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Is it Time to Strip Citizenship from LA Insurrectionists?
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Is it Time to Strip Citizenship from LA Insurrectionists?

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The left believes many things that are not true. They believe that men can become women, they believe that children can and should have sex changes, they believe that violent black people are simply misunderstood, and they believe that having borders that define your country is evil. 

It’s hard to figure out where to focus, as all of these beliefs are not only false, but they’re obviously lunatic. Used to be that people disagreed over marginal tax rates, how many schools a county needs, or whether to fund a new community pool. Now reality itself is debatable. How do you communicate with someone who thinks that mutilating children’s genitals is not only OK, but an act of “care”? 

This week riots are popping off in Los Angeles as illegal aliens, legal immigrants, and American-born leftists “protest” against the Trump administration’s enforcement of immigration laws. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has been raiding neighborhoods and employers in the first stage of getting millions of illegal aliens out of the country. 

Democrats hate it. California Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass (a trained Marxist-Communist from way back) are claiming they don’t need the National Guard. All the “protestors” throwing bricks onto cop cars from highway overpasses and setting fire to taxi vehicles wouldn’t be doing it, they say, if mean old Donald Trump didn’t “provoke” them by enforcing the law. Newsom actually went to court to try to stop the president from sending in Troops (think about that). Thankfully, he failed. 

There’s no way to test this without a survey, but it’s a good bet that nearly every Democrat and leftist believes completely false things about immigration and citizenship. Maybe Republicans, too. For example, did you know that U.S. law explicitly permits the U.S. to revoke citizenship from naturalized U.S. citizens for certain crimes? That’s right. If you come to this country and later gain citizenship, you can have it stripped if you fight against the United States. 

Douglas Mackey was sent to prison for making joke posts during the 2016 election; yes, we have political prisoners in the U.S. But it’s not stopping him from pointing out reality:

Attempting to overthrow the government, or bearing arms against the government (as the LA rioters are doing assaulting the police), can get your citizenship ripped up. 

X/Twitter users pointed out that even American-born citizens can be stripped of citizenship for treason. 

But there are plenty of people who don’t like reality, and who don’t like any attempts to keep rioting scum out of the U.S. 

And, of course, a liberal New Yorker “journalist” is on hand to deny that there’s any insurrection or treason going on in LA. 

San Diego Bartender Flips His Lid and a Hot Dog Cart Over Illegal Vendors
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San Diego Bartender Flips His Lid and a Hot Dog Cart Over Illegal Vendors

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Everyone has a breaking point. People can only be pushed so far before they react. In a comfortable, well ordered first world society like the U.S. used to be, it took a lot more provocation for ordinary people to get angry and lash out at others than it does today. 

Check out this scene on a San Diego street. A bartender for the longtime Henry’s Pub loses his cool at what we’re told is a street food cart vendor who is an illegal alien, pushing the man’s cart over and cursing him out.

What got the bartender so angry? Apparently the city of San Diego has been declining to enforce laws regulating street food vendors and their carts, especially when the vendors are illegal immigrants. What a surprise, eh? The government feels so warmly toward border jumpers that they leave them alone to take business away from establishments run by American citizens. 

That’s according to a lawsuit from 10 San Diego businesses against the city. They claim the city just chooses not to enforce the rules governing sidewalk food sales, and they’ve lost thousands in sales due to the cart-pushers setting up shop outside their doors. The suit wants $12 million from the city, and it wants to force bureaucrats to do their jobs. 

One restaurateur, Mareous Sitto, claimed he loses up to $2,000 a night in sales because of the illegal food carts crowded along the streets. 

Americans are losing faith in government because it seems as though pencil pushers are more interested in vexing and harassing Americans for no good reason while turning a blind eye to real problems. How do you argue against that with the example of New York state regulators raiding the house of Mark Longo and seizing, then killing, his internet-famous pet squirrel P’Nut simply because Longo didn’t have a license to “have wildlife” in his house? 

Users on X/Twitter were mainly sympathetic to the business owners and hostile to what they perceived as a feckless or adversarial city government. 

But some others pointed out that there may be other problems affecting business in the Gaslamp district that have nothing to do with hot dog carts. Indeed, a lot of users thought the restaurants’ complaints were just an excuse for businesses that couldn’t compete in the open market. 

Reality Hits Adam Schiff in San Francisco—and It’s Not Pretty for Democrats
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Reality Hits Adam Schiff in San Francisco—and It’s Not Pretty for Democrats

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Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., issued a stark warning to fellow Democrats during an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday night, sharing a personal story that he said highlighted major concerns about his party’s leadership, particularly in California.

During a panel discussion, Maher asked Schiff to address the current state of the Democratic Party, especially in how it governs liberal strongholds like California.

Schiff acknowledged the challenges facing his party, saying, “So we’re gonna have to change how we do business in California. We’re gonna have to address people’s legitimate concerns about crime.”

Schiff recounted a personal experience from two years ago in San Francisco, when his luggage was stolen from his car.

He admitted that he had been warned not to leave valuables inside his vehicle but chose to ignore the advice.

“And what was most memorable about the experience for me as I went to this Target in South San Francisco, 10 o’clock at night, and I’m getting the toiletries I’m gonna need for my next two days in the city,” Schiff said.

“First of all, I had to get the clerk, which is hard to find, to unlock the shampoo or the whatever. So that’s one thing.”

He continued by describing what happened at the checkout counter.

“And then I get to the cashier. The cashier asked me if I want one of those Target bags with a little bullseye on it. And I said, ‘Yes, that Target bag is gonna be my luggage for the next two days,” Schiff said.

According to Schiff, the cashier then asked what had happened, and after he explained the situation, she responded bluntly.

“She basically said in not so many words, ’Yeah, Democrats are a**holes.’ And I thought, you know, if the cashier in South San Francisco at 10 o’clock at night believes that Democrats are a**holes because the shampoo was locked up and my stuff got stolen out of the trunk, we’ve got a major problem that we have to address.”

Maher responded to the story, saying, “That’s an awesome story. That says a lot. I hope all the Democrats listen to that story.”

Schiff went on to express optimism about new leadership in San Francisco.

He mentioned Democratic Mayor Daniel Lurie, saying Lurie is “helping lead the way in how we kind of reinvent how Democrats are doing governance.”

The exchange comes amid ongoing concerns about public safety, theft, and governance challenges in major Democrat-led cities.

San Francisco, in particular, has been under scrutiny for its handling of crime, retail theft, and broader public dissatisfaction, issues that have gained national attention over the past several years.

Schiff’s comments reflect growing acknowledgment among some Democrats that public frustration over crime and quality of life issues is becoming a political liability, even within traditionally loyal urban voter bases.

His remarks on national television further signal the internal debate underway in the Democratic Party on how to respond to these challenges ahead of upcoming elections.

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Conduct Unbecoming: NYPD Detective Writhes on Stripper Pole in Rap Video
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Conduct Unbecoming: NYPD Detective Writhes on Stripper Pole in Rap Video

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Are there any grownups left in America? Or, more to the point, are they any grown-up women in public life? 

Something has happened to so many prominent women in media, politics, or in any other sphere where they have a public presence. It’s as if the concept of adulthood is no longer operable. Behaving, quite literally, like a sassy teenage girl has become “new normal” for a noticeable number of prominent women. 

You’ll remember the dancing TikTok nurses from the days of the alleged pandemic. We the public were to believe two contradictory things at the same time: that hospitals were overrun with Covid patients, and also that the nursing staff had the time to produce choreographed amateur dance videos about vaccines or “social distancing.”

It’s metastasized like a cancer. Take a look at the video just put out by some prominent Democrat female politicians. All at once, it’s silly and immature and girlish and performative, but it’s also aggressive and meant to communicate hostility. Look at them dance and gyrate and punch the air with their fists. Some of the women in this video are in their 50s for heaven’s sake. 

“Choose your fighter” indeed. 

Or how about Democratic TX Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who comfortably spews racism against whites in public nearly every day, talking in a deliberately affected “ghetto” accent? 

Is she going for the thug life, or the pimp life, or the ho life? Again, this is a fully grown woman elected to Congress. 

You don’t have to be a politician these days to act unprofessionally and then wonder why everyone is disgusted by your behavior. Melissa Mercado is a New York City police detective. I warn you, the video below is lewd. She’s featured in a rap video in which she’s stripped down to a bikini, writhing around a stripper pole, and making bedroom eyes at the rapper as he encourages her to “shake that ass.”

This is a police officer? This is a professional? It doesn’t matter that she did this off-duty. Way back in the ancient past (so 15 years ago), we understood that professionals with serious jobs had a duty not to bring the organization, governmental office, or business into disrepute. That’s long gone. 


Let’s see what people on X/Twitter had to say. Standards have fallen so low that even some sensible conservative commentators say it’s all fair play. 

The original poster can’t understand why anyone would judge this cop negatively. 

Others take a more traditional view:

The cultural problem is summed up here:

Famed NYC Illegal Alien Shelter Shutting Down as New Arrival Numbers Plummet
Governor Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, and MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber announce a Subway Safety Plan at Fulton Transit Center on Fri., February 18, 2022...(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
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Famed NYC Illegal Alien Shelter Shutting Down as New Arrival Numbers Plummet

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The Roosevelt Hotel migrant shelter in Manhattan is set to close in the coming months as the number of asylum seekers in New York City’s care continues to decline, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday.

The shelter, which has served as a key intake center for migrants, will likely stop operations by June, according to sources.

Since the influx of migrants to New York City began in spring 2022, more than 232,000 asylum seekers have arrived in the city. However, with recent shifts in federal immigration policy, the number of new arrivals has dropped significantly.

Adams stated that the city is now seeing an average of 350 new migrants entering city care each week— a dramatic decrease from the peak of 4,000 weekly arrivals at the height of the crisis.

City data shows that in the week leading up to February 2, about 200 new migrants sought assistance from the city, while 1,800 exited shelters.

In the first week of President Donald Trump’s new term, 300 new migrants entered the system while 1,800 left.

By comparison, the final weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency saw between 400 and 500 new arrivals per week, a decline from the 700 to 900 migrants arriving weekly over the summer.

Adams, 64, framed the Roosevelt Hotel shelter’s closure as a positive step, crediting “the successful strategies we put in place here in New York City and because of policies we advocated for at the border.”

“While we’re not done caring for those that came into our care, today marks another milestone in demonstrating the immense progress we have achieved in turning the corner on the unprecedented international humanitarian effort,” Adams said in a video announcement.

Although the Roosevelt Hotel will shut down as a migrant shelter, newly arriving asylum seekers will still be able to register at other locations, according to City Hall.

At one point in January 2024, there were approximately 69,000 migrants in the city’s shelter system. That number has now dropped to less than 45,000, according to officials.

The Adams administration has announced plans to close 53 migrant shelters across the city, including all tent shelters, between June 2023 and June 2024.

The Roosevelt Hotel, which contains about 1,000 rooms, was converted into a migrant intake center and shelter in May 2023 as the city struggled to manage the influx of asylum seekers, many of whom had been bused from southern border states. Since then, more than 173,000 migrants have registered at the site.

However, the hotel has faced various issues since its transformation, with reports of gang activity, illegal motorbike deliveries blocking sidewalks, and migrants sleeping in cars due to overcrowding, according to sources.

Adams’ announcement follows New York City’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over $80.5 million in migrant funding that had previously been approved by Congress.

The White House reallocated the funds last week, prompting the city’s legal action.

The mayor has also faced accusations that he struck a deal with the Trump administration to assist in the president’s illegal immigration crackdown in exchange for the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropping a federal corruption case against him. Both Adams and the DOJ have denied these allegations.

The criminal case against Adams remains unresolved. A judge stated Friday that he wants to hear from an independent lawyer before ruling on whether to grant the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the case. Adams has denied all wrongdoing.

As the city continues to manage its migrant crisis, the closure of the Roosevelt Hotel shelter marks a turning point in New York’s approach to handling asylum seekers.

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Big Apple Fights to Keep Letting Non-Citizens Vote
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Big Apple Fights to Keep Letting Non-Citizens Vote

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Perhaps in five years, or 10, Americans will look back on the period from 2020 to 2024 the same way we look at the Salem witch trials of the 1690s. “How could they have been so nuts?” we might ask. During the Biden presidency, all manner of irrational and frankly insane practices became “new normal.” 

Sterilizing children with puberty blockers and telling boys that, yes, they are girls born in the wrong body, became “normal.” Allowing rioters with Black Lives Matter and Antifa to torch government buildings and shut down cities causing billions of dollars in damage (with no prosecution) became “normal.” 

Guess what else has become normal? In the Big Apple it’s letting people who are not citizens vote. But it’s not just that, which is mental enough. The state is actually fighting in court to keep allowing it. A New York City law went on the books in 2022 that would allow so-called “documented non-citizens” to vote in city elections. It is important to note that the law does not allow illegal aliens to vote. But in practice, it’s obvious that illegals would be waved through without much checking, and it’s highly likely that they’re already doing so. A city that thinks it’s normal and reasonable to let foreign nationals vote in a U.S. city isn’t motivated to check papers carefully. 

And quite obviously, they’re motivated not to check carefully. The Democrats have been pushing for “non-citizen voting,” and they’ve objected to securing the country’s borders, because they want votes from all the non-U.S. people pouring in. We don’t need to do some deep investigation to prove this. The census that occurs every 10 years counts everyone in the U.S., including illegal foreigners. That total number is used for “apportionment,” which is the process of redrawing Congressional districts to reflect changes in population. The Census Bureau is very upfront about this. 

It’s easy to see why New York is fighting in court to keep its non-citizen voting ordinance in effect. According to Politico, 800,000 to 1 million non-U.S.-citizen New Yorkers would suddenly have the right to vote in city elections. What Democrat could resist? 

Elon Musk highlighted the problem with a clip from Fox News. Anchor Brian Kilmeade seemed stunned that the issue was even in question. 

Musk himself is an immigrant, but he’s a legal immigrant, and he has no love for those who sneak through the border evading the legal process. Reactions to his post on X/Twitter are pretty much what you would expect; Americans are outraged at the electoral shenanigans leftists have pulled right out in the open for years. 

This user points out how everyone really knew all along what was happening, but no one who objected was taken seriously. 

Devon probably speaks for most of us. 

New AG Bondi SHUTS OFF Federal Justice Dept. Money to Hundreds of “Sanctuary Cities”
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New AG Bondi SHUTS OFF Federal Justice Dept. Money to Hundreds of “Sanctuary Cities”

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Turns out that Democrats can’t openly flout the law forever and suffer zero consequences. Who knew? For years it has certainly seemed like the laws of the land simply didn’t apply to anyone on Team Blue. Don’t like healthy children? Well, just “transition” them by poisoning them with chemicals and cutting off their health body parts, right? It’s not abuse when the left does it, right? 

Don’t like the fact that the U.S. has laws about how to legally enter and reside inside America? Well, just be a Democrat Governor like New Jersey’s Phil Murphy and go on the air taunting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement by saying you’re hiding an illegal in your garage apartment and that you dare ICE to come and get her. 

Here’s what Murphy said: “I don’t want to get into too much detail, but there’s someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point they are trying to get it to And we said: ‘You know what? Let’s have her live above our house, above our garage. And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.’”

A person can only be this confident in bragging about breaking immigration law if he believes that he is untouchable. Democrats, unfortunately, are right to be this confident. They have been untouchable and above the law for years. While screeching that Donald Trump was a “Russian asset” and impeaching him based on bought-and-paid-for lies, the blue team has been able to flout immigration, child abuse, and women’s rights laws anywhere they saw fit with no legal consequences. 

That’s changing right now under newly appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi. She has called the blue states’ bluff in a way that hasn’t been done in years. On February 5, Bondi announced that she is freezing all federal Department of Justice money to so-called “sanctuary cities.” These are Democrat-Progressive-led cities that simply decided that they were going to hide illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement. Cities like Minneapolis and San Francisco, just two among hundreds, have brazenly declared that they will fight their own federal government to protect illegal aliens from being deported. Trump warned them that if they kept this up, he was going to take action, and that action came today. 

AG Bondi has made good on Trump’s promise, ordering her Department of Justice to shut off any federal dollars to cities that defy federal immigration law. 

Among several directives issued Wednesday, Bondi charged the DOJ with identifying and evaluating funding agreements with nongovernmental organizations that provide support to undocumented immigrants, Fox News Digital first reported.

She also tasked the department with investigating instances of sanctuary jurisdictions obstructing law enforcement and “directing they be prosecuted, when necessary,” the outlet wrote.

Several offices within the Justice Department provided $1.56 billion in grants to sanctuary cities in 2023, according to the think tank Center for Immigration Studies.

When asked about the impact of the Justice Department’s directive, a New York City Hall spokesperson told The Independent in a statement that Mayor Eric Adams “has been clear that New York City is committed to working with our federal partners to fix our broken immigration system and collaborating with ICE to remove people who are entering our localities and committing violent crimes. We are currently evaluating the directive.”

Commentator Benny Johnson was practically giddy to share the news:

From the responses, it looks like most people are pretty excited about it. 

Fetterman Breaks Ranks, Calls on Dems to Support Trump’s “Deportation of Criminals”
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Fetterman Breaks Ranks, Calls on Dems to Support Trump’s “Deportation of Criminals”

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has urged fellow Democrats to support President Donald Trump’s deportation of illegal aliens with criminal backgrounds, pushing back against sanctuary city officials who vowed to resist enforcement.

During an appearance on Fox News with host Shannon Bream, Fetterman addressed the growing opposition from Democratic leaders who have refused to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in deporting criminal illegal aliens.

Fetterman made his stance clear, emphasizing that local officials should cooperate with the federal government: “I hope every local official would agree that any migrants here with criminal backgrounds or engaging in criminal behavior should be deported. Now, if ICE comes to round them up, I hope they would provide that kind of support,” Fetterman said.

Trump’s executive orders declaring a national emergency at the southern border have accelerated efforts to address illegal immigration.

The order allows ICE agents to aggressively target and deport criminal aliens.

However, Fetterman clarified that he does not support indiscriminate raids on non-criminal illegal aliens:

“I certainly would never support terrorizing otherwise innocent migrants in those kinds of situations or kicking in a door at a school,” Fetterman said. “But I think we can all agree that every migrant here with a criminal background or engaging in criminal behavior needs to go.”

Meanwhile, several Democratic mayors continue to resist cooperation with federal authorities.

Those opposing Trump’s deportation initiatives include: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston.

Speaker Johnson recently stated: “We will continue to protect civil and human rights and welcome all individuals and families who want to work, live, and thrive.”

However, the Trump administration has pushed back against resistance from sanctuary cities. Border Czar Tom Homan and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem have vowed that ICE operations will continue across the country.

“The reality is, these sanctuary cities and their laws have caused us problems. They are limiting some of the tools we want in our toolbox, but we’re going to continue our operations, show results in other cities, and tell our story to the American people,” Noem said in a recent appearance on Fox News.

Read More at The Daily Fetched

Charlamagne Tha God Defends Trump’s Immigration Policies, Shuts Down Leftist Narrative
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Charlamagne Tha God Defends Trump’s Immigration Policies, Shuts Down Leftist Narrative

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The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God clapped back at journalist Morgyn Wood, who falsely claimed President Donald Trump’s administration was rounding up “innocent people.”

Charlamagne immediately reminded Wood that being in the U.S. illegally is a crime as Wood attempted to push her her false narrative of Trump arresting innocent people.

“At first, we were thinking it was just going to be those who were committing crimes, but no. It’s just if you are in the country and your status is not up to par, or you’re not in good standing, then you are eligible for deportation … at least under this Trump administration.”

Charlamagne quipped back, setting the record straight. “But isn’t being in the country illegally a crime? That’s a crime under federal law,” he said.

“So they’re rounding up people who are committing crimes and they’re rounding up people who are here illegally, because that too is a crime.”

At this point, Wood admitted, “That’s true.”

Meanwhile, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clapped back at ABC’s Mary Bruce, who tried to challenge the administration’s approach.

Bruce asked for a breakdown of how many of the 3,500 illegal migrants arrested had actual criminal records versus those who were simply undocumented.

Leavitt responded by stating it was every single one of them.

“All of them because they illegally broke our nation’s laws and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes. I know the last administration didn’t see it that way, so it’s a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that’s what they are.”

The fact that Charlemagne acknowledged that crossing the border illegally is, by definition, a crime should speak volumes.

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John Bolton Fears Retribution from Kash Patel: “He’ll Do Whatever the President Wants”
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John Bolton Fears Retribution from Kash Patel: “He’ll Do Whatever the President Wants”

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Former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton worries that Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), will seek retribution once he is sworn in.

Trump stripped Bolton of his security clearance on the grounds he profited from the disclosure of sensitive information published in a book he authored.

The President also rescinded Bolton’s taxpayer-funded security detail, which he enjoyed under Joe Biden.

During a recent interview, Bolton said: “Loyalty is a virtue, it’s a good thing. That’s not what Trump wants.”

“He wants fealty to him. He wants submissiveness. He wants yes-men and yes-women,” he added.

“Kash Patel has demonstrated, in his service in Trump’s first term, that he’ll simply do whatever Trump wants.”

“I don’t think he’s qualified. And if there is a retribution campaign, and there certainly seems to be, he would be a central element of it.”

“I think that’s dangerous,” the former White House National Security Advisor added.

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Bolton even compared Patel to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s chief of the secret police, Lavrentiy Beria. “Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be his Lavrenty [sic] Beria,” he wrote. “Fortunately, the FBI is not the NKVD [People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs].”

Bolton also claimed that removing his protective details is part of a larger effort to target Trump’s critics.

“There’s only one interpretation that makes any sense. It was political. And this is part of an effort at retribution,” the staunch neoconservative argues.

Last year, Patel said he would “shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one and reopen the next day as a museum of the deep state.”

Read More at the Daily Fetched


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