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DID JURORS HAVE IT OUT FOR MANAFORT? Unsealed Transcripts Reveal Jurors Trashed Manafort’s ‘Weak’ Defense BEFORE Deliberations Began
Did the jurors have it out for Paul Manafort? Was the media looking at confidential document’s on the counsel’s tables?
Newly unsealed court transcripts revealed jurors were trashing Manafort’s defense as ‘weak’ BEFORE the deliberations began.
Jurors are not supposed to discuss the ongoing case until all the evidence is presented and deliberations begin.
On the ninth day of the trial, one of the jurors felt another juror “crossed the line” when she said she didn’t believe Manafort had much of a case to present.
An attorney who obtained the newly unsealed transcripts for Manafort’s tax and bank fraud trial breaks down what really happened with the jurors and the media in the courtroom.
“Did certain jurors have it out for Paul Manafort?”
MORE:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/did-jurors-have-it-out-for-manafort-unsealed-transcripts-reveal-jurors-trashed-manaforts-weak-defense-before-deliberations-began/
The names of the jurors are still under seal and the transcript of the discussion about Rick Gates is still redacted, Techno Fog said after he reviewed the transcripts.
After four days of deliberations, the jury reached a verdict on 8 counts and could not make a decision on 10 counts in the tax evasion and bank fraud case against Paul Manafort.
Judge Ellis declared a mistrial on 10 counts. The jury found Manafort guilty on 8 counts.
Paul Manafort now faces up to 80 years in prison; the sentencing date has not been set yet.
‘Manafort is evaluating all of his options at this point,’ defense attorney Kevin Downing told reporters outside of the Alexandria, VA courthouse Tuesday evening.
The prosecutors have until August 29th to decide what to do with the mistrial charges.
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AWOL Jeff Sessions Keeps Streak Alive – Another Deep State Crook Gets Off Scot-Free
Another Deep State Crook Walks–
The Department of Justice declined to prosecute a corrupt FBI agent who took gifts and money from a “confidential human source.” The FBI agent also protected source’s illegal business and misused the FBI assets for personal gain.
The Jeff Sessions DOJ declined to prosecute.
CNS News reported:
The Department of Justice has declined to prosecute an FBI special agent whom the department’s inspector general determined had received money from a former FBI confidential human source, had protected that source’s illegal business, had provided false information to a local police department and had misused FBI assets for personal gain.
The inspector general referred this FBI agent’s case to the Department of Justice but DOJ would not prosecute.
“Criminal prosecution of the SA was declined,” the IG said in a publicly released summary of the investigation.
DOJ declined to respond to questions that CNSNews.com asked it about this case.
“We don’t comment on referrals,” a DOJ spokesperson said.
The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice released its “investigative summary” of the case on Aug. 6.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/awol-jeff-sessions-keeps-streak-alive-another-deep-state-crook-gets-off-scot-free/
Boston Globe: Chelsea Clinton’s Promotion of Abortion Is ‘Grotesque’
A Boston Globe columnist slammed Chelsea Clinton’s “chillingly utilitarian” promotion of abortion-on-demand Wednesday, calling her arguments “twisted” and “grotesque.”
At a recent “Rise up for Roe” event in New York City, sponsored by NARAL and Planned Parenthood, Ms. Clinton argued that legal abortion has made America more prosperous and added “$3.5 trillion to our economy.”
In its efforts to thwart the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, event organizers enlisted Ms. Clinton—who recently floated the idea of a possible future bid for the White House—to kick off their New York rally.
“American women entering the labor force from 1973 to 2009 added three and a half trillion dollars to our economy,” said the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. “The net, new entrance of women — that is not disconnected from the fact that Roe became the law of the land in January of 1973.”
The idea that keeping abortion legal will help strengthen the U.S. economy is a “singularly wretched argument,” wrote Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby Wednesday, and completely misses the mark as a matter of history, economics, and morality.
The hard-hitting column, an anomaly for the reliably pro-choice Boston Globe, reveals a Chelsea Clinton who walks resolutely in the footsteps of her mother Hillary, who was arguably the most virulent pro-abortion candidate ever to run for the office of president.
And yet her arguments are fatally flawed, said Mr. Jacoby, since the mass entrance of women into the workforce over the past half century was “driven by changes more universal and deep-rooted than a shift in US abortion law,” such as changed perceptions about women and work, the displacement of jobs requiring physical strength by jobs depending on brainpower, and women’s increased access to higher education.
“The rise of women in the modern workplace wasn’t achieved by abortion,” Jacoby states.
Economically, the tens of millions of aborted babies “would have grown into tens of millions of additional productive adults,” Jacoby notes. “They would have generated an immensity of new value — more goods, more services, more innovations, more art, more entertainment, more businesses.”
As a result, the United States would be more prosperous, not less, he writes.
“What makes Clinton’s argument truly deplorable, though, isn’t history or economics, but morality,” Jacoby declares. “Her approach is chillingly utilitarian, treating the destruction of life in the womb as, ultimately, a question of dollars and cents.”
Clinton’s claims are reminiscent of the debunked hypothesis that legalizing abortion caused a historic drop in violent crime, he adds.
The idea that abortion should be embraced as a social good because it eliminates children before they can become criminals is “grotesque,” he states, and Clinton’s “Rise up for Roe” argument is equally grotesque.
“Sixty million abortions since 1973 is nothing to celebrate,” no matter what the perceived economic consequences, he writes.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/22/boston-globe-chelsea-clintons-promotion-of-abortion-is-grotesque/
Aryan Circle Gang Leader and Two Subordinate Gang Members Plead Guilty to Accessory-After-the-Fact to Racketeering Murder, Among Other Charges
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/aryan-circle-gang-leader-and-two-subordinate-gang-members-plead-guilty-accessory-after-fact
FAKE and GAY
CIA-Backed Firm Tipped Off Facebook to ‘Inauthentic’ Accounts
Facebook removed 652 pages, groups and accounts on Tuesday for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” after it was tipped off to the accounts by FireEye, a cybersecurity firm bankrolled by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Unlike Facebook's last round of bans, the company has a attributed the operators of the newly removed accounts to the usual scapegoats: Russia and Iran.
"These were distinct campaigns, and we have not identified any links or coordination between them," the company said.
Twitter quickly followed suit. "Working with our industry peers today, we have suspended 284 accounts from Twitter for engaging in coordinated manipulation," Twitter said in a Tuesday statement. "Based on our existing analysis, it appears many of these accounts originated from Iran."
"The thing that strikes me the most is that it's so convenient, that all of these pages that Facebook has been taking down and that Twitter has been limiting, are all somehow related — or they say they're related — to governments or movements or news sources that aren't very friendly to the United States or that the United States government wants to overthrow," web developer and technologist Chris Garaffa told Radio Sputnik's By Any Means Necessary.
"Russia. Iran. TeleSur. Venezuela Analysis. There was a Haitian liberation page that was taken down last week on Facebook as well."
"You don't see any German pages, you don't see any British pages coming down, even if they are doing some sort of sketchy activity," Garaffa added.
According to Facebook's head of Cybersecurity Policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, the social media giant got a tip from FireEye, a cybersecurity firm that has received venture capital funding by the CIA since 2009. In a statement, the CIA's investment arm said it will maintain a "strategic partnership" with FireEye, calling it a "critical addition to our strategic investment portfolio for security technologies." The CIA's venture capital arm is known as In-Q-Tel, which describes itself as a "not-for-profit strategic investor" on its website.
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201808231067403827-CIA-Firm-Facebook-Accounts/
Facebook's last round of bans came on July 31. That time, the company made no attempt to publicly identify who was behind the "bad actors" on their platform, but said that activity displayed by them was consistent with previously identified activity from the allegedly Kremlin-run troll farm the Internet Research Agency.
That ban included 32 pages and accounts and the main counter-protest to the Unite the Right 2.0 rally held in Washington, DC on August 12 — the one-year anniversary to the deadly Charlottesville, Virginia, protest. One of the six administrators on the account supposedly displayed inauthentic activity. The other five were totally legitimate, the company admitted.
The bans on Tuesday follow a long line of similar ones issued by the company since the 2016 election. The company banned 470 supposedly fake Russian accounts in September 2017; then, on April 3, Facebook banned 70 Facebook accounts, 65 Instagram accounts and 138 Facebook pages allegedly controlled by the Internet Research Agency.
Garaffa underscored the power social media giants wield, as they're relied on "much more now than most people did on television or newspaper news, because the stream is always on. You're not picking up the morning edition of the paper, you're looking at what happened in the last five minutes."
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Bolton: Turkey ‘Made a Big Mistake in Not Releasing Pastor Brunson’
National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Tuesday that the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “made a big mistake in not releasing Pastor Brunson.”
The continuing detention of Pastor Andrew Brunson on espionage charges precipitated a diplomatic and financial conflict between the U.S. and Turkey that has enormously devalued the Turkish currency.
“Every day that goes by that mistake continues. This crisis could be over instantly if they did the right thing as a NATO ally, part of the West, and release pastor Brunson without condition,” said Bolton, who is currently visiting Israel.
Bolton clarified that Turkey’s continued membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is “not an issue at the moment.”
“We’re focused on Pastor Brunson and the other Americans that the Turkish government’s holding illegitimately and we expect that to get resolved,” he said.
Although Brunson’s case has the highest profile in U.S. media, there are other Americans held in Turkey on what critics consider trumped-up charges, and some Europeans, as well.
Like Brunson, many of them are linked by the Turkish government to exiled imam Fethullah Gülen, charged with masterminding the 2016 coup attempt against Erdogan. Gülen has long lived in the United States. The Turkish government seeks his extradition and has suggested Americans imprisoned in Turkey could be freed if Gülen is delivered.
Bolton dismissed Qatar’s $15 billion pledge of support for Turkey as “utterly insufficient to have an impact on Turkey’s economy.”
“It’s certainly not helpful but we’ll actually see what develops from their pledge,” Bolton said, signaling that Qatar’s intervention won the embattled emirate no friends in the Trump White House.
President Erdogan has, unsurprisingly, turned to blaming American sanctions for all of Turkey’s economic woes, even though Turkey’s debt and currency crisis was brewing long before the United States took action. As Voice of America summarized on Tuesday:
Erdogan’s government has spent massively on infrastructure, building new roads, airports and a high-speed train network. But fueling a boom with borrowed cash has now left Turkey with runaway inflation, a huge trade deficit, a large dollar debt and a plunging currency. The lira has lost 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year, making it more expensive to repay loans. The cost of servicing foreign borrowings has risen by 25 percent in the past two months.
Deutsche Welle on Wednesday found little appetite in Europe for bailing Erdogan out, even though Europeans have a lot of money riding on Turkish investments. If anything, Erdogan’s nationalist response to the Brunson conflict is making foreign money even more nervous about the political and economic environment in Turkey.
For instance, the perpetrators of a drive-by shooting against the U.S. embassy in Ankara told police on Wednesday they were angry about President Donald Trump’s criticism of Turkey and the steep drop in the value of the lira. Investors worry that Erdogan is creating an environment where large-scale street violence could erupt at any moment, while the government focuses on scapegoating the United States instead of addressing the true causes of the lira’s collapse.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/08/22/bolton-turkey-made-a-big-mistake-in-not-releasing-pastor-brunson/
MS-Sen: McDaniel stands by Robert E. Lee stance, ‘regardless of any political repercussions’
Last week, state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-Miss.) caused a social media stir by reposting a 2017 tweet that spoke favorably of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
That tweet led to some heated responses, a lopsided Twitter poll, and McDaniel referring to his critics as “snowflake stalkers.”
The controversy comes as McDaniel works to gain ground in the U.S. Senate special election in his state, in which polls have him trailing incumbent and fellow Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
McDaniel told TheBlaze he isn’t concerned about potential political backlash for his stance on the polarizing leader of the Confederate army — he’s only concerned with upholding Mississippi values, and fighting for what he believes is true.
“I side with the truth and have always advocated what I believe, regardless of any political repercussions,” McDaniel said. “Most of these self-promoting activists that are attacking me are not from Mississippi but are from other sections of the country, mainly the North. In Mississippi, Lee is still regarded very affectionately by many citizens and to viciously attack him in this state would not bode well for any politician.”
What happened?
McDaniel reposted a tweet that read:
“Here’s the irony: Robert E. Lee was the most decorated soldier in the U.S. Army. He was a man of unimpeachable integrity. Lincoln offered him command of the Union Army, but Lee refused only because his loyalty was to Virginia. Lee opposed both secession and slavery. And yet to the historically illiterate left, a man who opposed both slavery and secession had come to symbolize both slavery and secession.”
He was quickly attacked by users offended by his post, including historian Kevin Kruse of Princeton, who said Lee was a cruel slaveowner who regularly separated families.
McDaniel followed up the next day with a Twitter poll asking his followers whether Lee was a hero or a villain. Of the nearly 140,000 voters, 91 percent chose “villain.”
The state senator seemed to acknowledge the out-of-state antagonists who had picked up on his Lee talk, and addressed them in a Facebook post, which read: “Quick question for my new snowflake stalkers: If President Abraham Lincoln tried to hire General Lee for his Union Army, does that make Lincoln a racist? Asking for a friend.”
Generational problem?
McDaniel, in an email to TheBlaze, said the millennial generation has traded historical truth and factual evidence for irrational emotion.
“Today, many Americans, particularly the “millennial” generation, are fueled, not by facts and a desire to discover historical truths, but by raw emotion, which we see on full display with the violence seen on far too many occasions, particularly on college campuses,” McDaniel said. “These violent, un-American outbursts need to end, with harsh penalties for those who engage in them. It is not the way in which we bring about change in a constitutional republic.”
Indeed, views on the Confederacy and its legacy are still much different in the deep south than in the north or on the coasts, as polls have shown. Still, it remains to be seen whether McDaniel’s stance, which garnered national attention, will help or hurt Senate campaign going forward.
McDaniel has been, and remains an outsider candidate, a role he embraces. He recently said he could only see himself working with three members of the Senate.
“I’d just as soon trust the first 100 members of the phone book than I would the Senate,” McDaniel said, according to the Sun Herald.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/08/22/ms-sen-mcdaniel-stands-by-robert-e-lee-stance-regardless-of-any-political-repercussions
Crisis in Canberra: Fresh leadership spill looms for Malcolm Turnbull
TURNBULL LOSES SUPPORT
The crisis in Canberra has deepened and Malcolm Turnbull’s fate has been decided as once-loyal senior ministers declare they have tendered their resignations and support a leadership challenge.
Parliament shuts down
In an extraordinary move, the government has shut down the House of Representatives until next month. MPs left the Chamber to shouts of “shame” from the Opposition.
Labor leader, Bill Shorten, said it’s the ultimate admission of surrender” from a “bankrupt government”.
“The government may adjourn the parliament, but they can’t outrun the weight of failure,” he said. “It’s not the parliament that’s failed. It’s the Turnbull government. Australia no longer has a functioning government.”
Deputy, Tanya Plibersek, called the government “vandals” and consumed by “chaos, dysfunction and ego”. She said the only solution is to call and election and let the people decide.
After so many ministerial resignations, the government effectively has no ministry, and couldn’t face Question Time. The senate will sit for the rest of the day. Parliament will return on September 10.
https://www.9news.com.au/2018/08/23/06/46/spill-liberal-party-leadership-challenge-malcolm-turnbull-peter-dutton-live-news-coverage
NOTE: Looks like the corrupt globalist Aus PM is finished!
Ugh Never-Trump Mitt Romney Praises Deep State DOJ after Cohen and Manafort Are Found Guilty
Mitt Romney praised the corrupt Department of Justice after former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen were found guilty after they were criminally charged ONLY because they were associated with President Donald Trump.
Mitt Romney is not smart enough to understand the Democrats and Deep State would do the same thing to him if they had the chance.
And that’s why the Never Trumpers are so very dangerous.
Via The Washington Examiner:
Mitt Romney condemned the conduct of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and the president’s former lawyer Michael Cohen after they were found guilty of multiple federal crimes Tuesday.
“The events of the last 24 hours confirm that conduct by highly-placed individuals was both dishonorable and illegal,” Romney tweeted Wednesday without naming Manafort or Cohen explicitly.
Romney said it also confirmed his faith in the U.S. justice system, “and my conviction that we are a nation committed to the rule of law.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/ugh-never-trump-mitt-romney-praises-deep-state-doj-after-cohen-and-manafort-are-found-guilty/
looks like she's had more than knobs than a space shuttle cockpit