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Pfizer Aggressively Campaigned for Pregnant Women to get Vaccinated After Knowing Side Effects
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Dr. James Thorp interviewed Dr. Naomi Wolf on this subject. Transcript below:
Dr. Naomi Wolf:
Hey everyone. It’s Dr. Naomi Wolf. I’m here with one of my personal heroes, Dr. James Thorp. Welcome Dr. Thorp.
Dr. James Thorp: Thank you, Dr. Wolf. It’s an honor and a privilege to work with you.
Dr. Wolf:
Thank you. Dr. Thorp is a distinguished, board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and maternal-fetal medicine physician. He has over 44 years of obstetrical experience while serving as a very busy clinician his whole career. He’s also been very active in clinical research. This just goes to show that the people who are the bravest dissidents are some of the most credentialed.
Dr. Thorp has 224 publications, including 28 on COVID-19. He has seen over 27,500 high-risk pregnancies in the last 4.5 years, served as a reviewer for major medical journals, and served on the board of directors for the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine for three years. He also served as an examiner for the American Board of OB/GYN. He served in the US Air Force. Thank you for your service.
Dr. Thorp testified in the US Senate under the Bush Administration in 2003 on treating the fetus with in-utero therapies. He testified in the Senate more recently with Senator Ron Johnson and others. Dr. Thorpe has focused his research efforts on the Covid 19 pandemic and published over 32 scientific publications, and a book documenting the dangers of the mRNA vaccine to women of reproductive age and to pregnancy.
Dr. Thorp, given all the credentials that I’ve just shared, there’s no way anyone can call you a marginal person in the world of maternal-fetal medicine. You’re a peer reviewer. You’ve overseen thousands of high-risk pregnancies. You’ve also been way out front as the first obstetrician-gynecologist to raise an alarm about the harms to women and babies from the mRNA vaccines. You’ve been relentless.
Also, you’ve been in the news recently for having been punished for your courage and your accuracy. Please share with us what the latest is.
Dr Thorp:
Sure. I was recently fired. All of the patients in my prior service area were under the Sisters of St. Mary’s Health System, one of the largest Catholic health systems in the country. They’re based in St. Louis, as well as in service areas in five different states. I worked in two different states for them: Missouri and Illinois. What I want to say to your listeners and to my former patients – to all patients globally — is this: the most important question you need to ask your nurse or your doctor, whether it’s in a hospital or in an office, is: Nurse, Doctor, are you willing to lose your job to save my life?
And they must answer that. Because I’m telling you that 95% of the physicians and nurses are captured by their paycheck.
What happened at S S M Health? I was a model physician there, as described by the CEO who fired me. I got a call from Mr. Kevin Elledge, a CEO at SSM. (NW: SSM’s motto is:
“Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.”)
He scheduled a call with me, allegedly just to meet me. I was very suspicious of this. So, of course, I had an attorney. I took copious notes. The conversation was on June 29th at 1:05 pm.
The conversation lasted 45 minutes. For 30 minutes, Mr. Elledge honored me: called me a model physician for the system, didn’t quite understand why they were having to fire me, except they were having financial difficulties. But multiple sources in the system tell me that I was the number one money producer for the system in the department.
Several have told me that I’m the number one researcher and publisher in the department and have published more than most of the rest of the department combined.
[Mr. Elledge] honored me as being of unparalleled ethical, moral, and intellectual integrity. These are words that that he used. And after 30 minutes of this, he said, “We need to terminate you. And we’re invoking the no cause termination, which is in your original contract. So we’ll give you 120 days. You can continue to work and wind down your practice, but you need to take this large sum of money and sign the documents that I’m going to send you.”
I didn’t even see the documents. I said, “Obviously I want you to continue your mission. I don’t want your money. I don’t need your money, so please just keep it and try to make ends meet and try to take care of my patients as best you can.”
He got progressively threatened as he kept trying to force me to sign that document, which he hadn’t even sent me yet. I was very kind and respectful to him and just said, “No, I’m not [signing it]. I don’t want your money. I don’t need the money.”
He said, “Just look at it. You have the option of working for another 120 days.” That conversation ended at 1:57 PM.
He sent out an email to the entire system firing me, saying, Dr. Thorp is, effective, immediately, not seeing patients.
Which is really a slam. And very injurious. It’s libel, because that [implies] that I’m a horrible person – that I did something horrible to one of my patients or to one of the staff, and everybody knows that’s not the case.
Were flabbergasted. And I’m locked out of the system. And that’s behind me.
You know as a woman of faith, that when Yahweh closes one door, he’s got much bigger plans for you.[
In terms of SSM], I think they mean well, but I think they’re captured by the system. The people up there love me. I don’t think that it was their decision. In my opinion, somebody came in, — from the swamp in DC or from one of the medical boards or one of the organizations that I’ve been attacking — and said, “Thorp’s got to go. He’s getting too loud.”
Dr. Wolf:
I may be cynical, but I’m hearing that that call began in a friendly and flattering way, because the goal of the institution was to get you to sign a non-disclosure agreement, which I’m guessing is the unseen document that they never bothered to send you because you said you wouldn’t accept it.
Dr Thorp:
They ended up sending it to me. My wife’s an attorney. Maggie [Thorp] looked at it, and she’s never seen such an extensive non-disclosure agreement. it went not only to the effect of non-disparagement, but [also stated that] I would’ve been responsible for any other independent source — like you, or somebody on Twitter — that was disparaging them for what they did, and [it would have] held me responsible for that.
Dr. Wolf:
So, thank God for Maggie Thorp. This is just one more piece in the puzzle of trying to criminalize the speech of people like you and me, or to entangle us in lawfare if we tell people the truth. The other piece of this story that I find super concerning is that they were trying to buy your silence.
You don’t have to disparage your former employers, but I will. As a woman and as a mom, I’m just thinking of all the women who were your patients who suddenly got an email saying their doctor is gone, or who were informed by whoever took your place, that their doctor is gone.
If you have any patients who are pregnant, it would be incredibly concerning to be left in the middle of one’s pregnancy without an obstetrician. I do agree with you that it’s libelous or defamatory that this email went out, because it does appear to smear your reputation. Dr Peter McCullough has also had to fight legal battles. Dr Sherri Tenpenny’s license was suspended. One of our Pfizer documents analysis volunteers, Dr Jeyanthi Kunadhasan in Australia, was also threatened by a licensing board there. Doctors who tell the public the truth are being menaced with “lawfare” or threats of losing their licenses.
Dr Thorp:
Dr Renata Moon was just fired too. Dr. Moon had an academic appointment and was a very valuable employee. What they did to her was worse. They drummed up totally fraudulent allegations and fired her for cause. They smeared her.[2]
Many if not most of the hospitals are doing that. Dr. Rennie Moon is an incredible pediatrician and has testified in the Senate with me and with Dr. McCullough and many others. She has a very prominent voice. Pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology are the most brainwashed, targeted groups of all of medicine.
Dr. Wolf:
Let me go to why you’re such a threat. You were early on confirming what we [the WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Research Volunteers] were also finding at the same time: damage to women’s reproductive systems, reproductive cycles, damage to babies in utero, and damage to the placenta via the mRNA injections.
I want you to talk about the calcified placentas that you were seeing.[3] Is there anything new or different in the kinds of pregnancies, you were seeing, anything new regarding placentas or the babies themselves, any change in outcomes regarding deaths of mothers in childbirth [which are up post-years of mrna vaccination by 30%, per CDC], that you’ve seen?[4]
Dr Thorp:
You’re a hundred percent right. This entire vaccine went after women. It went after women’s health. for two reasons.
Number one: Every man and woman in medicine knows women make all the healthcare decisions for all members of the family. So that if they could capture the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and 60,000 obstetricians, and then they got all the women, they captured the population.
The second issue is more ominous if they can fraudulently – and make no doubt about it, this was fraud, right? Conspiracy, this was collusion — a RICO violation. The second reason that they targeted women is this: if they can prove that the vaccine is safe, effective, and necessary in the most vulnerable population, which is pregnant women, pre-borns and newborns by vertical transmission — then every other human being on earth needs to be vaccinated.
Number one, women make the healthcare decisions. Number two, if we can convince the world that it’s safe, effective, and necessary in pregnancy, they’ve won the entire game for vaccinating the entire human population on the planet. And that’s what they did.
Maggie [Thorp], as I mentioned, is an attorney. She has a keen eye for sniffing out fraud in larger corporations, which she’s done in other industries successfully.
So, we launched a FOIA. We strongly suspected that this vaccine, just like I got done saying, was a fait accompli. It was always pre-planned. Prior to 2020, it was pre-planned to target women.
And we proved that this was the case.
We submitted an airtight Freedom of Information Act to HHS, the CDC, and the American College of OB/GYN, and ACOG.
ACOG and the American College of OB/GYN allege themselves to be the preeminent organization for women in the world. Nothing could be more opposite to the truth.
On February 28th, 2021, the Pfizer 5.3 0.6 post-marketing data was public. It was devastating. It was proven to be, according to Pfizer, the deadliest drug ever rolled out to the human public. I’ve been saying that. And for two and a half years, not one person has challenged me. 1,223 dead within 10 weeks, and then horrible obstetrical data.
Mark Weber, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs/Human Services at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, tried to hide that damning data for 75 years. What did he do? Rolled out a $13 billion PSYOPs campaign to the entire United States of America, about 300 major organizations in influencers, including synagogues and churches, and many others, to convince the United States and the entire world that this deadly shot was safe, effective, and necessary in the most vulnerable population, pregnant women.[5]
They rolled that $13 billion out while suppressing the damning data from Pfizer.
Those who were founding members, like the American College of OBGYN, signed a contract, Naomi.
We’ve proven that [from] 1400 pages. They redacted over 50%, but they entered a contract that I have termed, the “covenant of death” [the phrase is from Isaiah 28]. I have started a Substack, on this covenant of death between HHS and CDC, and the American College of OB/GYN along with probably all the other influencers.
[NW: Isaiah 28:14 reads:
“Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15 You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death,
with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement.
[…]
for we have made a lie our refuge
and falsehood[b] our hiding place.”’]
What’s in this covenant of death? This is hideous. This is horrifying. This is exactly what you have seen, Dr. Naomi, and what I’ve seen and what we know to be true.
They took well over $11 million; they signed the covenant with death, and they’re not allowed to deviate one iota from the lethal narrative of HHS. If they do, they will be liable for paying back every single penny, which they’ve already pocketed. So, that’s why the American College of OB/GYN, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, to this day, are the evil organizations that perpetrated this crime on the world. And I will not back down from attacking them because we have the proof.
I’ve been saying this for over a year. And if that were not true, I’d be involved multiple lawsuits.
Dr. Wolf:
If I understood what you just said, it’s a huge story.
You and your wife submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to HHS, and you have, as a result, secured a lengthy contract between HHS and influencers, including the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Do I have those facts correct?
Dr Thorp:
Not quite. Almost. We have 1400 pages of communications between the federal government and the American College of OBGYN, that oversees over 60,000 obstetrician-gynecologists on two different continents.
Dr. Wolf:
This is a huge story. So how do you know there are 300 influencers that HHS has also funded? Are they mentioned in this communication?
Dr Thorp:
Yes, we have. They’re all mentioned. And that’s well known. Assistant Deputy Secretary, Mark Weber of HHS was very proud of this newly endowed COVID 19 Community Corps.
Dr. Wolf:
I’m aware that influences were funded, but it sounds like you and your wife got the receipts in certain ways and, and these emails are unbelievably important. Now, you’ve, you are also saying that $11 million went from the federal government, from HHS to this third-party NGO, a for-profit, non-government organization, which oversees tens of thousands of obstetricians and gynecologists on two continents. Do I have that correct?
Dr Thorp:
That’s correct.
Dr Wolf:
So presumably, if they don’t stick to HH s’s script about the vaccine, they must pay back the money that they took. Is that correct?
Dr Thorp:
Absolutely correct. It is HHS and CDC.
Dr. Wolf:
Our volunteers found that a terrifying report went out on April 10th, 2021, showing damage in utero from transplacental or “maternal” exposure to vaccine, Pfizer’s words, including death. There are also convulsions and fevers and swelling of babies who are nursing vaccinated moms.[6] This report went to CDC, and three days later, Dr. Walensky gave a White House press conference telling the women of America, that especially if they were pregnant, they should take the vaccine; that it was safe and effective, that there was no bad time. Before you have your baby, during your pregnancy, after having your baby, there is no bad time to take the vaccine.
So CDC was paying obstetricians to echo this script, knowing that this injection was killing babies in utero, and poisoning them through breast milk? Is that the bottom line?
Dr Thorp:
That’s absolutely a hundred percent. We’ve arrived at the identical conclusions, and you know, Maggie and I have published extensively on America out Loud. There are a dozen articles, and they’re extraordinarily well-referenced. We have everything that you said. It is a hundred percent true, and everything that you found from your side that I wasn’t aware of it, it is absolutely a hundred percent true. We’ve documented it all.
We have clips, we have interviews; we have the Walensky interview, we have the floating lie that was put out by the powers that be in our government. And, and the American College of OBGYN starting out in late 2020 [saying], It’s never going to be mandated in pregnancy. And then it slowly morphs from that into the April 2021 interview where [she] says, okay, it is now indicated. And we were mandating it. And by July, ACOG said, yes, we’re strongly recommending it.
Dr. Naomi Wolf:
That’s unbelievable. I will move heaven and earth to get proper media attention on this story that you and Maggie Thorp have broken.
Let me just play this out to the end. This means that to this day, when a pregnant woman asks her obstetrician, her gynecologist, “Do you recommend that I take this [mRNA] vaccine or not?” That doctor has to say, “Yes, it’s recommended”? “Yes, ACOG recommends it”? Or else they are in violation in some way of some contractual commitment that ACOG has made, and they must pay back money or be penalized in some ways? Is that right?
Dr Thorp:
That’s, that’s exactly right. And, and the system will work earnestly to fire that physician if they perpetrate that truth.
Dr. Naomi Wolf:
So, you are saying that obstetricians and gynecologists, to this day, at least in the United States, cannot give their pregnant patients informed consent about what we now know to be the real significant risks of taking the URA injection during pregnancy. Is that correct?
Dr Thorp:
Absolutely. A hundred percent correct. And, and just think about it, the Mark Weber infiltrated the personal most personal relationships that a woman has. :
Going into the examination room, during the most important part of her life — she’s pregnant — she trusts her physician. With her obstetrician, whether male or female, there’s a very important trust. Mark Weber and HHS egregiously violated that trust, in the most sensitive exam ever in a woman’s life.
Dr. Wolf:
So theoretically — even though now people are fleeing the mRNA injection, as we now know from the Q1 and Q 2 economic reports of both Pfizer and Moderna – pregnant women to this day probably are being urged to take the mRNA vaccine that everyone else is racing away from. And they’re doing it because they trust their obstetricians and their gynecologists.
We need to bring every woman’s attention to this story that every woman in America — in all those other countries where this is happening. Every pregnant woman is in a state of acute jeopardy as a result of what you and Mrs. Thorp have found. What were you seeing in your practice regarding harms to women and to the fetus from this injection?
Dr Thorp:
In my vast clinical experience, I have seen massive disruption of normal menstruation patterns, which you well know. And that did not occur until after the rollout of the vaccine. I have seen a marked increase in infertility, male and female.
If the [couple] do conceive, then there’s a substantial risk of miscarriage. And I stand by what we [both] have interpreted and what I have published, there’s an 81% risk of miscarriage from Pfizer’s own data. There is an increase in malformations of all organ systems, a substantial increase in fetal death, substantial increase in severe early onset preeclampsia, in preterm premature membrane rupture, an increase in spontaneous preterm labor, an increase in indicated preterm delivery due to vaccine complications. In trying to prevent a death in utero, we are seeing an increase in cardiac anomalies, cardiac malformations, and in the early death of the fetus. I am also seeing an increase in premature delivery and death of the newborns. There is a massive increase in newborns going to the neonatal intensive care unit. There are substantial abnormalities of the placenta.
Dr. Naomi Wolf:
Stunning, terrifying. Dr. Thorp is, in his interpretation of over 80% spontaneous abortions and miscarriages in the Pfizer documents independently finding what our WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Research Volunteers also found in the Pfizer documents. And his description of compromised placentas, stillbirth, premature labor, and babies with malformations is independently confirmed by, and I stress this as a journalist, two midwives in two separate practices, whom we at DailyClout interviewed. Dr. Thorp’s account also confirms a new report by DailyClout’s COO Amy Kelly, showing placental problems in a pathology report of a vaccinated mother. So now we have four independent sources confirming the same serious problems for babies and moms.
Dr Thorp:
Everybody should have known I knew, before the vaccine ever rolled out: that it was going to be damaging. That’s because it is a proven principle of obstetrics in gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine, published by the world expert Roberto Romero, on the horrible adverse effects of inflammation on pregnancy. It’s devastating.
So that’s known to every OB/GYN. Every OB/GYN has had that drummed into their teaching for the last several decades.
So of course, [the inflammation caused by the mRNA vaccines] is going to cause damage: miscarriage and malformations and chromosome malformations. It’s proven: it’s the most inflammatory substance ever used in a human being.
Dr. Wolf:
It’s been known for 10 years at least that lipid nanoparticles biodistribute to every organ in the human body, and that they disrupt human reproductive capacity.
So someday, I hope that the people who formulated this injection with lipid nanoparticles will answer before Congress, if not before a jury of their peers, the question: “Why did you put this in this injection if you knew it would destroy human reproductive capacity?”
Dr. Thorp, thank God, you and your few but brave colleagues who care enough about women and babies to save lives by telling the truth.
“So there you are. We are hearing reports weekly of shrunken placentas; of babies born with breathing impairments exactly as Reort 69 showed Pfizer knew babies would be born; of placentas with calcifications; of placentas with blood clots; of babies with bizarre and appalling malformations.
Honestly, what can I say at this point except may God save us; and please tell childbearing age women everything you now know.
And please, please support the handful of brave doctors and scientists who alone will find preventions and treatments for the damage from the “covenant of death” – if preventions and treatments can be had.
Poor suffering humanity. Poor blameless babies.

Source: https://dailyclout.io/bombshell-pfizer-and-the-fda-knew-in-early-2021-that-the-pfizer-mrna-covid-vaccine-caused-dire-fetal-and-infant-risks-they-began-an-aggressive-campaign-to-vaccinate-pregnant-women-anyway/
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FBI Silenced Analyst Who Told Twitter Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was Real
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April 3, 2025
Newly released chat logs reveal that the FBI silenced an employee who attempted to confirm to Twitter that the Hunter Biden laptop story was legitimate on the day it was published. On October 14, 2020, the same day The New York Post first reported on Hunter Biden’s laptop, the FBI instructed employees, “do not discuss [the] Biden matter,” according to chat logs released by the House Judiciary Committee. The logs also indicate that an analyst who confirmed the laptop’s authenticity to Twitter during a meeting was subsequently subjected to a “gag order” and reprimanded by FBI officials.
Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official with the bureau’s foreign influence task force, previously testified that during the call with Twitter, an analyst confirmed the laptop was real before an FBI attorney stated the bureau would not comment further. The chat logs show internal discussions within the FBI on how to handle the situation, with messages reiterating the directive not to discuss the laptop.
Following the meeting, the analyst was “admonished” for speaking up, and one FBI staffer complained that the analyst “won’t [sic] shut up” as instructed. The FBI declined to comment on the matter. The bureau had already verified the laptop in late 2019 by cross-referencing the device’s serial number with Biden’s iCloud storage, according to FBI Special Agent Erica Jensen’s testimony during Hunter Biden’s gun trial last year. Federal agents obtained data from the laptop after securing a search warrant as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into Biden’s tax affairs.
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley provided a similar account to Congress in 2023, alleging misconduct by IRS and DOJ officials in the investigation. Independent journalists Catherine Herridge and Michael Shellenberger first reported on the chat logs. Herridge has claimed that she was prevented from reporting on the laptop ahead of the 2020 election during her tenure at CBS News. Both Twitter and Facebook censored The New York Post’s reporting on the laptop after the FBI and other government agencies spent nearly a year preparing social media platforms to suppress the story.
Attorney General Pam Bondi later disbanded the foreign influence task force, which had played a role in coordinating content moderation efforts. House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee and the Weaponization Subcommittee have been investigating the suppression of the laptop story and other instances of political censorship.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has been vocal in opposing social media companies working with the government to restrict certain viewpoints. Last year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook was wrong to suppress the Post’s reporting and criticized the Biden administration for pressuring the platform to censor certain discussions related to COVID-19.
Twitter, now rebranded as X, was acquired by Elon Musk in late 2022. Following the acquisition, Musk authorized the release of the “Twitter Files,” which detailed how company executives decided to censor the laptop story and limit the reach of conservative accounts. In December, then-President Joe Biden pardoned his son before his sentencing for federal gun and tax charges. Hunter Biden had been convicted on gun-related charges in Delaware and pleaded guilty to tax violations in California.
Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, along with the IRS whistleblower allegations, were central to the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. The investigation uncovered over $27 million in payments from foreign sources to Hunter Biden and his associates during and after Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president.
The inquiry also documented instances where Joe Biden met with his son’s business partners and joined them on speakerphone approximately 20 times. The Trump administration recently promoted Shapley and IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler to senior adviser positions after they faced alleged retaliation within the IRS.
Additionally, former President Trump granted clemency to two of Hunter Biden’s business associates, Devon Archer and Jason Galanis, both of whom testified during the impeachment proceedings.
SOURCE: NATIONAL REVIEW
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Idaho Legislature Approves Child Sex Abuse Death Penalty Bill, Sending It to Governor
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March 25, 2025
The Idaho Legislature has passed a bill allowing the death penalty for adults convicted of sexually abusing children age 12 and younger. House Bill 380 now heads to Gov. Brad Little for final consideration.
The bill, cosponsored by Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, and House Assistant Majority Leader Josh Tanner, R-Eagle, introduces a new charge: aggravated lewd conduct with children age 12 and younger, which would be eligible for the death penalty. It also establishes mandatory minimum prison sentences for aggravated lewd conduct with minors under age 16 that do not qualify for the death penalty.
The bill passed the Senate on a 30-5 vote, with opposition from three Democrats and two Republicans. The House had previously approved it unanimously, 63-0, with seven members absent. Once transmitted to Gov. Little, he will have five days, excluding Sundays, to either sign the bill into law, allow it to become law without his signature, or veto it. If enacted, the law would take effect July 1.
Supporters Say Bill Sends a Clear Message
Skaug has argued that Idaho has some of the most lenient child rape laws in the country. Sen. Doug Ricks, R-Rexburg, a cosponsor, said the bill ensures severe consequences for the worst offenders.
“Unlike most states, Idaho currently lacks mandatory minimum sentences for these horrific crimes — meaning judges have the discretion to place the worst offenders on probation,” Ricks told the Senate. “This legislation ensures that those who commit the most severe offenses against children face significant consequences, sending a clear message that Idaho will not tolerate the sexual abuse of minors.”
Currently, Idaho law only allows the death penalty for first-degree murder with aggravating circumstances.
Idaho Senate Minority Leader Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, opposed the bill, stating that while child abuse should carry severe penalties, this bill represents a significant policy shift for the state.
“Unfortunately, I only heard from four sources regarding this bill. And that feels very uncomfortable, when I think we need a vigorous and long debate and discussion,” Wintrow said.
Potential Legal Challenges
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kennedy v. Louisiana (2008) that imposing the death penalty for child rape is unconstitutional. However, Florida passed a similar law in 2023, followed by Tennessee in 2024.
Anticipating a legal challenge, Skaug told lawmakers he believes the Supreme Court could rule differently today.
“You can say, ‘Well, that’s unconstitutional, Bruce. Why would you bring that?’ Well, it was — according to a 5-4 decision in 2008. I don’t think that would be the case today,” Skaug, an attorney, told lawmakers. “That’s my professional opinion. That’s the opinion of many other attorneys.”
Skaug has stated that the death penalty would be rarely pursued under this bill. Currently, Idaho has nine inmates on death row.
Concerns Over Legal Ramifications
During a Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee hearing, David Martinez of the Idaho Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers testified against the bill, warning that it could apply more broadly than intended.
“The bill doesn’t focus on ‘the worst of the worst,’ could potentially expose victims to decades of reliving trauma, and fails to account for Idaho’s shortage of qualified death penalty defense attorneys,” Martinez said.
The bill lists more than a dozen aggravating factors for seeking the death penalty, and Martinez argued that many cases would qualify under those criteria.
Holly Rebholtz, representing the Idaho Prosecuting Attorneys Association, disagreed, stating that aggravated lewd conduct cases would be rare.
“I don’t think these crimes are going to come into play very often. But when they do, they are the most serious crimes we see. And again, the prosecutors believe that the most serious crimes against children deserve a serious punishment,” Rebholtz testified.
Skaug estimated that, in a worst-case scenario, the bill could lead to two death penalty cases per year, with costs reaching up to $1 million per case.
Opposition From Some Republicans
Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Moscow, a retired police officer and combat veteran, voted against the bill, arguing that society is blurring the line between justice and revenge.
“I see society starting to go down a dangerous road here. Not just with this bill, but in general — where we are starting to equate revenge with justice. And that’s a slippery slope,” Foreman said.
Senate Majority Leader Lori Den Hartog, R-Meridian, countered that the bill is about accountability, not retribution.
“When I look at the types of circumstances that would lead to these charges — and I think about the irreparable and irreversible damage done to a child who then has to live with the consequences of these actions upon them for the rest of their lives — I think this is about accountability and about how we value life,” she said.
Second Attempt at Passing a Similar Bill
This is the second time Skaug and Tanner have introduced a child sex abuse death penalty bill. Last year, their proposal passed the House but never received a hearing in the Senate.
The new bill also establishes mandatory minimum prison sentences for aggravated lewd conduct with minors under 16. The minimum sentence would be 25 years in prison.
Under the bill, lewd conduct includes, but is not limited to, “genital-genital contact, oral-genital contact, anal-genital contact, oral-anal contact, manual-anal contact, or manual-genital contact” when intended to arouse, appeal to, or gratify “lust or passions or sexual desires.”
Gov. Little’s decision on the bill is expected in the coming days.
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BREAKING: FBI Agent Arrested For Leaking Classified Information
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4 weeks agoon
March 21, 2025
An FBI agent who was openly critical of the bureau during President Donald Trump’s first term has been arrested and charged with disclosing confidential information.
Johnathan Buma, a veteran agent with 15 years of service, was taken into custody on Monday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City as he was preparing to board an international flight, according to an arrest affidavit.
Buma allegedly printed approximately 130 classified FBI documents and messages, later sharing them with associates while working on a book about his time at the agency.
“The book draft contained information that BUMA obtained through his position as an FBI Special Agent that relates to the FBI’s efforts and investigations into a foreign country’s weapons of mass destruction (‘WMD’) program,” according to the court document. “On November 2, 2023, BUMA wrote an email to various personal associates assisting him in negotiating a book deal with a publishing company.”
In addition to sharing excerpts of the book containing confidential information on social media, the court documents state that Buma had a history of conflicts with the bureau.
In 2022, he began raising concerns about the FBI’s handling of certain investigations, voicing them to various government agencies, Congress, and media outlets. In a September 2023 interview with Insider, Buma claimed that he was dismissed when he approached a superior about former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani potentially being compromised in a Russian counter-influence operation. However, when he mentioned Hunter Biden’s alleged business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma, his superior was “very interested.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Buma’s attorney for comment.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California stated that Buma was charged with one misdemeanor count of disclosing confidential information and was released on a $100,000 bond.
His case adds to ongoing debates about internal conflicts within the FBI and the handling of politically sensitive investigations.
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