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FBI Agrees To Hunt Fugitive Dems Fleeing Texas Redistricting Vote

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agreed to help locate Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a vote on a redistricting plan, Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn announced Thursday.

Cornyn said the FBI agreed to his request to help track down dozens of lawmakers who fled Texas in an attempt to block the vote, according to a New York Times (NYT) report.

Cornyn requested the FBI’s assistance in a letter Tuesday, claiming the Democratic lawmakers may have broken state bribery laws in backing efforts to block a vote on Texas’ redistricting plan by allegedly accepting funds from outside groups.

Groups connected to billionaire donor George Soros and failed Texas candidate Beto O’Rourke are allegedly covering expenses for Democrats who fled the state to oppose the Republican redistricting effort, The Texas Tribune reported.

“I am proud to announce that Director Kash Patel has approved my request for the FBI to assist state and local law enforcement in locating runaway Texas House Democrats,” Cornyn said in a statement.

“I thank President Trump and Director Patel for supporting and swiftly acting on my call for the federal government to hold these supposed lawmakers accountable for fleeing Texas.”

The deployment of federal agents could spark a conflict between the Trump administration and Illinois officials, where many of the missing Democrats are staying.

The Texas lawmakers have been staying at a hotel in St. Charles, Illinois, outside Chicago, the NYT reported.

While their location is no secret, the Democrats apparently believed they were safe from arrest since they were outside the reach of Texas law enforcement.

As of publication, it is uncertain whether federal agents will take any action, or what role they might ultimately play in locating the lawmakers, the NYT noted. 

Democrat Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker responded to the idea that federal agents could be deployed against the Texas lawmakers present in his state.

“There literally is no federal law applicable to this situation, none they can say that they’re sending FBI,” Pritzker said Wednesday, according to the NYT.

He implied that federal law enforcement might be deployed to pressure or intimidate the lawmakers, even without grounds for arrest, the outlet reported.

“The FBI agents might show up just to, I don’t know, again, to put a show on,” he said.

Cornyn stated Thursday the FBI will help state law enforcement find the individuals who defied the law by crossing state lines.

“The FBI has tools to aid state law enforcement when parties cross state lines, including to avoid testifying or fleeing a scene of a crime,” he wrote in his letter to Patel. “Specifically, I am concerned that legislators who solicited or accepted funds to aid in their efforts to avoid their legislative duties may be guilty of bribery or other public corruption offenses.”

A total of 51 Texas lawmakers traveled to Illinois to prevent the state House from reaching a quorum, aiming to block a vote on the proposed redistricting map.

Since Sunday, many Democrats have remained in Illinois to keep Republicans from securing the necessary votes for the congressional map.

The new Texas redistricting map would reshape five Democratic-held districts to favor Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections.

The FBI declined to comment to the Daily Caller.

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Ashley Brasfield

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Social Media Posts Reveal Anti-Trump Bias Of CIA Officer Who Helped Create 2016 Russiagate Report

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A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence officer who claimed she helped lead the 2016 U.S. Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) regarding allegations of Russian election interference has a history of social media comments blasting President Donald Trump as a “dictator.”

The comments from recently-retired CIA officer, Susan Miller, were originally reported by Just The News Tuesday and verified by the Daily Caller. Miller claimed she assisted in spearheading the 2016 ICA investigative team. The CIA under Director John Ratcliffe released a tradecraft review of the ICA in 2025.

Responding to a May New York Times (NYT) article, Miller commented that the reported dismantling of an investigative squad in the FBI was “awful” and “Further proof that Trump is a dictator,” according to her LinkedIn post.

Miller also responded on LinkedIn to a March Washington Post article as “proof” of Trump’s “lack of empathy ….. and his high regard for a dictator,” adding that Trump has “dictator envy.”

Additionally, she agreed with a comment that appeared to compare Trump to Hitler, saying, “the Hitler analogy is not lost on a bunch of us” on LinkedIn.

Miller also said that “MaGa types are nazis” in a response to an article about the firing of the CIA’s top doctor Terry Adirim. The article referenced a lawsuit that alleged a “political extremist…called for the termination of [Adirim’s] employment and even her death.”

“Good grief. As if we needed proof that MaGa types are nazis ….. calling for her death??! So wrong. I hope she is okay,” Miller wrote.

She also agreed with a post calling Trump and Elon Musk “unAmerican and unpatriotic” for their “cruelty and sadistic pleasure,” apparently in regard to the administration firing federal workers.

Even in a comment where she agreed with an action of Trump’s, Miller clarified she was not a “Trump fan” and has previously referred to Trump as “our Dear Leader,” claiming that he wants to “rule … the world.”

In a recent interview with Times Radio, Miller claimed Trump harassed her team for investigating allegations of Russia influencing the election in his favor. “Trump wants to be very much like Putin, sort of a president for life,” she told the outlet.

In a statement to Just The News, Miller claimed she initially supported the president.

“I was originally pro Trump and a solid Republican since I could start voting….i even voted for him in his first election. Your comments are mean spirited and uninformed.. Our constitution limits the president to two terms, Trump is already talking about a third. I refused to put the dossier in our report as it could not be corroborated. Sorry to ruin your view of me as a left wing Republican hater. I was overseas for a tour from 19-22. I k ow [sic] nothing about the laptop letter, but will look it up.”

In a July podcast with “SpyTalk,” Miller said her team came into the investigation with a “completely open mind” as “that’s what you do in counterintelligence, you just tell the truth of what you find.”

Miller asserted she purposefully sought out personnel who would challenge her perspective.

She claimed her team found evidence that Russia preferred a Trump presidency in 2016, but they did not have evidence Trump knowingly cooperated with the Kremlin. Miller told “SpyTalk” her team added the unverified Steele Dossier to the final report because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would not approve the final report without the dossier’s inclusion.

Miller was upset and said she did not have time to verify the dossier’s claims before the report was published. She said the dossier could be true because she has not verified or discounted the sources in the dossier.

“Maybe it was real,” she said.

When asked by Times Radio if she has seen any evidence that Trump is a Kremlin asset, Miller said, “I have seen some things… I’m still working out whether or not it is true,” adding that there is some information that “makes it look like he could be.”

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Derek VanBuskirk

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MAGA Isn’t Buying Pam Bondi’s Explanation On Epstein Video Footage

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Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi addressed the missing minute in Jeffrey Epstein’s jailhouse footage at a Trump Cabinet meeting Tuesday, sparking renewed scrutiny from MAGA.

Bondi fielded several questions from a reporter regarding the memo’s release, Epstein’s possible ties to intelligence and missing footage from the jailhouse video.

“Your memo released yesterday on Jeffrey Epstein left some lingering mysteries. One of the biggest ones is whether he ever worked for an American or foreign intelligence agency.”

“So could you resolve whether or not he did? And also, could you say why there was a minute missing from the jailhouse tape?” the reporter asked.

“The video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide,” Bondi stated at the press conference.

“And there was a minute that was off the counter, and what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons is every night they redo that video, so every night the video is reset, and every night should have the same minute missing,” she added.

A Department of Justice (DOJ) memo obtained by Axios Sunday said there was no “incriminating ‘client list,’” and Epstein died by suicide.

Multiple prominent conservative media figures including Mike Benz, Jack Posobiec and Glenn Beck expressed disappointment in the lack of transparency.

Beck called for Bondi to resign over “incompetence” and pointed out apparent inconsistencies in the released footage.

“What the DOJ gave us was a partial view of the facility, which JUST MISSES Epstein’s cell,” Beck stated in a post on X.

“We’ve known for years there wasn’t a working camera on his cell, so WHY RELEASE THIS VIDEO? And why not tell us there’s a video glitch in advance of the release?!”

Posobiec, one of the media figures who received Epstein-related documents from Bondi in February, voiced his frustration Wednesday.

“I am sick of the lies! … You looked at us and you lied right to our faces,” he said on his show “Human Events with Jack Posobiec.”

The nearly 11-hours of footage show the common area of the Special Housing Unit (SHU) outside Epstein’s cell from the evening of August 9 through the early hours of August 10 — the night Epstein died according to authorities.

Epstein was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges at the time of his death.

The memo states the FBI worked to further enhance the footage for improved “clarity” and “view-ability.”

A digital clock visible on the bottom left corner of the video skips from 11:58:58 p.m. to 12:00:00 a.m., and the footage also fails to show the moment prison guards entered Epstein’s cell and discovered his body.

Images of Epstein’s cell were made public by CBS News’ “60 Minutes” in 2020. One photo shows the door of his cell marked off by yellow police tape, according to a CNN report.

The recently resurfaced photo drew attention for apparent inconsistencies — particularly the door, which does not appear to match the FBI-released footage.

A federal indictment revealed that weeks before his death, Epstein was found “on the floor of his cell with a strip of bedsheet around his neck,” according to CBS News.  

The government labeled the incident a failed suicide attempt, but Epstein asserted he was assaulted by his cellmate, former police officer Nick Tartaglione, according to the report.

Tartaglione denied the accusation, according to CBS News. His attorney insisted that “Absolutely nothing like that happened” and claimed jail officials cleared Tartaglione of any wrongdoing.

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Ashley Brasfield

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