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Aug 6 2025

President Trump Threatens to Federalize DC Law Enforcement Following Brutal Attack on Edward Coristine (DOGE “Big Balls”)


Posted originally on CTH on August 6, 2025 | Sundance 

President Trump responded to a brutal attack on Edward Coristine, the DOGE employee known as “Big Balls.”

“Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local “youths” and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to happen now!

The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these “minors” as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14. The most recent victim was beaten mercilessly by local thugs.

Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see. If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore.

Perhaps it should have been done a long time ago, then this incredible young man, and so many others, would not have had to go through the horrors of Violent Crime.

If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”  ~ President Donald Trump

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Aug 6 2025

Letters and Documents Purposefully Leaked by Main Justice Indicate Russiagate Investigation is Not Serious


Posted originally on CTH on August 5, 2025 | Sundance

The entire grand jury process is extremely protected as the 5th amendment requires. Fullstop.

Unfortunately, we have a long and painful history with the Trump-era Main Justice system, intentionally leaking information to satiate the MAGA base and tamp-down demands for reform and accountability.  For seven years various Trump officials have claimed to be working to bring accountability. None has been delivered.

Also unfortunately, the pattern of bread and circuses is repeating.  The Dept of Justice leaked a letter to The Federalist, in order to affirm their performance.

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Obviously, The Federalist is well aware of who the assigned “prosecutor” is.  However, telling the audience that name does not support the ongoing ‘clickbait’ performance as orchestrated by Pam Bondi’s Dept of Justice.  After all, there’s the important public opinion to be shaped.

The DOJ sending this letter to journalist Sean Davis is a case study in exactly what ‘Bread and Circuses’ looks like.

The DOJ providing this letter directly to The Federalist, indicates the purpose of Pam Bondi’s DOJ action is performative; not substantive.  If the DOJ does not want to compromise their grand jury case, then why are they leaking their letters? Simply, think about it.

The compromise and motive to note is not in the reporting per se’; it’s in the DOJ selective (purposeful) leaking. And in this example, it indicates a profound lack of seriousness.

It’s likely the DOJ knows the challenge of the case is a very high bar and they are unlikely to clear it. So, what they are doing is appeasing the ‘Russiagate’ crowd, with the performance of the investigation itself.  However, this is a very dangerous approach to take given the nature of seven years of bread and circuses in the background.

If the cases were perceived as solid and serious, there would be no reason for Pam Bondi’s DOJ to be leaking internal documents to Fox News, Mollie Hemmingway, John Solomon, Sean Davis or any other media outlet.

Fox News originally broke the story of the Grand Jury after they were sent documents from Bondi’s authorization of a prosecutor to review evidence and empanel a grand jury.  Now Pam Bondi’s assigned prosecutor is sending copies of his/her letters to The Federalist.

Does this sound like serious investigative action taken by serious Main Justice leadership?  No, unfortunately it sounds like a profoundly unserious ‘tick-tock’ screenplay is being delivered, because that is exactly what these actions indicate.

We have experienced seven-years of ‘tick-tocking’, and intentional leaks, orchestrated for a purpose other than truth and justice. We The People deserve better.

If the DOJ is going to leak letters and documents to ‘CONservative’ media for clickbait excitement, the outlook for serious legal accountability is not good.

…”are you not entertained?”

Aug 6 2025

DNI Tulsi Gabbard Provides Update on Current Russiagate Declassification and Investigation


Within this interview, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard states she has met with the assigned federal prosecutors from the Department of Justice to hear their requests for information as the investigation begins.

This interview is well worth watching as Director Gabbard outlines the nature of the battle within the DC corrupt state as it exists.  There is an institutional struggle taking place as each agency of government now has a political battle within it.

*NOTE* At this moment I do believe Tulsi Gabbard is an honest broker in this battle against the Intelligence Community. It is because she is against their interests that the Fourth Branch of Government is attacking her.

That said, I do not put the same level of honesty around Main Justice specifically because the DOJ is headed by a corrupt and deceitful liar.  All indications from the process issues currently underway, highlight the motive of the DOJ is to put on a performance, not actually deliver accountability.  I will give direct examples in the next post.

Aug 6 2025

James Comer Issues House Subpoenas for Epstein Files and Witnesses


Posted originally on CTH on August 5, 2025 | Sundance

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has issued a series of subpoenas for records and testimony from former government officials that pertain to Jeffrey Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee is usually the place where investigations go to die.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: October 9; Former President Bill Clinton: October 14; Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland: October 2; Former FBI Director James Comey: October 7; Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr: August 18; Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: August 26; Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: August 28; Former FBI Director Robert Mueller: September 2; Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch: September 9; and Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder: September 30.

WASHINGTON DC – The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday issued subpoenas for Department of Justice records on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, as well as for interviews with a slate of former government officials in connection to the case.

Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) announced that he was summoning nearly a dozen former officials to appear for depositions on the Epstein investigation — a list that includes former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Comer was required to send the subpoenas after a Democratic-led subcommittee vote in July.

The move is the latest in a broader battle over the Epstein files, which took the Trump administration by storm last month as anger boiled over from within MAGA circles about the administration’s handling of the case. (read more)

Suspicious Cat remains, well, increasingly suspicious.

Aug 6 2025

President Trump Talks to Reporters from Roof of the White House


Posted originally on CTH on August 5, 2025 | Sundance

President Trump was reviewing the symmetry of architecture as the plans for the White House ballroom are being finalized.  Apparently, President Trump wants to make sure the details on both wings of the White House are in compliment to each other with the new addition coming.

As a result, President Trump climbed onto the roof of the White House to review the overall design elements himself.  The journalists noticed him up there and started asking questions.  lol

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Aug 6 2025

CNBC Questions President Trump About Banking Discrimination – Trump Leaves Them Speechless


Posted originally on CTH on August 5, 2025 | Sundance

President Donald Trump called in to CNBC for a discussion of current events and factors impacting the economy.

It is a lengthy interview and there’s a very interesting part at 23:07 when Andrew Ross Sorkin asks President Trump to justify his claim that banks discriminate against conservatives, because Sorkin is meeting with the head of Bank of America later today.  What happens next in the interview leaves Sorkin speechless.

President Trump outlines his personal experience where JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America debanked Donald Trump.  Sorkin quietly disappears and the conversation quickly switches topics.  WATCH (prompted):

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Aug 6 2025

MAKES SENSE – Devin Nunes: The Raid on Mar-a-Lago Was to Retrieve Declassified HPSCI Report That Deconstructed Obama/Brennan ICA


Posted originally on CTH on August 5, 2025 | Sundance

Former House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes appeared for an interview with Grant Stinchfield and walks through the timeline of the Russiagate hoax.

Within the interview, Devin Nunes makes a solid argument that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was due to their belief President Trump had the only copy of the HPSCI report, outside IC control; the outcome of a two-year investigation into how John Brennan and the CIA manipulated the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA).

It is important to remember that even though Representative Nunes knew the HPSCI investigators were looking at the construct of the ICA, no one -not even Devin Nunes- had ever seen the finished report as assembled in 2020.

~ SEE HPSCI REPORT HERE ~

Despite efforts by Donald Trump to declassify the HPSCI report before leaving office, the CIA never released it.  No one except the internal Intelligence Community (CIA/DNI) had seen the HPSCI report until Tulsi Gabbard released it on July 22nd.  This is a key point, because the HPSCI report touches on all of the other declassified evidence recently released.

The authors of the HPSCI report had reviewed all of the same information John Durham reviewed.  The HPSCI report walks through the entire construct of the Intelligence Community Assessment ordered by President Obama on December 6, 2016.

Arguably, because of the underlying evidence reviewed to produce it, the HPSCI report is the most critical of the declassified release in the last few months. The HPSCI report walks through the timeline as the ICA was created between early to late December 2016.

It was this manipulated ICA that underpinned the January 5, 2017 briefing with President Obama documented in the Susan Rice “by the book” memo.  This manipulated ICA was then used to brief President-elect Trump the next day, January 6, 2017.  The two-year HPSCI investigation and final report destroys the construct of the ICA as a propaganda tool of a weaponized intelligence product.

Knowing only the CIA, DNI and likely bad elements of the FBI had seen the HPSCI report, it makes sense this was what the FBI was seeking during the raid on Mar-a-Lago.  The Intelligence Community during the Biden administration wanted to maintain the ICA ruse, and that required keeping the HPSCI report hidden.

The FBI knew Trump had declassified it, but they didn’t know if he held a physical copy of it when he left office in 2021. WATCH:

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This predicate could also explain reports of the DOJ considering Florida as the venue for a grand jury.  There is a possibility Main Justice is evaluating whether the Mar-a-Lago raid, in context with this declassified report and the FBI retrieval for it, may extend the venue options for criminal charge exploration into Florida as the place with the last act within a conspiracy.

It’s a little bit of a Lawfare-stretch to turn away from the 95% activity, that took place in DC, and use the 5% that took place in Florida to create a legal venue outside the DC defense walls.   But, with the right legal arguments, it could be possible.

If you read the 46-page report, you understand why the FBI and CIA wanted to keep it hidden.

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Aug 5 2025

Jonathan Turley Says, “There’s Still Hope” for Indictments


Posted originally on CTH on August 4, 2025 | Sundance 

Speaking soon after Fox News delivered the breaking story of Pam Bondi assigning a prosecutor to start delivering evidence to a grand jury, attorney Jonathan Turley appears with Will Cain to say despite the length of time there is “hope” for criminal accountability.   WATCH:

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Aug 5 2025

Kremlin: Putin Willing to Meet Zelenskyy


Posted originally on CTH on August 4, 2025 | Sundance

On Sunday President Trump remarked that emissary Steve Witkoff was likely to travel to Russia this week, presumably at the request of Kremlin officials.  Earlier President Trump shortened the deadline for Russia to come to the negotiating table from 50 days to 10-12 days. The preferred timeline by President Trump ends this Friday.

(AP) – Vladimir Putin is open to meeting Volodymyr Zelensky for talks following “preparatory work at the expert level,” the Kremlin has announced, according to the state-owned RT television station.

“I would like to remind you that the president himself does not rule out the possibility of holding such a meeting,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman said. “But only after the necessary work is done at the expert level and the appropriate distance is overcome.”

He said that the “preparatory work” had not yet been done. Putin has previously rejected several attempts by Zelensky to meet for talks over ending the Ukraine war.

Peskov also did not rule out a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Putin later this week, the state run TASS news agency reported.

[…] Witkoff is expected to land in the Russian capital on Wednesday or Thursday, according to Trump, following his trip to Israel and Gaza.

“They would like to see (Witkoff),” Trump said Sunday of the Russians. “They’ve asked that he meet so we’ll see what happens.”

Peskov said Monday: “We are always glad to see Mr. Witkoff in Moscow. “We consider (talks with Witkoff) important, substantive and very useful.” (more)

Is this a Putin delay strategy?

U.S. trade talks with India collapsed and simultaneously the Modi government refused to distance themselves from Russia.

BRICS+ represented by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa + Egypt and Iran, seem to be standing firm on the nature of their economic bloc, which -I might add- only got stronger when the Biden sanctions against Russia were put into place.

Even President Trump seemed to indicate Sunday the “sanctions threat” doesn’t really hold a lot of influence when it comes to Russia.  A secondary sanctions regime against countries that align to purchase Russian energy products could end up backfiring.

Aug 5 2025

DC Area Statistics Reflect Federal Govt Downsizing


Posted originally on CTH on August 4, 2025 | Sundance

President Donald Trump is actually doing something almost all presidents have failed to do, reduce the size and scale of the federal government.

The Washington Post is very concerned about the economic datapoints coming from the DC area.  Including: “the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal workforce, including the elimination of thousands of federal jobs, is being acutely felt in a national capital region.”

WaPo – In May, D.C.’s unemployment rate was 5.9 percent — the highest in more than three years.  The number of federal workers turning to unemployment insurance is climbing steadily, with claims rising 64 percent between February and June — from 1,064 to 1,747. That surge is starting to show up in the city’s bottom line: In June alone, D.C. paid out more than $2.5 million in federal civilian jobless benefits, a sharp jump from earlier in the spring.

Maryland saw a similar spike, with payments nearly doubling since April. In Virginia’s Fairfax County, unemployment has reached levels not seen since mid-2021.

LAYOFFS – Layoffs tracked through Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notices are rapidly climbing. The federal WARN Act requires large employers to give advance notice before mass layoffs, offering an early signal of job market stress. So far this year, the D.C. region has recorded more WARN-notice layoffs than in any year outside the pandemic, with nearly 10,000 workers cut as of July — more than the total of the last two years combined. While the data mostly reflects private-sector job losses, it underscores how quickly layoffs are accelerating.

SPENDING – Consumer spending in D.C. is also starting to slip. Washingtonians are cutting back on things like dining out, clothing, and beauty products — and they’re doing so more sharply than people in other big cities. In June, spending at full-service restaurants was down 9 percent compared with the prior year, a steeper drop than in places like Atlanta, Boston and Miami.  The same pattern shows up in categories like apparel and entertainment, pointing to a local slowdown even as spending elsewhere holds steadier.

TAX BASE – The D.C. Office of Revenue Analysis is forecasting a rare population dip in 2027 — a 0.2 percent decline — along with shrinking tax collections. In June, the city revised its tax revenue outlook for 2026 from one of growth to decline. The city expects only modest growth in 2027, with property and business taxes still lagging.

HOUSING – Predictably, with uncertainty looming, the real estate picture is starting to shift. “We still have a shortage, meaning there is more demand for housing than supply,” Lee said. “And with that, the prices go up.”

But inventory is climbing, a sign that fewer buyers are competing for homes. At the same time, new apartment construction is tapping the brakes — about 8,000 units went up in the first quarter of 2025, well below the usual 12,000 to 16,000 seen in recent quarters. (more)