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Government Corruption
Still Nothing from Corrupt DOJ After Ex White House Aide Provides Evidence of Biden Crimes – Dan Ball Discusses with TGP's Joe Hoft on OANN
[Gateway] This past week it was reported that an ex-aide of the Obama White House provided the DOJ evidence of Biden crimes in 2014. The DOJ has ignored this evidence to date.

The DOJ is beyond corrupt. It spends its time attempting to take down President Trump and Christian Americans who pray outside abortion clinics but it ignores the multitude of treasonous crimes that occurred in the Obama-Biden White House.

American freedom is done until this gets fixed.

This past week former Obama stenographer Mike McCormick claimed that in 2014 then-Vice President Biden used American taxpayer money to enrich his family and he said that Hunter Biden and Jake Sullivan were in on it.

McCormick was on FOX News and shared the following story.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2023 08:27 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Blinken says cooperation with allies ‘not affected' by document leak
[The Hill] Secretary of State Antony Blinken said cooperation between the United States and its allies was not affected by the classified documents leak that detailed information about the war in Ukraine and U.S. intelligence operations.

Blinken said during a press availability from Hanoi, Vietnam, on Saturday that the U.S. has engaged its allies and partners in the aftermath of the leaks to make clear its commitment to "safeguarding intelligence" and "our security partnerships."

"What I’ve heard so far at least is an appreciation for the steps that we’re taking, and it’s not affected our cooperation," he said. "I just haven’t seen that. I haven’t heard that."

Many pieces of information became public after about 100 classified documents were leaked on online platforms in recent months. The documents included information analyzing both sides of the war between Ukraine and Russia and that the U.S. was conducting spying on several countries, including some allies.

A test of the relationship between the U.S. and its allies might come as Blinken travels to Japan on Sunday for three days of talks among foreign ministers from the Group of Seven, a group of the world’s most advanced economies and democracies.

Blinken noted that the suspect was in custody for the leak and added that measures were being taken to ensure U.S. information is safe from further leaks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2023 08:14 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you have no 'allies' I suppose the 'effects' could be characterized as minimal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2023 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Or if your allies already knew these 'secret facts'.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/16/2023 11:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Right, Blinky.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/16/2023 13:27 Comments || Top||

#4  If we get a pass when we blow up their critical infrastructure, what’s a few documents?
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2023 14:43 Comments || Top||

#5  As others have said, if a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman in Massachusetts can get all this stuff, what do you think the real professional spies have?
Posted by: Tom || 04/16/2023 15:23 Comments || Top||


Trump Lawyers Granted Deposition of Rape Accuser Amid Claims of Ties to Democrat Funding, Questionable Credibility
[THEEPOCHTIMES] A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday allowed attorneys of former President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
to depose, for questions related to witness credibility, E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused Trump of sexual assault and defamation.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, ordered that Trump’s attorneys, Joseph Tacopina and Alina Habba, can question Carroll on an apparent inconsistency in her sworn testimony in pre-trial depositions about how she funded her defamation lawsuit against Trump.

It came after Trump’s attorneys learned days ago that—contrary to Carroll’s sworn statements in an Oct. 14, 2022, deposition that no one else is paying her legal fees—prominent Democrat donor, LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, is funding at least some of her legal fees.

This apparent inconsistency "might prove relevant to the question of plaintiffs credibility, in view of the deposition testimony" of Carroll, the judge wrote in his Thursday order.

The lawsuit dated to 2019, when Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s.

After the then-president denied her allegations in 2019, Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against him in the same year, which bounced around state, federal, and appellate courts in New York and Washington, D.C.

Trump has denied all of Carroll’s allegations.

Shadow Billionaire Funding Sexual Assault Suit Against Trump Is LinkedIn's Founder

[TRENDINGPOLITICSNEWS] The mysterious billionaire funding a sexual assault lawsuit levied against former President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
by E. Jean Carroll has been revealed after years of speculation.

Reid Hoffman, a billionaire co-founder of social media networking giant Linkedin and now a top donor for the Democrats, has been quietly bankrolling Carroll’s rape suit against Trump, according to court records revealed Thursday.

Hoffman’s identity as the shadow funder for Carroll was disclosed in "last-minute" correspondence between lawyers for both sides.

According to the Daily Beast, Hoffman is not just bankrolling Democrats but also dead set on weakening Trump’s position as the de facto leader of the Republican Party:

Hoffman is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded the professional social network LinkedIn. In recent years, Vox also identified him as a major Democratic donor who has made it his mission to loosen Trump’s control over the Republican Party.

According to Insider, Hoffman’s distaste for Trump’s authoritarian and anti-democratic tendencies has even strained his personal relationship with another Silicon Valley staple, Peter Thiel, who has conversely fashioned himself as a bankroller of right-wing causes.

Trump’s team of lawyers, led by Amina Habba and Joe Tacopina, are now pushing to delay the trial, which is slated to begin in a matter of weeks, in light of the news that Hoffman is behind the suit.

Habba and Tacopina claimed in a letter to the federal judge overseeing the case that Carroll perjured herself, citing an October deposition in which she claimed no one else was funding her lawyers.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That’s not enough even enough time to identify all the voices.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2023 14:29 Comments || Top||


Rep. Jim Jordan predicts local GOP prosecutors will start hunting the Bidens
What goes around...
Donald Trump demonstrated that only when they get the same as they dish out will they stop instead of doubling down.
[NYPOST] Republican district attorneys will "likely" seek to prosecute President Biden or his family to retaliate for what critics call Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg
...Soros-financed, -owned, and -operated woke Manhattan DA. A prosecutorial loose cannon who feels entitled to pick and choose which laws to enforce and can't be bothered to respond civilly to Congressional inquiries unless they're from Dems...
’s weaponized prosecution of former President Trump, Rep. Jim Jordan told The Post.

"One of my Republican colleagues has indicated that he has had some local DAs approach him and say he’s trying to do that," Jordan said, alluding to Rep. James Comer’s (R-Kentucky) claim that he had been contacted by two county DAs asking for ways to "go after the Bidens."

Jordan, an Ohio Republican and chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is gearing up for a marquee hearing in New York City Monday that will focus on victims criticizing Bragg for refusing to prosecute violent mostly peaceful crime and efforts and to criminalize the right of self-defense.

"I didn’t want to see what happened in the Manhattan DA office but now that we’ve crossed that line, that’s where it’s likely to go," Jordan said of local GOP prosecutors going president-hunting.

"Frankly you can’t blame people for doing it. I’m not saying I am supportive of that but I think that now has become the rules of the game."

President Biden is currently being investigated by Comer’s House Oversight Committee over whether he violated any laws through exposure to his son Hunter’s shady overseas business dealings.

Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, right. Now I know the GOP won't do anything substantive.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/16/2023 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe, Paxton, but the rest will be spectators.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2023 14:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Nadler: No Such Thing as High Crime in NYC. Honest.
[TOWNHALL] Rep. Jerry Fester Bestertester Nadler
...the Dem New York representative-for-life who stepped whole from a Don Martin drawing in the pages of Mad® magazine, head of the House Judiciary Committee...
(D-NY), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, is ready to defend New York City's high crime rate by denying it is a big issue during Monday's hearing in the city about that very issue.

According to the New York Post, Nadler told them Chairman Jim Jordan's field hearing is a distraction from the crimes committed by former President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
"We will show the essentially fraudulent nature of what [committee chair] Jim Jordan and company are claiming about the crime rates in New York and compared to other cities, including Republican-led cities," Nadler told the Post.

"And we will talk about how this whole hearing is part of Jim Jordan and the Republicans’ general attempts to obstruct justice and to attack the DA in Manhattan and to obstruct justice in the Trump case," he added.

The Post noted violent mostly peaceful crime overall surged in Manhattan South by 34% and Manhattan North by 14.5% in 2022 — Bragg’s first year in office — compared to 2021.

Nadler has a history of denying the existence of major crimes being committed in liberal strongholds. He famously claimed Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
was a "myth" despite the far-left group having attacked the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon for a month and continued to terrorize the city during the summer.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unless you are Donald Trump.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2023 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Out of the top 50 US cities 11 were run by Republicans and three by Independents. The commonly cited crime centers are all Democrat. Not all the Republican cities are pristine, but Fresno is probably the worst listed and has been under Republican rule for a while. I take into account that Fresno is economically handcuffed by the leftist smelt cult.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2023 14:28 Comments || Top||

#3  fester bestertester, havent heard that in a while.
Posted by: 746 || 04/16/2023 21:25 Comments || Top||


WSJ Columnist Notices Something Interesting About the Dem Plot to Boot Feinstein
[TOWNHALL] The lust for power can blind some to the point where their flanks are exposed to attack. In this case, Democrats have placed Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
in the crosshairs by attacking Sen. Dianne Feinstein
...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator....
’s (D-CA). The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat who has served since 1992 is pushing 90 years of age. Her mental abilities have regressed mightily, one of the worst-kept secrets in this town. Feinstein’s exceptional staff has kept her office from going off the rails, but progressive members want her gone since she’s clogging up the spot on judicial nominations. Given how Congress is drawn, Wall Street Journal Kimberley Strassel noted that confirming judges is the only area where Democrats can have some level of success. Everything else is dead on arrival with a Republican House. Yet, with the Left conspiring to push Feinstein out, they’ve placed the age and competency issue back on the table, which Strassel aptly notes, puts a target on Joe Biden’s back.

The whisper campaign against Feinstein has been somewhat vicious, with allegations that she’s guilty of dereliction of duty. Her health issues, like a recent bout with shingles, have led to the California Senator missing many votes. It’s excellent ammunition for the Left to use against her, but this isn’t about maintaining a functioning government. If Feinstein isn’t competent, then Biden isn’t either, as seen with his call for international cooperation in Ireland and hopes that both nations "lick the world" (via WSJ):

Whatever Messrs. Khanna’s and Phillips’s motivations, they have thrust into central debate the topic of age and competency. Which raises the obvious question of how it is not likewise a "dereliction of duty" for Democrats to remain silent about Mr. Biden. His decline has become impossible to ignore, and the pace is notable, with weekly if not daily gaffes, stumbles and confusion. This week’s feature: Mr. Biden, in Ireland, embarrassingly confusing the New Zealand rugby team (the All Blacks) with a 1920s British paramilitary group that helped occupy Ireland (the Black and Tans).

Democrats kept mum about Mr. Biden’s predicament in the 2020 election, and even as concern has since grown, the party establishment remains loath to entertain a 2024 primary fight. Apart from what happens to the country under Mr. Biden’s leadership, Democrats might consider the potential for problems for the party, à la today’s Feinstein moment.

How electable will Mr. Biden be 19 months from now? Might Democratic voters—already feeding into the president’s low approval ratings—prove unwilling to turn out for the party’s anointed yet faltering nominee? What happens if Mr. Biden announces a run yet by next spring is incapable of following through, leaving the party in disarray?

One smart move in today’s crazy political environment is to assume anything is possible, including the worst. All the more so when there are already blaring signs of a problem to come. Democrats might view the Feinstein moment as a warning of the danger they are courting by continuing to close their eyes to what the rest of the country so clearly sees.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sadly, Biden will probably run and probably be re-elected. The mail-in voting mechanism for making sure they never lose another presidential election + the fact that 40% of Americans live in a household with at least one nonmilitary government paycheck as part of the income stream and will never vote for anyone not a Democrat means that they can run someone well into advanced dementia like Biden and not have to worry about the Republicans gaining the presidency.

Add to that the fact that most white women will never forgive the American public for scorning their ladyparts by proxy when they voted for Trump not Clinton in 2016 and will vote for Democrats for the rest of their life, and, well...

Absent some terrible black swan event, or the Republicans figuring out how to catch up on over a decade of Democrat election tactics, the Republicans are not going to be able to put someone into the office of head of state for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: no mo uro || 04/16/2023 7:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Feinstein’s exceptional staff has kept her office from going off the rails does this include the Chinese spy on staff or is this an example of her staff, by hiring the Chinese spy?
Posted by: Airandee || 04/16/2023 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Ref #1: Sad indeed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2023 7:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Although there are government funds going into many households, I don’t know what percentage are voting Dem. It is certainly a majority of them, but not 100%. I have a disabled son, for instance. He votes Republican, to my knowledge. My folks are on social security and definitely vote against liberals. The Dem percentage is high, but not 100%. As for future election results, I intend to vote. Quitting guarantees defeat.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/16/2023 14:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Agree with #1 Super Hose...I'll just add that the single women with BA degrees will never forgive the Republicans and in particular Donald Trump for appointing the Supreme Court justices that allowed people of each state to decide about abortion for themselves.
Posted by: Tom || 04/16/2023 15:26 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Sadly correct I fear. Apologies to the Aztec human sacrifice crowd.






Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2023 16:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Profiling is always dangerous in specific cases, but it is a useful tool in overviewing patterns and trends. When a multiple victim shooting occurs in an urban area and there are no names or pictures soon after the event, I tend to assume feral urban youth. The pattern for jackass political demonstrations and protests about abortion-rights, threats to democracy and climate change, I tend to assume large, unremarkable-looking, single white women with degree(s) who have found a purpose. Recent patterns have done nothing to curb this assumption set.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/16/2023 19:02 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2023-04-16
  Attempted military coup in Sudan
Sat 2023-04-15
  US ambassador and embassy staff in Sudan take shelter as fighting breaks out between militia troops and the army
Fri 2023-04-14
  FBI makes arrest as classified document investigation focuses on Air National Guardsman
Thu 2023-04-13
  Texas police seize 3.1 million lethal doses of fentanyl in single traffic stop
Wed 2023-04-12
  Canadian authorities arrest 2 women repatriated from NE Syria
Tue 2023-04-11
  Egypt planned to covertly send 40,000 rockets to Russia: report
Mon 2023-04-10
  20 killed in DR Congo attack blamed on Islamic State group
Sun 2023-04-09
  Forty-four dead in two attacks in Burkina Faso
Sat 2023-04-08
  Lebanon to file complaint at UN Security Council over Israeli 'aggression.' Really.
Fri 2023-04-07
  34 rockets fired from southern Leb by Islamic Jihad
Thu 2023-04-06
  Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for burning alive three southern Yemeni separatist prisoners
Wed 2023-04-05
  Clashes between armed groups in Syria's Aleppo lead to casualties
Tue 2023-04-04
  al-Qaeda commander dronezapped in Syria's Idlib
Mon 2023-04-03
  Car bombing rocks Syrian capital Damascus, state media says
Sun 2023-04-02
  ISWAP Terrorists Launch Midnight Attack On Nigerian Police Station In Borno State


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