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Biden staff donate to group that pays bail in riot-torn Minneapolis

....Campaign staff for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are advertising their donations to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis after the city’s police jailed people protesting....At least 13 Biden campaign staff members posted on Twitter on Friday and Saturday that they made donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which opposes the practice of cash bail, or making people pay to avoid pre-trial imprisonment. The group uses donations to pay bail fees in Minneapolis.....Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement to Reuters that the former vice president opposes the institution of cash bail as a “modern day debtors prison.

Among those bailed out by the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF) is a suspect who shot at police, a woman accused of killing a friend, and a twice convicted sex offender, according to court records......According to attempted murder charges, Jaleel Stallings shot at members of a SWAT Team during the riots in May. Police recovered a modified pistol that looks like an AK-47. MFF paid $75,000 in cash to get Stallings out of jail.

Darnika Floyd is charged with second degree murder, for stabbing a friend to death. MFF paid $100,000 cash for her release.

Christopher Boswell, a twice convicted rapist, is currently charged with kidnapping, assault, and sexual assault in two separate cases. MFF paid $350,00 [sic] in cash for his release.

....Sheriff David Beth....was affected by reports that some of Biden's campaign staff members "put up money to bail out rioters who were jailed for their actions."...."We had people from outside Kenosha come here, agitators coming in, and actually burn and loot and did damage here....To think that other people would pay to...keep the rioters going here, that's kind of disheartening that anyone would do that."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-biden-bail/biden-staff-donate-to-group-that-pays-bail-in-riot-torn-minneapolis

https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/31/meet-the-rioting-criminals-kamala-harris-helped-bail-out-of-jail/

https://www.newsweek.com/kenosha-county-sheriff-accuses-biden-campaign-paying-keep-rioters-going

 

 

 

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Asian-Americans Are Being Attacked. Why Are Hate Crime Charges So Rare?

On a cold evening last month, a Chinese man was walking home near Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood when a stranger suddenly ran up behind him and plunged a knife into his back....For many Asian-Americans, the stabbing was horrifying, but not surprising. It was widely seen as just the latest example of racially targeted violence against Asians during the pandemic....The announcement outraged Asian-American leaders in New York City. Many of them protested outside the Manhattan district attorney’s office, demanding that the stabbing be prosecuted as a hate crime. They were tired of what they saw as racist assaults being overlooked by the authorities....

....“Let’s call it what it is,” said Don Lee, a community activist who spoke at the rally. “These are not random attacks. We’re asking for recognition that these crimes are happening."....The rally reflected the tortured public conversation over how to confront a rise in reports of violence against Asian-Americans, who have felt increasingly vulnerable with each new attack. Many incidents have either not led to arrests or have not been charged as hate crimes, making it difficult to capture with reliable data the extent to which Asian-Americans are being targeted....That frustration erupted on a national scale this week after Robert Aaron Long, a white man, was charged with fatally shooting eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday night....

....In the past month alone, several assaults on Asian victims have been reported to the police, including an attack on an older woman .... outside a bakery in Queens. None of the incidents has been charged as a hate crime....In fact, the only person who has been prosecuted for an anti-Asian hate crime in New York City this year is Taiwanese. He was accused of writing anti-Chinese graffiti outside several businesses in Queens....Shirley Ng, a community organizer in Manhattan’s Chinatown, supports easing the criteria for hate crime charges and eliminating bail for them, because, in her view, officials have been too lenient in cases involving Asian victims.....“It’s too easy to say these suspects have mental illness,” Ms. Ng said. “Sometimes they are also cognizant that they’re out to hurt people.”...Others say tougher enforcement could end up pitting Asian-Americans against Black and Latino communities, inflaming racial tensions....

....Reports of hate crimes against Asian Americans jumped 342% from 2020 to 2021, continuing a pattern from the previous year: Anti-Asian crimes increased 124% between 2019 and 2020....FBI data from 2020 indicated there was a 77% increase in Anti-Asian hate crimes, up from 158 in 2019 to 279 in 2020. ...While some jurisdictions have yet to report complete numbers from last year, the preliminary data showed that San Francisco and New York had the highest percentage changes in hate crimes between 2020 and 2021, at 100% and 96%, respectively. ....According to preliminary figures released by the San Francisco police department in late January, reported hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were up an astonishing 567% from the previous year in the city....

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/nyregion/asian-hate-crimes.html

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/02/14/hate-crime-increase-2021-asian-american-

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Asian-Americans Are Being Attacked. Why Are Hate Crime Charges So Rare?

On a cold evening last month, a Chinese man was walking home near Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood when a stranger suddenly ran up behind him and plunged a knife into his back....For many Asian-Americans, the stabbing was horrifying, but not surprising. It was widely seen as just the latest example of racially targeted violence against Asians during the pandemic....The announcement outraged Asian-American leaders in New York City. Many of them protested outside the Manhattan district attorney’s office, demanding that the stabbing be prosecuted as a hate crime. They were tired of what they saw as racist assaults being overlooked by the authorities....

....“Let’s call it what it is,” said Don Lee, a community activist who spoke at the rally. “These are not random attacks. We’re asking for recognition that these crimes are happening."....The rally reflected the tortured public conversation over how to confront a rise in reports of violence against Asian-Americans, who have felt increasingly vulnerable with each new attack. Many incidents have either not led to arrests or have not been charged as hate crimes, making it difficult to capture with reliable data the extent to which Asian-Americans are being targeted....That frustration erupted on a national scale this week after Robert Aaron Long, a white man, was charged with fatally shooting eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday night....

....In the past month alone, several assaults on Asian victims have been reported to the police, including an attack on an older woman .... outside a bakery in Queens. None of the incidents has been charged as a hate crime....In fact, the only person who has been prosecuted for an anti-Asian hate crime in New York City this year is Taiwanese. He was accused of writing anti-Chinese graffiti outside several businesses in Queens....Shirley Ng, a community organizer in Manhattan’s Chinatown, supports easing the criteria for hate crime charges and eliminating bail for them, because, in her view, officials have been too lenient in cases involving Asian victims.....“It’s too easy to say these suspects have mental illness,” Ms. Ng said. “Sometimes they are also cognizant that they’re out to hurt people.”...Others say tougher enforcement could end up pitting Asian-Americans against Black and Latino communities, inflaming racial tensions....

....Reports of hate crimes against Asian Americans jumped 342% from 2020 to 2021, continuing a pattern from the previous year: Anti-Asian crimes increased 124% between 2019 and 2020....FBI data from 2020 indicated there was a 77% increase in Anti-Asian hate crimes, up from 158 in 2019 to 279 in 2020. ...While some jurisdictions have yet to report complete numbers from last year, the preliminary data showed that San Francisco and New York had the highest percentage changes in hate crimes between 2020 and 2021, at 100% and 96%, respectively. ....According to preliminary figures released by the San Francisco police department in late January, reported hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were up an astonishing 567% from the previous year in the city....

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/nyregion/asian-hate-crimes.html

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/02/14/hate-crime-increase-2021-asian-american-

Gee.  I just can’t figure out why hate crimes against Asians aren’t being prosecuted.  Anyone have a theory? 

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"Well look, the idea that I’m gonna say — which I would never do — if an unaccompanied child ends up at the border we’re just gonna let him starve to death.... no previous administration did that either except Trump. I’m not gonna do it. I’m not gonna do it. That’s why I’ve asked the vice president of the United States yesterday to be the lead person on dealing with focusing on the fundamental reasons why people leave Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador in the first place."

- Joe Biden, March 25 2021

 

Unaccompanied child migrant dies in US custody / May 12, 2023

....The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed on Friday that an unaccompanied migrant child died in U.S. custody. The confirmation came hours after the Biden administration ended the COVID-19 emergency. Because the COVID-19 emergency ended, a Title 42 provision that caused many migrants to be immediately turned away at the border was lifted....Unaccompanied minors, however, were exempt from the Title 42 provision. 

Honduran Secretary of Foreign AffairsEnrique Reina confirmed that Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza...died in U.S. custody. Espinoza was in an Office of Refugee Resettlement shelter in Safety Harbor, Florida....During Friday's White House Press Briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that she has not spoken to President Joe Biden on the matter but they are aware of the child's death....Children from Honduras comprised 29% of all unaccompanied minors in 2022, second only to Guatemala, which had 47%.

https://www.ksby.com/unaccompanied-child-migrant-dies-in-us-custody

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"Well look, the idea that I’m gonna say — which I would never do — if an unaccompanied child ends up at the border we’re just gonna let him starve to death.... no previous administration did that either except Trump. I’m not gonna do it. I’m not gonna do it. That’s why I’ve asked the vice president of the United States yesterday to be the lead person on dealing with focusing on the fundamental reasons why people leave Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador in the first place."

- Joe Biden, March 25 2021

 

Unaccompanied child migrant dies in US custody / May 12, 2023

....The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed on Friday that an unaccompanied migrant child died in U.S. custody. The confirmation came hours after the Biden administration ended the COVID-19 emergency. Because the COVID-19 emergency ended, a Title 42 provision that caused many migrants to be immediately turned away at the border was lifted....Unaccompanied minors, however, were exempt from the Title 42 provision. 

Honduran Secretary of Foreign AffairsEnrique Reina confirmed that Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza...died in U.S. custody. Espinoza was in an Office of Refugee Resettlement shelter in Safety Harbor, Florida....During Friday's White House Press Briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that she has not spoken to President Joe Biden on the matter but they are aware of the child's death....Children from Honduras comprised 29% of all unaccompanied minors in 2022, second only to Guatemala, which had 47%.

https://www.ksby.com/unaccompanied-child-migrant-dies-in-us-custody

Any word from AOC on this tragedy? 

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Majority of voters in progressive Oregon regret decriminalizing drugs: survey

....The majority of voters in progressive Oregon want to overturn the decriminalization of drugs — blaming the lenient approach for rising crime and homelessness....The survey conducted last month.... found that 51% of the... respondents felt that Measure 110 — which decriminalized the possession of personal amounts of drugs including heroin, meth and fentanyl — had a negative impact on the state. ...More than 6 in 10 voters said they think the legislation has made drug addiction, homelessness and crime in the Beaver State worse. 

Measure 110, the Drug Addiction and Recovery Act, also redirected marijuana tax revenue to fund overdose prevention, recovery housing and other harm reduction efforts. It was passed in 2020....In early April, Oregon Live reported that the number of people experiencing homelessness jumped nearly 23% in two years, well above the national average of under 1% growth....“Oregon has turned into an international spectacle and I think we looked at each other and realize that we made an enormous mistake....If we take away all the incentives, [drug users are] not going into treatment....I think we didn’t realize that what we were signing up for was the deterioration of civilized norms and the public spaces being ceded to people in late-stage drug addiction and engaged in all sorts of criminal activity to keep that addiction going.”

https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/majority-of-voters-in-oregon-regret-decriminalizing-drugs-survey/

 

Oregon sees massive spike in overdoses one year after decriminalizing hard drugs

...In 2019, the state’s deaths totalled 280. In 2021, those deaths reached a staggering 607 — a 216 percent increase from 2019....Measure 110, which came into effect in February 2021, was designed to provide relief to drug users looking to break their substance abuse by making it easier to seek help without incurring severe legal penalties. For those found in possession of substances like heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and more, measure 110 created a maximum $100 fine and removed the felony or misdemeanour charges in most cases. It also allocated $300 million for public health resources intended to help substance users break their addictions....

....But just one year later, it’s become increasingly clear the law has been nothing short of tragic. ...The problem is worse in some areas than others, mainly taking a toll on the western, more populated area of the state. Grants Pass, a small town in Josephine County, has seen a 700 percent jump in overdoses and a 120 percent increase in deaths..."How long do we wait before we have an impact that we're saving lives?" 

According to the Oregon Health Authority....opioid overdose deaths have become sequentially worse in the past three years. In 2019, the state’s deaths totalled 280. In 2020 that number rose to 472. And in 2021, those deaths reached a staggering 607 — a 216 percent increase from 2019.

https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-sees-massive-spike-in-overdoses-one-year-after-decriminalizing-hard-drugs

 

 

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this is all having an effect.  Biden's poll numbers are crumbling.  Trump leads Biden in 2024 polling. 

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8-year-old migrant girl dies in U.S. Border Patrol custody, officials say

....An 8-year-old migrant girl from Panama with a heart condition died in federal U.S. custody on Wednesday after crossing the southern border with her family, officials said. ....The migrant girl died after experiencing a "medical emergency" inside a U.S. Border Patrol station in Harlingen, Texas, where she was being held with family members, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement Wednesday. The girl was pronounced dead at a local hospital....Last week, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials disclosed the death of a 17-year-old migrant teen from Honduras who was being housed in one of the department's shelters for unaccompanied minors in Florida...In March, a 4-year-old girl from Honduras described as "medically fragile" died in HHS custody, but her death was not reported until last week.....

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/8-year-old-migrant-girl-dies-u-s-border-patrol-custody-officials-say/

 

 

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"Wow- woke? Allow me to translate: objectifying women was never a good marketing strategy. In the firearms industry, that was a prominent strategy up until recently. Many industries have done that (including beer corps). As an actual woman typing this, I’ll use more words for you to comprehend: using bunnies to sell products is trash marketing. Supporting women by not doing that is good."
 

- Heckler & Koch Social Media Manager Angela Harrell in a tweet using H&K's official Twitter platform. ( All her tweets were deleted and she is now presumed fired from the company) 

 

SCREENSHOT of Harrell's now deleted tweet

 

 

Harrell was apparently a former "bikini model" with clear implants. ( I generally don't comment on things like implants, but it's difficult to take Harrell seriously about "objectifying" women sexually when she got implants, which are done to draw attention to oneself, to essentially make it easier to be sexually objectified in the first place ) 

 

 

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Bank of America customers furious after data shared with federal investigators

.....Bank of America, at the request of federal investigators, combed through customer data in search of people and transactions that fit a certain profile – potentially placing individuals at the Capitol on the day of the Jan. 6 riot....More than 200 people were reportedly identified as fitting the profile, which included engaging in transactions in D.C. on Jan.5 or Jan. 6, renting hotel rooms.... as well as making certain flight purchases.

The individuals identified were reportedly flagged to federal authorities without their knowledge. The report has triggered outrage among customers and the general public whose privacy and private information have become increasingly vulnerable....

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/bank-of-america-customers-upset-data-federal-investigators

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White Women Sold Out the Sisterhood and the World by Voting for Trump

....According to CNN, 53 percent of white female voters voted for Donald Trump. Fifty-three percent.....More than half of white women looked at the first viable female candidate for the presidency, a wildly competent and overqualified career public servant, and said, “Trump that b!tch.”

What leads a woman to vote for a man who has made it very clear that he believes she is subhuman? Self-loathing. Hypocrisy. And, of course, a racist view of the world that privileges white supremacy over every other issue....For a taste of the self-loathing that propels white female Trump voters....but who still voted for Trump, is guilty of the worst kind of selfishness.....Of course, the biggest and saddest reason white women chose Trump over Clinton is simple: racism ..... White women decided that defending their position of power as white people was more important than defending their reproductive rights, their sexual autonomy, their access to health care, family leave, and child care....

....The shocking results of the election prove that most white women don’t consider themselves part of the coalition of nonwhite, nonstraight, nonmale voters who were supposed to carry Clinton to a comfortable victory. Most white women still identify more with white men than they do with black women, Latina women, Muslim women, transwomen, and every other woman who will have good reason to fear for her physical safety under a Trump regime....White women sold out their fellow women, their country, and themselves last night. Most white women don’t want to be part of an intersectional feminist sisterhood. Most white women just want to be one of the guys. And we will all suffer for it....

https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/11/white-women-sold-out-the-sisterhood-and-the-world-by-voting-for-trump.html

 

 

 

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Madonna on the US election: ‘It feels like women betrayed us’

...Madonna has described her feelings of “heartbreak” and “betrayal” in the wake of Donald Trump’s US election win, claiming: “It feels like women betrayed us.”...During her interview with Billboard, which has crowned her Woman of the Year, the pop star compared her despair regarding the results – particularly the significant number of women who voted for Trump – to mourning.....“I feel that way every morning; I wake up and say, ‘Oh, wait, Donald Trump is still the president,’ and it wasn’t a bad dream that I had. It feels like women betrayed us. The percentage of women who voted for Trump was insanely high....” 

When asked why she thought so many women – according to CNN 53% of white women voted for Trump – Madonna replied: Women hate women. That’s what I think it is. Women’s nature is not to support other women. It’s really sad...."

Earlier this week, Madonna criticised Trump and said she was ashamed to be an American during a performance ....The singer also revealed that she had previously been photographed in Trump’s bed – for a magazine shoot when he was not at home....

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/07/madonna-on-the-us-election-it-feels-like-women-betrayed-us

 

 

 

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Madonna is all for women fighting for and exercising their "rights"

So when many women voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and what did she say about those women actually using their political voice and engaging in the democratic process to use those rights? 

The only thing she said that seems fair is when she said "women don't support other women", because she sure wasn't supporting their right to vote as they saw fit, as is their Constitutional right and the application of their "freedom" 

Your rights matter to the radical left! Just as long as you vote the way they want and follow this very tiny and narrow sliver of a road of what they deem is worthy of virtue and their approval. 

 

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#ThemToo: Women Who Voted for Trump Betrayed Their Gender

....Women who voted for Trump stabbed their sisters, mothers and daughters in the back and front when they cast that bitter ballot.....What did these women have against Hillary Clinton, anyway?

....On page 128 of her book What Happened, Clinton discusses being abandoned by some female voters:....beginning even before I ran, political commentators wondered whether I’d inspire an unbeatable wave of women to come out and vote for me....In the end, I won an overwhelming majority of the votes of black women (94 percent) and Latino women (68 percent), and I won women overall by a safe margin (54 percent). But I failed to win a majority of white women...And she said, look, the research is absolutely definitive. The more professionally successful a man is, the more likable he is; the more professionally successful a woman is, the less likable she is....And Sheryl ended this really sobering conversation by saying that women will have no empathy for you, because they will be under tremendous pressure — and I’m talking principally about white women — they will be under tremendous pressure from fathers and husbands and boyfriends and male employers not to vote for “the girl......”

Yes, there is indeed no moral difference whatsoever between the folks who helped Harvey Weinstein abuse women and the folks who helped Donald Trump abuse this country. In both cases, those enablers knew they were aiding and abetting amorality, but were simply too selfish to care. Compassion and empathy were not part of the equation when members of both groups acted on behalf of powerful, perverted predators. The folks who helped Weinstein will face history’s damnation. The same fate should befall those who made Trump president of this nation.....

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10/21/themtoo-women-who-voted-for-trump-betrayed-their-gender/

 

 

 

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Washington Monthly says you can't tell a woman what to do with her body! That's invading and harming her rights!

Unless of course, when Washington Monthly wants to gaslight all women by deciding who they should vote for and whether the exercise of their real political voice should be justified or not in their eyes. 

So let's recap - You can't tell a woman what to do with her body. But WE get to tell you how all women should vote. 

Washington Monthly highlights that the only clear reason that more white women didn't vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016 was based on misogyny and being party to the widespread abuse of women. Never mind that many white women likely saw Bill Clinton's "alleged" rape victims during the 2nd Trump/Clinton debate, and saw an entire lineup of white women. Who looked a lot like them. Or their sisters. Or their mothers. Or their own daughters. Never mind that apparently. 

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“Senate Republicans chose to send a clear message to all women: Do not speak out, and if you do — do not expect to be heard, believed or respected.”

- Nancy Pelosi, 2018

 

Pelosi says she's "satisfied" with how Biden has responded to Reade allegations

....House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended Joe Biden on Thursday against allegations of sexual assault by former Senate staffer Tara Reade, saying she's "satisfied" with how he has responded to the controversy and that she believes his denial. Why it matters: While Biden's campaign has issued a statement saying that the alleged assault "absolutely did not happen," Biden has not personally addressed the allegations. Pelosi, along with a number of prominent Democrats who have endorsed Biden.....

PELOSI: "....And I do support Joe Biden. I'm satisfied with how he has responded. I know him, I was proud to endorse him on Monday, very proud to endorse him. And so I'm satisfied with that."

https://www.axios.com/2020/04/30/pelosi-defends-joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegations

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Nancy Pelosi says allegations against Joe Biden don't disqualify him from the presidency

....House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she does not believe the allegations of inappropriate touching against former Vice President Joe Biden disqualify him from being president. The San Francisco Democrat was asked by reporters if the the allegations, brought forward by two separate women, were disqualifying from the presidency. "No," Pelosi told reporters as she walked to the House floor. "No, I do not."

On Friday, Lucy Flores, a former Nevada Democratic lawmaker, accused Biden of grabbing her shoulders and kissing her on the back of the head without her consent during a 2014 campaign event. A second accuser came forward on Monday, when Amy Lappos, a former congressional aide to Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn, said Biden rubbed noses with her and made her feel uncomfortable at a fundraiser in 2009....."I felt him get closer to me from behind," Flores wrote in an article published by New York Magazine. "He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified.... He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn't process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused.".... Lappos told the Hartford Courant..... "He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Joe-Biden-accusations-Nancy-Pelosi-2020-primaries-13733643.php

 

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Tara Reade, Lucy Flores and Amy Lappos are all mothers. 

Let's ask Pelosi how that "Pro Family Agenda" is working out so far for everyone. 

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Why the Durham Report Matters to Democracy

....Two special counsels, several inspector general reports and six years later, the country finally has a more complete account of the FBI’s Russia collusion probe of the 2016 Donald Trump campaign. Special counsel John Durham’s final report makes clear that a partisan FBI became a funnel for disinformation from the Hillary Clinton campaign through a secret investigation the bureau never should have launched.... though the indictments laid out how the Clinton campaign used foreign nationals, an oppo-research outfit, and political insiders to feed the FBI and the media lies about Trump collusion....

....No basis for investigation. The FBI lacked “any actual evidence of collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russia when it violated its standards and jumped over several steps to initiate a full investigation, including probes into four members of the Trump campaign....The report cites a “clear predisposition” to investigate based on a “prejudice against Trump” and “pronounced hostile feelings” by key investigators, including former agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI attorneys Lisa Page and Kevin Clinesmith..... the FBI dawdled over obtaining a warrant from the secret FISA court because—according to an agent—“[T]hey were pretty ‘tippy-toeing’ around HRC because there was a chance she would be the next President” and the FBI was concerned about interfering with a coming presidential campaign....The FBI gave a Clinton representative a “defensive briefing” about the risks of foreign actors. Mr. Trump received no such briefing....

.... The report lays out numerous examples of the FBI ignoring evidence that it was being used by the Clinton campaign to execute a political dirty trick. This included intelligence the government received in July 2016 alleging that Mrs. Clinton had approved “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”...Former CIA director John Brennan briefed this material to President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Mr. Comey, yet the FBI ignored it. It did the same when it learned that collusion dossier author Christopher Steele was working for the Clinton campaign and that Mr. Steele and oppo-research team Fusion GPS were spreading disinformation to the press. ....The Russia collusion fabrication and deceptive sale to the public is a travesty that shouldn’t be forgotten. That Washington’s establishment refuses to acknowledge its role in this deceit is one reason so many Americans don’t trust public institutions....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-durham-report-special-counsel-fbi-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-russia-peter-strzok-christopher-steele

 

Wired publishes gushing piece claiming Pete Buttigieg has a 'cathedral mind' that 'holds much of its functionality in reserve'

....A Wired piece featuring an interview with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg glowingly described the politician as a towering intellect...The subhead refers to Buttigieg's "voluminous mind," the first line of the puff piece suggests that his mind "holds much of its functionality in reserve," and the second paragraph continues the trend by referring to Buttigieg's "cathedral mind" and declaring that his role in the Biden administration demands "only a modest portion of his cognitive powers."

"THE CURIOUS MIND of Pete Buttigieg holds much of its functionality in reserve. Even as he discusses railroads and airlines, down to the pointillist data that is his current stock-in-trade, the US secretary of transportation comes off like a Mensa black card holder who might have a secret Go habit or a three-second Rubik’s Cube solution or a knack for supplying, off the top of his head, the day of the week for a random date in 1404, along with a non-condescending history of the Julian and Gregorian calendars," Wired contributor Virginia Heffernan wrote...."As Secretary Buttigieg and I talked in his underfurnished corner office one afternoon in early spring, I slowly became aware that his cabinet job requires only a modest portion of his cognitive powers. Other mental facilities, no kidding, are apportioned to the Iliad, Puritan historiography, and Knausgaard’s Spring—though not in the original Norwegian (slacker). Fortunately, he was willing to devote yet another apse in his cathedral mind to making his ideas about three mighty themes—neoliberalism, masculinity, and Christianity—intelligible to me," she added.

https://www.conservativereview.com/wired-publishes-gushing-piece-claiming-pete-buttigieg-has-a-cathedral-mind-that-holds-much-of-its-functionality-in-reserve-2660295914.html

 

 

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NYC Mayor Adams: Migrants should be sent to every city 'throughout the entire country'

....New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said in a new interview Sunday that migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border should be sent to every city "throughout the entire country."...."We have 108,000 cities, villages, towns. If everyone takes a small portion of that, and if it's coordinated at the border, to ensure that those who are coming here to this country in a lawful manner is actually moved throughout the entire country, it is not a burden on one city.....And the numbers need to be clear. We received over 70,000 migrant asylum seekers in our city, 42,000 are still in our care. If this is properly handled at the border level, this issue can be resolved while we finally get Congress, particularly the Republican Party, to deal with a comprehensive immigration policy...."

......CBS host Margaret Brennan on Sunday asked about whether, in Adams' view, the supposed $30 million in federal funding to address the influx into the Big Apple was enough. Adams said that New York City has already spent more than $1 billion in addressing the migrant crisis and is projected to need more than $4 billion more in funding. ....."The problem is that Republicans for far too many years have failed to deal with real immigration reform.....This should not be the burning of Chicago, Washington, Houston, Denver and New York City. That is what we want to focus on......"

....Adams continues to get pushback in courts to his administration's plans to bus hundreds of single male adult migrants upstate and possibly to Long Island to stay in hotels for months. Those municipalities – under mostly Republican leadership – say they lack the resources to deal with asylum seekers processed in the Big Apple....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-mayor-adams-migrants-should-sent-every-city-throughout-entire-country

 

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Eric Adams previously virtue signals that New York is a "city of immigrants" and should stand together. Then he ships them out wholesale into other parts of New York, mostly to areas that are dominated by Republican elected officials, and then wants them shipped all over America. 

He didn't speak up about any of this too loudly when it was just Texas, Arizona, Florida and New Mexico getting hammered. 

Then he blames Republicans for this entire mess. Who controls the current White House? Who has allowed the entire Southern Border to be an open swinging gate for unvaccinated illegal immigrants? 

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Mother of 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody says pleas for hospital care were denied

...The mother of an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody said Friday that agents repeatedly ignored pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter as she felt pain in her bones, struggled to breathe and was unable to walk.....Agents said her daughter’s diagnosis of influenza did not require hospital care, Mabel Alvarez Benedicks said in an emotional phone interview. They knew the girl had a history of heart problems and sickle cell anemia....“They killed my daughter, because she was nearly a day and a half without being able to breathe,” the mother said, “She cried and begged for her life and they ignored her. They didn’t do anything for her...." ...The girl died Wednesday on what her mother said was the family’s ninth day in Border Patrol custody. People are to be held no more than 72 hours under agency policy, a rule that is violated during unusually busy times....The account is almost certain to raise questions about whether the Border Patrol properly handled the situation, the second child migrant death in two weeks in U.S. government custody after a rush of illegal border crossing severely strained holding facilities.....

“No parent should have to beg for their child to get basic medical attention and be forced to watch as their child’s health worsens to the point where they cannot be saved....Nagda urged the Biden administration to create “welcoming centers” at the border where immigration officials can process asylum-seeking families with children while non-governmental groups can offer food, clothing and medical care.....“The only way to stop these preventable deaths is to stop jailing families. To stop jailing children....”

.....A rush to the border before pandemic-related asylum limits known as Title 42 expired brought extraordinary pressure. The Border Patrol took an average of 10,100 people a into custody a day over four days last week, compared to a daily average of 5,200 in March....The Border Patrol had 28,717 people in custody on May 10, one day before pandemic asylum restrictions expired, which was double from two weeks earlier....

https://apnews.com/article/border-patrol-custody-death-harlingen

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Biden Owes Border Patrol Belated Apology Over Phony Charges of “Whipping” Illegal Aliens

...We have now passed the six-month mark since the (Biden) administration called for an investigation of (the US Border Patrol and it's ) horse patrol agents engaging with Haitian migrants illegally entering the U.S. near Del Rio, Texas (Circa September 2021). The administration still (has not) released the completed investigation report.... clearly making up career-ending, false accusations about the agents to change the narrative away from shocking daily videos of 15,000 illegal aliens amassing under the International Bridge in Del Rio...For a week in September, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin published daily drone videos of thousands of illegal aliens gathering under the Del Rio International Bridge. The mainstream media were nowhere to be found....The Biden administration tried to quash the videos with a made-up Federal Aviation Administration drone ban. When Melugin continued posting videos taken from a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter, the Biden administration removed the drone ban and made up a new story: Border Patrol agents on horseback were whipping Haitian migrants....

Suddenly, just about every news network reported that the men serving in the horse patrol were committing unprovoked assaults on Haitian migrants, violating their civil rights....The Department of Homeland Security immediately suspended use of the horse patrols. The agents were placed on administrative leave. They were rapidly labeled “guilty until proven innocent,” (in the Court Of Public Opinion) and six months later, the administration still won’t declare the agents innocent.... President Joe Biden said....“It’s outrageous, I promise you, those people will pay … [T]here is [an] investigation underway now, and there will be consequences,”...Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas quickly piled on, saying the images of agents in Del Rio turning back Haitian migrants were “horrifying (and) do not reflect who we are"....(and added that the images) “painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.”...Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., accused the agents of committing human rights abuses. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also denounced the Border Patrol, tweeting: “This is a stain on our country.” Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., declared, “They are trying to bring us back to slavery days and worse than that....”.....“Human beings should not be treated that way,” Vice President Kamala Harris said of the migrants in an interview with The View.... “It also invoked images of some of the worst moments of our history, where that kind of behavior has been used against the Indigenous people of our country. It has been used against African Americans during times of slavery.” ...

The photographer there, Paul Ratje, attested to the fact that the horse patrol did not whip anyone....Border Patrol agents, like other law enforcement officers, have rules of engagement and existing Customs and Border Protection policy on use of force, which were followed in the video...The only people who did anything wrong were the migrants, who entered the county illegally, which is a crime. They refused verbal commands from a federal officer. That’s also a crime.

Mayorkas said he hoped the investigation would be completed in days, not weeks. It’s been six months. In fact, Department of Homeland Security staff say the investigation has been done for months....Congress needs to demand the release of the report....The findings of the investigation should be released in the same way that these men were publicly slurred; namely, at a White House briefing....These agents and their families deserve that....

https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/biden-owes-border-patrol-belated-apology-over-phony-charges-whipping

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/27/biden-administration-maligns-border-patrol/

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Biden Administration Maligns Border Patrol

The El Paso Times reported that a Border patrol agent “swung his whip menacingly, charging his horse toward the men in the river who were trying to return to an encampment under the international bridge in Del Rio after buying food and water in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.”...The El Paso Times later corrected the story and said, “Our reporting team witnessed at least one agent on horseback swing his reins like a whip.”...But the photographer who took the viral pictures, Paul Ratje, said that he witnessed no whipping at all, and only noted that the Border Patrol agents were simply trying to apprehend the illegal migrants who were attempting to get around the horses...“I’ve never seen them whip anyone,” Ratje said. “He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture.”...So there were no whips, and the firsthand account by the photographer said that no “whipping” with the reins took place.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/27/biden-administration-maligns-border-patrol/

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Illegal immigration now costs US taxpayers $151 billion a year, new study finds

.....Illegal immigration is now costing U.S. taxpayers $151 billion a year, marking a 30% increase in five years, ....concludes that American taxpayers pay overall around $182 billion annually for services and benefits to illegal immigrants. However, those costs are offset by around $31 billion in taxes collected from what they estimate are 15.5 million illegal immigrants in the U.S....Those costs represent a 30% increase since 2017....While illegal immigrants are not eligible for the majority of federal welfare programs, the study also takes into account services, such as education and food assistance programs, provided to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants and also programs that they may be eligible for at the state level....

....The largest cost .... is K-12 education, which the group estimates costs a total of $78 billion a year. Health care – including uncompensated hospital expenditures, Medicaid fraud and Medicaid for U.S. born children – is estimated to cost $42.7 billion a year. Costs related to criminal justice at the federal, state and local levels, which includes federal immigration enforcement, are estimated at approximately $47 billion a year.....Food assistance and nutrition programs, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) costs are estimated by the group to cost about $13.5 billion a year. The study estimates that each illegal immigrant or U.S.-born child of illegal immigrants costs $8,776 a year, and costs each taxpayer $1,156 a year....

"As America struggles to meet countless societal needs while facing the realities of our staggering $31 trillion national debt, the costs of providing for millions of people who have no legal right to be in the United States continues to grow at an alarming rate.....".... the financial burden has been inflicted on taxpayers "by the open borders advocates at every level of government....Not only is the Biden administration refusing to rein in illegal immigration or remove the people who are breaking our laws, they are promulgating policies that actually encourage more of it while offering new protections and benefits to those who settle here illegally....." 

....The report comes as the U.S. is still being wracked by a historic migrant crisis that saw more than 1.7 million migrant encounters in FY 2021 and more than 2.3 million in FY 2022. FY 2023 has so far eclipsed the numbers from the prior year....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illegal-immigration-costs-us-taxpayers-151-billion-year-study-finds

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Dem activist fresh from spring break in Florida goes further than NAACP: 'Terrorist state'

A Democratic activist visited Florida for spring break despite praising the NAACP's travel advisory against the state....."I really appreciate the NAACP's guidance on this issue," activist Aisha C. Mills said during an interview with MSNBC Monday. " I just took my family to spring break in Florida, and I think about all the folks who travel there for sun and joy and peace and restoration and to be reminded that actually this is getting to the point where Florida is about to be a terrorist state to many of us here in America, certainly as a lesbian, as a Black woman, I don’t want to have anything to do with the place"

The comments come after the NAACP formal advisory on its website about Florida, arguing the state is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals."....."Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color," the advisory reads....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-activist-fresh-spring-break-florida-goes-further-than-naacp-terrorist-state

 

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If you believe Florida is a "terrorist state" and you said you don't "want to have anything to do with the place", then WHY DID YOU GO THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE? 

Why did you support the "terrorist" state with your tourist dollars? 

Why did you bring your actual family there if you feared for your life there? 

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Records show REI’s frustration with Portland officials ahead of planned closure

Emails indicate that REI had complained about rampant crime and safety issues for months and had been seeking help from the city as far back as July 2022, when the retailer applied for a permit to install surveillance equipment on a public parking space outside of its store.

REI wanted to install a mobile surveillance system near the store’s front doors off of Northwest Johnson and Kearney streets due to an “increase in criminal activity.” But the outdoor retailer struggled to navigate the city’s bureaucracy to get approval.

“The crime is extremely high in the area and we need to do more than what we are currently doing as its causing my team to feel severely unsafe in the store, on the property and in the area,” Erika Mamon, an asset protection manager for REI, wrote in an email to the Portland Bureau of Transportation last July. “I cannot move the store and need help with this.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2023/05/records-show-reis-frustration-with-portland-officials-ahead-of-planned-closure.html

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'Beyond maddening': Portland mayor's office was blindsided by REI closure announcement

....PORTLAND, Ore. — Although city officials had been in talks with higher-ups at REI for months prior to the company's announcement that it will close its only Portland location, internal communications show that Mayor Ted Wheeler's office was left scrambling to respond when the news dropped in April. Wheeler's office received an email about the closure late on the morning of April 17. The news went out to REI customers about an hour later....

....Emails obtained by KGW through a public records request, first reported on by The Oregonian, show that correspondence between REI and Wheeler's office began months earlier, concerning the company's complaints about crime and public safety at its Pearl District location. In July 2022, REI applied through the Portland Bureau of Transportation and the city's Bureau of Development Services for a permit to place an LVT surveillance camera trailer in a parking spot out in front of the store.....

....The city ultimately denied both requests....The matter seems to have languished until early November, when emails show that REI's store manager began communicating with members of Mayor Ted Wheeler's office....Then, on Black Friday, thieves used a stolen car to smash through REI's front doors in order to steal clothing. That seems to have accelerated the company's desire for heightened security.....But then, on April 17, Janes sent a letter to Wheeler's office announcing that REI would be leaving the Pearl District in early 2024 at the end of their lease. He indicated that he'd already briefed employees, and the news went public within the hour....

"Last December, our Portland store manager and I met with you and Chief Lovell to discuss our concerns about the impact to our business and employees due to regional crime," Janes wrote. "Our meeting was prompted by a stolen car being driven through our store entrance resulting in significant damage and burglary of our store during non-operating hours."....Throughout 2022, Janes said, REI spent more than $800,000 on new security measures. Regardless, they still experienced 10 burglaries — recording the highest number of break-ins and thefts in two decades....

....Once the message to REI customers went out, Wheeler's staff scrambled to draft a statement highlighting that they'd worked closely with REI to address their complaints, doing "targeted retail missions, rapid response camp removals, etc." They also quickly tried to set up another meeting with Janes to discuss the announcement....Text messages between members of Wheeler's team, provided in response to the public records request, demonstrate their frustration with the news. One of the text messages said the idea that Wheeler's office did nothing to help REI was "beyond maddening." ...In subsequent communications with Wheeler's staff, Janes reiterated that REI would not be talked out of leaving the Pearl District location...."....the likelihood of us staying in our current location in downtown Portland is essentially zero...."

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/rei-pearl-portland-closure-mayor-ted-wheeler-city-records

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Ex-Biden ‘Non-Binary’ Nuclear Official Sam Brinton To Be Placed In Men’s Jail Over Luggage Theft Charges: Report

....Former Biden Energy Department official Sam Brinton, who identifies as “non-binary,” will be placed in a men’s jail in Maryland before authorities transport him to Virginia over suitcase theft charges.....The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday told the New York Post that authorities would hold Brinton, 35, at the county men’s jail with the general male population next week per the Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation policy, which states that officers process and house inmates based on their biological sex.....Brinton, who President Joe Biden tapped to serve as the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy, was fired six months after joining the Biden administration amid allegations of stealing luggage and women’s clothing from airports....

Authorities arrested Brinton last week at a house in Rockville, Maryland, as a “fugitive from justice” for allegedly stealing luggage.....authorities escorted Brinton in handcuffs last week an hour after four unmarked police cars arrived at the house while his spouse, Kevin, was told he couldn’t leave....The luggage in question belonged to Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin.... saying that her luggage had been stolen from Reagan National Airport in 2018 on the way to a fashion show, causing catastrophe because she could not show her designs....Brinton was later pictured wearing one of her one-of-a-kind designs that had been in the suitcase, she said....

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-biden-non-binary-nuclear-official-sam-brinton-to-be-placed-in-mens-jail-over-luggage-theft-charges-report

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 More African-Americans apply to become cops, but few make it to finish line

.... A Chicago Reporter examination of police hiring data....shows that many African-Americans have applied to the force in recent years. They just haven’t been hired....Of more than 8,000 black applicants, nearly 30 percent didn’t show up for the written entrance exam, the first step in the recruitment process, while 17 percent failed the test, according to data ....Many applicants who passed the test later dropped out of the process, which includes an extensive background check and physical, psychological and drug tests....

....All recruits are asked to take a physical and psychological exam and submit to an extensive background check and drug screening. At the end of the assessment, the department recommends successful candidates for entrance to the academy..... for which the department has complete records, provides insights into how blacks fared compared to other groups. That year....of that number, 1,050 did not show up for the exam and 813 failed it....

Other critics of the department’s hiring process claim that it is discriminatory....Charles Wilson, chairman of the National Association of Black Law Enforcement Officers, said prescreening exams have been used to discriminate against black recruits....“They bang us out on the agility exam,” he said. “We do not typically go into the exam being ‘fit and ready.’ We go out into the yard and shoot hoops, but we don’t get into the idea of doing a daily run. Our counterparts are heavily into that. So, they are more prepared for the agility examination.”

...Ald. Anthony Beale of the 9th Ward said the hiring process systematically excludes minorities. The biggest issue is the background check, which “really wipes out minorities,” he said.....“The use of drugs is more prevalent now than it was in years past.....If you use cocaine in the last 10 years, you are out. You want to be a police officer, you shouldn’t use cocaine....If we feel it is an occasional use, and they are an excellent candidate, there are situations where we say, ‘We don’t think the city has proved that it is more than an occasional use.’”....People of color are more likely to struggle financially and with employment, said Beale, and the hiring process holds that against them. “If you don’t have a job,” he said, referring to the high unemployment rate for black men..... “you’re going to have bad credit. If you have bad credit you can’t be a police officer.

https://www.chicagoreporter.com/more-african-americans-apply-to-become-cops-but-few-make-it-to-finish-line/

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Progressive allies of Mayor Brandon Johnson have released a financial blueprint titled - and I'm not joking - "First We Get the Money" calling for $12 billion in new taxes, including:

"Head tax" of $33 per worker for companies with 50+ employees

Quadrupling the tax on jet fuel.

3.5% income tax on households making $100K+

0.4% "wealth tax" for the top 10% of city earners.

$1-2 transaction tax for financial exchanges.

As reported by The New York Post, the iconic Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) opened in 1898, only 27 years after the infamous Great Chicago Fire. Proud Chicagoans heralded the CME as a major part of the city’s rebirth and helped establish the Windy City as a world financial hub.

Johnson... has proposed new taxes to the tune of roughly $800 million, including a financial transactions tax...FTTs are levied on the buying and selling of financial assets, such as stocks, bonds, and derivative assets, and are based on a percentage of the traded asset’s value, with the tax being paid when a trade is made.....from the Merc and its $66 billion market cap...In a recent interview with Bloomberg, CME CEO Terry Duffy said the exchange is prepared to leave Chicago....

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Clinton Foundation Linked To Russian Effort To Buy Uranium Company

.....Hillary Clinton says the State Department, when she was secretary, did not do favors for foreign interests in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation. She was denying accusations in a forthcoming book titled "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story Of How And Why Foreign Governments And Businesses Helped Make Bill And Hillary Rich."

BECKER: A company named Uranium One based in Canada needed approval to sell a 51-percent stake of the company to an arm of the Russian government called Rosatom.

SIEGEL: And the company Uranium One owned uranium mines in the United States.

BECKER: It did. It also owned stakes in large mines - very lucrative mines in Kazakhstan, and that actually was primarily what the Russian government was interested in. But because they had these mines in Wyoming, the deal required government approval.

SIEGEL: Uranium being a strategic commodity, and therefore it requires a rather high level of approval from the U.S.

BECKER: Yeah. Multiple agencies had to sign off on this including the State Department. And why that's interesting is that the men who had built and financed this company behind this deal were some of Bill Clinton's biggest donors, and one man, the chairman of the company, had donated, we found, 2.35 million dollars in donations that the Clinton Foundation had failed to disclose.

SIEGEL: Had failed to disclose - you mean there was no public record of receiving the donation to the Foundation?

BECKER: Right. When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, the Obama White House asked her to sign a memorandum of understanding because Bill Clinton was going to continue to raise money for his foundation. And part of the memorandum of understanding was that she would disclose all donations. The other part of it was that they wouldn't take foreign donations while she was Secretary of State. .....

SIEGEL: There's also the eye-popping $500,000 speaking fee that Bill Clinton received in Russia. What is the connection, if any, to the entire uranium mine acquisition?

BECKER: Yeah. That was paid by Renaissance Capital, an investment bank in Russia that has links to the Kremlin.... and Bill gave the speech just after the Russians had announced their desire to acquire this 51-percent stake in this company, but before the U.S. government had signed off.

https://www.npr.org/2015/04/23/401781313/clinton-foundation-linked-to-russian-effort-to-buy-uranium-company

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AP Fact Check: Hillary Clinton Email Claims Collapse Under FBI Investigation

.....Key assertions by Hillary Clinton in defense of her email practices have collapsed under FBI scrutiny....The agency's yearlong investigation found that she did not, as she claimed, turn over all her work-related messages for release. It found that her private email server did carry classified emails, also contrary to her past statements. And it made clear that Clinton used many devices to send and receive email despite her statements that she set up her email system so that she only needed to carry one.

CLINTON: "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material." News conference, March 2015.

THE FACTS: Actually, the FBI identified at least 113 emails that passed through Clinton's server and contained materials that were classified at the time they were sent, including some that were Top Secret and referred to a highly classified special access program..... "Any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about the matters should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation..." .....Clinton and her aides "were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information...." 

CLINTON: "I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified." NBC interview, July 2016.

THE FACTS: Clinton has separately clung to her rationale that there were no classification markings on her emails that would have warned her and others not to transmit the sensitive material. But the private system did, in fact, handle emails that bore markings indicating they contained classified information

CLINTON: "I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work related" to the State Department. News conference, March 2015.

THE FACTS: Not so, the FBI found.....forensic team examined Clinton's server it found there were "several thousand work-related emails that were not in the group of 30,000" that had been returned by Clinton to the State Department.

CLINTON: "I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for personal emails instead of two." News conference, March 2015.

THE FACTS: This reasoning for using private email both for public business and private correspondence didn't hold up in the investigation. Clinton "used numerous mobile devices to view and send email" using her personal account....He also said Clinton had used different servers.....A May 2016 audit by the State Department inspector general found there was no evidence Clinton sought or received approval to operate a private server, and that she "had an obligation to discuss using her personal email account to conduct official business with their offices." 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/ap-fact-check-hillary-clinton-email-claims-collapse-under-fbi

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 Hillary Clinton personally approved plan to share Trump-Russia allegation with the press in 2016, campaign manager says

...Hillary Clinton personally approved her campaign’s plans in fall 2016 to share information with a reporter about an uncorroborated alleged server backchannel between Donald Trump and a top Russian bank, her former campaign manager testified Friday in federal court....Robby Mook said he attended a meeting with other senior campaign official....The group decided to share the information with a reporter, and Mook subsequently ran that decision by Clinton herself.

“We discussed it with Hillary,” Mook said, later adding that “she agreed with the decision.”

....The testimony came in the criminal trial of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who is being prosecuted by the Trump-era special counsel John Durham. Durham is investigating potential misconduct tied to the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe. The trial has shed light on the dark arts of political opposition research – and how campaigns dig up dirt and plant stories in the press....Sussmann passed along the same information about Trump and Alfa Bank to an FBI official in September 2016. Prosecutors charged him with lying to the FBI and allege that he falsely told the FBI official that he wasn’t there for a client, even though he was there on Clinton’s behalf....

....The special counsel team has previously said that the Clinton campaign’s media blitz around the Slate story “is the very culmination of Mr. Sussmann’s work and strategy,” to allegedly gin up news coverage about the Trump-Alfa allegations and then get the FBI to start an investigation....

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/politics/hillary-clinton-robby-mook-fbi/index.html

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