Posted on 04/24/2019 7:31:02 AM PDT by bitt
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is over, but the aftereffects of the Trump-Russia affair live on. One such aftereffect is the reluctance of some important figures in the 2016 campaign to speak out, for fear of continued legal entanglements.
Take J.D. Gordon, who served as the Trump campaign's director of national security. Never accused of any wrongdoing, he played a central role in one of the most controversial and least understood episodes of the Trump-Russia matter: the approval of the 2016 GOP platform at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
On July 18, 2016, the Washington Post published a story headlined, "Trump campaign guts GOP's anti-Russia stance on Ukraine." Below a scandalously erroneous headline, the piece reported that the campaign, acting contrary to the views of "almost all Republican foreign policy leaders," killed a proposal that the United States provide lethal aid to Ukraine in its struggle against Russia.
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Here the WoPo, no doubt with inside information, begins to anchor the Trump-Russian hoax. Truly they are the enemy of the people.
President Trump
Actually, the WaPo was trying to divide Republicans from Trump by showing he opposed the Endless War policies that then mandated increased military involvement in Ukraine, a la McCain, Rubio et al.
Remember that the ENTIRE Russia hoax started with Ukraine,and Tony Podesta was an unregistered foreign agent for Ukraine (FARA criminal violation)
And Tony, Pizza Man, Podesta is FREE!! DISGUSTING!
What’s ironic here is Trump ended up sending the lethal aid to Ukraine that Obama never did.
It will be interesting to see what happens with Ukraine now that those “Ukrainian Nazis” have tossed out Poroshenko and elected a Jew to replace him.
THIS is how “Democracy dies.” And you can thank the Democrat party and their enablers in the GOP who give this collusion nonsense a bipartisan veneer of respectability.
From York’s article:
Recently I invited Gordon to appear on my weekly podcast. I thought it would be interesting to have an in-depth discussion of the whole platform affair.
He declined. Although he has done some media appearances, Gordon was reluctant to have a long conversation.
He has reason. Remember a few weeks ago when House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler sent document requests to 81 people as part of a new investigation into “threats against the rule of law”? Gordon was one of them (although he had given the same documents to multiple congressional committees and to Mueller). For all anyone knows, Democrats might want to call him to testify about the discredited platform story yet again.
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Also on 'a personal cost level', it cannot be emphasized enough the immense cost this Dem/Deep State/Media/ corruption has had on people like most of us here who actually have known much of the truth for a very long time. We have had to anguish over the unending bald-faced lies the entire time.
I think I have aged ten years in the past two. But if there is justice in the end, all is well.
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And may THE BEAST (Hillary Rotten) go directly to h*ll as soon as possible.
Hear, hear!
Thanks a little elbow grease.
I really understood the Media around the beginning of the Nineties, and gave up watching any news or reading papers around 1998 or so.
I had long felt it before that, but it coalesced for me right around that time.
I had figured out the Left when Nixon was forced out of office, though it had started even earlier for me when I saw the antiwar Left demonizing men like my father, career military, though I thought of the antiwar left as a radical part of the Democrat party, only to gradually realize that WAS the Democrat party, and when they forced Nixon from office, the real radicals began to openly enter the Democrat Party and wrest power from the “old guard”.
It was disillusioning for me, to realize the Left and the Media weren’t just people who had different opinions with which I often disagreed, but were openly hostile to me and mine and didn’t accord me the same forbearance I gave them, and discounted people like me wholly.
I think before that I felt that we were all Americans together wanting what was best for the country. Boy, was I wrong.
Also on ‘a personal cost level’, it cannot be emphasized enough the immense cost this Dem/Deep State/Media/ corruption has had on people like most of us here who actually have known much of the truth for a very long time. We have had to anguish over the unending bald-faced lies the entire time.
I think I have aged ten years in the past two. But if there is justice in the end, all is well.
**************
And may THE BEAST (Hillary Rotten) go directly to h*ll as soon as possible.
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right the clintonista regime has caused enough heart burn for a lifetime.
This is why, if you a fairly intelligent, should never rush out to hire an attorney. Read up on the law yourself.
Tell the government to pound sand, never meet with them in person, make them call you record the call, and let them do all the talking. It’s OK to ask them why they are calling you. Get them to lie about the reason they want to talk. Don’t say anything even if you know you didn’t do anything wrong. Ask them if they have a search warrant or an arrest warrant. If they don’t, tell them the conversation is over and if they ever get an arrest or search warrant, to give you a call so you can contact an attorney at that time.
Do not comply with requests for documents (make them ask for a court order, giving you an opportunity to respond, make a motion for reconsideration, appeal that decision if it goes against you, etc.);
Immediately submit a FOIA request for any all all records related to you.
Corrupt prosecutors want you to hire an attorney because they know they can bleed you dry financially; and unfortunately, most attorneys you might hire will be more than happy to cooperate with them for their personal benefit.
Making a prosecutor deal directly with a smart defendant makes them very uncomfortable. Attorneys will not report other attorneys to a bar association for unethical conduct. A smart defendant can easily get prosecutors to commit ethics violations or crimes when discussing the case and threatening additional unwarranted charges. Having those statements on recorded phone calls can be a big help when going to court and a judge asks you if you have been threatened. This will also give you the opportunity to file a criminal complaint against the prosecutor.
I remember the time before there were emails and many type-written requests were responded to by simply writing you reply on the document, dating it, making a copy for your records, and then sending it back. It was simple and kept the request and the answer on the the same page. It is still a useful tool.
If I were to get a demand letter like those that have been sent out, I would ignore it. If I was served with a summons, I’d write F/U and assert my 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination. This is a perfectly appropriate thing to do. The most obvious reason is that some corrupt prosecutor would intentionally misconstrue what you might say. An equally important reason is that you don’t need an attorney to assert your rights under the 5th Amendment.
Remember the faux journalist who was using the WaPo as his cover for acting as a foreign agent against the Saudi royal family, so much so that he had to be assassinated?
Jamal Khashoggi
The WaPo is an insidious den of liberal fascists and international agents provocateurs. They are “Obamatron Utopians” , jingoistic propagandists bent on the destruction of the United States as we know it.
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