[Breitbart] Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the infamous "pee dossier" on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, was first hired by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to obtain damaging information on Paul Manafort ‐ weeks before the firm hired him to produce his now-discredited, conspiracy-weaving dossier.
The explosive admission was made by Fusion GSP co-founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch in the pair’s recently-released book ‐ Crime in Progress ‐ and highlighted in a Monday report by American Greatness.
"Weeks before Trump tapped Manafort to run his campaign, Christopher Steele had hired Fusion for help investigating Manafort," write Fritsch and Simpson. "The matter had nothing to do with politics and was a typical commercial assignment."
The Fusion GPS co-founders say their firm cut a nominal agreement to "research Manafort’s finances" for a client of Steele, now infamous for authoring a dossier alleging collusion between President Trump and the Kremlin.
Fritsch and Simpson contend that the retired Secret Intelligence Service MI6 agent’s client was Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Deripaska sought to determine whether Manafort had stolen money from him, according to the book.
"[Christopher Steele] did not disclose the ultimate client for the job, and Fusion didn’t press the issue," claim the Fusion GSP co-founders.
American Greatness notes of the Fusion GPS-Steele deal: "That means Glenn Simpson represented not one but two Russian tycoons in 2016: At the same time Fusion was helping Steele on behalf of Deripaska, Simpson also was representing Prevezon, another company owned by a Putin-tied Russian also under investigation by the Justice Department for money laundering."
Notably, a timeline of events shows Fusion GPS’s investigation into Manafort occurred while they sought dirt on the 2016 Trump campaign.
And now that he has, perhaps, rendered his own sentence, all his stuff can be gone through by investigators with much less fussing.
[True Pundit] Jeffrey Epstein’s private wealth banker, who brokered and signed off on untold multiple millions of dollars in controversial Deutsche Bank and Citibank loans spanning two decades for the convicted pedophile, has died from a reported suicide.
The news of yet another mysterious Epstein-linked death comes shortly after the FBI was seeking to interview the bank executive about loans he approved for Epstein and the indicted child trafficker’s labyrinth of US-based and offshore companies.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed Thomas Bowers died by an apparent suicide by hanging at his home before Thanksgiving.
Epstein likewise died from a reported suicide by hanging, according to the New York City Medical Examiner.
Bowers headed the private wealth banking division for Deutsche Bank and signed off on millions in loans to Epstein. Bowers, prior to taking over the private banking arm at Deutsche Bank, served in the same top position at Citibank, as the head of the bank’s private wealth arm. Citigroup also made massive loans to Epstein, according to records and banking sources who spoke to True Pundit.
True Pundit founder Mike “Thomas Paine” Moore previously headed anti-money laundering for a major Citigroup division during the time frame Citi commenced large loans to Epstein.
“The loans to Epstein were personal and commercial,” Paine confirmed. “The Citi loans I can confirm were for more than $25 million. Some were secured, some were not.”
Did Citi bend its lending rules for Epstein? Paine said that appears “quite likely,” with Bowers and other Citi executives he later recruited to work for him at Deutsche all working to secure the approvals regardless of compliance-related red flags.
And sources said Citi loaned Epstein much more money, eclipsing $100 million and also allowed Epstein to use the bank to send thousands of wire transfers from his accounts. Bowers, who turned up dead just days ago, brokered the loans for Epstein, sources said.
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Skye Times - Still no word from Ghislaine Maxwell. Island bagel shop purchases up-armored Rover and hires two additional former Royal Marines, bringing the total to five. Updates at 7:00.
(All crazy talk, except for the bagel shop and graphic)
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Ref #4: 2) aforementioned execs almost certainly broke laws, at a minimum involving money laundering; 3) aforementioned firms very likely facilitated Epstein's "donations" to the Clinton Global Grift Initiative.
...and from the Clinton Initiative to other unnamed entities at the behest of unnamed agencies.
Bill and Hill dance alone, brokenhearted.
"We were so full of Hope when we started!"
"Goodbye, Mr. Smith.
I'll be taking the Fifth."
Dénouement of a DC Departed.
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What better way to get cover for your own misdeeds than to be an asset of the Covert world, so the "sources and methods" guise always holds! Look for Brennan's fingerprints all over this part of it for the Clintons.
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It would be interesting to see a social network graph of all the participants - Clinton & Epstein associates, etc.- with labels showing who has meet an untimely end.
Duncan Hunter finally pleaded guilty to abuse of $250,000 in campaign funds in a plea deal with federal prosecutors in San Diego
Republican had fought allegations for more than a year and called it a 'witch hunt' claiming he was being targeted like Donald Trump
But after his wife Margaret took a plea deal which would have seen her testify, he changed his tune and admitted to corruption
Campaign cash was illegally spent on entertaining string of mistresses, family trips abroad, and even a first class ticket for Eggburt the Hunters' pet rabbit
Hunter, 42, is yet to say when he will stand down; he is scion of political dynasty and his father Duncan Hunter Sr. held the 50th CA District before him
Outside the court crowd jeered 'lock him up' and held up signs saying 'Trump next'; Hunter was one of first two GOP congressmen to endorse then candidate
Other one was Chris Collins, who quit the House in September after pleading guilty to insider trading
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I think there is ample evidence Russia interfered in 2016 election but none suggesting they threw their weight behind Trump or that the interference moved the needle in any way at all.
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Indeed, ruprecht. But if I worked at that Russkii troll farm, the Internet Research Agency, I'd be wanting a raise considering how spun-up the Democrats got.
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Romney is carrying on in the John McCain tradition.
As far as Russian meddling goes, always remember that Baraq Obama had eight years to do something about cyber security but all he ever did was try to blame it on Trump.
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Russia had some units working against Hillary by putting anti Hillary websites, tweets, etc. up but they also had units working against Trump feeding non sense stuff to comrade Steele.
Perhaps their intel bureaucracy is as screwed up as ours.
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Dem Brokerede convention nominee: Mittens; finally taking the mask off.
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The notion that Russian agents, human or algorithmic, had any influence on the outcome in 2016 is ridiculous.
Relative to total ad spend by the campaigns, the total Russian-directed ad spend did not even amount to a rounding error of a rounding error.
In early 2017, when the CIA put forward to Congress their joke of a report on nefarious, subversive, covert Russian activity, all they could come up with was references to RT. A public broadcasting company. A f---ing television station.
Russia and Russians are not dividing this country and trashing our system of government; Americans are.
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Relative to total ad spend by the campaigns, the total Russian-directed ad spend did not even amount to a rounding error of a rounding error.
Reminds me of the time in an Austin Powers movie when newly-released Dr. Evil, who has just been released from decades in prison, hatches a diabolical scheme, the upshot of which is a ransom demand for $1m. His flunky gives him a look and points out to him that $1m isn't what it used to be when he first became a guest of the governor.
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Either he hasn't looked into the corruption in Ukraine, or he is just a plain moron or he has business interests in Ukraine. I'd vote for all of the above.
[National Review] Eight people, including major Hillary Clinton donors and a witness in the Mueller investigation, have been charged in a massive campaign-finance scheme, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
The individuals conspired to “make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions” valued around $3.5 million in the 2016 election campaign and beyond, according to the announcement. Although the indictment does not specifically name the recipient of the donations, it is clear that the contributions went to groups allied with Clinton’s presidential campaign.
One of those charged, George Nader, is a Lebanese American businessman who was a witness in the Mueller report. Nader was also caught in 2018 in possession of child pornography, but received partial immunity in exchange for testimony in the Mueller investigation. He faces between 15 to 40 years in prison if convicted on child-pornography charges.
Also indicted on campaign-finance charges was Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja, who hosted a fundraiser for Clinton in Los Angeles in 2016 and who conspired to conceal campaign donations from 2016 to 2018. Khawaja owns an online-payments company used by, among others, debt collectors, offshore gamblers, and pornographers. The company has made numerous campaign donations to both Democrats and Republicans.
Nader also gained access to the Trump administration, meeting with the president on several occasions. Nader has experience in international diplomacy, has served as a diplomatic conduit to the Middle East and Russia, and was an informal adviser to the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates.
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George Aref Nader (Arabic: جورج نادر, born May 15, 1959) is an American businessman, lobbyist, and convicted sex offender. He has acted as an unofficial liaison between Washington politicians and the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and as a lobbyist for private security firm Blackwater.
Nader is an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates and a consultant to Blackwater founder Erik Prince. In January 2018, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators questioned Nader in connection to suspicions that the UAE had been involved with President Trump’s 2016 campaign.[2] In December 2019, Nader was charged in U.S. federal court with violating campaign finance laws by allegedly pushing over three and half million dollars towards Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for the U.S. Presidency while obscuring the source of the money.[3]
Nader was sentenced in the 1990s for transporting child pornography publications, and imprisoned in 2003 for sexually abusing ten boys in the Czech Republic.[4] In June 2019, he was arrested and charged with transporting pornography depicting child sexual abuse and bestiality.[5][6]
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Me thinks Nader and the seven others need to disappear before the suicide fairy finds them...
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I read this in the National Review and The Cluster Phuck Times but not in the MSM. The FBI must be looking into and doing something about the Clinton/Dem crime machine. It's a start.
h/t Instapundit
The husband of Democrat Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL), who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, reportedly took $700,000 from firms connected to a Ukrainian oligarch who has allegedly been "accused of ordering contract killings."
The Miami Herald reported last year:
Public records show that Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s husband, Robert Powell, spent much of the last 10 years as general counsel for companies owned at least in part by Igor Kolomoisky, a wealthy Ukrainian businessman involved in banking and mining. In federal financial disclosures, Mucarsel-Powell reported that her husband of 15 years earned most of their household income during the previous two years ‐ at least $695,000 ‐ from a ferroalloys trading corporation associated with Kolomoisky.
The connections between Robert Powell and Kolomoisky were first reported by Daily Beast reporter Betsy Swan last year ‐ who also highlighted some of the allegations that have been made against the Ukrainian oligarch.
Swan reported in April 2018 that the FBI was "investigating" Kolomoisky over "potential financial crimes, including money laundering, according to the sources, who say the probe is wide-ranging and has been under way for quite some time. Kolomoisky has not been charged with any crime, and a lawyer representing him said he denies any wrongdoing."
[BREITBART] House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against CNN for a fake news story the outlet printed about him before Thanksgiving, revealing in the lawsuit that he was never as CNN alleged in Vienna in late 2018 and did not meet with the ousted Ukrainian prosecutor CNN alleged he met with there.
Nunes’s lawsuit includes revelations of key facts that undermine the case CNN made against him, severely harming the news outlet’s credibility. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Virginia, shows Nunes is seeking more than $435 million in damages from CNN over the fake news it printed against him. But more importantly, it demonstrates that Nunes was 100 percent correct when he told Breitbart News before Thanksgiving that CNN’s story was untrue‐and that CNN was completely inaccurate in its reporting and had relied on a compromised source for its piece.
It remains to be seen how successful this lawsuit will be‐it is very difficult for public figures to successfully sue media outlets because of a variety of protections the media are afforded‐but the facts as laid out by Nunes and his attorney in this suit are particularly damning for CNN as Nunes and his team successfully demonstrate that the network engaged in printing and then disseminating demonstrably false information about him.
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$430 mil is what he is asking. Hope he wins big. Maybe Devin will end up running CNN. CNN needs reform or destruction.
That's so messed up on so many levels I don't know where to begin. Credibility? Hah! For those who live outside the bubble, zero remains zero. And the only way those inside the bubble might suspect something isn't quite right is if they accidentally catch something other than CNN or MSLSD.
[DAILYWIRE] President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... trolled Sen. Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others... (D-CA) on Tuesday after she announced that she was dropping out of the Democratic presidential nomination race, saying, "We will miss you Kamala!"
Trump’s tweet came in response to a tweet from Corey Lewandowski, who wrote on Twitter: "’One of the hardest decisions of my life’: Kamala Harris ends once-promising campaign. Another one bites the dust. Guess it’s not as easy as everyone thought. @realDonaldTrump connected with people that’s why he won 38 Primaries and Caucuses."
Trump responded, "Too bad. We will miss you Kamala!"
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One on one with Willie Brown she was brilliant but she couldn't figure out how to do it with all the voters. Just saying "Orange Man Bad" wasn't good enough.
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'Don't worry, Mr President. I'll see you at your trial.'
[OUTLINE] With just a week remaining before the deadline to run for office in Texas next year, some Democrats are still hoping to see Beto O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... jump into the race to unseat Sen. John Cornyn.
Poll after poll shows Cornyn would trounce the dozen or so contenders for the Democratic nomination at this point. None can touch the near-universal name recognition O’Rourke enjoys among Texas Democrats after his near-miss against Sen. Ted Cruz last year.
And a new poll commissioned by backers worried that the current crop of candidates would fall short shows that O’Rourke is by far the top choice of Democratic voters in Texas at 58%, with the runner-up, state Sen. Royce West of Dallas at 13%.
The poll also shows him in a near-tie, trailing Cornyn 46-42 at this point, which is far stronger than others already seeking the nomination.
O’Rourke’s campaign operation has gone dormant. He didn’t respond to messages on Monday and hasn’t said lately whether he’s interested.
"I know there are a lot of folks in Texas who want to see him do it and who have indeed been encouraging him to do it,” said freshman Rep. Veronica Escobar, the El Paso Democrat who replaced him in Congress. “If he runs, I’d support him.”
[BIZPACREVIEW] A Biden campaign staffer had the formidable challenge of trying to ignite some level of crowd fervor at one of Sleepy Joe’s campaign rallies in Iowa on Monday. Suffice it to say, generous cups of strong coffee with Red Bull chasers might have been a better tactic.
Democrat candidate Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... is in the midst of an 8-day, 18-county tour in the Corn State as he attempts to revive his flagging presidential campaign there ahead of the state’s all-important February 3 caucuses. Iowa is the first official measure by voters of the Democrat candidates.
"Come on, you can do better than that!" the staffer pleaded before Biden’s appearance.
"Fire it up!" he repeatedly shouted. "Ready to go," the seated gathering insisted.
In other "No Malarkey" tour stops, crowd turnout was similar.
At the risk of stating the all-too-obvious, President Trump’s campaign rallies are drawing overflow crowds of 40,000 roaring supporters ... a pretty clear indicator of why the delusional Dems are all-in on their impeachment coup attempt.
[FOXNEWS] A San Diego doctor who emigrated from South America is pushing to oust Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin Newsom, arguing the state's left-wing leadership has allowed cities to become "overrun by homelessness."
"I came here legally at age 11. Having grown up in extreme poverty and being homeless to now being one of San Diego's most prominent physicians, that's the American Dream, that's the California dream. And that's what Gov. Newsom and left-wingers in the legislature are progressively destroying," James Veltmeyer said on "Fox & Friends" Monday.
Homelessness is a growing problem in California. For example, the homeless population in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... has grown to more than 17,000, a 30 percent jump from last year, according to a city database.
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Newsom deserves to be recalled. However, there are many Dems who contributed to California's many problems. What has Schiff or Pelosi and others done for the state?
[BREITBART] House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) released the Democrats’ report Tuesday on the impeachment inquiry, concluding that President Donald Trump “solicit[ed] foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election.”
The report presents itself as the core fact-finding effort, though that function has traditionally been handled by the House Judiciary Committee, which will begin its own hearings on Wednesday.
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Ref #1: The most stunning aspect of the report, to me anyway, was the inclusion of telephone records of House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, Nunes’ aide David Harvey, President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and investigative reporter John Solomon. Schiff refused to say how he was able to obtain these records.
Giuliani and Solomon will find out, no worries on that one.
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The joke is on Schiff. The public sees through his Shitshow and has turned against the Dems.
As Bloomberg's entry indicates, the smarter anti-Trumpers know they are likely to lose to Trump, again, because of their own side's stupdjty and incompetence (along with an extraordinarily robust economy that for once is he long people on the bottom, including African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans.
These pathetic maneuvers by Schiff and the rest of the Shitshow are evidence of desperation. They know they're finished.
h/t RedState
[Fox News] Fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s outburst at President Trump in a Washington Post op-ed published Wednesday, calling the president’s handling of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s case a "shocking and unprecedented intervention in a low-level review" is in and of itself shocking and unprecedented in several ways.
Spencer wrote: "The president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices."
In reality, Spencer is the man who bypassed the chain of command by cutting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper out of his scheming and working a backroom deal. Now, after being exposed, Spencer submissively avails himself to an eager mainstream media ready to consume his invective aimed at the president, creating the very chaos he blames on the president.
Spencer aligned himself with the prosecution, adding more weight to the suffocating pressure of a resource-rich bureaucracy bearing down on the defense attorney and his client, Gallagher. Commanders and secretaries with decision-making and appellate authority are meant to be neutral by design, open to evidence, mitigation, and extenuation from both sides of the case.
Those, like Spencer, who lack the requisite experience of leading large numbers of servicemen and women often fall prey to their own emotion-driven predilections. Spencer wanted the Navy to be right, so he followed prosecution guidance in a case that was marred by prosecutorial overreach.
For example:
Navy prosecutor Cmdr. Christopher Czaplak secretly embedded a tracking virus in an image of the scales of justice and the American flag on emails he exchanged with Gallagher’s defense attorneys, affording him an illegal window into the defense strategy.
Czaplak’s prosecution team, which included Naval Criminal Investigative Service officials, tampered with witnesses in efforts to prevent testimony, tainted the jury pool by leaking reports to the media favorable to the prosecution, and then conspired to shield those crimes as the defense brought them to light.
When Gallagher refused to sign a confession, reports indicate the brig commander moved him to solitary confinement, something we in the military recognize as an "enhanced interrogation" technique. Gallagher’s only "misbehavior" was not doing what the prosecution was badgering him to do. Sensory deprivation is solely intended to influence the target. It didn’t work on Gallagher, but they tried.
Spencer argues that the president’s intervention in a "low level" case is counter to the good order and discipline of the military. There is nothing "low level" about a wartime murder trial involving a Navy SEAL where a jury of Gallagher’s combat veteran peers found him not guilty of all crimes with which he was charged save being one of 12 individuals who posed for a picture with a dead combatant. Wrong, yes, but not something that justifies such an aggressive prosecution.
Lastly, Spencer’s quibbling over whether the president’s tweet was a "direct order" or not demonstrates how petty and vengeful he was toward Gallagher. The president was right to intervene to prevent a biased, small-minded person like Spencer from spitefully tilting the weight of the bureaucracy on top of a single sailor. Servicemen and women enjoy the same due process rights as the civilians of the country they serve.
As Spencer and his hashtags fade over the next several days, the president’s support of warfighters over bureaucrats will increase the morale of those in the rank and file. The critics will angrily accuse the president of supporting a war criminal, but the real crimes in this case have been papered over by a secretary of the Navy eager to avoid embarrassment at the expense of a sailor who, on the whole, served honorably.
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.
[Breitbart] Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the infamous "pee dossier" on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, was first hired by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to obtain damaging information on Paul Manafort ‐ weeks before the firm hired him to produce his now-discredited, conspiracy-weaving dossier.
[True Pundit] Jeffrey Epstein’s private wealth banker, who brokered and signed off on untold multiple millions of dollars in controversial Deutsche Bank and Citibank loans spanning two decades for the convicted pedophile, has died from a reported suicide.
Skye Times - Still no word from Ghislaine Maxwell. Island bagel shop purchases up-armored Rover and hires two additional former Royal Marines, bringing the total to five. Updates at 7:00.
[National Review] Eight people, including major Hillary Clinton donors and a witness in the Mueller investigation, have been charged in a massive campaign-finance scheme, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
[BREITBART] House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against CNN for a fake news story the outlet printed about him before Thanksgiving, revealing in the lawsuit that he was never as CNN alleged in Vienna in late 2018 and did not meet with the ousted Ukrainian prosecutor CNN alleged he met with there.
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. 
...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) released the Democrats’ report Tuesday on the impeachment inquiry, concluding that President Donald Trump “solicit[ed] foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election.”
