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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Mother of All Scandals
[American Thinker] There is an answer to Hillary’s question, "What Happened?"

And yes, it should be considered a dumb question rather than a book title. But the short answer to her question is: She fooled almost the entire left, for over two decades. Oh wait, that was a book title, not a question.

And therein lies her biggest problem. She’s not really asking the question as she should be, she’s not reflecting. Instead, she’s wagging a finger and blaming everyone else for her loss.

Back to the Clintons fooling the left. Let’s start counting the ways. She was not just smart, she was the smartest woman ever. She was fully competent and capable in everything. She fought bravely for all the right issues. She was more qualified to be President than anyone who preceded her. She was, and is, the bright moral compass pointing the way forward to the left (who they believe should be all of us). She was the Yin to her husband’s Yang. They were the best power couple ever, a beacon of truth shining in the darkness.

Except they weren’t. She has proved that over time, and her book tour is confirming it.

And the left is about to melt down as she and hubby finally are revealed for who they are. Who are they? In a nutshell, they are the left’s version of Elmer Gantry: frauds who love adulation, and even more, love money, power, and fame. If you think the left melted down when Trump won, wait until they have the scales fall from their eyes as this new scandal engulfs her and her party.

Because this is the mother of all scandals.

Trump has used his branding genius on this scandal already. He called it this generation’s Watergate. Which has to grate on the left, the media has once again been duly trolled. After all, nothing was worse than Richard Nixon. Ever. Now, most have heard the media scoundrels use the term dog-whistle. It’s overused, and abused on the left, a smirk, a knowing wink and they all come alive, cackling when they use it. Well, Trump just whistled for them. "Watergate, Modern Age."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2017 07:16 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't ask the question if you don't want to hear the answer.
Posted by: Grunter || 10/30/2017 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  scales fall from their eyes

Good luck with that. Those things are welded on and would take explosives to dislodge.
Posted by: PBMcL || 10/30/2017 12:32 Comments || Top||


Honeypot: Was the Trump Camp's Meeting With Russian Lawyer All a Clinton Set-Up?
[PJ] This week's bombshell ‐ that the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign financed former British spy Christopher Steele's salacious dossier allegedly connecting Donald Trump and Russia ‐ may suggest something even more devious. The dossier was compiled by the notorious firm Fusion GPS, which also worked for Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, the very woman who met with Donald Trump Jr. in a meeting deemed pivotal to the case for Trump-Russia "collusion."

The Fusion GPS connection raises a supremely interesting question: Did the Clinton campaign actually orchestrate the meeting between Trump campaign officials and Veselnitskaya? Is the entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative the result of a Clinton set-up?

After PJ Media's Liz Sheld suggested the idea to this reporter, it seemed increasingly plausible. Not only does the timeline work out, but Clinton attacked Trump as Putin's puppet and Clinton's connections to Russia had been powerfully reported in 2015. What better way to distract from Clinton's ties to Russia than proving "collusion" on Trump's part?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2017 01:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is the entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative the result of a Clinton set-up?

Absolute rubbish. You'd need the collusion and deeply burrowed agents of the White House, the DNC, CIA, FBI, and Justice Department in order to effect such a preposterous scheme.

[Sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2017 2:13 Comments || Top||


Soetoro Campaign Paid Same Clinton and DNC Law Firm that Hired Fusion GPS
[Breitbart] The Obama campaign organization, Obama For America, paid nearly a million dollars to the same law firm that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) used to funnel money to Fusion GPS, the firm that produced the Trump dossier, according to a new report.

Obama for America began the payments to Perkins Coie in April 2016 ‐ the same time the law firm hired Fusion GPS to look into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, The Federalist’s Sean Davis reported Sunday.

This revelation could mean that President Obama and other administration officials may have, along with the Clinton campaign and the DNC, helped fund the unverified Trump dossier, which was used by the FBI to get a surveillance warrant on a Trump campaign official and used as a roadmap for the FBI’s investigation into any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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#1  The money leads back to Soetoro & Co. does it ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2017 1:48 Comments || Top||


Sen. Susan Collins: Senate intel panel should recall John Podesta, Debbie Wasserman Schultz
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday that Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away...
campaign chairman John Podesta and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish...
"absolutely" need to be interviewed again by the Senate Intelligence Committee to talk about payments to a political firm that dug up dirt on President Trump last year.

"They absolutely need to be recalled," Mrs. Collins said on CBS’s "Face the Nation."

"It’s difficult to imagine that a campaign chairman, that the head of the DNC, would not know of an expenditure of this magnitude and significance. But perhaps there’s something more going on here. But certainly, it’s worth additional questioning of those two witnesses," said Mrs. Collins, Maine Republican.

Mr. Podesta and Mrs. Wasserman Schultz, who was the head of the Democratic National Committee last year before resigning over the summer, reportedly denied to congressional Sherlocks that they had any knowledge about an arrangement to pay the firm Fusion GPS for opposition research into Mr. Trump.

That firm was behind the infamous dossier compiled on Mr. Trump’s alleged connections with Russia, some of which has been disproven.

But The Washington Post reported last week that Marc Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, did retain Fusion GPS to conduct research.
Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hope not, but this will almost certainly be just more theater. They'll just pull the old Sgt. Schultz "I know nothing!" routine, or the equally venerable "I don't recall." BTW, isn't it amazing what terrible memories these supposedly "brilliant" folks have?
Posted by: PBMcL || 10/30/2017 1:50 Comments || Top||


Crooked de Blasio donor lived like the unofficial king of NYC
[NYPOST] Whether he was high-fiving athletes from courtside seats at the Garden, jetting to Vegas in a private plane with NYPD brass and a hooker named Candi, or getting the Port Authority to close a lane of the Lincoln Tunnel so his billionaire pal could speed through traffic, Rechnitz was a self-made, cash-powered macher.

Want VIP access to the New York City Marathon, or the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop? Call Jona.

Want an NYPD courtesy card that gets you out of tickets? Jona could pull one out of his wallet.

In social-media posts and gossip-page clips from the past five years, the millionaire Manhattan real-estate developer and his wife, Rachel, rubbed elbows with A-listers in every corner of Gotham ‐ Manny Pacquiao with Jona at a Knicks game, or Rachel sitting beside Jennifer Lawrence and Anna Wintour at the hottest fashion shows.

Selfies on Rachel’s Facebook page show her grinning at fashion and charity events alongside Jessica Chastain, Martha Stewart, Rachel Zoe and Chris Rock.

Sometimes, Rechnitz would be chauffeured around town in a police vehicle by Philip Banks III, then a top chief in the NYPD.

"Jonah & Aryeh courtside with the Knicks!!!" the wife boasted in a 2011 Facebook photo of her husband and his business partner, Ari Schwebel, sitting on the floor of Madison Square Garden. "They were even pictured in the Post!" she gushed.

The next time Rechnitz would be in The Post would be on Page 1 ‐ as the campaign donor who ensnared the highest echelon of city government and law enforcement in a pay-for-play scandal.

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De Blasio ‘doesn’t recall’ $100K donation in alleged pay-to-play scheme
[NYPOST] Mayor de Blasio astonishingly said Sunday that New Yorkers don’t care whether City Hall is corrupt.
If you're ever up on a Murder One charge, just say "I don't recall" and you're off the hook.
"There are much more important issues than what these guys [news hounds] are raising," the mayor claimed amid bombshell allegations in court last week that pay-to-play was alive, well ‐ and rampant ‐ at City Hall.

Hizzoner insisted that the topic is far from "interesting conversation.

"But I’m offering [the press] a chance to ask a few more questions. So just let’s bear with them a few more times, and then the rest of New York City will go back to caring about real things," he told a group gathered at a post-Hurricane Sandy event.

De Blasio didn’t deny personally seeking a $102,000 donation from businessman-felon Jona Rechnitz for a pet political project, as the disgraced mayoral donor testified in court Friday.

Rechnitz said the mayor’s campaign-finance director Ross Offinger first hit him up for the hefty amount, and when the businessman balked because he was unhappy with not getting special treatment from City Hall for his ventures, de Blasio personally called him and made the plea.

Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  With this FBI, I have nothing.
Posted by: newc || 10/30/2017 0:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Manafort, Gates indicted in first charges from Russia probe
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and a former business associate, Rick Gates, were indicted Monday on charges of conspiracy against the United States, money laundering and several other financial charges.

The charges were the first stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible ties between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia. The indictment filed in federal court in Washington accused both men of funneling tens of millions of dollars in payments through foreign companies and bank accounts.

Manafort and Gates surrendered to federal authorities, and were expected in court later Monday to face charges brought by Mueller's team.
But what about uranium?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/30/2017 10:31 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ooops.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/30/2017 10:37 Comments || Top||

#2  This has nothing to do with Trump, this is work they did for Podesta's group. Mueller couldn't find anything. All the Deep State's horses, and all the Deep State's men, couldn't put globalism together again.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 10/30/2017 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  And just like that, Uranium One is out of the headlines.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/30/2017 11:51 Comments || Top||

#4  He now thinks he has leverage to turn one or both against Trump, even if they make stuff up.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/30/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how many degrees of separation exist between Mr. Manafort and The Clintons™?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/30/2017 13:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Manafort Paedestra Clinton.

Think 2 of the above met this very weekend.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/30/2017 14:26 Comments || Top||


#8  Manafort and Gates pleads 'Not Guilty' in the court room of Clinton appointed jidge.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 10/30/2017 15:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Correction: Clinton donor. Obama appointed. Trump should pardon a for sure guilty verdict.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 10/30/2017 15:58 Comments || Top||

#10  But, but, but, but, but, but.......

FORBES -
Why Was Obama's Justice Department Silent On Criminal Activity By Russia's Nuclear Agency?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2017 16:04 Comments || Top||

#11  This has nothing to do with Trump, this is work they did for Podesta's group.

Yep and Tony Podesta resigned today.
Posted by: Black Bart Omeasing1539 || 10/30/2017 16:18 Comments || Top||



#14  Good gouge BP. We appreciate your contributions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2017 16:36 Comments || Top||


#16  Here's the Russia influence controversy that John McCain doesn’t want you to know about

History Rhyming here. All the people just indicted PLUS McCain.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/30/2017 17:03 Comments || Top||


Trump denounces Russia investigation as 'witch hunt'
[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
says the federal investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into alleged Russian interference in last year’s US presidential election is "bad for the country" and a "Witch Hunt for evil politics."

Just two days after reports that a grand jury approved the first charges in the investigation, Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to condemn the probe, as well as the Democratic Party and his election opponent, Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away...
"Instead they look at phony Trump/Russia, collusion, which doesn't exist. The Dems are using this terrible (and bad for our country) Witch Hunt for evil politics," Trump fumed.

"All of this 'Russia' talk right when the Republicans are making their big push for historic Tax Cuts & Reform. Is this coincidental? NOT!" he tweeted.

Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Corker to use power in Senate, alliance with Flake to question Trump on foreign policy
[WASHINGTONTIMES] President Trump has dubbed him "Liddle Bob Corker" on Twitter, but the Tennessee Republican still wields big-time influence over American foreign policy.

While the recent criticism of Mr. Trump from Mr. Corker and from Sen. Jeff Flake
...Republican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years...
‐ both longtime moderate Republicans and both on their way out at the end of next year ‐ might seem like garden-variety theatrics from two lame-duck politicians, Capitol Hill sources say the implications are deep.

Mr. Corker heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which Mr. Flake is a member, and has suggested he intends to use the panel as a forum in the coming months to air concerns about Mr. Trump’s leadership on a range of fronts, including Iran, North Korea, Russia and the Middle East.

"The committee is going to be very active," Mr. Corker told news hounds last week before announcing plans to hold a series of hearings, which could generate headlines that damage the public’s view of Mr. Trump.

"It’s going to be a very robust period of time," Mr. Corker said. And it all starts Monday evening, when Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis appear before the committee for questioning over the administration’s "perspective" on war powers and whether Congress ought to revise the Authorization for Use of Military Force
Posted by: Fred || 10/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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  Barzani Resigns as Iraq and Iran Threaten Kurdistan's Border Crossings
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  Mozambique: First Islamist Attacks Shock the Region
Sat 2017-10-28
  Palestinian-American idiot sentenced to 20 years for going to Syria to become ISIS suicide bomber
Fri 2017-10-27
  Pakistani man wanted for 70 murders arrested in Hungary
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  ISIS seizes large part of Yarmouk Camp
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  Kurds freeze independence vote, call for ceasefire
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  6 ISIS Big Turbans die trying to escape Diyala
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  Filipino troops battling final 30 ISIS-linked gunmen in Marawi
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  ARSA open to surrender, but only under UN supervision
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  Iraq and Iran compel Kurdish withdrawal from Kirkuk
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