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From our friend…on the media and Donald TrumpHere is why Donald wins in Nov…
January 14th, 2020 | 
Author: From our friend…on the media and Donald Trump
Here is why Donald wins in Nov…
“For the third time in three months, President Donald Trump has made a public appearance at a college football game. And for the third consecutive trip, he’s been greeted by raucous cheers.”
Unless Pocahontas or Biden or Bernie attended the Harvard/Yale game..no one would give damn if they showed up at any football game..And a Harvard/Yale game cannot put 75/100,000 people in any stadium…even if you gave away free tickets….At stadiums that seat anywhere from 75/100,000 people, Donald gets ..quote..” raucous cheers”..The media hate this image..these are NOT paid and bought for cheers like Democrats do at rallies…They are like the 20/25,000 that go to Trump rallies with 5/8,000 still waiting outside…The Left ..the NY/DC media cabal simply find these crowds an affront to their very existence.
These crowds are why Donald will NOT lose in Nov. There is NO ONE running for President in the Democratic party who can remotely touch a response of this size…NOT EVEN A CLOSE CALL…Can you imagine the response for Michael Bloomberg if he walked into one of these stadiums…Ha!..that’s a joke!..And even Mr Bloomberg doesn’t have enough money..and he certainly has a lot…to get 100,000 people cheering like these crowds…
The media and Lady Nancy simply HATE these crowds ..they hate them because these people vote..and they vote for Donald no matter how much garbage the people like Adam Shiffless or Nancy and her lying minions spew everyday from Washington..and Donald has made the media irrelevant…He has made the likes of Jim Acosta …hey, anyone remember who he is?..irrelevant ..Trump has out maneuvered the media by making himself available almost every single day to questions..But on his terms..not their terms..The media is used to ‘setting the table”.The problem they have with Donald is…there are no more dishes and silverware for the media when they sit at Donald’s table…He controls everything..He sent a twitter message of support to the demonstrators in Iran..in Farsi..and he got 200,000 likes in Iran…Almost as many Iranians read that message of support as watch CNN every day..What a brilliant move on his part to support those kids…While Democrats have basically said NOTHING to support those kids in Iran Donald goes over the heads of the media..around the media..and they are all apoplectic because the media in this country no longer matter..
Could not happen to a “nicer bunch” of biased, racist jerks…Funny about how Democrats have practically ignored the demonstrators in Iran who refused to walk on the ‘STARS & STRIPES”……Does anyone remember what Obama did when they demonstrated in Iran against the Mullahs…He did NOTHING..ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!..And did you hear anything from the Democrats this week in Congress except the word IMPEACH and the beginning of WWIII…..All you heard from the media and the Democrats was..Donald is starting WWIII….And as hard as they try in the media..that has simply not happened..These people simply have no clue…and when they lose, and they will lose badly in Nov..they will blame everyone they can find except the people they see in the mirror every day..In their twisted minds they are so full of HATE for Trump, those people in the mirror can do no wrong!..Just ask Hillary, after more than 3yrs she still has absolutely no clue…none..
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Article written by friend of Floyd’s wants to remain anonymous
This is writing style and it gets the point across very well
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Swedes Vote Climate Policy Biggest Waste of Tax Payer Money in 2019
Swedes Vote Climate Policy Biggest Waste of Tax Payer Money in 2019
The Swedish public has voted that climate change spending has been the biggest waste of taxpayer money in 2019, according to a poll by the Swedish Taxpayers’ Association.
The Taxpayers’ Association released the results of their annual wasteful spending poll earlier this week, declaring that climate policy had been the biggest waste of money, largely due to the fact that despite the spending, emissions in Sweden had actually slightly increased.
In 2014, the Swedish national government spent 5.2 billion Swedish krona (£419 million/$547 million), a number that has more than doubled to 12.6 billion krona (£1 billion/$1.3 billion) for the planned 2020 budget.
“The government has more than doubled the appropriations for climate policy, but despite this, emissions no longer decrease. In 2018, emissions even increased. That is why climate policy has been voted the worst waste of the year,” Johan Gustafsson, Waste Ombudsman at the Taxpayers’ Association, said.
Breitbart London@BreitbartLondonSweden Looks to Ban Sale of New Petrol and Diesel Cars in Ten Years https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/12/22/sweden-looks-to-ban-sale-of-new-petrol-and-diesel-cars-in-ten-years/ …
Sweden Looks to Ban Sale of New Petrol and Diesel Cars in Ten Years
The Swedish government, along with the Centre Party and the Liberals have announced they will be looking to ban the sale of new cars that use fossil fuels in the next ten years.
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In second place in the poll was a project from the artists’ commission that saw over a million krona donated to a project focused on art for earthworms and fungi.
Mats Caldeborg and wife Katrin Zackrisson Caldeborg were behind the project and told newspaper Expressen: “Art for birds, bumblebees, beetles, worms, and fungi is a project that wants to turn upside down in our habitual way of seeing and understanding the world. Here, nature’s smaller inhabitants are not those depicted, but themselves, in their own right, recipients of the art.”
The wasteful spending poll results come as many Swedish municipal governments face financial hardship or even bankruptcy due to a lack of money to support recently arrived migrants who have largely remained out of the labour force.
An estimated 90 per cent of migrants who came to the country during the height of the 2015 migrant crisis and received permanent residency are unemployed.
Fla man gets 90 days in jail for spitting on Trump supporter,
These attacks by leftist, socialist Democrats on POTUS Trump supporters must STOP and best way is to charge them, convict them and put them in JAIL !
Never before in our history have such attacks been encouraged by so called “lawmakers” in Congress and other leftist elected officials as part of a “resistance movement” brought by hate for our POTUS and his supporters. The socialist Democrats can no longer lay the false claim of being the party of tolerance as they have demonstrated their bigotry, hate and criminal, unconstitutional activities including attacks on the 1st Amendment over and over.
The nevertrumper establishment RINOs are just as guilty as the socialist Democrats and we will show them the fallacy of their hateful actions when we re-elect President Trump; maintain the majority in the Senate and retake the House in 2020 !!!
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Fla man gets 90 days in jail for spitting on Trump supporter, ordered to pay for new MAGA hat
Fla man gets 90 days in jail for spitting on Trump supporter, ordered to pay for new MAGA hat
January 12, 2020 | Victor Rantala | Print Article
Screen capture … Security footage captured the October assault of a Trump supporter … Credit: New York Post
A twisted leftist was sentenced on Thursday to 90 days in jail for spitting on a 67-year-old, MAGA-hat wearing Trump supporter in October.
The surprising justice meted out to Matthias George Ajple was attributable at least in part because the crime was caught in on camera in living color at Hurricane Grill & Wings in Vero Beach, Florida. The registered Democrat will not only sit and stew in the Indian River County Jail for three months, but he will also serve 12 months on probation, pay a fine of $695, and fork out restitution in the amount of $155 to Robert Youngblood, the man who was the target of Ajple’s abuse. Forty dollars of the restitution was approved by County Judge David Morgan to replace the MAGA hat.
Morgan had this to say about his ruling:
“It bothers me a lot that your stated goal was to punish (Youngblood) for exercising his political speech. Here you simply punished (Youngblood) on the spot.”
“(Your attack) was despicable. It was cowardly,” Morgan said.” In our culture … to spit on somebody indicates a feeling of superiority, of disdain, and then you ran.” In fact, that may not be the end of the pain for Ajple, as Youngblood has filed a civil lawsuit against him seeking damages of more than $15,000. Camera footage shows Youngblood was simply sitting at the bar watching a World Series game with two friends, minding his own business.
The arrest affidavit for the 43-year-old spitter states that on Oct. 25, 2019, the “white male approached [Youngblood] and stated ‘You should go back to Russia you f***ing communist.’ After this statement the male then slapped the bill of Youngblood’s hat. The male then walked around the gate, leaned over it, spit on Youngblood and then left the scene.”
Youngblood was able to write down the license plate and police were quickly able to track him down.
The arresting officer wrote that at that time, Ajple told police, “I was just trying to protect you guys because I support Law Enforcement, Trump supporters are communist and racist.” The affidavit also reflects that Ajple added: “I don’t even care that I’m going to jail, this is actually exciting. Plus I have more time on this earth than he does anyway, he probably feels so good about himself.”
According to The Smoking Gun, the lawsuit that is in process states that at the time of the spitting incident, Youngblood “had just undergone cancer surgery and had 17 stitches on his neck.”
The complaint alleges that Youngblood suffered emotional distress “when Ajple spit on and about him including the area of his recent cancer surgery.” The judgment and sentencing document issued for Ajple can be viewed here …
It was stunning,” said Youngblood. “We all went ‘what the heck just happened?’”
In spite of the assault, Youngblood said he will continue to wear his MAGA hat in public. “I will never stop wearing my hat that I believe represents what I believe.”
Meanwhile, liberals are expressing disbelief at the sentence the first-time offender who pleaded “no contest” received. According to a supportive editorial in Florida Today, “Ajple’s a father of two, ages 2 and 5, the senior vice president and founding partner of a “customer data” company with offices in San Francisco and Florida. Educated in Germany and a former channel manager and games editor with AOL Time Warner, Ajple bought a home in Vero Beach in 2007, online records show.”
According to the editorial, Ajple’s attorney asked Indian River County Judge David Morgan to put Ajple on house arrest so he could help raise his children and support his family. The Florida Today opinion writer wrote, “Ajple’s partner, Laura Torres, a well-educated professional who grew up in Vero Beach, talked about her family’s suffering since the incident and the national publicity it generated. They’ve been threatened with death and rape, she said.”
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Oh my goodness, maybe things are not so “honky dory” in Iran after all. Since Trump ordered the killing (100% legally) of the Iranian General, the media in this country have led us all to believe that Iran was now 100% unified behind the Ayatollah and his crew. Well, it appears, as usual for our glorious media establishment and the pundits, that the unity is not quite so solid for the Ayatollah and his white bearded minions of power. Yep, they are now having very large demonstrations inside Iran for the “white bearded robes” to step down and go away..The Country is basically bankrupt because the Ayatollah and the now dead General spent all of Iran’s money on fomenting violence throughout the Middle East for 20 years and the people of Iran are simply sick of “sky-high” gasoline prices (they have their own oil)…no jobs…and inflation running at 35/40%…Yep, they spent the entire $145 BILLION that Obama sent them and they have been spending whatever oil revenue they do have on all this Middle East violence and the people of Iran are simply sick of it…and sick of the “white beards” lying to the Iranian people.. Recently the now dead General ordered the murder of more than 1500 demonstrators when they screamed and demonstrated for better living conditions but now the Ayatollah’s chief executioner is dead..and the Ayatollah stands without his good buddy.
..And do you know why he stands alone..because Donald Trump had the temerity to kill the guy really responsible for the mayhem that has rained upon the Middle East and Iran over the past 20yrs…And the Democrats want to know why Donald had him “taken out”! The Democrats in Washington would NOT know a good deal for the American people if it hit them square in the face with a 2×4..They simply hate Trump and it really doesn’t’ matter what Trump does..Just think carefully..they claim that Trump is an existential threat to the country..A country that is “suffering” with 3.5% unemployment..$100,000 jobs to manage Taco Bell….more jobs for the Black Community and Latino Community than anytime in 50 yrs..Higher wage GROWTH for the lower 25% of the income scale than anytime in more than 20yrs…A stock market that has generated more than $11 trillion in value since his election and they still claim that Donald is bad for America…Hey, exactly why?…It seems the only people who cannot see what is happening in America are Democrats…and their complicit, lying media buddies..
The existential threat to this lovely country is NOT DONALD TRUMP…No,,it is the likes of Nancy Pelosi…Chuck Schumer…the lying media like Lemon Head, Mika & Joe…the NYT Times..etc..That is where the existential threat comes from…. it is most certainly not found in 3.5% unemployment….Just keep this thought in your mind for bit…Obama and John Kerry gave the Ayatollah $145 Billion without the approval of Congress…You got that?…and no one in the Democratic party tried to IMPEACH them…And the media cheered….Just think very carefully about that…very carefully!…And then think about “EXISTENTIAL THREATS”!…Think John Brennen…Clapper…and all the rest of those people..and then think..EXISTENTIAL THREAT!…
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Note from Webmaster: Floyd Stern is not the author, it is a friend who wants to remain anonymous, and would like his blog posted as written so we will definitely honor that.
2020 very positive outlook for Republicans to take back the house.
January 10, 2020
How 2020 Could Be A Great Year for House Republicans
Recruitment: McCarthy’s Key to the Speaker’s Office
by Newt Gingrich
The liberal media likes to focus on how many House Republicans are retiring. Somehow this is supposed to make Republicans feel defeated and hopeless.
In this context, I was startled recently to hear Congresswoman Elise Stefanik say 2020 was going to be the year of the House Republican woman. She went on to assert that there was an historic record being set for Republican women filing to run for the House.
I checked in with Chairman Tom Emmer at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), and found that, if anything, Rep. Stefanik had understated the momentum of new recruits.
With House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and the leadership team going all out, the House Republicans are setting a remarkably encouraging series of records.
Consider these numbers: The total number of Republicans filed for House seats so far is 928, according to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) figures – or 188 more than the total at the same time in 2010 (740). The year 2010 matters because it was the last time Nancy Pelosi was kicked out of the majority and Speaker John Boehner led the House GOP to its biggest gain in modern times – with his “where are the jobs” slogan. In fact, in 2010 the House GOP gained 63 seats for a majority of 242 Republicans.
The House Republican recruiting surge is also tremendously widespread. So far, I am told that Republican candidates are running in 380 congressional districts (compared to 341 districts at this point in 2010).
Importantly, women and minority candidates have surged. This is an area which has historically been a Republican weakness. In Texas alone, there are at least 30 Republican women candidates. So far, 186 women are seeking to become House Republicans in total. The previous record was 133 women running for the House as Republicans. And filing is still open in a number of states, so the number will almost certainly increase.
I am told by the NRCC there are also 146 Republican candidates from minority communities. Furthermore, 188 veterans are running for the House as Republicans.
I will write more details about women and minority candidates in future columns. However, I think it is important to note a profound change underway in financing Republican campaigns.
The Democrats had an enormous advantage in the 2018 election, because they had built an online donation system called ActBlue. ActBlue had been founded in 2004 to enable small dollar donors to easily and efficiently help Democratic candidates all over the country.
When the online system was powered by the intensity of anti-Trump emotions, there was a flood of targetable money for Democratic candidates. Activists from all over the country could conveniently go online, identify the campaigns they wanted to help, and quickly send the money.
In the 2018 cycle, this system raised $1.8 billion over the two-year period. When this scale of small donor involvement was combined with massive donors like Michael Bloomberg (who spent $5 million on ads in the last two weeks in some elections) the Democrats’ money advantage was enormous. This helps explain the Republican House defeats.
The threat posed by the ActBlue system was reinforced in 2019, when it raised more than $1 billion for the Democrats.
Republican leaders realized they had to match or exceed the small dollar system the Democrats had invented. They developed a competitive model called WinRed. (Check it out)
The intensity of support for President Trump – combined with growing anger over the Democrats’ investigation and impeachment strategy – has made WinRed a success much faster than anyone expected.
In its first two quarters, WinRed raised $101 million. Its effectiveness is growing rapidly. It raised $31 million in its first quarter of existence and more than doubled that in the second quarter with $70 million (fourth quarter of 2019). In fact, WinRed raised more in its first 190 days than ActBlue raised in its first five years.
The impact of the Democrats’ overreach on impeachment has been amazing. WinRed pages that mentioned “impeach” or “impeachment” raised 300 percent more than any other page.
In fact, the growing impact of WinRed can be seen in Congresswoman Stefanik’s experience. After her remarkable defense of President Trump on the House Intelligence Committee, she mentioned people could donate at WinRed on Fox News. In two hours, $500,000 was donated from across the country.
The combination of great recruiting, the development of WinRed as a system for engaging grassroots Republicans in races across the country, the intensity of President Trump’s support, and the self-destruction of the Democrats are combining to create a new, dynamic, aggressive House Republican Party.
If retirements are the story of the past, then recruitment is the story of the future. This is the story on which Leader McCarthy and his team are focused.
I suspect it’s the story which will make him Speaker McCarthy in January 2021.
RASMUSSEN: If it’s in the News, it’s in our Polls. Public opinion polling since 2003.
If it’s in the News, it’s in our Polls. Public opinion polling since 2003.
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
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In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:
– President Trump ended the polling week with a daily job approval of 48%.
– The economy continues to wow this month with the Rasmussen Reports Economic Index hitting 147.8 in January, up 3.5 points from last month and smashing through the five-year high.
– With the Iraqi parliament demanding that the last 5,000 U.S. troops leave its country, many voters here share President Trump’s view that the invasion of Iraq was the biggest American blunder ever. Fewer than ever consider the effort a success story.
– Most Americans now believe disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in jail because he knew too much.
– Fewer voters than ever believe President Trump will be removed from office via impeachment, while a little-changing plurality still thinks he will be reelected in November.
– Voters are evenly divided over President Trump’s decision to have a top Iranian general killed, but as is generally the case with questions regarding the president, it’s a party line vote. More voters than ever, however, now fear war with Iran is likely.
– The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of December 29, 2019 through January 4, 2020 is at 98.4, down from 100.1 the week before.
– A sizable majority of voters still believes the campaign for the White House every four years goes on too long, and half complain that Democrats are overdoing it when it comes to debates.
– Forty-one percent (41%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
Visit the Rasmussen Reports home page for the latest current polling coverage of events in the news. The page is updated several times each day.
Remember, if it’s in the news, it’s in our polls.
Expect President Trump’s impeachment trial to start next week (Maybe)!
McConnell tells GOP senators to expect
impeachment trial next week 1/13/2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told Republicans during a closed-door lunch on Thursday to expect President Trump’s impeachment trial to start next week. Three GOP senators said the Republican leader warned lawmakers during the caucus meeting that they should not expect to be able to go home next weekend, indicating that the long-delayed trial will be underway.
Proceedings have been held up while Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has refused to send over the House-passed articles of impeachment, but she told reporters earlier Thursday that she would “soon” do so. “We thought, we as the body, that the Speaker will … shortly send that over, so [he] said next weekend don’t go anywhere,” said Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), characterizing McConnell’s message as a heads-up that the Senate would be in session.
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) added that McConnell told senators that the two articles would be sent over “soon,” expecting them in the “next day or two.” “There’s no reason for us to stay this weekend, but don’t expect to be home next weekend was the basic message,” Cramer added after the closed-door caucus lunch.
Once Pelosi sends the articles over, the trial would start the next day at 1 p.m. The Senate would then be in session for six days a week, excluding Sunday, until they wrap what is expected to be a weeks-long process. The six-day work week will be a shift for senators, who normally come into town on Monday night and leave by Thursday afternoon. “I’m not holding them indefinitely,” Pelosi had said during a press briefing in the Capitol. “I’ll send them over when I’m ready, and that will probably be soon.”
Senators have largely been left in the dark about when to expect Pelosi to send over the two articles, which passed the chamber largely along party lines last month. Asked about McConnell’s comments, a spokesman said the GOP leader’s guidance was not based on conversations with Pelosi.
McConnell’s remarks to senators come after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) raised eyebrows by telling Fox News’s Sean Hannity, without explanation, that he expects the trial to start next week. “Hats off to Mitch McConnell for playing this very well. We’ll take the trial up next week,” Graham said on Wednesday night. Sens. Roy Blunt (Mo.) and John Cornyn (Texas), members of GOP leadership, both confirmed McConnell’s comments during the closed-door caucus but cautioned that they had also expected the standoff between Pelosi and McConnell to already be over.
“It’s an assumption of what we believe will happen,” Blunt said. “I believe we’re believing, as we believed last weekend, that these documents are about to come over.” The timing of the trial, just weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses, could pose a challenge for the five senators seeking the Democratic presidential nomination: Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Cory Booker (D-N.Y.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said this week that the party could reschedule the year’s first primary debate — currently set for Tuesday — if it conflicts with trial proceedings. Speculation about when the articles will come over follows McConnell’s announcement earlier this week that he has the 51 votes to set up the Senate impeachment rules without Democratic support and punt a decision on documents and witnesses until mid-trial. Pelosi reiterated on Thursday that she wants more details on the parameters of an impeachment trial from McConnell.
“We need to see the arena in which we are sending our managers. Is that too much to ask?” Pelosi said.
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McConnell tells GOP senators to expect impeachment trial next week
McConnell tells GOP senators to expect impeachment trial next week
BY JORDAIN CARNEY – 01/09/20 03:57 PM EST
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told Republicans during a closed-door lunch on Thursday to expect President Trump’s impeachment trial to start next week.
Three GOP senators said the Republican leader warned lawmakers during the caucus meeting that they should not expect to be able to go home next weekend, indicating that the long-delayed trial will be underway.
Proceedings have been held up while Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has refused to send over the House-passed articles of impeachment, but she told reporters earlier Thursday that she would “soon” do so.
“We thought, we as the body, that the Speaker will … shortly send that over, so [he] said next weekend don’t go anywhere,” said Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), characterizing McConnell’s message as a heads-up that the Senate would be in session.
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) added that McConnell told senators that the two articles would be sent over “soon,” expecting them in the “next day or two.”
“There’s no reason for us to stay this weekend, but don’t expect to be home next weekend was the basic message,” Cramer added after the closed-door caucus lunch.
Once Pelosi sends the articles over, the trial would start the next day at 1 p.m. The Senate would then be in session for six days a week, excluding Sunday, until they wrap what is expected to be a weeks-long process. The six-day work week will be a shift for senators, who normally come into town on Monday night and leave by Thursday afternoon.
“I’m not holding them indefinitely,” Pelosi had said during a press briefing in the Capitol. “I’ll send them over when I’m ready, and that will probably be soon.”
Senators have largely been left in the dark about when to expect Pelosi to send over the two articles, which passed the chamber largely along party lines last month.
Asked about McConnell’s comments, a spokesman said the GOP leader’s guidance was not based on conversations with Pelosi.
McConnell’s remarks to senators come after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) raised eyebrows by telling Fox News’s Sean Hannity, without explanation, that he expects the trial to start next week.
“Hats off to Mitch McConnell for playing this very well. We’ll take the trial up next week,” Graham said on Wednesday night.
Sens. Roy Blunt (Mo.) and John Cornyn (Texas), members of GOP leadership, both confirmed McConnell’s comments during the closed-door caucus but cautioned that they had also expected the standoff between Pelosi and McConnell to already be over.
“It’s an assumption of what we believe will happen,” Blunt said. “I believe we’re believing, as we believed last weekend, that these documents are about to come over.”
The timing of the trial, just weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses, could pose a challenge for the five senators seeking the Democratic presidential nomination: Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Cory Booker (D-N.Y.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said this week that the party could reschedule the year’s first primary debate — currently set for Tuesday — if it conflicts with trial proceedings.
Speculation about when the articles will come over follows McConnell’s announcement earlier this week that he has the 51 votes to set up the Senate impeachment rules without Democratic support and punt a decision on documents and witnesses until mid-trial.
Pelosi reiterated on Thursday that she wants more details on the parameters of an impeachment trial from McConnell.
“We need to see the arena in which we are sending our managers. Is that too much to ask?” Pelosi said.
Peggy Noonan – WSJ – on Progressives and who they really are!
This level of perception and strength of writing is why Noonan is my favorite columnist – every Saturday in the WSJ. Also, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
The past decade saw the rise of the woke progressives who dictate what words can be said and ideas held, thus poisoning and paralyzing American humor, drama, entertainment, culture and journalism. In the coming 10 years someone will effectively stand up to them. They are the most hated people in America, and their entire program is accusation: you are racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic; you are a bigot, a villain, a white male, a patriarchal misogynist, your day is over. They never have a second move. Bow to them, as most do, and they’ll accuse you even more of newly imagined sins. They claim to be vulnerable victims, and moral. Actually they’re not. They’re mean and seek to kill, and like all bullies are cowards. Everyone with an honest mind hates them. Someone will finally move effectively against them. Who? How? That will be a story of the ’20s, and a good one.”~ Peggy Noonan
DAN BONGINO – THE DEEP STATE IS REAL – THEY’RE NOT PLAYING GAMES
In this episode, I address the stunning connections between the anti-Trump impeachment players and the Spygate hoaxers. I also address the imploding impeachment farce and the failure of Pelosi’s latest gamble. Finally, I address failure of media outlets to understand the significance of Trump’s strike against Soleimani.
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Homelessness surges in liberal California.
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Devin Nunes is leading an investigation into ICIG Atkinson. Atkinson’s resume is interesting.
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The shady connections of these anti-Trumpers, to the Obama Administration, are frightening.
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President Trump’s stock is at an all-time high.
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The chances of President Trump being removed from office is sinking like a rock.
THE GREEN THING, GOOD ONE FOR OUR MILLENNIALS, AND SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS TO READ.
The Green Thing
A somewhat “older” woman was at a checkout stand in a supermarket The helpful, young cashier suggested that the older woman should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.
The older woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this “green thing” back in my earlier days.”
The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
She was right –– our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so the same bottles could be used hundreds of times. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
Stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, which we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our graffiti. Then we were able to personalize our books without vandalizing them. Too bad we didn’t do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling 240-volt machine. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working, so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right – we didn’t have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked, instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in each room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites in outer space, in order to find the nearest burger joint. But we didn’t have the green thing back then
But isn’t it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were, just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?
To Soleimani and his Iraqi terrorist sidekick al-Muhandis, good riddance. To Agnes Callamard, shut up until you know what you are talking about\
UN Secretary General Punts While UN Human Rights Official Denounces U.S.
By Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist —— Bio and Archives—January 6, 2020Cover Story | Print Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres read a statement to the press at UN headquarters on Monday declaring, “The New Year has begun with our world in turmoil. Geopolitical tensions are at their highest level this century.” The Secretary General did not refer directly to the tensions between the United States and Iran that have escalated sharply during the last week. He punted, although he did make two observations that may have been intended as oblique comments on the current situation.
Secretary General Guterres: “Nuclear non-proliferation can no longer be taken for granted”
Secretary General Guterres noted that “nuclear non-proliferation can no longer be taken for granted,” which could be viewed as an expression of concern over the apparent collapse of the Iranian nuclear deal in the wake of Iran’s announcement that it would no longer abide by the deal’s enrichment limitations. He also said that more and more countries were taking “unpredicted decisions with unpredictable consequences and a profound risk of miscalculation.” This could be the Secretary General’s diplomatic way of couching his concern about the unintended consequences and risks of miscalculation precipitated by “unpredictable” military actions undertaken by the United States and the Iranian regime (directly or through its proxies).
The Secretary General said that he was” in constant contact with leading officials around the world,” although he did not say with whom he had spoken. His message, he said, was “simple and clear” – to stop escalation, exercise maximum restraint, re-start dialogue, and renew international cooperation.
Such non-controversial maxims are often trotted out in the absence of moral clarity, but at least they do no harm. The UN Security Council did not conduct any meetings on the Iran-U.S. conflict escalation. Again, at least it has not made things worse – yet.
Agnes Callamard, the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions
In contrast to Secretary General Guterres’ very carefully chosen words of neutrality, Agnes Callamard, the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions, tweeted up a storm of outrageous denunciations against the U.S. airstrikes that finally ended Iranian terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani’s ability to continue the crimes against humanity and war crimes he has committed for years. Instead, Callamard said that the action taken by the United States in self-defense against more planned attacks on its citizens directed by Soleimani most likely violated international law, including human rights law. She added, “Outside the context of active hostilities, the use of drones or other means for targeted killing is almost never likely to be legal.”
What does Callamard think the attack by the Iranian-backed, Soleimani-directed militia group, Kata’ib Hezbollah, on an Iraqi base was, which killed an American civilian contractor and wounded several American and Iraqi personnel? How about the unprovoked violent assault by Soleimani’s thugs from Kata’ib Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed militant groups on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad in violation of international law? Those are active hostilities instigated by Iran and its terrorist proxies.
What does Callamard think a country is supposed to do to protect its citizens, especially when it has sound reasons to believe that more attacks on its citizens are imminent? Sit back and wait for its citizens to be killed before taking any action? Does Callamard have any understanding at all of what self-defense means legally in such circumstances? Obviously not.
Kata’ib Hezbollah is considered a direct arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Kata’ib Hezbollah is considered a direct arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-Quds Force. This terrorist group has pledged loyalty to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and was said to be working directly for Soleimani. Its leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also taken out by the U.S. airstrikes, developed a close relationship with Soleimani and served as his close adviser.
Last Friday’s killings of Soleimani and al-Muhandis did not suddenly happen in a vacuum. Context matters, except to narrow-minded ideologues such as Callamard.
In a measured military response to the Kata’ib Hezbollah attack on the Iraqi base that cost an American his life, President Trump ordered retaliatory U.S. airstrikes that killed some Kata’ib Hezbollah members. The Iranian terrorist proxies and their leader Soleimani remained unbowed, however. Hundreds of Iranian-backed militia fighters, reportedly at Soleimani’s direction, invaded the compound of the United States embassy in Baghdad last week after breaking down the compound gate. They threatened American lives, before finally withdrawing. Again, President Trump tweeted a warning. He said that Iran “will be held fully responsible.” (The UN Security Council, by the way, was blocked by Russia and China from issuing a statement that such attacks on a country’s embassy is a violation of international law)
Soleimani’s presence in Iraq alone last October and last week violated the UN Security Council’s travel freeze imposed against Soleimani
None of this gave Kata’ib Hezbollah’s patron Soleimani any pause. He brazenly took a flight from Syria to Iraq and was met by his co-terrorist lackey Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at the Baghdad airport. Both met their maker last Friday night before they could carry out their lethal plans.
According to U.S. intelligence services, Soleimani was in the midst of planning for the execution of imminent major attacks on U.S. military and diplomatic personnel in Iraq and other countries in the region that could have cost hundreds of American lives. Reuters separately reported that planning for stepped-up attacks against Americans had begun at a strategy session last October in Iraq attended by Soleimani and al-Muhandis. Soleimani, who considered it his mission to make Iraq essentially a satellite of Iran, was concerned with rising mass protests against Iran’s growing influence in Iraq. “Soleimani’s plans to attack U.S. forces aimed to provoke a military response that would redirect that rising anger toward the United States,” Reuters reported. Soleimani arranged for the supply of advanced weapons to Kataib Hezbollah, including an advanced drone, Katyusha rockets and shoulder-fired missiles, in order to scope out potential U.S. targets and to launch attacks against them.
Soleimani’s presence in Iraq alone last October and last week violated the UN Security Council’s travel freeze imposed against Soleimani. In his last report on the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that Iran has since abandoned, Secretary General Guterres said as follows:
Soleimani should not have been in Iraq in the first place
“Information from Iraqi media outlets suggests that Major General Soleimani has undertaken travel inconsistent with the travel ban provisions of the resolution. I call upon all Member States to diligently implement the restrictive measures imposed on the individuals and entities on the list maintained pursuant to resolution 2231 (2015).”
Soleimani should not have been in Iraq in the first place. His very presence was illegal. Iraqi officials should have detained him and immediately sent him back to Iran. Of course, that would have been impossible since the Iranian regime today holds such sway over the Iraqi government and Soleimani was running the show in directing Iraqi Shiite militia against Americans.
Soleimani’s meetings on Iraqi soil to plan and carry out major attacks against Americans in Iraq as well as other countries in the region had an obvious illegal purpose. They turned Iraq into a battlefield against the United States. Together with the recent intelligence reports of plans of imminent attacks against Americans in the region that could well have resulted in the loss of many lives, there was ample justification under international law for President Trump’s decision to take out the Iranian terrorist mastermind Soleimani and his Iraqi terrorist sidekick al-Muhandis. To them, good riddance. And to Agnes Callamard, shut up until you know what you are talking about (if that should ever happen).
Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist — Bio and Archives
Joseph A. Klein is the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom.
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POMPEO WILL NOT RUN FOR SENATE
Pompeo tells McConnell he’s not running for Senate
BY REID WILSON AND JUSTINE COLEMAN – 01/06/20 06:36 PM EST 137
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THROW OUT THE BOGUS IMPEACHMENT – CHECK IT OUT
BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley Introduces Formal Resolution to Toss “Bogus Impeachment” Against President Trump
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) announced on Friday if Democrats DO NOT deliver their articles of impeachment to the US Senate as is required by the US Constitution he will introduce a measure to dismiss Pelosi’s slapdash articles of impeachment on Monday January 6th.
Nancy Pelosi was on notice, She had three days to decide but did not act.
Senator Hawley, the former Attorney General in Missouri, tweeted this warning out on Thursday.
Senator Josh Hawley: Dems said impeachment was URGENT. Now they don’t want to have a trial, because they have no evidence. In real world, if prosecution doesn’t proceed with case, it gets dismissed. So on Monday, I will introduce measure to dismiss this bogus impeachment for lack of prosecution.
This will expose Dems’ circus for what it is: a fake impeachment, abuse of the Constitution, based on no evidence. If Dems won’t proceed with trial, bogus articles should be dismissed and @realDonaldTrump fully cleared.
On Monday Senator Hawley came through on his promise and introduced the resolution to allow dismissal of the “bogus impeachment” against President Trump.
Senator Hawley today thanked his fellow Republican senators for supporting the measure:
CHECK OUT THE SHORT VIDEO.
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Monday, January 6, 2020
In response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unprecedented attempt to prevent an impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) today introduced a resolution to update Senate rules to allow a motion to dismiss articles of impeachment for lack of prosecution. Senators Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), David Perdue (R-Ga.), and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) are original cosponsors of the proposed Hawley rule.
Senator Hawley said, “Speaker Pelosi started this bogus impeachment by claiming President Trump was an urgent ‘threat to democracy’ who had to be removed now. But after a bipartisan vote against the articles in the House, and with the public opposed to the Democrats’ partisan games, Pelosi has changed her tune. Now she wants to prevent a Senate trial, perhaps indefinitely. But the Constitution gives the Senate sole power to adjudicate articles of impeachment, not the House. If Speaker Pelosi is afraid to try her case, the articles should be dismissed for failure to prosecute and Congress should get back to doing the people’s business.”
Senator Rick Scott said, “Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are making a mockery of our government. Democrats have wanted to impeach Donald Trump since he came down that escalator four years ago. They just hate Trump. But Chairman Schiff did a great job showing the American people that the President did nothing wrong and that this is just an effort to undo the 2016 election. If Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want to send the articles to the Senate, we should dismiss the articles of impeachment and get back to work on all the things that aren’t getting done, like securing the border, passing No Budget, No Pay and lowering the cost of prescription drugs.”
Senator Braun said, “Nearly three weeks ago, Nancy Pelosi and her liberal cohorts voted to impeach President Trump, but rather than fulfill their constitutional duty and send the articles of impeachment to the Senate they’ve opted to play more partisan games. In the real world, it’s put up or shut up, which is why I’m introducing a mandate that forces Speaker Pelosi to deliver the articles of impeachment within 25 days. If Pelosi doesn’t think her case is strong enough to deliver within that timeframe then the Senate should be allowed to dismiss the case so we can get back to real problems like lowering the price of prescription drugs and passing USMCA.”
Senator Blackburn said, “After three years of searching for a reason to impeach this president, Democrats in the House cannot seem to find the time to send over the articles of impeachment. Impeachment ought to be reserved for high crimes and misdemeanors – acts that, if identified, require the timely and prompt removal of a president. If House Democrats are so confident in their findings, they ought to have no problem sending the articles over within a 25 day deadline.”
Senator Cruz said, “Since the start of the impeachment process, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats have made a mockery of our Constitution and abused impeachment for political gain. Now, they’re undermining the role of the Senate by attempting to dictate the terms of the Senate’s trial. Under our Constitution, the Senate has the sole authority to try impeachment. It is the Senate’s duty to take up these articles without delay, and to resolve them in a timely and constitutionally appropriate manner.”
Senator Daines said, “It’s time to put up or shut up, and stand up to Nancy Pelosi. House Democrats have been obsessed with impeaching President Trump before he was even sworn into office. First, they rushed through a rigged process, now they have cold feet. Enough with the political games. It’s time to get back to work for Montana and the American people.”
Senator Barrasso said, “Democrats have been obsessed with impeaching President Trump since day one. They know they don’t have a credible case against the president. Speaker Pelosi cannot dictate how the Senate operates. If she refuses to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate, the Senate should be able to dismiss them.”
Senator Cotton said, “By failing to deliver the articles of impeachment, the Democrats are admitting they bumbled their partisan impeachment. If the articles aren’t delivered in a timely manner, they should be dismissed.”
Senator Ernst said, “Iowans are fed up with this political exercise that’s slowing us down from getting important things done, like passing the USMCA — a trade deal that will create over 175,000 jobs across this country. Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats have been trying to impeach President Trump since day one, and now after voting on the articles, she’s stalling. Why? Because she knows she made a mistake. Iowans aren’t going to put up with this. Speaker Pelosi and her squad need to send over the articles so that we can get back to the people’s business. This resolution sets an important time table that will allow us to do just that.”
Senator Perdue said, “The Democrats’ impeachment process in the U.S. House of Representatives was nothing more than a partisan show trial. Now, Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer are trying to play the same political games in the U.S. Senate. President Trump deserves his day in court, and the Senate is fully-prepared to conduct a fair trial. However, if the House refuses to send over the articles, the Senate should have the ability to dismiss and move on to finding real solutions for the American people.”
Senator Inhofe said, “Democrats continue to prove that the impeachment articles are solely about politics. President Trump has clearly done nothing wrong – there was no abuse of power or obstruction of Congress. But now, Speaker Pelosi and top Democrats want to postpone a Senate trial altogether, maybe even indefinitely. I want to clear President Trump’s name once and for all after this ridiculous and unprecedented impeachment process is over and get back to working on issues that actually matter to families in Oklahoma.”
Background
The Senate has adopted a set of 26 rules that govern all impeachment proceedings, known as the “Rules of Procedure and Practice in the Senate When Sitting on Impeachment Trials.” Those Rules presume prompt delivery of the articles of impeachment to the Senate following their adoption by the House. Historically, the House delivered articles of impeachment to the Senate for action almost simultaneously with the vote to impeach. During the Clinton impeachment, for example, the articles were transmitted to the Senate the same day they were approved. Consequently, the current Senate rules have no mechanism to address Speaker Pelosi’s unprecedented attempt to prevent a Senate trial by withholding the articles after the President has been impeached.
Speaker Pelosi’s gambit raises grave constitutional concerns. Article 1, Section 3 gives the Senate the “sole” power to try impeachment cases. But if the Speaker refuses to transmit the articles after the President has been impeached, she could prevent the Senate from exercising its constitutional prerogative, perhaps indefinitely.
Senator Hawley’s resolution would amend the Senate’s impeachment rules to prevent this abuse of the Constitution and protect the Senate’s sole power to try impeachment. The resolution would allow the Senate to dismiss for lack of prosecution any articles of impeachment that the House of Representatives has delayed transmitting for 25 calendar days or more. Under this new rule, any Senator would be entitled to move to dismiss once the allotted time period had elapsed. Any motion to dismiss would be voted upon by the full Senate.
Text of the proposed Hawley rule:
Title: Amending the Rules of Procedure and Practice in the Senate When Sitting on Impeachment Trials.
Resolved, That rule I of the Rules of Procedure and Practice in the Senate When Sitting on Impeachment Trials is amended to read as follows:
“I. Whensoever the Senate shall receive notice from the House of Representatives that managers are appointed on their part to conduct an impeachment against any person and are directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall immediately inform the House of Representatives that the Senate is ready to receive the managers for the purpose of exhibiting such articles of impeachment, agreeably to such notice.
If, following adoption of such articles, the House of Representatives does not so notify the Senate or otherwise provide for such articles to be exhibited to the Senate within 25 calendar days from the date of adoption of such articles, as recorded in the Journal of the House of Representatives, such articles shall be deemed exhibited before the Senate and it shall be in order for any Senator to offer a motion to dismiss such articles with prejudice for failure by the House of Representatives to prosecute such articles. Such motion shall be adopted by an affirmative vote of a majority of the Senators, duly chosen and sworn, without debate by the yeas and nays, which shall be entered on the record.”.
DOES AMERICA REALLY WHAT THIS SHYSTER AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED sTATES
Joe Biden’s brother and son have a long
history of profiting off his name
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While Democrats want the press and voters to concentrate on President Trump’s phone call with Ukraine, “the problem for Democrats is that a review of Hunter Biden’s career shows clearly that he, along with Joe Biden’s brother James, has been trading on their family name for decades, cashing in on the implication — and sometimes the explicit argument — that giving money to a member of Joe Biden’s family wins the favor of Joe Biden,” argues Ryan Grim at The Intercept. Trump’s behavior may be shameless, Grim says, but that doesn’t mean Biden’s history isn’t an issue, he writes in this excerpt:
In trading on his father’s name and power to advance his career, Hunter Biden is following in the footsteps of James Biden, Joe’s younger brother.
It began small. In 1973, one year after Joe Biden was elected to the Senate at age 29, James Biden opened the nightclub Seasons Change with what Politico, referencing contemporaneous local reporting in Delaware, called “unusually generous bank loans.”
When James ran into trouble, Joe, as a senator, later complained that the bank shouldn’t have loaned James the money. “What I’d like to know,” Biden told the News Journal in 1977, “is how the guy in charge of loans let it get this far.” The paper investigated, and sources at the bank said that the loan was made because James was Joe’s brother.
James, in the ’90s, founded Lion Hall Group, which lobbied for Mississippi trial lawyers involved in tobacco litigation. According to Curtis Wilkie’s book “The Fall of the House of Zeus,” the trial lawyers wanted James Biden’s help pushing Joe Biden on tobacco legislation.
That same decade, in 1996, Hunter Biden got in the game. Fresh out of law school, with thousands of options before him, he chose to go work for MBNA, then a dominant issuer of credit cards, while also serving as Biden’s deputy campaign manager.
In 2001, Hunter Biden transitioned full-time to a federal lobbyist, though he stayed on the payroll of MBNA as a consultant until 2005, when President George W. Bush signed Biden’s Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act into law.He was, however, MBNA’s greatest champion in the Senate. Throughout the 1990s, bankruptcies were on the rise, and MBNA began pushing hard to reform the law to make it harder for people to discharge debt. The controversy brought Elizabeth Warren into politics; a well-known bankruptcy law professor, she was appointed to a commission to review the law, which began her decades-long clash with Biden.
It was a savage piece of legislation, and Joe Biden even worked to block an amendment that would have offered bankruptcy protection to people with medical debt. The bill also blocked people from discharging private student loan debt under bankruptcy. Total student loan debt was under $400 billion in 2005; it surged in the wake of the law’s passage and is now over $1.5 trillion.
Hunter Biden’s transparent cashing-in on his name was becoming a political liability for his father, so Joe Biden pushed him to find non-lobbying work, Anthony Lotito, a New York financial adviser, said in a complaint he filed in a New York state court. (James and Hunter, in a separate filing, denied that Joe Biden had made the call to Lotito.)
That Joe Biden saw Hunter’s work as politically damaging enough to him in 2005 demonstrates that he was entirely aware of the appearance it gave of corruption. His solution was to help Hunter and James into their positions at a financial firm, Paradigm Global Advisors.
In 2007, James Biden teamed up again with some of the tobacco lawyers from the previous decade, planning to launch a lobbying firm that Hunter would also be involved in.
Again, the affair became a political problem for Biden, thanks to a sordid moment in which James Biden’s two prospective partners were caught on an FBI wiretap saying, “We really need to push on the Senate bill,” and “We’re going to meet with the Bidens around noon,” apparently in reference to legislation to compensate black farmers for discrimination. The firm never came to fruition because one of the Bidens’ potential partners was arrested.
That year, Biden launched his second failed presidential bid, but he wound up on the ticket with Barack Obama, serving the next eight years as vice president.
Hunter’s relationship with MBNA became a political problem again. A 2008 New York Times story, headlined, “Obama Aides Defend Bank’s Pay to Biden Son,” reads like deja vu: “Obama aides said he had never lobbied for MBNA and that there was nothing improper about the payments,” which were reported to be $100,000 per year.
News that the University of Delaware had paid Biden’s firm millions, and gotten many millions more in earmarks, also caused the vice presidential nominee trouble.
In the meantime, Paradigm Global Advisors fared poorly and shut down in 2010. James quickly found new work, joining a construction firm in November 2010. In June 2011, while Joe Biden was overseeing Iraq policy, the firm won a $1.5 billion contract building homes in Iraq.
The company’s founder, Irvin Richter, told Fox Business Network that having James on board helped.
“Listen, his name helps him get in the door, but it doesn’t help him get business,” he said. “People who have important names tend to get in the door easier but it doesn’t mean success. If he had the name Obama, he would get in the door easier.”
Hunter, meanwhile, went into business with the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, Chris Heinz, forming the firm Rosemont Seneca, along with partners Devon Archer and Eric Schwerin.
In 2012, Archer and Hunter Biden connected with Jonathan Li, who ran a Chinese private equity fund, Bohai Capital, and began talks about working together. They did a large real estate deal together in 2013 and began setting up a joint fund. In late 2013, Hunter Biden traveled with his father on official business to China, where he introduced the vice president to his partner, Li.
Sen. John Kerry, center, D-Mass., with daughter, Vanessa, left, stepson, Chris Heinz, second right, and wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry, right.AP
The new firm, Bohai Harvest RST, as The Intercept reported earlier this year, would go on to invest in facial-recognition technology used to surveil China’s Muslim population as part of its ongoing cultural genocide operation. The firm, according to the Wall Street Journal, planned to raise $1.5 billion in capital.
Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani have since contorted that reality into the notion that China simply handed Hunter Biden $1.5 billion. “I wonder where the hell that money is, man, because I’ve got to pay tuitions,” Biden has since responded. “God bless me!”
And then there’s Ukraine. In February 2014, Hunter Biden, less than a year after enlisting in the Navy, was discharged for testing positive for cocaine. But a new opportunity was about to present itself: That same month, protesters in Kiev’s Maidan overthrew the government of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine, sparked by the government’s unwillingness to sign an association agreement with the European Union.
Heinz wanted no part of it. A spokesperson told the Washington Post that “Mr. Heinz strongly warned Mr. Archer that working with Burisma was unacceptable. Mr. Archer stated that he and Hunter Biden intended to pursue the opportunity as individuals, not as part of the firm,” the Post reported. “The lack of judgment in this matter was a major catalyst for Mr. Heinz ending his business relationships with Mr. Archer and Mr. Biden
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The new government leaned heavily toward the West and away from Russia, and a jockeying for wealth and power shook the ruling class. Remnants of the old regime became targets, and one of those was Burisma Holdings, owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, an oligarch and former government official tied to Yanukovych. Regulators in London had seized more than $20 million in cash from the firm amid claims by rivals that it had compiled its assets illegally. Zlochevsky needed Western bona fides, and he needed them fast, so Hunter Biden was brought on board.
The New Yorker article details Hunter Biden’s struggles with drugs and alcohol, which included run-ins with the law and stints in rehab. One particularly out-of-control bender, which involved a crack pipe found in a rental car, took place while Biden was making $50,000 a month serving on the board of Burisma. In 2014, he was gracing the front page of the company’s website, according to web archives.
would later go to Ukraine to help Hunter’s company escape the justice of an investigation by the Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. In fact, Shokin was busy protecting Burisma from the Western investigators and gave the company a letter asserting that he had no evidence they had done anything wrong. That letter helped unfreeze the money in London.
So the US vice president’s intervention in Ukraine seems to have gone against the interests of his son, not boosted them.
But Hunter Biden’s very presence on the board of the company itself corrupted the process, creating the appearance that the Americans were hypocritical about their talk of corruption and self-dealing. At the time, here’s how Daria Kaleniuk, head of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center, put it to the Wall Street Journal: “If an investigator sees the son of the vice president of the United States is part of the management of a company . . . that investigator will be uncomfortable pushing the case forward.”
That, of course, is simply obvious, and it is the entire reason Hunter Biden was paid so handsomely to do nothing but sell his name to the company.
That’s corruption. Enough.
Originally published on October 9, 2019. Edited and republished with permission from The Intercept, an award-winning nonprofit news organization dedicated to holding the powerful accountable through fearless, adversarial journalism. Sign up for The Intercept’s Newsletter.
The Real Ukraine Scandal Leads to the Clinton Foundation
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: The Real Ukraine Scandal Leads to the Clinton Foundation
October 10, 2019 264 Comments
By Wayne Allyn Root
Trump is not getting thrown out of office. Not with his remarkable record of economic success for the average American worker. Not going to happen. 63 million Trump voters will insure that never happens. We have your back, Mr. President.
President Trump has the highest approval rating among Republicans in history. 95%. No one is impeaching this president.
Now, let’s discuss why this is happening.
Trump touched the third rail of Democrat/Deep State/DC Swamp politics. He asked Ukraine’s President to investigate massive Democrat corruption and theft of taxpayer money.
Suddenly alarm bells went off at the DNC. I believe Trump is about to expose the biggest scandal in US political history. Trump is about to put powerful people in prison. Trump is about to destroy the Democrat Party and expose the Deep State.
Enter Joe Biden. Few in the Democrat Party wanted an old white guy as the nominee anyway. Especially Obama. In order to frame Trump, Biden had to be sacrificed. In my opinion, this second-hand “whistleblower” was meant to kill two birds with one stone: Trump and Biden. Biden is the Democrats’ fall guy.
But the real story is about the Clintons, the Clinton Foundation, Obama, Pelosi, Kerry and many other powerful Democrats. Their fingerprints are all over Ukraine. Forget about the high-paying jobs for their family members. This goes much deeper.
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Ukraine donated the most cash of any country in the world to the Clinton Foundation. What a coincidence.
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Ukraine donated more money to the Clinton Foundation than China, UK, France, Germany or Saudi Arabia.
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Why would all this cash be coming from tiny Ukraine?
