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Termin8tor » 01 Sep 2020, 11:55 am » wrote:
Misty: You didn't answer my question Precious.
Why is an FBI director appointed to a 10 year term?
I know you won't answer, so I'll answer it for you.
NON POLITICAL!
Blah, blah, blah blah. Every president expects political loyalty.
You can repeat that **** a hundred times.
It will not make it any more true.

The FBI director should only be loyal to the Constitution and the rule of law......period.
In 1976, Congress mandated a 10-year term for FBI directors.

The Justice Department later issued guidelines on how the FBI director was to deal with the White House and the president, and how to conduct investigations.

These guidelines have been reaffirmed, revised and reissued by subsequent attorneys general, most recently in 2009.

The guidelines state, for example: “Initial communications between the Department and the White House concerning pending or contemplated criminal investigations or cases will involve only the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General.”
 
These rules were intended to ensure the integrity of criminal investigations, avoid political influence and protect both the Justice Department and president.

https://www.inverse.com/article/32714-f ... -president
 
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Justice Department zeroing in on longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy

Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge longtime GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy in connection with efforts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests, according to people familiar with the matter, a result of a sprawling, years-long investigation that involved a figure who helped raise millions for Donald Trump’s election and the Republican Party.

Broidy is under scrutiny for his alleged role in a campaign to persuade high-level Trump administration officials to drop an investigation of Malaysian government corruption, as well as for his attempt to push for the extradition of an outspoken Chinese dissident back to his home country, according to the people, who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation.

He has been in discussions with the Justice Department and could ultimately reach a plea deal, they said.

The case has intensified in recent weeks, with prosecutors securing a guilty plea Monday from one of Broidy’s business associates, Nickie Mali Lum Davis, who admitted to taking part in what prosecutors have described in charging documents as a “back-channel lobbying campaign” to end the Malaysian corruption investigation and to return Chinese exile Guo Wengui to his home country.

Guo is a vocal online critic of the Chinese government who was once allied with that country’s government elite but is now wanted by authorities in Beijing on charges of fraud, blackmail and bribery. He has denied those charges and said they are politically motivated.

According to a charging document filed in her case, Davis admitted she aided and abetted the efforts of two others involved in the influence campaigns, identified only as Person A and Person B. People familiar with the matter identified them as former Fugees rapper Pras Michel and Broidy, respectively.

During a virtual hearing Monday before a federal judge in Honolulu, where Davis entered her guilty plea, prosecutors told a judge that charges may be filed against additional defendants in the case.

The Justice Department declined to comment. An attorney for Broidy declined to comment.

A previous attorney for Broidy has said he has “never agreed to work for, been retained by nor been compensated by any foreign government for any interaction with the United States government, ever.”

Broidy told the New York Times in 2018 in a statement: “This whole narrative is a fabrication driven by hackers who want to undermine me.”

Michel has similarly denied wrongdoing. His attorney declined to comment.

The investigation puts a renewed focus on efforts by people close to the president to shape the fate of Guo, who has succeeded in remaining in the United States.
In the past few years, the Chinese billionaire has been closely aligned with Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s former campaign chief and top White House strategist.

Bannon was on Guo’s yacht off the coast of Westbrook, Conn., when he was arrested last month on charges he fleeced donors who supported a group that claimed to be building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The investigation of Broidy has its roots in a massive probe of theft from a Malaysian government development fund that has come to be known by the shorthand “1MDB.”

In previous civil and criminal cases, federal prosecutors have alleged that stolen money that made its way into the United States was used to buy pricey real estate and even fund the award-winning movie “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak was accused of being involved in the corruption. He was convicted in July and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

At the center of the case is a Malaysian businessman named Low Taek Jho, who was indicted in 2018 and accused of funneling tens of millions of dollars into the United States in part to get the Malaysian corruption investigation dropped.

Low, who is facing multiple federal indictments, is believed to be in China, outside the reach of U.S. authorities. He has denied the allegations and said they are politically motivated.

According to court documents filed in association with Davis’s guilty plea this week, Broidy allegedly lobbied to have Guo removed from the United States at the request of Low and a Chinese government official.

Davis admitted she met with the Chinese official — who people familiar with the matter identified as Sun Lijun — and the two people identified as Broidy and Michel in a Hong Kong hotel suite in May 2017, and Broidy soon launched a campaign that reached the top of the administration, court filings show.

According to the documents and people familiar with the matter, Broidy allegedly made various entreaties to people in the administration or close to it, including President Trump’s then-chief of staff, Reince Priebus; his former deputy campaign chairman, Rick Gates; and the president himself.

At one point, Broidy also tried to enlist the help of casino magnate and Trump friend Steve Wynn, according to the documents and the people with knowledge of the case. In August 2017, Broidy and Wynn called Trump from Wynn’s yacht and asked about Guo’s status.

Davis also admitted in court that she connected multiple calls between Wynn and Sun.

Reid Weingarten, an attorney for Wynn, declined to comment but said his client has been cooperating with investigators and continues to do so.

Wynn and Broidy worked together as finance chairman and deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee after Trump’s election.

Wynn made his own attempt to pass a message about Guo directly to Trump from Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to two people with knowledge of the episode.

In a private meeting around June 2017, Wynn told Trump why Xi felt so strongly about the United States returning Guo to China, handing Trump two pictures of Guo, the people said.

At the time, Wynn had significant business interests involving China, operating a major casino in Macao.

Trump was eager to extradite Guo, as the Chinese wished, telling aides in an Oval Office meeting that he supported the plan, according to a former administration official familiar with his views.

Priebus passed along the extradition request to the National Security Council, where it was vetted by a senior White House lawyer, John Eisenberg, who conferred with then-White House Counsel Donald McGahn, the official said.

White House lawyers agreed that extradition, which was opposed by the Justice Department, would not be appropriate, according to the official. McGahn later told aides who asked about the status request, “We killed that,” the official said.

McGahn did not respond to requests for comment.

A White House spokesman referred questions about the episode to the National Security Council.

An NSC spokesman declined to comment and referred questions to the Justice Department.

During the 2016 campaign, Broidy, a Los Angeles-based investor, helped corral big donors to support Trump’s campaign.

After the election, he was appointed to serve as a national deputy finance chairman for the Republican National Committee.

Broidy resigned from that post in April 2018 in the wake of a report that he had paid a former Playboy model $1.6 million in exchange for her silence about a sexual affair.

Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen — another RNC fundraiser — helped arrange the settlement, Broidy acknowledged at the time.

As part of the Malaysian corruption probe, the U.S. government has previously alleged that Michel and a former Justice Department employee, George Higginbotham, opened U.S. accounts to move Low’s money into the United States and fund the lobbying effort.

Davis acknowledged that she helped route an $8 million retainer to Broidy for the influence campaign and that Low offered to pay a $75 million “success fee” as part of a contract with Broidy’s wife’s law firm if the 1MDB case was resolved within 180 days.

Higginbotham pleaded guilty in November 2018 to illicitly facilitating the transfer of tens of millions of dollars into the United States to finance the lobbying effort.

According to Davis’s criminal information and people familiar with the matter, Broidy met with Trump at the White House in October 2017 and told others that he raised the subject of the 1MDB investigation.

A former attorney for Broidy told the Wall Street Journal in 2018 that at no time did Broidy, his wife, “or anyone acting on their behalf, discuss Mr. Low’s case with President Trump, any member of his staff, or anyone at the U.S. Department of Justice.”

Text messages and emails quoted in Davis’s plea documents show that Broidy messaged Gates, Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman, and Priebus in 2017 about arranging a visit for Malaysia’s prime minister and a possible golf outing with Trump. An attorney for Gates declined to comment.

Priebus responded but was noncommittal, saying the NSC was working on the matter, according to court filings and the people. Priebus declined to comment.

The prime minister did visit, but he did not golf with Trump, according to the court documents.

The meeting was meant in part so the Malaysian prime minister could press Trump about ending the 1MDB case, according to the documents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html
 
 
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New questions about Trump inauguration money raised in book 'Melania and Me'

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff suggests chaos in the inaugural committee might have allowed millions to go unaccounted for.

The woman who organized Trump’s inauguration still has questions about where millions of dollars raised for the celebration went, and makes new allegations about how the Trump family tried to use the money to line its own pockets in her book “Melania and Me,” out Tuesday.

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Saw her interviewed on TV last night.
Melania tried to throw her good friend under the bus.
She's not having it.
 
 
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Murder is up in Trump’s America, and he can't just blame Democrats.

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The country’s 50 largest cities recently surveyed found they are all seeing a staggering rise in murders – a 24 percent increase this year so far over 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported. There have reportedly been 3,612 murders in 2020 so far.

According to the report, Chicago, Ill. has seen the biggest spike, claiming more than one of every eight murders reported out of all cities surveyed.

Murder rates increased in cities with typically high crime, such as Detroit and Philadelphia, but also areas not usually associated with violence, including Phoenix and Omaha, the WSJ reported.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/murder-rate- ... ies-report
 
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RickyTavy » 02 Sep 2020, 11:37 am » wrote:
Misty » 02 Sep 2020, 11:30 am » wrote: Saw her interviewed on TV last night.
Melania tried to throw her good friend under the bus.
She's not having it.
Turns out the world's most expensive hooker is of less than sterling character.  Who could have seen that coming?
Apparently after Melania turned on her, Ms. Winston Wolkoff started taping her conversations with her.
 
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Termin8tor » 02 Sep 2020, 8:23 am » wrote:
THE GAPING ASSHOLE: Blah, blah, blah blah. Every president expects political loyalty.
MISTY: You can repeat that **** a hundred times.
It will not make it any more true.

The FBI director should only be loyal to the Constitution and the rule of law......period.
Blah, blah, blah, every president expects political loyalty  and almost every one gets it.
Not from their FBI director.
Trump’s definition of loyalty from an FBI director is prosecuting his enemies and letting his friends go.
No president should ever expect that.
Termin8tor » 02 Sep 2020, 8:23 am » wrote: Never heard one single word of complaint out of you when Holder said he was Obama's "wingman" and covered up his crimes and scandals.

But you'll lie endlessly about Trump.
Holder was not the FBI director and he never covered up anything you filthy liar.
 
 
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DHS withheld July intelligence bulletin calling out Russian attack on Biden’s mental health.

In early July the Department of Homeland Security withheld publication of an intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement agencies of a Russian scheme to promote “allegations about the poor mental health” of former Vice President Joe Biden, according to internal emails and a draft of the document obtained by ABC News.

The draft bulletin, titled “Russia Likely to Denigrate Health of US Candidates to Influence 2020 Election,” was submitted to the agency’s legislative and public affairs office for review on July 7.

The analysis was not meant for public consumption, but it was set to be distributed to federal, state and local law enforcement partners two days later, on July 9, the emails show.

Just one hour after its submission, however, a senior DHS official intervened.

“Please hold on sending this one out until you have a chance to speak to [acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf]," wrote DHS Chief of Staff John Gountanis, according to an email obtained by ABC News.

That was nearly two months ago. But the bulletin was never circulated.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-wit ... d=72747130
So Russia is promoting “allegations about the poor mental health” of former Vice President Joe Biden.

How coincidental that Trump and his campaign are doing the same exact thing.

I'm sure there's no collusion going on.
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Termin8tor » 02 Sep 2020, 4:39 pm » wrote:
So Russia is promoting “allegations about the poor mental health” of former Vice President Joe Biden.

How coincidental that Trump and his campaign are doing the same exact thing.

I'm sure there's no collusion going on.
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"Promoting?" Anyone with eyes can see it, psycho,
Do you know what PROMOTING means you jackass?
Here's a hint.
It doesn't mean hidden.
They want everyone to see it.
That's why they are PROMOTING it on social media, just like they did to HRC in 2016.
Termin8tor » 02 Sep 2020, 4:39 pm » wrote: How ironic that the Russians' info is more accurate than the corrupt liberal American MSM, who are covering up his senility.
Your Dear Leader is the one talking about planes full of looters, rioters and anarchists dressed in black.
And protesters throwing bags of soup at police.
He's as nutty as a **** fruitcake.
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Russia is PROMOTING the idea that Biden’s stutter is a sign of dementia.
Answer this honestly Precious.
Is stuttering a sign of dementia?

 
 
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"Promoting?" Anyone with eyes can see it, psycho,
 
Do you know what promoting means you jackass?
Here's a hint.
It doesn't mean hidden.
They want everyone to see it.
That's why they are PROMOTING it on social media, just like they did to HRC in 2016.
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Pointing out what anyone with eyes can see isn't "promoting" anything, psycho. Slow Joe never had much of an IQ, and he's quite obviously a little senile.

What a shame the corrupt liberal MSM lack the integrity to report that.

They have become the American Pravda.

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Your Dear Leader is the one talking about planes full of looters, rioters and anarchists dressed in black.
And protesters throwing bags of soup at police.
He's as nutty as a **** fruitcake.
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Without your pre-written Talking Point Lies, you suck at lying.
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Russia is PROMOTING the idea that Biden’s stutter is a sign of dementia.
Answer this honestly Precious.
Is stuttering a sign of dementia?
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Stuttering?

Don't you mean doddering, incoherent and confused?
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Senile? Retarded? 
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Kenosha business owner declines President Trump photo-op, former owner replaces him.

A Kenosha business owner is accusing President Donald Trump of using his destroyed store for political gain.

Tom Gram’s century-old camera shop burned to the ground a week ago during the unrest in Uptown Kenosha.

Gram said he declined President Trump’s request to be a part of his tour of damage Tuesday in Kenosha.

Instead, a former owner of the shop was invited and he praised the president’s efforts.  

Gram has owned Rode’s Camera Shop since he bought the business from the Rode family eight years ago.

He worked at the store for more than four decades, but that all came to an end last Monday when the building went up in flames.  

Gram said he got a call Monday from the White House asking if he’d join the president on a tour that would showcase his leveled business, but Gram immediately refused.

“I think everything he does turns into a circus and I just didn’t want to be involved in it,” Gram said.  

To Gram’s surprise, he watched on TV as the president showed up with the store’s former owner and President Trump made it seem like the store was still his.“

John Rode III, owner of Rode’s Camera Shop,” President Trump said as he introduced Rode during a round table conversation on Tuesday.Rode does not own Rode’s Camera Shop.

However, he does own the property, located at 2204 Roosevelt Road in Kenosha, the site of Rode's Camera Shop.

Rode was in front of TV cameras during the tour and he commended President Trump’s response to the Kenosha unrest.

“I just appreciate President Trump coming today, everybody here does,” Rode said.

“We’re so thankful we got the federal troops here.

Once they got here things did calm down quite a bit.”

“A day earlier would have saved his store,” President Trump responded.

Gram said President Trump’s references to John Rode III as the owner of Rode’s Camera Shop and it being “his store” were deceptive.

Gram says he is disappointed Rode III’s comments Tuesday were construed to reflect the views of current ownership.  

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“I think he needs to bring this country together rather than divide it,” Gram said.

“I think there’s a lot of good people in this community and to say that only law enforcement is correct is not the message we need to hear right now,” Gram said.

TMJ4 News reached out to the White House to ask why President Trump claimed the business still belonged to the former owner, but we haven’t heard back yet.

TMJ4 was unable to reach Rode for comment.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/ke ... places-him
 
Everything about this presidency is fake.
 
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Termin8tor » 02 Sep 2020, 5:00 pm » wrote:
Russia is PROMOTING the idea that Biden’s stutter is a sign of dementia.
Answer this honestly Precious.
Is stuttering a sign of dementia?
Stuttering?
Yes, you gaping asshole.
Biden is a stutterer, and Trump and his charming offspring have ridiculed him for that.
Termin8tor » 02 Sep 2020, 5:00 pm » wrote: Don't you mean doddering, incoherent and confused?
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Senile? Retarded? 
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I know that's what you've been conditioned to say, but it's not going to work.
Biden is not the one who thinks that planes full of looting, rioting, ninja anarchists are flying around the country, and protesters are throwing bags of soup at the police.
 
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duck615 » 02 Sep 2020, 7:55 pm » wrote: Bye Bye Joe and Da Hoe
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Termin8tor » 03 Sep 2020, 11:39 am » wrote:
Kenosha business owner declines President Trump photo-op
Wow, one single person there doesn't support Trump?
One single person?
So you know everyone in Kenosha?
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This was just another phony photo-op like the Bible waving in front of a church on June 1st. 
They had to trick people into appearing at the RNC.
Four people who appeared in videos said they were not told that they would be part of the convention.
 
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Termin8tor » 03 Sep 2020, 11:37 am » wrote: You think he's hiding from voters and from fawning journalists because he's what, shy?
I know that hiding **** is the talking point you were told to spew, but FYI, Biden is NOT hiding.
Unlike Trump who keeps throwing super spreader events he's being responsible.
He just gave a speech and answered questions from the press in my state.
And today he was speaking in Kenosha.
 
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Termin8tor » 03 Sep 2020, 3:04 pm » wrote:
MistyI know that hiding **** is the talking point you were told to spew, but FYI, Biden is NOT hiding.
Oh, so we're not supposed to believe our own lying eyes.
he's not hiding,and he's not senile!
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You need to have your eyes checked.
He gave speeches in Pittsburgh and Kenosha just this week.
And he's not the one denying that he's had a stroke, when no one said that he had a stroke, talking about planes full of ninjas, bags of soup, or telling people to vote twice.

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