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Alan Dershowitz explains how Manafort may be a single ‘domino’ in a much larger criminal case

Speaking on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning, liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz broke down the Paul Manafort indictment and what it means going forward for FBI special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe.

What did he say?

  • It’s all about leverage: “They’re going after Manafort on something that apparently has to do with Trump, [something] from years ago, his own business. But what they’re saying to him is: ‘We’ve got you now, and we don’t care about that, but if you can tell us something about Trump and the campaign and collusion, we’ll give you a get out of jail card free.’ So it’s all about leverage, that’s the way prosecutors work.”
  • Manafort is very important if a much larger criminal case exists: “Manafort knows where the bodies are buried. He was an intimate. And if anything wrong happened in the campaign, and there’s no evidence that anything did, Manafort would know about it. Even if he wasn’t directly there, he heard about it.”
  • Manafort is the first “domino”: “What Mueller wants to do is see [Manafort] as the first domino, the second domino, the third domino, ultimately trying to get to the big domino — that is President Trump.”
  • Manafort could be on his own: “If he has nothing to offer, he’s just going to have to defend himself on these financial charges that have nothing to do with Trump.”
  • Manafort may sing and “compose”: “Sometimes prosecutors can twist you not only into singing but into composing, into making something up against somebody. They’re so desperate to make a deal. If you can get yourself out of trouble by turning somebody else in, a lawyer is going to help you try to do that.”
  • There may be a “grand strategy to Mueller’s investigation: “If he only gets Manafort, at least he has earned some of his money — the special prosecutor. And if he can get Manafort turn it into somebody a little higher and a little higher and a little higher, the dominoes begin to fall. So it’s a win-win strategy for prosecutors and, of course, it creates vulnerability for the ultimate target.”

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What happened?

Manafort and his former business associate, Rick Gates, who also worked with the Trump campaign, surrendered to the FBI Monday after they were indicted last Friday on 12 charges, including conspiracy against the United States, money laundering, lying to the government and failure to register as a foreign agent. The pair will likely be arraigned Monday afternoon and released. Their indictment did NOT mention President Donald Trump or his campaign.

However, it was also revealed Monday that another former Trump campaign staffer, George Papadopolous, who worked as a foreign policy adviser, was arrested in July and has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI. He is cooperating with the government, which spells trouble for Trump if there is any wrongdoing.

Interestingly, one of the false statements Papadopolous made to the FBI was about a Russian official’s attempt to deliver possibly damaging emails on Hillary Clinton to Trump’s campaign.

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Trump Right Again, Manafort Indicted for Exact Issues Trump Dumped Him

Former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, along with associate Rick Gates, was indicted Monday on 12 counts, including conspiracy against the United States and money laundering, according to the federal special counsel’s office.

Reuters reported that a statement from the office of Justice Department Special Counsel said Manafort and Gates were charged on Friday in Washington, D.C.

“The indictment contains 12 counts: conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts,” the statement read.

The case was unsealed Monday, after Manafort and Gates surrendered themselves to the custody of the FBI, the special counsel’s office told Fox News.

According to the indictment, which was reviewed by Fox News, Manafort and Gates acted as unregistered agents of the government of Ukraine between at least 2006 and 2015, generating tens of millions of dollars in income as a result of their work in Ukraine.

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Fox reported that more than $75 million flowed through offshore accounts.

It seemed that Trump was two steps ahead of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Manafort, who worked as a lobbyist and as an aide for Republican presidents, became Trump’s campaign manager in March but was forced to resigned from that position in August amid allegations of financial impropriety in Ukraine.

According to a Times report from August last year, Eric Trump said Manafort did not leave voluntarily from the Trump campaign. “My father just didn’t want to have the distraction looming over the campaign,” Eric Trump said in a Fox News interview.

The president took to Twitter to address the indictments:

“Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren’t Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????” he tweeted.

The president also noted that Manafort’s crimes had nothing to do with the Democrats’ constant accusations against the Trump campaign.

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The truth is Mueller is late to the game.

Trump was two steps ahead, protecting U.S. interests from potential Russian interference by forcing out Manafort.

The News York Times reported that those close to Manafort said he had nothing to offer prosecutors who were attempting to build a case against Trump.

But that won’t stop Democrats from trying to build a case. They will undoubtedly turn this indictment into another smear campaign against the president.

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Gowdy Suggests Hillary Laundered $10 Million to Avoid Transparency Laws During Campaign

Over the past week, bombshell reports have come out alleging that the Clinton campaign and the DNC funded the infamous Russian dossier that contained a boatload of fake news about President Donald Trump.

Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy said he believes the Clinton campaign may have laundered money to pay for the dossier, Breitbart reported.

“I’m not an election law expert, but the good news is you don’t have to be to understated the absurdity of believing that you can launder all of your campaign money by just hiring a law firm,” Gowdy told host Chris Wallace.

“Imagine if you and I were running for Congress, and we just hired a law firm and said ‘Hey, you go do all the oppo, you go buy all the television, you go buy all the bumper stickers, you go hire all the experts, and we’re going to launder all of this through a law firm,’” he continued.

“I can’t think of anything that defeats the purpose of transparency laws more than that,” Gowdy stated.

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The Clintons have always considered themselves to be above the law, and have always done whatever they please — regardless of just how illegal or unethical it is.

“I am also interested in sharing some memory tricks with folks at the DNC because no one can remember who paid 10 million dollars to a law firm to do oppo research,” Gowdy noted. “I find that stunning.”

After the reports about the Clinton campaign and the DNC came out, there was a slew of high-level Democrats who came forward to insist that they had no knowledge of the funding of the dossier.

Yep, and former President Bill Clinton never did anything improper during his time in office, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost because of the Russians and former President Barack Obama didn’t screw up America’s foreign policy.

All the Democrats know how to do is lie and “forget.”

“$10 million and no one can remember who authorized it, who approved it? So you’ve got two issues, a memory issue and then the lack of transparency by laundering money through a law firm,” Gowdy concluded.

With so much money being spent on the dossier, you would think there would be a money trail that could be used in court to show something illegal occurred.

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Right now the liberal media is focusing on the Trump-Russia collusion stories, and is practically ignoring this bombshell.

That shouldn’t be much of a surprise. The media has been sweeping Clinton family dirt under the rug for years.

However this time the rug may not be enough to cover up what the Clintons did. All we can do is wait and hope congressional investigations find something concrete.

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THANK THE HEAVENS: Pelosi Says She’s Not Going Anywhere

Nancy Pelosi, the gift that keeps on giving, has not relented with her generosity and vows to continue gracing all of us with her presence in politics for many years to come.

Since Hillary lost the presidency to Donald Trump last year, much of the Democratic base has been calling for Pelosi to step down from her position as House Minority Leader. Just earlier this month, Rep. Linda Sanchez called for the resignation of Pelosi and other Democratic leaders to make way for some young blood. Up-and-coming Democrats have also made ousting Pelosi one of the focal points of their campaings for Congress.

Thankfully, Pelosi has not caved to the pressure and has vowed to fight on, even though her approval rating stands at a dismal 8% and is basically a treasure trove of butts for political jokes. Her reason for staying: she’s a woman.

“I was ready to go if Hillary won,” Pelosi said, but then asserted the need to “have a woman at the top of the table, protecting the Affordable Care Act, which is to me similar to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.”

Earlier in the month, Pelosi also said the Democratic Party has no divisions in their ranks.

“There is not a fracture in our party similar to what’s happening to the Republican party,” she said. “Our party has always been a dynamic party. It is not a rubber stamp. It’s alway been a dynamic party.That’s the vitality of it.You can name one or two people that want me to step down and I can name you an overwhelming number of people in my caucus.”

63 House Democrats voted to potentially oust her from her leadership position last November in 2016.

Pelosi also denied earlier this month that any culture war exists in the United States, as if all those anti-abortion protests, calls for religious freedom protections, and wishes that our kids be left alone in the bathroom corresponding to their gender was just a made-up fantasy.

“Well, I don’t really subscribe to the fact that there’s a cultural war going on in our country,” she said. “There are divisions. There are disagreements and the rest. I think there’s plenty of opportunity to bring people together.”

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Trump Suggests the Clintons’ Ties to Russia Be Investigated in Morning Tweet

The mainstream media has been churning out Trump-Russia collusion stories like candy for months now, throwing around wild accusations and ignoring the utter lack of evidence to back up any claims.

On Sunday morning, Trump finally appeared to reach his breaking point on Twitter after multiple reports of the Clinton campaign funding the infamous Russian dossier were seemingly ignored by the media.

Over the course of roughly an hour, Trump fired off five tweets about the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russia and tax cuts, Breitbart reported.

“Never seen such Republican ANGER & UNITY as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton made Fake Dossier (now $12,000,000?),….” Trump wrote in his first tweet.

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“…The Uranium to Russia deal, the 33,000 plus deleted Emails, the Comey fix and so much more. Instead they look at phony Trump/Russia…,” he wrote in the second tweet.

“…’collusion,’ which doesn’t exist. The Dems are using this terrible (and bad for our country) Witch Hunt for evil politics, but the R’s…” read this third tweet.

“…are now fighting back like never before. There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING!” he concluded.

Trump’s outburst may have been helped along by numerous reports over the weekend that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had filed the first charges in his investigation on Friday.

The media has gone out of its way to almost entirely ignore the multiple reports tying Clinton to Russia, and have instead preferred to speculate wildly about Trump and Russia.

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There is more evidence tying Clinton to Russia than there is tying Trump, but don’t tell the media that.

“All of this ‘Russia’ talk right when the Republicans are making their big push for historic Tax Cuts & Reform. Is this coincidental? NOT!” Trump wrote in his last tweet on the matter for the day.

Maybe the media should focus on reporting facts and the leave the conspiracy theory speculation to the arm-chair pundits and commentators.

Sadly, they won’t ever do that. That’s why Trump and his allies need to keep fighting back against the fake news, because the media isn’t going to stop.

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And they had guts to call McCarthy a Witch-Hunter

McCarthy a Witch-Hunter
“McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.” —[Wikipedia, “McCarthyism”]

According to criminal charges filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and made public earlier, today, Paul Manafort and Richard Gates face accusations of subversion and treason on behalf of the Government of Ukraine.

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Obama’s Halloween Deep State Inauguration

Obama’s Halloween Deep State Inauguration
Britain’s Daily Mail is reporting that Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager left his home shortly after 8:00 a.m. this morning to turn himself in after having been ordered to do so by self-claimed authorities.

Manafort is the first domino forced to fall by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, with many more to follow.

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Amazon jobs or religious and political Freedom: pick one

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) with First Lady Sandra Deal (L)
Last week, departing Georgia Governor Nathan Deal paraphrased Mark 8:36 in another missive lobbed at the Republican candidates vying for his post. What good is it to preserve religious freedom, the Republican governor mused, if one thus forfeits the chance to attract an Amazon headquarters to the city?

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Dan Bongino on DNC-FBI Fake Dossier: “How Is This NOT the Scandal of the Century?” (Video)

Dan Bongino on DNC-FBI Fake Dossier: “How Is This NOT the Scandal of the Century?” (Video)

October 30, 2017
by Jim Hoft

Former Secret Service agent and bestselling author Dan Bongino went off today on the Democrat Dossier Scandal.

Democrats and the FBI paid for a salacious, dishonest, and discredited report on Donald Trump, then used the report to spy on Donald Trump and their political opposition.

Dan Bongino wants to know, “How is this NOT the scandal of the century?”

Dan Bongino: I can’t say this enough, how is this not the scandal of the century? Yopu have an organization affiliated with Barack Obama, OFA. We now know that, this is not speculation, shelled money to Fusion GPS who in turn bought fake Russian intelligence. And here’s the critical point, Trish, as a former federal agent this means a lot to me. Bogus Russian intel that made it to the President of the United States and in the form of a presidential daily brief, made it to the FBI and may have made it into FBI documents used to obtain warrants to wiretap Barack Obama’s political opponents. Please explain to me again how this is NOT the political scandal of the century.

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Tax Reform Will Include State and Local Tax Deduction

Tax Reform Will Include State and Local Tax Deduction

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30 Oct, 2017
30 Oct, 2017

House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced that the Republican tax plan will include the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, a measure that will that will smooth the Republicans’ rollout of tax reform later this week.

The House barely passed the Senate budget resolution last week 216-212, featuring unanimous Democrat opposition and 20 Republican votes against the measure. Many Republicans voted against the budget measure due to the tax plan’s repeal of the state and local tax deduction; Brady decided to keep the SALT deduction to prevent another roadblock in tax reform.

Chairman Brady said in a statement, “At the urging of lawmakers, we are restoring an itemized property tax deduction to help taxpayers with local tax burdens.”

The House will unveil their tax proposal this week, which features massive tax cuts for small businesses and middle-class families. The Republican tax platform would lower the tax brackets to rates of 12, 25, and 35 percent and double the standard deduction for the average American. The Republican tax plan would have eliminated the state and local tax deduction, which allows for Americans from high-tax, mostly Democrats states such as New Jersey, California, and New York to deduct their high taxes from their federal income taxes.

Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY), said in a statement, “I’m grateful to the Chairman and House leaders for listening to the argument that I and others made about the basic unfairness of double taxation, and I look forward to analyzing the tax relief proposal in its entirety next week.”

Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ), one of the four New Jersey Republicans to oppose the budget, said, “This is a step in the right direction but I will need to see legislative text to determine if this proposal is in the best interest of New Jersey. We already send more than enough money to Washington. I am pleased this debate has reminded lawmakers from other states of that fact. There is more work to be done on the SALT issue.”

Nicole Kaeding, an economist with the Tax Foundation, explained that the SALT deduction mostly favors wealthy Americans in high tax states and that Republicans planned to use deduction’s repeal to pay for tax cuts.

Kaeding argued, ““Repealing SALT is not happening in a vacuum. It is offsetting revenues needed to finance other tax cuts.”

President Donald Trump said that tax reform will be “rocket fuel for our economy.”

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