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kpete's JournalDOJ Altered an Exhibit in the Mike Flynn Case to Support a False Smear of Joe Biden
As noted, Peter Strzok’s lawyer has confirmed something I laid out earlier: DOJ submitted at least two sets of Strzok’s notes in its effort to blow up the Mike Flynn prosecution that had been altered to add a date that Strzok did not write himself.
This post will lay out why it matters.
I discovered that DOJ had altered Strzok’s notes because DOJ shared — and Sidney Powell submitted in purported support of her claim of prosecutorial abuse — two sets of those notes.
This set, shared on June 23 (the red rectangle is my annotation).
And this set, shared on September 23. Again, my red rectangle shows where DOJ added a date, January 4-5, 2017.
As Strzok’s lawyer, Aitan Goelman, explained that date is wrong.
On at least one occasion, the date added is wrong and could be read to suggest that a meeting at the White House happened before it actually did.
The correct date is January 5, 2017. The notes could not have been written on January 4 because they memorialize a meeting that happened on January 5.
As I demonstrated here, there was never a doubt about the date of the notes. They were written on January 5, 2017, after the meeting in question. The notes clearly match the known details — as laid out in this contemporaneous memo to the file by Susan Rice and elsewhere — of a meeting in the White House, attended by the President, Sally Yates, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, and Jim Comey, regarding what to do about the discovery that Mike Flynn had secretly called up the Russian Ambassador and undermined the sanctions President Obama imposed, in part, to punish the Russians for tampering in our election.
THE REST:
https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/36/191591/04518078707.pdf
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/09/29/doj-altered-an-exhibit-in-the-mike-flynn-case-to-support-a-false-smear-of-joe-biden/
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1310711056902369291?s=20
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1310723193435566080?s=20
Honest Abe Lincoln paid $915.96 in federal "income duty" in 1864
Honest Abe Lincoln paid $915.96 in federal "income duty" in 1864, $2258.60 over the 32 months the "duty" was in effect until his death. He wasn't subject to it under the law, but paid it voluntarily anyway. Was posthumously refunded to widow/son yrs after.
https://twitter.com/Oaguabonita/status/1310606426956464129?s=20
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln2/5250244.0001.001/1:17.4?rgn=div2;view=fulltext
Take This Magats: "Trump is the looter"
Trump Is Just Another MoocherThe president is running out of time, and his tax returns just dispelled all his pretensions to wealth and sacrifice.
David Frum
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........the ink-on-paper confirmation of Trump’s indebtedness, tax-dodging, and all-around crookedness will get into Trump’s head. His political project through the pandemic has been to mess with his opponents by hurling one crazy distraction after another. Now, suddenly, it’s his own decision loop that has been disrupted. On the pre-existing trajectory of the 2020 campaign, Trump was going to lose—and probably lose big. He needed something to happen either to help him or, more plausibly, to push the Biden camp into some mistake or misstep. Now, suddenly, the banana peels have been dumped beneath his own feet.
Whatever initiative he possessed as the incumbent president, it’s suddenly vanished. Instead, every step threatens disaster. At a press conference on the afternoon the New York Times Trump tax story broke, he denounced as false the report that he paid only $750 in tax in 2017. Watch his face as he issued the denial, though, and you can see him belatedly foresee the follow-up question: “But can you give people an idea of how much you actually are paying?” Trump was visibly scrambled.
David Frum: Trump is the looter
Scrambled too are whatever plans Trump may have had for the first presidential debate tomorrow night. He may try to huff and puff—a tactic that might save the day if he were sitting on a lead. Instead, he’s trying to climb out of an 8-to-10 point deficit. Gravity is now pulling harder against him.
For once in his life, Trump seems tongue-tied. His supporters, even those willing to be shameless, have been left desperately to contrive messages of their own. They are not doing a very good job, in part because they must worry about the line that Trump will eventually want them to take, when he finally announces a line. Not many days and hours remain, and Trump has abruptly lost almost any vestige of control of either the game or the clock.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/trumps-tax-returns-proves-he-just-another-moocher/616516/
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1310602319172481024?s=20
'This is the smoking gun': Carl Bernstein claims Trump's taxes expose his 'grifter presidency'
‘”That Donald Trump and his family are grifters, and they have created — he has created –the first grifter presidency in the history of the United States, in which his purpose in running for the presidency and exercising the powers of the presidency, the fundamental reason is to bail himself and his family out,” Bernstein remarked.“It shows in policy,” he continued. “It shows in his foreign relationships especially with Erdogan and Turkey, it shows the fundamental corruption and criminality of Donald Trump, and now we have the definitive evidence, and he is trying to make the conduct of the press the issue, instead of the conduct of himself in his refusal to pay taxes adequately, and also to keep them secret.”
“This is the smoking gun about who Donald Trump really is, and what his presidency really is,” he added.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/this-is-the-smoking-gun-carl-bernstein-claims-trumps-taxes-expose-his-grifter-presidency/
The Englishman who coined "shitgibbon" early in our (inter)national nightmare continues to impress
If only there was some way of settling this, once and for all, like.. I dunno.. RELEASING YOUR GODDAMN TAX RETURNS, you fraudulent, thieving, deceitful, gaslighting, pusillanimous, porcine, pumpkin-faced, piss-guzzling, prostitute-paying, pussy-grabbing, potbellied pigshagger.
https://twitter.com/BunsOfHam/status/1310556454953324545?s=20
Dan Rather: "The real definition of "hoax" is the "business mogul" America saw on The Apprentice."
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1310366931120128000?s=20OMG-Pope Francis: Tax evasion is part of a "structure of sin."
Pope Francis: Tax evasion is part of a "structure of sin." He also quoted this article: "It has become evident that those who do not pay taxes do not only commit a felony but also a crime: if there are not enough hospital beds and artificial respirators, it is also their fault."
https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/1310382258189107202?s=20
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1310388866474545152?s=20
Hillary 2016 Debate: "Maybe he doesn't want American people to know he's paid nothing in fed taxes"
Hillary Clinton at the first debate in 2016: "Maybe he doesn't want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes ... So if he's paid zero, that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health."https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1310542268730937344?s=20
"So you've got to ask yourself, why won't he release his tax returns? And I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be."
https://twitter.com/Bros4Joe/status/1310351505564692480?s=20
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@maggieNYT later this week.
“Pushing back a strand of her silken hair, Ivanka whispered she never approved of ‘daddy’s tax hijinks.’ A single perfect tear slid down her flawless cheek. Her make-up, as always, remained perfect. I was glad she was my friend.”https://twitter.com/tbogg/status/1310408006782214145?s=20
Notes on Times gets Trump's tax returns
Thank you @susannecraig @russbuettner @mmcintire for a vital public service.
Agree: This is a national security story.
Different jobs, but the investigative wing of the national press has done far better with Trump than the @whca cohort.
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1310394482429513729?s=20
Portland Proud Boys day of rage fizzles as promised crowd of 20,000 turns out (maybe) 500
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https://twitter.com/voltaverse/status/1309987481039691776?s=20
https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1309969106800529408?s=20
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1310019488905977856?s=20
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/26/1980970/-Portland-Proud-Boys-day-of-rage-fizzles-as-promised-crowd-of-20-000-turns-out-500?utm_campaign=trending
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