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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility found Strzok violated FBI and DOJ policies by downloading classified information to his unsecured Gmail account which he shared with non-FBI family members, but only recommended a virtual hand slap for the otherwise felony</p>— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) <a href="https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1029208956118491137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 

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Why Do Liberals Keep Hurting Themselves? (Who Cares If They Do?)


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Townhall.com ^ | August 14, 2018 | Wayne Allyn Root

Liberals are so obsessed with Donald Trump. But maybe they should start looking in the mirror. The problem is they won?t like what they see.Donald Trump isn?t hurting you. You?re hurting and killing yourselves. You are your own worst enemies. You can never admit that, so you focus all your anger, bitterness, frustration and humiliation on Trump.Take the economy. Liberals refuse to admit the economy was horrible under Obama. They refuse to face facts. Obama spent the most taxpayer money in history. He created the most debt in history. He presided over the most people on welfare, food stamps...
 

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1. INTERESTING: this is true, but IMO there HAS been a slight shift over the last few months.

What I do is start with 'look, you may hate Trump or dislike his policies, but surely you would concede that corruption in government is a bad thing.'

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2. The more intelligent ones will concede that.

Then I say 'let's not even talk about Clinton or Trump. Can I just point something out to you? I'd be interested in your opinion.'

They are happy to agree to that, these days. They weren't 12 months ago.

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3. I like to put the pressure back on them, with questions.

For example: 'don't you think it's weird that 11 FBI senior managers, including the Director, have either been fired or resigned in the last 18 months? What is your explanation? I'm really interested in your opinion.'

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4. BTW - MANY DON'T KNOW.

It's true. Have any of you noticed that many libs are totally in the dark about the actual facts?

Here's the trick - DON'T TRY TO WIN. Let them go away and work it out. The more intelligent ones will.

If you sense an opening, try this qs:

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5. 'Don't you think it's odd that Hillary Clinton denied knowing anything about the Steele Dossier all through 2017, until it was revealed in October 2017 that it was funded by the Clinton campaign & DNC? It looks to me that she was lying. What do you think?'

Then retreat.
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6. Or what about this:

'Don't know about you, but it sure seems kind of odd that a DOJ lawyer met with Christopher Steele more than SIXTY times. You are aware that Steele had been fired by the FBI, when these meetings happened. Don't you think that is strange?'

Then retreat.
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7. Another one.

'Dont you think it is strange that Natalia Veselnitskaya, who went to the Trump Tower/Trump Jnr meeting, met with the head of Fusion GPS the day before and after the meeting? How can you explain that?'

Etc etc. These types of questions are almost endless.

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8. We can forget the #TrumpDerangementSyndrome crowd. They're a lost cause and will have to learn the hard way.

I am more talking about the very few libs who are starting to waver. It's important to win them over, IMO.

And we will start seeing mroe of them, going forward.

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9. The key is the METHOD.

Assume that they hate Trump, so take Trump out from the discussion.

While bombarding them with questions that only have one answer. The more questions like this, the stronger our argument becomes.

Last thought.

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10. They will NEVER concede that they are wrong.

So don't expect it. All you can do is sow doubt in them.

They believe they are superior intellects, so use that against them. Simply pose the questions, not expecting answers. Let them go and work it out.

#MAGA

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It should concern all Americans that the Intel com was weaponized to take out candidate <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> and then continue to undermine his presidency. It should concern all that information was withheld from the FISC and that an unproven dossier w Russian lies divides our nation <a href="https://t.co/Ru8Mn1mi8F">https://t.co/Ru8Mn1mi8F</a></p>— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1029853881533120513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">How can ?Senator? Richard Blumenthal, who went around for twenty years as a Connecticut politician bragging that he was a great Marine war hero in Vietnam (then got caught and sobbingly admitted he was neither a Marine nor ever in Vietnam), pass judgement on anyone? Loser!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1030257073047658501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">?Very concerned about Comey?s firing, afraid they will be exposed,? said Bruce Ohr. DOJ?s Emails & Notes show Bruce Ohr?s connection to (phony & discredited) Trump Dossier. A creep thinking he would get caught in a dishonest act. Rigged Witch Hunt!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1030241273784020993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 

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An Open Letter to Admiral William McRaven
US Defense Watch ^ | August 17, 2018| Ray Starmann

Posted on ‎8‎/‎17‎/‎2018‎ ‎8‎:‎00‎:‎27‎ ‎PM by pboyington

Dear Admiral McRaven:

Your OPED yesterday, which was picked up by every liberal media outlet in the country, was sadly indicative of the current state of mind of many of our nation?s recently retired and active duty senior military leaders.

You stated that former CIA director John Brennan, ?is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don?t know him.?

The man whom you describe as being a cross between George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Mother Theresa is a deep state hack; who, along with other Obama holdouts, is openly and aggressively pursuing a coup d?etat against the current President of the United States, for one reason and one reason only ? his side lost the election.

Frankly, I can?t think of any actions that are more un-American, and against the values that Americans hold dear and that which so many Americans died for in the past.

What you call unparalleled integrity, I call honest to goodness treason.

Former CIA director Brennan, whom you state has honesty and character authorized the CIA to spy on American citizens, tried to rig a Presidential election and then lied to Congress about that spying. A man you claim has unparalleled integrity was caught fabricating stories about attacks on US personnel in Libya and providing weapons to ISIS backed militias in Syria.

Mr. Brennan also voted once for a communist candidate. How Mr. Brennan was hired as DCI after voting for a communist and why you support a man who once did, is a mystery to everyone but you and God.

Former members of the special operations community do not share your adoration for Mr. Brennan. Kris ?Tanto? Paronto, a former Army Ranger and private security contractor who was part of the CIA team that fought back during the 2012 Benghazi terror attack, accused Brennan of putting his ?politics? before those in the field.

On Twitter, Paronto stated: ?My principles are greater than clearances too John Brennan, especially when you and the @CIA kool-aid drinkers punishes us for not going along with the Benghazi cover-up story in order to protect you, @HillaryClinton?s & @BarackObama?s failures. You put your politics before us.?

Mr. Brennan was recently referred to by retired Army Brigadier General Anthony Tata as a ?clear and present danger? to the nation.

No doubt John Brennan?s complete absence of integrity and his erratic behavior are what convinced the President to revoke his clearance. Mr. Brennan stated that ?Trump?s ? performance in Helsinki, exceeds the threshold of ?high crimes & misdemeanors.? It was ? treasonous.?

In a recent article, Pat Buchanan stated that had Brennan made the same accusations of treason against former President Andrew Jackson, ?he would have been challenged to a duel and shot.?

As you know sir, on the security clearance form, Question 29 reads, ?have you ever supported overthrowing the U.S. Government??

I think it?s more than apparent, from his nightly rantings on CNN to his Twitter expletives that John Brennan supports over-throwing the President and the current cabinet members of the US government.

You also wrote, sir, in reference to the President, ?Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation,?

Actually, Admiral, the only person who has humiliated the US on the world stage in the last decade is Barack Hussein Obama. During the eight years of the Obama administrations, the world watched as the US cow-towed to Iranian thugs, let the Chinese run rings around us in the Pacific, while ISIS murdered tens of thousands of innocent people in the Middle East. Believe me, Admiral, the children of Syria and Iraq are rejoicing in their liberation from ISIS mass murderers. And, the people of the Middle East and across the world are sleeping soundly tonight, knowing that an incompetent, narcissistic maniac like Hillary Clinton isn?t sitting in the Oval Office.

As far as the nation?s current political schism, you need only look at your fellow liberals who are inciting violence and propagating hatred on a daily basis.

You then dared the Commander in Chief to revoke your security clearance.

I?m sure you?re aware of the following regulation in the UCMJ. Retired military officers are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) under Article 2 of the UCMJ, which extends the jurisdiction of military law to ?Retired members of a regular component of the armed forces who are entitled to pay.? ?Retirees are subject to the UCMJ and may be tried by court-martial for violations ? that occurred ? while in a retired status.?

Article 88 of the UCMJ criminalizes ?contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State.?

Something to ponder, sir.

No doubt your OPED was designed to whip up some more anti-Trump hysteria and to usher you into the political arena. No doubt you are a serving member of the ?resistance.? No doubt, you have your eyes on some office space in the capitol building or in the White House. No doubt, you have your eyes on the prize, all at the expense of the nation you once served.

When I read your OPED, sir, I wondered where and when and why you went wrong. How does someone from a military family, a SEAL, who came of age in the Reagan years; someone who understands what it?s like to be on a team; the camaraderie, the toughness mentally and physically required; someone who grew up reading about people like Patton, MacArthur, Lee, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt and Hal Moore- How does a guy like that end up aligning himself with the party of Pelosi, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, and slime like Hillary who was chanting baby killer back at Wellesley, and ?too gutless to serve, I hate the military? Bill??

How does a guy like you still support the destructive policies of Obama, and furthermore, how does a guy like you support Brennan, when you know damned well Brennan was a communist, and that he perjured himself in front of Congress, how does that happen?

You, sir, are representative of what, is in my opinion as a former Army Captain and combat veteran of the 7th Cavalry, the worst generation of senior leaders this nation has ever fielded. Bar None. The majority of you, were and are what the late Colonel David Hackworth so eloquently described as ?perfumed princes.?

It doesn?t matter how many degrees you have; how many combat tours you did and how much fruit salad you earned. It doesn?t matter that you have the SEAL Trident.

Your generation of senior leaders sold and is selling out the nation?s defense to the highest bidder and that bidder is social engineering and leftist ideology. You and your generation of leftist senior leaders have allowed our military to be destroyed for the greater glory of pensions, Tricare and political power, national security be damned. Now, that you?ve overseen the decimation of our military, you are determined to overthrow a sitting President because he represents everything anathema to the left ? America First and the fact that the USA IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

You are all nothing more than political hacks; Obama leftists fighting some kind of insurgent anti-Trump campaign like a division of crazed left-wing fanatics holed up in the Beltway National Redoubt, waiting for a last op order from der Fuehrer, Barack Hussein Obama.

I believe sir, that you need to examine your conscience and ask yourself one very important question ? what in the name of God Almighty would Hillary Clinton have done for anyone in this country?

The answer is nothing.

Ray Starmann

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Connnecting some dots
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submitted 6 hours ago by lonestarbelieverPATRIOTS UNITE. - Q
I am passing this on from someone who's connecting some dots with input from sources he cannot reveal.
Here's what it looks like when all the pieces are sewn together
It smells like conspiracy and treason. Everyone needs to read this. Slowly, and patiently, because it?s very important......
From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
A Grand Jury had been impanelled.
Governments from around the world had donated to the ?Charity?.
Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those ?Donations? to the Clinton Foundation were declared. Now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.
Look who took over this investigation in 2005: None other than James Comey; Coincidence? Guess who was transferred into the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? None other than, Lois ?Be on The Look Out? (BOLO) Lerner. Isn?t that interesting?
But this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right?
Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005?
No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States,
Rod Rosenstein.
Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this time frame?
Another coincidence (just an anomaly in statistics and chances), but it was Robert Mueller.
What do all four casting characters have in common?
They all were briefed and/or were front-line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation.
Another coincidence, right?
Fast forward to 2009....
James Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin.
Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, official government business, on her own personal email server.
The Uranium One ?issue? comes to the attention of the Hillary.
Like all good public servants do, supposedly looking out for America?s best interest, she decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no other than, the Russians.
Now you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn?t, America got absolutely nothing out of it.
However, prior to the sales approval, no other than Bill Clinton goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour speech; then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours.
Ok, no big deal right? Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme.
Robert Mueller was the FBI Director during this time frame? Yep, He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009.
Who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney?s Office in Maryland?
None other than, Rod Rosenstein. And what happened to the informant?
The Department of Justice placed a GAG order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it.
How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?
Very soon after; the sale was approved!~145 million dollars in ?donations? made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal.
Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division? None other than, - Lois Lerner.
Ok, that?s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right?
Let?s fast forward to 2015.
Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 ?investigations? the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that the Hillary ran the State Department on an unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server.He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her ?Public Service? as Secretary of State which was required by law. He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email.
Sparing you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this?? they did everything humanly possible to cover for Hillary. .
Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013? None other than James Comey; who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer (Lockheed Martin) with the State Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer? Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at State, huh?
Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the ?Clinton Email Investigation? after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner ?Matter? at the Internal Revenue Service and he exonerates her. Nope.... couldn?t find any crimes there.
In April 2016, James Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy.They didn?t even convene a Grand Jury!
Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true ?Gangsta? Comey is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July the 8th of 2016, and exonerates the Hillary from any wrongdoing.
Do you see the pattern?
It goes on and on, Rosenstein becomes Asst. Attorney General,Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues.
FISA Abuse, political espionage..... pick a crime, any crime, chances are...... this group and a few others did it:
All the same players.
All compromised and conflicted.
All working fervently to NOT go to jail themselves
All connected in one way or another to the Clinton's.
They are like battery acid; they corrode and corrupt everything they touch.How many lives have these two destroyed?
As of this writing, the Clinton Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
Let us not forget that Comey's brother works for DLA Piper, the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation's taxes.
The person that is the common denominator to all the crimes above and still doing her evil escape legal maneuvers at the top of the 3 Letter USA Agencies?
Yep, that would be Hillary R. Clinton.
Now who is LISA BARSOOMIAN? Let?s learn a little about Mrs. Lisa H. Barsoomian?s background.
Lisa H. Barsoomian, an Attorney that graduated from Georgetown Law, is a prot?g? of James Comey and Robert Mueller.
Barsoomian, with her boss R. Craig Lawrence, represented Bill Clinton in 1998.
Lawrence also represented:
Robert Mueller three times;
James Comey five times;
Barack Obama 45 times;
Kathleen Sebelius 56 times;
Bill Clinton 40 times; and
Hillary Clinton 17 times.
Between 1998 and 2017, Barsoomian herself represented the FBI at least five times.
You may be saying to yourself, OK, who cares? Who cares about the work history of this Barsoomian woman?
Apparently, someone does, because someone out there cares so much that they?ve ?purged? all Barsoomian court documents for her Clinton representation in Hamburg vs. Clinton in 1998 and its appeal in 1999 from the DC District and Appeals Court dockets (?). Someone out there cares so much that even the internet has been ?purged? of all information pertaining to Barsoomian.
Historically, this indicates that the individual is a protected CIA operative. Additionally, Lisa Barsoomian has specialized in opposing Freedom of Information Act requests on behalf of the intelligence community. Although Barsoomian has been involved in hundreds of cases representing the DC Office of the US Attorney, her email address is Lisa Barsoomian at NIH.gov. The NIH stands for National Institutes of Health. This is a tactic routinely used by the CIA to protect an operative by using another government organization to shield their activities.
It?s a cover, so big deal right? What does one more attorney with ties to the US intelligence community really matter?
It deals with Trump and his recent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports, the border wall, DACA, everything coming out of California, the Uni-party unrelenting opposition to President Trump, the Clapper leaks, the Comey leaks, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusal and subsequent 14 month nap with occasional forays into the marijuana legalization mix ?. and last but not least Mueller?s never-ending investigation into collusion between the Trump team and-the Russians.
Why does Barsoomian, CIA operative, merit any mention?
BECAUSE?.
She is Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein?s WIFE!
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Number of Clearance Holders is Too High, Says ODNI Director



The number of security clearances is too high, urges the director of national intelligence. He?s directed agencies to conduct an audit of security-cleared positions.

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The U.S. Government is looking to scrub its list of security-clearance holders, in an effort to clamp down on classified information in the wake of the Edward Snowden scandal and other high-profile leaks. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is questioning the nearly 5 million individuals with active security clearances, including more than 1.4 million ?Top Secret? level security clearances.

?I write to express my concern about threats to national security resulting from the increasing number of people with eligibility for access to classified national security information, particularly Top Secret (TS) and Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI),? Clapper wrote in a three-page memo obtained by POLITICO. In the memo Clapper asks agencies to conduct a security clearance review, but does not offer a deadline for completion. In congressional testimony this week, however, a Clapper aide noted that agencies had until the end of January to complete the review.

ODNI isn?t the only agency scrutinizing the clearance process. The 2014 Defense Authorization bill includes provisions to increase the frequency of periodic reinvestigations, as well as improve technology used in the background check process. The Office of Management and Budget is currently in the midst of a 120-day ?suitability and security processes? review. And in the same congressional testimony where ODNI?s clearance audits was discussed, officials referenced a proposed rule change to streamline the process for which positions would be deemed ?sensitive.?

It?s important to note that officials were hesitant to look at proposed changes as a reason to downgrade or decrease the number of security clearances, and were quick to say that any audits could just as easily reclassify positions to a higher clearance level (although that?s unlikely).

What does all of this mean for clearance holders? If you?re a federal employee who is ?holding onto? a security clearance but is in-between cleared projects, expect a change in policy which will make that more difficult. For defense contractors, in particular, companies may be forced to streamline work and keep those with clearances working more exclusively in the classified environment. Top Secret/SCI security clearance holders are most likely to be impacted. Those being the most costly clearances to obtain and maintain, agencies looking to crack down on leaks and save dollars will likely look to reduce the number of individuals with access to the ?crown jewels.?

Even with desk audits in the works, don?t expect a rapid decrease in the number of security clearances. All clearances remain ?current? for a period of two years even after a person has left their position. So if you lose your current gig, you still have two years to log onto ClearanceJobs.com to find your next opportunity.


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Barack Obama took nearly $2 Million in illegal campaign donations in 2008 - No jail or talk of impeachment

Obama received the largest FEC fine ever. Media hardly covered it. No body talked about jail time or impeachment. The double standard is astounding.

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President Barack Obama?s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations ? one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.

The fine ? laid out in detail in FEC documents that have yet to be made public ? arose from an audit of the campaign, which was published in April. POLITICO obtained a copy of the conciliation agreement detailing the fine, which was sent to Sean Cairncross, the chief lawyer for the Republican National Committee, one of the groups that filed complaints about the campaign?s FEC reporting from 2008.

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I just heard the President's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified under oath that he was directed to break Federal law by the President. :shrug:
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If there is any justice left at DOJ why is payment by Hillary Clinton and DNC to FusionGPS for the phony Steele dossier not under investigation. On your theory in Cohen plea it?s an illegal campaign contribution.Let?s go DOJ wake up. where?s the indictment. Clintons not above law</p>— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) <a href="https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1032598724785127425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">(1) Look what <a href="https://twitter.com/Headsnipe011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Headsnipe011</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/almostjingo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@almostjingo</a> show us.<a href="https://t.co/XtyNRoUIYt">https://t.co/XtyNRoUIYt</a></p>— Thomas Wictor (@ThomasWictor) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/1033136244258009088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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