Fox News Anchor Suggests Barack Obama Committed ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ in 2016
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Fox News senior national correspondent and anchor, Kevin Corke, suggested on Friday that former President Barack Obama committed seditious conspiracy.
Corke shared a Fox headline on Friday that read, “BREAKING NEWS: Obama admin ‘manufactured’ intelligence to create 2016 Russian election interference narrative, documents show.” He then captioned the story by writing, “Seditious Conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 2384): Defined as two or more people conspiring to “overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force” the U.S. government or prevent it from carrying out its lawful functions…”
The Fox story, by Brooke Singman, also quoted the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard saying, “’There was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government.”
Singman’s report was based on Gabbard declassifying documents she claimed proved that Obama was behind the Trump-Russia probe during his first term.
“On Friday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents revealing ‘overwhelming evidence’ that demonstrates how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the years-long Trump–Russia collusion probe,” wrote Singman.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump himself publicly called for Russia to hack the Clinton campaign, which the country later did.
In 2020, a Republican-led investigation in the U.S. Senate concluded that Russia did indeed interfere in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf. The Senate panel investigating the election published a 1,000-page report, which found “Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the election on Trump’s behalf,” reported the AP at the time. The report added that “the Trump campaign chairman had regular contact with a Russian intelligence officer and says other Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin’s aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails hacked by Russian intelligence officers.”
Prominent Harvard Affiliates Sent Birthday Letters to Jeffrey Epstein, WSJ Reports
A Wall Street Journal report, released Thursday, showed that several high-profile Harvard affiliates signed birthday letters to Jeffrey E. Epstein, the billionaire who ran a sex trafficking ring, that were collected in a 2023 album. By Angela Dela Cruz
Several high-profile Harvard affiliates were among those who sent birthday letters, some with sexually suggestive messages, to disgraced billionaire and sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein in 2003, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz and longtime Harvard donor Leslie H. Wexner allegedly sent letters to Epstein, who died in prison in 2019. A now-deceased Harvard economics professor, whose identity was not disclosed, was also among the senders.
The Journal reported Thursday that Ghislaine Maxwell, who helped Epstein operate a sex ring of underage girls out of his Florida home, collected letters from President Donald Trump and dozens of other associates for an album in celebration of Epstein’s 50th birthday.
Trump vehemently denied that he wrote the letter allegedly signed by him — which contained a drawing of a naked woman and bawdy, typewritten text — and brought a libel lawsuit Friday afternoon against the two reporters who authored the Journal’s story. Also named in the suit are Rupert Murdoch and his company News Corp, which owns the Journal and the paper’s publisher, Dow Jones.
The Journal reported that Wexner’s letter contained a drawing of what appeared to be a woman’s breasts, tacked onto a short message: “I wanted to get you what you want… so here it is….” Wexner, whose money was once managed by Epstein, could not be reached for comment. He has previously said he “severed all ties with Epstein in 2007 and never spoke with him again.”
Dershowitz allegedly sent Epstein a letter with a mock “Vanity Unfair” magazine cover that featured fake headlines, including “Who was Jack the Ripper? Was it Jeffrey Epstein?” He joked that he had steered the magazine article’s focus away from Epstein to Bill Clinton.
Dershowitz, a famous attorney who represented Epstein during his trial,told The Crimson that he “very possibly” sent Epstein a birthday card but had “no recollection of it.” Dershowitz added that he didn’t know Epstein had committed any crimes at the time and that he “never renewed a personal relationship” with Epstein after serving as his lawyer.
Reporters from the Journal reviewed the album containing Epstein’s birthday letters but did not publish images. The Crimson has not reviewed any of its contents.
The alleged letters by Harvard affiliates are just the latest in a string of deep connections between Epstein and the University. Epstein donated millions of dollars to Harvard, funded an academic program on evolutionary dynamics, and forged close relationships with the University’s top brass.
A clandestine note allegedly from President Donald Trump to the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein surfaces in the very same week that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents showing that President Obama and senior intelligence agency heads allegedly conspired against Trump in 2016. Coincidence
If you think so, I have a dossier to sell you.
Here’s a quick recap. Last week, Gabbard convened a meeting of top intelligence and Justice Department officials to discuss evidence that President Obama intervened in the IC’s assessment that Russia did not meddle in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf. Obama himself ordered the Intelligence Community (IC) to reassess that finding.
The subsequent, presidentially-mandated review included the Steele Dossier, a compilation of baseless allegations about Trump personally and falsehoods about collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. The Dossier was excluded from the first IC assessment because neither the FBI nor the CIA credited its allegations. According to the newly declassified documents, then-CIA Director John Brennan insisted the Steele Dossier be included in the reassessment.
That reassessment asserted that there were grounds to believe the Kremlin had intervened to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton, thereby validating the FBI’s Operation Crossfire Hurricane investigation. That ignominious affair involved spying on the Trump campaign, wire-tapping Trump campaign staffer Carter Page, and the subsequent Independent Counsel probe by Robert Mueller that came up largely empty. The Obama team’s reassessment cast doubt on the legitimacy of Trump’s electoral victory, mired his first two years in office in controversy, and sowed lasting suspicion and discord among segments of the U.S. public. You can read some of the declassified materials here.Related video: Trump Calls DOJ Contact With Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Appropriate’ (Newsweek)
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Based on this evidence, CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a criminal referral to the Justice Department regarding former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-FBI Director James Comey. Both men are now under criminal investigation. Gabbard and Ratcliffe have essentially declared war not only on intelligence agency and FBI veterans but also on anyone still inside the IC who was or is part of the undemocratic resistance against Trump. These include powerful, well-financed people, including experts in the dark arts of espionage.
For Trump’s opponents, then, the timing of this disclosure of an alleged note to Epstein celebrating his fiftieth birthday could not be more auspicious. It took the spotlight off Gabbard’s bombshell disclosure, and put it back on Trump. Based on my professional experience, the timing could not be more suspicious.
Consider that the Wall Street Journal’s story reportedly came about after one or more sources disclosed the note’s existence to investigative reporters Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo. The reporters claim to have seen the note, although it was not reproduced by the newspaper. The source or sources are anonymous. Safdar and Palazzolo are both Pulitzer prize-winners, the latter for breaking the Stormy Daniels story and the former for her reporting on Elon Musk.
Still, this tradecraft is familiar to me. In the 1984 presidential campaign, Art Teele and I were charged with carrying out investigations into Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. When we found links to organized crime figures involving both Ferraro and her husband, John Zaccaro, we turned to an editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters on the Philadelphia Inquirer to expose the mafia connections. Our agreement with the newspaper was that we would provide information and documentation, which the newspaper would then subject to due diligence and corroborate before publishing it. Anything the Inquirer published would be under its own reporting, and not attributed to us individually, the Reagan-Bush campaign, GOP officials, or the White House. Our involvement was to remain secret.
The Philadelphia Inquirer honored our terms and a steady stream of disclosures followed, right until Election Day. Geraldine Ferraro went from an asset to the Mondale campaign to a drag on the ticket, according to polling. Our collaboration remained secret until 2020 when, in response to Hillary Clinton’s campaign commissioning Christopher Steele to compile a phony dossier about Trump, I revealed our operation to illustrate how opposition research should be conducted.
Intelligence professionals are skilled at this game. In countries where spies and politicians can pay or cajole journalists to plant stories, the practice is commonplace. More finesse is required where journalists are better paid and have professional ethics. Still, given the number of FBI agents, US attorneys, Justice Department officials, and intelligence personnel who have been terminated by the Trump Administration, there are any number of people who may have sourced the Wall Street Journal article and could credibly claim to have seen the alleged Trump birthday note. They can do so because they had security clearance to access secret information, whereas the journalists have no clearances and must rely on their sources.
And their sources can credibly corroborate “evidence” as genuine that is in fact disinformation, or, as with Hunter Biden’s laptop, they can dismiss genuine evidence as disinformation. A cabal of these people can cross-corroborate each other’s disinformation, making a gullible journalist think they’ve hit the gold standard of triple-sourcing a story. That’s where AI, deepfakes, and expertise in forging documents come into play. The IC has plenty of experts in forgery, both in terms of creating and detecting them.
We must thus ask two questions. First, what exactly did the Journal reporters and their editor see? Second, what due diligence did they take to ensure that the document was not a fake? Did they employ experts to determine its validity, or did they simply trust their sources?
The answers to these questions matter.
Trump’s vehement denial of the note and his subsequent lawsuit against the Journal, its publisher, editor and the two reporters incline me to believe that the so-called birthday note to Epstein belongs in the rubbish bin alongside the Steele Dossier. But these are only the opening salvos of an epic struggle between those who genuinely undermined our democracy and the President who wants to save it.
This will get uglier.
John B. Roberts II is a former Reagan White House aide and executive producer of The McLaughlin Group. His latest book is “Reagan’s Cowboys: Inside the 1984 Reelection Campaign’s Secret Operation Against Geraldine Ferraro.” His website is www.jbrobertsauthor.com
‘We are so back’: MAGA supporters rally around Trump following WSJ article.
Story by Will Steakin
Leading voices in President Donald Trump’s MAGA base who had been critical for days of the president and administration’s handling of the Epstein files are now rallying to Trump’s defense following a story in the Wall Street Journal, and are celebrating the administration’s move to release grand jury testimony, potentially cooling the backlash among his supporters.
The administration angered many of Trump’s supporters when it announced last week that it would not release any additional files on Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019, after earlier promising to do so.
Prior to joining the administration, Trump boosters like Kash Patel and Dan Bongino had stoked conspiracy theories about an Epstein “client list” that allegedly included the names of wealthy Democratic elites. But elevated to leadership positions in the FBI, both Patel and Bongino signed off on a memo stating that no such list existed — angering some of Trump’s most vocal supporters.MORE: DOJ files request to unseal Epstein grand jury records after uproar over files
That changed on Thursday, when the Wall Street Journal published a letter it alleged Trump had sent Epstein in 2003 for his 50th birthday. ABC News has not been able to confirm the existence of the letter.
Trump, who had been friendly with Epstein for around 15 years before they had a falling out in 2004, denied to the Journal that he had written the letter, and on Friday filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper claiming damages of not less than $10 billion.
Leading Trump supporters rallied to the president’s side.
Following the Journal article, MAGA voices who had been some of Trump’s most vocal critics over the last week, including Megyn Kelly, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Laura Loomer, Benny Johnson and even Elon Musk rushed to defend the president.
Posobiec, a MAGA podcaster who had been one of the loudest voices pushing the Epstein issue, told former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, “We’re so back. Everyone is firing on all cylinders. The MAGA movement is completely united behind this fight.”
Nathan Howard/Reuters – PHOTO: President Donald Trump raises his fist while boarding Air Force One, as he departs for Pennsylvania, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., July 15, 2025.
“We have to be on offensive all the time,” Bannon told his online audience, saying of Trump, “They tried to actually destroy him.”
Trump also announced Thursday that he was asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to “produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval” in regard to the Epstein case — prompting accolades from supporters who had been pushing for the release of more Epstein material.
Johnson, another MAGA podcaster, tweeted “victory” in response to the news.
Kirk, on his show, urged his viewers to “thank President Trump” for pushing his administration to release the testimony.
“So for any of you in the audience that were a little uneasy, that were a little anxious, I think it’s morally incumbent on you to say thank you President Trump, thank you for stepping up and for doing this,” Kirk said. “Thank you President Trump, for fulfilling what you said you were going to do, because he does deserve credit.”MORE: DOJ files request to unseal Epstein grand jury records after uproar over files
The Journal story appears to have redirected MAGA supporters’ criticism and unified them against a familiar target: the media. But whether the shift in support will hold is unclear. While figures like Kirk and Bannon have framed the grand jury promise as a major win, the release of the testimony itself could take time, as officials must first assess its impact on victims then win the approval of a federal judge.
And because the grand jury transcripts represent only a small fraction of the files on Epstein, it’s unclear if the contents will satisfy members of Trump’s base who have been demanding the release of all Epstein materials. The last time the administration released Epstein-related files in February, the move sparked further questions and contributed to the backlash the president and his administration are still dealing with today.
For now, though, Kirk said on his show that “it was very fun to see” the MAGA base rallying around Trump following the publication of the Journal’s story.
Seemingly to underscore the point, Kirk opened his show with a snippet of Joe Cocker’s performance of the song “With a Little Help From My Friends” — in an apparent wink and a nod to the story helping to unite the MAGA movement behind the president once again.
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Did another man and woman send the same type of card to Epstein and was in the collection of cards?
This guy, Tim Walz, in my teenage years, would be called an “air head.” How people could vote for him is beyond my imagination? What does he bring to the table of ideas? He calls himself an American politician and “loves China?”
That’s enough to put yourself in the marijuana fields of thought process.
It also tells you how far down the Democratic process the party has fallen. It happened when they started using Bernie Sanders as their poster boy as a progressive and dropped the “working” class. Can you imagine a progressive being sponsored by the Democratic Party? That is now the reason for the treason in their party.
The Democrats don’t want to work and want everything FREE. Life doesn’t work well in that direction. And, the worst part of it is that they don’t like the Constitution they vowed to protect it when they were elected. There should be something else that goes with the vows which is – if you don’t follow the Constitution and it is proved – you can be de-elected. Plain and simple.
At the present time, some of the left are using our tax money to work against our Constitution and the people – starting with Obama. Didn’t he give pallets of our money to Iran?
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the ‘Gutfeld!’ panel discuss how former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is encouraging Democrats to embrace success.
My opinion – before any discussion with the Democrats on any matter – the Republicans need to establish a published base for the discussion by the subject/person called in (Bessent) so that the Democrats can’t blame the current party. The problems which are being solved and discussed were brought on by the Democrats. DOGE PROVED THAT!
The President is trying to set the country in a positive position with DOGE’s help and the Democrats are trying to keep us in the gutter by wallowing in their self-pity parties. The left needs to elect new Democrats who want to bring our country back – not these progressives who are working with Hamas.
It is a given sign that the left is off the track of the Constitution.
During a Senate Finance Committee hearing on June 12, 2025, Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) got into a heated exchange with Treasury Scott Bessent, who tried to blame the current fiscal health of the country on Biden while ignoring Trump’s 2017 tax cuts blowing up the deficit.
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Disrespect always starts on the person who is casting blame rather than trying to solve the problem – he is deflecting the blame.
Senator Bennett is not setting a good example for our children.
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