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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Rep. John Conyers hospitalized due to stress from media
[Breitbart] Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has been hospitalized in Detroit and a consultant who works with the lawmaker said it is because of stress caused by alleged "media assault" following multiple women saying that he sexually harassed them.

ClickOnDetroit reported that Conyers’ office confirmed the hospitalization but did not give the name of the hospital or the reason he was admitted.

But a consultant for Conyers told reporters it is related to the sex scandal.

"I just spoke with Monica Conyers on the phone and we want you to know that the congressman is resting comfortably in an area hospital. He’s doing OK, as well as he can be expected for a gentleman that’s approaching 90 years of age," Sam Riddle said in the ClickOnDetroit article.

"The congressman’s health is not what it should be and a lot of that is directly attributable to this media assault," Riddle said.

Despite the charges by multiple women ‐ which Conyers denies ‐ an attorney for the 88-year-old lawmaker said he does not plan to resign his seat.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2017 02:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He’s doing OK, as well as he can be expected for a gentleman that’s approaching 90 years of age

Grabbing nurses' tits?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/01/2017 3:03 Comments || Top||

#2  "it is because of stress caused by alleged "media assault" following getting caught and realizing that the gravy train has done come to a stop multiple women saying that he sexually harassed them."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/01/2017 5:08 Comments || Top||

#3  So he doesn't like being assaulted either?
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2017 7:02 Comments || Top||

#4  The stress of knowing the jig is finally up.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/01/2017 7:20 Comments || Top||

#5  He's resting quietly in his boxers. A bedside buzzer admits visiters.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2017 7:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Gonorrhea brain melt worked great for Al Capone too.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/01/2017 7:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Don't worry you dirty old man, only the good die young.
Posted by: regular joe || 12/01/2017 8:18 Comments || Top||

#8  $20 says he comes out of the hospital with a neck brace, ala Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick.
Posted by: Raj || 12/01/2017 12:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Kabuki
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/01/2017 13:33 Comments || Top||

#10  I don't care about conyers because tit grabbing is a natural male tendency but stealing from your own poor constituents is beneath contempt.
https://www.upi.com/Conyers-office-fowled-up-in-turkeygate/19281104960016/ ...
Posted by: irishrageboy || 12/01/2017 18:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Former Trump adviser Flynn to plead guilty to lying to FBI
Former US national security adviser Michael Flynn is to plead guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI, the first plea by any of the four former Trump advisers charged so far in a wide-ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Court documents show Flynn, an early and vocal supporter on the campaign trail of President Donald Trump whose business dealings and foreign interactions made him a central focus of Mueller’s investigation, will admit to lying about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the United States during the transition period before Trump’s inauguration.

The expected guilty plea makes the retired Army lieutenant general the first person to have actually worked in the Trump White House to face formal charges in the investigation, which is examining possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
Threaten a man's son and he'll say whatever you want.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/01/2017 11:51 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So when's Shillery's date?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/01/2017 12:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Key phrases"...during the transition period before Trump’s inauguration." (post-election, right?) -vs- "...to influence the outcome of the 2016 election."

A something burger only to those willing to suspend logic and discount sequential thinking.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 12/01/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#3  What the Flynn Plea Means
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"Understand: If Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador had evinced the existence of a quid pro quo collusion arrangement — that the Trump administration would ease or eliminate sanctions on Russia as a payback for Russia’s cyber-espionage against the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic party — it would have been completely appropriate, even urgently necessary, for the Obama Justice Department to investigate Flynn. But if that had happened, Mueller would not be permitting Flynn to settle the case with a single count of lying to FBI agents. Instead, we would be looking at a major conspiracy indictment, and Flynn would be made to plead to far more serious offenses if he wanted a deal — cooperation in exchange for sentencing leniency. To the contrary, for all the furor, we have a small-potatoes plea in Flynn’s case — just as we did in Papadopoulos’s case, despite extensive “collusion” evidence. Meanwhile, the only major case Mueller has brought, against former Trump-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an associate, has nothing to do with the 2016 election. It is becoming increasingly palpable that, whatever “collusion” means, there was no actionable, conspiratorial complicity by the Trump campaign in the Kremlin’s machinations."

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 12/01/2017 13:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Was nuclear grade iranium give away involved in the so call influence? Oh... That would be Hillary.
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218 || 12/01/2017 14:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Ahhh, the good old perjury trap.

I've become anti-prosecutors over the years but they keep making it easy.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/01/2017 15:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Why would anybody answer verbal questions to any government entity that can invoke a Perjury conviction? Send me questions in writing and I will respond, with the advice of legal counsel, in writing.
Posted by: magpie || 12/01/2017 15:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Why would anybody answer verbal questions to any government entity that can invoke a Perjury conviction? Send me questions in writing and I will respond, with the advice of legal counsel, in writing. Posted by magpie

BINGO magpie. Yes, a very bad odor surrounding this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2017 16:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Flynn lied to the FBI? What about all the perjurers I watched during the last admin? I think the real issue was that the Flynn's threatened to reveal pedos in government.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/01/2017 17:59 Comments || Top||

#9  This is actually a pay back from the deep state for Flynn's failure to cooperate with them on stuff when he was at NSA?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/01/2017 19:22 Comments || Top||

#10  White House now says Flynn had approval from Obama admin to talk with the Russian ambassador...

Sounds like Trump and his team set a trap for Mueller and company.
Posted by: si vis pacem, para bellum || 12/01/2017 20:37 Comments || Top||


Government
Rex Tillerson expected to step down in January, plans discussed for Pompeo to take place
One has to wonder whether the expectation is true, or merely deep state rumour mongering in the hope of forcing reality to conform to their desire.
[FoxNews] Another potential shakeup in the Trump administration; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is expected to leave the Trump administration in January, sources tell Fox News, amid discussion of potentially tapping CIA Director Mike Pompeo as a replacement.

The discussions come amid reports of growing tension between President Trump and the nation’s top diplomat.

However, the Trump administration publicly pushed back Thursday when asked about a possible Tillerson exit.

“As we’ve said many times before, as many of you love to write these types of stories, when the president loses confidence in someone, they will not serve in the capacity that they’re in,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said at the press briefing Thursday. “When the president loses confidence in somebody, they will no longer be here.”

Sanders pointed to the president’s on-the-record comments in the Oval Office Thursday during his meeting with Crown Prince of Bahrain Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa. Trump was asked by reporters whether Tillerson would leave his post.

“He’s here,” Trump said. “Rex is here.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CIA director as SoS? WTF!%$#@! This is them telling Trump what they want. Pompeo would put a halt to the downsizing and puff State back up to its former bloated monstrosity.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 12/01/2017 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  CIAdirector as SoS? WTF!%$#@!

They make the calls, have done so for years. You hear anything about Pompeo cleaning house at Klingon Central? Of course not. Tillerson on the other hand is an outsider.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2017 2:00 Comments || Top||

#3  "...I'll take 'Sad, Grasping Dreams' for $500, Alex..."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/01/2017 4:48 Comments || Top||

#4  All said and done, Trump doesn't seem to get very much mileage out of the help...
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/01/2017 10:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Tillerson said he planned to step down in a year when he took the job.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/01/2017 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Move RT to head of CIA....
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/01/2017 17:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Fake news. It's all they've got to run with. I have noticed the leaks have dramatically dropped off. Except in Mueller's department.
Posted by: Dale || 12/01/2017 18:26 Comments || Top||

#8  I read where Judicial Watch is filing suit to stop Meuler for several reasons. One of which are the daily briefings leaks from his team to the media of confidential information. Another is the sheer conflict of interest the top members of his team has (not to mention he, himself).
Not that I think it has a snoball's chance in hell.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/01/2017 19:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Judicial Watch is the only organization that is seriously challenging the Obama Deep State.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/01/2017 21:23 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2017-12-01
  Drone strike kills at least 3 militants near Pak-Afghan border
Thu 2017-11-30
  U.S. raid kills top ISIL commander in Somalia, says Minister
Wed 2017-11-29
  200+ schools in Herat controlled by Taliban
Tue 2017-11-28
  After ISIS mass beheading, Taliban militants execute own leader in Nangarhar
Mon 2017-11-27
  Islamist protesters clash with Pakistan police for second day
Sun 2017-11-26
  US airstrike wipe-out ISIS hideout in Nangarhar, leaving 13 dead
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  Mnangagwa, the ‘Crocodile,’ sworn in as Zimbabwe president
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  Rouhani declares end of IS
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  Arrested Ansar al-Islam militant confesses to killing blogger Avijit Roy
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  Police Confirm Multiple Suicide Bombings in Borno, As Death Toll Rises
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