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Of Course: Biden Admin Linked To Trump Ballot Ban In Colorado
While many are focusing on the Ivy League Democrats on Colorado's Supreme Court who voted to kick Donald Trump off the 2024 primary ballot, there underlying case itself has a direct link to the Biden administration.
The Colorado case against Trump was brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), headed by President and CEO Noah Bookbinder…
…who sits on the Biden administration's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Advisory Council (HSAC), as the Daily Caller's James Lynch reports.
"Our Constitution clearly states that those who violate their oath by attacking our democracy are barred from serving in government. It has been an honor to represent the petitioners, and we look forward to ensuring that this vitally important ruling stands," Bookbinder gloated in a press release.
It gets better…
Bookbinder is a former trial attorney for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) public integrity section and former chief counsel for criminal justice for the Senate Judiciary Committee. He repeatedly donated to former President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign during his tenure with the Senate, Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records show.
The DHS appointed Bookbinder and 32 other new members to HSAC in March 2022 ahead of the council’s first meeting under Secretary Mayorkas. -Daily Caller
DHS Secretary Mayorkas said in a March 2022 press release related to HSAC: "Together, we will ensure that the Department is best positioned to meet the challenges we confront today, foresee and be ready for the challenges of tomorrow, capitalize on the power of technological innovation, and serve our country by living up to our highest ideals. Our Department is privileged to benefit from the experience, vision, and creativity of these incredibly accomplished individuals."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/course-biden-admin-linked-trump-ballot-ban-colorado
Uber-Hawk Graham Blows A Gasket At Report Xi Warned Biden He Plans To Reunify Taiwan With China
Never wanting to waste an opportunity to out-hawk everyone else, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham issued a blistering response to fresh reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping directly warned President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that China will move to unify Taiwan with the mainland.
Graham expressed outrage and called for bipartisan efforts to work toward urgently beefing up Taiwan's defenses and military capabilities. "This story as reported is beyond unnerving," Graham stated on X Wednesday. "I will be working with Democratic and Republican Senators to do two things quickly. First, create a robust defense supplemental for Taiwan and second, draft pre-invasion sanctions from hell to impose on China if they take action to seize Taiwan."
The senator from South Carolina then warned Beijing directly, saying: "To communist China, if you think you can bully your way into destroying world order without consequences, you will be making Putin's decision to invade Ukraine look wise."
Specifically he was responding to a widely circulating NBC report published Wednesday which for the first time unveils new details surrounding Xi's San Francisco trip in mid-November.
Multiple current and former officials said Xi very bluntly told Biden that Taiwan will be reunified and that the only undecided factor is the timing. "Xi told Biden in a group meeting attended by a dozen American and Chinese officials that China’s preference is to take Taiwan peacefully, not by force," according to the sources.
And further unexpected was how specific Xi got in his words to Biden:
The Chinese leader also referenced public predictions by U.S. military leaders who say that Xi plans to take Taiwan in 2025 or 2027, telling Biden that they were wrong because he has not set a time frame, according to the two current and one former official briefed on the meeting.
Xi was likely more emboldened to convey a tough, direct message given the White House rejected earlier requests regarding a sought after statement on Taiwan. The White House is said to have rejected the following request going into the summit:
Chinese officials also asked in advance of the summit that Biden make a public statement after the meeting saying that the United States supports China’s goal of peaceful unification with Taiwan and does not support Taiwanese independence, they said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/graham-expresses-fury-report-xi-warned-biden-hell-reunify-taiwan-china
62% Of Americans Live Paycheck-To-Paycheck And The Bottom Of The Economic Food Chain Is Already Collapsing
Thanks to a soaring stock market, the wealthy are feeling very good about things right now, but the rest of the country is really hurting.
Homelessness is rising at the fastest pace ever recorded, the number of children that are suffering from hunger is rapidly growing, and more than 60 percent of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. The mainstream media continues to insist that the economy is in good shape, but how can that possibly be true if nearly two-thirds of the entire nation is just barely scraping by?
According to brand new numbers that were just released, the percentage of U.S. adults that live paycheck to paycheck has actually increased by 4 percent just since the month of March…
Sixty-two percent of adults in December said they live paycheck to paycheck, up from 58 percent in March.
Forty percent of consumers living paycheck to paycheck have super-prime credit scores.
Fifty-seven percent of consumers who own credit cards are living paycheck to paycheck.
Yikes!
But even though most of the country is living on the edge financially, 96 percent of shoppers say that they plan to “overspend” this holiday season…
This year, holiday spending from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 is expected to increase between 3% and 4% over last year to a record total of $957.3 billion to $966.6 billion, according to the National Retail Federation.
Even as credit card debt tops $1 trillion, almost all — or 96% — of shoppers said they expect to overspend this season, a separate TD Bank survey found.
Half of consumers plan to take on more debt to cover those holiday expenses, according to another report by Ally Bank. Only 23% have a plan to pay it off within one to two months.
Are you kidding me?
Needless to say, those numbers are yet another confirmation of what I wrote about yesterday.
We just can’t help ourselves.
No matter how much we already have, we always feel the need to have more.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/62-americans-live-paycheck-paycheck-and-bottom-economic-food-chain-already
Jack Smith Quietly Adds DC Swamp Lawyer From Mueller’s Inquisition to His Special Counsel Team – Trump Responds
Special Counsel Jack Smith quietly added DC swamp lawyer Michael Dreeben to his massive team of prosecutors working to jail Trump before the 2024 election.
Jack Smith added Michael Dreeben, one of Mueller’s angry Democrat lawyers who targeted Trump years ago with the Russia collusion hoax, as he prepares to go before the US Supreme Court.
Dreeben has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court.
“Smith, the special counsel prosecuting the former president, has brought in one of the most accomplished modern Supreme Court advocates: Michael Dreeben, who has argued more than 100 cases at the high court and is a preeminent authority on the court’s criminal law doctrines.” – Politico reported.
“Trump has added at least three lawyers, none of whom are part of the clubby cohort of Supreme Court advocates. They are D. John Sauer, Will Schar and Michael Talent, according to a person familiar with Trump’s plans. All three are based in Missouri, and according to a database of Supreme Court arguments , Sauer has argued a single case, while Schar and Talent have not argued before the court.” – Politico added.
Jack Smith last Monday asked the US Supreme Court to weigh in on Trump’s immunity claims.
In September Trump was hit with 4 counts in Jack Smith’s January 6 case up in DC: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Trump’s lawyers argued that Trump is immune from federal prosecution for alleged ‘crimes’ committed while he served as US President.
Jack Smith skipped over the appellate court and went straight to the US Supreme Court on Trump’s immunity claims.
“This case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy: whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office,” Smith wrote in last Monday’s filing.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/jack-smith-quietly-adds-dc-swamp-lawyer-muellers/
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