Pete Buttigieg URGES Bernie Sanders Supporters To Vote For Joe Biden!

 “Nobody can deny what a force he and his supporters are, and how important of a voice they have been,” Buttigieg said. “So much now depends on us coming together.” Buttigieg said he called Sanders yesterday after it was announced the Vermont senator was suspending his campaign. 

Buttigieg said “I hope [Sanders] will take that step” to endorse Biden. 

Buttigieg suspended his own presidential campaign on March 1 and endorsed Biden the next day. “I think we have to define real progressivism not by how negative you can be on Twitter or how angry you are, but by what it is we're actually for,” he said of Sanders supporters reluctant to back Biden. “I don't think you have to be a Democrat to be for these things like empowering workers, raising wages, holding companies accountable, making sure everybody can get health care, and for God's sake, doing something about climate change before it really is too late,” he added. “So I think the fundamental question that supporters need to ask themselves is, ‘What's really at stake here?’”

Buttigieg stressed he wasn’t asking Sanders supports to “pretend we agree on everything, but to understand the urgency of the task at hand … [it] is literally life or death for so many Americans.” 

“Shame on us if we let 2016 repeat itself,” he said. “A lot of people took their ball and went home, not believing a Trump residency could actually happen. Not only did it happen, it's worse than we thought - and we're seeing now in the midst of a national crisis, just how costly that is.”

White House reverses position after blocking health officials from appearing on CNN

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business

New York (CNN Business)Vice President Mike Pence's office reversed course on Thursday afternoon, after declining for days to allow the nation's top health officials to appear on CNN and discuss the coronavirus pandemic, in what was an attempt to pressure the network into carrying the White House's lengthy daily briefings in full.

 

After this story was published, Pence's office allowed for the booking of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield for CNN's Thursday night coronavirus town hall. Dr. Anthony Fauci was also booked for Friday on "New Day."

 

Trump makes 86 false claims over two weeks, including whoppers about Bloomberg, Pelosi and Social Security

 

Previously, Pence's office, which is responsible for booking the officials on networks during the pandemic, said it would only allow experts such as Fauci or Dr. Deborah Birx to appear on CNN if the network televised the portion of the White House briefings that includes the vice president and other coronavirus task force members.

 

CNN often only broadcasts resident Donald Trump's question and answer session, which sometimes includes the health care officials, live on-air.

 

After Trump leaves the podium, CNN frequently cuts out of the White House briefing to discuss and fact-check what the resident has said. A CNN executive said that the network usually returns to such programming because of the extensive length of the full briefing that includes Pence, which can run in excess of two hours.

 

CNN did, however, air the vice president's portion of the briefing Wednesday night.

 

Regardless, Pence's office for several days declined to make the nation's top health care officials available to CNN for the last seven days.

 

"When you guys cover the briefings with the health officials then you can expect them back on your air," a Pence spokesperson told CNN Thursday morning.

 

Fauci, Birx, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn and Surgeon General Jerome Adams have all appeared on NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox during the last week, despite the fact that the broadcast networks have generally not covered the briefings that have included the vice president and health officials.

 

But the Vice President's office had blocked all CNN appearances since last Thursday night.

Fauci appeared on the last five weekly CNN Town Halls, with Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Until this story was published, Vice President's office has refused to make him, or anyone, available for Thursday's town hall.

 

The White House has made two non health care officials available to CNN in the last week. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper appeared on "State of the Union" on Sunday and Peter Navarro appeared on Anderson Cooper's show on Friday and "New Day" on Monday.

 

Trump has declined CNN's repeated requests for an interview, instead appearing only on Fox News for softball interviews multiple times during the national emergency.

 

A CNN spokesperson declined to comment for this story.

 

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the number of CNN town halls in which Dr. Fauci has appeared.

Of Course Diamond And Silk Are Peddling Covid Disinformation

Lying for Trump is their business model.

 

By Frances Langum

 

Diamond and Silk are more interested in grifting from gullible white people than in telling truth that might save lives.

Here they are promoting the lie told often on Fox in the past two months, that the pandemic is being inflated by mainstream media to hurt Donald Trump.
 

They don't believe the numbers because numbers don't grow that way. (Diamond and Silk don't understand the term, "exponentially.")

 

 

Transcript via Media Matters:

 

SILK: In a matter of two weeks, over 1,000 people supposedly died from the coronavirus. In a two weeks time period, over 1,000 people after being tested positive have died from the coronavirus. But it took 39 days, from January all the way up to February the 29th I believe -- DIAMOND: For the first person.
SILK: For the first person to die. Here's another thing --
DIAMOND: Come on.
SILK: Here's another thing. My resident said on March the 24th, Tuesday this past week, my resident said that he would love for America to be back up and running.
DIAMOND: I knew this was going to happen. I knew after he said this this was going to happen. Go ahead.
SILK: At the time he said it there was 25,489 cases with 307 deaths. Instantaneously, you had the media calling resident Trump out, he wanted open by Easter, he want this open by Easter - me and you was talking, I said now watch the number of deaths go up --
DIAMOND: Right.
SILK: Watch everything increase because they wanted to make it look bad in front of our eyes.

Recommended: This Twitter thread from @IamShaneMorris about the origins of the Diamond and Silk grift:

Now that "Diamond & Silk" are spreading insane, dangerous conspiracy theories about a global pandemic, let's take a deep dive into Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson.

Who the fuck are these morons, anyway? (This is going to be fun.)

— Shane Morris (@IamShaneMorris) March 31, 2020

Senate Finalizes Insulting Stimulus Package That Screws American Workers

Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have reached a deal on a stimulus package that provides hundreds of billions of dollars for businesses and one-time payments of $1,200 to American workers. 

This package is an absolute insult to every American citizen, and it proves that no one in the leadership in DC actually cares about the plight of Americans. 

We deserve better, and we have a lot of work to do in November to get there. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.



https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/489382-senate-white-house-reach-deal-on-massive-stimulus-package 

ABSOLUTELY NOT!! Trump's DOJ Seeks Power to Suspend Your Constitutional Rights During "Emergencies!"

Senators Under Fire For Selling Stocks Before Market Plunge

Several Republican Senators, including Richard Burr, Ron Johnson, Jim Inhofe, and Kelly Loeffler, have been busted after they dumped millions worth of stock in the days right before the market crash. 

They had reason to believe that the market was about to tank because they had both attended a classified briefing on the looming pandemic. 

These members should be criminally investigated, as these moves are highly illegal. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.



https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-7-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparedness 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-kelly-loeffler-dumped-millions-in-stock-after-coronavirus-briefing 

Senators are under scrutiny for selling large amounts of stocks before the market plunged due to the coronavirus outbreak. NBC's Ken Dilanian has details. Aired on 03/20/2020.



 

Trump SHOULD NOT Be Able To Profit From The Same Stimulus Package He Issues!

Jesse Dollemore addresses several issues, including Donald Trump's possible benefit from the same stimulus package that he administers, voicing appreciation for those in service industries who are working in the midst of our current emergency, and answers questions about possible 3rd party organization. 

Rachel Maddow Suggests People Will Die If Bernie Sanders Doesn't Drop Out

Status Coup's Jordan Chariton reports on why Bernie Sanders shouldn't drop out of the presidential race. 

McConnell Pressuring Older Fed. Judges To Retire To Replace Them With RADICALS!

PLEASE SHARE THIS STORY WITH YOUR ENTIRE SOCIAL NETWORK!!! Jesse Dollemore discusses this important story that isn't getting enough attention because of other global news. Mitch McConnell is scheming to pack the court with up to NINETY more young RADICAL RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVE judges. 

Trump Plans Almost $1 TRILLION BAILOUT For Wealthy Companies - Will He Leave The Rest Of Us Hanging?

Jesse Dollemore discusses the Trump administration's plans to bail out airlines, cruise lines, hotels, oil companies, and CASINOS to the tune of 800 BILLION DOLLARS.

Republicans don't have a problem with socialism when it benefits massive wealthy multi-billion dollar corporations, but whine and complain when people struggling with poverty apply for a few meager dollars worth of food stamps.

 

Joe Biden Is A PATHOLOGICAL Liar! Compilation Of Joe Biden's Lies

Joe Biden lied many times during the Democratic Debate, here is a compilation of his lies, providing proof that he is a pathological liar.

Trump Rejected Coronavirus Testing To Help Re-Election

"The U.S. government's response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has been "much, much worse than almost any other country that's been affected," Ashish Jha, who runs the Harvard Global Health Institute, told NPR on Thursday. "I still don't understand why we don't have extensive testing. Vietnam! Vietnam has tested more people than America has." 

Without testing, he added, "you have no idea how extensive the infection is," and "we have to shut schools, events, and everything down, because that's the only tool available to us until we get testing back up. It's been stunning to me how bad the federal response has been." 

Hosts: Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Erin Ryan 

Cast: Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Erin Ryan 



https://theweek.com/speedreads/902009/trump-reportedly-rejected-aggressive-coronavirus-testing-hopes-help-reelection 

--Donald Trump's administration's refusal to accept the test made available by the WHO as the CDC tried and failed to develop a test is partially responsible for the advancing outbreak 


 
Trump called missing medical tests "beautiful" https://youtu.be/9oAAUMavsS0 

Trump is blaming Obama for this mess: https://youtu.be/RBip64JEXjY  

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-testing-failure-123166?=

Trump Kids Grifting Scams Uncovered

Is the Trump Campaign paying the partners of his kids? 

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. https://tyt.com/go 

Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian 

Cast: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian



Read more here:

https://theweek.com/speedreads/901072/trumps-campaign-reportedly-paying-eric-trumps-wife-don-jrs-girlfriend-public-view

HHS Whistleblower Says U.S. Workers Assisted Evacuees Without Wearing Protective Gear

Not only did these employees not know they were supposed to wear gear, but they went back into the community immediately after being exposed to the dangerous virus.

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/02/coronavirus-hhs-whistleblower-says-us

The DNC Rigged The Democratic Debate Audience

If it seemed like Tuesday night’s debate audience was a little hostile to certain candidates, that’s because it was. The debate audience was packed with the wealthy elite and high-dollar donors, with tickets ranging from $1,700 to more than $3,000. 

Average Americans were shut out of the debate, allowing the wealthy to make their voices heard to those on stage. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains the impact this had on the debate.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/politics/south-carolina-debate-audience.html 

Low Cost Satellites In Orbit Could Be Weaponized By Hackers

https://www.sciencealert.com/cheap-satellites-in-orbit-could-be-tempting-targets-for-hackers-to-weaponise

'Russia Couldn't Ask For Anything Better' Than Our Democracy In Chaos

Joy Reid discusses the DNI shake-up with Clint Watts and Natasha Bertrand, who delivers some alarming news about the Worldwide Threats Hearing.

 

By Aliza Worthington

 

 

We know Trump never reads, or even receives his daily security briefings. We know he cannot handle anything even tangentially related to the fact that Russia interfered in our 2016 elections, and is likely planning to interfere again. We know Trump regularly derides and dismisses our seventeen highly esteemed security agencies set up specifically to protect our democracy and its citizens from harm.

The latest proof came on Thursday, when Trump fired director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire. Trump fired him because Maguire briefed House Intelligence Committee members on the information he had about Russia's plans to interfere in our 2020 elections — that they are, in fact, carrying out those plans right now. Clint Watts and Natasha Bertrand joined Joy Reid Thursday evening to discuss the blaring alarm sirens all of these moves are sounding. Reid asked if there was reporting that showed Trump actively wanted Russia's help, and in answering the question, Bertrand dropped an additional piece of jaw-dropping info:

 

BERTRAND: So we don't have the reporting that suggests that the resident has told aides for example that he really wants Russia to interfere because he thinks it going to help him, right? So far what we've heard is he gets enraged because he thinks it questions the legitimacy of his election in 2016, and potential reelection in 2020. I this I what a lot of former national security and intel experts are telling us is that they're concerned that the intel community now is self-censoring, that they're going into these briefings with Congress, and intel officials are actually holding back on the real threats that are posed by Russia with regard to helping Trump win reelection this year. [...]
[T]he senior officials that are already in place, that are career officials, are actually holding back information because they fear a political backlash from the resident. The Worldwide Threats Hearing that is a tradition every year, public by the intel officials to tell the public what the national threats are, the biggest national security threats to this country are, that has been cancelled because the intel leaders of this country are afraid of backlash from this resident and that's a really bad precedent to set, these former experts tell me, and former officials tell me, because it will ultimately make it so that the intel community does not feel comfortable telling the resident things he does not want to hear.

Not only are security officials NOT telling Trump information about threats to our nation, they're now afraid to tell this information to Congress, because they know the info will get back to Trump, who will fly into a tantrum and fire career security experts only to replace them with cronies who have zero experience in anything but kissing Trump's ass.

To top it all off, now we have the yearly Worldwide Threats Hearing cancelled? The one hearing that keeps the citizens and Congress informed about the threats our security agencies consider most dire, requiring the highest levels of attention? IN ORDER TO KEEP US SAFE?

Cancelled. Because of Trump's tiny-brained, snowflake-melting, fragile, weak-ass ego.

Russia Backs Russian Spy Traitor Donald Trump's Re-election, And He Fears Democrats Will Exploit Its Support

A classified briefing to lawmakers angered the resident, who complained that Democrats would “weaponize” the disclosure.

American intelligence agencies concluded that Russia, on the orders of President Vladimir V. Putin, interfered in the 2016 presidential election.Credit...Emmanuel Dunand/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

By Adam Goldman, Julian E. Barnes, Maggie Haberman and Nicholas Fandos

• Feb. 20, 2020 Updated 7:01 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get resident Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, a disclosure to Congress that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.

The day after the Feb. 13 briefing to lawmakers, Mr. Trump berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place, people familiar with the exchange said. Mr. Trump cited the presence in the briefing of Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who led the impeachment proceedings against him, as a particular irritant.

During the briefing to the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Trump’s allies challenged the conclusions, arguing that he has been tough on Russia and strengthened European security. Some intelligence officials viewed the briefing as a tactical error, saying that had the official who delivered the conclusion spoken less pointedly or left it out, they would have avoided angering the Republicans.

That intelligence official, Shelby Pierson, is an aide to Mr. Maguire who has a reputation of delivering intelligence in somewhat blunt terms. The resident announced on Wednesday that he was replacing Mr. Maguire with Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany and long an aggressively vocal Trump supporter.

Though some current and former officials speculated that the briefing may have played a role in the removal of Mr. Maguire, who had told people in recent days that he believed he would remain in the job, two administration officials said the timing was coincidental. Mr. Grenell had been in discussions with the administration about taking on new roles, they said, and Mr. Trump had never felt a kinship with Mr. Maguire.

Spokeswomen for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and its election security office declined to comment. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A Democratic House intelligence committee official called the Feb. 13 briefing an important update about “the integrity of our upcoming elections” and said that members of both parties attended, including Representative Devin Nunes of California, the top Republican on the committee.

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Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, is planning to leave government, according to an American official.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Mr. Trump has long accused the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s 2016 interference as the work of a “deep-state” conspiracy intent on undermining the validity of his election. Intelligence officials feel burned by their experience after the last election, where their work became subject of intense political debate and is now a focus of a Justice Department investigation.

Part of the resident’s anger over the intelligence briefing stemmed from the administration’s reluctance to provide sensitive information to Mr. Schiff. He has been a leading critic of Mr. Trump since 2016, doggedly investigating Russian election interference and later leading the impeachment inquiry into the resident’s dealings with Ukraine.

After asking about the briefing that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other agencies gave to the House, Mr. Trump complained that Mr. Schiff would “weaponize” the intelligence about Russia’s support for him, according to a person familiar with the briefing. And he was angry that no one had told him sooner about the briefing, the person said.

Mr. Trump has fixated on Mr. Schiff since the impeachment saga began, pummeling him publicly with insults and unfounded accusations of corruption. At one point in October, Mr. Trump refused to invite lawmakers from the congressional intelligence committees to a White House briefing on Syria because he did not want Mr. Schiff there, according to three people briefed on the matter.

Mr. Trump did not erupt at Mr. Maguire, and instead just asked pointed questions, according to the person. But the message was unmistakable: He was displeased by what took place.

Ms. Pierson, officials said, was delivering the conclusion of multiple intelligence agencies, not her own opinion. The Washington Post first reported the Oval Office confrontation between Mr. Trump and Mr. Maguire.

The intelligence community issued an assessment in early 2017 that President Vladimir V. Putin personally ordered an influence campaign in the previous year’s election and developed “a clear preference for resident-elect Trump.” But Republicans have long argued that Moscow’s campaign was designed to sow chaos, not aid Mr. Trump specifically.

And some Republicans have accused the intelligence agencies of opposing Mr. Trump, but intelligence officials reject those allegations. They fiercely guard their work as nonpartisan, saying it is the only way to ensure its validity.

At the House briefing, Representative Chris Stewart, a Utah Republican who has been considered for the director’s post, was among the Republicans who challenged the conclusion about Russia’s support for the resident. Mr. Stewart insisted that Mr. Trump has aggressively confronted Moscow, providing anti-tank weapons to Ukraine for its war against Russian-backed separatists and strengthening the NATO alliance with new resources, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

Mr. Stewart declined to discuss the briefing but said that Moscow had no reason to support Mr. Trump. He pointed to the resident’s work to confront Iran, a Russian ally, and encourage European energy independence from Moscow. “I’d challenge anyone to give me a real-world argument where Putin would rather have resident Trump and not Bernie Sanders,” the nominal Democratic primary front-runner, Mr. Stewart said in an interview.

Mr. Trump believes that Russian efforts to get him elected in 2016 have cast doubts about the legitimacy of his campaign victory. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

Under Mr. Putin, Russian intelligence has long sought broadly to sow chaos among adversaries around the world. The United States and key allies on Thursday accused Russian military intelligence, the group responsible for much of the 2016 election interference in the United States, of a cyber-attack on neighboring Georgia that took out websites and television broadcasts.

Though intelligence officials have previously informed lawmakers that Russia’s interference campaign was ongoing, last week’s briefing did contain what appeared to be new information, including that Russia intends to interfere with the ongoing Democratic primaries as well as the general election.

The Russians have been preparing — and experimenting — for the 2020 election, undeterred by American efforts to thwart them but aware that they needed a new playbook of as yet undetectable 

methods.

They have made more creative use of Facebook and other social media. Rather than impersonating Americans as they did in 2016, Russian operatives are working to get Americans to repeat disinformation to get around social media companies’ rules that prohibit “inauthentic speech.”

And they are working from servers located in the United States, rather than abroad, knowing that American intelligence agencies are prohibited from operating inside the country. (The F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security can, with aid from the intelligence agencies.)

Russian hackers have also infiltrated Iran’s cyber-warfare unit, perhaps with the intent of launching attacks that would look like they were coming from Tehran, the National Security Agency has warned.

Some officials believe that foreign powers, possibly including Russia, could use ransomware attacks, like those that have debilitated some local governments, to damage or interfere with voting systems or registration databases.

Still, much of the Russian aim is similar to its 2016 interference, officials said: Search for issues that stir controversy in the United States and use various methods to stoke division.

One of Moscow’s main goals is undermining confidence in American election systems, intelligence officials have told lawmakers, seeking to sow doubts over close elections and recounts. Confronting those Russian efforts is difficult, officials have said, because they want to maintain American confidence in voting systems.

Both Republicans and Democrats asked the intelligence agencies to hand over the underlying material that prompted their conclusion that Russia again is favoring Mr. Trump’s election.

How soon the House committee might get that information is not clear. Since the impeachment inquiry, tensions have risen between the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the committee. As officials navigate the disputes, the intelligence agencies have slowed the amount of material they provide to the House, officials said. The agencies are required by law to regularly brief Congress on threats.

While Republicans have long been critical of the Obama administration for not doing enough to track and deter Russian interference in 2016, current and former intelligence officials said the party is at risk of making a similar mistake now. Mr. Trump has been reluctant to even hear about election interference, and Republicans dislike discussing it publicly.

The aftermath of last week’s briefing prompted some intelligence officials to voice concerns that the White House will dismantle a key election security effort by Dan Coats, the former director of national intelligence: the establishment of an election interference czar. Ms. Pierson has held the post since last summer.

And some current and former intelligence officials expressed fears that Mr. Grenell may have been put in place explicitly to slow the pace of information on election interference to Congress. The revelations about Mr. Trump’s confrontation with Mr. Maguire raised new concerns about Mr. Grenell’s appointment, said the Democratic House committee official, who added that the upcoming election could be more vulnerable to foreign interference.

Mr. Trump, former officials have said, is typically uninterested in election interference briefings, and Mr. Grenell might see it as unwise to emphasize such intelligence with the resident.

“The biggest concern I would have is if the intelligence community was not forthcoming and not providing the analysis in the run-up to the next election,” said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former intelligence official now with the Center for New American Security. “It is really concerning that this is happening in the run-up to an election.”

Mr. Grenell’s unbridled loyalty is clearly important to Mr. Trump but may not be ideally suited for an intelligence chief making difficult decisions about what to brief to the resident and Congress, Ms. Kendall-Taylor said.

“Trump is trying to whitewash or rewrite the narrative about Russia’s involvement in the election,” she said. “Grenell’s appointment suggests he is really serious about that.”

The acting deputy to Mr. Maguire, Andrew P. Hallman, will step down on Friday, officials said, paving the way for Mr. Grenell to put in place his own management team. Mr. Hallman was the intelligence office’s principal executive, but since the resignation in August of the previous deputy, Sue Gordon, he has been performing the duties of that post.

Mr. Maguire is planning to leave government, according to an American official.

Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger contributed reporting.

Adam Goldman reports on the F.B.I. from Washington and is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. @adamgoldmanNYT

Julian E. Barnes is a national security reporter based in Washington, covering the intelligence agencies. Before joining The Times in 2018, he wrote about security matters for The Wall Street Journal. @julianbarnes • Facebook

Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent. She joined The Times in 2015 as a campaign correspondent and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on resident Trump’s advisers and their connections to Russia. @maggieNYT

Nicholas Fandos is a national reporter based in the Washington bureau. He has covered Congress since 2017 and is part of a team of reporters who have chronicled investigations by the Justice Department and Congress into residentt Trump and his administration. @npfandos

Trump Bails Out Criminals For Bribes

"resident Donald Trump on Tuesday granted clemency to 11 people, including several convicted felons who are either Fox News regulars or have been championed by the resident’s favorite cable-news network. And in another case, the family of one pardon recipient dished out massive contributions to the resident’s re-election campaign just months before Trump’s clemency spree. 

Among those granted pardons or sentence commutations were former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempting to sell former President Barack Obama’s Senate seat; former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, who was sentenced to four years in 2010 for tax fraud and lying to the feds; and Michael Milken, the “junk-bonds king” whose early-90's insider-trading conviction made him a poster boy of white-collar crime." 

Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur 

Cast: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur

Trump is trying to steal another election. He has learned nothing. Assange Claims He Was Promised A Pardon To Lie About Russia/DNC Hack

Rob Reiner
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Today’s revelation of Trump’s bribe of Assange is further evidence of what we all know to be true: Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. He’s trying to do it again. That’s what Criminals do.

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https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1230196467077406720

Assange Claims He Was Promised A Pardon To Lie About Russia/DNC Hack

Whoa if true. Julian Assange is in court in England today and the claim that he was offered a pardon to cover up Russian involvement in the DNC hack is going to blow up the news.

By David

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a British court on Tuesday that he had been promised a pardon by people close to resident Donald Trump.

Assange made the remarks while appearing at a pretrial hearing via teleconference.

Courtroom reporter James Doleman broke the news on Twitter. According to Doleman, Assange said that the pardon was conditional on him publicly announcing that Russia had nothing to do with the attack on the 2016 election.

Breaking, at pre-trial hearing for Julian Assange a court has heard that he will be calling a witness who will allege he was offered a pardon by the US government, if he would say Russia was not involved in the leak of DNC documents during the 2006 election.

— James Doleman (@jamesdoleman) February 19, 2020

Julian Assange court appearance today- His lawyer mentioned a statement, that alleges former US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited Assange, saying he was there on behalf of the President, offering a pardon if JA would say Russia had nothing to do with DNC leaks. @SBSNews

— Ben Lewis (@benlewismedia) February 19, 2020

In 2017, a The Wall Street Journal report said that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) attempted to broker a deal for a pardon or clemency between the White House and Assange.

Assange is wanted in the United States on 18 counts of violating espionage laws and conspiring to hack government computers.

According to Julian Assange’s lawyers, Assange was promised a presidential pardon by a Trump associate if he was willing to lie about the Russian involvement in the DNC hack. We know that the hack originated from Russia, and Trump knew that this information would make him look bad, so he allegedly wanted Assange to lie about the source. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/julian-assange-says-he-was-promised-a-trump-pardon-if-he-would-lie-about-russias-dnc-hacking/ 

Former congressman Dana Rohrabacher confirms he dangled a Trump pardon to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and the reporter with whom Rohrabacher spoke shares the details. Aired on 02/20/20.