CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS BY CRIMINALS BUT NO POLITICIANS GO TO JAIL FOR TAKING THE MONEY

George Orwell, in his prescient 1984, published in 1949.

THE COST OF TRUTH IS ALWAYS WORTH IT. 

THE ONLY REASON I VENTURED INTO DISCUSSIONS OF THE POLITICAL CIRCUS WAS THAT TRUTH IS SO INCREDIBLY LACKING IN THIS REALM.

IF TRUTH WAS LIGHT, POLITICS WOULD BE A REGION OF THE DEEPEST, MOST UNIMAGINABLE DARKNESS.

PARTY LOYALTY FORBIDS TRUTH. 

TRUTH CAN LOSE AN ELECTION.

TRUTH CAN COST VOTES.

TRUTH WOULD SHINE A BRIGHT LIGHT ON JUST HOW MUCH WE'VE ALL BEEN CONNED BY, HOW MUCH WE'VE ALL BEEN DUPED. BY THE !!@#$%*^#$% PARTIES.

RECENTLY, I'VE POINTED OUT THE MEDIA BIAS AND OUTRIGHT LIES REGARDING DONALD TRUMP, A MAN I HAVE ZERO TRUE ADMIRATION FOR, EXCEPT FOR HIS STAMINA DURING THE ATTEMPTED 'CRUCIFIXIONS' OF HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY.

WHY DO I BUTT MY HEAD AGAINST SO MANY BRICK WALLS REGARDING TRUTH IN POLITICS?

BECAUSE I LOVE TRUTH ENOUGH TO TELL IT, TO FIND IT, EVEN IF IT ABSOLUTELY KILLS ME TO DO SO. 

WELL, HERE'S ANOTHER RECENT LIE THAT BEGS FOR SOME TRUTH.

AND HERE IS ANOTHER WARNING, THOUGH I KNOW IT WILL GO UNHEEDED...

"IF YOU ACCEPT A LIE AND PASS IT ON, YOU BECOME THE THING YOU CLAIM TO HATE." 



Imaad Zuberi has been pictured with presidential candidates since at least 2012.
The photographs, posted to social media sites like Facebook and Google Plus, are his calling card.

A FORGOTTEN 2016 ELECTION SCANDAL, VERY SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT JUST BROKE. 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Campaign Fundraiser Agrees To Plead Guilty To Falsifying Records to Conceal Work as Foreign Agent, Evading Taxes on Income Obtained by Lobbying on Behalf of Foreign Entities, and Illegal Campaign Contributions.

Zuberi is expected to make his initial appearance in this case in United States District Court on October 30."

The DOJ and FBI had been investigating Imaad Shah Zuberi, a Southern California campaign fundraiser, for falsifying records to conceal his work as a foreign agent while lobbying high-level U.S. government officials, since 2014 and 2015, but for some reason the Obama administration never brought charges.

According to internal Democratic memos released by Wikileaks, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta met with Zuberi in September 2015 to thank him for his support.

Zuberi has supported the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Clinton Foundation and UCLA.

He also supported Democrat Terry McAuliffe's 2013 Virginia gubernatorial campaign and the Organizing for Action advocacy group.

He was a top fundraiser for President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and in 2015 was listed as a “Hillblazer,” as those who raised at least $100,000 for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign were known.

He has advised the Chinese government on economic policy and the Sri Lanka government.
One could argue Zuberi was just participating in a financial process that was business as usual for politicians of BOTH major parties.

Zuberi delivered $615,000 to Hillary Clinton’s joint fundraising committee, Hillary Victory Fund and reportedly contributed between $250,000 and $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation. He gave $102,135 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008 and bundled $500,000 for Obama in 2012.

As 'Open Secrets' revealed on January 9, 2013:
"Imaad Zuberi, co-chair of Obama’s national finance committee and a bundler who gathered at least $500,000 for the campaign (and gave at least $52,000 of his own money to the campaign and the Democratic National Committee) is on the list.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?
HE FAILED TO REGISTER AS A FOREIGN AGENT.
"The Sri Lankan government, long under fire for official corruption and at a low point in its relations with Washington, did just that. Over a five-month period in 2014, it paid Zuberi $4.5 million directly — plus another $2 million to a company he co-owns — for consulting services which included influencing the U.S. government, according to documents obtained by Foreign Policy.
Zuberi’s windfall was not disclosed to the Justice Department, as required under federal law, and the lobbying and public relations firms hired through his company to influence the U.S. government on Sri Lanka’s behalf have all received DOJ subpoenas, according to a senior government official.

IT VIOLATED 'FARA'. 
"According to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, paid representatives of foreign governments — even if they outsource the actual lobbying to other organizations — must disclose those relationships to Justice “within ten days” of acquiring a foreign client, according to the statute. WR Group, the company that held the contract with Sri Lanka, never registered with the Justice Department. Zuberi, who billed the government on May 5, 2014, for his services and received his first payment of $3.5 million from Sri Lanka on May 9, 2014, didn’t register as a consultant until Aug. 14 of that year, well beyond the 10-day deadline. Violating the act carries maximum penalties of a $10,000 fine and five years in prison."

RINSE, REPEAT?

HUFFPOST FAILED TO MENTION THE ABOVE IN ITS MORE RECENT 'BIG NEWS'.
THAT'S NOT ALL THEY DIDN'T MENTION. 

On Wednesday, HUFFINGTON POSTpublished an article titled, “Trump campaign liaison charged with funneling illegal campaign contributions.”

They seemed to have really gotten Trump this time. **

Until – spoiler alert – you read the story and find out the millions funneled were MAINLY to – wait for it – Hillary Clinton.

This post was shared by possibly millions of liberals on social media. It was posted as yet another example of how Trump allegedly associates with horrible people.

And if you looked at the share with that title, of course you’d think Trump was singularly associated with yet another bad guy, damn his beady eyes.

It even looks that way through the first two paragraphs, loaded with references to the Mueller probe, Steve Bannon, and Jared Kushner.

It takes until the third paragraph for you to get a hint of what the man, businessman and lobbyist George Nader, was charged for: illegally funneling money to candidates, including Hillary Clinton.

Then it takes until the eighth paragraph to see that the specific charge was helping to obscure the origin of over $3.5 million in funds that businessman Andy Khawaja donated. HuffPost reports in that paragraph,

“Khawaja contributed more than $4 million to Clinton’s presidential campaign and other Democrats, AP reported. After Trump won the presidency, Khawaja donated $1 million to his inaugural committee.”

Well now, that’s a whole different story, isn't it.

What we have here is a couple of D.C. 'swamp creatures' who, like SO many others are used to paying for favors and lobbying to gain access to all the available whores in the Congressional Brothel, sleazebags who work the system and have been working the system since Congress was invented, long before Trump came on the scene, who helped funnel money to ensure Trump wasn’t elected.

It's been going on for over 200 years!

But at the Huffington Post, a headline that screams, “Man indicted for illegally funneling money to Hillary Clinton” just isn’t as 'sexy' as “Orange Man Bad – again.”

While this type of blatant media bias is disappointing, it’s not unexpected.

KHAWAJA UNDER INVESTIGATION SINCE 2018

L.A. TIMES ACTUALLY REPORTED THE FACTS MUSH MORE SO THAN HUFFPOST COULD BRING THEMSELVES TO DO.

"A 2018 investigation by The Associated Press detailed that Khawaja, Allied Wallet and top executives contributed at least $6 million to Democratic and Republican candidates.

Nader is already in federal custody on unrelated charges accusing him of transporting a dozen images of child pornography and bestiality.
Naser had provided grand jury testimony in the special counsel’s (MUELLER) Russia investigation about his efforts to connect a Russian banker to members of Trump’s transition team. He had also worked to advance Saudi Arabia’s agenda to the Trump administration.

The indictment alleges that Khawaja, Nader and another defendant, Rudy Dekermenjian, attended an event to support Clinton in April 2016.     

Prosecutors allege that Dekermenjian and five others — Roy Boulos, Mohammad “Moe” Diab, Rani El-Saadi, Stevan Hill and Thayne Whipple — conspired with Khawaja to make contributions while concealing the actual origin of the funds. Those contributions, made to various political committees, totaled more than $1.8 million, according to federal prosecutors.

Khawaja is also accused of obstructing a federal grand jury investigation by providing a witness with false information about Nader and his connection to Khawaja’s company after he knew the witness was called to testify, prosecutors said.

Boulos, Diab, Hill and Whipple also are charged with obstructing the grand jury’s investigation by allegedly lying to the FBI." 

WELL, DID NADER LIE TO OR FOR MUELLER? 

HERE'S THE 'SPIN' FROM THE 'OTHER SIDE'. 


Clinton Donors Charged in Massive Campaign-Finance Scheme  
December 4, 2019 

Eight people, including major Hillary Clinton donors and a witness in the Mueller investigation, have been charged in a massive campaign-finance scheme, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.

The individuals conspired to “make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions” valued around $3.5 million in the 2016 election campaign and beyond, according to the announcement.

Although the indictment does not specifically name the recipient of the donations, it is clear that the contributions went to groups allied with Clinton’s presidential campaign.

One of those charged, George Nader, is a Lebanese American businessman who was a witness in the Mueller report.

Nader was also caught in 2018 in possession of child pornography, but received partial immunity in exchange for testimony in the Mueller investigation.

WAS HE BRIBED TO TESTIFY, THEN?

He faces between 15 to 40 years in prison if convicted on child-pornography charges. 

Also indicted on campaign-finance charges was Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja, who hosted a fundraiser for Clinton in Los Angeles in 2016 and who conspired to conceal campaign donations from 2016 to 2018.

Khawaja owns an online-payments company used by, among others, debt collectors, offshore gamblers, and pornographers. The company has made numerous campaign donations to both Democrats and Republicans. 

Nader also gained access to the Trump administration, meeting with the president on several occasions.

Nader has experience in international diplomacy, has served as a diplomatic conduit to the Middle East and Russia, and was an informal adviser to the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates.


From “March 2016 through January 2017, Khawaja conspired with Nader to conceal the source of more than $3.5 million in campaign contributions, directed to political committees associated with a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 election,” the Department of Justice said in a press release.

“Khawaja and Nader allegedly made these contributions in an effort to gain influence with high-level political figures, including the candidate.”

The indictment doesn’t name the specific campaign but includes text messages from Nader to an official from the foreign country saying, “Had a terrific meeting with my Big Sister H. You will be most delighted.” In addition, the timing of the events and fundraisers matches Clinton campaign events.

The indictment refers to a Candidate 2 and the text messages make it clear that candidate is Trump. Khawaja allegedly texted Nader on WhatsApp saying, “That’s why we need birthday gift, If [Candidate 2] gets elected its over for the Arabs,” the indictment says.

The indictment says that Khawaja’s company donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee and attended the inaugural with Nader.

So Nader spent big money trying to gain influence in Hillary Clinton’s circle all while reporting to a foreign official and this is the first we hear of it?  

Nader’s Clinton-connection isn’t his biggest flaw. The sicko was charged several months ago with transporting child pornography and child trafficking.

Nader was arrested on child pornography charges in June, after officials had searched his cellphone and images of boys as young as 3 being sexually exploited. A month later, the feds also charged him with having knowingly transported a 14-year-old boy from Europe to Washington Dulles Airport in February 2000 and then allegedly engaging in sexual acts with that child at his home.

And somehow that wasn’t enough to get him kicked out of the country yet. And if you’re wondering why, thank a leftist for such policies. One would think someone with a reputation like Mueller's would’ve arrested this man long ago. Instead, he remained a top source for the witch hunt.

Mueller failed to protect our children, but at least Nader is finally off the streets. Authorities have Nader in custody for the indictment listing his campaign finance violations. Now sit back and watch Hillary play the victim.

In fact, I guarantee when she finally makes a statement, Hillary will claim she knew nothing of this donation scam.

But as the Daily Wire noted:

“The indictment noted that political committees that received funding unwittingly submitted false disclosure reports and were presumably victims of the plot,” The Washington Post reported. 

[OLD WaPo & NYT ALWAYS DOES DAMAGE CONTROL FOR THE LEFT.
FAUX, aka, "FOX NEWS" USED TO DO THAT FOR THE RIGHT.]

“Still, Clinton apparently attended numerous events, including small gatherings, with Nader, who on July 19, 2016, messaged the foreign official a photograph of him with Candidate 1’s spouse — an apparent reference to Bill Clinton — at Khawaja’s home.”

In other words, Clinton can save the denials. She’s up to her elbows in this one. Perhaps Hillary should just stick it in an email and send it where the sun don’t shine." 

AND THERE IT IS, PEOPLE OF EARTH, ANOTHER UNMASKING OF THE PROPAGANDA MACHINES FOR EACH ACCURSED, LOATHSOME ABOMINATION WE CALL 'POLITICAL PARTIES'.


BUT WILL SUCH UNVEILINGS MAKE ENOUGH PEOPLE SICK ENOUGH TO STOP SUPPORTING POLITICAL PARTIES?

HELL NO.

FOR THEN 'THE OTHER SIDE' MIGHT WIN, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT.

"MUST HAVE THE PRECIOUS!"


WHAT WE COULD HAVE IS FULL-BLOWN REBELLION AGAINST THE LIES AND LIARS, AGAINST THE CROOKEDNESS AND PROPAGANDIZING, BUT, WELL, SHUCKS, WHAT'S A FEW LIES AMONG PARTY MEMBERS, RIGHT? 


THE MEDIA SPINS IT FOR THEIR FAVORITE POLITICIANS TO MAKE THE OTHER SIDE LOOK CROOKED, THE GUILTY POLITICIANS NEVER PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES, AND THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM GOES ON AND ON AND ON.

"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."


"If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them."

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth."







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-- A GIFT FOR YOU... THE ENTIRE GEORGE ORWELL NOVEL, 1984, COMPLETELY FREE TO READ ONLINE.  

http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/



** Some of the 'take' on the HuffPost article is from a delightful newsletter I subscribe to titled "WTF MSM!?" that puts a dose of sunlight on the mainstream media and exposes how the media twist facts, selectively report, and outright lie.
One wee problem with "WTF MSM?"---they lean 'right'.




//WW