Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) sounded off on Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe recently declassifying documents that show former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama on 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s “plan” to distract the American public from her email scandal by alleging Russian collusion ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Nunes said that “everybody within the Obama orbit knew” Clinton was “running an operation” to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump.
“I think these documents only appeared in the last few months, and these were major bombshells that have been buried by debates and the president coming down with COVID, but the reality is that we now have the smoking guns of the fact that … everybody within the Obama orbit knew that Clinton was running an operation,” Nunes told host Maria Bartiromo. “And secondly, the Crossfire Hurricane team, the team that was doing the spying, doing the investigation into the Trump campaign and the Republican Party, they also knew that there was a Hillary Clinton operation.”
“[T]he only remaining issue that’s out there that I don’t have clarity on and that we need [John] Durham to get to the bottom of is at what point did the FBI and Department of Justice back in 2016, possibly late 2015, begin working hand in glove with the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to run this investigation into the Trump campaign,” he continued. “That’s really the only thing we don’t have now.”
Social media giant Twitter has announced a number of new restrictions for both politicians and ordinary users ahead of November’s presidential election.
The Washington Postreports that Twitter is imposing new warnings on politicians’ tweets, restricting “premature declarations of victory,” and will block calls for polling violence or disruptions. The new initiatives were announced on Friday as it rolled out the changes in an attempt to protect the platform from abuse and manipulation leading up to the November 3 election.
The moves will temporarily alter the look of Twitter also. Twitter has announced that retweeting will now require an extra step that is designed to encourage users to add their own thoughts before posting, a move that appears to go against Twitter’s general design of quick short messages being tweeted and retweeted.
Twitter’s recommendations and trends features will also get new designs intended to prevent abuse. These changes are similar to those recently announced by Facebook and appear to be mainly aimed at combating what Twitter considers to be efforts to manipulate the political landscape.
Vijaya Gadde, the legal, policy and trust & safety lead at Twitter, and Kayvon Beykpour, its product lead, published a blog post discussing the changes stating: “Twitter has a critical role to play in protecting the integrity of the election conversation, and we encourage candidates, campaigns, news outlets and voters to use Twitter respectfully and to recognize our collective responsibility to the electorate to guarantee a safe, fair and legitimate democratic process this November.”
The new changes also state that U.S. political figures with more than 100,000 followers will now be subject to “additional warnings and restrictions” if they spread falsehoods. This rule would include President Donald Trump who boasts a follower count of 87 million. Twitter has previously taken action to label tweets from President Trump in the past attempting to fact-check the President.
Twitter also plans to restrict the way that it recommends content to users, starting on Friday users will be limited in their ability to view content from users that they don’t follow directly likely impacting the viral spread of tweets.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolanor contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
President Donald Trump on Friday defended himself and his supporters against allegations that they were “racist.”
Trump spoke about the left during a virtual radio rally with talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh on Friday, in response to a question from a listener.
“When we are beating them they have nothing else to fall back on but the word racist,” he said. “It means that when you’re winning and you’re just knocking the hell out of them, they have nothing else to say, they call you a racist and this has been going on for decades.”
Trump said he and Limbaugh were constantly accused of being racists by the left, but said that many Americans could see through the political tactic.
“I don’t know that you’re going to stop it, but people are wise to it and people are rolling their eyes now. They’re rolling their eyes.” he said, calling the allegation “disgusting.”
President Donald Trump on Friday expressed frustration with Attorney General Bill Barr and the Justice Department in response to a report that the “Obamagate” investigation would not be finished before the 2020 election.
“I’m very disappointed. I think it’s a terrible thing and I’ll say it to his face,” Trump said in a “radio rally” with talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh on his show on Friday afternoon.
The president responded to a report that Attorney General Bill Barr privately told Republicans that the investigation led by U.S. Attorney John Durham into former President Barack Obama’s administration and the handling of the investigation into his campaign would not be released until after the election.
“This is what I mean with Republicans: they don’t play the tough game,” Trump said.
He said that if Democrats were leading the investigation into Republicans, there would already be 25 people in jail.
“I think it’s a disgrace; it’s an embarrassment, I don’t have the words to express my anger,” he said.
The president said that he had declassified all of the documents necessary for the investigation, noting that the Justice Department had years to investigate.
“We caught them cold and we have people that don’t know how to do anything about that,” he said. “If that’s the case I have to check that I find that hard to believe.”
Trump appeared angry that he had decided to stay out of the process.
“I purposefully tried to stay away for it because they said it would be better if I were not involved,” he said.
Twitter has been losing its mind over allegations of mail-in voter fraud over the last few weeks. But now, the platform is going to the extreme.
Twitter locked the account of former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell on October 8 after he tweeted a picture of two ballots sent to his friend’s parents — both of whom passed away ten years ago, according to Breitbart. Grenell’s friend, Tom Thompson, lives in California.
Grennel’s account was reportedly locked because he did not block out the addresses on the envelopes. Twitter’s Community Standards state, “You may not publish or post other people’s private information (such as home phone number and address) without their express authorization and permission.”
In a world where doxxing has, sadly, become more commonplace, a rule against posting someone’s home address without permission certainly makes sense. In Grenell’s case, however, he said he did have the permission to post the pictures.
“I am the son of John and Gertrude Thompson,” said Thompson in a tweet. “Both passed away over ten years ago and got ballots for the upcoming election. I gave Richard Grenell permission to post these pictures and ask for an investigation as to why they were mailed ballots for the 2020 election.”
This is certainly not the first time that Twitter has censored content questioning the integrity of mail-in voting. Last month, Facebook flagged and Twitter censored President Donald Trump’s post that told voters how to make sure their votes have been properly collected and tabulated. The platform did, however, allow multiple tweets wishing harm or death on Trump after he and the First Lady Melania Trump were diagnosed with COVID-19.
At the time of reporting, Grenell’s account appears to have been reinstated, but without the tweet in question. Perhaps Twitter doesn’t think that permission from the son of the deceased is enough. Maybe the platform will instead wait to reinstate Grenell’s tweet after mankind learns how to reanimate their bodies, just in time for Halloween. Spooky.
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Joe Biden says he’s not a socialist. “I beat the socialist,” he protests.
He won the nomination for president, but as Bernie Sanders declared in April: “We have won the ideological battle.”
Biden is the liberal figurehead of what has become a socialist party. Biden’s platform — the “Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force” — is a manifesto for state domination of the economy.
Ah, but this socialism isn’t going to be like Soviet communism, we are told. This is democratic socialism. That is, we will still have the vote, and our civil liberties.
But as F.A. Hayek argued last century in The Road to Serfdom, you cannot preserve individual freedom if the state controls your most basic economic choices.
We have seen that ourselves: once Obamacare “guaranteed” health insurance, Catholic nuns had to go to court to preserve their basic religious liberties.
Moreover, what the Democratic Party has planned is fundamentally undemocratic. They rejected the last democratic election; if they win in 2020, they intend to rig the system so they can never lose again.
They want to admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states, creating a permanent Senate majority. They will kill the filibuster, then pass amnesty and create millions of new Democratic voters. Finally, they will pack the courts with liberals to override any checks on their power.
Former President Barack Obama cast these changes as necessary to overcome the legacy of “systemic racism.” At John Lewis’s funeral in July, Obama cast the filibuster — which he himself used — as a relic of the Jim Crow era.
The Biden campaign has cast President Donald Trump as a white supremacist champion — though Biden’s hoax claims about neo-Nazis in Charlottesville imploded when Vice President Mike Pence fact-checked Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) onstage.
I was born in a white supremacist country — South Africa. My parents emigrated to the U.S. shortly after I was born: they did not want to raise their kids in a racist society, and thought it would only change through violent revolution.
As it turned out, South Africa’s transition was peaceful. Even before black South Africans had the vote, whites voted two-to-one to approve the apartheid government’s negotiations with Nelson Mandela toward a non-racial democratic future.
I went back to South Africa as a graduate student — and a confirmed leftist, enthusiastic about the socialist nature of South Africa’s new constitution, which provided “socioeconomic rights” for basic necessities like health care.
What I learned was jarring: not only did socialism make people worse off, but it was impossible to get rid of after it failed.
South Africa’s ruling party has been in power for 26 years. It casts every alternative to statism as a yearning for the racist past.
What my experience has taught me, as a former South African, is that you can vote to get rid of white supremacy, but you cannot vote to get rid of socialism. It takes over every institution and demands loyalty to its redistributionist ethic.
You can see it already in “Critical Race Theory,” seeping into our schools; you can see it in professional sports; you will be forced to acknowledge it by mobs of activists who demand you kneel and raise your fist in solidarity to the cause.
Look at California, where I live today. Democrats control supermajorities in the legislature and every state office. In theory, Republicans could win back control one day. In reality, Democrats have raised taxes and regulations so much that middle class homeowners and small business owners — two core Republican constituencies — are simply leaving in droves.
The state is run by the very rich as a cultural vanity project, with the poor treated as voting fodder, bought off by new social welfare programs. In the midst of recent fires and electricity shortages, Democrats found time to reduce penalties for pedophilia and create a new reparations commission.
In 2016, California legalized “ballot harvesting,” allowing party operatives to collect unlimited mail-in ballots from voters. It is a practice regarded as fraud everywhere else in the world. Nancy Pelosi wants to take it nationwide; it was one of the provisions of her so-called coronavirus “relief” bill.
It will be among the first priorities of a Democratic Congress.
If President Trump is your problem, the Constitution solves that problem for you. If he wins in November, he will leave office in 2025 — because if he doesn’t, his own Republicans will force him out.
But if Joe Biden wins, and the Sanders-Obama cohort takes power behind him, you will never get rid of them. Never.
Democrats need to be taught — now — that riots and radicalism do not pay. They need to learn to reject socialism before you can trust them with your vote again.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His newest e-book is The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Hunter Biden Longtime Biz Partner And Burisma Board-Buddy Going To Prison After Obama Judge Reversed Tyler Durden
Fri, 10/09/2020 – 07:41
A federal appeals court has reinstated a fraud conviction of Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner, Devon Archer,reversing a decision by an Obama-appointed judge (and wife of Mueller special counsel lawyer) to vacate Archer’s conviction and grant him a new trial.
Archer and several of his business partners were indicted on March 26, 2018 in a $60 million bond scheme which defrauded Native Americans. Hunter was not implicated in the fraud, however Archer and the other partners repeatedly name-dropped the former Vice President’s son.
June 28, 2018
Three Convicted In Manhattan Federal Court For The Fraudulent Issuance And Sale Of More Than $60 Million Of Tribal Bonds
One of them is Devon Archer, ex aid of John Kerry, business partner of Chris Heinz & Hunter Biden in Rosemont Seneca. https://t.co/ibaUK7ve1g
Following a trial which lasted nearly one-month, Archer was found guilty of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud. After requesting that the district court set aside the jury’s verdict, Judge Ronnie Abrams – the wife of Mueller special counsel attorney Greg Andres (who himself was a Deputy Assistant AG in the Obama DOJ, according to RedState) – granted Archer’s wish. What’s more, Abrams was Hunter Biden’s classmate at Yale Law school.
Not so fast Judge Ronnie…
In a unanimous opinion, a three-judge panel said that Abrams made a mistake by prioritizing her own theory above that of the jury’s, and that her assessment undercut the significance of the proof in its totality.
‘Thé panel also criticized Judge Abrams’ analysis of the government’s evidence, saying that her assessment undercut the significance of the proof in its totality.’
Thé panel’s decision sent the suit back to the district court for Archer’s sentencing..
Archer was Yale roommates with John Kerry’s stepson Chris Heinz – the two of whom opened investment firm Rosemont Capital with Hunter. Rosemont Capital is the parent company of Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC – the entity which receive the Burisma payments and in turn aid Biden.
It was through Archer’s trial that we learned large sums of Chinese and Ukrainian money was flowing into accounts owned by Archer and Hunter Biden, specifically a Morgan Stanley account for Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC – which Ukrainian gas giant Burisma wired $166,666.66 in two identical payments in 2014 and 2015, according to Just The News.
Archer’s bank statement released in the trial also revealed that the China state-owned Bank of China directly funneled more than $100,000 into the same account as Burisma beginning in December 2014. Another entity, Novatus Holding Pte. Ltd., wired $142,300 to the Rosemont account on April 22, 2014. That entity is controlled by a Kazakh businessman named Kenges Rakishev who has close ties to the leaders of Kazakhstan.
Many of the financial records revealed during Archer’s 2018 trial became the subject of a joint Senate committee investigation. The GOP-led investigation slammed the Bidens and their associates for apparent conflicts of interest and flagged possible criminal activity while citing "glaring" evidence of Burisma bribes, suspicious foreign money transfers and sex trafficking. –Just The News
In summary – the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously called out a judge whose numerous conflicts of interest may have led her to give Devon Archer a second chance.
Now, Archer will be going to prison – unless Joe Biden wins the election and pardons him.
(h/t Just The News, Redstate’s ‘Shipwreckedcrew’ and Ben Tallmadge)
Two photos went viral Wednesday night on Twitter for showing communist China reportedly censoring remarks made by eVice President Mike Pence and then resuming the video signal when Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) began talking. Nathan VanderKlippe, Beijing correspondent for the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail, shared two photos from the debate, […]
