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Jeffrey Epstein Blackmail List

Jeffrey Epstein, Blackmail and a Lucrative 'Hot List'

 Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Emily Steel, Jacob Bernstein and David Enrich,The New York Times 7 hours ago 

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Soon after sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein died in August, a mysterious man met with two prominent lawyers.

Towering, barrel-chested and wild-bearded, he was a prodigious drinker and often wore flip-flops. He went by a pseudonym, Patrick Kessler — a necessity, he said, given the shadowy, dangerous world that he inhabited.

He told the lawyers he had something incendiary: a vast archive of Epstein’s data, stored on encrypted servers overseas. He said he had years of the financier’s communications and financial records — as well as thousands of hours of footage from hidden cameras in the bedrooms of Epstein’s properties. The videos, Kessler said, captured some of the world’s richest, most powerful men in compromising sexual situations — even in the act of rape.

Kessler said he wanted to expose these men. If he was telling the truth, his trove could answer one of the Epstein saga’s most baffling questions: How did a college dropout and high school math teacher amass what was said to be a nine-figure fortune? One persistent but unproven theory was that he ran a sprawling blackmail operation. That would explain why moguls, scientists, political leaders and a royal stayed loyal to him, in some cases even after he first went to jail.

Kessler’s tale was enough to hook the two lawyers, famed litigator David Boies and his friend John Stanley Pottinger. If Kessler was authentic, his videos would arm them with immense leverage over some very important people.

Boies and Pottinger discussed a plan. They could use the supposed footage in litigation or to try to reach deals with men who appeared in it, with money flowing into a charitable foundation. In encrypted chats with Kessler, Pottinger referred to a roster of potential targets as the “hot list.” He described hypothetical plans in which the lawyers would pocket up to 40% of the settlements and could extract money from wealthy men by flipping from representing victims to representing those accused of abusing them.

The possibilities were tantalizing — and extended beyond vindicating victims. Pottinger saw a chance to supercharge his law practice. For Boies, there was a shot at redemption, after years of criticism for his work on behalf of Theranos and Harvey Weinstein.

In the end, there would be no damning videos, no funds pouring into a new foundation. Boies and Pottinger would go from toasting Kessler as their “whistleblower” and “informant” to torching him as a “fraudster” and a “spy.”

Kessler was a liar, and he wouldn’t expose any sexual abuse. But he would reveal something else: the extraordinary, at times deceitful measures elite lawyers deployed in an effort to get evidence that could be used to win lucrative settlements — and keep misconduct hidden, allowing perpetrators to abuse again.

Boies has denounced such secret deals as “rich man’s justice,” a way that powerful men buy their way out of legal and reputational jeopardy. This is how it works.

7 Men and a Headless Parrot

The man who called himself Kessler first contacted a Florida lawyer, Bradley Edwards, who was representing women with claims against Epstein. It was late August, about two weeks after the financier killed himself in a jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

Edwards, who did not respond to interview requests, had a law firm called Edwards Pottinger, and he soon referred Kessler to his New York partner. Silver-haired and 79, Pottinger had been a senior civil-rights official in the Nixon and Ford administrations, but he also dabbled in investment banking and wrote best-selling medical thrillers. He was perhaps best known for having dated Gloria Steinem and Kathie Lee Gifford.

Pottinger recalled that Edwards warned him about Kessler, saying that he was “endearing,” “spooky” and “loves to drink like a fish.”

After an initial discussion with Kessler in Washington, Pottinger briefed Boies — whose firm was also representing accusers in the Epstein case — about the sensational claims. He then invited Kessler to his Manhattan apartment. Kessler admired a wall-mounted frame containing a headless stuffed parrot; on TV, the Philadelphia Eagles were mounting a comeback against the Washington Redskins. Pottinger poured Kessler a glass of WhistlePig whiskey, and the informant began to talk.

In his conversations with Pottinger and, later, Boies, Kessler said his videos featured numerous powerful men who were already linked to Epstein: Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister; Alan Dershowitz, a constitutional lawyer; Prince Andrew; three billionaires; and a prominent chief executive.

All seven men, or their representatives, told The New York Times they never engaged in sexual activity on Epstein’s properties. The Times has no reason to believe Kessler’s supposed footage is real.

In his apartment, Pottinger presented Kessler with a signed copy of “The Boss,” his 2005 novel. “One minute you’re bending the rules,” blares the cover of the paperback version. “The next minute you’re breaking the law.” On the title page, Pottinger wrote: “Here’s to the great work you are to do. Happy to be part of it.”

Pottinger also gave Kessler a draft contract to bring him on as a client, allowing him to use a fake name. “For reasons revealed to you, I prefer to proceed with this engagement under the name Patrick Kessler,” the agreement said.

Despite the enormities of the Epstein scandal, few of his accusers have gotten a sense of justice or resolution. Pottinger thought Kessler’s files could change everything. This strange man was theatrical and liked his alcohol, but if there was even a chance his claims were true, they were worth pursuing.

“Our clients are said to be liars and prostitutes,” Pottinger later said in an interview with The Times, “and we now have someone who says, ‘I can give you secret photographic proof of abuse that will completely change the entire fabric of your practice and get justice for these girls.’ And you think that we wouldn’t try to get that?”

Legal Royalty

Pottinger and Boies have known each other for years, a friendship forged on bike trips in France and Italy. In legal circles, Boies was royalty: He was the one who fought for presidential candidate Al Gore before the Supreme Court, took on Microsoft in a landmark antitrust case and helped obtain the right for gays and lesbians to marry in California.

But then Boies got involved with the blood-testing startup Theranos. As the company was being revealed as a fraud, he tried to bully whistleblowers into not speaking to a Wall Street Journal reporter and he was criticized for possible conflicts of interest when he joined the company’s board in 2015.

Two years later, Boies helped his longtime client Harvey Weinstein hire private investigators who intimidated sources and trailed reporters for The Times and The New Yorker — even though Boies’ firm had worked for The Times on other matters. (The Times fired his firm.)

By 2019, Boies, 78, was representing a number of Epstein’s accusers. They got his services pro bono, and he got the chance to burnish his legacy. When Pottinger contacted him about Kessler, he was intrigued.

On Sept. 9, Boies greeted Kessler at the offices of his law firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, in a gleaming new skyscraper at Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s West Side. Kessler unfurled a fantastic story, one he would embroider and alter in later weeks, that began with him growing up somewhere within a three-hour radius of Washington. Kessler said he had been molested as a boy by a Bible school teacher and sought solace on the internet, where he fell in with a group of victims turned hackers, who used their skills to combat pedophilia.

Kessler claimed that a technology executive had introduced him to Epstein, who in 2012 hired Kessler to set up encrypted servers to preserve his extensive digital archives. With Epstein dead, Kessler boasted to the lawyers, he had unfettered access to the material. He said the volume of videos was overwhelming: more than a decade of round-the-clock footage from dozens of cameras.

Kessler displayed some pixelated video stills on his phone. In one, a bearded man with his mouth open appears to be having sex with a naked woman. Kessler said the man was Barak. In another, a man with black-framed glasses is seen shirtless with a woman on his lap, her breasts exposed. Kessler said it was Dershowitz. He also said that some of the supposed videos appeared to have been edited and cataloged for the purpose of blackmail.

“This was explosive information if true, for lots and lots of people,” Boies said.

Boies and Pottinger had decades of legal experience and considered themselves experts at assessing witnesses’ credibility. While they couldn’t be sure, they thought Kessler was probably legit.

A Ploy to Sway an Election

Within hours of the Hudson Yards meeting, Pottinger sent Kessler a series of texts over the encrypted messaging app Signal.

According to excerpts viewed by The Times, Pottinger and Kessler discussed a plan to disseminate some of the informant’s materials — starting with the supposed footage of Barak. The Israeli election was barely a week away, and Barak was challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The images said to be of Barak might be able to sway the election — and fetch a high price. (“Total lie with no basis in reality,” Barak said when asked about the existence of such videos.)

“Can you review your visual evidence to be sure some or all is indisputably him? If so, we can make it work,” Pottinger wrote.

Kessler said he would do so. Pottinger sent a yellow smiley-face emoji with its tongue sticking out.

“Can you share your contact that would be purchasing?” Kessler asked.

“Sheldon Adelson,” Pottinger said.

Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate in Las Vegas, had founded one of Israel’s largest newspapers, and it was an enthusiastic booster of Netanyahu. Pottinger wrote that he and Boies hoped to fly to Nevada to meet with Adelson to discuss the images.

“Do you believe that adelson has the pull to insure this will hurt his bid for election?” Kessler asked the next morning.

Pottinger reassured him. “There is no question that Adelson has the capacity to air the truth about EB if he wants to,” he said, using Barak’s initials. He said he planned to discuss the matter with Boies that evening.

Boies confirmed that they discussed sharing the photo with Adelson but said the plan was never executed. Boaz Bismuth, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Israel Hayom, said that its journalists were approached by an Israeli source who pitched them supposed images of Barak but that “we were not interested.”

‘Wealthy Wrongdoers’

The men whom Kessler claimed to have on tape were together worth many billions. Some of their public relations teams had spent months trying to tamp down media coverage of their connections to Epstein. Imagine how much they might pay to make incriminating videos vanish.

You might think that lawyers representing abuse victims would want to publicly expose such information to bolster their clients’ claims. But that is not how the legal industry always works. Often, keeping things quiet is good business.

One of the revelations of the #MeToo era has been that victims’ lawyers often brokered secret deals in which men accused of abuse paid to keep their accusers quiet and the allegations out of the public sphere. Lawyers can pocket at least a third of such settlements, profiting off a system that masks misconduct and allows men to abuse again.

Boies and Pottinger said in interviews that they were looking into creating a charity to help victims of sexual abuse. It would be bankrolled by private legal settlements with the men on the videos.

Boies acknowledged that Kessler might get paid. “If we were able to use this to help our victims recover money, we would treat him generously,” he said in September. He said that his firm would not get a cut of any settlements.

Such agreements would have made it less likely that videos involving the men became public. “Generally what settlements are about is getting peace,” Boies said.

Pottinger told Kessler that the charity he was setting up would be called the Astria Foundation — a name he later said his girlfriend came up with, in a nod to Astraea, the Greek goddess of innocence and justice. “We need to get it funded by abusers,” Pottinger texted, noting in another message that “these are wealthy wrongdoers.”

Pottinger asked Kessler to start compiling incriminating materials on a specific group of men.

“I’m way ahead of you,” Kessler responded. He said he had asked his team of hackers to search the files for the three billionaires, the CEO and Prince Andrew.

“Yes, that’s exactly how to do this,” Pottinger said. “Videos for sure but email traffic, too.”

“I call it our hot list,” he added.

An Invitation to Reporters

In mid-September, Boies and Pottinger invited reporters from The Times to the Boies Schiller offices to meet Kessler. The threat of a major news organization writing about the videos — and confirming the existence of an extensive surveillance apparatus — could greatly enhance the lawyers’ leverage over the wealthy men.

Before the session, Pottinger urged Kessler to focus on certain men, like Barak, while avoiding others. Referring to the reporters, he added: “Let them drink from a fountain instead of a water hose. They and the readers will follow that better.”

The meeting took place on a cloudy Saturday morning. After agreeing to leave their phones and laptops outside, the reporters entered a 20th-floor conference room. Kessler was huge: more than 6 feet tall, nearly 300 pounds, balding, his temples speckled with gray. He told his story and presented images that he said were of Epstein, Barak and Dershowitz having sex with women.

Barely an hour after the session ended, the Times reporters received an email from Kessler: “Are you free?” He said he wanted to meet — alone. “Tell no one else.” That afternoon, they met at Grand Sichuan, an iconic Chinese restaurant in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The lunch rush was over, and the trio sat at a quiet table in the back. A small group of women huddled nearby, speaking Mandarin and snipping the ends off string beans.

Kessler complained that Boies and Pottinger were more interested in making money than in exposing wrongdoers. He pulled out his phone, warned the reporters not to touch it, and showed more of what he had. There was a color photo of a bare-chested, gray-haired man with a slight smile. Kessler said it was a billionaire. He also showed blurry, black-and-white images of a dark-haired man receiving oral sex. He said it was a prominent CEO.

Soup dumplings and Gui Zhou chicken arrived, and Kessler kept talking. He said he had found financial ledgers on Epstein’s servers that showed he had vast amounts of bitcoins and cash in the Middle East and Bangkok, and hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of gold, silver and diamonds. He presented no proof. But it is common for whistleblowers to be erratic and slow to produce their evidence, and The Times thought it was worth investigating Kessler’s claims.

The conversation continued in a conference room at a Washington hotel five days later, after a text exchange in which Kessler noted his enthusiasm for Japanese whiskey. Both parties brought bottles to the hotel, and Kessler spent nearly eight hours downing glass after glass. He veered from telling tales about the dark web to professing love for “Little House on the Prairie.” He asserted that he had evidence Epstein had derived his wealth through illicit means. At one point, he showed what he said were classified CIA documents.

Kessler said he had no idea who the women in the videos were or how the lawyers might identify them to act on their behalf. From his perspective, he said, it seemed as if Boies and Pottinger were plotting to use his footage to demand huge sums from billionaires. He said that it looked like blackmail — and that he could prove it.

‘We Keep Everything’

Was Kessler’s story plausible? Did America’s best-connected sexual predator accumulate incriminating videos of powerful men?

Two women who spent time in Epstein’s homes said the answer was yes. In an unpublished memoir, Virginia Giuffre, who accused Epstein of making her a “sex slave,” wrote that she discovered a room in his New York mansion where monitors displayed real-time surveillance footage. And Maria Farmer, an artist who accused Epstein of sexually assaulting her when she worked for him in the 1990s, said that Epstein once walked her through the mansion, pointing out pin-size cameras that he said were in every room.

“I said, ‘Are you recording all this?’” Farmer said in an interview. “He said: ‘Yes. We keep it. We keep everything.’”

During a 2005 search of Epstein’s Palm Beach, Florida, estate, the police found two cameras hidden in clocks — one in the garage and the other next to his desk, according to police reports. But no other cameras were found.

If such a surveillance system did exist, nothing that Kessler told or showed The Times proved that he had access to it. The photos he shared were too grainy to establish anyone’s identity. And many elements of his story failed to hold up under scrutiny.

Kessler claimed to have been an early investor in a North Carolina coffee company, whose sticker was affixed to his laptop. But its founder said no one matching Kessler’s description had ever been affiliated with the company. Kessler insisted that he invested in 2009, but the company wasn’t founded until 2011.

The contents of Kessler’s supposed CIA documents turned out to be easily findable using Google. At one point, Kessler said that one of his associates had been missing and was found dead; later, Kessler said the man was alive and in the United States. He said that his mother had died when he was young — and that he had recently given her a hug. A photo he sent from what he said was a Washington-area hospital featured a distinctive blanket, but when The Times called local hospitals, they didn’t recognize the pattern.

After months of effort, The Times could not learn Kessler’s identity or confirm any element of his back story.

“I am very often being purposefully inconsistent,” Kessler said, when pressed.

The Lawyers Seek a Deal

On the last Friday in September, Boies and Pottinger sat on a blue leather couch in the corner of a members-only dining room at the Harvard Club in midtown Manhattan. Antlered animal heads and oil paintings hung from the dark wooden walls.

The lawyers were there to make a deal with The Times. Tired of waiting for Kessler’s mother lode, Pottinger said they planned to send a team overseas to download the material from his servers. He said he had alerted the FBI and a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan.

Boies told an editor for The Times that they would be willing to share everything, on one condition: They would have discretion over which men could be written about, and when. He explained that if compromising videos about particular men became public, that could torpedo litigation or attempts to negotiate settlements. The Times editor didn’t commit.

Boies and Pottinger later said those plans had hinged on verifying the videos’ authenticity and on having clients with legitimate legal claims against the men. Otherwise, legal experts said, it might have crossed the line into extortion.

The meeting was interrupted when Bob Weinstein, the brother of Harvey Weinstein, bounded up to the table and plopped onto the couch next to Boies. The two men spent several minutes talking, laughing and slapping each other on the back.

While Boies and Weinstein chatted, Pottinger furtively displayed the black-and-white shot of a man in glasses having sex. Both lawyers said it looked like Dershowitz.

A Phone Call

One day in late September, Dershowitz’s secretary relayed a message: Someone named Patrick Kessler wanted to speak to him about Boies.

The two lawyers had a long-running feud, and Dershowitz returned the call from his apartment. He also recorded it. Kessler explained his Epstein story and said he no longer trusted Boies and Pottinger.

“The problem is that they don’t want to move forward with any of these people legally,” Kessler said. “They’re just interested in trying to settle and take a cut.”

“Who are these people that you have on videotape?” Dershowitz asked.

“There’s a lot of people,” Kessler said, naming a few powerful men. He added, “There’s a long list of people that they want me to have that I don’t have.”

“Who?” Dershowitz asked. “Did they ask about me?”

“Of course they asked about you. You know that, sir.”

“And you don’t have anything on me, right?”

“I do not, no,” Kessler said.

“Because I never, I never had sex with anybody,” Dershowitz said. Later in the call, he added: “I am completely clean. I was at Jeffrey’s house. I stayed there. But I didn’t have any sex with anybody.”

What was the purpose of Kessler’s phone call? Why did he tell Dershowitz that he wasn’t on the supposed surveillance tapes, contradicting what he had said and showed to Boies, Pottinger and The Times? Did the call sound a little rehearsed?

Dershowitz said that he didn’t know why Kessler contacted him and that the call was the only time the two men ever spoke. When The Times showed him one of Kessler’s photos, in which a bespectacled man resembling Dershowitz appears to be having sex, Dershowitz laughed and said the man wasn’t him. His wife, Carolyn Cohen, peeked at the photo, too.

“You don’t keep your glasses on when you’re doing that,” she said.

Encrypted Files and a Warning

In October, Kessler said he was ready to produce the Epstein files. He told The Times that he had created duplicate versions of Epstein’s servers. He laid out detailed plans for them to be shipped by boat to the United States and for one of his associates — a very short Icelandic man named Steven — to deliver them to The Times headquarters at 11 a.m. on Oct. 3.

Kessler warned that he was erecting a maze of security systems. First, a Times employee would need to use a special thumb drive to access a proprietary communications system. Then Kessler’s colleague would transmit a code to decrypt the files. If his instructions weren’t followed precisely, Kessler said, the information would self-destruct.

Specialists at The Times set up a number of “air-gapped” laptops — disconnected from the internet — in a windowless, padlocked meeting room. Reporters cleared their schedules to sift through thousands of hours of surveillance footage.

On the day of the scheduled delivery, Kessler sent a series of frantic texts. Disaster had struck. A fire was burning. The duplicate servers were destroyed. A team member was missing. He was fleeing to Ukraine.

Two hours later, Kessler was in touch with Pottinger and didn’t mention any emergency. He said he hoped that the footage would help pry $1 billion in settlements out of their targets and asked him to detail how the lawyers could extract the money. “Could you put together a hypothetical situation,” Kessler wrote, not something “set in stone but close to what your thinking.”

Pottinger obliged — and walked into what looked like a trap. He described two hypotheticals, both of which were consistent with what had been discussed with The Times at the Harvard Club.

In one, which he called a “standard model” for legal settlements, the money would be split among his clients, the Astria Foundation, Kessler and the lawyers, who would get up to 40%.

In the second hypothetical, Pottinger wrote, the lawyers would approach the videotaped men. The men would then hire the lawyers, ensuring that they would not get sued, and “make a contribution to a nonprofit as part of the retainer.”

“No client is actually involved in this structure,” Pottinger said, noting that the arrangement would have to be “consistent with and subject to rules of ethics.”

“Thank you very much,” Kessler said.

Pottinger later said that the scenario would have involved him representing a victim, settling a case and then representing the man accused of abusing the victim. He said it was within legal boundaries. (He also said he had meant to type “No client lawsuit is actually involved.”)

Such legal arrangements are not unheard-of. Lawyers representing a former Fox News producer who had accused Bill O’Reilly of sexual harassment reached a settlement in which her lawyers agreed to work for O’Reilly after the dispute. But legal experts generally consider such setups to be unethical because they can create conflicts between the interests of the lawyers and their original clients.

‘Loose Language’

The lawyers held out hope of getting Kessler’s materials. But weeks passed, and nothing arrived. At one point, Pottinger volunteered to meet Kessler anywhere — including Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

“I still believe he is what he purported to be,” Boies wrote in an email Nov. 7. “I have to evaluate people for my day job, and he seemed too genuine to be a fake, and I very much want him to be real.” He added, “I am not unconscious of the danger of wanting to believe something too much.”

Ten days later, Boies arrived at The Times for an interview. It was a chilly Sunday, and Boies had just flown in from Ecuador, where, he said, he was doing work for the Finance Ministry. Reporters wanted to ask him if his and Pottinger’s conduct with Kessler crossed ethical lines.

Would they have brokered secret settlements that buried evidence of wrongdoing? Did the notion of extracting huge sums from men in exchange for keeping sex tapes hidden meet the definition of extortion?

Boies said the answer to both questions was no. He said he and Pottinger operated well within the law. They only intended to pursue legal action on behalf of their clients — in other words, that they were a long way from extortion. In any case, he said, he and Pottinger had never authenticated any of the imagery or identified any of the supposed victims, much less contacted any of the men on the “hot list.”

Then The Times showed Boies some of the text exchanges between Pottinger and Kessler. Boies showed a flash of anger and said it was the first time he was seeing them.

By the end of the nearly four-hour interview, Boies had concluded that Kessler was probably a con man: “I think that he was a fraudster who was just trying to set things up.” And he argued that Kessler had baited Pottinger into writing things that looked more nefarious than they really were. He acknowledged that Pottinger had used “loose language” in some of his messages that risked creating the impression that the lawyers were plotting to monetize evidence of abuse.

Several days later, Boies returned for another interview and was more critical of Pottinger, especially the hypothetical plans that he had described to Kessler. “Having looked at all that stuff in context, I would not have said that,” he said. How did Boies feel about Pottinger invoking his name in messages to Kessler? “I don’t like it,” he said.

But Boies stopped short of blaming Pottinger for the whole mess. “I’m being cautious not to throw him under the bus more than I believe is accurate,” he said. His longtime PR adviser, Dawn Schneider, who had been pushing for a more forceful denunciation, dropped her pen, threw up her arms and buried her head in her hands.

In a separate interview, The Times asked Pottinger about his correspondence with Kessler. The lawyer said that his messages shouldn’t be taken at face value because, in reality, he had been deceiving Kessler all along — “misleading him deliberately in order to get the servers.”

The draft retention agreement that Pottinger had given to Kessler in September was unsigned and never meant to be honored, Pottinger said. And he never intended to sell photos of Barak to Adelson. “I just pulled it out of my behind,” he said, calling it an act to impress Kessler.

As for the two hypotheticals about how to get money out of the men on the list, Pottinger said, he never planned to do what he carefully articulated. “I didn’t owe Patrick honesty about this,” he said.

Pottinger said that he had only one regret — that “we did not get the information that this liar said he had.”

He added, “I’m building legal cases here. I’m trying not to engage too much in shenanigans. I wish I didn’t, but this guy was very unusual.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

© 2019 The New York Times Company

The Write In David Duke Campaign Is Picking Up Steam

The following came from a White Supremacist news letter. Even some racists are sick of Trump.



If you are a true White Supremacist, Skinhead, Klansman, Neo Nazi, Member of the Proud Boys or White Nationalist you should vote your conscious and write in David Duke. Trump is going to lose anyway so why not send a message to the Republican party that White America will not tolerate the browning of America. Hell, even that Negro Obama deported more swarthy Mexicans in his first year than Trump has so far.



Again, Trump can't win and even if he did he would be as dangerous to the White race as a Democrat. He's surrounded by Jews and Wops like Giuliani.


When the votes are tallied and state the RNCs see the power of the White vote they will be more selective in when choosing the right thinking candidates for federal, state county town and city offices. The worst kept secret in the world is that Republican voters are not racists. Republicans are closet racists who need to come out of their closets, come to their senses, say what they really think and loudly and proudly at the top of their lungs shout WHITE POWER WHITE POWER!

This is parody.

Engage The MAGAts

This nightmare is about more than Trump. The depravity that allowed Trump to come to power has been growing for quite some time. There was a time many decades ago when most Republicans were not contemptible scum bags. That was when many elected officials in both parties were from the World War 2 generations aka the greatest generation.

Today we are in the post truth era and we are in the vulgar greed era. Trump really woke up and cultivated growing the depravity that was always in the soul of the Republican party. So wake up Mary Poppins, some people are no damn good and a total waste of protoplasm. The only thing that technically makes them human is their DNA.

Trump supporters are: Racists - Bigots - Liars - Vulgar - Treacherous - Traitorous - Ignorant - Small-minded - Disdainful of the truth - Evil

It is impossible in these times for an actual competent moral conservative to be nominated by the Republican party. Case in point is Republican presidential nominee John Kasich. The Republican base rejected him because he was intelligent, moral, competent experienced and honest. Instead the split between lyin Ted Cruz and traitorous Trump. Trump is a much bigger scumbag than even Ted Cruz and because the GOP base is so morally depraved and intellectually lazy and intellectually dishonest they chose the absolute worst person ever to be the presidential nominee for their party.



If you think that there is good in everyone, you are a fucking fool and you need a fact enema followed by powerful red pills followed a great big giant glass of reality juice. We like to blame Hitler for the holocaust when in fact the holocaust we done by the German people. We like to blame the Civil War on racism when the cause of the Civil war was the depravity and greed of the Southern aristocracy and the stupidity of poor low IQ White trash Southerners. The South is still a shit hole because the White Southerner is a product of defective European stock.



How Do We Engage The MAGAts?

1. Let's start by doing what they do. Let's flag any and all right wing videos on YouTube. Since Youtube censoring operates by mob rule we need to organize flagging attacks on all alt-right channels.

2. Trigger the trash. Call, fax and snail mail every Republican member of congress at their DC office as well as their local office. US Google Phone because in most cases call ID won't detect it. DO NOT threaten anyone but do be firm, factual and do what you can to demoralize the punk who picks up the phone.

3. Attend Trump rallies and video tape the MAGAts and their cars' plates and VIN numbers. If the confront you give them the silent treatment. If they get physical either take one for the team or defend yourself with whatever force you deem necessary. Have the MAGAt arrested and if it is a felony assault and they are convicted they will never be allowed to vote again. Is it worth a few lumps to get a MAGAt out of the game.

4. Be creative. 

5. Start a blog like this one. 

6. Video record outside local politician offices and campaign offices. If confronted give the MAGAts the silent treatment. It will drive them nuts.

7. Send letters to the editor. 

8. Protest outside of GOP local offices. 

9. Work for the Trump campaign and monkey wrench them.

10. Don't let those bastards breath.

Tucker Carlson Brags That Trump is 'a full-blown BS artist'

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tucker-carlson-says-trump-is-a-full-blown-bs-artist-042056499.html

On Wednesday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson actually agreed with many media outlets and admitted that President Trump has been less than truthful with the American people. According to the Washington Post, as of last month, Trump had told over 13,000 false or misleading statements since taking office, including claims by the president and those in his administration that his was the largest inaugural crowd in U.S. history. After nearly three years, Carlson refuted that claim.

“We’re not gonna lie to you, that was untrue,” Carlson said. “The crowd at the 2017 inauguration was not the largest ever measured at the National Mall. Sorry, it wasn’t. Why did the president claim that it was? Well, because that’s who he is.” Carlson went on to say, “Donald Trump is a salesman, he’s a talker, a boaster, a booster, a compulsive self-promoter. At times he’s a full-blown BS artist.”

And though it may seem Carlson was trashing the president, he was actually making the case that it’s okay for Trump to be untruthful because “that’s who he is,” and because, as Carlson pointed out, it’s obvious.

“If Trump hadn’t gotten rich in real estate, he could have made a fortune selling cars,” Carlson said. “Most people know this. It’s obvious. It’s transparent, really. What Tucker Carlson was thinking. "I admire liars. Why do you think I work for Fox News."

Hillary Was Half Right

Hillary had the guts to tell it like it is when she said that 50% of Trump were deplorable. She was being kind to them. The sad and shocking truth is, 100% of the are deplorable and here's why.

1. Anyone ignorant enough to support Trump is deplorable. Even the ones you may think are ignorant know exactly what Trump is.

2. The worst of the worst support Trump.



 a) Neo Nazis and White Supremacists support Trump. Anyone who would don a Nazi garb and give the Nazi salute has announced their intent. In case you didn't know what there intent is, it's the extermination of all non Whites and GLBTQ folks. It could be argued from a legal perspective that Nazis should be killed on site.


 b) Misogynists support Trump. Anyone one who supports this man pig has betrayed their mothers, sisters, wife and daughters. Only a depraved sub human would do that.


 c) The filthy rich corporate gangsters support Trump. Greedy people are simply now damn good. Greed is respnosible for much of the preventable suffering in the world.

In order for anyone to support Trump one must be totally dishonest and completely morally depraved. 

George Papadopoulos Is Officially Running For House Seat Vacated By Katie Hill

My Op Ed: Yes folks, you really are in an alternate universe. Back in the other universe Republicans were criminal scum but they never were this brazen,

After weeks of speculation, former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos announced Monday that he’s running for the House seat vacated by Democrat Katie Hill last month.

Papadopoulos, the first person sent to prison as part of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, announced his candidacy for California’s 25th Congressional District during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.” 

“When I go and talk around the districts, the state, the country, they tell me we need a candidate to represent the community that has an ‘America First’ agenda at heart that supports the president,” Papadopoulos, 32, said.

The Republican continued: “I’m running for the 25th Congressional District. I’m here to promote the ‘America First’ agenda and to enact legislation that has real-life consequences for the American people and my constituents.”

Papadopoulos served two weeks in prison in November 2018 after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI during the Russia probe. Earlier that year, the Illinois native moved to California with his wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, an Italian attorney who briefly worked for the European Parliament.

He filed paperwork to run for Hill’s seat two days after she resigned from Congress last month, following reports that she had a sexual relationship with one of her congressional staffers. She has denied the allegation.

“We are in a fight for the future of this country,” Papadopoulos tweeted Monday. “There is no room for middle ground. We need fighters, principled men/women with true conviction in the party’s platform who put America first.”

Hill flipped the district in 2018, beating incumbent Republican Steve Knight by nearly 9 percentage points. Knight is hoping to reclaim his seat in 2020. At least two other Republicans and several Democrats, including Cenk Uygur, founder of the online news network The Young Turks, are also running.This story has been updated with more information about Hill’s congressional seat and Papadopoulos’ role in the Russia probe.

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Perry Declares Trump the 'Chosen One'

Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in an interview that he told President Donald Trump that he was God's "chosen one" to lead the United States, just as he chose the kings to lead Israel in the Old Testament. 

Perry, who will reportedly soon be leaving the Cabinet, explained that nothing in the universe is accidental and that God "is still very active in the details of the day-to-day lives of government." 

"Barack Obama didn't get to be the president of the United States without being ordained by God. Neither did Donald Trump," he said in a Fox News interview that aired Sunday, adding that God has used "individuals who aren't perfect all through history." 

"King David wasn't perfect. Saul wasn't perfect. Solomon wasn't perfect. And I actually gave the president a little one-pager on those Old Testament kings about a month ago," Perry said. 

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"Donald Trump's not perfect," he said. But Perry believes the Christians in the president's Cabinet, such as himself, have "been able to make a difference in his life." 

"And I hope I've been a bit of a minister, if you will, a person who's been able to share my faith with the president," Perry said. 

The former Texas governor said he told Trump that some people "said you were the chosen one."

"And I said, 'You were.'"

"'You didn't get here without God's blessing,'" he said he told Trump, telling him to read the pamphlet on the Old Testament kings. "And I said, 'I just need you. I want you to look at this. I want you to read it. I want you to, you know, absorb that you are here at this chosen time because God ordained it.'" 

Perry said he also cautioned Trump, "'Don't get confused here, sir. This is not a reflection that you're perfect, but that God's using you. And he uses all of us that way.'" 

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Perry echoed the sentiments of many Evangelical leaders who have embraced Trump despite his alleged ethical lapses. Many of the president's Christian supporters say Trump has atoned by embracing the Christian faith and that forgiveness is a key part of their religion. And like Perry, they believe God could be using an imperfect vessel to carry out his will. 

Franklin Graham, the son of the legendary preacher Billy Graham, has been one of Trump's most ardent Evangelical defenders. Last week, Graham compared Trump's political foes to "demonic forces." 

Perry has been one of the longest-serving members of Trump's Cabinet. Though he has not testified in the impeachment inquiry into allegations that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland named Perry as one of the officials working with Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to carry out the president's wishes. 

In the interview, Perry said his work in Ukraine was focused on battling corruption and natural gas policy. 

"Not once was the name Burisma or the Bidens mentioned to me, not by the president, not by Rudy Giuliani and not by Gordon Sondland," Perry said. "And if there's anyone saying anything different, then they're surmising, and that's not a wise thing to do. I know what I saw. I know what I heard." 

As a Republican primary candidate in the 2012 presidential race, Perry called for the elimination of three federal agencies, including the Department of Energy (which he famously forgot on the debate stage). In hindsight, Perry admits calling for the department's closure had been a mistake.

"I got here and I found that this was the most fascinating, most capable, and, I think, most important agency of government," Perry said. "Wisdom is knowing when you've made a mistake and admitting it." 

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Rick Perry: I told Trump he was God's 'chosen one,' though 'imperfect'

Republican Gerrymandering

For years, Virginians were forced to vote in districts that were racially gerrymandered -- diminishing the voices of thousands of African Americans. But the courts ordered those unfair districts to be redrawn ahead of this month's elections, which meant that, for the first time in a decade, the election's outcome wasn't predetermined by politicians who drew the lines. Instead, the results were decided the way they should be -- by the voters on Election Day.



Virginia is a great success story, but there's more work to do -- and our path to fairness in each state will vary greatly. That's why All On The Line has set its sights on ten target states where the battle for fair maps is already underway. Each will require a unique plan and unique resources.

We need your help to build the infrastructure we need to win this fight -- because the maps drawn in 2021 depend on the ground game we build now. It's going to take a dedicated grassroots effort and localized approach to carry forward the successes in Virginia to even more states.

We know this state-level approach works. This month, as congressional maps were being redrawn in North Carolina, our supporters there came together to call for fair maps. And in Texas, folks are headed to public hearings across the state to make their voices heard on what a fair map looks like for their community.

When All On The Line succeeds in its target states, we'll not only have a shot at fair maps -- we'll also have a chance to break through the obstruction that's preventing progress on so many issues we care about. From attacks on women's health and reproductive freedom in Georgia, to the lack of action on gun violence in Ohio, to the refusal to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of residents in Florida, we've seen time and time again how progress is stalled or reversed by state legislatures that don't reflect the will of the people because of gerrymandered maps. We have a chance to change this in 2021.

All On The Line's grassroots efforts are crucial to ending gerrymandering and securing a path for progress in the next decade. Investing in this movement at the state level is our best chance at achieving fair maps. That's why you'll be hearing from the All On The Line State Directors in the weeks ahead. These experts on the ground will share what's at stake and how we can win this fight in their state -- and most importantly, how you can make that critical difference.

Engage The Enemy: Tactics

I get it. Trump is a lowlife dangerous scumbag but so are his supporters. Trump will be gone soon. He's a sickly fat old bastard but the trash responsible for his rise to power will remain. They don't call Trump's menacing mob MAGAts for nothing. The time has come to take the fight to them and their command and control. It's time to put the boots to all right wing propaganda outlets.

1. Flag all far right comments and Youtubers

2. Accuse all far righties in comment section of being Russian trolls because they are.

3. Go to Trump rallies and video record licence plates and VIN numbers. Have others with camera with you for back up as MAGAts may attack. It is your legal right to photograph everything you see from a public space. Remain silent. That is also your legal right. If you are arrested or detained you will have grounds to sue.

4. You have a right to use a CB (Citizens Band) radio. Sometimes a citizen band radio will inadvertently broadcast over a PA system because it uses the same frequencies as  AM radio. FM signals won't work. This will drive Trump ad his trash wild.

5. Make military style hand signals. This will drive the Trumptard nuts.




6. Speak military jargon into a lapel microphone with ear piece. e.g. "Dagger one to dagger 2 do you copy? Alpha 1 do you copy? Three hostiles identified. Primary extraction point compromised. Copy that. Red team copy. That's a go blue leader. Go to rally point" Do not engage them in a conversation or answer questions. Wear dark glasses. Give descriptions.

Keep in mind, Trump supporting White males are stupid chicken shits. If they think ad organized paramilitary groups in keeping tabs on them they will shit their adult diapers.

Medical Experts Think Trump May Drop Dead Soon. Patriots Have Their Fingers Crossed

Famed neurosurgeon and CNN correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta turned a skeptical eye to President Donald Trump’s recent unannounced trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in an op-ed Sunday that questioned just how “routine” his visit really was.

The nationally acclaimed doctor broke down lingering questions he has about the Nov. 16 visit after speaking with White House officials as well as former White House doctors.

“We know that Trump is 73 years old, has heart disease and is clinically obese. For any man of that age and medical history, an unexpected visit to the hospital is concerning,” Gupta stated.

Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley, said in a memo released last week that the visit was a “routine, planned interim checkup as part of the regular, primary preventative care he receives throughout the year.” Conley added that it was kept off Trump’s public schedule due to uncertainties.

Gupta questioned why Trump traveled to the Bethesda, Maryland, hospital when a routine physical could have been done at the White House instead.

He also raised questions about the timing, since annual exams typically aren’t done less than a year apart “unless there is a concern about something.” Trump’s last physical was in February of this year. The reason for the 12-month wait is to “better assess the impact of medication and lifestyle changes over a consistent interval of time.”

If Trump’s physical required blood work, he would have had to fast beforehand, which would have been difficult given that the president’s visit wasn’t until the afternoon, Gupta said. 

Trump’s physician also rode with him in the presidential motorcade, something that a White House doctor told Gupta “never happened during their time there.”

President Barack Obama’s former physician, David Scheiner, also dismissed the suggestion that the visit was routine, calling that idea “obviously ridiculous.”

“It’s something that needed to be tended to quickly, but not quite an emergency,” he told Inside Edition.

Gupta concluded by expressing concern about the care being given to Trump but surmised that if there were any actual concerns behind his hospital visit, they “were unlikely severe” due to the short length of the visit and Trump’s public appearances since.

Check out Gupta’s full analysis here.

Trump Country Getting Raped The Hardest By The Medical Mafia

In Mississippi, for example, people could spend more than 16% of their incomes on premiums and meeting deductibles, compared to an average cost burden of 8.4% in Massachusetts,” the report stated. “In Mississippi, combined premiums and deductibles are higher than those in Massachusetts, and Mississippi has the second-lowest median income in the country ($47,800). In contrast, median income in Massachusetts is among the nation’s highest ($81,913).” 

Over the last decade, U.S. median income has not kept pace of families’ premium costs in employer health plans,” Sara Collins, president at the Commonwealth Fund, told Yahoo Finance. “At the same time, deductibles in these plans have also grown faster than income, leaving many families underinsured. People across the country are not experiencing employer health insurance costs equally. The most cost-burdened families are in the South aka Trump Country.

The rising cost issue is due to the repeal of the individual mandate penalty by the Trump administration in 2017. At the time this occurred, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that “average premiums in the nongroup market would increase by about 10% in most years of the decade (with no changes in the ages of people purchasing insurance accounted for) relative to CBO’s baseline projections.” According to CBO, this is because “healthier people would be less likely to obtain insurance” and because the premium increase would dissuade others from buying insurance. 

Criminal Rudy Giuliani Making More Empty Blackmail Threats

Giuliani Says Biden Documents Released ‘If I Disappear’

Bloomberg -- Rudy Giuliani, a focus of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s foreign policy dealings, suggested he has dirt on the Biden family that would be released were he to get into trouble -- after earlier hinting he has a plan if he should fall out of favor with the president.

Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, described on Twitter Saturday as “sarcastic” recent comments, on Fox News and elsewhere, about having “an insurance policy” against the president, and instead pivoted to Biden.

That followed a Fox News interview during which he was asked whether Trump might soon conclude that Giuliani is a liability, and throw him “under the bus.”

“This is ridiculous,” Giuliani, 75, said. “We are very good friends. He knows what I did was in order to defend him, not to dig up dirt on Biden.”

Without offering proof, Giuliani tweeted that he had “files in my safe about the Biden Family’s 4 decade monetizing” of the former vice president and senator’s office. “If I disappear, it will immediately appear.”

Giuliani’s tweet also referred to his “RICO chart.” Mentioning the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the federal law aimed at prosecuting organized crime, may imply Giuliani still has information that’s not been released publicly from his days as a U.S. Attorney.

Also on Saturday Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, said on Twitter that “the Mafia couldn’t kill me so NO, I am not worried about the swamp press.”

Saturday was a busy day on social media for the former New York City mayor, who’s said to be under investigation for possible campaign finance violations and a failure to register as a foreign agent. He said, again without elaborating, that he “plans to bring out a massive pay-for-play scheme under the Obama administration that will devastate the Democrat Party.”

During two weeks of impeachment hearings Giuliani was mentioned multiple times by State Department officials testifying on whether Trump improperly withheld military aid to Ukraine. Two of Giuliani’s associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were charged in October in a campaign finance scheme.

Asked Saturday if the charges against his associates would extend to him, Giuliani demurred.

“You think I’m afraid?" Giuliani said. “You think I get afraid? I did the right thing. I represented my client in a very, very effective way. I was so effective that I discovered a pattern of corruption that the Washington press has been covering up for three or four years.”

Giuliani pushed back against testimony in the Trump impeachment inquiry that he’d been labeled a “hand grenade that was going to blow everybody up” by former National Security Adviser John Bolton: “For John to say I’m a hand grenade, then he’s an atomic bomb,” Giuliani said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Ros Krasny in Washington at rkrasny1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Matthew G. Miller at mmiller144@bloomberg.net, Ian Fisher, Virginia Van Natta

My Op Ed: Giuliani has admitted to having evidence of a crime. Not turning it over to law enforcement is a crime. We all know Rudy is lying. Put your money where your mouth is liar and turn over the evidence. Put up or shut up liar

Rudy is on some very thin ice. If the law doesn't get him a vigilante may. Rudy would be smart to fess up and get in protective custody.