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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1229114)5/12/2020 3:40:35 PM
From: RetiredNow3 Recommendations

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Mick Mørmøny
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The only totalitarians around here are the Democrats, who tried to meddle in the 2016 election by getting dirty FBI agents to engage in espionage against a Presidential Candidate, and then followed that up with a coup attempt when he got elected. Then COVID has given both parties plenty of air time and visibility in how they handle the response. Democrats, true to form, have engaged in massive totalitarian overreach, including arresting people for trying to work, beating them up, administering draconian executive orders, banning people from beaches, and other un-Constitutional actions. Republicans have been far more freedom loving, advising people to stay at home, also giving executive orders, but then backing away from those when others down the command chain engaged in overreach. An example of this is the salon owner in Texas getting arrested for opening her salon and the judge throwing her in jail and demanding that she make a groveling apology, which she refused to do. Then the Texas governor amended his executive order to set her free, saying that no one should go to jail for trying to feed their families.

Republicans have acted for the most part with restraint and their states are looking pretty good compared to Democrat states. The worst epicenters have been Democrat Governors. Why is that?



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1229114)5/12/2020 3:42:15 PM
From: RetiredNow1 Recommendation

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I think we're going to see the totalitarian Democrats and dirty cops and the chain of command all the way to Obama get in some real trouble for the multiple crimes they committed. You guys are about to pay the piper for the lunacy of the last 3 years.

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Durham Supercharges Investigation With Elite Prosecutors To Review 'Witch Hunt'

John Durham has supercharged his review into the origins of the Russiagate hoax orchestrated by the Obama administration during and after the 2016 US election - adding additional top prosecutors to explore different components of the original probe, according to Fox News.



Durham, the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut tasked with by Attorney General Bill Barr with investigating the actions taken against the Trump team, has tapped Jeff Jensen - U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri who had been investigating the Michael Flynn case. Also added to the team is interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Timothy Shea, according to Fox's sources.

"They farmed the investigation out because it is too much for Durham and he didn’t want to be distracted," said one source, adding "He’s going full throttle, and they’re looking at everything."

Word of Durham's beefed-up team comes amid worsening tensions between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats, who have been making the case that the Justice Department's reviews have become politicized given the decision last week to drop the Flynn case - a move which House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) called "outrageous."

"The evidence against General Flynn is overwhelming," said Nadler - who probably wasn't referring to handwritten notes by one of the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn which exposed their perjury trap. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his perfectly legal communications with a Russian ambassador - a plea he made while under severe financial strain due to legal expenses, and to save his son from the FBI 'witch hunt.' Flynn would later withdraw his plea as evidence mounted that he was set up.

  • The DOJ determined that the bureau's 2017 Flynn interview -- which formed the basis for his guilty plea of lying to investigators -- was "conducted without any legitimate investigative basis." Breadcrumbs were being dropped in the days preceding the decision that his case could be reconsidered. Documents unsealed the prior week by the Justice Department revealed agents discussed their motivations for interviewing him in the Russia probe – questioning whether they wanted to "get him to lie" so he'd be fired or prosecuted, or get him to admit wrongdoing. Flynn allies howled over the revelations, arguing that he essentially had been set up in a perjury trap. In that interview, Flynn did not admit wrongdoing and instead was accused of lying about his contacts with the then-Russian ambassador – to which he pleaded guilty. - Fox News


Jensen, the U.S. attorney now working with Durham, was reportedly the one who recommended dropping the Flynn case to Barr.

Barr speaks

When asked whether he thought the FBI conspired against Flynn, Barr told CBS News on Thursday "I think, you know, that's a question that really has to wait [for] an analysis of all the different episodes that occurred through the summer of 2016 and the first several months of President Trump's administration," adding that Durham is "still looking at all of this."

"This is one particular episode, but we view it as part of a number of related acts ... and we’re looking at the whole pattern of conduct," Barr added, saying that they're investigating actions taken before "and after ... the election."



And according to Fox's source, Durham is investigating a "pattern of conduct" which includes lying to the FISA court to obtain warrants to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

President Trump has long-referred to the investigation as a "witch hunt" - which Barr and Durham are now untangling.

"Barr talks to Durham every day," a source recently told Fox News. "The president has been briefed that the case is being pursued, and it’s serious."

  • President Trump on Friday offered a vague, but ominous, warning as the Durham probe proceeds. "It was a very dangerous situation what they did," Trump said during an interview with “Fox & Friends” Friday. "These are dirty politicians and dirty cops and some horrible people and hopefully they're going to pay a big price in the not too distant future.Trump was specifically reacting to newly released transcripts of interviews from the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation that revealed top Obama officials acknowledged they knew of no “empirical evidence” of a conspiracy despite their concerns and suspicions. - Fox News


Durham's probe is expected to wrap up by the end of the summer. Right as Trump is expected to face off against Joe Biden - who was VP while most of this was going on.