Day 1119 Say It Ain’t True! (But it is!)

Day 1119 Say It Ain’t True! (But it is!)

Monday October 21, 2019 

380 Days until the 2020 election and 462 days until the Inauguration

The sh*t is coming, fast and furious, I keep thinking it’s hit the fan, but it hasn’t. So strange. 

Let’s take a look at some of the nasty campaign ads that are now running on local TV here in Richmond. They use gray screens over the people they are smearing. They yell out in yellow jagged type. They put up pictures of Warren, Sanders, and AOC with the word “Socialist” next to them. And they put up whomever they are smearing alongside. No facts, just smear. 

Most interestingly, these ads are paid for by American Progress, one of the big Trump PACs. This PAC has been linked to receiving large donations illegally from Russian sources.

Now it’s been revealed that at George Bush’s funeral on December 3, 2018 Rudy Giuliani brought one of the two guys that got arrested recently as his date. Not only that, but more pictures of these two with Trump, or Rudy, or the Trump kids have surfaced. I have to ask how do two guys with no real legal means of support manage to make huge donations to the Trump campaign and other Republicans? The guy that Rudy brought to the funeral has put a gun to the head of his landlord and threatened him. Said landlord got a restraining order. Why the gun to the head? Seems said Rudy-bud wasn’t paying his rent. Yet, he was stopped with three different types of hand guns in his possession. He owns a Porsche Carrera (starting price $113,300.)

Okay, each of these two have businesses. One has a firm called Fraud Guarantee. The other has a night club on the Black Sea called Mafia Rave. Neither business is so big that they can afford to make illegal donations to the Republicans and Trump to the tune of $325,000, but they have. What’s their deal?

They work for Dimitri Firtash who was making billions skimming money off the gas Russia piped into Ukraine. This seemed to have come to an end with the election of anti-corruption officials. Something Joe Biden supported. One of the gas companies, Burisma, hired Joe’s son, Hunter, to try and clean up their image and no doubt get in good with Joe. Did it work? There’s no evidence that it did. Nor is there any evidence that Joe knew about it. I’m sure at some point he was made aware of it. But this is nothing new in the sense that progeny and relatives of elected officials are hired, or used, to try and get close to the powerful person. Remember Billy Carter? But Trump’s kids have taken it to a whole other level. It’s reported that Jared and Ivanka made $60-80 million last year. Doing what? 

I saw a headline last night that said Don Jr. has accused the Bidens of nepotism. Man, that takes something.

Okay back to Russian money. Putin let Firtash extort billions from the Russian gas piped into Ukraine. This gave Putin a large slush fund to corrupt whomever. Biden and our Ukrainian ambassador stood by the dually elected anti-corruption officials. Rudy’s clients used money to get then Rep. Pete Sessions to write a letter to Trump asking for the ambassador to be removed. Rudy also put pressure to have her removed. Trump didn’t just remove her; he yanked her, as in “be on the next plane” yanked her. He said she was “a terrible woman.” Then he said he didn’t really know her. 

Firtash is fighting extradition to the U.S. He was arrested in Vienna and posted bail of $173,000,000.00. Yeah, 173 million. He’s hired some of the fanciest law firms in the U.S. to fight his extradition.

When Lev and Igor, “Rudy’s clients”, were stopped trying to leave the country they were going to Vienna. Rudy was too. Why Vienna? Firtash is there! That’s the only reason to go there. 

Firtash is not only linked to Putin but to the godfather of the Russian mob. Let me ask you, where do you think two guys with little means of legit money are getting barrels full to give to Rudy, Trump, and various Republican Super Pacs, including the Super Pac currently running lying smear campaigns on my local TV station? This is Russian mob money – plain and simple. 

Okay, let’s move on. Hillary made some comments that are exciting a lot of people. She said that the Russians are grooming, or have their eye on, a candidate in the current Democratic field that they hope to back as a third party candidate. 

Boy did that get swift reaction. Both Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein reacted. Let’s not forget that Stein was at that Russian luncheon where Flynn spoke. She publicly admitted that the Russian media was giving her more attention than the U.S. media, and the number of votes she siphoned off from Hillary were enough to let Trump squeak by with a win.

What about Gabbard? If you look at her record and statements she’s perfect for the Russians to back, She was raised by her parents in nutty religious cult that was fervently anti-gay. Although she’s distanced herself from all that, she did make anti-gay comments previously, and many far right sort of statements. She would be a perfect choice for the Russians to back.

What has Hillary’s comment done? Well, I’d say it’s really put a spike in any thought Gabbard may have had about running as a third party candidate, and it’s probably backed off Russian efforts as well.

You’re welcome America. Thank-you Hillary.

In the current crime spree by the president and his associates – oh boy:

Mic Mulvaney held a press conference where, when given a text book example of quid pro quo, said, “We do that all the time.”

Then he tried to undo it by saying he never said quid pro quo. 

This, yet another example of people being corrupted by being near Donald Trump.

Eric Trump said he was honored that the G-7 conference was going to be a Trump Doral. 

Then Trump said they weren’t going to hold the G-7 there and blamed the Dems. The real story is that too may Republicans ganged up on him about it. (Trump, “What? It’s illegal? Really, I don’t think so. It’s unconstitutional? I don’t think so. You think so? I don’t know. I’ve never read it. …”) 

It was only criminal, unconstitutional, and the place has a terrible bedbug problem – other than that.

Then there’s Syria, which Trump just gave to Russia, Assad, Iran, ISIS, and Turkey while betraying our allies in the area – the Kurds. Trump reports that everyone is happy and it’s a great situation Then why are our troops in the area getting pelleted with eggs and rocks? That doesn’t bespeak of happiness.  

Then there’s the anti-corruption investigation and the search for a Democratic server in the Ukraine being carried out by Pompeo, Barr, Mulvaney and others. Egads. 

Okay there are two parts: Ukrainian corruption and the Democratic server. First, there is no Democratic server in the Ukraine. This is some crap ginned up by the Russian dis-information apparatus and the right-wing conspiracy theorists.

As to Ukrainian corruption, there is or had been corruption. Folks closely tied to efforts to keep Ukraine corrupt are Rudy’s two clients and Rudy. If they (Barr, Pompeo, Rudy, etc.) are investigating corruption let them start with Rudy and his pals. Those two guys have apparently been under investigation for a long time. In the charging documents against them the prosecution listed fifty bank accounts. Fifty bank accounts by two guys with little visible means of support. Gee, what does that seem like? Lemme think, Money laundering? 

As I said, if William Barr and Mike Pompeo are really investigating Ukrainian corruption they can start with Rudy and his two pals. Better yet, just let Rudy’s old shop, The Southern District of New York handle it.

380 Days until the 2020 election and 462 days until the Inauguration

( I think I need a new counter – “How many days until impeachment?”

    and “How many days until removal from office?” )

PS On a lake on a river with tangerine skies … Author’s alter ego on a boat ride somewhere in Indonesia