The Government Scandal Edition

We’re not getting anywhere with improving people’s lives and the economy. The stock market is down today because people are frustrated that we can’t get a tax cut even proposed!

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley Calls For Special Counsel In Uranium One Deal

Grassley wants another special prosecutor to investigate the Uranium One Nuclear Deal. It seemed the Russian’s bribed a bunch of people to secure Uranium from the United States and Canadian interests. Why they did this, I’m not sure, why they wanted the uranium, I don’t know, but Russia does have a very sophisticated nuclear program of it’s own. 

In a statement posted to Twitter Tuesday night, Grassley called on  “whoever in DOJ is capable” of appointing a special counsel to do so, noting that “‘whoever’ means if [you] aren’t recused.” 

Grassley’s call for a special counsel follows two House committee chairmen announcing probes into the Uranium One deal and the Obama-era Department of Justice’s handling of the Clinton email investigation on Tuesday.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., announced his committee and the House Oversight Committee will investigate the so-called Uranium One deal. 

The Clinton Foundation is allegedly involved because they received millions of dollars from Russian interests at the time this Uranium One deal had to be approved by seven government committees, including Sec. of State Clinton’s state department.

Clinton Campaign and Fusion GPS

The Clinton campaign paid a group called Fusion GPS which came up with the famous dossier on Donald Trump that accused him of all kinds of things.

Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June 2016 after learning that she had damaging information about President Donald Trump’s opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, from the Russian government. 

However, Trump Jr. has maintained that Veselnitskaya didn’t have any information to share and instead wanted to focus on other matters during their meeting.’ 

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort also attended the meeting along with a translator. 

The New York Times began the reporting on this story on Sept 7th. 

The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.

Newsmax Chief Political Columnist and White House correspondent John Gizzi breaks down today’s big stories

Vladimir Putin wants 20% of American’s uranium supply because the Russian economy is teetering on the brink. When the Greek PM Cyprus went to Moscow for a state visit and asked for some help with his own country, Vladimir Putin had to decline. Putin is hurting enough in his own country that he needs money from somewhere or else forget about Russia bailing out Greece. So he’s trying to get money through the United States. So basically Putin wanted to sell Uranium on the World market. 

Russia wants influence in many different countries, so they would pay the Clinton Foundation.  I believe they wanted to get a toe-hold in the United States, never minding which candidate they’re aligned with just as long as they are players in the game. 

Ben Rhodes, formerly Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser, is set to testify Wednesday before the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The House panel is one of a handful investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. 

The committee, led by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., also is looking into why Obama administration officials "unmasked" Americans after their communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence officials. The committee identified Rhodes as a “person of interest” in the growing “unmasking”scandal in which top Obama officials spied on Trump campaign aides and transitioned to track their contacts with foreign government leaders, The DCNF reported in August. 

SCOTUS rules in favor of Trump’s travel ban

The Supreme Court handed President Trump a victory Tuesday when it tossed out the remaining case challenging his earlier travel ban. The court issued an order dismissing the lawsuit brought by the state of Hawaii challenging the 90-day travel ban on nationals from six majority-Muslim countries and the 120-day halt on the U.S. refugee resettlement program, claiming the case is now moot. 

SCOTUS said that President Trump can stop whoever he wants to stop from coming into the United States, but because the 90-day ban expired on Sept. 24 and the 120-day ban expired on Tuesday, the court said there is no longer a “live case or controversy.” So while the Trump Administration won it doesn’t matter since the ban is up. 

Manafort faces new money laundering probe

Paul Manafort, who served as Donald Trump's campaign manager, is facing yet another money-laundering investigation, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. It seems to me that he will get indicted. I could be wrong, but I know for a fact that the Trump Administration is preparing for an indictment. Manafort did a lot of work in Ukraine and Russia where there was a lot of money going through his organization. Now the US attorney in New York is looking into him.  

The New York State money-laundering probe is being led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in cooperation with Robert Mueller. The source who confirmed that the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York has opened an investigation -- which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal -- points out that it is not uncommon for multiple investigations to be open by different levels of government. 

Manafort declined to comment, but has previously denied wrongdoing. Trump also has said none of his campaign staff acted improperly during the election.

When and if Manafort is indicted the left-wing media will go wild because they’ll have at least one head and then they’ll try to draw the inference over from Manafort to President Trump.

Mail Time!

• This Uranium deal troubles me, nuclear fizzle material can be traced to it’s origin from analysis done from the blast site of a detonated nuclear device. What is to prevent Russia from selling yellowcake to save Iran? Who will then refine it into weapons and then passes it along to terrorists.

• As I understand it, Mueller was chosen as special prosecutor because of his honesty and transparency and now he may have to appear before a House Committee under oath in investigating the Uranium One deal. I know you dread speculation Bill, but I have a question. If he were to take the fifth amendment, what happens?

• Bill, compare your reaction to the Uranium story with it’s tenuous ties to Clinton with your non reaction to actual verifiable contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russian government agents. With the Uranium story, it’s wow, this is huge! With the Trump campaign you twist yourself into a pretzel trying to downplay the relevance. I feel you’ve lost all objectivity covering the Trump Administration.

Word of the Day: Egregious