[Ay-Pee] The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for Trump and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Russia investigation.
The move is a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes even though prosecutors for the last three years had maintained that Flynn had lied to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in a January 2017 interview. Flynn himself admitted as much, and became a key cooperator for Mueller as he investigated ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
Axios Adds: Brandon Van Grack, a former member of special counsel Robert Mueller's team, moved to withdraw from the Justice Department's prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Thursday. He did not provide a reason for his withdrawal.
Why it matters: Van Grack leads a team that has been accused by Flynn's attorneys of prosecutorial misconduct. New FBI documents stemming from Flynn's move to withdraw his 2017 guilty plea have amplified conservative claims that prosecutors sought to entrap the former top Trump aide into lying about his conversations with the former Russian ambassador.
The big picture: Attorney General Bill Barr appointed an outside prosecutor in February to examine the case against Flynn, which both President Trump and Vice President Pence have weighed in on in recent days. Barr has disrupted "The wall". Expect consequences and rolling-over on higher-ups
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This will be all about "OK, we backed off, so no harm, no foul, leave us alone." Um. No...
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Re #9: but there WAS harm - Gen Flynn spent millions on defending himself.
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This was part of the coup against candidate, POTUS elect, and POTUS Trump. The coup cabal needs to pay a heavy price for this--Every last one of them. If this is not done, it will happen again. They tried to steal an election and negate our vote.
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This is a small victory. I hope he sues each FBI agent who was involved in this lynching of a hero!
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Just think of it: A bunch of unelected bureacrats and many others tried to destroy a president and those around him. It was the opposition party and their propaganda arm, the MSM, the outgoing Potus and the opposing candidate. Indeed, necks out to stretch.
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These lies and attacks on Flynn affected the mid term elections and Mueller KNEW. A huge disgrace and underhanded move to gain Democrat control
Going after Brennan, Comey, Strzok and Page can't be soon enough, I only pray it will be before the election.
Hillary and BO too
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I am encouraged but early in the Fox broadcast some lawyer said the guilty plea stands and another administration might take up the case again? Can a smart guy here explain? Until Flynn is free of this lynching attempt and can speak openly as he goes after these bastards, I'm still uncertain how to judge this victory for the truth.
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The country is hungry for honest, competent leadership.
Yeah, but it ain't Comey. Comey needs to go to jail.
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Judge Sullivan is in a bad position. He went above and beyond in accusing him of Treason. They need to rub his face in the pile of shit he helped along. Sidney Powell can do it. He should retire in disgrace as well
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Get ready for the ‘noble lies’ and ‘all for a true greater good of the country’ excuses to begin to flow from the actual guilty parties.
#23
Schiff and Nadler are already saying its political worst corruption in history to let him go, that he plead guilty to lieing. I suspect that's the new talking points.
[Just the News] Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein instructed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in August 2017 to investigate allegations against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page that originated with the Steele dossier and had already been discredited by the FBI, a newly declassified memo showed Wednesday night.
The Justice Department's release of the unredacted version of Rosenstein's so-called investigative scoping memo provided the first declarative evidence that Mueller was asked to investigate widely suspect allegations from Christopher Steele's opposition research conducted for the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party back in 2016.
Specifically, Rosenstein's memo instucted Mueller to investigate "allegations that Carter Page committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials with respect to the Russian government's efforts to interfere with the 2016 election for President of the United States, in violation of United States law." Recently declassified evidence has shown that by the time that instruction was given, the FBI had:
fired Steele as an informant for leaking;
interviewed Steele's sub-source, who disputed information attributed to him;
ascertained that allegations Steele had given the FBI specifically about Page were inaccurate and likely came from Russian intelligence sources as disinformation;
been informed repeatedly by the CIA that Page was not a Russian stooge but, rather, a cooperating intelligence asset for the United States government.
Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who long called for the release of the unredacted scoping memo, said Wednesday's development confirmed his worst suspicions. He accused prior officials of the Justice Department of unnecessarily hiding the evidence from Congress and the American people before Attorney General William Barr intervened.
"This information was redacted until now for one single reason — to hide the fact that false allegations from the Steele dossier were included in Mueller’s scoping memo," Nunes told Just the News. "In other words, a bunch of lies paid for by the Democrats were used to engineer the appointment of a Special Counsel to drag the Trump administration through the mud for years. The Russia collusion hoax was a disgrace, and we can’t let anything like it ever be repeated."
The degree to which the FBI had discredited Steele's intelligence reporting on Page — including allegations he colluded with Russia — only came into focus with the December, 2019 release of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on FBI abuses of the FISA surveillance that targeted Page. In addition, just-declassified evidence showed the FBI had learned by February 2017 that Steele's information on Page was likely disinformation from Russian intelligence planted with Steele.
"Most relevant to the Carter Page FISA applications, the specific substantive allegations contained in Reports 80, 94, 95, and 102, which were relied upon in all four FISA applications, remained uncorroborated and, in several instances, were inconsistent with information gathered by the team," Horowitz wrote in debunking key allegations against Page.
More recently, declassified footnotes made clear that Steele's claim that Page had met back in 2016 with a senior Russian named Igor Sechin and been offered a lucrative finder's fee had been debunked by the FBI by February 2017 — months before Mueller was appointed. In fact, Steele's own source challenged the veracity of the information attributed to him inside the dossier.
"The Primary Sub-source told the FBI that one of his/her sub-sources furnished information for that part of Report 134 through a text message, but said that the sub-source never stated that Sechin had offered a brokerage interest to Page," Horowitz reported.
"The Primary Sub-Source also told the FBI at these interviews that the sub-source who provided the information about the Carter Page-Sechin meeting had connections to Russian Intelligence Services (RIS)," he added.
Horowitz's footnotes also made clear that the allegations about Page had only come from Steele and had not been substantiated anywhere else by the time Mueller was named.
"We found that the FBI did not have information corroborating the specific allegations against Carter Page in Steele’s reporting when it relied upon his reports in the first FISA application or subsequent renewal applications," Horowitz wrote.
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....been informed repeatedly by the CIA that Page was not a Russian stooge but, rather, a cooperating intelligence asset for the United States government.
Of course he wasn't a "Russian stooge." Page was a source (witting or unwitting). A source with a contrived narrative which was the linchpin of the entire FBI effort against Donald Trump. Remove the Russian piece and the entire investigation collapses. Mueller and his team knew exactly what they were doing.
Rosenstein's instructions may have simply been a 'for the record' CYA action.
I seem to recall one of our Rantburg investors saying he had also dumped a bunch of shares in that period, not because of insider information, but just because it was the sensible thing to do.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Gerald Fauth, whose sister Brooke is married to North Carolina Republican senator Richard Burr, revealed to have sold up to $280,000 in shares on Feb. 13
That was same day as Burr dumped up to $1.72 million of his shares - after he received a secret briefing on the coronavirus
Fauth has a post on the National Mediation Board - thanks to Donald Trump -has to declare his stock dealings
Burr is already facing a Justice Department inquiry into the dealings, as is Georgia Republican senator Kelly Loeffler
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Seems to be de rigueur for many of these congresscritters. That doesn't make it right. It doesn't mean anything will be done about it either. Jail time is for the little people and politically unconnected.
[Sara Carter] Sergei Millian is not in hiding. Even if he was, he isn't any longer. He reached out to SaraACarter.com on Tuesday to dispute a recent podcast interview with a famous British historian who accused him of possibly being connected to Russia's GRU, Moscow's military intelligence. He called the allegations outlandish and accused historian Nigel West of attempting to spread disinformation about him, much like former British spy Christopher Steele did about the Trump campaign.
Millian, an American citizen born in Belarus, was believed to be an unwitting source, in Steele's infamous and now-debunked dossier. But lawmakers and some intelligence experts have more questions than answers when it comes to Millian. They say Millian is the only one that can provide clarity on what exactly happened during his time with Steele.
On Monday, this reporter interviewed Nigel West on The Sara Carter Show podcast. He stated that he believed, based on Millian's own past statements in open-source media, that he could be linked to Russian intelligence.
"Nigel West so far gave 100% false information about me in his last public interview in London (where he claimed I was PSS)," Millian told me. "Now, he doubled on from the first lie and there is not an ounce of truth what he claims. He is an out of his mind crazy, deranged man. I’m not kidding. Ask him to provide proof of any of his false rumors and wild innuendoes. USSR disbanded when I was still a teenager. The big question is why West, out of London, lies about me, an AMERICAN citizen, so much just like Steele before West? Is it coordinated and what's their plan?"
But a mystery still surrounds Millian and senior U.S. lawmakers are seeking to interview him. Ranking Republican of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes has said he wishes to interview the mysterious Millian.
Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures at the end of April, that his investigators zeroed in on three Russian Americans during their probe of the FBI's handling of its Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign.
He said Millian was the most important figure in recent information released by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
"Because of new information that has come out because of the Horowitz report that's declassified that we've been talking about for a long time and the FISAs, we now are targeting what appear to be three Russian-Americans," Nunes said. "I think the most important one is somebody that we actually asked to come to our committee named Sergei Millian. He is hiding somewhere around the globe — we don't know exactly what country he's in. But we really would like Sergei to come forward and talk to us because, either he was, you know, working for Fusion GPS and the Clinton campaign and dirtying up Trump people, or it's quite possible that he may have been framed.
In the podcast broadcast Monday, West claimed that the Russian disinformation pointed out in the recent declassification of the footnotes in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report may have been directly linked to Sergei Millian. He noted that Millian is Steele’s only real identifiable source in his report. He also said Millian may have had ties in his early life to Russia’s GRU, Moscow’s military intelligence, by his own admission.
Limited quantity of form fitting masks made with top quality fabric overruns
Non-medical, reusable, and washable face masks with elastic straps
Made in Virginia from up-cycled all cotton fabric and linings
Comfortably face-conforming with a flex-wired nose bridge
Breathable and quick-drying
Wash with cold water and soap
But the company notes the masks are more for show, not for protection.
Total Flu Chic.
Lot of Flu Chic masks going around, some full down across the chin, even to the throat, others like this poncy thing or with the cloth around the ears trick. All of them are like, "Express your personality through your mask!" Whatever, your call. I get it..allergies, dusty environment, got the sneezles.
If you do feel the need to have a mask, and have never worn a mask before, ask someone you know who knows about masks, and what is appropriate for your summer climate. Those tacticool ones which are oversized for effect will suck in hot temps, especially with facial hair. The shown ponce style is flippant in wind and rain. Around the ears, that is going to get old, quick. Cloth ties get loose when they get soggy. Wear glasses or sunglasses, consider the fogging effect.
May even consider 2, the commuter and the interior. Suggestions welcome; its small things like ball cap forward/brim over eyes increases fogging. Its all fun and games until its 100 degrees and dusty and your mask turns to mud, or it rains and suddenly the mask feels like 5 pounds. Or it gets windy and tries to blow off.
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Mrs. Bobby bought several a few weeks ago from a similar source. She ordered Micky Mouse fabric; she got unicorns.
I wear it in public, when we get out of the car, to make her happy. She uses less ... colorful versions.
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Made in Virginia from up-cycled all cotton fabric and linings
That's the village of Virginia, China.
and 'up-cycled' cotton fabric and linings? That thing was probably the crotch of padded underwear in a previous life.
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Doesn't look like it fits very well. There are a bunch of gaps that would let infected air into the mask and out from under the mask. Of course, when ever she starts talking, a whole lot of infected air will escape from any mask that is not completely soundproof.
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Its an accessory_!
Circle snap, z-wave out.
Extra chips into the 'I'll take it seriously when they take it seriously' Venn Circle.
Note the highly visible designer label. Lets everyone know that the wearer is an elite who has access to a product like this, the cash to waste on it, and the arrogance to wear a faulty product in the middle of a pandemic crisis. Well played by Pelosi, it's not often you can show such contempt with a single move like that.
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Donna Lewis that says it donates a mask to Johns Hopkins for every one you buy
Gold. Do they, or you, want them wearing this upgraded trash no-fit designer pocket liner as front line protection? Fook mahn, won't even keep her slurp dribble out of her Manhattan.
Well you should see Polythene Nan
She's so good-looking with 'er face marzipan'd
Well you should see her in drag, wrapped in her polythene bag
Yes you should see Polythene Nan
Yeah yeah yeah d-d-d-DOOP
Get a dose of her in jackboots and mask
She's killer-diller when she's hitting her flask
She's the kind of a girl that makes the "News of the World"
You could say that she was chemically built
Yeah yeah yeah d-d-d-DOOP
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The mask would fit better, no doubt, if she wore it properly, with the elastic around her ears instead of under her hair at the base of her neck.
Would y’all rather she demanded the nearest hospital give her a stash of FDA-approved N-95s instead? As it is, presumably the hospital will use the donated masks for visitors or janitorial staff, people who otherwise would get nothing at all — doing good while using up scraps left over from the design side, and keeping the seamstresses employed for the duration. No doubt if these are popular enough they’ll start cutting up their bolts, as the spring season is toast anyway.
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I think he his Los Angelos district will probably support him as he inconvenienced the bad Orange Man.
28th Congressional District "The district includes West Hollywood, Burbank, parts of Pasadena, Glendale, the Verdugo Hills communities of Sunland and Tujunga, as well as parts of central Los Angeles including Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and Los Feliz."
Unless he goes to jail Schiff isn't going anywhere and I doubt he even has a sense of embarrassment.
[Federalist] Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s memo authorizing Robert Mueller’s anti-Trump investigation was riddled with conspiracy theories lifted straight from the bogus dossier of Christopher Steele, a newly released, less redacted version of the memo shows. The memo, portions of which were declassified on April 30, 2020, specifically targeted former Trump campaign affiliates Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and one individual whose identity is redacted.
The Aug. 2, 2017 scope memo, which was provided by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to the Senate Judiciary Committee following requests from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., cited Steele dossier collusion conspiracy theories about Manafort and Page.
Rosenstein ordered Mueller to investigate allegations that Page "committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials with respect to the Russian government’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election[.]" The same language was used to justify the targeting of Manafort.
Rosenstein’s memo also peddled discredited legal theories about the Logan Act, a 1799 law criminalizing political speech by American citizens that has never been successfully prosecuted, to justify investigations of former White House National Security Adviser (NSA) Michael Flynn. The scope memo directed Mueller to investigate allegations that Flynn "committed a crime or crimes by engaging in conversations with Russian officials during the period of the Trump transition."
The Mueller probe, after nearly two years and tens of millions of dollars, unearthed no evidence of collusion by any Trump campaign officials. However, a sprawling investigation by the DOJ Office of Inspector General found that Rosenstein’s DOJ fabricated evidence and falsified documents to justify an illegal federal spy warrant against Page. A Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) lawyer, reported to be Kevin Clinesmith, allegedly altered documents from a U.S. intelligence agency to erase evidence that Page had for years worked on behalf of the U.S. government to help investigate Russian agents who were attempting to damage the U.S. and compromise national security.
The OIG investigation also revealed that Rosenstein’s DOJ repeatedly lied to federal courts and used bogus claims from Steele, who was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, to secure wiretaps against Page, who has never been formally charged with any wrongdoing. Rosenstein personally signed at least one of the false Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, spy warrants against Page.
In his memo to Mueller, Rosenstein also peddled allegations that Papadopoulos was a secret, unregistered foreign agent of Israel. While Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to charges of lying to federal investigators, he was never formally charged with operating as an unregistered foreign agent of Israel or any other country.
The new declassifications of portions of Rosenstein’s memo affirm charges from Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the ranking member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, that Rosenstein used the Steele dossier to justify and direct Mueller’s special counsel probe.
"[I]t’s clear that false allegations from the Steele dossier played a major role not only in the FISA warrant application on Page, but in the appointment of the Special Counsel as well," Nunes said in a statement after a lengthy report detailing Mueller’s investigation was released in 2019. Until now, those facts had been hidden behind redactions in the Rosenstein document.
Flynn, the former NSA, was eventually coerced into pleading guilty to making false statements to FBI agents. New documents released by the DOJ in that case, though, show that the FBI repeatedly abused its power during its investigation of Flynn and that one of Mueller’s top prosecutors, Brandon Van Grack, may have lied in federal court about the FBI’s basis for the interview in which Flynn allegedly lied. Newly released handwritten documents from Bill Priestap, the former top FBI counterintelligence official, showed that a primary goal of the FBI in investigating Flynn in the first place was "to get him fired." Other FBI documents, released last week by the DOJ, show that the original FBI investigation of Flynn found no evidence of collusion and that the investigation was only kept open at the demand of fired former FBI agent Peter Strzok.
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I posted a similar article this morning from 'Just the News'. My 'Just the News' article actually should have been incorporated in Frank's as a 'related' link.
[NYPOST] City leaders slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... Wednesday for his willingness to sacrifice the jobs of city cops, doctors and teachers before cutting the fat from his $89.3 billion spending plan — including the embattled $1 billion mental health program headed by his wife. "But how Chirlane gonna get her hands on boodle to run for borough President without Warren Wilhelm's pushing it to her? Priorities, people!"
"At a time when city workers are on the frontline of the pandemic, the mayor should not threaten their livelihoods in this way," City Comptroller Scott Stringer told The Post.
On CNN Wednesday de Blasio said he was planning to furlough or lay off essential municipal employees if the city doesn’t receive federal stimulus funds to fill budget gaps caused by the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
"From ballooning contracts to runaway spending without results, I have said repeatedly that agencies can find greater savings without harming our workers," Stringer said.
On Tuesday, Stringer pointed to billions spent on homelessness without reducing the number of homeless in the city, the $1 billion ThriveNYC mental health plan, unnecessary Department of Education contracts, and overhead.
Asked about the cuts during his daily coronavirus briefing, de Blasio refused to provide specifics about potential layoffs, saying he was focused on securing a federal bailout.
Pat Lynch, head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, blasted the mayor for the proposal.
"New York City absolutely cannot balance its budget on the backs of its workers, especially coppers," Lynch said.
"Before this pandemic, crime was spiraling out of control. Now our entire social fabric is under tremendous strain, and coppers are already stretched thin trying to maintain order. If we cut cops, there will be chaos instead of a recovery," he added.
[NYPOST] A Massachusetts woman who accused former Sen. Chris Dodd of sexually assaulting her after a booze-fueled dinner in 1985 is speaking out, saying she can’t understand why the Biden campaign tapped him to lead their vice presidential search.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... , 77, was already embroiled in his own sexual assault controversy when the campaign last week announced Dodd, a Democratic former Connecticut senator with a past of misconduct charges, would co-chair his vice presidential selection committee.
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[NYPOST] Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details... said she’d likely turn down an offer from Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.... to become the ambassador to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... , although she admits it would be an easy commute.
"Probably not," the progressive lightning rod told the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... — even though its headquarters is in the Big Apple.
"That was the one perk of this," she said. "I would get to stay home."
The freshman politician’s name was raised in a column in the Times last month about whom Biden should appoint to his "national unity cabinet" to bring together partisans from Democrats on Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... ’ left to Republicans on Sen. Willard Mitt Romney, aka Pierre Delecto ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a trans Republican and a member in good standing of the Never Trump Party, attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain... ’s right.
AOC endorsed Sanders in the 2020 presidential election and said she would vote for Biden when the Vermont independent dropped out of the race.
But she might have to hold her nose to do so.
"I think the fact that he is an older white man kind of has a Santa Claus soothing effect on a lot of traditional voters," she said. "I’m convinced that Biden could essentially adopt Bernie’s agenda, and it would not be a factor — as long as he continued to say things like ’malarkey.’ And just not be Trump."
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Not Bee? Back to zero today. Still...she didn't really say these things, did she?
"That was the one perk of this," she said. "I would get to stay home."
"I think the fact that he is an older white man kind of has a Santa Claus soothing effect on a lot of traditional voters," she said. "I’m convinced that Biden could essentially adopt Bernie’s agenda, and it would not be a factor — as long as he continued to say things like ’malarkey.’ And just not be Trump."
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if any Santa Claus did the kinds of things that Mush-Brain Joe has been caught on camera doing, that Santa Claus would've been found in a dumpster, beaten to death by angry parents
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I'm pretty sure the UN doesn't need bartenders.
#5
Can't get a better illustration of how Biden represents nothing but power than Republicans lining up to take office in his administration. The never-Trumpers are politically homeless and have taken to the Democrats now that Trump kicked them out.
[MLIVE] As promised, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender... has vetoed legislation that would have shortened the length of some of her executive orders.
Senate Bill 858 would have amended Michigan’s Emergency Management Act of 1976, laying out deadlines for when some of Whitmer’s executive orders would end. Notably, it would have allowed restaurants, bars, gyms and other public-facing businesses to open May 15 with social distancing measures in place.
The bill originally included a stipulation to shorten the amount of time a governor can call for a state of emergency without needing legislative approval, from 28 days to 14 days. That provision wasn’t in the final version approved by the legislature.
In her veto letter, Whitmer said the bill goes against recommendations from public health officials, it doesn’t allow governors to properly address disasters or emergencies and would be useless now anyway since the bill as passed wouldn’t take effect until next year.
"I will not sign any bills that constrain my ability to protect the people of Michigan from a deadly pandemic in a timely manner," Whitmer wrote.
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She needs to be dragged out of the governor's house kicking and screaming, then rode on a rail down main street before being dropped at the state line while being told if she comes back, she will be arrested for her crimes against the citizens.
[JPost] - A maximum 11-judge panel of the High Court of Justice at close to midnight on Wednesday green-lighted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next government as well as controversial aspects of the Blue and White-Likud coalition deal.
Despite misgivings about the "grave charges pending" in the bribery indictment against Netanyahu and aspects of the coalition deal, the justices voted unanimously that they could not intervene. Groovy, we have a Supreme Court that, despite being to the left of EU, understands the difference between "accused" and "guilty". A difference that the Left doesn't appear to be able to grasp - unless the accused is Joe Biden, of course.
[PIX11] NEW YORK — Health care workers that came to New York to help fight the coronavirus pandemic at its epicenter will have to pay state taxes, according to the governor.
He addressed the issues Tuesday at a news conference.
"We're not in a position to provide any subsidies right now because we have a $13 billion deficit," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. "So there's a lot of good things I'd like to do, and if we get federal funding, we can do, but it would be irresponsible for me to sit here looking at a $13 billion deficit and say I'm gonna spend more money, when I can't even pay the essential services."
Even though the state government asked thousands of people to come to New York from out of state to help fight coronavirus, they will have to pay New York state taxes, even on income they might make from their home states that they're paid while in New York. Next time NY needs outside help, tell them to "GFY"
Cuomo said he needs help from Washington in order to cover budget deficits from COVID-19, let alone subsidize state income tax for essential workers that flocked to New York's aid.
"If we don't get more money from Washington, we can't fund schools, right, so at the rate we want to fund them. We are in dire financial need," he said.
The issue first came up when the temporary hospital in Central Park was being erected by Samaritan's Purse.
"Our financial comptroller called me," said Ken Isaacs, a vice president of the organization, "and he said, 'Do you know that all of you are going to be liable for New York state income tax?'
"I said, 'What?'" Isaacs continued. "[The comptroller] said, 'Yeah, there's a law. If you work in New York State for more than 14 days, you have to pay state income tax.'"
"I didn't know that," Isaacs told PIX11 News.
"What we're even more concerned about than the money," Isaacs continued, "is the bureaucracy, and the paperwork, and I think that once that's unleashed...once you start filing that, you have to do that for like a whole year or something."
A top New York City certified public accountant explained the situation further in a FaceTime interview with PIX11 News at the time.
Entities from "these other states will have to register in New York," said Lawrence Spielman, a partner at the accounting firm Spielman, Koenigsberg & Parker, LLP, "and do withholding here in New York."
Any out-of-state resident who's come to the Empire State to work on coronavirus relief is subject to the tax after 14 days here.
There are thousands of emergency workers here who've responded to requests by Cuomo and Mayor Bill De Blasio for help. Many of them are collecting paychecks from companies back in their home states, which allowed them to come to New York to volunteer.
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Well, actually he said that he would find it in his heart to forgive those taxes, IF Truump would bailout New York.
So it's actually Trump's fault, of course.
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Only a sucker would volunteer to go help NY in an emergency now that this asshole's made clear he's gonna stick it to the samaritans
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He had better pray that any possible future waves of CV are mild.
#6
Want a vacation? If its to New York be prepared to pay state income tax. You might also reconsider any connecting flight through their airports when they reopen.
#7
basically this is just existing State law and it is pretty much the same in most States
what is supposed to happen is people have tax withheld then file in the States in which they temporarily worked and, since they will be below the taxable threshold, they will get a refund
of course in reality, many people won't have the time or means to file in the visited States and will lose the money
this is not a NY State problem so much as a systemic problem
Posted by: lord garth ||
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basically this is just existing State law and it is pretty much the same in most States
So Mr. Wife tells me. But it would be easy enough to waive it in this special case — what did New York do for the volunteers who came to help after 9/11? What is done for the volunteers who come to help after the regular destructive storms around the country?
Governor Cuomo is just confirming the national view of fast-talking, predatory New Yorkers taking advantage of naifs from elsewhere.
#10
I haven't had the 'pleasure' of interacting with every state tax authority but NY's Division of Taxation and Finance is as equally awful as CA's Franchise Tax Board. I think they're worse than the Mass. Department of Revenue, and that's a high (low?) bar to clear.
If they are forced to pay, they should do what I heard some guy did with the Mass. DOR back in the early 1990's - deliver a wheelbarrow of pennies with your tax return to the DOR's headquarters.
#13
The people who paid the volunteers should send the bills for the pay and the taxes to Cuomo. If he fails to pay, seize his personal assets and issues warrants for his arrest for fraud. He asked them to come and didn't say the state would pay so that makes him personally responsible for the bills. I'm sure Abbot would love to send a Ranger swat team to frogmarch his ass to Texas for trial.
#15
The left's primary consideration is if a politician says things they like to hear in a pleasing manner.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
05/07/2020 11:53 Comments ||
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No volunteer should stay more than 12 days, at most. F the greedy bastards
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/07/2020 11:54 Comments ||
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what is supposed to happen is people have tax withheld then file in the States in which they temporarily worked and, since they will be below the taxable threshold, they will get a refund
As my Dad pointed out a long, long time ago, if you are getting a refund, it just means you loaned the govt money interest free for a year.
#18
/\ Your dad was right on the money (no pun intended). Strange isn't it, we look back through the foggy window of time, the 'ole man' was right much more often than wrong.
It's always smart to owe them a little money and pay it promptly. The massive refund people are the ones that get the IRS.......special attention.
#19
What Andrew "Fuck you, pay me" Cuomo doesn't grasp (or care about) is that this is not the last time NY will need the infra dig to come to their rescue.
He's just revealed to those people that it is better to let NY sink in the next crisis.
Hopefully, this story goes viral and NY pays a heavy price in the fire next time.
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NY's Division of Taxation and Finance is as equally awful as CA's Franchise Tax Board.
As a Californian I can tell you, that's quite a statement.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
05/07/2020 13:25 Comments ||
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Clever move by Cuomo. Budget problems - get some more revenue in the state, by any means necessary. Luring the rubes in, then hit them hard with taxes. That's the New York way, and they're proud of being complete sociopaths like this. Seriously, meanness is a virtue there.
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