Sort of goes along with a plea of 'NOT GUILTY'.
[The Hill] Special counsel Robert Mueller is pushing back on Paul Manafort's claim that he has accepted responsibility for his crimes and deserves a lighter sentence.
"The defendant blames everyone from the Special Counsel’s Office to his Ukrainian clients for his own criminal choices," Mueller said in a response Tuesday to the former Trump campaign chairman's sentencing memo.
"Manafort suggests, for example, that but for the appointment of the Special Counsel’s Office, he would not have been charged in connection with hiding more than $55 million abroad, failing to pay more than $6 million in taxes, and defrauding three financial institutions of more than $25 million dollars," he continued.
Manafort is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday afternoon in his criminal case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The former Trump campaign chairman was convicted over the summer of eight criminal charges: five counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failing to report foreign bank accounts.
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I'd rather be a hotshot guitarist like Kirk Hammet, but that ain't happening.
What I know is this - Manafort has withstood at least one IRS audit without any adverse findings. I believe Mueller simply threatened him with fraud (and more financially crippling legal bills), and Manafort folded his hand.
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[Breitbart] Tuesday on CNN’s "New Day," host John Berman asked former National Intelligence Director James Clapper about The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald saying he lied to Congress about the NSA program used to spy on Americans’ phone records.
Clapper denied lying to Congress in 2013, explaining he "simply just didn’t understand the question" he was asked.
"[T]he original thought behind this, and this program was put in place as a direct result of 9/11, and the point was to be able to track quickly a foreign communicant talking to somebody in this country who may have been plotting a terrorist plot, and was put in place during the Bush administration for that reason. I always regarded it as kind of a safeguard or insurance policy so that if the need came up you’d have this to refer to," Clapper told Berman.
"As far as the comment, the allegation about my lying: I didn’t lie, I made a big mistake and I just simply didn’t understand what I was being asked about," he added. "I thought of another surveillance program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when I was being asked about Section 215 of the Patriot Act at the time. I just didn’t understand that."
If he was not intelligent enough to understand what he was being asked, he absolutely had no business accepting the assignment to head the NSA. And he certainly is not intelligent enough to be worth listening to about President Trump.
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Whoopsie! How unfortunate. The NSA was illegally spying on us and its director, when asked about it, misunderstood the question. Nothing to see here, no deep state corruption.
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So instead of dishonest, he's incompetent?
(I'm thinking he's both.)
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That's strange. I understood the question perfectly well.
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He's such an intelligent guy he was Director of National Intelligence.
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Doesn't matter. There will be immunity for witnesses, attorney-client privilege, cloth for wiping servers etc. All provided by the deep state on an 'as needed' basis.
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Any debates clips Fox harvest should credit: "DNC-Approved Media™"
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I'm still pondering why Chris Wallace asked Trump but not Hillary if he'd accept the results of the election. Especially when it's been Hillary and the Libs not accepting the Trump win.
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This Islamist Anti-Semitic POS represents the New Democrat Party. A freshman critter, she should NEVER have been appointed to this committee in the first place
[NY Post] Rep. Ilhan Omar will keep her position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee despite demands that she step down for making remarks considered anti-Semitic.
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-Bronx), the committee chairman, issued a statement Tuesday night saying that booting her "will not solve the problem of anti-Semitism" and would merely be "retribution."
Eleven Jewish organizations sent a letter to Engel and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking that Omar be removed from the committee, as have some Republicans.
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Translation - racist is OK if you are part of the progressive team.
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At one time I thought Omar's team was smart enough to make her anti semitism more subtle but maybe they can't control her. So Omar's antisemitic twitter storms will keep her in the news for many more cycles.
I'm waiting for the more sophisticated anti-Semites to call her a disgrace to anti antisemitism.
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How long before Al Shabaab gets USAID money?
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And you know, we can't boycott her constituents, because all they make is welfare claims. Oh, wait...
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As a Jew, i think the best thing is to not pay attention to her. Everyone knows who she is. It's up to the people of her district to address the issue.
Ignoring her will be a difficult task for the media.
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"...the people of her district" Yeah, that's how she got elected. What she's doing now is faithfully serving her constituencies. Did Dems vote to denounce antisemitism?
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It's not the "people of her district" that elevated her to that influential committee. They'd vote for any khat-chewing islamist imbecile. It's the Identity-Pandering Democrats™ that gave her that choice spot. They should have it rubbed early and often in their moral-supremacy faces
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she should NEVER have been appointed to this committee in the first place
I believe the appointment follows application and a sizable buy-in. There is a financed strategy in play.
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This Bloomberg fellow always seems to be out of step with leadership. He is a democrat when republicans are in charge and republican when Democrats are in charge. But he is never conservative.
His anti-second amendment stance would never get him over the top in a national election IMHO.
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