Received from a US correspondent – David, blogmaster
There are not too many individuals in the USA space who have commanded media attention to match President Donald Trump. One person that qualifies is Robert Mueller, special counsel to oversee the department’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
220 responses to “The Mueller Investigation”
The Trumpeteers on BU, people like Georgie Porgie, Freedom Fighter, John the Jonny et al, have for years, and not unlike Trump himself, argued wrongly that there was no conspiracy by the Trumpet and his inner circle. Certainly, the Mueller Report does NOT support that contention.
Indeed, the Mueller Report was met with a spontaneous propaganda campaign for the effective exoneration of everything Trump. Most of these common idiots, supporting the Idiot-in-Chief, had not even read the report, as edited, nor the summary, as presented by Trump’s ‘criminal’ lawyer, the so-called attorney general, a post used to be for the defense of the public interests.
The truth is that the Mueller Report, has never been as conclusive as the willing BU ‘idiotocracy’ would like us to believe. Also, we well know that the FBI, as both a police and intelligence outfit, can indict the proverbial ‘ham sandwich’. A Harvard professor has long determined that the average American could hardly navigate a day without contravening at least three (3) federal laws. Far less a man like Trump, who has always been a walking, talking violator of every law known to God or man.
In the end, it does not matter whether he is impeached or not. Thanks to Trump, there has been an unmasking of the ‘ugly American’ for all the world to see. And those other idiots who are feckless enough to believe that some election, next time, could return this political toothpaste back into its tube are even worse than Georgie Porgie and his ilk.
Thanks to Trump, the end of American imperium is here!
Pmama HaHaHaHa we all know that you are Anti-American, Anti-Free Market Capitalist who probably lives and Breathe in America…And this Blog is only Possible because of American laws, if it was hosted in Barbados it would have been shut down a long time ago.
As for President Trump you ain’t seen Nothing yet. The Crazies are coming out on the other side. We would be fortunate if the Government of Barbados cut the Size of Government, Cut the Regulations, Cut the Taxes… we would see Barbados Boom and like America. We would have Historic Low Unemployment, a Rise in Government Revenue and an Economy that would GROW. However we Insists on Holding on to the Boulder of Socialism while we are Drowning while Hoping for a Prosperous Outcome.
We are Going in the Opposite Direction to what we See Working and thinking we would get a Good Result. Socialism Kills, it is the Gospel of Envy and it Breeds Mediocrity.
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Geez.. a next post where I cannot contribute
I know what you are thinking… “if that fool cannot contribute, why the hell doesn’t he keep his mouth shut and stay away”
In my defense…….I bet you don’t think like that about Lawson
🙂 HAGD
Some one need to ask the Democrats. How much money they have spent and intend to spend to get rid of Trump
AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT IN THE LAND OF BULL SHITTERS IN A FAILING STATE, THAT RUBBISH IS FOISTED ON THE READERS OF BU.
WHENEVER MATERIAL CAN BE FOUND THAT DISPARAGES TRUMPS BU POSTS IN TRIUMPH
WHEN THE CONVERSE IS POSTED THE ILLITERATI DESCEND AND POSIT THAT IS RIGHT WING MATERIAL.
HOWEVER, NONE OF WUNNAH JUST AS THE MAIN STREAM IN THEIR HYSTERIA CAN NOT DO A THING ABOUT ANYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING IN THE USA, AS THE GOD APPOINTED KING JOSIAH REIGNS UNTIL GOD IS READY TO REVEAL THE ANTICHRIST WHO WILL LEAD THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.
Mariopas
The Democrats should continue to vigorously do whatever it takes to get rid of Trump because he is not good for America and the world for that matter …
And those that have voted for him as well as those that are supporting him domestically and internationally refuse to acknowledge the fact that he has and continues to polarized America and the world…
( Now lets face it, he isn’t the first bigot to sit in the White House, but to have this man sit in the White House in the day an age and espouse his sexist and racist rhetoric affronts everything America claims to represent in our present time.
Yes, we all can agree on the fact that former presidents have made some dealings that weren’t in the best interest of America and the American people, and it is his duty as president to seek to address this, but his attempt to set the record straight does not negate his sexist, islamophobic, and racist rhetoric which ought to affront those who claims to represent the American values and ideals.
And I cannot figure out how a man who has been born raised in the most racially diverse state in the Union … turn out to be an overt racist?
@ TheOGazerts at 9 .00 AM
I have the same problem. The internal workings of the political system of USA yields little to our understanding of local problems. Rather it leads to a level of confusion that conflates issues in the two cultures. Do you notice the drift from being “Little England” to being” Petty USA”?
Vincent codrington
No other system can compare to the American Republican form of governance …the great system of human government in the world … it took me a little over three decades to even start to understand the inner workings of this inventive form of governance…
If Trump was a Democrat impeachment by a Republican controlled congress would be a certainty. Nancy Pelosi in an effort to ostracise Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and some of the other first term Democratic congress persons announced impeachment was off the table long before she knew the findings of the Mueller report.
So many of Trump’s closest aides have been indicted and convicted by US Courts. The only reason Trump is standing is because there is great debate about indicting a sitting president.
Freedom marvels when people make these Accusations that Trump is Resist but they Never bring Facts to Show it…JUST ACCUSATIONS and even if ya point to the Word Sh** Hole Countries, aren’t they?
Sometimes people are Allergic to Truth they React without Consideration…
SEEMS CLEAR DOESN’T IT?
If Mueller had anything on Trump, he would have leaked it before now.
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I have said on FB and here, the Mueller investigation came about because Trump is an outsider and wasn’t supposed to win. he won because Clinton was a poor candidate, who assumed that based on her antecedents she was bound to win. She took things for granted. There was never any collusion, even Noam Chomsky who is a known anti-Trump, has declared the collusion thing to be bs. As I have said, the obstruction thing cannot be proven.Alan Dershowitz from the outset said that the president cannot be cited for obstruction since he in charge of the DoJ. Dershowitz also predicted that Mueller would waffle around on the obstruction thing so as to give the Dems something to holler about. From the comments on this blog, one would get the impression that Mueller is squeaky clean. Do some investigations into Mueller’s time as the attorney general in Massachusetts and his dealings with the Whitey Bulger affair and the subsequent investigation at the federal level into his actions in the case. The whole thing centered around payments to a known murderer to act as an informer: Bulger took the money and warned his buddies where to rob and who to eliminate when the law was getting too close to his organization. As for citing Barr for obstruction, that too is bs. Nadler knows that. It makes good headlines. One does not need to like Trump; but one should always be dispassionate when dealing with one’s dislikes thereby precluding bias from clouding one ‘s analytical ability
FOIA Request Unearths the Truth About the FBI and the Steele Dossier
New information has been found that shows the Steele Dossier was meant to hurt Trump and that the FBI knew it was a political document that had no merit. Yet they still went forward and used the document as evidence in order to spy on the president.
“Officials at the FBI and (Department of Justice) DOJ were well aware the dossier was a lie — from very early on in the process all the way to when they made the conscious decision to include it in a FISA application,” Meadows said Tuesday”
A new document has been uncovered through a FOIA request by Citizens United. The document gives Deputy Assistant Secretay of State, Katheleen Kavalec’s account on how things went with the Steele Dossier.
“Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec’s written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing an Election Day deadline.
And that confession occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steele’s now-discredited dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s ties to Russia.”
“David Bossie, head of Citizens United and an informal Trump adviser, said the documents suggest there was an illegal effort to “frame” the future president with bogus Russia collusion allegations. “This new information proves why the attorney general must conduct a thorough investigation of the investigators,” he said.
Sources tell me there also are handwritten notes from the meeting, with information about Steele’s political ties, that have not been given to Congress. “There’s a connection to Hillary Clinton in the notes,” said one source who has seen them.”
This is why it is imperative that the AG’s Office continues to look into the spying that went on back in 2016 into the Trump campaign. This doesn’t look very by the book Comey. Who knows what else will come out. But we need to get it quick as it appears the FBI is covering their tracks.
DESPITE ALL THAT THEY DID TO PREVENT IT—–TRUMP WON!
DESPITE ALL THE DAILY DRIVEL —TRUMP IS DOING A GOOD JOB AS POTUS
DESPITE ALL THE BULL SHIT TALK HERE AND THERE– TRUMP WILL BE THERE TIL GOD MOVES HIM
What cannot be refuted also is that a Republican led committee just issued a subpoena for Donald Trump Jr to testify.
Rep. Al Green Declares He Will Bring the President to Justice
The Dems are riled up again, thinking they may have something on Trump with Nadler and Schiff making something out of nothing. Longtime Trump hater Rep Al Green made a statement at The House Of Representatives declaring that he does not care what tactics Trump’s uses to delay justice. Because he is willing to wait however long in order to take down Trump.
His statement of intent:
“Last night, at a rally in Florida, the president referred to me as “that man.” Mr. Speaker, I love my country, and still I rise. And I rise today to address the comment that the president made in referring to me as “that man.” Mr. Speaker, the video of what I said speaks for itself. The president indicates that I said, the only way to get him out of office is to impeach him.
But the video speaks for itself. But I do want to share with the president that he is right, I am “that man.” I’m that man, a liberated Democrat, a liberated Democrat in the spirit of Shirley Chisholm. I’m unbought and unbossed. Mr. President, you finally encountered at least one person that your money can’t buy, and your power doesn’t scare. You have a date with destiny, Mr. President. Your fate is in the hands of 435 members of Congress. You are not above the law. No one is. Impeachment is in the hands of this Congress. That man, Mr. President, is a member of this Congress.
Mr. President, I assure you that the long arm of the law is reaching out for you. In this country, we will not allow you, or any other person, to hold yourself out as being above the law. You have an appointment with history in this House of Representatives. If no one else will bring you to justice, I will, Mr. President.
Lawsuits and delay tactics will not deter me. You will not engage in the paralysis of analysis, as Dr. King put it. You won’t engage in paralysis of analysis such we will put this off until the next election. Mr. President, your case will be brought before this House. It’s just a matter of time, Mr. President. It’s just a matter of time.”
Rep. Al Green has done this once before. He is a lot like Maxine Waters where he runs his mouth about impeaching Trump but then nothing happens. If history tells us anything ut is that Green will likely do a whole lot of nothing.
EVERYDAY I THANK GOD THAT I AM NOT A BLACK AMERICAN WHEN I HEAR THEM TALK ON TV
RE What cannot be refuted also is that a Republican led committee just issued a subpoena for Donald Trump Jr to testify.
WHAT CAN NOT BE REFUTED IS THAT WHEN TRUMP GOES—-SO WILL THE REPUBLICANS
WITHOUT TRUMP THE REPUBLICANS ARE AS STUPID AS THE DEMOCRATS
BOTH OF THEM CAN NOT ACHIEVE IN THE USA WHAT CAME ABOUT IN BARBADOS IN SEPTEMBER 85 BY A “SECOND”
Mr Blogmaster, you are being a little misleading with the comment “.. The only reason Trump is standing is because there is great debate about indicting a sitting president…”
Impeachment of a President is of course a monumental act so surely it must always be weighed carefully but practically (and this is NOT splitting hairs) the issue resonates on is there cause, or high crimes and misdemenours to start the process….there is no debate about indicting a President because that simply cannot be done under US law!
But to the thrust of your comment, I don’t believe that valid grounds yet exist for impeachment!….Immorality, lying to the public (NOT under oath), crassness, firing senior officials by whim, using impolitic language nor any of the publicly known acts done thus far by POTUS reach the impeachment standard.
As to whether this man will only be saved by the statute of limitations re some of those same acts (like tax issues or others noted in the Mueller report) when he reverts to citizen Trump is another mater completely!
@Vincent, really now *petty USA”…seriously! US politics like that of Greece (debate of restructuring finances) or any other country is instructive to us for what we WANT to learn from it. If you look on the US scenario and only glimpse the pettiness then senor you are losing your (in)sight badly as you reach older years…you need to redouble your opthomologist’s visits!😁
And @Lexicon…over 60 million people in US voted against a lying, conniving, bad tempered candidate to elect a pathologically lying, business conniving, bad tempered candidate…so do you really think this one man as president is espousing some singular vileness that “…is not good for America and the world for that matter …” NO.
As noted above by others this man has simply put a bold, public face on the always present seamy side of US life.
But despite that crass imprimatur its yet misplaced to believe that “… the end of American imperium is here!”… as echoed by @Pacha blogger …. replaced on the world stage by what … Russian hegemony , China imperialism . I think not…at least not if the dominant democracies have a say in the matter.
Just recently there was a news item which noted that US Sec of State warned the UK that her support of any Huawei devices in the imminent 5G networks would mean the US would stop sharing secutity matters across and with the UK network….that’s a monumental threat on its face and in its “simple” way brings into stark force how the world stage is aligned …and no one President or PM regardless of their absurd actions can crash the US/Western power position that easily!
@Georgie Porgie
So what? The guy was not working for the government and he could meet whomsoever he wanted to. Since when is that a crime? Nothing came of the meeting, no data was passed from the Russian to young Trump .Trump left empty handed. No crime was committed; even Mueller had to admit no crime was committed, despite all the talk about ignorance on young Trump’s part. If Mueller had tried to indict young trump on that specious charge he would have made himself a laughingstock.
@Dr. Lucaus
Is that the issue read doing what he wanted to before becoming president?
best word I have heard lately is ….Libtards..
@ David May 11, 2019 8:48 AM
You give the list of persons associated with Trump who came wrong with the law. What exactly do these offences have to do with collusion between Trump and Russia? I do not see the connection between what Mueller was supposed to be investigating and these offenders. These offenders were caught up in an attempted coup to oust the duly elected leader of a country. Mueller could not prove collusion so he hoped that by threatening some of Trump’s associates evidence would appear that would be harmful to Trump. He learnt well from his time in Massachusetts with Whitey Bulger. Not one of the offenders on the list had anything to do with Russia. You have tax dodgers and so on; crimes that most Americans are guilty of. So do not imply( the list would indicate so) that only Trump’s associates contravene the laws. The Dems do the same.
DONT PUT UP THIS POST EITHER
U.S. Seizes N. Korean Ship for Violating Sanctions
2019-05-09 Source:
The Trump administration has announced that they have seized a North Korean ship for violating the sanctions placed on the country.
The name of this ship adds more allure to the story.
According to NBC News:
The U.S. has seized a North Korean freighter that was caught shipping coal in violation of U.N. sanctions, the Justice Department revealed Thursday.
The 17,000-ton cargo ship, called the Wise Honest, was stopped in Indonesia last year after it was found to be carrying coal. The ship’s captain was charged with violating Indonesian law, and last July, the U.S. filed an action to seize the ship, according to court papers.
Federal prosecutors said the seizure marks the first time the U.S. has taken possession of a North Korean ship for violating international sanctions.
“This sanctions-busting ship is now out of service,” said John Demers, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
It is unclear if the ship name “Wise Honest” was in an attempt to make U.S. authorities think it was only doing good.
@David May 11, 2019 12:28 PM
I was referring to young Trump, Jr.. There are no laws stopping American citizens from meeting with Russians.
A newly-uncovered document suggests that the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ), including the FBI, was “well aware” that foreign agent Christopher Steele was trying to interfere in the 2016 presidential election with disinformation — and yet still used his materials to spy on American citizens and the Trump campaign, according to Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC).
“[O]fficials at the FBI and (Department of Justice) DOJ were well aware the dossier was a lie — from very early on in the process all the way to when they made the conscious decision to include it in a FISA application,” Meadows said Tuesday in a statement to The Hill’s John Solomon. “The fact that Christopher Steele and his partisan research document were treated in any way seriously by our Intelligence Community leaders amounts to malpractice.”
Meadows’ statement came in response to a federal document recently unveiled by a Citizens United lawsuit — an email from Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec, who met with Steele in October 2016 and recounted his desire to spread the lurid allegations of his since-debunked dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump. Solomon wrote on Tuesday:
Kavalec’s written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing an Election Day deadline.
And that confession occurred 10 days before the FBI used Steele’s now-discredited dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s ties to Russia.
Steele’s client “is keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8,” the date of the 2016 election, Kavalec wrote in a typed summary of her meeting with Steele and Tatyana Duran, a colleague from Steele’s Orbis Security firm. The memos were unearthed a few days ago through open-records litigation by the conservative group Citizens United. [emphasis added]
Solomon followed up on that report Thursday with another detail from the document — which FBI Director Christopher Wray has redacted all but three sentences of until the end of 2041. He writes that her memo makes it clear Steele “was political, inaccurate, spinning wild theories, and talking to the media,” even getting basic facts wrong about Russia’s diplomatic presence in the U.S.:
[T]he FBI swore on Oct. 21, 2016, to the FISA judges that Steele’s “reporting has been corroborated and used in criminal proceedings” and the FBI has determined him to be “reliable”… [Yet Kavalec] quoted Steele as saying, “Payments to those recruited are made out of the Russian Consulate in Miami,” according to a copy of her summary memo obtained under open records litigation by the conservative group Citizens United. Kavalec bluntly debunked that assertion in a bracketed comment: “It is important to note that there is no Russian consulate in Miami.”
Kavalec alerted federal officials to these plans by Steele, a foreign national, to interfere with the presidential election, ten days before the FBI applied in a FISA court for a warrant to surveil the Trump campaign.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Solomon that the DOJ hid Kavalec’s email from the House Intelligence Committee during its investigation of 2016 foreign election interference.
This memo is the latest piece of evidence suggesting the FBI spied on American citizens for partisan political purposes.
Bruce Ohr — a career DOJ official whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele — has testified that he told the FBI Steele was politically biased against Trump and that his dossier was based on hearsay.
Steele himself gave a statement to a London court saying that the purpose of his work, at least in part, was to give Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) standing to “challenge the validity of the outcome of that election.”
James, Comey, the FBI Director at the time, has admitted he knew Democrats were funding Steele and Fusion GPS’s work “before there were any court filings” — but withheld this information from the FISA application and from the intelligence briefing with president-elect Trump which gave CNN and BuzzFeed the “news hook” to publicly air the hoax allegations without any corroboration.
Two senators have recommended Steele for a criminal investigation, alleging that he lied to the FBI, according to a 2018 Senate Judiciary Committee memo.
My posting at May 11, 2019 12:26 PM is in reply to David not Georgie Porgie as is stated.
@Dr. Lucas
You cannot divorce the action of Jr from Sr. He would not have been acting on his own or better put Sr would have been the beneficiary which is why it has open the flood gates on inquiries. At this stage until we see the unredacted parts of the report we will never be able to speak authoritatively to the matter.
We are ready to make predictions about the American presidential elections of 2020!
We are predicting a number of things, including that Trump will be president again, not that he will necessarily win, but president nonetheless.
First, hithertofore unknown criminal acts will prevent the impeachment of Trump between now and 2020. In these, he will be ably assisted by the Christian/Zionist/dispensationalist/dominionists.
Second, that even if he loses that election he will fail to concede. Such a failure, under the American system, makes it virtually impossible for the presumptive ‘winner’ to assume office. And if you think there is currently a constitutional crisis, wait for these events to unfold.
These predictions are based on the central assumption that the American system has never had a seating president who would go to any and all lengths, further than Nixon, further than Bush2, include the use of nuclear weapons within a contrived war, to become an overnight war hero to the gullible American people, while at the same time avoiding the criminal fate which will certainly befall him when unclothed of his presidential armour.
@Pacha
Premature!
Well, four (4) years before the local elections we called it, 30/0, for the BLP.
You will fully recall!
Even the great political doyen, Sir William Skinner, made similar remarks as well.
Maybe Pachamama is more of a political clairvoyant, with longer ranged vision, than social scientist.
@David
It has been shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump senior was not aware of the meeting. Even if he had been, what would that prove? it is like the curtailing of migrants from certain Muslim countries. The liberals were all hollering that when he was trying to become president he talked about an out right ban on Muslims: therefore any executive order by trump dealing with non-entry of Muslims must be struck down. What was over looked was the fact, that what was said prior to becoming president had no bearing on what was actually requested after he became president. The outcome should have been based solely on what was written in the executive order not what was said prior. There is such a thing as changing one’s mind. I was amazed at how it was left to the supreme court to point out that little fact. All the noise is grandstanding by the Dems. In the case of Barr, it is known that it is against the law for Barr to reveal grand jury findings and intelligence work. Barr is right not to take on Nadler ( since when is the top legal officer subjected to being cross examined by his underlings about the findings of Mueller.?).How are you going to prove intent when no crime was committed ?Are you going to jail some one because he intended to rob a bank ,but changed his mind instead?. Are you going to jail him because he changed his mind?
Dr. Lucas…help me out here with some of your “.. dispassion [and] precluding bias from clouding one ‘s analytical ability”. First, I agree completely that disliking a person should never cloud the judgement process as neither shoukd liking him/her…
So tell me why and how could “the Mueller investigation came about because Trump is an outsider and wasn’t supposed to win. he won because Clinton was a poor candidate”….What’s the dispassionate analysis for that astonishing remark?
Further, why does Mueller need to be squeaky clean to properly investigate anyone? What does his tenure with Whitey Bulger have to do with this?….Are you suggesting that working with a known killer is so vile that he has no moral standing to make the case for this investigation?
Why, and on what basis? Are you saying Mueller broke the law during Bulger’s undercover career?
You surely are aware Guiliani prosecuted many a Mafia Don in his days as a US Attorney using very SIMILAR tactics of undercover killers as informants!
And of course there is no collusion/conspiracy. That has been overblown on one hand from day one in my view but in other instances it has been proven valid…and even Prof Dershowitz accepts that too. He stated that Mueller ‘s “mandate was to uncover crimes committed by the Trump campaign [it’s accolytes] with regard to Russia’s attempts to influence the election.” The report answers that thoroughly.
On the obstruction matter…you quoted the Prof…but there are several other dispassionate highly esteemed players in the US legal fraternity who hold opposing views on that….yes the Dems got something to holler about… a valid, meaningful, legally persuasive something!
From this layman’s perspective its misleading to claim presidential innocence based purely on the assertion that because a President is in charge of the DoJ that he can’t obstruct justice … because in short it says that a President is above the law, so to speak, as it relates to doing as he pleases with law enforcement measures. …. Factually, of course he is NOT above the law.
Absolutely a President can find tremendous latitude in carrying out actions for which he has absolute constitutional powers but as seen with Pres Nixon if those actions are associated with matters over which he has no constitutional latitude (perjury, directing lying of other under oath,evidence destruction etc) he can be removed under impeachment.
And to quote Goldsmith another Harvard Law prof : “…Trump did some very bad (not to mention stupid) things in response to press reports about his and his team’s involvement in the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and to the unfolding investigation of that interference.. In combination with Trump’s other abuses of power over the past two and a half years, I have little trouble concluding that Trump committed impeachable offenses, should Congress want to pursue that option.”
So back to what in the name of logical progression does an unrelated matter of yesteryear specifically have to do with the legitimacy of a matter today!
They have Two things that are Brewing but we do not know for sure as yet…
One is Rep. Nadler’s shady ties to Russia exposed…
Congressman Jerry Nadler continues his push to investigate President Trump and his associates for alleged ties to Russia, but it may be Nadler himself who has ties to the Kremlin…
New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the man at the helm of the cabal that is attacking President Donald Trump, has a major issue on his hands.
It has been discovered that his son, Michael Nadler, works for Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, a New York based law firm.
What is significant about this job is that that office has repeatedly sued President Trump, including on behalf of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.
“Congressman Jerry Nadler has a big conflict,” our source tells Big League Politics in Washington, D.C.
“His son (Michael Nadler) got a job with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP in 2018. That’s convenient because Jerry Nadler and the Democrats just won control of the House in 2018.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher hire Jerry’s son and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher are the main Nemesis against Trump and the Trump Administration on numerous lawsuits.
Now the Nadler family will gain access to thousands of Trump documents via Jerry’s subpoenas!,”
Such an arrangement — Jerry Nadler investigating Trump with his son’s firm trying to get access to documents in other cases — violates ethics rules for federal investigators.
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David you are off the mark on this one, nadler shouldnt play with the bull…Barr could open a second mueller probe on the dems and keep them occupied for years to come,and running for cover. when trump wins the house back in 2020 maybe all their taxes will be under review especially those hacks shiff and nadler. You got the report no conspiracy by anyone in his campaign quit moving the goal posts.
@Dr. Lucas
The system allows for an inquiry if there is sufficient to support it. The special counsel was appointed by who?
@lawson
Let us see if Barr the Trump appointee supports an inquiry into Clinton or any Democrats for that matter. If memory is correct the FBI initiated such inquiries. He can finish it.
@de pedantic Dribbler
““the Mueller investigation came about because Trump is an outsider and wasn’t supposed to win. he won because Clinton was a poor candidate”
You claim that the above remark is astonishing. On the contrary there is nothing astonishing about the remark.. Cast your mind back to the FBI agents who were fired. The Email exchange between Paige and her lover even before Trump was sworn in as president. The leaking of the Steele Dossier which sought to depict Trump getting a golden shower from some call girls in a Russian hotel and which formed in part one aspect of a move to investigate Trump. The dossier was known about even before Trump was elected. The Dossier was subsequently shown to be without credit.. After he was sworn in ,there were Dems who made it their intent to impeach Trump ( Al Green): the man wasn’t even in office two weeks before there was talk about impeaching him. I don’t need to say more on this point.
I said the following: “From the comments on this blog, one would get the impression that Mueller is squeaky clean”
The context in which the statement was made is important. I acknowledge that being not squeaky clean does not impede the effectiveness of someone. In the media, Mueller is portrayed as impeccable in his actions,more ethical then Jesus Christ if one actually wants to really believe that. My statement sought to disabuse. that sentiment.
“Why, and on what basis? Are you saying Mueller broke the law during Bulger’s undercover career?”
What went down was as follows: Bulger was recruited despite being known as a killer. He was paid by the FBI. He used his position with FBI to get his competitors in crime jailed. He succeeded in turning a FBI agent and continued his killing ways. Mueller was in charge of the law forces at the time and one can say he did not know what was going on if one wants to. The US deputy attorney general who just resigned was also part of the team with Mueller.. Mueller came out of the whole fiasco intact as was the deputy attorney general you can conclude whatever you want to.
“.yes the Dems got something to holler about… a valid, meaningful, legally persuasive something”
I beg to differ with you on this point. First off let’s take Comey. He claims that he had never met Trump before, but concluded that he was a liar, therefore after meeting the president he hasten to write down what trump had said. This is man who was fired by Trump( I must admit it was done beautifully by Trump. The political insiders never saw that one coming and it pissed them off). The fact remains Trump has the constitutional authority to fire Comey. He can give a thousand different reasons or he can give none. Nothing can be done about it. He can say “I am going to fire x: be advised that he shouldn’t do so but keeps insisting he wants X fired. But he does nothing about firing X (Mueller);although he has the constitutional authority to do so. He hasn’t got to get some one to fire X. The point remains he never acted or carried through with the proposed action. As far as I know, one can broach one’s intentions with one’s advisors(test the waters so to speak to see what feed back one gets).No action was carried forward. How could Mueller determine Trump’s mindset( he wanted to talk to Trump see how he was thinking when he fired Comey) Is Mueller a shrink? How are you going to charge a man on intent when he did not carried out the activity? trump listened to advisors and did not act.
@ David May 11, 2019 3:22 PM
All the talk about impeachment is just talk. It will never get through the Senate. Nancy Pelosi has a lot more sense than Nadler. She been telling her people to try and concentrate on things like health care, where they have an edge and on infrastructure, it does not matter having the numbers in the house. It is the senate that matters.
@Dr. Lucas
The debate has become muddled i.e. the political argument and the duties of the congress/senate to ensure good governance.
@David
There must be high crimes for Congress to act. You don’t have to realize that high crimes have not been committed. There may have been boorish behavior which may offended the sensibilities of some.
DR LUCAS SIR
YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME TRYING TO ARGUE WITH THE MORONIC MOUTHINGS OF THE BRAYERS AND BRIMBLERS IN THE BU RUM SHOP. THEY SOUND THE SAME AS THE DUMB DUMBOCRATS ON THE US MAIN STREAM MEDIA
THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT ONE CAN NOT DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE
@Dr. Lucas
It will always be about politics. Both parties will present this matter with an eye on the upcoming presidential election and the others in the congress and senate. It will always be about politics first.
The Trump administration on Friday moved forward with a proposed rule to make it harder for illegal immigrants to access federally subsidized housing — the latest crackdown by the administration on immigrants who use public assistance.
The rule, proposed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and posted in the Federal Register, would require that those seeking public housing would be subject to verification of their immigration status. Only families in which every member is either a citizen or a legal resident would qualify for federally subsidized housing. Currently families where at least one person is either a citizen or green card holder can get federal assistance, even if other family members are not.
The administration says that regulations “presently excuse individuals from submitting documentation if they do not contend to having eligible immigration status. This results in no actual determination of immigration status being made.” The rule would also require current participants who have not previously proven their eligibility to do so at their next evaluation of their need for public assistance.
An agency analysis, reported by The Washington Post, found that approximately 25,000 households, representing about 108,000 people, now live in subsidized housing with at least one person who would be ineligible.
Among those “mixed-status” households, 70 percent are legally eligible for benefits — approximately 76,000 people including 55,000 children. The majority live in California, Texas and New York, the Post reported.
“HUD expects that fear of the family being separated would lead to prompt evacuation by most mixed households,” the agency’s analysis said. “Temporary homelessness could arise for a household, if they are unable to find alternative housing.”
HUD Secretary Ben Carson defended the proposal this week, telling Fox Business’ Stuart Varney that illegal immigrants are limiting assistance that could go to “legitimate American citizens.”
“We have a long list of people we can only serve right now one in four of the people who are looking for assistance from the government,” he said. “So obviously we want to get those people taken care of. And we also want to abide by the laws.”
An administration official told The Daily Caller, which first reported the proposal last month, that “we need to take care of our citizens.”
“Because of past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal aliens were able to live in free public housing desperately needed by so many of our own citizens. As illegal aliens attempt to swarm our borders, we’re sending the message that you can’t live off of American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime,” the official said.
However, the HUD analysis reportedly found that that the rule could cost up to an additional $227 million a year because mixed-status families would then receive higher subsidies.
ICE creates ‘most wanted’ list to help track down criminal illegal immigrants
The proposal is likely to face fierce opposition from Democrats. On Friday, 13 Democratic members of Congress from New York said in a letter to Carson that it would “needlessly inflict hardship” on families.
“Your approach represents a major shift from current HUD policy and by design makes it more difficult for families to have access to assistance for which they would otherwise be eligible,” the letter says.
It is the latest proposed crackdown by the administration on the use of public assistance by immigrants. Reuters reported last week that the administration is considering making it easier to deport legal permanent residents who have used public benefits.
A draft regulation, which is still subject to change, would reportedly allow for the deportation of some permanent residents who have used certain public benefits within five years of admission into the U.S. Those benefits include Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), Section 8 housing vouchers, certain Medicaid benefits; and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
Despite the foolishness written by the well known imaginative story tellers on BU ( you must take what they write with a pinch of salt as they know no better)Trump was given a big leg up by James Comey who,11 days before the election went public on TV announcing new information had come to hand on a probe he had closed months before but that he was now re-opening the FBI investigation into her private email server emails.That was the most unkind cut of all to do to a candidate who had all but wrapped up the election in her favour.EvenTrump admitted he did not expect to win but Comey by his stupid act turned the tables on a sure Clinton victory and handed it on a platter to the lying conniving bully boy from Queens.
On Friday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan confirmed that the Pentagon has authorized an additional $1.5 billion to extend the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border 80 more miles.
Shanahan stated, according to Stars and Stripes: “The Department of Defense is fully engaged in addressing the crisis on our southwest border, with more than 4,000 servicemembers and 19 aircraft currently supporting the Department of Homeland Security. Today, I authorized the transfer of $1.5 billion toward the construction of more than 80 miles of border barrier. The funds were drawn from a variety of sources, including cost savings, programmatic changes, and revised requirements, and therefore will have minimal impact on force readiness.”
The additional $1.5 billion comes after the transfer of $1 billion for an additional 60 miles of wall in Yuma, Arizona and El Paso, Texas, that was made in March.
Fox News reports, “But the plan to divert Pentagon funding has sparked criticism from congressional Democrats, who accused Shanahan of not seeking approval to ‘reprogram’ the funds without congressional authority. Shanahan and other senior defense officials claimed in response they did not have to get permission from Congress despite the objections from Democratic lawmakers.”
The funds being transferred come from the Afghan Security Forces Fund, which describes itself as providing “assistance to the security forces of Afghanistan to include the provision of equipment, supplies, services, training, facility and infrastructure repair, renovation and construction, and funding.”
AP reported in late February that Shanahan visited the southern border and asserted, “How do we get out of treating the symptoms and get at the root of the issue? I don’t want to just add resources and not fix the problem.” AP wrote, “Shanahan said he was not volunteering the Pentagon to take over any part of border control, which is the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security. But he said his visit led him to question whether there should be a ‘wholesale redesign’ of the way border control is done by the federal government.”
The Hill reported on Friday that Democrats would fight against transferring money for the wall:
The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced a bill that would prohibit using military construction funds on a border wall. The prohibition, included in the fiscal 2020 military construction and veterans affairs appropriations bill, would prohibit funds from the 2015 through 2020 fiscal years from being “obligated, expended or used to design, construct, or carry out a project to construct a wall, barrier, fence, or road” along the U.S. southern border. And House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told Shanahan during a panel hearing in March that the Pentagon would likely lose the reprogramming authority if it moved forward with the $1 billion funding transfer.
Guiani cancels trip to the Ukraine to collect dirt on Biden?
The greatest show on earth!
Guiliani says why bother …the rest of the dems will do it for him as they try to take sleepy joe down
President Trump is asking Barr – the Attorney General of the US to investigate Biden?
To greatest show on earth.
Trump has been begging Japan,Putin,South Korea and China to help him get a Nobel Peace prize
by supporting him in the background,to get Kim Jon of North Korea to cooperate by having him give up his nukes.
If its one thing Trump cannot stand,it’s that Obama holds an honour which has been so far eluded the lying double crossing dunce from Queens.
Trump was trying to use Kim to get the award but Kim knows he won’t stand a chance without his weaponry based on what the double crossing yanks did to Gaddaffi and Saddam.