Congress Must Investigate John Podesta’s Role in Biden’s LNG Decision

By Larry BehrensFebruary 29, 2024

Ever since 2016, talk to a liberal and there’s a good chance that they will blame “Russia” for something. Election interference, inflation, record-high gas prices, the list goes on and on. Since taking office, Joe Biden continues to take this deflection to a new level. As a gallon of gas soared past $5 in the summer of 2022 it was all Russia’s fault. And who can forget the ill-fated #PutinsPriceHike campaign as Team Biden tried to dodge criticism for skyrocketing inflation.

Yet according to recent revelations,there may be more to Biden’s “America Last" energy policy than meets the eye, and again, Russia enters the picture.

According to a bombshell report from the Washington Free Beacon, the decision to halt American liquified natural gas (LNG) exports was pushed by Biden's new Climate Czar John Podesta, who recently took over for John Kerry.

As a well-known climate warrior, it makes sense Podesta would be pushing for policies against American energy interests.Yet at the same time, Podesta’s brother, Tony, one of DC’s most well-connected mega lobbyists, has financial connections to foreign LNG companies, including one with links to a Russian oligarch. It is concerning to see the Podesta family standing to profit from a policy priority of the White House who employs another Podesta.

Foreign companies, including Russia, are clear beneficiaries Biden’s LNG attack. It should be raising questions about potential conflicts of interest and profit motives at the White House.

Even more troubling is the fact that this decision plays right into the hands of Vladimir Putin, the same dictator that Biden and his allies have been quick to blame for our country's woes.By halting American LNG exports, Biden is handing Putin a wider energy market, allowing him to continue raking in billions while American energy workers suffer, and our families pay higher prices.

As even the left-leaning Washington Posteditorial board put it, “Biden’s LNG decision is a win for political symbolism, not the climate.”

For the record, this is not the first time the Podestas were caught in ethical compromising situation. In 2019, Tony Podesta was investigated by the Southern District of New York for potential violations of foreign lobbying rules. Back in 2021, the same Podesta brother pocketed a cool $1 million by lobbying Biden in favor of Chinese telecommunications. Instead of tapping the brakes on this questionable influence, Joe Biden picked John Podesta to replace John Kerry and then put him in charge of the largest green slush fund in American history.

At a time when the country is still facing too-high gas prices and inflation, it is unacceptable for the Biden administration to prioritize the interests of foreign companies, and his radical green supporters over those of American workers and consumers. It is imperative that Congress launch an investigation into these suspicious ties to uncover the truth behind Biden's energy policy and determine whether there is any real Russian collusion at play.

The House of Representatives deserves credit for investigating other elements of Biden’s green grift, including an electric vehicle battery deal that Ford reached with a Chinese company. It seems there is no end to the amount of our money Team Biden is willing to spend for more…green.

It is time for Biden to put America first and prioritize the needs of the American people over the profits of foreign entities.

It is time for Congress to step up and ensure that our energy policies are in the best interests of the country, not those of foreign oligarchs. The time for action is now. Let us demand the truth and hold our leaders accountable for their actions. Congress must investigate because America deserves nothing less.

https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/02/29/congress_must_investigate_podestas_role_in_bidens_lng_decision_1015281.html

Democrats Are Furious That Due Process Is Ruining Their Lawfare Schedule

BY: DAVID HARSANYI FEB. 29, 2024

On Monday, Special Counsel Jack Smith requested the Supreme Court take up the question of presidential immunity in the election interference case against former president Donald Trump.It took only a few hours for the court to grant that request.

Now, you might be under the impression that such a quick result would greatly please Democrats. But there’s a major hitch. It seems that the justices forgot to ask Rachel Maddow to plan their schedules. Though the court expedited the case, arguments won’t be heard until April, with a decision likely to come in late June — making it unlikely, though not impossible, that there will be a trial before the 2024 election.

With this news, scores ofleft-wing pundits accused the justices of conspiring to help Trump win the election. By granting Smith’s request, Chris Hayes complained it “was a clear, unmistakable sign from the MAGA majority of the Trump-created court that they are with him. That they are going to use their power to make sure that he does not face trial in an election year for attempting to end American democracy.”

Sometimes, I wonder if Hayes and the others who happily watch constitutional protections and procedures dismantled when it suits their partisan needs know they are engaged in a mass act of projection.

Consider that Hayes demands SCOTUS render a judgment on a historic immunity case on a schedule that comports with the partisan objectives of Democrats – namely, putting Trump in front of a judge at the height of a 2024 presidential campaign. Or, in other words, Hayes wants the court to do the very thing he contends is corrupt for the court to do.

Notice, as well, that a “MAGA majority” court can only be legitimate if it rules in favor of the left. Like every institution, the contemporary left’s consequentialist outlook demands partisan outcomes. By “Trump-created,” of course, Hayes means the duly elected president nominated justices, and then the duly elected Senate confirmed them as prescribed by the Constitution. The self-styled guardians of “democracy” have spent years delegitimizing members of the court with a slew of smears and ginned-up non-controversies. Beats debating issues, I guess.

While rejecting SCOTUS as a corrupt institution is the norm, questioning the agenda or integrity of Biden’s DOJ, run by political appointees, is to attack the very edifice of democracy. Still, it should not go unnoticed that the Jan. 6 riots occurred in early 2021 — which is to say, over three years ago. You should be highly skeptical that Donald Trump’s prosecution had landed perfectly to coincide with the presidential election, thus promising maximum political impact by happenstance.

Indeed, the panic over timing reads like an explicit admission that theTrump prosecution is integral to the president’s reelection hopes. Biden basically admitted as much when he grumbled (and telegraphed) to Merrick Garland that the AG wasn’t acting in an aggressive enough partisan manner.

More importantly, though this might be tough for progressives to accept, Trump has every right to contest the prosecution’s charges, to appeal to higher courts, and to utilize any arguments that delay the trial for his own benefit. Trump has not been convicted of anything.

Because even if you believe that Trump’s claims of presidential immunity are wrong — and this non-lawyer doesn’t really see how it will stick (though the election interference charges against the former president seem even more rickety to me) — the case marks thefirst time in history that the Supreme Court will render an opinion on the criminal prosecutions of the former president.

That’s a big deal. The court has every reason to get it right and no reason to ensure that Democrats get their photo ops.

(Seems like Jack Smith got his wish, so why are they all freaked out. If Smith didn’t ask the court to expedite the “immunity” plea from Trump, they would have waited.)

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/29/democrats-are-furious-that-due-process-is-ruining-their-lawfare-schedule/

KanekoaTheGreat

@KanekoaTheGreat

NEW: @megynkelly and @PhilHollowayEsq

drop a bombshell on Fani Willis, Nathan Wade, and the Trump prosecutors in Georgia as they release Terrence Bradley's text messages on 𝕏.

"It's right here. The judge has this. He knows what we know. Terrence Bradley saw what Robin Yeartie saw. This affair was going on for years prior to 2022, and these two lied. They took the stand and, in my very well-educated opinion, told lies under oath to this judge, to these lawyers, to Fulton County, to all of us."

"He's admitting it's insane she hired him. Why would it be insane to hire him if they weren't having an affair? He's saying right here they were having an affair when she hired him."

"This is not how someone who knows nothing about an affair sounds. Sorry. Nathan's caught. Fani's caught. Terrence is caught. Ashleigh Merchant has been an honest broker from the beginning and was wrongfully smeared by Willis."

"She says, 'Do you think it started before she hired him?' He responds, 'Absolutely. It started when she left the DA's office and was a judge in South Fulton. They met at the Municipal court CLE conference.'"

"You tell me, audience, was she initially elected prior to hiring Nathan? Yeah, she was elected in 2020. Why would Terrence Bradley be saying you've got to subpoena her original security detail she had back in 2020? Why would he be saying those guys know it all if the affair wasn't going on in 2020?"

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Trump prosecutors in Georgia perjured themselves before Judge Scott McAfee.

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1763306085283508718?s=20

Democrats’ double freakout

Byron YorkMarch 1, 20241/2

DEMOCRATS’ DOUBLE FREAKOUT. Democratic fears are rising again about a general election matchup between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. There are two immediate reasons: 1) a new batch of polls showing Biden losing to Trump in every — yes, every — key swing state, and 2) new fears that Biden Justice Department-appointed special counselJack Smith might not be able to put Trump on trial and convict him before the Nov. 5 election. Together, they’re causing a double freakout among some Democrats and their allies in the media.

First the polls. Starting a week ago, Emerson College and the Hill released a series of swing-state polls, covering Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The polls showed Trump leading Biden in each state: +6 in Georgia, +3 in North Carolina, +6 in Nevada, +3 in Arizona, +2 in Michigan, and +3 in Wisconsin.

Perhaps some were inclinedto dismiss the results. After all, it was just one poll by one company. But now comes another set of polls, of the same states plus Pennsylvania, conducted by Bloomberg and Morning Consult. And the results are just as bad for Biden: Trump leads in every state. The new results are Trump +6 in Georgia, +9 in North Carolina, +6 in Nevada, +6 in Arizona, +2 in Michigan, +4 in Wisconsin, and +6 in Pennsylvania.

Now there have been two polls, by two different organizations, in quick succession, examining the same states. And not just any states — the states that will play decisive roles in the November election. It is fair to say that if a candidate wins these states, that candidate will be the next president. And Biden is running behind Trump in all of them.

It’s not like this is the first bad newsBiden has gotten from the key states. Four months ago, in November 2023, the party went into a frenzy when a series of New York Times-Siena College polls showed Trump leading Biden in five of six key states. The problem now, with the new polling, is: It hasn’t gotten any better.

That’s where the second partof the double freakout comes in. Explicit or not, the calculation in some parts of the Democratic world is this: Maybe Biden is weak, maybe his polls are terrible, but we’ll make Trump a convicted felon, maybe a prison inmate, before the election. That will ensure a Biden victory.

Such thinking suffered a big blowthis week when the Supreme Court agreed to hear Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution for the things he did as president. The case at issue is Smith’s prosecution of Trump over the 2020 election and Jan. 6. The judge in the case,Tanya Chutkan, had originally planned to start the trial next week. Some Democrats envisioned a weekslong trial tying Trump down in a federal courtroom, followed by a guilty verdict from a deep-blue Washington, D.C., jury, followed by a long sentence imposed by Chutkan, followed by a move by Smith to imprison Trump pending appeal. Bingo! Trump would be behind bars by Labor Day, and Biden would cruise to victory.

Problem is, the 2020 case just hasn’t worked out that way. The big obstacle, for Smith, Biden, and the Democratic Party, is that Smith’s case involves “novel applications of criminal laws to unprecedented circumstances,” in the words of a New York Times analysis. That means things will not proceed smoothly. The defendant has a right to question the legality of the unprecedented charges against him. The courts, all the way up to the Supreme Court, will have to consider and rule on some critical legal questions before the case goes forward. That takes time.…

Nice synopsis

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2897921/democrats-double-freakout/#google_vignette

>>20516240

2/2

But Smith is in an enormous hurry. He has tried everything he can think of to cut corners and bypass procedures to get to trial quickly. The Supreme Court, even though it agreed to expedite the case, has not given him the quick go-ahead he wanted. Now, no one knows when the 2020 trial will start, but many believe it cannot be concluded, or perhaps even begun, before the election.

Here is Smith’s most fundamental difficulty: He can’t admit why he is moving so fast. It’s obvious to everyone that he is racing to try Trump before the election. ButJustice Department guidelinesvery clearly sayfederal prosecutors “may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements, for the purpose of affecting any election.” That is what Smith is doing. He can’t admit his true motivation without admitting that he is violating long-held Justice Department rules against interference in an election.

That did not keep some Biden alliesfrom expressing profound disappointment with the Supreme Court move that will delay the 2020 trial. The crew at MSNBC — the network’s big stars, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Lawrence O’Donnell —held an on-air therapy session to vent their frustration and dismay. O’Donnell was the only one with a shred of optimism because he believes Trump will be convicted of felonies in the New York case that goes to trial later this month. The others were inconsolable.

Why were they so inconsolable?Because Biden is in such bad political shape that for many Democrats, prosecuting Trump seems the surest, most reliable way to win the 2024 presidential election. If Biden falters, there is always lawfare.But if Biden falters and lawfare fails — that’s a huge problem. And that is why recent events have been so worrisome for so many in the Biden camp.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2897921/democrats-double-freakout/#google_vignette

‘White rural voters’ are now a threat to democracy; new racist narrative pushes trashing of Whites

Chris DonaldsonStaff Writer

Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.

As polls continue to show a resurgent former President Donald J. Trump potentially winning the November election, the regime and its propagandists are going scorched earth against half of the electorate.

Earlier this week, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” welcomed two guests who were promoting their new book accusing white rural voters who are primarily Trump supporters of being racist xenophobes who hate gay people and are a threat to democracy.

Joining the crew were Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman whose newly released “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy” is a look into the mindset of the elitists to whom maintaining the hold on political power is so precious that they would dehumanize tens of millions of Americans to do so.

(Video: MSNBC) (is Obama feeding them the lines?)

“We lay out the fourfold interconnected threat that white rural voters pose to the country,” Schaller, who cites numerous cherry-picked polls to back up his theory, told Mika Brzezinski. “They’re the most racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant and anti-gay, geodemographic group in the country.”

“Second, they’re the most conspiracist group. QAnon support and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism and scientific skepticism, Obama birtherism,” he continued. “Third, anti-democratic sentiments. They don’t believe in an independent press, free speech. They’re most likely to say the president should be able to act unilaterally without any checks from Congress, or the courts or the bureaucracy,” Schaller said, rattling off the traits of the modern Democratic Party only transferring them to Trump voters.

“They’re also the most strongly white nationalist and white Christian nationalist,” he added.

“And fourth, they’re most likely to excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful public discourse,” he said, again describing the leftist shock troops of the ruling party who have repeatedly demonstrated their inclination for political violence which has been implicitly sanctioned by the media.

So this is where we are at now, the idea that Americans who would exercise their God-given rights by voting for the candidate of their choice are an “existential threat” to the nation, or more specifically, the rogue deep state that has hijacked the government and its tentacles and supplanted longtime rules and principles with “our democracy,” an Orwellian term that cloaks the malevolence of the regime.

According to the Amazon description of the hateful tome: “Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions. Their rage—stoked daily by Republican politicians and the conservative media—now poses an existential threat to the United States.”

“Schaller and Waldman show how vulnerable U.S. democracy has become to rural Whites who, despite legitimate grievances, are increasingly inclined to hold racist and xenophobic beliefs, to believe in conspiracy theories, to accept violence as a legitimate course of political action, and to exhibit antidemocratic tendencies,” the description reads. “Rural White Americans’ attitude might best be described as ‘I love my country, but not our country,’ Schaller and Waldman argue.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/03/01/white-rural-voters-are-now-a-threat-to-democracy-new-racist-narrative-pushes-trashing-of-whites-1441450/

Illegals Registered In U.S. Census | Jeff Clark Exposes Massive Issue And Its Consequences On Citizens

(This makes me believe there will not be a 2024 election, it may take a couple of years to get them out under the CiC)

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https://rumble.com/embed/v4embk3/?pub=4

Mike Davis Reacts To 9-0 Supreme Court Victory For President Trump Chutkan is supposedly their hero, she can save all of this. This a major loss to MSM

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>>20516368

Weissmann is insane

Just Wait Until 2024 When They Have Their Hamas Riots To Scare The Hell Out Of Republican Voters

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https://rumble.com/embed/v4em51c/?pub=4

Raheem Explains Merrick Garland's "Racist Conspiracy Theory" Used To Destroy Election Integrity. Election Interference by the DOJ

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https://rumble.com/embed/v4em7p6/?pub=4

If They Win The House, They Will Refuse To Certify Trump As The President Of The United StatesIncluding illegals on the census and redistricting the areas! Attack on the Supreme Court after todays decision

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https://rumble.com/embed/v4ema9h/?pub=4

TX-26 Candidate Brandon Gill: "I Plan On Being A Member Of The Freedom Caucus Day One"

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https://rumble.com/embed/v4em6tr/?pub=4