Posted on 11/11/2016 9:59:43 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
“If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump, a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate,” Reid said.
Reid’s statement further declared that “white nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory” in Tuesday’s election, “while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear.”
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Hey Harry!
Just shut up already!
Nobody believes your baseless lies anymore.
Anything that chaps Harry Reid’s butt.......:D
Trump is not responsible for Harry Reid’s hate. Reid needs to own his own hate.
To hate, love is hateful.
We love the illegales enough not to bait them into a place where they’re going to be unhappy. And typically they ARE unhappy and spread the unhappiness around.
Nonsense, Harry.
We cannot help it that the left is full of hate, or that they unleash it when their power structure and hopes for a totalitarian future are threatened. We really have no control over that.
But we *will* continue to fight the hateful, violent left.
Looks like Trump should look into some of Reid’s real estate deals he’s worth ten million his job doesn’t pay that good.
Screw that. We won. It's time we act like it.
First things first, to the rioters having temper tantrums and burning our cities, we need to meet them in the streets with baseball bats and crack their skulls open.
The time for niceties are over. They need to be brought to heel.
And the rioters?
How bout the druggies, pornographers and crooks, Harry?
White color criminals?
Corrupt union pals?
Sexual predator?? WTF is he talking about??
Anybody have a Wikileaks link to the Podesta Soros riot plans?
The hate is in the streets Harry. Bought and paid for. To accomplish what?
The Salt Lake Tribune
WWW.SLTRIB.COM
NOV 11, 2016
Feds sue, allege Johnson illegally donated to Mike Lee, Harry Reid and former Utah A.G.
By TOM HARVEY AND ROBERT GEHRKE | The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published Jun 19 2015 09:15PM Last Updated Jul 15 2016 06:17 pm
Indicted St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson illegally funneled tens of thousands of dollars to Sens. Harry Reid and Mike Lee as well as then-Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, according to a new federal lawsuit.
In a complaint filed Friday in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court, the Federal Election Commission accused Johnson of giving about $50,000 to Lee’s 2010 campaign after John Swallow, Shurtleff’s top aide and handpicked successor, advised him that the Republican Senate hopeful, if elected, could influence the selection of Utah’s next U.S. attorney, who then could protect Johnson’s business interests.
“Johnson has reported that Swallow said to him: ‘[I]t is important that we raise this money and make Mike Lee our guy,’ “ according to the complaint. “ ‘[H]e is going to be choosing the next U.S. attorney and you gotta have him in your corner and you gotta have the U.S. attorney in your corner, especially while you are processing poker [payments] in this district.’ “
At the time, federal law limited campaign contributions to $2,400 per person, per election. The FEC alleges that Johnson gave tens of thousands of dollars to friends and associates to make so-called “straw donations” as a way to dodge those caps.
There is no indication in the complaint that Lee, Shurtleff or Reid knew Johnson was making illegal donations to their campaigns.
“At no time during the 2010 campaign, was Senator Lee or anyone associated with the Lee campaign aware of any unlawful contributions to the Lee campaign,” Boyd Matheson, Lee’s chief of staff, said Friday. “The documents obtained by investigators confirm that the scheme was known only to individuals who may have been involved as stated in the report.”
Shurtleff’s attorney, Richard Van Wagoner, said that his client “relied on his professional campaign finance staff to accept only legal contributions, and he had no knowledge of prohibited donations, if any, to his Senate campaign.”
“We know nothing about Mr. Johnson’s latest legal problems with the Federal Election Commission,” said Reid spokeswoman Kristen Orthman.
Swallow’s lawyer could not be reached Friday evening.
The FEC complaint says Johnson enlisted straw donors to kick in $20,000 to the 2010 re-election push of Nevada’s Reid, the Senate’s Democratic leader. The aim, again, was to shield Johnson businesses, which then included a southern Utah operation that processed online-poker payments.
Johnson said Friday that the FEC complaint stems from interviews he gave investigators pursuing multiple criminal charges against Swallow and Shurtleff.
“For my cooperation, I was guaranteed immunity. In other words, the information I shared in those confidential meetings with the FBI and state agents, I was told, would not be used to hurt me in any way. For reasons yet to be explained to me, that very information is now being used against me by the Federal Election Commission,” he said in an emailed statement. “I am stunned. I can’t imagine anybody who wouldn’t be outraged if they were in my shoes.”
Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings, who along with Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill investigated Swallow and is now prosecuting Shurtleff, backed, to some extent, Johnson’s version of events.
“There is more truth than fiction to Jeremy Johnson’s statement,” Rawlings wrote in an email late Friday. “In exchange for his significant cooperation he is getting screwed by the United States government. I have demanded to know why and exactly who is behind this.”
Swallow acted as a chief fundraiser for Shurtleff, a former three-term attorney general, when the latter was exploring a run in 2009 against incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah.
Shurtleff dropped out of the race. By the time he did so, however, Johnson already had contributed about $100,000 to his campaign through straw donors, the FEC complaint alleges.
Swallow, who resigned amid a corruption scandal after less than a year as Utah’s attorney general, helped raise funds for Lee after Shurtleff quit the Senate contest.
Swallow now faces 13 felony counts and one misdemeanor after a sweeping investigation of allegations of bribery and corruption in the attorney general’s office. Shurtleff is starting at five felony charges and two misdemeanors.
This crook needs to be investigated. Bigly.
Dingy Harry: I’d keep my head low if I were you. I’m feeling some more investigations a coming....
Reid is actually talking about himself. He is one of the most hate-filled and unhinged Senators.
Dingy Harry’s like a broken record.
For younger FRiends, it used to be that sounds pleasing to humans were recorded on large round platters made of vinyl, oddly enough called `records’.
A tone arm containing a `needle’ would translate the impressions stamped on the `record’ in an analog way into what was called `music.
Occasionally these records would get scratched, the needle would stick and lyrics would repeat over-and-over.
The recordings of the old band “Harry and the Moonbats” would consist of lead singer Harry himself saying the word “Haters” played at 33 rpms, both sides, over-and-over.
You mean former President Bill Clinton?
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