Did The EU Get Played? Scavino Sends Message, [HRC] Next, Justice Has Begun – Ep. 3885
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Economy
Australia used to have 8 refineries.
Now they are down to only 2 active refineries.One of those just caught on fire with massive damage.
Australia is already having a massive diesel and gasoline shortage. Australia imports most of it's diesel and gasoline from Singapore,… pic.twitter.com/Ih4b1wXibm
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) April 16, 2026
South Korea, and Malaysia. However those refineries are not receiving enough oil from the Middle East, so they lack enough gasoline and diesel to export to Australia.
The Australian economy is teetering on the brink of collapse amid a severe diesel and gasoline shortage.
One of the nation’s two remaining refineries is now engulfed in flames, pushing the entire fuel supply network at risk.
Australia imports most of it's diesel, gasoline and… pic.twitter.com/WERtSOvPyT
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) April 16, 2026
and jet fuel from Singapore and South Korea. But those two sources are not receiving enough crude oil from the middle east, so they are not able to export anything to Australia. Why does Australia no longer have it’s own refineries? Australia actually exports it’s oil production to other countries because it cannot refine it in Australia.
Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich
⁰Well, today we're taxing the rich… pic.twitter.com/eh5qnq4XUZ— Acyn (@Acyn) April 15, 2026
SOCIALISM: Kansas City’s taxpayer funded grocery store turned out to be a huge success in teaching residents that socialism doesn’t work. Shelves empty, food rotten, and rampant theft. pic.twitter.com/rqgfDFqBS9
— @amuse (@amuse) July 23, 2025
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/2044757779500429396?s=20
Ironically, America’s competitive edge has increased due to the Iran conflict, as the price of natural gas has soared in the rest of the world but fallen in the US https://t.co/oqD1T8YUSG
— Bloomberg (@business) April 15, 2026
BREAKING: The US government is about to refund $166 billion in tariffs starting 20th April.
The refund system launches April 20. Over 330,000 importers across 53 million shipments are eligible. As of April 9, $127 billion worth of refunds have already been processed.
Trump… pic.twitter.com/gyGAY53wfa
— Bull Theory (@BullTheoryio) April 16, 2026
imposed these tariffs under a 1977 emergency law. The Supreme Court ruled he overstepped his authority. He has since imposed new tariffs under a different law, which is also being challenged in court.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is required to issue refunds (plus interest where applicable) to eligible importers. Trump immediately complied by terminating the IEEPA tariffs via executive order (effective February 24, 2026).
Trump’s actual plan for tariffs was to replace them right away with new ones under a different law: Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. This lets the president impose temporary import surcharges (up to 15%) for up to 150 days to address balance-of-payments issues. He announced a 10% global tariff (signaling it would rise to 15%) on virtually all imports, effective February 24, 2026, with some exemptions (e.g., certain aviation goods). These new tariffs are separate from the old IEEPA ones and are also facing court challenges.
Trump has also signaled plans to use other longstanding authorities (Section 232 for national security, Section 301 for unfair trade practices) for more targeted or longer-term tariffs to maintain his overall trade policy goals.
Timeline for money returning (refunds):
The new CAPE (Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries) system launches April 20, 2026 (Phase 1, in just a few days). Importers (or their brokers) file a single “CAPE Declaration” in CBP’s ACE portal to consolidate claims instead of entry-by-entry paperwork.
- Phase 1 covers straightforward/recent entries (unliquidated or liquidated within the last ~80 days)—about 63-82% of cases initially.
- Valid refunds are generally issued within 60–90 days after CBP accepts the declaration (unless compliance issues trigger extra review).
- As of April 9, ~$127 billion had already been processed/prepared for ~56,497 importers. Full rollout is phased; older/complex entries come later (timeline TBD, but expected to take longer).
The new Section 122 tariffs remain in effect on current/future imports (until they expire around mid-July 2026 unless Congress extends them), so importers are paying those while awaiting IEEPA refunds. Net effect: cash comes back over the next 2–6+ months depending on when claims are filed and processed.
- The ~$166 billion refund is a huge liquidity injection for over 330,000 companies across 53 million shipments. It improves cash flow, margins, and could support investment, hiring, or debt reduction. Some firms had used these tariffs as collateral or absorbed costs.
- . Refunds go to companies, not shoppers—there’s no mechanism forcing price cuts, and many firms won’t pass savings fully to buyers.
Political/Rights
Why did these 6 RINOs just join Democrats and vote to protect Haitian immigrants on TPS?!
-Salazar
– Bacon
– Fitzpatrick
– Gimenez
– Lawler
– Malliotakis https://t.co/IpCUrOHVTJ— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 15, 2026
Haiti is dangerous because Haitians live there
If you bring Haitians to America than America becomes dangerous
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk https://t.co/ofCKJAKlEl
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) April 15, 2026
DOGE
Geopolitical
If you haven't connected the dots yet, the whole of the globalist deep state cabal is going down piece-by-piece. https://t.co/eSHcJKzi6j
— AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ (@AwakenedOutlaw) April 15, 2026
Péter Magyar
Hungary's Prime Minister-electPart 1:
Capt. explained to me last night about
Péter Magyar & how it this was always the plan.Peter is a Hungarian lawyer, former diplomat, & politician who has just become Hungary's Prime Minister-elect after leading his… pic.twitter.com/DSjV86jn5L
— Capt Kyle (@CaptKylePatriot) April 15, 2026
center-right Tisza Party (Tisztelet és Szabadság Párt – “Respect and Freedom”) to a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections on April 12, 2026. His party secured a supermajority (around 136–138 of 199 seats), ending Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Relationship to Viktor Orbán: Magyar was once a close insider in Orbán’s Fidesz party & government: He joined Fidesz around 2002 as a young lawyer. He held various roles in the Orbán administration, including positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Hungary’s EU representation in Brussels.
As a teen, he even idolized the young Orbán & had his photo on his bedroom wall during Hungary’s post-communist transition. Magyar was widely seen as a loyal “Orbán regime insider” until early 2024. He broke ranks with Orbán. He publicly criticized corruption & the inner workings of the system, resigned from Fidesz, & took over the small Tisza Party. In just 2 years, he transformed it into the main opposition force, winning big in the 2024 European elections before defeating Orbán in 2026. Now read this Post I just came across this morning. The rumors I’ve been telling you about for the past two days are starting to take shape more and more clearly. If you’ve been following me since Sunday, everything about this Hungarian election is mysterious. THE RUMOR that is growing: According to information from Serbian intelligence sources, the real objective behind Viktor Orbán’s “defeat” is to allow him to become the Trojan horse that Donald Trump wants to place at the heart of the European Union. The American president would like the former Hungarian Prime Minister to be the next candidate for President of the European Commission, a position currently held by Ursula von der Leyen.
Her majority is becoming increasingly fragile, and she has already survived a motion of censure, a clear sign of deep fractures within the EU institutions.
Trump has more than one trick up his sleeve to discredit von der Leyen. Among the most serious is the one linked to the Pfizer affair. In addition to deleting several text messages exchanged with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Ursula is said to have benefited from a huge bribe of 760 million dollars, disguised as a “commission” paid by the pharmaceutical multinational to her husband Heiko.
He was “providentially” hired by a company called Orgenesis, which is itself linked to Pfizer. This is probably the largest bribe in European history, but the only journalist who revealed it — Romanian Adrian Onciu — lost his job because of it.
Meanwhile, his other “colleagues” in the mainstream media are too busy accusing Moscow and Budapest of corruption to look under the Brussels carpet, where bribes and hidden commissions for various commissioners are rampant.
The Pfizer affair is not, however, the only weapon available to Trump and Orbán. The former Hungarian Prime Minister himself has compiled a substantial dossier on all the serious financial irregularities involving Ursula von der Leyen and presented it to the European Parliament last August — obviously without the press reporting on it.
Orbán focused in particular on the enormous sum from the cohesion fund, which amounted to 392 billion euros, of which two billion ended up at the former von der Leyen university, where the President of the European Commission taught epidemiology in the late 1990s. According to Orbán, von der Leyen is guilty of the most classic form of misappropriation of public funds.
These funds were not used for works or initiatives of any real public benefit, but instead went to institutions of all kinds that were always linked to von der Leyen herself and to other European commissioners.
European Union! “Only 4 of those 27 conditions will be fulfilled!”
•Strengthening anti-corruption measures
•Restoring independence to investigative authorities/ judicial system.
•Restoring press freedom (government funds will stop)
•Restoring freedom in the academic environment.
Everything Else will be Protected!
The EU intelligencia was hoodwinked!
The likes of Hillary Clinton, Alex Soros, and Ursula von der Leyen (President of the EU Commission) were cheering his victory yesterday, thinking they got their guy and now the EU's crappy agenda would be willingly foisted onto Hungary's back… https://t.co/UtTyBIyGbG
— AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ (@AwakenedOutlaw) April 15, 2026
– such as flooding their country with third-world migrants.
…..Then their chairs were pulled out from beneath them.
What?
You didn’t think that one of Trump’s most vocal international supporters and personal friend wasn’t capable of plotting this all out ahead of time with him, did you? 100% this was Trump working WITH Victor Orban, and the two of them pulled the old bait-and-switch maneuver on ’em.
Next up, Orban to replace Ursula and lead the EU.
Trump is a freaking genius.
War/Peace
Iran digging out its bombed missile bases during cease-fire, satellite images show https://t.co/wBz9znIplB pic.twitter.com/mCHAUGeBrY
— New York Post (@nypost) April 15, 2026
🚨 The Ceasefire Trap: Why Iran is Literally Digging Its Own Grave
The "ceasefire" in the Middle East isn't a peace offering—it’s a collection operation.
After 5 weeks of relentless bombardment, the U.S. ran into a classic problem: you can't strike what you can't see once it’s…
— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) April 16, 2026
- buried under rubble. So, they did something brilliant. They paused. They gave Iran the “breathing room” to drag its hidden missile launchers and radar systems back into the sunlight. Every excavator they deploy, every tunnel entrance they clear, and every piece of equipment they move back into position is creating a new, geolocated signature on U.S. satellite imagery.
- They aren’t “rebuilding”—they are updating the target deck for the next phase.
- – Signals Intelligence: U.S. Navy assets are aggressively mapping Iranian comms networks in real-time.
- – Precision Surveillance: The overhead satellite constellation is locked onto every movement, turning “invisible” assets into confirmed strikes.
- – Human Intel: As Mossad confirmed, operatives are deep inside the machine, feeding data directly to the IAF. Iran is following its own doctrine—take the hit, clear the rubble, resume operations. They just forgot that this time, their adversary is watching every single move.
- The ceasefire wasn’t a retreat. It was a trap baited with time.
- And Tehran just took the bait.
NOW – Hegseth on whether "zero enrichment for the Iranians" policy is being foisted upon Trump by the Israelis: "not a single thing has been foisted upon the President of the United States. President Trump makes his own decisions about the interests of this country." pic.twitter.com/IpFmTJ1zSa
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 16, 2026
NOW – Hegseth tells Iran, that they don't control the Strait of Hormuz: "Threatening to shoot missiles and drones at ships, commercial ships that are lawfully transiting international waters, that is not control, that's piracy, that's terrorism." pic.twitter.com/sfXWT0Yyud
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 16, 2026
Trump’s Blockade Is Breaking Iran… And European Elites Are Angry
- Lie #1: The US Is Blocking All Ships Traveling Through The Strait
- This is false. The US is only blocking ships coming from Iranian ports. All other ships have been allowed to pass without incident. This lie is being spread by disinfo agents all over social media and it is also being spread by foreign governments from the UK to France to China. This, to me, says A LOT about the true agenda of these countries, given that they said little or nothing about Iran locking down the strait.
- Lie #2: Chinese Vessels Have Broken The Blockade And The US Is Afraid
- Nope. All Chinese vessels coming from Iranian ports have been turned away and any vessels coming from alternative ports have been allowed to pass. At the time this article is being published, only one ship from an Iranian port has allegedly slipped through the blockade, though the story on this ship might be fabricated. All other Iranian ships have been repelled.
- Lie #3: The Blockade Puts US Naval Ships At Serious Risk
- No, it does the opposite. US ships have no need to traverse the narrow Hormuz to blockade it. All they have to do is wait outside of it and turn back Iranian tankers that approach. No mines, no missiles, no drones, no tiny attack boats, nothing Iran has the ability to deploy has much of a chance of harming the US Navy. In fact, reports indicate ships like the USS Abraham Lincoln (an aircraft carrier) have already been targeted hundreds of times by Iran with no damage taken.
- There is nothing Iran can do about a comprehensive blockade.
- Lie #4: Iran Is Used To Sanctions And Can Hold Out Longer Than The US
- No, they can’t. Only 7% of energy exports going to the US travel through the Hormuz. Iran’s entire economy hangs by a thin thread and that thread is oil exports to countries like China or Vietnam.
- Iran is reportedly losing around $430 million each day that their ships remain stuck in the strait, and they have already taken around $270 billion in infrastructure damages. Iran pays for new weapons and military logistics with oil revenues. Their soldiers are paid in part with oil revenues. They mitigate civil unrest with oil revenues.
- I suspect that the blockade will force Iran back into negotiations within a couple weeks. That’s how little time they have left.
- Lie #5: Iran Has Alternative Ways To Bypass The Blockade
- No, they don’t. Overland routes without ample pipelines are no substitute for the ease of oil tanker shipments. Even if they did have such pipelines, those lines could be easily destroyed.
- By extension, as Iran’s oil exports stack up they will quickly run out of storage space, which means they will have to shut down drilling. This would cause significant damage to their oil infrastructure within weeks due to pressure differentials.
- Recent news indicates that Iran has already halted all petrochemical exports until further notice. If true, this proves that the blockade is highly effective.
- Lie #6: The Chinese Will Intervene And Force The Strait To Reopen
- As noted, the strait is not closed. Only Iranian ports are closed. Furthermore, China has stayed away from direct intervention in the Hormuz because they simply don’t have the naval capacity to square off with the US even if they wanted to.
- Keep in mind, only a week ago the Chinese government vetoed a UN resolution to reopen the strait when they thought Iran was going to control it. The CCP is impotent and they can do nothing.
- Lie #7: The US Is Losing All Its Allies Over The Blockade
- Wrong. What the blockade (and the war in general) is doing is exposing the countries which were pretending to be our allies when it was convenient. I examined this problem in my last article “The US Separation From Europe And NATO Is Long Overdue”, and this brings me to my final point on the war.
- The fact that the European elites are suddenly so concerned with the US blockade, enough to call for a “coalition” to reopen the strait and “circumvent” the US, tells us all we need to know. I continue to believe that the globalists in these nations have been feeding off the US while at the same time organizing a “multicultural alliance” behind the scenes – A socialist new world order to supplant western civilization and leave the US behind as a husk.
- Source: zerohedge.com
.@SecWar on the naval blockade of Iran: "We’re doing this blockade—performing it—with less than 10% of America’s naval power. The math is clear: we’re using 10% of the world’s most powerful navy, and you have 0% of your navy." pic.twitter.com/XDmWXuzv8t
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) April 16, 2026
Every time I bring this up, I get a bunch of people mad at me saying we can never trust China/Russia and we are going to be enemies forever.
What’s your solution then?
We just keep being enemies until one of us destroys each other?
Forgive me for exploring other options…
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) April 15, 2026
Medical/False Flags
[DS] Agenda
- murder-suicide at the home of former Democrat Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. Police have yet to publicly name the victims, but we know that a man and a woman inside the home are dead of gunshot wounds, and it was the son of the deceased who apparently called law enforcement to the scene.
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife inside their Virginia home and then killed himself, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said.
The shooting stemmed from an ongoing domestic dispute surrounding “what seems to be a complicated or messy divorce,” Davis said.
Fairfax served as lieutenant governor during the Ralph Northam administration, and he was planning on his own run for governor when a woman stepped forward with accusations of sexual assault.
Dr. Vanessa Tyson let it be known that Fairfax had engaged in forcible sodomy with her at the DNC convention in 2004 (there was a lot of that going around there).
Source: redstate.com
This psychopath spent his political career trying to ban normal people from having guns. Now we know why he wanted innocent people to be defenseless. https://t.co/m0tkpU6QYi
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 16, 2026
Two people continually lied to the American people about having seen proof of Russian collusion:
Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff
They are both serial liars. Swalwell is gone. Schiff needs to go.pic.twitter.com/dXeql1YF57
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 15, 2026
President Trump’s Plan
Obama targeted.
Sending his lackey Axelrod to convince the Pope to criticize everything Trump is doing, was a blunder.
Now Trump gets to expose both the corruption in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and Obama at the SAME TIME.
Tick Tock! https://t.co/ikFSGEBm4p
— JoeLange (@JoeLang51440671) April 15, 2026
This is a travesty.
John represented the President in litigation challenging an election. That’s all. He lied about nothing. Reasonable minds can disagree about the 2020 election.
He did what lawyers are supposed to do — represent disfavored individuals. And make no mistake,… https://t.co/Ib17uUzgDG
— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) April 15, 2026
the elites, especially in bar apparatuses, disfavor and hate President Trump and anyone associated with him with a burning passion. No one representing Vice President Gore was disbarred for losing Bush v. Gore where the whole partial county-specific recount strategy Democrat lawyers devised there was ruled an unconstitutional violation of equal protection. Two-tiered system of justice and of bar discipline. Pray for John and his family and that John will speedily take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court and that they will grant cert and reverse this absolute nonsense.
The California Supreme Court sent a clear and terrorizing message:
If attorneys represent disfavored political candidates who challenge disputed elections, California will disbar them.
While this happens in failed third-world countries, this should never happen in America. https://t.co/AuMtAULoIy
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) April 15, 2026
Meanwhile, Kevin Clinesmith – who fabricated evidence to lie to the FISA court and violated citizens' rights – is freely able to practice law today, after only a short suspension.
Anarcho-tyranny. https://t.co/Og9NXs03a0 pic.twitter.com/sdyBYtyR5s
— Bluesky Libs (@BlueskyLibs) April 15, 2026
DNI Tulsi Gabbard Sends Criminal Referrals for ICIG Michael Atkinson and CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sent criminal referrals to the DOJ for former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson and former CIA Analyst (National Intelligence Council) Eric Ciaramella.
- Atkinson was the intentional organizer of false impeachment material submitted by CIA operative Ciaramella. Apparently, people know the background. lol
- WASHINGTON DC –
- Don’t forget, Michael Atkinson turned the Ciaramella complaint into a criminal referral, a criminal complaint, then submitted it to the U.S. Department of Justice.
- Abuse of govt position.
- Manufacturing evidence for a legislative procedure.
- Conspiracy to conduct fraud.
- Lying to federal investigators.
- Falsifying information to manufacture a criminal complaint.
- It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Source: theconservativetreehouse.com
Don’t forget, Michael Atkinson turned the Ciaramella complaint into a criminal referral, a criminal complaint, then submitted it to the U.S. Department of Justice.
He might be regretting that about now 😅 https://t.co/2jFXgjEzH3
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 16, 2026
Here’s why, broken down simply:Two Legal Paths (Both Allowed)
- Arrest-first path (criminal complaint)
- DOJ files a complaint + affidavit showing probable cause.
- Magistrate judge issues an arrest warrant.
- Person is arrested (or surrenders), then must be taken before a judge within ~48–72 hours.
- Grand jury still has to indict within 21–31 days if it’s a felony, or the case dies.
- This is faster but very public and disruptive right away.
- Grand-jury-first path (the normal one here)
- Prosecutors present evidence in secret to a grand jury.
- Grand jury votes to indict (or not).
- Only after indictment does the court issue an arrest warrant (or the person is allowed to self-surrender).
- No one knows the details until the indictment is unsealed.
Why Grand Jury → Indictment → Arrest Makes Way More Sense Here
- No urgency / low flight risk
The targets (whistleblower, ex-ICIG Michael Atkinson, etc.) are former government officials with lawyers, passports, homes, and careers in D.C. They’re not flight risks and aren’t going to destroy evidence overnight. There’s zero public-safety reason to handcuff someone first. - Stronger investigation
A grand jury gives prosecutors subpoena power to force witnesses and documents without tipping everyone off. An early arrest would immediately trigger defense lawyers, media frenzy, and possible evidence spoliation claims. - Political optics matter a lot
This is already radioactive (Trump impeachment, 2019 whistleblower, now 2026 declassification). Arresting someone first looks like a “raid” or political payback. Going grand-jury-first looks more deliberate and by-the-book — exactly what a DOJ would want in a high-profile case involving allegations of misconduct by prior administration officials. - Standard practice for white-collar / political cases
In almost every similar federal case involving false statements, perjury, or official misconduct by non-violent defendants (think: past cases against officials, lobbyists, or whistleblowers), prosecutors use the grand-jury route. Arrest-first is far more common in drug, gun, or gang cases where immediate custody is needed.
Remember those private email servers that Hillary Clinton wiped back in the day? Well Sean Hannity and John Solomon are reporting that their sources say we might have copies of them though a foreign power.
HANNITY: “My understanding, my sources… tell me that those servers,… pic.twitter.com/HaeeAJHTMN
— TheStormHasArrived (@TheStormRedux) April 15, 2026
So warrantless spying is MAGA now?? https://t.co/7KULDzkD3m pic.twitter.com/fk0lh9jmQr
— Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@FmrRepMTG) April 15, 2026
The FISA used to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign (Carter Page warrants) and the FISA Trump is now pushing for (a clean extension of Section 702) are two fundamentally different provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. They target different people, use different legal standards, and raise different privacy concerns.
1. The FISA used against Trump’s campaign: Title I of FISA (individualized warrants on U.S. persons)
- This is the traditional part of FISA (enacted in 1978) that allows the government to get a secret FISA Court warrant to surveil a specific U.S. person (like Carter Page, a former Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser) inside the U.S.
- To get the warrant, the FBI/DOJ had to show probable cause that the target was an “agent of a foreign power” (e.g., acting on behalf of Russia).
- The government obtained four successive 90-day warrants on Page starting in October 2016. These allowed full electronic surveillance (phone, email, etc.).
- What went wrong (the “spying” abuses Trump has repeatedly criticized):
- The DOJ Inspector General (Horowitz report, 2019) and later the Durham investigation found 17 significant inaccuracies and omissions in the warrant applications.
- Heavy reliance on the unverified Steele dossier (funded by Clinton campaign).
- The DOJ later admitted in court filings that at least two of the renewals lacked probable cause.
- Trump has called this illegal domestic political spying on his campaign.
This is not the FISA Trump is pushing to renew right now.
2. What Trump wants now: A clean reauthorization of FISA Section 702 (warrantless foreign-targeted surveillance)
- Section 702 (added in 2008) is a completely different authority under Title VII of FISA.
- It allows the government (NSA, FBI, CIA, etc.) to collect communications from non-U.S. persons reasonably believed to be outside the U.S. for foreign intelligence purposes (terrorism, espionage, weapons proliferation, etc.).
- No individualized warrants are needed for the foreign targets. The FISA Court approves broad annual “certifications” and procedures, not specific people.
- Collection happens mainly through U.S. tech companies (PRISM program) or by tapping internet backbone cables (Upstream).
- Key controversy: Americans’ communications are often incidentally collected when they talk/text/email with the foreign targets. The government can later search (“query”) that database using an American’s name/email/phone number — currently without a warrant in most cases. This is what privacy advocates call the “backdoor search” loophole.
Trump (and the White House) are currently urging Congress to pass a clean 18-month extension of Section 702 before it expires on April 20, 2026, without adding new warrant requirements or major reforms. He and intel officials argue it is essential for national security (counterterrorism, China, Iran, etc.).
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Aspect
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Title I FISA (used on Carter Page)
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Section 702 (what Trump wants now)
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Who it targets
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U.S. persons / people inside the U.S.
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Non-U.S. persons outside the U.S.
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Warrant required?
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Yes — individualized probable-cause warrant from FISA Court
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No individualized warrants (programmatic approval)
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Approval process
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Court reviews each specific target
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Annual broad certifications + targeting procedures
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Main abuse concern
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False/misleading info in warrant apps (Steele dossier, omissions)
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Incidental collection + warrantless “backdoor” queries on Americans
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Trump’s past stance
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“KILL FISA” — because it was abused against him
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Now supports clean reauthorization as “vital”
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Trump and his administration now draw a sharp line between the two, saying the first was the problem and the second is a necessary tool that has been reformed since 2018.That’s exactly why MTG’s post (and many in the MAGA base) are upset — they see any warrantless surveillance authority as the same slippery slope that was abused before, regardless of the technical distinction. Trump’s position has clearly flipped from his 2024 “KILL FISA” posts.
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 16, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court appears poised to STRIKE DOWN state laws allowing the mass acceptance of mail-in ballots after election day, following oral arguments — AP
It could affect several DOZEN states.
THIS IS HUGE! 🔥
Justice Sam Alito delivered a MASTERCLASS in… pic.twitter.com/6vVbbPqNUT
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 23, 2026
in precisely why we have an election DAY, not “week” or “month” “We have LOTS of phrases that involve two words, the last of which, the second of which is DAY. Labor DAY, Memorial DAY, George Washington’s birthDAY, Independence DAY, birth DAY, and election DAY!” “And they’re all particular DAYS.” “So if we start with that, if I have nothing more to look at than the phrase election day, I think this is the DAY in which everything is going to take place, or almost everything.”
This is a huge comm Dan Scavino just put out and could be signaling the start of something very, very big..🤯🙏🙏
Dan Scavino's post is just a GIF which is titled "Dis Gonna Be Good" and has a timestamp/date of 11:55 PM EST · Apr 15, 2026
Q 1155
04/15/2018👈 8 year delta… pic.twitter.com/c8npFpQhS5— 🇺🇸ULTRA-MAGA🇺🇸Dean 🐸 (@7thDean) April 16, 2026

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