Efforts by high-ranking officials in the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), and State Department to portray President Donald Trump as having colluded with Russia were the culmination of years of bias and politicization under the Obama administration. The weaponization of the intelligence community and other government agencies created an environment that allowed for obstruction […]
Commentary Ever since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions voluntarily recused himself from having oversight over any of the 2016 election-related investigations at the Department of Justice—including the Mueller special-counsel probe—those investigations have been under the authority of his chief lieutenant, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. But now, a major shift has occurred at the […]
Commentary In a surprise announcement, calculated to have maximum media impact just before President Donald Trump departed for Argentina to attend the annual G-20 summit, special counsel Robert Mueller and his team accepted a guilty plea in court from former Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen. On Nov. 29, the media was suddenly alerted that Cohen […]
Commentary The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed by a former top aide to Hillary Clinton in which he claimed she not only plans to run for president again in 2020, but will also easily beat Donald Trump in a rematch. The opinion piece, written by former Clinton adviser Mark Penn and Andrew Stein, a […]
On Thursday, Nov. 8, an announcement suddenly appeared on the Department of Justice’s official website that demonstrated very clearly that new Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker is wasting no time settling into his new role. In only his second day on the job, Whitaker took much-needed action in a crucial area of national security. The […]
Commentary In May of last year, it was suddenly revealed for the first time that from 2010 to 2013, the Chinese regime was able to learn the identity of every single CIA agent in that country. As a result, more than 30 undercover intelligence assets were arrested and imprisoned, and many of them were executed. The New York […]
Commentary You can almost smell how desperate the left is getting about trying to save the dying narrative that former Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos are going to be handcuffed and shipped off to prison by special counsel Robert Mueller for “colluding with the Russians.” As evidence mounts that partisan operatives inside […]
Commentary A few times over the past several months, I’ve had to stop and pinch myself to confirm that I’m not dreaming, that this is really happening here in Texas—that the Democrats ran someone such as Rep. Beto O’Rourke against incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz. It was recently announced by O’Rourke that his donations to his […]
Commentary On Oct. 23, amid its usual browbeating of the Trump administration and Republicans to stop using supposedly violent political rhetoric to incite actual violence against top Democratic lawmakers and members of the news media, the New York Times Book Review published this article, titled “Five Novelists Imagine Trump’s Next Chapter.” To get an idea of how these five brief […]
Commentary The Democrats’ dangerous undermining of our democratic institutions can’t be permitted to continue. This behavior has been on stark display during Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. To briefly recap how this circus came to town over the past two weeks: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (R-Calif.) received a letter in July from Professor Christine […]
Commentary This country just had to endure the spectacle of a judge who’s already been through six background checks and numerous confirmation hearings since 1993 have to go on TV to deny he raped or attempted to rape women back in his high school and college days. He also had to specifically deny that he […]
Commentary As he had repeatedly hinted he would, President Donald Trump on Sept. 17 ordered the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the FBI to declassify many documents related to the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation and release them to the public—fully unredacted. These documents are The FISA court application […]
Commentary On July 27, CNN aired a news story in which it claimed President Donald Trump had advance knowledge of the meeting at Trump Tower between members of his campaign team and two Russians working with Fusion GPS. Despite the fact Trump has repeatedly stated that he didn’t know about this meeting until after it […]
Commentary On Aug. 21, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen accepted a plea agreement offered to him by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) prosecutors office. Cohen will be sentenced on Dec. 12 and the plea agreement let him avoid the maximum sentence he was facing of 65 years in prison. According to the New […]