Since turning over the rocks and exposing the Russia collusion hoax, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has given multiple interviews and addressed the press directly in the briefing room, outlining the scope of deception. But she is not alone in her endeavors to expose the lengths to which some Swamp creatures went to thwart Donald Trump’s presidency and subvert the will of the American people. 

CIA Director John Ratcliffe got the ball rolling in early July with his release of the CIA Note on the “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference.” 

READ MORE: New: CIA Assessment Reveals How Far Obama Administration Went to Frame Trump, Implicates Officials

On Sunday, he joined Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” to further discuss the developing situation — and to note that those behind the hoax and cover-up of it may well still be furthering that conspiracy. 

First, he gave a chronological overview of the saga.

“Well, Maria, before the Intelligence Community Assessment that DNI Gabbard was talking about, and before Devon Nunes’ report about that Intelligence Community Assessment, before the Mueller investigation, before Crossfire Hurricane there was this: In the summer of 2016, US intelligence intercepted Russian intelligence talking about a “Hillary Clinton plan” — a Hillary Clinton plan to falsely accuse Donald Trump of Russia collusion, to vilify him and smear him with what would become known infamously…as the “Steele Dossier.” And, Maria, this intelligence was so explosive that John Brennan briefed President Obama, Vice President Biden, Jim Clapper, James Comey, the entire national security team, telling them about this Hillary Clinton plan. 

“Again — but think about this, Maria — that was in August of 2016, and yet it wasn’t until more than four years later, in October of 2020, when I found, after an exhaustive search, John Brennan‘s handwritten notes and the underlying intelligence behind it that revealed exactly what happened. So, for a four-year period of time, the truth about the origins of the Russia Collusion hoax was hidden from the American people. And unfortunately, Maria, as you recall, those same people were already, at that point in time, onto their next hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop. This was a month before the 2020 election, and unfortunately, what we saw with Joe Biden‘s…election was another four years to be able to continue to bury the truth. And so, it’s only now, with Donald Trump having been reelected, that — through DNI Gabbard, myself, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel — all of this intelligence, all of this evidence that’s been hidden and buried from the American people is finally coming to light.”

When asked about possible criminal repercussions for those involved, Ratcliffe deferred to Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice, but he did note one critical aspect of the alleged conspiracy and its timing: 

“There is no doubt in my mind that the people that we just talked about conspired. They conspired against President Trump; they conspired against the American people. And so, I’ll leave it to Pam Bondi and our Department of Justice, Kash Patel and our FBI to investigate the conspiracy to do what? And what charges that they’re capable of bringing. But again, I don’t think statute of limitations are going to impact because in a conspiracy, Maria, the statute of limitation doesn’t start to run until the last act in furtherance of that conspiracy. And, Maria, part of why this is so important is the people behind this are still furthering the conspiracy — they’re refusing…to admit or acknowledge what they did in 2016 and what they did in 2020 was wrong. And so, I think that’s why this is so important, and why I’m excited about what the American people will see very shortly and what’s to continue to come.

READ MORE: Accountability? DNI Gabbard Says Whistleblowers Are Now ‘Coming Out of the Woodwork’ on Russiagate

Whether and to what extent there may be criminal cases brought against some of the players involved in the situation obviously remains to be seen. And it would be naive, given the way things have played out previously, to bank on criminal prosecutions. Still, as Ratcliffe rightly notes, much of this isn’t limited to what happened eight or nine years ago, and there may well be bases for pursuing prosecutions that are not time-barred. 

Also, as Ratcliffe affirms, additional information and disclosures are anticipated — some in the context of the Durham Report’s classified annex. There’s already a lot to review and process, but the transparency, certainly, is welcome. 

The full clip of Ratcliffe’s interview may be viewed here. 

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Watching Democrats break out into fits of hysteria over President Donald Trump saying he’d like to see Texas redraw its Congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms has been something else, considering Democrats have consistently been the worst offenders when it comes to so-called “gerrymandering” for political advantage.

Already, a special session is underway in the Texas state legislature in response to Gov. Greg Abbott ordering one due, in part, to concerns raised by the DOJ over the legality of four districts.

Not surprisingly, there have already been fireworks, with Texas Democrats predictably threatening to cut and run in order to break quorum. And one Democrat candidate for Congress, Isaiah Martin, had a meltdown during a House Redistricting Committee hearing on Thursday, resulting in a rather dramatic moment where he had to be forcibly removed. Martin, who is running in a special election for the seat formerly held by the late Sylvester Turner, was later arrested.

READ MORE: Wild Video of Dem Candidate Getting Removed From Texas Redistricting Hearing

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are among the Democrat “leaders” currently in meltdown mode, with Newsom declaring “two can play this game” and exploring redistricting options in the Golden State, though that would be nearly impossible to do for reasons explained by RedState Managing Editor Jen Van Laar here. 

And now, after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) also floated the idea of more redistricting, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who – like Newsom – is positioning himself as a 2028 contender, has himself entered the redistricting chat, meeting with Texas Democrats Friday and vowing to help “fight back”:

That was… not a good idea:

• Democrats have controlled Illinois congressional district maps for decades, and Republicans have long argued that the maps amount to political gerrymandering.
• The 2021 map snatched two seats from Republicans, giving Democrats control of 14 of Illinois’ 17 districts.

Zoom out: Pritzker said he wants Texas Republicans to be “fair” in the redistricting process, infuriating local Republicans who have cried foul against Pritzker and Illinois Democrats for redistricting maps to favor their party.

• “These state Democrats have the morals of a tomcat,” Illinois Freedom Caucus Chair Chris Miller tells Axios. “They will lie to the public, just like the last map that they drew. They said it was the fairest map that’s ever been drawn in Illinois. It’s laughable.”

Pritzker was also blasted on X on the same grounds:

Here in North Carolina, Democrats controlled the General Assembly for over 100 years and gerrymandered with wild abandon, including the infamously heavily litigated NC-12 Congressional district, which has never been represented by a Republican.

Because voters were fed up with rampant corruption, Democrats lost control of the state legislature in 2010 on maps they’d drawn. But after Republicans started the redistricting process, Democrats (and their special interest group allies) who were unhappy after losing their majority still tried to control the process, with their Hurt Feelings Reports over Republicans redrawing districts being mired in the courts at various points for well over a decade (a strategy known here as “sue ’til blue“).

So past experience has taught me not to be a purist on this issue, nor should any other self-respecting Republican. As my colleague Bonchie previously pointed out, “What do you do when the left fights with fire? You fight fire with fire.” That’s exactly what’s happening in Texas (and possibly Florida, too), and I am so here for it.

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Former Alabama head coach Nick Saban praised President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at addressing the issue of pay-to-play payments to college athletes.

Appearing on Fox & Friends on Friday, Saban said something needs to be done about the wild costs falling on college sports departments.

The president signed an Executive Order to set restrictions on payments to athletes from third-party sources, stating, “any revenue-sharing permitted between universities and collegiate athletes should be implemented in a manner that protects women’s and non-revenue sports.”

“I think President Trump’s executive order takes a huge step in providing the educational model, which is what we’ve always tried to promote to create opportunities for players, male and female, revenue and non-revenue, so they can have development as people, students, and develop careers and develop professionally if that’s what they choose to do,” Saban said.

“I think we sort of need to make a decision here relative to do we want to have an education-based model, which I think the president made a huge step toward doing that, or do we want to have universities sponsor professional teams? And I think most people would choose the former,” he added.

“I think the clearing house is there to authenticate name, image, and likeness. In other words, is your marketing value relative to what you’re getting paid to do a marketing opportunity? When you cross that line, that’s when it becomes pay for play,” Saban said. “So you have collectives that raise money that pay players, and they really don’t do a relative marketing job to earn that money, and that’s where this whole thing has kind of gotten sideways. I think this whole clearing house is there to sort of protect the collective, affecting competitive balance in college sports.”

“I’m for keeping all the sports that we have as many as we can have, but there are financial concerns relative to how many sports can you promote that don’t create revenue,” Saban continued.

“I think one of the things people need to understand about college sports, they say it’s a business, but it’s really not a business. It’s revenue-producing, and two sports have created the revenue to have 20 other sports. And I think that’s why it’s important we have a system in place. I think President Trump’s made the first step…that would protect the opportunities that we’ve been able to provide male and female non-revenue sports. I think it’s everybody’s goal to keep all those opportunities intact,” he concluded.

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When California Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared on the Shawn Ryan Show recently, he discussed his “gun safety” efforts, bragging about gun-grabbing ballot initiatives he proposed and championed like 2016’s Proposition 63. Proposition 63 required people to undergo a background check to purchase ammunition (of course, there’s a fee for that), required ammunition purchases to be done in person, and prohibited California residents from bringing ammunition in from out of state. That scheme has now been declared unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit, the latest in a long line of Gavin Newsom’s authoritarian schemes to be smacked down by the judiciary.

On the Shawn Ryan Show, he said:

“I did two gun safety laws that I actually put on the ballot… my gun safety legislation overwhelmingly passed in CA. That was my initiative, I got out, I did signatures and put it in front of the voters…and it’s been well-received.”

He was then asked about the difficulty law-abiding Californians face when attempting to obtain a concealed carry permit in the state, which is an expensive and time-consuming process, and defended it by saying that a majority of Californians don’t want people just walking around armed, as if that’s a valid reason to infringe upon someone’s fundamental rights.

Six-time Olympic medal winner (double trap, skeet shooting) and California resident Kim Rhode was the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging the ammunition background check scheme. In 2024, U.S. District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez ruled that it was unconstitutional and issued a permanent injunction. On Thursday, a three-judge panel issued a 2-1 decision concluding that the law is facially unconstitutional, upholding Benitez’s decision and endorsing the permanent injunction. 

Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta, writing for the majority, said that the background scheme “meaningfully constrains the right to keep operable arms.”

California’s ammunition background check regime regulates all ammunition acquisitions by California residents; the regime applies not only to every transaction in California but also to ammunition purchases by California residents outside the state. It requires California residents to pay for and complete an in-person background check before each ammunition acquisition. Though not all the rules comprising California’s ammunition background check regime impose delays on their face, they do not require California to approve checks within a certain timeframe.

Requirements prior to various types of background checks, such as fingerprinting, inherently cause some amount of delay. After approval, moreover, a California resident may be required to purchase ammunition during a specified period of time—e.g., 18 hours—after passing a background check. The regime applies to all types of ammunition, and California residents cannot avoid the background check requirements by taking advantage of internet or out-of-state sales. Rather, out-of-state purchases are subject to additional delays and fees. Given the fees and delays associated with California’s ammunition background check regime, and the wide range of transactions to which it applies, we conclude that, in all applications, the regime meaningfully constrains California residents’ right to keepand bear arms. Thus, it is not a “presumptively lawful regulatory measure[].”

Predictably, Newsom wasn’t a fan of the decision, and also completely missed the point, saying:

“Strong gun laws save lives – and today’s decision is a slap in the face to the progress California has made in recent years to keep its communities safer from gun violence. Californians voted to require background checks on ammunition and their voices should matter.”

A press release from Newsom’s office echoed his sentiments on the Shawn Ryan Show, asserting that Californians want this, so it should be done.

Most major polls show overwhelming bipartisan support for universal background checks and other gun safety measures, with support typically ranging from 85% to 90%. A 2023 Fox News poll found that 87% of American voters back criminal background checks for all gun buyers. In California, voters approved background checks for ammunition purchases in 2016 by a 63% to 36% margin.

But, as Second Amendment Foundation’s Kostas Moros said, the version of the law that’s in effect now isn’t what voters approved of, thanks to California’s Democrat supermajority.

“The version the voters enacted in 2016 would have been a one-time background check, and then you get a card that is valid for several years.

The legislature ignored the will of the voters and immediately amended that to the ridiculous system we have in place now, which by the CA DOJ’s own admission, wrongfully denies 11% of everyone who tries to use it. 

The ratio of wrongful denials to prohibited people being denied was over 400:1, in data the State itself submitted. How does denying the rights of 400 people to catch one prohibited person make sense? Do their voices and rights not matter?

Plus, California is now raising the fee. Instead of $1 every time you purchase ammunition, it will be $5, which adds up fast.

“The will of the voters” is not a defense to an unconstitutional law anyway, but even if it were, California’s system is not what voters passed.

Newsom will undoubtedly have Attorney General Rob Bonta appeal the decision. In the post-Bruen era, they’ll have an uphill climb.

Just because it’s so mind-numbingly stupid, here’s the California Department of Justice’s explanation of how the two types of Ammunition Eligibility Checks work:

The Standard Ammunition Eligibility Check will cross-reference the ammunition purchaser’s name, date of birth, current address, and driver license or other government identification number with the information maintained in the Automated Firearms System (AFS). If the purchaser’s information does not match an AFS entry, the transaction shall be denied. If the purchaser’s information matches an AFS entry, the Department shall determine if the purchaser falls within a class of persons who are prohibited from owning or possessing ammunition by cross-referencing with the Prohibited Armed Persons File (also known as the Armed and Prohibited Persons System). If the purchaser is prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm, the transaction shall be denied. Determinations for this type of eligibility check can be completed in approximately two minutes. If it is determined that you are eligible, then you can complete the purchase of ammunition shortly after the determination is received by the California Ammunition Vendor. The fee is $5.00.

The Basic Ammunition Eligibility Check requires the Department to conduct a comprehensive review of its records to determine the person’s eligibility to own or possess ammunition. This eligibility check is similar to a firearms eligibility check and may take days to determine eligibility. For this type of eligibility check, the California Ammunition Vendor will have to provide you with an Ammunition Transaction Number so that you can monitor the status of the eligibility check through the Department’s California Firearms Application Reporting System (CFARS). Once CFARS indicates your eligibility check has been approved, you can go back to the California Ammunition Vendor that submitted your eligibility check and complete your ammunition purchase. The approval expires 30 days from the day it was issued, so you must return to the California Ammunition Vendor within 30 days of the approval to complete your ammunition purchase. The fee is $19.00. 

Here’s a hint for Newsom and Bonta: If it takes that many words and a not-insignificant payment to the state to exercise a fundamental right, it just might be unconstitutional.

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There aren’t many things out there that will make a grown man tear up. Watching 32,000-pound fighter jets fly by in full afterburner with “God Bless the U.S.A.” playing in the background is one of them. 

The Navy’s Blue Angels have been a staple of Americana for decades, thrilling audiences and bestowing a sense of national pride like few others can. The first time I saw them at an air show as a child, I was mesmerized. The low passes and the tight formations were incredible, and the sound of freedom was unforgettable. There’s nothing quite like the feeling you get in your chest as an F-18 thunders over your head. 

As an adult, I’ve since gone to the Pensacola Naval Air Station several times to watch the Angels practice over the years. Is it the same show I’ve seen many times at this point? Sure. Do I care? Not a bit. There’s just something special about the combination of precision, thrill, and military history. It’s the kind of thing that brings together the masses from all backgrounds to provide joy to people of all ages. 

Naturally, that means Democrats must try to destroy them. 

As RedState reported, left-wing activists are currently trying to cancel the Blue Angels, who have long performed at the annual “Seafair Torchlight Parade” in Seattle. Laughably, one woman is suing two of the squadron’s pilots because she claims the sound of their Super Hornets killed her cat. I’m not kidding, but there’s a broader movement at play, and if you are at all politically astute, you’ve likely already guessed it’s about “climate change.” 

A billboard recently went up in the area, headlined with the demand to “Say No to the Blue Angels.” Below it are pictures of children clutching their ears, a dog, and a Muslim woman wearing a hijab (because, of course, there is). Beside them are the claims that the Angels are “Too Loud,” cause “War Trauma,” and create “Pollution.” 

What you have to understand about your typical left-wing Democrat is that they are listless. Because many of them lack any true religious conviction, they have created their own under the guise of things like “climate change.” Instead of deriving their purpose from God, they derive it from temperature projections from the United Nations. It’s more than that, though, because at the end of the day, the cause is not the cause. 

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For the activists behind this push, their attempt to cancel the Blue Angels isn’t really about the Navy burning jet fuel. Rather, it is about supposed American colonial evil, and thus, the Angels must be banished. They simply make too many people happy and proud of their country, and they can’t have that. The destruction of the culture is the point, and part of that is sucking the joy out of everything Americans hold dear, all to prop up their greater push toward third-world Marxist idealism. 

You will own nothing, and you will be happy. You will not watch fighter jets blast by in formation. You will ride public transportation. You will eat bugs, and you will buy your bugs from a government-owned grocery store. All of this is about one goal: Destroying Western civilization. That may sound dramatic, but it’s the reality of the situation. 

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The U.S. and Israel both withdrew from indirect hostage negotiations with Hamas in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday, saying the terror group was not serious about reaching a deal.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff issued a statement in which he implied that force was the only option left to rescue the remaining hostages:

We have decided to bring our team home from Doha for consultations after the latest response from Hamas, which clearly shows a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza. While the mediators have made a great effort, Hamas does not appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith. We will now consider alternative options to bring the hostages home and try to create a more stable environment for the people of Gaza. It is a shame that Hamas has acted in this selfish way. We are resolute in seeking an end to this conflict and a permanent peace in Gaza.

The Times of Israel reported that Israel’s response was more measured — perhaps owing to the political sensitivity of the issue within Israel.

Israel and the United States both recalled their negotiators from Qatar on Thursday, after weeks of mediated talks there with the Hamas terror group aimed at reaching a hostage-ceasefire deal in Gaza.

US envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff said the terror group’s most recent response was “selfish” and that Hamas “does not appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith.” Jerusalem’s statements were more measured, with a senior Israeli official telling reporters the negotiators’ return did not signal a crisis, and that efforts to reach a deal would continue from within Israel.

There are 50 hostages left in Gaza, 20 of whom are thought to be alive.

Hamas’s response to Israeli ceasefire proposals was its second this week. An earlier response by Hamas had been rejected by Arab mediators, who said it was not serious. There had been hope that the second response would be more productive, but the U.S. and Israel both said that Hamas had proven itself unwilling to reach a deal.

Israel has said that Hamas must disarm and that its leaders must leave Gaza as a condition of any deal.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is currently advancing on Hamas-held areas in Gaza where hostages are thought to be imprisoned. Israel hopes to rescue them or pressure individual captors to make side deals.

An illegal alien is accused of murdering a 15-year-old boy in Morehead, Kentucky, after the teen tried to protect his mother from being raped, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reveals.

Gildardo Amandor-Martinez, a 36-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, has been arrested by the Morehead Police Department and charged with murdering 15-year-old Luis Lopez, assaulting the boy’s 3-year-old sister, Naomi Agrical Nunez, and attempting to rape the boy’s mother, Aleida Lopez.

According to police, Amandor-Martinez — who had been in a relationship with Aleida Lopez — arrived at the family’s apartment and sought to have sex with the woman. When she refused, he attempted to rape her, according to police, and bit her several times.

Luis Lopez reportedly entered the room where Amandor-Martinez was allegedly trying to rape his mother and asked if she wanted him to call the police. Eventually, police say Amandor-Martinez fired three bullets into a room where he knew Luis Lopez was, killing him instantly.

Luis Lopez, who was about to begin his sophomore year at Rowan County Senior High School was known as a “sweet child who worked hard to do his best everyday at school,” school officials wrote in a Facebook post.

“Fifteen-year-old Luis Lopez died trying to save his mother from this criminal illegal alien who was attempting to rape her,” DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement:

Gildardo Amandor-Martinez is a rapist and cold-blooded killer who should have never been in this country. The Biden administration’s open-border policies allowed this monster to walk American streets and commit these evil crimes, including murder, assault, and attempted rape, against a mother and her children. ICE has placed an arrest detainer to ensure Amandor-Martinez will not be released onto America’s streets and allowed to terrorize American families again. [Emphasis added]

DHS officials confirmed this week that Amandor-Martinez had tried to illegally cross the southern border three times in 2021. Sometime after his third attempt, he successfully crossed as an unknown “got-away,” undetected by Border Patrol agents.

Amandor-Martinez remains in Morehead police custody.

Professional wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died, according to TMZ Sports. He was 71 years old.

Emergency medical services were sent to the home of the legendary wrestler in Clearwater, Florida, early Thursday morning, to reports of a cardiac arrest.

Rumors that the wrestling icon’s health was deteriorating emerged a few weeks ago when his wife, Sky, dismissed rumors that Hogan was in a coma. Instead, she insisted that his heart was strong.

Hogan had recently undergone several surgeries, one of which prompted TMZ Sports to report last month that the “Hulkster” was on his “deathbed.”

No one in the world of professional wrestling, and few others in the realm of sports, impacted the generations that watched them more than Hulk Hogan. A symbol of patriotic strength, faith, and physical toughness, Hogan inspired children in the 1980s, 1990s, and beyond to reach their full physical and moral potential.

Every wrestling event during the peak of Hogan’s career featured thousands of “Hulkamaniacs” decked out in his signature yellow shirts with red lettering. Hogan settled America’s Cold War-era disputes in the ring to the delight of fans.

In 1984, he defeated the trash-talking Iron Sheikh for the heavyweight championship. And who could forget in 1985, when he defended that belt while carrying the Stars & Stripes, decked out in a shirt that read “American Made,” and handily defeated the Soviet enemy Nikolai Volkoff?

In 1996, Hogan went from hero to villain after creating the New World Order. He also changed his name to Hollywood Hulk Hogan. To kids from the 1980s, however, it was nearly impossible to view the Hulkster as a bad guy.

In 2005, Hogan was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Ten years later, he would be removed from the HOF after Gawker posted clips of racial comments during a sexual encounter. Hogan would later sue Gawker and re-enter the Hall of Fame in 2020 as a member of the New World Order.

In more recent times, Hogan made headlines outside the ring by becoming a baptized Christian at the age of 70.

He also made a splash in the world of politics with his passionate speech in support of President Trump at the 2024 Republican National Convention.

He will be missed.

Greg Gutfeld reached his breaking point with liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov on Wednesday, launching into a heated commentary on the double standards surrounding the Russia collusion hoax. In doing so, he perfectly encapsulated broader Republican frustrations, with Democrats claiming that history is being “rewritten.” 

Those cries have gone forth despite the fact that the original intelligence assessment has now been proven to be a false political hit job orchestrated from the top of the Barack Obama administration. Current DNI Tulsi Gabbard revealed documents last Friday proving that the former president directed then-CIA Director John Brennan to manufacture the assertion that now-President Donald Trump had colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 election. For the better part of a decade, that was the predominant talking point, with even Hillary Clinton adopting it. 

Keep in mind that throughout that chaotic time, it was left to outlets like RedState to dig deeper and discover the truth, and slowly but surely, much of the conspiracy was uncovered. What makes Gabbard’s revelations novel isn’t that we didn’t already know Obama was behind this and that Brennan ignored his own experts to create the Russia collusion hoax. It’s that the information is being sourced directly back to the U.S. government through undeniable documentation. 

So what’s the next move for Democrats? It’s to proclaim all this is old news and that everyone should just shut up about it and move on. How very convenient, right? Tarlov, one of the co-hosts of “The Five,” tried that line with Gutfeld, and he blew up in a way you rarely see from a guy who typically sticks to his comedic chops. 

TARLOV: Obama, Hillary, and they get activated, and suddenly they won’t be mad at Trump anymore for not releasing the Epstein files or whatever he had to do with it. It is preposterous that we are talking about Hillary Clinton’s emails again. We are in 2025. 

GUTFELD: We spent years on this story.

TARLOV: You know what your choice is? 

GUTFELD: No, no, let me take it. We spent years on this story, and it was false! 

TARLOV: It wasn’t false! 

GUTFELD: No, no, for people to understand what happened, alright, because the problem with this story is that no one knows what you’re talking about. When Trump won in 2016, the intel community concluded that Russia didn’t have a hand in his victory. Instead of accepting the conclusion, Obama determined and wanted a new conclusion. So he sent Brennan running to come up with a new collusion, that there was some kind of trivial involvement, that they could then feed out to the media, and coincidentally, dozens of news organisations said Trump was in bed with Putin, and that somehow, Brennan knew. How did he know? There was no proof!

We’ll get to Tarlov’s response momentarily, but what Gutfeld is illustrating is how so many conservatives are feeling, having seen every mainstream press outlet amplify and spread the Russia collusion hoax for years on end, only to turn around and drop the story the moment the truth comes out. It was never about the evidence. It was always about the narrative, and that’s beyond clear at this point. 

Tarlov’s mention of Epstein is also transparent. This is a woman who could not have cared less about that story until the last five minutes, when she, along with every other Democrat, decided it was politically useful. That’s ghoulish behavior. But let me address what she says next, because it shows just how dishonest she is. 

TARLOV: Why did John Durham do nothing? 

GUTFELD: There was no proof, there was no proof!

TARLOV: Why did Durham do nothing then? 

GUTFELD: No, let me finish. They amplified a false conclusion that Trump colluded with Russia in 2016. We had to spend years dealing with that, and now, we’re actually getting an investigation, and you’re saying, No, you know what, you guys should just move on. You guys should just move on.” You say the same F-ing thing about Biden’s brain. You guys spent four years telling us that Joe Biden was fine. You covered up for an invalid, and then when we get the truth, it’s like, “You know what? We’ve got to look forward. We’ve got to stop talking about what’s there.” 

Why did John Durham do nothing? Are you kidding me? Could it be because he spent almost the entirety of his investigation having to slog through roadblocks put up by the then-Biden administration? Durham wasn’t even appointed until October of 2020. By the time he assembled his team and got to work, Biden was in office, and do you think he (to the extent he was sentient) had any interest in allowing a real investigation to take place? 

But you know what? That’s irrelevant. I don’t know Durham from Adam. Maybe he missed things? Maybe he didn’t want to press too many buttons? What I do know is what Gabbard has uncovered, and the documents don’t lie.

I may be skeptical that any criminal indictments come from this, but that’s not the basis by which I think this information deserves to be given to the public. If there’s no exact statute to charge Brennan and Obama under for this conspiracy to try to falsely frame an elected president, whatever. I still want every bit of this laundry aired out, and I think just about every other Republican does as well.   

So no, we aren’t moving on, and it’s not old news. Tarlov and the like can deal with it. 

A Minnesota state senator and former TV meteorologist announced she will be resigning after a jury convicted her of breaking into her stepmother’s home, a felony burglary.

The jury took only three hours Friday to find Nicole Mitchell, 51, guilty, while also finding her guilty of a second felony, the possession of burglary tools.

The senator represents the suburbs east of Saint Paul and is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), which is affiliated with the national Democratic Party.

Mitchell’s professional background prior to her 2022 election seems entirely at odds with being a convicted felon.

According to her extensive Wikipedia page, she served in the Air Force reserve as a lieutenant Colonel and in the Air National Guard, commanding a weather flight. She later worked as a news media meteorologist for several outlets, eventually landing in 2017 at KSTP in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul media market.

In 2010 Mitchell also earned a law degree, was admitted to the bar, and has volunteered to provide free legal services to first responders, according to her Wikipedia bio.

Responding to a pre-dawn burglary call, police arrested Mitchell on April 22, 2024, when she claimed she had entered her stepmother Carol Mitchell’s Detroit Lakes home ”to retrieve her late father’s ashes and other belongings, which she said her stepmother would not hand over,” Fox News reported.

The couple had been married 40 years.

“Clearly, I’m not good at this,” she reportedly said during her arrest.

However, the lawmaker’s story appeared to change when she was on the stand during the trial. She testified she did not intend to take anything and wanted to check on the health and safety of her stepmother, who has Alzheimer’s disease.

That contradicted police body cam footage that showed her in the back of the police car, telling an officer she was “just trying to get some of my dad’s things,” Fox reported.

According to a statement by her attorney, the lawmaker needs two weeks to wrap up her legislative duties and secure health insurance before her August 4 resignation.

Senate Republican Leader Mark Johnson called for the senator to resign immediately, according to NBC News.

“Senator Mitchell was convicted of two felonies;,” he said. “She doesn’t get to give the Senate two weeks’ notice.”

Contributor Lowell Cauffiel is the best-selling author of Below the Line and nine other crime novels and nonfiction titles. See lowellcauffiel.com for more