained sensitive national security materials but faces no charges. “They should immediately drop the case against me,” President Trump told Fox News in an interview on Feb. 8, shortly after the release of special counsel Robert Hur’s 388-page report that found President Biden “wilfully retained and disclosed classified materials” when he was a private citizen after the end of his term as vice president. Unlike President Trump,...

The media smeared Trump for retaining ‘more than 300 classified documents’ but then parroted Biden lawyers’ spin that the Democrat’s 300-plus pages were just ‘six items.’Thursday’s bombshell report by Special Counsel Robert Hur concluded that “President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” And though the material concerned “issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods,” and presented “serious risks to national security,” Hur recommended against charging Biden in his 380-plus-page report, saying it would be “difficult to convince a jury” to convict such “a...

WASHINGTON — President Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” special counsel Robert Hur found in a bombshell report released Thursday — though Hur recommended against criminal charges, in part because a jury might view Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” Biden, 81, flouted legal restrictions on keeping sensitive documents throughout his 36 years in the Senate and eight years as vice president — stashing them in cardboard boxes in his garage in Wilmington, Del., and other locations, the 388-page report said, with photos showing Biden’s storage practices. Investigators even uncovered a recording of Biden confiding in...

Special counsel Robert Hur said he will not recommend charges against President Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents while out of office, despite finding evidence that Biden "willfully retained" materials. "We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter," said Hur's report summarizing his yearlong probe. "We would conclude the same even if there was no policy against charging a sitting president. Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified information after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen."

The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed unscrupulous Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis to turn over documents from her office following the recent reports of her corrupt activities as Fulton County DA. Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan tweeted this out on Thursday. Did Fani Willis misuse federal grant money for personal benefit? Did she misuse Georgia taxpayer money for personal benefit? Why aren’t Democrats asking these questions? — Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 1, 2024 On Friday Jordan slapped a subpoena on Willis for failing to comply with document requests related to allegations that Willis fired a whistleblower who tried to...

Conservative watchdog group America First Legal unearthed a secret Obama memo that could torpedo Jack Smith’s claims that President Trump didn’t have the authority to possess or retain classified documents. In June Jack Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts for storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence. * * * Last week AFL filed a FOIA request against the Defense Department for more information on a secretive committee created by Barack Obama In 2014 Obama created the secretive Presidential Information Technology Committee (PITC) after Russian hackers breached the Executive Office of the President’s network. “Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis let it be known Monday that he won’t support legislation in the Sunshine State that would put taxpayers on the hook for former President Donald Trump’s legal bills. In response to a Politico report noting that “some Florida Republicans” are backing a measure that could grant as much as $5 million to the 77-year-old GOP presidential primary front-runner, DeSantis tweeted: “But not the Florida Republican who wields the veto pen…” The proposal, filed by state Sen. Ileana Garcia (R-Miami), would set aside state funds for legal fees incurred as a result of criminal charges brought by...

An alleged survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking ring has detailed her reaction to this month's 'retraumatizing' document dump - which has her lawyer already airing plans to sue the FBI. Joined by attorney Jennifer Freeman, Elizabeth Stein said she is also suing Ghislaine Maxwell and the late sex pest's estate, after reading an impact statement at the socialite's sentencing that claimed she was a student when Maxwell approached her. Speaking to Law&Crime, she provided a similar account of how she was allegedly thrust into Epstein's sordid syndicate - before detailing how the document's release has impacted her and others who...

Another tranche of documents from a defamation lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein were released on Tuesday. Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Ransome, and Virginia Giuffre’s depositions were unsealed and released. The Gateway Pundit obtained 7 new Epstein documents on Tuesday. Read the new documents here:

The third batch of previously sealed court documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein dropped Friday afternoon. The 29 documents — totaling 411 pages — add to the trove of information that has already trickled out this week, detailing how the sick pedophile leveraged his connections to the rich, powerful and famous to recruit his victims and cover up his crimes. The files, which were ordered released by Manhattan federal Judge Loretta Preska last month, are part of a since-settled defamation lawsuit that Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre brought against the sex offender’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2015.

After years of obfuscation, the infamous "Epstein docs" have finally been released. They specifically deal with a lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre, who was sex trafficked as a minor by a now-deceased Jeffrey Epstein. For years, rumors have swirled about what was contained in the various depositions taken during the case. Now, there are actual quotes to go along with some of the allegations, and they are eye-opening.For example, as suspected, not only is Bill Clinton named, but he's mentioned in a sexual sense.🧵Not making any promises here... just posting screenshots of things I think are interesting as I go...

Lawyers for Donald Trump have once again urged a federal judge to grant them access to the classified documents that special counsel Jack Smith wants to redact. Trump is facing dozens of felony charges accusing him of illegally retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, after leaving the White House and hiding them from government investigators. The 37 charges include retaining classified information, obstructing justice and making false statements, among other crimes. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges in June. The trial is set for May 20, 2024, but could be delayed. Earlier in...

FIRST ON FOX: Ashley Biden, President Biden's daughter, owes $5,000 in income taxes beginning in 2015, according to a recent tax lien docket first obtained by Fox News Digital. Liens are legal claims imposed by the government on a property or assets to secure unpaid taxes after repeated attempts to collect. On Dec. 1, the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in Philadelphia County notified Biden that the "amount of such unpaid tax, interest, additions or penalties is a lien in favor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania upon the taxpayer's property – real, personal, or both – as the case may be,"...

A highly classified binder of documents related to 2016 Russian election interference disappeared from the White House during former President Donald Trump's final days in office. CNN first reported Friday on the mystery, which remains unsolved nearly three years after Trump left office. The binder contained raw intelligence the U.S. and its NATO allies collected to inform the government's assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win the 2016 presidential election over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

"Special counsel investigating Joe Biden’s handling of classified material is not expected to bring charges Special counsel Robert Hur is not expected to charge anyone in connection with the mishandling of classified documents at two locations connected to President Joe Biden, two sources close to the investigation told CNN. Hur and his team are compiling a detailed report on their year-long probe that is expected to be critical of Biden and his staff for the way they handled sensitive materials. The report is expected to go into significant detail about what the special counsel’s office found in its investigation."

Special counsel Robert Hur is not expected to charge anyone in connection with the mishandling of classified documents at two locations connected to President Joe Biden, two sources close to the investigation told CNN.

House Republicans issued subpoenas to five current and former aides to President Joe Biden about his alleged mishandling of classified documents and his family's foreign business dealings, RadarOnline.com can report. In a sudden development to come weeks after House Republicans launched an impeachment inquiry against Biden in September, five subpoenas were issued by the Judiciary and Oversight committees as part of the ongoing inquiry against the 80-year-old president. According to Daily Mail, the committees are also investigating whether grounds exist to officially draft articles of impeachment against the embattled president. “The Committees are also investigating whether sufficient grounds exist to...

On Monday, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released a third batch of documents responsive to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests related to President Biden’s classified documents investigation. In the redacted emails communications in the FOIA batch, NARA officials discussed the operation to transfer documents from a Boston law office representing President Biden. The Daily Signal previously reported that one day before the midterm elections on Nov. 8, 2022, NARA officials were negotiating with Biden’s attorneys at the Boston office of Hemenway & Barnes LLP. “Please call me at your earliest convenience. On Wednesday, I will be asking...