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WATCH: Filmmaker EXPOSING Washington sums up how ‘the swamp’ works, and it’s brutal
https://truepundit.com/watch-filmmaker-exposing-washington-sums-up-how-the-swamp-works-and-its-brutal/
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Dem. Insider Wants Out, Shares Shock Stories of Perverse Conferences, Colleagues
https://conservativetribune.com/dem-insider-wants-out-shares-shock-stories-of-perverse-conferences-colleagues/
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A quote from your link:
“Another coworker immediately started lecturing me in front of everyone about how this was grossly cis-heteronormative and that rather than forcing an identity on my child because of genitals, I should cultivate an environment in which the child would be able to flourish and explore the play of gender,” he continued. “This went on for fifteen minutes.”
A prime example of why Dr. Michael Savage calls liberalism a mental disorder. I don’t think many Treepers would last too long on one of today’s college campuses, except Hillsdale and a few others.
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Liberty University
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Good information.
FTA: The system’s not broken. Their are good people here. It’s been poisoned.
Filmmaker Matt Whitworth is launching a new documentary project that exposes the truth about our government with uncensored quotes from lawmakers willing to go on the record.
To see more from Glenn, visit his channel on TheBlaze and listen live to “The Glenn Beck Radio Program” with Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere weekdays 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET on TheBlaze Radio Network.
A commentor says:
For those who are asking where to find the videos, they are being released on Facebook Watch. If you are in facebook, Watch is one of the menu items on the left side of the screen. You can follow The Swamp if you want to be notified when new episodes are released. This link will get you to the right spot: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?query=the%20swamp
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And we can only watch via fb? No thanks..
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I followed Charlotte’s first link and watched the video without FB or YouTube.
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Direct link here:
https://www.theblaze.com/video/filmmaker-exposing-washington-sums-up-how-the-swamp-works-and-its-brutal
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The video, seen here:
OMG – that was a wake up call.
Spooky.
Time to turn them all out into the streets.
We HAVE to stop this now.
That video is a clarion call.
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With all respect, if this video is a wake-up call then you haven’t been paying attention. You are forgiven if you are, say in your 20s. Welcome aboard. The task at hand is large. It is tough and you sometimes you will want to bow out and take a breather. That is understandable. But stay the course. Use that passion implied in your all caps OMG to unseat the corrupt uniparty.
Which of us, when we vote, vote for the party? I surely don’t. I vote for the candidate. (That does not mean I would vote for a D, I surely do not.) Perhaps you will like to know more about what they in the video only touched on; to sit on a committee – divided in ‘A’ list, ‘B’ list, ‘C’ list – the Congresscritter buys his seat, payable to the party. One million dollars is the starting point. It goes up from there. The Chair of an A list committee, such as House Oversight goes for Ten million.
That means they have to pick up the phone to call donors to ask for even more money. So Congress spends a lot of time asking donors to step up. And they must attend fund raisers and and actively campaign for others in their party and other such party business.
Perhaps we should be thankful so little official business gets done. When the Congressman in the video shows his calendar and squawks about his long work days, does he mention what he actually does during those hours? Well, I just gave a glimpse of that.
What if they say no to the party? The party will make sure they are not invited to social gatherings and dinners where the real dealings are done. Their wives will be blackballed at social functions. They will be denied benefits to Congress bathrooms, exercise equipment, parking privileges, apartment rentals, and so on.
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“how ‘the swamp’ works,”
We kind of had the same setup here in NY state for years, we call it “three men in a room”. The Governor, the state senate leader and state leader of the assembly. They make ALL the decisions on even what gets out of committee or comes to floor for a vote. Everyone else that is elected is just there for state constitution “window dressing”.
Not really surprised that Washington is three men in a room and one woman.It is why the donor class gets their legislation, but the voters do not get theirs, such as concealed carry reciprocity and the Second Amendment Guarantee Act.
https://scopeny.org/federal-firearms-legislation
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Who knew President Xi would offer unilateral concessions on trade? Fake News Media keeps reporting as if it was all by magic…next up, Why Kim Jung Un is misunderstood? A story you can find only on your major network and cable outlets.
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I think the easier question is who didn’t know? As I said yesterday on this post, who didn’t see this coming? Maybe I am surprised that it happened so soon, I thought at least by summer. But surely it would happen.
A pure stroke of genius, President Trump offered tariff exemptions to those countries which made concessions to the USA. South Korea did and that put them at a competitive advantage. China had to follow suit.
It is interesting that President XI did this immediately following President Trump’s tweet saying that no matter what happens they will always be friends. Veiled threat? Connection? Maybe/maybe not.
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Varney is on fire this morning getting all over Mueller’s actions….flaming him.
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Powerful! Using his “own brand” against him!
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This one says: Obama made me do it!
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That’s my thought this morning. BHO and Jarrett are instigating this from behind his walls in DC.
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Time for a midnight raid on Obama’s deep state shadow government compound there in DC and a simultaneous warrant search of the Clinton Global HQ out in Little Rock or wherever the heck it is?
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That’s another joke…no need for midnight raid…all the evidence is already in NSA DOJ FBI possession…
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For a moment there I thought that was “Lurch” from “The Addams Family” walking with BHO and Mr. Comey.
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Look how long Comey’s suit jacket is. It looks goofy.
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aka “Bumbling Bobby” Mueller.
I can’t find nothing this guy ( PRESIDENT Donald Trump) but i am going to keep trying to dig something up so I can stay relevant. I want to keep wasting taxpayer dollars from you basket of deplorables and keep you from finding out how I killed off the uranium one investigation to protect the Clinton Crime Syndicate.
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What does Zuckerberg have on Congress? The same day Facebook speaks, Mueller violates oath of office, precedent, and 200 plus years of rule of law.
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What does Sugarberg have? Cash flow, and lots of it. And that’s what makes politicians tick. He was walking the halls of Congress yesterday greasing palms and handing out IOUs for future donations. Expect his testimony today to be a stream-of-consciousness flow of sophomoric hogwash.
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“What does Zuckerberg have on Congress?”
What ever the “shadow government” part of the CIA gives him. He is their puppet, just a human face associated with one of the myriad of their nefarious schemes they have concocted since their unconstitutional inception by President Truman.
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What if the “witch” hunt is actually a Hillary hunt? Just ask N myself.
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Who is Rod Rosenstein?
Is he a CIA “operation paper clip” baby?
https://ellacruz.org/2018/02/21/1082/
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Check out RR’s wife. Deep state lawyer and some evidence that she is/was CIA operative.
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“Check out RR’s wife.”
I did and I am glad that you asked:
Lisa H Barsoomian a US Attorney that graduated from Georgetown Law she’s a protege of James Comey and Robert Muller
Barsoomian with her boss R Craig Lawrence represented Bill Clinton in 1998 Lawrence also represented
Robert Muller three times
James Comey five times
Barack Obama 45 times
Kathleen Sebelius 56 times
Bill Clinton 40 times and
Hillary Clinton 17 times
between 1998 and 2017
Barsoomian herself represented the FBI at least five times
You may be saying to yourself, okay who cares, who cares about the work history of this Barsoomian woman.
Apparently someone does.
Someone out there cares so much that they’ve purged all Barsoomian court documents for her Clinton representation in Hamburg vs. Clinton in 1998 and its appeal in 1999 from the DC District and Appeals court dockets
Someone out there cares so much that the internet has been purged of all information pertaining to Barsoomian.
Historically this indicates that the individual is a protected CIA operative.
Additionally Lisa Barsoomian has specialized in opposing Freedom of Information Act requests on behalf of the intelligence community
And although Barsoomian has been involved in hundreds of cases representing the DC Office of the US Attorney her email address is Lisa Barsoomian at NIH gov.
The NIH stands for National Institutes of Health.
This is a tactic routinely used by the CIA to protect an operative by using another government organization to shield their activities.
It’s a cover, so big deal right, I mean what does one more attorney with ties to the US intelligence community really matter.
I mean with Trump and his
recent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports,
the border wall,
DACA,
everything coming out of California,
the Uniparty unrelenting opposition to President Trump,
the Clapper leaks,
the Comey leaks,
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusal and subsequent 14 month nap with occasional forays into the marijuana legalization mix,
and last but not least Muller’s never-ending investigation into collusion between the Trump team and the Russians
Why does Barsoomian, CIA operative, merit any mention
BECAUSE
she is Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s WIFE
That’s why.
Barsoomian’s loyalties are tainted.
How could this not have influenced Rosenstein?
This clearly violates the appearance of impropriety attorney’s rules?
Both owe their careers as US attorneys to Muller, Obama, Bush, and the Clintons.
impartiality? that’s impossible.
Rod Rosenstein has no business involving himself in the Hillary Clinton-DNC funded Steel dossier, and the ongoing Russia investigation.
Much less the selection of his mentor and his wife’s mentor Robert Muller as Special Counsel.
The rules of ethics, funny, required his refusal.
https://americans4innovation.blogspot.com/2017/05/proof-robert-mueller-cannot-be.html#rosenstein-conflict
https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2017-05-22-Lisa-Barsoomian-represented-William-J-Clinton-98-cv-01459-TPJ-06-11-1998-PACER-accessed-May-22-2017.pdf
https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2017-05-20-R-Craig-Lawrence-DC-Appeals-Court-Docket-PACER-accessed-May-20-2017.pdf
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Do you know that Rod Rosenstein’s wife is directly connected to Hillary Clinton and a law firm of R.Craig Lawrence?
1). – Lisa Barsoomian, wife of Rod Rosenstein: – http://archive.is/tB0SO .
2). – http://www.pacificpundit.com/2018/02/05/rod-rosensteins-wife-lisa-barsoomian-represented-bill-clinton/ .
3). –https://www.facebook.com/Deep6TheDeepState/videos/425951004483258/?hc_ref=ARQXZFA2olGOPjM_67rbCGH5fwuSlw9VvepTUCLlTCzlRj2A71_kEgVpHhE7QcQ8j-c&fref=gs&dti=282708145154360&hc_location=group .
4). – Rod Rosenstein – https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-things-to-know-about-rod-rosenstein-who-helped-get-comey-fired/ …
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Oh my, I just noticed. Does RR pluck his eye brows? hahaha
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Nunes and his boys ought to unleash impeachment proceedings on RR. Today.
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War,,,those that want it …those that do not..
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Tucker gets it. Yesterday was actually a GREAT day for our VSG President Trump. The base just got a lot bigger. Even the Mob bosses attorneys were off limits in the past. The Mob is now our own FBI/DOJ.
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Tucker makes some very strong points; ending with P Trump’s own words………..at 6.00.
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Get out of Syria now PDJT!
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Thank God for Tucker Carlson. His stance on immigration, war, censorship and guns lines up perfectly with my belief. His ability to call politicians and their handlers LIARS directly to their face every night is glorious. Someone on the right needs to continually show that war is a racket not patriotic and the McCain’s are sick evil men not heroes.
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Tucker Carlson was great.
SEN Roger Wicker (MS–Swamp) was not.
Wicker’s Wikipedia page contains this nugget:
“…he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi’s 1st congressional district, succeeding long-time retiring Democrat Jamie L. Whitten, for whom Wicker had once been a Page.”
A former Congressional page. How…interesting.
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“This is a very dangerous day today for lawyer-client relations….”
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The international socialist massmedia and democrats are pushing for a Constitutional crisis as they are determined to undo the results of the last Election. People are waking up and realizing that The Press cannot be allowed to run the country any more. Those days are done!
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If FBI/DOJ are now emboldened and completely lawless as they appear to be, what’s next? A raid on Jr.’s attorney?, Trump’s attorney who just resigned?, McGhan, the West Wing?
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They will raid Donald Jr’s home next, in the middle of the night.
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Especially because of the divorce. They will try to use the ex-wife against him.
Watch this get really, really dirty and nasty.
You can bet on it. Mueller is scum.
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I think we can safely assume that Mueller’s Nazi-style “raid” is not the worst thing the Democrats will do. We need to be prepared for even more outrageous actions.
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At this point nothing they do would be surprising. They will keep pushing their unethical, if not illegal, activities until there is significant blowback. They are desperate and the only thing they have going for them is the crooked Press covering their tracks.
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Sad but true. It’s not just the democrats though. McCain, Graham, Kristol etc are not democrats. McCain was in on this right from the start. It was he who got the FBI involved in the first place.
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lawrencepaul1, I think they are only using McCain’s name to rubber stamp it as bipartisan “concern”. If I recall, McCain’s name pop’s up as handing the Clinton dossier / document to Comey in Dec’16 (post President Trump’s victory) whereas FBI used it for FISA warrant in Oct’16 and they started investigation just before or immediately after RNC convention in Jul’16.
Is my understanding incorrect? Just honestly asking for clarity.
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It was McCain who gave the FBI the British intel file and first brought them into the mix.
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lawrencepaul1, is British intel that you are referring different than the Clinton dossier?
A quick search on “McCain’s link to clinton dossier” indicates that it was Clinton dossier that McCain handed to FBI (Comey?). If it was Clinton Dossier then I believe that was used to secure FISA warrant. If it was used to secure FISA warrant then Clinton dossier was with FBI (FBI was working with Steele because of his impeccable reputation in the past) much before McCain gave it to FBI. Then before McCain it was Reid / Brennan who were also in the mix.
I am not trying to confuse anybody but more like trying to untangle my understanding if it is incorrect. I do not want to end up being a fool when I argue with someone anti-Trump with my understanding – oh and I argue a lot with these folks since I am surrounded by anti-trumpers and have to preserve my reputation of never losing a logical, fact-based argument(s) :).
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I understood that it was the steel dossier but you may be right.
Someone who followed it closer than i will soon jump in and clarify.
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I may believe that but McCain can’t keep his mouth shut and McStain is a traitor…
Enough said..
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That evil man should expire already! McStain!
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“Only the good die young” as they say.
He missed his golden opportunity to prove that he was good over 40 years ago. Would have been a good career move. Nobody would have gotten to see what an ahole he is.
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Old school this lawlessness reminds me of the former DDR where the Stasi was the law.
They framed people to fit the crime they were seeking. A little infraction got you years of penitentiary beating included. Yes under communism are also elites who use the rest like slaves.
Our president had the idia of running for president, first mistake. Second mistake he finance his own election with the help of deplorables.
He upset the new world order that was concocted by devious greedy minds. These people seem to decided golden years of US are over and let us slump into a third world banana republic.
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LP1 recommended a GREAT movie on the Stasi I watched and it is so relevant.
But I forget the name and will ask LP1 if he remembers in his post just below. It has lives in the title, I think.
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Lives of Others?
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Yes!
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It’s always been this, you just hadn’t noticed it before Trump took it mainstream.
Research Ruby Ridge. You will never think of the Feds as the good guys again.
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I was busy with life and to idealistic thinking this can not happen to the U.S.
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It can happen anywhere.
“Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely”
Washington is much to powerful.
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On NetFlix…”Manhunt Unabomber” a really good view of the crooked FBI…they are entirely political.
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Have been since Hoover.
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I can attest to this. My father was one of the field agents tasked with investigating various clinton era scandals such as ruby ridge and white water.
He did his job well but it was clear to him his “assignments” were idle window-dressing, as he was continuously stymied from above by political appointments.
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There ya go. From the horses mouth.
Thank you for sharing it.
Your poor old dad must have had a really hard time with that.
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Waco – “Murderer of Women and Children” should be on the tombstone of the participants in that horrific action. Start with Janet Reno.
Remember Elian Gonazalez? Again, under Bill Clinton’s Janet Reno. Strange how the Democrats were absent when the court rulings went against the paternal relatives of Elian – to keep him here. You know, asylum and all.
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Good points.
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Lavoy Finicum complete FBI assassination and cover up.
Robert LaVoy Finicum was an American spokesman for the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, who seized and occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the State of Oregon, United States, on January 2, 2016.
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I compared that ‘roadblock’ directly to a graphical and textural description of a vehicle ambush in one of my dad’s field guides from VN. The two matched hand in glove. The placement and actions matched perfectly. It was textbook.
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LP1 I watched a movie you recommended about the Stasi, and cannot recall the name ATM. I think it has “lives” in it.
Can you remember?
It was a GREAT movie and highly relevant.
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The lives of others.
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Yes! The Lives of Others
I have the DVD and will re-watch. HIGHLY recommended for a chilling view of the mentality applicable to what is going on in America now.
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All centralized government ends up the same way.
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The world seems to be divided between people who believe that punishment and imprisonment are always the answer to everything, and those who do not.
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This is another way of saying something Heinlein wrote in th 50s: “The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
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Ruby Ridge should be required reading for anyone who wants to see how corrupt the federalist LEO goon squads are and still are to this day.
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Indeed it should.
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Uh, no.
Reading that will show how corrupt the federalist LEO goon squads were in 1993.
It’s much worse now.
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Bill Gore, who is now San Diego Sheriff and was defendant in Peruta v. San Diego County, gave the shoot to kill order to Lon Horiuchi who murdered Vicki Weaver as she held her baby. That murder was covered up as long as could be. And that was after her boy was killed, shot in the back. Of that too, no one was officially found at fault.
Lon Horiuchi went on to lie through his teeth about his actions at Waco. And Bill Gore just drips with blood from so many botched ‘investigations both with the FBI and as Sheriff.
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Ruby Ridge….
And then there is Waco Texas.
Linda Tripp – Hillary Ordered Waco Slaughter
I have always though Hitlery was the power behind the Clinton Throne. Billy-Boy got to dittle who every wanted while Hitlery actually ran things.
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Billy the Rapist has a one track mind. Hillary is the brains of the outfit. Bill is immoral. Hillary is evil.
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Tnank God for that.
Can you imagine how much worse the world would be if Hillary had the intelligence and people skills of Bill?
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I don’t want to.
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Which is Which is why PT is shining the light on ALL the corruption and taking the beatings.
Our eyes will be opened when PT strikes so he has the support he needs to fight a corrupt justice and political system.
The BIG UGLY!
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Earlier, Wounded Knee. Got one of their own killed because they were playing untruthful games.
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“What’s next?”….
A raid on your house? My house? Our attorneys? Is this the warm-up act to show how they’ll be ramrodding doors to confiscate legally owned firearms? And how easily it’s done?
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aaaaaaaaaaad here’s the facts.
Many so called investigations into the DOJ/FBI/Deep state/Clintons/Obama WH that have been ongoing for over a year. Not a single search warrant has been issued or early morning raids of swamp critter’s homes and offices have taken place. Not a single indictment or arrest. Only one person even teminated from employment and that was a clown show at the last min. McCabe should have been fired 17 months ago.
One investigation on going to bring Trump down. Only persons arrested and residences searched in the pre-dawn hours have been close Trump advisors. Facts speak for themselves. This is a witch hunt to bring down Trump. Everything else IMO is kabuki theater that will lead to nothing. Results so far speak for themselves.
It will just be a matter of time, days, weeks at the most, until Trump’s personal attorney is indicted. You don’t execute 4 search warrants and seize evidence w/o indicting the target.
Who’s next? It will be someone close to Trump. Count on it.
Mueller and his goon squad are wasting no time while the so called swamp critter hunters are taking their own good time putting out the fire while the house is ablaze.
Rosy, Wray, Sessions. All enablers of the witch hunt.
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Here are words to live, and die, by:
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” ~ Patrick Henry
“If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” ~ Samual Adams
These men knew a thing or two about tyranny and the cost of freedom. I seek to join them.
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A raid on all of obama’s presidential papers hopefully. If they are going to drop all tradition and reasonable civilities, so should we.
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Mueller really screwed the pooch on this one. Big Time.
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Yes he did.
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Desperate people do desperate things.
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I am also thinking that Mueller is desperate. Isn’t there an investigation into U1? Mueller is up to his eyeballs in U1 and this clear violation of atty/client privilege is his desperate response to try to get something he can use against Pres Trump.
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When a person pulls a stunt like this it is obvious that they are clutching at straws.
Excuses to impeach is what he is looking for. Has been from day one.
That has always been the democrat and republican plan from the very beginning.
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And they just opened up a whole new theater of war yesterday.
What can we do? Beat them soundly at the ballot box in November. Beat them like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t a tomorrow if these criminals take the House.
They want the House of Representatives. The want the White House. They want your house and mine. Stand and Fight.
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It’s most of the republicans as well as the democrats. McCain is not a democrat.
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Most patients with terminal cancer do not enjoy the life expectancy he has had. Nor do they have the energy and stamina to fight much more than the disease and the side effects of their treatment. How is he still among the living?😕
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McCain LIED to get sympathy OR The elite have health care WE DO NOT.
NYT 2017/07/20 “Senator John McCain has glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer, his doctors said on Wednesday.”
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science – “Glioblastoma can occur at any age, but tends to occur more often in older adults. It can cause worsening headaches, nausea, vomiting and seizures.
Glioblastoma, also known as glioblastoma multiforme, can be very difficult to treat and a cure is often not possible. Treatments may slow progression of the cancer and reduce signs and symptoms…..”
Cancer Survival Rate Information
“…Glioblastoma brain cancer is an advanced cancer form that claims many lives each year….
Glioblastoma brain cancer is among the most severe forms of that dreaded condition known as brain cancer…
The glioblastoma brain cancer prognosis is traditionally a grim one, as this form of cancer is generally associated with glioblastoma brain cancer stage 4. At this stage of the disease, tumors are growing rapidly and invading organs and tissues that surround the brain.
Symptoms of glioblastoma brain cancer can include physical symptoms such as severe headaches, vomiting, and seizures, as well as significant memory loss and personality change.
Sadly, the glioblastoma brain cancer survival rate is not optimistic, with the average survival rate for this condition standing at a maximum of 14 months.[…]
That means McCain should have LESS THAN 6 months to live with rapidly worsening symptoms.
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McShame is a nasty, vindictive psychopath. He should have been kicked out once his involvement in the S&L scam was uncovered.
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He really is.
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Looks like even death is kicking him out!
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The worst of it is he will be interned at Arlington.
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Looking for Leverage, any leverage they can use against PT.
Must be frustrating, as they keep coming up dry.
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The Left think EVERYONE is as dirty and nasty as they are. They CAN NOT CONCEIVE of an HONEST MAN. It is completely outside the box thinking for them.
And our President Trump IS an Honest man.
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The example is when Sarah Sanders asked in the Press Briefing…
“I want each of you to tell me why you are thankful.”
I think there is a video…they could not answer…not one of them…they could not comprehend…’Thankful…what is that?”
The faces on the media were classic…it was like she was speaking in tongues..
They could not conceive of an idea of “Being Thankful”…says it all…
I look for the vid..
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Dear president Trump: Fire the swamp! What have you got to lose? You should have done it on day one. Sessions has lost control and we lost major ground yesterday. If you have nothing to hide then you need to fire the swamp, now! They can present their case after you fire them, if they have one.
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You can’t fire Swamp…it must be drained refilled and then paved over…however, it is still Swamp land like Mexico City…maybe one reason the buildings aren’t that tall???
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Last I checked we are all still waiting! Time for more daylight as to why all the great planning by Sessions, Wray, Huber….should drag out?
Never seen so many great lawyers having difficulty trying to get it right. FYI, remember msm saying how great it was to have a honest person at the FBI, Comey?
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Well, for what they’re worth, 2 of today’s Q drops:
Apr 10 2018 01:40:13
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Actions today [raid] will be met w/ swift action.
FBI burning midnight oil.
Q
And:
Apr 10 2018 01:48:24
!xowAT4Z3VQ
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>>979093
TRUST SESSIONS.
TRUST WRAY.
TRUST KANSAS.
TRUST HOROWITZ.
TRUST HUBER.
Q
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This is at least the third time Q has told us explicitly to trust Session, and at least the second time he’s told us explicitly to trust Wray.
Without that I definitely would not trust Wray and would be wavering on Sessions.
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To shutdown HAL, the astronaut had to fly in Space, re-enter the space craft and fly into the unknown!
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Sing Daisy for me Mr. Mueller
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Mid-terms, people. The Democrats have made it clear that they are going to do this kangaroo impeachment if they gain control. You cannot let this happen. I don’t care if your GOP candidate makes you want to puke, vote for that person. Support your President! Look at what he’s going through for us! Look at what he has sacrificed! Do this for him. Help him.
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And the only choice we have are incumbents (anti Trumpers)
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Put those slithering 🐍 back in then. DJT asked for Republicans, so he will be the snake handler.
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IMHO, it will take more, many more voters in November as Soros and company works to complete the total corruption of the vote process.
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I say that all the time. Our worst enemies are the right-wing virtue signallers who can’t vote for the Republican candidate because he/she isn’t good enough for their imagined “principles.” Or their lame excuse that a swampy candidate won’t cooperate with the President. The President is doing very well at getting things done when you consider the total opposition he faces, that’s his job to twist arms. No excuse to let a Dem in.
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I don’t subscribe to the “failure with honor” philosophy. It leads to a totalitarian Demosocialist state.
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I call them “snowflake conservatives.” And they are often the ones who call marxists “liberals” and can’t seem to realize that the Dem Party has been taken over by communists. If they had, they would be first to be inclusive to ensure another Monster Vote.
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Ok, let me get this straight: if I don’t want to vote for a rino that means my principals are “imagined” and my virtue must be too. And knowing that a rino will be as much help to PT as a democrat is a ” lame excuse”? So I should abandon my imagined principals, because holding my nose is the real virtue, and vote for the communist from column A instead of the communist from column B, because that’ll be so much better for everyone, and at least I won’t be a snowflake? Good try at taking an orange, twisting it into a pretzel, and selling it as an apple. No thanks, I’ll take the “failure with honor” option because it’s really the only outcome either way until we fix voter fraud and get better candidates.
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Yes, that’s what it means.
I was raised believing “It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you played the game.” and I’m glad. That’s was for flag football and baseball games, and today I’m a relatively honest man.
November’s elections are not a game. This is even more a “Flight 93” election season than 2016.
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It is a sin to violate one’s conscience. So don’t do that. Don’t hold your nose. Vote for who you think best. But do research each candidate. And if not sure, write in Mickey Mouse or leave blank or whatever. And if anyone does not like that, well the heck with them.
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ALL THE REPUBLICANS VOTED FOR SC JUSTICE. While holding your nose remember that——-another may be coming up after the mid-terms ! “failure with honor” will not help the country for the next 30 years !
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I hope Trump’s attorneys are in court right now wresting Cohen’s documents away from the US Attorney so that, as Alan Dershowitz advised, a judge is going to go through them and decide who should see what and which ones should be protected.
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Not a good idea…once in court, becomes Judiciary…
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Publius, I don’t have the knowledge, but did see this from Vachel Lindsay, who usually does a good job.
I do think the Judiciary can be petitioned to screen the documents and decide what is allowed to be public, and what must be protected under attorney-client privilege. There is a great deal we don’t know about this warrant, ie. How broad it was? What did they actually take out of the office? Paper files? Computers? Cell phones? Associates’ records?
The media: if personal information of other clients is released – could the MSM be subject to legal action?
Regardless. As the story currently stands, it sounds like jackboot action undertaken by the FBI. Frightening for its implications…
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Mueller will leak anything in those documents to hurt Trump
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And the media who prints it will be in big trouble and be suit.
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Pentagon Papers case and various others not only insulate media outlets from liability for publishing leaked documents, there are even rulings which utterly gut even weak American defamation laws, which is why journalists are allowed to get away with the utter lies they print about everyone and everything.
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Maybe it is time to take a case to the Supreme Court.
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Good morning folks. I have this overwhelming feeling that the office raid was about Cohen and not our President. After all, Cohen is an attorney, so how much filth is on him prior to or while representing President Trump? I have learned to expect the unexpected in this incredible novel about restoring our perfect Union.
Maybe I’m insane, but part of me still feels that the Mueller investigation continues because the President wants it to continue. I don’t know why or what the hell is wrong with me, but it remains embedded in my brain.
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I don’t think the President wants it to continue but if he fires RR or RM the MSM will say that everything about the “Big UGLY” is tainted and should be disregarded.
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I hit the wrong channel, and caught a segment on MSNBC just now. They seem to have sources saying this stems from a Russia businessman that has given money to Trump, that they are trying to tie to campaign funds. Remember Cohen is Trumps attorney for all his businesses as well as personal finances. This has to be still trying to dig up connection to illegal campaign donations from a foreign source. It’s more than enough to get a judge to look into it, it is just wrong to expect fairness here.
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Saying a Ukranian gave money to Trump Foundation after a Trump speech.
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” a Ukrainian gave money to Trump Foundation ”
Of course, the opposition had a well crafted frame up plan on multiple fronts, not just the Clinton (aka Steele) Dossier.
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Ukrainians gave money to Podesta and Mueller.
Investigate!!
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Ukranian gave $150K to Trump Foundation for a speech Trump did.
Same Ukranian gave 21 million to the Clinton Foundation.
No kidding.
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“They seem to have sources saying ”
They ALWAYS have sources to tell them whatever they need to continue on with their never ending stream of monotonous Trump Derangement Syndrome fueled tirades.
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BL: It appears you made a typo above which should read: MSLSD.
Mueller Reportedly Investigating Trump Links To Ukrainian Who Gave Clintons More Than $13 Million
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-09/mueller-reportedly-investigating-trump-links-ukrainian-who-gave-clintons-more-13
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I don’t know what’s wrong with you either. Seek help.
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Court filing by MuellerUNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. PAUL J. MANAFORT, JR.,
Defendant.
No. 17-cr-201-1 (ABJ)
Mueller’s filing includes a quotation from DOJ’s discussion of special counsels making it clear that it’s normal to investigate crimes that might lead someone to flip.
“[I]n deciding when additional jurisdiction is needed, the Special Counsel can draw guidance from the Department’s discussion accompanying the issuance of the Special Counsel regulations. That discussion illustrated the type of “adjustments to jurisdiction” that fall within Section 600.4(b). “For example,” the discussion stated, “a Special Counsel assigned responsibility for an alleged false statement about a government program may request additional jurisdiction to investigate allegations of misconduct with respect to the administration of that program; [or] a Special Counsel may conclude that investigating otherwise unrelated allegations against a central witness in the matter is necessary to obtain cooperation.”
Remember this phrase…it expands Mueller reach exponentially to infinity:
“investigating otherwise unrelated allegations against a central witness” if it’s “necessary to obtain cooperation.”
Anyone who did anything with Trump is now a target. They are not safe in their home, office or workplace.
Who will ever sign on to defend Trump?
We must now wait for Judge Jackson’s ruling to see if the courts bless Mueller’s self expanded authority
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4429556/Response-to-motion.pdf
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No news outfit is really following what is going on in the Manafort court case.
Mueller requested info on 5 of Manafort’s cell phones:
“They may be seeking “historical cell site information,” which helps investigators determine when people were near each other at a particular time, said Rodgers, a former federal prosecutor. They may have subpoenaed phone service providers to obtain the contents of a phone, such as emails and texts, she said.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/mueller-reveals-search-in-manafort-case-suggesting-fresh-trail
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This has to stop. These investigations must have clear and defined limits. Otherwise, the Deep State will continue to destroy us and subvert our will. No future “outsiders” will ever run for office (and yeah, I know that’s THE desired outcome of the cabal.)
This is one time when I wish we could have an emergency national referendum on specific legislative action-similar to the propositions we sometimes vote on at local and state levels. Congress won’t do it for us and POTUS is one man. Has there ever been ANY kind of national referendum -where the people voted directly to pass specific laws? We don’t want to change the constitution—we want to bring accountability and limits to agencies who no longer adhere to it. I didn’t realize how dire the situation is until I realized that we don’t have any options If Congress won’t take action.
The colonists presented their grievances to the British Parliament and asked for redress before any shots were fired. They did everything they could to avoid bloodshed. Their premier issue was taxation without representation. Besides POTUS and a handful of Congressional members, where is OUR representation in Washington, DC? We didn’t elect the people who are trying to take out our president. How is this not tyranny?
It’s time for us to organize and petition Congress. The historical record needs to show that they were given opportunity to redress our grievances. I don’t know how to go about doing this but I intend to find out.
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What if this all goes to Supreme Court? Will Gorsuch be required to Recuse?? Will Ginsburg recuse???
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Is John Roberts compromised?
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IMO, yes he is!!!
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The entire cabal in Washington is compromised. The Deep State has dirt on everyone and blackmail is standard practice in the nations capital. The “unjustice” Departments sanctioned witch hunt on all things Trump is not going to go away until they have indicted the president. The bastards have seemly unlimited power. Welcome to the American Police State!
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If they stay for more than one term, they are “owned”.
Supremes are all there because they are “approved” not for wisdom and knowledge.
Yes, this is a Fascist Tyranny.
This Government is not our Republic. That was lost long ago.
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Of course he is!
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I would like to thank Asst. AG Rod Rosenstein and SC Robert Mueller for making it crystal clear how corrupt and out of control the DOJ is.
If you are an independent and didn’t believe Obama weaponized the DOJ before today, you likely went to bed thinking it. Anyone who is half engaged on this subject will sense the corruption at DOJ.
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The Justice system has completely collapsed.
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Quote at the end of a WaPo article :
Wow, who is this person? Louise Sunshine?
“When it comes to Michael Cohen, anything is possible,” said Louise Sunshine, a former Trump Organization executive who knows Cohen. “Anything and everything is possible.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-bomb-on-trumps-front-porch-fbis-cohen-raids-hit-home-for-the-president/2018/04/09/6abb816e-3c37-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html
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Has known Trump since practically forever. She’s a major real estate person, too. See her Wikipedia article, for example:
“During her time in government she met Donald J. Trump. From 1973-1985, Sunshine was Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization and was instrumental in the development of The Grand Hyatt Hotel and Trump Tower NY; a limited partner of Trump Plaza NY; and was responsible for the acquisition of the Barbizon Plaza Hotel site in Manhattan and the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, FL.”
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A crap piece of reporting full of suspicions, speculations and suppositions.
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What is our line in the sand? Is there one? When is enough enough?
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The IG report and all that follows will blow this (as SD would say) chaff and countermeasures dust away.
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We don’t currently have a line in the sand.
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Jan 20th, 2017 was the demarcation.
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Tucker Carlson nails the lies on Syria
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It was epic and historic. An Edward R. Morrow moment.
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http://21stcenturywire.com/2018/04/08/syria-the-egregious-western-media-chemical-weapon-fraud-in-eastern-ghouta/
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I like what Scott Johnson over at Powerline has to say about this:
What is to be done?
“He can use his pardon power to shut down Mueller’s prosecutions and leave him on board to continue his collusion investigation. He could use it to pardon all of Mueller’s cases that extend beyond the collusion investigation. At this point, that is all of them. He could pardon Flynn. He could pardon Manafort. He could pardon Gates. He could pardon Cohen.”
Bush did it to shut down the Walsh prosecution of Casper Weinberger.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/04/what-is-to-be-done-8.php#comments
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Interesting take on #Resistance
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Three weeks of angst and chaos, Twitter dies and POTUS finds a new platform. Hopefully Brad Parscale is working on one behind the scenes.
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The more the left tries to censor platforms such as FB and Twitter, the sooner alternate platforms will be built. That’s only healthy. Monopolies are never good. There needs to be competition.
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Linux and other open source alternative computing is coming to the world in a greatly expanded libertarian way that slow learners like Google, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter simply will not survive unless they EVOLVE to something better than propaganda psyops and mind control and gaslighting and marketing through information control and profiling users of digital services. Those who think they are presently in the catbird seat will end up in their own fatal error scenario that is an irreversible Halt, Catch Fire, and Burn.
Open source digital media CAN and SHOULD replace ALL ideologically filtered and privacy invading and privacy trampling monopolistic FAKE NEWS PROPAGANDA providers that are presently the “famous name brands” of various Stalinist / Atheist “shithole corporate media AND social media”. Users are already migrating to a higher orbit than is the dominion of the propaganda vendors being told “No Sale” in reply to their PC guided ideological GARBAGE.
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If Mueller is a threat, he has now given the President grounds to fire him — remember his comment not long ago: nothing in this investigation has led back to any wrong doing by the President.
If Mueller is not a threat, then he will not be fired. At that point, one has to wonder what useful role is Mueller playing (perhaps unwittlingly)? Shed light on the campaign donations and connections between one Victor Pinchuk (involved in steel pipe, interesting) and one Hillary Clinton…
Never destroy your enemy when they are destroying themselves.
And there can be no impeachment if the House doesn’t go for it — so make sure that kangaroo court doesn’t happen. aka. get out and vote, vote wisely and well
What has happened in Asia lately to cause China to be so obliging — after of course getting to save face?
And why is it that people who are so skeptical of the white hat/black hat scenario within our government (which they should be: human nature doesn’t lend itself to such dichotomies) so willing to buy that a certain ME leader is a totally for real good guy? How can human nature work on one, but not on the other? (ps. I think he’s an opportunist…and not a very clever one at that — which is not our problem, but his, and thanks to our own band of not clever, corrupt opportunists we have to deal with him now…but the chances of war are in truth very low imohao of course).
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Well worded optimism mixed with on the ground reality. Thanks Jenny.
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This was previously posted by redleg. I am almost certain that this is what has occurred.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/983547265699676160.html
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It’s practically a ray of sunshine to me, reading this. Makes more sense out of the Stormy Daniels mess than anything. It doesn’t really explain how Stormy suddenly switched from denial though.
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I like this theory. It’s just twisted enough to be true, and it squares with twitter threads I’ve read presenting mountains of evidence Obama and his administration openly sabotaged Ronsenstein’s career, thus making him a voluntary double-agent for the incoming Trump admin.
If it’s true we will have to dig for it in court records because the media won’t touch it with a 10 ft pole.
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Worth reading.
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All Hype .
Way too many if’s in that thread
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That was my exact same thought: too many ‘ifs’ and complete fantasy.
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Actually it squares with reality.
Why in HADES would Stormy open her big fat mouth about President Trump if she signed a non-disclosure agreement ABOUT TRUMP? No one in their right mind would if they had access to the internet since there was NO CRIMINAL ACT unlike with Weinstein.
If the non-disclosure was NOT about President Trump, then why was she paid?
If it was about President Trump, why would it not be out of Trump’s personal funds?
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That is fascinating ! Good stuff! Thank you!
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some may find this of interest..dealing with censorship …
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ZuckTheCuck needs to get hammered.
I’m still so pissed about last night. Zucks head on a platter would help.
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Congress will fawn over him like they do all of these little soy boy derps
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He is paying them enough money.
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He is not testifing under oath, wink wink.
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Congress…always cultivating the next feeding trough. Grifters.
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Did you see the story that Zuck is going to take classes on how to be more likeable? Hillary sought the same counsel during her second failed attempt to destroy the world, aka, become president. Zuck wants to be prez, so apparently he’s getting a jump ahead of his unlikability factor. Only liberals who are so unlikeable as these two would be arrogant enough to think likeability can be taught. You either have it, or you don’t. And you probably never will, right Hillary?
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He probably has a mic in his ear just like the Hag did…
for a man to say he is going to take a class to learn to be more likable says it all.
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As posted earlier.
I’m a big believer in PDJT and I wish him well. But I’m also a believer in Occam’s Razor. That’s the theory that, to understand a complex problem, choose the solution that makes the fewest assumptions.
The real debate here is whether PDJT and a carefully selected senior team are playing out a well thought out plan to drain the swamp (the often promised but still elusive BIG UGLY) or whether PDJT is surrounded by people who may appear to be White Hats but are in reality controlled by the Deep State.
Just make a list of what one has to ASSUME about key people and key activities to make the Big Ugly/Drain the Swamp multi dimensional chess game plausible. To wit:
1. You have to ASSUME Sessions is White Hat despite his recusal from campaign related issues and, more importantly, his multi month abdication of AG responsibilities in Swamp activity OUTSIDE OF HIS NARROW RECUSAL. Most of what is hamstringing our President has nothing to do with Russian collusion in the campaign and Sessions is letting it all happen. He could have tightened the leash on Mueller and Rosenstein a long time ago and he did not.
2. You have to ASSUME Mueller was hand picked by PDJT and is really going after the massive criminality of the Deep State, obvious to all who are honest, despite the staff he has hired and the actions he has taken (all against PDJT allies and ZERO against Hillary and her Swamp acolytes).
3. You have to ASSUME Rosenstein is White Hat despite all the Swamp supporting or Swamp excusing activity he is presiding over – with NO corresponding action against anything Swamp.
4. You have to ASSUME the IG is going to drop a MOAB soon (it’s always soon, never today) despite the Judicial Watch and other inputs that IG’s are where truth goes to die and no one can cite a single IG report that really led to anything meaningful ( I don’t count rearranging deck chairs or “mistakes were made, lessons were learned, and we will do better in the future”). I mean criminal referrals leading to indictments, prosecutions and jail time. It doesn’t happen in the Swamp.
5. You have to ASSUME House and Senate investigations will lead to anything. The Swamp just plays with these dopes. A teenager would love to have one of these committee chairs as a father. He/she could get away with anything. Nunes and Grassley are the only exceptions and they, too, are being hamstrung.
6. You have to ASSUME that massive DOJ investigations (run by career investigators and prosecutors) have been long underway investigating the massive criminality that is as obvious as the nose on your face (Hillary e-mailgate, Uranium 1, Clinton Foundation, FISA abuse, unmasking, lying under oath, leaking classified information, et al) and yet not one single leak or tip has come out in over a year.
Etc., etc., etc.
Unfortunately, I conclude that the simpler solution (i.e.. fewer assumptions) is that PDJT was somewhat overwhelmed early in his tenure (understandable) and took the staffing advice of closet Swampers who talked him into filling very important positions with very clever Deep State operatives (Sessions, Mueller, Rosenstein, Priebus, McMaster, Wray, etc.) who are now playing their assigned roles to basically render the Trump Presidency null and void. He now knows this, is changing what he can at this late date, but it’s too late to get back on a winning streak before the mid terms and likely House flip.
I will believe this until I see one (just one) significant action (i.e. impacting a Senior Swamper) that tells me any of PDJT’s key people are on his team and really part of the oft promised 3D chess game.
Until then, I reluctantly bow to the wisdom of Occam’s Razor. It’s the best explanation of complex human behavior known to man.
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I think you are correct. Both the Dems and Reps had an insurance policy for PDT.
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Good morning. That is pretty good, i would like to comment on:
2) “Mueller was hand picked by PDJT” – The “swamp” picked “Bumbling Bobby” Mueller – http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/257335/robert-muellers-beltway-cover-up
4) “IG’s are where truth goes to die” – That was true under 8 years of BHO. PDJT has taken ALL 47(?) IG’s off the leash and unmuzzled them.
“indictments, prosecutions and jail time. It doesn’t happen in the Swamp.” – Which is why a team was brought in from outside the “swamp” to deal with it.
6) “yet not one single leak or tip has come out in over a year.” – That is exactly how “things used to be” 30-40 years ago, which is what AG Sessions said he wanted the DOJ to go back to.
“it’s too late to get back on a winning streak before the mid terms and likely House flip.”
If President Trump thought it was too late to save the country and stayed in cozy Trump Tower, we would not be having this discussion now, would we? I am sticking with the plan that PDJT has and he has my full support.
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harleyd says:
You forgot President Trump has been PLANNING this for THREE DECADES. You do not think there are others Like Wilbur Ross who are disgusted at the naked grab for power?
You also forgot after his second election OBAMA FIRES 9 COMMANDING GENERALS IN 2013 Obama [had] Fired 197 US Senior Military Commanders in 5 years
That includes THIRTY SEVEN 4 Star Generals
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“…PDJT has taken ALL 47(?) IG’s off the leash and unmuzzled them….”
Found in IG Horowitz report to congress where he complained about the Obama Director of the FBI stonewalling him.
Horowitz: “….This is an issue of utmost importance, as evidenced by the fact that 47 Inspectors General signed a letter in August 2014 to the Congress strongly endorsing the principle of unimpaired Inspector General access to agency records……”
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Your theory:
1. Assumes PDJT didn’t understand how messed up the Government is.
2. Assumes PDJT was overwhelmed.
3. Assumes PDJT was naive enough not to recognize bad advice.
4. Assumes PDJT was not able to identify Deep State operatives on his own.
5. Assumes PDJT allows people to “talk him into” decisions.
6. Assumes that every important position POTUS has filled has been a bad decision.
7. Assumes that we are not currently on a winning streak.
It’s nice that you wish POTUS well, but if you truly apply Occam’s Razor then your theory has more assumptions.
So with that I would have to assume that you completely disagree with Sundance about The Big Ugly and therefore will spend your time on a different website.
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Excellent post . . . . You of course are going to have to deal with some folks here who don’t take kindly to anyone disagreeing with their group think. I support President Trump and have from the beginning, but there are some here who attribute God-like powers to him (some even referring to him as “Savior”) and that makes me extremely uncomfortable. I think our President is a good man and honest in his efforts to “Make America Great Again” but I have my doubts about the “Big Ugly”. I think he knew (or thought he knew) how deep the rot went in the swamp – but it’s highly likely at this point that the Swamp will win out. We allowed it to get too big and now it’s protecting itself. The Uniparty will close ranks . . . same as it ever was.
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…which begs the question…why are you posting on this web site when you know the mindset of Sundance & co?
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Oh I’m sorry . . . . I wasn’t aware that my differing opinion was forbidden here. Harleyd – – see where I was going with this? No differing opinions allowed and you will be called out if you dare to go against the group think. Which begs the question Coldeadhands: Why are you taking the liberal tactic of banning opposing thoughts instead of being comfortable in your ability to defend your own?
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Liberal vs. conservative template. Who is banning you?
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Stranded in CA,
You are outed, just by your statements of categorizing…or the liberal tactic of separating group and profiling them.
Your statements of:
– group think
– some here who attribute God-like powers to him
– Hypocritical and guilty of using the liberal playbook of blaming someone of doing he same thing you are guilty of:
Saying ColdHands..
I.E. “Your statement: “Why are you taking the liberal tactic of banning opposing thoughts”
He did not say you should be “banned”, ColdHands, just asked you a question
So, you are outed.. You have not made any arguments that are Objective..
Your statements are only Subjective. and this does not make sense to most of the individuals here or anywhere else for that matter.
For example:
Objective Statement:
Is a statement that is completely unbiased.
It is not touched by the speaker’s previous experiences or tastes.
It is verifiable by looking up facts or performing mathematical calculations.
Subjective Statement:
Is a statement that has been colored by the character of the speaker or writer.
It often has a basis in reality, but reflects the perspective through with the speaker views reality.
It cannot be verified using concrete facts and figures.
So…all I will say is”
Bless Your Heart….
if you change your methods…maybe your posts will be more readily understandable..
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My post isn’t understandable? Really? After this rambling monstrosity you’ve just posted? Gunny you really need to get a grip . . . . oh, and from a fellow Southerner . . . Bless Your Heart.
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You just proved Stranded in CA point with this response. Maybe you don’t see that but you did.
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Well OK then
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I wasn’t “banned” – and certainly not by you. Unless I’m mistaken it isn’t your site. I realize that I am still allowed to post here (for now). But when you question me as to why I’m here and posting when my opinion differs from yours, then you’re really saying that my opinion isn’t welcome.
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Maybe you should re-read my post..
– And….you just made my point….’Cold Hands did not say nor did I say you were banned…you did”
– I never questioned why you are here and posting with a different opinion. I only commented my thoughts to your post.
– I never said your opinion is not welcome, that is your thought not mine..
So enjoy….
Bye
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We should ALWAYS question.
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One reason we are watching this HORROR SHOW is because it is a Constitutional Crisis…Congress is allowing Special Counsel to destroy the Presidency while the President works to MAGA! The Supreme Court will decide this matter in the future…Speaker Ryan said he would not defend President Trump and Ryan hasn’t. THE QUESTION IS WILL THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE HOUSE UNITE AROUND AMERICA FIRST? The Senate is gone….90% RINOs Nevertrumpers Dems…only need three or four more for Impeachment…reality
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Sad but true.
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Which is why there is the SILENCE from Paul Ryan, the Turtle, Rand Paul, all the rest of the UniParty let alone the Democrats. They’re all watching so they can properly craft their responses. I can guar-an-da&n-tee you they’re also busy making sure that anything in THEIR attorneys’ offices that could be seized in a “Mueller raid” is being shredded.
You can get your bottom dollar that the DNC is already using the Mueller raid to raise money for the 2018 elections and looking ahead to 2020. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the RNC isn’t doing the same behind the scenes—isn’t there some evidence that a PAC connected to Paul Ryan contributed to the CONOR LAMB campaign?
And finally, I bet that GEORGE SOROS is mixed up in this somehow. Especially since he failed in his attempt to suborn the election in Hungary and Viktor Orban won instead.
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God continue to Bless Viktor Orban! He is the man that truly cares for his country and people and they in turn respect and love him!
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They all sense this is leading to disaster in mid-terms and a one-term Presidency.
That is their goal and big chance for big pocket-stuffing and more power to them eventually.
These “Republicans” are the cabal with knives, like that which surrounded and stabbed Julius Caesar.
We are witnessing the attempted assassination of MAGA and the slow bleeding out of a Presidency.
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Yes we are; and the plotters aren’t being secretive about it, but doing it out in the open, unlike Cesar’s plotters………..Romans (Trump America) are see what is going on and we don’t like it.
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Since we are attacking attorney client privilege, Looking forward to Mueller and Rosenstein and company directing a no knock raid on comey’s Friend/ lawyer/ law professor.
Also on Cheryl mills and heather samuelsson or whatever her name is.
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..and Perkins-Coie.
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Fabulous idea, won’t happen. The goal of Mueller is to make sure that Donald Trump is removed from office by any means short of assassination.
All the others you mention will skate. Been the plan from the start. They know that if the others are put under the same scrutiny that President Trump is, the CLINTONMACHINE/DEEPSTATE Hit Unit will have a “contract” on each of them.
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Damn that headline woke me up for a split second.
Mueller To Be Replaced… As Volkswagen CEO
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I don’t know, it seems to me that this action (raid) is going to end up being a catalyst and we’re going to see Trump’s team start raining hell down on all these people. It’s so egregious, we’ll see, but I’m optimistic.
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I’m not forgiving one gopE Quisling who voted for a Special Council to investigate the bogus Trump involvement with Russia in the 2016 election.
NOT. ONE.
I will never vote for one of them again, EVER.
Where are these gopE Quislings speaking out about the Stalinesque tactics Mueller’s team is using? This behavior reeks of P.U.N.K. Weissmann.
Where are they screaming to shut this witch hunt down?
Where are they screaming why Hillary wasn’t raided for her 33,000 missing emails?
Where are they screaming about why it is okay for the Aman brothers to claim attorney client privilege?
Where are they calling for Wassermann-Schultz’s head?
Once none of these Quislings squawked when Mueller had the temerity to subpoena Paul Manafort’s former attorney it was only a matter of time before they raided Michael Cohen.
These raids would never be done to Obama or Hillary. We would hearing screams of racist and misogyny.
I’m fed up with the double standard and ashamed to be an American where there is no rule of law.
I have zero respect for clueless Sessions. I always had my doubts about him for AG. Only someone who resided in the swamp for too long would have voted to confirm RADICAL Holder for AG and make Rosenstein number 2 at the DOJ. The DOJ needed to be fumigated.
I’m also sick of hearing that Mueller was a marine. BFD, he’s also a corrupt piece of garbage.
What we are witnessing is not a coup against Trump. It is a jackboot on the throat of the citizens of the US who voted for Trump and a threat to any outsider who ever contemplates running for POTUS again.
The corrupt Uni-Party will authorize the Deep State KGB to throw the book at you. And you dumb #@%*’s who think you vote for who the president is, well, think again.
WE. ARE. A. BANANA. REPUBLIC.
What a complete and total disgrace !
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yeah. get that totally. But the rats have been inside the walls for a long time while we mostly went on with our business. I suppose you could at least say that they’ve now been exposed to the sunlight and the infestation is well-known. Even that’s an accomplishment. We’ve de-legitimized the media, the Clintons, the Obamas, Congress, etc. and now we’ve de-legitimized the security services, special prosecutors, the judiciary etc. In a long war, that’s a decent victory in an of itself. Not sure our generation will live to see the Promised Land(not sure we even should given what we allowed to happen on our watch) but your kids likely will. (And if perhaps you’re a youngster yourself, on behalf of us old farts, I’m deeply sorry for the steaming turd we’re handing you.)
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Let’s hope that his response is to get the hell out of the Middle East.
Let them all continue to squabble fight and kill one another just as they have been since the beginning of time.
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President Trump may bring all parties together for Peace Summit…conditions on ground are moving but a deal may get made!
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When he has confirmation that both the British nerve gas and Syria chemical attack were false flags in order to make him look a fool he will fire a lot of people.
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You’re probably right, but it shouldn’t even require proof of a negative. What it should require is proof of the allegation and any doubts whatsoever negate that allegation. Mattis supposedly said no proof from last year, and if you really listen to all these politicians they always hedge with weasel words. IMHO, after Bush43 WMD, and after Trump’s clear campaign, that is more than enough to dismiss these fools out of hand.
Trump must demand they pass a standalone declaration of war in this election year. Put their damn votes on record for all to see.
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In an ideal world.
We don’t live in one of those.
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I know. But there is absolutely no reason for Trump NOT to demand Congress authorize all action. On record. Votes. It couldn’t be simpler. Just announce there will be no more action until Congress authorizes it. This requires no perfect world. Just a tweet! But better yet, a press briefing walk-in which will get televised and send shockwaves into every Congress member’s soul. Let’s see them talk their way out of it.
Point is, if Trump does not demand it, then he is actively taking part in the Constitutional destruction by letting the neocons run the show. This is an election year. There never could be a better time than right now.
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He is not a constitutional scholar and he is not being well advised it appears to me.
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You can dream, but there are too many bad actors to ever reach an agreement. It is like Israel and the Palestinians.
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It is the Israelis and the Palestinians! They have to have a seat at the table too…the deal is already there…Palestinians get Egyptian Palestine and Jordan Palestine…Syria, Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt sign Peace Accord with Israel…this is one reason Globalists don’t want Putin and Trump deal making…too much $$$ in perpetual war.
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I agree. I really don’t care what happens in the ME. Let them all kill each other.
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It’s what they have always done.
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And they are pretty good at it.
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The Mid-East is nothing but groups of tribes…These tribes have been fighting since the beginning of time..
Hey…they live in a desert…before oil…what did they have? Try living in a small group of people for hundreds, if not thousands of years….you pick up a lot of strange ways…
Why do you thinks they make their women wear Burkas? Once again…they live in a desert…
Not many women around and men will be men…so they cover up their women to limit the temptations to other men…
Then what happens?…..Hey..check out that goat over there…looking kind of nice…or the worse case…The children did not have to cover up..
Hey they live in a desert…then kids start looking good..
Hey…do you think they understood dating? The Elizabethan culture?…Hey, they live in a desert….”Hey..want woman….rip clothes off…rape her….then the husband loses his pure booty..hey it’s a desert…so he stones her…
What a society…Hey they live in a desert….
They should put a fence around the entire Mid-East and let them have at it..Just like a zoo.
Never let them out…for viewing only..😎
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GLAZOV GANG: THE LEFT’S NIGHTMARE OF TRUMP DEFENDING THE BORDER
http://jamieglazov.com/2018/04/10/glazov-gang-the-lefts-nightmare-of-trump-defending-the-border/
This new edition of The Glazov Gang features features Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center and editor of The Point at Frontpagemag.com.
Daniel discusses The Left’s Nightmare of Trump Defending the Border, revealing how progressives erupt in fury about a president protecting America.
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Any sign yet today we have an Attorney General?
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Sorry 😐
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It seems to me, yesterday the tide turned the other way.
The Resistance Is Already Planning for When Trump Fires Mueller
By Michelle Goldberg
JULY 21 2017
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If news breaks that Trump has forced Mueller out, Wertheimer believes that “the country will explode.” For the resistance, the trick is making sure the explosion is sustained. “That means people in the streets, demonstrations, marches, folks coming to Washington, a massive lobbying effort in Congress,” he said.
-snip-
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2018 – they will beat the horse to stir up excitement, while some doofus Republicans will believe it an stay at home. Firing Mueller is a bad idea IMO. Cohen is just going to have to ride it out and keep his mouth shut.
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I think Mueller is trying to get fired. He is digging and digging for anything at this point. Short of coming up with nothing, he can save his reputation in the public view, that he was fired because he was getting to close to the Trump finances.
Trump can be furious, and tweet about it but under no circumstances should he fire him, or now sit down with him… Period. Ignore him.
Come on H&H.. get something out there! And it better be good stuff to start out with or the media will think its just reactionary tactic.
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The American Revolution took more than a Presidential term and this one, The Second American Revolution will take more than one Presidential Term as well. To drain the Swamp, renogiate Nafta, WTO, UN, THE WALL, Immigration, Economy, Taxes, Land, etc… is a giant undertaking! We have the BEST BUILDER IN THE WORLD AND HIS TEAM OF PATRIOTS TOO! We need an America First House!!! We need to remember this is a BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND…why does our First Lady Melania pray? Why do we believe? Because we love our country so much! Trump Trump Trump
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What happens next?
AMERICA 1st
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Whatever happened to the 1000s of electronic comms taken from the transition?
My cold anger is still flaming.
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1) I realize there are two sharply opposing views on the “4-dimensional chess” theory of what is going on.
2) I try to hew closely to Sundance’s pov because it is the most incremental and thorough analysis, but even so I do not always “get” what Sundance is implying.
3) The more explicit exponents of 4-d chess (like Wictor etc etc) are so intelligent, absorbing and persuasive, it is impossible not to consider their opinions seriously. Plus, it is what I WANT to believe (a powerful psychological phenomenon). The despair pov does not appeal to me at all, but it certainly looks real going on appearances and “nothing” happening.
4) Based on decades of personal experience closely following politics (as much as one can given the need to pay the next mortgage installment) I have NEVER been so confused about what is actually going on as I am now. I am just certain about two things: first, Trump is a VSG, a godsend, and the best thing to happen to America in my lifetime. Second, America is in thrall to Corrupt Evil-doers from top to bottom, in every jurisdiction, and across the fruited plain.
5) Three other things.
6) First, a poster somewhere made the comment that Trump repeats how Mueller is on a “witch hunt.” There is only one witch known to all.
7) Second, Sundance has proved that witnesses are cooperating and outside prosecutors are engaged. We know other prosecutors are busy in Arkansas and elsewhere.
8) Third:
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I share in some of your confusion. The fury and strength of the resistance didn’t surprise me. I was even less surprised by the GOP leadership who I believe may present even more danger to the President now than the Dems.
What surprises me to this day is the near unanimous strain of hate in the media toward this President, and a total disregard for reporting any positive news whatsoever.
I believed that by this time at least in his presidency, the President expected that there’d be at least some semblance of fairness and accuracy in reporting. At least I expected it. That was not to be.
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I NEVER expected anything less than total hatred and made up Fake News from the media.
After Clinton was elected a friend of mine confidently said the media would start reporting objectively on him, if only for the salacious and titillating aspect. By then, I understood the media was Fake News and just extremely sophisticated propaganda.
And the media continued to defend Clinton every day of his presidency.
I am confused as I never have been by the motives of the various news makers, and the precise details of who is doing what and why, foreign OR domestic.
I think this is in no small part exactly what Trump wants, for many reasons, not the least is to prevent Fake News from ever attaining a consistent hold on the Narrative. But as I say, for many other reasons too.
The few indisputable hard facts are all very encouraging.
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I think we have two completely separate things going . Sessions , Huber and the IG are after the FBI DOJ corruption and Mueller is after an impeachable offence . There is
. no grand strategy where Mueller is a White Hat. Hillary is at Rockefeller Center skating , always skating , falling down , often ,,,but they will pick her up and put her right back on her feet to skate FOREVER.
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Tonawanda,
I share many of your sentiments and it’s totally understandable to be confused. As Our President says: “It’s complicated business!”.
Sundance’s analysis still seems sound to me. One of the things I consider as the wrong-doers become closer to being exposed, the more they will fight for their existence.
As Sundance calls it, we are now seeing the extreme versions of “chaff and countermeasures”.
History is being made. Patience is a virtue. Despair is a sin.
Ain’t none of it easy.
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Send that photo to Mueller. The President has a team ready for war, too.
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Hookers are way for fun than that boring treason and corruption stuff.
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Dershowitz should be the AG. He’s immensely qualified and his liberal credentials and intellect make him bullet proof.
Sessions out.
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Why? It was always going to be Special Counsel or Independent Prosecutor…they passed Russia Collusion sanctions 522 to 3!
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Of course. 522 to 3 tells you whose side they are all on. Uni-party at it’s finest.
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Sessions out. Sundance in.
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Yeah…I want to know his dirty secrets….(s)😎
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oh hell no! Dershowitz also believes Hillary didn’t do anything really wrong.
that flies directly in the face of your “intellect” comment and totally supports your “liberal credentials” comment.
I want an AG who believes in the LAW…not bending it to suit his beliefs. Sessions is just fine imo.
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Dershowitz is smoke an mirrors….he was / is in deep with them…and I actually think now he is trying to distance himself more and more every day..
Because he knows what is coming and he wants to be fart away from it…he knows. he knows where alot of the bodies are buried…
He’s trying to get outta the way of the on-coming train….liberals will never change.
He’s in it for his own survival…and probably to write another book about the whole thing, being he knows everyone..
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excuse me ..far away….but fart will do….😎
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Not sure what this means!
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Normally any records seized would be cataloged, and copies of which should be available to the entity from which they were seized.
Too, anything which is to be provided as evidence; must also be provided to the accused.
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Thanks!
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YW
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And just to throw a little wrench at mueller, there should be an issue raised concerning the ‘chain of custody’ concerning any records that end up with mueller, in regards to Trump.
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the question was raised about documents seized that Cohen might need in his suit against Stormy Daniels–he gets them back or copies of them so he can proceed ( or defend himself) with the lawsuit.
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President not going to Peru !
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Well one thing that the Syria gas attack has achieved, nobodies talking about the wall or illegal immigration..
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lp1..yep…Look a Squirrel..!!!
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And no one is noticing that the Illegal Caravan is headed to California, into open arms, of course.
Jerry Brown threatened to build a wall on California’s border if Trump won. Sure wish he’d kept that promise so they could keep their illegal population out of the rest of America.
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… and then … one thing the raid on Cohen achieved was nobody talking about false flag chem attacks and looming Syria action. ( I checked, 2,245 comments already on the two Mueller threads last night ).
I can’t stand most conspiracy theories because they swamp the legitimate questions we have, but if there ever was a set of events that looked coordinated, I would say this is it. The day that Syria is the big topic, and Bolton’s first day also sees the raid on the President’s lawyer. Immediately every Trump supporter rallies behind Cohen and Trump ( rightly of course ) leaving no oxygen for questions about the Syria scam.
Conspiracy or not, this is a win-win for deep state actors because they might get what they want in Syria with Trump that even Obama chickened out from doing. And, Trump loses a chunk of his supporters along the way as a deep state bonus.
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Let’s hope that the President is as smart as I think he is. I see this a make or break situation for America and for the president in particular.
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Well one thing that the Mueller raid has achieved, nobodies talking about the Syria gas attack…
…fixed it for ya
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The whole world outside of TV land is talking about Syria.
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Oh, a few fools are still being foolish. This morning the foreign policy team over at MSNBC explained that it’s far more important for American troops to fight in Syria than it is to secure our own border here in America. Andrea Mitchell, Mika Brzezinski, and Joe Scarborough calling for war.
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They would sat that though wouldn’t they.
It’s us against the world.
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The DemonRats and Fake Yellow Stream Media just shot themselves in the foot with this raid on the home and office of President Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen !
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Most adults in the USA are well aware of this and know a criminal can talk frankly of his crime with his attorney so the attorney can then figure out a way to help his client evade the consequences of his actions. This raid on the LAW OFFICES of an attorney who HAS NOT BEEN INDICTED with any crime, is so far out of normal rule of law, it is jaw dropping.
STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA!
“The [lawyer-client] privilege has been a hallmark of Anglo-American jurisprudence for almost 400 years … Its fundamental purpose ‘is to safeguard the confidential relationship between clients and their attorneys so as to promote full and open discussion of the facts and tactics surrounding individual legal matters … Although exercise of the privilege may occasionally result in the suppression of relevant evidence, the Legislature of this state has determined that these concerns are outweighed by the importance of preserving confidentiality in the attorney-client relationship.’” Justice Katherine Werdeger for the majority in Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Superior Ct. (2009) 47 Cal.4th 725, 740-741 (Costco)….
Any party claiming the lawyer-client privilege has a burden to establish the preliminary facts necessary to demonstrate that the communication was made in the course of an attorney-client relationship.
“Once those facts sufficient for a prima facie claim of privilege are demonstrated, the communication is presumed to have been made in confidence and the burden shifts to the opposing party to establish either that (1) the communication was not confidential or (2) the privilege does apply.” (Id., p. 741.)” https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/mcleselfstudy/mcle_home.aspx?testid=34
That article goes into the tests for attorney-client privilege.
If This is ALLOWED to stand then AG Session is THEN ALLOWED TO RAID THE OFFICES OF Hillary/Obama?DNC lawyers like PERKINS COIE…
OOPS!
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This was a very clever move by Mueller. He can’t find anything on Trump, so he goes nuclear.
If Trump fires him, Democrats will say it’s obstruction of justice and enough Republicans could be convinced to go along with impeachment. If he doesn’t fire Mueller, the FBI now has all kinds of privileged communication to scour for anything remotely illegal, and all they need are some technicalities.
I don’t know the best response, but Horowitz and Huber should immediately assign a team to investigate this warrant and search. They should review ALL communication between the people involved.
From what I’ve read about the basis for the warrant, it is probably legal (Trump’s statement that he didn’t know about the deal Cohen made with Stormy Daniels opened the door for this), if only technically. That said, I don’t believe for a moment that anyone involved thought a decade old possible affair justifies violating the attorney-client privilege of a sitting President. The intent here was almost certainly criminal (at the very least obtaining evidence to which he otherwise would not have access under the fraudulent pretense of seeking it solely in the Daniels matter), and it’s likely there is evidence of that.
Demonstrate that intent and immediately charge Mueller, but don’t fire him. There are plenty of crimes with which he could be charged, and he could justifiably be held as his release would allow him to continue his criminal conspiracy. In the interim, additional charges could be filed.
Trump is in a very difficult spot here, and it looks like a possible Catch 22. He needs to outsmart those taking him down, and they just made a masterful move.
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A Castled King’s Rook protector is best defended by a well placed Knight.
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This is just like the Manafort case. Make up some obscure issue. Get a warrant from a compromised judge. Read through all the documents. When you find something else save it for phase 2. Indict the defendant. Make him spend millions to defend himself or break him and make him plead guilty to some bs process inflation. Rinse and repeat.
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I just read the agreement between Cohen and Daniels, upon which the legal justification for the search rests.
Trump may have a very quick way out of this that would invalidate the warrant and potentially prove the actions through which the warrant was attained criminal.
Two facts would govern this.
First, what powers of attorney has Trump granted Cohen? If Cohen has powers of attorney that would allow him to enter such agreements without consulting Trump (which seems pretty likely to me), they should immediately release those publicly. This could establish both that the agreement with Daniels was valid, with Cohen signing on behalf of both Trump and himself, and it would support the fact that the agreement would remain valid even absent Trump’s knowledge of it. Nothing in the agreement would have required Trumo’s knowledge of it, and thus the default position – to believe both Cohen and Trump that Trump didn’t know about it, would have to be accepted.
Second, if the FBI did not exhaustively pursue knowledge regarding Cohen’s specific powers of attorney, including all legally available means that are less intrusive than a warrant and a search, then the warrant would be invalid. If they claimed they did exhaust all such efforts, and cannot prove that Cohen refused to provide evidence of his powers of attorney, then, just as is likely the case with the FISA warrant applications, their declaration that they pursued all other available means would constitute fraud.
If the above are true, (which seems likely, and I very much hope they are) Trump’s next move is very straightforward: release a dated (and, if needed, redacted) copy of his agreement with Cohen, and challenge Mueller to prove he attempted to acquire this agreement and was unable to do so. If Mueller didn’t, they can then immediately review the warrant application and likely charge Mueller with fraud.
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Could you link the agreement? Thx,
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You can read it here:
https://www.vox.com/2018/3/6/17088902/stormy-daniels-lawsuit-trump
Read through the obligations with respect to DD. None of them would require Trump’s knowing about this agreement. It’s also worth noting that the amount was $130,000. While that sounds like a lot of money, Trump probably make $500 million per year, or $1.3 million per day, so the amount might be the equivalent of an hour’s work.
I run a company, and if an employee of mine wasted hours of my time discussing an amount that small, I’d fire them. That leads me to believe Trump didn’t know about the agreement – dealing with pesky things like this is precisely why he has employees like Cohen in the first place. Now he needs to produce the evidence Cohen was suitably empowered to act on his behalf.
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TY for this excellent legal analysis. It makes sense. I would hope immediate action would be taken by all damaged parties. In addition Cohen’s attorney Ryan’s statement indicated that their were multiple clients who documents were seized not just Trumps. Not certain if other clients docs was authorized per the warrant or inadvertently seized (which is what I would believe to e the case). After thought, I’m sure you can’t link the agrmt.
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“Demonstrate that intent and immediately charge Mueller, but don’t fire him. There are plenty of crimes with which he could be charged, and he could justifiably be held as his release would allow him to continue his criminal conspiracy. In the interim, additional charges could be filed.”
Agree. Not just Mueller, but Andrew Weissman and any others involved in the warrant process need to be included. they have violated both attorney-client privilege or work-product protection of MULTIPLE clients per Cohen’s attorney Ryan’s statement and the
A-C privilege goes beyond POTUS capacity as President but also as a private citizen since the timeframe pre-dates 1.20.
IMO he should sue in the capacity of a private citizen.
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Totally correct. Cohen fell into the pig sty. The hogs will devour him. He’s gone.
Only a miracle will save him on the bank fraud charge if they can make it stick.
That and some sticky stuff around his lawyering might cost him his license.
He has done many, many good things for people. I hope his Samaritan past is a shield for the storm he faces now.
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Yep, from the veryfirst article I read about him and Ms. Daniels, I knew something smelled, and that he was a big problem…..
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On April 7 around 2:20 PM Q published this headline: China, Chonqing, Tuesday. Plain English, no code, no cipher. Still no one knew what Q meant. They rummaged through news from Tuesday, Aprl 3 for clues and came up empty, learning a lot about Central China in the process. Now that the market is open this Tuesday, everyone now knows what Q meant. This is the secret of Q, the future proves the past. His signature sign-off is WWG1WGA, is directly from the Bell on the Honey Fitz, and signals the plan we should trust was that of JFK, cut short, but will now be implemented by DJT. This seems to be the idea. Trump is doing what he thinks JFK, Jr. would do, if he lived to win the Presidency. That is why Q posted a photo of those two together from more than 20 years ago. A part of that plan was to break the CIA into a 1000 pieces. Syrian headlines, UK headlines, NK headlines, and now Iran headlines tell us why. Remember, The Bay of Pigs!
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Donald Trump has a kind and good heart….he is often too kind….as I have said in the past..it is nice to be nice until it is not..
and like Sundance said …time for Massive Sunshine….de-classify and expose..
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The President’s Schedule
12:00PM EDTThe President participates in the arrival of the Amir of the State of Qatar
12:05PM EDTThe President meets with the Amir of the State of Qatar
12:20PM EDTThe President has a working lunch with the Amir of the State of Qatar
1:25PM EDTThe President participates in the departure of the Amir of the State of Qatar
2:00PM EDTPress Briefing with Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
3:15PM EDTThe President hosts the 2017 NCAA Football National Champions: The Alabama Crimson Tide at the White House
Presidential Prayer Team Daily Prayer Briefing, as follows:
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
President Donald Trump is meeting with the Emir of Qatar today at the White House. The president said that he is looking forward to speaking with the emir concerning mutual security and economic priorities.
Since June of last year, Qatar has been under scrutiny for its suspected support of terrorist organizations and the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt all cut ties to the nation in response. As many of the nations involved in the regional disputes are key U.S. allies, the president is looking to bring unity to the region through a series of meetings and diplomatic summits.
Last week, President Trump urged Qatar and Saudi Arabia to end ongoing disputes with neighboring nations and lead the way in creating peace and stability in the region. In today’s meeting, the president will also likely continue to push for increased cooperation between Qatar and the United States.
As the Lord Leads, please pray:
For wisdom and discernment for President Trump during the meeting today as he navigates the complex diplomacy of a high tension region.
For God to use the meeting today to accomplish his will and that he would guide and direct the president’s words and actions.
For the president to have understanding and direction coming out of the meeting today.
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President Trump is under unimaginable pressure right now. More even than Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Stormy Daniels et al keeps his feet to the fire. They want WW3 out of him. This will disintegrate much of his support, if not disintegrate the planet. So what. If ever there was a good time for the military to exert itself, it would be now. Pray hard for the President.
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