Neo-Nazi Marine Corps vet gets break over alleged possession of classified documents

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Neo-Nazi Marine Corps vet gets break over alleged possession of classified documents
LinkedIn photo of Jordan Duncan, a Marine Corps veteran whom the government alleges had classified military materials on his hard drive

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Federal prosecutors today agreed to not bring up classified materials found in possession of a Marine Corps veteran and neo-Nazi when he goes on trial on charges related to an alleged plot to attack the power grid to provide cover for an assassination campaign.

Raw Story exclusively reported that federal prosecutors notified the court that they found documents that appeared to be classified materials on devices seized from Jordan Duncan, the ex-Marine, following his arrest. In February 2021, the government notified the court that authorities were reviewing Duncan’s electronic devices for evidence of potential violations of federal law that criminalize mishandling government records and sensitive national defense information.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara Kocher told Judge Richard E. Myers II during a Classified Information Procedures Act hearing on Friday that the government will refrain from making references to the materials during the upcoming trial of Duncan.

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Duncan is charged along with co-defendant Liam Collins with conspiracy to illegally manufacture and transport firearms and conspiracy to damage an energy facility. The two men could face up to 25 years in federal prison if convicted.

Duncan was arrested outside of his workplace at a U.S. Navy contractor in Boise, Idaho, in October 2020 as part of an FBI takedown of five young, white men with military ties who the government alleges relocated to Idaho to carry out a terror campaign to instigate a race war.

Kocher told the court on Friday that following Duncan’s arrest, authorities found classified materials on two hard drives seized from Duncan’s apartment in Boise, as well as an additional document that was classified. A previous court filing by Duncan’s lawyer had only referenced the materials as being found on a single hard drive.

Raymond C. Tarlton, Duncan’s lawyer, told Raw Story after the hearing that he does not expect the government to bring separate charges against his client related to the materials. But Don Connelly, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, later clarified to Raw Story that the only agreement that the government made in court on Friday “was that classified documents won’t be referred to during the trial.”

Duncan, who has been detained since his 2020 arrest, was led into the courtroom in handcuffs and shackles while wearing a tan New Hanover County jail jumpsuit and round glasses. A tattoo of a coiled snake was visible on his forearm.

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In a protective order issued last week, Myers designated the classified documents as “particularly sensitive discovery materials,” prohibiting Duncan’s counsel from disseminating them to the media, and placing strict controls on showing them to potential witnesses. The protective order indicated that those documents labeled “FOUO,” or “For Official Use Only,” would receive the “particularly sensitive discovery materials” designation.

“This stuff came from the internet, not from his military service or through security clearances issued to him through his employment with a defense contractor,” Tarlton told the court.

Myers conferred in his chambers with Kocher and another federal prosecutor for closed-door hearing so that the prosecutors could describe the contents of the classified materials. Afterwards, Judge Myers reported in open court that he received a proffer from the government that the materials were not relevant to the trial, and they have no intention of discussing acquisition of the materials in front of a jury.

Concerns about sensitive national security materials falling into the hands of domestic extremists were highlighted earlier this year with revelations that Massachusetts National Guard airman Jack Teixeira [sp] shared classified documents about the war in Ukraine on a Discord server.

Meanwhile, during Duncan’s detention hearing in late 2020, a Naval Criminal Investigative Services investigator testified that Duncan amassed a library of documents with information about explosives, car bombs and chemical weapons. Kocher noted to the court shortly after the classified materials were discovered that “the defendants engaged in substantial sharing of other information.”

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Flurry of calls from deep-pocketed donors imperils JD Vance's potential 2028 bid: WSJ

Some of the Republican Party’s wealthiest donors are already turning away from Vice President JD Vance after Tuesday’s midterm massacre, according to a new report from a known conservative outlet.

Within 24 hours of the election, a veteran New York fundraiser began fielding calls from deep-pocketed donors who all had the same complaint: “we can’t back Vance in 2028,” The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

Instead, those donors floated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others as alternatives. They worried that a candidate from inside the administration “might be too tied to Trump and too battered by the midterms,” according to the fundraiser. The fundraiser was also frustrated that Vance couldn’t help the GOP keep his home state of Ohio, where Democrats flipped his old Senate seat. Other donors privately expressed similar concerns, the Journal reported.

The donor revolt is one of several signs that the GOP’s “most far-reaching Republican wipeout since Watergate” has scrambled Vance’s plans, according to the outlet. Some political allies have told the vice president they no longer believe any Republican can win the White House in 2028. On Election Day, as results rolled in, a longtime confidant texted Vance suggesting he consider sitting out the race.

Two people close to Vance even asked him in recent weeks whether he’d consider returning to Ohio to win back his old Senate seat, and one floated a run for governor. Vance rejected both ideas, the Journal reported.

Vance has told associates before and after the election that he hasn’t made up his mind, according to six people close to him. He has also watched clips of DeSantis’ recent interviews and “contemplated the possibility” of the Florida governor challenging him in a primary. DeSantis told SiriusXM’s Stephen A. Smith that gas prices are “higher because of this conflict” in Iran, and told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham the midterms were “a rebuke of the president and the Congress.”

Vance’s allies dismissed the donor grumbling. They told the Journal that donors were always going to complain because they prefer “more traditional, old-guard Republicans.”

The report also revealed that Vance tried to head off the Iran war that many Republicans now blame for their losses. In January, he privately urged Trump not to give up on diplomacy. He also personally asked pollster Mark Mitchell, then head of polling at Rasmussen Reports, to add questions about a potential Iran war to a survey. The results showed 62% of respondents said an acceptable level of U.S. combat deaths would be under 100, and 65% said Trump should seek congressional approval first.

Trump launched the war anyway. “I don’t think about it. I did the right thing,” he told the Journal on election night. “I would have done it again.”

Trump has repeatedly declined to endorse a successor.

“Maybe he won’t run,” the president said of Vance on Wednesday. “I don’t know who’s going to run.”

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Senator threatens new Trump probe after Chinese spy bombshell: 'Congress will get answers'

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) is promising that Congress will dig into the Trump administration’s ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, after a New York Times report that a Chinese businesswoman close to Huang was an asset of Beijing’s top spy agency.

“The more I learn about the insane relationship between the Trump Administration, Chinese spies, and AI billionaires, the more I’m convinced there is nothing this administration does that isn’t corrupt,” Coons wrote on social media on Saturday. “Congress will investigate and get answers.”

Coons’ post drew nearly 300,000 views. His threat carries more weight after Democrats won control of the Senate on Tuesday, which will give them subpoena power and committee gavels in January.

The Times reported that a memo circulated among top Trump administration policymakers last spring cited intelligence that Alice Huang, a Chinese executive who developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang, was working for China’s Ministry of State Security. The two are not related.

According to people briefed on the intelligence, Alice Huang was recruited to collect intelligence on the Nvidia chief. It was part of a drive by Beijing to learn more about American AI chips and potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China.

The Times previously reported that Trump was briefed last year about Huang’s relationship with the woman “but chose not to do anything about it.”

Jensen Huang is one of Trump’s most influential allies in the tech world. In 2025, he persuaded Trump to roll back a ban on AI chip sales to China, according to the Times. The two later struck a deal allowing Nvidia to sell its second-most-powerful chip to China, with the U.S. government taking a 25% cut of sales.

Alice Huang’s company, Megaspeed, began a multibillion-dollar purchase of advanced AI chips in 2024. It has built data centers in Southeast Asia and rented their computing power to Chinese internet giant Alibaba, which the Times described as “a backdoor way” for China to access advanced Nvidia chips it can’t buy directly.

Republicans are paying attention too. On Thursday, the GOP leaders of three House committees asked Jensen Huang to appear at a closed-door briefing later this month about his interactions with Alice Huang.

Nvidia spokesman John Rizzo told the Times that the company does not share classified information with customers, and that Huang’s interactions with Alice Huang were “not unusual.” A spokesman for the Chinese embassy called the reporting “unsubstantiated” and “nothing but smears against China.” The White House and CIA declined to comment.

Susan Rice, who served as national security adviser to former President Barack Obama, sounded the alarm, too. “This is insane. Huge national security threat. WTAF?” Rice wrote on social media, sharing a post from Chris McGuire, a former national security official, that recapped the reporting on the alleged spy operation.

Trump 'would leer and snicker' as his dad showed half-naked photo to young child: report

Mary Trump says her grandfather, Fred Trump Sr., used to show her a picture of a half-naked young woman when she was a child, and that her uncle Donald sometimes joined in.

Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and longtime critic of the president, shared the story in the latest installment of her “Trump Family Horror” series on her Substack, “The Good in Us.”

She described her grandfather, the president’s father, as a “sociopath” who “was cruel, and he loved humiliating people.” She said he “had his weird, weird obsessions, and he could be inappropriate.”

“When I was a kid, like a young kid, like eight, nine or something, he would bring out his wallet and slide out a wallet size picture and show it to me,” she wrote. “Now, what’s so wrong with that? Well, it actually happened to be a picture of a half naked woman.”

The woman in the photo “could not have been much more than 18 years old,” she wrote, and was “very heavily made up” and “holding up her breasts.”

Mary Trump said she believed her grandfather did it “to kind of get a rise out of me.” At the time, she was his youngest grandchild and his only granddaughter.

“He thought it was really funny that he was showing his granddaughter” the photo, she wrote.

Sometimes the president was there for it.

“Sometimes when he showed this to me, Donald would be around, and he’d say, ‘Hey, Donald, check this out,’” she wrote. “And Donald would stand behind my grandfather, look down at this picture of this poor half naked young woman, and leer and snicker.”

She added that she had no idea “how many people he showed that picture to, thinking he was hysterical.”

Mary Trump has been one of her uncle’s most outspoken critics since the 2020 release of her bestselling memoir, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”

Fred Trump Sr. died in 1999.

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