***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[the qbz]

Yo
That kyle green campaign ad is bonkers and random

Youtube it

 

[deuce king]

More power to the brotha!!

The federal workers should become truck drivers so they can get a Cuban in 12 years.

LOL.

 

[northoaklandfc]

Don't think he was one yet.

I think he was an aspiring Federal worker

I wonder if rico x hood still aspires to be a white Republican male.

Welp.

 

[sonoftony]

Nt fam



NT FAM



BREAKING CHARACTER....MY STATE IS LAME

They couldn't PS his double chin?

 

[Wargames]

Somehow I expect Kanye to say he is a 3%'er and then do some corny line about being a righteous teacher.......

 

[Nike Jordan]

I was told that The Bigot™ had doubled his support with Black voters.

 

[IATT]

 

[Belgium]

Hmm, I wonder why Trump has been threatening to revoke Bruce Ohr's security clearance and attacking him on twitter. Ohr is a current DOJ employee and his wife worked for Fusion GPS.
It appears that Sessions and Rosenstein have been aware since late 2017-2018 that Ohr didn't provide prior disclosure to the DOJ about his meetings with Steele.
Senior DOJ officials reportedly told Ohr that they were unhappy about that and told him he'd be stripped of his associate deputy attorney position as part of a planned reorganization that otherwise would have occured anyway.
Ohr was reportedly later told that Sessions and Rosenstein didn't want him in that position because it comes with White House meetings and interactions.

The recusal is obviously Trump's main gripe with Sessions but given his recent attacks on Bruce Ohr that could be related too. Trump has made it pretty clear that he wants Ohr fired.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4397fc517476
AP sources: Lawyer was told Russia had ‘Trump over a barrel’
A senior Justice Department lawyer says a former British spy told him at a breakfast meeting two years ago that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump “over a barrel,” according to multiple people familiar with the encounter.

The lawyer, Bruce Ohr, also says he learned that a Trump campaign aide had met with higher-level Russian officials than the aide had acknowledged, the people said.

The previously unreported details of the July 30, 2016, breakfast with Christopher Steele, which Ohr described to lawmakers this week in a private interview, reveal an exchange of potentially explosive information about Trump between two men the president has relentlessly sought to discredit.

They add to the public understanding of those pivotal summer months as the FBI and intelligence community scrambled to untangle possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. And they reflect the concern of Steele, a longtime FBI informant whose Democratic-funded research into Trump ties to Russia was compiled into a dossier, that the Republican presidential candidate was possibly compromised and his urgent efforts to convey that anxiety to contacts at the FBI and Justice Department.

The people who discussed Ohr’s interview were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the closed session and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Among the things Ohr said he learned from Steele during the breakfast was that an unnamed former Russian intelligence official had communicated that Russian intelligence believed “they had Trump over a barrel,” according to people familiar with the meeting.

It was not clear from Ohr’s interview whether Steele was directly told that or had picked that up through his contacts, but the broader sentiment is echoed in Steele’s dossier.

Steele and Ohr, at the time of the election a senior official in the deputy attorney general’s office, had first met a decade earlier and bonded over a shared interest in international organized crime. They met several times during the presidential campaign, a relationship that has exposed both men and federal law enforcement more generally to partisan criticism, including from Trump.

Republicans contend the FBI relied excessively on the dossier during its investigation and to obtain a secret wiretap application on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. They also say Ohr went outside his job description and chain of command by meeting with Steele, including after his termination as a FBI source, and then relaying information to the FBI.

Trump this month proposed stripping Ohr, who until this year had been largely anonymous during his decades-long Justice Department career, of his security clearance and has asked “how the hell” he remains employed.

Trump has called the Russia investigation a “witch hunt” and has denied any collusion between his campaign and Moscow.

Trump and some of his supporters in Congress have also accused the FBI of launching the entire Russia counterintelligence investigation based on the dossier. But memos authored by Republicans and Democrats and declassified this year show the probe was triggered by information the U.S. government received earlier about the Russian contacts of then-Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos.

The FBI’s investigation was already under way by the time it received Steele’s dossier. The investigation’s lead agent, Peter Strzok, told lawmakers last month that “it was not Mr. Ohr who provided the initial documents that I became aware of in mid-September.”

Ohr described his relationship with Steele during a House interview Tuesday.

One of the meetings he recounted was a Washington breakfast attended by Steele, a Steele associate and Ohr. Ohr’s wife, Nellie, who worked for the political research firm, Fusion GPS, that hired Steele, attended at least part of it.

Beside the “over a barrel” remark, Ohr also told Congress that Steele told him that Page, a Trump campaign aide who traveled to Moscow that same month and whose ties to Russia attracted FBI scrutiny, had met with more-senior Russian officials than he had acknowledged.

That breakfast took place amid ongoing FBI concerns about Russian election interference and possible communication with Trump associates.

By that point, Russian hackers had penetrated Democratic email accounts, including that of the Clinton campaign chairman, and Papadopoulos, the Trump campaign associate, was said to have revealed that Russians had “dirt” on Democrat Hillary Clinton in the form of emails, court papers say.

That revelation prompted the FBI to open the counterintelligence investigation on July 31, 2016, one day after the breakfast but based on entirely different information.

Ohr told lawmakers he could not vouch for the accuracy of Steele’s information but has said he considered him a reliable FBI informant who delivered credible and actionable intelligence, including his investigation into corruption at FIFA, soccer’s global governing body.

In the interview, Ohr acknowledged that he had not told superiors in his office, including Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, about his meetings with Steele because he considered the information inflammatory raw source material.

He also provided new details about the department’s move to reassign him once his Steele ties were brought to light.

Ohr said he met in late 2017 with two senior Justice Department officials, Scott Schools and James Crowell, who told him they were unhappy he had not proactively disclosed his meetings with Steele. They said he was being stripped of his associate deputy attorney post as part of a planned internal reorganization that would have occurred anyway, people familiar with Ohr’s account say.

He met again soon after with one of the officials, who told him Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein did not believe he could continue in his current position as director of a law enforcement grant-distribution program known as the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force.

Sessions and Rosenstein, Ohr was told, didn’t want him in the post because it entailed White House meetings and interactions, the people said.

A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

The wild thing is, this assessment of Trump is SPOT ON. How do ppl like Cruz, Lindsey Graham, etc. wake up every day? Their blatant hypocrisy has to eat at them.

 

[sonoftony]

so Rafael finally grew a spine?

 

[elpablo21]

The wild thing is, this assessment of Trump is SPOT ON. How do ppl like Cruz, Lindsey Graham, etc. wake up every day? Their blatant hypocrisy has to eat at them.

No soul, No spines...not much left to eat at

 

[IATT]

 

[IATT]

 

[blastercombo]

Nah ah, fry cock said this was fake

 

[blastercombo]

He can do it Monday night in Jerry world. The racists will be there anyway watching negro ball

 

[blastercombo]

Still separated: Nearly 500 migrant children taken from their parents remain in U.S. custody

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/s...main-in-us-custody/ar-BBMGVry?ocid=spartandhp

Fry cock said it was just like summer camp doe???? I’m confused, also this happens everyday at daycare

 

[wavycrocket]

If there is a way that the audio and video of this can be played during the rally at highest levels.....

Ooooweee!

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Zamn Rafa

 

[IATT]

 

[wavycrocket]

What trips me out about Ted Cruz’s take on Trump is that was one of the most honest, we’ll thiught and accurate statements about Trump....and the most honest he’s probably ever been .

Like, that assessment of who trump is, is SPOT on. Couldn’t have said it any better. It just came from another amoral person who just so happens to be a pssssy

 

[rexanglorum]

I wonder if rico x hood still aspires to be a white Republican male.





Welp.

There has to be space in this country for a self hating black man who can own a boat shop.

Plenty of white men have owned boat shops and refused to pay their employees a living wage and also put up a Tony Montana quote about hard work in the break room so as to cover up the legally mandated signs about overtime laws so someone can try to become the first African American to do such. That's how one could become the greatest black MAGA CHUD in history.

Bonus points if the Scarface quote is wrong something like "hey man, when I was your age I didn't waste no time on the instaspace, I did hard work, mang"

 

[QU!K]

I was told that The Bigot™ had doubled his support with Black voters.

Kanye doubled it, it was just Mayweather before

 

[aepps20]

He went in on Obummer

 

[gry60]

Update with more information on the Manafort associate (Sam Patten) that was charged with FARA violation by the DC US Attorney's office. He pleaded guilty.
Mueller referred the case to the DC US Attorney's office but Patten's plea agreement says he will cooperate with the special counsel investigation.
Patten is also pleading guilty to false or misleading statements before the Senate Intel committee.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/paul-...harged-with-illegal-foreign-lobbying?ref=wrap
Republican Lobbyist Steered Foreign Money to Trump’s Inaugural Committee
Republican lobbyist Sam Patten, who previously worked with the Trump campaign’s data firm, is the latest to be nabbed in the Mueller probe.

A Republican lobbyist pleaded guilty on Friday to running an illegal foreign lobbying campaign, admitting in a plea agreement that he helped steer illicit foreign contributions to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.

Sam Patten was charged with violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, stemming from undisclosed work on behalf of a Ukrainian political party. The charges were referred to the U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian influence in the 2016 election. The indictment was first reported by Bloomberg. Shortly after, it was reported that he would plead guilty.

Though charges were not brought by Mueller directly, Patten has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel’s investigation as part of his plea agreement.

That plea agreement focuses on the FARA violations. But Patten also copped to “causing foreign money to be paid to the 2016-17 Presidential Inaugural Committee,” according to the agreement. Patten said he had solicited a U.S. citizen to serve as a “straw purchaser” for an unnamed foreigner to purchase four inauguration tickets at a cost of $50,000. Foreign nationals are prohibited from donating to U.S. political groups such as the inaugural committee, and U.S. citizens are prohibited from knowingly making political contributions in another’s name.

When Africans talk about neocolonialism, this is the stuff they refer to:

Foreign entities bankrolling politicians to get them elected and do their bidding. In exchange, the politicians get to keep their power over the population and destroy (gradually or abruptly) the fundamentals of democracy.

You can see these developments today in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Congo Kinshasa, and now the United States.

 

[fargin]

Based on Mike Pence's erectometer, how close are we to impeachment?