Chuck Grassley, the very powerful Senate Judiciary Chairman, responded to President Trump’s call to cancel the August recess.

President Trump last Saturday evening called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to cancel the August recess to get his judicial nominees confirmed.

Trump called on Thune to work through August to confirm the backlog of judicial nominees.

“Hopefully the very talented John Thune, fresh off our many victories over the past two weeks and, indeed, 6 months, will cancel August recess (and long weekends!), in order to get my incredible nominees confirmed. We need them badly!!! DJT” Trump said last Saturday evening.

On Sunday, Grassley said he is “with” Trump and is willing to work through the August recess to confirm the president’s judicial nominees since the Democrats are stonewalling.

Grassley has pushed a few of Trump’s high-profile nominees through the Senate Judiciary Committee but there is still a backlog of 135 nominees.

If Pres Trump asks us to not take august recess im w him. Democrats hv been slow walking nominations We hv to make up for their wasted time Trump needs his administration in place

— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 28, 2025

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has not fully committed to canceling the August recess but he is thinking about it since the Democrats are obstructing Trump’s agenda.

Last Monday, Thune told reporters that he’s thinking about canceling the August recess.

“We’re thinking about it. We want to get as many nominees through the pipeline as we can,” Thune said.

“we’re going to be looking at all the options in the next weeks to try and get as many of those across the finish line as we can,” he said.

“This is the first president in history who has never had, at this point in his presidency, a civilian nominee approved either by unanimous consent or voice vote in the Senate,” Thune said last Thursday during an interview on the “Brian Kilmeade Show” on Fox News Radio, Fox reported.

“As we head into the August break we need to get a whole bunch more confirmed, and we intend to do that,” he said.

“Because of the way the Democrats are playing in their Trump Derangement Syndrome, they’re putting up an unprecedented level of obstruction,” Thune added. “I think the only way to beat that is to just grind them down.”

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In the summer of 2015, Donald Trump entered the race for president. Almost immediately, political opponents began digging for anything they could use to stop him. That same year, the Democratic National Committee experienced a hacking incident, which officials eventually blamed on Russian operatives.

But even before the FBI confirmed the hackers’ identities or motives, a narrative began forming: Russia was working behind the scenes to help Trump win. That story would evolve into one of the most damaging hoaxes in modern political history.

At the center of the storm was a former British spy named Christopher Steele. Hired initially by anti-Trump Republicans and later by the Clinton campaign, Steele worked for a private firm called Fusion GPS. His assignment was simple: find dirt on Trump.

The result was the now-infamous Steele dossier—a 35-page document filled with sensational accusations. Among them were claims that Trump had been groomed by Russian intelligence for years, that Russian operatives held compromising video footage of him, and that he had deep and corrupt financial ties to Russian oligarchs.

Most of the claims in the Steele dossier were never verified. Some were sourced from anonymous third parties. Others were proven false outright. Yet despite its questionable origins and lack of evidence, the dossier became the foundation for an FBI investigation into a sitting presidential candidate.

Even as doubts mounted inside the intelligence community, the FBI used the dossier to justify a secret surveillance warrant against Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

The agency applied under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), relying heavily on Steele’s claims. Internal memos show that FBI officials knew many parts of the dossier were unsupported, but they failed to disclose that to the FISA court.

In fact, the FBI used the Steele dossier as late as 2017—even though agents had already concluded that several claims in it were either unverifiable or false. 

The damage was enormous. Media outlets seized on the dossier’s contents, reporting them as fact. Headlines screamed about treason, kompromat, and secret Kremlin backchannels.

Politicians spoke as if Trump had already been proven guilty. Any voices that questioned the evidence were dismissed as conspiracy theorists or traitors.

But behind closed doors, the truth was much different. As later investigations revealed, the FBI was warned several times about the unreliability of Steele’s sources. One of Steele’s main contacts even told agents that the allegations had been exaggerated or misunderstood. Still, those warnings were ignored. The investigation continued, and public trust suffered.

This was a coordinated effort to interfere in an election—after the votes had already been cast. By feeding a false narrative to the American people and spending taxpayer dollars to support it, federal officials attempted to delegitimize the president before he was even sworn into office.

The Obama administration’s role in this cannot be ignored. Officials at the highest levels were briefed on the dossier. Some helped circulate its contents. Instead of stopping an investigation based on faulty intelligence, they allowed it to grow—knowing full well the information behind it was flawed.

Worse still, nobody has been held accountable. The officials who authorized the surveillance, misled the courts, and spread false claims remain in high-ranking positions, media roles, or private careers untouched by consequences.

Meanwhile, the public is left with deepened divisions, a weakened belief in elections, and a justice system that seems more political than impartial.

The Steele dossier was a government weapon used against a rival. If the United States is going to protect its democratic institutions, it must begin with honesty and accountability. Until federal agencies are forced to answer for their abuse of power, this kind of deception will happen again—and next time, it could be worse.

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An armored golf cart was seen Saturday as President Donald Trump played a round of golf at his property in Turnberry, Scotland, where he is combining a weekend trip visiting his Scottish properties with (successfully) conducting high stakes diplomacy on trade and other issues. After concluding a trade deal with the European union at Turnberry on Sunday, Trump is scheduled to hold a meeting there with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday before heading to his property in Aberdeen.

Last September, Trump was the target of an alleged assassination attempt by Ryan Routh while he was playing golf at his course in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Closer view posted by the Daily Star:

Trump’s new armour-plated buggy dubbed Golf Force One after Scottish protests https://t.co/kUl4Jw6pr3 pic.twitter.com/RlANuwj9aP

— Daily Star (@dailystar) July 27, 2025

Excerpt from the New York Post:

Heavily armored ‘Golf Force One’ debuts as it trails Trump on the Scottish links less than a year after assassination attempt https://t.co/hBYn45k48W pic.twitter.com/HJJGiMW1V7

— New York Post (@nypost) July 27, 2025

President Trump’s security team has debuted what appears to be a heavily armored golf cart 10 months after a would-be assassin aimed an SKS-style rifle toward him at his West Palm Beach tee resort.

As the president played at the Trump Turnberry course in South Ayrshire, Scotland, this weekend, an imposing, apparently heavily fortified black vehicle followed close behind — with security experts saying it bears all the hallmarks of an armor-reinforced golf cart in the mold of Trump’s official limo, a k a “The Beast.”

Trump drove a standard white golf cart as he played, but the bulky silhouette of the latest addition to his security fleet — which appears to be a modified Polaris Ranger XP — stood out like a sore thumb on the course.

“Just looking at the front windscreen, that looks armored,” said Gary Relf, director of Armoured Car Services, to The Telegraph.

More from the Telegraph, which broke the story (excerpt):

Gary Relf, director of Armoured Car Services, said: “Just looking at the front windscreen, that looks armoured. I’m sitting in an armoured vehicle now. We build armoured vehicles. That does look armoured to me.”

Mr Relf, a former traffic police officer who runs a company providing protective vehicles to wealthy individuals, heads of state and religious leaders, said it could be difficult to spot so-called “auto-armour”, but black banding across a windscreen was usually a giveaway.

“When we armour a vehicle, we take every kind of technical element out, the roof, the seats, the floor, the carpet, and then we put the armouring in, and we replace it all afterwards, so you might never know.

“But the thing that gives it away is the front windscreen.”

As with other armoured vehicles, Mr Trump’s reinforced golf buggy’s windscreen features a black band around it.

Trump was seen driving a regular looking cart, with the armored cart in the pack of carts following him on the course along with a host of other security precautions:

U.S. President Donald Trump drives a golf cart at Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland.

More #GettyNewsVideo Christopher Furlong https://t.co/Gsd0t16tUE pic.twitter.com/wgRlpoJadL

— Getty Images News (@GettyImagesNews) July 26, 2025

Donald Trump back out on the golf course at Turnberry this morning. I count 26 golf carts and one small jeep with him. pic.twitter.com/V1GmnYSH7f

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 27, 2025

Armored golf carts and snipers

Protect THE GOAT at all costs!!! pic.twitter.com/rsgaAuTvCQ

— TONY (@TONYxTWO) July 28, 2025

Family view of Trump golfing Saturday at Turnberry.

Imagine being 79

With 5 Children

And 11 Grandchildren

Playing Golf better than most 20 years olds

The Left can’t stand this pic.twitter.com/drzFY3Vlxw

— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) July 26, 2025

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The Gateway Pundit was the first to report back in 2018 that the Deep State was using foreigners to spy on then-candidate Trump in 2015 prior to the presidential election.  President Trump tweeted our report by Joe Hoft the following day and the fake news mainstream media immediately attacked him for promoting what they called a “conspiracy theory.”

We later discovered more evidence in 2020 that we were 100% correct in our initial reporting.

President Trump responded to our report at the time.

Wow, Strzok-Page, the incompetent & corrupt FBI lovers, have texts referring to a counter-intelligence operation into the Trump Campaign dating way back to December, 2015. SPYGATE is in full force! Is the Mainstream Media interested yet? Big stuff!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018

Joe Hoft reported on this development at the time.  In June of 2018 The Gateway Pundit posted an article identifying unredacted words in previously redacted texts between corrupt cops Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two individuals supposedly having an affair and key players at the top of the FBI involved in spying on candidate and then President Trump.

The discovery came from an individual on Twitter who was later removed from the platform, named Nick Falco, who identified a word uncovered in a Senate text that the corrupt DOJ previously redacted.

In our 2018 post, we noted that hidden in the information released by the Senate at that time were unredacted Strzok–Page texts that revealed that the FBI initiated actions to insert multiple spies in the Trump campaign in December 2015.

According to far left LA Times, Comey stated in March of 2017 under oath that the FBI investigation into the Trump – Russia scandal started in July 2016.

We knew then without a doubt that Comey lied about this.

Intelligence expert Tony Shaffer retweeted Falco’s tweet:

I’d call this evidence of collusion and wrongdoing… https://t.co/CcTrao5bZE

— Tony Shaffer (@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y) June 4, 2018

Falco’s tweet stated that the texts released from corrupt FBI investigator Peter Strzok to corrupt FBI attorney Lisa Page state the following :

BOMBSHELL- From DECEMBER 2015–The word LURES is redacted by FBI but not OIG; OCONUS LURES; OCONUS= Outside Contiguous US LURES= In this context LURES = SPIES – multiple – Is this an admission that the FBI wanted to run a baited Sting Op using foreign agents against Trump?”

1) BOMBSHELL- From DECEMBER 2015–The word LURES is redacted by FBI but not OIG

“OCONUS LURES”

OCONUS= Outside Contiguous US

LURES= In this context LURES = SPIES – multiple

Is this an admission that the FBI wanted to run a baited Sting Op using foreign agents against Trump? pic.twitter.com/OtLxlOEGsV

— Falco (@Nick_Falco) June 4, 2018

Joe Hoft at The Gateway Pundit provided additional information showing that Obama’s spy, Stefan Halper, was awarded a contract in September of 2015.

We also pointed out that the problem with Obama spying on Trump before July 2016 is that it was against FBI rules and contradicted public statements:

Retired assistant FBI director for intelligence Kevin Brock also has questions. Brock supervised an agency update to their longstanding bureau rules governing the use of sources while working under then-director Robert Mueller. These rules prohibit the FBI from directing a human source to perform espionage on an American until a formal investigation has been opened – paperwork and all.

Brock sees oddities in how the Russia case began. “These types of investigations aren’t normally run by assistant directors and deputy directors at headquarters,” he told me. “All that happens normally in a field office, but that isn’t the case here and so it becomes a red flag. Congress would have legitimate oversight interests in the conditions and timing of the targeting of a confidential human source against a U.S. person.” -The Hill

The problem with Comey lying about the start date of the Trump counterintelligence campaign before Congress is that it is against the law.

President Trump tweeted out a follow up to our post the next day undoubtedly referring to our report:

Wow, Strzok-Page, the incompetent & corrupt FBI lovers, have texts referring to a counter-intelligence operation into the Trump Campaign dating way back to December, 2015. SPYGATE is in full force! Is the Mainstream Media interested yet? Big stuff!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2018

The mainstream media was not interested in this unprecedented and illegal act by the Barack Obama administration. They were interested in accusing President Trump of tweeting a conspiracy story.   The fake news media denied the fact that spying on candidate Trump occurred despite evidence showing took place and then slammed the President and the Gateway Pundit for posting the tweets from Nick Falco.

To this day Wikipedia (which supports crazy far-left and dishonest positions in anything related to President Trump) calls this work, a conspiracy and “Spygate” a conspiracy.

Wikipedia calls the above story a conspiracy and the Gateway Pundit a conspiracy media outlet. However, they never called CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, The New York Times, Washington Post, and the many other far-left sites conspiracy outlets for pushing the Trump – Russia collusion for over eight years now!

The liberal media and Wikipedia omitted the facts. For example, they state that the texts were released previously, yes they were but, THEY WERE REDACTED. Wikipedia is far-left when it comes to US politics!

US Intelligence and the Justice Department, including the FBI, were indeed spying on candidate Trump in 2015.

We now know, for instance, that corrupt DOJ attorney and number four at the DOJ, Bruce Ohr, set aside time to meet with Christopher Steele in his calendar in early October of 2015. Steele is the alleged author of the fake Steele dossier used to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign, transition team and Presidency. Ohr’s calendar shows this meeting :

Based on his calendar and his wife Nellie’s testimony, we know that Bruce Ohr lied in front of Congress. Ohr lied about Nellie’s start date with Fusion GPS. The demoted and disgraced DOJ attorney Bruce Ohr stated in his testimony before Congress that Nellie started with Fusion GPS in November of 2015:

** You can read the rest of our previous report here.

Fast forward to February 2024 – Investigative reporter Michael Shellenberger reported that the CIA had foreign spy agencies spy on candidate Donald Trump including 26 members of his campaign.

From Shellenberger on X.

CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say

United States Intelligence Community targeted 26 Trump advisors for foreign spy agencies to “reverse target” and “bump”

by Shellenberger, matt taibbi, and alex gutentag

John Durham, a special prosecutor for the Department of Justice (DOJ), concluded in his report that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should never have opened its investigation of alleged collusion by then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and Russia in late July of 2016.

Now, multiple credible sources tell Public and Racket that the United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors long before the summer of 2016.

The new information fills many gaps in our understanding of the Russia collusion hoax and is supported by testimony already in the public record.

Until now, the official story has been that the FBI’s investigation began after Australian intelligence officials told US officials that a Trump aide had boasted to an Australian diplomat that Russia had damning material about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

In truth, the US IC asked the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies, say sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation. The Five Eyes nations are the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

After Public and Racket had been told that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the IC had “identified [them] as people to ‘bump,’ or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation.”

Unknown details about the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and raw intelligence related to the IC’s surveillance of the Trump campaign are in a 10-inch binder that Trump ordered to be declassified at the very end of his term, sources told Public and Racket.

If the top-secret documents exist proving these charges, they are potentially proof that multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference.

CNN, Politico, The Guardian, and others reported in 2017 that the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK’s equivalent of the National Security Agency (NSA), was the “principal whistleblower” in the investigation into the alleged ties between Trump and the Russian government.

“GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious ‘interactions’ between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence” wrote a team of reporters for The Guardian in April 2017.

This intelligence sharing was supposedly just the result of “incidental collection.” Reported The Guardian, “It is understood that GCHQ was at no point carrying out a targeted operation against Trump or his team or proactively seeking information. The alleged conversations were picked up by chance as part of routine surveillance of Russian intelligence assets.”

But now, sources say the GCHQ’s version of events is false. Instead, the US IC asked its foreign allies to target 26 members of Trump’s team, possibly to justify the FBI’s investigation.

“They were making contacts and bumping Trump people going back to March 2016,” a source close to the investigation said. “They were sending people around the UK, Australia, Italy — the Mossad in Italy. The MI6 was working at an intelligence school they had set up.”

The IC, a source said, considered the 26 Trump campaign people identified to “bump” or “reverse target,” or manipulate through confidential human sources (CHSs), to be easy marks because of their relative inexperience.

Doing so was illegal, both because US law prohibits such intelligence gathering unless authorized by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant and because the weaponization of the IC for political purposes constitutes election interference.

Brennan, former President Barack Obama, under whom he served, and the CIA did not respond to requests by Public and Racket for comment. The Justice Department also declined to comment. But, the FBI and GCHQ did respond.

“The allegations that GCHQ was asked to conduct ‘wire tapping’ against the then president-elect are nonsense,” said a GCHQ spokesperson. “They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”

However, in our email presenting the claims to GCHQ, we did not refer to “wiretapping” but rather to its UK spy agency’s broader alleged involvement in the scheme.

Said the FBI, “The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that [Justice Department] Special Counsel [John] Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented.”

But the new information provided by our sources should significantly alter the public’s understanding of how the US IC, including the FBI and CIA, began their illegal investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia…

Here is the tweet.

FBI started spying on the Trump campaign after foreign governments “by chance” discovered evidence that his advisors were colluding with the Russians, the government says. But now, multiple credible sources tell us that the CIA asked foreign allies to spy on 26 Trump associates. pic.twitter.com/YeJhZBSEVq

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 13, 2024

So will Barack Obama ever be held accountable for this dastardly and likely criminal act?

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