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"the best people":

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Can you even begin to imagine the reaction if this were the negro from Kenya or Hillary's campaign chairperson?

But for "patriotic republicans", this is just another day that ends in "y".

Former Trump Campaign Chairperson Paul Manafort.

Speaking of best people.....

zsn wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:52 pm Speaking of best people.....

Awesome

You really have to ask yourself, why all the lies and prevarication? Why, if there was "no collusion", have one Trump campaign/administration official/associate/family member after another after another after another either lied about or failed to disclose their contacts with Russians? Who lies, unless they have something to hide?

Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has acknowledged that he was present at a key 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

In an interview on Al Jazeera's "Head to Head" that aired Friday, Prince said he was present at an Aug. 3, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower to "talk about Iran policy."

The New York Times reported last year that Prince organized a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that included Donald Trump Jr. and Lebanese-American businessman George Nader. During that meeting, Nader reportedly said the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia wanted to aid Trump in his bid for the White House.

Prince previously testified under oath to the House Intelligence Committee on Nov. 30, 2017, saying at the time that he had "no official" or "really unofficial role" in the Trump campaign and his only involvement in helping was attending fundraisers and placing yard signs.

"Head to Head" host Mehdi Hasan pressed Prince on why his presence at the meeting was apparently not part of his testimony to lawmakers, to which Prince suggested, "they got the transcript wrong," prompting laughter from the audience.

Prince later added, "not all of the discussion that day was transcribed."

Same judge sentenced congressman Jefferson to 13 years for 400K worth of bribes. Manafort didn't pay 6 million in taxes.

Moral of these stories; Don't commit a crime, if you do, you're throwing the dice on how much prison time you'll receive.
In practice, however, a person’s chances of being charged with a felony or going to prison vary widely from courthouse to courthouse. That’s because prosecutors — which include District Attorneys and their assistants — have nearly unchecked power to decide whether to bring criminal charges against people who are arrested, what to charge them with, and, consequently, how severely they’re punished. That means the same crime can result in a lengthy prison sentence or a lenient probation period, depending on the county and the prosecutor in charge of the case. While this power — called “prosecutorial discretion” — is meant to allow flexibility in differing circumstances from case to case, new research suggests that it has played a major role in the growth of incarceration rates across the country.
https://okpolicy.org/prosecutorial-disc ... roll-dice/

Don't be sentenced while black.

i’m sure he was just trying to get in a quick 18 holes

Today in "...only...the best people":

...The variety of questions Kraninger faced included a pop quiz from one member, Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., on annual percentage rates, the benchmark for loan cost disclosures in lending.

Kraninger, a former staffer at OMB who spent much of her career in homeland security policy, gave a simplified definition of the rate.

“The APR is an extrapolation if it were a one-year term of the loan,” she said.

Porter then began reading a definition from a textbook on consumer finance law that she wrote before entering Congress, though she did not say what, if anything, Kraninger got wrong.

“I’ll be happy to send you a copy of the textbook that I wrote,” said Porter, holding up the book, before asking Kraninger to calculate APR on a theoretical loan. “My concern is whether you know well, ma’am, because you are the one responsible for making sure that American consumers know well when they take on loans.”

Kraninger responded: “This is not a math exercise though, it is a policy conversation about what the implications are."

Dammit, I miss him.

Those "fiscally conservative republicans" are blowing another gaping hole in the national debt.

I don't think anyone could have predicted republicans would prove to be total hypocrites concerning budgets deficits, again, unless they appreciate that no republican president, not one, since the Eisenhower Administration, has so much as proposed, let alone actually balanced, a federal budget in ~ 60 years. Six decades of hypocrisy: "We're the Fiscal Conservative Party", my ass. SMFH. We deserve better.

Big deficits are here to stay. Despite proposing the “most spending reductions ever sent to Congress,” as one of Trump’s top aides put it, the deficit is expected to hit $1.1 trillion this year and stay above the trillion mark every year through at least 2022. This is unprecedented in good economic times and is occurring because Trump and Congress are spending more at the same time the GOP tax cuts drive down government revenue...

The Trump administration likes to refer to a 5 percent cut in nondefense spending, but some agencies get far bigger chops than others. The EPA and Corps of Engineers would lose almost a third of their current funding.

...As expected, the president requested a substantial amount of money for expanding the border wall between the United States and Mexico. In fact, he asks for even more money in this budget than the $5 billion he wanted in December and ended up partially shutting down the government for over a month to try to get.

...cut Medicare.

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Goodness! We've got Steve Bannon, Breitbart "News", bribery attempts, and Senator Rand Paul makes an appearance in the story, too. The video is amazing.

And to think, Roy Moore was the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court...twice. He wraps himself in the bible, the constitution, and the American flag, and was chosen by republicans and supported by fellow birther Donald Trump. Moore is associated with neo-confederate and white nationalist groups. And the really sad thing? Considering how hell-bent republicans are about winning at any cost, and the revelations about stuffing the ballot box in North Carolina, not to mention their nationwide attempts to suppress the votes of minorities, none of that is surprising. None of it.

#sad



A Roy Moore supporter refused to answer questions about an alleged bribery attempt aimed at boosting Moore’s 2017 campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama, claiming dozens of times while under oath that truthful responses might incriminate him, according to court records released Monday.

...A transcript of a deposition filed in court Monday shows that, under questioning during closed-door testimony in November, Davi asserted his constitutional right not to incriminate himself 65 times when asked about the alleged offer.

In the final weeks of the failed Senate bid, Bert Davi and another Moore supporter approached the lawyer for Leigh Corfman, who had accused Moore of touching her sexually when she was 14 and he was 32. The men offered the lawyer $10,000 to drop Corfman as a client and issue a statement to Breitbart News questioning her credibility, the lawyer previously told The Washington Post.

Davi and a business partner, Gary Lantrip...arranged for Sexton to meet the Breitbart reporters. Davi and Lantrip pressed Sexton to provide the reporters with a statement undercutting Corfman’s allegations, according to text messages and recorded phone conversations.

...Moore said in a radio interview Friday that he is “seriously considering” running for Senate again in 2020 against Democrat Doug Jones, who defeated him in the 2017 special election.