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#1 Former Fauci Adviser Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Conceal COVID-19 Records - Reuters, Elon Musk, FBI Director Kash Patel, Nick Sortor, Robert W Malone, MD/Richard H. Ebright, and Mario Nawfal on X
A former adviser to infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the Covid-19 pandemic. David Morens, who had worked under Fauci as a senior official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the pandemic, entered his plea to a conspiracy charge during a hearing in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland. The 78-year-old had been indicted in April on charges related to what prosecutors said was a scheme to thwart public records requests received by the agency beginning in April 2020 related to COVID-19 research grants.
#2 Noncitizen Voting in the 2020 Election, A Beginning Analysis - Census.gov, The Persistence/Donald J. Trump, The White House, Howard Lutnick, Annie, Real Robert, and Steve on X
This brief examines noncitizen voting in the general election held on November 3, 2020.4 Nearly 160 million voters cast ballots in the 2020 general election. The Census Bureau’s beginning analysis readily determined with high confidence that over 128 million of these voter records represented citizens, and that over 24,000 of these voter records represented noncitizens at the time of the election. Over 32 million voter records remain to be analyzed...
#3 Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Plot to Assassinate US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent - TRTWorld, Nick Sortor, US Attorney Pirro/U.S. Attorney DC, Greg Gutfeld, Libs of TikTok, and Fox News on X
A person convicted in a plot to assassinate US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been sentenced to more than six years in prison, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said. Ryan Michael English, 24, of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, who goes by Raleigh Jane English, confessed to the plot to US Capitol Police outside the Capitol on January 27, 2025. Officers found two bottles of "improvised Molotov cocktails" and a knife during a search, according to a US Capitol Police report. The US Attorney's Office said on Tuesday that English told officers that he planned to kill a Cabinet nominee whose confirmation vote was scheduled for that day...
#4 Project Veritas Founder Dresses in ‘Traditional Muslim Attire’ in Video Attacking Minnesota Election Law - Brian Martucci for MINNPOST, Cam Higby, The Persistence/Skscartoon, Eric Daugherty, James O'Keefe, and Benny Johnson on X
Right-wing political activist James O’Keefe, who stirred controversy in 2020 with allegations of fraud leveled against Minneapolis’ absentee voting process, was back in town last week in time for Minnesota’s primary election. This time, the Project Veritas founder’s target was a more than 50-year-old Minnesota law that allows registered voters to vouch for prospective voters in the same precinct who might otherwise be unable to prove their residency. A heavily edited hidden-camera video shows O’Keefe and associates costumed in what they say is “traditional Muslim attire,” including one dressed as “a transgender wearing a burqa,” visiting at least two precincts in southeast Minneapolis and speaking to poll workers in heavily accented English...
#5 Intel Politics: NSA SAT on Election Threat Reporting Over Trump ‘Deep State’ Label, Memo Shows - Amanda Head for Just the News, John Nelson/Peter Navarro, The SCIF, Lachrimae Legume/Gunther Eagleman™, and Catherine Herridge/Jimmy Falk5 on X
In a tense March 2020 meeting just months before the presidential election, the National Security Agency’s (NSA) deputy director blocked the release of a long-delayed report on foreign targeting of U.S. elections—not because the intelligence was flawed, but because he feared it would brand the agency as part of the “deep state.” The memo states: “DDIR explained that he was concerned that releasing the [report] at this time – in the current political climate, with an acting ODNI who had been tasked (according to DDIR) to ‘clean house’ in the intelligence community, and with an administration that is suspicious of the IC and aggressive in removing anyone who stands in their way – would damage NSA’s credibility. He believed that questions would be asked as to why the NSA was choosing to release this information, most obviously pertinent to the 2016 election, now, more than a year after the election, and that NSA would be accused of releasing it for political purposes."
#6 US Rep. Byron Donalds Wins GOP Nod for Florida Governor Against Ex-Rep David Jolly for the Democrats - Bill Barrow for AP, MAGA Voice/Spencer Pratt, AF Post, Anna Paulina Luna, MissBeck71, and Liberty Hawk on X
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds won the Republican nomination for Florida governor and former Rep. David Jolly picked up the Democratic nod in Tuesday’s primaries, setting the stage for a fall campaign to replace outgoing Gov. Ron DeSantis and decide the state’s future political direction. November’s election will test President Donald Trump’s grip on his adopted state and Democrats’ ability to resurrect Florida as a national political battleground. Florida has moved notably to the right since Trump’s victory in 2016, though Democrats hope to regain ground from his slumping popularity ratings. DeSantis, a leading conservative figure who has both clashed and collaborated with Trump over the years, is barred from running for a third consecutive term...
#7 Federal Judge Orders Release of Virginia Giuffre’s Case Files at Last - Hafiz Rashid for The New Republic, julie k. brown, Dittie, #TuckFrump, and Sergeant News Network on X
Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell is going to be unsealed. A federal court in Manhattan last week ordered the public release of the files from Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against the accomplice and partner of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, following eight years of litigation from the Miami Herald, reported Julie Brown, the investigative journalist for the newspaper best known for uncovering Epstein’s crimes. Maxwell had been fighting to keep the lawsuit details under wraps, but her arguments were not enough to convince U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska, who ruled that the Epstein Files Transparency Act supersedes the grand jury arguments Maxwell cited to keep the records sealed...
#8 Detachment 201: Created and Commissioned - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, clarion, SirOliverPollock(KAIZER)/@TPRPScript, Julie Peterson, and Military.com on X
The U.S. Army has a new unit with an interesting name, called Detachment 201. To the majority of Americans, it reads like just another military designation. But to a software engineer, it reads as an inside joke, because 201 is a phrase from web code. Specifically, when a computer server successfully creates something new, it sends back a short message stating 201, which means “Created.” In this case, the people who built the new unit named it, in their own private language, “Detachment Created.” In other words, they announced the unit’s creation in the native tongue of Silicon Valley, with a wink most people, even those in uniform, would fail to catch. But that small detail offers an honest glimpse at who is really in charge here...
#9 Five Standout Claims In ABC’s First Amendment Lawsuit Against The FCC - Ted Johnson for DEADLINE, Ann-Marie Poli, Owen Gregorian, John Meyer, Document Tingz, and KlearNewsDaily on X
ABC has been pushing back on the FCC for several months now, but on Tuesday, it filed a First Amendment lawsuit, claiming that the agency’s regulatory actions and investigations were part of a Trump administration effort to punish it for its speech. The lawsuit goes through a narrative of Donald Trump‘s attacks on the network, including his calls for the revocation of FCC licenses. In fact, the third paragraph of the ABC complaint features a screenshot of a Trump Truth Social post in which he calls for licenses to be terminated because of “100% negative” coverage on newscasts and late-night shows...#10 Mysterious Polling Firm Behind Fake Election Surveys Closes After Admitting ‘Social Experiment’ - Paul Steinhauser and William La Jeunesse for Fox News,
Andre Van Mol, MD, Ethica Now, Jim Antle, Craig Helmstetter, and Note Worthy on X
A polling outfit that admitted surveys it released on the Los Angeles mayor's race and the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin were fake is now out of business. Median Strategies, the company that released polls indicating Democratic Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles and Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong leading their rivals by wide margins, announced this week that the surveys were a hoax and that it has closed its doors. The fabricated polls by Median Strategies entered the political information ecosystem and were reported on social media, by some local TV newscasts, and by online reporting outlets...
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