By Tucker Carlson Tonight Posted originally on Rumble on March 23, 2023
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Bombshell 2018 Letter From Cohen Attorney to FEC *SHOULD* Collapse Pretext of Alvin Bragg Nonsense Case Against Donald Trump
Posted originally on the CTH on March 22, 2023 | Sundance
A letter from lawyers representing Michael Cohen to the Federal Election Commission in 2018 should end the case being attempted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. However, given the highly political nature of the DA bringing the case, it is possible the ideologically driven witch hunt will continue.
The 2018 letter states that Michael Cohen made a payment to Stormy Daniels without any consultation with Donald Trump. This undermines the cornerstone of the prosecution’s case.
(Via Daily Mail) The bombshell document, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, could throw a wrench in the works of prosecutors pursuing criminal charges against Trump over the payments. Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and the star witness in the case over which Trump reportedly faces imminent arrest, claims that Trump got him to pay $130,000 to Daniels to keep her quiet about her alleged affair with the real estate mogul, just days before the 2016 presidential election.
[…] But in a February 8, 2018 letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Cohen’s attorney Stephen Ryan wrote: ‘Mr. Cohen used his own personal funds’, and that ‘Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payment directly or indirectly.’
The letter was written in response to an FEC probe launched after complaints of campaign finance violations, lodged by Paul Ryan and the organization Common Cause.
‘In a private transaction in 2016, before the U.S. presidential election, Mr. Cohen used his own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford,’ Cohen’s lawyer, who worked at McDermott Will & Emery, wrote.
‘Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payment directly or indirectly.
‘Contrary to the allegations in the complaint, which are entirely speculative, neither Mr. Cohen nor Essential Consultants LLC made any in-kind contributions to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., or any other presidential campaign committee. (more)
President Trump responded to the letter surfacing, via Truth Social:
Mexican President AMLO Hits Biden Over Likely Arrest of Trump, While Pushing Back Against Dangerous Cartel Narrative
Posted originally on the CTH on March 22, 2023 | Sundance
Let it not be said that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador (AMLO) does not understand what the Biden administration is attempting in the recent criticism and passive aggressive posturing toward Mexico.
Yesterday, AMLO was outlining a specific set of infrastructure initiatives that are ongoing. Three new oil refineries together with new railroads and highways are under construction as the government continues positioning itself for energy independence. [Video Here] However, it’s what he said after the energy remarks that’s really stunning.
The energy plan, which runs counter to the expressed demands of Canada and the United States, includes two regional ‘green’ refineries that will have the ability of turning used cooking oil into fuel. However, the plan also includes new oil refinery capacity that will permit cheap gasoline independent of the need for Mexican oil to be refined in Texas and returned.
All of the refinery projects are on schedule to be completed by the end of this year and into 2024. In essence, Mexico will have very cheap gasoline and diesel fuel in the near future. This was previously outlined as a goal by AMLO in July 2022, and is against the interests the Biden administration. Now those plans are becoming a reality. Mexico is not joining the North American suicide mission of windmills, solar panels and reliance on unstable green energy.
Ever since the July 2022 Oval Office press conference at the White House, CTH has been saying to keep an eye on Mexico, because these energy plans align more with the BRICS nation agenda than the goals and objectives of the World Economic Forum (western nations). It is not accidental the U.S. government, including our intelligence agencies and DHS, has been seeding a negative overall impression of Mexico ever since.
During his remarks, and showcasing that AMLO does actually understand how the Biden administration will/is using alternate angles to undermine the Mexican government, AMLO publicly hit back at Joe Biden over the pending arrest of President Trump. As noted by U.S-Mexican correspondent José Díaz Breseño, “Angry at US criticism of human rights in Mexico, AMLO comes out in defense of Trump, assuring that his arrest would be a move to prevent him from running for President in 2024.”
President Lopez-Obrador also pushed back against the U.S. narrative about dangers in Mexico related to the cartels. “AMLO goes further to say that the Biden Administration has no right to speak about violence in Mexico since it allegedly authorized “sabotaging” the Nord Stream gas pipeline as journalist Seymour Hersh argues.” Breseño notes.
Have you noticed that not a single U.S. media outlet is reporting on this issue? I have been looking, waiting to see if anyone would pick up on this very important story; yet, it is almost invisible in the United States. This silence is not a mistake. The UniParty media do not want these notations taking place. Indeed, if we stand back and look at the larger geopolitical picture, we can again see that AMLO is a thorn in the side of the larger objectives of the western alliance.
We will keep watching…
Bragg Hit the Brakes – Manhattan Grand Jury Told to Take Day Off, Delaying Any Indictment of President Trump
Posted originally on the CTH on March 22, 2023 | Sundance
The intensely political New York City District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, has told the grand jury in the Trump proceedings not to report today.
This grand jury has been meeting on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, according to Business Insider who was the first to report today’s cancellation. President Trump responded to the delay via Truth Social:
New York – […] The Manhattan ‘hush-money’ grand jury has been told not to come in on Wednesday, a cancellation that comes on the brink of a possible historic indictment vote of former President Donald Trump, according to two law enforcement officers.
And while nothing beyond Wednesday is set in stone, it is unlikely that the grand jury will meet at all this week, said one of the law enforcement sources, who spoke to Insider on condition of anonymity.
[…] Grand juries convene in secret, and prosecutors are statutorily barred from discussing what they do. The pause comes after unexpected testimony Monday by Robert Costello, who was allowed to address the grand jurors at the defense’s request. Costello, who previously served as Cohen’s legal advisor, said at a press conference Monday that he attacked his former client’s credibility during his testimony. Cohen had just spent two days of testimony walking grand jurors through the chronology of Trump’s involvement in the payment. (read more)
The legal merits of the campaign finance case are farcical on their face, as admitted by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), previously litigated via legal precedent (John Edwards case), and even Supreme Court interpretation (VA Gov Bob McDonnell case). Even Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann didn’t want to touch this approach.
Additionally, even if there was a legal issue, there isn’t, the statute of limitations on the claimed infraction has expired. Furthermore, and seemingly overlooked by most pundits opining on the issue, the legal issue Bragg is attempting to weaponize is a federal campaign finance issue, out of the jurisdiction of the Manhattan district attorney. So, what gives?
Why would George Soros funded District Attorney Alvin Bragg proceed with a case that was structurally designed to fail on every aspect of the case? The answer, ‘politics’, pure banana republic politics.
Hillary Clinton was found to have violated campaign finance laws when her campaign used “legal expenses” to pay for the creation of the Christopher Steele dossier; the originating material for the false Trump-Russia conspiracy theory. Hillary Clinton was fined by the FEC for not accurately identifying the payments to Fusion GPS as campaign expenses; however, she WAS NOT prosecuted by the DOJ for the issue.
Despite the dismissal of the serious issue this case represents, by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a flippant dismissal that is garnering him a great deal of righteous condemnation, the extreme double standard represented in this case against President Trump is what forms the basis for American citizens to be angered about the dual system of justice. It’s a big deal…. A very big deal.
Soros – Taking Down America
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Alvan Bragg in his vendetta against Donald Trump is clearly not just abusing his power, but he is attempting to interfere in the presidential election of 2024 by harassing Trump and trying to make him so toxic that nobody will donate to him. While I personally thought that Trump had fallen too far to be a viable candidate, at this point, this has all had the opposite effect. We have to come to the realization that Washington DC is so toxic itself, on both sides, that perhaps we need Donald Trump to actually kick ass. Will anyone else be effective in DC as a president from here on out? The answer is absolutely no way. And BTW, even if Trump is indicted and found guilty, he can still be president. A felony does not preclude you from being president.
Bragg is trying to claim that Trump used his own funds that he put into his campaign to pay the hooker and that makes it illegal. Bill Clinton did the same to pay $850,000 to Jones to settle a public lawsuit after an election but before any reelection no less Hillary’s run for president. Trump won against Stormy Daniels that he never had an affair with her and she eventually admitted that whereas Clinton did have an affair with Jones. All of this is absolutely desperate interference in the 2024 election.
What deeply offends me is that Bragg is tainted with the worst possible funding – George Soros – the man who wants to destroy the very economic system that enabled him to make billions. As Fox News reported, George Soros “funneled $40 million dollars into district attorney campaigns nationwide, and now his beneficiaries represent around 20% of Americans,” and that included Bragg on that list. I traded head-to-head with sorry. I never lost against him for he was famous for a single trade. I detest him as an individual and I believe if anyone is the equivalent of the AntiChrist, he would be in my top 5 candidates. He is 93 years old. When he dies, perhaps they will declare it a national holiday. But not the day he was born – the day when he finally dies.
I was actually asked if I would get back into politics and advise Trump NOT TO RUN in 2024 and to support DeSantis because “he is a better administrator.” All of that I do not argue with. I told them that my concern would be that they eat DeSantis for lunch if not breakfast.
ite all the propaganda set in motion by the Democrats led by Hillary that Trump was a puppet of Putin., it was Trump who authorized the first delivery of Lethal weapons to Ukraine. Here is a BBC video on this top and every adviser that was put in the White House when Trump first took office were ALL Neocons. It took Trump some time to realize that he was surrounded by Neocopns who wanted nothing but World War III with Russia. Fiona Hill, a British citizen, was stuffed in there by the Neocons as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on his National Security Council staff. After Trump got rid of her for her constant warmongering, Hill returned to Brookings in April 2019 where she was a colleague of Victoria Nuland’s husband David Kagan. Hill also has a very close working relationship with National Security Advisor John Bolton, a notorious Neocon who always advocated war. Hill has openly remarked that it was very difficult to maintain a consistent U.S.-Russia policy under President Trump because she always advocated war with Russia.
Today, the Neocons have FULL CONTROL of the Biden Administration and are hurling us into World War III. This is what I mean that I would rather have Trump in there than DeSantis, ONLY because Trump had to fire all of these Neocons when he came to realize they will sacrifice all American youth on a battlefield to achieve their single-minded goal of destroying Russia and then they want to turn on China. There is no place in their vocabulary for the word PEACE! They have taken the United States as the defender of LIBERTY and transformed it into an evil empire to dominate the world. Fiona Hill’s testimony to impeach Trump
This is NOT who the American people are! We need to take back our country from these very dangerous and evil people. I fear that Trump may not be the ONLY person who really understands their game. They seem to be relying on George Soros and his funding to change America and the world. In support of Soros, Fiona Hill calls attacks on George Soros anti-Semitic.
In November 2019, during the impeachment inquiry, Hill testified in a closed-door deposition for ten hours during the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Some Republicans, and many others, questioned the credibility of her testimony. Even Connie Mack IV, questioned the veracity of her testimony in light of her agenda to create war with Russia which Trump opposed. Mack even described Hill in the New Yorker as a “George Soros mole infiltrating the national security apparatus”. On May 31st, 2020, Roger Stone also publicly stated: “This is very hard to believe, but I confirmed the facts again this morning. Soros has planted a mole infiltrating the national-security apparatus—a woman named Fiona Hill.”
Washington is a very dirty tricks place. They will do anything to get their way. It was long suspected that even during the election of Ronald Regan and Iran holding the 52 American hostages, there was a secret deal to let Iran hold the hostages to influence the presidential election and defeat President Jimmy Carter. Now Texas politician, Ben Barnes, has come out and confessed that he was personally involved in rigging the election. Those pushing Ronald Reagan for president struck a secret deal with the Iranian government to hold 52 Americans hostages so that Reagan could defeat Jimmy Carter. Back then, that is when I first heard that Reagan was a governor and that they would have to “train him” for they were clearly looking at him as someone they could manipulate. As I pointed out in The Rise of the Neocons special report, they stuffed his cabinet with Neocons who objected to Reagan even meeting with Gorbachev. They kept telling him that it was a trick and he should never trust a Russian. It was the Neocons maneuvering with Iran to ensure Regan would win so they could manipulate him into war.
The Neocons want a new kind of world where they govern with no accountability except to themselves.
Intentional Provocations – Tucker Carlson Outlines the Latest Expectations on the Trump Arrest and 1,000+ Pending Indictments Against J6 Protesters
Posted originally on the CTH on March 22, 2023 | Sundance | 115 Comments
At a certain point you have to wonder if the scale of the “dual justice” visibility is not intended to provoke a political crisis. If this is the motive, we are heading to a very dark place.
During his opening monologue last night, Tucker Carlson outlines the latest expectations in the arrest of President Trump and the pending criminal indictments of more than a thousand people related to the events of January 6, 2021. WATCH:
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Ron DeSantis Tells Piers Morgan He Is Willing to Abandon Florida to Pursue His Personal Ambitions as President – Then Books April Appearances in New Hampshire, Michigan, Ohio and Maryland
Posted originally on the CTH on March 21, 2023 | Sundance
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is playing the running-not-running game as hard as he can, given the Florida ‘resign to run‘ law he is intentionally breaking. Thus, the severity of the self-centered egoism from the man who calls himself the “savior Top Gov of America,” starts to take on context.
According to the DeSantis media operation known as “Florida’s Voice“, the sanctimonious meatball has already scheduled campaign appearances in New Hampshire, Michigan, Ohio and Maryland for April [SEE HERE]. Then, following the instructions of the brand management team in control of him, Ron DeSantis sat down with Rupert Murdoch’s toady, Piers Morgan, for an exclusive interview in both Rupert Murdoch’s publication, The New York Post, and Rupert Murdoch’s broadcast company, Fox News.
Murdoch, who owns Fox News, had previously given Ron DeSantis several million dollars for his personal wealth via a Harper Collins book deal, another Rupert Murdoch company. With full control over the brand image of the DeSantis effort, Fox News has been promoting the meatball for several months.
Timed to coincide with the Trump indictment, DeSantis sits down with Piers Morgan:
(New York Post) – Ron DeSantis knows everyone is waiting for him to say if he’s running for president. But in our interview, airing on Fox Nation’s “Piers Morgan Uncensored” on Thursday, he made it very clear that if he does, he can win.
“If I were to run,” he said confidently, “I’m running against Biden. Like we [him and Trump] are competing for the Republican, potentially, I get that, but ultimately you know the guy I’m gonna focus on is Biden because I think he’s failed the country. I think the country wants a change. I think they want a fresh start and a new direction and so we’ll be very vocal about that.”
“Do you think you could beat Biden?” “I think so,” he replied, unhesitatingly, and emphatically.
“I won with independents by 18 points,” he said, “and so that will be the same formula that we would take, and honestly forget about me, I think anybody should take the formula like that nationally. You can’t win with just Republicans. You’ve gotta win with independents and you need to convince some of these Democrats, which I was able to do in Florida, because they’re not woke, they don’t like some of the nonsense going on. They want their streets safe, and they want quality education. So I think you could appeal to people across the canvas.”
[…] “I haven’t made a final decision on it. I’ve told people that I’ve got a lot to do over the next few months in Florida. We’re gonna put a lot of points on the board. And then we’ll see how the dust settles after that, but I can tell you a lot of people realize the country is not going in the right direction and believe that what we’ve been able to do in Florida, if we can apply that nationally, we can get America back on track and back on our foundations.
[…] “And so, I take that very seriously, it’s humbling that people have come to me and asked me to do it or urged me to do it. So, stay tuned.”
“That sounds like almost a yes . . .”
“It’s a stay tuned!”
Why wouldn’t he go for it?
“Well because I’ve got a young family. I’ve got different obligations and it’s not the easiest thing in the world to go through and I also want to make sure that I have a very clear rationale for doing what I’m doing. All I’m interested in doing is getting things done and accomplishing things. I don’t need a title. I don’t need fanfare. I just want to know that if I put my mind to this, if we ever did that, and we’re successful, what could I do to make a difference and that’s what I have to have.” (read more)
I was always hesitant to say the Florida Governor himself knew about the Mar-a-Lago raid in advance. However, as time provides more hindsight and datapoints to review, this entire DeSantis operation reeks of coordination with the deepest elements of the DC Deep State.
Report, President Trump to Be Indicted in Manhattan Tomorrow, City Coordinating with Secret Service for High Publicity Arrest Next Week
Posted originally on the CTH on March 21, 2023 | Sundance
Not much really needs to be said about this. After all of the effort and thousands of man-hours put into the political weaponized construct by Soros District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a high publicity handcuffed perp walk into a Manhattan courtroom is the ultimate leftist end goal.
According to The Daily Mail, here’s the details for the next several days:
DAILY MAIL – Donald Trump will likely be indicted on Wednesday but won’t appear before a judge in New York until next week, DailyMail.com has learned. ‘There will be no arraignment this week,’ a source familiar with the proceedings told DailyMail.com exclusively on Tuesday.
The former president, who is currently in Florida, is expected to be formally charged tomorrow, after which the Manhattan District Attorney’s office will reach out to Trump and his Secret Service detail to make arrangements for his surrender, according to the insider.
He will then fly to New York where he will be arraigned, fingerprinted, and pose for his mug shot.
Meanwhile, it’s all-hands-on-deck for the New York Police Department and Metro Police Department as all officers on Tuesday are expected to be in uniform, ready for anything in the wake of the potential indictment.
Officials in New York City and Washington, D.C., are preparing for possible unrest and demonstrations following the former president’s plea to his supporters to ‘protest, protest, protest’ in response to a potential indictment handed down by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump, 76, said last week that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday, but a law enforcement official told DailyMail.com that an indictment would likely happen on Wednesday at the earliest. (read more)
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President Trump Responds to Robert Costello Grand Jury Testimony in Manhattan
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 21, 2023 | Sundance
During his interview earlier on Monday evening, immediately after he delivered two hours of grand jury testimony, former Michael Cohen legal counsel Robert Costello, said he gave over 300 pages of documents to both the team of District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and the lawyers representing President Donald Trump.
President Trump responds to the statements from Robert Costello Esq on Truth Social [LINK SOURCE]
President Trump appears to be appealing to an intellectual reasonableness that DA Alvin Bragg may not possess.
Robert Costello Describes His Grand jury Testimony Today, and it Might Just Change the Direction of Alvin Bragg
Posted originally on the CTH on March 20, 2023
This is what news and information is supposed to be all about. Excellent segment on Tucker Carlson {Direct Rumble Link Here}.
In this interview, former Michael Cohen lawyer, Robert Costello, deconstructs the entire premise of the key witness Alvin Bragg is using to target President Trump. Costello states in the interview that he just delivered two hours of grand jury testimony in Manhattan specifically against the interests of the prosecution Alvin Bragg is attempting to construct.
Michael Cohen previously waived attorney-client privilege with Robert Costello, during his effort to get out of legal trouble during his federal case. This waiver permits Robert Costello to discuss the entire background of his former representation with Michael Cohen. This is epic television. WATCH:
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