That sort of gaslighting has become a standard response when Omar faces scrutiny. Most recently, the congresswoman disputed on-the-record accusations—from a local Imam—that she was improperly routing contributions for a local charity meals program to her campaign account. That one was a "‘scary, lying immigrant' smear."

Omar's approach to public relations has served her well, but her approach to accounting has already led to one rebuke from regulators. Surely her constituents deserve to know—before they vote—if she's done it again.

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/whos-afraid-of-ilhan-omar/

Who’s Afraid of Ilhan Omar

Congresswoman's refusal to answer questions about a big book advance that may violate House rules is just the latest media stonewall

here comes the Qartati payoff

Rep Ilhan Omar's (D., Minn.) new memoir, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey From Refugee to Congresswoman is out next week. Among the questions it leaves unanswered is whether Omar complied with House rules governing the big advance she reportedly received on the book.

House rules prohibit "the receipt of any advance payment on copyright royalties" unless the contract has been approved by the House Ethics Committee, as the Washington Free Beacon reported in December. At the time, neither Omar nor her publisher responded to repeated requests for comment about when, exactly, Omar signed her book contract and received the advance, which Forbes put at between $100,000 and $250,000.

Omar may have received the royalty payment before she was sworn in on Jan. 3, 2019, but her 2018 financial disclosure listed no book advance. We would like to see her 2019 disclosure, but Omar has filed for a 90-day extension.

Ninety days takes Omar just past the contested Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary that she faces back home in Minnesota this August—by two days, to be exact. We'll have to check back then.

In the meantime, we will wait, almost certainly in vain, for the armies of investigative reporters attuned to the release of Republican financial disclosures to find the time and care to ask these straightforward questions. It's not hard to predict how the congresswoman would respond given that accusations of bigotry have become her standard defense against what most might call public accountability.

Take the minor scrutiny her infamously mixed-up marriages have received from the news media. When the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board released a report on its year-long investigation of Omar last June, it revealed tax returns illegally filed with her husband, to whom she was not legally married, while she was legally married to another man.

The board's findings, which covered Omar's 2016 race for a state legislative seat, also included several penny-ante campaign finance infractions representative of the congresswoman's carefree approach to American laws.

When her hometown paper made inquiries about her marital arrangements and asked to speak to her husband and other relatives, her spokesman called the questions "conspiracy theories," accusing the paper of insinuating that Omar "is somehow illegitimate or not fully American." In fact, her flack continued, Omar had "shared more than most public officials ever do about the details of her personal life."

That sort of gaslighting has become a standard response when Omar faces scrutiny. Most recently, the congresswoman disputed on-the-record accusations—from a local Imam—that she was improperly routing contributions for a local charity meals program to her campaign account. That one was a "‘scary, lying immigrant' smear."

Omar's approach to public relations has served her well, but her approach to accounting has already led to one rebuke from regulators. Surely her constituents deserve to know—before they vote—if she's done it again.

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/whos-afraid-of-ilhan-omar/

Andrew Weissmann to Part Ways With MSNBC Over Biden Fundraiser

He’s probably been promised a job by Biden

If NBC News legal analyst and former Robert Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann participates in an upcoming fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, it would mean the end of his contract with the news network, the former special counsel investigator told the Washington Free Beacon.

"If the fundraiser goes forward, I’m withdrawing from MSNBC so I can be in compliance with their policy," Weissmann said in a Friday night phone interview, in reference to the network's policy that employees avoid activities "that may create the appearance of a conflict of interest."

Weissmann, who joined MSNBC as a legal analyst last November, said he notified the network of his plans to headline a June 2 fundraiser for Biden with the understanding that it was prohibited by his contract. "I knew what I was getting into and what the consequences would be," Weissmann said. "They wanted me to adhere to their policy."

An MSNBC spokesman confirmed that Weissmann notified the network of his plans to headline the fundraiser and that there was a mutual agreement that he would need to terminate his contract to proceed.

The Free Beacon reported on Friday afternoon that Weissmann’s political activity would put him in violation of the network’s longstanding employee policy on political activity. The policy prohibits employees from making political contributions or participating in any campaign event without prior approval from the president of NBC News.

Reports of Weissmann's involvement in the Biden campaign fundraiser gave fuel to supporters of President Donald Trump, who have long charged that Weissmann was biased against the president.

"It doesn’t get any swampier than this: trying to stage a partisan coup against the president and then raising money for his political opponent," said Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh.

The decision to overtly campaign for Biden comes shortly after it was announced that Weissmann would be rejoining law firm Jenner & Block, where he was a partner before he was hired by the Department of Justice in 2011. He will take over the firm's investigations division on July 1.

https://freebeacon.com/media/andrew-weissmann-to-part-ways-with-msnbc-over-biden-fundraiser/

Small business group takes out full-page Wall Street Journal ad accusing Fauci of 'causing too much unneeded pain

The Job Creators Network, a group representing small businesses, sponsored a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday calling for pandemic restrictions to be eased.

Formatted as a letter to top government infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, the letter concludes that the group fears his "limited view is causing too much unneeded pain."

The ad, a “six-figure investment,” according to Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of JCN, is the first in a multimillion-dollar campaign aimed at reassuring the public that the economy can safely reopen.

“We're concerned about the country and fear that extending the shutdown will destroy the economy and have unanticipated negative health consequences for millions. We also want to reassure Americans that as states start to reopen, there are ways people can safely and smartly come out of their homes,” Ortiz said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.

The ad, calling for a "second opinion" besides Fauci's, features Dr. Scott Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University, who is quoted saying, “With sensible precautions and sanitization standards, most workplaces and businesses should reopen.”

It also notes that under an economic shutdown, elective and preventative procedures don’t always occur, which can have serious and sometimes life-threatening consequences for patients.

In addition, the ad stresses that economic crises can take a toll on mental health.

To open the economy, the ad calls for “strategic testing, tracing, and smart business innovations” to “isolate the few to protect the many instead of isolating the many to protect the few.”

The JCN is a nonpartisan organization that began in January 2014 and was founded by entrepreneurs like Home Depot Inc. co-founder Bernard Marcus.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/small-business-group-takes-out-full-page-wall-street-journal-ad-accusing-fauci-of-causing-too-much-unneeded-pain

Those are coming’: Grenell promises to declassify Flynn-Kislyak calls in possession of top spy agency

I like Grennell, he’s not intimidated

The nation’s outgoing spy chief, Richard Grenell, declared “transparency is a must” as he promised to declassify those conversations between retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the possession of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Grenell, the acting director of national intelligence soon to be replaced by Rep. John Ratcliffe of Texas after he was confirmed to post this week on Thursday, pushed back against criticism from Democrats and in the midst of a declassification spree, which has resulted in a series of revelations in recent weeks. Grenell stressed that he has started the declassification process only for those Flynn-Kislyak calls which are in possession of the top spy agency, which is not all of them, since they didn't originate with ODNI.

Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman tweeted out a podcast link, claiming that Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California “really lets loose here, saying he no longer trusts ODNI and FBI to deliver the truth about Russian interference in 2020.” Swalwell then replied with a “slight correction on your tweet: I trust FBI & Director Wray. I don’t trust ODNI Directors Richard Grenell or Rep. Ratcliffe. They’re the ones with the shovels burying evidence to protect Donald Trump.” That’s when Grenell jumped in.

I’m letting the public see more info. You are the one who worked to hide the information you didn’t like. You listened to multiple people in classified hearings say they had no evidence and yet go on TV and say the opposite,” Grenell tweeted on Friday. “Transparency is now a must

That was a reference to Grenell pressuring Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to release dozens of witness transcripts from the panel’s investigation on Russian election interference, which showed top Obama national security officials saying they did not have direct evidence of Trump-Russia collusion. Grenell also helped declassify dozens of footnotes from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s December report on the FBI's Russia investigations, which revealed the bureau was aware that British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s unverified anti-Trump dossier may have been compromised by Russian disinformation and used it anyway.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/those-are-coming-grenell-promises-to-declassify-flynn-calls-with-russian-ambassador

Big government fail: Washington state unemployment fraud loses ‘hundreds of millions

joke: How do you lose 100s of millions of dollars for unemployment? Give it to lefty states, and track the money laundering

The state of Washington just openly admitted that it lost “hundreds of millions” of taxpayer dollars in a massive fraud scandal. A group of Nigerian scammers successfully exploited the state’s system as it became the first to enact the $2.2 trillion CARES Act’s massive expansion of unemployment benefits and eligibility.

The Seattle Times reports:

"The legislation not only boosted benefits available under existing state unemployment insurance systems, including an extra $600 per week; it also gave state officials less time to verify new claims for those benefits. [State government] officials have acknowledged that, because of the elimination of the so-called waiting week between the time a claim is filed and the time the benefit is paid, the agency wasn’t always able to get verification from employers about a claim before payment was made.

"Furthermore, because federal benefits were technically available beginning in March, several weeks before Washington was able to upgrade its processing system to be able to pay them, many claimants had retroactive claims for multiple weeks waiting to be paid in the [state government’s] system. Those retroactive payments went out all at once, which added to the volume of the fraud."

That’s right: The state government started handing out taxpayer cash without verifying payments with employers and without a waiting period.

And sadly, this is just the beginning. The Secret Service suspects similar attacks have occurred in Florida, Wyoming, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Oklahoma. It will be interesting to see, when the crisis has passed and we can fully account for all the waste and fraud in retrospect, how many billions of taxpayer dollars such attacks cost.

Of course, only an anarchist would argue that no government response was needed to the coronavirus crisis and ensuing economic downturn. But any response relying on 1,000-page relief bills and bloated state agencies was always going to result in rampant waste and fraud.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-state-unemployment-fraud-loses-hundreds-of-millions

=Mama I’m coming home=

>>9289814

Where’s the hate man??? I don’t feel it

>>9289905

Interesting so was HRC poisoning him, wouldn’t doubt it

>>9290028

Seriously Nigerian princes and they have 5 other states saying the same thing, it’s coordinated money laundering