[Daily Caller] Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced Friday that they are requesting records from and interviews with Alexandra Chalupa, a Democratic consultant and Ukrainian-American activist who met with Ukrainian embassy officials throughout 2016, allegedly on behalf of the DNC. The trio are also seeking records from Andrii Telizkhenko, a former Ukrainian political officer who told Politico that Oksana Shulyar, a top aid to the Ukrainian ambassador, instructed him to assist Chalupa with research to connect Trump and Manafort to the Russians.
According to the Daily Caller, the request is a continuation of Grassley’s 2017 inquiry into possible coordination between the DNC and the Ukrainian embassy to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign.
Chalupa met throughout 2016 with Ukrainian embassy officials, and sought to trade information related to Manafort, who worked through 2014 for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, on Jan. 11, 2017, Politico reported. Telizhenko told Politico he was directed by his bosses to help Chalupa in the effort.
In addition to Chalupa’s efforts, multiple Ukrainian government officials spoke out against Trump during the 2016 campaign.
One official scrutinized by Republicans is Serhiy Leshchenko, a former Ukrainian parliamentarian who gained international attention in August 2016 for helping publicize the so-called "black ledger" that detailed payments that the Ukrainian Party of Regions allegedly made to Manafort.
Manafort denied receiving the payments, but was forced off the Trump team following reports of the "black ledger." He was convicted in the special counsel’s investigation of financial crimes related to income from his Ukraine work.
While Emmanuel Macron is making fun of Trump and the US people at the NATO summit, this is falling apart badly at home.
[NBC NEWS] The Eiffel Tower shut down, France's high-speed trains stood still and teachers walked off the job as unions launched nationwide strikes and protests over the government's plan to overhaul the retirement system.
[Washington Examiner] Texas Rep. Al Green advocated that Democrats continue to pursue impeachment several times if the Senate does not vote to convict President Trump.
On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House Judiciary Committee would be drafting articles of impeachment as one of the final steps before a full House vote. If the House votes to impeach the president, the process moves over to the Republican-controlled Senate, where there is little support to convict Trump.
Green claimed that shouldn’t dissuade Democrats from moving rapidly toward impeachment. During a speech on the House floor on Thursday, Green reminded his colleagues that there is "no limit" to the number of times they can impeach the president.
"The Constitution allows a president to be impeached more than once," Green explained. "If we impeach now, or at some time in the near future, for one issue that we dearly should, then we find later that the president has other issues that merit impeachment, we can impeach again. There is no limit on the number of times."
Green noted that he doesn’t believe Trump should be impeached "needlessly," despite having forced a vote on impeachment three times before the current effort to remove Trump following his controversial phone call with Ukrainian leaders.
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I'm fast reaching the opinion that if there's a dem pres, and a republican congress, they should impeach automatically for the high crime of being a democrat and therefore a traitor to humanity, agent of evil and hater of America.
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He tried three times without being able to get anyone to go along? Clearly this little hobbyhorse of his is keeping him from getting into trouble by turning his attention to more realistic endeavours. I quite agree that he should continue to concentrate on bringing new impeachment bills before his fellows in the House, no matter how quixotic they may seem.
Either that, or he is trying to dilute the inevitable disappointment when the current effort fails in the Senate.
But either way, his statement will drive more voters away from the Democrats, and toward at least considering the Republicans. All the Dems had to do was not be crazy, and they can’t even manage that,
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The demoncrats seem to have the most ugly, odious, frustrated, selfish bastiches in their ranks. Amy pretty faces or otherwise smart personalities that align with them automatically lose their appeal and thereon assume the most superciliously obnoxious of visages. Then they start looking like caricatures. Like Alec Baldwin, or DeNiro.
Needless to say, like Maxine Waters this specimen is one of the ugliest things. It's not an ugliness in terms of aesthetic sense, more like a feeling of 'you are looking at something vile'.
Shes ALIVVVE!
[Al-Rooters] U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday put a temporary hold on a court ruling that would require records held by Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) and Capital One Financial Corp (COF.N) to be handed over to Democratic-led congressional panels.
Trump's lawyers asked the high court to put a hold a Dec. 3 ruling by Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals directing the two banks to comply with April subpoenas by the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee and Intelligence Committee for the financial records.
In a brief order, Ginsburg said that the lower court ruling is now on hold until Dec. 13.
The material sought by the committees includes records of accounts, transactions and investments linked to Trump, his three oldest children, their immediate family members and several Trump Organization entities.
Trump filed an appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday in a separate case seeking to prevent the House Oversight Committee from obtaining financial records from Mazars LLP, Trump's longtime accounting firm. An appeals court in Washington ruled against Trump in October.
The Supreme Court on Nov. 25 granted Trump's request to put the subpoena enforcement in that case on hold while the president appeals the matter. Both cases represent an important showdown over the powers of the presidency versus those of Congress.
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Another trip to the hospital to have the replicant's AI re-calibrated, perhaps?
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Someone realized that if they can get the Prez's records, they can get anybody's records for fishing expeditions, to include every single sitting justice?
[LA Times] By presidential campaign standards, Pete Buttigieg has been pretty much an open book ‐ but with one chapter missing. We're still "in the closet" on that
The Democratic South Bend, Ind., mayor has let reporters sit on his campaign bus and pelt him with questions until they get tired; he’s spoken at length about his personal experience coming out as a gay man; he’s shown a willingness to face some of his most withering critics.
But Buttigieg won’t talk about his three years of work for McKinsey & Co., the famous, secretive ‐ and lately, notorious ‐ management consulting firm.
Almost a decade after leaving McKinsey in 2010, Buttigieg is still bound by a nondisclosure agreement that his campaign says McKinsey is refusing to lift, leaving a large hole in the 37-year-old’s otherwise closely examined life story. 10 years, huh. Almost as if....
"We have asked McKinsey to be released from the NDA in full, and we have asked McKinsey if we can release a list of clients," campaign spokesman Sean Savett said. "To date, they have not agreed. We will continue to ask and are eager to share more about his work as soon as we are able." *wink wink*
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He must have some kind of alternate strategy.
Maybe seeking a cabinet post + promises not to go after his billions if he acts as a stalking horse for the DNC and ...
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Mr. Wife thinks Mike Bloomberg is running for the vice president spot on the Democratic ballot. He pointed out that other very rich men have done so over the years, mentioning Nelson Rockefeller and Theodore Roosevelt, both of whom were previously governor of New York and both of whom took the spot intending to subsequently become president.
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TR and Rocky: But those guys lived when cis-gender hetero-normative male white northwest European Protestant elite scions were cool.
Bloomie doesn't even tick one identity box. Not one.
For that reason, if he were to go to the Democratic Party registration site and try to sign up as a volunteer, he wouldn't even get past the landing page (no joke).
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I looked up Mr. Bloomberg’s Wikipedia page. BS electrical engineer, Harvard MBA, partner in Salomon Bros. before going out on his own. Currently worth about $58 billion. Clearly opportunistic about political parties:
A lifelong Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his party registration in 2001 to run for mayor as a Republican. He won a second term in 2005, and left the Republican Party two years later. Bloomberg campaigned to change the city's term limits law, and was elected to his third term in 2009 as an independent on the Republican ballot line.
He announced on November 24, 2019 that he is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2020 presidential election.
Oh, and Jewish is no longer a tick-able identity box for the Democrats. Nor is unmarried. Being 77 years old makes him a year younger than Bernie Sanders...
[EpochTmes] The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has stalled at the leadership level with House and Senate members unable to reach a compromise to authorize the appropriations that maintain our national defense.
Congress has issued two emergency Continuing Resolutions, (CR), so far in this budget cycle—the second of which will expire on Dec. 20. CR’s are said by lawmakers and experts to waste taxpayer dollars and undermine national security....
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CR’s are said by lawmakers and experts to waste taxpayer dollars and undermine national security....
Already played this game back in the 70s. Ended up with a entire year CR as the Donks were out to punish the military for following the Constitutional orders of the previous presidents in the war in Vietnam.
[BREITBART] House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"... (D-CA) has done almost exactly what he and fellow Democrats accuse President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... (falsely) of doing: he abused his power to ask an outside entity to investigate political opponents.
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How can he be brought to justice for this "Secret Police" abuse of power?
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From the people who bought you the Steele Dossier. It's call modus operandi. "We don't need no stinking badge"
[Epoch Times] Open investigations of FBI employees by the Justice Department’s Inspector General (IG) have about doubled in recent years and, as far as available records go, there have never been so many investigations of this kind.
The Office of IG Michael Horowitz had 104 “open criminal or administrative investigations of alleged misconduct related to FBI employees” as of Sept. 30, according to its latest semi-annual report to Congress (pdf).
The number fell from 112 open investigations just six months earlier, but still fit into a heightened trend. In fiscal 2018, the IG reported 84 and 93 open investigations, respectively. In the decade before that, the average was a bit under 51.
It’s not clear what’s behind the increase.
In the past few years, the IG has worked on a number of high-profile investigations, including one into former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for a self-serving media leak and another into former FBI Director James Comey for disclosure of sensitive information.
In June 2018, the IG released a report on his review of the investigation into the purported mishandling of classified information by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. While the report criticized several FBI officials involved in the probe for political bias, it concluded that “we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative decisions we reviewed.”
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NBC NEWS] The Eiffel Tower shut down, France's high-speed trains stood still and teachers walked off the job as unions launched nationwide strikes and protests over the government's plan to overhaul the retirement system.
[LA Times] By presidential campaign standards, Pete Buttigieg has been pretty much an open book ‐ but with one chapter missing.
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
