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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/5/2022 2:39:30 PM
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You used satellite pics from Ukraine to assert your case. Does Ukraine have satellites? If they are using US images then why won't the US military confirm?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/5/2022 4:28:28 PM
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Disorder at the Border ‘Biggest Migration Crisis in U.S. History’ Coming End Title 42 to Fundamentally Transform America After the Biden administration announced it will end the Title 42 policy that helps border officials regulate the inflow of unprecedented levels of illegal immigration — a move expected to bring an even larger wave of migrants to the U.S. southern border — Republicans accused the president of “destroying” the country with a “full scale invasion,” warning of an impending “migration crisis” the likes of which has never been seen before, with some calling for impeachment.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/5/2022 8:45:11 PM
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DEMENTIA JOE HAS BROUGHT BACK COAL! U.S. coal prices reach $100 a ton — the highest in 13 years. LISTEN NOW: U.S. coal prices reach $100 a ton — the highest in 13 years. Listen and follow the @CNBCClosingBell podcast here or on your favorite podcast platform: https://t.co/uUvsdOSbGp pic.twitter.com/PXpdAk3a6Y — CNBC (@CNBC) April 5, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/5/2022 8:47:48 PM
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WATCH WHAT OBAMA DOES TO DEMENTIA HERE!!! WOW... US PRESIDENT TREATED LIKE DIRT BY HIS OWN PARTY. PATHETIC. Joe Biden being ignored…AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/J6CyukClEu — PARIS (@PARISDENNARD) April 5, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/5/2022 8:49:53 PM
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More Obama being adored, Joe being ignored, and Kamala learns how to communicate. pic.twitter.com/0PSW9YNKeg — Tosca Austen (@ToscaAusten) April 5, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/5/2022 8:50:12 PM
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/5/2022 8:52:12 PM
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This is the saddest, most pathetic thing This is the saddest, most pathetic thing pic.twitter.com/LZ78iWAFHu — Benny (@bennyjohnson) April 5, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/5/2022 8:57:25 PM
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OBAMA HUMILIATING BIDEN LIKE THIS IN FRONT OUR ADVERSARIES IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA. fb.watch

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/5/2022 9:12:48 PM
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Literally no one wants to talk to Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/ApZ2saHt71 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 5, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 6:45:15 AM
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"Biden is the most unpopular person in any room he enters." - Ouch Absolutely brutal pic.twitter.com/zrMEAzKG8H — Benny (@bennyjohnson) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 6:50:14 AM
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EUROPE HAVING ENERGY EMERGENCY. BIDEN IS TRYING TO CRUSH AMERICAN ENERGY. SICK, PERVERTED, DISGUSTING. Why Renewables Can't Solve Europe's Energy Crisis Germany is preparing for gas rationing. France’s power grid operator is asking consumers to use less electricity. In the UK, protests are breaking out over the latest electricity price hike that plunged millions of households into what one local think tank called fuel stress

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 2:29:43 PM
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Joe Rogan… ‘Trump never aged, Biden looks like a walking dead man’… - CADVAER JOE! DeSantis has broken the groomers…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 2:32:08 PM
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Hunter Biden lightbulb goes off

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 2:50:27 PM
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Watching Biden Repeatedly Tap Obama on the Shoulder Trying to Get His Attention — And Getting Utterly Ignored — Is the Most Pitiful Thing You’ll See

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 2:56:06 PM
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HOW IS YOUR DAY GOING, GROOMER? WE FINALLY FOUND AN AWESOME LABEL FOR THE PERVERTED LEFT - GROOMERS. IT HAS REALLY TRIGGERD THESE FREAKS GOING AFTER LITTLE KIDS. The people who accuse you of causing a mass wave of suicides if you say that women don't have penises are now concerned that the "groomer" label might be unfair — Dr. Matt Walsh, Women’s Studies Scholar (@MattWalshBlog) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 2:56:45 PM
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If you want to stop us from calling you groomers or groomer enablers, you should seriously consider not grooming or groomer enabling. Just an idea. If you want to stop us from calling you groomers or groomer enablers, you should seriously consider not grooming or groomer enabling. Just an idea. — Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 3:02:03 PM
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🚨BOMBSHELL new Durham Report revelations directly implicate Hillary Clinton Campaign in LYING to the FBI pic.twitter.com/5USEUOuBC5 — Benny (@bennyjohnson) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 3:24:28 PM
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:28:23 PM
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Russian ruble is higher now than before war…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:30:30 PM
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DeSantis has broken the groomers…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:30:50 PM
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Why does Disney hire so many pedophiles… IT DOES SEEM ODD...

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:32:23 PM
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Latino wants Trump back… pic.twitter.com/qXWdJSLHVl — Rockhold Jones (@RockholdJones) April 5, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:32:34 PM
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Breaking — Judge issues first outright acquittal of J6 defendant…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:33:10 PM
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Breaking — Greg Abbott announces plan to send charter buses full of illegals to DC… Signs order… This is not a joke…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:35:14 PM
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Ohio introduces anti-grooming bill…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:35:50 PM
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Matt Gaetz steamrolls Lloyd Austin… This is a beatdown… Your leadership is embarrassing…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:36:02 PM
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Wash Post admits the truth about Azov Battalion…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:38:42 PM
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Biden Wrote College Recommendation Letters for Kids of Communist Chinese Exec Tied to Hunter

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:39:33 PM
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Peter Doocy to Circle Back Psaki: ‘There’s Evidence That Biden Was Once Office Mates With Hunter and His Brother Jim’

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:39:53 PM
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Whistleblower Who Handed Hunter Biden’s Abandoned Laptop to Congressmen and Daily Mail Reveals He Has 450 Gigabytes of DELETED Material Including 80,000 Images and Videos

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:44:28 PM
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WATCH The Atlantic’s @anneapplebaum refuse to answer @RealDSchmidt's awesome question about Hunter Biden’s laptop during @UChicago’s “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference! WOW https://t.co/z7YqmtK50r — Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:45:10 PM
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THEY HAVE YOU PEGGED PERFECTLY, GROOMER... The people who reflexively label all their domestic opponents as racists, bigots, Putinists suddenly want nuance and restraint when it comes to us calling them groomers. It's even worse The "conservative leaders" who lived in fear of those accusations their entire lives and bent the knee at every turn are demanding we give it to them https://t.co/gHoRHnCSsj — Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:47:01 PM
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This is - without peer - the most humiliating, emasculating thing I’ve ever watched. Obama and Harris literally ignore Joe Biden today at the White House. It’s not that we don’t understand Biden is weak and was never in charge. This is just the painful, visual proof. This is - without peer - the most humiliating, emasculating thing I’ve ever watched. Obama and Harris literally ignore Joe Biden today at the White House. It’s not that we don’t understand Biden is weak and was never in charge. This is just the painful, visual proof. pic.twitter.com/Z6EEGMoa3N — Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:48:55 PM
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Good. Adults who attempt to sterilize, chemically or surgically castrate, or perform female genital mutilation on children should be in prison. Good. Adults who attempt to sterilize, chemically or surgically castrate, or perform female genital mutilation on children should be in prison. https://t.co/tI01NXaOyg — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:56:27 PM
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Very very strange how certain types of conservatives are more upset about calling people like Becerra “groomers” than they are with what he says here. "For the record, you favor HHS' funding being [used for] sex reassignment surgeries on minors?" BIDEN'S HHS SECRETARY: Yes Very very strange how certain types of conservatives are more upset about calling people like Becerra “groomers” than they are with what he says here. https://t.co/vU3LLlz2dt — The Partyman (@PartymanRandy) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 9:57:10 PM
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The best way for the Left to stop being called groomers is to stop grooming. The best way for the Left to stop being called groomers is to stop grooming. — Lisa Boothe (@LisaMarieBoothe) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:01:53 PM
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HUGE NEWS FLIPPED: Democrat Incumbent Breea Clark just lost to Republican Larry Heikkla in the Norman Oklahoma mayoral race. This city was Clinton +2.5 - Biden +9 This seat is flipped from BLUE TO RED. HUGE NEWS‼️ FLIPPED: Democrat Incumbent Breea Clark just lost to Republican Larry Heikkla in the Norman Oklahoma mayoral race. This city was Clinton +2.5 - Biden +9 This seat is flipped from 🔵➡️🔴. — Tim Swain (@SwainForSenate) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:02:41 PM
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Exclusive: Illegal Alien Charged with Killing Elderly Man, Injuring Three Others in Florida Gov. Desantis SPOX: ’senseless violence and suffering’… …Biden Admin ’doubles down on their reckless open-borders agenda’ An illegal alien has been charged with killing a 72-year-old man and injuring three others in a drunk driving crash in Walton County, Florida, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:06:08 PM
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Communist Stooge Sean Penn to Hannity: U.S. Mustn’t Be ‘Intimidated’ From Using Nukes Against Russia Over Ukraine Circle Back Psaki Confirms That Biden-Harris Regime Is Giving Foreign Invaders “Free” Cell Phones The Washington Post Finally Admits The Role of the NAZI Azov Battalion in Ukraine

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:07:53 PM
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‘I’ve Never Seen Anything So Evil and Grotesque’: What Happened in the Case of the 5 Full-Term Aborted Babies? 34-Year-Old Died After Pfizer Shot — Mother Shares ‘Ridiculous’ Letters From CDC

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:18:51 PM
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Faced With A Coming Wave Of Illegal Immigration, Biden’s Plan Is Simply To Open The Border

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:19:02 PM
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Texas Gov: We’re Sending Busses of Illegals Straight to Washington D.C.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:23:07 PM
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Emails: Joe Biden Wrote College Recommendation Letter for Son of Hunter’s Chinese Business Partner Five Takeaways From the New Motions in Durham’s Case Against Ex-Clinton Lawyer Sussmann Media Ignores VP Harris Staff Exodus Biden Admin Accused of Targeting Whistleblower Zawahiri Hints at Return of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:26:18 PM
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BOMBSHELL: Biden FEC Nominee ADMITS Her Name Is On Legal Document Attesting Voting Machines Used In GA ILLEGALLY SWITCHED VOTES From One Candidate To Another [VIDEO]

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:29:25 PM
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HUNTER'S CHILD PORN ABOUT TO BLOW UP. Hunter Biden ‘Laptop From Hell’ Whistleblower Reveals 450 Gigabytes of DELETED Material Will Be Released Soon – Including Over 80,000 NEVER BEFORE SEEN Images and Videos

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:30:41 PM
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HORROR: 13-Year-Old Girl Laughs as She Breaks 76-Year-Old Woman’s Hip in Violent Midnight Robbery (VIDEO)

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:34:13 PM
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Joe Biden Pushes For World War 3 in Unscripted Remarks: “If I Gotta Go to War, I’m Going with You Guys – I Mean It!” (VIDEO)

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 10:36:06 PM
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“Joe Biden Is Now the Most Unpopular Person in Virtually Any Room He Enters” – Tucker Carlson on Joe Biden’s Basement Level Popularity

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 11:28:18 PM
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Woke: "We're not Grooming" Me: "What are you doing?" Woke: "We are introducing queer sexuality to elementry school children and initiating them into queer gender identities as we shape their sexuality and help them change genders behind their parents back." Me: "...." Woke: "We're not Grooming" Me: "What are you doing?" Woke: "We are introducing queer sexuality to elementry school children and initiating them into queer gender identities as we shape their sexuality and help them change genders behind their parents back." Me: "...." — Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 7, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 11:31:00 PM
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THREAD: Breaking. Durham files Motion to Compel Clinton Campaign, DNC, and Fusion GPS to produce material w/h based on "attorney-client" privilege. 2/ In sum, Durham wants the documents w/h identified in appendix to be given to court to decide if privilege. (Reading while tweeting so bear with me). First main argument is that Fusion wasn't retained to help w/ legal advise but to get dirt & that isn't protected. pic.twitter.com/FaAIkMJOzT — Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 7, 2022 4/ Giggle... pic.twitter.com/K0lSeI7o2d — Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 7, 2022 6/ LOL Cites Fusion's book as support. pic.twitter.com/8KBriVfj6c — Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 7, 2022 8/ Okay Sleuths...what was this about. AND this makes me even more sus about Joffe's tip to OIG about someone's computer communicating a foreign ip address. pic.twitter.com/gNF8KOtPst — Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 7, 2022 10/ Cute. pic.twitter.com/XYnNGwVzHg — Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 7, 2022 12/ Courtlistener has filing up now: https://t.co/DzEYoTX5fE — Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 7, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/6/2022 11:37:47 PM
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The white privilege narrative breaks down under even the slightest bit of scrutiny The white privilege narrative breaks down under even the slightest bit of scrutiny https://t.co/Zjqvtbf9fL — Dr. Matt Walsh, Women’s Studies Scholar (@MattWalshBlog) April 6, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/7/2022 12:45:46 PM
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Vaccine Mandate is dead in Germany…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/7/2022 1:24:29 PM
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YOU ARE GROOMING CHILDREN GLOBALLY. “What the hell is going on this state when 10 year old girls are told to go home and talk to your father about his erections and his ejaculations? How the hell are we supposed to protect our kids when this sort of perversion is in our schools. This is what’s being dished up to them on a daily basis. In a primary school! This is just unbelievable. This is just staggering.” 🤯😤 pic.twitter.com/3Ym23fIOZb — Jamie Sale (@JamieSale) April 7, 2022

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/7/2022 1:25:22 PM
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LINE UP NITWIT. LOL 4th Vaccine Injection only protects for 4 weeks…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/7/2022 1:26:02 PM
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HHS to provide taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/7/2022 1:30:05 PM
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Joe Biden’s mysterious office keys…

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1352585)	4/7/2022 1:32:31 PM
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CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE IN EVERY CORNER OF GOVERNMENT news.yahoo.com Feds Unravel Wild Scheme by Fake Agents to Dupe Secret Service, Including FLOTUS Detail Adam Rawnsley, Rachel Olding 4-5 minutes Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Two D.C. men posing as Homeland Security agents ran such a convincing and elaborate scheme that they fooled four Secret Service agents, including one on the first lady’s detail, into accepting extravagant gifts like penthouse apartments, iPhones and pricey rifles, the feds allege. Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, were arrested on Wednesday evening when FBI agents and United States Postal Service cops swarmed the plush Crossing Apartments in the capital’s Navy Yard neighborhood and charged them with false impersonation of a federal officer. According to an unsealed affidavit filed in federal court, the pair have been posing as high-level DHS agents for more than two years, flashing official-looking IDs, carrying Glocks and driving black SUVs with emergency lights while living out of several luxury units at the Crossings and “ingratiating” themselves with federal law enforcement and defense officials, some of whom they lured to live in the same building. Images Arian Taherzadeh allegedly sent of himself to a Secret Service agent on first lady Jill Biden’s detail. FBI In the course of the two men’s attempts to cozy up to real federal law enforcement officers, prosecutors say Taherzadeh paid particular attention to agents from the Secret Service, which became part of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003. In one instance, Taherzadeh tried to gift a member of first lady Jill Biden’s Secret Service protective detail a $2,000 assault rifle, and loaned out his “government vehicle” to the agent’s wife, the affidavit says. Other Secret Service personnel received access to rent-free apartments worth $40,000 a year as well as “iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat screen television, a case for storing an assault rifle, a generator, and law enforcement paraphernalia,” the affidavit says. Residents at the Crossings, including some of the ensnared Secret Service agents, have since told investigators that the complex appeared to be heavily surveilled by Taherzadeh. The agent on Jill Biden’s detail told the FBI that Taherzadeh “made it clear that he is the ‘go-to guy’” in the building. He also sent the agent photos of himself with vast amounts of police gear and a pic of him at a “training course” that the FBI says was actually a stock photo. Images Arian Taherzadeh allegedly sent of himself to a Secret Service agent on first lady Jill Biden’s detail. FBI The courtship of Secret Service personnel had serious consequences. Following the revelation of Taherzadeh and Ali’s alleged fraud, “four members of the Secret Service were placed on administrative leave pending further investigation,” the FBI said. In another disturbing sign of how convincing the two men’s alleged ruse was, Taherzadeh and Ali successfully conned an unnamed “applicant” to join a Homeland Security “task force” they’d invented. But their “recruitment process” included shooting the applicant with an airsoft rifle, supposedly to evaluate their pain tolerance, and having the applicant research an unnamed person who worked as a contractor for the Department of Defense and intelligence community. Help Turn Our Webby Award Nominations Into Wins The scheme allegedly fell apart in March when neighbors fingered the two men as federal law enforcement agents who may have witnessed an assault on a letter carrier at their apartment complex. When a U.S. Postal Service Inspector showed up to investigate, Taherzadeh and Ali allegedly said they were members of the nonexistent “U.S. Special Police Investigation Unit,” which they claimed to be a part of the Department of Homeland Security. After the Postal Inspector learned that the two men had allegedly taken to driving around in a black GMC SUV equipped with emergency lights and palled around with actual Homeland Security officials at the Secret Service, the real federal law enforcement agent tipped off DHS’s Inspector General, which triggered the FBI investigation that led to the charges against Taherzadeh and Ali.