[Red State] Prior to his role as a liaison between Trump dossier author Christopher Steele and the FBI, Bruce Ohr held the fourth highest position at the Department of Justice. Once his involvement with Fusion GPS (where his wife worked) became known to top DOJ officials, he received two demotions because "DOJ ethics regulations forbid department officials from working on cases where a spouse has a financial interest." Ohr admitted he had been aware of this rule at the time.
Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, was hired as an independent contractor by Glenn Simpson, the founder of political opposition research firm Fusion GPS. As you all know, the DNC and the Clinton campaign hired Fusion GPS (by funneling funds through Washington, D.C. law firm Perkins Coie) to create the infamous Trump dossier. Fusion hired former British spy Christopher Steele to create the dossier. Steele and Nellie Ohr worked on the project together.
It is well known that Bruce Ohr played a key role in passing Steele’s unverified research to top level FBI officials including Andrew McCabe starting in July 2016. In August, he passed on an even sketchier Trump dossier, which had been prepared by Glenn Simpson, to the FBI.
The Hill’s John Solomon has just reported the existence of a third Trump dossier which had been created by Nellie Ohr. Naturally, Bruce Ohr delivered this document to the FBI as well.
This new information was revealed during Bruce Ohr’s closed door hearing before Congress last August. Although transcripts from this hearing have not been made public, the relevant portion has been leaked. Below are the key excerpts from Ohr’s testimony.
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HAM radio operator Nellie Ohr was a Russian expert, linguist, writer, holder of a CIA clearance and probable source. Would it be too great a leap to suggest Nellie Ohr was the author of the Dossier(s), not Christopher Steele ?
Will Mr. Brennan please come to the white courtesy phone. Mr. Brennan, Mr. John Brennan.
Actor Jussie Smollett was embroiled in a controversy in February 2019 after he told police he had been assaulted on the streets of Chicago in a possible hate crime. While law enforcement was looking into these claims, rumors circulated that the Empire actor had orchestrated the attack.
On 18 February 2019, the Babylon Bee website added their own fictional twist to this story when they published an article reporting that Smollett had been offered a job at the CNN.
The network, according to the Babylon Bee, was reportedly impressed with Smollett's ability to fabricate a story out of thin air:
While Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been having a tough week so far, there appears to be a silver lining: cable news channel CNN has offered Smollett a job as an investigative reporter and on-air anchor after witnessing his skills at fabricating a story entirely out of thin air.
CNN producers were reportedly impressed throughout the ongoing saga of Smollett's apparent hoax attack on himself. They realized early on the facts didn't add up but were fascinated with how well the actor kept the narrative going. An HR rep quickly reached out to Smollett to see if he'd be interested in taking on a position at the news organization after news broke that the entire thing was probably fabricated.
This was not a genuine news story, although some readers mistook it for such. The Babylon Bee is a satirical website whose disclaimer notes that "The Babylon Bee is Your Trusted Source For Christian News Satire."
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When you have a generation of so-called adults that took Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central™ as an accurate news source this might be necessary... *Sigh*
Jussie Smollett, 36, was criminally charged on Wednesday night in Chicago
Smollett is due in bond court on at 1.30pm CT on Thursday
He is charged with filing a false police report, a Class 4 felony
Police say that he hoaxed a hate crime assault on himself on January 29
Cook County State's Attorney approved charges after grand jury indicted
Brothers Olabinjo 'Ola' Osundairo, 27, and Abimbola 'Abel' Osundairo, 25 were earlier seen entering grand jury
Video of them buying ski masks and red hat day before the attack has emerged
Smollett, who has hired a team of lawyers, denies that he made up his story
His attorneys say he 'enjoys the presumption of innocence' in the case
Charges carry a maximum sentence of three years and a fine of up to $25,000
FBI is also still investigating hateful letter that Smollett said he received
Smollett being named as a suspect on Wednesday after it emerged he once lied to police by pretending to be his younger brother. In 2007, when he was pulled over for a DUI, Smollett told the officers that he was his younger brother Jake.
The actor, who was 25 at the time, pleaded no contest to providing police with false information, driving while intoxicated and driving without a valid license. He was sentenced to two years probation and had to complete an alcohol awareness and education program.
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He "allegedly" also mailed the fake death threat with powder (crushed aspirin) in it - to himself via his producers. That's a Fed crime and typically results in 4-7 yrs sentence
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That's a Fed crime and typically results in 4-7 yrs sentence
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there is no 'typical' sentence as the crime of sending threatening letters through the USPS mail is relatively uncommon and because most such cases that are solved are settled via a plea agreement
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That was the average range of sentences received for that crime (quoted in another article I read)
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Looks like he got scammed by the Nigerians after all.
[DAILYWIRE] Actress-turned-full-time political activist Alyssa Milano is having a hard time with reports indicating "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett might have staged the hate crime attack that he claimed was carried out by two white Trump supporters.
On Sunday, Milano took to Twitter to voice her amazement that Smollett’s dubious account of the hate crime was potentially bogus.
"If that man staged his own attack he is wrong in so many ways," posted the actress. "No one could be that hurtful? To stage this? Right?"
Milano continued: "To f*** with all of us by playing into our weaknesses & make it even harder for victims to come forward?! No one could choose to be that hurtful? Right?! RIGHT?"
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The inability to recognize her own hate and bigotry. That is her "by playing into our weaknesses" excuse. It's only a 'weakness' because you allow it and you like it because it allows you to display your 'virtue'.
[OUTLINE] The family of the Kentucky teen who was involved in an encounter with a Native American advocate at the Lincoln Memorial last month filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post on Tuesday, seeking $250 million in damages for its coverage of the incident.
The suit alleges that The Post "targeted and bullied" 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann in order to embarrass President Trump. Sandmann was one of a number of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky who were wearing red "Make America Great Again" hats during a trip to the Mall when they encountered Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist.
News accounts, including in The Post, and videos of their encounter sparked a heated national debate ... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ... over the behavior of the participants.
"In a span of three days in January of this year commencing on January 19, the Post engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies which attacked, vilified, and threatened Nicholas Sandmann, an innocent secondary school child," reads the complaint.
It added, "The Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the President."
The suit was filed by Sandmann’s parents, Ted and Julie, on Nicholas’s behalf in U.S. District Court in Covington. It seeks $250 million because Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos paid that amount for the newspaper when he bought it in 2013.
The lengthy complaint, which carried the names of five attorneys from two law firms, alleged seven "false and defamatory" articles published online or in print by The Post. It also cited tweets sent by The Post to promote its stories.
The Sandmanns’ lead attorney is L. Lin Wood, who represented Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused in the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in 1996. He also represented John and Patsy Ramsey in pursuing defamation claims against media outlets in connection with reports on the death of their young daughter, JonBenet.
A Post spokeswoman, Kristine Coratti Kelly, said in response to the suit, "We are reviewing a copy of the lawsuit, and we plan to mount a vigorous defense."
According to the allegations made in the complaint, Nicholas Sandmann and his classmates were waiting for a bus at the Lincoln Memorial after attending the March for Life rally on the Mall when a group of African American men who call themselves Hebrew Israelites began yelling racial epithets at them. The high school group began a series of school sports chants in response, the complaint said.
Phillips, a self-described Native American activist who was on the Mall that day for the Indigenous Peoples March, has said he was walking toward the Lincoln Memorial when he encountered the Covington group. He was chanting and beating a small drum when he came face to face with Sandmann.
The Sandmanns’ suit asserts that the newspaper "bullied" Sandmann in its reporting "because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red ’Make America Great Again’ souvenir cap."
It calls Phillips "a phony war hero [who] was too intimidated by the unruly Hebrew Israelites to approach them, the true troublemakers, and instead chose to focus on a group of innocent children."
It added that The Post "did not conduct a proper investigation before publishing its false and defamatory statements of and concerning Nicholas."
It also accused The Post of ignoring online videos that showed a fuller picture of the incident and of using "unreliable and biased sources," thus acting with "knowledge of falsity or a reckless disregard for the truth." A plaintiff must show that a defendant acted with "reckless disregard" to sustain a defamation action.
This article starring:
Hebrew Israelites
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Oddly enough, the only mention of the Hebrew Israelites in our archives other than the Covington Cathothic boys’ adventure was in 2003, when Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown went to Israel to visit the Israeli branch. See here for details, including the connection to Louis Farrakhan and therefore the Nation of Islam.
[Breitbart] The pro-mass-immigration Koch brothers’ network of billionaire, donor-class organizations is fighting President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda ahead of the 2020 election with efforts to give amnesty to illegal aliens and a campaign for free trade absolutism.
While Trump scores victories from his tariffs on Chinese imports and imported aluminum and steel, and from the increased interior enforcement of immigration, the Koch network of organizations ‐ including Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Partners, and the Libre Initiative ‐ is looking to crush the populist-nationalist gains with an unpopular economic libertarian agenda.
On the immigration front, the Koch-funded Libre Initiative brought illegal aliens, who were shielded from deportation by former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, to Washington, DC, last week to lobby vulnerable lawmakers to support a DACA amnesty.Gla
[Breitbart] The Justice Department could announce the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election as early as next week, according to report Wednesday.
CNN reports that newly-confirmed attorney general Willian Barr is expected to turn over a summary of the report to Congress soon after its completion. The outlet cautioned that President Donald Trump’s overseas trip to meet with North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un could impact the "precise timing of the announcement."
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Expect the tone of “no proof of a crime by Trump but clearly he is a bad person who may have committed a crime. And nearly everyone around him is a criminal type individual that requires additional investigation”.
I think you pretty much nailed it. If there was any 'there' there, it would have been leaked long ago, and there would be a countdown clock to the report release on every major network and CNN.
The real giveaway was the other day when Adam Schiff made it clear that he didn't care that the final report might show nothing; they were going to investigate anyways.
Mike
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] "It’s time to lower the voting age in Oregon and to give our young people a chance to participate in the ballot, about their decisions that affect their homes, their clean air, their future, their schools and as we’ve seen, their very lives," Fagan said. Why? I thought adults were supposed to make decisions about such things?
The state senator pointed to the young activists who became engaged after the Parkland shooting in Florida, which left 17 people dead. They proved young people are active and should have a right to vote, Fagan said. The fact that they were active doesn't mean their reactions were correct. Monkeys are very active.
Several teenagers spoke in favor of the measure alongside Fagan on Monday at the Capitol. They were being "active," natch.
"Why can I drive like an adult, pay taxes like an adult, have an abortion like an adult, be charged and sentenced like an adult, but I can’t vote like an adult?" asked Christine Bynum, a student at La Salle High School. In some states you can't drive like an adult at sixteen; there are restrictions, such as Cinderella licenses. In the ones where you can, you pay increased insurance rates commensurate with the increased rates at which you make poor decisions. You can still be claimed as a dependent for taxes like an adult. You're not allowed to sign contracts or to own property. There's a separate juvenile court system that theoretically only kicks the most egregious butt holes into the adult system. Having an abortion is your own damned business, but the fact that you might need one at age sixteen doesn't say much for your good sense.
"We’re experts of our own experiences," said Connor Gabor. That's a statement with no meaning at all. The child probably heard somebody say that in a movie.
People are being sexually assaulted in their schools, Gabor said. By teenagers.
People are being shot. Yet, they can’t vote for school board members or politicians, he said. Neither can the shooters, can they?
Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger, Jr., R-Grants Pass, said 16-years-old is too young to vote. Thank you for that thundering statement of the obvious.
"... (They) are too young to enlist in the military, too young to own firearms, too young to own property, too young to enter into legal contracts, and too young to get married. But they are old enough to vote? People are not legally considered adults in this country until they are 18 years old, and I believe they shouldn’t be able to vote until then either. This is nothing more than an attempt to expand the voter rolls to sway elections," he said.
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Because the 18 year old Elders cannot construct a proper unicorn with hobbits and shit.
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I think they're going about it all wrong. IMO, the proper way to establish People's democracy in USA is to disfranchise all white heterosexual males.
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I still think only taxpayers should be able to vote although I would make the exception that if you are subject to being drafted you should be able to vote. But then, I wouldn't draft 16 year olds.
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There's enough ignorant people voting already; we don't need more of them, unless it's another unclever ploy to get more chumps to vote Democrat.
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(1) They want them to vote before the high school brainwashing has worn off (2) Young folks don't vote in significant numbers as is, even younger are unlikely to improve the trend so this is just stupid (3) There is some logic to having a single date for adulthood, when you can drive, drink, vote, and serve in the military. I vote for 18. Although perhaps we can allow provisional driving (as they currently do) and voting at the local level (dog catcher and mayor) at only 16.
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Let me put that in a different manner. Depending upon local, state, and federal laws, only those qualified to own their own gun can vote. That would do wonders in altering the voter registration in a number of interesting ways.
[SPECTATOR.ORG] ...It is against that backdrop that the Left media’s fixation on Hate Hoaxes now is both their obsession and our societal blight. We are a good people. We do not lynch Blacks or others. Rather, we had Loretta Lynch. Outside of New York, we smile at people we do not know as we walk down the street. When we cross a street, we wave to the driver who waits to make a right turn. We make friendly small talk at the grocery cash register, even a guy with a yarmulke when paying a woman with a hijab. We are a good people. And we deserve better than the despicable Big Lie that this country is riven on racial, gender, religious, or ethnic lines. It is a lie that Left Democrats propel for electoral gain, as Hitler lied about the Jews, the Romanis, and the Freemasons to secure power. As the Tsar lied about the Jews to maintain power. And the Democrats lie about the American People, the Basketful of Deplorables, whom they can pigeon-hole outside their favored Intersectionalists in order to return to power ‐ no matter the cost to the society’s well-being. This Lie is what defines Enemies of the People.
They lie. One racism or genderism hoax after another. The Oberlin College racism hoax perpetrated by campus Democrats. The racism hoax at the University of Buffalo where a Black student hung a "Whites Only" sign. The Grand Valley University racism hoax. The Montclair State University racism hoax. The University of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
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The attention his show got out of this... they should quickly write in a subplot that sends his character to prison and give him a job again when he gets out again.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] For Sens. Kamala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful... and Cory A. Booker, Democratic presidential candidates who were promoting an anti-lynching bill, the "attack" on actor Jussie Smollett in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... looked like a horrible yet opportune talking point.
Instead, the apparent hoax is turning out to be a warning to 2020 Democratic candidates about singling out people for martyrdom, including the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault and the drum-banging American Indian who confronted Catholic high school students on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
In the rush to speak too soon about the Smollett case, Ms. Harris and Mr. Booker stand out. Hey, no problem. Run on out there and JUMP on that toe popper, it's got your name written all over it !
Just before noon on Jan. 29, news reports emerged on social media that Mr. Smollett, an actor on the TV show "Empire," had been attacked by two men yelling racial and homophobic slurs. He claimed the men said something about "MAGA country," suggesting they were Trump supporters.
Mr. Smollett said the two men put a rope around his neck.
Five hours after the initial report, Ms. Harris, a former Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, attorney general, pronounced the attack genuine and called it "an attempted modern-day lynching."
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I wonder if, at least some of them, are not contemplating a professional false flag hate crime?
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Neh, they don't have to - they just have to encourage Youts to be Youts, and hope this time the wrong man they push too far will be more Aryan than Zimmerman.
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Democrats, media burned by rush to judgment on Jussie Smollett
...Nah. It'll be memory holed within a week or two. The media will see to that PDQ. And anybody who brings it up will be firmly reminded that the real issue here is shut up.
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Neh, they don't have to - they just have to encourage Youts to be Youts, and hope this time the wrong man they push too far will be more Aryan than Zimmerman.
They may have finally found their guy. Although, the timing is a bit suspicious as it comes so soon after Smollett's story fell apart.
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A harmless nut (barking dogs don't bite) who can provide a distraction?
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Watch that Coast Guard racist will not find any support among conservatives the way the left rallies around their own haters (at least until the public notices and they are forced to bring out the faux apologies and denials).
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[Red State] Prior to his role as a liaison between Trump dossier author Christopher Steele and the FBI, Bruce Ohr held the fourth highest position at the Department of Justice. Once his involvement with Fusion GPS (where his wife worked) became known to top DOJ officials, he received two demotions because "DOJ ethics regulations forbid department officials from working on cases where a spouse has a financial interest." Ohr admitted he had been aware of this rule at the time.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] "It’s time to lower the voting age in Oregon and to give our young people a chance to participate in the ballot, about their decisions that affect their homes, their clean air, their future, their schools and as we’ve seen, their very lives," Fagan said.
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful...
