The alternative media and even President Trump himself are promoting a story from notoriously sketchy John Solomon again. This time it is important to point out how dangerous he has become – perhaps President Trump (or someone close) will take note.
The core of this latest story centers around a reported email chain from a Biden-era DOJ/FBI official who had serious reservations about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. [Story Here] However, in typical Solomon fashion there is no source citation for the email itself, nor any explanation of where it came from. Instead, it’s another story written from a ‘trust me bro – because, reasons‘ interpretation of a claim that cannot be reviewed, because the actual email itself is not disclosed:
….”a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News shows.”
That’s it. ….”a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News shows“…
That’s the sum total of the citation for source, content and origination. The reader doesn’t get to look at the email. The reader doesn’t get any explanation of who, what, where, when or why it was given to Solomon. Heck, “newly unearthed” could be a retread of an email that was likely discussed several years ago, perhaps part of a congressional review.
However, this specific email is sold as new information from inside the DOJ/FBI that is under review by South Florida USAO Jason Reding Quiñones.
♦ Why can’t Solomon share the email?
When mainstream media report on media reports that come from media reports, we call this circular nonsense garbage. It’s no different when alternative media do the same without specific citation or source information that can be reviewed. No doubt, dozens of alternative media have already started running with this story without pause.
The danger is not just about hopium promotion. In this example, it’s worse. Let’s take this claim at face value, assume Solomon isn’t lying, and consider that he cannot provide a direct link to the email(s) because the physical documents represent a risk. Under these assumptions, the email is evidence from the DOJ/FBI provided to the USAO in Florida for grand jury review. Solomon has received leaked grand jury material.
If accurate, that material is now irrelevant evidence to the cause of justice because the grand jury has been compromised.
The reporting on the email would/will be used by defense attorneys in a criminal case to get the evidence dropped, and the leaking of it would also highlight the political weaponization of the entire investigative process.
In essence, it’s a self-defeating process to leak it – which, alternatively, could entirely be the point.
In a twisted Machiavellian way, perhaps the entire reason for John Solomon to write about it is to destroy the value in the cause for justice. I don’t know; you decide.
But if a person cannot show the source information they are writing about, and/or it is a risk to show the information they are writing about, then the very least they should do is point specifically to where they got the information from. If they cannot do any of that, then they should shut up.
Lawfare loves to see their opposition shoot themselves in the foot with the evidence of Lawfare corruption, and clickbait loves company. However, in an example like this, it’s the frustrated honest people who just want accountability that pay the price.
SUMMARY: To be clear, I am saying John Solomon’s reporting process is dangerous, specifically dangerous. Dangerous to MAGA, and perhaps more consequentially, dangerous to President Trump and/or any righteous movement toward justice.
Because, yet again, in this instance, if he is not lying (a significant assumption at this moment in history) then -once again- he is alluding to having FBI/DOJ emails that are being used in South FL USAO investigations, likely provided by Kash Patel or others, that would be grand jury material – if the GJ stories of an investigation into a ‘conspiracy against rights’ are to be believed.
If that is accurate origination and that explains why he refused to provide the citation, the release of GJ material to Solomon is exceptionally damaging to any case(s) that might use it. Steve Bannon and Sean Hannity will promote John Solomon, while James Comey, Mary McCord and Jack Smith laugh about it.
FUBAR.
There is a reason why Tulsi Gabbard’s approach was effective, and the deep state feared her. She silently reviewed, then spoke with receipts.
The truth has no agenda and is the ultimate defense to everything. This nonsense ‘secret information’ has proven to be one of the most damaging root problems within our current political condition. Those who perpetuate this process retain the core mechanism that permits corruption.


Big things are happening in two more weeks.
Just hold your powder, will happen soon, be patient, donate your money here and there, support this candidate anyway because the alternative will be much worse.
Meanwhile sixty years go by and nothing happens… but soon something good will happen, just be patient and STFU.
Amen, Mrs. Sunshine !!! You’re in the X-Ring … keep firing !!!
God’s Blessings to you & Godspeed …
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I wish I could spend more time on this stuff, but unlike leftists I have a life going on outside this.
My one question is, I thought the DS uses leaks and media reports so the IC can use them to open cases. If the information is inadmissible, why is it used to open investigations against the good guys, or anyone for that matter.
This is all beyond frustrating. Way beyond frustrating.
Because The Machine is in control of what is distributed and when.
But God.
All the current exposure should not have happened under the current machine. That’s how you know that His Hand has entered the chat. We need to trust His timing and continue praying.
Yes, we don’t have time because we have to work to support the revenue for all this grifting, And they keep us able to make just enough money to keep us motivated to work.
We’ve been two weeks away for many years.
It’s a chronological oddity!
Two weeks to flatten the curve redux.
Two weeks is forty years in dog’s lives.
Like the Fischer staircase.
Escher?
Solomon. One of the original Mr. Tik Tocks.
Besides lacking journalistic moral character, he’s creepy. Something about him. He’s just creepy.
I’ve never read anything of Solomon’s that was significantly useful. Nor Beck, or D’Sousa, or Shapiro. Nothing that gives direction. Only that keeps anxiety stoked and fear smoldering
As a fav MAGA governor once said of someone: he’s all hat and no cattle”.
Just a bunch of hot air.
In that photo up there he looks like he only has one tooth.
And that’s creepy.
0.o
Is he related to Fang Fang?
He didn’t start off this way. When he started his own thing he was playing it straight. It was only the last year or so I noticed this kind of tick-tock bullshit. I’m always looking for it too.
TICK TOCK
worked for 4 years between 2016 and 2020 and now Solomon can go fhs
The Conservative Treehouse is influential, at least on the right. Have you queried Solomon about this unsourced story? If you’ve got a valid complaint about his journalistic practices, as it would appear you do, good practice also requires you to give the offender a chance to answer the complaint. What does Solomon say?
Solomon is the one who made the claim without citations. Burden is on him. And his track record is trash.
Why don’t u investigate?
Best I could do is send Solomon a copy of Sundance’s post. Seems to me it would be more effective coming from SD himself.
He’s read it. Do you naively think he’s unfamiliar with CTH or the articles posted here, particularly the articles with the legal citations?
He’s read it and no response is a response.
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What to take from Sundance’s’ heads-up has nothing to do influence or with Solomon’s “journalistic practices”. At best Soloman’s unwittingly being used to undermine a crucial case against DeepState traitors. At worst he knows and is part of undermining the case..
Either way, he’s a tool.
Could be, but accusations are cheap. He should be given a chance to defend himself.
He’s a habitual offender
He’s read the article. Since you want him to defend himself, ask him directly why he doesn’t.
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Kudos to Sundance for calling him out.
Solomon was just given notice in a forum that many MAGA follow.
I think your last sentence is pretty much nails what is happening.
I don’t do Twitter. Does Solomon? If so, and you have an account, go on that site and ask him. Public questioning, repeatedly, might be good to get an answer from him.
Do this then. Most of the stories here originate on the twitter feed.
https://xcancel.com/TheLastRefuge2
Solomon can respond to this post just like the rest of the thousands do. He’s well aware of this site and this article. Let’s not naively think that this has flown under his radar.
What does Solomon say?
Absolutely nothing.
He’s been a shady character for the original incident of his rising to the forefront out of thin air. If you don’t remember his “story”, research it. Should be easy to find. He’s been a shadowy figure from the get go.
Sounds like an accusation dressed up as a question.
LEJoiner’s implied accusation is that Sundance did not ask Solomon, but should have. So let me ask this…
Why would you make such a lazy comment without checking Sundance Xwitter feed? If you’ve got a valid complaint about his journalistic practices, as it would appear you do, good practice also requires you to do some basic research in order to answer the complaint. Before posting the accusation, a simple check of Xwitter, would have found that he did.
https://x.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/2059315568470040816#m
LEJoiner went on to say, “Best I could do is send Solomon a copy of Sundance’s post. ” How was it sent? Xwitter? If so, it seems, “Best I could do”, is a lie.
And for those of us without a Xwitter account, an alternative access method to Sundance Xwitter page is available:
https://nitter.poast.org/TheLastRefuge2 (If no posts appear when the page appears, click on the Xwitter ‘handle’, TheLastRefuge, or, @TheLastRefuge2 , or, refresh the page)
I don’t have an X/Twitter account.
https://xcancel.com/TheLastRefuge2
no account needed
I never liked John Solomon. He is just a fatter version of Sean Hannity.
At least Sean has an attractive SO
But Sundance, You have in your banner “I want you to be Andrew Breitbart” and his technique was to let some information out knowing he would get hammered by the leftist media, then release more that proved the media liars, and a third release that totally proves the first release.
He does name Patty Stemler and Sophia Brill and numerous quotes from the DOJ email. “I didn’t know about this search in advance, but I have been worrying about it ever since and worrying more now,” Stemler wrote to Brill on Aug. 10, 2022. “Doesn’t Trump maintain that he had the authority to declassify documents while he was still President?
He says “The memo was recently discovered by the Justice Department as part of its investigation into the weaponization of federal law enforcement.” So he sites where it originated from but not how he got it. The quotes and names provided appear to confirm he is not lying, so is this walking the tightrope really that dangerous? It would be very dangerous to him if the names and quotes were just wrong. He does say “her email states” if I’m reading the same article.
Sundance didn’t include some of these facts(names and quotes) so what are we to think?
What I said in this article is factual.
Solomon needs to produce the email for his audience; not his verbal interpretations of what he claims it says – along with ZERO information about how he obtained it.
If you need to purchase hopium, that’s on you.
For me, I prefer to separate facts from opinion, and that requires citations for readers to make up their own mind.
Personally, I believe Solomon is ideologically working for the other side – just like Bill Barr was.
I tend to agree with this sentiment based on years of observation.
Agree with you, Sir ! Quit reading anything Solomon has to say long ago. It’s always a ‘couple of weeks away,’ & ‘trust the plan.’ You do Outstanding Work !!! God’s Blessings & Godspeed …
Sundance, when do we get more info on the Camp David Cabinet Meeting being a leak trap as you mentioned on X? Very curious 🤔
For me, I prefer to separate facts from opinion, and that requires citations for readers to make up their own mind.
The SOLE reason I chose to follow CTH back in the elevator-ride 2015 summer was bc Sundance’s article had legal citations in support of the arguments contained therein.
This was the sole criteria for me bc one of my jobs at the beginning of my career in the legal profession was to cite check all attorney legal citations in briefs to be filed with the court. 100% content and context was required in all legal citations. No exceptions.
IMO SUNDANCES LEGAL CITATIONS ARE THE MAIN IF NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON HIS POSTS STAND UP TO THE TEST OF TIME. IT IS ALSO THE REASON WHY SOLOMON’S INFORMATION DOES NOT HOLD UP.
Any articles without citations is nothing more than gossip, propaganda, misinformation, or flat out lies, and I don’t try to figure out which category. I just catalog that it is unreliable and highly suspect when you see the trend in the style of writing and I don’t read anything by Solomon with the sole exception being today when PDJT posted it on TS. I questioned the article then and I’m glad it was discussed by Sundance as being not credible.
Solomon is highly suspect and not a reliable source.
Thank you Maine Coon. I was once in the same boat.
The “support, ” -or the documentary evidence , for what an audit team included in a draft OIG report was of paramount importance when anyone was assigned the task as a “Report Referencer” in my work as well. The referncer’s task was to ensure in the long game, that the IG of the agency, when testifying in front of a Commitee on Capitol Hill had facts, only facts, not opinion in the reports that were issued. There were a few humans I worked with took my comments asking for “support?” personally. That was their problem not mine.
I agree 100% with your entire post. Actually anyone who names their website “Just” the News in the times I have lived through is by my account speaking “GOSSIP.” If Solomon just leaked Grand Jury Testimony, well, that may well fix his STOOPID in a big way.
RIP Solomon with “just the news” coming soon.
John IS HANDLED; just not wearing FBI of CIA Pins on his lapel on screen
I agree.
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“Personally, I believe Solomon is ideologically working for the other side – just like Bill Barr was.” >Sundance in this section of the article.
*****
If there are ‘deep state agents’ working as ’embed moles’ in the ‘Republican’ party, surely there has to be ‘deep state’ agents posing as conservatives in the news organizations.
A comment about people using literature, history or movies to make an analogy. … The one to use might be about John Solomon as the ‘watchdog’ in the old Sherlock Homes story, The Adventure of Silver Blaze, where the phrase “the dog that didn’t bark” is used.
Too many people in the Republican Party, the ‘conservative news’ and various religious organizations are barking loudly at President Donald J. Trump.
The ‘newsman’ John Solomon uses just low volume grumbling and growling about the ‘fake news’ to offer his own ‘decepticon’ news to all the President Trump loyal supporters. [John Solomon’s biography on the Internet, his mannerism, and the information offered, has the characteristics of a ‘fake news’ embedded news commentator.]
I don’t take issue with what you say, and I agree you are factual, but it’s what you left out about the quotes and names.
Personally, I don’t care about JS but I do care about the full story.
Solomon and Bannon are joined at the hip on War Room. ’nuff said.
Brietbart and Sundance are very different from Solomon. THings become clearer and clearer after reading Sundance and the commenters.
Solomon just stokes emotion and disrupts focus
Some other site claimed it was a named female lawyer high in the chain of command -, she is now working in the private sector. She reviewed similar cases defining the extent of a POTUS to classify or declassify anything he or she wants. With no interference from any underling government bureaucrat.
Apparently there is case history about this unfettered power, and no “procedures” can control it .That is what she was questioning – did they confirm they had grounds to raid Trump on an established POTUS privilege that he claimed he could exercise – including a blanket declassification any time or anywhere he wanted while in office .
The email I saw on another site was questioning the power of a PTOUS to declassify anything he wanted, before they raided Trump who asserted the claim he had declassified it. What was the legal foundation for the raid in that case. But the concern was ignored and the raid took place along, with the endless TDS attacks this questionable raid provided.
Seriously, not giving up sources is not that uncommon … It’s called protecting your sources
Here’s a few ….
The most famous American journalist to go to jail for protecting a confidential source is Judith Miller of The New York Times.In 2005, she was held in contempt of court and spent 85 days in a federal detention center.
She was jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury regarding the identity of the confidential source who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
She was ultimately released when her source (former vice presidential aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby) provided a personal waiver allowing her to testify.
Other journalists and writers have also faced jail time for protecting sources or refusing to hand over reporting materials:
Vanessa Leggett: A freelance true-crime writer who spent 168 days in federal prison in 2001 for refusing to hand over her research notes and interview records regarding a murder investigation.
Joshua Wolf: A freelance video journalist who served 226 days in federal prison in 2006 for refusing to turn over unedited video footage of a protest, making his the longest sentence served by a U.S. journalist in a source-protection.
Quit whinnin’ an do your own investigation …. geee not tryin’ to instigate “click bait” with that headline, now are ya ?
You are arguing the wrong point.
Sources are not the issue, when the evidence of the central claim is non-existent.
Solomon’s article references lots of things without any supporting citations, as follows:
1.Patty Stemler, a decades-long DOJ veteran who was reportedly picked by Garland in 2022 to help consult on Trump-related cases, sent an email just two days after the bureau’s Aug. 8, 2022 raid of Trump’s Florida resort home, where Stemler said she had “a few concerns.”
[no link to the email]
2.Stemler sent the email to Sophia Brill, [still no linked citation to the same referenced email]
3.The memo was recently discovered by the Justice Department as part of its investigation into the weaponization of federal law enforcement. [no link to the referenced memo being relied upon]
4.FBI Director Kash Patel provided Congress evidence that agents did not believe they had not met the legal standard of probable cause required for the raid but proceeded anyway. [no linked citation to any evidence Patel produced]
5.Trump’s office told Just the News in mid-August 2022 that the materials with classified markings which the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate had actually been declassified under a “standing order”…
[I’m not sure what is worse: not having linked citations in support of the statements in an article (all above examples) OR having a link, as in this statement, and the supporting link documentation is another article written by Just The News/Solomon himself!! He said the statement in the posted AND linked articles so they must be factually true??? DON’T THINK SO.
I could go on and on, but you get the point. Solomon’s article is basically unsound, lacks proper linked citations to support his basic statements. Plus, he knows how to do accurate citations bc there are some when they support some basic inconsequential facts, such as Brill’s employment.
This article would never hold up in a court of law.
Solomon’s writing style is no different than CNNs, MSNBC, ABC et al. All of them print propaganda not information with citations that would hold up as factual truth, including in a court of law.
Solomon might be Just The News — BUT he’s just as much FAKE NEWS as the legacy media.
You are on fire full of facts MaineCoon. Thinking Johnny Solomon should rename his site “Just My Opinion.” I don’t ever go to his site anyway. He always sounded like a gossip columnist to me. Turned him off years ago. Haven’t shed one tear.
Tik Tok won’t work anymore John, you cried wolf too many times.
Every story should have who, what, when, where and maybe why.
If there is no credible source, there is no credible story.
I learned that in 1979 in a Journalism Elective from a woman who used to write for VOA Europe.
She also said, ALL journalism is propaganda!!!
The article says.
“a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News”
and
“The memo was recently discovered by the Justice Department as part of its investigation into the weaponization of federal law enforcement.”
Looks to me like the source is the DOJ and he does NOT say leaked. “obtained” in my mind says maybe they FOIA’d it.
On this, Sundance, you lack necessary background.
Here is some help.
I know you don’t like these particular rabbit holes.
POTUS loves them.
For good reason.
POTUS is in no way confused, or misled.
He got it from NSA, most likely. Probably a long time ago, and probably embargoed until now.
How did POTUS know not to be at M A L that day?
Because this is a war. He was tracking in real time.
Military intelligence.
The stuff the Grand Jury is getting is old and after the fact.
Parallel construction, but they’ll never be able to prove it.
Now, for anyone still confused about Snowden, give that a good listen
Brennan protégé CIA, all the way.
Quit selling “Q” nonsense. Take it off this site or get blocked, your choice.
Bye.
You’ll love how this movie ends…
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116640276418472460
I have nothing to add to Sundance’s analysis except this:
Always believe the scuttlebutt! /s
That depends on which drinking fountain you are at.
To quote Joe Pesci: “It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma!”
And it’s in one of Solomon’s secret emails that you can’t see…
“An enigma wrapped in a Twinkie.” – Seinfeld on Newman
‘secret information’ –
The LAST refuge of con artists, scamsters like Candace *and* Tucker?
Yup, in my book anyway …
Yup. They gotta keep you hooked with their secret knowledge a drip drip drip of rumors and innuendo posited as maybe, possibly, definitely the truth. Allegedly.
Solomon certainly seems like controlled opposition, the squirrel brigade.
With Soloman, seeing is believing. His fulfillment rate on predictions is about 5%
And I thought John Soloman was a straight shooter but now find out he is “sketchy”, does not bring the receipts, and almost as bad as fake news. Gee, thanks Sundance. Pretty soon I will not be able to trust anyone to report the facts as is. Is Amanda Head involved too or is she just window dressing and guilty by association? Enquiring minds want to know. I am afraid that soon, Mike Lindell will be on Sundance`s “Feces List” and that is where I check out into the twilight zone, maybe volunteer for that space mission to Mars or the Moon, a one-way trip.
He speaks with such conviction, just like Congressman Schiff. Both claim to have seen secret details that can never be shared. Posers.
The “trust me bro” line is like the snake in the garden of eve that said it in a different way.🤨
I swear I remember hearing about this when it happened. I know there were some in the FBI that didn’t want it to happen.
Solomon & Hannity — brothers from the same fraternity.
“It must be true because it sounds plausible.”
The MAL raid was a travesty and a fiasco, full of unnecessary and unprecedented actions against Trump, including turning off the security videos, and leaving open the possibility of deadly force. And in all that, there might have been some who questioned whether the raid was legal. But raising the question does not prove illegality.
Excellent points by CTH
Solomon is part of the ‘trust me, bro’ crowd that includes Mike Allen, Julie Kelly, Patel, Jack Posobiec, Bongino with the enabler Bannon providing the platform.
There is a guy who makes funny videos on the internet and he always finishes his videos (pointing out something silly about sports rules or the english language or whatever nonsense the video is poking fun of) by being asked why something is like that, and he responds with, “it’s because that’s why.”
And that is exactly what JS is doing here. Unfortunately, he isn’t just making funny videos on the internet.
If we want to know more about John Solomon then perhaps we should ask Amanda Head. She has been his show partner for quite some time
Loose lips do indeed sink ships.
Looking at his employment history on Wikipedia, Solomon doesn’t stay in one place very long
Employers
Associated Press (1987–2006)
The Washington Post (2007)
The Washington Times (2008–2009; 2013–2015)
Packard Media Group (2009–2015)
Center for Public Integrity (2010–2011)
Newsweek / The Daily Beast (2011)
Washington Guardian (2012–2013)
Circa News (2015–2017)
The Hill (2017–2019)
Fox News (2019–2020)
Just the News (2020–present)
Thank you for the history lesson. LMAO. Even with his own website he is going down the drain. Do not get in front of someone who is trying to destroying themselves.
Dan Bongino refers to this as the “hidden knowledge” grift. Bring the receipts.
My belief those that use ‘my inside source’ and all the other words (my high-level connection secrete informants) used to give themselves some position of authority are truly apart of the opposition.
In other words, Solomon is a Democrat, and the rest are the same, calling themselves Republican Conservative, but they are not.
We have all heard of the bar’s cocktail lounges in DC, where they all meet up to discuss what they did that day to undermine the Constitution. Scum!
And when Hannity “confirms” it, we’ll have another one of those “tick tock” moments they loved to provide way back when.
On 1/20/25, in EO 14,147, President Trump announced “a process to ensure accountability for the previous administration’s weaponization of the Federal Government against the American people”. [1]
On 2/5/25, then AG Bondi establish the “Weaponization Working Group,” “to identify instances where a department’s or agency’s conduct appears to have been designed to achieve political objectives or other improper aims rather than pursuing justice or legitimate governmental objectives”. [2]
On 5/25/26, John Solomon reported that “a memo was recently discovered by the Justice Department as part of its investigation into the weaponization of federal law enforcement” [3].
He revealed, that Patty Stemler wrote in an e-mail to Sophia Brill two days after the execution of a searfch warrent at Mar-a-Lago:
[1 ]Ending The Weaponization Of The Federal Government – The White House
[2] https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388506/dl
Exclusive: Key Biden DOJ official raised red flags about FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid, memo shows | Just The News
— Is Soloman so stupid to go with this unsubstatuated stuff or is he being fed stuff that Trunp’s administration wants him to put oui? Is he being played or playing along? —
I never put much stock into the reporting of Solomon, Carter, McCarthy or the biggest dweeb of then all, Jarrett. Because every time they drop a “bombshell” it goes nowhere. I’m not saying they’re all bad people. Actually the opposite: I think they mean well, else they just wouldn’t report on these stories, a la ABC fake news or CBS fake News. I think they get dribs and drabs of what they know, at that point, are dead ends, and then report on them. (Tbh in most cases they could just read here and then BREAK a”news” story 3 years later. Between here and Twitter, we all already know it anyhow). I was going somewhere but with the Paxton news forget exactly where. A good day!
I’ve been watching Sundance debate the Solomon problem on X.
This is troubling. I hope Solomon hasn’t compromised any investigations.
“a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News” has no credibility until the email and the source are provided. Distrust and verify.
Trust but verify (to the extent you can).
Never blindly trust anyone (including yourself); we are all fallible.
Get your news from as many sources as possible (as time permits).
Develop a list of “mostly” trusted sources.
Assume the MSM is spreading bull manure.
Don’t trust anything coming from elected officials at any level of government (unless you know them very well)
What I am saying is be skeptical.
We are constantly being fed BS.
Well said, Sundnace!
Wolverines!!
Is John Solomon MAGA?