Keep in mind the FISA (702) extension already passed the House, and the bill is sitting in the Senate where the ever-predictable John Thune is not bringing it up for a vote.
This morning the House tried to pass a short-term FISA (702) extension for three weeks (ending July 2). The measure failed by a vote of 218 to 198. In addition to Democrats, nineteen republicans also voted against it.
The Democrats are claiming their lack of support surrounds the appointment of Bill Pulte as Acting DNI effective June 19, and their concern that Pulte will weaponize the FISA (702) authority to conduct political surveillance. Yes, it’s a rather hypocritical projection within their claim.
Now, you might ask yourself…. where in the world would the Democrats get the idea that FISA (702) would be used to get “dirt on President Trump’s political enemies.” What would lead them to that suspicion?
As customary, the radical leftists are projecting based on their own conduct. This is the same “702” authority that Barack Obama and Joe Biden previously used to do exactly that political surveillance. We have outlined the entire operation in granular detail citing all of the FISA records that showed exactly what the Obama-Biden group were doing.
In the bigger picture, it is very likely that congress will reauthorize FISA (702) surveillance because not doing so is against their interests. That reality creates an unusual dynamic where President Trump can leverage the inevitable outcome for his own political benefit.
PRESIDENT TRUMP – “Just like they did on Border Funding, the Radical Left Dumocrats are trying to take our National Security hostage because of unrelated issues. They should stop playing politics with the safety of our Great Country.
I have named William Pulte to be Acting Director of National Intelligence, who will take over on June 19th, and have asked him to execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office, reverting staff to their home agencies. At the same time, I am looking for a permanent ODNI Nominee with experience in National Security.
FISA 702 is very important to our Military, and keeping the American People safe, especially during the World Cup and America250 Celebrations. If nothing is done, this important Law will expire this week. I am asking Congress to send me a short-term extension of FISA to provide time for the selection and confirmation of a permanent Head of the Agency. I would like to thank Director Pulte for his time and commitment.” ~ President DONALD J. TRUMP
The Legislative Branch is opposing FISA (702) renewal by using opposition as a narrative to enhance their “orange man bad” credentials. Their opposition is fake. In non-pretending reality we understand the Legislative Branch both wants and controls the dynamics around FISA (702).
Tonight is another primary election in a batch of states including, Maine, South Carolina, Nevada and North Dakota.
One surprise I just noticed is the horrible fibber and gaslighter Nancy Mace failing miserably in her quest for South Carolina Governor. Nancy Mace is in fifth place.
Mace floated in/out of never-Trump world for a while in congress and generally pontificated about things while accomplishing very little. She eventually hung her credibility on the Epstein File stuff. It doesn’t look like that approach worked out too well for her.
If there are other races tonight that you are interested in, feel free to drop your comments and thoughts on the races that you might be watching from your perspective tonight.
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing today on the topic of the Southern Poverty Law Center, operating a program to fund, organize and stimulate racist activity, just so the SPLC could fight against racism and fundraise over it.
Amid the panel of voices presented to discuss the issue is the familiar Lawfare operative, Mary McCord. It makes sense for McCord to get invited by the HJC because McCord was lead staff for the HJC (Nadler/Schiff) during the impeachment effort. The relationship between Mary McCord and the HJC is lengthy.
McCord noted that law enforcement agencies routinely pay for operatives to infiltrate organizations in order to target them, so congress should not be too concerned with the SPLC funding white racists for the same purpose. What McCord carefully avoided, was noting how the SPLC is neither a law enforcement entity nor an investigative agency of the government.
I have not had time to watch the entire hearing, and I will provide more depth of review over the next few days once I have watched all of the discussion. In the interim, these hearings are usually ‘chaff and countermeasures.’
Articulate focus with specific intent can pay dividends. Sorry for my absence earlier today. I can confirm the first sentence, between the commas.
Against the backdrop of threats from various legislative branch members, President Donald Trump has doubled down and firmly announced that Bill Pulte will take the position of Acting DNI effective June 19th ( 😂 aka ‘Juneteenth’).
Delivering the message from his Truth Social account, President Trump has extended his plenary power and put Congress back into the position they hold in government. If Congress wants FISA (702), then reauthorize it. If they don’t want it, then don’t reauthorize it. The issue matters not to the overall national security dynamic.
Kash Patel better prepare to get busy. It’s time to put up or shut up. If the FBI carries out a false flag operation (they’d be stupid), or if the CIA attempts to undermine the domestic national security front (they won’t), there is going to be an intense response from Trump and Pulte.
The California bespoke ballot process is unique in the nation and developed with a previous legal partnership between California politicians and former Attorney General Eric Holder.
It has been one week since election day and there are likely many more days of ballot curation ahead. As a consequence, the republican candidate, Steve Hilton, who carries President Trump’s endorsement, is likely to be pushed into third place eliminating him from the general election. The creation of California ballots takes time and resources.
Locally sourced, artisanal ballots can take much longer to be created and curated than in other states.
As the bespoke process now unfolds, Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer will begin the process of gaining a higher percentage of mail-in ballots than previously assigned. Many people have questioned the length of time; however, Steyer has to make up about 300,000 votes, so the ballot counting will take longer.
Each subsequent batch now needs a controlled lift in the progression. If the ballot counting closed the gap all at once, it would look sketchy. So, the counters need to elevate Steyers percentage a little more with each batch of ballots counted. A slow climb to eventually eclipse Hilton will enable the media to justify a few more weeks of ballot curation effort.
Here’s the full interview between President Trump and NBC’s Kirsten Welker. The video and transcript:
[Transcript] – KIRSTEN WELKER:President Trump, welcome back to Meet the Press.
PRES. DONALD TRUMP: Thank you.
KRISTEN WELKER: Thank you so much for being here. We are going to talk about your visit, why you’re here in Wisconsin. But I’d like to start off by talking about the major issue that you are focused on every day which is Iran. Sunday will mark 100 days since the first strikes. Your secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said that the war had concluded. And yet, just this week, Iran attacked U.S. allies in the region, calling it retaliation for a set of U.S. air strikes. Is the United States at war with Iran?
PRES. DONALD TRUMP: Well, they’ve been largely decapitated. And I call it a military exercise because people would rather have it called that. It’s not a big war for us. It’s not. We have the most powerful military in the world. I built it, frankly. I built it in my first four years. And I’m using it a little bit in my second four years. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their anti-aircraft is gone. They might’ve built it up a little bit over the last four weeks during this little ceasefire that we did at the request of some very good people, very, very fine people from — actually from numerous places, as you know. You know, there are a lot of people involved. But from Pakistan in particular, the field marshal and the prime minister. And we’re very close to having a deal. And if we don’t have a deal, we’ll do it one way or the other. Either way, we win.
President Trump abruptly ended and walked out of a combative interview with NBC’s Kirsten Welker, who will now receive the praise and adulation that Margaret Brennan so emphatically wanted. Kirsten Welker is now the leading Democrat Presidential Candidate for 2028.
During an NBC interview, Welker continually interrupted President Trump and challenged his assertion of government weaponization against J6 protest attendees and voter fraud. President Trump was making the case that the current California vote counting of mail-in ballots, still taking place 5-days after election day, was representative of voter fraud within the U.S. election system.
Welker demanded President Trump provide the evidence. President Trump emphasized the evidence is in the process that is taking place in front of your eyes. Welker again demanded President Trump provide the evidence. Eventually Trump gave up in frustration. The Video and Transcript is Below:
I will post the full interview and transcript in a separate post.
[TRANSCRIPT] – KRISTEN WELKER: This $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund that’s going to compensate people who say the federal government weaponized the legal system against them. It’s been blocked by the courts, met with opposition from Republicans .
PRES. DONALD TRUMP: And Democrats.
KRISTEN WELKER: – in Congress, and Democrats.
PRES. DONALD TRUMP: Most, excuse me, mostly Democrats.
KRISTEN WELKER: Mostly Democrats and some Republicans.
PRES. DONALD TRUMP: Some. Very few Republicans.
KRISTEN WELKER: Just to be very clear, are you backing off the fund completely as your acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has said, or are you looking for another avenue to revive the fund?
PRES. DONALD TRUMP: So let — let me explain what the fund is. People have been hurt so badly by radical left lunatics that worked for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe. They’re vicious. They’re violent, what they did to people. And of course they went after me more than anybody else. They raided Mar-a-Lago and all the other things. But people have been badly hurt. They’ve committed suicide. They’ve lost their jobs. They’re lost their families. They’ve lost their wives. They’ve lost everything. They’ve lost everything over a fake weaponization of government. Now, let me just tell you –
Several people have asked for opinion. I’m being polite and kind. While the core of the storyline is accurate, the White House is not that strategic, insightful or competent to organize what is promoted in this video as a coordinated design, operation or plan. There is no plan.
There areindividual people within the administration doing what they can and trying to coordinate what they find with each other. That’s it. There is no central command and control plan. Nothing like what’s implied in the video. However, the background storyline of what has taken place is accurate.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
01:10 Tulsi Gabbard Opens the Case
02:45 The Rolling Coup Against Trump
04:10 Grand Juries, Subpoenas & Accountability
05:25 Election Security and the Georgia Investigation
06:15 Bill Pulte’s New Role
07:25 Senate Panic and the Intelligence Establishment
08:35 Following the Threads Back to Obama
09:45 Obama’s Legacy of Division
10:55 Covid, 2020 and the Permanent Resistance
11:55 Divide and Rule: Lessons from British India
12:40 Trump’s Vision of National Unity
13:00 Final Thoughts
The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act was brought to the Senate as an amendment by Lindsey Graham as part of the $70 billion budget reconciliation package funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.
The usual senate suspects, Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell voted with Democrats to kill the SAVE America Act amendment. 75% of Americans support the requirement for voter ID, the Senate doesn’t want that.
WASHINGTON – Four Senate Republicans broke ranks to kill another effort to pass President Donald Trump’s marquee voter ID and election integrity legislation as the GOP marches to fund immigration enforcement.
Just like last time, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Thom Tills, R-N.C., joined all Democrats to thwart the move.
It’s the second attempt by Republicans to attach the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to their budget reconciliation package, and the second time that they’ve failed to get the legislation across the line months after launching a quasi-floor takeover to debate the bill. (read more)
In related news, after three days California has only counted 63% of the vote and Spencer Pratt is losing ground on his second-place finish.
