Elections
Psaki Says Biden Stands by Voting Rights Speech Comparing GOP to Segregationists
President Joe Biden stands by his outrageous comment last week comparing Republicans to racists and segregationists. Well, that is, specifically those who are opponents of Democrats’ ridiculous voting bills.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday called Biden’s speech that he delivered in Atlanta a “powerful speech” about Americans’ right to vote “for anyone they choose, whether it is him or someone else.” She also claimed it “was not a partisan speech.”
Psaki added “it was intended to lay out for the public exactly what’s at stake and lay out for elected officials what’s at stake and he stands by everything he said in that speech.”
Heated debate over voting rights is plaguing Atlanta politics. National Review reports:
Biden was attempting to gin up support for the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. The former would federalize some facets of elections, including setting a 15-day minimum early-voting period and setting national standards for voter-ID laws to include a range of documentation. The latter would restore portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that allowed the Justice Department to review election-rule changes in districts with a history of discrimination.
During his speech, Biden said: ‘So I ask every elected official in America, how do you want to be remembered? Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”
Even Democratic senator Dick Durbin of Illinois admitted Biden might have gone “a little too far in his rhetoric.” Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called the speech “profoundly, profoundly unpresidential.”
“Look, I’ve known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday” said McConnell.
Remember this 2016 post from Hillary herself just days away from the election? During Friday’s trial of her former attorney Michael Sussmann, some juicy details behind this vey post have emerged.
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2016
“Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, said that Clinton ‘agreed’ to leak allegations that the Trump Organization had a secret communications channel with Russia’s Alfa Bank to the media during his Friday testimony” reports National Review.
The media “report” Hillary tweeted about above, was spoon-fed to them with her blessing. Mook also revealed the “purpose” for the campaign to leak it to the press was to have a reporter “run it down” further and “vet it out.”
As for Mrs. Clinton’s involvement, Mook added that he “discussed it with Hillary as well” after which, “she agreed to” their decision to turn the loose gossip over to the press.
She was then able to use Slate’s “reporting” to discuss the fake collusion publicly. Clinton then tweeted the campaign’s press release on the “statement from Jake Sullivan on New Report Exposing Trump’s Secret Line of Communication to Russia.”
FBI agent James Baker, the then-agent who Sussmann took the Alfa Bank information to, testified in the trial Wednesday. He said he was “100 percent confident” that Sussmann said he wasn’t representing a client when they met.
A text message from Sussmann to Baker from the day prior reads: “Jim — it’s Michael Sussmann. I have something time-sensitive (and sensitive) I need to discuss. Do you have availability for a short meeting tomorrow? I’m coming on my own — not on behalf of a client or company — want to help the Bureau. Thanks.”
National Review reports of the case:
The former FBI general counsel said that he would have treated the meeting and subsequent investigation differently had he known Sussmann was coming forward on behalf of the Clinton campaign.
The evidence that Sussmann delivered to Baker came in the form of Domain Name System (DNS) data that allegedly showed frequent communications between servers associated with the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank. The data was provided to Sussmann by Joffe, an executive at the cybersecurity firm Neustar, which was also being represented by Sussmann as part of his role as a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm.
FBI agent Scott Hellman testified Tuesday that he was immediately skeptical of the data and accompanying analysis that suggested illicit communications between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. In fact, the quality of the analysis was so poor, that Hellman questioned whether its source had a “mental disability” in a private chat with FBI colleagues, obtained by prosecutors.
Opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which Perkins Coie hired to work on behalf of the Clinton campaign, translated the DNS data into laymen’s terms and pitched it to various reporters, including Franklin Foer, a writer for Slate.
“We certainly hoped that he would publish an article,” former Fusion GPS employee Lauren Seago testified.
Foer obliged them, touting the claims in an article published on October 31, 2016, a little over a week before Election Day.
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sewnya
January 19, 2022 at 9:38 am
What a lying *ick
liguide
January 19, 2022 at 10:18 pm
Bull Conner was a Democrat. Just look it up. Very revealing how many Democrats were on his side. hmnn?Wonder if that’s in student education.
clay burruss
January 19, 2022 at 10:27 am
How much longer will the Democrats push the racist attitude that blacks aren’t capable of obtaining simple ID’s?
Chastran
January 19, 2022 at 11:47 am
Brandon Biden, the lying braindead wimp…
H Olden53
January 19, 2022 at 11:49 am
I still have difficulty just watching Joe articulate and pontificate on any topic because of his poor history of explaining “Joey Facts” and not “Reality Facts”. He needs new writers because whoever he is using it’s just getting OLD OLD OLD ( including the guy reading this stuff at the podium but that is a entirely different story ) Doesn’t it seem when you continue to watch him his story telling style is as old as his political career. Bleeeeeh
Steve Kirk
January 19, 2022 at 2:12 pm
Somewhere in Rhode Island, a village has lost their idiot.
Please let then know, we found him in Washington DC. Please come and take him back home.
jof
January 19, 2022 at 9:19 pm
Anything to aid in democrat cheat votes. Psnarki is a big time psuck-up.
Novie
January 20, 2022 at 12:06 pm
Election is a scam! Only Sovereign citizen had a jurisdiction or territory globally. Government is a crown corporation a foreign entity from London or Europe like D.C. District of Columbia not belong to a 5 territory in America. Vote is volt. Electric is election. Watchers is watts. To vote is to give your power.