The White House briefly went into lockdown Tuesday after the Secret Service responded to a security incident on the front lawn. Reporters were rushed into the briefing room with no explanation as agents sealed off Pennsylvania Avenue. About 30 minutes later, the all-clear was issued, and officials confirmed that someone had thrown a phone over the fence. The incident occurred days after the anniversary of the 2024 assassination attempt on President Trump, in which a bullet grazed his ear and killed a rally attendee.
At the same time, the FBI has quietly launched a far-reaching investigation into what internal sources describe as a decade-long “grand conspiracy” involving Democratic operatives and elements of the intelligence community. The probe centers on claims that officials coordinated efforts to discredit Trump across multiple election cycles, from the 2016 Russia-collusion narrative to the prosecutions pursued by Special Counsel Jack Smith. According to sources, momentum could accelerate if President Trump declassifies two key classified documents from 2016—one tied to Hillary Clinton’s email investigation and another involving intelligence that her campaign planned to fabricate a Trump-Russia link.
Former DNI John Ratcliffe recently criticized the intelligence community’s 2016 conduct, accusing former CIA Director John Brennan of prioritizing political narratives over evidence. If the Grassley and Durham documents are released, prosecutors could present them to a grand jury as evidence of intelligence abuses benefiting Democrats while targeting Trump. The Trump administration is also considering a special counsel to investigate reports that the FBI ignored and suppressed 2020 intelligence warning that China sought to distribute fake mail-in ballots to help Joe Biden.