Several people have inquired about the Washington DC subpoenas for former CIA Director John Brennan being withdrawn, and what does that mean. I intentionally did not write about it at the time because I wanted to look closely at the fact pattern.
The DOJ is still planning to send requests for voluntary interviews and grand jury testimony according to media reports.
From my perspective, this is a good sign. Potentially a very good sign.
The issues around the CIA targeting President Trump are extensive, attached to numerous individuals and entities, and generally complex. Normally, an investigation of this scope would begin with questions to the outer perimeter individuals who were carrying out the instructions of those above them.
CIA Director, John Brennan and CIA Analyst, Eric Ciaramella
It is from those types of lower-level interviews that material is gathered for use in examining the truthfulness of those who organized and directed the operations. In the example of John Brennan’s false statements to congress surrounding the ICA (Intelligence Community Assessment), or the inclusion of the Steele Dossier in the analytical material, there are key people within the Directorate of Analysis, National Security Agency and National Intelligence Council who can give first-hand statements about Brennan’s instructions.
Those types of interviews are just as important as questioning John Brennan himself, and for obvious reasons those interviews should come first.
♦ Here is where it becomes important to remember a key thing that happened between the time the investigation of Brennan began and the arrival of investigative Asst to the AG, Joe DiGenova.
Do you remember the recent criminal referral by DNI Tulsi Gabbard for former CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella?
BACKGROUND: Former CIA Director John Brennan was being investigated during the time that DNI Tulsi Gabbard was working on retrieving and declassifying the material surrounding the first impeachment effort against President Trump. CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella was the “anonymous whistleblower” that triggered the report to Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson that started the impeachment operation.
This same CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella was also involved in the fabrication of the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, which is at the heart of the false testimony to congress that John Brennan is being investigated for.
Eric Ciaramella was criminally referred by DNI Gabbard for his actions in relation to the impeachment operation. This sets the DOJ up with the potential for a plea agreement with Ciaramella on his impeachment conduct, in exchange for testimony against Brennan on the ICA construct.
Suddenly we see reports of DOJ Brennan subpoenas being withdrawn immediately after the DOJ criminal referral for Eric Ciaramella is introduced.
**nudge-nudge* *wink-wink** See the dynamic?
I’m not saying this is happening, but the timing is awfully coincidental, no?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas issued in the investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan, with officials asking for voluntary interviews instead of testimony before a grand jury, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
A small handful of subpoenas were known to have been issued over the weekend for witnesses to appear before a grand jury in Washington. But investigators on Monday evening informed lawyers that the subpoenas were being withdrawn in favor of requests for voluntary interviews, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press to discuss developments in an ongoing investigation.
The reason for the reversal in course was not immediately known.
The months-old Brennan investigation is one of several criminal probes the Justice Department has opened over the last year against President Donald Trump’s perceived adversaries. It centers on one of the Republican president’s chief grievances — a U.S. intelligence community finding that Russia interfered on his behalf during his successful 2016 presidential campaign. (read more)
TIMELINE:
Aug – Nov 2025: CTH emphasizes need for ICIG Atkinson material to get to Ciaramella/Brennan
December 2025 – Brennan attorney notified he is under investigation.
Jan – March 2026 – DNI gains access to Atkinson transcript from HPSCI
March 2026 – DNI assembled ICIG Atkinson material from Ciaramella report and investigation.
March 25 – HPSCI releases transcript to DNI.
April 13 – HPSCI released ICIG declassified transcript / DNI releases ICIG Ciaramella report.
April 15 – Eric Ciaramella criminal referral.
April 21 – Brennan witness subpoenas withdrawn.
Hopefully the timeline helps people to understand what is likely happening in the background.
I suspect, well, let’s consider, Ciaramella has been given the opportunity to cooperate as a witness in the 2017 Brennan case; perhaps in exchange for something like limited immunity in the 2019 impeachment issue. The timeline tracks.
Never was one who liked to see the killers testify against the ‘boss’ and get a free pass. Can’t say its any easier to see Ciaramella not get his just deserts. However, seeing Brennan, Comey (who will probably make a deal), and best of all Obama would be fulfilling. Just in hold pattern as those who are doing will do what’s best.
I really, really, really want Brennan to go down
The DOJ is making the same mistakes they made with comey…
Brennan is not charged with treason as he should be, but is charged with perjury,.
Even if convicted, Brennan will get a serious reprimand from the judge, a $50 fine and will have to do a week’s “community service”…
This is a different case from the greater conspiracy of spygate, russiagate etc. Go after the low hanging fruit first. They can still be charged with treason if DOJ can get their arms around the conspiracy case.
So far, he is not charged at all.
He was charged with perjury in Florida, but the case was withdrawn due to a change in prosecutors…
However, the current investigation involves whether Brennan, the former CIA Director, lied to Congress.
In my opinion it’s all bunk! Brennan and the rest of them will get off and we’ll be left with yet another bill for millions of wasted taxpayer dollars! All of them should have been in federal prison long ago for treason! So sick of all this!
Of course they will get off. Obvious foregone conclusion. Our federal employees civil service contractors and appointees.
They are all radical left registered democrats who hate the White race and America. And were trained from first grade on to hate the White race and America. The radical left civil service contractors and appointees have ruled for more than 60 years. Only solution is a radical pro White pro American takeover and a complete purge of every single federal employee contractor and appointee.
Nothing will happen to any of the democrats who rule DC and every other major city in America. And the electoral votes.
Funny thing is the fraudulent Kenyan mastermind of this entire treasonous coup will never even be approached. The ACTUAL IN YOUR FACE CRIMES him, the Clinton’s and the Biden’s have blatantly committed AND just strolled away from is absolutely SICKENING.
Washington DC is the most corrupt place on earth. IN AMERICA!!!
Simply astounding.
The Vatican (first), then the District of Columbia…
Yep. The card-carrying Communist Party of America (CPA) D/CIA will walk and all others will also. We are so F-d when they get power again. They know they can do wrong and we take a decade just to chide them. They don’t care about words and some legal time because at the end of the day they win and we lose every time. Obama hated America!!
PS – Valerie Jarrett should be in jail !!
Check the American definition of perjury as defined in the constitution
The only thing better would be make him sing to nail obama. I want to see the kenyan flee the country in fear of threat to his life and liberty. Everything that’s been done to us and Trump flows from the IC psyop begun in 2006/07 to install the kenyan clown.
Or lock him up in his own new Presidential Library, after blocking out the few windows it has and stripping the walls bare and turning off the heat. Put barbed wire around it, too. The place looks like a prison already.
That’s the most hideous looking building I’ve ever seen! It also looks unsafe with so few windows.
Yes it is. I think Commies like it that way. Art has turned to garbage. The square sewer hole replacing the twin towers gives me a feeling of perpetual doom As if anll our hopes get flushed down a toilet…Ugly gray pavement colored cluster housing everywhere. They’re not even a nice gray color at that.
Roach Hotel.. roaches check in but can’t check out.
It’s not a library, IMO. It’s a fortress and a command center to with which to run the insurrection.
Exactly right in light of the fact that the Kenyan fraud is still working behind the scenes to undermine President Trump and divide this country. The only POTUS that after serving his term(s) didn’t pack up and retire
After seeing this again… It looks like a gigantic tomb! What a money saving idea! What a frugal fellow he is! /s
Azkaban Prison.
It’s better looking than his “wife” 🤮😆🤣🤣🤣
Paint it black and you have the US location for the Kaaba for Imam Obama’s faithful.
Looks like something in a cheap outer space movie or TV show. Made of cardboard painter gray.
Is that the tower of bable?
Is that the actual size? Or is this a photoshop image?
It is an Islamic victory mosque to celebrate their great victory…..a Muslim POTUS!!
It looks like a training structure built by a junior HS class in Building Trades.
As long as the DOJ keeps protecting these traitors by only charging them with perjury, no one is going to get “his just deserts”…
The “justice” department from 2021 to 2025 destroyed HUNDREDS of INNOCENT conservative lives. Now we have actual CRIMES that were committed.
Put these SCUM through the judicial WRINGER. I don’t care if a freak Marxist jury finds them “innocent”
Put these guilty scum through HELL.
Forcing criminals to face trial is THE RIGHT THING TO DO no matter the outcome…
PERIOD
Please let us not leave out The Clintons
From Sundance’s article above: “I suspect, well, let’s consider, Ciaramella has been given the opportunity to cooperate as a witness in the 2017 Brennan case; perhaps in exchange for something like limited immunity in the 2019 impeachment issue.”
From your comment above: “Never was one who liked to see the killers testify against the ‘boss’ and get a free pass. Can’t say its any easier to see Ciaramella not get his just deserts.”
My 2 cents worth: “Limited immunity” does not equal “a free pass.”
Generally, limited immunity is a legal protection that allows a witness to provide testimony or information without the fear of that information being used against them in future prosecutions, but it does not offer full protection from all legal consequences.
https://x.com/DanScavino
John O. Brennan
@JohnBrennan
A reminder to federal officials:
There is no limit on the number of individuals who can use the whistleblower statute.
If you think you were involved in unlawful activity as a result of a directive from Mr. Trump or someone doing his bidding, now is the time to report it.
10:06 PM · Sep 28, 2019
https://x.com/JohnBrennan/status
DAN Scavino Jr., a Trump associate, shared John O. Brennan’s September 28, 2019, post urging federal officials involved in unlawful activity under Trump directives to use the whistleblower statute.
The post was accompanied by a GIF of a boomerang hitting the thrower in the head and timestamped at 22:45.
HUSKYDOG
@Huskydog
DID 2019 whistleblower Ciaramella sing????
Ciaramella looks like a weaselly soy-boy.
He’ll fold like a tent…probably say something along the lines of “I was only following orders”….
Like a good little Nazi…
I hate to say it, but revenge can be very sweet. Is that wrong?
It’s human nature
Only the German language acknowledges this human characteristic, with its own noun. Why is that?
That is exactly why the word, “Schadenfreude”, was composed.
You mean like this?
I call it “Shade on Freud”.
But now I wish I hadn’t.
“Is that wrong?”
”… as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
I will forgive him while he’s sitting in jail for many many years.
Well, we know that excuse didn’t work at the Nuremberg Trials and it shouldn’t work today as well.
I believe I hear Hell calling…
You are comparing apples to oranges… At Nuremberg, traitors weren’t tried for perjury…
he cannot afford to go to prison and be Bubbas new girlfriend… unless…
It is not likely Brennan will go to prison for the current charge of “perjury”…
What charges put all those Nixon associates in federal prison for years?
They were charged with Burglary: breaking into the DNC offices in the Watergate…
This is Boasburglary.
Yes, Gipper… but I couldn’t spell boasburglary so went with just plain burglary…
I can’t either.
looks good to me… even if misspelled, the current crop of posters will never know…
Plus everyone involved was charged with conspiracy to commit burglary. Conspiracy is a far worse crime than the crime itself. And involves anyone and everyone.
This acts against Trump were. Conspiracy.
John Dean, John Mitchell, balder man, Erhlichman…….burglary, breaking and entering?
Naw…..
The DNC was running a prostitution ring at the Watergate.
Whoopie Do! Ciaramella’s testimony will help the DOJ convict Brennan of the high crime of perjury…
Did not work at Nuremberg, however a different time when people were held accountable for crimes.
Instead of “I don’t recall” you’ll get, “just ask and I’ll tell you what you need”.
We’ll see. Or at least you’ll see. At my age, you don’t plan too far ahead.
Things are moving fast. Hang in there 😀
I’m 81 and some days am afraid to buy green bananas. hehe I really don’t expect to see any actions that will satisfy my aggravation for all these years since 2008. Too much time has passed. Oh, well.
I’m not confident that making a deal with a CIA traitor is a good idea, but that’s just me.
The people at the top can always find a wayward stooge to do their dirty work. They groom them with favors much like human traffickers do young women. If you don’t take down the leaders of the operation, they will just throw the stooges to the wolves and groom another. Rinse repeat.
This shows this isn’t just theater. I will be surprised if they jail Obama. I don’t really care. But they are bringing down the network that runs the show.
You will know they are bringing down the network if/when they indict Mary McCord.
Mary McCord is in their sites.
Since we no longer hear much about Clapper, I suspect he is singing like a canary in a coal mine.
He clapped on and won’t clapp off!
Charge her with multiple counts treason
Think of it as if one of Epstein’s girls gets a get out of jail free card to help destroy the blackmail operation that Epstein was player in. At some point, it’s not just about Epstein or Clinton or Obama. It’s about the evil network they establish.
Much like a corporation, these evil networks don’t fail if you take out a CEO or board member. You can’t punish a corporation because it is an entity, not a person. The important thing is to completely destroy their ability to operate and prevent key players from being able restart another network.
Take a look at the actual charges, Elle… Charging Traitors with “perjury” ain’t gonna bring down “the evil network they establish”…
Tax evasion brought down Al Capone..
Lots of difference in penalties for Income Tex Evasion and for perjury…
They only caught him because he claimed a Child Tax Credit for Obama.
That being the case, he should have been sentenced to be hung by the neck until dead…
History records the actions of a US President forever. Which Pelosi admitted she wanted Trump to be the most impeached US president.
Except Pelosi is the most failed Democrat Hose leader trying to get two impeachments on totally partisan grounds instead.
Nancy Pelosi, the most extreme House Speaker on a petty revenge grudge match…..ever.
History warns about ever letting another woman ever take over this job,
It was Pelosi who instigated the entrapment scheme for the J6 Patriots…
I’m not confident that making a deal with a CIA traitor is a good idea, but that’s just me.
But we went to all the trouble of snatching him from Caracas.
It’ time to pay Let’s make a deal !
And the first to squeal gets the best deal….
My bet is on Hillary having been the first to squeal. She had to hate Obama with every fiber in her being.
She was caught dead to rights with her basement server. What better revenge to get back at them all for failing to get her elected than for her to walk free and watch them all burn.
Not as much as I hate her.
I’m really over Hillary. The closer she is to her maker the less I ponder her and Bubba. Very sad public marriage.
Clapper may have already won that prize. He is the dog not barking, from day one. Anyone else notice this?
I’ve always said he would be the first to whisper in their ear. He does now want to spend the money, time, or headache for a prosecution.
Trying to understand the timeline: So is Ciaramella still under criminal indictment and what happens if he refuses to make a deal? Does he just walk and not testify? (my legal mind is functioning slow this morning)
My question is if we are hearing about it, does that mean they already signed on the dotted line? This is a murderous cartel whose modus operandi is dead men tell no tales.
Eric Ciarmarella is a Senior fellow in the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace [1] and works for lawfaremedia (among other entities).
ODNI referred Eric Ciaramella to DOJ for criminal charges, [2] what coming next will be seen. Anyway, he is not indicted.
[1] Eric Ciaramella | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
[2] ODNI sends criminal referral to DOJ over Trump 2019 impeachment | Fox News
Remember Alger Hiss was president of the Carnegie Foundation. Carrying on the grand tradition of communist subversion
How long till Ciaramella gets Seth Rich-ed?
Sundance, could it also be that the DC subpoenas were withdrawn in order to later replace them with subpoenas to testify before the FLORIDA grand jury? Convictions would never happen in DC, but Florida is different.
That’s a simpler explanation. It’s a pretty substantial leap of reason to conclude that deals are being made.
Correct. DC judges and juries are corrupt and totally biased in favor of Democrats. diGenova knows how to work it!
Ciaramella is going to soon have an unfortunate ‘accident’ or an unexpected ‘medical event’ resulting in his deadification and thus inability to tell any tales.
Who TF thought a DC grand jury was a good idea? There is zero chance of a DC judge or jury handing down an indictment of a dem kingpin.
Yeah. It’s weird they would consider that. After reading David’s question above, I have to wonder if this wasn’t some sort of head fake or other legal chess move.
Charging a Traitor with “perjury” is simply “window dressing” to convince us that the DOJ is now cleaning up the swamp…
Maybe. We shall see. I feel optimistic that this is years in the making and that we are about to witness the grand finale.
I sincerely hope that your theory is correct, Elle…
I am just weary of all of these constant investigations, investigations, and more investigations, and hope they will somehow stop “investigating” and do something before the midterm elections…
You mean like this?
https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-cotton-urges-irs-investigation-of-the-southern-poverty-law-center
Same trick. Hoping it dot work this time.
Perhaps, the Perjury Charge will simply become a sideline Predicate Act, in the larger RICO Case.
Needed as a means of, stopping the Statute of Limitations clock, on key defendants.
With superseding Indictments to follow, as the investigation proceeds.
Without disclosing the entire case on day one.
FWIW, questioning low hanging fruit, suspects.
While working up the ladder on both defendants and the seriousness of charges. Is quite often a successful prosecutorial strategy, for complex cases.
However, the sword hanging over ever suspect questioned must be serious Prison Time.
I think that ship may have sailed. . .
Personally I’d camp out in the parking lot, to see Jim Commie and little Andy, do the Perp Walk.
Unfortunately except for a very few Trump appointees the federal lawyers are all radical left democrats. So whatever the Trump AG orders, the lawyers will subvert. And nothing will happen to those who persecuted impeached and lied about Trump. Look what colonel Vindman did. Nothing happened has his full pension and is running for congress. The campaign funded by ADL AJC and billionaire radical left Jews
What take down of the man that perpetrated treason/fraud on the people by sealing Obama records that verify he is not a US citizen, or at the least not a natural born citizen..? Oh the horror
Yes, this perjury charge will certainly “take him down”…
Khobar Towers, John.
The blood of our airmen cries out. Selah.
Yes, comey was indicted for “perjury”…
MAGA. 👊
Maybe they are going to go after Hillary who started all this.
Put your money on those who needed Hillary to win.
She is just a front,not the brains behind anything. She was just willing and ambitious.
.
The moto of the scumbag DemocRATS, especially Hillbag Clinton is:
“The ends justify the means.”
DemocRATS. The party of anti-American sentiment, cheating, thievery, weirdess and globalism.
Not the chance of a snowball in hell… Hillary owns and operates the DOJ, FBI, and CIA…
Who really believes Soy Boy will actually make it to the witness chair? We are talking about treason or sedition here.
“If buttercups buzz’d after the bee
If boats were on land, churches on sea
If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows
And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse
If the mamas sold their babies
To the Gypsies for half a crown
If summer were spring
And the other way ’round
Then all the world would be upside down!”
–“The World Turned Upside Down”, played by the British when our CINC George Washington defeated the World’s Only Superpower at Yorktown in 1781
The little fish get a deal to testify against the Big Fish.
This time-honored concept was turned on its head in Upside-Down Bizarro Obama World.
The little fish were given sweetheart deals to NOT squeal on the Big Fish, but to practice Obama Omerta for the #GovernmentGangster Crime Syndicate.
Our President is re-turning the world to Right-Side Up, Hallelujah!
Proverbs 29:16
When rulers are wicked, their people are too; but good men will live to see the tyrant’s downfall.
Praise God!
Rest in the Vine: “Trump Shall Become a Trumpet”: George Washington’s 3 Visions
and Rededicate 250
This is, pure and simple, nothing more than DELAY. Long enough to wait until Election Month to stuff as many ballots as needed to seize power, impeach Trump and Vance, kill Trump in prison, and finally restore the gravy train of $20,000-a-month salaries in “non-profits.”
A subpoena is under oath; a friendly interview is not. Just kill time until you can seize power (say, by December 30th) by the “narrow mail-in margin” of 420,306,192 to 420,306,077 …
Then: you got away with everything. And Congress just borrowed $100 trillion from itself to compensate those “abused” DCers while they pretend that Trump never happened.
American People: You know exactly what happened. We know you know. But if you dare say a word, “just remember J6.” We’ll throw you in prison for thirty years “awaiting trial.” The Bill of Rights is suspended “for the duration of the national emergency…”
Young men have more to gain by “cooperating”, than old men.
Let’s not forget that Eric the CIA Disney Princess was VP Joey Bribe’s Crime Family Bagman in Ukraine–Hunter could not be trusted with those $Billions.
Don’t pre-judge where this is going to land.
CIA Disney Princess? Literally? Given he’s Biden’s trusted boy … is that as creepy as it sounds? Yikes.
It’s a Small One World Government After All.
So many whinging comments show Democrat have successfully Stockholm Syndromed too many who post/troll here. Why is that?
Some folks just cannot stand prosperity…
We’ve all heard the ol’ axiom that “There must be something in the water…” causing a person, or a people, to act in a particular manner. Well, I think it’s more likely that there has been something in our food for decades causing many people less than 50 to 60 years of age to accept, and even expect, negativity.
Sundance, could it also be that the DC subpoenas were withdrawn in order to later replace them with subpoenas to testify before the FLORIDA grand jury? Convictions would never happen in DC, but Florida is different.
Minnows… to get the Whale.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on April 24, 2026, that it is expanding federal execution protocols to include the firing squad as an authorized method for federal death penalty cases.
That’s probably just a coinky-dink, right?
Take your pick
Door #1 Cooperate and possible Arkancide but you have a shot.
Door #2 Don’t cooperate and possible prison, still possible Arkancide because you know too much, plus possible ceausescucide.
April 15 – Eric Ciaramella criminal referral.
April 21 – Brennan witness subpoenas withdrawn.
April 24 — Trump’s Justice Department is bringing back firing squads for federal executions
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-justice-department-is-bringing-back-firing-squads-for-federal-executions/ar-AA21E93N
I’d gladly pay the fee for a pay-per-view of the right suspects!
The proceeds from the PPV could go to a worthy project; perhaps disabled Vets or Gold Star Children.
Brennen should die in prison or Firing Squad. The same with Ciaramella. McCord too, as you have pointed out she is a ringleader.
I vote for:
B. Firing Squad.
Its a Brillant move!
Fact check major most important fact check. Treason is defined in the constitution As giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. America was not at war during Trump’s first and second terms and 2021 to 2025.
So what the progressives did was not treason. Just perjury leading to false arrests a civil rights violation. Has anything been done about the Russian Jew immigrants Vindman twins tools of the American Jews who vote 85 percent democrat That was absolute felony perjury lying to law enforcement under oath and in hearings. Nothing done to the Vindman immigrant Jews. Nothing will ever be done to them.
Your Fact Check is not correct.
The legal definition of treason in the United States is found in Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”
The phrase “in time of war” is not in that clause in the US Constitution.
Note the word “OR”.
One could argue that a false coup attempt to bring down a duly elected US President, is giving our enemies aid and comfort.
… of course a strict interpretation of “adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
could result in the death penalty for most of the Democrats in congress.
Hmmmm….. now that I think of it….. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love the way you think!
Re “Treason is defined in the constitution As giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. America was not at war during Trump’s first and second terms and 2021 to 2025. So what the progressives did was not treason.”
Just because America’s leaders were not fighting back does not mean America was not at war. Iran had been at war with America for the last 47 years before President Trump took action to end that war. Any effort to hinder Donald Trump’s presidency, prior to which he promised to stop that and all other wars, constitutes treason.
From experience defending a Cuban ‘terrorist’ in the 1980’s – ok, he planted a few bombs around Miami but he meant well – against the might of the SDNY: those prosecutors were ruthless but had a simple (and convincing) message. WE CONTROL THE NARRATIVE. You will either cooperate and get a very, very good even great deal OR we will BURY YOU AND DECLARE VICTORY. Train’s leaving the station in the next 10 minutes. Are you onboard?
PS. My guy and two others got probation for testimony despite the bombings. The perps the Feds wanted were actual murderers, and my guy and the cooperators wanted to nail em too. Murder wasn’t part of the plan.. But the next guy up the chain refused to play ball, so SDNY blew him away for 25 years and declared victory. Murderers got off scott free.
Let’s see how Ciaramella makes out. Feds can make him a hero and patriot if he does the right thing. (Gag)
I keep tamping down the potential sheer joy of seeing Ol’ Penitentiary Face, that smug massive POS Cardinal Comey, and the actual Kenyan mastermind of it all IN CUFFS, because, well, we all know there isn’t a crime on the books that scumbag criminal Democrats cannot get away with….