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Thursday, November 30, 2017

First Bergdahl now this




Zarate found not guilty of Kate Steinle's murder - not even manslaughter


Deported 5 times... with 7 felony convictions!!!!!!!!! 




His lawyer wasted no time in tearing into Trump saying, “For those who might criticize this verdict – there are a number of people who have commented on this case in the last couple of years; the Attorney General of the United States and the President and Vice President of the United States,” said Gonzalez. “Let me just remind them: they are themselves under investigation by a special prosecutor in Washington D.C. and they may soon avail themselves of the presumption of innocence beyond a reasonable doubt, so I ask that they reflect on that before they comment or disparage the results of this case.”

 He referred to Zarate as an immigrant. He went on to say, "There is no relevance that Zarate is here illegally". So it begs the question. Did anyone stop to consider she would still be alive had he not been here... illegally...5 times?

California...you suck and deserve every fucking crime perpetrated on your residents by the coddled illegals. 




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Clyburn..Watch this arrogant SOB






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"Who elected them?"

How much more high and mighty can you get?

In other words, he's saying its an entitlement to being black. Conyers is untouchable because black elected officials are judged by a different yardstick... it's called race. It doesn't matter what they do as long as the color is right. Not to mention they know full well the dumbasses in their district will support them no matter what. Jesse Jr. could run tomorrow and win in a landslide.

These bastard are so rooted to the swamp they have webbed feet. Like to see Clyburn's head on the block with Conyers. Too bad "Who elected them?" won't put him there. 

PS:
Like to have heard what was said in the elevator after the door closed.






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The Corporate world vs the Government...aka the swamp



Jimmy Fallon:

“NBC has fired Matt Lauer at the 'Today' show after he was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior,” Fallon continued. “So if you’re wondering where in the world is Matt Lauer, he’s probably at a bar with Charlie Rose.”

Funny? Yes. But it does make one wonder.



The Corporate world:

Gone




Gone                                                     and Gone





The Government swamp: 

This is a big deal.  They set up a $17 million taxpayer-funded slush fund (which no one in Congress seems to know about) to pay off the accusers for their sexual transgressions. 

This should be a major concern for everyone!



Still a Congressman                                                Still a Senator


One of these two paid off the accuser with taxpayer dollars and conducted staff meetings in his underwear. The other was stupid enough to allow himself to be photographed touching a women's breasts! Yet both refuse to resign.

 So Democrats...I don't want to hear any more bullshit hype about what a slimeball Roy Moore is. 

Because if you're right he'll be right at home in Congress!

What's the magic number here...5...10...15?



Army vet is the fifth woman to accuse Al Franken of groping 

A fifth woman has spoken out to accuse Sen. Al Franken of groping - this time an Army veteran. 

Stephanie Kemplin, 41, says she attended a USO tour event in Kuwait featuring the then-comedian in December 2003. After the show, the Ohio resident waited in line to get a picture with Franken because she was a big fan of Saturday Night Live growing up. 

But when it came her turn to pose with the funnyman, she says he reached around and grabbed her breast. 

'When he put his arm around me, he groped my right breast. He kept his hand all the way over on my breast,' Kemplin, who was 27 at the time, told CNN. 'I've never had a man put their arm around me and then cup my breast. So he was holding my breast on the side.'


A fifth woman has come out to accuse Sen. Al Franken of groping. Stephanie Kemplin, left, says Franken groped her during this picture in 2003, during a USO tour event in Kuwait



Kemplin said the touching lasted for five to 10 seconds before she turned her body to move his hand from her breast. 

'I remember clenching up and how you just feel yourself flushed,' she said. 'And I remember thinking - is he going to move his hand? Was it an accident? Was he going to move his hand? He never moved his hand.'

She added: 'It was long enough that he should have known if it was an accident. I'm very confident saying that.'

The photo, which Kemplin shared with CNN, shows her smiling awkwardly, her body turned in towards Franken and her cheek pressed up against his face.

Kemplin says she doesn't remember telling any of her fellow soldiers about the incident, but she did tell multiple members of her family and her ex-boyfriend, who she started dating after the two returned from the Middle East. 

CNN interviewed Kemplin's sister and the ex-boyfriend and they told the outlet what they remembered of the incident. 

'I just remember her telling me that he grabbed her breast and that she was so shocked about it,' her older sister said. 'My sister is pretty bold and assertive and she said that she didn't know what to do.'



'I know that I've let a lot of people down,' said Minnesota Sen. Al Franken said in a press conference on Monday

Her ex-boyfriend says he doesn't remember all of the details of the Franken encounter but says he does remember his ex-saying 'he went to put his arm around her and copped a feel'. 

Kemplin said she thinks what Franken did is especially heinous considering her work serving her country. 

'I was in a war zone... You were on a USO tour -- are you trying to boost the morale of the troops or are you trying to boost your own?' she said. 'I just feel so sorry for that young girl in that picture.'

Kemplin also revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier just months before her run-in with Franken. She says the assault happened when she was sharing a tent with a specialist. 

The Army investigated and determined that the specialist had engaged in 'totally inappropriate behavior' but was not guilty of 'indecent assault'. Kemplin says she was told that she was 'responsible' for the encounter for letting the man get close to her. 

'I was really pissed off. It was not right,' Chambers said. 'My reaction was: when is it ever the victim's fault?'

Kemplin is the fifth woman to come forward with such allegations against Franken, the junior senator from Minnesota and a high-profile Democrat. She now works as a Medicaid investigator and says she's a registered Republican who voted for Donald Trump during the election. 

On Monday, Franken apologized for his behavior but said he would not be stepping down. He said he will cooperate with an ethics investigation. 

'I am going to try to learn from my mistakes,' the Minnesota Democratic senator told reporters at the Capitol in his first televised press conference since the allegations came to light.

Kemplin was the second woman to accuse Franken of groping her during a USO tour before he went into politics.


Leann Tweeden (pictured), spoke out about an incident involving Franken that happened in 2006. Tweeden accused Franken of forcibly kissing her and putting his hands on her breasts



Lindsay Menz (pictured) alleges Franken pulled her in close and squeezed her buttocks while they posed for this photo at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010

Three of the accusers said that Franken grabbed their buttocks while taking photos with them during campaign events.

Franken told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he doesn't remember the photos, but such groping is 'not something I would intentionally do.'

The first woman to come forward was Los Angeles radio news anchor Leeann Tweeden.

She released a photo this month showing the then-comedian Franken grinning while reaching out as if to grope her breasts as she slept on a military aircraft during a USO tour in 2006.

Franken told Minnesota Public Radio on Sunday the photo was 'inexcusable', but he declined to explain it further.

'What my intention was doesn't matter. What matters is that I am chained to that photo,' Franken said.

'She ... didn't have any ability to consent. She had every right to feel violated by that photo. I have apologized to her and I was very grateful that she accepted my apology.'

Tweeden said Franken also forcibly kissed her while rehearsing for a USO performance, but Franken has said he has a different recollection of the rehearsal.



On Sunday Franken told WCCO in Minneapolis he had no intention of stepping down


Two other women, speaking anonymously to The Huffington Post, said Franken grabbed their buttocks during political events in 2007 and 2008, during his first Senate campaign.

'I don't remember these photographs. I don't,' he said Sunday, estimating he has taken 'tens of thousands' of photos with other people over the years. 'This is not something I would intentionally do.'

Franken faces a Senate ethics investigation - which he welcomed in the wake of Tweeden's allegation - though it's unclear when that review may begin. Franken, who hasn't faced widespread calls to resign, said he will fully cooperate.

Franken sidestepped questions on Sunday about whether the allegations would make him less effective in the Senate. He noted he has apologized to women who have felt disrespected and 'to everyone I have let down.'

'I think this will take some time,' he told Minnesota Public Radio. 'I am trying to handle this in a way that adds to an important conversation. And to be a better public servant and a better man. That is what my goal is.' 

Franken came to the Senate after a months-long recount gave him a 312-vote victory in his 2008 election. He immediately tried to distance himself from his decades of professional comedy, which included off-color jokes about rape and disparaging women. He also avoided national reporters.

Dozens of women who've worked with Franken, including former Senate staffers and women who worked with him on NBC's 'Saturday Night Live,' signed statements supporting Franken following Tweeden's allegations. 








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Geraldo Rivera defends fired Matt Lauer: ‘News is a flirty business’





This coming from Geraldo Rivera who has been married 5 TIMES and should be working for CNN. After reading this article it becomes clearly evident Geraldo knows a thing or two about sexual predators. 


In a 1991 interview, Bette Midler (left, during interview) said Geraldo Rivera and his producer pushed poppers under her nose and groped her during an interview they were doing at her home in the 1970's

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Geraldo Rivera defended ousted "Today" anchor Matt Lauer with a series of tweets that deemed journalism a "flirty business."










Hours later, Rivera apologized for his comments.

Reaction to my tweets today on #sexharassment makes clear I didn't sufficiently explain that this is a horrendous problem long hidden," he tweeted.

"Harassers are deviants who deserve what is coming to them. Often victims are too frightened to come forward in a timely fashion. I humbly apologize."

Fox News issued a statement about Rivera late Wednesday, before his apology.

"Geraldo's tweets do not reflect the views of FOX News or its management," the network said in a statement to the Daily News.

"We were troubled by his comments and are addressing them with him."

Lauer was fired by NBC Wednesday after 20 years as co-anchor in the wake of an allegation of "inappropriate sexual behavior."

By days' end, more women came forward to accuse Lauer of similar behavior in a Variety report.

One former colleague said Lauer once gifted her a sex toy with an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, while another alleged he showed her his penis and became angry when she did not engage in a sexual act.

Rivera continued his Twitter rant by defining sexual harassment on his own terms, and dismissing the idea of a news morning show hosted only by women.

"Heard well-regarded women in media today suggesting morning shows go to an all-female format. That should be as unacceptably retro as the other way around," he wrote.

The 74-year-old television personality also explained that he believed all sexual harassment claims should go through a more detailed vetting process before being accepted because "some victims are motived by more than justice."

Speaking on relationships in the workplace is nothing new for Rivera, who explained in 2014 that he'd been able to bed 1,000 women thanks to lax "workplace protections" in the '70s and '80s.

"Now if you look at an intern with cross-eyes you go to jail, I mean get fired. Office affairs are monitored…(then) it was the 'SNL' after party every day," he told The Blaze. "It was almost like sex was free! You have no HR — no human resources, no workplace rules against it, lots of money, relative youthfulness, a young staff, surrounded by sycophants and enablers, people smoking joints openly in their office…"

Rivera's defense of Lauer also brought to light an old interview Bette Midler did with Barbara Walters that quickly began making the rounds on social media.

In the clip, Midler tells Walters that Rivera and a producer once shoved her into a bathroom, broke two poppers and pushed them under her nose and groped her.









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Congressional Black Caucus not seeking Conyers’ resignation, despite pressure from other Dems






What a f---ing shocker!!!


He could have killed his accuser, drove away in a Bronco, dropped a bloody glove in his yard, and the consensus would have been the same.




Wonder what the 'White' Caucus is going to do?

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Fox News contributor Ed Rollins on the sexual harassment allegations against Democratic congressman John Conyers and a federal judge ruling in favor of Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to temporarily run the CFPB.

The influential Congressional Black Caucus on Wednesday stood behind Democratic Rep. John Conyers amid sexual-misconduct allegations, resignation calls from fellow party leaders and a bipartisan vote to end such behavior.

“We are not urging John to resign,” Rep. Cedric Richmond, the caucus leader, said after members discussed the issue in a closed-door Capitol Hill meeting and amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into Conyers’ alleged conduct.

“We think it's a decision for him and his family and his constituents to make,” said Richmond, a Louisiana Democrat. “When in an elected office, it’s those people in his congressional district … and his family that will weigh in on what happens when the ethics investigation is going on.” 

The comments represent a split with Democratic leaders like Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who despite initially defending Conyers is said to be pushing privately for his resignation.

Three allegations of sexual misconduct have now been made again Conyers, a Michigan Democratic and the longest-serving sitting House member.

The first surfaced last week, when BuzzFeed posted a story detailing a settlement with a former Conyers staffer who said the 88-year-old lawmaker sexually harassed her, then fired her after she rebuffed his advances.

The news website reported that Conyers' office paid the woman more than $27,000 under a confidentiality agreement to settle a complaint in 2015.

The ethics committee then announced that it had begun an investigation into Conyers, after receiving allegations of sexual harassment and age discrimination involving staff members and about the congressman using "official resources for impermissible personal purposes."

A few days later, a second former staffer came forward with more claims of inappropriate behavior.

Melanie Sloan, a lawyer who worked with Conyers on the House Judiciary Committee, said she was called the congressman's office to discuss an issue and found him “walking around in his underwear.”

Sloan worked on the committee in the 1990s, but it was not clear when the alleged incident occurred. She also claims Conyers often screamed at her, fired and re-hired her, criticized her for not wearing stockings and once even ordered her to babysit one of his children.

“I deny [all of] these allegations,” Conyers also said Sunday. “I very much look forward to vindicating myself and my family.”

On Tuesday, The Detroit News reported that former staffer Deanna Maher alleges Conyers sexually harassed her, including inappropriate touching, in three incidents from 1997 to 1999. She became the second former Conyers staffer to go public with such accusations.

At a CBC meeting the same day, several members reportedly called for Conyers’ resignation.

Richmond said Wednesday that the allegations, if found to be true, are unacceptable and the CBC is relying on the ethics committee’s findings. 

“All I know is one vehemently denies it, one is saying that it’s true. Ethic has to come down on the legal,” said Richmond, a lawyer. “If these allegations are true, then they are serious, they are disturbing, they are awful because we just don’t stand for harassment in the workplace or anywhere else.”

Still, top CBC officials’ tentative support for Conyers at this stage comes as several congressional Democrats publicly suggest that he should resign. 

“I would think he should,” Rep. Earl Blumenauer, of Oregon, said Wednesday on C-SPAN's “Washington Journal.”

Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the House’s No. 2 Democrat, later told MSNBC that Conyers should resign if the allegations are true.

Earlier this week, Reps. Kathleen Rice, of New York, and Pramila Jayapal, of Washington state, said they think Conyers should resign.

On Wednesday, the House approved a bipartisan measure requiring lawmakers and aides to take annual anti-harassment training, following a similar move by the Senate.

A few hours earlier, Richmond and fellow Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, South Carolina, were criticized on social media for suggesting a different standard for members of Congress facing sexual harassment claims, compared with figures like NBC’s Matt Lauer or CBS’s Charlie Rose, who were fired almost immediately.

“Who elected them?” Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat, asked reporters – suggesting elected lawmakers could not be let go so easily.

House Minority Leader Pelosi faced similar backlash Sunday when she told NBC that Conyers is an “icon” in efforts toward women’s equality, while also reserving judgment about the allegations until the ethics committee completes its review.

Within minutes of Conyers announcing he’d stepped down from the Judiciary committee, though, Pelosi released a statement that said: “Zero tolerance means consequences. As a woman and mother of four daughters, I particularly take any accusation of sexual harassment very seriously. … No matter how great an individual’s legacy, it is not a license for harassment.”



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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

They're dropping like flies



Matt Lauer fired from NBC News over inappropriate sexual behavior

Willard Scott and Al Roker finally came forward.

Bet Ann Curry is ecstatic!

Lauer was fired from NBC News early Wednesday.


Longtime NBC News anchor Matt Lauer has been fired, the network confirmed.

The veteran “Today” host was let go after a colleague complained over inappropriate sexual behavior, NBC News chief Andrew Lack said in a memo published on the show.

Lauer was one of the highest-paid talents on the show.

Lack said it was the first complaint the network had received about Lauer during his 20 years with the show, but had reason to believe there were more allegations.





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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

First Conyers and now the Wolfman





Like his protégé Conyer's, the Wolfman was calling for Trump's impeachment.


Green said, "Trump has undermined the integrity of his office, has brought disrepute onto the presidency, has betrayed his trust as president to the manifest injury of the people of the United States of America and as a result is unfit to be president."

"He warrants impeachment, trial, and removal from office," he added.

The shithead's statement like a boomerang came back to hit him in the ass.




Texas Rep. Al Green has released a bizarre, unprompted statement, to get ahead of his decade-old sexual misconduct allegations


The congressman was accused of assaulting Lucinda Daniels, his onetime district director, in 2007.

He filed a lawsuit against her the following year, arguing they'd had a consensual 'romantic encounter' and she was simply trying to shake him down for $1.8 million with the false allegations.

Green then withdrew his lawsuit after Daniels dropped her claims he assaulted her.

They released a joint statement in 2008, which said that they had resolved the issue 'without payment, promise or receipt of any money' and stated 'they regret any circumstances that created this dispute,' the Houston Chronicle reported.

But as the #MeToo campaign unearths allegations of sexual misconduct by celebrities and high profile politicians, including Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore, Green has decided to release a joint statement with Daniels to address those old allegations. 

'In the present climate, we wish to jointly quiet any curious minds about our former and present relationship with one another,' the statement read.

Translation:

I just sent her $50,000 of taxpayer money.













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Trump calls Warren 'Pocahontas' at event honoring Native American veterans





Wikipedia makes no reference whatsoever to her "Indian heritage".



Trump should call her her out.



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President Trump on Monday referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as “Pocahontas” at an event honoring Native American Code Talkers who served in World War II.

"You were here long before any of us were here,” Trump said, standing beneath a portrait of former President Andrew Jackson. “Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas.”

Turning to the veterans, Trump said "but do you know what? I like you."

The president made the remark in the Oval Office standing beside three Navajos who helped the U.S. Marine Corps develop a secret code during WWII.

The three Code Talkers did not react to Trump’s remark.

Trump has repeatedly used the derisive nickname to refer to Warren, poking fun at her claim of Native American heritage.

“This was supposed to be an event to honor heroes, people who put it all on the line for our country,” Warren said later on MSNBC. “It is deeply unfortunate that the president of the United States can’t even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without throwing out a racial slur.”

But Trump's top spokeswoman defended his comment, saying "Pocahontas" is not a racial slur. 

“I think what most people find offensive is Sen. Warren lying about her heritage to advance her career," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters.





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Conyers accused of taking staff meeting in his underwear, ordering subordinate to babysit his kid




Melanie Sloan, the lawyer who worked with Conyers on the House Judiciary Committee said the embattled Michigan lawmaker once called her into a meeting while sporting only his skivvies.


When the Conyers escapade first came to light a prominent black woman (forgot who) said Conyers is “untouchable”. We’ll have to wait and see if she’s right. 

Related:


Then again she gave Rangel a slap on the wrist.






 Now that the adventures of Franken and Conyers have steeped in the cup...



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Reaction on 'The Story' after a third woman comes forward with complaints about the congressman.

No one had to guess whether Rep. John Conyers wore boxers or briefs, according to a former key staffer, who said the embattled Michigan lawmaker once called her into a meeting while sporting only his skivvies.

Melanie Sloan, a lawyer who worked with Conyers on the House Judiciary Committee, said she was called up to the long-serving congressman's office to discuss an issue only to find him “walking around in his underwear.”

Sloan is the third woman to accuse Conyers of inappropriate behavior.

“It made me increasingly anxious and depressed about going to work every day,” she said, adding that “there was no way to fix it.”


“It made me increasingly anxious and depressed about going to work every day."- Melanie Sloan

“There was no mechanism I could use, no person I could go to,” she said.

Sloan was a well-known Washington lawyer when she worked as Democratic counsel on the House Judiciary Committee in the 1990s. It was not clear exactly when the strange encounter with the lawmaker, now 88, occurred.

During her time working for the committee, she claims Conyers often screamed at her, fired her then re-hired her, criticized her for not wearing stockings and once even ordered her to babysit one of his children.

While those revelations came out earlier this week, word of Conyers, who was first elected to Congress in 1964, taking a meeting in his underwear came this week in a Detroit Free Press article.

Though Sloan maintains Conyers did not sexually assault her, she told the Detroit Free Press that “his constant stream of abuse was difficult to handle and it was certainly damaging to my self-respect and self-esteem.”

Conyers’ hometown newspaper earlier this week called for his resignation in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against him as well as a questionable payout to one alleged victim.

Conyers is accused of using taxpayer dollars to settle a claim in secret after a former staff reportedly claimed she was fired for rejecting his advances.

In a scathing editorial published late Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press demanded the Democrat step down immediately.

The paper called Conyers' actions “the kind of behavior that can never be tolerated in a public official, much less an elected representative of the people.”

“He should resign his position and allow the investigation into his behavior to unfold without the threat that it would render him, and the people he now represents, effectively voiceless,” the board wrote.

BuzzFeed reported Monday that Conyers settled a wrongful termination complaint in 2015 with a staffer who claimed she was dismissed because she did not “succumb to [his] sexual advances.”

Conyers acknowledged in a statement that his office paid his accuser the money -- reportedly a $27,000 sum -- but “vehemently” denied the underlying claims. 

“I expressly and vehemently denied the allegations made against me, and continue to do so,” Conyers, who has spent 53 years in Congress, said. “My office resolved the allegations – with an express denial of liability – to save all involved from the rigors of protracted litigation. That should not be lost in the narrative.”

But the Detroit Free Press, which described Conyers as an “undisputed hero of the civil rights movement,” took issue with how Conyers’ office chose to handle the issue.

After the alleged victim made a formal complaint through Congress' Office of Compliance, Conyers’ office reportedly pushed to handle the situation on its own. If the woman dropped her complaint, signed a legal document saying Conyers had done nothing wrong and promised not to make any additional claims against him, she would be re-hired as a temporary “no-show” employee and paid $27,111.75 for three months, according to reports. The accuser agreed to the terms. 

Conyers’ office defended the agreement as a way to avoid litigation – through House ethics rules bar lawmakers from keeping an employee on the payroll who isn’t doing anything. 

"A House member can’t retain an employee who isn’t performing work commensurate with the pay, and regardless, can’t give back pay for work that stretches further than a month," the editorial board wrote. 

While acknowledging that payoffs happen in the private sector, the board said: “it should never, ever happen where public dollars (and public accountability) are concerned.”

Calling it a “public betrayal,” the board wrote it’s impossible to know how often the practice takes places in Congress but added Conyers should have known better.

Even though resigning would end his otherwise “stellar career,” the paper wrote that it’s “the appropriate consequence for the stunning subterfuge his office has indulged here and a needed warning to other members of Congress that this can never be tolerated.”

The House Ethics Committee announced Tuesday it has opened an investigation into the matter.








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