Sheriff Joe
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It's Christmas decorations, you commie bastard.
The Inevitable New The Inevitable Trump Mocking Thread
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This is good enough for me,
Trump, in Fox News interview, says he never ‘directed’ Michael Cohen ‘to do anything wrong’
President tweets that he never directed his former personal lawyer to break the law; John Roberts reports on the reaction from the White House.
President Trump, in his first interview since Michael Cohen was sentenced to prison, told Fox News on Thursday that he never directed his former fixer to do anything wrong and called Cohen's allegations to the contrary an attempt to “embarrass” him.
“I never directed him to do anything wrong,” the president told host Harris Faulkner in an exclusive interview on Fox News’ "Outnumbered Overtime." “Whatever he did he did on his own.”
Cohen, who worked as Trump’s lawyer for years before later turning against his boss, was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge in New York after pleading guilty to numerous crimes, while cooperating with prosecutors. Those crimes included tax evasion and campaign-finance violations -- pertaining to hush-money payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who claimed past affairs with Trump. Cohen, speaking in court, implicated the president in those transactions, saying he felt it was his duty to cover up the president's “dirty deeds.”
In the interview with Faulkner at the White House, Trump said he believes Cohen cut a deal with prosecutors to “embarrass me” in an attempt to get a lesser sentence. He said the campaign-finance charges were specifically meant to embarrass him.
"It's a terrible system we have," Trump said of that deal.
Prosecutors echoed Cohen's claim that Trump orchestrated payments to former Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult film actress Stormy Daniels at Trump's direction.
But Trump insisted in Thursday’s interview that the Cohen payments were “not a campaign finance violation.” He has previously tweeted that they were a “simple private transaction.”
The president also took aim at the practice of taxpayer-funded settlement payments being paid to congressional staffers who accuse their bosses of harassment, asking why that’s not considered a campaign contribution.
“What about Congress where they have a slush fund and millions and millions of dollars is paid out each year?” he said. “They have a slush fund. Millions, they don't talk about campaign finance, anything. Have you ever heard of campaign finance laws? Have they listed that on their campaign finance sheets? No.”
The president recalled how he first hired Cohen as his fixer more than a decade ago while in business, saying Cohen got on his radar by doing a “favor” for him on a condominium committee. The president, considering everything that has happened recently, acknowledged it was a mistake to hire him.
“I hire usually good people but it just happened,” Trump said.
The president, in the interview, also addressed the curious court case against his former national security adviser Michael Flynn. His comments about Flynn come as a federal judge ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team late Wednesday to turn over all the government's documents related to Flynn's questioning, ahead of upcoming sentencing.
Trump said FBI agents “convinced” Flynn “he lied" in order to get Flynn to plead guilty to giving false statements about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. Flynn is cooperating with prosecutors, but Trump said he doubts Flynn did what Cohen did.
“Maybe they scared him enough that he'll make up a story but I have a feeling that maybe he didn't,” Trump said. “He's a tougher kind of a guy than Cohen.”
The president also addressed John Kelly’s departure as White House chief of staff, and his search for a replacement.
“I want somebody that's strong but I want somebody that thinks like I do,” he said. “It's my vision. It is my vision. After all, at the same time, I'm open to ideas
Trump, in Fox News interview, says he never ‘directed’ Michael Cohen ‘to do anything wrong’
President tweets that he never directed his former personal lawyer to break the law; John Roberts reports on the reaction from the White House.
President Trump, in his first interview since Michael Cohen was sentenced to prison, told Fox News on Thursday that he never directed his former fixer to do anything wrong and called Cohen's allegations to the contrary an attempt to “embarrass” him.
“I never directed him to do anything wrong,” the president told host Harris Faulkner in an exclusive interview on Fox News’ "Outnumbered Overtime." “Whatever he did he did on his own.”
Cohen, who worked as Trump’s lawyer for years before later turning against his boss, was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge in New York after pleading guilty to numerous crimes, while cooperating with prosecutors. Those crimes included tax evasion and campaign-finance violations -- pertaining to hush-money payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who claimed past affairs with Trump. Cohen, speaking in court, implicated the president in those transactions, saying he felt it was his duty to cover up the president's “dirty deeds.”
In the interview with Faulkner at the White House, Trump said he believes Cohen cut a deal with prosecutors to “embarrass me” in an attempt to get a lesser sentence. He said the campaign-finance charges were specifically meant to embarrass him.
"It's a terrible system we have," Trump said of that deal.
Prosecutors echoed Cohen's claim that Trump orchestrated payments to former Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult film actress Stormy Daniels at Trump's direction.
But Trump insisted in Thursday’s interview that the Cohen payments were “not a campaign finance violation.” He has previously tweeted that they were a “simple private transaction.”
The president also took aim at the practice of taxpayer-funded settlement payments being paid to congressional staffers who accuse their bosses of harassment, asking why that’s not considered a campaign contribution.
“What about Congress where they have a slush fund and millions and millions of dollars is paid out each year?” he said. “They have a slush fund. Millions, they don't talk about campaign finance, anything. Have you ever heard of campaign finance laws? Have they listed that on their campaign finance sheets? No.”
The president recalled how he first hired Cohen as his fixer more than a decade ago while in business, saying Cohen got on his radar by doing a “favor” for him on a condominium committee. The president, considering everything that has happened recently, acknowledged it was a mistake to hire him.
“I hire usually good people but it just happened,” Trump said.
The president, in the interview, also addressed the curious court case against his former national security adviser Michael Flynn. His comments about Flynn come as a federal judge ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team late Wednesday to turn over all the government's documents related to Flynn's questioning, ahead of upcoming sentencing.
Trump said FBI agents “convinced” Flynn “he lied" in order to get Flynn to plead guilty to giving false statements about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. Flynn is cooperating with prosecutors, but Trump said he doubts Flynn did what Cohen did.
“Maybe they scared him enough that he'll make up a story but I have a feeling that maybe he didn't,” Trump said. “He's a tougher kind of a guy than Cohen.”
The president also addressed John Kelly’s departure as White House chief of staff, and his search for a replacement.
“I want somebody that's strong but I want somebody that thinks like I do,” he said. “It's my vision. It is my vision. After all, at the same time, I'm open to ideas
Sucker.
Sheriff Joe
DA
2 good 2 check
Report: Gingrich now the frontrunner for chief of staff
AllahpunditPosted at 11:21 am on December 13, 2018
Report: Gingrich now the frontrunner for chief of staff
AllahpunditPosted at 11:21 am on December 13, 2018
Sheriff Joe
DA
Just like E-peeer,
DRIP DRIP DRIP
The DOJ Inspector General Found 19,000 'Lost' Strzok and Page Texts
DRIP DRIP DRIP
The DOJ Inspector General Found 19,000 'Lost' Strzok and Page Texts
And this is the country that stole the election from Hillary who stole the nomination from Bernie?
Russian robot hailed as hi-tech on state TV revealed as man in suit...
Are they sure it was a man.....Hillary has colluded to fit in many a " Pants " suit.......
Huma loves the " Colors " too !
And this is the country that stole the election from Hillary who stole the nomination from Bernie?
Russian robot hailed as hi-tech on state TV revealed as man in suit...
Are they sure it was a man.....Hillary has colluded to fit in many a " Pants " suit.......
Huma loves the " Colors " too !
*GOBEARGO*
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Hilarious...all you get is the wife beater commenting on the color of the font.
*GOBEARGO*
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Could you imagine if the mainstream media reported this info to the sheep daily? They would lose the collective "minds".
Bruddah IZ
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So long you big pussy.
Jeff Flake Warns of U.S. ‘Authoritarianism’ in Farewell Speech
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Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) warned in his farewell remarks Thursday morning that the United States faces “threats” from within its political system, stating “to say that our politics is not healthy is something of an understatement.”
“I believe that we all know well that this is not a normal time, that the threats to our democracy from within and without are real, and none of us can say with confidence how the situation that we now find ourselves in will turn out,” Flake said in his final floor speech. “[T]o say that our politics is not healthy is something of an understatement.”
Flake, who is retiring from the Senate in January after declining to run for re-election, is among President Donald Trump’s most outspoken critic in Congress, often criticizing both the president’s American First agenda and tone. The outgoing lawmaker warned that while the U.S. political institutions remain intact, the country is “by no means immune” to authoritarianism.
“Let us recognize from this place here today that the shadow of tyranny is once again enveloping parts of the globe,” said Flake “And let us recognize as authoritarianism reasserts itself in country after country that we are by no means immune.”
Recalling his days as a monitor of Namibia’s transition to democracy, Flake spoke of Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel’s speech before Congress in 1990 about the importance of support the Soviet Union before its collapse.
“Vladimir Putin would go on to be president and he is president still, and just as he hijacked democracy in his own country, he is determined to do so everywhere,” the Arizona Republican said. “Denial of this reality will not make it any less real. This is something that is staring us in the face, right now, as we are gathered here today.”
Flake, who expressed “gratitude” for the opportunity to serve in Senate, reflected on his inaugural Senate floor speech six years prior. “I noted then and echo today that serious challenges lie ahead, but any honest reckoning of our history and our prospects will note that we have confronted and survived more daunting challenges than we now face,” he said. “Ours is a durable, resilient system of government, designed to withstand the foibles of those who from time to time occupy this place, including yours truly.”
Flake is missing the part about our country being Hijacked by the Fed.
The objective of the Federal Reserve Transparency Act is simple: to protect the interests of the average American by finding out where hundreds of billions worth of our dollars are going. The Federal Reserve has the ability to create new money and spend it on whatever financial assets it wants, whenever it wants, while giving the new money to whichever banks it wants.
Yet, if the average Messy and legend from Main Street printed their own money, they would be imprisoned as counterfeiters. Nowhere else but in Washington D.C. would you find an institution with so much unchecked power. Creating new money naturally lowers interest rates, or the price of using money. Put another way, the Federal Reserve’s unchecked printing press creates a price control on the cost of using money.
Throughout our country’s history, price controls have never worked, and the Fed’s price control on interest rates has not worked. Think back to the housing bubble. Artificially low interest rates led to too many individuals buying, selling, and investing in the housing industry. This in turn led prices to soar, which ultimately, led the economy to spiral down to the Great Recession of 2008.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed has increased its balance sheet from less than $1 trillion to over $4.4 trillion. Although the Fed has created trillions of new dollars, it has become apparent that most of this money is not finding its way into the hands of the average American.
From 2009 to 2012, the incomes of the top 1 percent increased by a whopping 31 percent, while everyone else’s incomes increased by a measly 0.4 percent. The reason for this is simple: big banks, corporations, and government entities receive the Fed’s money long before anyone else, and they bid up the prices of assets before the rest of us can get to purchasing them.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh once referred to the Fed’s easy-money policies as the reverse Robin Hood effect.
“If you have access to credit—if you’ve got a big balance sheet—the Fed has made you richer. This is a way to make the well-to-do even more well-to-do.”
The side effect of this uneven distribution of money is painfully apparent to many at the grocery store. Over the past 15 years, the price of white bread has increased by over 50 percent, while the price of eggs has more than doubled.
The cost of housing has also appreciated significantly in many areas. When adjusting for inflation, the price of housing in San Francisco has increased by 58 percent over just 25 years. Real household income, for regular Americans, has declined 10 percent over the past 15 years. Higher rent and higher grocery bills cause low income workers to incur more loans and credit card debt, which involve far higher interest rates than what the banks and Wall Street are currently paying.
These low income workers do not get the luxury of receiving the Fed’s newly-created money first, nor do they do have the luxury of receiving the near-zero interest rates that the wealthy do. As a result, one thing is for certain: the Fed’s price-control on interest rates acts a hidden tax on the less-well-to-do.
The Fed also exacerbates income inequality by paying large commercial banks $12 billion in interest, this is a departure from nearly a century of practice, while individual savers earn practically no interest - the big banks are given $12 billion in interest.
There is a revolving door between the Fed, the Treasury, and Wall Street -- a revolving door in a building that is all-too-eager to enrich big banks and asset holders at the expense of everyone else. I think that it’s about time we pull back the curtain to uncover this cloak of secrecy once and for all.
Who is receiving loans from the Fed today? Who is the Fed paying interest to? Are there any conflicts about how these payments are determined? Are there any checks and balances on the size of these payments? The Federal Reserve Act actually forbids the Fed from buying some of the troubled assets they purchased in 2008. Yet they did it anyway.
Given all these unanswered questions and given the sharp increase in the risk. Fed's balance sheet, it is unquestionably necessary for the fed to be audited more thoroughly than it has in the past. Audit the fed is just three pages long, and it simply says that the government accountability office, the GAO, which is a nonpartisan, apolitical agency in charge, that they be allowed to audit the fed, a full and thorough audit.
Currently, the GAO Is not allowed to monitor the fed's monetary deliberations or open market transactions. The GAO Was also forbidden from reviewing agreements with foreign central banks. During the downturn in 2008, trillions of dollars were spent, much of it, or quite a bit of it on foreign banks and we're not allowed to know what occurred, to whom this was given, and for what purpose. The fed audit in its current form is virtually futile.
When these restrictions were added to the audit in the 1970s, the GAO testified before Congress saying, “we do not see how we can satisfactorily audit the Federal Reserve System without authority to examine its largest single category of financial transactions and assets...”
To grasp just how limited the current audit is, recall that in 2009 Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson asked then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke which foreign countries received $500 billion in loans from the Fed, Bernanke was unwilling to name which countries or banks received the half-trillion worth of funds.
That’s right: the Fed swapped half-a-trillion dollars to foreign countries in secret and did not even have the decency, under testimony before Congress, to report the details to anyone. But it gets worse: Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders also asked Bernanke who received $2.2 trillion that the Fed lent out during the financial crisis. Again, Bernanke refused to give a direct answer.
In the 2011, Dodd-Frank law, Congress ordered a limited, one-time GAO audit of Fed actions during the financial crisis. That audit uncovered that the Fed lent over $16 trillion to domestic and foreign banks during the financial crisis - a figure we would never have known if we only relied on the Fed's internal audits.
Both Republicans and Democrats agree that it is absurd we do not know where hundreds of billions worth of our money is going. In fact, last year, my Audit the Fed bill received the support of nearly every Republican in the House of Representatives, and over 100 Democrats.
Some say that an audit will politicize the Fed. I find this claim odd given both sides of the aisle’s support for the bill. The GAO is a nonpartisan, independent, works for Congress. It does not lean Republican or Democratic, and it is not interested in influencing policy.
I can’t seem to understand how a simple check by the GAO to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest will politicize anything.
Instead of criticizing a standard audit though, maybe the individuals that work within our central bank should begin curbing their own actions. Unlike the actions of current Fed officials, my bipartisan bill will not politicize monetary policy. I simply want to in overseeing the fed to ensure that our central bank is not picking favorites, and I want to make sure it remains solvent.
Like every agency, the Federal Reserve was created by Congress and is supposed to be overseen by Congress. Auditing the Fed should not be a partisan issue.
Regardless of one’s monetary policy views - regardless of whether you think interest rates should be higher or lower - everyone can and should agree that for the sake of our country’s economic well-being, we need to know what has been going on behind the Federal Reserve’s cloak of secrecy.
It’s time we quit this guessing game. It’s time we audit the Federal Reserve once and for all to restore transparency to our nation’s checkbook.
“If you have access to credit—if you’ve got a big balance sheet—the Fed has made you richer. This is a way to make the well-to-do even more well-to-do.”
The side effect of this uneven distribution of money is painfully apparent to many at the grocery store. Over the past 15 years, the price of white bread has increased by over 50 percent, while the price of eggs has more than doubled.
The cost of housing has also appreciated significantly in many areas. When adjusting for inflation, the price of housing in San Francisco has increased by 58 percent over just 25 years. Real household income, for regular Americans, has declined 10 percent over the past 15 years. Higher rent and higher grocery bills cause low income workers to incur more loans and credit card debt, which involve far higher interest rates than what the banks and Wall Street are currently paying.
These low income workers do not get the luxury of receiving the Fed’s newly-created money first, nor do they do have the luxury of receiving the near-zero interest rates that the wealthy do. As a result, one thing is for certain: the Fed’s price-control on interest rates acts a hidden tax on the less-well-to-do.
The Fed also exacerbates income inequality by paying large commercial banks $12 billion in interest, this is a departure from nearly a century of practice, while individual savers earn practically no interest - the big banks are given $12 billion in interest.
There is a revolving door between the Fed, the Treasury, and Wall Street -- a revolving door in a building that is all-too-eager to enrich big banks and asset holders at the expense of everyone else. I think that it’s about time we pull back the curtain to uncover this cloak of secrecy once and for all.
Who is receiving loans from the Fed today? Who is the Fed paying interest to? Are there any conflicts about how these payments are determined? Are there any checks and balances on the size of these payments? The Federal Reserve Act actually forbids the Fed from buying some of the troubled assets they purchased in 2008. Yet they did it anyway.
Given all these unanswered questions and given the sharp increase in the risk. Fed's balance sheet, it is unquestionably necessary for the fed to be audited more thoroughly than it has in the past. Audit the fed is just three pages long, and it simply says that the government accountability office, the GAO, which is a nonpartisan, apolitical agency in charge, that they be allowed to audit the fed, a full and thorough audit.
Currently, the GAO Is not allowed to monitor the fed's monetary deliberations or open market transactions. The GAO Was also forbidden from reviewing agreements with foreign central banks. During the downturn in 2008, trillions of dollars were spent, much of it, or quite a bit of it on foreign banks and we're not allowed to know what occurred, to whom this was given, and for what purpose. The fed audit in its current form is virtually futile.
When these restrictions were added to the audit in the 1970s, the GAO testified before Congress saying, “we do not see how we can satisfactorily audit the Federal Reserve System without authority to examine its largest single category of financial transactions and assets...”
To grasp just how limited the current audit is, recall that in 2009 Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson asked then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke which foreign countries received $500 billion in loans from the Fed, Bernanke was unwilling to name which countries or banks received the half-trillion worth of funds.
That’s right: the Fed swapped half-a-trillion dollars to foreign countries in secret and did not even have the decency, under testimony before Congress, to report the details to anyone. But it gets worse: Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders also asked Bernanke who received $2.2 trillion that the Fed lent out during the financial crisis. Again, Bernanke refused to give a direct answer.
In the 2011, Dodd-Frank law, Congress ordered a limited, one-time GAO audit of Fed actions during the financial crisis. That audit uncovered that the Fed lent over $16 trillion to domestic and foreign banks during the financial crisis - a figure we would never have known if we only relied on the Fed's internal audits.
Both Republicans and Democrats agree that it is absurd we do not know where hundreds of billions worth of our money is going. In fact, last year, my Audit the Fed bill received the support of nearly every Republican in the House of Representatives, and over 100 Democrats.
Some say that an audit will politicize the Fed. I find this claim odd given both sides of the aisle’s support for the bill. The GAO is a nonpartisan, independent, works for Congress. It does not lean Republican or Democratic, and it is not interested in influencing policy.
I can’t seem to understand how a simple check by the GAO to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest will politicize anything.
Instead of criticizing a standard audit though, maybe the individuals that work within our central bank should begin curbing their own actions. Unlike the actions of current Fed officials, my bipartisan bill will not politicize monetary policy. I simply want to in overseeing the fed to ensure that our central bank is not picking favorites, and I want to make sure it remains solvent.
Like every agency, the Federal Reserve was created by Congress and is supposed to be overseen by Congress. Auditing the Fed should not be a partisan issue.
Regardless of one’s monetary policy views - regardless of whether you think interest rates should be higher or lower - everyone can and should agree that for the sake of our country’s economic well-being, we need to know what has been going on behind the Federal Reserve’s cloak of secrecy.
It’s time we quit this guessing game. It’s time we audit the Federal Reserve once and for all to restore transparency to our nation’s checkbook.
The 74 year old Alcoholic " Now Questionable Vietnam Record " Dirty Cop Robert Mueller is going DOWN !
Hm... That's a riddle I'll let you ponder for a bit. A little free-thinking my do your cranium a bit of good.
Meanwhile, I'm just sad-laughing that this idiotic criminal f**k of a conman president's criminal enterprise is finally going to unravel because he was dim enough to run for president. Amazing.
The New AG of New York is already in hot water..........Keep Dreaming !
Trump's Business's are doing fine..............
*GOBEARGO*
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Haha.
Sheriff Joe
DA
And won, amazing.
So when I say there is a lying criminal fraud traitor in the WH, that is too subtle for you?