Posted on 12/16/2018 3:24:20 PM PST by Kaslin
Things got heated on the set of ABC’s This Week on Sunday when Matt Schlapp of the American Conservative Union (and the lone conservative on the panel) clashed with liberal ABC commentator Roland Martin during the Powerhouse Roundtable. And after hearing Schlapp’s opinion about the plethora of investigations into President Trump, host and Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos was so upset he accidentally flung his microphone under the desk.
In the lead up to Stephanopoulos’s microphone mishap, an angry Martin unloaded on the President by comparing him to murderous mob boss John Gotti. “But George, the biggest issue for Mulvaney and for his party: you have a liar in the Oval Office,” Martin began. “I'm laughing this week at them attacking Cohen, saying, ‘Oh my God, he's a liar.’ It's sort of like John Gotti saying, ‘Oh my God, you can't believe Sammy the Bull because believe me.’”
“No, both of you are murderers. So, Donald Trump has been a lying president. And that is what he is,” he added. It was Schlapp’s response to Martin that set Stephanopoulos off.
Trying to be more even-keeled than his fellow panelist, Schlapp noted that he understood “people want to get right to every aspect of Donald Trump.” “But it's important to remember,” he added. “[A]nd I think it came out in your interview [with Michael Cohen] – that all of these – all these investigations are offshoots over this question about whether or not the President did something wrong with colluding with Putin.”
“That's not true, Matt,” Stephanopoulos declared off camera as the sound of static took over. Almost immediately, he informed viewers: “I just lost my microphone.” The camera cut to him reaching under the desk as an argument between Martin and Schlapp kicked off:
Stephanopoulos Sends Microphone Flying
STEPHANOPOULOS: That's not true, Matt.
SCHLAPP: It is true.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I just lost my microphone.
MARTIN: Matt, Matt, Matt, remember, this is the President saying he knew nothing about the payments but now he does.
SCHLAPP: Last time I checked I was talking.
MARTIN: Yes, but don't lie like Trump lies.
SCHLAPP: Please.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on.
While Stephanopoulos was busy struggling with the microphone, Schlapp sought to clarify his previous point. “All of these investigations, the root of it is a special counsel that what it appears has happened is the scope had broadened whether or not they handed something off to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, whether or not there were people talking with legal officials in the State of New York,” he said.
“It’s being done on purpose,” Schlapp continued. “It is everything they can possibly do to politically weaken the man. The American people -- if they can't prove collusion, then American people who are fair will say it's nothing but politics.”
ABC’s This Week December 16, 2018 9:50:27 a.m. Eastern
(…)
ROLAND MARTIN: But George, the biggest issue for Mulvaney and for his party: you have a liar in the Oval Office. You have a man who lies about lying. I'm laughing this week at them attacking Cohen, saying, “Oh my God, he's a liar.” It's sort of like John Gotti saying, “Oh my God, you can't believe Sammy the Bull because believe me.” No, both of you are murderers. So, Donald Trump has been a lying president. And that is what he is.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You heard the distinction Rudy Giuliani trying to draw today, said, it’s not the same as long as it's not under oath.
[Crosstalk]
MATT SCHLAPP: I know we have a big raucous political disagreement in the country. And I know that people want to get right to every aspect of Donald Trump. But it's important to remember – and I think it came out in your interview – that all of these – all these investigations are off shoots over this question about whether or not the President did something wrong with colluding with Putin.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That's not true, Matt.
SCHLAPP: It is true.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I just lost my microphone.
MARTIN: Matt, Matt, Matt, remember, this is the President saying he knew nothing about the payments but now he does.
SCHLAPP: Last time I checked I was talking.
MARTIN: Yes, but don't lie like Trump lies.
SCHLAPP: Please.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on.
SCHLAPP: All of these investigations, the root of it is a special counsel that what it appears has happened is the scope had broadened whether or not they handed something off to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, whether or not there were people talking with legal officials in the State of New York. The idea that every aspect of Donald Trump's life is under investigation is not an accident. It’s being done on purpose. It is everything they can possibly do to politically weaken the man. The American people -- if they can't prove collusion, then American people who are fair will say it's nothing but politics.
(…)
It’s hard to reach for something on the floor when you’re sitting on 2 or 3 phone books.
Clintonistas like Steph outraged about lying, that’s cute.
The classic Little George helps obama correct himself when he accidentally reveals he is a muslim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M
That’s the good stuff!
I hope the little homunculus didn’t cramp his diaphragm when he bent over to retrieve his mic.
To appear on ANY panel with Socialist TRASH like Roland Martin is a waste of time AND degrading to any that participate.
Why go there?
You accomplish nothing good AND will never recover those wasted minutes of your life.
If I was invited, walked in and saw his smiling face, I would walk out.
Do Not Elevate Them With Your Presence.
I agree.
Can people see now childish and pathetic RATs are.
Shame they are not embarrassed looking at themselves.
+1000!
^5
Why hush money Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels was an illegal campaign donation
(but Bill and Hillary’s use of hush money in the lewinsky mess was never litigated or examined in that light)
EXCERPT-—Cohen was charged with violating FEC laws. which limit individual donations to $2,700 per election. Why are the hush money payments Cohen arranged considered illegal campaign contributions? Because he admitted that the payments were intended to protect Trump’s election chances, the $150,000 given to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in the summer and early fall of 2016 and the $130,000 that went to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in late October 2016 are deemed to be in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign. They exceed the donation limits, a violation, and neither was included in campaign finance reports, another violation.
SOURCE—— By Bill Theobald, USA TODAY, Dec 14, 1918
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-hush-money-michael-cohen-paid-stormy-daniels-was-an-illegal-campaign-donation/ar-BBQWBNp
BACKSTORY -— when the sitting president, Bill Clinton, was mired in the lewinsky sex mess,
he and his wife liberally used tax dollars to protect his (and her) election chances.
Bill’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year cushy government job for Lewinsky shortly
after she signed ......but before she filed...... a falsified affidavit saying she had NOT had sex with the president.
In case that didnt pan out, Clinton had another pal, his Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson,
personally visit Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a government job to shut her up.
They even went so far as to have Lewinsky give Linda Tripp instructions
coaching Linda on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter to save Clinton’s presidency....
and Hillary’s ambitions.
First Lady Hillary went hog wild with tax dollars-——
She set up what she called a “Bimbo Eruption Team” in the West Wing of the White House composed of
tax-paid govt workers including then-Clinton aide George Stephanopolous....now at ABC-TV.
The tax-paid office operated for eight long years.....and did nothing but shoot down, demean, defame and
lacerate any woman who dared surface about Bill’s sexual activities.
These expenditures of tax dollars saved Bill’s presidency, got Hillary elected to the US Senate......
and gave Hillary prominence to launch the rest of her political ambitions.
The FEC uttered not a word.
Troll looses it film at 11
GEORGE KNOWS BUT HE AINT TALKIN’
One of the buried stories of the Clinton-lewinsky era is how Hollywood came to B/J’ed Clinton’s rescue......
and how exactly the Hollywood elite listed payments to Clinton’s sex defense fund:
<><> how did they list the donations on their tax returns?
<><> How did publicly-traded companies list their donations on shareholder reports?
<><>How did the “DreamWorks” trio, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, list their 60,000 dollars to Clinton’s sex defense fund?
<><> How did BET list its contribution to Clinton on its corporate statements?
<><> Did Harvey’s company list these payments as “business expenses?”
The biggie, of course, is the tax element.
<><> Did donors deduct it as a “business expense”,
<><> was it included in assets, payments listed on organization balance sheets as a “liability?”
<><> Did Clinton document it as “income”?
<><> Were the donors given a tax-free certificate from the Clinton Foundation?
cont
Hollyweirdos rallied around the lewinskied Clinton to fund his sex mess legal defense. Herewith are the Certified Democrat Degenerates......the scum that vilify and destroy America's Judeo-Christian ethics and values in movies promoted as being "diverse, politically correct, and socially relevant."
HOLLYWOOD'S CERTIFIED DEMOCRAT DEGENERATES FINANCED BILL CLINTON'S LEWINSKY SEX MESS
According to FEC Info, an Internet Web site (www.tray.com) that tracks federal political contributions, 176 individual donors actually contributed $10,000 or more to the lewinsky-era Clinton Legal Expense Trust fund through Dec 1999. Another 21 donors gave $10,000 in the first six months of 2000.
Thanks to Hollywood's generosity, a total of more than $2.2 million was raised in six months, which was notably more than was collected in funding during the previous four years of his presidency—combined. Hollywood producers and stars made up the bulk of the most generous givers. They included:
<><> Universal Studios tycoon Lew Wasserman and his wife, Edith, who have given $60,000;
<><>DreamWorks trio Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, $20,000 each;
<><> producer Ron Burkle and his wife, Janet, $40,000;
<><> producers Peg and Bud Yorkin, $30,000;
<><> TV producer Norman Lear, $20,000. Entertainment celebrities and executives giving $10,000 included:
<><> singers Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand;
<><> actors Michael Douglas and Tom Hanks;
<><> director Ron Howard; producer Gail Zappa;
<><>Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson.
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When Bill Clinton was at the height of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, Hollywood was by his side, offering donations for his legal fees, and one significant donor was a man who is now going through his own sex scandal—Harvey Weinstein.
OF NOTE: Billionaire Harvey Weinstein raised $1,422,683 for federal candidates and political entities between 1990-2016.
Hmmmmm......that’s small potatoes for his 27 years of rank Democratism, sucking up to feminism and upholding so-called abortion rights as he rampaged and assaulted young women. Adds up to about $5300 a year. Something tells me there are a lot of cash payments off-the-record being paid. (hat tip outpostinmass2) Crunching the numbers as outpost did does give us a sharper look at the political money game as played by the conniving Clintons.
Harvey also gave a bundle to the nefarious tax-exempt Clinton Foundation and perhaps to offshoots of the Clintons tax-free entities.
Did Harvey's donations to the C/F go to "do-good projects"? Or did they make a circuitous route?
Maybe landing back into the Clintons eternal political scams?
GEORGE KNOWS---BUT HE AINT TALKIN'
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