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Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren Would All Beat Donald Trump In 2020, New Poll Suggests

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A hair sniffing serial groper, a fake Indian princess, and a 100-year-old commie walk into a bar...

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A new poll suggested that 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren would all beat President Donald Trump in head-to-head competition by significant margins.

Former Vice President Biden remained the frontrunner, with the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showing him beating out Trump by a margin of 51 to 42 percent, a lead of nine points. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, had the second-largest win gap in the poll, beating Trump by seven points, 50 to 43 percent. With a five-point lead over the president, Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, would beat Trump 48 to 43 percent, according to the survey.

With the poll's margin of error being 3.5 percentage points, either way, each of the three frontrunners for the Democratic party's 2020 nomination currently have a clear advantage over the president. Senator Kamala Harris of California also polled ahead of the president by one point, at 45 to 44 percent. But that result fell within the poll's margin of error.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (R) (D-Massachusetts) pats Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on the back after Sanders spoke at a news conference on the Social Security system on February 16, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Win McNamee/Getty

Notably, despite Sanders having a better advantage to beat Trump, more respondents said they favored Warren for the Democratic nomination. The senator from Massachusetts came in second, with support from 19 percent of respondents. Sanders tied with Harris, with 13 percent and Biden led the pack with 26 percent of support. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana trailed the others in fifth place, with seven percent. After that, none of the other candidates polled at higher than two percent.

Sanders has, until recently, typically polled ahead of Warren, generally coming in second place after Biden in most national polls. On Sunday morning, he was asked by NBC News Meet the Press host Chuck Todd how he felt about seeing Warren significantly ahead of him in the new poll.

"Elizabeth is a good friend of mine," he responded. "What we need is a political revolution. And I think I'm the only candidate who has been clear about that, who has the capability of doing that."

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden gives a speech on his foreign policy plan on July 11 in New York City Spencer Platt/Getty

Warren and Sanders have both put forward a broad range of progressive policies that aim to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans and corporations to provide universal healthcare, forgive student debt, make university education free for Americans, address climate change and improve American infrastructure. Both regularly attack corporate greed and rising inequality in America, vowing to fix a system that they view as rigged against working-class Americans.

The latest poll also showed that Trump's job approval remains steady among voters, at 45 percent. However, the majority of voters – 52 percent – said they disapprove of the job the president is doing.

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Jeffrey Epstein jail logs: Accused child sex predator met with Alan Dershowitz, Bill Clinton friend, alleged co-conspirators a decade ago

This is an interesting article and what I find truly amazing is although Clinton has irrefutable, undeniable, ties to Epstein the media, for the most part, sidesteps that association to put Trump in the spotlight even though Trump had Epstein thrown out of Mar-a-Lago estate for abusing a minor. Fact: Clinton claims to be aboard the Lolita Express 4 times. FOX reports they have documented proof (flight logs) he was aboard 26 times. If that's true there's no way in hell he didn't know about and participate in sex with underage girls. Were talking about Bill Clinton for Christ sake!

Another strange phenomenon. The media couldn't produce Barry's 'secretive college transcripts' but had no problem discovering G. W. Bush's DWI in 1976.

Likewise, there's no difficulty finding photos of Trump and Epstein together. But try finding one photo of Epstein and Clinton. I have yet to find one. Sure you'll find 2 separate photos side by side but not like the ones below with Trump.

Why? 

Another thing that bothers me. 

When Epstein was having sex with all these underage girls and flying them to various exotic locations around the world...where were the parents? 

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Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photograph of Jeffrey Epstein as he announces the financier’s charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, in New York, U.S., July 8, 2019.

Wealthy financier and accused child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein had a revolving cast of characters take turns visiting him in a Palm Beach County, Florida, jail while serving a 13-month criminal sentence in 2008 and 2009, according to visitor logs reviewed by CNBC on Friday.

Those visitors included Epstein’s appeals attorney Alan Dershowitz, who showed up on New Year’s Day 2009, as well as Arnold Paul Prosperi, a college friend of former President Bill Clinton, documents show. Other visitors were two woman who have been alleged to have been co-conspirators of Epstein.

Epstein, also a former friend of President Donald Trump’s, pleaded guilty in 2008 to a Florida state charge of procuring an underage prostitute.

He now is charged by federal prosecutors in New York with sexually abusing dozens of underage girls from 2002 through 2005 at his Manhattan townhouse and Palm Beach mansion.

Among his most frequent visitors in jail was Prosperi, who had become friends with Clinton when they attended Georgetown University together, where he ran Clinton’s campaign for student body president.

Records show that Prosperi visited Epstein at least 20 times.

An attorney who later raised funds for Clinton, Prosperi had his own criminal sentence for filing false tax returns commuted to house arrest on Clinton’s last day office in the White House in 2001.

A 1995 newspaper clipping uncovered by Snopes.com describes a dinner hosted by Revlon chief Ron Perelman and his wife, with guests including Clinton, who was president at the time, Prosperi and Epstein.

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Want a good laugh?

Check this out...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/google-clinton-epstein/ 

Snopes is claiming there's no evidence that photographs of Clinton with Epstein ever existed.

So I got this straight Epstein and Clinton 2 peas in a pod  (far closer than Trump and Epstein ever were)... They hung around together for years, lavish dinner parties, many other high society social events, 26 flights on the Lolita Express, visits to 'Orgy Island' and many other Epstein properties and not one photo. 

Who do you think you're bullshitting Snopes? 

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Other guests at that dinner included actor Don Johnson, singer Jimmy Buffett and Don Fowler, the then-co-chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Clinton’s spokesman has said that he cut ties with Epstein over a decade ago, and has no knowledge of Epstein’s alleged crimes. On Friday, a representative for Clinton did not return CNBC’s request for comment.

Dershowitz spent much of the morning on January 1, 2009, with Epstein, according to records. In a statement to CNBC, Dershowitz said, “I always visit clients in prison. We discuss legal issues. It was not a personal visit. It was professional.”

Later that same holiday, Prosperi came by to see Epstein, as did Joseph Pagano, who has the same name as a venture capitalist previously reported to be a friend of Epstein. CNBC was unable to reach Pagano.

Other notable visitors were two of Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators, Nadia Marcinkova and Sarah Kellen.

Combined, the two made over 70 visits to the Palm Beach County Jail, records show.

Kellen, according to a court document obtained by The Daily Beast, was one of Epstein’s closest aides in the 2000's. She now goes by the name Sarah Kensington and is married to NASCAR driver Brian Vickers. Marcinkova is now a certified FAA pilot and a flight instructor.

Neither Kellen nor Marcinkova has been criminally charged. A non-prosecution agreement that Epstein signed with federal prosecutors in Miami in 2007, explicitly said that his alleged co-conspirators would not be criminally charged.

Alex Acosta, who was U.S. attorney in Miami at the time, oversaw the deal. On Friday, Acosta resigned as Trump’s Labor secretary amid criticism of his handling of the Epstein case more than a decade ago.

Igor Zinoviev, a Russian who is a former martial artist, also made his way to Epstein’s jail cell.

No one visited Epstein more than Story Cowles, who was reportedly his personal assistant.

Cowles visited Epstein nearly 130 times.

At times, Cowles signed in as a paralegal. His online profile says that he is currently an investment banker at Tobin & Co.

Epstein finished his 13-month stint in jail with at least 340 visits from a mix of about two dozens friends, colleagues, and attorneys, among other associates, the documents show. Two process servers also visited Epstein, as did a psychiatric doctor.

An attorney for Epstein did not return a request for comment.

Dershowitz and Cowles did not return requests for comment while the other visitors could not be reached. Prosperi died in 2016.

Epstein was arrested last Saturday on the new federal charges filed in New York. He is being held without bail but is due to appear at a detention hearing on Monday.

Prosecutors in a court filing on Friday said he is worth more than $500 million, and in recent months has made payments to potential witnesses.

Epstein, who ran his firm out of the U.S. Virgin Islands, historically has had ties to a few wealthy executives and politicians.

Les Wexner, the chairman of L Brands, was known to be one of his clients before he first was sentenced a decade ago. CNBC recently uncovered 990 tax documents showing Epstein bankrolled one of Wexner’s earliest nonprofit organizations.

He also was a top donor to Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, and she recently reversed course to give his contributions away to charity after outrage on social media.

Jeffrey Epstein jail logs: Accused child sex predator met with Alan Dershowitz, Bill Clinton friend, alleged co-conspirators a decade ago

‘Fake’ charges fly as Trump rips social media for bias, dishonesty

Can you blame Trump?

This is yet another example of the kind of crap Trump has to put up with.

Trump lawyers: Video refutes ex-aide’s battery claims over kiss

This is a Class A backstabbing bitch in the Omorosa mold. 

(Wonder if she's related to Smollett?)

Lawyers for President Donald Trump say video of his interactions with campaign staffer Alva Johnson before a Tampa rally in 2016 contradicts her claims he subjected her to an unwanted, forcible kiss.

Trump’s attorneys posted the 15-second video online Wednesday and cited it in pleadings filed with a federal judge handling a lawsuit Johnson filed in February claiming trauma from the interaction with Trump, and that sex and racial discrimination impacted her pay while working as an outreach staffer for the campaign.

Trump lawyer Charles Harder said the recording shows Johnson’s suit is “unmeritorious and frivolous.”

“The Video shows that Plaintiff’s allegations in the Complaint that Mr. Trump ‘forcibly’ kissed her, and kissed her ‘on the mouth,’ are entirely false,” Harder wrote in a court filing. “In watching the Video, the only conclusion a reasonable person could reach is that the exchange was an innocent moment between a dedicated campaign staffer and the candidate for whom she was working.”

Trump’s attorneys also point out that just before the disputed embrace amid a gathering of other supporters in a recreational vehicle near the August 2016 rally, Johnson told Trump she’d been away from her family for eight months working for him. 

After the kiss cited in the lawsuit, Johnson can be heard saying: “We're going to get you in the White House; I'll see you in February.”

Video 514

Trump once called Omorosa a dog and Johnson certainly falls it that same category.

‘Fake’ charges fly as Trump rips social media for bias, dishonesty

Trump's 'Salute to America' cost more than $5M

If Barry did the exact same thing.

Headline:

Obama brings patriotism back to America

President Obama was all smiles today on the North Lawn of the WH when he announced his Salute to America event in front of a gaggle of reporters. Enraptured Ann Compton started out with "What will the First Lady be wearing?". Followed by Jim Acosta, "Mr. President you definitely have some impressive accomplishments. Why is it a Republican president never thought of this."...

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The Fourth of July "Salute to America" event cost Washington, D.C., and the federal government more than $5 million, according to ABC News.

That figure included $2.45 million the Interior Department and National Park Service spent on expenses such as barricades, medical services, staffing and other logistics, according to ABC News, citing an Interior Department letter.

The District of Columbia and Defense Department, meanwhile, reported event and security costs of $1.7 million and $1.2 million, respectively, for a total cost of $5.35 million, according to ABC News.

National Park Service Deputy Director Dan Smith told ABC News the publicity the event generated for the National Park Service made the cost worth it.

"If you could tell me that for $2.5 million additional dollars the exposure we got from this televised event, it's a great bang for the buck," he said.

Smith denied the money for the event was diverted from any planned or deferred maintenance initiatives.

Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, has called the spending "especially wrong," saying that despite a letter from Interior Secretary David Bernhardt citing similar figures for events such as the anniversary of the March on Washington in 2013, the 2019 event did not have comparable historical value.

"Mayor [Muriel] Bowser (D) has said the president's event bankrupted a fund meant to protect the nation's capital from terrorist attacks, not to mention that he still hasn't paid off the bills from his inauguration festivities," Grijalva said in a statement.

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Did anyone truly expect Raúl Grijalva and Muriel Bowser both Democrats to say...Yes, we thought the Salute to America was the greatest thing ever?  

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"In that context, the diversion of fee revenue from visitors to our national parks to pay for the president's new extra event on the 4th was especially wrong," he added, according to ABC News.

Trump's 'Salute to America' cost more than $5M

Spokesman: Bill Clinton 'knows nothing' about 'terrible crimes' alleged against Epstein

Well, somebody is lying. Clinton's spokesman (why does he need a spokesman) claims he was on the Lolita Express 4 times. But according to FOX Clinton was aboard 26 times with flight logs to prove it. They also said he ditched the SS. 

Link:

Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender's jet much more than previously known

(If it won't load copy and paste to Bing)

Oh…and although Clinton stands out like a sore thumb the MSM can’t resist trying to tie Trump to Epstein.

The only hope for the truth to surface is Epstein will sing to get a reduced sentence.

WASHINGTON – A spokesman for former President Bill Clinton said Monday that Clinton "knows nothing" about Jeffrey Epstein's alleged crimes after the billionaire financier pleaded not guilty to sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan federal court.

The truth be told...

"President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago or those with which he has been recently charged in New York," according to a statement tweeted by Clinton's press secretary Angel Ureña.

Epstein was arrested Saturday on sex-trafficking charges dating back to the 2000s, according to the Associated Press. On Monday, Epstein pleaded not guilty to one count of sex trafficking and one count of sex-trafficking conspiracy, which stem from accusations dating to 2002-2005. 

According to the federal indictment, Epstein "sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes" in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida, along with other locations. He also allegedly paid some of his victims to recruit more underage girls, according to the indictment.

Epstein's lawyers argued that the matter had been settled a decade ago with a plea deal in Florida. “This is ancient stuff,” Epstein attorney Reid Weingarten said Monday in court, calling the case essentially a “redo” by the government.

In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting and procuring a person under age 18 for prostitution, which could have led to a lifetime in prison if prosecuted, the AP reported. Epstein was sentenced for 13 months in jail, under a non-prosecution agreement overseen by federal authorities in Florida. He was also required to reach financial settlements with dozens of his once-teenage victims and register as a sex offender.

Epstein has been tied to Clinton and President Donald Trump. 

In addition to being fellow residents of Palm Beach – where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property is located – the president and Epstein socialized together before Trump’s 2016 election.

On Saturday, Trump biographer Tim O’Brien tweeted this 2002 quote by the future president, taken from a New York Magazine profile: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

An attorney for the Trump Organization has said Trump had " 'no relationship' " with Epstein, the Washington Post reported Monday. But, the Post also reported that "outside of Trump’s own words, there is clear evidence that the two men — both members of the same highflying social worlds in Manhattan and Palm Beach — socialized together in the past."

Clinton's spokesperson said in the statement that the former president had taken a total of four trips on Epstein's private airplane between 2002 and 2003, one to Europe, one to Asia and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend and alleged madam, was present at Chelsea Clinton's wedding

According to the statement, staff, Clinton Foundation supporters, and Clinton's Secret Service detail traveled on every leg of every trip. In addition, in 2002 Clinton also had a meeting with Epstein at the former president's Harlem office and one brief visit to Epstein's New York apartment, where a staff member and Clinton's security detail were present.

"He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida," the statement concluded.

Spokesman: Bill Clinton 'knows nothing' about 'terrible crimes' alleged against Epstein