8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (59)
#19414723 at 2023-08-24 00:20:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23843: TheY Ridin Dirty, Trump Got Em All Edition
>>19414456
Why does PDJT call him?
Giuliannie?
Turkey?
Did he get a certain money launderer a SWEET DEAL?
During the 2016 campaign, Trump adviser Michael Flynn - eventually Trump's first national security adviser - did lobbying work indirectly for the Turkish government. News reports suggested that his advocacy at one point included mulling over a scheme to extradite Gulen back to Turkey. Zarrab himself has been represented by two attorneys whose names might be familiar to Americans: Michael Mukasey, a former attorney general, and Trump's own attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani. The pair even met with Erdogan in early 2017, reportedly to try to resolve the Zarrab case.
At some point that year, Trump directly tried to intervene. With Giuliani and Mukasey in the room, Trump reportedly asked then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to try to get the Justice Department to drop the case against Zarrab. The president also suggested he speak with Giuliani about the case. Tillerson refused.
Giuliani admitted to trying to work out a deal in which Zarrab might be traded for Andrew Brunson, an American pastor who was detained by Turkey on trumped-up espionage charges. (Erdogan seems to have intended that Brunson be swapped instead for the cleric Gulen, reportedly saying at one point, "Give us the priest and take this one.")
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/10/turkey-iran-gold-Giuliani-trump-guide-case-reza-zarrab/
#18318617 at 2023-02-10 12:17:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22451: Momentum To Freedom Edition
>>18318603
"Hunter Biden has officially rebuffed the House Republicans.
In a letter Thursday to the head of the House Oversight Committee, attorney Abbe Lowell said the panel "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose" in seeking documents from his client.
"Rather than engage in back-and-forth letter writing campaigns or any formal proceedings, I would offer to sit with you and your staff, including the ranking member and his staff, to see whether Mr. Biden has information that may inform some legitimate legislative purpose and be helpful to the committee," Mr. Lowell wrote in a letter to Rep. James Comer, Kentucky Republican.
Last week, Mr. Lowell called for investigations into the leak of Mr. Biden's discarded laptop computer, which has been the source of information that Republicans on the committee say proves the president was aware of, and potentially involved in, his son's money-making ventures, despite his numerous denials.
In letters to the Justice Department and Delaware attorney general, Mr. Lowell asked for probes into Delaware computer repairman Mac Isaac and Trump insiders Rudolph W. Giuliani and Steve Bannon for "unauthorized access, copying and dissemination of [Hunter] Biden's personal information."
One lawyer familiar with the letters said Mr. Lowell could be aiming to stymie the ongoing congressional investigation into the younger Mr. Biden by tying up the laptop in an ongoing criminal investigation.
Mr. Comer's demands of the president's son marked a significant expansion of the Republican-led probe into Mr. Biden's potential involvement in his son's foreign business deals."
#18252286 at 2023-01-30 08:38:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22364: The End Is Coming Edition
>>18252244
Former Vice President Mike Pence proclaimed his loyalty to former President Donald Trump, while chronicling his time as his No. 2 in a video promoting his new book.
Mr. Pence described the role of a vice president as being to serve the president and advance the president's agenda, noting his "active" role taking on the job under Mr. Trump.
The former vice president has sought to brand his agenda as one that balances Mr. Trump's "America First" policies with Ronald Reagan-era conservatism, as he potentially eyes a 2024 bid for the White House.
In an early excerpt of his book published in Axios, Mr. Pence said he regretted Mr. Trump's decision to put Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sidney Powell in charge of his legal strategy for contesting election results, tying it to the 2021 Capitol riot.
"The seeds were being sown for a tragic day in January," Mr. Pence wrote.
https://wwW.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/1/mike-pence-says-he-was-always-loyal-trump-despite-/
#18135105 at 2023-01-13 05:21:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22233: Shill Full House: Seent Some Shit, Aliens? #ReleaSETHmemo Edition
ICYMI -
"Special Grand Jury in Georgia Trump Inquiry Concludes Its Investigation"
"Ahearing will be held on Jan. 24 to determine whether the report will be made public,as the special grand jury is recommending, according to the judge's order. Special grand juries cannot issue indictments, so any criminal charges would have to be sought from one of the regular grand juries that consider criminal matters in the county."
"…The office of Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, has spent two years investigating whether Mr. Trump and his allies violated any Georgia laws as they tried to overturn President Biden's victory there in 2020. Prosecutors are known to haveinformed nearly 20 people that they may face criminal charges as a result of the investigation. Their targets include Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump's former lawyer, and David Shafer, the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party."
"It is not yet clear if Mr. Trump himself is at risk of facing charges in the investigation."
"The creation of an alternate slate of bogus Georgia presidential electors after the 2020 election has also been a subject of intense scrutiny, and some legal analysts have said that scheme in particular could lead to charges under the state's version of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO.Each of the Trump electors has been told they are a target who could face charges, according to their lawyers or related court filings…"
"…Mr. Trump has derided the Georgia investigation as a "witch hunt." Last January, at an event in Conroe, Texas, he lashed out at Ms. Willis and other prosecutors conducting investigations of him, calling them "vicious" and "racist" (Ms. Willis, a Democrat, is Black)."
https://wwW.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/us/trump-georgia-election-grand-jury.html
https://apnews.com/article/politics-georgia-donald-trump-juries-united-states-government-fc08d39209ce3be768d933f96a434abf
#17485326 at 2022-09-03 00:28:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21433: MEME THEM ALL TO DEATH Edition
Wonder how much longer Communist MSM can keep all of Rudy's and Chanel Rion's Investigative work suppressed?
Shiny penny: Trump issues 12-page statement whining about immigrants and the economy during Jan. 6 hearings Raw Story?-?Jun 13 (Rudy in Pic)
Former President Donald Trump sent out a?12-page statement, with footnotes, attacking the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress by saying that "millions and millions of illegals are invading the border."
The statement is a hodge-podge of allegations and attacks reminiscent of those Trump is known to use like "fake news," "perfect call," "no collusion," and "witch hunt." He also used his signature sarcasm to lodge nicknames against the body like "unselect committee," and "pseudo-committee."
POTUS' linked 12-page statement: https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/e7/e746fae9-7a5f-462d-a0dd-dd9a11895451/statement-by-president-donald-j.-trump.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ncl_amplify&utm_campaign=20220613-statement_by_donald_j_trump_45th_president_of_the_united_states_of_america&utm_content=ncl-WeyXbMHzvA&_nlid=WeyXbMHzvA&_nhids=bO2KhGme
A 'minor player' and a 'shiny object': Trump's legal team tries to explain away Rudy Giuliani Jan. 27, 2020 at 11:08 p.m. UTC
For months, there have been whispers and prognostications about whether President Trump's impeachment legal team would throw his most visible personal attorney under the bus. It got to the point where Rudolph W. Giuliani quipped that if it did, he?had very good (health) insurance....
Trump lawyer Jane Raskin appeared on the Senate floor to offer a lengthy defense of Giuliani's work, all while emphasizing that he was a "minor player" and a "shiny object" that Democrats were using to distract people.
Raskin said Democrats would have subpoenaed Giuliani if they were serious about getting to the bottom of his actions, ignoring that they did subpoena him for documents related to his Ukraine work, and?he ignored it.
Then came the really strained argument. She criticized them for creating a "false dichotomy" in which they said Giuliani either had to be on official business pursuing U.S. foreign policy, or he was a personal attorney digging up dirt on a political opponent. She said that, in fact, Giuliani's effort was as a personal attorney, but that it was aimed at clearing his client's name from the Russia investigation.
"It's in plain sight, and Mr. Giuliani has told any number of news outlets exactly when and why he became interested in the issue: It had nothing to do with the 2020 election," Raskin said. "Mayor Giuliani began investigating Ukraine corruption and interference in the 2020 election way back in November of 2018 - a full six months before Vice President Biden announced his candidacy and four months before the release of the Muller report ..."
…Rudy, believed the Ukrainians' evidence could assist in his defense against the Russian collusion investigation and former special counsel Robert Mueller's final report." ...
When there have been questions about why he'd be targeting the Bidens, though, he has argued it's about corruption and that the United States has a real interest. "I'm not acting as a lawyer," he?told the Atlantic?in September. "I'm acting as someone who has devoted most of his life to straightening out government."... Impeachment: What you need to read
Updated January 27, 2020 Here's what you need to know to understand the?impeachment trial of President Trump.... WaPo https://archive.ph/0DA4V
#16944027 at 2022-08-01 09:19:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21245: Dedicated To 45 Edition
PHOENIX - This spring, Mark Finchem traveled to Mar-a-Lago for the premiere of a documentary advancing the specious notion that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from President Donald J. Trump by an army of leftists stuffing drop boxes with absentee ballots. As a state representative and candidate for secretary of state in Arizona, Mr. Finchem was a minnow among the assembled MAGA stars, the likes of Rudolph W. Giuliani and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.
But he still got his face time.
"President Trump took 20 minutes with me," Mr. Finchem later recounted during a campaign stop. "And he said: 'I want you to understand something. The Arizona secretary of state race is the most important race in the United States.'"
https://wwW.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/us/politics/mark-finchem-arizona-elections.html
#15958992 at 2022-03-27 23:44:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20182: Crazy News, Crazy Bake Edition
>>15958828
>>15958924
>ut Thomas wrote to Meadows,"I hope this is true; never heard anything like this before, or even a hint of it. Possible???"
as I suspected, She was asking if the rumors were possible.
This was a troubled time for Trump. News organizations had declared Biden the winner on Nov. 7, after a review of vote totals in each state and the electoral count. Trump's legal operation was divided between his campaign's official lawyers and Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump's confidant and personal attorney who was fast asserting control of his campaign's legal strategy. While many Republicans supported Trump's filing of legal challenges in several states, his lawyers stumbled in court and many allies by mid-November were privately confiding that Trump's legal battle would be short-lived.
Yet Thomas urged Meadows to plow ahead, rally Republicans around Trump and remind them of his enduring political capital.
"Where the heck are all those who benefited by Presidents coattails?!!!" she wrote in her text message to him late on Nov. 10. She then told him to watch a YouTube video about the power of never conceding.
Meadows might not have been Thomas's only contact inside the Trump White House that week. On Nov. 13, she texted Meadows about her outreach to "Jared," potentially a reference to Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior White House adviser. She wrote, "Just forwarded to yr gmail an email I sent Jared this am.Sidney Powell & improved coordination now will help the cavalry come and Fraud exposed and America saved."The messages provided to the House select committee do not show a response by Meadows.
Kushner did not respond to a request for comment.
Powell was becoming ubiquitous on television - and winning the president's favor, according to several Trump advisers - as she claimed without evidence that electronic voting systems had stolen the election from Trump by switching millions of ballots in Biden's favor. She claimed, again without evidence, that hundreds of thousands of ballots were appearing out of nowhere and that a global communist conspiracy was afoot involving Venezuela, Cuba, and probably China.
Still, while Trump cheered some of Powell's commentary, she was a polarizing figure in his orbit. Her views were considered so extreme and unsupported by evidence that David Bossie, a longtime Trump supporter, told others that she was peddling "concocted B.S." After Fox News host Tucker Carlson contacted Powell about her claim that electronic voting machines had switched ballots to Biden, he told his viewers that he found her answers evasive and that she had shown no evidence to support her assertion. He stopped having her on his program.
Ginni Thomas stood by her."Don't let her and your assets be marginalized instead…help her be the lead and the face," she wrote to Meadows on Nov. 13.
The following day, Nov. 14, Thomas sent Meadows material she said was from Connie Hair, chief of staff to Gohmert. It is not clear if she was passing on a message from Hair or sharing Hair's perspective as guidance for Meadows. The text message seems to quote Hair's belief that "the most important thing you can realize right now is that there are no rules in war."
#15906542 at 2022-03-20 21:16:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20115: It's Been a Hell of a Ride. God Bless You Edition
Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald
At the time CIA got huge numbers of corporate outlets to spread its lie that the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation," actual reporters at the WPost warned Biden constantly maligns incriminating reports as "Russian disinformation" with no evidence:
Biden relies on pattern of activity to blame Russia for release of data from what is said to be his son's laptop
Joe Biden leaned heavily on a letter from former U.S. intelligence and defense officials in Thursday night's debate to argue that Russia orchestrated a disinformation operation allegedly involving damaging information obtained from his son's laptop that was promulgated by President Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
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"There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he's accusing me of is a Russian plant," Biden said at the debate. The former vice president said those former officials had concluded that what Trump was citing about his son was "a bunch of garbage."
But the former intelligence and defense officials who penned the letter explicitly said they had no evidence of Russian involvement, noting only that Giuliani had been the target of Russian spies and their experience made them "deeply suspicious" that the Russian government played a role.
The Biden campaign's decision to lean into accusations of Russian involvement in the episode, despite lacking specific proof, risks eroding public trust in U.S. allegations of foreign election interference if the suspicions in this case turn out to be unfounded, according to intelligence and foreign policy experts. Trump already has undermined such trust by casting doubt on proved Russian interference on his behalf during the 2016 campaign and denigrating U.S. intelligence officials.
"Biden is holding himself to a higher standard than Trump. Then we should hold Biden to a higher standard as well," said Thomas Rid, professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University and author of a book on the history of disinformation and political warfare. "And that means acknowledging in this case that we just don't have the evidence."
The Biden campaign's assertion of Russian involvement in the Hunter Biden leaks comes as the Democratic nominee campaigns on restoring truth and transparency to the U.S. government.
Trump's director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, said publicly that there is no intelligence to support allegations that the leak of materials related to Hunter Biden was "part of a Russian disinformation campaign."
But Ratcliffe's statement was interpreted broadly as a partisan gesture designed to bolster a disinformation campaign being launched directly by Trump's allies, rather than a formal assessment from the U.S. intelligence community.
There are also indications that the Trump administration has sought to downplay the threat of Russian interference in the campaign. A senior Department of Homeland Security official said in September that he was told to stop providing intelligence reports on the Russian threat, in part because it "made the President look bad."….
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1505179639043534850?s=20&t=zuEoGjGGlQ7KS62sPVohJw
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1505217926021926915?s=20&t=zuEoGjGGlQ7KS62sPVohJw
#15664703 at 2022-02-19 10:47:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19807: Saturday early Ebake Edition
>>15664645 Went to the DoS FOIA reading room looking for documents related to Rob Walker.
Found this one - Kenneth Vogel of the NYT submitted a Dept of State FOIA which listed Rob Walker among others; the case was opened AND CLOSED on the same day: 6/4/2021
Broke out the request into separate lines for ez digging. (Not going to watch the whole thing again to hear one sentence, but IIRC in part three of the Guliani / Chanel Rion three-part Ukraine investigative report, Guiliani says "Watch Romania" - related to money laundering operations.)
Correspondence sent or received by the following U.S.
Embassy Officials in the U.S. Embassy in Romania
mentioning the keywords listed:
U.S. EMBASSY OFFICIALS
1) Ronald E. Hawkins
2) Hans G. Klemm
3) Scott A.Reese
4) Abigail M.Rupp
5) Dean Richard Thompson
KEYWORDS:
1) Devon Archer or darcher@rosemontcapital.com or devon@rstp.com
2) George Argentopoulos
3) Baneasa
4) Patti Bescript or bescript@freehgroup.com
5) Hunter Biden or Robert H. Biden or hbiden@rosemontseneca.com
6) Christopher Boies or cboies@BSFLLP.com
7) Jim Bucknam or bucknam@freehgroup.com
8) Gabi Ciocoiu or Gabi.Ciocoiu@baneasa.ro
9) Louis Freeh or Louie Freeh or freeh@freehsporkinsullivan.com or freeh@freehgroup.com
10) Mark Gitenstein or mgitenstein@mayerbrown.com
11) Rudy Giuliani or Rudolph W. Giuliani
12) Michael J. Gottlieb or Mike Gottlieb or mgottlieb@bsfllp.com
13) Bogdan Micu or Micu Bogdan Florin or bogdan.micu@mnpartners.ro
14) Gabriel Popoviciu or Puiu
15) Andreia Pislaru or andreia.pislaru@aplaW.ro or andreia.pislaru@nplaW.ro
16) John Sandweg or john.sandweg@frsdc.com
17) Eric Schwerin or ESchwerin@rspinv.com or ESchwerin@rosemontseneca.com
18) Rob Walker or rob@rstp.com
(Date Range for Record Search: From 8/1/2015 To 12/14/2019)
https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=%22rob%20walker%22&beginDate=&endDate=&publishedBeginDate=&publishedEndDate=&caseNumber=
#15414301 at 2022-01-19 17:03:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19497: Army Navy Marines Air and Space Force Edition
House Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Giuliani, Sidney Powell
The House committee investigating the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, issued subpoenas Tuesday to members of former president Donald Trump's outside legal team who pursued and disseminated unfounded claims of mass election fraud, including Trump's former personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, former White House aide Boris Epshteyn, and lawyers Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
"The four individuals we've subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes," Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement.
Thompson's statement added, "We expect these individuals to join the nearly 400 witnesses who have spoken with the Select Committee as the committee works to get answers for the American people about the violent attack on our democracy."
The committee has also subpoenaed and obtained records of phone numbers associated with Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiance of Donald Trump Jr., a person familiar with the committee's work, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed Tuesday. The news was first reported by CNN.
[…]
The committee is also seeking a deposition from Powell, as well as documents related to her claims of election fraud on behalf of the former president. Powell, who did not respond to request for comment, raised millions off her efforts to reverse the election results. Federal prosecutors last fall demanded the financial records of multiple fundraising organizations she founded to pay for election litigation.
Eric Trump and Guilfoyle, meanwhile, are among more than 100 people whose phone records have now been subpoenaed as part of the investigation - but their subpoenas are the first involving the communications records of a member of Trump's family. The Post has previously reported on Guilfoyle's role working with Julie Fancelli, a top-tier Trump donor who is the largest publicly known donor to the rally that preceded the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Guilfoyle and Eric Trump both appeared onstage at the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally.
The latest tranche of subpoenas comes as the committee has ramped up efforts ahead of the public phase of its investigation.
"We're piecing together information from the President's inner circle and others who were in a position to see and hear what the plot was leading up to the riot," committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) told CNN in an interview Monday.
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/18/rudy-Giuliani-sidney-powell-house-committee-subpoeanas/
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1483846660203630600
#14644154 at 2021-09-23 17:28:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18524: Brian Laundrie will be found on the 24th Suicided. Prove me wrong Edition
Biden Regime to Release Info on Trump and Jan. 6 to Congress - Trump to Cite "Executive Privilege"
The Biden Regime is contemplating releasing information to Congress about what Trump and his inner circle were doing on January 6 during the Capitol protest.
Trump however said he will cite "executive privilege" to block requests from the Democrat-led House select committee.
"The highly partisan, Communist-style 'select committee' has put forth an outrageously broad records request that lacks both legal precedent and legislative merit," Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said in a statement. "Executive privilege will be defended, not just on behalf of President Trump and his administration, but also on behalf of the Office of the President of the United States and the future of our nation."
According to the Washington Post, the Biden Regime will likely disclose the documents to Congress in an effort to harass Trump and create more legal problems for the former president.
WaPo reported:
The White House is leaning toward releasing information to Congress about what Donald Trump and his aides were doing during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol despite the former president's objections - a decision that could have significant political and legal ramifications.
Trump has said he will cite "executive privilege" to block information requests from the House select committee investigating the events of that day, banking on a legal theory that has successfully allowed presidents and their aides to avoid or delay congressional scrutiny for decades, including during the Trump administration.
But President Biden's White House plans to err on the side of disclosure given the gravity of the events of Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with discussions who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
In response to the House panel's request, the National Archives has already identified hundreds of pages of documents from the Trump White House relevant to its inquiry. As required by statute, the material is being turned over to the Biden White House and to Trump's lawyers for revieW.
The committee's Aug. 25 letter to the National Archives was both sweeping and detailed, asking for "all documents and communications within the White House on January 6, 2021, relating in any way" to the events of that day. They include examining whether the White House or Trump allies worked to delay or halt the counting of electoral votes and whether there was discussion of impeding the peaceful transfer of power.
The letter asked for call logs, schedules and meetings for a large group, including Trump's adult children, son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and first lady Melania Trump as well as a host of aides and advisers, such as his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Meanwhile, the House Democrats are simultaneously working on new legislation dubbed "Protecting Our Democracy Act" to be able to go after ex-presidents (Trump).
"The measure would limit a president's pardon power, require presidential candidates to be transparent with their tax records, and extend a deadline for prosecuting former presidents and vice presidents for federal crimes committed before or during their time in office." NBC News reported.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler popped off on Thursday and said once a president leaves office, the statute of limitations will have run out.
"This policy has turned presidency into a get-out-of-jail free card," Nadler said.
https://wwW.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/showdown-biden-regime-release-info-trump-jan-6-congress-trump-cite-executive-privilege/
https://wwW.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/showdown-biden-regime-release-info-trump-jan-6-congress-trump-cite-executive-privilege/
#13566059 at 2021-05-02 20:30:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17180: The DeepState US Cabal Tanked The US Census Numbers Edition
NYT, Washington Post, NBC Retract Incorrect Reporting On Giuliani's Contact With FBI
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NBC News have retracted earlier reporting that incorrectly stated former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was directly warned by the FBI that he was targeted by a Russian intelligence influence operation.
The stories came after federal investigators executed a search warrant at the home and office of the former New York mayor. The searches were allegedly linked to Giuliani's dealings in Ukraine, while Giuliani said he believes the search warrant was issued because he allegedly failed to file with the Department of Justice (DOJ) for representing a Ukrainian national or office. He has since denied any wrongdoing.
The Post was the first to report the incorrect information. It also incorrectly stated that One America News had also received a similar warning from the FBI.
"This version has been corrected to remove assertions that OAN and Giuliani received the warnings," the correct appended on the article states.
The NY Times made its correction on a story about Giuliani's alleged role in the 2019 recall of ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch.
"An earlier version of this article misstated whether Rudolph W. Giuliani received a formal warning from the F.B.I. about Russian disinformation. Mr. Giuliani did not receive such a so-called defensive briefing," the correction states.
Meanwhile, NBC News elaborated on why it corrected the story, saying that a second source disputed the assertions of the first source as the briefing was only prepared for Giuliani and not delivered to him. Both sources were anonymously cited in the article.
"The report was based on a source familiar with the matter, but a second source now says the briefing was only prepared for Giuliani and not delivered to him, in part over concerns it might complicate the criminal investigation of Giuliani," the NBC News correction reads.
The press offices of The NY Times, the Post, and NBC News did not immediately respond to questions about the corrections. Giuliani's office did not respond to The Epoch Times' request for comment.
In two statements on Twitter, Giuliani called for the Post and NY Times to reveal their sources for the incorrect information.
"On a Saturday, the Washington Post added this correction to their defamatory story about me," Giuliani wrote on Twitter.
"The Washington Post and the NYT must reveal their sources who lied and targeted an American Citizen. #msnbc , #cnn forgot to mention the corrections today. #fakenews #badpeople."
In a separate statement, he wrote: "Where did the original false information come from? @MSNBC @CNN @nytimes I couldn't quite hear your apology?"
https://wwW.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-washington-post-nbc-retract-incorrect-reporting-Giulianis-contact-fbi
#13559292 at 2021-05-01 21:27:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17172: Fake News Harassing AZ Audit Workers Edition
WaPo and NYT Retract Smear of Rudy Giuliani that Falsely Claimed FBI Gave Him Defensive Briefings on Russian Influence Ops
The Washington Post and New York Times on Saturday both retracted false reports published this week that said the FBI had given Rudy Giuliani a defensive briefing warning him about being a target of Russian influence operations. The Post also reported One America News had also been briefed. Both Giuliani and OAN had denied the briefings took place.
WaPo original excerpt:
The FBI warned Rudolph W. Giuliani in late 2019 that he was the target of a Russian influence operation aimed at circulating falsehoods intended to damage President Biden politically ahead of last year's election, according to people familiar with the matter.
The warning was part of an extensive effort by the bureau to alert members of Congress and at least one conservative media outlet, One America News, that they faced a risk of being used to further Russia's attempt to influence the election's outcome, said several current and former U.S. officials. All spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter remains highly sensitive.
The retraction and correction by the Post:
"Correction: An earlier version of this story, published Thursday, incorrectly reported that One America News was warned by the FBI that it was the target of a Russian influence operation. That version also said the FBI had provided a similar warning to Rudolph W. Giuliani, which he has since disputed. This version has been corrected to remove assertions that OAN and Giuliani received the warnings."
"Correction: May 1, 2021
An earlier version of this article misstated whether Rudolph W. Giuliani received a formal warning from the F.B.I. about Russian disinformation. Mr. Giuliani did not receive such a so-called defensive briefing."
CNN's Oliver Darcy posted a before and after of the Times article before the correction had been added.
Giuliani appeared on Steve Bannon's War Room Pandemic on Friday to refute the smear:
https://wwW.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/huge-wapo-nyt-retract-smear-rudy-Giuliani-falsely-claimed-fbi-gave-defensive-briefings-russian-influence-ops/
#13546675 at 2021-04-30 03:06:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17156: Night Shift Is The Best Shift Edition
>>13546435
The FBI warned Rudolph W. Giuliani in late 2019 that he was the target of a Russian influence operation aimed at circulating falsehoods intended to damage President Biden politically ahead of last year's election, according to people familiar with the matter.
The warning was part of an extensive effort by the bureau to alert members of Congress and at least one conservative media outlet, One America News, that they faced a risk of being used to further Russia's attempt to influence the election's outcome, said several current and former U.S. officials. All spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter remains highly sensitive.
https://wwW.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-warned-Giuliani-key-trump-ally-in-senate-of-russian-disinformation-campaign-targeting-biden/ar-BB1gciFx?ocid=msedgdhp
#13533037 at 2021-04-28 18:43:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17139: Rudy to introduce Evidence? Edition
Federal Investigators Search Rudy Giuliani's Apartment and Office
"Prosecutors obtained the search warrants as part of an investigation into whether Mr. Giuliani broke lobbying laws as President Trump's personal lawyer."
"Federal investigators in Manhattan executed search warrants early Wednesday at the home and office of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who became President Donald J. Trump's personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani's dealings in Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the investigation said."
"The investigators seized Mr. Giuliani's electronic devices and searched his apartment on Madison Avenue and his office on Park Avenue at about 6 a.m., two of the people said."
#13452488 at 2021-04-18 07:32:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17040: EBake in Saturday´s Night
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Yovanovitch
Marie Louise "Masha" Yovanovitch (born November 11, 1958) is an American diplomat and senior member of the United States Foreign Service.[1][2] She served in multiple State Department posts, including Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2004-2005); U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan (2005-2008); U.S. Ambassador to Armenia (2008-2011); Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (2012-2013); and Ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019). Yovanovitch is a diplomat in residence at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.[3][4] On January 31, 2020 it was reported that she has retired from the State Department.[5]
While ambassador to Ukraine, Yovanovitch was the target of a conspiracy-driven smear campaign, amplified by President Donald Trump and his allies.[6] In May 2019, Trump abruptly recalled Yovanovitch from her post following claims by Trump surrogates that she was undermining Trump's efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rival, former vice president and 2020 U.S. presidential election candidate Joe Biden.[7][8] Yovanovitch's removal preceded a July 2019 phone call by Trump in which he attempted to pressure Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden.[9] Following a whistleblower complaint about the phone call and attempts to cover it up, an impeachment inquiry against Trump was initiated by the House of Representatives. Yovanovitch testified in several House committee depositions in the inquiry.[10][11]
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Yovanovitch was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan on November 20, 2004; she presented her credentials on February 4, 2005, and remained in this post until February 4, 2008.[1][19]
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As U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Yovanovitch was the target of a conspiracy-driven smear campaign.[6][33][34] Allegations against her were then made by Trump's personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, as well as conservative commentator John Solomon of The Hill and Ukraine's then-top prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, who accused her of being part of a conspiracy involving anti-corruption probes in Ukraine and efforts by the Trump administration to investigate ties between Ukrainian officials and the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.[3][35][36] Lutsenko, who has been accused by Ukrainian civil society organizations of corruption,[31] claimed that Yovanovitch, an Obama administration appointee, had interfered in Ukraine politics, had given him a "do-not-prosecute" list and was interfering in his ability to combat corruption in Ukraine.[30][35] The U.S. State Department said that Lutsenko's allegations against Yovanovitch were "an outright fabrication"[35] and indicated that they were a "classic disinformation campaign."[33] Lutsenko subsequently recanted his claims of a "do-not-prosecute" list.[37] Solomon's stories were nonetheless amplified by President Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., Giuliani, Solomon, and conservative media outlets.[35][38] Ukrainians who opposed Yovanovitch were also sources for Giuliani, who "was on a months-long search for political dirt in Ukraine to help President Trump."[31] Giuliani confirmed in a November 2019 interview that he believed he "needed Yovanovitch out of the way" because she was going to make his investigations difficult.[39]
On April 24, 2019,[40] after complaints from Giuliani and other Trump allies that Yovanovitch was undermining and obstructing Trump's efforts to persuade Ukraine to investigate former vice president and 2020 presidential election candidate Joe Biden, Trump ordered Yovanovitch's recall.[41][42] She returned to Washington, D.C. on April 25,[40] with her recall becoming public knowledge on May 7,[43] and her mission as ambassador being terminated on May 20, 2019.[1][28] In a July 25, 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (the contents of which became public on September 25 2019), Trump pressured the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden and disparaged Yovanovitch to his foreign counterpart, calling her "bad news".[38][44]
Documents to the House Intelligence Committee provided by Lev Parnas, a former associate of Giuliani, outlined text exchanges in which Lutsenko pushed for the ouster of Yovanovitch and in return offered to provide damaging information on Joe Biden.[8][45][46] In Russian-language messages, Lutsenko told Parnas that Yovano…
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>it goes on and on and on…WINNING!
#13341697 at 2021-04-01 06:41:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16901: 3 Years... Baseless Conspiracy... It's All Been A Pack Of Lies! Edition
>>13341682
"Front row center on this year's chart were Robert Speyer of Tishman Speyer properties, Brian T. Moynihan of Bank of America, Kenneth G. Langone of Home Depot, John K. Castle of Castle Harlan private equity and Michael R. Bloomberg. ("The haves and the have-mores," George W. Bush once said of his fellow dais guests.)
Directly behind the cardinal, who occupied the second tier near the podium, was former Police Commissioner Raymond J. Kelly (his successor, James O'Neill, was in the fifth). The fourth tier was heavy-weighted with Sen. Chuck Schumer, former Mayors David N. Dinkins and Rudolph W. Giuliani, Charlie Rose, Henry Kissinger, James Tisch, Chris Matthews, Gayle King and public relations guru Howard J. Rubenstein.
Ms. Bartiromo was seated over the speaker's right shoulder, with the television cameras (the ceremony aired live on cable TV and was streamed online) trained in on her elbow-length gloves and low-cut dress as Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton traded barbs."
read more…
https://wwW.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/fashion/al-smith-dinner-seating-chart-hillary-clinton-donald-trump.html
#12940996 at 2021-02-16 03:16:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16516: "Dark Winter?" Edition
Americans reporting vote fraud say claims repeatedly dismissed by FBI
Some claimants forced to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation and ridicule
Americans who came forward when they spotted what they thought was suspicious activity in the 2020 presidential election say they got a message loud and clear: If you see something, shut up about it.
Mellissa Carone, a Michigan information technology worker who raised an alarm about what she viewed as irregularities during the ballot count in Detroit, said she called the FBI twice in attempts to report the problems.
"I never got a call back still," said Ms. Carone, who gained notoriety for her fiery election fraud testimony alongside former President Donald Trump's lead attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
https://wwW.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/10/mellissa-carone-jesse-morgan-say-fbi-dismissed-vot/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_campaign=pushnotify&utm_medium=push
#12513215 at 2021-01-14 09:38:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15976: What's Your Warrior Edition
Pence. Kushner. McEnany. Ingraham. Even Giuliani... Here Are All People Trump Now Reportedly Feels Have Betrayed Him
As his number of days left in the Oval Office grows shorter, the list of people a "sullen and vengeful" Donald Trump thinks have betrayed him keeps growing longer….
With less than seven days remaining in his presidency, Trump's inner circle is shrinking, offices in his White House are emptying, and the president is lashing out at some of those who remain. He is angry that his allies have not mounted a more forceful defense of his incitement of the mob that stormed the Capitol last week, advisers and associates said.
Though Trump has been exceptionally furious with Vice President Pence, his relationship with lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of his most steadfast defenders, is also fracturing, according to people with knowledge of the dynamics between the men….
Flint water: Former Michigan governor faces charges for crisis that killed 12 people
US ambassador to UN and Taiwan's president meet virtually
Mediaite logo Pence. Kushner. McEnany. Ingraham. Even Giuliani... Here Are All People Trump Now Reportedly Feels Have Betrayed Him
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As his number of days left in the Oval Office grows shorter, the list of people a "sullen and vengeful" Donald Trump thinks have betrayed him keeps growing longer.
According to a Washington Post report, the now-twice impeached president is "increasingly isolated" and fuming over the lack of public support from almost every part of his inner circle, from his son-in-law to one of his favorite Fox News prime-time hosts, from his own White House press secretary to his chief legal champion of the election fraud conspiracy theories. And topping Trump's grudges is his own vice president, Mike Pence.
With less than seven days remaining in his presidency, Trump's inner circle is shrinking, offices in his White House are emptying, and the president is lashing out at some of those who remain. He is angry that his allies have not mounted a more forceful defense of his incitement of the mob that stormed the Capitol last week, advisers and associates said.
Though Trump has been exceptionally furious with Vice President Pence, his relationship with lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of his most steadfast defenders, is also fracturing, according to people with knowledge of the dynamics between the men.
Pence's allege betrayal is by now obvious - he dared to choose the Constitution over his fealty to Trump.
Rudy Giuliani's arrival on the Judas list, however, centers on his continuing to charge and exorbitant $20,000 a day fee while have zero percent success with pushing absurd conspiracy theories to overturn the election. In response, Trump, in keeping with a long-standing pattern, has now refused to pay them.
Other former Trump favorites are also now suspected by a paranoid president of having abandoned him as his presidential legacy sinks to unprecedented lows.
As he watched impeachment quickly gain steam, Trump was upset generally that virtually nobody is defending him - including press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, economic adviser Larry Kudlow, national security adviser Robert C. O'Brien and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, according to a senior administration official.
https://wwW.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-kushner-mcenany-ingraham-even-Giuliani-here-are-all-people-trump-now-reportedly-feels-have-betrayed-him/ar-BB1cJK4e
#11996989 at 2020-12-12 18:07:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15315: Breaking Down The Walls of Jericho Edition
Report reveals 'yet another federal criminal investigation' into Hunter Biden after Joe Biden is confronted
As the mainstream media are being denounced for squashing the Hunter Biden story before the election, Fox News reported Friday on the existence of "yet another federal criminal investigation" into Hunter Biden.
"We have just received word tonight of yet another federal criminal investigation into the Biden family that appears to be focused specifically on Hunter Biden's business dealings with China and his relationship with Burisma Holdings in Ukraine," Fox News host Martha MacCallum explained.
She added, "This is now the fourth federal investigation that has been reported in recent days."
"It raises a lot of questions about what was going on with Hunter Biden, with his uncle Jim [Biden], and potentially their U.S. and foreign business deals. Who was involved in them? What exactly were they selling? And why, in one instance, was a diamond given to Hunter Biden in return? Where did all the money go? And did they ever compromise themselves? Does China have anything they could hold over the Biden family?" MacCallum went on to say.
The New York Times reported late Friday that Pittsburgh-based U.S. Attorney Scott Brady began investigating Hunter Biden earlier this year upon the direction of Attorney General William Barr.
Details were few, aside from the Times reporting that the investigation was spurred by material uncovered by Rudy Giuliani and that the investigation was similar to a criminal probe into Hunter Biden that was concurrently taking place in Delaware.
From the Times:
As federal investigators in Delaware were examining the finances of Hunter Biden during his father's campaign for president, a similar inquiry ramped up this year in Pittsburgh, fueled by materials delivered by President Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. Attorney General William P. Barr had asked the top federal prosecutor in Pittsburgh, Scott W. Brady, to accept and vet any information that Mr. Giuliani had on the Biden family, including Hunter Biden. Mr. Brady hosted Mr. Giuliani for a nearly four-hour meeting in late January to discuss his materials.
The development comes just two days after Hunter Biden publicly revealed that he is under federal investigation by authorities in Delaware.
"I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs. I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors," Hunter Biden said in a statement, which was released by the Biden-Harris transition team.
What has Joe Biden said?
The former vice president was confronted on Friday about his son for the first time since news broke about the Delaware federal investigation.
"Did Hunter Biden commit a crime? Have you spoken to your son, Mr. President-elect?" a reporter asked Biden following a press conference.
Biden did not address the question directly, only responding, "I'm proud of my son."
http://wwW.tathasta.com/2020/12/report-reveals-yet-another-federal.html
#11723705 at 2020-11-21 10:01:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14965: Bernie And AoC Chat With The DoD Edition
https://srbin.info/svet/exclusive-soros-biden-network-ukrainegate-us-elections-and-the-day-after/
PART 2
In the affair known as Ukrainegate, material evidence that unequivocally prove that former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter are involved in criminal behavior and that they have committed serious criminal acts have reached the public. Joe Biden used his position as a Vice president during the Presidency of Barrack Obama to enable his son Hunter to make billions on a gas trading scheme in Ukraine, using the company called Burisma.
The first person who publicly spoke on Ukrainegate was Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani. Due to his investigations of this affair, Giuliani was constantly attacked by the mainstream media. The beginning of these attacks came on September 28, 2019 via The Washington Post (which was also the beginning of this affair and the failed impeachment process against Donald Trump), the official newsletter of the deep state. A propaganda piece titled "Why Giuliani is blaming his own problems on George Soros" laid out the whole construction by the globalists in order to cover the unpleasant evidence that expose them. This construction was then repeated in all other mainstream media until this day. Why Giuliani is blaming his own problems on George Soros (https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/30/why-Giuliani-is-blaming-his-own-problems-george-soros/)
The author of this piece, a Washington Post journalist, tries to defend Biden and Soros, while attacking Giuliani and Trump, but the problem is that the facts speak differently. This article was retweeted by Alexander Soros, son of George Soros, which is logical, considering the fact that it was Soros who ordered this propaganda piece.
"Rudolph W. Giuliani, whom President Trump reportedly used to pressure Ukraine to investigate political rivals, has evidently decided that two things will save him from scandal. The first is to continue to go on cable news shows. The second is to blame George Soros.
Last week, when Laura Ingraham of Fox News Channel asked Giuliani why he, and not the FBI and the Justice Department, had been sent to investigate alleged corruption, the former New York mayor said that it was because he is Trump's personal lawyer. This, of course, prompted another question. How does investigating former vice president Joe Biden involve defending Trump? In response, Giuliani claimed that Biden had called for the firing of a prosecutor who was involved in the investigation of "an organization that was collecting false information about Donald Trump, about Paul Manafort, and feeding it to the Democratic National Committee." If that sounds improbably complex, all you really need to know is the name he shouted out next: "That organization," he said, "was run by George Soros"."
#11379824 at 2020-10-31 22:38:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14534 Playground WILL BE open Edition
Why is NY Times blocking the truth SO HARD
'On the weekend of Oct. 10, President Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, his former adviser Stephen K. Bannon and a prominent new ally, a Chinese billionaire and Mar-a-Lago member named Guo Wengui, gathered at Mr. Guo's luxury apartment overlooking Central Park for dinner and cigars.'
Is the Stage Set?
'Each faced some combination of legal or credibility issues, but on this night they had reason to celebrate: a plan was coming together.'
The METHOD
That weekend, Mr. Giuliani had delivered to The New York Post a copy of a hard drive purported to be from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of Mr. Trump's Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The hard drive was filled with what the men claimed was compromising material about the younger Biden that they hoped would sully his father's reputation.
They don't even offer a timeline, just supposition and 'Conspiracy', yet WE are the conspiracy theorists….
https://wwW.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/politics/rudy-Giuliani-biden.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
#11207517 at 2020-10-22 08:45:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14322: Crimson Tide Rising Edition
>>11207484
>>Matt Murray is the co-author, with former New York City fire commissioner Thomas Von Essen, of Strong of Heart.
>>Matt Murray wrote a book with Thomas Von Essen
>>Currently, Von Essen is a senior vice president at Giuliani Partners LLC, a New York consulting firm headed by former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
>>Essen works for Giuliani
>>Murray friends with Essen
>>Essen works for Rudy
>>Barack calls Essen, and ATTEMPTS TO PERSUADE HIM TO NOT PUBLISH
>>The WSJ article coming out today is so incriminating, that OBAMA CALLS MURRAY
>>MURRAY TELLS ESSEN
>>Essen tells Rudy that Obama tried to pressure Murray
>>Essen tells Rudy that Obama tried to pressure Murray
>>Essen tells Rudy that Obama tried to pressure Murray
#11207484 at 2020-10-22 08:40:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14322: Crimson Tide Rising Edition
>>11206292
MATT MURRAY
Editor in Chief, The Wall Street Journal & Dow Jones Newswires
MATT MURRAY
Matt Murray is editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, responsible for all global newsgathering and editorial operations. Matt previously served as executive editor since 2017, and had been deputy editor in chief since 2013. He joined Dow Jones & Company in 1994 as a reporter for the Pittsburgh bureau.
He is the author of The Father and the Son and the co-author, with former New York City fire commissioner Thomas Von Essen, of Strong of Heart.
About the Author
Thomas Von Essen served as the Thirtieth Fire Commissioner of New York City from April 1996 to December 31, 2001. Before becoming fire commissioner, he spent nearly three years as president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, the largest firefighters union in the nation. Von Essen joined the fire department in 1970 and was assigned to Ladder 42 in the Bronx, where he spent most of his firefighting career. Currently, Von Essen is a senior vice president at Giuliani Partners LLC, a New York consulting firm headed by former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Rita.
>>Currently, Von Essen is a senior vice president at Giuliani Partners LLC, a New York consulting firm headed by former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
>>MURRAY IS FRIENDS WITH A GUY WHO WORKS FOR Giuliani
>>Currently, Von Essen is a senior vice president at Giuliani Partners LLC, a New York consulting firm headed by former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
MURRAY IS FRIENDS WITH A GUY WHO WORKS FOR Giuliani
#11126021 at 2020-10-18 00:04:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14229: Comfy with Q Edition
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA! Try harder, Bezos!
White House was warned Giuliani was target of Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to Trump
U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, according to four former officials familiar with the matter.
The warnings were based on multiple sources, including intercepted communications, that showed Giuliani was interacting with people tied to Russian intelligence during a December 2019 trip to Ukraine, where he was gathering information that he thought would expose corrupt acts by former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/national-security/Giuliani-biden-ukraine-russian-disinformation/2020/10/15/43158900-0ef5-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html
#11111875 at 2020-10-17 02:39:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14211: Over and Around, Under We Go Edition
Sorry, Republicans. Social media companies aren't obligated to spread your lies.
What's the biggest scandal of the week? Is it that: (a) U.S. spy agencies have warned that President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, was promoting Russian disinformation to smear Joe Biden over his son's business dealings in Ukraine? Or is it that: (b) Twitter and Facebook hesitated to act as a conduit for Giuliani's wild charges? If you're a partisan Republican, the answer is obviously (b). If you're a normal, patriotic American, the answer should be (a).
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/16/sorry-republicans-social-media-companies-arent-obligated-spread-your-lies/
#10908323 at 2020-10-04 00:20:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13960: CNN Promoted Chinese Propaganda Edition
>>10908298
…It is not clear when exactly the attendees who later tested positive were infected, and the White House has said all guests tested negative for the virus before the event. Still, it can take several days after exposure for the virus to be detected by a test.
The indoor White House gathering was far from the only time this week that Mr. Trump was in close quarters indoors with family, aides or supporters.
Ahead of the first presidential debate on Tuesday night in Cleveland, Mr. Trump held closed-door preparation sessions on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with a half-dozen aides and advisers, including Bill Stepien, his campaign manager; Kellyanne Conway, a former White House adviser; and Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey. All of them have since tested positive for the virus. Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, also participated in debate preparation sessions but has said he tested negative.
Since the event in the Rose Garden, Mr. Trump has also traveled in close quarters aboard Air Force One to and from the debate and campaign events in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and New Jersey. At least three other people on those flights - Melania Trump, Hope Hicks, a senior Trump adviser, and Mr. Stepien - later tested positive.
#10743379 at 2020-09-22 14:21:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13749: A Better Future For Our Children Is In Reach Tues Mornin Melania Edition
>>10743357
>https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/secret-cia-assessment-putin-probably-directing-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/
Opinion by
Josh Rogin
Columnist
September 22, 2020 at 5:00 a.m. CDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top aides are "probably directing" a Russian foreign influence operation to interfere in the 2020 presidential election against former vice president Joe Biden, which involves a prominent Ukrainian lawmaker connected to President Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, a top-secret CIA assessment concluded, according to two sources who reviewed it.
On Aug. 31, the CIA published an assessment of Russian efforts to interfere in the November election in an internal, highly classified report called the CIA Worldwide Intelligence Review, the sources said. CIA analysts compiled the assessment with input from the National Security Agency and the FBI, based on several dozen pieces of information gleaned from public, unclassified and classified intelligence sources. The assessment includes details of the CIA's analysis of the activities of Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach to disseminate disparaging information about Biden inside the United States through lobbyists, Congress, the media and contacts with figures close to the president.
"We assess that President Vladimir Putin and the senior most Russian officials are aware of and probably directing Russia's influence operations aimed at denigrating the former U.S. Vice President, supporting the U.S. president and fueling public discord ahead of the U.S. election in November," the first line of the document says, according to the sources.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Treasury Department have identified Derkach as a Russian agent, but it has not been publicly reported that the CIA, NSA and FBI believed Putin may be personally directing the campaign. Derkach has denied working on behalf of MoscoW.
The CIA assessment described Derkach's efforts in detail and said that his activities have included working through lobbyists, members of Congress and U.S. media organizations to disseminate and amplify his anti-Biden information. Though it refers to Derkach's interactions with a "prominent" person connected to the Trump campaign, the analysis does not identify the person. Giuliani, who has been working with Derkach publicly for several months, is not named in the assessment.
The CIA, NSA and FBI all declined to comment, but none of the three agencies disputed any of the details of this reporting. Details about the intelligence used to form the assessment have been withheld at the agencies' request to protect sources and methods. The White House also declined to comment.
cont
#10742107 at 2020-09-22 11:04:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13748: Focus on content [information]. Research for yourself Edition
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/secret-cia-assessment-putin-probably-directing-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/
Secret CIA assessment: Putin 'probably directing' influence operation to denigrate Biden
Opinion by Josh Rogin
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top aides are "probably directing" a Russian foreign influence operation to interfere in the 2020 presidential election against former vice president Joe Biden, which involves a prominent Ukrainian lawmaker connected to President Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, a top-secret CIA assessment concluded, according to two sources who reviewed it.
On Aug. 31, the CIA published an assessment of Russian efforts to interfere in the November election in an internal, highly classified report called the CIA Worldwide Intelligence Review, the sources said. CIA analysts compiled the assessment with input from the National Security Agency and the FBI, based on several dozen pieces of information gleaned from public, unclassified and classified intelligence sources. The assessment includes details of the CIA's analysis of the activities of Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach to disseminate disparaging information about Biden inside the United States through lobbyists, Congress, the media and contacts with figures close to the president.
"We assess that President Vladimir Putin and the senior most Russian officials are aware of and probably directing Russia's influence operations aimed at denigrating the former U.S. Vice President, supporting the U.S. president and fueling public discord ahead of the U.S. election in November," the first line of the document says, according to the sources.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Treasury Department have identified Derkach as a Russian agent, but it has not been publicly reported that the CIA, NSA and FBI believed Putin may be personally directing the campaign. Derkach has denied working on behalf of MoscoW.
The CIA assessment described Derkach's efforts in detail and said that his activities have included working through lobbyists, members of Congress and U.S. media organizations to disseminate and amplify his anti-Biden information. Though it refers to Derkach's interactions with a "prominent" person connected to the Trump campaign, the analysis does not identify the person. Giuliani, who has been working with Derkach publicly for several months, is not named in the assessment.
The CIA, NSA and FBI all declined to comment, but none of the three agencies disputed any of the details of this reporting. Details about the intelligence used to form the assessment have been withheld at the agencies' request to protect sources and methods. The White House also declined to comment.
On Sept. 10, following calls from Democratic lawmakers, the Treasury Department sanctioned Derkach, alleging that he "has been an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services." Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a Sept. 10 statement that "Derkach and other Russian agents employ manipulation and deceit to attempt to influence elections in the United States and elsewhere around the world." The Treasury Department stated Derkach "waged a covert influence campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives concerning U.S. officials in the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election," which he did by releasing edited audio tapes and other unsupported information that were then pushed in Western media.
On Aug. 7, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement from National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina that named Derkach as part of a Russian effort to "denigrate" Biden by "spreading claims about corruption - including through publicizing leaked phone calls - to undermine former Vice President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party."
#10062234 at 2020-07-24 05:37:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12877: FISA (DECLAS) The Start Edition
>>10062128
Oh Billy boy, this one is on you.
Officials Criticize Clinton's Pardon of an Ex-Terroris
An unusual combination of New York political and law enforcement leaders have condemned former President Bill Clinton's pardon of Susan L. Rosenberg, a one-time member of the Weather Underground terrorist group who was charged in the notorious 1981 Brink's robbery in Rockland County that left a guard and two police officers dead.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, and United States Senator Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat, were among those who criticized the pardon, as did Bernard B. Kerik, New York City's police commissioner, and David Trois, a Rockland County police union official.
It sickened me, Mr. Kerik said yesterday of the pardon, one of 140 granted Saturday, the final day of Mr. Clinton's tenure.
Ms. Rosenberg served 16 years in jail after she was found with a companion in New Jersey in 1984 unloading 740 pounds of dynamite and weapons, including a submachine gun, from a car. She admitted her role in the New Jersey case, in which she had planned to supply others with explosives for politically motivated bombings.
At the time of her arrest, she was wanted on charges related to the 1981 armed robbery of a Brink's armored car in Nanuet, N.Y., a holdup that was supposed to raise money for the Weather Underground and other radical groups. But Ms. Rosenberg denied any involvement in the Brink's robbery and was never tried on those charges, because Mr. Giuliani, then the United States attorney in Manhattan, indicated that given her 58-year sentence on the New Jersey weapons charges, there was no need to proceed with that case.
https://wwW.nytimes.com/2001/01/22/nyregion/officials-criticize-clinton-s-pardon-of-an-ex-terrorist.html
#10052422 at 2020-07-23 05:55:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12865: Three Gorges Dam Watch Edition
Trump attended a fundraiser without a mask. The city sent an investigator to inspect his hotel.
The president's maskless appearance at the Trump International Hotel this week - in apparent defiance of D.C. coronavirus regulations - caught the attention of local authorities, who inspected the hotel on Wednesday to check for compliance with city rules. The investigator found no violations at the time of the visit, but the agency pledged to continue monitoring the hotel. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) this spring ordered people to cover their faces while in the lobbies and common areas of hotels and to maintain six feet of distance from others, in an effort to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.
But President Trump did not wear a mask while greeting GOP congressional candidate Madison Cawthorn on Monday at his downtown Washington hotel, according to video of their interaction. Nor did multiple guests standing near one another in the lobby, the video shows. ABC News reported Tuesday that guests at Trump properties have repeatedly flouted face-covering mandates. A Facebook invitation for a birthday party scheduled for Saturday at the D.C. hotel featured a "NO MASKS ALLOWED" disclaimer, the network reported. The invitation did not appear to be visible on the social media site Wednesday.
An inspector from the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration, which fines businesses with liquor licenses that don't comply with city regulations, visited the hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Inspectors can issue fines or warnings only for violations that they see in person, and all hotel staff members and visitors during the inspection were wearing masks, ABRA said. Representatives of the hotel and the Trump Organization did not return requests for comment.
A spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee said organizers took precautionary steps before a GOP fundraiser at the hotel on Monday that the president attended, including requiring those present to pass coronavirus tests that day and undergo temperature screenings and wellness questionnaires. The campaign of Cawthorn, the North Carolina congressional candidate who shared the clip of the president's maskless appearance at the hotel, did not return requests for comment. Despite overwhelming support from public health experts, masks have become a political litmus tests of sorts, with many Republicans eschewing them. As virus cases have spiked in the South and the West, however, a growing number of Republican elected officials have taken to wearing face coverings and calling them necessary.
Trump has recently softened his long-standing resistance and hostility to the use of masks to reduce coronavirus transmission. On Monday, he tweeted a photo of himself wearing a mask and called it patriotic - hours before he showed up at his hotel without one. He urged Americans to wear masks the next day, at his first daily virus briefing in months. Bowser has worn a mask in public and urged Washingtonians to cover their faces for the past several months. She expanded her mask mandate Wednesday to include any time outdoors when people are likely to come into contact with others.
Penalties for violating social distancing rules remain rare in the capital, however, with four establishments fined in the past month. The Trump International Hotel has posted dozens of images on social media with employees wearing masks in recent weeks. The hotel also attempted to open its outside sidewalk cafe, as other restaurants and hotels have done during the pandemic, but closed it again after guests were being bothered by passersby on the street. The hotel's compliance with the city's mask regulations came under scrutiny after Cawthorn shared the video of him meeting Trump on social media. The clip showed Trump, accompanied by his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), greeting an enthusiastic Cawthorn. Among that group, only Giuliani wore a mask. Other people visible in the video did cover their faces. Greg Aselbekian, who was listed on the Facebook invitation as the host of the "NO MASKS ALLOWED" birthday party Saturday at the hotel, did not return requests for comment made through his social media channels.
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/trump-hotel-coronavirus-masks/2020/07/22/47b5b702-cc36-11ea-b0e3-d55bda07d66a_story.html
#10004373 at 2020-07-19 00:38:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12802: Anon's Set The Narrative! Night Shift On! Edition
It's the Jewish Mob.
https://wwW.nytimes.com/1987/03/03/nyregion/17-found-guilty-in-pizza-trial-of-a-drug-ring.html
17 FOUND GUILTY IN 'PIZZA' TRIAL OF A DRUG RING
By Arnold H. Lubasch
March 3, 1987
A former chief of the Sicilian Mafia and 16 other defendants in the pizza connection trial were convicted yesterday of running an international ring that distributed tons of drugs.
The jury announced its verdict near the end of its sixth day of deliberations in the 17-month trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan. It acquitted two men of the main drug conspiracy charge, but convicted one of them of lesser currency violations.
All 19 defendants were charged with participation in a Mafia ring stretching from Sicily and Brazil to New York and the Middle West. It was a ring dealing in large amounts of heroin and cocaine, illegally transferring tens of millions of dollars in profits and using a network of pizza restaurants as fronts.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the chief Federal prosecutor in Manhattan, said vigorous prosecution of Mafia members under strengthened racketeering laws was leading to the group's death. [ Page B3. ] Violence Overshadowed Trial Making its mark as one of the longest criminal cases in court history, the trial continued month after month. Twice, violence overshadowed the courtroom drama, as one defendant was slain and another was shot and seriously wounded.
The verdict came from an 11-member jury; one juror had been excused after her family received an apparently threatening telephone call during the deliberations. Defense lawyers said they would appeal the convictions.
Among those convicted were two men portrayed as the top leaders of the ring's two main factions - Gaetano Badalamenti, the 63-year-old former chief of the Mafia in Sicily, and Salvatore Catalano, 46, a Queens bakery owner described as a powerful captain in the Bonanno crime family in New York City.
One defendant, Mr. Badalamenti's son, Vito, was acquitted of the only charge against him, drug conspiracy. Convicted Relatives
Mr. Badalamenti's convicted relatives included Emmanuele Palazzolo of Milton, Wis., Salvatore Evola of Temperance, Mich., Giuseppe Trupiano of Olney, Ill., and Giuseppe Vitale of Paris, Ill. Mr. Alfano is also a Badalamenti relative.
The other convicted men included three from New Jersey: Francesco Polizzi of Belleville, Giovanni Ligammari of Saddle River and Salvatore Greco of Oakhurst. The others were Baldasssare Amato of Brooklyn, Filippo Casamento of Brooklyn and Giovanni Cangialosi of Baldwin.
Most of those convicted of the drug conspiracy were also convicted of a racketeering charge, which carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
Judge Pierre N. Leval, who conducted the trial, remanded the convicted men to jail. He said he would sentence them on May 5.
For almost a year, the prosecution had presented hundreds of witnesses and wiretapped conversations, thousands of documents, several pounds of heroin and an array of guns that Federal agents seized when they arrested the defendants.
Evidence from overseas as well as the United States was presented by the prosecution team of Richard A. Martin, Louis J. Freeh, Robert Stewart, Robert B. Bucknam and Andrew C. McCarthy. The complex case, which cost several million dollars to complete, included actors who read the transcripts of wiretapped conversations to the jury and interpreters who translated the proceedings into Italian for defendants.
Defense lawyers presented evidence for more than three months to attack the prosecution's case. The only defendants to testify were Mr. Badalamenti and Mr. Mazzurco, who were questioned about their telephone conversations, which the prosecution portrayed as drug discussions.
1/2
#9679307 at 2020-06-20 05:58:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12389: Night Shift Stoners Edition
>>9679280
> Berman new update on Wiki!
Appointed by Sessions.
When Trump and Barr sought to oust Berman, he was reportedly investigating Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Trump associate.[13]
#9678910 at 2020-06-20 05:11:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12389: Night Shift Stoners Edition
Wiki.
Berman, text added today….
The Judiciary is Corrupt beyond repair.
When Trump and Barr sought to oust Berman, he was reportedly investigating Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Trump associate.[13]
#9258099 at 2020-05-21 01:11:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11849: Back in Black Edition
<<9257777>>9257798
WAPO after listening to all the audio and videos of Ukrainian prosecutors, says there's no proof Biden did anything illegal, because he specifically didn't mention Burisma or Hunter. That's hilarious do you really think they are going to discuss their specific plans by phone. Golly these journalists are absolutely stupid
Oh yeah it's a Trumpian plot!
Ukrainian lawmaker releases leaked phone calls of Biden and Poroshenko
May 19, 2020 at 11:25 p.m. EDT
A Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Rudolph W. Giuliani late last year released recordings of private phone calls several years ago between Vice President Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko, then Ukraine's president, in a new broadside against the presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. president that has raised questions about foreign interference in the 2020 election.
Andriy Derkach, an independent member of Ukraine's parliament who previously aligned with a pro-Russian faction, said at a news conference in Kyiv on Tuesday that he had received the tapes - which consist of edited fragments of phone conversations Biden and Poroshenko had while still in office - from "investigative journalists."
He alleged they were made by Poroshenko.
Derkach has past links to Russian intelligence. He attended the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in MoscoW. His father served as a KGB officer for decades before becoming head of independent Ukraine's intelligence service in the late 1990s. His father was fired from that post amid a scandal over a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped and murdered.
The recordings played at the news conference Tuesday shed relatively little new light on Biden's actions in Ukraine, which were at the center of President Trump's impeachment last year. They show that Biden, as he has previously said publicly, linked loan guarantees for Ukraine to the ouster of the country's prosecutor general in 2015. But Derkach used the new clips to make an array of accusations not proven by the tapes.
Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, posted one of the recordings on Twitter hours later and implied impropriety by Biden. "Yikes!!!! This is not a 'perfect conversation,'?" Trump Jr. wrote.
The events have echoes of the 2016 presidential election, when Russian operatives hacked and released emails from the campaign manager of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and officials at the Democratic National Committee, in what U.S. intelligence agencies later concluded was a Moscow-directed operation designed to boost Trump.
Trump's allies, including Giuliani, have argued that Ukraine intervened in that election on Clinton's behalf, in part by targeting Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. The country's anti-corruption bureau released entries from a black ledger that allegedly showed $12 million in cash payments from its Russia-leaning political party to Manafort during the years in which he worked as a political consultant in Ukraine. Manafort said the document was falsified, but the revelations prompted him to resign from the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016.
At no point in the clips released Tuesday does Biden mention Burisma or his son
Biden has denied discussing the gas company with his son, and his advisers have emphasized that he was pushing for Shokin's ouster as a matter of U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine, which called for anti-corruption reforms.
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ukrainian-lawmaker-releases-leaked-phone-calls-of-biden-and-poroshenko/2020/05/19/cc1e6030-9a26-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html
#9257777 at 2020-05-21 00:34:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11848: Morning Joe Fucked Edition
WAPO after listening to all the audio and videos of Ukrainian prosecutors, says there's no proof Biden did anything illegal, because he specifically didn't mention Burisma or Hunter. That's hilarious do you really think they are discuss their specific plans by phone. Golly these journalists are absolutely stupid
Oh yeah it's a Trumpian plot!
Ukrainian lawmaker releases leaked phone calls of Biden and Poroshenko
May 19, 2020 at 11:25 p.m. EDT
A Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Rudolph W. Giuliani late last year released recordings of private phone calls several years ago between Vice President Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko, then Ukraine's president, in a new broadside against the presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. president that has raised questions about foreign interference in the 2020 election.
Andriy Derkach, an independent member of Ukraine's parliament who previously aligned with a pro-Russian faction, said at a news conference in Kyiv on Tuesday that he had received the tapes - which consist of edited fragments of phone conversations Biden and Poroshenko had while still in office - from "investigative journalists."
He alleged they were made by Poroshenko.
Derkach has past links to Russian intelligence. He attended the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in MoscoW. His father served as a KGB officer for decades before becoming head of independent Ukraine's intelligence service in the late 1990s. His father was fired from that post amid a scandal over a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped and murdered.
The recordings played at the news conference Tuesday shed relatively little new light on Biden's actions in Ukraine, which were at the center of President Trump's impeachment last year. They show that Biden, as he has previously said publicly, linked loan guarantees for Ukraine to the ouster of the country's prosecutor general in 2015. But Derkach used the new clips to make an array of accusations not proven by the tapes.
Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, posted one of the recordings on Twitter hours later and implied impropriety by Biden. "Yikes!!!! This is not a 'perfect conversation,'?" Trump Jr. wrote.
The events have echoes of the 2016 presidential election, when Russian operatives hacked and released emails from the campaign manager of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and officials at the Democratic National Committee, in what U.S. intelligence agencies later concluded was a Moscow-directed operation designed to boost Trump.
Trump's allies, including Giuliani, have argued that Ukraine intervened in that election on Clinton's behalf, in part by targeting Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. The country's anti-corruption bureau released entries from a black ledger that allegedly showed $12 million in cash payments from its Russia-leaning political party to Manafort during the years in which he worked as a political consultant in Ukraine. Manafort said the document was falsified, but the revelations prompted him to resign from the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016.
At no point in the clips released Tuesday does Biden mention Burisma or his son
Biden has denied discussing the gas company with his son, and his advisers have emphasized that he was pushing for Shokin's ouster as a matter of U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine, which called for anti-corruption reforms.
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ukrainian-lawmaker-releases-leaked-phone-calls-of-biden-and-poroshenko/2020/05/19/cc1e6030-9a26-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html
#9255903 at 2020-05-20 21:10:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11846: #TREASON Edition
Ukrainian lawmaker releases leaked phone calls of Biden and Poroshenko
WAPO release article on phone calls And poo poos it no proof, how freakin predictable is this
Duck and cover Biden whatever you have to do, he's not going to be the nominee, but for now, call it bullshit, you know your marching orders WAPO, do it now
May 19, 2020 at 11:25 p.m. EDT
A Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Rudolph W. Giuliani late last year released recordings of private phone calls several years ago between Vice President Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko, then Ukraine's president, in a new broadside against the presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. president that has raised questions about foreign interference in the 2020 election.
Andriy Derkach, an independent member of Ukraine's parliament who previously aligned with a pro-Russian faction, said at a news conference in Kyiv on Tuesday that he had received the tapes - which consist of edited fragments of phone conversations Biden and Poroshenko had while still in office - from "investigative journalists." He alleged they were made by Poroshenko.
Derkach has past links to Russian intelligence. He attended the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in MoscoW. His father served as a KGB officer for decades before becoming head of independent Ukraine's intelligence service in the late 1990s. His father was fired from that post amid a scandal over a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped and murdered.
The recordings played at the news conference Tuesday shed relatively little new light on Biden's actions in Ukraine, which were at the center of President Trump's impeachment last year. They show that Biden, as he has previously said publicly, linked loan guarantees for Ukraine to the ouster of the country's prosecutor general in 2015. But Derkach used the new clips to make an array of accusations not proven by the tapes.
Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, posted one of the recordings on Twitter hours later and implied impropriety by Biden. "Yikes!!!! This is not a 'perfect conversation,'?" Trump Jr. wrote.
The events have echoes of the 2016 presidential election, when Russian operatives hacked and released emails from the campaign manager of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and officials at the Democratic National Committee, in what U.S. intelligence agencies later concluded was a Moscow-directed operation designed to boost Trump.
Trump's allies, including Giuliani, have argued that Ukraine intervened in that election on Clinton's behalf, in part by targeting Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. The country's anti-corruption bureau released entries from a black ledger that allegedly showed $12 million in cash payments from its Russia-leaning political party to Manafort during the years in which he worked as a political consultant in Ukraine. Manafort said the document was falsified, but the revelations prompted him to resign from the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016.
Nearly four years later, Trump's eldest son is blasting leaked information of unknown provenance from a Ukrainian lawmaker about his father's rival in the 2020 election. Trump Jr.'s tweet linked to a YouTube page with a recording that was also packaged with English subtitles.
Giuliani, who serves as Trump's personal attorney, met Derkach during a trip to Kyiv in December.
Giuliani did not answer questions sent by text message asking whether he knew about the recordings before their release or worked with Derkach to ensure they became public, instead saying attention should be focused on what he claimed was the Biden family's sale of his vice-presidential office.
Just the tip of iceberg," he wrote in a text
The tapes released in Kyiv offered no evidence to back Giuliani's long-standing accusation that Biden pushed for the prosecutor general's ouster to help his son. At the time, Hunter Biden was earning between $50,000 and $100,000 a month on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, whose owner, a former government minister, was under investigation in Ukraine. Still, the tapes gave Trump's allies a chance to recycle that allegation closer to the 2020 election.
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ukrainian-lawmaker-releases-leaked-phone-calls-of-biden-and-poroshenko/2020/05/19/cc1e6030-9a26-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html
#9085071 at 2020-05-08 22:17:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11629: Golden Shovels At Work, Join the Diggz Edition
>>9084821
>Ambassador Philip Reeker
Official Says Attempts to Rally Top State Officials Behind Ukraine Ambassador Failed
wwW.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/us/philip-reeker-testimony.html
WASHINGTON - A top diplomat told impeachment investigators on Saturday that he repeatedly pressed top State Department leaders, in vain, to defend the United States ambassador to Ukraine in the face of false attacks that he said were orchestrated by the president's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani.
The account by Philip T. Reeker, the acting assistant secretary in charge of European and Eurasian Affairs, underscored the bewilderment in American diplomatic ranks over the State Department's decision in May to recall Marie L. Yovanovitch, a highly respected career diplomat and the top American official in Ukraine, months before her term was up.
from Wiki page
Born in Pennsylvania, Reeker grew up in multiple parts of the United States as well as in Australia.
However, Reeker said he was involved with the effort to put out an internal statement in support of Marie Yovanovitch, Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was ousted based on allegedly false allegations
In that role he quickly became concerned about the Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who appeared to be the subject of an unfounded smear campaign. In an email to Ulrich Brechbuhl, the State Department counselor and confidant of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Reeker described the smear as a "fake narrative" that was "really … without merit or validation" and on other occasions forwarded to Brechbuhl information State Department officials gathered to counter the allegations. President Donald Trump nevertheless removed her prematurely from her post and referred to her as "bad news" in a conversation with the Ukrainian president.
#8048078 at 2020-02-06 14:43:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10301: Wakey Wakey Edition
>>8048066
pt2
First, let the oversight committees get back to basics. During the impeachment process, a number of House committees went largely quiet. Now they should aggressively pursue unfinished business, including addressing Trump's efforts to take away health-care protections for people with preexisting conditions and to raid the U.S. military budget to fund his useless wall at the southern border.
Second, complete the story that the Senate Republican leadership wanted to spike. The House majority should expose the Senate impeachment trial for what it was - a coverup - by subpoenaing witnesses such as Bolton, Mulvaney, Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. The public is entitled to hear their testimony in an official setting - there is much still to learn. The public also is yet to hear from former White House counsel Donald McGahn about Trump's possible obstruction efforts. Many of the most important figures, including Bolton, Parnas and McGahn, have said they are willing to testify if given the opportunity.
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Third, thoroughly investigate Trump and his cronies to determine whether they have misused their offices for personal gain. Pay-for-play opportunities appear to be rampant in the Trump administration. Coal magnate Robert E. Murray, the founder of Murray Energy, "has donated $1.4 million to Trump and related super PACs," according to NBC News. Shortly after Trump took office in 2017, Murray presented the new administration with what the New York Times termed a "wish list" of regulations he wanted to see rolled back. The Times said in 2018, "Nearly a year later, the White House and federal agencies have completed or are on track to fulfill most of the 16 detailed requests." That includes the dismantling of the Clean Power Plan, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement and attacking mercury standards.
On Friday, news broke that Environmental Protection Agency chief of staff Ryan Jackson - who has already been admonished by the EPA inspector general for defying investigations - is leaving the agency to join the National Mining Association. The news came just a week after the administration announced cutbacks on federal protections for streams and wetlands under the Clean Water Act, a move that was a top priority for the NMA, which spent $3.5 million on lobbying related to the effort. Jackson's new position, as the NMA's senior vice president for governmental affairs, had the hallmarks of a reward for a job well done.
After three years of scandal and investigations, many might feel the best thing to do is to move on. But robust oversight is critical to ensuring that the American people know the extent of Trump's corruption and to deterring Trump from further damaging democratic institutions. The House is the last line of defense.
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/05/country-needs-houses-oversight-now-more-than-ever/
#7929020 at 2020-01-27 15:25:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10147: Monday Morning E-Bake Edition
>>7929012
In his testimony, the colonel mentioned his "multiple overseas tours," including in South Korea and Germany, and a 2003 combat deployment to Iraq that left him wounded by a roadside bomb, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart.
Since 2008, he has been an Army foreign area officer - an expert in political-military operations - specializing in Eurasia. Colonel Vindman has a master's degree from Harvard in Russian, Eastern Europe and Central Asian Studies. He has served in the United States' Embassies in Kiev, Ukraine, and in Moscow, and was the officer specializing in Russia for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before joining the National Security Council in 2018.
By this spring, he said in his opening statement, he became troubled by what he described as efforts by "outside influencers" to create "a false narrative" about Ukraine. Documents reviewed by The New York Times suggest the reference is to Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, and his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and implicate Ukraine, rather than Russia, in interfering with the 2016 election.
He twice reported concerns about President Trump's dealings with Ukraine, according to a draft statement.
In May, a month after Mr. Zelensky was elected president of Ukraine in a landslide victory, Mr. Trump asked the colonel to join the energy secretary, Rick Perry, to travel to Ukraine to attend the new president's inauguration.
By July, Colonel Vindman had grown deeply concerned that administration officials were pressuring Mr. Zelensky to investigate Mr. Biden. That concern only intensified, he told investigators, when he listened in to the now-famous July 25 phone conversation between Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Trump.
"I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen," he told investigators, "and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government's support of Ukraine."
His heritage gave Colonel Vindman, who is fluent in both Ukrainian and Russian, unique insight into Mr. Trump's pressure campaign; on numerous occasions, Ukrainian officials sought him out for advice about how to deal with Mr. Giuliani.
Colonel Vindman's testimony was sprinkled with references to duty, honor and patriotism - but also his life as an immigrant and a refugee.
"I sit here, as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, an immigrant," he said, adding, "I have a deep appreciation for American values and ideals and the power of freedom. I am a patriot, and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our country, irrespective of party or politics."
Ms. Kitman, the photographer, said that was what she would expect from both the Vindman twins.
"When you talk about what good immigrants do," she said, "look at what these immigrants are doing for this country."
Danny Hakim and Nicholas Fandos contributed reporting. Kitty Bennett contributed research.
#7627010 at 2019-12-26 21:52:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9758: Ghostbusters. Can You Answer The Call? Edition
>>7626995
Trump is impeached by the House, creating an indelible mark on his presidency
anon commentary, part 2
>The intensity and polarization of the debate on the House floor vividly illustrated the extent to which leaders of the two parties now believe entirely different accounts of what occurred
Dems lie through their teeth
>and are motivated by different concerns. At times they sounded almost as if they were representing different countries.
muh adrenochrome and trafficked kidz
>Just before the House voted, Trump took the stage in Michigan, where he rallied an estimated 10,000 supporters at a sports arena in Battle Creek - a muscular display of political potency even at the historic low point of his presidency.
support at all time high even according to the fake news polls
>"This lawless partisan impeachment is a suicide march for the Democratic Party," Trump told the crowd. He added, "After three years of sinister witch hunts, hoaxes, scams, tonight House Democrats are trying to nullify the ballots of tens of millions of patriotic Americans."
fact check: mostly true - ballot nullification started long before rally night
>Nevertheless, Trump's impeachment by the House will be a defining mark on his legacy. Wednesday's action cemented on a constitutional level the opposition party's view that Trump is unfit to serve, elevating the informal resistance to his presidency, which has raged from coast to coast, into the permanent historical record.
constitution = toilet paper to these people
>Pelosi at first resisted pressure from the left to impeach Trump … But she formally opened an inquiry in September after a whistleblower reported concerns about Trump's conduct on a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump explicitly asked Zelensky to investigate Biden.
but what did biden do tho???
>Marathon hearings last month before the House Intelligence Committee produced damaging testimony detailing Trump's actions and those of his personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, among others
yes, listening to mentally deranged people can be damaging
>Democrats said Wednesday that declining to punish a presidential demand that a foreign government influence an American election would be an unacceptable abdication of constitutional responsibility. Such an action clearly meets the standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that the Constitution lays out for impeachment, they said.
which crime? meh
>"The evidence is clear that President Trump took advantage of Ukraine's vulnerability and abused the powers of his office to pressure Ukraine to help his reelection campaign," said Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). "This is the highest of high crimes, and President Trump must be held to account."
I am the highest of highest ranking anons 8=)
#7525364 at 2019-12-16 19:29:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9626: I HEAR YOU KNOCKIN! Let'em have it!! Edition
Giuliani says he has new proof of massive corruption in Ukraine involving Bidens
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Monday, December 16, 2019
Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani says he's uncovered proof of "extensive" corruption in Ukraine, including "clear" proof of money laundering by Burisma energy company and Hunter and Joseph R. Biden.
In a series of tweets, Mr. Giuliani said his trip earlier this month to Ukraine "garnered witnesses & documents which reveal the truth behind this impeachment," which he said includes no wrongdoing by President Trump.
"Evidence revealed that corruption in 2016 was so extensive it was POTUS's DUTY to ask for US-Ukraine investigation," Mr. Giuliani tweeted, days before the House prepares to vote on impeaching the president. He said impeachment is part of a Democratic "cover up" of what he found in "hundreds of hours" and months of research.
https://wwW.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/16/rudy-Giuliani-says-he-has-new-proof-massive-corrup/
#7479542 at 2019-12-11 13:02:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9566: Eyes on the Skies!
In case it was not known Giuliani prosecuted Galanis
Ultimately, nine criminal actions were brought for violations of the securities laws. Galanis was charged with looting the securities and cash of domestic and offshore mutual funds and also charged with engaging in a scheme to defraud domestic and foreign mutual funds, and was sentenced to prison.[3]
1980s
On June 8, 1983, Galanis was charged, along with two former Chase Manhattan Bank vice presidents with stealing $9.5 million from Chase through fraudulent loans in 1978 and 1979. The case was brought by Manhattan District Attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau.
On May 12, 1987, Galanis was charged in separate federal and state cases in Manhattan with stealing more than $115 million from investors and cheating the government of millions of dollars in false tax deductions
On May 12, 1987, Galanis was charged in separate federal and state cases in Manhattan with stealing more than $115 million from investors and cheating the government of millions of dollars in false tax deductions.[4] Galanis was promoting a tax shelter.
In the federal case, as announced by then United States Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani in Manhattan, involved "a massive racketeering scheme" with Galanis operating a tax shelter program that obtained about $40 million from about 2,500 investors. Giuliani called Galanis "a career white-collar criminal."[5] The scheme was this: Galanis's company lent the investors $4 for each $1 they invested and told them that they were eligible to deduct four times their actual investment on their taxes. However, the loans were fabricated.
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/John_Peter_Galanis
#7475188 at 2019-12-10 22:10:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9561: One for the Barr!! Edition
>>7475169
Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, said Tuesday that the president has asked him to brief the Justice Department and Republican senators on his findings from a recent trip to Ukraine ahead of a likely Senate impeachment trial.
"He wants me to do it," Giuliani said in a brief intervieW. "I'm working on pulling it together and hope to have it done by the end of the week."
However, it is unclear whether GOP senators or Justice Department officials want information from Giuliani, whose meetings in Europe last week with Ukrainian sources drew condemnation from Democratic lawmakers and winces from even some Republicans.
In a recent interview, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R - S.C.) said he had no plans for Giuliani to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has launched an inquiry into former vice president Joe Biden and his communications with Ukrainian officials. Attorney General William P. Barr has counseled Trump in general terms that Giuliani has become a liability and a problem for the administration, as The Washington Post previously reported.
A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment. The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Two White House officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal conversations said that Trump did not instruct Giuliani to go to Ukraine. The president's advisers were displeased about the trip, although Trump has not expressed those concerns, they said.
Indeed, on Saturday, Trump appeared happy with his lawyer's work, telling reporters that Giuliani was going to "make a report" to the attorney general and Congress.
"He says he has a lot of good information," Trump said, adding: "I hear he has found plenty."
#7462400 at 2019-12-09 11:39:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9544: Graveyard Reapers Rollin Edition
Trump creates evidence faster than the House can draft impeachment articles
By JENNIFER RUBIN
WASHINGTON POST |
DEC 09, 2019 | 6:00 AM
President Donald Trump in the 2016 race made one argument against Hillary Clinton more than any other: Her sloppy handling of emails using a private server disqualified her from holding office; someone that negligent with U.S. security could not be trusted. The right-wing media echo chamber reverberated with that charge. To this day, Trump's cult chants "Lock her up!" at his rallies.
It therefore should be a tiny bit embarrassing - What am I saying? These people have no shame! - that Trump deliberately used unsecured communication. The Washington Post reports:
"President Trump has routinely communicated with his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and other individuals speaking on cellphones vulnerable to monitoring by Russian and other foreign intelligence services, current and former U.S. officials said. …
"The disclosures provide fresh evidence suggesting that the president continues to defy the security guidance urged by his aides and followed by previous incumbents - a stance that is particularly remarkable given Trump's attacks on Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign for her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of state.
"The connection to the Ukraine campaign is also troubling because of how Moscow could exploit knowledge that Trump was secretly engaged in efforts to extract political favors from the government in Kyiv."
He was handing Russia the material with which to blackmail him because he wanted to conceal his calls and ensure there would be no record of the calls, which is about the best evidence of consciousness of guilt you are ever going to find. ("When Trump realized that this enabled [chief of staff John] Kelly to compile daily logs of his calls, and the identities of those he was speaking to, Trump became annoyed and reverted to using his cellphone, officials said. 'He was totally paranoid that everyone knew who he was talking to,' a former senior administration official said.")
His own advisers recognize the threat to national security. ("Trump's conduct has become a matter of renewed concern among senior officials at the White House after repeated attempts to break him of his habit of speaking on his own cellphone or to others using unsecured lines.")
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/7462058.html
THEY ARE AFRAID!
#7434848 at 2019-12-05 22:35:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9508: Is the Corn Ready?! Editio
Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach and President Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani show a document during a meeting in Kyiv, in an image posted by Derkach on Dec. 5, 2019. (Andriy Derkach/Reuters)
#7359861 at 2019-11-23 00:58:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9413: The Salt Rotation and The Trip Update Edition
Attorney General William Barr Concludes What Happened To Clinton Buddy Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epsteinwas found dead in his cell not long after he was mysteriously taken off suicide watch, despite a recent attempt to take his own life this past summer. The guards watching him were rent-a-cop level, they falsified prison logs, and had fallen asleep on the job. Shrieks were heard near his cell the day he died. All of this is sketch city and for once, the conspiracy theory crowd was not dismissed. Epstein had ties to some of the most powerful and wealthiest people on the planet, including the Clintons. His private island was reportedly wired for sound; can you say blackmail tapes? And the search warrant executed for his New York residence yielded troves of incriminating evidence to back up the not-so-new allegations that he was a child predator. He was indicted for trafficking underage girls and other sex crimes. He escaped justice in early 2000s thanks to a sweetheart deal he cut with then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, a piece of history that was resurrected by the Miami Herald which reported on Epstein's plea deal which showcased what money and connections can afford you when you get into trouble. This legal arrangement cost Acosta his job as Trump's labor secretary.
The death of Epstein while in federal custody was another low point for the DOJ. Barr was outraged, leading him to order a full review with Inspector General Michael Horowitz joining the effort. Initially, two guards were suspended, and the warden was reassigned. Now, two guards have been arrested (via NPR):
Two correctional officers who were assigned to guard Jeffrey Epstein on the night he died in his cell have been indicted for allegedly ignoring more than 75 mandatory checks on the wealthy financier then fabricating records to cover it up.
Federal authorities charged Michael Thomas and Tova Noel with multiple counts of falsifying records and conspiracy. The two worked as guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a federal facility in Manhattan that is mostly used for defendants awaiting trial.
At a court appearance on Tuesday, Thomas and Noel pleaded not guilty and a judge released each of them on a $100,000 bond.
The indictment provides the first official account of what happened in the hours before Epstein's death.
According to video surveillance footage obtained by prosecutors, Epstein was in his cell unobserved for eight hours before he was found dead. The unit he was in requires that all inmates be accounted for twice an hour.
There were conflicting medical analyses as well. One saying that Epstein had killed himself, another that cast doubton that conclusion due to the wounds around his neck. The latter autopsy was conducted by Epstein's brother who noted the neck injuries were more consistent with homicide than suicide. I mean all of this was just too good to be true. The man potentially had dirt on oodles of people; Epstein also had ties to the British Royal Family. Yet, Attorney General Barr now says that the events that occurred prior to Epstein's death were a disaster, but that the child predator committed suicide (via NYT):
Attorney General William P. Barr said in an interview published on Friday that the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of sex trafficking, in a secure federal prison resulted from "a perfect storm of screw-ups," rather than any nefarious act.
Mr. Barr's statement refuted suggestions from members of Mr. Epstein's family that he may have been murdered. His remarks came the same week that two prison guards were criminally charged, accused in an indictment of failing to check on Mr. Epstein every half-hour as they were required to and then lying about it on prison logs.
"I can understand people who immediately - whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario, because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups," Mr. Barr said in an interview with The Associated Press as he flew to Montana on Thursday night.
Mr. Epstein's death in August at a federal detention center in Manhattan set off a rash of unfounded conspiracy theories on social media that were picked up and repeated by high-profile figures, including Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. No matter their ideology, the refrain of the theories was the same: Something did not add up.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/11/22/attorney-general-william-barr-concludes-what-happened-to-clinton-buddy-jeffrey-ep-n2556706?2219
#6391000 at 2019-05-02 11:28:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8172: Slowlolo The Graveyard Edition
>>6390992
Hunter Biden, who left Burisma's board last month, was one of many politically prominent Americans of both major parties who made money in Ukraine over the last decade. In several cases - most notably that of Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman - that business came under criminal investigation that exposed a seedy side of the lucrative Western consulting industry in Ukraine.
But the renewed scrutiny of Hunter Biden's experience in Ukraine has also been fanned by allies of Mr. Trump. They have been eager to publicize and even encourage the investigation, as well as other Ukrainian inquiries that serve Mr. Trump's political ends, underscoring the Trump campaign's concern about the electoral threat from the former vice president's presidential campaign.
The Trump team's efforts to draw attention to the Bidens' work in Ukraine, which is already yielding coverage in conservative media, has been led partly by Rudolph W. Giuliani, who served as a lawyer for Mr. Trump in the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. Mr. Giuliani's involvement raises questions about whether Mr. Trump is endorsing an effort to push a foreign government to proceed with a case that could hurt a political opponent at home.
Mr. Giuliani has discussed the Burisma investigation, and its intersection with the Bidens, with the ousted Ukrainian prosecutor general and the current prosecutor. He met with the current prosecutor multiple times in New York this year. The current prosecutor general later told associates that, during one of the meetings, Mr. Giuliani called Mr. Trump excitedly to brief him on his findings, according to people familiar with the conversations.
Mr. Giuliani declined to comment on any such phone call with Mr. Trump, but acknowledged that he has discussed the matter with the president on multiple occasions. Mr. Trump, in turn, recently suggested he would like Attorney General William P. Barr to look into the material gathered by the Ukrainian prosecutors - echoing repeated calls from Mr. Giuliani for the Justice Department to investigate the Bidens' Ukrainian work and other connections between Ukraine and the United States.
Mr. Giuliani said he got involved because he was seeking to counter the Mueller investigation with evidence that Democrats conspired with sympathetic Ukrainians to help initiate what became the special counsel's inquiry.
"I can assure you this all started with an allegation about possible Ukrainian involvement in the investigation of Russian meddling, and not Biden," Mr. Giuliani said. "The Biden piece is collateral to the bigger story, but must still be investigated, but without the prejudgments that infected the collusion story."
The decision to reopen the investigation into Burisma was made in March by the current Ukrainian prosecutor general, who had cleared Hunter Biden's employer more than two years ago. The announcement came in the midst of Ukraine's contentious presidential election, and was seen in some quarters as an effort by the prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, to curry favor from the Trump administration for his boss and ally, the incumbent president, Petro O. Poroshenko.
Mr. Poroshenko lost his re-election bid in a landslide last month. While the incoming president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said he will replace Mr. Lutsenko as prosecutor general, Mr. Zelensky has not said whether the prosecutors he appoints will be asked to continue the investigation.
Kostiantyn H. Kulyk, a deputy for Mr. Lutsenko who was handling the cases before being reassigned last month, told The New York Times that he was scrutinizing millions of dollars of payments from Burisma to the firm that paid Hunter Biden.
#6264809 at 2019-04-21 18:56:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8011: Happy National Park Week Edition
How Michael Cohen Turned Against President Trump
Michael D. Cohen was at a breaking point. He told friends he was suicidal. He insisted to lawyers he would never go to jail. Most of all, he feared that President Trump, his longtime boss, had forsaken him.
"Basically he needs a little loving and respect booster," one of Mr. Cohen's legal advisers at the time, Robert J. Costello, wrote in a text message to Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president's lead lawyer. "He is not thinking clearly because he feels abandoned."
That was last June. The "booster" from Mr. Trump never arrived. And by August, Mr. Cohen's relationship with him had gone from fraught to hostile, casting a shadow on the Trump presidency and helping drive multiple criminal investigations into the president's inner circle, including some that continued after the special counsel's work ended.
In the biggest blow to the president personally, federal prosecutors in Manhattan effectively characterized Mr. Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case against Mr. Cohen involving hush money payments to a pornographic film actress. Mr. Cohen, and evidence gathered by prosecutors, implicated the president.
Now, as Mr. Cohen prepares to head to prison in two weeks, dozens of previously unreported emails, text messages and other confidential documents reviewed by The New York Times suggest that his falling out with Mr. Trump may have been avoidable.
https://wwW.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-michael-cohen-turned-against-president-trump/ar-BBW8TIU
#5536981 at 2019-03-06 15:55:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7079: Research & Thinking Causes Viruses Edition
>>5536955
Mr. Trump has offered conflicting accounts about the matter. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One in April 2018, he said he did not know about the payment to Ms. Daniels. But a month later, his lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, hoping to refute the suggestion that it might be a campaign finance violation, told Fox News and The Times that the president had in fact reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payment.
Citing Mr. Cohen and other evidence, prosecutors from the Southern District of New York said in court papers that Mr. Trump directed the scheme, essentially making him an unindicted co-conspirator.A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless news cycle, telling you what you really need to knoW.
"We're talking about a felony committed by the president of the United States where there's no dispute," said Mr. Davis, the lawyer for Mr. Cohen.
People close to Mr. Trump have suggested that he may not have been aware of what Mr. Cohen was doing in real time, despite an audiotape that Mr. Cohen recorded of him discussing with Mr. Trump payments that The National Enquirer had made to a second woman who claimed to have had an affair with the candidate.
A person close to Mr. Trump said that he may have believed the checks were payment for general legal fees, but may not have known why. The president's associates stressed that the payment to Mr. Cohen was one of several he made privately each month.
Mr. Davis scoffed at that. "You denied the Stormy Daniels affair and that was a lie," he said. "Now you're denying that you knew about this payoff and reimbursement that Giuliani says you knew about. So your claim of ignorance doesn't have any credibility."
One person who without question was involved, according to multiple people briefed on the events, was Mr. Weisselberg, the Trump Organization chief financial officer. Mr. Cohen told Mr. Weisselberg about the $130,000 wire transfer to Ms. Daniels. Mr. Weisselberg suggested repaying it in installments and told Mr. Cohen to send invoices once a month, according to the people.
By Mr. Cohen's account, the checks began in February 2017, just weeks after Mr. Trump was inaugurated as president. When Mr. Cohen visited the Oval Office for the first time, he said, Mr. Trump raised the issue of the hush payments in the same room that symbolized the United States' seat of power.
NYT Haberman 3.6.2019 #2
#4687805 at 2019-01-10 02:02:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5982: Pelosi Says No To Wall Even If Goverment Reopens Edition
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Department of Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall and Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik announced today that the ban on single occupancy vehicles entering Manhattan south of 63rd Street via any bridge or tunnel will now be in effect from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday beginning Wednesday, October 17, 2001. The easing of the time restrictions by one hour reflects the fact that motorists have heeded the City's urging to use mass transit, and to carpool. The scaling back of the hours from 11 a.m. to 10 a.m. also comes as a result of additional thoroughfares being opened in Lower Manhattan.
http://wwW.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2001b/pr326-01.html
#4687379 at 2019-01-10 01:32:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5981: "Launched ‘a thousand memes’ while they were still talking" Edition
The New York Police Department produced a detailed analysis in 1998 opposing plans by the city to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center, but the Giuliani administration overrode those objections. The command center later collapsed from damage in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
"Seven World Trade Center is a poor choice for the site of a crucial command center for the top leadership of the City of New York," a panel of police experts, which was aided by the Secret Service, concluded in a confidential Police Department memorandum.
The memorandum, which has not been previously disclosed, cited a number of "significant points of vulnerability." Those included: the building's public access, the center's location on the 23rd floor, a 1,200-gallon diesel fuel supply for its generator, a large garage and delivery bays, the building's history as a terrorist target, and its placement above and adjacent to a Consolidated Edison substation that provided much of the power for Lower Manhattan.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the mayor then, has acknowledged some police skepticism about the site, but he has described it as resulting from a jurisdictional dispute between police officials and his emergency management director, who had played a role in selecting the site.
The eight-page memo reveals that police officials asked a variety of in-house experts in various disciplines and an outside expert to prepare a detailed analysis of the site's vulnerabilities.
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The decision to put the command center in the trade center has been a continuing source of discomfort for Mr. Giuliani, whose expertise and preparedness as a leader in a time of crisis has been the chief element in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
The site was completed in the summer of 1999 and was destroyed when the 47-story building at 7 World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11 after a fire there burned for much of the day.
"This group's finding is that the security of the proposed O.E.M. Command Center cannot be reasonably guaranteed," the commander of the intelligence division, Daniel J. Oates, wrote in the July 15, 1998, memo to the police commissioner.
The memo said the conclusions were based on analysis by police officials with expertise in infrastructure, building security, explosives, traffic and ventilation systems, who also consulted the Secret Service, including the agency's New York special agent in charge, Chip Smith.
"Mr. Smith agrees with this assessment," the memo says in its concluding paragraph, "even though his own office is in Seven World Trade Center. He acknowledges that the security of his office is a continuing concern because of the public nature of the building and the other reasons specified in this report."
The memorandum was provided to The New York Times by a law enforcement official not affiliated with a rival political campaign.
Mr. Giuliani received a briefing on the Police Department's recommendations, but it is unclear whether he received a copy of the memorandum.
Mr. Giuliani has said in the past that one of the reasons for choosing the location was that several federal agencies with which city officials needed to be in contact during emergencies, including the Secret Service, had their offices there. Other federal agencies in the building included the Defense Department and the C.I.A.
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But the Police Department took the opposite position in the memo, saying the presence of those agencies made the building a more likely target.
Mr. Giuliani's campaign declined on Friday to answer questions about the memo. But Maria Comella, a campaign spokeswoman, said the Giuliani administration had considered 50 different sites and examined a variety of factors before selecting the trade center.
https://wwW.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/us/politics/26emergency.html
#4566715 at 2019-01-02 18:36:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5825: Low Gas Prices Edition
'Real Justice Department' veteran emerges as Mueller's top courtroom adversary
A former federal prosecutor has emerged as special counsel Robert Mueller's most persistent courtroom critic.
It's not Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former U.S. attorney and now President Trump's ubiquitous defender, or any of cable TV's prosecutors-turned-pundits.
He is Eric A. Dubelier, a litigator for the Reed Smith law firm who knows international law and the D.C. playing field. He served eight years prosecuting cases as a Justice Department assistant U.S. attorney in Washington. He refers to his former employer as "the real Justice Department," implying that Mr. Mueller's team is something less.
His biting remarks have come in months of court filings and oral arguments. Mr. Dubelier has depicted Mr. Mueller as a rogue prosecutor willfully ignoring Justice Department guidelines.
He has accused Mr. Mueller of creating a "make-believe crime" against his Russian client, Concord Management and Consulting, which is accused of funding a troll farm that interfered in the 2016 election.
So far, the federal judge presiding over the case has sided with Mr. Mueller.
Mr. Dubelier charges that the Mueller team violated the confidentially of Concord's counter evidence while hiding documents Concord needs for its defense. The prosecutor wants to "whisper secrets to the judge," Mr. Dubelier says, as Mr. Mueller is calculating the "short-term political value of a conviction" and not worrying about an appeals court defeat years later.
An example: In a Dec. 20 motion, Mr. Dubelier resurrected a botched case spearheaded by Mr. Mueller's top prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann.
Mr. Weissmann headed the Justice Department's Enron task force nearly two decades ago. He won a conviction against the accounting firm Arthur Andersen for shredding the defunct energy firm's financial documents.
Years later, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the conviction. The 2005 decision effectively said that Andersen, by then out of business and its 28,000 employees gone, hadn't committed a crime.
"Mr. Dubelier is exactly right on Mr. Mueller's motives and tactics," said Sidney Powell, whose book "License to Lie" exposes years of Justice Department scandals. "His lieutenant Weissmann is the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct and has no regard for the facts or the laW. He will make up whatever he wants to win, and the entire like-minded team views as an accomplishment everyone whose life they destroy in pursuit of their objective."
'Made up a crime to fit the facts'
https://wwW.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/1/eric-dubelier-emerges-robert-muellers-top-courtroo/
#3465444 at 2018-10-13 19:17:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4394: My Old Kentucky Home Edition
Attorney Pat Cipollone "Filling Out Paperwork" For White House Counsel Role: Axios
Respected D.C. litigator Pat Cipollone "has already begun the process of filling out his necessary paperwork" to replace Don McGahn as White House Counsel, according to Axios. Cipollone, a former DOJ attorney who practices commercial litigation, was reportedly interviewed by President Trump this week, after having advised the President's outside legal time since at least June. He is also close to White House lawyer Emmet Flood, who is helping to handle the Mueller investigation into the 2016 US election and was also under consideration for the job. According to the biography on his firm's website, Cipollone has practiced in commercial litigation, trade regulation and health-care fraud. He has extensive expertise in defending corporations as well as handling complex federal investigations and "prepublication negotiations" over defamatory media reports. He is a former partner at the law firm Kirkland and Ellis, whose attorneys have included Kavanaugh, Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork and former George W. Bush administration solicitor general Paul Clement. Cipollone is well regarded among some of Trump's senior advisers, including the president's outside attorneys, Jay Sekulow and Rudolph W. Giuliani. -WaPo
"Pat Cipollone is a brilliant attorney," Sekulow told the Post, adding. "I have had the privilege to work with him and can attest to his skill, integrity and knowledge of the laW. If selected by the president, he would make an outstanding White House counsel." Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said "I know both Pat and Emmet very well, and either one would be an excellent choice."
Cipollone has already begun the process of filling out his necessary paperwork, according to one of those sources. (As with any decision in Trumpworld, the president could reverse it or some other obstacle could emerge in the paperwork process. But as of today, it's expected to be Cipollone.) "He's a respected Washington litigator," the source said. "He's not one of the big names in the Washington Republican Bar, but he's respected." "He's not an obvious choice," the source continued. "Not a political guy like Don [McGahn] was. Not tied to the Hill and doesn't know all the senators like Don does… He's done some white collar in the past but is not a big player, like [Emmet] Flood, in the government investigations spot." The source continued that Emmet Flood, the lawyer most heavily touted for the job, "was a perfect choice" to handle government investigations given his private practice and previous White House experience. Whereas Cipollone, who has no previous White House experience, does some of that in his private practice but it's not what he's known for, the source added. Cipollone is primarily known as a civil litigator - for example, when a company sues another company for breach of contract. "But he's a true believer," the source said of Cipollone. "He's a big Trump supporter." Cipollone is a practicing Catholic, having served on the board of the Catholic Information Center. He also holds a leadership position at the Foundation Stone Institute, which aims to strengthen ties between Catholics and Israelis, according to the Post. Cipollone is good friends with conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, who credited him with guiding her as a "spiritual mentor" prior to her 2002 conversion to Catholicism. "I had all this success and still didn't feel like I was right," Ingraham told the National Catholic Register in 2004, adding that Cipollone was an advisor: "I think God's reaching out to you. That's why you're feeling this way. And he leaves the flock to find the lost sheep, and maybe you're lost and he's trying to find you."
https://wwW.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-13/new-white-house-lawyer-pat-cipollone-filling-out-paperwork-role-axios
#3403633 at 2018-10-09 03:34:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4314: Columbus Day Edition
The Party of Trump has proved itself keen to propagate any conspiracy theory, no matter how ridiculous or racist.
Well, almost any conspiracy theory.
There were the microwave ovens that surveil your every move. There were those fake jobs numbers, crafted to make President Barack Obama look good (though today, oddly, those same jobs numbers somehow make Obama look bad, according to Republicans). There were autism-causing vaccines, 3 million illegal votes, alleged murders, a pizza-parlor child-sex-slavery ring, the convoluted nonsense of QAnon.
Then Friday, Trumpkins revived a conspiracy theory that long predates our current president and has remained popular with far-right political regimes around the world: that of the International JeW.
Thousands of protesters had shown up to voice their anger over Brett M. Kavanaugh's imminent ascension to the country's highest court. They were, understandably, mad about Kavanaugh's record - on reproductive rights, campaign finance, executive power and other key policy concerns.
They were also mad about Kavanaugh's personal conduct - not only high-profile allegations of sexual misconduct but also his nasty, partisan attacks on Democratic senators, his claims of a vast Clintonian left-wing conspiracy and his statements under oath whose veracity has been disputed even by his friends.
But perhaps most of all, they were mad at the Republican Party.
After all, the GOP had stolen a Supreme Court seat from Obama, taken away the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees so they could push through a pick without 60?votes, and arranged for a sham FBI investigation when their pick was credibly accused of sexual assault. Some of them even mocked a woman who said she had been sexually assaulted.
Despite all this, Republican leadership somehow couldn't fathom why legions of Americans might be genuinely, grievously upset. Instead, several Republicans suggested, all those Kavanaugh protesters - just like those phony Women's Marchers last year - must be mercenaries. That is, they were only pretending to be mad, because they were being paid to be mad.
Not merely paid: paid by an evil, rich, foreign-born JeW.
The protesters who confronted a senator in an elevator were "Paid for by Soros and others," President Trump tweeted, in a reference to Hungarian-born American Jewish billionaire and liberal philanthropist George Soros.
Trump's tweet echoed a comment from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who told a Fox Business Network host that he thought the protesters were probably paid by Soros.
Trump's personal attorney Rudolph W.?Giuliani amplified the conspiracy theory, retweeting a comment calling Soros "the anti-Christ" and urging that his assets be frozen. Other Republican pundits also called for the survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary to be jailed and his wealth seized.
This was not merely an attempt to scapegoat someone, anyone, for Republicans' deeply unpopular actions. It was a call for tinfoil-hatters to revive the blood libel. Soros has inherited the archetype of the International Jew who haunted the fevered dreams of Henry Ford, one of the original America Firsters. Soros has apparently shapeshifted out of "Jud Süss" and Mayer Rothschild and Shylock before him - a rootless, ruthless villain supposedly conspiring to undermine the rightful gentile order.
More:
https://wwW.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-one-conspiracy-theory-that-republicans-wont-believe/2018/10/08/edaf5d2a-cb34-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html?utm_term=.cfa511289d31
#2512279 at 2018-08-08 18:09:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3169: Deepstate Cleanup Around the World
Trump's Lawyers Just Treated Robert Mueller Like a Cat Toy
President Trump's lawyers rejected the special counsel's latest terms for an interview in the Russia investigation, countering on Wednesday with an offer that suggested a narrow path for answering questions, people familiar with the matter said.
Jay Sekulow, one of Mr. Trump's personal lawyers, confirmed that a response was sent but declined to comment on its content. The president's lead lawyer in the case, Rudolph W. Giuliani, noted the documents that the White House has already provided and said, "We're restating what we have been saying for months: It is time for the Office of Special Counsel to conclude its inquiry without further delay."
https://truepundit.com/trumps-lawyers-just-treated-robert-mueller-like-a-cat-toy/
#1288761 at 2018-05-03 20:47:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1615 Don't Feed the Shills Edition
>>1288409
Here ya go:
>>1215845
SOURCE:
https://wwW. nytimes. com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html
>Cohen raid by FBI?
Orchestrated by White Hats.
>Public context: re: payment to Stormy Daniels?
>SC & FBI raided POTUS' attorney to pull Stormy Daniels payment info?
>RR signed off?
Ahem…
Southern Law District of New York
"the New York action is, in part, a referral by the office of special counsel, Robert Mueller."
Mr. Sessions appointed the United States attorney for the Southern District, Geoffrey S. Berman, only in January.
Mr. Berman is a former law partner of Rudolph W. Giuliani
Who's Giuliani working for, now?
>What other docs were collected?
AH HA… Here's the #ReleaseTheTexts / #ReleaseTheVideo parts…
>How many places raided?
Agents raided space Mr. Cohen uses in the Rockefeller Center office of the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, as well as a room Mr. Cohen is staying in at the Loews Regency Hotel on Park Avenue while his apartment is under renovation, the person said.
>Raid on the President of the United States' attorney for payment details re: private case re: Stormy Daniels?
Sure, let the public think that.
>Think logically.
Trying.
>How do you introduce evidence into an investigation (legally)?
By obtaining it legally.
>Who has everything?
NO SUCH AGENCY.
>Methods which info collected/ obtained?
Everythang.
>Admissible in the court of law?
>Insert Rudy.
>First public statement.
>"It shouldn't take more than "a week or two" to come to a resolution on the probe."
>http://wwW. foxnews. com/politics/2018/04/20/rudy-to-rescue-Giuliani-vows-to-wrap-up-mueller-probe.html
>Think resignations.
>Who has the POWER?
>If POTUS was in a weakened position (about to be impeached/indicted) would 'they' resign?
>Why are we here?
>Public forum.
>World watching.
>Sharing of intel to bad actors?
>Purpose?
To let them know phase 3 is about to hit.
>Not confirming SC is on /team/.
>Question everything.
>Timing important.
>Planned?
Someone is coordinating with Sessions'/IG investigation
#1275305 at 2018-05-02 20:05:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1598 FOCUS ANONS
Trump to Add Clinton Impeachment Lawyer Emmet Flood to Replace Ty Cobb
By Matt Apuzzo and Michael S. Schmidt
May 2, 2018
WASHINGTON - President Trump has hired Emmet T. Flood, the veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, to replace Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who has taken the lead in dealing with the special counsel investigation and has decided to retire, the White House said on Wednesday.
In a phone interview, Mr. Cobb, who is 67, said he informed the president weeks ago that he wanted to retire. He said he planned to stay at the White House, likely through the end of the month, to help Mr. Flood transition into the new job.
"It has been an honor to serve the country in this capacity at the White House," he said. "I wish everybody well moving forward."
Mr. Flood is expected to take a more adversarial approach to the investigation than Mr. Cobb, who had pushed Mr. Trump to strike a cooperative tone. Mr. Flood initially spoke with the White House last summer about working for the president, but the talks ultimately fell apart because Mr. Flood did not want to deal with Mr. Trump's longtime New York lawyer, Marc E. Kasowitz, who was overseeing the president's dealings with the special counsel at the time.
"Emmet Flood will be joining the White House staff to represent the president and the administration against the Russia witch hunt," the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in a statement, referring to the special counsel investigation. "Ty Cobb, a friend of the president, who has done a terrific job, will be retiring at the end of the month."
It was not clear what prompted Mr. Flood to sign on. The president's legal team for the special counsel investigation has been marked by turnover and uncertain strategy, complicated by a client liable to dismiss his lawyers' advice. That factor prompted Mr. Trump's lead lawyer on the case, John Dowd, to quit this year. Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York who is a longtime confidant of the president, has come on board pledging to negotiate an interview for the president with the special counsel.
Emerging as part of those negotiations, a set of questions show that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, wants to quiz Mr. Trump on an exhaustive array of subjects, including his contacts with Russia as well as his mind-set leading up to and during a number of acts that could construe an attempt to obstruct the inquiry itself.
Mr. Flood was part of a team of lawyers who represented Mr. Clinton during his impeachment proceedings. Though he did not have a high-profile role, Mr. Flood did attend the Senate's deposition of Mr. Clinton's lawyer and confidant, Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Mr. Flood was also the lead lawyer in the White House Counsel's Office during George W. Bush's second term in dealing with congressional investigations, including the examination of the Bush administration's decision to dismiss seven United States attorneys. In private practice, Mr. Flood represented former Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Mr. Flood is well regarded in the conservative legal world and has connections with key players that could make him more effective than his predecessors on the legal team, including a good relationship with Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel.
Read More: https:// wwW.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/us/politics/emmet-flood-ty-cobb-white-house-lawyer-special-counsel.html
#974433 at 2018-04-10 00:26:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1212: #LetsSueFacebook. Join the Class Action Lawsuit against FB Edition
>>973569
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is naming 17 interim U.S. attorneys to run federal prosecutor shops across the country, including the premier office in Manhattan.
Geoffrey S. Berman, a law partner of Rudolph W. Giuliani at the firm Greenberg Traurig and a former federal prosecutor, was named to the interim post at the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, which handles some of the most high-profile cases in the country, according to a release from the Justice Department.
https:// wwW.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-names-17-interim-us-attorneys-including-in-premier-manhattan-office/2018/01/03/6f22ec2a-f0c3-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2270a0165356
8kun Midnight Riders Posts (4)
#124618 at 2022-04-14 16:31:40 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #667: Our Goal is World Peace Edition
>>124617
https://wwW.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-waleed-bin-talal.html
Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes, Including Billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal
Nov. 4, 2017
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s richest men, was reportedly arrested in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world's richest men, was reportedly arrested in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.Ishara S.Kodikara/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images
LONDON - Saudi Arabia announced the arrest on Saturday night of the prominent billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, plus at least 10 other princes, four ministers and tens of former ministers.
The announcement of the arrests was made over Al Arabiya, the Saudi-owned satellite network whose broadcasts are officially approved. Prince Alwaleed's arrest is sure to send shock waves both through the kingdom and the world's major financial centers.
He controls the investment firm Kingdom Holding and is one of the world's richest men, owning or having owned major stakes in 21st Century Fox, Citigroup, Apple, Twitter and many other well-known companies. The prince also controls satellite television networks watched across the Arab world.
The sweeping campaign of arrests appears to be the latest move to consolidate the power of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the favorite son and top adviser of King Salman.
At 32, the crown prince is already the dominant voice in Saudi military, foreign, economic and social policies, stirring murmurs of discontent in the royal family that he has amassed too much personal power, and at a remarkably young age.
The king had decreed the creation of a powerful new anti-corruption committee, headed by the crown prince, only hours before the committee ordered the arrests.
Al Arabiya said that the anticorruption committee has the right to investigate, arrest, ban from travel, or freeze the assets of anyone it deems corrupt.
The Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh, the de facto royal hotel, was evacuated on Saturday, stirring rumors that it would be used to house detained royals. The airport for private planes was closed, arousing speculation that the crown prince was seeking to block rich businessmen from fleeing before more arrests.
Prince Alwaleed was giving interviews to the Western news media as recently as late last month about subjects like so-called crypto currencies and Saudi Arabia's plans for a public offering of shares in its state oil company, Aramco.
He has also recently sparred publicly with President Donald J. Trump. The prince was part of a group of investors who bought control of the Plaza Hotel in New York from Mr. Trump, and he also bought an expensive yacht from him as well. But in a twitter message in 2015 the prince called Mr. Trump "a disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America."
Mr. Trump fired back, also on Twitter, that "Dopey Prince @Alwaleed_Talal wants to control our U.S. politicians with daddy's money."
At 32, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is already the dominant voice in Saudi military, foreign, economic and social policies.
At 32, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is already the dominant voice in Saudi military, foreign, economic and social policies.Fayez Nureldine/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images
As president, Mr. Trump has developed a warm, mutually supportive relationship with the ascendant crown prince, who has rocketed from near obscurity in recent years to taking control of the country's most important functions.
But his swift rise has also divided Saudis. Many applaud his vision, crediting him with addressing the economic problems facing the kingdom and laying out a plan to move beyond its dependence on oil.
Others see him as brash, power-hungry and inexperienced, and they resent him for bypassing his elder relatives and concentrating so much power in one branch of the family.
At least three senior White House officials, including the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were reportedly in Saudi Arabia last month for meetings that were undisclosed at the time.
Before sparring with Mr. Trump, Prince Alwaleed was publicly rebuffed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who rejected his $10 million donation for the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York because the prince had also criticized American foreign policy.
As powerful as the billionaire is, he is something of an outsider within the royal family - not a dissident, but an unusually outspoken figure on a variety of issues. He openly supported women driving long before the kingdom said it would grant them the right to do so, and he has long employed women in his orbit.
In 2015 he pledged to donate his fortune of $32 billion to charity after his death. It was unclear Saturday whether Saudi Arabia's corruption committee might seek to confiscate any of his assets.
Saudi Arabia is an executive monarchy without a written Constitution or independent government institutions like a Parliament or courts, so accusations of corruption are difficult to evaluate. The boundaries between the public funds and the wealth of the royal family are murky at best, and corruption, as other countries would describe it, is believed to be widespread.
The arrests came a few hours after the king replaced the minister in charge of the Saudi national guard, Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah, who controlled the last of the three Saudi armed forces not yet considered to be under control of the crown prince.
The king named Crown Prince Mohammed the minister of defense in 2015. Earlier this year, the king removed Prince Mohammed bin Nayef as head of the interior ministry, placing him under house arrest and extending the crown prince's influence over the interior ministry's troops, which act as a second armed force.
Rumors have swirled since then that King Salman and his favorite son would soon move against Prince Mutaib, commander of the third armed force and himself a former contender for the crown.
#98448 at 2021-09-23 20:48:06 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Rdiers #474: The WORLD is REALLY Watching.. Edition
General Research #18524 >>>/qresearch/14644154
Biden Regime to Release Info on Trump and Jan. 6 to Congress - Trump to Cite "Executive Privilege"
The Biden Regime is contemplating releasing information to Congress about what Trump and his inner circle were doing on January 6 during the Capitol protest.
Trump however said he will cite "executive privilege" to block requests from the Democrat-led House select committee.
"The highly partisan, Communist-style 'select committee' has put forth an outrageously broad records request that lacks both legal precedent and legislative merit," Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said in a statement. "Executive privilege will be defended, not just on behalf of President Trump and his administration, but also on behalf of the Office of the President of the United States and the future of our nation."
According to the Washington Post, the Biden Regime will likely disclose the documents to Congress in an effort to harass Trump and create more legal problems for the former president.
WaPo reported:
The White House is leaning toward releasing information to Congress about what Donald Trump and his aides were doing during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol despite the former president's objections - a decision that could have significant political and legal ramifications.
Trump has said he will cite "executive privilege" to block information requests from the House select committee investigating the events of that day, banking on a legal theory that has successfully allowed presidents and their aides to avoid or delay congressional scrutiny for decades, including during the Trump administration.
But President Biden's White House plans to err on the side of disclosure given the gravity of the events of Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with discussions who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
In response to the House panel's request, the National Archives has already identified hundreds of pages of documents from the Trump White House relevant to its inquiry. As required by statute, the material is being turned over to the Biden White House and to Trump's lawyers for revieW.
The committee's Aug. 25 letter to the National Archives was both sweeping and detailed, asking for "all documents and communications within the White House on January 6, 2021, relating in any way" to the events of that day. They include examining whether the White House or Trump allies worked to delay or halt the counting of electoral votes and whether there was discussion of impeding the peaceful transfer of power.
The letter asked for call logs, schedules and meetings for a large group, including Trump's adult children, son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and first lady Melania Trump as well as a host of aides and advisers, such as his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Meanwhile, the House Democrats are simultaneously working on new legislation dubbed "Protecting Our Democracy Act" to be able to go after ex-presidents (Trump).
"The measure would limit a president's pardon power, require presidential candidates to be transparent with their tax records, and extend a deadline for prosecuting former presidents and vice presidents for federal crimes committed before or during their time in office." NBC News reported.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler popped off on Thursday and said once a president leaves office, the statute of limitations will have run out.
"This policy has turned presidency into a get-out-of-jail free card," Nadler said.
https://wwW.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/showdown-biden-regime-release-info-trump-jan-6-congress-trump-cite-executive-privilege/
#53350 at 2021-02-06 01:23:46 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #247: Lindell Vid Listings Grows, GAB Raises The Torch Edition
RedState
@RedState
BREAKING: Fox News Cancels 'Lou Dobbs Tonight'
https://twitter.com/RedState/status/1357854544558972934
As reported by multiple news outlets, Fox News has canceled "Lou Dobbs Tonight." While the cancellation appeared to be abrupt, Fox said in a statement it was "part of planned changes" under consideration since at least October.
"As we said in October, Fox News Media regularly considers programming changes and plans have been in place to launch new formats as appropriate post-election, including on Fox Business," the representative said in a statement. "This is part of those planned changes. A new 5 p.m. program will be announced in the near future."
Here's a bit of background, via The LA Times:
Dobbs, who was signed to Fox News by its former chief executive Roger Ailes in 2011, has long been the company's most outspoken supporter of Trump's economic and immigration policies. In the weeks after the election, he expressed anger on his program that the Republican party did not do more to act on the former president's claims that the election was rigged in favor of Biden.
Dobbs also gave free rein to Trump lawyers Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell to push conspiracy theories about the election that were either rejected or never presented in court. Giuliani and Powell also are defendants in the Smartmatic defamation suit.
As reported by The New York Times on Thursday, Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion suit against Fox News, accusing the network of "promoting a false narrative about the 2020 election that damaged the company."
The suit pits Smartmatic, which provided election technology in one county, against[...] three Fox anchors; Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro, all ardent supporters of the former president. [...]
In addition to Mr. Murdoch's Fox Corporation, Fox News and the three star anchors, it targets Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sidney Powell, lawyers who made the case for election fraud as frequent guests on Fox programs while representing President Trump.
As the LA Times reported, Dobbs told Powell on his Nov. 30 show he believed Trump needed to take "drastic action, dramatic action to make certain that the integrity of this election is understood or lack of it, the crimes that have been committed against him and the American people. And if the Justice Department doesn't want to do it, if the FBI cannot do it, then we have to find other resources within the federal government."
Next week, Fox Business will start airing "Fox Business Tonight" in the interim. It will be hosted by Jackie DeAngelis on Monday and Tuesday, then David Asman Wednesday through Friday.
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2021/02/05/fox-news-cancels-lou-dobbs-tonight-n322795
#35838 at 2021-01-06 01:07:46 (UTC+1)
Midnight Riders #164: Three Ring Circus Comin To Town Edition
2/2
If Mr. Pence were for some reason unable or unwilling to carry out his role as president of the Senate, that role would fall to Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, the chamber's longest-serving Republican member.
There was brief confusion on Tuesday morning when Mr. Grassley was quoted saying that he would be the one presiding over the certification, and not Mr. Pence, because "we don't expect him to be there."
Mr. Grassley's aides later said he was suggesting a hypothetical, should Mr. Pence step out for a break at some point.
How much leeway Mr. Pence could have to interject his views or to stage manage the proceedings is a subject of debate among experts.
"The way Trump is phrasing it, there's no merit," said Edward B. Foley, director of the election law program at Ohio State University. "What Trump is asking for is control of the outcome that will lead to him being declared the president. That is definitely not within Pence's power."
But Mr. Foley said Mr. Pence would be able to add some "drama to the theater," if he so chooses. As an example, Mr. Foley said the vice president could present "rival" packages of electoral votes for some states and force Congress to debate both simultaneously.
"We know the end result," he said, "we just don't know when we will get there or what procedure we will take to get there."
In the days immediately after the election on Nov. 3, Mr. Trump was in shock but understood that he had lost, advisers said. But the more time that has passed, and the more that he has been enabled by a small group of people who have fed his belief that there is a mechanism to wipe away Mr. Biden's win, the more invested in trying to reverse the outcome Mr. Trump has become.
Some of the president's closest advisers publicly tried to give Mr. Pence cover on Tuesday as Mr. Trump stepped up the pressure on him.
"Some have speculated that the vice president could simply say, 'I'm not going to accept these electors,' that he has the authority to do that under the Constitution. I actually don't think that's what the Constitution has in mind," Jay Sekulow, one of the president's personal lawyers, said on his radio program on Tuesday, without mentioning that his client was one of the people making that assertion.
"If that's the case, any vice president could refuse any election," he said. "It's more of a ministerial procedural function."
Several allies of Mr. Pence said the vice president was getting mixed advice on what to do, and was desperate to find some middle ground.
One ally said that Mr. Pence would follow the rule of law, but that he was looking for a way to "thread the needle" so that his words were not played back on social media and used to ding Mr. Trump.
Another said that his advisers were being "realistic" about his options.
But some conceded that he would have benefited from telegraphing more aggressively over the past few days that he was not going to be able to rescue the president from defeat, rather than allowing suspense to build while attracting more attention to what they see as a no-win situation.
They said he could have also better explained to the public the ceremonial nature of the role rather than giving hope to Trump supporters like he did Monday in Georgia when he said that "we will have our day come Wednesday."
"He's not going to unilaterally step in and make a decision," said David McIntosh, the president of the anti-tax Club for Growth and a friend of Mr. Pence's. "He'll let the Senate consider it, and if they certify it, there's no way he as the president of the Senate is going to change that decision."
Mr. Trump has sought input from another of his personal lawyers, Rudolph W. Giuliani; his trade adviser, Peter Navarro; and John Eastman, a lawyer who represented the president during a case brought by several Republican attorneys general against a handful of battleground states. The lawsuit was tossed out, but Trump advisers believe that Mr. Eastman is among the people counseling Mr. Trump that Mr. Pence has expansive powers.
Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, who has often been at odds with Mr. Pence's chief of staff, Marc Short, has been described by several senior advisers as essentially enabling Mr. Trump's hope of finding a magic pill to change the electoral results.
Mr. Meadows facilitated the president's call with the secretary of state of Georgia on Saturday, during which Mr. Trump implored the official to "find" enough votes in the state to flip it from Mr. Biden's column.
https://wwW.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/us/politics/pence-trump-election-results.html
8chan/8kun QRB Posts (4)
#94834 at 2021-09-23 17:33:40 (UTC+1)
QRB General #610: What's In Your Bowl? Edition
Biden Regime to Release Info on Trump and Jan. 6 to Congress - Trump to Cite "Executive Privilege"
The Biden Regime is contemplating releasing information to Congress about what Trump and his inner circle were doing on January 6 during the Capitol protest.
Trump however said he will cite "executive privilege" to block requests from the Democrat-led House select committee.
"The highly partisan, Communist-style 'select committee' has put forth an outrageously broad records request that lacks both legal precedent and legislative merit," Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said in a statement. "Executive privilege will be defended, not just on behalf of President Trump and his administration, but also on behalf of the Office of the President of the United States and the future of our nation."
According to the Washington Post, the Biden Regime will likely disclose the documents to Congress in an effort to harass Trump and create more legal problems for the former president.
WaPo reported:
The White House is leaning toward releasing information to Congress about what Donald Trump and his aides were doing during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol despite the former president's objections - a decision that could have significant political and legal ramifications.
Trump has said he will cite "executive privilege" to block information requests from the House select committee investigating the events of that day, banking on a legal theory that has successfully allowed presidents and their aides to avoid or delay congressional scrutiny for decades, including during the Trump administration.
But President Biden's White House plans to err on the side of disclosure given the gravity of the events of Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with discussions who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
In response to the House panel's request, the National Archives has already identified hundreds of pages of documents from the Trump White House relevant to its inquiry. As required by statute, the material is being turned over to the Biden White House and to Trump's lawyers for revieW.
The committee's Aug. 25 letter to the National Archives was both sweeping and detailed, asking for "all documents and communications within the White House on January 6, 2021, relating in any way" to the events of that day. They include examining whether the White House or Trump allies worked to delay or halt the counting of electoral votes and whether there was discussion of impeding the peaceful transfer of power.
The letter asked for call logs, schedules and meetings for a large group, including Trump's adult children, son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and first lady Melania Trump as well as a host of aides and advisers, such as his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Meanwhile, the House Democrats are simultaneously working on new legislation dubbed "Protecting Our Democracy Act" to be able to go after ex-presidents (Trump).
"The measure would limit a president's pardon power, require presidential candidates to be transparent with their tax records, and extend a deadline for prosecuting former presidents and vice presidents for federal crimes committed before or during their time in office." NBC News reported.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler popped off on Thursday and said once a president leaves office, the statute of limitations will have run out.
"This policy has turned presidency into a get-out-of-jail free card," Nadler said.
https://wwW.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/showdown-biden-regime-release-info-trump-jan-6-congress-trump-cite-executive-privilege/
#50121 at 2021-05-02 23:08:19 (UTC+1)
QRB General #145: Patriots 100% Behind 45 Edition
New York Times, WaPo, NBC forced to retract false claims about Giuliani
The New York Times, Washington Post and NBC News all issued retractions Saturday for their coverage of Rudy Giuliani following a raid of his Manhattan apartment by the FBI.
The Times appended their correction to a story about the role Giuliani may have played in the 2019 recall of ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch and whether he received a warning from the FBI about Russian disinformation.
"An earlier version of this article misstated whether Rudolph W. Giuliani received a formal warning from the F.B.I. about Russian disinformation. Mr. Giuliani did not receive such a so-called defensive briefing," The Times wrote Saturday in a note attached to the piece.
The Washington Post's correction, on a story about prominent Americans being targeted by Russian disinformation, was similar.
"An earlier version of this story, published Thursday, incorrectly reported that One America News was warned by the FBI that it was the target of a Russian influence operation," the paper said.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/new-york-times-wapo-nbc-forced-to-retract-false-claims-about-Giuliani/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
#40888 at 2020-01-31 20:33:58 (UTC+1)
QRB General #53: Republican Dream Team: Ready, Steady, Go!! Edition
the already infamous NYT article just published that they're fighting over in Senate Peach Mint
Trump Told Bolton to Help His Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Book Says
by Maggie Haberman & Michael Schmidt
WASHINGTON - More than two months before he asked Ukraine's president to investigate his political opponents, President Trump directed John R. Bolton, then his national security adviser, to help with his pressure campaign to extract damaging information on Democrats from Ukrainian officials, according to an unpublished manuscript by Mr. Bolton.
Mr. Trump gave the instruction, Mr. Bolton wrote, during an Oval Office conversation in early May that included the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, the president's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, who is now leading the president's impeachment defense.
Mr. Trump told Mr. Bolton to call Volodymyr Zelensky, who had recently won election as president of Ukraine, to ensure Mr. Zelensky would meet with Mr. Giuliani, who was planning a trip to Ukraine to discuss the investigations that the president sought, in Mr. Bolton's account. Mr. Bolton never made the call, he wrote.
The previously undisclosed directive that Mr. Bolton describes would be the earliest known instance of Mr. Trump seeking to harness the power of the United States government to advance his pressure campaign against Ukraine, as he later did on the July call with Mr. Zelensky that triggered a whistle-blower complaint and impeachment proceedings. House Democrats have accused him of abusing his authority and are arguing their case before senators in the impeachment trial of Mr. Trump, whose lawyers have said he did nothing wrong.
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The account in Mr. Bolton's manuscript portrays the most senior White House advisers as early witnesses in the effort that they have sought to distance the president from. And disclosure of the meeting underscores the kind of information Democrats were looking for in seeking testimony from his top advisers in their impeachment investigation, including Mr. Bolton and Mr. Mulvaney, only to be blocked by the White House.
https://wwW.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/politics/trump-bolton-ukraine.html
#30002 at 2019-07-27 16:21:49 (UTC+1)
QRB General #39: Saturday Bread Fever Edition
>>29983
Interesting.
Kek. 17 months. 17 people.
Pizza Connection Trial
Rudolph W. Giuliani, US Atty
Louis J. Freeh, Lead Trial Prosecutor
>IN the "pizza connection" trial, Mr. Fisher defended a New York mafia boss named Salvatore Catalano. The trial, which lasted 17 months, is still remembered as one of the country's biggest, with 17 people convicted in an international drug ring that used pizza parlors as fronts. The case was brought by Rudolph W. Giuliani while he was the United States attorney in Manhattan; a lead trial prosecutor was Louis J. Freeh, who later became director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
http://archive.is/KlLvQ
8chan/8kun CBTS Posts (3)
#136546 at 2017-12-21 01:35:33 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #157 Happy Days Pre-Christmas Edition
>>136405
Her mother is the chief operating officer of the New York Public Library and was New York's commissioner of transportation under Mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani and Michael R. Bloomberg from 2000 to 2007.
COO and Commissioner at the same time? how can that be effective for either organization?
#135944 at 2017-12-21 00:52:08 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #156 BINNEY: PATRIOT of the Highest Caliber
>>135904
from the mentioned article
Jessica Emily Schumer, a daughter of Iris Weinshall and Senator Chuck Schumer of Brooklyn, is to be married April 17 to Michael Paris Shapiro, the son of Lissa J. Paris and Robert B. Shapiro of Avon, Conn. Rabbi Andy Bachman is to officiate at the Liberty Warehouse, an event space in Brooklyn.
Ms. Schumer, 31, is keeping her name. She is the chief of staff of the Robin Hood Foundation, a nonprofit organization in New York that funds antipoverty programs. Until August 2015, she was the chief of staff and general counsel to the Council of Economic Advisers in Washington. She graduated cum laude from Harvard and received a law degree from Yale.
Her father, a Democrat, is the senior senator from New York. Her mother is the chief operating officer of the New York Public Library and was New York's commissioner of transportation under Mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani and Michael R. Bloomberg from 2000 to 2007.
#128344 at 2017-12-20 01:16:11 (UTC+1)
CBTS #147 "The End Is Near" Edition
>>128296
I bet They're the ones responsible for those mysterious towers being placed around the city
Iris Weinshall was New York's commissioner of transportation under Mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani and Michael R. Bloomberg from 2000 to 2007
Her daughter with Schumer is marrying Mr. Shapiro, 29, is an economic-policy adviser for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Ms. Schumer and Mr. Shapiro met in January 2011 while working together at the White House for the National Economic Council, where they began as policy advisers.
endchan qanonresearch Posts (4)
#50674 at 2021-02-16 04:36:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research Operation's War Room #9475 There is no Step 5 Edition
Americans reporting vote fraud say claims repeatedly dismissed by FBI
Some claimants forced to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation and ridicule
Americans who came forward when they spotted what they thought was suspicious activity in the 2020 presidential election say they got a message loud and clear: If you see something, shut up about it.
Mellissa Carone, a Michigan information technology worker who raised an alarm about what she viewed as irregularities during the ballot count in Detroit, said she called the FBI twice in attempts to report the problems.
"I never got a call back still," said Ms. Carone, who gained notoriety for her fiery election fraud testimony alongside former President Donald Trump's lead attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
https://wwW.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/10/mellissa-carone-jesse-morgan-say-fbi-dismissed-vot/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_campaign=pushnotify&utm_medium=push
#41279 at 2019-11-25 03:45:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9464 USMCA vs NAFTA Edition
>>41278
Part 2
"I can understand people who immediately - whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario, because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups," Mr. Barr said in an interview with The Associated Press as he flew to Montana on Thursday night.
Mr. Epstein's death in August at a federal detention center in Manhattan set off a rash of unfounded conspiracy theories on social media that were picked up and repeated by high-profile figures, including Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. No matter their ideology, the refrain of the theories was the same: Something did not add up.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/11/22/attorney-general-william-barr-concludes-what-happened-to-clinton-buddy-jeffrey-ep-n2556706?2219
#18007 at 2019-10-15 15:35:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9436 Eyes On TURKEY! 1.2 Edition
==Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani 'a Hand Grenade'==
Peter Baker and Nicholas Fandos
2 hrs ago 10-15-19
https://wwW.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bolton-objected-to-ukraine-pressure-campaign-calling-Giuliani-a-hand-grenade/ar-AAILec9
https://archive.is/FmrCX
The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that '''''so alarmed John R. Bolton''''', then the national security adviser, '''that he told an aide to alert White House lawyers''', House investigators were told on Monday.
Mr. Bolton got into a tense exchange on July 10 with Gordon D. Sondland , the Trump donor turned ambassador to the European Union, who was working with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, to press Ukraine to investigate Democrats, according to three people who heard the testimony.
The aide, Fiona Hill, testified that Mr. Bolton told her to notify the chief lawyer for the National Security Council about a rogue effort by Mr. Sondland, Mr. Giuliani and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, according to the people familiar with the testimony.
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"I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up," Mr. Bolton, a Yale-trained lawyer, told Ms. Hill to tell White House lawyers, according to two people at the deposition. (Another person in the room initially said Mr. Bolton referred to Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Mulvaney, but two others said he cited Mr. Sondland.)
It was not the first time Mr. Bolton expressed grave concerns to Ms. Hill about the campaign being run by Mr. Giuliani. "Giuliani's a hand grenade who's going to blow everybody up," Ms. Hill quoted Mr. Bolton as saying during an earlier conversation.
#5799 at 2019-09-26 17:50:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9421 CALL TO DIG CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS!!! Edition
The Biden's are spreading some money around.
NEW: The former top Ukrainian prosecutor "whose allegations were at the heart of the dirt-digging effort by Rudolph W. Giuliani" says Hunter Biden "did not violate anything."
Per the whistleblower complaint, this is the prosecutor who *Trump* praised.
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#920 at 2019-11-11 14:35:05 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #4: Shout it loud, Eric Ciaramella! Edition
DAMAGE CONTROL
==What Joe Biden Actually Did in Ukraine==
Glenn Thrush and Kenneth P. Vogel
17 hrs ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20191111143221/https://wwW.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-joe-biden-actually-did-in-ukraine/ar-BBWysPD?li=AA2dnLi
Thanks to President Trump and his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, that subplot has now swallowed the story line. Their efforts to press Ukrainian officials to investigate unsubstantiated charges against the Bidens have propelled Mr. Trump to the brink of impeachment. They have also put Mr. Biden on the defensive at a critical moment in the Democratic presidential primary campaign. As the impeachment hearings go public this week, the Republicans are hoping to redirect the spotlight onto the Bidens.
A look at what the former vice president actually did in Ukraine (he visited six times and spent hours on the phone with the country's leaders) tells a different story, according to interviews with more than two dozen people knowledgeable about the situation. It casts light on one of Mr. Biden's central arguments for himself in the primary: his eight years of diplomacy as Mr. Obama's No. 2.
Mr. Biden dived into Ukraine in hopes of burnishing his statesman credentials at a time when he seemed to be winding down his political career, as his elder son, Beau, was dying and his younger one, Hunter, was struggling with addiction and financial problems. It turned out to be an unforgiving landscape - threatened by Russia, plundered by oligarchs, plagued by indecisive leaders and overrun by outsiders hoping to make a quick buck off the chaos.