Jingoistic neoconservative John Bolton, whom President Donald Trump unwisely appointed to be his U.N. ambassador in his first term, rewarded Trump’s trust with a stiletto in the back — becoming one of Trump’s loudest, looniest critics, even mulling a presidential run against him. Leftists who (rightly) detested Bolton for his eagerness to invade Iraq suddenly began to treat the walrus-mustached warmonger as a white-haired Dalai Lama.
Now it seems that Bolton may have used his access to classified materials illegally, as multiple media are reporting, in the wake of a dawn raid by the FBIFriday on Bolton’s home.
Now, now, before you get drunk on Establishment tears, remember how dangerous it is for Trump to set a precedent for the government targeting its political opponents … oh wait. That precedent was set already by Joe Biden’s raid on Mar-a-Lago — which Bolton loudly and publicly supported, pontificating about the sanctity of classified materials:
This month 3 years ago Mar-o-Lago was raided.
John Bolton was constantly in front of the cameras pouring oil on the fire. pic.twitter.com/outhvdc5bi— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) August 22, 2025
In an interview, Vice President J.D. Vance suggested that Bolton might end up in front of a grand jury for as-yet-unspecified crimes:
JUST IN: JD Vance reveals that John Bolton may soon be CRIMINALLY INDICTED. pic.twitter.com/6ACjUldHTi
“We’re in the very early stages of an ongoing investigation into John Bolton … if we think Bolton committed a crime, of course prosecutions will come.”
“There’s a broad…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 22, 2025
Former Trump aide Roger Stone, who was targeted by an FBI still led by Obama loyalists in 2019, weighed in as well:
Good morning. John Bolton. How does it feel to have your home raided at 6 o’clock in the morning?
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) August 22, 2025
What we’re witnessing here, and in Trump’s retaliation against practitioners of lawfare, isn’t “two wrongs making a right.” It’s called “poetic justice,” of the kind Dante deployed all throughout his Inferno. That poet would surely have put John Bolton in the Circle of the Hypocrites.
The Clinton Foundation Tied to Jeffrey Epstein, and Its Fraud Too Big to Jail
Deep State whistleblower Mike Benz has a thing or two to say about the latest claim coming from Jeffrey Epstein’s co-pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell: that she and Epstein were deeply involved with the Clinton Foundation.
EPSTEIN, MAXWELL, AND THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
“She believes Jeffrey Epstein actually funded the Clinton Global Initiative.” – @MikeBenzCyber details Maxwell’s ties to the Clinton Foundation and the massive fraud that has been uncovered. “The fraud was too big to jail.”… pic.twitter.com/jtQjO5UV4U
— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) August 22, 2025
So the official explanation for why the IRS let the Clinton Foundation off the hook was the fraud was so monstrously huge it was too big for the IRS to take on. https://t.co/B3SNqjBDFA
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 21, 2025
How crooked is the Clinton Foundation? Here’s just a tasty sample of the rot, which must run deep:
D.O.G.E. confirms that USAID
gave Chelsea Clinton a grant of $82,000,000 through the Clinton Global Initiative, 3 million of which were spent on her wedding and another 11 million on a mansion.No income tax was paid on any of this money. pic.twitter.com/NshVf7XvJ3
— JOSH DUNLAP (@JDunlap1974) August 22, 2025
Highest Court Rules Trump May Cancel DEI Spending
Speaking of government money being used for inappropriate purposes, Trump tried to cancel $783 million the National Institutes of Health wanted to spend on race/gender nonsense. And of course, a federal judge who likes to play at being president intervened. But the Supreme Court has sided with Trump, as SCOTUS Blog reports:
By a vote of 5-4, the Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to allow the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funding source for biomedical research in the world, to terminate $783 million in grants linked to DEI initiatives. In a brief unsigned order, the court granted a request from the Trump administration to pause a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts that required the federal government to continue making the payments. Also by a vote of 5-4, the court left in place a different portion of the judge’s ruling, which had thrown out internal NIH guidance documents describing the agency’s policy priorities.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett provided the key vote on each issue. She joined Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh in voting to allow NIH to terminate the grants, but she joined Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in voting to leave the lower court’s ruling on the guidance documents in place.
Jackson had sharp words for her colleagues, describing the ruling as “Calvinball jurisprudence” – a reference to the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon – “with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote scathingly of Jackson’s opinion:
For some of us who have followed Jackson’s interestingly controversial tenure on the court, it was crushingly ironic. Although Jackson accused her colleagues of following a new rule that they must always rule with Trump, she herself is widely viewed as the very embodiment of the actual rule of the made-up game based on the comic strip of Calvin and Hobbes. In Jacksonian jurisprudence, it often seems like there are no fixed rules, only fixed outcomes. She then attacks her colleagues for a lack of integrity or empathy….
Jackson has attacked her colleagues in opinions, shattering traditions of civility and restraint. Her colleagues have clearly had enough. She now regularly writes diatribes that neither of her fellow liberals — Justices Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan — are willing to sign on to. Indeed, she has raged against opinions that her liberal colleagues have joined.
Turley noted a recent decision where
Justice Amy Coney Barrett reached a breaking point, unleashing on Jackson in an opinion notably joined by her colleagues. Barrett noted that Jackson was describing “a vision of the judicial role that would make even the most ardent defender of judicial supremacy blush.”
DEI hires on our nation’s highest court … the outcome isn’t pretty.
Lawless Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz Closed. Ron DeSantis Won’t Be Deterred
Gateway Pundit reports that on Friday
US District Judge Kathleen Williams had ordered a South Florida Detention Facility affectionately nicknamed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to cease receiving new detainees and dismantle the facility in 60 days. … The facility is located inside the Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, FL at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.
This morning, during a press conference with Florida Highway Patrol to announce the results of a major immigration enforcement operation, Governor Ron DeSantis said that the ruling “is not going to deter us.”
“This was not something that was unexpected. This is a judge that was not going to give us a fair shake. This was preordained. Very much an activist judge that is trying to do policy from the bench. This is not going to deter us. We are going to continue working on the deportations, advancing that mission. …
I would also note that because of the success of Alligator Alcatraz, there’s demand for more. So I did announce that we’re going to be opening another facility right outside of Jacksonville in Baker County. We’ve called that the ‘Deportation Depot.’”
So far, the Trump administration has declined to outright defy lawless orders such as these, counting on the Supreme Court to overturn them. But for how much longer will Trump’s patience hold out as dozens of judges attempt to drain his executive power by the death of a thousand cuts? Maybe DeSantis will take the lead by flouting Williams’s order and daring her to try to enforce it.
Human Trafficking Poster Boy for Open Borders May Be Deported to Uganda
Remember Kilmar Abrego Garcia? He was the Salvadoran illegal alien deported (thanks to a paperwork error), then painted as a victim of the Trump administration’s “xenophobia” who earned visits from Democrat politicians. That was before the news emerged that his wife had reported him for domestic violence and that he was being charged with human trafficking. He was eventually returned to the U.S. and actually let out of custody by another activist judge. But he won’t be running around the U.S. for long, as ABC News reports:
The federal government is trying to force Kilmar Abrego Garcia to accept a guilty plea or face deportation to Uganda, his attorneys claimed in a filing on Saturday.
The Salvadoran man, who was wrongly deported in March before being brought back to the United States to face human smuggling charges, was released from criminal custody in Tennessee and sent back to Maryland on Friday.
After Abrego Garcia declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to the human smuggling charges, his attorneys say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed them that he could be deported to Uganda and ordered him to report to their office in Baltimore on Monday. …
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had criticized Abrego Garcia’s release on Friday saying, “Today, we reached a new low with this publicity-hungry Maryland judge mandating this illegal alien who is a MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator be allowed free.”
Abrego Garcia’s trial in his human smuggling case was set to begin on Jan. 27, 2027.
