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WHINING, the Justice Department and FBI were caught in a BEHIND-THE-SCENES CONSPIRACY, secretly weighing a SHOCKING criminal probe into Sen. Kyrsten Sinema—just because she DARED to LEAVE the Democratic Party. This isn’t a rumor; it’s a RURGENT LEAK of internal emails that exposes how federal watchdogs turn into POLITICAL PREDATORS the moment a senator steps off their scripted path.
The New York Post ripped open secret communiqués between DOJ’s Criminal Division, a prosecutor in the Attorney General’s office, and FBI agents in the Washington field office—all discussing launching an investigation into Sinema in February 2024. That’s TWO YEARS after she left the Democrats, revealing a chilling truth: the machine only hunts those who REFUSE its leash.
Sinema abandoned the Democratic Party in 2022 and pointedly chose NOT to seek re-election in 2024. But that act of INDEPENDENCE triggered the bureau’s alarm. Her alleged sin? Campaign spending that totaled OVER A MILLION DOLLARS on luxury hotels, cars, concert tickets, and security costs—flagged in a report that prosecutors and FBI insiders deemed worthy of a CRIMINAL PROBE for violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act.
I SAW ‘THE TWO FBIS’ UP CLOSE. ONE PROTECTS AMERICA, THE OTHER PROTECTS ITSELF
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks at a news conference after the Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act at the Capitol Building on Nov. 29, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
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The email chain exposes agent Walter Giardina—who LED “politically motivated investigations” inside the FBI—volunteering to get INVOLVED in the Sinema probe. That admission alone is a DAMNING indictment: the bureau’s enforcers aren’t just enforcing laws, they’re enforcing POWER.
Sinema’s chief of staff, Daniel Winkler, blasted the scheme as “PATIENTIC”—Giardina’s attempts went nowhere, his “abuse of power” now laid bare. But the IMPLICATION here is MONUMENTING: when a senator defects, the machine doesn’t just notice; it MOBILITATES.
Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., speaks to reporters in the Ohio Clock Corridor in the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 9. A report said the Biden-era Justice Department considered investigating Sinema, then a senator, for potential campaign finance violations.
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No formal investigation was ultimately initiated—prosecutors backed off. But the REVELATION here is NORTENDING: the instant a senator breaks ranks, the “justice” system doesn’t just log it; it LAUNCHES a criminal assessment. The FBI declined to comment, a silence that SCREAMS louder than any statement.
Sinema’s successor, Democrat Ruben Gallego, now sits in the Senate slot. But the haunting question persists: in a democracy where stepping out of line triggers a CRIMINAL EVALUATION, who truly holds the power—the senators or the system built to POLITICALLY POLISH them?
A view of the lectern before US Attorney General William Barr holds a press conference about the release of the Mueller Report at the Department of Justice April 18, 2019, in Washington, DC
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Fox News Digital has reached out to the Justice Department, Sinema and Winkler. The FBI declined to comment on the matter.



