[Gateway Pundit] Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was on a roll Sunday afternoon and dropped bombshells revealing a huge Ukrainian money laundering operation involving Obama-era officials and the Biden crime family.
"Much more to come" Giuliani said Sunday concluding that Democrats’ impeachment for innocent conduct is intended to obstruct investigations of Obama-era corruption.
Giuliani also stated the the sham impeachment against Trump is intended to cover for the DNC’s collusion with Ukraine during the 2016 election "to destroy candidate Trump."
Billions of laundered $
‐ Billions, mostly US $, widely misused
‐ Extortion
‐ Bribery
‐ DNC collusion w/ Ukraine to destroy candidate Trump
#2
I am shocked I tell you. So Brennan is somewhere in that attempted coup?
Rudy Giuliani says he's got a ton on documentation of Ukraine-Dem corruption he would like to share with the Senate Judiciary Committee and perhaps with Durham. Guiliani made his bones taking down organized crime and political corruption.
#3
I have asked this question on previous occasions:
How is it wrong for a president, any president, to ensure before giving taxpayer money to a country like Ukraine that the money will not end up in the pockets of people like Hunter Biden?
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#4
You have answered your own question Abu - considering who's voting to impeach.
#5
One way to look at the impeachment effort is that some folks are creating a bargaining chip to be cashed in for good and valuable consideration -- "We'll forget Ukraine ever existed if you will too."
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#6
#5: I've heard that too, but it goes "We'll forget impeachment if you forget Ukraine."
Problem for the Democrats is that if the Ukraine bombshell goes off, it not only destroys the Bidens, but the REASON for the Impeachment becomes known, AND the Demonrat Congressmen become accomplices in the blown coverup.
[Aljazeera] Turkey could shut down its Incirlik air base that hosts US nuclear warheads in response to threats of US sanctions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned.
US senators backed legislation last week to impose sanctions on Turkey over the purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defence system earlier this year and its recent military operation in northern Syria.
"If it is necessary for us to take such a step, of course we have the authority... We will close down Incirlik if necessary," Erdogan said on A Haber TV on Sunday.
Incirlik is a key air base used by the Turkish Air Force located outside the city of Adana, about 150km from the Syrian border. Since November 2011, the US air force has flown drones from the base and has used it to to carry out air strikes against the armed group ISIL (ISIS).
The United States stores nuclear weapons at Incirlik as part of the legacy of the Cold War.
#3
"According to White House visitor logs, on January 19, 2016, Eric Ciaramella chaired a meeting of FBI, Department of Justice and Department of State personnel, which had two main objectives:
To coerce the Ukrainians to drop the Burisma probe, which involved Vice President Joseph Biden’s son Hunter, and allow the FBI to take it over the investigation.
To reopen a closed 2014 FBI investigation that focused heavily on GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort, whose firm long had been tied to Trump through his partner and Trump pal, Roger Stone.
#6
I wonder if we still nukes at Incirlik. If I were me, I would have removed them slowly, one at a time, disguised as routine flights. Maybe replace them with a little radioactive waste so a casual Geiger counter inspection wouldn't show anything missing. Yippy is just too much of a wild card at this point.
h/t Instapundit
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[CNN] - When the global elite are aligned against him and laughing like the immature cool kids you hated in middle school, President Donald Trump is winning.
When the liberal law professors are neglecting their Thanksgiving turkeys to read congressional transcripts and snarking about Trump's 13-year old son, Trump is winning.
When the politicians are mad ‐ so mad that they have shut down all policymaking to impeach the President of the United States on what constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley called "wafer thin" evidence ‐ Trump is winning.
You have to remember: Donald Trump wasn't elected to fit in with these people ‐ the political, intellectual class -- to make them happy, or to become one of them. He was elected to break them. And that's apparently what he's done.
[Townhall] We know that former Vice President Joe Biden was handling international relations on behalf of the Obama administration in Ukraine. At the same time, his son, Hunter, was being paid more than $50,000 a month by Burisma Holdings, a corrupt Ukrainian gas company. And the kicker is he had no natural energy experience. But he did have access to the veep.
Despite all that we know, former Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden is still arguing that Hunter did nothing wrong. In fact, she blames President Donald Trump for wanting to get to the bottom of the Bidens' corruption.
"I know my son. I know my son's character," Jill Biden told MSNBC's David Gura. "Hunter did nothing wrong and that's the bottom line."
Gura pressed the former Second Lady about how the Bidens respond to voters' questions about Burisma and Ukraine.
"You must have watched as your husband interacted with that voter in Iowa, very forcefully. There was a question about this. I imagine you and he [Joe] face questions about this from time to time on the campaign trail. What did you make of that response and how do you and he respond to the fact that this question keeps coming up?" the host asked.
Jill instantly turned the question into two parents defending their son against warrantless attacks.
"Well, I think that any parent who is watching this show knows that if anyone attacked their son or daughter, I mean, you don't just sit down and take it," she said with a half-hearted laugh. "I mean, you fight for your kid, and I think that shows that, you know, Joe's going to stand up to bullies and bullies like Donald Trump. And it shows his strength and his tenacity and his resilience."
#2
Droit du seigneur, also known as jus primae noctis, is a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, in particular, on their wedding nights.
#10
If Trump were an angry leftist harpy law professor and Hunter Biden was a 12 year old boy, it'd all be good...
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#11
Her 'doctorate" is in education. Pretty slimy to imply that you have an M.D. when all you have is an EdD.
From Google: "In January 2007, at age 55, she received a Doctor of Education in educational leadership from the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students' Needs, was published under the name Jill Jacobs-Biden."
Red State
With the release of the Inspector General report on the Trump-Russia investigation, an amazing thing happened.
Prior to the release, the self-described smartest among us assured the country for the last three years that the FBI are the best and brightest available. In fact, you were never allowed to question their ability and integrity. To do so was to question the very core of our being as a nation or something.
But when the avalanche of "mistakes" laid out in the IG report became known, things suddenly changed. Now, the clear bias and extensive misconduct was just the work of incompetence that just so happened to always only go in one direction. The FBI and those who lauded them now want you to believe they are just morons.
...The FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team turned over every rock to find out whether members of the Trump campaign were working with Russians in 2016, but failed to discover that Christopher Steele, the FBI’s primary source for claims of a Trump-Russia conspiracy, was himself working for a Russian oligarch, according to the Justice Department inspector general’s report.
...Further, the FBI knew that Carter Page wasn’t a Russian agent, yet they targeted him anyway. This wasn’t a case of morons going wild. It was a case of blatant abuse of power in order to try to provide an insurance policy in case Donald Trump got elected. They did so knowing there would be no consequences and so far they’ve been correct.
...These people aren’t stupid, they are malicious and entitled. They may want to play dumb now that it’s convenient, but the political targeting of Trump and the lengths to which they were willing to go to do so, are crystal clear. Enough with the clown nose on, clown nose off routine.
#5
As the saying goes, "most of the evil in the world isn'd done by bad people, it's done by stupid people." But the power of and certainly applies to the deep state.
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17 significant errors in the FISA process, 6 of them egregious
what are the odds they would all go in the direction of justifying the FISA application?
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The bureaucratic equivalent of "Clown Nose On / Clown Nose Off" that pundits and commentators hide behind in the MSM?
[LA Times] Scuffles broke out Saturday during a Glendale town hall event on Armenian genocide that was attended by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who is at the center of the effort to impeach President Trump.
The event at the Glendale Central Library was meant for an Armenian organization to thank U.S. government officials for their support of resolutions recognizing the Armenian genocide. Schiff is a co-sponsor of a resolution.
As Schiff began speaking, a man and two women held up signs reading,"Don’t Impeach." When they were asked to take down the signs, they refused.
Then, about a dozen people scattered throughout the auditorium began yelling, "Liar!"
When some in the audience asked them to refrain from yelling, scuffles broke out throughout the room. The audience members who were yelling at Schiff removed their jackets, revealing shirts supporting Trump.
After about 15 minutes, the scuffles settled down, and the event continued.
There were three Glendale police officers at the event who helped deal with the situation, according to the Police Department. No injuries were reported, police said.
The event was organized by the Armenian National Committee of America ‐ Western Region to thank the U.S. House of Representatives for recently passing a resolution affirming its recognition of the Armenian genocide and celebrating the U.S. Senate’s passage of the resolution.
The measure’s passage is considered a rebuke to Trump, who had sought its delay, and to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had lobbied the White House to block the designation. The Turkish government disputes that a genocide took place.
Erdogan, in an Oval Office visit last month, warned of dire consequences for the Washington-Ankara relationship if the "genocide" term were to be formalized. The Senate resolution declared it U.S. policy "to commemorate the Armenian Genocide through official recognition and remembrance" and "reject efforts to enlist, engage, or otherwise associate the United States government with denial of the Armenian Genocide or any other genocide."
Southern California is home to an estimated 200,000 Armenian Americans, the largest community in the U.S.
Schiff said he appreciated the opportunity to take part in the event.
[DAWN] THERE is no doubt that you are at your most vulnerable when ill and confined to a hospital bed as you have to rely entirely on the sense of duty or the kindness and compassion of someone for the very basic of needs.
Having experienced this myself this summer when an accident left me needing surgery and immobilised for a period of time, I was so, so grateful for my incredible wife and daughters. Equally, the commitment and compassion of the nursing staff makes me misty-eyed on reflection.
If I’d have had to brave a full-fledged riot in that helpless state, with some of the rioters liberally using sticks, stones and bricks and, as in one photographed instance, even a pistol, I doubt I would have survived.
Ergo, I can’t even begin to imagine what the patients and their family/friends went through at the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Institute of Cardiology this week when the men in black let loose their fury at the hospital in Lahore. Imagine the fear, the grave anxiety gripping the heart already weakened by disease.
A lot has been written, but surely still not enough about how barbaric and shameful the marauding lawyers were. Many demands have been made that those involved must face the harshest possible sanction under the law. But the dead can’t be resurrected.
The pain, anguish and fear of those who were forced to brave the nightmare, while grappling with cardiac disorders, may resurface with each hospital visit and, heaven forbid, should they need hospitalisation again. Post-traumatic stress is very real.
How can any ’punishment’ be enough, or even be quantified, for those responsible?
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... let’s not be naïve. The lawyers whose audacity and criminal behaviour was the subject of live telecasts on multiple channels deserved every bit of the opprobrium they got. But not too many focused on the abject, miserable failure that is the Punjab government.
The tragic episode, by my reckoning the first of its kind in Pakistain in which a hospital was attacked, was the culmination of a running feud between two groups of professionals ie the lawyers on the one side and the PIC doctors and paramedical staff on the other.
For several days, the administration remained paralysed and took no action to defuse the situation by enforcing the law. Then finally on that day of shame, the charged, vociferous lawyers walked more than five kilometres from the courts unimpeded to the PIC; the administration did nothing.
Let me tell you why this happened. Since the day of its inauguration, the government from the prime minister down to the lowliest minions of the governing PTI have had one priority: the hunting and hounding of their political opponents.
This seems to have affected the orientation of the law-enforcement agencies from the paramilitary forces to police to the country’s multi-organization, intelligence setup. So, was it a surprise that when an occasion arose warranting robust policing, those responsible were found wanting?
The multifaceted law-enforcement machinery is not inefficient. Its full, ’efficient’ wrath is unleashed to telling effect against political opponents and dissidents. Believe me, I know what I am talking about. Just go to Twitter and search for ’Okara lawyer’ for evidence.
You will see a one-minute video on the enforced disappearance of lawyer Ahmad Shafiq on Dec 10. This is the second time he has been kidnapped. He is also facing a case (placing anti-state material on social media) by the FIA under the cybercrime law, enacted so stubbornly by PML-N minister Anushey Rehman’s overruling many voices of sanity.
In the CCTV video, the impunity and efficiency of the state agencies are on full display ‐from start to finish when a white Toyota corolla car comes to a halt and a couple of masked men alight, to the time these two and some three to four of their accomplices grab and shove the brave lawyer into the car and drive away.
I say brave because a quick look at his Twitter timeline demonstrates what sort of (in the FIA’s view) ’anti-state’ content he was putting out on social media. His crime was no more than yours or mine: believing some policies of our state are not in the national interest. Expressing dissent. That’s all.
The state was clinical in the disappearance of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activist Idris Khattak, who disappeared without trace a few weeks ago and is still to be found. These were people who raised conscientious objections to the state’s unlawful actions but were citizens like you and me.
Look at what happened to Rana Sanaullah Khan, the PML-N MNA, whose National Assembly performance caused so much discomfort to the hybrid regime that he was arrested from the Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... -Lahore motorway. Some 15 kilograms of heroin were allegedly recovered from him.
It was another matter that the Lahore Safe City Cameras recorded important segments of the episode and it turns out that timeline of the case, filed and prosecuted by the military-led ANF, was all over the place, casting serious doubts about the charges.
One can go on endlessly about how efficient the state is whether in the case of locking up former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi or former finance minister Dr Miftah Ismail after the two reportedly spurned overtures by powerful quarters to assist the PTI government.
Grateful for small mercies even then are we. The four Baloch women who were arrested in Awaran for carting ’arms and ammunition’ for anti-state ’terrorists’ were released at the intervention of former Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... chief minister Akhtar Mengal, currently an MNA. His party provides vital numerical support to sustain the PTI government in Islamabad.
In the absence of the rule of law, people seek safety in numbers and resort to tribalism. What else would prompt two of my favourite public figures, lawyers Raza Rabbani and Ali Ahmad Kurd, to say there might be justification for the PIC attack? There isn’t one.
Those of us without the safety net of such tribalism can be likened to patients in a huge hospital ward, bereft of compassion and at the mercy of the next marauder.
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[TheRightGeek] Gun confiscation plans might sound great in your NoVA bourgie enclaves, but you're sharing a state with both the Appalachian and the Southern sub-cultures, neither of which is going to take kindly to any unconstitutional attempt to seize people's private property.
#1
Lost some western counties the last time they decided they didn't need the federal Constitution.
I will point out, it would never have gotten this far if the federal judiciary hadn't spent the last 60+ year incrementally undermining the second amendment. It's the same with the death penalty. Use Article V to alter the Constitution not the courts, but the courts love the power. You can not have one branch of government sit for life and be unaccountable to the people in a real republic.
#4
If Virginia has NICS then they will be able to ID all AR-15 purchases without going to personal registration. The Feds would need to get involved to prevent the State access to NICS.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Aljazeera] Turkey could shut down its Incirlik air base that hosts US nuclear warheads in response to threats of US sanctions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned. 
[Townhall] We know that former Vice President Joe Biden was handling international relations on behalf of the Obama administration in Ukraine. At the same time, his son, Hunter, was being paid more than $50,000 a month by Burisma Holdings, a corrupt Ukrainian gas company. And the kicker is he had no natural energy experience. But he did have access to the veep.
[DAWN] THERE is no doubt that you are at your most vulnerable when ill and confined to a hospital bed as you have to rely entirely on the sense of duty or the kindness and compassion of someone for the very basic of needs.
A lot has been written, but surely still not enough about how barbaric and shameful the marauding lawyers were. Many demands have been made that those involved must face the harshest possible sanction under the law. But the dead can’t be resurrected.
For several days, the administration remained paralysed and took no action to defuse the situation by enforcing the law. Then finally on that day of shame, the charged, vociferous lawyers walked more than five kilometres from the courts unimpeded to the PIC; the administration did nothing.
The state was clinical in the disappearance of 
