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Bombshell Report: Chinese Communist Dictator Xi Jinping ‘Personally Asked’ the Corrupt W.H.O. to Cover-Up Human-to-Human Transmission of the Chi-Com Virus — And They Willingly Obeyed

A bombshell report claims Chinese President Xi Jinping personally asked World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom to 'delay a global warning ' about the threat of COVID-19 during a conversation back in January .
Germany 's Der Spiegel published the allegations this weekend , citing intelligence from the country 's Federal Intelligence Service , known as the 'Bundesnachrichtendienst ' ( BND ) .
According to the BND : 'On January 21 , China 's leader Xi Jinping asked WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to hold back information about a human-to-human transmission and to delay a pandemic warning .
'The BND @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four to six weeks to fight the virus worldwide ' .
The WHO released a statement shortly after the publication of the shock claims , calling them 'unfounded and untrue ' .
'Dr Tedros and President Xi did not speak on January 21 and they have never spoken by phone .
Such inaccurate reports distract and detract from WHO 's and the world 's efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic , ' the statement read .
It continued : 'China confirmed human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus on January 20 [ prior to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ WHO publicly declared on January 22 that `` data collected … suggests that human-to-human transmission is taking place in Wuhan . ''
' If the claims were true , they would bolster President Trump 's assertion that the WHO is 'China-centric ' .
Back in April , the Trump Administration alleged the WHO was becoming a tool of 'Chinese propaganda ' , and the president moved to halt funding of the organization .
Last week , the President launched a fresh attack on the organization during a Fox News virtual town hall meeting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a disaster everything they said was wrong and they 're China-centric , ' he stated at the event , held last Monday .
'All they do is agree with China , whatever China wants to do .
So our country , perhaps foolishly in retrospect has been paying $ 450million a year to the World Health Organisation and China 's been paying $ 38million a year but they were more political than all of our leaders previously .
'What they did , what World Health did , was they missed every single call @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up with it . '
Relations between Washington and the WHO has soured throughout the crisis after Trump consistently accused the body of siding with China , saying it has been hand-in-glove with Xi Jinping in covering up the outbreak .
Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has hailed China as an exemplar of how to handle an emergency despite widespread skepticism of the country 's official coronavirus death toll .
Earlier this week , Trump also said there was enough evidence to prove President Xi Jinping 's regime misled the global community .
'Well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any question about it .
We wanted to go in , they did n't want us to go in .
Things are coming out that are pretty compelling .
I do n't think there 's any question , ' the president said Sunday .
'Personally , I think they made a horrible mistake , and they did n't want to admit it , ' he added .
His comments came as a Department of Homeland Security report shared on Sunday revealed US officials believe China 'intentionally concealed the severity ' of the pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The four-page report dated May 1 that was obtained by the Associated Press notes that China downplayed the virus publicly but increased imports and decreased exports of medical supplies .
The document accuses China of covering their tracks by 'denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data . '
It lends weight to a leaked dossier drawn up by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance which describes how Beijing made whistleblowers 'disappear ' , destroyed early virus samples and scrubbed the internet of any mention of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 15-page document brands Beijing 's secrecy over the pandemic an 'assault on international transparency ' and points to cover-up tactics deployed by the regime .
It claims that the Chinese government silenced its most vocal critics and scrubbed any online scepticism about its handling of the health emergency from the internet .
China has roundly come under fire for suppressing the scale of its early outbreak which did not afford other nations time to react before the disease hit their shores .
Five Eyes - the pooling of intelligence by the US , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zealand - laid bare its scathing assessment of the Xi Jinping administration in a memo obtained by the Australian Saturday Telegraph .
It describes how Beijing was outwardly downplaying the outbreak on the world stage while secretly scrambling to bury all traces of the disease .
More than four million people around the world have contracted the highly contagious virus , and at least 279,000 have died .
There are currently at least 1.3 million cases of coronavirus in the U.S. and more than 79,000 deaths .
Last month , British MPs warned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the coronavirus outbreak .
The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said that as the country where the outbreak originated , China should have played a central role in collecting data on its spread .
But it accused Beijing of seeking to 'obfuscate ' over what was really happening form the outset .
The committee called on the UK Government , working with international allies , to actively 'confront and rebut ' disinformation coming from foreign powers .
In its report , the cross-party group also named Iran and Russia as being responsible for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and suggested other countries were also involved .
Its main criticism , however , was reserved for China .
It highlighted the way Li Wenliang , the doctor in Wuhan who first raised the alarm about the new disease , was forced to confess to 'making false comments ' before his death from the virus in February .
'Such deliberate misleading of the WHO ( World Health Organisation ) and scientists in other countries obscured analysis in the critical early stages of the pandemic , ' the committee said .
'Disinformation about Covid-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ essential that the Government issues clear and transparent messages at home to confront and rebut disinformation spread by foreign powers .
'It must also work closely with allies to present a united front where possible , and to help ensure that vital international research efforts are not compromised by propaganda and bad data . '
Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat said Beijing had initially 'allowed disinformation to spread as quickly as the virus ' .
He added : 'Rather than helping other countries prepare a swift and strong response , it is increasingly apparent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus in order to protect the regime 's image .
'The Government needs to tackle these lies with a clear and quick response , working with our allies to show a united front in the face of false facts and deadly disinformation . '
Wuhan airport drill for passenger with a new type of coronavirus last SEPTEMBER , French athletes falling sick in the city in OCTOBER and a warning by Bat Woman expert A YEAR ago ... so when did Covid first erupt in China ?
By Ian Birrell for the Mail @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 18 last year , the customs office at Wuhan Tianhe airport received an emergency message that a passenger on an incoming flight was unwell and distressed with breathing difficulties .
Staff at the glistening modern airport rushed into emergency mode , donning protective masks as managers unleashed their action plans .
Soon afterwards , ‘ the Wuhan First Aid Centre reported that the transfer case had been clinically diagnosed as a novel type of coronavirus ’ , according to a journalist from a state media agency .
This was , the agency reported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advance of the World Military Games , which were being held the following month with 10,000 competitors due in the fast-growing city in central China .
Officials passed with flying colours .
Yet what a strange coincidence they picked that particular exercise , given what was soon to unfold in Wuhan as birthplace of a global pandemic .
As one person later asked on social media : ‘ Why did they choose a new coronavirus to drill ?
’ Now this question has become all the more pertinent with last week ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 while competing in those games .
Several fell ill with bad flu-like symptoms during the event , which took place over nine days from October 18 .
‘ A lot of athletes at the World Military Games were very ill , ’ said Elodie Clouvel , a world champion modern pentathlete .
This followed the revelation that a fishmonger treated in a Paris hospital for suspected pneumonia on December 27 had been confirmed as a victim of the new virus .
He was baffled since he had not travelled abroad .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disease to the World Health Organisation four days after the Frenchman was in hospital and did not put Wuhan into lockdown for a further 24 days .
One study found this virus spreads so fast that if officials had acted three weeks sooner , they would have reduced cases by 95 per cent .
Even one week faster could have cut numbers by two-thirds .
Wuhan , a city of 11 million people , is a transport hub .
Over three crucial months from December , there were 7,530 flights between there and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than one million passengers – and ten direct flights to the UK .
Yet even in January , Chinese leaders prevented expert outside teams from investigating the virus , silenced doctors trying to warn citizens and refused to admit there was human transmission until January 20 .
Little wonder that as the world death toll soars , families are devastated and economies shattered , there are growing calls for an international inquiry into the origins of this pandemic , despite the brazen defiance of Beijing ’ s Communist Party chiefs .
So what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the virus outbreak ?
Certainly as that exercise at the airport proved , these are not unpredictable events .
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that last year , Shi Zhengli – a world-renowned expert on coronaviruses , known as Bat Woman for her cave expeditions to collect samples from the nocturnal mammals – warned explicitly about the dangers .
In a paper published with three colleagues in March 2019 , she admitted it was ‘ highly likely ’ there would be a coronavirus outbreak originating from bats ‘ and there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China ’ .
Zhengli , who helped prove the link to bats through consumption of civet cats in the 2002 SARS epidemic , said : ‘ Chinese food culture maintains that live slaughtered animals are more nutritious , and this belief may enhance viral transmission .
‘ It is generally believed bat-borne coronaviruses will re-emerge to cause the next disease outbreak .
In this regard , China is a likely hotspot.
’ She was , of course , correct .
But China ’ s politicians did nothing to close down their hideous markets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ until on January 1 they suddenly shut the one in Wuhan they blamed for this latest eruption of disease .
A stream of expert papers has pinpointed the virus to the market .
One typical study by leading Chinese scientists insisted the cluster of mysterious pneumonia-like symptoms began emerging on December 21 .
‘ All current evidence points to wild animals sold illegally in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market , ’ it said .
Many experts around the world agree with this analysis .
Even last week , a paper in Nature by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pangolin ( a scaly mammal ) as ‘ intermediate host ’ of SARS- CoV-2 , which causes the disease .
They said , rightly , that failure to control the illegal wildlife trade threatened public health .
Yet the market link remains unproven .
There are valid questions over whether the coronavirus might have inadvertently leaked from two laboratories in the city – one near to the market , the other China ’ s first with top-level bio-security status .
President Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo , his Secretary of State , said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came from one of the laboratories .
Reports suggest several US intelligence agencies suspect the same but lack a ‘ smoking gun ’ .
The Mail on Sunday has exposed poor security , including a picture of a sub-standard seal on a refrigerated vault holding lethal viruses , and an admission from the head of Wuhan Institute of Virology ’ s bio-safety team of deficient safety procedures .
An academic paper in February by Botao Xiao , a bioscience professor at South China University of Technology , and Lei Xiao , a researcher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan ’ .
The document – entitled The Possible Origins Of 2019-nCoV Coronavirus – was published on a site used by scientists to share research .
It called for tighter security in high-risk laboratories but was mysteriously withdrawn after two days .
This explosive paper – seen by The Mail on Sunday – said 605 bats were kept in the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control , which is about 500 yards from the market .
It described how bats attacked , bled and urinated on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on two occasions .
‘ It is plausible that the virus leaked , ’ it said .
Some in the media have dismissed such suggestions by conflating them with online conspiracy theories about man-made diseases and bio-weapons – presumably driven by loathing of Trump rather than sympathy for China ’ s totalitarian regime .
Yet we need to establish the truth if remotely possible .
‘ It would be incredibly useful to know where the new coronavirus came from so we can prevent this happening again , ’ said Devi Sridhar , professor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So how much can we decipher on the details and timing of this outbreak by sifting through academic research papers , media reports and social-media posts ?
Let us start with a fascinating report in the respected South China Morning Post , based on data said to come from the Beijing government that traced the virus to November 17 .
It did not rule out the possibility of earlier cases .
The report pinpointed a 55-year-old from Hubei as the first known case .
Yet the authorities , it said , could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the nine initial cases –four men and five women , aged between 39 and 79 .
There were then one to five new cases each day – and on December 27 , a hospital doctor called Zhang Jixian confirmed they were dealing with a new coronavirus .
This conflicts with an influential study published in January by Chinese researchers in The Lancet , which claimed the ‘ symptom onset date ’ of the first identified patient was December 1 .
This study also found that 27 out of their sample of 41 patients @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ had been exposed to the market ’ .
Wu Wenjuan , one of the authors and a senior doctor at Wuhan ’ s Jinyintan Hospital , which specialises in infectious diseases , told the BBC Chinese service that their first patient was an elderly man suffering from dementia .
‘ He lived four or five buses from the seafood market – and because he was sick , he basically didn ’ t go out , ’ she said , adding that three more people developed symptoms in the following days , although @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the market .
Her words tie in to a graphic in the study that shows one case on December 1 , three on December 10 and then none until December 15 .
Only one of the initial four cases was linked to the market – but then all of the next ten .
Wuhan ’ s government claimed that the first confirmed case fell sick on December 8 , a man who recovered from the illness .
It said that he denied going to the animal market .
Yet that Lancet study also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fatal case is identified as a man linked to the market .
Five days after ‘ illness onset ’ , his wife – ‘ a 53-year-old woman who had no known history of exposure to the market ’ – also turned up before doctors with pneumonia and was hospitalised in an isolation ward .
Wu Wenjuan also told the Wall Street Journal that their earliest cases included a 49-year-old trader at the market who fell ill on December 12 .
Seven days later , his father-in-law – who had not been exposed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Then doctors and nurses started falling ill by December 25 , which was revealed by reports in state media .
These cases all clearly imply human-to-human transmission several weeks before it was publicly admitted by Beijing .
This crucial information was finally confirmed to the world just four days before that important paper was published in The Lancet .
Five days earlier , Li Qun , head of China ’ s public health emergency centre , even told state television that ‘ after careful screening and prudent judgment , we have reached the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is low ’ .
Yet another paper in the New England Journal Of Medicine confirmed that Chinese doctors saw evidence of human transmission ‘ among close contacts since the middle of December 2019 ’ .
And a team from Wuhan Centre for Disease Control published a paper in Nature Microbiology last month that mentioned swabs being taken ‘ from patients in Wuhan with influenza-like illness from October 6 , 2019 , to January 21 , 2020 ’ .
The beginning of October is earlier than any other experts have indicated signs of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of their 640 swabs tested positive – but then concluded that this suggested ‘ community transmission ’ in early January this year .
One blogger also spotted a tantalising fact : in July last year , China ’ s National Health Commission issued an edict on protection against infectious diseases that urged all localities to strengthen their monitoring of ‘ flu-like cases , unexplained pneumonia ’ .
The bulletin – unsupported by relevant data and absent from a similar earlier notice – added that after any outbreak , there must be quick ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ implementing measures such as disinfection and treatment of epidemic areas to prevent spread ’ .
Clearly that failed to happen .
In their defence , China ’ s authorities were confronting a new virus .
Yet their country had already seen two previous ‘ zoonotic ’ ( animal-to-human ) coronaviruses emerge within its borders this century , inflicting less lethal pandemics on our planet .
Significantly , Lianchao Han , a Chinese dissident and former foreign office official , says : ‘ The lack of bioethics and their money-driven race to find vaccines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in handling the most dangerous virus .
‘ Their repeated refusal to let international experts investigate the origin of the virus makes it very suspicious the regime is hiding something.
’ Many mysteries still swirl around this saga .
Last weekend , claims that ‘ Bat Woman ’ Shi had defected with a stash of secret documents were denied in Chinese media .
Chinese ‘ netizens ’ [ millions of web users ] have queried if Huang Yanling , a student at Wuhan Institute of Virology , might have been Patient Zero after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was denied , with officials saying she had moved to another part of ChinaSo many questions ; so few answers .
Yet as the global death toll passes 275,000 , one thing seems certain : the culpability of China ’ s authorities in covering up the new disease that erupted with such terrible force from somewhere in Wuhan last year .

A bombshell report claims Chinese President Xi Jinping personally asked World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom to 'delay a global warning' about the threat of COVID-19 during a conversation back in January.
Germany's Der Spiegel published the allegations this weekend, citing intelligence from the country's Federal Intelligence Service, known as the 'Bundesnachrichtendienst' (BND).
According to the BND: 'On January 21, China's leader Xi Jinping asked WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to hold back information about a human-to-human transmission and to delay a pandemic warning.
'The BND estimates that China's information policy lost four to six weeks to fight the virus worldwide'.
The WHO released a statement shortly after the publication of the shock claims, calling them 'unfounded and untrue'.
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A bombshell report in Der Spiegel claims Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) personally asked World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom (left) to 'delay a global warning' about the threat of COVID-19 in January. The pair are pictured together in Beijing on January 28 of this year. The WHO has denied the allegation
'Dr Tedros and President Xi did not speak on January 21 and they have never spoken by phone. Such inaccurate reports distract and detract from WHO's and the world's efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic,' the statement read.
It continued: 'China confirmed human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus on January 20 [prior to the alleged phone conversation].
'The WHO publicly declared on January 22 that "data collected … suggests that human-to-human transmission is taking place in Wuhan."'
If the claims were true, they would bolster President Trump's assertion that the WHO is 'China-centric'.
Back in April, the Trump Administration alleged the WHO was becoming a tool of 'Chinese propaganda', and the president moved to halt funding of the organization.
Last week, the President launched a fresh attack on the organization during a Fox News virtual town hall meeting.
Relations between Washington and the WHO has soured throughout the crisis after Trump consistently accused the body of siding with China, saying it has been hand-in-glove with Xi Jinping in covering up the outbreak. Pictured is a lab in Wuhan that is certified to handle dangerous pathogens
Donald Trump doubled down his attacks on the World Health Organisation last Monday. 'The World Health organisation has been a disaster everything they said was wrong and they're China-centric,' he stated at the event, held last Monday
'The World Health organisation has been a disaster everything they said was wrong and they're China-centric,' he stated at the event, held last Monday.
'All they do is agree with China, whatever China wants to do. So our country, perhaps foolishly in retrospect has been paying $450million a year to the World Health Organisation and China's been paying $38million a year but they were more political than all of our leaders previously.
'What they did, what World Health did, was they missed every single call and we're not going to put up with it.'
Relations between Washington and the WHO has soured throughout the crisis after Trump consistently accused the body of siding with China, saying it has been hand-in-glove with Xi Jinping in covering up the outbreak.
Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has hailed China as an exemplar of how to handle an emergency despite widespread skepticism of the country's official coronavirus death toll.
Earlier this week, Trump also said there was enough evidence to prove President Xi Jinping's regime misled the global community.
'Well, I don't think there's any question about it. We wanted to go in, they didn't want us to go in. Things are coming out that are pretty compelling. I don't think there's any question,' the president said Sunday.
'Personally, I think they made a horrible mistake, and they didn't want to admit it,' he added.
His comments came as a Department of Homeland Security report shared on Sunday revealed US officials believe China 'intentionally concealed the severity' of the pandemic in early January and hoarded medical supplies.
The four-page report dated May 1 that was obtained by the Associated Press notes that China downplayed the virus publicly but increased imports and decreased exports of medical supplies.
Why did China build a virus lab in Wuhan? Chinese officials decided to build the Wuhan Institute of Virology after the country was ravaged by an outbreak of SARS in 2002 and 2003. SARS, another kind of coronavirus, killed 775 people and infected more than 8,000 globally in an epidemic that lasted about eight months. It took the Chinese 15 years to fully complete the project, which cost a total of 300million yuan (£34million). The French helped design the building. Its crown jewel is a four-storey lab with the highest biosafety level of P4. It's the most advanced laboratory of its type in China. Construction of the lab was finished in 2015 and it officially opened on January 5, 2018, after passing various safety inspections. Describing the significance of the P4 lab, China Youth Online billed it as the 'aircraft carrier of China's virology'. The state-run newspaper said it 'is capable of researching the deadliest pathogens'. One researcher, Zhou Peng, told state news agency Xinhua in 2018: 'We are proud to say that we are already at the forefront in the field of studying the immunity mechanism of bats, which carry viruses for a long time. 'Bats carry viruses but are not infected [by them]. [They] provide hope for mankind to study how to fight viruses.' Advertisement
The document accuses China of covering their tracks by 'denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data.'
It lends weight to a leaked dossier drawn up by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance which describes how Beijing made whistleblowers 'disappear', destroyed early virus samples and scrubbed the internet of any mention of the disease in the early stages.
The 15-page document brands Beijing's secrecy over the pandemic an 'assault on international transparency' and points to cover-up tactics deployed by the regime.
It claims that the Chinese government silenced its most vocal critics and scrubbed any online scepticism about its handling of the health emergency from the internet.
China has roundly come under fire for suppressing the scale of its early outbreak which did not afford other nations time to react before the disease hit their shores.
Five Eyes - the pooling of intelligence by the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - laid bare its scathing assessment of the Xi Jinping administration in a memo obtained by the Australian Saturday Telegraph.
It describes how Beijing was outwardly downplaying the outbreak on the world stage while secretly scrambling to bury all traces of the disease.
More than four million people around the world have contracted the highly contagious virus, and at least 279,000 have died.
There are currently at least 1.3 million cases of coronavirus in the U.S. and more than 79,000 deaths.
Last month, British MPs warned China had cost lives by spreading disinformation about the coronavirus outbreak.
The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said that as the country where the outbreak originated, China should have played a central role in collecting data on its spread.
But it accused Beijing of seeking to 'obfuscate' over what was really happening form the outset.
The committee called on the UK Government, working with international allies, to actively 'confront and rebut' disinformation coming from foreign powers.
In its report, the cross-party group also named Iran and Russia as being responsible for disseminating false information about the Covid-19 virus and suggested other countries were also involved.
Its main criticism, however, was reserved for China. It highlighted the way Li Wenliang, the doctor in Wuhan who first raised the alarm about the new disease, was forced to confess to 'making false comments' before his death from the virus in February.
'Such deliberate misleading of the WHO (World Health Organisation) and scientists in other countries obscured analysis in the critical early stages of the pandemic,' the committee said.
'Disinformation about Covid-19 has already cost lives. It is essential that the Government issues clear and transparent messages at home to confront and rebut disinformation spread by foreign powers.
'It must also work closely with allies to present a united front where possible, and to help ensure that vital international research efforts are not compromised by propaganda and bad data.'
Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat said Beijing had initially 'allowed disinformation to spread as quickly as the virus'.
He added: 'Rather than helping other countries prepare a swift and strong response, it is increasingly apparent that they manipulated vital information about the virus in order to protect the regime's image.
'The Government needs to tackle these lies with a clear and quick response, working with our allies to show a united front in the face of false facts and deadly disinformation.'
Wuhan airport drill for passenger with a new type of coronavirus last SEPTEMBER, French athletes falling sick in the city in OCTOBER and a warning by Bat Woman expert A YEAR ago... so when did Covid first erupt in China?
By Ian Birrell for the Mail on Sunday
On the afternoon of September 18 last year, the customs office at Wuhan Tianhe airport received an emergency message that a passenger on an incoming flight was unwell and distressed with breathing difficulties.
Staff at the glistening modern airport rushed into emergency mode, donning protective masks as managers unleashed their action plans.
Soon afterwards, ‘the Wuhan First Aid Centre reported that the transfer case had been clinically diagnosed as a novel type of coronavirus’, according to a journalist from a state media agency.
This was, the agency reported, a drill to test responses in advance of the World Military Games, which were being held the following month with 10,000 competitors due in the fast-growing city in central China. Officials passed with flying colours.
Pictured: Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli, who is world-renowned expert on coronaviruses, inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan in 2017. Shi Zhengli warned about the danger of eating bats in a paper she published in March last year
Yet what a strange coincidence they picked that particular exercise, given what was soon to unfold in Wuhan as birthplace of a global pandemic. As one person later asked on social media: ‘Why did they choose a new coronavirus to drill?’
Now this question has become all the more pertinent with last week’s revelation that French athletes think they caught Covid-19 while competing in those games.
Several fell ill with bad flu-like symptoms during the event, which took place over nine days from October 18. ‘A lot of athletes at the World Military Games were very ill,’ said Elodie Clouvel, a world champion modern pentathlete.
This followed the revelation that a fishmonger treated in a Paris hospital for suspected pneumonia on December 27 had been confirmed as a victim of the new virus. He was baffled since he had not travelled abroad.
This is very significant. China notified the disease to the World Health Organisation four days after the Frenchman was in hospital and did not put Wuhan into lockdown for a further 24 days.
One study found this virus spreads so fast that if officials had acted three weeks sooner, they would have reduced cases by 95 per cent. Even one week faster could have cut numbers by two-thirds.
Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, is a transport hub. Over three crucial months from December, there were 7,530 flights between there and other parts of China, carrying more than one million passengers – and ten direct flights to the UK.
Yet even in January, Chinese leaders prevented expert outside teams from investigating the virus, silenced doctors trying to warn citizens and refused to admit there was human transmission until January 20.
Little wonder that as the world death toll soars, families are devastated and economies shattered, there are growing calls for an international inquiry into the origins of this pandemic, despite the brazen defiance of Beijing’s Communist Party chiefs.
So what do we now know about the origins of the virus outbreak? Certainly as that exercise at the airport proved, these are not unpredictable events.
Pictured: a woman being disinfected before going into 14 days of quarantine after she recovered from coronavirus in March
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that last year, Shi Zhengli – a world-renowned expert on coronaviruses, known as Bat Woman for her cave expeditions to collect samples from the nocturnal mammals – warned explicitly about the dangers.
In a paper published with three colleagues in March 2019, she admitted it was ‘highly likely’ there would be a coronavirus outbreak originating from bats ‘and there is an increased probability this will occur in China’.
Zhengli, who helped prove the link to bats through consumption of civet cats in the 2002 SARS epidemic, said: ‘Chinese food culture maintains that live slaughtered animals are more nutritious, and this belief may enhance viral transmission.
‘It is generally believed bat-borne coronaviruses will re-emerge to cause the next disease outbreak. In this regard, China is a likely hotspot.’ She was, of course, correct. But China’s politicians did nothing to close down their hideous markets selling animals grabbed from the wild – until on January 1 they suddenly shut the one in Wuhan they blamed for this latest eruption of disease.
A stream of expert papers has pinpointed the virus to the market. One typical study by leading Chinese scientists insisted the cluster of mysterious pneumonia-like symptoms began emerging on December 21.
‘All current evidence points to wild animals sold illegally in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market,’ it said. Many experts around the world agree with this analysis. Even last week, a paper in Nature by Chinese scientists pointed to the possibility of pangolin (a scaly mammal) as ‘intermediate host’ of SARS- CoV-2, which causes the disease. They said, rightly, that failure to control the illegal wildlife trade threatened public health.
Yet the market link remains unproven. There are valid questions over whether the coronavirus might have inadvertently leaked from two laboratories in the city – one near to the market, the other China’s first with top-level bio-security status.
President Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo, his Secretary of State, said they have seen evidence that the virus came from one of the laboratories. Reports suggest several US intelligence agencies suspect the same but lack a ‘smoking gun’.
The Mail on Sunday has exposed poor security, including a picture of a sub-standard seal on a refrigerated vault holding lethal viruses, and an admission from the head of Wuhan Institute of Virology’s bio-safety team of deficient safety procedures.
An academic paper in February by Botao Xiao, a bioscience professor at South China University of Technology, and Lei Xiao, a researcher based in Wuhan, concluded ‘the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan’.
Pictured: A medical worker in Wuhan checking the drip of a coronavirus patient in ICU in January
The document – entitled The Possible Origins Of 2019-nCoV Coronavirus – was published on a site used by scientists to share research. It called for tighter security in high-risk laboratories but was mysteriously withdrawn after two days.
This explosive paper – seen by The Mail on Sunday – said 605 bats were kept in the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control, which is about 500 yards from the market.
It described how bats attacked, bled and urinated on one researcher, forcing him into quarantine on two occasions. ‘It is plausible that the virus leaked,’ it said.
Some in the media have dismissed such suggestions by conflating them with online conspiracy theories about man-made diseases and bio-weapons – presumably driven by loathing of Trump rather than sympathy for China’s totalitarian regime. Yet we need to establish the truth if remotely possible.
‘It would be incredibly useful to know where the new coronavirus came from so we can prevent this happening again,’ said Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at Edinburgh University.
So how much can we decipher on the details and timing of this outbreak by sifting through academic research papers, media reports and social-media posts? Let us start with a fascinating report in the respected South China Morning Post, based on data said to come from the Beijing government that traced the virus to November 17. It did not rule out the possibility of earlier cases.
The report pinpointed a 55-year-old from Hubei as the first known case. Yet the authorities, it said, could not pinpoint who was Patient Zero from the nine initial cases –four men and five women, aged between 39 and 79.
Pictured: staff line up as they prepare to spray disinfectant at Wuhan Railway Station in March
There were then one to five new cases each day – and on December 27, a hospital doctor called Zhang Jixian confirmed they were dealing with a new coronavirus.
This conflicts with an influential study published in January by Chinese researchers in The Lancet, which claimed the ‘symptom onset date’ of the first identified patient was December 1.
This study also found that 27 out of their sample of 41 patients admitted to hospital in the early stages ‘had been exposed to the market’.
Wu Wenjuan, one of the authors and a senior doctor at Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital, which specialises in infectious diseases, told the BBC Chinese service that their first patient was an elderly man suffering from dementia.
‘He lived four or five buses from the seafood market – and because he was sick, he basically didn’t go out,’ she said, adding that three more people developed symptoms in the following days, although only one had ‘exposure’ to the market.
Her words tie in to a graphic in the study that shows one case on December 1, three on December 10 and then none until December 15. Only one of the initial four cases was linked to the market – but then all of the next ten.
Wuhan’s government claimed that the first confirmed case fell sick on December 8, a man who recovered from the illness. It said that he denied going to the animal market.
Yet that Lancet study also contains another intriguing nugget. The first fatal case is identified as a man linked to the market. Five days after ‘illness onset’, his wife – ‘a 53-year-old woman who had no known history of exposure to the market’ – also turned up before doctors with pneumonia and was hospitalised in an isolation ward.
Wu Wenjuan also told the Wall Street Journal that their earliest cases included a 49-year-old trader at the market who fell ill on December 12.
Seven days later, his father-in-law – who had not been exposed to the market – caught the illness. Then doctors and nurses started falling ill by December 25, which was revealed by reports in state media.
These cases all clearly imply human-to-human transmission several weeks before it was publicly admitted by Beijing. This crucial information was finally confirmed to the world just four days before that important paper was published in The Lancet.
Five days earlier, Li Qun, head of China’s public health emergency centre, even told state television that ‘after careful screening and prudent judgment, we have reached the latest understanding that risk of human-to-human transmission is low’.
Yet another paper in the New England Journal Of Medicine confirmed that Chinese doctors saw evidence of human transmission ‘among close contacts since the middle of December 2019’.
And a team from Wuhan Centre for Disease Control published a paper in Nature Microbiology last month that mentioned swabs being taken ‘from patients in Wuhan with influenza-like illness from October 6, 2019, to January 21, 2020’.
The beginning of October is earlier than any other experts have indicated signs of this virus. These researchers found nine out of their 640 swabs tested positive – but then concluded that this suggested ‘community transmission’ in early January this year.
One blogger also spotted a tantalising fact: in July last year, China’s National Health Commission issued an edict on protection against infectious diseases that urged all localities to strengthen their monitoring of ‘flu-like cases, unexplained pneumonia’.
The bulletin – unsupported by relevant data and absent from a similar earlier notice – added that after any outbreak, there must be quick ‘epidemiological investigations, laboratory tests, and implementing measures such as disinfection and treatment of epidemic areas to prevent spread’. Clearly that failed to happen.
In their defence, China’s authorities were confronting a new virus. Yet their country had already seen two previous ‘zoonotic’ (animal-to-human) coronaviruses emerge within its borders this century, inflicting less lethal pandemics on our planet.
Significantly, Lianchao Han, a Chinese dissident and former foreign office official, says: ‘The lack of bioethics and their money-driven race to find vaccines for viruses make Chinese scientists very reckless in handling the most dangerous virus.
‘Their repeated refusal to let international experts investigate the origin of the virus makes it very suspicious the regime is hiding something.’
Many mysteries still swirl around this saga.
Last weekend, claims that ‘Bat Woman’ Shi had defected with a stash of secret documents were denied in Chinese media.
Chinese ‘netizens’ [millions of web users] have queried if Huang Yanling, a student at Wuhan Institute of Virology, might have been Patient Zero after becoming infected in the laboratory.
This was denied, with officials saying she had moved to another part of ChinaSo many questions; so few answers. Yet as the global death toll passes 275,000, one thing seems certain: the culpability of China’s authorities in covering up the new disease that erupted with such terrible force from somewhere in Wuhan last year.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-11--NOW WE KNOW: John Podesta Admits in Testimony Both DNC and Crooked Hillary Campaign Split the Cost f

NOW WE KNOW: John Podesta Admits in Testimony Both DNC and Crooked Hillary Campaign Split the Cost for Bogus Trump-Russia Dossier That Launched the Deep State Coup

Hillary Clinton and the DNC both claimed they knew nothing about the Trump-Russia dossier when it was published by Buzzfeed in January 2017 .
The New York Times — famous for their fake news — reported that Hillary and the DNC were unaware that their law firm Perkins Coie was working on the dossier .
Officials from the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C .
have said they were unaware that Perkins Coie facilitated the research on their behalf , even though the law firm was using their money to pay for it .
Even Mrs. Clinton only found about Mr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the dossier , according to two associates who discussed the matter with her .
But that was all another Hillary Clinton lie .
TRENDING : NOW WE KNOW : John Podesta Admits in Testimony Both DNC and Hillary Campaign Split the Cost for Bogus Trump-Russia Dossier That Launched the Coup John Podesta was Hillary Clinton ’ s campaign chairman in 2016 .
CNN reported in October 2017 that Podesta and then DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz But that is not what John Podesta told House Intelligence investigators under oath in his December 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the DNC and the Hillary Campaign split the cost of the Trump-Russia dossier .
Now we know .
That ’ s from page 13 of his testimony .

Hillary Clinton and the DNC both claimed they knew nothing about the Trump-Russia dossier when it was published by Buzzfeed in January 2017.
The New York Times — famous for their fake news — reported in 2017 that Hillary and the DNC were unaware that their law firm Perkins Coie was working on the dossier.
Officials from the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. have said they were unaware that Perkins Coie facilitated the research on their behalf, even though the law firm was using their money to pay for it. Even Mrs. Clinton only found about Mr. Steele’s research after Buzzfeed published the dossier, according to two associates who discussed the matter with her.
But that was all another Hillary Clinton lie.
John Podesta was Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman in 2016.
CNN reported in October 2017 that Podesta and then DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“both denied to congressional Russia investigators that they had any knowledge about an arrangement to pay for opposition research on President Donald Trump, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.”
But that is not what John Podesta told House Intelligence investigators under oath in his December 2017 testimony.
John Podesta admitted under oath that the DNC and the Hillary Campaign split the cost of the Trump-Russia dossier.
Now we know.
That’s from page 13 of his testimony.
Via M3thods:
https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1258880006505234433


thelibertydaily--2020-05-11--Hate-Filled Leftist Lunatic Michael Rapaport Launches Disgusting Mother’s Day Rant Against First Lad

Hate-Filled Leftist Lunatic Michael Rapaport Launches Disgusting Mother’s Day Rant Against First Lady Melania Trump

Hollywood actor and comedian Michael Rapaport launched a vile attack on Melania Trump on Mother ’ s Day , tweeting out a risqué photo of the first lady along with an offensive caption .
“ HAPPY MOTHERS DAY !
!
!
I hope you ’ re a better Mother than you are First Lady , you ’ re useless as a First Lady , literally , ” Rapaport wrote alongside a photo of Melania from her days working as a model .
Rapaport added the vulgar hashtag “ # milfs ” at the end of his tweet .
MORE NEWS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mail-in elections will make it worse Rapaport frequently attacks Melania in deranged ways on his social media accounts .
Last month , he tweeted out a meme of her and President Donald Trump that stated , “ Just a reminder , a hooker and a con man are running America ” along with a caption warning , “ Never forget.
” Back in March , Rapaport slammed the entire Trump family in a profanity-laced rant that was nothing short of disturbing .
“ Why don ’ t you send your f—ing son , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Eric Trump , little f—ing Barron , f—ing Ivanka , junkyard Jared — let them go out there and test the f—ing waters , ” Rapaport said , according to the .
“ Let them see if shit is sweet .
Let them take the cars , the trains , the buses , the Amtraks .
Let them play in the park .
And if everything ’ s good after five days of them playing out there in the streets , we ’ ll all go back to [ work ] .
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under oath she lied on MSNBC about having evidence of Trump-Russia collusion “ F—ing pig — the real people want to get back to work ASAP ?
You never worked a f—ing day in your life , ” he continued .
“ You ’ re worried about the next four years ?
You need to be worried about the next four days , motherf—er .
You need to be worried about the next four weeks — the next four months , you motherf—er .
You are the worst possible motherf—er we could have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Disliking President Trump is one thing , but going after his family in this way completely crosses the line .
Rapaport owes Melania and the rest of her family an apology .

Hollywood actor and comedian Michael Rapaport launched a vile attack on Melania Trump on Mother’s Day, tweeting out a risqué photo of the first lady along with an offensive caption.
“HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!! I hope you’re a better Mother than you are First Lady, you’re useless as a First Lady, literally,” Rapaport wrote alongside a photo of Melania from her days working as a model. Rapaport added the vulgar hashtag “#milfs” at the end of his tweet.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!
I hope you’re a better Mother than you are First Lady, you’re useless as a First Lady, literally @FLOTUS #MILFS pic.twitter.com/NTIwSv8OuW — MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) May 10, 2020
Rapaport frequently attacks Melania in deranged ways on his social media accounts. Last month, he tweeted out a meme of her and President Donald Trump that stated, “Just a reminder, a hooker and a con man are running America” along with a caption warning, “Never forget.”
Back in March, Rapaport slammed the entire Trump family in a profanity-laced rant that was nothing short of disturbing. “Why don’t you send your f—ing son, dick stain Donald Trump Jr., big-toothed Eric Trump, little f—ing Barron, f—ing Ivanka, junkyard Jared — let them go out there and test the f—ing waters,” Rapaport said, according to the Washington Examiner. “Let them see if shit is sweet. Let them take the cars, the trains, the buses, the Amtraks. Let them play in the park. And if everything’s good after five days of them playing out there in the streets, we’ll all go back to [work].”
“F—ing pig — the real people want to get back to work ASAP? You never worked a f—ing day in your life,” he continued. “You’re worried about the next four years? You need to be worried about the next four days, motherf—er. You need to be worried about the next four weeks — the next four months, you motherf—er. You are the worst possible motherf—er we could have in power, making decisions right now.”
Disliking President Trump is one thing, but going after his family in this way completely crosses the line. Rapaport owes Melania and the rest of her family an apology.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-10--VP Pence Self-Isolating Following Spokeswoman Positive Chi-Com Virus Results

Vice President Mike Pence has been keeping his distance but is not quarantining after his spokeswoman tested positive for the novel coronavirus .
Three people familiar with the situation told Bloomberg on Sunday that the vice president has stayed away from the White House following his spokeswoman Katie Miller 's positive COVID-19 test on Friday .
He did not attend a meeting with the president or military officials on Saturday and has been staying at his home at the U.S .
Naval Observatory in Washington , D.C. , but there is `` no restriction '' on his activities .
An @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the vice president is `` voluntarily limiting his exposure , '' and another official told NBC News he was putting `` a little distance '' between himself and others over the weekend .
He has repeatedly tested negative for COVID-19 , is following the advice of medical professionals , and plans to return to work on Monday after laying `` a little low . ''
`` Vice President Pence will continue to follow the advice of the White House Medical Unit and is not in quarantine , '' Pence spokesman Devin O ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Additionally , Vice President Pence has tested negative every single day and plans to be at the White House tomorrow . ''
The New York Times reported hours earlier that the administration had no plans to separate Pence and President Trump amid an outbreak among staff , which has also infected one of the president 's valets and at least 11 Secret Service members .
After exposure to staffers infected with the virus , Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci , Food and Drug Administration Commissioner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield are all self-quarantining .

Vice President Mike Pence has been keeping his distance but is not quarantining after his spokeswoman tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Three people familiar with the situation told Bloomberg on Sunday that the vice president has stayed away from the White House following his spokeswoman Katie Miller's positive COVID-19 test on Friday. He did not attend a meeting with the president or military officials on Saturday and has been staying at his home at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., but there is "no restriction" on his activities.
An administration official told the Associated Press that the vice president is "voluntarily limiting his exposure," and another official told NBC News he was putting "a little distance" between himself and others over the weekend. He has repeatedly tested negative for COVID-19, is following the advice of medical professionals, and plans to return to work on Monday after laying "a little low."
"Vice President Pence will continue to follow the advice of the White House Medical Unit and is not in quarantine," Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley responded to the reports. "Additionally, Vice President Pence has tested negative every single day and plans to be at the White House tomorrow."
The New York Times reported hours earlier that the administration had no plans to separate Pence and President Trump amid an outbreak among staff, which has also infected one of the president's valets and at least 11 Secret Service members.
After exposure to staffers infected with the virus, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield are all self-quarantining.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-10--The Ilhan Omar Scandal Nobody’s Talking About . . . Yet

Our distaste for most Democrats is strong .
That wasn ’ t always the case as there was a time not too long ago when many if not most in the Democratic Party were tolerable .
Today , few are .
But nobody on Capitol Hill is as despicable as Congresswoman Ilhan Omar ( D-MN ) as she continues to do things that would make the most dishonest Democrats cringe .
What makes it worse is now she ’ s trying to pretend like she ’ s the victim .
We discuss it thoroughly in this episode of the NOQ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the gist .
Omar ’ s campaign put up a fundraising portal through ActBlue .
She Tweeted it and posted it on Facebook with the posts making it appear as though people would be donating that money directly to MN FoodShare .
A few days later , the Executive Director of MN FoodShare said she didn ’ t know about this so-called partnership and asked where the money was going .
Omar deleted the social media posts , then scrambled to direct the money collected to MN FoodShare .
There are many reasons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to cover up for her dishonest attempt , but the most telling piece of evidence is that she initially pulled the donations into her campaign coffers .
This is important because nobody would EVER do that .
They would have the money go directly to the charity .
We know this because her own campaign fundraising is limited per individual donor .
Why would she have people send her campaign money if she was going to then send it to MN FoodShare ?
Let ’ s say someone donated the maximum amount for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is sent to MN FoodShare , it would still count as a campaign contribution .
Therefore , the donor thinking they were giving to MN FoodShare would not be able to donate to Omar ’ s campaign because technically they already did .
Her GOP opponent , Lacy Johnson , called her out on it .
We go into detail about him and other stories in this episode : • None Elon Musk is bluffing about leaving California , but that doesn ’ t mean he won ’ t do it • None @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his involvement in General Flynn ’ s entrapment buried • None Washington gubernatorial candidate Joshua Freed ’ s legal victory for religious liberty is bigger than media is reporting • None Resolution introduced by Andy Biggs would press AG Barr to review draconian measures by states Expect this story to be picked up by other news outlets soon .
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Our distaste for most Democrats is strong. That wasn’t always the case as there was a time not too long ago when many if not most in the Democratic Party were tolerable. Today, few are. But nobody on Capitol Hill is as despicable as Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as she continues to do things that would make the most dishonest Democrats cringe.
What makes it worse is now she’s trying to pretend like she’s the victim. We discuss it thoroughly in this episode of the NOQ Report Podcast, but here’s the gist. Omar’s campaign put up a fundraising portal through ActBlue. She Tweeted it and posted it on Facebook with the posts making it appear as though people would be donating that money directly to MN FoodShare. A few days later, the Executive Director of MN FoodShare said she didn’t know about this so-called partnership and asked where the money was going.
Omar deleted the social media posts, then scrambled to direct the money collected to MN FoodShare. There are many reasons to believe this was a ruse after-the-fact to cover up for her dishonest attempt, but the most telling piece of evidence is that she initially pulled the donations into her campaign coffers. This is important because nobody would EVER do that. They would have the money go directly to the charity. We know this because her own campaign fundraising is limited per individual donor. Why would she have people send her campaign money if she was going to then send it to MN FoodShare? Let’s say someone donated the maximum amount for her campaign. Even if that money is sent to MN FoodShare, it would still count as a campaign contribution. Therefore, the donor thinking they were giving to MN FoodShare would not be able to donate to Omar’s campaign because technically they already did.
Her GOP opponent, Lacy Johnson, called her out on it. We go into detail about him and other stories in this episode:
Show Notes
Elon Musk is bluffing about leaving California, but that doesn’t mean he won’t do it https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633 https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/1259287879177531392 https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1259233511027945475
Obama hits the news cycle to keep his involvement in General Flynn’s entrapment buried https://twitter.com/JDRucker/status/1259288417885511681
Washington gubernatorial candidate Joshua Freed’s legal victory for religious liberty is bigger than media is reporting https://www.facebook.com/FreedForGovernor/posts/249371359749317?__tn__=-R https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/9/in-ongoing-church-state-covid-19-clashes-two-more-/
Media silent after report Lt. Col. Vindman lied during impeachment testimony https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1259299494149095430 https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/19/alexander-vindman-admits-making-up-parts-of-trump-call-summary/
Resolution introduced by Andy Biggs would press AG Barr to review draconian measures by states https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/9/republicans-propose-resolution-to-condemn-draconia/
https://twitter.com/adorn416/status/1259232895769640969
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1259265789544275968
https://twitter.com/LacyJohnsonMN/status/1259104135170924545
Expect this story to be picked up by other news outlets soon. This is such a reprehensible action, then cover-up, then deflection by Ilhan Omar, it’s possible some outlets simply don’t know they extent of her corruption. But they will.
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thelibertydaily--2020-05-10--Democrat Tyranny: Police Shove Through Crowd, Arrest Mother’s Day Diners at California Waffle Shop

At least two people were hauled away by police after law enforcement officers tried to enter a diner that was illegally opened in Fresno , California .
The diners were waiting in line outside the Waffle Shop .
Officers ordered the diners to step aside so they could enter the establishment .
When they refused , the officers forcefully shoved aside patrons .
It was during that confrontation that at least two people were taken into custody .
Jim Fisher filmed the incident and posted video on Facebook .
The owner of the Waffle Shop had decided to reopen his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ local leaders .
On Thursday the city ’ s code enforcement department warned Ammar Ibrahim that he could face closure , criminal prosecution , revocation of his business license , fines and other legal action if he continued to allow guests to dine inside his diner .
“ It ’ s not about money .
It ’ s more about principles and rights and getting back to the way life ’ s supposed to be , ” Mr. Ibrahim told Fox26 .
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The television station reports that diners were socially distanced and staff members wore masks to comply with CDC guidelines .
However , on Friday he was slapped with a $ 1,000 fine .
And the city warns the fines could increase to $ 10,000 .
And a few minutes after the ticket was issued – the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a trickle .
The City of Fresno says it had nothing to do with the water being shut off , Fox26 reports .
Councilmember Garry Bredefeld , a critic of the city ’ s orders , was among the lunch guests at the Waffle Shop that day .
“ I was elected to represent the people .
We all swore on oath to the Constitution , to support and defend the Constitution from all foreign enemies , and all domestic enemies .
These guys have betrayed their oath .
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At least two people were hauled away by police after law enforcement officers tried to enter a diner that was illegally opened in Fresno, California.
The diners were waiting in line outside the Waffle Shop. Officers ordered the diners to step aside so they could enter the establishment. When they refused, the officers forcefully shoved aside patrons. It was during that confrontation that at least two people were taken into custody.
Jim Fisher filmed the incident and posted video on Facebook.
“Disgraceful on Mother’s Day,” he wrote.
The owner of the Waffle Shop had decided to reopen his business over the weekend in defiance of local leaders.
On Thursday the city’s code enforcement department warned Ammar Ibrahim that he could face closure, criminal prosecution, revocation of his business license, fines and other legal action if he continued to allow guests to dine inside his diner.
“It’s not about money. It’s more about principles and rights and getting back to the way life’s supposed to be,” Mr. Ibrahim told Fox26.
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The television station reports that diners were socially distanced and staff members wore masks to comply with CDC guidelines.
However, on Friday he was slapped with a $1,000 fine. And the city warns the fines could increase to $10,000.
And a few minutes after the ticket was issued – the restaurant’s water supply slowed to a trickle.
The City of Fresno says it had nothing to do with the water being shut off, Fox26 reports.
Councilmember Garry Bredefeld, a critic of the city’s orders, was among the lunch guests at the Waffle Shop that day.
“I was elected to represent the people. We all swore on oath to the Constitution, to support and defend the Constitution from all foreign enemies, and all domestic enemies. These guys have betrayed their oath. They betrayed their constituents, and they tore up the constitution.”
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thelibertydaily--2020-05-10--Devin Nunes: Transcripts Prove Trump-Russia Investigation ‘Was All Phony the Whole Time’

In the past week , transcripts of House Intelligence Committee testimony from various Obama officials proved that they had no evidentiary basis for investigating alleged Trump-Russia collusion .
Rep. Devin Nunes says this proved that the investigation was phony “ the whole time.
” “ We had a strategy here that we wanted to get every single person that we interviewed , to say whether or not they knew of any evidence of collusion , coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians , ” Nunes said Sunday morning on Fox News .
“ Furthermore , what you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been asked questions about hearsay .
Did they hear anything ?
Do they know anything ?
Do they have any leads for us whatsoever ?
And the answer was always the same .
Nothing.
” “ I think that ’ s the real revelation for the American people , is they were using their own Russian dirt to ask questions , ” Nunes added .
“ And it was all fake .
It was all phony the whole time.
” At least one former Obama official , Evelyn Farkas , publicly claimed that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but later admitted under oath she did not .
Declassified documents have also revealed other bombshells this week , including the fact that Barack Obama was knowledgeable of , perhaps directly involved in , the efforts to railroad former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn .
Attorney General Barr suggested that former FBI director James Comey orchestrated the perjury trap for Flynn .
“ [ The FBI ] had started a counterintelligence investigation during the summer , as you know , related to the campaign .
But in December , the team , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that and determined they had found nothing to justify continuing with that investigation against Flynn.
” “ On the very day they prepared the final papers , the seventh floor , that is the director ’ s office and the deputy director ’ s office up there sent down word they should keep that open , so that they could try to go and question Flynn about this call he had with the Russian ambassador , ” Barr continued .
Following the release of these transcripts and documents , President Trump blasted the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ It was a very dangerous situation what they did , ” he said .
“ These are dirty politicians and dirty cops and some horrible people and hopefully they ’ re going to pay a big price in the not too distant future.
” Trump also warned that there more information to come .
“ There ’ s more to come , from what I understand .
and they ’ re gon na be far greater than what you ’ ve seen so far—and what you ’ ve seen so far has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Obama because if anyone thinks that he and sleepy Joe Biden didn ’ t know what was going on , they have another thing coming.
” Matt Margolis is the author of Trumping Obama : How President Trump Saved Us From Barack Obama ’ s Legacy and the bestselling book The Worst President in History : The Legacy of Barack Obama .
You can follow Matt on Twitter @ MattMargolis

In the past week, transcripts of House Intelligence Committee testimony from various Obama officials proved that they had no evidentiary basis for investigating alleged Trump-Russia collusion. Rep. Devin Nunes says this proved that the investigation was phony “the whole time.”
“We had a strategy here that we wanted to get every single person that we interviewed, to say whether or not they knew of any evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians,” Nunes said Sunday morning on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with anchor Maria Bartiromo. “Furthermore, what you will see is that we’ve been asked questions about hearsay. Did they hear anything? Do they know anything? Do they have any leads for us whatsoever? And the answer was always the same. Nothing.”
“I think that’s the real revelation for the American people, is they were using their own Russian dirt to ask questions,” Nunes added. “And it was all fake. It was all phony the whole time.”
At least one former Obama official, Evelyn Farkas, publicly claimed that she new of evidence proving collusion, but later admitted under oath she did not.
Declassified documents have also revealed other bombshells this week, including the fact that Barack Obama was knowledgeable of, perhaps directly involved in, the efforts to railroad former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Attorney General Barr suggested that former FBI director James Comey orchestrated the perjury trap for Flynn. “[The FBI] had started a counterintelligence investigation during the summer, as you know, related to the campaign. But in December, the team, the Crossfire Hurricane team, was closing that and determined they had found nothing to justify continuing with that investigation against Flynn.”
“On the very day they prepared the final papers, the seventh floor, that is the director’s office and the deputy director’s office up there sent down word they should keep that open, so that they could try to go and question Flynn about this call he had with the Russian ambassador,” Barr continued.
Following the release of these transcripts and documents, President Trump blasted the Obama administration for their attempted coup. “It was a very dangerous situation what they did,” he said. “These are dirty politicians and dirty cops and some horrible people and hopefully they’re going to pay a big price in the not too distant future.”
Trump also warned that there more information to come. “There’s more to come, from what I understand. and they’re gonna be far greater than what you’ve seen so far—and what you’ve seen so far has been incredible—especially as it relates to President Obama because if anyone thinks that he and sleepy Joe Biden didn’t know what was going on, they have another thing coming.”
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Matt Margolis is the author of Trumping Obama: How President Trump Saved Us From Barack Obama’s Legacy and the bestselling book The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama. You can follow Matt on Twitter @MattMargolis


thelibertydaily--2020-05-11--Black Man in Georgia Arrested for ‘Terroristic Acts’ Against Ahmaud Arbery Protesters

Georgia state investigators announced on Sunday that they have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of creating a fake Facebook account and using it to post a 'hoax ' threat against protesters angry over the killing of unarmed black man 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery .
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Sunday said state police arrested Rashawn Smith and charged him with dissemination of information relating to terroristic acts .
Smith allegedly created a fake Facebook page and used it to make threats against the protesters .
He was taken into custody in Midway , a town about 50 miles north of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the GBI said it had 'been made aware of a Facebook post that contains a threat to future protests related to Ahmaud Arbery ' .
It was not immediately clear if Smith has an attorney who could comment on the charge .
Hundreds of people gathered alongside some 300 bikers in Brunswick on Saturday to honor Arbery .
The bikers were seen kneeling at the spot where Arbery was fatally shot on February 23 by two white men who claim they were making a citizen 's arrest as they suspected him of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attendance near the Sidney Lanier Bridge wore face masks and t-shirts with the phrase ‘ I run with Maud ’ in tribute to Arbery .
On February 23 , Arbery was jogging in his Satilla Shores neighborhood just outside of Brunswick when he was accosted by Travis and Greg McMichael .
The father and son had grabbed their guns and gotten into their trucks to follow Arbery when he ran past their home at around 1pm on that day .
They suspected was a burglar and went to detain him .
When Arbery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Travis McMichael , who had gotten out of his truck with his weapon and approached the jogger .
Arbery was then shot during the scuffle .
Local prosecutors initially declined to bring charges against the two men .
Video emerged on social media showing the fateful moment when Arbery was shot and killed .
After it went viral , the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case .
On Thursday , GBI officers arrested the McMichaels , who have since been charged with homicide and aggravated assault .
But the case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been trying to explain why it took more than two months to charge the two men whose actions resulted in the death of an unarmed person .
The memorial ceremony on Saturday was held just a day after protesters gathered at the same site demanding justice for Arbery on what would have been his 26th birthday .
Georgia 's attorney general on Sunday asked the Department of Justice to investigate the handling of Arbery 's killing .
'We are committed to a complete and transparent review of how the Ahmaud Arbery case was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ General Chris Carr said in a statement .
'The family , the community and the state of Georgia deserve answers , and we will work with others in law enforcement at the state and federal level to find those answers . '
Arbery 's mother , Wanda Cooper Jones , has said she thinks her 25-year-old son , a former high school football player , was just jogging in the neighborhood before he was killed .
On Saturday , the GBI confirmed that it has obtained other photos of video that might shed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Journal-Constitution published footage from a surveillance camera at a Brunswick home near where Arbery was shot that shows someone who appears to be Arbery walking into a home under construction .
Arbery then came back out and ran down the street .
Someone else comes out across the street from the construction site , and then a vehicle drives off farther down the street , near where Travis McMichael lives .
Lawyers for Arbery 's family say the video bolsters their position that Arbery did nothing wrong , and shows he did not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , someone who is n't a sworn police officer can arrest and detain another person only if a felony is committed in the presence of the arresting citizen .
'Ahmaud´s actions at this empty home under construction were in no way a felony under Georgia law , ' the lawyers wrote in a social media post .
'This video confirms that Mr. Arbery 's murder was not justified and the actions of the men who pursued him and ambushed him were unjustified . '
Georgia AG asks the US Justice Department to investigate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revealed top prosecutor who recused himself said slaying by two armed white men was 'justifiable homicide' Georgia 's attorney general on Sunday asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the handling of the investigation into the killing of Arbery .
Arbery was killed on February 23 but no arrests were made until Thursday after national outrage over the case swelled last week when video surfaced that showed the shooting which was blasted as a 'lynching ' .
'We are committed to a complete and transparent review of how the Ahmaud Arbery case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Attorney General Chris Carr said in a statement .
'The family , the community and the state of Georgia deserve answers , and we will work with others in law enforcement at the state and federal level to find those answers . '
Attorneys for Arbery 's mother and father applauded Carr for reaching out to federal officials .
'We have requested the involvement of the DOJ since we first took this case , ' attorneys S. Lee Merritt , Benjamin Crump and L. Chris Stewart said in a statement .
'There are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case was handled and why it took 74 days for two of the killers to be arrested and charged in Mr. Arbery 's death . '
Last week , a Justice Department spokesman said the FBI is assisting in the investigation and the DOJ would assist if a federal crime is uncovered .
It comes after it emerged the Georgia district attorney who recused himself from the case told investigators that the fatal shooting was a 'justifiable homicide ' and that the father and son duo who killed Arbery should not be charged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ top prosecutor for the Waycross Judicial Circuit , told police in Glynn County on February 24 – the day after the shooting – that there was insufficient evidence to charge Travis McMichael , 34 , and his 64-year-old father , former police officer Greg McMichael .
The Glynn County Police Department released a statement to The Brunswick News on Saturday saying Travis and Greg McMichael were brought in for questioning at around 3.30pm on February 23 .
Just after 1pm on that day , Arbery , a 25-year-old former high school football player @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a jog in his Satilla Shores neighborhood near Brunswick , Georgia .
As Arbery ran past the McMichaels ' home , the two men grabbed two shotguns , got into their truck and followed him .
Video which surfaced in recent days showed Travis McMichael get out of the truck and accost Arbery while brandishing his weapon .
Arbery is then seen trying to fight off McMichael before collapsing to the ground after he had apparently been shot .
Barnhill had determined that there were no legal grounds to arrest and try the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ laws allow citizens to detain anyone suspected of committing a crime .
The Glynn County Police Department says that Barnhill , Sr recused himself from the case on April 6 – five days after receiving the results of the autopsy .
Barnhill 's recusal was also demanded by Arbery 's family because the district attorney 's son , George Barnhill , Jr , worked as an assistant district attorney in the Brunswick District Attorney 's Office .
Before his retirement in 2019 , Greg McMichaels worked as an investigator in that same office @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the case was turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation ( GBI ) .
Earlier this week , two Glynn County commissioners said that the current Brunswick District Attorney , Jackie Johnson , also blocked police from arresting the McMichaels because she was friends with Gregory McMichael .
Officers investigating the scene of the fatal shooting on February 23 told Johnson 's office that they had cause to arrest the father and son at the time but the DA shut them down .
Gregory McMichael had worked as an investigator in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ causing Johnson to recuse herself from the case a few days after the shooting .
'She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael , ' Glynn County Commissioner Allen Booker told The Atlanta Journal Constitution .

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Rashawn Smith, 20, was arrested in Midway, Georgia, on Sunday after authorities alleged he created a fake Facebook account and used it to make a hoax threat against protesters demanding justice for murdered jogger Ahmaud Arbery
Georgia state investigators announced on Sunday that they have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of creating a fake Facebook account and using it to post a 'hoax' threat against protesters angry over the killing of unarmed black man 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Sunday said state police arrested Rashawn Smith and charged him with dissemination of information relating to terroristic acts.
Smith allegedly created a fake Facebook page and used it to make threats against the protesters.
He was taken into custody in Midway, a town about 50 miles north of Brunswick.
Earlier in the day, the GBI said it had 'been made aware of a Facebook post that contains a threat to future protests related to Ahmaud Arbery'.
It was not immediately clear if Smith has an attorney who could comment on the charge.
Hundreds of people gathered alongside some 300 bikers in Brunswick on Saturday to honor Arbery.
The bikers were seen kneeling at the spot where Arbery was fatally shot on February 23 by two white men who claim they were making a citizen's arrest as they suspected him of a neighborhood burglary.
Several of those in attendance near the Sidney Lanier Bridge wore face masks and t-shirts with the phrase ‘I run with Maud’ in tribute to Arbery.
On February 23, Arbery was jogging in his Satilla Shores neighborhood just outside of Brunswick when he was accosted by Travis and Greg McMichael.
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On Saturday bikers were seen kneeling at the spot where Arbery was fatally shot. One of the balloons left at the site reads 'Happy birthday'. Arbery would have turned 26 on Friday
Hundreds of people alongside some 300 bikers gathered in Brunswick to honor Arbery on Saturday
One of about 300 bikers raises his fist during a memorial gathering in Brunswick, Georgia, for Ahmaud Arbery
Some of the protesters held up signs which read 'Our lives matter too!' and 'Dear white people, when you don't call out racism you are upholding white supremacy by default!'
Armed members of the Black Panther movement also took part in the vigil in Brunswick on Saturday
Unarmed Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead by two white men
The father and son had grabbed their guns and gotten into their trucks to follow Arbery when he ran past their home at around 1pm on that day. They suspected was a burglar and went to detain him.
When Arbery resisted, he got into a scuffle with Travis McMichael, who had gotten out of his truck with his weapon and approached the jogger.
Arbery was then shot during the scuffle. Local prosecutors initially declined to bring charges against the two men.
Video emerged on social media showing the fateful moment when Arbery was shot and killed.
After it went viral, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case. On Thursday, GBI officers arrested the McMichaels, who have since been charged with homicide and aggravated assault.
But the case has ignited outrage as local officials have been trying to explain why it took more than two months to charge the two men whose actions resulted in the death of an unarmed person.
The memorial ceremony on Saturday was held just a day after protesters gathered at the same site demanding justice for Arbery on what would have been his 26th birthday.
Protesters are seen on Saturday walking the streets of Satilla Shores, the neighborhood near Brunswick wear Arbery was killed
Protesters were seen walking in the neighborhood where Arbery was gunned down on February 23
A woman holds her cell phone during the vigil on Saturday for Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia
Well-wishers left balloons and flowers at the spot where Arbery was gunned down on February 23
Georgia's attorney general on Sunday asked the Department of Justice to investigate the handling of Arbery's killing.
'We are committed to a complete and transparent review of how the Ahmaud Arbery case was handled from the outset,' Attorney General Chris Carr said in a statement.
'The family, the community and the state of Georgia deserve answers, and we will work with others in law enforcement at the state and federal level to find those answers.'
Several hundred bikers descended on the spot where Arbery was shot and killed on Saturday outside of Brunswick
The bikers are seen above in the Satilla Shores neighborhood in Georgia where the shooting took place
Rows of empty bikes are seen in the neighborhood where Arbery was gunned down on February 23
Local and national officials outraged over the shooting called it a 'modern-day lynching.' The image above shows balloons being released near the Sidney Lanier Bridge in Brunswick on Saturday
Demonstrators released balloons into the air as they gathered near the Sidney Lanier Bridge in Brunswick on Saturday
A protester holds a sign which reads 'No justice no peace' with pictures of Arbery posted alongside
Many of the protesters wore face coverings during the vigil near the Sidney Lanier Bridge in Brunswick on Saturday
The image above shows three of the hundreds of bikers who gathered on Saturday near the spot where Arbery was killed
Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, has said she thinks her 25-year-old son, a former high school football player, was just jogging in the neighborhood before he was killed.
On Saturday, the GBI confirmed that it has obtained other photos of video that might shed light on the case.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published footage from a surveillance camera at a Brunswick home near where Arbery was shot that shows someone who appears to be Arbery walking into a home under construction.
Arbery then came back out and ran down the street.
The image above shows a biker near the spot where Arbery was killed. The suspects were arrested earlier this week - more than two months after the shooting
The image above shows several dozen motorbikes parked on Saturday near the spot where Arbery was killed
Many bikers came from all over the country to pay their respects to the 25-year-old unarmed jogger
The bikers are seen above at the entrance to the Satilla Shores neighborhood where the February 23 shooting took place
Someone else comes out across the street from the construction site, and then a vehicle drives off farther down the street, near where Travis McMichael lives.
Lawyers for Arbery's family say the video bolsters their position that Arbery did nothing wrong, and shows he did not commit a felony.
Under Georgia law, someone who isn't a sworn police officer can arrest and detain another person only if a felony is committed in the presence of the arresting citizen.
'Ahmaud´s actions at this empty home under construction were in no way a felony under Georgia law,' the lawyers wrote in a social media post.
'This video confirms that Mr. Arbery's murder was not justified and the actions of the men who pursued him and ambushed him were unjustified.'
Father-son duo Gregory, 64 (right), and Travis, 34 (left), McMichael were arrested last week, more than three months after Arbery's death following outrage after the video circulated. They claim they thought Arbery was a burglary suspect
Georgia AG asks the US Justice Department to investigate Ahmaud Arbery's shooting as it's revealed top prosecutor who recused himself said slaying by two armed white men was 'justifiable homicide'
Georgia's attorney general on Sunday asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the handling of the investigation into the killing of Arbery.
Arbery was killed on February 23 but no arrests were made until Thursday after national outrage over the case swelled last week when video surfaced that showed the shooting which was blasted as a 'lynching'.
George Barnhill, Sr (left), the top prosecutor for the Waycross Judicial Circuit, told police in February that the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery (right), 25, by two white men was a 'justifiable homicide'
'We are committed to a complete and transparent review of how the Ahmaud Arbery case was handled from the outset,' Attorney General Chris Carr said in a statement.
'The family, the community and the state of Georgia deserve answers, and we will work with others in law enforcement at the state and federal level to find those answers.'
Attorneys for Arbery's mother and father applauded Carr for reaching out to federal officials.
'We have requested the involvement of the DOJ since we first took this case,' attorneys S. Lee Merritt, Benjamin Crump and L. Chris Stewart said in a statement.
'There are far too many questions about how this case was handled and why it took 74 days for two of the killers to be arrested and charged in Mr. Arbery's death.'
Last week, a Justice Department spokesman said the FBI is assisting in the investigation and the DOJ would assist if a federal crime is uncovered.
It comes after it emerged the Georgia district attorney who recused himself from the case told investigators that the fatal shooting was a 'justifiable homicide' and that the father and son duo who killed Arbery should not be charged.
George Barnhill, Sr, the top prosecutor for the Waycross Judicial Circuit, told police in Glynn County on February 24 – the day after the shooting – that there was insufficient evidence to charge Travis McMichael, 34, and his 64-year-old father, former police officer Greg McMichael.
The Glynn County Police Department released a statement to The Brunswick News on Saturday saying Travis and Greg McMichael were brought in for questioning at around 3.30pm on February 23.
Just after 1pm on that day, Arbery, a 25-year-old former high school football player and avid runner, went out for a jog in his Satilla Shores neighborhood near Brunswick, Georgia.
As Arbery ran past the McMichaels' home, the two men grabbed two shotguns, got into their truck and followed him.
Video which surfaced in recent days showed Travis McMichael get out of the truck and accost Arbery while brandishing his weapon.
Arbery is then seen trying to fight off McMichael before collapsing to the ground after he had apparently been shot.
Brunswick DA Jackie Johnson blocked police from arresting a father and son accused of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery because one of them used to work in her office, it is claimed
Barnhill had determined that there were no legal grounds to arrest and try the McMichaels since Georgia's arrest and self-defense laws allow citizens to detain anyone suspected of committing a crime.
The Glynn County Police Department says that Barnhill, Sr recused himself from the case on April 6 – five days after receiving the results of the autopsy.
Barnhill's recusal was also demanded by Arbery's family because the district attorney's son, George Barnhill, Jr, worked as an assistant district attorney in the Brunswick District Attorney's Office.
Before his retirement in 2019, Greg McMichaels worked as an investigator in that same office.
The McMichaels were arrested on Thursday after the case was turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).
Earlier this week, two Glynn County commissioners said that the current Brunswick District Attorney, Jackie Johnson, also blocked police from arresting the McMichaels because she was friends with Gregory McMichael.
Officers investigating the scene of the fatal shooting on February 23 told Johnson's office that they had cause to arrest the father and son at the time but the DA shut them down.
Gregory McMichael had worked as an investigator in her office until his retirement in 2019 causing Johnson to recuse herself from the case a few days after the shooting.
'She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael,' Glynn County Commissioner Allen Booker told The Atlanta Journal Constitution.