[FOX] The team of opposition researchers behind the infamous anti-Trump dossier embraced by the FBI were paid big bucks to continue trying to dig up dirt on Russian meddling in American politics ‐ even after the 2016 presidential election.
That revelation, buried inside a 243-page report released by House Intelligence Committee Republicans last week, has sparked new speculation about the identities of the secretive donors who were funding the post-election project.
According to the House Intelligence Committee report, Daniel J. Jones ‐ the president of the Penn Quarter Group and a former staffer for Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein ‐ "secured the services" of dossier author and former British spy Christopher Steele "to continue exposing Russian interference" after the election. It also hired an associate of Steele’s and the opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
That report doesn’t list the donors. But Jones told the FBI that the Penn Quarter Group was being funded by seven to 10 wealthy donors, primarily in New York and California, who provided approximately $50 million to the firm, it said.
Fusion and Steele originally teamed up during the 2016 campaign to compile a dossier of salacious and unverified allegations about Trump's connections to Russia, paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign through law firm Perkins Coie. The dossier allegedly was used by the DOJ and FBI to obtain surveillance warrants to spy on a member of the Trump team.
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Yep - it was made up and the donors got nothing of value. Sweet!
If these were Republican donors, all of their names would be on billboards throughout the country by now. Since they're all Dems, it'll take a little longer for someone to spill the beans. I'll enjoy this, if only for the sheer embarrassment factor.
I'm going with the obvious first pick here - Tom Steyer. He's already demonstrated Trump Derangement Syndrome and has shown atrocious political judgment before when it comes to allocating $ for anti-Trump activity. Throw in a few names from Steyer's other rich friends, and there's part of your mystery list.
[DAWN] Adult film actress Stormy Daniels sued US President Donald Trump for defamation on Monday, saying he lied by tweeting that her claim of being threatened if she discussed an alleged sexual encounter with him was a “total con job”.
The lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan escalates Daniels litigation with Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who paid her $130,000 before the 2016 presidential election to keep quiet about the alleged sexual encounter a decade earlier. She'da really felt bad if he'd called her a whore.
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[BREITBART] James Finkelstein, chairman of the news outlet the Hill, announced in a letter to Steven Thomma, executive director of the White House Correspondents’ Association, that the Hill will no longer participate in the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner.
"The Hill, which has participated in the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner for many years, does not plan at this time to participate in the event moving forward," he wrote. "In short, there’s simply no reason for us to participate in something that casts our profession in a poor light."
Finkelstein singled out the WHCA’s choice of comedienne Michelle Wolf as the reason. "The kind of jokes told by this year’s headliner, Michelle Wolf, were out of line for an event that’s supposed to be fun ‐ and fair," he wrote. "Based on what Americans witnessed on national television at Saturday night’s dinner, a once-fine evening celebrating the strong, free press the WHCA speaks of has turned into an angry display and ad-hominem attacks."
Also at issue are the WHCA’s reluctance to apologize and the fact that there has still been no apology to press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whom Wolf singled out in a series of especially mean-spirited personal attacks.
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[Weekly Standard] Special counsel Robert Mueller is eager to get inside President Donald Trump’s brain. The New York Times published about four dozen questions supposedly being entertained as the stuff of a Mueller interview with Trump. "What did you think..." begins a question about Jeff Sessions. "What did you think..." begins a question about the appointment of the special counsel. "What did you think..." about James Comey’s testimony before the Senate. "What did you think..." about other Comey testimony. "What did you think"...? Has someone finally called the 'thought police."
Many are the questions that begin "What was the purpose..." and "What was your reaction..." Most of all, the special counsel is interested in the thinking that went into giving FBI director James Comey his walking papers. He hopes to use any interview with Trump to divine whether the Comey firing was a crime. Mueller is a bit confused. Not firing the crooked SOB would have been the crime.
If Mueller is interested in how and why Trump made the decision to fire Comey, it would clearly be relevant what sort of legal advice the president was given about his power over the FBI director’s employment. It would indeed look bad for Trump if, in the days before he fired Comey, he had been told by some senior legal official that letting the FBI director go for the wrong reason amounted to obstruction of justice. Forget the Russians! It's all about my pal Jim Comey.
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There was no collusion. There was no crime. There was no obstruction because there was no crime. The only crime is that this B.S. witch-hunt still goes on.
BTW, however, there are quite a few questions that need to be answered about U1 and a few other things.
"Dear Mr. Muller - what did you think when it was revealed that two FBI agents under your supervision were on Whitey Bulger's payroll and had been protecting him for over a decade?"
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At this point Mueller has two goals: (1) to trick Trump into some kind of contradiction that he can work with, or (2) to get Trump to not answer, plead the fifth, whatever, so the idiots on the left can see guilt in a fairly ordinary legal tactic.
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Trump should just tell Mueller he canned Comey's ass because Comey is a weasel and he dropped the ball on the Hillary investigation. Trump should tell Mueller that he canned Comey's ass because as POTUS it was his right and his duty because the man cannot be trusted. What more reason do you need? And if this bullshit continues then Bill, Hillary, Comey and Lynch will go to jail along with a whole bunch of their co-conspirators possibly including Mueller himself...maybe even Obama if you really wanna get that way about it.
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The Russian fabrication has collapsed. Mueller is desperate and searching for a perjury charge. POTUS should tell him to bugger off, or tell him nothing at all.
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And besides all that, what obstruction of justice? You mean letting Hillary off the hook? Or how about using bogus oppo research and a crooked judge to get a FISA warrant to wiretap Trump tower?
No, no questions. Trump should tell the American people why he did it and then he should can Mueller's ass.
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We get Stormy Daniels and James Comey because the only Russian collusion was with Hillary. What next? You got video of some wino picking his nose and somehow it's Trump's fault? Go to hell.
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No, no questions. Trump should tell the American people why he did it and then he should can Mueller's ass. Posted by Abu Uluque
I was hoping for a White House trifecta. Mueller, Rosenstein, and Sessions... all fired the same afternoon. Rudy Giuliani walks them out, takes over justice, helps Sessions clean out desk. Day #2, Giuliani calls Christopher Wray and tells him to start looking for a new job asap.
Comstock also appears to confirm that it was indeed the Falcon Heavy launch webcast that led to review of need for NOAA remote sensing license for future SpaceX launches.
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Does anyone know if this regulation is a "fossil regulation" left over from the beginning of the Space Race? The Launch Authority wanting total control of the electromagnetic spectrum at the Cape would be a reasonable demand in the 50's, 60's and 70's. The signal necessary to push a TV signal in those days... *BRRR!* Who knows what sort of sideband interference that could have happened?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[BREITBART] James Finkelstein, chairman of the news outlet the Hill, announced in a letter to Steven Thomma, executive director of the White House Correspondents’ Association, that the Hill will no longer participate in the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner.
