President Trump issued full pardons to 15 individuals and commuted part or all of the sentences of an additional five people, the White House announced Tuesday.
Included in the list are Duncan Hunter, a former GOP congressman from California, Chris Collins, a former GOP representative from New York and former Trump campaign advisor George Papadapoulous who was targeted by Robert Mueller as part of building the Russian conspiracy theory.
[Read White House Statement Here]
In May 2016 George Papadopoulos was contacted by two members of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),Terrence Dudley and Greg Baker, working out of the U.S. embassy in London.
Two American spies working in London put Papadopoulos in contact with their ally/counterpart in the Australian Embassy, Erika Thompson. [ie. ‘unofficial channels’] After meeting with Downer’s aide, Erika Thompson on May 6th, she sets up a meeting between George Papadopoulos and her boss for May 10th.
On May 10th, 2016, Ms Erika Thompson and Mr. Alexander Downer then meet with George Papadopoulos. After the meeting, Ambassador Downer reports back to the Australian government on his conversation with Papadopoulos. [document release]. It is from this May 10th, 2016, meeting where communication from Downer, July 26th, 2016, is referenced as the origin of Crossfire Hurricane July 31st.
On August 2, 2016, Special Agent Peter Strzok and another agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation met with Alexander Downer in London to discuss his conversation with Papadopoulos further. Strzok then received reading materials, which he texted about to Lisa Page.
A month later, September 2016, the FBI used a longtime informant, Stefan Halper, to make contact with George Papadopoulos, pay him $3k and fly him to London for consulting work and a policy paper on Mediterranean energy issues. As part of the spy operation the FBI sent a female intelligence operative (a spy) under the alias Azra Turk to pose as Halper’s assistant and engage Papdopoulos.
A month later, October 21, 2016, the FBI used Papadopoulos as a supplemental basis for a FISA warrant against Carter Page.
A few weeks after the FBI received the FISA warrant against Carter Page, they ran another operation against George Papadopoulos using a friend as an asset; a wired asset.
The FBI labeled Papadopoulos as “crossfire typhoon”, and ran a confidential human source (CHS #3) recently identified as Jeffrey Wiseman.
Former Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Trey Gowdy, told Maria Bartiromo in May 2019 that he had seen the transcripts of the FBI’s Jeffrey Wiseman operation and those transcripts exonerate Papadopoulos. WATCH:
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[Transcript Video 01:10] Bartiromo: I’m really glad you brought that up; the FBI agents’ discussion with George Papadopoulos. Because when the FBI sends in informants to someone they’re looking at, typically those conversations are recorded right? Those people are wired?
Gowdy: Yeah, I mean if the bureau is going to send an informant in, the informant is going to be wired; and if the bureau is monitoring telephone calls there’s going to be a transcript of that.
And some of us have been fortunate enough to know whether or not those transcripts exist; but they haven’t been made public and I think one in-particular is going – it has the potential to actually persuade people. Very little in this Russia probe I’m afraid is going to persuade people who hate Trump, or who love Trump, but there is some information in these transcripts that I think has the potential to be a game-changer if it’s ever made public.
Bartiromo: You say that’s exculpatory evidence and when people see that they’re going to say: wait, why wasn’t this presented to the court earlier?
Gowdy: Yeah, you know, Johnny Ratcliffe is rightfully exercised over the obligations that the government has to tell the whole truth to the court when you are seeking permission to spy, or do surveillance, on an American. And part of that includes the responsibility of providing exculpatory information, or information that tends to show the person did not do something wrong. If you have exculpatory information, and you don’t share it with the court, that ain’t good. I’ve seen it, Johnny’s seen it, I’d love for your viewers to see it.
Today the transcript of the Wiseman operation was released. This is the transcript where Papadopoulos’s friend Jeffrey Wiseman is wired by the FBI for a meeting in Chicago.
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Papadopoulos told Wiseman that he knew “for a fact” that nobody on the Trump campaign was involved in hacking the DNC.
The IG report said the FBI tapped Wiseman, referred to as “Source 3” in the report, due to a previous “connection” with Papadopoulos. The report said Wiseman indicated years earlier during an interview for a separate investigation he would be willing to work with the FBI.
After lunch, Wiseman and Papadopoulos traveled to a casino, where they played blackjack. According to the transcript, in addition to discussing Russia and the Trump campaign, Papadopoulos said he had worked for Israeli businesses, “to lobby for them in Washington.” This conversation appears to be taking place in late October or early November 2016, prior to the election.
Despite all of the surveillance operations against Papadopoulos, the target was not interviewed by the FBI until January 2017. None of the exculpatory information was included in the January FISA renewal or the two subsequent renewals.
It’s likely the FBI will justify not including the exculpatory evidence based on the fact that Carter Page and not Papadopoulos was the primary target of the FISA application.
Does that seem like a move one makes now when one is confident of his second term? Maybe just a nice Christmas present for those 15.
It is kind of a weak argument you are making because it just as easy to reverse it. If Trump would wait until January 22nd to pardon in his second term it would be “Trump is a coward because he waited until he was in his second term, he was afraid that it might impact his re-election”
can’t be reversed …
Lackawaxen123,
When “Interested Patriot” used the phrase, “…just as easy to reverse it”, they weren’t referring to reversing a pardon. They were referring to reversing the argument presented by Rhi.
It’s kind of a thing a President does at the end of his term. Be it the first or second term?
I do not read per se that the President has no confidence.
But it’s in any case very cautionary that he does it while he has the chance.
With these weasels in congress who knows.
Wanted to add: weasels in Congress and SCOTUS.
Or …in the middle of this sh*t storm the man think of others.
Really depends on how you look at things …
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New here ?
We have yet begun to see what this President is doing or is going to do and the world is depending on it.
Have you considered the possibility that, after all other options have been exhausted, Trump himself may have to step down, swear in Pence and take a pardon himself? Not for “crimes committed” – but to keep the endless persecution from starting THE SECOND HE LEAVES THE WH.
Think they are just going to let him “go quietly into the night”? NOT ON YOUR LIFE. He upset their apple cart – and the NEED TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM (as they already have) to prevent another “america first” candidate from rising up.
Cocaine Mitch & Co., “put up with him”, because they had no choice. If this new $2+T COVID bill – that gives a paltry sum of $600 to THE AMERICAN CITIZEN, while giving millions to countries like Pakistan (for gender equality no less). Nope – back to business as usual.
If you don’t think they will try and “Flynn” DJT (and his entire family) – THINK AGAIN.
PARDON EVERYONE. Assange, Snowden – EVERYONE.
The second the election was over (win OR LOSE) – the “political expediency” of holding off on pardons DISAPPEARED. WE KNEW Flynn was going to get pardoned – but it had to wait until AFTER THE ELECTION – lest the “media backlash” (for those that actually listen to the media) turned voters away from him.
In what may turn out to be the “last gasps” of a free republic – PARDON ALL WHO WERE PERSECUTED.
EVERY
LAST
ONE
OF
THEM…
Can our President proactively pardon a hundred million patriots who volunteered for his campaign and/or voted for him?
You know these Communists will indict us Deplorables for breathing and daring to steal their oxygen, whenever he leaves office.
We will forever be labeled “non-essential.”
DO it, Mr President. Maybe that’s the way we can finally have an ACCURATE accounting/ record of all who actually DID vote for him. How else can we agree on who was pardoned, right?
And then we patriots won’t lose our standing, and we can all hit the ground running, to further the interests of our Constitutional Republic.
A girl can dream.
One wonders whether Dem crooks overcounted 10 or 20 million votes.
PDJT should deputize all CCW carriers from red states to aid against civil rights violations by federal employees in January…
It is an absurd notion that President Trump would step down in any fashion.
His victory is obvious and he will show proof that will shut his enemies down. He can hardly wait to get the economy roaring again.
Italics are now very easy to use on CTH. Just a friendly reminder.
The President can pardon himself, except in cases of impeachment. No need to resign and have Pence do it. It would be a “pardon of innocence” as he has done nothing wrong. Similar to Gen. Flynn.
Sadly, he cannot pardon himself for state crimes & the NY AG James has her sights set on him.
Apparently Herr Weissman was on Maddow tonite talking about getting Manafort and Stone in front of a grand jury to spill their guts about Trump
They must destroy him to make sure no outsider ever dare run for president again
The only thing attempting to destroy President Trump does is ensure that we have an uprising of epic proportions from 100 million deplorables vs the ‘swamp creatures’ of the future DC establishment…at some point we cannot, and will not, turn the other cheek. It appears to me that the Fake news personnel, and those of the rabid liberal persuasion, have not thought through the true ‘end game’ in store for them…..very sad indeed. Quoting Pres Trump; ..’they just don’t get it!’
That was not my first thought actually. It is Christmas and a nice time to bring out pardons. Trump pardoned Blagovich long ago and for no political purpose, as well as Scooter Libby. I am also grateful to Trump for calling out the disgraceful so called “Covid” relief bill. If Americans do not realize how corrupt our Congress is, they deserve what they get.
“Pardoning innocent people” is one way that he can remove the Sword of Damocles that has been hanging over their heads all this time. Trump can “declare” that they are what they always were: “innocent.” The TDS-infested people are never going to stop these things on their own. For example the case of General Flynn. Sullivan would have continued down his crazy course forever.
The Christmas present was when Bill Clinton pardoned 16 FALN terrorists after they did 146 bombings and a string of robberies, killing some police officers and other people. He also pardoned Marc Rich, the biggest tax fraud in US history. These weren’t simple process crimes.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120277819085260827
Not at all. He should have done it long ago.
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1341599792187797506
They should rename the FBI to Federal Bureau of the Set UP. The only investigating this bunch does is to gather “evidence” to frame people. They need to be shut down and run out of town on a rail.
Absolutely lobbying was the icing on the cake and quid pro quo foreign kickbacks corporate kickbacks! When illegal anywhere else in USA except DC swamp! Not to mention insider trading! Benedict Arnold was a hero compared to these “criminals”!!
The 17th Amendment turned the Senate into bribery central.
The founders never envisioned a state-wide election for senators.
Or maybe long before Nixon… Former President Truman, a good man but a highly unpopular candidate, established an intelligence agency that had already done all sorts of remarkable things (such as hastening the death of General Patton?)
And presto, a few short months later Truman won the 1948 presidential election in a stunning upset that no one had predicted! Maybe you’ve seen the photo of Truman exulting with a newspaper that had already been printed, announcing the victory of his opponent. How odd and surprising that that occurred.
And then a few months later the People’s Republic of China was officially founded. A huge part of the earth’s population— 1/5? Something enormous like that — fell under the heavy hand of the Communists.
Now I DREAD being thought of as a conspiracy theorist. If you had the audacity to urinate on my leg I would want to think better of you, and would tell myself — surely it’s raining — God forbid that I would notice I had been abused and betrayed by people who have been awarded more power than they are worthy of managing
While doing a bit if reading the other night about Chinese Chiang Kai-shek, I discovered China had a “Great Reset” before the Communists took power.
It sounds like you need to get some new conspiracy theories, all your old ones are apparently true.
2020 is almost over. Thank God!
May God bless our New Year with his holy wrath upon evil!
Agree 100%
I’m suspicious of anything the FBI is involved. I consider the FBI and CIA criminal operations.
Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter have done nothing that ALL politicians don’t do every single day.
That just means more of them should be in jail.
Papadopoulos was always working for Israel. His job was to seed the false trail of Russia being responsible for supplying Wikileaks with the stolen emails, when it was really someone else.
Who was Erika Thompson’s ‘boyfriend’ working for? Israel.
Somebody stole the emails and gave them to Wikileaks, and it wasn’t Russia, so who was it? Israel.
The FBI and the rest of the Washington insiders have always known this, but it’s too much of a hot potato. Much easier just to blame Russia.
Seth Rich ring a bell?
Seth is the wallpaper on my phone. Never forget who they are really after.
The picture of this passionate young man clad head-to-toe in red, white and blue, is a haunting reminder of what happens to PATRIOTS.
Sure, this DNC volunteer was a Bernie bro, but we all make mistakes in our youth. The fact is, Seth paid the ultimate price for shining the light of TRUTH on that putrid DC swamp.
And sell-out Bernie, a Commie through and through, obviously wasn’t worth the effort. But our Constitutional Republic surely is.
#USA??USA??USA??
DNC mafia also killed Shawn Lucas, the process server for the DNC fraud lawsuit.
I’m grateful for our many Jewish Treeper friends here, as some come to the branches to sow discord and divide us.
PapaD is definitely a snake but blaming Israel for the DNC leak/hack? That’s a new one and it doesn’t make any sense seeing that Trump is so friendly with them. You think they tried to sink Trump to put in a bunch of anti-semites in power? lol The real hot potato is China.
Sink Trump? They were trying to help him get elected. They just didn’t want to get caught.
David “hide the sausage” Brock is the snake. How’s the boss doing, BTW?
Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’ … Rolcon!
As with Gen. Flynn, the decision to prosecute George P was made by Andrew Weissman. What subhuman filth that guy is.
Marxists lawyer who does not know what due process is.
True due process is Gods alone. The human form is extremely imperfect. I have complete faith that God will judge with perfection.
Vermin
He really is. I first learned about him, following the Sidney Powell Enron case. He is the definition of pure evil and takes great pride in being so.
Now pardon Paul Manafort, Just for kicks! When was the last time you had a good laugh at a splodey head?
I think he did pardon Manafort already.
“will-vice-president-pence-tomorrow-step-throw-state-electoral-college-picks-based-fraudulent-results”
Nah, not a chance.
Everyone around PDJT is to some degree DC establishment /Admin Stater / dinner party Democrat….. including Mike. Ric Grenell the only exception.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/will-vice-president-pence-tomorrow-step-throw-state-electoral-college-picks-based-fraudulent-results-ask-state-legislatures-step/
Before President Trump leaves office if he is actually allow to have it stolen from him, he should pardon himself for any and all crimes. I don’t think he has any but it would stop the rats from continually hounding him for made up lies. He needs a life of happiness after all the stuff he has been put through for us.
They state of NY SDNY can still go after him, he can only pardon for federal crimes not state ones.
Well then! We know what will happen! 🙁
The NY State Weissman equivalents WILL file endless garbage on Jan 21 2021. I wager that someone in Europe will do the same. And they will argue that bail must be set at billion plus because of flight risk to muh-Russia.
Ongoing government harassment may be a civil rights violation.
True but if Trump is not President we live in a post US Constitution world, run by what is best described as a Mob.
So for that to work he resigns 24 hrs before his term ends, and President Pence pardons him. Plus as an added bonus all the printed material for CCP Biden is now wrong.
So the moral of the last 4 years is: don’t trust or talk to the FBI. Ever. Everything you say can and WILL be used against you, unless it might help you.
Even the things you don’t say can and will be used against you.
Anything that you didn’t say but that they lie onto a 302 can also be used against you IF you didn’t arrange a meeting with you represented by an honest lawyer [find one first, search with an unlit lantern per Diogenes] and a video for your records.
pardons for the bolshevic left are just paper..Trump knows this.. history
Russia 1917 Czar and Family.. Trump will only accept a victory,,his family’s life
depends on it. the best he can expect from his enemies in the Deep State is life in Prison
I was glad to see Steve Stockman on the list. Railroaded by the Texas DNC.
Michael Cohen is not on the pardon list. No pardon for you, Michael! bwahahahahahaha
He said he didn;t want one and wouldn;t accept one..so he got his wish.
Now pardon Edward Snowden, Paul Manafort, Julian Assange, and Roger Stone.
May God bless, keep and guide President Trump and may He bless America once again. ❤️??
Roger Stone has had his sentence commuted by the president because Stone plans to clear his name.
Sadly, with our corrupt judicial system Roger didn’t really have a chance at clearing his name through the courts….so..President Trump just issued him a pardon! He also pardoned Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner (Jared’s dad) YES ?? ??
Dear beloved Mr President
Please pardon Julian and Snowden. We all know they upset the illegal corrupt IC which was and is badly needed. They ought not have to pay the terrible price being wrought on them for being forced to take the high road and expose the corruption.
PLEASE Mr President, they had no other option. We all know that is fact now. Please do the right thing.
Sincerely
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Why is Duncan Hunter worthy of a pardon? As far as I can tell he is a venal grifter, a nepotism baby who inherited his Congressional seat from his Dad and is clearly guilty of everything he was accused of.
Paul Manafort is also guilty of what he was accuse of.. I think he should have a commutation not a pardon since he was guilty.yes even though they only went after him cuz he worked for POTUS.
In principle I agree, but practically a full pardon resolves later DS/DNC attacks to create broad “never rise again” intimidation by example, and for them to continue to rewrite history.
Full pardon Jan 19 if Dem’s New Soviet begins.
“As far as I can tell he is a venal grifter …”
If you believe the DOJ and FBI. But if you believe them, you’ll also believe that Trump is a Russian agent.
Exactly. Manafort was investigated BY Obama’s DOJ in 2012 & not indicted, BEFORE he was he was investigated by Obama’s DOJ again in 2017 and indicted.
Weird.
Small towns are the worst! Debtors prisons are here and going strong!!
Gee golly wizz batman…ALL these ex-congressional critters have seen the documents exonerating everybody Mueller indicted but NOT a single one said anything while in office to counter the Swamp or moves against the President until now…just sayin’.
So you are saying President Trump is trying to spark their conscience into functioning at last? Good point.
Speaking of the FBI
I was reading Judicial Watch Verdict and came across this interesting paragraph in an article about emails that they have obtained. Bold emphasis mine.
Just when I didn’t think my respect for the FBI could get any higher.
On March 30,2017, a redacted official emails of Moffa and Strzok advising them to read Gizmodo about the “D’s” [Director’s] private twitter account. Moffa replies, “I did not already know but I just read the whole thing. I have to say I didn’t expect that…”. The unidentified official replies,”[I]f true, my respect for the D only solidifies when I see that he named himself after America’s preeminent 20th century political theologian.” (Gizmodo later revealed that day that Comey used the Twitter handle “Reinhold Niebuhr”, who was a prominent Marxist and Protestant theologian.)
Whatever the reason for the timing, I am really glad to see him doing this.
I hope and pray he may be saving the best for last, as he has not yet pardoned Julian Assange. To do so on Christmas Eve, I think, would have a spiritual impact as well as a political one.
Also don’t forget Edward Snowden. They people who told us he was compromised and a traitor are compromised traitors.
Politicians are Crushing Christmas Miracles
” It’s time for President Trump to end the madness and announce his readiness to pardon any business owner or employee who chooses to operate and serve against the decrees of city and state politicians.”
https://www.aier.org/article/politicians-are-crushing-christmas-miracles/
I don’t think Presidential pardoning power extends beyond the federal level, unfortunately.
Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins were/are big Trump supporters, and were targeted by the FBI/DOJ purely on that basis.
If we ever get a second political party in this country, its number one priority has to be purging federal law enforcement of all the crooked left-wing partisans.
One of the men pardoned is my friend’s husband! We are rejoicing with her today! I got to see video of him surprising their little girl last night when he got home. So beautiful. ? ? ?
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awwww that made me tear up too!
I did not see Roger Stone or Paul Manafort amongst those names.
Could Papa and Page file jointly to eliminate the b.s. taktica? Asking for about 80 million friends.
Question, what have PapaD and Page ever done besides talk? Both of them are snakes!
Have extramarital relationships with each other.
They probably sent each other texts, even when they were in bed doing it.
I’m sorry but Papadopoulos is 100% grifter and most likely was a plant from the very start. What happened to the $10k? Even now he’s going on Faux talking about “possibly” bringing a civil case how many years later? “Hinting he may not be done with his accusers”. lmao What a farce. All that clown has tried to do is sell books!
Didn’t he give the $$$ to a lawyer?
Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’ … Rolcon!!!! (sung to the tune of “Raw Hide”)
How’s David “hide the sausage” Brock doing, now that his communist empire is beginning to crumble.
Biden will concede the election soon. He was caught red handed with the AF ploy. Remember when Military Intelligence needed to to find out what site “AF” was in Japanese radio intercepts in WWII?
They told the guys on Midway Island to send out a false report that their water distiller was broken. US military intelligence intercepted a Japanese radio transmission indicating that the water distiller was broken at site “AF”.
Similar thing was done by US Military Intelligence with Biden. He was given bogus classified information during a briefing by the DOD. Military Intelligence intercepted the Biden team transmitting that information to the Chinese Communist Party and all classified briefings were cut off from the Biden team.
Biden has been caught by our military for colluding with a country which has committed an act of war against the USA – messing with our 11/3/2020 election. Biden is a traitor to the USA who has been caught red handed committing TREASON. Penalty is DEATH!
Biden will likely be given a choice – concede the election & save lives, by minimizing likelihood of violence, or continue and be tried by a military tribunal and face possible execution.
Brock won’t be able to play hide the sausage with Hunter anymore.
PDJT also commuted the wrongful sentence of former Rep. Steve Stockman. Stockman exposed Obama and GOP-establishment wrongdoing and Sen. John Cornyn left-of-center voting record.
Shakespeare was right regarding lawyers.
Still hope that POTUS grants pardons to a few others and they help us hold people in .GOV accountable for the past decades of lies and corruption.
Good, he can pardon who he wants! Now he should pardon Julian Assange. If his legal landslide is not certified, his like will never be elected again. They, deep state dems and repubs, won’t let it happen Dominion is not being charged with anything.
I hope President Trump will ask trusted attorneys for a list of defendants other than Michael Flynn who were victimized and wrongfully convicted due to judicial misconduct byJudge Sullivan. DJT could write a GREAT introduction to a list of, say 10 or 12, such pardons!
Royal pardons don’t sit well.
A pardon might possibly be appropriate if long investigations and new hearings suggest a miscarriage of justice.
Fix the Justice system and the Political Judges of American Inc. and this embarrassing 3rd world feature of the US system won’t be needed.
Mine is not to question or reason why our Very Great and Special President Donald J. Trump pardoned the persons listed on this post. But I read their “rap” sheets, and every pardon, to me at least is perfect. “Process Crimes” for the most part. But all of the suffering these people have endured for what it my Byzantine Catholic Church upbringing were called “Venal Crimes.”
I anticipate many more Pardons to come, for what are called “Mortal Sins.” The pardon pen is a mighty one. You go President Trump. Please continue to ROCK THIS WORLD OF OURS. All of those before you have pardoned CROOKS AND LIARS.
It is my prayer my President, that you PARDON all who have “gone against the grain,” in revealing all of the DIRT of what is now called the “american way of life.” I
I will NOT ACCEPT a USA that lives and thrives on what any media tells me what is happening in the world. But that’s just me.
Wish I could go to D.C. on Jan 6th. But I despise that locale. Been there, done that and have served my time there.
Pray that all who read here hang in with truth, beauty, and LOVE, and have the most wonderful Christmas Holiday ever. This time of Introspection I believe will SERVE US ALL WELL.
I’m not concerned with the good reasons “why”.
I’m merely unsettled that random pardons are possible, by any side of politics.
Stay concerned.
Hey! Perhaps a Christmas miracle might happen to bring about a change in the size of your heart!
It surely has frown mine.
Attention all Grinches!
Christmas Day is here at last as long as we have hands to clasp.
God’s Blessing and Joy to all as we celebrate the King of Heaven’s Birth!
The President should pardon Joe, Jim and Hunter Biden. How delicious would that be!
Im,glad all 15,got a pardon!