What Buchanan is saying is what Joe diGenova, Mark Levin, Dan Bongino, and others have been saying for a long time.
So, does that mean that if the case is tried in a different court in the same district, any questions relating Manafort's role in the Trump campaign will be rule out of order because they are not specific to the case being tried?
If Ellis dismisses it then the continuing look into past "crimes" of Manafort will continue in that other court case in charge of that already existing probe. Mueller would have to establish some other reason for involving Manafort's other crimes, being examined already, in some new case for his purposes, but having this ruling against Mueller should set a precedent of any future attempt to use Manafort again. I don't think this could be appealed elsewhere nor do I think that Mueller would further ruin his chances with the courts. But then if he could be sure of getting a corrupt judge who would ignore those real reasons for Mueller's use of Manafort he might attempt this again.....such a conflict would only give more evidence of Mueller's prejudice. Need an honest Constitutional lawyer to explain what could happen in the future if Mueller doesn't give up on Manafort. How many times can anyone be tried for the same things??
Former CIA Station Chief of the Bin Laden Tracking Unit on the John Fredericks Radio Show with a warning for Trump: There is interference in American’s internal affairs, not by Russia, but by Netanyahu and Macron.
Oooooh! "Internal affairs"....now that's a basket to choose from! I think we've had enough light exposure on our own past corrupt regime right here at home that's presenting just where the "interference" has come from.....all those corrupt systems/agencies/elitists on high that have for years had the goal of dismantling our Constitution....with the help of the world's Commie/socialists. Might as well include each and every country in the world that has any kind of intelligence mechanism with hopes of getting easy info via the Hillary types in high places. But, so far, it is working instead to our benefit.....at least so far in this short period of time of the Trump Presidency ....since he's been beating all the odds against him personally and against the country. But then that only shows it's God's will for him to be His instrument for His will over this country, no matter the human defectiveness everywhere. Usually those on the ground types with real experience can tell you just what and who we're fighting..rather than another eccentric think tank type, analyzing from afar with his own built in mindset.
Good intro/summary thread regarding Trump and “Q” for anyone interested: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/993607164211019777.html
I’ve been following Q and the anons for awhile now but this was extremely helpful in laying out the sequencing and explains the misinformation/so called larping. Thanks for the link.
More evidence of Hillary's health problems that the media tried to hide during the campaign....she's now apparently wearing a back brace. Still Haunted by Her Inner and Outer Demons Hillary Wears Back Brace for New Zealand Speech Hillary’s health issues are again in the news. One Internet doctor, Dr. Ted Noel, believes that she has Parkinson’s disease. He’s believed this since before the election and provides evidence for his position.
More of the "Trump curse"??!! Most have read about the complete downfall of the NY AG who was out to get Trump....now more of that "deep state" being exposed: Napolitano: AG Schneiderman Was Included in Deep State Off-Site “Secret Society” Meetings to Take Down Trump (VIDEO) On Monday New Yorker Magazine revealed New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was accused of physical abuse by four women. Schneiderman is a top Trump critic and is currently working with Mueller on Paul Manafort’s case. Schneiderman even threatened to stalk, wiretap phones and KILL the women if they broke up with him! Schneiderman resigned on Monday night hours after the story broke of his abusive, racist behavior. On Tuesday morning Judge Andrew Napolitano revealed that AG Schneiderman was included in the offsite Deep State meetings to take down President Trump. In January Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) said after reviewing the new text messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok he believed there may have been a “secret society” of folks within the DOJ and FBI working against Trump. The New York Attorney General was part of these Secret Society meetings to take down President Trump. Judge Napolitano: One of the things that I read for this show… The Peter Strzok, Lisa Page text messages. And those text messages reflect a lot of meetings outside the Justice Department with members of the DOJ and FBI and one state official, not federal, Eric Schneiderman was present at a lot of those meetings. Speculation, it was sort of their insurance policy because Donald Trump can pardon anyone for a federal crime but he can’t pardon anyone for a state prosecution. I honestly believe that the attorney general, he’s still attorney general until the end of the day, Schneiderman was contemplating indicting either the people around the president or the president depending on the outcome of the Mueller investigation for violation of New York State financial laws. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...et-society-meetings-to-take-down-trump-video/
To go with my comment above in case you didn't go to link provided.....this monster, though, could be replaced with another political Trump hater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=246&v=AzQST4USEIo
SQUARE NEAR U.S. EMBASSY IN JERUSALEM TO BE NAMED FOR TRUMP Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat named the square near the new US embassy in Jerusalem the "United States Square in honor of President Donald Trump." https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/I...re-near-American-embassy-named-for-him-554752 (starting a trend?) AFTER U.S. AND GUATEMALA, PARAGUAY TO MOVE ITS EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM The US is scheduled to move its embassy to Jerusalem on May 14, followed two days later by Guatemala. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/A...aguay-to-move-its-embassy-to-Jerusalem-554739 SOURCES: TRUMP TO ASK ISRAEL TO WITHDRAW FROM 4 EAST J'LEM NEIGHBORHOODS Move is part of administration’s peace plan expected to be unveiled after embassy relocation. https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-...from-four-east-Jerusalem-neighborhoods-553491 US square in honor of President Donald Trump . (photo credit: EREZ SHANI)
President Trump Reinstates 'Highest Level' of Sanctions on Iran By Tessa Berenson Updated: May 8, 2018 2:28 PM ET http://time.com/5269746/donald-trump-iran-nuclear-deal-macron/ President Donald Trump announced he will reinstate “the highest level of economic sanctions” that were waived as part of the Iran nuclear deal in 2015, fulfilling one of his major campaign pledges and undoing a signature foreign policy achievement of the Obama Administration. “The Iran deal is defective at its core,” he said. “If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. In just a short period of time the world’s leading state sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapon. Therefore I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.” In its place, Trump said he wants a “real comprehensive and lasting solution,” which would involve eliminating Iran’s ballistic missile program, and stopping its terrorist activities worldwide and “menacing activity” across the Middle East. Trump has long signaled he would back away from the 2015 agreement that froze Iran’s nuclear program, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. He has called it “the worst deal ever,” particularly because it isn’t permanent and would allow Iran to resume enriching some uranium after a decade and lift other restrictions after that. But Trump has faced intense pressure from European allies to stay in, including Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson in visits to Washington before Trump made his decision. “Today’s action sends a critical message,” Trump said. “The United States no longer makes empty threats. When I make promises, I keep them.” Former Secretary of State John Kerry, who was one of the architects of the deal under President Obama, has been speaking out about the deal and reportedly meeting with foreign leaders in recent weeks to discuss how to protect it. Trump slammed Kerry the day before he announced his decision to pull out, tweeting that the deal was “very badly negotiated” and that Kerry “was the one that created this MESS in the first place!” View attachment 7805
Read: Trump’s Iran nuclear deal speech full text “America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail.” By Jennifer Williams@jenn_ruth jennifer@vox.com May 8, 2018, 2:40pm EDT https://www.vox.com/world/2018/5/8/...an-nuclear-deal-speech-full-text-announcement President Trump arrives to deliver a statement on the Iran nuclear deal on May 8, 2018. Evan Vucci/AP My fellow Americans, today I want to update the world on our efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. The Iranian regime is the leading state sponsor of terror. It exports dangerous missiles, fuels conflicts across the Middle East, and supports terrorist proxies and militias, such as Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. Over the years, Iran and its proxies have bombed American embassies and military installations, murdered hundreds of American service members, and kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured American citizens. The Iranian regime has funded its long reign of chaos and terror by plundering the wealth of its own people. No action taken by the regime has been more dangerous than its pursuit of nuclear weapons. And the means of delivering them. In 2015, the previous administration entered into a deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program, the deal was called the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action]. In theory, the so-called Iran deal was supposed to protect the United States and our allies from the lunacy of an Iranian nuclear bomb that would only ensure the survival of the Iranian regime. In fact the — and over time reach the brink of a nuclear breakout. The deal lifted crippling economic sanctions, on Iran, in exchange for very weak limits on the regime’s nuclear activity and no limits at all on its other malign behavior, including its sinister activities in Syria, Yemen, and other places all around the world. In other words, at the point when the United States had maximum leverage, this disastrous deal gave this regime, and it’s a regime of great terror, many billions of dollars, some of it in actual cash, a great embarrassment to me as a citizen, and to all citizens of the United States. A constructive deal could have easily been struck at the time. But it wasn’t. At the heart of the Iran deal is a fiction, that Iran only desired a peaceful nuclear energy program. Today we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie. Last week Israel published intelligence documents, long concealed by Iran, conclusively showing the Iranians’ regime and its history of pursuing nuclear weapons. The fact is, this was a horrible one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made. It didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace, and it never will. In the year since the deal was reached, Iran’s military budget has grown by almost 40 percent, while its economy is doing very badly. After the sanctions were lifted, the dictatorship used its new funds to build nuclear capable missiles, support terrorism, and cause havoc throughout the Middle East and beyond. The agreement was so poorly negotiated that even if Iran fully complies, the regime can still be on the verge of a nuclear breakout in just a short period of time. The deal’s sunset provisions are totally unacceptable. If I allow this deal to stand, there would soon be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Everyone would want their weapons ready by the time Iran had theirs. Making matters worse, the deal’s inspection provisions lack adequate mechanisms to prevent, detect, and punish cheating and don’t even have the unqualified right to inspect many important locations including military facilities. Not only does the deal fail to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but it also fails to address the regime’s development of ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads. Finally, the deal does nothing to constrain Iran’s destabilizing activities including its support for terrorism. Since the agreement, Iran’s bloody ambitions have grown only more brazen. In light of these glaring flaws, I announced last October that the Iran deal must either be renegotiated or terminated. Three months later, on January 12, I repeated these conditions. I made clear that if the deal could not be fixed, the United States would no longer be a party to the agreement. In the last few months, we have engaged in talks with France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. We have also consulted with our friends in the Middle East. We are unified in our understanding of the threat and our conviction that Iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon. After these consultations, it is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement. The Iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. In just a short period of time, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapons. Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. In a few moments, I will sign a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating US nuclear sanctions on the Iranian regime. We will be instituting at the highest level of economic sanction, any country that helps Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the United States. We will be instituting at the highest level of economic sanction, any country that helps Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the United States. America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. Will now allow American cities to be subject to destruction. And we will not allow Iran to gain access to the most deadly weapons on earth. Today’s action sends a critical message, the United States no longer makes empty threats. When I make promises, I keep them. In fact, at this very moment, secretary Pompeo is on his way to North Korea, in preparation for my upcoming meeting with Kim Jong Un. Plans are being made, relationships are strengthening and what will happen between South Korea, North Korea, and Japan, a future of great prosperity for all. We will find a real, comprehensive, and lasting solution to the Iranian nuclear threat. This will include efforts to eliminate the threat of Iran’s ballistic missile program, to stop its terrorist activities worldwide, and to block its menacing activity across the Middle East. In the meantime, powerful sanctions will go into full effect. If the regime continues its nuclear aspirations, it will have bigger problems than it has ever had before. Finally I want to deliver a message to the long suffering people of Iran. The people of America stand with you. It has now been almost 40 years since this dictatorship seized power and took a proud nation hostage. Most of Iran’s 80 million citizens have sadly never known an Iran that prospered in peace with its neighbors and commanded the admiration of the world. But the future of Iran belongs to its people. They are the rightful heirs to a rich culture and an ancient land, and they deserve a nation that does justice to their dreams, honor to their history, and glory to god. Iran’s leaders will naturally say that they refuse to negotiate a new deal, they refuse and that’s fine. I would probably say the same thing if I was in their position. But the fact is, they are going to want to make a new and lasting deal, one that benefits all of Iran and the Iranian people. When they do, I am ready, willing and able. Great things can happen for Iran and great things can happen for the peace and stability that we all want in the Middle East. There has been enough suffering, death, and destruction, let it end now. Thank you, god bless you. Thank you. President Trump shows a signed Presidential Memorandum after delivering a statement on the Iran nuclear deal on May 8, 2018. Evan Vucci/AP
President Trump shows a signed Presidential Memorandum after delivering a statement on the Iran nuclear deal on May 8, 2018. Evan Vucci/AP[/QUOTE] And as expected Israel is bracing for the hatred reprisals.....some more consequences of American taxpayers' money being given freely to the backers of terrorism via Iran by Obama. Israel goes on high alert over Syria as Trump quits Iran deal JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has instructed local authorities in the Israeli-held Golan Heights to “unlock and ready (bomb) shelters” after identifying what the military described on Tuesday as “irregular activity of Iranian forces in Syria”. The announcement came minutes before U.S. President Donald Trump declared he was withdrawing from the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran, a move that has stirred concern about a possible regional flare-up. Israeli media said the order to prepare bomb shelters was unprecedented during Syria’s seven-year-old civil war, in which Israel is formally neutral, though it has carried out cross-border strikes at suspected deployments by Iranian forces supporting Damascus and arms transfers to Hezbollah guerrillas. Iran has blamed Israel for an April 9 strike that killed seven of its personnel at a Syrian airbase and has vowed revenge. In its statement, Israel’s military further said that its defense systems had been deployed “and IDF (Israel Defence Force) troops are on high alert for an attack”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a televised address after Trump’s announcement, lauding the U.S. president’s hard tack on Iran and alluding to the tensions over Syria. “For months now, Iran has been transferring lethal weaponry to its forces in Syria, with the purpose of striking at Israel,” Netanyahu said. “We will respond mightily to any attack on our territory.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...t-over-iranian-actions-in-syria-idUSKBN1I92MI
And as expected Israel is bracing for the hatred reprisals.....some more consequences of American taxpayers' money being given freely to the backers of terrorism via Iran by Obama. Israel goes on high alert over Syria as Trump quits Iran deal JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has instructed local authorities in the Israeli-held Golan Heights to “unlock and ready (bomb) shelters” after identifying what the military described on Tuesday as “irregular activity of Iranian forces in Syria”. The announcement came minutes before U.S. President Donald Trump declared he was withdrawing from the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran, a move that has stirred concern about a possible regional flare-up. Israeli media said the order to prepare bomb shelters was unprecedented during Syria’s seven-year-old civil war, in which Israel is formally neutral, though it has carried out cross-border strikes at suspected deployments by Iranian forces supporting Damascus and arms transfers to Hezbollah guerrillas. Iran has blamed Israel for an April 9 strike that killed seven of its personnel at a Syrian airbase and has vowed revenge. In its statement, Israel’s military further said that its defense systems had been deployed “and IDF (Israel Defence Force) troops are on high alert for an attack”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a televised address after Trump’s announcement, lauding the U.S. president’s hard tack on Iran and alluding to the tensions over Syria. “For months now, Iran has been transferring lethal weaponry to its forces in Syria, with the purpose of striking at Israel,” Netanyahu said. “We will respond mightily to any attack on our territory.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...t-over-iranian-actions-in-syria-idUSKBN1I92MI[/QUOTE] I don't know whether withdrawing from the deal (it did seem to be a bad deal) is good or bad, but it was worth it to see Mogherini's funeral face afterwards.
Trump and Netanyahu May Not Want War With Iran, But They May Fall Into One Anyway Iran has an exaggerated reputation in the Middle East for Machiavellian cunning and an ability to outmanoeuvre its enemies. Britain used to be regarded in the same light in the region: its most ill-considered actions were admired as devilishly clever plots when all it was doing was taking advantage of the blunders of its opponents. The Islamic Republic is similarly seen as the sinister hidden hand behind many developments with which it has little to do. It is accused of creating a corridor of pro-Iranian states from Tehran to the Mediterranean, posing an existential threat to Israel and the Gulf monarchies. The Iran nuclear deal of 2015 is to be dropped by Donald Trump because it has supposedly done nothing to avert these dangers, possibly leaving military action as the only option. Iranian influence has certainly expanded but only thanks to a series of disastrous US-led military interventions since the start of the millennium. In early 2001 Iran was isolated with Afghanistan to the east under the rule of the Taliban, whose Sunni sectarianism inspired them with hatred of Shia Iran whose diplomats they casually murdered. Iran’s neighbour to the west was Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, with whom it had fought a ferocious eight-year war. All this was to change in two years: in 2001 the US overthrew the Taliban, though it was never able to defeat them permanently or stabilise the rule of its local Afghan allies. In 2003, a US-led coalition invaded Iraq, bringing to power the first Shia government in the Arab world since the days of Saladin and one which inevitably looked to their fellow Shia in Iran. Western debacles in the Middle East since 9/11 have not produced a learning curve; or there is such a curve, it points down rather than up. In the wake of the popular uprising in Syria in 2011, the US and its regional allies – Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar – backed the armed opposition to president Bashar al-Assad. Whatever they supposed they were doing, they ensured that for Assad to survive he needed maximum engagement of Russia and Iran in Syria. Are we about to see Iranian influence expand once again as the US and Israel gear up for a confrontation – and quite possibly a war – with Iran? Trump is likely to reimpose sanctions on Iran on 12 May, thereby sinking the nuclear deal negotiated by Barack Obama. It is a self-harming decision, pillorying Iran for being a great and threatening power while oddly weak enough to be brought to heel by economic sanctions and possible airstrikes. Sanctions will not work any better against Iran than they did against Iraq in the 1990s or against Syria today. If they do not, then the only alternative is military action by the US or by the US “green-lighting” an Israeli attack. But what happens then? This is the question that was never properly answered when the US intervened directly or indirectly in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Supporters of these ventures had no clear vision of what a US victory would look like and, in so far as they did have a strategy, it rested on wishful thinking. In reporting these three wars I was always struck by the degree to which the US and its allies were hobbled by an unhealthy belief in their own propaganda. They claimed to be replacing evil rulers who were without popular support, but they were really plugging into complex ethnic and sectarian civil wars in which all sides had supporters who would fight to the death. Instead of facing this reality, they would take refuge in fantasies such as David Cameron’s 70,000 moderate rebel fighters in Syria whom nobody else could find. It is not yet clear if Trump and the Israeli prime minister do want a war with Iran, but they may blunder into one all the same. Alternatively, they may imagine they will get their way by means of a short successful war and find, as so many leaders have done down the centuries, that they are mired in a long and unsuccessful conflict. Israel had plenty of experience of this in Lebanon, which it invaded in 1982 in a war from which it spent years trying to extricate itself. But political leaders are never quite as foolish as they might appear when exaggerating foreign threats. Governments everywhere want to present themselves as the sole defenders of their citizens against some hideous menace from abroad. Iran fulfils this role for the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Sunni rulers of the Gulf and acts as a useful glue for national solidarity and a diversion from domestic grievances. Belief in an all-embracing Iranian conspiracy fuels paranoia: in Bahrain in 2011, the authorities tortured Shia hospital doctors who were accused of using a piece of medical equipment to receive orders from their masters in Tehran. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has always played up the Iranian threat. Since the early 1990s, he has warned that Iran is about to acquire a nuclear arsenal unless it is stopped forthwith. As prime minister, he has long been speaking of launching an Israeli strike against Iran, but he has been very cautious about actually doing do. Diplomats wonder if this is still the case. More is at work here than the normal threat inflation to be expected from politicians wishing to stand tall in defence of the homeland or portray their opponents as unpatriotic weaklings. This is a common feature in the politics of every country, but Israel has always been particularly keen to have an enemy in common with the US. It was, in fact, surprisingly relaxed about the Iranian threat when Iran was at its most revolutionary in the years after the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. It was only after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 that this changed, when Iran found itself promoted to the first rank of demons. Scott Peterson explains this in his perceptive history of Iran, Let the Swords Encircle Me, saying: “Anxious that its own strategic utility as a ‘bulwark’ against Soviet-allied Arab states was losing its shine after the Cold War, Israel launched a campaign in 1992 to convince the US that a new and more dangerous threat had emerged from Iran and the Islamic extremism that the revolution inspired.” Such threat manipulation is still effective. But, ironically, it is the US and its allies that have opened the door to Iran by destroying or weakening the state structure in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen. In any confrontation with the US and Israel, Iran will have every incentive to reinforce its position in the region. If the US really wants to reduce Iranian influence and that of its allies in the region, there is a much better and more effective way doing so: this is to end the wars which have enabled Iran and many other players to spread their influence. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/0...-with-iran-but-they-may-fall-into-one-anyway/
GREAT NEWS! THE THREE AMERICAN HOSTAGES DETAINED IN NORTH KOREA ARE ON THEIR WAY HOME WITH SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO!!! THANK YOU LORD AND THANK YOU PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP!!! View attachment 7819
I love the following photo which is President Trump's current banner for his twitter account, a picture taken last Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 when he honored the U.S. Army West Point football team with the Commander In Chief Trophy. View attachment 7820
