The list of predicate crimes is extensive and includes bribery, embezzlement,
fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
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.
Hillary Clinton: The Most Investigated Innocent Person in America?
Hillary Rodham Clinton recently claimed that she is the most investigated innocent person in America. Really? No doubt, many of her supporters and admirers readily agree with her.
A recent report in The Daily Mail quotes the former secretary of state and presidential candidate saying, "I am the most investigated innocent person in America" and "... this is not just politics, this is deep cultural stuff. When I became Secretary of State, I decided to use the server that had been set up for Bill and his former president's office. I did it as a matter of convenience. There was no regulation against it; there was nothing against it. Everybody knew I was doing it because they were all emailing me and I was emailing them and that was hundreds and hundreds of people in government."
In purposely saying there is no regulation against her use of a private email server (in the bathroom of her private residence) for highly classified communications, Mrs. Clinton attempts to excuse her actions or somehow exonerate herself. She purposely overlooks the fact that her actions, as explained herein, are clear, flagrant, prima facie violations of the gross negligence provisions of the Espionage Act.
It should be remembered that just prior to the 2016 presidential election, ex–FBI director James Comey famously and conveniently classified Mrs. Clinton's actions as "extremely careless" rather than grossly negligent, which could and most likely would have made her actions subject to the provisions and penalties of the Espionage Act described herein. Among other things, many people consider Comey's actions a gross miscarriage of justice.
Use of a private email server for classified communications permits the material to be removed or abstracted from its proper, secure government file server. The provisions of the Espionage Act, subsection F, 18 USC 793, state that "an intent to deceive or perform illegal actions regarding the handling of classified government information is not required; gross negligence alone is grounds for prosecution." Penalties allowed under the Espionage Act for gross negligence in handling classified materials include a fine, imprisonment of up to ten years, or both.
In June 2018, columnist Marc Thiessen noted that in 2016, the FBI knew with certainty that hostile actors had in fact gained access to classified information via Mrs. Clinton's emails. According to the inspector general, a special review of the Clinton email investigation in 2017 by the office to the FBI's Inspection Division found that, before James Comey's 2016 statement, "the FBI ... successfully determined classified information was improperly stored and transmitted on Clinton's email server, and classified information was compromised by unauthorized individuals, to include foreign governments or intelligence services, via cyber intrusion or other means."
In response to Mrs. Clinton's statement that she is "the most investigated innocent person in America," New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker offers a different perspective, saying Clinton is convinced she is a "righteous" person and adding, "If she decides it's an okay thing to do it's okay — anyone who criticizes it must be doing so for illegitimate reasons, they're partisan, they're enemies."
Hillary Rodham Clinton most certainly is not the "most investigated innocent person in America." Rather, she is a person who believes she is above the law and is being overly hounded by her political enemies. If Mrs. Clinton is not fully held accountable for her actions described herein, there is no such thing as "no one is above the law" in America. Furthermore, failing to hold Mrs. Clinton accountable establishes a dangerous precedent for others entrusted with highly classified government information to act in the same or similar manner with little or no fear of retribution.
Notwithstanding other potential criminal actions, it is truly time to hold Mrs. Clinton fully accountable for her failure to dutifully protect and secure highly classified communications entrusted to her care while serving as secretary of state. These actions might be considered the "low-hanging fruit" that finally will allow justice to prevail in Mrs. Clinton's case. Attorney General Barr, please take note.
Paul S. Gardiner is a retired Army officer, Vietnam veteran, and lover of America. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Alabama, and the United States Army War College.
BIDEN: DEAD MAN WALKING.... Along side Hillary Clinton pushing Joe
over the edge and into the grave.
Joe Biden is as corrupt a politician as there ever was, who
absolutely is guilty and compromised by his efforts to enrich his ne'er-do-well
son, his brother, sister and daughter.
Hillary is also a narcissist of the worst order, the kind who
never takes responsibility for the havoc she has wrought on the lives of
others, let alone her country. She is in fact one of the most corrupt
politicians ever to prevail for so many years, to become fabulously wealthy for
her many deceits and crimes.
A Biden candidacy — what's the plan? There is always a plan
Why,
when Joe Biden's mental decline is so obvious, are so many former Obamaphiles
pledging their spurious support for the man? Something's up. It
is beyond clear that Biden is not up to the job. This fact cannot
escape the notice of Susan Rice, James Comey, John Brennan, et al., all those
conspirators who tried so treasonously hard to destroy Donald
Trump. They surely know better than most that Biden is a dead man
walking. So why the all-out campaign to support his
candidacy? Hmmm.
They
must have a plan. Is their plan to submarine Joe before the
convention, admit he is incapacitated, and put up a heretofore untested
candidate at a brokered convention? Or do they have a plan to
appoint a V.P. candidate they assume will become president in short
order? Perhaps, as Joel Gilbert
speculated here
yesterday, the plan is to install Hillary as the candidate to run against
President Trump in a last-ditch effort to derail his fabulously successful
presidency. They certainly have some devious scheme to replace Biden
by hook or crook, for his dementia cannot possibly have escaped their notice.
The
now available Hillary documentary for all to see is probably meant to prime the
public for her potential last-minute candidacy. It is not very
likely to be successful. She is the kind of harridan who makes
Elizabeth Warren seem kind and gentle! Hillary is also a
narcissist of the worst order, the kind who never takes responsibility for the
havoc she has wrought on the lives of others, let alone her
country. She is in fact one of the most corrupt politicians ever to
prevail for so many years, to become fabulously wealthy for her many deceits
and crimes. She has been a blight upon the U.S. since she gained
power as the wife of the governor of Arkansas. She spent forty years
covering up for her husband's crimes against women and has somehow lived to
tell no tales. Her fans are certifiable morons, susceptible to any and all
of the propaganda the left propels into the mainstream media. She
has yet to endorse Biden. To support his candidacy is to deny his
indisputable advancing dementia.
Credit
to the voters of South Carolina is due for sure: they understand the horror an
American-hating communist would perpetrate upon this great nation. A
Bernie Sanders presidency would be the end of America as
founded. Those who support him either are tragically ignorant of the
genocidal reality of socialism wherever tried or hate their own nation so
much they are willing to suffer the monstrous consequences of electing a
communist president.
Make
no mistake: Bernie Sanders intends to be a communist president if
elected. Like Castro, Maduro, Chávez, Lenin, and all the dictators
he so admires, he would be a tyrant. For nearly fifty years, he has
wanted to punish those who fend for themselves and succeed. A man
who admires Fidel Castro must never come to power in America. Never. Bless
those voters in South Carolina who know this.
Sadly,
Joe Biden was their only other choice. Chances are, those same
voters will vote for President Trump in November. They were savvy
enough to know that Sanders would be a disaster; they are shrewd enough to know
that Joe Biden is senile. Most of us of a certain age recognize
advancing senility when we see it because we have seen it ourselves; we know
the heartbreak. Joe is done. So what is their plan?
Whatever
it is, it cannot be good for the American people. The left never
considers the American people, never gives a thought to its
constituents. Leftists are always and only about power and their continued
access to the wealth that power provides for them. They are certain of
their own superiority, their due privilege to lead and control the rest of
us. The fact that Mike Bloomberg actually thought he could step in
and purchase the presidency with his billions is proof of the left's
mindset. His failure to succeed was delicious; the American people
cannot be bought. Some of them can be fooled for a while, but in the
end, their good sense prevails. That is how we elected the best
president in decades, Donald Trump. They will re-elect him in
November despite the left and left media's never-ending attempts to destroy his
presidency. When the history of the left's wholesale assault on
America, its founding principles and values from the 1960s on, is written, it
will prove that the nation was under constant assault by the anti-American
left. The left has successfully indoctrinated two generations of
university students to loathe their country. Leftists have
successfully made race, class, and sex the defining characteristics of every
person, who must be a designated member of a victim group or an oppressor. They
give no credence to the value of the individual or to any individual's
character. MLK is rolling over in his grave.
All
of those leftists coming out of the woodwork to support Joe Biden know only too
well that he is an intellectual lightweight, "wrong on every foreign
policy issue for forty years," (Robert Gates), a mean-spirited bastard who
delighted in destroying Robert Bork and humiliating the great Clarence
Thomas. He is as corrupt a politician as there ever was, who absolutely
is guilty and compromised by his efforts to enrich his ne'er-do-well son, his
brother, sister and daughter. The thought of this man even becoming
close to the presidency is abhorrent. Whatever his pseudo-supporters have in
mind, it is not good for the American people; not one bit. We will soon learn
what their plan is. Chances are it won't be pretty and chances are the American
people will not fall for it.
The Democratic Party Is
Wounded and Dangerous
Beware
the wounded animal. In pain and desperation, it will do violent
things. It seems to me no coincidence that Joe Biden's big win on
Super Tuesday was followed by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer threatening
conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Joe
Biden is hardly Lancelot to President Trump's dragon. The Democrats
and the Deep State needed a first-class warrior; instead, their best option is
a walking advertisement for Alzheimer's awareness. In his best days, Joe Biden
was the political equivalent of Jack McCall, shooting his adversaries in the
back. When he wasn't using his position of power for financial
gain or stealing other people's words, he was helping his family line their own
pockets. Today, he's a disoriented and stumbling shell of an
unimportant political hack who looks on in confusion while his wife does his
fighting for him. If you've ever wondered what happens to the
shriveled soul of a lifetime liar and Democratic swindler, just cast your eyes
upon Old Joe. He's a walking, talking effigy of Democratic
corruption and amorality. He's what the Democratic Party usually keeps
far off the main stage for the back-alley entertainment; now he's the main
event, but no amount of stick-prodding by Donna Brazile or Tom Perez is going
to turn Joe Biden into Fred Astaire. He's a freak-show carnival
attraction at best, amazing onlookers by his ability to occasionally jumble
audible words together into a sentence. The Democrats needed a man
who could command a movement; all they got was a man who can barely control his
own.
I'm
not saying President Trump's re-election is in the bag. Far from
it. We've never seen such an array of villains acting in concert to
take down an American president. The Democratic Party has most of
the permanent bureaucratic Deep State (as well as stealthy anti-Trump
Republicans), Wall Street, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, cosmopolitan Europe,
global warming doomsayers, the Middle East's worst terrorists, and domestic
Antifa terrorists here at home all actively working to dislodge President Trump
from the White House. In the past, the chiefs of our intelligence
agencies and clandestine services retired into relative obscurity, cognizant
that duty commanded their silent withdrawal into the pages of
history. After orchestrating a coup against the American president,
however, it is not unusual to see the former heads of Obama's CIA, FBI, and NSC
all tirelessly justifying their criminal acts on cable news each
night. The corporate news media and institutional government have
spent years trying to gin up enough hysteria in the nation that mock beheadings
of the president and ritual re-enactments of his assassination during summer
theater might lead the American people to clamor for the real thing.
So,
no, the 2020 election will not be over until all the votes have been counted on
November 3, and it becomes clear that we have successfully preserved Western
civilization for at least a little while longer from this most recent
manifestation of Vienna's bloody 1683 siege. All I am saying is that
Joe Biden was never meant to be the establishment's champion for resurrecting
their oligarchic power. They wanted a formidable presidential
nominee, someone who could check all the right identity politics boxes while
stringing words together that were substantively meaningless while singularly
inspiring. Instead, they're settling for a politician past his
expiration date who sounds less crème de la crème and more
soused in crème de menthe. The Democratic Party may depend on dead
voters to win elections, but running dead candidates is another thing
altogether.
So
just because the cable news anchors and Carville clones are all high-fiving
each other and cheering for managing to narrowly prevent a communist disciple
of Stalin and Castro from sewing up the Democratic nomination for president by
the beginning of March, don't forget how disappointed they are at
heart. If Biden goes on to clinch the nomination, the Democratic
Party will have managed to take all the aloof, plain, manila-folder blandness
of John Kerry and combine it with the alertness and energy of a nursing home
after pill rounds. This is the one whom the commentariat is
celebrating right now, the guy Obama and the gang blocked from running in 2016
because they felt him not quite up for the challenge when he was four years
younger. The vice president during the slowest economic recovery
since the Great Depression, the wordsmith who marveled at Obama for being
strangely "articulate" for a black guy, and the obtrusive
shoulder-rubber whose chief political instinct was to sniff the hair of the
wives and daughters of White House officials and visiting
dignitaries. Imagine being in such dire straits because the previous
Democratic president so hollowed out the party's future by losing over a
thousand elected officials across the country during his time in office that
the last, great hope to beat President Trump this year is just hoping to make
it to bed each afternoon before saying something so inappropriate or illogical
or ridiculous that Red Bernie becomes the Democrat's Dear Leader by
default. For every minute of his few wakeful hours, his handlers
have to be on constant guard against the possibility that a voice in Biden's
head will scream, "Oh, look, a young child with wonderful-smelling
hair." "Comeback Joe"? More like
"Come back, Joe!"
The
Democrats and the Deep State have spent the last four years constructing the
greatest wag-the-dog spectacle America's ever seen in an attempt to cover up
the malfeasance and criminality of the last administration, while preventing
the current one from achieving too many victories. Considering that Brennan
and Comey are still free and Obama and Hillary are still smiling, they've been
remarkably successful. But the Mueller obfuscation and Schiff circus
are behind us, the dance music of delay is dying down, and the Democrats' and
Deep State's ability to keep pushing back their day of reckoning is coming to
an end. If they don't win in 2020, they cannot keep justice at bay,
regardless of how stacked in their favor it has always been in the
past. And standing in the gap as their last-ditch prospect to save
them from President Trump's re-election and spare them from long delayed
judgment is none other than Corn Pop's archenemy. The one
"reasonable" Democrat in the race who has already burnished his
"moderate" credentials by fully embracing Bernie's Green New Deal,
Warren's Medicare for All, and Beto's door-to-door gun
confiscation. Nothing says "electable centrist Democrat"
like "D'oh!" Biden's full tilt toward Marxist
socialism. No wonder Chuck Schumer sounds like some injured animal
in the forest, lashing out at tree branches all around him. That's
what small, weak, dying creatures do when they know the end is near.
Our Russia Collusion
Nightmare: All Hillary's Fault?
The biggest political scandal in the history of the United
States. Three years of constant lies told by government agents,
political operatives, and deceitful news personalities. Thousands of
hours of criminal investigative interviews; thousands of written stories and
television segments; thousands of leaks and insinuations and
threats. All to take down the legitimately elected American
president, Donald J. Trump.
Now that some light is finally revealing just how rotten this
whole nonsense has been from the very beginning, the most maddening aspect of
all is the one thing not said nearly enough: every bit of this frame-up job to
hang the American president for being a Russian agent and traitor to his nation
began as a way to inoculate Hillary Clinton from her largest political
vulnerabilities going into the 2016 campaign.
Aside from her questionable health and a lifetime of scandal,
Hillary had two sizable liabilities (of her own creation) that threatened her
ability to win the general election: (1) her use of the Clinton Foundation as a
vehicle for laundering bribes from foreign governments and moneyed interests
and (2) her decision to conduct the business of the State Department (as well
as to discuss our nation's most guarded secrets) on an unsecured private email
server that had been hacked by known and unknown foreign governments and
adverse entities. Peter Schweizer's Clinton Cash did a remarkable job
exposing the Clinton Foundation as a spectacular pay-to-play operation that had
allowed Hillary to trade the powers of her office for personal aggrandizement
(including the sale of 20% of America's uranium to Russia for, among other
things, $145 million transferred to her foundation). And even though
the Obama Justice Department was doing its best to minimize the revelation of
Hillary's gross breach of national security and slow-walk any repercussions,
the American people were discovering that life-and-death secrets had been
entrusted to a person with such disregard for our well-being that she stored
them on a personal server in a downstairs bathroom.
For a normal person with a modicum of ethical concern, sense of
shame, or patriotic duty, these crimes would have been more than sufficient to
prompt withdrawal from an election for the country's highest
office. This type of honest self-reflection and private admission of
guilt is alien to the Clintons, though, so what would have represented
immovable obstacles to anyone else became just another set of political variables
that had to be neutralized in her favor.
I can just imagine the conversation Hillary had with her most
trusted advisers — not the ones with the official titles like Robby Mook and
Brian Fallon, whose chief value lay in their expendable nature and the ease
with which Hillary could roll them up into any unexpected scandal to be
disposed with the trash at a future time of her convenience. I mean
the real group of confidants, the ones who have "the ends justify the
means" tattooed on their souls and have gotten away with more crimes than
we'll ever know. If you're Sid Blumenthal or John Podesta or Cheryl
Mills or Marc Elias or Lanny Davis and you know where some of the bodies are
buried along the spectacular trail of Clinton corruption through the years,
then the prospect of a massive pay-to-play scandal or criminal indictment for
mishandling top-secret intelligence or engaging wittingly or unwittingly in
espionage is just another bump on the long road of progressive relativism and
Clinton nihilism. If Clinton
Cash and FBI investigators come knocking, you simply accuse
all your political opponents of being the real grifters and foreign agents.
That's exactly what Team Hillary did. They leveled
allegations of criminal bribery at Jeb Bush; they questioned Marco Rubio's
loyalty to the United States; but Donald Trump was the prize. A man
who had spent a lifetime in the exotic world of luxury real estate around the
globe while mixing it up with all kinds of powerful figures in that often shady
world was the ideal mark, and he also happened to be a political novice who the
Democrats universally believed would lose in a landslide of historical
dimensions for political lore long to come. When Paul Manafort
joined his team just before the kickoff to the general election and brought
with him a lifetime of political baggage that included skullduggery around
Russia's zone of interest, it must have seemed as if Christmas had come early
for the Clinton team. (Kind of makes you wonder how coincidental this
unforced error really was.)
And so, after a lifetime in the public eye, starring in a popular
television show, and rubbing elbows with celebrities and politicians of all
stripes, Donald Trump woke up one day to find himself being generally slandered
(and libeled) as a Russian spy by the information merchants who control
America's airwaves and print media. That had to have made him laugh,
considering that the press had spent most of his foray into politics demeaning
him as a greedy capitalist playboy nationalist who selfishly placed America's
interests before those of our common world.
Yes, before John Brennan devised a global espionage ring to frame
President Trump as a national security risk and enable the FBI to open up
counterintelligence investigations into his political associates; before Jim
Comey and Andrew McCabe attested to false information with the FISA Court;
before Robert Mueller put the screws to General Flynn in order to sink a
lifetime defender of America for political purposes; before President Obama
initiated changes to security classification that opened up scurrilous
investigative records on President-Elect Trump to an exponentially greater
number of bureaucrats with partisan motivations; before Susan Rice left an
electronic CYA memorandum at 12:15 P.M. on Inauguration Day of 2017 noting that
Sally Yates and James Clapper and John Brennan and Joe Biden and Jim Comey had
all agreed in the Oval Office with President Obama to continue any
investigations "by the book"; before Samantha Power unmasked hundreds
of names picked up during the course of electronic surveillance that were
deemed to somehow implicate the new president in wrongdoing; even before the
Clinton operatives and Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele first started
composing the fan fiction now known as "the Dossier" — before all of
this and everything else we have been forced to endure for three long years,
there was Hillary Clinton, doing what she and her people know best: accusing
her political opponent of the very crimes she had committed
herself.
As awful as this orchestrated campaign against President Trump has
been, it is absolutely maddening to realize that none of it would have happened
had Hillary Clinton not engaged in one of the greatest pay-for-play operations
in American history while placing our most guarded secrets (as well as the very
lives of our soldiers and civilians) on a silver platter for those governments
and adversaries who wish us the most harm in this world. Three years
of Russian hysteria happened only because of the deep corruption of Hillary
Clinton.
This scheme of political projection and wicked treachery should go
down as a final reminder that America survives today only because President
Trump managed to prevail against the nearly insurmountable wave of our government's
intelligence agencies, the justice system, media propagandists, and the
combined wills of the Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans intending to swamp
him.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further. Paul Driessen
Hillary Clinton's Russia collusion IOU: The answers she owes
America
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446736-hillary-clintons-russia-collusion-iou-the-answers-she-owes-america
BY
JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION
During the
combined two decades she served as a U.S. senator and secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s patrons regularly donated to her family charity when they had
official business pending before America’s most powerful political woman.
The pattern of
political IOUs paid to the Clinton Foundation was so pernicious that the State
Department even tried to execute a special agreement with the charity to avoid the overt appearance of “pay-to-play” policy.
Still, the
money continued to flow by the millions of dollars, from foreigners and
Americans alike who were perceived to be indebted to the Clinton machine or in
need of its help.
It’s time for
the American public to call in their own IOU on political transparency.
The reason?
Never before — until 2016 — had the apparatus of a U.S. presidential candidate
managed to sic the weight of the FBI and U.S. intelligence community on a rival
nominee during an election, and by using a foreign-fed, uncorroborated
political opposition research document.
But Clinton’s
campaign, in concert with the Democratic Party and through their shared law
firm, funded Christopher Steele’s unverified dossierwhich, it turns out, falsely portrayed Republican Donald Trump as a treasonous asset colluding with Russian President
Vladimir Putin to hijack the U.S. election.
Steele went to
the FBI to get an investigation started and then leaked the existence of the
investigation, with the hope of sinking Trump’s presidential aspirations.
On its face, it
is arguably the most devious political dirty trick in American history and one
of the most overt intrusions of a foreigner into a U.S. election.
It appears the
Clinton machine knew that what it was doing was controversial. That’s why it
did backflips to disguise the operation from Congress and the public, and in its
Federal Election Commission (FEC) spending reports.
Clinton and the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) used the law firm of Perkins Coie to hire Glenn Simpson’s research firm, Fusion GPS, which
then hired Steele — several layers that obfuscated transparency, kept the
operation off the campaign’s public FEC reports and gave the Clintons plausible
deniability.
But Steele’s
first overture on July 5, 2016, failed to capture the FBI’s imagination. So the
Clinton machine escalated. Steele, a British national, went to senior
Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr — whose wife, Nellie, also worked for
Fusion — to push his Trump dirt to the top of the FBI.
Nellie Ohr
likewise sent some of her own anti-Trump research augmenting Steele’s dossier
to the FBI through her husband. Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann used his connection to former FBI general counsel James Baker to dump Trump
dirt at the FBI, too.
Then Steele
and, separately, longtime Clinton protégé Cody Shearer went to the
State Department to get the story out,
increasing pressure on the FBI.
In short, the
Clinton machine flooded the FBI with pressure — and bad intel — until an investigation
of Trump was started. The bureau and its hapless sheriff at the time, James
Comey, eventually acquiesced with the help of such Clinton fans as then-FBI
employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
To finish the
mission, Simpson and Steele leaked the existence of the FBI investigation to
the news media to ensure it would hurt Trump politically. Simpson even called the leaks a “hail Mary” that failed.
Trump won,
however. And now, thanks to special counsel Robert Mueller, we know the
Russia-collusion allegations relentlessly peddled by Team Clinton were bogus.
But not before the FBI used the Clinton-funded, foreign-created research to get
a total of four warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, transition and presidency from October 2016 through the
following autumn.
The Clinton
team’s dirty trick was as diabolical as it was brilliant. It literally used
house money and a large part of the U.S. intelligence apparatus to carry out
its political hit job on Trump.
After two years
of American discomfort, and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars spent, it’s
time for the house to call in its IOU.
Hillary Clinton
owes us answers — lots of them. So far, she has ducked them, even while doing
many high-profile media interviews.
I’m not the
only one who thinks this way. Longtime Clinton adviser Douglas Schoen said
Friday night on Fox News that it’s time for Clinton to answer what she knew and
when she knew it.
Here are 10
essential questions:
1.
In January 2018, the Senate
Judiciary Committee sent a formal investigative request for documents and
written answers from your campaign. Do you plan to comply?
2.
Please identify each person in
your campaign who was involved with, or aware of, hiring Fusion GPS, Glenn
Simpson and Christopher Steele.
3.
Please identify each person in
your campaign, including Perkins Coie lawyers, who were aware that Steele
provided information to the FBI or State Department, and when they learned it.
4.
Describe any information you and
your campaign staff received, or were briefed on, before Election Day that was
derived from the work of Simpson, Steele, Fusion GPS, Nellie Ohr or Perkins
Coie and that tried to connect Trump, his campaign or his business empire with
Russia.
5.
Please describe all contacts
your campaign had before Election Day with or about the following individuals:
Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele, former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, former foreign policy scholar Stefan Halper and Maltese academic Joseph
Mifsud.
6.
Did you or any senior members of
your campaign, including lawyers such as Michael Sussmann, have any contact
with the CIA, its former Director John Brennan, current Director Gina Haspel,
James Baker, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page or former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe?
7.
Describe all contacts your campaign had with Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal concerning Trump,
Russia and Ukraine.
8.
Describe all contacts you and
your campaign had with DNC contractorAlexandra
Chalupa, the Ukraine government, the Ukraine Embassy in the United States or
the U.S. Embassy in Kiev concerning Trump, Russia or former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort.
9.
Why did your campaign and the
Democratic Party make a concerted effort to portray Trump as a Russian asset?
10.
Given that investigations by a
House committee, a Senate committee and a special prosecutor all have concluded
there isn’t evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, do you regret the actions by your
campaign and by Steele, Simpson and Sussmann to inject these unfounded
allegations into the FBI, the U.S. intelligence community and the news media?
Hillary Clinton
owes us answers to each of these questions. She should skip the lawyer-speak
and answer them with the candor worthy of an elder American stateswoman.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose
work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the
Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists’ misuse of foster children and veterans in
drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He serves as an
investigative columnist and executive vice president for video at The Hill.
Follow him on Twitter @jsolomonReports.
ALL
REVOLUTIONS START OUT MESSY AND UNFOCUSED. THE BEST IS YET TO COME!
The
Party of Antifa Fascists?
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/10/20/the-party-of-antifa-fascists-n2530342?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky2
Who are
the “Antifa” mobs? What are they doing to our country? How long will we
tolerate them?
The Brett
Kavanaugh confirmation hearings were their latest excuse for tantrums and intolerance.
Dismissing fairness, propriety and due process, they screamed that mere
allegations of misconduct were enough to bar him from the Supreme Court,
despite no corroborating evidence or witnesses.
Vicious
harassment of senators and White House officials in restaurants, streets,
grocery stores, and Senate offices and elevators was matched by ambush tactics
and despicable behavior by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats. If Justice
Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings were “an electronic lynching,” those hearings were an electronic
assault on a respected jurist, his wife and young daughters.
When
Kavanaugh fought back, the same Senators and their media friends said he
“lacked the proper temperament” to be on the Court. (Apparently, he should have
just tried to enjoy the experience.)
The fact
is, Democrats and their allies had said in lockstep and from the outset that
they intended to keep any Trump nominee off our highest
court. The Women’s March mistakenly released a statement saying it opposed the
“nomination of XX” to the Court. (They forgot to fill
in the blank.) They view the Court as their supreme state and national
legislature: it’s far easier to get 5 votes than 5 million or 50 million.
In
reality, this ongoing attempted rule by mob (with Portland, Oregon a prime example) goes back to
the 2016 elections that put Donald Trump in the White House. The mobs weren’t
just disappointed that Hillary Clinton had not won. They were enraged. And they’ve remained so ever
since.
In fact,
their furor goes back even further – to mounds of excrement they left behind in
North Dakota, for instance, where they tried to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, by burning and bombing bridges,
threatening local residents and killing cattle. One “peaceful protester” tried
to shoot a deputy sheriff.
In
another example, they enlisted state attorneys general, universities, wealthy
leftwing foundations and private law firms (on a contingency fee basis) to
bring RICO and other actions against scientists and think
tanks that voice skepticism about “cataclysmic manmade climate change.” On
college campuses they have banned, disinvited, mobbed, harassed or just plain
screamed over 300 conservative
speakers into
silence. Being a Republican or wearing a Trump MAGA hat can get you beaten, or
worse.
They
forget President Obama’s dictum: “Elections have consequences.” One is the
President’s right to nominate Federal judges. But from their perspective,
“consequences” must never apply when they lose – and the Electoral College must be abolished when it works
as our Founding Fathers intended: to keep populous urban areas from dominating
presidential elections and imposing a tyranny of the majority. (The fact that
85% of all US counties voted for Donald Trump illustrates this principle in
action.)
In most
of these cases, “they” are the Antifa mobs. Antifa being short for
“anti-fascist.” Don’t be conned.
The
Antifa mobs are fascists! And they have become the
ski-masked thug wing of the Democratic Party.
They (and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kyrsten Sinema, Andrew Gillum, Bernie Sanders and
other favored candidates) certainly espouse socialism as
their vehicle for wealth redistribution. However, in almost every other
respect, their philosophies and actions reflect fascism, which
is generally defined as:
A
political system in which an authoritarian government does not own businesses
and industries, but strictly regulates and controls their actions, output and
rights – while forcibly controlling and suppressing citizens and their thought
and speech via stringent laws, intimidation and even violence.
Sadly,
the Democratic Party is slipping further into these tendencies, becoming ever
more closely aligned with these radicals. It relies on Antifa thugs to “rally
the base,” intimidate and abuse Republican voters and
candidates, and get Democrat (and “undocumented”) voters to the polls. Like too
many in the “mainstream” news media, Democrats refuse to condemn the mob
behavior – and say it’s wrong to even call them
mobs. They’re just
concerned citizens, peaceably assembling and seeking redress of their
grievances. Right. (Hint: You don’t like being called fascist mobs? Stop
behaving like fascist mobs.)
“You
cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand
for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton said recently. So instead of civil
debates we’re to have civil war over whose vision and agenda will rule? Is
there something wrong, antiquated or “threatening” about debating issues?
Former
Attorney General Eric Holder said, when Republicans “go low” with their
rhetoric, “we kick them.” Rep. Maxine Waters (R-CA) incites
Antifa mobs by ranting, “If you see anybody from the Trump Administration in a
restaurant, in a department store, tell them they’re not welcome anymore,
anywhere.”
Now on
top of the speech codes, trigger warnings, boycotts, censorship, groupthink and
identity politics, Google, Facebook and Twitter control and restrict access to
conservative views; crowd funding sites prevent conservative groups from
raising money; and the Obama IRS prevented Tea Party groups from getting the
tax status needed to operate. When all that fails, we’re supposed to tolerate
mobs and riots.
On
campuses, LGBTQ diversity is virtuous. Diversity of viewpoints or political
affiliation is intolerable. Some say Republicans want to control what you do in
your bedroom. But Democrats want to control everything you do anywhere outside
your bedroom. And Antifa mobs will keep you quiet and in line.
Antifa
thugs fire-bombed a North Carolina Republican office and trashed another one in
New York City, where they left a note that said, “This is just the beginning.”Others knocked a 71-year-old female
congressional staffer unconscious! It even reached the point where a rabid
Bernie Sanders supporter tried to gun down Republican
legislatorsand
staffers who were practicing for a charity baseball event.
Indeed,
death on a large scale, to serve state or other “higher interests,” is another
aspect of fascism. We see that with millions of people dying every year in
Africa and Asia, because pressure groups deny them access to energy, insect control, water
purification, agricultural and other modern technologies,
in the name of protecting the environment from dangerous climate change,
chemicals and biotechnology.
There are
crazy ironies, too. Google helps the
Chinese Communist
Government prevent its citizens from accessing “forbidden” knowledge and ideas
– but then claims helping the US Defense Department with Cloud computing or
artificial intelligence surveillance would “violate its principles.”
Around
many neighborhoods, signs proclaim “Hate has no home here,” in multiple
languages, with an American flag heart logo reminiscent of the Obama campaign
logo – in liberals’ yards. The signs are part of a project that “promotes just
and inclusive communities.” Trump supporters need not apply.
Democrats
appear to be depending on all of this to counter a possible “red wave” – and
regain control of the House of Representatives and maybe even the Senate. If
they succeed even with just the House, Democrat congressional committees will
investigate, interrogate and try to impeach Trump, Kavanaugh and other
officials. They will impede and obstruct everything the Trump Administration
tries to do.
They’ll
also try to abolish ICE, block the Wall, pack the Supreme Court, take our guns,
bash Israel – and replace the fossil fuels that provide 80% of our energy with
“100% renewable energy” that is so expensive and unreliable
it will bring our industries, economy and nation to its knees, while blanketing
rural and habitat land, damaging
people’s health and property rights, and butchering birds and bats by the
millions.
Our
rebounding energy, employment, economy, markets and living standards would get
rolled back.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further.
Some say
the Antifa-Schumer-Pelosi-Clinton-Holder-Waters strategy will backfire. I hope
that happens, because it would be disastrous if these people run Congress,
America and our lives. But I won’t bank on it.
If you’re
worried too (and you should be), get inspired and involved. Above all, VOTE!
Vote to preserve our democratic Republic, our freedoms, our booming economy, reliable and affordable energy for all Americans – and
equal justice for all, based on the presumption of innocence until proven
guilty.
Paul
Driessen writes books and articles on energy, environmental, human rights and
political issues.
Who
Needs an Epic Rehash of Hillary's Victimhood?
Most
conservatives who lived through the Clinton years would not want to stomach all
253 minutes of the new "Hillary" documentary streaming on Hulu, a
platform now owned and controlled by Disney. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
was asked if he would do an interview for it, and apparently, he told the
filmmakers he would "rather stick needles in (his) eye than do the
interview."
I sat through all of it. There's only one Republican in this
thing -- former Sen. Bill Frist -- and he was quoted as saying that it
"was easy to demonize her."
Gingrich knew instinctively that the film would not be an
objective take in any way. This is Hillary Clinton's take ... for hours and
hours. She dominates the entire spectacle. It's a 253-minute therapy session,
and she still fails to come to grips with the fact that she narrowly lost in
2016.
Anyone who recalls the positive Rodham Robot coverage of 1992
will just see yet another stale rerun. This spin is exactly the same Clinton
campaign claptrap from 1992, with the same childhood and college pals, and the
same gush about how brilliant and promising she always was. It's like a
28-year-old microwaved Hot Pocket. No one needs to consume that. It was a
gummy, cheesy, oily mixture the first time.
The tone was set from the beginning, when Clinton is asked
from off camera, "Do you feel frustrated that you've been in public life
for 30 years, yet people feel that they don't know who you are, that you seem
inauthentic?" She replies: "I do! I feel like what -- what -- what is
this about?" She acts perpetually amazed that people believe the
"myth" that she's cold and calculating.
Aides are
seen expressing frustration at focus groups results that show people didn't
like how Clinton decided to stay with her husband, former President Bill
Clinton, after he lied for months about having sex with an intern inside the
White House. Also shown was a clip of the 1992 "60 Minutes" interview
in which the Clintons fiercely denied there was an "arrangement." It
has looked like an arrangement ever since then. Most people do not buy that
Hillary never figured out Bill had cheated on her again.
The documentary is stuffed with adoring campaign aides and
supportive "mainstream" reporters, especially New York Times
correspondent Amy Chozick, who sounds exactly like one of the campaign
staffers. NBC's Andrea Mitchell laments that Clinton "looked like a
trapped animal" during the Lewinsky affair.
Every Clinton scandal is dismissed, if it's even mentioned.
Whitewater was "ridiculous." Filegate and Travelgate are mentioned
once in passing. The $100,000 she made in cattle futures in Little Rock,
Arkansas, is never mentioned, even though the filmmakers show the 1994 press
conference she put on to "explain" it. Benghazi? There was
"nothing there." There was no time for The Clinton Foundation or
Uranium One. Her private email server? Why bother?
Paula
Jones was a story "nobody wanted to touch"; it was "icky."
Juanita Broaddrick's allegations of rape against Bill Clinton? Never mentioned.
A picture of then-candidate Donald Trump's press conference with Jones, Broaddrick
and Kathleen Willey in 2016 was shown, but their names were not mentioned. It
was simply referenced as "Trump pulled his stunt."
At the end of four hours of whining and victimhood, Hillary
Clinton's last words are: "I have no regrets. I am a very grateful
person." That's also false. Clinton sat for 35 hours of interviews, so
there was even more venting than what's been unloaded here.
Why this epic rehash? Let's guess that Clinton thinks she
should be running for reelection right now, and she wants all eyes back on her.
Just like her nemesis former President Richard Nixon, she's always seeking to
rehabilitate her image. Just like Nixon, she never will.
Tim Graham is
director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of
the blog NewsBusters.org.
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