Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 1, 2020 by Sundance

It looks possible AG Bill Barr is trying to pull a sneaky fast-one against President Trump and the American people. Because what Barr is claiming to do, he really isn’t doing.

According to a stunning article by Associated Press, AG Bill Barr appointed John Durham as a special counsel on October 19th, and did not tell anyone.

[…]  Barr told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he had appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham as a special counsel in October under the same federal statute that governed special counsel Robert Mueller in the original Russia probe. He said Durham’s investigation has been narrowing to focus more on the conduct of FBI agents who worked on the Russia investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane.

[…] “I decided the best thing to do would be to appoint them under the same regulation that covered Bob Mueller, to provide Durham and his team some assurance that they’d be able to complete their work regardless of the outcome of the election,” Barr said Tuesday. (Link)

Today the Attorney General notifies congress in a letter:

However, here’s the issue… under DOJ regulations [28 cfr 600]  a special counsel must come from “outside government“; so did John Durham resign his position prior to the appointment, or has Bill Barr just given the appearance of a special counsel appointment while knowing the legal validity of it will collapse upon challenge?

§ 600.3 Qualifications of the Special Counsel.

“(a) An individual named as Special Counsel shall be a lawyer with a reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking, and with appropriate experience to ensure both that the investigation will be conducted ably, expeditiously and thoroughly, and that investigative and prosecutorial decisions will be supported by an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of Justice policies. The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government. Special Counsels shall agree that their responsibilities as Special Counsel shall take first precedence in their professional lives, and that it may be necessary to devote their full time to the investigation, depending on its complexity and the stage of the investigation.” (link)

Obviously Bill Barr is not stupid, he would know the regulations he cites would require the special counsel to come from “outside the U.S. government”, so what gives?

(AP cont..) A senior Justice Department official told the AP that although the order details that it is “including but not limited to Crossfire Hurricane and the investigation of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III,” the Durham probe has not expanded. The official said that line specifically relates to FBI personnel who worked on the Russia investigation before the May 2017 appointment of Mueller, a critical area of scrutiny for both Durham and for the Justice Department inspector general, which identified a series of errors and omissions in surveillance applications targeting a former Trump campaign associate.

The appointment:

Posted originally on The Conservative tree house on December 1, 2020 by Sundance

A remarkable operation is revealed today.  Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe informs CNN President Jeff Zucker they have been listening-in on CNN operations and strategy planning calls for the past 90-days. O’Keefe plans to start releasing the content of those calls at 7:00pm ET this evening. WATCH:

The pressing question that requires resolution is this. Do we have, or do we not have, an honest Supreme Court from which we have nothing to fear?

Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Lee Cary —— Bio and Archives—December 1, 2020

Excerpt from Federalist Papers No. 78, likely written by Alexander Hamilton:

“Though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive. For I agree, that ‘there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.’ And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.”

We Americans can no longer claim to be a shining example of free, fair and open elections

The line of dominos that represent America’s foundational institutions related to law and order have fallen, except one. 

It alone stands to be tested. The integrity of the Supreme Court.

Time is not on the side of those working to fully expose the corruption of the Presidential voting in several states. The scale of fraud now appears to be unprecedented in American election history. 

We Americans can no longer claim to be a shining example of free, fair and open elections.  That claim, if left unsubstantiated, becomes a lie.

The task of making the President’s case against widespread voter fraud is in the hands of a small cadre of Trump attorneys, and other lawyers working in his interests.  The Department of Justice and its Federal Bureau of Investigation are not in the frame, and haven’t been for the last five years. 

Their collective negligence has been reprehensible. And, in response to their dereliction of duty, there are no apparent consequences.  So much for the integrity of those government employees. Servants of the people, not. 

Today, the President’s political party is largely either silent, or encourages him to concede the election.  They cannot see it now, but they are sacrificing their political futures by their tepid, at best, support of Trump.

Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 2012, his performance was…uninspiring

His supporters will not forget, whatever the outcome, that when the battle was waged, many Republican pols deserted their Commander in Chief.  Or, in the case of some, they worked against him from Day 1.

Take for example, Paul Ryan.  A committed NeverTrumper from the get-go.

In retirement, Paul skipped over the relatively meager salary of a K Street lobbyist, and went straight to the FOX Corporate Board, the parent company of FOX News (whose viewership is sinking like the Titanic).  Paul is on his way to cashing in big for his years as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. 

As the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 2012, his performance was…uninspiring

Paul is but one example of many GOP pols prone to surrender rather than contest.

Here’s how one anti-Trump “news” outlets touts the current valor of Paul:

“Former Speaker Paul Ryan is calling for President Trump to accept the election results and move forward with a peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden…

The Wisconsin Republican then called for the Trump campaign to end its legal challenges in multiple swing states, noting they have failed to produce evidence of voter fraud.”

Paul’s wrong about the “orderly transfer of power” being such a unique and fundamentally American component of our political system”

”‘I think maybe even more important is that these legal challenges to the outcome and the attacks on our voting system really need to stop, in my opinion,’ he said…‘The outcome will not be changed, and it will only serve to undermine our faith in our system of government, our faith in our democracy,’ he added…Trump’s legal team are ‘doing damage to our country, to our democratic institutions and norms.’”

     
Now, listen carefully to this statement:

“So, the election is over. The outcome is certain, and I really think the orderly transfer of power—that is one of the most uniquely fundamental American components of our political system,’ he added.”

Paul’s wrong about the “orderly transfer of power” being such a unique and fundamentally American component of our political system”.  It happens all over Europe, for example, and in Canada – to name a few democracies.

An inquiry into possible election fraud will not damage the integrity of the American democracy

An inquiry into possible election fraud will not damage the integrity of the American democracy. Nor would proof of actual fraud have that outcome. 

In would, in fact, certify and strengthen the image of election integrity if the fraud is surfaced. 

But, on the other hand, suppressing an inquiry into the election will seriously damage the legitimacy of American democracy by implying that the truth must remain hidden.  And that reduces the nation to a faux democracy.
 
In Chicago, my home town, the classic short version of what Paul says is: “Nothing to see here. Move along.”

The pressing question that requires resolution is this. Do we have, or do we not have, an honest Supreme Court from which we have nothing to fear? 

Or, is there no such institution left in America?

Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 1, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Interesting take on what happened on 11-3-& 11-4.

Wayne Root is a Vegas legend.

By Wayne Allyn Root

I’ve been a Las Vegas oddsmaker and sports gaming expert for four decades-long before I became known as a nationally syndicated conservative talk show host. I understand odds and gambling in a way that no other conservative media personality, host, or politician in this country could.

And I can tell you something is very wrong with this presidential election. It reminds me of a fixed football game. Remember the famous fixed 1978 game between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles. The Giants quarterback handed the ball off. The running back didn’t want it. It fell on the ground. Herm Edwards of the Eagles picked it up and ran it into the end zone with seconds left for a last second victory. Every bettor in the world knows that game was fixed. It doesn’t matter if you can prove it. We all know.

Gamblers also feel the same way about this presidential election. This presidential election is rancid. It feels as fixed as that Giants-Eagles NFL football game. Let me give you the details of this election- from a gambler’s perspective.

Trump entered the night a 2 to 1 underdog. As soon as the polls started to close, and the picture became clear, Trump’s odds quickly moved to even money. Then Trump became the slight favorite. Then a moderate favorite. Then a 2-to-1 favorite. Then 3 to 1. 4 to 1. 5 to 1. 6 to 1. 7 to 1. Finally, Trump moved to 8 to 1 favorite.

What does all this mean? Bettors putting their money on the line during Election Night have always proven to be deadly accurate. Smart bettors can clearly see what direction a race is taking. Bettors around the world clearly saw what I saw when they stared at the electoral map- Trump was headed for an electoral landslide. But something wasn’t quite right. Fox News wouldn’t call Florida for Trump- even though he was ahead by a mile. They wouldn’t call Ohio- even though Trump was ahead by a mile. They wouldn’t call Texas- even though Trump was ahead by a mile. I sat there, screaming at my television.

More strange calls. Fox News had called Virginia for Biden at the start of the night- with Trump well ahead in Virginia. Trump would remain ahead in Virginia for three long hours after Fox awarded the electoral votes to Biden. Why would they do that? What was the rush? It made no sense.

Biden was awarded Virginia with Trump ahead. But Trump was ahead by a mile in Florida, Ohio, and Texas, yet Fox News refused to award him the electoral votes. I knew at that moment, something was wrong. Something smelled fishy. Something was rotten in the DC Swamp.Bettors witnessed Trump dominating. He clearly won not only those key states of Florida, Ohio, and Texas, but Trump also enjoyed large leads in the entire Midwest- Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. It was all but over. Trump had an electoral landslide. Hence the massive 8 to 1 odds in favor of Trump.

And then it happened. It was the most bizarre call in Election Night history. Fox News called Arizona for Biden. Why? It wasn’t even close to over. There was no reason on earth to make that call. Arizona is STILL not over 8 days later. CNN still hasn’t awarded Arizona. ABC pulled it back from Biden only 24 hours ago.

Why would Fox News be in such a rush to call Arizona for Biden? At that moment, Trump’s odds crashed almost instantly from 8 to 1, back down to 2 to 1. That drop set off alarm bells. My friend, who is one of the biggest bookmakers in the country, called me to say, “Wayne, something is wrong. I’ve never seen a drop like that, let alone a drop that fast. How can Trump go from 8 to 1 to 2 to 1? Someone knows something. We’ve got a problem.”

It was as if someone had decided in advance to give Arizona to Biden- whether he won it or not. It was as if the secret code was known to only a few billionaire gamblers, “Fox News awards Arizona to Biden.” Six magic words. Someone was ready for that call. Someone waited until Trump was a prohibitive 8 to 1 favorite, then knew to bet millions of dollars on Biden at the longest odds of the night. Someone knew the fix was in. Someone made a fortune.

There’s more to the story. First, by awarding both Virginia and Arizona to Biden way too early in the evening and also going super slow awarding states to Trump where he led by a mile, Fox News made sure Biden had the electoral lead all night. That’s another big part of the story. Just like the fake pollsters suppressed Trump voters for months in advance of the election with polls falsely showing Trump losing by a landslide, fake “news desk” employees sure appeared to be suppressing Trump votes on Election Night. And also creating an air of invincibility for Biden. If Biden led in every poll before the election and led all night in electoral votes, then it wouldn’t look like a fix was in when Biden suddenly wound up the winner the morning after. Right?

One more piece of the puzzle. From almost the moment that secret code “Fox News awards Arizona to Biden” was spoken, three key Midwest battleground states with Democrat Governors all decided to stop counting votes for the night, with Trump way ahead. Why? Why all three, at the same time? Like they were coordinated in advance. Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania all mysteriously quit counting around midnight.

To add to the idea of a fix, these states merely claimed they were stopping counting for the night. After TV cameras and Republican poll watchers were all sent home, these Democrat states all resumed counting, suddenly finding all the ballots they needed to overcome large Trump leads.

I actually took screenshots before I went to bed. Trump was winning Michigan by over 300,000 votes when they stopped counting. He was up in Wisconsin by over 100,000. In Pennsylvania, he was up almost 700,000 votes. But in the wee hours of the morning, I took a new screenshot. Suddenly Biden was up by 9,000 in Wisconsin and 30,000 in Michigan. How’d that happen? I thought they stopped counting?

It all started with that bizarre Arizona call by Fox News.

Folks, someone knew. The fix was in. A few key people made millions betting on this election. They knew the exact minute to jump in. They knew exactly when a Trump landslide would turn to a Biden victory, with the help of a fake TV network call and fake ballots.

They knew Arizona was going to be called way too early. They knew that fake Arizona call would trigger vote counting to stop and massive ballot fraud to begin.

I don’t know what the Supreme Court will decide. But bettors all over the world know in our guts exactly what happened. The fix was in, no different than that famous NY Giants-Philadelphia Eagle fix in 1978 at the Meadowlands.

Trump was robbed. This election was stolen.

Posted originally on The Conservative tree house on November 30, 2020 by Sundance

President Donald Trump calls-in to deliver remarks during a hearing about 2020 election day fraud in Arizona.   The campaign legal counsel Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis were present to deliver witnesses and evidence of the documented fraud that took place.

Posted originally on The Conservative tree House on November 30, 2020 by Sundance

Attorney Sidney Powell appears for an interview with Lou Dobbs to discuss the latest developments in several lawsuits against election contests. Both Powell and Dobbs outline how some unknown state officials travelled to Fulton County, Georgia, and removed the servers from the county election offices.  WATCH:

Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Nov 29, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

In the midst of the most corrupt election in history, a Georgia judge has ordered that the voting machine should not be erased and then reversed himself because the defendants claimed they no longer possessed the machines, they are in the custody of the county. The erasing of these machines is a desperate attempt to cover up the entire fraud. This is violating everyone’s civil rights in the entire country. These officials are deliberately allowing the cover-up to take place. If there was nothing to hide, why erase anything?

Posted originally on The Conservative Ree House on November 28, 2020 by sundance

Ground Control: “Liberty One has reached mid-way file transfer. Apex point achieved without incident. File download 40 through 49 initiated. Begin countdown clock to blackout exit. Stay focused people.”… Godspeed.

As the CTH community is aware, WordPress/Automattic has demanded our voice leave their platform. Effective this moment, “Mission CTH Liberty” is underway, and we are separating from main host web servers. {Go Deep} During this transitional phase, we will have a controlled comment blackout until the site migration is complete to new host servers. You may or may not be able to comment.  Comments appearing may or may not transfer.  The anticipated transit time is now 15 to 20 hours to new host.

From the MAIL:

…”Wow, Sundance and crew have launched and setting course into the field of stars… And yes – there is radio silence during those moments after launch.

We remember the radio silence as Apollo went on the dark side of the moon and we waited for heart-stopping moments for radio contact to recur. Emotional moments they were.

And these are emotional moments, whether we think of them in the context of tank man or Paul Revere….when everything has been left on the field. Silence has fallen.

We wait for the lights to come back up….when there will be a ROARRRRRRRRRRR as the Patriot lion strides back on the field, in a tight group of 70 or 80 million or so.

I’m all choked up here, you guys.  I love you all.  So proud to know you and to be able to mark this moment along with you.  To put it mildly, you dun good. Yes…ya dun good.

I know it’s not over, by a long shot. But making this transition with the skill and capable effort you have … is a remarkable thing.

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you. May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you great, great peace. All my love to each of you”…

LOVE backatcha.

Believe me it ain’t easy to spend more than a decade building our Treehouse and then taking a backseat as a new crew, with an incredibly experienced pilot, take control to move our massive and dynamic system into a new host. We are in good hands, God’s hands.

Trillions of ‘ones and naughts’ traveling through digital space in electromagnetic time and then landing thousands of miles from their point of origin…. perfectly reassembling by falling into the exact and precise sequence needed to re-emerge.

Quite remarkable.

A total of 59 chronologically distributed files containing massive terabytes of CTH library data (increasing exponentially by date) are being transferred.  We are now at file 40.

By taking this painstaking approach, we are ensuring that all internal links do not result in a “404” dead link notification. Meaning the library will remain intact, and all external links that lead to the CTH library will be able to find them. Additionally, and/all citations within the CTH library will be retained, and people will be able to use all the embed links; and also importantly, all prior links to your previous comments are retained.

♦ The domain name will remain the same: “TheConservativeTreehouse.com”, and should be seamless in transition to the new website and host servers.  However, after CTH 2.0 launch you may need to clear your browser “cookies” and “cache” so that your search or bookmark reaches the new servers accurately.

How you can tell – If you find yourself only finding older articles when you visit CTH Sunday(ish) this will be the problem.  Clear your “cache and cookies”, search or use your bookmarks for CTH again, and your browser should redirect you to the correct website.

When the comments go fully operational again, please be patient if you get hung up in a moderation cue. One of our challenges will be the absence of Askimet spam filtering. It may take time to release some comments if they are hung up in moderation. The site admins do a great job with comment moderation and release so it shouldn’t be too much of an issue; and quite frankly, there are likely to be benefits from not having the WordPress software filtering through the comments as they post. Spam removal will be a priority.  Current comments made during this transfer phase may not appear.

Thank you for your support and fellowship. We will always work diligently to deserve it.

The rebel alliance will reassemble with comments as soon as possible. We are approximately half-way through the anticipated blackout phase. Once the printing presses are rebuilt we shall meet at the Old Mill and ride again…  We are extraordinarily thankful.

We ain’t there yet, but so-far so-good…  Mission Control Doing EXCELLENT work!

Love to all,

~ Sundance

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on November 28, 2020 by sundance

NewsMax pundit Greg Kelly takes viewers on a journey through the land of suspended common-sense needed to reconcile the Joe Biden victory.  A must watch segment:

The Article Cited is HERE

…”In 2020, The Cook Political Report and The New York Times rated 27 House seats as toss-ups going into Election Day. Right now, Republicans appear to have won all 27.”…