Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is power-hungry. That's no secret. She ran for president in 2008 and lost to then-Senator Barack Obama. She tried again in 2016 and lost to Donald Trump. She can't seem to accept the fact that Americans don't want the Clinton dynasty to continue. They're tired of politics as usual. Hillary's numerous scandals – including Benghazi and her emails – are just the icing on the cake.
Despite all of this, rumors are circulating that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate.
According to the Drudge Report, people close to Bloomberg's campaign said the former New York mayor is considering it "after their polling found the Bloomberg-Clinton combination would be [a] formidable force."
The campaign even told Drudge that "Bloomberg himself would go as far as to change his official residence from New York to homes he owns in Colorado or Florida, since the electoral college makes it hard for a POTUS and VPOTUS from the same state."
Matt Drudge, the founder of the news aggregate website, even tweeted the information. In fact, it's the only two tweets currently on his Twitter account.
If this becomes a reality, this could really shake things up. If nothing else, the duo would be in the race for the long-haul. Bloomberg's money plus Hillary's desire for revenge would definitely be something interesting to watch. Hillary just can't seem to wrap her head around the fact that Americans don't want her in the White House again, either as vice president or president.
Secretary Hillary Clinton and the Deep State: A RICO Criminal
Conspiracy
We who elected President
Trump understood our elected officials and the Deep State were sandbagging Trump and self-dealing
public funds. It was no secret that President Trump is no angel,
unpresidential, blunt, and crude, and a disruptor. Trump was hired to drain the
swamp.
I watched this kabuki theater unfold over the
last several years. Through my eyes as a shopworn gumshoe, I will explain what
is happening. My investigative curiosity was first piqued by the ATF Fast and
Furious scandal and continues through the recent House impeachment show trial.
There is a common element running through all of these cons —
the actions of an organized crime conspiracy. A group of people
either acting alone or in concert with others committed crimes with a common
purpose - a criminal enterprise as described in
"CRIMINAL RICO: 18 USC. §§1961-1968 A
Manual For Federal Prosecutors."
The players acted
together – in the usurpation of power, the abuse of power by public officials,
bribery, thefts by fraud including federal funds, money laundering, perjury and
the obstruction of justice, the violations of fundamental of civil rights,
aided and abetted in the commission of these crimes and or to conceal these
crimes. Criminals will lie and can't keep their lies straight. Their methods
and behaviors are the same, whether engaging in street crimes or elaborate
white-collar financial schemes. The only difference is when more money is
involved, the perps are more adept in concealing, covering up their sins, and
hiding where the money went. Many of these scandals are well known to the American
Thinker readers. I will focus my comments on Hillary's home brew
sever and the Clinton Foundation as an example of how RICO can be used to
prosecute the players.
FBI Director James Comey
indicted Hillary Clinton for her home brew server at his press conference.
Comey then egregiously concluded that there was no evidence of criminal intent
purportedly “required” to prosecute. Comey bastardized the Federal Espionage Act in absolving
Hillary Clinton. FBI's investigation of Clinton's emails was low-balled. There
was never a real search for the truth. The outcome was preordained. My jaw
dropped wide open. I knew the fix was in. FBI Director Comey lied to the people
with a straight face. Why?
The chance meeting of
Bill Clinton and AG Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac was no mere
coincidence. This chat was not about the grandkids. Bill Clinton was there to
convey a specific message to Lynch that there would be no indictment of
Hillary. Hillary Clinton's email case must tank. This would have
constituted bribery, if AG Lynch was assured she would continue as AG in
Clinton Administration. This meeting took place only weeks before Comey's press
conference dumping Hillary Clinton's email case.
The Deep State needed
Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 presidential election, or the dike holding back
the truth would burst. Trump, the disruptor, was an immediate threat to both
the Republicans, Democrats, and the Deep State. If the truth were
laid bare, it would expose the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the
Senate and House, and many executive departments for these abuses of power,
corruption, bribery, frauds, and thefts of public funds.
High-level government
officials and the Deep State committed many serious felonies either in
furtherance of or to conceal the crimes committed in the pay to play scam.
In exchange for favorable consideration by Secretary Clinton, those who
benefited would donate to the Clinton Foundation. The FBI
started and stopped investigations into the Clinton Foundation at least twice
as reported by the Washington Post. Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is the most damning. Dinesh D'Souza slammed the
Foundation in the National Review, as did The Federalist.
The status of the investigation of the Foundation
by US Attorney John Huber's is unknown. Rudy Giuliani said there was enough to
pursue "Clinton Inc" as
racketeering under RICO. The Foundation and its affiliated nonprofits require a real
investigation with an in-depth forensic audit to determine where the money
went. In financial crimes investigation, the prime rule is "follow the
money, honey." Illicit nonprofits have many ways to divert funds by
inflating salaries, expenses, and money laundering.
Illegal nonprofit schemes
are difficult to prosecute without hard evidence and the testimony of insiders.
The motive of Hillary Clinton's use of the home brew server was to conceal
emails from FOIA requests that would provide the hard evidence. Hillary Clinton
destroyed the data on her server and cell phones with the knowledge of the FBI.
It took years for Judicial Watch and others to pry
and recover some of these damning emails from the foot-dragging executive
departments that were complicit and knew what was going on.
RICO initially was used
to target mob families. RICO is also a useful tool to fight white collar
conspiracies. They both have the same hierarchy of low-level crooks led by the
top players, linked together with a common purpose. RICO has tools to squeeze
the low-level operatives to gather evidence to prosecute, jail, and seize
assets of the conspirators. The critical element required is a pattern
of criminal or racketeering activity. This pattern is proved by showing
two predicate crimes were committed within ten years. The list of predicate crimes is extensive and
includes bribery, embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction
of justice. The typical five-year statute of limitations for most
federal felonies is extended to ten years from the last criminal act or acts
committed to conceal the conspiracy, i.e., lying under oath and similar actions
to obstruct justice. The prison sentences are steep. The effect is to cut off
the head of the organization and not just the low-level players.
The criminal activity
extends back to the ATF's Fast and Furious program through the House
impeachment show trial to cover up the illegal acts of the Obama Administration,
Hillary Clinton, the Department of State, the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA. A
telltale sign that the DOJ under US Attorney General Barr is willing to play
hardball and may use RICO, came when he spoke to the Federalist
Society: "Barr accuses liberal 'resistance' of
trying to 'sabotage' Trump." AG Barr said this, "shows FBI launched Trump campaign
investigation on the 'thinnest of suspicions." AG Barr is the new sheriff in town,
he wears a badge, has guns and will travel, can impanel grand juries, indict
and arrest people, and is not limited in his jurisdiction, like DOJ IG
Horowitz.
The collective actions of
the Deep State are and were a silent coup to delegitimize a Presidential
candidate. Once elected to impede and resist the duly elected President. The
President's law enforcement and intel agencies were corrupted at the highest
level and went rogue.
Organized crime can't
exist without corrupt law enforcement. As I wrote in a letter to President
Trump earlier this year:
. . . I believe you
understand the gravity of the situation and of its importance to the very
survival of our Country as we know it. If the people involved are not held
accountable for their actions, we will be no different than some Third World
Banana Republic.
Failure to act will
destroy our founding principle of the Rule of Law as stated by President John
Adams, "We Are a Nation of Laws, Not of Men" and we cannot allow a
two-tiered justice system to prevail.
Ron Wright is a retired detective from Riverside PD, CA. BA in
political science CSUF, M. Adm. University of Cal, Riverside. Facebook at Ron
T. Cop.
“Our entire crony
capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great
country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN
THINKER.com
It’s About Corruption –
Replacing a Failed and Corrupt Political Establishment
American presidents have their famous
speeches, remembered long after they leave office. JFK said: “Ask not what
your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Ronald
Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and told Mikhail Gorbachev to: “Tear
down this wall.”
Some speeches are memorable in other ways.
George W. Bush, days after 9/11, ironically announced that: “Islam is
peace.” Barack Obama proclaimed himself the messiah: “This was the moment
when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.”
President Trump has certainly given strong
speeches, such as at the recent March for Life. But he may be remembered more
for his raucous rallies and hilarious tweets. Yet one speech has flown under
the radar.
On Oct. 13, 2016, just weeks before
the election, Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Florida. Leading up to the election,
he was holding several rallies each day, giving numerous speeches, but this
seemingly random speech stands out.
The enigmatic Q group refers to it as the
speech that got Donald Trump elected. As it was one of many pre-election
speeches he gave and at a Florida rally, it may have only been heard by a
fraction of Trump voters before the election, but it certainly encapsulates his
philosophy, both before and after the election, toward government corruption.
The speech explains the resistance by the
Washington, D.C. ruling class to Trump’s candidacy, election, and presidency.
Trump attacked the foundation of deep state power, wealth, and corruption.
Trump was indeed an “existential threat” to the cabal.
Before even being elected, and years
before Joe Biden decided to run for president, Donald Trump was focused on
corruption. Not to influence his reelection, as House Democrats accuse, since
he wasn’t even president yet. But because rooting out corruption was part of
his plan to make America great again.
Everything that followed his election,
from the Russian collusion accusations, White House leaks, special counsel
investigation, and now impeachment, is a reaction to the ideas Trump explains
in this 6-minute speech. Watch it here or read the transcript.
The opening lines are prescient, becoming
painfully obvious now almost four years after he laid out the scale of
corruption.
Our movement is about replacing a failed
and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you,
the American People. There is nothing the political
establishment will not do, and no lie they will
not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense.
The Washington establishment, and the financial
and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and
enrich itself.
The establishment has trillions of dollars at
stake in this election. As an example, just one single trade deal they’d like
to pass, involves trillions of dollars controlled by many countries,
corporations and lobbyists.
For those who control the levers of power in
Washington, and for the global special interests they partner with, our
campaign represents an existential threat.
“Protect
and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation and
the Obama book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family corruption,
followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren and
Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in
Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government
corruption.
Candidate
Trump then went on to say:
It’s a global power structure that is responsible
for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our
country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of
large corporations and political entities.
This
is money given to corrupt foreign countries, disguised as aid, only to be
returned to the political elite by hiring their unqualified family members for
do-nothing jobs, as in Hunter Biden, or funneling these U.S. taxpayer dollars
back into political foundations, consultancies, or campaign contributions.
Once
upon a time, journalists investigated such corruption. Now they ignore it,
aiding and abetting the deception. As Trump said in his speech:
The corporate media in our country is no longer
involved in journalism. They are a political special interest, no different
than any lobbyist or other financial entity with an agenda.
Speak
up against the cabal and you will be destroyed, or even commit suicide. Trump
went on:
The establishment and their media enablers wield
control over this nation through means that are well known. Anyone who challenges
their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe and morally deformed.
They will attack you, they will slander you, they will seek to destroy your
career and reputation. And they will lie, lie and lie even more.
It’s
amazing that Trump predicted exactly what happened a few days ago when
“Republican political strategist” Rick Wilson called the group of “you”
mentioned above, “credulous boomer rubes” with CNN hack Don Lemon laughing so
hard he almost fell off his chair.
President
Trump has been impeached for drawing back the curtain on deep state
malfeasance. Before handing over millions of hard earned U.S. taxpayer dollars
to Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe,
he wanted to know the money was necessary and going where promised, rather than
into the pockets of oligarchs and U.S. politician grifters.
He
acted as he was required to under the “Treaty with
Ukraine on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters,” ratified in 2000,
15 years before Trump announced his run for president. He was doing his job,
fulfilling his Constitutional oath of office. His reward for pouring roach
killer in the nest of Democrat crooks and knaves was impeachment and a
concerted effort by Democrats, the media, and nasty NeverTrump Republicans, all
heads on the same toxic hydra, to overturn the last election and rig the next
one.
It’s
not about Trump enriching himself, despite what Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler
say, it’s for the country. Again, from the famous speech:
I didn’t need to do this. I built a great
company, and I had wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the benefits of years
of successful business for myself and my family, instead of going through this
absolute horror show of lies, deceptions and malicious attacks. I’m doing it
because this country has given me so much, and I feel strongly it was my turn
to give back.
It’s
all about corruption, exposing it, rooting it out, and destroying it. Those who
are the most threatened are those who scream the loudest. Given the Democrat
and media apoplexy, Trump must be getting closer to the truth.
He
ended his speech by throwing down the gauntlet:
We will vote to put this corrupt government
cartel out of business. We will remove from our politics the special interests
who have betrayed our workers, our borders, our freedoms, and our sovereign
rights as a nation. We will end the politics of profit, we will end the rule of
special interests, we will put a stop to the raiding of our country – and the
disenfranchisement of our people.
It’s
not about abuse of power or obstruction of Congress. It’s not about quid
pro quo or bribery. It’s simply a new sheriff in town, bringing law
and order to drain a swamp of greed and corruption. It’s President Trump doing
exactly what he said he would do if elected, making America great again.
He
is doing what past presidents have talked about and promised, but then either
looked the other way or became active participants in the graft. And those
milking the system are petrified over exposure and their long overdue
reckoning.
Brian
C. Joondeph, M.D., is a Denver-based physician and freelance writer whose
pieces have appeared in American Thinker, Daily Caller, and other publications.
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