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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1099945)	11/15/2018 3:14:28 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By sylvester80 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579842

You're a baldfaced liar. A liar who btw defends every stupid and criminal act by Trump the Vile. For example, you know Trump has been charged by Ivana, his first wife, of rape and assault. She swore out a deposition on him. She later dropped it because he paid her a lot of money. Just as he paid off Stormy Daniels and a g/f. You defend a man you didn't even vote for. Guess you regret that now, huh?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1099945)	11/15/2018 3:24:23 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1579842

Whitaker’s Firm Sold Bizarre Items, Like Cryptocurrency For ‘Time Travelers' Screengrab/Foundation for Accountability & Civic Trust/YouTube by JakeThomas World Patent Marketing promoted some odd items, including cryptocurrency for 'time travelers' and a specialty toilet. World Patent Marketing, the firm that counted Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker as one of its advisory board members, marketed several noteworthy — if not questionable — items, including cryptocurrency for “time travelers” and special toilet for the “well-endowed”, according to Mother Jones. In November 2014, a Miami Beach-based firm, World Patent Marketing, announced the “marketing launch” of a “MASCULINE TOILET,” which boasted a specially designed bowl to help “well-endowed men” avoid unwanted contact with porcelain or water. “The average male genitalia is between 5? and 6?,” the firm’s press release said. “However, this invention is designed for those of us who measure longer than that.” In the same release, World Patent Marketing also touted the recent appointment of “Matthew G. Whitaker, former Iowa US Attorney and Republican candidate for United States Senate to the company’s advisory board.” … The special toilet was not the firm’s only notable offering. It marketed a slew of oddball inventions, including a “theoretical time travel commodity tied directly to price of Bitcoin.” Called Time Travel X and marketed as “a technology, an investment vehicle and a community of users,” the cryptocurrency never materialized. The firm also pitched Sasquatch dolls, promoting them with a video claiming that “DNA evidence collected in 2013 proves that Bigfoot does exist.” World Patent Marketing was shuttered last year by a federal judge and fined $26 million by the Federal Trade Commission after it was discovered to have “bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars”, charging plenty of fees and offering essentially nothing in return, Mother Jones reported. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the company is under criminal investigation by the FBI as well. The company’s advisory board, which included a former presidential candidate in the Central Africa Republic and an Israeli-born mixed martial artist, gave it a patina of legitimacy. And between 2014 and 2016, as World Patent Marketing was hawking an array of dubious products and allegedly fleecing aspiring inventors, the company paid Whitaker at least $9,375. Whitaker was no passive board member. He defended the firm against critics, solicited new business, appeared in at least one promotional video for the company, and he seems to have acted at times as outside counsel for the firm. Unlike other advisory board members, he has not returned the payments he received from World Patent Marketing. mavenroundtable.io

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1099945)	11/15/2018 3:26:01 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579842

In Florida, An Overwhelmingly Republican County Allowed Voters To Vote By Email Screengrab/TC Palm/YouTube by JakeThomas About 150 people in Bay County, Florida were permitted to vote via email, in violation of the state's election law. Broward County, Florida elections supervisor Brenda Snipes is currently the subject of much Republican rage, as the accusations continue to fly over her handling of the midterm elections, and the specter of rampant voter fraud has been raised. So far, no evidence has been discovered showing that Snipes broke the law, even if she made mistakes along the way. But in another Florida county — one that does not lean Democrat — the elections supervisor admitted to breaking state election law. From The Week: In heavily Republican Bay County, however, election supervisor Mark Andersen acknowledged Monday that he had allowed some voters to cast their ballots over email, which is not allowed under state law. Bay County was hit hard by Hurricane Michael on Oct. 10, and Scott issued an executive order on Oct. 18 extending early voting and expanding more voting locations in the eight affected counties. His order, The Associated Press reports, explicitly prohibited votes being returned by email or fax. Andersen defended his decision to let 150 people scan their ballots and email them in, telling NBC affiliate WJHG/WECP, "If you want to turn around and take away these votes away from voters because it's not the normal prescribed issue, I would just say you ought to be ashamed of yourself because what we did is take care of voters." Democrat Andrew Gillum, whose race against Republican Ron DeSantis is being recounted, was not moved. "These are the stories that we know," he said Monday evening. "Imagine the ones that we don't." Democrats have filed their own lawsuits, including one by Sen. Bill Nelson (D) seeking to force the counting of mail-in ballots postmarked before Election Day but not delivered in time. mavenroundtable.io