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Don’t forget the “dissident” purge that MBS did in 2017-2019 after he created his “anti- corruption committee. Where did those names come from, eh?

Is it surprising to anyone that - against the better judgement of the managers of the fund - MBS gave Jared $2 billion to play with from the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund?

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Per the Intercept report, he got the names from Jared, whom he fleeced.

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So the $2B was like, what, a tip?

Makes sense 😹

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Another senate seat the Dems can grab

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Sep 13, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Yes! Val Demmings is very strong!

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I hope so. In FLA anything can happen. They elected the guy who paid the largest Medicare fraud fine in history to the Senate.

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Excellent Again Greg Another Expose of the Trump Cartel influence on Senators I am sure there are more such as Lindsey and Rand Paul etc

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Yes. Plenty in my archives on those two, and Ron Johnson as well. The tell is when they did a 180 at a weird moment.

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Sep 13, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

I don't get why Rubio would live for years under threat when all he would have to do is retire from politics like so many of his peers have done. I'm sure he would be very prosperous in the private sector.

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He's broke and he has four kids. And he's one of those people who always wanted to be a politician. It will be devastating for him if he loses.

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Sep 13, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

The only answer to your question that makes sense to me is: FEAR. Nothing else makes sense to me. Fear of what? I don't even want to know (yes I do!). The more I find out the more my skin crawls. As an aside, I recently stumbled on some Real Estate information about disgraced loon Michael Flynn. It is from April 2021 - he and his wife (someone married him) bought a house in Florida for $545,000. Here is a quote from the article in Sarasota Magazine, "Boca Royale lacks the social prestige of The Oaks but it also lacks the price tag. A million-dollar home here is pretty special, while a million dollar home in The Oaks is nothing to brag about—if you can find one." This strikes me as very strange. While $545,000 isn't a small amount of money, is it enough to sell your soul for?

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Didn't Flynn sell out to the Turks for like 30 grand? As Rick says in Casablanca: " I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one."

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I understand Greed as a motivation to be a traitor to your country, as despicable as that is, I understand it. But to do that for a pittance? More evidence of deep mental illness.

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The Flynn lads have for sale signs tattooed on their foreheads!

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Sep 13, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Greg. Keep pulling back all the layers of corruption and lies. My spirit will be able to leave this earth, when we view one hundred FBI Agents, accompanied by Capitol Police, arresting every senator and representative with conspiracy of insurrection, along with other felonies. And then they can join trump in prison. We are tired of corrupt power and anyone who has violated oath of office. This “scene” as you visualize, will end the trump regime and blow away the stink of trumplicans and magabillies left in this country. We want our government to provide JUSTICE, not Bill Barr working INJUSTICE.

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Thank you. They will need a lot more than a hundred G-men, though...

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Sep 13, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Greg. Anytime I see the words: Saudi Arabia, Mike Flynn, Nuclear Secrets, I have to post the summary of an investigation that should be resurrected. Readers, this is about a 20 minute read but well worth your time.

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/Trump%20Saudi%20Nuclear%20Report%20-%202-19-2019.pdf

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Sep 13, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Flynn is a foreign agent working right out in the open in the U.S, and I don't think that's an opinion anymore, but a fact.

And let's not forget: "...In the ensuing uproar over Mr. Khashoggi’s killing, Mr. Kushner has reportedly “offered the crown prince advice about how to weather the storm, urging him to resolve his conflicts around the region and avoid further embarrassments.”

For Kushner, Jamal Khashoggi's murder and dismemberment by MBS' agents was an "embarrassment" for MBS, and something to be "managed." I couldn't be more revolted by these people if I tried.

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Yes and yes and YES. They are vile, and the vileness really wears you down.

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Thanks for this. It may well be related to the stolen documents.

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Sep 13, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

I confess that I have no idea anymore what the formerly "normal" Republicans are thinking, and so I don't think about it. As you've said in the past Greg (and is also a feature of that great new credit sequence on the Five-8), "The traitors are easy to spot." Among Republicans now, the PATRIOTS are easy to spot, and so far, I have Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, neither of whom will be in the House after January. There may be other elected Republicans who are patriots, but they have been silent. I have come to assume that EVERY Republican who is like Rubio or maybe especially the ones who remain silent, are the traitors. There are more of them now than patriots, and are legion. Truly, the patriots are much easier to count.

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Well said, Steve, as usual. I think you can count them on one hand, actually.

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Bases loaded double. Good hit Greg.

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Just beats the throw from left...

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Fabulous substack!!!

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Thanks, Sandy!

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Gee, Greg, I bet you thought once you came back that all would be resolved and we wouldn't need you anymore. NOT!!

Here's my comment: With Rubio making noises about the MAL documents being just a "storage issue," it makes me wonder about my own Senator Mark Warner who is the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence who works closely with him. Does he just wink at the Ranking Minority Member and say, "I know you don't mean it; you just have to do what you have to to get reelected"?

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Excellent point. I felt that way about Schiff, having to work so closely with Nunes. Like Batman working with the Joker at Justice League HQ. Insane.

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Actually, D's and R's do work together on committee assignments. So perhaps they do make it a point to stay in their respective "lanes" when it comes to political grandstanding. I saw a video a while back where Whitehouse and Graham were complementing (not complimenting!) each other while running a Judiciary committee hearing. So weird!

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Poignant Lynell, a lot of questions deserve more attention!!

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Sep 14, 2022Liked by Greg Olear

Trump meets with the boys in his golf course forest.

Will Merrick Garland wake up to a horse head in his bed?

Their fleeing on go carts as pretty funny when they noticed they were being filmed

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Maybe the fleeing on golf carts is foreshadowing?

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Not likely.

More likely on who all they have to murder.

That's why they met where there are a lot of insects but no BUGS.

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Can’t wait to read your piece on them and much more.

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Sep 14, 2022·edited Sep 14, 2022

It’s fair to ask why Rubio is so unabashedly protRumpian. The ? is, why isn’t the press asking him this? His peers on the intel committee need to roundly condemn the full throttle trump apologist mode that he has descended into. Val Demmings could not have asked for a more compromised opponent. It’s time for the reign of absurdism to end with the strongest hammer to the nail. That means rounding up Dems for the next 6 weeks in droves to go vote. Been comparing tRUmp to the Rosenbergs for years but until the msm does it; it’s apparently unthinkable. Just like any primate; if tRump is repeatedly rewarded & allowed to skate on criminal things he did he will continue to act accordingly. Garland has about an 100% conviction rate, but alas, there is still no publicly know indictment.

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I vote for #3; he's like Lindsey Graham Jr....but absolutely limited intelligence & tons of Catholic guilt. Hope Val Demings smacks him so hard...

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30 March 2023

Donald Trump, FPOTUS

Indicted, NYC, USA

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