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John Kerry Reportedly Spotted Meeting Iranian Diplomats in Paris, Trash-Talking Trump
John Kerry was just seen leaving a cafe in Paris after meeting with what appeared to be five Iranians driven in vehicles with diplomatic plates, according to Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Osborne.

Osborne tweeted on Saturday: "So John Kerry just left a meeting @ L’Avenue in Paris w/3 Iranians. A friend was sitting next to their table and heard JK blasting @realDonaldTrump. The Iranians had a 5 person security detail and left in diplomatic vehicles. Is he FARA registered?"
Posted by: Spot || 05/13/2018 11:23 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Jawn 'Fn' Kerry needs his passport revoked.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 05/13/2018 11:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Get him for failing to file proper papers as an agent of a foreign country. Isn't that part of Mueller's game?
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/13/2018 11:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn't we see this movie back i the 70's? John Kerry trash-talking the United States in Paris with our enemies?

He's come full circle.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/13/2018 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  $10 sez he didn't pick up the tab.
Posted by: Raj || 05/13/2018 13:19 Comments || Top||

#5  ...may his Paris waiter be even more rude, condescending, and 'French' than him.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/13/2018 14:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Collusion shadow diplomacy...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/13/2018 15:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Former Obama officials are calling for European countries to expell US diplomates.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 || 05/13/2018 16:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Good. Let 'em. Issue a statement that return to US diplomatic presence and financial aid will be contingent upon a unanimous request to resume relations from all the virtue signaling states. Three day window.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/13/2018 16:18 Comments || Top||

#9  This is not diplomacy, this is treason. I think Henry the VIII had the right approach to such doings.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/13/2018 16:56 Comments || Top||

#10  He was known as the Traitor of Paris at the time. Just reprising his old role, as superannuated actors do.
Posted by: KBK || 05/13/2018 23:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Mueller Indicted A Russian Company That Didn't Even Exist, Court Transcripts Say
[DailyWire] This week, one of the Russian companies accused by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of funding a conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was revealed in court to not have existed during the time period alleged by Mueller's team of prosecutors, according to a lawyer representing the Defendant.

U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey asked Eric Dubelier, one of two lawyers representing the accused Russian company, Concord Management and Consulting LLC, if he was representing a third company listed in Mueller's indictment.

"What about Concord Catering?" Harvey asked Dubelier. "The government makes an allegation that there's some association. I don't mean for you to ‐ do you represent them, or not, today? And are we arraigning them as well?"



"We're not," Dubelier responded. "And the reason for that, Your Honor, is I think we're dealing with a situation of the government having indicted the proverbial ham sandwich."

"That company didn't exist as a legal entity during the time period alleged by the government," Dubelier continued. "If at some later time they show me that it did exist, we would probably represent them. But for purposes of today, no, we do not."

The term "indict a ham sandwich" is believed to have originated from a 1985 report in the New York Daily News when New York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler told the news publication that government prosecutors have so much influence over grand juries that they could get them to "indict a ham sandwich."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 05/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds about right, indicting a non-existent company based on false evidence during a sham of an investigation.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/13/2018 2:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Next indictment - Vandelay Industries from Seinfeld!

...and Wayne Enterprises after that - go get 'em, Bobby!
Posted by: Raj || 05/13/2018 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Mueller Maxwell Smart: Would you believe three nefariously diabolical Russian companies plotting evil deeds...?
Judge Harvey Siegfried: No.
Mueller Maxwell Smart: Would you believe...
Posted by: magpie || 05/13/2018 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  It served its purpose. It was all over the media and the press ran with it for months. His tactic of leaking to the press with propaganda, not facts, is criminal fascist behavior...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/13/2018 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Shortly the Internet will be awash with references to the Widespread Concern™ and Widespread Controversy™ about this Nothingburger. Like the Valerie Plame Affair the Concerns will be trumpeted to the sky and the fact that there was 'no there there' will be ignored.
Posted by: magpie || 05/13/2018 12:31 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran's Foreign Minister Threatens To Expose Western Diplomats Who Took Bribes To Create The Iran Nuclear Deal
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/13/2018 13:52 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pass the popcorn
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/13/2018 14:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Please do.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/13/2018 14:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Going to be hilarious to watch so many running around with their hair on fire screeching that "the Iranians are not to be believed..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/13/2018 15:21 Comments || Top||

#4  So, it well might be that John Kerry doesn't meet Iranian diplomats to save the deal, but to save John Kerry?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/13/2018 15:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Now this could be really funny.

Were the bribes asked for first or offered first?

Do you think the MSM would/will report on this, or were they the middle-men?

Val Jar probably knows a bit about that, no?

Definitely gotta up the pop-corn order if this goes forward.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/13/2018 16:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Now watch the Donald tighten the thump screws on Monday. I don't want to miss a second of this.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/13/2018 16:56 Comments || Top||

#7  I think we know already. It's the ones crying like stuck pigs right now.
Posted by: Regular joe || 05/13/2018 17:23 Comments || Top||

#8  10-1 Kerry is one of them.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/13/2018 18:34 Comments || Top||

#9  The Iranians were the reason I lost the election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/13/2018 18:35 Comments || Top||

#10  I can't wait to see what Trump does with this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/13/2018 18:36 Comments || Top||

#11  We already know about the plane load of bribery Obama delivered to the Iranians.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/13/2018 21:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Now we’re talking.
Posted by: KBK || 05/13/2018 23:10 Comments || Top||



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