“Fetch Lies and Dirty Tricks”
(Good Dawg)
Trump's
fav phrase “Fake News”
(But, never fake from him)
Whew boy,
here we go again … Trump camp dirty tricks redux – related article for 2020
election (a run down on DEM candidates here).
This story headline:
“Lock her up redux? Biden’s son becomes the right’s new target”
Highlights and introduction from this story:
Trump’s
political allies and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have begun mobilizing to
cast a legal cloud over Joe Biden and demanding that the DOJ should open an
investigation that could ensnare the former vice president as he launches his
2020 presidential bid.
Giuliani (May 2) tweet: “Biden
conflicts are too apparent to be ignored and should be investigated quickly and
expeditiously.”
The
suggestion of illegal behavior and the specter of putting a political opponent
behind bars sounded familiar to some senior campaign aides to Hillary Clinton,
who believe Trump and his allies are running a version of their “Crooked Hillary” playbook from 2016.
Says Jesse Ferguson, a senior spokesperson
on the Clinton campaign: “Last time, he had the right-wing
conspiracy media to boost his chants of lock her up, but this time he's going
to actually weaponize the federal government against our nominee.”
The attacks
on Biden pivot off the lucrative business activities of his son Hunter during
the Obama administration, most notably Hunter’s work on the board of a
Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings.
As part of a
long campaign to pressure Ukraine to combat corruption in 2015 and 2016,
then-Vice President Biden leveraged financial aid to the country in order to
persuade the government to fire the country’s top prosecutor.
Full story continues at the link.
My 2 cents: What is driving this latest? This might
help answer that:
* Giuliani has been suggesting that the Biden case
must be investigated as part of the larger inquiry into the origins of the
Russia investigation, which may involve Ukraine.
In
a Fox News interview in early April, Giuliani spoke at length about the
Biden case but said it was only because of broader questions about the Russia
investigation, saying: “I'm bringing it up now because I want Ukraine — I don't
care about Joe Biden. I want that Ukraine investigated. Because I think in the
Ukraine, we are going to find a lot of answers for how the Steele dossier was
put together.”
Then AG Barr told Congress that he is looking into the
origins of the Russia investigation.
* KEY BACKGROUND:
Some veterans of Democratic presidential campaigns see echoes of 2016 in
the way the story had staying power in the conservative media ecosystem and
then gradually reemerged into the mainstream.
Dan Pfeiffer, former
Obama aide, tweeted:
“It's happening all over again. Peter
Schweizer does oppo research funded by conservative interests -- > NYT
credulously writes it up -- > Trump and his allies bully the DOJ into
investigating -- > Trump claims his opponent is corrupt.”
Ken Vogel, the story’s author responded: “If you think
this is oppo from
@peterschweizer or
@RudyGiuliani, you did not read the story very carefully.
Schweizer then responded
to Pfeiffer on Twitter: “It's called investigative journalism not oppo research. What facts to
do dispute?”
More info on Schweizer: He is a conservative journalist who published
“Secret Empires: How the American
Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends” in 2018,
a book looking at potential corruption of Republican and Democratic
establishment figures.
On the cover, Biden features prominently and is joined
by Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell, Jared Kushner, and John Kerry. The book
dedicates significant portions to Hunter Biden’s private-sector work, including
in Ukraine.
Schweizer also is the
author of the 2015 book “Clinton Cash” with
the encouragement of Breitbart’s Steve
Bannon.
He is also the president of the Government
Accountability Institute, a group funded by the Mercer family — which also
bankrolled Breitbart at the time of “Clinton
Cash.” The book was ultimately cited in a large investigation by The New York Times about a Russia uranium deal and
a subsequent story about the Clinton Foundation’s work in
Haiti.
More on that Uranium-One
story here and my input:
Bogus Claim: Hillary Clinton as secretary of
state, was involved of the transfer of U.S. uranium reserves to the new Russian
owners of an international mining operation in exchange for $145 million in
donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Facts: The mining company, Uranium One, was
originally based in South Africa, but merged in 2007 with Canada-based
UrAsia Energy.
Shareholders there retained a controlling interest
until 2010, when Russia’s nuclear agency, Ros-atom, completed purchase of a 51%
stake.
Hillary Clinton played a part in the transaction
insofar as it involved the transfer of ownership of a material deemed important
to national security — uranium, amounting to one-fifth of U.S. reserves (a
fraction re-estimated by the NRC at closer to one-tenth of the United States’
uranium production capacity in 2017) — thus requiring the approval of the Committee on Foreign
Investment in the United States (CFIUS), on which the U.S. Secretary of State
sits but NOT voting major member.
During the same time frame that the acquisition took
place, the Clinton Foundation accepted contributions from nine individuals
associated with Uranium One totaling more than $100 million, book written by the
discredited author of the book: CLINTON CASH): Peter Schweizer, former Sarah
Palin campaign operative.
Peter Schweizer’s book
is poorly written, sloppily documented, and proves nothing that suggested any
wrongdoing by either Bill or Hillary
Clinton.
B/L: This is how the GOP operates: They duck, dodge,
deflect, and deny everything away from themselves while painting all DEMS, Hillary
Clinton, and Obama and devils and the worst people ever on Earth – this is
their latest stunt. Will it work – probably?
Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for more on this
subject and dirty tricks.
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