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Hillary's probing Shifts into Fourth...
DrafterX Offline
#1551 Posted:
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Some 42 pages of highly redacted documents from the FBI’s criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of highly classified materials paint a picture of a serious, but flawed investigation hindered by a lack of cooperation, according to a key watchdog group.

The materials, all part of the probe dubbed "Midyear Exam,” included several documents designated as “grand jury material,” indicating the potential seriousness of the investigation that would ultimately be ended by FBI director James Comey in July, then restarted for a brief period in October before being shut down for good.

One redacted exchange reveals a back and forth subpoena response to the FBI from one of Mrs. Clinton's private attorneys, Katherine Turner, a partner at Washington DC powerhouse firm Williams & Connolly. In the document, Turner agreed to turn over one of Mrs. Clinton's non-secure Apple iPads and two of her BlackBerrys to the FBI.

“The new records show how badly the Obama Justice Department and FBI mishandled the Clinton email investigation. "

- Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch
But neither smartphone received from the law firm contain SIM cards or Secure Digital (SD) cards, and a total of 13 mobile devices identified by the FBI as potentially using clintonemail.com email addresses were never located by Williams & Connelly.

"We are presuming there are still 13 devices at issue,” Tom Fitton,
As extensively reported by Fox, Clinton would often task aides including Monica Hanley with finding and supplying the secretary of state's never-ending demand to use non-secure BlackBerrys for all her official government work. Some of Clinton's BlackBerrys wound up being pounded with hammers on orders by Huma Abedin after Clinton's homebrew servers went down or when news that Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal's email had been hacked in 2013 by the Romanian hacker known as "Guccifer"---Marcel Lehel Lazar.

The new documents offer a glimpse into the lawyering ballet inside the Beltway---as this surrendering of two BlackBerrys and one iPad by her private attorneys occurred just six days before Hillary Clinton, then the leading Democratic nominee for president, testified before Congress on Oct. 22, 2015 about the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.

In a photo captured in the Benghazi hearing, Turner and her law partner David Kendall pointedly flanked Clinton during her marathon testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Also hovering nearby was longtime Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, who was also at the epicenter of Clinton's deliberative use of a non-secure email system while she headed one of the most sensitive federal agencies in the U.S. government.

Mills, who was Clinton’s chief of staff and counselor at State, received immunity for her cooperation into the email investigation was permitted to be in the room while Clinton interviewed by the FBI in July 2016. Comey would later admit publicly that he had never heard of a potential witness representing the subject of an FBI investigation to be present during an interview with investigators.

Nearly a year has passed since Comey's then-boss, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, held her infamous tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton in Phoenix, Arizona. Eight days later, Comey announced on July 5, 2016, that "regarding the handling of classified information, our judgement is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."

Comey made his determination despite noting that Clinton and her colleagues "were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," and even though 22 top secret email exchanges deemed too damaging to national security to release. Some of those exchanges contained Special Access Privilege (SAP) information characterized by intel experts as “above top secret."

"They (the FBI) were played by Mrs. Clinton's lawyers and didn't care,” Fitton said. “The Trump Justice Department needs to audit this mess and figure out if the Clinton matters need to be reopened or reinvigorated."

In the latest documents dumped by the FBI, a whopping 325 pages are cited as "total deleted pages." The 42 pages that were released and are only readable in parts include 177 redactions. The redactions include those made citing Freedom of Information Act exemptions under (b) (7) (e) in which the information is denied because revelations could “disclose investigation techniques.“

Now---64 days after James Comey was fired by President Donald Trump as the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray is scheduled to sit down before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the start his confirmation process.

Two former agents with the FBI told Fox News they hope that “the atmosphere is changed with a new director.”


Film at 11.... Think



The Resistance needs to be careful.... Mellow
teedubbya Offline
#1552 Posted:
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Keep trying drafter. Where is your vigor and willingness to embrace unsubstantiated facts with your buddy trump like you have throughout this thread?
teedubbya Offline
#1553 Posted:
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And I hope it's true and Hillary goes to jail because I hate her and maybe that would take away all the excuses.
DrafterX Offline
#1554 Posted:
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Ya... Me too..Mad
DrafterX Offline
#1555 Posted:
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And your buddy Trump or family members have smashed any blackberrys or bleached servers yet... Mellow
DrafterX Offline
#1556 Posted:
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And no comments on my 'resistance' statement..?? I kind liked that one... Mellow
teedubbya Offline
#1557 Posted:
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Does trump consider tom Brady family?
Speyside Offline
#1558 Posted:
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We all know Hillary is dirty. Why deny it?
DrafterX Offline
#1559 Posted:
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Nearly two-dozen Republicans are calling on the Trump Justice Department to appoint a second special counsel to investigate the raft of 2016 campaign controversies involving Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration, warning these questions cannot “be allowed to die on the vine” amid the Russia probe firestorm.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and GOP committee colleagues made the request in a letter Thursday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

“The American public has a right to know the facts – all of them – surrounding the election and its aftermath,” they wrote. “We urge you to appoint a second special counsel to ensure these troubling, unanswered questions are not relegated to the dustbin of history.”

'I don’t think that the crimes of the prior administration, of Hillary Clinton, the collusion with James Comey and Loretta Lynch should be forgotten just because Hillary Clinton lost the election'
- Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.

The lawmakers want an entirely separate special counsel probe from the one Robert Mueller is leading into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible coordination with Trump associates. The crux of their argument is that numerous unanswered questions remain from the 2016 campaign cycle that have been pushed aside amid the intense Russia focus.

They delivered an extensive, 14-point request for what a second special counsel should cover, including:

-Allegations that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch instructed then-FBI Director James Comey to downplay the nature of the Clinton email probe

-The FBI and DOJ’s decisions in the course of the email probe, including controversial immunity deals with Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and others

-The State Department’s involvement in deciding which Clinton emails to make public

-Disclosures in WikiLeaks-released emails regarding the Clinton Foundation and, according to the letter, “its potentially unlawful international dealings”

-Connections between Clinton officials and “foreign entities” including Russia and Ukraine

-Revelations in hacked Democratic National Committee emails about “inappropriate” coordination between the DNC and Clinton campaign against Bernie Sanders’ Democratic primary campaign

-The “unmasking” of Americans in intelligence documents and potentially related “leaks of classified information

-Comey’s admitted leak of details of his conversations with President Trump

-The FBI’s “reliance” on controversial firm Fusion GPS, which was involved in the questionable anti-Trump “dossier”

“Our call for a special counsel is not made lightly,” the lawmakers wrote. “We have no interest in engendering more bad feelings and less confidence in the process or governmental institutions by the American people. Rather, our call is made on their behalf. It is meant to determine whether the criminal prosecution of any individual is warranted based on the solemn obligation to follow the facts wherever they lead and applying the law to those facts.”


FILM AT 11.... Think Think
Brewha Offline
#1560 Posted:
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teedubbya wrote:
Keep trying drafter. Where is your vigor and willingness to embrace unsubstantiated facts with your buddy trump like you have throughout this thread?

I always figured Drafter was on about this just to help get trump elected. But with all the damage 45 is doing, the Clinton's are way less than relevant now. Yet Big D is still chasing windmills.
Hell, even trump gave in on this red herring saying "the Clingtons were good people".

It's a puzzlement - why is Drafter still sporting wood for Hillary?

Think
DrafterX Offline
#1561 Posted:
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How's the 401 doing..?? Huh
Brewha Offline
#1562 Posted:
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I dunno - Havn't been to Ontario in years....
DrafterX Offline
#1563 Posted:
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Denial is the first step to somethin or another... Mellow
jjanecka Offline
#1564 Posted:
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.
Brewha Offline
#1565 Posted:
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DrafterX wrote:
Denial is the first step to somethin or another... Mellow

Sorry – guess I did not understand. If you mean my 401k, it’s doing well. We can all be thankful for 8 years of Obama.
SmokeMonkey Offline
#1566 Posted:
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Nice to see Brewha back!
DrafterX Offline
#1567 Posted:
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Laugh
gummy jones Offline
#1568 Posted:
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[for posterity]

“Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal.”
“But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.”

“At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family.”

“Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

“As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.”

“And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0
DrafterX Offline
#1569 Posted:
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Yes... but it was the Clintons so it's no big deal... Mellow
delta1 Offline
#1570 Posted:
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Hope that the GOP can muster the energy to investigate Hillary's alleged multiple crimes. They would tie themselves up in knots for years, like they did during Obama's terms...

But these numbers indicate the GOP has lost its enthusiasm for carrying Trump's water: Senate 98 - 2; and House 419 - 3



FYI: the claim that Hillary sold uranium to the Russians has been debunked, but keeps getting trotted out, just like the Seth Rich hoax...talk about real bigly fake news...believe me...sad

. ... http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2017/feb/16/donald-trump-repeats-his-mostly-false-claim-about-/
DrafterX Offline
#1571 Posted:
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maybe... but Obama coulda killed it and didn't.... Thanks Obama..!! Mad
delta1 Offline
#1572 Posted:
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but it was Bush's fault that the uranium was available...
DrafterX Offline
#1573 Posted:
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but we weren't at war with Canada then... Mellow
gummy jones Offline
#1574 Posted:
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lotsa money changes hands
sometimes it seems pretty coincidental
DrafterX Offline
#1575 Posted:
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uh huh... Mellow
DrafterX Offline
#1576 Posted:
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In the latest email release, Fitton flagged numerous instances of donors and allies contacting the State Department for help.

“It’s hard to tell where the Clinton State Department ended and the Clinton Foundation began,” Fitton told Fox News. “It was almost like a seamless operation—nowhere on these emails does anyone say ‘Mrs. Clinton is not involved in the foundation. Stop coming to us for favors.’”

One email exchange showed the grandson of Warren Buffett, Howard Buffett Jr., seeking a meeting for his father with Clinton to discuss “food security.” The Buffett family donated to the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation.

Emails show Bill Clinton aide Ben Schwerin wrote to Abedin requesting a meeting with Clinton and Howard Buffett Sr. Abedin responded: “we will take care of this.”

Fitton cited one email exchange on April 12, 2009, where a major donor was supposedly pushing for an ambassador position.

Miguel Lausell, a Puerto Rican executive who reportedly donated $1 million to the Clinton Presidential Library and was a member of the Clinton Global initiative, requested Abedin push for the appointment of someone to become U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

“It’s unclear if there was follow through, and if he became an ambassador because the name was redacted,” Fitton said.

Another email exchange starting in April 2009 involved Abedin; Kelly Craighead, who at the time was managing director of liberal fundraising organization, Democracy Alliance; and Capricia Marshall, a former executive of HillPAC and Friends of Hillary. Craighead asked that they “reach out” to an “extremely loyal supporter” interested in a senior position at the department. Marshall responded saying the person was “on everyone’s list/grid.” A year later, Craighead contacted Abedin again asking for assistance in getting someone a job at State.

“It would mean a lot to me if you could help or advise on a personnel situation for a dear friend,” the email said. Abedin replied, “We love [Redacted]. Looking into this asap.”

Other emails revealed requests from Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, on several different issues. One involved help on a “green card renewal,” and another sought help for someone involved in a criminal case in the Republic of Georgia – where longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal worked for a political party, Georgia Dream.

But former Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told Fox News these emails will not distract from the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.

“Hillary Clinton is not in government anymore or a candidate for office,” Fallon said. “So none of this is going to succeed in distracting the public from the active FBI investigation into President Trump.”

The Judicial Watch lawsuit seeks “all emails of official State Department business received or sent by” Abedin from January 2009 through early 2013 using a non- ‘state.gov’ email address. The new documents include 91 Clinton email exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total of emails not part of the original Clinton document dump to 530, Judicial Watch said.


Film at 11... Think
Brewha Offline
#1577 Posted:
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You are supposed to nail a gold coin to the main mast.
Burner02 Offline
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A federal judge has ordered the State Department to search the “state.gov” email accounts of Hillary Clinton aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jacob Sullivan for records related to Benghazi, as part of a watchdog’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Amit Mehta made the call Tuesday, describing the FOIA lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch in March 2015 as “a far cry from a typical FOIA case.”

He noted that “Secretary Clinton used a private e-mail server located in her home, to transmit and receive work-related communications during her tenure as Secretary of State.”

“The sole remaining dispute in this case is the adequacy of State’s search for responsive records,” Mehta wrote in his opinion and order, noting the State Department has argued the search through Clinton aides’ emails “is likely to be unfruitful.”

But Mehta wrote that the State Department “has not, however, searched the one records system over which it has always had control and that is almost certain to contain some responsive records: the state.gov email server.”

“If Secretary Clinton sent an email about Benghazi to Abedin, Mills, or Sullivan at his or her state.gov email address, or if one of them sent an e-mail to Secretary Clinton using his or her state.gov account, then State’s server presumably would have captured and stored such an email,” Mehta wrote. “State has an obligation to search its own server for responsive records.”

The conservative watchdog group is engaged in numerous FOIA lawsuits seeking records pertaining to the actions of the last administration -- including, in this case, records regarding the response to the 2012 terror attack in Libya.

The court ordered that the State Department conduct a “supplemental search” of Abedin, Mills and Sullivan state.gov email accounts, and set a deadline of Sept. 22 for the department to update the court on the status.

“This major court ruling may finally result in more answers about the Benghazi scandal—and Hillary Clinton’s involvement in it –as we approach the attack’s fifth anniversary,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “It is remarkable that we had to battle both Obama and Trump administrations to break through the State Department’s Benghazi stonewall.”


DrafterX Offline
#1579 Posted:
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Burner02 wrote:


But Mehta wrote that the State Department “has not, however, searched the one records system over which it has always had control and that is almost certain to contain some responsive records: the state.gov email server.”






WTF..?? Confused
teedubbya Offline
#1580 Posted:
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Don't confuse the departments response to a FOI request with the multiple investigations that were done.
DrafterX Offline
#1581 Posted:
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those don't count... Obama was in charge then... Mellow
drywalldog Offline
#1582 Posted:
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You have spent roughly 180 million investigating the Clintons and you got a stain on a dress and a lie to show for it. 70 million dollars spent on trying to vote Obama care down. Investigated Bengazi 7 times, 5 times led by repubs. Yeah I'm alright with the special prosecutor doing his job. Cry on righties!
DrafterX Offline
#1583 Posted:
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so, you're saying it was ok to get a **** in the oval office and lie about it... then it was ok for Hillary to lie to us..?? Huh
gummy jones Offline
#1584 Posted:
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DrafterX wrote:
so, you're saying it was ok to get a **** in the oval office and lie about it... then it was ok for Hillary to lie to us..?? Huh


depends on who's doing the lying
"cry on righties" [and puppies]
drywalldog Offline
#1585 Posted:
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No, he got caught, you have spent so much time and money whining about the clintons, and that's all you got. Yet your hero is tied to Russia and you have no problem with that. The very thing that the right claimed Obama was gonna do. The Russia connection has gone on to long, yet you're still chasing things from the Clinton administration. Can't have it both ways.
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#1586 Posted:
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No, he got caught, you have spent so much time and money whining about the clintons, and that's all you got. Yet your hero is tied to Russia and you have no problem with that. The very thing that the right claimed Obama was gonna do. The Russia connection has gone on to long, yet you're still chasing things from the Clinton administration. Can't have it both ways.
drywalldog Offline
#1587 Posted:
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You really want to start with the lying in the Oval Office?
Burner02 Offline
#1588 Posted:
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Don't really think they will find anything to be honest.

Obama holdovers and Clinton operatives have destroyed any possible remaining evidence.

Or have they?
DrafterX Offline
#1589 Posted:
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the 'Resistance' will be Hillary's downfall.... she shoulda just retired with her pay-to-play 200 million foundation money.... but her ego wouldn't let her... Mellow
delta1 Offline
#1590 Posted:
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talk about ego...Trump should keep his mouth shut about his campaign and Russian connections...but his ego won't let him ... he's said so many things that can come back to haunt him...
DrafterX Offline
#1591 Posted:
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True... true... Mellow
Burner02 Offline
#1592 Posted:
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Thought that was a characteristic of many New Yorker's.
gummy jones Offline
#1593 Posted:
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Trump, like hilary, is his own worst enemy.
SmokeMonkey Offline
#1594 Posted:
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gummy jones wrote:
Trump, like hilary, is his own worst enemy.


Exactly this.
DrafterX Offline
#1595 Posted:
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At times yes... I hate the tweeter thing... Mellow
MACS Offline
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https://tinyurl.com/yahh59lx

Ignore, for a moment, that this is The Daily Wire (conservative bias) and focus on the fact the court admitted the DNC cheated.

Thoughts?

I'll give you mine: Thankful. I think Bernie was more likeable than both Trump and Clinton, and likely would have won if he got the nod. As idiotic as his ideas are, he probably would have beat Trump. With a house and senate against him, he'd have accomplished exactly nothing.
frankj1 Offline
#1597 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
https://tinyurl.com/yahh59lx

Ignore, for a moment, that this is The Daily Wire (conservative bias) and focus on the fact the court admitted the DNC cheated.

Thoughts?

I'll give you mine: Thankful. I think Bernie was more likeable than both Trump and Clinton, and likely would have won if he got the nod. As idiotic as his ideas are, he probably would have beat Trump. With a house and senate against him, he'd have accomplished exactly nothing.

you have cited a few reasons I would have voted for him. His far left ideals would have been neutralized, but he is more than far left ideals...no one owns him for one, and he is solid on vet's issues for another.
DrafterX Offline
#1598 Posted:
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I have no doubt my paycheck would be smaller.. and Obama-care would digging a huge trench in the budget... Mellow
DrMaddVibe Offline
#1599 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
https://tinyurl.com/yahh59lx

Ignore, for a moment, that this is The Daily Wire (conservative bias) and focus on the fact the court admitted the DNC cheated.

Thoughts?

I'll give you mine: Thankful. I think Bernie was more likeable than both Trump and Clinton, and likely would have won if he got the nod. As idiotic as his ideas are, he probably would have beat Trump. With a house and senate against him, he'd have accomplished exactly nothing.



Applause


No matter what we're looking at a one termer...for all the options. Neither one will be re-elected UNLESS the DNC trot out Biden or that lying bitch. Then Trump does get re-elected.
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
ApplauseNeither one will be re-elected UNLESS the DNC trot out Biden or that lying bitch.



Which lying bitch are you referring to..?? Huh
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