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HAH! Trump-Appointed Judge REJECTS Dirty Cop Mueller’s Request For Delay in Junk Russian Bot Case

HAH! Trump-Appointed Judge REJECTS Dirty Cop Mueller’s Request For Delay in Junk Russian Bot Case

Cristina Laila
by Cristina Laila
May 5, 2018

Dirty cop Robert Mueller got smacked down by another judge and we couldn’t be happier.

It has been a bad week for Mueller.

First his prosecutors were raked over the coals by Judge Ellis, now his request for delay on the junk Russian bot case has been DENIED.

As previously reported, Robert Mueller’s team was seeking a delay in the first court hearing in a criminal case against one of the companies charged in Mueller’s Russian bot investigation.

Concord Management and Consulting is requesting documents from the Mueller witch hunt team and now they’re balking.

They never expected one of the alleged Russian bot companies to call their bluff.

Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians and three companies involved in so-called ‘Russian interference’ was a publicity stunt to justify his salary. He wasn’t expecting to actually have to fight any of them in court.

In fact, Fox News cited The Gateway Pundit’s report on a scoop that Mueller’s indictment was one big publicity stunt:

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry spoke with a veteran FBI official who said the Russians named in the indictment are in Russia and will never be arrested or incarcerated; the indictment was all a public relations stunt.

According to Sperry, a veteran FBI agent said the 13 indictments by Mueller are moot and it was done for show to solely justify the Special Counsel’s existence and salary.

Well, now one of the companies wants to play and Mueller is running scared.

It gets better….

The judge denied Mueller’s request for a delay.

Politico reported:

A federal judge has rejected special counsel Robert Mueller’s request to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case charging three Russian companies and 13 Russian citizens with using social media and other means to foment strife among Americans in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In a brief order Saturday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich offered no explanation for her decision to deny a request prosecutors made Friday to put off the scheduled Wednesday arraignment for Concord Management and Consulting, one of the three firms charged in the case.

[…]

The Concord lawyers said Mueller’s attorneys were seeking “to usurp the scheduling authority of the Court” by waiting until Friday afternoon to try to delay a proceeding scheduled for next Wednesday. Dubelier and Seikaly complained that the special counsel’s office has not replied at all to Concord’s discovery requests. The lawyers, who work for Pittsburgh-based law firm Reed Smith, also signaled Concord intends to assert its speedy trial rights, putting more pressure on the special counsel’s office to turn over records related to the case.

Friedrich, a Trump appointee based in Washington, sided with Concord and said the arraignment will proceed as scheduled Wednesday afternoon.

Judge Dabney Friedrich was appointed by President Donald Trump in December of 2017.

Finally honest judges are standing up to Mueller and calling him out for the dishonest, corrupt liar he is.

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John Kerry ‘colluding’ with Iranians to foil Trump on Iran deal

Remember the Logan Act? That ancient (1799) law that has never seen a conviction bans unauthorized persons from negotiating with foreign governments over a dis0utew with the United States. But when the Deep Staters wanted to squeeze General Michael Flynn, Sally Yates resurrected it to threaten him over his perfectly proper meeting with the Russian Ambassador while President Obama was still in office as a lame duck.


Now, it appears that former Secretary of State John Kerry is in technical violation of the Logan Act, something we know thanks to a report in the Boston Globe by Matt Viser:



John Kerry’s bid to save one of his most significant accomplishments as secretary of state took him to New York on a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, where, more than a year after he left office, he engaged in some unusual shadow diplomacy with a top-ranking Iranian official.


He sat down at the United Nations with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to discuss ways of preserving the pact limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It was the second time in about two months that the two had met to strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years negotiating during the Obama administration, according to a person briefed on the meetings.


The irony is not lost  on Devin Nunes:


 



 



In the terms favored by the witch hunters out to reverse the 2016 election, Kerry clearly is “colluding” with our enemies. The New York Sun editorializes, making the case that this is not the first time Kerry has colluded with our enemies:


What a duplicitous duo. The Globe says the meeting was to “strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years negotiating during the Obama administration.” The paper uses the word “stealthy” to describe their mission to preserve the deal and says that Mr. Kerry has been “using his deep lists of contacts gleaned during his time as the top U.S. diplomat to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.”


This has been Mr. Kerry’s modus operandi since, as a young lieutenant just out of the Navy and in the middle of a war, he began freelancing foreign policy. Back then, he snuck off to Paris and met with, among others, representatives of our active wartime enemy, the Viet Cong. Then he came back to America and plumped for their talking points. Later, he testified against American troops before the Senator Foreign Relations committee.


That’s how Mr. Kerry’s career was launched. Now he’s using the same modus operandi to treat with Mr. Zarif to save a deal that even the New York Times concedes was opposed “overwhelmingly” by the United States Congress. And that was tested in the recent election.



John Kerry with Iranians Hossein Fereydoun and Javad Zarif in Vienna (via US State Dept)


I don’t expect the Logan Act to be enforced, but it would be absolute;y delcisious to seesuch an attempt, given the bullying that General Flynn endured. Of course, thanks to his second wife’s fortune, Kerry woud not have to sell any of his multiple luxurious houses to pay the legal bills.


But I would not be surprised in the least for President Trump to call Kerry out, maybe today when he arrives in Ohio. Perhaps he will use a word beginning wit the letter “t” in describing Kerry’s actions. I mean “treachery,” because “treason” would be a much harder sell to the public and especially in court.


Remember the Logan Act? That ancient (1799) law that has never seen a conviction bans unauthorized persons from negotiating with foreign governments over a dis0utew with the United States. But when the Deep Staters wanted to squeeze General Michael Flynn, Sally Yates resurrected it to threaten him over his perfectly proper meeting with the Russian Ambassador while President Obama was still in office as a lame duck.


Now, it appears that former Secretary of State John Kerry is in technical violation of the Logan Act, something we know thanks to a report in the Boston Globe by Matt Viser:


John Kerry’s bid to save one of his most significant accomplishments as secretary of state took him to New York on a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, where, more than a year after he left office, he engaged in some unusual shadow diplomacy with a top-ranking Iranian official.


He sat down at the United Nations with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to discuss ways of preserving the pact limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It was the second time in about two months that the two had met to strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years negotiating during the Obama administration, according to a person briefed on the meetings.


The irony is not lost  on Devin Nunes:


 



 



In the terms favored by the witch hunters out to reverse the 2016 election, Kerry clearly is “colluding” with our enemies. The New York Sun editorializes, making the case that this is not the first time Kerry has colluded with our enemies:


What a duplicitous duo. The Globe says the meeting was to “strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years negotiating during the Obama administration.” The paper uses the word “stealthy” to describe their mission to preserve the deal and says that Mr. Kerry has been “using his deep lists of contacts gleaned during his time as the top U.S. diplomat to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.”


This has been Mr. Kerry’s modus operandi since, as a young lieutenant just out of the Navy and in the middle of a war, he began freelancing foreign policy. Back then, he snuck off to Paris and met with, among others, representatives of our active wartime enemy, the Viet Cong. Then he came back to America and plumped for their talking points. Later, he testified against American troops before the Senator Foreign Relations committee.


That’s how Mr. Kerry’s career was launched. Now he’s using the same modus operandi to treat with Mr. Zarif to save a deal that even the New York Times concedes was opposed “overwhelmingly” by the United States Congress. And that was tested in the recent election.



John Kerry with Iranians Hossein Fereydoun and Javad Zarif in Vienna (via US State Dept)


I don’t expect the Logan Act to be enforced, but it would be absolute;y delcisious to seesuch an attempt, given the bullying that General Flynn endured. Of course, thanks to his second wife’s fortune, Kerry woud not have to sell any of his multiple luxurious houses to pay the legal bills.


But I would not be surprised in the least for President Trump to call Kerry out, maybe today when he arrives in Ohio. Perhaps he will use a word beginning wit the letter “t” in describing Kerry’s actions. I mean “treachery,” because “treason” would be a much harder sell to the public and especially in court.




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Busted! FBI-DOJ caught using redactions of House Intel Committee Report to protect their posteriors

The release of a less redacted version of the House Intelligence Committee Report on Russian active measures (AKA “collusion”) has exposed abuse of the redaction process to protect the bureaucrats at the FBI and Department of Justice.


In theory, redacting of official documents prior to public release is supposed to be solely to protect confidential sources, or protect ongoing prosecutions, or otherwise serve legitimate government interests.  Redactions to prevent embarrassment or potentially illegal activities on the part of federal officials is not legitimate.



Yet that is clearly what happened when the House Intelligence Committee report was first redacted by the DOJ and FBI.  Rick Moran noted at the time of the first release that Republicans were angry at what they saw as totally unnecessary redactions and demanded release of a more complete version.


Now that a less redacted version has been released, Americans can see that James Comey lied and that General Michael Flynn was railroaded.  Sean Davis has produced an extended Twitter thread that documents the deceptions.  It is so good that Devin Nunes has retweeted it:



Here is the original:







 


 



He concludes:


It’s clear that DOJ/FBI demanded significant redactions not to protect national security or sources/methods, but to protect potentially corrupt officials from accountability for their actions before and after Trump’s election.


The Flynn redactions appear to have been done to protect a false statements case with no evidentiary basis.  Others were done to hide apparent conspiracy to spy on and leak against Trump officials out of spite over the election results.


In one section, initially redacted material suggests an investigation against Flynn that, per Comey, should have been closed was kept open because he may have *thwarted* Obama admin plans to provoke Russia into disproportionately attxkinf [sic] the U.S.


With that context in mind, additional redacted material suggests that the illegal leaks against Flynn were done entirely to justify continuing an investigation against him that the FBI had already determined was without basis.  This is not how the rule of law works.


It is now clear beyond dispute that the agents of the Deep State are afraid of exposure and are abusing the powers of their offices to prevent their perfidy from being exposed.


 


 


The release of a less redacted version of the House Intelligence Committee Report on Russian active measures (AKA “collusion”) has exposed abuse of the redaction process to protect the bureaucrats at the FBI and Department of Justice.


In theory, redacting of official documents prior to public release is supposed to be solely to protect confidential sources, or protect ongoing prosecutions, or otherwise serve legitimate government interests.  Redactions to prevent embarrassment or potentially illegal activities on the part of federal officials is not legitimate.


Yet that is clearly what happened when the House Intelligence Committee report was first redacted by the DOJ and FBI.  Rick Moran noted at the time of the first release that Republicans were angry at what they saw as totally unnecessary redactions and demanded release of a more complete version.


Now that a less redacted version has been released, Americans can see that James Comey lied and that General Michael Flynn was railroaded.  Sean Davis has produced an extended Twitter thread that documents the deceptions.  It is so good that Devin Nunes has retweeted it:



Here is the original:







 


 



He concludes:


It’s clear that DOJ/FBI demanded significant redactions not to protect national security or sources/methods, but to protect potentially corrupt officials from accountability for their actions before and after Trump’s election.


The Flynn redactions appear to have been done to protect a false statements case with no evidentiary basis.  Others were done to hide apparent conspiracy to spy on and leak against Trump officials out of spite over the election results.


In one section, initially redacted material suggests an investigation against Flynn that, per Comey, should have been closed was kept open because he may have *thwarted* Obama admin plans to provoke Russia into disproportionately attxkinf [sic] the U.S.


With that context in mind, additional redacted material suggests that the illegal leaks against Flynn were done entirely to justify continuing an investigation against him that the FBI had already determined was without basis.  This is not how the rule of law works.


It is now clear beyond dispute that the agents of the Deep State are afraid of exposure and are abusing the powers of their offices to prevent their perfidy from being exposed.


 


 




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Iowa Bans All Abortions After Point of Detection of Fetal Heartbeat

Iowa Bans All Abortions After Point of Detection of Fetal Heartbeat

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by Dr. Susan Berry4 May 20180



Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Friday that bans all abortions after six weeks, from the time a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

“I believe that all innocent life is precious and sacred, and as governor, I pledged to do everything in my power to protect it,” the Republican governor said. “That is what I am doing today.”

The law becomes the most restrictive abortion measure in the country.

Extra security was called in at the Iowa Capitol as Reynolds invited supporters of the legislation into her office as she signed the bill into law, reports the Des Moines Register.

The law goes into effect July 1. It requires physicians to perform an ultrasound test for a fetal heartbeat on any woman seeking an abortion, and bars abortion if a heartbeat is detected.

Iowa Rep. Steve King (R) celebrated the new law on Twitter:

Reynolds said she anticipated that lawsuits would be filed to stop the law from going into effect.

“I understand and anticipate that this will likely be challenged in court, and that courts may even put a hold on the law until it reaches the Supreme Court,” she said. “However, this is bigger than just a law. This is about life. I am not going to back down from who I am or what I believe in.”

Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Friday they would file a lawsuit to stop the law from becoming effective:

“It’s shameful that when Planned Parenthood heard lawmakers were introducing legislation to ban abortion, we were outraged — but we weren’t surprised,” said Suzanna de Baca, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, reports the Register. “But I think many of us still never expected that Governor Reynolds would so swiftly jump to sign a bill that is so clearly unconstitutional.”

Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life applauded Reynolds and said the law “will not only save lives,” but also “reminds us that abortion stops a beating heart.”

“We thank Iowa for recognizing that every life is a gift and that personhood has inherent dignity from the moment of conception,” Mancini added.

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House releases unredacted Russia report — and it catches James Comey square in a lie on Mike Flynn

Newly unredacted portions of the House Intelligence Committee’s final report on Russia were released on Friday and they contain a bombshell relating to what former FBI Director James Comey’s told lawmakers about the bureau’s investigation into Michael Flynn.

What are the details?

According to Fox News, the documents show Comey told lawmakers the FBI did not believe Flynn intentionally lied about his contacts with Russian diplomats.

“Director Comey testified to the Committee that ‘the agents…discerned no physical indications of deception. They didn’t see any change in posture, in tone, in inflection, in eye contact. They saw nothing that indicated to them that he knew he was lying to them,’” the report states.

However, as the report also states, then FBI-deputy director Andrew McCabe called the Flynn case a “conundrum” because even though they knew Flynn wasn’t deceptive, his statement contradicted what they knew from a wiretapped conversation Flynn had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in Dec. 2016.

“The two people who interviewed [Flynn] didn’t think he was lying, [which] was not [a] great beginning of a false statement case,” McCabe told the House Intel Committee.

Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI last year, which reportedly caught many lawmakers off guard given Comey’s testimony.

The new unredacted portion of the report raises a number of questions about the Flynn investigation, including why the House Intel report originally redacted the portion detailing that McCabe told lawmakers the FBI basically had no case against Flynn.

Wait, didn’t Comey say something else publicly?

Following the release of his book, “A Higher Loyalty,” Comey hit the media circuit where he was pressed on the Flynn investigation. During multiple interviews, he denied telling lawmakers that the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe he lied.

“No. And I saw that in the media. I don’t know what — maybe someone misunderstood something I said. I didn’t believe that, and didn’t say that,” he told Fox News anchor Bret Baier.

“I don’t know where that’s coming from. That — unless I’m — I said something that people misunderstood, I don’t remember even intending to say that. So my recollection is I never said that to anybody,” Comey similarly told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, the Washington Examiner noted.

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Mueller forced to delay court case alleging Russian interference after two lawyers call his bluff

FBI special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case alleging Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Mueller has brought charges against three Russian companies and 13 Russians for the alleged interference.

The delay comes after two attorneys representing one of the Russian entities began challenging Mueller’s evidence in the case.

What are the details?

According to Politico, the 13 Russians and three companies — the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management and Consulting and Concord Catering — were expected to ignore the indictments since they are outside U.S. jurisdiction.

However, that’s not what happened. Last month, two lawyers representing Concord Management — Eric Dubelier and Kate Seikaly — surfaced. Mueller told the court Friday the lawyers made a series of discovery requests demanding nonpublic information about Mueller’s case. As attorneys representing one of the defendants, they are allowed to make such requests.

Politico reported that “the move appeared to be a bid to force Mueller’s team to turn over relevant evidence to the Russian firm and perhaps even to bait prosecutors into an embarrassing dismissal in order to avoid disclosing sensitive information.”

More from Politico:

Prosecutors also asked a judge to postpone the formal arraignment of Concord Management set for next week.

The prosecution team sought the delay on the grounds that it’s unclear whether Concord Management formally accepted the court summons related to the case. Mueller’s prosecutors also revealed that they tried to deliver the summonses for Concord and IRA through the Russian government, without success.

And despite the fact that Mueller’s team provided Dubelier with a copy of the summons, Dubelier told Mueller’s team this week it was “defective.”

The delay will allow the court to determine if Dubelier’s client was properly served a summons, but it will also allow Mueller’s team to provide Dubelier and Seikaly with the requested evidence.

According to Politico, Mueller’s team proposed both sides file briefs with the court to determine if Concord Management was properly summoned. Mueller’s team said they would file by May 25, while giving Concord’s attorneys until June 15.

How did the judge rule?

Federal Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in December to serve in the District of Columbia, did not immediately issue a ruling or postpone the arraignment.

She instructed Concord’s attorneys to respond to prosecutor’s request to delay by Monday.

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British Schools Are Replacing Analog Clocks Because Students Can’t Read Them

We’re doomed.

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Most of us learned to tell time using an analog clock.

But some schools in the U.K. are removing the old school clocks from test rooms because students are having a hard time reading them.

According to the London Telegraph, students are being raised on digital clocks and can’t figure out what time it is on the analog clock, causing them to stress about the time running out during tests.

“The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations,” Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the U.K.’s Association of School and College Leaders, told The Telegraph.

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Trump Critic on MSNBC: ‘Partisan,’ ‘Illogical’ Not to Credit President for North Korea

Appearing on MSNBC Live With Velshi & Ruhle on Friday to promote his new book, Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, foreign policy expert and Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer, a frequent critic of President Trump, went out of his way to credit the President for the major diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea. He even admonished those refusing to give credit where credit was due.

“Ian, I want to start with North Korea. Because it was you last week who said we’ve got to give President Trump credit for making the progress we have thus far,” noted co-anchor Stephanie Ruhle at the top of the segment. Bremmer reiterated that sentiment: “There’s no question that if it wasn’t for Trump we don’t have this opening with the North Koreans.”

 

 

A week earlier, Bremmer took to social media to hail the President for the start of the historic Korean peace process, even proclaiming: “Trump, Xi, Moon and Kim together get my vote for the Nobel Peace Prize.”  

On MSNBC, he proceeded to explain how Trump got the North Koreans to the negotiating table:

A lot of people are saying, “Oh, is it about his tweets? Is it about ‘fire and fury’?” It’s not. It’s about him pressing the Chinese, it’s about him sitting down with Xi Jingping in Mar-a-Lago, doing that first summit, and saying if – “I got elected on the back of, you know, beating on the Chinese, and that’s what I’m prepared to do. Unless you help me on North Korea, I’m going to make it a priority.” And the Chinese, who are less happy with the North Koreans, actually started really ramping up sanctions. 90% of North Korea’s economy is China. If it wasn’t for that implementation, we don’t get this movement, period.  

Ruhle seemed frustrated that such progress could not have happened under the Obama administration: “Can I just ask why now? Because the sanctions existed during the Obama administration. Why didn’t the Obama – why was the Obama administration unsuccessful in pushing China to make these moves?” Bremmer bluntly replied: “It wasn’t a priority.”

Moments later, Bremmer again praised Trump, while acknowledging that he has been one of the President’s biggest critics:

But we have to give him credit. Look, as you know, I’ve been critical of President Trump probably 90% of the foreign policy decisions he’s made since he’s become president. Not the whole administration, but certainly stuff he said. But on this issue, on North Korea, the only way you say that Trump isn’t part of it is if you’re just a partisan, if you’re just being illogical. And that’s not – I mean, I understand that that’s good for eyeballs, but it’s not good for our country.

Surprisingly, even Ruhle agreed: “Good point.” Bremmer added: “It’s not useful.”

When someone like Bremmer can freely credit Trump for a foreign policy success and even get a liberal MSNBC host to agree, that’s pretty remarkable.

Here is a transcript of the May 4 exchange:

11:49 AM ET

STEPHANIE RUHLE: Ian Bremmer, president and founder of The Eurasia Group, his latest book, you’ve got to get it, titled, Us Vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism.

ALI VELSHI: It’s a great book, by the way. This is one of those must reads.

RUHLE: Ian, I want to start with North Korea. Because it was you last week who said we’ve got to give President Trump credit for making the progress we have thus far.

IAN BREMMER: Yeah, I am hearing from the Trump administration that they have confirmation that we’re going to get those three hostages actually released, so that looks good. There’s no question that if it wasn’t for Trump we don’t have this opening with the North Koreans.

A lot of people are saying, “Oh, is it about his tweets? Is it about ‘fire and fury’?” It’s not. It’s about him pressing the Chinese, it’s about him sitting down with Xi Jingping in Mar-a-Lago, doing that first summit, and saying if – “I got elected on the back of, you know, beating on the Chinese, and that’s what I’m prepared to do. Unless you help me on North Korea, I’m going to make it a priority.” And the Chinese, who are less happy with the North Koreans, actually started really ramping up sanctions. 90% of North Korea’s economy is China. If it wasn’t for that implementation, we don’t get this movement, period.  

RUHLE: Can I just ask why now? Because the sanctions existed during the Obama administration. Why didn’t the Obama – why was the Obama administration unsuccessful in pushing China to make these moves?

BREMMER: It wasn’t a priority, right? I mean –  

RUHLE: Why?

BREMMER: Number one, because I think President Obama didn’t want – or President Bush –  didn’t want to open that box. They recognized that that’s a risk-acceptance strategy. You’re going to start pushing the Chinese, the Chinese can push you back. It’s like why didn’t Obama want to whack Syria after he said the red line on chemical weapons? Because, well, potentially you’ll kill some people and how much is it going to accomplish? None of them wanted the potential, even if it was a small percent, of starting confrontation with either the Chinese or with the North Koreans.

And President Trump has been un – he’s not as concerned about that. There was potential downside here, there was real risk. We could be sitting here and saying, “Dammit, he’s gotten us in this trouble and we’re at the brink of war. Instead, there’s a greater likelihood of a breakthrough.

But we have to give him credit. Look, as you know, I’ve been critical of President Trump probably 90% of the foreign policy decisions he’s made since he’s become president. Not the whole administration, but certainly stuff he said. But on this issue, on North Korea, the only way you say that Trump isn’t part of it is if you’re just a partisan, if you’re just being illogical. And that’s not – I mean, I understand that that’s good for eyeballs, but it’s not good for our country.

RUHLE: Good point.

BREMMER: It’s not useful.

(…)

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BREAKING: Judge in Manafort Case Orders Govt to Hand Over Unredacted Rosenstein Memo Within 2 Weeks

BREAKING: Judge in Manafort Case Orders Govt to Hand Over Unredacted Rosenstein Memo Within 2 Weeks

Cristina Laila
by Cristina Laila
May 4, 2018

The Federal Judge in the Manafort case is not messing around.

Judge T.S. Ellis lost his temper Friday in a Manafort hearing and accused Mueller’s prosecutors of using the case against Trump’s former campaign chairman to oust the President from office.

Mueller’s wheels are falling off.

CNN reported:

“You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort’s bank fraud,” District Judge T.S. Ellis said to prosecutor Michael Dreeben, at times losing his temper. Ellis said prosecutors were interested in Manafort because of his potential to provide material that would lead to Trump’s “prosecution or impeachment,” Ellis said.

“That’s what you’re really interested in,” said Ellis, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

Judge Ellis also ordered the government to hand over the unredacted Rosenstein memo.

The Judge told Mueller’s prosecutors, “We don’t want anyone with unfettered power.”

Mueller’s prosecutors argued they have certain authorities given to them which were laid out in Rosenstein’s August 2017 memo.

Judge Ellis scoffed at Mueller’s prosecutors who argued the memo has to be kept a secret because of ongoing investigations and ordered the unredacted memo to be released within a two week time frame.

Fox News reported:

Mueller’s team says its authorities are laid out in documents including the August 2017 scope memo – and that some powers are actually secret because they involve ongoing investigations and national security matters that cannot be publicly disclosed.

Ellis seemed amused and not persuaded.

He summed up the Special Counsel’s Office as, “We said this was what [the] investigation was about, but we are not bound by it and we were lying.”

He referenced the common exclamation from NFL announcers, saying: “C’mon man!”

The judge also gave the government two weeks to hand over the unredacted “scope memo” or provide an explanation why not — after prosecutors were reluctant to do so, claiming it has material that doesn’t pertain to Manafort.

“I’ll be the judge of that,” Ellis said.

On Monday, the Assistant Attorney General said in a letter that the DOJ would not be handing over the unredacted Rosenstein memo detailing Mueller’s scope.

In response, Freedom Caucus Chairman, Mark Meadows drafted “articles of impeachment” against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as a “last resort.”

On Tuesday, Rosenstein freaked and referred to the impeachment threat as “extortion.”

On Wednesday morning, in response to the stonewalling by the DOJ, Trump threatened to use his presidential powers in order to get the unredacted Rosenstein memo.

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Black and Hispanic Unemployment Hits All-Time Record Lows

These are the kinds of headlines that have Democrats terrified.

At just a time when news about politics among black Americans is getting a new twist thanks to rapper/entrepreneur Kanye West and the discussions he’s sparking, the Labor Department just issued new numbers reflecting the strength of the economy under President Donald Trump.

And much as Democrats would like to deny it, the report is going to hurt them badly.

Friday’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics — under the pro-business, anti-regulation Trump administration — showed an overall American unemployment rate dropping below 4 percent for the first time since 2000, CNN reported (through gritted teeth, no doubt).

That’s good news for the country, of course, but there’s even better news for a part of the population that tends to lag the rest.

According to the Washington Examiner, unemployment for blacks “hit the lowest on record in April.”

And that’s very bad news for a Democrat Party that’s trying to paint the Trump administration as a disaster for black Americans.

This is the party, remember, whose representatives sat on their hands during Trump’s State of the Union address in January when the president touted then-record lows for unemployment among blacks and Hispanics.

Do these numbers prove Trump’s policies are working for all Americans?

But that stone-faced refusal to acknowledge good news could well be coming back to bite them.

With Friday’s numbers showing the black jobless rate lower than it was when Trump was speaking, black conservative commentators like Candace Owens will have even more ammunition to fight the black liberal power structure.

Freelancers like West — who has made a habit of upsetting the Democrat dogcart (and getting pilloried for it) — will have more room to speak.

And black Democrat politicians are finding themselves in the increasingly uncomfortable position of carrying water for a white liberal establishment made up of the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer while attacking an administration that is good for the actual constituents back home.

For Rep. Maxine Waters, the California Democrat obsessed with impeaching Trump, and Democrats — whose biggest brag during the Obama administration was how many Americans were on food stamps — are not looking real good.

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And social media responses to Friday’s report showed it.

The Democrat spin is already starting — that the numbers were following a trend that started under Obama. Since they are some very smart people on the Democrat side (even if they’re wrong), it’s not stupid on its face. But even for the smartest Democrat out there, it’s tough to square good news coming from a guy you’re pretending is a modern Simon LeGree.

Besides, every American remembers the malaise of the Obama years, when manufacturing jobs “weren’t coming back,” and when the best Democrats were offering was some kind of spurious health insurance under a law that needed lies to get passed.

Truly great economic news, like record-setting unemployment in a population that has been left behind too often, isn’t something that can be shrugged off with political spin. And Democrats who have black constituents to answer to are going to be pushed to the wall explaining why black workers need to a better life for themselves to satisfy the whims of white liberals like Pelosi and Schumer.

Headlines like the ones coming out Friday aren’t going to make that easier at all.

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