President Donald Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department to persecute his political enemies, say the media. “Trump calls for jailing his perceived opponents in Justice Department speech,” reported NBC. “The president intends to bend the vast powers of federal law enforcement to his will,” wrote the New York Times, “in the pursuit of an anti-crime agenda and, perhaps, vengeance.” The Washington Post said Trump’s speech “violates all norms.” And, according to CNN, Trump “vowed to use [the Justice Department] to target his own enemies.” However, Trump’s concerns about the weaponization of the Justice Department, or DOJ, to persecute him are valid. The FBI lacked sufficient evidence to spy on Trump’s team, according to an DOJ special prosecutor, and its FISA warrant applications had major errors, according to the DOJ’s independent Inspector General. The DOJ pursued an unprecedented investigation into Trump’s possession of classified documents, including by executing a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022, while Biden’s mishandling of classified documents was treated entirely differently, without such aggressive tactics. And the evidence suggests that the National Archives, DOJ prosecutors, and Biden officials inappropriately coordinated to bring charges against Trump. Thanks in part to our reporting on the Twitter Files, we know for a fact that the FBI deliberately sought to deceive the American people through an elaborate disinformation campaign regarding the Hunter Biden laptop. The FBI knew the laptop was authentic by December 2019 and nonetheless misled journalists and social media platforms into believing a false conspiracy theory that it was Russian disinformation. To be clear, we must hold the Trump administration to the same high bar as the Biden administration. We are concerned that the Trump administration has detained and may deport a Palestinian student activist named Mahmoud Khalil for his involvement in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University, and for his alleged support for Hamas. As context for Khalil’s statements and activism, we should keep in mind that the US Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld not just the speech rights of Nazis but also their right to march through neighborhoods of Holocaust survivors. Because Khalil is here on a green card, the law is not obvious, and may allow the administration to deport him legally, as Yale University’s Jed Rubenfeld notes. But doing so violates the spirit of the First Amendment. And Matt Taibbi has rightly raised concerns about the Trump Administration’s “Catch-and-Deport” that may use AI to monitor social media accounts of migrants who “espouse hateful ideology.” But these actions, so far, pale against the weaponization of government by the Obama and Biden administrations. Before the 2016 election, President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan illegally ordered foreign intelligence services to “bump” or “reverse target” Trump aides in an effort to entrap them into suggesting illegal collusion with the Russian government, which contributed to the FBI’s justification for spying on the Trump campaign. On censorship, the FBI, DHS, the State Department, and other federal agencies coordinated with social media companies to violate the First Amendment. Biden administration officials pressured platforms to take down speech related to Covid and Covid vaccines, including true information about vaccine side effects. DHS outsourced its censorship through “public-private partnerships,” using universities and NGOs to get around legal restrictions. Through the Censorship Industrial Complex, the federal government abused its powers to label political speech as “mis-” “dis-” and “malinformation.” The January 6 Capitol riot resulted centrally from Nancy Pelosi’s admitted refusal to call out the National Guard. Despite this, the DOJ used the event to charge over 1,500 individuals, many of whom received excessively long sentences for nonviolent offenses. DOJ charged Trump with a conspiracy to prevent the lawful certification of election results – charges based on novel legal interpretations and lacking evidence of specific intent. The FBI and DOJ’s actions fed into Democrats’ narrative that the riot was a “coup” or an “insurrection.” The evidence suggests the FBI and Secret Service engaged in a cover up around the pipe bomb investigation. What’s more, law enforcement agencies appear to have had dozens of undercover informants and agents present at the Capitol, raising serious questions about how the security failure occurred. In sharp contrast to its treatment of Trump, the DOJ displayed political favoritism toward Hunter Biden, offering him a sweetheart plea deal in 2023 and then appointing a special prosecutor with ties to Biden from within the DOJ, which is a violation of the DOJ’s own rule to appoint a prosecutor from outside the agency. And the Department never properly investigated the Bidens’ clear influence peddling operationas revealed by Hunter’s laptop The FBI’s domestic terrorism cases grew by 357 percent from 2013 to 2021, and the main targets of investigations were of Trump supporters, data reviewed by Newsweek showed. As we and others have reported, the FBI also used perverse incentives to encourage agents to open investigations without sufficient predication, engaged in entrapment, targeted Catholics and parents, and punished whistleblowers who drew attention to the agency’s weaponization. Coinciding with Biden calling Trump and “MAGA Republicans” a “threat to the very soul of this country,” the FBI and DHS singled out Trump’s supporters as a category of “domestic violent extremists.” While the FBI claimed that political views were not criteria for investigations into domestic terrorism, its internal reports and data collection suggested otherwise. The FBI in October 2022 created a subcategory for “anti-government, anti-authority violent extremism” called “AGAAVE-Other” in order to classify Trump’s political supporters as domestic terrorists. On top of the DOJ’s actions, 34 states made efforts to prevent Trump from running for president through 14th Amendment challenges. Colorado, Maine, and Illinois disqualified him from the primary ballot, in decisions that were later overturned. New York state indicted Trump in 2023 for allegedly falsifying business records, and Georgia indicted him on charges related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election results under the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Given how much more the Obama and Biden administrations weaponized the government than Trump has, why are the media claiming the opposite? If you're not already a subscriber, please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the rest of the video! nitter.cf/shellenberger/status/1…

This is hilarious! 😂😂😂😂😂

This has to be one of the bravest videos I have watched on the internet today. When Charlie Kirk died it hit so many us of really hard. Not only was it a profound loss but the reality was that the left really wants conservatives dead because of political views. They are ok with m*rdering people if you dont conform to their political ideology. These are dangerous times. In a way it also (like this man here in the video) "woke" people up. They realized the political propaganda, media manipulation, and the dehumanization occuring by the left and media. He learned something far more valuable in the death of Charlie Kirk. This took a lot of guts to post this video online. I commend him.

The story of the @USNavy is a tale of loyalty, sacrifice, and commitment stretching back 250 years. America's Navy NEVER, EVER GIVES UP THE SHIP! ⚓ GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES NAVY 🇺🇸

We’re having an All Night Revival

Bill Clinton: “In 2000, Palestinians were offered a state on the entire West Bank and east Jerusalem as its capital. Israel accepted, but Palestinians refused. They did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. All they wanted was to kill Israelis"

I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people. But we aren't "one people" are we? The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was. We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end. I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect. And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning. I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is. It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose. Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences. And the other side murdered him. Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives. I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk. Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death. I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant. I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago. I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past. There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved. But then there will be a reckoning. My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite. So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more. Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over. Ours is just beginning.

Gazans did this. Not Hamas. Gazans did this. And all the virtue signaling and mental gymnastics and inversion of reality that millions of propagandists and politicians and the media want to throw out there won’t ever change what they did and how they celebrated doing it. There will be no forgiveness. There will be no forgetting. F*** Gaza. F*** all of them and every single one of their supporters.

A CBS News report by Dan Rather warns that if we don’t stop digging up ancient carbon and burning it, 25% of Florida will be underwater. This was broadcast 43 years ago. I suspect Florida will be underwater any day now.

🚨BREAKING🚨 The House Oversight Committee is compelling the following individuals to appear for depositions through issued subpoenas: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: October 9 Former President Bill Clinton: October 14 Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland: October 2 Former FBI Director James Comey: October 7 Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr: August 18 Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: August 26 Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: August 28 Former FBI Director Robert Mueller: September 2 Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch: September 9 Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder: September 30