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WASHINGTON — Accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Allen pleaded not guilty at a Monday hearing in DC federal court to charges including attempting to assassinate President Trump. Allen, 31, is also charged with assault on law enforcement, transporting a firearm across state lines to commit a felony and discharging a weapon during a crime of violence. He faces up to life in prison if convicted. Allen’s attorneys have argued that the attack’s occurrence during the annual black-tie gala — which hosted several Trump cabinet officials in addition to the president — should force the recusal of Acting Attorney...

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant prayed for President Trump’s assassination on social media after a gunman breached security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Michele Carpino made the perverse plea on her Facebook page just minutes after news broke that would-be assassin Cole Allen stormed the annual black-tie Washington press bash last Saturday. “Oh please sweet baby Jesus,” Carpino wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post, Libs of TikTok reported. “WE NEED BETTER ASSASSIN’S! [sic],” she commented after Allen was thwarted by Secret Service agents. Carpino has a history of posting disturbing anti-Trump screeds on social media. “One day we will...

A bad week for Iran, the SPLC, and the Left in general. hat description comes from Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist, and relates to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which was just indicted by a federal grand jury in Alabama. The SPLC was formed years ago to seek damages for KKK victims. Over the years, it amassed a fortune and used it and its connections with the media and the Democrats unfairly to tar and ruin the livelihoods and reputations of individuals and organizations with which it disagreed -- including groups like Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education....

🚨 KASH PATEL JUST SAID ARRESTS ARE COMING James Comey is NOT going to be the only one facing CRIMINAL consequences! 🔥 They tried to stage a de facto COUP against Donald Trump and must pay for it. "We have found all this information. We are working with our Department of Justice partners and I am never going to let this go." "They not only have personally attacked the presidency of the United States and President Trump, but they tried to thwart our elections and rig the entire system!" "We've got all the evidence. I can announce on your show...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday announced the creation of a National Fraud Enforcement Division at the Department of Justice, marking a significant step in the Trump administration's efforts to crack down on misuse of public funds. "There will be an additional 93 prosecutors in every district across the country devoted to the mission of combating fraud with the National Fraud Enforcement Division," he told reporters. "Because of this administration's leadership, fraudsters, scammers, tax cheats, or anyone who lies to get rich off the generosity of the American people should be on notice," Blanche said. Blanche, moreover, announced that...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche suggested that the Department of Justice is investigating ActBlue after a New York Times report said that ActBlue might have lied to Congress about vetting foreign donations. Blanche told TV show host Jesse Waters: "That's a priority of this administration and this DOJ. It's something that a lot of people have been worried about it for a very long time. You can rest assured that it includes the Department of Justice and it includes me."🚨 BREAKING: Todd Blanche indicates the DOJ is ACTIVELY INVESTIGATING ActBlue getting foreign donations and lying about it"That's a priority of...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche fired Ed Martin as Chief of the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group, according to investigative reporter Paul Sperry.

Deputy US attorney general says victims ‘want to be made whole’ but that doesn’t mean ‘we can just create evidence’ The deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, the point person on the Trump administration’s Epstein files release, told ABC News on Sunday that prosecutors’ review of the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking case “is over”. Separately, in comments to CNN about Epstein, Blanche said that “victims want to be made whole” after surviving the scheme attributed to the late convicted sex offender and which led to a 20-year prison sentence for Maxwell beginning in 2022. “And we want that,” Blanche said....

EXPOSED: Deputy AG Todd Blanche is hunting the people who reportedly bypassed him—while 47 leakers who sabotaged the Letitia James prosecution go untouched. Full Investigation🔗https://whitecollarfraud.com/2025/12/08/is-todd-blanche-undermining-the-letitia-james-prosecution/ Let me show you the receipts. March 21, 2025: ONE leak to the NYT. Blanche declares war: "We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump's agenda by leaking." He opened a criminal investigation. Sept-Dec 2025: FORTY-SEVEN leaks to 9 newsrooms. Grand jury secrets. Internal deliberations. Prosecution strategy. Every single one helped Letitia James. SIX made Todd Blanche the hero—the "reasonable" man who "questioned the legal viability" of the...

Department of Justice leadership directed federal prosecutors to give them examples by Friday of hurdles they have encountered with judges when working on cases about attacks on law enforcement and Antifa.... The areas were laid out in a bulleted list and included assaults on law enforcement, obstruction of immigration authorities, investigations into certain "domestic terror organizations, such as Antifa" or "interstate threats, doxxing, and/or hoaxes...." "Courts exist to apply the law, not invent policy from the bench," the spokesperson said. "The Department is committed to strengthening our litigation posture at every level so we can better defend public safety initiatives...

The Justice Department on Thursday warned California officials, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), against engaging in an “apparent criminal conspiracy” to arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued the letter to Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, state Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins after the former House speaker suggested Wednesday that local police could arrest ICE agents if they violate state laws while carrying out immigration enforcement operations. “Rather than supporting and working with federal law enforcement professionals, California politicians, including U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco District Attorney...

Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne Your DOJ: Pam Bondi works remotely from Florida, flies up for announcements. Todd Blanche runs Pam's DOJ, was a Dem until Jan 2025, and has blocked: Tina's release Investigation into Dominion Restitution for J6 political prisoners Pardons Trump wants done cf. Ticktin (below) Also see: Post Conversation LindellTV @RealLindellTV EXCLUSIVE with Peter Ticktin: “Todd Blanche is blocking Trump's agenda at DOJ” Peter Ticktin, former attorney for President Trump, breaks his silence, accusing President Trump’s current legal advisor Todd Blanche of intentionally stalling pardons, blocking access to whistleblowers, and suppressing justice for J6ers and election integrity fighters like...

In the interest of transparency, @TheJusticeDept is releasing the complete transcript and audio of my proffer of Ms. Maxwell. The transcript and audio are linked below. https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell was granted “limited immunity” during meetings with Trump’s Deputy Attorney General. “The immunity allowed Maxwell to freely answer Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's questions without fear that her responses could later be used against her, the sources said.” Maxwell’s Attorney: “She didn’t hold anything back.” 5:41 PM · Jul 25, 2025

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer says she fully cooperated and answered all DOJ questions during today’s interview. "Miss Maxwell answered every single question. She never stopped, she never invoked a privilege, she never declined to answer.” “She answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability. And that's all the comment we're going to have today about the meeting. We don't want to comment about the substance of the meeting, for obvious reasons, and we'll go from there." 4:25 PM · Jul 24, 2025

"We just ask that folks look at what she has to say with an open mind, and that’s what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has promised us," David Oscar Markus said Top Department of Justice officials are to interview Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell for a second day on Friday.Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus, said ahead of her interview with the officials that his client "has been treated very unfairly" for more than five years, and she doesn't have a reason to lie in answering their questions, NBC News reported.Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche first met with Maxwell in Tallahassee,...

Ghislaine Maxwell was seen carrying a mysterious box back into her Florida prison after meeting with a top Justice Department official on Thursday. The 63-year-old convict was transported in a white sedan back to a gate at the FCI Tallahassee complex, where she’s been serving her 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking young girls to Jeffrey Epstein, according to drone footage captured by WCTV. The disgraced British socialite, wearing all brown, was handcuffed in the front and led through a barbed-wire-laced fenced-in area in front of the prison. One officer carried the bin behind Maxwell as she was escorted back inside....

Maxwell knows ‘where the bodies are buried’. As the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking ring becomes a bigger story by the day, the DOJ Number 2 official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, headed down to Florida to meet in person with the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s long-time ‘partner-in-crime’. After a 5-hour questioning marathon yesterday (24), today the official met with the disgraced British socialite for the second time in the US Attorney’s Office in Tallahassee, Florida. Maxwell’s attorney David Markus told the press after this second day of interviews that his client answered questions about ‘a hundred people’. Daily Mail...

A group of federal judges on Tuesday declined to extend Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney of New Jersey after Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries launched a pressure campaign to oust her. Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney expires on Friday at 11:59 pm. Hakeem Jeffries called on federal district court judges appointed by Obama and Biden to remove Alina Habba over her decision to indict Rep. LaMonica McIver. “The so-called U.S. Attorney in NJ maliciously indicted Congresswoman LaMonica McIver for doing her job. Habba is a woefully unqualified political hack who must go. She must be rejected...

New Jersey’s federal judges declined Tuesday to appoint Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney in the state, to continue serving in that role, delivering a resounding rebuke to one of his administration’s most polarizing Justice Department appointees.The state’s U.S. district court judges made the announcement in a brief order that did not offer any explanation for their decision. The order — signed by Renee Marie Bumb, the chief federal judge for the District of New Jersey — appointed Desiree Leigh Grace, a career prosecutor who Habba had named as her first assistant U.S. attorney as her replacement...