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A California federal judge has awarded attorneys for President Donald Trump nearly $300,000 in fees for Michael Avenatti and his failed defamation claim brought by porn star Stormy Daniels for which he raised $600,000. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero held that when Stormy Daniels said in a TV interview that a man had confronted her in 2011 after alleging an affair with Trump in an attempt to silence her, Trump tweeted that the person who made the threats was a “non-existent man” and that her allegation was a “total con job.”

Otero had earlier indicated that the tweet was protected as free speech since it related to a matter of public concern and involved public figures. Daniels was “in the process of making her story known to the world,” Otero said. He said the president’s tweets appeared should be protected under the First Amendment. Such speech “lies at the heart of the First Amendment” and to try to restrict it would have a “chilling effect on candidates running for office.”

It looks like Michael Avenatti’s bid to become president in 2020 has gone down in flames. His claims that Trump is a Liar have not found any legal foundation. It seems to be allegedly just a ploy to make him famous

Ireland is now claiming it needs to pass the Magnitsky Act to defend human rights. The greatest human rights violations take place in the legal system. It was Adolf Hitler’s notorious court that everyone said violated human right because it had a 90% conviction rate against people accused of being Jewish. Well Ireland, like the United States, has surpassed Adolf Hitler. Sexual offenses have the lowest conviction rates in Ireland’s circuit courts because it requires proof. The 89% conviction rate for sexual offenses in Ireland’s circuit courts compares with 100% for fatal offenses, 98% for offenses against property such as burglary and theft, and 93% for road traffic offenses. If we are really going to deal with human rights, the place to start is legal reform.

The crime of conspiracy was used by the Roman Emperor Maximinus I (235-238AD) which There must be an agreement between two or more persons. The mens rea of conspiracy is a separate issue from the mens rea required of the substantive crime. Conspiracy is the law of tyrants, for it allows the conviction of someone for a crime they did not commit, nor even attempted to commit but you claim they “intended” purely as a mental state to commit in the future. Maximinus engaged in legal persecution. He charged a noted Senator by the name of Magnus, with conspiracy against the emperor, found him guilty, executed him, and then arrested 4,000 others claiming they all conspired with him to intend to depose him. He then used the criminal law to claim they committed a crime of conspiracy, and that, of course, justified confiscating all their property as well.

A conspiracy law was created and used at the Nuremberg Trials for members of the Nazi leadership because they could not actually prove involvement in some cases which was NOT a crime before the trial. This violated every principle of law in any civilized country known as the Ex Post Facto Clause. In other words, you cannot violate a law before it becomes a law. You are supposed to have Due Process which requires the notice of what is a crime to knowingly violate such law. But the pressure to convict the Nazi leadership resulted in violating that Due Process right which is the fundamental guidance from the Bible. The story of Cain and Abel is the source. Cain kills his brother Abel and God knows what he has done. Nevertheless, he summons him and allows him to defend himself even though he knows what he had done. That is the Due Process right that we are all supposed to have. They abandoned that at Nuremberg because the leaders merely gave orders and did not personally execute anyone. So they needed to create a crime of Conspiracy to prosecute them. They charged Conspiracy for participating in a “conspiracy or common plan” to commit international crimes. This was controversial because the conspiracy was not a part of the European civil law tradition. Nonetheless, the crime of conspiracy continued in international criminal justice and was incorporated into the international criminal laws against genocide.

However, they use conspiracy for everything. In this manner, they do not have to prove anyone actually committed any act. This is what Mueller is doing. He charges everyone around Trump in order to compel them to testify against Trump and thus they are given a script that will state that Trump “agreed” to whatever crime they committed and that will prove CONSPIRACY.

Human rights will not begin until CONSPIRACY is eliminated from all crimes. In the case of Nuremberg, they simply need to enact a law that covers the issue of an order in a military context. Any other crime of conspiracy needs to be eliminated in every other context. In the USA, the 1948 Conspiracy Statute was where the punishment provision was completely rewritten to increase the penalty from 2 years to 5 years except where the object of the conspiracy is a misdemeanor. In addition, conspiracies allow for derivative liability where conspirators can also be punished for the illegal acts carried out by other members, even if they were not directly involved.  Thus, where one or more members of the conspiracy committed illegal acts to further the conspiracy’s goals, all members of the conspiracy may be held accountable for those acts. So if one person killed someone and others did not even know that would take place, they too are charged with murder. Where no one has actually committed a criminal act, the punishment varies.  Some conspiracy statutes assign the same punishment for conspiracy as for the target offense. That is where human rights are violated. You can be charged with conspiracy and sentenced to the same punishment as if you actually committed the act. That is why the prisons are full to the brim because prosecutor just charges conspiracy and do not have to prove you committed any act and just claim you agreed with someone else.

The irony is that people who make up conspiracy theories about government actors are called conspiracy nutjobs, yet this in 99% of how the government prosecutes its citizens.

All good things come to an end and this just may be the beginning of the long last decline and fall of the Clintons and their inherent corruption. The House subcommittee this week will convene a politically charged investigative hearing into the Clinton Foundation. Then President Trump is nominating former Attorney General William Barr to replace Jeff Sessions. Barr has been critical of the Russian investigation which is really pathetic but more importantly, he will pull no punches in investigating the Clintons.

The Democrats will scream and yell and maintain that the Clinton family charity is a true international Messiah saving the world and promoting world peace will advocating a new cold war against Russia for spilling the truth. I find it amazing how the corruption of the mainstream media is so prominent that they push this Trump association with Russia to win the election but refuse to talk about the emails that revealed that Hillary had rigged the election and took over the Democratic Party so she would get the nomination. When you have countries that do not support women’s rights or gay rights donating money to the Clinton Foundation it was obviously for influence, not charity.

The Clinton Foundation is the poster-child for political corruption and tax fraud. What we are about to witness is the start of a political war in the House before the handover to the Democrats in January. It was Donna Brazile, former chair of the Democratic Party, who wrote about how the Clintons took over the Democratic Party and used it for themselves. She wrote:

“So I followed the money. My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt. As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.”

The Hill has reported the shenanigans of the Clintons and the investigation that has been underway regarding the Clinton Foundation. The submission also cites an interview its investigators conducted with Andrew Kessel that quotes the foundation’s longtime chief financial officer as saying he was unable to stop former President Clinton from “commingling” personal business and charitable activities inside the foundation and that he “knows where all the bodies are buried.”

What is at stake is the core of the Democratic Party. Their reliance on the Clinton Foundation has been unprecedented. It was more than just corruption and tax fraud, the Clintons are the ones, not the Russians, who sought to manipulate the entire country for personal gain. Brazile further wrote:

“I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails. But who knew if some of them might have been forged? I needed to have solid proof, and so did Bernie.” 

If we look back on April 23, 2015, just two weeks after Hillary Clinton officially declared her presidential campaign, her staff sent out a message on the strategy to manipulate the Republicans into selecting the worse candidate. They included this attachment a “memo for the DNC discussion.”

The memo was addressed to the Democratic National Committee and stated bluntly, “the strategy and goals a potential Hillary Clinton presidential campaign would have regarding the 2016 Republican presidential field.” Here we find that the real conspiracy was Clinton manipulating the Republicans. “Clearly most of what is contained in this memo is work the DNC is already doing. This exercise is intended to put those ideas to paper.”

“Our hope is that the goal of a potential HRC campaign and the DNC would be one-in-the-same: to make whomever the Republicans nominate unpalatable to a majority of the electorate.”

The Clinton strategy was all about manipulating the Republicans to nominate the worst candidate Clinton called for forcing “all Republican candidates to lock themselves into extreme conservative positions that will hurt them in a general election.”

The nonsense published by Newsweek and then withdrawn when they realized that rigging the election FAILED and there would be no Madam President, painted a wonderful woman who rose to the top and was the pillar of society beyond question. It was revealed that the entire dossier on Trump and Russians was funded by Hillary. Previously both John Podesta and former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz denied any knowledge of funding for this dossier. Any surprise at that? It was that dossier that began the entire Russian conspiracy and investigation appointing Mueller.

Hillary had presented herself as a role model to little girls as a leader of the feminist movement in all but official name. Hillary Clinton’s campaign spokeswoman, Jennifer Palmieri, in the hacked emails revealed that Palmieri and other Clinton allies’ hold very low opinions of Catholics. Hillary’s staff said Catholics are “severely backwards” and further demeaned them saying they don’t know “what the hell they’re talking about.”

Jerry Oppenheimer reported in his book State of the Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton (2000), that the night Bill unexpectedly lost his 1974 Arkansas congressional seat bid, Hillary shrieked at his campaign manager, “you fucking Jew bastard.”

Hillary was so shattered by the loss of her life’s dream to be the first woman president rather than what she could actually do for the country. Hillary refused to appear before her supporters. That was the most devastating thing any candidate had ever done in history. She took the loos so personal, it was just about her and nobody else. In the book Shattered, insiders reported that even President Obama  called her and said: “You need to concede” 

We may now be standing on the threshold of justice. As the Hill reported, the question of whether the Clinton Foundation suffers from corruption and illegalities may be answered: “in 6,000 pages of evidence attached to a whistleblower submission filed secretly more than a year ago with the IRS and FBI