It Takes A Thief (or a Trump; is that redundant?)

New low in grifting…

Mock Paper Scissors

Grifters Gotta Grift

Jar-Jar vanka Time: The big hand is on her ass, the little hand is no where to be seen.

The Business Insider:

“Jared Kushner approved the creation of a campaign shell company that secretly paid the president’s family members and spent almost half of the campaign’s $1.26 billion war chest.

“The operation acted almost like a campaign within a campaign. It paid some of Trump’s top advisors and family members while shielding financial and operational details from public scrutiny.”

But by all means, our failed political press will talk about Hunter Biden.

Related, The NYTimes tells us about what is most definitely a slush fund:

“Donald Trump will exit the White House as a private citizen next month perched atop a pile of campaign cash unheard-of for an outgoing president, and with few legal limits on how he can spend it.

“Deflated by a loss he…

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Nigeria: Boko Haram ′didn′t kidnap′ 344 boys | News | DW | 18.12.2020

Abubakar Shekau, a factional leader of Boko Haram, had claimed earlier this week in a video message that his group carried out the attack because it believes Western education is un-Islamic.

However, experts also said the attack was likely carried out by local gangs, who have staged increasingly deadly assaults in northwest Nigeria this year and could possibly have been collaborating with Boko Haram.

Source: Nigeria: Boko Haram ′didn′t kidnap′ 344 boys | News | DW | 18.12.2020

L.A. COVID-19 spread hits elderly, people of color extra hard – Los Angeles Times

New daily cases have hit levels that are hard to fathom, including one day this week when more than 20,000 new COVID cases were reported in the county. An estimated one in 80 people in L.A. County are now contagious with the virus; that’s far worse than in late September, when scientists calculated that one in 880 county residents were infectious.

Source: L.A. COVID-19 spread hits elderly, people of color extra hard – Los Angeles Times

Biden team expresses concern over ‘abrupt halt’ in cooperation with Pentagon | TheHill – (Trump henchman continues to lie and block transition activities)

“We were concerned to learn this week about an abrupt halt in the already limited cooperation there, and as indicated by DOD earlier today, we expect that decision will be reversed,” Abraham continued.

“Let me be clear: there was no mutually agreed upon holiday break,” Abraham added later. “In fact, we think it’s important that briefings and other engagements continue during this period, as there’s no time to spare.”

Transition team members were notified Thursday about canceled meetings and “immediately and appropriately escalated” the issue, Abraham said.

Earlier Friday, Axios reported that acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller ordered a halt to cooperation with Biden’s transition amid frustration within the Trump administration at Biden’s team.

The Pentagon responded to the report by acknowledging that about 20 meetings with 40 officials were being rescheduled until after Jan. 1, but insisted cooperation was continuing, saying that documents would be given to Biden’s team during the pause.

Source: Biden team expresses concern over ‘abrupt halt’ in cooperation with Pentagon | TheHill

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