Posted on 10/01/2019 9:02:29 AM PDT by bitt
If I were a Democrat, I would be afraid, I would be very afraid, after reading former Attorney General Michael Mukasey's Monday WSJ oped: "John Durham's Ukrainian Leads." The subtitle is "What the prosecutor has found may be quite different from what the Democrats are looking for."
Mukasey begins:
"Americans often boast that we are a nation of laws, but for the moment laws appear to play a decidedly secondary role in the drama we are living in and—hopefully—through."
True enough, but the nub of the article, which returns us to the rule of law, comes further on:
"True, much media and political effort has gone into sometimes close and often willful parsing of President Trump’s July 25 conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky —ironic when you consider Mr. Trump’s well-known linguistic promiscuity—not to mention the celebrated whistleblower complaint, which contains no firsthand information. Little notice has been given, however, to another document lying in plain sight: a Justice Department press release issued the day the conversation transcript became public.
That Justice Department statement makes explicit that the president never spoke with Attorney General William Barr “about having Ukraine investigate anything relating to former Vice President Biden or his son” or asked him to contact Ukraine “on this or any other matter,” and that the attorney general has not communicated at all with Ukraine. It also contains the following morsel: “A Department of Justice team led by U.S. Attorney John Durham is separately exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. While the Attorney General has yet to contact Ukraine in connection with this investigation, certain Ukrainians who are not members of the government have volunteered information to Mr. Durham, which he
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Why do I feel like Charlie Brown and the investigators are Lucy?
“A Department of Justice team led by US Atty John Durham is separately exploring the extent to which a number
of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the 2016 Trump campaign.
While the AG has yet to contact Ukraine in connection with this investigation, certain Ukrainians
who are not members of the government have volunteered information to Mr. Durham...
UT, OH-------and this.
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NOTE
<><> Andrii Telizhenko, was then a political officer at Ukraine’s embassy ... dont know what he does now.
<><> Chalupa was a contractor hired by the DNC during the 2016 election.
Over lunch at a Washington restaurant, Chalupa told Telizhenko in stark terms what she hoped the Ukrainians could provide the DNC and the Clinton campaign......... according to his account.
“Chalupa said the DNC wanted to collect evidence that Trump, his organization and Manafort were (A) Russian assets, (B) working to hurt the U.S. and (C) working with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin against the U.S. interests.
"Chalupa indicated if we could find the evidence they would introduce it in Congress in September and try to build a case that Trump should be removed from the ballot, from the election,” he recalled.
FEC records show Chalupa’s firm, Chalupa & Associates, was paid $71,918 by the DNC during the 2016 election cycle.
Something about the words “Durham”, “Horowitz”, and “Barr” that just puts me to sleep. So sleepy. Nap time.
Go ahead and impeach the President. All the Deep State sleaze is gonna come out.
Democrats: be careful what you wish for; you might get it.
So, here’s what really is happening, and from the democrat side, it is all political and not legal;
They see the other shoe dropping... like an anvil.
The best counter they have is to get out in front of it in the media and de-legitimize it.
The best way to de-legitimize it (and TBH this is very very clever) is to make it look like Trump is already mired in the middle of it, and the waters are not so clear that it’s all about democrats. So by pulling this BS, they turn a nothing burger impeachment into a crap sandwich forced down the throat of the people 24/7 during those times (and others) when it all starts falling on the democrats about how they framed Trump for the last 3 years.
Brilliant.
This is about 2020.
They are desperate.
But with the media in their pocket, they think they can pull this off.
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You should have been reading 'Dennis The Menace' instead. He always did what he said he was going to do. Ask Mr. Wilson.
;-)
> “<><> Chalupa was a contractor hired by the DNC during the 2016 election.”
One of our Freepers (I need to retrieve the screen name) says Chalupa is associated with the WUO = Weathermen Underground which many think is defunct but apparently still exists in a ‘sleeper’ state.
WUO is the militant 60s criminal gang involved in killing police officers and blowing up govt buildings. Their membership includes such dangerous notables as Bill Ayers who was to quote Obama ‘just some guy in the neighborhood’ when it was revealed Ayers held fundraising parties for Obama that Obama attended.
The distinguishing attribute of the WUO is they are comprised of an educated segment, equipped with law degrees and holding positions as professors, they are a secretive group, ‘underground’, that are suspected to have infiltrated federal government as employees and appointees expanding greatly during Obama’s two terms likely as part of his much touted ‘Fundamental Transformation’ of the United States.
But their membership is not taken from radicalized vagrants with mental deficiencies, rather from the upper stratum of American society. For example, Ayers father was the CEO of Commonwealth Edison. When one does a deep dive on the background and ancestry of these enemies of America, the connections found are eye-opening.
There is one investigative-researcher doing a deep dive on WUO that has been working on it for months and has shared preliminary results but promises much more. When it’s published, I will post a thread on it.
Mukasey should have been brought on as Atty General or at least some part of the DOJ at the start of the Trump admin. Maybe not AG as he would have probably resigned by now.
He impresses me as very tough, but very smart and very fair.
Investigations always go somthing like this; the President may have done something wrong, we must investigate, this is very troubling, impeach. When the investigation actually shows the democrats comitted crimes, investigation stops.
I love chalupas with some cold Modelo Negra!
“The best counter they have is to get out in front of it in the media and de-legitimize it.”
i agree with that and everything else you stated ... but I think it’s not just the Dems that are panicking but also their Deep State minions in the Fed intelligence community who carried out the Dems plotting ...
If I were a Democrat, I would be afraid, I would be very afraid, after reading former Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s Monday WSJ oped: “John Durham’s Ukrainian Leads.” The subtitle is “What the prosecutor has found may be quite different from what the Democrats are looking for.”
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the noose is tightening
chalupa.....”bombin bill ayers”....bathhouse barry....fundamental transformation...
“still crazy after all these years”.
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please ping me when your friend completes his research on WUO
Having been in LE in the 60’s, I remember the WUO well. They openly called for the violent overthrow of the US government. They openly advocated for the death of law enforcement officers and dynamiting of federal buildings. They were well funded from communist sources with a direct line back to Moscow. They also had a straight line, or dotted line connection to the communist-American enclave in Mexico City. They are bad hombres.
Blah, blah, blah. Just read the IG who took 14 days to verify the WB complaint never investigated whether the WB had 1st hand info when the WB said he did.
All this BS swamp crap!
« But with the media in their pocket, they think they can pull this off.«
Worked with Nixon.
sessions...sessions.....sessions....just relax and let yourself drift off
Mukasey laments that “Americans often boast that we are a nation of laws, but for the moment laws appear to play a decidedly secondary role” but that is mainly because weak Republicans never go after Democrats for anything. They never conduct serious investigations or even make an effort to hold them accountable. So in the absence of punishment, the Dems keep pushing the legal envelope and we all pay a price for it.
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