Trump: Comey Told 245 Lies During Friday's Congressional Testimony

Republican lawmakers weren't the only ones who were frustrated by former FBI Director James Comey's repeated refusals to answer questions or provide further details - or his assertions that he simply couldn't recall - during his closed-door testimony before members of the House on Friday.

Following the release of the full transcript from Comey's testimony last night, President Trump lashed out against the former FBI director whom Trump summarily fired a few months in to his administration, accusing Comey of lying when he said he couldn't remember certain details or otherwise refused to answer questions (something Comey did, on the advice of a DOJ attorney, 245 times during the course of his marathon testimony). Furthermore, Trump said Comey lied when he said he didn't know Christopher Steele (the former UK intelligence agent who assembled the infamous Steele dossier) and that he didn't know who had signed off on investigations into four unnamed Trump campaign officials.

Comey was "so untruthful", Trump said, that he might have "set a record" for the number of times a witness lied to Congress during official testimony. Hist testimony is the latest sign that the Russia probe is a "rigged fraud" launched by "dishonest people" who would "do anything so that I would not become president."

"They are now exposed!," Trump said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-09/trump-comey-told-245-lies-during-fridays-congressional-testimony

Leaker Adam Schiff: President Trump “May Face the Real Prospect of Jail Time”

Rep. Adam Schiff, who is often completely wrong and completely dishonest, told Face the Nation on Sunday that President Trump faces “the real prospect of jail time” after he leaves office.

Schiff is also accused of leaking classified information to the press dozens of time in the past two years.

Schiff spoke to Face the Nation on Sunday.

The Hill reported:

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday said that President Trump might “face the real prospect of jail time” after prosecutors indicated last week that he directed illegal payments during his 2016 presidential campaign.

“There’s a very real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him. That he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Schiff’s comments come after federal prosecutors said in a legal filing Friday that referred to Trump as Individual-1 that Trump coordinated with and directed his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, during the 2016 campaign to make illegal payments to two women claiming they had affairs with Trump. It was the first time prosecutors made those accusations against Trump.

FOX News legal expert has argued for months that a candidate can use his own money, like billionaire Donald Trump did, and not campaign funds to pay off former lovers.

Jarrett told Hannity you can make unlimited contributions to his own campaign.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/leaker-adam-schiff-president-trump-may-face-the-real-prospect-of-jail-time-video/

GLOBALIST ARMY: Armored Vehicles with EU FLAG Storm Paris to Quash Protests

Hundreds of protesters were arrested Saturday in Paris as thousands of “yellow vest” protesters took to the street for a fourth weekend of anti-tax protests.

According to the BBC confrontations took place after 8,000 demonstrators gathered in the city centre. More than 500 1,000 people were taken into custody.

The French authorities sent in EU armored vehicles!

The Macron government sent in the EU armored vehicles to quash the anti-tax protesters!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/globalist-army-armored-vehicles-with-eu-flag-storm-paris-to-quash-protests-video/

MI6's Spymaster Revealed How The UK Is Conducting "Fourth Generation Espionage"

The head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Alex Younger briefed the public about the challenges of so-called “fourth generation espionage”.

The UK’s top spy spent some of his time blaming Russia for trying to, as he put it, “subvert the UK way of life” by supposedly poisoning the Skripals and through other mischievous but ultimately never verified actions, though moving beyond the infowar aspect of his speech and into its actual professional substance, he nevertheless touched on some interesting themes. According to him, “fourth generation espionage” involves “deepening our partnerships to counter hybrid threats, mastering covert action in the data age, attaching a cost to malign activity by adversaries and innovating to ensure that technology works to our advantage.”

In other words, it’s all about applying what he calls the “Fusion Doctrine” for building the right domestic and international teams across skillsets in order to best leverage new technologies for accomplishing his agency’s eternal mission, which is “to understand the motivations, intentions and aspirations of people in other countries.”

While he remarked that the so-called “hybrid threats” associated with “fourth generation espionage” necessitate “being able to take steps to change [targets’] behavior”, this has actually been part and parcel of the intelligence profession since time immemorial, albeit nowadays facilitated by social media and other technological platforms that allow shadowy actors such as the UK’s own “77th Brigade” to carry out psychological, influence, and informational operations.

Younger warned that “bulk data combined with modern analytics” could be “a serious challenge” if used against his country, obviously alluding to Cambridge Analytica’s purported weaponization of these cutting-edge technological processes to supposedly “hack” elections, though neglecting to draw any attention to the fact that his intelligence agency and its allies could conceivably do the same in advance of their own interests, something that everyone who uses Western-based social media platforms is theoretically at risk of having happen to them.

What Younger is most concerned about, however, are what he describes as the “eroded boundaries” that characterize so-called “hybrid threats” lying between war and peace, which he fears could undermine NATO’s Article 5 obligation for all of the military alliance’s members to support one another during times of conflict. Considering Russia to be a country that “regards [itself] as being in a state of perpetual confrontation with [the West]”, Younger believes that unacceptably high costs must be imposed upon it every time it’s accused of some wrongdoing, forgetting that the exact same principle could more applicably be applied against the West by Russia for the same reasons. He claims that it’s the UK that will never respond in kind by destabilizing Russia like Moscow’s accused of doing to the UK, but in reality, it’s President Putin’s so-called “judo moves” which prove that it’s Russia who has mastered asymmetrical responses instead.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-08/mi6s-spymaster-revealed-how-uk-conducting-fourth-generation-espionage

>>4227659

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‘Leave our nation be’: French FM fires back at Trump’s tweet on Yellow Vest rallies

The French foreign minister demanded that Donald Trump doesn’t meddle into the country’s affairs. Earlier the US leader blamed the Paris climate change agreement for sparking anti-fuel tax protests that swept France.

Jean-Yves Le Drian said that "we do not take domestic American politics into account and we want that to be reciprocated."

"Leave our nation be," he insisted further.

The minister reacted to Trump’s recent tweet in which he blamed the climate change deal for essentially causing the Yellow Vest unrest, which has been going on for weeks now.

“The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France,” President Trump tweeted.

The Yellow Vest movement – named after high-visibility clothing that drivers keep in their vehicles – has been gripping France for four consecutive weeks. This Saturday broke the record after over 1,700 people were detained and over 260 injured. The latest unrest, according to the country’s economy minister, was “a disaster” for France’s trade and economy and a true “crisis of the nation.”

https://www.rt.com/news/446001-french-fm-reacts-trump/

Bye-bye dollar: India & UAE agree to trade in local currencies

New Delhi and Abu Dhabi have inked a currency swap agreement to boost trade and investment without involvement of a third currency like the US dollar.

The swap is for an amount of two billion UAE dirham or 35 billion Indian rupees (US$495 million), according to the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi.

“The bilateral currency swap agreement between India and UAE is expected to reduce the dependency on hard currencies like the US dollar,” the embassy said.

“It is also expected to give a push for the local currencies of the two nations and may reduce the impact of volatility in exchange rate arising from the dependency on a third currency. It is also expected to reduce the transmission costs arising from exchange rate risk,” the embassy added.

The sides also discussed cooperation in energy, security, trade, investments, space, defense, and so on.

With more than $50 billion in bilateral trade, the two countries are each other’s largest trade partners. India’s foreign direct investment into the UAE was $6.6 billion in 2017, while the UAE’s investment in India stood at $5.8 billion.

UAE is the sixth-largest oil exporter for India, with non-oil trade between them accounting for $34 billion.

Earlier this year, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and an Indian consortium led by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) signed a 10 percent offshore concession agreement giving Indian companies the opportunity to develop Abu Dhabi’s offshore oilfields, which produce about 1.4 million barrels of oil per day.

Adnoc is also investing in India’s $44 billion Ratnagiri petrochemical complex in cooperation with Saudi Aramco. It is exploring the possibility of storing its crude oil at Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL)’s underground oil storage facility at Padur in Karnataka.

https://www.rt.com/business/445987-india-dollar-free-agreement/

260+ injured & over 1.7k detained across France in latest Yellow Vest chaos

The number of those detained in France’s nationwide Yellow Vest protests on Saturday, has reached a staggering 1,723. In Paris, the major hotspot of unrest, scores were injured as rallies continued even after sunset.

Film from Ruptly news agency in the capital shows police facing off with demonstrators, who vented their anger well into the late hours. The footage captured officers chasing down demonstrators and later handcuffing them.

Some of them were dragged down the road by law enforcement and placed face down while surrounded by officers. Several people wearing the now iconic yellow vests are also seen in the video with their faces covered in blood.

French CRS riot police apprehend a protester during a national day of protest by the "yellow vests" movement in Paris © Reuters

According to the latest figures provided by the Interior Ministry, 135 people were injured in Paris alone, while the number nationwide has risen to 264. Police also took a beating, with at least 17 officers receiving injuries in the mayhem.

With the country plunging deeper into chaos, authorities made a record number of detentions during the December 8 rallies. Data provided by Interior Minister Christophe Castaner indicates that at least 1,723 were detained and over 1,200 of them were ordered into custody. The figures topped last Saturday’s mayhem, when over 400 arrests were made.

This Saturday was the fourth consecutive weekend of protests, with authorities calling in reinforcements to beef up security. That included sending armored vehicles of the country’s military police (Gendarmerie) to Paris. The hardware was deployed near the iconic Arc de Triomphe, the scene of previous clashes.

Speaking on the aftermath, Paris Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire confirmed that the latest violence caused “much more damage” to the capital, compared to the previous protests.

A woman puts wooden wall on a shop window in Paris, on December 9, 2018 a day after a "yellow vest" demonstration © AFP

The unrest, triggered by the controversial plans for fuel price and tax hikes, seems to be far from dying down. Earlier this week, the government said it has abandoned its plans, but people still took to the streets across France, demanding more concessions from the government, including lower taxes and cost of living, and even the resignation of Emmanuel Macron.

https://www.rt.com/news/445996-france-injured-protests-chaos/

Andrew McCarthy: Feds Will Try to Indict Trump on Campaign Finance Charges

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy believes that prosecutors will attempt to indict President Donald Trump on campaign finance charges, judging from the sentencing memo in the Michael Cohen case on Friday.

McCarthy, a conservative legal analyst who worked as a prosecutor in the same Southern District of New York jurisdiction that is currently prosecuting Cohen, argued in a column on Fox News that the prosecutors would not have drawn attention to Cohen’s relatively minor campaign finance violations if they did not intend on charging Trump over payments of hush money to two women before he became president:

The major takeaway from the 40-page sentencing memorandum filed by federal prosecutors Friday for Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, is this: The president is very likely to be indicted on a charge of violating federal campaign finance laws.

It has been obvious for some time that President Trump is the principal subject of the investigation still being conducted by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

…

When Cohen pleaded guilty in August, prosecutors induced him to make an extraordinary statement in open court: the payments to the women were made “in coordination with and at the direction of” the candidate for federal office – Donald Trump.

Prosecutors would not have done this if the president was not on their radar screen. Indeed, if the president was not implicated, I suspect they would not have prosecuted Cohen for campaign finance violations at all.

McCarthy acknowledges the strong case Trump has in his defense, but says that prosecutors may be focusing on him anyway.

On Friday, Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who was also once the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and now serves as one of Trump’s lawyers, dismissed the legal danger to the president.

He pointed to Cohen’s conviction for lying to the FBI, which would make his testimony on other matters unreliable. “You have to believe Cohen. Who believes Cohen?” he reportedly said.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/09/andrew-mccarthy-feds-will-indict-trump-on-campaign-finance-charges/

>>4227749

You fon't know what your talking about.

The FED dollar must be killed so the US dollar can be revived.Countries decoupling from the FED dollar is part of the plan.

Expand your thinking.

As Brexit Goes ‘Down the Plug Hole’, Farage Prepares New Party for ‘Biggest Battle Yet’

Nigel Farage has confirmed he is planning to launch a new political force to save Brexit, vowing he “won’t lie down” as the political establishment tries to overturn the referendum result.

The Brexit pioneer, who resigned from UKIP last week, told the Sunday Telegraph: “I sense within me I have not fought my biggest battle yet — that is how it feels. Whether it is happenstance, serendipity, destiny.

“I am not going to lie down and watch it go down the plug hole. I couldn’t do that. And I won’t do that. If there are European Parliament elections I am standing and I am thinking about vehicles do to that,” he added.

Though Britain is supposed to leave the EU on March 29th 2019, two years after the Article 50 clause of the Lisbon Treaty was triggered to begin the Brexit process.

Mr Farage said he believes there is “a 55 to 45 per cent chance” that delays will see the United Kingdom still in the bloc when the May 2019 elections to the EU Parliament take place.

“My view is that, between now and Christmas, Article 50 will be extended. Is there a lot of conversation about what then happens? Yes. If the Brexit ball is dropped completely, it will have to happen,” he told the Mail on Sunday.

“Look, I make this absolutely clear, if they suspend Article 50 and we fight in the next European elections, I will be there.”

Mr Farage — who led UKIP on and off for nearly a decade, before quitting due to the direction the party has taken in recent months — said talks with figures from the worlds of business and politics had been underway about creating a new vehicle, the name of which was still “to be confirmed”.

“I will be looking to get some high-profile figures in from across the business and political spectrum. I am talking about something very different. I have sounded out a few people,” he told the Telegraph.

“I am working on the concepts right now. It won’t be a one-off shot, it will be the birth of something much more remarkable than UKIP was.”

The 54-year-old Brexit frontman, who has repeatedly insisted he never planned nor wanted to have to come back to politics after securing the historic referendum result in 2016, blasted “cowardice in the Tory party … throughout this whole [negotiations] process” or the current political crisis.

“My game plan had been to see Brexit through, move to America for four or five years. I get on well over there, Trump is going to get re-elected so Washington DC is a good place,” he told the Telegraph.

“But I have always said that if the ball gets dropped on Brexit I will have no choice but to pick it up. It increasingly looks like that is the case.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/09/brexit-farage-prepares-biggest-battle/

Another ex-UKIP leader jumps ship over Tommy Robinson appointment – report

UKIP MEP and former leader, Paul Nuttall, is the latest high profile figure after Nigel Farage to quit the party over the appointment of far-right activist Tommy Robinson in an advisory role.

Nuttall, who sits in the European Parliament for North West England, said: “The association with Tommy Robinson will simply appall many moderate Brexit voters and inevitably be detrimental to the cause.”

“Putting Tommy Robinson front and centre, whilst Brexit is in the process of being betrayed is, in my view, a catastrophic error,” he added.

“To conflate Brexit and Robinson at this crucial moment is to put the eurosceptic cause in danger and I cannot and will not be party to that.”

https://www.rt.com/uk/445832-tommy-robinson-ukip-nuttall/

Merkel party member calls her signing the UN Migration Pact “An act of treason”

While most of the Christian Democratic Union delegates were highly supportive and some even had signs reading “Thanks boss”, Eugen Abler was having none of it.

He appealed to Merkel to not sign the UN pact for migration and called plans to do so an act of treason.

According to Abler the migration pact will have an even more disastrous impact on the country than the chancellor’s decisions in 2015 and went on to call the pact a Trojan horse.

He expanded his points by mentioning culturally foreign refugees and illegal migrants, who endanger the German way of life and the feeling of homeland.

Most of the migrants are of working age but 80 per cent of them live on benefits, Abler continued. Furthermore the majority of migrants are Muslim. It is naive to believe, that they will integrate in Germany.

He ended his speech by wishing the new CDU chairwoman good luck and called on her to make the party strong again.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/merkel-party-member-calls-her-signing-the-un-migration-pact-an-act-of-treason/

Local Militia, Demonstrators Capture Libya’s Largest Oil Field (Map Update)

A local unit of the Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG) and demonstrators have captured Libya’s largest oil field – al-Sharara oilfield. Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said the “disgraceful” move could cost the national economy $32.5 million daily but insisted production had not stopped despite the complicated security situation there. The situation on the ground remains unclear because conflicting statements and rumors appear on a constant basis.

However, it appears to be that local forces seized the field in order to demand the improvement of social services in the area, which is mostly abandoned by the Western-backed Libyan government that pretends that it controls the area.

https://southfront.org/local-militia-demonstrators-capture-libyas-largest-oil-field-map-update/

>>4227863

And then

>>4227810

While Macron’s Paris is on fire, Salvini’s Rome shines as he puts Italians first

To celebrate six months in power Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini holds an ‘Italians first’ rally in Rome. Around the same time Paris was on fire as thousands of protesters want Macron to leave office.

In his speech to 80,000 supporters, the Deputy Prime Minister and populist said in regards to the neighbouring “Yellow Vests” protests: “Those who sow poverty reap protests, those who sow false promises reap the response of those on the margins and the countryside”.

His statement was met with cheers from the crowd of Italians who have seen his government keep promise after promise to the Italian people.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/while-macrons-paris-is-on-fire-salvinis-rome-shines-as-he-puts-italians-first/

Friends in high places: Michael Cohen was paid more than FOUR MILLION dollars for promising several companies, including AT&T, access to President Trump, prosecutors say

Michael Cohen was paid more than $4 million by several firms in return for access to Trump and other figures in his administration

A federal prosecutor told a judge on Friday that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen should spend between 51 and 63 months in prison

Prosecutors allege Cohen extracted more than $4 million from major corporations in return for his supposed insight into White House policy making

His reported consulting clients were telecom giant AT&T, Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis and Columbus Nova

Michael Cohen was paid more than $4 million by several firms for promising access to his former client Donald Trump.

A federal prosecutor told a judge on Friday that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen should spend between 51 and 63 months in prison for a range of federal crimes including tax evasion and violating campaign finance laws.

Now federal prosecutors provided new details on the extent of former Donald Trump fixer Michael Cohen’s attempts to cash in on his access to President Trump.

They claimed that Cohen extracted more than $4 million from major corporations in return for his supposed insight into White House policy making.

According to prosecutors, Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to eight federal criminal charges, immediately sought to profit from his connections to Trump in the wake of his former boss’ 2016 election victory.

They wrote in a sentencing memo: 'Cohen successfully convinced numerous major corporations to retain him as a consultant who could provide unique insights about and access to the new administration,' prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo filed on Friday.

'Some of these corporations were then stuck making large up-front or periodic payments to Cohen, even though he provided little or no real services under these contracts.

'Bank records reflect that Cohen made more than $4 million dollars before the contracts were terminated'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6475419/Michael-Cohen-paid-4-million-companies-wanted-access-Trump.html

>>4227967

WTF you are fucking kidding right???

Fucking shit bakers on the weekend.