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Surprised that no one is commenting on Barr's and Trump's feeble attempt to fire Geoffrey Berman and replace him with yet another inexperienced Trump puppet. Watch this space!

They destroyed the DOJ in DC. Southern district of NY next! Just what are these guys hiding

Looks like John Bolton might be on to something

So! Ken! You think some of the Trump base is starting to see the light? Seeing through the lies and mis-truths? This is a deadly pandemic. Can't blame people from staying away. I'm wondering what Phoenix has in store. Their cases are spiking as bad as Tulsa's, maybe worse. By the way, two more of Trump's aides have tested positive. Total at eight. Could be worse.

For Now, Donald Trump and William Barr Are Losing Their Way

By David Rohde

June 23, 2020

On Friday night, William Barr seemed to embrace obstruction of justice as a way of life in his ongoing defense of Donald Trump. It didn’t go well. In an apparent attempt to protect President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani from criminal prosecution, Barr issued a false statement that the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, had agreed to step down. “With tenacity and savvy, Geoff has done an excellent job leading one of our nation’s most significant U.S. Attorney’s Offices,” Barr said, in a press release issued at 9:15 p.m. “I appreciate his service to the Department of Justice and our nation, and I wish him well in the future.” Barr added that Jay Clayton, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a golf buddy of Trump’s, would replace Berman in the powerful post.

In a startling act of defiance, Berman called out Barr’s lie: at 11:14 p.m., he issued his own statement, declaring, “I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position.” (A Justice Department official said that phrases such as “stepping down” are used as a courtesy when officials are removed from their posts.) The federal prosecutor then made a remarkable—and historic—plea for the other two branches of government to confront and restrain an out-of-control President. And, in this case, his out-of-control Attorney General, too. “I was appointed by the Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,” Berman wrote. “I will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate. Until then, our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption.”

The duelling announcements captured the confusing combination of brazen corruption and sheer incompetence that has become a hallmark of the Trump Administration. Barr, surely at Trump’s behest, was attempting to remove a federal prosecutor who has carried out a series of politically embarrassing investigations of Trump allies. The attempted Friday-night firing confirmed allegations in a new book by the former National Security Adviser John Bolton—which Trump and Barr unsuccessfully tried to suppress—that the President has repeatedly interfered in criminal investigations into friends, political allies, and, most of all, himself.

A Justice Department official who asked not to be named denied Bolton’s allegations and said that the extent of Southern District investigations that involve Trump associates is being exaggerated. The official added that Clayton is well liked in the Administration and that Barr’s actions are being cast in an unfairly conspiratorial way. “He was planning on leaving the Administration, and he expressed interest in the position,” the official said, referring to Clayton. “The Attorney General thought he would be a good fit to lead the office.”

Berman’s mention of having been appointed by federal judges was a reference to the Trump White House’s handling of his appointment in the first place. Normally, a newly elected President nominates federal prosecutors, to serve in posts across the United States, who are then confirmed by the Senate. Trump interviewed and nominated Berman, who is a Republican, in 2017, but the Administration never formally submitted his nomination to the Senate, fearing that Democrats would block it. After a hundred and twenty days, U.S. federal judges nominated him. But the Administration, for its purposes, appears not to have properly vetted Berman—who, because his jurisdiction includes Manhattan, would inevitably oversee cases involving Trump associates. From the start, Berman signalled his refusal to protect Trump politically; in other words, he would take proper action as a federal prosecutor.

Berman had donated to Trump’s 2016 campaign, and he recused himself from the Southern District’s investigation of Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael D. Cohen. In a case that consumed the headlines for months and infuriated Trump, federal prosecutors in Berman’s office brokered a plea deal with Cohen, in which he confessed to having violated campaign-finance laws by facilitating hush-money payments to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and the model Karen McDougal. Cohen stated under oath that Trump ordered him to make the payments. Trump enjoys immunity from prosecution for as long as he is President, but he was reportedly irate with Berman for not making the politically embarrassing case go away. In 2019, prosecutors working in Berman’s office indicted two Giuliani associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, alleging that they had made illegal campaign contributions to a U.S. congressman and others. (Parnas and Fruman’s trial is scheduled for next year; both have pleaded not guilty.) Berman’s office is now reportedly investigating Giuliani for potential violations of foreign-lobbying disclosure requirements. (Giuliani has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged.)

More than a thousand former Justice Department officials have demanded Barr’s resignation, citing his repeated interventions in Trump-related probes, in ways that appeared to aid the President politically. The Attorney General’s likely rationale is his decades-long belief in an extreme interpretation of Presidential power, which gives Trump control of all executive-branch agencies, without restriction. In Barr’s view, this means that Trump would be within his rights to oversee an investigation into his own misconduct. Legal experts have called the interpretation bizarre and dangerous.

In a sign of how quickly Trump and Barr’s political standing is shifting, one of Trump’s most fawning backers in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, indicated on Saturday that he would not support the nomination of Clayton, who has no experience as a prosecutor. Graham is locked in a tight reëlection race with Jaime Harrison, the Democratic challenger, in South Carolina. After other Senate Republicans declined to support Clayton, Barr agreed to appoint Berman’s deputy, Audrey Strauss, as an interim U.S. Attorney, following standard practice. Former federal prosecutors in New York said that Strauss, like Berman, would defy pressure to quash politically embarrassing investigations. “None of the office’s work will be compromised,” Samidh Guha, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the office, told the Washington Post.

Support for Barr among career Justice Department officials appears to be eroding, the Times reported. Since Barr took office, nineteen months ago, he has carried out some of the Administration’s most controversial legal actions, from reducing the sentence requested for Roger Stone, to attempting to withdraw charges against Michael Flynn, to the so-far-failed effort to block the publication of Bolton’s book. Over the past several weeks, three senior department officials have announced their departures: Brian Benczkowski, the head of the criminal division; Noel Francisco, the solicitor general; and Jody Hunt, a career official who runs the civil division.

The Justice Department official whom I spoke with denied any morale problems. The official added that Barr is adhering to legal views that he has held for decades; that the evidence against Flynn, despite his guilty pleas, was thin and the sentence against Stone excessive. Barr is “just doing what is right—he’s going back and fixing things that shouldn’t have happened,” the official said. “And that’s what he’s done consistently.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s handling of the pandemic, the concurrent recession, and the nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd have, for now, driven his poll numbers down. Bolton, the former Defense Secretary James Mattis, and other former senior Administration officials have publicly declared Trump a danger to American democracy. Barr, for his part, continues to double-down on enabling and defending Trump. Last Monday, Barr dismissed Bolton’s claim that the President intervenes in criminal cases to aid autocrats and allies. Five days later, Barr tried to remove Berman. On Sunday, Barr again defended Trump in a Fox News interview, warned of mob rule, and said that mail-in voting “opens the floodgates to fraud.” On Monday morning, Trump tweeted a link to Barr’s interview and then exaggerated his claim, falsely stating that foreign governments are printing millions of fake mail-in ballots, and that the November vote is already “FIXED.”

The Justice Department official told me that the Attorney General is defending the Presidency, not merely this particular President, and that Barr is taking the actions because he feels they are right, not because of pressure from Trump. The official added that Barr has no regrets and intends to serve through the November election, noting that “Bill Barr is his own man. He would not say something that he doesn’t believe.” Who finds Bill Barr convincing? Increasingly, not the judges, not the prosecutors, and not, if one believes the polls, the American public.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-co ... -their-way

joez wrote:So! Ken! You think some of the Trump base is starting to see the light? Seeing through the lies and mis-truths? This is a deadly pandemic. Can't blame people from staying away. I'm wondering what Phoenix has in store. Their cases are spiking as bad as Tulsa's, maybe worse. By the way, two more of Trump's aides have tested positive. Total at eight. Could be worse.

Sorry Joe:

Not even interested in whether Trumps base sees the light. As Clinton accurately surmised they are incorrigables and not worth the effort. By definition they are rascists. They are antivaxxers. They are antiscience. They are only concerned about controlling women's bodies and the ability to parade around town foolishly with weapons of war. I have big ethical problems in treating that kind when they show up with Corona Virus after stupidly not wearing masks. Wear masks you idiots!! These people have made our country a laughing stock. Shame on them. Shame on the Republican party for cowtowing to these morons. Shame on our country. Black lives matter!

As someone who has had the honor of both visiting Normandy and Omaha Beach a few years ago and working on the front lines of the COVID 19 pandemic my perspective is that the 40 % of Americans who for some reason still support Trump would become better citizens of their country if they made a trip to Normandy and if perhaps they go to their local emergency room and volunteer and make sure they wear their N95 for a full week to conserve the scarce PPE that is availabe months after the beginning of the epidemic. What other country in the world puts up statues of traitors and then scares it citizens who want to take them down with the threat of jail time. What other "democracy" gasses its own citizens. What other country has a leader who wants to do less testing?

Geoffrey Berman was approached by Ukraine with proof of Joe Biden corruption, yet he refused to investigate. But he has no problem spending his time investigating anybody that ever had anything to do with Donald Trump for no legal reason at all. That is the real reason why he’s being replaced.

If Trump was to fire every government employee who investigated him he would have fired 50 people the last few years.

Joe, the next time you post something factual will be the first time.

Ken, comes in with the old Saul Alinsky playbook. Call your opponents names.

Lord knows no facts are on your side, might as well.

I’m not, racist, Ken, but I cannot stand intellectually dishonest people.

And I cannot understand why a doctor such as yourself would allow himself to come across as such, as well as an intellectual lightweight.

By the way, Clinton called us deplorable, not incorrigible. But why even have one shred on facts in your post. Way to stay consistent.

I have big ethical problems in treating that kind when they show up with Corona Virus after stupidly not wearing masks. Wear masks you idiots!! These people have made our country a laughing stock. Shame on them. Shame on the Republican party for cowtowing to these morons. Shame on our country. Black lives matter!

Well, the E.U. May Bar American Travelers as It Reopens Borders, Citing Failures on Virus. Two more countries on that list, Brazil and Russia. We're in great company folks. What an embarrassment

I noticed Trump was social distancing at the rally. Don't expect him to set an example by mingling with the crowd.

Coronavirus is 'spreading like wildfire' in Arizona, state representative Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) said on Twitter Sunday. The escalating coronavirus crises in the Grand Canyon state is the “direct result of poor decision making and failed leadership.”

Texas added yet another record number of new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, as Gov. Greg Abbott urged people to wear masks and stay indoors whenever possible. The state reported nearly 5,200 new cases, surpassing the previous high of 4,600 on Friday, according to a data analysis by Hearst Newspapers. The weekly rolling average hit 3,722 new cases per day, up from about 1,500 two weeks ago.

Seven states report highest coronavirus hospitalizations since pandemic began. Seven states are reporting new highs for current coronavirus hospitalizations, according to data tracked by The Washington Post — Arizona, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas — as the number of infections continues to climb across the South and West. More than 800 covid-19 deaths were reported in the United States on Tuesday, the first time fatalities have increased since June 7. Texas and California on Tuesday eclipsed 5,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus over a 24-hour span — records in those states. Arizona, Nevada and Missouri also logged new single-day highs. Overall, 33 states and U.S. territories now have a rolling average of new cases that is higher than last week.

Let's keep holding those rallies.

Prosecutor: Trump ally Roger Stone was ‘treated differently

Aaron Zelinsky's Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee Ought to Be a Show

The great prize, of course, would be to get Willam Barr on the griddle.’

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prosecutor is prepared to tell Congress on Wednesday that Roger Stone, a close ally of President Donald Trump, was given special treatment ahead of his sentencing because of his relationship with the president.

Aaron Zelinsky, a career Justice Department prosecutor who was part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team and worked on the case against Stone, will say he was told by supervisors that political considerations influenced the decision to overrule the recommendation of the trial team and propose a lighter prison sentence, according to testimony released by the House Judiciary Committee.

Zelinsky now works in the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland, and his testimony will feature the extraordinary spectacle of a current prosecutor castigating decisions made by the leadership of the Justice Department where he still serves. The hearing is likely to add to scrutiny of Attorney General William Barr, who has alarmed Democrats in recent months with his efforts to scrutinize, and even undo, some of the results of Mueller’s Russia’s investigation.

“What I heard — repeatedly — was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the president,” Zelinsky says in the prepared testimony.

The panel subpoenaed Zelinksy and John Elias, a career official in the department’s antitrust division, as part of its probe into the politicization of the department under Barr. The Democratic-led panel and Barr have been feuding since shortly after he took office in early 2019, when he declined to testify about Mueller’s report.

The Democrats launched the investigation earlier this year over Barr’s handling of the Stone case, but have expanded their focus to several subsequent episodes in which they believe Barr is doing Trump’s bidding. That includes the department’s efforts to dismiss the criminal case against Gen. Michael Flynn and the firing last weekend of the the top prosecutor in New York’s Southern District. The prosecutor, Geoffrey Berman, has been investigating the president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., has threatened to subpoena Barr himself for a hearing next week if he doesn’t agree to appear. The attorney general has never testified before the panel.

Zelinsky, one of four lawyers who quit the Stone case after the department overruled their sentencing recommendation, plans to say Wednesday that the acting U.S. attorney at the time, Timothy Shea, was “receiving heavy pressures from the highest levels of the Department of Justice to give Stone a break.”

He does not say who was doing the pressuring, but says there was “significant pressure” on line prosecutors to “obscure” the correct sentencing guidelines and “water down and in some cases outright distort” what happened at Stone’s trial and the events that resulted in his conviction.

Before Stone’s Feb. 20 sentencing, Justice Department leadership changed the sentencing recommendation just hours after Trump tweeted his displeasure at the recommendation of up to nine years in prison, saying it had been too harsh. Stone was later sentenced to serve more than three years in prison plus two years’ probation and a $20,000 fine.

Barr has said Trump’s tweet played no role in the change. He said he ordered the new filing hours before the president’s tweet because he was caught off guard by the initial sentencing recommendation and believed it was excessive based on the facts of the case.

Filing a new one was a “righteous decision based on the merits,” he has told The Associated Press.

According to his prepared testimony, Zelinsky will describe having learned from the media that the Justice Department planned to overrule the trial team’s sentencing recommendation, something he said he found unusual given the department’s conventional practice of not commenting on cases.

Though the U.S. attorney’s office initially said the reports were false, the team was later told that a new sentencing memorandum would be issued that would seek a lighter punishment for Stone.

“We repeatedly asked to see that new memorandum prior to its filing. Our request was denied,” Zelinsky will say. “We were not informed about the content or substance of the proposed filing, or even who was writing it. We were told that one potential draft of the filing attacked us personally.”

Zelinsky says he was also told that the acting U.S. attorney was giving Stone such unprecedentedly favorable treatment because he was “afraid of the President.”

Justice Department spokesperson Kerri Kupec said Barr had directed Shea to leave the sentencing to the discretion of the judge, who ultimately sentenced Stone to a notably shorter amount of prison time than the trial prosecutors had initially sought.

“Notably, Mr. Zelinsky, a line prosecutor, did not have any discussion with the Attorney General, the U.S. Attorney, or any other member of political leadership at the Department about the sentencing; instead, Mr. Zelinksy’s allegations concerning the U.S. Attorney’s motivation are based on his own interpretation of events and hearsay (at best), not first-hand knowledge,” Kupec said in a statement.

Stone was convicted on all seven counts of an indictment that accused him of lying to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing the House investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to tip the 2016 election.

On Tuesday, Stone filed a motion asking to extend his surrender date until September because of coronavirus concerns. He is scheduled to report to a federal prison in Georgia by June 30.

In separate testimony released by the committee, Elias plans to detail antitrust investigations that he says were started over the objections of career staff. He says he asked the department’s inspector general to investigate “whether these matters constituted an abuse of authority, a gross waste of funds, and gross mismanagement.”

The Justice Department said in a statement that it “strongly disagrees with Mr. Elias’s claim that the Antitrust Division acted inappropriately in any investigation.”

https://apnews.com/b60e1e1050d5142b06c5df3f1da4ea87

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As someone who has had the honor of both visiting Normandy and Omaha Beach a few years ago and working on the front lines of the COVID 19 pandemic my perspective is that the 40 % of Americans who for some reason still support Trump would become better citizens of their country if they made a trip to Normandy

Ken,

My dad was killed during the Normandy invasion. Staff Sargent. According to friends, never removed the stripes from his helmet and was gunned down by a sniper.

My dad is buried at the Brittany American Cemetary in Brest France.

(The 4,410 American military dead buried in the Brittany American Cemetery lost their lives in the area of northwestern France extending from the beachhead westward to Brest and eastward to the Seine and represent 43 percent of the burials originally made in the region.)

I also visited the Normandy area and the beachhead. Of course, i visited my dad's grave. Took a lot of picture and distributed them to his sisters, brothers, and nieces. A lot of tears.

By the way, when my wife and I signed the visitor's register, there were thousands of names. Oddly but not surprising, nearly 3/4 of the book had French names.

Workers on the grounds can be French, but only an American can be a curator. The grounds were beautiful.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE COVID PANDEMIC KEN.

As you know, I am a camper. We have several trailers at the campground housing nurses on traveling assignment. They will be at the campground until the end of August. I talk to them regularly. It's sad to hear the stories they tell.

STAY SAFE KEN!

Fired NY prosecutor was given Biden-Ukraine allegations in 2018 but didn’t follow up, emails show

Ukraine prosecutors didn't want the political spectacle that became impeachment and simply sought to turn over evidence about Joe Biden and election interference to U.S. prosecutors, memos show.

By John Solomon

Could the impeachment scandal have been prevented if the now-fired U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman had followed up on Ukrainian allegations about Joe Biden and his family in 2018?

That’s the tantalizing question raised by emails from fall 2018 between an American lawyer and the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan that were obtained by Just the News.

The memos show that well before Ukrainian prosecutors reached out to Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, in 2019 to talk about the Bidens and alleged 2016 election interference they first approached Berman’s office in New York in October 2018 via another American lawyer.

The memos show Little Rock, Ark., lawyer Bud Cummins, a former U.S. attorney himself, reached out at least five times in October 2018 to Berman seeking to arrange a meeting with then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.

Lutsenko, who emerged as a key figure in the impeachment scandal, wanted to confidentially share with federal prosecutors in New York evidence he claimed to possess that raised concerns about the Bidens’ behavior as well as alleged wrongdoing in the Paul Manafort corruption case.

“Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko is offering to come to U.S. meet with high-level law enforcement to share the fruits of investigations within Ukraine which have produced evidence of two basic alleged crimes,” Cummins wrote Berman on Oct. 4, 2018, one day after the two had talked on the phone about the allegations.

The allegations included that Joe Biden had “exercised influence to protect Burisma Holdings” after his son Hunter and his son’s business partner Devon Archer had joined the Ukrainian gas company’s board of directors and “substantial sums of money were paid to them,” Cummins wrote.

At the time Hunter Biden and Archer joined Burisma in 2014, the company was under criminal investigation in both England and Ukraine for alleged corruption. The British case was dropped in 2015, and the Ukraine cases were eventually settled in the final days of the Obama administration.

Joe Biden boasted during a 2018 public appearance that he forced the firing on Lutsenko's predecessor, Viktor Shokin, back in 2016by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine. At the time, Shokin was leading the investigation into Burisma. Biden denies the investigation factored into his decision.

Biden’s and Archer’s firm received more than $3 million in payments from Burisma between 2014 and 2016, bank records obtained by the FBI show.

Records recently released by the State Department also show Hunter Biden and Archer had contacts in 2015 and 2016 with senior State officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry and Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken.

In addition, Burisma’s U.S. representatives were lobbying the State Department in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Kiev seeking to make the corruption allegations go away, the State memos released under FOIA show.
“The allegation by Prosecutor General Lutsenko et al is that the US ambassador, Marie L. Yovanovitch, Biden and Kerry made conclusions about who were the good guys and the bad guys in local government. They believe Biden and Kerry were influenced by payments to Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to influence certain decisions, particularly those benefitting Burisma,” Cummins wrote, relaying the allegations from the Ukrainian officials.

In addition, Cummins told Berman that Lutsenko had evidence that a ledger found in Ukraine in 2016 alleging to show payments to Manafort from a Russian-backed political party in Ukraine was doctored and the U.S. knew the evidence was corrupted. The emergence of the ledger caused Manafort to resign as Trump’s campaign chairman in August 2016, and eventually led to his conviction on money laundering and tax charges.

“The second allegation above is that the Embassy and FBI willfully pressured Ukrainian officials to falsify evidence to be leaked to the media about Manafort to affect the outcome of the 2016 election,” Cummins wrote Berman.

Cummins said in an interview he had one phone call and four email contacts with Berman in October 2018 about the Ukrainian matter, but the prosecutor’s office never took Lutsenko up on his offer to come to Washington and lay out his evidence.

“I never heard from them again,” Cummins said of Berman’s office. “It was an opportunity for the Justice Department to address these concerns privately, and who knows how history would have turned out had the SDNY simply followed up.”

Berman, instead, would eventually indict two associates of Giuliani on campaign finance and other charges after they tried to help the former New York City mayor and Trump lawyer publicize the Ukraine prosecutors' concerns. (One of the indicted associates, Lev Parnas, worked as a translator and interview facilitator for this reporter on a handful of Ukraine interviews in 2019, but prosecutors do not allege he did anything wrong in that work.)

James Margolin, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in New York, declined comment Monday when asked about the Cummins overture in 2018.

Cummins said he was not representing Lutsenko as his client, but rather a Ukrainian-American citizen who was trying to help the prosecutor general get information into U.S. authorities' hands.
Cummins’ email states that Lutsenko wanted to meet with Berman because the U.S. attorney’s office in New York had successfully prosecuted Archer on unrelated charges earlier in 2018. Archer’s conviction, however, was overturned by a judge, and Berman’s office never retried the case.

Cummins' efforts to help arrange the meeting were confirmed by one of Lutsenko's deputies, Konstantin Kulyk, who said last year that Ukrainian authorities repeatedly tried to convey evidence about possible wrongdoing by Americans to the U.S. Justice Department but were thwarted.

Lutsenko said in an interview last year that when Cummins’ efforts failed to get an audience with the Justice Department he reached out to Giuliani, hoping to find a different channel to get information investigated.

It was those contacts that eventually spurred the entire impeachment inquiry, which ended in January in the Senate’s acquittal of Trump.

Democrats have tried to portray Giuliani’s activities as an effort to dig up dirt on Trump’s 2020 rival, and to get Ukrainian officials to launch a probe of Biden.

But Cummins’ emails make clear Ukrainian authorities weren’t interested in investigating the Bidens on Ukrainian law violations. Rather, they wanted to confidentially provide evidence of possible violations of U.S. law so American authorities could investigate. And they had no interest initially in involving the Trump White House. Rather, they simply wanted to share evidence with U.S. authorities at the prosecutor-to-prosecutor level.

Cummins’ emails to Berman make clear that Lutsenko did not trust the U.S. embassy in Kiev or the FBI to review the materials, fearing they were too political.

“Lutsenko faces political hurdles in getting a visa to come here. It is believed that the embassy in Kiev has blocked his obtaining a visa in the past. He believes it is because the US ambassador knows the nature of his investigation and wants to obstruct him from coming and sharing it,” Cummins wrote Berman on Oct. 4, 2018.

Five days later, Cummins wrote that Lutsenko was prepared to deliver serious evidence, including copies of two ledgers in the Manafort case that Ukrainian prosecutors believed were faked.

“Presumably he will be prepared to discuss eyewitness testimony he believes will corroborate both this story and also the separate bribery allegations,” Cummins wrote.

When Berman stopped responding, Cummins offered to have Lutsenko meet with a lower-ranking federal prosecutor simply to transfer the evidence. “Perhaps you can provide at least one trusted prosecutor and trusted agent to meet with a couple of the actual investigators and just let them take down the information like they would if any citizen walked in the door with some information to share,” Cummins wrote on Oct. 18, 2018.

There was never any further response, Cummins said.

Ukrainian officials have said they did not believe the Bidens broke Ukrainian law but may have engaged in conflicts of interest prohibited by U.S. law. The concerns about the Bidens engaging in conflicts of interest were confirmed by U.S. officials as well.

During impeachment testimony last fall, both Yovanovitch and her top deputy in the Kiev embassy, George Kent, testified that Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma while his father oversaw U.S.-Ukraine policy created the “appearance of a conflict of interest.” Kent said he even tried to raise his concerns with Biden’s VP office but was rebuffed.

All federal officials are required by federal ethics laws to avoid taking actions that create the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Trump is doing such a great job with the pandemic that yesterday was the third highest total
of cases in the US since the onset and the EU doesn't want to admit travelers from the US. He gets
himself and those close to him tested daily while publicly scoffing at the need for testing. He encourages
large public gatherings that are considered highly dangerous for stemming the spread of the virus by
anyone with an active brain, including the medical leaders of his own CDC, except for the puppet
VP.

Trump likes to brag about the US economy while his actions undermine chances of a recovery
for the majority of US citizens.

And when it comes to race, Trump uses force, waves the Bible and clings to the idea of
white is right.

He lies multiple times every day and foments hatred and imprisonment for those who
question him.

The best way to make America great again is to get him out of office.

Let me explain something to you guys. And please read, cause this is important.

Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in an interview today -

“Our guidelines very clearly say that a nursing home can accept somebody that’s COVID-positive, as long as the facility can follow the CDC guidelines around isolation,” “But it also says — and I’m reading this — it says, ‘If a nursing home cannot, then it must wait until these precautions can be discontinued.’ So the guidance couldn’t be any clearer.”

You see guys, 5 governors placed Covid-19 positive patients in nursing homes and did not properly isolate them.

Cuomo of NY
Whitmer of Michigan
Wolfe of PA
Murphy of NJ
Newsome of Cali

All democrats. And all keep saying they followed Federal Regulations in placing the patients there. But they did not! And they don't appear on a real news show where that comment will get challenged, so they get away with the lie.

Verma also added, that Trump provided help to Cuomo that he did not take advantage of. The USNS Comfort ship and set up the Javits Center as a hospital. So all these nursing home deaths were needless in his states case.

And guess what, nearly half of Covid-19 deaths in America came in those 5 states!!!

5 states out of 50 accumulated nearly half of the deaths!!

Due to NOT following Federal Guidelines.

You keep blaming Trump, and I know you will. But people out there don't watch liberal bullshit news and actually know the truth. Now you know it too. But you still won't care.

Why is everything liberal or conservative...left or right...democrat or republican.

The only thing you have to know is the Stupid elected a moron as POTUS and he's destroying our democracy.

Vote.

Well how can you argue with that genius.