[The Federalist] Over two dozen phones belonging to members of Robert Mueller's special counsel team were wiped clean before they were handed over to the Inspector General, according to information contained in 87 pages of DOJ records released on Thursday.
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Why not? It worked for Lois Lerner and her crew of scumbags with six to eight hard drives all of a sudden crashing right after the subpoenas were issued.
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I bet everyone of those bastards has a TS/SCI clearance. I also bet a question about this on a surprise polygraph would end lifetime careers. Who wants to bet it never gets asked?
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What a bunch of rat bastids. They functioned to get Trump, frame him, harass him and his team, remove him from office, and cover-up the crimes they had done.
[VixtoryGirls] Bleachbit rises again! Turns out the Mueller team engaged in some data wiping of their own. Thirty one phones somehow accidentally on purpose had their data disappear before the DOJ could examine them.
How does one "accidentally" wipe data off a phone? Is this the same magic that Hillary used regarding disappearing data off of her bathroom servers? Bleachbit really gets around y’all! I guess if they saw that it worked for her, then it could work for all the lawyers investigating Trump on Russia collusion!
Now, we all know that the Trump Russia investigation helmed by Robert Mueller went nowhere. Even a liberal writer at Vanity Fair had to admit as much.
"It’s true, as some have pointed out, that the Mueller report corroborates a lot of reporting from major media outlets. One should hope for such matches to be the rule and not the exception. (Publish a lot of stories like the Guardian’s "Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy" or BuzzFeed’s "President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen to Lie to Congress About the Moscow Tower Project," and readers might start to notice a pattern.) We see that, yes, Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner indeed held a very unwise meeting with a Russian lawyer in the hopes of getting dirt on Clinton, and in this tiptoed up to criminality, even if opportunism and obliviousness were the primary drivers. We see that, yes, Donald Trump indeed tried to get White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, even if the effort failed.
But proving the major stories of 2017 and 2018 not-wrong is a low bar. Often, the report reflects what the media settled on only after initial stories were debuted with exaggerated or misleading claims and then dialed back."
I’ve lost count as to how many Trump Russia gotcha stories have been dialed back within hours as they were shown to be flat out lies. The list is very very long.
That said, this DOJ report is damning. You can read it here.
In reading through the report, we find out that the attorneys utilized a very different version of BleachBit. First of all, several attorneys, James Quarles among others, claim the phone data just disappeared ...like magic!
Meanwhile, Andrew Weismann, Kyle Freeny, Greg Andre, Rush Atkinson and others claim the phone data disappeared altogether after too many wrong passwords were entered.
This information is humorous and infuriating at the very same time. These phones were supposed to be checked for records of information. Some of these phones belonged to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
I watched a guy who is completely unrepentant, and probably completely thrilled that his phone’s data was magically wiped from existence before the DOJ led by William Barr could review it.
In light of this news, will Adam Schiff pursue his new Russia whistleblower case? That new case has problems. Why?
"DHS had to reassign Murphy after it was reported in August his department had compiled reports about protesters and journalists covering the Trump administration’s response to unrest in Portland. The "open-source intelligence reports" were then sent to law enforcement, according to the New York Times.
Because Murphy’s office was already under "rigorous oversight" by the House Intelligence Committee, Schiff said, "In light of recent public reports, we are concerned that Murphy may have provided incomplete and potentially misleading information to Committee staff during our recent oversight engagement," adding more oversight might be needed."
Whoopsie! So, Murphy was lying then, but because his new info is about Russia, Adam will believe him? Given Schifty’s Trump Russia TDS for the last four years, it’s a fair bet that Murphy will be believed because Russia!
Bob Mueller’s awful performance at the Congressional hearing raised a lot of questions as to who was in charge of the investigation. An investigation that led to a pretty large nothing burger.
The thing is, phones don’t just wipe themselves. Yet, according to the supposedly brilliant team of investigators, that is what happened.
I tell you what, if a Vegas bookie had put that bet up... someone would be sitting pretty right about now.
Here’s the thing, all of this Trump Russia has been predicated upon the completely discredited Steele Dossier as well as information from Alex Vindman. Now we find out that attorneys on the Mueller team engaged in their own form of wiping data with a cloth BleachBit style.
THIRTY ONE phones. Thirty one phones whose data is now gone. If ANY of the data on those phones would’ve shown that there was definite Trump Russia collusion, you damn well know that information would’ve been been made public during and after the Mueller Investigation.
Instead, that data is gone. What was the Mueller team hiding?
[FoxNews] A network of left-wing groups with budgets eclipsing those of conservative powerhouses like the Heritage Foundation will likely “carpet bomb” the 2020 election with anonymous dark money, a new report obtained by Fox News warns.
"If 2018 is any indicator, we should expect to see the Left carpet-bomb the 2020 presidential election with buckets of anonymous cash, while complaining about the evils of ‘dark money’ the entire time,” the report from conservative watchdog Capital Research Center says.
The CRC first reported last year on what it described as a shadowy network of liberal nonprofits under the banner of Washington-based Arabella Advisors -- afloat on more than a half-billion dollars and run by former Clinton administration appointee Eric Kessler.
CRC's latest report, released Friday, found that between 2006 and 2018, the Arabella network reported revenues of $2.4 billion and nearly $1.9 billion in expenditures. In 2018 alone, the network brought in $635 million in revenue, after having brought in $582 million a year earlier.
The report notes that the revenues alone eclipse those of conservative groups, such as the Heritage Foundation ($82 million in revenue in 2018) and Americans for Prosperity ($58 million.)
“In contrast, the Arabella network brought in almost eight times more than Heritage and 11 times more than Americans for Prosperity," the report says.
The CRC report describes how Arabella Advisors “created and actively manages four nonprofits” -- New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund and Windward Fund.
“Each plays a slightly different role in the network, but all share the same basic functions—sponsoring pop-up groups (also called “projects”) and paying out grants to other left-wing nonprofits,” the report says. Those pop-up groups are often activist websites that can “pop up” one day and disappear the next, allegedly to give the appearance of grassroots campaigning for a political cause.
Arabella Advisors, in a statement to Fox News, pushed back on what it described as a “gross mischaracterization” by CRC of its work and the client organizations.
“Arabella Advisors is a consulting business that supports effective philanthropy and impact investing,” spokesperson Steve Sampson said. “Our clients include a variety of nonprofit organizations that hire Arabella for shared administrative services, including the New Venture Fund, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Hopewell Fund, and the Windward Fund.”
“These nonprofits make grants to a range of projects across the ideological spectrum, most of which have nothing to do with politics,” he said. “Arabella Advisors is not the source of funding for any of these organizations, and we do not exert control over the spending decisions of our clients.”
One of those organizations in the network, The Sixteen Thirty Fund, was reported on by Politico last year when the outlet noted that it spent $141 million on more than 100 left-wing causes during the midterm election year -- on everything from pushing back against the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to weighing in on voting laws and minimum wage ballot measures. It described it as an "unprecedented gusher of secret money" that boosted Democrats and liberal causes.
A single donation was $51.7 million, which Politico reported was by itself more than it ever raised in an entire year before President Trump was elected. But, as the report noted, federal law does not require “social welfare”-focused nonprofits to reveal donors.
The CRC report is more blunt and describes The Sixteen Thirty Fund as “the lobbying shop for the Arabella network.” Separately it describes the organization as a “tool for the professional Left, created by Arabella Advisors with funding from some of the biggest organizations in Progressive activism.”
The Sixteen Thirty Fund pushed back on that assessment in a statement to Fox News, saying it was “completely false” for the CRC to describe it as the “lobbying shop” for Arabella.
“The Sixteen Thirty Fund is confronting the biggest social challenges in our country through fiscal sponsorship, advocacy and electoral action like many other 501c4 organizations, and we are committed to following the current laws to level the playing field for progressives in this election,” Executive Director Amy Kurtz told Fox News in a statement.
The report says that Arabella has tried to deflect scrutiny by claiming it sponsors philanthropic activity, not political activism, “yet its definition of 'charity' nearly always involves changing public policy.”
“And it’s blunt that the Arabella empire provides a model of how to push every edge of the legal envelope in order to score political victories by blending nonprofits and for-profits.”
It says that while some of the nonprofits support “genuinely charitable causes” -- noting New Venture Fund donated to a substance abuse and mental nonprofit in Alaska -- that is a relative fraction of the work.
“The rest are the Left’s bread-and-butter political groups,” the report says, noting contributions to what it describes as left-wing voter turnout groups including When We All Vote -- whose co-chairs include former first lady Michelle Obama and ex-White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
A spokesman of one of the groups named as part of the Arabella Network, the Hopewell Fund, described itself as an organization “that works toward creating a more equitable world through fiscal sponsorship, charitable initiatives, and grant-making.”
"Hopewell Fund focuses on issues relating to poverty, lack of access to education, gender barriers to advancement, and more, in the United States," the spokesperson said. “Hopewell acts as a fiscal sponsor to smaller and newer organizations that require operational expertise and do not yet have nonprofit status.”
Lee Bodner, president of the Venture Fund Group, said the report is “hyperbolic, hypocritical and paints a misleading picture of our work.”
“The New Venture Fund does not support or oppose any political candidates or parties. We are a non-partisan nonprofit organization that incubates and accelerates philanthropic projects. Our mission is to help nonprofit leaders make the world healthier and more equitable," he said in a statement. "To allow them to focus on the work at hand, we offer fiscal sponsorship, which means we provide them tools and administrative support including human resources, legal, accounting and compliance services, enabling them to get off the ground quickly and operate more efficiently.”
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One thing that has showed up already is the 10 calls a day I get on the land line and the 20 emails a day, some from the R side and some from the D side.
Also, when I look at a youtube video there is a pretty good chance I will see Stacy Abrams and Chuck Schumer pitching for contributions.
On the R side, various Trump family members write me every day.
I don't watch much TV but I figure stuff is already on that.
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What happens when all the mail in votes are counted and Biden has more than the entire adult population of the US?
[AMGREATNESS] During a virtual event with AFL-CIO members Monday night, a seemingly exhausted and befuddled Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... appeared to ask his staff to "move up" a teleprompter before he could answer a question.The request came right after a barista named Rebecca Vedrine asked the Democrat presidential nominee what his administration planned to do to help 60 million non-union workers vote for union jobs.
"What would you do to help give them that chance?" Vedrine asked.
"Move it up here," the sleepy-looking Biden ordered his staff. After a long pause, he began a long and highly detailed answer:
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Biden is advertising like mad here in Pennsylvania. Every few minutes another ad comes on, each one more absurdly content-free than the last. They appear more targeted at keeping the Dems' core constituents from bolting than they are at attracting new voters; no one but a hardcore Dem could watch them without laughing at their stupidity.
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To be fair, it takes a moment to translate to Chinese and back with the answer.
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Only Trump. Not Biden if he does it. Think about that. Entire businesses targeting one guy, a sitting president remind you, to deny his right to speak.
Break up the monopoly and run these fuckers out of business.
[NY Post] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for years falsely claimed in interviews that he predicted the 9/11 terror attacks and a possible strike on the White House in a speech delivered the day before terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers.
On Sept. 10, 2001, the then-senator from Delaware gave a foreign policy speech at Washington, DC's National Press Club in which he complained about the Bush administration's spending on a missile defense system, warning that an anthrax or other biological attack was more likely.
"The real threat comes to this country in the hold of a ship, the belly of a plane, or smuggled into a city in the middle of the night in a vial in a backpack," Biden said.
But when al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes the following morning and killed 2,977 Americans, Biden began claiming he predicted the attack.
He did no such thing. During the hour-long speech, Biden mentioned terrorism only three times ‐ twice in reference to biological terrorism.
But in an interview with ABC News just hours after the Twin Towers fell, Biden, then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he warned that planes could be hijacked and flown into buildings like the White House.
"Literally as recently as yesterday, I spoke to the National Press Club and talked about the fact that it is just as easy to fly from National Airport into the White House as it is to, you know, do the same thing in New York," Biden said.
He repeated this claim for years, boasting that he "warned about a massive attack on the United States of America from terrorists," and that he "wasn't clairvoyant" but "knew what everybody else knew."
"On Sept. 10, the day before the attacks on the towers, I made a speech to the National Press Club where I warned about a massive attack on the United States of America from terrorists, why I thought it would happen and why I thought our priorities were misplaced ‐ the day before 9/11," Biden said on the Senate floor in 2006.
He repeated this in another appearance at the National Press Club several months later.
"I spoke almost five years ago to the day, the day before 9/11, and indicated what I thought the greatest threat was at that time. To state the obvious, I wasn't clairvoyant, but I knew what everybody else knew," the lawmaker said.
The former veep and septuagenarian presidential hopeful has faced intense scrutiny of his foreign policy record since announcing his White House bid last April.
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Did he say anything about the politically correct prohibition of profiling at Logan Airport that would have allowed airport security to stop the terrorist before they boarded the plane?
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[BREITBART] Former Sen. Claire McCaskill ...Now, why would I pay taxes on my airplane? Send the bill to the taxpayers!... (D-MO), now an MSNBC political analyst, said President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... was too stupid to be president on Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s "Deadline."When asked to react to the tapes released of Trump talking to Bob Woodward for his new book "Rage," McCaskill said, "He’s obviously never read a Woodward book. He doesn’t understand what Woodward books are and so, is, that’s strike one. Strike two, is he sits for 18 interviews okay, who in their right mind who’s running for office in a year within the year, sits for 18 interviews with a journalist? This is not a smart thing to do."
She added, "This is beyond folly. This is ultimate stupidity. He is so stupid, and he knows — he did the last interview like a month ago. He did the last interview a month ago, so when is the book coming out? The book is coming out within two months of his election with tapes. 18 hours of tapes! Hours and hours of tapes! So this president is the stupid stupidest president that’s ever held the office. For all of his followers forget about the integrity issue, forget about character, this guy’s too dumb to lead this country because this was really, really stupid."
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He was too dumb and lost in a landslide to hitlerry clinton.
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There are a fair amount of "former" members of Congreß over the past couple of years to include GOP'ers (Ryan, Gowdy, Chaffetz). I still say "hmmmmm".
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This is the lard bucket corruptocrat that threatened to 'use her mommy voice' when confronted with pointed questions. THAT is her view of voters and citizens. Long pat due for these parasites to get some harsh schooling in the term 'public servant'.
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Ya think he did not know Woodward would publish just prior to the election to try and swing it? He has effectively controlled the DNC messaging with this. Now their heads are spinning on issues Trump created for Woodward to put in his book. Any in depth research from Woodward would have discovered the topics that are headlining are both worthless and not really true. The joke here, the truly stupid people here are those that don't understand that Trump, for all practical purposes, planted the stories thus driving the MSN's narratives. Well played sir!
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What do I care what a dumb Democrat says?
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Trying to say Trump did not take the China Virus will gain no traction. All the Reps have to do is show the videos of Dems pleading for people to go to concerts, plays, bars and restaurants, attend Chinese New Year festivals and calling Trump racist at every turn for taking any anti-virus measures.
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If a brain were a cat were a Karen,
[yells Joe, "I'm an '80 LeBaron!]
Compared top McCaskill,
[she waves from her Rascal]
Trump looks like a frickin' McClaeen.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[The Federalist] Over two dozen phones belonging to members of Robert Mueller's special counsel team were wiped clean before they were handed over to the Inspector General, according to information contained in 87 pages of DOJ records released on Thursday.
...Candidate for president in 2020. 
[NY Post] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for years falsely claimed in interviews that he predicted the 9/11 terror attacks and a possible strike on the White House in a speech delivered the day before terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers.
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
