Is Russia co-opting US far-right groups to attack western democracies?

Startling allegations that the Base's leader is a Russian spy lend support to claims of a Kremlin 'long game'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/us-far-right-groups-russia-links

 

Daisy Chain of Innuendo (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode #168)

We have updates on: 

• the NYAG civil fraud $175M “Subprime Car Loan King” bond debacle, 
• Trump’s flurry of motions in a desperate attempt to delay or dismiss the Manhattan hush money criminal trial, 
• Rudy’s bankruptcy, 
• Fulton County, and 
• the disbarment proceedings of Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman. 

Representatives Biggs and Gosar get subpoenaed by Arizona prosecutors in their fraudulent electors investigation.

Plus Pete Navarro goes Supreme Court Shopping; FCI Trump and more.
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-d3j2r-1e254cc6

0 for 3 (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode #165)

This week: 

• Trump requests an extension after he fails to secure a nearly 500 million dollar bond with 30 companies; 
• Jeffrey Clark’s disbarment process continues at a snail’s pace; 
• Nathan Wade resigns and six charges are dropped from the Fulton County case; 
• the hush money case is delayed due to document production; 
• and Pete Navarro is reporting to prison.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-9pey2-1dced39e

Commissary Pants (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode #164)

This week: 

• Trump secures a surety bond to cover E. Jean Carroll’s judgment against him; 
• Pete Navarro is ordered to report to prison in less than a week; 
• Trump’s trial in Manhattan is set to begin in less than two weeks; 
• there are updates on Bannon’s situation; the DHS IG is rebuked in strongly worded letter from Democrats; 
• filings in Hunter’s civil suit; 
• Arizona’s prosecution of fraudulent electors is almost complete; 
• we should know soon whether Fani Willis gets to continue the RICO prosecution in Georgia; 
• and a former Air Force Colonel has been arrested for transmitting classified information relating to the national defense through an online dating site.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-dpn4s-1db3c56a

Sniping From Republicans (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode #160)

This week: 

• news from the NYAG civil fraud trial; 
• Trump has filed a response to Fani Willis’ rebuttal of Mike Roman’s motion in Fulton County; 
• Pete Navarro will be going to prison for contempt of Congress; 
• Jeffrey Clark's disciplinary proceedings will continue after a request for a stay is denied; 
• a dangerous plot unravels at the border; 
• and more.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-usjqt-1d484c2c

Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro ordered to prison despite contempt appeal

Navarro was sentenced last month to four months behind bars after being found guilty of defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House January 6 committee. The former White House trade adviser under President Donald Trump had asked to be free while he fights that conviction and sentence in higher courts...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/08/peter-navarro-prison-sentence-contempt-congress

Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast, Episode 158: Out of Adjectives (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok)

This week:

• updates on the NYAG civil fraud trial (which could have a verdict out by the time this episode airs); 
• updates from Fulton County; 
• news about Pete Navarro’s criminal contempt case; 
• the impeachments of Mayorkas and Biden; 
• plus news about Rudy; 
• Matt Geatz, 
• and more. 
• Why Fani Willis Is Not Disqualified Under Georgia Law https://www.justsecurity.org/91368/why-fani-willis-is-not-disqualified-under-georgia-law/

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-vm4u8-1d185f7b

Twenty Satisfying Pages (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode #139 )

This week: Judge Middlebrooks dismisses another attempt by Trump to resurrect his bogus lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, et al.; in Fulton County, Cheseboro and Powell are going to trial in October, the other 17, including Meadows and Trump, will go later and may be separated into “manageable groups”; FBI agent Thomas Sobocinski undercuts the GOP narrative on Weiss’ ability to charge Hunter Biden; plus Navarro is back in court.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-94iqi-1aea2eca

More Dante than Frost (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode # 124)

This week: Jim Jordan demands Jack Smith turn over investigation documents from DoJ; House Republicans threaten to hold Wray in contempt of Congress for withholding the document Rudy pulled out of a pro-Putin Ukrainian; Pete Navarro’s trial has been scheduled; Rudy asks to not disclose his financials to the court after coming up with the money he said he didn’t have, citing a losing argument from a case in the ‘80s; Tulsi becomes Commander of the 440th Civil Affairs Battalion; plus Tara Reade defects to Russia, and more.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-wmbxj-18ca4545

Shenanigans Afoot (Pete Strzok and Allison Gill; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast Episode 123)

This week: the House has a date with Durham; Tommy Tuberville is holding up military promotions and hurting readiness; Pete Navarro continues to Pete Navarro; and more.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-8x79k-18a814c7

What Peter Navarro Did After His First Court Appearance Is Truly Bizarre – Mother Jones

Trump adviser, charged with contempt of Congress, is part of a sketchy regime-change group...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/peter-navarro-court-contempt-congress-new-federal-state-china/

Peter Navarro subpoenaed in Jan. 6 investigation - The Washington Post

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro has been subpoenaed by the Justice Department as part of the probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob... 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/31/navarro-subpoena-capitol-probe/

Trump adviser calls for ‘truly evil’ Dr. Fauci to be jailed for ‘killing Americans’ - Raw Story

Peter Navarro, who served as former president Donald Trump's trade adviser, ripped into Dr. Anthony Fauci in an interview on Wednesday...

https://www.rawstory.com/peter-navarro-and-anthony-fauci/

Navarro ties Obama, Biden and China together in coronavirus attack - POLITICO

White House adviser Peter Navarro came out swinging against former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden and China in a vigorous defense of the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. On Sunday morning, Navarro started off by calling Obama’s administration a “kumbaya of incompetence.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/17/navarro-china-trump-biden-obama-262906

WH Adviser Claims ’60 Minutes’ Never Covered Pre-Trump Pandemics. Show Plays Clips Proving Him Wrong.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro went on the offensive during a “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday night by falsely accusing the show of never covering pandemics that occurred before President Donald Trump entered office.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/wh-adviser-claims-60-minutes-never-covered-pre-trump-pandemics-show-plays-clips-proving-him-wrong

Trump was warned in January of Covid-19's devastating impact, memos reveal

Donald Trump was warned at the end of January by one of his top White House advisers that coronavirus had the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans and derail the US economy, unless tough action were taken immediately, new memos have revealed. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/donald-trump-coronavirus-memos-warning-peter-navarro

Peter Navarro Attacked Fauci in Heated Situation Room Debate Over Science of Trump-Touted Drug, Report Says

Donald Trump’s top trade adviser Peter Navarro got into a heated debate over the weekend in the White House’s Situation Room after the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, questioned his science over the use of the yet-unproven malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. Navarro, who is not officially part of the federal task force to fight the pandemic, used a stack of documents as a prop to push the drug’s potential, which Fauci argued was not real scientific data.....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/navarro-attacked-fauci-in-heated-situation-room-debate-over-trump-touting-hydroxychloroquine-report-says

CNN's Navarro has no sympathy for Sarah Sanders being booted from a restaurant: That's 'the cost of being an accomplice' - Raw Story

Appearing on CNN Saturday morning, regular contributor Ana Navarro was asked about the report that White House Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders and seven family members were refused service at a Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/cnns-navarro-no-sympathy-sarah-sanders-booted-restaurant-thats-cost-accomplice/