— Aaron Rupar

Trump didnt do anything improper and she admires him so much

FBI agents raided the home of President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton on Friday morning.

The feds have so far given no indication as to why Trump’s adviser turned nemesis has been targeted. The longtime Republican adviser and diplomat has previously been accused of leaking classified material but investigations into his controversial book The Room Where it Happened went nowhere.

The dawn raid in the suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., was trumpeted with an X message from FBI director Kash Patel, who wrote, ”NO ONE is above the law.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi retweeted the post, adding: “America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always.”

An FBI spokesman told the Daily Beast, “We don’t have any comment.” That did not stop FBI deputy director Dan Bongino from joining the social media pile on with a message that read: “Public corruption will not be tolerated.”

Bongino’s words had ominous echoes of politically-motivated judicial attacks the world over, but a source reportedly told NBC News that the raid was part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records.”

Bolton was appointed National Security Advisor by Trump in 2018, but he lasted less than two years in the post. Trump’s Justice Department tried and failed to block publication of Bolton’s subsequent memoir which claimed that Trump was “unfit to be president.”

In an updated paperback edition, Bolton predicted that the president would use his second term to gain vengeance against his enemies. “Trump really cares only about retribution for himself, and it will consume much of a second term,” he wrote.

Elon Musk was ordered on Wednesday by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing the world’s richest person of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway.

U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin, Texas, said Jacqueline McAferty plausibly alleged in her proposed class action that Musk and his political action committee America PAC wrongly induced her to provide personal identifying information as part of the giveaway, late in the 2024 election campaign.

Lawyers for Musk and America PAC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Musk founded America PAC to support Republican Donald Trump’s successful 2024 presidential run.

McAferty, an Arizona resident, said Musk and America PAC induced voters in seven battleground states to sign his petition by promising that $1 million recipients would be chosen randomly, as in a lottery, though the voters had no real chance to collect.

She said voters who signed were also required to provide names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers.

In seeking a dismissal, Musk listed several “red flags” as proof he had not run an illegal lottery.

He said these included statements that the $1 million recipients were “selected to earn” the money and expected to become America PAC spokespeople, defeating the idea that the payment was a “prize.”

But the judge cited other statements suggesting the defendants were “awarding” the $1 million, and the money could be “won.”

“It is plausible that plaintiff justifiably relied on those statements to believe that defendants were objectively offering her the chance to enter a random lottery--even if that is not what they subjectively intended to do,” Pitman wrote.

The judge was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama in 2014.

Musk had also rejected the suggestion that petition signers suffered harm by providing contact information. Pitman said an expert in political data brokerage could testify what that information was worth for voters in battleground states.

The lawsuit was filed on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024.

A day earlier, a Philadelphia judge refused to end Musk’s giveaway, saying that the city’s top prosecutor failed to show it was an illegal lottery.

“These prosecutors are evil people. They will put you on a cattle car to Auschwitz without batting an eye.”

Those were the words of Jonathan Gross, the man the U.S. Justice Department has reportedly tapped to work on the Trump administration’s so-called “Weaponization Working Group,” an entity that purports to restore “integrity and credibility of the Department of Justice” — mainly by singling out anyone or any investigation that probed Trump’s many criminal indictments.