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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Trump charges Obama with being 'founder of ISIS'





Laugh if you like. But did you ever hear of ISIS, or for that matter BLM, until Barry came around?







Donald Trump charged President Barack Obama on Wednesday with being the founder of the Islamic State during a campaign rally in Florida.

"In many respects, you know, they honor President Obama," Trump said during a campaign stop in Fort Lauderdale. "He is the founder of ISIS."

Last week, his campaign tried to draw financial links between the Clinton Foundation and the terror group. Wednesday, he called Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton the group's “co-founder.”

Trump has long accused Obama and Clinton for pursuing Middle East policies that created a power vacuum in Iraq that was exploited by Islamic State. He had criticized Obama for announcing he would yank U.S. troops out of Iraq, which Obama critics believe created the instability in which extremist groups thrive.

The White House had yet to comment on Trump’s remarks.

The Islamic State group began as Iraq's local affiliate of Al Qaeda, the group that attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. The group carried out massive attacks against Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority, fueling tensions with Al Qaeda’s central leadership. The local group's then-leader, Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in 2006 in a U.S. airstrike but is still seen as the Islamic State group's founder.

The Trump campaign alleged in a statement last week that the Clinton Foundation ties to a corporation “funding” ISIS.

The campaign detailed financial contributions the Clinton Foundation received from a cement-making company called Lafarge. The same statement cited reporting in French media outlets that the company had entered deals with the Islamic State and other armed groups in Syria to protect its interests there.

“More than any major presidential nominee in modern history, Hillary Clinton is tied to brutal theocratic and Islamist regimes. Now we learn she has accepted money from a company linked to ISIS,” Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said in a statement.

Trump brought up the accusation during his rally in Florida to a raucous crowd.

He railed against the fact that the Orlando shooter's father, Seddique Mateen, was spotted in the crowd behind Clinton during a Monday rally in Florida, adding, "Of course he likes Hillary Clinton."






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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

NEW CLINTON EMAILS SUGGEST MORE PUBLIC CORRUPTION





Why does Judicial Watch have to dig this stuff up? 
Wasn't Comey supposed to be investigating the Clinton Foundation?


Brazil had the balls to indict their president who is a crook. 
What are we doing? 
Taking a crook who should have been indicted and make her president!

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When is the media going to talk about Hillary's policies that have gotten people killed, like Libya, open borders, and maybe her emails?







Judicial Watch today released 296 pages of State Department records. They include 44 email exchanges that were not previously turned over to the State Department, notwithstanding Hillary Clinton’s claim that as far as she knew, all of her government emails were turned over.


The emails, in the words of Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, “show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton [while she was Secretary of State] in potential violation of the law.” No wonder Clinton and Huma Abedin hid emails from the American people, the courts, and Congress.

In one exchange, from April 2009, Clinton Foundation official Doug Band pushed for a job for an associate. He told Cheryl Mills and Abedin that it is “important to take care of [Redacted].” The email’s caption is “favor.”

In response, Abedin assured Band that “Personnel has been sending him options.” Satisfied that the favor was being granted, Band responded “great.”

We wrote about Doug Band in connection with Hillary Clinton’s corruption here. Band was listed as a passenger on a “Lolita Express” flight with Bill Clinton, two women (“Janice” and “Jessica”), and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Later in April 2009, according to Chuck Ross, Band again emailed Abedin asking for another favor. “Can someone pls call [redacted]? He calls me every day and we owe him some attention,” Band wrote. I can’t tell whether Abedin or some other high level Clinton aide complied with Band’s request and provided the attention that Team Clinton “owed.”

In another email, also from 2009, Band told Mills and Abedin to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and Clinton Foundation donor Gilbert Chagoury in touch with the State Department’s “substance person” on Lebanon. Band explained that Chagoury is “key guy there [Lebanon] and to us.” He insisted that Abedin call Amb. Jeffrey Feltman to connect him to Chagoury.

Chagoury, who was convicted in 2000 in Switzerland for laundering money from Nigeria, is a close friend of former President Bill Clinton and a top donor to the Clinton Foundation. According to Judicial Watch, which cites Foundation documents, he has appeared near the top of the Foundation’s donor list as a $1 million to $5 million contributor, according to foundation documents.

Chagoury also pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative. No wonder Band regarded Chagoury “a key guy. . .to us,” i.e. to Team Clinton.

I can’t tell whether Abedin did as Band told her on behalf of Chagoury in this instance. However, these emails strongly suggest that Clinton failed to comply with the ethics agreement she made in order to be confirmed as Secretary of State. On January 5, 2009, she agreed:

For the duration of my appointment as Secretary if I am confirmed, I will not participate personally and substantially in any particular matter involving specific parties in which The William J. Clinton Foundation (or the Clinton Global Initiative) is a party or represents a party.

Doing favors for Band, a Clinton Foundation official, and Chagoury, a Clinton Foundation donor and “key guy,” strikes me as inconsistent with that pledge.

And let’s not forget the appointment of Rajiv Fernando to a place on the International Security Advisory Board. Fernando was manifestly unqualified for this post, as Clinton’s own team acknowledged. However, he was a significant donor to the Clinton Foundation.

There have been reports that the FBI is investigating the Clinton Foundation for public corruption. Even assuming the truth of such reports, I think it’s fanciful to think that anything will come of this. The FBI has shot its wad.

However, the new emails are further evidence of public corruption, whether or not the FBI elects to do something about it.







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Barry’s forgiveness of gun crimes amid push for controls ‘incredible hypocrisy’






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(So you tell me this bastard is really concerned about gun control. Seems to me he has some sort of aversion for imprisonment whether it's thugs or Muslims probably because inherently he knows he should be behind bars himself)

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Richard Reid (not the one you're thinking) was already a two-time felon when authorities searched his Delaware apartment and found marijuana, crack cocaine divided into sales-size plastic bags, powder cocaine, a scale — and a loaded .32 caliber handgun, an unloaded .25 caliber pistol and ammunition for two other types of weapons.

Last week, President Obama commuted Reid’s 25-year sentence and made him one of the hundreds of drug users and dealers who the White House says have done enough time.

But at the same time, Mr. Obama forgave scores of gun crimes convictions for the offenders, raising thorny questions about whether the White House is serious about keeping guns out of “the wrong hands” — a refrain of the Obama administration in the wake of mass shootings.

Mr. Obama forgave six of Reid’s gun crimes, in addition to the drug trafficking and possession offenses for which he was convicted in 2007.

He is one of 107 federal inmates who have had gun crimes convictions pardoned or sentences commuted during this administration, including a number who used firearms while dealing drugs or who carried them despite having felonies on their records. Still others were caught lying to gun dealers or carrying weapons with the registration numbers filed off — suggesting an even deeper level of gun crime.

“This is the most incredible hypocrisy,” said Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America. “The president has commuted the sentences of dangerous criminals who were convicted of gun-related charges. But then, he does everything in his power to block law-abiding gun owners from purchasing firearms.”

Mr. Obama has set modern records for clemency, reducing or canceling sentences for more than 600 federal inmates, more than his nine predecessors going back to John F. Kennedy combined. Thousands of other petitions are pending, and the White House has promised to continue on its path.

The goal, the president and his advisers say, is to free the federal prisons of nonviolent offenders who have ties to their communities and for whom time in prison is a waste.

“Our focus really has been on people who we think were overcharged and people who we do not believe have a propensity towards violence,” Mr. Obama said at a press conference last week, highlighting the decisions he is making on gun charges.

He held up a hypothetical case of a teenager in a gang who was caught with drugs and a gun, never used the weapon but ended up with a decadeslong sentence because of mandatory minimums, saying that man should get leniency.

“And in that situation, the fact that he had 20 years earlier an enhancement because he had a firearm is different than a situation where somebody has engaged in armed robbery and shot somebody. In those cases, that is still something that I’m concerned about,” Mr. Obama said.

Many of the cases in which Mr. Obama granted leniency, though, fall somewhere in between, with the culprit a repeat felon for whom the mere possession of a gun was a crime, and carrying it while dealing drugs was even worse in the eyes of the law.

Guns and drugs became linked in the criminal justice system in the 1990s, when drug-fueled violence peaked. A quarter of those arrested on drug charges reported carrying a firearm all or most of the time — usually because of the nature of the illegal transaction, the lack of trust between dealers and customers, and the fact that both parties were more likely to take matters into their own hands rather than go to police to settle a dispute.

Prosecutors said they could even predict the pace of drugs- and gun-crimes arrests: They spiked at the beginning and middle of each month, which corresponded with the arrival of drug-buyers’ government checks.

But as the violence of the 1990s continues to fade, activists are turning their attention to those still in prison based on laws from the “war on drugs” era. Groups that campaign against mandatory minimum sentences say the problem is the law’s requirement that gun sentences be “stacked,” or run consecutively, rather than concurrently, with the drug charges.

That means someone who faces a five-year drug sentence with a five-year add-on for carrying a weapon could serve 10 years for the same crime.

Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a leading prisoner advocacy group, says the laws should be rewritten to allow judges to have sentences for gun crimes run concurrently with the drug crimes, and to apply the stiffest penalties only for true recidivists.

Congress has stalemated over criminal justice reform, and Mr. Obama has acted on his own, using his clemency powers under the Constitution to offer relief where he can. He has even asked prisoners sentenced under strict 1990s-era laws to file applications if they think they deserve leniency.

Most applications are rejected, but hundreds of prisoners have been granted pardons or commutations. Of those, three pardons covered gun crimes and 104 people with gun convictions have had their sentences commuted.

Among them was Reid, the Delaware man and two-time offender whose apartment was stoked with guns and ammunition.

Also granted leniency was Artis Sangria McGraw, a two-time felon who was nabbed in 2001 as part of a federal-local task force specifically aimed at prosecuting gun crimes. He was caught dealing drugs in a neighborhood of Spartanburg, South Carolina, and had a loaded .38 caliber revolver — with the serial number obliterated.

Others included Kenneth H. Smith, convicted of lying to a firearms dealer; Carolyn Yvonne Butler, convicted of three counts of armed bank robbery; and Robert Joe Young, whose convictions included use of a gun while trafficking drugs and obstruction of justice.

Young was arrested with more than 3 pounds of methamphetamine, was already on probation when he was arrested again, was deemed by local law enforcement to be a major drug supplier to his area and had 40 guns, according to the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys, which represents rank-and-file federal prosecutors.

“Our position has long been that drug trafficking is an inherently violent offense and neither should be receiving the benefit of any extraordinary relief like clemency,” said Steve Cook, president of the association.

The Washington Times asked the White House about several of the cases that seem to contradict the president’s commitment to stopping guns, but a White Houseofficial said only that the president takes each case individually.

“As a general matter, the president does not condone violence of any kind. But, he also believes that individuals who have truly paid their debt to society and demonstrated a commitment to not repeating past mistakes should be given a chance to earn their freedom,” the official said.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill, though, said offering a second, third or fourth chance for gun-wielding criminals stood in contrast to Mr. Obama’s actions to make buying weapons more difficult for law-abiding owners.

“On one hand, the Obama administration is attempting to limit law-abiding Americans from exercising their Second Amendment right and protecting themselves from harm,” said Sen. Richard C. Shelby, Alabama Republican. “On the other hand, the president will let criminals with firearm-related offenses off easy.”

Gun control groups, which are fighting for stricter laws on gun ownership, don’t have as much of a problem with Mr. Obama’s leniency, saying their focus is less on the gun users and more on those buying and selling the weapons at the front end.

“Our organizational priority is keeping guns out of the hands of prohibited purchasers in the first place,” said Brendan Kelly, press secretary for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “We feel that starts by expanding Brady background checks to all gun sales and by cracking down on so-called ‘bad apple’ gun dealers who skirt the law and best practices. We believe that the federal government’s greatest opportunity to reduce gun violence and increase public safety lies in these two approaches.”

For gun rights advocates, though, Mr. Obama’s moves are more complicated. While some activists see hypocrisy by the White House, others are skeptical of the prosecutors who may have won the cases in the first case.

Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, said each case needs to be judged on its own merits, but he added that people can be convicted of trumped-up gun charges.

“Some of our firearms laws are actually pretty stupid, and you can be convicted of something that’s really not dangerous at all,” he said. “You’ve had some infraction that really you weren’t trying to harm anybody or wouldn’t have harmed anybody, and yet it’s a felony.”

Mr. Van Cleave, for example, said simply possessing drugs wouldn’t necessarily fall into the category of a violent crime.

“On the other hand, being a drug pusher — it all gets very, very complicated quickly,” he said.

“That’s not saying that people shouldn’t be charged for breaking the law, like the guy that was selling the drugs, sure,” he said. “If the penalty for that isn’t long enough and there’s still fear when he gets out he’s going to start over again, then maybe they need to rethink the penalties.”







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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Trump has his detractors but look who's supporting Killary





Orlando night club shooter's father spotted grinning behind Hillary Clinton at rally in Florida




The father of the madman who gunned down 49 people at an Orlando nightclub earlier this year is backing Hillary Clinton's presidential bid.

Seddique Mateen - whose son Omar committed the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history when he stormed by the Pulse nightclub on June 12 - attended Clinton's rally in Kissimmee, Fla., Monday night and told a local TV station about his decision to support the Democratic nominee.

"Hillary Clinton is good for United States versus Donald Trump, who has no solutions," Mateen told WPTV.


Seddique Mateen was spotted sitting behind Hillary Clinton at campaign rally in Florida Monday night.(WPTV NBC)


When asked why he would show up to a rally where Clinton solemnly remembered the victims that Mateen's own son shot, he replied: "It's a Democratic Party, so everyone can join."

"I spoke a lot about that and wish that my son joined the Army and fought ISIS," Mateen added. "That would be much better."

(Instead, he fought FOR ISIS)




The elder Mateen has been the subject of controversy in his own right, having spouted anti-American views and supported the Afghan Taliban in a bizarre shoestring YouTube talk show.

He has also awkwardly defended his mass-murderer son, telling reporters just hours after the shooting that the slaughter was not motivated by religion and that the younger Mateen was just "very angry" after seeing two men in Miami kissing near his family months ago.

It was soon discovered that the younger Matteen pledged allegiance to ISIS right before the assault. The terror group later claimed responsibility for the deadliest shooting in American history.







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Monday, August 8, 2016

Polls: Killary ahead...but she has help


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