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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/07/16/exclusive_secret_meeting_opens_document_floodgates_on_trumprussia_hoax_1123108.html

The floodgates holding back long-buried classified documents exposing government efforts to claim Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election might finally be opening. 

Trump administration officials held an urgent meeting Sunday to discuss “new information on Russiagate,” which they might use to build a criminal conspiracy case against Obama and Biden administration political appointees who allegedly weaponized the government against Trump, two Trump administration officials told RealClearInvestigations.

The documents are said to contain long-classified information, including a secret 200-page congressional audit that reveals details about how an intelligence community assessment on Russia ordered by President Obama after the 2016 election was framed in a way that portrayed Trump as being beholden to the  Kremlin.

Sources told RCI that emails and other records tying the CIA’s controversial drafting of the Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] to the FBI’s discredited “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation targeting Trump could be released as part of an Office of the Director of National Intelligence report as early as Thursday. The White House was briefed on the development Tuesday, the sources said.

Participants in the Sunday meeting involving intelligence officials and their Department of Justice counterparts also discussed declassifying investigative notes and depositions taken by Special Counsel John Durham during his probe of the CIA’s and FBI’s handling of the ICA, which relied in part on an anti-Trump dossier financed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Strengthening Case for Conspiracy 

The information could strengthen a criminal case against Obama’s top intelligence officers, including former CIA Director John Brennan, who allegedly gave false testimony to Congress about their role in using the dossier in the ICA, according to the officials who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive information. Although the five-year statute of limitations on perjury means much of the testimony given about the ICA cannot be prosecuted, officials could still be charged with a conspiracy to commit perjury.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/07/17/can-trump-fire-fed-chairman-powell-yes-he-can-and-should/

Will President Donald Trump soon fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, as is now hotly rumored? And do you care? If not, maybe you should. Because at this moment, the Fed chief seems to think he has to re-fight the inflation battle he lost three years ago. And his refusal to cut rates is starting to choke our economy.

Make no mistake: Having lost the confidence of the president who appointed him, Powell should resign. As a matter of practical stewardship of the nation’s central bank, Powell’s effectiveness as a financial leader has been called into question. Time to go.

But Powell’s defenders bizarrely argue that Fed chairmen can’t be fired. In fact, they can be fired “for cause,” which is vague enough to cover a whole host of sins, major and minor.

His backers also argue that Fed chiefs have independence, and that Trump letting him go would shatter that.

But that’s also not true.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/will-any-russia-hoaxers-go-to-jail/

The CIA recently revealed that former director John Brennan wanted to include the discredited Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of the 2016 election. As the people might recall, in his 2020 Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad, Brennan repeatedly claims “Vladimir Putin personally ordered the influence campaign to boost Donald Trump’s election prospects.”

The Russia hoax bullhorns never explained how, exactly, Putin influenced the election. It now emerges that in 2020 China’s Communist Party manufactured thousands of fake American driver’s licenses, which could help stateside Chinese nationals to vote illegally through mail ballots. The FBI knew about China’s campaign but held off because it would contradict the testimony of then-FBI director Christopher Wray.

“We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it’s by mail or otherwise,” Wray told Congress in September 2020.

News of the fake licenses first emerged in June, when FBI Director Kash Patel declassified a document revealing China’s fraud campaign. The allegations “while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.” The report was recalled on the instruction of Nikki Floris, the FBI’s Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, who served as the FBI’s “election security lead” in 2020. Sen. Charles Grassley is calling for an investigation, and while the probe proceeds, Wray’s FBI record deserves a second look.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/democracys-perennial-weakness/

The Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill managed to squeak by the typical legislative partisan road-blocks and sand traps. Like all legislation in democracies, the bill is not perfect, nor does it satisfy everyone. But just extending Donald Trump’s 2017 tax reform no doubt pleases most voters and taxpayers who dodged a $4 trillion tax increase next year. The Dems, of course, have been flogging their usual suspect clichés about “gutting Medicaid” and other social welfare programs just to keep the “rich” from “paying their fair share,” even though the U.S. already has the most progressive income tax among developed economies.

This doesn’t mean, however, that many problems–– for example, with our metastasizing debt, deficits, and expansionary Rube Goldberg redistribution machines––don’t exist. On all counts we are facing, sooner than most voters realize, a reckoning that economist Veronique de Rugy recently catalogued, and which will require painful sacrifices. Unfortunately, as The Wall Street Journal describes this “crisis of the welfare state,” is “fiscally unaffordable but politically unreformable.”

But these problems are not just caused by office-seekers doling out goodies to voters in exchange for their votes or campaign donations. Rather, ever since democracy was born 2500 years ago, it has reflected the novel but problematic structures necessary for empowering the ordinary, free citizens to participate in holding offices and speaking publicly. Both freedoms are hostage to the eternal, tragic flaws of human nature and its passions and interests.