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The Brew: Deep State Conspirators Comey and Brennan Face Criminal Charges

By John Zmirak Published on July 10, 2025

We’ve said here for years that the greatest threat America faces is a) from within and b) from our elites. The spectacle of a president duly elected in 2016 being subjected to fake treason claims based on innuendo, dodgy gossip, and foreign disinformation — then facing two baseless impeachments — should have chilled patriots to the bone. Instead, far too many in the GOP nodded, smiled, and cooperated, so eager were they to fend off Donald Trump’s challenge to their control of the conservative movement. (Yes, cooperated. Sen. John McCain personally handed the junk intel Steele “dossier” to FBI director James Comey at Sen. Lindsay Graham’s urging. That’s what got the whole corrupt ball rolling.)

Now we may begin to see justice done. Perhaps.

Remember that Trump and his team are fighting a shadow war against a deeply entrenched, ruthless conspiracy of professional spies, with allies all through our elite institutions and both political parties. So don’t be too quick to accuse the good guys of cowardice or incompetence. You have no idea what they’re up against (think “principalities and powers”). But we’re beginning to get some clues, and maybe we’ll even see some action. Fox News reports:

Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are under criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing related to the Trump–Russia probe, including allegedly making false statements to Congress, Justice Department sources told Fox News Digital.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred evidence of wrongdoing by Brennan to FBI Director Kash Patel for potential prosecution, DOJ sources told Fox News Digital.

The sources said that the referral was received and told Fox News Digital that a criminal investigation into Brennan was opened and is underway. DOJ sources declined to provide further details. It is unclear, at this point, if the investigation spans beyond his alleged false statements to Congress.

A Fox News commentator explains:

In a blockbuster report, the CIA has belatedly exposed the rank corruption among top intelligence officials who connived to frame President Donald Trump and drive him from office during his first term.

Their pernicious lie was that Trump colluded with Russia to rig the 2016 presidential election in his favor. The principal piece of so-called evidence was a document known infamously as the dossier.

It was secretly financed by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and Democrats, conceived by a foreign agent with a checkered past in espionage, and then brokered to solicitous collaborators at the FBI, CIA, the Department of Justice and the Trump-hating media.

The dossier was garbage, of course. The FBI largely debunked it before Trump was even sworn in and fired its author, Christopher Steele, for lying as a confidential human source. But the bureau concealed those inconvenient facts under then-Director James Comey and deftly exploited the document as a cudgel to bludgeon the newly elected president.

Margot Cleveland at The Federalist goes further:

[T]he CIA’s review of the ICA on Russia’s targeting of the 2016 election exposed something much more scandalous: President Obama was behind the entire plot to portray Putin as seeking to help Trump win the 2016 general election.

Yes, the CIA report showed, in the words of CIA Director Ratcliffe, “how Brennan and Clapper and Comey manipulated [and] silenced all the career professionals and railroaded the process.” But they were merely doing the dirty work for Obama, which is why CIA Director Ratcliffe stressed: “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump.’”

What we saw Obama and his team do was orders of magnitude worse than anything that happened in the Watergate scandal. But don’t count on our media to treat these abuses of power, these assaults on democracy itself, with the gravity they deserve. There are two sets of rules in play — one for the insiders, another for the rest of us. Pray hard.

Conservative Satirist Spared Prison Term

Remember Douglass Mackey? You were supposed to forget him — or even better, to remember how he got railroaded and draw the obvious lesson from that event: shut up and let Democrats win by hook or by crook. Let them harvest ballots, intimidate voters, and riot in the streets. But if you push back, expect the full force of the government to come down on you. Revolver News recounts the Mackey case:

In 2023, Mackey was convicted of “conspiring to deprive people of their right to vote” under an old federal law (18 U.S.C. § 241). The government claimed that a couple of memes he posted before the 2016 election, jokes suggesting Hillary Clinton supporters could vote by text, were part of a criminal conspiracy to interfere with the election.

Mackey was sentenced to seven months in prison. Now at long last that stain on our political system and free-speech rights has been reversed. “A federal appeals court has not only tossed out the conviction, but also reversed it entirely and told the lower court to enter a judgment of acquittal. In plain terms, they just told the world that Mackey is not guilty,” Revolver reports.

Mackey isn’t bitter about what the System put him through. He’s grateful for all the Americans who rallied to his cause and pushed back against the tactics of Anarcho-Tyranny that today’s Democrats copied from the Nazis’ playbook for seizing power.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Speaks Up for Doctor Who Resisted the COVID Panic

Gateway Pundit reports on another Biden-era injustice that urgently needs to be corrected:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced on Tuesday that she is writing a letter to the DOJ, requesting that “all charges be dropped against Dr. Kirk Moore,” the doctor who is still facing Biden-era persecution for helping parents avoid vaccinating their children with dangerous COVID shots.

Moore operates the Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah in Salt Lake County, and he is accused of destroying the government’s mRNA shots and giving saline solution and vaccine cards to children whose parents did not want them to be forced to take unproven shots.

He now faces 35 years in prison.

For more on the case, see this thread by heroic whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim (who exposed the illegal transitioning of children at a Texas hospital) on Moore’s persecution:

We now know that the mRNA shot weren’t tested for safety, that safe medicines such as Ivermectin and hydroxochloroquine were de facto banned by pharmacies colluding with the FDA, and that data on adverse effects of the “vaccine” were hidden from the public. Will we stand by while those who told the truth and helped Americans evade unjust laws and unsafe mandates get punished for their courage? We can’t leave our wounded bleeding on the field.

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More of Zohran Mamdani’s Khmer Rouge-Level Radicalism Exposed

We’ve been warning people for weeks about just how insanely radical the frontrunner for mayor of New York, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, really is. Frightened New Yorkers and his political rivals have been furiously mining his past statements for proof, and the result is an embarrassment of riches. Here’s the latest to see the light of day, courtesy of Fox News:

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party’s candidate for New York City mayor and a self-proclaimed socialist, is once again garnering backlash for previous comments he has made espousing language steeped in radical socialist and communist ideology.

Mamdani, this time, is getting blasted for calling on the government to “seize” luxury condos to house the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic.

The unearthed remarks, stemming from a March 2020 social media post, followed news of separate rediscovered remarks from Mamdami touting the need to “de-commodify” housing through replacing luxury condos with communal-style living that would include things like shared laundry facilities and food co-ops.

Lest you dismiss such talk as empty rhetoric, remember that under “moderate” former Democrat Mayor Eric Adams, New York City has been using former luxury hotels to house illegal aliens, at taxpayer expense, for years.

President Trump isn’t taking lightly the threat to his hometown and America’s greatest city. According to Yahoo News:

President Donald Trump said his administration is considering a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., and has suggested that he would also consider targeting New York City should Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani win the mayor’s race this fall.

His Tuesday remarks to reporters at the White House escalated his attacks against the 33-year-old Democratic nominee, who Trump has threatened with arrest, denaturalization and removal from the country while repeatedly branding him a communist….

“But I can tell you this. I used to say we will not ever be a socialist country. Well, I’ll say it again. We’re not gonna have it,” he continued. “If a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. But we have tremendous power at the White House to run places where we have to.”

Trump then said “we could run D.C.”

Of course, it would be much better if the residents of New York City came to their senses instead. America can’t afford to see its cultural and financial capital turned into just another post-colonial sinkhole, like Harare, Zimbabwe or Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Along The Stream…

Later this morning, author and pastor Joseph Prince joins Life Today cohosts James and Betty Robison to explain how correct beliefs lead to right living, not the other way around.

A little later, read Jules Gomes’s blockbuster report on how a leading Catholic university, the once-elite Georgetown University, has been taking cash from Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood to found a pro-jihadi, terror-excusing propaganda outlet under the guide of a “Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.”

 

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.