[h8kurdt]

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
TRUMP’S “UNMASKING” PROBE OF OBAMA AND BIDEN FOUND A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING
Surprise, surprise.
BY ERIC LUTZ

OCTOBER 14, 2020
In May, as the right made angry noises about what they said was the improper “unmasking” of Trumpworld figures by Barack Obama and his administration, William Barr authorized United States Attorney John Bash to probe the matter. “The Attorney General determined that certain aspects of unmasking needed to be reviewed,” Justice Department spokesperson Kerri Kupec told Fox News’s Sean Hannity at the time. “We know that unmasking inherently isn’t wrong, but...can be problematic.” The inquiry, a spinoff of John Durham’s review of the origins of the Russia investigation, appeared to be yet another effort by Barr to legitimize Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories—and to target Joe Biden and the Democrats in the run-up to the 2020 election.

But when Bash, the now-former U.S. Attorney from West Texas, concluded his investigation recently, he came up so empty-handed Barr didn’t even announce it had ended. Indeed, Bash found no wrongdoing on the part of Obama, Biden, or others in their administration and finished his inquiry without pressing any charges, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. He left the DOJ last week, but neither he nor Barr discussed the results of his probe.

That’s not necessarily unusual—as the Post points out, the DOJ doesn’t typically make announcements about probes that don’t result in charges. But this probe wasn’t exactly typical: The election year inquiry sprung from a Trump conspiracy that the Obama administration had spied on his campaign, and has helped form the basis of political attacks on Biden from the president and his allies. Trump said last week that Obama and Biden should be arrested for their supposed attempts to subvert him, and his cronies have used the ginned-up scandal in jabs at the Democrat as recently as this month. “If you’re more worried about [Trump] unmasking on a balcony with no one close to him than you were by the Obama/Biden administration unmasking (aka illegally spying on) their political opponents, my diagnosis is you have [Trump Derangement Syndrome],” Rand Paul tweeted October 6, referring to the president’s bizarre appearance on the White House balcony upon returning to the White House after his COVID hospitalization. “My prescription is to put down your phone.”

That Barr has not released the results of the Bash probe that would torpedo such attacks shows that he continues to serve the president’s interests, even if his fishing expedition didn’t turn up any wrongdoing. Still, that’s unlikely to satisfy Trump, who has been frustrated with the Attorney General since he warned that Durham’s probe into the origins of the Russia investigation would not be completed by Election Day—because what good would the inquiry be if it didn’t turn up an October surprise? “Bill Barr is going to go down as either the greatest Attorney General in the history of the country,” Trump told Fox Business last week, “or he’s going to go down as, you know, a very sad situation.” The fact that Barr can’t seem to come up with actual dirt isn’t stopping Trump from flinging wild, desperate allegations that “THE BIGGEST OF ALL POLITICAL SCANDALS” in history had been committed against him. “BIDEN SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO RUN,” Trump tweeted last week. “GOT CAUGHT!!!”

How many thousands of words has Bytor spent on trying to get a reply about this spying "scandal" only for it to end as weak as a sparrow's fart.

Obviously now the new thing is the Hunter Biden scandal when he conveniently forgets the huge amount reports of Trump's own children consistently blurring the lines between politics and business.

Politicians are corrupt SHOCK!.

Don't waste any more of your time, Bytor.

[!@#$%!]

don’t fall for the bannon playbook. he’s just trying to smear uncle joe through the repetition of proven falsehoods.

repetition becomes truth in the goebbels world, and there you are, repeating it while denying it, thus lending it credence while attempting the opposite... again

[The Soup Nazi]

From The Ides Of March:


Stephen Meyers (junior campaign manager for Governor Mike Morris, presidential candidate competing against Senator Ted Pullman for the party's nomination):

[To staffer] Any truth on whether Pullman had investments in those diamond mines in Liberia?

Staffer:

We're still checking... It was a blog so who the fuck knows...

Meyers:

Doesn't matter; I want to hear him denying it. If it's true, find out, if it's not, let them spend the next day telling the Post that he doesn't own a diamond mine in Liberia... win win.

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

From The Ides Of March:


Stephen Meyers (junior campaign manager for Governor Mike Morris, presidential candidate competing against Senator Ted Pullman for the party's nomination):

[To staffer] Any truth on whether Pullman had investments in those diamond mines in Liberia?

Staffer:

We're still checking... It was a blog so who the fuck knows...

Meyers:

Doesn't matter; I want to hear him denying it. If it's true, find out, if it's not, let them spend the next day telling the Post that he doesn't own a diamond mine in Liberia... win win.

Guess the whole thing started with Obama releasing his birth certificate. Cunts.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Guess the whole thing started with Obama releasing his birth certificate. Cunts.

thanks, obama!

[!@#$%!]

so, turns out ghouliani was being fed bullshit by the russians lmao

tragic!

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

so, turns out ghouliani was being fed bullshit by the russians lmao

tragic!

I'd go with the term useful idiot if it weren't loaded with a history of describing people ultimately deemed to be well-meaning; there's nothing "well-meaning" about fuckers like Giuliani, of course. Yet they are idiots, and they are useful (but eventually disposable) for chess players who outsmart them exponentially, like the top cats in those Moscovian onion domes...

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

thanks, obama!

Ha!

[Bytor Peltor]

Senate Judiciary to vote on subpoena for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
“the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Tuesday (October 20) on whether to authorize subpoenas to compel Dorsey to testify before the committee that Friday (October 23......one week from today). Cruz, who chairs Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, said Dorsey will be asked to address “why Twitter is abusing their corporate power to silence the press and to cover up allegations of corruption.”

Ted Cruz: “We have seen Big Tech - we've seen Twitter and Facebook - actively interfering in this election in a way that has no precedent in the history of our country. [...] The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to know what the hell is going on. Chairman Lindsey Graham and I have discussed this at length, and the committee today will be noticing a markup on Tuesday to issue a subpoena to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Friday. To come before this Committee and the American people and explain why Twitter is abusing their corporate power to silence the press and to cover up allegations of corruption.

"Let me be clear: I don't know if these New York Post stories are true or not. Those are questions Vice President Biden should answer. But Twitter and Facebook and Big Tech billionaires don't get to censor political speech and actively interfere in the election. That's what they're doing right now. And so on Tuesday the Judiciary Committee, the full committee will be voting on subpoenas - to subpoena Jack Dorsey to come before our committee."


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Donald Trump’s tax returns were unlawfully leaked (felony) and Twitter/Jack Dorsey didn’t block anyone from sharing and linking stories.

Moscow Hunter’s emails were acquired lawfully and Twitter/Jack Dorsey selectively chooses to interfere by blocking a 2020 news story??

Can the free minded freethinkers see the H Y P O C R I S Y ?
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Remember when Trump tweeted the picture of Joe and Hunter Biden golfing with the Ukrainian gas exec. and it got taken down from Twitter because of the Nickelback song?

 

I’m willing to wager THIS meeting wasn't on Joe's official calendar either!!!


Another way to influence an election is when the news chooses to ignore the news!

Biden faces no Moscow Hunter questions in ABC town hall

No one asked Joe to denounce white supremacy?

 

 

Moscow Hunter demanded Chinese billionaire pay $10 million for 'introductions alone,' emails show
“The money was for “introductions alone,” said Mr. Biden, son of Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden. Another email to Hunter Biden from a consultant says that a 10% stake in an unnamed company will go to “the big guy?” The “big guy” was not identified.

 

FIY —— the FBI wouldn’t confiscate Moscow Hunter’s laptop over crack smoking and fornication unless said fornication was with a minor!!!

[h8kurdt]

Good to see that Biden sticks around for a good while after the audience questions had ended to carry on talking to everyone. Wouldn't surprise me if Trump was outta there quicker than you can say "pay back your debts".

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Senate Judiciary to vote on subpoena for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
“the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Tuesday (October 20) on whether to authorize subpoenas to compel Dorsey to testify before the committee that Friday (October 23......one week from today). Cruz, who chairs Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, said Dorsey will be asked to address “why Twitter is abusing their corporate power to silence the press and to cover up allegations of corruption.”

The threat of subpoena is a powerful motivator!

Twitter announces new policies after Hunter Biden report imbroglio (October 16, 2020)

Vijaya Gadde tweet (interesting thread)
So, what’s changing?

1. We will no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them

2. We will label Tweets to provide context instead of blocking links from being shared on Twitter

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Good to see that Biden sticks around for a good while after the audience questions had ended to carry on talking to everyone. Wouldn't surprise me if Trump was outta there quicker than you can say "pay back your debts".

hahaha

i actually missed the town halls because i decided to watch john wick 3 instead

caught some highlights afterwards, like trumpet doubling down on his qanon bullshit to secure the support of idiots and the mentally infirm. fucking don the con, carnival barker from hell.

anyway john wick leans a bit too heavy on the matrix at times but that’s postmodernism i guess. keanu as the gen-x arnold?

[tw2113]

so whose skeletons are we all voting for?

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by tw2113

so whose skeletons are we all voting for?

michael gerson made a conservative argument the other day for voting for biden on the basis that repudiating trumpism is the only way to force the republican party to reform itself

so even if you’re not a democrat it makes sense to vote for biden.

but...

i know you’re a libertarian in a very red state so i don’t know what works for you.

nevertheless, maybe give uncle joe a mandate to restore some sanity to the political process?

even if he doesn’t win in your state, those numbers mean something. this is not a whatsboutism nor a nihilistic pronouncement about futility. your vote does count. giving the middle finger to trump in great numbers: it counts. it’s a way to say “i reject your horrible kakistocracy.”

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

FIY —— the FBI wouldn’t confiscate Moscow Hunter’s laptop over crack smoking and fornication unless said fornication was with a minor!!!

Joe Biden: “Well Son Of A Bitch” (Tucker Carlson video)

 

Tucker Carlson transcript (October 15, 2020)


“Not everything you hear is untrue and not every story is complex. At the heart of the growing Biden-Ukraine scandal, for example, is a very straightforward question: Did Joe Biden subvert American foreign policy in order to enrich his own family?

In 2015, Joe Biden was the sitting vice president of the United States. Included in his portfolio were U.S. relations with the nation of Ukraine. At that moment, Vice President Joe Biden had more influence over the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian economy than any other person on the globe outside of Eastern Europe.

Biden's younger son, Hunter, knew that and hoped to get rich from his father's influence. Emails published Wednesday by The New York Post, documents apparently taken directly from Hunter Biden's own laptop, tell some of that story.

If these emails are fake, this is the most complex and sophisticated hoax in history. It almost seems beyond human capacity. The Biden campaign clearly believes these emails are real. They have not said otherwise. We sent the body of them to Hunter Biden's attorney and never heard back. So with that in mind, here's what we have learned.

On Nov. 2, 2015, at 4:36 p.m., a Burisma executive called Vadym Pozharskyi emailed Hunter Biden and his business partner, Devon Archer. The purpose of the email, Pozharskyi explains, is to "be on the same page re our final goals ... including, but not limited to: a concrete course of actions."

So what did Burisma want, exactly? Well, good PR, for starters. Pozharskyi wanted "high-ranking US [sic] officials" to express their "positive opinion" of Burisma, and then he wanted the administration to act on Burisma's behalf.

"The scope of work should also include organization of a visit of a number of widely recognized and influential current and/or former US [sic] policy-makers to Ukraine in November, aiming to conduct meetings with and bring positive signal/message and support" to Burisma.

The goal, Pozharskyi explained, was to "close down for [sic] any cases/pursuits" against the head of Burisma in Ukraine.

It couldn't be clearer what they wanted. Burisma wanted Huter Biden's father to get their company out of legal trouble with the Ukrainian government. And that's exactly what happened. One month later to the day, on Dec. 2, 2015, Hunter Biden received a notice from a Washington PR firm called Blue Star Strategies, which apparently had been hired to lobby the Obama administration on Ukraine. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" have exclusively obtained that email.

"Hello all ..." it began. "This morning, the White House hosted a conference call regarding the Vice President's upcoming trip to Ukraine. Attached is a memo from the Blue Star Strategies team with the minutes of the call, which outlined the trip's agenda and addressed several questions regarding U.S. policy toward Ukraine."

So here you have a PR firm involved in an official White House foreign policy call. How could that happen? Good question. But it worked.

Days later, Joe Biden flew to Ukraine and did exactly what his son wanted. The vice president gave a speech slamming the very Ukrainian law enforcement official who was tormenting Burisma. If the Ukrainian government didn't fire its top prosecutor, a man called Viktor Shokin, Biden explained, the administration would withhold a billion dollars in American aid. Now, Ukraine is a poor country, so they had no choice but to obey. Biden's bullying worked. He bragged about it later.

The obvious question: Why was the vice president of the United States threatening a tiny country like Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor? That doesn't seem like a vice president's role. Well, now we know why.

Viktor Shokin has signed an affidavit affirming that he was, in fact, investigating Burisma at the moment Joe Biden had him removed. Shokin said that before he was fired, administration officials pressured him to drop the case against Burisma. He would not do that, so Joe Biden canned him.

That's how things really work in Washington. Your son's got a lucrative consulting deal with a Ukrainian energy company, you tailor American foreign policy -- our foreign policy-- to help make him rich. Even at the State Department, possibly the most cynical agency in government, this seemed shockingly brazen.

During the impeachment proceedings last fall, a State Department official named George Kent said it was widely known in Washington that the Bidens were up to something sleazy in Ukraine.

"I was on a call with somebody on the vice president's staff and ... I raised my concerns that I had heard that Hunter Biden was on the board" of Burisma, Kent recalled. This, he noted, could create a perception of a conflict of interest.

So how did the vice president's office respond to this concern? According to George Kent, "The message that I recall hearing back was that the vice president's son, Beau, was dying of cancer and there was no further bandwidth to deal with family-related issues at the time."

Family-related issues? This was America's foreign policy being tailored to Joe Biden's son. Five years later, Joe Biden still has not been forced to explain why he fired Ukraine's top prosecutor at precisely the moment his son was being paid to get him to fire Ukraine's top prosecutor, nor has Joe Biden addressed whether or not he personally benefited from the Burisma contract.

But there are tantalizing hints. On Wednesday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani published what he said was yet another email from Hunter Biden's laptop. It's a note to one of his children. At the end of the email, there's this quote: "But dont [sic] worry unlike Pop I won't make you give me half your salary."

Thursday morning, the New York Post published another story based on the emails. This one describes a business venture Hunter Biden was working on in China. One email describes a "provisional agreement that the equity will be distributed as follows ... 10 held by H for the big guy?"

The big guy? Is the big guy Joe Biden? If so, how much did Joe Biden get and how much of that came from the Communist Chinese government? Those are real questions, this man could be elected president in three weeks. But Twitter doesn't want you to wonder. It won't allow you to ask those questions. Twitter restricted the New York Post story as "unsafe," like it was a lawn dart or a defective circular saw. And that was enough for the Biden campaign.

All day Thursday, they deflected questions about Joe Biden's subversion of our country's foreign policy by invoking Twitter's ban on the New York Post story. So the tech monopoly censors information to help their candidate, that candidate uses that censorship to dismiss the story. One hand washes the other.“

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

this is not a whatsboutism nor a nihilistic pronouncement about futility.

But her emails. I'm afraid our tw2113 is too deep into false equivalency already.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showpost.php?postcount=302&p=1405406

Joke of the century.

[tw2113]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

But her emails. I'm afraid our tw2113 is too deep into false equivalency already.

I'm still on the fence between non Trump candidates. I may still go 3rd, I may say "what if....what....if...Trump alienated enough people in South Dakota that we could go Blue this year?" So, we'll see soon enough when i'm in line with mask on face. Feels more meaningful to vote in person for not Trump, to show that he didn't lose by "farse mail in" or whatever he considers that actually safe method.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Joke of the century.

what are the backlinks for?

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by tw2113

I'm still on the fence between non Trump candidates. I may still go 3rd, I may say "what if....what....if...Trump alienated enough people in South Dakota that we could go Blue this year?" So, we'll see soon enough when i'm in line with mask on face. Feels more meaningful to vote in person for not Trump, to show that he didn't lose by "farse mail in" or whatever he considers that actually safe method.

fuck yeah. give benito orange the finger!

he needs to lose categorically. he needs to get reamed in such a way that republicans say “never again.” they’ve been such filthy enablers they need an electoral flogging for course correction.

(that is if the russians dont hack the diebolds)

and i personally beg you to vote for their only viable competition to make a point. just go blue this one. i mean, republicans are actually promoting 3rd party candidates like crazy kanye...

anyway, whatever you decide, yeah, show up and be counted.