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‘My husband’s voice will live on’: Erika Kirk confirms plans for the future of Turning Point USA, radio show

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) CEO Erika Kirk appeared on “The Charlie Kirk Show” Friday, saying the show would feature rotating hosts while there was a “blueprint” for the organization.

TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was gunned down during a Sept. 10 TPUSA “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University, where he was debating attendees. Erika, who succeeded her late husband as CEO of the conservative student group, said that some of the co-hosts and staff for Kirk on his radio show were “pieces of his brain.”

“Collectively, each one of you are a piece of his brain,” Erika Kirk said. “I know we’ve talked about this. Blake [Neff], economics, foreign policy, Andrew [Korvet], pretty much a lot of stuff. Mikey [McCoy], humor, Christianity, sports, youth, social, pop culture, Miss Daisy, like everyone, has a piece of his brain that still lives on, and so what I’m getting at here is, the Charlie Kirk Show is not going anywhere. My husband’s voice will live on; the show will go on. We will have rotating hosts.”

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Erika Kirk forgave her husband’s alleged assassin during an emotional speech at Sunday’s memorial service for the TPUSA founder. During her appearance on the show, she hinted that her husband had an immense library of content that could take the show beyond 2030.

“We have decades’ worth of my husband’s voice. We have unused material from speeches that he’s had that no one has heard yet,” Erica Kirk said. “We have Sunday specials lined up to the brim, because my husband was so intentional about making sure that there was enough content, always.”

“We would not do a speech unless we could get the video and the audio,” Korvet added, with Erika Kirk adding, “One hundred percent. So, we have speeches that no one’s heard of, we have interviews that no one’s heard of.”

Erika Kirk hinted that there were also plans for the conservative student group, which has seen a flood of applications since Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“Similar with Turning Point USA, Charlie had a plan moving past 2030 that he’s shared with the team and has implemented so we’re not going anywhere,” Erika Kirk said. “We have the blueprint.”

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‘Relief granted’: Supreme Court allows Trump to hold back $4 billion in foreign aid

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The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Friday to hold back $4 billion in foreign aid funds.

The justices temporarily halted an order by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, a Biden appointee, directing the administration to pay out billions in foreign aid in early September.

“[O]n the record before the Court, the asserted harms to the Executive’s conduct of foreign affairs appear to outweigh the potential harm faced by respondents,” the Supreme Court’s order states.

“This order should not be read as a final determination on the merits,” it continues. “The relief granted by the Court today reflects our preliminary view, consistent with the standards for interim relief.”

Justice Elena Kagan noted in a dissent that the request raises “novel issues fundamental to the relationship between the President and Congress.”

“I appreciate that the majority refrains from offering a definitive view of this dispute and the questions raised in it,” Kagan wrote in her dissent, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “But the effect of its ruling is to allow the Executive to cease obligating $4 billion in funds that Congress appropriated for foreign aid, and that will now never reach its intended recipients.”

The Trump administration previously argued Ali’s order presented “a grave and urgent threat to the separation of powers.” It would have required spending the funds, which Trump canceled through a “pocket recession,” by Sept. 30.

“To have any hope of complying in time, the Executive Branch would have to immediately commence diplomatic discussions with foreign nations about the use of those funds—discussions the President considers counterproductive to foreign policy—and notify Congress about planned obligations that the President is strongly opposing,” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in a Sept. 8 emergency application.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

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‘Existential threat’: Court case could put abortion industry giant on the hook for $1.8 BILLION

Planned Parenthood, America’s abortion industry giant, already is contending with what some have called an existential threat to its future because Congress adopted a law withholding federal Medicaid funds – hundreds of millions of dollars a year – from the abortionists.

Planned Parenthood actually went to court over that law, claiming it now has a constitutional right to be paid taxpayer money.

It has complained that it will have to shut down some of its abortion business locations if it doesn’t take tax money to keep them open.

But there’s also another threat, and this one, in the race to be an “existential threat,” is far and away ahead.

According to a report in the National Catholic Register a court case accuses Planned Parenthood of taking hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers that it was not allowed to take.

It was an anonymous activist, and the state of Texas, that brought the claim the abortionists improperly took money from Medicaid.

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday in the case, which is titled Doe v. Planned Parenthood, and a decision could come soon.

“When Planned Parenthood was exposed for selling fetal tissue and organs, Louisiana and Texas quickly moved to revoke the organization’s Medicaid eligibility. Court orders delayed the revocation. As the courts debated Planned Parenthood’s eligibility, the group continued to make Medicaid reimbursement claims despite the uncertain status until 2020, when the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the states,” the report documented.

The lawsuit, from 2021, comes under the False Claims Act which requires “any person who knowingly submits, or causes to submit, false claims to the government is liable for three times the government’s damages plus a penalty that is linked to inflation.”

Jennie Bradley Lichter, chief of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, told the publication that taking money from the government “while ineligible” must be “repaid in full.”

Planned Parenthood lawyer Susan Baker Manning said there’s no grounds for the abortionists to worry.

“This case has one goal: to shut down Planned Parenthood and deny patients access to sexual and reproductive health care,” she said.

The problem, however, is that, according to Katie Glenn Daniel of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, “The whistleblower in this case, Doe, is suing on behalf of the people to recover taxpayer dollars Planned Parenthood had no right to take and still has not voluntarily paid back, plus fees and interest.”

She said Planned Parenthood for years after being disqualified continued billing Medicaid in Texas and Louisiana and taking the cash.

The Hill reported, “Planned Parenthood’s access to tax dollars has also been limited by the Supreme Court ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, which upheld states’ authority to decide whether abortion providers qualify for Medicaid reimbursements.

“Against this backdrop, the under-the-radar case of U.S. ex rel. Doe v. Planned Parenthood represents an existential threat to Planned Parenthood. Now, Planned Parenthood could be on the hook for treble damages, civil penalties, interest and legal fees, pushing its total potential liability in the pending case past $1.8 billion — a financial catastrophe for the abortion giant.

It actually could “hasten its end.”

Fugitive! ICE arrests superintendent of Des Moines schools – an illegal alien from Guyana

ICE agents on Friday arrested the Superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa, Public Schools – an illegal alien from Guyana with a prior weapons arrest.

According to Fox News, Dr. Ian Andre Roberts was an active ICE fugitive with a deportation order since May 2024. As soon as ICE agents identified themselves, Roberts fled in his car and sped off. He then abandoned his car and fled on foot. Federal agents found him hiding in shrubbery and took him into custody.

Agents found a loaded handgun and a fixed-blade hunting knife in Roberts’ vehicle.

Per Fox News reporter Bill Melugin:

A senior ICE official tells @FoxNews that today, ICE arrested the Superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa Public Schools, Dr. Ian Andre Roberts, who ICE says is an illegal alien from Guyana and active ICE fugitive with a deportation order since May 2024. Fox is told Dr. Roberts fled from ICE agents in his car once they ID’d themselves as immigration agents, speeding away, then abandoning the car. He was found in a brushy area 200 yards away with the help of an Iowa State Police K9. Per ICE official, agents found a loaded gun, a “fixed blade hunting knife”, and $3,000 cash in Dr. Robert’s vehicle.

Per senior ICE official, Roberts first entered the U.S. in 1999 on a F-1 student visa at St. John’s University was ordered removed from the United States on May 22, 2024, with proceedings being held in absentia. On April 24, 2025, an Immigration Judge in Dallas, TX denied a Motion to Reopen his immigration case.

Fox is told Dr. Roberts also has a weapons arrest in 2020, though the disposition of that charge/case is currently unclear.

BREAKING: A senior ICE official tells @FoxNews that today, ICE arrested the Superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa Public Schools, Dr. Ian Andre Roberts, who ICE says is an illegal alien from Guyana & and active ICE fugitive with a deportation order since May 2024. Fox is told Dr.… pic.twitter.com/623WGDpqZb

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 26, 2025

Fox News is reporting that ICE agents recovered a loaded Glock 19 in Roberts’ vehicle.

Photo of the gun recovered by ICE agents in Dr. Robert’s vehicle today, per senior ICE official. FOX is told it was a loaded Glock 19. pic.twitter.com/Cu7fqVqusM

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 26, 2025

Full statement from ICE:

ICE arrests criminal alien serving as Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent; prior weapons charges and in possession of loaded handgun at time of arrest

“ICE Des Moines today arrested Ian Andre Roberts, a criminal illegal alien from Guyana in possession of a loaded handgun, $3,000 in cash and a fixed blade hunting knife. At the time of his arrest Roberts was working as the Superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools despite being an illegal alien with a final order of removal and no work authorization.

During a targeted enforcement operation on Sept. 26, 2025, officers approached Roberts in his vehicle after identifying himself, but he sped away. Officers later discovered his vehicle abandoned near a wooded area. State Patrol assisted in locating the subject and he was taken into ICE custody.

Roberts has existing weapon possession charges from February 5, 2020. Roberts entered the United States in 1999 on a student visa and was given a final order of removal by an immigration judge in May of 2024.

The investigation into how Roberts acquired the handgun is being turned over to the ATF. It is a violation of federal law for those in the U.S. without legal status to possess a firearm and ammunition.

“This suspect was arrested in possession of a loaded weapon in a vehicle provided by Des Moines Public Schools after fleeing federal law enforcement,” said ICE ERO St. Paul Field Office Director Sam Olson. “This should be a wake-up call for our communities to the great work that our officers are doing every day to remove public safety threats. How this illegal alien was hired without work authorization, a final order of removal, and a prior weapons charge is beyond comprehension and should alarm the parents of that school district.”

ICE is grateful for the assistance of the Iowa State Patrol in apprehending this subject.”

NEW: ICE press release & arrest photo below

ICE arrests criminal alien serving as Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent; prior weapons charges and in possession of loaded handgun at time of arrest

“ICE Des Moines today arrested Ian Andre Roberts, a criminal illegal…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 26, 2025

Arrest photo released by federal law enforcement:

ICE arrest photo pic.twitter.com/DScGqx6WWE

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 26, 2025

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com.]

Justice Clarence Thomas explains why precedents, like Roe, need to fall

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in a documentary on his life, “Created Equal.” (Manifold Productions)

“It’s not some sort of automatic deal where you can just say, ‘Stare decisis,’ and then turn off your brain.”

That’s the reasoning that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas explains was why the faulty Roe v. Wade precedent that fabricated a constitutional right to abortion had to fall.

Also, the Chevron ruling that used to give, but no longer does, great weight to bureaucrats’ decisions on how the American government should be running.

It is in a report at Courthousenews that explains Thomas’ defense of the court’s “purge of longstanding precedents.”

Stare decisis is the legal concept of upholding precedents that exist.

He was speaking at Catholic University Law School.

Thomas described those precedent-following decisions like cars in a train. New cases are new cars and they simply following wherever the train goes.

But that can provide problems.

“We never go to the front to see who’s driving the train or where it is going, and you could go up there to the engine room and find out it’s an orangutan,” he explained.

The court also has made significant changes to standards for affirmative action, ruling that universities cannot use race as an admissions qualifier, and changing up requirements of the Voting Rights Act.

Now pending is Humphrey’s Executor, which dates to 1935 and addresses presidential authority over regulatory board members.

This, of course, was triggered by President Donald Trump’s decisions to cut government expenses by eliminating federal jobs and changing up the managers who are running a lot of government operations.

He also wants those running various government processes to be aboard with his Make America Great Again agenda, not a holdover from Joe Biden’s administration who would do everything possible to stop the president’s success.

The report said Thomas pointed out that some rulings have been “disregarded,” even though they’ve never been formally abandoned, such as a 1927 ruling affirming forced sterilization that was used to support eugenics.

“Do we believe that you can go around sterilizing people just because the case has been decided?” Thomas asked.

He said, “I do give respect to the precedent, but the precedent should be respectful of our legal tradition and our country and our laws and be based on something,” Thomas said.

The Roe decision was overturned because it based its power on “implied” rights, also described as “substantive due process,” those that judges perceive could be suggested in the Constitution, but are not actually there.

Due process is there, not “substantive due process.”

Justice Amy Coney Barrett recently addressed that issue.

The case used to overturn Roe, Dobbs, “laid out the evidence to demonstrate that Roe was incorrect to say that a right to terminate a pregnancy had been deeply rooted in the history and tradition of the American people,” said Barrett.

That same argument now is expected to be presented to the high court again, this time in a fight over same-sex marriage.

A county clerk, Kim Davis in Kentucky, was jailed within days of when the high court, then filled with leftists who no longer are on the bench, created “same-sex marriage” nationwide.

That decision also was based on implied rights.

Davis not only was jailed for refusing to sign marriage licenses for homosexual duos, she was sued by those duos, and while one jury cleared her of wrongful behavior, the other ordered her to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars damages.

But her state quickly created a religious exemption for county clerks, in the law, and Davis had not discriminated because she withheld her signature from ALL marriage licenses, planning to wait until the dispute was resolved.

At the time the Obergefell case allowed the then-majority liberal justices to fabricate same-sex “marriage,” there were warnings the ruling could be used against people of faith, those the values of family that have endured for millennia, and more.

All of those warnings were rejected by progressives and other leftists as likely not to exist, or be extremely rare.

Now that those observations have been proven wrong, there is a new movement, a new sentiment, that the precedent fabricated in Obergefell, a precedent that even dissenters on the Supreme Court warned was unrelated to the Constitution, should be overturned.

It’s in a report in the Federalist that experts now confirm, “We can either recognize gay marriage or recognize children’s right to their mother or father. We can’t have both.”

That’s according to Katy Faust, of Them Before Us, an organization that advocates for the right of children to their biological parents.

“Marriage has, throughout our country and nearly every other culture throughout history, been the pathway to secure that right. But as every one of the 38 countries which have legalized gay marriage has learned, when you make husbands and wives optional in marriage, you make mothers and fathers optional in parenthood. The problem is, from the child’s perspective, their own mother and father are never optional. Not in terms of their identity, their development, their safety, or their rights,” she said.

The report in the Federalist warns the “tentacles” of the decision now are “in media, schools and curricula.”

“The decision has left in tatters the single most important institution in society — marriage and family — while ushering in an LGBT indoctrination agenda, annual state-enforced homosexuality, a boost to the rent-a-womb industry, and a burgeoning acceptance of eugenics to service the rent-a-womb industry,” the report warned.

The backlash has been developing for some time already. The report noted support for “gay marriage’ among Republicans has dropped 14% since 2021, when it reached its high.

Thomas, at the time Obergefell was released, said, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold [right of married persons to obtain contraceptives], Lawrence [right to engage in private, consensual sex acts], and Obergefell,” he wrote.

 

WATCH: America under siege: How India is replacing U.S. workers and gutting the middle class

Elizabeth Farah delivers an unflinching editorial exposing India as China 2.0 and a direct assault on the American middle class. She walks viewers through the devastation of offshoring to China that closed 80 to 90,000 factories and cost over 5 million jobs, and shows how India has now taken up the mantle by targeting America’s white collar workforce. Farah explains how U.S. corporations and the India lobby have colluded to flood the labor market with foreign workers, pushing out 1.7 million unemployed STEM graduates, suppressing wages, and siphoning tens of billions back to India. She dismantles propaganda claims of worker shortages and reveals the lies used to shame Americans who resist replacement. Farah exposes the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 as the turning point that began demolishing the middle class, dropping it from 61% of the population to just 51% today. She calls for an immigration moratorium, a national dialogue led by working Americans, and a noncitizen registry to restore economic sovereignty. This is Elizabeth at her sharpest, naming names, confronting corruption, and demanding bold action to save the American Dream.

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‘Respectful dialogue’: Sinclair caves, will bring Jimmy Kimmel’s show back

Jimmy Kimmel

Sinclair Broadcast Group caved and said it is bringing back ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ on Friday evening after a brief suspension.

On Monday, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced they won’t broadcast Jimmy Kimmel Live! across its ABC affiliate stations after ABC caved.

Jimmy Kimmel lied to millions of people and claimed Kirk was assassinated by a MAGA conservative.

Charlie Kirk was gunned down by a far-left, pro-transgender radical who hated him for his conservative political views.

After a brief suspension, Sinclair is bringing Kimmel’s show back.

“Over the last week, we have received thoughtful feedback from viewers, advertisers, and community leaders representing a wide range of perspectives,” Sinclair said in a statement. “We have also witnessed troubling acts of violence, including the despicable incident of a shooting at an ABC affiliate station in Sacramento. These events underscore why responsible broadcasting matters and why respectful dialogue between differing voices remains so important.”

Excerpt from CNBC:

Sinclair is returning “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to its ABC affiliate broadcast stations beginning Friday, the company said in a statement.

The announcement comes three days after Disney’s ABC broadcast network returned the late night program to its air after a nearly week-long suspension. Disney had temporarily suspended the late night show following comments Kimmel made about the alleged murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement.

Broadcast station owner Sinclair, along with fellow broadcast station owner Nexstar Media Group, said earlier this week they would continue to preempt the show, meaning it would be unavailable on local stations for roughly 20% of the country, while they evaluated the situation and continued discussions with Disney.

Sinclair-owned ABC stations will bring ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ back to air Friday https://t.co/cwmdLv1plY

— CNBC (@CNBC) September 26, 2025

On Monday, Nexstar said they stand behind their previous decision to preempt Jimmy Kimmel’s show.

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com]

Confirmed: Dallas ICE shooting suspect had promised federal officers ‘real terror’

Law enforcement investigators digging into the shooting at a Dallas ICE facility this week, allegedly by the now-dead Joshua Jahn, 29, say he had threatened federal officers with “real terror,” had an affinity for video games and specifically was targeting law enforcement when he killed and injured detainees.

Handwritten notes found after the suspect’s death revealed he, at one point, threatened, “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘Is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?'”

Reports also confirm he had spent thousands of hours, a total of about 17,500, playing video games.

And he searched for details on “Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management” and watched the “Charlie Kirk Shot Video.”

Jahn was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after three detainees were gunned down at the facility used by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. No officers were injured, but authorities say that’s who Jahn allegedly was aiming at.

A report in Time said he had been firing “indiscriminately” at officers when he hit the detainees.

“While authorities have yet to state an official motive, they also said that they found bullets inscribed with the words ‘ANTI-ICE’ near Jahn’s body, prompting President Donald Trump and administration officials to call the shooting an attack on the institution over his hardline immigration agenda,” the report said.

FBI says the Dallas ICE facility shooting was months in the making. Officials confirmed 29-year-old Joshua Jahn planned the attack, using ICE tracking apps and targeting agents. One detainee was killed and two others injured as law enforcement rushed others to safety.

Subscribe… pic.twitter.com/00CVP9A7ih

— One America News (@OANN) September 26, 2025

It describes a suspect who had two siblings and lived with his parents as recently as a few months ago.

Online resources said his father retired in 2020 after 36 years working at an elevator firm.

“Speaking to a local NBC News outlet, Jahn’s brother Noah said he and Joshua were Boy Scouts who grew up in Allen, a northern Texas suburb. Jahn was unemployed but had taken an interest in coding, his brother added,” the report said.

Authorities have searched two homes, one in Fairview, Texas, and another in Durant, Oklahoma.

Anti-ICE gunman Joshua Jahn spent 17,500 hours playing violent videos games — including right before shooting https://t.co/vl7XaGUey4 pic.twitter.com/rZqL2Qvy4t

— New York Post (@nypost) September 25, 2025

The suspect apparently had attended some college classes years ago, and had worked for a time with a solar energy company.

A report from a Fox affiliate said evidence found after Jahn’s death showed a “high degree of pre-attack planning.”

FBI agent Joseph Rothrock said, “Jahn specifically intended to kill ICE agents. He fired at transport vehicles carrying ICE personnel, federal agents, and detainees. He also fired multiple shots into the windows of the office building, where numerous ICE employees do their jobs every day.”

“He wrote that he intended to maximize his lethality against ICE personnel and to maximize property damage at the facility. He hoped to minimize any collateral damage or injury to the detainee and any other innocent people,” said Nancy Larson, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas. “He also hoped his actions would give ICE agents real terror of being gunned down.”

The shooting suspect apparently hauled a ladder atop his car to the scene where he accessed a building roof to carry out his shooting.

Larson added, “I want to address the heroism of our federal agents. Yesterday, while under fire, ICE agents and ATF agents who were also present in the facility, the sally port Area worked together to remove detainees from the vans and get them to safety while the bullets were flying. These agents were heroic, clearly willing to lay down their lives to save the lives of the detainees in their custody. And that’s an extremely important point to make at this point in time. I want to express my deepest appreciation for the bravery of these law enforcement officers yesterday and every single day that they go out there to keep us safe.”

BREAKING: The FBI just got the GOODS on the ICE SNIPER

Agents TORE UP his BEDROOM… and they found SECRET NOTES

Democrats say ICE had it COMING… but they’re TRACKING & DOXXING AGENTS, and letting their HOUNDS LOOSE pic.twitter.com/P6QHTPLPAb

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) September 26, 2025

New security video shows federal officers and detainees scrambling to escape gunfire at the Dallas ICE facility Wednesday morning.

One detainee was killed. Two others were critically injured. The suspect, 29yo Joshua Jahn, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. @FOX4 pic.twitter.com/9pLUQHkR8K

— Peyton Yager (@peytonyager) September 26, 2025

‘A prodigious leaker’: Gregg Jarrett laughs at Comey’s ‘broken heart’ claim

Gregg Jarrett

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett appeared on “Hannity” Thursday and ripped former FBI Director James Comey for his “self-righteous sermonizing” video that he recorded after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an indictment against him.

Just hours after the DOJ announced Comey was indicted on two of three counts, he posted a video on Instagram saying his “heart” is “broken” for the DOJ. Discussing the case, Fox’s Sean Hannity asked Jarrett about “any possibility of any superseding indictments” following Thursday’s announcement.

“There is always that possibility. I would say that James Comey should consider himself fortunate that many of his suspected crimes — and it could fill a phone book — are barred by the statute of limitations. But like Richard Nixon, it’s always the cover up that does you in. Lying to Congress, obstructing its investigation, which Comey did over and over and over again, all the way up to 2020, which is within the five-year statute of limitations,” Jarrett said.

According to the DOJ, Comey faces one count of making an alleged false statement within jurisdiction of the legislative branch and one count of obstruction of a congressional investigation. The announcement from the Justice Department comes a day after reports speculated that the DOJ would ask a grand jury to indict Comey on allegations of lying to Congress in September 2020 as a legal deadline for charges approaches.

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Jarrett went on to call out Comey’s “infamous” standing in Washington, D.C., highlighting how former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe implicated him in 2018 for allegedly knowing about leaks to the media.

“He was infamous in Washington as a prodigious leaker. He would do it to burnish his own image, inflate his ego, but mostly to smear the man he so despised, Donald Trump,” Jarrett said. “He would authorize others like Andrew McCabe, James Baker, to leak sensitive material to the media. Sometimes Comey did it himself through a conduit, notably stealing FBI documents when he was fired and then secretly giving them to his friend, Daniel Richman, who handed them off secretly to a reporter.”

“But Comey’s denials are on videotape. You’ve played some of them, and prosecutors, indeed, as John points out, have witnesses who are already on the record. So this is a narrowly defined case,” Jarrett added. “I had to laugh when I saw Comey rush to a camera tonight to claim the mantle of victimhood while anointing himself as America’s greatest hero. He thinks he’s fearless in the face of a tyrant. It was classic Comey, vainglorious, self-righteous, sermonizing. The dissonance is striking. This is the guy who did more damage to the FBI and our system of justice and a presidency than anyone ever. So his defense will be, ‘Oh, gee, I am a victim of a political prosecution and lawfare.’ The irony should be lost on no one.”

In his nearly one-minute response on Instagram, Comey said he and his family have known “for years” the “costs” of “standing up to” President Donald Trump but couldn’t “imagine living any other way.” He added that they would not “live on our knees,” urging viewers to stay “engaged” and pay attention as he anticipated the trial.

Comey’s charges come after reports broke in July that the former FBI director and former CIA Director John Brennan were placed under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing regarding the infamous Steele dossier as they had testified about it to Congress.

In 2020, Comey sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee, pleading ignorance to knowing that there had been significant problems with the dossier’s reliability. At the time, Comey said his staff at the FBI had not notified him of issues regarding Igor Danchenko, who was the primary source for the dossier’s author Christopher Steele.

Comey also told the lawmakers that he could not “recall” details from a briefing in October 2016 about the DOJ’s concerns over the dossier’s political bias against Trump.

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