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If Liberals Were Held To Their Own Standards
Townhall.com ^ | June 2, 2019 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 06/02/2019 4:22:06 AM PDT by Kaslin

It never ceases to amaze me how left-wingers love to rewrite rules as they go along. When “innocent until proven guilty” doesn’t help their cause, they flip it on its head and pretend the old reality never existed. Since Republicans are largely timid children when it comes to a fight, Democrats are able to get away with it. But what if they weren’t?

Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) loves to moralize about President Trump, particularly about his finances. There’s nothing he would like more than to gain access to Trump’s tax returns, which, if he got them, would undoubtedly have select portions mysteriously find their way to the press.

Cummings is a proponent of the idea that Donald Trump is either compromised by his past business dealings, or could be bought by foreign governments booking rooms at his hotels.

The absurdity of a billionaire being “bought off” by a few thousand dollars spent in a hotel is only a smokescreen to stir up the Democratic base. What isn’t absurd is a Congressman with a history of financial problems suddenly becoming flush thanks to his wife’s business coming into millions from companies his committee oversees.

Cummings had a history of financial problems – missed mortgage payments and tax debt – stemming, in part, from child support payments he owed to his ex-wife and two other women who were not his wife. Curiously, his new wife brought financial security.

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Elijah’s second wife, is the Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party. She also has a couple of side organizations that are doing extremely well thanks to businesses with business before Cummings’ committee. She’s taken in millions, in fact. Good work, if you can get it.

What’s even more weird, one of those organizations – the “non-profit” – has a legal obligation to provide financial records to anyone who requests them. These records would show how much money came in and, more interestingly, how much went out and to whom. But the groups, called the Center for Global Policy Solutions, is refusing to turn over those records.

Three organizations, the Daily Caller News Foundation, the Washington Examiner, and the National Legal and Policy Center, all requested the forms and were either ignored or refused. That’s against the law.

My first job out of college in 2001 was at the Heritage Foundation, in the book store. I was told, unambiguously, that when anyone called and requested our 990 form I was to send it to them immediately because that was the law. Yet Cummings is able to deny their release? What is she hiding?

Just imagine if she and her husband were held to the standards her husband is applying to President Trump, by anyone. The media would be all over this. Hell, the Washington Post or New York Times would have been on this story for the simple reason they were doing their jobs.

Instead, the Post ran a piece on the controversy entitled, “Maya Rockeymoore Cummings calls IRS complaint against her politically motivated.” It’s not a story about the sketchy intertwining of a Democratic Party official, her Congressman husband, and the millions and millions in “donations” from companies her husband hold sway over, it’s about how conservatives are targeting her for political reasons.

Donald Trump is presumed guilty, Democrats aren’t only presumed innocent, they’re presumed victim.

Robert Mueller was “unable to clear” the President of any wrongdoing, which is decidedly not how the justice system works how every story is framed. CNN ran a long blog posted disguised as a “fact check” because the former Special Counsel “publicly refused to exonerate” the President. Using that standard, I have no proof everyone at CNN is not either a child abuser, necrophiliac, or both. I’ve looked, but I can’t exonerate them the allegations because I have yet to find proof they don’t do it.

While we’re at it, I can’t find any proof the employees of MSNBC aren’t cheating on their spouses. If I were married to any of them, especially the on-air “talent,” I’d be worried because I can’t prove otherwise. And don’t even get me started about what I can’t prove they don’t do to farm animals and small woodland creature.

No one, rightly, would accept the idea they were guilty of something simply because they couldn’t prove themselves innocent. I suspect most of us have no alibi for what we were doing when Malaysian flight 370 disappeared, does that make us suspects? Are we now a Kafka novel?

We aren’t, but Donald Trump is. He is guilty of something, perhaps lots of things, Democrats insist, they just have to find it. Until they do, they’re going to act like they have. And their minions in the media are content to go along with it. Maybe they should be treated the same way.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: demonrats; doublestandatds; elijahcummings; leftist
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1 posted on 06/02/2019 4:22:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

One cannot describe Democrat, neoliberal, socialist or progressive without using the word hypocrite. Simply impossible. And projectionist, too.


2 posted on 06/02/2019 4:27:24 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: polymuser

You said it.


3 posted on 06/02/2019 4:38:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: polymuser

You know what they say: if it weren’t for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.


4 posted on 06/02/2019 4:44:07 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Kaslin

Every one of them would be in jail, because we cannot exonerate them of their accused crimes.


5 posted on 06/02/2019 4:58:44 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: Kaslin

One word that is not often used to describe Liberals:

Greedy


6 posted on 06/02/2019 5:06:05 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall. Deport them All.)
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To: Kaslin

Elijah Cummings is another good argument for term limits. He has served and served, yet his district and his constituents have devolved into dire poverty and lawlessness, his district an American hellhole, and all the while he has lined his pockets. Disgraceful.


7 posted on 06/02/2019 5:06:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Kaslin

Don’t you see how the liberals view this particular criticism of Cummings as racist. The Clintons laundered hundreds of millions of bribes through their phony foundation and nothing happened to them. Now an black man is doing the same thing that those white Clintons did and you want to go after the brother? This has nothing to do with justice. Its racist to examine how Cummings launders his bribes.


8 posted on 06/02/2019 5:09:28 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: Kaslin

9 posted on 06/02/2019 5:10:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: allendale

and the proper response is:

We’re going after Clinton and we’re going after Cummings.

bank on it.


10 posted on 06/02/2019 5:13:40 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Kaslin

There is a video, shown to IRS workers by the NTEU union, showing Elijah Cummings screaming into a microphone, “I’ve got your back!!!, I’ve got your back!!!, I’ve got your back!!!”.


11 posted on 06/02/2019 5:48:13 AM 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: Kaslin

Indisputable FACT of life: Liberals have NO standards. IF they did, they would NOT be Liberals in the first place.


12 posted on 06/02/2019 5:50:12 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: All
The Bank Secrecy Act should be mobilized----to follow the paper trail and determine how money changed hands among
(a) Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) (b) the CBC Foundation; (c) leftist black identity groups, Muslim groups
and elected black members.

Taxpayers must demand that the scope and dimension of collusion in sub rosa deals be examined, as to who might be personally profiting and if financing domestic terrorism is being facilitated.

<><> L/E needs to examine bank accounts of the aforementioned.

<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer funds from one account to another, and/or wire-transferred offshore;

<><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that money deposited into CBC accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.

<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for insiders' personal use and/or for financing domestic terrorism.

Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act.

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<><> L/E should get ahold of: (1) copies of CBC checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) CBC correspondence including snail mail, e-mail, mobile devices, cell phones, (8) contracts, (9) loan agreements, (10) other account books or official records.

L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize CBC members bank accounts for suspicious activities: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

<><> CBC bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures;

Tax fraud may also be a factor, facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from legal bank accounts into personal accounts, or redistribution schemes.

<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts and purchases from luxury outlets.

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It is entirely possible that the CBC in collusion with its members and the Obama admin, Congressional Democrats and left wing groups. may have committed federal offenses, including, but not limited to:

<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government to obtain tax dollars (may involve several felonies and could include forgery);

<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to funding documents required by ERISA enacted 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.

<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government regarding federal funding),

<><> 18 U.S.C. §241 (Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate conservatives' 4th amendment rights.

<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with a federally funded enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.

<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District

<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional mandates in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.

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Taxpayers demand the following agencies commence investigations at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.

============================================

ACTION NOW-—Contact your Rep and Senators Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044
Call President Trump---- Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414

TALKING POINTS: (A) taxpayers demand reparations for leftist shakedown schemes; (B) sever all public funds, including federal funds to lawbreaking groups; (C) shut down all identity caucuses on Capitol Hill.

13 posted on 06/02/2019 5:52:31 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER REPORT: [Cummings’ wife Maya] Rockeymoore runs two entities, a nonprofit group called the Center for Global Policy Solutions and a for-profit consulting firm called Global Policy Solutions, LLC, whose operations appear to have overlapped, according to the IRS complaint filed by watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center on Monday. The complaint states that the arrangement may have been used to derive “illegal private benefit.”

Global Policy Solutions received more than $6.2 million in grants between 2013 and 2016, according to tax records. Several of the nonprofit group’s financial backers — which included Google, J.P Morgan and Prudential — have business interests before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Cummings has served as Democratic chairman of the committee since January and previously served as ranking member.

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NARRATIVE: It is very common for shysters in business to open bank ccounts with similar names as the legit buiness in order o siphon off money to hide it from partners, associates, investors, the IRS, etc.Here's how Cummings and his wife siphoned off huge amounts for themselves.
<><> early on they established two entities, one non-profit and a for profit.
<><> as the money poured into the N/P, Cummings and Rockymoore systematically transferred monies to the private company with a similar name.

Keep in mind, the private company, unlike the N/P, is exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures like he n/p does SIPHONINGS A CINCH Just put checks into the new accounts with similar names, depositing checks that were made out to the original entity. Even your bank advises that if a check-writer “mis-spelled” your name, to just endorse the check with the correct name.

AND PRESTO: a check made out to N/P Global Policy Solutions, is deposited in the for profit Global Policy Solutions LLC account.

Some might ask how the IRS might close-down M/M Cummings’ gold mine of a scam. AFAIK, each bank records every check that is presented to its system-——as well, the front and back of each check are copied. That means if the Cummings deposited checks made out to the n/p into its consulting account, the bank would have all of that recorded.

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TO REPORT POSSIBLE BANK FRAUD:

FDIC Office of Inspector General Hotline
3501 Fairfax Drive
Room VS-D-9069
Arlington, VA 22226

Call 1-800-964-FDIC
Email oighotline@fdicoig.gov

Write: FDIC Office of Inspector General Hotline
3501 Fairfax Drive
Room VS-D-9069
Arlington, VA 22226

14 posted on 06/02/2019 5:53:14 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

However, Cummings is a negro


15 posted on 06/02/2019 6:01:06 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: Kaslin
"Just imagine if she and her husband were held to the standards her husband is applying to President Trump, by anyone. The media would be all over this. Hell, the Washington Post or New York Times would have been on this story for the simple reason they were doing their jobs."

The truth is even simpler and more outrageous than that.

She is breaking the law to hide something.

Trump has no legal obligation to share his personal tax returns. (Not that any politician or reporter could ever understand them.)

16 posted on 06/02/2019 6:16:44 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Kaslin

They have no standards


17 posted on 06/02/2019 6:22:57 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Rummyfan

“Elijah Cummings is another good argument for term limits. He has served and served, yet his district and his constituents have devolved into dire poverty and lawlessness, his district an American hellhole, and all the while he has lined his pockets.”

That is not true. at least the part where his constituents live in poverty. I live in Cummings district. The portion which is in relatively affluent Howard County MD, also the home of many guilt-ridden Caucasian liberals. Take a look at the geographic boundaries of the MD 7TH congressional district. Talk about gerrymandering.


18 posted on 06/02/2019 6:30:55 AM PDT by CheneyClone
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To: Kaslin

To repeat one of the prime truths of the multiverse:

If there were not double standards, the progressives would have no standards at all.


19 posted on 06/02/2019 6:32:59 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Kaslin

The Black Caucus is too black. It needs diversity.


20 posted on 06/02/2019 6:43:45 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!.)
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