President Trump’s former attorney Alina Habba revealed that disgraced Biden-era Special Counsel Jack Smith sent FBI agents directly to her New Jersey home and subpoenaed her as part of his sprawling investigation targeting Trump and his legal team.

Habba dropped the bombshell during an appearance on The Benny Show while discussing House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s criminal referral of Smith to the Justice Department.

“Jack Smith sent the FBI to my house. What are you talking about? You don’t even know that,” Habba told host Benny Johnson.

“The FBI came knocking on my door in New Jersey. I mean, people don’t know that,” she continued. “But yeah, I was subpoenaed as a lawyer. It’s crazy.”

Habba said Smith wanted to question her as part of what she described as one of the anti-Trump “hoaxes.”

Johnson appeared stunned that Smith’s team would send federal agents to the private home of one of President Trump’s attorneys.

Habba added that she generally avoided discussing the episode publicly because she did not want the attention.

“But now I’m so far gone, and we’ve won,” Habba said. “That’s literally how desperate this person was.”

WATCH:

Former Trump attorney @AlinaHabba revealed that disgraced Special Counsel Jack Smith sent FBI agents to her home in New Jersey as part of his witch hunt against Trump.
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— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) September 1, 2026

The Gateway Pundit has reported for years that Jack Smith’s operation was never a narrow probe of one man. It was a dragnet aimed at the entire MAGA movement.

Habba’s home visit fits the pattern.

In February 2023, CNN and others confirmed Habba had already been hauled before Smith’s Washington, D.C. grand jury in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, the third Trump lawyer forced in after Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb.

Then came Arctic Frost.

Then came Arctic Frost.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson later exposed that Smith’s team issued hundreds of subpoenas sweeping up more than 400 Republican individuals and organizations.

They secretly obtained phone toll records of Republican senators and House members, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, Marsha Blackburn and others, then got gag orders so the members of Congress wouldn’t even know they were being watched.

Smith later admitted under oath that the judges who signed those nondisclosure orders were not told the records belonged to sitting members of Congress.

In July, Grassley and Johnson released records showing Smith’s investigators accessed text messages involving 44 current and former members of Congress and bypassed the filter team that was supposed to protect privileged material.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has now referred Smith to the Justice Department over alleged false statements in his December 2025 deposition.

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A California election fraudster exposed by James O’Keefe’s undercover journalists walked away from federal court Monday without spending a single day behind bars.

Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, also known as “Anika,” was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi to just 18 months of probation and 120 hours of community service after pleading guilty to one felony count of paying another person to register to vote in a federal election that carries up to five years behind bars, the New York Post reported.

That’s it. No prison time for illegally paying vulnerable homeless people to register to vote and sign election petitions in deep-blue California.

She took a plea, cooperated, and the sentence collapsed. Prosecutors had already agreed not to pile on additional charges tied to the same operation.

According to her plea agreement, Armstrong spent roughly 20 years as a paid “petition circulator,” collecting signatures to qualify initiatives, referendums, and recalls for the California ballot. Coordinators paid her per registered-voter signature. That is the whole racket. More registered names, more money.

Prosecutors say she treated Skid Row like a factory floor: a dense cluster of desperate people who would sign almost anything for two or three dollars, a cigarette, or a phone cord.

When signatures started getting rejected because the signers were not registered to vote, she “fixed” the problem. Starting no later than 2025, she hauled stacks of voter-registration forms from the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters down to Skid Row and paid people to register first, then sign.

On several occasions she handed homeless people her own former Los Angeles address to write on the registration forms, paperwork that registers a person for both state and federal elections and, in California’s mail-ballot system, can send a ballot to an address she once controlled.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said it plainly when the case was announced:

“This is not an allegation, this is not a theory, this is an example of admitted voter fraud. We’re going to aggressively prosecute voter fraud.”

James O’Keefe and O’Keefe Media Group went undercover on Skid Row in early 2026, posing as homeless.

Hidden cameras captured petition workers offering cash, cigarettes, and other inducements for signatures and registration forms. OMG said it documented at least 28 cash-for-signature exchanges in a matter of days.

On tape, the woman identified as Brenda Brown is heard saying the quiet part out loud:

“Because you haven’t registered, I need to register you so I can get paid too. I’m paying you guys, I need to get paid.”

Essayli later confirmed the investigation started because of the O’Keefe video. O’Keefe said the footage led to the charge.

Follow-up OMG reporting showed circulators pulling real voter names and addresses from an online database and instructing people not to use their own names, “You’re not gonna use your name… I’m giving you one.” Residents later told investigators those were their addresses. They denied ever signing.

O’Keefe later returned to Skid Row after the indictment. His team reported the cash-for-fake-name pitch was still happening in broad daylight. The Gateway Pundit flagged that follow-up in June. One indictment did not shut the machine down.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott pressed the Justice Department for a wider probe after Armstrong’s plea. Sen. Ron Johnson’s investigations panel asked DOJ and the FBI to look at the petition firms O’Keefe named, including Urban Signers and 1 Moore Petition.

The Gateway Pundit separately reported claims from Skid Row residents that they were offered small cash payments tied to Los Angeles mayoral politics. Those videos were provided to the Justice Department. They are a different slice of the same rotting fruit: a city that treats the homeless as a signature and registration pool.

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“American Martyrs: The Deep State’s Criminal Actions to Destroy Five Innocent Men” by The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft with Joe Hoft is listed in the top ten of Amazon’s Media and internet category for the month of August after only 10 days on the market.

The book complements the documentary of the same name, produced and released in August 2026 by Jim Hoft and Luke McKay.

The movie premiere is set for September 26, at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

** You can still get tickets to the movie premiere here.

The story of the government’s actions surrounding the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021, protest and riot at the Capitol will go down in history. The narrative from legacy media outlets screamed ‘riot’ and ‘sedition’. But there is a different story from those who were there or who were persecuted related to the actions on that day.

Five innocent men were arrested after January 6, 2020, alongside many innocent Americans. Their story is one of integrity, compassion, shock, and disbelief. They were arrested during raids on their homes by a platoon of federal agents and local police. They were jailed for years before their trial, often in solitary confinement. Their rights of due process and a fair trial were discarded as they went before a court in Washington, D.C., where justice had disappeared.

Eventually, these men were sentenced to decades in prison. They were innocent. Now the truth is coming out.

As the founder-owner of The Gateway Pundit I am thrilled to tell you all the truth, what REALLY happened to these five men and the criminal actions taken by the Biden DOJ that used them as pawns in an attempt to destroy President Trump.

Remember who we are up against this November!

I had to tell this story. We can’t allow the legacy media to get away with their lies. Telling this story is a start.

I hope you all buy a book. The proceeds are going to these five men.

Let the truth be told.

Here is Amazon’s top-ten list for its media and internet category in August.

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Texas Democrat James Talarico recently bragged about wanting to raie taxes during an event with Jessica Tarlov and Mark Cuban.

He claimed that he wants to raise taxes on ‘the rich’ but as we know, that’s just where Democrats begin. It never ends there.

Once they run out of billionaires and millionaires to tax, or when all of the wealthiest people flee, the working class is the next target because they are the only ones left.

Breitbart News reports:

Texas Democrat Senate Candidate James Talarico Campaigns on Raising Taxes

Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico is now openly campaigning on raising Americans’ taxes.

Facing polls indicating his support has topped out and doubts from fellow Democrats who do not believe he has what it takes to excite minority communities, Talarico is now openly campaigning on raising taxes on Americans.

“I’ve told every wealthy person I’ve come across in this race: If you are ok with getting taxed more, if you’re ok with me limiting your influence in politics, you are welcome to join this movement that we are building,” he said, thanking billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban for being part of it.

Talarico’s campaign platform includes plans to create what he described as a “fairer” tax system.

“Make giant corporations and the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share of taxes. (That way, we can cut taxes for working families and small businesses,),” he claims – a promise that leftists often make but never deliver on for hardworking Americans. His campaign website claims that he is interested in making “billionaires pay their fair share in taxes,” including “by imposing a higher tax on their income and capital gains and ending the dubious ‘buy, borrow, die’ loopholes that billionaires use to grow untaxed wealth.”

See the video below:

Texas Democrat James Talarico promises to raise taxes on hardworking Americans:

“If you are okay with getting taxed more, if you’re okay with me limiting your influence in politics, you are welcome to join this movement…” pic.twitter.com/Xj1PzgtcCh

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 29, 2026

Talarico is doing what all of the Democrats are doing in this election cycle. Trying to appeal to the increasingly radical Democrat base, which wants to confiscate wealth to pay for their liberal utopia.

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General Dan Caine has responded to a Democrat lawmaker’s inquiry whether U.S. troops will be deployed to the polls during the upcoming midterms.

Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan recently wrote a letter to General Caine asking him whether the Pentagon plans to deploy troops to the polls this November.

Caine stated, “The Joint Force has no plans to send Federal military personnel or Federalized members of the National Guard to polling places during the 2026 elections.”

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff added that he does not anticipate to receive any such order.

Per AP:

The highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military says there are no plans to send troops to polling places during November’s midterm congressional elections, addressing concerns among Democrats that the Trump administration could use the military to interfere with the vote.

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the statement in a letter to Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who recently asked Caine and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to confirm they won’t send troops to the polls.

“The Joint Force has no plans to send Federal military personnel or Federalized members of the National Guard to polling places during the 2026 elections,” Caine said in the letter to Slotkin, which was obtained Monday by The Associated Press. “Likewise, the Joint Force has no plans to use such personnel to seize ballots, voting machines, or other election-related material.”

Caine, who advises Hegseth and President Donald Trump on military matters, also wrote: “I have neither received nor anticipate receiving any unlawful order concerning the role of the Joint Force in the upcoming November 2026 midterm elections.”

Federal law prevents U.S. troops from being deployed at polling stations unless they are ordered to the polls “to repel armed enemies of the United States.”

The Justice Department, however, is deploying federal election monitors.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon revealed the DOJ plans to send a record 1,000 federal election monitors to polling stations across the country.

WATCH:

BREAKING: Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the DOJ will be sending 1,000 election monitors to polling locations for the midterms.

“[The DOJ] has sent monitors to election hot spots, polling places to increase voter confidence to troubleshoot problems… pic.twitter.com/IKLW3Z7oIC

— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) August 17, 2026

The number of federal monitors is a stark contrast to the Biden DOJ who sent only 289 federal monitors during the 2022 midterms.

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