Biden FEC Pick Repped Mayor Who Robbed Children’s Book Profits To Fund Campaign
President Joe Biden's nominee for the Federal Election Commission served as the campaign lawyer for a former Baltimore mayor charged with fraud for funneling the proceeds from her children's book series to her campaign.
Dara Lindenbaum represented Democrat Catherine Pugh in Pugh's mayoral campaign in 2016. Lindenbaum handled compliance and recount issues for Pugh, according to news reports and campaign finance records. Pugh went on to win the election but resigned in May 2019, months before a federal grand jury indicted her on fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy charges.
Pugh defrauded purchasers of her children's book series, Healthy Holly, and used some of the proceeds to fund her campaign. Pugh and an aide funneled $36,000 from the book sales to her mayoral campaign. The aide, Gary Brown, was charged in January 2017 with campaign finance violations for funneling $18,000 in straw donations to Pugh. Pugh was sentenced in February 2020 to three years in prison.
Pugh is far from Lindenbaum's only controversial client. Lindenbaum also served as general counsel to Stacey Abrams's failed 2018 gubernatorial campaign. After Abrams's loss, Lindenbaum sued the state of Georgia, challenging the constitutionality of the election and claiming that "unreliable" voting machines "switched" votes from Abrams to Gov. Brian Kemp (R.). Lindenbaum during an April 6 Senate hearing confirmed that she signed on to a "legal pleading alleging that the machines used in Georgia in 2018 were switching votes illegally from one candidate to another." Lindenbaum refused to say during the hearing whether "stolen election" claims undermine faith in democracy.
While there is no indication of wrongdoing on Lindenbaum's part during her work for Pugh, her failure to identify the illegal campaign activity—and her willingness to argue that an election was stolen if Democrats lose—calls into question her qualifications to serve at a federal agency tasked with overseeing campaign compliance.
"It is extremely disturbing that Biden would nominate a Member to the FEC with a history of directly working with corrupt Baltimore politician Catherine Pugh, who fraudulently violated campaign finance laws and went to jail for it," said Matt Buckham, the founder of the American Accountability Foundation, a watchdog group that has tracked Biden nominees.
Lindenbaum has worked since 2013 for Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock, where she "counsels clients on complying with state and federal campaign finance and election laws; ethics and gift rules; and lobbying and ethics compliance," according to her LinkedIn profile.
Pugh's campaign in 2016 paid Sandler Reiff more than $11,382 for "compliance" and "administrative" services, according to state campaign finance records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Lindenbaum spoke for the Pugh campaign during a fight over ballot issues in the Democratic primary. The lawyer accused supporters of Pugh's challenger, Sheila Dixon, of engaging in voter intimidation ahead of the primary.
"This is a shameful tactic and reminiscent of tactics the Republicans took in the 1980s to intimidate voters," Lindenbaum told the Baltimore Sun. "The Democrats fought back then, and we are fighting back now."
Dixon's allies fired back, accusing the Pugh campaign of paying voters to show up to the polls. Two voters accused Pugh of running a "scam" after they were hired by the campaign but not paid. They said they were instead forced to show up to vote early for Pugh.
If confirmed, Lindenbaum will replace outgoing commissioner Steve Walther, an independent who typically sides with Democrats on campaign finance cases. Liberal groups have pressured Biden to nominate progressives to the notoriously gridlocked commission in hopes of enacting tougher campaign finance laws.
Lindenbaum did not respond to a request for comment.
Biden’s FEC Nominee Sued Georgia Over Stacey Abrams Election Loss, Blamed ‘Unreliable’ Voting Machines
Dara Lindenbaum represented Abrams's nonprofit, Raphael Warnock's church in suit that questioned 'unconstitutional' 2018 election
President Joe Biden's pick to serve on the Federal Election Commission is representing Stacey Abrams's nonprofit and Raphael Warnock's church in a lawsuit that challenged the validity of Georgia's 2018 election due in part to the state's use of "unreliable" electronic voting machines.
In November 2018, election lawyer Dara Lindenbaum signed on to a federal legal complaint on behalf of Abrams's Fair Fight Action. The complaint challenged the constitutionality of Georgia's 2018 election, which saw Abrams lose to Republican governor Brian Kemp in a race she never conceded. Warnock's Ebenezer Baptist Church joined the suit in early 2019, just months before the Democrat entered Georgia's 2020 Senate race.
According to the complaint, the state of Georgia "grossly mismanaged" the election by depriving "Georgia citizens, and particularly citizens of color, of their fundamental right to vote." As a result, the complaint said, Georgia's election "violated the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution." The complaint also lamented the use of "insecure and unreliable" electronic voting machines that "lack a paper trail" and thus "cannot be audited"—those machines even "switched" votes from Abrams to Kemp, according to the complaint.
While the lawsuit remains active, Fair Fight and other plaintiffs amended the complaint in December 2020 to remove many of its assertions detailing problematic voting machines. The move came after former president Donald Trump said voting machine irregularities led to his defeat against Biden.
Roughly three years after Lindenbaum signed the original complaint, Biden nominated the attorney to serve on the FEC, a regulatory agency that helps shape U.S. election rules. If confirmed, Lindenbaum will mark a leftward shift for the commission, as she'll replace Steve Walther, an independent. Lindenbaum has worked with numerous left-wing organizations, including Code Pink and UnidosUS, the Latino civil rights group formerly known as La Raza.
Lindenbaum remains actively involved in the Fair Fight suit. In a March 18 filing that lists Lindenbaum as an attorney, Fair Fight Action, Ebenezer Baptist Church, and other plaintiffs note that they are preparing to submit depositions, which they say will include direct testimony from Warnock. Biden had already nominated Lindenbaum to the FEC at the time of the filing, and the Senate Rules Committee plans to hold a hearing Wednesday afternoon to examine Lindenbaum's nomination.
Honest Elections Project Action executive director Jason Snead called Lindenbaum's nomination "troubling."
"Undermining our election system is a serious problem, and we see the receipts of her deliberately trying to undermine our election process with spurious claims," Snead said of Lindenbaum. "Someone seeking a position on the powerful FEC should not be working to undercut public confidence in our elections by peddling unfounded conspiracies."
The White House and Lindenbaum did not return requests for comment.
Prior to her role representing Fair Fight Action, Lindenbaum served as general counsel to Abrams's 2018 gubernatorial campaign. Abrams lost that race to Kemp by roughly 2 points, but she never conceded her defeat, instead saying the election was "stolen" due to "voter suppression." In the aftermath of her loss, Abrams launched Fair Fight Action, a nonprofit that says it is "leading the charge to protect voting rights." Fair Fight's website touts the group's "historic civil rights lawsuit in federal court … challenging the gross mismanagement of the 2018 election that discouraged and disenfranchised voters." Lindenbaum still serves as legal counsel to Fair Fight Action and the group's political arm, Fair Fight PAC, her Office of Government Ethics disclosure shows.
Neither Fair Fight Action nor Ebenezer Baptist Church returned requests for comment.
Biden's decision to tap Lindenbaum to serve on the FEC comes despite his fierce criticism of Trump's stolen election claims. In early January—just weeks before he nominated Lidenbaum—Biden said Trump "created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election" because "he sees his own interest as more important than his country's interest." Still, just days later, Biden himself suggested the 2022 midterms could be illegitimate if Democrats fail to pass election reform legislation.
"I'm not saying it's going to be legit, as the increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is a direct proportion to us not being able to get these reforms passed," Biden said. Lindenbaum has also called on lawmakers to pass Democrats' federal voting bill.
Biden has faced pressure from progressives to pack the FEC with commissioners who favor aggressive enforcement of campaign finance laws. Democrats have been generally pushed for tougher regulation of "dark money," the term for donations to political action committees from unidentified donors. Fair Fight Action has raked in more than $62 million of dark money in its first two years, its tax forms show.
Court Brief: Biden Releases 756K Border Crossers, Population Larger than Boston, into American Communities Since Taking Office
President Joe Biden’s administration has released more than 750,000 border crossers and illegal aliens, a foreign population larger than the population of Boston, Massachusetts, into the United States since taking office in January 2021, a court brief confirms.
The brief, dated April 14 and filed in the Supreme Court by Stephen Miller’s America First Legal Foundation, details the extent to which Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has put its Catch and Release network into overdrive in just a little over 12 months.
Specifically, DHS has released more than 756,109 border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities from January 21, 2021, to February 28, 2022, the brief states. This is larger than the resident population of Boston, about equal to the size of Denver, Colorado, and larger than the population of Detroit, Michigan.
Releases by month are as follows:
America First Legal Foundation
Broken down by agency, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released nearly 545,000 border crossers and illegal aliens while the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released close to 212,000 border crossers and illegal aliens.
At the current rate of deportations, which have been gutted by Biden’s so-called “sanctuary country” orders, it would take ICE agents 14.5 years to deport the border crossers and illegal aliens released into the U.S. interior by Biden’s DHS.
That 756,109 total does not include the 500,000 illegal aliens who successfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021 without being apprehended, nor the nearly 123,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) that have been resettled across the U.S. since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2021.
Altogether, the Biden administration is likely to have welcomed nearly 1.4 million border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities since January 2021.
The figure comes as Biden plans to end the Title 42 border control authority first imposed by former President Trump in 2020. The authority has successfully prevented waves of illegal immigration in the name of public health.
Biden officials admit they expect up to half a million border crossers and illegal aliens — the equivalent of Atlanta, Georgia’s, resident population — to arrive at the border every month. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he expects 30,000 border crossers and illegal aliens every day at the border.
DHS has shaped a plan that would turbocharge the agency’s Catch and Release network. The plan was exclusively reported and published by Breitbart News as it notes the intended goal of ending Title 42 is to create “broadscale release mechanisms” that transform the southern border into a mere checkpoint for foreign nationals before they are released into American communities.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
BIG TECH BILLIONAIRES PROTECT THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
Levin: This is what the 'Biden crime family' did
DEDICATED BRIBES SUCKER!
Bidens' money trail to Russia, China, and Ukraine exposed
Big Tech 'colluded with Democrats to censor' the Hunter Biden laptop story
US media acted ‘disgracefully’ by denying Hunter Biden laptop story
Exclusive: Rep. Darrell Issa Hits Twelve Individuals Involved in ‘Laptop From Hell’ Election Interference with Document Preservation Notices
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has submitted document preservation notices to twelve individuals from the intelligence community, White House, Facebook, and Twitter — as Republicans in Congress are gearing up to take back majorities and investigate election interference with regard to the suppression of the “Laptop From Hell” series in October 2020.
Rep. Issa is demanding former DNI boss James Clapper, former CIA boss Micheal Hayden, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, former CIA head John Brennan, former top CIA aide Nick Shapiro, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Communications Director Andy Stone, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal all preserve documents relating to their involvement in suppressing the New York Post’s bombshell exposé on the Hunter Biden laptop in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, according to letters obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.
The news comes as Breitbart News exclusively reported Wednesday that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced House Republicans had sent dozens of preservation notices across the federal government to agencies and departments throughout Biden administration, ordering them to preserve documents in anticipation of eventual subpoenas from House Republicans after the 2022 midterm elections.
The letters from Issa to the various characters begin similarly, demanding the recipient “immediately initiate document preservation for all materials relating to questions, inquiry, conversation, strategy, and response, from 2020 to current, to the media reporting of the Hunter Biden laptop and/or its contents that first appeared in the New York Post on October 14, 2020.”
Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, R, and his son Hunter Biden, L, in the village of Sojevo, Kosovo, on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
The notices state the recipient should “[construe the request] as an instruction to preserve all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that is or may be potentially responsible to this congressional inquiry,” including electronic messages, text messages, or communications on encrypted software sent from official or personal devices.
Issa adds in his letters that the information will be “essential for Congress to conduct a comprehensive fact-finding investigation into the actions by technology companies, media organizations, and political allies to suppress information and prevent public awareness of matters involving the Biden Family.”
Rep. Issa told Breitbart News in a statement that he is putting those who participated in the effort to suppress the laptop from hell “on notice” and that he will be taking up the role of a watchdog when Republicans take a majority in the House in November.
“Big Tech, the mainstream media and the Democrats’ deep state intelligence community want to either rewrite the history of their collusion – or erase it entirely. We’re not going to let them do that,” Issa said in a statement to Breitbart News.
“These letters are putting everyone on notice: real accountability is going to happen. And we won’t rest until the full truth is known.”
The letters come as Republicans anticipate taking back power in Congress, and in the wake of the New York Times becoming just the latest legacy outlet to admit that the Laptop and reporting on its contents were authentic and accurate — despite broad, unsubstantiated, and false claims at the time that the report was “Russian disinformation.”
When the original Post stories were reported in October 2020, the security state, the media, Big Tech, and the Democratic Party worked in machine-like coordination to suppress the information.
Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” photo. (Breitbart News)
Big Tech immediately shut down the ability to share the Post link to the story and suspended accounts attempting to do so — claiming to be curbing “misinformation.”
Five days after the first story was published, Politico obtained and reported on a letter signed by “more than 50 former senior intelligence officials” claiming the Post’s reporting “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” despite zero evidence for the claim, which, evidently, was false.
Now-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki immediately amplified the narrative set by the former spies, tweeting out the Politico story that same day.
Then, when former-President Trump confronted then-candidate Joe Biden about the contents of the report days later at the presidential debate, Biden claimed, “there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plant. … Five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage.”
Following the election in November of 2020, McLaughlin & Associates released a poll showing that 36% of Biden voters were not aware of the Laptop exposé and that “13% of those said they would not have voted for Biden had they known.”
“Such a shift away from Biden would have meant President Trump would have won the election with 289 electoral votes,” the pollsters concluded.
Emma-Jo Morris is the Politics Editor at Breitbart News. Email her at ejmorris@breitbart.com or follow her on Twitter.
THE BRIBES SUCKERS
THESE ARE SIX OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS
IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY! ALL ARE GAMER LAWYERS
BUT GAMER INSIDE TRADER PELOSI
BARACK OBAMA SPENT HIS EIGHT YEAR BANKSTER REGIME SURRENDERING OUR BORDERS TO MEXICO AND ENCOURAGING ILLEGALS TO VOTE.
OBOMB OPERATED THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY OF LA RAZA 'The Race" OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND FUNDED IT WIT U.S. TAX DOLLARS. THE OPERATION WAS HEADE BY LA RAZA V.P. CECILIA MUNOZ, WHO JOINED BIDEN'S PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION TEAM TO ORCHESTRATE BIDEN'S PREMEDITATED INVASION OF A FOREIGN FORCE.
Chris Hedges | America's LOST Moral Order
“The Lawlessness of the Obama Administration: A never-ending story.” Michael Barone – American Historian – Washington Examiner
David Bernstein & The Heritage Foundation - “Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law.”
If Obama committed peccadillos, the media covered for him, but what’s certain is that even the media couldn’t cover for how corrupt his administration was, culminating in the Russia Hoax. ANDREA WIDBURG
MARK ZUCKERBERG’S HAWAII PLACE
The Rich Are Flipping The Housing Market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83mdnCBoRaw
Watters: The White House can't contain this much longer
Tucker: Democrats have decided to replace Biden
Jeff Bezos Adds a Fourth Unit at 212 Fifth Avenue for a Total of $96M
https://streeteasy.com/blog/jeff-bezos-buys-apartments-212-fifth-ave/
Watters: The White House can't contain this much longer
Hunter Biden 'is on the verge of being indicted'
White House Ignores Calls for a Special Counsel Investigation of Hunter Biden
The White House ignored calls Tuesday for an independent special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s shady foreign business deals.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki indicated a special counsel was not needed because Biden had not discussed the investigation into his son with his Department of Justice (DOJ).
“The president has never had a conversation with the Department of Justice about any investigations into any member of his family,” she said when asked whether the White House supported the idea of a possible special counsel. She punted any additional questions about a special investigation to the DOJ, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
An appointed special counsel could ensure an independent investigation of the president’s son, untainted by politics.
Psaki sidestepped a question on whether the White House would support a special counsel investigation.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on Monday called for a special counsel investigation of Hunter Biden’s overseas deals.
“This speaks to corruption in the White House,” Donalds said in an interview on Fox News about the need for a special investigation.
Psaki also said the White House stood by President Biden’s claim that his son Hunter did not break the law.
“That’s something the president has said and certainly we would echo,” she replied.
When asked if the White House stood by President Biden’s claim he never discussed Hunter’s foreign business dealings with him, Psaki replied, “Yes.”
Sen. Johnson on Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal: Media and ‘FBI Covered-up for Joe Biden'
By Michael W. Chapman | April 4, 2022 | 4:01pm EDT
In a lengthy interview on Sunday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, discussed Hunter Biden’s laptop and stressed that the major media and the FBI helped cover-up the truth about the laptop scandal, which helped Democrat Joe Biden win the 2020 election.
The information available now, he added, reveals “unbelievable corruption at the highest levels of government and within our media.”
“We are all being snookered by them,” said the senator. “This has been a -- from my standpoint -- a massive diversionary operation to try to take the American public's attention away from their wrongdoing, their lies, their cover-ups.”
The media, “they covered it up,” he said. “And, as a result, they got Joe Biden elected.”
Sen. Johnson made his remarks on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo.
During the interview, Bartiromo said, “Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley released a congressional report in September 2020 warning America that then-candidate Joe Biden was compromised by the Biden family accepting tens of millions in money from a foreign adversary of the United States….”
“The media called it Russian disinformation,” said Bartiromo. “Now we know for sure Senator Johnson was right to point out this intelligence that showed us it was profiteering from the White House.”
Sen. Johnson: “I do know I don't trust the Justice Department. And I think, really, what The New York Times and The Washington Post's articles proved is how complicit they have been and continue to be in the cover-up. (Emphasis added.)
“And, quite honestly, they're not impartial,” he said. “They're advocates for the Democrat Party of the radical left. … The media is being caught in a cover-up. They're being caught with their lies. …”
“We can't allow our intelligence agencies, Department of Justice, the FBI or the media to get away with this,” he continued. “This is serious business. This is unbelievable corruption at the highest levels of government and within our media.”
“We are all being snookered by them,” said Johnson. “This has been a -- from my standpoint -- a massive diversionary operation to try to take the American public's attention away from their wrongdoing, their lies, their cover-ups.”
The media, “they covered it up,” he added. “And, as a result, they got Joe Biden elected.”
Transcript from interview continues:
Johnson: “Unfortunately, our intelligence agencies, I think our FBI had been sitting out of this information. And, unfortunately, they were complicit as well in the cover-up.
… “[W]e actually had to issue a subpoena to the FBI to deliver documents, which they never delivered.
“They slow-walked that until the end of the Trump administration. And we never got the truth. But we did uncover, for example, in the redacted footnotes of Michael Horowitz's FISA report that the FBI knew as early as October 2016, and certainly by January 2017, that the Steele dossier contained Russian disinformation.
“And yet they allowed the Mueller investigation to proceed. And as late as, I think, it was March of 2018, the FBI briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee and said that the Steele dossier still had integrity.
“So, I mean, there are so many examples. Obviously, the entire FBI investigation into Donald Trump's collusion with Russia, which was a complete hoax, was completely corrupt. (Emphasis added.) And, for example, I think you mentioned earlier that we were first offered that the Hunter Biden laptop by Mr. Mac Isaac.
“But, again, we have to do our due diligence. We didn't know, was this stolen property? So we did what any responsible member of Congress would do. We went to the FBI to report it to find out what they knew.
“They wouldn't tell us anything.”
Bartiromo: “Wow.”
Johnson: “What they should have done is, they should have told us, yes, senator, we have that laptop, or at least a copy of it, in our possession. We don't have any reason to think it's not authentic.
“At a minimum, when the 51 corrupt former intelligence officials came out with no evidence and said that the laptop was Russian disinformation, or had every sign of it...”
Bartiromo: “Yes.”
Johnson: “... to basically cover up for Joe Biden, the FBI should have come forward and said, no, we have no reason to suspect this is Russian disinformation. They didn't. They covered up for Joe Biden...”
Bartiromo: “Wow.”
Johnson: “... so that they have proven that these federal agencies are in the tank for the Democrats. They helped certainly undermine the Trump administration for the entire four years. This is serious business.”
Bartiromo: “Yes.”
Johnson: “This is the -- this is the biggest -- this is the most corruption I have ever seen in the United States federal government.”
Bartiromo: “That's absolutely extraordinary. And we have a list of Hunter Biden, some of his business deals, where we have Hunter Biden's alleged business deals here. All of this information was known by the FBI as there was an impeachment trial to try to impeach President Trump.
“All the while, the FBI knew of the laptop, knew that Hunter a received $3.5 million wire transfer from the former mayor of Moscow's wife, knew about the $83,000 a month he was getting from Ukraine, know about the stakes in Chinese companies, knew about the $5 million from Chinese oil company CEFC, all the while as an impeachment trial went on over President Trump and a phone call that he had with the then-Ukrainian president.”
Revealed: New Doc Shows How an Obama-Tied Dark Money Group Used Zuckerberg’s Cash to Swing Election
The following article is sponsored by Citizens United.
What if the 2020 election was “rigged” in plain sight and through entirely legal means using $400 million dollars from Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)? The bombshell upcoming documentary Rigged from Citizens United Productions explains how this Big Tech power couple contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to a pair of non-profit organizations through CZI. The non-profits, in turn, spent the money on a Democrat-focused get-out-the-vote effort all under the guise of pandemic “election safety.”
Rigged starts by recounting Big Tech’s role in the last two elections, starting with 2016, when Donald Trump—harnessing the power of social media—shocked the world by flipping the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to pull off an upset victory against Hillary Clinton. By the time of Trump’s inauguration, Mark Zuckerberg had come under tremendous fire from the Democrat elite over Facebook’s perceived failure to censor content seen as favorable to the Trump campaign. But four years later, lo and behold, the coronavirus pandemic would give Zuckerberg a clear shot at redemption.
The documentary Rigged tells this story. Through their philanthropic organization the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), which lists Barack Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe (who authored the book A Citizen’s Guide to Beating Donald Trump) as a key strategist, Zuckerberg and his wife donated $69.5 million to the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) and a whopping $328 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a non-profit headed by Obama Foundation fellow Tiana Epps-Johnson, who prior to creating CTCL in 2015, worked for an organization described by the Washington Post as “the Democratic party’s Hogwarts for digital wizardry.”
As former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gabelman says in the documentary, the CTCL essentially became a vehicle for Zuckerberg and Chan to fund get-out-the-vote efforts in mostly Democrat-populated districts in key swing states like Wisconsin.
In 2019, CTCL received a mere $2.8 million in contributions before the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s $328 million cash infusion in the lead-up to the 2020 election. Though these massive funds were labeled as “grants” for “safe administrations of public elections during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the documentary demonstrates that these donations were used to encourage and facilitate mail-in voting disproportionally in Democrat-run areas as well as to fund the proliferation of ballot drop boxes and a host of other things designed to boost Joe Biden’s vote totals in key swing states.
“They’re sending the money to big urban centers, they’re dramatically-increasing the ballot boxes that are there, and they’re conditioning the money on those polling locations, those government entities, throwing open the flood gates, to potential voter fraud,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says in Rigged. “This was the greatest billionaire assault on election integrity we’ve ever seen.”
“The Zuckerbucks folks were paying governments with grants with conditions that they go do get-out-the-vote activities in the Democrat areas. In the Republican areas, they just gave them the money, and they said, ‘Hey, we’re helping them conduct the election,’” Ken Cuccinelli, the national chairman for the Election Transparency Initiative, explains in Rigged.
Hosted by Citizens United president David Bossie and featuring interviews from prominent conservative leaders, including Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, and President Trump himself, the documentary Rigged offers a warning cry for what’s surely to come if Republicans do not find a way to stop left-wing billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg from using their spending power to influence elections for years to come.
“He should totally be held accountable, and he should never be allowed to do it again,” Trump tells Bossie in the documentary. “It was a rigged election. People have to find out what happened, and they have to hold people accountable.”
You can learn more about this groundbreaking documentary and watch Rigged in its entirety here.
Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age
A generation doesn’t remember life before the crises he created.
Fri Jun 25, 2021
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Barack Obama turns 60 over the summer. The AARP cover with Barry posing next to a basketball and a shelf of bestselling non-fiction books he hasn’t read can’t be too far away.
Once the symbol of youthful hipness, the former boss of Hope and Change now lectures “young people” on what they should be doing. His legacy is being carried forward by 78-year-old Biden and the 81-year-old Pelosi. That’s above the average age of 80 of the House Dem leadership.
The average age of the Biden cabinet is two years older than President Trump’s cabinet.
The gerontocratic technocracy uses AOC as its younger foil, but she’s been a stalking horse for Bernie Sanders who will hit the big 80 in the fall. The big donors behind the American Left are even older with George Soros due to hit 90 the same month Obama gets to 60. The even bigger reservoirs of cash flowing into the leftist machine are coming from the foundations of men who were born in the 19th century like Henry Ford, John D. MacArthur, and John D. Rockefeller.
That’s about right for a 19th century ideology whose followers keep trying to make it look young.
Youthful leftism is anarchic. It’s CHAZ, BLM, and Antifa. It’s open air heroin markets, smashed store windows, and political assassinations. Turning that anarchy into collectivism requires hysterical propaganda and rallies that appear anarchic, but are actually tightly controlled, ideas that seem edgy, but are actually the work of men who were born during the age of the steam.
If you think Bernie’s old, Karl Marx celebrated his 203rd birthday in May.
Obama’s policies have aged as badly as Marx, Biden, or their front man. But instead of moderating as they grow older, they only grow more radical. Obama equivocated on gay marriage, while Biden entirely erases the existence of women by calling them “birthing people”. Obama covertly weaponized the government against conservatives, while Biden is doing it openly. Everything from election rigging through H.R.1 to indoctrinating every government employee with critical race theory is happening more openly and blatantly under Biden.
Youthful leftist revolutions break the system while leftist gerentocrats impose the tyranny.
Making tyranny look like freedom requires hefty doses of chaos and outrage that make it appear that the system is being broken when it’s actually being built up. Or as George Orwell wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” The revolution is the thing it’s revolting against.
The end of history keeps arriving only to vanish like a mirage when the youth reach for it.
"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," Obama told his followers. Two years later, he privately snapped, "What does he think I'm supposed to do? Put on my f------ Aquaman gear and swim down there myself with a wrench?"
Thirteen years have passed and if the planet has begun to heal, Democrats won’t admit it.
The moment of epochal change can never be allowed to arrive because it would interrupt the permanent crisis. Salvation is always here and also always out of reach. But there’s always a new generation available to be fooled again because they know the past doesn’t matter.
History is radically revised every generation not just for what it teaches, but for what it doesn’t.
A revisionist history work like the 1619 Project doesn’t just impose a radical new racist history, it displaces the past. Another revisionist history will come along to displace the 1619 Project because manufacturing history churn is vital to destroying any continuity with the past. All the academic lenses being swapped one for the other like a mad ophthalmologist leaves a new generation with a lot of theories, but no clue that they’re being indoctrinated into a lost cause.
The Left has no new ideas. Like Hollywood, it makes old ideas seem new by rebooting them, by making them appear hip and trendy, and by destroying a meaningful connection with the past. And that way audiences don’t realize they’re just seeing the same movie remade over again. What might be creative bankruptcy in a movie theater is a more seriously sisyphean problem described by Churchill as, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
But how does a new generation learn from a past that isn’t allowed to exist on its own terms?
Demonizing the past is a convenient way of obscuring it. The only thing students are taught about the past is that it was a horrible time, its people backward, its customs savage, its learning wicked, its institutions racist, and its ideas horrifying. In postmodern history, the past exists only as a cautionary tale gleaned for historical struggles that fit into the new narrative.
History is an incomplete present whose revolutions were never fully fulfilled. It’s a revolutionary story of a world ruled by villains until they were overthrown by the forces of good. And this revolution against history must continue until all of the past is negated by the present.
The destruction of statues and burning of books forces ‘presentism’ for the past to conform to the dogmas of the moment. The biggest problem with the past isn’t that it’s politically incorrect, but that it’s repeating itself. The Black Lives Matter movement transparently harkens back to the 70s. So do most of the radical social impulses in which the Left cloaks its real power agenda.
The revolutionary chaos is doomed to fail again, but each oscillation breaks the country more.
The social activism is window dressing. A proper Marxist regime has little use for militant minorities, feminism, gay rights, police defunding, transgender bathrooms, pipeline protests, abortion, or any of the other issues the radicals have been using to waste our time. If you doubt that, go look at how many of any of the above you can find in China, Cuba, or North Korea.
The Russian Futurists vowed to throw the art and literature of the past overboard from the “steamship of modernity”. But the Bolsheviks were not looking for disruptive art and when the revolution arrived, modern art was tossed overboard and the former revolutionaries settled down to producing socialist realism and recreating the art of the past for the Soviet Union.
After a brief permissive period, the Soviet Union criminalized homosexuality and insisted on traditional marriages and roles for women. Those feminists who resisted were soon shown their place with one of the more notorious free love figures being forcibly married off by Lenin.
The dictatorship had eclipsed the revolution and the past was quickly rewritten all over again.
As Obama approaches his sixtieth birthday, the age at which Khrushchev struggled for control of the USSR and Mao launched his Great Leap Forward, two events that would require a good deal of historical editing, our American past is already being rewritten. Only those who are at least in their thirties will remember that there wasn’t a racial crisis before Barack Obama.
And there hadn’t been such a crisis for a generation before he took power.
Our racial crisis is not a legacy of 1619, but of 2008. Obama’s victory was not a revolution against a crisis, but the revolution that created the crisis. To a new generation, the racial crisis is a permanent feature of life. They have always lived under the crisis and expect to always live under it. That is why critical race theory and white privilege rants have become so pervasive.
Without a generation coming of age in a world shaped by the toxic idea that all white people are evil and all minorities are victims, no one outside academic circles would have willingly accepted them. And if that generation seems all too easy to radicalize into supporting the most insane policies, that’s because it grew up in a world defined by the hysteria of manufactured crises.
The world as they know it is doomed by melting ice caps, the rich getting richer, and the genocide of black people at the hands of the police. Every radical program is backed by a sense of urgent crisis which is killing people and destroying the future. They can’t imagine a present without the crisis and don’t remember ever living in a world not defined by crisis.
As Obama gets closer to his AARP cover, a generation lives in the world that he made.
Like Obama, his radical political movement speaks endlessly about the past, but has no actual past. Its past is always being reinvented and retold through new narratives, but with no facts.
The Obama revolution has come and gone. We have skipped past it to the Soviet Union of Chernenko and Andropov, of gerontocrats building the tyranny with the beams of revolution. The decline is everywhere as the theories fail, the factories close, and the stores stand empty.
The youth are being rallied to cheer for the revolutionary tyranny of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer who are promising a new era in history no one believes in anymore. Since the election their cause is no longer free college, it’s federalizing elections through H.R.1.
Federalizing elections, eliminating the filibuster, and packing the Supreme Court are compelling issues in Washington D.C., but the regime plotting new coups has little to say to the ordinary people facing high prices for gas and bread. Land, Bread, and Peace has given way to a race for total power over the country as the revolution of Hope, Crisis and Change comes of age.
There’s no change without crisis, and without hope, there’s only hate.
White House Refuses to Rule out Joe Biden Pardon for Hunter Biden
The White House refused to rule out President Joe Biden issuing a presidential pardon for his son Hunter Biden or for his brother James Biden as federal investigations continue over their foreign business dealings.
“That’s not a hypothetical I’m going to entertain,” White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said during the daily press briefing when asked about a potential pardon “I don’t have anything to add from this podium.”
Bedingfield was reluctant to address any aspect of the Hunter Biden story, after CNN, The Washington Post, and the New York Times recently published stories about the federal tax probe into Hunter Biden and his foreign business deals.
When asked additional questions about Hunter Biden and the president’s brother James Biden, Bedingfield would only reply, “I don’t have anything further to add from this podium.”
CNN reported the investigation has “gained steam” as a growing number witnesses are scheduled to testify in the case.
The Washington Post confirmed reports from other media outlets that Biden was paid nearly $5 million by the CEFC China Energy conglomerate — even though Joe Biden denied during the campaign that his son made any money in China.
“My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China,” Biden said during the third presidential debate moderated by NBC’s Kristen Welker.
Bedingfield said the White House stood by Biden’s claim, despite reporting proving it false.
“We absolutely stand by the president’s comment,” Bedingfield told Welker when asked for an update on Biden’s debate claim.
Mark Zuckerberg Attempts to Dismiss Documentary Exposing His $400 Million Effort to Elect Biden
Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is denying any wrongdoing following the announcement of an upcoming documentary film from Citizens United Productions, Rigged: The Zuckerberg-Funded Plot to Defeat Donald Trump, which details the leftist’s $400 million effort to bolster then-candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Citizens United President David N. Bossie, who narrates the upcoming documentary, announced its release Thursday night during an appearance on Fox News’s Hannity. The documentary itself explains just how Zuckerberg and left-wing operatives dumped $400 million in election efforts to elect Biden over former President Donald Trump under the guise of assisting with elections in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
During the election year, operatives dumped “Zuck Bucks” in key areas of the country through the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR). The documentary zeroes in on Zuckerberg’s dollars spent in three key swing states, specifically — Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia. What particularly differentiates the information in this documentary from other election narratives is the fact that this is all traceable and proven via 990 forms non-profit groups file with the IRS.
On Thursday night, Brian Baker, a spokesperson for Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla, released a response to Fox News concerning Rigged, attempting to dismiss the documentary as irrelevant.
“When our nation’s election infrastructure faced unprecedented challenges in 2020 due to the pandemic, and the federal government failed to provide adequate funds to allow states and localities to conduct elections, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan stepped up to close that funding gap with two independent, non-profit organizations to help the American people vote,” Baker began, asserting that both Zuckerberg and his wife “announced their support for this effort well in advance of the election, so this documentary is neither new nor newsworthy.”
Residents wait in line to vote at a shuttered Sears store in the Janesville Mall on November 03, 2020, in Janesville, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“They also did not participate in the process to determine which jurisdictions received funds,” he continued.
“The facts are clear: nearly 2,500 election jurisdictions from 49 states applied and each jurisdiction that applied received funds, no matter whether they were historically Republican, Democratic or swing districts. More jurisdictions that relied funding historically voted Republican than Democratic, and the majority of funds went to areas that either Trump or Biden won by clear margins,” he continued before admitting that they were basing this statement off of a two-minute preview of the film.
“This film, of which we’ve only seen two minutes so far, appears to feature the same people advancing the same claims that have been debunked by multiple federal and state courts and respected news organizations, only this time, set to dramatic music,” Baker added.
The final denial from Zuckerberg’s team is of particular interest, as the film has nothing to do with any of the other assertions, theories, or lawsuits surrounding the election. The cash flow is verifiable, suggesting that Zuckerberg’s team is hoping to distract from the revelations detailed in the documentary.
Additionally, while Zuckerberg’s team continues to claim that Trump areas were awarded more money than Biden areas, “the documentary explains how that assertion is ‘enormously, and perhaps purposely, misleading, because of the approximately 160 grants of $400,000 or more – totaling some $270 million – an incredible 92 percent of those funds went to jurisdictions carried by Joe Biden in 2020,'” as Breitbart News detailed:
“This is all about the great intention of, hey, we’re gonna make it more secure,” Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry says in the documentary, as hardly any of the money went toward Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
“We’re gonna make it more safe. We want to make sure that people feel comfortable coming to the poll, but that’s not what they ended up doing,” Landry added, as these jurisdictions used the money to push Democrat objectives such as universal mail-in voting and ballot drop boxes, just as two examples. In other words, the money was used to create an artificial buzz benefiting Joe Biden. The money itself went to nearly every state– 48/50, including Democrat strongholds. According to the documentary, this strategy — dumping money in areas that Biden was sure to win (California) and sure to lose (Texas) “reveals that a secondary aim of the plan was to score a public relations victory by padding Biden’s popular vote tally, in the event that he lost narrowly in the Electoral College.”
Essentially, “Zuck Bucks” ultimately “pressured” governmental entities to adopt these radical Democrat ideas to transform the election, pushing mail-in ballots and increasing the number of ballot drop boxes, both of which stand as a “rampant invitation” for fraud, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) notes in the documentary. Ultimately, the film notes that the coronavirus provided the “perfect cover” for Zuckerberg’s money to go to work in crucial battleground states, fulfilling the Democrat mantra of never letting a crisis go to waste.
However, Zuckerberg was given the opportunity to respond during the production of the film but failed to do so, according to Bossie.
“We attempted to contact Mark Zuckerberg for a response to the facts laid out in our documentary while we were shooting it, and we never received a reply. That fact is noted in the film,” Bossie said in a statement.
“It’s interesting that the statement again claims that the funds were for COVID-19 safety, but as our film proves, that was only cover. As we show, only a tiny percentage of the money was used for COVID precautions, while the vast majority was spent on voter turnout operations in localities carried by Joe Biden in 2020,” he continued, noting that Zuckerberg’s protested claims were not even made in the film.
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg attend the 2020 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet at NASA Ames Research Center on November 03, 2019, in Mountain View, California. (Ian Tuttle/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize )
“Zuckerberg protests that he didn’t participate in the process to determine which jurisdictions received funding, which is not something we alleged in the movie,” Bossie said, adding that the tech billionaire is trying to “hide behind the claim that more Republican areas received money than Democrat areas, but that is purposely misleading.”
“When you look a the actual dollar amounts – not the number of grants awarded – the vast majority of the money was spent in localities that were carried by Biden,” he explained, as detailed in the film.
“Finally, Zuckerberg admits that he hasn’t seen the film, but denies its contents anyway. He then claims that the facts as laid out in the film have been ‘debunked’ in court, although the points made in the movie were not the subject of any of the lawsuits surrounding the 2020 election that he’s referencing,” he continued, concluding that Zuckerberg’s statement “does nothing to counter the many facts – supported by official IRS tax forms filed by the non-profit groups Zuckerberg funded – we spell out in Rigged.”
The documentary will premiere at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach on April 5, 2022. Viewers can watch the film after the premiere at www.Rigged2020.com.
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