bonginoreport--2020-06-01--Freed From Gag Order, Roger Stone Sounds Off

With Attorney General William Barr now firmly in charge at the Justice Department , the steady unraveling of the coup plot against President Donald J. Trump by the Obama-Clinton junta raises the real possibility that a number of its culprits will face prosecution .
The pushback from Democrats and their allies is the false claim that Attorney General Barr “ interfered ” in the sentencing recommendations of the “ non-political career line prosecutors ” in my case as well as recommending the dismissal of the thoroughly corrupted case against Gen. Michael Flynn .
Now that I am ungagged , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Attorney General is entirely false .
Read on .
After years of obfuscation , foot-dragging and distracting sham investigations to prop up the Democrats ’ Russian collusion hoax , the end is perhaps nigh for the defiant zealots behind the most brazen attempt to systematically subvert constitutional government in our nation ’ s entire history .
Despite his somewhat-plodding manner , AG Barr is emerging as a stolid , steady leader in the national imperative of correcting the veritable crime spree of Obama-Clinton sponsored injustices , while exorcising the DOJ of the lawless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Obama administration .
To the dismay of the deep state manipulators , Barr is not susceptible to smarmy tactics and relentless bullying .
His fealty lies solely with the Constitution and fulfilling the DOJ ’ s role as its guardian , ensuring the reliable administration of legitimate , rather than wayward justice .
Barr may well prove to be the immovable object the Obama-Clinton-Democrat manipulators had hoped their endless torrent of lies , smears and obfuscations would never encounter .
As they see that political pressures will not bring Barr to heel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for their relentless attack machine .
In February , the Attorney General found out just how diabolical the Obama-Clinton apparatchiks can be when the lawyers prosecuting me engineered a media frenzy to set Barr up for false accusations that he had intervened to serve the interests of President Trump .
This malicious prosecution used as a tool to silence and bankrupt me originated with Special Counsel Robert Mueller ’ s partisan hit squad , but was migrated to the U.S. Attorney for D.C. when Mueller abruptly ended his nearly 2-year inquisition targeting President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ members of Mueller ’ s team were dispatched to prosecute the case alongside two lawyers from the U.S. Attorney ’ s office .
With them came the Mueller team ’ s penchant for devious legal machinations and unethical ambush tactics .
As my case came to the sentencing phase , its underhanded prosecutors reportedly lied to senior DOJ officials and “ browbeat ” the newly-appointed US Attorney for D.C. in order to file a sentencing memorandum recommending that I receive seven to nine years incarceration as a non-violent first-time offender on charges that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ punishment recommendation was a radical departure from standard DOJ sentencing recommendation practices and immediately sparked public outrage .
The criticism from legal experts across the spectrum compelled the DOJ to correct the government ’ s sentencing recommendation to bring it in line with the handling normally given a case of its kind .
The DOJ went so far as to issue a public statement denouncing the recommendation of its own prosecutors , warning that “ [ t ] he Department finds seven to nine years extreme , excessive and grossly disproportionate to Mr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ringing endorsement of this persecution team ’ s judgment , to say the least .
Ambushing their own department and using dishonest trickery to file an outlandish punishment recommendation in a high-profile case is hardly what one might expect from principled crusaders for justice .
Notwithstanding their laughable canonization by the media , the truth is that these partisan manipulators posing as prosecutors knew exactly what they were doing , and engineering a media controversy was precisely the result they sought .
Had these prosecutors simply complied with DOJ professional practice , had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treatment than sheer contempt , they would have denied themselves the opportunity to pompously grandstand as aggrieved public servants compelled by their scrupulous ethics to withdraw from the case in protest .
( Sure , fellas , and in other news I am the odds-on favorite to become the next pope . )
The ugly reality is that they abused their positions of trust to push for an outlandish retributive punishment in my case , while teeing up another defamatory smear against AG Bill Barr , knowing well that sympathetic media jackals and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allies would giddily promote and perpetuate the narrative , exactly according to plan .
It was a “ Tuesday afternoon massacre !
” bleated a few of the more demented propaganda outlets , alluding to the so-called “ Saturday night massacre ” in which Richard Nixon ordered the firing of Special Prosecutor and Kennedy minion Archibald Cox .
The false narrative created by these Mueller goons enabled a malicious hit job on an Attorney General who , in reality , is more fair-minded , ethical and public-interested than the entire army of sleazy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crime presidency , combined .
The disingenuousness and inflated self-importance of these partisan legal hacks was as repugnant as their conduct was unprofessional and uncouth .
Clearly their curious idea of what it means to represent the United States Government as Department of Justice attorneys is a function of the sordid partisan animus and power-abusive arrogance they share with their fellow travelers in the Obama-Clinton junta .
These are dangerous , perhaps even criminally-corrupt , government officials .
It is worth taking a closer look at who these prosecutorial bullies really are , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enabled them to get away with such injustices .
First , we can largely dispel the laughable spin that these are “ career prosecutors ” due some sort of deferential default presumption of being non-partisan , unbiased , apolitical vicars of justice .
The facts are that these prosecutors were handpicked partisan mercenaries with ideological profiles of decidedly anti-Trump partisans .
Lead prosecutor Jonathan Kravis ( pronounced like the word craven ) – Yale Law ‘ 04 — was an associate White House Counsel to Barack Obama , hired just days after Obama @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to this , Kravis was an associate at the DC lobbying firm of Williams and Connolly and a law clerk for ultra liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer .
Most notably , Kravis was a law clerk at the US Court of Appeals in DC for the left-wing DC swamp ’ s most celebrated and bitterly-aggrieved Supreme Court nominee fail in recent history , Judge Merrick Garland .
One need not look further than the bleating lamentations that persist even to this day over how the big bad Republican Senate denied Judge Garland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and how Supreme Court Justice Neal Gorsuch is an illegitimate justice in Garland ’ s place , to understand how deep the resentment and antipathy towards Republicans runs among Garland sycophants .
At Yale Law , Kravis was recruited to work for a terrorist detainee at Guantanamo Bay alongside his fellow Yale Law grad Neal Katyal , author of “ Impeach : The Case Against Trump.
” Katyal is also a regular MSNBC contributor , bashing President Trump every chance he gets .
Virginia defense attorney Jesse Binnall , who has faced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the following about Mr. Kravis : “ I was opposite Jonathan Kravis on The Ron Paul Three case , which was the prosecution of three Ron Paul campaign aids in Iowa .
It was a politically-driven prosecution targeting three Republican activists .
First , Kravis and his partner violated an immunity agreement -a proffer agreement- they signed with a co-defendant in that case , and the judge dismissed the codefendant ’ s case based on prosecutorial misconduct .
Then , Kravis hid exculpatory and impeachment information from my client , Dimitri Kesari .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s attorney-client confidentiality , obtaining text message communications between Kessari and me , shockingly producing the conversations to another co-defendant in the case !
” “ Kravis is very calculating .
He is a former Obama White House lawyer and I think he came to the DOJ with a political agenda .
In fact , I think he ’ s an angry Democrat who can ’ t stop abusing his power as a prosecutor .
It ’ s good that he has left government ” It is absolutely ludicrous to think that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some holy prosecutorial paragon , uninfected professionally by his deep-seated bias against Donald Trump , his fealty to his former employer Obama or his sheer communion with nothing but establishment leftist Beltway lawyers .
Reinforcing that Kravis is nothing more than a partisan legal thug is the scathing editorial rant he published on May 11 , 2019 in ( what else ) The Washington Post .
With utmost pontifical pretense , Kravis rails with rage over having his sadistic sentencing recommendation shot down and has similar conniptions over the DOJ ’ s wise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cronies ’ persecution of General Michael Flynn .
Finally , in highest of high dudgeon , this partisan leftist ambulance chaser slams AG Bill Barr for daring to correct grotesque prosecutorial abuses of the sort that Kravis probably pats himself on the back for regularly committing .
To call Kravis ’ s screed a load of sanctimonious self-serving twaddle from an intrinsically-deceitful rage-oholic thug would be an insult to both twaddle and thugs .
Kravis ’ s deceits in this op-ed catastrophe are as brazen as they were in the courtroom and in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The departure of this misanthrope from the DOJ was the best thing that has happened to that agency since Bill Barr arrived as AG .
Good riddance to this dangerous , destructive menace of a lawyer .
Next up we have former leftist writer at Huffington Post and hand-picked Mueller zealot Aaron Zelinsky – Yale Law ‘ 10 .
Zelinsky was picked up for the Mueller operation from his job at the U.S. Attorney ’ s Office for Maryland , in Baltimore , where he had worked previously under Rod Rosenstein , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Special Counsel .
Previously , Zelinsky worked in the Obama administration under Hillary Clinton , in the State Department ’ s Office of Legal Adviser .
He also clerked for Justices John Paul Stevens and Anthony Kennedy .
Everywhere he has been entrusted with power , Zelinsky has unfailingly proven himself to be a manipulative thug and a deceitful hypocrite .
With his Special Counsel cohorts Jeannie Rhee and Andrew Goldstein , Zelinsky reportedly lied to a U.S. District Court in a signed sentencing memorandum submitted in the case of Mueller target George @ @ @ @ @ @ @ portrayed Papadopolous as having harmed the government ’ s investigation , when the exact opposite was true .
Similarly in my own case , the initial sentencing memorandum Zelinsky filed also contained numerous factual claims that were either false or not in evidence .
Mimicking Jonathan Kravis ’ s closing argument falsehoods , Zelinsky ’ s memo repeatedly made the false claim that Jerome Corsi was the “ real intermediary ” with Wikileaks to whom I referred during the 2016 election .
No evidence exists anywhere that Jerome Corsi ever had any contact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Corsi denies ever having such contact , and I never claimed at any time that Corsi was my intermediary .
Despite their using Corsi repeatedly , in absentia , as supposed proof of the falsity of my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee naming Randy Credico as my intermediary , the government never called Corsi at trial .
In his book “ Silent No More : How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller ’ s Witch Hunt ” , Corsi goes into extensive detail about Zelinsky ’ s bully tactics in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his relationship and work with me , in the offices of Special Counsel Robert Mueller , teamed up with Mueller attorneys Jeannie Rhee and Andrew Goldstein .
Corsi was so shaken by his treatment at the hands of these ruthless Special Counsel lawyers , that in the conclusion of his book he wrote : “ Make no mistake , Rhee , Zelinsky , and Goldstein are Deep State criminals.
” In the first published draft of the book , Corsi went even further about Zelinsky , in particular , in such harsh terms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the final versions .
In Chapter 11 , pages 15-16 , of the first published version Corsi wrote [ Emphasis added ] : Finally we have Jeannie Rhee – Yale Law ‘ 97 , who was not a trial counsel in U.S. v Stone , but was a prime mover behind the relentless probing of every molecule of my existence for well over a year , and my eventual indictment , engineered out of misleading cherry-picked grand jury testimony .
Rhee is without question the most flagrantly-conflicted attorney associated with my case .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rhee was a lawyer for Obama in the DOJ ’ s Office of Legal Counsel .
She was also a partner at the law firm WilmerHale , which is also home to a number of Obama and Clinton lawfare specialists who pursued harassment lawsuits against Donald Trump and his supporters .
Rhee represented The Clinton Foundation in a 2015 racketeering case , former Obama National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes , and Hillary Clinton personally in a lawsuit over her private emails in 2015 .
Rhee personally donated over $ 5,000 to Hillary Clinton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 5,000 to Barack Obama ’ s campaigns and related funds in both 2008 and 2011 .
Rhee was one of three Mueller bullies who relentlessly interrogated Jerome Corsi at the Special Counsel star chamber in D.C. about subject matter involving Wikileaks and its activities releasing leaked emails from the DNC and key players in the 2016 campaign of her former client , Hillary Clinton .
[ NOTE : Rhee also interrogated one of the authors of this editorial , prior to his testifying to the Mueller grand jury . ]
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ required for Mueller and his minions to simply ignore Ms. Rhee ’ s representation of Hillary Clinton , the Clinton Foundation and Obama NSA mouthpiece Ben Rhodes to make her a primary prosecutorial vigilante against me .
That these same people , without missing a beat , could purport to be acting in the public interest as legitimate , impartial law enforcement officials and vindicators of justice ( versus slavishly serving their own narrow cultish partisan allegiances as corrupt prosecutorial poseurs ) reveals , in truly chilling terms , the arrogant megalomania and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ move .
There is not sufficient space to delineate all of the prosecutorial deceits and disinformation packed into the initial sentencing memorandum filed as a result of the Kravis-Zelinsky connivances , deceiving DOJ officials and bullying a newly-appointed U.S. Attorney .
It is worth noting that this outrageous memorandum was never , in fact , withdrawn but only supplemented by the subsequent memo containing sentencing recommendations not motivated by spiteful partisan malice .
As a result , the judge took both memoranda into consideration in her deliberations .
The narrowly-tailored nature of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kravis-Zelinsky zealotry serves to debunk the false accusations manufactured against Barr of somehow meddling in my case to secure favorable treatment .
Had it been true that Barr improperly intervened in order to undercut these rogue prosecutors , surely their over-the-top memo would have been withdrawn entirely .
There is one particularly-egregious deceit , though , from the Mueller goons ’ memorandum that we must expose .
It is lead goon Zelinsky ’ s misappropriation of a phrase cherry-picked from Federalist 68 , cheaply misquoting Hamilton to fit the prosecution ’ s fictional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the ‘ most deadly adversar [ y ] of republican government , ’ ” proclaimed the Obama-Clinton avengers on the prosecution team .
To be clear there was never any evidence that I was involved in any way with foreign interference in the 2016 election , and I was not charged or convicted of anything related to this smear .
Nonetheless , it is included in the original sentencing memo recommending a 7- to 9-year prison term for me .
Federalist 68 does not say this at all , but rather that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” are the adversaries of republican government and that they arise from more than one source , though “ chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.
” Undoubtedly , Hamilton also believed that one of the other sources of deadly “ cabal , intrigue and corruption ” was the malignant insinuation of abusive partisan pretenders to justice into those most powerful instrumentalities of state entrusted with the disinterested , impartial enforcement of statutes , particularly those resulting in the denial of life , liberty or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interference , ” there is no dispute it is a pernicious evil that must never be tolerated .
And when Mueller ’ s lynch mob , or anyone else in our government , produces so much as a scintilla of credible evidence ( rather than vague “ intelligence assessments ” and their own contrived legal pleadings ) to prove this occurred at the hands of anyone even remotely associated with Donald Trump , we should all support every effort to root out and deal with its culprits .
But the plain truth is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As revelation after revelation cascade into public view and the Great Wall of Obama-Clinton Lies begins its ignominious , long-overdue implosion , the American people are finally seeing the shocking extent of manipulation that was business-as-usual in the Obama White House .
We now know that Obama oversaw an espionage operation against the election campaign of his most prominent detractor and presidential nominee of the opposition party .
We now know that Obama tacitly , if not explicitly , allowed his minions ’ political espionage activities to be migrated from the context of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opposition party candidate ’ s campaign , to that of a presidential transition process , targeting the president-elect ’ s top national security appointee .
And this was just the beginning .
The shockingly-casual intelligence unmasking of a U.S. Army general , named incoming National Security Adviser , dozens of times , by power-crazed Obama apparatchiks was but a prelude to what was in store from the larger network of ruthless malcontented cultists from the Obama-Clinton axis of imperial Beltway power , including federal law enforcement officials at the highest levels .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the writing on the wall many months before Donald J. Trump achieved his stunning election victory in November 2016 .
By the time Trump won the presidency , demolishing the best laid schemes and longing ambitions of so many self-anointed Beltway masterminds , the smart money ( or at least those with the most to lose if Trump happened to win ) had already begun peddling the Trump-Russia collusion hoax .
This maliciously-contrived fiction , carefully bolstered by conveniently staged one-off interactions during the election with Russian nationals that were then used against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russian collusion , ” was the seed that spawned a relentless partisan smear campaign against Donald Trump and his presidency that has lasted nearly four years .
This vicious lie , concocted by smear merchants at the intersection of America ’ s radical authoritarian left and an entrenched would-be ruling establishment between DC and NYC ( the ‘ deep state ’ ) , enabled an Obama-Clinton shadow government , of sorts , and its copacetic propaganda juggernaut posing as “ news media ” to : • Manufacture and promote conspiracy theories to portray @ @ @ @ @ @ @ activities as some sort of grandiose criminal plot • Spy on , record , leak and publish some of the most sensitive internal deliberations and interactions of a sitting U.S. president , including exchanges with foreign heads-of-state and diplomats • Conspire among ulterior-motivated low-level appointees and bureaucratic holdovers from prior administrations whose allegiances are , at best , dubious , to undermine Donald Trump and his presidency from within and , if possible , manufacture false pretexts to remove Trump from office • Fabricate and recycle defamatory fake news of any sort that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ denigrate Donald Trump and anyone connected with him or his administration • Use sensitive congressional committees to conduct prolonged , baseless , star chamber-type sham “ investigations ” with secretive interrogations of Trump allies , associates and family members , routinely leaked by Democrat committee members in violation of congressional committee rules so as to harm the president or those who testified , while ensuring the entire farce was promoted and sensationalized by a reliable cast of anti-Trump propagandists in media • Abuse federal courts to wage lawfare against the president and his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ factually groundless harassment lawsuits filed by a network of former Obama administration and Clinton-connected attorneys , acting behind dubious front groups thinly-veiled as public interest non-profits • Neutralize the U.S. Attorney General from counteracting and arresting a seditious scheme being perpetrated against the President of the United States within the Department of Justice by criminally-manipulative senior law enforcement officials • Create and assemble within the Department of Justice an effectively-unaccountable rogue legal hit squad , under the false pretense of a “ Special Counsel ” , primarily-composed of revolving-door partisan lawyers either formerly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Obama or Clinton administrations or their extended networks of government-embedded political loyalists • Operate this “ Special Counsel ” over a period of years as a secretive gestapo-like inquisition , maliciously targeting President Trump and a disparate group cherry-picked from only his non-government-employed political supporters for abusive , high-profile , maximum-damage political persecutions , deceitfully portrayed and endlessly promoted as legitimate politically-unbiased criminal law enforcement actions • Impeach the President of the United States in a kangaroo-court grade political spectacle conducted by adversarial partisan zealots absurdly posing as “ investigators ” and “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ literally-invented political offenses – yet not a single crime of even the pettiest sort • Put the president on trial for the contrived offenses , using as “ evidence ” nothing more than speculation and opinion testimony elicited largely from disgruntled former underlings [ most notably , a hostile Obama-embedded partisan subversive on the National Security Council staff who abusively-exploited highly-privileged access to sensitive presidential communications , by virtue of being a commissioned military officer , to manipulate and ultimately divulge material to the president ’ s most ruthless partisan adversaries using the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ] .
As far down the road as the Obama-Clinton junta went with these complicated ruses and manufactured scandals , they can ’ t have actually believed they could succeed in removing Donald Trump from office .
The coup plotters may be sneaky and deceitful-beyond-belief , but they are not stupid .
They know , as well as the rest of the world does , that their histrionic allegations and endless breathless umbrage are unserious hokum intended to create political theater , at best .
So why then all of the nonstop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are all these distractions if they know they can ’ t succeed in removing Trump ?
The answer is right in the question itself … distraction .
The daily torrent of petty and fruitless , but no less malicious , distractions conjured up by Democrat partisans have served to cover up and suppress scrutiny of the seditious high crimes and lawless corruption of the Obama junta .
As the saying goes , the best defense is a good offense .
The operators in the Obama-Clinton Democrat axis of evil are nothing if not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their opponents .
They also know that the media ’ s curiosity about scandal only materializes if the subjects are Republicans .
But being arrogant egotists , they underestimate Donald Trump and his allies , and overestimate how much their own limitless capacity for dishonesty can sustain a totally-false reality they have created , when the truth is so much less byzantine .
After years of Democrat lies , the truth finally has its boots on , and just in time for the all-important 2020 election .
Now the dirty cops , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political hucksters who orchestrated a sedition plot against President Donald Trump are increasingly panic-stricken at the prospect of his re-election .
No matter how many red herrings , hoaxes , distractions and defamations the Obama protection cult has managed to churn out over the last four years , the truth is finally becoming crystal clear about who is responsible for sowing all of the chaotic division and acrimony that have acutely plagued our body politic for the last four years ; about whose grandiose designs have been the impetus for so much cheap @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigations ; and whose corrupt political mafia stands to lose the most if the Trump presidency continues to succeed beyond all expectations .
It is Barack Hussein Obama who empowered his slippery spy chiefs and his arrogant , egomaniacal law enforcement honchos to convert our government ’ s most powerful agencies and their most dangerous tools into offensive weapons to begin waging asymmetrical partisan warfare against the one man , and his small but intense cadre of loyalists , who managed in spite of it all to so brilliantly expose and thoroughly debunk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left ’ s political messiah and his diabolical disciples .
For the last four years , degenerate Obama-Clinton power cultists have inflicted on this nation , its citizenry and our government nothing less than an unprecedented , systematic campaign of subversion , targeting an entire U.S. presidency for destruction while subjecting our rightfully-elected president to an attempted coup d ’ etat .
In committing these vile deeds against our country , this malignant basket of deplorables very much represents the same pernicious historical forces , burrowed into our government for almost a century @ @ @ @ @ @ @ F. Kennedy , to Richard M. Nixon and tried to do it to Ronald Reagan .
Donald J. Trump , who has so much in common with these three of his predecessors , has merely become their latest quarry .
It is high time now that the truth , with its boots finally on , brings these real perpetrators to real justice .

With Attorney General William Barr now firmly in charge at the Justice Department, the steady unraveling of the coup plot against President Donald J. Trump by the Obama-Clinton junta raises the real possibility that a number of its culprits will face prosecution. The pushback from Democrats and their allies is the false claim that Attorney General Barr “interfered” in the sentencing recommendations of the “non-political career line prosecutors” in my case as well as recommending the dismissal of the thoroughly corrupted case against Gen. Michael Flynn. Now that I am ungagged, I can outline why this charge against the Attorney General is entirely false. Read on.
After years of obfuscation, foot-dragging and distracting sham investigations to prop up the Democrats’ Russian collusion hoax, the end is perhaps nigh for the defiant zealots behind the most brazen attempt to systematically subvert constitutional government in our nation’s entire history.
Despite his somewhat-plodding manner, AG Barr is emerging as a stolid, steady leader in the national imperative of correcting the veritable crime spree of Obama-Clinton sponsored injustices, while exorcising the DOJ of the lawless partisan corruption that infested its ranks during the Obama administration.
To the dismay of the deep state manipulators, Barr is not susceptible to smarmy tactics and relentless bullying. His fealty lies solely with the Constitution and fulfilling the DOJ’s role as its guardian, ensuring the reliable administration of legitimate, rather than wayward justice.
Barr may well prove to be the immovable object the Obama-Clinton-Democrat manipulators had hoped their endless torrent of lies, smears and obfuscations would never encounter. As they see that political pressures will not bring Barr to heel, he has become a focal point for their relentless attack machine.
In February, the Attorney General found out just how diabolical the Obama-Clinton apparatchiks can be when the lawyers prosecuting me engineered a media frenzy to set Barr up for false accusations that he had intervened to serve the interests of President Trump.
This malicious prosecution used as a tool to silence and bankrupt me originated with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s partisan hit squad, but was migrated to the U.S. Attorney for D.C. when Mueller abruptly ended his nearly 2-year inquisition targeting President Trump and his political supporters. Two members of Mueller’s team were dispatched to prosecute the case alongside two lawyers from the U.S. Attorney’s office. With them came the Mueller team’s penchant for devious legal machinations and unethical ambush tactics.
As my case came to the sentencing phase, its underhanded prosecutors reportedly lied to senior DOJ officials and “browbeat” the newly-appointed US Attorney for D.C. in order to file a sentencing memorandum recommending that I receive seven to nine years incarceration as a non-violent first-time offender on charges that were picayune gotcha offenses.
The draconian punishment recommendation was a radical departure from standard DOJ sentencing recommendation practices and immediately sparked public outrage. The criticism from legal experts across the spectrum compelled the DOJ to correct the government’s sentencing recommendation to bring it in line with the handling normally given a case of its kind.
The DOJ went so far as to issue a public statement denouncing the recommendation of its own prosecutors, warning that “[t]he Department finds seven to nine years extreme, excessive and grossly disproportionate to Mr. Stone’s offenses.” Hardly a ringing endorsement of this persecution team’s judgment, to say the least.
Ambushing their own department and using dishonest trickery to file an outlandish punishment recommendation in a high-profile case is hardly what one might expect from principled crusaders for justice.
Notwithstanding their laughable canonization by the media, the truth is that these partisan manipulators posing as prosecutors knew exactly what they were doing, and engineering a media controversy was precisely the result they sought.
Had these prosecutors simply complied with DOJ professional practice, had they offered their department colleagues slightly better treatment than sheer contempt, they would have denied themselves the opportunity to pompously grandstand as aggrieved public servants compelled by their scrupulous ethics to withdraw from the case in protest. (Sure, fellas, and in other news I am the odds-on favorite to become the next pope.)
The ugly reality is that they abused their positions of trust to push for an outlandish retributive punishment in my case, while teeing up another defamatory smear against AG Bill Barr, knowing well that sympathetic media jackals and a ready-made gaggle of their DC swamp allies would giddily promote and perpetuate the narrative, exactly according to plan.
It was a “Tuesday afternoon massacre!” bleated a few of the more demented propaganda outlets, alluding to the so-called “Saturday night massacre” in which Richard Nixon ordered the firing of Special Prosecutor and Kennedy minion Archibald Cox.
The false narrative created by these Mueller goons enabled a malicious hit job on an Attorney General who, in reality, is more fair-minded, ethical and public-interested than the entire army of sleazy lawfare practitioners who made up the Obama crime presidency, combined.
The disingenuousness and inflated self-importance of these partisan legal hacks was as repugnant as their conduct was unprofessional and uncouth.
Clearly their curious idea of what it means to represent the United States Government as Department of Justice attorneys is a function of the sordid partisan animus and power-abusive arrogance they share with their fellow travelers in the Obama-Clinton junta.
These are dangerous, perhaps even criminally-corrupt, government officials. It is worth taking a closer look at who these prosecutorial bullies really are, and what sort of deep state bonafides enabled them to get away with such injustices.
First, we can largely dispel the laughable spin that these are “career prosecutors” due some sort of deferential default presumption of being non-partisan, unbiased, apolitical vicars of justice. The facts are that these prosecutors were handpicked partisan mercenaries with ideological profiles of decidedly anti-Trump partisans.
Lead prosecutor Jonathan Kravis (pronounced like the word craven) – Yale Law ‘04 — was an associate White House Counsel to Barack Obama, hired just days after Obama’s inauguration in 2009. Prior to this, Kravis was an associate at the DC lobbying firm of Williams and Connolly and a law clerk for ultra liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
Most notably, Kravis was a law clerk at the US Court of Appeals in DC for the left-wing DC swamp’s most celebrated and bitterly-aggrieved Supreme Court nominee fail in recent history, Judge Merrick Garland. One need not look further than the bleating lamentations that persist even to this day over how the big bad Republican Senate denied Judge Garland his rightful place on the high court, and how Supreme Court Justice Neal Gorsuch is an illegitimate justice in Garland’s place, to understand how deep the resentment and antipathy towards Republicans runs among Garland sycophants.
At Yale Law, Kravis was recruited to work for a terrorist detainee at Guantanamo Bay alongside his fellow Yale Law grad Neal Katyal, author of “Impeach: The Case Against Trump.” Katyal is also a regular MSNBC contributor, bashing President Trump every chance he gets.
Virginia defense attorney Jesse Binnall, who has faced off with Kravis in court, revealed the following about Mr. Kravis:
“I was opposite Jonathan Kravis on The Ron Paul Three case, which was the prosecution of three Ron Paul campaign aids in Iowa. It was a politically-driven prosecution targeting three Republican activists.
First, Kravis and his partner violated an immunity agreement -a proffer agreement- they signed with a co-defendant in that case, and the judge dismissed the codefendant’s case based on prosecutorial misconduct.
Then, Kravis hid exculpatory and impeachment information from my client, Dimitri Kesari.
Kravis’ team later violated my client’s attorney-client confidentiality, obtaining text message communications between Kessari and me, shockingly producing the conversations to another co-defendant in the case!”
“Kravis is very calculating. He is a former Obama White House lawyer and I think he came to the DOJ with a political agenda. In fact, I think he’s an angry Democrat who can’t stop abusing his power as a prosecutor. It’s good that he has left government”
It is absolutely ludicrous to think that Kravis is, or ever was, some holy prosecutorial paragon, uninfected professionally by his deep-seated bias against Donald Trump, his fealty to his former employer Obama or his sheer communion with nothing but establishment leftist Beltway lawyers.
Reinforcing that Kravis is nothing more than a partisan legal thug is the scathing editorial rant he published on May 11, 2019 in (what else) The Washington Post. With utmost pontifical pretense, Kravis rails with rage over having his sadistic sentencing recommendation shot down and has similar conniptions over the DOJ’s wise and just decision to end his creepy cronies’ persecution of General Michael Flynn.
Finally, in highest of high dudgeon, this partisan leftist ambulance chaser slams AG Bill Barr for daring to correct grotesque prosecutorial abuses of the sort that Kravis probably pats himself on the back for regularly committing.
To call Kravis’s screed a load of sanctimonious self-serving twaddle from an intrinsically-deceitful rage-oholic thug would be an insult to both twaddle and thugs.
Kravis’s deceits in this op-ed catastrophe are as brazen as they were in the courtroom and in the pleadings in U.S. v. Stone. The departure of this misanthrope from the DOJ was the best thing that has happened to that agency since Bill Barr arrived as AG. Good riddance to this dangerous, destructive menace of a lawyer.
Next up we have former leftist writer at Huffington Post and hand-picked Mueller zealot Aaron Zelinsky – Yale Law ‘10.
Zelinsky was picked up for the Mueller operation from his job at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland, in Baltimore, where he had worked previously under Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General who appointed Mueller as Special Counsel. Previously, Zelinsky worked in the Obama administration under Hillary Clinton, in the State Department’s Office of Legal Adviser. He also clerked for Justices John Paul Stevens and Anthony Kennedy.
Everywhere he has been entrusted with power, Zelinsky has unfailingly proven himself to be a manipulative thug and a deceitful hypocrite.
With his Special Counsel cohorts Jeannie Rhee and Andrew Goldstein, Zelinsky reportedly lied to a U.S. District Court in a signed sentencing memorandum submitted in the case of Mueller target George Papadoplous. His filing in federal court portrayed Papadopolous as having harmed the government’s investigation, when the exact opposite was true.
Lee Smith of Justthenews.com explains:
According to the sentencing memo signed by Zelinsky and fellow Mueller prosecutors Jeannie Rhee and Andrew Goldstein: Papadopoulos’ “lies undermined investigators’ ability to challenge the Professor or potentially detain or arrest him while he was still in the United States. The government understands that the Professor left the United States on February 11, 2017 and he has not returned to the United States since then. But FBI 302 reports detailing agents’ interviews with Papadopoulos show that he had in fact supplied information that would have enabled investigators to challenge or potentially detain or arrest Mifsud while he was in the United States.
Similarly in my own case, the initial sentencing memorandum Zelinsky filed also contained numerous factual claims that were either false or not in evidence. Mimicking Jonathan Kravis’s closing argument falsehoods, Zelinsky’s memo repeatedly made the false claim that Jerome Corsi was the “real intermediary” with Wikileaks to whom I referred during the 2016 election.
No evidence exists anywhere that Jerome Corsi ever had any contact whatsoever with either Wikileaks or Julian Assange. Corsi denies ever having such contact, and I never claimed at any time that Corsi was my intermediary. Despite their using Corsi repeatedly, in absentia, as supposed proof of the falsity of my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee naming Randy Credico as my intermediary, the government never called Corsi at trial.
In his book “Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s Witch Hunt”, Corsi goes into extensive detail about Zelinsky’s bully tactics in interrogating him for dozens of hours about his relationship and work with me, in the offices of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, teamed up with Mueller attorneys Jeannie Rhee and Andrew Goldstein.
Corsi was so shaken by his treatment at the hands of these ruthless Special Counsel lawyers, that in the conclusion of his book he wrote: “Make no mistake, Rhee, Zelinsky, and Goldstein are Deep State criminals.”
In the first published draft of the book, Corsi went even further about Zelinsky, in particular, in such harsh terms that the comment was edited out of the final versions.
In Chapter 11, pages 15-16, of the first published version Corsi wrote [Emphasis added]:
When Zelinsky was lecturing me, I couldn’t help thinking back to my first conversation meeting him — when he explained to me that his grandparents had both escaped Auschwitz. As I mentioned earlier, I have been to Auschwitz twice, and the experiences there changed my life. I came to understand the horror human beings are capable of imposing on other human beings, that “humans are the wolf to humans,” as the saying goes. I wondered how Zelinsky’s grandparents would feel realizing they survived Auschwitz to produce a grandson who aspired to become the vanguard for Mueller’s American version of the Gestapo.
Finally we have Jeannie Rhee – Yale Law ‘97, who was not a trial counsel in U.S. v Stone, but was a prime mover behind the relentless probing of every molecule of my existence for well over a year, and my eventual indictment, engineered out of misleading cherry-picked grand jury testimony.
Rhee is without question the most flagrantly-conflicted attorney associated with my case.
Before joining the Mueller lynch mob, Rhee was a lawyer for Obama in the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel. She was also a partner at the law firm WilmerHale, which is also home to a number of Obama and Clinton lawfare specialists who pursued harassment lawsuits against Donald Trump and his supporters. Rhee represented The Clinton Foundation in a 2015 racketeering case, former Obama National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, and Hillary Clinton personally in a lawsuit over her private emails in 2015.
Rhee personally donated over $5,000 to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, and almost $5,000 to Barack Obama’s campaigns and related funds in both 2008 and 2011.
Rhee was one of three Mueller bullies who relentlessly interrogated Jerome Corsi at the Special Counsel star chamber in D.C. about subject matter involving Wikileaks and its activities releasing leaked emails from the DNC and key players in the 2016 campaign of her former client, Hillary Clinton. [NOTE: Rhee also interrogated one of the authors of this editorial, prior to his testifying to the Mueller grand jury.]
It’s unfathomable the extent of ethical misconduct required for Mueller and his minions to simply ignore Ms. Rhee’s representation of Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Obama NSA mouthpiece Ben Rhodes to make her a primary prosecutorial vigilante against me.
That these same people, without missing a beat, could purport to be acting in the public interest as legitimate, impartial law enforcement officials and vindicators of justice (versus slavishly serving their own narrow cultish partisan allegiances as corrupt prosecutorial poseurs) reveals, in truly chilling terms, the arrogant megalomania and malignancy of character that animates their every move.
There is not sufficient space to delineate all of the prosecutorial deceits and disinformation packed into the initial sentencing memorandum filed as a result of the Kravis-Zelinsky connivances, deceiving DOJ officials and bullying a newly-appointed U.S. Attorney.
It is worth noting that this outrageous memorandum was never, in fact, withdrawn but only supplemented by the subsequent memo containing sentencing recommendations not motivated by spiteful partisan malice. As a result, the judge took both memoranda into consideration in her deliberations.
The narrowly-tailored nature of the DOJ’s effort to mitigate the Kravis-Zelinsky zealotry serves to debunk the false accusations manufactured against Barr of somehow meddling in my case to secure favorable treatment. Had it been true that Barr improperly intervened in order to undercut these rogue prosecutors, surely their over-the-top memo would have been withdrawn entirely.
There is one particularly-egregious deceit, though, from the Mueller goons’ memorandum that we must expose. It is lead goon Zelinsky’s misappropriation of a phrase cherry-picked from Federalist 68, cheaply misquoting Hamilton to fit the prosecution’s fictional case narrative.
“Foreign election interference is the ‘most deadly adversar[y] of republican government,’” proclaimed the Obama-Clinton avengers on the prosecution team. To be clear there was never any evidence that I was involved in any way with foreign interference in the 2016 election, and I was not charged or convicted of anything related to this smear. Nonetheless, it is included in the original sentencing memo recommending a 7- to 9-year prison term for me.
Federalist 68 does not say this at all, but rather that “cabal, intrigue, and corruption” are the adversaries of republican government and that they arise from more than one source, though “chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.”
Undoubtedly, Hamilton also believed that one of the other sources of deadly “cabal, intrigue and corruption” was the malignant insinuation of abusive partisan pretenders to justice into those most powerful instrumentalities of state entrusted with the disinterested, impartial enforcement of statutes, particularly those resulting in the denial of life, liberty or property.
As to “foreign election interference,” there is no dispute it is a pernicious evil that must never be tolerated.
And when Mueller’s lynch mob, or anyone else in our government, produces so much as a scintilla of credible evidence (rather than vague “intelligence assessments” and their own contrived legal pleadings) to prove this occurred at the hands of anyone even remotely associated with Donald Trump, we should all support every effort to root out and deal with its culprits.
But the plain truth is that they have never done so.
As revelation after revelation cascade into public view and the Great Wall of Obama-Clinton Lies begins its ignominious, long-overdue implosion, the American people are finally seeing the shocking extent of manipulation that was business-as-usual in the Obama White House.
We now know that Obama oversaw an espionage operation against the election campaign of his most prominent detractor and presidential nominee of the opposition party.
We now know that Obama tacitly, if not explicitly, allowed his minions’ political espionage activities to be migrated from the context of a presidential election contest, targeting the opposition party candidate’s campaign, to that of a presidential transition process, targeting the president-elect’s top national security appointee.
And this was just the beginning. The shockingly-casual intelligence unmasking of a U.S. Army general, named incoming National Security Adviser, dozens of times, by power-crazed Obama apparatchiks was but a prelude to what was in store from the larger network of ruthless malcontented cultists from the Obama-Clinton axis of imperial Beltway power, including federal law enforcement officials at the highest levels.
The more prescient of these criminal usurpers saw the writing on the wall many months before Donald J. Trump achieved his stunning election victory in November 2016. By the time Trump won the presidency, demolishing the best laid schemes and longing ambitions of so many self-anointed Beltway masterminds, the smart money (or at least those with the most to lose if Trump happened to win) had already begun peddling the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
This maliciously-contrived fiction, carefully bolstered by conveniently staged one-off interactions during the election with Russian nationals that were then used against key Trump advisers as proof of “Russian collusion,” was the seed that spawned a relentless partisan smear campaign against Donald Trump and his presidency that has lasted nearly four years.
This vicious lie, concocted by smear merchants at the intersection of America’s radical authoritarian left and an entrenched would-be ruling establishment between DC and NYC (the ‘deep state’), enabled an Obama-Clinton shadow government, of sorts, and its copacetic propaganda juggernaut posing as “news media” to:
Manufacture and promote conspiracy theories to portray routine (and completely-legal) political opposition activities as some sort of grandiose criminal plot
Spy on, record, leak and publish some of the most sensitive internal deliberations and interactions of a sitting U.S. president, including exchanges with foreign heads-of-state and diplomats
Conspire among ulterior-motivated low-level appointees and bureaucratic holdovers from prior administrations whose allegiances are, at best, dubious, to undermine Donald Trump and his presidency from within and, if possible, manufacture false pretexts to remove Trump from office
Fabricate and recycle defamatory fake news of any sort that could be used to scandalize or otherwise denigrate Donald Trump and anyone connected with him or his administration
Use sensitive congressional committees to conduct prolonged, baseless, star chamber-type sham “investigations” with secretive interrogations of Trump allies, associates and family members, routinely leaked by Democrat committee members in violation of congressional committee rules so as to harm the president or those who testified, while ensuring the entire farce was promoted and sensationalized by a reliable cast of anti-Trump propagandists in media
Abuse federal courts to wage lawfare against the president and his allies in the form of legally and factually groundless harassment lawsuits filed by a network of former Obama administration and Clinton-connected attorneys, acting behind dubious front groups thinly-veiled as public interest non-profits
Neutralize the U.S. Attorney General from counteracting and arresting a seditious scheme being perpetrated against the President of the United States within the Department of Justice by criminally-manipulative senior law enforcement officials
Create and assemble within the Department of Justice an effectively-unaccountable rogue legal hit squad, under the false pretense of a “Special Counsel”, primarily-composed of revolving-door partisan lawyers either formerly employed by or otherwise closely-connected to the Obama or Clinton administrations or their extended networks of government-embedded political loyalists
Operate this “Special Counsel” over a period of years as a secretive gestapo-like inquisition, maliciously targeting President Trump and a disparate group cherry-picked from only his non-government-employed political supporters for abusive, high-profile, maximum-damage political persecutions, deceitfully portrayed and endlessly promoted as legitimate politically-unbiased criminal law enforcement actions
Impeach the President of the United States in a kangaroo-court grade political spectacle conducted by adversarial partisan zealots absurdly posing as “investigators” and “prosecutors”, charging the president with literally-invented political offenses – yet not a single crime of even the pettiest sort
Put the president on trial for the contrived offenses, using as “evidence” nothing more than speculation and opinion testimony elicited largely from disgruntled former underlings [most notably, a hostile Obama-embedded partisan subversive on the National Security Council staff who abusively-exploited highly-privileged access to sensitive presidential communications, by virtue of being a commissioned military officer, to manipulate and ultimately divulge material to the president’s most ruthless partisan adversaries using the shamelessly-counterfeit cover of being a “whistleblower”].
As far down the road as the Obama-Clinton junta went with these complicated ruses and manufactured scandals, they can’t have actually believed they could succeed in removing Donald Trump from office. The coup plotters may be sneaky and deceitful-beyond-belief, but they are not stupid. They know, as well as the rest of the world does, that their histrionic allegations and endless breathless umbrage are unserious hokum intended to create political theater, at best.
So why then all of the nonstop hysterics and exaggerated alarmism? What good are all these distractions if they know they can’t succeed in removing Trump?
The answer is right in the question itself … distraction.
The daily torrent of petty and fruitless, but no less malicious, distractions conjured up by Democrat partisans have served to cover up and suppress scrutiny of the seditious high crimes and lawless corruption of the Obama junta.
As the saying goes, the best defense is a good offense. The operators in the Obama-Clinton Democrat axis of evil are nothing if not masters at projecting their own wrongdoings onto their opponents. They also know that the media’s curiosity about scandal only materializes if the subjects are Republicans.
But being arrogant egotists, they underestimate Donald Trump and his allies, and overestimate how much their own limitless capacity for dishonesty can sustain a totally-false reality they have created, when the truth is so much less byzantine. After years of Democrat lies, the truth finally has its boots on, and just in time for the all-important 2020 election.
Now the dirty cops, the sneaky intelligence communitarians and the corrupt Obama-Clinton political hucksters who orchestrated a sedition plot against President Donald Trump are increasingly panic-stricken at the prospect of his re-election.
No matter how many red herrings, hoaxes, distractions and defamations the Obama protection cult has managed to churn out over the last four years, the truth is finally becoming crystal clear about who is responsible for sowing all of the chaotic division and acrimony that have acutely plagued our body politic for the last four years; about whose grandiose designs have been the impetus for so much cheap political gamesmanship and costly pursuit of fraudulent investigations; and whose corrupt political mafia stands to lose the most if the Trump presidency continues to succeed beyond all expectations.
It is Barack Hussein Obama who empowered his slippery spy chiefs and his arrogant, egomaniacal law enforcement honchos to convert our government’s most powerful agencies and their most dangerous tools into offensive weapons to begin waging asymmetrical partisan warfare against the one man, and his small but intense cadre of loyalists, who managed in spite of it all to so brilliantly expose and thoroughly debunk the hypnotic mass myth of the radical left’s political messiah and his diabolical disciples.
For the last four years, degenerate Obama-Clinton power cultists have inflicted on this nation, its citizenry and our government nothing less than an unprecedented, systematic campaign of subversion, targeting an entire U.S. presidency for destruction while subjecting our rightfully-elected president to an attempted coup d’etat.
In committing these vile deeds against our country, this malignant basket of deplorables very much represents the same pernicious historical forces, burrowed into our government for almost a century now, that did this to John F. Kennedy, to Richard M. Nixon and tried to do it to Ronald Reagan. Donald J. Trump, who has so much in common with these three of his predecessors, has merely become their latest quarry.
It is high time now that the truth, with its boots finally on, brings these real perpetrators to real justice.
Tyler Nixon is an attorney admitted to the State Bar of California and a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Virginia School of Law.


bonginoreport--2020-06-01--CNN’s Brian Stelter Continues Attempting Journalism, Fails

“ It ’ s possible , but I don ’ t know.
” With those words former FBI Director James Comey set a new standard for media coverage of public figures .
Even when there is no evidence to substantiate your claim , even when you ’ re relying on a document that had been discredited within the FBI , even when you ’ re quoting work product that was the result of Russian disinformation , you give no quarter to your enemies .
I am referencing the infamous pee-pee interview James Comey gave to ABC .
Comey ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
No context was added ( such as the FBI ’ s knowing the Steele dossier was funded by Democrats and contained hoaxes from Russian pranksters ) .
And now Trump is applying these same principles to Joe Scarborough .
Media figures cry foul .
What moral authority do they have ?
Scarborough ’ s own colleague Rachel Maddow accuses people of being Russian assets .
When called to answer those allegations in court , she claims that her assertions , believed to be statements of fact by her millions of viewers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , incapable of being proved true or false.
” As much as I ’ m glad to see Joe Scarborough be treated with the same “ journalistic ethics ” as he treats others , I feel for the Lori Klausutis family , who no doubt do not want these painful memories resurfaced .
Scarborough deserves this , but the Klausutis family does not .
But as always the media is treating itself as the real victim here .
The same media figures who recklessly smeared innocent teenagers from Covington High School as racists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for others to measure their words .
The same media figures who obsess over every mean Tweet a conservative posts ignores Scarborough ’ s on-air recording joking about the tragic death of a staffer .
Feel some empathy for the Klausutis .
They are caught in a battle they didn ’ t start .
Scarborough , however , is getting exactly what he and everyone else on cable news deserves .

UPDATE:
Update: Brian Stelter has apologized. This was a full and unequivocal apology, and all of us should applaud it and remember it when our time to own up to mistakes arises. (Because that day is coming for all of us, sooner or later.) pic.twitter.com/QWtBLDsK4s — Cerno (@Cernovich) June 1, 2020
CNN’s Brian Stelter falsely accused a woman of spreading disinformation tonight, in a Tweet Stelte deleted without apology after it was revealed that Stelter lying.
The lie concerned a fire started by rioters in Washington D.C. Katrina B. Haydon reported that St. John’s church near the White House was on fire.
Box Alarm 1525 H St NW. #DCsBravest had fire in basement of church. Fire extinguishing. Checking for extension. — DC Fire and EMS (@dcfireems) June 1, 2020
NEW: Fire was in basement of St. Johns, and is out, my @washingtonpost colleague @phscoop reports from DC fire department. Firefighters got there w/ a police escort and quickly put out the blaze. Did NOT appear to cause any significant damage, and it is unclear how it started. — Michelle Boorstein (@mboorstein) June 1, 2020
Stelter attacked the woman, baselessly accusing her of lying.
Brian Stelter has yet to apologize to spreading disinformation.
Shannon Bream and live video feed on Fox — ❄ Katrina Haydon ❄ (@katrinabhaydon) June 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/jarvis_best/status/1267287356005953536
Accuses me of either lying or being too dumb to communicate what I’m seeing on live TV, then deletes it pic.twitter.com/A8tCQ5JOdT — ❄ Katrina Haydon ❄ (@katrinabhaydon) June 1, 2020
Did Brian Stelter lie to protect violent protesters?
Why did Stelter lie?
Is he trying to provide propaganda for violent protesters and domestic terrorists?


bonginoreport--2020-06-01--Those Under Age 24 More Likely to Be Struck by Lightening Than Die From Coronavirus

While much still remains unknown about the coronavirus , a consensus has emerged that the virus presents an extremely minimal risk for children .
As the Summer months arrive , debate has emerged over whether or not it ’ s safe for schools to reopen .
Most colleges throughout the U.S. have already stated their intentions to reopen their campuses this Fall , and two-thirds of college students feel safe returning even without a vaccine , according to a recent poll .
However , managing to return younger students to school could prove more complicated .
( RELATED : Poll @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Coronavirus Death Tolls Are Accurate ) President Donald Trump recently clashed with White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci over the possibility of K-12 schools reopening in the Fall , noting that the virus presents an extremely low risk to children .
On the surface , the president is indisputably correct .
A study published in late April estimated that roughly 1/3 of children ages 6-10 who had the coronavirus were asymptomatic , and concluded “ the role of children in transmission is unclear , but it seems likely they do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of mid-May , in the coronavirus epicenter of New York , just nine children under the age of 18 had died with the virus , accounting for a total of 0.06 % of the state ’ s deaths .
On the flip side , nearly three-quarters of coronavirus deaths in the state came among those 65-years-old and older .
Fox Sports commentator Clay Travis noted that the odds of people under the age of 24 dying from the coronavirus are statistically lower than them getting struck by lightning .
The odds of someone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the coronavirus is roughly one in 1 million , while the odds of someone in that age group getting struck by lightning is roughly one in 700,000 .
( RELATED : Coronavirus Has Reignited The Left ’ s War On Football ) It is for these reasons that college campuses appear almost certain to open up , and major revenue generators , such as college football , appear likely to begin their season on time .
Colleges will be easier to reopen than K-12 schools , as college campuses also serve as living @ @ @ @ @ @ @ necessary .
However , K-12 schools do not have those advantages and will likely face more roadblocks to reopening as a result .
While the kids are extremely low-risk , extra concern will have to be paid to older teachers , and kids with live-in relatives who are older or have pre-existing respiratory conditions .
A USA Today poll published last week found that 20 % of teachers said they would be “ unlikely ” to return to school in the Fall , even if they are allowed to .
Parents worried about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fall can rest easy , as evidence overwhelmingly shows that kids are low risk for the coronavirus .
However , reopening schools and daycare facilities will present more roadblocks than just securing the health and safety of young children .

While much still remains unknown about the coronavirus, a consensus has emerged that the virus presents an extremely minimal risk for children.
As the Summer months arrive, debate has emerged over whether or not it’s safe for schools to reopen. Most colleges throughout the U.S. have already stated their intentions to reopen their campuses this Fall, and two-thirds of college students feel safe returning even without a vaccine, according to a recent poll. However, managing to return younger students to school could prove more complicated. (RELATED: Poll: Just 25% Of Americans Believe Coronavirus Death Tolls Are Accurate)
President Donald Trump recently clashed with White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci over the possibility of K-12 schools reopening in the Fall, noting that the virus presents an extremely low risk to children. On the surface, the president is indisputably correct. A study published in late April estimated that roughly 1/3 of children ages 6-10 who had the coronavirus were asymptomatic, and concluded “the role of children in transmission is unclear, but it seems likely they do not play a significant role.”
As of mid-May, in the coronavirus epicenter of New York, just nine children under the age of 18 had died with the virus, accounting for a total of 0.06% of the state’s deaths. On the flip side, nearly three-quarters of coronavirus deaths in the state came among those 65-years-old and older.
Fox Sports commentator Clay Travis noted that the odds of people under the age of 24 dying from the coronavirus are statistically lower than them getting struck by lightning. The odds of someone under the age of 24 dying of the coronavirus is roughly one in 1 million, while the odds of someone in that age group getting struck by lightning is roughly one in 700,000. (RELATED: Coronavirus Has Reignited The Left’s War On Football)
If you are under 24 years old you are more likely to be struck by lightning — 1 in 700,000 — than you are to die of the coronavirus — 1 in a million. The idea of colleges shutting down is complete insanity unsupported by any statistical data. pic.twitter.com/JxZH8MpfdN — Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 13, 2020
It is for these reasons that college campuses appear almost certain to open up, and major revenue generators, such as college football, appear likely to begin their season on time. Colleges will be easier to reopen than K-12 schools, as college campuses also serve as living spaces and thus can be insulated if necessary. However, K-12 schools do not have those advantages and will likely face more roadblocks to reopening as a result. While the kids are extremely low-risk, extra concern will have to be paid to older teachers, and kids with live-in relatives who are older or have pre-existing respiratory conditions. A USA Today poll published last week found that 20% of teachers said they would be “unlikely” to return to school in the Fall, even if they are allowed to.
Parents worried about their children returning to school in the Fall can rest easy, as evidence overwhelmingly shows that kids are low risk for the coronavirus. However, reopening schools and daycare facilities will present more roadblocks than just securing the health and safety of young children.


bonginoreport--2020-06-01--Historic St. John’s Church Near White House Set On Fire

The parish office at the historic St. John 's Episcopal Church in Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington , D.C. , was torched as riots escalated Sunday night .
Fox News White House correspondent Kevin Corke was at the scene to report that the church had been vandalized with graffiti and set on fire .
`` It does appear that St. John 's Church is on fire , the parish office , '' Corke said .
`` We went downstairs , and it is on fire . ''
`` This is awful .
We saw graffiti , once @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something similar happen earlier , and as you can see there 's definitely a fire here , '' he said a half-hour before the city 's 11 p.m. curfew .
`` It 's a sad scene .
This is a beautiful church .
... St. John 's Church is a landmark in many ways , so it 's very difficult to see this building go up in flames .
Hopefully , they can get here and put out the fire . ''
Fox News host Shannon Bream explained that the church is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guidance in challenging moments in the nation 's history .
`` Numerous presidents ... have sat in those pews .
They have gone there in times of national trouble , they 've gone there for regular Sunday services .
For generations , presidents and their families have walked across Lafayette Park and gone and sat in the pews of St. John 's , '' Bream said .
`` On Inauguration Day , you 'll see them go there and have a prayer service welcoming in the new administration , '' she continued .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Twitter at midnight , notifying the public that police and the DC Fire Department were `` responding to multiple fires intentionally set around the city , including at St. John ’ s Episcopal Church in the 1500 blk of H Street , NW , with @ dcfireems .
This church has been standing in our city since the early 1800s .
Please avoid the area . ''
Earlier in the night , rioters ripped down a U.S. flag displayed outside the church as people chanted burn that s**t. The Episcopal church says @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as `` the Church of the Presidents , '' because every president since James Madison has attended a service at St. John 's .
Pew 54 is reserved for presidents when they attended .
Consecrated on Dec. 27 , 1816 , the church is registered as a National Historic Landmark .
In a letter to parishioners on Sunday , hours before the parish office was set on fire , the Rev .
Rob Fisher addressed the unrest in the country and detailed damage the church had already sustained in the previous night 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heavy , but hopeful hearts .
Our community and our country are in anguish and unrest .
And yet , we can see that thousands of people are lifting their voices and organizations are engaging in peaceful , meaningful action to ensure the life of George Floyd and countless others are not lost in vain .
As Bishop Curry wrote this morning , in the upcoming days and weeks , we will unite as a church community to follow the path of love and to channel this anguish into concrete , productive and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coverage of the protests , you may be concerned about our beloved church and parish house .
We are fortunate that the damage to the buildings is limited .
There is some exterior graffiti , and the protective glass over one of the more modern stained-glass windows on the north side of the narthex has been broken ( the stained glass itself is unharmed ) .
Thankfully , there is no damage inside either of the buildings .
This morning we secured , as best we could , our most valuable items .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , one of the church ’ s primary feasts .
If we had been in church , we would surely have sung `` Sweet , Sweet Spirit , '' a St. John ’ s favorite .
You know the words : `` There ’ s a sweet , sweet spirit in this place , and I know it ’ s the spirit of the Lord .
Sweet holy spirit , sweet heavenly dove , stay right here with us , filling us with your love.
” Hymn 120 , `` Lift Every Voice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s hard to imagine a more appropriate prayer for the place in which we as a nation find ourselves .
We are proud to be a church that welcomes all and champions the path of love .

Historic St. John's Church near White House torched by rioters
The parish office at the historic St. John's Episcopal Church in Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, D.C., was torched as riots escalated Sunday night.
Fox News White House correspondent Kevin Corke was at the scene to report that the church had been vandalized with graffiti and the basement nursery set on fire.
"It does appear that St. John's Church is on fire, the parish office," Corke said. "We went downstairs, and it is on fire."
"This is awful. We saw graffiti, once the door was broken, we saw something similar happen earlier, and as you can see there's definitely a fire here," he said a half-hour before the city's 11 p.m. curfew.
Antifa is burning down the historic St. John's Church by the White House. It's completely up in flames. pic.twitter.com/VI0A2PAVBV — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 1, 2020
"It's a sad scene. This is a beautiful church. ... St. John's Church is a landmark in many ways, so it's very difficult to see this building go up in flames. Hopefully, they can get here and put out the fire."
Fox News host Shannon Bream explained that the church is a place presidents have gone to for spiritual guidance in challenging moments in the nation's history.
"Numerous presidents ... have sat in those pews. They have gone there in times of national trouble, they've gone there for regular Sunday services. For generations, presidents and their families have walked across Lafayette Park and gone and sat in the pews of St. John's," Bream said.
"On Inauguration Day, you'll see them go there and have a prayer service welcoming in the new administration," she continued.
The Metropolitan Police Department posted an alert on Twitter at midnight, notifying the public that police and the DC Fire Department were "responding to multiple fires intentionally set around the city, including at St. John’s Episcopal Church in the 1500 blk of H Street, NW, with @dcfireems. This church has been standing in our city since the early 1800s. Please avoid the area."
Earlier in the night, rioters ripped down a U.S. flag displayed outside the church as people chanted burn that s**t.
From earlier: American flag stolen from church and burned outside White House on H St #protests2020#dcprotestpic.twitter.com/yD5tFYixw0 — Steven Nelson (@stevennelson10) June 1, 2020
The Episcopal church says on its website that it's known as "the Church of the Presidents," because every president since James Madison has attended a service at St. John's. Pew 54 is reserved for presidents when they attended.
Consecrated on Dec. 27, 1816, the church is registered as a National Historic Landmark.
In a letter to parishioners on Sunday, hours before the parish office was set on fire, the Rev. Rob Fisher addressed the unrest in the country and detailed damage the church had already sustained in the previous night's protests:
We write to you with heavy, but hopeful hearts. Our community and our country are in anguish and unrest. And yet, we can see that thousands of people are lifting their voices and organizations are engaging in peaceful, meaningful action to ensure the life of George Floyd and countless others are not lost in vain. As Bishop Curry wrote this morning, in the upcoming days and weeks, we will unite as a church community to follow the path of love and to channel this anguish into concrete, productive and powerful action. Given the recent media coverage of the protests, you may be concerned about our beloved church and parish house. We are fortunate that the damage to the buildings is limited. There is some exterior graffiti, and the protective glass over one of the more modern stained-glass windows on the north side of the narthex has been broken (the stained glass itself is unharmed). Thankfully, there is no damage inside either of the buildings. This morning we secured, as best we could, our most valuable items. As you know, today is Pentecost, one of the church’s primary feasts. If we had been in church, we would surely have sung "Sweet, Sweet Spirit," a St. John’s favorite. You know the words: "There’s a sweet, sweet spirit in this place, and I know it’s the spirit of the Lord. Sweet holy spirit, sweet heavenly dove, stay right here with us, filling us with your love.” Hymn 120, "Lift Every Voice and Sing, II." It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate prayer for the place in which we as a nation find ourselves. We are proud to be a church that welcomes all and champions the path of love. In peace,
The Rev. Rob Fisher, Rector Paul Barkett, Senior Warden Jeff Hanston, Junior Warden


bonginoreport--2020-06-01--Keith Ellison to Lead Prosecution in George Floyd Case

Minnesota Gov .
Tim Walz announced Sunday evening that state Attorney General Keith Ellison will the prosecution against the former police officer charged in the killing of George Floyd , whose death last week has sparked nationwide protests against police brutality .
Ellison , a former Democratic congressman , will be assisted by Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman in any cases arising from the death of Floyd , who died after officials said Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee onto Floyd ’ s neck while Floyd pleaded with him , saying he couldn ’ t breathe .
`` We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the resources necessary to achieve justice in this case , '' Ellison said during a press briefing Sunday .
GEORGE FLOYD DEATH : THE CITIES WHERE PEOPLE ARE PROTESTING AND RIOTING So far Chauvin has been the only officer charged in Floyd ’ s death – facing counts of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter – but three other Minneapolis police officers were fired in relation to the encounter .
`` We are pursuing justice , we are pursuing truth were doing it vigorously and we are pursuing accountability , were asking for your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ added that the state is not ready to announce any other charges against the other police officers , but cautioned those seeking justice for Floyd ’ s death that prosecuting police is very difficult .
`` It ’ s just too early , ” he said .
`` Dose of reality , prosecuting police for misconduct including homicide and murder is very difficult . ''
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Activists , some elected officials , and the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union have been asking for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saying there is a history of mistrust between Freeman 's office and members of the community .
Over 100 people gathered outside the home of Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman on Sunday .
Protesters had a variety of demands , including arresting all four police officers involved in Floyd ’ s death , appointing an independent special counsel to prosecute the killing and the resignation of Freeman .
Protests – some of which have turned violent – have erupted across the country over the weekend as demonstrators voice their anger at the killing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hands of police .
Fox News ’ Tyler Olsen and The Associated Press contributed to this report .

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Sunday evening that state Attorney General Keith Ellison will the prosecution against the former police officer charged in the killing of George Floyd, whose death last week has sparked nationwide protests against police brutality.
Ellison, a former Democratic congressman, will be assisted by Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman in any cases arising from the death of Floyd, who died after officials said Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee onto Floyd’s neck while Floyd pleaded with him, saying he couldn’t breathe.
"We are going to bring to bear all the resources necessary to achieve justice in this case," Ellison said during a press briefing Sunday.
GEORGE FLOYD DEATH: THE CITIES WHERE PEOPLE ARE PROTESTING AND RIOTING
So far Chauvin has been the only officer charged in Floyd’s death – facing counts of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter – but three other Minneapolis police officers were fired in relation to the encounter.
"We are pursuing justice, we are pursuing truth were doing it vigorously and we are pursuing accountability, were asking for your trust," Ellison said.
Ellison added that the state is not ready to announce any other charges against the other police officers, but cautioned those seeking justice for Floyd’s death that prosecuting police is very difficult.
"It’s just too early,” he said. "Dose of reality, prosecuting police for misconduct including homicide and murder is very difficult."
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Activists, some elected officials, and the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union have been asking for Walz to appoint a special prosecutor, saying there is a history of mistrust between Freeman's office and members of the community.
Over 100 people gathered outside the home of Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman on Sunday. Protesters had a variety of demands, including arresting all four police officers involved in Floyd’s death, appointing an independent special counsel to prosecute the killing and the resignation of Freeman.
Protests – some of which have turned violent – have erupted across the country over the weekend as demonstrators voice their anger at the killing of Floyd and other African-Americans at the hands of police.
Fox News’ Tyler Olsen and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


bonginoreport--2020-06-01--McEnany Clarifies Trump’s Remarks About Using National Guard to “Dominate” Rioters

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany spent the majority of Monday ’ s briefing clarifying statements President Donald Trump made during his conference call with the state governors earlier in the day .
Trump criticized governors on the call for letting violence overtake the nation-wide George Floyd protests , and he told governors they will look “ weak ” or like “ jerks ” if they don ’ t “ dominate.
” ( RELATED : Trump Presses Governors To Arrest Rioters And ‘ Put Them In Jail For 10 Years ’ ) McEnany told reporters that Trump ’ s remarks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I have seen some networks that talked about dominating protesters , ” she explained .
“ I ’ ve been around the president , and any time he has used the word ‘ dominate , ’ it was to dominate the streets and make sure there is peace in the street.
” McEnany , answering an additional question on Michigan Democratic Gov .
Gretchen Whitmer ’ s reaction to the call , further added that though 17,000 National Guard troops had been deployed to cities across the country , only two states had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The focus of the call was the National Guard , encouraging the deployment — far more than the 17,000 out there — utilizing them , ” she explained .
When asked if the president envisions 100,000 in the streets , McEnany answered “ there ’ s not a specific number that he has in mind.
” “ It is incumbent on governors to look at the situation , ” she stated .
“ The case in Texas might not to merit the same thing as New York City .
He is encouraging the @ @ @ @ @ @ @

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany spent the majority of Monday’s briefing clarifying statements President Donald Trump made during his conference call with the state governors earlier in the day.
Trump criticized governors on the call for letting violence overtake the nation-wide George Floyd protests, and he told governors they will look “weak” or like “jerks” if they don’t “dominate.” (RELATED: Trump Presses Governors To Arrest Rioters And ‘Put Them In Jail For 10 Years’)
McEnany told reporters that Trump’s remarks were taken out of context.
“I have seen some networks that talked about dominating protesters,” she explained. “I’ve been around the president, and any time he has used the word ‘dominate,’ it was to dominate the streets and make sure there is peace in the street.”
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McEnany, answering an additional question on Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s reaction to the call, further added that though 17,000 National Guard troops had been deployed to cities across the country, only two states had deployed more than 1,000 members.
“The focus of the call was the National Guard, encouraging the deployment — far more than the 17,000 out there — utilizing them,” she explained.
When asked if the president envisions 100,000 in the streets, McEnany answered “there’s not a specific number that he has in mind.”
“It is incumbent on governors to look at the situation,” she stated. “The case in Texas might not to merit the same thing as New York City. He is encouraging the governors to up those levels.”
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bonginoreport--2020-06-01--Gun Sales See Massive Spike in May Amidst Pandemic, Nationwide Rioting

Gun sales and FBI background checks on purchasers soared in May , which recorded the third-highest level of checks ever in the 22-year history of the federal system .
According to the FBI , there have already been more than 15 million background checks this year , used mostly for legal sales , putting the country on a pace to break last year ’ s all-time high of 28 million checks in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System .
May ’ s 3,091,455 background checks was the highest for any May recorded .
March was the highest month on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Analytics & Forecasting told Secrets that there was an 80 % jump in gun sales in May 2020 over May 2019 .
That included a 94 % surge in handguns .
The surge came before the national rioting over the death of George Floyd in police custody and the violence and damage in cities that occurred .
Justin Anderson , the marketing director for Hyatt Guns in Charlotte , North Carolina , one of the nation ’ s largest gun stores , said politics and the virus drove sales in May .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ buyers .
This is just unprecedented .
Two things are at work here : The pandemic has forced many to rethink their reliance on others to provide them security .
Additionally , many people are seeing what government overreach looks like .
This is exactly the type of situation the Second Amendment was written to address , ” said Anderson .
He added : `` Civil unrest has taken hold across the nation , and as a result , we are seeing a massive spike in business , especially AR-15s , magazines , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ think ' about buying a gun is over .
It ’ s time to get off of the fence and make sure you have the means to protect yourself and your family.
” Several stories have reported gun shortages , and in some places , it is extremely hard to find ammunition .

Gun sales and FBI background checks on purchasers soared in May, which recorded the third-highest level of checks ever in the 22-year history of the federal system.
According to the FBI, there have already been more than 15 million background checks this year, used mostly for legal sales, putting the country on a pace to break last year’s all-time high of 28 million checks in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
May’s 3,091,455 background checks was the highest for any May recorded. March was the highest month on record, at 3,740,688.
So who is going shopping for firearms this week? — Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) June 1, 2020
Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting told Secrets that there was an 80% jump in gun sales in May 2020 over May 2019. That included a 94% surge in handguns.
The surge came before the national rioting over the death of George Floyd in police custody and the violence and damage in cities that occurred.
Justin Anderson, the marketing director for Hyatt Guns in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the nation’s largest gun stores, said politics and the virus drove sales in May.
Businessowners in #MinneapolisRiot defending their stores from looters.
pic.twitter.com/TUz6lgEm11 — Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) May 29, 2020
“We’re seeing many first-time gun buyers. This is just unprecedented. Two things are at work here: The pandemic has forced many to rethink their reliance on others to provide them security. Additionally, many people are seeing what government overreach looks like. This is exactly the type of situation the Second Amendment was written to address,” said Anderson.
He added: "Civil unrest has taken hold across the nation, and as a result, we are seeing a massive spike in business, especially AR-15s, magazines, and ammunition. The time to just ‘think' about buying a gun is over. It’s time to get off of the fence and make sure you have the means to protect yourself and your family.”
Several stories have reported gun shortages, and in some places, it is extremely hard to find ammunition.


bonginoreport--2020-06-01--Economist Takes Credit for Predicting Riots – “It’s Not Just About George Floyd”

His critics might say “ a broken clock is right twice a day , ” but that isn ’ t stopping NYU economist Nouriel Roubini from taking a victory lap for what he ’ s characterizing as a prescient call , amid the riots that erupted across the U.S. over the weekend .
Roubini appears to be referencing a column that he wrote back in March in which he raised the “ possibility of outright violence and civil disorder.
” So , score a point for nailing a prediction for civil unrest , but , perhaps , subtract one for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. election .
“ The COVID-19 crisis will give way to renewed conflicts between the West and at least four revisionist powers : China , Russia , Iran , and North Korea , all of which are already using asymmetric cyberwarfare to undermine the U.S. from within , ” he wrote at the time .
“ The inevitable cyber attacks on the US election process may lead to a contested final result , with charges of ‘ rigging.
’ ” Also in March , Roubini sounded the alarm on what he thought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the economy .
“ You can ’ t build a wall in the sky , ” he told Germany ’ s Der Spiegel .
“ I live in New York City and people there are hardly going to restaurants , cinemas or theaters , even though nobody there has been infected by the virus thus far .
If it comes , we are totally f***ed.
” He recommended investors load up on cash on the expectation global equities will drop by as much as 40 % by the end of the year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that prediction to come true , but the market ’ s been showing strength of late .
At last check , the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA , , S & P 500 SPX , and Nasdaq Composite COMP , were all adding to last month ’ s rally .
In April , Roubini also dished out his signature brand of gloom when he said an even “ Greater Depression ” looms this decade due to several ominous trends that are taking shape .
As for his self-celebration on Sunday , not everybody @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. cities from Los Angeles to New York following the death of George Floyd , an unarmed black man who perished in Minneapolis in police custody a week ago .

His critics might say “a broken clock is right twice a day,” but that isn’t stopping NYU economist Nouriel Roubini from taking a victory lap for what he’s characterizing as a prescient call, amid the riots that erupted across the U.S. over the weekend.
Roubini appears to be referencing a column that he wrote back in March in which he raised the “possibility of outright violence and civil disorder.” So, score a point for nailing a prediction for civil unrest, but, perhaps, subtract one for tying his call to foreign interference in the U.S. election.
“The COVID-19 crisis will give way to renewed conflicts between the West and at least four revisionist powers: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, all of which are already using asymmetric cyberwarfare to undermine the U.S. from within,” he wrote at the time. “The inevitable cyber attacks on the US election process may lead to a contested final result, with charges of ‘rigging.’”
Also in March, Roubini sounded the alarm on what he thought the novel strain of coronavirus could mean for the economy. “You can’t build a wall in the sky,” he told Germany’s Der Spiegel. “I live in New York City and people there are hardly going to restaurants, cinemas or theaters, even though nobody there has been infected by the virus thus far. If it comes, we are totally f***ed.”
He recommended investors load up on cash on the expectation global equities will drop by as much as 40% by the end of the year. There’s still time for that prediction to come true, but the market’s been showing strength of late. At last check, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.02% , S&P 500 SPX, -1.16% and Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.14% were all adding to last month’s rally.
In April, Roubini also dished out his signature brand of gloom when he said an even “Greater Depression” looms this decade due to several ominous trends that are taking shape.
As for his self-celebration on Sunday, not everybody was impressed:
Civil unrest continues in U.S. cities from Los Angeles to New York following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who perished in Minneapolis in police custody a week ago.


bonginoreport--2020-06-01--Most Voters Perceive Political Bias at Twitter and Facebook

Voters See Bias at Twitter , Facebook : 33 % Embrace Trump ’ s Order to Punish Them Voters agree with President Trump that the operators of social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook are politically biased , but they stop short of endorsing his punitive executive order opening them up to lawsuits over posts on their sites .
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Voters agree with President Trump that the operators of social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook are politically biased, but they stop short of endorsing his punitive executive order opening them up to lawsuits over posts on their sites.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 28% of Likely U.S. Voters believe those who run social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter edit their content in a fair and balance way. Fifty percent (50%) disagree and say they are politically biased in the decisions they make. Twenty-two percent (22%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted May 28 and 31, 2020 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.


bonginoreport--2020-06-01--Man Killed After Opening Fire on National Guard and Louisville Police

A man was reportedly killed early Monday morning after police officers and the Kentucky National Guard were allegedly shot at while trying to break up protesters .
His name was David McAtee , according to local WDRB reporter Lexie Ratterman .
“ Last night at around 12 a.m. , it is our understanding that the Louisville Metro Police Department ( LMPD ) and the Kentucky National Guard were dispatched to 26th and Broadway , ” Democratic Kentucky Gov .
Andy Beshear said in a statement on Twitter .
“ While working to disperse a crowd , LMPD [ Louisville Metro @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Guard were fired upon.
” ( RELATED : Officer Who Knelt On George Floyd ’ s Neck Has History Of Complaints ) “ It has been a very difficult four days for our city , ” Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad said during a press briefing .
“ I think it ’ s very , very clear that many people do not trust the police .
That is an issue that we ’ re going to have to work on and work through for a long time.
” According to WLKY , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the man who reportedly died , was the person who fired at officers and police are currently interviewing witnesses .
“ He didn ’ t hurt nobody , didn ’ t deserve to get shot down like he did , ” McAtee ’ s sister said to WAVE 3 News .
“ I don ’ t know what happened , but whatever happened here , my brother didn ’ t do nothing wrong .
He was an innocent person , and innocent bystander .
He did not deserve this at all.
” She @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the scene of the shooting did not relate to the protests , according to WAVE 3 News .
McAtee ’ s sister claimed that the group meets outside of Yaya ’ s BBQ Shack next door to Dino ’ s Food Market every Sunday for food and music .
David McAtee is reportedly the owner of Yaya ’ s BBQ Shack and was helping to serve food to the crowd .
“ Both LMPD and National Guard members returned fire , ” said Conrad .
“ We are collecting video from the incident @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sometime ( Monday ) .
” The city of Louisville was under a “ dusk to dawn ” curfew Sunday night into Monday morning , according to NBC News .
The curfew began at 9 p.m. Sunday night .
This is the fourth day of protests and riots in Louisville after the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor .
Taylor was killed March 13 in her own home while police were serving a “ no-knock ” search warrant .
She was a 26-year-old EMT who was working to help coronavirus victims .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ officers for alleged forgery .
A bystander ’ s video shows an officer pinning Floyd to the ground and putting his knee on Floyd ’ s neck .

A man was reportedly killed early Monday morning after police officers and the Kentucky National Guard were allegedly shot at while trying to break up protesters. His name was David McAtee, according to local WDRB reporter Lexie Ratterman.
“Last night at around 12 a.m., it is our understanding that the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and the Kentucky National Guard were dispatched to 26th and Broadway,” Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in a statement on Twitter. “While working to disperse a crowd, LMPD [Louisville Metro Police Department] and the Kentucky National Guard were fired upon.” (RELATED: Officer Who Knelt On George Floyd’s Neck Has History Of Complaints)
“It has been a very difficult four days for our city,” Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad said during a press briefing. “I think it’s very, very clear that many people do not trust the police. That is an issue that we’re going to have to work on and work through for a long time.”
This is David McAtee. The community in the Russell neighborhood called him “Yah Yah.” Family tells me he was shot and killed last night. @WDRBNews pic.twitter.com/WVollbdkQ5 — Lexie Ratterman (@LRatterman_WDRB) June 1, 2020
According to WLKY, it is unclear if David McAtee, the man who reportedly died, was the person who fired at officers and police are currently interviewing witnesses.
“He didn’t hurt nobody, didn’t deserve to get shot down like he did,” McAtee’s sister said to WAVE 3 News. “I don’t know what happened, but whatever happened here, my brother didn’t do nothing wrong. He was an innocent person, and innocent bystander. He did not deserve this at all.”
She also said that the crowd gathered at the scene of the shooting did not relate to the protests, according to WAVE 3 News. McAtee’s sister claimed that the group meets outside of Yaya’s BBQ Shack next door to Dino’s Food Market every Sunday for food and music. David McAtee is reportedly the owner of Yaya’s BBQ Shack and was helping to serve food to the crowd.
“Right now, I can’t tell you the feeling I have. All I can say — when a mother loses her child, a piece of you goes along with that child.” — Odessa Riley, #DavidMcAtee‘s mother #Louisville #BreonnaTaylor pic.twitter.com/jdtI4mqcZL — Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) June 1, 2020
“Both LMPD and National Guard members returned fire,” said Conrad. “We are collecting video from the incident and expect to release what we have sometime (Monday).”
The city of Louisville was under a “dusk to dawn” curfew Sunday night into Monday morning, according to NBC News. The curfew began at 9 p.m. Sunday night.
This is the fourth day of protests and riots in Louisville after the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Taylor was killed March 13 in her own home while police were serving a “no-knock” search warrant. She was a 26-year-old EMT who was working to help coronavirus victims.
Floyd was arrested May 25 by police officers for alleged forgery. A bystander’s video shows an officer pinning Floyd to the ground and putting his knee on Floyd’s neck.