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Sandbox – 13feb20

13 February 2020

[When the smoke clears after Super-Tuesday, I wonder how many of the Dems will still be running for president – both Biden and Warren are candidates for the dear departed. Whoulda thought? And how will Team Pelosi put a bullet in Bernie's candidacy? gjr]

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302 responses to “Sandbox – 13feb20”

L

14 February 2020

Scenes @ 7:55 So the wookie transforms into a wokee and we’re good to go?

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fish

14 February 2020

Posted by: Cris Cross | 14 February 2020 at 08:16 AM
Yeah……had a couple of minutes Bertie…..dogs wanted out.

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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

Trump is going to flip out over this. His orange face will turn to red:
Andrew McCabe, Ex-F.B.I. Official, Will Not Be Charged in Lying Case
The decision to decline charges appears to be a move to distance the Justice Department from President Trump, who has long attacked Mr. McCabe.
The decision by prosecutors in Washington ends a case that had left Mr. McCabe in legal limbo for nearly two years. It also appears to be a sign that Attorney General William P. Barr wants to show that the Justice Department is independent from Mr. Trump: The notification came a day after Mr. Barr publicly challenged the president to stop attacking law enforcement officials on Twitter and said the criticisms were making his job more difficult.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-fbi.html

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scenes

14 February 2020

ScottO: “But can you buy off Bernie voters? ”
I don’t doubt you can buy off Bernie, but my guess is that you need a POC, and a particular POC, to get the Bernie Bros online without promising them full-on socialism.
Their fear of being called a racist by their bro friends would overcome any lack of promises from a candidate. A vote for Michelle, she of the beautiful arms, is a proxy vote for Barack. Barack Obama was the bestest ever President of these United States, therefore it’s a good thing.
At least Michelle’s resume isn’t a bunch lighter than her husband’s.

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fish

14 February 2020

Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 February 2020 at 09:43 AM
After 3 1/2 years of incessant whining about politicians and public officials lying……another public official let off the hook for lying, local crusader for truth and honesty in government Paul Emery fine with it.

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Bill Tozer

14 February 2020

Daily Quotes
Insight: “In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.” —novelist Mary Renault (1905-1983)
Friendly fire: “Bernie [Sanders] called me a political hack. That’s exactly who the f—k I am! I am a political hack! I am not an ideologue. I am not a purist. He thinks it’s a pejorative. I kinda like it!” —Democrat strategist James Carville
Non compos mentis I: “It has never made sense to me that a tiny group of people should have incredible wealth and power in America while most people have none. That is what we are going to change.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders (“It has never made sense to me why a person who has been a complete drain on taxpayer resources for six decades should have the moral or political standing to demand reordering America.” —Ben Shapiro)
Non compos mentis II: “We’re living right now under Donald Trump in a socialist society. The only difference is, does the government work for working people, or does it work for billionaires?” —Bernie Sanders
It’d be completely different alright: “The fair number should be $22 an hour. That should be the minimum wage in the United States of America: $22. Think about what this country would be like if we had a $22 minimum wage: completely different.” —billionaire Tom Steyer
The BIG Lie: “Nobody has said [Hunter has] done anything wrong. This is a guy who has done nothing but good things his whole life.” —Joe Biden
And last… “In the last week alone: A 15 y/o Trump supporter was attacked. A Republican voter registration booth was ran over. A California GOP HQ was vandalized. A 50 y/o man was punched after just being mistaken for a Trump supporter. And the media has been silent. I wonder why?” —TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk

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fish

14 February 2020

“Two candidates, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer, are billionaires who will be battling on Super Tuesday to crush the scourge of billionaires, Bernie Sanders.”
It’s extremely gratifying to see rank and file democrats, those who care desperately (and publicly) about the plight of the little guy pulling for a white billionaire New Yorker with racist and #metoo problems or a slightly less colorful white SF billionaire hedge fund manager who wants them to live in the dark against a millionaire politician who apparently who has done nothing in his life that didn’t involve politics or agitating about politics (an early adherent of Emeryanism)!
…..choices, choices….???

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Bill Tozer

14 February 2020

Punchy @ 9:43 am.
Although I did not read your link, I am glad you posted it as it serves as the perfect example of which I wish to convey and may ease some of your fears….and possibly see a different standard at work here.
Barr is not the Müller hit squad. Barr declined to charge Comey earlier out the gate with one of those process crimes even though he had him dead to rights. Small stuff. Barr is looking for the truth, not convictions. It’s called justice. Let the punishment fit the crime. Not the way to kick off a big big investigation. Same with McCabe. IG fried him, got him on 4 solid “less than candor” statements, which is the FBI-DOJ lingo for lying. You (McCabe or whomever) must tell all you know, withhold nothing, tell the whole story when being questioned. Lack of candor means he was not telling the truth by withholding the truth. McCabe had been fired, has had to lawyer up, and he is gone. Fair enough. Put him through the wringer? Destroy him financially with endless questioning of him for months covering the same ground just to break him and his family? Leave him on ice for the moment.
Here is the point. Roger Stone got raided in the pre-dawn hours waking up the whole neighborhood, CNN camera crew on the scene ready to roll, more firepower than what was used against Benghazi, an FBI amphibious commando unit, plastic explosives, 4 swat units, and shoved a real assault rifle in his deaf wife’s sleeping face, screaming orders. All that was needed was to call Stone’s lawyer and have him drive down and surrender himself at 9:00 am. And recommend 9 years in prison??? Child pornographers don’t get 9 years in the Fed. Courts.
Remember that scenario I put out there about Sally Yates that got you so upset? You know, the imaginary raid on her house, agents burst in with guns drawn, yelling to her or her husband to tell those kids to STFU and putting a military style assault rifle to her head on the floor telling her to “go ahead an move one an inch, bitch!”
Well, that scenario is what The Müller boys did to Stone and others. Andrew Weisemen, the hit man. He don’t care about justice or truth. He just wants convictions, and was after Trump to take him down. Forced/fake confessions are great. Bend the rules, a law unto themselves. Weisemen has now been hired at MSMBC. Probably teaches a class on ethics as well like Comey, roflmao.
Bottomline: Barr don’t roll like the Dems. He is a white hat, defender of civil liberties, and whatever the law says. No BS, not venturing out into the gray area. No Logan Act crap. No inventing crimes. One charge against Stone is he said he e-mailed somebody when in fact in that time and day it was a phone call.
You should thank you lucky stars, Paul Emery, that Barr will not do the Swamp that which the swamp has done to others and who happen to be calling for Barr’s head on a platter at this very moment.

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Todd Juvinall

14 February 2020

Paul Emery | 14 February 2020 at 09:43 AM
For truth crusader I would think you would be as outrages as half the country is about the coup leader McCabe. But like all liberals, you have a pact with the devil over the truth. You really are a pathetic man.

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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

Bill
The TRUTH is Stone was found guilty of seven felonies by a jury. Do you deny that Bill ?
The TRUTH is that Trumps DOJ investigated McCabe for two years and found no indictable crimes. Do you deny that Todd?

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fish

14 February 2020

Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 February 2020 at 11:27 AM
McCabe lied Punch……why aren’t they prosecuting him…..probably can’t have him dragging others down with him. Who knows what might come out on the witness stand.
Swamp protects their own!
Still…..he was caught in the act of lying during the course of his public duties……and here you are defending him.
After all that whining!
do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you, do you, do you?

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Don Bessee

14 February 2020

A corrupt jury foremen @ 1127 oh great pony tail of ignorance.

The po’ ol’ fakenewsmans hero is a zero who stole all of stormy’s money. How is your stormy doll holding up?
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/14/disgraced-lawyer-michael-avenatti-found-guilty-in-nike-extortion-trial.html
😉

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Don Bessee

14 February 2020

Another case with a ‘conviction’ is falling apart oh great pony tail of ignorance –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-department-taps-outside-prosecutor-to-review-handling-of-michael-flynn-case
😉

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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

Flynn pleaded Guilty Don. Do you deny that?

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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

Besides that Don who cares? Trump is going to pardon the whole crew before he exits after losing the election in Nov.

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Gregory

14 February 2020

punchy 1220pm
Do you deny plausibly innocent people plead guilty to make the prosecution stop making them spend money they don’t have?

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fish

14 February 2020

Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 February 2020 at 12:20 PM
….do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you, do you, do you?
Sad…. can’t recognize a coerced plea deal! And you claim to be some sort of journalist They threatened his kid with hard time IIRC.
But you are a partisan democrat so that was never an option for you …..was it?
….do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you deny that…do you, do you, do you?
https://reason.com/2020/01/30/michael-flynn-wants-to-withdraw-plea/

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scenes

14 February 2020

pemery: “Besides that Don who cares? Trump is going to pardon the whole crew before he exits after losing the election in Nov.”
Well, that’s a good point, except for the losing part. Why spend a moment worrying about innocent people railroaded by a politicized justice department if the God-Emperor is just going to let them out. Dunno about this ‘losing’ thing though. Sounds like someone needs to make a wager.
Once again, the Lesson of Trump is unearthed. Ignore his policies, they aren’t particularly radical. The main thing is the rot he has uncovered. For the first time in decades, someone not particularly tied to the nomenklatura gets the throne and, guess what, it’s full of dirty cops. The ‘Progressives’ weren’t going to uncover that, I’m afraid that the Tea Party wasn’t, and for sure the 420th Volunteers weren’t going to peek up from their bar stools.
I suppose that is what this next election is about. The Bull in the China Shop vs. the bureaucracy and it’s useful idiots. Popcorn all ’round.

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Bill Tozer

14 February 2020

Punchy asks “The TRUTH is Stone was found guilty of seven felonies by a jury. Do you deny that Bill ?”
No, I do not deny that. But, do you deny that if Barr was using the same Deep State Swamp Gas tactics, McCabe’s home would have been raided, Fox News tipped off in advance, and his wife and children, if any, would be laying on the floor crying with agents telling them to shut up or ripping the kids out of Mommie’s arms? That’s what Weisemen did to innocent corporate executives during the Enron case, all convictions overturned by the courts.
So, thank your lucky stars that Barr is now in charge and some of that excessive bull pucky trampling on civil rights and using law itself to pervert the law to use as a hammer against others….political enemies, not criminals. And Stone and others got caught up and pulverized in a witch hunt that the DOJ knew were was no ‘there’ there BEFORE Mueller was appointed. Ironically, they never charged Carter Page. Just used him to spy on Trump and his long shot campaign.
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Fun fact: Trump’s favorables (approval rating) on Election Day was 35-36%. Told ya allI we need is 38% and you well flabbergasted. Mid forties is great 9 months out. Been awhile since you posted Biden was up ten over Trump in head to heads in key battleground states. :). Go figure

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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

Are you guys saying the jury that convicted Stone were all crooks? Who bought them out to make them convict Stone?

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Walt

14 February 2020

Paul missed the News about the juror that was a plant.

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Todd Juvinall

14 February 2020

The Judge picks the jury in federal cases. The Judge is a Trump hater. The Jury Forewoman is a known Trump hater. Seems you are all into the crooked ones Paul Emery. Sad.

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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

Gregory
do you really think Flynn had a money problem Gregory? Here’s just one example
“It was later revealed that his now-defunct Flynn Intel Group had been paid $530,000 by Dutch-based company called Inovo BV, which in turn had ties to the Turkish government.
The bulk of the $530,000 contract was to produce a documentary to boost Turkey’s image, as well as to conduct research on Gulen.
In March 2017, Flynn and his consulting firm retroactively registered as foreign agents working on behalf Turkey.
In a Dec. 2017 legal filing, though, Flynn admitted lying in the March filings to the Justice Department, including by falsely stating that the Flynn Intel Group did not know to what extent the Turkish government was involved in the project and that the op-ed was written on his own initiative.”
This guy is just a lying crook Gregory and you refuse to accept that.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/421780-turkey-and-michael-flynn-five-things-to-know

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Todd Juvinall

14 February 2020

Paul Emery | 14 February 2020 at 12:20 PM
Did you miss Comey bragging he sent in his people to the WH as he knew it was in disarray and had his agents tell Flynn he did not need a lawyer for the interview? And then they bushwhacked him. Later the agents said they did not believe Flynn lied. But Comey and McCabe and the cabal wanted to press him to lie and he refused regarding Trump. If you did not know these facts you must stop blogging and doing the news as you are unqualified.

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Bill Tozer

14 February 2020

Punchy, Punchy, Punchy. It’s the sentencing of 9 years in prison for Stone, skewing the guidelines to up the enhancements used for real criminals like El Chappo trying to kill witnesses and the like. It’s not Stone’s guilt in question here, but the sentence. The low level prosecutors went rogue and Barr was looking at it long before Trump’s tweet.
Stone should get 2-3 years in the real world his clean record. But, when it comes to TDS, off with his head!!
Bottomline: It don’t matter what we say, Stone says, the DOJ,Barr, or those prosecutors who stormed off sez. The judge, and only the judge sentences. It was a jury trial, the judge heard every syllable of the defense, prosecutors, witnesses, all evidence. She decides.
With the revelation of the jury foreman’s extreme and prejudicial biases, Stone has a decent case for a retrial. Do no good. With a DC jury pool of total statist loving former government workers and minorities that voted 93% against Trump, the deck is already stacked for the prosecution. Sentencing Feb 20. He just as may move the retrial to the Castro District, lol.
Thank goodness we appoint judges for life precisely so they will not be beholden to partisan hacks, commentators’ opinion and jail house lawyer know-it-all’s.

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Don Bessee

14 February 2020

The pony tail of ignorance is again out of the loop. Flynn fired his old firm that was cozy with the prosecutors, the same crew that was hammered by the judge.
Flynn new law firm immediately ripped into the old team and the feds for colluding and lies by the government including doctoring an interview after the fact.
Flynn has withdrawn his guilty plea and has richly documented massive prosecutorial misconduct by mullers hand pick crew that was kicked to the curb for lying to the DOJ and their supervisors name was withdrawn for a doj promotion the day before she was to have a senate vote.
Classic swamp games that fell apart. Pass the popcorn!
😉

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Don Bessee

14 February 2020

Here is an educational update for the pony tail of ignorance from todays news –
The Department of Justice recently opened an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the FBI’s interview of Michael Flynn while he was serving as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, according to two people familiar with the inquiry.
Flynn pleaded guilty to giving false statements to the FBI during that interview, but recently asked to withdraw that plea, further delaying his sentencing.
Attorney General William Barr asked the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Jeffrey Jensen, to look into Flynn’s FBI interview, the people familiar with the inquiry said. The inquiry began within the past month, they said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-department-opens-inquiry-fbi-181700697.html
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scenes

14 February 2020

and the beat goes on
https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1228379343262539777

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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

When they find something let me know Don. Till then there is nothing just like the investigation into McCabe

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Don Bessee

14 February 2020

Botox blew it up with failed impeachment shot unfortunately creepy geampa joe was the collateral damage when she missed the president. –
Here are the bottom-line numbers.
A majority of “52 percent of voters believe it was inappropriate for the former vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, to take the job with the firm Burisma.”
Only 18 percent said it was appropriate.
An even bigger majority of 57 percent describe it as a legitimate scandal, while only 19 percent agree with the fake news media that it is not a scandal.
Only 40 percent say the Biden-Ukraine scandal will not affect their vote, while a whopping 31 percent say it will. Politico tries to spin that as good news, but that 31 percent is actually very bad news for what is certain to be a close primary and general election race.
Despite months and months of media propaganda arguing (falsely) Biden did nothing wrong, 54 percent see the Biden-Ukraine scandal as a conflict of interest, while only 16 percent say there is no conflict of interest.
Of that 54 percent, 35 percent want it investigated, and 19 percent do not.
The worse news for Biden comes from independents, 54 percent of whom describe Hunter Biden’s business dealings as “inappropriate.” Only 12 percent disagree.
A majority of independents, 57 percent, described the Biden-Ukraine affair as a scandal, while only 15 percent said it was not. Of that 57 percent, 28 percent said it was a “major scandal,” 27 percent a “minor scandal.”
There is just no question that Nancy “Master Strategist” Pelosi’s gobsmackingly stupid plot to either remove Trump from office or, at the very least, damage his reelection chances via impeachment, has not only backfired; it backfired all over Poor Ol’ Joe Biden, the best chance Democrats had of winning in 2020.
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/02/14/poll-shows-impeachment-torpedoes-hit-joe-biden-not-donald-trump/
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scenes

14 February 2020

BillT: “It’s not Stone’s guilt in question here, but the sentence. ”
…and the large list of names of people who have escaped prosecution, a graph with Obama at it’s center.
But hey, c’est la guerre. You can be on the side of Patriots, or Paul’s side of dirty federal police, gender dysphoria, open borders, and surveillance-based social media companies. In the end, everyone gets to choose up sides.

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Bill Tozer

14 February 2020

and the beat goes on…..
https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/1227977304338501632
The Creepy Banjo Boy porn lawyer guilty on all counts against Nike.

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Walt

14 February 2020

As long as NO deep stater LIB or politician goes to jail, Emery is happy.

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Gregory

14 February 2020

punchy 1220pm
Do you deny plausibly innocent people plead guilty to make the prosecution stop making them spend money they don’t have?
That’s a yes/no question.

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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

Don
Don’t have any evidence of that Gregory. It certainly wouldn’t apply to Flynn because he has plenty of money to defend himself so I say no unless you show me direct examples with documentation.

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George Rebane

14 February 2020

re Gregory 305pm – Let me break the ice for Paul on this one – No, I don’t deny it, since the record shows prosecutors do it every day to burnish their conviction records. Now see, that wasn’t very hard.

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fish

14 February 2020

Todays thought for the day……

“socialism always begins with talk of the international brotherhood of man and ends with having to eat your own pets.”

But as long as the pride of Nevada City, The Fightin 420th stays fed and ready for “resistance” it’s all good!

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Gregory

14 February 2020

punchy 1220pm
Do you deny plausibly innocent people plead guilty to make the prosecution stop making them spend money they don’t have?
No individual named. Just as a general rule… do you think there are people being persued by untethered prosecuters who decide to take a plea to make it stop? People who believe in their innocence?

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Walt

14 February 2020

Emery. The Great DENIER.

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Don Bessee

14 February 2020

NOW THOSE ARE FUNNY!! –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/14/donald-trumps-campaign-creates-valentines-day-cards-mocking-2020-democrats/
😉

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fish

14 February 2020

Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 February 2020 at 03:24 PM
Don’t have any evidence of that Gregory. It certainly wouldn’t apply to Flynn because he has plenty of money to defend himself so I say no unless you show me direct examples with documentation.
At what age do you stop being such a weasel? You’re running out of time Punch.

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odlaw

14 February 2020

,,,McCabe walks,,,Winning!!!;)

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odlaw

14 February 2020

,,,bad day in Trumplandia…
“The IWCC’s disbandment is a huge victory in the fight against the Trump administration’s illegal advisory bodies,” said Democracy Forward senior counsel Travis Annatoyn, in a statement. “But the fight isn’t over.”
https://apnews.com/8570435359a2cef4c226de114f53377e

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odlaw

14 February 2020

,,,At the same time, the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York — which Giuliani led in the 1980s — appears to be continuing its wide-ranging investigation of his activities and those of his former associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, including their efforts in Ukraine.,,,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-impeachment-trial-ended-federal-prosecutors-took-new-steps-in-probe-related-to-giuliani-according-to-people-familiar-with-case/2020/02/14/7893bfb0-4e8a-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html

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Don Bessee

14 February 2020

ICE strike teams coming to a sanctuary city near you, SF, LA are you listening? –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/14/report-trump-deploying-elite-tactical-agents-to-10-sanctuary-cities/

😉

Note to the troll, the DOJ IG has a very limited scope and that’s why Durham was appointed and his staff exploded. Best of all those guys don’t leak!
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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

So you are claiming Gregory that Flynn was some kind of abused defendant who couldn’t afford legal defense so he pled guilty to something he didn’t do. Is that you7’re assumption?

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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

So you’re part of the Free Flynn movement fish? What evidence do you have that’s he’s innocent? You must have a special connection. So Flynn was right when he chanted about Hillary “lock her up” when she wasn’t even under indictment for anything yet you claim that Flynn is an abused defendant even after he plead guilty to a felony. What a hoot!

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Paul Emery

14 February 2020

Wow!! Texas is in play according to the latest poll. He’s only up by two over Bernie of all people.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

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Bill Tozer

14 February 2020

AG Barr knows he is about to blow the biggest cover off of Spygate and Russiagate, the biggest political scandal this country has ever known. Letting small fry McCabe walk is good. He must of cooperated greatly. That Barr is a good sandbagger.
In other Hillary non-Mueller news…..RealClear Investigations has long story, here is the Readers Digest Version:
‘Report: FBI Handed Over Classified Information To Spy Christopher Steele’
“Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered that FBI agents shared extensive classified materials with former British spy Christopher Steele, despite knowing the Democratic National Committee was paying Steele and that Hillary Clinton herself was aware of Steele’s research, according to a new report by Eric Felten at RealClearInvestigations.
FBI agents met with Steele in Rome just a month before the 2016 election, where they gave him a “general overview” of Crossfire Hurricane as well as details of the cases against Trump campaign staffers Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn. In addition to the intel, Steele was compensated $15,000 by the FBI for attending the three-hour meeting.“
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/14/report-fbi-handed-over-classified-information-to-spy-christopher-steele/

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scenes

14 February 2020

While the anti-Trump Jihad continues apace, you do have to wonder what will be the unintended consequences of this. I can see where hesitation in feeding a bubble might end the thing:
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3048947/chinas-home-sales-about-fall-cliff-coronavirus-forces-shutdown-sales
China has so distorted the economics of the modern world, you could get some pretty wild side effects.

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