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"And for those who are concerned they will “plant evidence” back at FBI HQ, thats not how that works, they have to take photos and document everything at the scene. "

Sorry to say that I don't really believe this. The FBI has proven itself to be a rogue, lawless bureaucracy, ready and willing to obey any marching orders given them by the current regime.

Anything, at this point, is not out of the realm of possibility. The "rule of law" has been corrupted by the very agency that is tasked with enforcing it.
 

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I knew someone who got audited each and every year awhile back .. they had nothing on them, but seemed to like to pull them in for fun and games ..
My audit was flagged in relation to child custody, ex was saying she had more time in the 50/50 arrangement, but that was not the case, I had proof. But it is just a hassle for a business owner to get all the paperwork together. There is a lot of it when you do your own thing. They could have just asked me for proof of custody, but they wanted everything.
 

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Whistleblowers revealed widespread FBI misconduct ahead of Trump raid...Whistleblowers claim a senior FBI official worked to falsely discredit evidence against Hunter Biden.

Prior to the FBI's raid Monday on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, a string of whistleblower reports alleged that senior officials at the FBI exhibited a pattern of bias in their handling of politically sensitive investigations and also reclassified cases without justification to substantiate the White House's public narratives on crime and extremism.

Beginning in late May, Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley called attention to then-Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault over political bias concerns. Thibault expressed support for several "highly partisan" opinion articles on LinkedIn and made a series of politically charged social media posts, according to Grassley, who referred Thibault to the Office of Special Counsel to address the federal agent's potential violations of the Hatch Act, which bars government officials from partisan political activity.

Concerns surrounding Thibault escalated in July, as whistleblowers came forward claiming Thibault's partisan persuasion directly impacted his work at the bureau. While seeking approval from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to open an investigation into Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, Thibault withheld from them that his predicating evidence was based in "substantial part" on information from a "left-aligned organization," according to Grassley's office.

In a separate instance, whistleblowers claim Thibault worked to falsely discredit evidence against President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and prevent the bureau from investigating him.

"Whistleblowers have told my office that the FBI maintains many sources that have provided extensive information on Hunter Biden," Grassley said in August. "That information allegedly involves potential criminal activity such as money laundering. According to allegations, the underlying information was verified and verifiable. However, instead of green-lighting investigative activity, the FBI shut it down."

Grassley also pointed to Robert Pilger of the Election Crimes Branch, who he alleges was of vital aid to Thibault in his efforts to open the investigation into Trump. Former Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, the Iowa Republican noted, testified that "Pilger's conduct frustrated the department's ability to properly operate the Election Crimes Branch."

Thibault, Grassley confirmed, was reassigned to an unspecified posting prior to the bureau securing a warrant to raid Trump's estate. Sources briefed on the raid confirmed to Just the News that the agents came from the Washington Field Office, in which Thibault was serving until just days prior.

In late July, whistleblower reports emerged that bureau supervisors were pressuring agents to reclassify cases under the label of "domestic violent extremism" (DVE) without substantive justification in order to support White House narratives.

Whistleblowers revealed widespread FBI misconduct ahead of Trump raid | Just The News
 

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Questions grow about Trump raid after revelation of grand jury subpoena, extensive cooperation

Two months before his Florida home was raided by the FBI, former President Donald Trump secretly received a grand jury subpoena for classified documents belonging to the National Archives, and voluntarily cooperated by turning over responsive evidence, surrendering security surveillance footage and allowing federal agents and a senior Justice Department lawyer to tour his private storage locker, according to a half dozen people familiar with the incident.

While the cooperation was mostly arranged by his lawyers, Trump personally surprised the DOJ National Security Division prosecutor and three FBI agents who came to his Mar-a-Lago compound on June 3, greeting them as they came to pick up a small number of documents compliant with the subpoena, the sources told Just the News, speaking only on condition of anonymity because the visit was covered by grand jury secrecy.

The subpoena requested any remaining documents Trump possessed with any classification markings, even if they involved photos of foreign leaders, correspondence or mementos from his presidency.

Secret Service agents were also present and facilitated the visit, officials said.

Trump signaled his full cooperation, telling the agents and prosecutor, "Look, whatever you need let us know," according to two eyewitnesses. The federal team was surprised by the president's invitation and asked for an immediate favor: to see the 6-foot-by-10-foot storage locker where his clothes, shoes, documents and mementos from his presidency were stored at the compound.

Questions grow about Trump raid after revelation of grand jury subpoena, extensive cooperation | Just The News
 

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Fight fire with fire....if the libs are gonna stage a fake January 6th commission that is anything but bipartisan then certainly conservatives can have a commission on Biden and his ties to and payment from his son and also have a commission of wrongful deeds by the justice dept and the FBI. The problem with the conservatives is they play by normal rules of professionalism when they should simply play by the rules the libs are using. Fair is fair in a all out fight for the truth.

p.s. Trump knew this and that's why when they threw a punch he'd punch back harder....and that scares the libs because they are cowards using the force of gubermint as a political tool.
 

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You'd also be wrong


I shouldn't have to. He is a Judge, by all appearances a conservative and methodical one, lawfully appointed, with lawful authority to issue search warrants. He should not be subject to public vilification and unsubstantiated innuendo for no other reason than he did the job he was paid to do. He especially shouldn't be subject to threats to the safety of his family as is being reported. The United States has a legal system for a reason. If the warrant was not issued lawfully, then there are avenues of appeal.

"By all appearances" is apparently in the eye of the beholder. I'll repost
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During his decade of representing Epstein and associated clients, Reinhart was named in a Crime Victims’ Rights Act lawsuit in 2011. He was accused of violating the Justice Department’s policy of switching sides and potentially leveraging insider information about Epstein’s case in order to curry favor, the Miami Herald alleged. He also made plans to set up his private practice when he was still serving as a federal prosecutor in South Florida, the outlet alleged in another article.

In 2011, Reinhart swore under penalty of perjury that he had nothing to do with Epstein’s investigation and had zero information on his case, but his supervisors filed a court paper contradicting the claim, the Miami Herald reported.

“While Bruce E. Reinhart was an assistant U.S. attorney, he learned confidential, non-public information about the Epstein matter … [Reinhart] ‘joined Epstein’s payroll shortly after important decisions were made limiting Epstein’s criminal liability’ and improperly represented Epstein victims in follow-on civil suits,” plaintiffs in the Jane Does #1 and #2 v. United States case alleged.

Reinhart reportedly quit working for the U.S. attorney’s office on New Years Day of 2008 and started working for Epstein on January 2, 2008, the New York Post reported. His clients included Epstein’s pilots, his scheduler and a woman called Nadia Marcinkova, who Epstein described as his “Yugoslavian sex slave,” according to the outlet.
 
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"And for those who are concerned they will “plant evidence” back at FBI HQ, thats not how that works, they have to take photos and document everything at the scene. "

Sorry to say that I don't really believe this. The FBI has proven itself to be a rogue, lawless bureaucracy, ready and willing to obey any marching orders given them by the current regime.

Anything, at this point, is not out of the realm of possibility. The "rule of law" has been corrupted by the very agency that is tasked with enforcing it.
LOL, love the self righteous after theyve been caught time and time again still preaching how virtous they are. :rofl::lmao:
 

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One Bank Warns U.S. Econ Data Make Little Sense, "Until You Recall Midterm Elections Are Coming Up"

One Bank Warns U.S. Econ Data Make Little Sense, "Until You Recall Midterm Elections Are Coming Up" | ZeroHedge

You could hear the champagne corks fly wherever you were yesterday. After all, there was "zero US inflation" in July, as some put it.

And that came after zero US recession, as some also put it, despite two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. And after a red-hot labour market report. And EIA energy data showing gasoline usage apparently well below 2020 levels despite all this non-recession and jobs boom, and even as refineries are working at incredibly high capacity levels, diesel stocks are low, and exports are also down.

These are all numbers/claims worthy of champagne. Yet they make little sense taken together.

Until you recall US midterm elections are coming up. Then you wonder if it is just coincidence, bad/Covid number-crunching, or ‘convenient’ in a way we pretend DM data can’t be, because otherwise we would be EM, and we don’t like to imagine we could be, because: we have higher incomes - as millions struggle to put bread on the table or keep the lights on; ‘regulations’; ‘rule of law’; absolutely no corruption; a completely unbiased media only interested in the truth; no politicised judges or civil servants; no business sectors close to politicians; no politicians with tenuous grasps of reality; no back-stage lobbyists; no interest groups; no powerful shady forces; no issues over electoral legitimacy. None of that applies to us!

(As they used to say back in the Soviet bloc, “We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.” Nowadays, it's perhaps, "They pretend it’s real data, we pretend to trade it.”)
$1.9 trillion in new spending costs $0

The border is secure

Republicans are the real police defunders

Two consecutive quarters of economic contraction isn’t a recession

“Inflation Reduction” Act

8.5% inflation = 0%

Real wages -3% = “wages up”

Serial Gaslighters.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 11, 2022

Of course inflation was actually up 8.5% y-o-y, even if it was flat m-o-m, which was better than expected, and on a m-o-m and y-o-y core basis too. It may actually have peaked for now.
 

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Stupid leftists are so used to their hypocritical methods and not going by the book, much less consider the Constitution, that they didn't stop to think....this whole staged raid at Trump's home in FL is only going to make him stronger in the polls and possibly stir some Independents to fall off to the right side of the fence this November and in 2024.

Anyone with a brain.... Dem, GOP or Independent, should have serious concerns about that raid, IMO......under this WH Admin FISA & other DOJ warrants are about as credible and noteworthy as The Nobel Peace Prize.
 

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$1.9 trillion in new spending costs $0

The border is secure

Republicans are the real police defunders

Two consecutive quarters of economic contraction isn’t a recession

“Inflation Reduction” Act

8.5% inflation = 0%

Real wages -3% = “wages up”

Serial Gaslighters.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 11, 2022

Of course inflation was actually up 8.5% y-o-y, even if it was flat m-o-m, which was better than expected, and on a m-o-m and y-o-y core basis too. It may actually have peaked for now.
Where's @Arjun's image of a dolphin and a cow jumping in the ocean? :lmao:
 
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