Friday, December 15, 2017

Those texts messages between the two FBI agents were not authorized for release by the DOJ, and in fact may have been the fault of Rep. Devin Nunes.

Courtesy of NBC News:  

The Department of Justice released 90 pages of text messages late Tuesday night, many harshly critical of candidate Donald Trump, that were exchanged between an FBI lawyer and an agent who was later assigned to Robert Mueller's special counsel team. 

e-mails were exchanged between Peter Strzok, one of the top FBI agents assigned to the Mueller investigation, and Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer. The two were romantically involved. 

When Mueller learned of the e-mails last summer, he removed Strzok from the team.

One message sent by Page to Strzok on March 4, 2016, reads, "God trump is a loathsome human," according to a transcript obtained by NBC News.

Later that year, in August, shortly after Trump secured the Republican nomination, Page sent Strzok an article on Trump's fumbling to understand Russia's annexation of Crimea, adding: "Jesus. You should read this. And Trump should go f himself." 

Strzok responded that he liked the article "And F Trump." 

Strzok told Page on July 14, "It's clear he's capturing all the white, poor voters who the mainstream Republicans abandoned in all but name in the quest for the almighty $$$$." 

In other messages, the couple shared pro-Clinton views. Strzok told Page in March, "God Hillary should win 100,000,000-0." 

Strzok then praised Clinton's nomination in July: "Congrats on a woman nominated for President in a major party! About damn time!"

So that was the story a few days ago.

Now keep in mind that these are not emails sent back and forth on the FBI's official accounts, these  are private  texts between two people in a relationship.

Also keep in mind when Mueller learned of them he had this agent removed immediately.

But if you think that is going to placate the Right Wing, well then you have simply not been watching enough Fox News.

Courtesy of Politico: 

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley demanded answers Thursday about when top Department of Justice officials became aware of anti-Donald Trump text messages sent in 2015 and 2016 by top FBI officials, including one senior agent involved in the investigation of any Trump campaign connections to Russia. 

"The limited release of 375 text messages between Mr. Peter Strzok and Ms. Lisa Page indicate a highly politicized FBI environment during both the Clinton and Russia investigations," Grassley wrote in a letter to deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to lead a criminal probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Right on cue.

Now Democrats have been wondering why we are seeing these texts in the first place, as they are private and should probably have remained an internal FBI matter.

Courtesy of Politico: 

Democrats pressed the Justice Department on Thursday to explain why it released salacious, anti-Donald Trump text messages exchanged between two FBI employees who are still under investigation for their work on the Russia special counsel investigation.

As it turns out the DOJ was not really behind the early  release of the texts. At least not officially:

The Department of Justice acknowledged in a statement on Thursday night that copies of private text messages exchanged between two former special-counsel investigators were disclosed to certain members of the media before they were given to Congress, even though those disclosures "were not authorized." 

Sarah Isgur Flores, a DOJ spokeswoman, told Politico that the text messages exchanged between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were given to key members of the House Judiciary Committee the night before Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's public testimony on Wednesday. 

The DOJ's Public Affairs division shared the same messages with a group of reporters after they were shared with the lawmakers, Flores said. But some members of the media "had already received copies." 

"As we understand now, some members of the media had already received copies of the texts before that — but those disclosures were not authorized by the department," she said.

So why did these private texts even get released in the first place?

Courtesy of Business Insider: 

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz on Friday said the Justice Department was "forced" to release private text messages exchanged between former special counsel investigators Peter Strzok and Lisa Page because House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes "was about to subpoena them." 

During an interview, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo had asked Gaetz, a Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee who has introduced a resolution to remove special counsel Robert Mueller from his post, what he knows about the ongoing investigation that has led him to believe it has been tainted. 

"What do you know that Rod Rosenstein does not?" Cuomo asked, referring to the deputy attorney general. 

"Well, Chris, all the American people can see the text messages that were forced to be released 'cause Devin Nunes was about to subpoena them," Gaetz said.

Nunes, and a number of the House Republicans, have been desperately searching for a way to derail Robert Mueller and his investigation,  and they are willing even to subpoena private texts between a man and his girlfriend to do it. 

Is it a smoking gun.

No, especially since this Strzok guy also made nasty remarks about Bernie Sanders and former Attorney General Eric Holder.

But the Republicans don't necessarily need a smoking gun,  they just need enough to create doubt in the minds of some Americans so that Mueller can be canned and they will believe it was completely  justified.

And they are already starting to put those wheels in motion.

79 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:07 PM

    how does this "make sense?" and how do we stop the repubs from firing Mueller? they haven't learned their lesson yet? well, let's teach them next year.

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    1. Anonymous6:50 PM

      First thought: Eyeroll. Boy Trumpty Dumpty is grasping.

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    2. Anonymous3:09 AM

      And "Fox and Friends" are doing the brainwashing of the idiots on Trump's behalf.

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    3. Anonymous3:58 AM

      Well lets give them hell for the rest of this year. They await their fate.

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  2. Anonymous4:47 PM

    Fuck Republicans and God bless Mr. Mueller.

    Can hardly wait to see him rid us of Trump forever!

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    1. Anonymous4:59 PM

      as soon as possible.

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    2. Anonymous4:01 AM

      Slaying this ugly serpent is time consuming, cutting the head off this evil snake will be swift and precise.

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  3. Anonymous4:51 PM

    Just keep at it, pubes. I WILL say this: if the SAVE US $ARAH crowd thinks that she's going to descend like the Holy Spirit to make it right, they're even more stupid than their pathetic cries.

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    1. Anonymous5:05 PM

      it's time to forget $arah sponger because every time she sees her name, it's good. stop feeding her ego and let her take our order at the nearest fast food joint. don.t buy the tea, don't look at the websites. forget them all! (don't you know WHO i am??? nope. couldn't care less. you know she reads this every day.

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    2. Anonymous6:51 PM

      She's wandering around in a comotose state of mind. :/

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    3. Anonymous5:43 AM

      Has she spoke to Mueller yet? She can see Russia, she spoke to putin and her daughter vacations with "marina". And in 07 they helped her on that old McCain ballot.

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    4. Anonymous8:44 AM

      Haha. Yeah Russia. How is that working for ya? Haha.

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  4. Anonymous5:00 PM

    Trump is at about 25% approval. And even then? who polled who? His scam and fraud is clearly exposed with more than enough evidence. Trump will resign or be arrested.

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  5. Anonymous5:27 PM

    Ex-CIA director puts Fox News ‘on notice’ for their ‘conspiratorial hit job’ on Robert Mueller and the FBI

    Ambassador James Woolsey, a former CIA director under President Bill Clinton, has put Fox and their host Lou Dobbs “on notice” amid the network’s continued attempts to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller and undermine his Russia investigation.

    In a statement provided to Raw Story, Woolsey’s representative Jonathan Franks said the former CIA director is “extremely disappointed” in Dobbs, Fox Business and Fox News “over this inaccurate, unprofessional [and] conspiratorial hit job.”

    “We’ve placed Fox on notice,” Franks added.

    He referenced a Friday night Fox News clip in which commentator Christopher Bedford, editor-in-chief of the conservative Daily Caller website, said the special counsel lacks integrity and his probe has been “hopelessly compromised.”

    Dobbs then said that he finds it “stunning that [Deputy Attorney General] Rob Rosenstein doesn’t find any need for any concern whatsoever, and even as his entire department has been ripped asunder by so many conflicts of interest.”

    Ambassador Woolsey resigned from Trump’s transition team on January 5, 2017 amid tensions between the two stemming from the then-president-elect’s increasingly critical rhetoric about the intelligence community. He was subsequently interviewed in late October by Mueller regarding his knowledge of Trump’s former aide Mike Flynn, who Woolsey knew through sitting on the board of the latter’s lobbying firm. A month later, Woolsey was seen dining with the president at Mar-A-Lago.

    Watch the Fox News clip that the former CIA director calls a “conspiratorial hit job” on Mueller below.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/ex-cia-director-puts-fox-news-on-notice-for-their-conspiratorial-hit-job-on-robert-mueller-and-the-fbi/

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    1. “On notice?” Ooooo, I’m so scared.


      What the hell does that mean? Since when does Woolsey have any leverage to make any sort of threat to Dodd or Fox news?

      First rule of discpline. You don’t make idle threats. You make boundaries with consequences and there are concrete consequences for violation. If a violation occurs, the consequence follows quickly. No “one more chance.” No “next time you’re gonna get it!”

      On notice is right down there with you better not and you’re gonna be sorry when it comes to effective warnings. In other words, empty and ambiguous threats.

      Exactly what is going to happen to Dodd and Fox News if they continue with their innuendo? I’ll tell you. NOT A DAMNED THING.

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  6. Anonymous5:27 PM

    Justice Department watchdog details role in sharing anti-Trump texts

    IG says he agreed sending messages to Hill wouldn't affect bias probe, but denies signing off on disclosure to press.

    The federal official overseeing a probe of the FBI's handling of last year's Hillary Clinton email investigation confirmed Friday that he had no objection to the Justice Department giving Congress controversial anti-Trump text messages turned up during the investigation, but says officials didn't consult him before sharing those texts with the press.

    In a letter to lawmakers sent late Friday and obtained by POLITICO, Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz noted that he'd told a House committee last month that his office had no concern about giving Congress information gathered during his review of potential election-related bias. The inspector general also acknowledged he'd "conveyed" that stance directly to Justice officials.

    However, the inspector general said his office did not perform an analysis of what was permissible to share with lawmakers.

    "The Department did not consult with the [Office of the Inspector General] in order to determine whether releasing the text messages met applicable ethical and legal standards before providing them to Congress," Horowitz said.

    Justice officials "did not consult with the OIG before sharing the text messages with the press," Horowitz said, respond to a letter Democratic House members sent him Thursday.

    Testifying on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the IG had signed off on turning over the 375 text messages exchanged by top FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page.

    “When this inquiry came in from the Congress, we did consult with the Inspector General to determine that he had no objection to the release of the material," Rosenstein told the House Judiciary Committee. "If he had, I can assure you we would not have authorized the release.”

    Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said there was no daylight between Horowitz's letter and Rosenstein's claims.

    "The letter released by the IG tonight is entirely consistent w my earlier tweets & DAG’s testimony," Flores wrote on Twitter. "IG had no objection to release to Congress. We then consulted senior career legal/ethics experts to determine there were no issues w releasing texts to either Congress or press."

    Horowitz highlighted testimony he gave last month — reported at the time by POLITICO — that DOJ could share records from his investigation with lawmakers, but only after officials there were able to "determine whether there were any restrictions, such as those affecting grand jury information, that limited its ability to produce certain records to Congress."

    The messages are now at the center of an intensifying argument by Republicans in Congress that members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe are biased against President Donald Trump.

    https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/15/fbi-trump-texts-justice-department-ig-299569

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  7. Anonymous5:27 PM

    New Mexico School Shooter Had Secret Life on Pro-Trump White-Supremacy Sites
    For years before William Edward Atchison killed two students and himself, he lived a shadow life online—one full of crude alt-right memes and praise for school shooters.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-mexico-school-shooter-had-secret-life-on-pro-trump-white-supremacy-sites

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  8. Anonymous5:31 PM

    Current and former female Fox News employees say they are “stunned,” “disgusted” and “hungry for justice” after media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Thursday dismissed allegations of sexual misconduct at the network as “nonsense” outside of a few “isolated incidents” with former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes.

    In a televised interview, Sky News host Ian King focused on the Thursday announcement that the Disney Company is acquiring most of the assets belonging to 21st Century Fox, Fox News Channel’s parent, in a deal valued at $52 billion. Disney is not acquiring Fox News Channel or several other broadcast properties as part of the deal.

    King asked Murdoch if sexual misconduct allegations had inflicted damage on Fox News Channel.

    Murdoch said, “All nonsense, there was a problem with our chief executive [Ailes], sort of, over the years, isolated incidents. As soon as we investigated it he was out of the place in hours, well, three or four days. And there’s been nothing else since then. That was largely political because we’re conservative. Now of course the liberals are going down the drain — NBC is in deep trouble. CBS, their stars. I mean there are really bad cases and people should be moved aside. There are other things which probably amount to a bit of flirting.”

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-news-women-rupert-murdoch_us_5a343580e4b040881bea8216?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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    1. Anonymous5:46 PM

      Female Fox News staffers threaten to ‘go public’ unless Rupert Murdoch stops lying: ‘I’m sick of this sh*t’

      ...“Hey Rupert – stop with the lies or we’ll go public with the truth,” one former on-air talent warned. “All of it. Including about the talent and executives you still employ who have harassed us and don’t give a damn about workplace respect – only money”

      “How much will it take before you actually start caring about your female employees?” she asked. “Is your 52 billion enough? Are we really going to clean house now?”

      Earlier Friday, Vanity Fair correspondent Gabriel Sherman told MSNBC he was hearing that little had changed at the network.

      “That blasé attitude, the ‘hear no evil, see no evil’ attitude, is this permissive culture that allowed this toxic workplace at Fox News to fester for so long,” Sherman said. “I think women are feeling terrified that the company has not fully cleaned up.”

      HuffPost heard similar complaints.

      “Did this man [Murdoch] just forget the 100 million dollars his company had to pay in settlements for terrible men behaving badly?” a current Fox news host wondered. “He now says it was a bit of ‘flirting’ and an issue related to the fact that Fox News has conservative hosts? Sexual harassment has nothing to do with politics. Many of us are conservative and want the truth to come out. Those of us who still work at Fox News have anxiety issues every time we see another woman coming forward with stories we have all lived through but have never shared.”

      “You cannot rewrite history, Mr. Murdoch. The problem was not only with your chief executive,” former Fox News commentator Tamara Holder noted. “For example, one of your former executives trapped me in his office, pulled-out his penis and shoved my head on it. That’s not ‘nonsense.’ That’s criminal.”

      Murdoch’s comments were perceived as grating enough that they may prompt other women to come forward with more #MeToo stories about Fox News.

      “I’m contacting a lawyer tomorrow,” said one Fox News host. “I’m sick of this shit.”

      https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/female-fox-news-staffers-threaten-to-go-public-unless-rupert-murdoch-stops-lying-im-sick-of-this-sht/

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    2. Anonymous5:47 PM

      Women at Fox News ‘feeling terrified’ as sex harassment culture persists: media watcher

      ...“Women are terrified” that the changes instituted by the high-profile departures of Bill O’Reilly, Eric Bolling and former CEO Roger Ailes have only been “window dressing.”

      Anchor Craig Melvin played video of 21st Century Fox co-chairman Rupert Murdoch dismissing the sex harassment scandal at Fox News as “nonsense” and saying it was a political persecution because the network is conservative.

      Sherman said that “dozens of women” have come forward with stories of harassment and abuse at Fox News, and that it’s precisely this kind of dismissive attitude from Murdoch that enabled the abuse to continue unchecked for decades.

      “That blasé attitude, the ‘hear no evil, see no evil’ attitude, is this permissive culture that allowed this toxic workplace at Fox News to fester for so long,” Sherman said.

      “I’ve been hearing from women at Fox News,” Sherman said. “Not much has changed… they really feel a lot of this is window dressing.”

      O’Reilly, Bolling and Ailes may be gone — and in Ailes’ case, deceased — but many men who are known harassers are still in place.

      “I think women are feeling terrified that the company has not fully cleaned up,” Sherman said.

      Fox paid out millions of dollars to settle complaints against O’Reilly and Ailes.

      Sherman is the author of The Loudest Voice in the Room, a biography of Ailes and history of his company, Fox News. Ailes hired private detectives to surveil Sherman and orchestrated smear attempts to discredit the journalist. At one point, the so-called “brain room” at Fox News had compiled a 600-page dossier on Sherman in an attempt to intimidate him into halting his work on Loudest Voice.

      Watch the video, embedded below:

      https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/women-at-fox-news-feeling-terrified-as-sex-harassment-culture-persists-media-watcher/

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    3. Rupert Murdoch's mansion in So.Cal just burned to the ground in the recent fires.

      Karma Baby.

      Too bad he wasn't in it at the time.

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    4. Anonymous3:53 AM

      Hope the good cops got the evidence out first.

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  9. Anonymous5:34 PM

    Seems to me the two "victims" might have a lawsuit since these were their private text message accounts.
    if Nunes private accounts were leaked to the media he would be up in arms and i am sure there would be numerous derogatory comments about Obama,Hillary etc

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    1. Exactly. Was there a warrant? If so, on what grounds was it granted?

      I smell Russian hackers.

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  10. Anonymous5:36 PM

    Trump On The Verge Of Collapse As 72% Think He Did Something Wrong Or Illegal With Russia

    A new AP poll reveals why Republicans are scrambling to shut down the Russia investigations, as 72% of Americans believe that Trump did something wrong or illegal with Russia, and 63% believe that the President has obstructed the investigation.

    According to the AP/NORC poll:

    http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/15/trump-verge-collapse-72-wrong-illegal-russia.html

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    1. Then there's all those that think he should resign due to the sexual inappropriateness on so many levels uncovered by all those women, plus his own admission.

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  11. Anonymous5:37 PM

    That creep Jason Miller on CNN is just above as unattractive and unfuckable ad Blake Farenthold. Republican men are so gross.

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    1. Anonymous6:53 PM

      Some one is thinking between their legs.

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    2. Anonymous3:51 AM

      Republican men are closet gays, toe tapping riggers, whiney little men with tiny dic and smelly gonads. Never touch a Republican so called man. Their weak and pathetic like trump.

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  12. Anonymous5:38 PM

    Trump’s Lawyers To Meet With Special Counsel Mueller Next Week

    ...Trump and his lawyers keep dreaming that this investigation into the Russia scandal is going to wrap up before the end of the year, but there is zero evidence that Mueller is anywhere near wrapping up his investigation. Common sense tells you that if the investigation were anywhere near completion, Congressional Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to get Mueller fired.

    It is a safe bet that Trump’s lawyers are going to go to the meeting next week, find out the investigation isn’t ending anytime soon, which will set Trump off on a deranged pre-Christmas Twitter tantrum.

    The White House is trying to spin the investigation, but Mueller probably still has months to go yet before he issues a final report.

    The Russia scandal isn’t going away soon, which is why the White House is running a smear campaign to discredit Special Counsel Mueller.

    http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/15/happy-holidays-donald-trumps-lawyers-meet-special-counsel-mueller-week.html

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    1. Anonymous6:48 PM

      This is so they can go back to trump and tell him not to worry,it will all be over by Kwanza.

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  13. Anonymous5:38 PM

    Watch A Republican Congressman Go Bat Sh*t Crazy While Calling For The Firing Of Robert Mueller

    http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/15/watch-republican-congressman-bat-sht-crazy-calling-firing-robert-mueller.html

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  14. Anonymous5:39 PM

    I was reading an article that statef trump has been overtly pressuring members of the senate to shut down the Russian investigation, but hasn't done the same in the house.
    The author thought it might be because the house (Nunes in particular) is already on board, after reading this article maybe the it is true.

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  15. Anonymous5:42 PM

    Nicolle Wallace on Friday was unimpressed with Fox News’ and Sean Hannity’s hysterical reaction to reports that an FBI agent who was assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation expressed anti-Trump opinions via text.

    Hannity and his guests on Thursday all agreed with the president’s assessment that the FBI is “in tatters,” arguing the non-scandal is “bigger” and “more pervasive” than Watergate.

    Wallace played a clip of Hannity sounding the alarm on Mueller’s investigation and his fellow panelists agreeing that Peter Strzok, a single FBI agent, expressing a political opinion means the entire organization is on the verge of collapse.

    “Crazier than my dog after her stroke?” Wallace asked.

    “I was talking about the notion of useful idiots,” journalist John Heilemann. “Just watch that piece of tape again and think useless idiots. Worse than useless. Worse than useless.”

    “I totally disagree with you because Sean Hannity, you know, like in the Tour de France, the bikers in the front and the guys behind them ride in their wind or whatever that’s called? … Whatever that is. I can’t even ride a bike. I don’t know why I said that. Hannity is the tip of the sphere in this smear campaign against the institutions,” Wallace replied.

    Watch below:

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/nicolle-wallace-piles-on-fox-news-and-sean-hannitys-fbi-hysteria-crazier-than-my-dog-after-her-stroke/

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  16. Anonymous5:43 PM

    Words like ‘fetus, transgender, science-based’ and others have been barred from Trump’s Center for Disease Control

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/words-like-fetus-transgender-science-based-and-others-have-been-barred-from-trumps-center-for-disease-control/

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    1. So what do they call a fetus?

      Embryo+

      EmbryoGrande?

      Babywannabee?

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    2. Anonymous3:13 AM

      11:18; it's simple! It's a "pweshus baybbbeeeee" from conception to birth, then it's a "taker" and a "parasite" once the cord is cut.

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    3. Anonymous8:48 AM

      Man 313 your one messed up human being.

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    4. Anonymous9:20 AM

      MAN 8:48 you got that a$$backwards.

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    5. 3:13. Actually, that is pretty damned accurate.

      Except you are only a taker and parasite if you are poor. Then you're lazy, a terrorist, whatever.

      If you're rich it's a whole other thing. in fact, wealth has overtaken race and even gender with the rabid right. They'll embrace you as non-white, a woman, even to some extent a Jew or Muslim as long as you have a LOT of money. And I do mean a LOT.

      But poor whites are worthless pieces of lazy-ass trash, sucking on the government teat, takers, parasites, etc. as all the "rest of the poor."

      It's all about the money now. Money, power, control.

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  17. Anonymous5:49 PM

    Putin’s allies pump millions into GOP campaigns through proxies — thanks to Citizens United

    ...According to an analysis of public campaign finance reports, a group of Russian-linked political donors with ties to Vladimir Putin funnel money to Donald Trump and the GOP through legal campaign contributions that have, thus far, faced little-to-no scrutiny by the federal government.

    That could be changing. In September, it was reported that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating three donors with ties to Russia who contributed a combined total of $2 million to funds controlled by Trump. All three of the men have financial and business ties to Russian oligarchs who are intricately linked with Putin.

    As the Dallas News explains, one of those men is Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard Blavatnik, who holds dual American and British citizenship. Blavatnik at one time offered political donations on a bipartisan basis, giving small contributions to both parties from 2009 to 2014.

    From 2015 to 2016, Blavatnik stopped donating to both political parties, and instead contributed $6.35 million to GOP political action committees. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Blavatnik and two other Russian-linked donors began pumping donations to the Republican National Committee “just as Trump was on the verge of securing the Republican nomination.”

    Since April 2016, Blavatnik has donated $383,000 to the RNC, with $12,700 going to the RNC legal fund. That account paid Trump’s legal bills in the Russia investigation until November. Blavatnik also donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund, ABC reports.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/putins-russian-allies-pump-millions-into-gop-campaigns-through-proxies-thanks-to-citizens-united/

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    1. Anonymous8:17 PM

      Century tradition.

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  18. Anonymous5:53 PM

    Carter Page says he’s treated worse than #MeToo victims in bizarre letter to Dianne Feinstein

    In a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a ranking member of the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence, former Trump campaign aide Carter Page made a bizarre reference to women who’ve come forward with allegations of sexual assault.

    In a screenshot of the letter tweeted by Politico’s Kyle Cheney, Page wrote that he believes “that if you surveyed Sen. [Al] Franken’s (D-MN) harassment victims, a vast majority of them would most likely prefer being briefly groped rather than suffer the severe invasion of privacy and other historic abuses that I’ve continued to undergo based on the groundless Witch Hunt.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/carter-page-says-hes-treated-worse-than-metoo-victims-in-bizarre-letter-to-dianne-feinstein/

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  19. Anonymous5:56 PM

    Anderson Cooper: Looks Like Nothing Can Break Trump’s ‘Feedback Loop of Fox News Talking Points’

    ...“The President can watch whatever TV programs he wants, but he probably should also be getting intelligence briefings about Russia’s interference in the election, or perhaps holding a cabinet meeting or two about that interference. And the recent reports in the Washington Post says that doesn’t happen, because if someone tries to talk about that particular attack on American democracy, it upsets the President and takes the briefing off the rails. So just think about that for a moment. The daily briefings are structured to avoid upsetting a President who deems anything he doesn’t like fake news and anything Russia-related an effort to delegitimize him. Nothing, it seems, can break his feedback loop of Fox News talking points.”

    https://www.mediaite.com/tv/anderson-cooper-looks-like-nothing-can-break-trumps-feedback-loop-of-fox-news-talking-points/

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    1. Anonymous6:36 PM

      So who in the hell is running the country if baby bumpkins can only handle playing golf?

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    2. Anonymous6:57 PM

      Bill Gates doesn't run Microsoft, ten thousand engineers do. Same concept. Donald Trump doesn't run the Country, millions of hired do Get it now? ;)

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    3. Anonymous7:37 PM

      Of course i get it,it was a rhetorical question
      Get it now :)

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    4. Anonymous7:59 PM

      He still signs off on shit, 6:57 PM 7:37 PM!

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  20. Anonymous6:33 PM

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/corkers-last-minute-yes-on-gop-tax-bill-could-be-related-to-addition-benefitting-his-businesses-report/

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    1. Anonymous6:56 PM

      I read a summary of the tax scam,quick read since there is nothing for the little people.
      They gave in a few points like they are doing us a favor and are allowing deductions for medical and student loans,otherwise it would be too obvious the only ones that benefit are corporations and the 1%.

      Hope those trump supporters don't spend their tax break all at one time.

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    2. Anonymous7:36 PM

      As I've said from the start, the trumpeteers won't get it until it hits them squarely in the wallet, and BOY is it going to, and they'll STILL blame it on President Obama.

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    3. Anonymous10:31 PM

      The surest sign yet that Donald Trump and Mike Pence are going down

      http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/survive-pence-trump/6686/

      The three crucial Trump-Russia stories you missed this week

      http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/three-trump-russia-stories/6687/

      Kushner’s legal team looks to hire crisis public relations firm amid Russia probe

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kushners-legal-team-looks-to-hire-crisis-public-relations-firm/2017/12/15/6fbf144c-e1c3-11e7-9eb6-e3c7ecfb4638_story.html

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  21. Anonymous6:49 PM

    Did anyone notice that Trump hosted the NRA yesterday which also happened to be the anniversary of Sandy Hook? What a piece of shit!

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    1. Anonymous3:42 AM

      It is just proof how evil this group of greedy soulless boars are. Too bad that was not made public for all to witness.

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  22. Anonymous7:17 PM

    Concerning Fox News above, should I really care that women are scared to come forward? They knew what that network was when they took the job and, quite frankly, for the lies that they peddle, I couldn’t give a shit. Have at me.

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    1. Anonymous7:29 PM

      Laura Ingahram: There went Christmas parties!

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    2. Anonymous7:54 PM

      Rupert Murdock backlashing. Guess who HE'S married to? Jerry Hall. Now THERE is a gold digger; I guess Mick Jagger wasn't enough?

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    3. Anonymous3:15 AM

      @7:29; IKR? As if a party where people had fun, talked to each other, ate good food and maybe danced is just unimaginable to conservatives! To them it's not a party if people aren't being abused and harassed.

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    4. Anonymous3:38 AM

      Yes agreed fox skanks are stuck. They signed up for it. And now cry wolf? They sat their lying their ugly flat ass off to the world, giggling and lying for criminals.

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    5. Anonymous3:40 AM

      So did jerry hall give trump permission to play "you cant always get what you want" at his campaign stunts? It was the only song played. That should be addressed with old jerry.

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  23. Anonymous7:40 PM

    If Republicans shut the investigation down, a majority of people will think Trump is guilty. The blow back in Republicans will be epic

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    1. Anonymous8:07 PM

      A majority used to matter. Not any more!
      2016 and the past year taught us that. It's also exactly what they want us to think...."bend over and take it."

      We DO have a choice. 2018 get them OUT as many as we can.

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    2. They'll lose even more in 2018. Beyond their fucking Tax Scam. Beyond the taint of Roy Moore et. al. including Donald Judas Trump.

      It will just be one more cruel notch and the voters WILL remember. They'll even lose some of their Deplorable red meat.

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  24. Anonymous8:36 PM

    Trump cant handle truth. He is a pathetic liar.

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  25. Anonymous8:40 PM

    Fox needs to be cut off. Sanctioned. forced out

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    1. Who's going to do that? FCC? Pai?

      You couldn't get enough of the public to force the sponsors to pull all of their advertising from Fox News to impact the bottom line enough to shut it down. Even without any sponsors you'd have assholes like the Koch Brothers writing checks to keep them afloat. They'd wait out the storm until the sponsors thought the public had forgotten and the rage died down and then it would be business as usual.

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    2. Anonymous3:33 AM

      Make a list of their advertisers and boycott them. File tons of complaints. Cut the microphone, airwaves, and ads off. Protest.

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  26. Anonymous8:45 PM

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/donald-trump-jr-likes-mike-cernovich-tweet-claiming-isnt-a-crime/

    "“about half of all child molesters are not sexually attracted to their victims.” Kaplan is obviously correct, pedophilia is the disorder while child molestation is the crime."

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  27. Private texts not using official FBI account?

    How did Nunez even KNOW about these?

    In other words, who is hacking FBI employees looking for dirt?

    I think if they dig deep enough they’re going to find the same th entity behind this is the same one being investigated by Mueller as interferring with our elections.

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  28. Anonymous10:08 PM

    Thank you IM. This is the only place I can vent. But now all I want to do is cry.

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    1. Anonymous4:25 AM

      There are plenty of places to vent. Your tears will turn to joy soon.

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  29. Anonymous10:41 PM

    Doug Jones would have won by tens of thousands more if participation hadn’t been blocked and undermined

    Doug Jones was elected to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday by a mere 21,000 votes. That margin would have been much larger if Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, a strident partisan Republican, would have taken steps to inform his state’s voters than thousands of ex-felons were eligible to vote under a 2017 state law. But Merrill didn’t do that, as an extraordinary Twitter thread by Danielle Lang explains. Lang is an attorney with the Campaign Legal Center, a bipartisan-led Washington-based voting rights law firm that has fought for expanded rights for years, especially across southern states. Her remarkable thread is below.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/doug-jones-would-have-won-by-tens-of-thousands-more-votes-if-participation-hadnt-been-blocked-and-undermined/

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    1. https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/voter-suppression-allegations-mar-alabama-election/

      "Brittany Bevelle, a web designer and illustrator, started tweeting this morning about being marked “inactive” at her local polling location. “Folks who have lived here longer than I've been alive....inactive,” Bevelle wrote on Twitter. Her thread got people’s attention, and has already been retweeted thousands of times.

      Although Bevelle, who is black, was able to vote by bringing her birth certificate to the polling location, others may not be so fortunate, according to rights groups. The ACLU of Alabama and the NAACP of Alabama told Newsweek specifically that black residents in the state have encountered complications while attempting to vote—news that could disproportionately damage Jones, the Democrat."

      "Seung-Bickley said people who are marked inactive are in some cases being given provisional ballots—which leaves open the possibility of their votes being dismissed if further steps are not completed—rather than general ballots that can be counted then and there. What should be happening, the ACLU representative explained, is that anyone marked inactive need only fill out a form to vote normally, with a general ballot."

      "The NAACP has received reports of two voting machines not working in predominantly black districts, Simelton said. At his own polling place, in a neighborhood he described as being mostly white, he encountered three people who were asked to use provisional ballots. “All three were black,” Simelton said.

      Other irregularities have been reported. Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights organization, wrote on Twitter that people in Jefferson County, an area of the state with a robust black population, had received text messages falsely claiming that polling sites were changed. "

      https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alabama-special-election-voter-confusion_us_5a3067b6e4b01bdd765848b5?section=us_politics

      "The hotline heard from would-be voters who found they had been marked as “inactive,” a status that doesn’t legally prevent someone in Alabama from casting a ballot as long as they update their voter information at the polls. "

      Which necessitated going home for a passport or other valid I.D. Since Alabama passed their voting laws it is harder for blacks to vote since many don't drive or hold the accepted I.D.

      "Voters were also confused about “straight ticket” voting, an option that lets people choose all the candidates from a single party by simply checking one box. According to Clarke, voters wanted to know what would happen if they checked the box for one party, but then also wanted to vote for another party’s candidate in one race. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) issued a statement Tuesday clarifying that voters could choose the “party preference” option at the top of the ballot, but still select a specific candidate in a particular race and the latter vote would count." (I'm betting he's a liar and that would invalidate the ballot.)

      Then there's the old eliminating polling stations in predominantly minority communities. Cutting back hours for all sorts of thing from getting the I.D.s to casting your vote. Typical Republican crap.

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  30. Anonymous4:24 AM

    Next week should bring trump to his bony knees, and the earth shake him to his senses, and the sea scrub his soul. America will be great again as soon as the cancer is removed.

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  31. Anonymous5:51 AM

    IF a dude did not legally win an election then all crimes committed before and after would be prosecuted as any common criminal. Trump holds no legal presidential immunity if proven he was never elected legally. And he cannot ever be considered for benefits of any kind. Restitution to America must be paid back. This has cost Americans and those involved will pay.

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    1. But all his Deplorable judges will still be on the bench for life.

      Net Neutrality will still be dead.

      The Tax Scam will still be law. (Pence will sign it again if necessary.)

      The only thing that might go away are all of his Imperial Proclamations, I mean Executive Orders. Those might be nullified.

      All of his cabinet appointments and such, well, that might go to court if they really want to stay. Or Pence will just say 'everyone stays' and that's it.

      Until they impeach Pence.

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  32. Anonymous7:53 AM

    I'd like to know how these text messages were uncovered. Were the texts done on FBI phones? If not and these were private texts between 2 people, how did they come into possession of investigators?

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    1. Anonymous8:56 AM

      Nothing is private anymore.
      Could have been those hackers that "left" hacking machines? in Alaska?
      Doesn't pass the smell test. Who was "Snooping"?

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  33. Anonymous12:48 PM

    The liddle riggers are still hacking and attacking innocent people with the aid of rogue employees. All the genies, googles, apples are spies to know how to market you, track you, and monitor you. It is all very dangerous and Americans must demand regulations and laws for protection.

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