Nicolle exposes DELUSIONAL and accidental self-own by Trump and 'all of his BOOBS’

According to exclusive new reporting from MS NOW, "a new White House task force reviewing thousands of pages of classified intelligence and law enforcement documents for evidence of irregularities in U.S. elections is expected to begin releasing documents within weeks." Nicolle Wallace is joined by Laura Barrón-López, who broke this reporting, Miles Taylor, and John Brennan for analysis on Deadline White House.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfcEkxdB9Xw 

Wray Obeys in Advance (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Jack: A Special Counsel podcast, Episode #107)

This week:

• Chris Wray announces that he will resign as FBI Director before Trump would have to fire him; 
• Trump names Harmeet Dillon to head [upend] the Civil Rights Division at DoJ; 
• DoJ OIG releases its January 6th report;
• plus listener questions.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-6jcv2-22c6f88c

FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign before Trump takes office - The Washington Post

President-elect Donald Trump has said he will nominate Kash Patel as FBI director, sending a message to Christopher A. Wray that he should resign or prepare to be fired...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/11/christopher-wray-resigns-fbi-director-trump-nominee/

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Opinion | A bracing warning from the FBI director: The ‘long war’ hasn’t ended - The Washington Post

Wray told Congress this month that he worried that lone-wolf extremists or small groups could draw "twisted inspiration" from events in the Middle East. He added that "the potential for a coordinated attack" like the ISIS-K terror rampage at a Moscow auditorium in March was "increasingly concerning." What keeps him awake, he observed in a speech this month at Vanderbilt University, are what then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called "unknown unknowns."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/fbi-director-terrorism-warning-isis-k-threat/

Republican lawmakers push a fresh batch of lies about the January 6th insurrection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNf1IfSfsFQ

Progressives denounce FBI attacks by right wing but push for agency reforms

"If Republicans really care about FBI overreach of civil liberties, then they will get serious about the real reforms," Representative Cori Bush, a Democrat from Missouri, said. "But that's not really what they're pushing right now. Instead, they're still amplifying those conspiracy theories and trying to distract the public, to gaslight the country and distract us from Trump's criminality."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/17/fbi-head-christopher-wray-republican-attacks-fisa

FBI director reminds Republicans about their ‘insane’ accusations

The context for the exchange helped drive the point home. Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman — perhaps best known for defeating then-Rep. Liz Cheney in a Wyoming primary last year — ran through a variety of partisan conspiracy theories before suggesting that many believe the director has "personally worked to weaponize the FBI against conservatives." 

Wray, looking rather annoyed, waited for the congresswoman to wrap up before responding, "The idea that I am biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background."…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/fbi-director-reminds-republicans-insane-accusations-rcna94022

Eric Swalwell MOCKS JIM JORDAN TO HIS FACE in Committee Hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWwljs4oohA

Progressive Fully Dismantles The GOP's Latest Stunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkrE1UvuhUE

Rep. Eric Swalwell calls House GOP-led Wray hearing 'just bananas, absolute chaos'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPZm11W10Fo

FBI director warns of possible "influence operations" via TikTok

Why it matters: The main source of alarm is the fact that the Chinese government holds the key to the app's recommendation algorithm, Wray said Friday in remarks at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy…

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/02/tiktok-chinese-influence-fbi-wray

FBI director faces new scrutiny over investigation of Brett Kavanaugh

…Wray is likely to face scrutiny on why information that was specific to the allegations of sexual misconduct was not fully explored, including evidence that was reportedly offered to investigators by an alleged witness named Max Stier, an attorney and former classmate of Ramirez, who reportedly notified senators that he had witnessed an event similar to the one recounted by Ramirez...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/14/brett-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-documents

Racist extremists pose most deadly terrorist threat to US, intelligence report warns | US news | The Guardian

...The report says white supremacists display what officials say is "the most persistent and concerning transnational connections". 

Fears grow that efforts to combat US domestic terrorism can hurt minorities Read more Other domestic extremist categories that concern government investigators include animal rights and environmental activists, anti-abortion protesters, anarchists and people who call themselves sovereign citizens who "believe they are immune from government authority and laws"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/17/racist-extremists-us-domestic-terrorism-intelligence-report

How the Capitol riot has been linked to Trump and the GOP - The Washington Post

... as the story of the Capitol riot continues to unfold, there are several connections between those involved, and Trump, the broader GOP and others that invite further investigation...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/05/how-capitol-riot-has-been-linked-trump-gop/

On Jan. 6 attack, FBI's Wray tells GOP what it doesn't want to hear

...most of the former president's supporters have simply decided to believe, facts be damned, that pro-Trump forces didn't attack the Capitol. In these voters' alternate reality, it was really a loose alliance of anti-fascist groups pretending to be right-wing activists, as part of an elaborate ruse...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jan-6-attack-fbi-s-wray-tells-gop-what-it-n1259334

Steve Bannon: Twitter permanently suspends former White House chief strategist's account after talk of beheading - CNN

...He then said he would go further: "I'd put the heads on pikes. Right. I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you are gone."...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/tech/steve-bannon-twitter-permanent-suspension/index.html

Anderson Cooper: Why the lie Trump is pushing matters

President Donald Trump continued to attack mail-in voting as full of widespread fraud, a claim for which there is no evidence. CNN's Anderson Cooper breaks down why the Trump administration's justification for his rhetoric is alarming.....
https://youtu.be/203nJN4_7Dw

FBI director casts doubt on concerns over mail-in voting fraud | TheHill

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday cast doubts on concerns raised by some conservatives that mail-in voting could pose an increased chance of voter fraud, with Wray telling a Senate committee that widespread voter fraud would be a “major challenge” for a foreign adversary to pull off. “We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election whether it’s by mail or otherwise,” Wray testified to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during a hearing on threats to the homeland. “We have seen voter fraud at the local level from time to time, so my comments should in no way be construed as minimizing how seriously we take our responsibility to investigate such incidents.”

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/518095-fbi-director-casts-doubt-on-concerns-over-mail-in-voting-fraud

FBI has finally elevated far-right domestic terrorism to the top tier of threats to Americans

That recent spate of FBI arrests of violent neo-Nazis planning acts of terrorism is apparently not a fluke: The agency, according to its director, now recognizes far-right extremists as the leading threat of domestic terrorism in the United States, and has adjusted its enforcement work accordingly. Appearing before the House Judiciary Committee’s oversight panel this week, FBI Director Christopher Wray explained that he had placed “racially motivated violent extremists” at the agency’s highest threat level, comparable to that assigned to terrorism by Islamic State actors. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/2/7/1917466/-FBI-has-finally-elevated-far-right-domestic-terrorism-to-the-top-tier-of-threats-to-Americans

Donald Trump attacks the 'current FBI director,' by which he means the man he appointed to the role

On Monday, Donald Trump sent 101 tweets. Even if each of those thumb-twiddling missives took only a few minutes, that’s a solid effort at trying to block out the final day of impeachment hearings in the House and the release of the “no political bias or improper motivation” report from the Justice Department inspector general into the Mueller investigation. It’s also likely the greatest amount of work that Trump has done in years. But fresh off of muscling through that hard day of hate, lies, and hate lies, Trump is back at it again on Tuesday morning with an attack on FBI Director Christopher Wray.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/12/10/1904671/-Donald-Trump-attacks-the-current-FBI-director-by-which-he-means-the-man-he-appointed-to-the-role