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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Domestic Conspiracy That Gave Trump the Election Has Been Revealed
Information presently public and available confirms that Erik Prince, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump conspired to intimidate FBI Director James Comey into interfering in, and thus directly affecting, the 2016 presidential election. This conspiracy was made possible with the assistance of officers in the New York Police Department and agents within the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. All of the major actors in the conspiracy have already confessed to its particulars either in word or in deed; moreover, all of the major actors have publicly exhibited consciousness of guilt after the fact. This assessment has already been the subject of articles in conservative news outlets such as The American Thinker, but has not yet received substantial investigation by major media.While a full summary of the Prince-Giuliani-Trump conspiracy would require a longer discourse, the actions of these men, along with multiple still-anonymous actors, can be summarized in five paragraphs. It will be for journalists with more resources than this writer to follow up on these leadsand, moreover, to see how this domestic conspiracy dovetails with the Trump-Russia controversy, though this too is briefly addressed below.
In addition to the paragraphs here, this article incorporates its three predecessors (I, II, III).
1. As reported by The New York Times, FBI Director James Comey released his now-infamous October 27th letter in substantial part because he had determined that word of the new emails [found on Anthony Weiners computer]...was sure to leak out. Comey worried that if the leak occurred at a time when the nature and evidentiary value of the new emails was unknown, he risked being accused of misleading Congress and the public ahead of an election. By October 27th, the FBI had had access to Weiners computerwhich it originally received from NYPDsince October 3rd, during which interval the Bureau had both the time and IT know-how to determine that the new emails in its possession were in fact duplicate emails from accounts already revealed to the Bureau by Clinton, her aide Huma Abedin, and the State Department. However, when Comey was briefed on the case by agents from the New York field office on October 26th, he discovered that not only had this IT work not been done, but in fact no warrant to seize the full emails had been sought, no permission to read the emails had been requested from cooperating witnesses Weiner and Abedin, and indeed nothing but a summary of the emails meta-data (non-content header information) had been prepared by his agents. The result of this investigative nonfeasance was that Comey feared he would not be able to get a warrant for the emails and confirm them as duplicates prior to Election Daya fact that would allow anti-Clinton elements within NYPD and the FBI, and Trump surrogates and advisers with sources in these organizations, to mischaracterize the new emails in a way that would swing the election to Trump. As long as the Clinton investigation remained open, Comey would not be able to respond to such misinformation; his only hope of keeping public discussion of the new emails within the sphere of reality was to use the cover of a prior promise to Congress to speak publicly about an ongoing investigationand then close that investigation in short order.
2. The effort to intimidate Comey into publicly commenting on the Clinton casea win-win scenario for Trump, as either a comment from Comey or silence from Comey (the latter coupled with inaccurate, Hatch Act-violative leaks by the FBI, NYPD, and/or the Trump campaign) would sink Clintonbegan concurrent to Comeys October 26th briefing on the Clinton case. In an October 25th Fox & Friends appearance and an October 26th appearance on Fox News with Martha McCallum, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trumps closest advisers, began teasing an October surprise which, Giuliani said, would turn the tide against Hillary Clinton. He refused to say what the forthcoming surprise would be, but he indicated that it would be coming in just a few days. Meanwhile, Erik Princethe founder of Blackwater private security, one of Trumps biggest donors, a conspiracy theorist whod previously accused Huma Abedin of being a terrorist in the employ of the Muslim Brotherhood, and a man who blamed Clinton family friend and former Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta for outing him as a CIA asset in 2009was positioning himself to play an important role. Just as Giuliani had boasted on the Mark Larson radio program on October 28th that he had sources within the FBIactive agentswho had told him of virulent anti-Clinton sentiment in the New York field office and an internal rebellion against Comeys July decision not to indict Clinton, Prince claimed to have sources within the Weiner investigation who were illegally leaking information to him. In Princes case, the sources were within NYPD, and the information he relayed from them to Breitbart News on November 4thwhen it was not yet known that Comey, the next day, would reveal the new Clinton emails to be duplicatesturned out to be almost entirely false. The full extent of Princes lies on November 4th, all of which were Trump campaign disinformation delivered by an adviser and major donor to the campaign, are too numerous and spectacular to list here. Two brief quotes from Breitbarts interview with Prince should suffice:
Prince claimed he had insider knowledge of the investigation that could help explain why FBI Director James Comey had to announce he was reopening the investigation into Clintons email server last week....[NYPD] found a lot of other really damning criminal information (on Weiners computer], including money laundering, including the fact that Hillary went to this sex island with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton went there more than twenty times. Hillary Clinton went there at least six times, he said. The amount of garbage that they found in these emails, of criminal activity by Hillary, by her immediate circle, and even by other Democratic members of Congress, was so disgusting they gave it to the FBI, and they said, Were going to go public with this if you dont reopen the investigation and you dont do the right thing with timely indictments, Prince explained. I believeI know, and this is from a very well-placed source of mine at One Police Plaza in New Yorkthe NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants and the additional arrests they were making in this investigation, and theyve gotten huge pushback, to the point of coercion, from the Justice Department.
Virtually all of this is untrue. Prince continued:
So NYPD first gets that computer. They see how disgusting it is. They keep a copy of everything, and they pass a copy on to the FBI, which finally pushes the FBI off their chairs, making Comey reopen that investigation, which was indicated in the letter last week. The point being, NYPD has all the information, and they will pursue justice within their rights if the FBI doesnt. There is all kinds of criminal culpability through all the emails theyve seen of that 650,000, including money laundering, underage sex, pay-for-play, and, of course, plenty of proof of inappropriate handling, sending/receiving of classified information, up to Special Access Programs....The point being, fortunately, its not just the FBI; five different offices are in the hunt for justice, but the NYPD has it as well....From what I understand, up to the commissioner or at least the chief level in NYPD, they wanted to have a press conference, and DOJ, Washington people, political appointees have been exerting all kinds of undue pressure on them to back down....This kind of evil, this kind of true dirt on Hillary Clintonlook, you dont have to make any judgments. Just release the emails. Just dump them. Let them out there. Let people see the light of truth.
Princes statements of November 4thwhether given with the knowledge that they were untrue or without any knowledge of their accuracy whatsoeverunderscore the sort of disinformation Comey feared would be given to voters, and, more importantly, believed by voters, if he did not complete his investigation into the duplicate emails and announce his findings before Election Day. This alone explains his deviation from FBI protocol prohibiting discussion of open cases (and announcements regarding major investigations within two months of a general election).
3. It is clear that Giuliani, who was the top surrogate for the Trump campaign and in near-daily contact with the candidate, acted under orders from Trump, and that Prince either acted under orders from Trump or Steve Bannonwell-known to Prince from their mutual association with, and financial investment in, Breitbart and its ownership, including Robert Mercerand, moreover, that all those associated with the conspiracy were subsequently rewarded. Erik Princes sister, Betsy DeVos, was named Education Secretary by Trump, despite having no experience for the job other than advocating sporadically for charter schools in Michigan. Prince himself was named a shadow adviser to Trump, even though, by November 8th, the fact that his statements to Breitbart had been part of a domestic disinformation campaign was clear. Prince is so close to Trump that he appears to have been present at the election-night returns-watching party to which Trump invited only close friends and associates; Princes wife posted pictures of the event. Giuliani, originally assured a Cabinet position and then separated from the Trump team entirelyperhaps as punishment for his carelessness on Fox Newswas then given a highly lucrative but substance-free position within the administration on the same day, January 12th, that the DOJ announced that the Inspector General would be investigating the sequence of events comprising the Prince-Giuliani-Trump conspiracy. Inspector General Horowitz noted that within his brief was investigation of the series of leaks that occurred between the NYPD, the FBI, and outside entitiesincluding, we can surmise based on context, the Trump campaign.
4. Both polling, poll analysis, and internet meta-data (see below) confirm that the Comey Letter was sufficient to hand Trump the 77,143 combined votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania that won him the election. We know from the statements made by Giuliani, and from numerous statements made by Trump on the campaign trail, that both men believed the Clinton email server case could be leveraged to ensure Clintons defeat in November. It turns out they were correct.
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More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-domestic-conspiracy-that-gave-trump-the-election_us_587ed24fe4b0b110fe11dbf9?
and THIS:
The case against Trump: He clearly knew about Russian interference
By Leah McElrath |
JANUARY 18, 2017
A foreign power committed what some call "acts of war" against the United States during the 2016 election, violating our national sovereignty, endangering our national security, and subverting the will of the U.S. electorate. Donald Trump and the GOP leadership knew and encouraged the behavior, and on January 20th, Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. This is happening. How did we get here? Lets put the pieces together.
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The Domestic Conspiracy That Gave Trump the Election Has Been Revealed (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2017
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truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)1. So. Not the Russians?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)10. I don't think the assertion that Factor A was involved
I don't think the assertion that Factor A was involved is an implicit denial that Factor B may be relevant as well.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)11. Very true.
However, given much of what I see here, about the only factor that was "not a factor" was the candidate. I think we should be taking everything into account, don't you?
skylucy
(3,739 posts)2. Between Putin and this, our "fair" election process was a joke.
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)3. Kick!!
lostnfound
(16,184 posts)4. Erik Prince is Betsy DeVos's brother nt
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)5. Yep, the Blackwater Prince
mopinko
(70,135 posts)9. we are screwn
somehow eric prince's stench had eluded me.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)6. That's why the pigeons in NYC say "coup, coup". They know what's up.
These people wanted power so bad. They've got it now and we're just about to find out their evil plans.
VOX
(22,976 posts)7. And that POS Giuliani has been conspicuously scarce since the election...
That slobbering cadaver was everywhere before the coup. Now...?????
Ligyron
(7,635 posts)8. Didn't realize Devos and Prince were related.
Throw in Robert Mercer and the beginnings of "cabal" finally enter my brain.
I have much reading to do to catch up.
But where to start?
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)12. This article has been updated, two days ago...