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Unraveling Three Key Russian Collusion Hoax Plot Lines

Via American Greatness

With the continued and accelerated unraveling of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, the search continues for the very first threads that, when pulled, began the process of its disintegration.

In retrospect, it’s a miracle the hoax didn’t work. Some powerful forces converged: the Department of Justice, the FBI, virtually every outlet in the legacy news media, billionaires, academia, even Hollywood and late-night comedians. I can remember distinctly a sinking feeling in late spring 2017 as the stories piled up while nothing and nobody seemed to stand in the way of the effort to reverse the 2016 election.

There were three principle plotlines advanced to reverse the election. The first was the Hillary Clinton campaign’s brazen effort to sway the Electoral College. The campaign pushed initially for an “intelligence briefing” of the electors that we can reasonably suspect would have included the now-disproven dossier. Clinton’s allies also engaged in a comprehensive campaign to harass electors by inundating with them thousands of emails, phone calls, and videos. Death threats were reported. This plot failed when an anonymous bureaucrat balked at declassifying the dossier’s contents in December 2016. Even so, two electors representing hundreds of thousands of votes did indeed succumb to the pressure.

Read the entire article HERE.

Stacey Abrams Under Investigation By State Ethics Commission

Via The Daily Caller

The Georgia state ethics commission will subpoena bank records from Stacey Abrams’ 2018 gubernatorial campaign and several other groups that raised money to help her candidacy.

David Emadi, a former Douglas County prosecutor who became director of the state ethics commission Monday, announced on Thursday that he will soon subpoena Abrams’ gubernatorial campaign, various political action committees and special interest groups that supported her failed campaign, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“What I can say about the investigation into the Abrams campaign is in the relatively near future, I expect we will be issuing subpoenas for bank and finance records of both Miss Abrams and various PACs and special-interest groups that were affiliated with her campaign,” Emadi said to reporters on Thursday.

It’s not immediately clear what Abrams’ camp is being investigated for specifically, and the new director did not give many details on the matter. The ethics commission, known formally as the Georgia Government Transparency & Campaign Finance Commission, is tasked with collecting reports on lobbying expenditures, vendor grift and campaign finance. The Commission is also in charge of issuing penalties for any violations pertaining to these issues.

Abrams’ former campaign manager hit back hard against the announcement.

Read the entire article HERE.

Eureka! – Devin Nunes: “The Spying Began in 2015″….

Via The Conservative Treehouse

Finally Devin Nunes is outlining what CTH has been calling attention to for over two years. The spying began in 2015. “Spygate” was part of the larger “Russian Conspiracy and Collusion” operation. This was all planned well in advance.

The spying began in 2015, and was part of the collaborative process -and reason- for Nellie Ohr to join the political opposition research being conducted by Fusion GPS.

CIA Director John Brennan had his OCONUS lures, Joseph Mifsud and Stefan Halper on standby awaiting targeting information. They needed targets.

Fusion-GPS and Nellie Ohr were researching targets based on candidates. Donald Trump was the most likely candidate to win the GOP nomination. Trump was the focus of identifying targets.

As the Fusion and Ohr research was ongoing, and when it became transparent that Trump was going to be the victor in the Primaries; the media began demanding to know who were the foreign policy and national security advisors to candidate Trump. This DNC inspired effort to demand names and lists was in alignment with Brennan, Fusion and Ohr.

Once they had some names identified (March/April ’16), ie. Papadopoulos, Flynn, Manafort and Page,… Brennan tasked Mifsud and Halper to run the spygate operation.

Read the entire article HERE.

Facebook Still Tracks You After You Deactivate Your Account

Via CNET

I thought deactivating my Facebook account would stop the social network from tracking me online. But Facebook kept tabs on me anyway.

Over the past year, I’ve tried to minimize my presence on Facebook. I deleted a 10-year-old account and replaced it with a dummy account that I use as little as possible. I deleted the app from my phone.

As of January, I started deactivating my dummy account every time I used it, rather than just log out. I couldn’t break up completely with Facebook because I needed it to sign up twice a week for a workshop.

I thought the precautions would reduce how much data Facebook gathered about me. Turns out, I was wasting my time.

Even when your account is deactivated, the social network continues collecting data about your online activities. All that data gets sent back to Facebook and is tied to your account while it’s in this state of limbo. It’s as if you’d changed nothing.

Read the entire article HERE.

IT’S OFFICIAL: Georgetown students approve mandatory reparations fee

Via Campus Reform

Georgetown University students voted Thursday in support of establishing a mandatory fee for undergraduate students to pay to descendants of slaves.

According to the Georgetown Election Commission, 66.08 percent of students who voted supported the measure while 33.92 percent of students who voted did not support the measure.

The referendum, known as GU272, requires undergraduate students to fork up to $27.20 per semester, reported WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. Funds collected from the fee will go toward descendants of 272 slaves that Georgetown sold in 1838. The referendum comes as a number of 2020 Democrat presidential candidates now openly support reparations, as the Wall Street Journal highlighted Thursday.

“The proceeds of the GU272 Reconciliation Contributions will be allocated for charitable purposes directly benefiting the descendants of the GU272 and other persons once enslaved by the Maryland Jesuits—with special consideration given to causes and proposals directly benefiting those descendants still residing in proud and underprivileged communities, such as in Maringouin,” the referendum says.

The referendum notes that descendants of many of the slaves whom Georgetown sold in 1838 to avoid bankruptcy still reside in poorer communities in southern Louisiana. The document also claims that the semester fee will rise in accordance with inflation. Now that the resolution has passed, it will be considered by the school’s Board of Trustees for final approval.

“The students will show what they care about and that they want to act in reparative justice,” Georgetown student Maya Moretta, who helped advocate for the resolution, told WRC-TV. “If you have a large group of the student body who want to provide reconciliation, then I think the Board of Trustees will listen.”

After the revelation of Georgetown’s 1838 slave sale, the school announced that it would grant an advantage in admissions to descendants of these slaves, as well as rename a memorial and two campus buildings.

Read the entire article HERE.

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