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WTF kind of scum is this troll
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/080fbf3c-7485-35ef-ba04-4aeb87ee424b/report%3A-fbi-investigating.html
Report: FBI Investigating Florida Company Where Acting AG Matt Whitaker Was on Advisory Board
| Quote: | | The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting a criminal probe into a Florida company that allegedly scammed customers out of $26 million while Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker served as a paid advisory-board member, The Wall Street Journal reports. The investigation into World Patent Marketing is reportedly being handled by the FBI’s Miami office and U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the agency started contacting alleged fraud victims as “early as June 2017.” The World Patent was reportedly shut down last year after the Federal Trade Commission accused it of “scamming customers out of $26 million.” The company allegedly charged customers “thousands of dollars to patent and promote their inventions,” while providing “almost no real services” and threatening people who complained. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:59 am Post subject: |
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By Editorial Board November 9 at 7:59 PM
IS MATTHEW G. WHITAKER the legitimate acting attorney general? From approximately the second President Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and tapped Mr. Whitaker to temporarily exercise the office’s vast authority, legal experts have sparred over whether Mr. Trump can unilaterally elevate someone from a role that does not require Senate confirmation to one that does. But regardless of whether the promotion is legal, it is very clear that it is unwise. Mr. Whitaker is unfit for the job.
Several prominent legal scholars point out that the Constitution demands that “principal officers” of the United States must undergo Senate confirmation. A 19th-century Supreme Court case suggests there may be limited room for temporary fill-ins, but Mr. Whitaker’s appointment is hardly so temporary; he could serve for most of the rest of Mr. Trump’s first term. Even if Mr. Whitaker’s promotion is constitutional, Congress passed a law governing Justice Department succession that also seems to prohibit Mr. Whitaker’s ascent. The department has a capable, Senate-confirmed deputy attorney general in Rod J. Rosenstein; he should be running the department in the absence of a permanent replacement.
The Senate above all should be offended by the president’s end run around its authority. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should demand hearings and consider filing a lawsuit. Instead, he is helping to establish a troubling precedent, saying only that he expects Mr. Whitaker to be a “very interim AG.” Yet no random official should be endowed with all the powers of an office as powerful as attorney general, meant for a Senate-vetted individual, even for a relatively short time.
And Mr. Whitaker is worse than random. It took less than 24 hours for material to emerge suggesting he could not survive even a rudimentary vetting.
First, there are Mr. Whitaker’s statements criticizing the Russia probe of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. At the least, they require him to consult Justice Department ethics counsel about whether he can oversee the inquiry with a plausible appearance of evenhandedness. He will do immediate and lasting harm to the Justice Department’s reputation, and to the nation, if he assumes the role of president’s personal henchman and impedes the Mueller probe.
Then there is Mr. Whitaker’s connection to a defunct patent promotion company the Federal Trade Commission called “an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars.” Mr. Whitaker served on its board and once threatened a complaining customer, lending the weight of his former position as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Iowa to the company’s scheme.
Finally, and fundamentally most damning, is Mr. Whitaker’s expressed hostility to Marbury v. Madison, a central case — the central case — in the American constitutional system. It established an indispensable principle: The courts decide what is and is not constitutional. Without Marbury, there would be no effective judicial check on the political branches, no matter how egregious their actions.
If the Senate were consulted, it is impossible to imagine Mr. Whitaker getting close to the attorney general’s office. He should not be there now.
From the Washington Post. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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NBC News: Trump likely faced indictment but for presidency
| Quote: | | Rachel Maddow shares new reporting from NBC News that when it comes to the campaign finance felonies to which Michael Cohen has already pled guilty, if it were not for Donald Trump being president, he almost certainly would have been indicted too. This is likely why he installed Matt Whitaker as acting-attorney general. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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roger stone is sending his haters...
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-attack-on-fl-election-legitimacy-drawn-from-2016-playbook-1371091011509
Trump attack on FL election legitimacy drawn from 2016 playbook
| Quote: | | Rachel Maddow points out that part of Russia's plan for interfering in 2016 politics was to attack the election as stolen and illegitimate. Donald Trump did not using that plan in 2016 because he won, but appears to be rolling it out now in Florida. |
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another right winger who was committing treason...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/roger-stone-associate-jerome-corsi-172440399.html
Roger Stone Associate Jerome Corsi In Plea Negotiations With Mueller: Report
| Quote: | Jerome Corsi, a conservative conspiracy theorist associated with Roger Stone, is negotiating a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, The Washington Post reported Friday citing an unnamed person with knowledge of the talks. NBC News confirmed that negotiations are in progress.
The talks could help Mueller and his team determine whether President Donald Trump or anyone working on his campaign coordinated with WikiLeaks in the 2016 hack on Democratic National Committee emails to boost the Trump campaign.
No deal has been finalized, however, and talks could still fall apart. Corsi has previously said that he met with Mueller’s team for 40 hours’ worth of interview sessions and expects an indictment that could land him in prison for the rest of his life. |
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-appointed-judge-hands-donald-041222326.html
Trump-Appointed Judge Hands Donald Trump Bad News In Robert Mueller Russia Case, Rules ‘Collusion’ Is A Crime
| Quote: | In addition to his frequently repeated assertion that there was “no collusion” between his campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has also followed the lead of his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, as The Washington Post reported, claiming that even if Russian collusion did exist, “collusion is not a crime.”
In fact, Trump said exactly that on his Twitter account in July, stating “Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn’t matter because there was No Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)!”
But if Trump and Giuliani were planning to forestall the investigation into Russian collusion led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, by arguing that “collusion its not a crime,” a federal judge appointed to the Washington D.C. district court last year by Trump himself handed Trump a major defeat last week, as the Law & Crime legal news site reported. |
| Quote: | | Ruling in a case brought by Mueller against the Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, which Mueller accuses in an indictment of bankrolling and organizing a team of Russian online “trolls” who used social media disinformation and propaganda to sway the 2016 election toward Trump, Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that merely collaborating with a foreign entity in a “conspiracy to defraud the United States” violates federal law — even if none of the acts by either party are themselves crimes, according to legal expert Randal Eliason, writing on the legal blog |
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from Baja's posted quote:
| Quote: | | Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that merely collaborating with a foreign entity in a “conspiracy to defraud the United States” violates federal law |
Shocking news - NOT! All they have to do is prove it, and then there is a story. |
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| techno900 wrote: | from Baja's posted quote:
| Quote: | | Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that merely collaborating with a foreign entity in a “conspiracy to defraud the United States” violates federal law |
Shocking news - NOT! All they have to do is prove it, and then there is a story. |
Let them come to the USA for court... What he has a 100% conviction rate so far.
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