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Process crimes expert Bob Mueller alerts judge that Roger Stone's Instagram post may have violated gag order
[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.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 07:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When it's all you got, it's all you've got.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Bob Mueller, third grade class tattle tale.
Posted by: Bugs Darling of the Wee Folk1353 || 03/05/2019 7:12 Comments || Top||

#3  And Occasional-Cortex as Jessica?
Posted by: AlanC || 03/05/2019 9:03 Comments || Top||

#4  We need some scalps. Put fear of consequences in the dem's. So much rich prosecutorial fodder.
Posted by: Dale || 03/05/2019 9:22 Comments || Top||

#5  When your team leaks to CNN, is that violating any regulation, law or protocol?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2019 15:32 Comments || Top||

#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”?
Posted by: Airandee || 03/05/2019 15:43 Comments || Top||

#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...
Posted by: magpie || 03/05/2019 20:47 Comments || Top||


AOC's chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies
[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.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 00:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Young socialists.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2019 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Democratic party looking for a way to deal with their problem child?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2019 1:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Who Is Paying for Sandy O?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2019 2:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Dam. She really IS a Socialist!!
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/05/2019 2:02 Comments || Top||

#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.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/05/2019 4:29 Comments || Top||

#6  In pix her nose/chin is up Obama style. She is confident she has this crisis covered/paid for.
Posted by: Beau || 03/05/2019 6:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Sorry, just posted this under the wrong name.

Ocasio-Cortez’s home cooking video contradicts address claims lies.
Fixed at 8:45 a.m. ET. Please note: when submitting an article, paste the article URL into the Source box, putting the name of your source in square brackets at the beginning of the article’s text. That way clicking on the headline will take our readers directly to the thing. I had to scroll through several days of Weasel Zipper articles to find the one you posted. Many thanks.

— trailing wife
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/05/2019 6:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Well. It's proof capatalism is eeeeeevil! Look how quickly it corrupted this marxist angel.

/sarc
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2019 7:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Obviously Mr. Chakrabarti read the book. Or as BP indicates at #10, perhaps not.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#10  What a newb...

An expert grafter would have set up a charitable foundation, not a business!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/05/2019 8:07 Comments || Top||

#11  Normally the other dems would have circled wagons and kept things quiet.

Seems like they are done with her bullshit and are letting her hang herself with the rope she made.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2019 9:38 Comments || Top||

#12  Maybe we should look into her taxes to see if there was collusion????
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/05/2019 9:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Wonder if the corrupt democrats will use this as an excuse to cut-out the open socialists from their midsts (knowing they are mostly unelectable).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/05/2019 12:01 Comments || Top||

#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...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2019 12:09 Comments || Top||

#15  Reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes and her pet Indian of Theranos fame.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/05/2019 22:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Sen. Jeff Merkley announces he will not run for president
[10 News] WHO?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2019 06:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Prexident Merkin Muffley...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2019 11:02 Comments || Top||

#2  His time's better served in the Senate insuring a nice pension.
Posted by: Raj || 03/05/2019 17:22 Comments || Top||


Hillary - "I'm not running in 2020"
[Westchester News12] And instantly the smell of Vodka, Sulfur and brimstone, old cabbage and soiled diapers left the stage
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2019 06:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You believe what she says? That's new.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2019 6:45 Comments || Top||

#2  She'll be jabbering on like this in hospice, may Allaan hasten the day.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  There is a good chance that in 2021 Hillary will be running; from The Law.
Posted by: Bugs Darling of the Wee Folk1353 || 03/05/2019 7:41 Comments || Top||

#4  "I'm not running in 2020......


for now"
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2019 9:49 Comments || Top||

#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.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 03/05/2019 12:46 Comments || Top||

#6  "chronic neurological condition" like being a control freak greedy power hungry bitch
Posted by: 746 || 03/05/2019 15:18 Comments || Top||

#7  "I expect to be coronated".

Posted by: charger || 03/05/2019 15:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Taken with a great deal of salt. She lies about everything. Can she run from prison?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/05/2019 17:42 Comments || Top||

#9  How about not running your mouth anymore, Cankles? I'll settle for that.
Posted by: Raj || 03/05/2019 18:08 Comments || Top||

#10  The Michael Myers of politics. It ain't dead till you drive a stake through the heart and burn the carcass.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2019 19:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Guess the Dims wont be trying to slay Trump with the jaw bone of an ass again.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/05/2019 20:40 Comments || Top||

#12  there's plenty of available jaws, EC4147. Many are on display Sunday Morning News Shows
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2019 21:51 Comments || Top||


Cortez Still Playing Games About Where She Lives, Home Cooking Videos Contradict Her Claims
[WeaselZippers] Apparently we’re not allowed to know whether she actually lives in her district or not. This is crazy.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still spinning tales about her home.

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?

Posted by: Shiger Elmaimp5107 || 03/05/2019 06:26 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#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.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/05/2019 12:53 Comments || Top||

#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 !
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/05/2019 14:18 Comments || Top||

#3  ... less than 32,000 actually
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/05/2019 14:20 Comments || Top||

#4  You sure in wasn't by 16000 votes?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2019 15:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Votes for O-C (per ballotpedia.com): ~17k in primary, ~110k in general.
Posted by: Elmotch Black3333 || 03/05/2019 18:47 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ .org, even.
Posted by: Enver Gonque4971 || 03/05/2019 18:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Free Sh*t Army wants free sh*t. Showing up to vote is too much like work! Just send the Free Sh*t already...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2019 21:35 Comments || Top||


Christopher Steele backs out of public appearance
[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.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 01:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Applebaum said that he had gotten "cold feet" last week and canceled.

A bit backwards actually. The "cold feet" would have likely arrived following his scheduled appearance.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  If we had an FBI director and a real AG Steele would have been arrested at the airport. Along with McStain's staff.

The could be cellmates at Gitmo. Oh happy thought of the day.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/05/2019 6:35 Comments || Top||

#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.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 7:11 Comments || Top||


Who is this AOC man Mr. Saikat Chakrabarti ?
[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.

In other words: Don’t expect them to back down.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 01:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Her Indian pimp daddy?
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/05/2019 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  The john is Soros.
Posted by: Bugs Darling of the Wee Folk1353 || 03/05/2019 4:23 Comments || Top||

#3  ...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
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/05/2019 4:27 Comments || Top||

#4  For a Republican, this would mean at the minimum

Keep digging that hole, MSM...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2019 11:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Obama: There's hope 'if we can train a million Baracks and Michelles'
[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.

Loud applause ensued.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 00:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The current inventory appears extraordinarily excessive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  This is so yesterday - we have Alexandria and Ilhan now.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/05/2019 2:49 Comments || Top||

#3  People who want to lead, but can't are the worst.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/05/2019 6:23 Comments || Top||

#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...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2019 8:31 Comments || Top||

#5  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".
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2019 8:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Perhaps they could be trained to do something useful, like spot-welding or small appliance repair.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/05/2019 9:04 Comments || Top||

#7  and put them on "Ark B" so they survive climategeddon in 12 years?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/05/2019 9:47 Comments || Top||

#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
Posted by: ranture || 03/05/2019 9:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Barack who? His only remaining legacy is the hostile race relations he ginned up for votes.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/05/2019 12:02 Comments || Top||

#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.
Posted by: Tom || 03/05/2019 12:56 Comments || Top||

#11  TDS is too widespread for BHO to keep himself in the news.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/05/2019 13:46 Comments || Top||

#12  Just what the country needs - the next generation of arrogant, condescending, self-righteous socialist busybodies.
Posted by: Raj || 03/05/2019 14:05 Comments || Top||

#13  We already have that Raj. See AOC for details.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/05/2019 17:32 Comments || Top||

#14  Barack and Michael are popular in Canada?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/05/2019 17:33 Comments || Top||



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