[Breitbart] An IBD/TIPP poll shows that "Americans overwhelmingly believe the Obama administration ’improperly surveilled’ Donald Trump’s presidential campaign."
Despite the disgraced American media’s best and most cynical efforts to bury the truth, and to even stop the truth from ever seeing the light of day, this poll (and another addressed below) demonstrate that the American people are almost entirely tuning the partisan, mostly-hysterical news media out and looking to alternative media for the truth.
There is simply no other way to explain these poll results, which unambiguously prove that a majority of the public believe the exact opposite of what an unceasing, coordinated media campaign wants them to believe ‐ which is that President Trump colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 campaign and that the heroic FBI is being unfairly smeared by Trump’s eeeevil defenders.
Well, despite more than a year of this relentless propaganda coming from all four corners of the mainstream media’s fabricated reality, here are the results from all four corners of actual reality...
A clear majority of 55 percent believe it is "likely" that the Obama administration "improperly surveilled the Trump campaign during the 2016 election." That includes 31 percent of Democrats, 87 percent of Republicans, and 55 percent of Independents.
A clear majority of 54 percent want a special counsel to investigate "whether the FBI and the Department of Justice improperly surveilled the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election." Only 44 percent said no. The partisan breakdown shows that 74 percent of Republicans and 50 percent of Independents want a special counsel ‐ as do a full 44 percent of Democrats.
In this particular poll, one fairly positive result for the FBI and Justice Department is that only 35 percent believe these institutions attempted to outright frame President Trump for colluding with the Russians.
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I still think it's even money that obunghole will be the first American President to live out his days in exile. Maybe he will go out Ron Brown style...
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A questional individual with a questional background, followed by a questional performance.
#5
Now that the scandalous inner-workings of the 'Deep State' and our so-called electoral system are being revealed, it makes one once again give pause to what took place in the presidential elections and unbelievable outcomes of 2008 and 2012.
It was businessman (at the time) Donald Trump who questioned the legitimacy of Obama's papers and background. Some personal animus perhaps ?
My tinfoil hat is still on the hall tree by the way.
#6
this poll (and another addressed below) demonstrate that the American people are almost entirely tuning the partisan, mostly-hysterical news media out and looking to alternative media for the truth.
As for the calls for punishment, if found guilty (big 'if' if you ask me as far as a court taking up the matter - deep state resistance & al that) I say simply strip him of his pension and have the IRS 'evaluate' or otherwise neutralize his pet agitator project, 'Organizing for Action'. I'd prefer to see him not get anywhere near the Clintons in terms of financial well-being and have to suffer that humiliation for decades.
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"O", as well as Hildo broke the law, what's going to be done about it? If nothing is done about this, law and order will suffer. If something is done, the left will go ballistic. I vote for prosecution, the left and Deep State be damned.
[Breitbart] Holistic analysis of the Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI’s interconnected and ostensible investigations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump amount to "the worst abuse of political power in American history related to elections," according to Tom Del Beccaro.
Del Beccaro, an attorney and contributor to Forbes, joined Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak to discuss his recently published ‐ and continually updated ‐ timeline of events, entitled "Biased FBI and DOJ Officials Broke the Law and Tried to Decide the Election."
"The DOJ [and] the entire Obama administration wound down the Hillary email crisis in time for her to really run for office and then ramped up the attacks on candidate Trump to stop him from being president," said Del Beccaro.
As president, Barack Obama signaled to his administration officials that Hillary Clinton was not to be meaningfully investigated for her felonious use of a private email system during her tenure as secretary of state, said Del Beccaro.
"The FBI was sort of just going through the motions with Hillary, and it’s about March or April, and suddenly the election heats up, and Obama goes on TV, and he says, with Chris Wallace, basically, that she didn’t intend to do anything [wrong]; she didn’t want to harm us," said Del Beccaro. "That’s irrelevant to the crime she committed of possessing classified information in an insecure environment. So he announces this, and once he does, the DOJ and the FBI then change their speed [of] work and the manner in which they’re working, the things that they’re doing, and between April and June, they exonerate her, and what I mean by that is they change the language in the memo as to whether she was doing something wrong from ’gross negligence’ of a crime to ... ’extreme carelessness.’ That’s irrelevant. That’s not legal language: ’extreme carelessness.’"
Obama’s endorsement of Clinton in May 2016 ‐ while the FBI was ostensibly investigating the former first lady for her handling of classified information and evasion of federal record-keeping laws ‐ suggests the FBI’s running of a "sham investigation" of Clinton’s email conduct, said Del Beccaro.
[NR] We need a full-blown investigation of how the FISA court came to grant warrants to spy on Carter Page.
In a word, the Grassley-Graham memo is shocking. Yet, the press barely notices. Rest assured: If a Republican administration had used unverifiable hearsay from a patently suspect agent of the Republican presidential candidate to gull the FISA court into granting a warrant to spy on an associate of the Democratic nominee’s campaign, it would be covered as the greatest political scandal in a half-century. Instead, it was the other way around.
The Grassley-Graham memo corroborates the claims in the Nunes memo: The Obama Justice Department and FBI used anonymously sourced, Clinton-campaign generated innuendo to convince the FISA court to issue surveillance warrants against Carter Page, and in doing so, they concealed the Clinton campaign’s role. Though the Trump campaign had cut ties with Page shortly before the first warrant was issued in October 2016, the warrant application was based on wild allegations of a corrupt conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Moreover, the warrant meant the FBI could seize not only Page’s forward-going communications but any past emails and texts he may have stored ‐ i.e., his Trump campaign communications.
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The biggest story of a lifetime and the media yawns?
We should be looking for ways to destroy this corrupted media. It needs to be replaced with a free press as was originally intended. The current "bought" MSM has done a great disservice to the American people for far too long.
[PJ from a May 2014 article] "The cost of freedom is always high," President John F. Kennedy prophetically told the nation at the height of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He paid with his own life to defend our freedom. Yes, the price of freedom is high -- 1,196,541 Americans have paid with their lives to defend our freedom in all our wars. Today, when our whole nation is paying tribute to them, I also want to express my particular gratitude to these heroes. Their sacrifice for America's freedom and for its capitalist system gave me hope, as it has made hope a key word in the vocabulary of millions of other men and women like me who have discovered in America the strength to overcome cynicism and despair. It was the hope that America would defeat the Soviet Empire that made that tyranny collapse.
There are millions of other Americans who, like me, started their lives from scratch for the privilege of living in this magnanimous land of freedom. We know that the United States is not a perfect country. But this imperfect America has almost single-handedly kept freedom and democracy alive in the world for the last hundred years. I call upon all my fellow immigrants to observe a minute of silence in the memory of those 1,196,541 Americans who paid with their lives to allow us to be free and to make America the leader of the world.
From links provided today by g(r)om that I thought were worthy of posting.
[AP] GANGNEUNG, South Korea ‐ A North Korean delegation led by a political princess was set to head home Sunday night after a whirlwind three days in South Korea, where she sat among world leaders at the Olympics and tossed a diplomatic offer to the South aimed at ending seven decades of hostility.
Kim Yo Jong and the other North Korean officials were scheduled to depart for Pyongyang on leader Kim Jong Un's private jet, a day after they delivered his hopes for a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a lunch at Seoul's presidential palace.
Their final schedule in South Korea was joining Moon at a Seoul concert of a visiting North Korean art troupe, led by the head of the immensely popular Moranbong band, whose young female members are hand-picked by Kim Jong Un.
Accepting North Korea's demand to transport more than 100 members of the art troupe by sea, South Korea treated the Mangyongbong-92 ferry as an exemption to the maritime sanctions it imposed on the North, a controversial move amid concerns that the North is trying to use the Olympics to poke holes in international sanctions.
South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon hosted the North Koreans for lunch Sunday.
Kim Yo Jong, 30, is an increasingly prominent figure in her brother's government and the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. The North Korean delegation also included the country's 90-year-old head of state Kim Yong Nam.
In dispatching the highest level of government officials the North has ever sent to the South, Kim Jong Un revealed a sense of urgency to break out of deep diplomatic isolation in face of toughening sanctions over his nuclear program, analysts say.
The North Koreans went through a busy schedule in South Korea as the world watched their every move. They were whisked back and forth between capital Seoul and the Olympic towns of Pyeongchang and Gangneung.
They shared the VIP box with world leaders at the opening ceremony and joined Moon in cheering for the first ever inter-Korean Olympic team as they debuted in the women's ice hockey tournament. It ended in a crushing 8-0 loss to Switzerland.
Update at 3:45 p.m. ET from charger, the following:
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I recall a CNN post basically kissing her ass. I guess that's different from calling Trump a dictator, isn't it? Some dictators are more better than others!
[Mercer] President Trump has no right to be "venting about Chief of Staff John Kelly," who is an excellent man. But I bet "Jarvanka" (the Jared-Ivanka organism), and their Goldman-Sachs wing of the White House, are urging that the president purge one of the last good men in his administration.
Once Kelly goes, of the old MAGA Guard, only Stephen Miller will remain. Then you’ll know the Trump Revolution is truly over.
The media, which has morphed into a Trump Scandal Watch, are baying for the general’s blood. The many fine things Gen. Kelly has done‐defend Robert E. Lee as a great American hero, condemn Frederica Wilson for her anti-Trump tackiness‐have riled the media.
They would like to think there is no political life after Kelly’s transgression.
Ditto Fox News. On grounds too stupid, weak and wobbly to dignify, a Fox News "writer" (Stephen L. Miller) is calling for the good general to go. It’s encouraging to read the antagonistic comments of the readers. Against Fox News’ neoconservative lefty, the commenters echo my opinion.
UPDATE (2/10): Another reason the left wants the irreplaceable Gen. Kelly replaced:
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The media demand and compete for our attention, then they pull foolishly transparent manipulations. The guy who got bounced was universally praised for his work on-site, never arrested for anything and only publicly accused of anything long after the alleged events. But it is impossible not to notice that the entire focus of the coverage shifted instantly to GEN Kelly and the subsequent need for him to be gone without further discussion, because women or something.
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But it is impossible not to notice that the entire focus of the coverage shifted instantly to GEN Kelly and the subsequent need for him to be gone without further discussion....
Indeed! Sort of like Mike Flynn, and General Petraeus before him, in a manner of speaking. The disdain the 'Deep State' has for the military is palpable.
[DAWN] AS elections near, and the search for sticks to beat political opponents with reaches fever pitch, hypocrisy rises to new levels.
Consider the ongoing charges and counter-charges against police forces in Punjab, KP and Sindh. Provincial cops ‐ and by extension, their political masters ‐ are being accused of incompetence in recent high-profile crimes.
Shock, horror! The pretence here is that normally, we have outstanding guardians of the peace who have recently fallen flat on their faces because of political interference from the PML-N, PTI and PPP governments ruling in Punjab, KP and Sindh respectively.
The reality is that our police force was designed to protect the government of the day and its high officials, and not ordinary citizens. This priority was set by our colonial rulers decades ago, and remains unchanged today. Indeed, rules and police manuals reflect this reality.
So when brutal crimes are committed against children, for example ‐ as scores are every day of the week ‐ cops take this as the norm, and have to be persuaded to even record these atrocities. Until the recent spate of reported rapes and murders of children in the media, they were never a big deal for senior coppers more concerned with providing security to ministers.
Despite the obvious failings of the police in all these cases, using the sickening murders of children as ammunition against rivals is surely a new low, even in our toxic brand of politics where slander is the common currency. Inevitably, the media and suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notices follow the scent of scandal and gore.
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[Breitbart Israel] TEL AVIV ‐ The majority of Israelis support their government’s campaign to deport illegal African migrants to an unnamed third country, a new poll released Wednesday found.
Two-thirds of the public (65.9%) support the plan, the poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index showed. However there were large gaps between rightwing and leftwing support for the plan as well as between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs. 69% of Israeli Jews back the deportation campaign compared with 50% of the country’s Arab population. Only 25% of people on the left support the plan while 78% of those on the right back it. 35% of those who define themselves as centrist are in favor.
Approximately half (49.8%) agreed that authorities should speed up the process of reviewing requests for asylum by migrants from Sudan and Eritrea, and allow those whose applications are approved to stay in Israel, while 43.2% were against that idea.
More than half (55.2%) disagreed with the argument that "Israel, as the state of the Jewish people, who, over the course of history, suffered from violence and persecution and sought asylum in different lands, should show more generosity toward other nations and allow the asylum-seekers to stay in Israel."
[IsraelTimes] While Tehran and its allies hail start of a 'new era' with downing of Israeli jet, exacting response may cause them to think twice the next time.
Since Saturday morning, Syrian and Iranian authorities have busied themselves with reveling in the reported downing of an Israeli F-16 fighter jet by Syrian air defenses.
In Damascus, residents handed out candies to passersby. Social media users shared cartoons depicting an Israeli plane being struck by Syrian missiles, while in Damascus, Tehran and even Gazoo there were declarations of a "strategic change in the region" and a "new equation."
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...I have read from a couple other sources that the Iranian plan was to get video of an Israeli military base or even Jerusalem itself. They have some anniversary of one sort or another coming up, and the idea was they were going to run this footage to show how invincible the HezIranians were. Didn't quite work, obviously.
The frantic celebrations over the loss of a single IAF bird don't surprise me, because I suspect they've been told that the IAF lost a LOT more and have been almost destroyed. They, like the Luftwaffe of seventy-eight years ago, will be so very unpleasantly surprised when 'the last fifty planes' keep coming at them.
(During the SCUD attacks on Israel during Desert Storm, the 'Palestinians' swore - and still do - that one SCUD took out two or more 747s on the ramp at Ben Gurion Airport filled with Soviet Jewish refugees. One SCUD actually landed IN 'Palestinian' territory, and that was explained as IAF or USAF - depending on who was telling the story - aircraft bombing them instead.)
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[Breitbart] An IBD/TIPP poll shows that "Americans overwhelmingly believe the Obama administration ’improperly surveilled’ Donald Trump’s presidential campaign."
[Breitbart] Holistic analysis of the Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI’s interconnected and ostensible investigations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump amount to "the worst abuse of political power in American history related to elections," according to Tom Del Beccaro.
[PJ from a May 2014 article] "The cost of freedom is always high," President John F. Kennedy prophetically told the nation at the height of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He paid with his own life to defend our freedom. Yes, the price of freedom is high -- 1,196,541 Americans have paid with their lives to defend our freedom in all our wars. Today, when our whole nation is paying tribute to them, I also want to express my particular gratitude to these heroes. Their sacrifice for America's freedom and for its capitalist system gave me hope, as it has made hope a key word in the vocabulary of millions of other men and women like me who have discovered in America the strength to overcome cynicism and despair. It was the hope that America would defeat the Soviet Empire that made that tyranny collapse.
[IsraelTimes] While Tehran and its allies hail start of a 'new era' with downing of Israeli jet, exacting response may cause them to think twice the next time.
