Showing posts with label McCabe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McCabe. Show all posts

Friday, October 4, 2019

All About Ukraine, Trump, and Joe Biden: The Liking of a Ping Pong Game

Nadene Goldfoot                                     
Always an anti-Semitic Center, Kiev was home to many Jews
It was part of the Pale of Settlement where Catherine II had
forced Jews out of Russia to live in this piece of land instead.

In the 1920s "
 Ukraine was conquered by the Russian Red Army. In 1990s immediately upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, of which both Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine had been formally founding constituent republics, bilateral relations were revived.


Prior to Euromaidan (2013–2014), under President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych (in office from February 2010 until he was removed from power on 22 February 2014), relations were cooperative, with various trade agreements in place.


Ukraine's Jewish population was 484,129 in 1989.  

I'm amazed there are Jews here after WWII and the behavior of

the Ukrainians towards the Jews.  

Home of Chmielnicki and Haidamak uprisings including severe massacres in 17th and 18th centuries. 

The Soviets in the 1920s promoted Jewish settlement in Ukraine. 

It was the scene of pogroms in 1905, 1918-1920.  

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., 76 years old,  is an American politician who served as the 47th vice president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 under Obama.

President Obama named Biden the administration’s point man on Ukraine in February 2014, after a popular revolution ousted Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych and as Moscow sent military forces into Ukraine’s Crimea territory.

What was President Trump talking about  to Ukraine's president on the phone that has enraged the Democrats of the USA and why with all this talk of impeachment?

1. Democrats saw a political win giving them the impeachment goods that Special Counsel Robert Mueller couldn't deliver in probing Trump's time as president by using a piece of gossip as legitimate proof of wrongdoing by the president that hasn't been substantiated as yet.

2. Gave the Democrats a way to cover up, confuse the "ongoing investigation led by Attorney General William Barr into how the Obama White House unleashed the country's most powerful government agencies against the Trump presidential campaign in 2016." 

3. To numb the American public when the verdicts of Barr's inquiries that are presently happening by many authorities at the Justice Department, are revealed to the public.  

A lot of hanky-panky has been going on with the Democrats ever since Trump was elected president.  They thought for sure that this couldn't have happened, and have tried to blame Russia's meddling for getting him elected. Of course,  because Trump likes or loves everyone he must deal with until they get nasty with him first.  Russia would probably rather deal with Trump than Hillary any day, and there was the fact that Trump was a hotel builder who might want to do business in Russia by building a hotel there as well.                                                                                                             
 
Robert Mueller
Rod Rosenstein

Rod Rosenstein, United States Deputy Attorney General from April 26, 2017 to May 11, 2019,  had  emails back in 2017 with Robert Mueller,  lawyer and government official who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013. staying, "The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions" and "off the record" emails with major media outlets around the date of Mueller's appointment.  In other words, Trump wasn't aware of the tightness between these two men.  Evidently this included more plotting against Trump, certainly not support.  

"On May 8, 2017, Rosenstein wrote a memo to President Trump recommending that FBI Director James Comey be fired. The next day, President Trump fired Comey. Just three days later, on May 12, Rosenstein sent an email assuring Robert Mueller that “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions.”


"President Donald Trump nominated Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice on February 1, 2017. Rosenstein was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 2017. In May 2017, he authored a memo that President Trump cited as the basis for his decision to dismiss FBI Director James Comey."

Rosenstein then was in a position to appoint his friend, Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.  All this happened during 2016 when the election was about to begin and related matters.  

Earlier, Rosenstein assumed authority over the FBI probe.  On November 7, 2018, Trump transferred command of this oversight to acting US General Matthew Whitaker. 

                                                  
Andrew McCabe, FBI Director

"Also, during the same time period, between May 8 and May 17, 2017, Rosenstein met with then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other senior Justice Department FBI officials to discuss wearing a wire and invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump."  I believe wearing a wire is not kosher when in the company of the president.  It was "on September 11, Judicial Watch released 14 pages of records from the Department of Justice showing officials’ efforts in responding to media inquiries about DOJ/FBI talks allegedly invoking the 25th Amendment to “remove” President Donald Trump from office and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein offering to wear a “wire” to record his conversations with the president."  " McCabe writes that Rosenstein said he thought it was possible because “he was not searched when he entered the White House.”

In April 2018, Rosenstein reportedly personally approved the FBI raid on President Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, in which the FBI seized emails, tax documents and records, some of them related to Cohen's payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.


Then, of course, there is the scandal that in trying to take down Trump, a piece of damning evidence was created used for reason of impeachment, and this has since been found out to have been manufactured by the Democrats.  This was called the Steele Dossier.  It connects so many in the scheme to take down the president.  This was the "text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the FBI lawyer with whom he was having an extramarital affair, we have learned of a meeting convened in the office of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe (then and now the FBI’s No. 2 official) in mid-August 2016 — i.e., right around the time the manufactured  Page FISA warrant was obtained. At the meeting, top national-security personnel discussed the prospect that Donald Trump could be elected president, which they regarded as frightening but highly unlikely. In the text, Strzok told Page, “I’m afraid we can’t take that risk” (of a Trump presidency).

                                                       
Hunter Biden, lawyer and lobbyist who is the second son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, is a partner at Rosemont Seneca Partners, an international consulting firm.
Melissa Cohen and Hunter Biden, married on May 16th.
She's from South Africa  They married 10 days after meeting,
Hunter doesn't even speak Ukrainian.  

Hunter Biden did hold a directorship with a natural gas company called Burisma Holdings, beginning in the spring of 2014.

Now we find that one of the many running against Trump for the next 4 year term is the former Vice President who served under Obama, the Democrat's favorite and who HiIlary was Sec of State, the man who beat her out in the former election.  It turns out that Joseph Biden also has a 2nd son, Hunter Biden,  who was found on an energy company board in the Ukraine when his father was vice president. Experts agree that Hunter Biden's acceptance of the position created a conflict of interest for his father. 
                                                                
Ukraine Gas Co Execs with Joe and Hunter Biden out golfing in the Hamptons with Devon Archer, who served on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings with Hunter.

Not only that, but Joe Biden was a key figure in the U.S. policy on Ukraine.   It was Vice President Joe Biden who did urge Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, with the threat of withholding U.S. aid. But that was the position of the wider U.S. government, as well as other international institutions.    A Ukrainian prosecutor was fired when investigating Hunter's position and salary there. "In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency  if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.


Hunter Biden "would help the company with "transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion," and other issues. The company also retained the law firm where Biden had been working, Boies Schiller Flexner.

 Burisma was owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, a minister under Russia-friendly President Viktor F. Yanukovych who subsequently went into exile after a popular revolution. After Yanukovych was ousted, Zlochevsky faced a variety of corruption-related investigations involving his business.

 The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.


Steven Pifer, career foreign service officer who was ambassador to Ukraine under President Bill Clinton and deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs under President George W. Bush. said, ""It was a mistake for Hunter Biden to join the Burisma board, particularly given that the vice president was the senior U.S. official engaging Ukraine," Pifer said. "Hunter Biden should have been more mindful of his father's position."

"Trump has said it would be "appropriate" for him to ask Attorney General William Barr to launch an investigation into what the president said could be "a very big situation." Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has urged the public to demand a congressional inquiry."  The "former Ukrainian prosecutor, who was removed after Joe Biden pressured the Ukrainian government, told The Washington Post that the appointment of Hunter Biden to the Burisma board was "rather questionable" because he lacked relevant experience."


To top it off, "Trump’s 2016 campaign chair,  Paul Manafort,  was convicted of tax and bank fraud for laundering millions in income he earned working for Ukrainian politicians.  
                                                             
Paul John Manafort Jr. is an American lobbyist, political consultant, former lawyer, and convicted felon.

He joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign team in March 2016 and was campaign chairman from June to August 2016. He was convicted of tax and bank fraud in 2018 and forfeited his license to practice law in January 2019.

Manafort often lobbied on behalf of foreign leaders such as former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

On October 27, 2017, Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates were indicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on multiple charges arising from his consulting work for the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine before Yanukovych's overthrow in 2014. The indictment came at the request of Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation.  In June 2018, additional charges were filed against Manafort for obstruction of justice and witness tampering that are alleged to have occurred while he was under house arrest, and he was ordered to jail.

                                                  

With all these connections and interests in Ukraine, ", Giuliani, Trump's lawyer and former mayor of New York,  has been pushing a conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, and not Russia, that interfered in the election.

In answer to recent article, https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-ukraine-europe-russia-abbbcca79276a4836aaf029ae3d415f8

Yes, president Zelensky has Jewish parents. He was born in Kryvvy, Rih in southern Ukraine. His family had moved to Erdenet, Mongolia when he was young, and then returned. He's from the Dnipropetrovisk region. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Volodymyr-Zelensky

Mueller and the U.S. intelligence community concluded Russia plotted to influence the election to help Trump win. The fact remains that nothing of the sort has been identified as interference in the election by an outside force. All these investigations have come up with no evidence.

If anyone was doing anything, it was the Clinton force, not under scrutiny, who thought they had it in the bag and were not worried. Wonder why?


Resource:  https://amgreatness.com/2019/10/03/the-anesthetic-effect-of-ukrainegate/, Julie Kelly.
Mike Huckabee emails.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-doj-docs-show-rosenstein-advising-mueller-the-boss-doesnt-know-about-their-communications/
https://pagesix.com/2019/06/12/hunter-biden-secretly-marries-south-african-beauty-melissa-cohen/
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/may/07/viral-image/fact-checking-joe-biden-hunter-biden-and-ukraine/   
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia-Ukraine
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/joe-biden-son-job-with-ukraine-gas-company-hunter-biden-20190722.html
https://100percentfedup.com/oops-2104-photo-shows-joe-biden-golfing-with-son-hunter-and-ukraine-gas-company-execs-in-the-hamptons/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/12/steele-dossier-source-fisa-warrant-against-trump-campaign/
https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2016/02/russian-takeover-of-ukraine-2014.html







Friday, September 21, 2018

Republican Lawyers Working For or Against Trump Are Becoming Very Trying

Nadene Goldfoot                                           
These names are bandied about all the time on TV news.  Who are they, really? 
Rod Jay Rosenstein  (b: January 13, 1965) is an American attorney serving as United States Deputy Attorney General since 2017. Prior to his current appointment, he served as a United States Attorney for the District of Maryland. President Donald Trump nominated Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice on February 1, 2017. He is a Republican.  . In May 2017, he authored a memo which President Trump said was the basis of his decision to dismiss FBI Director James Comey.  Later that month, Rosenstein appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election and related matters based on the dismissal of Comey.  

In April 2018, Rosenstein reportedly personally approved the FBI raid on President Donald Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, in which the FBI seized emails, tax documents and records, some of them related to Cohen's payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.  Rosenstein lives in Bethesda, Maryland, where Judge Kavenaugh was also raised.  Rosenstein's father was  Robert Rosenstein, who ran a small business, and Gerri Rosenstein, a bookkeeper and school board president. He grew up in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania and today attends a Reform Synagogue.  

Rosenstein graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, with a Bachelor of Science in economics, summa cum laude, in 1986. This sounds like Trump's education.  " After two years, Donald Trump" transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, he worked at the family business, Elizabeth Trump & Son. He graduated in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.
He earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 1989 from Harvard Law School, where Rosenstein  was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He then served as a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  He was a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School in 1997–98.  No doubt, Rosenstein impresses me as having been an outstanding student.  No wonder Trump selected him; so much in common in their education, and both being Republicans.  " "In 1995, Rosenstein joined the team of lawyers investigating the Whitewater scandal, which involved allegations of illegal real estate dealings by the Clintons."  Seems as if people with money dabbling in real-estate can get in a lot of trouble.  
Today's bomb about Rosenstein is that CNN said he suggested to secretly record Trump in the Spring of 2017.  Rosenstein was offended when he heard this false report.  He said that this had been a joke. However, the report went on to ask him if he was serious and he said he was being serious.   Supposedly the taping was to out the chaos they felt was going on in the White House.  Which reminds me;  An Englishman could walk into an Italian home and see chaos; and an Italian walking into an Englishman's dinner would be bored to death.  It all depends on your upbringing as to what chaos is.  Perhaps Trump isn't suffering from paranoia, in that people were trying to get rid of him.  "
“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” he told Fox News. “I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.” 

"In the articles of impeachment filed in July, the group of 11 House Republicans accused Rosenstein of intentionally withholding documents and information from Congress, failure to comply with congressional subpoenas and abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)."  Rosenstein is said to have attempted to intimidate House staffers with subpoenas.

Rosenstein was confirmed by the Senate as deputy attorney general in April 2017.
Rosenstein appointed Mueller as the special counsel to oversee the investigation into Russian influence in the 2016  election in May 2017.
                                                         

Robert Swan Mueller III (b:  August 7, 1944) is an American attorney who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2001 to 2013.   In May 2017, Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as special counsel overseeing an ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and related matters.   He is still on this position, over 2 years of investigation.  A Republican, appointed by George W. Bush.  A Marine during Vietnam.  Graduate of Princeton U.,   

 His paternal great-grandfather, Gustave A. Mueller, was a prominent doctor in Pittsburgh, whose own father August C. E. Müller had immigrated to the United States in 1855 from the Province of Pomerania in the Kingdom of Prussia (a historical state whose territory included land now part of Germany and western Poland).

The situation at the moment is that Mueller and Rosenstein have declared "Legal War" on Trump.  They have caused Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, to have his office raided in trying to find damning evidence on him.  "Cohen was never part of the Trump administration or the Trump campaign. This is now officially an all hands on deck effort to totally malign and, if possible, impeach the president of the United States. Mueller and Rosenstein have declared what is a legal war on the president. And a source close to President Trump tonight is telling Fox News that Mueller's investigation is way out of control.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is spearheading the Russia probe (that seems to have no end) , but Rosenstein, 53, still oversees the federal investigation as deputy attorney general.
                                                          

 Michael Dean Cohen (b: August 25, 1966)  is an American attorney who worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump from 2006 until the termination of his employment in May 2018, a month after a federal investigation began. He's also a Republican, formerly a Democrat like Trump had been.   The investigation led to him pleading guilty on August 21, 2018, to eight counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. In his statement before the court, Cohen said he violated campaign finance laws "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office," meaning Trump, "for the principal purpose of influencing the election" for president in 2016.   

His mother was a nurse, and his father, who survived the Holocaust, was a surgeon. Cohen is Jewish.  Cohen has been involved in real estate ventures in Manhattan, including buying and selling four apartment buildings between 2011 and 2014. The total purchase price of the four buildings was $11 million and the total sales price was $32 million. Cohen sold the four properties at above their assessed values, in all-cash transactions, to LLCs owned by persons whose identities are not public. After this was reported by McClatchy DC in October 2017, Cohen said that all four properties were purchased by an American-owned "New York real estate family fund" that paid cash for the properties in order to obtain a tax deferred (Section 1031) exchange, but did not specifically identify the buyer.

    Real estate would be a subject That connected Cohen to Trump, also a real-
estate person.  It seems Hillary and Bill Clinton were, too. 

"In June 2018, Cohen resigned as deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee. His resignation letter cited the ongoing investigations and also criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating undocumented families at the border." Have you ever heard a captive of an enemy have to make a confession  which glorifies the enemy?  This sounds surprisingly just like that !


                                                          

Andrew George McCabe (b: March 18, 1968) is an American attorney who served as the Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from February 2016 to January 2018. From May 9, 2017 to August 2, 2017, McCabe served as the Acting Director of the FBI following James Comey's dismissal by President Donald Trump. FBI Director Comey  had appointed McCabe as Deputy Director of the FBI on January 29, 2016, and he assumed those duties on February 1, 2016

"On January 29, 2018, McCabe announced that he was stepping down from his position as Deputy Director of the FBI and went on paid leave.  By March 16, 2018, Sessions fired McCabe 26 hours before his scheduled retirement.  Sessions announced that he based his decision on reports from the DOJ Inspector General and the FBI's disciplinary office saying that McCabe had made unauthorized releases of information to the media and had "lacked candor" in talking about it. McCabe denied that he had ever been dishonest and charged that his firing was politically motivated.
On April 19, 2018, media reported the US Department of Justice Inspector General had earlier sent a criminal referral to federal prosecutors for possible criminal charges against McCabe associated with allegations of lying to internal investigators."

The Nunes memo, which alleges improper activities in seeking a warrant to surveil former Trump associate Carter Page, asserts that McCabe "testified before the [House Intelligence] Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier," a document many Trump supporters insist is completely false. 
However, McCabe's testimony was in classified session and no public transcript is available to confirm the Nunes memo assertion; disclosing contents of the classified testimony would be unlawful. Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the Nunes memo "seriously mischaracterizes the testimony of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe."The Nunes memo also asserts that a text message from Peter Strzok discusses "a meeting with Deputy Director McCabe to discuss an "insurance" policy against President Trump's election." However, The Wall Street Journal reported on December 18, 2017, that Strzok associates said the "insurance policy" meant the FBI continuing its investigation into possible collusion between Trump and Russians, in case Trump won the election.
During law school he interned in the criminal division of the United States Department of Justice. Because of a hiring freeze, McCabe spent three years in a private law practice before joining the FBI in 1996 in Philadelphia. He's another Pennsylvanian, joining Trump and Rosenstein in having lived in this state.  
McCabe is a triathlete who biked 35 miles (56 km) to work from his home in Virginia.
TV just announced that this man's goal has been to bring Trump down.  
                                                    

  Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (b: December 24, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 84th and current Attorney General of the United States since 2017, formerly an Alabaman Senator. A Republican, Sessions served as United States Senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017, resigning the position in order to serve in the Trump administration.  I've heard Trump on TV who has said that he doesn't have an Attorney General, then take it back and say he does have one.  The point is, Jeff hasn't done much for him when he's needed it.  Sessions was an early supporter of the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, and was a major policy adviser to the Trump campaign, especially in regard to immigration and national security.  He was also on the short list to become Trump's running mate, a position that ultimately went to Mike Pence.
On March 10, 2017, Sessions oversaw the firing of 46 United States Attorneys, leaving only his acting Deputy Dana Boente and nominated Deputy Rod Rosenstein in place after Trump declined their resignations.  On May 9, 2017, Sessions delivered a memo to the President recommending Trump fire 
FBI Director James Comey, attaching a memo by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein which called the Director's behavior indefensible. Trump fired Comey that day.
In 1964, Sessions became an Eagle Scout, and later, he earned the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award for his many years of service.  A true Alabaman, his parents were  Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, Jr., and the former Abbie Powe.   He was named after his father, who was named after his grandfather, who was named after Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America,

Reference:  http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2018/02/collusion-justice-dept-fbi-democratic.html
http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2018/02/trumps-vindication-fisa-memo.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Rosenstein
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/21/how-rod-rosenstein-is-connected-to-trump-russia-investigation.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXngm1nr2yo, CNN;
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/04/10/hannity_mueller_and_rosenstein_have_declared_legal_war_on_president_trump.html 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions