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NEW: Newly declassified FBI emails from October 2016 reveal the Crossfire Hurricane team was operating under the assumption their alleged Russian agent target Carter Page was a "homosexual," until their informant Christopher Steele fed them another rumor Page had a Russian girlfriend who was a ballerina in Moscow.

Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ · 14h BREAKING: President Obama and his National Security Adviser Susan Rice were so distraught after Trump won in 2016 they literally broke down and cried in front of White House staff, according to 1,100 hours of new audio and video compiled by Columbia University in cooperation with the Obama Foundation. After all they'd built, they feared their accomplishments were "at risk" of being torn down by a "con man" and a "clown." Ergo, Trump had to be stopped?

From Ed Morrissey's summary of reactions to Donkey-Chomper's Mitch-McConnell-level brain glitch:

Charles C.W. Cooke at NRO: Browning suggests that AOC went to Munich to insist that "wealthy world leaders must better provide for their working classes or risk their countries sliding toward authoritarianism." Apparently, he considers this exonerative. In truth, though, that is the whole problem: AOC is a one-trick pony. What she says in America is what she says in Munich, because she doesn't know how to say anything else. At some point in her life she became attracted to warmed-over democratic socialism, and since that point she has declined to learn anything more. She's a meme, an avatar, a vibe. In her interview with Browning, she griped that the press had focused on "any five-to-10-second thing" from her remarks. But of course it did. She is a five-to-10-second thing. She is a limerick competing with a bunch of novels. What did she think was going to happen? Advertisement

Elsewhere, AOC implies that the media's interest in her potentially "running for president" has made it tough for her agenda to break through. But one must wonder why, if political drama is to blame, this did not apply to Marco Rubio, who is constantly depicted as being involved in a monumental power struggle with JD Vance, and yet managed to deliver a speech at the same conference that was widely regarded as masterly. As it happens, the explanation for this difference is simple: Marco Rubio went to Germany to make a discrete case to the Munich Security Conference, and AOC went to Germany to make yet another Instagram video about nothing. The results matched the aims.

Wait, I don't understand -- does Jake Tapper use Twitter for self-promotion?

At the age of 58, Gavin Newsom just discovered he's "dyslexic." This discovery comes as the wealth white straight (???) man enters a primary in which black/Jamaican/Indian immigrant woman Kamala Harris is leading. He needs a way to claim "Buh I'm a minority too." And his Delayed Realization Dyslexia will fill that bill.

After Newsom said something historically illiterate, Ted Cruz said he was historically illiterate.

Newsom went into Total Shrieking Pansy Mode and whined that by saying he's historically illiterate, Ted Cruz was Dog Whistling about the dyslexia that no one believes Gavin Newsom actually has.

I don't understand -- is @JakeTapper known for self-promotion on Twitter or something? https://t.co/pDt5aKH3ug

— The Reaping Phase (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 18, 2026

This is a troll, and a good one:

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:34 PM

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