WaPo: Emails show Trump campaign officials rejecting opportunities to meet with Russia in 2016

Via Billy

This may be the most pro-Trump Russiagate story ever to appear in a major paper. Turns out a low-level Trump foreign policy advisor named George Papadopoulos tried to set up meetings between the campaign and Russian officials starting last March, before Trump had even clinched the nomination.

Annnnnnd … some of the campaign’s major players, including Paul Manafort, just weren’t interested. Not only weren’t they interested, they were mindful of proper protocol: At least one advisor noted that meetings with a foreign state would raise Logan Act questions while another mentioned that U.S. allies should be notified before any Russia meetings happened.

More @ Hot Air

Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site

Via Billy

 

The Hill

More than 200 people were indicted on felony rioting charges in connection with the protests in Washington on Jan. 20.

 

The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.

Dreamhost, a web hosting provider, said that it has been working with the Department of Justice for several months on the request, which believes goes too far under the Constitution.

DreamHost claimed that the complying with the request from the Justice Department would amount to handing over roughly 1.3 million visitor IP addresses to the government, in addition to contact information, email content and photos of thousands of visitors to the website, which was involved in organizing protests against Trump on Inauguration Day.

 

“That information could be used to identify any individuals who used this site to exercise and express political speech protected under the Constitution’s First Amendment,” DreamHost wrote in the blog post on Monday. “That should be enough to set alarm bells off in anyone’s mind.”

When contacted, the Justice Department directed The Hill to the U.S. attorney's office in D.C.
The company is currently challenging the request. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday in Washington.

“In essence, the Search Warrant not only aims to identify the political dissidents of the current administration, but attempts to identify and understand what content each of these dissidents viewed on the website,” the company’s general counsel, Chris Ghazarian, said in a legal argument opposing the request.

The web provider published a purported search warrant issued by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia that asks for records and information related to the website and its owner, along with information that could be used to identify subscribers of the website.

This includes “names, addresses, telephone numbers and other identifiers, e-mail addresses, business information, the length of service (including start date), means and source of payment for services (including any credit card or bank account number), and information about any domain name registration.”

The warrant, dated July 12, says that authorities will seize any information constituting violations of D.C. code governing riots that involve individuals connected to the protests on Inauguration Day.

More than 200 people were indicted on felony rioting charges in connection with the protests in Washington on Jan. 20.

ANTIFA Starts It

Via Billy

Trump: Correct your statement.

"You can HEAR the car being struck before he hits the gas."

Via comment by Weaver on Ex-Teacher: Charlottesville Attack Suspect Rejecte... "Hi, I just wanted to post a link to the video from when he's reversing.  It's possible he has some defence, since he is hit with a bat before the crash. I expect we'll conclude he's guilty though."

Many more pictures and videos @ LucidHurricane✘

What If 'Unite The Right' Isn't Really Right?

Via 4 Branch

 ANTIFA

What if it's all a scam?

What if Jason Kessler isn't really a right-wing extremist?

What if Jason Kessler used to be involved with Occupy Wall Street and was a strong Obama supporter -- right up until, quite-literally to the day, Trump won the election?

What if he's nothing more than a stooge?

In other words, what if Jason Kessler is just a plain old-fashioned *******-for-hire?
Hmmmm.....

At one recent speech in favor of Charlottesville’s status as a sanctuary city, Kessler live-streamed himself as an attendee questioned him and apologized for an undisclosed spat during Kessler’s apparent involvement with Occupy. Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by the woman’s presence and reminders of their past association.

May I remind you that The Southern Poverty Law Center, the source of the above, is thought of as a fairly hard-left organization.  In other words, it's extremely unlikely they'd try to smear this guy with an unwarranted claim that he was involved with a hard-left cause!  Yet there's the accusation that he was formerly associated with Occupy, a socialist (if not communist) cause that was about as diametrically opposed to the KKK or "alt-right" as one can imagine.

More @ Market Ticker

Protesters (Getting $25 per hour) in Durham, N.C., topple Confederate statue

Via Frank

 

 The Founding Fathers Next.  The result of the idiots who voted for Obama.

Protesters in North Carolina have toppled a long-standing statue of a Confederate soldier.

Activists on Monday evening used a rope to pull down the monument outside a Durham courthouse. Video footage posted online shows protesters — some white, some black — kicking the crumpled bronze statue as dozens of people in the crowd cheered and chanted.

The Durham protest was in response to a white nationalist rally held in Charlottesville over the weekend. Authorities say one woman was killed Saturday after one of the white nationalists drove his car into a group of peaceful counter-protesters.

A United Daughters of the Confederacy website says the Confederate Soldiers Monument was erected in 1924.

Reporter Derrick Lewis with WNCN in Durham tweeted video

More with video @ Richmond Times-Dispatch

Were you watching this weekend? Did you see the events unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia?

Via  HakDixie

On Friday night, we experienced perhaps the most inspiring assembly in which we have ever taken part. Hundreds of white patriots raised their torches and marched through the campus of the University of Virginia to gather around the statue of Thomas Jefferson.

It was amazing to arrive and see the assembled column, and then lead it past the buildings Jefferson himself conceived. The look on the faces of the angry communists and angry, shrieking transexuals who came to "stop" us and found themselves vastly outnumbered and overwhelmed was priceless.
It was easy to be elated after Friday night. One might have found it equally easy to be dispirited on Saturday.

Instead of executing safety and security plans that had been coordinated with event organizers over a period of months, police obeyed stand-down orders from above, until swinging boldly into action and exerting their force ... against us.

                                                             More @ MailChi

Comey botched the Hillary Clinton email investigation

Via Billy

Dear John: You recently criticized the FBI for its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails.

I am a retired FBI agent and extremely proud of my career and service. I feel compelled to write. Former FBI Director James Comey’s statements, testimony and behavior are truly abhorrent.

Comey admitted under oath before Congress that the bureau did not utilize a federal grand jury in the Hillary e-mail investigation.

Furthermore, he testified that in his experience, when dealing with attorneys, you can obtain information easier and faster than via a federal grand jury.

Never, I repeat never, in my 25-year career have I or any FBI agent known to me investigated a criminal case without the use of a federal grand jury, federal grand jury subpoenas, search warrants, etc.

More @ The New York Post

At least 3.5 million more people are on U.S. election rolls than are eligible to vote.

Via Billy

 

Some 3.5 million more people are registered to vote in the U.S. than are alive among America’s adult citizens. Such staggering inaccuracy is an engraved invitation to voter fraud. The Election Integrity Project of Judicial Watch — a Washington-based legal-watchdog group — analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011–2015 American Community Survey and last month’s statistics from the federal Election Assistance Commission. The latter included figures provided by 38 states. According to Judicial Watch, eleven states gave the EAC insufficient or questionable information. 

 

Pennsylvania’s legitimate numbers place it just below the over-registration threshold

 

More @ NRO

Police: “We’re leaving. It’s too dangerous": Gov. McAuliffe Claims ‘Charlottesville Police Did A Magnificent Job’

Via Billy

 

FOX News reporter Doug McKelway attended the violent protests Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia. McKelway told FOX News viewers the police pulled out of Lee Park after the violence started. The police told him, “We’re leaving. It’s too dangerous.”

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This was after violent Antifa terrorists launched an attack on the white supremacists.

Despite reports Charlottesville police were ordered to stand down after Left-wing group Antifa crashed the ‘Unite the Right’ protest, Gov. McAuliffe praised local law enforcement’s efforts. ‘Our police did a magnificent job’ in Charlottesville, said Gov. McAuliffe.

More @ The Gateway Pundit