SECOND UPDATE: JAMES CONEY INDICTED! One US Attorney, with many years of experience, refused to seek the indictment of former FBI Director James Coney, so the Dear Leader fired him, brought in a civil lawyer with ZERO experience in criminal law, and lo and behold James Coney was indicted Thursday evening.
Let September 25, 2025 be remembered as the day the Age of Totalitarianism arrived in the United States.
And while we are at it- how about re-examining the grand jury system, because if some know-nothing civil shrill can get an indictment of James Coney, the grand jury system is broken. Just let the Dear Leader decide who should be charged. He knows so much about everything else and is, as he has said, a "very stable genius."
Coming soon: The indictments of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Jimmy Kimmel, George Clooney, Kamala Harris, Chris Christie, Lettia James, King Charles, Mitch McConnell, Pope Bennedict, Alex Baldwin, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Skenes (for throwing a sinker/splitter that is unhittable and should be illegal) and Russell Wilson (because his QB play - especially throwing the ball away on 4th down was downright criminal.)
Aren't you just bursting with pride over our Best In The World- criminal justice system tonight? Think about it- where else in the world can a leader orchestrate the arrest of his political opponents? Bolivia? Venezuela? North Korea? Iran? Cuba? Russia (no- they just assassinate Putin's opponents and dispatch with the show trials we have here). All the great countries we should be emulating and with the help of our Dear Leader are.
TNF Update before we begin. We like the over 43.5. The Cardinals are home dogs getting 1.5 against the surging Seahawks. If you have to, Seattle reverts to the mean and comes down to earth. Arizona +1.5. But if you want to go that route, eschew the points and take Arizona +110.
We want to say goodbye to a few things.
1) Freedom of speech. Check out Mr. Markus's blog. A very respected AUSA was FIRED because in 2017, before he was working for the government, he made some posts critical of the Dear Leader in DC. Exposed (and who exposed him has been the subject of intense chatter in the federal courthouse), he was FIRED because criticism of the Dear Leader will NOT be allowed.
2) A moment of silence if you will. Mr. Markus has confessed on his blog he is, it really pains us to write this, engaged in a three-month CIVIL TRIAL. Ewww Gross.
Another one bites the dust.
3) The failing NY Times today reported here that the DOJ instructed multiple jurisdictions to open investigations into George Soros for his criticism of the Dear Leader. The DOJ was told to do this by the Dear Leader himself. So goodbye to the independence of the DOJ. If you recall, last week the Dear Leader ordered HIS Attorney General to immediately indict NY AG Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey. If you recall, James obtained a civil judgment against the Dear Leader's businesses in NYC and that, of course, is a crime. The crimes of Comey against the Dear Leader are well known and need not be repeated here.
A word about civil law. 😢
Ah the siren song and allure of the civil world, much like the allure of the dark side of the force, is strong. It is beguiling and ensnares even better men (and women) than us- as Mr. Markus surely is.
Careful readers will remember that our namesake, in the episode entitled Rumpole and The Bubble Reputation sees our grizzled veteran of the Old Bailey's criminal cases eagerly jump into the civil defense of a newspaper charged with libel in which there is both a large retainer and, as Rumpole salivates over- £500/day refreshers.
Alas we have lost another to the power of the Dark Side.
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Claims that the current administration acts undemocratically pale in comparison to the Biden Administration’s chilling assault on free speech, which weaponized government influence to silence dissent. Tech giants like Google, Meta, and Twitter admitted to censoring content under pressure from Biden officials, targeting COVID-19 and election-related posts. Google confessed to removing YouTube content, including discussions of the COVID-19 lab-leak theory—now deemed plausible by the FBI and CIA—resulting in permanent bans for users like Dan Bongino and Sebastian Gorka. In 2025, Google began reinstating these accounts, acknowledging the wrongness of this censorship, yet the damage to public discourse was done.
The Biden Administration’s most Orwellian move was the 2022 Disinformation Governance Board, led by Nina Jankowicz, a figure with a troubling record. Jankowicz dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation and praised COVID-19 misinformation crackdowns, raising alarms about her suitability to oversee a board critics called a “Ministry of Truth.” Her appointment sparked outrage, leading to harassment and the board’s swift dissolution amid concerns it would police speech.
While the current administration’s actions may invite scrutiny, the Biden era’s overt pressure on platforms to suppress lawful speech, including humor and satire, and its attempt to institutionalize censorship through Jankowicz’s board set a far more dangerous precedent. These efforts stifled debate, eroded trust, and undermined democratic principles, far outweighing current critiques
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Yes, private companies kicking people off their social media platforms and some disinformation board that never did anything and was disbanded was obviously much worse than the President directly and publicly ordering a criminal prosecution, firing a US Atty he had recently appointed who did not find PC for charges, and making a US Atty out of a lawyer who has never even been a prosecutor and previously represented the President personally in civil litigaiton, and that new US Atty personally bringing criminal charges against a political enemy of the President days after she was appointed by the President for that exact purpose.
Dear Trump critics, your focus on the current administration’s alleged undemocratic actions misses the deeper story of why Donald Trump won in 2024: a Democratic Party fractured abruptly by its own civil war. Traditional Democrats (like me), alienated by the party’s far-left “woke” drift, abandoned ship. Union rank-and-file members, defying pro-Democrat leadership, swung heavily to Trump, with 54% of union households voting Republican in 2024, up from 40% in 2020. Hispanic males (54%), Black males (20%), and Jewish voters (34%) also shifted right, per Pew Research, rejecting policies like the Biden Administration’s censorship push, exemplified by the Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board under Nina Jankowicz. Her dismissal of valid concerns as “disinformation” fueled distrust.Critics of the Democrats aren’t automatically MAGA supporters but are troubled by politicized lawfare, like New York AG Letitia James’ civil fraud case against Trump. The New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, in a stunning 2025 ruling, overturned the $500 million penalty as excessive, violating the Eighth Amendment, while upholding Trump’s liability. Courts nationwide, including in Georgia and federal jurisdictions, have dismissed Democratic-led challenges against Trump, exposing their overreach. James herself faces scrutiny for alleged mortgage fraud, backed by evidence of false filings. This vertical divide—elitists versus the ruled—explains Trump’s triumph, not just partisan allegiance. The traditional horizontal "left-right" paradigm is no longer applicable. The back room knee slapping and guffawing as to the "dumb Republicans" as opposed to the "smart Democrats" has outlived it's 50 year run. Without a deeper understanding of what has been happening will only accelerate the destruction of the moribund Demoratic Party.
I always said that when the Dems indicted Trump he would be the next president and he would exact revenge. That’s the way the ball bounces g
James Comey’s conduct warrants indictment because it reflects a clear violation of the standards he was sworn to uphold as Director of the FBI. By removing official FBI memos from government custody and deliberately leaking them to the press through an intermediary, Comey mishandled sensitive government records in violation of federal law, including 18 U.S.C. §§ 793 and 1924, which criminalize the unauthorized retention and disclosure of classified or official documents. His actions were not inadvertent but calculated, undertaken with the admitted goal of influencing the Department of Justice by triggering the appointment of a Special Counsel. That intent elevates the misconduct from administrative to criminal, constituting obstruction of justice by using government property to manipulate federal proceedings for personal or political ends. Moreover, Comey’s testimony before Congress was knowingly false, triggering guilt under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 for false statements. The Inspector General’s findings that Comey acted “insubordinately” and with a lack of candor reinforce the fact that his conduct fell below the standard of honesty required of any federal officer. Finally, the principle of equal justice under law demands accountability: lower-level personnel have been prosecuted for far less serious breaches of protocol, and failure to charge him would confirm a double standard in favor of the powerful. The law must apply equally to the Director of the FBI as it does to the rank-and-file, and Comey’s deliberate and self-serving misuse of government records justifies indictment.
Yes, the Biden administration, which never threatened to prosecute, nor did prosecute, nor sought the firing of people who engaged in anti-Biden speech, is so much worse than Trump's administration, which recently threatened to criminally investigate as terrorists organizations or people that donate to the Democratic party, has sought indictments against former appointees and employees critical of Trump, and against anyone in the FBI or DOJ whose job required investigation of Trump's multiple criminal acts, and has bullied broadcasters, law firms and universities whose work contradicts Trump's geyser of lies.
Stop skin-popping Fox news, you're oozing infection at the wound sites.
Straight to Jail
You sound like an a hole
The assertion that private companies independently drove censorship sidesteps the Biden Administration’s unconstitutional pressure on tech giants to suppress speech, a clear violation of the First Amendment. When the government coerces private entities to censor, it constitutes state action, as established in landmark Supreme Court cases. In Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan (1963), the Court ruled that a Rhode Island commission’s “informal” threats to book distributors to suppress obscene material violated the First Amendment, as they were coercive state actions. Similarly, National Rifle Association v. Vullo (2024) unanimously held that New York’s pressure on insurers to sever ties with the NRA over its gun advocacy constituted a First Amendment violation, with Justice Sotomayor emphasizing that “a government official cannot coerce a private party to punish or suppress disfavored speech.” Murthy v. Missouri (2024), though dismissed on standing, saw the 5th Circuit find likely First Amendment violations when Biden officials pressured social media platforms to censor COVID-19 and election content. Mark Zuckerberg admitted in 2024 that White House officials aggressively pushed Meta to remove posts, including satire. Google’s 2025 letter confirmed similar coercion on YouTube, leading to reinstatements of banned creators. Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” revealed Biden campaign requests to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. Democrats must confront this truth: their administration’s actions chilled free speech, undermining constitutional protections.
RE Rumpole, "Aren't you just bursting with pride over our Best In The World- criminal justice system tonight?"
No, we have one of the worst criminal justice systems in the world, but don't blame Trump for that, it was awful long before Trump was elected. "The United States has the largest known prison population in the world. It has 5% of the world's population while having 20% of the world’s incarcerated persons. China, with more than four times more inhabitants, has fewer persons in prison." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Are Americans simply bad people who need more confinement? Or is the criminal justice system a piece of garbage? The voters must think so. They keep electing Trump, a convicted criminal. Voters know the CJS is garbage, with garbage prosecutions. Just read the comments on this site about the local SAO. Voters are not buying the dems "sky is falling" nonsense. The real threat to democracy? Sleepy Joe, Kamala Harris, Crooked Hillary, the list goes on and on.
Harris had over a billion dollars to work with. she crushed trump in their debate. then she listened to her sister and the party career politicians and ran a conservative campaign because msnbc and cnn told her she was way ahead. she then lost all 7 key states up for contention. in my opinion if she had taking risks like giving a speech with experience as california ag and da of san francisco after three drive by shooting at hbcu and posit solutions you probably would have won . the country was and has been desperate for leadership since taking clinton (gennifer flowers), obame (young and inexperience but gave great speeches from a teleprompter) and then we took a chance on trump, went back to career politicians, and yet elected a felon because harris sounded and acted luck a puppet of the democrat party. and for every step trump takes in the right direction, stopping fentanyl coming in over a non existent border, he takes 3 steps back. ARE YOU SURPRISED AT HIS RETALIATION after 2 impeachments, 4 trials he sat through, 4 criminal cases charging 91 felonies while comey let clinton off the hook. and he won another case in the ussct today. you dems think everything he does is wrong, it is not. and as long as partisan politics rules the criminal defense bar will continue to work the assembly nature of prosecuting black and hispanic men because the white aristocracy wants it that way and that is why we allow over 1 million minority teens quit high school every year. they are not going to have a great life.
Oh, the irony drips thick! Democrats, those self-styled paragons of justice, orchestrated a DOJ that hounded conservative voices with theatrical flair while Antifa’s fiery rampages—millions in damages from arson, looting, and over 200 attacks on pro-life centers and Catholic churches post-Dobbs—barely merited a shrug. The Biden regime’s prosecutorial zeal targeted ideological foes with surgical precision. Paulette Harlow, a 75-year-old grandmother, got two years in prison for quietly praying outside a D.C. abortion clinic, labeled a “conspiracy against rights” under the FACE Act. Steve Bannon, convicted in 2022 for contempt of Congress over a January 6 subpoena, served four months in a low-security prison, but his placement at FCI Danbury, a facility with violent offenders, was harsher than typical for white-collar crimes, suggesting punitive intent. Douglass Mackey, a meme creator, was jailed for seven months in 2023 for 2016 satirical texts about Clinton voters. John Eastman faced disbarment and indictment in 2022 for advising Trump on election challenges. Meanwhile, federal employees were fired for misgendering or off-color jokes, forced into DEI sessions echoing Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Democrats’ tone-deaf failure to heed public outrage at this selective justice fueled resentment, exposing their regime’s disconnect.
Comey lied under oath, there is no real controversy about that fact.
Comey was a Trumpanista. He deliberately smeared Ms. Clinton and is why Trump became President. He’s no hero. He’s just a tall Kash Patel.
When historians recount the destruction of our republic, the man most responsible is Comey. He deserves whatever bad shit happens to him and more.
I'm unaware of Biden's putative effort to suppress humor and satire. Please explain.
More significantly, I think it's a decent point that Biden, like Trump, tried to control private companies to suppress information -- in Biden's case, about COVID and the vaccine. It shouldn't be hard to recall that Biden's suppression efforts occurred during the worst ravages of the pandemic, a true national emergency which was laying waste to large segments of our population. Mis- and dis-information about the disease and vaccine was potentially lethal. Context matters. Comparing Trump's efforts to suppress a comedian's speech to Biden's efforts to suppress misinformation about a lethal pandemic is apples to oranges.
"Straight to Jail," says this criminal attorney. If the violation were as clear as 12:26 says, why did Trump have to fire a Trump-appointed prosecutor to get an indictment? Why did Bondi herself have doubts, as reported by that liberal rag the WSJ?
If there were "no real controversy about that fact," why did Trump fire his own pick Siebert?
There is no organization called "Antifa," it's a figment of the far-right's fever brain. If it did exist, it's not the organization killing medical professionals who perform what used to be legal abortions. If it did exist, it's not the organization shooting up churches and synagogues - those have been white supremacists (Dylan Roof, Gregory Bowers, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, etc.). See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-department-study-far-right-extremist-violence, reporting Trump's recent suppression of new report on right-wing domestic terrorism.
Bannon was sentenced for contempt of congress because he repeatedly refused to honor a subpoena - you're ok with a Democrat refusing to obey a congressional subpoena?
Paulette Harlow conspired with 9 other people to prevent women from accessing reproductive health care. Would you be ok being blockaded from seeing your doctor for time-sensitive health care? I'm a 75 y/o grandmother. If I conspired with others to block access to, e.g., an ICE facility, in a sincere expression of my moral, legal and political beliefs, I wouldn't whine about my punishment, I'd have worn it as a badge of moral courage for a premeditated act of civil disobedience.
Douglass Mackey didn't send "satirical texts about Clinton voters." In an expressed intent to reduce black turnout, he deliberately misinformed potential voters that they could vote for Clinton by text. He had been convicted for a similar offense after a 3-week trial held one year earlier.
John Eastman was not disbarred for "advising Trump on election challenges": he repeatedly lied, including in court, about the outcome of the 2020 election, and he authored the alternate-slate strategy, which he admittedly knew to be unconstitutional, to put pressure on VP Pence not to certify the election.
Can you name one federal employee "fired for misgendering"? Are you seriously comparing Mao's re-education gulags to a sensitivity-training workshop?
FYI I’ll be at the monthly Antifa overthrow the gov meeting this week at Mortons. Come join us and plot street mayhem while chowing down a ribeye.
Kamala Harris threw the presidency away when she failed to call the 25th Amendment on Sleepy Joe. Stop crying, she was a disgrace. They/Them
The Biden Administration’s campaign to control online narratives didn’t just target misinformation—it went after humor, satire, and legitimate scientific debate, revealing a tone-deaf assault on free speech. Senior officials, including White House Digital Director Rob Flaherty, repeatedly pressured tech giants like Meta and Google to censor COVID-19 content, including humor and satire critical of Biden’s policies. Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a 2024 letter to the House Judiciary Committee that officials berated Meta staff to remove satirical posts, like a meme mocking vaccine side effects, expressing “frustration” when resisted. Google’s 2025 disclosure echoed this, noting pressure to delete non-violative YouTube content, including comedic jabs at pandemic policies. This wasn’t just oversight; it was a deliberate attempt to sanitize dissent, even when cloaked in humor.
The administration’s overreach extended to banning users for discussing COVID-19’s origins, particularly the lab-leak hypothesis—now deemed plausible by the FBI and Department of Energy. Figures like Dan Bongino and Sebastian Gorka were permanently banned from YouTube for questioning vaccine efficacy or the lab-leak theory, while Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s posts on natural immunity were shadowbanned on Twitter. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s accounts were suspended for suggesting vaccine risks, and a video of Dr. Aaron Kheriaty discussing vaccine mandate ethics was removed. These bans politicized a scientific question, chilling open debate. Democrats’ failure to grasp the public’s outrage at this censorship, as evidenced by Google’s 2025 reinstatement of banned creators, underscores their disconnect from the American pulse
Does the 25th Amendment apply to KFR?
Your lack of focus on the current administration's undemocratic actions -- dispatching the military into cities without invitation or consent; investigating and prosecuting people Trump considers to be personal enemies, notwithstanding objections from his own DOJ; instigating the assault on the capitol then pardoning hundreds of convicted felons who participated; threatening broadcast networks for allowing Trump critics to appear; threatening law firms for legal resistance to his depredations; threatening universities for protected speech -- is mystifying. You're blaming democrats for the moral rot you display in defending this administration.
What has fueled distrust isn't someone named Jankowicz, it's the years your guy spent lying about Obama's birthplace, lying about climate change, lying about the 2020 election, lying about COVID and vaccine safety, all amplified by media and social networks he rewards for doing so. Do you think Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud? Have you seen "evidence of false filings" by Letitia James? Adam Schiff?
Oh, please—calling Comey a "Trumpanista" sneering at Hillary? That's rich revisionism. Comey wasn't some partisan hack; he was cornered by Clinton's colossal scandal: running State Department business on a private server, exposing classified intel to hackers, then her team using BleachBit software to "acid-wash" 33,000 emails and smashing old BlackBerries with hammers to erase traces. Not "destroying a hard drive"? Try obliterating evidence under subpoena. That forced the FBI's hand.Comey had zero choice but to investigate this massive breach—then twisted into mental pretzels redefining the Espionage Act's "gross negligence" as mere "extreme carelessness" to dodge charges, all while blasting her publicly. Partisan? If anything, it handed Trump the election.Trump? He showed real grace, ditching his "lock her up" pledge post-win to let the nation heal, no special prosecutor. History didn't extend that mercy to Trump—raided, indicted, impeached on witch hunts. Hypocrisy much?
Win at all cost.
KFR??? Harris has no leadership skills whatsoever. She literally threw the presidency away when she failed to call the 25th Amendment on Sleepy Joe. A DEI candidate, and quite frankly an affront to capable women and minorities. Listen to the perspective of Brandon Lehman, a 28 year-old minority who is a Trump supporter. BTW, I did not vote for Trump or Harris.
How I Became a Trump Supporter (My Story)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rieGIJVRwiQ
The Democratic party is finished. The future belongs to independents, No Party Affiliation (NPA). The Republican party prevails today because of Trump, and he is 79 years-old. People like Brandon Lehman are the future of America and our politics.
She really has no idea what goes on day to day at the office.
Did you even read the indictment? Thought this was a blog of primarily criminal law-based attorneys? You're going to spout off about equal justice and not even verify the facts yourself?
Because ham sandwich inditing federal grand jury did NOT indict him for 18 U.S.C. §§ 793 and 1924. So, where are you getting this "Clear Violation..." "Mishandled sensitive government records.."
He was indicted for a false statement 18 U.S.C. § 1001(2)(a) and Obstruction of Congressional proceeding 18 U.S.C. § 1505. (Because of the false statement).
What is the false statement you are so confident shows his clear criminal conduct? (That Comey directed Mcabe to leak the documents? is that what you think it is?) He told congress, he never directed the leak?
What's the evidence that proves that to be false?
According to Mcabe, who directed the information to be leaked,
he told Comey on October 31, 2016, the day after it happened, that he (mcabe) had authorized the disclosure to the WSJ.
So, what evidence is there that Comey directed the leak? Because that is what is at play. What are the facts that lend to a credible theory of prosecution for the indicted charges?
There should not be a double standard, and I, for one would love to see more people who clearly knowingly lied to congress held accountable and punished. But lets deal in facts here.
What was the lie?
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