It’s pretty telling when rigged polls start telling the truth, but maybe the real figure is 1 in 10, not 2! Kek
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1527623322556669952?s=20&t=cqlg9qxePw9g7EDDch3KGA
The comment is funny, sort of.
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1527616479788781570?s=20&t=cqlg9qxePw9g7EDDch3KGA
Reluctant Witness Devastates Defense Claims In Special Counsel Criminal Case
MARGOT CLEVELAND. MAY 20, 2022
PART 1 OF 2
James Baker’s testimony yesterday in United States v. Sussmann proved devasting to the former Clinton campaign attorney both in substance and in circumstance.
Former FBI General Counsel James Baker felt responsible for dragging his friend Michael Sussmann “into a maelstrom,” yet remained “100 percent confident” that Sussmann had claimed, when providing Baker the Alfa Bank “intel,” that he was not there “on behalf of any particular client.” Baker’s testimony yesterday in United States v. Sussmann proved devasting to the former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney both in substance and in circumstance.
The indictment charged Sussmann with violating Section 1001 of the federal criminal code by telling Baker he was passing on the Alfa Bank information as a concerned citizen, not on behalf of any client, when in fact Sussmann represented both the Clinton campaign and tech executive Rodney Joffe. Earlier this week, during opening arguments, Sussmann’s legal team told the jury that prosecutors would be unable to establish what Sussmann actually said to Baker and would fail to prove the alleged lie “mattered.”
Yesterday, Baker proved Sussmann’s high-powered Latham and Watkins’ attorneys wrong when the former FBI general counsel testified he was “100 percent confident” that Sussmann had denied acting “on behalf of any particular client” during their September 19, 2016 meeting. “My memory on this point, sitting here today, is clear,” Baker told the jury.
Sussmann made the comments “pretty close to the beginning of the meeting,” Baker explained, noting it was “part of his introduction to the meeting.” Sussmann would go on to provide Baker with two thumb drives and several whitepapers, which Baker said Sussmann explained concerned “an apparent surreptitious communications channel between Alfa-Bank, which he described as being connected to the Kremlin in Russia, and some part of the Trump Organization in the U.S.”
Besides attesting to his 100 percent confidence level in what Sussmann had said, Baker explained to the jury his apparent earlier equivocation about Sussmann’s representations. When asked by lead prosecutor Andrew DeFilippis about his congressional testimony in which he appeared not to remember Sussmann’s statements, Baker told the jury he had not prepared for questions about his meeting with Sussmann and had not refreshed his memory at the time.
The transcript of his House testimony confirms that the congressional hearing’s focus concerned the Christopher Steele dossier and not Sussmann or the Alfa Bank hoax. Baker’s full testimony reveals he was a witness caught off-guard by a topic and attempting to recall the events while being peppered with questions.
Baker further testified on Thursday that “it wasn’t until Durham’s investigators began ‘homing in’ on meeting with Sussmann in June 2020 that he thought in detail about what Sussmann said about not having a client.”
A jury is likely to find Baker’s explanation believable given Baker’s belated discovery of a text message Sussmann sent to Baker the night before the September 19, 2016 meeting. “I’m coming on my own – not on behalf of a client or company. [W]ant to help the Bureau,” the text from Sussmann to Baker read.
Baker’s Thursday testimony also helped seal a secondsubstantive point being challenged by Sussmann’s defense: the government’s claim that Sussmann’s alleged lie “mattered.”
As a matter of law, a lie must “matter,” or in legalese be “material,” for it to constitute a Section 1001 offense. To be material,the lie must be “capable of influencing a decision” of the government actor. While Sussmann’s legal team has told the jury that Sussmann’s alleged statement did not matter even if false, in his testimony yesterday, Baker explained several ways in which the lie “influenced a decision” of the FBI…
https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/20/reluctant-witness-devastates-defense-claims-in-special-counsel-criminal-case/
Reluctant Witness Devastates Defense Claims In Special Counsel Criminal Case
Part 2 of 2
First, Baker testified that he would not have taken the private meeting with Sussmann if he knew Sussmann was working on behalf of the Clinton team. Next, Baker explained he had “vouched” for Sussmann, telling top FBI counterintelligence agents that Sussmann was a serious lawyer “who could understand the importance and validity of the information,” based on his belief that Sussmann was acting as a concerned citizen. The former FBI general counsel further explained that because Sussmann had brought the information to him supposedly on his own behalf, he treated Sussmann as a sensitive confidential human source and protected his identity from other agents investigating the data.
On cross-examination, Sussmann’s legal team challenged Baker’s testimony and attacked his memory. But the defense is unlikely to leave a mark on Baker’s credibility, and not merely because of Baker’s 100 percent confidence in the substance of his testimony. Rather, it is the circumstances under which Baker testified that render him untouchable.
Baker testified that he considered Sussmann both a friend and a colleague. When asked why he had not previously provided the special counsel with the damning text Sussmann sent him the evening before their September 19, 2016 meeting, Baker told the prosecutor (and the jury):
“I’m not out to get Michael. This is not my investigation. This is your investigation. If you ask me a question, I answer it. You asked me to look for something, I go look for it. To the best of my recollection, nobody had asked me to go look for this material. I had not recalled that he had texted me until I saw this text in March.”
Baker’s answer conveyed to the jury much more than an explanation for why he had only recently provided prosecutors with the Sussmann text: His response told the jury he is a reluctant witness, and that reality is much more damaging to the defense than Baker’s assertion of 100 percent confidence in his memory.
The jury is unlikely to forget that point because, in one of the few unforced errors coming from Sussmann’s legal team, defense attorney Sean Berkowitz made the mistake of highlighting the fact that Baker is a reluctant witness testifying against his friend.
In cross-examining Baker, who had earlier told the jury that testifying before Congress “was terrible” and “sucked at multiple levels,” Berkowitz asked Baker whether testifying against his friend Sussmann was also a “terrible” experience.
“This is more orderly,” Baker replied, reportedly pointing to his chair, “It’s terrible, but orderly.”
Sussmann’s legal team is unlikely to repeat that mistake today when it finishes its cross-examination of Baker, but the jury is also unlikely to forget Baker’s words—and the special counsel is unlikely to let them.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/20/reluctant-witness-devastates-defense-claims-in-special-counsel-criminal-case/
https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1527620893106655232?s=20&t=cqlg9qxePw9g7EDDch3KGA
Twitter Blocked Hunter Laptop Story After Intelligence Officials Shared Hack ‘Rumors’
Twitter exec who testified to FEC called the Trump team 'Nazis'
Twitter blocked a story about Hunter Biden's laptop after U.S. intelligence officials shared "rumors" that Biden would be the target of a hack, an executive with the social media company told the Federal Election Commission.
Yoel Roth, the head of Twitter's Site Integrity Team, cited the information from U.S. intelligence officials to justify Twitter's decision to block access to a series of New York Post articles published in October detailing emails found on Biden's laptop. A conservative group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission accusing Twitter of giving an illegal campaign contribution to Joe Biden's presidential campaign by blocking access to the articles.
Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites have long faced allegations of bias against conservatives. Roth, who helped develop Twitter's policy of labeling misleading posts, came under fire last year over tweets in which he called Donald Trump and his team "ACTUAL NAZIS." He also called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) a "bag of farts," Fox News reported. Brandon Borrman, a former Twitter executive who was named in the FEC complaint, recently joined an anti-Republican super PAC aligned with the Lincoln Project.
The six-member Federal Election Commission voted unanimously to dismiss the Republican complaint, according to documents released Wednesday. (WTF??) The bipartisan commission accepted Twitter's claim that it blocked the articles for commercial purposes rather than for political reasons.
The commission pointed to Roth's testimony that U.S. officials warned him individuals close to political campaigns would likely be targeted in "hack-and-leak" operations close to the election. Roth said he met frequently throughout 2020 with government officials to discuss election security. He said he learned in one of the meetings that "there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden."
While the commissioners did not weigh in on whether Hunter Biden was hacked, no evidence has emerged that he was. A computer repair shop owner in Delaware claimed that Biden dropped his computer off for repairs in April 2019 and never retrieved it. The shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, has released documents showing that he provided Biden's laptop to the FBI in late 2019.
The U.S. attorney's office in Delaware is investigating Biden over his taxes and foreign business dealings. Biden has said he is not certain what happened to his laptop. He has admitted to being in the midst of a drug and alcohol binge around the time he allegedly lost his computer.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/twitter-blocked-hunter-laptop-story-after-intelligence-officials-shared-hack-rumors/
https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1527387522170376195?s=20&t=cqlg9qxePw9g7EDDch3KGA
11 Republicans voted against Ukraine $40 billion money laundering scheme:
• Hawley (MO),
Marshall (KS),
Crapo (ID),
Braun (IN),
Paul (KY),
Blackburn (TN),
Hagerty (TN),
Lummis (WY),
Boozman (AK),
Tuberville (AL),
Lee (UT)
https://twitter.com/nedryun/status/1527362467227062272?s=20&t=cqlg9qxePw9g7EDDch3KGA
So fucking true! Regardless of what commentators are saying, “that the FBI and DOJ is off the hook now”, this is only the beginning. Kash has said for a long time, you always start with low level criminals when building a case of a major conspiracy! I bet Sussmann is regretting not taken the offer to turn and roll on the higher criminals. Sure the lower levels of FBI said they were unaware of the connection to Sussmann representating clients, but thats not the crime the higher levels of FBI will be charged with. This an overarching case of deep and multiple cases of different crimes. Durham hasn’t even gotten to Rusdiagate, the plot against the President, Ukraine, Italy or Crowstrike servers yet.