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riversedge

(70,197 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 02:06 PM Feb 2017

DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, colluded with Comey, Giuliani, & the NY FBI to help Trump win the elec

Interesting series of tweet that I missed earlier.





Laura ‏@SheWhoVotes Jan 29

Kellyanne Conway & Steve Bannon Members of Secretive Group: the Council for National Policy
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/08/31/revealed-conway-bannon-members-secretive-group#.WI4OnkEB53r.twitter #StopPresidentBannon 1/
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Laura ‏@SheWhoVotes Jan 29

Membership is by invitation only but overlaps with the Heritage Foundation, including Falwell & Pat Robertson: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy … 2/
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Laura ‏@SheWhoVotes Jan 29

Tony Perkins, the head of the anti-LGBT hate group—the Family Research Council—is also a CNP member: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/tony-perkins … 3/
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Laura ‏@SheWhoVotes Jan 29

Betsy DeVos's family founded the FRC hate group. DeVos is now Donald's nominee for education secretary: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education/news/2017/01/23/296947/the-devos-dynasty-a-family-of-extremists/ … 4/
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Laura ‏@SheWhoVotes Jan 29

DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, colluded with Comey, Giuliani, & the NY FBI to help Trump win the election:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_587ed24fe4b0b110fe11dbf9 … 5/










The Domestic Conspiracy That Gave Trump The Election Is In Plain Sight


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-domestic-conspiracy-that-gave-trump-the-election_us_587ed24fe4b0b110fe11dbf9



01/17/2017 11:19 pm ET | Updated Jan 18, 2017


On November 4, Erik Prince used Breitbart to spread disinformation domestically. Mr. Trump rewarded him for it.



Seth Abramson




Information presently public and available confirms that Erik Prince, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump conspired to intimidate FBI Director James Comey into interfering in, and thus directly affecting, the 2016 presidential election. This conspiracy was made possible with the assistance of officers in the New York Police Department and agents within the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. All of the major actors in the conspiracy have already confessed to its particulars either in word or in deed; moreover, all of the major actors have publicly exhibited consciousness of guilt after the fact. This assessment has already been the subject of articles in news outlets on both sides of the political spectrum, but has not yet received substantial investigation by major media.

While a full summary of the Prince-Giuliani-Trump conspiracy would require a longer discourse, the actions of these men, along with multiple still-anonymous actors, can be summarized in five paragraphs. It will be for journalists with more resources than this writer to follow up on these leads—and, moreover, to see how this domestic conspiracy dovetails with the Trump-Russia controversy, though this too is briefly addressed below.

In addition to the paragraphs here, this article incorporates its three predecessors (I, II, III).

1. As reported by the New York Times, FBI Director James Comey released his now-infamous October 27th letter in substantial part because he had determined that “word of the new emails [found on Anthony Weiner’s computer]...was sure to leak out.” Comey worried that if the leak occurred at a time when the nature and evidentiary value of the “new” emails was unknown, he “risked being accused of misleading Congress and the public ahead of an election.” By October 27th, the FBI had had access to Weiner’s computer—which it originally received from NYPD—since October 3rd, during which interval the Bureau had both the time and IT know-how to determine that the “new” emails in its possession were in fact duplicate emails from accounts already revealed to the Bureau by Clinton, her aide Huma Abedin, and the State Department. However, when Comey was briefed on the case by agents from the New York field office on October 26th, he discovered that not only had this IT work not been done, but in fact no warrant to seize the full emails had been sought, no permission to read the emails had been requested from cooperating witnesses Weiner and Abedin, and indeed nothing but a summary of the emails’ “meta-data” (non-content header information) had been prepared by his agents. The result of this investigative nonfeasance was that Comey feared he would not be able to get a warrant for the emails and confirm them as duplicates prior to Election Day—a fact that would allow anti-Clinton elements within NYPD and the FBI, and Trump surrogates and advisers with sources in these organizations, to mischaracterize the “new” emails in a way that would swing the election to Trump. As long as the Clinton investigation remained open, Comey would not be able to respond to such misinformation; his only hope of keeping public discussion of the “new” emails within the sphere of reality was to use the cover of a prior promise to Congress to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation—and then close that investigation in short order.

2. The effort to intimidate Comey into publicly commenting on the Clinton case—a win-win scenario for Trump, as either a comment from Comey or silence from Comey (the latter coupled with inaccurate, Hatch Act-violative leaks by the FBI, NYPD, and/or the Trump campaign) would sink Clinton—began concurrent to Comey’s October 26th briefing on the Clinton case. In an October 25th Fox & Friends appearance and an October 26th appearance on Fox News with Martha McCallum, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s closest advisers, began teasing an October “surprise” which, Giuliani said, would turn the tide against Hillary Clinton. He refused to say what the forthcoming surprise would be, but he indicated that it would be coming in just a few days. Meanwhile, Erik Prince—the founder of Blackwater private security, one of Trump’s biggest donors, a conspiracy theorist who’d previously accused Huma Abedin of being a terrorist in the employ of the Muslim Brotherhood, and a man who blamed Clinton family friend and former Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta for outing him as a CIA asset in 2009—was positioning himself to play an important role. Just as Giuliani had boasted on the Mark Larson radio program on October 28th that he had sources within the FBI—active agents—who had told him of virulent anti-Clinton sentiment in the New York field office and an internal rebellion against Comey’s July decision not to indict Clinton, Prince claimed to have sources within the Weiner investigation who were illegally leaking information to him. In Prince’s case, the sources were within NYPD, and the information he relayed from them to Breitbart News on November 4th—when it was not yet known that Comey, the next day, would reveal the “new” Clinton emails to be duplicates—turned out to be almost entirely false. The full extent of Prince’s lies on November 4th, all of which were Trump campaign disinformation delivered by an adviser and major donor to the campaign, are too numerous and spectacular to list here. Two brief quotes from Breitbart’s interview with Prince should suffice:
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DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, colluded with Comey, Giuliani, & the NY FBI to help Trump win the elec (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2017 OP
We seem to be victims of a coup.. annabanana Feb 2017 #1
I was only able to catch the very end of Maddows report last night. Thanks for the reminder-- riversedge Feb 2017 #2
Kick. Eric runs Dons STASI elehhhhna Feb 2017 #3
extremely plausible. . . n/t annabanana Feb 2017 #4
And why wasn't this little death panel ass****, this mercenary that made over 150 million in Iraq turbinetree Feb 2017 #5
KnR Hekate Feb 2017 #6
More fake news, Mr. pResident? Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 #7

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
1. We seem to be victims of a coup..
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 02:43 PM
Feb 2017

a real palpable, verifiable coup.

And with Rachel's piece last night about "Poland invading Belarus" from Russian propaganda arm and some of our "senior aides" asking for associated intl.. It seems further along than I thought.

riversedge

(70,197 posts)
2. I was only able to catch the very end of Maddows report last night. Thanks for the reminder--
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 03:03 PM
Feb 2017

I am going to try to find her video and listen.

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
5. And why wasn't this little death panel ass****, this mercenary that made over 150 million in Iraq
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 04:49 PM
Feb 2017

not brought before the Senate to explain this during her (his fascistic right wing BS sister's) confirmation hearing--------------?


If people don't think that the fascist have placed this country at war, then you aren't looking past your rose colored glasses far enough-----------because we are getting Rat F**Ked





Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
7. More fake news, Mr. pResident?
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:30 PM
Feb 2017

I guess after a while they'll just not even bother to comment. Why should they? They own it all.

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