Hunter Biden and his Ukrainian gas firm colleagues had multiple contacts with the Obama State Department during the 2016 election cycle, including one just a month before Vice President Joe Biden forced Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating his son’s company for corruption, newly released memos show.
During that February 2016 contact, a U.S. representative for Burisma Holdings sought a meeting with Undersecretary of State Catherine A. Novelli to discuss ending the corruption allegations against the Ukrainian firm where Hunter Biden worked as a board member, according to memos obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. (I filed that suit this summer with the help of the public interest law firm the Southeastern Legal Foundation.)
Just three weeks before Burisma’s overture to State, Ukrainian authorities raided the home of the oligarch who owned the gas firm and employed Hunter Biden, a signal the long-running corruption probe was escalating in the middle of the U.S. presidential election.
Hunter Biden’s name, in fact, was specifically invoked by the Burisma representative as a reason the State Department should help, according to a series of email exchanges among U.S. officials trying to arrange the meeting. The subject line for the email exchanges read simply "Burisma."
"Per our conversation, Karen Tramontano of Blue Star Strategies requested a meeting to discuss with U/S Novelli USG remarks alleging Burisma (Ukrainian energy company) of corruption," a Feb. 24, 2016, email between State officials read. "She noted that two high profile U.S. citizens are affiliated with the company (including Hunter Biden as a board member).
"Tramontano would like to talk with U/S Novelli about getting a better understanding of how the U.S. came to the determination that the company is corrupt," the email added. "According to Tramontano there is no evidence of corruption, has been no hearing or process, and evidence to the contrary has not been considered."
At the time, Novelli was the most senior official overseeing international energy issues for State. The undersecretary position, of which there are several, is the third-highest-ranking job at State, behind the secretary and deputy secretary. And Tramontano was a lawyer working for Blue Star Strategies, a Washington firm that was hired by Burisma to help end a long-running corruption investigation against the gas firm in Ukraine.
Tramontano and another Blue Star official, Sally Painter, both alumni of Bill Clinton’s administration, worked with New York-based criminal defense attorney John Buretta to settle the Ukraine cases in late 2016 and 2017. I wrote about their efforts previously here.
Burisma Holdings records obtained by Ukrainian prosecutors state the gas firm made a $60,000 payment to Blue Star in November 2015.
The emails show Tramontano was scheduled to meet Novelli on March 1, 2016, and that State Department officials were scrambling to get answers ahead of time from the U.S. embassy in Kiev.
The records don’t show whether the meeting actually took place. The FOIA lawsuit is ongoing and State officials are slated to produce additional records in the months ahead.
But the records do indicate that Hunter Biden’s fellow American board member at Burisma, Devon Archer, secured a meeting on March 2, 2016 with Secretary of State John Kerry. In addition to serving on the Burisma board, Archer and Hunter Biden were partners at an American firm known as Rosemont Seneca.
"Devon Archer coming to see S today at 3pm ‐ need someone to meet/greet him at C Street," an email from Kerry’s office manager reads. "S" is a shorthand frequently used in State emails to describe the Secretary of State. The memos don’t state the reason for the meeting.
Tramontano, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, Archer and Joe Biden’s campaign did not return messages seeking comment on Monday.
In an interview with ABC News last month, Hunter Biden said he believed he had done "nothing wrong at all" while working with Burisma but "was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is...a swamp in ‐ in ‐ in many ways? Yeah."
Whatever the subject of the Archer-Kerry meeting, its existence is certain to spark interest. That’s because Secretary Kerry’s stepson, Christopher Heinz, had been a business partner with both Archer and Hunter Biden at the Rosemont Seneca investment firm in the United States.
Heinz, however, chose not to participate in the Burisma dealings. In fact, he wrote an email to his stepfather’s top aides in May 2014, pointedly distancing himself from the decision by Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to join Burisma’s board.
Heinz’s spokesman recently told The Washington Post that Heinz ended his relationship with Archer and Hunter Biden partly over the Burisma matter. "The lack of judgment in this matter was a major catalyst for Mr. Heinz ending his business relationships with Mr. Archer and Mr. Biden," Heinz spokesman Chris Bastardi told the newspaper.
A person who assisted Blue Star and Buretta in settling the Burisma matters in Ukraine told me in an interview that the late February 2016 overture to State was prompted by a dramatic series of events in Ukraine that included when that country’s top prosecutor escalated a two-year probe into Burisma and its founder, the oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky.
Zlochevsky’s gas firm hired Hunter Biden and Archer as board members for Burisma Holdings in spring 2014, around the time that British officials opened corruption investigations into Zlochevsky’s gas firm for actions dating to 2010 before Hunter Biden and Archer joined the firm. Ukraine officials opened their own corruption probe in August 2014.
A firm called Rosemont Seneca Bohai began receiving monthly payments totaling more than $166,000 from Burisma Holdings in May 2014, bank records show. The records show Devon Archer was listed as a custodian for the Rosemont Seneca Bohai firm and that Hunter Biden received payments from it. You can read those bank records here.
In September 2015, then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt gave a speech imploring Ukrainian prosecutors to do more to bring Zlochevsky to justice, according to published reports at the time.
By early 2016 the Ukrainian investigation had advanced enough that then-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin authorized a court-ordered seizure of Zlochevsky’s home and other valuables, including a luxury car. That seizure occurred on Feb. 2, 2016, according to published reports in Ukraine.
The same day that the Zlochevsky seizure was announced in Ukraine, Hunter Biden used his Twitter account to start following Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken, a longtime national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden who was promoted to the No. 2 job at State under Secretary John Kerry.
The Feb. 4, 2016 Twitter notification from Hunter Biden to Blinken was captured by State email servers and turned over to me as part of the FOIA release.
Within a few weeks of Tramontano’s overture to Novelli and of Archer’s overture to Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden took a stunning action, one that has enveloped his 2020 campaign for president in controversy.
By his own admission in a 2018 speech, Joe Biden used the threat of withholding $1 billion in U.S. aid to strong-arm Ukraine into firing Shokin, a prosecutor that he and his office knew was investigating Burisma.
Biden has said he forced Shokin’s firing because he and Western allies believed the prosecutor wasn’t aggressive enough in fighting corruption.
Shokin disputes that account, telling both me and ABC News that he was fired specifically because he would not stand down from investigating Burisma. In fact, Shokin alleges, he was making plans to interview Hunter Biden about his Burisma work and payments when he got the axe.
Ukraine prosecutors have said they do not believe the Bidens did anything wrong under Ukraine law. But some of the country’s prosecutors made an effort in 2018 to get information about Burisma to the U.S. Justice Department because they believed American prosecutors might be interested in some activities under U.S. law. You can read about that effort here.
Some experts and officials have been quoted in reports saying Joe Biden’s actions created the appearance of a conflict of interest, something all U.S. government officials are supposed to avoid. The questions about conflicts were previously raised in a 2015 article by the New York Times and the 2018 book Secret Empires by author Peter Schweizer.
The new evidence of contacts between Burisma, Hunter Biden and Archer at State are certain to add a new layer of intrigue to the debate. Those contacts span back to at least spring 2015, the new memos show.
On May 22, 2015, Hunter Biden emailed his father’s longtime trusted aide, Blinken, with the following message: "Have a few minutes next week to grab a cup of coffee? I know you are impossibly busy, but would like to get your advice on a couple of things, Best, Hunter."
Blinken responded the same day with an "absolutely" and added, "Look forward to seeing you."
The records indicate the two men were scheduled to meet the afternoon of May 27, 2015.
The State Department records also indicate Hunter Biden met Blinken in person for lunch on July 22, 2015, when State officials gave the name of a person to meet to help him enter the building. "He has the VIP pin and can escort you upstairs for your lunch with Tony," the email said.
The emails don’t indicate whether the meeting had to do with Burisma or one of Hunter Biden’s other interests. But they clearly show that Hunter Biden, his business partner and Burisma’s legal team were able to secure contacts inside the State Department, including to one of his father’s most trusted aides, to Secretary Kerry and to the agency’s top energy official.
The question now is: Did any of those contacts prompt further action or have anything to do with Joe Biden’s conduct in Ukraine in March 2016 when he forced Shokin’s firing? With all the pushback and impeachment nonsense, what would be your best guess?
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Not necessarily retarded but the general population is pretty much kept in the dark by MSM. That's how Schifferbrains can get away with his nonsense. If people really understood what he's doing, they'd laugh him all the way out of DC.
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It's just that what they allege-- Russiagate and now Ukrainegate -- is a carbon copy of what they themselves actually did in 2015-17.
Truly Orwellian.
I guess the only q is how broad, or deep, is the reach of the MSM in this day and age.
Will millions of swing voters in MI WI PA etc be duped by the redirect?
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There is little truth that comes through the MSM. Other ways have to be found to bypass this MSM screen against the truth. There are some outlets that can be trusted.
said Friday that he is the victim of Dire Revenge porn after a former intimate partner sent explicit images to Dibble’s colleagues, a crime that comes just days after a junior congresswoman from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, stepped down in a similar situation.
In his surprise statement, Dibble revealed that for the past five months he has been harassed by "a former friend."
"I was involved in a brief intimate and consensual relationship with this person," wrote Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis. "When I attempted to end the relationship, I was threatened with embarrassment as this individual attempted to coerce me into continuing the relationship. My resistance to his threats was met this morning with a communication that was sent to my colleagues with what had been private photos, videos, and text messages."
This reminds me of Jerry Springer, back when he was the very popular mayor of Cincinnati. One fine evening he went across the Ohio river into the more interesting part of Northern Kentucky, and there paid a massage parlour "for services rendered" with a check that bounced. While this did not harm him locally, where he’d earnt his reputation as a character, the rest of Ohio apparently found him a bit much for governor or US senator.
An unknown number of politicians received the images Friday via e-mail attachments, confirmed DFL Caucus spokeswoman Ellen Anderson.
The man who sent those images has not been publicly identified but lives outside the country and isn’t a subordinate or connected with Minnesota politics in any way.
"This has nothing to do with his legislative work and I am not aware of any plans he has to resign," Anderson said.
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Revenge pron and blackmail in an extramarital affair? The voters must be O.K. w/gaymarriage, Will the voters have a revenge vote for the extramarital affair?
[LEGALINSURRECTION] What jumped out at me was the interview with Carmen Twillie Ambar, Oberlin College’s president, who took over after the events at issue. In the interview, Ambar repeated what has become a core part of Oberlin College’s post-trial public relations campaign, the suggestion that Gibson’s Bakery may actually have engaged in racial profiling. It was couched in the interview as a perception issue, that students and faculty had a perception — their own truth and lived experience — of racial profiling.
Koppel seemed genuinely surprised by Ambar’s statements as to perceptions:
KOPPEL: …. But to this day, the president of Oberlin makes allusions to a pattern of racist behavior, if not the specific incident that set things off three years ago.
AMBAR Well, the students pled guilty to the shoplifting. Um, there has been some debate about whether it was shoplifting or false ID.
KOPPEL: It was both.
AMBAR: Right. Well, I think that, that one of the things that the college has always said is that the college has not, doesn’t condone shoplifting, doesn’t condone bad behavior by its students in any way, shape or form. But what led up to the protest, and I think that’s sort of kind of the core issue here, was some series of things that happened before. Some perspectives about people’s experiences in the store.
KOPPEL: Tell me about, tell me about those then. And be specific. What specific incidents are you referring to that happened before?
AMBAR: Right, well, I think that the specific incidents would be, the perception by faculty and students and staff and other people in the town that there had been disparate treatment with respect to people of color in the store. The way I would phrase it, kind of different lived experiences.
DAVE O’BRIEN: This is all basically anecdotal evidence that people …
KOPPEL: Dave O’Brien covered the trials for the local paper, the Chronicle-Telegram
O’BRIEN: People commenting on a, on social media saying I had a, um, I, I felt, I felt uncomfortable in there. I felt like I was targeted because of the color of my skin.
There was no evidence presented in court supporting the claim of a long history of racial profiling, because no admissible evidence was offered.
Subjective feelings, perceptions, own truths, and lived experiences are not evidence supporting the truth of the matter asserted.
There was an interesting portion when Ambar clearly was uncomfortable, when Koppel pressed her as to what her reputation was worth:
KOPPEL: (Narration) What is a reputation worth? (Question to Ambar) You’re a very distinguished academic. What’s your reputation worth?
AMBAR: My reputation is important.
KOPPEL: It’s worth a lot, isn’t it? (Ambar shakes head Yes) I mean, if your reputation was destroyed overnight, you could hardly put a price on that could you.
AMBAR: Well, I certainly believe that reputations are important, but here’s what’s also true, and it’s the jury system that we have, right? And the legal system that we have. That we go through a legal process that makes that determination. And what the institution has said is that we believe that this determination was excessive.
Oberlin College still doesn’t get it.
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Um, there has been some debate about whether it was shoplifting or false ID.
Rule of thumb: if you run out of the store without paying and end up getting tackled by the store owner, it's probably shoplifting.
Defamatory lie #1: "there had been disparate treatment with respect to people of color in the store ... kind of different lived experiences"
Bullshit. No evidence was produced at all. Nothing admitted at trial. No facts. Even when Oberlin asked one of their own staff members to go out and canvas black people in the town, she came back with the same conclusion as did a racially-mixed jury and as did a longtime african-american employee of Gibsons: these people are not racists and have never treated people differently based on race.
Lie #2: "it's not true that the college supported the demonstration [by Oberlin students and staff accusing the Gibsons of racism]"
You stupid f---ing liar. Your employee, the Dean of Students, was busted at trial for explicitly ENCOURAGING students to demonstrate, for actually distributing hate-filled flyers that defamed the Gibsons, and even reimbursing the student demonstrators for food and clothing--with university funds! All of this was admitted at court!
This lie of yours on national TV was so blatant, so foolish and disgusting, that the CBS News team demolished it by bringing in one of the jurors to state the facts and cutting to those facts immediately after your idiotic lies.
Blathering bullshit, on stilts: "Well, I certainly believe that reputations are important. But here's what's also true, and it's the jury system that we have, right? And the legal system that we have, that we go through a legal process that makes that determination. And what the institution has said is that we believe that this determination was excessive."
A jury of local residents, racially mixed, unanimously concluded that your institution not only defamed and tried to destroy a good family's reputation earned over five generations, but that your shitty institution actually tried to drive them out of business-- that you tortiously interfered in their business relationships-- and that you even tried to bully them into not prosecuting your student shoplifters who try to screw them daily.
This woman is not a "distinguished academic." She's yet another illiterate affirmative-action law grad, far out of her depth, and she's destroying the institution that she presides over.
And now this idiot and her retarded counsel are going to get socked with still more damages-- AND millions in new legal bills.
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That interview should be included in the Bakery's appeal to get the whole 400 million. It's obvious that the reduced amount hasn't taught them a lesson.
#9
"This guy Armbar" and his colleagues and their lawyers are deranged, obsessed, nasty and vicious.
They are still-- three years in, $36m bond posted per court order, including over $6m in legal fees-- they are still trying to destroy this little family business that is beloved by the town and even the left-liberal Oberlin faculty and alums.
Having failed to destroy the Gibsons with high-proved lawfare, having suffered an extraordinary and righteous bitchslap in the form of a $44m defamation judgment ($11m compensatory IIRC, $33m punitive), these sociopaths are now indulging their hatred of an innocent family through both lawfare and media-assassination.
As with the Kavanaugh slander, as with the the Covington Catholic/Nick Sandmann slander, these shitty people are telling blatant lies to their fellow Shitshow clowns in the media.
Blatant lies which a jury and a judge and a lengthy, exhaustive legal process has determined were defamatory, malicious and despicable.
Blatant lies against a 92 year-old man whom their mob stalked at his home in the wee hours, causing this family patriarch to come outside, slip on his doorstep in the darkness and break his neck. He is the man quoted by CBS as saying that after a life of honest, decent service to his community, a life beyond reproach, he will now go to his grave branded forever as a filthy racist.
By these "distinguished academic[s]."
By this affirmative action law grad (Columbia) who doesn't even understand the most basic concepts underlying the rules of evidence, who can't distinguish between feelings and objective reality, who can't utter a coherent sentence.
These people are deranged. They're sociopaths.
They are obsessed, like Captain Ahab pursuing his great white whale, with finding and punishing witches labeled "white male" and Trumpian thought criminal" and "Russian agent."
They truly want to destroy us.
Thank god we still have laws against defamation and tortious interference. Thank god there are still a few journalists like Koppel, and many more African-American citizens, like this trial's jurors and witnesses, who remain committed to facts and logic. Who understand what a filthy and despicable act it is to bear false witness against one's neighbor.
But the forces against us-- entire institutions of academia like Oberlin and Columbia Law School (which admitted and graduated the idiot, Ambar's), legacy big media, the D.C. Establishment -- these forces are relentless and have vast resources and reach. Even Soros is in on the Oberlin smear: the Chair of the Oberlin board of trustees is a Soros hack named Chris Canavan.
Keep fighting, Gibsons.
I wish I could end here but, unbelievable as it is to say, this wretched story is actually even worse... this is such an awful display of human wickedness that it must be said: not only Grandpa Allyn Gibson is likely to go to his grave branded a racist by these despicable shits, but his son Dave Gibson will as well. Dave was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer during the trial and now has only a few months to live.
Oberlin's legal and media strategy, which involves continuing the smear of the Gibsons, has the effect of destroying the spotless reputations of two dying men and their entire legacy.
This disgraceful moron Ambar and her fellow shits are deliberately dragging this out via lawfare, refusing to settle, so that they can outlast two honest and decent fellow citizens -- their neighbors -- and send them to their graves as racists.
What despicable shits these people are. And they run an institution of higher learning. Vile.
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You can't make a rational argument to people who are not interested in having a rational argument. All the proof (or lack of) was laid out in court. The college lost, bigtime. What they did was clearly wrong.
But they're not using rationality. They're using emotional arguments about *how it made them feel*. The blacks were busted for shoplifting the day after Trump was elected. The school was outraged and needed a scapegoat. The bakery would do.
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Don't Muslims say Allah Armbar, perhaps in reference to the fact that Allah was a pro wrestler in another life?
(JTA) - Rep. Ilhan Omar appeared at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in her home state of Minnesota, offering a strong endorsement that noted his Jewishness.
An estimated 10,000 supporters attended the Sunday night event for the Vermont senator at the University of Minnesota.
Omar, also a Democrat, endorses the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel and is an outspoken critic of its government. The freshman lawmaker has been criticized for using anti-Semitic tropes in some of her criticism.
Sanders also has been critical of Israel during his campaign and said he would "absolutely" consider cutting U.S. aid to Israel to pressure the its government to change its policy, specifically on settlements.
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"People say that Ilhan and I make an odd political couple. But in fact, there is really nothing odd about it at all," Sanders told the rally. "Ilhan and I share a common link as the descendants of families who fled violence and poverty, and who came to this country as immigrants. But that is not just my story or Ilhan's story - that is the story of America." "And together, we'd like to make it yours !"
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The usual term for people like him is “self-hating Jew“, but really he is entirely too fond of himself. He actually is an old fashioned other-hating communist presenting a socialist face to the world, who happened to have Jewish ancestors.
[Daily Caller] Turn on the lights and the cockroaches run
* Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, a Democrat, has backpedaled on an executive order he signed several months ago that prohibited cooperation with ICE agents.
* The county executive will allow ICE agents to apprehend illegal aliens in his custody, but only in "identified areas" in the Montgomery County jail.
* The reversal is the latest move by Montgomery County’s government, which endured national criticism for its sanctuary policy amid a string of rape charges against illegal aliens within the jurisdiction.
Following months of national media coverage over the handling of illegal aliens in his custody, Montgomery County, Maryland, Executive Marc Elrich has somewhat reversed a sanctuary policy he signed into law.
Elrich will allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents the ability to access certain areas of the Montgomery County jail in order to apprehend illegal aliens, according to ABC7 News. A county spokesman confirmed to the local news outlet on Nov. 1 that correctional officers have been ordered to give ICE agents clearance to "identified areas" of the jail to "ensure that transfers are conducted in a safe environment."
News of the cooperation between Montgomery County and federal immigration authorities comes three months after Elrich signed an executive order that prohibited county officials from working with ICE.
Elrich signed the "The Promoting Community Trust Executive Order" in July, which barred county police from asking an individual about their immigration status and largely prohibited them from cooperating with ICE agents. Montgomery County had already refused to honor ICE detainer requests, and the new order was the latest sanctuary measure enacted by a deep-blue locality revolting against the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
However, Elrich's order soon proved controversial. Authorities arrested numerous illegal aliens in Montgomery County ‐ all of the arrests taking place just weeks after the order was signed ‐ and charged them with rape or other sexual abuse crimes. The string of rape charges shined a national spotlight on the county's policy toward criminal illegal aliens and its fraught relationship with the agency tasked with removing them.
A public relations battle ensued between federal immigration authorities and Elrich's office.
Elrich said in a public statement issued in late August his office cannot honor ICE detainers unless they come with a judicial warrant. However, ICE and other immigration experts blasted that defense, noting that, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, ICE agents do not need a judge's signature to issue such a warrant.
"The public has been misled to believe that certain judges have the authority to sign a warrant for civil immigration violations ‐ but no such judicial authority exists," an ICE spokesperson said to the Daily Caller News Foundation. "This idea is a myth created by those who either oppose immigration enforcement efforts, are misinformed, or who do not understand how the immigration system works."
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These apparatchiks should suffer the same fate the victims of rape suffered for their inane virtue signalling.
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Isn't this the same buttcheese that told the police they couldn't display the 'Thin Blue Line' wooden flag given them by an appreciative father and son just a couple of days ago???
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...well, if you are an apparatchik in a deep blue area without any real political competition and you make an about-face on this issue, something has had to have spooked them badly.
[OUTLINE] If the goal was to damage President Trump by formalizing the impeachment inquiry, it’s Mission Unaccomplished for House Democrats.
If anything, the vote solidified Trump’s hold on power. There were zero GOP defections, meaning we have zero drama heading into the public phase of impeachment. Everyone is pretty much in the same lanes they’ve been in since the Russian-collusion investigation, the obstruction of justice investigation and every other investigation.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, that gives people little reason to be glued to their screens when House committees take public testimony. The basic story ‐ Trump pressured Ukraine to announce investigations into Democrats that would help Trump ‐ is out there already. People know how they feel about it, and if you believe the polls, they’re pretty evenly split on whether the president deserves to be thrown out of office.
The only potential drama before last week’s vote was whether there might be any movement, whether any Republicans would see it Democrats’ way.
Looks like they don’t.
And when it gets to the Senate, it will play out just the same way. Someone like 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 member of the Never Trump Party and is attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain... of Utah may break GOP ranks, but no one thinks 20 Republicans, the bare minimum who would have to defect to convict Trump, would actually do so.
So the Democrats will spend the next few precious months acting out a pretend cliffhanger to which everyone actually knows the script and the ending. No plot twists in sight. Remember health care, the issue that won so many elections for Democrats in 2018? You might, but they don’t seem to.
Come next year, Trump will have an impeachment victory and quite possibly a solid economy. The Democrats will have ‐ what?
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Willie Brown's an honest thief.
Still more rare: a clever one. He knew from direct experience that his former hose-bag Kamala was a liar who'd never reach the shortlist this year. He knows impeachment likewise is a stunt.
Willie's above the fray now. He already has his fedoras and Italian sports cars and his closet full of $5,000 suits already.
He needs nothing and has nothing to lose. He has left the Shitshow and can now speak the truth.
[BREITBART] Antisemitic Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... (D-MN) campaigned for presidential hopeful 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 a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... (I-VT) in Minneapolis on Sunday night where she said she is "excited for President Bernie Sanders."
"I am beyond honored and excited for a president who will fight against Western imperialism and fight for a just world," Omar told the crowd of Sanders supporters. "I am excited for President Bernie Sanders."
Omar went on to claim that a "movement" must be built in order for Sanders to take the White House from President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... "Here’s the cold truth: We can’t achieve any of these goals if we don’t build a movement that is representative of all of our aspirations, all of our pain, and all of our shared trauma," Omar said. "That is why we must build a mass movement of the working class that transcends faith, age, gender, and background."
"That’s what we fight for here in Minnesota every single day and that’s the movement that Senator Bernie Sanders is building" Omar continued. "Bernie knows that systematic change in this country has never taken place without millions of people organizing to demand that change."
"That is the history of the labor movement, the history of the women’s liberation movement, that is the history of the civil rights movement, and the LGBTQ movement, and the disability rights under equal justice movement," the freshman Minnesota Congresswoman added.
[BREITBART] Presidential hopeful 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 a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... (I-VT) campaigned in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday night alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... (D-MN) and attempted to slam President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... with unsubstantiated labels.
"This is, in addition to all of that, a president who is a racist, who is a sexist, who is a xenophobe, a homophobe, and a religious bigot," Bernie Sanders claimed. "This is a president who is trying to divide us up based on the color of our skin, where we were born, our sexual orientation, or our religion."
Sanders, who has made similar statements regarding President Trump in the past, said last month in a tweet that Trump is a "very formidable opponent."
"Trump is a racist, a sexist and a xenophobe. Despite all of that, he will be a very formidable opponent," Sanders proclaimed.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[STARTRIBUNE] Minnesota state Sen. Scott Dibble
[LEGALINSURRECTION] What jumped out at me was the interview with Carmen Twillie Ambar, Oberlin College’s president, who took over after the events at issue. In the interview, Ambar repeated what has become a core part of Oberlin College’s post-trial public relations campaign, the suggestion that Gibson’s Bakery may actually have engaged in racial profiling. It was couched in the interview as a perception issue, that students and faculty had a perception — their own truth and lived experience — of racial profiling.
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...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 member of the Never Trump Party and is attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain...
...The 
