The Brew: Trump’s War on the Deep State Escalates, in D.C. and Caracas

I’ve been reporting here regularly on the two-front battle that President Donald Trump and his team are waging against America’s most deadly enemy. No it’s not some goatherds half a world away, or a declining, defensive Russia. It’s slick-looking men with impressive degrees and hefty resumes, whose contacts extend to both parties, who look at their fellow Americans with the steely eyes of secret policemen in East Berlin or Bucharest.

They’re the kind of men who tried to overthrow President Trump in 2017 with the Russia collusion hoax, who attempted to jail Michael Flynn and his family for made-up crimes, who waved off Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” on the eve of an election — then pressured social media to censor the ugly truth. They hunted peaceful January 6 protestors and got them locked in solitary confinement for crimes like “trespassing.” They stormed pro-lifers’ homes at dawn with rifles pointed at them and their children.

They are the biggest threats to American freedom on earth, and we’re still paying most of them salaries. The rest still have security clearances, and go on TV for fat paychecks to propagandize the public on behalf of their old pals, repeating the polished lies designed to undermine our democracy. If we don’t pry them out of their corner offices, and shut down the election fraud machines which they imprisoned thousands to protect, we lose our country, period.

President Trump knows this. While not all his advisors are on the same page, he apparently has collected a critical mass of people who realize the extent of internal subversion, and are working till their fingers bleed to rip it out, root and branch. Conservative Treehouse reports:

President Trump’s January Executive Order says in part, “The Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the heads of the appropriate departments and agencies within the Intelligence Community, shall take all appropriate action to review the activities of the Intelligence Community over the last 4 years and identify any instances where the Intelligence Community’s conduct appears to have been contrary to the purposes and policies of this order, and prepare a report to be submitted to the President, through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and the National Security Advisor, with recommendations for appropriate remedial actions to be taken to fulfill the purposes and policies of this order.”

DNI Tulsi Gabbard has been working on this for nine months.

Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, heads the Interagency Weaponization Working Group (IWWG) which has been meeting twice a month to coordinate efforts at identifying, targeting and removing people and systems who have abused their authority and weaponized government institutions. The IWWG consists of key people from DNI, DOJ, FBI, Dept of War, IRS, FCC and DHS.

And things are starting to happen. Corrupt ex-FBI director James Comey faces criminal charges — and is using every weapon in the lawfare toolkit to evade justice. Gateway Pundit reports:

US District Judge Cameron Currie, a Clinton appointee, will decide whether Lindsey Halligan will be disqualified as US Attorney after Comey filed a motion challenging her appointment.

Former FBI Director James filed a motion to dismiss his federal criminal case on Monday, claiming “vindictive prosecution.”

Comey also challenged the appointment of US Attorney Lindsey Halligan.

A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted former FBI Director James Comey last month. He was indicted on two counts – false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.

“Vindictive prosecution” — that’s rich coming from the man who threatened Mike Flynn’s troubled son with prison to press the patriotic general to cop to a phony guilty plea.

The darkest, most devious Deep State denizen yet, former CIA chief John Brennan, may also end up wearing an orange jump suit, God willing. One America News reports:

Rep. Jim Jordan, GOP Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has referred former President Barack Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution — accusing him of knowingly making false statements to Congress during a 2023 transcribed interview.

That would be in violation of 18 U.S.C. ? 1001, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and fines.

On Tuesday, in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote that the former CIA director “knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview” with the panel back in May 2023 in relation to the department’s involvement with the Steele dossier.

Brennan falsely claimed that the CIA opposed including the discredited Steele dossier in the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), denying any reliance on it. However, evidence suggests otherwise, as a CIA officer reportedly drafted an annex using a dossier summary, overriding objections from senior CIA officials.

The next time a Democrat or a squish Republican accuses President Trump of abusing his power to punish his enemies, ask in return: “Do you think it’s acceptable for appointed spymasters to lie under oath to Congress, to fool the public into thinking their president is a traitor, just for political advantage?” Because that’s what Brennan did, and he deserves to go to prison for it.

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Will We Liberate Venezuela, and Uncover the Truth About Election Fraud?

I know it sounds like a stretch, but think about how COVID happened: Dick Cheney hired Anthony Fauci to create bioweapons, Congress outlawed that in America, so he outsourced the work to Wuhan, China. That sounds like a James Bond (or Austin Powers) plotline, but it all actually happened — and millions of lives were devastated.

So cut me a little slack when I tell you that to get to the truth about the theft of the 2020 election (and keep the mid-term elections from getting stolen), we need to bring down the narco-terrorist Marxist government of Venezuela. That’s where Smartmatic was founded, whistleblowers say to help Marxists steal Venezuela’s elections, and Smartmatic is apparently the source of the computer code that was used by Dominion and other election machine companies. In other words, experts tell us, the software is designed for cheating. If you want to understand that fully, take the time to go watch the in-depth, highly accessible documentary Let My People Go.

That fact, even more than the fentanyl and other drugs which Venezuela uses cartels to smuggle into our country, is the reason why President Trump seems determined to bring down the tyrannical regime in Caracas. And he’s not letting up.

Again from Gateway Pundit:

Trouble is brewing inside Nicolas Maduro’s inner circle.

The war on the Cartels has seen the largest US military deployment to the Caribbean since the dark days of the Cold War.

Approximately 10,000 U.S. forces deployed to support the operations, mostly stationed in Puerto Rico, while U.S. Marines are deployed aboard naval vessels.

At least 8 U.S. Navy warships operating in the Caribbean Sea, plus one nuclear-powered submarine deployed to the region.

Fighter jets and combat helicopters have been deployed for regional operations, and even strategic bombers have been upping the pressure on Socialist Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro….

Financial Times reported (behind a paywall): “Figures within the regime have taken to changing mobile phones, sleeping in different locations every night and purging suspected dissenters in a series of internal witch-hunts, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation.”

Global Defense News gives more details:

Helicopters from the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment have been observed operating about 145 kilometers off Venezuela’s northern coast. The deployment, aligned with new CIA covert authorizations, has prompted speculation of a possible Special Forces mission in the area.

Helicopters from the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), identified through visual analysis by The Washington Post, fly over Caribbean waters less than 145 kilometers (90 miles) from the Venezuelan coast. This elite aviation unit, known as the Night Stalkers, supports America’s most sensitive special operations missions….

The unit became globally renowned for its critical role in the 2011 Abbottabad raid in Pakistan, where it inserted SEAL Team 6 operators who successfully located and killed Osama bin Laden. The 160th’s MH-60 Black Hawks, specially modified for low-observable operations, penetrated deep into Pakistani airspace undetected, landing inside a walled compound and executing a complex exfiltration under time pressure and without conventional support. The mission demonstrated the regiment’s unmatched capability to operate in politically sensitive, denied areas–a precedent now drawing strong parallels with its presence near Venezuela.

Tick-tock, tick-tock. If Maduro falls and the battered people of Venezuela are freed from their cartel-dominated Marxist government, the free regime that replaces him will surely cooperate with Trump in proving who’s behind our crooked elections — with names, dates, and documentary proof.

Along The Stream

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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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