Posted on 07/20/2018 8:54:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oh, isn’t that a sweet racket.
Offer the guilty people on the left “immunity” to testify against people on the “right.”
Heads they win, tails we lose.
I wish our President would stop just complaining about this crap, remember he’s in charge of these people and start DOING something about it (start with firing an Attorney General who’s seemingly done about 4 hours work in a year and a half).
Furthermore, I think that if Mueller were to get evidence of the same crime(s) committed by Tony and covered by the immunity from another independent source (i.e. not derived from the testimony itself), Tony could still be prosecuted.
That said, I am not a lawyer.
Update: Mueller Suspected of Giving Podesta Brothers Immunity to Indict Manafort and Is HIDING..
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 7/17/2018 | Jim Hoft
Posted on 7/18/2018 1:24:16 AM by bitt
What does Manafort have to do with Podesta?
Why are you posting old non-relevant news in this thread.
Please stop.
It’s disrupting the flow of relevant replies and posts.
Thanks.
Exactly.
The swamp protects its own. Immunizing democrats was one of the top objectives of this whole thing.
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The whole purpose of the Special Counsel was to cover up for the Kenyanesian Usurpation and all of its myriad crimes.
Almost everyone in the District of Corruption is compromised.
Trump is swimming with sharks.
God bless and protect this man.
“Does this mean TONY PODESTA is Guilty?”
YES
This is like offering Al Capone immunity to testify against Edward J. O’Hare.
What gives Mueller the jurisdiction to cut deals with crooks who broke laws not having anything to do with collusion.
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The Podesta brothers possess the Clinton shield that keeps them and their associates out of prison. There is no justice in the USA as long as these people get away with their numerous crimes.
NO....Mueller is a DISGUSTING, VILE, EVIL DEMOCRAT, and so is Tony Podesta!!! NOTHING will happen to ANY DEMOCRAT....it is the “JUST US” Dept.!!
My question or even vice versa.
This is the same scheme used to grant immunity to a number of Hillary’s inner circle during their so called FBI interviews. What a great racket. If the FBI and the DOJ are corrupt, this is the perfect defense against the guilty ever being prosecuted, while the innocent become the full target of a corrupt legal system.
The Clinton mob is running the country.
Old non-relevant? Tony Podesta is the brother of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager. Hillary and Obama were up to their eyeballs in *genuine* Russia collusion, as was Paul Manafort, several years prior to his joining the Trump campaign. He worked to get Putin's puppet candidate elected in the Ukraine.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton facilitated a uranium exchange with Russian law enforcement by former FBI Director (and current chief Deep State inquisitor) Robert Mueller.
The exchange was exposed via a recent Wikileaks publication of a secret cable between Hillarys State Department and the Russian embassy.
Hillary sent Mueller to Moscow with orders to turn over a 10 gram sample of highly enriched uranium (HEU) which was obtained during a shadowy 2006 nuclear sting operation conducted in the Georgian Republic.
The ostensible reason for the transfer was to engender further trust between Russian and American law enforcement in the area of nuclear materials and to learn more about how to trace nuclear materials.
But when it comes to Hillary and Russian uranium interests, the shady Uranium One deal cannot pass unnoted.
There still has been no real investigation into how Hillary gave permission for a Russian company to acquire a quarter of the North American uranium reserves after Russian interests poured hundreds of millions into the Clinton Foundation and gave Bill Clinton six figure speaking fees.
At the very least, this exchange raises serious questions about the ability of Robert Mueller to do his job as special prosecutor on the Russian collusion charges since he already has connections to major figures in Russian law enforcement.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanlibertypac.com ...
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We all know that the Russian Collusion investigation is nothing but a game to try and distract the population from actually caring about the day to day running of the country, but the charade has gone too far and some serious questions need to be asked; most especially of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
WikiLeaks has put out a document that details then FBI Director Muellers itinerary on his visit to Russia to deliver 10 grams of Enriched Uranium.
One more time for those who missed it
Mueller hand delivered Highly Enriched Uranium to the Russian government!
(Excerpt) Read more at investmentwatchblog.com ...
Viktor Yanukovych
Manafort was hired to advise Yanukovych months after massive street demonstrations known as the Orange Revolution overturned Yanukovychs victory in the 2004 presidential race.[50]
Borys Kolesnikov, Yanukovichs campaign manager, said the party hired Manafort after identifying organizational and other problems in the 2004 elections, in which it was advised by Russian strategists.[48]
Manafort rebuffed U.S. Ambassador William Taylor when the latter complained he was undermining U.S. interests in Ukraine.[34]
According to a 2008 U.S. Justice Department annual report, Manaforts company received $63,750 from Yanukovychs Party of Regions over a six-month period ending on March 31, 2008, for consulting services.[51]
In 2010, under Manaforts tutelage, the opposition leader put the Orange Revolution on trial, campaigning against its leaders management of a weak economy. Returns from the presidential election gave Yanukovych a narrow win over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of the 2004 demonstrations.
Yanukovych owed his comeback in Ukraines presidential election to a drastic makeover of his political persona and, people in his party say, that makeover was engineered in part by his American consultant, Manafort.[48]
In 2007 and 2008 Manafort was involved in investment projects with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska (the acquisition of a Ukrainian telecoms company) and Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash (redevelopment of the site of the former Drake Hotel in New York City).[52]
The Associated Press has reported that Manafort negotiated a $10 million annual contract with Deripaska to promote Russian interests in politics, business, and media coverage in Europe and the United States, starting in 2005.[53]
In 2013 Yanukovych became the main target of the Euromaidan protests.[54]
After the February 2014 Ukrainian revolution (the conclusion of Euromaidan) Yanukovych fled to Russia.[54] On March 17, 2014, the day after the Crimean status referendum, Yanukovych became one of the first eleven persons who were placed under executive sanctions on the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) by President Obama, freezing his assets in the US and banning him from entering the United States.[55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][a]
Manafort then returned to Ukraine in September 2014 to become an advisor to Yanukovychs former head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Serhiy Lyovochkin.[49]
In this role he was asked to assist in rebranding Yanukovychs Party of Regions.[49] Instead, he argued to help stabilize Ukraine, Manafort was instrumental in creating a new political party called Opposition Bloc.[49] According to Ukrainian political analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky, He thought to gather the largest number of people opposed to the current government, you needed to avoid anything concrete, and just become a symbol of being opposed.[49]
According to Manafort, he has not worked in Ukraine since the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[66][67]
However, according to Ukrainian border control entry data, Manafort traveled to Ukraine several times after that election, all the way through late 2015.[67]
According to The New York Times, his local office in Ukraine closed in May 2016.[28]
According to Politico, by then Opposition Bloc had already stopped payments for Manafort and this local office.[67]
In an April 2016 interview with ABC News Manafort stated that the aim of his activities in Ukraine had been to lead the country closer to Europe.[68]
Ukrainian government National Anti-Corruption Bureau studying secret documents claimed in August 2016 to have found handwritten records that show $12.7 million in cash payments designated for Manafort, although they had yet to determine if he had received the money.[28]
These undisclosed payments were from the pro-Russian political party Party of Regions, of the former president of Ukraine.[28] This payment record spans from 2007 to 2012.[28] Manaforts lawyer, Richard A. Hibey, said Manafort didnt receive any such cash payments as described by the anti-corruption officials.[28]
The Associated Press reported on August 17, 2016 that Manafort secretly routed at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012 on Party of Regions behalf, and did so in a way that effectively obscured the foreign political partys efforts to influence U.S. policy.[11]
Associated Press noted that under federal law, U.S. lobbyists must declare publicly if they represent foreign leaders or their political parties and provide detailed reports about their actions to the Justice Department, which Manafort reportedly did not do.[11] The lobbying firms unsuccessfully lobbied U.S. Congress to reject a resolution condemning the jailing of Yanukovychs main political rival, Yulia Tymoshenko.[69]
Financial records certified in December 2015 and filed by Manafort in Cyprus showed him to be approximately $17 million in debt to interests connected to interests favorable to Putin and Yanukovych in the months before joining the Trump presidential campaign in March.[70]
These included a $7.8 million debt to Oguster Management Limited, a company connected to Russian oligarch and close Putin associate Oleg Deripaska.[70] This accords with a 2015 court complaint filed by Deripaska claiming that Manafort and his partners owed him $19 million in relation to a failed Ukrainian cable television business.[70]
An additional $9.9 million debt was owed to a Cyprus company that tied through shell companies to Ivan Fursin, a Ukrainian Member of Parliament of the Party of Regions.[70] Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni maintained in response that Manafort is not indebted to Mr. Deripaska or the Party of Regions, nor was he at the time he began working for the Trump campaign.[70]
During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Manafort, via Kiev-based operative Konstantin Kilimnik, offered to provide briefings on political developments to Deripaska, though there is no evidence that the briefings took place.[71][72]
According to alleged leaked text messages between his daughters Manafort was also one of the proponents of violent removal of the Euromaidan protesters which resulted in police shooting dozens of people during 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots.
In one of the messages his daughter writes that his strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered.[73]
Manafort has rejected questions about whether Russian-Ukrainian operative Konstantin Kilimnik, with whom he consulted regularly, might be in league with Russian intelligence.[74]
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During his campaign for the presidency in 2004, Yushchenko became seriously ill from dioxin poisoning in an apparent assassination attempt; his face was left permanently disfigured and pockmarked.
Mass protests, which became known as the Orange Revolution, followed a runoff round in which Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, backed by Kuchma and generally considered pro-Russian and cool toward western Europe as compared with Yushchenko, had been declared the winner.
The Supreme Court, after invalidating that result, ordered a second runoff to be held in December 2004. Yushchenko was officially confirmed as the winner the following month.
As president, Yushchenko quickly encountered difficulties. He faced a fuel crisis beginning in May 2005, and in September he replaced his entire cabinet, accusing it of incompetence. In the 2006 parliamentary elections, Yushchenkos party finished third, and eventually he was forced to approve the nomination of Yanukovych for prime minister.
A power struggle between Yushchenko and Yanukovych escalated in early 2007, when parliament passed laws that seriously curtailed Yushchenkos authority. In particular, the new legislation ended the presidents right to reject parliaments choice of prime minister.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Yushchenko
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From 2014
Many Ukrainians believe you need look no further than the face of Viktor Yushchenko to understand Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
Once smooth and ruggedly handsome, it still bears the scars from an assassination attempt when someone slipped dioxin into Yushchenko's food. ..."
Read more here:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24765781.html#storylink=cpy
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