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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1190297)	1/3/2020 9:45:36 PM
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Russian Pranksters: Maxine Waters Fell for Call from ‘Greta Thunberg’ Offering a Taped Trump Confession Chip Somodevilla/Getty, Pontus Lundahl/TT News/AFP/Getty KRISTINA WONG3 Jan 20200 3:22 The Russian pranksters famous for tricking House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) into seeking nude pictures of President Donald Trump are claiming that they just got Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) — for a second time. YouTubers Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, who go by the names Vovan and Lexus, recently called Waters’s office and, with the help of a female colleague, pretended to be teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, TIME‘s “Person of the Year” for 2019, and her father, claiming to have a taped confession from Trump admitting to the exact charges in House Democrats’ articles of impeachment which passed in late December. A woman who identifies herself as Congresswoman Waters tells “Greta”: “Of course, I know all about you. You have made quite a big, big, big thunder on this issue. I am really, really very proud of you and the work that you’re doing.” The prank callers trick Waters into making a statement in defense of the environment of an imaginary island named “Chunga Changa.” The call gets more farcical when “Greta” tells Waters that she met Trump at the United Nations, where he privately insulted her and confessed to threatening Ukraine’s president. “He came over, he leaned towards me, and said softly, ‘Listen to me very carefully, little girl, you will never achieve your goals,'” “Greta” says. “He said you will never achieve your goals? Oh my goodness!” Waters exclaims, stunned. “Greta” then says that she cried. “Oh my God did you cry?” Waters exclaims. “Greta’s father” then claims to Waters that Trump told her that he did pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals: “He said to her, ‘You know, little girl, nobody believe you anyway, I will tell you the truth. I really pushed on Ukrainian president and you know that you will never achieve your goals like those congressional fools that accuse me.” “Oh my God, he mentioned the Ukrainian president?” Waters exclaims. Waters then presses them on what else Trump said. They told her that they got the conversation recorded and have evidence. Waters then asked if they would be in Washington, DC, anytime soon and if they could meet with her. “Greta’s” father then offers for the young girl to testify if Waters needs it. Waters responds, “Oh yes, I am absolutely still working — we are working very hard, we’re putting together the facts, and we’re going after him. We are going to try everything that we have to impeach him.” “And if the public knew that he talked to Greta like that, he made her cry, and told her she would never achieve — this will go against him, too,” she adds. “You bring it to me,” Waters says of the recording they claimed to have. “You tell me what day you can get there. And we’ll arrange to meet with you as quickly as we can.” This is the second time the pranksters have purportedly tricked Waters. In February 2017, Vovan and Lexus posted a video where Vovan posed as the Prime Minister of Ukraine and discussed Russian sanctions with a woman who they identify as Waters. Waters’ office has not replied to a request for comment. Follow Breitbart News’ Kristina Wong on Twitter or on Facebook. 2020 Election Entertainment Politics Greta Thunberg Maxine Waters

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1190297)	1/3/2020 9:51:14 PM
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Trump didn't do shit... POTUS cannot take credit for the United States Military Special Forces... Would assume the Pentagon is involved.... Cassandra

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1190297)	1/3/2020 9:57:05 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo Winfastorlose Respond to of 1575725

The death of Muhandis is a tremendous blow to Iranian influence in Iraq. Since Hashd exercised influence throughout the region, his death will be felt from Damascus to Beirut to Tehran. Muhandis was seen as something of a hero by many Shias in Iraq. But the fact is, he was a murderous, hateful fanatic who was an enemy of the United States and a threat to American interests and personnel. Meet the Other Major Terrorist Killed in Soleimani Drone Strike By Rick Moran 2020-01-03T12:46:05 pjmedia.com Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Qasem Soleimani wasn't the only major-league terrorist killed in the drone strike ordered by Donald Trump. Also killed was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a top Iraqi paramilitary leader whose long, bloody career includes attacks on American and other Western embassies, as well as being a founder of Kata'ib Hezbollah, a group responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq. In 2009, the U.S. sanctioned both al-Muhandis and Kata'ib Hezbollah as terrorist entities. In some ways, killing al-Muhandis was more significant than the death of Soleimani. He's been an active terrorist against the U.S. since the occupation of Iraq and helped create the umbrella Shia militia group Hashd al-Shaabi. Hashd was originally founded to fight ISIS in Iraq, but has morphed into a shadow organization exercising political and military control of Iraq on behalf of Iran. Al-Jazeera: "Muhandis was demonstrative of how Iran built its network of proxies in Iraq," said Phillip Smyth, a US-based researcher focused on Shia armed groups, as cited by AFP news agency. "He has history with basically every major network Iran had in Iraq. You would not have found a stronger ideal" of Iran's influence in the country, he said. Muhandis was sentenced to death in Kuwait for involvement in the 1983 bomb attacks on the U.S. and French embassies. "Muhandis worked assiduously to develop the Hashd into an organisation that was neither subject to full prime ministerial command nor subordinate to the conventional security forces," said Knights, as cited by AFP news agency. Although he worked under Faleh al-Fayyadh, also Iraq's national security adviser, al-Muhandis was widely recognised as the Hashd's "real" leader, observers said. He had both the utmost loyalty of its forces on the ground and control over its financial resources. That made him "the central nervous system" of the IRGC's Quds Force in Iraq, Knights wrote last year. The Popular Mobilization Force (PMF) is ostensibly part of the Iraqi security services. But Muhandis ran it as his own little fiefdom, defying the Iraqi government on occasion in order to do the bidding of his masters in Tehran. Today the PMF and allied militias control large parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria, where they are allied with President Bashar Assad and the Lebanese Hezbollah. Israel and the U.S. view the groups as part of an aggressive Iranian campaign to dominate the region. Over the summer, PMF groups blamed Israel for mysterious drone attacks that targeted their positions in Iraq. The strikes eventually lead to the restructuring of the PMF to integrate them into the Iraqi military. The restructuring was approved by Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi. The death of Muhandis is a tremendous blow to Iranian influence in Iraq. Since Hashd exercised influence throughout the region, his death will be felt from Damascus to Beirut to Tehran. Muhandis was seen as something of a hero by many Shias in Iraq. But the fact is, he was a murderous, hateful fanatic who was an enemy of the United States and a threat to American interests and personnel. pjmedia.com

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1190297)	1/4/2020 10:00:13 AM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By majaman1978 Respond to of 1575725

The Iranians made a very large miscalculation with Trump. He's unpredictable and he's tough as nails, just like Reagan was. I'm old enough to remember Reagan and how the bad actors in the world shrank away from confrontation with him. I think the bad actors are starting to understand that Trump is a reluctant warrior, but when he's pushed to fight, he'll fight harder than anyone else....and he'll win. The Democrats have already found that out, much to their chagrin. Meanwhile, a lot of our allies and the Democrats are succoring and apologizing our enemies, instead of standing with the US. ------- Times Of London Names Iranian General To List Of "2020 Rising Stars" Day Before Assassination How's this for bad timing? In a list consisting mostly of foreign dignitaries that are known to only a handful of people in the UK, US and the rest of the English-speaking world, the Times of London named now-deceased Iranian General Qassem Suleimani to its list of "Twenty faces to look out for in 2020." The list, published on the Times' website early Thursday morning, just hours before Suleimani was killed during a drone strike in Baghdad, also included Princess Leonor of Spain, Nigerian Afrobeat star David Adedeji (better known by his stage name Davido) and Italian politician Giorgia Meloni. But the highlight (at least, in hindsight) will likely be Suleimani, who is included as the list's final entry. In the description, Times' writer Richard Spencer claims that 2020 could be the year that the long-serving general finally "cement[s] his reputation as the Machiavelli of the Middle East - or prove that even the smartest operators can suffer hubris". Moving on, Spencer writes that the Iranian general was already well-known to intelligence agencies as "the guiding force of Iran's cross-border operations." Offering a massive dose of irony, the Times noted how Suleimani's movements are "well-signalled" due to his status as a celebrity general, who "even poses for selfies" with militia leaders across the region. Spencer noted that Suleiman had succeeded in making Iran's long-held dream of a "land corridor from Tehran to the Mediterranean" a reality (such a stretch is apparently controlled by Iran-backed militias, from Iraq, to Lebanon, and everywhere in between (Syria). Finally, it was noted that Suleimani's popularity had taken a dive in the months and years before his death, evidenced by the protests in Iraq and Lebanon over Iran's growing influence. The piece concluded by claiming that "if General Soleimani can hold the line, he will have shown he deserves the trust of Iran's Supreme Leader." Since his death, the general has been cited by pundits as a potential successor to the Ayatollah.Interested parties can read the entire entry below: This will be the year in which a slight, grey-haired general will cement his reputation as the Machiavelli of the Middle East — or prove that even the smartest operators can suffer hubris (Richard Spencer writes). A decade ago, Qassem Soleimani was already known to intelligence agencies as the guiding force of Iran’s cross-border operations. He was the link man to Hezbollah in Lebanon and it was he who masterminded the strategy whereby a “resistance” movement based on Shia militias bombed and shot British and American troops out of Iraq. Now his movements are well-signalled. As head of the al-Quds Force, the overseas arm of the Revolutionary Guard, he backs militia leaders across the Levant and Yemen, and even poses for selfies with them. Deftly reacting to the Syrian war, American uncertainty and the conflict against Isis, he has established Iran’s long-held dream of a land corridor from Tehran to the Mediterranean, controlled by loyal militias. But he is experiencing resistance. Popular protests in Lebanon and Iraq may not have been hostile to Iran when they began but, seeing them as a threat, Major-General Soleimani has taken action. He has been to Baghdad at least twice, summoned militia leaders and pro-Iran politicians, and ordered them to stand firm. In Lebanon, where Iran’s ally Hezbollah has tried to market itself as a nationalist force, he has been more subtle. A recent opinion poll, though, suggested that Hezbollah had lost support rapidly from the Christian and Sunni communities, even as more of Iraq’s Shia population turn against Iran. If General Soleimani can hold the line, he will have shown he deserves the trust of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The general's inclusion on the list is just another reason to doubt claims that the assassination was planned to distract from Trump's upcoming trial or the release of unflattering government documents