REVEALED: Three Former Obama-Biden Officials Push Seditious Proposal to Persuade FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS to Criminally Target Pete Hegseth and Other Trump Officials

 

Joe Biden and Barack Obama attend Ethel Kennedy’s memorial service

Some of Barack Obama’s former cronies are working behind the scenes to find a way to lock up Trump Administration officials and want foreign governments to play a role.

Independent journalist Natalie Winters exclusively reported on Saturday that former Obama advisers have hatched a proposal in the liberal law and policy journal Just Security to persuade foreign countries to “quietly gather evidence” and “wait to issue indictments until Trump is out of office.”

The countries in question include Colombia and Ecuador, while the prime targets include Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Admiral Frank Bradley, and General Francis Donovan. 

The officials have honed in on the boat strikes in the Caribbean against drug cartels as the focus for prosecution.

More from Winters:

Their argument treats the strikes as murder and explores international warrants and extradition. Even officials avoiding overseas travel would count as a consequence:

“self-imposed travel restrictions to avoid arrest”

They favor U.S. prosecutions but see foreign courts as another route, subject to evidence and custody hurdles.

The authors of the article were Sarah Harrison, Benjamin Farley, and Tracey Begley.

Per Winters, here are their connections to Obama and Biden: 

Harrison served in the Obama administration as counselor to the Homeland Security secretary from 2015 to 2017. She later worked as a Pentagon associate general counsel, advising on the law governing American military activities.

Farley spent 13 years in government, including as an adviser to the State Department’s Guantanamo closure envoy and director of its Office of Terrorist Detentions. A career official whose service crossed administrations, he returned to State in August 2021, during Biden’s presidency.

He now works at the National Immigration Law Center on wartime and emergency powers. Begley previously served as a senior adviser in the State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice.

The piece caught the attention of U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz. He stated that this meddling could be illegal and vowed the DOJ will “smoke it out.”

“Former Obama-Biden Admin officials are urging foreign adversaries to gather evidence so that a future Democrat White House can partner with them to detain and prosecute Trump Admin officials,” Reitz wrote. “This kind of seditious meddling may be illegal.”

“DOJ will smoke it out. More to come.”

Former Obama-Biden Admin officials are urging foreign adversaries to gather evidence so that a future Democrat White House can partner with them to detain and prosecute Trump Admin officials.

This kind of seditious meddling may be illegal.

DOJ will smoke it out.

More to come.

— U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz (@USAttyReitz) November 14, 2026

 

“DOJ will smoke it out. More to come.”

Remember the West Point Graduate Who Flashed a Pro-Communism Message in His Hat? You’ll Never Guess What He’s Doing Now

 Back in 2017, a West Point graduate named Spenser Rapone went viral on social media for flashing a sign in his hat that read ‘Communism will win.’

People were outraged about it but he faded into obscurity and he was largely forgotten.

Until now. 

You’ll never guess what he is up to today. He works in higher education, because of course he does.

Funniest thing about Syria collapsing. Remember this guy? After he got drummed out of the army, he (of course) got an academic sinecure… https://t.co/ZEruFFrEuW

— St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻 (@St_Rev) December 11, 2024

Townhall reports:

In 2017, Second Lieutenant Spenser Rapone shared a picture from his May 2016 West Point Graduation on social media. In that pic, he raised his fist and held up his service cap to reveal “Communism will win” written inside.

The U.S. Army launched an investigation into Rapone and found that he advocated online for a socialist revolution and disparaged high-ranking officers. In 2018 he resigned and received an other-than-honorable discharge.

Now we’re catching up to what he’s doing now, and he’s a PhD student at the University of Chicago, where Abdul El-Sayed’s radical sister also teaches. It seems he’s picked up a taste for Islamic extremism, too.

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Remember that “Communism Will Win” West Point grad from 2017 — Spenser Rapone?

He’s currently in a fully funded PhD program at the University of Chicago where he regularly declares his support for Islamic terrorism and Bashar Al-Assad https://t.co/6S1IqKoo0I

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) November 11, 2026 

More from the Washington Free Beacon:

The notorious West Point graduate who wrote “communism will win” on his cap during graduation—and who now openly praises Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, Hezbollah boss Hassan Nasrallah, and Syria’s sadistic Assad family—is now a Ph.D. student at the prestigious University of Chicago, all expenses paid.

Spenser Rapone, a self-described “revolutionary socialist” who was drummed out of the Army after declaring his support for communism and calling for violence against Republicans, has taken up residence at the University of Chicago, where he specializes in “modern Arab intellectual history” and the “history of the modern Middle East,” among other subjects.

In addition to his well-known communist bona fides, Rapone has also picked up a taste for Islamic extremism—which he now freely posts about on his public X page. His most inflammatory public pronouncements are in Arabic and remain live on X.

“Glory to the martyred leader Yahya Sinwar,” he said on Oct. 18, 2024, shortly after Israel killed the Hamas boss, who masterminded the Oct. 7 massacre.

A college campus is the perfect place for this guy.

He probably fits right in with all of the other communist revolutionaries.

Trump Blasts Biden-Appointed Judge for Blocking His Plan to Transform D.C.’s “Trash Island” Into World-Class Golf Course — Promises 50% Discount for Local Residents

 

President Donald Trump unloaded on U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes Saturday after the Biden appointee blocked his administration from closing East Potomac Park, the nearly 400-acre riverside site Trump has repeatedly branded “Trash Island,” just one day before it was scheduled to shut down for a major overhaul.

Trump took to Truth Social to slam the course as “the Worst Golf Course anywhere in the World,” calling out dangerous fairways packed too close together and accusing Reyes of standing in the way of a quick, inexpensive fix. 

He posted photos of the dilapidated site and vowed that Washington-area residents would get a 50 percent discount on “any and all Rates charged” once the renovated facility opens.

Trump has long said the rebuilt course, designed with input from golf architect Tom Fazio, would eventually host major events including the PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup, bringing prestige and economic development back to the capital.

Trump wrote:

“Trash Island is currently the Worst Golf Course anywhere in the World, but the Department of the Interior is going to make it into the Best Golf Course anywhere in the World.

Unfortunately, Judge Ana Reyes doesn’t want us to quickly and inexpensively fix up the Course which is, also, very dangerous — The Fairways are far too close together.

When you walk down the corridors of Trash Island, you don’t hear the sound of the running Potomac, all you hear is the sound of people screaming, “FORE!” In any event, we’re making progress, and hopefully the Judge will agree that the Dignity, Beauty, and Importance of Washington, D.C., will be greatly enhanced by this soon to be beautiful Project.

Trash Island, after years of laughter and scorn, will evolve into something very special, something which the Judge will be able to take great pride in seeing!

All over the World it will be acclaimed as being the Best Golf Course anywhere, attracting the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship, the Ryder Cup, and the Presidents Cup, with all of the Economic Development that will bring.

Very importantly, also, is that anyone living in the D.C. area will be given a 50% discount on any and all Rates charged. The Department of the Interior has done a magnificent job of cleaning, fixing, renovating, and rebuilding 83 Fountains, Monuments, and Statues throughout our beautiful Capital.

Even the Reflecting Pool, which hasn’t worked properly since its building in 1922, is open, beautiful, and working as it was always expected to do. 

Perhaps most importantly, Crime in Washington, D.C., is down 91%, A RECORD, and the People are happy and safe again! The Department of the Interior’s Golf Project will greatly enhance everything else that has already taken place in the last two year period. Everyone is proud and grateful again!”

The project is part of Trump’s broader initiative to restore and beautify Washington, D.C., including its monuments, fountains, parks, and historic landmarks.

Administration officials maintain that deteriorating infrastructure, a failing seawall, and safety risks require immediate closure of the historic public park.

Meanwhile, Uruguayan-born judge Reyes is escalating her confrontation with the Trump Justice Department.

During a lengthy hearing on Friday, the Biden-appointed judge warned that she would initiate sanctions proceedings within a “zeptosecond” if evidence emerged that government officials had destroyed documents related to the renovation project.

Reyes has also pushed forward with an inquiry into whether government attorneys misled the court about the administration’s renovation plans. 

The judge has proposed appointing Jessie Liu, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, to investigate potential ethics violations. The Justice Department has challenged the need for the investigation and the proposed appointment.

No findings of document destruction or attorney misconduct have been established.

In October, the administration removed hundreds of trees, reports put the number around 400–500, over a single weekend, prompting Reyes to issue emergency orders and a blistering preliminary injunction.

She accused officials of racing to clear land because of Trump’s redesign timeline rather than any routine maintenance, calling the pace “breakneck” and the environmental review nonexistent.

The Gateway Pundit previously covered the furious hearing in which Reyes excoriated DOJ lawyers, declaring the government had “done its absolute worst.”

Trump first highlighted the project publicly after a June tour with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Fazio, announcing plans to transform the “dilapidated, worn out, and very dangerous” East Potomac Golf Links into “one of the Greatest Golf Courses anywhere in the World” capable of hosting the U.S. Open, Ryder Cup, and PGA Championship.