The House portrayed Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine as part of a dangerous pattern of Russian appeasement that would continue to imperil our NatSec if he remained in office.
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SDNY, said regarding the recording: "I cannot confirm or comment on whether the materials exist or are part of discovery in ongoing criminal litigation."
Prosecutors Have Evidence Bezos’ Girlfriend Gave Texts to Brother Who Leaked to National Enquirer #HoneyPot
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‘Take her out’: recording appears to capture Trump saying he wants Yavonovitch fired
It’s bat-bleep insane that Trump, who has the power to fire ambs, is instead talking w/ his goons about this.
Giuliani launched an epic smear campaign to hound her OOO
Why?
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Trump finally did remove Amb Y, why this secretive campaign against her?
Giuliani was indeed trying to oust Amb Y in collaboration with foreign officials.
On the 7/25 call Trump mentioned Amb Y “will be going through some things.”
Veiled threat to Zelensky?
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Under Trump & 🐢, the GOP has become an active participant in RU’s disinfo op.
The U.S. intel and national security communities have made clear that this is Russian disinfo, & the senators spreading this disinfo have repeatedly been told so, yet they persist.
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Trump and congressional GOP got the disinfo idea directly from RU Intel Services.
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The RU disinfo narrative was on full display during the first phase of impeachment as top House GOP repeatedly tried to claim that URN interfered against Trump in the 2016 elex.
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It’s been clear for years that some Republicans have been in Putin’s pocket.
@GOPLeader has acknowledged that some of his caucus may be beholden to Russia, telling colleagues, “There’s two people I think Putin pays: [former Rep. Dana] Rohrabacher and Trump.”
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This concerning behavior from Republicans isn’t happening in a vacuum; it’s happening against a backdrop of serious, sustained Russian efforts to interfere in American democracy.
The Kremlin is already ramping up its disinformation campaign for 2020 & is using
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Even more sophisticated tactics to deceive the American public.
Republicans in both the House & the Senate have shown that they will knowingly spread Russian propaganda to defend Trump.
Australia's Crown Resorts names new chairperson, CEO in reshuffle
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Last year, James Packer had frozen the partial sale pending an inv’n into alleged criminal activity at Crown's AU ops.
Fun Fact: Packer suggested Mnuchin to be Trump’s campaign bagman.
Trump’s Silence on Bezos Hack Shows Risk of Close Ties to Prince
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Saudi prince allegedly helped hack Bezos in 2018 via WhatsApp
Trump was accused of weak response after Khashoggi murder
Saudi Arabia ‘planned to spy on Hatice Cengiz, Khashoggi’s fiancee in UK’
Trump impeachment team undercuts DOJ position in McGahn case
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Giuliani goes full conspiracy theory in insane ‘Fox & Friends’ appearance
‘Fox & Friends’ Desperately Tries to End Rudy Giuliani Interview, Repeatedly Fails
Jeffries is highlighting the role of WH Counsel Cipilonne as a participant in the coverup.
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"Boy I'm so powerful I can intimidate the entire Ukrainian gov’t,” Giuliani messaged Parnas in May 2019.
“Please don't tell anyone I can't get the “crooked” Amb fired or I did three times & she's still there.”
Bibi Has a Friend in Moscow. Until He Doesn't
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Roberts has a front row seat to witness, with his own eyes, the mess the Supreme Court have made of the U.S. political system—the living consequences of the Roberts Court’s decisions, & their corrosive effect on democracy, are plain to see.
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Ten years to the day before Trump’s impeachment trial began, the Supreme Court released its Citizens United decision, plunging the country into the era of super PACs and unlimited, unregulated, secret campaign money from billionaires and foreign interests.
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Citizens United, and the resulting rise of the super PAC, led directly to this impeachment.
Oatnas & Fruman engaged in key abuses — the ouster Amb Y, the attempts to force Zelensky to announce inv’n into Trump’s political opponents — gained access to Trump
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By funneling money from a Ukrainian oligarch to Trump’s super PAC.
U.S. prosecutors are starting to build cases against traders suspected of manipulating markets as long as a decade ago, after an obscure legal ruling extended the SOL for spoofing cases.
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The decision addressed a long-running legal debate about whether the placing of electronic market orders w/ the intention of canceling them constituted a form of “false representation” & therefore fraud.
But the ruling has wider
ramifications, b/c wire fraud,
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When perpetrated against a financial institution, is subject to a 10-yr statute of limitations compared with just five for spoofing.
Cases involving conduct older than 5 yrs are already under way.
Chinese coronavirus prompts lockdown unlike anything seen b/4
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JPMorgan’s metals desk was a criminal enterprise, say prosecutors
The cases relate to spoofing, which involves placing bids to buy or offers to sell contracts with the intent to cancel them b/4 execution, allowing spoofers to influence prices to their benefit.
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Olena Malakhova a Ukrainian jet victim ran company suspected by UN of violating Libyan arms embargo
Turkey and the UAE, had systematically violated the ban and "routinely & sometimes blatantly supplied weapons, employing little effort to disguise the source."
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Malakhova was also a director of SkyAviaTrans— the companies' only cargo plane was destroyed in a drone attack in Libya in August 2019.
Trump’s legal team contradicts DOJ position on subpoenas, House lawyers tell appeals court
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This political polarization is perhaps the single greatest weakness of the US political system today, a weakness that authoritarian rivals like Putin’s Russia have gleefully exploited.
“The Dissident,” which premiers at Sundance, details the killing of JK
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Trump’s Call to Ukraine May Constitute “Honest Services Fraud”—A Core Crime of Public Corruption
Exclusive: U.S. pushing India to buy $5-6 billion more farm goods to seal trade deal - sources
Transatlantic tensions grow over Huawei, trade, digital tax
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Troubles Mount for U.K.-U.S. Alliance Ahead of Trade Talks
U.S. refusal to extradite diplomat’s wife strains relations
France reaches deal with U.S. to push ahead with OECD digital tax talks
IMF aid to Congo Republic on hold over Glencore, Trafigura impasse
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Putin is frustrated by the official chill between Moscow & DC, US intel knows his intel services are behind some of the discredited conspiracy theories that helped set the stage for Trump’s impeachment
Coming soon - the smartphone that promotes 'RU values'
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The Pentagon said 34 U.S. troops were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries suffered in this month's Iranian missile strike on an Iraqi air base, & that half of the troops have returned to their military duties.
17 of the 34 are still under medical care.
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The U.S. has defectively paralyzed the World Trade Organization's system for appealing trade disputes.
An alternative initiated by Canada and the EU now has support of 17 members.
HHS forgets to renew Trump’s opioid emergency declaration
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Papyrus becomes latest retail casualty with bankruptcy filing, says it will close all 254 stores
FB is inflaming the divides tearing at the Dem Party
Bernie supporters are using mass-posting technologies to flood Facebook with attacks on his Democratic rivals
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James Murdoch Slams Fox News and News Corp Over Climate-Change Denial
Trump's peace plan may polarize the Middle East it seeks to calm
UK's Prince Charles urges Middle East peace, visits grandmother's tomb
CEO of Bankrupt Purdue Pharma Will Get $1.3 M Bonus
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Trump Administration Plans Action Against California Over Abortion-Coverage Requirement
Trump administration names new head of U.S. Border Patrol - Rodney Scott
Nearly 100K gallons of red wine spills at a California vineyard and leaks into the Russian River
“The robbery of the century,”
“The biggest tax theft in the history of Europe.”
From 2006 to 2011, hundreds of bankers, lawyers and investors made off with a staggering $60 billion, all of it siphoned from the state coffers of European countries.
Trump captured on tape demanding firing of ambassador to Ukraine.
A spokesman for SDNY, Nicholas Biase, said regarding the recording: "I cannot confirm or comment on whether the materials exist or are part of discovery in ongoing criminal litigation."
NPR's Full Interview With Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo
Can you point me toward your remarks where you have defended Marie Yovanovitch?
I've said all I'm going to say today. Thank you. Thanks for the repeated opportunity to do so. I appreciate that.
Roberts is forced to witness, with his own eyes, the mess he & his colleagues on the Supreme Court have made of the U.S. political system—the living consequences of the Roberts Court’s decisions, and their corrosive effect on democracy, are plain to see.
Lev Parnas Says He Has Tape of Trump Calling for Ambassador’s Firing
The former associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani said through his lawyer that he had given the tape to the House Intelligence Committee for use in the impeachment inquiry.
U.S. prosecutors are starting to build cases against traders suspected of manipulating markets as long as a decade ago, after an obscure legal ruling extended the statute of limitations for spoofing cases.
Saudi Arabia ‘planned to spy on Khashoggi’s fiancee in UK’
Exclusive: US agencies believed kingdom intended to monitor Hatice Cengiz after journalist killed
The U.S. has defectively paralyzed the World Trade Organization's system for appealing trade disputes.
An alternative initiated by Canada and the EU now has support of 17 members.
@WSJ of course paints the organization behind the Palestinian protests as “left wing” when it is actually a well know propaganda organization in support of Hammas currently being sued by survivors of the Oct 7th massacre. wsj.com/us-news/educat…
Survivors of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks filed a Fed lawsuit citing the nationwide college protests, arguing that Nat’l Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and its parent org are working in the US "as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas."
Through NSJP, AJP Educational Foundation Inc. – also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) – allegedly "uses propaganda to intimidate, convince, & recruit uninformed, misguided, and impressionable college students to serve as foot soldiers for Hamas on campus and beyond.”
Mr. Kushner’s plans in the Balkans appear to have come about in part through relationships built while Mr. Trump was in office. Mr. Kushner, who was a senior White House official, said he had been working on the deals with dirty trickster and Trump sycophant Richard Grenell.
These first two projects both involve land now controlled by the governments of Albania and Serbia, meaning a deal would have to be finalized with these foreign governments.
The elite British society magazine Tatler describes Zhukova as being "at the centre of a sprawling web of power that encompasses the art world, Russian oligarchs and one of the world's most influential Greek shipping dynasties." tatler.com/article/rupert…
All news outlets who pushed the Burisma smear campaign against Hunter & Joe Biden are guilty of aiding & abetting Putin & his Russian Intel Services disinfo & owe a huge apology not only to the Biden’s, but to the American people. @CBSPolitics @ABCPolitics @CNN @NBCNews @ABC
Three apartments in the Trump SoHo hotel-condominium, which Trump owned jointly with the real estate companies Bayrock and Sapir Org. LLC, were sold in April 2013 for a total of $3.1 million to shell companies ultimately controlled by Elvira Kudryashova
The Trump administration’s slapdash efforts to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan hurt the prospects of a negotiated settlement between Kabul and the Taliban, according to secret congressional testimony. politico.com/newsletters/na…
Afghanistan-focused officials were kept out of the loop by senior Trump aides. That ultimately put personnel at risk, endangered a fragile diplomatic effort and left a new administration in the dark about their inheritance, they said in previously unreported comments.
The Trump administration struck a deal with the Taliban in February 2020 that set the conditions for a U.S. withdrawal by May 2021.