Thursday, June 11, 2020

THE TRUMP DEPRESSION - HE VOWS TO FIRE THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION

Donald Trump attacks the Federal Reserve again after stocks plunge following its warning the economy is not recovering and faces years more pain

  • Trump tweeted the Fed 'is wrong so often'
  • He also predicted a vaccine and cure for coronavirus 'soon' 
  • Another 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department said on Thursday
  • It means nearly 44 million Americans have been thrown out of work in the three months since COVID-19 struck hard in March 
  • The latest figure marked the 10th straight weekly decline in applications for jobless aid since they peaked in mid-March 
  • While the layoffs may be declining, millions who lost their jobs because of COVID-19 continue to apply for ongoing unemployment benefits 
  • The number of people staying on benefits remains high with the so-called continuing claims at 20.9 million 
  • Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said it could take years for the millions who are now unemployed to regain jobs 
  • US stocks plunged following Powell's remarks with the Dow dropping 1,000 points in midday trading on Thursday 
  • Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
President Donald Trump went back to attacking the Federal Reserve Thursday, hitting at the central bank after a steep market decline.
Trump did not go after Fed chairman Jerome Powell, something he has not been shy about doing in the past. But he did say the Fed 'is wrong so often,' in a critique that came hours after Powell gave stark warnings about what may be in store for the future of the U.S. economy as it contends with the coronavirus.
'The Federal Reserve is wrong so often. I see the numbers also, and do MUCH better than they do,' Trump tweeted about 11 am Thursday.
'The Federal Reserve is wrong so often,' President Trump tweeted Thursday
'The Federal Reserve is wrong so often,' President Trump tweeted Thursday
'We will have a very good Third Quarter, a great Fourth Quarter, and one of our best ever years in 2021. We will also soon have a Vaccine & Therapeutics/Cure. That’s my opinion. WATCH!' he wrote. 
Trump was returning to form by going after the Fed, which he battered last year for maintaining interest rates Trump considered too high.
In March, Trump said Powell 'really stepped up' as the Fed started shoving out trillions to shore up the nation's economy as the coronavirus pandemic hit.
The fate of Trump's reelection could be wrapped up in whether the nation can maintain a positive economic trajectory and whether there is an easing of the huge jumps in unemployment of U.S. workers.
Trump hit at the Fed as the stock market took another dive on Thursday
Trump hit at the Fed as the stock market took another dive on Thursday
His tweet came after another 1.5 million Americans applied for jobless benefits last week despite business reopening after COVID-19 lockdowns - and as the Dow plunged 1,000 points following the Fed's dire warning that it could take years to get lost jobs back.
The latest figure from the Labor Department on Thursday marked the 10th straight weekly decline in applications for jobless aid since they peaked in mid-March when the coronavirus hit hard.
Still, the pace of layoffs remains historically high.
It means nearly 44 million Americans have been thrown out of work in the three months since COVID-19 struck hard in March, forced widespread business closures and sent the economy into a deep recession.
It is evidence that many Americans are still losing their jobs even as the economy appears to be slowly recovering with more businesses partially reopening from COVID-19 lockdowns.
Powell said it could take years for the millions who are now unemployed to regain jobs.
'My assumption is that there will be a significant chunk, well, well into the millions of people who don't get to go back to their old jobs and there may not be a job in that industry for them for some time,' he said. 
'It could be some years before we get back to those people finding jobs.' 
US stocks plunged following Powell's remarks with the Dow dropping 1,000 points in midday trading on Thursday.  
Another 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week. The latest figure from the Labor Department on Thursday marked the 10th straight weekly decline in applications for jobless aid since they peaked in mid-March with 6.87 million applications
Another 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week. The latest figure from the Labor Department on Thursday marked the 10th straight weekly decline in applications for jobless aid since they peaked in mid-March with 6.87 million applications
Nearly 44 million Americans have been thrown out of work in the three months since COVID-19 struck hard in March, forced widespread business closures and sent the economy into a deep recession
Nearly 44 million Americans have been thrown out of work in the three months since COVID-19 struck hard in March, forced widespread business closures and sent the economy into a deep recession
According to the Labor Department report, the total number of people who are receiving unemployment aid fell slightly, a sign that some people who were laid off when restaurants, retail chains and small businesses suddenly shut down have been recalled to work. 
New applications for state unemployment benefits fell to a seasonally adjusted 1.5 million for the week ended June 6, from 1.897 million the prior week, the Labor Department said on Thursday. 
That pulled initial claims further away from the record 6.87 million in late March.
But the number of people staying on benefits remained high, with the so-called continued claims number at 20.9 million for the week ended May 30, the most recent data available for that metric. 
This was still lower than 21.268 million in the prior week. 
The states with the highest number of new claims for the week ending May 30 were in Florida, where applications were up 32,000; California, where applications rose by 25,000; and Oklahoma, which saw an increase of 16,000.
In Florida, the majority of layoffs were in the construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade and service industries. Layoffs in California mostly occurred in the service industry.  
New York saw the largest decline with new jobless aid claims down more than 107,000. There were fewer layoffs in the health care and social assistance, retail trade, and accommodation and food services industries, according to the report.
Michigan saw its applications drop more than 25,000, Pennsylvania was down 18,000 and Washington dropped 17,000. 
The Dow plunged 1,000 points following the Federal Reserve's dire warning that it could take years to get jobs back that were lost during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Dow plunged 1,000 points following the Federal Reserve's dire warning that it could take years to get jobs back that were lost during the COVID-19 pandemic
The total number of people who are receiving unemployment aid fell slightly, a sign that some people who were laid off when restaurants, retail chains and small businesses suddenly shut down have been recalled to work. Pictured above is a restaurant having reopened in Farmingdale, New York
The total number of people who are receiving unemployment aid fell slightly, a sign that some people who were laid off when restaurants, retail chains and small businesses suddenly shut down have been recalled to work. Pictured above is a restaurant having reopened in Farmingdale, New York
The weekly jobless claims report, the most timely data on the economy's health, followed news last Friday of a surprise 2.5 million increase in nonfarm payrolls in May. 
It reinforced views that the labor market has weathered the worst of the turbulence but claims for jobless benefits are still more than double their peak during the Great Recession.
Many businesses have reopened after being shuttered in mid-March to slow the spread of COVID-19. However, claims remain elevated amid jobs cuts outside the consumer sector, among industries that were not initially hit by the shutdown.

MUSLIM MURDER OF CHRISTIANS

'Children and women were not spared': Boko Haram kills at least 81 in hourslong attack on Nigerian village

Dozens of men, women, and children in Nigeria were killed during a brutal attack by Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram.
The attack occurred Tuesday morning in Faduma Kolomdi, a nomadic village located in the northeastern part of the country. One of the survivors said a group of men claiming to be Islamic teachers entered the village and gathered as many residents as they could into one location.
“They gathered us and said they wanted to deliver religious sermon to us. They asked us to submit whatever arm we had. Some villagers gave up their ... guns, bow, and arrows,” the survivor told authorities, according to CNN. “Suddenly, they started shooting at will. Even children and women were not spared, many were shot at close range.”
The survivor said that 49 people have since been buried in the village following the attack, with another 32 bodies being transported to nearby villages for burial. Footage posted on social media from the attack shows bodies strewn across one area of the village, with some lying in close groupings.
Nigeria military spokesman Sagir Musa said in a statement that “a large contingent of military personnel have been drafted in the general area to track and apprehend or neutralize the perpetrators.”
“The Nigerian Army is committed to investigating the circumstances of these callous attacks by desperate Boko Haram criminals and the bandits on innocent civilians,” he said.
Boko Haram has been terrorizing the region for years and has killed thousands and displaced millions of people. The group is perhaps most well-known for its 2014 abduction of 276 schoolgirls.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the State Department for comment.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND BLACK LOOTING

Democratic House candidate Kim Olson: ‘If people loot, so what? Burn it to the ground’


A leading Democratic candidate in a closely watched House race brushed off looting and arson that occurred during nationwide unrest during protests about racism and police brutality sparked by the death of George Floyd.
“What the hell you got snipers on the roof for in a peaceful march? Even if people loot, so what? Burn it to the ground, you know, if that’s what it’s going to take to fix our nation,” retired Air Force Col. Kim Olson said during a live digital event on Tuesday, shown in a clip obtained by the Washington Examiner.
“I don’t think people want me to say that,” added Olson, a Democratic candidate in Texas’s 24th Congressional District, which covers much of the suburban area in between Fort Worth and Dallas.
Olson, 62, made the comment during a several-minute answer to a question about what she thought about far-left calls to disband or defund police departments.
Olson started by saying that while "defunding" is a "tough word," explaining that she supports prioritizing funding services such as rehab centers and social workers.
“You can't just tackle the police, you've got to tackle some of the social injustice issues that are going on within our justice system,” Olson said. “You can't train racism out of folks.”
She criticized highly militarized police forces, leading into the criticism of snipers on the roof during a recent march in Dallas and then making the comment about looting and riots.
"This quote is being taken out of context," Rachel Perry, Olson's campaign manager, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. "As a combat vet, Colonel Olson knows first hand the human heartbreak of violence. She knows we cannot use force to fix a systemic problem of undue violence and discrimination perpetrated by those who are sworn to protect and serve. We have to rebuild from the ground up a color-blind public safety institution across America."
Texas’s 24th District will be an open seat in the November election since current Republican Rep. Kenny Marchant, who won reelection by about 3 points in 2018, is retiring at the end of his term.
The race is one of several dozen closely watched House seats this election cycle with the potential to flip from Republican to Democratic control. Cook Political Report rates the race as a “Republican toss up.” Politico also calls it a toss-up.
Olson is the front-runner in the primary for the Democratic nomination but must defeat educator and school board trustee Candace Valenzuela in a runoff election on July 14.
The winner will face former Irving, Texas, Mayor Beth Van Duyne, who easily won her Republican primary contest earlier this year, in the general election.
The decision on whether to support Olson or Valenzuela in the Democratic runoff is a contentious issue among national Democratic operatives and lawmakers. Minority lawmakers have urged the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to support Valenzuela, who is Latina and African American and comes from humble upbringings, but the DCCC declined to do so.
Olson unsuccessfully ran to be Texas’s agriculture commissioner in 2018, losing to Republican incumbent Sid Miller by about 5 points.
Her military career is a highlight of her resume — she was one of the first women to attend and graduate from military flight school — but it is also a potential liability. In the early 2000s, when she was stationed in Iraq, the Pentagon accused Olson of directing contracts to a private security firm that she helped operate. While Olson denies personally profiting from the arrangement, she pleaded guilty to charges that included creating the appearance of a conflict of interest, paid a $3,500 fine, and was permitted to retire with an honorable discharge. That history has not been a major issue in her campaigns or line of attack from her opponents.


Democratic House candidate Kim Olson: ‘If people loot, so what? Burn it to the ground’


A leading Democratic candidate in a closely watched House race brushed off looting and arson that occurred during nationwide unrest during protests about racism and police brutality sparked by the death of George Floyd.
“What the hell you got snipers on the roof for in a peaceful march? Even if people loot, so what? Burn it to the ground, you know, if that’s what it’s going to take to fix our nation,” retired Air Force Col. Kim Olson said during a live digital event on Tuesday, shown in a clip obtained by the Washington Examiner.
“I don’t think people want me to say that,” added Olson, a Democratic candidate in Texas’s 24th Congressional District, which covers much of the suburban area in between Fort Worth and Dallas.
Olson, 62, made the comment during a several-minute answer to a question about what she thought about far-left calls to disband or defund police departments.
Olson started by saying that while "defunding" is a "tough word," explaining that she supports prioritizing funding services such as rehab centers and social workers.
“You can't just tackle the police, you've got to tackle some of the social injustice issues that are going on within our justice system,” Olson said. “You can't train racism out of folks.”
She criticized highly militarized police forces, leading into the criticism of snipers on the roof during a recent march in Dallas and then making the comment about looting and riots.
"This quote is being taken out of context," Rachel Perry, Olson's campaign manager, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. "As a combat vet, Colonel Olson knows first hand the human heartbreak of violence. She knows we cannot use force to fix a systemic problem of undue violence and discrimination perpetrated by those who are sworn to protect and serve. We have to rebuild from the ground up a color-blind public safety institution across America."
Texas’s 24th District will be an open seat in the November election since current Republican Rep. Kenny Marchant, who won reelection by about 3 points in 2018, is retiring at the end of his term.
The race is one of several dozen closely watched House seats this election cycle with the potential to flip from Republican to Democratic control. Cook Political Report rates the race as a “Republican toss up.” Politico also calls it a toss-up.
Olson is the front-runner in the primary for the Democratic nomination but must defeat educator and school board trustee Candace Valenzuela in a runoff election on July 14.
The winner will face former Irving, Texas, Mayor Beth Van Duyne, who easily won her Republican primary contest earlier this year, in the general election.
The decision on whether to support Olson or Valenzuela in the Democratic runoff is a contentious issue among national Democratic operatives and lawmakers. Minority lawmakers have urged the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to support Valenzuela, who is Latina and African American and comes from humble upbringings, but the DCCC declined to do so.
Olson unsuccessfully ran to be Texas’s agriculture commissioner in 2018, losing to Republican incumbent Sid Miller by about 5 points.
Her military career is a highlight of her resume — she was one of the first women to attend and graduate from military flight school — but it is also a potential liability. In the early 2000s, when she was stationed in Iraq, the Pentagon accused Olson of directing contracts to a private security firm that she helped operate. While Olson denies personally profiting from the arrangement, she pleaded guilty to charges that included creating the appearance of a conflict of interest, paid a $3,500 fine, and was permitted to retire with an honorable discharge. That history has not been a major issue in her campaigns or line of attack from her opponents.

WALL STREET PLUNDERS - WILL IT EVER BE ANY DIFFERENT IN AMERICA?

Wall Street investment funds took control of Oregon’s private forests. Now, wealthy timber corporations reap the benefits of tax cuts that have cost rural counties billions.
by Tony Schick, OPB, Rob Davis, The Oregonian, and Lylla Younes, ProPublica

JOE BIDEN - I WILL CONTINUE BARACK OBAMA'S AGENDA OF MAKING ILLEGALS FIRST IN U.S.JOBS


THERE IS A REASON WHY BARACK OBAMA WANTED PEREZ TO SUCCEED LA RAZA HILDA SOLIS A SEC. OF (ILLEGAL) LABOR!

 

Interestingly enough, CASA de Maryland, a Soros-funded group dedicated to helping illegal immigrants flout U.S. immigration law that Perez headed up, took a $1.5 million donation in 2008 from the Venezuelan dictator.

 

Just How Bad Is Tom Perez?

 

Everyone seems to think the Democratic Party dodged a bullet in selecting former Labor Secretary Thomas Perez over radical Islamist Rep. Keith Ellison for party chairman. A look at Perez's record shows that the party dodged nothing.
Ellison's appeal to Democrats was in his openly deranged radical extremism, he was billed as the outsider, the upstart, the new wave to freshen up the stale party that had lost so badly last November. Perez was somehow declared the moderate by default. Fact is, he was just as extreme in his views, but less noisy than Ellison. Instead of Ellison's cacaphony and creepy associates, Perez had a actual track record. It could be summed up as one damaging-to-democracy act after another, all in the name of advancing he Democratic Party's partisan interests. What it means is that he places party over state, same as Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez did.
Interestingly enough, CASA de Maryland, a Soros-funded group dedicated to helping illegal immigrants flout U.S. immigration law that Perez headed up, took a $1.5 million donation in 2008 from the Venezuelan dictator. Perez seems to have taken Chavez's philosophy along with it, which isn't that surprising: His dad was a well-known henchman for Rafael Trujillo, the bemedaled, mirrored-sunglassed Idi-Amin-style thug dictator of the Dominican Republic who used to throw his opponents literally into the shark pools over his 30-plus years rule. Trujillo was the grotesque dictator featured in Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's Feast of the Goat. One cannot control who one's relatives are, of course, but Perez is notable for lying about it, not just in denying the relationship but in saying it was the opposite of what it was.
That baggage may have been why Perez did not secure the vice presidential slot for Hillary Clinton, but it was no obstacle to serving in the Obama administration. Starting out as President Obama's Assistant Attorney General in 2009 under far-left Attorney General Eric Holder, Perez headed up the controversy-filled civil rights division and showed what he was truly about.
Right out the gate, the Black Panther voter suppression controversy came up. New Black Panther Party goons were filmed lurking at voting stations with truncheons in a bid to intimidate voters in Philadelphia during the 2008 election. Instead of prosecuting the obvious violation of voter rights, Perez opted to drop charges. After all, it was his party that benefited. 
After that, the issue of undelivered and uncounted military ballots, affecting overseas servicemen came up. Perez's department did nothing to rectify the situation and declined to prosecute states or failing to deliver ballots. Only when they had been made aware that demographics were changing as to who the military voters were voting for, meaning Democrats, was any action at all taken. 
Then there was the effort to halt voter fraud in Florida, where Perez's DoJ filed a lawsuit to stop Florida from purging its voter rolls of 182,000 non-citizens. In June 2012, it was thrown out by a Clinton-appointed federal judge.
Perez filed race-baiting lawsuits against municipalities to force them to scrap written tests for police and firefighters to ensure affirmative action hiring. American Spectator's Quin Hillyer wrot Perez argued that black firefighter applicants who flunked 70% of their entrance exams should get a free pass to the New York firefighters academy. Ellison has nothing on Perez as an agent of racial division. A DOJ report
Perez also has led the Obama administration's charge against voter ID laws, attempting to halt a South Carolina case that according to Hillier, got " smacked down hard" by the U.S. District Court for the D.C. Circuit.
He also initiated additional junk lawsuits against peaceful anti-abortion protestors in Florida and against colorful Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
As for his own division of DOJ, a 250-page internal DOJ Inspector General's report blasted it for its hothouse atmosphere of racial grievance mongering, "with several incidents in which deep ideological polarization fueled disputes and mistrust that harmed the functioning of the Voting Section."  Some leadership.
This is the work of a rabid activist who sees advancing the leftist agenda and the party that has adopted it as the goal. The party's supremacy is his goal and the law is an obstacle. Sounds a heckuva lot like the Obama administration, which he exerted considerable influence over. Will the voters go for same-old, same-old? The current state of the Democratic Party seems to think there's a need for more of it.

THE REALITY OF OBAMA’S IN-SOURCING US INTO A THIRD WORLD DUMPSTER THAT WILL KEEP HIS WALL STREET PAYMASTERS HAPPY AND GENEROUS!


"Wage-cutting, speedup and the imposition of sweat shop conditions are at the heart of Obama’s strategy for doubling US exports by 2015. He has repeatedly boasted of his administration’s success in “insourcing” jobs back to the US, omitting to mention that these jobs often pay half their previous wage."
The danger, as Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson argues, is that of “importing poverty” in the form of a new underclass—a permanent group of working poor.

THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!


Obama and Justice Sotomayor Vow to Illegals to SABOTAGE E-verify!

VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?


“What employers really want in many cases by hiring immigrants is to hold down wage costs, experts say.”

UNDER OBAMA, TWO-THIRDS OF JOBS GO TO HIS PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS!


“At the hearing, Dr. Rakesh Kochar, Associate Director for Research at the Pew Hispanic Center, testified that in the year following the official end of the recession (June 2009), foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while native-born workers lost an additional 1.2 million jobs.”
"We have a situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said. "As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to immigrants."

Mr. Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and authorizes them to work in the United States.
Some Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.


OBAMA’S SEC. of (illegal) LABOR, LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS:



Michelle Malkin
 LA RAZA HILDA SOLIS - The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor 

President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open--borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not." (BUT THE PROBLEM IS… ONLY MEXICANS GET THE JOBS!)
That's right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws ---- or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.

FROM JUDICIAL WATCH .org
Labor Secretary Pledges Help For Illegal Workers
06/22/2010
Two months after the Department of Labor launched a special program to assist and protect illegal immigrants in the U.S. the Obama cabinet official who heads the agency is personally encouraging undocumented workers to report employers that don’t pay them fairly.
In a Spanish-language public service announcement, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis assures that “every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not.” Illegal aliens who are not getting fair wages are encouraged to call a new hotline set up by the agency on a new “Podemos Ayudar” (We Can Help) web page designed to administer worker protection laws and ensure that employees are properly paid “regardless of immigration status.”
In the short video, also posted in English, Solis tells illegal immigrants that it’s a “serious problem” when workers in this country are not paid fairly and that all workers have the right to receive their salary regardless of immigration status. She encourages those who are not to call the new hotline and assures it’s free and confidential. “Podemos ayudar,” (we can help), Solis guarantees at the end of the brief segment.
The Labor Secretary’s new message is part of a campaign launched a few months ago to help illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., who she refers to as “vulnerable” and “underpaid.” At least 1,000 new field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas with large numbers of illegal alien employees and the agency will focus on enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.
For a government agency to protect law breakers in this fashion may seem unbelievable but not if you consider the source. A Former California congresswoman, Solis has close ties to the influential La Raza movement that advocates open borders and rights for illegal immigrants. She made the protection of undocumented workers a major priority upon being named Labor Secretary, assuring illegal aliens that “if you work in this country, you are protected by our laws.”
"While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling "mules."

JOE BIDEN - 'I WILL REMOVE TRUMP FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND COMPLETE THE OBAMA COUP BY NOVEMBER.' - "“Obama would declare himself president for life with Soros really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.”


Everything about this coup is rapidly coming

to light, except for my theory of the Barack 

Obama restoration end game. We shall see. 

One thing is for certain, had Hillary been 

elected nothing about this coup would have 

come to light.

Biden: I’ve Thought About What Would Happen if Trump Refused to Leave Office
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During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden said that he has thought about what would happen if he won the election and President Trump refused to leave office and that he believes the military would remove President Trump “from the White House with great dispatch” if such a scenario took place.
Host Trevor Noah asked, [relevant exchange begins around 16:30] “Let me ask you this, and I know this is a strange question to ask an American politician, may be easier around the world, but have you ever considered what would happen if the election result came out as you being the winner and Trump refused to leave?”
Biden responded, “Yes, I have.”
After a break in the video, Biden stated, “I was so damn proud. You have four chiefs of staff coming out and ripping the skin off of Trump. And you have so many rank and file military personnel saying, whoa, we’re not a military state. This is not who we are. I promise you, I am absolutely convinced they will escort him from the White House with great dispatch.”
Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett



Obama is a dirty man. It's becoming clearer by the day. The collapse of the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense is exposing how the former president can smile at you whilst setting forth a plot to bring about your annihilation. We shouldn't be shocked; he did sign off on Fast and Furious that got a Border Patrol agent killed. Obama barely bat an eye.


It’s On: Graham Announces ‘In-Depth’ Hearings on Obama Administration Abuse
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham announced Thursday afternoon he will hold a series of “in-depth” hearings, starting in early June, on Crossfire Hurricane and other Obama administration abuses. 
“Our first phase will deal with the government’s decision to dismiss the Flynn case as well as an in-depth analysis of the unmasking requests made by Obama Administration officials against General Flynn.  We must determine if these requests were legitimate,” Graham released in a statement. “Our next area of inquiry, later this summer, will be oversight building upon the Horowitz report about FISA abuses against Carter Page.  My goal is to find out why and how the system got so off the rails.”
“Finally, we will look at whether Robert Mueller should have ever been appointed as Special Counsel.  Was there legitimate reason to conclude the Trump campaign had colluded with the Russians?” he continued. 
Thursday morning President Trump said he believes President Obama should testify, given his January 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting in which he discussed the monitoring of General Flynn. 


If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama. He knew EVERYTHING. Do it @LindseyGrahamSC, just do it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more talk!


“I am greatly concerned about the precedent that would be set by calling a former president for oversight. No president is above the law.  However, the presidency has executive privilege claims against other branches of government,” Graham said. “To say we are living in unusual times is an understatement.”
“We have the sitting president (Trump) accusing the former president (Obama) of being part of a treasonous conspiracy to undermine his presidency. We have the former president suggesting the current president is destroying the rule of law by dismissing the General Flynn case,” he continued. “As to the Judiciary Committee, both presidents are welcome to come before the committee and share their concerns about each other. If nothing else it would make for great television. However, I have great doubts about whether it would be wise for the country.”

We Now Know How Far Obama Was Willing to Go to Damage the Trump White House

Obama is a dirty man. It's becoming clearer by the day. The collapse of the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense is exposing how the former president can smile at you whilst setting forth a plot to bring about your annihilation. We shouldn't be shocked; he did sign off on Fast and Furious that got a Border Patrol agent killed. Obama barely bat an eye.
The 2016 election was supposed to have Hillary Clinton making history. Instead, she became a two-time presidential loser, whose only accomplishment was that she married Bill, who does have the political skill to win an election. And there was a lot of dirty laundry lying around from the FBI's disastrous Russian collusion outing. Obama wanted to make sure this investigation was protected, preferably hidden from the Trump team.
And then, the leaks began. For over two years, Obama's orders led to a coordinated media leak campaign. All of this, the entire Trump-Russia myth, was based on a shoddy opposition research document—the Steele dossier—which has been thoroughly debunked. And yet, "orange man…bad," so it engulfed the liberal media. Obama knew this, as did his team.
With ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn now exonerated, as he was revealed to be the victim of a malicious FBI prosecution that was groundless, the last pieces of this dead rotting collusion carcass are falling apart. The documents show that there was no evidence of Russian collusion regarding Mr. Flynn, there was no need for him to be interviewed, and the top FBI brass was out to get him no matter what—the Constitution be damned. There was an entrapment plot, which was long dismissed as tin foil hat speak. Nope. Obama had spent eight years politicizing the Department of Justice with Eric Holder. It was now a den of traitors, who drafted an open letter recently calling for Attorney General William Barr to resign, citing political interference. In reality, they're upset their whole circus act is coming down. It's the twilight zone; nearly 2,000 former Obama DOJ officials are upset that the current administration is following the…rule of law.
The New York Post editorial board scorched Obama for this latest chapter of this scandal, noting that all this showed, besides it being a hoax and politically motivated, was that Obama's Chicago political upbringing is very much ingrained with the alleged plot against Trump:
RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter — but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor?
It’s now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never had anything more substantial than the laughable fiction of the Steele dossier to justify the “counterintelligence” investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet incessant leaks from that supposedly confidential probe wound up consuming the Trump administration’s first months in office — followed by the Bob Mueller-led special counsel investigation that proved nearly the “total witch hunt” that President Trump dubbed it.
Information released as the Justice Department dropped its charges against Gen. Mike Flynn shows that President Barack Obama, in his final days in office, played a key role in fanning the flames of phony scandal. Fully briefed on the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, he knew the FBI had come up with nothing despite months of work starting in July 2016.
[…]
…then-President Obama also directed that as many people as possible across his administration be briefed on the (utterly unsubstantiated) allegations against Team Trump — and as Rice and others took unprecedented steps to “unmask” US citizens like Flynn whose conversations had been caught on federal wiretaps of foreigners.
Indeed, the Obama administration went on a full-scale leak offensive — handing the Washington Post, New York Times and others a nonstop torrent of “anonymous” allegations of Trumpite ties to Moscow. It suggested that the investigations were finding a ton of treasonous dirt on Team Trump — when in fact the investigators had come up dry.
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Say this about Obama: He knows how to play dirty.
Yeah, he sure does. He's a Democrat. They're all dirty. The FBI led a baseless and malicious crusade against Flynn, they spied on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign official, and ignored or disregarded standing department policy in its effort to honor Obama's final orders. And people think that Trump is the one who is cancerous to our institutions.

The FBI and the DOJ need to be overhauled. The top brass has to be purged. The agency, once admired for its impartiality and investigative prowess, as well as being the preeminent domestic intelligence service, is now in shambles. It can't be trusted. It's lost all credibility regarding being able to handle politically sensitive probes. And this is all thanks to Barry, who got duped by the Russians into pursuing this wild goose chase.
There must be more hearings on this, especially in the second phase of the Russian collusion delusion: the special counsel probe. Sally Yates, Susan Rice, Obama, James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and others involved in this deep state plot should be yanked back before Congress to address the Flynn fiasco. Wheel in the cots if they have to because no one should leave until all questions have been asked and then some.
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Obama is not stupid. He knows this. It's his road map.
“The Democrats would be clamoring for a suspension of the 22nd Amendment and calling for Barack Obama, to "restore calm and order", to step back into his role for the "good of the country". They will still call for Obama if the Democrats manage to Impeach and convict Trump.”
“Obama would declare himself president for life with Soros really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.”
“The bottom line 2 is this: Barack Obama is a Communist. This was all an Obama operation. Why is anyone surprised that a communist (Obama) tried to subvert an election. That is what Communists do. It is Barack Obama and his people like Brennan and Clapper behaving to type. That's what Maduro does in Venezuela. That's what the Castro brothers did. That's what every communist and socialist nation does. THEY FIX ELECTIONS!”

Right back to the White House. That was the plan all along
What no one will say, but I will, is that the ObamaGate/MuellerGate/SpyGate scandal is an ongoing plot to restore Barack Obama to the Presidency. Before heads explode let me explain.
To believe any part of my theory you have to get to certain assumptions. 

1) Obama never intended to leave office. Indeed he has a house a few blocks from the White House. 

2) Hillary and Obama despise each other and, had Hillary been elected, he would have undermined her as he is trying to undermine Trump. 

3) To make way for the Obama restoration The Constitution would have been shredded for the good of the country, and it would have been seen to have been done legally.
As Mark Levin says, we are in the middle of a slow motion soft coup
Joseph diGenova, former federal prosecutor and Trump loyalist, says the truth is starting to seep out about the Obama Administration’s “brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton” and “frame an incoming president with a false Russian conspiracy,” according to an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller

Dan Bongino, on Tucker Carlson's show, has called the operation a sting.
EARLY STAGES of the COUP
Mar 26, 2012 - SEOUL President Barack Obama was caught on camera on assuring outgoing Russian President and Putin Poodle Dmitry Medvedev that he will have "more flexibility" to deal with contentious issues like missile 
Dan Bongino, on Tucker Carlson's show, has called the operation a sting.
EARLY STAGES of the COUP
Mar 26, 2012 - SEOUL President Barack Obama was caught on camera on assuring outgoing Russian President and Putin Poodle Dmitry Medvedev that he will have "more flexibility" to deal with contentious issues like missile defense after the U.S. presidential election. I just happen to have it on film:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Sept 11, 2012 -- Benghazi: In the run up to Obama’s re-election Obama was running around claiming he had decimated Al Qaeda. One can only imagine the panic in the WH when the Al Qaeda attack occurred on our annex. So Hillary and Obama concocted the Muslim film cover up, jailed the filmmaker, and sent Susan Rice out to lie on all of the Sunday chat shows that the attack was all about the film.
Oct 22, 2012 -- During one of the Romney/Obama debates one of the moderators asked Romney who our greatest threat was. He said the Russians, Obama smugly “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”.
The annexation of Crimea by Putin’s Russia Federation occurred in March 2014. On 17 July 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17), a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that, was shot down while flying over eastern Ukraine, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.
The DNC SERVER HACK
The first indications of the Russian Hacking occurred in late 2015 and early 2016. Considering Wikileaks published the hack in July 2016 confirms the hack occurred at least 6 months before, long before Trump's campaign was really up and running.
Afterwards the DNC didn't let the FBI anywhere near the server. They let Crowdstrike go through it. And curiously, Obama and Comey's FBI seemed just fine being shut out of the loop and they couldn’t have anything about the hack leaking out. And when you are formulating a plan to get Hillary “elected” via exoneration, as Comey and Strzok were doing, you don’t want the pot stirred.
I wonder what Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz and Donna Brazile were trying to hide. Probably their own incompetence and the fact that Hillary and the DNC was playing Bernie Sanders by rigging the primaries.

And the Awan brothers, two Pakistanis that had been hired by Schultz, had access to everybody in Congress's emails because they were the IT guys...which means they also had access to the DNC server.
Then Obama began the essence of the coup. He said that our elections couldn't be hacked and that Trump should quit whining
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Then Obama got serious and really got tough. He told Putin to "Cut it out!"

The Russian hack damage was done on Obama's watch. Susan Rice (of the 5 Sunday Show Benghazi lies) ordered Michael Daniel, chief of cyber security investigating the hack, to stand down per Obama, according to a new book by Michael Isikoff and David Korn, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.”

THE PRE- ELECTION and POST ELECTION COUP
So here’s what we know from the Nunes memo (
https://www.scribd.com/docu...and the Grassly memo (http://www.powerlineblog.co....

Hillary kept a secret server overflowing with national security info which, more than likely, was hacked. June 28, 2016, on a Phoenix tarmac, Bill Clinton met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to seal a deal insuring Hillary would not be prosecuted. On July 5, 2016 James Comey exonerated Hillary when he said he would not prosecute, after Barack Obama said there is no evidence that Hillary did anything wrong. Lynch also instructed Comey to call the Hillary scandal a “matter”. 

Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok and Comey made sure the earlier draft language describing Hillary's actions as "grossly negligent" was changed to "extremely careless." That small change in wording has significant legal implications. "Gross negligence" in handling classified information carries criminal penalties.
The Hillary campaign also paid Fusion GPS to gather dirt on Trump which became the dossier, compiled by Brit agent Christopher Steele, relying on Russian sources. Steele and Fusion GPS gave the Dossier to the FBI and DOJ with the help of FBI employee Bruce Ohr's wife Nellie, who worked at Fusion GPS.
We also now that, per Strzok's recent testimony on July 12, 2018, that fourth highest ranking Justice Department official Bruce Ohr gave parts of the Russia dossier to the FBI and DOJ.
FBI guys James Comey and Andrew McCabe didn't bother to tell the FISA Judges under what circumstances the dossier was obtained and that it was unverified. In other words they lied to the FISA judge at least three times to get the warrants renewed, because the people who worked for them didn't want to see Trump elected.
Thus, the Department of Justice used the unverified dossier to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Carter Page, an alleged “foreign policy adviser” to Donald Trump and the last frayed thread of the Russian collusion story. The FISA court was not told who had paid Steele to create the “salacious and unverified” dossier — in the words of the showboating former FBI Director James Comey — much less about Steele’s personal hatred of Trump. And McCabe has testified that the Dossier was the basis of getting the FISA warrants. Two days later McCabe was fired.
And this now leads back to the Oval office. Texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reveal Obama wanted to be briefed on EVERYTHING happening in the "Russia" investigation – after he 'guaranteed' he wouldn't get involved. Lisa Page wrote her lover Peter Strzok about the Clinton probe: Obama 'wants to know everything we're doing'.
Obama had said he could 'guarantee' he wouldn't interfere and there would be 'no political influence' in the FBI investigation. This was after he ordered Rice to tell Michael Daniel chief of cyber security to stand down on the DNC server.
The September 2, 2016 text message was among more than 50,000 texts the pair sent during a two-year extramarital affair. Page was an FBI lawyer, and Strzok was a leading investigator on both the Clinton probe and the more recent Trump-Russia investigation. Strzok, though expected to be nonpartisan, also called Trump 'a ******g idiot' and texted Page about a cryptic 'insurance policy' against a Trump presidency.
In the spring of 2017, after James Comey was fired, deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein was planning on wearing a wire to secretly record Trump to gather damaging information in an effort to have him removed by recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment. Rosenstein, ironically, played a key role in the president’s dismissal of Mr. Comey by writing a memo critical of his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. It sounds like Rosenstein was trying to set up Trump from the day he was hired by the President. Rosenstein made the remarks in meetings with Department of Justice and FBI officials shortly after the May 9, 2017 firing of James Comey as FBI director.
And now, as Russia Collusion falls apart, Herr Reichsmarshall Mueller and his Kapo Rod Rosenstien engaged in a Gestapo like raid of Trump's lawyer to secure Trump's private papers.
THE HELSINKI SETUP
Folks, the coup attempt is ongoing.
Prior to Trump's Euro trip a dozen Russian GRU military intelligence officers were indicted by the Mueller investigation on charges they hacked Democrats’ computers, stole their data and published those files to disrupt the 2016 election. Promptly following Asst AG Rosenstein announced no votes were changed and no Americans were involved. You could hear the air go out of Democrat balloons especially when Rosenstein announced that Mueller was sending this case to the counterintelligence investigative department in the DOJ. No trial, no evidence, No nothing.
Rosenstein: "There’s no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime. There’s no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result." https://www.vox.com/2018/7/...
Obama and Brennan were weaponizing the CIA for years. Basically Trump called Brennan and his corrupt agency out. No wonder Brennan is pissed.
A lot of Obama's people are still at CIA, FBI, NSA, DOJ. Of course Trump doesn't believe any of the intel he gets from these still compromised agencies
The presser was a setup and Trump didn't take the bait. If Trump had acknowledged Russian meddling the press would have turned into Trump collusion and that would have been the narrative instead of all the over the top faux outrage..
THE OBAMA RESTORATION
We are in the middle of what Mark Levin calls a soft coup, involving Obama, Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Rhodes, Rice, Lynch, Power, McCabe, Mueller and rogue FBI/DOJ officials. The “resistance” to duly elected president Donald Trump, writes Michael Walsh, “was an intelligence operation from the start, engineered by Barack Obama, the FBI/DOJ nexus, James Clapper, John Brennan, Loretta Lynch, leading Democrats, rogue Republicans, and using a deeply partisan and thus compromised media as its vengeful Greek chorus.”
"Operation Crossfire Hurricane" was that small cabal of five rogue senior FBI and DOJ officials, and Obama officials who started this coup 100 days before the election was even decided. They set about to exonerate Hillary, illegally, and frame Donald Trump and the people in his campaign should he have won. The FBI went so far as to plant a mole inside the campaign to start asking questions on foreign policy, to later entrap Trump people. https://legalinsurrection.c.... Former Director of National Intelligence and serial lier James Clapper told CNN's Don Lemon that the president's claim that the Obama administration spied on his campaign is "hyperbole" but if it is true, it is a "good thing."

In the now released FBI IG report there is detailed several texts by Strozk and Page saying the following:
Lisa Page text to Peter Strzok: “(Trump’s) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
Strzok: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.” Was this Strozk's cryptic insurance policy? What could that be?
Strozk's and Page's 'insurance policy' might well have been one of two things. If the faux legal mechanisms (the Mueller investigation and impeachment) failed the 'insurance policy' may just be an on-call hit squad to take Trump out. Pence would have been denied his right to take office as he would have been falsely implicated as well.
Hillary was always small potatoes, a placeholder as it were. Her health was always suspect. And do you think the plotters would have let a doofus like Tim Kaine take office in the event that Hillary became disabled?
The Democrats would be clamoring for a suspension of the 22nd Amendment and calling for Barack Obama, to "restore calm and order", to step back into his role for the "good of the country". They will still call for Obama if the Democrats manage to Impeach and convict Trump
And then the door would slam shut. The FBI would basically become the State Police, so to speak, the DOJ a collection of corrupt prosecutors and the intelligence community the new KGB
Obama would declare himself president for life with Soros really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.
In his heart Obama is a small time, garden variety leftist Communist. During his eight years Obama just ran out of time and he was just too incompetent. Fortunately, he was also constrained (barely) by the Constitution. He didn't have the guts to follow through. But he has the totalitarian impulse. After all, he went around saying he didn't have Constitutional authority to legalize the illegals, and then he tried anyway. The courts stopped him.
The bottom line 1 is this: The Mueller investigation is simply a coverup for the three original crimes of this coup 1) the original illegal exoneration of Hillary by Comey to insure she won. 2) the penetration of the Trump campaign by an FBI mole during the late summer and early fall 3) the ongoing penetration by that mole of the Trump transition after the election and finally 4) the Special Council effort to destroy the Trump presidency in it's infancy.
The bottom line 2 is this: Barack Obama is a Communist. This was all an Obama operation. Why is anyone surprised that a communist (Obama) tried to subvert an election. That is what Communists do. It is Barack Obama and his people like Brennan and Clapper behaving to type. That's what Maduro does in Venezuela. That's what the Castro brothers did. That's what every communist and socialist nation does. THEY FIX ELECTIONS!!

The bottom line 3 is this: If Operation Crossfire Hurricane wasn’t a plot to restore Barack Obama to the Presidency, why wasn’t the op shutdown after the election was over? It wasn’t. Instead it ramped up with the appointment of a special prosecutor whose only reason d’etre is to cover up the original crimes during the primary season and in the run up to the election.

At this point the game is up. Even Clintonista Mark Penn writing at the Hill knows it's over. http://thehill.com/opinion/...

Everything about this coup is rapidly coming

to light, except for my theory of the Barack 

Obama restoration end game. We shall see. 

One thing is for certain, had Hillary been 

elected nothing about this coup would have 

come to light.