Poof. Over a million votes for Le Pen disappear on live tv.
https://gab.com/Mateo_Abogados/posts/108192723180434042
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a recall that includes organic zucchini. The recall involves Organic Marketside Zucchini which was sold by World Variety Produce of Los Angeles, CA at Walmart stores.
What is wrong with the recalled zucchini?
According to the FDA press release, the reason for the recall is related to the organic zucchini that…
"…has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems."
https://newstalk1280.com/nationwide-urgent-vegetable-recall/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
Reality v. Farcical US/Western Claims About Russia’s SMO in Ukraine (On Monday, puppet Zelensky was shuttled from his Polish hideout to meet with US war secretary Austin and interventionist Blinken in Kiev — before scurrying back to whence he came.)
On Monday, puppet Zelensky was shuttled from his Polish hideout to meet with US war secretary Austin and interventionist Blinken in Kiev — before scurrying back to whence he came.
Defying reality, Blinken sounded delusional, claiming:
“Russia is failing (sic). Ukraine is succeeding (sic).”
“Russia sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine (sic), to take away its sovereignty (sic), to take away its independence (sic). That has failed (sic).”
“We…demonstrate(d) our strong ongoing support for the (US-installed and controlled) Ukrainian (puppet regime) and for the Ukrainian people (sic).”
The same ones hegemon USA-dominated NATO doesn’t give a hoot about.
Ones the Pentagon and CIA use as cannon fodder for US proxy war on Russia.
So-called US-NATO “strategy (of) massive support for Ukraine, massive pressure against Russia, solidarity with more than 30 countries engaged in these efforts” failed dismally.
Blinken lied claiming that “real results” were achieved (sic).
Matching Blinken’s delusions, Austin said the following:
Puppet Zelensky “has the mindset that they want to win (sic), and we have the mindset that we want to help them win (sic).”
You might be living in one of America’s deathzones and not have a clue about it
What if that were you? What would YOU do?
In the next few minutes, I’m going to show you the U.S. Nuclear Target map, where you’ll find out if you’re living in one of America’s Deathzones.
https://clickwoz.wordpress.com/2022/04/25/reality-v-farcical-us-western-claims-about-russias-smo-in-ukraine-on-monday-puppet-zelensky-was-shuttled-from-his-polish-hideout-to-meet-with-us-war-secretary-austin-and-interventionist-bl/
‘Traitors’ collaborating with Russia will be executed – Ukrainian governor
Vitaly Kim, who serves as the governor of Ukraine’s Mykolaiv Region, warned that citizens helping Russian forces would face extrajudicial execution. He revealed the chilling fate awaiting “traitors” during a live broadcast on Ukraine 24 TV channel last Thursday.
Kim made the comment after the presenter brought up claims made earlier by officials in Kherson, according to which, information about pro-Ukrainian activists, veterans who had fought in the Donbass, as well as journalists living in the city had been leaked to Russian forces.
Kim, in turn, cited the recent killing of a pro-Russian blogger in the city, who was shot dead on April 20, as proof that “Kherson is Ukraine,” and that “there are guerrilla fighters there.”
Moreover, Kim warned that “traitors will be executed,” adding that he is “not afraid of this word.”
The Ukrainian official expressed absolute certainty that “it will be like that.”
In response, the presenter cited a top Ukrainian official who had previously said that a special force had been established which would be eliminating traitors.
Kim interjected, assuring the anchor that this secret force was in fact already operating. The presenter, in turn, urged everyone listening to the broadcast to keep this fact in mind.
The governor also claimed that Ukraine had developed superior tech and IT capabilities which allowed its special services to track down practically anyone. Kim concluded that “no one will be able to hide from justice.”
https://alethonews.com/2022/04/25/traitors-collaborating-with-russia-will-be-executed-ukrainian-governor/
Reckless Associations:The Ruling Class Creates New Legal Theory to Stifle Free Speech
In a forthcoming article at the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, three law professors propose a novel, legal tort theory of liability. This liability is referred to as “reckless associations,” and it has the effect of allowing a victim to sue a third-party for assuming a leadership position in an association if a member of the association intentionally caused harm to the victim.
The professors proposed this secondary liability to crack down on social network agitators that have escaped legal punishment for their content, which they allege falls short of conspiracy and/or incitement. This theory’s immediate effect would be to flood the judicial system with lawsuits purporting to hold wrongdoers accountable. The secondary effect would be to pressure social networking platforms to maintain key network surveillance data readily available for plaintiffs’ attorneys.
The obvious flaw in this legal theory is that it attempts to fix a problem that only affects a very small fraction of all social network users. Though these users make up a fraction of the entire network, they were “central and active nodes in a dysfunctional network—one that has actually and foreseeably caused epistemic failure and resulted in conduct that harmed people outside the network” before the platform’s content moderators banned their accounts. For years, the platforms have maintained community standards and other policies to address content that may be illegal or objectionable. These policies exist to deter the types of content being addressed by the tort.
Progressives and many legal professionals claim that the existing social network environment is inadequate and does not address the real-world harms caused by a small fraction of highly engaged users. This secondary theory of tort liability was drafted to address this perspective and to work around the existing obstacles within the legal system. The First Amendment protects a wide range of speech and association, and section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects platforms from civil liability.
While individuals may already be prosecuted for conspiracy and incitement, these legal theories “often fail when applied to group leaders who were not giving explicit orders in real time, or themselves committing crimes.” This tort similarly targets the inherent challenges of imposing civil liability on platforms rather than on individuals. Section 230 was implemented, in part, as a response to the challenges of content moderation on platforms. Congress’s intention was to “allow online services to moderate content on their platforms in good faith, removing harmful or illegal content while still providing a forum for free speech and a diversity of opinions.” Congress attempted to balance content moderation to deter civil liability and the fostering of an open, digital “public square.”
https://mises.org/wire/reckless-associationsthe-ruling-class-creates-new-legal-theory-stifle-free-speech
United States v. SUSSMANN (1:21-cr-00582)
ORDER granting in part and denying in part 60 Defendant's Motion in Limine and granting in part and denying in part 66 Defendant's Motion to Exclude Proposed Expert Witness Testimony. See full Order for details. Signed by Judge Christopher R. Cooper on 4/25/2022. (lccrc1) (Entered: 04/25/2022)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.235638/gov.uscourts.dcd.235638.95.0_6.pdf
Pfizer is forced to recall drug used to treat hypertension after pills were found to be contaminated with cancer-causing compounds
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is recalling five batches of its hypertension drug Accupril after it was found to contain chemicals that can cause cancer.
The recall comes after research found that batches of the drug contained increased levels of a cancer-causing agent, nitrosamine. It was announced on March 22 and involves five batches of pills, each containing 90 bottles.
Pfizer says those bottles may have been split into smaller prescriptions, and has urged any doctor or pharmacist who dealt with the shipments in question to contact them immediately.
The drugs were distributed in the United States and Puerto Rico between December 2019 and April 2022, a Pfizer news release said.
In the statement, Pfizer described the recall as 'voluntary.'
The bottles come with 90 pills and are prescribed in 10mg, 20mg and 40mg increments. The number of pills per bottle can be broken down into smaller amounts.
In Canada, Pfizer had already announced a similar recall after finding the same impurity to be above acceptable levels.
A statement from the Canadian government said that people ingesting nitrosamine at the acceptable level or below for 70 years are 'not expected to have an increased risk of cancer.'
The company said in announcing the recall that they received no reports of specific incidents related to the drug. The giant also stressed that there is no immediate risk to patients already taking the drug.
Nitrosamines are common in water, foods such as smoked and cured meats as well as dairy products. However, exposure above acceptable levels over long periods of time could increase the risk of cancer.
Accupril works by decreasing the chemicals that narrow blood vessels. This allows blood to flow more smoothly and for the heart to work more efficiently.
The common side effects of the drug include muscle and joint pain, sensitivity to light, a dry cough and dizziness.
In 2019, there were 1.3 million active Accupril prescriptions in the United States, according Clinical Calculators.
This is the second recall that Pfizer has faced in six weeks after the company recalled the blood pressure drug Accuretic in early March due to apparent accelerated levels of nitrosamine.
An FDA statement on the recall instructed patients who are taking this product to consult with their healthcare provider or pharmacy to determine if they have the affected product.
Patients with the affected product should contact Sedgwick at 888-345-0481 (Mon.-Fri. 8:00 am - 5:00 pm ET) for instructions on how to return their product and obtain reimbursement for their cost.
http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/04/pfizer-is-forced-to-recall-drug-used-to.html
Biden Approves $713 Million in Weapons For Ukraine, Hopes War Will Leave Russia Weakened
On Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin became the highest-ranking US officials to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24. During meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the officials promised more support for a war the White House hopes will weaken Moscow.
While in Kiev, Blinken informed Zelensky the White House authorized over $700 million in assistance to finance weapon sales and approved a sale of $165 million in “non-standard ammunition” for Ukraine.
A State Department press release explained the $700 million in arms financing includes grants for Ukraine and aid for NATO members to help backfill stockpiles donated to Kiev.
“The United States intends to obligate more than $713 million in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) for Ukraine and 15 other Allied and partner nations. More than $322 million in this obligation is for Ukraine and will provide support for the capabilities Ukraine needs as Russia’s forces train their focus on the Donbas; this assistance will also help Ukraine’s armed forces transition to more advanced weapons and air defense systems. This assistance will also help NATO Allies with backfilling capabilities they have donated to Ukraine from their own stockpiles.”
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized “special military operations,” the US supported Ukraine with $3.7 billion in security assistance. The pace is accelerating, with $2.3 billion in military support approved within the past two weeks. The recent weapons packages include more advanced weapons such as Howitzers and drones.
On Monday, Blilken and Austin spoke with the press in Poland about their trip to Kiev. The Defense Secretary said the US goals stretch beyond defending Ukraine’s sovereignty. “We want to see Ukraine remain a sovereign country, a democratic country able to protect its sovereign territory. We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,” Austin told reporters.
Last week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told CNN Turk some NATO member states want the war in Ukraine to last longer because they believe it will weaken Russia. “There are countries within NATO who want the war to continue,” Cavusoglu said. “They want Russia to become weaker.”
The Washington Post has also highlighted this trend of NATO members that prefer war to peace. On April 5th, the Post reported, “for some in NATO, it’s better for the Ukrainians to keep fighting, and dying, than to achieve a peace that comes too early or at too high a cost to Kyiv and the rest of Europe.”
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news-roundup/biden-approves-713-million-in-weapons-for-ukraine-hopes-war-will-leave-russia-weakened/
Oil Depots in Russia 'Blown Up' As Blinken, Austin Visit Zelensky in Kiev to Tout U.S. Weapons Shipments
Two oil storage facilities around 150km into Russia from Ukraine's border went up in flames early Monday morning, just hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev to tout some $713 million in new US weapons shipments and military aid.
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63047
In videos, Israelis fighting with Ukraine thank Israel, Jewish people for support
In clips from unspecified forested areas, Israelis in Ukrainian military uniforms also thank local chief rabbi for providing them with kosher food to celebrate Passover
Videos posted to social media Sunday appeared to show several Israelis who are fighting with Ukrainian forces giving thanks to Israel and the Jewish people for supporting their efforts to repel the Russian invasion.
The clips, which circulated widely, showed the men in Ukrainian military uniforms in an unspecified forested area. The video was likely shot over the last week as the fighters thanked Ukraine’s chief rabbi for supplying them with kosher food to celebrate the weeklong Passover holiday.
In the first of two scenes, about a dozen men in combat gear stand, many of them with their faces covered.
“We want to give thanks to the people of Israel and the government of Israel for the help they give us. We are here fighting against the Russians in this very difficult war,” said one fighter in Hebrew.
He also thanked the main synagogue in Kyiv and Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Moshe Azman for providing the troops with kosher food and helping them celebrate Passover.
which they thank Israel for supporting them (Screencapture)
Videos posted to social media Sunday appeared to show several Israelis who are fighting with Ukrainian forces giving thanks to Israel and the Jewish people for supporting their efforts to repel the Russian invasion.
The clips, which circulated widely, showed the men in Ukrainian military uniforms in an unspecified forested area. The video was likely shot over the last week as the fighters thanked Ukraine’s chief rabbi for supplying them with kosher food to celebrate the weeklong Passover holiday.
In the first of two scenes, about a dozen men in combat gear stand, many of them with their faces covered.
“We want to give thanks to the people of Israel and the government of Israel for the help they give us. We are here fighting against the Russians in this very difficult war,” said one fighter in Hebrew.
He also thanked the main synagogue in Kyiv and Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Moshe Azman for providing the troops with kosher food and helping them celebrate Passover.
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“I want to say thank you to the whole Jewish people who are helping us — we are here for you, for the whole nation,” said another man, also speaking in Hebrew. “We are here for all those whose lives are in danger. We are fighting for you, doing good work.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-videos-israelis-fighting-with-ukraine-thank-israel-jewish-people-for-support/
Durham says Sussmann part of 'joint venture' to help Clinton campaign, smear Trump with Russia dirt
Special prosecutor rejects defense attorney-client privilege claims, seeks to compel evidence
Rejecting defense efforts to block evidence in an upcoming trial, Special Counsel John Durham says private attorney Michael Sussmann was part of a "joint venture" that aimed to help Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign by smearing rival Donald Trump with Russia dirt.
Durham said in court filings submitted Saturday and made public Monday that the effort to tar Trump with the now-discredited allegations of a secret Kremlin computer channel at Alfa Bank began in June 2016 was "crystalized" two months later and involved tech executives, researchers and one of Sussmann's law partners.
"The parties agreed to conduct work in the hope that it would benefit the Clinton Campaign, namely, gathering and disseminating purportedly derogatory data regarding Trump and his associates’ internet activities,” Durham wrote.
Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI, falsely claiming he wasn't working for a client when he delivered the Alfa Bank allegations to the bureau's chief counsel in September 2016. In fact, Durham alleges in the indictment, Sussmann was working for the campaign and a tech executive.
Durham said in his new filing that "Tech Executive-1" and the "Originator-1" – respectively Rodney Joffe and April Lorenzen of the information services firm Zetalytics – met with other researchers to discuss "searching for and collecting derogatory internet data about the online activities of Donald Trump and his associates" in June 2016.
Lorenzen "assembled and shared initial purported data," then Joffe "shared the data” with Sussmann, Durham explained.
“The joint venture continued and crystallized early in August 2016,” when Sussmann, Joffe, Sussman's law partner Marc Elias and members of the Clinton campaign met, the prosecutor also said.
“The evidence will show that as a result of these conversations and during this same time period, Tech Executive-1 did exactly that: he tasked employees from multiple Internet companies and a university working under a pending national security contract to mine and gather vast amounts of internet metadata in order to support an "inference' and 'narrative' tying" Trump to Russia, Durham said.
Durham said he plans to introduce evidence, with Sussmann's trial set for May 16, that some of the researchers who assisted the effort were also casting doubt on it, referring to some theories as "too obvious" or a "very weak link."
You can read the full filing here.
File
DurhamMotion4-23-22.pdf
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/durham-says-sussmann-part-joint-venture-help-clinton
Elon Musk Successful Deal to Purchase Twitter for $44 Billion Likely to be Announced After Stock Market Close at 4pm Today
According to multiple media sources Twitter has reached a deal with the representatives of Elon Musk for the tech billionaire to purchase the social media company. According to the Wall Street Journal, over the weekend the outlines of the deal were agreed and last night the final assembly of the purchase came together.
Keep in mind that Twitter is slated to report first-quarter earnings this Thursday, and originally the board was going to wait until after that earnings announcement to respond to the bid.
Something changed.
My suspicion is the financials of the Q1 earnings report will not support the $54.20 high end evaluation offer originally proposed by Musk.
If the low Q1 earnings rumors are accurate; and if Twitter had declined or fought the offer; the board would have been in the position of declining a deal that was substantially higher than the company market value, a tenuous position legally. Thus, a deal was made.
(Wall Street Journal, update) – “Twitter is in advanced discussions to sell itself to Elon Musk and could finalize a deal Monday, people familiar with the matter said, days after the billionaire unveiled his $43 billion bid for the company.
The two sides worked through the night to hash out a deal that would be valued at $54.20 a share, or $44 billion, the people said. Assuming there isn’t a last-minute snag, the deal is expected to be announced after the market closes Monday, if not sooner.
It’s not clear why the total value of the deal has increased slightly from prior expectations, but it could be related to an updated share count.” (link)
Elon Musk responded to the rumors of the finalized deal with a tweet earlier this afternoon: “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/25/elon-musk-successful-deal-to-purchase-twitter-for-44-billion-likely-to-be-announced-after-stock-market-close-at-4pm-today/
Neocon Mark Levin: 'I Am Not A Nationalist,' People Who Push 'America First' Are 'Schizophrenic'
Fox News host Mark Levin went full neocon on Sunday night, attacking "so-called nationalist populists" as un-American isolationists and ordering viewers to "reject" both ideologies as "dangerous" and disconnected from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
"I have in front of me the pocket edition of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, the word nationalist cannot be found in either the Declaration or the Constitution, why is this?" Levin said. "Because the people who founded your country and the people, the Framers of your Constitution, were not nationalists – they were Americans."
"So what am I saying, am I a globalist?" Levin said. "I don't even know what that means. No, I'm a red-blooded American Constitutionalist who believes in Capitalism and representative government."
"What does that mean?" he asked. "It's simple, you don't treat communist China the way you treat Great Britain when it comes to trade. You don't send advanced technologies to Russia or to Iran technologies you might send to Israel."
"You use your noggin, you use your common sense that's what you do," he said.
https://youtu.be/tkKqQNN0Gi0
Levin continued: "Let's move this into foreign policy, I keep hearing this line still, 'What do you want to do get us in a war with Russia over Ukraine?' "
"And these people pretend to be conservatives and they say America First, America First, these are prominent people who know of not what they speak, they're going to surrender the next century, this century, to the communist Chinese with their idiocy, with their lack of foresight!" he said.
Levin said "America First" means "stand[ing] up" to the "monster" that is Putin to prevent a "true world war."
"Americanism means to me when you see mass graves in Ukraine, now, 9,000, when you see people being slaughtered by a monster and a war machine that is imperialistic, that if they have their way will do the same to the rest of Eastern Europe and Western Europe, and will light the fuse with its allies in communist China in terrorist Iran, in North Korea and on and on and on, really creating a true world war," he said.
"Well, America First doesn't mean putting your head in the sand and pretending otherwise. You want to protect your children from war? You stand up now! If you believe in America First from our Declaration to our Constitution to our founding principles to our economic system then you must reject … nationalism, populism and all the other isms, embrace your history see what's before you reject these dangerous ideologies that are incoherent but are destructive!"
According to Levin, true Americanism is not avoiding entangling alliances as George Washington called for but fighting for Ukraine, Israel and Capitalism against the Russkies, the Iranians and the Communist Chinese! That's gotta be in the Constitution somewhere!
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63046
Two European Citizens Charged for Conspiring with a U.S. Citizen to Assist North Korea in Evading U.S. Sanctions
Alejandro Cao de Benos and Christopher Emms Allegedly Conspired with American Virgil Griffith to Provide Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Services to North Korea
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-european-citizens-charged-conspiring-us-citizen-assist-north-korea-evading-us-sanctions
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1518667843151216644
At World Bank Climate Talk, Speaker Floats Idea To End Conventional Vehicle Sales
In remarks to the World Bank’s “Financing Climate Action” event on April 21, Baron Nicholas Stern, one of the world’s most influential climate economists, spoke about what he sees as necessary global actions on climate change, including on the sale of conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.
“The right kind of policies have to be put in place, including the abolition of fossil fuel subsidies, the advancement of carbon pricing, but clarity on timescales for decentralization of the grid, clarity on timescales for stopping the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles, and so on—making sure the sense of direction is clear in those ways,” said Stern, who served as chief economist for the World Bank from 2000 through 2003.
The World Bank—a multilateral group founded in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and headquartered in Washington, D.C.—lends to poor and middle-income countries. Its private-sector lending is coordinated through a subsidiary, the International Finance Corporation.
The discussion was part of the annual spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Stern chairs the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Economics at the London School of Economics, founded by members of the socialist Fabian Society in the 1890s, thanks in part to a bequest from a wealthy Fabian “for propaganda and other purposes.”
In his 2006 publication, “The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change,” the British economist argued that climate change is “the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen.”
Stern was also asked about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has contributed to rising energy prices in the United States and around the world.
“The right thing to do is to move away faster and harder from fossil fuels,” he said, later adding that making that move entails “much bigger capacity for electricity.”
Both Stern and current World Bank President David Malpass, who also participated in the virtual summit, spoke of moving away from coal power, including by the developing countries with which the World Bank works.
“We’re at the point now where we have to be very concrete in how to close a coal-fired power plant in South Africa or Indonesia. And those proved to be really difficult challenges because of the large cost and the long lifespan of the project,” said Malpass, who served in the Reagan, [George H.W.] Bush, and Trump administrations, during a conversation with Indonesia’s Minister of Finance, Sri Mulyani Indrawati.
“We have to put in place a big transition, and we have to do it now. And of course, exiting coal, moving away from coal, [is an] absolutely core part of that—it’s the lowest-hanging fruit,” said Stern.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/world-bank-climate-talk-speaker-floats-end-conventional-vehicle-sales
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/world-bank-climate-talk-speaker-floats-end-conventional-vehicle-sales
Letter: No, Hillary Clinton Can’t Try To Hide 2016 Oppo Research From The Special Counsel
The Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee’s claims of attorney-client privilege in the Michael Sussmann criminal case may constitute a breach of the settlement agreements they entered with the Federal Election Commission, according to a letter sent to Special Counsel John Durham’s office on Friday.
That letter, obtained first by The Federalist, followed the flurry of motions to intervene filed in the special counsel’s pending false statement case against Sussmann. Hillary for America, the DNC, tech executive Rodney Joffe, Sussmann’s former law firm of Perkins and Coie, and the investigative firm Fusion GPS all filed motions last week asking the court for permission to argue against disclosing documents to the special counsel based on their claims of attorney-client privilege.
The special counsel’s office had previously filed a motion arguing that the court should review 38 documents withheld in response to grand jury subpoenas to assess whether the secreted material truly qualified as protected by attorney-client privilege. The day after Sussmann responded to that motion, opposing any such in camera review by the judge, his fellow Spygate hoaxers sought to join in Sussmann’s efforts to keep the documents concealed.
After the Hillary for America and the DNC’s motions to intervene hit the Sussmann docket, The Coolidge Reagan Foundation penned a three-page letter to Durham and Assistant Special Counsel Jonathan Algor. That letter alerted the special counsel’s office to key facts about the FEC’s recent decision to fine the political groups in relation to a complaint the foundation had filed with the FEC. That complaint charged Hillary for America and the DNC with using the “law firm, Perkins Coie, to hire and funnel over $1 million to ‘outside research firms’ such as Fusion GPS ‘to perform potentially sensitive, controversial, or politically embarrassing’ opposition research into Donald Trump.”
The FEC complaint, filed in 2018, alleged that “the research was not ‘for the purpose of assisting Perkins Coie in providing legal advice,’” but to further the “political and campaign-related goals” of the organizations. The foundation also claimed in its FEC complaint that because the work was not “for the purpose of providing legal advice or assisting with impending or potential litigation, it was not covered by attorney-client, work-product, or other privileges.”
Significantly, as the foundation noted in its April 22, 2022 letter to the special counsel’s office, the FEC had “found probable cause to believe” the political organizations had misreported the purpose of certain disbursements. The FEC reached that conclusion based on a memorandum prepared by the FEC’s Office of General Counsel, but under controlling regulations that memorandum “will not be made public for another week,” the letter explained.
Foundation counsel Dan Backer added that while the memorandum is not yet public, the special counsel’s office would likely be able to obtain it directly from the FEC. That memorandum also will provide Durham’s team further details on the FEC’s investigation and fact-finding that may be useful to the special counsel in the Sussmann litigation, noted the letter.
In Friday’s letter, Backer also highlighted Hillary for America and the DNC’s commitment in their settlement agreement with the FEC to “not further contest the Commission’s finding of probable cause to believe” that the political organizations had “falsely reported their payments through Perkins Coie to Fusion GPS as being for legal services.” In contrast, in the Sussmann case, Hillary for America and the DNC “are nevertheless asserting materials generated by Fusion GPS and provided to Perkins Coie are protected by attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine,” the letter stressed.
“The Government should not permit HFA and the DNC to adopt conflicting positions in different proceedings, depending on the federal agency against which they are litigating,” the foundation’s letter concluded, suggesting the trial court may find those breaches of the settlement agreement “material in ruling on any privilege claims.”
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/25/letter-no-hillary-clinton-cant-try-to-hide-2016-oppo-research-from-the-special-counsel/
https://www.scribd.com/document/571422910/Coolidge-Reagan-Foundation-Letter-to-Special-Counsel-John-Durham
Notable panic
President Trump WILL NOT Come Back to Twitter Despite Elon Musk Takeover
Fox News reported:
Former President Trump will not return to Twitter, even as Elon Musk purchases the social media company and reinstates his account, instead using his own TRUTH Social as the sole platform for his voice.
Twitter, on Monday afternoon, announced it agreed to be acquired by Musk for $44 billion.
The former president told Fox News Monday that he will formally join his own TRUTH Social over the next seven days, as planned.
“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,” Trump told Fox News. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH.”
Trump told Fox News he will begin “TRUTHing” over the next week.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-will-not-return-to-twitter-even-if-elon-musk-purchases-platform-will-begin-using-his-truth-social