Google’s new advertising policy would attempt to prevent Trump’s re-election
https://thebl.com/us-news/googles-new-advertising-policy-would-attempt-to-prevent-trumps-re-election.html
Stelter: Impeachment began with right-wing misinformation
Brian Stelter says President Trump's favorite media sources, like Sean Hannity's talk show on Fox News, led Trump "to the brink of impeachment" by feeding him "bogus information" about Ukraine and the Bidens. Trump is responsible for his choices, but "what he was hearing from right-wing media was crucial."
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2019/12/15/stelter-impeachment-began-with-right-wing-misinformation.cnn
The real reasons the US government is so secretive about UFOs
The United States government makes it very hard to figure out what and where UFO-related stuff is going on.
Is that because the government is behind some great conspiracy to cover up the proof of alien visitation to Earth? Is it because the government is in cahoots with alien species to create human-alien hybrids?
Perhaps, but I suspect not.
What I believe is really going on here is that the few individuals in the U.S. government who know about this issue believe the phenomena might be a threat. And that they don't know how to deal with it.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-real-reasons-the-us-government-is-so-secretive-about-ufos
Victor Davis Hanson: A Russian Under Every Bed
After Trump’s election, his opponents took a sudden dislike to the Russians they once saw as peace partners
The three-year-long effort to abort the Trump presidency — now culminating with a manipulated impeachment effort — has warped U.S. foreign policy toward Russia.
From 2009 to 2014, the Obama administration’s official policy (“reset”) was appeasement of Vladimir Putin’s autocratic Russia. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fashioned a “reset button” outreach to Russia, framed as an antidote to the allegedly unnecessarily punitive policy toward Russia initiated by George W. Bush after the 2008 Russian war with Georgia over the fate of Ossetia. In those ancient days, progressives thought Putin had been treated poorly by the warmongering Bush, and were determined to blame Bush, not Putin, for deteriorating relations.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/donald-trump-foreign-policy-russia-no-collusion-strong-opposition/
Flynn judge crushes hopes for tossing guilty plea, says ex-national security adviser waived constitutional rights
The order pushed the case closer to a resolution following months of challenges and arguments from Flynn's attorneys, who had leveled a series of accusations against the FBI and the Justice Department. Although the government has previously sought only probation for Flynn, that could change.
Flynn's lead lawyer, Sidney Powell, said Sullivan's "decision is as wrong as it is disappointing." She added that "the plagiarism accusation makes no sense" and that she relied on one of her own cases as well as a brief primarily written by a friend whom she said she cited.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michael-flynn-judge-rejects-claims-fbi-misconduct-prosecutors
Rudy Giuliani: Yovanovitch was part of cover up, she had to be ousted
“Yovanovitch needed to be removed for many reasons most critical she was denying visas to Ukrainians who wanted to come to US and explain Dem corruption in Ukraine. She was OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE and that’s not the only thing she was doing. She at minimum enabled Ukrainian collusion.”
https://saraacarter.com/rudy-giuliani-yovanovitch-was-part-of-cover-up-she-had-to-be-ousted/
Trump’s conservative critics, including George Conway, launch PAC to fight reelection
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trumps-conservative-critics-including-george-conway-launch-pac-to-fight-reelection
Democrats accuse President Trump of bribery but did not include that accusation in articles of impeachment. Speaker Pelosi is asked why. Confusion ensues
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/121219-2
Local blue check journo who pushed Russian Collusion conspiracy theory (Russian disinformation) and defended the now debunked Steele Dossier reflects on his own propaganda.
NeverTrump Conservatives Started the Smear Campaign on Carter Page
In August 2015, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson sent an email that would launch the biggest political scandal in American history.
According to his new book, Simpson started fishing for haters of Donald Trump who might be interested in funding his budding opposition research project on the Manhattan mogul. Simpson admits that he didn’t know a lot about Trump at that point but suspected the Republican presidential candidate would provide a deep trove of dirt for political operatives to mine.
Simpson, however, did not reach out to Democrats or the Hillary Clinton campaign or the Bernie Sanders team. Instead, he contacted a “longtime Republican politico” to see if he might be interested in backing Fusion’s work.
The following month, perhaps ironically on September 11, 2015, Fusion got the go-ahead. “Fusion would be hired by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative on-line publication backed by hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer.” Singer was “no fan of Trump,” the Fusion founder wrote.
The Free Beacon’s editor-in-chief is Matthew Continetti; his father-in-law is Bill Kristol. Beginning in 2015 and continuing until this day, Kristol has led the NeverTrump movement, a cabal of Trump-hating “conservatives” and Republicans: Simpson referred to his client as “Never Trump.” The Free Beacon, via Paul Singer, kept Fusion on a $50,000 per month retainer until January 2017.
Jonathan Turley, a constitutional scholar and Republican impeachment witness, asked when someone would apologize to Page for the nearly four-year-long media campaign to publicly defame, mock, and ridicule the Naval Academy graduate. “He is a victim of media ‘groupthink’ that portrayed him as the sinister link proving collusion with Russia, an allegation rejected by the FBI, by the inspector general, and by the special counsel,” Turley wrote over the weekend.
Turley confessed that his own opinion of Page had been shaped by a false portrait “repeated in endless media segments, of a shady character who was at worst a Russian spy and at best a Russian stooge.” His column went viral on social media as Americans finally realized the egregious and cruel targeting of Page.
Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, retweeted Turley’s piece. “Spot on,” Lowry said.
But there’s a little problem. National Review and marquee conservative media were the first to publish hit pieces on Page. In April 2016, National Review published an article headlined, “Trump: The Kremlin’s Candidate.” It was a full-blown screed against Page, whom author Robert Zubrin called “an out-and-out Putinite.” Zubrin claimed, without evidence, that Page was “tight with the Kremlin’s foreign policy apparatus” and a shameless Russian propagandist.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/16/nevertrump-conservatives-started-the-smear-campaign-on-carter-page/
Latvian government says it flagged ‘suspicious’ Hunter Biden payments in 2016
As the U.S. presidential race began roaring to life in 2016, authorities in the former Soviet republic of Latvia flagged a series of “ suspicious” financial transactions to Hunter Biden and other colleagues at a Ukrainian natural gas company and sought Kiev’s help investigating, according to documents and interviews.
The Feb. 18, 2016 alert to Ukraine came from the Latvian prosecutorial agency responsible for investigating money laundering, and it specifically questioned whether Vice President Joe Biden’s younger son and three other officials at Burisma Holdings were the potential beneficiaries of suspect funds.
https://johnsolomonreports.com/latvian-government-says-it-flagged-suspicious-hunter-biden-payments-in-2016/
A brief list of news stories from the last few years now called into question by the Horowitz report
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/horowitz-report-russia-investigation-questions-remaining-928081/
Democrats preparing to undermine Trump victory in 2020
Democrats are laying the groundwork to undermine the legitimacy of Donald Trump's presidency if he wins in 2020, arguing foreign interference helped him get into the White House in the first place and then stay there.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-preparing-to-undermine-trump-victory-in-2020
The Three Steps to Justice for the Spygate Scandal
Cambridge spy seminars hit by whispers of Russian links as three intelligence experts resign
The men - former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove, Stefan Halper, a former policy adviser at the White House, and historian Peter Martland - are said to have left amid concerns that the Kremlin is behind a newly-established intelligence journal, which provides funding to the group.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/16/intelligence-experts-cut-ties-cambridge-spy-seminars-amid-claims/
Papadop just lost the vote
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1206946043872645127