thepoliticalinsider--2020-08-31--George Floyd Died Of Drug Overdose, Cops’ Lawyers Argue

Defense Attorney Eric J. Nelson , who is representing former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin , is now claiming that George Floyd died of a drug overdose , rather than in a police homicide .
Chauvin has been charged with Floyd ’ s murder which occurred as officers got into an altercation with him purportedly involving counterfeit money .
Nelson has filed a motion asking a judge to dismiss all charges against Chauvin because he does not believe Floyd was murdered , according to .
In the motion , which was filed in Minnesota ’ s Hennepin County District Court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prosecution has not shown probable cause in charging Chauvin with second-degree unintentional murder , third-degree murder , and second-degree manslaughter .
He claimed that his client carried out Floyd ’ s detainment by the book , including the use of a “ Maximal Restraint Technique.
” Nelson argued that this technique was necessary because of fears that Floyd could harm himself , Chauvin , or the other officers that were present .
The lawyer added that the cops were actually trying to help Floyd and were worried he might fall and strike his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vehicle in the road .
In his motion , Nelson also pointed out that Floyd ’ s autopsy concluded that there was both fentanyl and methamphetamine in the late suspect ’ s system , otherwise known as a “ speedball.
” On top of that , Floyd was reportedly positive for COVID-19 at the time of his death .
“ Put simply , Mr. Floyd could not breathe because he had ingested a lethal dose of fentanyl and , possibly , a speedball , ” the motion stated in part .
“ Combined @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heart conditions , Mr. Floyd ’ s use of fentanyl and methamphetamine most likely killed him .
Adding fentanyl and methamphetamine to Mr. Floyd ’ s existing health issues was tantamount to lighting a fuse on a bomb.
” Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker even said that if Floyd were found dead in any other circumstance — in this case , “ home alone and no other apparent causes , this could be acceptable to call an [ overdose ] .
” RELATED : Breaking : Court Docs Show Medical Examiner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Fentanyl ’ In His System This motion is set to be addressed by Judge Peter Cahill in a hearing that is scheduled for September 11 .
This comes one week after attorney Earl Gray , who represents former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane , filed a motion stating that Floyd intentionally swallowed fentanyl tablets while he and his fellow officers , including Chauvin , attempted to take Floyd into custody .
Gray claimed that bodycam footage showed a “ white spot ” on Floyd ’ s tongue , which disappeared moments later @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time of the altercation , Floyd was in the process of swallowing “ 2 milligrams of fentanyl , a lethal dose ” to avoid being caught with the drugs on his person .
“ All [ Floyd ] had to do is sit in the police car , like every other defendant who is initially arrested .
While attempting to avoid his arrest , all by himself , Mr. Floyd overdosed on Fentanyl , ” Gray stated in the motion .
“ Given his intoxication level , breathing would have been difficult at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ failure to obey commands , coupled with his overdosing , contributed to his own death.
” Like Mr. Nelson ( and for the same reasons ) , Mr. Gray would like the charges against his client to be dropped as well .
This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on August 31 , 2020 .
It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission .
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Defense Attorney Eric J. Nelson, who is representing former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, is now claiming that George Floyd died of a drug overdose, rather than in a police homicide.
Chauvin has been charged with Floyd’s murder which occurred as officers got into an altercation with him purportedly involving counterfeit money. Nelson has filed a motion asking a judge to dismiss all charges against Chauvin because he does not believe Floyd was murdered, according to ABC News.
Chauvin’s Lawyer Files Motion
In the motion, which was filed in Minnesota’s Hennepin County District Court on Friday, Nelson claimed that the prosecution has not shown probable cause in charging Chauvin with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. He claimed that his client carried out Floyd’s detainment by the book, including the use of a “Maximal Restraint Technique.”
Nelson argued that this technique was necessary because of fears that Floyd could harm himself, Chauvin, or the other officers that were present. The lawyer added that the cops were actually trying to help Floyd and were worried he might fall and strike his head or be hit by an oncoming vehicle in the road.
Floyd’s Autopsy
In his motion, Nelson also pointed out that Floyd’s autopsy concluded that there was both fentanyl and methamphetamine in the late suspect’s system, otherwise known as a “speedball.” On top of that, Floyd was reportedly positive for COVID-19 at the time of his death.
“Put simply, Mr. Floyd could not breathe because he had ingested a lethal dose of fentanyl and, possibly, a speedball,” the motion stated in part. “Combined with sickle cell trait, his pre-existing heart conditions, Mr. Floyd’s use of fentanyl and methamphetamine most likely killed him. Adding fentanyl and methamphetamine to Mr. Floyd’s existing health issues was tantamount to lighting a fuse on a bomb.”
Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker even said that if Floyd were found dead in any other circumstance — in this case, “home alone and no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to call an [overdose].”
RELATED: Breaking: Court Docs Show Medical Examiner Thought George Floyd Had ‘Fatal Level of Fentanyl’ In His System
This motion is set to be addressed by Judge Peter Cahill in a hearing that is scheduled for September 11.
Thomas Lane’s Lawyer Also Files Motion
This comes one week after attorney Earl Gray, who represents former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane, filed a motion stating that Floyd intentionally swallowed fentanyl tablets while he and his fellow officers, including Chauvin, attempted to take Floyd into custody. Gray claimed that bodycam footage showed a “white spot” on Floyd’s tongue, which disappeared moments later. He also claimed that at the time of the altercation, Floyd was in the process of swallowing “2 milligrams of fentanyl, a lethal dose” to avoid being caught with the drugs on his person.
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“All [Floyd] had to do is sit in the police car, like every other defendant who is initially arrested. While attempting to avoid his arrest, all by himself, Mr. Floyd overdosed on Fentanyl,” Gray stated in the motion. “Given his intoxication level, breathing would have been difficult at best. Mr. Floyd’s intentional failure to obey commands, coupled with his overdosing, contributed to his own death.”
Like Mr. Nelson (and for the same reasons), Mr. Gray would like the charges against his client to be dropped as well.
This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on August 31, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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thepoliticalinsider--2020-08-31--Petition To Replace Confederate Statue With Black Panther Actor Garners Thousands Of Signatures

After a private four-year battle with colon cancer , “ Black Panther ” star Chadwick Boseman passed away at the age of 43 last Friday .
Now , a petition is going viral demanding that the town of Anderson , South Carolina replace its confederate statue with a tribute to Boseman .
Started by DeAndrew Weaver , the petition is addressed directly to Anderson Mayor Terence Roberts .
“ Mr .
Boseman is without question an American treasure and his accolades go on and on .
It is only fitting that his work is honored in the same place that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It went on to remind Roberts of all the good things Boseman did to help the community .
“ As fellow citizens go about their day they should have a face that sees all people as equal , ” Weaver wrote .
“ That sees all citizens regardless of outward appearance as a member of the Anderson community.
” RELATED : Democrat Demands History Classes Be Abolished In Public Schools Because They ‘ Lead To White Privilege And A Racist Society ’ He then called for the immediate removal of the town @ @ @ @ @ @ @ erected in 1902 as a tribute to the confederate veterans of Anderson County .
The monument was vandalized back in June , days after the death of George Floyd , but it was not removed because of a statute that requires a two-thirds of the state legislature vote to do so .
Earlier this year efforts were made by local residents to remove a Confederate monument located in the town square of downtown Anderson .
Unfortunately , this effort gained no traction due to current South Carolina law .
It is currently illegal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confederate war efforts in the state of South Carolina , ( SECTION 10-1-165 ) .
This has made any effort to remove the statue impossible .
Many will agree that Mr. Boseman is without question worthy of such a monument in his home town , but I would like to go a step further .
I believe that Mr. Boseman is worthy of the spot that is currently occupied in the town square .
Weaver later doubled down on this in an interview , citing Boseman ’ s charity work as a major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ I was excited when I went to Anderson , South Carolina to go to university , and learned that was Chadwick Boseman ’ s hometown , ” he said.
” It was so inspiring to see him do his job so well , and to be rewarded and acknowledged .
More than his excellence on-screen , he was charitable in real life .
He bought out a theatre in Anderson so there wasn ’ t a financial barrier for kids to see Black Panther.
” RELATED : Never Give The Mob @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ever Be Enough , So Stop Trying To Appease Them At the time of this writing , the petition has over 13,000 signatures .
This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on August 31 , 2020 .
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After a private four-year battle with colon cancer, “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman passed away at the age of 43 last Friday. Now, a petition is going viral demanding that the town of Anderson, South Carolina replace its confederate statue with a tribute to Boseman.
Started by DeAndrew Weaver, the petition is addressed directly to Anderson Mayor Terence Roberts.
“Mr. Boseman is without question an American treasure and his accolades go on and on. It is only fitting that his work is honored in the same place that birthed him,” the petition stated.
It went on to remind Roberts of all the good things Boseman did to help the community.
“As fellow citizens go about their day they should have a face that sees all people as equal,” Weaver wrote. “That sees all citizens regardless of outward appearance as a member of the Anderson community.”
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Replacing Confederate War Memorial With Chadwick Boseman
He then called for the immediate removal of the town’s confederate monument, which was erected in 1902 as a tribute to the confederate veterans of Anderson County. The monument was vandalized back in June, days after the death of George Floyd, but it was not removed because of a statute that requires a two-thirds of the state legislature vote to do so.
Weaver wrote:
Earlier this year efforts were made by local residents to remove a Confederate monument located in the town square of downtown Anderson. Unfortunately, this effort gained no traction due to current South Carolina law. It is currently illegal to remove or alter monuments dedicated to confederate war efforts in the state of South Carolina,(SECTION 10-1-165). This has made any effort to remove the statue impossible. Many will agree that Mr. Boseman is without question worthy of such a monument in his home town, but I would like to go a step further. I believe that Mr. Boseman is worthy of the spot that is currently occupied in the town square.
Weaver later doubled down on this in an interview, citing Boseman’s charity work as a major reason he wants to see him honored.
“I was excited when I went to Anderson, South Carolina to go to university, and learned that was Chadwick Boseman’s hometown,” he said.”It was so inspiring to see him do his job so well, and to be rewarded and acknowledged. More than his excellence on-screen, he was charitable in real life. He bought out a theatre in Anderson so there wasn’t a financial barrier for kids to see Black Panther.”
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At the time of this writing, the petition has over 13,000 signatures.
This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on August 31, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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thepoliticalinsider--2020-09-02--Joe Biden Claims Trump Supporter Murdered In Portland To Blame For His Own Death

Joe Biden has claimed that the Donald Trump supporter who was shot and killed in Portland “ incited responses ” and is therefore to blame for his own death .
At one of his rare press conferences , Joe Biden was asked if he agreed with his running mate , Senator Kamala Harris , about whether there should be charges brought against the officers who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha , along with the officers involved in the death of Breanna Taylor in Louisville .
To both he simply replied that “ we should let the judicial system work it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discussing the recent murder of a Trump supporter , Aaron “ Jay ” Danielson , in Portland , and suggested he was to blame for his own death , as “ the Trump guys [ had been ] riding along in vans , inciting responses , shooting rubber bullets… or paintballs.
” RELATED : Video : Trump Walks Off As Reporter Demands He Answer Questions About His Supporters Firing Paintballs As usual , Biden was speaking completely out of his rear-end .
It ’ s correct to say that there was an incident @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but that happened far earlier in the day compared to when Danielson was shot in cold blood .
He was not killed as part of a mass confrontation between two groups , as Biden suggested , but shot while trying to defend himself with pepper spray .
As The New York Times reported : A man , who Mr. Pappas [ Danielson ’ s companion ] later contends is the gunman , shouts : “ Hey , we got some right here .
We got a couple right here.
” Another man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you , he ’ s pulling it out.
” The sound of spraying is audible , followed immediately by two gunshots .
Mr. Dunlap captures the shooting on his livestream .
Mr. Danielson can be seen raising his arm and beginning to spray a pepper spray-like substance , followed almost immediately by the gunshots .
The man in white backs away with his arm raised and then runs , along with the man dressed in black .
RELATED : Video , Court Documents Suggest Kenosha Shooting May Have Been Self-Defense Only One Side @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Portland and Kenosha is not coming from Trump supporters , Mr Biden .
It is coming from the radical , communist elements , none of whom will be backing President Trump in November .
And when you say that the police “ become the enemy ” of the American people , speaking in language of “ invading ” neighborhoods , it is these words that cause violence .

Joe Biden has claimed that the Donald Trump supporter who was shot and killed in Portland “incited responses” and is therefore to blame for his own death.
“Inciting Responses”
At one of his rare press conferences, Joe Biden was asked if he agreed with his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, about whether there should be charges brought against the officers who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, along with the officers involved in the death of Breanna Taylor in Louisville. To both he simply replied that “we should let the judicial system work it way.”
He then continued on, discussing the recent murder of a Trump supporter, Aaron “Jay” Danielson, in Portland, and suggested he was to blame for his own death, as “the Trump guys [had been] riding along in vans, inciting responses, shooting rubber bullets… or paintballs.”
RELATED: Video: Trump Walks Off As Reporter Demands He Answer Questions About His Supporters Firing Paintballs
Biden Is Talking Nonsense!
As usual, Biden was speaking completely out of his rear-end. It’s correct to say that there was an incident where antifa activists were confronted with paintballs, but that happened far earlier in the day compared to when Danielson was shot in cold blood.
Antifa clash with drivers in the Trump caravan in downtown Portland. They spray urine at the cars, others spray mace and shoot paintballs back. #PortlandRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/YvaIzsNuUU — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 30, 2020
He was not killed as part of a mass confrontation between two groups, as Biden suggested, but shot while trying to defend himself with pepper spray. As The New York Times reported:
A man, who Mr. Pappas [Danielson’s companion] later contends is the gunman, shouts: “Hey, we got some right here. We got a couple right here.” Another man says, “He’s macing you, he’s pulling it out.” The sound of spraying is audible, followed immediately by two gunshots. Mr. Dunlap captures the shooting on his livestream. Mr. Danielson can be seen raising his arm and beginning to spray a pepper spray-like substance, followed almost immediately by the gunshots. The man in white backs away with his arm raised and then runs, along with the man dressed in black.
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Only One Side To Blame For The Violence
The violence in Portland and Kenosha is not coming from Trump supporters, Mr Biden. It is coming from the radical, communist elements, none of whom will be backing President Trump in November. And when you say that the police “become the enemy” of the American people, speaking in language of “invading” neighborhoods, it is these words that cause violence.


thepoliticalinsider--2020-09-02--Trump Campaign Responds To Choice Of Debate Moderators: ‘Clear Opponents’ Of The President

The Trump campaign has hit back at the choice of the moderators for the presidential debates , claiming some are “ clear opponents ” of the President .
The Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Wednesday their picks for the moderators of this year ’ s presidential debates .
Fox News ’ s Chris Wallace will host the first debate in Cleveland on September 29th , the second debate in Miami will be hosted on October 15th by Steve Scully , the political editor for C-SPAN , and the third debate in Nashville on October 22nd will be moderated by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s surprise , Joe Biden campaign ’ s team were far more complimentary to the moderators .
“ As Joe Biden has said for months – without farcical antics – he looks forward to participating in the debates set by the commission , regardless of who the independently chosen moderators are , ” said Andrew Bates , the Biden campaign spokesman .
However , the selection of debate moderators did not impress President Trump ’ s campaign team , to say the least .
“ These are not the moderators we would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allowed to have any input , ” Tim Murtaugh , the director of communications for the campaign said .
“ Some can be identified as clear opponents of President Trump , meaning Joe Biden will actually have a teammate on stage most of the time to help him excuse the radical , leftist agenda he is carrying , ” he added .
“ One thing is sure : Chris Wallace ’ s selection ensures that Biden will finally see him face-to-face after dodging his interview requests .
That is , if Biden actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ RELATED : Pelosi Says Biden Shouldn ’ t Debate Trump : ‘ I Don ’ t Think That There Should Be Any Debates ’ These “ neutral moderators ” are never neutral .
Chris Wallace , of supposedly conservative Fox , said in December that he believes , “ President Trump is engaged in the most direct sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history.
” How can you have a fair debate when you have moderators on record absolutely slamming one of the candidates ?
Surely if you were putting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at least have partisan moderators from both sides of the aisle !
I suppose one upside from this is that CNN won ’ t be hosting any of the debates for the first time since 2008 !
Maybe they were too obviously biased even for the Commission !

The Trump campaign has hit back at the choice of the moderators for the presidential debates, claiming some are “clear opponents” of the President.
Debate Moderators From Fox, NBC, C-SPAN
The Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Wednesday their picks for the moderators of this year’s presidential debates. Fox News’s Chris Wallace will host the first debate in Cleveland on September 29th, the second debate in Miami will be hosted on October 15th by Steve Scully, the political editor for C-SPAN, and the third debate in Nashville on October 22nd will be moderated by Kristen Welker from NBC.
To nobody’s surprise, Joe Biden campaign’s team were far more complimentary to the moderators.
“As Joe Biden has said for months – without farcical antics – he looks forward to participating in the debates set by the commission, regardless of who the independently chosen moderators are,” said Andrew Bates, the Biden campaign spokesman.
“Clear Opponents Of President Trump”
However, the selection of debate moderators did not impress President Trump’s campaign team, to say the least.
“These are not the moderators we would have recommended if the campaign had been allowed to have any input,” Tim Murtaugh, the director of communications for the campaign said.
“Some can be identified as clear opponents of President Trump, meaning Joe Biden will actually have a teammate on stage most of the time to help him excuse the radical, leftist agenda he is carrying,” he added.
“One thing is sure: Chris Wallace’s selection ensures that Biden will finally see him face-to-face after dodging his interview requests. That is, if Biden actually shows up,” Murtaugh concluded.
The campaigns respond to the announcement about presidential debate moderators. Trump campaign: “These are not the moderators we would have recommended…” / Biden campaign: “he looks forward to participating … regardless of who the independently chosen moderators are.” pic.twitter.com/Qt7n1o2vb4 — Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) September 2, 2020
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These Aren’t Neutral People!
These “neutral moderators” are never neutral. Chris Wallace, of supposedly conservative Fox, said in December that he believes, “President Trump is engaged in the most direct sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history.”
At ‘Celebrating the First Amendment and the Newseum’ event at The Newseum. Fox News host Chris Wallace: “I believe that President Trump is engaged in the most direct sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history.” pic.twitter.com/2sMGwxi98O — David Smith (@SmithInAmerica) December 12, 2019
How can you have a fair debate when you have moderators on record absolutely slamming one of the candidates? Surely if you were putting forward a neutral selection, you would at least have partisan moderators from both sides of the aisle!
I suppose one upside from this is that CNN won’t be hosting any of the debates for the first time since 2008! Maybe they were too obviously biased even for the Commission!


thepoliticalinsider--2020-09-02--CNN’s Brian Stelter Humiliated During C-SPAN Appearance As He’s Roasted By Callers

‘ s “ Reliable Sources ” host Brian Stelter was humiliated on Tuesday when he appeared on C-SPAN ’ s “ Washington Journal , ” only to have callers completely torch him on live television .
One caller kicked things off by phoning in to confront Stelter about last week ’ s chyron , “ Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting.
” This chyron was put up despite the fact that was simultaneously showing burning buildings in Kenosha , Wisconsin that had been set on fire by protesters .
The caller held nothing back as he attacked Stelter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and “ a stooge , ” adding , “ We all know you ’ re not reliable.
” The host responded by admitting that the chyron was a “ mistake , ” according to .
“ I don ’ t know who wrote it , probably a young producer who ’ s trying their best under deadline in a breaking news situation , ” Stelter said .
“ That kind of thing becomes easily criticized and probably not the right banner to put on the screen.
” This was only the beginning of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as another caller soon phoned in to blast him as well : “ You guys always talk about how many times Trump has lied .
I ’ ve calculated that , I think with your chyrons… Yeah , I don ’ t know if there ’ s any journalists left at CNN , but I know that if I were to estimate , about 300 different distortions or misinformation that we get out of CNN — and you have to watch them in the airport , which is harsh — but if you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it comes out to be 300,000-plus distortions of truth.
” “ So , my thing is , you guys— this is how low you ’ ll go .
You went out , and you made lies , and you defamed a child , ” the caller added , referring to Covington ( Kentucky ) Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann , with whom recently settled a multi-million dollar lawsuit .
“ And I don ’ t believe in dividing our nation , it hurts our great nation , and so CNN is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” the caller continued .
“ That ’ s my opinion , thank you.
” Stelter had this to say in response : I ’ m grateful for the call , and I know that you ’ re not the only person that feels this way .
There has been a process of radicalization that ’ s happened in this country , with media bashing that is absolutely unprecedented .
Ya know , 20 , 30 years ago , conservatives talked about media bias and there were some really valid points to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lots of journalists are based in New York and Washington [ D.C. ] , they ’ re based in big cities , they have liberal leanings , and mainstream newsrooms are built to make sure that that bias doesn ’ t seep into the news coverage .
And yet , sometimes it does .
I absolutely acknowledge that .
“ I think it ’ s different to talk about things as if they ’ re enemies , ” he continued .
“ No American is an enemy of another American .
No news @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stelter will definitely think twice before he ever takes calls on live television again !
This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on September 2 , 2020 .
It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission .
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CNN‘s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter was humiliated on Tuesday when he appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” only to have callers completely torch him on live television.
Caller Blasts Stelter
One caller kicked things off by phoning in to confront Stelter about last week’s CNN chyron, “Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting.” This chyron was put up despite the fact that CNN was simultaneously showing burning buildings in Kenosha, Wisconsin that had been set on fire by protesters.
The caller held nothing back as he attacked Stelter, calling him “Humpty Dumpty” and “a stooge,” adding, “We all know you’re not reliable.” The CNN host responded by admitting that the chyron was a “mistake,” according to Fox News.
“I don’t know who wrote it, probably a young producer who’s trying their best under deadline in a breaking news situation,” Stelter said. “That kind of thing becomes easily criticized and probably not the right banner to put on the screen.”
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Another Caller Confronts Stelter
This was only the beginning of Stelter’s humiliation, however, as another caller soon phoned in to blast him as well:
“You guys always talk about how many times Trump has lied. I’ve calculated that, I think with your chyrons… Yeah, I don’t know if there’s any journalists left at CNN, but I know that if I were to estimate, about 300 different distortions or misinformation that we get out of CNN — and you have to watch them in the airport, which is harsh — but if you added all that up to 46 months, it comes out to be 300,000-plus distortions of truth.”
“So, my thing is, you guys— this is how low you’ll go. You went out, and you made lies, and you defamed a child,” the caller added, referring to Covington (Kentucky) Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, with whom CNN recently settled a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
“And I don’t believe in dividing our nation, it hurts our great nation, and so CNN is really the enemy of the truth,” the caller continued. “That’s my opinion, thank you.”
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Stelter Struggles To Respond
Stelter had this to say in response:
I’m grateful for the call, and I know that you’re not the only person that feels this way. There has been a process of radicalization that’s happened in this country, with media bashing that is absolutely unprecedented. Ya know, 20, 30 years ago, conservatives talked about media bias and there were some really valid points to the critique. It is absolutely true that lots of journalists are based in New York and Washington [D.C.], they’re based in big cities, they have liberal leanings, and mainstream newsrooms are built to make sure that that bias doesn’t seep into the news coverage. And yet, sometimes it does. I absolutely acknowledge that.
“I think it’s different to talk about things as if they’re enemies,” he continued. “No American is an enemy of another American. No news outlet is an enemy of America.”
Oh @brianstelter did not have a pile of fans calling in to C-SPAN today. This man really brought the pain, saying "CNN is the enemy of truth." Stelter said yeah, Trump has "radicalized" people with this talk of media bias. Laughably claims MSM is structured to keep bias out! pic.twitter.com/fsDZIaePB7 — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) September 1, 2020
Stelter will definitely think twice before he ever takes calls on live television again!
This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on September 2, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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thepoliticalinsider--2020-09-02--Trump Wants CNN’s Chris Cuomo Fired After Audio Reveals Him Discussing Sexual Misconduct Allegations

President Trump tweeted Wednesday that CNN “ has no choice ” but to fire Chris Cuomo after secretly recorded conversations surfaced between the anchor and lawyer Michael Cohen discussing allegations of sexual misconduct .
The audio , obtained and played by Fox News host Tucker Carlson , shows the pair discussing journalists prying Cuomo ’ s former employer , ABC News , about allegations women have made against him .
“ You know , I ’ m always careful when I talk to media .
Do you know how many f***ing phone calls I ’ ve gotten from people at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and lying about things they ’ ve heard about me , to try to get stories about me when I was at ABC ?
” Cuomo rants .
He then notes a particular example .
“ Guys calling and saying , ‘ I heard he was the Charlie Rose of ABC .
He used to invite women to a hotel and open his bathrobe , ' ” the super-modest CNN host conveys .
“ Do I look like the kind of f***ing guy who ’ s got ta do that ?
” During @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allegations made against him .
“ Women who do work there saying , ‘ Oh yeah , you know , some of these men , ’ naming me with other guys , ‘ you know , we bumped into each other once in the elevator , and he put his hand on my shoulder , and he made me really uncomfortable , ' ” he whines .
Carlson notes that such audio for anybody else would have led Cuomo himself to publicly shame that person .
“ If women made those claims against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ denounce you on his TV show , ” accused Carlson .
“ Call for your firing , call for your banishment from decent society.
” “ These are women making the charges , after all .
You must believe women.
” President Trump responded to the noteworthy recording by calling Cuomo , the younger and far less vital contribution to society brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo , ‘ Fredo ’ three times , suggesting CNN has no choice but to fire him over the revelations in the audio .
“ Will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CNN ?
” Trump asked .
“ He speaks with great disrespect about women , and it will only get worse.
” “ Fredo ’ s Ratings are bad , so this is the time .
Always terrible to speak to sleazebags , especially when you are being recorded , ” he continued .
“ CNN has no choice , Fredo must go !
” RELATED : Chris Cuomo Slammed After Accusing Senator Tim Scott Of ‘ Carrying Water ’ For Trump Will CNN Believe These Women ?
One has to wonder if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , will be chiming in on whether or not there should be some sort of reckoning over these allegations , whatever they may be .
Tapper , after all , had a lot to say about President Trump the last time criticized somebody of unwanted sexual advances .
“ You can do anything except criticize other alleged offenders without folks like us pointing out the rank hypocrisy of it , ” Tapper said .
What about rank hypocrisy and that of your colleague ?
In 2018 , CNN ran an op-ed accusing Republicans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh , since “ standing by men is what Republicans do.
” Will CNN continue to stand by man ?

President Trump tweeted Wednesday that CNN “has no choice” but to fire Chris Cuomo after secretly recorded conversations surfaced between the anchor and lawyer Michael Cohen discussing allegations of sexual misconduct.
The audio, obtained and played by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, shows the pair discussing journalists prying Cuomo’s former employer, ABC News, about allegations women have made against him.
“You know, I’m always careful when I talk to media. Do you know how many f***ing phone calls I’ve gotten from people at ABC who say that reporters are calling and lying about things they’ve heard about me, to try to get stories about me when I was at ABC?” Cuomo rants.
He then notes a particular example.
“Guys calling and saying, ‘I heard he was the Charlie Rose of ABC. He used to invite women to a hotel and open his bathrobe,'” the super-modest CNN host conveys. “Do I look like the kind of f***ing guy who’s gotta do that?”
New Audio: Chris Cuomo confides in Michael Cohen. pic.twitter.com/SbHoPQx9Tm — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 2, 2020
RELATED: Tucker Carlson Blasts Chris Cuomo Over ‘Fake’ Stunt, Suggests There’s A ‘Scandal Underneath’
Trump Hammers Fredo
During the conversation, Cuomo seemingly references other allegations made against him.
“Women who do work there saying, ‘Oh yeah, you know, some of these men,’ naming me with other guys, ‘you know, we bumped into each other once in the elevator, and he put his hand on my shoulder, and he made me really uncomfortable,'” he whines.
Carlson notes that such audio for anybody else would have led Cuomo himself to publicly shame that person.
“If women made those claims against you, Chris Cuomo might very well denounce you on his TV show,” accused Carlson. “Call for your firing, call for your banishment from decent society.”
“These are women making the charges, after all. You must believe women.”
President Trump responded to the noteworthy recording by calling Cuomo, the younger and far less vital contribution to society brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, ‘Fredo’ three times, suggesting CNN has no choice but to fire him over the revelations in the audio.
“Will Fredo be fired by Fake News @CNN?” Trump asked. “He speaks with great disrespect about women, and it will only get worse.”
“Fredo’s Ratings are bad, so this is the time. Always terrible to speak to sleazebags, especially when you are being recorded,” he continued. “CNN has no choice, Fredo must go!”
So…if this video is any indication, Chris Cuomo is a “sleazeball” like just “friend” (?!) Michael Cohen; and he’s been accused many times of sexual harassment…he was the Charlie Rose of ABC? I suspect more is to come here. Tucker’s extending the pain. https://t.co/5ESiC9JmJd — Larry Sanger (@lsanger) September 2, 2020
RELATED: Chris Cuomo Slammed After Accusing Senator Tim Scott Of ‘Carrying Water’ For Trump
Will CNN Believe These Women?
One has to wonder if Cuomo’s colleague, Jake Tapper, will be chiming in on whether or not there should be some sort of reckoning over these allegations, whatever they may be.
Tapper, after all, had a lot to say about President Trump the last time he criticized somebody of unwanted sexual advances.
“You can do anything except criticize other alleged offenders without folks like us pointing out the rank hypocrisy of it,” Tapper said.
What about your rank hypocrisy and that of your colleague?
In 2018, CNN ran an op-ed accusing Republicans of “standing by their man,” Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, since “standing by men is what Republicans do.”
Will CNN continue to stand by their man?


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The following is excerpted from “ Abuse and Power : How an Innocent American Was Framed by an Attempted Coup Against the President ” ( Regnery Publishing ) .
At long last , the FBI wanted to have a discussion with me .
When I worked as an informant , they had called in advance for meetings ; now they sprung on me unexpectedly on the afternoon of March 9 , 2017 , in the ornate , art deco lobby of the Empire Hotel in Manhattan .
Two agents , both men , showed me their badges , and we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conference room to have a slightly more discreet conversation .
The agents asked me to meet them the next day .
I could have brought a lawyer , but I chose to stick with my plan—wagering that a spirit of openness would help them see what a sham this entire Witch Hunt had already become .
I still had hope that the whole debacle might be written off by the FBI , which I imagined might have originally misunderstood what it was dealing with .
The next day , the FBI booked a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Avenue from the New York Public Library in Manhattan .
I called them upon my arrival at the reception on East Forty-First Street .
The two famous stone lions staring at me from across the busy thoroughfare had appropriate names for what would be required over the coming days and years .
Legendary mayor Fiorello La Guardia nicknamed them “ Patience ” and “ Fortitude ” ( though they were originally named Leo Astor and Leo Lenox , after major donors to the library ) .
An agent came down to bring me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For only this first long meeting , there were three agents in attendance for my interrogation—the two men I ’ d met the day before and a woman .
At first they spoke in friendly tones , but like gladiators in a ridiculous modern equivalent of the Forum Boarium from ancient Roman times , they came at me from every direction in a relentless onslaught .
But I was by then adept at verbal sparring , with months of practice with TV conspiracy theorists under my belt .
I had heard most of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as had long been reported throughout those recent months and at the risk of stating the obvious , I immediately gave the agents extensive background information on the Democrats ’ role behind the Steele Dossier .
A day earlier , I had provided them with a letter that detailed the facts I had recently sent to Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner of the Senate Intelligence Committee .
If any of these larger investigations were to have any purpose at all , there should have been some shred of truth to the fraudulent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two Igors or some other sanctioned individuals .
I also must have had conservations with these gentlemen or some other Russian operatives about some kind of a “ quid pro quo ” relationship between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin .
When I honestly answered “ no ” to all of these outrageous preliminary questions , it seemed obvious that there wasn ’ t much more to discuss .
After the frustrated agents ran out of relevant questions and started fishing further afield after various trivialities , I took the opportunity to fill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” and its financiers , a dire warning sign of emerging scandals to come .
I suggested that the purpose of using such a document would be to inject “ false evidence ” into a criminal or intelligence case .
Essentially , it amounted to obstruction of justice .
The agents asked me about the Democrats ’ false allegations that I had received a stake in Rosneft .
I replied that I obviously had not .
I added that to the best of my knowledge , the only group other than the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rosneft was a commodity trading company named Glencore and its associates .
In December 2016 , Glencore had publicly announced the very same deal that I had been falsely accused of by the Democrats , the media , and the U.S. Intelligence Community .
Coincidentally , Glencore was founded by Marc Rich—the late donor to the Clinton Library and international fugitive pardoned by President Clinton on his last day in office .
Even the had called the decision “ An Indefensible Pardon.
” When asked , I confirmed to the FBI that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a cent ( or one Russian ruble ) to speak at my engagement—unlike Bill Clinton , who had received a half-million dollars for a Moscow speech while his wife served as U.S. secretary of state .
I did get an airline ticket for the trip , as I had countless times before for pro bono speaking engagements at other academic institutions worldwide .
They asked for details about my schedule in Moscow .
I walked them through it , including a meeting with a few executives I had long known at Tatneft , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I had done business with in the past .
I confirmed that I had momentarily greeted Russian deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich as he passed by me after walking off the stage of the NES graduation event .
All complete irrelevancies .
They drilled down on Igor Divyekin .
I reiterated that I was pretty sure I had never met him , even briefly or in passing .
Just like a lot of silly media reports , we talked through the events of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and any possible contact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sergey Kislyak .
In his Senate confirmation hearings after appointment as attorney general , Senator Jeff Sessions had been raked over the coals for not remembering his fleeting , irrelevant encounters with Kislyak .
I drew them a diagram of the conference room in Cleveland where Sessions and Kislyak had sat .
The senator and the ambassador were on the other side of the large banquet hall , far away from me , but I recalled the two men having a brief conversation amidst a large congregation of lollygaggers after Sessions finished his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of forum where one might engage in collusion negotiations , most of the audience at this Case Western Reserve University event were lazily hanging out to listen to some vaguely intellectual chit chat .
As our conversation began , I set up my MacBook laptop on the living room table of the Andaz suite and began to present a PowerPoint slide deck .
Earlier that morning and throughout much of the previous night , I had composed a presentation that outlined the connections in the swamp between the Democrats , the media , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ headquarters .
I spoke with these FBI agents as Americans who would actually care about underlying issues of fairness and democracy .
Little did I know that those principles continued to elude their government superiors and their political allies in Washington .
I also gave them a USB with a lot of my documents , not that I needed to bother .
As I subsequently learned , the FISA warrants signed by their director , James Comey , and the former U.S. deputy attorney general Sally Yates had already given them the run @ @ @ @ @ @ @ RELATED : GOP Senate Source Claims Mitt Romney Leading Effort To Stop Subpoena Of Comey And Brennan I did not yet know that Perkins Coie was the law firm that had helped to orchestrate the financing of the Dodgy Dossier , but I informed the agents of what I had heard : that a law firm had acted as the intermediary between the Democrats and their opposition research team from London .
That wasn ’ t the last that I ’ d hear from the FBI .
Six days later , the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recent trip that I ’ d made to Russia .
I traveled to Moscow in December 2016 in a fruitless endeavor to restart my business and engage in dialogue with some of the academics I had previously met there .
With the recent Trump election victory , I had incorrectly assumed that the world would return to normal .
During a dinner at a Russian restaurant with Shlomo Weber and an associate , Deputy Prime Minister Dvorkovich briefly stopped by and expressed interest in the possibility of better bilateral relations between our two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Again , nothing of substance was discussed , as I informed him that the manufactured controversy was still upending my life .
I was also asked about my earlier , fleeting contact with Viktor Podobnyy .
I emphasized to the agents how young this man was .
I told the FBI that I viewed my interactions with Podobnyy in much the same light as my NYU students .
The only difference was that NYU students had a lot more interest in what I was saying and asked much better questions .
My @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2017 , at the W Hotel in Midtown Manhattan , where I again met the same two primary agents .
By this time , the death threats were coming in bulk .
I complained that the FBI did not seem to be taking the mounting death threats seriously .
They told me to call them if I had a “ specific future threat.
” This time , they wanted to talk about former Trump campaign official Paul Manafort .
As with so many other topics , once I told them that I had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never returned any of the several emails I had sent him , a hundred other questions fell to the floor .
The conversation returned to Kislyak .
I told them that in our brief conversation , I had handed the ambassador one of my business cards .
He had not reciprocated and seemed entirely uninterested .
The agents asked me about the platform committee and the change in the Ukraine plank .
All I knew was that J.D .
Gordon had been involved in that process a week before the main events of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t even find out about it until the decisions had been made .
Our fourth pre-scheduled meeting was at the Hilton Manhattan East Hotel on the afternoon of Thursday , March 30 , 2017 .
They peppered me with questions about a Rosneft employee I had known for a decade , since his years as a junior capital markets staffer at Gazprom .
I told the FBI that we had never discussed anything remotely secret or politically sensitive .
I had seen this young man , Andrey Baranov , at a party held @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on my July 2016 trip .
Two longtime acquaintances briefly catching up , we did little more than exchange pleasantries .
To give the agents an idea of what I was up against , I told them how Obama ’ s former ambassador to Russia , Michael McFaul , had started live-tweeting during my NES speech .
He became a key node of the network trying to make the false case against me .
Every time the FBI agents asked a question , I would answer it and then try to remind the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ridiculous allegations .
That of course didn ’ t break through .
Unbeknownst to me , and as America would learn years later , I wasn ’ t telling the agents anything they weren ’ t already aware of .
The agents wanted to return to Kislyak again , and I detailed every conceivable moment in which we might have been in proximity to each other , such as walking with a group to a shuttle bus on our way to the next event .
Always surrounded by countless others in large gatherings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I had never met with Kislyak alone at any point in my life .
When asked about the campaign , I showed the agents my response to Don McGahn ’ s letter spelling out that I had never advised the candidate .
I discussed the texts I had exchanged with Steve Bannon , telling them that we talked about getting together but never got around to it .
My fifth and final interrogation was in a conference room at New York ’ s Grand Hyatt , next to Grand Central Station .
Called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wondered the reason for the surprise rendezvous .
I got a clue when I picked up a copy of that Friday ’ s as I headed out the door .
One of the headline stories of that morning ’ s March 31 , 2017 , edition announced : “ Flynn Offers Deal for Testimony.
” As expected , this was the first question and the intended primary line of interrogation as our meeting began .
They both seemed very disappointed to hear that I had never met or spoken with General Flynn at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another Russia collusion theory , quickly dashed .
The morning after I mockingly wore a big red bucket hat for my visit to the Senate Intelligence Committee clown show , I wore somewhat more subdued attire for my appearance before the grand jury assembled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller .
I had good reason to believe that the U.S. Department of Justice ’ s Special Counsel Office ( SCO ) operated with the same bag of politically-minded tricks that Senators Mark Warner , Richard Burr , and their “ Security Director ” James @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was one key difference : Mueller ’ s SCO , without question , had infinitely more prosecutorial power than those lollygaggers in Congress .
Perhaps realizing that they still had nothing on me , my FBI handler chose to make my red bucket hat a topic of conversation when we met .
The agent brought it up that morning as I prepared for my short ride in the Bureau ’ s unmarked squad car into the E. Barrett Prettyman FISA Courthouse on Friday , November 17 , 2017 .
I had last seen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ throughout March in New York City .
It had the awkward feel of a mutually uncomfortable reunion .
The complete mockery of the entire situation turned out to be a perfectly apt start to the day .
My final illegitimate FISA affidavit had been approved by another broken-down legal forum in that very same building less than five months prior , a result of the outrageously false court filing of June 2017 by Mueller ’ s appointer Rod Rosenstein and his colleagues .
RELATED : Ex-FBI Lawyer In FISA Warrant Scandal To Plead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ targeted not just myself , but the entire Trump movement and indeed the president of the United States , Donald J. Trump , all of whom had been swept up in this outlandish fictional drama concocted by the Democrats .
It was still tearing America ’ s legal system asunder .
But the month and a half that led up to my one grand jury appearance followed an old , familiar pattern : the more preposterous the partisan operatives could make these prolonged experiences , the better they seemed to feel about themselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ often on national television , I waited to be submerged in the darkness of the underground tunnel to the courthouse on C Street Northwest .
I was about to receive a thorough dunking in the filthy murk of the Swamp .
I had growing reasons to be skeptical of this special counsel grand jury process .
A month earlier in October 2017 , I had received a surprise call from my accountant .
As the national news surrounding privacy invasions grew more preposterous , an FBI agent had barged into the office of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ information .
After everything I had been through during the past year , nothing really surprised me anymore .
I had developed a thick skin throughout my many years of service , so on a personal level it didn ’ t bother me too much .
What annoyed me was when other innocent people , like my accountant , were pulled into the Witch Hunt dragnet .
It had already been a long time since the Democrats had succeeded in turning me into a social pariah and an infamous public figure , beginning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first , false news reports about the DNC Dossier in September 2016 .
After a year of continued defamation , any return to normalcy remained effectively on hold .
I tried in fits and starts to reestablish some sort of routine in my life .
Every time I did , acts like this unnecessary , even thuggish , harassment of my accountant certainly didn ’ t help give my friends and associates the sense that I could still be considered a functioning member of society .
The FBI could barge into the office @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of legitimately justified due cause .
The same week as the FBI ’ s visit to my accountant , I received a few subpoenas to testify before the grand jury in November 2017 .
In total , the Mueller Witch Hunt would tally over 2,800 subpoenas , or an average of at least four per day .
Like ballplayers trying to jack up their statistics , this waste of taxpayer dollars often served as little more than an ego boost for the bureaucratic harassment squad .
Earlier that year , I had spent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at Winston & Strawn .
After looking at most aspects of my life , both before and during my limited volunteer work with the Trump campaign in 2016 , it became clear to him , as it would to any reasonable individual , that I had never done anything even remotely wrong , unethical , illegal , or otherwise questionable in Russia .
RELATED : Trump Says Obama And Others Likely Guilty Of Treason When Asked About Susan Rice And Obamagate A few weeks before the FBI came knocking again , on September @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surveillance warrant expired .
But hope springs eternal , and the Rosenstein-Sessions DOJ continued to try any last step to dig up dirt .
Like Custer ’ s Last Stand , my testimony before the Mueller grand jury could offer a last ditch restoration of credibility to their ill-fated endeavor in this media disinformation war .
Having tried constant harassment and unprecedented civil liberties violations , the Justice Department focused their efforts on snaring me in small procedural errors or minor mix-ups in my recollection .
They needed to catch me in some—any—wrongdoing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with their corrupt FISA bargain .
There was more than a whiff of authoritarianism in their approach .
As Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz has similarly noted , it reminded me of the famous boast Stalin ’ s sidekick Lavrentiy Beria once made : “ Show me the man and I ’ ll find you the crime.
” I wondered what these people would be like unconstrained .
For the sake of all Americans , not just myself , I wanted to do everything I could to end this madness as quickly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why I had spent over ten hours talking with the FBI during my long series of meetings in March , over half a year earlier .
I had been an open book to them in the interest of putting an end to the illegitimate Russia Witch Hunt .
I had done so without an attorney present and had provided the agents with countless documents .
All of this exculpatory evidence should have made the allegations against me seem preposterous to any official without a political agenda .
On the face of it , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allegations from opposition research consultant Christopher Steele to be demonstrably false .
And yet , the central danger I faced still remained .
Amidst this grand miscarriage of justice , my eagerness to talk could have put me at even greater legal risk .
The special counsel and Congress had requested tens of thousands of additional documents via their subpoenas .
While trying my best to fulfill these demands , I soon realized that it would be impossible for me to provide a comprehensive record that could match the enormous data collection , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National Security Agency ( NSA ) .
Although full details of the spy scandal had still not been confirmed at the time , I started to learn that the NSA and FBI had already wiretapped and hacked me for at least a year .
Nearly five months had passed since I submitted my Privacy Act and FOIA requests for the FISA warrants on May 21 , 2017 .
But the powers that be still dragged their feet .
The authorities were equally defiant of Senators Grassley and Graham and other senior members of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the truth .
Other than Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions , some of the people I really needed help from were burrowed deep in the bowels of government .
The Office of Information Policy and Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) team over at DOJ had blocked disclosure , essentially daring me to spend a fortune on more assertive legal tactics .
RELATED : Lindsey Graham : Somebody From Obama ’ s FBI Needs To Go To Jail It became a game of chicken—a lone advocate against a behemoth with unlimited resources @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fight for my life .
I had no experience in anything like this .
With few personal sources of insight , I assumed at the time that what the , , CNN , and other news outlets had reported since April 2017 was mostly correct .
If , as reports said , I was the target of FISA collection expeditions , then data I provided to the special counsel , FBI , or Congress could never conceivably match all of the more detailed information that the U.S. Intelligence Community had already hacked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phones .
This made it clear to me that I faced thousands of opportunities to step into a perjury or false evidence trap .
Given this preceding year of government surveillance , testifying before the Mueller grand jury carried the risk of inadvertently stepping in one of those traps .
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The following is excerpted from “Abuse and Power: How an Innocent American Was Framed by an Attempted Coup Against the President” (Regnery Publishing).
At long last, the FBI wanted to have a discussion with me. When I worked as an informant, they had called in advance for meetings; now they sprung on me unexpectedly on the afternoon of March 9, 2017, in the ornate, art deco lobby of the Empire Hotel in Manhattan.
Two agents, both men, showed me their badges, and we walked around the corner near an empty conference room to have a slightly more discreet conversation. The agents asked me to meet them the next day.
I could have brought a lawyer, but I chose to stick with my plan—wagering that a spirit of openness would help them see what a sham this entire Witch Hunt had already become. I still had hope that the whole debacle might be written off by the FBI, which I imagined might have originally misunderstood what it was dealing with.
The next day, the FBI booked a suite at the Andaz Hotel across Fifth Avenue from the New York Public Library in Manhattan. I called them upon my arrival at the reception on East Forty-First Street.
The two famous stone lions staring at me from across the busy thoroughfare had appropriate names for what would be required over the coming days and years. Legendary mayor Fiorello La Guardia nicknamed them “Patience” and “Fortitude” (though they were originally named Leo Astor and Leo Lenox, after major donors to the library).
An agent came down to bring me up to the suite that afternoon. For only this first long meeting, there were three agents in attendance for my interrogation—the two men I’d met the day before and a woman. At first they spoke in friendly tones, but like gladiators in a ridiculous modern equivalent of the Forum Boarium from ancient Roman times, they came at me from every direction in a relentless onslaught.
But I was by then adept at verbal sparring, with months of practice with TV conspiracy theorists under my belt. I had heard most of their questions many times before. And as had long been reported throughout those recent months and at the risk of stating the obvious, I immediately gave the agents extensive background information on the Democrats’ role behind the Steele Dossier.
A day earlier, I had provided them with a letter that detailed the facts I had recently sent to Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
If any of these larger investigations were to have any purpose at all, there should have been some shred of truth to the fraudulent accusation that I had met with the two Igors or some other sanctioned individuals. I also must have had conservations with these gentlemen or some other Russian operatives about some kind of a “quid pro quo” relationship between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
When I honestly answered “no” to all of these outrageous preliminary questions, it seemed obvious that there wasn’t much more to discuss.
After the frustrated agents ran out of relevant questions and started fishing further afield after various trivialities, I took the opportunity to fill them in on the “Dodgy Dossier” and its financiers, a dire warning sign of emerging scandals to come.
I suggested that the purpose of using such a document would be to inject “false evidence” into a criminal or intelligence case. Essentially, it amounted to obstruction of justice.
The agents asked me about the Democrats’ false allegations that I had received a stake in Rosneft. I replied that I obviously had not. I added that to the best of my knowledge, the only group other than the government of Qatar who had mixed politics with Rosneft was a commodity trading company named Glencore and its associates.
In December 2016, Glencore had publicly announced the very same deal that I had been falsely accused of by the Democrats, the media, and the U.S. Intelligence Community. Coincidentally, Glencore was founded by Marc Rich—the late donor to the Clinton Library and international fugitive pardoned by President Clinton on his last day in office. Even the New York Times had called the decision “An Indefensible Pardon.”
When asked, I confirmed to the FBI that the New Economic School had not paid me a cent (or one Russian ruble) to speak at my engagement—unlike Bill Clinton, who had received a half-million dollars for a Moscow speech while his wife served as U.S. secretary of state. I did get an airline ticket for the trip, as I had countless times before for pro bono speaking engagements at other academic institutions worldwide.
They asked for details about my schedule in Moscow. I walked them through it, including a meeting with a few executives I had long known at Tatneft, a vertically integrated oil and gas company I had done business with in the past. I confirmed that I had momentarily greeted Russian deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich as he passed by me after walking off the stage of the NES graduation event.
All complete irrelevancies. They drilled down on Igor Divyekin. I reiterated that I was pretty sure I had never met him, even briefly or in passing.
Just like a lot of silly media reports, we talked through the events of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and any possible contact I might have had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. In his Senate confirmation hearings after appointment as attorney general, Senator Jeff Sessions had been raked over the coals for not remembering his fleeting, irrelevant encounters with Kislyak.
I drew them a diagram of the conference room in Cleveland where Sessions and Kislyak had sat. The senator and the ambassador were on the other side of the large banquet hall, far away from me, but I recalled the two men having a brief conversation amidst a large congregation of lollygaggers after Sessions finished his speech.
Far from offering any kind of forum where one might engage in collusion negotiations, most of the audience at this Case Western Reserve University event were lazily hanging out to listen to some vaguely intellectual chit chat.
As our conversation began, I set up my MacBook laptop on the living room table of the Andaz suite and began to present a PowerPoint slide deck. Earlier that morning and throughout much of the previous night, I had composed a presentation that outlined the connections in the swamp between the Democrats, the media, and their bosses at Justice and FBI headquarters.
I spoke with these FBI agents as Americans who would actually care about underlying issues of fairness and democracy. Little did I know that those principles continued to elude their government superiors and their political allies in Washington.
I also gave them a USB with a lot of my documents, not that I needed to bother. As I subsequently learned, the FISA warrants signed by their director, James Comey, and the former U.S. deputy attorney general Sally Yates had already given them the run of pretty much everything I had.
RELATED: GOP Senate Source Claims Mitt Romney Leading Effort To Stop Subpoena Of Comey And Brennan
I did not yet know that Perkins Coie was the law firm that had helped to orchestrate the financing of the Dodgy Dossier, but I informed the agents of what I had heard: that a law firm had acted as the intermediary between the Democrats and their opposition research team from London.
That wasn’t the last that I’d hear from the FBI. Six days later, the same two agents interviewed me about a more recent trip that I’d made to Russia. I traveled to Moscow in December 2016 in a fruitless endeavor to restart my business and engage in dialogue with some of the academics I had previously met there.
With the recent Trump election victory, I had incorrectly assumed that the world would return to normal. During a dinner at a Russian restaurant with Shlomo Weber and an associate, Deputy Prime Minister Dvorkovich briefly stopped by and expressed interest in the possibility of better bilateral relations between our two countries following Donald Trump’s victory.
Again, nothing of substance was discussed, as I informed him that the manufactured controversy was still upending my life. I was also asked about my earlier, fleeting contact with Viktor Podobnyy. I emphasized to the agents how young this man was.
I told the FBI that I viewed my interactions with Podobnyy in much the same light as my NYU students. The only difference was that NYU students had a lot more interest in what I was saying and asked much better questions.
My third interrogation was on March 16, 2017, at the W Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where I again met the same two primary agents. By this time, the death threats were coming in bulk. I complained that the FBI did not seem to be taking the mounting death threats seriously.
They told me to call them if I had a “specific future threat.”
This time, they wanted to talk about former Trump campaign official Paul Manafort. As with so many other topics, once I told them that I had never met Manafort and that he had never returned any of the several emails I had sent him, a hundred other questions fell to the floor.
The conversation returned to Kislyak. I told them that in our brief conversation, I had handed the ambassador one of my business cards. He had not reciprocated and seemed entirely uninterested.
The agents asked me about the platform committee and the change in the Ukraine plank. All I knew was that J.D. Gordon had been involved in that process a week before the main events of the RNC convention. I didn’t even find out about it until the decisions had been made.
Our fourth pre-scheduled meeting was at the Hilton Manhattan East Hotel on the afternoon of Thursday, March 30, 2017. They peppered me with questions about a Rosneft employee I had known for a decade, since his years as a junior capital markets staffer at Gazprom. I told the FBI that we had never discussed anything remotely secret or politically sensitive.
I had seen this young man, Andrey Baranov, at a party held by one of the banks in Moscow on my July 2016 trip. Two longtime acquaintances briefly catching up, we did little more than exchange pleasantries.
To give the agents an idea of what I was up against, I told them how Obama’s former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, had started live-tweeting during my NES speech. He became a key node of the network trying to make the false case against me.
Every time the FBI agents asked a question, I would answer it and then try to remind the agents of the fraudulent sources behind these ridiculous allegations. That of course didn’t break through. Unbeknownst to me, and as America would learn years later, I wasn’t telling the agents anything they weren’t already aware of.
The agents wanted to return to Kislyak again, and I detailed every conceivable moment in which we might have been in proximity to each other, such as walking with a group to a shuttle bus on our way to the next event. Always surrounded by countless others in large gatherings, I made the definitive statement that I had never met with Kislyak alone at any point in my life.
When asked about the campaign, I showed the agents my response to Don McGahn’s letter spelling out that I had never advised the candidate. I discussed the texts I had exchanged with Steve Bannon, telling them that we talked about getting together but never got around to it.
My fifth and final interrogation was in a conference room at New York’s Grand Hyatt, next to Grand Central Station. Called in at the last minute, I wondered the reason for the surprise rendezvous. I got a clue when I picked up a copy of that Friday’s Wall Street Journal as I headed out the door.
One of the headline stories of that morning’s March 31, 2017, edition announced: “Flynn Offers Deal for Testimony.” As expected, this was the first question and the intended primary line of interrogation as our meeting began. They both seemed very disappointed to hear that I had never met or spoken with General Flynn at any point in my life. Yet another Russia collusion theory, quickly dashed.
The morning after I mockingly wore a big red bucket hat for my visit to the Senate Intelligence Committee clown show, I wore somewhat more subdued attire for my appearance before the grand jury assembled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
I had good reason to believe that the U.S. Department of Justice’s Special Counsel Office (SCO) operated with the same bag of politically-minded tricks that Senators Mark Warner, Richard Burr, and their “Security Director” James Wolfe had recently relied on.
There was one key difference: Mueller’s SCO, without question, had infinitely more prosecutorial power than those lollygaggers in Congress. Perhaps realizing that they still had nothing on me, my FBI handler chose to make my red bucket hat a topic of conversation when we met.
The agent brought it up that morning as I prepared for my short ride in the Bureau’s unmarked squad car into the E. Barrett Prettyman FISA Courthouse on Friday, November 17, 2017.
I had last seen this agent over seven months earlier, throughout March in New York City. It had the awkward feel of a mutually uncomfortable reunion. The complete mockery of the entire situation turned out to be a perfectly apt start to the day.
My final illegitimate FISA affidavit had been approved by another broken-down legal forum in that very same building less than five months prior, a result of the outrageously false court filing of June 2017 by Mueller’s appointer Rod Rosenstein and his colleagues.
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This investigation targeted not just myself, but the entire Trump movement and indeed the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, all of whom had been swept up in this outlandish fictional drama concocted by the Democrats. It was still tearing America’s legal system asunder.
But the month and a half that led up to my one grand jury appearance followed an old, familiar pattern: the more preposterous the partisan operatives could make these prolonged experiences, the better they seemed to feel about themselves.
After months of getting slammed, often on national television, I waited to be submerged in the darkness of the underground tunnel to the courthouse on C Street Northwest. I was about to receive a thorough dunking in the filthy murk of the Swamp.
I had growing reasons to be skeptical of this special counsel grand jury process. A month earlier in October 2017, I had received a surprise call from my accountant. As the national news surrounding privacy invasions grew more preposterous, an FBI agent had barged into the office of my accounting firm demanding my personal financial information.
After everything I had been through during the past year, nothing really surprised me anymore. I had developed a thick skin throughout my many years of service, so on a personal level it didn’t bother me too much. What annoyed me was when other innocent people, like my accountant, were pulled into the Witch Hunt dragnet.
It had already been a long time since the Democrats had succeeded in turning me into a social pariah and an infamous public figure, beginning with the strategic leaks that created the first, false news reports about the DNC Dossier in September 2016. After a year of continued defamation, any return to normalcy remained effectively on hold.
I tried in fits and starts to reestablish some sort of routine in my life. Every time I did, acts like this unnecessary, even thuggish, harassment of my accountant certainly didn’t help give my friends and associates the sense that I could still be considered a functioning member of society. The FBI could barge into the office of anyone I knew without any semblance of legitimately justified due cause.
I remained a pariah.
The same week as the FBI’s visit to my accountant, I received a few subpoenas to testify before the grand jury in November 2017. In total, the Mueller Witch Hunt would tally over 2,800 subpoenas, or an average of at least four per day.
Like ballplayers trying to jack up their statistics, this waste of taxpayer dollars often served as little more than an ego boost for the bureaucratic harassment squad.
Earlier that year, I had spent many hours with my lawyer Tom Buchanan at Winston & Strawn. After looking at most aspects of my life, both before and during my limited volunteer work with the Trump campaign in 2016, it became clear to him, as it would to any reasonable individual, that I had never done anything even remotely wrong, unethical, illegal, or otherwise questionable in Russia.
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A few weeks before the FBI came knocking again, on September 22, 2017, my final secret surveillance warrant expired. But hope springs eternal, and the Rosenstein-Sessions DOJ continued to try any last step to dig up dirt. Like Custer’s Last Stand, my testimony before the Mueller grand jury could offer a last ditch restoration of credibility to their ill-fated endeavor in this media disinformation war.
Having tried constant harassment and unprecedented civil liberties violations, the Justice Department focused their efforts on snaring me in small procedural errors or minor mix-ups in my recollection. They needed to catch me in some—any—wrongdoing after digging themselves into a deep hole with their corrupt FISA bargain. There was more than a whiff of authoritarianism in their approach.
As Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz has similarly noted, it reminded me of the famous boast Stalin’s sidekick Lavrentiy Beria once made: “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.” I wondered what these people would be like unconstrained.
For the sake of all Americans, not just myself, I wanted to do everything I could to end this madness as quickly as possible. That’s precisely why I had spent over ten hours talking with the FBI during my long series of meetings in March, over half a year earlier. I had been an open book to them in the interest of putting an end to the illegitimate Russia Witch Hunt.
I had done so without an attorney present and had provided the agents with countless documents. All of this exculpatory evidence should have made the allegations against me seem preposterous to any official without a political agenda. On the face of it, I had already shown each of the allegations from opposition research consultant Christopher Steele to be demonstrably false.
And yet, the central danger I faced still remained. Amidst this grand miscarriage of justice, my eagerness to talk could have put me at even greater legal risk. The special counsel and Congress had requested tens of thousands of additional documents via their subpoenas.
While trying my best to fulfill these demands, I soon realized that it would be impossible for me to provide a comprehensive record that could match the enormous data collection, processing, and storage capacity of the National Security Agency (NSA). Although full details of the spy scandal had still not been confirmed at the time, I started to learn that the NSA and FBI had already wiretapped and hacked me for at least a year.
Nearly five months had passed since I submitted my Privacy Act and FOIA requests for the FISA warrants on May 21, 2017. But the powers that be still dragged their feet. The authorities were equally defiant of Senators Grassley and Graham and other senior members of Congress who had continued strenuously to demand the truth.
Other than Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions, some of the people I really needed help from were burrowed deep in the bowels of government. The Office of Information Policy and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) team over at DOJ had blocked disclosure, essentially daring me to spend a fortune on more assertive legal tactics.
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It became a game of chicken—a lone advocate against a behemoth with unlimited resources. Basically wiped out, I continued to fight for my life.
I had no experience in anything like this. With few personal sources of insight, I assumed at the time that what the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, and other news outlets had reported since April 2017 was mostly correct.
If, as reports said, I was the target of FISA collection expeditions, then data I provided to the special counsel, FBI, or Congress could never conceivably match all of the more detailed information that the U.S. Intelligence Community had already hacked from my email and wiretapped from my phones.
This made it clear to me that I faced thousands of opportunities to step into a perjury or false evidence trap. Given this preceding year of government surveillance, testifying before the Mueller grand jury carried the risk of inadvertently stepping in one of those traps.
By Carter Page for RealClearPolitics. Syndicated with permission from RealClearPolitics.
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thepoliticalinsider--2020-09-02--Portland Man Arrested at Protest and Released Allegedly Murdered Two People Days Later

A man who was arrested at a Portland protest and later had charges dismissed is accused of stabbing two people to death just days later .
Phillip Lawrence Nelson is facing two murder charges in the stabbing deaths of 22-year-old Cassy Leaton and Najaf “ Nate ” Hobbs , 39 , on June 16th , and is currently being held without bail .
Demonstrating why it is important to hold violent rioters for their actions , Nelson had been in police custody just days earlier … but was released .
Court documents , according to KOIN News , show “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protest in downtown Portland … just days before he allegedly killed Leaton and Hobbs.
” He was charged with interfering with a peace officer but had those charges dismissed the following day by progressive District Attorney Mike Schmidt .
RELATED : Kayleigh McEnany Says Portland Trump Supporter Would Still Be Alive If Not For Democrat Mayor Andy Ngo , a journalist who has covered Antifa terrorists extensively , reports that Nelson “ protest in June [ and ] quickly released without bail.
” “ His criminal charge wasn ’ t pursued by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ the following week , he allegedly stabbed two people to death.
” How are the streets to be made safe if left-wing activist district attorneys like Schmidt won ’ t actually prosecute criminals ?
The Trump administration may have figured out a solution , deputizing Oregon State Troopers as U.S .
Marshals , allowing the feds to prosecute rioters .
Reporter Deborah Bloom writes the move “ means state troopers can now crack down on protestors in Portland knowing they ’ ll likely face harsher punishment from the US Attorney ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ RELATED : Trump Claims Riots Are Being Funded By Outside Groups – Will Investigate Too Little , Too Late Schmidt joins Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler as a pair of clueless liberals with blood on their hands .
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany slammed Wheeler as “ derelict , ” noting that had he cracked down on protesters in the city , Trump supporter Aaron ‘ Jay ’ Danielson would not have been killed in cold blood over the weekend .
Wheeler has the blood of at least one man on his hands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Instead of following the Portland Democrats ’ pathetic example of justice , cities dealing with domestic terrorists should be heeding Newt Gingrich ’ s advice .
The only way to stop the violence is to “ keep arresting people until there ’ s no one left , ” the former Speaker of the House said .
But if you arrest them , you ’ re going to have to charge them too ,

A man who was arrested at a Portland protest and later had charges dismissed is accused of stabbing two people to death just days later.
Phillip Lawrence Nelson is facing two murder charges in the stabbing deaths of 22-year-old Cassy Leaton and Najaf “Nate” Hobbs, 39, on June 16th, and is currently being held without bail.
Demonstrating why it is important to hold violent rioters responsible for their actions, Nelson had been in police custody just days earlier … but was released.
Court documents, according to KOIN News, show “Nelson was taken into custody at a protest in downtown Portland … just days before he allegedly killed Leaton and Hobbs.”
He was charged with interfering with a peace officer but had those charges dismissed the following day by progressive District Attorney Mike Schmidt.
.@PortlandPolice arrested 19 adults overnight on 11–12 June, the 12th day of violent antifa protests/riots in downtown. https://t.co/XdwoVnDgHR https://t.co/nyRpNqqWTJ pic.twitter.com/v0l9G3FXN3 — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 13, 2020
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Trump Responds to Feckless Prosecutors
Andy Ngo, a journalist who has covered Antifa terrorists extensively, reports that Nelson “was arrested at a violent #antifa protest in June [and] quickly released without bail.”
“His criminal charge wasn’t pursued by the DA,” Ngo wrote, adding “the following week, he allegedly stabbed two people to death.”
How are the streets to be made safe if left-wing activist district attorneys like Schmidt won’t actually prosecute criminals?
The Trump administration may have figured out a solution, deputizing Oregon State Troopers as U.S. Marshals, allowing the feds to prosecute rioters.
Oregon State Police are sending in federally deputized troopers to respond to protest-related violence in Portland — effectively circumventing the Multnomah County DA’s office, which OSP has criticized in the past for not prioritizing prosecutions. — Deborah Bloom (@deborahebloom) September 1, 2020
Reporter Deborah Bloom writes the move “means state troopers can now crack down on protestors in Portland knowing they’ll likely face harsher punishment from the US Attorney’s Office rather than the local DA.”
Law Enforcement Today equated the move to President Trump playing “six-dimensional chess.”
RELATED: Trump Claims Riots Are Being Funded By Outside Groups – Will Investigate
Too Little, Too Late
Schmidt joins Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler as a pair of clueless liberals with blood on their hands.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany slammed Wheeler as “derelict,” noting that had he cracked down on protesters in the city, Trump supporter Aaron ‘Jay’ Danielson would not have been killed in cold blood over the weekend.
Wheeler has the blood of at least one man on his hands, Schmidt one man and a woman.
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Instead of following the Portland Democrats’ pathetic example of justice, cities dealing with domestic terrorists should be heeding Newt Gingrich’s advice.
The only way to stop the violence is to “keep arresting people until there’s no one left,” the former Speaker of the House said.
But if you arrest them, you’re going to have to charge them too,


thepoliticalinsider--2020-09-02--Antifa ‘Commander’ Breaks Down Crying In ‘Fetal Position’ After His Arrest

A Wisconsin man who prides himself on being an Antifa “ commander ” broke down crying in the “ fetal position ” after police nabbed him heading to a protest in Green Bay last weekend , armed with a flamethrower , smoke grenades , and fireworks .
Matthew Banta , 23 , was arrested and charged with obstructing an officer and two counts of felony bail jumping , according to .
The station described Banta as someone who is known for being a “ violent Antifa member who incites violence in otherwise relatively peaceful protests , ” citing a past @ @ @ @ @ @ @ added that in Antifa circles , Banta is known as “ Commander Red.
” RELATED : Trump Claims Riots Are Being Funded By Outside Groups – Will Investigate Green Bay police told reporters that they had been called on Saturday night for “ a whole bunch of white people with sticks , baseball bats and helmets headed…towards the police.
” “ I don ’ t know who comes to a protest with a baseball bat for anything other than criminal or illegal activity , ” Green Bay Police Chief Andrew Smith said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he saw four people walking toward a protest with baseball bats .
He could see that one of the males was wearing a metal helmet with goggles and military-style gear with multiple pouches as he carried an Antifa flag .
When the officer pulled up to them in his squad car , the group all tried to flee on foot .
The cop was able to apprehend Banta , who was the person carrying the Antifa flag .
Once the young man was caught , the officer said Banta “ dropped into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He then accused the cop of lying on him , to which the officer responded by saying that nobody was on him .
Though Banta admitted that he was on his way to the Green Bay protest , he denied that he had plans to incite a riot .
During Banta ’ s first court appearance on Monday , a Brown County Court Commissioner set a $ 2,500 cash bond for him .
“ It ’ s worrisome when people associated with Antifa come here to Green Bay from out of town for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the purposes of committing violent acts , ” Chief Smith said .
RELATED : Kenosha Protest Leader : ‘ If You Kill One Of Us , It ’ s Time For Us To Kill One Of Yours ’ This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on September 2 , 2020 .
It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission .
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A Wisconsin man who prides himself on being an Antifa “commander” broke down crying in the “fetal position” after police nabbed him heading to a protest in Green Bay last weekend, armed with a flamethrower, smoke grenades, and fireworks.
Antifa ‘Commander’ Arrested With Flamethrower And Smoke Grenades
Matthew Banta, 23, was arrested and charged with obstructing an officer and two counts of felony bail jumping, according to WBAY-TV. The station described Banta as someone who is known for being a “violent Antifa member who incites violence in otherwise relatively peaceful protests,” citing a past criminal complaint against him.
The station added that in Antifa circles, Banta is known as “Commander Red.”
RELATED: Trump Claims Riots Are Being Funded By Outside Groups – Will Investigate
Green Bay police told reporters that they had been called on Saturday night for “a whole bunch of white people with sticks, baseball bats and helmets headed…towards the police.”
“I don’t know who comes to a protest with a baseball bat for anything other than criminal or illegal activity,” Green Bay Police Chief Andrew Smith said.
When one responding officer reached the scene, he saw four people walking toward a protest with baseball bats. He could see that one of the males was wearing a metal helmet with goggles and military-style gear with multiple pouches as he carried an Antifa flag.
Banta Cries In ‘Fetal Position’
When the officer pulled up to them in his squad car, the group all tried to flee on foot. The cop was able to apprehend Banta, who was the person carrying the Antifa flag. Once the young man was caught, the officer said Banta “dropped into the fetal position and began crying.” He then accused the cop of lying on him, to which the officer responded by saying that nobody was on him.
Though Banta admitted that he was on his way to the Green Bay protest, he denied that he had plans to incite a riot. During Banta’s first court appearance on Monday, a Brown County Court Commissioner set a $2,500 cash bond for him.
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“It’s worrisome when people associated with Antifa come here to Green Bay from out of town for the purpose of protesting here or for the purposes of committing violent acts,” Chief Smith said.
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This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on September 2, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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