Brad Slager in for Pete Kaliner: The FBI has raided former President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago. Also, Jorge Bonilla, Director of MRC Latino, joins the program.
In this hour, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago yesterday. Congressman Jeff Duncan provides his thoughts on the raid and the FBI.
US Senate investigators say the Federal Reserve has identified 13 people of “potential concern” in 8 of the Reserve’s 12 banks. Plus, whistleblowers say the FBI tried to discredit verified information about Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Also, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police make “bicycle gang” arrests.
WBT afternoon host Brett Winterble joins Bo Thompson to talk about Brett's "chippy" roundtable with 25 political students at Emerson College and a report that the FBI is tracking threats against teachers and school board members, using counterterrorism methods targeting concerned parents who speak out at school board meetings.
In the first hour of the show, Pete talks about how the media and the FBI may have ended up with egg on their face after being misled by lies from the Democratic Party as they investigated accused collusion by Donald Trump with Russia during the 2016 Election.
Former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker weighed in on two stories dominating the headlines on Monday's Bo Thompson Morning Show. The first being the disappearance of Gabby Petito, which has now sadly turned into a murder investigation. The 22-year-old New Yorker was found dead in a remote part of Wyoming outside of the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
“I did storm the Capitol,” Chapman embellished on the dating site under the alias Robert Erick, according to court filings on Thursday. “I made it all the way into the Statuary Hall!” However, his potential match wasn't thrilled by the conversation starter. “We are not a match,” they replied and contacted authorities.
The FBI rounded up an 'unspecified number of weapons' as well as fentanyl, OxyContin and 'huge stacks of $100 bills' sniffed out by drug dogs, The Los Angeles Times reported. One of the boxes was stocked full of Benjamin's, reportedly containing $1 million in cash, according to the outlet.
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who serves on the judiciary committee, is calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland launch an investigation with “proper oversight” by the Senate into questions about how thoroughly the FBI investigated Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing.
According to court documents, The Tar Heel served as a training base for some militia members involved with the act of domestic terrorism. A superseding indictment against several alleged members of the militia group Oath Keepers shows at least one man “attended a training camp in North Carolina.” Although, no specific location of the camp was listed in the court filings.
