Posted on 08/31/2020 10:42:22 PM PDT by weston
I enjoy conversations on Twitter. I get to be a writer. But for 43 years, I have loved the law & being a trial lawyer. In the latter role, I am getting ready to teach
@JoeBiden a lesson he will never forget. He falsely accused a 17-year old boy & prejudiced Kyle’s legal rights.
Formal demand for public retraction is being prepared for Biden/Harris Campaign on behalf of Kyle Rittenhouse. I also hereby demand that
@JoeBiden immediately retract his false accusation that Kyle is a white supremacist & militia member responsible for violence in Kenosha.
I stayed on it too, lots of wailing and gnashing teeth.
Thanks.
Graham asks Comey about the investigative referral sent directly to him on 9/7/16, re: Clinton's approval of a plan concerning Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections as a means of distraction from email server. Comey: "Doesn't ring a bell."— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 30, 2020
Feinstein is up. We'll see if Comey has trouble remembering things to answer her questions or not.
Grassley lays out all the official communications to/from FBI about Steele's unreliability. Asks Comey why he kept this hidden. Comey says he doesn't remember anything.
Comey says in summer of 2016 that he personally told Obama that FBI was launching investigation into Russia collusion, says he didn't name names.
Comey, contra all evidence, tells Leahy I don't know whether the Russians have something over Trump but its difficult to explain his actions in any other way. (This is insane)
Comey working hard to not discuss Ratcliffe letter. Claims he doesn't understand it. Given its seriousness, the proper thing to do at this point is declassify the underlying information.
"Did you call Steele dossier salacious and unverified?" Comey says he referred to just a portion of it, and that it's not that impt. Says "entire dossier" was something they were trying to rule in and out. Previously, though, said he wasn't informed of all the debunkings of it.
Cornyn says, before IG report on dossier, did he know of questions about reliability of dossier. Says, "I learned a lot about Steele material and subsource interviews from Horowitz report that I didn't know before."
"Can you rule out that part of CH was predicated on Russian disinformation?" Comey: "I think so." Cornyn says, even though we know now that subsource was a Russian agent, that doesn't taint investigation? Comey says not opened based on Steele, so all is good.
Durbin says he'll concede that "some documents weren't handled appropriately" but says it's not a big deal and that nobody cares about the dossier. Wonders why anyone even cares about violations of civil liberties and weaponization of the intel agencies against political enemies.
Comey and Durbin agree that even though special counsel was officially launched because of the dossier, none of indictments had anything to do with dossier allegations so all good. (it is true that none of the indictments had anything to do with Russia collusion)
Graham also makes the point that not a single American was charged with Russia collusion. Explains to Democrats that all Americans should care about political abuse of the FISA process.
"What astounds me the most, the director of the FBI in charge of this investigation, is completely clueless about any of the ino obtained by his agency suspicious of the dossier." -- eg source was russian agent, that it was not intel but bar talk, that it was internet rumor
"And you want us to reauthorize this program with a system like that? Where everyone is responsible but no one is responsible?" Graham asks how they would like THEIR clients to be treated this way in FISA process.
Mike Lee, a consistent Constitution defender, now up. "With all due respect, you don't seem to know ANYTHING about an investigation you ran." Then slams Comey for speculating that Russia has something on Trump.
Lee says Comey's sources weren't accurate, that he didn't identify the inaccuracies to the court, that he doesn't seem to understand how Trump talks about world leaders, that his speculations about ties are inappropriate given how he knows nothing about the investigation he ran.
Comey admits his slurs about Trump being compromised by Russia were based on his own partisan feelings as a private citizen fired by the man, not in any way related to anything real that the FBI found.
"What in the heck do the certifications mean if you weren't required to know and did not know what was in there? What does the certification mean?" Comey says "certification is narrow" and that FBI has "duty of candor" and admits it "wasn't meant."
ee notes that partisans running the investigation reasonably thought HRC would win and they wouldn't get caught. Asks why Americans should have any confidence in FISA process, and how they could be caught up in similar work by FBI that would never come to light.
'You don't install a wasp's nest in your child's bedroom and then get surprised when your child is stung by wasps. You don't install an ex parte process and then get surprised when it goes off the rails.' -- Mike Lee demanding FISA reform or elimination.
I didn’t say they were.
But the media is saying they are. That needs to be countered.
And seven stops! They must still have that IV dripping.
Potty breaks.
I hope every person in Pennsylvania sees this video! The Governor is killing your states economy for “political theater.” https://t.co/u5srZrmPYK— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) September 29, 2020
Do it soon!
Heading to Minnesota today. Saved Minneapolis after the Dem LEFT almost let it be TOTALLY destroyed!
#MAGAWhitehouse upset by Ratcliffe letter but now saying that it's a fact that Trump colluded with Russia. (It is not) But I'll go ahead and agree with Whitehouse about the problems of selective declassification. Declassify everything!— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 30, 2020
Whitehouse very upset about entire investigation into FISA abuse but says that he agrees it's important to look into FISA abuse. I don't quite understand what he's trying to say. Graham just did an excellent summary of what the problems with the Russia collusion investigation were, how everything Trump-related was investigated fully and no collusion was found. And that Clinton's working with Russian sources to smear Trump was never investigated at al
Whitehouse interpreting Ratcliffe's letter on Russia finding out Hillary Clinton was planning to run a Trump-Russia op. Says she was just saying she would highlight collusion (that never existed) not that she had come up with a smear campaign (even though she ran one)
Senator Cruz asks if Carter Page issue was handled in a competent and honest way. Comey says it was. Cruz says he assumes Comey read IG report that found 17 omissions to the court. Comey says there were failings, denies there were lies. Cruz brings up falsification of evidence.
Cruz notes that Clinesmith falsified document to make fraudulent submission. "You believe that is honest or competent"? Comey says he doesn't think IG found that. So now Cruz reads directly from report. Asks if it was his practice in FBI to falsify evidence to courts.
"Difficult to say an investigation that featured fraudulent evidence was competent and honest." -- Cruz. Comey says he never figured out that Clinton funded dossier, never knew that primary subsource was investigated as Russian agent (FBI knew this in 2016)
Cruz asks Comey about May 2017 testimony that he'd never been an anonymous source. That he'd never authorized someone else to be an anon source. Notes McCabe says Comey authorized his leaks. Cruz asks Comey who is telling the truth. Comey says he stands by his testimony.
Cruz says investigation was corrupt, that agency was weaponed, that he was willfully corrupt or woefully incompetent. That this has done severe damage to honorable people at FBI because law enforcement should not be political -- that this is Comey's legacy.
Now that the dust has settled, I am thinking that the president is going to benefit from the debate.
Die-hard conservatives/Republicans are not changing their minds. Die-hard liberals/Democrats are not changing their minds. So, if there are actually very many squishes who are actually wanting to find out more about the candidates, I would imagine what is being searched for today is corruption information. Hunter Biden. The coup. Pay for play, etc. The president did a good job of driving that home for the unwashed masses who don’t keep up on things like we junkies do.
It is also quite likely that people are actually looking up what Slo Joe has said in the past, what he’s supported, etc. They can look up information about the riots, Antifa, etc. There is nothing that the president said that he can’t back up with what he’s been saying and doing for 4 years. He’s consistent....heck, even 30 years back!
The other “win” he had last night was replacing Candy Crowley as the worst moderator in history. Priss Wallace now holds that very demeaning and damning title, and well deserved.
Mac Davis, country star and Elvis songwriter, dies at 78
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/9/30/21495415/mac-davis-dead-country-star-elvis-songwriter-was-78
Helen Reddy, Feminist Icon and Singer of Anthem ‘I Am Woman,’ Dies at 78
Both died yesterday.
Do we have ANY pics of the people at Biden terrain stops??
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday, sponsored by Whatfinger News – The best Drudge Report alternative, shows that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.
Apparently it is live on FB periscope
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=253713262648647&ref=watch_permalink
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