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In 1995, former Iranian president Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani made a little-noticed trip to the neighboring country of Georgia. He spent several hours in Tbilisi, the capital, and then instead of returning to Iran, he made a secret side trip to the breakaway region of Adjara to visit President Aslan Abashidze. The purpose of the detour was not to visit the balmy, palm-treed tourist sea port resort of Batumi on the Black Sea. His purpose was more sinister. The Iranian president was looking for black market sources of chemicals to enrich uranium for building a nuclear bomb. He found a willing...

The Clinton Foundation raked in Millions from USAID. In 2010, USAID managed $4.4 billion for Haiti under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Clinton Foundation was a significant player in those Haiti "efforts". Where did the money go? ... Clinton Foundation audits were done by Doug Emhoff's law firm DLA PIPER. Peter Comey (1963-2023) brother of FBI James Comey, worked for DLA Piper. FOIA the audits for the "non profit". James Comey connections with HSBC Bank. Attorney General Kamala D. Harris handled the HSBC mortgage fraud settlement. They are all related by money and secrets. ... Wow. Democrats are such...

On Sunday, December 22, a US Navy guided-missile cruiser, the USS Gettysburg, mistakenly shot down an American fighter jet over the Red Sea. This was not the first incident of friendly fire by the U.S. Navy, nor the most tragic. On Sunday morning, July 3, 1988, at the tail end of the Iran-Iraq War, an Aegis cruiser in the Persian Gulf, the USS Vincennes, fired two Standard Missiles at a commercial Iranian Airbus, IR 655. Captain Will Rogers III and his crew had mistaken the ascending passenger jet with 290 people on board for a descending Iranian F-14, a fighter...

Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman from New York and registered sex offender who served 18 months in federal prison for sending explicit texts to a 15-year-old girl, is running for office again. After weeks of publicly mulling a bid for New York City Council in 2025, Weiner has formally filed to run in the second district, which encompasses the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He is running in an open race to succeed term-limited incumbent Carlina Rivera. "Mr. Moneybags over here," Weiner joked on X after New York Post reporter Craig McCarthy posted a screenshot of the candidate's campaign...

Former president Bill Clinton has revealed that he regrets ever having met with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. In his new book 'Citizen', which is scheduled to come out next week, Clinton, now 78, described his interactions with the convicted pedophile. The excerpts, first reported by The US Sun, show him admitting that he had flown on Esptein's private jet, the Lolita Express, in 2002 and 2003.

Frankly, as the ladies say, I am “exhausted” after a week of assassination attempts, Secret Service blame dodging, and Donald Trump infuriating the noblesse by ad-libbing his acceptance speech. But it all comes down to this. If we elect Donald Trump president in November we are likely voting for three things. First, we are voting to stop illegal immigration. Second, we are voting to stop the Green New Scam. Third, we are voting to grow the economy. Okay, I can think of some more. Fourth, we are going to push back against woke. Fifth, we are going to abolish the...

President Joe Biden, battling a behind-the-scenes campaign led by former speaker Nancy Pelosi to abandon his reelection bid, appears to be getting unexpected support from a former rival—former first lady and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Biden, who famously resents being asked to step aside as the sitting vice president to make way for Clinton's losing 2016 presidential bid, is facing a full-blown revolt among party donors and elected officials in swing states and districts after a catastrophic debate performance against Donald Trump. And yet, as his campaign's cash flow begins to dry up, Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President...

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton are privately supporting Biden and have been encouraging donors to continue giving and stick with the president, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. One source described the Clintons’ support as "encouraging," "supportive" and "deferential" to Biden’s decision to stay in this race. Several members of Biden's senior staff including, deputy chief-of staff Annie Tomasini and Steve Richetti, the president's counselor, are in Rehoboth, Delaware where he is recovering from COVID-19. As they have been since the debate, Richetti and Biden’s senior staff continue to “listen” and...

An email made public through the organization WikiLeaks suggests that a company controlled in part by the family of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons mastermind donated to the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative before a different company controlled by the same family was awarded a 35-year no-bid lease to Port Canaveral’s cargo container terminal.

UNITED NATIONS — An unprecedented surge in gang violence is plaguing Haiti, with the number of victims killed, injured and kidnapped more than doubling last year, the U.N. special envoy for the conflict-wracked Caribbean nations said Thursday. In a grim briefing, Maria Isabel Salvador told the U.N. Security Council, “I cannot overstress the severity of the situation in Haiti, where multiple protracted crises have reached a critical point.” She said the 8,400 victims of gang violence documented by her U.N. office last year — a 122% rise from 2022 — were mainly targeted by gangs in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Some...

No doubt, the Democratic Party and the establishment media are having a hard time selling President Joe Biden as a winning candidate. Even to his few remaining avid supporters, the writing on the wall isn’t good. Biden’s questionable health and competency alongside his failed policies have become overtly blaring. A whopping 54 percent of respondents to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll this month said he lacks “the competence to carry out the job of president” today, let alone for another four years. Marching in another candidate to replace the 81-year-old incumbent would seem to be a no-brainer. Hence, the public testing...

Former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a statement marking the death of Rosalynn Carter on Sunday, honoring her work spreading “hope, health and democracy across the globe.” In their statement, the Clintons thanked Rosalynn Carter for her decades of “extraordinary service to our nation and world, and for more than forty years of friendship.” “Rosalynn Carter was a compassionate and committed champion of human dignity everywhere,” they wrote in the statement, adding later, “Rosalynn will be forever remembered as the embodiment of a life lived with purpose.”

The Clintons certainly aren’t strangers to corruption and controversy. Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, they were accused of running the Whitewater real estate investment scandal as governor of Arkansas. Bill allegedly pressured banker David Hale to provide an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the partner of the Clintons in the Whitewater deal. Once they arrived at the White House, the Clintons were accused of illegally firing White House travel office employees and replacing them with friends. In 1996, the Clintons were accused of illegally obtaining FBI files on political opponents. It became known as “Filegate,” but they were...

The FBI had at least four open criminal investigations into Hillary and Bill Clinton that were suddenly dropped in the months before the 2016 presidential election, special counsel John Durham’s recently released report shows. The bombshell report released by Durham — which concluded that the bureau’s probe into former President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia was “seriously flawed” — also shed light on the quashed probes. The feds had been looking into claims that foreign countries and other individuals were trying to influence the Clintons through donations to their namesake non-profit and Hillary’s presidential campaign. Three of the FBI’s...

Best known for their political careers, the Clinton family has amassed a fortune worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the years. Bill was the 42nd president of the United States, while his wife Hillary Clinton served as the 67th US secretary of state and ran unsuccessfully for president against Donald Trump in 2016. However, politics hasn't been the only source of the family's ever-growing bank balance. Read on to trace the controversial tight-knit family's rise to riches, and find out what Bill, Hillary, and their daughter Chelsea are worth these days. All dollar amounts are in US dollars.

A billionaire financier and investor was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his office in New York City. The death of Thomas H. Lee, 78, was confirmed by his family in a statement released on Thursday. Police discovered Lee's body around 11:10 a.m. at his office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan - where his business Thomas H. Lee Capital, LLC is located. Lee had a net worth of roughly $2 billion at the time of his death, according to Forbes. Lee was the founder and chairman of Lee Equity and had served as chairman and CEO of Thomas...

Clinton White House aide Mark Middleton killed himself on a ranch in Arkansas.. A Perry County sheriff now says a gun WAS found, 30 feet from his body.. ... A shotgun WAS found near the body of the Clinton White House aide who killed himself on a ranch in Arkansas, the local sheriff is now saying. ... Heifer Ranch in Perryville, an hour west of Little Rock, after an abandoned BMW SUV was found there specifically said there was no gun in the car. ... a Stoeger 12-gauge coach gun – was found on the ground 30 feet from Middleton’s...

Former MSNBC host and leftist anti-Trump critic Keith Olbermann rushed to defend President Joe Biden on Twitter after Biden became embroiled in a classified documents scandal. "We’re really going to do this again? We’re really going to do Hillary Clinton’s emails again? We’re really going to do whataboutism and both sides-ism again?" Olbermann asked in a video he posted on the social media platform. Olbermann targeted CNN, CBS News, NBC News, The Washington Post and The New York Times for reporting on a newly revealed investigation into Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents.

She can cackle but can she sing? Hillary Clinton will give the American public a taste of her vocal abilities when she performs Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” and Katy Perry’s “Roar” in a new episode of Apple TV+’s Carpool Karaoke, joining her daughter Chelsea in a group rendition with stars Vanessa Williams and Amber Ruffin. Carpool Karaoke will feature Hillary and Chelsea Clinton in a new episode that is set to debut Friday, according to a report from The Wrap. ὄ Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Amber Ruffin and Vanessa Williams sing "I Will Survive" on Carpool Karaoke: The Series...