[DAILYCALLER] The Office of House Employment Counsel brokered a settlement in 2006 over allegations that Rep. Gregory Meeks
(D-Queens)
fired a staffer in retaliation for reporting that she was sexually assaulted at a business tied to a campaign contributor, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
Andrea Payne, then a congressional aide in the New York Democrat’s Queens office, filed a complaint with the Office of Compliance, and Meeks fired her weeks later. He admitted that Payne’s termination did not have to do with the quality of her work, according to her lawsuit.
"This is an action to recover for damages sustained by plaintiff when Representative Meeks violated her Constitutional rights by retaliating against her, and ultimately terminating her employment, because of her sexual assault lawsuit," Payne’s attorneys wrote.
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The House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to impeach President Trump after a liberal Texas congressman forced a vote on his effort.
Democratic Rep. Al Green, who has repeatedly called for the president's removal, introduced two articles of impeachment against Trump on Wednesday.
But lawmakers immediately voted to effectively kill his resolution, with 364 voting to table it and 58 Democrats voting to move ahead.
In a dramatic speech on the floor ahead of the vote, Green called Trump "unfit" for office and accused him of "high misdemeanors."
The symbolic vote had been expected to fail in the Republican-controlled House. It put some lawmakers in competitive districts in a tough spot by forcing them on the record about impeachment.
Lawmakers did not actually vote on the actual articles of impeachment, but on a procedural measure that would have led to a vote on them.
"As I have said before, this is not about Democrats, it is about democracy," Green wrote in a memo to his colleagues. "It is not about Republicans, it is about the fate of our Republic. May everyone vote their conscience knowing that history will judge us all."
Green has discussed his intention to impeach Trump since last spring. In October, Green filed impeachment articles that nearly forced a vote -- until House Democratic leaders persuaded him to abandon the effort.
At the time, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders called the effort "pathetic." Not as pathetic as the Republican preparedness to actually repeal and replace 0bumhole-care, though.
In his memo to lawmakers, Green didn’t allege "obstruction of justice" or reference the ongoing investigation into the 2016 presidential campaign’s connection with Russia.
Instead, Green highlighted Trump’s supposed association with "White Nationalism, Neo-Nazism and Hate," as well as "Inciting Hatred and Hostility," as offenses worthy of impeachment.
"Friends, whether we like it or not, we now have a bigot in the White House who incites hatred and hostility," Green wrote in a letter.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has insisted that any impeachment effort should be put on hold until there is evidence of an impeachable offense.
On Fox News Tuesday night, Laura Ingraham reported that yet another one of Robert Mueller's deputies in his Russia investigation is compromised due to her track record as a blatant partisan.
Jeannie Rhee, who was hired by Mueller last summer to work on the probe, was the personal attorney of Ben Rhodes and also represented the Clinton Foundation, Ingraham revealed. "This information will put further pressure on Special Prosecutor Bob Mueller to resign."
Rhee is the third member of the Mueller team this week who has been shown to be brazenly partisan. Two other members of the team have been revealed as highly questionable hires in recent days as well ‐ Peter Strzok, an anti-Trumper who helped exonerate Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Weissmann, an unscrupulous prosecutor who told outgoing acting Attorney General Sally Yates in an email that he was "proud" of her for defying President Trump's travel ban.
As bad as Strzok and Weissman are, Jeannie Rhee takes the cake.
She formerly worked in the Obama Justice Department as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel, according to Fox News. Rhee was also the personal attorney for Ben "echo chamber" Rhodes, and the deputy national security adviser for President Barack Obama.
This could be a significant development because according to a report by Adam Kredo in the Washington Free Beacon last February, deep-state loyalists led by Rhodes had been working diligently behind the scenes to undermine the Trump White House and orchestrate the ouster of Michael Flynn, a strong opponent of the Iran nuclear deal.
Rhee was almost certainly part of that effort
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Fire them all and shut down this kangaroo investigation.
Then investigate all these people under RICO for corruption.
[Daily Caller] John Conyers III., the son and appointed successor of John Conyers’ Jr., the disgraced Democratic politician who announced his resignation on Tuesday, is a former attempted rapper who bragged that his friends are drug dealers and his dad "is a f***ing player."
The son’s brief rap career included lyrical gems such as "My n***as turn grams into grands" and "Ay f**k making a living bro, I’m trying to make history/So picture me letting the news nit-pick at me."
The aspiring artist also rapped about some of the challenges he’s had to live through, such as when his mother, former Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers, was sentenced to three years in jail for taking bribes, or when Conyers Jr. had to repay the U.S. Treasury for Conyers III’s misuse of a taxpayer-funded Cadillac Escalade.
[Free Beacon] The Federal Bureau of Investigation, once America's storied crime fighting agency, is under fire for an increasing leftward politicization blamed on recent liberal directors and a bureaucracy operating with nearly unchecked power.
Once a bastion of conservative anti-communism under long-time director J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI has become one of the more liberal political agencies of government, and some critics say appears increasingly to operate outside normal constitutional controls.
The shift is the result of a bureaucratic culture that emerged in the 1990s and was fueled by its two most recent former directors, James Comey and Robert Mueller, who ran the agency for the past 16 years. Mueller headed the FBI from 2001 to 2013, when Comey took over and served until he was fired by Trump in May.
Both former directors currently are at the center of a fierce political debate over the FBI's competency and integrity.
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It also wasn't quite so weaponized, just like the IRS
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Frank G tell that to the victims of the FBI/Whitey Bulger collusion.
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Where's that master of the obvious pic? Rank and file seem to be O.K.; corrupt at the top. Don't know much about Wray at this point. I blame this on Obummer and Hildabeest.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday disputed reports that special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed President Trump’s bank records.
"We confirmed that the news reports [that] the special counsel had subpoenaed financial records related to the president are completely false," Sanders said during the daily press briefing.
"No subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources. I think this is another example of the media going too far and too fast and we don’t see it going in that direction," she said.
Citing an anonymous and unidentified official, Reuters reported earlier Tuesday that Mueller’s team had subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank, where Trump is believed to have a line of credit and to have conducted tens of millions of dollars in transactions.
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Oh, so now we're going 'Lois Lerner.' Sounds like Mueller and his team of Gestapo lawyers might be running out of leads. Perhaps Deutsche Bank will tell him to go to hell.
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Cuz the dude has so much fucking money they would have to build a building for a new server farm to store them on plus the paper work from making photo copies!
[CNBC] - Some 10,000 Americans a year will die if the Republican tax reform bill is passed as written, economist Larry Summers said.
- Summers, a top official in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, said the cause will be a repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate, which requires Americans not covered by their employers to purchase health care.
- He debated the issue briefly on CNBC with Ken Langone, the NYC Langone Medical Center benefactor, who called the claims "emotional."
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If those who die are die-hard leftists pained at the thought that the Makers are keeping more of their money, then I hope the number is woefully under-estimated.
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We'd all live forever if only we were taxed enough.
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If the Donks passed this tax bill, they'd all be high-fiving each and calling it a victory. The MSM would put this in their echo chamber and report about how cmpassionate the Donks are and how many lives they have saved.
[PRESSTV] Thousands of protesters have carried out demonstrations in major US cities to express their anger over the narrowly passed Republican tax bill that will offer huge tax cuts for US corporations and the wealthiest Americans.
Individuals of all ages and demographics marched on Monday in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... 's financial district, where clusters of banks, trusts, and other upper class Americans work.
The protesters carried signs and chanted for equality and for Republican senators to be held accountable for approving the sweeping tax overhaul.
They said the tax bill will make significant cuts to government-sponsored medical insurance and provides large tax breaks for some of the wealthiest people in the country.
"It's a political genocide," Beverley Kirks told Xinhua.
"It's a political genocide," Beverley Kirks told Xinhua.
"They're giving a lot of breaks to the upper class and they're screwing over the working people," Rafael Solis told the official Chinese news agency.
Many Chicago residents see this tax reform as shamelessly benefiting wealthy Americans, in spite of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s pledge to help the middle class.
"The tax bill is a betrayal of America. It's not acting in the common good," a long-time resident of Chicago said.
Protesters say they will continue to demonstrate against the tax legislation in the coming months in the hope of making a change.
Similar demonstrations were held in several major cities, including Los Angeles, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and Boston, Massachusetts.
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I wonder, how many of the protesters actually pay taxes?
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Similar demonstrations were held in several major cities, including Los Angeles, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and Boston, Massachusetts.
So, why should Trunks care? You don't vote for them. Free Stuff! Free Stuff! Free Stuff! (using other peoples' money)
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I wonder, how many of the protesters actually pay taxes?
The answer to this question has been known since Brahmagupta invented the numeral zero.
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#4 And nary a one has bothered to read the danged thing.
There's no reading in protesting. It's just dog whistles and stirring up the mob to protest everything Trump. From the interviews I have seen with the rent-a-mob, they are ill-informed to the extent many don't even know what they are protesting. You can bet Soros' money is behind these protests.
No - those would be the homeless guys near the Park Street T stop, near Boston Common. I'd rather talk to those guys than the professional protesters inhibiting traffic in front of the State House. Which I've done on occasion - give a guy $2 for a smoke, chat with him while I smoke it, then take off before he tries to hit me up for more cash.
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Revenue collected per square mile inside the city limits vs cost per square mile to operate. The "black hole sponge factor" will become readily apparent.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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[DAILYCALLER] The Office of House Employment Counsel brokered a settlement in 2006 over allegations that Rep. Gregory Meeks
On Fox News Tuesday night, Laura Ingraham reported that yet another one of Robert Mueller's deputies in his Russia investigation is compromised due to her track record as a blatant partisan.
