[Breitbart] Special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday filed a long-awaited sentencing memo regarding his criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn and recommended he not receive any prison time after providing prosecutors with "substantial assistance."
"Given the defendant’s substantial assistance and other considerations set forth below, a sentence at the low end of the guideline range‐including a sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration‐is appropriate and warranted," the filing reads. According to the document, Flynn participated in 19 interviews with investigators with the Office of the Special Counsel or Department of Justice, wherein the former Trump official gave "first-hand" information about communications between Trump transition team members and Russian officials, while assisting with a previously unknown "criminal investigation."
Federal sentencing guidelines recommend Flynn be sentenced up to six months in jail and face a fine up to $9,500.
"The offense level and guideline range, however, do not account for a downward departure pursuant to Section 5K1.1 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines reflecting the defendants substantial assistance to the government, which the government has moved for contemporaneously," the memo states.
In September, a federal judge on set Flynn’s sentencing for December 18, more than a year after the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia during the presidential transition.
When he pleaded guilty last year, Flynn admitted to lying during an FBI interview about the content of his conversations with Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.
EXCLUSIVE: The Weekly Standard will be closing, according to several employees and individuals close to the magazine. One editor there tells me they do not even have a budget for 2019.
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The Weakly Standard. Bill K. will always be welcome on MSLSD...
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The ZMan has written and spoken of the scam of Conservative Inc. and how it has aided and abetted the progressive shuck that's going to kill us all.
Pretty funny that the Koch bros. money is maybe more toxic to us than Soros' gelt.
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Cap'n Bill, Egg McMuffin and the Cruise Ship Never-Trumpers hardest hit
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Hopefully the guy that does their characature covers will land on his feet. The rest should consider retiring.
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Not reading any breathless LIE stories about her dancing engagements lately. Betting it's a combination of old news and actual hard working dancers telling their bosses "If you're bringing her in I'm taking the night off...
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She can forget about retirement. She'll still be lap dancing in her 80's.
[Fox News] Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, on Tuesday told a conference that she heard one of the reasons that her party has a difficult time connecting with voters is because Democrats know so much, and have a tendency of appealing to voters' minds instead of their hearts.
Hirono made the comment at a conference in Washington, D.C. She was asked by the moderator about ways Democrats could drive voter turnout.
"I wish I had the answer to that because one of the things that we, Democrats, have a really hard time is connecting to people’s hearts instead of [their heads]," Hirono said. "We’re really good at shoving out all the information that touch people here [pointing to her head] but not here [pointing to her heart]."
Hirono, 71, said Democrats need to stop speaking in a way that comes off as manipulative or strokes fear and resentment.
"But we have a really hard time doing that and one of the reasons-- it was told to me at one of our retreats-- was that we Democrats know so much, that is true. And we have kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain," she continued.
The left-hand side of the brain is often associated with analytical thought.
The first-term senator gained widespread notoriety as a leading Democratic voice for the women who accused against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. She urged men to "shut up and step up" when the Senate was confirming Kavanaugh to the court. Wasn't there something about stupid people being so stupid they don't even know that they're stupid?
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Hazie Morono...
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...well theirs at least and there is some evidence to support that (ie Blacks voting for those who'd replace them with Hispanics on the ballot farming plantation).
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Democrats need to stop speaking in a way that comes off as manipulative or strokes fear and resentment. Once they fake sincerity, they will have it made!
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They do know a lot. Voter fraud, treason, scamming, lying, plain old regular fraud,tax evasion, tax fraud,rape, murder, sexual harassment, prostitution, illegal arms selling, and good old vote buying.
[Washington Examiner] As Congress plans to push through a stop-gap bill to keep the government open for two weeks, Democrats are standing firm against the $5 billion President Trump wants for a border wall.
Democrats want to stick to the $1.6 billion for border security allocated in a bipartisan Homeland Security appropriations bill, which includes repairs to fencing, levees, and more money for tech. Some congressional Republicans appear ready to pass the larger government funding package, according to House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., but Trump isn’t.
"Essentially we have agreement on what needs to be done, and it is simply the wall that is the major and principle item that is holding up full agreement," Hoyer told reporters on Tuesday. "I’m hopeful in the next week or so that that will be resolved one way or another."
Democrats are committed to border security, Hoyer said, but won’t back money for Trump’s physical border wall. Senate and House Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., were set to meet with Trump Tuesday but postponed their conversation due to the funeral of former President George H. W. Bush.
[Free Beacon] Rep. David Cicilline (D., R.I.) said Tuesday that as many as 40 Democrats will run for their party's 2020 presidential nomination.
MSNBC Hallie Jackson pressed him after former Vice President Joe Biden declared himself the "most qualified person in the country to be president" and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) reiterated to reporters on Tuesday she was in the middle of taking a "hard look" at running.
"We'll have 30 or 40, probably, great candidates running for president, because everyone recognizes how urgent this moment is in the history of our country," Cicilline said. "We need a great nominee, and I have every confidence we're going to have a terrific nominee and we're going to beat the Republican nominee in 2020."
"Forty, really? 40 candidates?" Jackson asked.
"There's a lot of U.S. senators who we're talking about, a lot of governors, a lot of people outside of politics," he said. "I think we're going to have a big field of great candidates that are going to have an opportunity to test their mettle during the primaries."
He listed off names like Warren, Biden, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio), and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who have all expressed interest in running.
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Comedic farce comes to mind. Democrat party of the absurd. Maxine and Cortez ticket. Uncle Biden and Hillery, anything is possible. The master puppeteer laugh's with delight seeing the Democrat's dance in the flames of insanity. Drawn into a death spiral beckoning all that they can claim along the way into the eternal arms of disrepair and loathing of anything decent or just.
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Dem Congressman: As Many as 40 Democrats Will Run for President
And NONE of them is any improvement over a random pick out of a phonebook.
Idiots, all.
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This is why Presidents usually win re-election. It’ll be hard to survive that scrum without serious wounds. Then going into the cage against Trump and his employment record?
If mueller doesn’t have solid evidence Trump eats baby’s of color the odds are pretty good he will get the popular vote in 2020.
[PRESSTV] A federal judge in the United States has granted permission to law courts in Maryland and Washington, DC, to begin issuing subpoenas in a lawsuit targeting 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... for doing business with foreign governments.
US District Judge Peter J. Messitte issued an order on Monday beginning the lawsuit's discovery phase
The attorneys general in Maryland and Washington accused Trump of conflict of interest, violating a constitutional prohibition on gaining financially from his position by doing business with foreign governments, the Politico reported on Monday.
They said they aim to serve subpoenas to as many as 20 companies and government agencies.
It’s the first time a lawsuit alleging a president violated the Constitution's emoluments, or anti-corruption, clauses has advanced to the discovery stage.
In discovery, each side can request that the other answer specific questions or produce documents.
A list of subpoenas was expected to be made available Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman for DC Attorney General Karl Racine.
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Funny how they never cared when Obumble and Hillary were enriching themselves during their time in office.
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P2k, you'd better or Babylon Bee or the Onion will use it. But you know what? In my prejudiced opinion I feel that Unca Joe is the most qualified! Think about it. That's really sad. What a bunch of losers.
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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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Breitbart] Special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday filed a long-awaited sentencing memo regarding his criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn and recommended he not receive any prison time after providing prosecutors with "substantial assistance."
[Fox News] Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, on Tuesday told a conference that she heard one of the reasons that her party has a difficult time connecting with voters is because Democrats know so much, and have a tendency of appealing to voters' minds instead of their hearts.
The urban economy depends upon these people, and some of them also VOTE ! 
[PRESSTV] A federal judge in the United States has granted permission to law courts in Maryland and Washington, DC, to begin issuing subpoenas in a lawsuit targeting President 
