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Politics : The Donald Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (30198)	3/16/2019 11:16:54 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 50810

Donald is going to insist that ALL papers and document be made fully and completely public, no secrets held back from the American people... it will be fully and completely made public... if he hasn't yet announced it, then he will very soon... GZ

To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (30198)	3/17/2019 9:27:20 AM
From: Carolyn	1 Recommendation Recommended By GROUND ZERO™ Respond to of 50810

Exactly. This is the way it will be from now on. Sickening.

To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (30198)	3/17/2019 10:50:03 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 50810

AN ESSAY IN THE VALUE AND IMPORTANCE OF FREE SPEECH... This essay is an impromptu post written by mindmeld, a fellow poster on the forum... I find his words and insights highly significant and relevant to today's current events issues that we all witness and experience daily... I thought it was worthy of reading... Message 32073826 GZ

To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (30198)	3/18/2019 6:51:10 AM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By Winfastorlose Respond to of 50810

Time to target AOC and Make Alexandria a Bartender Again: --------------- There’s Enough Evidence to Open a Criminal Investigation Into Ocasio-Cortez By Daily Caller A former member of the Federal Election Commission called for an investigation Sunday into alleged campaign finance violations by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her top aide Saikat Chakrabarti. The Daily Caller News Foundation reported last week that Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti have since December 2017 held legal authority over Justice Democrats, the outside PAC that has been credited with manufacturing her upset primary victory over incumbent Democrat Joe Crowley in June 2018. The conservative National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) also filed an FEC complaint last week, first reported by the Washington Examiner, alleging that Justice Democrats and another PAC controlled by Chakrabarti, Brand New Congress, funneled $1 million into two private companies under his control during the 2018 midterms. “As a former FEC commissioner who has studied the complaint against Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti, I have concluded that there is unquestionably more than enough evidence to justify the FEC opening a civil investigation,” Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky wrote in a Fox News op-edSunday. “There seems to be enough evidence here to justify opening a criminal investigation,” he said, adding that Ocasio-Cortez “could get up to five years in prison for each violation” if convicted of criminal conduct. Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed to the FEC that she and Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, controlled Justice Democrats while it was simultaneously supporting her primary campaign. If the FEC finds that her campaign and the political action committee were operating in affiliation, it could result in her campaign receiving excessive contributions. “If someone gave Ocasio-Cortez a $2,700 contribution and then gave another contribution to either of the other two PACS that Ocasio-Cortez and/or Chakrabarti were running, her campaign violated federal law by receiving and keeping a contribution above the legal limit,” von Spakovsky explained. Ocasio-Cortez called the NLPC’s complaint a “ conspiracy theory” propagated by conservative groups looking to receive airtime on Fox News. However, she hasn’t addressed TheDCNF’s reporting surrounding her and Chakrabarti’s “legal control over” Justice Democrats starting in December 2017. The two continue to serve as “governors” of Justice Democrats, according to the PAC’s business filings in Washington D.C. CNN, ABC News, NBC News and The Washington Post also didn’t disclose the facts surrounding Ocasio-Cortez’s control over Justice Democrats in stories about the freshman Democrat’s mounting campaign finance scandals. Von Spakovsky said Chakrabarti’s use of two LLCs under his control to fund “campaign infrastructure and fundraising” services for his PACs and 12 political candidates, including Ocasio-Cortez, runs counter to Ocasio-Cortez’s call for more transparency in government. “Is the New York congresswoman – who claims to be an honest and upstanding crusader for good government and transparency – really a hypocrite who improperly hid her own campaign spending in a complex maze of fundraising groups?” von Spakovsky asked. Von Spakovsky said he expects the four active FEC commissioners — two Republicans, one Democrat and one independent — will vote in favor of opening an investigation into Ocasio-Cortez “given all the evidence of possible violations of the law that has already been made public.” “We don’t know what further investigation will find,” he said. “But it is clear an investigation is needed to determine if Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti broke the law.” Follow Andrew on Twitter. Contact Andrew securely at AndrewKerrNC@protonmail.com