Sunday, April 28, 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019
God help us: Biden doesn't know when to use "is" vs. "are" and leftwing authority Jacobin acquiesces to an undercount of US billionaires by 26%
It's always the same old story. Reading, writing and arithmetic.
Apparently it's news to some alien peoples that Great Britain provided 68.7% of the US population's ancestry in 1790
Ancestry for 19.3% was black, the 12% balance other European (German, Dutch, French, Swedish).
John Solomon: Joe Biden in March 2016 pressured Ukraine to fire prosecutor investigating company paying Hunter Biden, bragged about it to CFR audience in 2018
Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived:
But Ukrainian officials tell me there was one crucial piece of
information that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his
audience: The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging
corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.
U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm,
Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its
accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from
spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden
was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations
with Russia.
The general prosecutor’s official file for the Burisma probe — shared
with me by senior Ukrainian officials — shows prosecutors identified
Hunter Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont
Seneca, as potential recipients of money.
Shokin told me in written answers to questions that, before he was
fired as general prosecutor, he had made “specific plans” for the
investigation that “included interrogations and other
crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board,
including Hunter Biden.” ...
The timing of Hunter Biden’s and Archer’s appointment to Burisma’s board has been highlighted in the past, by The New York Times in December 2015 and in a 2016 book by conservative author Peter Schweizer. ...
According to Schweizer’s book, Vice President Biden met with Archer
in April 2014 right as Archer was named to the board at Burisma. A month
later, Hunter Biden was named to the board, to oversee Burisma’s legal team.
But the Ukrainian investigation and Joe Biden’s effort to fire the
prosecutor overseeing it has escaped without much public debate. ...
Between April 2014 and October 2015, more than $3 million was paid
out of Burisma accounts to an account linked to Biden’s and Archer’s
Rosemont Seneca firm, according to the financial records placed in a federal court file in Manhattan in an unrelated case against Archer.
Foreign Affairs Issue Launch with Former Vice President Joe Biden
Tuesday, January 23, 2018:
I was—not I, but it just happened to be that was the assignment I got. I
got all the good ones. And so I got Ukraine. And I remember going over,
convincing our team, our leaders to—convincing that we should be
providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th
time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another
billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from
Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the
state prosecutor. And they didn’t. So they said they had—they were walking out to a press conference. I
said, nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion
dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The
president said—I said, call him. (Laughter.) I said, I’m telling you,
you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the
billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six
hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the
prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a
bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was
solid at the time.
Friday, April 26, 2019
John Solomon is also interviewed by Michael Savage today on Joe Biden's Ukraine problem
The podcast is free and can be accessed at michaelsavage.com.
Biden's son Hunter was on a Ukraine company's payroll due to Joe Biden's influence when Joe was Vice President. Solomon reports that Joe Biden is caught on tape boasting about getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired who was looking into possibly improper payments to Hunter Biden's company.
The Hill's John Solomon: Obama administration had January 2016 meeting in DC with Ukrainian officials to pursue Manafort
How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost:
U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of
our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said Andrii Telizhenko, then a
political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with
organizing the meeting.
Telizhenko, who no longer works for the Ukrainian Embassy, said U.S.
officials volunteered during the meetings — one of which was held in the
White House’s Old Executive Office Building — that they had an interest
in reviving a closed investigation into payments to U.S. figures from
Ukraine’s Russia-backed Party of Regions. ...
Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general’s
international affairs office, said that, shortly after Ukrainian
authorities returned from the Washington meeting, there was a clear
message about helping the Americans with the Party of the Regions case.
“Yes, there was a lot of talking about needing help and then the [Manafort] ledger just appeared in public,” he recalled.
Kulyk said Ukrainian authorities had evidence that other Western figures,
such as former Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig, also received
money from Yanukovych’s party. But the Americans weren’t interested:
“They just discussed Manafort. This was all and only what they wanted.
Nobody else.”
Egads, now we're expecting 5 inches of snow in Grand Rapids
Saturday Night: Rain and snow, becoming all snow after 7pm. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 29. North northeast wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of around 5 inches.
CNBC's lede in GDP story this morning got it wrong by two years
Here's the lede out of the box this morning, still up at Yahoo:
The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in six years. . . . It was the first time since 2013 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%.
That wasn't at all true, of course. CNBC has since revised the story to this:
The U.S. economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter and posted its best growth to start a year in four years. . . . It was the first time since 2015 that first-quarter GDP topped 3%.
Must be a hangover at work from the awful Obama years when Q1GDP kept digging holes in the basement.
David French and Ben Shapiro join up in NeverTrump redux, just in time for 2020
Responding to Joe Biden's announcement of his candidacy for president, Ben Shapiro oddly saw it as an opportunity to bash President Trump yesterday, laughably resurrecting the long debunked "fine people hoax" of Charlottesville to riff on Trump's weakness for reelection in 2020.
Trump's still a racist, you see.
Shapiro might as well have been speaking as a paid member of the Biden campaign. That he wasn't speaks to an uglier animus which is willing to lie in order to smear. The goal doesn't care about the facts.
David French, meanwhile, has been in Shapiro's corner of late, defending him on Twitter against recent WaPo stories ludicrously painting Shapiro as alt-right.
Now French is out in TIME, tag-teaming with Shapiro in criticism of Trump as, you guessed it, weak:
What a cohencidence!
In French's reading, Trump is weak because the Mueller report shows him not to be the alpha male he makes himself out to be. If the voters ever find out, he's finished, you see.
Leave it to the impotence of NeverTrump to fixate on fantasies and miss the real source of Trump's 2020 vulnerability.
If the public which elected Trump realizes that the border is even more wide open than it was before he was elected, that's when Trump will be finished.
But, of course, NeverTrump is just fine with wide open borders.
The public won't be hearing that from them.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Ben Shapiro's been under attack as alt-right, which is why he's attacking Trump today as soft on Richard Spencer
And Joe Biden's announcement today gave Ben the cover he needed to make it look like a perfectly innocent response to that, instead of to these recent attacks on himself.
A twofer, but he won't get away with it.
Biden is using Heather Heyer's 2017 death in Virginia like Bush 41 used Willie Horton in 1988 . . .
. . . only it's just to win the Democrat primary, not the general against Trump.
Desperate times for Democrats call for desperate measures.
Saturday night's forecast overnight into Sunday in Grand Rapids, Michigan is for two inches of snow!
Rain showers before midnight, then
rain and snow showers. Low around 32. Northeast wind 8 to 11 mph.
Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of around 2
inches.
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