I had another thought about that refinery: POTUS recently said the country was energy independent, the strike on that refinery affects the large majority of the east coast. Couldn't another possibility be that it would diminish the effect of energy independent statement and hit the overall economy as result?
The narrative for that has already started, yesterday was when it began..which is why my thoughts were steered in that direction, I just think they will do what ever they have to to make sure he doesn't have a win. As we all know the economy looms large in every re-election. I don't doubt the plan by any means, but I do believe that there is enough desperation for these people to do anything necessary to create win on their side of the board.
Watch–James Comey: Mueller Report Shows Trump Impeachable
In a Friday interview with Bloomberg Television, fired FBI Director James Comey said Congress could impeach President Donald Trump based on special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings on now-debunked collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
MATTHEW MILLER: A thing you said when you were considering whether or not you would prosecute Martha Stewart was that “people cannot obstruct justice no matter who they are. Is the president exempt from that? The Mueller report seemed to say he at least couldn’t be prosecuted for it.
JAMES COMEY: No, what Director Mueller said in his report is the president, while in office, can’t be charged with a crime, including obstruction of justice. He put together the evidence, as he said, so a future prosecutor after he leaves office could take a look at it. And so that the major mechanism in the U.S. Constitution, Congress’s impeachment authority, could be given life by the facts he gathered.
MILLER: Do you think he could be impeached with that evidence?
COMEY: I think he could.
MILLER: Do you think he should be impeached with that evidence?
COMEY: I think he could be based on the evidence that’s gathered. I don’t know what Congress will do. I kind of hope that he isn’t impeached because I think that would let the American people off the hook. The American people need to vote their values next year and if he was impeached and convicted and removed from office that way, whole lot of his supporters would think some sort of coup went on. We need an exercise in American democracy to show the world and ourselves that these are our values and this guy doesn’t reflect them.
Democrats Hid Gifts From A Notorious Foreign Meddler
Qatar is a nation that spends billions of dollars to influence the U.S. and has been accused of funding terrorism. Six Democrats, most with key chairmanships of interest to the foreign country, accepted a trip paid by the wealthy oil nation’s government. Two, including one congressman on the intelligence committee, did not disclose the trips on mandatory ethics forms designed to root out foreign meddling and conflicts of interest. One shrugged off the omission an “oversight” while the other didn’t respond at all.
Six Democrats took an all-expenses paid trip paid for by the government of Qatar in December, but two of them did not disclose it, annual ethics forms reveal. Democratic Reps. Donald Norcross of New Jersey and Jim Himes of Connecticut did not report taking the trip to Doha, Qatar, on their mandatory disclosure forms, but Buzzfeed said they were there at the elaborate Doha Forum gathering in December. The congressmen hold sensitive positions that make them targets of influence for Qatar, a wealthy Arab nation.
Himes is on the House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence and is chair of its Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research subcommittee. Norcross is on the House Armed Services Committee and chairs its Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittee.
The U.S. has a military base in Qatar and the country also purchases military equipment from the U.S. Despite Democrats’ rhetoric on the dangers of “foreign meddling,” Hines did not respond to questions from the Daily Caller News Foundation about the hidden gift. Norcross’ spokeswoman Ally Kehoe merely stated, “my office is aware of this oversight and we will be filing an amendment.”
Most of the other politicians who Buzzfeed said were there did report the trip: Democratic Reps. Andre Carson and Dan Kildee of Michigan and Ami Bera of California. Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania was on the trip but got an extension on filing his disclosure. Carson is on the intelligence committee and its counterterrorism subcommittee. Bera is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and chairs its investigations subcommittee. The congressmen met with Qatar’s deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs on the trip.
On Tuesday, congressional Republicans asked the Department of Justice to force Qatar’s media arm, Al Jazeera, to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. “[O]ne can reasonably infer that Al Jazeera is a messaging tool for the Qatari government, and, on its behalf, has engaged in inherently political activities and sought to influence public opinion in the United States,” reads the letter, which six senators and two members of Congress signed. Al Jazeera “has proved itself a useful tool for the station’s political masters,” Joseph LeBaron, who served as ambassador to Qatar in the Bush and Obama administrations, wrote in a 2009 diplomatic cable.
The Department of Education is also investigating Qatar’s infusion of cash into U.S. universities. Qatar poured a billion dollars into U.S. colleges between 2011 and 2016 — especially to Georgetown University, known for training America’s future diplomats. Georgetown also has a federal contact that enables it to help shape the way the Middle East is taught to American children in K-12 schools.
ThinkProgress reported: “Qatar operates under strict, Wahhabi-influenced Sharia law which attaches harsh criminal penalties to such things as alcohol consumption (forbidden in all but a few venues) and anything that might be termed an ‘illicit’ sexual practice,” including gay sex.
Freedom House, which monitors human rights, says that in Qatar, “Corporal punishment in the form of flogging can be imposed on Muslim defendants for certain offenses under Sharia (Islamic law), including alcohol consumption and extramarital sex.” It rates Qatar a zero on a scale of four for the question, “Do laws, policies, and practices guarantee equal treatment of various segments of the population?”
The failure to disclose the trips was first reported by Al-Monitor.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/06/21/democrats-hide-foreign-gifts/