SEC won't say if Clinton campaign CFO, Strzok's wife are recused from its Truth Social probe

SEC is covering for Strzok and Melissa Hodgman

Report said Chair Gary Gensler is leading the investigation, a possible conflict of interest given his role in 2016 campaign for President Trump's rival.

Updated: August 25, 2022 - 1:08pm

The Securities and Exchange Commission is declining to comment on a report that agency Chairman Gary Gensler – who was the CFO for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign – is leading its investigation of the merger of Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of the ex-president's Truth Social, with the special purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition Corp.

In a Gettr post Monday on the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid, RealClearInvestigations journalist Paul Sperry claimed Gensler is leading the SEC investigation and had "recently named" Melissa Hodgman as associate director of enforcement.

Hodgman is married to Peter Strzok, the FBI agent fired in 2018 for anti-Trump texts who continues to make Russia-related claims about Clinton's 2016 rival.

An SEC spokesperson identified as "Cory" pointed Just the News

to its public statements about Hodgman, who joined the agency in October 2016 as associate director of enforcement and was named acting director at the outset of the Biden administration.

She returned to her earlier role when Gurbir Grewal took over as permanent director in mid-2021, Cory said, after Just the News noted her current position is not identified anywhere on the SEC website.

The SEC won't comment on what role, if any, Gensler and Hodgman are playing in the Truth Social investigation or whether they offered to recuse themselves or if the agency required their recusal for the appearance of conflict of interest, Cory said.

Sperry's post claimed the Biden administration "potentially walked away with an untold number of personal and business documents, including ones that may be related to Truth Social and the Biden SEC's ongoing investigation," from the FBI's Aug. 8 raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, in Florida.

Sperry was recently booted from Twitter after a series of tweets that cited "speculation" that the FBI had a "PERSONAL stake" in the raid related to the Spygate revelations, identified "conflicted DOJ officials" briefed on the raid and contrasted the raid with the FBI's approach to Clinton and the "33,000 potentially classified documents" she deleted.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/sec-wont-say-if-clinton-campaign-cfo-strzoks-wife-are-recused-its-truth

>>17441456

Politics December 14, 2017

INSURANCE: Hours After FBI Found Classified Hillary Emails on Weiner Laptop, Peter Strzok’s Wife Was Promoted to Director of SEC Enforcement

Hours after the FBI found classified Hillary Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop, the wife of the FBI agent running the high-profile probe was promoted to a powerful position in the Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI sources said. This case keeps getting worse for the FBI and embattled agent Peter Strzok, the lead investigator on the Clinton probe. His wife Melissa Hodgman was promoted to deputy director of SEC’s Enforcement Division literally hours after Strzok and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were debriefed about the Clinton emails found on Weiner’s computer.

The FBI’s original warrant for Weiner’s laptop was issued in late September 2016 and a subsequent warrant was issued on Oct. 30, 2016 so that the FBI could use Huma Abedin’s & Hillary’s classified emails as evidence in the re-opened Clinton probe. Hodgman was promoted Oct. 14, 2016, literally hours after investigators started to examine the laptop’s contents for Clinton emails and assorted files, federal sources confirm.

Perhaps Hodgman’s promotion was merely happenstance?“There are no coincidences here,” one FBI source told True Pundit. “Not with this crew. They wanted his wife in that SEC slot for a reason.”

But why?Enter the Clinton Foundation.We now know what the FBI knew after they seized the laptop during a search warrant at Weiner and Huma Abedin’s Manhattan residence: There were thousands of documents on the laptop related to the Clinton Foundation, including offshore financial records. With that evidence — as well as thousands more of classified emails linked to Hillary on the laptop — FBI sources said agents and brass knew immediately the Bureau would likely reopen the criminal case against Clinton. And ex-Director James Comey did just that two weeks later.

Hence the rush to get an insurance policy in place at the SEC in case things heated up on the white-collar crime side. With Hodgman at the SEC and Strzok at the FBI it would be virtually impossible to even know what cases linked to the Clinton Foundation had criminal merit, if each were trying to keep all things Clinton-related quiet.

ButCharles Ortel, an expert on the financial dealings and filings of the Clinton Foundation believes having chess pieces in place at the SEC and FBI were only a smaller part of a much larger game for the Clintons.

“The Clinton “business plan” to monetize government is broader than simply gaming one agency–they saw an opportunity to create unregulated globalist government and seeded many organizations with like-minded persons, some of whom were simply naive, but all of whom ultimately are corrupt,” Ortel said. Ortel, a private investor and writer who exposes large complex international frauds, understands the labyrinth of the Clinton Foundation’s international scams. And while the foundation itslef is not a public company which would fall under the SEC’s regulatory umbrella, it’s finances remain entwined with dozens of public entities that do.

Ortel has laid out many of these relationships on CrowdSource the Truth on YouTube every Sunday, dissecting the complex financial schemes of the Clinton Foundation. Ortel said having a hook inside the SEC would certainly benefit Hillary Clinton.

“The SEC is a civil agency that only prosecutes criminal cases in concert with the DOJ,” Ortel said. “It is a prime instrument that can be monetized readily — lawyers there typically migrate to jobs as partners in uni-party law firms, so they can, it seems, be managed to favor politically connected donors from both parties.”

This amounts to a very sophisticated white collar protection racket of sorts. If there were illicit contributions to the Clinton Foundation from publicly-traded entities in any country — even companies listed on foreign stock exchanges — the SEC still wields a tremendous amount of power to sanction, sue, or refer criminality to the FBI.

And what about if a prospective donor to the Clinton Foundation has an ongoing problem with the SEC? Or the SEC has frozen certain assets of a donor. The Clintons have the juice to make all that go away or to protect donors from the SEC and FBI oversight and essentially “fix” problems of their billionaire and millionaire benefactors and further rig the system.

“The IRS (Lois Lerner and others) is the prime place where the Clintons (and Obamas, and Bushes) need allies to insulate their “foundations” from attention, and using the DOJ and state AGs from prosecutions,” Ortel said. A modern-day mafia.

https://truepundit.com/insurance-hours-after-fbi-found-classified-hillary-emails-on-weiner-laptop-peter-strzoks-wife-was-promoted-to-director-of-sec-enforcement/

Dominion Voting Systems deposes Carlson, Hannity in suit against Fox News

Dominion brought the $1.6 billion defamation suit after the outlet covered its role in the 2020 presidential election

Updated: August 25, 2022 - 3:37pm

Fox News anchors Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity will sit for depositions with attorneys representing Dominion Voting Systems as part of the firm's ongoing defamation suit against the cable outlet.

Carlson will face deposition on Friday, while Hannity and former host Lou Dobbs will answer questions from Dominion attorneys next week, according to the New York Times.

Dominion brought the $1.6 billion defamation suit after the outlet covered its role in the 2020 presidential election, suggesting that the company was complicit in voter fraud.

Lawyers for the company have asserted that Fox knowingly aired false coverage about its voting machines and “decided to promote former President Trump’s narrative after Trump’s condemnation of Fox damaged its stock and viewership,” The Hill reported. The network sought to dismiss the suit on First Amendment grounds but a judge allowed the case to move forward.

Dominion voting machines were the subject of intense scrutiny by the Trump campaign and its allies after the 2020 presidential election, with many groups alleging they produced inaccurate vote tallies and were susceptible to the malicious influence of outside code.

Fox was adamant the network would triumph in the case, telling The Hill, “We are confident we will prevail as freedom of the press is foundational to our democracy and must be protected, in addition to the damages claims being outrageous, unsupported and not rooted in sound financial analysis, serving as nothing more than a flagrant attempt to deter our journalists from doing their jobs.”

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/dominion-voting-systems-deposes-carlson-hannity-suit-against-fox-news

(So why didn't Dominion sue President Trump, since they are suing everyone else for having the right of free speech? Interesting that they didn't, eh?)

25 Aug, 2022 13:56

Russia reports destruction of eight Ukrainian warplanes

The military also says it hit a military train at a railway station in the town of Chaplino

Two separate attacks by Russian forces have destroyed or disabled eight Ukrainian Air Force planes, the Defense Ministry in Moscow claimed on Thursday.

In one sortie, Russian warplanes launched precision munitions at a Ukrainian airfield near the city of Mirgorod in the central Poltava Region, military spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said during a daily briefing. Two warplanes, a Su-27 and a Su-24, were destroyed while two other Su-27s and a Su-24 were critically damaged in the raid, he said.

The Ukrainian military reported Russian strikes on “military infrastructure” in the city on Wednesday morning, but did not disclose the damage they caused. According to the Russian side, up to 30 “nationalists” were killed.

The second reported precision strike strike hit Dnepr military air base in Dnepropetrovsk Region, destroying three unspecified military aircraft, according to Konashenkov. As of Thursday, the ministry claims to have destroyed a total of 273 Ukrainian military planes since launching the operation in February.

The Russian official also confirmed a strike on a train station in the Ukrainian town of Chaplino, but disputed Kiev’s claims about the nature of the target. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stated on Wednesday evening that the attack had killed 22 civilians, including an 11-year-old child. His office updated the death toll on Thursday to 25.

Konashenkov said that an Iskander missile hit a train carrying Ukrainian troops and weapons eastward.He claimed that the strike killed more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed 10 military vehicles.

https://www.rt.com/russia/561547-russian-military-ukraine-warplanes/

25 Aug, 2022 18:46

Ukraine strikes chemical plant – DPR

Rocket strikes caused an electrical fire at the factory in Gorlovka, mayor says

Ukainian rockets loaded with cluster bombs damaged a chemical plant in the Donetsk People’s Republic on Thursday and caused an electrical fire, according to local officials. The “Stirol” factory halted operations but there was no chemical release and the fire was eventually put out, authorities in the city of Gorlovka said.

The plant was struck on Thursday afternoon by two missiles from Ukrainian “Uragan” multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said on Telegram. The rockets were allegedly loaded with cluster munitions, which exploded and started a fire at the electrical substation inside the “Stirol” plant and on the roof of the nearby “Transammiak” factory.

“Stirol” director Vasily Agarkov told local media that the factory halted operations until the fire was extinguished. Agarkov said that about 40 cluster bombs were scattered inside the factory, but that there was no risk of a chemical release. There were no reports of casualties.

Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) emergency services said they received a fire call shortly after 6 pm local time, and it took the firefighters until 7:45 to localize the blaze.

This was the second artillery attack on “Stirol” this month. On August 12, Ukrainian shelling, as claimed by DPR officials, also caused a fire at the plant, hitting a warehouse with construction materials.

Gorlovka is located northeast of Donetsk city, with heavy fighting currently going on north and west of the city between Russian and DPR forces on one side, and Ukrainian troops on the other.

Before the conflict, “Stirol” used to be one ofEurope’s largest producers of mineral fertilizers, accounting for 3% of the global export of ammonia and related compounds.

https://www.rt.com/russia/561567-gorlovka-donetsk-chemical-attack/

25 Aug, 2022 14:13

Russian ex-president envisions military junta in Kiev

A coup is the only alternative to a civilian government accepting Russia’s terms for peace, Dmitry Medvedev said

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev haspredicted that the Ukrainian military may stage a coup in Kiev to do what the civilian government refuses to do – negotiate peace with Russia.

Medvedev, who is now deputy chair of the Russian National Security Council, outlined the scenario as one of two options that he believes to be viable for Ukraine. The other was if the government of President Vladimir Zelensky changed its tune and agreed to Russia’s terms for ending hostilities. Either way, Russia will get what it wants from Ukraine, the official said.

Moscow declared the demilitarization and ‘denazification’ of Ukraine as the goals of its military operation in the country. Kiev initially appeared willing to accept a neutral status, but was later emboldened by Western military aid. Zelensky now insists that defeating Russia on the battlefield and retaking all the land that was under Kiev’s control before 2014 is the only possible option for his country.

The assessment by Medvedev apparently came in response to a Wednesday article in The Guardian, which made predictions for how the Ukrainian crisis could develop over the next six months.

Dan Sabbagh, the British newspaper’s defense and security editor, offered five predictions that he considers likely.

The expectations included a deadlocked conflict and a reduction in the intensity of hostilities, a campaign of sabotage by Ukrainian special forces and a renewed refugee crisis during winter.

The Russian official said that any scenario for the conflict that would predict a victory for Kiev was “crystal-clear lies and demagoguery.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/561532-medvedev-military-coup-kiev/

So this is why the resident admin is leaking to NYT, WAPO and CNN insinuating they are souring on Zelensky, obviously he's loosing and bidan admin has to use him as a scapegoat, "We gave them everything they needed to win the war but Zelensky was too weak, and lost", will be what they release.

25 Aug, 2022 16:22

Pentagon issues update on supplying modern fighter jets to Ukraine

Kiev, however, for its part must be able to “sustain” and “afford” advanced weaponry systems, a top US defense official has said

Washington is still considering supplying modern combat jets to Ukraine amid its ongoing conflict with Russia,US Under Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl has said. No “final decision,” however, has been madeon this matter and actual delivery could take “years” to materialize – while Kiev must in turn be able to “sustain” and “afford” advanced weaponry systems, the official told a press briefing on Wednesday.

“As it relates to future aircrafts, fourth generation aircraft, for example, even if we were to provide those now, they wouldn’t arrive for years, so we’ve been focused on, as it relates to their fighter aircraft, on what they need … to support the current efforts to hold in the east and perhaps going on a counter offensive,” Kahl explained, pointing to the recently approved delivery of air-to-surface missiles that can be used by warplanes remaining in the Ukrainian inventory.

I can tell you that fighter aircraft remain on the table, just no final decisions have been made about that.

As the potential delivery of warplanes is a matter with an uncertain future, its exact form can take shape only when the ongoing conflict reaches one outcome or another, the official suggested, signaling long-term plans to support Kiev.

“It could be a scenario in which the war continues, it could be a scenario in which the violence ebbs because there’s an agreement or because it just dies down a bit,” Kahl stated. “But even in that instance, the Ukrainians are going to need to defend their territory and deter future aggression.”

Still, any weaponry systems, including potential fighter jets, must be sustainable and Kiev must be able to “afford” them, Kahl stressed, suggesting that the lavish Western aid will not be poured into Ukraine forever.

“We’re trying to be very deliberate about what systems we think makes the most sense for Ukraine to have in that context, and also matters very much–can they sustain it?” he said.

Can they afford it? Because, of course, you know, billions of dollars of international assistance is not, you know, may not be something ten years from now, or 20 years from now.

Russia has repeatedly warned the West against “pumping” Ukraine with weaponry, insisting that the aid would only prolong the conflict rather than change its ultimate outcome. The US remains the top war supplier of Kiev, having funneled billions of dollars in military aid and delivered large batches of assorted weaponry to prop up the Ukrainian military.

https://www.rt.com/news/561550-ukraine-us-fighter-jets/

(What a joke, they can’t even take care of their tanks, or anything else, they ruin everything sent within a couple of days)

25 Aug, 2022 08:32

Russia and India no longer need US dollar – BRICS president

The two countries have successfully established a mechanism for mutual settlements in rubles and rupees, Purnima Anand says

Russia and India don’t need the US dollar in trade, having turned to national currencies to conduct mutual settlements, BRICS International Forum President Purnima Anand told reporters on Thursday.

“We have implemented the mechanism of mutual settlements in rubles and rupees, and there is no need for our countries to use the dollar in mutual settlements. And today a similar mechanism of mutual settlements in rubles and yuan is being developed by China,” she said.

“That means that the BRICS countries are opening up to Russia, offering the opportunity for the country to overcome the consequences of sanctions,” Anand added, as quoted by RIA news agency.

The BRICS president said mutual trade between India and Russia had grown fivefold over the past 40 years. Moscow supplies a rapidly growing volume of oil to India, and in return gets large quantities of agricultural products, textiles, medicines and other products.

Anand also noted that New Delhi considers itself a neutral party in the current sanctions war between the West and Russia, and despite sanctions pressure, will continue cooperation with Moscow “in any areas where necessary.”

“When Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began, naturally there was pressure on India to stop importing Russian oil. But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had to reject this pressure. The Russian side was assured that supplies would not be stopped and the sanctions regime would in no way affect the relationship between our countries,” the forum head stressed.

BRICS an international socio-economic and political forum incorporating five member nations: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

https://www.rt.com/business/561513-russia-india-dont-need-dollar/

This seems like a huge happening with a lot of repercussions, right anons?

>>17441802

Anon, I'm sending prayers to you, may you have Peace from the heart of God. It's a difficult time for many. May Jesus be with you and give you a spiritual boost up.

I don't know if it will help you, but I take daily a supplement called 5HTP, it's very good for balancing the correction of the uptake of serotonin. I don't go without it because in times of stress and uncertainty it definitely helps. It's inexpensive but get a good brand from a healthfood store, they do have it a pharmacies but not the same potency.

5 Science-Based Benefits of 5-HTP (plus dosage and side effects)

5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) is an amino acid that your body naturally produces.

Your body uses it to produce serotonin, a chemical messenger that sends signals between your nerve cells.

Low serotonin levels are associated with depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, weight gain and other health problems (1Trusted Source, 2Trusted Source).

Therefore, increasing your body’s production of serotonin may have various benefits.

For this reason, serotonin-producing 5-HTP supplements have become increasingly popular.

Here are 5 potential health benefits of 5-HTP, based on science.

12 potential health benefits of 5-HTP

1. Depression

Although more research is needed, early studies have shown that 5-HTP can help with depression by increasing serotonin levels.

Multiple studies have reported that taking 150-3,000 mg of 5-HTP a day for 2-4 weeks may alleviate symptoms of depression.

According to one study, 5-HTP may be equivalent to some antidepressants in terms of effects.

5-HTP has been shown to be effective when used in combination with other antidepressant medications such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).

https://www.medicinenet.com/12_potential_health_benefits_of_5-htp/article.htm

If you are having anxiety, Kava Kava is as effective as benzodiasprene (xanax)

Studies suggest kavalactones may have the following effects on the body:

Reduce

anxiety (4Trusted Source)

Protect

neurons from damage (5Trusted Source)

Reduce

pain sensations (5Trusted Source)

Reduce the risk of cancer, though the evidence is

limited to mice (6Trusted Source, 7Trusted Source, 8Trusted Source, 9Trusted Source)

Most of the research to date has focused on kava’s potential to reduce anxiety.

It is largely unknown how kavalactones produce these effects, but they appear to work by affecting neurotransmitters in the brain. Neurotransmitters are chemicals that nerves release to communicate with each other.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/kava-kava#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2

>>17441877

I seriously doubt PV would pay $40,000 for a diary that seemingly a lot of people had

>>17441343

that's a really fat ugly manee