IRONIC!!! Could anything more appropriately describe what is happening to Hillary Clinton? Virtually everything that affected and now affects her political future starts and ends with sex. It began with rape and molestation involving Bill Clinton and now involves sexual perversion with Anthony Weiner.
When the Director of the FBI reopened the Clinton case, he did not do so because of what had been discovered through the original Clinton e-mail scandal, but through the investigation of Anthony Weiner’s “sexting†with a minor. Huma Abedin, Weiner’s estranged wife, appears to be the linkage between Clinton and Weiner, and that linkage involves a number of electronic devices containing data that was not examined during the original FBI investigation.
Whatever has been discovered, Comey could not risk sweeping it under the rug. He is already in trouble with his FBI peers for his decisions regarding his non-prosecution of Clinton, an action that exceeded the mandate of the FBI and assumed the role of the Department of Justice. If reports are true, Comey is being treated as a pariah within the FBI and is sitting on a pile of resignations tied to his political support for the Clintons.
There is a lot of speculation as to what has been discovered. Reasonably, it has to be substantial and almost certainly tied to an abuse of national security and money laundering. The larger question is does it involve the President, the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton campaign, and the Clinton Foundation. The consequences of the investigation could easily spread far beyond the nation and impact a wide variety of global interests and powers.  Â
With only a few days before the national election, the FBI would normally stand down and wait for the election results before acting. What the FBI has done is unprecedented and frightening in its implications for the nation. Only the corruption of the political process, the criminal abuse of the Rule of Law, and the damage being done to the Constitution warrants such action.Â
There is an ancient warning to those who would abuse power. It is “Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make madâ€. One wonders if Hillary, with all of her health problems, can withstand the onslaught of the Gods. Regardless, this situation is truly ironic with sex at its foundation.  Â
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Now we learn FBI, CIA, and other “intelligence agencies” are investigating:
— Trump campaign ties to Russia
— Trump campaign using email servers located in Russia
Trump is toast.
FBI is investigating Manafort. That’s great news for Hillary but not a
kill shot to Trump’s campaign. Well, maybe it will be. Let’s look into
the story further. The quote from NBC first.
The FBI has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s foreign business
connections, law enforcement and intelligence sources told NBC News
Monday.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-making-inquiry-ex-trump-campaign-manager-s-foreign-ties-n675881
Yesterday Harry Reid sent his letter to Comey which alleged that
Comey knew of Trump and Putin’s collaboration. I thought that it was
very likely that the Russian story would drop today. And it did.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2562258
My take is that there’s been a very interesting dance that has taken
place today. Comey is looking for friends, and not finding many.
Comey got himself into an impossible situation, legally, ethically and
politically. And the pressure was ratcheted up on him massively today.
Here’s what I think occurred. Reid sends the letter to Comey,
signaling to partisans that it’s time to move. The next day it is
revealed that Comey didn’t want to disclose Russian meddling “for fear
it would influence the election.” At that moment, Comey is toast if the
president wants him to be. The rationale for disclosing the Weiner
emails is no longer valid. He arguably has violated the Hatch act,
along with his ethical obligations that govern FBI directors. Former
prosecutors including Alberto Gonzales are howling. (That’s a bad day
if Alberto is on your jock about ethics.)
However, Obama being the cool customer he always is, extended an
olive branch today. They didn’t jump on the anti-Comey bandwagon. They
took no position on his Weiner letter. People on the left then freaked
out. But I think that what really happened is that Obama signaled to
Comey that we can still be buddies, but get the hell out of the way,
because the Russian investigation is going to be revealed. And then the
shoe dropped.
Look for steady drips of information coming against Trump in the next 48 hours. (A la the server article in Slate)
Why do I say Trump is toast? Because the most exciting part of the NBC story is that it references, “Law enforcement and
intelligence sources told NBC News Monday.” Multiple sources in
multiple agencies is GREAT. And guess what “intelligence sources”
means? CIA.
Donald Trump’s secret weapons are a paper shredder and a delete
button. The white nationalist rhetoric and “lock her up” chants might be
getting all the attention, and Trump himself has lost his mind with
glee over FBI director James Comey’s announcement of potential new
Hillary Clinton emails, but the candidate and his companies have been
conveniently destroying thousands of emails and paper documents that
were requested by prosecutors going back decades, a new investigation from Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald reveals.
The
pattern of behavior predates email, starting at least in 1973, when
both Donald Trump, his father Fred Trump and their companies were sued
by the federal government over charges that they systematically refused
to rent apartments to black tenants. Trump began by stalling and missing
deadlines to turn over important and likely incriminating documents for
months. As Eichenwald points out, this was particularly egregious
because:
When litigation is filed or even
contemplated, scrupulous lawyers and corporations immediately impose
document-retention programs or require that any shredding or disposing
of records be halted. Courts have handed down severe sanctions or even
criminal charges of obstruction of justice against executives and
companies that destroyed records because they knew they were going to be
sued.
Trump used the extra time to tell the press
that “that the feds had no evidence he and his father discriminated
against minorities, but instead were attempting to force them to lease
to welfare recipients who couldn’t’t pay their rent.” He also filed a
$100 million counter suit for libel, which only dragged the case on
further.
Even when government lawyers had warrants to search
Trump’s offices, he would act as if they showed up unannounced. He’d
refuse to give over the materials even judges had demanded and take
every opportunity to tell reporters “storm troopers” had invaded his
offices and the prosecutor had unlawfully badgered his employees. After
over six months of delays, Trump finally admitted in a deposition that,
as Eichenwald notes:
The Trumps had been destroying
their corporate records for the previous six months and had no
document-retention program. They had conducted no inspections to
determine which files might have been sought in the discovery requests
or might otherwise be related to the case. Instead, in order to “save
space,†Trump testified, officials with his company had been tossing
documents into the shredder and garbage.
That case
ended in a civil settlement, but despite an agreement to implement
policies that would force Trump’s company to comply with federal housing
regulations, the blatant discrimination continued. In fact, Trump’s
strategy, which Eichenwald describes as
“deny, impede and delay, while destroying documents the court had
ordered them to hand over,” has been effective ever since, and even more
so when the plaintiffs are private citizens.
Eichenwald cites two
egregious cases, both in Florida. In Fort Lauderdale, a group of
tenants claimed they were scammed by Trump into buying apartments,
because they were led to believe that Trump owned the development. But
he had merely licensed his name to the developers, which means when the
project became problematic financially, he simply walked away, and
claimed to have no insurance to cover his liabilities nor pay the
tenants the money they lost for apartments they would never live in. It
turned out that the company had a policy, but it simply hid that fact.
The case, one of a number of similar suits Trump faced during this
period, settled out of court.
Eichenwald also points out that
even when Trump is the one suing, destroying and hiding documents is a
regular practice for him. In 2005, Trump sued Cordish Cos., whose
affiliate, Power Plant Entertainment LLC, built two American Indian
casinos in Florida in 2000. He claimed the companies had colluded with a
former associate to cheat him out of the project, and therefore both
casinos should be turned over to him entirely—not partial profits, but
absolutely everything. One might think such a claim wouldn’t be made
without a mountain of documentation for evidence, but that isn’t Trump’s
style. A year into the case, there was only a box of documents, nearly
all of them irrelevant.
Later, Trump’s team said the required
evidence hadn’t been produced because the company didn’t have it.
Somehow, a multimillion-dollar company did not have an email server in
2001 (a year after the supposed wrongdoing in the development deal had
occurred), or a document retention program until 2003. High school
students had better data backup in 2000 than he did. It took almost
another year to refute this claim, and it turned out an IBM server had
been installed in 1999. But it didn’t matter: everything was gone.
Despite claiming a document retention program had been started in 2003,
“the
company wiped clear the data from everyone’s computers every year.
Lawyers for Trump Hotels had never sent out the usual communication
issued during litigation instructing employees to stop destroying
records that might be related to this case. The deletions continued, and
backup tapes were reused—thus erasing the data they held.”
Trump
has made a mockery of our justice system. He demands his political
opponent be put in jail for far more minor versions of the crimes he’s
used to defraud innocent Americans, not to mention the government, for
decades. As Eichenwald puts it,
“He has solemnly told the country to trust him while refusing to
produce any records to prove whether he speaks the truth or has utter
contempt for it.”
Hillary’s DEATH VORTEX:
1. Signed an agreement and oath to protect classified info.
2. Set up her own private e-mail server at home.
3. Avoided State Dept rules regarding server.
4. Told State Dept employees in 2011 to use government server, while using her own unsecured server at home.
5. Waited two years to turn over e-mails.
6. Refused to turn server(s) over.
7. Refused to let independent source look at her server.
8. 33,000 e-mails deleted.
9. Said she turned all e-mail over, which was untrue.
10. Said State Dept had all email, which was untrue.
11. 14,900 more emails found.
12. 50 more e-mails about Benghazi found.
13. Said she had one server, instead 13 servers found including 5 I-pads and blackberries.
14. Seven highly classified e-mails found along with classified, top secret, most sensitive, highly sensitive e-mails.
15. E-mails above top secret (special access)
16. Said she never sent or received classified info which was untrue.
17. Received 22,000 emails over time that were classified.
18. Claims she did not know that {{—-C—-}} meant classified.
19. Apparently Clinton or an insider took off classification markers off e-mail. Which is a form of altering information.
20. Classified info doesn’t always come with header.
21. Hillary and staff deleted e-mails after Congressional Subpoena.
22. Broke servers with hammers and used bleach bit on software.
23. Her IT person pleaded the fifth over 90-times.
24. 39-times she said she could not recall, 227 times her staff said they could not recall under questioning.
25. Said because of a concussion she could not remember training when meeting with FBI, shortly after in a debate, said she was well-versed in classified info training.
26. People she e-mailed were hacked.
27. Hillary ‘likely’ hacked. (2013)
28. Government owns the e-mails.
29. Compromised National Security.
30. Failed to protect American secrets.
31. Lied to American people.
32. Put personal gain ahead of Country.
33. “Reasonable people should have known.â€
34. “Anyone else and security clearance would have been pulled and they would have been fired.â€
35. “Showed extreme carelessness, which is gross negligence.â€
36. “We have the evidence.â€
37. Campaign finance records show Mr. McAuliffe’s political-action committee donated $467,500 to the 2015 state Senate campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe, who is married to Andrew McCabe, now the deputy director of the FBI. wife of an official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation who later helped oversee the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email use.
38. Apparently AFTER the e-mails are placed into evidence and given to the FBI, the State Department wanted to make changes to the emails in exchange for a promise of cushy FBI jobs overseas the State Department would create.
39. Met with FBI on a Saturday during a holiday weekend:
A. FBI released statement on Tuesday.
B. Hillary and Obama start campaigning on Tuesday.
C. No transcript, not recorded.
D. FBI apparently lost laptop
E. DOJ not pursuing.
F. Hillary=“Extremely careless.â€=Gross Negligence
G. Evidence found but not pursuing at this time.
40. Several prosecutors say they would have pursued and Grand Jury formed.
41. Martha Stewart lied once and went to prison.
42. U.S. sailor took six photos on nuclear sub and went to prison.
43. 650,000 e-mails obtained from Uma Abedin’s server.
44. Comey sends letter to Congress.
45. Then Hillary says it was only sent to Democrats, another lie, because that was on page 2. Then she said it was a mistake because she didn’t read page two, which makes her extremely careless, which is how we got into this mess.
46. Statutes she is facing:
A. USCA201:Bribery
B. USCA208: Acts affecting a personal financial interest.
C. USCA371:Conspiracy
D. USCA1001:False Statements
E. USCA1341: Frauds and Swindles (Mail Fraud)
F. USCA1343: Fraud by Wire
G. USCA1349: Attempt and conspiracy (to commit fraud).
H. USCA1505: Obstruction of Justice
I. USCA1519:Destruction (Alteration or falsification) of records in
Federal investigations, and/or bankruptcy.
J. USCA1621: Perjury (Including documents signed under penalties of perjury).
K. USCA1905:Disclosure of financial information.
L. USCA1924: Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or materials.
M. USCA2071: Concealment (Removal or mutilation) of government records.
N. USCA7201: Attempt to evade or defeat a tax (Use of Clinton Foundation Funds for personal or political purposes).
O. USCA7212: Attempts to interfere with administration of internal revenue laws (Calls to IRS, not turning over accounts to IRS).
You forgot espionage. One classified email is a mistake. Ten classified emails is suspicious. One hundred classified emails is espionage – and Hillary had at least 100 emails on her private server. She has committed the worst abuse of national security in the history of this nation (with the possible exception of what was happening during the civil war).
This is the opportunity for a Republican “kill shot.” After Trump is elected, we need to support the FBI to dig in deep and put an enormous number of Democrat political operatives behind bars. We need to put a stake in the heart of the beast.
Watch the Obama pardons and you will know how widespread the corruption of government was and is.
Ugh. You are probably right. He will likely give “fast a furious” new meaning after the election is over and before he leaves office. Thousands will be let off the hook.
Latest is FBI has 650,000 emails to examine. This is far beyond Hillary and Huma. Hundreds of people involved in this government corruption. All the FBI needs to do now is get one to flip and the whole corrupt house of cards unravels.
The real disaster for the nation would be if Hillary gets elected president.
The only reason to vote for Trump …
I’m NOT a Trump fan. I think he is a blowhard, and I think he is mostly self-serving when he talks, and I also don’t like a lot of his policy ideas, everything from the absurd “wall” to his thoughts on foreign policy. Even his ideas about the economy are somewhat troubling, the last thing I think a classical liberal wants is someone to start putting up tariffs to “protect” American business (i.e. shelter them from competition).
I also do not think it is smart to vote for a candidate simply because they stand in opposition to someone you dislike even more. Many people do this, there are countless people who are voting for Clinton because they can’t stand the idea of a Trump Presidency, and many people voting for Trump are doing so because they are afraid of what might happen with Supreme Court nominees if Clinton is President. This is a terrible reason to vote for a candidate.
The only reason to vote for Trump, in my opinion has to do with an idea called the “illusion of choice”. Simply said, the establishment in both parties never offer anyone who would really shake up the works and provide any real change. Establishment politics exists to perpetuate establishment politics, and people like Clinton are a part of that machine. Both parties are the same in this regard, they don’t care about people, they care about power.
Trump, for all of his failings and quirks, is at least not part of the establishment. Who knows what he will do, he has changed his position on a number of issues over his life and a lot of what he says could change once elected, but he, more than anyone else in this election – including Bernie Sanders (who I think can be respected on some levels for actually caring about people and not simply saying what he had to say to get elected), even Bernie Sanders “plays ball” with the establishment, as he made clear when he finally endorsed and continues to support his parties nominee, whom we all know he has no real support for. Trump does not do that.
Every election, essentially, gives people the “illusion of choice”, except this one. Trump is not a product of the establishment. Who knows what the guy is going to do, and there are a pile of reasons not to vote for him, but if there is one reason to consider him, it’s that he really is something different.
Ok, what I wrote above isn’t totally accurate, there is a SECOND reason to vote for Trump, potentially. That reason is to troll Democrats and tell them that you are voting for Trump because Michael Moore convinced you to.
Yes. He is not the establishment. They all want Clinton. Did you read the excellent essay by Tucker Carlson that covered the topic of the threat that Trump represents to the “loyal opposition” GOP Establishment who really don’t want change because they are doing quite well with Obama as President and Hilary his successor?
The problem is, is that the Establishment is not really doing much for the average citizen here anymore.
Not only are they not doing much for the average citizen, they don’t even know that there is anything wrong. Things are GREAT in the city. The stock market is booming, credit is easy, etc, investors are having all the fun in the world with the 20+ year bull market, they don’t even have a clue that there’s anything wrong out in rural America.
And Clinton, you think she has any idea ? I might not like Trump, but at least he has to deal with workers, people who work for wages in his various businesses, he has a pretty good idea how those people are doing on the wages he pays them. He’s not disconnected.
Clinton, her and her husband, they just had this memo come out about “Bill Clinton Inc”, it isn’t like Bill Clinton was out hiring people, managing a business, etc, to make all their millions, he got it by essentially extorting it from people who actually do run businesses. What product have the Clintons ever made, what service have they provided to anyone ? I doubt they’ve ever so much as served a cup of coffee to anyone.
Trump, at least, ran casinos to entertain people, build office buildings for other businesses, put up apartment buildings to put a roof over people’s heads.
I haven’t seen that article, I’ll go check it out.
Yes, we can.
Yes, we will…
Interesting to me as a side note who on the TBE comments on this national and constitutional disgrace and outright mess and who is conspicuously quiet, as well as absence, but sure has had a lot to say for months on end on the awfulness of this national presidential contest regarding one of it’s candidates.. I let you draw your own conclusions on that observation.
The sudden silence of the trolls is quite telling.
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An article on another site put it best… Comey has no one to blame but himself for his chickencrap former non prosecution wherein he got Loretta Lynch off the hook from having to gyrate around not going forward with prosecuting Corruption Incorporated (Hillary and Bill.) This author pointed out that Clinton scandals are like stepping in dog excrement, when you think you have whipped it off your shoe, you step onto your rug and find that there was a lot more hiding in the treads. Comey tried to get cute, admonishing Clinton wherein he laid the case for negligence that warrants prosecution but then saying… She didn’t “INTEND” to mishandle classified info. Intending doesn’t matter… the law has strict liability due to the nature of discloures and the damage that not taking care of classified info can have.
So now Comey has created a Constitutional crisis…
Do the NeverTrumpers here still get their panties all up in their cracks over Trump saying that he might not accept the outcome of the election? A candidate facing another round of possible indictment possibilities should be President? AND this against the backdrop of Black Bag operations like Project Veritas revealed wherein Democrats go out and stage operations to incite violence at Trump rallies. You think these same people are not rounding up fraudulent voters in critical swing states?
Ugh…this country is just a more sophisticated Banana Republic these days… AND
IT IS TIME TO DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!
It seems like a “Drain the Swamp” movement is starting. Saturday may be a big rally day.
Soros and goons are running scared at the moment. Lets show them our numbers.
#partyisoversoros
#hiliaryforprison
#draintheswamp
Bill Clinton used to brag that he had the lowest net worth of any President to ever take office; less than zero. Since he left office, with Bill on the outside and Hillary on the inside, the Clintons have made themselves filthy rich in just a few years, essentially by selling by selling government influence. Now they claim their personal net worth is about $45 million. Has any other president ever done anything like this?
If Comey has finally got evidence of her criminal behavior that can nail Hillary on her part in this corruption, then my faith in government may be restored. But if Obama and his DOJ can derail this, and the Clintons get full control of government again, I don’t see any way to ignore what has happened to our country. Comey is right to bring this forward now. This is way bigger than any election.
Yes it is Frank. Well said. I am to the point that I think that the Department of Justice needs to be an independent organization outside of the Executive Branch so it can’t be manipulated to those vile bastards political ends. Or at least it would be a bit more difficult.
It is outrageous that the morons in this country cannot see how important this is. Liberals get all misty eyed over Watergate and now want to sweep Hillary’s and Bill’s criminality under the rug. This is like Watergate, liberals. Except it would be more apt if NIXON HIMSELF HAD BROKEN INTO WATERGATE. And then covered it up.
We live in troubled times, don’t we?
The larger question is does it involve the President, the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton campaign, and the Clinton Foundation? Silly question.
Obvious but not silly.
It’ silly, we all know the answer, and if you don’t then you don’t follow politics, or live on this planet. If it has a D or a C it involves lies and corruption.
I fell certain that Teflon Bill has already mopped this one up. Trump is now up again. How many of Alrods angels will pop out of a cake the next few day with another crotch story to tell?
It does appear that the Democrats are sex obsessed about everything so this will make it difficult to come up with something new. My guess is Comey did or didn’t, or should or shouldn’t. Unfortunately, even this doesn’t fly because Loretta Lynch is stonewalling.
They’re cutting deals with the prosecutors, bidding on Presidential pardons and/or packing for a long trip. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8c7c07015d4d2e1db77a08cf33fb804c0b8ba0169ea1482eb7b9c4eb41dde868.jpg .
Outstanding Rocinante!
RR III… you are probably right. Many secret meetings with Lynch and her Dept of Corruptice. It is incredible though that Comey’s letter got out at all… It does seem that the Clintons were caught off guard by this.. Or they would have stopped it. This doesn’t seem to follow the usual script.. did Comey go rogue on them?
When you are caught between a rock and a hard place, and survival is improbable, you might just as well tell the truth. Comey couldn’t quite ring the bell of truth, but at least he sent up a distress flare.
The same people who believe McDonnell did not break any laws, are the same people who think Clinton did. In the end, McDonnell and Clinton both get to walk.
I would say what is behind this is that Comey has now been offered a high paying job by some right wing bona fide billion-aire. In other words, he can now throw Hillary to the dogs because he doesn’t have to worry about a paycheck and heath insurance anymore. He got financial backing outside Washington. Perhaps an offer from Fox News?
In the end, Bill will prevail. Wiener will end up on the short end of the stick. I wouldn’t want to be in Wiener’s shoes right now. Or, possibly Wiener with be thrown a bone by the Clinton’s to shut up.
You apparently missed the fact the McDonnell was convicted – a conviction ultimately overturned. So let’s see what happens when Hillary goes before a jury as is appropriate.
Comey gets no credit here. He was facing mass resignations and an internal revolt by the FBI professionals (as has been reported by numerous retired FBI folks). Comey is a pariah who will resign and disappear after the election.
The only remaining question is who commits suicide first or ends up in a mental institution. Huma for the former. Hillary for the latter.
Only a complete fool believes that any Clinton is ever going to spend a day in jail.
Can you substantiate your second paragraph? Nobody is walking away from a cushy government job over this. Get real.
Clinton still wins big.
See parenthesis.
You sound scared – – and you should be. The Clinton corruption which you depend on for your “free” money is about to end. No more welfare for you, you will finally have to earn a living. Good news is Trump will bring back good jobs so a bit of training and you will get hired, but you will have to keep that nasty attitude in check. Nobody wants t work with a whiner and complainer.
Not one penny of government money here, can you say the same?
So it was more than a penny.
Zero.
I will guarantee you that Bill and Obama have “huddled” together over the weekend and figured out a way to put the fire out.
Comey threw this out there on a Friday to capture the Sunday talk shows, but it also gives Bill and Obama time to put a lid on it.
Hillary has probably been asleep since Friday. Doesn’t make any difference, she don’t have a clue what to do anyhow. She never left Bill because she is nothing without him, nothing.
Trump needs to get him a Bill……
Dept. of Injustice, same as with the Bush 43′ admin.
No longer matters. You would have to,get the entirety of the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader squad to claim they were lined up for Trump to grope them. This scam worked for a few weeks, now the real corruption is front and center.
Both party’s are equally corrupt. Front and center for how long?
When has Donald Trump, as the nominee, ever not screwed up an opportunity given to him? When?
What makes you think this time will be any different?