Who would have thought Trump may loose because of poverty?

Battle of the Billionaires: Clinton’s uber-rich backers pour money into Trump fight

At left, Warren Buffett with Hillary Clinton; at right, George Soros (AP/Reuters)

Donald Trump has his billions, but Hillary Clinton has her billionaires.

As the candidates formally enter the general election season after their conventions, the former secretary of state’s wealthiest backers are pouring money into political groups opposing Trump. Within the past year, according to a review by FoxNews.com, a total of 24 billionaires have donated more than $42.5 million to two Clinton campaign arms and three allied super PACs.

All this is in preparation for a blitz of advertising and other efforts to defeat Trump over the next three months – as some big-money Republicans stay on the sidelines.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, for instance, is joining industrial power-brokers Charles and David Koch in refusing to back fellow Republican billionaire Trump. While the Koch brothers plan to stay out of the presidential race, Whitman is going one further by stating she will endorse and help fund Clinton. 

Whitman will be in some influential company. Her most famous Clinton donor colleagues include movie producers Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, financiers Warren Buffett and George Soros, and Walmart heiress Alice Walton.

The billionaire donations were given to Clinton campaign funds Hillary for America and Hillary Victory Fund; and the pro-Clinton PACs American Bridge 21st Century, Priorities USA Action 2016 and Correct the Record.

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The largest donor was Soros with $9 million, according to 2015 and 2016 Federal Election Commission records. This was followed up by mathematician and hedge fund manager James Simons at $7 million and Haim and Cheryl Saban, with $3.5 million each. Haim Saban owns the Spanish television network Univision.

Most of the money is donated to PACs because candidate campaigns are only allowed to accept $2,700 per donor. Clinton’s overall campaign total is $374.5 million and Trump’s is $98.7 million through July 21, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Clinton campaign – which only recently put away a primary challenge from Bernie Sanders, who boasted of his small-dollar donations – stresses that the bulk of the nominee’s support is grass-roots.

"More than 900,000 people contributed to Hillary Clinton's campaign in July and the average donation is just $44,” Clinton spokesman Josh Schwerin said. “That grass-roots support is the true power behind this campaign as Hillary lays out her plans to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top.”

But the high-dollar backing from some of the wealthiest Americans contrasts with some of the themes at last week’s Philadelphia convention. Clinton, who called in her convention address to get “money out of politics,” repeatedly has said her presidency would work for lower- and middle-class Americans while taxing the wealthiest, like Wall Street executives.

“I believe American corporations that have gotten so much from our country should be just as patriotic in return. Many of them are. But too many aren't,” Clinton said during her nomination acceptance speech. “It's wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and give out pink slips with the other. And I believe Wall Street can never, ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again.”

The super PACs, though, are a valued resource to push Clinton along in her quest to be the first female president.

American Bridge 21st Century was founded in 2010 to provide opposition research to the Democratic Party by following key Republicans and videotaping everything they say. The material is used to blanket airwaves and the Internet with their foibles. Its site is mostly dedicated to the presidential race.

Priorities USA Action 2016 was founded a year later with the purpose of raising funds from wealthy donors. Its website states “We’re all in for Hillary Clinton.” Correct the Record’s mission is to “defend Hillary Clinton against baseless attacks.”

Despite the looming ad onslaught, Trump’s campaign is voicing confidence about its financial position, after announcing an $80 million July fundraising haul for the campaign and the GOP. The haul marks a big fundraising surge, and comes close to the combined $90 million raked in by Clinton and the Democrats last month. 

"The campaign is in good shape. We are organized. We are moving forward," campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Fox News' "Happening Now" on Wednesday. 

While Trump also is willing to keep spending from his own fortune to pad the account if necessary, Clinton enjoys a deep bench with deep pockets.

The other billionaires who donated to her cause are: heir to the Hyatt Hotel chain J.B. Pritzker and his wife Mary; Slim-Fast founder Daniel Abraham; film executive Thomas Tull; entrepreneur Marc Benioff; Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg; Jon and Pat Stryker, heirs to a self-named family medical device company; scientist David E. Shaw; philanthropist Barbara Lee; financiers John Doerr, Bernard Schwartz, Roger Altman, Henry Laufer and Herb Sandler; and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

Oprah Winfrey stated on television that she endorses Clinton, but she doesn’t have any donations listed on the FEC website.

But one high-profile backer has decided to fund his own anti-Trump endeavors.

Billionaire Tom Steyer spent $1.9 million through his environmental action organization NextGen to produce a television commercial titled “The Wall,” which ran in California during the Republican convention. In the commercial, Steyer and a group of young people stand in front of a montage of Trump clips where the candidate discusses building a wall at the border. “That’s not America,” Steyer states as the group says in chorus, “Vote!”

Earlier this year, Steyer told reporters he would spend $25 million in an effort to turn out youth voters. He historically has used the nonprofit NextGen as a political platform for Democratic candidates.

Who would have thought Trump may loose because of poverty?

Another one of those coincidences...

US delivered $400m in CASH stashed inside wooden pallets to Iran on same day as American hostages were freed but the Obama administration DENIES it paid a ransom

WOW... Barry sure drives a hard bargain! 
Only in the mind of this warped waste of skin could a plan of this magnanimous derangement be conceived. This administration's negotiating skills has no equal! We lifted the sanctions. We gave them 400 million (so far). And we allow them to inspect themselves regarding their nuclear facilities. What's next? Give them ObamaCare?

Makes me wonder about the 5 for 1 swap. How much money did he slip them under the table?

Obama's legacy in one photo.

Barry's using your tax dollars to finance Iran's nuclear program just like Bill Clinton did with North Korea.

Bill Clinton's VS Barack Obama's Nuclear Agreement Speech Similarities Warns US of  The Future

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It was bullshit then just like it is now.

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The US secretly flew $400 million stashed inside wooden pallets out to Iran as four Americans were released from Tehran - but the Obama administration insists it was not a ransom payment.

The pallets, which were stuffed with euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currencies, arrived in Tehran on January 17. That same day, four US citizens were released in exchange for seven Iranians held in the United States.

Officials denied any link between the payment and the prisoner exchange, saying the deal was part of a $1.7 billion settlement to resolve a failed 1979 arms deal, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Bur critics claim that the clandestine multi-million dollar payment was part of the hostage negotiations.

They also point to the fact that President Barack Obama failed to make any mention of the $400 million when he announced the prisoner exchange. 

Critics have accused the Obama administration of paying a $1.7 billion 'ransom' for the hostages (President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden speaking last year about the Iran nuclear deal)

'With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,' President Barack Obama said on January 17.

Iranians had demanded the return of the $400 million which was paid to the Pentagon by Iran, shortly before the fall of Iran's last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to purchase US fighter jets. 

Officials admit that Iranian negotiators had demanded cash over the exchange to show they had won something from the US in negotiations.

But they insist that negotiations on the prisoner exchange, and the failed arms deal settlement were completely separate.

'As we've made clear, the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim…were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home,' State Department spokesman John Kirby said.

US officials admit they realized the United States was going to lose its case over the arms deal in The Hague, where Iran was seeking more than $10 billion compensation.

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas, accused the Obama administration of paying a $1.7 billion 'ransom' for the hostages.

They have also expressed concerns the money could be used to fund terrorist groups such as Lebanese militia Hezbollah or it could be funding Assad's regime in Syria. 

Local press reports also quoted Iranian defense officials describing the money as a ransom payment. 

The Obama administration has refused to say how the $1.7 billion was paid.

But officials say the $400 million was paid in foreign currency, because transactions with Iran in US dollars is illegal in the United States.

It was such a large amount of cash that the US was forced to transfer the money into the central banks of the Switzerland and the Netherlands. 

Once the dollars were converted to foreign currency, it was stacked in the wooden pallets and sent off to Iran.

The cargo plane carrying the money arrived in Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on January 17 - the same day the American detainees were released.

Negotiations for their release began back in 2014 with Switzerland’s foreign minister hosting the discussions at the InterContinental Hotel, Geneva, on behalf of the US which has not had diplomatic interests in Iran since closing its Tehran embassy following the 1979 hostage crisis.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, hailed the new deal with Iran which successfully resolved a decades-old failed arms deal, is pictured talking with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Talks began picking up pace in July 2015 when Iran agreed to restrain its nuclear program in exchange for the international sanctions against it being lifted.

US and European officials told the Wall Street Journal the negotiations began by focusing on a straight forward prisoner swap but grew to envelop compensation for the failed arms deal.

Eventually, Obama agreed to pay the $400 million and the four Americans were released from a Tehran prison last January. 

Another one of those coincidences...

Freddie Gray case goes Duke lacrosse

When you're driving down the street and a cop see's your passenger is not wearing their seatbelt does he give you a ticket or charge you with depraved murder? 

Wouldn't mind seeing the cops get the same $6.4 mil as the Gray family received.

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Law professor goes after Maryland prosecutor for Freddie Gray case

Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby could face the same fallout from the Freddie Gray case as prosecutor Michael Nifong did after the Duke lacrosse case in 2006. (L- Reuters, R- AP)

A law professor with a history of taking prosecutors to task has set his sights on the Baltimore state’s attorney, who failed in her bid to put six cops in prison in connection with the racially-charged death of Freddie Gray.

George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf has filed complaints against Marilyn Mosby with the Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland. He alleges Mosby and two deputies committed ethics violations, used “fraudulent or misleading tactics," withheld evidence from the defense and brought charges without probable cause against the Baltimore police officers involved in the April 12, 2015 arrest of Gray, who died of injuries suffered inside a police van.

“My concern is that this will encourage other prosecutors from other large cities to do the same,” Banzhaf told FoxNews.com. “The line she [Mosby] is giving her supporters is that the case was a success and that she has been victimized in just bringing them up on charges. “I think her supporters, which she depends on to be re-elected, support what she did.”

Mosby announced last week all charges against the police officers would be dropped. The bombshell announcement came after three were found not guilty and another’s case declared a mistrial.

In the complaint, Banzhaf alleges that Mosby violated state rules of professional conduct for attorneys. He also alleged that Mosby violated rules of conduct with public statements about the case.

In addition to being a law professor, Banzhaf is an activist and watchdog when it comes to the actions of those who work in the court of law and public service. During his career, he has filed complaints against Geraldine Ferraro, Barney Frank, and former Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew, who went on to be Richard Nixon’s vice president.

He also threatened to file a complaint against former North Carolina prosecutor Mike Nifong, who was disbarred after his conduct in handling the 2006 Duke lacrosse case, in which three members of the school’s men’s lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape. The charges were eventually dropped by Nifong just days after Banzhaf publicly said that he was considering bring forth a lawsuit against the prosecutor for violating the civil rights of the students. The case sparked a national discussion on due process and led to Nifong’s resignation and subsequent disbarment.

Banzhaf says that he sees similarities between Nifong’s conduct and Mosby’s and that her career may see the same fate.

“Both of them violated rights of the defendants by not providing exculpatory evidence [to the defense],” he said. “Second, both continued cases long after it was determined who may win.”

The law professor says that in some respects, Mosby’s handling of the Freddie Gray trial may have been the more egregious.

“When Nifong first brought forth the case it was solid, and as time went on, it was not,” he said. “With Mosby, the moment she filed the case, it was known that it couldn’t be brought forward.”

Now that a complaint has been filed, an investigation into the claims will be launched by the state and charges could go forward in 90 days unless it’s determined that the allegations are frivolous. The fallout from the dropped charges in the Freddie Gray case has already sent shockwaves through the State’s Attorney’s office.

Veteran prosecutor Lisa Phelps, who was assigned to try two of the cases against the police officers and had objected to their continued prosecution, resigned from her post on Monday according to the Baltimore Sun.

"Her refusal to continue with a doomed-to-failure criminal case was apparently the straw that forced Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby to finally drop all of the remaining Freddie Gray cop cases," said Banzhaf, "and her reluctance to continue may have been caused by my threat to seek her disbarment if she did."

Mosby did not immediately return calls for comment.

Banzhaf said the State Attorney’s motivations may have been greater than just pursuing justice.

“When Nifong filed his case, it was widely suspected that he brought it forth for political purposes,” he said. “In Mosby’s case she virtually said so.”

Freddie Gray case goes Duke lacrosse

Miami quadruple shooting shocks community

Miami quadruple shooting shocks community

Anyone with information as to his whereabouts is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. While you're on the phone ask them when they think the BLM demonstrations will begin.

Miami quadruple shooting

According to media reports Monday, Miami police have identified a suspect in a shooting that left a mother and her two children dead and another child wounded.

As reported by the Miami Herald, police said Antwon Fair is wanted in connection with the early Sunday morning shooting at a home near Southwest 203rd Terrace and Southwest 115th Avenue.

Takeeya “KeKe” Fulton, a 39-year-old mother of six, and her daughter, Nuckeria “Keria” Harris, 19, were shot inside the home after Fulton got into an argument with a man, relatives told Local 10 News.

Police say Fulton and Harris were pronounced dead at the scene.

Harris was shot and killed while trying to defend her mother, sources said.

Corey “CJ” Johnson, 17, was sleeping in his bedroom when he was shot. He later died at Kendall Regional Medical Center.

Fulton’s 12-year-old son was also shot and taken to Kendall Regional Medical Center. He is listed in stable condition.

Evette Woodard, a coworker of Fulton, said Fulton and her boyfriend got in arguments, but she thought they were nothing more than normal relationship struggles.

“I was shocked, so shocked,” Woodard told the Herald. “Never in a million years would I have thought it would end this way.”

A GoFundMe account was created to help the family.

Police said Fair is considered armed and dangerous. Police said he was last seen in a white 2009 Chevrolet Impala with Florida license plate No. BDYW67.

Miami quadruple shooting shocks community

Guess Chris Wallace doesn't know when he's being lied to

I would have loved to see his old man grill this bitch!

Watch her lie and try to spin what Comey REALLY said to Chris Wallace. Pay particular attention to this:

"There were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain emails"

Classic Clinton muddling the water.

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Comey: 110 of Clinton's emails contained classified information AT TIME THEY WERE SENT AND RECEIVED.

Anyone hear him use the word "retroactively"? 

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Guess Chris Wallace doesn't know when he's being lied to