President Trump Meets with Joe Biden in the White House


Posted originally on the CTH on November 13, 2024 | Sundance

As scheduled, President Donald Trump and Joe Biden meet in the Oval Office to discuss the transition of power.  Joe Biden delivers remarks, including “welcome back.” President Trump thanks Joe Biden for his efforts to ensure a smooth transition.  Then the insufferable media go bananas. WATCH:

There’s a livestream below as President Trump and Joe Biden meet behind closed doors together with their Chief’s of Staff.

The media is awaiting President Trump’s exit from the White House.

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Harnwell: Biden’s weaponised DOJ now needs to be turned on those responsible for weaponising it


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: Nov 12, 2024 at 7:00 pm EST

German Preparing for World War III ASAP?


Posted originally on Nov 13, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |  

Merz Friedrich

Friedrich Merz (born 1955) is a VERY dangerous Neocon who is the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who is pushing to be the next chancellor in the face of the fallen government.  The government collapsed on the same day Mr. Trump was elected. The press says it was because Trump threatened tariffs that would harm the stuttering German economy. However, the real issue was the end of funding for the Ukraine war against Russia that could also lead to the USA existing NATO and the WHO.

Merz came out and said that he would issue a ULTIMATUM to Vladimir Putin if elected, giving him 24 hours to end the war, or else he would hand long-range missiles to Zelensky, who will target Moscoe in this desperate effort to start World War III before Trump takes office. Merz is taking the resistance role against Trump as most members of NATO want World War III to escape debt and believe the Neocon propaganda, making it sound like they can defeat Russia in a few days with no consequences for Europe.

We have a PANIC CYCLE in the German Long Bund in 2025. If Merz gets his way, Germany may be in serious trouble and should prepare for war. The CDU is trying to get Merz elected before the inauguration of Donald Trump in January on Jamuary 20th. 2025. Our computer is warning that February is the primary target for a turning point in 2025. It is looking like war, and under Trump, they should be left on their own, but many will be screaming he is once again just a puppet of Putin.

Marz’s ULTIMATIUM giving Putin 24 hours or else Ukraine can wipe out Moscow is so insane, as if they can destroy Russia, and there will be no retaliation. Under such a ULTIMATUM, Putin would have no choice but to wake up the world and nuke Kyiv once and for all also in 24 hours. Perhaps that is why our computer is showing a flat line in Ukraine. Germany lacks the energy to win a war if liquid gas imports cease to exist.

Germany vs France

Why Terrorists in Pakistan are Hunting Down Vaccinators


Posted originally on Nov 12, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

Pharmaceutical Vaccine

Terrorists have been hunting down polio vaccinators in Pakistan. The country recently launched a campaign aimed at immunizing 45 million children over the age of 5. Terrorists bombed a vaccination site, injuring 23, including children. Vans transporting polio staff have been targeted. Are these anti-vax conspiracy theorists? Violence in no form is tolerable, but there is a reason that vaccinators are being hunted down, and it stems back to the early 2010s when the CIA used a vaccination program to mask an espionage program.

The CIA was desperate to find Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks, as he embarrassed the intelligence agency by evading them for years and taunting them with videos seemingly filmed from caves. When the CIA had a lead that he was hiding out in Pakistan, they launched a fraudulent vaccination program to take down the al-Qaida leader.

Then-trusted Pakistani doctor Shakil Afrid partnered with the US intelligence agency to launch a hepatitis B vaccination program in Abbottabad, Pakistan. They began the program in a poverty-stricken town to make the guise seem believable before moving to the compound where they believed Osama bin Laden was hiding.

The true goal of the program was to obtain DNA samples from children who may be within bin Laden’s lineage. Some children received polio drops, but it is unknown if others were actually vaccinated against hepatitis B. The CIA has never revealed whether they found any matching DNA samples from the children they targeted.

The Taliban immediately banned vaccinations when the plot was revealed, which is only one of the reasons both Pakistan and Afghanistan still suffer from a polio crisis today. Dr. Afridi was convicted of treason and sentenced to 23 years imprisonment. The CIA received international backlash, leading to former -CIA Director John Brennan issuing an order that forbid the use of vaccination programs in covert operations. Brennan swore that the CIA “will not seek to obtain or exploit DNA or other genetic material acquired through such programs.”

Can we trust the government and/or intelligence agencies with our DNA or vaccinations? This was not the first time that the CIA has used health services to mask espionage. Pakistan and Afghanistan are now the only two nations in the world facing a polio-endemic. There is often truth behind conspiracies.

Ukraine Desperate to Provoke Putin Before Trump Takes Office


Posted originally on Nov 12, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

Moscow 2

Ukraine launched an unprecedented wave of drones over Moscow, prompting Russia to respond with a major airstrike on Sunday. Russia was able to intercept 70 Ukrainian drones, half of which were shot down over the Russian capital. Over the weekend, Moscow retaliated with a wave of 145 drones, marking the largest offensive since the conflict began. Ukraine claims it shot down 62 of the incoming drones.

The American Neocons were orchestrating the Maidan Revolution. Can you imagine if Putin came to a protest in the USA and told the people they needed to overturn the government?  This interference in foreign nations has led to countless deaths. McCain urged revolution and promised entry into the EU and peace. They instructed Kiev and their hand-picked government to start the civil war. This nonsense that Putin wants to restore the Russian Empire is just laughable. He had years to do so since 1999 and never made any such effort. The Russian people do not want to return to those dark days either.

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Zelensky is desperate to try to force Russia to attack anything in NATO before Trump takes office. Our computer still shows Ukraine going into a flat line. The Ukrainian people must step up against Zelensjy to save their culture and country. Zelensky’s attack on Moscow targeting civilians is a desperate attempt to create World War III before Trump takes office. This guy is dangerous to the entire world, for he remains a hand-puppet of the Neocons. We have high volatility going into December, thanks to Zelensky.

National Security Pathology Report – America Faces a Cancer of Unknown Primary Origin


Posted originally on the CTH on November 11, 2024 | Sundance

Yes, folks in the transition, I get it.

I totally understand why you approach the weaponization of government as a cancer treatment, and the Dept of Justice is the silo of focus for you to target with the harshest Stage-4 metastatic chemo.

I completely understand why, during this phase, all of your efforts have to be on aggressive treatment.  Main Justice carries the badges, and it is only Main Justice that can prosecute corruption.  I get it. I understand.  However, the cancerous lesion, that first moment when the compromised cells began to die and replicate, will not lead to an origination in the DOJ.

So far, every pathologist who has reviewed the diagnostic biopsy has called this a ‘cancer of unknown primary origin’ or abbreviated a CUP. Having backlight this cell structure for many years, I call tell you with confidence the accurate origin is the United States Intelligence Community.

Please, begin all Term-2 treatment options with this diagnosis in mind.

Please pay attention to the silo structure.

Notice in this first short video how Mary McCord positions the power structure of the DOJ-NSD silo in deference to the Intelligence Community (IC).

This is a critical path within the next step to American’s “great awakening.” In the past we have outlined how the DOJ-NSD weaponizes their Lawfare by using “National Security Information,” or what the insiders call “NSI.”

As an outcome of the way our checks and balances have been modified against our interests, the judicial branch has repeatedly deferred to the DOJ around the issue of “national security.” In fact, if the DOJ labels any Lawfare approach as a national security matter the subsequent evidence therein, the NSI (even when not seen) is accepted by the judicial branch without question. The judicial branch defers to the executive on all matters defined by the executive as “national security.”

This is the area of exploit being discussed by Mary McCord in this segment below. However, PLEASE NOTICE there is an apparatus that can supersede the DOJ-NSD’s ability to weaponize Nat Sec Information, that’s the power of the intelligence apparatus. WATCH:

Do not brush off this important reveal by the foremost voice in exploiting the targeting systems granted by the Intelligence Community.

Mary McCord is telling us the IC is in charge of “the information” that is then weaponized in the lawfare approach.

McCord notes how she and Andrew Weissmann navigate through the process of using National Security Information (NSI) as they move toward their target; the most common reference is their political opposition, Donald J Trump.

The DOJ has to ask the IC for permission to engage.

The IC gives the DOJ-NSD the targeting system; without it, nothing happens.

If you remove Main Justice as a weapon, you are treating a symptom – not the disease itself.  You still have not removed the origin of the cancer, the Intelligence Community.

McCord background:

If there is one Lawfare operative who has escaped scrutiny for her corrupt endeavors, it would be Mary McCord. More than any other Lawfare operative within Main Justice, Mary McCord sits at the center of every table in the manufacturing of cases against Donald Trump. {GO DEEP} Mary McCord’s husband is Sheldon Snook; he was the right hand to the legal counsel of Chief Justice John Roberts when the Dobbs decision was leaked.

When the Carter Page FISA application was originally assembled by the FBI and DOJ, there was initial hesitancy from within the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) about submitting the application, because it did not have enough citations in evidence (the infamous ‘Woods File’).  That’s why the Steele Dossier ultimately became important.  It was the Steele Dossier that provided the push, the legal cover needed for the DOJ-NSD to submit the application for a Title-1 surveillance warrant against the campaign of Donald J. Trump.

When the application was finally assembled for submission to the FISA court, the head of the DOJ-NSD was John Carlin.  Carlin quit working for the DOJ-NSD in late September 2016 just before the final application was submitted (October 21,2016).  John Carlin was replaced by Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Mary McCord.

♦ When the FISA application was finally submitted (approved by Sally Yates and James Comey), it was Mary McCord who did the actual process of filing the application and gaining the Title-1 surveillance warrant.

A few months later, February 2017, with Donald Trump now in office as President, it was Mary McCord who went with Deputy AG Sally Yates to the White House to confront White House legal counsel Don McGahn over the Michael Flynn interview with FBI agents.  The surveillance of Flynn’s calls was presumably done under the auspices and legal authority of the FISA application Mary McCord previously was in charge of submitting.

♦ At the time the Carter Page application was filed (October 21, 2016), Mary McCord’s chief legal counsel inside the office was a DOJ-NSD lawyer named Michael Atkinson.  In his role as the legal counsel for the DOJ-NSD, it was Atkinson’s job to review and audit all FISA applications submitted from inside the DOJ.  Essentially, Atkinson was the DOJ internal compliance officer in charge of making sure all FISA applications were correctly assembled and documented.

♦ When the anonymous CIA whistleblower complaint was filed against President Trump for the issues of the Ukraine call with President Zelensky, the Intelligence Community Inspector General had to change the rules for the complaint to allow an anonymous submission.  Prior to this change, all intelligence whistleblowers had to put their name on the complaint.  It was this 2019 IGIC who changed the rules.  Who was the Intelligence Community Inspector General?  Michael Atkinson.

When ICIG Michael Atkinson turned over the newly authorized anonymous whistleblower complaint to the joint House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee (Schiff and Nadler chairs), who did Michael Atkinson give the complaint to?  Mary McCord.

Yes, after she left main justice, Mary McCord took the job of working for Chairman Jerry Nadler and Chairman Adam Schiff as the chief legal advisor inside the investigation that led to the construction of articles of impeachment.   As a consequence, Mary McCord received the newly permitted anonymous whistleblower complaint from her old office colleague Michael Atkinson.

♦ During his investigation of the Carter Page application, Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered an intentional lie inside the Carter Page FISA application (directly related to the ‘Woods File’), which his team eventually tracked to FBI counterintelligence division lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith.  Eventually Clinesmith was criminally charged with fabricating evidence (changed wording on an email) in order to intentionally falsify the underlying evidence in the FISA submission.

When John Durham took the Clinesmith indictment to court, the judge in the case was James Boasberg.

♦ In addition to being a DC criminal judge, James Boasberg is also a FISA court judge who signed-off on one of the renewals for the FISA application that was submitted using fraudulent evidence fabricated by Kevin Clinesmith.  In essence, now the presiding judge over the FISA court, Boasberg was the FISC judge who was tricked by Clinesmith, and now the criminal court judge in charge of determining Clinesmith’s legal outcome.  Judge Boasberg eventually sentenced Clinesmith to 6 months probation.

As an outcome of continued FISA application fraud and wrongdoing by the FBI, in their exploitation of searches of the NSA database, Presiding FISC Judge James Boasberg appointed an amici curiae advisor to the court who would monitor the DOJ-NSD submissions and ongoing FBI activities.

Who did James Boasberg select as a FISA court amicus?  Mary McCord.

♦ SUMMARY:  Mary McCord submitted the original false FISA application to the court using the demonstrably false Dossier.  Mary McCord participated in the framing of Michael Flynn.  Mary McCord worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to create a fraudulent whistleblower complaint against President Trump; and Mary McCord used that manipulated complaint to assemble articles of impeachment on behalf of the joint House Intel and Judiciary Committee.  Mary McCord then took up a defensive position inside the FISA court to protect the DOJ and FBI from sunlight upon all the aforementioned corrupt activity.

You can clearly see how Mary McCord would be a person of interest if anyone was going to start digging into corruption internally within the FBI, DOJ or DOJ-NSD.

What happened next….

November 3, 2021 – In Washington DC – “Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and the House Jan. 6 Select Committee has tapped Mary McCord, who once ran the Justice Department’s National Security Division, for representation in its fight to obtain former President Donald Trump’s White House records. (read more)

That’s the context; now I want to go back a little.

First, when did Mary McCord become “amicus” to the FISA court?  ANSWER: When the court (Boasberg) discovered IG Michael Horowitz was investigating the fraudulent FISA application.  In essence, the FISA Court appointed the person who submitted the fraudulent filing, to advise on any ramifications from the fraudulent filing.  See how that works?

Now, let’s go deeper….

When Mary McCord went to the White House with Sally Yates to talk to white house counsel Don McGhan about the Flynn call with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, and the subsequent CBS interview with VP Pence, where Pence’s denial of any wrongdoing took place, the background narrative in the attack against Flynn was the Logan Act.

The construct of the Logan Act narrative was pure Lawfare, and DAG Sally Yates with Acting NSD AAG Mary McCord were the architects.

Why was the DOJ National Security Division concerned with a conflict between what Pence said on CBS and what Flynn said about his conversations with Kislyak?

This is where a big mental reset is needed.  Flynn did nothing wrong. The incoming National Security Advisor can say anything he wants with the Russian ambassador, short of giving away classified details of any national security issue.  In December of 2016, if Michael Flynn wanted to say Obama was an a**hole, and the Trump administration disagreed with everything he ever did, the incoming NSA was free to do so.  There was simply nothing wrong with that conversation – regardless of content.

So, why were McCord and Yates so determined to make an issue in media and in confrontation with the White House?  Why did the DOJ-NSD even care?  This is the part that people overlooked when the media narrative was driving the news cycle.  People got too stuck in the weeds and didn’t ask the right questions.

Some entity, we discover later was the FBI counterintelligence division, was monitoring Flynn’s calls.  They transcribed a copy of the call between Flynn and Kislyak, and that became known as the “Flynn Cuts” as described within internal documents, and later statements.

After the Flynn/Kislyak conversation was leaked to the media, Obama asked ODNI Clapper how that call got leaked.  Clapper went to the FBI on 1/4/17 and asked FBI Director James Comey.  Comey gave Clapper a copy of the Flynn Cuts which Clapper then took back to the White House to explain to Obama.

Obama’s White House counsel went bananas, because Clapper had just walked directly into the Oval Office with proof the Obama administration was monitoring the incoming National Security Advisor.

Obama’s plausible deniability of the Trump surveillance was lost as soon as Clapper walked in with the written transcript.

That was the motive for the 1/5/17 Susan Rice memo, and the reason for Obama to emphasize “buy the book” three times.

It wasn’t that Obama didn’t know already; the problem was that a document trail now existed (likely a CYA from Comey) that took away Obama’s plausible deniability of knowledge.

The January 5th meeting documented by Susan Rice was quickly organized to mitigate this issue.

Knowing the Flynn Cuts were created simultaneously with the phone call, and knowing how it was quickly decided to use the Logan Act as a narrative against Flynn and Trump, we can be very sure both McCord and Yates had read that transcript before they went to the White House.  [Again, this is the entire purpose of them going to the White House to confront McGhan with their manufactured concerns.]

So, when it comes to ‘who leaked’ the reality of the Flynn/Kislyak call to the media, the entire predicate for the Logan Act violation – in hindsight – I would bet a donut it was Mary McCord.

But wait, there’s more…. 

Now we go back to McCord’s husband, Sheldon Snook.

Sheldon was working for the counsel to John Roberts.  The counsel to the Chief Justice has one job, to review the legal implications of issues before the court and advise Justice John Roberts.  The counsel to the Chief Justice knows everything happening in the court and is the sounding board for any legal issues impacting the Supreme Court.

In his position as the right hand of the counsel to the chief justice, Sheldon Snook would know everything happening inside the court.

At the time, there was nothing bigger inside the court than the Alito opinion known as the Dobb’s Decision – the returning of abortion law to the states.  Without any doubt, the counsel to Chief Justice Roberts would have that decision at the forefront of his advice and counsel.  By extension, this puts the actual written Alito opinion in the orbit of Sheldon Snook.

After the Supreme Court launched a heavily publicized internal investigation into the leaking of the Dobbs decision (Alito opinion), something interesting happened.  Sheldon Snook left his position.   If you look at the timing of the leak, the investigation and the Sheldon Snook exit, the circumstantial evidence looms large.

Of course, given the extremely high stakes, the institutional crisis with the public discovering the office of the legal counsel to the Chief Justice likely leaked the decision, such an outcome would be catastrophic for the institutional credibility.  In essence, it would be Robert’s office who leaked the opinion to the media.

If you were Chief Justice John Roberts and desperately needed to protect the integrity of the court, making sure such a thermonuclear discovery was never identified would be paramount.  Under the auspices of motive, Sheldon Snook would exit quietly.  Which is exactly what happened.

The timeline holds the key.

Remember the stories of the J6 investigative staff all going to work for Jack Smith on the investigation of Donald Trump?   Well, Mary McCord was a member of that team [citation]; all indications are that her background efforts continue today as a quiet member of the Special Counsel team that is still attacking Donald Trump.

To give you an idea of the scope of influence of Mary McCord as a key functionary, consider what we can document.

♦ McCord submitted the fraudulent FISA application to spy on Trump campaign.

♦ McCord created the “Logan Act” claim used against Michael Flynn and then went with Sally Yates to confront the White House.

♦ McCord then left the DOJ and went to work for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler.

♦ McCord organized the CIA rule changes with Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson.

♦ McCord led and organized the impeachment effort, in the background, using the evidence she helped create.

♦ McCord joined the FISA Court to protect against DOJ IG Michael Horowitz newly gained NSD oversight and FISA review.

♦ McCord joined the J6 Committee helping to create all the lawfare angles they deployed.

♦ McCord then coordinated with DA Fani Willis in Georgia.

♦ McCord is working with Special Counsel Jack Smith to prosecute Trump.

In short, Mary McCord is the lawfare string that winds through every legal ‘stop Trump’ effort, and her primary partner in this endeavor is Andrew Weissmann.  In this next video segment, notice what the “how to use that” quote is referencing.

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Mary McCord is telling us who orchestrates their efforts.

It’s not Jack Smith, any more than it was Robert Mueller.

Mary McCord, Jack Smith, Andrew Weissman, Robert Mueller, etc. are/were simply the front men.

♦ Who assembled the 2016 “Russian Malicious Cyber Activity – Joint Analysis Report”? […] “The US intelligence community has concluded that a hack-and-release of Democratic Party and Clinton staff emails was designed to put Trump — a political neophyte who has praised Putin — into the Oval Office.”

♦ Who were the heads of the 17 intelligence agencies who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016?

♦ Who were the 51 names from the IC who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation in 2020?

♦ Who are the 60 IC professionals who recently said Kamala Harris was stronger for National Security?

There’s the backlight picture provided by an accurate pathological diagnosis.

I hope President Donald Trump uses the absolute power of his office to appoint key people who will carry his constitutional, plenary and absolute authority.

The National Security Advisor doesn’t need confirmation for a reason.  Use the NatSec Advisor to target the origin of the cancer.

You did not make Tom Homan DHS Secretary because you knew in that role, he would have been weaker on securing the border and carrying out deportations. Great call.  Now apply that same level of thinking to the National Security Advisor.

Have the NatSec Advisor secure the Intelligence Community with the same level of ferocity you expect Homan to carry out on the border.  Have the NatSec Advisor carry the same deportation expectation inwardly, into every silo that makes up the 17 intelligence agencies, and purge them just like the criminal aliens.  The “Six Ways from Sunday” cartel are far more dangerous.

Destroy the lies.  Get rid of the liars.

Get rid of the system control agents who isolate the Office of the President.

Make the Office of the President Great Again.

EU Nations in NATO Prepare for Trump Presidency


Posted originally on Nov 11, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

Creating War

European Union nations are concerned about Trump’s victory, as Trump has historically opposed the NATO alliance siphoning funding from the US. Before Trump, only a handful of nations were paying their 2% of GDP obligation. World leaders are now calling for a European army, but a plan is already in place for a unified army that NATO could rapidly deploy.

Now, EU nations host multinational armies of 1,500 troops and have had them in place since 2007, yet they have never been deployed. France famously vetoed plans for a unified European army, but President Macron is now open to creating one. The Baltic nations also oppose a unified EU army as they believe it will decrease NATO’s strength. The UK once vetoed the proposal as well when they were within the bloc.

“If we do not start thinking about ways to organise our common defence, we will not be strong enough when we need to defend ourselves, or our neighbours,” voiced Polish leader Luc Frieden. Poland became the top contributor to NATO in terms of GDP after Russia invaded Ukraine.

“At the beginning, we should go ahead with a coalition of the willing. A few countries that are ready to pool their sovereign rights to be more efficient in defence.” He added, “Of course, each country will want to keep control over important decisions such as when to activate its army, when to send its soldiers to war. But it is also obvious that the current situation does not offer the level of security that we need. So, we need to start thinking about a European army.”

How could an effective military strategy be developed if each nation were acting independently? It simply would not be effective. Still, the EU is creating a Rapid Deployment Capacity (RDC) force that some are calling a “European Army.”

The first RDC exercise took place last month in Spain, with the cooperation of nine EU members and 2,800 military personnel. The EU believes that by next year, it will have 5,000 troops within the RDC who can deploy at a moment’s notice.

NATO has eight multinational brigades with 300,000 troops who could be ready for deployment within 30 days, and it has the capacity to expand to 500,000 if needed.

Trump does not want America involved in endless wars, yet he is inheriting 2.5 proxy wars.

Reported Whip Leak: GOP Senate Leadership Race


Posted originally on the CTH on November 10, 2024 | Sundance

According to Benny Johnson, the whip of rough votes for leadership has been leaked. I have no idea if this is accurate, but in general terms it seems about correct. Thune with 24 votes, Cornyn with 18, Scott with 11. That math tracks with what I would anticipate.

Rick Scott is essentially the 2024 version of Jim DeMint.

A GOP Senate Source has leaked the internal whip-count for the Leadership Vote. The final votes will be on a secret ballot Wednesday.

Here is where the race stands now:

Cornyn (18)
Scott (11)
Thune (24)

Details:

Banks – Thune
Barrasso – Thune
Blackburn – Thune
Boozman – Cornyn
Britt – Cornyn
Budd – Cornyn
Capito – Cornyn
Cassidy – Thune
Collins – Thune
Cornyn – Cornyn
Cotton – Thune
Cramer – Thune
Crapo – Cornyn
Cruz – Thune
Curtis – Thune
Daines – Thune
Ernst – Cornyn
Fischer – Cornyn
Graham – Cornyn
Grassley – Cornyn
Hagerty – Scott
Hawley – Cornyn
Hoeven – Thune
Hyde-Smith – Cornyn
Johnson – Scott
Justice – Thune
Kennedy – Cornyn
Lankford – Cornyn
Lee – Scott
Lummis – Thune
Marshall – Scott
McConnell – Thune
McCormick – Cornyn
Moran – Cornyn
Moreno – Scott
Mullin – Thune
Murkowski – Thune
Paul – Scott
Ricketts – Cornyn
Risch – Cornyn
Rounds – Thune
Rubio – Scott
Schmitt – Scott
Scott (FL) – Scott
Scott (SC) – Thune
Sheehy – Thune
Sullivan – Thune
Tillis – Thune
Thune – Cornyn
Tuberville – Scott
Vance – Scott
Wicker – Thune
Young – Thune

[SOURCE]

If they did a second round with only Thune and Cornyn, the Scott group would probably split 50/50 (or a little better) in Thune’s favor.

Like I said, don’t get emotional on this one. The upper chamber is a completely self-preserving, hardened silo.

President Trump is taking the pragmatic, optimal solution approach, and negotiating his priority nominations past the leadership race.

President Trump Asks for Confirmation Support from Senate Leadership


Posted originally on the CTH on November 10, 2024 | Sundance

Recess appointments have been a general source of contention for those of us in the deep weeds who did not like Republican Leader Mitch McConnell keeping the upper chamber for four straight years 2018 through 2020, when the Republicans eventually lost their majority.

Now that the Senate has flipped back into Republican control, President Trump is proactively looking to confront the “recess appointment” issue withing the current Republican leadership contest. [Truth Social]

A recess appointment is an appointment, by the President of the United States, of a senior federal official to fill a vacant position while the United States Senate is in recess.

Recess appointments are authorized by Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which states: “The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.”

This means that, although the U.S. Constitution requires that most senior federal officials be confirmed by the Senate before assuming office, while the U.S. Senate is in recess the President holds nomination power. Generally, a person who is serving on a recess appointment will be officially nominated during the Senate’s next session and continue service uninterrupted. Rarely, this nomination will be rejected by the Senate, and the officials’ service will be ended after a very brief term.

The absence of a recess period blocks the President from recess appointments. However, any individual senator can demand an official recess and put their filibuster power into play; where the Senate must then gain a 60-vote approval to continue the session – even though they are not technically present.

No individual Senator ever challenged Mitch McConnell to force a recess throughout President Trump’s term in office, 2017 though 2021.

Lawfare Operatives at DOJ are Panicked About What President Donald Trump Will Do Inside Main Justice


Posted originally on the CTH on November 10, 2024 | Sundance 

When the FBI and DOJ lawfare operatives want to frame their agenda and undermine their targets, they have historically leaked to the New York Times and Politico.  Both outlets serve as the promoters for false or misleading information that benefits the bad actors inside the DOJ and FBI.

As a consequence, when the DOJ or FBI start freaking out, they run to the same New York Times and Politico.

Politico is reporting today about how the lawfare operatives inside Main Justice are panicking about what incoming President Trump will do.

WASHINGTON DC – A collective sense of dread has taken hold at the Department of Justice, which drew Donald Trump’s rage like no other part of the federal government during his campaign.

Some career attorneys at DOJ are already considering heading for the exits rather than sticking around to find out whether threats from Trump and his allies are real or campaign bluster. Those threats range from mass firings of “deep state” lawyers to expelling special counsel Jack Smith from the country.

“Everyone I’ve talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds,” said one DOJ attorney, who like most of the people interviewed for this article was granted anonymity to speak freely about colleagues and avoid retribution from the president-elect and his allies. “The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they’re going to be driven out.”

While alarm over Trump’s return is widespread throughout the federal bureaucracy, it is perhaps most acute at the Justice Department, which was at the center of many of the major controversies of his first term.

Most of the department’s 115,000 employees were around for those controversies. Critics believed the Trump White House meddled in some of the department’s high-profile prosecutions. Both of Trump’s attorneys general, Jeff Sessions and William Barr, eventually lost the president’s confidence. And his first term ended with a stunning showdown between Trump and nearly all of his DOJ appointees as they resisted his attempts to cling to power.

But department veterans say those events pale in comparison to what they expect when Trump gets a second chance to try to remake the DOJ in his vision. They also know Trump’s anger at the department has only deepened in the past four years as it launched two unprecedented criminal prosecutions against him.

“Many federal employees are terrified that we’ll be replaced with partisan loyalists — not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service,” said Stacey Young, a trial attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division who won an award from Barr in 2020 and is president and co-founder of the DOJ Gender Equality Network.

It all adds up to a feeling of trepidation for many of the department’s rank and file.

“We’ve all seen this movie before and it’s going to be worse,” said one former DOJ official who served under Trump and several of his predecessors. “It will be worse. It’s just a question of how much worse it’s going to be.” (read more)

Main Justice works closely with the FBI on what is loosely termed federal “law and order.”   There are several positions within the DOJ that are familiar as a result of the modern weaponization that took place.

As an institution, Main Justice is now almost exclusively a Lawfare targeting mechanism.

The Dept of Justice unilaterally focuses all criminal investigative resources against the political enemies of the Administrative State.

This is not to say Republicans are targets, because often the republicans are beneficiaries of the targeting operation.  Think about the example of Main Justice working with the IRS to target the Tea Party groups in 2010 and 2011.

The Republicans were much more opposed to the Tea Party than the Democrats were.  The professional republican apparatus was furious about the primary victories of the Tea Party, and subsequently benefitted from the DOJ targeting of the various patriot movements.

FBI HQ left, Main Justice HQ right

Main Justice targets individuals, organizations and systems that government officials and politicians determine are a threat to the power structure.  The Intelligence Community use their ability to conduct electronic surveillance to discover evidence against their targets.  The IC then feeds the evidence to Main Justice giving them the targeting coordinates.  The DOJ takes action based on the information from the IC, often using the FBI as the enforcement mechanism.

The entire structure of Main Justice as an institution is corrupt, top to bottom.  Much like the FBI, there is no agency, office, or subsidiary set of personnel within the DOJ that is not compromised by the modern mission of the organization.  This is a critical point to accept, because if it is not accepted then we repeat the mistakes of thinking an Attorney General alone can correct the problem. They cannot.

Within the DOJ there are several divisions that must be addressed simultaneously if any effort to take it down to brass tacks is going to succeed.  This cannot be a delicate surgical approach, the effort to remove the corrupt lesion will need chainsaws not scalpels.  The fine surgical details and cleaning will be for the next administration.

The interior silos each have an important role, and they include: (1) the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD), (2) the DOJ Civil Rights Division, (3) the DOJ-Community Relations Service (DOJ-CRS), and (4) the DOJ Inspector General’s Office.    These are the four key agencies within the larger Main Justice system that must be addressed from DC.

Of those FOUR AGENCIES, the single most important one is the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD).  This is the interior silo that was corrupted from its origin and remained intentionally without Inspector General oversight until 2017.

When we think of the common Lawfare targeting the enemies of the Deep State like Donald Trump, that’s the core purpose of the DOJ-NSD.

DOJ-NSD: […] ” The National Security Division (NSD) was created in March 2006 by the USA PATRIOT Reauthorization and Improvement Act (Pub. L. No. 109-177). The creation of the NSD consolidated the Justice Department’s primary national security operations: the former Office of Intelligence Policy and Review and the Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence and Export Control Sections of the Criminal Division. The new Office of Law and Policy and the Executive Office, as well as the Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism (which previously operated out of the Criminal Division) complete the NSD. The NSD commenced operations in September 2006 upon the swearing in of the first Assistant Attorney General for National Security.” (link)

The DOJ-NSD hides behind the justification of “national security” to cloud their activity.  In many ways the DOJ-NSD and the CIA have the same cover story that allows them virtually omnipotent power.

The President has previously been hamstrung by the claimed importance and power of agencies under the guise of national security.  As you can see from the origin, the Legislative Branch created the beast then cowered away from oversight.  The worst outcome stemmed from the Judicial Branch who historically deferred to the national security apparatus.

To understand the dynamic with the Judicial Branch it is worth looking at the outcome of the DOJ-NSD targeting President Trump on the issue of classified records.  Check the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals framing.

As you can see the DOJ-NSD knows how to use “national security” as a sword and a shield.  This is essentially the issue now created by the DOJ-NSD targeting President Trump.

With the Legislative Branch compromised by their own creation, and with the Judicial Branch stuck inside an old paradigm of “national security” you can see how confronting the DOJ-NSD can only come from one place, THE OVAL OFFICE.

The President of the United States, hopefully Donald J Trump, is going to have to do what the other branches have failed to do, take apart the DOJ-NSD and remove all the functions of Main Justice to their pre-Patriot Act status.  This is not going to be easy and will take a very specific type of person as U.S. Attorney General who both understands the issue and can, more importantly, articulate the problem to the larger American public.

So, we have some context for the positions that will be important.  We need:

♦ An Attorney General (AG);

♦ A Deputy Attorney General (DAG);

♦ An Asst Deputy AG in charge of the NSD;

♦ An Asst Deputy AG in charge of the Civil Rights Division.

♦ And we need a key person in charge of the ultra-secretive DOJ Community Relations Service.

We need more, but these are the most critical positions to cover – AND REMEMBER, not a single person who has ever worked in Main Justice should ever be considered a candidate for any leadership position in 2025.   If they worked in the corrupt DOJ system, they are corrupt – I do not care what capacity they worked in it before.

♦ The AG needs to be ultra clean with a spine of steel and a laser focus.  The AG needs to totally understand the goals and objectives, without being told what the goals and objectives are.  The AG needs to be independent, stable, strategic, brutally honest and keenly confident in his/her communication style with the attack media.

President Trump cannot spend exhaustive time instructing the AG on critical priorities.  The AG needs to operate with skill, focus and self-motivated energy.   The AG will be the focus of the Lawfare crew for removal/recusal. (Weissmann, McCord, Eisen, etc.)

♦ The Deputy AG needs to be intensely capable to stay on task with minimal supervision.  The DAG is the git-r’-done person, no excuses, no apologies, no explanations.  Raw, brutal, cold, quiet and determined.  The DAG needs eyes of a mouse and ears of an elephant.  The DAG needs to be a sponge, with total loyalty to the mission.  The DAG also needs to be the bridge to the FBI.

♦ The Asst DAG in charge of the NSD will be walking into the heart of Obama/Holder’s created snake pit.  This DOJ-NSD position covers Foreign Agent Registration Act violations (targeting) as well as the weaponized FISA constructs.  The person put into this silo needs to completely understand the dynamic of the DOJ-NSD as the source of the most weaponized aspects.

♦ The Asst DAG in charge of the Civil Rights Division will be critical for all elements of election reform.  The ADAG-CRD is going to be attacked, called racist and blasted by the Lawfare operatives.   The Civil Rights Division DAG will be targeted by Marc Elias and hundreds of activist lawyers inside every aligned non-governmental agency who depend on the DOJ for enforcement and lawfare support.

♦ The person in charge of the Community Relations Service will need to head-off the FBI constructs and false flag attacks targeting the Trump administration.  The CRS leadership will need to protect all of the DOJ team from the Antifa/BLM efforts as they are manufactured by the FBI silo operators. The head of the CRS needs to be intensely “anti-woke.”