The Trump 2.0 team is fierce. They want consequences for Deep State actors committing crimes.
That’s why an FBI agent has hinted at the Trump admin handing down racketeering arrests soon.
Former FBI Agent Demands Subversion Charges in Russiagate Scandal
Former FBI agent and Navy SEAL Jonathan Gilliam has urged prosecutors to pursue criminal subversion or racketeering cases against officials behind the Russiagate scandal, arguing that their actions aimed to undermine the U.S. government. “I think also what we have to start looking at is things like subversion,” Gilliam said. “You know, subversion, like treason and insurrection…these are all criminal actions that there’s law for.”
Newly declassified memos reveal that federal prosecutors collected evidence from top aides to former FBI Director James Comey indicating he authorized leaks of classified information to reporters ahead of the 2016 election, yet no charges followed.
These disclosures, involving ex-FBI general counsel James Baker and ex-Comey chief of staff James Rybicki, appeared in documents uncovered by FBI Director Kash Patel earlier this year, though initial versions sent to Congress featured Justice Department redactions.
Attorney General Pam Bondi stepped in to strip away those redactions, sending updated memos to the House and Senate Judiciary committees this week, according to officials. “When you look at those types of crimes…okay, maybe they leaked this information, but was their motive and intent to subvert the government of the United States, or a standing president, or a president that was coming into office?” Gilliam said. “If that’s the case, then the statute of limitations goes out the door.”
Federal law defines subversion as efforts to weaken or overthrow a government or political system through covert means. Gilliam stressed the need for the FBI to explore a racketeering case, pointing to a conspiracy among multiple officials who misused intelligence and law enforcement tools.
“I believe it’s important for them to go forward on a RICO case, because they link all of these individuals, and they can show whether the statute of limitations for those particular crimes have gone,” Gilliam said. “Let’s say they’ve passed, but they can show that two or more people were involved in these crimes for the purpose of furthering their criminal enterprise. That’s a RICO charge.”
Comey has repeatedly denied in congressional testimony that he served as a source for news stories on FBI probes into Trump and Clinton, and he claimed he never approved others in the bureau to do so.
The former director maintains his innocence, asserting that attacks against him stem from his resistance to Trump. Congressman Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., described the fresh details on Comey as carrying “overwhelming significance.”
“I have to talk to an attorney about what the definition of treason is, but at the very least it’s collusion,” Burchett said. “I think a felony was committed. I think that the cover-up is, in this case, maybe even worse than the crime, because you got to ask yourself, whatever, what else were they covering up?”
The Trump administration has long pushed for consequences against those involved in what it calls the Russiagate hoax, starting with the first term when President Trump appointed special counsel John Durham in 2019 to probe the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation. Durham’s inquiry led to indictments of figures like Michael Sussmann, a lawyer tied to the Clinton campaign, for lying to the FBI about the source of data alleging Trump-Russia links, though Sussmann was acquitted.
In his final report released in 2023, Durham criticized the FBI for rushing the probe based on unverified information and failing to scrutinize the Steele dossier, a key element in the Russiagate narrative. Before leaving office in 2021, Trump declassified numerous documents related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, exposing internal memos that highlighted biases and procedural flaws in the handling of the case.
Now in his second term, Trump has intensified these efforts, with Attorney General Pam Bondi authorizing a new grand jury inquiry into the Russia probe’s beginnings, aiming to hold accountable those who allegedly fabricated evidence against him. This move follows Trump’s public accusations of treason against former President Obama for overseeing what Trump describes as a manufactured hoax to derail his 2016 campaign.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified additional reports, including a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence document detailing how intelligence was manipulated to push the Russia collusion story. These actions target former officials like Comey and ex-CIA Director John Brennan, with steps underway to investigate their roles in promoting disinformation about Trump’s ties to Russia.
The Justice Department under Trump has escalated scrutiny, issuing subpoenas and reviving probes into critics like New York Attorney General Letitia James, linking back to efforts to expose cover-ups in the Russiagate saga. Supporters view these developments as a long-overdue reckoning for the deep state operatives who weaponized federal agencies against a duly elected president.
