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Jack Smith Under Federal Investigation for Alleged Election Interference, Hatch Act Violations

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Federal authorities have launched a formal investigation into former Special Counsel Jack Smith following allegations that he may have violated the Hatch Act — a law designed to prevent political activity by government officials while performing official duties.

According to documentation reviewed by the New York Post, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), an independent agency charged with enforcing the Hatch Act, has initiated the probe through its Hatch Act Unit. Senior Counsel Charles Baldis reportedly confirmed the investigation via email.

At the heart of the allegations are concerns that Smith may have used his position within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to influence the 2024 presidential election — specifically in a manner detrimental to former President Donald Trump.

Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who also chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, applauded the move in a public statement.

“I commend the Office of Special Counsel for treating this matter with the seriousness it deserves. Jack Smith is not above the law,” Cotton said. “His conduct appears to have been politically motivated and aimed squarely at undermining President Trump’s campaign.”

He also criticized Smith’s attempt to bypass normal judicial channels and take the case directly to the U.S. Supreme Court without sufficient justification.

“The goal wasn’t justice. It was speed — and the motive was clearly political,” Cotton added. “This was campaign interference dressed up as legal process.”

The Office of Special Counsel has not publicly commented beyond confirming that a review is underway.

Smith, appointed as Special Counsel under the Biden administration, previously led two high-profile federal investigations into Donald Trump — one focused on Trump’s retention of classified materials at Mar-a-Lago, and the other examining his role in the events surrounding January 6, 2021. Both investigations have since concluded without resulting in a conviction, and the cases have been dropped.

Cotton is now urging OSC to complete its investigation and, if warranted, hold Smith accountable for what he describes as “an unprecedented attempt to sway the outcome of a presidential election through federal authority.”

“These weren’t the decisions of a neutral public servant,” Cotton concluded. “They were the calculated moves of a partisan figure operating from inside the Department of Justice.”

The outcome of the investigation could have major implications, not only for Jack Smith personally but also for future interpretations of the Hatch Act and its role in maintaining political neutrality within the federal government.

Trump Fires BLS Commissioner Over Alleged Job Report Discrepancies Ahead of 2024 Election

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President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer following the release of a weaker-than-expected July jobs report and accused the agency of previously misreporting employment data ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

According to the Department of Labor, the U.S. economy added 73,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2%. Both figures fell short of economists’ expectations and prompted immediate scrutiny from the White House.

On Truth Social, President Trump, who recently began his second term, expressed concerns over what he called “manipulated” employment figures. He cited discrepancies in past job growth reports, particularly in the months leading up to the 2024 election, which he alleged had been overstated in favor of then-Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

“I was just informed that our Country’s ‘Jobs Numbers’ are being produced by a Biden Appointee… who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory,” Trump wrote. He further claimed that job growth was overstated by over 800,000 positions in early 2024 and again in the fall.

In his statement, Trump directed his administration to remove McEntarfer from her post, stating she would be replaced “with someone much more competent and qualified.”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich confirmed the firing and defended the move, citing a pattern of “routinely getting economic data wrong.” Budowich added, “Policy makers look to these reports to inform decisions… We need accuracy, and President Trump will restore competency and accuracy to this critical agency.”

Stephen Miran, a senior White House economist, acknowledged the weak jobs report and said part of the downward revision — including a 258,000-job adjustment to the previous two months — was due to statistical factors, not deliberate manipulation.

“About 60 percent of the downward revision is due to quirks of the seasonal adjustment process,” Miran told CNN. He also noted that despite the setback, long-term fundamentals of the labor market remained “strong.”

McEntarfer, appointed under the Biden administration, had served as BLS commissioner during a period of economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. While she has not issued a public statement in response to her dismissal, labor economists have pointed out that monthly jobs data is often revised as more information becomes available, and fluctuations are not uncommon.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, a division of the Department of Labor, plays a key role in compiling data that influences federal monetary policy, market forecasts, and public trust in the economy.

This marks the first high-profile dismissal from a federal agency under Trump’s new term, and it has renewed debate over political influence in the presentation and interpretation of economic data.

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REPORT: DOJ Official Tied to Left-Wing Activism Approved $2 Million Settlement for Russiagate FBI Agents Strzok and Page

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A former top Department of Justice official — now linked to prominent left-wing legal advocacy groups — approved a stunning $2 million payout to disgraced former FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, whose anti-Trump messages became central to accusations of political bias in the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.

According to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the Center to Advance Security in America, Brian Netter, then Deputy Assistant Attorney General under Attorney General Merrick Garland, greenlit the settlement agreements in 2024. The revelations were first reported by The Federalist.

Netter, who has since taken a role as Legal Director of Democracy Forward, a progressive legal nonprofit chaired by Clinton-aligned election lawyer Marc Elias, has long been affiliated with Democratic legal causes. Democracy Forward’s mission includes challenging GOP-backed election reforms and advocating for “social progress through litigation.”

The group’s website explicitly claims that individuals “responsible for January 6th have returned to power” — signaling its partisan orientation.

The settlement comes despite the controversial roles of Strzok and Page in the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign. Their leaked texts from 2015-2017, obtained from government-issued phones, included open disdain for then-candidate Trump and alarming references to an “insurance policy” in the event he were to win the presidency.

“I want to believe the path you threw out in [former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s] office—that there’s no way he gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok wrote to Page in one infamous 2016 exchange. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

Republican lawmakers and watchdogs said the messages suggested the FBI was politicized at the highest levels — undermining its role as a neutral investigative agency.

Strzok, who was later fired by the FBI, and Page, who resigned, sued the DOJ, alleging their privacy was violated when their texts were leaked in 2017. The DOJ ultimately awarded $1.2 million to Strzok and $800,000 to Page, according to Politico.

Netter’s involvement adds a layer of political intrigue to the case. While at DOJ, he actively fought against Trump’s attempt to block the release of presidential records to the House January 6 Committee.

According to The New York Times, Garland officiated Netter’s wedding to Karen Dunn, a Democratic legal operative who later co-founded a firm with Jeannie Rhee — a former Clinton Foundation attorney and senior lawyer on Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

Mueller’s final report found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, though the investigation itself inflicted political damage and remained a dominant narrative throughout Trump’s presidency.

Adding to the controversy, newly released transcripts from the House Judiciary Committee show the FBI ignored intelligence suggesting that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign planned to fabricate links between Trump and Russian operatives — information allegedly included in the Durham report’s annex.

Critics now say that the DOJ, under Garland, is not only protecting former operatives who pushed the discredited Russia narrative — but actively rewarding them using taxpayer dollars.

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Declassified Report Links George Soros to Early Trump-Russia Narrative

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A newly unsealed intelligence appendix to the Durham Report has raised serious questions about the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, and it may implicate one of the world’s most influential political financiers.

The declassified annex, released Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee under the direction of Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), suggests that key players within the U.S. intelligence community were warned as early as 2016 that a coordinated effort was underway to tie Donald Trump to the Kremlin, before the FBI formally launched its “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation.

According to the document, those early signals came from credible foreign intelligence sources. Those sources were reportedly tied to George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

The appendix, which was part of Special Counsel John Durham’s broader review of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, reveals that multiple foreign entities believed the FBI and senior Obama-era officials were preparing to promote a disinformation campaign aimed at Trump. These claims were flagged before July 31, 2016, the date the FBI officially opened its investigation.

One explosive email cited in the document allegedly comes from Leonard Bernardo, a senior figure at the Open Society Foundations. The message outlines a strategic plan to link Trump with Russian cyberattacks as a means of diverting public attention from then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s private email controversy.

“HRC approved Julie’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections… this should distract people from her own missing email,” one message reads, as quoted in the annex.

Another message reportedly describes plans to funnel disinformation through private cybersecurity firms like CrowdStrike and ThreatConnect, both of which would later become central players in pushing the DNC hacking narrative to major U.S. news outlets.

Sources familiar with the appendix told Fox News Digital that the foreign intelligence warnings, while not fully understood at the time, now appear “alarmingly specific” in their foresight.

“Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire,” one foreign operative is quoted as saying in a now-public message, referencing the plan to amplify the Trump-Putin narrative.

These revelations call into question not only the impartiality of the original investigation but also the media and institutional alignment that enabled it.

While it remains unclear how directly involved Soros himself was, the appendix does note that two hacked communications appear to originate from Open Society accounts.

The fallout from the Durham investigation continues to ripple across Washington. The final report concluded that the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane operation was launched without sufficient evidence, findings that many conservatives have pointed to as proof of a politically motivated witch hunt.

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Burn Bags and Hidden Rooms: FBI Caught With Secret Trump-Russia Docs Years Later

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A shocking discovery inside the FBI’s Washington, D.C. headquarters is reigniting scrutiny over the Bureau’s handling of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative that defined American politics for nearly a decade.

FBI Director Kash Patel uncovered “burn bags”—containers meant to destroy classified documents—stuffed with unreleased materials tied to the Bureau’s 2016 Trump-Russia investigation, according to sources familiar with the findings. The discovery was made in what’s being described as a “secret room” hidden away deep inside FBI headquarters.

Among the recovered files: a classified 29-page annex to the 2023 Durham report, which was previously withheld from the public. That appendix reportedly includes intelligence showing foreign actors warned U.S. officials that the FBI was preparing to push a false narrative of Trump collusion before the “Crossfire Hurricane” probe even began in July 2016.

The annex will be declassified and turned over to Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for public release, sources told The Post. The timeline for release remains unclear, but the implications are already generating fallout across Washington.

The group involved in examining the documents includes Patel, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Acting NSA Director William Hartman—a who’s who of Trump-era national security figures.

President Trump reacted to the news Wednesday, saying:

I want everything to be shown… as long as it’s fair and reasonable, I think it will be shown.”

The FBI’s 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation, built on now-debunked FISA warrants and unverified foreign intelligence, ultimately resulted in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report—finding no evidence Trump or his campaign “conspired” with Russia.

Patel, who served as lead investigator for then-House Intel Chair Devin Nunes, has long claimed the Russia probe was politically motivated. He dropped hints about the hidden room in a recent Joe Rogan interview, saying:

“I found a room… full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of. They locked the key and hid access and just said, ‘No one’s ever gonna find this place.’”

Now he has.

Newly released evidence from Director Gabbard further alleges that the Obama administration was prepared to conclude Russia had not influenced the 2016 election, until former FBI Director James Comey pushed Crossfire Hurricane forward.

Former CIA Director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper pushed back with a coordinated op-ed in The New York Times on Wednesday, calling Gabbard’s assertions “patently false” and accusing the Trump administration of distorting the intelligence record.

But critics say the damage was already done—both to American institutions and to public trust.

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Trump Reveals How Jeffrey Epstein Was Banned From Mar-A-Lago

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President Donald Trump shed new light this week on his severed ties with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, recounting how the disgraced financier allegedly used Mar-a-Lago’s spa to recruit young women — including one who later became a central figure in the Epstein scandal.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned from a five-day trip to Scotland, Trump detailed the incident that led him to permanently ban Epstein from the exclusive Palm Beach club.

“I have a great spa, one of the best spas in the world, at Mar-a-Lago. And people were taken out of the spa, hired by him,” Trump said. “When I heard about it, I told him, I said, ‘Listen, we don’t want you taking our people,’ whether it was spa or not spa, I don’t want him taking people. And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, ‘Out of here.’”

Among those allegedly targeted was Virginia Giuffre, who famously accused Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell of trafficking her to high-profile figures — including the UK’s Prince Andrew — when she was a teenager.

“I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people. Yeah, he stole her,” Trump said, adding that she “had no complaints about us, as you know. None whatsoever.”

Giuffre, who first went public in 2011, later won a defamation suit against Maxwell in 2017 and settled multiple legal disputes connected to the Epstein case. Her life and statements have continued to draw scrutiny, particularly after inconsistencies emerged in some of her past claims.

The Epstein case has roared back into the spotlight in recent weeks following the release of a July memo from the Department of Justice and FBI, concluding that Epstein’s death in 2019 was a suicide and that no evidence had been uncovered of an “incriminating client list” of powerful figures.

Trump, who has faced renewed questions over his past association with Epstein, has said he severed ties with the financier long before his arrest.

Meanwhile, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche recently held two days of questioning with Maxwell, whose legal team is reportedly exploring the possibility of a presidential pardon or commutation.

“Nobody’s approached me with it. Nobody’s asked me about it,” Trump told reporters when asked about the topic.

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CIA Director: More Intelligence Shows the Russia Collusion Hoax ‘Was a Hillary Clinton Plan’

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More files may link failed 2016 Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to the origins of the Russia collusion hoax that targeted President Donald Trump.

During an interview Sunday on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe explained the situation to host Maria Bartiromo, per the New York Post.

“Part of what came out last week was about how John Brennan, Clapper, Comey, they all pushed the known fake Steele dossier into intelligence community assessments, and that’s the basis for Crossfire Hurricane and all that,” he continued:

But what hasn’t come out yet and what’s going to come out is the underlying intelligence that I have spent the last few months making recommendations about final declassification and sent that to the Department of Justice, that will come out in the John Durham report classified annex. And what that intelligence shows, Maria, is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier, to those fake Russia collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and burying the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to.

Ratcliffe said Clinton testified before Durham under oath in 2022 and “Much of that testimony is frankly completely inconsistent with what our underlying intelligence that is about to be declassified in the Durham annex, what that reflects.”

(Read more from “CIA Director: More Intelligence Shows the Russia Collusion Hoax ‘Was a Hillary Clinton Plan’” HERE)

Trump’s Cognitive Test Results Revealed in Annual Physical Report

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The White House has released President Donald Trump’s annual physical exam results, confirming the 78-year-old commander-in-chief is in “excellent cognitive and physical health” and fully capable of carrying out his duties.

The memo, signed by Dr. Sean Barbabella, physician to the president, followed Trump’s visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday. It marks the first public health update on Trump since last July’s assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

‘Fit to Serve’

“President Trump exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health and is fully fit to execute the duties of the Commander-in-Chief and Head of State,” Barbabella wrote in the official statement.

The president stands 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 224 pounds, with a blood pressure reading of 128/74 mmHg and a resting heart rate of 62 beats per minute. Barbabella praised Trump’s active lifestyle, even highlighting his “frequent victories in golf events” as evidence of his stamina and physical well-being.

Cognitive Test Results: 30 Out of 30

The report revealed that Trump underwent the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) — a quick 10-minute exam designed to detect mild cognitive impairment — and scored a perfect 30 out of 30.

This is not the first time Trump has aced the test. During his first term, in January 2018, then-White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson reported an identical 30/30 score.

The physical also noted scarring on Trump’s right ear from last summer’s shooting in Pennsylvania but found no ongoing health issues from the incident. All diagnostic and laboratory testing, conducted with input from 14 specialist consultants, came back normal.

“President Trump remains in excellent health, exhibiting robust cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and general physical function,” the memo concluded.

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Social Media Posts Reveal Anti-Trump Bias Of CIA Officer Who Helped Create 2016 Russiagate Report

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A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence officer who claimed she helped lead the 2016 U.S. Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) regarding allegations of Russian election interference has a history of social media comments blasting President Donald Trump as a “dictator.”

The comments from recently-retired CIA officer, Susan Miller, were originally reported by Just The News Tuesday and verified by the Daily Caller. Miller claimed she assisted in spearheading the 2016 ICA investigative team. The CIA under Director John Ratcliffe released a tradecraft review of the ICA in 2025.

Responding to a May New York Times (NYT) article, Miller commented that the reported dismantling of an investigative squad in the FBI was “awful” and “Further proof that Trump is a dictator,” according to her LinkedIn post.

Miller also responded on LinkedIn to a March Washington Post article as “proof” of Trump’s “lack of empathy ….. and his high regard for a dictator,” adding that Trump has “dictator envy.”

Additionally, she agreed with a comment that appeared to compare Trump to Hitler, saying, “the Hitler analogy is not lost on a bunch of us” on LinkedIn. (Read more from “Social Media Posts Reveal Anti-Trump Bias Of CIA Officer Who Helped Create 2016 Russiagate Report” HERE)

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Trump Goes on Ballistic Rant and Drops Massive Tariff Bombshell That Will Batter Americans’ Pockets

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President Donald Trump on Sunday insisted there will be no exemptions in the tariffs after there was some confusion when it came to electronics.

‘NOBODY is getting “off the hook” for the unfair Trade Balances, and Non Monetary Tariff Barriers, that other Countries have used against us, especially not China which, by far, treats us the worst!’ the president posted on Truth Social.

A notice released late on Friday suggested gadgets would avoid Trump’s 125 percent import tax on Chinese goods and even his sweeping 10 percent global tariffs.

But his administration clarified on Sunday that electronics would be subject to other tariffs.

‘There was no Tariff “exception” announced on Friday,’ Trump continued in his post.

‘These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff “bucket,”’ he continued. (Read more from “Trump Goes on Ballistic Rant and Drops Massive Tariff Bombshell That Will Batter Americans’ Pockets” HERE)

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