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Solomon: New docs show constant contact between Burisma and Obama state dept, contradict officials’ testimony

Solomon: New docs show constant contact between Burisma and Obama state dept, contradict officials' testimony

Burisma, the shady firm that presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter worked at for years, has returned to the spotlight despite fervent attempts by Democrat politicians, their media allies, and State Department employees to bury it, and the evidence appears even more damning than before.
Documents uncovered by investigative reporter John Solomon thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request filed against the State Department allegedly prove that the Obama administration had been in constant contact with Burisma.
The documents also allegedly prove that State Department officials had lied to Congress last year when they claimed they hadn’t been in contact with Burisma.
All of this was revealed by Solomon during an appearance Wednesday evening on Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”

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“[T]here are documents that were kept from the Senate … that show that Burisma was in constant contact with the embassy in Ukraine and with the State Department in Washington that contradicts and conflicts with the very testimony State Department officials gave last January during the impeachment trial,” Solomon said.
“It turns out they had non-stop contact with Burisma. Their lobbyists were cornering them at confirmation hearings, at events. There were meetings at the embassy, meetings in the headquarters of Washington. And Hunter Biden’s company was pressuring the Obama State Department to make those corruption allegations go away.”
Those corruption charges are at the center of allegations that Hunter had levied his father’s political power to protect Burisma from being scrutinized by the authorities.
“That’s a narrative that the Democrats have tried to hide for the last 18 months,” Solomon continued, adding that some Republicans are helping them do exactly that.
Although Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson has been relentlessly trying to investigate the Burisma debacle, he’s faced pushback and obstruction from some of his Republican colleagues.
“I think the senators need to know what’s been found by this investigation — that State Department officials are confirming on the record in testimony that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden engaged in a prohibited conflict of interest,” Solomon continued.
“I also am hearing from sources inside the U.S. government … that the committee recently obtained records showing that certain transactions involving the Biden family were flagged as suspicious by intelligence and financial overseers in the government.”

“Those are the sort of things that when they get to the public, maybe it’ll change the mind of some of those senators who’ve been dragging their feet and keeping Ron Johnson and [Senate Finance Committee chair] Chuck Grassley from doing their job.”
Ideally yes, but it seems many Republicans have fed into the media-concocted lie, as Johnson himself reportedly put it later Wednesday evening on Fox News’ “The Story,” that “there is ‘no evidence of wrongdoing or illegal activity’ related to Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board.”
“I could not disagree more. A brief summary of the timeline of events in Ukraine will support my assessment,” the senator added.
Part of the problem, Solomon speculated on FBN, is that congressional Republicans are suffering “political PTSD” from the Democrats’ sham impeachment trial.
“When we first started writing about Ukraine a year ago, it led to the impeachment proceedings, and people don’t want to go through that again,” he said.
Indeed. The sham impeachment was based entirely on the debunked theory that President Donald Trump had reached out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to obtain information on Biden’s alleged corruption so that he could use that information to hurt Biden’s chances in the 2020 race.


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[Phil B.]

Michigan rejects 846 mailed ballots ‘because the voter was dead.’ Media shrugs.

BUT BUT BUT there is no voter fraud!

According to congressional Democrats and their allies in media and Hollywood, the notion of mail-in fraud, abuse and problems is a myth just like Antifa …
Yet according to an emerging cacophony of evidence, the real myth appears to be the idea that the mainstream media have any credibility left.
Case in point: On Friday, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office revealed that over 10,000 absentee ballots filed during the state’s Aug. 4th primary elections were rejected because of the exact sorts of problems that the left has denied exist.
Over 6,400 ballots were rejected for arriving after Election Day, another 1,100+ were rejected because the voter had already moved out of state, and another 700+ were rejected because the ballot signature didn’t match their ID signature.
Here’s the kicker: Exactly 846 ballots were rejected because the voter was “deceased,”
However, while 10,000+ rejected ballots might seem like a small deal, it’s a large enough number to swing a close election.
In the case of the deceased voters, Benson’s office claimed the voters “died after casting their absentee ballot but before Election Day.” Note that this isn’t an issue with standard voting, since dead people can’t show up at the polling booths to vote.
Now, while the news out of Michigan might seem grim, it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Over in Nevada, nearly a quarter-million mailed ballots were never even received by the state, according to a report from the Los Angeles Review-Journal.
“More than 223,000 mailed ballots were returned to Clark County as undeliverable mail during the June primary. … Because of COVID-19 concerns, officials opted for the first all-mail election in state history,” the outlet reported Friday.
“Unlike other counties, Clark County mailed ballots to all — not just active — voters, in part because of legal pressure from state and national Democrats. Of the 1,325,934 ballots mailed out in Clark, 223,469 were returned as undeliverable. About 305,000 were returned by voters, verified and counted by the county.”
This means that 42 percent of the Clark County voters who submitted ballots were potentially disfranchised. That’s a big problem, right? While some might say yes, presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden seems to think otherwise.
But there’s a difference between members of the public voluntarily requesting a ballot and public officials mailing out ballots to everybody.

Now hop over to Pennsylvania, where the state’s Democrat administration is facing a lawsuit from the Campaign Legal Center over allegations that it’s been “improperly rejecting mail-in ballots over issues with voters’ signatures without giving voters a chance to resolve those problems,” according to The Patriot-News.
“The Campaign Legal Center contends the state’s handling of mail-in ballots could threaten the integrity of the election. When voters cast ballots by mail, elections officials examine those ballots to see if the signatures match the signatures on record. If the signatures don’t match, the ballots can be rejected,” the outlet reported on Aug. 7th.
“When there’s a close election, the last thing you want is for untrained lay people to be rejecting ballots, and that decides who wins. We can’t have people’s ballots be rejected because of a penmanship test,” Campaign Legal Center attorney Mark Gaber said to the paper.
Problems with mail-in ballots have been nationwide. California was forced to toss over 100,000 mail-in ballots from its March presidential primary election over mistakes:

California tosses more than 100,000 mail-in ballots from March presidential primary over mistakes http://dlvr.it/Rbr8cq
Hundreds of GOP voters in New Jersey “accidentally” received mail-in ballots featuring only Democrat candidates:




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Hundreds of GOP voters in New Jersey ‘accidentally’ receive mail-in ballots featuring only Democrats

Four people,Four people, including elected councilman, in New Jersey charged with voter fraud using mail-in ballots https://bizpacreview.com/2020/06/26/four-people-including-elected-councilman-in-new-jersey-charged-with-voter-fraud-using-mail-in-ballots-939637 via @BIZPACReview included an elected New Jersey councilman, were charged with voter fraud using mail-in ballots two months ago:

The examples go on for days, though to hear the left tell it, all these problems are apparently just a figment of people’s imagination …

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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes remembers defending Tea Party’s right to ‘scream’ at politicians; 2009 clip shows differently

Like virtually every member of the far-left mainstream establishment media, it appears MSNBC’s Chris Hayes is a raging hypocrite who seems to base his judgments against others not on consistent principle but rather on political ideology.

And so after left-wing extremists affiliated with the Black Lives Matter and Antifa movements harassed, hounded and tried to assault attendees as they left the White House after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention late Thursday, he rushed to their defense by trotting out some standard-fair whataboutism.

It started with Rich Lowry of National Review describing the events in D.C. as “another appalling scene in a summer full of them.”

He was right. Throughout the summer, left-wing extremists — or “peaceful protesters,” as media figures such as Hayes have called them — have rioted, looted, committed, arson, assaulted innocent people and, in some cases, even killed.
Yet for some reason, Lowry’s tweet seemed to anger Hayes, who replied with whataboutism.

The way it works is that because Hayes hates guns, he automatically assumes people carrying guns are evil, dangerous people, never mind how they actually behave.
And so when armed lockdown protesters peacefully but loudly demonstrated at the Michigan State Capitol last spring without threatening anybody, attacking the police, or vandalizing property, that was a problem, he and other left-wingers believe.

Conversely, because he seemingly stands with left-wing extremists, it’s perfectly OK for said extremists to do whatever they want, especially if they’re not armed.
Of course, in the world inhabited by left-wing “journalists,, even armed left-wing extremists are sometimes the good guys …
Continuing his rant, Hayes then cited words he’d allegedly said during the Tea Party protests in 2009 as proof that he’s always supported so-called “protesters.”
The reality is that during protests in 2009, he felt no qualms about impugning the protesters for their “implacable bullying, braying, and intimidation.”




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Replying to @ZaidJilaniChris Hayes on Tea Party protests in 2009: "I can imagine that it`s difficult to sort of conduct any kind of public discourse, any kind of...democratic politics in the face of this sort of implacable, bullying, braying and intimidation"


Missing from anything he said then or is saying now is a recognition of the fact that the Tea Party protests didn’t engender widespread rioting, looting and arson.
Nor did those protests involve protesters … Threatening to burn down buildings. Threatening people. Assaulting the elderly. Committing homophobic assaults.

Remember, these are the people whom Hayes thinks are the good guys …
But would he feel similarly if he were the victim? The evidence suggests not. In numerous instances, left-wing figures have suddenly turned against the extremists the moment the extremists came for them personally.
Over in Seattle, where Mayor Jenny Durkan initially described riots as “a summer of love,” she abruptly changed her stance the moment protesters targeted her home.
And over in Chicago, where Mayor Lori Lightfoot has tolerated riots and protests throughout her city, she instituted a protest ban in only her neighborhood when the extremists began trying to “demonstrate” there.
But the best example of left-wing hypocrisy comes courtesy a former ESPN “journalist” — Hayes is also a journalist, *cough* — who loudly cheered the extremists as they burned down an affordable housing complex but then cried foul the second they showed up in his community.
Sounds about left … just like Chris Hayes.

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Rivals plan Fox News-style opinionated TV station in UK
Groups pitching to perceived desire for alternative output as trust in BBC falls
Rival efforts are underway to launch a Fox News-style opinionated current affairs TV station in Britain to counter the BBC.

One group is promising a news channel “distinctly different from the out-of-touch incumbents” and has already been awarded a license to broadcast by the media regulator, Ofcom, under the name “GB News”. Its founder has said the BBC is a “disgrace” that “is bad for Britain on so many levels” and “needs to be broken up”.
Rivals plan Fox News-style opinionated TV station in UK | Television industry | The Guardian.

hmm, might be interesting.

[Phil B.]

Rivals plan Fox News-style opinionated TV station in UK
Groups pitching to perceived desire for alternative output as trust in BBC falls
Rival efforts are underway to launch a Fox News-style opinionated current affairs TV station in Britain to counter the BBC.

One group is promising a news channel “distinctly different from the out-of-touch incumbents” and has already been awarded a license to broadcast by the media regulator, Ofcom, under the name “GB News”. Its founder has said the BBC is a “disgrace” that “is bad for Britain on so many levels” and “needs to be broken up”.
Rivals plan Fox News-style opinionated TV station in UK | Television industry | The Guardian.

hmm, might be interesting.

good to hear the tides are turning in that direction for Britain

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I am wondering if this CTN poll has a built in bias to it?

The poll overwhelmingly indicates that respondents do not trust the media.

President Trump has trained his followers to reject all unfavorable media coverage as fake news and only to believe what he says.

This is the same President who is documented to lie so much and so often that he would easily win an Olympic Gold medal for lying.

I am of the opinion that the majority of CTN respondents favored pre Trump Republican politics. Since the 2016 election most have lost faith in the Republican party due to the downward spiral that Trump has put the USA into.

[Phil B.]

I am wondering if this CTN poll has a built in bias to it?

The poll overwhelmingly indicates that respondents do not trust the media.

President Trump has trained his followers to reject all unfavorable media coverage as fake news and only to believe what he says.

This is the same President who is documented to lie so much and so often that he would easily win an Olympic Gold medal for lying.

I am of the opinion that the majority of CTN respondents favored pre Trump Republican politics. Since the 2016 election most have lost faith in the Republican party due to the downward spiral that Trump has put the USA into.

his numbers are just within the margin of error for the polls. Most Trump supporters fall into the ' Silent Majority ' column because of the BACKLASH like we do here from you BSM2 an the 'addict'.

The 'news' you receive is left leaning biased, it's been proven time n time again just in the reports they produce.. for example the RIOTS here in the US. I AM WILLING TO BET you see them as 'peaceful' .. but Burning Looting Murdering is NOT peaceful.

Take a look at Kyle Rittenhouse, he was portrayed as a KILLER at first ( and even after the truth came out ) he was being chased.. beaten.. shot at. NOT UNTIL the truth came out showing he fired is SELF DEFENSE only.

Look at all the lawsuits CNN - NYT - MSNBCpms had to pay out for misrepresenting Nick Sandmann, the young kid in the MAGA hat that SUPPOSEDLY laughed at the 'native american' drum beater... turns out the 'drum beater' was harassing the boys in the MAGA hats. CNN had to pay out MILLIONS and retract their stories and apologize for printing/reporting out right LIES about them.

I could go on but I doubt you will 'see the light' and just ridicule me.

And I'm sure the avatar stealer will reply to this with his lil " NUTJOB " meme.

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Humorous Avatar Stealer like you Own it.
It's one of over 100 available to Anyone on CTN.
Most likely there are others here at CTN that picked that same Avatar.

Get over yourself your not King

[Phil B.]

Humorous Avatar Stealer like you Own it.
It one of over 100 available to Anyone on CTN.
Most likely there are other here at CTN that picked that same Avatar.

Go over yourself

did you mean GET over yourself.

there you go again your lack of command of the English Language is showing.

yes I know that the avatars are available for all to use but on the other hand I (as far as i know) was the only one using the 'army dude' until you scarfed it up ... even SaleServiceGuy said that it was 'confusing' to him...

you should have stuck with the 'frozen bird' avatar because that fit your frozen brain persona better.

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