They'll lie about everythig. Expect it.

 

DOJ continues Stalin's tactics

 

It's making him ever more dangerous.
 

A senior Justice Department official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorneys’ offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor who President Trump has demanded be thrown in jail.

The official’s directive, a copy of which was viewed by The New York Times, goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism. The memo suggests department leaders are following orders from the president that specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation — a major break from decades of past practice meant to insulate the Justice Department from political interference.

The move is the latest instance of the Justice Department moving against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies.

  NYT

Insane clown Trump

 

Extra stupid.  George Soros can afford a nuisance suit defense.

So creepy.

GOP projection

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Is this the stupidest talking point they have?

It's already you and me.  It's about time justice started going to the top of the criminal ladder.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 08:26 am:  Oh, lord.  Should have seen this coming.

And, appropriately, "it's the Jews"...

UPDATE 01:12 pm:

It would not surprise me in the least if David Pecker has a little something on Lindsey Graham locked away in that safe where he keeps Donald Trump's secrets.

UPDATE 04/01/2023:

Six former A.M.I. employees told me that Pecker routinely makes catch-and-kill arrangements like the one reached with [Playmate Karen] McDougal. [...] Jerry George, a former A.M.I. senior editor who worked at the company for more than twenty-five years, told me [...] that Pecker protected Trump. “Pecker really considered him a friend,” George told me. “We never printed a word about Trump without his approval.”

[...]

“In theory, you would think that Trump has all the power in that relationship, but in fact Pecker has the power—he has the power to run these stories. He knows where the bodies are buried.” [according to Maxine Page, who worked at A.M.I.]

  New Yorker

Out from under their rocks

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Some are insane; some are useful tools

[Andriy Telizhenko, a former Ukrainian diplomat who has alleged Ukraine’s government conspired with Democrats in 2016, an] associate traveling with Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine this week [Andriy Telizhenko, a former Ukrainian diplomat who has alleged Ukraine’s government conspired with Democrats in 2016 has voiced an unusual theory for why he may not be able to return to the United States: “Soros people,” he says, are working to discredit him and may block his visa.

[...]

He did not name any individually or provide proof other than to say some were writing about him online.

It was far from the first time that [George Soros, Hungarian American and a Holocaust survivor], a billionaire philanthropist and a frequent target of conspiracies about Jews controlling the world, has popped up as part of a conspiracy theory portraying Soros as using Ukraine as a playing field to undermine Trump’s campaign.

[...]

When Fiona Hill, then a National Security Council official, started hearing early in 2019 about a smear campaign against a colleague in Ukraine invoking Soros, she had a sinking feeling: She’d heard this before.

A similar conspiracy theory about Soros had been lobbed against Hill during her first year as Trump’s top adviser on Russia and Europe. That’s when Hill says a former Republican congressman from Florida tried to get the vice president’s office to get rid of her — “to have me fired for being a Soros mole in the White House,” she told Congress.

That former congressman, Connie Mack IV, now a lobbyist, confirms he met in 2017 with the vice president’s national security adviser about Hill’s “conflict of interest” stemming from what he alleged are her ties to Soros.

[...]

In an interview, Mack said he’d found a book on the internet that said that Hill had attended Soros’ wedding, although he couldn’t recall the name of the book offhand and an internet search did not turn one up. Hill’s attorney said the assertion was false

[...]

Hill said she starting getting death threats when Mack’s allegations made it to Roger Stone, a Trump associate who was convicted last month of lying to Congress, as well as the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his far-right channel, InfoWars. In lobbying documents about Hill, Mack said he was shining “a light on the far-reaching network of George Soros in order to continually degrade his international influence.”

“There is clearly a conflict of interest,” Mack said. Orban, his client, had been working to oust a Soros-founded university from Budapest.

[...]

Lee Wolosky, Hill’s attorney, said any work Hill had done at Soros-linked entities had been promoting a “fundamentally American” interest: advancing democracy and civil society in the former Soviet Union.

[...]

Mack said he made that case to Vice President Mike Pence’s national security adviser at the time, Andrea Thompson.

[...]

In 2017, Mack’s client was Viktor Orban, Hungary’s nationalist prime minister who has vilified Soros as part of his bid to stifle dissent.

  NBC

Viktor Orban - "nationalist" is bowdlerizing it.

Hill, in her testimony, compared the smear campaign to “the new Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

[...]

A successful campaign to oust Marie Yovanovitch as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine by Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and two now-indicted associates was galvanized by accusations that Yovanovitch protected Soros’ efforts. Those accusations originated in an opinion article by John Solomon in the “The Hill,” which, according to documents given to Congress, he coordinated with one of the indicted Giuliani associates and with two pro-Trump lawyers, Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova.

Solomon got booted out of that job and is now a Fox News commentator.

Last month, as the impeachment probe unfolded, diGenova told Fox News that Soros “wants to run Ukraine” and “controls a very large part” of the U.S. diplomatic corps, along with FBI agents in Ukraine and elsewhere. Giuliani falsely told The Washington Post in September that Yovanovitch was “now working for Soros.” In fact, she is still a U.S. government employee.

I don't think the two would be mutually exclusive in Rudy's telling.

Giuliani also told CNN that month that an anti-corruption nonprofit in Ukraine that took funding from a Soros philanthropy had fabricated evidence against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He later told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that the Ukrainians had “brought me substantial evidence of Ukrainian collusion with Hillary Clinton, the D.N.C., George Soros, George Soros' company.”

[...]

And last month, a photo that purportedly showed the whistleblower who outed Trump’s call with the Ukrainian leader went viral, tweeted out by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. It turned out to be a photo of Soros’ son.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

One small step for Fox News

“We condemn the rhetoric by the guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Gary Schreier, senior vice president of programming for Fox Business, said in a statement, according to CNN. “This episode was a repeat which has now been pulled from all future airings.”

A Fox News spokesperson told CNN that the guest, Judicial Watch head Chris Farrell, will no longer be booked on Fox Business Network or Fox News.

[...]

“This is a criminal involvement on the part of these leftist mobs. It’s a highly organized, very elaborate sophisticated operation,” Farrell said of the caravan. “I have that from the highest levels of the Guatemalan government.”

“A lot of these folks also have affiliates who are getting money from the Soros-occupied State Department, and that is a great, great concern,” he continued.

  The Hill

Fox needs to go a step further and drop Lou Dobbs.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Greitens won't go quietly

Hours after a St. Louis grand jury indicted him for felony invasion of privacy, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens shot back at the city's top prosecutor. "With today's disappointing and misguided political decision, my confidence in our prosecutorial system is shaken, but not broken," Greitens said in a statement released this evening. The governor acknowledged the past affair, but stated, "I did not commit a crime."

[...]

His statement concluded, "I look forward to the legal remedies to reverse this action. This will not for a moment deter me from doing the important work of the great people of Missouri."

[...]

"I know this will be righted soon," Greitens' statement continued. "The people of Missouri deserve better than a reckless liberal prosecutor who uses her office to score political points."

  Riverfront Times

And today...





(Didn't realize Sarah was a fellow Missourian.  Perhaps I could have looked at her profile, which specifically shows her location as St. Louis, or maybe I might have noticed that her Twitter header picture is the St. Louis Arch!)

I wonder, in light of the State GOP statement, will GOP Senator Rowden still carry out this threat:

And, if Rowden calls on his colleagues to take action, will they heed the call? Not likely the Republicans, with that GOP statement, I wouldn't think.

I'm afraid we're in for a long, ugly trial.

And, speaking of Sarah Kendzior...





Not having watched Old Lard Ass' campaign bile, I didn't realize he used "Sympathy for the Devil" in those orgiastic rallies.  What in the name of Sam Hill?  And his Fundamentalist and Evangelical base didn't object?  I remember when that song came out and the enormous stink the Righteous made.

And, btw, I'm very glad I didn't watch his speeches.  Yet, having seen snippets, and just now having read this article where Sarah is referring to his July 29 speech, I am even more appalled that anyone could vote for him.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Please allow me to introduce myself

I'm a man of wealth and taste

[...]

But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game

UPDATE:

Game on at Davos

Or, the Roman Colosseum.

Donald Trump's administration is "a danger to the world" and is attempting to "establish a mafia state", according to a speech by financier and philanthropist George Soros at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

  IB times

Actually, as I mentioned before, Trump's whining about Palestine being disrespectful to the US, does sond like mob talk. You have to wonder how any organization could function with him at the top, though.

Soros told the audience that the US Constitution, other institutions and "a vibrant civil society" are standing in the way of Trump's plans.

[...]

Soros told the audience that the US Constitution, other institutions and "a vibrant civil society" are standing in the way of Trump's plans.

[...]

The billionaire also took aim at monopolistic technology and social media companies, which "while once liberating, are now socially damaging". He said that the power to "shape people's minds" now lies in the hands of a few companies, and that those without freedom of mind can be easily manipulated. In another attack on Trump, Soros pointed to the 2016 presidential elections as an example of this.

The billionaire also took aim at monopolistic technology and social media companies, which "while once liberating, are now socially damaging". He said that the power to "shape people's minds" now lies in the hands of a few companies, and that those without freedom of mind can be easily manipulated. In another attack on Trump, Soros pointed to the 2016 presidential elections as an example of this.

[...]

One solution would be a "multi-track" approach to EU membership, in which member states are free to form coalitions of the willing to pursue particular goals in which they agree.

The EU should also drop the requirement for member states to adopt the euro, Soros said, as "I would like to see Britain remain a member of the EU or eventually rejoin it, and that couldn't happen if it meant adopting the euro".

George Soros knows infinitely more about finance than I do, but I think the idea of the Euro was not such a bad one. The problem was that it was not applied equally to all members. That's one of the things that caused Greece to fall. A euro from a Greek bank was not equivalent in strength and favor as a euro from a German bank. Greece's once finance minister who quit once Greece's president decided to go along with the EU austerity proram, does know as much - and maybe more - about finance than George Soros, and this is what he had to say:

Varoufakis: Well, imagine if in the United States you treated people from Arizona as non-Americans or as people that must fend for themselves and whose banking system is their own problem. Then you wouldn't be having the United States of America.

Brancaccio: And that's the conundrum that Europe is still in. It didn't fix it.

Varoufakis: Indeed, we created the common currency, but did not create everything else which is necessary not to make the common currency a place of shared prosperity.

[...]

Brancaccio: Just so we know a piece of the story, what did the finance minister of Germany want to do but his chancellor wouldn't let them do?

Varoufakis: Wolfgang Schaeuble, decades ago, was a committed federalist, but a combination of Angela Merkel — who usurped him and effectively stole, that's in his view, the prime ministership, the chancellorship from him, as well as the French, did not want a proper federation.

They wanted all the benefits from a common currency, but without the obligations of a federal democratic political system. Schaeuble was against that. But over the years, he became a cynical man, using the finance ministry to do that which he would have wanted to do as the chancellor of Germany.

  Marketplace