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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Why Wouldn't We Believe Whistleblower Claims of Domestic Threat Inflation? | Opinion - Newsweek

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) recently revealed allegations of egregious FBI politicization that buttress Sen. Charles Grassley's (R-IA) damning conclusion from days earlier, based on his own findings of malfeasance: The FBI and the DOJ may be "institutionally corrupted to their very core."

According to Rep. Jordan, FBI whistleblowers assert they are being pressured to reclassify investigations as "domestic violent extremism" (DVE) when not merited, and rewarded for swelling the DVE caseload.

Given what we have learned in recent years about our security state, claims that the FBI would cook the books, inflating the threat our Ruling Class tells us is driven overwhelmingly by those who disagree with its orthodoxy, in order to justify a sprawling crackdown, would seem all too credible.

The overarching narrative propagated by our Ruling Class since Donald Trump descended the Trump Tower escalator in 2015 is that he is a bigot, traitor, and danger to America. January 6, 2021, in the Ruling Class's telling, represented the natural manifestation of the threat Trump had stirred within the republic—demonstrating that he had created an army of bigots, or at minimum traitors, and dangers. It was the day when MAGA became mujahideen.

Of course, there was no "insurrection" on January 6. But the Capitol breach was the singular data point our regime could use as an accelerant to a years-long inquisition against dissenters—and waging it in the name of "defending democracy" from the scourge of...



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