"Former Blackwater Boss Hacked Election For Teflon Don" and attorney @SethAbramson's diligent observations resulted in post "a few more dots" of the following together, per @LibAmericaOrg's Darrell Lucas:
Erik Prince (of Blackwater fame), in an interview with Breitbart, "revealed that he had 'insider knowledge' of why Comey dropped his bombshell" regarding Hillary Clinton's email when he did.
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Prince claimed that there was evidence of criminal activity among Clinton's emails, and "that the NYPD turned their findings over to the FBI and gave Comey an ultimatum–reopen the investigation, or we will hold a press conference of our own to announce a pile of arrests."
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This was, according to Prince, what "'pushed the FBI off their chairs' and made Comey reopen the probe."
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"As we know by now, less than 24 hours later, Comey revealed that the emails weren’t really new at all, but merely duplicates of emails the FBI already had."
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"For one thing, when the warrant was finally unsealed on December 20, it showed that the supposed probable cause was an email exchange between Hillary and Abedin. Nothing about criminal activity..."
"Moreover, if I’m hearing Prince right, he openly admitted on national radio that he knew about the emails well before Comey did." 🤔
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"There is no good-faith reason for why three political operatives with close ties to Trump would know about a politically explosive federal investigation before the FBI director knows about it."
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"You have a former U. S. Attorney and former head of the DOJ’s criminal division (Giuliani), a former FBI chief in New York City (Kallstrom), and a former major government contractor (Prince) on record as knowing about the emails three weeks before Comey knew about them."
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"If this isn’t strong evidence that this election was tainted by a criminal act, I don’t know what is."
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"Abramson suggests that Giuliani leaked the information on direct orders from Trump, while Prince did so on orders from either Trump himself or Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon."
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"While Prince is also a cowboy, the fact that he leaked this via Breitbart means that you have to at least wonder if Bannon knew about it. After all, Breitbart was so fanatically pro-Trump that many of its critics nicknamed it 'Trumpbart.'"
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"Abramson also suggests that Prince got richly rewarded for his role in this massive conspiracy. Not only was his younger sister, Betsy DeVos, tapped as Education Secretary, but Prince himself has been tapped as a shadow adviser to Trump on intelligence and defense."
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"A more plausible explanation for DeVos’ presence in the cabinet is that she is one of many prominent fundies Trump named to his administration to repay his massive political debt to the religious right." #CNP#Dominionists
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"Those caveats aside, though, two things are clear beyond any doubt. For one thing, at the very least, Trump fostered an environment in his campaign in which this sort of behavior even remotely acceptable. When that’s the best-case scenario, that’s not a good sign."
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"It is equally clear that the election was tainted by outrageously criminal behavior on the part of rogue law enforcement officers."
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"In a sane world, this would all but demand that Trump and Pence stand down–at least until someone with subopena power can get to the bottom of the dark matter surrounding this election." liberalamerica.life/2017/01/18/for…
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"Both polling, poll analysis, and internet meta-data (see below) confirm that the Comey Letter was sufficient to hand Trump the 77,143 combined votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania that won him the election."-huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-dome…
One of the most common assumptions I see is that Democrats want to win the next election. The actions of some Democrats do not support that conclusion.
If you were an actor or politician and someone offered you tons of money to help big donors and/or the GOP, would you do it? Would you think about it? 2/
Could you even be persuaded to pledge your allegiance to a foreign government at the expense of the U.S. Capitol?
DO NOT CUT MEDICARE, @JoeBiden, end the filibuster and make #MedicareForAll happen if you truly want to be thought of as a modern-day FDR instead of a guy who took us further backward by cutting healthcare during a pandemic.
Joe Biden is no FDR. What an evil, scummy thing to do to the American people, especially during a pandemic. Massive cuts to Medicare because Democrats won't end the filibuster? Cuts to farm aid? With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?
"The money is right there. It’s spent on bombs instead of homes. On cops instead of kids. On bailing out banks instead of families. Again the only argument against helping people is a lie." - @JoshuaPotash
Democrats have a majority, but Biden's cutting MEDICARE and FARM AID because of... Republicans? FUCK THAT! End the filibuster, you gormless <descending into incoherent and very unflattering mumbling> @SenateDems!
How dare they cut already sparse benefits from some of the most vulnerable people, especially during a pandemic! How dare they shrug away the mantle of a people's majority and pretend it's due to the Republicans' corruption instead of
their own greed and elitism. It's time to move forward and join other first world countries. It's time for #MedicareForAll.
"You all don't get it. I live in Trump country, in the Ozarks in southern Missouri, one of the last places where the KKK still has a relatively strong established presence."
"They don't give a shit what he does. He's just something to rally around and hate liberals, that's it, period."
"He absolutely realizes that and plays it up, they love it, he knows they love it, and the fact that people act like it's anything other than that just proves that liberals are idiots, all the more reason for high fives all around."
The U.S. needs a children's vote on issues relevant to them.
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Why? Because they're humans too, and they possess the wisdom of innocence from which we could become a kinder, safer, wiser nation. Their voices should be heard, and right now they're not.
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A children's vote would also educate upcoming generations on the basics of good citizenship in a representative democracy. They would practice these basics such that once they become adults, they will understand and better perform their roles as citizens.