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Former Obama Admin Official On Trial, Media Silent
LauraLoomer.us ^ | 22 August 2019 | Peter M. D'Abrosca

Posted on 08/22/2019 7:02:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The mainstream press has been totally silent on the criminal trial of Greg Craig, the former Obama Administration official who is facing charges “connected to a Ukraine-related legal project.”

“Craig served in 2009 as President Barack Obama’s first White House counsel, was a key figure in Obama’s first presidential bid and had previously joined President Bill Clinton’s White House to defend him against impeachment,” POLITICO said. “Craig is charged with scheming to conceal material facts during a Justice Department inquiry into his Ukraine work and whether it required him to file under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.”

Part of the trial, which is ongoing, involves testimony from Rick Gates, former right-hand-man to Paul Manafort, who was President Donald J. Trump’s campaign manager. Manafort was convicted on financial crimes unrelated to the Trump campaign from more than a decade ago, and the media went berserk because some of Manafort’s business dealings were in Ukraine. In plain, Manafort’s case fit hand-in-glove with their now-debunked narrative that Trump was a Russian stooge.

Gates testified for the prosecution – against Craig – Thursday. Yet there has not been a single mainstream cable news segment on the subject. Compare that to the wall-to-wall coverage the press doled out during the Manafort trial, and you begin to see the omnipresent bias of our esteemed media.

“Prosecutors say Craig was intent on not [disclosing his Ukrainian ties] because he believed that such a filing would harm his chances of a senior post in a future Democratic administration,” according to POLITICO.

Manafort and Craig are connected via an “independent review” of the criminal abuse-of-power trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in 2012. Craig and his law firm handled the review, while Manafort’s main client was former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The review was bankrolled...

(Excerpt) Read more at lauraloomer.us ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; declassification; fbi; fisa; gregcraig; impeachment; jamescomey; lisapage; obama; peterstrzok; robertmueller; ukraine

1 posted on 08/22/2019 7:02:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This clearly shows that the mainstream media IS the enemy of the American people, no ifs, ands or buts.


2 posted on 08/22/2019 7:14:38 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Projection.

Leftists always accuse their opponents of doing what they are doing.


3 posted on 08/22/2019 7:20:24 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wrong Party


4 posted on 08/22/2019 7:23:27 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: marktwain

from Wikipedia story —Robert H Biden the second son of .... With the revelations that Hunter Biden serves on the board of the Ukrainian company Burisma, many raised concerns about Hunter Biden’s interests ...

So any time someone says they can sell you the Brooklyn Bridge for a bargain price, or make a you a deal worth millions in Ukraine, don’t touch the Ukraine and get a receipt for the bridge. It’s safer. The toll: Obama guy,Manafort and Biden’s son.


5 posted on 08/22/2019 7:29:36 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen votforbing & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Former Obama Admin Official On Trial, Media Silent

If Eric Holder raped and killed 50 underage children, and the Media didn't "report" on it, did it really happen at all?   thinking face
6 posted on 08/22/2019 7:46:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Was it Greg or Craig?

Sorry couldn't help myself.

7 posted on 08/22/2019 7:47:04 PM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus (NOT tired of winning.)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus

Never ever trust a Democrat with two first names.


8 posted on 08/22/2019 7:51:30 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The big story today was that the Soetoros moved on up to the Hamptons. They gave America the big middle finger and proclaimed,”Suckers!”


9 posted on 08/22/2019 8:03:27 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus
as a sideline to that....Never trust a female with a hyphenated name....

She will never figure out who she really is...

10 posted on 08/22/2019 8:11:19 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Both CNN and MSNBC are covering the Craig trial because it is tied to Paul Manafort and the Mueller investigation.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/much-anticipated-gates-testimony-in-craig-trial-expected-thursday-66937925706
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/11/politics/greg-craig-trial-justice-department-foreign-lobbying/index.html


11 posted on 08/22/2019 8:56:50 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Liz
...inquiry into his Ukraine work...

Will Gropin' Joe have to take the stand as an eyewitness?

12 posted on 08/23/2019 2:02:16 AM PDT by Libloather (END CLIMATE CHANGE!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The media is the propaganda machine of the left just ask the ‘NAZIS”


13 posted on 08/23/2019 2:59:51 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are now not the media, fake news, but #HateMedia


14 posted on 08/23/2019 4:21:58 AM PDT by conservativesister
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To: CMailBag

LOL That’s one of my pet peeves too :)


15 posted on 08/23/2019 8:02:20 AM PDT by Coffee_drinker (Drain The Swamp.)
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AG Barr revealed DOJ investigations into media leaks .....determining how MSM had scoops
on the Trump-Russia investigation long before Congress was aware of the subject matter.

The linchpin is the Clintons.

ITEM <><> Journalists Dined at Top Clinton Staffers Homes Days Before Hillary’s announcement of her candidacy
Wikileaks via Breitbart ^ | October 17 2016 | Ezra Dulis / FR Posted by grey_whiskers

Several top journalists and TV news anchors RSVPed “yes” to attend a private, off-the-record gathering at the New York home of Joel Benenson, the chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton, two days before she announced her candidacy in 2015, according to emails Wikileaks published from John Podesta’s accounts.

ITEM <><> The guest list for an earlier event at the home of her campaign manager, John Podesta, was limited to reporters who were expected to cover Clinton on the campaign trail. —snip—

ITEM <><> Wikileaks revealed earlier that late night talk host Stephen Colbert, and his team at Comedy Central, were making TV episodes at the request or order of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) back in April of 2013. So, viewers thought they were vote-smart because they’re informed by a comedian, yet same said comedian was doing Hillary’s bidding the whole time.

ITEM <><> Hillary frequently used the Democrats' "wrap-up smear."......leaking false info about her opponent to the media. When the obedient press published the smear, Hillary would wave it around indicating she was the superior candidate.

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The Clinton Foundation listed "notable past members" they were cozy with.

This page was carried in the Clinton Foundation archives........until recently.

16 posted on 08/23/2019 10:31:52 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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