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Tony Podesta sent a Cease and Decist letter to “Tucker Carlson Tonight” hours after resigning from his role at the Podesta Group – a D.C. lobbying firm accused by a former executive of pedaling Russian influence along with fellow lobbyist and short-lived Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Tony Podesta threatened "Tucker Carlson Tonight" after resigning. Wanted our reporting shutdown. #Tucker @FoxNews
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 31, 2017
Watch:
Manfort was indicted over the weekend on 12 counts ranging from tax fraud, money laundering and giving false statements between 2006 and 2015, and is currently under house arrest after turning himself over to the FBI Monday morning – fueling speculation as to whether Tony Podesta’s sudden departure from his firm is connected.
Of note, Monday's indictment lists "Company A" and "Company B" as firms involved in the investigation - which NBC reports are the Podesta Group and DC public relations firm Mercury Public Affairs.
Last week Carlson reported that Tony Podesta is a central figure in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Directly after his report, Carlson’s show was contacted by a former long-time executive of the Podesta Group with “direct personal knowledge” of Tony Podesta’s questionable activities, which Carlson divulged the next evening.
While the nature of Podesta’s threat has not been made public, Carlson later tweeted “We’re confident the Mueller probe will reveal a lot more about Tony Podesta’s lobbying practices in the near future.”
To review:
After meeting with the former Podesta Group executive who has been “extensively” interviewed by Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel, Tucker Carlson Tonight relayed several highly troubling aspects of the Tony Podesta’s relationship with business associate and fellow lobbyist, Paul Manafort.
According to the former Podesta Group executive, Manafort and Tony Podesta were running a Russian influence-peddling racket up and down Washington D.C., bringing a “parade” of Russian oligarchs to congress for meetings. Podesta was also “Basically part of the Clinton Foundation,” meeting regularly to discuss the now-infamous Uranium One deal.
Highlights, as previously reported (video below):
- Lobbyist and temporary Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is at the center of the Russia probe – however the scope of the investigation has broadened to include his activities prior to the 2016 election.
- Manafort worked with the Podesta Group since at least 2011 on behalf of Russian interests, and was at the Podesta Group offices “all the time, at least once a month,” peddling Russian influence through a shell group called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU).
- Manafort brought a “parade” of Russian oligarchs to congress for meetings with members and their staffs, however, the Russia’s “central effort” was the Obama Administration.
- In 2013, John Podesta recommended that Tony hire David Adams, Hillary Clinton’s chief adviser at the State Department, giving them a “direct liaison” between the group’s Russian clients and Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
- In late 2013 or early 2014, Tony Podesta and a representative for the Clinton Foundation met to discuss how to help Uranium One – the Russian owned company that controls 20 percent of American Uranium Production – and whose board members gave over $100 million to the Clinton Foundation.
- “Tony Podesta was basically part of the Clinton Foundation.”
- Believing she would win the 2016 election, Russia considered the Podesta Group’s connection to Hillary highly valuable.
- Podesta Group is a nebulous organization with no board oversight and all financial decisions made by Tony Podesta. Carlson’s source said payments and kickbacks could be hard for investigators to trace, describing it as a “highly secret treasure trove.” One employee’s only official job was to manage Tony Podesta’s art collection, which could be used to conceal financial transactions.
Full monologue below:
Former Podesta Group Exec: Paul Manafort was in PG offices "all the time" representing Russian political and business interests. #RussiaGate pic.twitter.com/6dFB1MJRdP
— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) October 25, 2017
"Tony Podesta was basically part of the Clinton Foundation," Podesta Group may be concealing financial transactions through art collection. pic.twitter.com/yyyo57THMJ
— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) October 25, 2017
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Pedosta cannot go down without the entire demoncratic shithouse going down
OT:
US supersoldiers:
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Pizza party!!! Dominoes on pasta night!!
It's not as if Tucker called Tony Podesta and his brother John a pair of Satanic Pedophiles right? No harm done.
ya cant cuck the Tuck
I didn't think Mueller would go for Manafort because it immediately implicated Tony (something I thought the Deep State would want to avoid).
From here on in, casualties from bus suspension testing could be high...especially when he himself (Swamp Defence Squad same as Comey) is so obviously compromised.
Obamas IRS at it again.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/dispute-over-mercer-h...
And more vegas shooting people dead.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/las-vegas-shooting/couple-who-survived...
"Carlson’s source said payments and kickbacks could be hard for investigators to trace, describing it as a “highly secret treasure trove.” One employee’s only official job was to manage Tony Podesta’s art collection, which could be used to conceal financial transactions."
Wait a minute. Why would it be hard to trace payments? Aren't cash transactions over $600 to be reported to the IRS? Aren't W-9's and 1099's supposed to be filled out? Aren't checks to be written out to create a paper trail? You mean he was "giving" them art, to circumvent the law? Isn't that money laundering? Taking money, buying art, and giving it to someone? Isn't that a violation of the IRS gifting law? I am sick of hearing how they can't figure out how to "trace payments and kickbacks". Same with the Clinton Foundation. The IRS shakes down all kinds of small business owners and yet they can't shake down these criminals?????
I'm with you, Scotty. If they wanted to, they could figure it out pretty quick. The question arises as to the "want to" part.
CLEARLY, this stuff is starting to hit a little too close to home for their comfort. Which I think is fantastic especially since they started this fight fully expecting to win and then cover it all up under a Hillary presidency. I love it when shit falls apart for people like this. It happens so rarely.
Tucker can expect to wake up and find a pizza in his bed now that Tony threatened him.
Alleged Manafort was go-between ultimately between Russia and Clintons through the Podesta Group. Running uranium with Manafort laundering the proceeds - includes Awan bros.
"... While media reports describe former “Black, Manafort & Stone” principal Paul Manafort as Trump’s main tie to the investigation, the source said it is Manafort’s role as a liaison between Russia and the Podesta Group that is drawing the scrutiny. ...
...The sources also told Tucker Carlson that Tony Podesta was in constant contact with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In fact, Tony Podesta was so close to Hillary that he was considered a part of the Clinton Foundation. ..."
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/wow-tony-podesta-threatened-tucker-carlson-revealing-central-figure-mueller-probe/
George Webb on the the uranium selling operation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beE9BvAFHMQ
Not to worry, Tony will go to a half-way house for a week, claim to be cured of his deceitful ways and will apologize... The DOJ will pat him on the head and tell him to go about his business... Same as it always was...
..... all the way house
Podesta will be Weinstein's counsellor at retreat on Epstein's Island.
Maybe deep state wants to get rid of Manafort, the Podestas, Clintons and that whole corrupt crowd.
And bring in fresh corruptable salesmen of the same old political shit.
When are the young males at Fox News going to come out and accuse Tucker of sexual harrasment?
I'd love to get a letter like that from somebody PUBLIC and powerful. I could then reply and point out that letters like that are why "What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!" jokes are so relevant and funny. They know, or should damned well know, that Podesta's involvement with politics and Tucker's likely genuine belief based on fact and evidence shields the shit out of him from any defamation suit.
This is a good'ole deep state civil war.
Tucker is obviously a little CFR bitch. I saw the little prep school refugee on some TV once. And who the hell is this "Podesta" person people keep talking about? What the hell has he ever done?
I figure my damn time must be worth something.
There may be more indictments that are sealed. There are gaps in the filing numbers. Could one or more of those be for the Podestas?
@bluez -- your time is worth Nothing
Looks like two minor U.S. political parties, the "Democrats" and the "Republicans", will both collapse soon.
Any idea what comes afterwards? Both being bought up by the Chinese Communist Party, maybe? Could be worse.
B-L-O-W B-A-CK MAY just be starting. This thing COULD rip the skirts off all the slimy influence peddlers throughout the political spectrum IF Mueller is WILLING to follow the evidence without conforming to the pure Deep State anti-Trump agenda. Lobbyists of all political persuasions engage in this crap.
One thing that seems lost in all of this discussion though is that "influence peddling" and "collusion" is NOT illegal, (slimy yes, illegal no) EXCEPT if proper paper work is not filed with the Feds (leads to the "conspiracy" charges). The fact that Russians had contact with Trump and or Clinton camapign officials in and of itself is a LEGAL nothing burger- the "money laundering" and "conspiracy" charges are the legal substance- and the "conspiracy" is a catch-all stretch (usually based on failure to file proper paper work, which is is usually not prosecuted and handled administratively).
This is POLITICS and smear tactics, transparently. Trump's and Clinton's associates are equally smearable. But the Deep State will almost certainly focus all of their smearing efforts on the Trump camp.
AND even the New Yory Slimes correctly observes that these charges against Manafort "do not directly relate to Mr. Trump or the Campaign":
"With the charges against Mr. Manafort, Mr. Mueller has taken a broad view of his mandate. He was tapped to investigate Russian election meddling, whether anyone around Mr. Trump was involved and other crimes that followed from that investigation. The charges against Mr. Manafort do not directly relate to Mr. Trump or the campaign. Mr. Manafort had been under investigation in New York and Virginia until Mr. Mueller was appointed and assumed control."
I do recall the "Podesta" character had something to do with Hillary Rodham. Why, "at this point", should I care? She will go away (some day) and rot like an old pumpkin on a frozen doorstep.
I'm just sick of this insanity.
"CLEARLY, this stuff is starting to hit a little too close to home for their comfort ... ."
Which is, of course, why, all of a sudden, such as the Wall Street Journal is publishing articles on how DJT can shut down the Mueller investigation.
Hmm. What's next? A NYT above the fold article on how it would be justified, legal, ethical and proper for The President to fire special counsels and attorney generals and whomever else he felt like, and how doing so would benefit America's children, women, and minorities?
I don't think this is turning out quite like they all thought it would, but, for the life of me, I can't understand why or what they were thinking.
I am nobody. A Nobody. My little understanding of the world is gleaned largely from articles and commentary here at the hedge. That's it.
And yet, it was very apparent to me, months ago, where this all would lead if carried out to it's logical conclusion. But none of these fucking genius Democrats could see where an investigation of Paul Manafort would lead?
By the way, who did give 70 million dollars to Paul Manafort? And why? Where did the money come from? And finally, much ado is made about his (the bagman, Mr. Manafort's) skim, but what happened to the other 85%?
That's a lot of money.
Frankly, I will be surprised if all this turns out to be aught but more common grifting by the Clintons, or maybe some other well-placed Democrat, but I guess we'll see.
I think I'd enjoy it even more if this ends up being laid at the feet of - oh, I dunno? - Mitch McConnell? - than the Wicked Witch of the West.
The Podestas should be more concerned about their weird and creepy lifestyles, and the distinct possibility that they will become public.
The nasty "art" collection alone is reason enough for a complete examination by a police forensic psychiatrist.
They might have a credibility problem with that Smufty. Tuck has been married 26 years and has 4 kids.
Progressives are on a slippery slope of their own making, faced with a choice of continuing to defend a growing conspiracy or cutting their losses and sacrificing their players most closely tied to this mess....regardless of who they are. Progressives, much like we see with radical Islamists, will not hestitate to sacrifice their own to preserve "the cause".
I try to avoid labeling myself. But really, does Hillary have anything to do with so-called "progressives"? Because she's a fucking Democrat maybe? I have been fighting the horrible 2-party "system" since long before Hillary and fascist Bill.
Get strategic hedge simple score voting.
(And dear Lord, please don't bring up this "George Webb" fictional character. Clearly nobody knows what the hell he is talking about, including him.)
Podesta should be jailed on possession of degenerate art alone.
Tucker is the least of his worries.
I’m sure that Tony’s intentions were completely pure and on the up and up.
Or he'll just come out as a homosexual and all will be forgiven.
"decided to live as a gay man"
/that's OK then...
a pizza and a live boy and a dead girl?
I can't wait to see the Pedostas in jail one way or another.
There is no chance that Mueller is ever going to look into that aspect of the many crimes that have been commited by the Podesta/Clinton cartel.
That's really the problem with letting Mueller be the one to do this investigation. He can tailor it to cover up so many things.
"In late 2013 or early 2014, Tony Podesta and a representative for the Clinton Foundation met to discuss how to help Uranium One – the Russian owned company that controls 20 percent of American Uranium Production – and whose board members gave over $100 million to the Clinton Foundation."
There's your COLLUSION right there. What is their reason for giving the Clinton Foundation $100 million dollars? You mean there was a quid pro quo? You do this for us, and we will give you all this money? FFS, $100 million isn't pocket change. They sure as hell didn't give the Clinton Foundation $100 million because they thought it would go to needy children. What a joke.
Gotta get to CostCo and stock up on popcorn, their biggest size of course.
FYI- Kirkland's popcorn is as good Orville's
You have to look at the Clinton/Guistra Initiative because Canada has very different laws pertaining to charitable organizations.
Up there, the names of donors are not ever disclosed so that entity which admits it simply collects money, could have easily been the route that foreigners used to pay to play.
And keep in mind that the Clinton Foundation was deep into "charity fraud" territory, with only 5~10% ever getting to those needy children. That means the actual public good for which organizations receive "non-profit" status for was costing them less -- far less -- than you or I would pay in taxes on all that money. Sort of a double money laundering, where the sources and reasons for the income are concealed, and taxes on the income are ducked at the same time.
The plot is thickening.
"You can tell you're over the target when you're taking flak."
October 1943, during the second strategic bombing mission over the ball-bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany, the defending Luftwaffe fighters followed the US bombers into their own flak in order to press their attacks against the bombers.
During the pre-mission bombing briefing, when the map was revealed showing the target, someone said out loud "Schweinfurt; that's that goddamned killer town."
There are going to be casualties, and when the target is vitally important the defense becomes fanatial, but that is the nature of war.
You think you've seen and heard a lot of shit already? This thing is only getting warmed up.
The plot is sickening.
Fixed it for ya.
Still waiting to hear the term "quid pro quo" in the lame stream media. I wont be holding my breath...
There's your COLLUSION right there.
Or is it called CONSPIRACY?
Tony's art collection may be involved? Jeez Louise, isn't he the one who collects pedo-erotic art? Lots of kids tied up presenting their asshole for violation and shit like that?
Yep, I recalled correctly...
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=WG74WZzgIMLajwS5h5_oDg&q=tony...
And by having art that most people aren't interested in, it keeps the auction crowd down and makes it easier for the two parties involved to push the overbidding quickly.
I am not holding my breath until I see Bill and Hillary getting the perp walk or the firing squad like Romania's Nicolae Ceau?escu and his wife. And also Jared Soros-Kushner and his wife being banished fromthe White House or Lois Lerner and Soros being arrested. The chosunites always skate.
Team Soros is on a few people's hit list. There is sooooooooo much money there, they could own the sky. November 4th is fast approaching for Purple Movement. Mueller has quite a few indictments to unseal still. None of these people read Dale Carnegie's book I think....
Podestas the Molstas are obviously panic moding now.
If Jimmy Kimmel cries for the Podestas on TV then we know for certian we have the right perps.
excellent point(s). yet i am still pleased with the way this mueller thing is developing. getting tony podesta and paul manafort in the first round is, well, a good thing. manafort appears to have been the close associate of russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a cossack jew (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Deripaska). if we have to get the zionists outed by starting with russia, so be it.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Trump%E2%80%99s+for...