thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Inside the Deep State’s Set-Up of Roger Stone

Legendary Republican operative Roger Stone is vindicated in the public square , even though he has been sentenced to prison for process crimes stemming from the Robert Mueller investigation , which found no Russian collusion on the part of President Trump ’ s team or on the part of Stone , Trump ’ s longest-serving political adviser .
“ POLITICO and the Associated Press are smearing me over the release of search warrants , missing the entire point , ” Roger Stone told “ Mueller thugs told judges they had evidence of treason , espionage , cyber crimes , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — none of which they had.
” Stone , who refused to falsely implicate President Trump in wrongdoing to save himself from jail time , issued a statement on the new developments : The search warrants ordered released today by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper proves the baseless over-reach of the Mueller witch hunt and exonerate me from the crazed left-wing media charges of Russian collusion , Wikileaks collaboration and the receipt and dissemination of stolen e-mails , false narratives that ruined my life for the last 3 years .
Although there are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they prove no crimes .
I have no trepidation about their release as they confirm there was no illegal activity and certainly no Russian collusion by me during the 2016 Election .
There is , to this day , no evidence that I had or knew about the source or content of the Wikileaks disclosures prior to their public release .
Nearly every day , I would turn on the news and open the papers and read that I had committed treason against our great country , that I would be charged with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other cyber-crimes .
Ultimately , despite the colonoscopy into my life , the Muller investigation could not find what the media wanted and insisted was there or that I did anything wrong in the 2016 election of my friend , President Donald Trump .
Although I was not part of his formal campaign , I worked hard-and legally-to help elect the President .
The search warrants and the affidavits used to support them released today clearly demonstrate the overreach of the Mueller investigation .
Prosecutors and FBI investigators alleged , under oath , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they had probable cause to investigate me for outrageous crimes for which they had and found no evidence .
In the early days of the Mueller inquisition , the crimes they tried to pin on me were : “ Conspiracy Against the United States ” “ Foreign Contribution Ban ” “ Fraud and Related Activities in Connection with Computers ” “ Wire Fraud ” “ Aiding and Abetting ” “ Unauthorized Access of a Protected Computer ” “ Accessory After the Fact ” just to name a few .
All of this based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my First Amendment rights and my public Twitter feed .
When my attorneys argued the warrants and affidavits were nothing more than a collection of conclusory statements , the Judge in my case sided with the Mueller inquisitors .
We forcefully argued that the warrants and the affidavits lacked evidence and only contained supposition .
There were no factual allegations supporting the issuance of the warrants .
They were clearly based on misrepresentations by the FBI and the Muller team .
The uncharged conduct- crimes the Mueller dirty cops said they had probable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upon the assumptions the Russian state was responsible for hacking of the DNC .
The Government admitted in discovery in my trial that they relied on a redacted draft memo from Crowdstike- hardly an unbiased or credible source and the Government admitted the FBI never inspected the DNC servers .
Screenshots of a computer server are like photos of a murder weapon-they can not be examined .
The filed by former Assistant US Attorney Jonathan Kravis claiming the Mueller investigators had additional proof that the Russians hacked the DNC , included none of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upon the Court .
I was barred by Judge Jackson from proving this at trial through the production of forensic evidence and the testimony of experts such as former NSA Russia specialist and Technical Director , Bill Binney .
The much-publicized raid and exhaustive 13- hour search of my home and office yielded no evidence used against me at trial .
When no evidence of Russian collusion , collaboration with Wikileaks , receipt or dissemination of stolen e-mails- including the stolen e-mails of John Podesta – was found , I was charged with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no underlying crime to lie about and the Trump campaign ’ s interest in the already announced Wikileaks disclosures was a matter of public record .
Testifying voluntary I had no intent or motive to lie as the matters I am charged with lying about were already in the public domain.
” NATIONAL FILE has been covering the set-up of Roger Stone… A juror in the Stone case named Tomeka Hart has a Twitter history disparaging Trump , and retweeting anti-Stone commentary after Stone ’ s arrest , including sharing articles about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masterful thread by MAGA researcher Shem Horne .
Tomeka Hart , foreperson of the Roger Stone trial jury , clearly lied during the jury selection process to obscure her own political activism and obvious bias in the Stone case .
Tomeka Hart , former congressional candidate and member of the Memphis school board , has recently worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .
She tweeted anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton material while the Stone trial was in progress , and she also previously re-tweeted a hateful comment about Stone from CNN ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stone ’ s arrest .
( READ : Court Transcripts Show Russian Set-Up Agent Who Met With Stone Was A Mueller FBI Informant ) .
Tomeka Hart lied to get selected to the Stone jury .
“ So nothing that I can recall specifically .
I do watch sometimes paying attention and sometimes in the background CNN .
So I recall just hearing about him being part of the campaign and some belief and reporting around interaction with the Russian probe and interaction with him and people in the country , but I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of details .
I don ’ t pay that close attention or watch C-Span , ” said Tomeka Hart , identified by her life details matching a juror who was interviewed , according to a transcript of the jury selection process .
But Tomeka Hart does watch C-Span .
She said so herself on Twitter .
Tomeka Hart , who has been photographed with former DNC acting chairwoman Donna Brazile , is a political activist .
The reported in 2012 : “ An Arkansas jury found Erickson Dimas-Martinez guilty of murder in March @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conviction was thrown out .
The reason : A juror had been tweeting during the trial .
This case and others across the country show how the use of social media is disrupting the jury trial .
While juror misbehavior is nothing new , social media have made it extremely easy—and tempting—to break the rules , and lawyers are increasingly using that as a reason for appeals , legal experts say.
” … Now , court documents obtained by NATIONAL FILE ( presented below ) show that a Russian national who used the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meeting with Roger Stone in 2016 admitted under oath to being a longtime FBI informant .
Trump 2016 campaign adviser Michael Caputo has submitted documentation in this article to U.S. Attorney John Durham , who is investigating corruption on the part of federal government agencies during the past presidential election .
For context , NATIONAL FILE will present some background on the Ukrainian named Alexei Rasin and the Russian who identified himself as “ Henry Greenberg , ” both of whom met with Stone in May 2016 in an attempt to push anti-Hillary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we present below the documents proving that one of these men served as a longtime FBI informant , including during Robert Mueller ’ s reign as director of the FBI .
Mueller served as FBI director from 2001 to 2013 before leading the special counsel investigation into the 2016 Trump team .
I reported in 2019 on Alexei Rasin , who appears in the Mueller special counsel report : Special counsel Robert Mueller ’ s report claimed that Mueller ’ s office could not locate Alexei Rasin , the Ukrainian who tried @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Roger Stone alongside a Russian using the fake name “ Henry Greenberg.
” I located Alexei Rasin and spoke to him by phone .
Rasin did not know that he was in the Mueller report .
When told that he appeared in the report , Rasin said , “ Wow , quite interesting.
” He declined to be interviewed or to state whether or not Mueller ever contacted him .
Mueller clearly did not want to get to the bottom of the evidence that Stone was set up .
Stone , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ connection to the investigation , is under a gag order regarding his case .
If Mueller had concluded that Stone was set up that could definitely change the Roger Stone criminal case .
Rasin met with Stone in May 2016 alongside Rasin ’ s associate “ Henry Greenberg , ” whose name is Gennadiy Vasilievich Vostretsov and who also goes by “ Henry Oknyansky.
” Greenberg/Vostretsov/Oknyansky was identified by Stone ’ s lawyer as a longtime FBI informant .
Mueller claimed he could not find Rasin during his investigation , even though Rasin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Florida , a mailbox address in North Miami , and recently appeared pro se in court to file bankruptcy on loans including a loan from the U.S. Department of Education .
Rasin ’ s court date occurred in November 2017 while the Mueller investigation was active .
Mueller clearly did not make much of an effort to contact this mysterious figure who tried to sell Clinton research to Stone .
Big League Politics located phone numbers and email addresses associated with this Ukrainian man after just minutes of research .
“ Oknyansky @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rasin , a Ukrainian associate involved in Florida real estate .
At the meeting , Rasin offered to sell Stone derogatory information on Clinton that Rasin claimed to have obtained while working for Clinton .
Rasin claimed to possess financial statements demonstrating Clinton ’ s involvement in money laundering with Rasin ’ s companies .
According to Oknyansky , Stone asked if the amounts in question totaled millions of dollars but was told it was closer to hundreds of thousands .
Stone refused the offer , stating that Trump would not pay for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ states .
“ The Office did not locate Rasin in the United States , although the Office confirmed Rasin had been issued a Florida driver ’ s license .
The Office was otherwise unable to determine the content and origin of the information he purportedly offered to Stone .
Finally , the investigation did not identify evidence of a connection between the outreach or the meeting and Russian interference efforts , ” the Special Counsel writes in the Mueller report .
How could Mueller not locate Rasin ?
Court documents show that Rasin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ District of Florida in Fort Lauderdale representing himself ( pro se ) filing for bankruptcy in November 2017 .
“ By way of example , as you know , back in June I sent this Committee a letter regarding a longtime FBI informant named Gennadiy Vasilievich Vostretsov who , under the alias “ Henry Greenberg ” , was sent to approach my client in May 2016 with claims of having access to information that could impact the election , ” Stone ’ s attorney Grant Smith wrote in a letter to Rep. Devin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for alleged process crimes during the course of the Robert Mueller investigation .
“ Mr .
Stone not only immediately and forcefully declined to participate in anything this FBI informant was proposing , but never saw or spoke to the informant again .
Mr. Stone believes it highly likely that Mr. Vostretsov/Greenberg ’ s status as an FBI informant was not “ former ” , and that Vostretsov/Greenberg was , in fact , actively working on behalf of the FBI at the time of their meeting , acting upon a calculated effort to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to infiltrate and compromise the Trump effort .
Notably , Vostretsov was admitted to the country nine separate times on an FBI Informant ’ s visa , ” Smith writes on Stone ’ s behalf .
Alexei Rasin was joined at that 2016 meeting with Stone by “ Henry Greenberg , ” a Russian .
Greenberg also reached out to Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo offering Clinton opposition research .
NATIONAL FILE has obtained a full Dossier on the real man behind the name “ Henry Greenberg , ” and his work with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
( READ THE FULL DOSSIER HERE ) .
Here is the August 18 , 2015 affidavit , “ Declaration of Henry Oknyansky , ” submitted in U.S. District Court for Central District of California before Magistrate Judge Hon .
Carla Woehrle .
“ After almost 2 years in INS custody , in 2000 , I decided to leave US voluntarily…More than 8 years , while outside U.S. , I provide information to FBI Special Agent David Baker .
Wherever I was , from Iran , to North Korea , I always send @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another parole for me , because of very good information I provided.
” “ Henry Greenberg ” the alias for a white male born June 1 , 1959 in Samara , Russia who lives in America illegally and has , for the most part , for three decades .
He has also admitted under oath to being a longtime FBI informant , and claims to have worked with the FBI in Iran and North Korea .
“ Greenberg ” has used at least four different names : His birth name is Gennady Vasilievich @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Vasliy Vostretsov .
He later adopted new names twice as a result of two different marriages and became Gennady V. Arzhanik and later Henry Oknyansky .
Henry Greenberg is not a legal alias , but he uses it quite commonly in recent years .
Vostretsov has a criminal record in California and Florida for assault with a deadly weapon , theft , assault , DUI , and domestic violence .
He has an extensive criminal record in Russia that includes at least two charges of stealing a total $ 5 million in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some evidence Vostretsov may have ties to Russian organized crime in the US and Russia .
He has lived in Texas , California and Florida .
His ﬁrst appearance in United States public records was August 1993 in Studio City , Calif. Vostretsov has had a total of 18 addresses in all three states despite the fact he spent at least two years in immigration detention and stayed out of the US from 2000 to 2010 , according to his own admission .
He only spent a total 15 years in the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ name of Arzhanik in March 1990 , after his marriage to Russian actress Elena Anatolievna Arzhanik , according to Russian public records .
She starred in the famous Russian movie of that era , City of Zero , as the naked secretary… In a remarkable 2015 court afﬁdavit ( attached ) , Vostretsov admitted that he is FBI informant who worked for the agency for more than 17 years .
He appears to have traded information about criminal activity for temporary visas provided to him by the FBI .
We were able to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( SPBP ) documents allowing him to enter the US .
This type of visa waiver is made available to international persons participating in a law enforcement action as an informant .
The steady ﬂow of these special waivers , with upgrades like multi-entry status and extensions , indicate his involvement and success in FBI informant projects .
While Vostretsov claimed in the 2015 afﬁdavit he sent to an immigration judge that he stopped working for the FBI that year , it would be safe to assume that if a criminal alien with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US today , he is only here with the support from the US government and is still working with the FBI .
Vostretsov ’ s work with the FBI seems to stem from deportation proceedings against him started in California in 1997 and his presence in the Los Angeles criminal underworld that led to criminal charges .
Vostretsov was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon in Los Angeles ( see details below ) and subsequently convicted in August 1994 .
He was sentenced to probation .
In May 1995 , however , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) and he was sentenced to three years in prison .
While he was in prison , immigration ofﬁcials started deportation proceedings .
He was released from California state prison and taken into the custody of federal authorities for at least two years .
( more below ) .
He voluntarily left the county in 2000 , closing his case without the entry of a deportation order – thus , giving himself the possibility to return legally .
Vostretsov spent at least ten years abroad , including stints in Moscow , North Korea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as an FBI informant during that period .
He even identiﬁed his FBI handler as Agent David D. Baker , who may be retired at this time .
Vostretsov returned to the US in 2010 , but his immigration status remains in limbo , swinging from one FBI informant visa waiver to another .
Vostretsov spelled out his relationship with the FBI in an afﬁdavit that , while frustrated with the uncertainty and his inability to convince an immigration court to give him a permanent status in the US , he ﬁled on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
( see attachment Henry Greenberg INS ﬁle ) Vostretsov ﬁled the afﬁdavit – under oath – and dozens of pages of supporting evidence that should not have been made public where he admits being an FBI informant .
In his afﬁdavit ( pages 2-3 of attachment henry INS ﬁle ) , Vostretsov claims the FBI offered to help him obtain an S-5 visa .
That visa is reserved for law enforcement informants and witnesses who provide information about criminal organizations .
In his stunning two-page note , Vostretsov says he risked his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ arrests of criminals for drugs and human trafﬁcking , money laundering and insurance fraud .
U.S. Treasury revoked many visas from criminal groups , for money laundering and association with international criminal entities , based on my information.
” There is evidence ( see below ) that Vostretsov provided condemning evidence on top Russian crime syndicate boss Vladislav Leontyev .
Further , Vostretsov states “ wherever I was , from Iran to North Korea , I always send information to Mr. Baker.
” The paperwork attached to the afﬁdavit also shows how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ visas .
In 2008 , he was able to visit the U.S. twice for 90 days .
And again in 2009 .
In 2010 , with Baker ’ s help , Vostretsov received a temporary work permit for one year .
These visas were often later sweetened with multi-entry status , allowing Vostretsov to travel freely abroad .
It ’ s important to note that Diana Tsang , former chief of the Law Enforcement Parole Branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement , often personally approved Vostretsov ’ s visa waivers .
She was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ granting visas to FBI informants .
From the paperwork Vostretsov provided ( also attachment henry INS ﬁle ) , he was detained when he arrived into Miami on Oct. 2 , 2013 .
He was released but his arrival launched yet another deportation procedure .
He writes in his afﬁdavit Special Agent Baker was getting ready to retire in 2013 and he transferred Vostretsov to his colleagues in Miami .
In the document , Vostretsov claims he stopped cooperating with the FBI out of frustration for his lack of immigration status .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Department of Homeland Security for deportation .
He says a supervisor at DHS released him , and he ’ s been waiting for his day in court since .
What Vostretsov may not have known is that Russian media reported that information provided by the FBI led Russian authorities to Vostretsov when he was arrested for embezzlement in 2002 .
As far as his continued presence in the US , meanwhile , it appears Vostretsov has been illegally in the US since 2011 .
His presence , however , has been tolerated @ @ @ @ @ @

Last Updated on April 29, 2020
Legendary Republican operative Roger Stone is vindicated in the public square, even though he has been sentenced to prison for process crimes stemming from the Robert Mueller investigation, which found no Russian collusion on the part of President Trump’s team or on the part of Stone, Trump’s longest-serving political adviser.
“POLITICO and the Associated Press are smearing me over the release of search warrants, missing the entire point,” Roger Stone told NATIONAL FILE. “Mueller thugs told judges they had evidence of treason, espionage, cyber crimes, and the receipt and dissemination of stolen documents — none of which they had.”
Stone, who refused to falsely implicate President Trump in wrongdoing to save himself from jail time, issued a statement on the new developments:
The search warrants ordered released today by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper proves the baseless over-reach of the Mueller witch hunt and exonerate me from the crazed left-wing media charges of Russian collusion, Wikileaks collaboration and the receipt and dissemination of stolen e-mails, false narratives that ruined my life for the last 3 years. Although there are private communications contained in the warrants, they prove no crimes. I have no trepidation about their release as they confirm there was no illegal activity and certainly no Russian collusion by me during the 2016 Election. There is, to this day, no evidence that I had or knew about the source or content of the Wikileaks disclosures prior to their public release.
Nearly every day, I would turn on the news and open the papers and read that I had committed treason against our great country, that I would be charged with espionage, trafficking in stolen e-mails and other cyber-crimes. Ultimately, despite the colonoscopy into my life, the Muller investigation could not find what the media wanted and insisted was there or that I did anything wrong in the 2016 election of my friend, President Donald Trump. Although I was not part of his formal campaign, I worked hard-and legally-to help elect the President.
The search warrants and the affidavits used to support them released today clearly demonstrate the overreach of the Mueller investigation. Prosecutors and FBI investigators alleged, under oath, to several federal judges and magistrates that they had probable cause to investigate me for outrageous crimes for which they had and found no evidence. In the early days of the Mueller inquisition, the crimes they tried to pin on me were: “Conspiracy Against the United States” “Foreign Contribution Ban” “Fraud and Related Activities in Connection with Computers” “Wire Fraud” “Aiding and Abetting” “Unauthorized Access of a Protected Computer” “Accessory After the Fact” just to name a few. All of this based on nothing more than the exercise of my First Amendment rights and my public Twitter feed.
When my attorneys argued the warrants and affidavits were nothing more than a collection of conclusory statements, the Judge in my case sided with the Mueller inquisitors. We forcefully argued that the warrants and the affidavits lacked evidence and only contained supposition. There were no factual allegations supporting the issuance of the warrants. They were clearly based on misrepresentations by the FBI and the Muller team.
The uncharged conduct- crimes the Mueller dirty cops said they had probable cause to secure the warrants- particularly relied upon the assumptions the Russian state was responsible for hacking of the DNC. The Government admitted in discovery in my trial that they relied on a redacted draft memo from Crowdstike- hardly an unbiased or credible source and the Government admitted the FBI never inspected the DNC servers. Screenshots of a computer server are like photos of a murder weapon-they cannot be examined. The sur-reply filed by former Assistant US Attorney Jonathan Kravis claiming the Mueller investigators had additional proof that the Russians hacked the DNC, included none of the alleged proof and was a fraud upon the Court. I was barred by Judge Jackson from proving this at trial through the production of forensic evidence and the testimony of experts such as former NSA Russia specialist and Technical Director, Bill Binney.
The much-publicized raid and exhaustive 13- hour search of my home and office yielded no evidence used against me at trial. When no evidence of Russian collusion, collaboration with Wikileaks, receipt or dissemination of stolen e-mails- including the stolen e-mails of John Podesta – was found, I was charged with lying to Congress even though there was no underlying crime to lie about and the Trump campaign’s interest in the already announced Wikileaks disclosures was a matter of public record. Testifying voluntary I had no intent or motive to lie as the matters I am charged with lying about were already in the public domain.”
NATIONAL FILE has been covering the set-up of Roger Stone…
Rigged Jury
A juror in the Stone case named Tomeka Hart has a Twitter history disparaging Trump, and retweeting anti-Stone commentary after Stone’s arrest, including sharing articles about the Roger Stone case, according to a masterful thread by MAGA researcher Shem Horne.
Tomeka Hart, foreperson of the Roger Stone trial jury, clearly lied during the jury selection process to obscure her own political activism and obvious bias in the Stone case.
Tomeka Hart, former congressional candidate and member of the Memphis school board, has recently worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She tweeted anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton material while the Stone trial was in progress, and she also previously re-tweeted a hateful comment about Stone from CNN’s Bakari Sellers, which referred to Stone’s arrest. (READ: Court Transcripts Show Russian Set-Up Agent Who Met With Stone Was A Mueller FBI Informant).
Stone head juror Tomeka Hart tweeted anti-Trump stuff and also pro-Clinton material DURING the Stone trial. Jury selection was on November 5, 2019. Opening arguments started November 6. Verdict November 15.https://t.co/9Ds0DJQ0Ka — Patrick Howley (@HowleyReporter) February 13, 2020
Tomeka Hart lied to get selected to the Stone jury.
“So nothing that I can recall specifically. I do watch sometimes paying attention and sometimes in the background CNN. So I recall just hearing about him being part of the campaign and some belief and reporting around interaction with the Russian probe and interaction with him and people in the country, but I don’t have a whole lot of details. I don’t pay that close attention or watch C-Span,” said Tomeka Hart, identified by her life details matching a juror who was interviewed, according to a transcript of the jury selection process.
But Tomeka Hart does watch C-Span. She said so herself on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/hartformemphis/status/132279212118769664
Tomeka Hart, who has been photographed with former DNC acting chairwoman Donna Brazile, is a political activist.
The Wall Street Journal reported in 2012: “An Arkansas jury found Erickson Dimas-Martinez guilty of murder in March 2010. This past December, the conviction was thrown out. The reason: A juror had been tweeting during the trial. This case and others across the country show how the use of social media is disrupting the jury trial. While juror misbehavior is nothing new, social media have made it extremely easy—and tempting—to break the rules, and lawyers are increasingly using that as a reason for appeals, legal experts say.”…
Russian Set-Up Agent
Now, court documents obtained by NATIONAL FILE (presented below) show that a Russian national who used the fake name “Henry Greenberg” when meeting with Roger Stone in 2016 admitted under oath to being a longtime FBI informant. Trump 2016 campaign adviser Michael Caputo has submitted documentation in this article to U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is investigating corruption on the part of federal government agencies during the past presidential election.
For context, NATIONAL FILE will present some background on the Ukrainian named Alexei Rasin and the Russian who identified himself as “Henry Greenberg,” both of whom met with Stone in May 2016 in an attempt to push anti-Hillary Clinton opposition research to Stone. Then, we present below the documents proving that one of these men served as a longtime FBI informant, including during Robert Mueller’s reign as director of the FBI. Mueller served as FBI director from 2001 to 2013 before leading the special counsel investigation into the 2016 Trump team.
I reported in 2019 on Alexei Rasin, who appears in the Mueller special counsel report:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report claimed that Mueller’s office could not locate Alexei Rasin, the Ukrainian who tried to sell supposed Hillary Clinton opposition research to Roger Stone alongside a Russian using the fake name “Henry Greenberg.”
I located Alexei Rasin and spoke to him by phone. Rasin did not know that he was in the Mueller report. When told that he appeared in the report, Rasin said, “Wow, quite interesting.” He declined to be interviewed or to state whether or not Mueller ever contacted him.
Mueller clearly did not want to get to the bottom of the evidence that Stone was set up. Stone, who is now charged with process crimes in connection to the investigation, is under a gag order regarding his case. If Mueller had concluded that Stone was set up that could definitely change the Roger Stone criminal case.
Rasin met with Stone in May 2016 alongside Rasin’s associate “Henry Greenberg,” whose name is Gennadiy Vasilievich Vostretsov and who also goes by “Henry Oknyansky.” Greenberg/Vostretsov/Oknyansky was identified by Stone’s lawyer as a longtime FBI informant.
Mueller claimed he could not find Rasin during his investigation, even though Rasin has a current condo address in Naples, Florida, a mailbox address in North Miami, and recently appeared pro se in court to file bankruptcy on loans including a loan from the U.S. Department of Education. Rasin’s court date occurred in November 2017 while the Mueller investigation was active.
Mueller clearly did not make much of an effort to contact this mysterious figure who tried to sell Clinton research to Stone. Big League Politics located phone numbers and email addresses associated with this Ukrainian man after just minutes of research.
“Oknyansky was accompanied to the meeting by Alexei Rasin, a Ukrainian associate involved in Florida real estate. At the meeting, Rasin offered to sell Stone derogatory information on Clinton that Rasin claimed to have obtained while working for Clinton. Rasin claimed to possess financial statements demonstrating Clinton’s involvement in money laundering with Rasin’s companies. According to Oknyansky, Stone asked if the amounts in question totaled millions of dollars but was told it was closer to hundreds of thousands. Stone refused the offer, stating that Trump would not pay for opposition research,” the Mueller report states.
“The Office did not locate Rasin in the United States, although the Office confirmed Rasin had been issued a Florida driver’s license. The Office was otherwise unable to determine the content and origin of the information he purportedly offered to Stone. Finally, the investigation did not identify evidence of a connection between the outreach or the meeting and Russian interference efforts,” the Special Counsel writes in the Mueller report.
How could Mueller not locate Rasin?
Court documents show that Rasin was in bankruptcy court in the Southern District of Florida in Fort Lauderdale representing himself (pro se) filing for bankruptcy in November 2017.
2017 docket for Alexei Rasin bankruptcy
Rasin signed a voluntary petition for bankruptcy on October 13, 2017.
Alexei Rasin’s volentary petition for Bankruptcy 2017
“By way of example, as you know, back in June I sent this Committee a letter regarding a longtime FBI informant named Gennadiy Vasilievich Vostretsov who, under the alias “Henry Greenberg”, was sent to approach my client in May 2016 with claims of having access to information that could impact the election,” Stone’s attorney Grant Smith wrote in a letter to Rep. Devin Nunes prior to Stone’s arrest for alleged process crimes during the course of the Robert Mueller investigation.
“Mr. Stone not only immediately and forcefully declined to participate in anything this FBI informant was proposing, but never saw or spoke to the informant again. Mr. Stone believes it highly likely that Mr. Vostretsov/Greenberg’s status as an FBI informant was not “former”, and that Vostretsov/Greenberg was, in fact, actively working on behalf of the FBI at the time of their meeting, acting upon a calculated effort to entrap Mr. Stone and, further, to infiltrate and compromise the Trump effort. Notably, Vostretsov was admitted to the country nine separate times on an FBI Informant’s visa,” Smith writes on Stone’s behalf.
My 2019 article passage ends
Alexei Rasin was joined at that 2016 meeting with Stone by “Henry Greenberg,” a Russian. Greenberg also reached out to Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo offering Clinton opposition research.
NATIONAL FILE has obtained a full Dossier on the real man behind the name “Henry Greenberg,” and his work with the FBI, including the bombshell affidavit. (READ THE FULL DOSSIER HERE).
Here is the August 18, 2015 affidavit, “Declaration of Henry Oknyansky,” submitted in U.S. District Court for Central District of California before Magistrate Judge Hon. Carla Woehrle.
Henry Oknyansky states:
“After almost 2 years in INS custody, in 2000, I decided to leave US voluntarily…More than 8 years, while outside U.S., I provide information to FBI Special Agent David Baker. Wherever I was, from Iran, to North Korea, I always send information to Mr. Baker…In 2009 FBI requested another parole for me, because of very good information I provided.”
THE DOSSIER STATES:
“Henry Greenberg” the alias for a white male born June 1, 1959 in Samara, Russia who lives in America illegally and has, for the most part, for three decades. He has also admitted under oath to being a longtime FBI informant, and claims to have worked with the FBI in Iran and North Korea. “Greenberg” has used at least four different names: His birth name is Gennady Vasilievich Vostretsov, the son of Yekatrina Vostretsova and Vasliy Vostretsov. He later adopted new names twice as a result of two different marriages and became Gennady V. Arzhanik and later Henry Oknyansky. Henry Greenberg is not a legal alias, but he uses it quite commonly in recent years. Vostretsov has a criminal record in California and Florida for assault with a deadly weapon, theft, assault, DUI, and domestic violence. He has an extensive criminal record in Russia that includes at least two charges of stealing a total $5 million in two separate cases. There is also some evidence Vostretsov may have ties to Russian organized crime in the US and Russia. He has lived in Texas, California and Florida. His ﬁrst appearance in United States public records was August 1993 in Studio City, Calif. Vostretsov has had a total of 18 addresses in all three states despite the fact he spent at least two years in immigration detention and stayed out of the US from 2000 to 2010, according to his own admission. He only spent a total 15 years in the US so far. Vostretsov took the last name of Arzhanik in March 1990, after his marriage to Russian actress Elena Anatolievna Arzhanik, according to Russian public records. She starred in the famous Russian movie of that era, City of Zero, as the naked secretary…
In a remarkable 2015 court afﬁdavit (attached), Vostretsov admitted that he is FBI informant who worked for the agency for more than 17 years. He appears to have traded information about criminal activity for temporary visas provided to him by the FBI. We were able to collect 14 different Signiﬁcant Public Beneﬁt Parole (SPBP) documents allowing him to enter the US. This type of visa waiver is made available to international persons participating in a law enforcement action as an informant. The steady ﬂow of these special waivers, with upgrades like multi-entry status and extensions, indicate his involvement and success in FBI informant projects.
While Vostretsov claimed in the 2015 afﬁdavit he sent to an immigration judge that he stopped working for the FBI that year, it would be safe to assume that if a criminal alien with his immigration background is still in the US today, he is only here with the support from the US government and is still working with the FBI.
Vostretsov’s work with the FBI seems to stem from deportation proceedings against him started in California in 1997 and his presence in the Los Angeles criminal underworld that led to criminal charges. Vostretsov was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon in Los Angeles (see details below) and subsequently convicted in August 1994. He was sentenced to probation. In May 1995, however, his probation was revoked (see below) and he was sentenced to three years in prison. While he was in prison, immigration ofﬁcials started deportation proceedings. He was released from California state prison and taken into the custody of federal authorities for at least two years. (more below). He voluntarily left the county in 2000, closing his case without the entry of a deportation order – thus, giving himself the possibility to return legally. Vostretsov spent at least ten years abroad, including stints in Moscow, North Korea and Iran. He began his work as an FBI informant during that period. He even identiﬁed his FBI handler as Agent David D. Baker, who may be retired at this time. Vostretsov returned to the US in 2010, but his immigration status remains in limbo, swinging from one FBI informant visa waiver to another. Vostretsov spelled out his relationship with the FBI in an afﬁdavit that, while frustrated with the uncertainty and his inability to convince an immigration court to give him a permanent status in the US, he ﬁled on Aug. 19, 2015 in federal court. (see attachment Henry Greenberg INS ﬁle) Vostretsov ﬁled the afﬁdavit – under oath – and dozens of pages of supporting evidence that should not have been made public where he admits being an FBI informant. In his afﬁdavit (pages 2-3 of attachment henry INS ﬁle), Vostretsov claims the FBI offered to help him obtain an S-5 visa. That visa is reserved for law enforcement informants and witnesses who provide information about criminal organizations.
In his stunning two-page note, Vostretsov says he risked his life to provide information that led to “arrests of criminals for drugs and human trafﬁcking, money laundering and insurance fraud. U.S. Treasury revoked many visas from criminal groups, for money laundering and association with international criminal entities, based on my information.” There is evidence (see below) that Vostretsov provided condemning evidence on top Russian crime syndicate boss Vladislav Leontyev. Further, Vostretsov states “wherever I was, from Iran to North Korea, I always send information to Mr. Baker.” The paperwork attached to the afﬁdavit also shows how FBI agent Baker helped Vostretsov obtain U.S. visas. In 2008, he was able to visit the U.S. twice for 90 days. And again in 2009. In 2010, with Baker’s help, Vostretsov received a temporary work permit for one year. These visas were often later sweetened with multi-entry status, allowing Vostretsov to travel freely abroad. It’s important to note that Diana Tsang, former chief of the Law Enforcement Parole Branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, often personally approved Vostretsov’s visa waivers. She was the highest level branch ofﬁcial responsible for granting visas to FBI informants. From the paperwork Vostretsov provided (also attachment henry INS ﬁle), he was detained when he arrived into Miami on Oct. 2, 2013. He was released but his arrival launched yet another deportation procedure. He writes in his afﬁdavit Special Agent Baker was getting ready to retire in 2013 and he transferred Vostretsov to his colleagues in Miami. In the document, Vostretsov claims he stopped cooperating with the FBI out of frustration for his lack of immigration status. It also appears FBI agents surrendered Vostretsov to the Department of Homeland Security for deportation. He says a supervisor at DHS released him, and he’s been waiting for his day in court since. What Vostretsov may not have known is that Russian media reported that information provided by the FBI led Russian authorities to Vostretsov when he was arrested for embezzlement in 2002. As far as his continued presence in the US, meanwhile, it appears Vostretsov has been illegally in the US since 2011. His presence, however, has been tolerated because of his work for authorities…


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Lockdown Tyranny: Fascist Wisconsin Police Harass Mom for Letting Daughter Play Outside [Disturbing

Lockdown Tyranny: Fascist Wisconsin Police Harass Mom for Letting Daughter Play Outside [Disturbing Video]

This video of Wisconsin police harassing a woman for violating the social distancing order is going viral .
It ’ s a little nuts : Yeahhhh .
That ’ s a rough one .
It ’ s always hard to know exactly what is going on with these videos because you ’ re only gon na get the story from one side , and in this case , it ’ s the case of the woman who is being harassed .
So , yes , she is violating the social distancing order .
It doesn ’ t seem like it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The police can talk to you about it , they can make recommendations , but this seems like it ’ s going too far .
I have said since the beginning of this that government has extraordinary powers in an emergency and the pandemic fits that justification .
But , that doesn ’ t mean that our rights are suspended .
There is a social compact here and the law enforcement officials really need to be careful not to push the citizens into rebelling even more .
I think the cops could have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other hand , some people in the media are using these examples to scream about government tyranny and whatnot , and it ’ s a little much .
We should all be very protective of our rights , but not to the point of spreading wild conspiracy theories and undermining the rule of law that we , as conservatives , are supposed to respect and uphold .

This video of Wisconsin police harassing a woman for violating the social distancing order is going viral. It’s a little nuts:
Caught On Video: A pair of Wisconsin police officers on a crazed power trip show up at a woman’s home because she “violated a state order” by allowing her daughter to play at a neighbor’s house pic.twitter.com/JTtogvoE1X — Darrin McBreen (@MediaRival) April 29, 2020
Yeahhhh. That’s a rough one. It’s always hard to know exactly what is going on with these videos because you’re only gonna get the story from one side, and in this case, it’s the case of the woman who is being harassed.
So, yes, she is violating the social distancing order. It doesn’t seem like it really has the force of law. The police can talk to you about it, they can make recommendations, but this seems like it’s going too far. I have said since the beginning of this that government has extraordinary powers in an emergency and the pandemic fits that justification. But, that doesn’t mean that our rights are suspended. There is a social compact here and the law enforcement officials really need to be careful not to push the citizens into rebelling even more.
I think the cops could have handled this much better. On the other hand, some people in the media are using these examples to scream about government tyranny and whatnot, and it’s a little much. We should all be very protective of our rights, but not to the point of spreading wild conspiracy theories and undermining the rule of law that we, as conservatives, are supposed to respect and uphold.


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Chi-Com Virus Death Rate Hoax Revealed: Almost 25% of New York City Residents Test Positive for Anti

Chi-Com Virus Death Rate Hoax Revealed: Almost 25% of New York City Residents Test Positive for Antibodies

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Nearly 20 percent of FDNY/EMS members and over 10 percent of NYPD cops screened for coronavirus antibodies tested positive, Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed Wednesday, as the state death toll crept towards 18,000.
The results came in days after Cuomo announced that 1,000 members from each department would be tested for antibodies, which would indicate that their immune systems battled the bug at some point.
Of those screened, some 17.1 percent of FDNY/EMS members tested positive, the governor said.
“We believe that’s because the EMT number is driving it up,” said Cuomo. “They are the frontline.”
Within the hard-hit NYPD — which has about 55,000 uniformed and civilian employees in total — 10.5 percent of tests came back positive, Cuomo said.
By comparison, the state has thus far surveyed 7,500 random residents for antibodies, yielding a 24.7 positive rate among city dwellers.
Downstate New York — which the state defines as the five boroughs, Long Island and Westchester — have a positive antibody rate of approximately 18 percent, Cuomo said Wednesday.
Even though health experts are skeptical of just how much immunity antibodies grant people to the coronavirus — as is the case with many other diseases — Cuomo maintains that the results can serve as an indicator of when some survivors can head back to work, as well as just how widespread the bug is.
The governor on Wednesday announced another round of antibody testing focused on transit workers, many of whom have been working in squalid conditions in recent weeks.
“Without those buses and subways, the essential workers couldn’t get to work,” he said.
Cuomo announced the next steps as another 330 New Yorkers succumbed to the virus in the 24-hour period ending at midnight Wednesday, raising the overall toll to 17,968.
That daily toll marks the lowest recorded in one month to the day, since 253 fatalities were reported on March 29.
But it is nevertheless “disgustingly high,” Cuomo said.
“We’re making progress, but we’re not out of the woods yet,” he added.


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Elon Musk Calls For Re-Opening America: ‘Give People Their Freedom Back!’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is calling for coronavirus lockdowns to be eased and America to be re-opened , asserting , “ give people their freedom back !
” Musk made the remarks on Twitter , tweeting a link to a Wall Street Journal article which presents data indicating lockdowns don ’ t save lives .
A respondent said , “ The scariest thing about this pandemic is not the virus itself , it ’ s seeing American so easily bow down & give up their blood bought freedom to corrupt politicians who promise them safety.
” “ Yes , reopen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t put everyone under de facto house arrest , ” he also tweeted .
Musk previously posted a link to the censored YouTube video of two California doctors questioning the logic of maintaining a lockdown that may end up taking more lives than it saves .
While the TEsla CEO ’ s sentiments appear to be shared by a growing number of vocal Americans , news out of Germany , which began to ease its lockdown on April 20 , isn ’ t good .
According to reports , the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after its number and rate of coronavirus infections grew again .
Germany ’ s ‘ R ’ rate – the rate at which the infection is passed to other people , was down to 0.7 but has risen again to 0.96 , which is only slightly below the figure experts say keeps the spread of the virus manageable .
Other countries are looking to Germany , which escaped the worse of the coronavirus pandemic , as a model for their own decisions .
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The families of four people who died from COVID-19 are suing EcoHealth alliance, the New York-based nonprofit that was conducting gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China, before COVID-19 broke out across town.
According to the Aug. 2 lawsuit filed before the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, EcoHealth and its president, Peter Daszak, knew the virus was “capable of causing a worldwide pandemic.”
Not only did EcoHealth help to create a ‘genetically manipulated virus,’ the lawsuit claims, it worked to cover up the origins of the outbreak.
“If we had known the source or origin of this virus and had not been misled that it was from a pangolin in a wet market, and rather we knew that it was a genetically manipulated virus, and that the scientists involved were concealing that from our clients, the outcome could have been very different,” victims’ attorney Patricia Finn told the NY Post.
The families of Mary Conroy, of Pennsylvania; Emma D. Holley, of Rochester, NY; Larry Carr, of Crossville, Tennessee; and Raul Osuna, of Bennington, Nebraska, are seeking unspecified damages. “[The families of the deceased] are definitely in mourning, but moreover they’re enraged because the truth of what really happened appears to be coming forward,” Finn added. Paul Rinker, of Pennsylvania, is also suing Midtown-based EcoHealth and Daszak over the “serious injuries” he suffered from his bout with the bug.
Finn is also suing EcoHealth and Daszak in Nassau and Rockland Counties on behalf of the families of other victims killed by the virus, as well as two who survived.
“This particular case is highly offensive because it appears they knew and concealed the origin of the virus,” said Finn, adding “The treatment or approach taken in dealing with the virus could have been radically different than it was.”
Fauci is simply lying here. Zheng-Li Shi's lab at the WIV and EcoHealth Alliance (which administered NIH subawards to Zheng-Li Shi's lab) were absolutely manipulating viruses (using NIAID funds) in order to see which mutations would make them more dangerous to humans. https://t.co/2MD0oM4sWh — Justin B. Kinney (@jbkinney) August 12, 2023
EcoHealth notably received a re-activated grant from the NIH for over $576,000 in May to study how outbreaks of deadly viruses like SARS, MERS, and now COVID-19 originate from wildlife and transfers to humans, despite failing to meet the NIH’s conditions for reinstatement.
As the Epoch Times noted;
The grant, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” was originally awarded in 2014 by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Under the terms of the grant, EcoHealth Alliance, a government-funded nonprofit that purportedly engages in research to prevent pandemics, was awarded $3.8 million over five years to assess the spillover potential of bat viruses “using reverse genetics, pseudovirus and receptor binding assays, and virus infection experiments in cell culture and humanized mice.” Put in simple terms, NIAID was paying EcoHealth to genetically engineer and manipulate bat viruses in labs.
In May 2016, the grant was suspended after Erik Stemmy, a NIAID program officer, noticed that federal government funds may have been used for prohibited gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China. At the time, the Obama administration had put in place a moratorium on gain-of-function experiments. However, for reasons that remain unclear, the suspension was lifted in July 2016. At the time, EcoHealth’s president, Peter Daszak, thanked NIAID in an email for lifting the gain-of-function funding pause.
As part of the conditions of the grant, EcoHealth had to file regular activity reports. However, starting in 2018, EcoHealth stopped submitting these reports. EcoHealth would later blame technical difficulties for their failure to submit. The missing reports comprised the critical 2018–2019 timeframe right before the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan.
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In 2014, the Obama administration temporarily suspended federal funding for gain-of-function research into manipulating bat COVID to be more transmissible to humans. Four months prior to that decision, the NIH effectively shifted this research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to EcoHealth, headed by Peter Daszak.
Notably, the WIV “had openly participated in gain-of-function research in partnership with U.S. universities and institutions” for years under the leadership of Dr. Shi ‘Batwoman’ Zhengli, according to the Washington Post‘s Josh Rogin.
Yet, after Sars-CoV-2 broke out in the same town where Daszak was manipulating Bat Covid, The Lancet published a screed by Daszak (signed by over two-dozen scientists), which insisted the virus could have only come from a natural spillover event, likely from a wet market, and that the scientists “stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” The Lancet only later noted Daszak’s conflicts of interest.
Meanwhile, as we noted late last year, a Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions interim report from October 27, 2022 titled “An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID19 Pandemic” concluded that the origins of Covid were more likely based in a lab as part of a “research related incident” and not zoonotic.
The report was the result of a “bipartisan Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee oversight effort into the origins of SARS-CoV-2”. It provides a lengthy analysis that reviews “publicly available, open-source information to examine the two prevailing theories of origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus”.
Insanity…
This post was originally published at Zero Hedge


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Popcorn! New York Times Reports Democrat Rebellion Brewing Over Sexual Predator Joe Biden

Perhaps the Joe Biden campaign ’ s mischaracterization of their reporting did more damage than first thought .
The New York Times follows up the Tara Reade story with news that activist women ’ s groups and key Democratic officials have not remained entirely silent about the allegation of sexual assault .
Over the last three weeks , those groups have pressed Joe Biden to speak out and deal with Reade ’ s allegations , and they have held their fire after being promised action .
Now , however , they ’ re tired of getting strung along — and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Finally , several of the women ’ s groups prepared a public letter that praised Mr. Biden ’ s work as an “ outspoken champion for survivors of sexual violence ” but also pushed him to address the allegation from Tara Reade , a former aide who worked in Mr. Biden ’ s Senate office in the early 1990s .
… Then Mr. Biden ’ s team heard about the advocates ’ effort .
According to people involved in the discussions , the group put the letter on hold as it began pressuring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make a statement himself before the end of April , which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month .
Along with liberal organizers , they urged him to acknowledge the importance of survivors and the need for systemic change around issues of sexism and assault .
Nearly two weeks later , Mr. Biden and his campaign have yet to make that statement , and the advocates have not released their letter .
The Biden campaign has said little publicly beyond saying that women deserve to be heard and insisting that the allegation is not true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ talking points urging supporters to deny that the incident occurred .
As two more women have come forward to corroborate part of Ms. Reade ’ s allegation , the Biden campaign is facing attacks from the right and increasing pressure from the left to address the issue .
And liberal activists find themselves in a tense standoff with a candidate they want to support but who they say has made little attempt to show leadership on an issue that resonates deeply with their party ’ s base .
Biden ’ s surrogates are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while they get peppered with questions about Reade ’ s allegations .
That seems notable in itself : You mean … they ’ re tired of being treated like Republicans ?
This is a common media practice when a GOP official does or says something arguably outrageous — they ask every other Republican to either defend or condemn it .
It happens with less frequency when dealing with Democrats , and we actually have a very recent example : Biden ’ s repeated ranting about Donald Trump aiming to postpone the election .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly debunked , but James Clyburn and Bernie Sanders have amplified it .
And yet no one is asking these surrogates , or any other high-ranking Democrats , to explain whether they condemn the conspiracy-theory-mongering of their party ’ s presumptive nominee and other leadership officials .
If this is leaking out to the New York Times and if the Gray Lady is reporting it , then this must be reaching critical mass behind the scenes .
The nonsense talking points asking other Democrats to imply Reade is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ straw , especially after the Times cut the legs out from under that strategy this morning .
If the women ’ s groups release that letter demanding Biden answer for himself rather than having campaign officials and surrogates do it for him , that won ’ t leave him with much political cover .
So why hasn ’ t Biden addressed the allegation ?
The most likely reason is that the allegation is so graphic , specific , and horrid that Biden will have no choice but to issue a flat-out denial and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There isn ’ t any room for a Chris Matthews-style “ her allegation is credible ” admission because Matthews ’ peccadilloes were far more minor — flirtatious comments in inappropriate settings that put underlings in uncomfortable positions .
It ’ s far easier to cop to that then to come up with a way to present Reade as credible while denying that he stuck his fingers inside her genitalia without her permission .
Biden will have to deny it and insist that Reade can ’ t be trusted , which will leave @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worse position than before .
For that reason , I ’ m skeptical that those activists really will push it any farther than this .
This is probably as close as they get to attempting to force Biden out into the open .
If Biden publicly calls Reade a liar — which is his only tenable political and legal option — then these groups will have to decide whether they prioritize their cause over their partisan ambitions .
We got an answer to that over twenty years ago when Bill Clinton was president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t changed since then , either .

Perhaps the Joe Biden campaign’s mischaracterization of their reporting did more damage than first thought. The New York Times follows up the Tara Reade story with news that activist women’s groups and key Democratic officials have not remained entirely silent about the allegation of sexual assault. Over the last three weeks, those groups have pressed Joe Biden to speak out and deal with Reade’s allegations, and they have held their fire after being promised action.
Now, however, they’re tired of getting strung along — and may soon make their unhappiness public:
Finally, several of the women’s groups prepared a public letter that praised Mr. Biden’s work as an “outspoken champion for survivors of sexual violence” but also pushed him to address the allegation from Tara Reade, a former aide who worked in Mr. Biden’s Senate office in the early 1990s. … Then Mr. Biden’s team heard about the advocates’ effort. According to people involved in the discussions, the group put the letter on hold as it began pressuring Biden advisers to push the candidate to make a statement himself before the end of April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Along with liberal organizers, they urged him to acknowledge the importance of survivors and the need for systemic change around issues of sexism and assault. Nearly two weeks later, Mr. Biden and his campaign have yet to make that statement, and the advocates have not released their letter. The Biden campaign has said little publicly beyond saying that women deserve to be heard and insisting that the allegation is not true; privately, Biden advisers have circulated talking points urging supporters to deny that the incident occurred. As two more women have come forward to corroborate part of Ms. Reade’s allegation, the Biden campaign is facing attacks from the right and increasing pressure from the left to address the issue. And liberal activists find themselves in a tense standoff with a candidate they want to support but who they say has made little attempt to show leadership on an issue that resonates deeply with their party’s base.
Biden’s surrogates are getting tired of the presumptive nominee hiding while they get peppered with questions about Reade’s allegations. That seems notable in itself:
Already, the allegation against Mr. Biden has caused top female allies — including several widely considered to be vice-presidential prospects, like Stacey Abrams of Georgia and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota — to face questioning about whether they stand with Mr. Biden after the allegation. Privately, some female Democrats are growing frustrated with being put in the position of answering for Mr. Biden when he has remained silent, and male progressive leaders, even outspoken allies in combating sexual assault, have not been pressured to address this point.
You mean … they’re tired of being treated like Republicans? This is a common media practice when a GOP official does or says something arguably outrageous — they ask every other Republican to either defend or condemn it. It happens with less frequency when dealing with Democrats, and we actually have a very recent example: Biden’s repeated ranting about Donald Trump aiming to postpone the election. It’s sheer nonsense, a conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly debunked, but James Clyburn and Bernie Sanders have amplified it. And yet no one is asking these surrogates, or any other high-ranking Democrats, to explain whether they condemn the conspiracy-theory-mongering of their party’s presumptive nominee and other leadership officials.
If this is leaking out to the New York Times and if the Gray Lady is reporting it, then this must be reaching critical mass behind the scenes. The nonsense talking points asking other Democrats to imply Reade is a liar might have been the last straw, especially after the Times cut the legs out from under that strategy this morning. If the women’s groups release that letter demanding Biden answer for himself rather than having campaign officials and surrogates do it for him, that won’t leave him with much political cover.
So why hasn’t Biden addressed the allegation? The most likely reason is that the allegation is so graphic, specific, and horrid that Biden will have no choice but to issue a flat-out denial and leave the conclusion that Reade is lying. There isn’t any room for a Chris Matthews-style “her allegation is credible” admission because Matthews’ peccadilloes were far more minor — flirtatious comments in inappropriate settings that put underlings in uncomfortable positions. It’s far easier to cop to that then to come up with a way to present Reade as credible while denying that he stuck his fingers inside her genitalia without her permission. Biden will have to deny it and insist that Reade can’t be trusted, which will leave those activist groups in perhaps an even worse position than before.
For that reason, I’m skeptical that those activists really will push it any farther than this. This is probably as close as they get to attempting to force Biden out into the open. If Biden publicly calls Reade a liar — which is his only tenable political and legal option — then these groups will have to decide whether they prioritize their cause over their partisan ambitions. We got an answer to that over twenty years ago when Bill Clinton was president, and I suspect the answer hasn’t changed since then, either.


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Whoa! Tucker Beats Hannity in Ratings as No. 1 Fox Prime Time Show for Month of April

For the first time since the “ O ’ Reilly Factor ” left Fox News roughly three years ago , “ Tucker Carlson Tonight ” surpassed the aggregate ratings of “ Hannity ” over the course of an entire month .
The eponymous primetime shows have long dueled for the top spot at Fox , with “ Hannity ” consistently beating Tucker Carlson ’ s show through 2017 , 2018 , and 2019 .
However , in April 2020 “ Tucker Carlson Tonight ” finally pulled ahead of Hannity to become the top performer in Fox ’ s prime time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bolton : ‘ Things Were Different After 9/11 ’ , Gets Laughed At By Tucker Ratings ranker Adweek reported on Carlson ’ s viewership dominance in the month of April .
“ Tucker Carlson Tonight ” has consistently beaten “ Hannity ” in the coveted 25-54 age bracket , long regarded as the most important demographic for television advertisers .
An April 2020 study from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago found that “ greater viewership of ‘ Hannity ’ relative to ‘ Tucker Carlson Tonight ’ is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 cases and deaths in the early stages of the pandemic.
” The study stated , “ We find that Hannity ’ s viewers on average changed their behavior in response to the coronavirus five days later than other Fox News viewers , while Carlson ’ s viewers changed behavior three days earlier than other Fox News viewers.
” READ MORE : AMERICA FIRST : U.S. Suspends Visa Lottery , Ends Mask Exports After Tucker Carlson ’ s Reporting On Friday , Carlson also destroyed every show from competitors like CNN and MSNBC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , prime time and otherwise .
“ Tucker Carlson Tonight ” and “ Hannity ” previously dominated coverage of the political tensions with Iran that nearly came to a head in January : The “ Tucker Carlson Tonight ” television program on Fox News dominated cable news coverage of the Iran situation alongside “ Hannity ” Tuesday night , pulling in 5.6 million viewers .
Some have attributed the extremely high viewership to the national security crisis rather than Carlson ’ s popularity , but the fact that “ Tucker Carlson Tonight ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as cable competitor ( CNN ) , that theory seems unlikely .
According to TV By The Numbers , Carlson pulled in 5,698,000 viewers and scored a high 0.8 rating in the 18-49 age demographic .
“ Hannity ” still occupies the highly coveted 9 p.m. time slot on Fox News .

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For the first time since the “O’Reilly Factor” left Fox News roughly three years ago, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” surpassed the aggregate ratings of “Hannity” over the course of an entire month.
The eponymous primetime shows have long dueled for the top spot at Fox, with “Hannity” consistently beating Tucker Carlson’s show through 2017, 2018, and 2019.
However, in April 2020 “Tucker Carlson Tonight” finally pulled ahead of Hannity to become the top performer in Fox’s prime time lineup.
READ MORE: Hannity Defends Bolton: ‘Things Were Different After 9/11’, Gets Laughed At By Tucker
Ratings ranker Adweek reported on Carlson’s viewership dominance in the month of April.
“Tucker Carlson Tonight” has consistently beaten “Hannity” in the coveted 25-54 age bracket, long regarded as the most important demographic for television advertisers.
An April 2020 study from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago found that “greater viewership of ‘Hannity’ relative to ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ is strongly associated with a greater number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the early stages of the pandemic.”
The study stated, “We find that Hannity’s viewers on average changed their behavior in response to the coronavirus five days later than other Fox News viewers, while Carlson’s viewers changed behavior three days earlier than other Fox News viewers.”
READ MORE: AMERICA FIRST: U.S. Suspends Visa Lottery, Ends Mask Exports After Tucker Carlson’s Reporting
On Friday, Carlson also destroyed every show from competitors like CNN and MSNBC in the ratings across all time slots, prime time and otherwise.
From Adweek:
“Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “Hannity” previously dominated coverage of the political tensions with Iran that nearly came to a head in January:
The “Tucker Carlson Tonight” television program on Fox News dominated cable news coverage of the Iran situation alongside “Hannity” Tuesday night, pulling in 5.6 million viewers. Some have attributed the extremely high viewership to the national security crisis rather than Carlson’s popularity, but the fact that “Tucker Carlson Tonight” pulled in double the amount of viewership as cable competitor (CNN), that theory seems unlikely. According to TV By The Numbers, Carlson pulled in 5,698,000 viewers and scored a high 0.8 rating in the 18-49 age demographic.
“Hannity” still occupies the highly coveted 9 p.m. time slot on Fox News.


thelibertydaily--2020-04-30--How Communist China Turns Globalist Billionaires and Big Tech into Spokespeople

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates ’ energetic defense of how the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) handled the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic might have been an eye-opening moment for many Americans .
The truth is that Beijing has been working on subverting globalist billionaires and Western Big Tech culture since the early days of “ economic engagement ” with that authoritarian regime .
The game of global influence the CCP is playing while its pandemic ravages the world is a game it spent decades preparing for , while the people of the West are still trying to figure out the rules @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eyebrows this week by denouncing efforts to hold the CCP responsible for the pandemic it unquestionably unleashed as a “ distraction ” in which “ a lot of incorrect and unfair things ” have been said about the Communist regime .
He asserted that “ China did a lot of things right at the beginning.
” Chinese state media immediately declared Gates a hero , a sensible opponent of “ bizarre rumors ” spread by American critics of the CCP and their “ crazy followers , ” and began repeating his comments in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surely must have known was coming .
Anyone who has the slightest experience with the CCP knows that it assiduously studies Western media , pounces on every political and social stress point it detects , and celebrates Westerners who toe the Communist Party line as heroes .
This is the murderous regime that claims Americans have no right to criticize it for herding the Uyghur Muslims into concentration camps because we ’ re still having arguments about racism in our country .
It is especially jarring to hear anyone associated with Big Tech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were crimes against information : concealing the coronavirus for as long as possible , punishing doctors in Wuhan who tried to speak out , propagating dangerously false information through the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , and posting laughably false numbers about coronavirus infections and deaths .
One of the basic laws of the information revolution is GIGO – Garbage In , Garbage Out .
The best system produces faulty results when pumped full of bad data .
The CCP pushed garbage data into the global health system .
Every leader who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including U.S. President Donald Trump and his top officials , is now being savaged for slow and weak responses to the Wuhan pandemic .
It is not surprising to see tech moguls and international business tycoons acting as spokespeople for Beijing .
The hideous mistake made by the Western world three decades ago was embracing the globalist faith that “ engagement ” with democracies will liberalize tyrannies over time .
The exact opposite is true .
The CCP aggressively uses every bit of economic leverage it has been given to influence media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ making them more friendly to authoritarianism .
We are becoming more like them , not the other way around , and the process begins at the top because the CCP holds a great deal of sway over our captains of industry and commanders of mass media .
The crudest manifestation of this influence is what students of China ’ s rise have dubbed “ sharp power ” : threatening foreign companies with the loss of Chinese investment or access to the surging Chinese marketplace if they do not comply with the CCP ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hard ” power is military force and “ soft ” power means diplomacy .
Sharp power is diplomacy , or else .
Wealthy globalists know perfectly well that Beijing can cost them billions with the snap of a Communist apparatchik ’ s fingers .
They submitted to China ’ s rampant technology theft because it was the price of doing business in China .
They will abandon Western notions of free speech without much objection when the CCP orders them to change their websites to remove “ offensive ” references to Taiwan or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beijing ’ s territorial claims .
The CCP is already enforcing censorship demands on Western speech about the coronavirus pandemic that it doesn ’ t like .
No brave stands are made by corporate moguls in free countries when the CCP tells them to sacrifice their freedom or face steep penalties .
These companies have simply accepted , and increasingly internalized , the primacy of the CCP ’ s political agenda over Western values .
The same is true of activists and non-governmental organizations .
Environmentalists have nothing to say about China ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bill of fare at the infamous wet markets .
There would be steep costs , but no political profit , for them in doing battle with Beijing .
The threats don ’ t even have to be made explicitly anymore .
Every company with interests in China has circulated memos with very strict instructions about referring to Taiwan , Tibet , and every rock in the South China Sea as Chinese possessions .
It ’ s been a while since there was a controversy over a corporate “ mistake ” that enraged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ painfully obvious in Big Tech , whose business model is all about interfacing different systems and moving information globally .
The lesson we should learn now , the painful truth we should have understood at the dawn of the Information Age , is that large systems tend to sink to the lowest common denominator of control .
Those who act most aggressively to push their demands gain the most influence over the entire system .
Information products are tailored to satisfy the market with the toughest censorship standards .
No one wants to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ movie that can not be sold in China .
Corporate leaders do not like thinking about the moral compromises necessary to do business with a regime like China ’ s .
The CCP knows this , so its propaganda arm works tirelessly to provide Western partners with more comfortable ways of thinking about their relationship .
Nobody making money in China wants to talk about forced labor or the brutal suppression of political dissent .
When the CCP suggests they talk instead about global interdependence , “ win-win cooperation , ” and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ listen .
The latest comforting framework of thought provided to the CCP ’ s business partners , as espoused by Gates , is to focus on beating the global menace of the coronavirus instead of dwelling on who unleashed it .
The CCP has a tendency to lay out all of its political arguments that way : Opposing us is expensive and difficult .
You ’ ll be called a racist , a nativist , an isolationist by your media .
We have become an inescapable element of globalism , so if you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , you need to make your peace with us .
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping ’ s addresses to international forums make this argument explicitly in relatively high-minded terms , while his state media can scarcely write an editorial without lapsing into thuggish threats , pausing only to express the CCP ’ s heartfelt regrets about the terrible fate that will befall any nation that defies it .
Not all of the CCP ’ s influence over Western moguls comes from arm-twisting and veiled threats .
There is a certain ideological convergence at work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aggressively argues that embracing globalism requires accepting the Chinese Communist agenda , while resistance equals isolationism .
Isolationism is one of the “ isms ” Western elites wish to avoid being accused of , along with racism and sexism .
They are increasingly uneasy about being accused of capitalism .
The Western left has been flirting with “ enlightened ” authoritarianism for a long time , an attraction the CCP knows how to exploit by flattering the intellectual vanity of the elite .
The Obama years saw left-wingers daydreaming about how much President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the powers of Xi Jinping .
The Left ’ s romantic ideal of the enlightened strongman who Gets Things Done runs back through its worship of monsters like Fidel Castro to the early 20th Century intellectuals who swooned over Mussolini and even Hitler .
It doesn ’ t take much prodding by the CCP to get people who think like that to see Xi Jinping as the wise despot the 21st Century needs .
Look at the rash of American media stories over the past few weeks urging a second look at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that China ’ s model “ has been blamed for the coronavirus crisis , but for some it ’ s looking increasingly attractive , ” with the heavy implication that blaming China is less reasonable than admiring it .
The Atlantic argued that Chinese censorship has conquered the Internet and “ speech will never go back to normal ” because the pandemic taught Big Tech to appreciate the importance of banning “ wrong ” speech and carefully monitoring all citizens .
Free speech is dead , and Beijing killed it ; a few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corpse to pay our respects before following Xi ’ s lead into a future of enlightened surveillance and control .
Big Tech and Big Business are heavily influenced by Big Media .
The three are well down the path of blurring into one .
There is no tech bigger than China ’ s state-run technology-stealing corporations , no business bigger than a Chinese industrial machine controlled by the Communist Party , and no media bigger than Beijing ’ s vast army of censors and propagandists .
Western elites see more to admire , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fear from the CCP than anything the deplorables are doing in the heartland with their inalienable rights .
For the right price , with the right amount of flattery , with the right application of sharp power , everything is alienable .
Disengaging from China would be hideously expensive .
Confronting its media operation would be exhausting .
Challenging it from the floor of international bodies would be hard work , and it might require applauding the virtues of democracy , capitalism , and Western civilization .
The CCP ’ s narrative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ swallow than the dangerous truth .
Big Tech wants to use the immense power it has accumulated , not be tied down by Lilliputians squeaking about their rights to privacy and free expression .
News organizations don ’ t want to risk getting kicked out of Beijing .
Hollywood can ’ t hit billion-dollar jackpots without Chinese money .
Why are people who made billions off the free market so willing to parrot the line from Beijing ?
Simple : because they see little profit in parroting the countless confusing lines emanating from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates’ energetic defense of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) handled the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic might have been an eye-opening moment for many Americans.
The truth is that Beijing has been working on subverting globalist billionaires and Western Big Tech culture since the early days of “economic engagement” with that authoritarian regime.
The game of global influence the CCP is playing while its pandemic ravages the world is a game it spent decades preparing for, while the people of the West are still trying to figure out the rules and measure the stakes.
Gates raised eyebrows this week by denouncing efforts to hold the CCP responsible for the pandemic it unquestionably unleashed as a “distraction” in which “a lot of incorrect and unfair things” have been said about the Communist regime. He asserted that “China did a lot of things right at the beginning.”
Chinese state media immediately declared Gates a hero, a sensible opponent of “bizarre rumors” spread by American critics of the CCP and their “crazy followers,” and began repeating his comments in its propaganda broadcasts, an outcome Gates surely must have known was coming. Anyone who has the slightest experience with the CCP knows that it assiduously studies Western media, pounces on every political and social stress point it detects, and celebrates Westerners who toe the Communist Party line as heroes. This is the murderous regime that claims Americans have no right to criticize it for herding the Uyghur Muslims into concentration camps because we’re still having arguments about racism in our country.
It is especially jarring to hear anyone associated with Big Tech defending the CCP, because its sins were crimes against information: concealing the coronavirus for as long as possible, punishing doctors in Wuhan who tried to speak out, propagating dangerously false information through the World Health Organization (WHO), and posting laughably false numbers about coronavirus infections and deaths.
One of the basic laws of the information revolution is GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out. The best system produces faulty results when pumped full of bad data. The CCP pushed garbage data into the global health system. Every leader who took the CCP or W.H.O. seriously, including U.S. President Donald Trump and his top officials, is now being savaged for slow and weak responses to the Wuhan pandemic.
It is not surprising to see tech moguls and international business tycoons acting as spokespeople for Beijing. The hideous mistake made by the Western world three decades ago was embracing the globalist faith that “engagement” with democracies will liberalize tyrannies over time. The exact opposite is true. The CCP aggressively uses every bit of economic leverage it has been given to influence media and politics in the Western world, making them more friendly to authoritarianism.
We are becoming more like them, not the other way around, and the process begins at the top because the CCP holds a great deal of sway over our captains of industry and commanders of mass media.
The crudest manifestation of this influence is what students of China’s rise have dubbed “sharp power”: threatening foreign companies with the loss of Chinese investment or access to the surging Chinese marketplace if they do not comply with the CCP’s political agenda. Traditionally, “hard” power is military force and “soft” power means diplomacy. Sharp power is diplomacy, or else.
Wealthy globalists know perfectly well that Beijing can cost them billions with the snap of a Communist apparatchik’s fingers. They submitted to China’s rampant technology theft because it was the price of doing business in China. They will abandon Western notions of free speech without much objection when the CCP orders them to change their websites to remove “offensive” references to Taiwan or alter retail merchandise that seems to challenge Beijing’s territorial claims. The CCP is already enforcing censorship demands on Western speech about the coronavirus pandemic that it doesn’t like.
No brave stands are made by corporate moguls in free countries when the CCP tells them to sacrifice their freedom or face steep penalties. These companies have simply accepted, and increasingly internalized, the primacy of the CCP’s political agenda over Western values. The same is true of activists and non-governmental organizations. Environmentalists have nothing to say about China’s carbon emissions or endangered species on the bill of fare at the infamous wet markets. There would be steep costs, but no political profit, for them in doing battle with Beijing.
The threats don’t even have to be made explicitly anymore. Every company with interests in China has circulated memos with very strict instructions about referring to Taiwan, Tibet, and every rock in the South China Sea as Chinese possessions. It’s been a while since there was a controversy over a corporate “mistake” that enraged Beijing.
The corruption of authoritarianism is painfully obvious in Big Tech, whose business model is all about interfacing different systems and moving information globally. The lesson we should learn now, the painful truth we should have understood at the dawn of the Information Age, is that large systems tend to sink to the lowest common denominator of control. Those who act most aggressively to push their demands gain the most influence over the entire system. Information products are tailored to satisfy the market with the toughest censorship standards. No one wants to spend millions on a video game or movie that cannot be sold in China.
Corporate leaders do not like thinking about the moral compromises necessary to do business with a regime like China’s. The CCP knows this, so its propaganda arm works tirelessly to provide Western partners with more comfortable ways of thinking about their relationship.
Nobody making money in China wants to talk about forced labor or the brutal suppression of political dissent. When the CCP suggests they talk instead about global interdependence, “win-win cooperation,” and the unique achievements of Chinese culture, they listen. The latest comforting framework of thought provided to the CCP’s business partners, as espoused by Gates, is to focus on beating the global menace of the coronavirus instead of dwelling on who unleashed it.
The CCP has a tendency to lay out all of its political arguments that way: Opposing us is expensive and difficult. You’ll be called a racist, a nativist, an isolationist by your media. We have become an inescapable element of globalism, so if you want to remain globalist in your outlook, you need to make your peace with us.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s addresses to international forums make this argument explicitly in relatively high-minded terms, while his state media can scarcely write an editorial without lapsing into thuggish threats, pausing only to express the CCP’s heartfelt regrets about the terrible fate that will befall any nation that defies it.
Not all of the CCP’s influence over Western moguls comes from arm-twisting and veiled threats. There is a certain ideological convergence at work. As noted above, the CCP aggressively argues that embracing globalism requires accepting the Chinese Communist agenda, while resistance equals isolationism. Isolationism is one of the “isms” Western elites wish to avoid being accused of, along with racism and sexism. They are increasingly uneasy about being accused of capitalism.
The Western left has been flirting with “enlightened” authoritarianism for a long time, an attraction the CCP knows how to exploit by flattering the intellectual vanity of the elite. The Obama years saw left-wingers daydreaming about how much President Barack Obama could accomplish if he enjoyed the powers of Xi Jinping. The Left’s romantic ideal of the enlightened strongman who Gets Things Done runs back through its worship of monsters like Fidel Castro to the early 20th Century intellectuals who swooned over Mussolini and even Hitler. It doesn’t take much prodding by the CCP to get people who think like that to see Xi Jinping as the wise despot the 21st Century needs.
Look at the rash of American media stories over the past few weeks urging a second look at the virtues of Chinese tyranny. CNN mused that China’s model “has been blamed for the coronavirus crisis, but for some it’s looking increasingly attractive,” with the heavy implication that blaming China is less reasonable than admiring it.
The Atlantic argued that Chinese censorship has conquered the Internet and “speech will never go back to normal” because the pandemic taught Big Tech to appreciate the importance of banning “wrong” speech and carefully monitoring all citizens. Free speech is dead, and Beijing killed it; a few of us are just lingering around the corpse to pay our respects before following Xi’s lead into a future of enlightened surveillance and control.
Big Tech and Big Business are heavily influenced by Big Media. The three are well down the path of blurring into one. There is no tech bigger than China’s state-run technology-stealing corporations, no business bigger than a Chinese industrial machine controlled by the Communist Party, and no media bigger than Beijing’s vast army of censors and propagandists. Western elites see more to admire, more to emulate, and much more to fear from the CCP than anything the deplorables are doing in the heartland with their inalienable rights. For the right price, with the right amount of flattery, with the right application of sharp power, everything is alienable.
Disengaging from China would be hideously expensive. Confronting its media operation would be exhausting. Challenging it from the floor of international bodies would be hard work, and it might require applauding the virtues of democracy, capitalism, and Western civilization. The CCP’s narrative of coronavirus heroism is much easier to swallow than the dangerous truth. Big Tech wants to use the immense power it has accumulated, not be tied down by Lilliputians squeaking about their rights to privacy and free expression. News organizations don’t want to risk getting kicked out of Beijing. Hollywood can’t hit billion-dollar jackpots without Chinese money.
Why are people who made billions off the free market so willing to parrot the line from Beijing? Simple: because they see little profit in parroting the countless confusing lines emanating from the rambunctious populations of their own countries.


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