truepundit--2020-11-02--Lindsey Graham Says He Will Be ‘Shocked’ If Durham Probe Doesn’t Lead To More Indictments

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday he will be “ shocked ” if a Justice Department probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation does not lead to more indictments .
In an interview on Fox News ’ “ Sunday Morning Futures , ” Graham also said that John Durham , the U.S. attorney leading the investigation , will release a report on his findings after the election .
Graham also revealed that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 10 .
“ We ’ ve learned there was Russian collusion , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was between Russia .
Clinton and Russia , not Trump and Russia , and we learn that Crossfire Hurricane was the most corrupt investigation , maybe in the history of the FBI , ” Graham told host Maria Bartiromo .
“ Durham is all over this .
After the election , you ’ re going to get a report and I ’ ll be shocked that people are not indicted.
” Durham , the U.S. attorney for Connecticut , is conducting a broad investigation of the FBI and other government agencies ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2016 .
The investigation has centered on the FBI ’ s decision to open a counterintelligence investigation into Trump campaign advisers in July 2016 , as well as the bureau ’ s use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants during the probe .
Durham has also interviewed former CIA Director John Brennan about the spy agency ’ s assessment that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election specifically to help Donald Trump .
A former FBI lawyer , Kevin Clinesmith , pleaded guilty on Aug. 19 to altering an email related @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for more indictments or a report from Durham before the election .
Attorney General William Barr , who appointed Durham to oversee the investigation in March 2019 , has said that the investigation has been slowed by the coronavirus pandemic .
Barr has said in interviews that he believes that the FBI spied on the Trump campaign .
In April 2020 , he said that the evidence he has seen so far from the Durham investigation is “ troubling.
” He also said that he expected Durham to produce a report of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether it will be released publicly .

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday he will be “shocked” if a Justice Department probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation does not lead to more indictments.
In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Graham also said that John Durham, the U.S. attorney leading the investigation, will release a report on his findings after the election.
Graham also revealed that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 10.
“We’ve learned there was Russian collusion, but it was between the Clinton campaign and it was between Russia. Clinton and Russia, not Trump and Russia, and we learn that Crossfire Hurricane was the most corrupt investigation, maybe in the history of the FBI,” Graham told host Maria Bartiromo.
“Durham is all over this. After the election, you’re going to get a report and I’ll be shocked that people are not indicted.”
Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, is conducting a broad investigation of the FBI and other government agencies’ intelligence-gathering activities related to the Trump campaign in 2016.
The investigation has centered on the FBI’s decision to open a counterintelligence investigation into Trump campaign advisers in July 2016, as well as the bureau’s use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants during the probe.
Durham has also interviewed former CIA Director John Brennan about the spy agency’s assessment that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election specifically to help Donald Trump.
A former FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, pleaded guilty on Aug. 19 to altering an email related to Carter Page.
Republicans had hoped for more indictments or a report from Durham before the election. Attorney General William Barr, who appointed Durham to oversee the investigation in March 2019, has said that the investigation has been slowed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Barr has said in interviews that he believes that the FBI spied on the Trump campaign.
In April 2020, he said that the evidence he has seen so far from the Durham investigation is “troubling.” He also said that he expected Durham to produce a report of the investigation, though he did not say whether it will be released publicly.


truepundit--2020-11-02--Late Ballots, Mismatched Signatures, Drop Boxes — Here’s How Hundreds Of Lawsuits Could Affect The E

Late Ballots, Mismatched Signatures, Drop Boxes — Here’s How Hundreds Of Lawsuits Could Affect The Election’s Outcome

• More than 320 lawsuits have been filed since the primaries across 45 states , Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico as of Friday , according to Election Law Blog .
• “ Almost all of them have been filed by the progressive left and their allies in the Democratic Party , ” Hans von Spakovsky , manager of Heritage Foundation ’ s Election Law Reform Initiative , told the Daily Caller News Foundation .
• A record 76 % of Americans have been able to vote by mail in the general election , according to The New York Times , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day approaches .
The 2020 election season has seen an unprecedented number of lawsuits as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and changing voting laws , which could ultimately sway the election ’ s outcome , according to experts .
More than 325 lawsuits have been filed since the primaries across 45 states , Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico as of Friday , according to Election Law Blog , which has tracked election litigation .
As coronavirus spread rapidly through the country in March amid the ongoing 2020 primaries , states were forced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ laws , The New York Times reported .
“ The amount of litigation is almost certainly going to be a record , ” a law professor at the University of California , Irvine School of Law who runs Election Law Blog , Rick Hasen , told the Daily Caller News Foundation .
“ We had a record in 2018 , and things are even more litigious this year , in large part thanks to COVID , ” Hasen said .
Broadly , much of the litigation has concerned states who opted against altering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Democrats demanded , Hasen added .
Other lawsuits have come about as a result of states making changes that Republicans opposed .
“ Almost all of them have been filed by the progressive left and their allies in the Democratic Party , ” Hans von Spakovsky , manager of Heritage Foundation ’ s Election Law Reform Initiative , told the DCNF .
In September , Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ’ s campaign formally assembled a legal war room comprised of lawyers who are fighting cases nationwide , according to The Associated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ general counsel to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ’ s 2016 presidential campaign , is leading the war room .
Elias and his team have been involved in more than 60 cases , 18 of which are active , according to Democracy Docket , a website Elias created to “ spotlight ” voter suppression .
“ They are trying to force states to push absentee or mail-in voting as much as possible , ” von Spakovsky continued .
“ The second big thing is they ’ re trying to void any and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have in place for absentee ballots.
” The litigation has shined a light on the process of counting and rejecting absentee ballots .
The most common causes of mailed ballots getting rejected are lateness , mismatching signatures and missing signature , all issues which have been central to ongoing lawsuits , according to FiveThirtyEight .
Many states have changed their voting policies for the Nov. 3 election , allowing more people to vote by mail , according to Vote.org .
A record 76 % of Americans have been able to vote by mail @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Times , making the issue extremely contentious as the election quickly nears .
Further , a whopping 75.7 million Americans have already voted , according to The U.S .
Elections Project .
More than 50 million of those early voters have done so by mail .
Here are the important issues that could significantly affect the election outcome .
President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that the upcoming election will be a “ scam ” and rife with fraud .
“ The greatest Election Fraud in our history is about to happen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
On Sept. 2 , Trump tweeted that 2020 “ will be the most corrupt election in history ” and on Oct. 7 , he tweeted that there are “ Fake , Missing and Fraudulent Ballots all over the Country.
” Twitter flagged the Oct. 7 tweet .
The Heritage Foundation established the Election Fraud Database , which has been cited by the White House .
The database is a sampling , not a comprehensive list , of election fraud cases in which a conviction was secured or a state body determined fraud @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The database has compiled nearly 1,300 proven instances of voter fraud in federal and local elections dating back to 1982 .
About 280 of the instances have occurred since 2015 and 14 have occurred since January .
The 2020 cases range from forged signatures and falsifying registration forms to voting more than once and bribing homeless people to vote a certain way .
However , an April report published by the Brennan Center for Justice said voter fraud is “ incredibly rare ” and less likely than getting struck by lightning .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ identity verification , bar codes and harsh sentencing guidelines for those caught committing fraud .
The Brennan Center for Justice has published a variety of studies , which it says show voter fraud isn ’ t rampant in the U.S .
But von Spakovsky said that this view , that fraud isn ’ t widespread , is misguided .
While voter fraud might be rare , it can still be impactful in certain races , he added .
“ Where fraud can make a difference is in a close election .
And we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this country , ” von Spakovsky told the DCNF .
“ When people vote , they ’ re not just voting on the presidential race , ” he continued .
“ They ’ re voting for congressional offices .
They ’ re voting for statewide offices .
They ’ re voting for their state legislatures .
They ’ re voting for county commission seats and town council seats.
” “ And in many of those races , they ’ re won by a small number of votes , ” von Spakovsky said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , a right-leaning legal group , has focused on inaccurate voter rolls to show the existence of voter fraud .
PILF ’ s April report , which Trump cited , had made an error , according to ProPublica , and was later corrected .
PILF ’ s September report showed that there were 349,773 apparently deceased registrants across 41 states ’ voter rolls .
The report also purported to show that tens of thousands of voters voted twice in 2016 and 2018 .
“ Every problem that you see with election mailings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the voter roll itself because the address was wrong , the name was spelled wrong , or it was listed in the wrong precinct , ” Logan Churchwell , PILF ’ s communications director , told the DCNF .
Pennsylvania officials announced on Oct. 14 that 29,000 voters had received wrong ballots .
That incident came weeks after ballots in New York City , Atlanta and Washington , D.C. were reportedly sent to the wrong addresses .
“ These big counties that have hundreds of thousands , even millions of voters in them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to print ballots for everyone , ” Churchwell said .
“ You can ’ t just go buy an HP printer at Walmart and start printing ballots with it .
You have to engage with companies that have the printers.
” PILF discovered through open records requests that ballot issues have occurred in many places across the country , including in battleground states in the Midwest , according to Churchwell .
Voters have reported receiving their ballot in the mail only to find card stock in the envelope , for example .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t have a lot of experience with ballots , ” he added .
The Department of Justice ( DOJ ) outlined the wide-ranging approach it has implemented to investigate and prosecute voter fraud in a Thursday press release .
It state that the DOJ will investigate all forms of election fraud including “ destruction of ballots , vote-buying , multiple voting , submission of fraudulent ballots or registrations , and alteration of votes.
” Attorney General William Barr said in a statement : “ Americans have the opportunity once again to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by exercising their right to vote.
” “ will work tirelessly alongside other federal , state , and local agencies to protect that right as it is administered by state and local jurisdictions across the nation , ” Barr said .
Late-arriving mail ballots has been the subject of multiple lawsuits , some of which have reached the Supreme Court .
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling on Monday in a 5-3 vote , prohibiting the State of Wisconsin from counting mail-in ballots that arrive days after the election .
Citing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state and national Democratic parties and the League of Women voters had sought to extend ballot counting in Wisconsin , according to NBC News .
“ In a Presidential election , counting all the votes quickly can help the State promptly resolve any disputes , address any need for recounts , and begin the process of canvassing and certifying the election results in an expeditious manner , ” Justice Brett Kavanaugh said in the court ’ s opinion .
The ruling means Wisconsin residents must get their ballot in by 8 p.m. on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Roughly 80,000 ballots were received late during the state ’ s April primary .
On Wednesday , the Supreme Court contrasted its Wisconsin decision with opinions allowing the States of Pennsylvania and North Carolina to accept ballots after the day of the election , The Times reported .
First , the court refused to issue an order telling Pennsylvania elections officials whether to reject or accept late ballots .
The court had previously sided with a state court on Oct. 19 , which allowed ballots to be counted up to three days @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t postmarked , CNBC reported .
Second , the court upheld lower court rulings , which allowed North Carolina elections officials to accept ballots nine days after the day of the election , according to the Times .
The state legislature only called for a three-day extension .
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Minnesota ballots must be received by 8 p.m. on election day to be counted , according to FOX-affiliate KMSP-TV .
Republicans have argued that counting late ballots violates federal law , which sets the day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Congress to pass legislation setting the date of the election .
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with Republicans in the Wisconsin case , but not in the Pennsylvania and North Carolina cases because the former involved federal intrusion on state law .
“ While the Pennsylvania applications implicated the authority of state courts to apply their own constitutions to election regulations , this case involves federal intrusion on state lawmaking processes , ” Roberts wrote .
Mismatched and missing signatures on ballots is the second most common cause for rejected ballots behind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Instead of Florida 2000 , where you had two guys with the magnifying glasses very carefully looking at punched holes in ballots , now they ’ re going to be looking at signatures , ” Churchwell predicted .
Voting rights groups have argued that determining if a ballot ’ s signature matches the one on file can be subjective , according to FiveThirtyEight .
Lila Carpenter , an American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project paralegal , wrote in 2018 that a ballot signature requirement “ affects voters already at the margins.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comparison requirements , ” von Spakovsky said .
“ They don ’ t want that happening.
” The Brennan Center for Justice touted signatures as an important security measure to prevent voter fraud .
“ We actually compare every single signature of every single ballot that comes in and we compare it and make sure that it matches the one on their voter registration record , ” said Kim Wyman , Washington Secretary of State , CBS affiliate KEYE-TV .
On Monday , U.S. District Judge P.K .
Holmes rejected a lawsuit that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allow voters with mismatched signatures to correct their ballots , according to The AP .
However , U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel issued an order Tuesday halting South Carolina counties from rejecting absentee ballots due to missing or mismatching signatures , according to The State .
Gergel ruled that counties who mull a signature rule must seek approval from the courts and allow voters to correct their signature .
“ If any county board of voter registration and elections … is employing or plans to employ a signature matching procedure , it must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Carolina head of elections Marci Andino wrote in a directive to all local county boards , The State reported .
On Tuesday , the Texas Supreme Court upheld Republican Gov .
Greg Abbott ’ s order that limited counties to a single drop-off box , according to the Texas Tribune .
A federal appeals court had previously upheld Abbott ’ s order .
Plaintiffs argued that limiting each county to just one drop-off violated voters ’ equal protection rights , according to the Texas Tribune .
However , the judges on the state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s order “ does not disenfranchise anyone ” since it provided other ways to vote .
Prior to the court ’ s ruling , the law firm challenging Abbott , the Campaign Legal Center , said in a press release , “ if Abbott ’ s proclamation is allowed to stand , it will create voter confusion.
” A similar battle in Ohio over ballot drop boxes ended on Oct. 23 after the League of Women Voters and Ohio NAACP dropped their lawsuit , The AP reported .
The groups had sued Ohio @ @ @ @ @ @ @ directive he issued limiting counties to one ballot drop box .
“ Boards of elections are prohibited from installing a drop box at any other location other than the board of elections , ” the directive said .
Three separate courts ruling in the case ultimately favored LaRose , according to WBNS-10TV .
On Oct. 12 , the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that LaRose ’ s ballot box directive was lawful .
The majority opinion ruled that the order was “ unlikely to harm anyone ” given @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vote , WBNS reported .
Curbside voting for disabled and sick people is widely available including in states like Michigan , Texas and North Carolina .
However , some state officials have prohibited such voting for security reasons .
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill opposed curbside voting , which he labeled “ illegal activity , ” since it would break the chain of custody for ballots , according to AL.com .
On Oct. 21 , the Supreme Court sided with Merrill and his fellow Alabama Republicans and granted their request to prohibit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the presidential level , will matter only if the election is so close in a state that is pivotal for an electoral college victory that it would make sense to bring suit , ” Hasen said .
Churchwell and Van Spakovsky agreed that post-election litigation will depend on the election results .
If the race is close , both agreed that the litigation would revolve around the rejected ballots .
About 300,000 mail-in ballots were rejected in the 2016 election , according to an ABC News analysis .
More than 500,000 were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 23,000 in Wisconsin .
Trump won the state by roughly 22,500 votes in 2016 , the Times reported .
“ There frankly may be some pretty fierce litigation over those ballots that got rejected or litigation over ballots being counted , for example , after Election Day that we ’ re missing information required by state law , ” von Spakovsky said .
Further , following Justice Amy Coney Barrett ’ s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Monday , the court will not issue 4-4 decisions if it were to review post-election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ herself .
Although Barrett has recused herself from election cases since joining the court , she declined to commit to recusing herself from all cases during her confirmation hearings , according to CNN .

More than 320 lawsuits have been filed since the primaries across 45 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico as of Friday, according to Election Law Blog.
“Almost all of them have been filed by the progressive left and their allies in the Democratic Party,” Hans von Spakovsky, manager of Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
A record 76% of Americans have been able to vote by mail in the general election, according to The New York Times, making the issue particularly contentious as election day approaches.
The 2020 election season has seen an unprecedented number of lawsuits as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and changing voting laws, which could ultimately sway the election’s outcome, according to experts.
More than 325 lawsuits have been filed since the primaries across 45 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico as of Friday, according to Election Law Blog, which has tracked election litigation. As coronavirus spread rapidly through the country in March amid the ongoing 2020 primaries, states were forced to delay primaries and reevaluate existing voting laws, The New York Times reported.
“The amount of litigation is almost certainly going to be a record,” a law professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law who runs Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“We had a record in 2018, and things are even more litigious this year, in large part thanks to COVID,” Hasen said.
Broadly, much of the litigation has concerned states who opted against altering certain laws, which voting rights groups and Democrats demanded, Hasen added. Other lawsuits have come about as a result of states making changes that Republicans opposed.
“Almost all of them have been filed by the progressive left and their allies in the Democratic Party,” Hans von Spakovsky, manager of Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative, told the DCNF.
In September, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign formally assembled a legal war room comprised of lawyers who are fighting cases nationwide, according to The Associated Press. Marc Elias, who was general counsel to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, is leading the war room.
Elias and his team have been involved in more than 60 cases, 18 of which are active, according to Democracy Docket, a website Elias created to “spotlight” voter suppression.
“They are trying to force states to push absentee or mail-in voting as much as possible,” von Spakovsky continued. “The second big thing is they’re trying to void any and all of the security protocols that states have in place for absentee ballots.”
The litigation has shined a light on the process of counting and rejecting absentee ballots. The most common causes of mailed ballots getting rejected are lateness, mismatching signatures and missing signature, all issues which have been central to ongoing lawsuits, according to FiveThirtyEight.
Many states have changed their voting policies for the Nov. 3 election, allowing more people to vote by mail, according to Vote.org. A record 76% of Americans have been able to vote by mail in the general election, according to The Times, making the issue extremely contentious as the election quickly nears.
Further, a whopping 75.7 million Americans have already voted, according to The U.S. Elections Project. More than 50 million of those early voters have done so by mail.
Here are the important issues that could significantly affect the election outcome.
Voter Fraud
President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that the upcoming election will be a “scam” and rife with fraud.
“The greatest Election Fraud in our history is about to happen,” Trump tweeted on Aug. 23.
On Sept. 2, Trump tweeted that 2020 “will be the most corrupt election in history” and on Oct. 7, he tweeted that there are “Fake, Missing and Fraudulent Ballots all over the Country.” Twitter flagged the Oct. 7 tweet.
MAIL-IN VOTING WILL LEAD TO MASSIVE FRAUD AND ABUSE. IT WILL ALSO LEAD TO THE END OF OUR GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS TRAGEDY BEFALL OUR NATION. BIG MAIL-IN VICTORY IN TEXAS COURT TODAY. CONGRATS!!! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 29, 2020
The Heritage Foundation established the Election Fraud Database, which has been cited by the White House. The database is a sampling, not a comprehensive list, of election fraud cases in which a conviction was secured or a state body determined fraud occurred, according to von Spakovsky.
The database has compiled nearly 1,300 proven instances of voter fraud in federal and local elections dating back to 1982. About 280 of the instances have occurred since 2015 and 14 have occurred since January.
The 2020 cases range from forged signatures and falsifying registration forms to voting more than once and bribing homeless people to vote a certain way.
However, an April report published by the Brennan Center for Justice said voter fraud is “incredibly rare” and less likely than getting struck by lightning. It added that localities employ several tools including identity verification, bar codes and harsh sentencing guidelines for those caught committing fraud.
The Brennan Center for Justice has published a variety of studies, which it says show voter fraud isn’t rampant in the U.S.
But von Spakovsky said that this view, that fraud isn’t widespread, is misguided. While voter fraud might be rare, it can still be impactful in certain races, he added.
“Where fraud can make a difference is in a close election. And we have close elections all the time in this country,” von Spakovsky told the DCNF.
“When people vote, they’re not just voting on the presidential race,” he continued. “They’re voting for congressional offices. They’re voting for statewide offices. They’re voting for their state legislatures. They’re voting for county commission seats and town council seats.”
“And in many of those races, they’re won by a small number of votes,” von Spakovsky said.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a right-leaning legal group, has focused on inaccurate voter rolls to show the existence of voter fraud. PILF’s April report, which Trump cited, had made an error, according to ProPublica, and was later corrected.
PILF’s September report showed that there were 349,773 apparently deceased registrants across 41 states’ voter rolls. The report also purported to show that tens of thousands of voters voted twice in 2016 and 2018.
“Every problem that you see with election mailings, you can root it back to the voter roll itself because the address was wrong, the name was spelled wrong, or it was listed in the wrong precinct,” Logan Churchwell, PILF’s communications director, told the DCNF.
Pennsylvania officials announced on Oct. 14 that 29,000 voters had received wrong ballots. That incident came weeks after ballots in New York City, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. were reportedly sent to the wrong addresses.
“These big counties that have hundreds of thousands, even millions of voters in them that are for the first time having to print ballots for everyone,” Churchwell said. “You can’t just go buy an HP printer at Walmart and start printing ballots with it. You have to engage with companies that have the printers.”
PILF discovered through open records requests that ballot issues have occurred in many places across the country, including in battleground states in the Midwest, according to Churchwell. Voters have reported receiving their ballot in the mail only to find card stock in the envelope, for example.
“Sometimes those companies that get the contract don’t have a lot of experience with ballots,” he added.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) outlined the wide-ranging approach it has implemented to investigate and prosecute voter fraud in a Thursday press release. It state that the DOJ will investigate all forms of election fraud including “destruction of ballots, vote-buying, multiple voting, submission of fraudulent ballots or registrations, and alteration of votes.”
Attorney General William Barr said in a statement: “Americans have the opportunity once again to help shape the future of this nation by exercising their right to vote.”
“[The DOJ] will work tirelessly alongside other federal, state, and local agencies to protect that right as it is administered by state and local jurisdictions across the nation,” Barr said.
Late Ballots
Late-arriving mail ballots has been the subject of multiple lawsuits, some of which have reached the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling on Monday in a 5-3 vote, prohibiting the State of Wisconsin from counting mail-in ballots that arrive days after the election. Citing the pandemic, voting rights groups, state and national Democratic parties and the League of Women voters had sought to extend ballot counting in Wisconsin, according to NBC News.
“In a Presidential election, counting all the votes quickly can help the State promptly resolve any disputes, address any need for recounts, and begin the process of canvassing and certifying the election results in an expeditious manner,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh said in the court’s opinion.
The ruling means Wisconsin residents must get their ballot in by 8 p.m. on Nov. 3, according to The AP. Roughly 80,000 ballots were received late during the state’s April primary.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court contrasted its Wisconsin decision with opinions allowing the States of Pennsylvania and North Carolina to accept ballots after the day of the election, The Times reported.
First, the court refused to issue an order telling Pennsylvania elections officials whether to reject or accept late ballots. The court had previously sided with a state court on Oct. 19, which allowed ballots to be counted up to three days following the election even if they aren’t postmarked, CNBC reported.
Second, the court upheld lower court rulings, which allowed North Carolina elections officials to accept ballots nine days after the day of the election, according to the Times. The state legislature only called for a three-day extension.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Minnesota ballots must be received by 8 p.m. on election day to be counted, according to FOX-affiliate KMSP-TV.
Republicans have argued that counting late ballots violates federal law, which sets the day of the election. The Constitution allows for Congress to pass legislation setting the date of the election.
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with Republicans in the Wisconsin case, but not in the Pennsylvania and North Carolina cases because the former involved federal intrusion on state law.
“While the Pennsylvania applications implicated the authority of state courts to apply their own constitutions to election regulations, this case involves federal intrusion on state lawmaking processes,” Roberts wrote.
Mismatched Signatures
Mismatched and missing signatures on ballots is the second most common cause for rejected ballots behind lateness, according to FiveThirtyEight.
“Instead of Florida 2000, where you had two guys with the magnifying glasses very carefully looking at punched holes in ballots, now they’re going to be looking at signatures,” Churchwell predicted.
Voting rights groups have argued that determining if a ballot’s signature matches the one on file can be subjective, according to FiveThirtyEight. Lila Carpenter, an American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project paralegal, wrote in 2018 that a ballot signature requirement “affects voters already at the margins.”
“[Democratic Party’s lawyers] are trying to void out signature comparison requirements,” von Spakovsky said. “They don’t want that happening.”
The Brennan Center for Justice touted signatures as an important security measure to prevent voter fraud.
“We actually compare every single signature of every single ballot that comes in and we compare it and make sure that it matches the one on their voter registration record,” said Kim Wyman, Washington Secretary of State, CBS affiliate KEYE-TV.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes rejected a lawsuit that argued that the State of Arkansas should allow voters with mismatched signatures to correct their ballots, according to The AP.
However, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel issued an order Tuesday halting South Carolina counties from rejecting absentee ballots due to missing or mismatching signatures, according to The State. Gergel ruled that counties who mull a signature rule must seek approval from the courts and allow voters to correct their signature.
“If any county board of voter registration and elections … is employing or plans to employ a signature matching procedure, it must stop doing so immediately,” South Carolina head of elections Marci Andino wrote in a directive to all local county boards, The State reported.
Drop Boxes And Curbside Voting
On Tuesday, the Texas Supreme Court upheld Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s order that limited counties to a single drop-off box, according to the Texas Tribune. A federal appeals court had previously upheld Abbott’s order.
Plaintiffs argued that limiting each county to just one drop-off violated voters’ equal protection rights, according to the Texas Tribune. However, the judges on the state’s high court said Abbott’s order “does not disenfranchise anyone” since it provided other ways to vote.
Prior to the court’s ruling, the law firm challenging Abbott, the Campaign Legal Center, said in a press release, “if Abbott’s proclamation is allowed to stand, it will create voter confusion.”
A similar battle in Ohio over ballot drop boxes ended on Oct. 23 after the League of Women Voters and Ohio NAACP dropped their lawsuit, The AP reported. The groups had sued Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose over a directive he issued limiting counties to one ballot drop box.
“Boards of elections are prohibited from installing a drop box at any other location other than the board of elections,” the directive said.
Three separate courts ruling in the case ultimately favored LaRose, according to WBNS-10TV. On Oct. 12, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that LaRose’s ballot box directive was lawful.
The majority opinion ruled that the order was “unlikely to harm anyone” given the many other ways Ohio residents could vote, WBNS reported.
Curbside voting for disabled and sick people is widely available including in states like Michigan, Texas and North Carolina. However, some state officials have prohibited such voting for security reasons.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill opposed curbside voting, which he labeled “illegal activity,” since it would break the chain of custody for ballots, according to AL.com.
On Oct. 21, the Supreme Court sided with Merrill and his fellow Alabama Republicans and granted their request to prohibit curbside voting.
Post-Election Litigation
“Post-election litigation, on the presidential level, will matter only if the election is so close in a state that is pivotal for an electoral college victory that it would make sense to bring suit,” Hasen said.
Churchwell and Van Spakovsky agreed that post-election litigation will depend on the election results. If the race is close, both agreed that the litigation would revolve around the rejected ballots.
About 300,000 mail-in ballots were rejected in the 2016 election, according to an ABC News analysis. More than 500,000 were rejected during the 2020 primaries, including 23,000 in Wisconsin. Trump won the state by roughly 22,500 votes in 2016, the Times reported.
“There frankly may be some pretty fierce litigation over those ballots that got rejected or litigation over ballots being counted, for example, after Election Day that we’re missing information required by state law,” von Spakovsky said.
Further, following Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Monday, the court will not issue 4-4 decisions if it were to review post-election litigation, if she does not recuse herself. Although Barrett has recused herself from election cases since joining the court, she declined to commit to recusing herself from all cases during her confirmation hearings, according to CNN.


truepundit--2020-11-02--Trump To Hold 10 Rallies In The Final Two Days Before The Election

President Donald Trump will speak at 10 rallies in the two days before the election , according to his campaign website .
The president will also speak at three rallies on Saturday while Vice President Mike Pence will speak at one rally on Saturday , according to his campaign schedule .
Pence will speak in North Carolina while Trump will speak in Pennsylvania on Saturday .
On Sunday , Trump has rallies scheduled for Michigan , Idaho , North Carolina , Georgia and Florida , according to the schedule , and on Monday he is scheduled to appear in Pennsylvania @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and at two cities in Michigan .
“ Americans who attend President Trump ’ s rallies are eager to hear directly from him about his vision for the country and they exemplify the palpable enthusiasm for our President , ” Samantha Zager , deputy national press secretary , told the Daily Caller News Foundation .
“ While Joe Biden ’ s meager campaign schedule has him hiding from voters in the wake of reports of his corruption , President Trump and his team are using rallies to energize the activist class , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collect data from new voters , ” Zager said .
“ When he ’ s on the road , President Trump is not just talking to his supporters , but also to new voters who have disappointedly watched Biden refuse to work to earn their support , ” Zager continued .
Biden was ahead of Trump in the polls by 8.6 points in Wisconsin as of Friday , according to Five Thirty Eight .
Biden carries an 8.9 point lead over Trump in Michigan .
The former vice president had a 5.2 poll @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Friday , according to Five Thirty Eight .
Biden and former President Barack Obama plan to be in Michigan on Saturday , going to Flint and then Detroit to give campaign speeches , according to FOX 2 .
Both Biden and Trump will hold rallies in Minnesota on Friday , Fox News reported .
Biden is set to go to Wisconsin and held an event in Iowa before his Minnesota rally , according to Fox News .
Both candidates campaigned in Florida on Thursday .
Trump , like Biden , will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Friday , Fox reported .

President Donald Trump will speak at 10 rallies in the two days before the election, according to his campaign website.
The president will also speak at three rallies on Saturday while Vice President Mike Pence will speak at one rally on Saturday, according to his campaign schedule. Pence will speak in North Carolina while Trump will speak in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
On Sunday, Trump has rallies scheduled for Michigan, Idaho, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, according to the schedule, and on Monday he is scheduled to appear in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, again in North Carolina, and at two cities in Michigan.
“Americans who attend President Trump’s rallies are eager to hear directly from him about his vision for the country and they exemplify the palpable enthusiasm for our President,” Samantha Zager, deputy national press secretary, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “While Joe Biden’s meager campaign schedule has him hiding from voters in the wake of reports of his corruption, President Trump and his team are using rallies to energize the activist class, dominate local coverage for days, and collect data from new voters,” Zager said.
“When he’s on the road, President Trump is not just talking to his supporters, but also to new voters who have disappointedly watched Biden refuse to work to earn their support,” Zager continued.
Trump sets final campaign schedule: Sunday:
Washington, MI
Dubuque, IA
Hickory, NC
Rome, GA
Miami, FL Monday:
Fayetteville, NC
Scranton, PA
Traverse City, MI
Kenosha, WI
Grand Rapids, MI* *where he held final 2016 rally (to @maggieNYT‘s point about superstition) — Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 30, 2020
Trump sets final campaign schedule: Sunday:
Washington, MI
Dubuque, IA
Hickory, NC
Rome, GA
Miami, FL Monday:
Fayetteville, NC
Scranton, PA
Traverse City, MI
Kenosha, WI
Grand Rapids, MI* *where he held final 2016 rally (to @maggieNYT‘s point about superstition) — Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) October 30, 2020
Biden was ahead of Trump in the polls by 8.6 points in Wisconsin as of Friday, according to Five Thirty Eight. Biden carries an 8.9 point lead over Trump in Michigan.
The former vice president had a 5.2 poll lead ahead of Trump in Pennsylvania as of Friday, according to Five Thirty Eight.
Biden and former President Barack Obama plan to be in Michigan on Saturday, going to Flint and then Detroit to give campaign speeches, according to FOX 2.
Both Biden and Trump will hold rallies in Minnesota on Friday, Fox News reported. Biden is set to go to Wisconsin and held an event in Iowa before his Minnesota rally, according to Fox News. Both candidates campaigned in Florida on Thursday.
Trump, like Biden, will be on the campaign trail in Wisconsin on Friday, Fox reported.


truepundit--2020-11-02--Here Are Some Of The Key Characters In The Hunter Biden Story

Former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden have come under fire for Hunter Biden ’ s business dealings with China and Joe Biden ’ s alleged participation with these dealings , but there are several other key figures involved in the ongoing Biden scandal .
Hunter Biden ’ s business dealings have made news for several years , but focus on the presidential candidate ’ s son re-emerged in October when the New York Post reported a so-called “ smoking-gun ” piece of evidence : an email alleging that Hunter Biden introduced his father to a Burisma @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emphasized that the email showed that Joe Biden both knew of and participated in his son ’ s business dealings .
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported Thursday that a cybersecurity expert confirmed that the email is unquestionably authentic .
The Post also reported that Hunter Biden dropped his laptop off at a Delaware computer repair shop but never picked the device up , and that the store ’ s owner , who is a Trump supporter , said he found both lewd images and a video of Hunter Biden on the hard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , one of Hunter Biden ’ s business associates , has come forward corroborating emails that appear to show Joe Biden was set to receive monetary compensation from Hunter Biden ’ s dealings with a Chinese firm .
Bobulinski and two other businessmen partnered with the Bidens in May 2017 to form the company Sinohawk , a venture which would fizzle out by August 2017 .
Bobulinski said at an Oct. 22 press conference that Hunter Biden arranged an hour-long May 2 , 2017 , meeting in Los Angeles between Bobulinski , Joe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
During this meeting , Bobulinski said , he and the Bidens discussed “ the Biden ’ s family business plans with the Chinese.
” The former vice president was “ plainly familiar ” with these plans “ at a high level , ” Bobulinski said .
“ That is false , ” Bobulinski said of Joe Biden ’ s previous statement that he never spoke with Hunter Biden about business .
“ I have firsthand knowledge about this because I directly dealt with the Biden family , including Joe Biden , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brother of Joe Biden and uncle to Hunter Biden .
Both James and Hunter Biden “ aggressively leveraged ” their family name in order to secure foreign business deals , according to Bobulinski .
“ I think Joe Biden and the Biden family are compromised , ” Bobulinski told Fox News host Tucker Carlson Tuesday .
“ I just don ’ t see , given the history here in the facts , how Joe can ’ t be influenced in some manner based on the history that they have , ” Bobulinski added @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an American taxpayer , I ’ m very , very concerned.
” “ They were sort of wining and dining me and presenting the strength of the Biden family to get me more engaged , ” he said of Hunter and James Biden .
Bobulinski also said that the Bidens wanted to get him to become CEO of the joint business venture between CEFC China Energy Co. , a Chinese energy firm , and Oneida Holdings , a Delaware-based LLC .
“ They were putting their entire family legacy on the line , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exactly what they were doing .
They were dealing with a Chinese owned enterprise … that had strong financial support and political support from the Chinese Communist Party .
That ’ s how it was presented to me .
That ’ s not my own words .
That ’ s how they presented it to me and read me in on it.
” Bobulinski said that the day after the May 2017 meeting he told Jim Biden that the business dealings might impact Joe Biden ’ s presidential election .
“ I know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but what if he ran in the future ?
Aren ’ t they taking political risk or headline risk ?
And I remember looking at Jim Biden and saying , ‘ How are you guys getting away with this ?
Like , aren ’ t you concerned ?
’ ” James Biden looked at Bobulinski , laughed a little bit , and said , “ Plausible deniability , ” Bobulinski said .
Bobulinski also said that he had a second meeting with Joe Biden in a parking lot where Biden told him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ son and brother.
” James Gilliar is a Biden business partner and the author of a much discussed email to Bobulinski sent May 13 , 2017 .
The email said that 10 % of the Delaware-based LLC Oneida Holdings would be “ held by H for the big guy , ” which Bobulinski said refers to Joe Biden .
Gilliar also told Bobulinski in a May 20 , 2017 text message : “ Don ’ t mention Joe being involved , it ’ s only when u are face to face , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paranoid.
” “ They should be paranoid about things , ” Bobulinski replied , according to a screenshot of the exchange he released .
Rob Walker is also a Biden business associate who was involved in a May 19 , 2017 exchange that suggests Hunter Biden used the term “ chairman ” to refer to his father .
“ When he said his chairman he was talking about his dad and I think your dismissal of it maybe offended him a bit , but you didn ’ t know what he was talking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Both James ’ and my Chairman gave an emphatic NO , ” Hunter Biden texted Bobulinski as they negotiated over Oneida ’ s structure .
“ What Hunter ’ s referencing there is he spoke with his father and his father is giving an emphatic no to the ask that I had , which was putting proper governance in place around Oneida Holdings , ” Bobulinski said .

Former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden have come under fire for Hunter Biden’s business dealings with China and Joe Biden’s alleged participation with these dealings, but there are several other key figures involved in the allegations.
Tony Bobulinski. one of Hunter Biden’s business associates, has come forward corroborating emails that said Joe Biden was set to receive monetary compensation from Hunter Biden’s dealings with a Chinese firm.
James Gilliar and Rob Walker are Biden business associates and SinoHawk partners whose emails appear to link Joe Biden to his son’s business dealings.
Former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden have come under fire for Hunter Biden’s business dealings with China and Joe Biden’s alleged participation with these dealings, but there are several other key figures involved in the ongoing Biden scandal.
Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden’s business dealings have made news for several years, but focus on the presidential candidate’s son re-emerged in October when the New York Post reported a so-called “smoking-gun” piece of evidence: an email alleging that Hunter Biden introduced his father to a Burisma executive in April 2015.
The Post emphasized that the email showed that Joe Biden both knew of and participated in his son’s business dealings.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported Thursday that a cybersecurity expert confirmed that the email is unquestionably authentic.
The Post also reported that Hunter Biden dropped his laptop off at a Delaware computer repair shop but never picked the device up, and that the store’s owner, who is a Trump supporter, said he found both lewd images and a video of Hunter Biden on the hard drive of the laptop.
Tony Bobulinski
Tony Bobulinski, one of Hunter Biden’s business associates, has come forward corroborating emails that appear to show Joe Biden was set to receive monetary compensation from Hunter Biden’s dealings with a Chinese firm. Bobulinski and two other businessmen partnered with the Bidens in May 2017 to form the company Sinohawk, a venture which would fizzle out by August 2017.


truepundit--2020-11-02--Appeals Court Orders Minnesota To Separate Mail-In Ballots That Arrive After Election Day

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that mail-in ballots from Minnesota that arrive after Nov. 3 must be separated from those that are received on or before Election Day .
The ruling , which came from a three-judge panel from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals , authorized a GOP challenge against Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon order extending the ballot deadline by seven days .
Ballots received after Election Day should be separated , the ruling said , in order “ to be removed from vote totals in the event a final order is entered by a court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be invalid or unlawfully counted.
” The ruling suggested that ballots that are received after 8 p.m. Nov. 3 could be officially invalidated in a later ruling , though it is unclear as to whether they will be , Politico reported .
The ruling was praised by President Donald Trump and Minnesota Republicans , who earlier filed a motion pushing for the final verdict .
It argued that “ it could be impossible for a court to repair the election results tainted by illegally and untimely cast or mailed ballots if the ballots @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a reversal from an Oct. 11 decision that upheld Minnesota ’ s extended ballot deadline .
That decision led state Rep. Eric Lucero and GOP activist James Carson to push for an appeal , arguing that the extension was a violation of federal law , which outlines a Nov. 3 deadline , according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune .
Both Democratic nominee Joe Biden and Trump are set to hold campaign events in Minnesota on Friday .
The former vice president leads Trump in the state by just over eight points , according @ @ @

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that mail-in ballots from Minnesota that arrive after Nov. 3 must be separated from those that are received on or before Election Day.
The ruling, which came from a three-judge panel from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, authorized a GOP challenge against Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon order extending the ballot deadline by seven days. Ballots received after Election Day should be separated, the ruling said, in order “to be removed from vote totals in the event a final order is entered by a court of competent jurisdiction determining such votes to be invalid or unlawfully counted.”
The ruling suggested that ballots that are received after 8 p.m. Nov. 3 could be officially invalidated in a later ruling, though it is unclear as to whether they will be, Politico reported.
The ruling was praised by President Donald Trump and Minnesota Republicans, who earlier filed a motion pushing for the final verdict. It argued that “it could be impossible for a court to repair the election results tainted by illegally and untimely cast or mailed ballots if the ballots are not segregated.”
The ruling is a reversal from an Oct. 11 decision that upheld Minnesota’s extended ballot deadline. That decision led state Rep. Eric Lucero and GOP activist James Carson to push for an appeal, arguing that the extension was a violation of federal law, which outlines a Nov. 3 deadline, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Both Democratic nominee Joe Biden and Trump are set to hold campaign events in Minnesota on Friday. The former vice president leads Trump in the state by just over eight points, according to FiveThirtyEight.


truepundit--2020-11-02--Trump Says Supreme Court Will Be ‘Packed’ And ‘Revolving’ If Biden Wins

President Donald Trump said in a tweet Friday that the Supreme Court will be packed if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the election .
“ If Sleepy Joe Biden is actually elected President , the 4 Justices ( plus1 ) that helped make such a ridiculous win possible would be relegated to sitting on not only a heavily PACKED COURT , but probably a REVOLVING COURT as well , ” Trump tweeted .
“ At least the many new Justices will be Radical Left !
” Trump continued in his tweet .
Biden has declined to answer many questions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if he becomes president , but he remarked that he ’ s “ not a fan of court packing ” during an interview with Local 12 ’ s Kyle Inskeep .
“ It ’ s a lifetime appointment , I ’ m not going to attempt to change that at all , ” Biden said while on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania , according to The New York Post .
“ There is some literature among constitutional scholars about the possibility of going from one court to another court , not just always @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Court , ” Biden also said , referring to the idea of a rotating court , according to The New York Post .
Trump said to reporters in September , alluding to the election , “ I think this will end up in the Supreme Court , ” according to The Guardian .
“ And I think it ’ s very important that we have nine justices .
I think having a 4-4 situation is not a good situation , ” Trump continued , The Guardian reported .
The president nominated Justice Amy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , who died at 87 years old on Sept. 18 , according to a Supreme Court press release .
The Senate officially confirmed Barrett ’ s nomination to the court on Monday night and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the oath of office that same day .
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation ’ s request for comment .

President Donald Trump said in a tweet Friday that the Supreme Court will be packed if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the election.
“If Sleepy Joe Biden is actually elected President, the 4 Justices (plus1) that helped make such a ridiculous win possible would be relegated to sitting on not only a heavily PACKED COURT, but probably a REVOLVING COURT as well,” Trump tweeted.
“At least the many new Justices will be Radical Left!” Trump continued in his tweet.
If Sleepy Joe Biden is actually elected President, the 4 Justices (plus1) that helped make such a ridiculous win possible would be relegated to sitting on not only a heavily PACKED COURT, but probably a REVOLVING COURT as well. At least the many new Justices will be Radical Left! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2020
Biden has declined to answer many questions about whether he would pack the court if he becomes president, but he remarked that he’s “not a fan of court packing” during an interview with Local 12’s Kyle Inskeep.
“It’s a lifetime appointment, I’m not going to attempt to change that at all,” Biden said while on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania, according to The New York Post.
“There is some literature among constitutional scholars about the possibility of going from one court to another court, not just always staying the whole time in the Supreme Court,” Biden also said, referring to the idea of a rotating court, according to The New York Post.
Trump said to reporters in September, alluding to the election, “I think this will end up in the Supreme Court,” according to The Guardian.
“And I think it’s very important that we have nine justices. I think having a 4-4 situation is not a good situation,” Trump continued, The Guardian reported.
The president nominated Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Court following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died at 87 years old on Sept. 18, according to a Supreme Court press release. The Senate officially confirmed Barrett’s nomination to the court on Monday night and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the oath of office that same day.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.


truepundit--2020-11-02--Virginia Mandates Police Receive Anti-Racism Training, Bans No Knock Warrants

Democratic Virginia Gov .
Ralph Northam signed over a dozen police reforms into law , including mandated anti-racism training for law enforcement and a ban on no-knock warrants .
Senate Bill 5030 , which was passed Wednesday , “ creates statewide minimum training standards ” on “ awareness of racism ” and “ biased profiling , ” according to a statement from the governor ’ s office .
The ordinance makes the Commonwealth the third state in the nation to ban no-knock raids , and the legislation also forbids local departments from acquiring “ grenades , weaponized aircraft and high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demilitarize , Northam ’ s team wrote .
“ Too many families , in Virginia and across our nation , live in fear of being hurt or killed by police , ” Northam said in the release .
“ These new laws represent a tremendous step forward in rebuilding trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve .
“ I am grateful to the legislators and advocates who have worked so hard to make this change happen , ” he continued .
“ Virginia is better , more just , and more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” The bill ensures that people of color be present on the Criminal Justice Services Board , bars officers from using neck restraints in some situations and requires cops to intervene when their fellow peace officers are engaging in excessive force , according to the statement .
The ordinance also makes it a Class 6 felony for an officer to “ carnally know , ” a term for engaging in sexual relations , anyone that they are in a position of authority over , such as an inmate or parolee , the release @ @ @ @ @ @ @ create “ civilian law enforcement review boards , ” which can discipline officers .
“ The deaths of George Floyd , Breonna Taylor , and Ahmaud Arbery woke Americans to a longstanding problem that has existed for generations—and we know Virginia is not immune , ” Virginia State Senator Mamie Locke said in the statement .
“ These are transformative bills that will make Virginians ’ lives better , and I ’ m so proud to see them signed into law .
”

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed over a dozen police reforms into law, including mandated anti-racism training for law enforcement and a ban on no-knock warrants.
Senate Bill 5030, which was passed Wednesday, “creates statewide minimum training standards” on “awareness of racism” and “biased profiling,” according to a statement from the governor’s office. The ordinance makes the Commonwealth the third state in the nation to ban no-knock raids, and the legislation also forbids local departments from acquiring “grenades, weaponized aircraft and high caliber rifles” in an effort to demilitarize, Northam’s team wrote.
“Too many families, in Virginia and across our nation, live in fear of being hurt or killed by police,” Northam said in the release. “These new laws represent a tremendous step forward in rebuilding trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
“I am grateful to the legislators and advocates who have worked so hard to make this change happen,” he continued. “Virginia is better, more just, and more equitable with these laws on our books.”
The bill ensures that people of color be present on the Criminal Justice Services Board, bars officers from using neck restraints in some situations and requires cops to intervene when their fellow peace officers are engaging in excessive force, according to the statement.
The ordinance also makes it a Class 6 felony for an officer to “carnally know,” a term for engaging in sexual relations, anyone that they are in a position of authority over, such as an inmate or parolee, the release read. In addition, localities can create “civilian law enforcement review boards,” which can discipline officers.
“The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery woke Americans to a longstanding problem that has existed for generations—and we know Virginia is not immune,” Virginia State Senator Mamie Locke said in the statement. “These are transformative bills that will make Virginians’ lives better, and I’m so proud to see them signed into law.”


truepundit--2020-11-02--‘These People Are Truly Morons’: Donald Trump Jr Blasts CNN Over Rallies, Downplays Virus Deaths

Donald Trump Jr. said coronavirus deaths had fallen to an inconsequential number during an interview in which he blasted CNN Correspondent Sanjay Gupta .
President Donald Trump ’ s son Donald Trump Jr. made the comments during an appearance on “ The Ingraham Angle ” on Fox News Thursday night .
Trump Jr. reacted to a clip that host Laura Ingraham played in which CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta warned people against attending the president ’ s rallies .
“ These people are truly morons , ” Trump Jr. said .
“ They go after Scott Atlas because he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ magically is.
” “ Why aren ’ t they talking about deaths ?
The numbers almost nothing because we ’ ve gotten control and we understand how it works , ” Trump Jr. said .
The U.S. reported 88,452 new coronavirus cases and 1,049 new coronavirus deaths Thursday as both figure continued to climb , according to The COVID Tracking Project .
The European Union recently overtook the U.S. in new cases and deaths , according to The Financial Times .
“ We are outperforming Europe in a positive way , ” Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gotten ahold of it.
” U.S. coronavirus hospitalizations also continued to climb , reaching 46,095 Thursday , according to The COVID Tracking Project .
Utah hospitals have had to refer patients elsewhere and Gov .
Gary Herbert said the state is close to enacting crisis standards of care , or rationed care , Deseret News reported Thursday .
Trump hired Dr. Scott Atlas , former chief of neuroradiology at the university ’ s medical center , as a top health adviser in August , according to The Associated Press .
Gupta ’ s @ @ @ @ @

Donald Trump Jr. said coronavirus deaths had fallen to an inconsequential number during an interview in which he blasted CNN Correspondent Sanjay Gupta.
President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. made the comments during an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News Thursday night. Trump Jr. reacted to a clip that host Laura Ingraham played in which CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta warned people against attending the president’s rallies.
“These people are truly morons,” Trump Jr. said. “They go after Scott Atlas because he is not an epidemiologist but Sanjay Gupta magically is.”
“Why aren’t they talking about deaths? The numbers almost nothing because we’ve gotten control and we understand how it works,” Trump Jr. said.
The U.S. reported 88,452 new coronavirus cases and 1,049 new coronavirus deaths Thursday as both figure continued to climb, according to The COVID Tracking Project. The European Union recently overtook the U.S. in new cases and deaths, according to The Financial Times.
“We are outperforming Europe in a positive way,” Trump Jr. added. “We’ve gotten ahold of it.”
U.S. coronavirus hospitalizations also continued to climb, reaching 46,095 Thursday, according to The COVID Tracking Project. Utah hospitals have had to refer patients elsewhere and Gov. Gary Herbert said the state is close to enacting crisis standards of care, or rationed care, Deseret News reported Thursday.
Trump hired Dr. Scott Atlas, former chief of neuroradiology at the university’s medical center, as a top health adviser in August, according to The Associated Press. Gupta’s medical specialty is neurosurgery.


truepundit--2020-11-02--A ‘Key’ Source For A Debunked Claim In The Steele Dossier Has Been Identified

• Olga Galkina , a Russian public relations specialist , has been identified as a source for the Steele dossier ’ s most direct allegation of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government .
• Galkina was a sub-source for Igor Danchenko , a Russian analyst who provided information to Christopher Steele .
• A former national security official confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that Galkina was a source for Danchenko .
• A Russian tech executive who Galkina accused of working with Russian hackers has called her a “ disgruntled and unstable ” former employee .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s most specific but debunked allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government has been identified as a Russian public relations executive named Olga Galkina .
Galkina , 40 , was a sub-source for Igor Danchenko , a Russian analyst who reported directly to dossier author Christopher Steele , a Wall Street Journal investigation found Wednesday , citing a former national security official .
When Galkina began feeding information to Danchenko in mid-2016 , she was an employee of Aleksej Gubarev , a Russian tech executive who owns two Cyprus-based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Webzilla .
Gubarev is accused in a dossier memo dated Dec. 13 , 2016 , of working with Russian hackers to infiltrate Democrats ’ computer systems , and of having been recruited by Russian spy services .
Galkina had been fired at Gubarev ’ s company a month before Steele wrote the memo , according to The Journal , providing a possible motive for her to spread questionable allegations about the company .
Galkina had been hired by the firm as a public relations specialist in November 2015 to help the company produce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ business in the U.S. and Europe .
She is listed as a press contact on a Feb. 2 , 2016 , press release for Servers.com , an affiliate of XBT .
According to The Journal , Galkina ’ s manager filed a report with police in the Cypriot city of Limassol saying that she drank heavily and was often late for work .
One of Galkina ’ s former colleagues told the Daily Caller News Foundation in August that she drank heavily and often failed to show up on time to work .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fire Galkina over what her former co-workers have said was erratic behavior .
According to one report in Russian media in February 2017 , Galkina sued Gubarev , accusing him of harming her career and reputation by spreading rumors that she was unable to care for her young son .
In addition to the allegations against Gubarev , the dossier memo also asserted that a Russian man named Seva Kaptsugovich took part in the hacks of Democrats ’ computer networks .
Kaptsugovich was likely not involved in the cyber attacks , McClatchy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported that Kaptsugovich had been in prison since 2013 on child pornography charges .
Kaptsugovich is also from Perm , the home town for Danchenko and Galkina .
A lawyer for Gubarev alleged Wednesday that Galkina fabricated allegations against the tech executive .
“ The report that allegations about Alex Gubarev , XBT and Webzilla originated from a disgruntled and unstable employee is further proof of what has already been proven time and time again – all of the allegations against my clients are a pure fabrication and their inclusion in any report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a gross dereliction of professional responsibilities , ” Val Gurvits , the lawyer for Gubarev , told the Daily Caller News Foundation .
Galkina ’ s role as a source for the Steele dossier would seem to further undercut the credibility of the salacious document , which BuzzFeed News published on Jan. 10 , 2017 .
The FBI relied heavily on the dossier in applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ( FISA ) warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page .
Steele , a former MI6 officer , had declined to tell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ source and sub-sources , but the FBI identified Danchenko as the likely primary source by January 2017 .
During a series of interviews that month , Danchenko described six sub-sources he relied on to collect information that he passed to Steele , according to an FBI memo from those interviews and released on July 17 .
Danchenko and the other sources ’ names are redacted in the memo , but two Twitter users were able to identify Danchenko and Galkina based on clues from the document .
Galkina did not respond to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In his FBI interviews , Danchenko said that Galkina was a “ close , personal friend ” who had served as a “ key ” source for him for the dossier project .
According to Danchenko , Galkina was a source for three separate allegations that appeared in the dossier , which Steele compiled on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee .
Danchenko said Galkina provided the information that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen visited Prague in August 2016 to meet with Kremlin officials to discuss paying off hackers .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin to influence the election .
Special counsel Robert Mueller debunked the allegation in a report he released in April 2019 , which said that Cohen has never visited Prague .
Galkina also told Danchenko that Trump campaign aide Carter Page met secretly in Moscow in July 2017 with a Kremlin official named Igor Diveykin to discuss the exchange of blackmail material related to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton .
The FBI cited the information in its applications for FISA warrants against the former Trump campaign aide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The special counsel ’ s report said investigators found no evidence that Page or any other Trump associates conspired with Russians in 2016 .
The Justice Department inspector general ( IG ) blasted the FBI for relying on Steele ’ s information for the FISA applications .
A report from the IG said that the FBI failed to verify Steele ’ s allegations and also had evidence that Steele doubted the veracity of some information in the dossier .
Danchenko also told the FBI that Galkina was the source for the dossier @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to aid the Russian hacks of Democrats ’ computer systems during the 2016 election .
Gubarev sued Steele in the United Kingdom over the claim and filed a lawsuit against BuzzFeed for publishing the dossier in January 2017 .
BuzzFeed News paid $ 4 million to a consulting firm , FTI Consulting , to try to validate the dossier ’ s claims about Gubarev .
The report found no evidence to support Steele ’ s allegations .
BuzzFeed has not reported on the developments regarding Steele , Danchenko or other dossier sources .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Galkina since they were teenagers growing up in Perm , a city of around 1 million in southern Russia .
He said Galkina provided him information on “ major Russian firms ; Russian state entities , including the Kremlin ” that he also shared with Steele ’ s firm , Orbis Business Intelligence .
Danchenko had worked as an analyst for the Brookings Institution , a liberal foreign policy think tank , through 2010 .
Danchenko said Galkina “ was one of the key sources for the ‘ Trump dossier ’ ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in some passages in the document .
He also said he trusted Galkina “ 100 % , ” according to the FBI memo .
A footnote from the IG report said that a dossier sub-source who appears to be Galkina said that information attributed to her in the dossier appeared to be “ exaggerated ” and that she did not recognize information attributed to her .
A footnote to that section of the IG report says that the FBI received information in June 2017 that Danchenko and Galkina had “ personal and business @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voiced strong support for candidate Clinton in the 2016 U.S. elections , ” according to the footnote .
The IG report also indicates that the FBI had Section 702 coverage on Galkina , which would have allowed the FBI to surveil her communications .
The IG report said that the FBI received evidence in January 2017 that the allegation about Cohen may have been planted by Russian intelligence operatives .
The report said that Russian intelligence may also have planted disinformation about a Trump sex tape .
The report said that the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2017 that said two Russian intelligence officers knew in July 2016 that Steele was investigating Trump ’ s ties to Russia .
Danchenko came out of hiding last week in interviews with The Guardian and The New York Times .
He defended his work on the dossier and said he stood by the document ’ s most salacious allegation : that the Kremlin had recorded Trump in a Moscow hotel room with prostitutes .
He has also set up an online fundraiser to help him recoup income he claims he has lost since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He posted a tweet referencing Webzilla , the company owned by Gubarev .
Gurvits , the lawyer for Gubarev , responded to Danchenko ’ s claims in his statement to the DCNF .
“ It actually boggles the mind that the so called ‘ Russian expert ’ Igor Danchenko is now trying to portray himself as a victim , when he clearly was a willing participant in the concoction and dissemination of unfettered lies , ” he told the DCNF .
Danchenko defended his work on the dossier in a statement to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ longstanding relationship with most of my sources … and have no reason to believe that any of them fabricated information that was given to me , ” he told the newspaper .
“ More importantly , I have yet to see anything credible that indicates that the raw intelligence I collected was inaccurate.
” Danchenko told The Times that he met with three sources in Moscow and St. Petersburg in June 2016 who all brought up the alleged Trump sex tape .
The DCNF reported in August that Danchenko met with Sergey Abyshev @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of energy , and Ivan Vorontsov , the editor of a Russian finance magazine .
Danchenko ’ s attorney did not respond to request for comment .

Olga Galkina, a Russian public relations specialist, has been identified as a source for the Steele dossier’s most direct allegation of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
Galkina was a sub-source for Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who provided information to Christopher Steele.
A former national security official confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that Galkina was a source for Danchenko.
A Russian tech executive who Galkina accused of working with Russian hackers has called her a “disgruntled and unstable” former employee.
The source for some of the Steele dossier’s most specific but debunked allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government has been identified as a Russian public relations executive named Olga Galkina.
Galkina, 40, was a sub-source for Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who reported directly to dossier author Christopher Steele, a Wall Street Journal investigation found Wednesday, citing a former national security official.
When Galkina began feeding information to Danchenko in mid-2016, she was an employee of Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian tech executive who owns two Cyprus-based web hosting companies, XBT Holdings and Webzilla.
Gubarev is accused in a dossier memo dated Dec. 13, 2016, of working with Russian hackers to infiltrate Democrats’ computer systems, and of having been recruited by Russian spy services.
Galkina had been fired at Gubarev’s company a month before Steele wrote the memo, according to The Journal, providing a possible motive for her to spread questionable allegations about the company.
Galkina had been hired by the firm as a public relations specialist in November 2015 to help the company produce press releases about the company’s business in the U.S. and Europe. She is listed as a press contact on a Feb. 2, 2016, press release for Servers.com, an affiliate of XBT.
According to The Journal, Galkina’s manager filed a report with police in the Cypriot city of Limassol saying that she drank heavily and was often late for work. One of Galkina’s former colleagues told the Daily Caller News Foundation in August that she drank heavily and often failed to show up on time to work.
By August 2016, Webzilla was looking to fire Galkina over what her former co-workers have said was erratic behavior.
According to one report in Russian media in February 2017, Galkina sued Gubarev, accusing him of harming her career and reputation by spreading rumors that she was unable to care for her young son.
In addition to the allegations against Gubarev, the dossier memo also asserted that a Russian man named Seva Kaptsugovich took part in the hacks of Democrats’ computer networks.
Kaptsugovich was likely not involved in the cyber attacks, McClatchy reported in 2017. The news outlet reported that Kaptsugovich had been in prison since 2013 on child pornography charges.
Kaptsugovich is also from Perm, the home town for Danchenko and Galkina.
A lawyer for Gubarev alleged Wednesday that Galkina fabricated allegations against the tech executive.
“The report that allegations about Alex Gubarev, XBT and Webzilla originated from a disgruntled and unstable employee is further proof of what has already been proven time and time again – all of the allegations against my clients are a pure fabrication and their inclusion in any report, whether private or public, is a gross dereliction of professional responsibilities,” Val Gurvits, the lawyer for Gubarev, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Galkina’s role as a source for the Steele dossier would seem to further undercut the credibility of the salacious document, which BuzzFeed News published on Jan. 10, 2017.
The FBI relied heavily on the dossier in applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Steele, a former MI6 officer, had declined to tell the FBI the identities of his primary source and sub-sources, but the FBI identified Danchenko as the likely primary source by January 2017.
During a series of interviews that month, Danchenko described six sub-sources he relied on to collect information that he passed to Steele, according to an FBI memo from those interviews and released on July 17.
Danchenko and the other sources’ names are redacted in the memo, but two Twitter users were able to identify Danchenko and Galkina based on clues from the document.
Galkina did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
In his FBI interviews, Danchenko said that Galkina was a “close, personal friend” who had served as a “key” source for him for the dossier project.
According to Danchenko, Galkina was a source for three separate allegations that appeared in the dossier, which Steele compiled on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Danchenko said Galkina provided the information that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen visited Prague in August 2016 to meet with Kremlin officials to discuss paying off hackers. The allegation fueled speculation for years that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin to influence the election.
Special counsel Robert Mueller debunked the allegation in a report he released in April 2019, which said that Cohen has never visited Prague.
Galkina also told Danchenko that Trump campaign aide Carter Page met secretly in Moscow in July 2017 with a Kremlin official named Igor Diveykin to discuss the exchange of blackmail material related to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The FBI cited the information in its applications for FISA warrants against the former Trump campaign aide.
Page has vehemently denied meeting Diveykin. The special counsel’s report said investigators found no evidence that Page or any other Trump associates conspired with Russians in 2016.
The Justice Department inspector general (IG) blasted the FBI for relying on Steele’s information for the FISA applications. A report from the IG said that the FBI failed to verify Steele’s allegations and also had evidence that Steele doubted the veracity of some information in the dossier.
Danchenko also told the FBI that Galkina was the source for the dossier claim that Gubarev used his web companies to aid the Russian hacks of Democrats’ computer systems during the 2016 election.
Gubarev sued Steele in the United Kingdom over the claim and filed a lawsuit against BuzzFeed for publishing the dossier in January 2017.
BuzzFeed News paid $4 million to a consulting firm, FTI Consulting, to try to validate the dossier’s claims about Gubarev. The report found no evidence to support Steele’s allegations.
BuzzFeed has not reported on the developments regarding Steele, Danchenko or other dossier sources.
Danchenko told investigators that he had known Galkina since they were teenagers growing up in Perm, a city of around 1 million in southern Russia.
He said Galkina provided him information on “major Russian firms; Russian state entities, including the Kremlin” that he also shared with Steele’s firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.
Danchenko had worked as an analyst for the Brookings Institution, a liberal foreign policy think tank, through 2010.
Danchenko said Galkina “was one of the key sources for the ‘Trump dossier’” and that she was “directly quoted” in some passages in the document.
He also said he trusted Galkina “100%,” according to the FBI memo.
The IG report suggests that FBI investigators interviewed Galkina.
A footnote from the IG report said that a dossier sub-source who appears to be Galkina said that information attributed to her in the dossier appeared to be “exaggerated” and that she did not recognize information attributed to her.
A footnote to that section of the IG report says that the FBI received information in June 2017 that Danchenko and Galkina had “personal and business ties.”
The sub-source had also “voiced strong support for candidate Clinton in the 2016 U.S. elections,” according to the footnote.
The IG report also indicates that the FBI had Section 702 coverage on Galkina, which would have allowed the FBI to surveil her communications.
The IG report said that the FBI received evidence in January 2017 that the allegation about Cohen may have been planted by Russian intelligence operatives.
The report said that Russian intelligence may also have planted disinformation about a Trump sex tape.
The report said that the U.S. intelligence community compiled a report in June 2017 that said two Russian intelligence officers knew in July 2016 that Steele was investigating Trump’s ties to Russia.
Danchenko came out of hiding last week in interviews with The Guardian and The New York Times. He defended his work on the dossier and said he stood by the document’s most salacious allegation: that the Kremlin had recorded Trump in a Moscow hotel room with prostitutes.
He has also set up an online fundraiser to help him recoup income he claims he has lost since being identified as Steele’s source.
He posted a tweet referencing Webzilla, the company owned by Gubarev.
Webzilla… Heard this name before. https://t.co/CYIggcPBnE — Igor Danchenko (@IgorDanch) October 21, 2020
Gurvits, the lawyer for Gubarev, responded to Danchenko’s claims in his statement to the DCNF.
“It actually boggles the mind that the so called ‘Russian expert’ Igor Danchenko is now trying to portray himself as a victim, when he clearly was a willing participant in the concoction and dissemination of unfettered lies,” he told the DCNF.
Danchenko defended his work on the dossier in a statement to The Journal.
“I have a longstanding relationship with most of my sources … and have no reason to believe that any of them fabricated information that was given to me, ” he told the newspaper. “More importantly, I have yet to see anything credible that indicates that the raw intelligence I collected was inaccurate.”
Danchenko told The Times that he met with three sources in Moscow and St. Petersburg in June 2016 who all brought up the alleged Trump sex tape.
The DCNF reported in August that Danchenko met with Sergey Abyshev, a deputy in the Russian ministry of energy, and Ivan Vorontsov, the editor of a Russian finance magazine.
Danchenko’s attorney did not respond to request for comment.


truepundit--2020-11-02--NY Post’s ‘Smoking Gun’ Hunter Biden Email 100% Authentic, Forensic Analysis Concludes

An email Hunter Biden received in April 2015 from a Burisma executive discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden , which lies at the heart of a New York Post investigation , is unquestionably authentic , a cybersecurity expert told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday .
The DCNF obtained a full copy of Hunter Biden ’ s alleged laptop from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday .
The DCNF provided Robert Graham , the founder of the cybersecurity firm Errata Security , with a copy of the email and its metadata for forensic analysis .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a cybersecurity expert in The Washington Post , the Associated Press , Wired , Engadget and other news and technology outlets , told the DCNF that he used a cryptographic signature found in the email ’ s metadata to validate that Vadym Pozharsky , an advisor to Burisma ’ s board of directors , emailed Hunter Biden on April 17 , 2015 .
In the email , Pozharsky thanked Hunter Biden for “ inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent some time together.
” The New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ October , describing it as a “ smoking-gun ” showing that Hunter Biden had introduced his father to the Burisma executive in 2015 .
The email was sent less than a year before Joe Biden pressured former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire a prosecutor who was reportedly investigating the gas company in return for a $ 1 billion loan guarantee .
Graham previously told the DCNF that emails sent from Gmail , such as Pozharski ’ s message to Hunter Biden , can be “ absolutely verified beyond a shadow of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the unique DKIM signature found in its metadata .
Graham used the DKIM signature within the email to verify with a private key on Google ’ s servers that the sender , recipient , subject , date and body of the message that the DCNF obtained from Giuliani were unchanged from when the email was originally sent in April 2015 .
Graham said the only way the email could have been faked is if someone hacked into Google ’ s servers , found the private key and used it to reverse engineer the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ metadata on its own does not provide any indication of whether hacking had anything to with the email ’ s release , Graham noted .
“ Of course , committing criminal hacking doesn ’ t make true information any less true , so no matter how illegitimately they gathered emails , the contents are provably legitimate , ” Graham said .
Joe Biden ’ s presidential campaign said in a statement that his schedule indicates that no such meeting as alleged in the email took place .
However , the campaign later told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the possibility he had a cursory encounter with the Burisma executive .
The email came from a computer that Hunter Biden reportedly dropped off at a Delaware-based computer repair shop in April 2019 .
The repair shop owner provided Giuliani a copy of the hard drive after it went unclaimed .
Hunter Biden has not denied giving his laptop to the Delaware repair shop .
Giuliani had initially refused to provide the Daily Caller with a copy of the hard drive in mid-October , saying that questions surrounding the veracity of its contents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the “ liberal press.
” The Biden campaign did not immediately return a request for comment .

An email Hunter Biden received in April 2015 from a Burisma executive discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden, which lies at the heart of a New York Post investigation, is unquestionably authentic, a cybersecurity expert told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.
The DCNF obtained a full copy of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday. The DCNF provided Robert Graham, the founder of the cybersecurity firm Errata Security, with a copy of the email and its metadata for forensic analysis.
Graham, who has been cited as a cybersecurity expert in The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Wired, Engadget and other news and technology outlets, told the DCNF that he used a cryptographic signature found in the email’s metadata to validate that Vadym Pozharsky, an advisor to Burisma’s board of directors, emailed Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015.
In the email, Pozharsky thanked Hunter Biden for “inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.”
The New York Post first reported the email in October, describing it as a “smoking-gun” showing that Hunter Biden had introduced his father to the Burisma executive in 2015.
The email was sent less than a year before Joe Biden pressured former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire a prosecutor who was reportedly investigating the gas company in return for a $1 billion loan guarantee.
Graham previously told the DCNF that emails sent from Gmail, such as Pozharski’s message to Hunter Biden, can be “absolutely verified beyond a shadow of a doubt” by testing its contents against the unique DKIM signature found in its metadata.
Graham used the DKIM signature within the email to verify with a private key on Google’s servers that the sender, recipient, subject, date and body of the message that the DCNF obtained from Giuliani were unchanged from when the email was originally sent in April 2015.
Graham said the only way the email could have been faked is if someone hacked into Google’s servers, found the private key and used it to reverse engineer the email’s DKIM signature.
Email metadata on its own does not provide any indication of whether hacking had anything to with the email’s release, Graham noted.
“Of course, committing criminal hacking doesn’t make true information any less true, so no matter how illegitimately they gathered emails, the contents are provably legitimate,” Graham said.
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said in a statement that his schedule indicates that no such meeting as alleged in the email took place. However, the campaign later told Politico that they could not rule out the possibility he had a cursory encounter with the Burisma executive.
The email came from a computer that Hunter Biden reportedly dropped off at a Delaware-based computer repair shop in April 2019. The repair shop owner provided Giuliani a copy of the hard drive after it went unclaimed.
Hunter Biden has not denied giving his laptop to the Delaware repair shop.
Giuliani had initially refused to provide the Daily Caller with a copy of the hard drive in mid-October, saying that questions surrounding the veracity of its contents were “pettifogging nonsense” pushed by the “liberal press.”
The Biden campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.


truepundit--2020-11-02--Tony Bobulinski Says FBI Interviewed Him For 5 Hours About Bidens, Chinese Business Deal

Former Biden family business partner Tony Bobulinski said on Thursday that the FBI interviewed him for five hours last week about his business dealings with Hunter Biden in a proposed joint venture with a Chinese energy company .
Bobulinski said in an interview with Sinclair Broadcasting that FBI agents told him in an Oct. 23 interview that he was a material witness in their investigation .
The FBI has not said whether it is conducting any investigations related to the Bidens .
Sinclair reporter James Rosen said that a Justice Department source said that a money laundering investigation was opened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ associates .
Bobulinski said that FBI agents asked him about his work with “ the Biden family , CEFC , and other operations around the world involving other countries.
” CEFC is a Chinese energy company with links to the communist regime that paid Hunter Biden at least $ 5 million in 2017 .
“ It was a very cooperative deep dive , ” Bobulinski said of his FBI interview .
In May 2017 , Bobulinski and two other businessmen partnered with Hunter Biden and James Biden to form a company called SinoHawk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was to invest $ 10 million from CEFC in various energy and infrastructure projects in the U.S. and other countries .
The SinoHawk-CEFC joint venture fizzled out by August 2017 , but Hunter and James Biden continued doing business with the firm .
A Senate report released last month said that CEFC wired Hunter Biden at least $ 5 million beginning on Aug. 7 , 2017 .
Some of the wire payments were flagged for possible criminal financial activity , the Senate report said .
Bobulinski came forward last week with details about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CEFC .
He said he did not know that CEFC paid the Bidens until he read it in the Senate report .
Bobulinski provided a trove of emails , text messages and business records related to his dealings with the Bidens to the Senate Homeland Security Committee and FBI .
The Daily Caller News Foundation also obtained the documents .
One of the documents shows that Hunter Biden arranged a meeting for Bobulinski with Joe Biden in Los Angeles on May 2 , 2017 .
Bobulinski said at a press conference last week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s plans for doing business in China .
He said that Joe Biden ’ s denials were “ false , ” and that he had “ firsthand knowledge about this because I directly dealt with the Biden family , including Joe Biden.
” Bobulinski has also said that Joe Biden was referenced as “ the big guy ” in an email laying out the equity stakes for the partners in the joint venture .
The email allocated 20 % equity to Hunter Biden and 10 % for “ the big guy.
” The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never held equity in his son ’ s companies .

Former Biden family business partner Tony Bobulinski said on Thursday that the FBI interviewed him for five hours last week about his business dealings with Hunter Biden in a proposed joint venture with a Chinese energy company.
Bobulinski said in an interview with Sinclair Broadcasting that FBI agents told him in an Oct. 23 interview that he was a material witness in their investigation.
The FBI has not said whether it is conducting any investigations related to the Bidens. Sinclair reporter James Rosen said that a Justice Department source said that a money laundering investigation was opened in 2019 of Hunter Biden and unnamed associates.
Bobulinski said that FBI agents asked him about his work with “the Biden family, CEFC, and other operations around the world involving other countries.”
CEFC is a Chinese energy company with links to the communist regime that paid Hunter Biden at least $5 million in 2017.
“It was a very cooperative deep dive,” Bobulinski said of his FBI interview.
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Bobulinski tells @WeAreSinclair he was questioned by six @FBI agents, with counsel present, for five hours on October 23, listing him as a “material witness” in an ongoing investigation focused on Hunter Biden and his associates. His cell phones were examined. pic.twitter.com/5lPzRTREJN — James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) October 29, 2020
In May 2017, Bobulinski and two other businessmen partnered with Hunter Biden and James Biden to form a company called SinoHawk.
The initial plan for the partnership was to invest $10 million from CEFC in various energy and infrastructure projects in the U.S. and other countries.
The SinoHawk-CEFC joint venture fizzled out by August 2017, but Hunter and James Biden continued doing business with the firm.
A Senate report released last month said that CEFC wired Hunter Biden at least $5 million beginning on Aug. 7, 2017. Some of the wire payments were flagged for possible criminal financial activity, the Senate report said.
Bobulinski came forward last week with details about the business deal with the Bidens and CEFC. He said he did not know that CEFC paid the Bidens until he read it in the Senate report.
Bobulinski provided a trove of emails, text messages and business records related to his dealings with the Bidens to the Senate Homeland Security Committee and FBI.
The Daily Caller News Foundation also obtained the documents.
One of the documents shows that Hunter Biden arranged a meeting for Bobulinski with Joe Biden in Los Angeles on May 2, 2017. Bobulinski said at a press conference last week that they discussed the Biden family’s plans for doing business in China.
He said that Joe Biden’s denials were “false,” and that he had “firsthand knowledge about this because I directly dealt with the Biden family, including Joe Biden.”
Bobulinski has also said that Joe Biden was referenced as “the big guy” in an email laying out the equity stakes for the partners in the joint venture.
The email allocated 20% equity to Hunter Biden and 10% for “the big guy.”
The Biden campaign has said that Joe Biden never held equity in his son’s companies.


truepundit--2020-11-02--Gov. Cuomo announces mandatory COVID-19 testing for out-of-state travelers

Most people who visit New York will have to quarantine for three days and then prove they are negative for @ @ @ @ @ free to go about their business , ” Gov .
Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday .
@ @ @ @ @ which exempts New Jersey , Connecticut and Pennsylvania residents — eliminates the governor ’ s @ @ @ @ @ restricted travel from over 40 coronavirus hotspots across the country .
Now , travelers must @ @ @ @ @ test taken within three days of arriving in the Empire State , and must also @ @ @ @ @ — and get a new COVID-19 test on the fourth .
If that ’ s @ @ @ @ @ for two weeks , the governor said at an Albany press briefing .
“ Four @ @ @ @ @ seven days , and that ’ s basically , by all probability , the incubation @ @ @ @ @ , as he announced 2,049 new cases across the state and 8 deaths reported yesterday @ @ @ @ @ to the insightful Thomas Paine Podcast Below --

Most people who visit New York will have to quarantine for three days and then prove they are negative for COVID-19 before they are “free to go about their business,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday.
The strict new mandate — which exempts New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania residents — eliminates the governor’s quarantine advisory list, which restricted travel from over 40 coronavirus hotspots across the country.
Now, travelers must show proof of a negative test taken within three days of arriving in the Empire State, and must also quarantine for three more days — and get a new COVID-19 test on the fourth.
If that’s positive, they must isolate for two weeks, the governor said at an Albany press briefing.
“Four days plus three days is seven days, and that’s basically, by all probability, the incubation period,” Cuomo said, as he announced 2,049 new cases across the state and 8 deaths reported yesterday. – READ MORE
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truepundit--2020-11-02--PAINE IN THE MORNING: 10 things you need to know this MONDAY on Election Eve – November 2, 2020 (LIS

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