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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 22:36:18 GMT
Kyle Griffin...
”Fox News poll: On the Russia investigation, who do you trust more?
Mueller 40% Barr 22%
Mueller 45% Trump 27%”
I guess trump saw this Fox News poll..
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Post by PrettyInPeank on May 18, 2019 22:36:54 GMT
MSNBC: Rep Justin Amash ( R-MI) President Trump has engaged in actions, behaviors that meet impeachment thresholds. He stands alone as a GOP speaker. Marches to his own drummer. It is a break in ranks....... Hopefully it’s the beginning of a much bigger crack. Oh please let this be the first of many to jump off the sinking ship.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 18, 2019 23:06:38 GMT
Mitch really, really, REALLY needs to GO. Really. From Ditch Mitch! Amy McGrath has not announced yet but watch for her name! Kentucky running against Mitch..
Last year, when Amy McGrath ran for Congress in Kentucky against Mitch McConnell’s hand-picked congressman, she ran a campaign fueled by tens of thousands of small-dollar donors. And despite the odds against her, she was only just barely defeated in a district massively favoring her Republican opponent.Now more than ever, we need people like Amy McGrath in Congress. People who will fight to protect our health care, put everyday families first, and end the political games of self-serving career politicians like Mitch McConnell who only do what their corporate and special interest donors want. Over 23,000 grassroots donors like you have already given to help us Ditch Mitch, but if we’re going to actually defeat Mitch McConnell when he’s up for reelection next November, we need a strong Democrat to run who can take him on and win. By the time Amy McGrath was 12 years old, she had already decided on becoming a fighter pilot. But when she wrote her congressman at the age of 13, he responded saying that women were prohibited from serving in combat roles in the U.S. military. That didn’t stop Amy. She wrote to every member of her congressional delegation and every member of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees asking them to change the law. She never got a letter back from Mitch McConnell. During her senior year in high school, the ban on women in combat roles was lifted, and Amy was accepted into the United States Naval Academy. She went on to spend 20 years as a U.S. Marine serving our country, flying 89 combat missions, and she was the first woman marine to fly in an F-18 in combat. We want Amy McGrath to run because, unlike Mitch McConnell, Amy has actually served our country. She has an incredibly compelling personal story. She has demonstrated real grassroots support. And we want Amy to run because she’s undeniably the best candidate to win against Mitch McConnell. Let’s show Amy that we’re with her and that we’ll have her back if she decides to run. Together, we’re building a grassroots campaign to Ditch Mitch in 2020, and that starts today by drafting the strongest possible candidate to run against McConnell and finally send him packing.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 18, 2019 23:18:37 GMT
Memorial Day is next weekend. Presidential pardons generally takes months. Keep those in mind! Dt claims to be pro-life! Yet he supports murderers! President Trump is signaling he may pardon several military servicemen either accused of committing war crimes or convicted for them, officials told The New York Times Saturday. Two U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the newspaper that the president has already began making requests for the necessary paperwork to pardon the servicemen. One of the men Trump is reportedly seeking to pardon is Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, who was charged last year for a number of war crimes, including stabbing and murdering a wounded person and shooting at unarmed Iraqi civilians. A few months after he was charged, Trump was met with criticism after he said in March that Gallagher would soon be moved to "less restrictive confinement” in “honor of his past service” to the nation. Another one of the cases Trump is allegedly looking at involves a group of Marine who were charged with urinating on a dead Taliban member. The officials said they believe the president is also allegedly considering a pardon for Nicholas Slatten, a former Blackwater security guard who was convicted last year for his role in a 2007 shooting of unarmed Iraqi civilians.The officials told The Times that the White House issued the paperwork requests to begin the pardoning process on Friday. They added that Trump is planning to pardon the men on Memorial Day.2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/92023/trump-catch-scary-political-stuff?page=31&scrollTo=2552886He has told the DOJ to fast rack them, normally takes months! Eric Prince, brother of DeVos, ran Blackwater!! ETA: ** Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has requested paperwork allowing him to move forward quickly with pardons for accused US war criminals, The New York Times reported Saturday. ** One military official told the Times that the White House made its request to the Justice Department on Friday, and that while pardon files typically take months to assemble, the Justice Department had stressed the files needed to be completed before the coming Memorial Day weekend. The Times said those who could potentially receive clemency include a Navy SEAL who is facing trial for shooting unarmed civilians and murdering a wounded person, along with a range of others accused or convicted of shooting or killing unarmed civilians. ** www.cnn.com/2019/05/18/politics/donald-trump-war-crime-pardons/index.htmlDt claims to be pro-life! Yet he supports murderers! ALWAYS remember he said John McCain was not a war hero!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 18, 2019 23:26:55 GMT
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) in April reportedly received a combined almost $400,000 in contributions from former casino magnate Steve Wynn, who has been accused of sexual misconduct. Wynn gave the RNC $248,500 and the NRSC $150,000, Politico reported, citing two people familiar with the donations, which will reportedly be disclosed this month. The longtime Republican donor stepped down as both RNC finance chairman and from his position at Wynn Resorts last year after he was accused of sexual misconduct spanning more than a decade. He has denied the allegations. ** thehill.com/homenews/campaign/444358-gop-took-400k-from-steve-wynn-last-month-report
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 18, 2019 23:42:44 GMT
AmandaA sassyangel papercrafteradvocate Speaking about farmers.... several people mentioned this last night (Wednesday) about the subsidies, the millions of dollars for the farmers. There is a pair of brothers, Battista is their name, who live in Argentina. I think they are Argentinian(?) maybe. They have committed Crimes and cannot come here to the US. They own thousands of acres of farmland. They were paid $62 MILLION in subsidies. The person speaking said the $$$ should be for American family farmers, not the hugh conglomerates ... Wish I could find it in writing or remember who was talking about it..... MAY 16, 2019 Among the Beneficiaries of Trump’s Tariff Bailout for Farmers? A Brazilian-Owned Meat CompanyHow a multinational corporation is cashing in on the Trade War.After yet again ramping up his trade war against China last week with a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods, President Donald Trump quickly took to Twitter to assure our “Great Patriot Farmers” that he would shield them from the fallout. Soon after, US Department of Agriculture chief Sonny Perdue announced that the president had directed him to “work on a plan quickly,” adding that “@potus loves his farmers and will not let them down!” Trump later hinted he would come up with “about $15 billion” in public funds to offset the losses expected due to retaliatory tariffs on American exports. No details of the new aid package have been released. ** In January, the Greeley, Colorado Tribune reported that as part of the trade-bailout package, the USDA signed contracts to purchase $22.3 million of that pork from JBS USA, the American arm of JBS, a gigantic Brazil-based meat company that owns massive shares of the US beef, chicken, and pork markets. The news drew outrage. The Organization of Competitive Markets, a farmer-led group that organizes against corporate control of agriculture, circulated a petition calling for a halt to sending cash meant for struggling farmers to “global meatpacking corporations.” Undaunted, the USDA has signed two additional contracts to buy JBS pork with bailout funds, the environmental advocacy group Food and Water Watch points out: one on Feb.15 for $14,522,880 and another one on May 2 for $25,614,708.40. ($62,437,588.40)“Why is the USDA bailing out plants operated by JBS, the largest meatpacker in the world, with a program designed to help domestic companies and producers under economic duress?” said Tony Corbo, a senior lobbyist for Food and Water Watch. “This company does not seem to be hurting.” In an emailed statement, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, which administers the program, wrote that the agency “buys American commodities, produced on American farms by American farmers…regardless of who the vendor is, the products purchased are grown in the US and benefit US farmers. JBS qualifies as a bidder under this criteria.” ** And just as JBS’ US pork arm is being handed bailout money, its Brazil operations are managing to cash in on the US-China trade spat. China has already started to shift its meat purchases to Brazil to punish the United States.** Until hostilities broke out last year, China was the biggest overseas market for US farm goods, particularly soybeans and pork. And the places where these soybeans and hogs are grown tend to solidly support Trump. So a trade war against China means a direct economic attack to the president’s turf on the electoral map. Handing cash to a multinational corporation already benefiting from the trade war seems like an odd way to address these self-inflicted problems. More at link: www.motherjones.com/food/2019/05/among-the-beneficiaries-of-trumps-tariff-bailout-for-farmers-a-brazilian-owned-meat-company/LOTS to think about and talk about too...
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 23:46:38 GMT
Those damn emails.
If you believe desperate donnie here Hillary Clinton deliberately ignored a subpoena and deleted her emails. When in fact the request to delete these emails was given long before any subpoena was issued. No wonder that guy at Platte River Networks wanted immunity. And with immunity if someone from Clinton World had checked to make sure those emails were deleted after the subpoena had been issued and when finding out they hadn’t instructed him to do it and that is why he did, he could have sung like a bird. But none of that happened because it would have been the worst kept secret in the country. Because every Republican member of Congress would have leaked it.
trump...
”Will Jerry Nadler ever look into the fact that Crooked Hillary deleted and acid washed 33,000 emails AFTER getting a most powerful demand notice for them from Congress?”
From PolitiFact...
Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton deleted 33,000 emails after getting a subpoena
By Lauren Carroll on Sunday, October 9th, 2016 at 11:14 p.m.
At the second presidential debate, Trump claims that Clinton" received a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 emails." Half True. The FBI concluded that Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted over her decision to conduct State Department business exclusively over a private email server, but Donald Trump pledged to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the matter if he becomes president.
At the second debate between the two presidential nominees, Trump criticized Clinton for turning over half her emails held on her server to the State Department and deleting the rest. He said Clinton should be "ashamed" of herself for deleting 33,000 emails.
"There has never been anything like this," Trump said at the Oct. 9 event in St. Louis. "You get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 emails."
Clinton and her campaign don’t dispute that she deleted these 33,000 emails. They argue that these were personal in nature, rather than work-related, and therefore were not necessary to turn over.
However, they have denied that they deleted the emails after receiving a congressional subpoena from the House Select Committee on Benghazi on March 4, 2015. But an August 2016 FBI report on its investigation shows that Trump’s claim has some merit.
Let’s take a look at the timeline of relevant events, according to the FBI report. (The most pertinent information is on pages 15-19 of this document.)
Feb. 1, 2013: Clinton serves her last day as secretary of state.
July 23, 2014: The State Department reaches an agreement with the Benghazi committee about producing records for its investigation into the 2012 attack on a U.S. embassy in the Libyan city.
Oct. 28, 2014: The State Department sends an official letter to Clinton’s staff requesting "emails related to their government work." Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, and aide Cheryl Mills oversaw the review of Clinton’s email archives to produce work-related documents to the department.
Dec. 5, 2014: Clinton’s team provides 55,000 pages of emails, or about 30,000 individual emails, to the State Department. Mills tells an employee at Platte River Networks, which managed the server, that Clinton does not need to retain any emails older than 60 days.
March 2, 2015: The New York Times breaks the story that Clinton used a personal email account while secretary of state.
March 4, 2015: The Benghazi committee issues a subpoena requiring Clinton to turn over all emails from her private server related to the incident in Libya.
Between March 25-31, 2015: The Platte River Networks employee has what he calls an "oh s---" moment, realizing he did not delete Clinton’s email archive, per Mills’ December 2014 request. The employee deletes the email archive using a software called BleachBit.
March 27, 2015: Clinton’s lawyers send a letter to the Benghazi committee saying that the State Department already has the relevant emails, as they were included in the Dec. 5, 2014, turnover.
Trump’s timeline is correct. The congressional subpoena came on March 4, 2015, and an employee deleted the emails sometime after March 25, 2015, three weeks later.
However, the implication — that Clinton deleted emails relevant to the subpoena in order to avoid scrutiny — is unprovable if not flat wrong.
The FBI’s investigation did find several thousand emails among those deleted that were work-related and should have been turned over to the State Department. However, FBI Director James Comey said in a July 2016 statement that the FBI investigation "found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them."
Comey added in a later congressional hearing that the FBI learned no one on Clinton’s staff specifically asked the employee to delete the emails following the New York Times story and subpoena. Rather, the employee made that decision on his own.
Clinton told the FBI that she did was not involved in deciding whether individual emails should be sent to State Department, nor "did she instruct anyone to delete her emails to avoid complying with FOIA, State or FBI requests for information."
Our ruling
Trump said, "You (Hillary Clinton) get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 emails."
Clinton’s staff received a subpoena for Benghazi-related emails March 4. An employee managing her server deleted 33,000 of Clinton’s emails three weeks later.
The FBI found no evidence that the emails were deleted deliberately to avoid the subpoena or other requests. Clinton’s team requested for the emails to be deleted months before the subpoena came. They also argued that all the emails that would be relevant to the subpoena had already been turned over to the State Department.
We rate Trump’s claim Half True.
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Post by lucyg on May 19, 2019 0:02:10 GMT
I am shocked that Politifact would rate that claim even half true. Hillary had nothing, as in zero, to do with any emails being deleted after the subpoena was produced. And the emails that were deleted were not deleted in order to hide any misdoings.
That feels kind of like anti-Hillary bias to me.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 0:47:15 GMT
Trump and the Republicans need to move on from the Hillary email scam. Focus on the Congressional races in November. McConnell MUST be defeated in November. He is the McCarthy of this generation. The most power greedy person in Congress. We MUST take the majority from the Republicans in both Houses.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on May 19, 2019 1:36:35 GMT
I was at a parade in northwest Iowa today (Steve king territory). I was happy to see that nobody stood or clapped for him as he drove by in the parade. One guy next to us held up both middle fingers and yelled “fuck you!”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 19, 2019 2:53:26 GMT
Trump and the Republicans need to move on from the Hillary email scam. Focus on the Congressional races in November. McConnell MUST be defeated in November. He is the McCarthy of this generation. The most power greedy person in Congress. We MUST take the majority from the Republicans in both Houses. Think Amy McGrath!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 19, 2019 2:54:11 GMT
I was at a parade in northwest Iowa today (Steve king territory). I was happy to see that nobody stood or clapped for him as he drove by in the parade. One guy next to us held up both middle fingers and yelled “fuck you!” HOpe they remember in the voting booth!
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 4:24:01 GMT
Scott Hechinger...
”One day, from his sniper nest, Chief Gallagher shot a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking w/ other girls on the riverbank. She dropped, clutching her stomach, & the other girls dragged her away.” Trump is preparing to pardon this war criminal.”
“A mass murderer according to Senior Seals: “Would order needless risks, to fire rockets at houses for no apparent reason. He routinely parked an armored truck on a Tigris River bridge & emptied the truck’s heavy machine gun into neighborhoods on twith no discernible targets.”
”Platoon members said he spent much of his time in a hidden perch with a sniper rifle, firing three or four times as often as other platoon snipers. They said he boasted about the number of people he had killed, including women.”
”This is the kind of guy Trump has sympathy for. And will likely pardon. A war criminal, who mass murdered Muslim people. Killed w/ pride, hatred & zero remorse. Brazenly gloated about it. And then threatened anyone who would be disloyal enough to speak out about his crimes.”
Sounds like he is deserving of a presidential pardon..
Yet another reason why trump is unfit to be president.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 5:37:48 GMT
And even more reasons why trump needs to go
trump..
”As most people know, and for those who would like to know, I am strongly Pro-Life, with the three exceptions - Rape, Incest and protecting the Life of the mother - the same position taken by Ronald Reagan. We have come very far in the last two years with 105 wonderful new.....”
”Federal Judges (many more to come), two great new Supreme Court Justices, the Mexico City Policy, and a whole new & positive attitude about the Right to Life. The Radical Left, with late term abortion (and worse), is imploding on this issue. We must stick together and Win....”
“for Life in 2020. If we are foolish and do not stay UNITED as one, all of our hard fought gains for Life can, and will, rapidly disappear!”
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Post by hop2 on May 19, 2019 12:35:19 GMT
MSNBC... ”President Trump reportedly fears "that Americans would be captivated by seeing and hearing" Robert Muller testify before Congress on national television, according to AP” I wonder why. I mean who are you going to believe? trump or Mueller? well since Trump has been a liar for decades I don’t believe a single thing he says without an alternste verifiable source. I have not believed a word from Trumps mouth since he built his casino in AC. Mueller is infinitely more believable to me.
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Post by hop2 on May 19, 2019 13:01:02 GMT
AmandaA sassyangel papercrafteradvocate Speaking about farmers.... several people mentioned this last night (Wednesday) about the subsidies, the millions of dollars for the farmers. There is a pair of brothers, Battista is their name, who live in Argentina. I think they are Argentinian(?) maybe. They have committed Crimes and cannot come here to the US. They own thousands of acres of farmland. They were paid $62 MILLION in subsidies. The person speaking said the $$$ should be for American family farmers, not the hugh conglomerates ... Wish I could find it in writing or remember who was talking about it..... MAY 16, 2019 Among the Beneficiaries of Trump’s Tariff Bailout for Farmers? A Brazilian-Owned Meat CompanyHow a multinational corporation is cashing in on the Trade War.After yet again ramping up his trade war against China last week with a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods, President Donald Trump quickly took to Twitter to assure our “Great Patriot Farmers” that he would shield them from the fallout. Soon after, US Department of Agriculture chief Sonny Perdue announced that the president had directed him to “work on a plan quickly,” adding that “@potus loves his farmers and will not let them down!” Trump later hinted he would come up with “about $15 billion” in public funds to offset the losses expected due to retaliatory tariffs on American exports. No details of the new aid package have been released. ** In January, the Greeley, Colorado Tribune reported that as part of the trade-bailout package, the USDA signed contracts to purchase $22.3 million of that pork from JBS USA, the American arm of JBS, a gigantic Brazil-based meat company that owns massive shares of the US beef, chicken, and pork markets. The news drew outrage. The Organization of Competitive Markets, a farmer-led group that organizes against corporate control of agriculture, circulated a petition calling for a halt to sending cash meant for struggling farmers to “global meatpacking corporations.” Undaunted, the USDA has signed two additional contracts to buy JBS pork with bailout funds, the environmental advocacy group Food and Water Watch points out: one on Feb.15 for $14,522,880 and another one on May 2 for $25,614,708.40. ($62,437,588.40)“Why is the USDA bailing out plants operated by JBS, the largest meatpacker in the world, with a program designed to help domestic companies and producers under economic duress?” said Tony Corbo, a senior lobbyist for Food and Water Watch. “This company does not seem to be hurting.” In an emailed statement, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, which administers the program, wrote that the agency “buys American commodities, produced on American farms by American farmers…regardless of who the vendor is, the products purchased are grown in the US and benefit US farmers. JBS qualifies as a bidder under this criteria.” ** And just as JBS’ US pork arm is being handed bailout money, its Brazil operations are managing to cash in on the US-China trade spat. China has already started to shift its meat purchases to Brazil to punish the United States.** Until hostilities broke out last year, China was the biggest overseas market for US farm goods, particularly soybeans and pork. And the places where these soybeans and hogs are grown tend to solidly support Trump. So a trade war against China means a direct economic attack to the president’s turf on the electoral map. Handing cash to a multinational corporation already benefiting from the trade war seems like an odd way to address these self-inflicted problems. More at link: www.motherjones.com/food/2019/05/among-the-beneficiaries-of-trumps-tariff-bailout-for-farmers-a-brazilian-owned-meat-company/LOTS to think about and talk about too... The small farmers will be the first to be affected when the plutocracy returns us to a fuedal society without titles. Keep voting for confirmed plutocrats whose policies support the deterioration of our economy for the benefit of the plutocrats. The re-employment of trickle down economics is not an accident. They WANT to put the economy back into that tailspin that’s how they make money off of other people’s suffering. Foreclosure is a huge money maker for them. People think educated ‘liberal’ politicians are the ‘elite’ They had better think again, take a good hard look at the policies that were instituted in the last 2 years. None of them benefit the middle class or the poor. None. Why do you think the middle class ‘tax cut’ has an expiration date but the corporate tax cuts do not? The right is trying to institute a plutocracy where they live off the labor of the masses. Who do you think will buy up all those family farms when they go into foreclosure? Keep knee jerk voting to make us all serfs. The very thing the fore fathers rs tried to prevent with checks & balances that are thrown by the wayside for ‘party over country’ You can claim I’m a nutcase but don’t believe me. Research it yourself. Where do you think these policies lead the country? To prosperity? Why would you think that when the last time it was done it came close to destroying the middle class? www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-end-of-poverty/wealthy-capitalist-nick-hanauer-on-why-money-doesn-t-trickle-downwww.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/a-message-from-us-rich-plutocrats-to-all-you-little-people-2012-11
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 13:44:49 GMT
A new era of what? Corruption?
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 14:11:04 GMT
ABC News...
”Gen. David Petraeus tells @abc's @martharaddatz that it is "pretty clear" that Pres. Trump "doesn't want to go to war with Iran."
"He's not after regime change, he's after what Secretary Pompeo has announced is the objective... regime behavior change." abcn.ws/2VLiLNr”
Nothing is “pretty clear” when it comes to what trump means.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 14:17:17 GMT
trump
“Never a fan of @justinamash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great Republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy. If he actually read the biased Mueller Report, “composed” by 18 Angry Dems who hated Trump,....”
“....he would see that it was nevertheless strong on NO COLLUSION and, ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION...Anyway, how do you Obstruct when there is no crime and, in fact, the crimes were committed by the other side? Justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents hands!”
Tom Steyer....
”Mr. Trump is retreating to delusion, paranoia, and megalomania. Read his tweets and ask yourself, "Should this man have any responsible job, let alone be president?"
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 19, 2019 16:16:12 GMT
“....he would see that it was nevertheless strong on NO COLLUSION and, ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION...Anyway, how do you Obstruct when there is no crime and, in fact, the crimes were committed by the other side? Justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents hands!” IF he did nothing wrong, WHAT IS his problem!?!?!?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 19, 2019 16:37:14 GMT
** Meanwhile, the evangelical belief in the end times also includes the eventual conversion to Christianity of the Jewish people. The scenario begins when Christ comes to Earth to take the living Christians who believe in him to heaven and resurrect the dead who were true Christians, an event called the rapture. Afterward, it is believed that the Antichrist will reign on earth during the seven-year period of tribulation. “In this period, many Jews will recognize the Antichrist is a false God and will turn to Jesus. At the end of the seven years, Christ will return to earth with an army of angels and defeat the Antichrist,” Young told Newsweek. For some, evangelicals simultaneously hold views that are supportive of Israel and deeply anti-Semitic.
“Evangelicals view themselves as sympathetic to Israel, but the underlying belief is motivated by a desire to see the Jewish people ‘turn to Jesus,'” Blake Chastain, a former evangelical who hosts a podcast on evangelicalism, told Newsweek. Chastain, who grew up in an evangelical family, dedicates his time to explaining what he calls the "subculture" of evangelicalism. He said the evangelical belief that Jews will eventually accept Jesus is problematic.
"I’m not sure evangelicals see that as offensive to the Jewish faith or dismissive of the covenants God made with the Jewish people, but it certainly seems so to me,” Chastain added. To be sure, Trump’s stance on Jerusalem isn’t the only reason evangelicals support him. During his campaign for president, Trump promised to protect religious liberties and elect anti-choice Supreme Court Justices. “He was so specific about protecting Christian liberties, it wasn’t holistically religious liberties,” Pyle explains. “That spoke to a lot of Christians, and then he also has this stance on Israel.” www.newsweek.com/trump-will-bring-about-end-worldevangelicals-end-times-779643?amp=1&__twitter_impression=trueWOW!! Jews have been Jews for far longer than anyone has been a Christian! Maybe the rest of us Christians need to fight for OUR Christians liberties including FREE-choice! Pretty sure many others will join in !
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Post by inkedup on May 19, 2019 16:43:52 GMT
Isn't the bad guy in their book the antichrist? A false prophet who will trick the faithful into worshipping him? Are evangelicals openly supporting the Antichrist in this scenario? Maybe the mark of the beast is a MAGA hat! I don't think they've thought this through 😂
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 17:14:48 GMT
Oh oh!
New York Times..
“Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts”
“JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Anti-money laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank recommended in 2016 and 2017 that multiple transactions involving legal entities controlled by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, be reported to a federal financial-crimes watchdog.
The transactions, some of which involved Mr. Trump’s now-defunct foundation, set off alerts in a computer system designed to detect illicit activity, according to five current and former bank employees. Compliance staff members who then reviewed the transactions prepared so-called suspicious activity reports that they believed should be sent to a unit of the Treasury Department that polices financial crimes.
But executives at Deutsche Bank, which has lent billions of dollars to the Trump and Kushner companies, rejected their employees’ advice. The reports were never filed with the government.
The nature of the transactions was not clear. At least some of them involved money flowing back and forth with overseas entities or individuals, which bank employees considered suspicious.
Real estate developers like Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner sometimes do large, all-cash deals, including with people outside the United States, any of which can prompt anti-money laundering reviews. The red flags raised by employees do not necessarily mean the transactions were improper. Banks sometimes opt not to file suspicious activity reports if they conclude their employees’ concerns are unwarranted.
But former Deutsche Bank employees said the decision not to report the Trump and Kushner transactions reflected the bank’s generally lax approach to money laundering laws. The employees — most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve their ability to work in the industry — said it was part of a pattern of the bank’s executives rejecting valid reports to protect relationships with lucrative clients.
“You present them with everything, and you give them a recommendation, and nothing happens,” said Tammy McFadden, a former Deutsche Bank anti-money laundering specialist who reviewed some of the transactions. “It’s the D.B. way. They are prone to discounting everything.”
Ms. McFadden said she was terminated last year after she raised concerns about the bank’s practices. Since then, she has filed complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators about the bank’s anti-money-laundering enforcement.
Kerrie McHugh, a Deutsche Bank spokeswoman, said the company had intensified its efforts to combat financial crime. An effective anti-money laundering program, she said, “requires sophisticated transaction screening technology as well as a trained group of individuals who can analyze the alerts generated by that technology both thoroughly and efficiently.”
“At no time was an investigator prevented from escalating activity identified as potentially suspicious,” she added. “Furthermore, the suggestion that anyone was reassigned or fired in an effort to quash concerns relating to any client is categorically false.”
Amanda Miller, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, the umbrella company for the Trump family’s many business interests, said: “We have no knowledge of any ‘flagged’ transactions with Deutsche Bank.” She said the Trump Organization currently has “no operating accounts with Deutsche Bank.” She did not respond when asked if other Trump entities had accounts.
Karen Zabarsky, a spokeswoman for Kushner Companies, said: “Any allegations regarding Deutsche Bank’s relationship with Kushner Companies which involved money laundering is completely made up and totally false. The New York Times continues to create dots that just don’t connect.”
Deutsche Bank’s decision not to report the transactions is the latest twist in Mr. Trump’s long, complicated relationship with the German bank — the only mainstream financial institution consistently willing to do business with the real estate developer.
Congressional and state authorities are investigating that relationship and have demanded the bank’s records related to the president, his family and their companies. Subpoenas from two House committees seek, among other things, documents related to any suspicious activities detected in Mr. Trump’s personal and business bank accounts since 2010, according to a copy of a subpoena included in a federal court filing.
Mr. Trump and his family sued Deutsche Bank in April, seeking to block it from complying with the congressional subpoenas. The president’s lawyers described the subpoenas as politically motivated.
Suspicious activity reports are at the heart of the federal government’s efforts to identify criminal activity like money laundering and sanctions violations. But government regulations give banks leeway in selecting which transactions to report to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
Lenders typically use a layered approach to detect improper activity. The first step is filtering thousands of transactions using computer programs, which send the ones considered potentially suspicious to midlevel employees for a detailed review. Those employees can decide whether to draft a suspicious activity report, but a final ruling on whether to submit it to the Treasury Department is often made by more senior managers.
In the summer of 2016, Deutsche Bank’s software flagged a series of transactions involving the real estate company of Mr. Kushner, now a senior White House adviser.
Ms. McFadden, a longtime anti-money laundering specialist in Deutsche Bank’s Jacksonville office, said she had reviewed the transactions and found that money had moved from Kushner Companies to Russian individuals. She concluded that the transactions should be reported to the government — in part because federal regulators had ordered Deutsche Bank, which had been caught laundering billions of dollars for Russians, to toughen its scrutiny of potentially illegal transactions.
Ms. McFadden drafted a suspicious activity report and compiled a small bundle of documents to back up her decision.
Typically, such a report would be reviewed by a team of anti-money laundering experts who are independent of the business line in which the transactions originated — in this case, the private-banking division — according to Ms. McFadden and two former Deutsche Bank managers.
That did not happen with this report. It went to managers in New York who were part of the private bank, which caters to the ultrawealthy. They felt Ms. McFadden’s concerns were unfounded and opted not to submit the report to the government, the employees said.
Ms. McFadden and some of her colleagues said they believed the report had been killed to maintain the private-banking division’s strong relationship with Mr. Kushner.
After Mr. Trump became president, transactions involving him and his companies were reviewed by an anti-financial crime team at the bank called the Special Investigations Unit. That team, based in Jacksonville, produced multiple suspicious activity reports involving different entities that Mr. Trump owned or controlled, according to three former Deutsche Bank employees who saw the reports in an internal computer system.
Some of those reports involved Mr. Trump’s limited liability companies. At least one was related to transactions involving the Donald J. Trump Foundation, two employees said.
Deutsche Bank ultimately chose not to file those suspicious activity reports with the Treasury Department, either, according to three former employees. They said it was unusual for the bank to reject a series of reports involving the same high-profile client.
Mr. Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank spans two decades. During a period when most Wall Street banks had stopped doing business with him after his repeated defaults, Deutsche Bank lent Mr. Trump and his companies a total of more than $2.5 billion. Projects financed through the private-banking division include Mr. Trump’s Doral golf resort near Miami and his transformation of Washington’s Old Post Office Building into a luxury hotel.
When he became president, he owed Deutsche Bank well over $300 million. That made the German institution Mr. Trump’s biggest creditor — and put the bank in a bind.
Senior executives worried that if they took a tough stance with Mr. Trump’s accounts — for example, by demanding payment of a delinquent loan — they could provoke the president’s wrath. On the other hand, if they didn’t do anything, the bank could be perceived as cutting a lucrative break for Mr. Trump, whose administration wields regulatory and law enforcement power over the bank.
In the past few years, United States and European authorities have punished Deutsche Bank for helping clients, including wealthy Russians, launder funds and for moving money into countries like Iran in violation of American sanctions. The bank has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and is operating under a Federal Reserve order that requires it to do more to stop illicit activities.
On two palm-tree-lined campuses in Jacksonville, Deutsche Bank has thousands of employees who vet customers and transactions. Six current and former bank employees there said the operations were deeply troubled.
Anti-money laundering workers were pressured to quickly sift through transactions to assess whether they were suspicious, the employees said. As a result, they often erred on the side of not flagging transactions.
Two former employees said that they had raised concerns about transactions involving companies linked to prominent Russians, but that managers had told them not to file suspicious activity reports. The employees were under the impression that the bank did not want to upset important clients.
Several employees said they had complained about the bank’s anti-money laundering processes to Joshua Blazer, the head of Deutsche Bank’s financial crimes investigations division in Jacksonville, and had then been criticized for having a negative attitude. One employee said she resigned last summer over concerns about the bank’s ethics.
Mr. Blazer, hired by Deutsche Bank in 2017 to strengthen the bank’s financial crime-fighting apparatus, declined to comment.
Ms. McFadden’s job at Deutsche Bank was to inspect clients and transactions in the company’s private-banking division — the unit that lent money to Mr. Trump. She joined the bank in 2008, after working for Bank of America, also in Jacksonville.
Ms. McFadden had left Bank of America in 2005, and later sued for racial discrimination and wrongful termination. According to court records, her lawsuit was settled on confidential terms the same year she joined Deutsche Bank, where she went on to win multiple performance awards.
Around the time she flagged the Kushner Companies’ transactions, Ms. McFadden said, she also complained about how the bank was scrutinizing the accounts of high-profile customers, such as those in public office. Those customers — known as politically exposed persons — are regarded as at heightened risk of being involved in corruption. As a result, their accounts are subject to extra vetting.
Ms. McFadden said she had told her superiors that dozens of politically exposed clients of the private-banking division, including Mr. Trump and members of his family, were not receiving that added attention. Her superiors told her to stop raising questions, according to Ms. McFadden and the two former managers.
After taking her complaint to the human resources department, Ms. McFadden was transferred to another division. She was terminated in April 2018. The bank told her that she was not processing enough transactions.
Ms. McFadden disputed that. She said her superiors had reduced the number of transactions she was assigned to review after she voiced her concerns. She and the two former managers said they perceived her termination as an act of retaliation.
“They attempted to try to silence me,” she said. “I’m at peace because I know that I did the right thing.”
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 18:24:29 GMT
I just made a comment on the new thread about someone misquoting trump.
And it occurred to me when I made a comment about Flynn, that trump is a magnet for corruptible people because he himself is corruptible.
Like kinds tend to find each other.
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Post by hop2 on May 19, 2019 18:33:25 GMT
I just made a comment on the new thread about someone misquoting trump. And it occurred to me when I made a comment about Flynn, that trump is a magnet for corruptible people because he himself is corruptible. Like kinds tend to find each other. I didn’t see the point in commenting on that thread. There has never been a single productive discussion from that OP. Not worth my time.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 19:01:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 20:37:15 GMT
Out of the blue this afternoon and after Iran says it doesn’t want a war with the US..
trump..
”If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!”
He is such a stupid idiot.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 21:02:27 GMT
ABC News..
”Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden insists that Democrats will not defeat the Republican president if they pick an angry nominee. abcn.ws/2VT1kL7”
Of the 23 candidates running, I have not noticed “an angry nominee”.
Have any any of you?
If this all Biden has then it’s time to go home.
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