A convicted felon in New Mexico was in the middle of beating his girlfriend, when he accidentally called the cops on himself through the household’s Amazon Alexa device. After threatening his girlfriend, who is not named – Eduardo Barros, 28, allegedly asked “Did you call the sherriffs?”
Amazon Alexa sprang to action – recognizing Barros’ question as a command, and using the connected landline to phone a Bernallillo County Sherriff’s Department 911 operator.
Barros kicked his girlfriend at least 10 times in the face and stomach after becoming suspicious she was cheating on him because of a text message she received.
“Barros told her she was not going anywhere and he was going to kill her,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by The Post. “When 911 called her phone, Barros saw the caller ID and threw [her] to the floor. Barros then kicked her while on the ground at least 10 times in the face and stomach. Barros told [the victim] he could not believe the cops had been called and he was not going back to prison and that she knew he was a felon. [The victim] stated she thought she was going to be killed or shot.” – NY Post
Police who arrived on the scene were able to rescue the woman and her daughter. The woman suffered minor injuries and was not hospitalized, and the daughter was not harmed according to Deputy Felicia Romero.
Barros was taken into custody by a crisis negotiation team along with SWAT, and was ordered held without bail on charges including aggrevated battery, false imprisonment, and possession of a firearm.
“The unexpected use of this new technology to contact emergency services has possibly helped save a life,” Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales III told ABC News. “This amazing technology definitely helped save a mother and her child from a very violent situation.” – NY Post
Let’s all go buy Amazon echos right now – because when seconds count, Amazon will make sure the cops are minutes away.
The meeting with Trump Jr. is suspected to be the basis for the FISA request to surveil (and unmask) the Trump team.
Less than a week after news broke of Donald Trump Jr’s meeting with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya – the delayed “Boom” to deep state cheerleader and James Comey friend Benjamin Wittes’s cryptic “Tick, Tick, Tick” tweet, Ms. Vesselnitskaya has been revealed as an anti-Trump shill whose meeting with Trump Jr. appears to be a deep-statesetupused to justify the FISA warrant which the Obama administration used to spy on the Trump team via ‘unmasking‘ – which was accidentally revealed by former Obama admin official Evelyn Farkas on live TV.
Moreover, the meeting in Trump Tower between Veselnitskaya and Trump Jr. was arranged by Rob Goldstone, is associated with Fusion GPS – the firm behind the largely-debunked salacious 35 page ‘pissgate’ dossier designed to take down Donald Trump, yet which failed miserably after being largely debunked.
Trump Jr. diffused an upcoming New York Times piece on the meeting by issuing a statement and Tweeting copies of the emails exchanged in the setup of the sit-down, scooping NYT reporter who had a Twitter “he broke me” meltdown.
(And just how did Sexton know about this a year ago?)
Meanwhile, Trump Jr. said that Veselnitskaya had no meaningful information and the meeting was a total dud.
Ms. Veselnitskaya is HUGELY Anti-Trump
Her Facebook page is littered with anti-Trump posts, and she either attended or at least posted a picture from an anti-Trump rally on January 22nd, 2017.
Natalia Veselnitskaya is extremely anti-Putin and anti-Trump. Anyone who spends 5 seconds looking at her FB would see that pic.twitter.com/LqDW2eJ62z
And as The Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse report, Veselnitskaya was pictured in the front row at a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on June 14th, 2016 behind the anti-Russia-Russian US Ambassador, Michael McFaul- just five days after the reported meeting with Trump Jr.
It should be noted that Ambassador McFaul was very publicly discussing the ‘Muh Russia’ conspiracy narrative in the media and appeared on numerous NBC and MSNBC broadcasts during the 2016 campaign, and immediately after the election.
Additionally, it was Michael McFaul who was the architect of the Obama/Clinton “Russian Reset”, that eventually led McFaul to becoming the Ambassador to Russia (NYT Link).
McFaul was notably kicked out of Russia after he allegedly tried to help overthrow President Putin.
Michael McFaul, the U.S. ambassador in Moscow from 2012-2014, was accused by Russian state television of seeking to orchestrate the overthrow of President Vladimir Putin after hosting opposition activists and Kremlin critics at the embassy in his second day on the job. (Politico Link)
Furthermore, Veselnitskaya posted a picture taken in John McCain’s office in December of 2015, 6 months before the meeting in Trump Tower.
Recall that the Dept. of Justice drew up the original FISA application to surveil the team, which was rejected outright by the court. The second application – written more narrowly, was denied in July. Finally – three weeks before the election on October 15th, the order was finally granted for three of Trump’s associates – ostensibly the three who were in the meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya – Trump Jr., Trump advisor Jared Kushner, and former campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Here’s the plot:
Denied Visa
Natalia Veselnitskaya was denied an entry visa into the United States in 2016, only to be overruled by a NY Court so she could participate in an lawsuit opposite fired US Attorney Preet Bharara, which the U.S. District Court of New York later granted on appeal. Why was her entry initially denied?
The actual date of the arguments in the case U.S. -v- Prevezon Holdings was the EXACT SAME date as the meeting in Trump Tower – June 9th 2016CASE LINK –Conservative Treehouse
Link to ‘Pissgate’ Dossier Research Firm – Fusion GPS
And as The Independentreported on Monday, the man who arranged the Trump Jr. “setup” is music publicist and friend of Don Jr. – Rob Goldstone – is reportedly linked to Fusion GPS – the firm which Democratic operatives retained to develop the now infamous (and largely debunked) 35 page ‘pissgate’ opposition research dossier on Donald Trump.
A spokesman for the President’s legal team told The Independent they now believed Ms Veselnitskaya and her colleagues had misrepresented who they were and who they worked for.
“Specifically, we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier.” -Mark Corallo
The Washington Post suggested the person was Rob Goldstone, a music publicist and personal friend of Don Jr. Don Jr. has neither confirmed nor denied Goldstone’s involvement.
Whoever the acquaintance was, subsequent reporting by Circa News said that members of the President’s legal team have confirmed that the acquaintance “who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS.”
In closing – Why would a Russian attorney who hates Donald Trump and has ties to the ‘pissgate’ dossier firm, Fusion GPS, agree to provide Trump Jr. with opposition research on Hillary Clinton unless it was a setup?
There’s a new force in Chicago – toughened snowflakes submitting themselves to the grueling Antifa training gauntlet known as the haymaker collective – a gym that doesn’t force people into a hetero-normative environment as they learn self-defense skills to protect against evil fascists.
Muh Anxieties…
The concept of conservative-on-liberal violence was largely invented by the left to support their perpetual victim mentality. After all – if they’re not constantly being oppressed, discriminated against, or having their genders assumed, liberals are apparently physically attacked by conservatives all the time.
Except…
I don’t remember all those paid conservatives sent to Hillary rallies to incite violence until they’re shut down.
I can’t seem to find the YouTube video of the pack of white thugs dragging a black guy out of his car, beating him in the middle of an intersection, and then stealing his car.
I must have slept in the day Trump supporters kidnapped a liberal – torturing him, threatening to kill him, and then only getting caught when a neighbor called the cops.
In fact, it seems like the exact opposite is true!
On to Tucker’s Dojo
“Naila,” a representative of the Antifa Haymaker Collective went on Tucker Carlson Tonight where she explained that the gym was set up so liberals don’t have to feel “frightened, and isolated, and alone” when it comes to all of the hate crimes they’re worried about.
After her impassioned intro, Tucker proceeded to use facts and logic to pierce Naila’s thinly supported veil of delusion about crime in her hometown of Chicago – rendering her unable to answer simple questions and sending the liberated hijab wearing warrior into a head-swiveling self-righteous rage:
Tucker: I just sort of wonder if you’re concern isn’t misplaced. I mean, Chicago is a really dangerous place. I think you’ve had about 2,000 shootings so far just this year. I don’t think any of them are perpetrated by right wingers that I know of – or Trump supporters… any of them. So maybe you’ve got other things to worry about?
Naila:Well, according to statistics, we do have something to worry about. The Cato institute records that the vast majority of violent extremism comes from white right wing nationalists. We also know that according to statistics, 80% of deadly terrorist incidents that happen within the United States are perpetuated by people who feel that other bodies, other people, don’t belong.
Tucker:I don’t want to interrupt you, but those are totally made up statistics – you should spend some time looking at them.
Tucker refocuses on crime in Chicago, when Naila then let the FOX host know she’s afraid to ride the bus, “because just may 26th in Portland on the light rail, there were two black women who were approached and confronted by a white man who calls himself a patriot. Three other white men came to those two womens’ defense, and they were stabbed in the neck and two of them died.”
Tucker replied, “I saw the story, it was an awful story – but I’m just saying, in the city that you live in… you’ve had 2,000 shootings and none of them were by Trump supporters. That doesn’t bother you, but a stabbing on a train in Portland, Oregon is the reason you’re a afraid to ride the train in Chicago. It seems a little bit disassociated.”
Guns, Guns, Guns!
Tucker then brought up private gun ownership, since the Chicago Haymaker collective was established in the name of self-defense. Naila can’t seem to grasp that guns are a particularly effective way to defend one’s self – stammering around and mechanically looping back to the fact that the Haymaker “project” was established for people to learn hand-to-hand combat.
Tucker: Guns are more effective than karate chops, so I’m just sort of wondering where you are on the gun thing.
Naila: On the question of guns, we don’t really have an answer. We need to learn the responses physically to respond to some of these incidents that are happening. The question for me, again, is not on people shooting me with guns. The question is incidents like Nabra Hassannen who was murdered while she was walking from her Mosque in Washington D.C.
Tucker: Was she killed by a Trump supporter? Oh, I thought she was killed by an illegal alien, wasn’t she?
Naila: She was killed by a man who decided to go after her with a bat.
Tucker:Oh yeah, that was not a Trump supporter actually – that was an illegal alien. Bad example, I’m sure there are others.
In it’s ongoing temper tantrum over losing the election, the vapid left has now latched onto a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer. The lawyer, according to Trump Jr., promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton. When she had no goods to deliver and started talking about an adoption program, the meeting ended and the guy who set it up apologized to Trump.
Once this came out, Trump Jr. offered to meet with congressional investigators to clear the air.
But Muh Emailz
The latest from the New York Times is that three anonymous sources now say that Trump Jr. took the meeting knowing that the source of the purported information was the Kremlin – despite the guy who wrote the email denying it.
So a Russian attorney met with Trump Jr. promising info that could damage Hillary Clinton – just like Clinton did with a Ukrainian advisor – and liberal heads everywhere are exploding.
In particular, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough seems to be having a grand mal colon evacuation over the NYT report:
Don Jr took the meeting EXPECTING help from the Russian government.
Will Republicans NOW go on TV saying they would take the meeting if they knew it was part of Russian attempt to collude to elect Trump? https://t.co/UDy3S4bySI
“NYT admits 19 paragraphs down that the author of the email that allegedly confirms the source is the Kremlin denies it.
But Mr. Goldstone, who wrote the email over a year ago, denied any knowledge of involvement by the Russian government in the matter, saying that never dawned on him. “Never, never ever,” he said. Later, after the email was described to The Times, efforts to reach him for further comment were unsuccessful.
In the interview, he said it was his understanding that Ms. Veselnitskaya was simply a “private citizen” for whom Mr. Agalarov wanted to do a favor. He also said he did not know whether Mr. Agalarov’s father, Aras Agalarov, a Moscow real estate tycoon known to be close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, was involved. The elder Mr. Agalarov and the younger Mr. Trump worked together to bring a Trump Tower to Moscow, but the project never got off the ground.
Mr. Goldstone also said his recollection of the meeting largely tracked with the account given by the president’s son, as outlined in the Sunday statement Mr. Trump issued in response to a Times story on the June 2016 meeting.
Which means, that the New York Times found three sources who claim that the man who actually wrote the email is lying about the email he wrote, and that the president’s son is also lying, and that (given the Kremlin was involved) the Russian government was clueless as there was no actionable information (Trump Kr walked out of the meeting). Unless, of course, the Kremlin was never involved in the first place, especially since nothing ever came out of the meeting, and Trump senior was likewise never involved, in which case it would merely come down to Goldstone boasting about his non-existent connections.”
During last week’s G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, Ivanka Trump “briefly” sat in for her father during a meeting with global leaders on African migration and health.
The 35 year former businesswoman and fashion model sat at the table with Xi Jinping, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Angela Merkel, and Theresa May.
A spokesman for Ivanka Trump told Bloomberg that she had been sitting in the back of the room and then briefly joined the main table when the president stepped out of the meeting on African migration and health.
Naturally, the left freaked out.
The current administration’s detractors quickly got to work denouncing the sit-in as nepotism, attacking Ivanka’s credentials.
Maxine Waters told MSNBC: “It does not make good sense. Here you have the president of the United States at the G20, representing us as the leader of the free world, and so he’s going to play politics and give his daughter a chance to have a place in the sun and to be seen at a very important meeting that she knows nothing about.
She cannot in any way deal with those members who are there representing those countries. She doesn’t know anything about these issues.”
Wow – so a woman represents the United States at the G20 on African migration and health issues and the left, which is full of so-called feminists, can’t stand it…
Meanwhile, Merkel’s got Ivanka’s back
Angela Merkel commented on Ivanka’s presence during the meeting, stating: “The delegations themselves decide, should the president not be present for a meeting, who will then take over and sit in the chair…
Ivanka Trump was part and parcel of the American delegation so that is something that other delegations also do. It’s very well known that she works at the White House and is also engaged in certain initiatives.”
When I left Conference Room for short meetings with Japan and other countries, I asked Ivanka to hold seat. Very standard. Angela M agrees!
In response to Trump’s Tweet, Chelsea Clinton added to her enormous pile of embarrassing Twitter moments with an attempt at humor that, once again, revealed what an utter moron she is.
Despite being besties with Ivanka, the former first daughter took a pot shot at President Trump.
Good morning Mr. President. It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not. https://t.co/4ODjWZUp0c
A new analysis of the files published by Guccifer 2.0 completely destroys the Russian hacking narrative and the dubious Crowdstrike report it’s based on. Cutting to the chase: tile DNC server files were transferred at 23 MB/s on the East Coast of the USA, making it unlikely that a Romanian hacker was behind the breach. In fact, it confirms that at minimum, the first link in the chain was someone with local access via LAN or physical connection.
Elizabeth Lea Vos of Disobedient Media has put together a great article on the bombshell, which is re-posted below with permission.
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DNC headquarters
New meta-analysis has emerged from a document published today by an independent researcher known as The Forensicator, which suggests that files eventually published by the Guccifer 2.0 persona were likely initially downloaded by a person with physical access to a computer possibly connected to the internal DNC network. The individual most likely used a USB drive to copy the information. The groundbreaking new analysis irrevocably destroys the Russian hacking narrative, and calls the actions of Crowdstrike and the DNC into question.
The document supplied to Disobedient Media via Adam Carter was authored by an individual known as The Forensicator. The full document referenced here has been published on their blog. Their analysis indicates the data was almost certainly not accessed initially by a remote hacker, much less one in Russia. If true, this analysis obliterates the Russian hacking narrative completely.
The Forensicator specifically discusses the data that was eventually published by Guccifer 2.0 under the title “NGP-VAN.” This should not be confused with the separate publication of the DNC emails by Wikileaks. This article focuses solely on evidence stemming from the files published by Guccifer 2.0, which were previously discussed in depth by Adam Carter.
Disobedient Media previously reported that Crowdstrike is the only group that has directly analyzed the DNC servers. Other groups including Threat Connect have used the information provided by Crowdstrike to claim that Russians hacked the DNC. However, their evaluation was based solely on information ultimately provided by Crowdstrike; this places the company in the unique position of being the only direct source of evidence that a hack occurred.
The group’s President Shawn Henry is a retired executive assistant director of the FBI while their co-founder and CTO, Dmitri Alperovitch, is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, which as we have reported, is linked to George Soros. Carter has stated on his website that “At present, it looks a LOT like Shawn Henry & Dmitri Alperovitch (CrowdStrike executives), working for either the HRC campaign or DNC leadership were very likely to have been behind the Guccifer 2.0 operation.” Carter’s website was described by Wikileaks as a useful source of primary information specifically regarding Guccifer 2.0.
Carter recently spoke to Disobedient Media, explaining that he had been contacted by The Forensicator, who had published a document which contained a detailed analysis of the data published by Guccifer 2.0 as “NGP-VAN.”
The document states that the files that eventually published as “NGP-VAN” by Guccifer 2.0 were first copied to a system located in the Eastern Time Zone, with this conclusion supported by the observation that “the .7z file times, after adjustment to East Coast time fall into the range of the file times in the .rar files.” This constitutes the first of a number of points of analysis which suggests that the information eventually published by the Guccifer 2.0 persona was not obtained by a Russian hacker.
Image via The Forensicator
The Forensicator stated in their analysis that a USB drive was most likely used to boot Linux OS onto a computer that either contained the alleged DNC files or had direct access to them. They also explained to us that in this situation one would simply plug a USB drive with the LinuxOS into a computer and reboot it; after restarting, the computer would boot from the USB drive and load Linux instead of its normal OS. A large amount of data would then be copied to this same USB drive.
In this case, additional files would have been copied en masse, to be “pruned” heavily at a later time when the 7zip archive now known as NGP-VAN was built. The Forensicator wrote that if 1.98 GB of data had been copied at a rate of 22.6 MB/s and time gaps t were noticed at the top level of the NGP-VAN 7zip file were attributed to additional file copying, then approximately 19.3 GB in total would have been copied. In this scenario, the 7zip archive (NGP-VAN) would represent only about 10% of the total amount of data that was collected.
The very small proportion of files eventually selected for use in the creation of the “NGP-VAN” files were later published by the creators of the Guccifer 2.0 persona. This point is especially significant, as it suggests the possibility that up to 90% of the information initially copied was never published.
The use of a USB drive would suggest that the person first accessing the data could not have been a Russian hacker. In this case, the person who copied the files must have physically interacted with a computer that had access to what Guccifer 2.0 called the DNC files. A less likely explanation for this data pattern where large time gaps were observed between top level files and directories
in the 7zip file, can be explained by the use of ‘think time’ to select and copy 1.9 GB of individual files, copied in small batches with think time interspersed. In either scenario, Linux would have been booted from a USB drive, which fundamentally necessitates physical access to a computer with the alleged DNC files.
The Forensicator believed that using the possible ‘think-time’ explanation to explain the time-gaps was a less likely explanation for the data pattern available, with a large amount of data most likely copied instantaneously, later “pruned” in the production of the Guccifer 2.0’s publication of the NGP-VAN files.
Both the most likely explanation and the less likely scenario provided by The Forensicator’s analysis virtually exclude the possibility of a Russian or remote hacker gaining external access to the files later published as “NGP-VAN.” In both cases, the physical presence of a person accessing a containing DNC information would be required.
Importantly, The Forensicator concluded that the chance that the files had been accessed and downloaded remotely over the internet were too small to give this idea any serious consideration. He explained that the calculated transfer speeds for the initial copy were much faster than can be supported by an internet connection. This is extremely significant and completely discredits allegations of Russian hacking made by both Guccifer 2.0 and Crowdstrike.
This conclusion is further supported by analysis of the overall transfer rate of 23 MB/s. The Forensicator described this as “possible when copying over a LAN, but too fast to support the hypothetical scenario that the alleged DNC data was initially copied over the Internet (esp. to Romania).” Guccifer 2.0 had claimed to originate in Romania. So in other words, this rate indicates that the data was downloaded locally, possibly using the local DNC network. The importance of this finding in regards to destroying the Russian hacking narrative cannot be overstated.
If the data is correct, then the files could not have been copied over a remote connection and so therefore cannot have been “hacked by Russia.”
The use of a USB drive would also strongly suggest that the person copying the files had physical access to a computer most likely connected to the local DNC network. Indications that the individual used a USB drive to access the information over an internal connection, with time stamps placing the creation of the copies in the East Coast Time Zone, suggest that the individual responsible for initially copying what was eventually published by the Guccifer 2.0 persona under the title “NGP-VAN” was located in the Eastern United States, not Russia.
The implications of The Forensicator‘s analysis in combination with Adam Carter‘s work, suggest that at the very least, the Russian hacking narrative is patently false. Adam Carter has a strong grasp on the NGP-VAN files and Guccifer 2.0, with his website on the subject called a “good source” by Wikileaks via twitter. Carter told Disobedient Media that in his opinion the analysis provided by The Forensicator was accurate, but added that if changes are made to the work in future, any new conclusions would require further vetting.
On the heels of recent retractions by legacy media outlets like CNN and The New York Times, this could have serious consequences, if months of investigation into the matter by authorities are proven to have been based on gross misinformation based solely on the false word of Crowdstrike.
Assange recently lamented widespread ignorance about the DNC Leak via Twitter, specifically naming Hillary Clinton, the DNC, the Whitehouse and mainstream media as having “reason” to suppress the truth of the matter. As one of the only individuals who would have been aware of the source of the DNC Leaks, Assange’s statement corroborates a scenario where the DNC and parties described in Adam Carter’s work likely to have included Crowdstrike, may have participated in “suppressing knowledge” of the true origins and evidence surrounding the leak of the DNC emails by confusing them with the publication of the Guccifer 2.0 persona.
Despite Guccifer 2.0’s conflicting reports of having both been a Russian hacker and having contact with Seth Rich, the work of The Forensicator indicates that neither of these scenarios is likely true. What is suggested is that the files now known as “NGP-VAN” were copied by someone with access to a system connected to the DNC internal network, and that this action had no bearing on the files submitted to Wikileaks and were most likely unassociated with Seth Rich, and definitively not remotely “hacked” from Russia.
While most of the MSM hand-grenades itself into irrelevancy trying to wage a war against Donald Trump with embarrassingly transparent propaganda, CNN’s death throes have made for some of the most entertaining and unscripted reality TV in the history of humankind.
The great meme war began after CNN journalist Andrew Kaczynski – who has a history of ‘doxing’ people, harassing women, and may have driven a guy to suicide, blackmailed a Reddit user who made a satirical video of President Trump ‘beating up CNN’ in an old WWF bit which the President tweeted last Sunday. After the Redditor apologized to CNN for his thought crimes, Kaczynski wrote that CNN “reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.”
Really bad move
In response to CNN’s bullying, the internet exploded with rage. In addition to 4chan launching “operation autistic storm,” Infowars kicked off a contest offering a $20,000 prize for the best meme – judged by Infowars journalist Paul Joseph Watson.
This isn’t the first time Infowars has impacted US politics with hilarious contests. Last October, they offered $1,000 to anyone who made it onto television with a shirt reading “Bill Clinton is a rapist,” and $5,000 for anyone who shouted the phrase on TV while wearing similar attire. The results made national headlines.
And in May following an incident in which CNN host Kathy Griffin took part in some assassination porn, Infowars launched another contest – offering $1,000 – $2500 to anyone wearing a “CNN is ISIS” shirt who also shouted the phrase on TV.
TO THE MEMES!
Trump supporters far and wide have taken the contest by storm, offering up witty and hilarious submissions in the quest for $20,000 in cold hard cash. There are way too many to post here, so check out twitter hashtag #CNNMemewar
Enjoy!
First – the_donald’s current favorite – created by @Carpedonktum
Well, the G-20 summit is underway and only half of Hamburg has been burnt to the ground by angry liberals. It also marked the first meeting between US President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which lasted over two hours and included a cease-fire agreement over Syria, a discussion on counterterrorism, and an agreement for a “framework” to fight cyber crime.
To mark the occasion, Russian phone customizer Caviar has introduced a limited edition Nokia 3310 – which, according to the company, was created “in honor of the meeting of the Russian and US presidents.”
The price tag is a cool 149,000 Rubles, or $2500 USD.
Caviar wants you to know that this phone is more than just a cool conversation piece at the laundromat:
The fact that their eyes fixed on the one side – undoubtedly expresses the common desire for progress in US-Russian relations. However, do not forget about the principle and hardness necessary for the protection of justice and their own interests, the interests of his country.
fancy
Caviar wasn’t kidding about that ‘hardness’ theme… The company has made the phone out of “hardened titanium with a pattern of “Damascus Steel,” and have adorned it’s exterior with a gold electroplated bas-relief of the two Presidents looking to the left.
If you do not engage in politics – politics will you.
Update: Check it out – Evelyn Farkas, the moron who accidentally told the world about the Obama admin unmasking the Trump Team, thinks that Russia is the #1 threat to the US.
But he also thinks #1 threat is terrorism, while the #1 immediate urgent threat to US and Europe is Russia https://t.co/6yAae9074T
Despite negotiating a Syria cease-fire and discussing counterterrorism, Ukraine, election interference, and establishing a “framework” to wage the “fight against cyber crime” during a two hour meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany – the MSM and the rabid left could only focus on how horrible it is that the two Presidents got along – along with sharp criticism over their handshake.
“If each President jerks off with their right hand, they basically touched dicks.” –liberals
Super controversial handshake
The Washington Post wrote an entire article on the handshake – describing each president’s body language like it was a staredown of epic proportions:
Trump and Putin locked hands, pumping slightly, as the U.S. leader brought his other arm up to pat Putin a few times on the forearm. Putin raised his left hand to make a point. It wasn’t clear what the two leaders were talking about. –WaPo
Buried more than halfway through the article, per usual, is the truth:
In the end, the Trump-Putin handshakes appeared to be normal ones between equals, a notable development after many of Trump’s grip-and-grin encounters turned into battles of will.
Of course, WaPo then goes on to describe Trump’s previous handshakes. Because Democracy Dies in Darkness or something like that.
The Daily Express took a shot at the handshake too…
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged from their two-hour power meeting with an agreement for a cease-fire in southwest Syria. As Bloomberg reports:
“A cease-fire has been entered into,” U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters in Hamburg. Adding that this was the “first indication of the U.S. and Russia being able to work together in Syria.”
#Lavrov: US-Russia discussed cybersecurity and Trump brought up election hacking and will create a bilateral group to discuss entire issue
— Neil MacFarquhar (@NeilMacFarquhar) July 7, 2017
After the meeting, President Trump stated “We’ve had some very, very good talks, we are going to have a talk now and obviously that will continue,” Trump added, saying there are hopes of “a lot of very positive things happening.”
Meanwhile, President Putin told Interfax “I had a very lengthy conversation with the President of the United States, there were a lot of issues such as Ukraine, Syria, other problems, some bilateral issues… We again returned to the issues of fighting terrorism and cybersecurity.”
AP also reports that Putin asked Trump for “proof and evidence” of Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016 election, a charge Russia denies.
According to ZeroHedge – The request was made after Trump confronted Putin about Moscow’s election meddling during their first face-to-face meeting in Germany on Friday, according to Rex Tillerson who was present in the meeting. The secretary of state told reporters afterward that Trump opened the conversation by “raising the concerns of the American people regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.”
The left, of course, wasn’t satisfied with any of it…
If Trump only raised "Americans concerns about meddling" without promising consequences, he signaled weakness, if not consent, to Putin.
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch may be in some serious trouble over holes in her official story to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
When Lynch testified last year about her decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified info, she said under oath that she never talked to “anyone” on the Clinton Campaign.
The Senate Has Questions
The Senate is investigating a document alleging that Lynch contacted Clinton Camp operative Amanda Renteria to offer assurances that the probe into Hillary Clinton’s email would would appear to refute Lynch’s statement.
Then, there’s Comey’s statement that Lynch gave him a “queasy feeling” when she asked him to refer to the Clinton investigation as a “matter.”
Was she [Lynch] gonna to authorize us to confirm that we had an investigation? And she said “Yes, but don’t call it that. Call it a ‘matter.’ And again, you look back in hindsight – you think, ‘should I have resisted harder? I just said, ‘alright, this isn’t a hill worth dying on.'”
It gave me a queasy feeling.-James Comey
And of course there’s that whole meeting with Bill Clinton on the Tarmac which Lynch claims was an ambush by the former President.
Lynch issued a statement today flat-out denying the charges: “To the best of her knowledge and recollection, neither Ms. Lynch nor any representative of the Office of the Attorney General discussed the Clinton email investigation with Ms. Renteria, Representative Wasserman Schultz or her staff, or any DNC official”
The committee also wants to know if Lynch or any of her aides were in contact with former DNC chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz regarding the Clinton email investigation, according to a three-page list of questions that Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein recently sent to Lynch at her New York apartment.
A convicted felon in New Mexico was in the middle of beating his girlfriend, when he accidentally called the cops on himself through the household’s Amazon Alexa device. After threatening his girlfriend, who is not named – Eduardo Barros, 28, allegedly asked “Did you call the sherriffs?”
