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Hillary’s ‘Russian Collusion’ Role, Blackouts Are Coming, Biden vs. Biden Policy

May 23, 2022 by GregC

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Join Jim and Greg as they dissect the importance of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager admitting under oath that Hillary was fine with the campaign disseminating unproven allegations about Trump and Alfa Bank to the media. And after breathless collusion coverage for years, the media seem very uninterested in this revelation. They also cringe as residents in at least 14 states are being told to expect blackouts because supply cannot keep up with demand – while dozens of coal-fired power plants are being taken offline with no good plan to pick up the energy production load. And they react to the Biden administration correcting President Biden on his own policies again – this time over we would respond militarily to defend Taiwan.

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Filed Under: China, Climate, Economy, Elections, Energy, Foreign Policy, History, Humor, Inflation, Journalism, News & Politics, Regulations, Russia, Taiwan Tagged With: 3MartiniLunch, Biden, blackouts, China, coal, collusion, Durham, energy, Hillary, Mook, russia, Taiwan, Trump

How DNC Emails & Trump Himself Fueled Collusion Narrative – Ball of Collusion, Part 3

August 28, 2019 by GregC

Listen to “How DNC Emails & Trump Himself Fueled Collusion Narrative – Ball of Collusion, Part 3” on Spreaker.

In the first two portions of our interview with “Ball of Collusion” author and former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy, he and Greg Corombos discuss the origins of the probe and why Special Counsel Robert Mueller waited two years to issue a report despite there being no evidence of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

In our new podcast, McCarthy details the meandering path of the supposed genesis of the investigation, including the various human sources used to incriminate Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.  The operatives were later identified as figures such as Alexander Downer, Stefan Halper, and Joseph Mifsud.

“Papadopoulos meets this shady, Maltese professor  known as Joseph Mifsud, who I think is probably the most interesting figure in this whole narrative.  And that’s saying something, because there’s some real winners in this narrative,” said McCarthy.

Also in this podcast, McCarthy explains how the collusion narrative was falling apart from a lack of evidence before it really even got started in the summer of 2016.  But it was surprisingly revived by the hacking of DNC emails and Donald Trump’s own behavior.

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Filed Under: News & Politics Tagged With: 2016, Andrew McCarthy, collusion, conspiracy, DNC, Donald Trump, emails, news, russia

What Took So Long? – Ball of Collusion, Part 2

August 27, 2019 by GregC

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Andrew C. McCarthy served as Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He led the successful prosecution of the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar Abdel Rahman, and his accomplices in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other plots to attack New York City landmarks.

Now a contributing editor and columnist with National Review, McCarthy has tracked every step of of the Trump-Russia investigations. His new book is “Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.”

In the first part of our conversation, McCarthy explained to Greg Corombos how the investigation really started, the role of then-CIA Director John Brennan, and how President Obama must have known and quite likely approved the investigation.

In the book, McCarthy says there is no evidence whatsoever of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. If that’s true, then why did the Mueller investigation take almost two years to complete?

“When you look at the indictments Mueller filed, it’s quite clear not only that there wasn’t a Trump-Russia conspiracy but that they affirmatively knew there wasn’t a Trump-Russia conspiracy,” said McCarthy.

Listen to the full podcast as McCarthy also offers a compelling case that Mueller and his team knew there was no conspiracy more than 18 months before releasing their report earlier this year.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: collusion, conspiracy, McCarthy, Mueller, news, obstruction, russia, Trump

McCarthy Sizes Up Mueller Testimony

July 24, 2019 by GregC

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Former Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III offered his highly anticipated testimony on Wednesday, but the day turned out differently than Democrats or Republicans anticipated.

Democrats clearly tried to assert that Mueller would have indicted President Trump for obstruction of justice of Justice Department policy did not forbid the indictment of a sitting president.  Republicans were determined to point out that the scope of the Mueller investigation was too narrow and ought to include an examination how how the surveillance of Trump campaign officials began in the first place.

What no one expected was the Mueller performance.  The former FBI director appeared to lack a strong command of his investigation and even admitted he did not oversee it on a day-to-day basis.  He often searched for answers in a manner that shocked analysts on both sides of the aisle.

But what is the impact of Mueller’s testimony?  Did Democrats make the case that Trump only avoided prosecution because of a loophole?  Did Republicans succeed in showing that a much broader investigation is warranted?  Why is Mueller’s shaky performance a big deal?  What is the next big step in this saga?  And is either side worried about ongoing Russian efforts to meddle in elections?

We discuss all of these questions and more in our conversation with former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy, now a contributing editor and columnist at National Review Online and a contributor for the Fox New Channel.

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McCarthy: Mueller ‘Derelict’ for Leaving Question on Obstruction

March 25, 2019 by GregC

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of the Trump campaign conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 campaign but is apparently more ambiguous about whether the president obstructed justice during the investigation.

According to the letter Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress, Mueller ultimately made no recommendation on whether to there was a prosecutable case on obstruction.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says Mueller probably realized quite early in his investigation that there was no evidence of Trump and his team colluding with Russians, but McCarthy believes Mueller dropped the ball on obstruction.

“That was his only job,” said McCarthy.  “Really, if you think about it, his only job was to do what he refrained from doing, which is to draw a traditional prosecutorial conclusion about whether there is enough evidence to indict or not.”

“Mueller was derelict in not drawing a conclusion on the obstruction aspect of the investigation,” he added.

He also shed light on what the job of a prosecutor is.

“Prosecutors never exonerate anyone.  What prosecutors do is they make a decision about whether to charge or to decline to charge, based on whether there’s enough evidence and whether a case meets – in this case –  Justice Department standards,” said McCarthy.

McCarthy also believes the Mueller probe was launched on the faulty theory that Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017 because he must have something to hide and not because he wanted to exercise powers granted to him in the Constitution.

In addition, McCarthy says the prosecution has delivered it’s report and now the defense ought to get a turn, meaning there ought to be a robust investigation of the former Obama administration officials at the FBI, Justice Department, CIA and elsewhere that pushed the idea Russia and the Trump campaign were in cahoots.

Listen to the full podcast with a legal analyst who actually had this story right from the beginning, as McCarthy elaborates on what should come next, whether Trump critics will find any success continuing the probe in Congress or in the courts, and the damage the media did in pushing the Trump-Russia narrative.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: collusion, Mueller, news, obstruction, russia, Trump

It’s Mueller Time

March 25, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are glad to see the Mueller report conclude that neither Donald Trump not anyone else in his campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 elections. They also get a kick out of Trump critics frantically moving the goalposts to claim the new attorney general is doing Trump’s bidding or that the real action is in Congress or with the federal prosecutors in New York. And they shake their heads at the overall performance of the mainstream media in covering this story since the last presidential campaign.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: collusion, democrats, media, National Review, obstruction, President Trump, Robert Mueller, russia, Three Martini Lunch

Senate Says No Collusion, McSally…We Have A Problem, Fake Apologies

February 12, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome reports that Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans and Democrats agree that there is no direct evident showing a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016.  They also shudder for GOP Senate prospects in 2020 as astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, announces he will run against Arizona Sen. Martha McSally next year.  And Jim sounds off on the insincere apologies offered by the likes of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2016, apologies, Arizona, collusion, Ilhan Omar, Mark Kelly, Martha McSally, National Review, Ralph Northam, Senate, Three Martini Lunch

Facebook Fights Fake Accounts, Trump Defends Manafort, Howard Schultz 2020?

August 1, 2018 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Chad Benson of Radio America are glad Facebook has uncovered and eliminated coordinated activity involving fake accounts that promote fringe political movements on both the far right and far left, thus debunking the idea that Russia wants to elect Republicans. They also fail to see why President Donald Trump keeps sticking his neck out for Paul Manafort, since the charges are separate from the Russia collusion investigation. And they discuss former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’ potential partnership with former John McCain presidential campaign adviser Steve Schmidt to mount a 2020 presidential run.

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Filed Under: Economy, News and Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, 3MartiniLunch, collusion, Facebook, fake accouts, Howard Schultz, NationalReview, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump, russia, Starbucks, Steve Schmidt

McCarthy: No Underlying Conspiracy, Mueller Fishing

December 5, 2017 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/12-5-mccarthy-blog.mp3

Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says there is still no discernible evidence of any conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, and he says special counsel Robert Mueller is effectively on a “fishing expedition” to find criminal behavior of some kind.

McCarthy is also explaining what a Trump attorney likely meant when suggesting the president cannot obstruct justice.

Mueller, a former FBI director, was originally tasked with an open-ended counterintelligence investigation to determine whether any outside forces interfered with the 2016 presidential campaign.  However, Mueller’s mandate from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein came with no formal limits.

McCarthy says Mueller’s task was the opposite of how prosecutions normally function.

“The usual thing in the United States is that there’s a crime so we assign a prosecutor.  Here, there’s no crime.  We assign a prosecutor .  We tell him to go find a crime,” said McCarthy.

And thus far, McCarthy says Mueller hasn’t found what he was hired to find.

“He’s gone about his investigation as a kind of broad fishing expedition within those very broad parameters.  If they had a crime that was the predicate for this investigation, it would have been conducted a different way.  But he wasn’t directed to investigate a crime.  He was given this very broad mandate,” said McCarthy.

The investigation is receiving enormous coverage in the wake of Mueller indicting former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for making false statements to the FBI in January.

McCarthy says many people assume this is a sign that bigger charges are coming for the likes of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, Jr., and possibly even the president himself for colluding with Russia.  He says that assumption is based on a flawed understanding of law.

“Collusion is kind of a loaded word.  All it means is concerted activity.  What prosecutors care about is conspiracy, not collusion.  Conspiracy is an agreement to violate a particular federal law.  In this case, the law that they’re most likely talking about is some form of espionage by the Russians targeting the 2016 election,” said McCarthy.

“I never thought they had a case on that.  I haven’t seen anything to suggest it.  What we’ve seen with the three sets of charges is quite the opposite,” said McCarthy.

He says from Paul Manafort and Rick Gates to George Papadopoulos and now Michael Flynn, there is still not a single charge related to the 2016 election.

“They’ve had charges against Manafort and an associate, Rick Gates, that had nothing to do with the 2016 election, and these two guys, Flynn and George Papadopoulos, who pleaded out to process crimes of lying to the FBI, charges not having anything to do with supposed collusion in the Russian effort against the 2016 election,” said McCarthy.

There were Trump campaign contacts with Russia, but McCarthy says the lack of any related charges is telling.  He says Papadopoulos only being charged with making false statements likely means there is no conspiracy case.

“With [the Papadopoulos indictment], Mueller files a 14-page statement of facts explaining the offense, and collusion pours off every page of it.  You have a meeting with people who say they are agents of the Russian government.  He meets with someone who represents herself, apparently falsely, to be Putin’s niece.  They’re talking about setting up meetings with the Russian regime, possibly setting up meetings between Trump and Putin themselves,” said McCarthy.

“Yet, after all of that, he pleads guilty to one count of lying to the FBI about when his first meeting with a Russian official was.  The case against him, even though it’s immersed in collusion, doesn’t have anything to do with collusion in the 2016 election.  That’s the sort of thing that’s led me to believe there’s no collusion case,” said McCarthy.

The Mueller prosecutors, however, are now coming under scrutiny.  Peter Strzok was tossed from the team after anti-Trump statements were made public.  Andrew Weissman is still on board despite a recently uncovered email in which Weissman praises then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to enforce President Trump’s first travel ban.

McCarthy says we should not be shocked that federal employees are politically liberal.  He says that alone is not evidence of corruption, at least in this investigation.

“I need to see a lot more about Strzok before I jump to the conclusion that he let his political opinions – we all have them – interfere with the way he enforced the law.  But I think there are a lot of very questionable judgment calls that were made in the Hillary Clinton case,” said McCarthy.

Among those concerns are reports that Strzok changed former FBI Director James Comey’s language, so that Sec. Clinton was not labeled “grossly negligent” in the way she handled her emails as well as the FBI’s decision not to charge Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin for making false statements to the FBI during that probe.

As for the Russia investigation, other political and legal experts disagree with the argument that there is no whiff of a criminal conspiracy.  They specifically point to the June 2016 meeting involving Trump, Jr. and Manafort and Russians who said they represented the Russian government and promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

Even though no damaging information was turned over, the critics contend the Trump’s campaign’s willingness to engage with the Russians that way proves it was willing and eager to go down that path.

McCarthy says that sort of activity might be unseemly but it’s not criminal.

“What a prosecutor is interested in is not collusion.  A prosecutor is interested in conspiracy.  That means you have to have an agreement to violate a law, and there’s no against taking information from the Russians about your political opponents

“Is it something you should do?  No.  Is it something we should endorse?  No.  But the narrow question for Mueller as a prosecutor is not whether it’s unsavory behavior.  It’s whether it’s criminal behavior,” said McCarthy.

Democrats and the media are also actively wondering whether a recent Trump tweet suggests he knew about Flynn’s lies to the FBI before he fired Comey in May.  Some believe it amounts to obstruction of justice, leading Trump attorney John Dowd to declare that the president cannot obstruct justice.

“The ‘President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution’s Article II] and has every right to express his view of any case,'” Dowd told Axios.

McCarthy says on one hand it it “absurd” to claim a president cannot obstruct justice, but he says the president can legally derail virtually any investigation he wants, including deciding who should be investigated and which executive branch officials ought to be fired.

He says the issue get complicated when a president exercises those powers for what is perceived to be a corrupt purpose.  But even then, McCarthy says the proper recourse is impeachment, not criminal prosecution, because a sitting president can always make it go away.

“Practically speaking, the president holds all of the Trump cards against being indicted.  He can pardon himself and everybody else, which stops the investigation in its tracks.  He can order the investigation to be dropped.  He can fire the prosecutor.  He can do all sorts of things to prevent him from ever being indicted,” said McCarthy.

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