The Manhattan district attorney’s office has informed Donald Trump’s lawyers that it is considering criminal charges against his family business, the Trump Organization, in connection with fringe benefits the company awarded a top executive, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
If the case moves ahead, the district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., could announce charges against the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, as soon as next week, the people said.
Prosecutors are looking into whether those benefits were properly recorded in the company’s ledgers and whether taxes were paid on them, The New York Times has reported.
It would be highly unusual to indict a company just for failing to pay taxes on fringe benefits, said several lawyers who specialize in tax rules. None of them could cite any recent example, noting that many companies provide their employees with perks like company cars.
So was this the charges that Vance was really looking for when he started this fishing exhibition against the Trump organization? Obviously not. But it would also appear fairly obvious that the charges against Weisselberg is supposed to put pressure on him to "give up the goods" on the other unknown nefarious actions that have supposedly been committed by Trump.
This is not unlike what we saw from the Mueller investigation. Go after people "around" Trump, hoping that someone would step forward with the big reveal in order to avoid personal prosecution. But as Mueller found out, nobody gave up anything, most likely because there wasn't anything really to give up.
More to the point, Mueller also charged a bunch of people with breaking laws that almost nobody had ever been charged with previously. You'd think if Trump was such a criminal that finding evidence of such would be a much simpler task and not involve having to push the scope and charge people with charges that normally have not been charged.
Unfortunately, in their quest to get the Donald, many people around him have been unfairly prosecuted with charges that others never face.
As I have stated repeatedly. An investigation into the Trump organization would unlikely find itself back to Trump himself, as he has been largely a figurehead and had literally nothing to do with the business during his four years as President. These charges will go against those who run the company, and to that degree, Vance and his team will be in a real fight when the time comes to go to trial.
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This is not unlike what we saw from the Mueller investigation.
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But it looks like a domestic problem with tax evasion and inflated valuations.
He has a record of claiming his property building.
Tax evasion is probably going to take place.
Plus it's not a federal investigation. So Russia Russia Russia Russia is irrelevant.
The original story
The New York Times article.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has informed Donald J. Trump’s lawyers that it is considering criminal charges against his family business, the Trump Organization, in connection with fringe benefits the company awarded a top executive, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
The prosecutors had been building a case for months against the executive, Allen H. Weisselberg, as part of an effort to pressure him to cooperate with a broader inquiry into Mr. Trump’s business dealings. But it was not previously known that the Trump Organization also might face charges.
If the case moves ahead, the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., could announce charges as soon as next week, the people said. Mr. Vance’s prosecutors have been conducting the investigation along with lawyers from the office of the New York State attorney general, Letitia James.
Any indictment would be the first to emerge from the long-running investigation and would raise the startling prospect of a former president having to defend the company he founded, and has run for decades, against accusations of criminal behavior.
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Prosecutors recently have focused much of their investigation into the perks Mr. Trump and the company doled out to Mr. Weisselberg and other executives, including tens of thousands of dollars in private school tuition for one of Mr. Weisselberg’s grandchildren, as well as rents on apartments and car leases.
They are looking into whether those benefits were properly recorded in the company’s ledgers and whether taxes were paid on them, The New York Times has reported.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers met on Thursday with senior prosecutors in the district attorney’s office in hopes of persuading them to abandon any plan to charge the company, according to several people familiar with the meeting. Such meetings are routine in white-collar criminal investigations, and it is unclear whether the prosecutors have made a final decision on whether to charge the Trump Organization, which has long denied wrongdoing.
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If Weisselberg is the first witness or he can negotiate a deal with the prosecution, he might not be indicted for anything.
I just heard that New York tax evasion is not a crime in the state of New York..
It could cost millions more than he has.
The experienced prosecutor said that Weisselberg is the path to the former President Trump.
Buzzkill imminent? The expected criminal charges against the Trump Org will reportedly NOT include Donald Trump
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/06/25/buzzkill-imminent-the-expected-criminal-charges-against-the-trump-org-will-reportedly-not-include-donald-trump/
LOL... Fuck.
This after we've been told that this was the beginning of the end bombshell that had the walls closing in once and for all.
LOL @ the alky live asshole AKA nursing home boy.
You got your talking point from.....
Mr. Trump has derided the investigation by Mr. Vance, a Democrat, as a politically motivated “witch hunt.” He unsuccessfully tried to fight a subpoena from Mr. Vance’s office seeking eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns, a fight that twice reached the United States Supreme Court.
Companies, even private ones like the Trump Organization, are subject to criminal prosecution, and can face fines and other penalties if they are found guilty. Charges also can threaten an organization’s relationships with banks and business partners and cause lasting reputational damage.
The indictments could increase pressure to cooperate on Mr. Weisselberg, who could seek to cut a deal with prosecutors to testify against Mr. Trump in exchange for leniency.
It's not an impeachment process but will Weisselberg be the John Dean of this investigation???
Do you believe Vance was really looking for dirt on Trump when he started this fishing exhibition against the Trump organization, instead of enforcing the law?????
It would be consistent with the deep state conspiracy theory bullshit!!
I don't believe that this President is attempting to use the DOJ for his personal agenda, like Trump did.
There are many new stories about how hard he tried to even kill people. Remember when he reportedly tried to get Bill Barr to arrest Biden and Hillary Clinton?
In other news...
Cindy McCain, chief whore in this faithless family of liars, cheaters, and betrayers, has been appointed to a rinky-dink UN position. I heard she wanted the glamour of an ambassadorial post. Instead, she is paid for her betrayal with a non-glamourous clerical position: "representative to the United Nations agencies for food and agriculture."
Well, Benedict Arnold was paid cheaply, too. Nobody trusts a traitor.
Such is the fate of liars, traitors, and homewreckers. And NeverTrump.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/394442.php
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Indicting Trump Org and Weisselberg over fringe benefit tax issues would not be a strong move. Efforts to muscle W into cooperating have failed.
Trump shouldn’t celebrate given ongoing investigations and potential issues w banks.
But could be worse for him
https://twitter.com/rossgarber/status/1408496669499572224
"fringe benefit tax issues"
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!11!
The charges are against the Trump organization, not Trump yet.
But An experienced prosecutor said that Weisselberg is the path to the former President Trump .
On MSNBC today.
There are many new stories about how hard he tried to even kill people.
And those stories came riding through your nursing home room in the dark of night, carried by the Sultan of Alcoholism, riding a stampede of Pink Elephants.
But An experienced prosecutor said that Weisselberg is the path to the former President Trump .
On MSNBC today.
Oh wait.
Let me guess.
Andrew Weissman.
Traitorous piece of shit. Guys like him are why anti-semitism is rampant today. People hate him for being Jewish when they should just hate him for being human fucking garbage.
LOL. Good one alky.
Go fuck yourself
Cyrus Vance is in trouble after shielding Harvey Weinstein from prosecution. He needs a high profile win.
Off topic but I knew this would happen after he testified yesterday under oath.
For two hundred forty years, American generals have not exactly been defined by adamant public advocacy for left-wing cultural dogma. Yet there appeared to be a great awakening at the Pentagon on Wednesday when Gen. Mark Milley, the highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified at a House hearing. The Chairman vehemently defended the teaching of critical race theory at West Point and, referencing the January 6 Capitol riot, said, “it is important that we train and we understand ... and I want to understand white rage. And I'm white."
In response to conservative criticisms that top military officials should not be weighing in on inflammatory and polarizing cultural debates, liberals were ecstatic to have found such an empathetic, racially aware, and humanitarian general sitting atop the U.S. imperial war machine. Overnight, Gen. Milley became a new hero for U.S. liberalism, a noble military leader which — like former FBI Director Robert Mueller before him — no patriotic, decent American would question let alone mock. Some prominent liberal commentators warned that conservatives are now anti-military and even seek to defund the Pentagon.
He said the Insurrection was an attempted coup. Scott hasn't yet used this for a post.
He's not a Democratic traitor according to rrb.
The right wing terrorists want thousands of troops to enter the Capitol building and overthrow the government.
Roger breathe of economic knowledge is a deep a his cut n past.
Sad .
Cd.
https://youtu.be/Vne0MgZb55E
Cohen said that they have enough to indict Trump
I used information from qualified experts. Not my opinion.
The experts said that you are fucking stupid troll kputz
Today national average gasoline price
Current Avg. $3.086 ⬆️
I see it's another rainy day in California so roger has been here all day instead of the beach
or is he trying to get as white as Whitehouse ?
What's he up to now, 3 all-white clubs ?
Definitely a white supremacist.
and a ranking democrat.
Roger, you realize you made my exact point about you.
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Roger breathe of economic knowledge is a deep a his cut n past.
Sad .
Roger AmickJune 25, 2021 at 5:32 PM
I used information from qualified experts. Not my opinion."
I know , you simpleton, you don't have the breathe of knowledge.
A communist conspiracy???
US intelligence community releases long-awaited UFO report
By Katie Bo Williams, Zachary Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN
Updated 1 hour ago Jun 25, 2021
Washington (CNN) - The US intelligence community on Friday released its long-awaited report on what it knows about a series of mysterious flying objects that have been seen moving through restricted military airspace over the last several decades.
In short, the answer, according to Friday's report, is very little, but the intelligence community's release of the unclassified document marks one of the first times the US government has publicly acknowledged that these strange aerial sightings by Navy pilots and others are worthy of legitimate scrutiny.
The report examined 144 reports of what the government terms "unidentified aerial phenomenon" — only one of which investigators were able to explain by the end of the study. Investigators found no evidence that the sightings represented either extraterrestrial life or a major technological advancement by a foreign adversary like Russia or China, but acknowledge that is a possible explanation.
"We were able to identify one reported UAP with high confidence. In that case, we identified the object as a large, deflating balloon. The others remain unexplained," the report says, using the Pentagon's terminology for UFOs.
"Of the 144 reports we are dealing with here, we have no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation for them — but we will go wherever the data takes us," a senior US official said.
But investigators were also convinced that the majority of the sightings were "physical objects," the official told reporters on Friday.
"We absolutely do believe what we're seeing are not simply sensor artifacts. These are things that physically exist," the official said, noting that 80 of the reported incidents included data from multiple sensors. In 11 cases, pilots reported a "near-miss" collision with these strange objects.
Investigators stymied by 'unusual flight characteristics'
Still, the nine-page report makes clear that more work must be done to identify these objects as "the limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP."
Investigators were particularly stymied by a limited number of incidents where UFOs reportedly appeared to exhibit "unusual flight characteristics," according to the report, which notes these observations "could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis."
"Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings," it says.
But despite that challenge, the report does conclude that these objects "clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security.
"Safety concerns primarily center on aviators contending with an increasingly cluttered air domain. UAP would also represent a national security challenge if they are foreign adversary collection platforms or provide evidence a potential adversary has developed either a breakthrough or disruptive technology," it says.
Worryingly for national security professionals, the report also found that the sightings were "clustered" around US training and testing grounds. But investigators downplayed those concerns, assessing that "this may result from a collection bias as a result of focused attention, greater numbers of latest-generation sensors operating in those areas, unit expectations and guidance to report anomalies."
Still, the Pentagon said in a statement after the report's release that it plans to formalize the study of UFOs.
A memo from Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks instructed the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to create a formal mission for the work currently done by the UAP Task Force.
Hicks framed it as a question of national security, saying, "It is critical that the United States maintain operations security and safety at DoD ranges," noting that many of the observations have been near military areas.
Hicks called for reports of UAP observations to be ready within two weeks of an occurrence or observation.
Report follows years of infighting
After years of Washington infighting, including bureaucratic battles within the Pentagon and pressure from certain members of Congress, the US government finally appears to be taking seriously what has for so long been considered a fringe issue.
For lawmakers and intelligence and military personnel working on unexplained aerial phenomena, the bigger concern with the episodes is not that alien life is visiting earth, but rather that a foreign adversary like Russia or China might be fielding some kind of next-generation technology in American airspace that the United States doesn't know about.
That is one of the reasons this unclassified report will likely disappoint UFO-ologists who had hoped it might offer definitive proof the US government has made contact with extraterrestrial life.
"For years, the men and women we trust to defend our country reported encounters with unidentified aircraft that had superior capabilities, and for years their concerns were often ignored and ridiculed," Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, the Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement on Friday. "This report is an important first step in cataloging these incidents, but it is just a first step. The Defense Department and Intelligence Community have a lot of work to do before we can actually understand whether these aerial threats present a serious national security concern."
If the sightings were the result of
Chinese or Russian technology -- either some kind of unknown aircraft or a technology system that can spoof US radar and other surveillance and reconnaissance systems -- the intelligence community would not want to reveal what it does and doesn't know.
"They're very sensitive to, if this is an adversary, you want to be really careful about saying, 'we know this and we don't know that,'" said Rep. Jim Himes, a Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee who received a briefing on the matter from Navy and FBI officials last week.
"The report is going to be a little unsatisfying for that reason and that reason alone," he said.
Still, the fact that the intelligence community is producing reports on what the Pentagon has labeled UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) is itself extraordinary, as CNN has previously reported.
Even as sightings of unexplainable objects rose into the hundreds, Pentagon officials wrestled with how much time and resources to devote to investigating them.
Most of the 144 sightings covered in the report were recorded by US Navy pilots, although there were some reports from other US government sources — a clear "reporting bias" in the data set investigators examined, the US official said.
Investigators tried to categorize the 144 sightings into five categories: airborne clutter, like birds or weather balloons, natural atmospheric phenomena, US government or industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and an alluring catchall: "Other."
"There is a wide range of phenomena that we observed that we ultimately put into the UAP category," the official said. "There is not one single explanation of UAP."
But in the 143 unexplained cases investigators simply lacked the necessary data to categorize the sighting. Some reports included no technical data at all for engineers to examine, but rather were solely verbal recollections by pilots.
The report does not include any additional videos or UFO sightings.
Report raises more questions than answers
Congressional sources who have seen the classified version of the report have already expressed disappointment there's not more of an explanation to the episodes, saying that the report raises more questions than it answers.
Previous interviews with a half-dozen officials as well as documents reviewed by CNN depict a US military and intelligence community that's struggled over how to remove the issue from the realm of science fiction and consider its actual national security implications.
Even now, multiple sources told CNN, the government almost certainly wouldn't have moved to produce the report without public pressure from key lawmakers, as both Republicans and Democrats have taken an interest in the matter.
While former senior defense officials with knowledge of the most recent iteration of the department's investigations say the Pentagon took it seriously, some pilots and former officials tasked with investigating the matter say senior Pentagon leaders downplayed or ignored the threat.
Erasing the stigma surrounding a serious discussion of UFOs was also the goal for lawmakers in 2020 when they passed legislation requiring the Pentagon and intelligence community to provide more information about these UFO encounters, details that have, until recently, largely remained shrouded in secrecy.
Requiring production of the upcoming UFO report was also one way lawmakers have signaled that they intend to use their oversight authority to ensure coordination among the agencies involved, sources told CNN last month.
"One of the functions of a course like this is that it forces actual coordination within the agencies and makes clear that Congress is actually serious about its oversight function and that there's going to be increased scrutiny along the way," a congressional aide said at the time. "Some of it is a product of getting the agencies to take the issue more seriously and trying to help get rid of the stigma surrounding it."
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Roger, you realize you made my exact point about you.
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Roger breathe of economic knowledge is a deep a his cut n past.
Sad .
Roger AmickJune 25, 2021 at 5:32 PM
I used information from qualified experts. Not my opinion."
I know , you simpleton, you don't have the breathe of knowledge.
Kputz you say a lot of things but you never provide reasonable evidence of what you keep saying.
It shows that you don't know anything about anything because you can't provide evidence
COVID-19 origins still a mystery: Study finds virus was 'highly human adapted'
Scientists using computer modeling to study SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, have discovered the virus is most ideally adapted to infect human cells—rather than bat or pangolin cells, again raising questions of its origin.
In a paper published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, Australian scientists describe how they used high-performance computer modeling of the form of the SARS-CoV-2 virus at the beginning of the pandemic to predict its ability to infect humans and a range of 12 domestic and exotic animals.
Their work aimed to help identify any intermediate animal vector that may have played a role in transmitting a bat virus to humans, and to understand any risk posed by the susceptibilities of companion animals such as cats and dogs, and commercial animals like cows, sheep, pigs and horses.
The scientists, from Flinders University and La Trobe University, used genomic data from the 12 animal species to painstakingly build computer models of the key ACE2 protein receptors for each species. These models were then used to calculate the strength of binding of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to each species' ACE2 receptor.
Surprisingly, the results showed that SARS-CoV-2 bound to ACE2 on human cells more tightly than any of the tested animal species, including bats and pangolins. If one of the animal species tested was the origin, it would normally be expected to show the highest binding to the virus.
"Humans showed the strongest spike binding, consistent with the high susceptibility to the virus, but very surprising if an animal was the initial source of the infection in humans," says La Trobe University Professor David Winkler.
The findings, originally released on the ArXiv preprint server, have now been peer reviewed and published in Scientific Reports.
"The computer modeling found the virus's ability to bind to the bat ACE2 protein was poor relative to its ability to bind human cells. This argues against the virus being transmitted directly from bats to humans. Hence, if the virus has a natural source, it could only have come to humans via an intermediary species which has yet to be found," says Flinders affiliated Professor Nikolai Petrovsky.
The team's computer modeling shows the SARS-CoV-2 virus also bound relatively strongly to ACE2 from pangolins, a rare exotic ant-eater found in some parts of South-East Asia with occasional instances of use as food or traditional medicines. Professor Winkler says pangolins showed the highest spike binding energy of all the animals the study looked at—significantly higher than bats, monkeys and snakes.
"While it was incorrectly suggested early in the pandemic by some scientists that they had found SARS-CoV-2 in pangolins, this was due to a misunderstanding and this claim was rapidly retracted as the pangolin coronavirus they described had less than 90% genetic similarity to SARS-CoV-2 and hence could not be its ancestor," Professor Petrovsky says.
This study and others have shown, however, that the specific part of the pangolin coronavirus spike protein that binds ACE2 was almost identical to that of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
China virus, China virus, China virus
It’s true
I have said that inflation is transitory.
Then I provided evidence.
You are a stupid troll and always have been since soars Yahoo I blocked you
UMich consumer sentiment index (preliminary) June 🌧⬇️85.5
Prior report 86.4
Personal income Drops by 2%.
Inflation up to highest levels in 30 years.
It is Bidenomics.
ANTI - Beef Bidenomics
BLM nominee Tracy Stone-Manning is against cattle grazing on public lands.
She is a simpleton
May 14, 2021
"The White House admitted Friday they were surprised by the rise in consumer prices in March, the largest jump since 2008.
“So we hadn’t forecasted that. The forecasters hadn’t expected that,” White House Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Cecilia Rouse said, adding the Federal Reserve was also “a bit surprised by the jump."
You left out the conclusion on the origin or if it was intended to kill people.
How and where the SARS-CoV-2 virus adapted to become such an effective human pathogen remains a mystery, the researchers conclude, adding that finding the origins of the disease will help efforts to protect humanity against future coronavirus pandemics.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-covid-mystery-virus-highly-human.html
How or if it infected humans
Evidence that 4F-Alky is a dumbfuck.
finding the origins of the disease will help efforts to protect humanity against future coronavirus pandemics.
We don't know the origin of the virus.
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Roger AmickJune 25, 2021 at 6:37 PM
I have said that inflation is transitory"
I know you have and you are spectacularly wrong.
Households increased spending in May on services that they shunned earlier in the pandemic, helping position the economic recovery for a strong summer as more businesses fully reopen and consumers unleash pent-up demand.
Spending was flat last month as consumers cut back on purchases of big-ticket items and rotated more of their money toward in-person services. Still, this spring shaped up to be a solid one for spending: April expenditures were upwardly revised to a 0.9% increase from a previously reported 0.5% rise. Overall spending in May was well above pre-pandemic levels, with spending on goods up nearly 20% from February 2020 and services down about 1%.
“Overall consumers are still well positioned to attack the summer with a lot of enthusiasm,” said Gregory Daco, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics. “We have households that have a strong itch to spend, they have the means to do so, and they have fewer and fewer health reasons not to indulge.”
Households increased spending in May on services that they shunned earlier in the pandemic, helping position the economic recovery for a strong summer as more businesses fully reopen and consumers unleash pent-up demand.
Spending was flat last month as consumers cut back on purchases of big-ticket items and rotated more of their money toward in-person services. Still, this spring shaped up to be a solid one for spending: April expenditures were upwardly revised to a 0.9% increase from a previously reported 0.5% rise. Overall spending in May was well above pre-pandemic levels, with spending on goods up nearly 20% from February 2020 and services down about 1%.
“Overall consumers are still well positioned to attack the summer with a lot of enthusiasm,” said Gregory Daco, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics. “We have households that have a strong itch to spend, they have the means to do so, and they have fewer and fewer health reasons not to indulge.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/consumer-spending-personal-income-inflation-may-2021-11624563378?mod=mhp
"Core personal consumption expenditures, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure, rose 3.4% annually in May, making for the biggest increase since 1992. Prices were up 0.5% on a monthly basis. Additionally, personal income declined 2% as the impact from stimulus checks continued to subside while consumption was unchanged."
Ouch, Bidenomics sucks
Bidenomics
https://www.wsj.com/articles/consumer-spending-personal-income-inflation-may-2021-11624563378?mod=mhp
Roger, you realize you made my exact point about you.
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Roger breathe of economic knowledge is a deep a his cut n past.
Sad .
Roger AmickJune 25, 2021 at 5:32 PM
I used information from qualified experts. Not my opinion."
I know , you simpleton, you don't have the breathe of knowledge.
Plagiarism squad assholes
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/stocks-federal-reserve-stress-tests-nike-fedex-oil-gold-asia-europe
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Plagiarism squad assholes
Is that what you've decided to call yourself these days alky?
The "alky plagiarism squad of assholes"?
I will admit it's rather lengthy, but it does have a nice ring to it, in a "geriatric, nursing home, recovering alcoholic" kind of way.
Trademark that fucker alky. Before someone else does.
Did the Affirmative Action vP go the the Border Today?
IF she did it is very under reported.
Nothing on Drudge.
The fake news is trying to discredit QAnon!
QAnon conspiracy theorists are now convinced that the recent uptick in revelations and interest in UFOs is a way to distract the public from the so-called “Big Lie” pushed by former President Donald Trump and some of his supporters that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Followers of QAnon also believe that the renewed interest in the extraterrestrial world is being used to pull attention away from conspiracy theories about the Covid-19
The aliens have been used to teach people CRT since Eisenhower went to area 51.
Now posing as aliens the Democrats have stolen the election.
This CNN has been identified as an alien species.
Roger...
The Government spent $25 million dollars investigating Trump. The SDNY investigated for over two years until a Judge told them to shit or get off the pot.
This Vance investigation has been ongoing for more than a year and Vance is retiring in a few months. He is not playing any "long game" here.
It is much more likely that like Mueller did with charging people with "misleading statements" this is Vances chance to take some action so he doesn't look like he came up completely empty.
But make no mistake, if they had anything on Trump himself, they wouldn't be tinkering around with some charge that nobody ever brings. That is not done from any position of strength - as much as your "experts" on CNN or MSNBC state. These are the same experts that were sure that Mueller would get the goods and were sure that the SDNY had the goods.
Congressional Republicans are itching to investigate Hunter Biden’s international business dealings again, in hopes of uncovering evidence of wrongdoing that they can link back to his father, President Joe Biden, ahead of the next presidential election… GOP lawmakers told Insider that they had lots of unanswered questions and were ready to flex their oversight power if voters put them in a position to lead investigations again.”
“The playbook is well worn for Republicans… Democrats say that Republicans are chasing conspiracy theories and that reporters and fact-checkers have already found no wrongdoing by the president. No evidence has suggested that Hunter Biden’s work influenced policy decisions while his father was the vice president.”
The deep staters are behind this horror movie according to you
The Democrats are trying to castrate Americans.
Gelding the Left’s Trojan Horse
Given the enraged reaction from the Left regarding the pushback on “critical race theory,” things are looking a bit brighter for truth, justice, and the American way.
By Thaddeus G. McCotter
June 25, 2021
Across the Left, rage and panic reign. America has seen the Marxist and racist dogma undergirding “critical race theory” and, indeed, the entire falsely labeled “anti-racist” cult. And a revulsed America rejects it.
Having pinned their hopes and put so much time, energy, and money into weaponizing race to attain their socialist aims, the Left cannot abide this rejection. Long years of failing to advance socialism led the Left to tone down its “class warfare” rhetoric—a hard sell in the most affluent nation on earth that has spent trillions in a “War on Poverty” and a social safety net for its less fortunate citizens. Instead, the Left decided to leverage the inherent decency of Americans (who have made enormous and ongoing strides to create a more equitable country) by replacing class with race.
The Marxist/Maoist roots of this pernicious doctrine are manifest: critical race theory is communist race theory. The Left has created a Trojan horse: the outward appeal to people’s sense of decency regarding race is a covert effort to subjugate Americans beneath the socialist agenda.
While burrowing its way through bureaucracies both governmental and corporate, the Left concealed the moral odiousness and pernicious consequences of is project, which succeeded as long as the vast majority of the American people were not directly impacted by it. But during the pandemic and its aftermath the Left, sure to “never let a serious crisis go to waste,” pushed its Trojan horse further into American public life. This overreach allowed daylight to shine upon their duplicitous “gift,” giving Americans the chance to peer between its decrepit, virtue-signaling planks. As a result, across the nation citizens once again are rejecting the Left’s socialist (and now racist) doctrine—which, by the way, salts America’s wounds by using their tax and consumer dollars to promote it.
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Anti-identity-politics leftists and liberals must stop acting as the useful idiots of the far right by advancing its pet issues and terminology. These campaigns against anti-racism might look ridiculous on Fox News, but they have real consequences in legislatures and statehouses across the country, where Republican politicians are using the bogeyman of critical race theory and identity politics to ram reactionary rhetoric into law. Coast to coast, Republican lawmakers have unleashed the most profound attack on democracy that this country has seen in decades. Leftists and liberals must recognize that the true enemy of both the working class and free society is on the right, and that its threat is still at least as serious as it was in 2016.
Cas Mudde is Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia,
What is Behind Gen. Mark Milley's Righteous Race Sermon? Look to the New Domestic War on Terror.
The overarching ideology of Pentagon officials is larger military budgets and ongoing permanent war posture. Their new war target, explicitly, is domestic "white rage."
Viewed through that lens, it makes perfect sense that Gen. Milley is spouting the theories and viewpoints that underlie this war framework and which depicts white supremacy and "white rage” as a foundational threat to the American homeland. A new domestic War on Terror against white supremacists and right-wing extremists is far more justifiable if, as Gen. Milley strongly suggested, it was "white rage” that fueled an armed insurrection that, in the words of President Biden, is the greatest assault on American democracy since the Civil War.
New York Times, May 12, 2021
Within that domestic War on Terror framework, Gen. Milley, by pontificating on race, is not providing cultural commentary but military dogma. Just as it was central to the job of a top Cold War general to embrace theories depicting Communism as a grave threat, and an equally central part of the job of a top general during the first War on Terror to do the same for Muslim extremists, embracing theories of systemic racism and the perils posed to domestic order by “white rage” is absolutely necessary to justify the U.S. Government's current posture about what war it is fighting and why that war is so imperative.
None of this means that Gen. Milley's defense of critical race theory and woke ideology is purely cynical and disingenuous. The U.S. military is a racially diverse institution and — just as is true for the CIA and FBI — endorsing modern-day theories of racial and gender diversity can be important for workplace cohesion and inspiring confidence in leadership. And many people in various sectors of American life have undergone radical changes in their speech if not their belief system over the last year — that is, after all, the purpose of the sustained nationwide protest movement that erupted in the wake of the killing of George Floyd — due either to conviction, fear of loss of position, or both. One cannot reflexively discount the possibility that Gen. Milley is among those whose views have changed as the cultural climate shifted around him.
But it is preposterously naive and deceitful to divorce Gen. Milley's steadfast advocacy of racial theories from the current war strategy of the U.S. military that he leads. The Pentagon's prime targets, by their own statements, are sectors of the U.S. population that they regard as major threats to the national security of the United States. Embracing theories that depict “white rage” and white supremacy as the source of domestic instability and violence is not just consistent with but necessary for the advancement of that mission. Put another way, the doctrine of the U.S. intelligence and military community is based on race and ideology, and it should therefore be unsurprising that the worldview promoted by top generals is racialist in nature as well.
Whatever else is true, it is creepy and tyrannical to try to place military leaders and their pronouncements about war off-limits from critique, dissent and mockery. No healthy democracy allows military officials to be venerated to the point of residing above critique. That is especially true when their public decrees are central to the dangerous attempt to turn the war posture of the U.S. military inward to its own citizens.
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The right wing believes that the United States Military is a domestic terrorism organization against "white rage."
Unbelievable
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/what-is-behind-gen-mark-milleys-righteous
Lucky for Roger I am a kind hearted and forgiving man.
So was this the charges that Vance was really looking for when he started this fishing exhibition against the Trump organization?
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Obviously the longest journey starts with the first step....The CFO is hopefully squirming right now as a 75 year old facing a life sentence.....Sad but he's gonna have to cooperated with the DA if he expects to have a nice peaceful retirement like our dumb ass unemployed goat fucker!!!!!!!
https://www.aol.com/border-harris-defends-timing-her-203823100.html
Well said, Vice President Harris.
Ignore KD.
Lol, it was a train wreck, but lie to your self little sketchy James.
Roger, you realize you made my exact point about you.
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Roger breathe of economic knowledge is a deep a his cut n past.
Sad .
Roger AmickJune 25, 2021 at 5:32 PM
I used information from qualified experts. Not my opinion."
I know , you simpleton, you don't have the breathe of knowledge.
Hey goat fucker don't you have some oil to crack?????? Or take an eco 101 class explaining supply and demand?????? BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!
The Former President Trump was thwarted by Epstein and The Pentagon from invoking the Insurrection act and staging a military coup in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
Responding to interest from President Donald J. Trump, White House aides drafted a proclamation last year to invoke the Insurrection Act in case Mr. Trump moved to take the extraordinary step of deploying active-duty troops in Washington to quell the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd, two senior Trump administration officials said.
The aides drafted the proclamation on June 1, 2020, during a heated debate inside the administration over how to respond to the protests. Mr. Trump, enraged by the demonstrations, had told the attorney general, William P. Barr, the defense secretary, Mark T. Esper, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, that he wanted thousands of active-duty troops on the streets of the nation’s capital, one of the officials said.
Mr. Trump was talked out of the plan by the three officials. But a separate group of White House staff members wanted to leave open the option for Mr. Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to call in the military to patrol the streets of the capital.
They decided it would be prudent to have the necessary document vetted and ready in case the unrest in Washington worsened or the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, declined to take measures such as a citywide curfew, which she ultimately put in place.
According to one former senior administration official, Mr. Trump was aware that the document was prepared. He never invoked the act, and in a statement to The New York Times he denied that he had wanted to deploy active-duty troops. “It’s absolutely not true and if it was true, I would have done it,” Mr. Trump said.
But the new details about internal White House deliberations on a pivotal day in his presidency underscore the intensity of Mr. Trump’s instinct to call on the active-duty military to deal with a domestic issue. And they help to flesh out the sequence of events that would culminate later in the day with Mr. Trump’s walk across Lafayette Park to St. John’s Church so he could pose in front of it holding a Bible, a move that coincided with a spasm of violence between law enforcement and protesters camped near the White House.
Although the main elements of what happened in and around the White House on June 1, 2020, have been well established, some aspects remain a subject of dispute. A federal watchdog concluded this month that the United States Park Police had been planning to clear protesters from Lafayette Park well before they learned that Mr. Trump was going to walk through the area. And a federal judge this week partly dismissed claims in a civil suit accusing the Trump administration of abusing its power in clearing the park.
A Trump adviser, echoing the former president’s insistence he did not want to deploy active-duty troops, said that Mr. Trump rejected the option when presented with it by advisers, and maintained that had he done so, he would have “owned the problem”
Throughout Mr. Trump’s presidency, he had a broad view of his powers as president, claiming that he could take an array of aggressive actions using federal authorities and military personnel to handle problems typically left to local authorities.
But invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used authority allowing presidents to use active duty military for law-enforcement purposes, would have been a dramatic escalation. The act has only been invoked twice in the past 40 years — once to quell unrest after Hurricane Hugo in 1989, and once during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
“We look weak,” Mr. Trump said, according to one of the officials. He complained about having been taken to the bunker below the White House on the night of May 29 when the barricade outside the Treasury Department was pierced. The New York Times had reported the bunker visit a day earlier, infuriating Mr. Trump.
But all three officials pushed back against the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act. Mr. Barr, who had been Mr. Trump’s attorney general for a year and a half and had been increasingly clashing with the president, told Mr. Trump that civilian law-enforcement authorities had enough personnel to manage the situation and that a drastic move like invoking the Insurrection Act could spawn more protests and violence. Mr. Esper agreed, according to the two former officials.
Mr. Trump’s meeting with Mr. Barr, Mr. Esper and Mr. Milley was marked by his rage at being embarrassed on the world stage, according to two of the officials.
Mr. Trump grudgingly went along with their counsel not to deploy active-duty troops, according to the officials. Immediately after the meeting, Mr. Trump joined a call with governors around the country, some of whom were seeing protests increase in their states. Mr. Trump urged them to “dominate” the protesters, as he said the National Guard in Minnesota had.
Mr. Esper told associates that he was so concerned that Mr. Trump would deploy active-duty troops that he echoed the need for them to get control of their states, hoping he could encourage governors to deploy the National Guard to head off federal action. Using Pentagon terminology that he later told associates he regretted, Mr. Esper told the governors to “dominate the battle space,” a sentiment stemming from concern about Mr. Trump’s intentions.
But one backdrop for the drafting of the Insurrection Act proclamation was that discussions between the White House and city officials about containing the protests remained contentious throughout the day. At one point, White House officials suggested taking over the city police force to tamp down the unrest and impose order. That idea stunned Washington city officials.
Mr. Esper — who, associates said, so feared the situation was spinning out of control that two days later he publicly said he opposed invoking the Insurrection Act — later tried to again communicate the gravity with which he feared Mr. Trump would act when he held a handful of private calls with specific governors that afternoon, according to the former senior administration official.
Mr. Trump delivered a Rose Garden address later that evening, saying he was prepared to deploy the military if the rioting did not cease.
“If the city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residence, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” Mr. Trump said.
Active-duty military, including from the 82nd Airborne Division, were airlifted to bases outside Washington, but Mr. Esper mobilized a National Guard deployment in the city in an effort to thwart them being deployed. By June 5, they were all ordered to return to their home bases.
Why does Harris have to defend anything concerning a private citizen with a big mouth?????? Sad our ex wields sooooo much power to the ignorant followers who think he is a GOD!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Trump Aides Prepared Insurrection Act Order During Debate Over Protests https://nyti.ms/3xZYZwt
GW continues to be a hoax for the unintellectual GOP and all slurpers here!!!!!
In Portland, Sunday is predicted by the National Weather Service to be the hottest day in city history. The forecast high of 109°F would topple the all-time record of 107°F set on July 30, 1965, as well as August 8 and 10, 1981. (See more on local records below.)
It’s extremely unusual for the National Weather Service to predict three or four days in advance that all-time records could be not only approached but exceeded. Such is the projected intensity of this heat wave and the resounding agreement among the world’s top forecast models.
The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law[1] that empowers the President of the United States to deploy U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.
“If the city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residence, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” Mr. Trump said.
Active-duty military, including from the 82nd Airborne Division, were airlifted to bases outside Washington, but Mr. Esper mobilized a National Guard deployment in the city in an effort to thwart them being deployed. By June 5, they were all ordered to return to their home bases.
When the history of the Trump administration is written, Mr. Epstein saved The United States of America.
Trump Aides Prepared Insurrection Act Order During Debate Over Protests https://nyti.ms/3xZYZwt
Trump Aides Prepared Insurrection Act Order During Debate Over Protests https://nyti.ms/3xZYZwt
If he had invoked the Insurrection act, he would have used American troops to invade the Capitol building and prevented the certification of the electoral college votes.
Policy of Bidenomics
As oil demand rises , take US oil off line.
"We project an overall 2021 poverty rate of 13.7 percent, meaning that about one in seven Americans may have annual family resources below the poverty threshold.Feb 2, 2021"
Cite : urban.org
Roger predicted this will be cut in half by the end of 2021.
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