The first domino falls in the Durham probe.

Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith will plead guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John Durham's review of the investigation into links between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign, two sources close to the matter tell Fox News.

Clinesmith was referred for potential prosecution by the Justice Department's inspector general's office, which conducted its own review of the Russia investigation.

Specifically, the inspector general accused Clinesmith, though not by name, of altering an email about former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page to say that he was "not a source" for another government agency. Page has said he was a source for the CIA. The DOJ relied on that assertion as it submitted a third and final renewal application in 2017 to eavesdrop on Page under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-probe-ex-fbi-lawyer-to-plead-guilty-in-first-criminal-case-arising-from-review-attorney-says

Not a good look for the Crossfire team.

Am I reading this correctly? Is Chump actually ordering US mailboxes to be carted away?

Well, if so... thankfully there’s a contingency plan for mailing ballots. If no mailbox is available in the area, then voters are instructed to find the nearest person wearing a patriotic bright red MAGA hat, and shove the ballot up their butt. Go USPS! :up:

It's official, the US is a banana republic.

It's official, the US is a banana republic. — Benkei

For the first part of his term, Chump seemed (except to his rabid fans) to be more “dick” than “dictator”. Now, McDonald seems to be trying very hard to make up for lost time. Kind of a “tinfoil hat” dictator.

For a man who has been spewing accusations of a “deep state” working against him to pull these obvious cheating ploys... it’s somewhat unnerving to see law, ethics, and the Constitution being pissed on. But not totally unexpected. He is now officially “The Swamp Thing” :scream: (coming soon to a socially distanced drive-in theatre near you!)

Looks like someone expedited the plan.

Am I reading this correctly? Is Chump actually ordering US mailboxes to be carted away?

Nope. It’s just a conspiracy theory.

Nope. It’s just a conspiracy theory. — NOS4A2

Thoughtful and in-depth argument. Mystery solved. ‘Kthxbye!

If Huff Post is too leftist, here is the latest from CNN. Appears that the mailbox removal will stop in some areas. One doesn’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to detect DT’s greasy little fingerprints all over this. Goes along with his general strategy lately, like trying to shut down TikTok. But whatever...

The USPS gives the reason why they’re removing the boxes, but these reasons are dismissed in favor of a trite conspiracy theory, Very thoughtful.

Am I reading this correctly? Is Chump actually ordering US mailboxes to be carted away? — 0 thru 9

Well, according to this, the postmaster general met with Trump before "remov[ing] several top USPS officials, including two that oversaw day-to-day operations, and postal employees are now warning about the unexplained removal of vote-sorting machines," and according to this, some mailboxes have been removed.

Whether this is because Trump instructed him to, or related to him and his wife having large investments in USPS competitors, or legitimate reasons isn't known, but they have said that they will stop further removals until after the election.

Trump, though, has refused additional (much-needed) funding.

@NOS4A2
Trite conspiracy? More like circumstantial evidence. Not proof. But where there’s smirk, there’s often fire. USPS answers directly to you know who. If Chumpy happens to get lucky and win in November, we can probably expect a full investigation into election meddling. No Russians needed this time.

Trump, though, has refused additional (much-needed) funding. — Michael

:up: Exactly. And many post offices are REDUCING their hours, and eliminating lunchtime services.

Subtle as a brick to the head...

They agreed to a 10 billion dollar loan just a couple weeks ago. Is that circumstantial evidence included in this theory?

A story you won’t see on CNN, who doesn’t even mention it, is the election fraud in NJ.

New Jersey has yet to get to its second of three rounds of 2020 elections, and so far we’ve seen misdelivered ballots, ballots dropped in piles in apartment lobbies and ballots burned in a mail truck fire. Meanwhile, clerks’ offices are inundated with a flood of mail-in ballots, plus thousands more applications for ballots, many from unaffiliated voters who clerks said don’t intend to vote in the July 7 primary.

“It’s a mess,” said state Sen. Declan O’Scanlon, R-Monmouth.

Gov. Phil Murphy ordered May’s local elections and July’s primaries to be conducted almost entirely by mail as part of the state’s effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Since then, the missteps have included:

Republican voters in Somerset County received ballots meant for Democratic voters.Morris Township ballots were destroyed when a mail truck caught fire June 20.Possible computer glitches at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission assigned the wrong party registration to some voters and sent two ballots to voters who have legally changed their names, according to New Jersey Globe.One out of 10 ballots in May’s local elections were not counted, according to NJ Spotlight.

There is also new statewide voter registration software that has been glitchy, slowing the process further, clerks told NorthJersey.com.

“It’s unfortunate and unfair that these elections are going to have an asterisk next to them,” Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, said Monday.

The allegations out of Paterson may be the most troubling. State Attorney General Gurbir Grewal alleges that Councilman Michael Jackson and Councilman-elect Alex Mendez handled mail-in ballots improperly. Jackson possessed too many mail-in ballots that were not his own and Mendez submitted voter registration applications he knew were false, Grewal claims. Two workers for a third campaign were also charged with election fraud.

One woman said she was hired by the Mendez campaign to pick up and drop off numerous stacks of ballots eight days prior to the election, said a lawyer for one of the losing candidates.

https://www.njherald.com/news/20200630/its-mess-paterson-voter-fraud-just-taste-of-mail-in-ballot-issues-plaguing-new-jersey

Imagine it on a national scale.

"TRUMP INTERVIEW" — A Bad Lip Reading (5m:2s youtube)

:D

trite conspiracy theory — NOS4A2

Really? You wear your thoughtless absurdity like a purple robe. One that a Brutus could "unkindly knock."

Really? You wear your thoughtless absurdity like a purple robe. One that a Brutus could "unkindly knock."

And you show your susceptibility to the basest of propaganda. The only ones seeking to alter the USPS and the election are the democrats, and this is proven by their push for mail-in voting and the massive provisions regarding elections and the USPS in the coronavirus relief packages. The only ones suppressing the vote are those saying it is dangerous to go to the voting booth. Mailboxes have been disappearing every year by the thousands for decades due to underuse. Of course only the most news-riddled could turn these facts into an anti-Trump conspiracy theory.

You're good - it has to be said. But the better you are, the worse you are. You appear to me close to pure corruption, toxic in word to such a degree you must be in person as well. Btw, can you say Lejoy?

You got me all wrong, Tim. And yes, I can say Lejoy.

How can there be mass voter fraud through postal votes if there are very few postboxes and those that there are, are not used. it doesn't make sense?


The populists in the UK suffer from the same paranoia. They repeatedly claim that there is a risk of mass voter fraud through postal voting. But there has never been any evidence of it. They can't even explain who would become involved in it, why they would do it.

Trump Says He’ll Seek a Third Term Because 'They Spied On Me'

Someone hasn't heard of the 22nd Amendment.

Wait you think he knows any of them? Or just, like, the law in general?

Someone hasn't heard of the 22nd Amendment.

Someone hasn’t heard of a joke.

The Rolling Stone article also says that Trump claimed for the seventh times over the last several years that he received Michigan’s ‘Man of the Year’ award. Some jokes never get old, I guess.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/senate-intelligence-russian-interference-report.html

Also:

Senate made criminal referral of Trump Jr., Bannon, Kushner and two others to federal prosecutors

Mr. Manafort recognized the Kremlin’s interests, the report said. “This model can greatly benefit the Putin government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitments to success,” he wrote in a memo to Mr. Deripaska.

The report called Mr. Manafort’s efforts for the oligarch “in effect, influence work for the Russian government and its interests.”

For over a decade, the work made Mr. Manafort fabulously wealthy. At lunch after Mr. Yanukovych was elected president [of Ukraine] in 2010, the report said, the new Ukrainian leader “snapped his fingers” and gave Mr. Manafort a jar of caviar worth $30,000 to $40,000.

Trump pardoned Susan B Anthony on the 100th year anniversary of the 19th amendment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53825403

News!! I figured out who nos-4 is! He's Tucker Carlson's and Sean Hannity's love child!

Nice speech from Obama.

T-minus 75 days. :mask:

"I don't know much about the [QAnon conspiracy] movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate." ~DJT, Putin's Running Mate