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In addition to the $10,000,000 Trump took from FEMA for hurricane relief, he also took $29,000,000 from the Coast Guard and funneled it to ICE.
 
Always has to make it about himself and how he's a victim. Watch him make another questionable pardon when the storm hits.
 
Interesting comment from Reddit about this story below.....

slow_hoax Score hidden· 1 hour ago
So two things are noted, one that it involves a woman and an incident in high school and the other that this has been referred to the FBI. Since statute of limitations will have run out on any high school crime short of murder, how about this for a hypothesis:

The lady made her intentions to go forward with a harmful story known to Kavanaugh, sometime after he was on the DC circuit. Knowing that the $10k bank withdrawal limits are what got Hastert, Kavanaugh uses his credit card and "baseball tickets" to effectively launder payoff money to the woman.
Somehow this surfaces and thus the crime referred to the FBI would be financial/blackmail/bribe related. This would be a relatively recent crime, on inside it's own statute of limitations.


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...mocrats-have-sent-a-secret-letter-about-brett

Senate Democrats Have Referred A Secret Letter About Brett Kavanaugh To The FBI
Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have referred a letter concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the FBI.​
The contents of the letter have been closely guarded by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as California Rep. Anna Eshoo, who originally received the letter and shared it with Feinstein, according to sources familiar with the matter. But whispers of what it contains have made the rounds across Capitol Hill over the past week.​
The attention on it burst into the public when The Intercept published a report on the rumors surrounding the letter on Wednesday.​
“This matter has been referred to the FBI for investigation,” Sen. Dick Durbin told BuzzFeed News when asked about the letter on Thursday.​
In a statement later Thursday, Feinstein confirmed that she had referred the letter to "federal investigative authorities."​
“I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court," Feinstein said. "That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision. I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities.”​
BuzzFeed News contacted the woman believed to be the subject of the letter at her home last week. She declined to comment. BuzzFeed News has not been able to confirm the contents of the letter.​
The lawyer believed to be representing the woman was seen leaving Capitol Hill Wednesday evening shortly after the Intercept story dropped and just as Judiciary Committee Democrats were huddling in the Senate lobby. The lawyer, Debra Katz, has not confirmed that she is representing the woman. She also declined to comment Wednesday, saying “there’s nothing to say.”​
When asked about the letter and the rumors surrounding its contents last week, Eshoo’s office said in a statement to BuzzFeed News, “Our office does not discuss casework.” They declined to comment further.​
The chair of the committee, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, said Thursday he did not have the letter and had no information about it beyond what he had read in the media.​
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A White House spokesperson also did not immediately respond.​
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Chris Coons, and Richard Blumenthal — all Democrats on the Judiciary Committee — declined to comment Thursday.​
 
Interesting comment from Reddit about this story below.....

slow_hoax Score hidden· 1 hour ago
So two things are noted, one that it involves a woman and an incident in high school and the other that this has been referred to the FBI. Since statute of limitations will have run out on any high school crime short of murder, how about this for a hypothesis:


The lady made her intentions to go forward with a harmful story known to Kavanaugh, sometime after he was on the DC circuit. Knowing that the $10k bank withdrawal limits are what got Hastert, Kavanaugh uses his credit card and "baseball tickets" to effectively launder payoff money to the woman.
Somehow this surfaces and thus the crime referred to the FBI would be financial/blackmail/bribe related. This would be a relatively recent crime, on inside it's own statute of limitations.


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...mocrats-have-sent-a-secret-letter-about-brett

Senate Democrats Have Referred A Secret Letter About Brett Kavanaugh To The FBI
Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have referred a letter concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the FBI.​
The contents of the letter have been closely guarded by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as California Rep. Anna Eshoo, who originally received the letter and shared it with Feinstein, according to sources familiar with the matter. But whispers of what it contains have made the rounds across Capitol Hill over the past week.​
The attention on it burst into the public when The Intercept published a report on the rumors surrounding the letter on Wednesday.​
“This matter has been referred to the FBI for investigation,” Sen. Dick Durbin told BuzzFeed News when asked about the letter on Thursday.​
In a statement later Thursday, Feinstein confirmed that she had referred the letter to "federal investigative authorities."​
“I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court," Feinstein said. "That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision. I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities.”​
BuzzFeed News contacted the woman believed to be the subject of the letter at her home last week. She declined to comment. BuzzFeed News has not been able to confirm the contents of the letter.​
The lawyer believed to be representing the woman was seen leaving Capitol Hill Wednesday evening shortly after the Intercept story dropped and just as Judiciary Committee Democrats were huddling in the Senate lobby. The lawyer, Debra Katz, has not confirmed that she is representing the woman. She also declined to comment Wednesday, saying “there’s nothing to say.”​
When asked about the letter and the rumors surrounding its contents last week, Eshoo’s office said in a statement to BuzzFeed News, “Our office does not discuss casework.” They declined to comment further.​
The chair of the committee, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, said Thursday he did not have the letter and had no information about it beyond what he had read in the media.​
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A White House spokesperson also did not immediately respond.​
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Chris Coons, and Richard Blumenthal — all Democrats on the Judiciary Committee — declined to comment Thursday.​

Supposedly about some type of sexual misconduct when he was in high school, if that's the case I don't see it doing anything because it was so long ago.
 
Supposedly about some type of sexual misconduct when he was in high school, if that's the case I don't see it doing anything because it was so long ago.
Correct, that’s what it’s about. There has to be more about to send a letter to the FBI since statute of limitations has passed.
 
Correct, that’s what it’s about. There has to be more about to send a letter to the FBI since statute of limitations has passed.

I hope so, otherwise it's just going to look like a totally political move and be exploited.
 
Yesterday, I had to have a Facebook conversation with two family members playing the "whataboutism" game. I posted about how Trump took millions from FEMA and the Coast Guard, along with even more from other agencies for ICE. One said, "Obama took $750 million out of social security and that's a fact." Well, it's not. He never touched social security. He "took" $700 million from medicare and he didn't even do that. He curbed the money medicare advantage insurance gouging to the tune of possibly $700 million over 10 years. No services, coverage, anything, was touched in medicare. It functions exactly how it always has. Then another one said Obama took $1.5 billion of tax payer money and gave it to Iran. I've determined that's a lie. It was Iran's money that we held since 1979. It was the "airplane for hostages" money. It was Iran's money all along. It had nothing to do with tax payers, or tax payers, or anything the sorts.

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I hope so, otherwise it's just going to look like a totally political move and be exploited.

It may not be anything more than that; it's basically standard practice for any knowledge that comes in about a nominee that could affect their suitability to serve be referred to the FBI to be attached to their file, which is then reviewed by the White House to see if they want to appoint the person or not. I'll give you three guesses how that White House review will turn out, and I'll be generous and let you use the two extra guesses you won't need to try to guess Bellybama 's middle name.
 
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Yesterday, I had to have a Facebook conversation with two family members playing the "whataboutism" game. I posted about how Trump took millions from FEMA and the Coast Guard, along with even more from other agencies for ICE. One said, "Obama took $750 million out of social security and that's a fact." Well, it's not. He never touched social security. He "took" $700 million from medicare and he didn't even do that. He curbed the money medicare advantage insurance gouging to the tune of possibly $700 million over 10 years. No services, coverage, anything, was touched in medicare. It functions exactly how it always has. Then another one said Obama took $1.5 billion of tax payer money and gave it to Iran. I've determined that's a lie. It was Iran's money that we held since 1979. It was the "airplane for hostages" money. It was Iran's money all along. It had nothing to do with tax payers, or tax payers, or anything the sorts.

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Sadly this is really common. You'd think with all the access to information we have, people would be better informed, but it is the opposite. The Iran deal is the perfect example. Lots of people will tell you the Iran deal was terrible, but ask them why and either they can't answer or they spout made up facts.

Too many people can't come to grips that the Democrats are more fiscally responsible than Republicans have been (not that the Dems have been perfect by any means). People hear "Democrat" though and just think "spending and taxing" without even looking at the facts.
 
Sadly this is really common. You'd think with all the access to information we have, people would be better informed, but it is the opposite. The Iran deal is the perfect example. Lots of people will tell you the Iran deal was terrible, but ask them why and either they can't answer or they spout made up facts.

Too many people can't come to grips that the Democrats are more fiscally responsible than Republicans have been (not that the Dems have been perfect by any means). People hear "Democrat" though and just think "spending and taxing" without even looking at the facts.
Completely agree. Democrats are the bogeymen. Demoncrats.
 
Manafort is going to plead guilty in the second trial. The agreement is not yet out, but there is a new superceding "information" filing, which apparently is like an indictment but only used for cases that don't require a grand jury indictment or when the defendant has agreed to plead guilty (see the Cohen guilty plea).

The filing apparently has a ton of documentary evidence, which from what I'm reading is extraordinarily rare. Speculation is that they're doing this so that any pardon will be seen as what it is: a CYA by Trump, since it lays out explicitly how effing guilty Manafort is. It also does still include forfeiture of a lot of his property. Whether or not he's cooperating remains to be seen.
 
Manafort is going to plead guilty in the second trial. The agreement is not yet out, but there is a new superceding "information" filing, which apparently is like an indictment but only used for cases that don't require a grand jury indictment or when the defendant has agreed to plead guilty (see the Cohen guilty plea).

The filing apparently has a ton of documentary evidence, which from what I'm reading is extraordinarily rare. Speculation is that they're doing this so that any pardon will be seen as what it is: a CYA by Trump, since it lays out explicitly how effing guilty Manafort is. It also does still include forfeiture of a lot of his property. Whether or not he's cooperating remains to be seen.
He's not going to cooperate, and then he's going to get a pardon. I hope Mueller has evidence of rudy obstructing justice with telling manafort that he'll get a pardon.
 
Manafort is going to plead guilty in the second trial. The agreement is not yet out, but there is a new superceding "information" filing, which apparently is like an indictment but only used for cases that don't require a grand jury indictment or when the defendant has agreed to plead guilty (see the Cohen guilty plea).

The filing apparently has a ton of documentary evidence, which from what I'm reading is extraordinarily rare. Speculation is that they're doing this so that any pardon will be seen as what it is: a CYA by Trump, since it lays out explicitly how effing guilty Manafort is. It also does still include forfeiture of a lot of his property. Whether or not he's cooperating remains to be seen.
$46 million in forfeitures.
 
Sadly this is really common. You'd think with all the access to information we have, people would be better informed, but it is the opposite. The Iran deal is the perfect example. Lots of people will tell you the Iran deal was terrible, but ask them why and either they can't answer or they spout made up facts.

Too many people can't come to grips that the Democrats are more fiscally responsible than Republicans have been (not that the Dems have been perfect by any means). People hear "Democrat" though and just think "spending and taxing" without even looking at the facts.


But something... something... Muslims are plotting to establish a world 'Caliphate' dealy .

It seems like I heard this going around everywhere for a while that the Muslims are close to fulfilling a prophecy. I think was coming from people like Glenn Beck. I'm not sure if his influence has died down. I guess even FOX couldn't handle him after a while, but I think he helped to stoke religious fear and that an 'Iran Deal' was like having diplomacy with or appeasing to the Anti-Christ.

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