Two Arrested on Suspicion of Attacking Legal Immigrant Wearing MAGA Hat

By Richard Szabo

April 16, 2019 Updated: April 16, 2019

https://www.theepochtimes.com/two-arrested-on-suspicion-of-attacking-legal-immigrant-wearing-maga-hat_2881471.html

Two suspects could face prison time if found guilty of attacking and robbing a legal immigrant from Togo in Maryland on April 13.

Germantown resident Jovan Crawford, 27, and Washington D.C. resident Scott Duncan Roberson, 25, are charged with robbing and assaulting the man, who was wearing a red hat with U.S. President Donald Trump’s slogan Make America Great Again (MAGA).

Officers from the Montgomery County Department of Police’s fifth district accused Roberson of second degree assault and trying to steal goods worth between $100 and $1500. Crawford faces the same charges as well as malicious destruction of property worth less than $1000.

Police reported the victim was walking near the 18000 block of Cottage Garden Drive in Germantown when he was approached by two men, who began harassing him because he was wearing the MAGA hat.

“The victim told the suspects that he was entitled to his own views and kept walking away from the suspects. The suspects began striking the victim and telling him to take the hat off,” police said in a statement. “The victim continued to be struck by the suspects until he fell to the ground. The suspects then removed property from the victim, and destroyed items of value. The suspects then fled the scene.”

When police arrived on the scene, they helped the victim find the suspects.

“Officers spotted the two suspects attempting to hide among a group of children playing basketball,” police said. “The suspects were taken into custody and transported to the Central Processing Unit where they were charged accordingly.”

Dozens of concerned citizens expressed their support for the victim on social media.

“All over a hat … that’s a shame. This is America, people are entitled to wear a MAGA hat just as somebody else is with the Obama seal,” Justin Chuckerel said. “Come on people … Montgomery County is better than this.”

“Absolutely appalling. Scum,” Kelley Jamieson said. “This is a hate crime and needs to be treated as such.”

“Use your hands to vote, not to double up on and beat someone for exercising their rights for freedom of speech,” Betsy Marshall said.

One person questioned whether it was safe to wear a hat in public that aligns with the president.

“Come on … wearing a MAGA hat in Germantown (primarily black area) … what did he expect?” Jimmy Daniels said. “That’s begging for trouble.”

However, this did not stop one Trump supporter from posting a photo of himself driving and wearing a MAGA hat.

“Come at me,” Michael Smith said.

The investigation is continuing.

Anyone with information about the incident are invited to contact detectives from the fifth district investigative section by phoning 240 773 6237.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pinchuk

Victor Pinchuk

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Victor Mykhailovych Pinchuk

Viktor Pinchuk David Shankbone 2010.jpg

Pinchuk at the 2010 Time 100 Gala

Born 14 December 1960 (age 58)

Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

Nationality Ukrainian

Other names Віктор Михайлович Пінчук

Occupation Businessman and philanthropist

Known for Interpipe Group

EastOne Group LLC

Net worth US$1.5 billion (January 2017)[1]

Spouse(s) Elena Arshava (div.)

Olena Kuchma Franchuk

Children 4

Victor Pinchuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Михайлович Пінчýк, Viktor Mykhailovych Pinchuk; born 14 December 1960) is a Ukrainian businessman and oligarch. As of January 2016, Forbes ranked him as 1250th on the list of wealthiest people in the world, with a fortune of US $1.44 billion.[1]

Pinchuk is the founder of EastOne Group LLC, an international investing, project funding and financial advisory company based in London, and of Interpipe Group, one of Ukraine's leading pipe, wheel and steel producers. Pinchuk is the owner of four TV channels and a popular tabloid, Fakty i Kommentarii. He has been a member of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, for two consecutive terms from 1998 to 2006. He is married to Olena Pinchuk, the daughter of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.[2]

Contents

1 Early life and career

2 Philanthropy

3 Yalta European Strategy

4 Personal life

5 Rankings

6 See also

7 References

8 External links

Early life and career

Pinchuk was born in 1960 in Kiev to Jewish parents[3][4][5] who moved to the industrial city of Dnipropetrovsk. He graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute with a doctorate in industrial engineering in 1987.[6] Three years later, he founded the Interpipe Company on the basis of his patented innovations, which were adopted by leading metallurgical factories in the USSR.

Interpipe is a major producer of seamless pipes and railway wheels. In 2004, Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov, two of Ukraine's richest men, acquired the Kryvorizhstal steel factory for about $800 million.[7] President Leonid Kuchma, who is Pinchuk's father-in-law, authorized the state asset sale, which competitors complained was far below market rate.[8] Later, the first Tymoshenko government reversed this sale, and held a nationally-televised repeat auction that netted $4.8 billion.[7] In 2006, Pinchuk founded an investment advisory company, EastOne.[9] Its portfolio includes industrial assets such as production of pipes and tubes, rail car wheels, specialty steels and alloys, machinery, as well as media.

Pinchuk was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament between 1998 and 2006 for Labour Ukraine.[10][11] He left politics after he came to the conclusion that Ukraine had reached a level of development when business and politics should be separated.

Pinchuk is a member of the Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, of the International Advisory Council of Brookings Institution and of the Corporate Advisory Board of the Global Business Coalition against HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. Pinchuk holds a share of VS Energy International Ukraine together with Mikhail Spektor and Igor Kolomoisky.[12]

In 2013, American steel makers filed a case with the United States Department of Commerce alleging that Interpipe Group was illegally dumping steel tubes into the American natural gas market.[8] In November 2013, Fitch Ratings downgraded Interpipe because of the dumping accusations and a missed $106 million debt payment.[8]

In 2015, Pinchuk brought a $2 billion civil action against fellow Ukrainian oligarchs Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Gennadiy Bogolyubov in the High Court of Justice in London over the 2004 purchase of a Ukrainian mining company. Allegations made include murder and bribery.[13][14] In January 2016, an undisclosed out of court settlement was reached just before the trial was due to start.[15]

Philanthropy

Pinchuk has supported philanthropic projects in Ukraine. In 2006, he consolidated these activities under the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, which is now considered the largest private Ukrainian philanthropic foundation.[6] Its mission is to empower future generations to become the change makers of tomorrow; the foundation is active in the fields of health, education, culture, international affairs, human rights and local communities.[16][17]

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The foundation's projects include the largest private scholarship program in Ukraine "Zavtra.UA", the scholarship program for Ukrainian students studying abroad "WorldWideStudies", and the annual "Ukrainian Lunch" and "Philanthropic Roundtable" on the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos.[18] The foundation supports and works with a variety of partners, including the network "Yalta European Strategy" created to promote Ukraine's European integration, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Kyiv School of Economics, Tony Blair Faith Foundation, the Brookings Institution, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Israeli Presidential Conference "Facing Tomorrow", and the legal clinics/legal aid projects of the Renaissance Foundation.

Its projects include giving $150,000 to the Trump Foundation as speaking fee in 2015,[19][20][21] the creation of a network of modern neonatal centres throughout Ukraine ("Cradles of Hope"), cooperation programs with the Clinton Global Initiative,[2] the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the ANTIAIDS Foundation of his wife Olena Pinchuk, the creation of the Kyiv School of Economics, a cooperation with the Aspen Institute, the opening of the first large scale contemporary art centre in Ukraine PinchukArtCentre, the production and promotion of a film with Steven Spielberg on the Holocaust in Ukraine, and support of local Jewish communities.[6]

In June 2009, Pinchuk organized the Paul McCartney free concert on Independence Square in Kiev in front of 500,000 people. As an initiative of the Pinchuk Art Center,[22] in December 2009, Pinchuk announced a new $100,000 prize for artists under the age of 35. The Future Generation Art Prize is awarded every two years and is open to any young artist who applies online. Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Andreas Gursky and Jeff Koons, artists whose work Pinchuk collects, serve as mentors to the finalists and the winner.[22]

In February 2013, Pinchuk committed to giving half or more of his fortune during his lifetime and beyond to philanthropic causes, joining the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic initiative founded in 2010 by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

Pinchuk has donated from $10 to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation between 1994 and 2005.[23] In 2000, Pinchuk hired former Clinton pollster Douglas Schoen on a $40,000 per month retainer.[8] In 2004, Schoen introduced Pinchuk to Hillary Clinton.[8] Between September 2011 and November 2012, Sochen arranged nearly a dozen meetings between Pinchuk and senior State Department officials, including Melanne Verveer.[8] Emails released by Judicial Watch and obtained through FOIA requests showed that Pinchuk had been invited to dine at Hillary Clinton's home during her tenure at the State department, despite her spokesman's previous denial that they had met during that time.[24] In March 2017, former Trump aid Monica Crowley registered as a foreign agent for Pinchuk.[25]

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In November 2014 in Kyiv, Pinchuk was presented with the 2014 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Award for his work in fostering Ukrainian-Jewish relations.[26]

Yalta European Strategy

In 2004, Pinchuk created Yalta European Strategy (YES) - an international independent organization that is promoting Ukraine joining the European Union. Its annual summer meeting in Yalta is a Ukraine-EU forum for debate and policy recommendations development. Since the Crimean Crisis of 2014 these meetings have been taking place in Kiev. In September 2013, Pinchuk and Tony Blair introduced Hillary Clinton's keynote address to the conference at Livadia Palace, with Bill Clinton in attendance.[8][15] Stefan Fule, Paul Krugman, Alexei Kudrin, Shimon Peres, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Larry Summers and other political and business leaders have attended.[citation needed] In September 2015, Pinchuk donated $150,000 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in exchange for a 20-minute video appearance by Donald Trump shown at the conference that year in Kiev.[27] Michael Cohen solicited Douglas Schoen for the donation from Pinchuk, which was the largest outside donation the Trump Foundation received that year.[27][28]

In 2015, Pinchuk promoted closer ties between Ukraine and the EU.[29] He was an active participant in the World Economic Forum at Davos.[30]

Personal life

Victor Pinchuk is married to Olena Kuchma Franchuk, the daughter of the second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma. Olena Pinchuk runs the ANTIAIDS Foundation, which focuses on prevention and retroviral distribution and AIDS care in Ukraine. She and Pinchuk are friends of singer Elton John and former US President Bill Clinton, whose 65th birthday party Pinchuk attended in Los Angeles.[2][11] Victor Pinchuk has three daughters and a son.

Pinchuk spent more than $6 million on his 50th birthday party in Courchevel, flying in Cirque du Soleil and chef Alain Ducasse.[31]

Rankings

Forbes ranked him No. 1250 on the list of the wealthiest people in the world in 2016, with a fortune of US $1.44 billion.[1] Pinchuk was listed as one of the "2010 Time 100 - The World's Most Influential People" in Time Magazine. He was ranked No. 38 on ArtReview magazine's 2013 Power 100 ranking of people in contemporary art.

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https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/03/23/what-is-crowdstrike-firm-hired-by-dnc-has-ties-to-hillary-clinton-a-ukrainian-billionaire-and-google/

In lieu of substantive evidence provided to the public that the alleged hacks which led to Wikileaks releases of DNC and Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta’s emails were orchestrated by the Russian Government, CrowdStrike’s bias has been cited as undependable in its own assessment, in addition to its skeptical methods and conclusions. The firm’s CTO and co-founder, Dmitri Alperovitch, is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank with openly anti-Russian sentiments that is funded by Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk, who also happened to donate at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation.

In 2013, the Atlantic Council awarded Hillary Clinton it’s Distinguished International Leadership Award. In 2014, the Atlantic Council hosted one of several events with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who took over after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in early 2014, who now lives in exile in Russia.

Recall that the FBI was denied access to the DNC servers by the DNC itself, and simply agreed to rely on the results provided by CrowdStrike, which as you can see has ties to all sorts of anti-Russia organizations and individuals. I find it absolutely remarkable that James Comey head of the FBI outsourced his job to CrowdStrike.

Electronic surveillance isn't spying; it's much more powerful

By Kevin R. Brock, opinion contributor — 04/16/19 10:30 AM EDT

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/439046-electronic-surveillance-isnt-spying-its-much-more-powerful

Attorney General William Barr used the “S” word in front of Congress and the world last week, and organized fainting spells commenced.

“I believe the government spied on the Trump campaign,” said Mr. Barr in a town where semantic directness is simply not practiced among the political pharisees and their pilot fish in the media who seek to preserve a certain order by obfuscating true intent.

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His use of the word “spy” was as blunt as his everyman face. Its stinging connotation was validated in direct proportion to the contrived outrage of opposition politicians and cable news mannequins flopping to the ground and clutching their knees like European soccer players.

A few weeks ago, disgraced former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stated that he believed President Trump was an agent of the Russian government, i.e. a spy. His assertion was met with somber nodding and little, if any, pushback.

He made this incredible statement without, according to Barr’s summary of the Mueller report, possessing any evidence that it was true. He was, however, in the middle of a book tour and raising cash on a GoFundMe website because, according to him, he was in desperate need of money since the president cut short some of his retirement benefits.

His anguish can be seen as he drives around his tony neighborhood in his luxury car. Thank you for your contributions to this destitute and victimized man.

McCabe’s fellow traveler in the empty collusion investigation they cooked up and ran — fired former FBI Director James Comey — was quick to seize another opportunity to moralize to a camera the day after AG Barr used the “S” word.

“I don’t know what the heck he’s talking about, that’s all I can say.” Apparently it was not all Comey could say, since he added: “When I hear that kind of language used, it’s concerning because the FBI and the Department of Justice conduct court-ordered electronic surveillance.” And, having quite a bit to say, he kept talking: “I have never thought of that as spying.”

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Comey was anxious to echo the narrative advanced by those in opposition to the president that court-ordered electronic surveillance is somehow different or less distasteful than the untidy, morally fluid concept of spying.

He can seek to take shelter in the softer “surveillance” word, but here is what he and McCabe unleashed on an American citizen involved on the outskirts of a presidential campaign: A Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court-ordered electronic surveillance allows the FBI leeway to intercept more than telephone and computer communications. It allows the clandestine microphone and camera capture of the target at all times and in all places, even the most intimate, of his daily life. It is more intrusive than even a Title III criminal wiretap of a drug dealer or mob boss.

So, in a way, Comey is right. FISA court-ordered electronic surveillance is different than spying. It is the epitome of government power over an individual’s privacy. It is the nuclear option in the world of intelligence collection.

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And it is indeed used appropriately against foreign nationals actively spying on U.S. interests and, yes, even U.S. citizens who hold security clearances and possess national security information and demonstrate a willingness to turn over such information to another country.

However, a FISA order, until now, has never been used by an FBI director and deputy director to intercept an individual with no clearances and no obvious access to sensitive information but who happens to be involved in a presidential campaign.

One would think, then, that Comey and McCabe would have made darn sure that the reasons provided to the FISA court to intercept Trump campaign adviser Carter Page would be incredibly compelling and built on a solid foundation of facts.

Instead, by their own admission, they relied mostly on a Russian-influenced dossier, the source and funding of which they did not fully disclose to the court. A dossier that Comey himself described as “salacious and unverified,” and yet he still signed off on several renewals of the intrusive interception of Page.

Incredibly, on the day he was fired, Comey maintained that he still didn’t know if there was anything to the collusion investigation he initiated between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The silly semantical jousting over “spying” versus “surveillance” is a distraction. The real concern among the “collusionistas” is that AG Barr has launched his own review into the origins of Comey’s and McCabe’s investigation of the Trump campaign. This is entirely appropriate, given the suggestions that they acted improperly, with political bias, on the thinnest of information.

Such a review could lead to some extremely uncomfortable days for those who have favored leveraging the powerful authorities of government for the benefit of one political party over another.

Mr. Barr added one other very important point. He stated he wasn’t launching an investigation of the FBI, per se, but, “I think there was probably a failure among a group of leaders there at the upper echelon.”

Just as blunt, but perhaps the understatement of the year.

Kevin R. Brock, former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI, was an FBI special agent for 24 years and principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). He is a founder and principal of NewStreet Global Solutions, which consults with private companies and public-safety agencies on strategic mission technologies.

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Interesting! Thanks anon!