9/25/2019
9/25/2019
9/25/2019
By Mark Dice – 9/25/2019
By Shane Trejo
Itâs looking like her move will go down as one of the great miscalculations in political history after the release of another explosive revelation. A senior Trump administration official claims that the intelligence community inspector general determined that the whistle-blower who alleged Trumpâs wrongdoing was motivated by âpolitical biasâ due to their support for âa rival candidateâ of the President.
A different senior Trump administration official said to Fox News that the Trump administration is now working to release the whistle-blowerâs complaint to Congress, as it appears that Trump has baited desperate Democrats into making fools of themselves yet again.
Earlier today, Trump announced his intention to release the full transcript of his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He claims he has nothing to hide, but Democrats believe that Trump tried to strong-arm Zelensky into investigating his political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Biden boasted in 2016 during a meeting at the Council on Foreign Relations that he maneuvered to get a Ukrainian state prosecutor fired who was investigating a firm that employed his son, Hunter Biden. The admission that Biden would probably like to take back was immortalized on video.
The firm, Burisma Holdings, paid Hunter $50,000 per month to sit on its board. President Trumpâs lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has pointed out the ridiculous conflict of interest that went into this shady agreement.
âWhen Biden got the prosecutor fired, the new prosecutor who Biden approved â you donât get to approve a prosecutor in a foreign country unless something fishy is going on â the new prosecutor dropped the case,â Giuliani said.
Giuliani also believes that Biden and his son engaged in nefarious cronyism after traveling aboard Air Force Two to visit China in 2013. In the days following their trip, a Chinese businessman made a $1.5 billion donation to BHR Partners. BHR is a private equity firm with Hunter sitting on its board.
âWhen he comes back ⌠eight days later, the kid gets a billion dollars in his ridiculous private equity fund run by a recovering drug addict,â Giuliani said, referring to Hunterâs well-documented cocaine problem.
Not only are the Democrats attempting to impeach President Trump over yet another a nothing burger, but they are also putting the spotlight on their presidential front-runnerâs scandals. The Democrats continue to be their own worst enemies heading into yearâs crucial elections.
By Charlie Spiering
The president spoke about former Vice President Joe Bidenâs son Hunter Biden during the conversation:
Trump: ⌠I just want to let you know thatâs the other thing, Thereâs a lot of talk about Bidenâs son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you ¡can look into it ⌠It sounds horrible to me.
President Zelenskyy: I wanted to tell you about the prosecutor. First of all, I understand and Iâm knowledgeable about the situation. Since we have won the absolute majority in our Parliament; the next prosecutor general will be 100% my person, my candidate, who will be approved, by the parliament and will start as a new prosecutor in September. He or she will look into the situation, specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue. The issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue of making sure to restore the honesty so we will take care of.that and will wortk on the investigation of the case.
The president also spoke about Crowdstrike, the cybersecurity company used by the Democrat National Committee in 2016 to examine their hacked servers:
President Donald Trump: I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a
lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike⌠I guess
you have one of your wealthy people⌠The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the¡whole situation. I think youâre surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, ¡itâs very important that you do it if thatâs possible.President Zelensky: Yes it is. very important for me and everything that you just mentioned earlier. For me as a President, it is very important and we are open for any future cooperation. We are ready to¡open a new page on cooperation in relations between the United¡ States and Ukraine.¡ For that¡purpose, I just recalled our.ambassador from the United States and he will be replaced by a very competent and very experienced ambassador who will work hard on making sure that our two nations are getting closer.
Read the full document here:
Trump-Zelensky trancript by Breitbart News on Scribd
The investigation by the Southern District of New York, which focused on whether several prominent Washington lobbyists violated foreign lobbying rules, grew out of special counsel Robert Mueller‘s inquiry into the finances of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is now serving a 7.5 year sentence in federal prison.
Manafort had organized a public relations campaign for a non-profit called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, which promoted Ukraine’s image in the West from 2012 to 2014. Podesta’s Democratic-leaning lobbying firm, the Podesta Group, was one of many firms that worked on the campaign, including Weber’s firm, Mercury Public Affairs.
NBC News was the first to report in 2017 that Podesta and his firm had been ensnared in Muellerâs probe because of their work on the campaign.
Podesta is the chairman of the Podesta Group and the brother of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton‘s former presidential campaign chairman. John Podesta has not been affiliated with the Podesta Group since the 1990s and was not a subject of the investigation.
Both firms were being investigated for possibly failing to file Foreign Agents Registration Act reports for their work with the ECMU and on behalf of Ukraine, NBC News has previously reported.
According to an October 2017 indictment, the two lobbying firms were paid $2 million from offshore accounts controlled by Manafort for their work on the campaign.
In a statement to NBC News, Vin Weberâs attorney said they had been notified the investigation was over.
âAs we have previously stated, at all times Mr. Weber acted in good faith and in keeping with the legal advice his company received from its outside counsel,â Weberâs attorney Robert Trout said.
âWe are obviously pleased by this development,â Trout added.
Podesta did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.
The dropping of the investigation comes on the heels of the not guilty verdict in the trial of former Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig, another case that Mueller’s office had passed to federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.
In that case, the New York attorneys decided not to prosecute, sources said, and the case was ultimately brought by federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., only to result in an acquittal for Craig.
Several people briefed on the Podesta and Weber probe told NBC News they thought that the investigation into the two lobbyists had a better chance of succeeding than the probe into Craig, but in the end the legal hurdles wouldâve been too high.
By Joshua Caplan
The expected announcement comes as more than two-thirds of House Democrats now say they support impeachment in light of President Trump confirming that he suggested Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky probe Hunter Biden during a congratulatory telephone call in July. Pelosi will reportedly announce the new inquiry after the Democratic caucusâ meeting at 4:00 p.m. EST.
Earlier Tuesday, President Trump said he ordered White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to withhold tens of millions of dollars in military aid from Ukraine a week before he telephoned Kievâs leader.
Before making his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City Tuesday, the president told reporters he gave the order because he felt other allied nations werenât providing enough.
âAs far as withholding funds, those funds were paid,â President Trump said. âThey were fully paid.â
âI want other countries to put up money. I think itâs unfair that we put up the money,â he added. âThen other people call me. They said, âOh, let it go.â And I let it go. But we paid the money, the money was paid.â
While still at the United Nations, President Trump later announced that he would release the full transcript of his phone call with Zelensky.
âI am currently at the United Nations representing our Country, but have authorized the release tomorrow of the complete, fully declassified and unredacted transcript of my phone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine,â the president tweeted.
âYou will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call. No pressure and, unlike Joe Biden and his son, NO quid pro quo! This is nothing more than a continuation of the Greatest and most Destructive Witch Hunt of all time!â he added.
Though numerous congressional Democrats are now demanding an impeachment inquiry to be opened due to the Trump-Zelensky call, it remains unclear if the president broke the law by asking for an inquiry to be made into the Biden family. Further, the alleged âwhistleblowerâ who reportedly claims to possess knowledge of the president pressuring Zelensky, did not hear the pairâs conversation first hand.
As Breitbart News reported earlier this year, Biden forced out former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin as he was investigating an energy company called Burisma Holdings, which was paying Biden handsomely as a member of its board. The former vice president even boasted to the Council of Foreign Relations last year that he had threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid unless the prosecutor was fired. (He did not tell the audience about his sonâs role.) Conservatives claim Biden obstructed justice to protect his son â who enriched himself using his fatherâs prestige.
Meanwhile, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham hit out at reports regarding Pelosiâs expected announcement, saying in a statement âthe Democrats continue to weaponize politics when they should be working on behalf of their constituents, which is nothing new.â
âPresident Trump is working hard on behalf of our country here in NYC while they continue to scream the word impeachment. Nothing new here,â added Grisham.
The UPI contributed to this report.
By Shane Trejo
Southfield City Clerk Sherikia L. Hawkins faces six felony counts over âunauthorized and inaccurateâ changes that she allegedly made to absentee ballots last year. Liberal state officials are attempting to categorize Hawkinsâ behavior as a ârareâ case of fraud.
âVoting is fundamental to the very essence of our democracy,â Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said during a press conference on Monday. âIt is incumbent upon state governments to safeguard the electoral process and ensure that every voterâs right to cast a ballot is protected.â
Hawkins is being accused of illegally altering 193 absentee voter records. The evidence of her wrongdoing was allegedly spotted during the 14-day canvass following the election. Irregularities were initially discovered by the Oakland County Clerkâs Office, which prompted the investigation resulting in Hawkins being charged.
According to an affidavit filed by state police, Oakland County Elections Director Joseph Rozell noticed some inconsistencies with the ballots while certifying absentee precincts in Southfield. Rozell âcontacted Hawkins when he noticed that ballot summary sheets were blank.â
After questioning Hawkins about the errors, he noted âthat the ballot return dates for voters were added or removed from the report in order to force the reports to balance to the number of ballots tabulated for each precinct on Election Night.â
âIt appears that Hawkins had switched her original reports with altered reports,â wrote Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Larissa LaMay in the report.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who formerly served on the board of directors for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), maintains that âthere were no voters that were disenfranchisedâ by Hawkinsâ actions.
âAll valid votes in the election were ultimately counted and the final official vote total was accurate,â Benson said.
Benson has announced that the state Bureau of Elections will work with the clerkâs office in Southfield to ensure that the upcoming elections this year on Nov. 5 will be officiated properly while Hawkins is placed on administrative leave.
âOur elections are the foundation of our democracy, and under my and Attorney General Nesselâs administration there will be no tolerance for any actions that undermine that foundation â anywhere, anytime, by any person or official,â Benson said.
Hawkins is considered a Democrat Party leader in high standing in the state of Michigan. She received the Dingell/Levin Award at the Michigan Democrat Partyâs Legacy Dinner in Detroit just a few months ago.
Michigan Democrats are now scurrying to disavow a disgraced public official who was recently considered a rising star in their party fold.
âAbsentee ballots will start to go out this week for the upcoming November municipal election and Secretary Benson has removed Clerk Hawkins from administering this election,â said state Sen. Jeremy Moss and Rep. Kyra Harris Bolden, two Democrats who represent Southfield in the Michigan state legislature, in a joint statement.
âWe can assure our Southfield neighbors that their votes will be counted,â they added.
By Jim Hoft
President Trump called out China, Iran, North Korea and the Taliban.
President then called out the open borders social justice activists.
President Trump: Illegal immigration is one of our most critical challenges which undermines prosperity, rips apart societies and empowers US criminal cartels. Mass illegal migration is unfair, unsafe and unsustainable for everyone involved⌠The receiving countries are overburdened with more migrants than they can responsibly accept. And the migrants themselves are exploited, assaulted and abused by vicious coyotes. early Nearly one-third of women who make their way to our border are sexually abused. Yet here in the United States and around the world there is a growing cottage industry of radical activists and non-governmental organizations that promote human smuggling. These groups encourage human smuggling. These groups encourage illegal migration and demand erasure of national borders. Today I have a message for those open borders activists who cloak themselves in the rhetoric of social justice. Your policies are not just. Your policies are cruel and evil. You are empowering criminal organizations that prey on innocent men, women and children.
He then thanked Mexican President Lopez Obrador for his assistance at the US southern border.
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