Posted on 08/23/2018 4:59:31 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
When I was a kid I had a friend who called his a tallywhacker. – Ok, I’m not really sure how to address this in this normally G-rated Update, but here goes…
A California-based “health information provider” that calls itself Healthline created a stir yesterday when it published a piece advocating that society must stop referring to certain male and female body parts by their real names because…wait for it…oh, you have to wait for this one…THEY ARE TOO GENDER SPECIFIC!
Yes, friends, the social justice warriors who have spent the last few years trying to brainwash you into believing that gender orientation is “assigned at birth” are now telling you that using proper terms for body parts like “vagina” and “penis” are too gender-descriptive and result in…wait for it…DISCRIMINATION. I swear I do not make this stuff up.
But this goes on: “For the purpose of this guide, we’ll refer to the vagina as ‘front hole’ instead of solely using the term ‘vagina.’” And yes, you guessed it, your “anus” is now to be called your “back hole,” and a man’s “penis” is now to be referred to as…well, I’m not even going to go there.
Liberals: If they didn’t exist, no one in their right mind would ever dream of making them up.
He was guilty. Oh, and by the way, it’s a witch hunt. – One of the jurors in the Manafort case, a woman named Paula Duncan, summed up the case against Paul Manafort perfectly in an interview on Fox News on Wednesday:
“Certainly Mr. Manafort got caught breaking the law, but he wouldn’t have gotten caught if they weren’t after President Trump,” Duncan said of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s case, which she described as a “witch hunt to try to find Russian collusion.” She went on to say that “Something that went through my mind is, this should have been a tax audit.”
Yes, exactly. Years before he went to work on the Trump Campaign for 60 days, Paul Manafort was a scofflaw when it came to properly reporting his income for tax purposes. A whopping amount of income as it turned out, which came to him during a time when he was working in tandem with Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta, for some Ukrainian clients.
This should have been a tax audit, conducted by the IRS. Any U.S. attorney in America could then have prosecuted the case based on the tax audit’s findings. Instead, the case ends up being pursued by a bunch of Clinton/Obama thugs working for an out-of-control Special Counsel, who are using the case purely as a political tool to try to damage the duly-elected President of the United States.
Paul Manafort was guilty and will now do time for his crimes. That’s how our justice system is supposed to work. It just shouldn’t have taken place at the hands of an extra-constitutional special counsel and his band of Clinton/Obama thugs. This should have been a tax audit, conducted years ago by the Obama IRS. But of course, the Obama IRS was too busy persecuting conservative 501(c)(3) organizations to bother conducting tax audits.
Beg pardon? – Meanwhile, President Trump told Fox News host Ainsley Earhart that he is “considering a pardon” for Manafort. This would be a bad move. Yes, Manafort was heinously abused by the Special Counsel thugs, held in solitary confinement for months for purely political reasons. If the President does issue a pardon, he should clearly cite this, and the kangaroo court nature of the entire prosecution as the reason for doing so.
But Manafort is guilty of the crimes for which he will be sentenced. He’s the classic Washington, DC swamp rat, exactly the kind of career operative who has for a lifetime existed in and abused the system that Mr. Trump campaigned against in 2016. He made his living as a part of that swamp for decades, profited immensely from its perpetuation, and cheated the government – and thus, the American people – out of millions of dollars in the process. A jury of his peers – including Ms. Duncan, who is such a fan of the President that she carries a MAGA cap in her car everywhere she goes – found him to be guilty.
At the end of the day, a pardon of Manafort would be a betrayal of the work that jury performed. While the President’s loyalty is admirable and his anger at the way this case was handled is certainly understandable, this does not seem like the place for him to make his stand.
Just another day in out-of-control Special Counsel America.
That is all.
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Balderdash.......
Newt Gingrich said it best.
Democrat are orgasmic over Cohen, Manafort......and some boobalicious ladies Trump knew.
But midterm elections will center on the murder of Mollie Tibbetts at the hands of an illegal.
I think judge Ellis might sentence Manfart to time served.
If I were Trump, I wouldn’t pardon Manafort. Even though Manafort might never have been prosecuted if they weren’t going after Trump, I think Manafort is dirty.
But I absolutely would pardon General Flynn and George Papadopoulos.
I think Manafort was sent as a plant by Oleg Deripaska.
Judge Ellis will do no such thing following a conviction. As to the article, Trump would not dishonor the jury with a pardon, because his pardon power is part of our system. But a full pardon would not be justice, because Manafort was guilty. And Manafort faces a second trial.
Good points especially Flynn, but he made a pardon more difficult by cooperating.
“this does not seem like the place for him to make his stand.”
Yes, Donald should let the corrupt system run over people for political purposes.
Same with illegals murdering people..just look the other way.
It’s all for the “greater good”
If I were Trump I would announce that I would not consider pardoning Manafort if the Podestas were being investigated but that if they were not then I would take that as indicating malice on the part of Mueller in prosecuting only Manafort. A malicious prosecution deserves a pardon.
The author and the juror he cites may really believe that Manafort was prosecuted for tax crimes only because he worked for President Trump. I think he was prosecuted for tax crimes because they couldn't prosecute him for being a Russian mole in the Trump campaign.
Mueller is dirty.
There will be no pardons... until after the mid-terms.
It is my opinion (based on nothing more than watching the way President Trump operates) that he and his staff have not been idle over the past two years.
The DOJ and FBI are not the only law enforcement agency the Government has. It has become obvious that both the DOJ and FBI have been corrupted but it is not clear if the smaller agencies have been (such as the Marshal Service that investigates crimes against the government, or the Secret Service which has authority over the protection of the President). A case could be that a cabal of traitors have attempted a coup d’etat against the United States.
Have no facts, but it is possible while Mueller has been chasing phantoms real law enforcement have been gathering evidence which will lead to the arrest and conviction of the conspirators.
While all this is going down, President Trump can pardon all those caught up in this witch hunt.
We can dream can’t we?
Any President has the power to commute a sentence imposed by a Federal court. Shy of a full pardon but still a grant of relief from a harsh sentence. I don't think he can do this to a sentence imposed by a State court.
What an idiot. This whole thing has been a political witch hunt you boob. The judge even said so.
Papa....the government played the pimp in his case...he'll get probation...and nothing more.
And your point is? Trump will do what he thinks serves him best.
That is is. Filthy dirty. All the connections he has on this, Muller should never have been appointed.
I don’t think so...he did it because he lost his entire life’s savings and even had to sell his house and couldn’t continue.
The FBI agents and even scumbag Comey himself said they did not believe there was deception, so they persecuted and ruined a good and decent man who had a life of service to his country, all to get a political scalp on their belts.
What they did to Flynn was heinous. In a just world, the people who did this to him would pay. Some of them will, in the end, I believe (McCabe, Strzok, etc)
This is a battle. Trump should tomorrow morning fire Müller, rosenstine, and sessions. Then pardon manafort. In the afternoon he should go to the WH press briefing and kick Accosta out, and then in the briefing ask Cohen I’d he wants a pardon or muller’s deal. Explain that Clinton’s lawyer is going around saying Cohen would rather go to jail. Ask him publically if that is true. Then announce he is taking over the Justice dept until Congress is ready to confirm his next appointment.
Agreed. They damn well could have prosecuted Manafort at any time leading up to this, but didn’t, and that says a lot about the process.
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