In December 2020, I wrote a column about what I believed was a con job. I thought then-President Donald Trump and others were pushing a falsehood that the election was rigged and that Trump actually won. There was no evidence that the election was rigged or stolen and none has been found in the two…
By Allan Lengel It was a ruling that not only rejected Donald Trump’s legal bid, but also tested the Supreme Court’s integrity. On Thursday, during the Jan. 6 hearings, word surfaced that the Supreme Court refused to reinstate Judge Aileen Cannon’s order that a special master review classified documents taken in an FBI search of…
By Allan Lengel Stories of the Steele Dossier aren’t vanishing quite yet. Senior FBI analyst Brian Auten testified Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., that the FBI, shortly before the 2016 election, offered retired British spy Christopher Steele “up to $1 million” to prove the allegations in his dossier involving Donald Trump, CNN reports….
By Allan Lengel Leave it to ex-President Donald Trump to find a positive side to the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. “Well, they’ve given us about $5 billion worth of free publicity, I will say,” Trump said Wednesday at a Hispanic Leadership Conference in Miami, according to The Hill. “People said, ‘That’s a nice house.’ If…
By Allan Lengel A whistleblower is alleging that an internal review found that 665 FBI personnel resigned or retired to avoid accountability in misconduct probes in the past two decades, the Associated Press reports. The whistleblower told Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office that the review was triggered by an Associated Press investigation into sexual misconduct allegations involving at…
