(I wrote the following post as a comment on the first part of one of Oui’s amazingly well researched articles, Lobbyist Podesta Group Shutters – Corruption and Ukraine. In it, Oui linked to a Guardian article from October 30, 2017. Read on,)
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Tony Podesta, key Democratic lobbyist, resigns from firm amid Mueller inquiry | The Guardian – Oct. 30, 2017 |
Brother of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman faces investigation over work for Ukrainian not-for-profit group tied to Paul Manafort.
The most prominent Democratic lobbyist in Washington, whose brother served as campaign chairman to Hillary Clinton, has stepped down from the firm he created after being ensnared by the Russia-Trump investigation led by Robert Mueller.
Tony Podesta, who has donated millions of dollars to the Democratic party and lawmakers on Capitol Hill and worked as a link between corporate America and the Democratic establishment, has reportedly stepped down from his lobbying firm after it emerged that the US special counsel was investigating his work for a Ukrainian not-for-profit group linked to Paul Manafort.
Podesta’s brother, John Podesta, served as Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and was a victim in the hacking attack against the Democratic candidate’s campaign.
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News of Tony Podesta’s resignation, which was first reported by Politico, was revealed on the same day that Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, and his associate Rick Gates, were charged in a multi-count indictment alleging conspiracy against the US and money laundering. A third official, a campaign adviser named George Papadopoulos, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and is cooperating with investigators.
Podesta has not been charged with a crime. He declined to comment to the Guardian after being reached on his mobile phone. The Democratic lobbyist’s departure may come as a blow to some Democrats on Capitol Hill, but it also demonstrates the far reach of Mueller’s investigation.
Any potential charges against Podesta, who reportedly told staff that he did not intend to “go quietly”, could make it harder for Republicans to accuse Mueller of politicising the Trump investigation by only targeting Republicans.
I had somehow missed this information. (Too many things to do; too little time. Sigh…)
I replied:
Oh, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in ‘t!
I promise…with no crossed fingers, no snark and no other double dealing/double meaning cheats…that I will say this with my hand on a stack of bibles and/or Shakespeare’s plays if the Mueller investigation actually brings effective charges against Podeta-ish DemocRats as well as Manafort-ish RatPublicans.
It would be the first sign of real daylight in the official business of the United States since the Warren Commission started the current 55+ year-long descent into bipartisan-supported darkness on November 29, 1963.
Let us pray that it happens.
I am neither holding my breath nor witholding my ongoing scrutiny in the meantime, though.
We are all still being told…ordered actually, in a trance-producing sort of way…by the Deep State-controlled mass media to choose to “willingly” breathe the stench of one of the two skunk-like major parties extant in the U.S.
I refuse.
Thank you, Oui, for all of your work.
Later…
AG
