The FBI has been caught rifling through the phone records of nearly a dozen Republican members of Congress — all swept up in special counsel Jack Smith’s relentless pursuit of President Donald Trump.
Records released by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday show that the FBI analyzed the metadata of phone calls from Sens. Marsha Blackburn (TN), Cynthia Lummis (WY), Ron Johnson (WI), Tommy Tuberville (AL), Dan Sullivan (AK), Josh Hawley (MO) Bill Hagerty (TN), Lindsey Graham (SC), and Rep. Mike Kelly (PA.). The records were part of Smith’s “Arctic Frost” investigation, which led to Trump being charged in Washington, D.C., over accusations that he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election. 
“This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into ‘election conspiracy.’ Arctic Frost later became Jack Smith&#8217;s elector case against Trump,” Grassley posed on X. “BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE.”
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This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into &#8220;election conspiracy&#8221; Arctic Frost later became Jack Smith&#8217;s elector case against Trump
BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE <a href="https://t.co/V2JyiVlX48">pic.twitter.com/V2JyiVlX48</a>
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1975297712712262100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The document Grassley shared showed that the FBI obtained the toll data of the GOP lawmakers&#8217; calls, meaning they gathered basic information, such as the date and time of certain phone calls. The agency did not monitor the content of the communications, the senators said. 
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FBI Director Kash Patel stated on Tuesday that agents had been fired as a result of the revelations and noted that the CR-15 squad, a public corruption unit within the FBI that assisted Smith’s investigation, had been disbanded. 
“Transparency is important and accountability is critical. We promised both, and this is what promises kept looks like. This FBI is delivering,” Patel <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1975506285656207664">said</a>. “As a result of our latest disclosure about the baseless monitoring of members of Congress by the prior leadership team of the FBI, we have already taken the following actions: We terminated employees, we abolished the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we initiated an ongoing investigation with more accountability measures ahead.”
President Donald Trump slammed Smith in a Tuesday morning post on Truth Social.
&#8220;Deranged Jack Smith got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. A real sleazebag!!!&#8221; he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115332808536869094">wrote</a>.
Sen. Johnson <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1975506285656207664">said</a> the revelation did not &#8220;surprise&#8221; him, but added that it should “shock every American.” He said he was briefed by FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on the FBI’s actions. 
“We were surveilled simply for being Republicans,” he said. “What the Biden Administration has done is an outrageous abuse of power — it is blatant political persecution. Those responsible must be held fully accountable.”
Sen. Hawley <a href="https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/1975305232071487986">called</a> for a full investigation into the FBI&#8217;s handling of the tracking.
“This is an abuse of power beyond Watergate, beyond J. Edgar Hoover, one that directly strikes at the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the First Amendment,” he said. “We need a full investigation of all involved: who knew about it, who ordered it, and who approved it.”

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Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis cannot continue her criminal prosecution of President Donald Trump and his allies after a ruling from the Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday.
In a 4-3 decision, the state’s high court declined a request from Willis to review the Georgia Court of Appeals’ ruling that disqualified the Democratic district attorney from prosecuting the 2020 election interference case over the conflict of interest she created when she hired her then-boyfriend, Nathan Wade, as a special prosecutor. The ruling means that the 2020 case against Trump and his allies is dead, unless another prosecutor brings charges, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5505353-willis-disqualification-trump-georgia-case/">reported</a>.
“The Georgia Supreme Court has correctly denied review of the Georgia Court of Appeals decision disqualifying DA Fani Willis and her office as prosecutors in the Fulton County RICO case,” said Steve Sadow, the lead attorney for Trump in Georgia. “Willis’ misconduct during the investigation and prosecution of President Trump was egregious, and she deserved nothing less than disqualification. This proper decision should bring an end to the wrongful political, lawfare persecutions of the President.”
A nonpartisan state agency will now be tasked with finding another prosecutor to determine if the case against Trump can proceed, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/2025/09/fani-willis-loses-last-chance-to-stay-at-the-helm-trump-georgia-election-interference-case/">reported</a>. Willis <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fani-willis-appeal-georgia-supreme-court-trump-7be50feee272612484490b53592e7e08">said</a> that she hopes another prosecutor “will have the courage to do what the evidence and the law demand.” If another prosecutor is assigned the case, he could continue pursuing the exact charges that Willis did, choose to pursue some of the charges, or dismiss the case, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fani-willis-appeal-georgia-supreme-court-trump-7be50feee272612484490b53592e7e08">Associated Press</a>.
In December, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that Willis’ actions presented a “rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.” Wade had little experience prosecuting cases when Willis hired him to lead the Fulton County prosecution of Trump. Willis was accused of paying Wade hundreds of thousands of dollars and vacationing with him multiple times, with Wade paying for some of the trips. Both Willis and Wade testified that Willis reimbursed him for her share of the trip costs.
Willis became a star in the Democratic Party when her office brought 13 charges against Trump after he challenged Georgia’s election results in 2020. In 2023, Trump and 18 others were indicted under Georgia’s anti-racketeering law and accused of engaging in a scheme to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results that helped push Joe Biden into the White House.
Trump said the charges were another political “witch hunt.” The case brought against Trump by Willis’ office resulted in Trump being forced to pose for a mug shot, which quickly went viral. Trump displayed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-hangs-mugshot-outside-oval-office-so-bad-a-that-its-surreal">framed</a> picture of the mugshot just outside the Oval Office shortly after he was sworn in for his second term.

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Former Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump said on Tuesday that she was grateful for journalist Jake Tapper apologizing to her months after a heated debate over former President Joe Biden&#8217;s mental acuity, but added that the CNN host&#8217;s change of heart &#8220;feels a little bit too late.&#8221;
Following the release of his book, &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; which documents the cover-up of Biden&#8217;s decline in the White House, Tapper said he apologized to Trump for berating her after she pointed out Biden&#8217;s mental struggles during an interview in October 2020. Trump, the president&#8217;s daughter-in-law, confirmed that Tapper called her &#8220;about two months ago&#8221; to promise that he would go on TV to apologize. Trump said she appreciated &#8220;that he did keep his word.&#8221;
&#8220;He said, &#8216;I have this book coming out, and I know everybody is saying that I should apologize to you. I plan, whenever the book comes out, to go on TV and I will say you were right and I was wrong.&#8217; And I guess to Jake&#8217;s credit, he did that,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/lara-trump-reveals-story-behind-cnn-anchor-jake-tappers-a-little-bit-too-late-apology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
&#8220;I think the overarching thing here is that the damage is done,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We were so close to something so dangerous happening to this country. &#8230; And Jake Tapper saying that this is like a Watergate-level type of situation, now that he played a role in it, it feels a little bit too late to me. I do appreciate that he did keep his word, though, and has come out and said that I was right.&#8221;
During the October 2020 interview, which took place just weeks before the presidential election between Biden and Trump, Tapper pushed back against Mrs. Trump for questioning Biden&#8217;s mental acuity, arguing that Trump was exploiting Biden&#8217;s stutter.
&#8220;I think what we see on stage, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Ok &#8230; I think that you were mocking his stutter. And I think that you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody&#8217;s cognitive decline,&#8221; Tapper replied.
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&#8220;I&#8217;m not diagnosing him. What I&#8217;m saying, Jake, is that we can clearly see that Joe Biden is struggling at many times on stage, and it&#8217;s very concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of the free world,&#8221; Trump shot back.
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Seems like a good time to remind everyone that in 2020 Jake Tapper, first, accused me of making fun of people with a stutter (an atrocious accusation) and then attempted to shut me down and ended our interview when I tried to warn people of Joe Biden’s very obvious cognitive… <a href="https://t.co/ZOxSGQP13J">pic.twitter.com/ZOxSGQP13J</a>
— Lara Trump (@LaraLeaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/LaraLeaTrump/status/1806420367415914571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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While on a media tour to promote his book earlier this month, Tapper <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wrn09T30I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> British TV host Piers Morgan, &#8220;Knowing what we know now, and looking back on that interview, which I feel tremendous humility about, she [Lara Trump] was right, and I was wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline,&#8221; he added.
Tapper has been blasted for publishing a book about Biden&#8217;s mental decline — an issue conservatives had been raising for years — after the former president left office.
&#8220;No matter how much he wants to come out now and say, &#8216;You know what, we&#8217;re going to start calling the shots like we see them actually now.&#8217; It&#8217;s too late,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t do this time and time again to people and continue to lie to people in the way they did and think that you&#8217;re going to get any different result. It&#8217;s the reason Donald Trump is in the White House right now.&#8221;

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On Thursday, the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee announced that it received bombshell evidence that suggested Pfizer executives pushed to delay full testing for their company&#8217;s COVID vaccine until after the 2020 election.
British drugmaker GSK informed the panel that Philip Dormitzer, a former Pfizer executive who became a senior scientist at GSK, told colleagues at GSK that &#8220;in late 2020, the three most senior people in Pfizer R&amp;D were involved in a decision to deliberately slow down clinical testing so that it would not be complete prior to the results of the presidential election that year.&#8221;
The Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), said that it had sought information from GSK after The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/pfizer-covid-vaccine-2020-election-probe-2f3ec247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in March that U.S. prosecutors were looking into a tip from the company that came in &#8220;soon&#8221; after President Donald Trump won a second term in 2024.
The Journal noted that Trump, who lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential contest, &#8220;for years has claimed that Pfizer sat on the positive results of clinical trials, which could have reflected well on his management of the pandemic and reassured voters as they headed to the polls. There has never been evidence to support the accusation, and the development of the Covid vaccines is widely viewed as a medical miracle, coming faster than any other vaccine in history.&#8221;
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:rotating_light: HUGE :rotating_light:
New Information Suggests Senior Pfizer Executives Conspired to Delay COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Testing to Influence 2020 Election.
One exec was so scared about this being investigated that he asked to be relocated to Canada!
MASSIVE SCANDAL uncovered by <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a>. <a href="https://t.co/pZKLAz1Wmx">pic.twitter.com/pZKLAz1Wmx</a>
— House Judiciary GOP :us::us::us: (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1923046327136485732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
As relayed by the Judiciary Committee, GSK responded to the panel&#8217;s inquiry in mid-April. In another part of the reply given to congressional investigators, GSK said Dormitzer had requested a transfer over concerns about what the new Trump administration might do to him.
&#8220;In November 2024, shortly after the election, Dr. Dormitzer approached a representative from the GSK human resources team to speak about a potential relocation abroad. As the human resources representative recalls, in their meeting, Dr. Dormitzer was visibly upset; he requested that he be relocated to Canada due to concerns that he could be investigated by the incoming Trump Administration over his role in developing Pfizer&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine,&#8221; GSK said. &#8220;According to the human resources representative, when asked what prompted his request, Dr. Dormitzer made a comment to the effect of: &#8216;Let&#8217;s just say it wasn&#8217;t a coincidence, the timing of the vaccine.'&#8221;
The Journal reported in March that GSK and Pfizer, who are rivals in the pharmaceutical industry, have sued each other over patent rights tied to vaccines.
Dormitzer, who has since left GSK, provided a statement to the newspaper.
&#8220;My Pfizer colleagues and I did everything we could to get the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization at the very first possible moment,&#8221; Dormitzer said. &#8220;Any other interpretation of my comments about the pace of the vaccine’s development would be incorrect.&#8221;
The House panel sent a <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-05-15-jdj-to-dormitzer-re-vaccine-delay.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Dormitzer requesting documents and a transcribed interview by May 29. Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla was the recipient of another <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-05-15-jdj-to-pfizer-re-vaccine-delay.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> that sought records by the same date.
In response to a request for comment, a Pfizer representative told The Daily Wire that the company received the letter asking about the allegations in the Wall Street Journal report and &#8220;will respond directly&#8221; to the House Judiciary Committee.
Pfizer also provided a statement that said: &#8220;The COVID-19 vaccine development process was driven by science and guided by the U.S. FDA back in 2020. We have consistently and transparently reiterated the facts and the timeline of the tireless work of scientists, regulators, and thousands of clinical trial volunteers who made the vaccine possible. Theories to the contrary are simply untrue and being manufactured.&#8221;
The Judiciary Committee emphasized that it is &#8220;unclear which Pfizer R&amp;D employees were involved with Dr. Dormitzer in the decision to delay the clinical testing,&#8221; but did note that he &#8220;represented to GSK that Pfizer&#8217;s CEO was not aware of the delay.&#8221;
A GSK spokesperson declined to comment.
Jordan (R-OH), a close ally to Trump, <a href="https://x.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1923046662139785572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X in response to the information obtained by his panel: &#8220;Did Pfizer executives conspire to delay COVID-19 vaccine testing to influence the 2020 election? Based on our oversight, it sure looks like it.&#8221;

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In an interview with Morning Wire that was released on Sunday, Washington Free Beacon reporter Jon Levine opened up about the FBI&#8217;s coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020.
Earlier this week, the House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/02/opinion/miranda-devine-new-fbi-chat-logs-reveal-extraordinary-gag-order-senior-leadership-used-to-shutdown-any-hunter-biden-laptop-discussion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that after the New York Post published the Biden laptop story in October 2020, the FBI instructed its agents not to discuss it and even scolded one agent for confirming the story&#8217;s authenticity. According to chat logs released by the House Judiciary Committee, an FBI analyst confirmed the Biden laptop story to Twitter and was promptly &#8220;admonished&#8221; by higher-ups who lamented that &#8220;he won&#8217;t shut up.&#8221;
In one discussion, an FBI attorney told an agent, “Please do not discuss the Biden matter.”
Levine, who formerly wrote for the New York Post, told Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley that he and his team at the Post &#8220;already kind of knew the FBI knew [the laptop] was real,&#8221; but added that the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s revelations were &#8220;new&#8221; to him.
&#8220;And it&#8217;s extra insidious because if you go back to that time, which is now five years ago, the FBI was running around that same week saying, &#8216;Well, we&#8217;re looking into this being a Russian information dump,'&#8221; Levine said. &#8220;So on the same week, the same day, they knew it was real, they were counter-programming the narrative.&#8221;
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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/collections/the-hunter-biden-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire review</a> of the contents of Biden&#8217;s laptop conducted by reporter Luke Rosiak revealed Hunter Biden&#8217;s attempts to use the family name for massive business deals and propose business plans that would apparently include Joe Biden.
The FBI appeared to know about the laptop in the weeks before the story dropped, asking social media companies to look out for a Russian “hack and leak” operation involving Hunter Biden. The suppression of the story — and of the New York Post — that followed likely had a major impact on the 2020 presidential election.
&#8220;They were actively casting doubt on it when they knew it was real. And it&#8217;s inescapable now that it was clearly so they could help steer the election towards Joe Biden, which is actually what happened,&#8221; Levine told Morning Wire.
It would have been one thing for the FBI to say that it was looking into the matter and wasn&#8217;t going to comment, but the bureau actively tried to discredit the story, Levine said.
&#8220;When they were actually the ones who were speaking the falsehoods, we were trying to tell the truth. They essentially ran an information operation on the American people,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They spread us a bunch of BS because the truth was detrimental to Joe Biden. They didn&#8217;t want it out.&#8221;
Asked if he thinks trust in the FBI can be restored under new leadership after the Hunter Biden laptop saga, Levine said that there must be a complete overhaul of the top leadership and mid-management agents.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not the rank and file people. They&#8217;re very good,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;I think we should get a slimmed-down FBI because obviously we&#8217;ve seen how they abuse their power, and Democrats will be in charge at some point again. And I don&#8217;t want a giant FBI in the hands of Democrats.&#8221;

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The Justice Department is dropping a Biden-era challenge to a Georgia election integrity law passed in the aftermath of the 2020 election, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Monday.
Bondi said that her department would no longer seek to block Georgia from enforcing SB 202, a Republican-backed measure that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/georgias-election-integrity-act-everything-you-need-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tightened </a>absentee voting requirements. After the implementation of the law, the Biden administration sued to block it from taking effect, alleging that it targeted black voters.
“Contrary to the Biden Administration’s false claims of suppression, black voter turnout actually increased under SB 202,” Bondi said. “Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us. Americans can be confident that this Department of Justice will protect their vote and never play politics with election integrity.” 
The law, passed in March 2021, mandated a voter ID requirement for absentee voting, required election workers not to stop counting the votes after they’ve begun, and limited the availability of ballot drop boxes to only inside early voting locations during business hours. 
At the time, President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-excoriate-new-voting-restrictions-georgia-make-it-illegal-give-n1262181" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decried</a> the law, calling it “Jim Crow in the 21st Century” and “a blatant attack on the Constitution.”
The law induced corporate backlash from companies like Coca-Cola and Delta. It even prompted Major League Baseball to yank the All-Star Game from Atlanta, costing the state tens of millions of dollars. 
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that the decision from the Justice Department was a win for Georgia voters.
&#8220;This reaffirms that the Election Integrity Act stands on solid legal ground,&#8221; he said Monday. &#8220;Our commitment has always been to ensure fair and secure elections for every Georgian, despite losing an All-Star game and the left’s boycott of Georgia as a result of commonsense election law.&#8221;​
Raffensperger also asked for the release of any documents showing coordination between Biden&#8217;s DOJ and outside groups on the case.
While many Democrats claimed that the law would depress voter turnout, Georgia <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-compared-georgia-election-law-to-jim-crow-the-state-just-broke-its-early-voting-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saw</a> record day one early vote turnout in 2024 when there were 328,000 ballots cast, a substantial increase from the previous 2020 record of 136,000.
Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley praised the DOJ for dismissing the case. 
“This is a victory for election integrity and a defeat for every Democrat who lied about Georgia’s election law,” he said. “The RNC has been proudly fighting to defend SB202 ever since it was passed, which is why we intervened as soon as the Biden Justice Department filed this lawsuit. States like Georgia should be praised, not punished, for making their elections more secure.”

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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said Monday that the state Supreme Court should not take up an appeal from Fulton County District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fani-willis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fani Willis</a> to be reinstated to the case against President-elect Donald Trump. 
The Georgia Court of Appeals <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fani-willis-disqualified-from-trump-election-case-what-does-that-mean-for-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disqualified Willis from prosecuting</a> the 2020 election interference case against Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants because of an apparent conflict of interest she created by hiring her then-boyfriend Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor. 
“The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that the Fulton County DA created her own conflict and rightfully removed her from the case against President-elect Trump,” Carr said. “‘Lawfare’ has become far too common in American politics and it must end.”
“As such, I would encourage the Georgia Supreme Court to not take her appeal,” he added. “It’s our hope that the DA will now focus taxpayer resources on the successful prosecution of violent criminals in Fulton County.”
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Please see my statement below on Fulton County DA Fani Willis. <a href="https://t.co/2ATSw3t10V">pic.twitter.com/2ATSw3t10V</a>
— GA AG Chris Carr (@Georgia_AG) <a href="https://twitter.com/Georgia_AG/status/1873794003596173768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp echoed Carr’s sentiment.
“Agreed, [Georgia AG]! Georgians deserve safe communities and partisan politics out of our courtrooms,” Kemp<a href="https://x.com/BrianKempGA/status/1873835123936030918"> posted</a> on X. 
Trump lawyer Steve Saddow also <a href="https://x.com/stevesadow/status/1873792007602098421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> with Carr, saying that a lower court had previously “abused its discretion by failing to disqualify Wade AND DA Willis” and that the Appeals Court was simply providing an “appropriate remedy.” 
Willis <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5060177-georgia-attorney-general-fani-willis-trump-appeal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> Carr’s statement was motivated by his desire to run for governor. 
“If Mr. Carr cannot separate his ambition to become Governor from his duties as Attorney General, he should resign and focus on being a full-time candidate rather than serving as a constitutional officer sworn to uphold the Constitutions and laws of the United States and Georgia,” she said. 
On December 19, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to disqualify Willis from the case. 
“While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings,” <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25464412-trumpgaappealsopn121924/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Judge Trenton Brown.
Willis was accused of hiring Wade, who had little experience prosecuting cases, and paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars, which they used to fund lavish vacation trips.

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Top Georgia Officials Say Court Should Reject Fani Willis Trump Prosecution Appeal

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> had at least 26 informants in Washington, D.C., on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a>, 2021, the day of the U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol riot</a>, including some who committed offenses but are not among the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds who have been charged</a> with crimes, the inspector general for the Department of Justice said in a report released on Thursday.
Informants, or confidential human sources (CHSs) as they are called by the U.S. government, <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/what-is-the-fbis-policy-on-the-use-of-informants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are used by</a> law enforcement for various investigations, yet the sheer number of them suspected to have been in the crowd on January 6 has fueled concerns about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-and-capitol-police-identified-credible-threats-but-failed-to-follow-procedure-in-run-up-to-january-6-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intelligence failures</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/proud-boys-defense-attorney-claims-50-informants-revealed-in-january-6-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubts</a> about whether they acted appropriately.
The <a href="https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/25-011_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new report</a> said the inspector general&#8217;s team determined three informants were tasked by FBI field offices in the days leading up to the January 6 certification of the presidential election results with the &#8220;required approval&#8221; by the FBI&#8217;s Washington Field Office to travel to D.C. for events to report on &#8220;domestic terrorism subjects&#8221; who were possibly going to be in attendance.
A review by the watchdog found that these three CHSs and another 23 FBI informants who were in D.C. for January 6 events did not receive authorization to enter the Capitol or a restricted area, &#8220;or to otherwise break the law&#8221; on January 6. The inspector general&#8217;s report also stressed that none of the informants were directed by the FBI to &#8220;encourage others&#8221; to commit illegal acts on January 6.
However, the inspector general&#8217;s team determined, four informants entered the Capitol during the riot and another 13 of them entered a restricted area around the building, &#8220;which was a security perimeter established in preparation for&#8221; the certification process. Despite this finding, none of the CHSs have been prosecuted to date, the watchdog added.
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A footnote in the report included a response from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in Washington, D.C., which said it &#8220;generally has not charged those individuals whose only crime on January 6, 2021 was to enter the restricted grounds surrounding the Capitol, which has resulted in the Office declining to charge hundreds of individuals; and we have treated the CHSs consistent with this approach.&#8221;
The report said the inspector general&#8217;s team determined that &#8220;many&#8221; of the informants provided &#8220;relevant&#8221; information related to the January 6 electoral certification and a few also gave details about the riot as it occurred. Information provided included particulars related to the Oath Keepers, some of whom were later found guilty of <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-additional-oath-keepers-sentenced-seditious-conspiracy-related-us-capitol-breach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seditious conspiracy</a> and sentenced to prison.
Still, the report said the information was &#8220;no more specific than, and was consistent with, other sources of information&#8221; about the potential for violence on January 6. And, the inspector general&#8217;s team noted, a review of FBI field offices did not &#8220;identify any potentially critical intelligence related to a possible attack on the Capitol on January 6 that had not been provided to law enforcement stakeholders&#8221; prior to that day.
The watchdog said it found no evidence the FBI had undercover employees in the &#8220;protest crowds&#8221; or at the Capitol on January 6, which FBI officials stressed would have been against the bureau&#8217;s policy with regard to First Amendment-protected events &#8220;absent some investigative authority.&#8221; A Washington Field Office official told the inspector general&#8217;s team he denied a request to have an undercover employee &#8220;engage in investigative activity&#8221; on that day.
One issue raised by the watchdog was that some of the intelligence obtained by informants was not &#8220;adequately shared&#8221; with the Washington Field Office or, if it was shared, was not sufficiently followed up on by the office. In its recommendations, the inspector general advised the FBI to &#8220;assess&#8221; how it prepares for &#8220;potential domestic security issues&#8221; that are not designated National Special Security Events to help ensure &#8220;clarity&#8221; of responsibilities.
The FBI, in its response, said it &#8220;continues to disagree&#8221; with some of the &#8220;factual assertions&#8221; in the watchdog&#8217;s report, but said it accepted the recommendation. It also noted that the Department of Homeland Security has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-ratchet-up-security-for-electoral-vote-certification-on-january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designated</a> the 2025 certification as a National Special Security Event, which was not the case in 2021, but was &#8220;nonetheless committed&#8221; to assessing policies and procedures for further events that do not receive such a ratcheted-up level of security.

Protesters in front of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 20201.

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NBC News chief political analyst <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbcs-chuck-todd-baffled-team-biden-pushed-for-debate-rules-that-make-trump-seem-more-presidential" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Todd</a> tore into President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> after the president issued a pardon on Sunday to their son, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>, who was facing possible prison time over gun and tax crimes.
In a <a href="https://chriscillizza.substack.com/p/why-joe-biden-needs-therapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> with journalist Chris Cillizza, Todd said he knew &#8220;100%&#8221; the pardon was going to happen and insisted President Biden &#8220;needs therapy&#8221; because he has &#8220;not processed&#8221; the death of his older son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who passed away of brain cancer at the age of 46 in 2015.
President Biden has an &#8220;issue&#8221; with Hunter Biden in which he blames himself for Hunter Biden&#8217;s struggles over the years, including drug addiction, &#8220;second-guesses everything&#8221; with raising Hunter compared to how he raised Beau, Todd contended.
Todd also reportedly said he believed that Biden was never going to stand for the possible &#8220;humiliation&#8221; that President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> would be the one to pardon Hunter Biden.
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It&#39;s always a good conversation.
But, I thought Chuck NAILED it today on why the Hunter Biden trial really mattered when thinking about the Biden presidency and the pardon.
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The conversation then turned to the summer, when a jury in Delaware convicted Hunter Biden on three felony counts of lying on paperwork for a revolver and owning the firearm while being a drug addict in 2018. Todd mentioned Beau Biden&#8217;s widow, Hallie Biden. After Beau&#8217;s death, she started a romantic relationship with Hunter. Her public disposal of Hunter&#8217;s gun <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/02/hunter-biden-beau-widow-gun-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led to</a> the firearm case against him.
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&#8220;I followed the Hunter Biden trial very closely. I read every transcript, all the testimony, because all that was made public. &#8230; You want to get angry? Just as somebody in — just all these mixed emotions,&#8221; Todd said.
&#8220;You read the Hallie Biden transcript, and that’s Beau’s widow. And essentially, [Hunter] turned her into a crack addict. And this was all happening in 2017 and 2018. And Joe and Jill Biden were so concerned about their family that they decided to run for president,&#8221; Todd continued. &#8220;When you talk about the word selfish &#8230; their decision to run for president put the entire Democratic Party and the United States of America in the position it&#8217;s in now.&#8221;
Cillizza, a former CNN editor at large who now has a <a href="https://chriscillizza.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newsletter</a> called &#8220;So What?&#8221; on Substack, posted a clip of the discussion to X on Monday. Some of those who commented on the post noted how Todd appeared to be more defensive of the Bidens in the past.
Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross <a href="https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1863790931331162405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-january-15-2023-n1302361" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with</a> Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; early last year in which Todd <a href="https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1863790931331162405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;went to the mat&#8221;</a> for Hunter Biden when the first son was under investigation but had not yet been charged with any crimes.
&#8220;Senator, do you have a crime that you think Hunter Biden committed because I&#8217;ve yet to see anybody explain. It is not a crime to make money off of your last name,&#8221; Todd said at one point. At another, he said, &#8220;Look, you can go back on your partisan cable cocoon and talk about media bias all you want. I understand it&#8217;s part of your identity.&#8221;

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U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed federal election charges this week against President-elect Donald Trump after special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion to drop the case.
Chutkan ordered the case be <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.283.0_2.pdf">dismissed</a> without prejudice and explained that &#8220;when a prosecutor moves to dismiss an indictment without prejudice, &#8216;there is a strong presumption in favor&#8217; of that course.&#8221;
&#8220;Dismissal without prejudice is also consistent with the Government’s understanding that the immunity afforded to a sitting President is temporary, expiring when they leave office,&#8221; she added.
Smith had charged Trump with four felonies related to the 2020 election, specifically on Trump’s actions after the election and before Congress certified the results on January 7, 2021. In August last year, Trump was indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Trump celebrated the case being brought to close, saying on social media that Democrats wasted taxpayer money to fund their attacks on Trump.
&#8220;These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Over $100 Million Dollars of Taxpayer Dollars has been wasted in the Democrat Party’s fight against their Political Opponent, ME.&#8221;
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&#8220;Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before,&#8221; Trump continued, later adding: &#8220;It was a political hijacking, and a low point in the History of our Country that such a thing could have happened, and yet, I persevered, against all odds, and WON. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!&#8221;
Chutkan <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25402417/jack-smith-filing-in-jan-6-trump-case.pdf">dismissed</a> the case after Smith filed a motion to dismiss the case because &#8220;it has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting President.&#8221;

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Fulton County District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fulton-county-prosecutors-have-another-recording-of-trump-pressuring-georgia-house-speaker-to-overturn-election-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fani Willis</a> is attempting to restrict what her former special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, can tell congressional investigators in Washington this week about the Georgia 2020 election interference case against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> and his allies.
On Monday, the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee released an October 11 letter from Willis stating her office told Wade, who left the RICO case earlier this year after a romance between him and the DA was revealed, about certain restrictions it wanted to place on his closed-door testimony.
Willis wrote that Wade has been informed her office was asserting &#8220;all legal protections and privileges related to information that he possesses about ongoing criminal prosecutions&#8221; and he was &#8220;instructed not to answer any questions that seek to solicit information about his role or underlying evidence&#8221; in the 2020 case.
To Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Willis said, &#8220;I am concerned that your demand for Mr. Wade&#8217;s testimony would force him to improperly divulge confidential information that is protected&#8221; by the DA&#8217;s office. She also raised concerns about Wade being pressed to violate State Bar of Georgia rules governing the conduct of attorneys.
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Jordan and his panel wants testimony from Wade concerning his relationship with Willis. Wade <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nathan-wade-steps-down-as-special-prosecutor-in-trump-georgia-case-following-judges-ruling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left</a> the high-profile case in March after a judge gave him and Willis an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rules-that-fani-willis-or-nathan-wade-has-to-leave-the-georgia-trump-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ultimatum</a> for one of them to step down for the prosecution to continue, citing the &#8220;appearance of impropriety.&#8221;
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In an odd twist last month, the judiciary panel said it asked the U.S. Marshals to help locate Wade after issuing him a subpoena following his failure to appear for a previously-scheduled hearing, according to <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/news/special-reports/ga-trump-investigation/house-judiciary-committee-wants-nathan-wade-served-with-subpoena/85-f79c2c29-24a3-4c2a-a340-800fa35202cf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local NBC affiliate 11Alive</a>. Ultimately Wade <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/nathan-wade-will-testify-before-the-us-house-judiciary-committee/5N5WUGXD5BFO3L2K2IDB7RNPVA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to appear for a hearing, which is set for Tuesday, while his lawyer <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/former-fulton-county-prosecutor-nathan-wade-testify-before-house-judiciary-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly bemoaned</a> the &#8220;vitriol and anger&#8221; his client was facing.
The House Judiciary GOP account on X posted a copy of the October 11 letter it received from Willis, as well as one she sent to Wade with directions not to speak about his role in the 2020 election case. &#8220;FANI WILLIS demands NATHAN WADE not answer questions at his deposition tomorrow before the Judiciary Committee,&#8221; the account said. &#8220;What is she trying to hide?&#8221;
Willis and Jordan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fani-willis-responds-to-jordans-demand-for-docs-after-contempt-threat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clashed</a> earlier this year over another subpoena from the judiciary panel demanding the district attorney provide records about the potential misuse of federal funds weeks before the worker was fired. Willis rejected suggestions of wrongdoing, but said she was cooperating.
Trump, who is running for the presidency again, has pleaded not guilty in the Georgia case. A challenge over the judge&#8217;s decision that allowed Willis to stay on the case when Wade stepped down helped assure a trial would not start before Election Day like the DA <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/politics/fani-willis-trump-georgia-trial/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> wanted. Some of the charges have been <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/georgia-judge-tosses-2-counts-donald-trump-election/story?id=113642911" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tossed</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/6-charges-brought-by-fani-willis-against-trump-allies-dismissed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">out</a> at different junctures this year. The former president is also fighting charges in other cases.

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Fani Willis Moves To Restrain Former Special Prosecutor’s Testimony Before Congress

New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro made repeated attempts to bait Senator JD Vance (R-OH), vice-presidential running mate to former President Donald Trump, but Vance made it clear early on that he was not having it.
Vance sat for the interview last week, and several clips made their way to X on Friday — including one in which Garcia-Navarro pressured Vance five times to say that Trump had lost the 2020 presidential election.
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> flips the script on a New York Times reporter by pointing out that the government, media, and Big Tech rigged the 2020 election by teaming up to censor the Hunter Biden laptop, costing President Trump millions of votes.🔥 <a href="https://t.co/2EO9Tl3v0a">pic.twitter.com/2EO9Tl3v0a</a>
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&#8220;In the debate, you were asked to clarify if you believe Trump lost the 2020 election,&#8221; she began. &#8220;Do you believe he lost the 2020 election?&#8221;
&#8220;I think that Donald Trump and I have both raised a number of issues with the 2020 election, but we&#8217;re focused on the future,&#8221; Vance replied. &#8220;I think there&#8217;s an obsession here with focusing on 2020. I&#8217;m much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide-open border, groceries that are unaffordable, and look, Lulu —&#8221;
&#8220;Senator, yes or no,&#8221; Garcia-Navarro interrupted. &#8220;Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?&#8221;
&#8220;Let me ask you a question,&#8221; Vance pushed back. &#8220;Is it okay that big technology companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which independent analyses have said cost Donald Trump millions of votes?&#8221;
Garcia-Navarro ignored Vance&#8217;s question, saying instead, &#8220;Senator Vance, I&#8217;m going to ask you again. Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?&#8221;
&#8220;Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump millions of votes?&#8221; Vance refused to budge. &#8220;That&#8217;s the question.&#8221;
&#8220;Senator Vance, I&#8217;m going to ask you again,&#8221; Garcia-Navarro repeated. &#8220;Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?&#8221;
&#8220;And I&#8217;ve answered your question with another question,&#8221; Vance shot back. &#8220;You answer my question, then I&#8217;ll answer yours.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve asked this question repeatedly. This is something that is very important for the American people to know,&#8221; Garcia-Navarro insisted. &#8220;There is no proof, legal or otherwise, that Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re repeating a slogan rather than engaging with what I&#8217;m saying,&#8221; Vance protested, arguing that it was irresponsible to answer her question without acknowledging the context that complicated either answer. &#8220;I&#8217;m worried about Americans who feel like there were problems in 2020, I&#8217;m not worried about this slogan that people throw out — &#8216;Well, every court case went this way — I&#8217;m talking about something very discrete: a problem of censorship in this country that I do think affected things in 2020, and more importantly, that led to Kamala Harris&#8217; governance which has screwed this country up in a big way.&#8221;
In a second clip, Garcia-Navarro attempted to separate the housing crisis in the United States from the massive influx of illegal immigrants under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and Vance was not having that either.
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&#8220;One thing that everyone agrees on is that more housing is necessary in this country, right? The reason that there is a housing crisis is that not enough houses have been built — Garcia-Navarro said, but Vane interrupted.
&#8220;And that we have 25 million people who shouldn’t be here. I think it’s both,&#8221; he said.
Garcia-Navarro went on to suggest that the housing crisis would get worse if illegal immigrants were deported because, she argued, they composed a large percentage of the labor force in the construction industry.
&#8220;Well, I think it’s a fair question because we know that back in the 1960s, when we had very low levels of illegal immigration, Americans didn’t build houses,&#8221; Vance dead-panned. &#8220;But, of course they did. And I’m being sarcastic in service of a point, Lulu: the assumption that because a large number of homebuilders now are using undocumented labor, that that’s the only way to build homes, I think again betrays a fundamental —&#8221;
&#8220;The country is much bigger. The need is much bigger,&#8221; Garcia-Navarro protested. &#8220;I’m not arguing in favor of illegal immigration. I’m asking how you would deal with the knock-on effect of your proposal to remove millions of people who work in a critical part of the economy.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I think that what you would do is you would take, let’s say for example, the seven million prime-age men who have dropped out of the labor force, and you have a smaller number of women, but still millions of women, prime age, who have dropped out of the labor force. You absolutely could re-engage folks into the American labor market,&#8221; Vance replied.
Garcia-Navarro floated the argument that illegal immigrants had to be allowed to stay because Americans wouldn&#8217;t do those jobs.
&#8220;People say, well, Americans won’t do those jobs. Americans won’t do those jobs for below-the-table wages. They won’t do those jobs for non-living wages. But people will do those jobs, they will just do those jobs at certain wages,&#8221; Vance argued. &#8220;We cannot have an entire American business community that is giving up on American workers and then importing millions of illegal laborers. That is what we have thanks to Kamala Harris’s border policies. I think it’s one of the biggest drivers of inequality.&#8221;

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