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February 6, 2025

1 hr 33 min ago Trump's Justice Department shutters specialized FBI team combating foreign election interference threats

Source: CNN

The FBI is preparing to disband a team of specialists charged with combating foreign threats to US elections, a source familiar tells CNN.

The shuttering of the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force and planned reassigning of team members follows a directive from incoming and newly sworn in US Attorney General Pam Bondi dissolving the team.

“To free resources to address more pressing priorities, and end risks of further weaponization and abuses of prosecutorial discretion, the Foreign Influence Task Force shall be disbanded,” Bondi wrote in a memo issued Wednesday.

The special task force was established by former FBI Director Christopher Wray in 2017 following a wave of foreign influence operations targeting the US electoral process, including Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election that Trump won.

Wray previously said the purpose of the team was “to identify and counteract the full range of malign foreign influence operations targeting our democratic institutions and our values. The task force now brings together the FBI’s expertise across the waterfront — counterintelligence, cyber, criminal, and even counterterrorism — to root out and respond to foreign influence operations.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-gaza-news-02-06-25#cm6srdiyc00053b6mju3tx6qj



This shocking article needs no comment from me..except to say Democracy is on the ropes and this administration is beyond disgusting.
January 23, 2025

Here is the real problem

I am sorry to have to say it but the real problem is far too many of the American people themselves..

I know that sounds arrogant but think back when Bush invaded Iraq. Thousands were killed but it turned out there were no WMDs.. In any decent country the man that started a war for false purposes would have been thrown out of office .or worse..but not in the USA..He got reelected! American values on display!

Now Trump has pardoned the rioters of Jan 6 who beat and attacked policemen and he and many others call them patriots!!!.. Would they have said the same if it was a gang of blacks trying to overthrow an election after an Obama loss?

The evidence is plain.. a lying con man, a demented threat to American democracy has won over half the country and made the GOP his servants just as Putin has done in Russia...

And far far to many Americans are fine with this because Trump is going to make the USA GREAT AGAIN! (maybe massive tax breaks for the billionaires while we can enjoy twenty-five cents off on a dozen eggs?)


The really disgusting thing is that Trump could not have done this if Americans really cared about democracy and all the other things they love to brag about.

In a similar situation, Abe Lincoln said that, if something like this happened, he would move to Russia where they make no pretense of loving liberty and he could enjoy despotism with out all the hypocrisy.

Think back to Europe one hundred years ago and remember all the leaders that made the same promise..

This is a new 9/11 caused by Americans themselves!


January 22, 2025

Thanks Trump..disgusting TRASH

I was in the USAF in the Philippine Islands when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law imprisoning his political opponents and ending democracy. Now we are losing it in the US...

Congrats Trump! You have been a liar and con man all your life and now you have shown a blizzard of fear, lies and hate can win over decency and honesty..Half the country doesnt care... A crooked, lying white man has beaten a decent qualified woman and we dont have to guess as to why. Wrong color?...wrong sex? Laughs too much? ... But dont take all the credit as you love to do... You had plenty of help.

Criminals, thugs with flags, crosses and guns who tried to overthrow a legitimate election, spread hate and lies, praise Putin, called for the hanging of the vice President and the jailing of opposition leaders, beat up policemen defending he Capital , want to crush dissent, intimidate media and far more, are now in a position to rule. And nothing can restrain them! . In addition to the Trump House, they control both houses of Congress and most of the Supreme Court.

Thanks America! I wonder how you fucks would feel if this were a group of black folks doing all this?

And yes, Trumper are now hell bent on retribution for anyone calling out Trump and trying to hold him accountable. The gutter has come to power..and there is no restraint on them...Such patriots!! They are already calling for arrests and imprisonment of Democrats. And dont even get me started on those cowardly members of the GOP...total hypocrites all of them! They say they love democracy .. and support the Blue.. Only a deluded clown would believe that!

Congrats also to all those flag waving Americans who have traded democracy for what they think is security.! And to all those minorities and people on Obamacare who voted for Trump or stayed home who will soon reap what they have sown.....no sympathy from me! Reap what you have sown!

Trumpers had their prayers and answered but remember this:

"When the gods are most angry at men, they give them exactly what they pray for"


I was born when America was the shining beacon of democracy right after WW2.. and now I am living through its death.

RIP American democracy. It was never all it was cracked up to be but this is the first generation to abandon it.

Sad and angry but this is what America has sunk to..


October 28, 2024

Day of Hate

Lincoln Project does yet another incredible video

October 25, 2024

Conservative Senator from Oklahoma blames Trump for border bill death

https://x.com/i/status/1849588662230712641

How long before Langford is denounced to the Ministry of Virtue and Vice?
October 21, 2024

Trump vulgarity and hate on display for the fascists

https://x.com/i/status/1847771242603896939

Everyday Trump sinks lower..and the cult loves it! Second video

man must be defeated and Trump must go to jail!

October 17, 2024

Cruz gets hit big time

https://x.com/i/status/1846343109447504073

Finally someone standing up to Cruz!
October 17, 2024

CNN Destroys Trumper

https://x.com/i/status/1846946032036229565

Guy insists on smearing those that worked for Trump and left but Anderson Cooper is not buying the bullshit

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