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Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told Fox News Digital his Republican colleagues are right to be troubled that the Justice Department spied on lawmakers to aid former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations.

"I think we need to have more facts. Look into it. Republicans are rightly concerned about the possible breach of norms and improper access to email," Blumenthal told Fox News Digital Wednesday.

The GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee released a trove of documents Tuesday showing that Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump included the Department of Justice collecting text messages between 44 members of Congress, among them Republicans and Democrats, and White House staff.

The Trump Justice Department dismissed the newly appointed US attorney for western Washington state less than an hour after he was sworn in, setting up yet another legal battle over the president’s appointment powers.

Roger Rogoff, a former King County judge and veteran state and federal prosecutor, was sworn in Wednesday morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle after he was unanimously appointed by the district’s 17 federal judges.

Rogoff told the Associated Press in a phone interview that he then went to the federal prosecutor’s office to request a meeting with first assistant US Attorney Charles Neil Floyd, a former immigration judge who had served as interim US attorney for a 120-day period that ended in February.

While waiting to meet with Floyd, Rogoff said, he received an email informing him of his removal by President Trump.

“District court judges can appoint a temporary U.S. Attorney, and POTUS can fire them,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on X Wednesday evening. “WDWA judges abandoned the time-honored process of consultation with the administration so that the selected U.S. Attorney is qualified to serve in the administration. Roger Rogoff has been fired by the President.”

The MSM and dems don't want to hear what he has to say, so by ignoring it they think it's not happening!
 

House Dem: Leftists' Threats Intimidated Me Into Voting Against Israel

In case anyone wonders whether the violence on the Left can be considered "fringe" or overblown, as some suggested after Marco Rubio's address yesterday, this offers a moment of clarification. Not only have leftist violence and threats ramped up significantly over the last three years since Hamas' October 7 massacres, but it has also already had an impact on the legislative process. And that admission comes from a leading House Democrat, not Republicans or conservative commentators.

Thomas Massie forced a vote to defund aid and defense sales to Israel this week, in a dumb stunt that ended up damaging Hakeem Jeffries and Democrat leadership far more than it threatened Israel. The caucus split down the middle while Republicans ignored Massie, and the bill failed by a wide margin. However, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee put out a statement after he voted with Massie that insinuated he did so out of fear of violent leftists and their threats against his family. Jewish Insider picked it up, and Power Line flagged it immediately:

This would be quite an accusation, and one that should get the attention of anti-terrorist investigators at the FBI and Department of Justice. Smith's full statement offered a weaselly and more ambiguous approach around the direct quotes picked out by JI's Matthew Shea, but it's clear that Shea read between the lines pretty accurately:

This is a very strange concatenation of excuses from Smith. He seems to understand that voting to cut off aid to Israel will be unpopular outside of the fever-swamp radical Hamasniks on the Left, so Smith offers a smorgasbord of excuses for his gutless alignment against an ally thrown into a war by two Iranian-backed terrorist networks. It's Benjamin Netanyahu's fault! No, wait, it's Smotrich's and Ben Gvir's fault! No, wait, it's the fault of "U.S. supporters of Israel"! No, wait, it's violent leftists and their threats against my family!

The words get even weaselier when attempting to explain why he's blaming Israel for fighting a war that Hamas and Hezbollah have waged against them for decades. "I understand that Israel has to confront threats to their existences and cannot let them go unchecked," Smith declares. "But Israel does not have to fight the way they have chosen to do so – a way that has caused enormous suffering and led to endless war." Well, whose fault is the "endless war"? The US and the West keep forcing Israel into ceasefires with Hamas and Hezbollah with which neither group will comply, and which have resulted in continuing attacks, especially from Gaza. The main component of US aid to Israel is for Iron Dome anti-missile defense systems, an enormous expense that exists because Israel has tolerated Iranian proxies' continuous attacks on Israeli civilian populations to forego fighting an actual war.

How did that get repaid? By October 7 and the following explosion of Jew-hatred from the Left, and on the fringes of the Right where Massie belongs. Israel has tried the incremental approach for 20 years with Hamas and over 40 with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the result was the single greatest single-day loss of Jewish lives since the Holocaust. And in response to that, Smith voted to cut off funding for their defensive systems that has kept Israelis alive and willing to work for peace.

Nevertheless, I tend to credit Smith in his intimidation by radical leftists issuing threats to impose their will on Democrats first, and then the US as a whole later. Smith does not appear to have a plethora of intestinal fortitude, as evidenced by his post-vote statement. The DoJ needs to investigate these threats, and the funding behind them, as part of the new program announced by Secretary of State Rubio this week to demolish the structures that promote and organize the violent Left.

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/17/house-dem-leftists-intimidated-me-into-voting-against-israel-n3817059

The anti-Jewish coalition of the left is getting really f*cking dangerous, and they're spreading like monkeypox.