Questions – predictions – explanations – achievements

Question:
Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Remains Being Moved Out of Memphis Park, Into Confederate Museum. 

Why shouldn’t the Democratic Party, the Party of Slavery  “Jim Crow”  and the Ku Klux Klan be dissolved, disbanded, defunded, discredited, and cancelled/fired from American politics?!


V’Pac presents:

Let’s Play “Tomorrow’s Headlines…Today!     (parody)

JOHN DURHAM TO TAKE OVER INVESTIGATION INTO COVID-19 ORIGIN

– No-nonsense Prosecutor Tabbed by Biden to get to ‘Bottom of Issue’

– Will Cause some Delay in “Russia Collusion/Hillary E-Mail/FBI Misdeeds” Investigation Report

– Durham Also Investigating Hunter Biden


Le Bron’s all purpose excuse:

Lakers eliminated by upstart Suns in first round of NBA playoffs.

LE BRON CLAIMS THAT GAME WAS ‘STOLEN’ BECAUSE OF PHOENIX SUNS’ “SYSTEMIC RACISM”

“SUNS’ DEVIN BOOKER “NOT REALLY BLACK”, SAYS JAMES

(If you can’t rust USA today who can you trust?)

Acheivements:
WORD IS THAT VERITASPAC WAS “TWENTY SECOND”

The Top 21 Conservative Aggregate Websites in 2021

Parker Beauregard  June 4, 2021 at The Blue State Conservative

News aggregates are an efficient way to pursue headlines and analysis without getting bogged down in a single outlet’s website. Whereas a visit to The Epoch Times or Daily Wire can be fruitful, they simply cannot cover everything from every angle. As such, conservative aggregate sites fill the void.

Now, there is certainly no shortage of patriots seeking to offer spaces for the good work of hard news reporting as well as commentary on topics like culture and politics. It thus becomes less a question of “is it out there?” to instead a question of “what’s all out there?” The answer to the latter question might surprise you. Our list focuses on the top twenty sites by visitor counts, but there are doubtless many more. Regardless, that’s a lot of options for both publishers and consumers of political writing.

As was noted, aggregate sites make for a great alternative to visiting a single site when looking to scroll through headlines or read entire articles. However, not only are the aggregate sites good for disseminating important news and opinion pieces for massive audiences, they are also good for elevating the countless conservative voices who might not otherwise have as large an audience. One of the biggest hurdles new writers face is generating traffic and gaining a foothold in the blogosphere. Sites like ours at The Blue State Conservative are able to achieve a larger audience than we otherwise would thanks to their support. Individual writers or whole blogs benefit immensely from the eyeballs that aggregate sites offer. In the fight for freedom, this is an essential symbiosis.

The following list in no way ranks these sites by least to favorite or best to worst; to be sure, it is merely a reflection of their overall size. We used SimilarWeb and Alexa to rank sites based on their previous months’ traffic.  . . .

Well we try, and we are number 1 in our zip code (well block identifier anyway, maybe)


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Grassley and company exemplify a cause of mental health sequelae from pandemic terror

Contributor TN astutely recognized the irony of this story and photo and sent it to us.  Our concluding comments do not necessarily represent our contributor.

Talking “mental health” while wearing a face mask!  (ref QC Times article and photo)

Grassley talks mental health funding, support during Davenport stop  

 

Politicians led around by public health experts have aggravated the mental and physical health difficulties experienced during the induced COVID terror. Isolation, acute economic problems, drug abuse, forgone treatments due to shutdowns and general induced hysteria, etc. They have promoted this not for a few weeks mind you, as Trump recommended, but for well over a year with the terror still being propagated, evidence the ridiculous masking and distancing still being exhibited by Senator Grassley. Masking and distancing are impediments to personal, mental, social and cultural  normalcy and health..  His exhibition is counterproductive fear-mongering whether he realizes it or not.

Now with reference to the public health experts, mental health division, lobbying for more money as related in the QC Times article, it would be great if Grassley called their profession to task of promoting human connections and normalcy rather than  isolation.  We believe immediate improvements would be possible in all age categories, to stop being part of the unhealthy culture terror of the Wuhan Flu /COVID ).

We do not know the best mix of limited funds but we have seen how these bureaucracies work and justify ever increasing growth and mission creep never being circumspect that maybe they contribute to the problem, that their profession has issues. We recognize that practitioners and patients are often victims of the politicians and theorists in their ranks.

 

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Is that Fauci — Faust — or Beelzebub

Revelations since Steve Deace and Todd Erzen’s book Faucian Bargain , thanks to FOIA demands of official emails (perhaps not even the most damning communications) of Center for Infectious Disease Control head Anthony Fauci “The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History” validate adding “and evil” to the subtitle’s summation.

The following links are to a variety of original sources aggregated mostly at the go-to site Liberty Daily. Other sources are also included.  There are many in just this batch, which perhaps will serve as one consolidated resource to start your investigation of Fauci and the devastation he has wrought. We doubt Fauci is being misunderstood in these critiques and exposes. But not all blame is his of course.  There are willful manipulative and opportunistic accomplices, Fauci perhaps one among equals of beelzebubs hovering in China, here and elsewhere.

Pompeo Confirms Intense Opposition to Wuhan Lab Probe From State Department, Intelligence Bureaucracies

Pompeo: Fauci has a lot of questions to answer, his colleague has ‘dirty hands’

Facebook CEO offered Dr. Fauci ‘very exciting’ proposal, vaccine ‘resources’ | News | LifeSite

The Most Prolific Serial Killer In American History: Anthony Fauci

Bombshell: Lancet’s Infamous Covid Disinformation Campaign was Orchestrated by Fauci’s Buddy Peter Daszak

Testy Fauci Struggles to Answer Basic Questions About His E-Mails in NewsNation Interview

Fauci Emails Show Doctor Who Rose To Fame To Cover His Own Scandal

Dr. Anthony Fauci literally laughs off the idea that the Chinese would engineer a virus that could kill their own and other people

‘Fauci’s days numbered?’ Sen. Rand Paul absolutely LIGHTS Fauci up and rubs salt in the Left’s Fauci wound during interview over released emails (watch)

Exposing the Evil, People-Killing Pandemic Strategy

  Dr. Fauci’s Reaction to Fake China COVID Data Tells You Everything You Need to Know About the Doctor – Becker News

Wuhan Lab Research Funder Peter Daszak Helped Create a Coronavirus in 2016, Has Ties To WHO and Facebook Fact-Checkers

Scamdemic Produced Big Pharma Billionaires As Doctor Warns Of “Bioweapons Thrust Upon The Public” – DC Clothesline

Email: Researcher Who Funded Wuhan Lab, Admitted To Manipulating Coronaviruses Thanked Fauci For Dismissing Lab Leak Theory – Summit News

Emails show Dr. Fauci was WORRIED that NIH might have ties to Coronavirus spread in China last year

REVEALED: Dr. Fauci Plotted with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Push COVID-19 Fear Porn Before 2020 Election

Fauci Emails Reveal Damage Control Scramble After ZeroHedge Spotlights Man-Made COVID-19 Theory

Fauci: Email on CCP Covering Up Coronavirus Deaths ‘Too Long’ to Read

Fauci’s Gain-of-Function Smoking Gun Email Proves He Lied to Senator Paul and America – 🔔 The Liberty Daily

“That Was A Lie”: Tucker Carlson Levels Fauci After FOIA Emails Connect The Dots | ZeroHedge

TUCKER: Fauci’s Emails Merit ‘Criminal Investigation’, He May Have Committed ‘Perjury’ In Confrontation With Rand Paul – National File

Tucker Carlson: Fauci committed perjury, might be under criminal investigation already | News | LifeSite

Emails Show Anthony Fauci Recommended Canceling Religious ‘Services’ but Approved Campaign Rallies, Cruise Ships Days Later

By Gary Bauer at American Values

The Books On COVID

Have you pre-ordered Dr. Fauci’s new book, “Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward”? It’s reportedly only 80 pages long. But I am sure it will be required reading by America’s cultural and globalist elites. 

Not since Governor Andrew Cuomo shared his wisdom on the COVID-19 pandemic in “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic” has there been such anticipation of a new book.

Cuomo committed one of the biggest blunders of the COVID-19 pandemic when he “seeded” New York’s nursing homes with COVID-19 infected patients. The elderly and frail predictably soon fell ill with the virus. Tens of thousands of them died. 

I can make a good case that Cuomo should be in prison. His nursing home blunder was criminally negligent. His cover-up of the truth was obstruction of justice.

Coincidentally, “truth” is one of the subjects of Fauci’s book. No wonder the book is only 80 pages long! 

Fauci repeatedly lied during the pandemic, most notably on the question of whether U.S. taxpayer money went to the Chinese communist Wuhan lab for “gain of function” research. Fauci played word games repeatedly in his congressional testimony.

Ultimately, the persistence of Senator Rand Paul and Senator John Kennedy, as well as the relentless work by Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson among others, led to Fauci admitting U.S. funds did go to the Wuhan lab.  But, Dr. Fauci assures us that the Wuhan scientists have assured him that none of the funds were used for dangerous research.

I predict Dr. Fauci will be out before his book is. The Biden Administration will want to cut its losses. The 90-day investigation Biden has ordered into the origins of the Chinese communist virus will likely end with no firm conclusion.

Certainly, the Chinese government will never admit wrongdoing. In fact, they will continue promoting their relentless propaganda around the world claiming the virus originated in the U.S.

Meanwhile, we must never forget what we already know are the facts:

  • After communist China knew COVID-19 was deadly and spreading from person to person they lied to the world about it.
  • Meanwhile, they bought up massive quantities of other countries’ protective medical equipment, hoarding it for themselves.
  • Finally, even though travel within China was severely restricted, the communists allowed hundreds of thousands of their citizens to travel abroad in the early months guaranteeing every nation would be impacted.

 

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BIDEN’S IS A TRULY FRAUDULENT PRESIDENCY

A favorite line of mine via the Issues and Insights editorial board, brought to our attention by Scott Johnson writing at the PowerLine blog: A TRULY FRAUDULENT PRESIDENCY

“As I have noted several times here, I see Joe Biden as the man with half a mind to be president.

Earlier in Joe Biden’s presidency, we wondered if his wife Jill was running the White House, and in effect the country. It’s still not out of the question, but it’s beginning to look more like Chief of Staff Ron Klain, unelected and not confirmed by the Senate, is the real president. This should make all Americans uncomfortable.

Klain, who was the vice president’s chief of staff when Biden held that office, has been called “the man executing Biden’s mission” (which seems to be carrying out the Cloward-Piven model that advocates manufacturing a political and economic crisis so that politicians can accrue more power in order to fix it, and use that power to kill off capitalism). He’s also been called Biden’s “co-pilot and fixer.” 

Yes, those descriptions could be used to define the chief of staff for any president of any party. There are times, however, and this appears to be one of them, when a chief of staff wields too much authority.

Klain is no statesman. He’s a confirmed “political animal.” Anyone who thinks that’s a benign label that could be applied to any Washington operative, consider that the Democrats are doing their best to transform America from a civil society into a political society, where government intervention into private affairs is the rule rather than the rare and unwanted exception.

While the Washington press corps and much of the U.S. media are playing the role of Biden’s publicists, the London Times reports, in what has to be an accidental indictment of the White House arrangement, that Klain is “the driving force behind the actual president,” an “operator who knows the business of government inside out.” The reporter who wrote the story, one Sarah Baxter, wants readers to meet “President Klain,” who also happens to be Biden’s “brain.”

Klain, she writes, is “powerful, confident … trusted to exercise power and take decisions, he keeps his boss informed while lifting the burden of office from him.” Making life easier on Biden is necessary because the president is “pacing himself” on the job so he can run again in 2024 – as an 81-year-old.

Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota has met with Biden since he’s become president and from what he’s seen, he believes “his staff is driving him hard left.” Of course, staff members have always influenced the elected officials they work for. In a sense, staff is policy. But what we’re seeing today, outside of the Wilson administration, might be unprecedented in U.S. history. (Though there’s no question that Barack Obama was firmly in the Svengalian grip of adviser Valerie Jarrett.)

In a number of ways, Biden is not the man voters were told they were electing. Not only has he likely abdicated to Klain, he has divided the country far more than united it. He’s not the adult back in charge, as the Donald Trump haters said he would be, nor is he the centrist the party and media promised.

“In short, Biden is pushing more change than some of his voters want. The change they wanted was to get rid of Trump, not elect a new FDR,” says Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York.

Obvious to all is that Biden is cognitively challenged, not the “sharp” alternative to the mad-tweeting Donald Trump. Biden needs a whisperer, someone to guide him through his foggy moments. He’s ended up though with someone who has taken him by the hand away from the middle and down the road to progressive disaster. Whether it’s Klain, First Lady Jill, or someone still unnamed is irrelevant.

The point is the Biden presidency, if not his election, too, is a fraud, an exercise in stagecraft. Someone has his or her hand in his back and is projecting their voice so it will sound like his.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board

DLH
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Biden administration’s personnel statistics — never offered how many are Marxists

  • Biden touts that 14%, or over 200 of his federal appointees are gay!  Hurray!!! (And, what are the rest?)
  • How many Marxists? how many BLM members? how many Hamas supporters? how many hate America …???

BIDEN SWIPES TRUMP & RED STATES IN PRIDE MONTH MESSAGE.

In his proclamation, Biden referenced how states have “actively” targeted transgender youth through legislation as lawmakers crack down on athletes not competing in sports as their biological gender. He also touted how almost 14% of his 1,500 federal agency appointees identify as gay.

“I am particularly honored by the service of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the first openly LGBTQ+ person to serve in the Cabinet, and Assistant Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate,” he wrote.

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  • Why is the concept of requiring personal identification racist in voting but not in other venues?

If you cannot figure out how to obtain a valid photo ID, you are either illegal or too stupid to vote intelligently

The Texas Democrats and our pitiful President, the “Scranton Scrapper,Joey Biden, have made their positions clear.

While we don’t agree with them, it must be conceded: If elements of the proposed Texas voting legislation is “Jim Crow” action, then let’s be consistent throughout American institutions. If such a thing as requiring that a person provide personal identification (and/or photo ID) to vote, then requiring personal identification to obtain any service or accommodation is also discriminatory and thus must be illegal in America.

Requiring personal identification to obtain medical care… doctor’s care of any kind must be discontinued.

Similarly such a requirement cannot be required to travel on airlines, get a hotel room, cash a check, be admitted to any political convention, to obtain a loan of any kind, for admission to many venues or events, to buy a car, rent a home, etc.

The concept of personal identification itself must be eliminated from the public forum!

dlh

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Here are 24 things that you cannot get or do without photo identification:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/24-things-that-require-a-photo-id

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Reader contribution from Michigan’s “Fast Eddie”:

“Have you heard the one about the Canadian woman lawyer from Oakland California with Indian and Jamaican parents and a white divorced lawyer husband, who failed as a comedian but was elected as VPOTUS?  Believe me, it’s a joke.”

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Hypocrisy of Democrats regarding Supervisor appointment and local media outlet serving as their publicity department

Rachel Dolezal went part way. Ken Croken can use her example and go all the way . . .for the good of the community. No special election needed. WQAD would provide lots of favorable publicity.

WQAD TV 8 issued the following reports Democrat publicity videos regarding the recent appointment of Kerri Tomkins to serve as Scott County Auditor until the next general election, a process provided for by county regulation and Iowa statute and consistent with past practice.  A glance at the titles and  transcripts will give you the drift:

Scott County Democrats detail plan to force special election for County Auditor 

Scott County voters voice opposition to county auditor appointment

In the WQAD  follow-up story there is nothing from Republicans as if they might have anything to say in defense of the appropriateness of the process used.  There is no indication that  WQAD even tried to contact anyone other than Democrats about the matter.

We have written about the propriety of the Republicans making such a interim appointment and aspects of related hypocrisy by Democrats  here  and  here .

A few days ago a reader wrote us referencing our mention of the video performance of the resident Karen on the Scott County Board of Supervisors, Ken Croken.* The reader pointed out that at around the 31 minute mark on the official video Croken rambles on about how ~~ we (the county board) may represent the county but we are not representative of the county…. he states that ~~ “we are five white men” The reader pointed out that if he (Croken) feels so strongly that he doesn’t represent the county then he should step down and the Supervisors will appoint someone more representative…  The Democrats say they want diversity but they themselves do not bring diversity forward. (The  two Democrats on the board are white and male.) . . .

We responded complimenting the point and expanding on it while disagreeing that such is the only possibility:

We agree that if he Croken as a Supervisor is incapable of being a decent responsible representative making fair decisions for all BECAUSE of his color or sex, by his ethical preaching standard:

1) He should admit he should not have run and should have left the Democrat banner carrying to the more capable hands of people of color.

2) He should announce his personal failure for elbowing out  a person of color and retire promptly while revealing his support of any person of color, since by the strong import of his words, anyone will do, because a person of color is inherently superior to represent people of color. So he should lead by example and give up his seat for the good of the community.    His attitude by its logic portends a black seat on the board, indeed his racist logic portends an anything but white people on the board  as colored folks are white folks betters at representing people of color.  But by implication a chinaman cannot be properly represented by a Black person and viceversa so we are really off to the races to find proper representation.  The board will of course have to be expanded.

He could certainly lead by example and vacate the office having failed to bring someone forward instead of Tomkins in a parliamentary motion by substitution. He and the other illegitimate Democrat white guy had the same amount of time to produce a candidate. They failed miserably.

Their task was easier because by Croken’s racist standard anyone of color would do, as such folks are automatically superior at representing. Whites are inherently racist and just need to let go and go away.

Croken also missed the boat on the women thing given that he failed to nominate a women  to substitute for Tomkins.  Indeed Republicans have nominated and seen elected 3 out of 4 of the women who have actually served on the Scott County Board of Supervisors of late — Margaret Tinsman, Carol Earnhardt, and most recently Diane Holtz.  Although Croken is such a liberal Karen that maybe he qualifies, but that still does not surpass Republican performance.

But perhaps he (ze?)  can still do something about all this.  Maybe ze could do a Governor Northam and show up in blackface.  It works for Democrats and it is a twofer –  you can claim you identify as a person of color AND still get the Democrat vote, racist to its core. Further, if he would announce his identification as a woman, (not simply as the board Karen) well he can finally establish his humanity and worthiness to represent everyone.  Claiming color and a vagina identity is all that is necessary for Democrat authenticity of late.

The more we think about it,  the only way Croken can be legitimate is to “announce” as a black woman.  Hispanic won’t do as he is just too tall (a mere observation about genetic likelihood in the United States).   Readers can judge the best approach for the new improved more representative Ken.

Up first we see Ken Croken morphing into Rachel Donezal (or vice-versa).  You can see from the additional photos below the morph that the “high foreheads”  give Ken a lot of possibilities as to hair style choices demonstrated by Rachel.  Click to see the transformation.

 

 

 

 

 

Not to limit Ken to a fake Black person, he might consider a Megan Thee Stallion transformation as seen below (sans the tresses): With this effort by Ken, non-white guys might finally be represented.

 


* AKA “King Croken” . . . Crotch Croken . . . Karen Croken . . . Ken Crotchen

 

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Memorial Day Memory Hole — Hoyas and Harris

Is hate America what rocks at Georgetown?  Is THIS what a Catholic University education produces!!!???!!! 

Now we realize a similar result would be found at most all “prestigious” universities, but then isn’t Georgetown supposed to be a shining example of something traditional —  something respectful — something culturally sound? There was perhaps once a time when the entire student body would have been brought to task for evidence of any substantial display of such ignorance and “cultural” disrespect.

Does anyone doubt that these twits could have been induced to sign a petition honoring the October Revolution in Russia in spite of the Black Book of Communism(s) dead?

GEORGETOWN STUDENTS SIGN FAKE PETITION TO CANCEL MEMORIAL DAY OVER AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

Georgetown University students recently signed a fake petition to cancel Memorial Day due to its celebration of “American imperialism.” One student said he “didn’t really think of it in this way” until he got to college and took “Women’s and Gender Studies classes,” which put him on a “fuck the U.S.” path in life.

Campus Reform’s Addison Smith went to Georgetown University to conduct a social experiment to see if students would be willing to sign a fake petition seeking to abolish Memorial Day over alleged “American imperialism.” Many students signed the petition.

“Is this a holiday you support? Is this something you’re going to be celebrating?” asked Smith after telling the students about his petition.

“I’m not celebrating,” one student affirmed. “I don’t think Memorial Day should be a thing that we celebrate, personally. I feel like it’s a celebration of U.S. imperialism and colonialism.”

The wisdom of these Jesuit educated students should certainly be a source of pride to the Catholic community. One of these budding geniuses explained,  

“that he thinks differently after Women’s and Gender Studies courses in college, which have put him “on this path” where “I’m, like, yeah, like, fuck the U.S.”)

These excerpts from Wikipedia give a pretty good insight into the nature of the education these young people get at Georgetown:

Georgetown has been criticized by religious groups, such as the Cardinal Newman Society, for not following the teachings of the church. The school has come under criticism for hosting prominent pro-abortion rights speakers, such as John Kerry and Barack Obama.[56][57] Washington’s Archbishop, Donald Wuerl, also criticized the university for inviting pro-abortion rights Kathleen Sebelius to be a commencement speaker.[58] Religious groups have likewise denounced Georgetown for being too LGBT-friendly and for allowing gay-themed events, including a performance, during which “a male student went as a high-heeled Mary and danced to Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’ while Jesus (a woman) looked on.”[59]

Between 1996 and 1999, the administration added crucifixes to many classroom walls, a change that attracted national attention.[60] Before 1996, crucifixes had hung only in hospital rooms and historic classrooms.[61] Some of these crucifixes are historic works of art, and are noted as such.[62] According to a 2004 interview with Imam Yahya Hendi, the school’s on-campus Muslim cleric, pressure to remove the crucifixes comes from within the Catholic community, while he and other campus faith leaders have defended their placement.[63] The Intercultural Center is an exception to this controversy, rotating displays of various faith and culture symbols in the lobby.[64] In 2009, Georgetown’s religious symbols were brought back to national attention after the university administration covered-up the name of Jesus in preparation for President Barack Obama’s speech on campus.[65]

And then there is the insipid twit “Vice-President” Kamala Harris whose personal profundity could not muster more than HAPPY HOLIDAY?

It would be the definition of “piling on” if your friends at V’pac pointed out that Kamala Harris is the most disgusting being ever to occupy the office of Vice President of the United States.
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“Enjoy the long weekend.” pic.twitter.com/ilGOrod4AW
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) May 29, 2021
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But then, why not remind folks what has happened to this great nation’s “leader ship(?)”

The African-American community , and feminists, should be, and probably are, embarrassed to have Kamala Harris parading around as America’s “first Black female Vice President”!

She is neither “Black” nor anything (of either gender) to be proud of.

She got a lot of criticism for her asinine ‘tweet’ wishing everyone to enjoy a “long weekend”, without even acknowledging what that “long weekend” honors…the many Americans who fought and made the ultimate sacrifice to insure freedom for all Americans!

Memorial Day to Kamala Harris and her anti-America friends and supporters is just a “holiday weekend” (maybe like Christmas is the “Winter Holiday”?).

God Bless America and God Bless America’s Fallen Heroes!

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Breaking News! …Inspector John Durham Shocks Washington …

 

“Report on 2020 Presidential election to be released by Labor Day…2025”

Heard Any Good Political Jokes Lately?

YEAH! JOHN DURHAM!…AND HIS “INVESTIGATION…

“Trump has repeatedly asked and vented about the progress of Durham’s inquiry since leaving office in January. “Where’s Durham — what ever happened to the Durham Report?


From the Washington Examiner:

The Justice Department released a report on the financial activity of John Durham’s special counsel inquiry into the origins and conduct of the Russia investigation. 

Durham has run the politically charged investigation since the spring of 2019, which means it has lasted longer than special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry.

A five-page document, quietly released on the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend, shows a breakdown of the expenditures made by the Special Counsel’s Office for the period from Oct. 19, 2020, when Durham was appointed special counsel by former Attorney General William Barr, through March 31.

The total cost of Durham’s endeavor during this period was about $1.5 million, with Durham directly spending $934,313. The majority of that money went to personnel, while other funds went toward travel, equipment acquisition, and contracts, which were “primarily for IT services,” the Justice Department said. DOJ components supporting the special counsel’s team who were asked to track their expenditures related to the inquiry reported spending $520,856.

“The review identified no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in the design or operation of SCO controls,” the Justice Department said.

Durham has run the politically charged investigation since the spring of 2019, which means it has lasted longer than special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry. Under the Biden administration, Durham left his role as the U.S. attorney in Connecticut but was allowed to continue the investigation following his appointment as special counsel.

Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, declined to promise during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would protect Durham’s investigation or make his eventual report public. However, Garland said he didn’t have any reason to think it wasn’t the right move to allow Durham to continue his work.

While former President Donald Trump and his allies claim the Obama administration unfairly targeted the businessman-turned-politician, Democrats and some national security veterans have dismissed Durham’s investigation as tainted by politics.

Much to the chagrin of Trump and his allies, Durham has so far secured only one guilty plea. FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who has since left the bureau, admitted to Durham in the summer that he falsified a document during the bureau’s efforts to renew its Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authority to wiretap former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page by editing a CIA email in 2017 to state that Page was “not a source.” Page denied any wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime. Clinesmith was sentenced to one year of probation and no prison time.

Trump has repeatedly asked and vented about the progress of Durham’s inquiry since leaving office in January. “Where’s Durham — what ever happened to the Durham Report?” he said this month.

Former Rep. Trey Gowdy said on his podcast last week that he recently met with some former Trump administration officials and the topic of the Russia investigation came up. “The reality is no one knows” about what Durham’s team is doing, the South Carolina Republican said. “I mean, I — there are people that were really, really high up in government. Like, really high up in government in the last administration that I talked to in the last week, and they don’t have a clue.”

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