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Myth Busted: Europe Also Favored Fired Ukraine Prosecutor As Biden 'Quid-Pro' Cover Story Crumbles

Last month we noted that Victor Shokin - the former Ukrainian prosecutor that Joe Biden got fired, had been praised by former Secretary of State John Kerry - who congratulated Shokin about the job he was doing on corruption reforms. This was revealed in government memos obtained via a FOIA lawsuit filed by Just the News.

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The memos completely undermine the narrative offered by Biden and establishment media that the reason Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees unless Shokin was fired, was because Shokin was Corrupt.

Now, as the NY Post's Miranda Divine (of Hunter Biden laptop scoop - turned censorship victim)reports - the Europeans thought Shokin was awesome too...

The European Commission praised Ukraine’s Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin for his efforts to fight corruption in a December 2015 progress report published nine days after then-VP Joe Biden demanded his ouster.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/25/fired...r-shokin-says-he-believes-bidens-were-bribed/
The report flies in the face of Biden’s claims that the European Union joined his demands that Shokin be removed for being corrupt and obstructing anti-corruption reforms.

In fact, the Dec. 18, 2015, progress report, obtained by the New York Post, says that theEuropean Union was satisfied that Ukraine had achieved “noteworthy” progress, including in “preventing and fighting corruption,” and thus was eligible for visa-free travel in Europe. -NY Post
What's more, Europe's praise of Shokin included the fact that he helped in creating a specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office, a crucial component to Ukraine's ability to combat "high-level corruption."

Both of these revelations fly in the face of as massive smear campaign against Shokin.
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Biden hails West Coast dockworker union contract as possibility of UAW strike looms

Biden hails West Coast dockworker union contract as possibility of UAW strike looms

PUBLISHED WED, SEP 6 202311:29 AM EDT
UPDATED WED, SEP 6 20233:03 PM EDT

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden celebrated the recent West Coast dockworker contract in a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday.

“I want to thank both sides for working through this and getting it done,” Biden said. “It’s a good deal for workers, it’s a good deal for companies and it’s a good deal for the United States of America.”

Leaders from both the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents the workers, and the Pacific Maritime Association, which operates the port terminals, joined Biden at the White House.

Last week, the ILWU and the PMA ratified a contract after more than a year of negotiations that prompted the Biden administration to get involved. The contract is set to last for six years and was approved by 75% of union members who voted. It included increased pay and benefits for 22,000 workers across 29 ports on the West Coast.

“The contract finalized last week represented a prime example of Bidenomics at work, reflecting workers empowered and bargaining together for the wages, benefits, and quality of life they deserve, and company owners recognizing those unions’ right to organize,” a White House official said in a statement.

Chronic worker slowdowns plagued the ports as negotiations lagged on, in some cases diverting shipments and leading to temporary port closures.

The White House’s embrace of the dockworkers’ contract comes as another major union fights over its deal. The United Auto Workers may strike when their contract expires on Sept. 14 if a deal can’t be reached. The UAW, which represents 146,000 workers, is asking for a 46% increase in pay, a 32-hour workweek with 40 hours of pay and the return to a traditional pension system.

“The president, vice president are very strong supporters of the collective bargaining process,” National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard told MSNBC on Sunday. “They want to see the collective bargaining process work its way through and you know, we are celebrating two successful collective bargaining agreements that were both ratified with overwhelming majority, both UPS Teamsters and also ILWU and the West Coast ports.”

Biden frequently touts his labor chops and his administration has helped mediate several union disputes, including averting the rail workers strike last year.

“When the last guy was here, he looked at the world from Park Avenue,” Biden said Monday at a Labor Day event in Philadelphia. “I look at it from Scranton, Pa. I look at it from Claymont, Del.”

POLITICS Voters sue to kick Trump off ballot in Colorado, citing 14th Amendment theory

POLITICS

Voters sue to kick Trump off ballot in Colorado, citing 14th Amendment theory

PUBLISHED WED, SEP 6 20233:00 PM EDT
UPDATED WED, SEP 6 20234:37 PM EDT

Kevin Breuninger

KEY POINTS
  • A group of Colorado voters filed a lawsuit Wednesday to kick Donald Trump off the state’s ballot.
  • The lawsuit hinges on the nascent legal theory that proposes the former president is constitutionally barred from running for office again.
  • Trump and his supporters have decried the theory as a conspiracy to stop him from challenging President Joe Biden in the next general election.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump takes the stage during a rally at Norris Penrose Equestrian Center in Colorado Springs, October 18, 2016.


A group of Colorado voters filed a lawsuit Wednesday to kick Donald Trump off the state’s ballot in 2024, citing a nascent legal theory that proposes the former president is constitutionally barred from running for office.

The complaint hinges on the argument that then-President Trump engaged in an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and is therefore disqualified from holding government office under the 14th Amendment.

“Trump tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, leading to a violent insurrection at the United States Capitol to stop the lawful transfer of power to his successor,” the plaintiffs wrote in their legal complaint in Colorado state court.

The third section of the 14th Amendment bars people from holding “any office” at the federal or state level if they have “previously taken an oath” to support the U.S. Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Ratified in 1866, the so-called Disqualification Clause was intended to prevent leaders of the defeated Confederacy from running for public office after the war. The clause allows an individual’s disqualification to be overruled with a two-thirds vote from the House and Senate.

Trump has claimed that the growing attention to the theory, and legal actions stemming from it, are all part of a broader conspiracy against him.

But a pair of constitutional scholars last month argued in an academic paper that the clause disqualifies Trump, “and potentially many others, because of their participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election.”

The plaintiffs — six Colorado registered voters, four of whom are Republicans — alleged in the new complaint that Trump’s actions led to “a violent insurrection at the United States Capitol to stop the lawful transfer of power to his successor.”

The theory also has some outspoken detractors, however. Law professor Jonathan Turley, who defended Trump during his first impeachment, called it “the ultimate Hail Mary pass” by Trump’s critics.

The legal interpretation being used to try to keep Trump from reclaiming power has rarely, if ever, been tested in the courts — a fact the plaintiffs in the Colorado suit acknowledge.

“If the very fabric of our democracy is to hold, we must ensure that the Constitution is enforced and the same people who attacked our democratic system not be put in charge of it,” said Noah Bookbinder, the president of the watchdog group CREW, the organization behind the suit.


“While it is unprecedented to bring this type of case against a former president, January 6th was an unprecedented attack that is exactly the kind of event the framers of the 14th Amendment wanted to build protections in case of,” Bookbinder said. “You don’t break the glass unless there’s an emergency.”

The lawsuit seeks a court order declaring Trump disqualified under the Constitution and enjoining Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold from “taking any action that would allow him to access the ballot.”

Trump wading in on the 14th Amendment, Section 3

“Almost all legal scholars have voiced opinions that the 14th Amendment has no legal basis or standing relative to the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election,” Trump asserted in a social media post Monday.

“Like Election Interference, it is just another ‘trick’ being used by the Radical Left Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, to again steal an Election that their candidate, the WORST, MOST INCOMPETENT, & MOST CORRUPT President in U.S. history, is incapable of winning in a Free and Fair Election,” Trump wrote.
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Of course, none of this is true. It's a classic case of Psychological Projecting, as defined by 19. Most legal scholars do believe the 14 Amendment, Section 3 is relevant, and Trump is also ranked near the bottom of Presidents, right next to Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan. He was "THE MOST CORRUPT President in U.S. history, and is incapable of a winning a Free and Fair Election" That is obvious!

Thanks for the good laugh, Donald.

Grand jury investigating 2020 election interference meets after four-week break

Grand jury investigating 2020 election interference meets after four-week break


By Casey Gannon and Holmes Lybrand, CNN
Updated 10:58 AM EDT, Thu September 7, 2023


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The grand jury that handed up the indictment against former President Donald Trump stemming from efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election is meeting Thursday at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, after an over four-week hiatus.

CNN saw the jurors working for special counsel Jack Smith at the courthouse Thursday morning. The grand jury was last seen meeting at the courthouse on August 8, a week after the indictment was handed up against Trump. Smith said after the charges were announced that the investigation would continue, and the latest grand jury meeting is an indication it’s ongoing.

The grand jury has been hearing evidence from Smith’s probe into 2020 election interference for almost a year. The indictment includes six unnamed co-conspirators who could still face charges.

In a hearing last week, DC District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected both of the vastly different trial dates proposed by prosecutors and the defense. She set the date for Trump’s election subversion case for March 4, 2024, one day before Super Tuesday.

CNN reported earlier this week that Smith’s investigation has recently focused on how money raised off baseless claims of voter fraud was used to fund attempts to breach voting equipment in several states won by Joe Biden, as well as the role of former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell.

Powell’s non-profit, Defending the Republic, hired forensics firms that ultimately accessed voting equipment in four swing states won by Biden: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona, according to multiple sources familiar with the ongoing investigation. Powell faces criminal charges in Georgia after she was indicted last month by Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis.

The new details about the investigation indicate federal prosecutors are scrutinizing a series of voting breaches following the 2020 election that state investigators have been probing for more than a year. Smith’s grand jury in Washington, DC, is set to expire on September 15 but it can be extended.

Meanwhile, Smith said in a court filing Tuesday that Trump has made “daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury” in the 2020 election subversion case.

The allegation arose in a court fight that remains largely under seal. Smith’s office has been sparring with Trump’s team over how much of the underlying sealed dispute should be made public.

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