Netter now works for a group chaired by Marc Elias, who helped run the Russia collusion hoax. The Department of Justice official who signed off on $2 million in taxpayer-funded payments to disgraced Russia collusion hoax participants left the Department of Justice to help lead the “legal resistance” to President Donald Trump and other duly-elected Republicans, new records reviewed exclusively by The Federalist reveal. FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, sued the Department of Justice over the release of messages detailing their role in pushing the Clinton campaign’s Russia collusion hoax. They said the release of…
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The FBI secretly monitored the phone records of eight sitting Republican senators in an abusive fishing expedition done with impunity. In 1972, a small team of operatives connected to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee’s offices in the Watergate complex to install listening devices. To this day, there is no conclusive evidence that Nixon personally ordered — or even knew of — the break-in beforehand. Yet Watergate shaped American political consciousness for decades. It gave the world a permanent suffix for scandal and became the ultimate symbol of abuse of power, a crisis so severe…
Peace through strength” has long been a nebulous phrase in political rhetoric. While it has been marshalled by both political parties, it has been used by Republican hawks and their supporters to assail liberal Democrats as both reckless and feckless, too quick to commit troops to war and too weak to lead them to victory. While users of the phrase have presented it as a departure from liberal interventionism, it has preserved the core assumptions of a fundamentally liberal postwar order. Advocates of “peace through strength” have used it to advocate for seemingly every foreign policy position, from containment to…
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization had its 15 minutes (plus a little more) of fame four decades ago. During the 1950s the U.S. offered a supposedly temporary military shield behind which the continent’s western war-ravaged states could recover economically. Although hindsight suggests that Moscow was unlikely to launch a war of conquest, no one wanted to trust the Soviet Union’s Joseph Stalin. Unfortunately, even as the Europeans revived economically and rehabilitated Germany, adding it to NATO’s ranks, the U.S. stayed. This violated the assurances of alliance founders that the American garrison was only a short-term palliative until NATO’s European members…
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday. Kirk’s wife, Erika, accepted the award on her late husband’s behalf, speaking of his crusade for freedom. “The very existence of the Presidential Medal of Freedom reminds us that the national interest of the United States has always been freedom,” Erika said. “Our Founders etched it into the preamble of our Constitution, and those words are not relics on parchment. They are a living covenant. The blessings of liberty are not man’s invention. They are God’s endowment.”…
Left-wing violence receives legal cover from judges and political cover from politicians and commentators, sending one very loud message to their militants: Don’t stop. Two teenagers who brutally assaulted former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine did not receive any jail time in yet another instance of left-wing judges protecting militant thugs from being held accountable in any meaningful way. D.C. Superior Court Judge Kendra Davis Briggs, a nominee of former President Joe Biden, sentenced two 15-year-olds from Hyattsville, Maryland, to probation after they were arrested for an Aug. 3 attack on 19-year-old Coristine that left him bloody…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said U.S. job growth has slowed down in part due to two million illegals being deported, saying, “I think in terms of Americans having jobs, we’re doing quite well.” Appearing Wednesday morning at CNBC’s Invest in America Forum in Washington, DC, Bessent was asked by host Sara Eisen to explain the reasons behind the recent “slowdown in job growth.” “Some people are wondering, is this a supply issue because immigration has slowed down, or is it a demand issue where businesses aren’t hiring as much?” “Well, I think it’s a couple of things,” the secretary replied. “I think…
Pentagon reporters turned in their badges after they refused to sign Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s new security rule. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded that reporters agree by 5 p.m. Tuesday to a new policy, under which they would need to pledge to not obtain or use any unauthorized material, even if the information is unclassified — or hand over their press badges in the next 24 hours,” The Hill reported on Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon, Pentagon reporters turned in their badges. CNN’s Brian Stelter hyperventilated over the development. “Reporters have been showing up at the Pentagon today and handing in their…
President Donald Trump directed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to ensure that U.S. service members receive their next paychecks, despite the government shutdown stretching into its fifteenth day. In a memorandum signed on Wednesday, Trump expressed that “congressional leaders have indicated that political negotiations have stalemated” and that it was unlikely that the “necessary bipartisan legislation” to end the government shutdown would be passed before October 15, when active-duty military personnel are supposed to get their next paychecks. Trump directed Hegseth to work “in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to use for the purpose of pay…
President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel, on Wednesday, touted the FBI’s crackdown on violent crime since the start of the administration, and Trump called for his top law enforcement officials to zone in on San Francisco. Trump, Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche held a press conference in the Oval Office to update the public on the administration’s successes in combating crime. According to a graphic shared by the FBI, it has arrested 28,859 criminals in 2025, on pace to more than double the 15,388 violent criminal arrests in 2024, the final full…