James O’Keefe has released a second undercover video at CNN – this time capturing long time commentator Van Jones admitting that the Russia story is a big “nothing burger.”
The release comes on the heels of a first James O’Keefe / Project Veritas video featuring CNN Health producer John Bonifield admitting that the Russia narrative against President Trump was for ratings, calling it “Mostly B.S.” pushed by CNN CEO Jeff Zucker.
Will CNN ever recover? (they won’t)
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has announced plans for a $380 million plant in South Carolina to manufacture home appliances – a move expected to create 954 local jobs by 2020.
“With this investment, Samsung is reaffirming its commitment to expanding its U.S. operations and deepening our connection to the American consumers, engineers and innovators,” said Samsung Electronics America President and CEO Tim Baxter.
The announcement comes one day before South Korean President Moon Jae-in is scheduled to visit the White House, and exactly four months after competitor LG announced a $250 million washing machine plant in Clarksville, Tennessee set to open in 2019.
Samsung’s plans have apparently been in the works for some time. In February, President Trump retweeted a story from Axios (via Reuters) regarding the opening of a factory in the U.S.
Thank you, @Samsung! We would love to have you! https://t.co/r5nxC9oOA4
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
Samsung responded, saying they had felt pressured by the President, and that nothing had been decided yet.
“We feel pressured for (President Trump) thanking Samsung because nothing has been decided yet, but it could give the wrong impression that Samsung may have done something (as he wished),” an unidentified industry official told the site.” -Business Insider
Samsung is the latest in a growing list of companies giving Trump credit for job creation or investments in the United States. Prior to Trump’s inauguration, Dow Chemical ($DOW), Carrier (owned by $UTX), Sprint ($S), OneWeb, and IBM ($IBM) all gave credit to Trump for bringing thousands of jobs back to the USA – including GM ($GM), which announced a $1 billion investment in US Factories that is expected to result in 7,000 jobs, and a Lockheed Martin ($LMT) announcement of 1,800 jobs added to it’s F-35 fighter jet program.
Japan’s Softbank has also pledged to invest $50 Billion in the United States (a deal in the works before Trump’s election), and Japanese PM Abe is reported to be putting together a US investment package which could generate 700,000 US jobs.
Last but not least, on February 8th, Intel ($INTC) announced a $7 billion investment in a new plant in Arizona, expected to result in at least 10,000 Jobs.
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Sarah Palin filed a lawsuit in Manhattan on Tuesday against the New York Times for publishing FAKE NEWS. In a June 14 editorial following the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise, the paper published an easily fact-checked claim about the former Governor of Alaska, claiming Palin ‘politically incited’ gunman Jared Lee Loughner, who shot former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in the head during a 2011 mass shooting. Giffords survived the shooting and resigned from congress.
The article, titled Ameica’s Lethal Politics, also incorrectly claimed that Palin’s PAC published a map which depicted Giffords underneath stylized crosshairs, suggesting it was a “clear” link to the shooting:
‘In 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl, the link to political incitement was clear.
‘Before the shooting, Sarah Palin’s political action committee circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs.‘
‘Though there’s no sign of incitement as direct as in the Giffords attack, liberals should of course hold themselves to the same standard of decency that they ask of the right.’
Reaction
Despite the New York Times issuing a correction clarifying that no link had ever been drawn between Palin’s ad and the shooting, Palin wasn’t satisfied – suing the New York Times for an article her attorneys referred to as “fabricated.”
‘Mrs. Palin brings this action to hold The Times accountable for falsely stating to millions of people that she, a devoted wife, mother and grandmother, who committed a substantial portion of her adult life to public service, is part of a pattern of “lethal” politics and responsible for inciting an attack that seriously injured numerous people and killed six, including a nine-year-old girl who, at that time, was the same age as Mrs. Palin’s youngest daughter.’ –New York Post
The New York Times says it has not reviewed the lawsuit, however a spokesman told the DailyMail that they intended to defend the article “vigorously.”
(update)
Comments »I can sue that paper from my House! https://t.co/CVkS2YblAs
— Washington's Ghost (@solight111) June 28, 2017
Fed Chair Janet Yellen told a room full of stuffy Brits on Tuesday that another financial disaster like the 2008 credit crisis was not likely “in our lifetime,” as banks are “very much stronger.”
Coming from the 70 year old Yellen, whose life expectancy is 86 years old, the message is clear; an almost guaranteed 16 years of unmitigated cocaine rallies lie ahead!
After all, the Fed is prepared to do all sorts of neat things the next time SHTF, like the directly buying stocks and corporate bonds of any entity deemed “too big to fail.”
“I think the public can see the capital positions of the major banks are very much stronger this year,” said Yellen. “All of the firms passed the quantitative parts of the stress tests.”
“I think the system is much safer and much sounder,” she said. “We are doing a lot more to try to look for financial stability risks that may not be immediately apparent but to look in corners of the financial system that are not subject to regulation, outside those areas in order to try to detect threats to financial stability that may be emerging.”
Yellen and crew are doing such amazing work – looking in ‘corners of the financial system’ and whatnot to keep us safe.
Excellent news Grandma!
While Ben Bernanke made similar bold statements during the credit crisis, calling the subprime mortgage market “contained,” I’m sure Janet Yellen’s crystal ball is a bit more accurate after nearly 10 years to recover and strengthen the banking sector.
Perhaps US banks will even be robust enough to bail out Europe the next time Deutsche Bank ($DB) or Italy’s Monte Paschi, need MOAR emergency bailouts.
In March, Deutsche Bank was forced to raise an emergency 8 billion Euros – a move which CEO Johyn Cryan previously called a “last resort” – bringing their total raised over the last 18 months to 30 billion Euros!
Meanwhile, Italy’s Monte Paschi received special permission from the Italian government and the EU to tap Italy’s Treasury instead of the European Central Bank for an 8.8 billion bailout.
So – while the US banking sector will apparently be in great shape for at least the rest of Grandma Yellen’s natural life, let’s hope that the EU can hold itself together so we can avoid the mother of all global bailouts the next time the cocaine runs out.
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The investigative journalists at Project Veritas has done it again! Known for their undercover sting operations, such as the one which exposed the DNC’s highly organized network of professional agitators sent to disrupt Trump rallies, voter fraud, or the undercover operation which led to the arrests of Antifa thugs planning to disrupt an the inauguration “deploraball” event.
This time, the organization led by James O’Keefe has infiltrated CNN!
A PV journalist covertly filmed a candid discussion with CNN producer John Bonifield, where the “Very Fake News” network employee admitted that the whole Russia story against President Trump is nothing more than a ratings grab by CNN’s CEO Jeff Zucker – based on the fact that most of CNN’s liberal audience wants to see the President go down in flames.
Bonifield also admitted that he hasn’t seen any evidence of President Trump committing a crime.
PV Journalist: So you believe the Russia thing is a little crazy, right?
John Bonifield: Even if Russia was trying to swing an election, we try to swing their elections, our CIA is doing shit all the time, we’re out there trying to manipulate governments.
I haven’t seen any good enough evidence to show that the President committed a crime.
I know a lot of people don’t like him and they’d like to see him get kicked out of office…. but that’s a lot different than he actually did something that can get him kicked out of office.
Russia is for ratings!
PV Journalist: Why is CNN constantly like “Russia this, Russia that?”
Bonifield: Because it’s ratings. Our ratings are incredible right now.
My boss, I shouldn’t say this, my boss yesterday we were having a discussion about this dental shoot and he was like I just want you to know what we’re up against here. Just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords. For a day and a half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN [Jeff Zucker] said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we’re done with it. Let’s get back to Russia.
But all the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you’re just like, that’s adorable. That’s adorable. This is a business.
True feelings about Russia…
John Bonifield was asked directly what he thinks about Russia… and responded with what many on the right have been saying for months; If it was something really good, it would have already leaked:
PV Journalist: But honestly, you think the whole Russia shit is just bullshit?
Bonifield: Could be bullshit. I mean, it’s mostly bullshit right now. Like, we don’t have any giant proof. Then they say, “well there’s still an investigation going on.” I don’t know, if they were finding something we would know about it. They way these leaks happen, they would leak it. They’d leak. If it was something really good, it’d leak.
I just feel like they don’t really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the President is probably right to say, like “look, you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun, you have no real proof.”
Watch here:
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Who knew CNN had standards? After the Very Fake News network was caught utterly fabricating a story in which they linked Trump associate Anthony Scaramucci to a Kremlin-controlled investment fund – a story which was completely false.
Upon being called out for peddling fiction – perhaps because they would 100% lose in court – the network pulled the story, issued an Editor’s note stating that the article didn’t “meet CNN’s editorial standards” (lol), and fired three people involved with it’s publication.
An editor's note from CNN https://t.co/YssSkRP9C5 pic.twitter.com/LrS7L3nz5R
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 24, 2017
Hilariously, Washington Post’s criticism includes the fact that CNN only used one anonymous source vs. the cadre of mysterious insiders they consistently pull out of their ass.
Reporter Thomas Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau, and the executive editor of “CNN Investigates,” Lex Haris were all fired as a result.
“In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story’s publication.” –CNN
ONE CNN source told the Washington Post Regarding the personnel changes “The individuals all stated that they accepted responsibility and wanted to resign.”
Anthony Scaramucci, the target of CNN’s hit piece, approves:
.@CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on. https://t.co/lyVajCKNHx
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) June 24, 2017
BTFO! Will they ever recover?
Paradox – Can CNN be trusted to report on CNN's fake news?
— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) June 27, 2017
CNN newsroom right now. #MAGA #FakeNews pic.twitter.com/s9qKK4xD4K
— Barry Cunningham (@barrycunningham) June 27, 2017
Tucker nails it…
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Former NSA analyst and Naval War College professor, John Schindler, is quite a piece of work. Since being fired for emailing a woman pictures of his dick, blowing up his marriage – this member of the Deep State’s ‘best and brightest’ spends time making provocative tweets alluding to Donald Trump’s impeachment, jailing, or assassination – drawing parallels to globalist nutcase Louise Mensch.
One is reminded of a January tweet in which Schindler was sure they were “taking out traitor Trump now” – accidentally outing the Washington Post’s David Ignatius as the newspaper’s CIA mouthpiece:
Then there was that time in February where Schindler said that the Intelligence Community (IC) was going to “go nuclear” and that (presumably) Trump will “die in jail.”
Now we go nuclear. IC war going to new levels. Just got an EM fm senior IC friend, it began: "He will die in jail."https://t.co/e6FxCclVqT
— John Schindler (@20committee) February 15, 2017
Four months later, and John’s “senior IC friend” appears to have been a bit premature, given how slowly that whole “getting Trump into jail” part is going.
Since it’s a Monday, Schindler decided to run with ‘Trump going to prison’ again – swearing that a “Trusted member of Trump’s inner circle” has told those closest to him that he and Trump are going to prison.
FYI ===> Trusted member of Trump's inner circle has told family & friends that he knows both he & POTUS are going to prison.
Developing …
— John Schindler (@20committee) June 26, 2017
Oh man – so with the full suite of deep state surveillance and analysis tools at their disposal, Trump’s enemies haven’t been able to cobble together anything resembling a legitimate case against the President thus far… but now John Schindler’s sources are sure shit’s going down and Trump will be in prison before long.
Some people aren’t buying it…
Come on man. This is like a mensch tweet.
— Martinjx5 (@Martinjx1) June 26, 2017
Sensing he was losing the crowd, Schindler’s next tweet implied that our Foreign Intel partners have the dirt that’s going to put Trump in jail…
Remember when I said our Foreign Intel partners know everything about Trump?
Yeah, that.
cc @TheRickWilson @TrueFactsStated
— John Schindler (@20committee) June 26, 2017
So there you have it Trumpsters – the President is finished. All hail President Pence!
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A crowd of conservatives descended upon a Town Hall event in Gardena, CA Saturday to peacefully protest Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) who was speaking out against the GOP healthcare bill.
There were no fires set, excrement thrown, or bike locks used to try and murder political foes – just a diverse crowd of concerned citizens who showed up to call Maxine Waters out for being an establishment shill who’s destroyed black communities while promoting the witch-hunt of President Trump over nonexistent ties to Russia.
Political activist Grindall61 was on the scene and recorded all the action (see full videos here and here).
After the event a crowd waited for waters to leave – booing her as she entered her getaway car.
Maybe that’ll teach Waters to screw over her constituency, continuously call for the impeachment of a democratically elected President she says she won’t work with – then lie about it? Probably not.
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Politico has confirmed that Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane have retained high powered DC lawyers amidst an FBI fraud investigation. Jane Sanders orchestrated a $10 million loan for the now defunct Burlington College to purchase a 33 acre property, reportedly obtained through a ‘fraudulent scheme.’ Sanders is accused of having lied about funding for transaction, while the FBI is also looking into claims that Bernie Sanders’ office pressured the bank to approve the loan.
The original request for an investigation into Federal bank fraud was sent in a January 2016 letter to the Vermont District Attorney as well as the FDIC by Brady Toensing – an attorney and chair of Donald Trump’s Vermont campaign. The letter detailed the mechanics of the alleged fraud, which is what reportedly launched official investigations. Toensing told Politico on Thursday “The investigation was started more than a year ago under President Obama, his Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and his United States Attorney, all of whom are Democrats.”
If true, the Sanders’ could be in some serious trouble.
The whole Burlington College Saga…
In 2004, Jane Sanders left her position as her husband’s congressional chief of staff to become president of the unaccredited and struggling Burlington College – founded in 1972 and operated out of a former grocery store. When Sanders took over as a “turnaround” president, she set out to rapidly grow the college – announcing a $6 million plan to expand the campus in 2006 which never came to fruition.
Inside of Burlington College, Sanders was earning a as reputation for her “toxic and disruptive” leadership style, and in late 2008, according to a 2016 essay on the college written by a former teacher Greg Guma, “Nearly half of the students and faculty members signed a petition demanding a meeting about the “Crisis in leadership,” while Jane Sanders’ salary rose to $150,000 in 2009 amidst a tuition hike from $5,000 to $22,407 in 2011. Meanwhile, enrollment dropped by almost 25%.
In 2008, literature professor Genese Grill wrote to the school’s academic affairs committee, describing Sanders’ “harassment and unethical treatment of other faculty and staff members, many of whom have since left the college disgruntled and angry.”
And in 2010, Jane Sanders announced a plan to move the tiny underfunded Burlington college onto a 33 acre parcel of valuable lakefront real estate in Northern Burlington. “It was the last piece of undeveloped, prime property on the lake shore,” according to Guma.
The property was owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese, which was strapped for cash after recently settling over two dozen sexual abuse lawsuits for $17.76 million. The 33 acre property hit the market for $12.5 million, and the church agreed to take Jane Sanders’ offer of $10 million.
Scheming for loans
When Jane Sanders made the offer to the Roman Catholic Diocese, Burlington College was nearly broke – with an annual budget just below $4 million. In order to finance the property, Sanders secured a $6.5 million loan from People’s United Bank in the form of a tax exempt bond purchase, and the Catholic Church agreed to carry a $3.65 million second mortgage on the property. Sanders told both institutions that Burlington college had $5 million in likely donor pledges and $2.4 million in confirmed pledges to be used to pay off the debt.
But wait – that was just for the property!
What Jane Sanders didn’t plan for was the $6 million or so required to actually build out the campus on the property to include green space, athletic fields, lecture halls, and walkways. Oops!
Disaster…
Sanders’ original claim of $2.4 million in confirmed donor pledges was quickly reduced to $1.2 million according to documents filed in the first fiscal year after the purchase – yet in records obtained by VTDigger, Burlington College received only $279,000. Despite hopes by Sanders and college trustees that they could boost enrollment and expand the student body, nothing changed – and the school failed at raising the money to satisfy it’s loans.
And then Jane Sanders was fired, with a $200,000 severance package.
In order to try and avoid bankruptcy, Burlington college sold off pieces of the 33 acre property to a local developer – which allowed the institution to pay off some of the debt Jane Sanders had accumulated, however in April 2016 the bank called it’s loan – and on May 28th, the college closed it’s doors after 44 years in operation.
FBI ON THE CASE!
Per Politico;
[F]ederal investigators and FBI agents started to pull apart the $10 million financial arrangement. They showed up at Burlington College to sift through hard drives, audit reports and spreadsheets. They began to interview donors, board members and past president Carol Moore. “I was contacted and spoke with an FBI agent numerous times last spring, again last summer,” Moore told Vermont Public Radio in May 2017, “and recently, maybe a month ago.”
And now, it appears the Sanders’ are preparing for battle…
While the Obama-era FBI and DOJ under James Comey and Loretta Lynch may have gone soft on Bernie and Jane Sanders, their recent lawyering up suggests there’s a storm on the horizon for Vermont’s most famous fake socialists.
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Senators investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election have formally requested that ex-Attorney General Loretta Lynch answer questions over allegations she provided Hillary Clinton with “political interference” during the 2016 presidential election. Bipartisan letters were sent to Lynch and others on Friday from Senators Grassley (R-IA), Feinstein (D-CA), Graham (R-SC), and Whitehouse (D-RI).
Of particular interest are questions which arose in an April New York Times article detailing a batch of hacked Russian intelligence documents obtained by the FBI which allegedly contain an email from DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Leonard Bernardo – an official with the Open Society Foundation, stating that Lynch told a DNC operative that she “would not let the FBI investigation into Clinton go too far.”
The questions in the Senate letter seek to determine whether Lynch is aware of the hacked email, the authenticity of the document, and who Lynch may have communicated with regarding the Clinton investigation – specifically mentioning Amanda Renteria, who filled the “Hispanic woman” position mentioned in the Podesta emails which the Clinton Campaign sought for a role as political director of her 2016 presidential campaign.
Also of interest but not included in Friday’s letter are questions Senator Graham had previously raised after fired FBI Director James Comey revealed during his June 8 testimony that he was pressured by Lynch to refer to the Clinton email investigation as a “matter” instead of an investigation – which gave Comey a ‘queasy’ feeling. Comey also said that he was ‘disturbed’ by Lynch’s secretive ‘tarmac’ meeting with Bill Clinton.
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.
Letter from Senate Judiciary Committee to Loretta Lynch concerning assistance provided to Clinton campaign during 2016 election. pic.twitter.com/dNelBqjyhm
— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) June 23, 2017
Lynch and others who received letters from the committee have until July 6 to comply with the request.
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