Fascinating. pic.twitter.com/MPV12RFdLb
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) December 12, 2018
(HT: AoSHQ)
Meanwhile…
Share of China's population living in extreme poverty.
1980: 88.3%
2013: 1.8%(World Bank) pic.twitter.com/MCQOVAz3X6
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) December 14, 2017
Just when the damn Kennedy clan has completely become irrelevant to the point of comical, when can we finally be done with the damn Clinton crime family?
TheClintons are the fucking septic tank of the fucking D.C. “Deep State”…
HMM: Did Clinton Foundation mislead IRS? State filings raise the question.
The Utah episode, though a decade old, and other state regulatory issues involving the Clinton Foundation are gaining new attraction because they are included in thousands of pages of documents gathered in a whistleblower submission filed last year by a firm composed of former federal law enforcement investigators, called MDA Analytics LLC.
That submission made with the IRS, and eventually provided to the Justice Department in Washington and to the FBI in Little Rock, Ark., alleges there is “probable cause” to believe the Clinton Foundation broke federal tax law and possibly owes millions of dollars in tax penalties. That submission and its supporting evidence will be one focus of a GOP-led congressional hearing Thursday in the House.
The foundation strongly denies any wrongdoing. But it acknowledges its own internal legal reviews in 2008 and 2011 cited employee concerns ranging from quid pro quo promises to donors, to improper commingling of personal and charity business.
Another of the issues the foundation’s own lawyers flagged: a culture of noncompliance.
Much more at the link.
RELATED? DOJ Wants To Keep Justification For Raiding Reported Clinton Foundation Whistleblower Secret.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OVER THE WEEKEND: “I Know Where All The Bodies Are Buried”: Clinton Foundation CFO Spills Beans To Investigators.
SAD: Bill and Hillary Clinton selling discounted tickets on Groupon after sparse crowds on speaking tour.
It’s been a long time coming, but have the Clintons finally run out of juice?
If Hillary gets indicted, it won't hurt Democrats at all.
They will throw her under the bus in a heartbeat.
Her crimes will not attach to the Democrat nominee in 2020, the media will make sure of that. https://t.co/31uIuCfNOU
— Mark Pantano (@TheMarkPantano) December 14, 2018
Paul Bedard: Judge suggests Justice, State colluded to protect Hillary Clinton in email scandal
FOX News: FBI misses deadline to provide docs to Judiciary Committee probing Uranium One whistleblower raid
Grassley slams FBI after agents raid whistleblower's home | https://t.co/hHPkMmenc2
— Maggie (@drillanwr) December 14, 2018
The Justice Department and FBI have missed a Wednesday deadline to provide information about the government’s mysterious raid on a former FBI contractor-turned-whistleblower’s home last month.
Sixteen FBI agents on Nov. 19 raided the home of Dennis Nathan Cain, who reportedly gave the Justice Department’s Inspector General (IG) documents related to the Uranium One controversy and potential wrongdoing by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The documents in question allegedly showed that federal officials failed to investigate possible criminal activity related to Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Rosatom, a Russian nuclear company. Its subsidiary purchased Canadian mining company Uranium One in 2013.
[…]
That deadline has come and gone, and neither the FBI nor DOJ has produced any documents or response.
“We have not yet received answers to the chairman’s questions on this matter,” a Judiciary Commitee spokesperson told Fox News late Thursday.
The FBI consistently has refused Fox News’ request for comment on the whistleblower raid and the Judiciary Committee’s requests. On Thursday, an FBI spokesperson told Fox News the agency would respond only to inquiries from the entity that requested the documents — in this case, the Judiciary Committee.
Questioning whether “we now live in a secret police state,” Cain took his frustration about the situation to Twitter earlier this week.
“So I blow the whistle on the FBI, get raided by the same FBI, and now they want to keep the FBI’s reasons secret? Do we now live in a secret police state? Feels a little like 1984,” Cain tweeted late Monday. The tweet eventually was deleted.
The Daily Caller requested that a court unseal the relevant search warrant materials, but the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, in a court filing, said: “the request should be denied.”
“Public disclosure of any search warrant materials would seriously jeopardize the integrity of the ongoing investigation,” the filing by the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. “Continued sealing is essential in order to guard against possible tampering of witnesses and destruction of evidence, to maintain the ability of the grand jury to investigate this matter, and to prevent the disclosure of sensitive investigative techniques and methods.”
A spokesperson for U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur declined to comment.Cain’s lawyer, Michael Socarras, told The Daily Caller the agent who led the raid accused his client of possessing stolen federal property. In response, Cain reportedly claimed he was a protected whistleblower under federal law, and said he was recognized as such by Horowitz…
As frustrating and violating as this feels to me and my family. I will continue to put my trust in God. Some day this life will pass away. I will stand before my maker with a clean concience and Jesus as my defender. Until then I continue to fight the good fight with God's help.
— Nate Cain (@cain_nate) December 11, 2018
EXPLOSIVE: The Whistleblowers on Clinton Foundation ( highly credible non-partisan investigators, who conducted the investigation with their own funds reveal the #ClintonFoundation operated as an agent of foreign governments and should have registered under FARA … more to come
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) December 13, 2018
Sara Carter: Financial Bounty Hunters Testify: Clinton Foundation Operated As Foreign Agent
I do not understand how the Clinton Foundation ever received 501(c)(3) status from the IRS much less maintained it.
Literally EVERYTHING they do appears to be in violation of the code.https://t.co/YDiFQN70lv
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) December 14, 2018
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Zero Hedge: Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers Testify: “It Operated As An Unregistered Foreign Agent”
Clinton Foundation corruption exposed by @JudicialWatch on Capitol Hill yesterday! Will DOJ finally stop protecting Clinton, Inc.? Coming up on @foxandfriends on @FoxNews at 615 am! https://t.co/l1W6IcURd8
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) December 14, 2018
In his 1st interview after Congressional testimony on #ClintonFoundation @TomFitton @JudicialWatch joined us on @foxfriendsfirst’s 4am hour on @foxnews to discuss ‘pay for play’, #uranium1, #Russia, #FBI criminal investigation & missing @USAttyHuber #Huber https://t.co/SBYKb0SGV1
— Heather Childers (@HeatherChilders) December 14, 2018
Breaking: Hillary Clinton files new email answers under oath per court order. Says she used private email system for "convenience." Not credible. Background: @JudicialWatch https://t.co/vpoPn59VSS pic.twitter.com/QclcczTOX7
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) December 14, 2018
MORE:
TAS: The Clintons vs. The American Spectator – The Impeachment of Bill Clinton — 20 Years Later
This entire investigation not only needs halted and thrown out, those ‘indicted’ for even not related ‘crimes’ dropped because of the corrupt nature of the investigators, and Mueller and his entire company of Clinton-ass-kissing lawyers and staffers investigated to the fullest.
Proof Obama weaponized State Dept. and corrupt Senators kept it quiet. https://t.co/yJULR7yTCW
— SRobHartkopf (@srobhartkopf) December 14, 2018
The only people still pushing this “Trump-Russia collusion” scam, and burying the overtly obvious facts about the real ‘collusion’ involved in the 2016 presidential election, are the democrats and the dutifully compliant AND complicit Clinton/Obama ass-covering MSM.
Sara Carter: FBI Violated Policy in Flynn’s Case, Judge Demands All Exculpatory Evidence
Free Beacon: Harrington: Flynn’s ‘Only Crime’ Was ‘Going to Work for a Republican President’
The Federalist Papers: Anti-Trump Messages From Mueller Probe Lost After Phones Mysteriously ‘Reset’
Washington Times: Strzok, Page messages from Mueller probe lost after phone resets: IG
Short version: Mueller’s Office scrubbed clean both Strzok and Page’s phones. Reset to factory settings. SCO also didn’t know who handled Page’s device after she left in July 2017. SCO records officer said she doesn’t recall whether there were ANY texts on Strzok’s phone… https://t.co/xl2zOdtrkr
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) December 13, 2018
CR: Obstruction? Mueller probe wiped Strzok phone before giving it to investigators
So Mueller's team wiped ALL of the data off of Peter Strzok's iPhone after determining "it contained no substantive text messages." Given what we know about Strzok, this smells like quite the coverup. Time for Congress to step in?https://t.co/mOgpBbDVO4 pic.twitter.com/9w2mEPK64C
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) December 13, 2018
I'm sure you're all super shocked to find out that Lisa Page's phone was also scrubbed pic.twitter.com/NWV9GQbBTc
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) December 13, 2018
TFW your iPhone disappears for over a year and then it's found!
But it's been completely reset… pic.twitter.com/SJ9dWbChly
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) December 13, 2018
DC: Comey’s Con Job On General Flynn And A Look Inside The White House Press Corps
VDH: Comey Continues to Display His Lack of Credibility
It has been nearly 2 years since someone illegally leaked the details of General Flynn's call with Kislyak. It's been 18 months since someone illegally leaked info on Page's FISA. Not one person has been charged with those criminal leaks. What a failure: https://t.co/7LboHmlccT
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) November 23, 2018
My latest on the Flynn case and Judge Emmet Sullivan—a judge for these prosecutorial times.https://t.co/cVk0aGZQVR via @WSJOpinion
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) December 14, 2018
Kimberley Strassel: Mueller may have Trump in his sights but he’s been very good to Obama and his team
Howard Kurtz: “Talk About Moving The Goal Post…” – Why Trump critics are now switching from impeachment to indictment
"Did James Comey set up Michael Flynn?"https://t.co/0yLYwR7hlB
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) December 14, 2018
MORE:
These documents show remarkable evidence of the non-stop, unethical effort in the Obama State Department to push its own dossier of classified information on Russia in an effort to discredit the incoming @realDonaldTrump administration. https://t.co/eyM1jLjFgu
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) December 14, 2018
Holy shit, is this for real? “The dossier is similar to an FBI 302 form or a DEA 6 form.”
Sarah, how can you write a gazillion words about the dossier without writing “DNC,” “Clinton campaign,” “Glenn Simpson,” “Fusion GPS,” “fired by FBI,” “criminal referral for lying to FBI”? https://t.co/pvn3VJi21E
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) December 14, 2018
Jeffrey Lord: Gregg Jarrett’s ‘Russia Hoax’ Captures the Real Collusion – A detailed takedown of a failed coup d’état.
The democrats, the MSM, the unhinged left will never get over Hillary NOT BEING POTUS. Instead they have participated in a collective sabotage of Pres. Donald Trump and anyone associated with him (in an attempt to blackmail them into turning on him). Not only that, they are hard-working to deflect attention and investigation away from the real crimes and collusion of Clinton and foreign entities, AND the DOJ/FBI under the Obama watch, in order to defeat a political opponent in an election.
I have, in these last few years, heard more than one knowledgeable legal-minded person warn, “Never talk to the FBI.”
The more I have seen and heard about this circus over these last two years I can understand why. But this is a very big warning sign, when advised to meet with them alone and not bring your lawyer(s). No such FBI recommendation was given to Hillary Clinton in 2016 (post Arizona tarmac meeting between her husband and then AG Loretta Lynch) in her meeting with the FBI over her highly questionable behavior regarding her private server and countless emails. Was it?
Strzok interviewed HRod with her *nine* lawyers in the room.
Strzok interviewed Flynn without the benefit of counsel and didn't even tell him it was an interview. https://t.co/Xd2IWPNfUT
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) December 12, 2018
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who arranged the bureau’s interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 — the interview that ultimately led to Flynn’s guilty plea on one count of making false statements — suggested Flynn not have a lawyer present at the session, according to newly-filed court documents. In addition, FBI officials, along with the two agents who interviewed Flynn, decided specifically not to warn him that there would be penalties for making false statements because the agents wanted to ensure that Flynn was “relaxed” during the session.
The new information, drawn from McCabe’s account of events plus the FBI agents’ writeup of the interview — the so-called 302 report — is contained in a sentencing memo filed Tuesday by Flynn’s defense team.
Citing McCabe’s account, the sentencing memo says that shortly after noon on Jan. 24 — the fourth day of the new Trump administration — McCabe called Flynn on a secure phone in Flynn’s West Wing office. The two men discussed business briefly and then McCabe said that he “felt that we needed to have two of our agents sit down” with Flynn to discuss Flynn’s talks with Russian officials during the presidential transition.
McCabe, by his own account, urged Flynn to talk to the agents alone, without a lawyer present. “I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between [Flynn] and the agents only,” McCabe wrote. “I further stated that if LTG Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House counsel for instance, that I would need to involve the Department of Justice. [Flynn] stated that this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants.” …
This is called a “perjury trap”
And if you don’t think this was politically motivated targeting, you’re delusional https://t.co/AUEWuYjvKD
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) December 12, 2018
DC: Andrew McCabe Urged Michael Flynn To Meet With FBI Agents Without Lawyers
While Flynn’s lawyers said in the filing that he is remorseful for lying to the FBI during that Jan. 24, 2017 meeting, the activities of McCabe and the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn are sure to generate outcry about overreach in the Russia investigation. Flynn’s supporters have noted that McCabe and one of the FBI agents, Peter Strzok, have run into ethical and legal problems of their own.
According to the filing, McCabe wrote in a memo just after arranging the White House visit that he suggested to Flynn that attorneys stay out of the interview in order to save time.
This has been the goal all along…
The Hill: House Dems talking more about impeaching Trump
House Democrats are talking more about impeachment following a new round of allegations against President Trump, but they make clear that the time is not right — at least not yet.
While Democratic leaders say they want to wait for special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report, they will likely come under enormous pressure from the left to move forward with impeachment proceedings at some point in 2019…
These people are Marxist fascists.
Because the inescapable conclusion is that General Flynn didn't lie. Comey just confirmed last week Flynn showed no signs of lying but corrupt Strzok and other FBI agent concluded Flynn somehow divined "obviously" was lying. More reason for @RealDonaldTrump to pardon Gen. Flynn. https://t.co/UC1wcwvT1P
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) December 12, 2018
You are a lawyer and you have no problem with an FBI official trying to lull a target into not protecting himself legally? https://t.co/YIKTdw8VM6
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 12, 2018
FOX News: Flynn lawyers ask for probation, community service in Russia false-statements case
More equal than others…
Washington Times: Senators seek leniency for James Wolfe, ex-staffer who leaked, lied to FBI
MORE:
Justice is based on investigating crimes and connecting them to people. Here, we have a liberal, anti-Trump prosecutor misusing her office to investigate people she doesn’t like, in search of a crime. This is not how justice works. https://t.co/aOU06GiEnf
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) December 12, 2018
Stephen Green: IT’S ALMOST LIKE THE WHOLE THING WAS JUST A PARTISAN ATTEMPT TO DELEGITIMIZE A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT: Papadopoulos Told FBI Informant in 2016 There Was No Russian Collusion in Trump Campaign. “That exculpatory information was left off of the FISA warrant.”
TWS: Why Is the NYT Suddenly Opposed to Declassifying the FISA Docs?
Washington Times: Mark Levin rips media for ‘regurgitating’ SDNY’S ‘self-serving brief’ to hurt Trump
AG: Mueller’s Collusion Hoax Collapses
Yet another Clinton crony who received the dossier from Christopher Steele. This time, Strobe Talbott. Steele said in British court that he disclosed info to Talbott because of his role on State Dept's Foreign Advisory Policy Board. https://t.co/ogECYkAf3s via @dailycaller
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 12, 2018
"Judge orders Stormy Daniels to pay nearly $300,000 to Trump attorneys"
How many lap dances will it take to pay THAT off?https://t.co/UY2BYxncv3
— Larry Elder (@larryelder) December 11, 2018
Well, she’d better get started.
The Hill: Judge orders Stormy Daniels to pay Trump $293K in legal fees
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered adult-film star Stormy Daniels to pay President Trump more than $293,000 in legal fees amid their ongoing legal battles.
U.S. District Judge James Otero ordered Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, to pay the fees in her defamation case against Trump, which Otero dismissed in October.
Daniels alleged that Trump defamed her in an April tweet that mocked her claims that a man threatened her in 2011 to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump.
Shortly after Daniels and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, released a forensic sketch of the man who allegedly threatened her, Trump posted a side-by-side photo suggesting that the man was Daniels’s ex-husband.
After the defamation case failed, Trump’s attorneys had requested that Daniels pay them $340,000 in legal fees.
Otero, writing that Trump’s attorneys spent “excessive” time on the case, ordered Daniels to pay about 75 percent of Trump’s legal fees, plus an additional $1,000 in sanctions…
Meanwhile…
I’m done with 2018. pic.twitter.com/jk6OwdooRh
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) December 11, 2018
Twitchy: BRUTAL: It’s another loss for celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti as he loses ‘sexiest Michael’ vote
MORE:
PJM: Stormy Daniels on Avenatti: ‘Sometimes People Just Need a Swift Kick in the Ass’
NYP: Stormy Daniels claims Avenatti filed Trump lawsuit ‘against her wishes’
This was quite a bit entertaining earlier this afternoon.
If you missed it, it’s well-worth the full watch…
Katie Pavlich: Trump Forces Chuck and Nancy to Debate Him in Front of America, They Didn’t Like It
For the first time since the 2018-midterm elections, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with President Trump at the White House Tuesday.
Their meeting was originally supposed to be closed press, but that all changed when the White House press pool was invited into the Oval Office to broadcast their remarks…
The leftwing media and their cuck cocktail party plus ones are beside themselves over this.
Doesn’t Trump know that Democracy is supposed to be stage-managed? How can you have a successful Failure Theater production without a script?
DOESN’T TRUMP KNOW WHAT HE’S DONE?!
THE PLEBIANS AND DEPLORABLES GOT TO SEE ACTUAL DISSENT. THIS MAY CAUSE THEM TO NOT HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THEIR LEADERSHIP STRUCTURES!!!!!
You can’t know how ebola is really transmitted because that might cause a lack of confidence in the NIH.
You can’t know how the FISA was obtained because that might cause a lack of confidence in the IC and FBI.
The people need to be Made Confident in their betters or else the whole system falls apart!!!!
Guys — our Betters really cannot bear too much direct scrutiny. If the Deplorables and the Garbage People see the low quality of the alleged Betters we might have a Yellow Jackets situation on our hands.
WATCH: Full video of heated Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Democratic leaders Schumer and Pelosi over border security and a potential government shutdown https://t.co/agvypq00l2 pic.twitter.com/kdDLeeZ0R1
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) December 11, 2018
WAY TO GO, MR. PRESIDENT. SHUT. IT. DOWN.
Things just went full-on 'Wild Bunch' over at the White House… https://t.co/5UYGh8sJ3Y
— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) December 11, 2018
President Trump engages in an Oval Office clash with Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi over border security as the shutdown deadline looms
Pelosi: "I don't think we should have a debate in front of the press on this" pic.twitter.com/gopvtJKpXO
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 11, 2018
"Let's debate in private": President Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi just sparred in the Oval Office on live TV about border security and funding Trump's wall https://t.co/uiiZgARky5 pic.twitter.com/EJBynT3NkR
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 11, 2018
Yea ol’ Beta Chucky staring at the floor while Alpha Trump tells him the way it’s going to be…the only thing missing was Chucky rolling onto his back with paws up…😂
— CaptainJack (@Captain22856441) December 11, 2018
Swamp Lady doesn't want Swamp Business As Usual aired in public. https://t.co/HIBnoYgeIf
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) December 11, 2018
.@NancyPelosi – why don’t you think the American people should be able to see your meeting with @realDonaldTrump @VP @SenSchumer? What are you so afraid of? #Transparency pic.twitter.com/bLzLq6oftb
— Dr Gina (@RealDrGina) December 11, 2018
Alternative: "Minutes after complaining about tv cameras, Pelosi ran to the tv cameras." https://t.co/vnmcG4cZd7
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) December 11, 2018
CHUCK SCHUMER: "One thing is clear. We shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute," says Schumer who literally shut down the government in January over DACA!
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) December 11, 2018
CRYING CHUCK SCHUMER said Trump is throwing a Temper Tantrum over the Wall.
RETWEET if you are sick of these Democrats putting America Last like Chuck and Nancy.#BorderWall #Schumer #Pelosi #TrumpShutdown pic.twitter.com/uKi3WSOQRl
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) December 11, 2018
MORE:
Daily Wire: Report: First Time Women’s March Leaders Met, Two Leaders Asserted Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories
WSJ: The Crisis of Good Intentions: From Paris to Palo Alto, ‘clean and green’ policies punish the poor.
Kurt Schlichter @ Townhall: Vive La French Revolution 2.0 – And Our Own!
This is what the world could look like if government agents were held to the same standards as private citizens. https://t.co/CIF9pObQOg
— reason (@reason) December 12, 2018
