BBC seeks to subpoena Trump family members in defamation suit - POLITICO

Lawyers for the BBC say the Trump family members “without question have personal knowledge” about President Trump’s intentions in delivering the speech at the heart of the case: his Jan. 6, 2021, address to supporters at the Ellipse as the Capitol attack was getting underway...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/14/bbc-subpoena-donald-trump-family-01038107

 

Secret Service briefing fails to quiet GOP ballroom funding concerns - POLITICO

…” the requests “should have been in the president’s budget” and gone through the standard bipartisan spending process...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/12/secret-service-briefing-fails-to-quiet-gop-ballroom-funding-concerns-00917317

New details emerge about armed man shot and killed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

TMZ reported that Martin had grown increasingly obsessed with Epstein – a former friend of Trump and many other powerful people – after the recent release of files connected to the prosecution of the sex offender and disgraced financier. The website said that it had obtained a text message that he sent to a co-worker earlier in February. 

According to TMZ, the text said: "I don't know if you read up on the Epstein Files, but evil is real and unmistakable … Tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it. Raise awareness."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/23/trump-mar-a-lago-secret-service

 

Secret Service and US military engineers face scrutiny over raising river water level for Vance’s birthday

Senator Adam Schiff suggests in letter that use of funds to alter outflow of lake for personal use may have been inappropriate…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/15/jd-vance-lake-water-levels-ohio

 

MZ Sniffer (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode #183)

This week: 

• Joe Biden is out. Kamala Harris is in. The GOP is a bit panicked. 
• DoJ has indicted Guo Wengui on wire fraud and money laundering charges. 
• Calls from both sides for US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign are heeded. 
• We learn of many of the security anomalies at Mar-a-Lago. 
• Senator Bob Menendez was found guilty on all charges. 
• Plus updates on Fulton and Alexander Smirnov.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-wavnk-1fd750d4

Secret Service failures that led to Trump shooting, explained - Vox

One question that Congress should ask that could help address the Secret Service's needs — from transparency to resources — is whether the Department of Homeland Security is where it should be housed. Before the 9/11 attacks, the Secret Service was part of the Treasury Department. But since it moved to Homeland Security in 2003, people have questioned whether it receives enough scrutiny or accountability, blending into a massive bureaucracy of over 250,000 employees. 

"Are they given the right visibility in light of the importance of their job, or do they get lost day in and day out of that huge organization?" Koskinen said...

https://www.vox.com/policy/361371/trump-assassination-secret-service-failure

Probe widens into Homeland Security watchdog's role in missing Secret Service Jan. 6 texts - The Washington Post

Cuffari waited months to disclose to Congress that his office had discovered the deletions and did not press Homeland Security officials to explain why they did not preserve the records. The Secret Service later provided the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack with thousands of records after reviewing its communications databases from the time of the attack, but nearly all of the records had been shared previously with Cuffari's office and Congress. 

Cuffari also blocked his own investigators from examining the Secret Service agents' phones. His actions prompted several congressional inquiries led by Democrats, who controlled the House last year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/06/homeland-security-watchdog-secret-service-texts/

Pence Said ‘Six Of The Most Chilling Words’ In U.S. History On Jan. 6 Says Raskin - YouTube

Rep. Jamie Raskin on Pence refusing to leave the Capitol on Jan. 6: “When I heard that he said, ‘I’m not getting in that car,’ that was utterly chilling to me. Those are six of the most chilling words in American history to me.”

https://youtu.be/1fA6OJBaxBE

New Details On Why Pence Refused To Get In Secret Service Car On Jan. 6 - YouTube

After the mob breached the building on Jan. 6, the Secret Service hustled Mike Pence out. They wanted to take him away from the Capitol, but he refused to go. Why didn’t he want to go?

https://youtu.be/lU2wL0vIfGg

Kinzinger says Secret Service Jan. 6 acts possibly 'very criminal’

"There are some inconsistencies that we're going to pursue," Kinzinger told host Wolf Blitzer, adding: "There is something going on at the Secret Service, either pure incompetence all the way on the scale to potentially very criminal activity or just having a preference for one side or the other." 

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/secret-service-jan-6-kinzinger-rcna52707

Trump charged Secret Service 'exorbitant' hotel rates, records show - The Washington Post

Maloney, chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, obtained the records as part of her investigation into how Trump may have profited off his security agents' duty to follow him wherever he traveled. She wrote a letter Monday to Cheatle demanding a complete accounting of what taxpayers have paid — and continue to pay — the Trump Organization...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/17/trump-secret-service-hotel-rates-records/

Secret Service withheld Pelosi threat from Capitol Police until Jan. 6 riot was underway: watchdog | The Hill

…In one of the emails, which was sent from the Secret Service to Capitol Police, the Secret Service said in a correspondence dated Jan. 6, 2021, at 5:55 p.m. that it was "passing notification to the US Capitol Police regarding discovery of a social media threat directed toward Speaker Nancy Pelosi." 

The Secret Service noted that it became aware of threatening posts made on a Parler account at least as early as Jan. 4, 2021, according to CREW. Among some of the posts the agency found was one made on Dec. 31, 2020...

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3606328-secret-service-withheld-pelosi-threat-from-capitol-police-until-jan-6-riot-was-underway-watchdog/

House Democrats say Trump-appointed inspector general is stonewalling inquiry into Secret Service texts

Earlier this month, Maloney and Thompson alleged that there was evidence of a cover-up within the inspector general's probe of the missing text messages, and called for Cuffari "to "step aside."…

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/16/democrats-dhs-inspector-general

Lawyer 'Strongly Suspects' White House Ordered January 6 Texts To Be Deleted - YouTube

The Jan. 6 texts of Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, and Pentagon officials being deleted is slammed by former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter. “Not only do we have the destruction of government documents, but obstruction of justice, in not one but three government agencies. I strongly suspect that the orders for the destruction of this evidence came from the White House and perhaps from the president,” Painter tells Joy Reid. MSNBC legal analyst Charles Coleman also joins The ReidOut to discuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMwfgVOKOhc

Rep. Jared Huffman on the Health Share Transparency Act (Opening Arguments podcast OA615)

You may remember the ripoff scam that is Christian Health Share Ministries from such episodes as OA497: Christian Health Sharing Is a Scam and OA530: Andrew Testifies to Congress on Christian Healthshare Ministries! Well, as a direct result of Andrew’s House testimony, Rep. Jared Huffman has sponsored and introduced a new bill to fight back against this scam! It’s H.R.8324 – Health Share Transparency Act of 2022. Rep. Huffman is also a co-founder of the Congressional Freethought Caucus! He joins us today to explain the bill.

Before that, I grill Andrew on the Secret Service deleted texts, with such questions as “what the f?” and “how the h?” There’s a lot we can’t know yet, but Andrew explains what we do know. Finally, we go through the first gun control legislation passed in two decades. It’s good!

Interview:

https://openargs.com/oa615-rep-jared-huffman-on-the-health-share-transparency-act/

Feels Dirty. Not the Good Dirty (Allison Gill and Andrew Torrez; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast Episode #65)

This week: the Secret Service sideshow keeps getting stranger; developments in the January 6 Committee - should they criminally refer Donald; what is Durham up to; metaphysical arguments about the transfer of power are bad; plus comings and goings, and more.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-brp76-1359306e

‘Incels’ are a rising threat in the US, Secret Service report finds

A new US Secret Service report details a rising threat from men who identify as "involuntary celibates" or "incels", due to their inability to form intimate relationships with women...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/16/involuntary-celibates-incels-threat-us-secret-service

What If President Trump Refuses to Leave the White House?

Despite losing the election, President Trump says he won’t concede. If push came to shove, would the Secret Service force him out?
https://youtu.be/bnhF_Qw0dtk

Moms swarmed, handcuffed by armed Secret Service officers in front of babies demand answers - The Washington Post

It was a hot Thursday afternoon, so India Johnson, 26, and Yasmeen Winston, 25, decided to take their babies to splash in the fountains at the World War II Memorial. The women, best friends since seventh grade, parked on Constitution Avenue near the White House and prepared to walk to the Mall. Their babies were in the back seat, Mother Goose Club was singing through the car speakers, and the mothers were digging around in diaper bags when they heard the crash and felt the jolt. Johnson and Winston looked up. A Secret Service cruiser had driven into their front left bumper ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/two-black-moms-took-their-kids-to-the-mall-secret-service-confronted-them-with-guns-they-said/2020/08/03/be4dfa8c-d4f1-11ea-9c3b-dfc394c03988_story.html

Secret Service now says it did use pepper spray to clear protesters during the Trump church photo op

The Secret Service's statement is the latest reversal from law enforcement agencies about what occurred in the moments leading up to President Donald Trump's walk outside the White House gates.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/secret-service-now-says-it-did-use-pepper-spray-clear-n1231022