[Well, my proposal in the 12feb20 Scattershots for a new Dem candidate reader participation contest heading into the convention went over like a fart in church. It would have been fun to see how the perceived fortunes of Super-Tuesday's survivors changed over the next few months. Oh well, … sigh. gjr]

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450 responses to “Sandbox – 18feb20”
,,,Roger Stone will be sentenced Thursday despite his ongoing bid to overturn conviction,,,
Let’s bet on how many years/months he gets…
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George: I suppose you believe all of the indictments and convictions and plea bargains are all based on lies and distortions.. evidence aside. all of the grand juries and judges are biased.. because ‘he who would be king’ said so. Former deputy AG under George Bush II, Donald Ayer, had this to say about AG Barr, whom he has known for over 40 years:
“For whatever twisted reasons, he believes that the president should be above the law, and he has as his foil in pursuit of that goal a president who, uniquely in our history, actually aspires to that status….It is a banana republic where all are subject to the whims of a dictatorial president and his henchmen.”
And all of this is baloney because why? Because you voted for a sick puppy who pulled your psychological strings and refuse to acknowledge your error in judgement, so you all just dig in with the ‘fake news’ ‘witch hunt’ ‘deep state’ bullcrap. In other words, you too think trump is above the law..but not ‘ crooked Hillary or Comey or McCabe or Obama or anyone who dares to criticize trump.
I suggest you see a documentary called “The Great Hack” on Netflix about Cambridge Analytica and their brainwashing of voters in key precincts in key states that delivered electoral votes to trump. It only took a few thousand votes across four states to pull it off. It is oblivious that much of the Cambridge propaganda drives this blog’s political content and posts.
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Posted by: Bertie Town | 18 February 2020 at 11:17 AM
It is oblivious that much of the Cambridge propaganda drives this blog’s political content and posts.
Yes! It is oblivious…..very oblivious.
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Don’t forget– goombahs don’t let other goombahs rot in jail, especially if they lie, tamper with witnesses, and obstruct justice…that’s just how the game is played in trumplandia.
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Posted by: Roberta World | 18 February 2020 at 11:23 AM
…that’s just how the game is played in trumplandia.
You should probably just get used to it Bertie.
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I won the that race and it was stolen and I am not going to run to be nr2 ever, what wait FIVE million you say. Mr Bloomberg I would be your nr2 anytime –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/18/stacey-abrams-defends-michael-bloomberg-after-she-receives-5-million-for-pac-in-december/
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What are the odds of the Capital Building getting torched before the 2020 elections if trumpler is down in the polls along with a declaration of martial law and suspension of the elections? Hey, when you are above the law anything goes, right?
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“You should probably just get used to it Bertie.” That is what the Jews were told as they boarded the boxcars.
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Posted by: Clara Bow | 18 February 2020 at 11:42 AM
What are the odds of the Capital Building getting torched before the 2020 elections if trumpler is down in the polls along with a declaration of martial law and suspension of the elections?
Won’t happen……in fact Jeb Bush just this very day called for the return of civility to politics.
Please clap…….
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Posted by: bertie cross | 18 February 2020 at 11:46 AM
That is what the Jews were told as they boarded the boxcars.
Oooh Bertie……..you really need to have your meds checked.
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Cross Word 11:23 — trumpler just pardoned and commuted sentences for 9 more goombahs… a good way to signal your troops that they too are above the law as long as they keep their mouths shut.
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Cross 117am – You continue to demonstrate your poor reading skills. Where has anyone in these comment streams brushed “evidence aside” to make a case or hold on to some belief? You and yours consider ‘evidence’ to be allegations, such the one you quote about AG Barr believing that the president is above the law. Nowhere has Barr made such a statement or evinced it through his actions, yet to you and yours anyone who loudly comports with your ideological narrative automatically is cited as ‘evidence’. In spite of your hard work to the contrary, allegations have not yet become evidence anywhere else besides the lamestream media and the Democratic House. Lord help us if you guys are successful in getting our courts to accept allegations as evidence.
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“What are the odds of the Capital Building getting torched before the 2020 elections if trumpler is down in the polls along with a declaration of martial law and suspension of the elections?”
Heck, I’ll take that bet Ms. Harpy.
How about $1000 to the charity of you choice?
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Posted by: Holy Cross Bertman | 18 February 2020 at 11:50 AM
Cross Word 11:23 — trumpler just pardoned and commuted sentences for 9 more goombahs… a good way to signal your troops that they too are above the law as long as they keep their mouths shut.
Bertie it’s really bad when the voices start having conversations! See my 11:49.
Funny Trump issuing pardons now……Democrat Presidents pardon democrat scumbags when there are no more elections to be run!
Say what you want…..Trump clangs when he walks where Barry merely jingled.
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With all these LIB “Crosses” it starting to look like a Klan meeting.(of one)
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GeorgeR, now that my previous concept is blown out of the water, that the fix was in for Biden, I’m gonna go with a brokered convention with Michelle O (she with the beautiful arms) as the puppet.
In the long run, I’m guessing we’ll see a modified version of Amazon Alexa as a (D) candidate, but in the meantime any old talking head will do.
There’ll be plenty to laugh at in the meantime, so все хорошо.
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Look what out SoJ brothers and sisters are up to up North.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/group-petitions-to-join-this-state-blaming-oregons-liberal-democrats
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,,,Trumplstiltskin is commuting Dems convicted of corruption,,,hoping for some more quid pro quo???
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Posted by: odlaw | 18 February 2020 at 01:49 PM
dugsKKKi…..how was dinner last night….you had Mexican?
What’ll it be tonight…..Honduran?
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What’ll it be tonight…..Honduran? No frozen fish sticks partially defrosted
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hah, a nice example of how you can’t trust any news source. I minor thing, but…
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/18/after-stonewalling-for-days-sen-chris-murphy-finally-admits-he-secretly-met-with-iranian-regime-in-munich/
No doubt our local Blue Mob wasn’t caterwauling about the Logan Act a few years back, but that’s not the point. In that article she quotes:
“In 2017, Murphy demanded an investigation into then-National Security Adviser Mike Flynn because he had a phone call with a counterpart in Russia. “Any effort to undermine our nation’s foreign policy – even during a transition period – may be illegal and must be taken seriously,” Murphy said.”
Googling up that quote I found:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/official-flynn-discussed-sanctions-russians-taking-office-n719271
Which of course has the same problem of “it’s OK if we do it, bad if they do it” but a quote from that article:
“That General Flynn may have misled the vice president of the United States and others raises the most serious questions about his ability to continue serving as national security advisor,” said Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, a Senate Foreign Relations Committee member. “I hope federal law enforcement professionals investigate this matter immediately. Any effort to undermine our nation’s foreign policy – even during a transition period — may be illegal and must be taken seriously.”
Markey and Murphy are different people so far as I can tell, perhaps they just sound alike. (internet wayback machine shows no changes since original article)
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The Bernie bros hate MSNBC as much as republicans whoda thunk? –
“You can feel the disdain they have for Bernie Sanders’s supporters,” Shakir explained. “It’s a condescending attitude: ‘Oh, they must not be that intelligent. They’re being deluded. They’re being conned. They’re all crazy Twitter bots.’ My view is that there’s a bit of detachment from MSNBC and the people who this campaign gets support from. It feels like they’re covering progressives from an elitist perspective.”
Shakir told Vanity Fair that Fox News has been “more fair than MSNBC.”
“That’s saying something,” he elaborated. “Fox is often yelling about Bernie Sanders’s socialism, but they’re still giving our campaign the opportunity to make our case in a fair manner, unlike MSNBC, which has credibility with the left and is constantly undermining the Bernie Sanders campaign.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sanders-campaign-manager-faiz-shakir-msnbc
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ROFLMAO
“What are the odds of the Capital Building getting torched before the 2020 elections if trumpler is down in the polls along with a declaration of martial law and suspension of the elections?”
We heard the exact same thing last 4th of July. Where do these nut jobs come from? Martial law suspension of elections……lol…..be very afraid, oh panicked one, be very afraid. You’ will the first to be thrown on the burn pile. I have matches.
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Daily Quotes…so-so today.
Insight: “Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” —Aesop (c. 620–564 BC)
Braying jenny: “You can’t have an acquittal unless you have a trial, and you can’t have a trial unless you have witnesses and documents — so he can say he’s acquitted, and the headlines can say ‘acquitted,’ but he’s impeached forever: branded with that, and not vindicated.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
The BIG Lie: “Eleven years ago … near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history.” —Barack Obama
Political futures: “I would be honored to run for vice president with the nominee. … Of course I want to serve America. Of course I want to be a patriot and do this work, and so I’d say yes.” —failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams
Tone deaf: “[The Roger Stone issue] has been … the greatest abuse of power I have ever seen at the hands of this president who has no sense of decency or understanding of the Constitution, and [Attorney General William] Barr facilitating it is beyond my comprehension. No president, no president, no president has ever intimidated an attorney general into abusing power as much as this man has.” —Joe Biden, who knows a thing or two about abuse of power
Grand delusions: “Every single solitary person that [Trump is] firing now testified under oath that … I did my job perfectly … I was honorable. Everything I did was by the numbers. And that prosecutor we fired should have been fired, period. And there was no investigation going on in Burisma.” —Joe Biden
Alpha jackass: “Legalize all the DACA students. These DACA students are more American than most Americans are.” —Joe Biden
Non compos mentis: “There’s a Yale study just out that shows that our current system, if we move to Medicare for All, we would save 68,000 lives a year. That makes the private insurance in America the eighth leading cause of death in the country.” —former Bernie Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver
Parroting American Democrat talking points: “In some countries, the laws do not allow for the existence of democracy in the true sense of the word, including the United States itself! In the U.S., which is supposedly the center of democracy … their [Electoral College system] has been shaped in a way that a person who has won fewer popular votes than another becomes the president! … Is this democracy? Is this rule of the popular vote? This is not how it works in our country.” —Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
And last… “Barack Obama said it would take a ‘magic wand’ to create the type of economy [Donald Trump] has. Now he wants to take credit for 7 million new jobs, lowest ever black unemployment, and record wage growth? In the words of the 44th president himself — you didn’t build that, Barack.” —Charlie Kirk
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Boy, I don’t know about you, but Bernie Standards, Joe Biden, and Short Stuff Mike Bloomberg sure seem like a. bunch of angry old white guys to me. And they are grumpy, too.
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Posted by: fish | 18 February 2020 at 01:59 PM
,,,Another post revealing Oosik’s predilection for drama, superstition and bizarre conspiracies.
Along with his fantasies of my video piracy and incontinence,,,I am now a cannibal!!!
Oosik must have also been convinced of HIllary’s pizza parlor///white slavery ring!!!
… A perfect example of a typical Trumpist!!!
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Another reality check for the chi coms –
– A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday rejected Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies’ constitutional challenge to a U.S. law that restricted its ability to do business with federal agencies and their contractors.
In a 57-page decision, U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant ruled in favor of the United States, concluding that Congress acted within its powers by including the restriction in the National Defense Authorization Act, which also targeted Chinese company ZTE Corp <000063.SZ>.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/u-judge-rejects-huawei-challenge-221916464.html
The Commerce Department is proposing tightening what is known as the foreign direct product rule, which limits the ability of foreign countries to use American technology for military or national-security purposes. The new rules would require factories across the globe to obtain licenses in order to make chips for Huawei using American equipment, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The new restrictions are intended to restrict the world’s second-largest economy’s imports of U.S. semiconductor technology, one of China’s largest American imports. An additional new rule would curb the ability of American companies to supply equipment to Huawei from their overseas
facilities.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-considering-restrictions-curb-chinese-161328924.html
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Mini mike is getting deep into revisionist history but hey he’s talking to democrats so they wont notice –
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is featuring Barack Obama in his campaign ads despite years of criticizing and distancing himself from the former Democratic president.
Bloomberg has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on ads promoting his candidacy, including one spot in which Obama praises him. On Tuesday, Bloomberg released another ad, titled “Difference,” pairing the two as “a great president and an effective mayor” involved with “leadership that makes a difference.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bloomberg-obama-ad-endorsement-democratic-race-174222281.html
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Well, that is the same thing Tulsi said about CNN and Marianne Williamson said about both CNN and MSNBC. Got to go on Fox to get a fair shake.
Sanders Campaign Manager Slams MSNBC, Says Fox News Is ‘More Fair’
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/bernie-sanders-campaign-manager-slams-msnbc-says-fox-news-more-fair/
Boy, they sure a grumpy today.
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@233 bt
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,,,If you want to add an extra $71 billion to the economy, start taxing churches,,,
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Since when does tax add to the economy and who is going to fill the charitable gaps that would result and why not all 501’s?
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It cuts both ways –
A Black student has gone viral for defending a multicultural center at the University of Virginia (UVA) as a safe space for people of color. On Feb. 12, conservative youth group Young America’s Foundation (YAF) shared a 37-second video on Twitter . The clip begins with the student trying to get the attention of her peers before educating them about the building that they’re in. “If y’all didn’t know, this is an MSC (multicultural student center), and frankly, there’s just too many white people in here”. “And this is a space for people of color, so let’s be really cognizant of the space that you’re taking up …” The clip then ends with applause. in response, YAF tweeted, “Leftists at the University of Virginia are dictating who is and who isn’t allowed in the new Multicultural Student Center”. YAF went on to tweet, “This kind of racist intolerance is NOT multicultural”. YAF’s post has since received more than 17,000 comments, many of which fiercely defend the student. In the wake of the incident, UVA president Jim Ryan issued a statement, claiming that the center is meant to foster an inclusive environment. “To be clear, the MSC is for all students.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/student-claims-too-many-white-202133308.html
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Comrade Bernie the kool aid guzzling dolt –
Sanders was amazed at the open “self-criticism” of his Soviet hosts, who admitted that the USSR was 10 or 15 years behind America in medical technology. This seems quite candid, if you didn’t know a thing about the Soviet Union. In reality, it was a perfect example of the sophisticated way in which the Soviets to the very end played a canny game of public relations.
Yes, health care was provided by the state. Sanders admired this, but that’s because he did not understand the reality of Soviet medical care. Perhaps he should have looked at it more closely.
A year after Sanders got home, I was part of a U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange group, which included an American doctor, and we carefully finagled a tour of a hospital. (My ability to do some translating helped me make the case for tagging along.) Strictly speaking, we were not supposed to be there, and so we donned white doctor jackets so we could move about the facility quietly with just a few of the Soviet physicians.
What we saw was grisly. Patients draining their wounds into open jars of pus. Post-operative infections worse than the problem that required surgery. Reusable metal hypodermics, dirty bedclothes, untended patients wandering about dimly lit hallways.
I saw an operating theater with windows — to the outside. As I looked at the trees and grass while standing next to the surgical table, I asked: “Do you open these? Ever?” When it gets hot, the Soviet doctors replied, nodding.
The American doctor was polite and professional, but at one point he leaned over to me and whispered that this was where American medicine was … in 1890.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sanders-ridiculously-naive-soviet-union-100016448.html
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 18 February 2020 at 03:46 PM
,,,Sure thing,,,that is why the pastors fly around in private jets…
,,,Bessie…poster boy for suckers everywhere!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsQo2TrvYcA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/06/04/wealthy-televangelist-explains-his-fleet-private-jets-its-biblical-thing/
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Haters gonna hate.
Very interesting –
A combined 67 percent say they have reservations or are “very uncomfortable” with a candidate being a socialist.
Fifty-seven percent have reservations/are very uncomfortable with someone who had a heart attack in the last year.
Fifty-three percent have reservations/are very uncomfortable with someone who’s older than 75.
Forty-one percent have reservations/are very uncomfortable with someone who self-funds their campaign with hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nbc-news-wsj-poll-sanders-220000327.html
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 18 February 2020 at 04:28 PM
Forty-one percent have reservations/are very uncomfortable with someone who self-funds their campaign with hundreds of millions of dollars.
Funny…41% represents Trump’s base size but they were all for Trump self-funding…
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Talk about no comprehension at all, that’s almost as bad as the pony tail of ignorance, they are talking about socialist dems! LOL
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Its great that my airmen brothers have this now but I have to ask what took so long? –
The GAU-5A is a modified M4 carbine designed to keep aircrews alive in emergencies.
The weapon was rebuilt to fit in the storage compartments of ejection seats.
A normal M4 carbine can break down into two major pieces, the lower receiver and upper receiver, but the resulting pieces still won’t fit into the ejection seat compartment. The Gunsmith Shop makes several modifications to an existing M4 to create a GAU-5A. First, it replaces the standard 14.5-inch barrel with a 12.5-inch barrel to create an overall shorter length. Next, it installed a Cry Havoc Tactical Quick Release Barrel (QRB) kit, which allows the barrel and handguard to be removed. The pistol grip also folds backward. Finally the bulky front sight post is removed and replaced with front and rear fold-down sights.
If a pilot bails out over hostile territory, he or she simply removes the weapon case from the back of the ejection seat, folds the pistol grip forward, fits the barrel on the rifle, pops up the sights, and inserts a loaded magazine. The entire process takes 30 seconds.
The U.S. Air Force has issued so-called “bailout” weapons for decades for use by aircrew in the event of a crash behind enemy lines or in a remote region. Even in a non-shooting war, it could take days for search and rescue units to locate a downed pilot, and a bailout weapon provides not only a source of security but also a means to bagging small game. Ejection seats only provide so much in military rations and eventually a pilot might be forced to scavenge for food.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/usaf-created-mini-rifle-fits-232300799.html
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“Funny…41% represents Trump’s base size but they were all for Trump self-funding…”
He didn’t spend hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://fortune.com/2016/12/09/donald-trump-campaign-spending/
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For the record, I assert that the only people who are concerned about Short Round’s spending are our leftwingers. On the other side of the aisle, we don’t give a crap whether a politician can fund his own campaign. The upside is that the sumbich is not going to be bought for chotskies like almost every other politician is. However, having your own cash doesn’t mean that you’re also not going to pander the voters, that’s still necessary to get their votes – look at Short Round doing the moonwalk on ‘stop and frisk’.
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Well Trump pardoned a regular rogues gallery and crooks today. Not a single over charged marijuana user in the lot, just scammers and thieves and guess what, they are all white guys.
“Trump announces a blitz of pardons and commutations
Those helped include former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, ex-New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik and financier Michael Milken.
President Donald Trump announced a host of pardons and commutations on Tuesday, ranging from Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor jailed on corruption charges, to Bernie Kerik, the former New York police commissioner.
“Yes, we have commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich. He served eight years in jail, a long time,” Trump told reporters before boarding Air Force One en route to Los Angeles.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/18/trump-commutes-sentence-of-rod-blagojevich-115807
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Short round, I like that!
The pony tail of ignorance has not yet read the analysis of why guys like Eddie DeBartolo who is loved in his city and state got some presidential largess.
While the socialist dems have for years bitched about what was really just a normal Russian disinformation shit disturbing that got a shot of steroids from those weeping in their pink pussy had like Page, and her boy toy and the rest of the swamp.
This is going on as before in the real world party parrots who used to suck up to the USSR –
But Cabrera, a short and stocky Mexican citizen, was charged Tuesday with being an “unregistered foreign agent” for Russia. He is accused of spying on at least one U.S. informant in South Florida, though court filings provided only sketchy details of the allegations.
In a brief hearing, Cabrera, 35, did reveal that he had bank accounts and jobs in different parts of the world. He told a magistrate judge that he was making $7,500 a month as a researcher at the National University of Singapore and another $5,000 a month from a part-time job with an Israeli company in Germany, along with holding about $100,000 in bank accounts in Mexico, Singapore and the United States.
“None of my family knows I’m here,” Cabrera said, explaining to Magistrate Judge Chris McAliley that it would be difficult to gain access to his money outside the United States to pay for a defense attorney. She assigned a temporary public defender to represent Cabrera, who faces pretrial detention because prosecutor Michael Thakur said he is a flight risk.
Cabrera was arrested Monday by FBI agents after he was stopped the previous day at Miami International Airport by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who inspected his cellphone before his scheduled departure for Mexico on Sunday.
According to a criminal affidavit, Cabrera arrived with his Mexican wife last Thursday, rented a Chrysler sedan and drove directly to a Miami-area condominium complex.
The affidavit says Cabrera visited the complex to spy on a resident at the “direction” of an agent with the Russian Intelligence Service, which operates under President Vladimir Putin. It turned out that the resident was an informant for the FBI’s counterintelligence division who provides information on Russian spying activities in South Florida. Before he was asked to leave the complex, Cabrera’s wife took a photo of the federal informant’s car and license plate.
Cabrera, who was visiting Miami on a business and tourism visa, told FBI agents during questioning Monday that he had met with the Russian intelligence agent in Russia several times over the past year and that he instructed him to rent a unit at the condo complex in Miami to do surveillance on the FBI informant. His cellphone showed that there had been interaction between Cabrera and his Russian handler, according to the affidavit.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article240390941.html
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Don
And why did Blago deserve to be pardoned?
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Its so cute when the pony tail of ignorance can not manifest a conversation or debate and just spews a talking point and then stomps his little feet and holds his breath. You need to let go of the why, why, why and TELL ME NOW!
Its bad for your health.
😉
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“And why did Blago deserve to be pardoned?”
He wasn’t pardoned. He had his sentence commuted after 8 years in a federal prison.
For God’s sake, do you check anything out first?
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Posted by: scenes | 18 February 2020 at 07:05 PM
For God’s sake, do you check anything out first?
Forget it scenes…..it’s Punchytown!
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Posted by: George Rebane | 18 February 2020 at 05:34 PM
,,,Short Round has way more bang for the buck than ‘’’’’Dummy Round’’’’’ !!!
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Posted by: odlaw | 18 February 2020 at 07:18 PM
Guatemalan tonight…….they always make you cranky and humorless. Maybe you should change seasonings?
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Don
fair enough
And why did Blago deserve to be commuted? There are thousands who have served long terms for far lesser crimes.
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A dummy round you say Dougy? He sure nuked your sorry ass,
Your Proggys can’t even find dry powder or a good match to light it with to fire back at Trump with.
That ACME ammo you got? Sucks it has a no return policy, Wile E. Proggy.
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