WSJ: Mueller and the Obama Accounting: Obama Owes The Country An Explanation

The Mueller report confirms that the Obama administration, without evidence, turned the surveillance powers of the federal government against the presidential campaign of the party out of power. 

This historic abuse of executive authority was either approved by President Barack Obama or it was not. 

It’s time for Mr. Obama, who oddly receives few mentions in stories about his government’s spying on associates of the 2016 Trump campaign, to say what he knew and did not know about the targeting of his party’s opponents. . . . 

It’s time for this lawyer and alleged passionate defender of the Bill of Rights to explain the actions of his overzealous and overreaching executive branch. 

If he didn’t find out about the wiretapping until after the fact, when exactly did he learn about it and how did he respond? 

What has always seemed clear is that Mr. Obama never actually believed the now-discredited claim that the Trump campaign worked with Russia to rig the 2016 U.S. elections. . . . 

If Mr. Obama never bought into the collusion conspiracy theory, then the question is why he endorsed or allowed the use of federal surveillance tools against the party out of power—a direct threat to the democratic process that is at the heart of our country’s greatness. 

Mr. Obama might have room to deny any knowledge of the details of the surveillance abuses, given the story his FBI director told Congress—if anybody could believe that story. 

The absolute bare minimum that Mr. Obama owes this country is an explanation of the actions of his government in spying on a presidential campaign.

Avenatti Arrested For Trying to Extort $20M from NIKE

Avenatti Arrested For Trying to Extort $20M from NIKE...

Lawyer Michael Avenatti is facing coast-to-coast charges in separate extortion and fraud schemes, the feds announced Monday.

Avenatti — who shot to fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels over her claims of an affair with President Trump and more recently the parents of Azriel Clary, one of R. Kelly’s alleged “sex slaves” — was arrested in Manhattan on charges that he tried to shake down the sneaker giant Nike for $20 million last week, authorities said.

“I’ll go take $10 billion off your client’s market cap … I’m not f–king around,” court papers say he told Nike lawyers during a conference call Wednesday.

That conversation came a day after Avenatti met with Nike’s lawyers and “threatened to release damaging information” if the company didn’t pay off Avenatti and an unidentified co-conspirator, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court.

The Wall Street Journal identified the alleged co-conspirator as lawyer Mark Geragos, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Avenatti’s alleged “not f–king around” threat allegedly came on the eve of Nike’s quarterly earnings report, and two days before the start of the NCAA’s “March Madness” college basketball tournament.

The charges against him were revealed just minutes after Avenatti — who recently flirted with a Democratic presidential campaign — tweeted that he would be holding a Tuesday morning news conference about “a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by @Nike that we have uncovered.”

“This criminal conduct reaches the highest levels of Nike and involves some of the biggest names in college basketball,” he claimed.

During an afternoon news conference, Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said Avenatti told Nike that if his demands weren’t met, the company would be “inflicted with cut after cut after cut after cut.”

“A suit and tie doesn’t mask the fact that at its core this was an old-fashioned shakedown,” Berman said.

As for the charges against him in California, prosecutors in the Golden State allege that Avenatti stole a client’s $1.6 million settlement and spent the cash on personal expenses and debts, and to run his law firm and former coffee business, Tully’s Coffee, which had stores in Los Angeles and Seattle.

Avenatti is also accused of defrauding a bank in Mississippi by using fake tax returns to borrow $4.1 million, even though he never filed personal tax returns for 2011, 2012 and 2013 — and still owes the IRS more than $850,000 in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest for 2009 and 2010, the feds said.

Co-Conspirator: Mark Geragos Was Smollett, Kaepernick Lawyer; CNN Legal Analyst... 

John Brennan Does 180 On Russia Collusion, Admits He May Have Been Wrong

Blackberry Smoke

Sunrise In Texas

GOP Post-Mueller-Investigation Video

Headlines, with rousing music ("Can Can"):

"The Call To Prayer", Trafalgar Square, London

DEVIN NUNES: House Intel Will Make Criminal Referrals to AG Barr on FBI, DOJ Officials Who “Perpetrated This Hoax”

BREAKING:Rep. Devin Nunes says House Intel has evidence Clinton operatives & hi-level FBI & DOJ officials started Trump-Russia investigation in "late 2015/early 2016" &that House GOP will be making criminal referrals to AG Barr for officials who "perpetuated this hoax" for 3+ yrs

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) March 24, 2019

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Rhapsody In Blue

EXONERATED! Not Only Did Trump NOT Collude – The Trump Campaign Actively Rebuffed Repeated Russian Attempts To Interfere!

Not only was Trump cleared of collusion, the Mueller report goes a step further, reporting that the Trump campaign thwarted repeated attempts by the Russians to interfere. Of course, you won’t see this part of the letter highlighted in the FakeNews media.

The Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, DESPITE MULTIPLE OFFERS FROM RUSSIAN-AFFILIATED INDIVIDUALS TO ASSIST THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

KEY TAKEAWAYS TO MUELLER REPORT: NO COLLUSION — NO OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE! — VICTORY FOR TRUMP

TRUMP WINS!

BREAKING— PRESIDENT TRUMP WARNS DEEP STATE: “It Began Illegally… Somebody’s Going to be Looking at the Other Side”

President Trump: It began illegally. And hopefully somebody is going to look at the other side. This was an illegal takedown that failed. And hopefully somebody’s going to be looking at the other side. 

CAMPAIGN DID NOT COLLUDE WITH RUSSIANS

MUELLER DOES NOT FIND OBSTRUCTION*

NO PROOF OF CRIMES

BARR TEXT 

TRUMP: 'This Was an Illegal Takedown That Failed'... 

TAIBBI: Russiagate is this generation's Iraqi WMD's...

Christians in Muslim countries ‘143 times more likely’ to be killed by Muslims than Muslims in non-Muslim countries

Terrorist attacks against Muslims in the Western world, like the one that took place in Christchurch, are extremely rare…. 

If we put Friday’s killings in perspective, that perspective should include the fact that some 30 million Muslims reside in the Western world today, which makes the probability of any one of them falling victim to a deplorable attack in any given year roughly one in ten million. 

261 persons have been killed and many more injured, in attacks by Muslims on non-Muslims, in less than four years, in only one country, France (pop. 66 million). 

With 66 dead a year on average, Frenchmen are exactly ten times more likely to be murdered by a Muslim than a Muslim being killed by a non-Muslim terrorist anywhere in the Western world. 

The score is incomparably worse if we look at the situation of Christians in the Muslim world. It is the most egregious example of human right violations in today’s world: 

According to “Open Doors”, at least 4,305 Christians known by name were murdered by Muslims because of their faith in 2018. 

Aid to the Church in Need, in its latest “Religious Freedom Report”, warned that 300 million Christians, overwhelmingly in the majority-Muslim countries, were subjected to violence, making it “the most persecuted religion in the world.” 

This makes the odds of a Christian in a majority-Muslim country being murdered by a Muslim – simply for being what he is – approximately one in 70,000. 

Which means that a Christian living in a majority Muslim country is 143 times more likely to be killed by a Muslim for being a Christian than a Muslim is likely to be killed by a non-Muslim in a Western country for being what he is.

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

Dem House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler: We Don’t Care About Mueller Report, We Know There Was Collusion

The British Deep State And Their Persecution of Tommy Robinson

Unbelievable footage of UK police and Antifa working in tandem to get Tommy Robinson. Including a police surveillance van listening to his wife and kids. https://t.co/Gv4bnFgX5X

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) March 23, 2019

Quotation Of The Day

A comment found on blog rounds the morning after the Mueller Investigation was concluded and a comment which sums up my own thoughts....

Commenter LL's evaluation as stated at Lone Star Parson:

Mueller, in the end, after making his retirement money (for himself and his cronies), and lacking ANY evidence, finally folded his tent and the aspirations of the Deep State and the Corrupt Media are weeping (more) bitter tears. The Russia collusion narrative is dead even though pawns like Adam Schiff (D-CA) will continue to beat the drum because it's the only drum they have.

Russia, military in decline, reduced to a regional power with a nuclear arsenal, is doing its best to follow a Russia First agenda, and why shouldn't they? China is having some money problems but it's still promoting its belt road agenda, and the US is energy and food independent, steel industry back in business.

President Trump has revealed disastrous trade deals with China, Japan, Korea and Europe is re-mapping how business is to be done and the Deep State trembles. All that money in bribes stopped. All those plans to weaken the US have been put on hold. Such a pity -- all that plotting, waiting and hoping that somebody like Beto or the fake Indian will capture the imagination of the voters. Somebody who can read the message of his/her handlers from a teleprompter the way that Barack did.

Last year, one of my clients, a dyed-in-the-wool member of the Democrat Party, said to me, with feigned sorrow, "I'm sorry. But Trump is going to be removed from office."  You see, she really believed the drumbeat she heard every day on MSNBC and The View.

And there are millions more like my former client.

I wonder....How long before more screaming at the sky commences?

Let the nervous breakdowns begin!

Related reading, from Lone Star Parson's follow-up post Satan Does Not Tolerate Failure. Worth your time.

Gene Ammons

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