From the great Antonio F. Branco, posted at Legal Insurrection:
Category Archives: 2016
Hillary Campaign Email: “she says things that are untrue, which candidly she often does”
Thanks to WikiLeaks obtaining the emails from Hillary for President campaign top staffers we have gotten some real insights into just how off the charts Orwellian, dishonest and in some cases criminal these people really are.
In this email dated March 16, 2016 John Podesta, Hilllary’s campaign chairman, Brent J. Budowsky, a political reporter from The Hill and Huffington Post, and Roy Spence, a noted ad agency CEO, are discussing how Hillary can borrow some of Bernie’s ideas in an effort to attract his voters. They also are very candid about Hillary having a problem with lying.
The email:
UPDATED! Over 100 FBI Agents & Lawyers Working Hillary’s Illegal Handling of Classified Docs Wanted to Prosecute
And yet she wasn’t prosecuted. We now know from Hillary’s leaked campaign emails just how far the DoJ and the White House went to rig the investigation in her favor (2).
UPDATE II Video: Newt Gingrich and Meghan McCain Blast FBI Director Comey for Corruption:
Fox News has confirmed through two different sources that the entire investigative team of over 100 FBI agents and lawyers wanted Hillary prosecuted and at the very least have her security clearance permanently revoked.
The decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for mishandling classified information has roiled the FBI and Department of Justice, with one person closely involved in the year-long probe telling FoxNews.com that career agents and attorneys on the case unanimously believed the Democratic presidential nominee should have been charged.
The source, who spoke to FoxNews.com on the condition of anonymity, said FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic July 5 announcement that he would not recommend to the Attorney General’s office that the former secretary of state be charged left members of the investigative team dismayed and disgusted. More than 100 FBI agents and analysts worked around the clock with six attorneys from the DOJ’s National Security Division, Counter Espionage Section, to investigate the case.
“No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case agreed, with the decision not to prosecute — it was a top-down decision,” said the source, whose identity and role in the case has been verified by FoxNews.com.
A high-ranking FBI official told Fox News that while it might not have been a unanimous decision, “It was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton’s] security clearance yanked.”
“It is safe to say the vast majority felt she should be prosecuted,” the senior FBI official told Fox News. “We were floored while listening to the FBI briefing because Comey laid it all out, and then said ‘but we are doing nothing,’ which made no sense to us.”
UPDATE – Peter Schweitzer, a famed author and investigator for the Government Accountability Institute, reports that his sources say the same:
UPDATE II – New York Post – Did the FBI chief lie to Congress about the Hillary email probe?
UPDATE III – Former US Atty for District of Columbia Joe DiGenova explains the outrageous behavior of FBI Director James Comey with the simple declaration: “Comey is a dirty cop”, and in this interview makes his case to support that. October 13, 2016 interview with Laura Ingraham.
Hillary Campaign Chair on Exec Board of Putin Connected Energy Company, Failed to Report to Regulators…
This is not the kind of thing that just gets randomly picked to be in your retirement portfolio….
International finance and money laundering just seem to go together like bacon and eggs, death and taxes, politics and corruption….and Hillary says that it is Trump who is too close to Putin?
Please pardon the length of the quote, international finance and corporations can get pretty arcane.
WND:
Emails released this week by Wikileaks indicate John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, laundered shares of stock he received from an energy company cited in the Panama Papers money-laundering probe that has received funding from the Russian government.
He also has received consulting fees from the Wyss Foundation, a group controlled by Swiss billionaire Hansjoerg Wyss, an investor in Joule Energy, according to Peter Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute in a report, “From Russia with Money: Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset, and Cronyism.”
Joule Global Stichting and Joule Global Holdings figure prominently as a client of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which is at the heart of the Panama Papers investigation into offshore money-laundering operations on a massive international scale.
WND reported Russian entities that funneled money to Joule and its related companies, and ultimately to Podesta, include Viktor Vekselberg, a controversial Russian billionaire investor with ties to Vladimir Putin and the Russian government.
Vekselberg owns the Renova Group, a multi-billion dollar private Moscow-based Russian conglomerate with interests in oil, energy and telecommunication held in Russia, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa and the United States.
Vekselberg is a board member of Rusnano, the Russian State Investment Fund, as well as president of the Skolkovo Foundation, named for Russia’s version of Silicon Valley.
Rusnano made a multi-million dollar investment in Joule Unlimited, a small Massachusetts-based energy company owned by Joule Global Holdings B.V. in the Netherlands and Joule Global Stichting, the ultimate controlling entity.
On Jan. 6, 2014, Mark Solakian, a senior vice president and general counsel with Joule Unlimited, emailed Podesta, confirming that Podesta had exercised 75,000 shares of 100,000 options in Joule Unlimited. Podesta had been issued the shares in 2011 in partial compensation for his work on the Joule board of directors.
Secondly, Solakian confirmed Podesta had transferred the resulting 75,000 common shares of Joule Unlimited to Leonidio LLC in a transaction that most likely would prevent the stock shares from showing up directly as an asset owned in any financial statement Podesta prepared.
The denials are already flying:
WND reached Bournakis by telephone in Salt Lake City, and he confirmed that 5835 Waterbury in Salt Lake City was his home apartment address. Bournakis denied knowing anything about John Podesta or Leonidio LLC, the company registered under his name.
Growing irritated by the phone call, Bournakis firmly denied he knew anything about the transfer of 75,000 shares of Joule Unlimited stock that Podesta made to Leonidio LLC.
Read the email for yourself HERE.
UPDATE – Brietbart has obtained some other interesting documents HERE.
Hillary tells the Judge “I don’t recall” another 21 times…
Hillary has memorized every bad thing Donald Trump has ever done. Quite the accomplishment for someone who testified “I don’t recall” hundreds of times in recent years to avoid prosecution….and now add 21 more.
Hillary Clinton used variations of ‘I don’t recall’ 21 times when asked 25 questions under oath about how she deleted 33,000 State Department emails.
Sworn written testimony obtained by Judicial Watch show the Democratic presidential candidate dodged virtually all of the questions about the correspondences she removed from her private server while she was Secretary of State.
A federal judge ordered Clinton’s legal team to turn over written responses to questions concerning the so-called ‘homebrew’ server.
Clinton signed the document containing the answers, written by her lawyers on her behalf, on Monday under ‘penalty of perjury’.
UPDATE! Even CNN took Hillary to task in early September for telling the judge “I don’t Recall” 39 times:
Hillary Campaign Chair: “Needy Latinos and 1 Easy Call…”
While most people have either over heard or even participated in locker-room conversations at some point in their life, I have never seen the kind of contemptuous language and “let them eat cake” kind of demeanor shown repeatedly in these emails among Hillary’s inner circle. They are talking about the people they are supposed to be serving. Do you talk like this? As for yours truly, I don’t know anyone who does.
Those darn Latinos, so needy they are, according to John Podesta, Hillary’s long time friend, campaign chair and Bill Clinton’s former Chief of Staff.
The email:
Bill Clinton’s accusers: We’re ignored by elite media (video)
The elite media has give more coverage to what Donald Trump said in a locker-room conversation in 48 hours than they have given these women in 17 years.
“Trump Groped Me”Claims Fall Apart When Witnesses Say It Didn’t Happen
Two weeks before an election, your a reporter, and you want to make yourself famous…hmm what to do? You claim that Donald Trump groped you and to enhance your credibility you start naming witnesses who saw it all…..
…..except one small problem. You might want to make sure that the witnesses will confirm your story instead of calling you out as a fraud.
Donald Trump’s former Mar-a-Lago Butler backed up the Republican nominee for president in denying the billionaire groped a reporter from People magazine.
“No, that never happened. Come on, that’s just bull crap,” said Anthony “Tony” Senecal.
People magazine writer Natasha Stoynoff wrote an essay this week about how she was groped by Trump at Mar-a-Lago during an interview in the early 2000s.
Trump, at his rally in West Palm Beach on Thursday, said he was always in a public place with Stoynoff and denied he ever acted inappropriately.
So, I am asking for a gut check on this one. You are Donald Trump and you own the Miss Universe Pageant. Is this the women you want to chase around the furniture at Mar-a-Lago?
UPDATE = Second Witness Calls Out Stoynoff as a Liar
The second witness Stoynoff claimed to verify parts of her story is none other than Melania Trump herself. Newsmax:
Stoynoff claims that after the incident happened, she ran into Melania Trump on Fifth Avenue.
According to Stoynoff, Melania Trump asked her, “Natasha, why don’t we see you anymore?” She then gave her a hug.
“I was quiet and smiled, telling her I missed her, and I squeezed little Barron’s foot.”
Harder wrote, “The true facts are there: Mrs. Trump did not encounter Ms. Stoynoff on the street, nor have any conversation with her. The two are not friends or even friendly. At the time in question, Mrs. Trump would not have even recognized Ms. Stoynoff if they had encountered one another on the street.”
The letter threatens legal action if a retraction isn’t issued.
CNN Leaked Tough Debate Death Penalty Question to Hillary in Advance Via DNC Vice Chair Donna Brazile
UPDATE I – Emails show that she got the debate questions in advance from debate moderator Roland Martin.
UPDATE II – Brazile passed other debate questions in advance to Hillary. Fired from CNN.
CNN tosses journalistic ethics out the window to help Democrats as a matter of routine. And while they are critical of her with the truth from time to time, what they repeat over and over is agenda driven to put it mildly.
This is one of the more severe cases of journalistic corruption. In this case, the day before Hillary was to have a town-hall meeting on CNN, the email reveals that CNN gave an advance copy to current DNC Chairman Donna Brazile, who was working for CNN at the time. Brazile sent it directly to Hillary Campaign Chair John Podesta and Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri.
It is no secret that most of Hillary’s interviews and town hall events at colleges are scripted with members of the crowd planted with questions in advance.
Here is the email and a video from the town-hall event:
Here is the email:
Larry Elder poses the hard question to gleeful NeverTrumper’s…
To GOP never Trumpers: Romney, a choir boy, got trashed by the left. Trump, a non-choir boy, gets trashed by the left. Notice a pattern? – Larry Elder
NYT “Trump Touched Me” October Surprise Story Has Serious Problems…UPDATED!
This happens every time just before an election.
The NYT accused John McCain of having an affair with a lobbyist and it was just a lie.
The NYT in coordination with the Obama Campaign accused Herman Cain of having multiple affairs and touching women. It also was shown to be a bunch of lies as Cain was able to show that he was not even in the cities mentioned by several of the women. All of the women knew David Axelrod, who was Obama’s campaign manager. One even lived in the same building as him.
[UPDATE II – Kit Daniels at Infowars verifies what we showed below and digs up a few other facts. We are NOT fans of Infowars as some of their journalism is shoddy, but this is a solid piece of journalism and credit is given when it is due – Editor]
Now the NYT says that Trump touched a lady who was flying first class with him decades ago.
Quote NYT:
More than three decades ago, when she was a traveling businesswoman at a paper company, Ms. Leeds said, she sat beside Mr. Trump in the first-class cabin of a flight to New York. They had never met before.
About 45 minutes after takeoff, she recalled, Mr. Trump lifted the armrest and began to touch her.
The New York Times story is highly suspect not just because of their recent election history of dropping lies like this, the cute timing of this story and, thanks to Hillary’s campaign emails being released by WikiLeaks, we know that the NYT coordinates with the Democrats as a matter of routine – even if you toss all of that aside…….
………first class arm rests do not swing up, are large and are completely immobile. Take a look at these pictures of what first class looks like and it becomes obvious why the story falls apart:
But what if it was on an old Boeing 727 or 737? OK take a look:
UPDATE – We now know that the alleged flight was a 727 – Editor
UPDATE –
NY Times Gets Punked! Fake Groping Victim Used Velvet Underground Song Lyrics to Describe Trumped-Up Attack – LINK
MSNBC’s Morning Joe Goes Nuclear on Hillary. You Ran the “Sluts & Nuts” Smearing Division of the White House.
“I remember the 90’s in real time…”
Protester attacked by Hillary rent-a-crowd (video)
Thug much?
Hillary’s top staff trashes Catholics in released campaign emails.
This is yet another example of just what these elites think of you.
UPDATE – So what do they plan to do about you problem Catholics? Look HERE.
While most people have overheard locker-room conversations like the one Donald Trump had 11 years ago, read the email below and ask yourself how many people do you know actually talk about people they are supposed to be serving with this kind of arch contempt? This is truly disturbing.
In short they say that Catholics are cowards and frauds who are too chicken to become evangelicals because their rich friends won’t see them as “sophisticated” if they did. They trash people for getting baptized and go on to state that Catholics are attracted to female oppression and being Catholic is the closest they can get to that oppression in a socially acceptable way.
In this email are Hillary’s Campaign Chairman John Podesta, her Director of Communications Jennifer Palmieri, and John Halpin from the Center for American Progress which is essentially the Clinton’s pet think tank.
The email:
UPDATE – Catholic groups outraged!
The Catholic League, an anti-defamation organization, blasted the Clinton campaign for the exchange.
“These anti-Catholic remarks are bad enough but it makes one wonder what else Clinton’s chiefs and others associated with the campaign are saying about Catholics and Catholicism,” the group said in a statement.
A politically conservative group called Catholic Vote, which claims 500,000 members, is demanding Palmieri resign.
“Everyone has a unique faith journey, and it’s just insulting to make blanket statements maligning people’s motives for converting to another faith tradition,” Brian Burch, the group’s president, said in a statement. “Had Palmieri spoken this way about other groups she would dismissed. Catholics will be watching Hillary Clinton to see whether she thinks our religious faith should be respected, or whether it’s fair game to mock us.”
UPDATE – Fox News Reports HERE.
Eric Trump: WikiLeaks has exposed the true level of gov’t corruption (video)
Emails show just how Hillary’s Campaign illegally coordinated with SuperPAC’s
SuperPAC’s can raise unlimited money and are not very transparent. This is why it is illegal for them to have anything to do with a political campaign, their staff etc etc.
But, the most openly known secret is that coordination does happen on both sides of the isle. With the political overlap of just who knows who in political circles some coordination is almost impossible to avoid. The difference here is the shockingly brazen way Hillary’s Campaign is coordinating with SuperPAC’s such as David Brock’s American Bridge 21st Century and Correct the Record. Brock is also a board member of the superPAC Priorities USA Action.
Emails obtained by WikiLeaks show that coordination with Brock’s superPAC’s, and David Brock himself, was regular, ongoing and coordinated at the very top. Not just by Hillary’s Campaign Chairman John Podesta, but by the campaign’s top inner circle including Robby Mook, Hillary’s campaign manager and Jennifer Palmieri her campaign spokesman.
Emails show Podesta having a long fund raising relationship with Brock going back at least to 2008. Where is becomes illegal is when Podesta took on a leading role in Hillary’s presidential campaign.
This email shows Hillary’s campaign manager Robby Mook trying to coordinate with David Brock to get an advance copy of the book “Clinton Cash” which exposes much of the pay for play schemes that have taken place with the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.
This email has Marc Elias, who is the Clinton Campaign’s FEC Lawyer responding. You read that correctly, Hillary’s lawyer was helping to illegally coordinate the campaign with the Brock superPAC’s.
In this email, we see Hillary Clinton’s top campaign staffers having an email conversation with David Brock about sicking him on Marco Rubio for using a false Bill Clinton quote in a fund raising letter.
And still, it gets even better. Law Newz has obtained a training memo showing how Clinton staffers can direct would be donors to contribute to Brock’s superPAC without leaving an evidence trail. The memo is from Marc Elias himself: https://www.scribd.com/document/327075712/Memorandum-on-Interactions-With-Priorities-USA#from_embed
The great thing about having Marc Elias engage in this criminal activity is that he can use “attorney-client privilege” to help cover it up. (UPDATE – Ed Morrissey comments HERE.)
UPDATE – Daily Caller: Leaked Emails Show Clinton Campaign Coordinating With Soros Foundations – LINK.
Hacked Hillary Email: Hillary’s Catholic Outreach Director Busted for Running Prostitution Ring
Wow, you just can’t make this stuff up.
NYT Reporter gave Clinton Campaign veto power over quotes used. Submits article for ‘approval’…
WikiLeaks has shown us via Hillary Clinton’s own campaign emails that there is no line between the Democratic Party and most of the elite media that covers them.
The rules seem to work like this – If Republican miss speaks it is screamed loud and proud by the elite media and there are no “do overs” or revisions, but if you are a Democrat not only do you get do overs, you get to pick and choose what quotes are used and even get the questions in advance.
In this email NYT reporter Mark Liebovich asks Clinton Campaign Communication Director Jennifer Palmieri for permission to use certain quotes, submits his piece to her for approval and gives them veto power on what should or should not be included. So much for journalistic ethics.
The Email:
On Jul 7, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Leibovich, Mark <leibovich@nytimes.com> wrote: i wanted the option to use all — and you could veto what you didn’t want. That’s why i selected the 5 or 6 I sent to you…The moose is good, but I’d really love to use the other things i sent, too. They were all on point.
Leibovich opens his article using his sighting of a moose as a “point of connection” with Hillary. As instructed he conceals Clinton’s mention of Palin and all other portions of the interview the campaign vetoed.
Despite allowing the Clinton campaign the ability to veto any interview content, in his article, Leibovich brags that even after the campaign sent him an email in the leadup to his story instructing him that the campaign office was “OTR” or off-the-record, he responded by writing that he “wasn’t abiding by any ‘office is off the record provisions.’”
After dishing out the marching orders, Palmieri finishes by telling Leibovich, “Pleasure doing business.”
Brexit Winner Nigel Farage: Trump can win if the little people show up to stop the corrupt multi-nationals who fund Hillary
Nigel Farage is the premier grass roots political leader in England. He led the effort against the corrupt and undemocratic EU and won.
Hillary Email: Hillary Illegally Revealed National Security Sources and Methods to Donors
The recklessness and stupidity is mind boggling:
The emails are coming out so fast that it is getting hard to catch up with them all as they are being released in chunks of 1000-4000 at a time. We will post the exact email link soon.
The New York Post is reporting this as well:
In her secret speeches to Wall Street bankers, Hillary Clinton backed free trade and claimed politicians need leeway to make backroom deals — and may have disclosed classified details of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, according to the latest emails disclosed by WikiLeaks.
Hillary Emails: FBI Investigation of Hillary Rigged. DoJ Coordinated with Campaign & White House. FBI Destroyed Evidence. Secret Immunity Deals.
It was an indicator that the FBI’s investigation of Hillary’s illegal email server and mishandling of classified information was a sham when FBI Director Comey testified in detail before Congress that even though Hillary had violated almost every aspect of the statute and then lied about it (video), the Department of Justice (DoJ) decided not to prosecute because they were “uncomfortable” with the part of the statute that says that intent is irrelevant and negligence or foolishness is enough to prosecute on…..in spite of the fact that there have been other cases where they had no such reservation.
We learned October 3rd that the FBO/DoJ had given secret immunity deals to Hillary’s top staff on the condition that they turn over all laptops, devices, documents etc to the FBI. The FBI then destroyed them ensuring that future Attorney Generals, Congress, and the public would never even have the option to fully investigate Clinton’s use of illegal private email servers. It seems that the Obama Administration did not want to leave destroying the evidence to Hillary’s staff.
These same people who got immunity are still pleading the Fifth Amendment to Congress even though they have an immunity deal, which is also outside the law.
Emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit revealed that the White House was coordinating with Hillary’s Campaign on the investigation.
Newly disclosed emails show the White House coordinated with Hillary Clinton’s emerging presidential campaign in 2015 about potential fallout from Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
Here are the details, according to a Wall Street Journal review of the emails:
- Jennifer Palmieri, then the White House communications director, emailed Jen Psaki, a State Department spokesperson, to ask, “between us on the shows…think we can get this done so he is not asked about email.” She was apparently referring to an appearance on CBS by current Secretary of State John Kerry, according to The Journal. Palmieri is now the Clinton campaign’s communications director.
- Palmieri and Psaki, along with other top White House officials, discussed an interview Kerry gave to CBS. “Good to go on killing CBS idea,” read one email from Psaki. “And we are going to hold on any other TV options just given the swirl of crap out there.”
- Palmieri, who joined the Clinton campaign in mid-2015, helped arrange for Psaki to take her old job at the White House. Psaki is now the White House communications director.
- Patrick Kennedy, the State Department undersecretary for management, told Heather Samuelson, one of Clinton’s attorneys, about new documents the State Department had posted concerning Clinton.
It gets even better. We now know thanks to WikiLeaks from the Hillary for President Campaign emails that the Department of Justice was coordinating/leaking/informing – call it what you will – their investigation with Hillary’s campaign staff.
Read the email HERE:
The Hill has a summary:
An official within Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign appeared to have discussions with sources inside the Department of Justice (DOJ) about ongoing open records lawsuits regarding the former secretary of State’s emails, according to an email released on Tuesday.
In an email from May 2015, Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said that “DOJ folks” had “inform[ed]” him about an upcoming status conference in one of the lawsuits regarding Clinton’s private email setup.
The information about an upcoming court event would have been public knowledge and open for all to attend. And it’s unclear whether the people Fallon spoke to at the Justice Department were officials who regularly communicate with the public.
However, the fact that Fallon — a former spokesman with the Department of Justice — remained in contact with anyone from the department is likely to renew allegations that the Obama administration maintained an especially cozy relationship with the former secretary of State’s presidential campaign.
UPDATE – The Hill:
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus accused the Justice Department of giving the Clinton campaign “inside information about an ongoing investigation into her email server,” even though information regarding an upcoming court conference would have been public knowledge.
Still, Priebus said, the revelation shows that “instead of facing consequences for her actions like others have, she’s been protected at every turn by the Obama administration.”
The Fallon email was part of a trove allegedly stolen from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and posted Tuesday on Wikileaks.
UPDATE II – Former US Atty for District of Columbia Joe DiGenova explains the outrageous behavior of FBI Director James Comey with the simple declaration: “Comey is a dirty cop”, and in this interview makes his case to support that. October 13, 2016 interview with Laura Ingraham.
Hacked Hillary Email: NYT/CNBC Debate Moderator John Harwood Brags About Provoking Trump to Hillary Campaign
These emails are so revealing. They are just one big cozy happy family.
Here we have NYT/CNBC reporter DNC operative and debate moderator being so proud of himself, running back to Hillary for President Campaign Chairman John Podesta, so he can brag about his mission to provoke Donald Trump. So much for journalistic ethics.
Read this email HERE as an example. Keep in mind that only 1% of these emails have been released so far.
The Daily Caller has a nice summary:
The latest batch of emails from the account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta show New York Times reporter and CNBC anchor John Harwood giving the Clinton campaign tips about other candidates and bragging about feeling vindicated by provoking Donald Trump as a debate moderator.
In a December 2015 email to Podesta, Harwood bragged about his much-criticized debate performance in which he asked Trump “Let’s be honest, is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign?”
UPDATE FNC:
CNBC correspondent John Harwood emailed Podesta numerous times, on some occasions to request an interview and other times to offer advice. On May 8, 2015, Harwood wrote an email with the subject line “Watch out.”
“Ben Carson could give you real trouble in a general [election],” Harwood wrote before linking to video clips of an interview Harwood did with the former pediatric neurosurgeon.
Hacked Hillary Email: New York Times Provided Interview Questions to Bill Clinton in Advance
…and friends, one can be sure they would never be so courteous to Sarah Palin.
Read the email for yourself HERE.
This email is between Hillary for President Campaign Chairman John Podesta, former Time Magazine Editor Strobe Talbot, Nancy Soderberg, a former Deputy NSA for Bill Clinton who is now at Florida University, and the Clinton Foundation’s Director of Foreign Policy Ami Desai.
As one can see by yet another example on an already previous pile of evidence, there is no separation between the elite media, the Clinton Foundation and Hillary’s role in the State Department.
Brietbart provides a good summary:
In an email sent to Podesta and several others, the Clinton Foundation’s Director of Foreign Policy Ami Desai requests feedback on answers to “questions they sent that are related to international issues”:
[A]s you may know, WJC is doing Q+A with Nick Kristof on Wednesday (at the Foursquare Conference). It’s supposed to be closed press, but. Below are the questions they sent that are related to international issues – namely Israelis/Palestinians, China (trade/Tibet/Taiwan), and Greece/Euro. Are there any WJC Admin accomplishments that we should equip him to be able to highlight? [I put some initial ideas in CAPS below; and we also have requested input from the State Department.] We’d welcome any feedback by Sunday. Thanks, Ami
A quick review of recent columns by Kristof reveals a lot of Clinton water-carrying with headlines like “Donald Trump, Groper in Chief” and “How to Cover a Charlatan Like Trump” and “When a Crackpot Run For President” where he makes the case that “journalistic efforts at fairness may risk normalizing Donald Trump.”
In the email, Desai reveals four questions on international issues that Kristof planned to ask Clinton. The first question is framed by crediting Clinton with coming within a “whisker from a Middle East peace deal.” Three of the questions are followed by proposed answers in all CAPS from the Clinton Foundation.
* At the very end of your presidency, it seemed that you came a whisker from a Middle East peace deal, and the Clinton parameters are still generally acknowledged to be the basis of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal if it comes. But will it ever come? Aren’t demographics and the growth of settlements making it harder to see a two -state solution emerging any time soon?
* For most of human history, China has been the dominant power in the world. We just happen to live in a relatively brief 300-year stretch when China was weak. But is China regaining its customary position as the dominant power in the world today, and should that worry us? Should we just get used to it? And given that China is our creditor, where do we find leverage to change Chinese behavior, whether on Tibet or Taiwan or human rights or trade?
1. REMINDER ABOUT GETTING CHINA INTO WTO; AND DEVELOPING APEC TO ENHANCE REGIONAL INFLUENCE; AND WJC ADMIN SUCCESS IN BUILDING-UP THE US ECONOMY AND IMPORTANCE OF HAVING DOMESTIC ECONOMIC STRENGTH
* Greece looks as if it’s headed for default, the Euro zone may be imploding, and the American economy is pretty much stagnant. If you were president today, what would you be doing right now?
1. REMINDER ABOUT BAILING OUT MEXICO AND HOW UNPOPULAR THAT WAS BUT ENDED UP BEING SUCCESSFUL – IMPORTANCE OF SOMETIMES HAVING TO MAKE UNPOPULAR DECISIONS
2. AND IMPORTANCE OF INVESTING IN JOB CREATION AS A WAY TO WORK OUT OF THIS CRISIS AND GIVE PEOPLE TOOLS THEY NEED TO LIFT THEMSELVES UP – MENTION WJC ADMIN ACCOMPLISHMENTS
* There are a lot of potential crises that give nightmares to international strategists. A nuclear Iran. A belligerent or collapsing North Korea. A revolution in Saudi Arabia. A naval clash with China. Cyber attack. So what keeps you awake at night? Which of these do you worry about most? Or is there another peril that we in the media haven’t adequately spotlighted?
1. REMIDER ABOUT WJC’S THREE CHALLENGES AND HOW WJC ADMIN HELPED ADDRESS EACH ONE, DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY: UNEQUALITY (IN INCOMES/OPPORTUNITY), INSTABILITY (DUE TO GLOBAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS, DISEASE AND HATE AND EVERYTHING CAN BE SPREAD ACROSS BORDERS EASILY), UNSUSTAINABILITY (DUE TO RESOURCE SCARCITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE)
Hacked Hillary Email: Hillary’s Steve Harvey Interview Scripted in Advance
We are finding this out to be true more and more with Hillary. She does an interview and the questions asked of her are either provided by her own staff or are coordinated with the the reporter/interviewer.
Read the email for yourself HERE.
The Washington Free Beacon summarizes:
Talk show host Steve Harvey provided Hillary Clinton’s campaign with the exact questions he would ask of Clinton during a February interview, according to an internal campaign memo sent a week before the interview and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
“Steve is known to be a host who goes out of his way to make his guests feel comfortable,” two of Clinton’s top communications aides wrote in a memo to Clinton a week ahead of her interview. “We coordinated closely with the show’s producers on the script and format of the show.”
The memo, sent to Clinton on Feb. 17, 2016, by campaign spokeswoman Karen Finney and communications aide Betsaida Alcantara was attached to an email posted on the website DCLeaks.
Hacked Hillary Email: Boston Globe Coordinated With Hillary to “Maximize Her Presence”
The hacked Hillary Clinton Campaign emails have been very revealing of just how in bed the elite media is corrupted and in the tank with the Democratic Party. It seems just by what has been released so far is that there essentially is no line between the Democratic Party and most elite media outlets.
Read the email HERE.
The Daily Caller summarizes it nicely:
Staff at The Boston Globe worked with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign to maximize her “presence” during her primary race against Sen. Bernie Sanders, new emails show.
The exchange is one of thousands from the inbox of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta leaked by the online hacktivist group WikiLeaks over the past week.
Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe’s op-ed editor, contacted Podesta wondering if the Clinton campaign was still set to submit an op-ed. But then, Pritchard went above and beyond and offered tips about how the campaign could extract maximum benefit from the piece by coordinating its publication to match the Globe’s regular reporting.
“It would be good to get it in on Tuesday, when she is in New Hampshire,” Pritchard says. “That would give her a big presence on Tuesday with the piece and on Wednesday with the news story. Please let me know.”
Media Bias: More Coverage in 48 hours on Trump Tape Than in 17 years on Clinton Rape Victims
Hat Tip Gateway Pundit!
Donna Brazile passed along Bernie campaign secrets to Hillary
The sleaze never ends. Bernie never had a chance. It was all rigged.
WashPo/CNN: Clinton’s leaked emails prove Trump right & fact checkers wrong. Hillary lied. (video)
Considering how far CNN has been in the tank for Hillary this is a stunning admission. Clinton wants open borders and more of these bad trade deals.
Washington Post’s Dan Balz on CNN:
Perspective: General George S. Patton. If we had fired him for having a big potty mouth we would have lost the war.
If we had fired General Patton for having a big potty mouth we would have lost the war.
That being said, Wilson, FDR, JFK, LBJ and Clinton were all serial adulterers as well as Democrats. We survived. Please don’t let yourself get stuck on stupid.
Hacked Hillary Email: We conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry…
Thanks to WikiLeaks and the carelessness that Hillary and her crew have misused email we have a great understanding of the corruption, pay to play deals and general contempt the Democrat leadership has for the American people. Their actions are right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.
Bill Ivey to Hillary for President Campaign Chairman John Podesta – LINK:
And as I’ve mentioned, we’ve all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking – and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging.
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