An important expose at And Magazine reminds us that the Deep State was fundamentally transformed by Barack Obama, honeycombed from top to bottom with far-left ideologues. These men are more closely aligned with foreign governments like those of Venezuela and China than with our own, and they’re utterly loyal to the radicals who recruited them in the first place.
These were the apparatchiks who executed Obama’s attempted coup, who undermined President Donald Trump during his first term in office and arranged for two fake impeachments, who facilitated a stolen election in 2020 and led the persecution of peaceful January 6 protestors, pro-lifers, and PTA moms.
And most of those un-American spooks are still in place. Trump sits atop the Deep State like a white knight perched on a pyramid of poop, looking around for something to hang onto, someone he can trust. It’s the job of Tulsi Gabbard and a few other actual patriots to powerwash all this filth. From the story:
Sources talking to AND Magazine say clearly that inside CIA, significant numbers of powerful, senior officers are still taking direction from Brennan and doing all they can to ensure that no true lasting reform takes hold. This is not the view of a few isolated individuals. This is the near-universal opinion of those with access to what is happening inside the Agency right now.
It cites an anonymous source:
“Brennan controlled promotions in the agency and NSA through Hayden for about 12 years. First from the White House for 4 years, then as DCI. The agency was disloyal to their constitutional oath for the first term of Trump and simply resisted or ignored Trump during his first term. Then Brennan heavily influenced and steered the agency during Biden’s term. After 12 years of seeding the intel community, you can permanently alter the complexion and effectiveness of any federal department.”
The analysts who crafted the corrupt Intelligence Community Assessment (“ICA”) on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan are, for example, still in place at the CIA. Congress interviewed those individuals recently, still in place at their desks. Some of them have been promoted since they participated in crafting the false Russiagate narrative….
Outside CIA, DNI Tulsi Gabbard seems to fully understand the necessity to clean out the stay-behind assets the Deep State has planted in the Intelligence Community. She is making steady progress in replacing those who are obviously working against President Trump and reform. Within CIA so far, the progress seems a great deal less significant.
The story quoted General Mike Flynn, whom the Deep State targeted and falsely tried to imprison to keep him from resisting Obama’s coup attempt:
“A good case can be made that the ability of the second Trump Administration to implement any of its policy agenda will depend primarily on whether President Trump and his appointees realize the threat the CIA poses to him and the nation. Then, the Trump Administration must give the highest priority to defanging and neutralizing the Agency — returning it to its original mission to focus on foreign intelligence — before it destroys his presidency for a second time, and our constitutional republic as well.”
On Tuesday, investigative journalist Emerald Robinson told Eric Metaxas that patriotic intel agents have complained to her about the fierce internal resistance by Obama hold-overs to prevent the truth about the details of the Russia collusion hoax from coming out — because they were part of it.
Pray hard.
Most Americans Want “Accountability” for Obama Coup, Survey Reports
Rasmussen Reports conducted a national survey, and found that Americans do care about the Deep State machinations the Trump team is exposing:
In the wake of revelations about the so-called “RussiaGate” scandal, more than two-thirds of voters agree with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that there must be “accountability” for any crimes committed.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 54% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it’s likely that members of President Barack Obama’s national security team committed crimes when they manipulated and manufactured intelligence to promote a false narrative about Russia and Donald Trump, including 37% who consider it Very Likely. Forty-one percent (41%) don’t think it’s likely crimes were committed by Obama administration officials, including 28% who say it’s Not At All Likely.
But What About Jeffrey Epstein?
After minimizing or ignoring the scandal of Bill Clinton’s close friend Jeffrey Epstein for a decade, Democrats have seized upon the mishandled release of Epstein materials by the Trump administration. The party that saw 450,000 immigrant children lost in the wind to human traffickers (and worse) in Joe Biden’s last year in office is now presenting itself as the scourge of sex offenders — to distract the public from the exposure of Obama’s attempted coup. Lee Smith, perhaps the most effective journalist who documented the Russia collusion hoax, is calling out this sleight of hand:
Naturally, those with the most to lose, such as former Obama officials implicated in the biggest political scandal in U.S. history, and the media that served as their willing accomplices, are playing to block. And the instrument they’ve chosen to protect themselves is another anti-Trump conspiracy theory, this one holding that the administration is hiding information about Jeffrey Epstein to protect Trump from being implicated in his crimes. Call it Epsteingate.
Perhaps the most senior former Obama official pushing Epsteingate is Susan Rice, the onetime national security adviser whose Jan. 5, 2017, email may implicate Obama in the anti-Trump conspiracy. In an X post over a New York Times op-ed by Brennan and Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, she wrote that the Trump administration’s Russiagate disclosures are a “shameless, dishonest, defamatory scheme to distract from EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN.”
The Democrats aren’t the only ones to blame, Lee says. He warns that
a MAGA-aligned cohort led by Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon who weaponized the Epstein narrative, and now parts of the right are as giddy with anti-Trump animus as first-term Never Trumpers are.
“This Epstein thing is probably going to bring President Trump down,” said Douglas Macgregor, a prominent figure on the MAGA podcast circuit who worked in the Pentagon during Trump’s first term. The problem then isn’t just that Russiagate revelations aren’t breaking through to the rest of the electorate but also that podcasters ostensibly aligned with Trump are employing the ghost of a dead sex offender to fracture his base and hobble him, with help from Democrats, after the 2026 midterms, just as Russiagate hobbled Trump’s first term. …
Happily, Trump’s team finally seems determined to get on the same page and correct course, after over-promising on how much it could reveal about Epstein’s murky past, and his apparent links at least to our CIA, if not other intelligence agencies. CNN reports:
Top Trump administration officials will gather at the vice president’s residence Wednesday evening as they continue to weigh whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s recent conversation with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
The administration’s handling of the Epstein case, as well as the need to craft a unified response, is expected to be a main focus of the dinner, three sources familiar with the meeting told CNN. The meeting will include White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Vice President JD Vance, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Blanche.
The thing is, Americans really do need to know if the CIA was involved in sex trafficking in any way, if it enabled or winked at despicable, illegal behavior in pursuit of some alleged U.S. national security interest. That’s the same kind of evil skullduggery that produced the Russia hoax and Obama’s coup in the first place. Any personnel involved in covering up for Epstein’s activities, whatever the justification, need to be removed and investigated.
RFK, Jr. Cancels $500 Million in mRNA Contracts, Denounces the COVID Vax
The Vigilant Fox reports:
In a move that many were hoping for but were not expecting, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy just announced that BARDA [the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority] will be CANCELING 22 mRNA vaccine development contracts, saving taxpayers about $500 million in the process.
This move delivered a major blow to the biomedical industrial complex, which was hoping to make an mRNA vaccine for just about every disease imaginable.
The reason for this move is grounded in what happened during the COVID debacle, which Kennedy explained in detail.
First, he shared how “mRNA vaccines don’t perform well against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract …. mRNA only codes for a small part of the viral proteins, usually a single antigen. One mutation, and the vaccine becomes INEFFECTIVE,” Kennedy said.
The next revelation was a big surprise.
Kennedy confirmed that the COVID shots could have CAUSED the mutations and EXTENDED the pandemic altogether.
He explained: ‘The [mRNA] vaccine [platform] paradoxically encourages new mutations and can actually prolong pandemics. As the virus constantly mutates to escape the protective effects of the vaccine, millions of people, maybe even you or someone you know, caught the Omicron variant despite being vaccinated. That’s because a single mutation can make mRNA vaccines ineffective.’
Trump May Be Walking Back Promise to Back Embyro-Wasting IVF Industry
The Washington Post isn’t happy about it, so it reports this apparent pro-life win as a political problem for Trump:
The White House does not plan to require health insurers to provide coverage for in vitro fertilization services, two people with knowledge of internal discussions said, even though the idea was one of President Donald Trump’s key campaign pledges.
Last year, Trump said that if he returned to office, the government would either pay for IVF services or issue rules requiring insurance companies to cover treatment for it. The pledge came as Trump faced political blowback over abortion rights after his appointees to the Supreme Court helped overturn Roe v. Wade.
At no point in the story does The Post mention the deep-seated moral objections that millions of pro-life Trump supporters have to a bloated industry that produces and stockpiles hundreds of thousands of tiny human beings in technological limbo, and relies on selective abortions to cull artificial pregnancies down from six babies to one or two.
California Proposes Child-Snatching Law
A new law proposed in California pretends to offer compassionate care for children of illegal immigrants deported by the Trump administration. But in fact, this bill would destroy parents’ rights and make life vastly easier for sex predators, the California Family Council warns.
As California lawmakers recess for the summer, Assembly Bill 495, dubbed the “Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025,” sits poised in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Authored by Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez (San Fernando-D), the bill claims to provide compassionate solutions for immigrant families facing sudden separations due to detention or deportation. But critics –including attorneys, parental rights advocates, and faith-based organizations — warn it dangerously redefines guardianship, strips away parental rights, and creates legal loopholes that make kidnapping children easy.
Assemblywoman Rodriguez and her supporters argue that AB 495 ensures children are not left vulnerable if a parent is detained unexpectedly by federal immigration officials. Her bill attempts to create streamlined guardianship by allowing a “nonrelative extended family member,” defined broadly as anyone with a “mentoring relationship,” to assume control over a child through a one-page affidavit. No court review. No notarization. No parental consent required.
Erin Friday, an attorney and president of Our Duty-USA, a parent-led advocacy group, called AB 495 “a child trafficker’s and kidnapper’s dream bill.”
“There is no background check, no welfare check, no court oversight, and no verification. All you need is a piece of paper and some form of identification, with no obligation for the adult handing the child over to verify the identification, and presto, someone walks away with your child,” she warned.
Friday also rejects Rodriguez’s claim that this bill is narrowly tailored to immigration emergencies. The bill’s language applies to any child for any reason, regardless of immigration status, and grants temporary legal rights to individuals with no blood relation, including people who may not even be known to the child’s parents. The stranger can consent to medical treatments for the child, and the bill absolves the doctors from any liability should the adult consenting not have any actual legal connection to the child.
“We’re talking about a legal pathway for predators to operate in plain sight,” Friday said. “This bill is not about immigration. It’s about relinquishing parental rights to unvetted strangers under the guise of compassion.”
Groomers never sleep. And in Gavin Newsom’s California, the state is on their side.
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John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
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