Does anyone know the source/link for watching the immediate Q posts as he posts them = "Q drops"? Where do these various analyzers of Q posts get their info? One guy says Q posts can still be found at qanon.pub. The latest there appear to be for 7/31....none as yet for 8/1? Q anon 7/31/18 "The World Is About To Change" (analysis of Q posts) and Q Anon July 31 - FISA is the Foundation (analysis says the way Capone/his crime syndicate was taken down gives a blueprint of how our present corrupt govt. officials will be taken down)
Thanks muchos! I'm finding the most informative info in these youtube analyses by the seeming Q "experts"....even if I have to wait maybe a day to see latest Q drops.
This latest reported Trump tweet that the usual suspects are quickly denouncing as "obstruction of justice" attempts.....makes one wonder if something big is about to be revealed and Trump is instead, as a kind of kindness, sending a signal to Sessions to resign, get out now, before the boom is lowered! Or is he pushing Sessions to act in some way that will reveal his connections to the cabal from the beginning. Remember when Trump pushed Obama to quickly produce his Birth Certificate and O rushed out a phony digital thing since he had none otherwise and his creator forgot to flatten the 3 pages of forms used to put it together. Or is this a diversion to make the enemy believe that Trump will blink and offer them some kind of way out while just the opposite is being planned....as perhaps Q has alluded to re: the placement of Sessions where he is!: President Trump: “FBI Agent Peter Strzok (on the Mueller team) should have recused himself on day one. He was out to STOP THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP. He needed an insurance policy. Those are illegal, improper goals, trying to influence the Election. He should never, ever been allowed to remain in the FBI while he himself was being investigated. This is a real issue. It won’t go into a Mueller Report because Mueller is going to protect these guys. Mueller has an interest in creating the illusion of objectivity around his investigation.” ALAN DERSHOWITZ. This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!
Will we ever see justice served? Is Sessions still there for a good reason? I just can’t understand why nothing is being done to get these Democrats. Trusting the plan is becoming weary.
...amazing quote from Dershowitz. He gets it, I get it, roughly half the country gets it.......but does Sessions get it? The media sure doesn't....or "won't" is a better choice of words, as I believe they are complicit in slanting the news to harm the president (and any conservative or GOPer in the past). I've never seen the left more vicious.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-gover...-army-110-million-1000-staff-2000-volunteers/ Democrats who are pushing for the impeachment of President Donald Trump will have $110 million to spend on the cause, thanks to the efforts of left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer. Steyer’s organizations, NextGen America and Need to Impeach, will also have a combined 1,000 employees and 2,000 staffers as they take the case for impeachment to voters in November, according to Politico. Though House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has discouraged impeachment talk, grass roots Democrats favor the idea. Politico reports: Tom Steyer plans to spend at least $110 million in 2018, making the billionaire investor the largest single source of campaign cash on the left and placing him on a path to create a parallel party infrastructure with polling, analytics and staffing capabilities that stand to shape and define the issues the party runs on in November. Steyer is building out an operation that’s bigger than anyone’s other than the Koch brothers’ — and the billionaire and his aides believe the reservoir of nontraditional voters he’s already activated could become the overriding factor in House and other races across the country. … Between the two organizations, he’ll have close to 1,000 people on staff, in addition to over 2,000 volunteers. The Need to Impeach email list alone has already topped 5.5 million, which its research — anyone who signs up with the effort has their information run through a series of voter files and other databases — shows includes a very exact 697,780 infrequent voters in the 63 most competitive House districts. “Our list is bigger than the NRA’s — and we’re going to make sure that it votes that way in 2018,” said Kevin Mack, lead strategist for Need to Impeach. Steyer claimed earlier this year that Democrats must embrace impeachment if they want to win the midterm elections and return to power. Politico adds that Steyer’s internal polls show that Republican voters are not yet motivated by the desire to prevent Trump from being impeached — which has been a major fear of the Democratic Party establishment, which has tried to suppress the idea. Steyer, who has already spent tens of millions of dollars on pro-impeachment advertising, will hope for a better return on his investments than he experienced in 2014, when he spent roughly $75 million, only to see Republicans take the Senate. Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Mr Steyer has some links to what happened with Pizzagate. A Wikileaks email forwarded by John Podesta mentions him directly.
What a great group of people. Without being "chosen" I don't know how anyone could withstand what this man has had come against him....w/ the ongoing energy and attention to everything he attempts....just his memory and his goals w/o having any such experience in his past of everything the swamp hands out on a daily basis is beyond understanding.
Mueller’s Prosecutors Take a Beating From Judge Ellis For Fixating on Manafort’s Expensive Suits “Let’s Move On, Enough is Enough” T.S. Ellis, III, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Va, at the Investiture ceremony of Stuart Nash to be Associate Judge at the D.C. Superior Court. June 4, 2010. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL. Judge T.S. Ellis, a Reagan appointee, became very irritated with Mueller’s prosecutors Wednesday as they droned on an on over Manafort’s lavish lifestyle and his expensive suits. Mueller’s thugs used the same tactic, shaming Manafort for owning a $15,000 coat made of Ostrich in Tuesday’s opening statement which drew a rebuke from Judge Ellis. “It isn’t a crime to have money and be profligate with your spending,” Judge Ellis said to Mueller’s hack lawyer, Asonye. On Wednesday Mueller’s lawyers took a beating from Judge Ellis after they went into detail about Manafort’s spending habits, whining about his expensive suits and how he paid for them via wire transfer–as if that’s somehow illegal. At one point, Judge Ellis became so irritated with Mueller’s thugs fixating on Manafort’s spending habits, he interrupted the prosecutor and sternly said, “Let’s move on. Enough is enough. They can add.” Via WaPo: Ronald Wall tallied for the jury the total amount that Paul Manafort spent on House of Bijan items, including a Limited Edition black titanium Royal Way watch — with crystal, an invoice noted. Between 2010 and 2012, Wall told the jury that Manafort spent more than $334,000 at the luxury menswear store. He then walked the jury through documents showing that the invoices were paid from Cyprus-based bank accounts held by Global Highway Limited, Yiakora Ventures Limited and Lucicle Consultants. House of Bijan in Beverly Hills bills itself as “the world’s most expensive store.” Ronald Wall, its chief financial officer and prosecutors’ fourth witness Wednesday, took the stand to testify that Paul Manafort was a top client of the luxury clothier. “I knew he was a very good customer,” said Wall. Prosecutors did not focus simply on the purchases themselves, but rather, how Manafort paid for them — via wire transfers. Like the previous witness, Wall said many customers paid with credit cards, checks and sometimes cash, but it was unusual for a client to pay with wire transfers, as Manafort regularly did at House of Bijan. Wall testified that House of Bijan was an exclusive retailer: its clothing is only sold in its store and the items are made in Italy by less than two dozen companies the retailer has built a relationship. Judge Ellis grew impatient with Mueller’s prosecutors for shaming Manafort for buying expensive suits via wire transfer and said, “You have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he signed tax documents to show he knowingly didn’t represent his true income.” Manafort spent nearly $104,000 in 2010, and more than $444,000 in 2013. Added up, the figures show Manafort spent more than $929,000 on luxury menswear during the five-year period, paid for from foreign bank accounts. Judge T.S. Ellis III continued to show impatience with questions from prosecutors that he believed were intended merely to display Manafort’s lavish lifestyle. For instance, he allowed Katzman to describe Manafort’s annual spending but not to add up the total for jurors. “Let’s move on. Enough is enough,” Ellis said sternly. “They can add.” Katzman testified that Manafort’s payments came from accounts under the name Yiakora Ventures Limited and Global Highway Limited, both Cyrpus-based accounts prosecutors will argue were controlled by Manafort. Judge Ellis also denied Mueller’s prosecutor Asonye’s request to show the jury photos of Manafort’s expensive suits. That’s totally irrelevant, Judge Ellis said, once again scolding Mueller’s thug. In another huge blow to Mueller’s team, Judge Ellis ruled that prosecutors cannot enter an invoice for proposed home renovations, WaPo reported. “All this document shows is that Mr. Manafort had a lavish lifestyle, he had a nice home with a pool and a gazebo — it’s not relevant,” Judge Ellis said. Judge Ellis knows Mueller and his hack lawyers are trying to ‘get Trump’ by squeezing Manafort; so far he’s not impressed with the prosecutors’ approach on day two of the Manafort trial. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...xpensive-suits-lets-move-on-enough-is-enough/
Not sure if anyone caught this a few weeks ago. I only saw it because of the video I linked above. Basically the House is trying to repeal the Johnson amendment barring churches from open speech on political candidates. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/19/house-irs-churches-candidates-politics-698319 House votes to prevent IRS from punishing churches engaging in politics By BRIAN FALER and AARON LORENZO 07/19/2018 12:41 PM EDT Updated 07/19/2018 03:40 PM EDT The House voted Thursday to make it harder for the government to punish churches that get involved in politics. In a 217-199 vote, lawmakers approved legislation barring the IRS from revoking the tax-exempt status of churches that back political candidates, unless it is specifically approved by the commissioner of the agency. The provision, buried in a budget measure setting IRS funding for the upcoming year, amounts to a backdoor way around the so-called Johnson amendment, a half-century-old prohibition on nonprofits getting involved in political campaign activities. Nonprofits denounced the measure, and noted it came only days after the Treasury Department announced it was dropping requirements that most charitable organizations disclose their big donors to the IRS. "It's now impossible for Congress and the White House to deny their objective: to politicize the trusted charitable nonprofit community by authorizing unlimited, unfettered and untraceable political money to flow through the nonprofit sector to benefit partisan special interests," said Tim Delaney, head of the National Council of Nonprofits. "Charitable nonprofits are not in the business of partisan politics and are not here to be used to hide or launder political money," Delaney said. The move came as Senate Democrats forced a temporary postponement of a Finance Committee confirmation vote on President Donald Trump's pick to run the IRS, in protest of the Treasury decision to ease the donor-disclosure requirements. Democrats say that will abet the rise of so-called dark money political campaign donations, including from foreign contributors. Later in the day, the panel approved Charles Rettig’s nomination to head the IRS on a party-line 14-13 vote. Trump has promised to “totally destroy” the Johnson amendment, named after then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson, who pushed it through Congress in 1954. Republicans tried unsuccessfully last year to repeal the provision as part of their tax-code rewrite. Targeting the prohibition through the budgetary process is sure to be controversial in the Senate. Republicans there did not include the proviso in their draft of the IRS' budget, and Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the tax committee, pledged Thursday to “use every tool at my disposal to prevent that from happening.” House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady argued that the ban “ought to be fully and permanently repealed.” "We want our faith leaders to be able to exercise their free speech" without "having to look over their shoulder about what Washington might be intimidating them about," he told reporters. Among those who’ve lobbied lawmakers on the issue are the Christian Coalition of America, Family Research Council and National Religious Broadcasters, disclosure forms show. Brady also defended the relaxed disclosure requirements. “That information was never needed by the IRS to do their job — unfortunately, it had opened up avenues for abuse where the IRS could target Americans based on their political beliefs,” he said. Under the IRS’ previous rule, nonprofits had to report the names of people giving $5,000 or more. The new guidelines still require the groups to keep that information internally, and provide it to the agency in case of audit. The House bill would grant the tax collector an additional $186 million next year, increasing its budget to $11.6 billion. That includes another $77 million to help the agency implement the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, H.R. 1 (115), the latest installation of money Congress has provided to execute Republicans’ tax overhaul. The bill was wrapped into a broader funding measure setting the budgets for the Department of Interior, EPA and other programs for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.
ICE agents accuse Oregon mayor of abetting 'Abolish ICE' protesters By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News | July 31, 2018 | http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...on-mayor-abetting-abolish-ice-protesters.html Portland, Ore. Mayor Ted Wheeler was blasted by ICE agents. (Facebook/AP) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Monday accused an Oregon mayor of violating the Constitution after emboldening “Abolish ICE” protesters by ordering the police to stand down and openly expressing support for their cause. The accusations were outlined in a cease-and-desist letter sent to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, saying he actively encouraged the protesters and their cause, while making sure Portland’s police wouldn’t crack down on them, thus creating “a zone of terror and lawlessness,” the Washington Times reported. “When the mayor gave the order that police would not support ICE employees trapped in the facility, he turned the lives of our employees over to an angry mob,” Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council, the organization that sent the cease-and-desist letter, told the newspaper. [emphasis added] The letter demands Wheeler to make an apology and ensure the city’s police will protect all citizens in need, including those working for a federal agency. A letter advises that the city could be sued if the mayor’s response isn’t adequate. “The mayor stated publicly that he supported the protests, which were supposed to be about protecting immigrant families. But what about the moms and dads that we had working in that building? What about their kids?” Crane continued. “These are questions that we’ll be expecting the mayor and city of Portland to be answering in the days to come.” PORTLAND ICE FACILITY PROTEST CAMP BROKEN UP BY FEDS AS CROWDS SHOUT ‘NOT RACIST POLICE!’ Portland is among the main centers of the nationwide movement to abolish the federal immigration authority, an idea that is increasingly being embraced by top mainstream Democrats in Congress, including U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. The city mayor’s support for the movement led to the occupation of a building being used by ICE, harassment of some ICE employees, and the creation of a camp on a city’s land. “To all demonstrators: I urge you to keep up this effort,” Wheeler said in a press conference last week, according to The Oregonian, though advising protesters to vacate the ICE field office and the camp before the police disbands them. He also said that the encampment, which has been branded as a biohazard by authorities, “deters from the main message” of getting rid of the immigration agency. PORTLAND, ORE. TO CLEAN UP ‘DISGUSTING’ OCCUPY ICE CAMP, CALLING IT BIOHAZARD Piles of debris awaited cleanup at an "Occupy ICE" camp in Portland, Ore., after police cleared out protesters earlier this week. (KPTV-TV/FOX 12) ICE officers alleged that some agency employees were denied assistance from the police to deal with protesters, including a disabled Marine veteran who was allegedly confronted by an activist as he was picking up his daughter from a camp. According to the Times, the veteran was interning at the ICE office on the first day of the demonstrations against the agency. After the demonstrators surrounded the ICE field office, he managed to escape but his car was scratched and tires slashed. He was later allegedly followed by the activists, yet his calls for help were reportedly ignored by the police, who told him that they are staying out of the situation. “When it comes to basic police protection that should transcend politics,” another ICE employee said about the veteran’s experience, blaming the city’s mayor. “It comes down to life and death. He was irresponsible.” [emphasis added] The President of the National ICE Council urged the Trump administration to do more to defend the federal immigration agency. “For now, a handful of ICE officers and staff are taking this mayor and city on all by ourselves,” he told the Times. “We’ll fight alone for the rule of law and safety of our employees nationwide if that’s what it takes, but someone on our side would be a welcome change moving forward.”
I agree. He is operating in the power of God whether he fully knows it or not. The fact that he has prayer teams come to the WH tells me he knows it. He may know better than any of us the source of the depravity and cunning of the DS.
This is too closely related to the movement against President Trump to be posted on any other thread imo, George Soros’s Media Network Worked To Help Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Win Primary 07/31/2018 | Kyle Perisic | Contributor http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/30/soros-uygur-ocasio-cortez/ New details have emerged revealing that George Soros helped prop-up Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s political career in an attempt to put 400 Bernie Sanders-like politicians in Congress. A former organizer for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, Ocasio-Cortez’s under-dog win in the Democratic primary was undoubtedly helped by online actors. The New York Times writes that she was able to defeat her opponent, who greatly outspent her, due to her online presence. In an interview with progressive digital media outlet “The Young Turks,” a member of a Soros-funded network of far-left publications called The Media Consortium, Ocasio-Cortez also admits that their coverage helped her win. Members linked to Soros-funded digital media asked Ocasio-Cortez, a former organizer for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, to run for office — guaranteeing favorable coverage by a media network that reaches almost 300 million people monthly. One member of the Soros-funded media, Cenk Uygur, also founded one of the two political groups responsible for asking Ocasio-Cortez to run, Justice Democrats* — whose goal is to get Sanders-like politicians elected to Congress. Uygur, a former Armenian genocide denier, was eventually forced out of the organization after old articles revealed some of his previous sexist comments, often referring to women in a derogatory way. Incumbent Joseph Crowley — whose footprint in the Democratic establishment led to speculation that he would succeed Nancy Pelosi as Democratic leader of the House — greatly outspent Ocasio-Cortez. However, her strong online presence — thanks to the coverage of the Soros-linked digital media — she was able to gain traction and defeat Crowley in the primary June 26. She is expected to win New York’s 14th congressional district handedly, given the district’s Democratic history. After Ocasio-Cortez’s website, Ocasio2018.com, was first registered May 3, 2017, it redirected to Ocasio-Cortez’s now-deleted page on BrandNewCongress.Org, according to an Internet archive captured June 29, 2017. Brand New Congress is another organization, just like Justice Democrats, that aims to get socialists** elected to Congress in the 2018 mid-terms. It has close ties to Justice Democrats. In a June 27 interview with Uygur on his YouTube channel “The Young Turks,” Ocasio-Cortez thanked Uygur and other media platforms for covering her before the primaries, which she says “in no small part” helped her win. “I wouldn’t be running if it wasn’t for the support of Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress,” Ocasio-Cortez told Uygur. “In fact it was, it was JD (Justice Democrats) and it was Brand New Congress that asked me to run in the first place.” The Young Turks is a member of The Media Consortium — a network of far left media publications which includes Mother Jones, Democracy Now!, and dozens of other outlets, funded by Soros. The Media Consortium is a Soros a media empire that, according to Media Research Center (MRC), reaches nearly 300 million people a month. (RELATED: Geore Soros Says Obama Disappointed Him In Rare Interview) “Soros funds nearly every major left-wing media source in the United States,” MRC stated. “Forty-five of those are financed through his support of the Media Consortium. That organization ‘is a network of the country’s leading, progressive, independent media outlets.’ The list is predictable – everything from Alternet to the Young Turks.” The MRC report goes on to detail the progressive echo chamber Soros intentionally created with the Media Consortium with the intention of shaping public opinion. *https://www.justicedemocrats.com/ **https://brandnewcongress.org/candidates/ **** On another subject, Dinesh D'Souza's new film will be released in the USA tomorrow - Friday, August 3rd. I know very little about this man other than President Trump recently pardoned him and the little that I read about him on Wikipedia and have seen on the news lately. I have not seen any of his other films or read any of his books but I am interested in this new movie and I thought I would share the following here, Overview Not since 1860 have the Democrats so fanatically refused to accept the result of a free election. That year, their target was Lincoln. They smeared him. They went to war to defeat him. In the end, they assassinated him. Now the target of the Democrats is President Trump and his supporters. The Left calls them racists, white supremacists and fascists. These charges are used to justify driving Trump from office and discrediting the right "by any means necessary." But which is the party of the slave plantation? Which is the party that invented white supremacy? Which is the party that praised fascist dictators and shaped their genocidal policies and was in turn praised by them? Moreover, which is the party of racism today? Is fascism now institutionally embodied on the right or on the left? Through stunning historical recreations and a searching examination of fascism and white supremacy, Death of a Nation cuts through progressive big lies to expose hidden history and explosive truths. Lincoln united his party and saved America from the Democrats for the first time. Can Trump—and we—come together and save America for the second time? Share Inspired by the turbulent events of post-2016 presidential election America, Dinesh D'Souza's Death of a Nation reveals an eerie similarity between the situations faced by President Trump now and the situations faced by President Lincoln in 1860. The film demonstrates how Trump can use the example of Lincoln to shut down the Democratic plantation once and for all. ... Abraham Lincoln was sworn in when his country was on the brink of changing forever. Lincoln—much like Trump today—faced an impossible task: how does one man begin to unite a nation torn apart? America is once again at a crossroads. Death of a Nation offers a powerful plan to preserve the same nation that Lincoln saved from a catastrophic fate. Can we come together and help Trump save America for the second time? ... https://www.deathofanationmovie.com/
Strong editorial about just what we're up against at this moment in time: GET READY AND PRAY TO GOD — The Time Is Now — The Imposters Are Preparing The Final Act in Their Coup d’état Guest post by Joe Hoft To all TGP readers and all American patriots we are informing you to prepare yourselves. This country is at a precipice. America is either going to be overrun by a power hungry Deep State or it will survive one of the biggest attacks to its existence since the Civil War. We must all be vigilant and prepared. The acts of the Deep State are as appalling as they are criminal. An unelected and elected power hungry minority is attempting a coup d’état of the Trump administration. Americans voted for Donald J. Trump for President in 2016 because they were tired of the corruption in Washington D.C. as much as Americans were fearful of losing the country that they loved. Americans were in fear the country that we knew was morphing into something entirely unrecognizable and demented. Liberals, Democrats, elites, globalists and the Deep State thought Donald Trump was a “clown” as they plotted to hand over the country to Obama’s choice – Hillary Clinton. unconstitutional investigation, there is nothing keeping them from doing more damage to the country. AG Sessions turned out to be the modern day Benedict Arnold. Rosenstein too is a joke if not for the seriousness of the situation. They’ll do anything. They’ve proven this already and the liberal media will oblige them in promoting their lies. President Trump has few options. He can’t fire Rosenstein or Mueller, who should be under investigation themselves, because of the political damage that the MSM will lay on him if he does. He can’t currently bring his case to court, because then his Supreme Court nominee will never be approved. He can rely on a few good men in Congress to assist in highlighting the criminal Deep State. But their efforts may be too slow and ineffective before the election. If the Democrats win the House they will impeach and stop all investigations into their many criminal and unconstitutional acts. Ultimately the American people will solve the issue of the Deep State. Perhaps no time since the Civil War has the country reached this pivotal point. The Founders predicted a time like this when they created the 2nd Amendment. Prepare yourselves and PRAY. Ask for another miracle to keep America the shining beacon on a hill.
Judge Ellis Loses Patience with Mueller Prosecutors and Ends Court Early Over Screw-Up Paul Manafort‘s third day on trial over charges of bank fraud and tax evasion was cut a bit short on Thursday after government attorneys made the same mistake twice in a row. The last witness called to the stand was J. Philip Ayliff, a certified public accountant (CPA) at Paul Manafort’s long-serving tax-preparation agency, Kositzka, Wicks and Co. (KWC), of Richmond, Virginia. As time inched along during the last witness’s testimony, nothing of particular interest seemed to be occurring at all. Ayliff was mostly providing foundational testimony regarding the basic functions of a tax-preparation company. Prosecutors then moved on to specifics and attempted to “publish” one of Manafort’s e-file forms. Judge T.S. Ellis III‘s weariness all but amazed the courtroom as he denied the request–complete with an actual and pronounced finger-wag–before shouting: No! You move it along! (It probably hadn’t helped matters that court had just minutes ago returned from a lengthy recess due to the prosecution calling Ayliff out of the witness order provided to both the court and the defense. But as Judge Ellis noted yesterday, he has “a long memory.”) Composing themselves again, the prosecution moved slowly forward before asking Ayliff to define the term “financial interest.” Ayliff began to answer the question but was immediately cut off by Ellis who noted that Ayliff was not a noticed expert. The defense then belatedly objected, prompting a quick and sarcastic dressing-down from the judge–but it was again the prosecution’s turn for scorn. Static filled the courtroom as the longest bench conference of the day ensued. Upon returning to Ayliff’s testimony, the jury learned that the issue had been deferred until Friday–if ever. Then, Assistant U.S. Attorney Uzo Asonye asked about another term of art contained on federal tax forms. Judge Ellis, who was already standing by this point, advised Ayliff to wait and announced the court would recess early. After the jury left, Ellis took a few minutes to tell the press and public all about the bench conference. As it turns out, not only was Ayliff a non-noticed witness being asked to give the equivalent of expert testimony, but the prosecution and defense had already agreed on what the term “financial interest” meant. Moreover, this agreement was provided on a proposed–and approved–jury instruction. That is, not only was Ayliff not an expert and not a noticed expert as necessitated by the Federal Rules of Evidence–but his testimony had the potential to derail an already-agreed-upon definition of the term(s) in question. This, Ellis said, could have “confused or clouded” things for the jury. https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/jud...ors-and-ends-court-early-over-major-screw-up/ =============================================================================================== ....... When prosecutors addressed Manafort's relationship with Ukrainian "oligarchs," he told them to knock it off. Prosecutors are inferring that Manafort associates himself with "despicable people and therefore he's despicable," he said. "That's not the American way." Descriptions of Manafort's $15,000 ostrich-leather jacket, the $6 million in cash he put toward real estate and his $900,000 in purchases at a New York boutique also left the judge unimpressed. He may not like fancy-pants lawyers, but fancy pants in America are not against the law. "The government doesn't want to prosecute somebody because they wear nice clothes, do they?" Ellis asked. "Let's move on." https://www.usnews.com/news/politic...n-manafort-trial-has-a-sharp-wit-sharp-tongue
