[New York Post] Special Counsel Robert Mueller alerted a federal judge on Monday to an Instagram post from Roger Stone, which may have violated a gag order placed on the political trickster.
Mueller’s filing with Judge Amy Berman Jackson referred to a social media post on Stone’s Instagram that read: "Who framed Roger Stone?" and listed a website for his legal defense fund, according to CNBC.
The picture ‐ a reference to the 1988 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" ‐ was made on Sunday and was on Stone’s Instagram "story" for 24 hours.
Stone had a gag order placed on him after he posted a separate image on Instagram in February that included Berman Jackson’s head next to a crosshairs.
"There’s nothing ambiguous about crosshairs," Berman Jackson said at a Feb. 21 hearing.
Stone, a longtime pal of President Trump, had apologized profusely for his actions. Your apologies mean nothing to us Roger. We simply want your scalp.
#6
Every Democratic candidate for President should be asked this question in front of a national audience. “If elected President who should be the special prosecutor to investigate your campaign and presidency”?
#7
Nothing shows a lawyer's respect for the freedoms enshrined in US Constitution and the Bill of Rights like soliciting "gag orders" ? What a creep...
[Washington Insider] Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
The cash transfers from the PACs ‐ overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff ‐ run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics.
Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used.
The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.
Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as "really weird" and an indication "there’s something amiss." They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went ‐ meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.
#5
During her campaign she was wearing $3,000 dresses. She was a candidate to skim campaign money. After she won she had to lie about not being able to afford an apartment before her first pay check. I thought it odd she was running around saying that kind of stuff so publicly.
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#14
Well, look. You got the skeleton crew at Notional Review talking incessantly about the death schism on the right. You got Goldt*rd and Kristol Meth starting a new gig because they know their old ones are done or near done.
So you can pretty much tell the truth is on the other side of the coin...
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#5
Either she and her entourage were faking symptoms of a chronic neurological condition for unknown reasons or she has been suffering from such a condition for years.
Since any such condition is likely progressive her physical disability would be impossible to hide on the campaign trail of 2020.
Her spokesman on Sunday insisted she moved to new digs in mid-February.
But the kitchen seen in a cooking video Ocasio-Cortez posted to Instagram Sunday night matches the one in other cooking videos she posted on Nov. 9 and Dec. 27.
So how could she have moved to her new place two weeks ago if she was apparently already living there last fall?
#1
This from a woman who won a congressional election with only 16,000 votes. Not that much of a lead rather that many total votes. Her district, obviously, doesn't care one way or another about the country to get off their lazy asses and show up to vote.
#2
Currently each congressional district has 711,000 registered. voters. If she won with 16,000 total votes and Crowley had less than that it means that less than 40,000 voters turned out this is a voter turn out level of approximately 4.5 percent. YCMTSU !
[Politico] Christopher Steele, the British spook who authored a largely unverified dossier about President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, has backed out of plans to speak by video at a pro-democracy gathering in Baltimore next week, according to conference organizers.
The planned speaking engagement, which had not previously been reported, would have marked his first public appearance since the publication of the explosive dossier aside from brief statements he made to the media in March 2017.
Steele, a former MI6 officer, had been scheduled to speak about disinformation next Thursday at the Reawakening the Spirit of Democracy Conference at the George Peabody Library in Baltimore.
Steele was scheduled to speak on a panel moderated by Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum. The panel also features Evelyn Farkas, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia under Barack Obama, and Ed Lucas of the Center for European Policy Analysis, Epshtein said.
Though Steele is listed as a speaker in promotional materials, Applebaum said that he had gotten "cold feet" last week and canceled. She added that he backed out on advice of counsel. An email sent to Steele’s private intelligence firm, Orbis, was not immediately returned.
#3
If we had an FBI director and a real AG Steele would have been arrested at the airport. Along with McStain's staff.
Arresting paid sources and key political figures plays hell with source recruitment as well as the congressional budget. What took place was not a violation of the law, we are the law.
[Politico] Two years ago, after working for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, Saikat Chakrabarti co-founded an organization called Brand New Congress with a lofty goal: Launch hundreds of progressive candidates into congressional races.
Hundreds didn’t exactly pan out. But one major star emerged from that process: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who shocked the political world this summer with a primary upset over rising party leader Joe Crowley (N.Y.).
Now Ocasio-Cortez is headed to Congress, with Chakrabarti as chief of staff.
Though they’ve been in Washington for only a few weeks, they’re already making a splash ‐ clashing with incoming committee chairmen, joining a protest in Nancy Pelosi’s office and agitating for newly empowered Democrats to stake out ambitious goals on climate change. Chakrabarti turned heads by saying on a call, "We gotta primary folks."
It’s all part of a broader strategy to deploy inside-out organizing, Chakrabarti said. Staying connected to the progressive movement ‐ and the public eye ‐ through attention-grabbing demonstrations and social media is part of gaining policy leverage.
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...Well, he ain't quite as smart as he thought, because people already know about this dumb-shiat stunt.
For a Republican, this would mean at the minimum, resignation and disgrace and at worst jail time. AOC likely won't get it, but it's starting to look like Madame Guillotine - er, Speaker Pelosi and the rest of the Old Guard may have dropped a dime on her because she was flat out pissing them off. After all, one doesn't behave like that until they've been in Congress a few decades.
Mike
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#4
For a Republican, this would mean at the minimum
Keep digging that hole, MSM...
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[Washington Examiner] WINNIPEG, Canada ‐ Former President Barack Obama said Monday these are "challenging times" but he remains hopeful because of the next generation of leaders that he aims to guide.
Touching on his "third act," the 44th president spoke of programs that have become a central pillar of his Obama Foundation and its $500 million presidential center project in Chicago.
He told a packed arena at Bell MTS Place how he plans to create a "university for social change" that will serve as a hub for young people in the U.S. and around the world who are skeptical of the "old institutions."
"If we train them ‐ if we give them skills, support, financing, media training, spotlights, then they're the ones that are going to carry forward the solutions that we so desperately need," Obama said.
He then amplified a vision he shared in Japan last year in which the new global class of future leaders are molded in his or his wife Michelle Obama's image.
"If we could form a network of those young leaders, not just in the United States, but around the world, then we got something," he said, adding, "if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles who are running around thinking they can change the world" hope is achievable.
#4
He still hasn't figured out how making excuses for hip hop morons and lying black academics has killed the bench for that fever dream...
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He still hasn't figured out how making excuses for hip hop morons and lying black academics has killed the bench for that fever dream...
If you're the .0000012% who succeed as moron hip hop artists or football players, you're still a segment of the sampling. We must "keep our eye on the prize".
#8
I would recommend septic tank fluid removal for his trade?(via his suction yapper) Then he could stop his self-absorbed, Self-centered, ELITIST BULL&HIT dispersal
#10
#9, exactly right. I am genuinely surprised at the speed at which a former president has been marginalized. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing--I think his policies were bad--but we really hear very little about him these days.
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#11
TDS is too widespread for BHO to keep himself in the news.
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