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Trump Tax Returns: Dems Ready for 
Ultimate Fishing Expedition
by Byron York
  
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US Company That Smuggled Weapons Into Venezuela Linked to CIA “Black Site” Renditions
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by Whitney Webb
{activistpost.com} ~ The parallels between aspects of the Contra scandal and the current situation in Venezuela are striking, particularly given the recent “outrage” voiced by mainstream media and prominent U.S. politicians over Maduro’s refusal to allow U.S. “humanitarian aid” into the country... Two executives at the company that chartered the U.S. plane that was caught smuggling weapons into Venezuela last week have been tied to an air cargo company that aided the CIA in the rendition of alleged terrorists to “black site” centers for interrogation. The troubling revelation comes as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has rejected a U.S. “humanitarian aid” convoy over concerns that it could contain weapons meant to arm the country’s U.S.-backed opposition. Last Tuesday, Venezuelan authorities announced that 19 rifles, 118 ammo magazines, 90 radios and six iPhones had been smuggled into the country via a U.S. plane that had originated in Miami. The authorities blamed the United States government for the illicit cargo, accusing it of seeking to arm U.S.-funded opposition groups in the country in order to topple the current Maduro-led government. A subsequent investigation into the plane responsible for the weapons caché conducted by McClatchyDC received very little media attention despite the fact that it uncovered information clearly showing that the plane responsible for the shipment had been making an unusually high number of trips to Venezuela and neighboring Colombia over the past few weeks...
Pence rips Europe for helping 
Iran evade US sanctions
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by Gary Willig
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ US Vice President Mike Pence called on European nations to cease assisting Iran in evading US sanctions. Speaking at the Warsaw conference on the Middle East Thursday, Pence said that "sadly... some of our leading European partners have not been nearly as cooperative. In fact, they have led the effort to create mechanisms to break up our sanctions." He decried the "effort to break American sanctions against Iran's murderous revolutionary regime". "It is an ill-advised step that will only strengthen Iran, weaken the EU and create still more distance between Europe and the United States. Pence strongly criticized the Iranian leadership for its threats and human rights abuses. "The authoritarian regime in Tehran represses the freedom of speech and assembly, persecutes religious minorities, brutalizes women, executes gay people, and openly advocates the destruction of the State of Israel." "Beyond its hateful rhetoric, the Iranian regime openly advocates another Holocaust and seeks the means to achieve it," he said...  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/259062
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As The Russia Hoax Begins To Unravel, 
The Gaslighting Begins  
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by Adam Mill  
{thefederalist.com} ~ In episode 171 of “Seinfeld,” George Costanza makes up a story about having a house in the Hamptons in order to avoid attending an event with his dead fiancée’s parents, the Rosses... He soon learns they know of his deception but the Rosses nevertheless accept an invitation to the fictitious house. George picks them up and begins driving towards a house that doesn’t exist. Both the Rosses and George maintain the pretense until George drives to the end of island past the last house in the Hamptons. George silently pleads for the Rosses to put an end to the charade. The lie’s momentum took on a life of its own as the players all continued acting their parts long after the truth was known. The episode comes to mind as the media has started backing away from the Russia collusion hoax. Like Costanza, many of the media perpetrators seem to know a reckoning is coming. Politico warned Trump haters, “Prepare for disappointment.” Other examples of expectation managing can be found, such as  hereherehere, and here. diirty cop-Mueller’s longtime top deputy at the FBI recently warned, “A public narrative has built an expectation that the special counsel will explain his conclusions, but I think that expectation may be seriously misplaced. ”Most recently, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that after almost two years of investigation, it has uncovered no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Attorneys assigned to the dirty cop-Mueller team have quietly begun to slip away before the outcome of the investigation is made public herehere, and here. This is unsurprising. The Russia hoax is crumbling and people can’t run away fast enough. We’ve seen signs from the very beginning that many of the people who promoted the Trump-Russia collusion smear have always known it was a hoax. These signs have been in plain sight. Here is an incomplete list...
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DOJ Considered Recruiting Mike Pence 
to Remove Trump from Office
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by Jim E.
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just dropped a bombshell revelation in his new book: the DOJ talked about recruiting Mike Pence to remove Trump from the presidency... The Department of Justice reportedly held meetings discussing the possibility of having Mike Pence replace Trump as the president, justifying the de facto coup by invoking the 25th Amendment. The discussions reportedly occurred following scumbag-James Comey’s unceremonious ousting as director of the FBI. Rod Rosenstein, the current Deputy Attorney General, was a part of these discussions. It was reported last year that Rosenstein actually suggested removing Trump via the 25th Amemdment, comments he later described as not serious. It appears they may have been more serious than he let on. All of this is going to be revealed in a new book by Andrew McCabe. More was revealed during a CBS report...
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Democrats Inaction on Omar, Tlaib, Northam 
have Normalized Racism within the Party
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by americanlibertyreport.com:  The Democratic Party would like to rewrite history and make everyday Americans believe that the GOP was the party of slavery, Jim Crow Laws, and the founders of the KKK. But the fact of the matter remains that the DNC was birthed in racism and has never shed that ideology... The recent wave of racist statements, wearing of blackface, KKK photos, and anti-Semitic remarks by Democrats currently holding public office are fueling racism in the United States today. Perhaps the most high-profile incident is the racist quagmire among the top political leadership in Virginia. Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam infuriated pro-life citizens by pushing legislation that would legalize abortion up until the moment of birth, and perhaps afterward. The public outrage prompted one resident to blow the whistle on his secretive racist inklings. Gov. Northam posed in a racially charged costume during his college days, making a mockery of the African-Americans in his state. Initially, he confessed but recanted after discovering his identity was either hidden by the makeup or the KKK hood in the image. With people unsure which he was, Gov. Northam tried to escape blame. But the whistleblower came forward, and the now-disgraced Northam fessed up under duress. His apologies ring hollow given the circumstances...
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Trump Tax Returns: Dems Ready for Ultimate
Fishing Expedition

by Byron York

Yes, Democrats want to start a new investigation into already-under-investigation Trump-Russia allegations. And yes, they want to investigate Trump associates like Michael Cohen, Roger Stone and others. But by far the biggest thing Democrats want, now that they have the majority in the House, is to get their hands on the president’s tax returns.

House Democrats want to use a 1924 law that allows any one of three entities — the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee or the Joint Committee on Taxation — to demand that the Treasury Department turn over the returns of any individual. The law has almost never been used. For the first 50 years of its existence, no one tried to get a president’s returns — although the law played a role in the fight over Richard Nixon’s finances — and in the years since Gerald Ford took office, presidents have voluntarily made their returns public. Until Donald Trump.

So now, Democrats propose that the entity they fully control — the Ways and Means Committee — force Treasury, parent agency of the Internal Revenue Service, to turn over the president’s returns. What do they hope to find? What is remarkable is that even the most aggressive Democrats don’t seem to have a clear idea what they will find in the returns. They’re just sure there must be something bad in there.

The former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has written of Trump-Russia special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller that “dirty cop-Mueller does not have a crime he is investigating. He is investigating in hopes of finding a crime.” That is what Democrats are planning with the president’s tax returns.

“President Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns makes it clear he has something to hide,” said Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who is a sponsor of the Presidential Tax Transparency Act, which would require presidents and presidential candidates to release their returns.

Of course, Democrats do have some broad ideas about what might be in the returns.

“We want to see if the president of the United States has a conflict of interest that he brought with him or that he created since he got here,” Rep. Bill Pascrell, a member of Ways and Means, said recently. “The only way to do that is to get his tax returns.”

Others think — no surprise — that there’s a Russia connection. Rep. Jackie Speier, a member of the Intelligence Committee, said it is important “for the American people to know to what extent Russia was engaged with then-entrepreneur Donald Trump. … Was there money laundering going on? … That’s why having his tax returns becomes so important.”

Other Democrats want the tax returns to see if Trump might have violated the “emoluments clause” of the Constitution. Still others want to see if Trump got a special break in the tax cut law he signed.

Democratic Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters, chair of the Financial Services Committee, was the most blunt. “We’re gonna get your tax returns,” scumbag/mad-Waters said recently, addressing Trump. “We’re gonna find out where your money has come from, the way that you have cheated the IRS.”

The tax returns — many House Democrats believe — will be a Rosetta Stone to Trump corruption.

There’s no doubt the law gives Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Richard Neal the power to demand the returns. That doesn’t mean Neal would get them right away; the Trump administration would surely raise legal objections that could tie the issue up in court. Perhaps for that reason, Neal has been a voice of caution in the push to see the returns.

There are others, too. Democratic Rep. Ron Kind, also a Ways and Means member, recently remarked that Mueller and his prosecutors have surely seen the returns, and therefore it would be best for the House to proceed carefully. But that is precisely what worries some Democrats. What if dirty cop-Mueller investigates and does not accuse Trump of any wrongdoing based on the tax returns?

Just in case, Democrats propose to perform an “MRI” on Trump’s finances, based in large part on the tax returns.

“Our priority is to make sure the president of the United States is working in the national interest, that he is not motivated by some pecuniary interest or fear of compromise or actual compromise,” Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff said recently. “What we’re interested in is: Does the president have business dealings with Russia such that it compromises the United States?”

For the Democrats to start the “MRI,” the first step has to be securing the president’s returns.

Trump broke a 40-year tradition by not releasing his tax returns during the campaign or since. Now, there are bills in both the House and Senate that would require presidents, and party nominees for the presidency, to release their returns. But they’re not law yet, and might never be.

Whatever happens, there will likely be serious consequences if the Ways and Means Committee chooses to force the release of the president’s returns. For one, it will set a precedent for the House majority, in this case the Democrats, to go after the tax returns of individuals. It is not hard to imagine that coming around to bite Democrats in the future.

Nevertheless, that is what Democrats appear to want. At a recent Ways and Means hearing into the issue of acquiring individual returns, Rep. John Lewis summed up the situation, and in the process said perhaps more than he intended: “This is not the end,” Lewis said. “This is just the beginning.”  ~The Patriot Post

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