[Wash Examiner] The woman accusing Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault more than a decade ago has hired the law firm that represented Christine Blasey Ford in her allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The woman has retained Katz, Marshall and Banks, a Washington, D.C.-based firm, and is consulting with her attorneys about possible next steps, according to NPR. That same law firm represented Blasey Ford last year during Kavanaugh’s confirmation process when she accused him of assaulting her when they were in high school.
Fairfax’s accuser alleges he forced her to perform oral sex when the two had a sexual encounter in his hotel room during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004. Fairfax, a Democrat, has said the encounter they had was "100 percent" consensual.
The allegation emerged just as Fairfax could become Virginia’s governor. The state's current chief executive, Ralph Northam, has been battling calls to step down after a picture surfaced from his medical school yearbook that shows one person in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan robe.
Northam first apologized for being in that picture, but then said he didn't think he was either person in the picture.
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Hold it a sec Visitor. Since no reputable lawyer would take Ford's story seriously, I assume this firm is DNC's dirty work lawyers. Which means Fairfax is being punished for something - for being too ambitious and leaking the blackface pic to cut his waiting time for governorship?
[Washington Insider] Former FBI Director James Comey said Monday there is "zero chance" Hillary Clinton will be prosecuted for her emails.
"There is zero chance, zero chance, on the facts in the Hillary Clinton case, that she would be prosecuted," Comey said during a town hall lecture in Sarasota, Fla. "You are out of your mind if you don't think the FBI wanted to make a case if we could. The facts weren't there. Period. Full stop."
As FBI director, Comey oversaw his agency's inquiry into the unauthorized email server Clinton used while serving as secretary of state.
In a stunning public admission in July 2016, Comey announced his agency would not recommend criminal charges against anyone involved with Clinton's private email network, even after finding that Clinton's team was "extremely careless" in handling classified emails. "Anyone"...which could refer to Bath House Barry, John Brennan, Maverick, and selected others.
The absence of "facts" hasn't stopped the Trump-Russia collusion fiasco.
In that select category of unmentionables, must have been some sort of threat to the Intelligence Community and National Security. Perhaps someone from the Deep State should be consulted for additional details, or not ?
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Which is why Cheryl Mills was allowed to sit in on Hildabeasts' interview?
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Zero chance of HRC getting prosecuted?
Sure, you tried everything to make this happen. Operation Crossfire-Hurricane. Insurance policy. Perjury before Congress. Leaking classified info to your buddy.
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He's making the case against prosecution because if it's ever found that she SHOULD have been prosecuted-- as Baker more or less testified to Congress-- he's in even bigger trouble than he already is.
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They are all traitors and should pay the price. Comey and the entire FBI should go against the wall for their aiding and abetting treason. Clinton and the rest have been traitors and wholly owned by the Chinese for ages. It's sad we have to pay for true justice or wish for our own version of the Punisher.
#12
Unfortunately Comey is right. It's likely a global gun running operation laundered through the Foundation. The Clinton's, both lawyers, were smart enough to orchestrate the perfect crime.
[Philly Inquirer] In a wide-ranging indictment unsealed Wednesday, federal authorities portrayed the region’s most powerful labor leader, John J. Dougherty, as an unscrupulous kingpin who enriched himself on the backs of union members and exerted his influence to steamroll opponents and corruptly bend the government of Philadelphia to his whims.
The chief weapon in his arsenal, prosecutors said, was City Councilman Bobby Henon, whom Dougherty helped propel into office in 2011 on a tide of union money, then allegedly used as a tool to leave his mark on pressing legislation facing the city.
Together, they are charged ‐ along with six other members and allies of Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ‐ as codefendants in a sprawling criminal case that threatens to upend the landscape of politics and organized labor across Pennsylvania.
The allegations detailed in the 116-count indictment range from the typical fare of white-collar cases ‐ claims that Dougherty and others embezzled more than $600,000 between 2010 and 2016 to fund personal shopping sprees, restaurant dinners, and annual trips ‐ to staggering claims of corruption and political vindictiveness.
[American Mirror] Maxine Waters doesn’t want to hear what Donald Trump has to say tonight.
The California congresswoman melted down when asked if she would be listening to Trump’s second State of the Union address this evening.
“I don’t even know why he wants to come and give the State of the Union,” Waters huffed to Essence magazine.
“The state of the union under him has not been good,” she claimed, dismissing record low unemployment rates for black Americans and strong economic activity.
“And he has been divisive, and I think he’s putting us all in harm’s way. And so he is not worthy of being listened to,” Waters sneered.
“I don’t know why anybody would want to pay attention to anything that he has to say. He lies over and over again, like I said. 6,000 lies have been documented since he’s been there. I just can’t imagine what he’s going to try and say!” she said.
“But since he is a great liar, he’ll say anything,” and triggered Waters said, “uh, because he’s capable of saying anything without facts, without research. And so, I’m not looking forward to his State of the Union, and I hope people will turn the television off!”
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Heard a soundbite on NPR - Chuck Shumer talking about how the Prez is "sowing discord". It was all very statesman-like and serious until he pronounced 'sowing' as SAO-ing (as in a female pig) instead of SO-ing. Chump.
Side note: "sowing discord" seems to be the Media Phrase of the Day. Heard it half a dozen times in 20 minutes.
Some might call it satire.
[Babylon Bee] RICHMOND, VA‐Embattled Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is fighting calls for his resignation over his past wearing of blackface. He assures the public that he is not a racist and that his policy of infanticide is to be applied equally to babies of all colors.
"When I look at babies, I don't see skin color," Northam told the press. "I just see obstacles to women's rights, to be executed after a consultation with a doctor."
Northam said he is just the target of a vicious "noticing campaign", where people notice things he did and then mention the things that were noticed. "I was just a happy-go-lucky infanticide governor, and you could hardly drag the press to pay attention to me," Northam stated. "Now all of sudden I'm getting scrutinized like a common Republican."
Northam wasn't sure who was out to get him, but his best guess was "babies". "I hate babies," Northam said before quickly adding, "but all of them equally, regardless of race."
Conservatives quickly condemned Northam's comments, leading to a headline in The New York Times reading "Conservatives Eagerly Pounce On Northam's Support For Equal Infanticide."
h/t Gates of Vienna
[FoxNews] Virginia Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax on Monday, when asked by a reporter, did not rule out the possibility that embattled Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam could be secretly pushing a newly revealed sexual assault allegation against Fairfax to derail his possible ascension to the governorship.
And in a separate, fiery statement late Sunday, Fairfax accused The Washington Post of "smearing an elected official," reiterated that the sexual assault allegation against him is "false," and seemingly threatened to sue the paper for rebuking his earlier characterization of the evidence surrounding the episode. Now I wonder: (a) Somebody leaked the blackface pic. (b) It's common for, some, people to project their own sins onto others.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee said it had received a subpoena on Monday for documents from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office, which is investigating the group.
"We have just received a subpoena for documents. While we are still reviewing the subpoena, it is our intention to cooperate with the inquiry," a spokesperson for the committee said in a statement.
The subpoena requests documents related to the committee’s donors and spending, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times reported.
In December, the Journal reported that federal prosecutors were investigating whether the inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107 million it had raised from donors.
The investigation is examining whether some of the committee’s donors gave money in exchange for policy concessions, influencing administration positions or access to the incoming administration, the Journal reported.
[GatewayPundit] While CNN has spent an entire week claiming their presence at the FBI raid on Stone’s South Florida home was a combination of luck and hard work, this evidence proves that their "source" was indeed the Office of the Special Counsel, who colluded with the notoriously anti-Trump news network to produce a propaganda broadcast of the arrest that is reminiscent of the Nazi era tactics of the Gestapo and propaganda ministry lead by Joseph Goebbels.
Stone’s attorneys are asking both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to investigate these leaks and provide answers to the American people on how someone could have obtained sealed grand jury indictments. More at link.
[BigLeaguePolitics] Tlaib’s own father even said that Tlaib "lied" about her address in order to run for office.
Here is what the evidence, presented below, proves:
Rashida Tlaib registered to vote at a false address as she embarked on her first political campaign. "Registering to vote using a false address" is one of a number of crimes that fall into the voter fraud category.
Tlaib ran for and represented the 12th district in the Michigan House of Representatives even though she was not a resident of that district.
Records show that Tlaib was an "Absentee Owner" at the Detroit house she claimed to live in.
Tlaib moved to her official Detroit apartment address, which she reported to the FEC after the election, at the start of her 2018 campaign. Her new address was recorded for the first time one day before she announced her campaign for Congress.
The Detroit news media erased information about these crimes from the Internet.
Lawyers representing Nick Sandmann sent out the preservation letters on Friday
Sandmann was the teen seen smiling at Native American elder Nathan Phillips in the controversial video, which set off weeks of debate and conflicting stories
Preservation letters are the first step in possible libel and defamation lawsuits
They asked individuals and organizations not to destroy any documents that could be connected to a potential case
Kathy Griffin, Savannah Guthrie, Bill Maher were also sent letters, as were outlets including the New York Times, CNN, and TMZ
if it was criminal, they could use the "Hillary" (I don't remember anything, didn't mean to do it, don't understand these things) defense
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The defendant's lawyers will try to argue the kid became a "public figure" the moment his face turned up on teevee and the intertubes. Half at least of the judges in this country might agree...
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[WAPO] The growing expectation that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is nearing the end of his work is pushing the Justice Department toward a potential confrontation with congressional Democrats over the release of any report he produces ‐ and lawmakers will have the edge in any battle, according to former department officials.
The confirmation hearings for William P. Barr to be the next attorney general highlighted the uncertainty surrounding the public’s ability to read Mueller’s conclusions when he finishes his investigation into President Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Democrats delayed Barr’s committee vote to this week, after they were unhappy he would not pledge to make any Mueller report public and follow the advice of Justice Department ethics officials on whether he should recuse himself from the investigation because of past positions on the matter.
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
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[WAPO] The growing expectation that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is nearing the end of his work is pushing the Justice Department toward a potential confrontation with congressional Democrats over the release of any report he produces ‐ and lawmakers will have the edge in any battle, according to former department officials.
