[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … loans totaling $4.2M since buying the $350k home
POTUS and first lady refinanced their two homes 35 times over the years
Current Wilmington house has outstanding $541k loan 28 years after purchase
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Beijing Home Mortgage Services™?
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06/25/2024 6:03 Comments ||
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For a normal person that would end in backrupcy after the fifth refinance.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/25/2024 8:53 Comments ||
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Think about!
He ReFi'd more than once 1 a year.
One has to wonder if he weaseled a "private" loan rate and this process was used to hide "special incentive" for certain congressional votes?
[JustTheNews] The lack of accountability for research funding follows years of warnings that China operates an illicit biological weapons program that could be unwittingly helped by U.S. research-- and tax dollars.
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Maybe we could go back to just having state’s militias because if we don’t know if we funded our enemies biological warfare program, this new military system is not working.
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If they say they don't know if they're doing something they're doing it.
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[Federalist] Lawfare leftists lost another round in their bogus "fake electors" scheme to imprison Trump supporters, this time in Nevada where the state’s Democrat attorney general is pushing an 11th-hour political prosecution.
Clark County District Judge Mary Kay Holthus on Friday shut down a trial slated for early next year in the case of six grassroots conservatives charged with felony forgery counts for serving as contingent electors for then-President Donald Trump in the disputed 2020 election. The judge found prosecutors for far-left Attorney General Aaron Ford erred in choosing Democrat bastion Clark County, home to Las Vegas, as the venue for the trial. As the Nevada Independent reported, the judge agreed with the defendants’ attorneys, who argued the a northern venue should have been selected, particularly within Carson City — where the alternate elector signing ceremony actually took place in the weeks after the presidential election in which Democrat Joe Biden narrowly claimed victory in the swing Silver State.
[Newsweek] Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday pushed back on attacks on Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
In an opinion column titled "Unfounded attacks on the Justice Department must end" published by the Washington Post on Tuesday, Garland discussed the ongoing attacks against the department including threats, conspiracy theories and falsehoods, adding that recently it has involved Smith as he has led investigations into Donald Trump.
Newsweek has reached out to the Department of Justice and Trump's spokesperson via email for comment.
"In recent weeks, we have seen an escalation of attacks that go far beyond public scrutiny, criticism, and legitimate and necessary oversight of our work. They are baseless, personal and dangerous. These attacks come in the form of threats to defund particular department investigations, most recently the special counsel's prosecution of the former president," Garland wrote.
Garland continued by noting a specific example following Trump's guilty verdict in the criminal hush money case, which was brought forward by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
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"Merrick Garland defends the onerous Jack Smith and Alvin Bragg against conspiracy theories and falsehoods"
Then refuses to answer questions on the WH & DOJ running LAWFARE.
If there is 1 thing, we have all learned.
It is the so-called, Tin Hat Conspiracy theorists have been the source of FACTS and TRUTH since the Liberals, Socialists and Democrats and their media started seizing power and control.
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Garland needs to understand that if he is going to act as the man behind the curtain, he needs to buy a opaque curtain not a $3 Walmart shower liner.
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06/25/2024 9:39 Comments ||
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Garland also needs to realize, when Obama is done with him, he (Garland) will be fed to the pubs.
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[NYPOST] Embattled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao blasted the federal investigation that led to the FBI raiding her Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, home last week — claiming if she was rich and went to an elite school she wouldn’t have been targeted. That's a "tu quque" ("You do it too") fallacy, right? Only she's trying to make it sound like an "Et tu, Brute" argument.
Thao, who is facing a recall fate in November over rising crime and the departure of the Oakland A’s, was defiant in her first remarks since agents were seen at a home where she lives.
"I want to be crystal clear: I have done nothing wrong," Thao said Monday. "I can tell you with confidence that this investigation is not about me."
She claimed that she was being targeted when other politicians have done much worse. See? "Hoc etiam facis."
"This wouldn’t have gone down the way it did if I was rich, if I had gone to elite private schools or if I had come from money," she said.
"I know that for sure because former elected officials are sitting safely in their houses in the hills right now with campaign finance violations piling up." War story. Ignore it if you bore easily or at all: I was OD (Officer of the Day, if you ain't been there) one night several million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the world, when the MPs and a couple German cops brought a young black guy in. He'd mugged a Turk in the park. I got to make a log entry, call his company commander, and sign receipt and stuff. Finally it was just him and me, with his CO on the way in to give him a good talking to or arrange for a firing squad or something. So the kid looked at me, and he sez: "If I wasn't black, I wouldn't be here!" Yeppers! I just sat there and thought about it for a teeny weeny moment, considering all the white, Asian, Hispanic, Injun, Hottentot, and albino kids who had mugged Turks in the park and gotten off Scot free. Then I laughed my ass off, which is why I have no ass to this very day. True story, on my honor as a Biden.
Thao’s home was raided early Thursday morning along with two other homes in the Oakland area belonging to David and Andy Duong, a father-and-son team who run California Waste Solutions and have recycling contracts with Oakland, NBC Bay Area reported.
Both Duongs have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to local politicians over the years, including to Thao.
It remains unclear exactly what the investigation concerns, but agents were seen carting boxes out of Thao’s home during the raid.
Thao, who shares the house with her partner, was apparently home with her son when the FBI arrived.
The mayor became emotional during the presser, wiping away tears as she recalled growing up as the daughter of poor refugees.
"When my parents came to this country fleeing genocide, they never could have imagined that their daughter would one day be mayor of Oakland. I am my ancestors’ wildest dream," she said.
"And I am your mayor: Mayor Sheng Thao."
Not everybody wants it to be that way, however.
Since she took office in 2023, crime in Oakland has sharply increased, with violent mostly peaceful crime and burglaries rising more than 20% from the year prior.
Some have of blamed the progressive Thao for the troubles, and in May a petition for a recall vote gained the necessary 25,000 signatures needed to bring it to ballot this November.
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Oakland mayor’s attorney quits after being surprised by news conference Embattled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s attorney has resigned as her counsel after the mayor gave a press conference Monday without informing him. Tony Brass, a high-profile attorney who also represents accused Bob Lee killer Nima Momeni, was retained as Mayor Thao’s counsel late last week after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided her Oakland home.
“I have officially withdrawn as Sheng Thao’s counsel,” Brass told Bay City News, via text message.
The mayor remained silent for several days, declining to speak about the raid or to address a mass shooting in Oakland Wednesday, in which 15 people were shot at a Juneteenth celebration. On Monday, she broke her silence, addressing the shooting briefly before launching into a fiery, and at times emotional statement about the raid.
In the statement, which KRON4.com has learned she did not inform her attorney about ahead of time, Mayor Thao implied the FBI raid was connected to an ongoing recall effort against her. She also at times suggested that there were “radical rightwing forces” and a “handful of billionaires” from San Francisco and Piedmont “hellbent” on ousting her from office.
She provided no evidence to support those claims.
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06/25/2024 5:08 Comments ||
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Next time have the donations smurfed, rookie.
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06/25/2024 9:36 Comments ||
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...FBI wouldn't have raided her home if she was rich
[NYPOST] Lawyers for Hunter Biden officially requested a new gun trial Monday, saying the trial judge didn’t have jurisdiction over his case because of a legal technicality.
The move comes a week after attorneys for President Biden’s son filed the same motion before mysteriously withdrawing it minutes later, days after he was convicted of unlawfully owning a gun while hooked on drugs.
In the new motion, Hunter, 54, asked for his June 17 conviction to be scrapped, claiming Delaware federal Judge Maryellen Noreika didn’t have jurisdiction over the trial because of pending rulings in his appeals case.
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Maybe they should file a motion that he can’t get a fair trial in Delaware because his dad owns all the judges and wants him found guilty for political reasons. It would be fun to see CNN and MSMBC discuss the implications of that motion.
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A three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejected two of the Biden scion’s appeals earlier this year, finding they couldn’t rule until a verdict in the case.
I had to go to the link to find this but it's kinda what I thought. How can he appeal a verdict if the verdict has not yet even been rendered?
This is pettifoggery.
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[MAIL] A top prosecutor who has taken on some of the nation's top political corruption cases dramatically apologized to Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon as Jack Smith's team battled over a proposed gag order Monday.
David Harbach, who led cases against former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell issued the stunning statement inside Cannon's courtroom Monday, in a case where Trump critics complain she has repeatedly ruled against the government. If he does it again, just have him shot.
'I just want to apologize about earlier," Harbach said following a contentious courtroom exchange. "I didn’t mean to be unprofessional. I’m sorry about that."
It came after he appeared to bristle at questions from Cannon, a U.S. district judge in Florida, in response to her questions about the prosecution's claims of threats to law enforcement personnel and Trump's language about the FBI that fed into the government's request to modify his terms of release. *bristle* "Do you know who I am?"
'I don’t appreciate your tone,' the judge snapped at one point. The judge told him she would 'appreciate decorum at all times,' then warned, 'If you aren’t able to do that, I’m sure one of your colleagues can take up arguing this motion.'
But ask yourselves this. Do you actually love Trump the man
Or do you love what he promised you?
a secure southern border
and fighting off the globalists
Well fighting off the globalists means ending the corporate corruption - the oligarchy that controls US policy.
What you love about Trump is that he appears to be the solution to this
They hate him and are putting him in court
so you naturally think he must be against them since they are fighting him.
But this is not the case
The corrupt democrats are launching hundreds of lawsuits because they want to keep power
But the reason for their corruption - the corporate oligarchy above them that runs policy - they like Trump.
They are not sorry at all
If the democrats lose and Trump wins, then they still win
Trump will do what they say and you know this is true because it's what he did last time.
It's not just the wall.
He promised a lot of things he didn't do. Eg: the muslim ban. Eg: bring all the troops home and rebuild america. Eg: end lobbying by banning government employees from lobbying for 10 years after leaving office. Eg: removing the Obama/Hillary hold-overs from the public service (and thus draining the swamp) - he never did this much less 'lock her up'.
he didn't do anything. He gave the corporations and lobbyists everything they wanted.
He never took on silicon valley. He never stopped the censorship. he sat back and watched as Alex Jones was taken off the air. He never freed the J6-ers (after taking them to the Capitol in the biggest honeypot in recent memory).
So if you value what Trump stood for (or said he did) then you have to get over your tribalism and look at RFK jr.
He is the only anti-globalist candidate. He is the only one who would remove the corruption from government.
He is the only one they fear, which is why he is not allowed in the debates and cannot get media coverage at all (remember Ross Perot? like that).
So yes, rantburgers, you are right, it's not my country it's yours. You are captains of this ship.
But if you want anything to change you have to break out of your two-party tribalism
and you have to wake up to the fact that Trump is just a marketing exercise. The corporations love him. He isn't against them at all. He is their creature. He is the swamp. He is the establishment.
They know that the more lawsuits they hurl at him the more popular he gets.
That's why they finance it.
The democrats and republicans are just the left and right legs of the corporatist security-state oligopoly
You don't have a constitutional republic anymore you are run by the corporate oligopoly and the spies - and that's why nothing changes.
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As if. RFK is a squawking left-over from a family of $$$$ galoots who wanted to run everything. Not just a few things but everything. He has the tiniest following but I will say this for them: they're really loud. By the way, you forgot to mention the healthcare planks that disappeared from Trump's website on the night he was elected.
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RFK Jr. is a joke, Anon1. All you are doing with the logorrhea is confirming yourself in our eyes
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Only his family and God loves Trump. Generally speaking Rantburg wants to see the evil dictatorial bureaucracy obliterated and Constitutional government restored. DeSantis is a good man who was backed by all the usual suspects. RFK has no chance and picked a leftist version of Nikki Haley as his replacement after the CIA completes the triple play. For us, Trump is just a breaching charge to begin the decades long process of putting us back in control of our lives.
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Was it really "groveling"? Because,when it comes to groveling I have very high standards and something tells me she wasn't even close.
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I will say it again, if the deep state has been rigging the elections for God knows how long ( 20-30 years?) then it stands to reason that they also had TRUMP ELECTED. what better way to polorize the population?
Not gonna happen, anon1. No point going on about it.
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The only "Republicans" who will vote for RFK Jr. are the ones who weren't going to vote for Trump anyway. And those are votes Jeo's handlers will have to make up at 3am.
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So Donald Trump is not Ronald Reagan. Sorry. It's politics. You take what you can get. You have to ask yourself, Who is worse, Biden or Trump? Then you vote for Trump.
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RFK Jr. is a green (global warming) communist at heart. Just because he objected to the vaccines doesn't mean he's any less of a communist.
[10News] Prosecutor David Harbach encountered immediate pushback from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee
A federal prosecutor in Donald Trump's classified documents case clashed with the judge Monday when he made a request to bar the former president from making threatening comments about law enforcement agents involved in the investigation.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team is seeking to make as a condition of Trump’s freedom pending trial a prohibition on remarks that could endanger agents participating in the case. Prosecutors say those restrictions are necessary after Trump falsely claimed last month that the FBI was prepared to kill him when it searched his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, for classified documents two years ago.
But prosecutor David Harbach, a member of Smith’s team, encountered immediate pushback from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, whose handling of the case has generated intense scrutiny.
The judge questioned Harbach about how she could fashion an order that did not run afoul of Trump’s First Amendment rights and whether prosecutors could prove a direct link between Trump’s comments and actions that might then follow.
"There still needs to be a correlation between the alleged, dangerous comments and the risk" to public safety, she said.
At one point, as he tried despite frequent interruptions from Cannon to rattle off the multiple rationales that he said existed for speech restrictions on Trump, a visibly exasperated Harbach noted acidly that "I’ve got one reason out so far."
The comment drew a rebuke from Cannon, who said, "Mr. Harbach, I don’t appreciate your attitude." She said that if he could not behave in a more professional manner, one of his colleagues could take over.
Harbach completed his arguments and later apologized to the judge, saying he hadn’t meant to be unprofessional.
Defense lawyer Todd Blanche disputed the idea that Trump’s comments posed an imminent threat to anyone in law enforcement and said prosecutors’ request would have a "chilling" effect. Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and is set to debate President Joe Biden on Thursday
Trump's often-incendiary rhetoric has carried legal consequences in other cases. The New York judge presiding over Trump's hush money trial, in which he was convicted of 34 felony counts last week, fined him a total of $10,000 for violating a gag order that barred him from verbal attacks on witnesses and jurors. A federal judge in Washington handling his election subversion case imposed a similar gag order last year that an appeals court later upheld.
It was not immediately clear when Cannon, a Trump appointee whose handling of the case has been closely scrutinized, might rule. The arguments are part of a three-day hearing that began Friday to deal with several of the many unresolved legal issues that have piled up in a case that had been set for trial last month but has been snarled by delays and a plodding pace. Cannon indefinitely postponed the trial, and it's all but guaranteed that it will not take place before the November presidential election.
Trump faces dozens of felony charges accusing him of illegally hoarding top-secret records at Mar-a-Lago and obstructing the FBI's efforts to get them back. Given the breadth of evidence that prosecutors have put forward, many legal experts have regarded the case as the most straightforward of the four prosecutions against Trump, who has pleaded not guilty. But Cannon has been slow to rule on numerous motions and has proved willing to entertain defense requests that prosecutors say are meritless.
Smith's team objected last month after Trump claimed that the FBI was prepared to kill him while executing a court-authorized search warrant of Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, 2022. He was referencing boilerplate language from FBI policy that prohibits the use of deadly force except when the officer conducting the search has a reasonable belief that the "subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person."
Trump falsely claimed in a fundraising email that the FBI was "locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger."
Prosecutors say such comments pose a significant foreseeable risk to law enforcement, citing as examples an attempted attack on an FBI office in Ohio three days after the Mar-a-Lago search and the more recent arrest of a Trump supporter accused of threatening an FBI agent who investigated President Joe Biden's son, Hunter.
"Deploying such knowingly false and inflammatory language in the combustible atmosphere that Trump has created poses an imminent danger to law enforcement that must be addressed before more violence occurs," prosecutors wrote in a court filing on Friday.
Trump's lawyers say they've failed to show that his comments have directly endangered any FBI official who participated in the Mar-a-Lago search.
"Fundamentally, the motion is based on the fact that President Trump criticized the Mar-a-Lago raid based on evidence from publicly filed motions in this case, as part of his constitutionally protected campaign speech, in a manner that someone in the government disagreed with and does not like," they said.
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David Harbach, who led cases against former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell
Both of which were overturned
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Judge Cannon has acted as if Trump is a normal defendant with Constitutional Rights as opposed to the NYC and DC crews. The guy in Atlanta was fair but a little more timid as he has to stand for re-election.
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06/25/2024 9:09 Comments ||
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Ideally, Congress ought to be the ones approving or in this case disapproving the expenditure.
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Remember when at least the CBO has to weigh in with a risibly dishonest "estimate" of what some gummint measure would "cost" before any action was taken?
Good times...
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My House Loan has decided it identifies as a Biden recognized Student Loan now. I don't want to have a bunch of Liberal Lawyers, or the DOJ showing up citing civil rights issues.
So, can anyone point me to the paperwork to update its identity?
#3
They have generated the capability to juice him up for specific occasions with some success. He seems to take a stair step down in his motor skills, coherence and situation awareness after the juicing. The fully understand that the result will be crushing his life out like a cigarette is crushed into an ash tray. Jill is green lighting this. That’s who these people are.
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06/25/2024 8:59 Comments ||
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^ It does up his "angry man shouting at the clouds" persona though. Watch his pupils.
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06/25/2024 9:30 Comments ||
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If they do in fact debate on Thursday, Ima placing a prop bet on Biden crapping his pants during the debate. Will he or won't he? I guess it... depends.
#6
The polls in the swing states are brutal. Maybe Biden is able to hold his own in the debate, but this won't change the needle. If Democrats don't replace him, they will lose badly.
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If Trump can keep his cool, Joe will self destruct on live TV and Tapper won't be able to atop it. Don't be surprised if there are unscheduled commercial breaks.
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So I guess the Obama Clooney Comedy Hours was a fart in the wind?
Ice the clock for 15 minutes and watch the timing practice and medical scheduling evaporate. In fact, watch Team Brandon do just that so they control the clock.
#10
They are working through the Debate communication transmission device testing where Obama answers the questions and Biden just repeats whatever he says.
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.
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[Newsweek] Attorney General 
[NYPOST] Embattled Oakland Mayor 
[NYPOST] Lawyers for Hunter Biden officially requested a new gun trial Monday, saying the trial judge didn’t have jurisdiction over his case because of a legal technicality.
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