[NYPOST] The raid by federal agents on the home of embattled Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh could signal she’s facing "something bigger" than the scandal over her shady dealings with a kids book series she authored, a lawyer who defended another Charm City pol said.
The Democrat was already under investigation by the state prosecutor’s office for securing a lucrative book sales deal with the University of Maryland Medical System. The no-contract arrangement for the "Healthy Holly" series netted Pugh more than $500,000 while she sat on the institution’s board, officials said.
The FBI and IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... descended on seven locations associated with Pugh on Thursday morning, including her home, where they hauled out boxes of the books and documents, the Baltimore Sun reported.
"The books might just be a shiny object. My guess is there’s something bigger," said Arnold W. Weiner, a lawyer who defended a previous mayor, Sheila Dixon, against misconduct charges in office, the outlet reported.
The raid was the first indication that Pugh was being probed by the feds. Experts said the agencies are likely looking for potential tax violations, such as whether she reported her income from the book series.
"When money is involved, there is potential for tax crimes. And they’re easier to prove," David Jaros, a University of Baltimore Law School professor, told the Baltimore Sun.
Pugh, 69, has been on an indefinite leave of absence from office ‐ citing her health ‐ since the state probe was launched earlier this month.
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Call me when they raid the Chicago Prosecutor's offices.
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I'm not so sure about the 'something bigger' angle. The lawyer cited here didn't even hint at anything, and I don't see (right now, anyway) how much further up the political food chain you can go from a mayor to elsewhere. I think these raids are just a repeat of the Roger Stone thing - storm a place heavy, grab some headlines and put people on notice, and that's about it.
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This will expose the inner workings of Maryland government. Years of Democrat control in Maryland laid bare for all to see. Emails, phone records and all laid bare with little of no efforts to conceal. Why play it safe when you control everything. She was shown how to play the game. Follow the money.
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I'm not so sure about the 'something bigger' angle. The lawyer cited here didn't even hint at anything, and I don't see (right now, anyway) how much further up the political food chain you can go from a mayor to elsewhere. I think these raids are just a repeat of the Roger Stone thing - storm a place heavy, grab some headlines and put people on notice, and that's about it.
Very different. Roger Stone wasn't a public official with the ability to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in city contracts. She may spent the rest of her life in prison.
[DCWHISPERS] Normally such a claim would cause more than a few eye rolls and shakes of the head as for a very long time, the upper echelons of the Deep State continued to dance just beyond the realm of real legal accountability for their nefarious actions. Former U.S. prosecutor Joe diGenova is a proven reliable source, though, and so if he says indictments are coming, he’s likely right.
The question then is if someone like John Brennan will take all the heat or if he will choose to point at those who approved his actions‐namely figures like Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... , Barack Obama How much damage could he do in four years?... Eight, then... , and Valerie Jarrett ...reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... political hack, now senior advisor to President B.O.... The situation in D.C. is getting VERY interesting these days...
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I hope at least this progresses to the point to where the left has to use the insanity plea.
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The plan appears to be a massive socialist redistro of wealth. The gov't Ponzi schemes and borrowing of the past 60+ years cannot continue. I doubt Clinton or any of the rest of the Deep State cadre will ever be brought to justice. Trump has upset the socialist, redistro applecart.
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Need I say it aloud one more time? There are TWO kinds of Law in the United States. One sort of Law for the Hillarys and the Bosses. And another sort of Law for the Peons
Democrats are largely above the Law. After all, when was the last time Comey saw the jail from the inside. The FBI and the Democratic Prarty felt comfortable doing what they did, saw nothing stopping them from spying on the Trump Campaign. Used the Steele Dossier to do precisely that with procuring Fisa warrants. And was NEVER going to be called on account of it. Hillary spent $10 million for the Steele Dossier.
You will Never see Justice applied to Hillary and the FBI. You WILL do as you are told and leave your brains to what the MSMedia TELL you to think.
Get in Line and bend over.
Yes, yes, Hemingway — whyever is it that you are so fond of the idea of us bending over? So no, you needn’t say it again. But being boring has never held you back before.
The question then is if someone like John Brennan will take all the heat or if he will choose to point at those who approved his actions‐namely figures like Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton
Brennan or the rest of them don't seem like the kinds to fall on a grenade to save others.
Leave it up to the people and get on with it. There's been far too much jawing.
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I would like to see all that were complicit in this crime tried , convicted and placed in open population in prison just like they did to Whitey Bulger.
[NYPOST] President Trump renewed his conspiratorial claim that his administration was subjected to a "coup" attempt because of the probes launched into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and his campaign’s ties to Kremlin-link individuals.
"They tried for a coup, it didn’t work out so well," Trump said Friday during a speech before the NRA convention in Indianapolis.
He called the FBI officials who launched the investigation that led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe "bad apples." Mueller’s report cleared Trump of collusion but came to no conclusion on obstruction.
"We didn’t need a gun for that one, did I?," Trump joked to hooting gun enthusiasts.
"We’ve been looking at things that you would not have believed possible in our country, corruption at the highest level. A disgrace," he claimed. "Spying, surveillance, trying for an overthrow, and we caught them."
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Crickets from the MSM. I thought this would bring out the beast in them.
[DAILYCALLER] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... committed Thursday to declassifying a slew of records related to the Russia probe "and much more."
Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he was "glad" he waited to declassify the documents until after the end of the special counsel’s investigation.
"I thought that maybe they would obstruct if I did it early, and I think I was right," Trump said.
Trump has for months considered releasing portions of a classified surveillance warrant application granted in June 2017 against Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser. He has also considered declassifying FBI notes of interviews with Bruce Ohr, the Justice Department official who served as dossier author Remington Christopher Steele’s handler for months after the 2016 election.
Trump ordered all of the documents declassified on Sept. 17, 2018, but reversed course four days later. Trump said at the time that he decided not to declassify the documents after meeting with the Justice Department.
"Everything’s going to be declassified and more, much more than what you just mentioned," Trump told Hannity in his first on-camera interview since the release of the special counsel’s Russia report.
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So do it already!
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It'd make a helluva October surprise in 2020.
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He's said this before.
Trump ordered all of the documents declassified on Sept. 17, 2018, but reversed course four days later. Trump said at the time that he decided not to declassify the documents after meeting with the Justice Department.
And I bet he'll decide not to release them after yet another meeting.
Just as the rank and file on the left are being played with Orange Man Going Down, so are we with Deep State Going Down.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed May 17, 2017. Twenty-two months later, on March 22, 2019, Mueller sent his report to the Justice Department.
Some special counsel investigations have taken longer; it is the nature of such probes to drag on and on. But why did Mueller need nearly two years to determine whether the Trump campaign and Russia conspired or coordinated to fix the 2016 election?
He didn't, it appears. In the wake of the release of Mueller's report, there are indications that special counsel prosecutors mostly knew by the end of 2017, and certainly by a few months later, that the evidence would not establish that conspiracy or coordination -- or collusion, to use the popular term -- had taken place. Mueller clearly spent a lot of time on the other half of his report -- trying to establish that Trump obstructed justice -- but on the most explosive and consequential allegation of the Trump-Russia affair, the conspiracy allegation, the Mueller investigation was essentially over long before it officially ended.
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Doesn't matter - until he decided he couldn't work up any criminal obstruction (of non-existant collusion) charges he could keep going.
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But why did Mueller need nearly two years to determine whether the Trump campaign and Russia conspired or coordinated to fix the 2016 election?
So he could put his thumbs on the scale of the 2018 election. I bet he knew within two months of starting this whole dog and pony show that it was bullshit.
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Difficult to say John. He sure brought a large number of partisan Dem lawyers into his team. That alone makes him suspect in my view. If I were fishing, he wouldn't be a keeper.
[IssuesNInsisghts] The number of uninsured climbed by 1.4 million from 2016 to 2018, according to a report out last week from the Congressional Budget Office. Naturally, this led those on the left to blame the Trump administration for its Obamacare "sabotage."
But the data in that report-which was released on the same day the Mueller report came out and largely ignored -tells an entirely different story.
All of the increase in the uninsured over the past two years ‐ all of it - is the result of the massive rate increases Obamacare's mandates and regulations caused. According to the Health and Human Services Dept., premiums in the individual insurance market doubled from 2013 to 2017. They shot up again in 2018.
For those eligible for Obamacare subsidies, the rate increases were meaningless. The amount they had to pay didn't change much, and in many cases went down.
But for the millions of middle-class Americans who buy insurance coverage on the individual market and aren't eligible for Obamacare subsidies, the result has been financially devastating.
The CBO report shows the impact, plain as day.
From 2016 to 2018, the number of people getting subsidized coverage through an Obamacare exchange increased by 100,000. The number enrolled through Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion climbed by 700,000.
And, thanks to the booming job market under President Trump, the number of people getting coverage through work climbed by 2.2 million over those two years.
But the number of people in the unsubsidized individual insurance market? From 2015 to 2018, it plunged from 9.7 million down to 6.2 million ‐ a 36% decrease.
Before Obamacare went into effect, there were more than 10 million people buying insurance on their own, without any government subsidies, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Yet, incredibly, when Sarah Kliff at Vox.com (the self-proclaimed "explanatory news" site) looked at the same report, she tried to blame the Trump administration for the increase in the uninsured.
"America’s uninsured rate is rising under President Trump, whose administration has passed new rules that make it more difficult to enroll in coverage," she begins.
Kliff goes on to say that "much of that increase (in the uninsured) is concentrated in the Medicaid program, where the Trump administration has approved new rules like work requirements that can make it more difficult for low-income Americans to enroll in the program."
That is completely false. Those work requirements Kliff points to apply only to those enrolled through the Obamacare-expanded Medicaid program. And only a handful of states have even tried to implement them. What’s more, enrollment in the Obamacare-expanded part of Medicaid is up by 700,000 since 2016. That’s a 6% increase.
As the CBO data make clear, enrollment in the regular Medicaid program declined by 1.1 million over those years. But this had nothing to do with any work requirements, and was more likely because these people didn’t need to be on the dole anymore.
So, in short, while Obamacare succeeded in making millions of people dependent on the government for health insurance, it’s done so at the expense of middle-class families who were specifically promised relief from high insurance costs.
In this light, the Trump administration’s attempt to make truly affordable options available to these middle-class families ‐ through short-term plans and association health plans ‐ looks more like humanitarian relief effort than an attempt to "sabotage" Obamacare.
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Obamacare succeeded in making millions of people dependent on the government for health insurance
And that was always the plan. As more lose their private insurance they too will be forced to government dependence.
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Obamacare was never about providing accessible low cost health care for Americans. It was about gathering power and riches for those in the Dem Party.
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[NYPOST] The raid by federal agents on the home of embattled Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh could signal she’s facing "something bigger" than the scandal over her shady dealings with a kids book series she authored, a lawyer who defended another Charm City pol said.
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
[NYPOST] President Trump renewed his conspiratorial claim that his administration was subjected to a "coup" attempt because of the probes launched into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and his campaign’s ties to Kremlin-link individuals.
[DAILYCALLER] President 
[IssuesNInsisghts] The number of uninsured climbed by 1.4 million from 2016 to 2018, according to a report out last week from the Congressional Budget Office. Naturally, this led those on the left to blame the Trump administration for its Obamacare "sabotage."
