Friday, June 1, 2018

An Interesting Twist in the Papadopoulos Narrative


RUSH: There is an update in the George Papadopoulos-Stefan Halper story, which involves the Australian ambassador. I’m not gonna go through the whole thing again. I’m gonna assume that you remember the nuts and bullets of this as I have explained it numerous times. What we thought we knew was that Joseph Mifsud, in April of 2016 — who is a shadowy professor from the island of Malta, who it is thought might be a very deep-cover Russian spy.
Others think that, no, he’s very close to the West, and if he’s an asset for anybody, it would be the United States and U.K. But it’s unknown. Joseph Mifsud was the first known person to have implanted information with George Papadopoulos, and that information was that the Russians had thousands of Hillary Clinton emails. We skip forward a couple of months. Stefan Halper offers Papadopoulos a job — teach a seminar, write a paper, travel to U.K., deliver the paper, deliver the lecture — $3,000 plus travel expenses.
Papadopoulos shows up, and in one of the meetings with Stefan Halper, the informant, he says to Papadopoulos, “By the way, George, you remember that story saying the Russians have all the Hillary emails?” The third step of this story is that Halper sets up a meeting between Papadopoulos and the Australian ambassador, who’s a major donor to the Clinton Foundation — $25 million — named Alexander Downer, and they go have drinks, adult beverages at a U.K. bar, at which Papadopoulos consumes too much.
Lips get loose, and Papadopoulos does what he has basically been told to pep starts bragging. He’s a 24-year-old young man on the periphery of the campaign, wants to come off like a big guy, and tells Alexander Downer, “Yeah. You know what? We know that the Russians have thousands of Hillary emails.” Downer plays his part, acts shocked and informs the FBI, DOJ. And then, voila, the FBI, DOJ, claim to open the investigation not on the dossier, but rather Papadopoulos as a Trump campaign member admitting that they know that the Russians have Hillary emails.
Well, Papadopoulos didn’t know anything. All of this was set up.
The FBI is using Papadopoulos and Carter Page as their new excuse to investigate. Because out of the blue this Papadopoulos guy is talking about Hillary emails being held by Russia. Even though the FBI set all this up, they are still relying on ignorance abounding all over the place. Well, there’s something new. Kimberley Strassel’s column today, “The Curious Case of Mr. Downer,” and I saw this yesterday, but credit to Kimberley here.
The correction is, Papadopoulos says he never told anybody about emails. Now, this is key, because up ’til now everybody informing us about this has said Mifsud told Papadopoulos the Russians have thousands of Hillary emails. Next phase: Halper reminds Papadopoulos that he knows this. Next phase: Papadopoulos goes to get drinks with Alexander Downer and tells him. Except that’s not what he told him.
“[W]e’ve been told the FBI acted because it was alarmed that Mr. Papadopoulos knew about those hacked Democratic emails [that the Russians had] in May, before they became public in June. But according to the tipster himself,” this is Mr. Downer, “Mr. Papadopoulos said nothing about emails.” This is a late correction to the “narrative,” if you will. “The FBI instead received a report that a far-removed campaign adviser, over drinks,” Papadopoulos, “said the Russians had something that might be ‘damaging’ to Hillary,” that the Russians had dirt on Hillary.
But Downer is saying Papadopoulos never said, never told him the Russians had Hillary’s emails. Okay. Well, then how did it get out that they did? How did it get out that that’s what Papadopoulos was telling everybody? Now, Downer is saying, “No, no, no, no, no! That’s not what he said. He told me that the Russians had something that might be damaging to Hillary.” Okay, now, imagine that you’re at the FBI or the DOJ or wherever — MI5, MI6 — and here comes the Australian ambassador.
He calls you up and he wants a meeting and he said, “Guess what? I just had drinks last night, a couple nights ago…” In fact, it took Downer two months to pass this information on. That’s another thing that we have learned. Downer has drinks with Papadopoulos; Papadopoulos says that the Russians have dirt on Hillary, damaging things on Hillary. Downer takes two months to tell anybody, supposedly. Okay. So you are at the FBI, and here comes the Australian ambassador, and he says, “I had drinks with this guy on the periphery of the Trump campaign, and he said that Russians have damaging information on Hillary.”
Would that be enough to start a counterintelligence investigation of Donald Trump and his campaign? No! Come on. So, the point is that even this excuse offered by the FBI, the DOJ as the reason the investigation started can’t be true. So it wasn’t the dossier, and it can’t be this. So we’re still back to: What started this? Devin Nunes wants to see that document, and they haven’t shown it to him yet. Now, this is a big change. Plus, there’s one other element of this. The… (sigh) How to phrase this?
The United States and four of its allies — and they are Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the U.K. The intelligence people in those five countries have a name. It’s called the Five Eyes. The Five Eyes: U.S., New Zealand, Australia, U.K., Canada. It’s not clandestine. It’s widely known. They call themselves this, and they have some rules. They don’t spy on each other. If they come across things damaging to each other, they come forward with it.
But there’s also a process by which members of the Five Eyes inform each other when they come across something, such as Downer coming across Papadopoulos and what he said. And you report it agency to agency. But that’s not what Downer did. Downer went to the U.S. embassy in the U.K., in London, to spread this around. So nothing about this happens according to norms. But the correction that I’m sharing with you today is that now Downer is saying…
After everybody thinking for months now that Papadopoulos was bragging about knowing that the Russians had Hillary Clinton emails, now the Australian ambassador is saying, “No, no!” He never said anything about emails. He just said that he knew the Russians had damaging information on Hillary. And again, the point is… So you’re in the FBI, you’re at the American embassy, comes Downer, “Yeah, I had drinks couple months ago with this young guy, very sharp guy, Papadopoulos. He’s on the periphery of the campaign.
“He said that they know that the Russians have some damaging stuff on Hillary.” Would that make you stop everything and open an investigation of the Trump campaign? It simply isn’t enough! It’s vague. What damaging information? How does this guy know it? This guy’s not high enough up on the chain, on the ladder to make what he says have a whole lot of weight. So is this really what started…?
‘Cause remember, for the longest time they wanted us to believe it was Papadopoulos that was responsible for this investigation beginning and the FBI was saying, “Oh, my God. Oh, my God. FBI, there may be a…? You mean Trump, Russia? Oh, jeez.” And that’s when they decided to put an informant in. Now the Papadopoulos story’s falling apart. As Kimberley Strassel says, “The Papadopoulos pretext is getting thinner,” meaning it can’t be the reason. So I wanted make sure I pass that on, because that’s the latest in this, and I want to keep you all on the cutting edge.

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Unhinged Maxine Waters: ‘Resist’ Trump Or ‘Go Down With Him’ (VIDEO)

This ClapTrap is a gift that keeps on giving
The country is getting to a point where the American people will either “have to stand up and resist this president” or “go down with him,” warned Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).
Waters, the voice of the Democrat Party, in an appearance on MSNBC’s “All In” argued that President Trump must be impeached because “he’s in bed with Russian President Vladmir Putin.”
“Seventy percent of Democrats who have been polled say that [Trump] should be impeached, I’m with the 70 percent. I understand the reticence of my colleagues and the Democratic leadership who say don’t feed the notion that is being presented by the Republicans that say ‘all they want to do is impeach the president, because they are mad about the fact that they lost the election.’ I get that I understand why that would cause them not want to talk about it. But I just don’t have those fears,” the California Democrat said.  “At some point in time we have to deal with reality.”
“The discussion must take place – we must not allow the President of the United States of America who has this relationship with the country that hates us and who’s undermined us and who has undermined our democracy to not be talked about,” she continued. “It is dangerous, I think that we should stand up for our country.”
After a year, the Trump-Russia collusion investigation still hasn’t produced any evidence of anything resembling the conspiracy Democrats have alleged took place. In fact, evidence now suggests that the only collusion with Russia was Hillary Clinton and the DNC’s collusion with Russian sources to take down Trump.
But Americans who support Trump, Waters cautioned, will “go down with him” because Special Counsel Mueller will ultimately prove Trump colluded with Russia.

“This president has no respect for the Constitution, he’s in bed with Putin and the oligarchs of Russia, and the Kremlin and it’s come out already. So let the special counsel keep doing what he’s doing in order to connect the dots, for those people who say we need the positive proof,” she said. “I think we are going to get to the point where people are either going to have to stand up and resist this president and talk about how he is dangerous for our democracy, or they are going to go down with him.”
“Racist” Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation because he, the chief law enforcement officer, doesn’t want to go jail, Waters insisted.
“We see what he said to Jeff Sessions and the way that he’s treating Jeff Sessions because Jeff Session said ‘listen I am recusing myself, I am not lying for you, I am scared of this stuff and I am not about to get myself into a position where I could be indicted.’ And [Trump] is really upset with him, he would love to get rid of him, but for the fact that he has friends over on the Senate side – these Republicans are saying ‘you better not do it Mr. President,’” she said. “The president does not care who you are. If in fact he needs you and you do not respond to him, if you do not protect him, if you do not lie for him, he will throw you under the bus. He will attack you. He has humiliated Jeff Sessions.”
Newly released FEC filings, show Waters has been paying her daughter a over $100k out of her campaign funds.

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Breaking: Documents Reveal Obama White House Attempted to Take Over Spygate Investigation (VIDEO)

If Obama was asked I bet he would say he heard it first on the news? What a filthy Stinking LIAR!

“The White House is running this.”

THIS IS HUGE—
John Solomon from The Hill told Sean Hannity on Thursday night the Obama White House attempted to take over the Russian-collusion investigation.
John Solomon: I’m putting finishing touches on a column that I think will come out tomorrow. And it will reveal two really important things. The efforts to begin targeting and reaching out to Trump campaign officials to gain intelligence on Russia that would ultimately justify the investigation began weeks and maybe months before the FBI had a formal predicate. And that’s very important the rules say you can’t use sources until you have a predicated investigation. The investigation is July 31, 2016. My sources and documents that I will be able to make public tomorrow will show that there were contacts going on by people identified as informers, informants, people who provided information began much, much earlier than July 31st. That’s the first part. The second part is as the investigation was just starting to ramp up there are internal FBI documents showing FBI agents talking about the White House trying to take over the investigation. Fears that the Justice Department were going to leak for political reasons and their own personal fear…
Sean Hannity: Slow down. When you say the White House you mean the Obama White House- they were attempting to take over the investigation.
John Solomon: That’s what these messages say.
Sean Hannity: These are FBI messages and this is the Obama White House. How high up are we talking about here?
John Solomon: We don’t know the messages are just what they are.
Solomon said he was going to break his story Friday morning.
This ought to be good.
FYI: The Gateway Pundit’s Cassandra Fairbanks is also breaking a huge development in the Spygate scandal on Friday morning.


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UNHINGED: John Brennan Vows to Continue to Attack POTUS Trump ‘Until Integrity Returns to the White House’

This poor Baby needs to be coddled in a safe space 

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll, John Brennan vowed to continue attacking President Trump on Friday in a Washington Post op-ed.

“This is why I speak out against Mr. Trump and will continue to do so….” said Brennan in a tweet caption linking to his op-ed.
Never have we seen the former administration undermine and attack the current administration the way Obama and his cronies do.
It is unprecedented.
John Brennan compared President Trump to foreign dictators in his unhinged WaPo op-ed titled: “I will speak out until integrity returns to the White House”
What does that mean? Until Trump is removed from office?
The op-ed shows how narcissistic John Brennan is, claiming he had “the rare privilege of directly serving four presidents.”
Brennan continually calls President Trump a liar throughout the piece and paints President Trump as a power hungry dictator.
Brennan was actually describing the Obama administration’s weaponization of law enforcement and intel agencies, however; he projected it onto President Trump:
For more than three decades, I observed and analyzed the traits and tactics of corrupt, incompetent and narcissistic foreign officials who did whatever they thought was necessary to retain power. Exploiting the fears and concerns of their citizenry, these demagogues routinely relied on lies, deceit and suppression of political opposition to cast themselves as populist heroes and to mask self-serving priorities. By gaining control of intelligence and security services, stifling the independence of the judiciary and discrediting a free press, these authoritarian rulers followed a time-tested recipe for how to inhibit democracy’s development, retard individual freedoms and liberties, and reserve the spoils of corrupt governance for themselves and their ilk. It never dawned on me that we could face such a development in the United States.
“The impact of the Trump presidency will be felt for many years to come,” said Brennan.
Brennan notes many have harshly condemned his continued attacks on the current administration.
In response to the criticisms, Brennan claims he’s apolitical and nonpartisan.
Many have condemned my public criticism of Mr. Trump, arguing that as a former CIA director, I should bite my tongue. My criticisms, however, are not political; I have never been and will never be a partisan. I speak out for the simple reason that Mr. Trump is failing to live up to the standards that we should all expect of a president.
In conclusion, Brennan vows to “continue to speak out loudly and critically until integrity, decency, wisdom — and maybe even some humility — return to the White House.”
John Brennan is a leaker and a liar; he was directly involved in Spygate which is why he continues to attack President Trump.
Brennan’s crimes are bubbling up to the surface; he is also stuck in a perjury trap.
The former CIA Director knows there is a chance he can end up in prison just like other CIA officials who were jailed for leaking classified information.
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‘Crumbs’ Pelosi Pans Latest Jobs Numbers as “Meaningless” and “Bad for Middle Class”



Democrats are convinced if they say middle class enough Americans will be fooled into voting for them and their job-killing, open borders policies.

The US unemployment rate reported on Friday morning is now down to 3.8%, the lowest unemployment rate since 2000!
Black unemployment is at an all-time low. Wages are rising again.
The news was too much for “crumbs” Pelosi.
The minority leader trashed the unemployment number as meaningless and bad for the middle class.
She really IS insane.
“May’s jobs report shows that strong employment numbers mean little to the families hit with soaring new costs under the Republicans’ watch.
“Republicans’ cruel, cynical health care sabotage campaign is already spiking families’ premiums by double digits and pushing millions off their coverage, according to the nonpartisan CBO. Big Pharma continues to hoard the benefits of the GOP tax scam, using their handouts to further enrich executives and shareholders instead of lowering prescription drug costs for seniors and sick kids. At the same time, the President’s reckless policies are exploding gas prices, wiping out the few meager gains that some families should have received from the GOP tax scam, as wages remain stagnant.
“From day one, the White House and Republicans in Congress have sold out working and middle class families to further enrich the wealthy and big corporations shipping jobs overseas. Thanks to the massive windfall of the GOP tax scam, Wall Street and wealthy corporations are on track to spend $1 trillion on dividends and stock buybacks while simultaneously announcing tens of thousands of layoffs and shipping jobs overseas and refusing to raise workers’ wages.
“Democrats know that the American people deserve A Better Deal, with Better Jobs, Better Wages and a Better Future. We are committed to creating millions of new good-paying jobs and raising wages, lowering the soaring cost of living for families and giving every American the tools to succeed in the 21st Century economy. Democrats will never stop fighting for the hard-working middle class families who are the backbone of our nation.”

Of course, Pelosi is lying.
The Democrats have no plan. They can only bitch.


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Did Michelle Obama successfully lobby ABC TV's president to fire Roseanne?

Great example of State Run Media under a Dictator. 
There are many angles to this week's Roseanne Barr controversy.  This one caught my attention: on Tuesday afternoon, about twelve hours after Roseanne tweeted and quickly deleted her comments about Valerie Jarrett that almost instantly eviscerated her TV career, a Twitter user named Josh Cornett tweeted this:
The tweet's sparse style was reminiscent of a headline or a tweet by Matt Drudge.  It was slow to trend, but around 9:32 P.M. P.T. Tuesday, Roseanne retweeted someone who had retweeted Cornett's tweet.  The retweeter had added, "This makes alot more sense then [sic] most things..."  A few minutes later, Roseanne herself retweeted Cornett's original tweet and asked, "Is this true?"
During the next two days, Wednesday and Thursday, Cornett's tweet, thanks to Roseanne retweeting it, became a headline story around the world.  Fox News on Wednesday was one of the first MSM sources to report it and to include the essence of the tweet in the story's headline: "Roseanne Barr says she may fight ABC firing, retweets claim Michelle Obama was behind ouster."

Cornett's tweet was one of many from Roseanne's fans that she cited as the inspiration for her to challenge ABC's decision after her initial apologies and mea culpas, which failed to save her show.
By Thursday, numerous U.S. media outlets as well as a number in the U.K. and Australia had picked up on the story.  The Daily Mail (London), for example, seized on Roseanne's retweet of Cornett's tweet in its lengthy, multi-media story that included a clip from a British TV show where the controversy was discussed at some length.
As one might imagine, close to 100% of the reporting on Roseanne Barr and her toxic tweet reflected  the "me too" school of journalism that currently dominates almost all reporting.  Think pack journalism and endlessly repeated words like "racist," "conspiracy theory," "unsourced," and so on.  Meanwhile, no one appears to have reached out to Cornett, the author of the tweet.  He was simply the foil for the media to pile on Roseanne.
I reached out to Cornett.  It wasn't hard to do.  His Twitter account displayed a "message" icon, meaning he could be contacted by anyone on Twitter.

Josh Cornett.  Source: Twitter.
Early Thursday morning, I sent Cornett a direct message on Twitter.  I asked him if he could clarify his unnamed source(s) for his tweet claiming that Michelle Obama had called ABC TV president Channing Dungey and demanded that Roseanne be fired.  He replied a few hours later, and, as I expected, he declined to identify a source.
Can't tell you the source, but I stand by it and put my name on it. The Obamas' ire directed at Roseanne dates back several days before the infamous "Tweet." Apparently they were outraged about Roseanne ridiculing their Netflix deal and it snowballed from there. SEVERAL PHONE CALLS were made.
So, according to Cornett, the plot had thickened: "[s]everal phone calls were made."  I asked if these additional phone calls came before or after Roseanne's infamous May 29 tweet.
The majority of the calls were before the VJ [Valerie Jarrett] tweet, they were addressing concerns over Roseanne's Netflix tweets. Can't confirm to who or by who. . . word of these calls may have actually been the inspiration for Roseanne's VJ tweets. Did VJ make the Netflix calls? The firing conversation was definitely between MO [Michelle Obama] and Channing.
I next asked Cornett for some biographical information about himself.  There are a lot of people out there named "Josh Cornett" – including one who works in the entertainment industry and has a single credit at the Internet Movie Database. Cornett replied to me on the record:
No IMDB lol, I'm an average hard working American, I'm in my 30's, I'm an investor that was inspired to dive into politics by the sad absence of Christopher Hitchens and the frustrating existence of CNN!
A brief exchange about current political topics ensued, and it's obvious that Cornett – as evidenced additionally by his prolific and skillful use of Twitter – is keeping up with the latest political developments.  A week ago, he tweeted that former President Obama had called hip-hop superstar Jay-Z and asked him to use his influence to dissuade other black rappers from having anything to do with President Trump – to prevent another rap icon like Kanye West from going over to the other side.  That tweet by Cornett was picked up by the Drudge Report and was liked by Donald Trump, Jr.
I respected Cornett's protection of the identity of his alleged source.  Trying to get some further insight, I shared a possible hypothesis about what I think might be going on, based on my own past experience.  I noted that from time to time, I have had sources who were close to or inside power centers like executive offices and who saw and heard things and shared some of them with me with the understanding that I could never identify them.  Cornett replied:
And yes, I have friends from my childhood that are very well placed and not always the most satisfied employees.
Am I able to vouch for or to confirm the validity and accuracy of Cornett's tweet heard 'round the world?  No, of course not.  At the same time, something about it has the ring of plausibility.  Various theories have been floated about why and how ABC TV acted to cancel Roseanne after the actress's offensive tweet.  Some have speculated that there was already unease at the network at having created a monster #1 hit sitcom – bigger than could have been anticipated – that served as a magnet for pro-Trump audiences.  In a critical election year, far left-of-center Hollywood might deduce that this significant development in the popular culture could have unforeseen and unpredictable consequences for the future of the Trump administration come November – consequences not especially favorable to the Democrat left.
In her latest ascent to star status, Barr herself was reportedly considered a loose cannon who was impossible to control.  She has always been controversial and a shock comedian.  In  July 1990, for example, she angered mostly conservatives when she sang – or shrieked, horribly off key – the National Anthem at a Major League Baseball game while she grabbed her crotch, which she said was intended to mimic what many baseball players do when they're on the playing field.
So what are we left with as this bizarre week draws to an end?  No one who was mentioned in Cornett's tweet has denied what he reported.  That in itself doesn't prove anything.  The cancelation of Roseanne's show was awfully sudden – within a few hours of her offensive tweet.  In its actions, ABC blew off a franchise that may have been worth close to $1 billion in advertising revenue.  Who else in 2018 America has the degree of cachet and influence to insist that that kind of decision be taken?

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Secretary Markwayne Mullin Warns IL Gov. Pritzker to ‘Knock Off Violent Rhetoric’ After Illegal Previously Deported SEVEN Times Intentionally Runs Over ICE Agent in Chicago Suburb

  Jose Juan Garnica-Naranjo/Image courtesy of DHS The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the arrest of an illega...