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Pissed Off Trump Tweets About “Crooked H” Destroying Phones With Hammer” And Shady Russian Dealings

President Trump has been dropping MOABs over Twitter, blasting his enemies for what he called the “single greatest WITCH HUNT In American political history” while nothing is being done about the fact that “Crooked H destroyed phones w/ hammer, ‘bleached’ emails, & had husband meet w/AG days before she was cleared – & they talk about obstruction?”

Trump raised the question as to why he’s being investigated for what he calls “non-dealings” with Russia, while completely ignoring the cozy relationship between the Clintons, the Podestas, and Russian banking and energy interests.

As ZeroHedge reports:

[Trump] seems to have a point on this one.  Last summer, we reported fairly extensively on the Hillary email scandal while it was virtually glossed over by the mainstream media.

And, like many people, we were astonished when FBI Director Comey made the unilateral assessment that, despite Hillary’s “extreme carelessness,” no “reasonable” prosecutor would bring charges against her. 

Unlike the current “Russia probe” which has revealed precisely zero tangible evidence, the FBI’s own reports from last summer revealed that Hillary and her staff intentionally destroyed official State Department emails despite confirming they were aware of the existence of a federal subpoena demanding the preservation of those emails (we covered it extensively here:  The “Oh Shit” Moment: Hillary Wiped Her Server With BleachBit Despite Subpoena).

Let’s add a bit more color and review the Clinton’s actual shady ties to Russia. From the NYT:

Between 2008 – 2010, Uranium One / UrAsia investors donated $8.65 Million to the Clinton Foundation.

June 2009, Russian State Nuclear Agency Rosatom (through a subsidiary) takes a 17% stake in Uranium One.

June 2010, Russian State Nuclear Agency Rosatom takes majority ownership of Uranium One, which Hillary Clinton’s State Department signed off on.

June 29th, 2010, Bill Clinton earns $500,000 for a speech in Moscow to a Russian Investment bank that assigned a “buy” rating to Uranium One stock.

January, 2013: Rosatom State Nuclear Agency now owns Uranium one and takes it private.

Wait, you say – that Uranium deal had to go through an adviiiisory committee (Michael Savage voice). Know what? That committee is a joke…

“The committee almost never met, and when it deliberated it was usually at a fairly low bureaucratic level,” Richard Perle said. Perle, who has worked for the Reagan, Clinton and both Bush administrations added, “I think it’s a bit of a joke.” –CBS

Let’s talk transparency:

Clinton failed to disclose the $2.35 Million in donations (made in installments) from Uranium One chairman Ian Telfer to a nebulous slush fund subsidiary of the Clinton Foundation, set up by mining executive Frank Guistra (whose company merged with Uranium One). Guistra donated $31 Million to the Clinton Foundation. How charitable! (read more here in the New Yorker)

Let’s not forget – Russia’s largest bank – Sberbank – paid the Podesta group $170,000 over a 6 month period to lobby against 2014 economic sanctions put in place by the Obama administration:

Podesta’s efforts were a key part of under-the-radar lobbying during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign led mainly by veteran Democratic strategists to remove sanctions against Sberbank and VTB Capital, Russia’s second largest bank.

The two Russian banks spent more than $700,000 in 2016 on Washington lobbyists as they sought to end the U.S. sanctions, according to Senate lobbying disclosure forms and documents filed with the Department of Justice.

The Podesta Group charged Sberbank $20,000 per month, plus expenses, on a contract from March through September 2016.

What’s morePodesta forgot to register as a “Foreign Agent” while doing so!

So let’s get this straight; White House regular and creepy art aficionado Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta (who would be Secretary of State today if Hillary had won), took money from the Russians during the US election in exchange for Washington influence.

This is not the first time the Podesta group has taken Russian money:

The Podesta group made $180,000 lobbying for Uranium One (source – you have to add up the years). These donations were made over the same time period that the Clinton Foundation was receiving millions from UrAsia / U1 interests. Tony Podesta also sat on the board (along with senior Russian officials) of a small energy company called Joule. Two months after Podesta joined the board, Joule landed a sweet $35 Million contract from Vladimir Putin’s Rusnano investment fund – which Podesta failed to disclose as required by law. Oh, and before joining the Clinton Campaign, John Podesta transferred 75,000 shares of Joule to his daughter through a shell company with her address. Maybe the optics didn’t look good or something? 

Given all that – do you think Hillary and associates would be under congressional investigation right now if she had been elected President?

Nope.

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Bitcoin Drops To 10-Day Low As Cryptocurrencies Face Volatility On Three Fronts

Bitcoin and other “cryptocurrencies” have been kneecapped after jumping as much as 30% in June to all time highs. Investors are spooked over recent cyberattacks, uncertainty surrounding a Bitcoin platform upgrade, and proposed legislation which adds cryptocurencies a list of reportable assets under existing anti-money laundering laws.

Cyber attack

As CNBC reports, major bitcoin exchanges were hit with multiple cyberattacks this week. Bitfinex, the largest U.S. dollar based bitcoin exchange, announced it was under ‘distributed denial-of-service’ attacks (DDOS) which slowed the service down.  The attacks come at a time when consumer interest in bitcoins have also led to heavier than normal traffic on the exchanges, compounding the attacks.

Platform upgrade

On August 1st, the bitcoin platform will be undergoing a protocol upgrade labeled BIP148, meant to solve the block size debate – an argument over the size of bitcoin’s ‘blocks’ (a record of transactions on the public ledger – the ‘blockchain’). The planned improvements are supposed to help ‘scale’ bitcoin for future growth, lower fees, and speed up transaction times –  however the upgrade is not without risks, and the Bitcoin community is divided.

Inclusion in Anti-Money Laundering Bill

Last but not least, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have co-sponsored bill S.1241 (Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Counterfeiting Act), which adds language to existing anti-money laundering provisions to include digital wallets, prepaid access devices, and other ‘digital currency exchangers’ if they contain over $10,000 of cryptocurrency.

Also included in the bill are cell phones, flash drives, and computers containing information on holdings which will need to be declared and reported upon entry into the U.S.

In other words, the notion of using digital currency to transact anonymously will become much less attractive if this bill is signed into law.

Demand for cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed over the last few months, beginning with Japan recognizing bitcoin as legal currency in April. Other countries including South Korea and Malaysia are reportedly set to follow suit.

Where to from here?

While Bitcoin grapples with technological hurdles and legislation which would reduce the appeal of digital wallets, it’s anyone’s guess where cryptocurrencies are headed in the near term – though some say much lower if it continues to break below key support levels.

That said, if more firms follow Goldman Sachs’ lead and start covering Bitcoin – and perhaps even become involved in the exchanges, digital currencies stand to gain general acceptance as a store of value. If so, it will be interesting to see what happens to digital fiat currencies if we enter into another period of financial shock and awe (Euro edition?).

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FBI’s Mueller Pivots On Collusion – Special Counsel Now Investigating Obstruction

After almost an entire year of fruitless investigation into whether or not Russia meddled in the US election, the Washington Post is reporting that FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller widened the scope of his Russia investigation shortly after former FBI Director James Comey’s firing on May 9th to determine whether or not President Trump attempted to obstruct justice – according to FIVE (!?) anonymous sources.

Spoiler alert; it’s about Trump allegedly asking two other intelligence officials to drop the Flynn investigation – one of whom said he ‘never felt pressured to intervene.’

Mueller’s team is reportedly set to interview Daniel Coats, the current director of national intelligence, Mike Rogers, head of the NSA, and Richard Ledgett – Rogers’ departed deputy, about an alleged meeting Trump held which may have been inappropriate.

Coats was attending a briefing at the White House with officials from several other government agencies. When the briefing ended, as The Washington Post previously reported, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

Coats told associates that Trump had asked him whether Coats could intervene with Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials. Coats later told lawmakers that he never felt pressured to intervene.

A day or two after the March 22 meeting, Trump telephoned Coats and Rogers to separately ask them to issue public statements denying the existence of any evidence of coordination between his campaign and the Russian government.  WaPo

Officials say Coats and Rogers refused to comply with the president’s requests – while Ledgett wrote an internal NSA memo documenting the call between Rogers and Trump.

Striking Out

After nearly a year of investigation, the FBI wasn’t able to find any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin – and James Comey testified that President Trump wasn’t personally being investigated. Moreover, Comey, Dan Coats and Mike Rogers – if the WaPo report and it’s 5 anonymous sources is accurate – all said they never felt pressured to end the Flynn investigation. The definition of a nothingburger.

Don’t worry though #NeverTrumpers – once this Mueller story is exhausted the deep state will shift to the recently filed lawsuit over Trump’s business entanglements. Doesn’t it seem like they’re obstructing the President at this point?

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GOP Congresswoman Receives Threatening Email With Subject ‘One Down, 216 To Go…’

Shortly after this morning’s shooting at a GOP baseball practice session which left five people with gunshot wounds including House Minority Whip Steve Scalise who is in critical condition, GOP Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-NY) received a threatening email with the subject “One down, 216 to go…”

In the body of the email, the sender wrote:

“Did you NOT expect this? When you take away ordinary peoples very lives in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit. Certainly, your souls and morality were lost long before. Good riddance.”

Hannah Andrews, a spokeswoman for Rep. Tenney, said that the timing of the message was “Particularly disheartening following this morning’s tragic events.”

“This morning, our office received a disturbing message referencing the tragic shooting that wounded House Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, U.S. Capitol Police officers and a Congressional staff member,” Andrews said in a statement. “Although our office receives threats like these regularly, today’s message was particularly disheartening following this morning’s tragic events.”

The tolerant left, ladies and gentlemen…

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UPS Workers Flee From Rampaging Co-Worker, 4 Dead

While gunfire rang out at an Alexandria, VA GOP baseball practice session, chaos erupted in San Francisco as a UPS employee entered one of the company’s delivery facilities on Wednesday and opened fire – killing three co-workers before turning the gun on himself, according to police.

Several workers sought safety on the roof of the facility, while others ran out and tried to warn a bus full of passengers to take off.

“They were banging on the bus and they were screaming, “Go! Go! Go!’” said Jessica Franklin, 30, who was riding the bus to work when it made a regular stop in front of the UPS facility. “As they got on the bus, they were all ducking.” –AP

Aside from the four killed, two employees were wounded in the shooting about two miles from downtown San Francisco according to Assistant Police Chief Toney Chaplin. A neighbor described the scene:

“They were all in rapid succession,” said Deng, a 30-year-old tech worker who lives across the street from the warehouse. “It was like tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat.”

“I saw police officers go up from the ramp and then storm the buildings,” he said. “It’s crazy.”

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Tucker Carlson: Deep State Leaks An ‘Utter Perversion Of The System’

Tucker Carlson went in with guns blazing after yesterday’s Senate testimony by Attorney General Jeff Sessions – calling elements of the US Intelligence community ‘corrupt’ and ‘politicized’ for illegally leaking information with the intention of damaging President Trump.

In a Democracy we’re in charge – not unelected bureaucrats… Once the beurocracy has shoved asdie an elected government, they can do it again – and at that point it’s over… democracy is dead.

Tucker counts the ways… 

For months, conspiratorial propaganda has been making it’s way from the United States surveillance apparatus to mainstream outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post – which was instrumental in seeding the phrase ‘fake news.‘ For more salacious material such as the discredited 35-page ‘pissgate’ dossier (cobbled together in part through a 4chan trolling effort), tabloid outlets such as Buzzfeed are utilized.

Tucker ran through a list of several deep state leaks meant specifically to harm Trump and his administration – beginning with the fact that yesterday’s testimony took place in large part due to former FBI Director James Comey’s previously leaked suggestion that Sessions may have met with the Russian Ambassador last April during a crowded event at the Mayfower Hotel.

In December unnamed intel sources told the Washington Post that Russia helped Donald Trump win the Presidency. A week later, unnamed senior Intel officials told NBC news that Putin personally was involved in helping Trump win.

In February, current and former American officials released the details of a phone call between incoming National Sec Advisor Mike Flynn and ambassador Kislyak of Russia. [Flynn’s] career and reputation were subsequently destroyed by all of that.

Trump’s private phone call with the President of Mexico – surveilled by American Intelligence and then leaked.

His call with the Aussie PM, same thing…

With Vladimir Putin – again, leaked by the Intel community.

How could this possibly have advanced American National Security interests, which is what they’re supposed to be doing? None of it did – it was entirely political.

And then in March as if to prove this point, a half dozen current and former Intel officials told the NYT that they’d sought to spread classified intel information about the Trump campaign as widely as possible throughout government to ensure it would all eventually leak!

[And let’s not forget the time former Obama DoD official Evelyn Farkas slipped up and corroborated the report]

Tucker closes by reminding us exactly why this is so important

In general the public ought to know a lot more about government than it does, but we’re seeing something new here. These are strategic leaks – the release of classified intelligence from people whose job it is to collect and safeguard that intelligence – and in that way it’s an utter perversion of the system. We give enormous power to our intelligence agenices – CIA, NSA, the rest of them. We let them listen to our phone calls, read our email, watch us from satellites. We let them do that so they can keep us safe from foreign threats – not so they can pick our political leaders or devise our policies… (cont.)

Enjoy:

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24 Story West London Apartment Building Engulfed In Flames – 200 Firefighters On Scene

Firefighters battled to rescue residents trapped in a gigantic inferno engulfing the 24 story Grenfell apartment tower in London. Two hundred firefighters were dispatched to the fire which broke out in the early hours of Wednesday morning and rapidly spread throughout the building deemed a fire hazard for years.

“Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus are working extremely hard in very difficult conditions to tackle this fire. This is a large and very serious incident and we have deployed numerous resources and specialist appliances.” –Asst. Commissioner Dan Daily

Residents could be seen from windows waving blankets and calling for help, including a woman with a child.

“There was a woman with a child. I saw her waving maybe 30mins ago,” said a man who asked not to be named. “She said I’ve got a child … I saw them spraying her window.”

Hadil Alamily told the Guardian that she saw “someone jump on fire from the top floor”. She had seen the man flashing a light in an SOS pattern. “He was screaming help, help, help but no one helped. He dashed a mattress out of the window. He was literally on fire and jumped.” –The Guardian

People could be seen flickering their lights as a call for help.

 

 

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China Detains Kushner-Linked Billionaire

For several weeks, Chinese media has been reporting that the Chairman of Chinese M&A monster Anabang Insurance, Wu Xiaohui, has been detained and is unable to leave the country. While Anabang initially denied the charge, the company issued a statement saying that Wu is ‘unable to perform his duties‘ for personal reasons, and Caijing Magazine reported late Tuesday on it’s website that Wu was physically detained by Chinese authorities on June 9th, citing unidentified sources.

The report, which said it wasn’t clear whether Wu was assisting with a government investigation, was later deleted from the magazine’s website. Caijing didn’t immediately answer calls and emails requesting comment before regular business hours in Beijing.

A person familiar with the matter told the South China Morning Post that Wu had been “assisting relevant investigations” and previously had always returned to his office or home after a few hours of questioning. Wu hasn’t returned since he was taken away at the end of last week, the person said. Bloomberg

Anabang, which had been on a ‘acquisition spree’ was recently in the news as a suitor for Jared Kushner’s 666 Fifth Avenue property until the deal fell apart in March.

Anbang drew worldwide attention in 2014, as it snapped up real estate and financial-services companies in Asia, the U.S. and Europe, often at large premiums. In October that year it agreed to buy the landmark Waldorf Astoria in New York for $1.95 billion, a record for a single American hotel, and later closed the property while it converts most of the rooms to luxury condominiums.

Wu, who married the granddaughter of reform leader Deng Xiaoping, doesn’t speak English and often travels with translators. The vast majority of Anbang is collectively owned by relatives of Wu or his wife, Zhuo Ran, the New York Times has reported.

I guess this is what happens when you forget to pay your membership dues in China?

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Alex Jones Implores NBC Not To Air Interview With ‘Liar’ Megyn Kelly, JP Morgan Pulls Ads

JP Morgan has pulled advertisements from NBC’s Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, after the network uploaded a teaser of an upcoming interview with Infowars host Alex Jones scheduled to run on Father’s Day. The segment features Jones defending his position that there are enough inconsistencies with the official story of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary to warrant further investigation.

Kelly’s interview comes on the heels of recent attacks on alternative news – including Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, and most recently the Gateway Pundit.

Jones hits back

In response to the promo video, Jones said that Megyn Kelly had lied to him about the purpose of the interview.

They were here from 9:30 in the morning to almost 11 at night. And Megyn Kelly lied to me several weeks before she came here, and she said that the interview was not going to be about Sandy Hook and the mass shooting there, and it was not going to be about pizzagate – these other issues that the media always obsesses on and misrepresents what I’ve said and what I’ve done.

She said, “oh, we might mention those but it’s really just a profile on you.”

The Infowars host then remembered all the strange and ‘lawyery’ questions Kelly asked throughout the interview…

She’s a lawyer. It was a total cross-examination… And when I said that I believe children died at Sandy Hook, as I’ve said for years, she kept coming back with answers saying “you believe nobody died! You believe Anderson Cooper was involved!” and I said “NO! My listeners questioned it, I had debates with both sides, and I played devil’s advocate.”

Then Jones says ‘it all clicked today’ – that all of the Sandy Hook questions Megyn Kelly had been asking, along with questions about fatherhood, made Alex suspect that ‘Lawyer’ Megyn is crafting an emotional hit piece in advance of the interview’s airing on Father’s Day. This led Alex to implore NBC to shelf the interview.

I agree with the families of the victims of Sandy hook – the Alex Jones profile interview with Megyn Kelly does not need to air. It needs to be shelved. And it needs to not be aired on Father’s Day. It’s not appropriate, and it misrepresents what I said, and I told them that I had a final statement last year.

Jones remains skeptical about Sandy Hook

In a 20 minute ‘Final Statement on Sandy Hook’ in November of 2016, Jones lays out his evidence which he says calls into question the official report in the Sandy Hook massacre.

“All I know is the official story on Sandy Hook has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.” -Alex Jones

Among his questions:

  • Why does the Sandy Hook elementary school website have zero traffic for four years?
  • Why were there several reports of other shooters dressed in camouflage who fled into the woods – one of whom police allegedly detained?
  • Why were port-o-potties, sandwiches, fruit, drinks, and chips bought and set up for people at the crime scene to eat inside the school?
  • Sandy Hook father Robbie Parker ‘getting into character
  • Why didn’t they let paramedics and EMTs into the building after 27 children were declared dead in 8 minutes?
  • Why was Adam Lanza’s home burned down by the bank?

In closing, Jones says:

My heart goes out to all parents that have lost children. And so, if children were lost in Sandy Hook, my heart goes out to each and everyone of those parents, and the people that say they’re parents that I see on the news. -Alex Jones

More repercussions for Kelly

In addition to JP Morgan pulling it’s advertising, an anti-2nd amendment group has disinvited Kelly to a June 14th event she was scheduled to emcee over the Jones interview.

This decision was spurred by NBC’s planned broadcast of Kelly’s interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who believes the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, was a hoax. –Sandy Hook Promise

Don’t panic folks, I’m sure this is all part of the show…

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Ann Coulter Tells Hannity AG Sessions Needs To ‘Come Out Swinging’ As Entire Point Of Special Counsel Has Evaporated

Ann Coulter went on Sean Hannity’s radio show Monday to discuss Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ upcoming testimony tomorrow in front of the Senate Intel Committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Coulter said Sessions needs to “come out swinging” – defending his meetings with the Russian Ambassador, while making the case for dissolving the FBI’s Special Counsel investigation headed by former FBI head Robert Mueller – as it’s almost entirely based on now disproven allegations of obstruction and political revenge by President Trump which in Coulter’s words have “evaporated.”

I’m depressed because Republicans are just instinctive losers. We’re going to see a replay of Donald Rumsfeld apologizing for Abu Ghraib – well that was the end of Donald Rumsfeld. That. Was. The. End. Do not apologize Republicans. Jeff Sessions needs to come out swinging and say ‘that was nonsense, I was trying to be nice – but I’m not recusing myself and I’m firing Mueller.’

Coulter then puts the whole ‘met with the Russian diplomat’ thing in context…

Coulter: Why did Jeff Sessions recuse himself Because he met wit the Russian Ambassador which every other senator has done? His job at the time – let’s play this back, he wasn’t Vice President, he wasn’t Steven Miller writing the speeches. He wasn’t even Roger Stone for Pete’s sake. His job was United States Senator.

Yes, he endorsed Donald Trump and introduced him at a few AL rallies. As his full time job, United States Senator, he met with the Russian Ambassadoras did a dozen democrats! That’s what you do, as you know and have probably surely talked about. Claire McKaskill was tweeting out about her meeting with the Russian Ambassador. Dianne Feinstein – there are pictures of them all meeting with the Russian Ambassador. There is nothing improper about Jeff Sessions meeting with the Russian ambassador – and on that, he recuses himself and they demand a special counsel on the false claim – which Comey allowed to sit out there, that Donald Trump himself was personally under investigation.

Jared Kushner is the only reason to continue investigating.

Coulter says that of all the people currently working in the White House, there’s nobody whose actions or connections justify the special counsel aside from Jared Kushner…

Coulter: The only one who’s a the White House is the President’s son in law. If he [Jared Kushner] leaves, there’s no basis for an independent counsel.

Lying MSM

Hannity: Sessions is gonna go in there tomorrow. And Sessions did his job as Senator, and the media is going to go insane and I assume the networks are going to cover this. I’ve never seen such outright lying to the American people by the press in my life, and I’m not sure what the answer is to get them to stop and maybe for a second, you know, just try to stand true to their mission of objectivity a little bit.

Coulter: Sessions has got to say the entire point of having an independent counsel has evaporated with James Comey’s eventual, reluctant admission that Trump is not under investigation – so he’s not recusing himself, he’s firing Muller…  …the only possible downside is that the media will be hysterical! Will anyone notice the difference? They’ve been calling for his impeachment before he was sworn in!

Sean Hannity then confidently tells Coulter that Trump was bluffing about the tapes

Coulter:  On Friday on Lawrence O’Donnell they had an entire segment on “what if Trump destroyed the tapes?” So we’re already in never-never land on what if’s, and we must impeach…

Hannity: Ann, I can assure you – there are no tapes. That was Trump saying “I may have ’em” to get in his head.

Coulter: It worked, it got Comey to tell the truth about a few major [things]… Trump himself wasn’t under investigation. The other part is the truth about what he said about Michael Flynn. I mean it’s so clear now even in Comey’s description of it…

Listen here:

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