Leftists reward and protect their brown shirts.

That news is very depressing. I understand there's not a lot of details, but I've often wondered how the destruction of evidence was going to influence potential indictments. I also know, based on Trump's history, he'll likely hire someone to indict without a good possibility to convict. I'd REALLY like to be wrong. There's so much info from these reports we don't have.

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Probably nothing new to a bunch of you but this was an easily digestable synopsis of where the prosecutions in the conspiracies are- -
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/06/25/russiagate_prosecutor_calls_audible_on_grand_conspiracy_probe_1190728.html

-Two Florida grand juries working the matters (they've given up on DC grand jury as being a lost cause)
-Looking to handle matters as multiple conspiracies rathe than single Grand Cospiracy due to complication of prosecuting 50 or so defendants in single trial.
-All the big names are discussed.
-The clock is ticking. DiGenova will have to secure convictions or guilty pleas before January 2029

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strange resignation from diGenova

It's not really that strange, imho. DoJ politics, sure, but I don't think it's what is broadly claimed in the MSM either.

Joe diGenova resigned today as lead prosecutor in the Fort Pierce case. But not for the reasons some in the legacy media are saying. Yes, disagreements over resources, strategy and access to evidence are common inside DOJ.

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) September 11, 2026

Reporters suggesting Joe resigned because he was being asked to prosecute crimes that didn’t exist have it wrong. An active grand jury like what was seen this week signals concern there is evidence of wrongdoing.

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) September 11, 2026

Wanted more resources, maybe, but GJ is ongoing and active, the mission continues.

I asked whether he'd sidelined anyone from Main Justice.

“As a courtesy to the Department — and let me underscore, as a courtesy to the Department — I am not going to discuss that.”

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 11, 2026

Joe diGenova: “I want to underscore that we were following the principles of federal prosecution all along the way, and we did that. We were we were moving smartly, and I underscore we were moving smartly, and then things, you know, got where they got."

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 11, 2026

He's handling it very professionally, but something happened. His leaving is very strange.

It's complex litigation and he was not happy being pushed to do it faster than he thought he should. I guess that qualifies as unusual but I don't think it really is to a substantial degree (nor surprising.). The common belief after all among GOP types I know is that 'nothing will happen.'

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After the comments began circulating, the Associated Press contacted diGenova again. He told the outlet that his statement had been "taken out of context."

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"There's plenty of evidence in all of these cases to prove the theories of prosecution. It just takes time to get there, and some people want to get there a little faster than others and you can't do that."

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(Above from gatewaypundit which I don't really want to link to).

BREAKING: Former CIA Director John Brennan subpoenaed to testify before Florida grand jury, lawyer says, as DOJ investigates whether there was a conspiracy to deprive Trump of civil rights pic.twitter.com/oD2FdG38Vx

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 14, 2026

John Brennan's attorney says that the Kurt Olsen confirmed there are two separate but potentially overlapping probes related to Brennan.

A narrow D.C. case focused on Brennan's statements to congress, where Brennan is a "target."

And the broader Fort Pierce grand jury… pic.twitter.com/0YvXqBAp0e

— Jon Herold (@patel_patriot) September 14, 2026

Stephen McIntyre lays out the case that Supervisory Special Agent #4 in the Durham report is SSA Mary Gleason.

https://stephenmcintyre.substack.com/p/supervisory-special-agent-4

Michael Caputo was sued again last week over fake Russiagate claims, this time in a private capacity by a former fed stooge. Miranda Devine NYP link:

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On Friday, Caputo lodged an ethics complaint against Korba with the DC Office of Disciplinary Counsel, alleging that the lawyer has a conflict of interest from his time in the DOJ and that he used material he could only have gleaned from the five-year Caputo probe. Caputo also suggests in his complaint that the elderly Hyatt's "capacity to understand, evaluate, and direct this lawsuit is increasingly impaired."

Caputo was swept up in two anti-Trump FBI operations the Russiagate probe after Crossfire Hurricane, and Round River, a Biden protection racket.

The FBI investigated Caputo in 2021 over alleged foreign agent violations tied to "The Ukraine Hoax," a 2020 documentary that he produced and hosted for One America News about deep state chicanery in Trump's first impeachment.

The FBI and DOJ secretly obtained the content of his Google accounts, including emails, photos, calendar, contacts, location history and device metadata. But he was never charged, and the case was closed last December, after which he says he was informed of the Google search warrant.

Caputo was among a dozen Trump Cabinet members and allies named as "conduits" of Russian disinformation in the FBI's recently declassified Round River operation that buried corruption allegations about $4 million paid to then-Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter between 2014 and 2019.

Round River operated from late 2019 through the 2020 campaign. It discredited multiple separate reports from the FBI's own confidential informants about Joe and Hunter Biden, Burisma and Ukraine "as Russian disinformation" and named as victims, or "targets," the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Kerry and George Soros.
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There are dozens of victims of anti-Trump lawfare that began with the Russia hoax during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The stress and legal expense has cost them their careers, their financial security and, in the hands of complicit media, their reputations most without being found guilty or even charged with a single crime.

Families have been torn apart and houses foreclosed on. Yet, because Republicans don't have the same pull as Democrats in the deep state networks and legal and media ecosystems, the practitioners of this abuse have never received a taste of their own medicine.

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I asked whether he'd sidelined anyone from Main Justice.

“As a courtesy to the Department — and let me underscore, as a courtesy to the Department — I am not going to discuss that.”

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 11, 2026

Joe diGenova: “I want to underscore that we were following the principles of federal prosecution all along the way, and we did that. We were we were moving smartly, and I underscore we were moving smartly, and then things, you know, got where they got."

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 11, 2026

He's handling it very professionally, but something happened. His leaving is very strange.

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First, DiGenova left.

Now, Kurt Olsen resigned yesterday.

Olsen exiting is probably a good development, tbph. Unlike DiGenova, Olsen had zero prosecutorial experience, iirc.

Jack Smith witch hunt testimony yesterday revealed vast/unlimited abuses of subpoena power/invasive reach into journalist communications. MZ Hemingway has a lot.

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It emerged during Smith's Tuesday appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he and his investigators obtained records containing communications between Trump administration officials and journalists from more than a dozen news organizations. Those communications were discovered in records produced by the National Archives after Smith's team subpoenaed material associated with 87 White House phones used during President Trump's first administration.
RedState's Kyle Becker had all the details.

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[Chairman Chuck] Grassley said investigators subpoenaed 87 phones belonging to Trump White House officials and obtained records containing communications with journalists at major news organizations, including CBS News, CNN, Fox News, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Federalist. CBS News reported the disclosure live from Tuesday's hearing.

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This came, noted Kyle, "on top of the previously disclosed collection of phone records belonging to Republican members of Congress."

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I'm sickened by this news that my journalistic communications were obtained as part of Jack Smith's egregious misconduct.

Proud to have been one of the only journalists who debunked his agency's role in perpetrating the Russia collusion lie against the American people.

No amount of censorship or spying will prevent @FDRLST from continuing our fearless investigative journalism.

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Think about the arrogance required here. Journalists depend on sources inside the federal government and that includes the White House to expose wrongdoing and hold the decision makers accountable. The confidentiality of those communications is fundamental to a free press.

None of that mattered to Jack Smith and his pursuit of Donald Trump, though. Everything was fair game to Smith, whose actions should send a chill down the spine of every journalist who values the ability to communicate with their sources without the worry that those messages could one day end up in a federal prosecutor's files.

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More at Townhall.

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Jack Smith witch hunt testimony yesterday revealed vast/unlimited abuses of subpoena power/invasive reach into journalist communications. MZ Hemingway has a lot.

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It emerged during Smith's Tuesday appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he and his investigators obtained records containing communications between Trump administration officials and journalists from more than a dozen news organizations. Those communications were discovered in records produced by the National Archives after Smith's team subpoenaed material associated with 87 White House phones used during President Trump's first administration.
RedState's Kyle Becker had all the details.

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[Chairman Chuck] Grassley said investigators subpoenaed 87 phones belonging to Trump White House officials and obtained records containing communications with journalists at major news organizations, including CBS News, CNN, Fox News, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Federalist. CBS News reported the disclosure live from Tuesday's hearing.

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This came, noted Kyle, "on top of the previously disclosed collection of phone records belonging to Republican members of Congress."

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I'm sickened by this news that my journalistic communications were obtained as part of Jack Smith's egregious misconduct.

Proud to have been one of the only journalists who debunked his agency's role in perpetrating the Russia collusion lie against the American people.

No amount of censorship or spying will prevent @FDRLST from continuing our fearless investigative journalism.

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Think about the arrogance required here. Journalists depend on sources inside the federal government and that includes the White House to expose wrongdoing and hold the decision makers accountable. The confidentiality of those communications is fundamental to a free press.

None of that mattered to Jack Smith and his pursuit of Donald Trump, though. Everything was fair game to Smith, whose actions should send a chill down the spine of every journalist who values the ability to communicate with their sources without the worry that those messages could one day end up in a federal prosecutor's files.

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More at Townhall.

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A big Ole nothingburger except for the Atlanta Hawks and Iowa Hawkeyes gaffe lmao

Yesterday was a perfect example of what a joke the Republican Party has become. They used to be the adults. Now they are just a clown show that doesn't want to destroy America, unlike the other clown show

Not a single Republican senator yesterday carried one bit about the truth. They just want sound bites. And boy did Schmitt get one. He was all set to go on the talk show circuit and brag about his new perjury claim. What a moron.

Meanwhile, the prosecutorial abuse of Jack Smith is it afterthought. Can we please get some adults back in the Republican Party?

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Yesterday was a perfect example of what a joke the Republican Party has become. They used to be the adults. Now they are just a clown show that doesn't want to destroy America, unlike the other clown show

Not a single Republican senator yesterday carried one bit about the truth. They just want sound bites. And boy did Schmitt get one. He was all set to go on the talk show circuit and brag about his new perjury claim. What a moron.

Meanwhile, the prosecutorial abuse of Jack Smith is it afterthought. Can we please get some adults back in the Republican Party?

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To do what exactly? Usher in permanent Dem / Hate America dominance and socialism?

Adult republicans are the penultimate frog in warming water. No thank you.

Sound bites are the game that drives votes these days. Not legislation, not actual testimony, not action. Sound bites, votes, power grabs, and shenanigans.

The works gets done in the Executive. And thank god DJT rescued the Rs from permanent irrelevance.

Adults back in the room? Hard pass. Terribly myopic.

Adult Republicans to pass conservative legislation and keep this country from turning to socialism, rather than focusing on silly poster boards regarding who attended a basketball game

Sound bites are great when they are about actual issues. Trump is the absolute master of this.

You know that the time has passed for normalcy and legislation.

And the Rs are hardly at fault and did indeed hold out in playing the D game.

But you either grab a ball and bounce it… or you get bounced.

Pining for adults to return is just waiting for the iceman to cometh.

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You know that the time has passed for normalcy and legislation.

And the Rs are hardly at fault and did indeed hold out in playing the D game.

But you either grab a ball and bounce it… or you get bounced.

Pining for adults to return is just waiting for the iceman to cometh.

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So what time is it now?

For Trump to rule until Jan 20, 2029… as it should be.

If the lege wants to get back to legislating, they are welcome to it.

From there POTUS can determine whether so sign or veto and then can get back to being the chief executive.

Pretty simple.

DECLASSIFIED RECORDS: Brennan/Jack Smith Connection

Meeting CIA HQ:  FBI notes are blank

- November 2023 Former CIA Director John Brennan meets with special counsel staff, FBI agents

"..purpose of the meeting was to discuss expert testimony to National Defense Information in… pic.twitter.com/R5g1P7p8Qm

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) October 5, 2026

NEW: Judge Jia Cobb dismissed former CIA Director John Brennan's lawsuit seeking to force the Trump administration to preserve records for his defense against potential criminal charges, finding he lacked standing despite "deeply concerning" allegations of political retaliation. pic.twitter.com/Q64GIsOWEB

— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) October 15, 2026