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1994: Trump allegedly rapes and beats a 13-year-old girl at a party with Jeffrey Epstein, multiple times. In the filed complaint, the 13-year-old was threatened to be "disappeared" like another young girl had been if she told anyone. (source)Woman accusing Trump of raping her at 13 cancels her plan to go public The woman known as Jane Doe pulled out of a Los Angeles press conference where she was expected to reveal her identity, citing death threats Rory Carroll in Los Angeles @rorycarroll72 Thu 3 Nov 2016 05.08 EDT The federal lawsuit alleged Trump sexually assaulted Doe in 1994 at Epstein’s Manhattan home and at other parties Epstein hosted on the Upper East Side..... ** dt knew Epstein well and probably knew about the light charges given by Acosta in Florida! amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/02/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-13-year-old-cancels-public-event?__twitter_impression=true@bergdorfblonde Wasn't this out before the election? I remember seeing it before, but I don't know that it was covered heavily by the news. It's been out before the election and 1 woman came thisclose to a lawsuit, but then got death threats from Trump and his cohorts and she dropped out of sight. She was the one who could bring a lawsuit because it was within the timeframe to do so. SOOOO many others were too long ago but were ready to give testimony (like at Bill Cosby's trial). I hope it finally happens!!
Trump has been able to quash ALL of the horrible things that he got caught with, before the election. Incredible, huh?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 6, 2019 16:59:34 GMT
Look what I found while looking at the 'paper' and the article about the 11 yr old boy and his crocheting.... Wisconsin might not get a Foxconn plant of any size, analysts sayJohn Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 8:55 a.m. CT March 6, 2019 | Updated 10:10 a.m. CT March 6, 2019 Back in 2017, there was no ambiguity over what Foxconn Technology Group would build in Wisconsin. It was spelled out in a 29-page contract signed by then-Gov. Scott Walker and Foxconn's top executives. The world's biggest manufacturer of made-in-China consumer electronics agreed to a sprawling "Generation 10.5" manufacturing campus — industry-speak for a monumental industrial facility capable of producing outsized flat-screen monitors used in the biggest TVs and liquid-crystal displays. And now? Veteran analysts of the flat-panel industry, which is based entirely in Asia, are openly skeptical that even the smaller cousin of that massive plant — what’s known as "Generation 6" — will be built in Wisconsin. ** www.jsonline.com/story/news/2019/03/06/smaller-foxconn-facility-wisconsin-also-in-doubt/2985167002/
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Post by casii on Mar 6, 2019 17:35:22 GMT
Those pearl wearing swine are all up for reelection next year. I hope some of those Moms Demand volunteers run against them.
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Post by lindas on Mar 6, 2019 17:35:55 GMT
linkYes this is from the Washington Examiner, having said that, look at the companies and how money is moved. It could be on the up & up, but it also raises questions. That probably could have been avoided “AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies” “Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday. The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics. Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used. The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group. Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication "there’s something amiss." They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations. PACs are required to disclose how and when funds are spent, including for expenditures such as advertisements, fundraising emails, donations to candidates, and payments for events and to vendors. The private companies to which Chakrabarti transferred the money from the PACs are not subject to these requirements. The complaint names Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti as respondents. It asks the FEC to investigate and audit the two PACs, saying they were engaged in an "an elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures." Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project, said: "It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws: transparency." Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard graduate and technology entrepreneur who became an organizer for Bernie Sanders during the socialist's 2016 presidential campaign. He founded a PAC called Brand New Congress in 2016 and another called Justice Democrats in 2017, with the stated goal of helping elect progressive candidates to Congress. One of those candidates was Ocasio-Cortez, who, last November, age 29, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. According to the Brand New Congress website, the PAC would build a "unified campaign" infrastructure including fundraising, organizing, rallies, and advertising progressive congressional candidates across the country could "plug into," saving the individual campaigns time and money. "Our idea is really to run a single unified presidential-style campaign that is going to look a lot like the Bernie Sanders campaign,” said Chakrabarti in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in May 2016. "The campaign infrastructure and fundraising is set aside from the campaigning." In 2016 and 2017, Chakrabarti’s PACs raised about $3.3 million for the project, primarily from small donors. During this time, the committees transferred over $1 million to two shell companies controlled by Chakrabarti with names similar to one of the PACs, Brand New Campaign LLC and Brand New Congress LLC, according to federal election filings. A few weeks after starting the Brand New Congress PAC, Chakrabarti formed one of the companies, Brand New Campaign LLC, in Delaware, using a registered agent service and mailbox-only address. Over the next seven months, as small-dollar political donations poured into the PAC from progressives across the country, the committee transferred over $200,000, 82 percent of the contributions, to the company Brand New Campaign LLC. The payments were for "strategic consulting," according to federal election filings. They were sent to an apartment address listed for Chakrabarti in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. In 2017, Brand New Congress PAC transferred another $240,000 to Brand New Congress LLC, also for "strategic consulting." Another PAC co-founded by Chakrabarti that year, Justice Democrats, transferred an additional $605,000 to Brand New Congress LLC in 2017. Brand New Congress LLC does not appear to be registered in any state, according to state government records available online. It is unclear where or when it was incorporated. Adav Noti, the senior director of the Campaign Legal Center and a former FEC lawyer, said the arrangement was highly unusual and seemed intended to obscure the destination of the funds. "None of that makes any sense," said Noti. "I can't even begin to disentangle that. They're either confused or they're trying to conceal something." Noti said it would be simpler to set up a consulting company and work directly with campaigns to provide services for a fee rather than creating a federal PAC and sending the money to a company controlled by the same person. "It does seem like there's something amiss. I can only think of really two likely possibilities for this sort of pattern of disbursements," said Noti. "One is the scam PAC possibility — they're really just paying themselves and they’re concealing it by using the LLC. The other is that there’s actually another recipient, that the money is going to the LLC and then being disbursed in some other way that they want to conceal." Bradley A. Smith, a former chairman of the FEC, said he has never seen such an arrangement. "It's a really weird situation," he said. "I see almost no way that you can do that without it being at least a reporting violation, quite likely a violation of the contribution limits. You might say from a campaign finance angle that the LLC was essentially operating as an unregistered committee." Chakrabarti declined to comment on the FEC complaint or provide details about his companies’ financial activities. Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, declined to comment. Zeynab Day, communications director for the Brand New Congress PAC, said Chakrabarti was not currently affiliated with the group and that it recently went through a "transition period." She referred questions about the LLC to Chakrabarti. “I’m unable to answer any questions about the LLC … I am not informed about them. We are not an affiliated group,” she said. spokesperson for Justice Democrats said he did not know why the PAC paid so much money to Chakrabarti’s LLCs. When asked what the Justice Democrats PAC does on a daily basis, he said, “It’s very clear what we do,” but declined to elaborate. Chakrabarti founded Brand New Congress PAC, in April 2016. According to a statement released by Justice Democrats PAC last May, Chakrabarti "was the only controlling member" of the company Brand New Congress LLC and "took no salary." The statement added: "Saikat is lucky to have a small side business that generates him enough income that he is able to do all of this work as a volunteer." Not a single comment from anyone on this. Change those initials to DJT and it would have rated at a minimun a dozen reposts with all manner of accusations. Not a single major news network or liberal leaning news source has given this story a second of air time. I realize it's unproven at this time but that never seems to stop them when Trump, his administration or anyone with a R behind their name is involved.
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Post by Merge on Mar 6, 2019 17:49:01 GMT
linkYes this is from the Washington Examiner, having said that, look at the companies and how money is moved. It could be on the up & up, but it also raises questions. That probably could have been avoided “AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies” “Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday. The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics. Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used. The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group. Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication "there’s something amiss." They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations. PACs are required to disclose how and when funds are spent, including for expenditures such as advertisements, fundraising emails, donations to candidates, and payments for events and to vendors. The private companies to which Chakrabarti transferred the money from the PACs are not subject to these requirements. The complaint names Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti as respondents. It asks the FEC to investigate and audit the two PACs, saying they were engaged in an "an elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures." Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project, said: "It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws: transparency." Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard graduate and technology entrepreneur who became an organizer for Bernie Sanders during the socialist's 2016 presidential campaign. He founded a PAC called Brand New Congress in 2016 and another called Justice Democrats in 2017, with the stated goal of helping elect progressive candidates to Congress. One of those candidates was Ocasio-Cortez, who, last November, age 29, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. According to the Brand New Congress website, the PAC would build a "unified campaign" infrastructure including fundraising, organizing, rallies, and advertising progressive congressional candidates across the country could "plug into," saving the individual campaigns time and money. "Our idea is really to run a single unified presidential-style campaign that is going to look a lot like the Bernie Sanders campaign,” said Chakrabarti in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in May 2016. "The campaign infrastructure and fundraising is set aside from the campaigning." In 2016 and 2017, Chakrabarti’s PACs raised about $3.3 million for the project, primarily from small donors. During this time, the committees transferred over $1 million to two shell companies controlled by Chakrabarti with names similar to one of the PACs, Brand New Campaign LLC and Brand New Congress LLC, according to federal election filings. A few weeks after starting the Brand New Congress PAC, Chakrabarti formed one of the companies, Brand New Campaign LLC, in Delaware, using a registered agent service and mailbox-only address. Over the next seven months, as small-dollar political donations poured into the PAC from progressives across the country, the committee transferred over $200,000, 82 percent of the contributions, to the company Brand New Campaign LLC. The payments were for "strategic consulting," according to federal election filings. They were sent to an apartment address listed for Chakrabarti in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. In 2017, Brand New Congress PAC transferred another $240,000 to Brand New Congress LLC, also for "strategic consulting." Another PAC co-founded by Chakrabarti that year, Justice Democrats, transferred an additional $605,000 to Brand New Congress LLC in 2017. Brand New Congress LLC does not appear to be registered in any state, according to state government records available online. It is unclear where or when it was incorporated. Adav Noti, the senior director of the Campaign Legal Center and a former FEC lawyer, said the arrangement was highly unusual and seemed intended to obscure the destination of the funds. "None of that makes any sense," said Noti. "I can't even begin to disentangle that. They're either confused or they're trying to conceal something." Noti said it would be simpler to set up a consulting company and work directly with campaigns to provide services for a fee rather than creating a federal PAC and sending the money to a company controlled by the same person. "It does seem like there's something amiss. I can only think of really two likely possibilities for this sort of pattern of disbursements," said Noti. "One is the scam PAC possibility — they're really just paying themselves and they’re concealing it by using the LLC. The other is that there’s actually another recipient, that the money is going to the LLC and then being disbursed in some other way that they want to conceal." Bradley A. Smith, a former chairman of the FEC, said he has never seen such an arrangement. "It's a really weird situation," he said. "I see almost no way that you can do that without it being at least a reporting violation, quite likely a violation of the contribution limits. You might say from a campaign finance angle that the LLC was essentially operating as an unregistered committee." Chakrabarti declined to comment on the FEC complaint or provide details about his companies’ financial activities. Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, declined to comment. Zeynab Day, communications director for the Brand New Congress PAC, said Chakrabarti was not currently affiliated with the group and that it recently went through a "transition period." She referred questions about the LLC to Chakrabarti. “I’m unable to answer any questions about the LLC … I am not informed about them. We are not an affiliated group,” she said. spokesperson for Justice Democrats said he did not know why the PAC paid so much money to Chakrabarti’s LLCs. When asked what the Justice Democrats PAC does on a daily basis, he said, “It’s very clear what we do,” but declined to elaborate. Chakrabarti founded Brand New Congress PAC, in April 2016. According to a statement released by Justice Democrats PAC last May, Chakrabarti "was the only controlling member" of the company Brand New Congress LLC and "took no salary." The statement added: "Saikat is lucky to have a small side business that generates him enough income that he is able to do all of this work as a volunteer." Not a single comment from anyone on this. Change those initials to DJT and it would have rated at a minimun a dozen reposts with all manner of accusations. Not a single major news network or liberal leaning news source has given this story a second of air time. I realize it's unproven at this time but that never seems to stop them when Trump, his administration or anyone with a R behind their name is involved. She's a freshman congresswoman from a state I don't live in. He's the president of the United States. There's an article about the story on WaPo right now, and I first read about it on Twitter, which is always accused of having a liberal bias. You were saying?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 6, 2019 17:55:58 GMT
Not a single comment from anyone on this. Change those initials to DJT and it would have rated at a minimun a dozen reposts with all manner of accusations. Not a single major news network or liberal leaning news source has given this story a second of air time. I realize it's unproven at this time but that never seems to stop them when Trump, his administration or anyone with a R behind their name is involved. You are wrong! I DID comment! Check when the article was posted, think page 30! Although this thread is mostly geared toward dt. Also note, many things I post often don't get a response.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 18:00:38 GMT
linkYes this is from the Washington Examiner, having said that, look at the companies and how money is moved. It could be on the up & up, but it also raises questions. That probably could have been avoided “AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies” “Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday. The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics. Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used. The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group. Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication "there’s something amiss." They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations. PACs are required to disclose how and when funds are spent, including for expenditures such as advertisements, fundraising emails, donations to candidates, and payments for events and to vendors. The private companies to which Chakrabarti transferred the money from the PACs are not subject to these requirements. The complaint names Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti as respondents. It asks the FEC to investigate and audit the two PACs, saying they were engaged in an "an elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures." Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project, said: "It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws: transparency." Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard graduate and technology entrepreneur who became an organizer for Bernie Sanders during the socialist's 2016 presidential campaign. He founded a PAC called Brand New Congress in 2016 and another called Justice Democrats in 2017, with the stated goal of helping elect progressive candidates to Congress. One of those candidates was Ocasio-Cortez, who, last November, age 29, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. According to the Brand New Congress website, the PAC would build a "unified campaign" infrastructure including fundraising, organizing, rallies, and advertising progressive congressional candidates across the country could "plug into," saving the individual campaigns time and money. "Our idea is really to run a single unified presidential-style campaign that is going to look a lot like the Bernie Sanders campaign,” said Chakrabarti in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in May 2016. "The campaign infrastructure and fundraising is set aside from the campaigning." In 2016 and 2017, Chakrabarti’s PACs raised about $3.3 million for the project, primarily from small donors. During this time, the committees transferred over $1 million to two shell companies controlled by Chakrabarti with names similar to one of the PACs, Brand New Campaign LLC and Brand New Congress LLC, according to federal election filings. A few weeks after starting the Brand New Congress PAC, Chakrabarti formed one of the companies, Brand New Campaign LLC, in Delaware, using a registered agent service and mailbox-only address. Over the next seven months, as small-dollar political donations poured into the PAC from progressives across the country, the committee transferred over $200,000, 82 percent of the contributions, to the company Brand New Campaign LLC. The payments were for "strategic consulting," according to federal election filings. They were sent to an apartment address listed for Chakrabarti in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. In 2017, Brand New Congress PAC transferred another $240,000 to Brand New Congress LLC, also for "strategic consulting." Another PAC co-founded by Chakrabarti that year, Justice Democrats, transferred an additional $605,000 to Brand New Congress LLC in 2017. Brand New Congress LLC does not appear to be registered in any state, according to state government records available online. It is unclear where or when it was incorporated. Adav Noti, the senior director of the Campaign Legal Center and a former FEC lawyer, said the arrangement was highly unusual and seemed intended to obscure the destination of the funds. "None of that makes any sense," said Noti. "I can't even begin to disentangle that. They're either confused or they're trying to conceal something." Noti said it would be simpler to set up a consulting company and work directly with campaigns to provide services for a fee rather than creating a federal PAC and sending the money to a company controlled by the same person. "It does seem like there's something amiss. I can only think of really two likely possibilities for this sort of pattern of disbursements," said Noti. "One is the scam PAC possibility — they're really just paying themselves and they’re concealing it by using the LLC. The other is that there’s actually another recipient, that the money is going to the LLC and then being disbursed in some other way that they want to conceal." Bradley A. Smith, a former chairman of the FEC, said he has never seen such an arrangement. "It's a really weird situation," he said. "I see almost no way that you can do that without it being at least a reporting violation, quite likely a violation of the contribution limits. You might say from a campaign finance angle that the LLC was essentially operating as an unregistered committee." Chakrabarti declined to comment on the FEC complaint or provide details about his companies’ financial activities. Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, declined to comment. Zeynab Day, communications director for the Brand New Congress PAC, said Chakrabarti was not currently affiliated with the group and that it recently went through a "transition period." She referred questions about the LLC to Chakrabarti. “I’m unable to answer any questions about the LLC … I am not informed about them. We are not an affiliated group,” she said. spokesperson for Justice Democrats said he did not know why the PAC paid so much money to Chakrabarti’s LLCs. When asked what the Justice Democrats PAC does on a daily basis, he said, “It’s very clear what we do,” but declined to elaborate. Chakrabarti founded Brand New Congress PAC, in April 2016. According to a statement released by Justice Democrats PAC last May, Chakrabarti "was the only controlling member" of the company Brand New Congress LLC and "took no salary." The statement added: "Saikat is lucky to have a small side business that generates him enough income that he is able to do all of this work as a volunteer." Not a single comment from anyone on this. Change those initials to DJT and it would have rated at a minimun a dozen reposts with all manner of accusations. Not a single major news network or liberal leaning news source has given this story a second of air time. I realize it's unproven at this time but that never seems to stop them when Trump, his administration or anyone with a R behind their name is involved. If I’m not mistaken the Washington Post also ran this story. The second part part of your comment has to come with a huge asterisk. trump and those he has surrounded himself with have told so many verifiable lies that you cannot believe anything he or those who speak for him say. And that is a problem. Also his actions make it hard to believe he is innocent of what he is accused of doing. The current story of how he ignored the intelligence folks about both Jared and Ivanka’s security clearances and gave it to them anyhow. Some House Committee has asked for the paperwork surrounding the security clearance for these two. The White Hiuse refuses to provide the paperwork. Now this will escalate. If there is nothing to hide, then why not turn over what is being asked for? Now you get the feeling, once again, they are hiding something.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 18:03:14 GMT
Not a single comment from anyone on this. Change those initials to DJT and it would have rated at a minimun a dozen reposts with all manner of accusations. Not a single major news network or liberal leaning news source has given this story a second of air time. I realize it's unproven at this time but that never seems to stop them when Trump, his administration or anyone with a R behind their name is involved. She's a freshman congresswoman from a state I don't live in. He's the president of the United States. There's an article about the story on WaPo right now, and I first read about it on Twitter, which is always accused of having a liberal bias. You were saying? But she is also becoming the face of the Democratic Party which makes her a little more then a freshman congresswoman. IMO.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 6, 2019 18:05:05 GMT
If I’m not mistaken the Washington Post also ran this story. The second part part of your comment has to come with a huge asterisk. trump and those he has surrounded himself with have told so many verifiable lies that you cannot believe anything he or those who speak for him say. And that is a problem. Also his actions make it hard to believe he is innocent of what he is accused of doing. The current story of how he ignored the intelligence folks about both Jared and Ivanka’s security clearances and gave it to them anyhow. Some House Committee has asked for the paperwork surrounding the security clearance for these two. The White Hiuse refuses to provide the paperwork. Now this will escalate. If there is nothing to hide, then why not turn over what is being asked for? Now you get the feeling, once again, they are hiding something. Well worth repeating!
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Post by dewryce on Mar 6, 2019 18:31:20 GMT
Not a single comment from anyone on this. Change those initials to DJT and it would have rated at a minimun a dozen reposts with all manner of accusations. Not a single major news network or liberal leaning news source has given this story a second of air time. I realize it's unproven at this time but that never seems to stop them when Trump, his administration or anyone with a R behind their name is involved. She's a freshman congresswoman from a state I don't live in. He's the president of the United States. There's an article about the story on WaPo right now, and I first read about it on Twitter, which is always accused of having a liberal bias. You were saying? To say nothing of the fact that this kind of stuff keeps happening with Trump and the GOP. Any benefit of the doubt he/they might have been given ended a long time ago.
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Post by Merge on Mar 6, 2019 19:08:40 GMT
She's a freshman congresswoman from a state I don't live in. He's the president of the United States. There's an article about the story on WaPo right now, and I first read about it on Twitter, which is always accused of having a liberal bias. You were saying? But she is also becoming the face of the Democratic Party which makes her a little more then a freshman congresswoman. IMO. I think she's only the face of the Democratic party on Fox News. She has no real power other than her one vote in Congress.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 19:32:52 GMT
But she is also becoming the face of the Democratic Party which makes her a little more then a freshman congresswoman. IMO. I think she's only the face of the Democratic party on Fox News. She has no real power other than her one vote in Congress. Newsweek during the shutdown. “Millions of Democrats agree with AOC that the money for the wall could be better spent”. When I read I though that is pretty much the opinion of the majority of Democrats so how come it only matters that AOC thinks it? Newsweek appears to be a big supporter, to name one media outlet that is not Fox News. What the media did to trump, hanging on every word he said during the primaries and general election, to the point it sucked all the air out from the other candidates, they are now doing to AOC. The media gave trump that power and they are starting to do the same thing to AOC, which means she is sucking all the air from the gaggle of Democrats running for President. IMO.
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Post by lindas on Mar 6, 2019 19:43:29 GMT
But she is also becoming the face of the Democratic Party which makes her a little more then a freshman congresswoman. IMO. I think she's only the face of the Democratic party on Fox News. She has no real power other than her one vote in Congress. Well then you need to pay better attention to what's going on because she IS becoming the face of the Democratic Party and Fox didn't put her there.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Mar 6, 2019 20:07:25 GMT
But she is also becoming the face of the Democratic Party which makes her a little more then a freshman congresswoman. IMO. I think she's only the face of the Democratic party on Fox News. She has no real power other than her one vote in Congress. I agree with this. The obsession with her started with Republicans and Fox news. To me, she is just a freshman senator.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Mar 6, 2019 20:10:51 GMT
I’m glad that Fox News will not be hosting the debates.
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Post by hop2 on Mar 6, 2019 21:28:25 GMT
1994: Trump allegedly rapes and beats a 13-year-old girl at a party with Jeffrey Epstein, multiple times. In the filed complaint, the 13-year-old was threatened to be "disappeared" like another young girl had been if she told anyone. (source)Woman accusing Trump of raping her at 13 cancels her plan to go public The woman known as Jane Doe pulled out of a Los Angeles press conference where she was expected to reveal her identity, citing death threats Rory Carroll in Los Angeles @rorycarroll72 Thu 3 Nov 2016 05.08 EDT The federal lawsuit alleged Trump sexually assaulted Doe in 1994 at Epstein’s Manhattan home and at other parties Epstein hosted on the Upper East Side..... ** dt knew Epstein well and probably knew about the light charges given by Acosta in Florida! amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/02/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-13-year-old-cancels-public-event?__twitter_impression=true@bergdorfblonde Wasn't this out before the election? I remember seeing it before, but I don't know that it was covered heavily by the news. I’m pretty sure the parents reported this at the time when the girl was 13 but then after threats etc the took money & disapeared for the safety of thier daughter. People were angry they didn’t follow they with it but what do you do when your child’s life is threatened? And the rich dude will most likely get out of it anyway. Rich White side’s got away with stuff in the 90’s and a trial could have destroyed the girl. And Trump is a particularly nasty asshole. I can’t really blame them. I hope they got a lot of money but somehow I doubt it.
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Post by scrappinmama on Mar 6, 2019 21:35:01 GMT
Deplorable! I hope this is remembered when they are up for reelection.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 22:01:31 GMT
linkNBC News... “A conservative group alleges Ocasio-Cortez and her allies ran a PAC scam. But there's no evidence of wrongdoing.”From the article.. ”But the PACs and campaigns are supposed to note what the vendors are hired and paid for, and that's where Ocasio-Cortez and her allies may have run afoul of the law. The FEC complaint highlighted the large payments made from Ocasio-Cortez's campaign and the PACs to the LLC for "strategic consulting," and questioned whether all that work was actually strategic consulting or if other types of campaign activities were involved and should have been specified. “In fact, Saikat Chakrabarti stated on national television on May 19th 2016 that Brand New Congress LLLC created the campaign infrastructure and ran all of the fundraising and volunteering operations for the campaigns," the complaint reads. Ryan said that particular issue could merit an FEC investigation.” Again all this could be nothing but we all know there are those that will use this against AOC.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 22:17:06 GMT
I think she's only the face of the Democratic party on Fox News. She has no real power other than her one vote in Congress. Newsweek during the shutdown. “Millions of Democrats agree with AOC that the money for the wall could be better spent”. When I read I though that is pretty much the opinion of the majority of Democrats so how come it only matters that AOC thinks it? Newsweek appears to be a big supporter, to name one media outlet that is not Fox News. What the media did to trump, hanging on every word he said during the primaries and general election, to the point it sucked all the air out from the other candidates, they are now doing to AOC. The media gave trump that power and they are starting to do the same thing to AOC, which means she is sucking all the air from the gaggle of Democrats running for President. IMO. Bears repeating.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 22:18:04 GMT
Will the Democrats help trump by fighting with each other?President Obama... As Democrats enter the presidential primary season, here’s an article that captures some of my thoughts on the process pretty well: nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/will-2020-democrats-help-trump-by-destroying-each-other.html It goes without saying that the stakes couldn’t be higher in 2020, and I’m excited by the slate of extraordinary candidates who have thrown (or appear to be getting ready to throw) their hats in the ring. I’m also convinced that a robust debate among these candidates — on their policy ideas and their broader vision for America’s future — will be good for the party, good for the country, and good for the eventual nominee. Certainly that was true for my candidacy in 2008. Sparring with my fellow Democratic candidates forced me to sharpen my ideas, and learn how to defend them. The primary toughened me up, and gave voters a sense of how I stood up under pressure. The long primary process allowed me to make inroads in states like Indiana and North Carolina — states we eventually won in the general election. And it allowed me to spend more time in places like Kentucky and Rhode Island, which don’t usually get a lot of attention during elections but are crucial to a fuller understanding of America. The experience made me a better candidate, and ultimately, a better president. Of course candidates vying for the nomination will work to define their differences. Campaigns for the nomination naturally highlight the contrasts that underscore their competitive advantages. That is a normal part of the process. Yet there also should be a recognition of shared values and goals. As this contest heats up, I’m hopeful that all our candidates and their supporters will honor the difference between a healthy competition among allies and the deployment of misinformation and baseless attacks that we’ve seen too much of in our politics. Such slash-and-burn tactics will not just divide Democrats and make it potentially harder to win in November. They also are corrosive to our democracy and will add to a cynicism that prevents us from tackling big problems. America is hungry for a better kind of politics right now. A primary process that not only tests bold new ideas, but also shows our fidelity to the truth and our ability to disagree in a fair, respectful way, is part of what’s needed to get us there.“ Which means you don’t primary other Democrats because they don’t believe as you think they should. You pick strong Democrats to run against the Republicans.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 23:33:49 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 7, 2019 0:56:09 GMT
On MSNBC just heard this from a friend who has know him over 20 years, now this! Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to de-legitimize the 2020 electionAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Updated 12:23 PM ET, Wed March 6, 2019 (CNN)Even as the 2020 race begins in earnest, President Donald Trump is already suggesting that Democrats cannot beat him fairly -- raising the specter that if he loses next November, he will suggest that the election was not legitimate. "The Democrats in Congress yesterday were vicious and totally showed their cards for everyone to see," Trump tweeted Tuesday, referring to House Democrats' launching of a broad-scale investigation into him. "When the Republicans had the Majority they never acted with such hatred and scorn! The Dems are trying to win an election in 2020 that they know they cannot legitimately win!" Trump 2020 campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany echoed that sentiment in a statement on the Democratic investigations. "These desperate Democrats know they cannot beat President Trump in 2020, so instead they have embarked on a disgraceful witch hunt with one singular aim: topple the will of the American people and seize the power that they have zero chance at winning legitimately," she said. ** It's not just that Trump doesn't like losing. (No one likes losing.) It's that he is unwilling to accept any sort of loss for fear that defeat might take some of the shine off of his all-I-do-is-win persona. ** In politics, Trump's inability to accept that he could lose fair and square is far, far more dangerous.Michael Cohen, Trump's former longtime fixer, said as much during his congressional testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee last month. "Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power," said Cohen. Sit with that for a minute. And realize what it would mean if the sitting incumbent President of the United States simply refuses to concede he has lost in 2020. ** www.cnn.com/2019/03/06/politics/donald-trump-2020-election-illegitimate/index.html
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 7, 2019 1:01:47 GMT
Who the hell does he think he is?!?!?!?! Trump threatens to block networks from hosting debates after Dems reject FoxBY TAL AXELROD - 03/06/19 07:29 PM EST President Trump on Wednesday responded to the Democratic National Committee refusing to let Fox News host a Democratic primary debate by threatening to “do the same thing” with other networks during the general election. “Democrats just blocked @foxnews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!” Trump tweeted Wednesday. ** More at link: thehill.com/homenews/administration/432961-trump-threatens-to-block-networks-from-hosting-debates-after-dems
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 7, 2019 1:08:18 GMT
linkYes this is from the Washington Examiner, having said that, look at the companies and how money is moved. It could be on the up & up, but it also raises questions. That probably could have been avoided “AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies” “Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday. The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics. Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used. The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group. Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication "there’s something amiss." They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations. PACs are required to disclose how and when funds are spent, including for expenditures such as advertisements, fundraising emails, donations to candidates, and payments for events and to vendors. The private companies to which Chakrabarti transferred the money from the PACs are not subject to these requirements. The complaint names Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti as respondents. It asks the FEC to investigate and audit the two PACs, saying they were engaged in an "an elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures." Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project, said: "It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws: transparency." Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard graduate and technology entrepreneur who became an organizer for Bernie Sanders during the socialist's 2016 presidential campaign. He founded a PAC called Brand New Congress in 2016 and another called Justice Democrats in 2017, with the stated goal of helping elect progressive candidates to Congress. One of those candidates was Ocasio-Cortez, who, last November, age 29, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. According to the Brand New Congress website, the PAC would build a "unified campaign" infrastructure including fundraising, organizing, rallies, and advertising progressive congressional candidates across the country could "plug into," saving the individual campaigns time and money. "Our idea is really to run a single unified presidential-style campaign that is going to look a lot like the Bernie Sanders campaign,” said Chakrabarti in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in May 2016. "The campaign infrastructure and fundraising is set aside from the campaigning." In 2016 and 2017, Chakrabarti’s PACs raised about $3.3 million for the project, primarily from small donors. During this time, the committees transferred over $1 million to two shell companies controlled by Chakrabarti with names similar to one of the PACs, Brand New Campaign LLC and Brand New Congress LLC, according to federal election filings. A few weeks after starting the Brand New Congress PAC, Chakrabarti formed one of the companies, Brand New Campaign LLC, in Delaware, using a registered agent service and mailbox-only address. Over the next seven months, as small-dollar political donations poured into the PAC from progressives across the country, the committee transferred over $200,000, 82 percent of the contributions, to the company Brand New Campaign LLC. The payments were for "strategic consulting," according to federal election filings. They were sent to an apartment address listed for Chakrabarti in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. In 2017, Brand New Congress PAC transferred another $240,000 to Brand New Congress LLC, also for "strategic consulting." Another PAC co-founded by Chakrabarti that year, Justice Democrats, transferred an additional $605,000 to Brand New Congress LLC in 2017. Brand New Congress LLC does not appear to be registered in any state, according to state government records available online. It is unclear where or when it was incorporated. Adav Noti, the senior director of the Campaign Legal Center and a former FEC lawyer, said the arrangement was highly unusual and seemed intended to obscure the destination of the funds. "None of that makes any sense," said Noti. "I can't even begin to disentangle that. They're either confused or they're trying to conceal something." Noti said it would be simpler to set up a consulting company and work directly with campaigns to provide services for a fee rather than creating a federal PAC and sending the money to a company controlled by the same person. "It does seem like there's something amiss. I can only think of really two likely possibilities for this sort of pattern of disbursements," said Noti. "One is the scam PAC possibility — they're really just paying themselves and they’re concealing it by using the LLC. The other is that there’s actually another recipient, that the money is going to the LLC and then being disbursed in some other way that they want to conceal." Bradley A. Smith, a former chairman of the FEC, said he has never seen such an arrangement. "It's a really weird situation," he said. "I see almost no way that you can do that without it being at least a reporting violation, quite likely a violation of the contribution limits. You might say from a campaign finance angle that the LLC was essentially operating as an unregistered committee." Chakrabarti declined to comment on the FEC complaint or provide details about his companies’ financial activities. Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, declined to comment. Zeynab Day, communications director for the Brand New Congress PAC, said Chakrabarti was not currently affiliated with the group and that it recently went through a "transition period." She referred questions about the LLC to Chakrabarti. “I’m unable to answer any questions about the LLC … I am not informed about them. We are not an affiliated group,” she said. spokesperson for Justice Democrats said he did not know why the PAC paid so much money to Chakrabarti’s LLCs. When asked what the Justice Democrats PAC does on a daily basis, he said, “It’s very clear what we do,” but declined to elaborate. Chakrabarti founded Brand New Congress PAC, in April 2016. According to a statement released by Justice Democrats PAC last May, Chakrabarti "was the only controlling member" of the company Brand New Congress LLC and "took no salary." The statement added: "Saikat is lucky to have a small side business that generates him enough income that he is able to do all of this work as a volunteer." Not a single comment from anyone on this. Change those initials to DJT and it would have rated at a minimun a dozen reposts with all manner of accusations. Not a single major news network or liberal leaning news source has given this story a second of air time. I realize it's unproven at this time but that never seems to stop them when Trump, his administration or anyone with a R behind their name is involved. Funny coming from someone who repeatedly supports the dickhead potus/is a well documented trump apologist. You want to talk about it, then start your own thread and stop expecting the liberals on this board to start every conversation. Jesus Christ-are Republicans/conservatives really this lazy?
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Mar 7, 2019 1:10:16 GMT
I think she's only the face of the Democratic party on Fox News. She has no real power other than her one vote in Congress. Well then you need to pay better attention to what's going on because she IS becoming the face of the Democratic Party and Fox didn't put her there. Right...it was the GOP and Republicans who promptly started attacking her (and 3 other freshman women) on a regular basis from day one.
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Post by hop2 on Mar 7, 2019 1:20:12 GMT
"When the Republicans had the Majority they never acted with such hatred and scorn! The Dems are trying to win an election in 2020 that they know they cannot legitimately win!" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Wow that’s some alternative facts! Did he not watch the screaming & fomenting that was the cavanaugh hearings? That was all hatred, scorn, venom, bias, and spittle.
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Post by flute4peace on Mar 7, 2019 1:54:27 GMT
On MSNBC just heard this from a friend who has know him over 20 years, now this! Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to de-legitimize the 2020 electionAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Updated 12:23 PM ET, Wed March 6, 2019 (CNN)Even as the 2020 race begins in earnest, President Donald Trump is already suggesting that Democrats cannot beat him fairly -- raising the specter that if he loses next November, he will suggest that the election was not legitimate. "The Democrats in Congress yesterday were vicious and totally showed their cards for everyone to see," Trump tweeted Tuesday, referring to House Democrats' launching of a broad-scale investigation into him. "When the Republicans had the Majority they never acted with such hatred and scorn! The Dems are trying to win an election in 2020 that they know they cannot legitimately win!" Trump 2020 campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany echoed that sentiment in a statement on the Democratic investigations. "These desperate Democrats know they cannot beat President Trump in 2020, so instead they have embarked on a disgraceful witch hunt with one singular aim: topple the will of the American people and seize the power that they have zero chance at winning legitimately," she said. ** It's not just that Trump doesn't like losing. (No one likes losing.) It's that he is unwilling to accept any sort of loss for fear that defeat might take some of the shine off of his all-I-do-is-win persona. ** In politics, Trump's inability to accept that he could lose fair and square is far, far more dangerous.Michael Cohen, Trump's former longtime fixer, said as much during his congressional testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee last month. "Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power," said Cohen. Sit with that for a minute. And realize what it would mean if the sitting incumbent President of the United States simply refuses to concede he has lost in 2020. ** www.cnn.com/2019/03/06/politics/donald-trump-2020-election-illegitimate/index.htmlFunny how the election was rigged right up until the time he won it, but now when there’s proof it was rigged it’s fake news. How do people not see through this?
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Post by imsirius on Mar 7, 2019 12:36:57 GMT
He is as thick as a brick....
HOW did he become a businessman? Seriously? A monkey is smarter than he is.
when ever he says "nobody knew" it means "*I* never knew. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
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Post by imsirius on Mar 7, 2019 12:49:08 GMT
This woman gets my respect!! Wow..brilliant!
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