It's not only Nancy.......

These 97 Members of Congress
Reported Trades in Companies
Influenced by Their Committees

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/politics/congress-members-stock-trading-list.html

I can only guess that is just the tip of the iceberg..

 

Yes, I would agree with that statement. Thanks for boiling it down to its essence.

 

Well, as it turns out, toniter, political party is a key element of moral outrage on the part of despicables.
The statement stands as posted.

 

But you see, Trump stole documents. Hank Johnson, a black democrat, says biden's documents were planted just to make him look bad. Yep,
they got into his garage presumably when it was open or unlocked and purposely stacked boxes of top secret classified right next to his corvette.

 

Watch this vid which is relevant to this discussion on corrupt pollies....

This little joke from Ronnie Rayguns.....yes that's Reagan...who knew he had a wicked sense of humour.

https://youtube.com/shorts/UCXU06kRH6s?feature=share

 

GODDAMN SONOFABITCHES!!! So they uncover top secret documents. In the Penn Biden building bought and paid for by china. And biden admin admitted guilt.
They admitted they're guilty. So we need an investigation. WHAT?!?!?! WHY?????? They already admitted guilt. And so who gets to head up the investigation?
A FUCKING CHINAMAN!!!! That's who. Goddamnsonofabitches

 

WHOOP!

 

You obviously don't know how this works. Biden just has his name on the organization. The organization is fun by the university. The money was donated to the university that also happens to run that organization.

But you'll continue to misrepresent this because you're a good minion. Keep that yellow skin and monicalled eye...

Come now, Conroe, keep your racism in your shorts... He's a "FUCKING CHINAMAN" appointed by Trump! He's YOUR "CHINAMAN"!

 

Such a resounding cheer of agreement with racism, eh space alien?

 

Oh thread monitor, where's your outrage when despicables step on their wienies?
Attorney General out after looking into one shocking Democrat sex scandal – ousting calls Brain-Dead Biden’s whereabouts into question - USSA News | The Tea Party's Front Page.


Attorney General Out After Looking Into One Shocking Democrat Sex Scandal – Ousting Calls Brain-Dead Biden’s Whereabouts Into Question


Posted on January 6, 2023 by Constitutional Nobody



Establishment corruption has become harder for the elites to cover up.

The advent of social media has allowed for a higher degree of vigilance.

Now looking into one shocking Democrat sex scandal has gotten this Attorney General canned and it has called Brain-Dead Biden’s whereabouts into question.

The Democrats are desperate for Dead Pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking scandal to go away for good.

But the extent of the corruption continues to be uncovered.

Now a prosecutor who was delving deeper into Epstein’s connection with Chase bank was abruptly fired.



Did Brain-Dead Biden get Virgin Islands’ AG fired for looking into Epstein’s connections to Chase Bank?
Law & Crime reported that the “Virgin Islands top prosecutor who reached a more than $105 million settlement with Dead Pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein’s estate lost her job days after suing JPMorgan Chase in connection with her probe. The federal lawsuit, filed in New York, accused the bank of having ‘facilitated, sustained, and concealed’ Epstein’s human trafficking network. On Dec. 27, then-Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George filed a blistering and heavily redacted 30-page lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase.”

Coincidentally, Brain-Dead Biden went on vacation in the Virgin Islands around the same time.

There is no evidence that Biden strong-armed officials to fire George, but it wouldn’t be the first time Biden got a prosecutor fired for investigating corruption.

Biden bragged about getting foreign prosecutors fired previously
Biden publicly bragged about getting Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin ousted when he learned that Shokin was investigating Burisma, the energy company that was paying Crackhead Hunter Biden $83,000 per month for a no-show job on the company’s board.

George wrote in her lawsuit, “JP Morgan turned a blind eye to evidence of human trafficking over more than a decade because of Epstein’s own financial footprint, and because of the deals and clients that Epstein brought and promised to bring to the bank…These decisions were advocated and approved at the senior levels of JP Morgan, including by the former chief executive of its asset management division and investment bank, whose inappropriate relationship with Epstein should have been evident to the bank. Indeed, it was only after Epstein’s death that JP Morgan belatedly complied with federal banking regulations regarding Epstein’s accounts.”

It’s obvious that Epstein had friends in high places.

Not only did he socialize with the Clintons, he helped set up the Clinton Global Initiative.

Epstein’s sex crimes have been well-documented—although his clients have evaded scrutiny—but his financial crimes have gone under-reported.

If JP Morgan Chase facilitated Epstein’s financial crimes, it’s easy to see why someone with power wanted George fired from her post.

 

Justice Department wants to talk to people hired to search Trump properties for classified docs

By Katelyn Polantz and Kaitlan Collins, CNN
Updated 8:32 AM EST, Fri January 13, 2023




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The Justice Department is seeking to question two people who searched Donald Trump’s properties in November, as federal investigators have asked whether the former president returned all classified documents to the federal government, sources familiar with the probe tell CNN.

The development is the latest sign that the Justice Department is continuing to investigate, after telling a federal court last year it believed there was possible obstruction of justice related to Trump’s handling of classified materials.

The Trump investigation moves forward as President Joe Biden now faces his own special counsel investigation into the handling of classified records, inviting comparisons between the two situations. However, the Biden investigation isn’t nearly as far along as Trump’s, and questions of obstruction don’t hang over it at this time.



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Two years after US Capitol attack, investigation into Trump and insurrection enters new phase

Prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office and Trump’s defense lawyers have gone back and forth several times in the past two months over whether Trump has fully complied with a subpoena issued last May for classified documents from his time in the White House.

That has prompted Trump’s lawyer Timothy Parlatore to twice certify in writing that Trump’s team searched his homes and offices for more records. The new rounds of certifications haven’t been reported previously.

Some of Trump’s properties, such as at his golf course in Scotland and his Las Vegas hotel, weren’t searched, yet Trump’s team believed they did a thorough job, looking everywhere they believed presidential records might have been, sources say.

In a statement, Parlatore told CNN that the Justice Department has “rejected offers of cooperation in favor of heavy-handed tactics to create a false impression of noncompliance in the absence of evidence.”

Parlatore added: “President Trump did nothing wrong and a proper investigation would have concluded months ago, amicably, without the significant waste of taxpayer resources.”

The Justice Department declined to comment.

Parlatore had told federal investigators that the former president’s legal team hired two people to search four locations before Thanksgiving and gave the prosecutors a written report on what was searched. The Trump team searched Trump Tower in New York, the Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, an office location in Florida and a Florida storage unit where two classified documents were found.

The Justice Department then tried to hold Trump in contempt at a sealed court hearing on December 9, but the chief judge of the US District Court in Washington, DC, declined to do so. Instead, Chief Judge Beryl Howell suggested the Trump team provide more information to the Justice Department, leaving the matter unresolved, according to one of the sources.

Following the judge’s suggestion, Parlatore signed another, more detailed report on the November searches that also explained why and how the locations were chosen and inspected. The legal team said Trump himself gave no restrictions on what could be searched, one of the sources added.

But the new report still left the Justice Department wanting, and prosecutors returned to court seeking the names of the people who did the searches, which Howell ordered the Trump team to turn over last week. The names haven’t been publicly disclosed.

The written certifications from Parlatore add to the evidence gathered in the ongoing criminal probe. Last June, Trump lawyer Christina Bobb provided to the Justice Department a signed statement that the Trump team conducted a “diligent search” of boxes in Florida from the White House, and the Trump lawyers handed over a double-wrapped envelope of documents to the federal agents.

But the DOJ found more evidence of classified records at the club that prompted them to seek a judge’s sign-off for a search. The unprecedented search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate turned up more than 100 more records marked as classified, according to court filings.

It’s unclear how much Trump’s team may be able to hold back at this stage of the investigation, as the special counsel’s office seeks to speak with the search team. Trump’s team may try to limit some of the questions that prosecutors can ask, by claiming that parts of what the search team knows should stay confidential as legal work product, one of the sources said.

Federal investigators have expressed interest in interviewing the people soon.

This story has been updated with additional details.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/poli...mp-properties-classified-documents/index.html

 

Yes there probably is, but if it's not monitored 24/7 and the leader of your party ignores it then why should his underlings have to obey the rules on ethics.

A former ethics official asks: "If the boss doesn't care, why should you, then?".



"More than half of Trump's 20-person Cabinet has engaged in questionable or unethical conduct | Ethics Be Damned | APM Reports"



https://www.apmreports.org/amp/story/2018/02/16/ethics-in-trump-cabinet

It's a long read and a couple of podcasts to listen to but it's well worth it

 

"Remember when the FBI raided Mar-A-Lago over a presidential paperwork dispute they had no patience resolving after spending years patiently resolving other presidential paperwork disputes and not even noticing VP Biden hoovered up classified docs and spreading them all over?" Fox News Contributor Mollie Hemingway tweeted Saturday.

 

Well, to make a point, yes, this totally matters! Biden (his team) found the documents and turned them over to NARA. With Trump, NARA had been asking Trump for the documents for more than a year, he told them he didn't have any more than the first batch he did return, and they got a search warrant and took what they found. And they also found more documents at a warehouse...

But I'm sure to you, those are exactly the same actions. You can't make a distinction? Bet it's more like you don't want to make a distinction...

 

This is some HIGH-Larry-ius stuff! You denounce other reporters that give anonymous sources, but here you give a pass to an anonymous author using a pseudonym writing for the https://ussanews.com - USSA News | The Tea Party's Front Page.

That's some credibility unbelievable reporting you got circulating!

 

When all else fails attack the messenger.
And while you're snorting and laughing explain why only despicables get to use anonymous sources?

 

Yup, this is why she was let go. Not sure how your article drafted their narrative that this was because Biden or anyone was/is connected to Epstein... Both sides have just as deep connections. The governor of the Virgin Islands has the authority to relieve her of her post. I'm sure you disagree.

 

LOL! Attack? Questioning their credibility is not attacking the messenger, I'm attacking YOU because you find that anonymous reporting to be "the moral high ground" (you do love tossing that phrase around a bit lately!

I'm questioning you! That you think only Democrats are in cahoots with Epstein. You're too funny!

 

Do you really assert that only despicables get to use anonymous sources?

 

Foreign temp workers at Mar-a-Lago raise another security concern

Alexandra Clough and Antonio Fins, Palm Beach Post
Mon, January 16, 2023 at 1:50 PM MST



Like 38 other hospitality businesses in Palm Beach County, Mar-a-Lago is waiting to be told by the federal government just how many foreign temporary workers it can hire to serve members and guests during the winter tourist season.

Former President Trump's private Palm Beach club, and other locations such as the nearby Breakers Palm Beach Resort, for years routinely applied for these visas to fill low-wage, low-skilled jobs.

This year, the foreign visa program for temporary help — county-based private clubs, hotels and resorts have asked for a collective 2,266 workers — is especially important. The county's labor market, with unemployment hovering at just 3%, is especially tight with an almost 2-for-1 ratio in the number of open jobs to available unemployed workers.


Mar-a-Lago's labor request comes as the private club is at the center of a political scandal
But Mar-a-Lago's labor request comes as the private club is at the center of a political scandal and legal firestorm over Trump's possession of top-secret documents. The discovery and seizure of those files, numbering hundreds of pages, has heaped scrutiny on the already fraught security risks presented by a private business that alternately serves as the official residence of a former commander-in-chief.

The presence of foreign workers, in the past and again starting this fall, adds to the glare on Trump's estate, which one national security analyst said already had an uncomfortable flow of people, access and volume.


Former president Donald Trump drops into the Daughters of the American Revolution Henry Morrison Flagler chapter luncheon at Mar-a-Lago Club on April 6, 2022.
Lindsay Rodman, a former White House fellow who was director for defense policy and strategy at the National Security Council, quips that Mar-a-Lago has the aura of "a classic James Bond" scene just waiting for "a heist" of secret files.

"Having tons of international guests coming back and forth from a poorly secured area puts any documents that might be found there at high risk," said Rodman, who now teaches national security, cybersecurity and foreign relations at George Washington University Law School. "It does not sound like the type of security precautions they were taking had anything to do with what we would have been seeing in the White House, the Pentagon or any of the other places I've worked with."

Mar-a-Lago asks for scores of foreign workers ahead of winter season
Mar-a-Lago this year requested to filla record 91 positions with foreign workersfor this coming year, up from 80 in 2019, according to CareerSource, the county's nonprofit job placement agency.

In addition to Mar-a-Lago, Trump also has two other Palm Beach County properties, Trump International Golf Club in unincorporated West Palm Beach and Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter.

This year, as in years past, Trump is requesting permission to hire seasonal foreign workers for these properties, too: 14 for Trump International and 10 for Trump National.

The Mar-a-Lago jobs include cooks, servers and housekeepers. The workers are needed through the balance of the winter social season — Mar-a-Lago generally operates between late October and mid-May.

The hired hands will cater to the club's members, including the many 1 percenters that descend on Palm Beach for the social season. And they will help handle what is a varied calendar of events.

Mar-a-Lago is a highly desired location for weddings, philanthropic galas, and political fund-raising luncheons and dinners.

The request for foreign workers is a two-step process involving two federal agencies.

Trump resort hired undocumented workers


Secret service agents stand at the gate of Mar-a-Lago after the FBI issued warrants on Aug. 8, 2022.
First, the U.S. Department of Labor reviews the ask by private businesses. A Labor Department spokesman said the agency is limited to evaluating whether the need for foreign labor is warranted, meaning Mar-a-Lago's request likely will be certified.

But approval by the Department of Homeland Security also is required before a business can secure foreign workers, the Labor Department spokesman said. DHS must approve the H2B visas for temporary foreign workers.

It's not clear whether DHS is giving added scrutiny to Mar-a-Lago's request, given the ongoing investigation into Trump and the location of all classified documents or presidential records.The department did not respond to a request for comment.


How might foreign workers seeking temp jobs in America be vetted?
But a specialist in private security, who has worked with former federal agents in various law-enforcement branches, said government agencies conduct fairly extensive vetting of foreign temporary workers. And in Palm Beach County, the employers hiring them will do some background checking, too.

"There are two stages to this," said Ross Thompson, a longtime professional in private security who is now CEO of COVAC Global in West Palm Beach.

Since 9/11, Thompson said, the foreign worker visa system has become exponentially more stringent. For example, a current passport contains all sorts of data, includingnames, aliases andaddresses, that will then be checked against databases run by the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Interpol.

That search is largely handled by the National Vetting Center, a unit of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, Thompson said. The U.S. embassy and the State Department's consular offices in the applicant's home country also will conduct thorough interviews.

"Based off that, the government is going to make a decision on whether you are a threat or not," Thompson said. "The second piece of that is whether or not you are going to actually do what you say you are going to do. Come here, work, get paid and leave. That's another big consideration they are looking at."

Thompson also notes that the choosing of employees by local hospitality businesses and companies is not a random act. He said most often the person who is being considered is a family member or a friend of an existing or former worker — or someone known to a U.S. citizen or green card holder.

"There's some degree of connection," Thompson said. "You can draw a line from one person to another."

Are hotel workers some of America's best spies?
Rodman's joke about a 007-like effort at Mar-a-Lago may not be out of the realm of possibility.

Thompson said U.S. intelligence officials and foreign governments often seek out hotel workers, whether a housekeeper or food-service worker, as gatherers of information because they have access to items with DNA on them.

"If you wanted to go spy on foreign nationals, if you wanted to get information on foreign nationals, if you wanted to collect DNA on foreign nationals, the first group of people you are going to recruit for you is hotel staff," he said.

A used cigarette butt, a table-setting utensil, and even a urine or stool sample can provide critical information on a foreign leader or official, such as whether they have a disease such as cancer or Parkinson's.


President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China shake hands during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago on April, 6, 2017. At left are Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, and Peng Liyuan, Xi's wife.
An example of a local data-gathering event, he said, was the visit of China's president, Xi Jinping to Palm Beach County in April 2017. Xi and his entourage stayed at the beachfront Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa in Manalapan, above seven miles south of Mar-a-Lago. Trump hosted Xi at Mar-a-Lago during the trip.

"If you don't think there wasn't any intelligence collection with the Chinese president and the delegation at Eau Palm Beach (hotel) by U.S. intelligence, you are sorely mistaken," he said.


Analyst: Straight line from divulging data to endangering an American
In that context,last month's search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago raises fresh questions and concernsabout security at Mar-a-Lago.

An Aug. 29 federal court filing by the U.S. Department of Justice said classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were moved and hidden, and that some even ended up in Trump's desk in an office at Mar-a-Lago.

A warrant indicates the search was conducted in connection with, among other things, the Espionage Act. One statute states that people legally granted access to national defense documents or classified information are subject to punishment should they improperly retain that information.

That's what worries the U.S. national security community, said Rodman.

By their nature, security officials and analysts will not air their grievances, she said. But Rodman believes the national security workforce is worried "not just about the divulging of government secrets at a high level" but also those that involve intelligence gathering by people.


Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (seated, facing camera) is surrounded by aides after he and President Donald Trump, right, (blocked from view) learned of a missile launch by North Korea during a visit at Mar-a-Lago on Feb. 11. (Shannon Donnelly / The Palm Beach Post)
"Those have the potential to really harm individual lives," said Rodman, a U.S. Marine who served in Afghanistan. "Those are the ones in which you can draw a straight line from divulging that information to endangering an American who's currently putting their life on the line for the American people."

Contrast the potential accessibility of Mar-a-Lago to the National Security Council, or the White House's West Wing and Oval Office, where access is restricted according to various levels of security clearance.

She said security clearance there, and in Washington in general, is a painstakingly thought-out process to make sure "those at the very, very high levels of government, senior leadership" have the information they need to make "fully informed decisions that affect our national security for the American people."


"Trump" and "MAGA" purses sit on a poolside table as guests gather before the start of the Republican Party of Palm Beach County's Lincoln Day Dinner at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach Friday, March 16, 2018. (Bruce R. Bennett / The Palm Beach Post)
Presidential chit-chat, selfies and missiles: Security a longtime worry
Concerns about security at Mar-a-Lago have been ongoing since Trump first became president.

During his presidency, Trump's Palm Beach visits resulted in the public display of photos showing administration officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, photos of Trump and Japan's prime minister during a North Korean missile launch, and even photos of the briefcase containing U.S. nuclear launch codes.

At Mar-a-Lago, Social Security numbers of all visitors were not generally required in advance as they are at the White House. The names of Mar-a-Lago visitors are not entered into a public log.

Sometimes, guests overheard Trump family gossip or engage in chit-chat with the Secret Service, attendees said. It was easy to blend in with all the other scions in the room if one is wearing a tuxedo or gown, attendees said.

During the course of Trump's presidency, club members eventually were required to make reservations to step foot onto the club property, even for drinks.


Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, left, has dinner with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on March 7, 2020.
But once there, it was business as usual. Members could linger in the main living room or at patio dinner tables, watching Trump and his entourage move about the place. Club members could bring guests, too.

In 2019, congressional Democrats demanded to know the security set up at the president's self-described "Southern White House." In particular, they asked the FBI what additional steps would be "needed to detect and deter adversary governments or their agents" from conducting electronic surveillance or gaining access to Mar-a-Lago and other Trump properties.

The Secret Service issued a statement explaining that management at Mar-a-Lago, not Secret Service agents, decides who is welcome at the club.

"The Mar-a-Lago club management determines which members and guests are granted access to the property," according to the statement. "While the Secret Service does not determine who is permitted to enter the club, our agents and officers conduct physical screenings to ensure no prohibited items are allowed onto the property."

Trump blasts search with 'drain the swamp' refrain
Trump has railed against the FBI seizure, floating theories about papers related to former President Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran and assailing the FBI for a photograph Trump said is intended to make it look like he littered the secret documents on his carpet.

"This is the time, after many years of lawbreaking & unfairness, to clean things up," he posted on his social media platform. "All things for a reason. DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!"


President Donald Trump speaks to the media after making a Christmas Eve video conference call to members of the armed forces from Mar-a-Lago on December 24, 2019.
Last week, however, Trump attorney Alina Habba seemed tounderscore the laxity of Mar-a-Lago security, including in Trump's office, where several classified documents were found. During an interview with Fox News, she said she had been in Trump's office, and he “frequently” had guests in the room.

Rodman fears it could "damage morale" for the national security workforce to see court documents alleging in detail how the very documents they so zealously defend were treated with recklessness at the former president's club.

"There is a culture among national security professionals … where there is a very strong professional ethic about taking care of this information," she said. "They understand this not only has the potential to endanger the national security of the United States, which is what we have devoted our lives to protecting. Revealing sources and methods endanger individuals. Lives can be lost, livelihoods can also be lost, because of the disclosure of this information."


https://www.yahoo.com/news/foreign-temp-workers-mar-lago-205021804.html