Judge TOSSES OUT charges against ex-FBI officials accused of LYING about Hunter Biden laptop — but there's a catch



A federal judge has tossed out the cases against two former Federal Bureau of Investigation officials, accusing the Trump administration of weaponizing the power of government in order to prosecute them.

The Dept. of Justice had sought criminal charges against 46-year-old Nikki Floris and 56-year-old Bradley Benavides on the basis that they had allegedly lied to Congress about the Hunter Biden laptop case.

'What has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization.'

Both Floris and Benavides had testified in 2023 that they had no part in the investigation into Biden's laptop, but prosecutors cited evidence that both may have discussed the case with other FBI officials.

On Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui dismissed the charges against both defendants.

"What has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization," said Faruqui.

He said the government could have brought the charges at any time but chose to do so two weeks before the election. He also cited a prime time speech where President Donald Trump aired his grievances about the 2020 election.

"I will not bury my head in the sand and pretend that I cannot read a calendar," Faruqui added.

He accused the government of rushing the prosecution and including "critical mistakes" in their charges.

Floris' attorney had argued in court that his client had been prosecuted in order to influence public opinion for the sake of the election.

Critics of Floris pointed to an unearthed alleged text where she claimed to be "basically running a shadow government" in the FBI.

Both Floris and Benavides had been a part of the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, which no longer exists but had spearheaded the agency's efforts to oppose foreign influence in the 2020 election.

The Justice Dept. has the option to pursue indictments of both Floris and Benavides through a grand jury.

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Faruqui was heavily criticized when he apologized in court to Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of trying to assassinate Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April. Cole had been placed on suicide watch and been denied access to a Bible, according to his attorneys.

As a magistrate federal judge, Faruqui was not nominated by a president or approved by the U.S. Senate but selected by the court in Washington, D.C.

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Hunter Biden is the latest personality to promote a cryptocurrency meme coin accused of being a scam.

The former president's son launched the "LAPTOP" coin on Wednesday. The full diluted valuation of the coin quickly surged to $144 billion before crashing almost immediately, losing about 98.8% of its value in just a few short hours.

'They turned laptop into a weapon. I turned it into a token.'

The 56-year-old had promoted the coin Monday with a video compilation of news clips reporting the infamous laptop that he had left at a computer repair shop and was later obtained by the media and federal agents.

"The symbol they used to try to end me is now a symbol of resilience, redemption, and recovery," wrote Biden in a post Tuesday.

"They turned laptop into a weapon. I turned it into a token."

But the massive increase and crash seemed to have all the earmarks of a classic "pump and dump" scheme, where the coin creators and insiders sell their shares near the maximum valuation, which leads to many investors losing nearly everything.

The coin creators often make outsized promises to the promoter but leave them holding the bag after "rug pulling" the common investors of their money.

President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump mocked Biden after reports of it crashing.

"Hunter should go back to painting," he posted on social media.

Economic expert and Blaze News contributor Carol Roth responded in comments to Blaze News.

"Hunter Biden knows how to make something out of nothing — at least for himself. Now that his previously lucrative board memberships and painting careers aren’t quite as robust, it’s unsurprising he would support a meme coin scheme," she said.

She also criticized meme coins as investments.

"Crypto generally, and meme coins in particular, are a part of growing trend of get-rich-quick and betting-oriented activities that seem to be pervasive in America these days," Roth added. "If the value of something comes down to purely in selling it to the next guy trying to make a quick buck, it’s not really an investment — it’s a gambling vehicle."

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Both President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have launched their own meme coins, which similarly climbed in value before collapsing.

"Why something that has been so misused by grifters? I understand the cynicism," Hunter Biden wrote in the Tuesday post before the launch. "Trump has broken trust in everything he’s ever touched. And his token was no exception."

Biden has since denied the allegations that he was taken in by a crypto-scheme. In a video posted to his account Friday, he claimed that there had been a mix-up but that he was "intimately" involved in the coin's creation and that it still had a future.

One analysis found that an account apparently purchased $250,000 worth of Hunter's meme coin, waited eight minutes while it skyrocketed in value, then dumped the coin for a profit of nearly $1 million.

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Hunter Biden wants Democrats to learn EXTREME lesson from NYC elections



The stunning victories of far-left extremists against centrist establishment candidates in the New York City Democratic primary elections are leading many to embrace fringe socialism.

Among those voices is Hunter Biden, the former president's disgraced son who sired a child with a reported Washington, D.C., stripper.

'The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.'

Biden said in a post on social media that Democrats need to abandon seeking the vote of Americans with more moderate views.

"I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday," he wrote in a post on the X social media platform.

"The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something," he said after a few other bullet points.

He said Democrats who made anti-Israel and pro-rent control statements won because they were "authentic." He also derided endorsements from establishment partisans.

"Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings," he added. "The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark."

He also praised far-left democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City. Mamdani backed the extremist candidates who swept their primary elections.

"The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led," Biden concluded.

In a response to a commenter, he affirmed that the Democratic Party needs to listen to black women more.

Many on the left are making the same observations about the victory of extremists in New York City while others point out that these policies are not likely to be popular in the rest of the country, even among Democrats.

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Biden's addiction problems became a flashpoint in the 2020 election after Republican operatives were able to obtain a laptop with damaging private content of Biden left at a computer shop.

Trump supporters tried to use the content to damage the Biden presidential campaign, but various social media giants responded by restricting the circulation of the story over suggestions from the administration that foreign actors were circulating fake propaganda.

Hunter Biden has since gone to rehab and began commenting on politics after his father had to drop his re-election campaign over health concerns.

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Joe Biden mental fitness questions return after new interview



Despite plenty of video footage showing former President Joe Biden stumbling through basic sentences and forgetting where those sentences were going, Jill Biden is once again dismissing concerns about his cognitive fitness.

In a recent interview on CBS with Rita Braver, Jill claimed more than once that Biden was “fine” when asked about his frequent gaffes.

“But what if that had happened during a meeting with foreign leaders or something like that?” Braver asked the first lady.

“I don’t know how to answer that,” Jill responded.


“Yeah, because you can’t answer that,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray chimes in on “Pat Gray Unleashed.” “He should not have been president is the only answer to that.”

“Next time you steal the presidency, make sure it’s someone with a pulse,” executive producer Keith Malinak adds.

Braver also pointed out that while “President Biden had said that he would never pardon his son,” he then pardoned him.

“Did you urge the president to think again about that?” the reporter asked.

“Well, you know, Joe said in the beginning, ‘I won’t pardon Hunter. I won’t pardon Hunter.’ And then the Justice Department changed, and I think that the process was not fair to Hunter,” Jill answered.

Jill was also asked about Biden’s mental decline, with the reporter asking, “Did you ever see signs that he was falling into cognitive decline?”

“No, no,” she answered.

Malinak isn’t amused by Jill’s claim, commenting, “You’re a liar.”

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