[FOXNEWS] Imran Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... , was indicted Thursday on four counts including bank fraud and making false statements.
The indictment also includes his wife Hina Alvi.
The grand jury decision in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia comes roughly a month after Awan was tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! at Dulles airport in Virginia trying to board a plane to Pakistain, where his family is from.
Awan and other IT aides for House Democrats have been on Sherlocks’ radar for months over concerns of possible double-billing, alleged equipment theft, and access to sensitive computer systems. Most politicians fired Awan in February, but Schultz had kept him on until his arrest in July.
The indictment itself, which merely represents formal charges and is not a finding of guilt, addresses separate allegations that Awan and his wife engaged in a conspiracy to obtain home equity lines of credit from the Congressional Federal Credit Union by giving false information about two properties ‐ and then sending the proceeds to individuals in Pakistain.
The case has put renewed scrutiny on Wasserman Schultz for keeping Awan on the payroll for months, even after a criminal investigation was revealed and he was barred from the House IT network.
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charges could be amended to add theft of equipment or various other things assuming grand jury has not been dismissed and the investigation is on going
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I think the fact that this case has gotten this FR is a sign someone is out of political juice. Or the fix is in and this is eyewash
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I think the fact that this case has gotten this far is a sign someone is out of political juice. Or the fix is in and this is eyewash
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Debbie Downer puts the fix in against Bernie in support of Hillary....(fixes an election)...exposes the DNC IT infrastructure to the Pakistani ISI, along with apparently the entire Congressional IT infrastructure as well. Mueller??!! Mueller??!! I think this might be a clue!
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Debbie Downer puts the fix in against Bernie in support of Hillary....(fixes an election)...exposes the DNC IT infrastructure to the Pakistani ISI, along with apparently the entire Congressional IT infrastructure as well. Mueller??!! Mueller??!! I think this might be a clue! Posted by Tennessee
Russians, Russians, where are the Russians. Oh, they're coming. Ok, great.
[St. Louis Post Dispatch] With five written words Thursday morning, one of Missouri's most controversial state lawmakers spawned a U.S. Secret Service investigation, potentially endangered her own political career -- and flung St. Louis squarely into the middle of America's raging racial-political debate in the wake of the unrest in Charlottesville, Va.
"I hope Trump is assassinated!" Missouri state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-University City, wrote during a morning Facebook exchange, referring to Republican President Donald Trump.
She quickly deleted her post, but not quickly enough. By mid-afternoon, the political verdicts of her own party were rolling in:
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.: "I condemn it. It's outrageous. And she should resign."
U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis: "(C)alling for the assassination of the President is a federal crime. ... (She is) an embarrassment to our state. She should resign immediately."
Missouri Democratic Party Chair Stephen Webber: "The ... Party will absolutely not tolerate calls for the assassination of the President. I believe she should resign."
Missouri Senate Democratic Caucus leader Sen. Gina Walsh: "(She) should be ashamed of herself for adding her voice to this toxic environment."
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NUMBER: 1593
AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation—in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention.
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U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.: "I condemn it. It's outrageous. And she should resign."
U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis: "(C)alling for the assassination of the President is a federal crime. ... (She is) an embarrassment to our state. She should resign immediately."
Missouri Democratic Party Chair Stephen Webber: "The ... Party will absolutely not tolerate calls for the assassination of the President. I believe she should resign."
Missouri Senate Democratic Caucus leader Sen. Gina Walsh: "(She) should be ashamed of herself for adding her voice to this toxic environment."
Translation: "She said in public what we think, and say to each other, in private."
[VictoryGirls] Congressional Democrats, led by formerly fluffier Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), are calling for the censure of President Donald Trump regarding his remarks following the Charlottesville melee. Democrats, the media outlets that lead them and cowardly Republicans do not believe that President Trump’s initial remarks reflected what they wanted him to say because he used the words "many sides". The Democrat-Media Leviathan wants us all to believe that only the socialist nazis, alt-right losers and white supremacist knuckle-draggers are violent.
From the McClatchyDC.com article:
While the censure is unlikely to see traction in the GOP-led House, it serves as a rebuke to Trump and mirrors some of the Republican criticism the president has faced for his remarks.
"A president of the United States cannot support neo-Nazis. It’s just beyond the pale," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., a member of the House Judiciary Committee. "I hope Republicans who have expressed outrage with what he said put their money where their mouth is."
Thanks, Mr. Nadler. We hadn’t heard from you in a while. Oof.
Next up, MoveOn.org. uses an appearance by Ted Lieu (D-CA) on MSNBC to try to gin up the censure movement. Notice how Mr. Lieu lies so smoothly. He says that "white supremacists" are some of President Trump’s strongest supporters.
Look, Donald Trump was my number fifteen choice for President of the United States. Sweet Meteor Of Death was ahead of Donald Trump in my list. Donald Trump is not a racist. Donald Trump does not embrace white supremacists, the alt-right, the neo-nazis, or the skin heads. I hope I didn’t leave anyone out of that list of shameful subhumans.
Here is transcript of Trump’s initial statement on Charlottesville from Bustle.com:
We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence that’s on many sides. On many sides. It’s been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama, it’s been going on for a long, long time. It has no place in America. What is vital now is the swift restoration of law and order, and the protection of innocent lives. No citizen should ever fear for their safety and security in our society. And no child should ever be afraid to go outside and play, or be with their parents, and have a good time.
Bustle.com called this a "weak stance against racism". I don’t know what is weak about it. "...strongest possible terms" and "...egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence" sound pretty strong to me. It’s the "many sides" and the fact that he didn’t "name names". Go sit and spin if you buy that. Try to find a list of the groups that were there in Charlottesville. Here is a partial list from the Southern Poverty Law Center of the fascist right groups that were there. Click on the link if you want to read it. I am not going to give them any more ink. And, from the Daily Caller a list of some of the left wing groups. Again, click if you are curious.
And, the Unite the Right Charlottesville organizer, Jason Kessler. Well, now there is an interesting story. If there was anyone in the media who was the teeniest bit intellectually curious. The Southern Poverty Law Center has a post that speculates that Kessler was part of Occupy Wall Street and so was a left wing fascist in the past. Was Jason Kessler truly converted from left to right fascism or is this a monetary conversion? Oh, if only we had a free press in the United States of America, some might have the intestinal fortitude to look into how this homo sapien piece of excrement supports himself. Just spit balling here.
In the meantime, the "Trump is a racist because of his Charlottesville statement" media meme will continue until the media puppet masters decide to go back to "Russia, Russia, Russia". And, then Jerrold Nadler will forget about censure and jump on the impeachment clown car. I believe that President Trump looks a things like this and thinks instead of:
"OMG! I've got to change and do things their way!"
it's
"Well, that's one fewer thing they can do to me. Next."
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Donald Trump was my number fifteen choice for President of the United States.
Mine too, but that still put him orders of magnitude ahead of Hillary.
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Censure is a formal, and public, group condemnation of an individual, often a group member, whose actions run counter to the group's acceptable standards for individual behavior. In the United States, governmental censure is done when a body's members wish to publicly reprimand the President of the United States, a member of Congress, a judge or a cabinet member. It is a formal statement of disapproval
Formal disapproval? The Democrats and some of the Republicans have done nothing but try to tear down, smear, and demonize Trump since he got elected. There were calls for impeachment before he got inaugurated. Now, Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal publicly states she hopes he will be assassinated. Others keep up the drumbeat for impeachment.
I never realized there were so many unhinged, nut cases in our country. They care little for reality. A partial list of Trump's accomplishments up thru July: Trump. These accomplishments are exactly why there is so much pushback. Trump has turned over the lucrative sandbox they all play in and they don't like it. Any interviews I've seen or heard with people between the coasts would indicate they are O.K. with what he is doing except they would like it to happen faster.
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I never realized there were so many unhinged, nut cases in our country.
I hope that Trump's greatest accomplishment is just that, to flush out the loons and make it indisputable that the country will not long survive them in power.
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WWI & WW11 Germans, Japanese Imperialists, Axis partner Italy. That mindset is now the globalist Democratic party.
Charlottesville was the militant arm of the Democratic party, Antifa scum, against the KKK, White Supremacy scum. The Democratic party used the Presidents condemnation of Antifa as a rallying point for a coup and thus the usurping in of the twilight zone of the United States of America.
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My worry is that the dumbing down of the last two generations has left us with a huge group of people who are utterly ignorant of their heritage, their ownership of the special thing that is America, and their willingness to go along with whatever they are told by the "cool, smart" people in the MSM/Academia/Social Media. Those of us here, who have the longer view and some level of understanding, rely too much I worry on legions of fellow citizens who may not exist anymore. If that is so, we are the ones at risk of losing, not the progressive/socialist/communists/anarchists who are engineering this maelstrom of manufactured anger. At the rear of all the trouble I think you will find our former President and his handlers, foreign and domestic. Years ago when I was more in the know, I was given a briefing on a massive planned public event to protest something, and the law enforcement intelligence included the overhead and street images of the limousines of the invisible backers parked behind the warehouse where the event planners were drawing up the plans for violent confrontations for scripted media. That is happening now, I know intuitively, but wonder who is doing that job?
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There will be a war. Let's see. On one side you have 8 billion rounds of ammunition and the means to use it and on the other side you have a group of people who can't decide which bathroom to use..
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His job of getting trump elected is finished. One last service before private sector awards is offering up himself to the altar of PC to appease the angry gods while Trump continues to pack the courts and make lefty heads explode.
“If there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents -- on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America,” Bannon told Bloomberg on Friday.
He is right, yet again. So he'll be castigated for it in the strongest possible terms by the posturing pustules yet again.
[Al Jazeera] President Donald Trump said the history and culture of the United States were being "ripped apart" by the removal of statues memorialising the Confederate era.
"Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments," Trump wrote Thursday on Twitter.
"You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next. Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!" Trump added.
Trump's latest tweets pile more fuel on a political firestorm ignited by the president's attempts to shift blame for the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to anti-racism counter-protesters.
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These peeps can only destroy what have been built by others. They have not produced a single thing.
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On mis-use of past cultures:
Mark Twain reported in his 1869 travelogue The Innocents Abroad (Hartford, Conn.) that mummies were burned like coal to produce steam on the rail line from Cairo to Alexandria (176–77).
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FOXNEWS] Imran Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. 
[St. Louis Post Dispatch] With five written words Thursday morning, one of Missouri's most controversial state lawmakers spawned a U.S. Secret Service investigation, potentially endangered her own political career -- and flung St. Louis squarely into the middle of America's raging racial-political debate in the wake of the unrest in Charlottesville, Va.
[Al Jazeera] President Donald Trump said the history and culture of the United States were being "ripped apart" by the removal of statues memorialising the Confederate era.
