Posted on 07/12/2017 7:35:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
The talking heads at CNN and MSNBC are positively giddy. Aha! A Russia connection. Donald Trump Jr. met with Russians! It's best when they can find a liberal guest to say what they're thinking, and they have plenty from which to choose.
Here's a sentence of hyperbole from Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., on CNN: "I think we are seeing an unprecedented amount of contacts, personal, political and financial, that Trump, his family, his team, his business had with Russia prior to the election."
The use of the word "unprecedented" displays amnesia, or ignorance, or simply a rewrite of recent American history. Liberal journalists would like everyone to forget how then-President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee engaged in a blatant strategy to solicit illegal foreign contributions from Asian sources before the 1996 presidential election. Their contacts included Liu Chaoying, daughter of the senior commander of Red China's People's Liberation Army, who met with President Clinton.
The Washington Post reported in 1998, "Evidence gathered in federal surveillance intercepts has indicated that the Chinese government planned to increase China's influence in the U.S. political process in 1996." Doesn't that sound like a precedent?
After Clinton was easily re-elected, the DNC was forced to return more than $2.8 million in illegal or inappropriate donations. Almost 80 percent of that ill-gotten gain came from two sleazy Clinton-connected fundraisers, foreign nationals John Huang and Charles Yah Lin Trie. Few people remember this scandal because it was buried by those same news outlets that can't stop talking about Russia.
It's not as if they didn't know, either.
Twenty years ago this summer, Congress investigated this "Asiagate" plot while then-Sen. Fred Thompson's hearings produced one embarrassing detail after another about the Democrats. How did the press report these damning developments? They bad-mouthed the hearings as a waste of money and buried them under massive coverage of tabloid-ish stories of death -- first, the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace in July, and then the accidental death of Princess Diana in August.
By 2000, journalists had energetically forgotten the almost-cinematic embarrassments of 1996, like then-Vice President Al Gore's Buddhist temple fundraiser in Hacienda Heights, California. Buddhist monks illegally funneled about $65,000 to the DNC through straw donors at the instigation of longtime Gore fundraiser Maria Hsia. When newspaper accounts of this money laundering appeared, temple officials and Buddhist nuns altered and destroyed evidence. The TV networks yawned, even as Hsia was convicted on five counts.
The Clintons were never chastened from exploiting foreign donors, moving them all into the influence-peddling orbit of The Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative. Even after Hillary Clinton became secretary of state in 2009, the Clintons shamelessly continued their international contacts -- "personal, political, and financial," as the Democrats put it. The Clintons made an arrangement with then-President Obama's administration to disclose their donations from foreign governments -- and then shamelessly violated it. When Hillary Clinton left office in 2013, a raft of foreign governments rushed to donate to the widely expected Democratic front-runner of 2016 -- to "save lives," of course, through the Clinton charities.
The moment the foundation became a subject of scandal in 2016, foreign contributions dried up, and the Global Initiative was shuttered. The Global Initiative was shuttered.
While the national media currently obsess over a 20-minute meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with a "Kremlin-backed lawyer," we can guess that if the election had turned out differently, the Clintons would have turned their foundation over to Chelsea Clinton and made another raft of insincere promises about keeping any conflicts of interests at bay. Investigating her foreign contacts would be portrayed by journalists as a form of child abuse, or an early campaign against the next President Clinton.
And now, back to Donald Jr. ...
Swalwell is “following in the footsteps” of Fortney (Pete) Stark who owned a bank with a Peace Symbol on it from the Vietnam War Era. We all cheered when the bank was subjected to a wrecking ball a couple of years ago. Alameda County has tried it’s best to “give the country” a continuing list of “worthless turds” as Congressmen. Just the name Swalwell has that “I wanna puke” ring to it.
“no controlling authority”.
So many scandals, hard to keep track of them all without a program.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PGY7jzq9pQI
I only write that nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way liberals want it settled, and then it is settled. A corollary to this theorem is that nothing is ever of importance until it is said by liberals to be of importance, and then it becomes the center of the universe of importance.
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“”Just the name Swalwell has that “I wanna puke” ring to it.””
He seems to be garnering a lot of attention lately and it’s apparent where he thinks his job is going to take him. I don’t like the looks or sound of him - pretty sleazy just like Van Hollen from MD. They both are pretty transparent as to their hopes for their future but not ours!
John Huang was a Red Chinese spy that got CIA commercial briefings under Clinton, right? And he got clearance with no background check, I believe. Then he fled the country when things finally got too hot for him.
Wow, thanks for the link.
It ought not be forgotten that China and by proxy, N. Korea has about 7-10 years of missile advancement under its belt thanks to the Clinton escapades of those years.
something like that
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Illegal fundraising, 1992
Illegal fundraising, 1996
Huang visited the White House 78 times while working as a DNC fund-raiser. James Riady visited the White House 20 times including 6 personal visits with President Clinton.
Immediately prior to joining the DNC, Huang worked in the Clinton's Commerce Department as deputy assistant secretary for international economic affairs giving him access to classified intelligence on China
Sorta like the Cloward-Pivens effect.
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