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SBF Was Meeting With Senior White House Officials Shortly Before FTX Collapse
Published
4 weeks agoon
Zero Hedge

FTX founder and accused crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried met with senior White House officials on at least four occasions in the months leading up to his firm’s massive implosion, Bloomberg reports.
On Sept. 8, SBF met with senior Biden adviser Steve Ricchetti in a previously unreported encounter, White House officials familiar with the matter said. The meeting was “the latest in a handful of sessions,” according to the report.
Bankman-Fried had at least three others previously disclosed in White House visitor logs. They include one April 22 and another May 12, each with Ricchetti, and one a day later, on May 13, with Bruce Reed, another senior Biden aide, officials confirmed. The final meeting is recorded in logs as two meetings held back-to-back, but was one meeting, officials said. Some of the prior White House meetings included others from FTX. -Bloomberg
What’s more, Bankman-Fried’s brother, Gabriel, held a March meeting of his own and was also at the May 13 meeting – bringing the total number up to five meetings that involved one or bother brothers.
I am sure he called the main line and spoke to an operator to get through.
— Dumb Alpha (@_dumbalpha) December 29, 2022
According to one source, “politics” were not discussed despite SBF being a Democrat megadonor credited as a major factor in President Biden’s 2020 win. Instead, the brothers allegedly talked about general matters related to the ‘crypto industry and exchanges,’ as well as “pandemic prevention related to the foundation, Guarding Against Pandemics, run by Gabe Bankman-Fried,” according to an official.
According to anonymous sources the conversation between two foxes in the henhouse did not involve dinner.
— Bill Kehler (@BillKehler2) December 29, 2022
SBF now faces several criminal charges related to the collapse of FTX. His ties to Washington have come under the microscope since the collapse of his exchange – as Bankman-Fried gave millions of dollars to Democratic politicians – becoming the party’s second-largest individual donor in the 2022 session.
One person familiar with the meetings, speaking on condition they not be identified, said that politics was not discussed at the White House meetings.
While Bankman-Fried, or SBF as he’s known, lived in the Bahamas, he made frequent trips to Washington — testifying before Congress and meeting with key regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commissionand the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as well as with White House officials. -Bloomberg
According to US prosecutors, SBF allegedly conspired with others to use corporate funds and shadow donors for political contributions, and illegally commingled billions of dollars of customers’ funds lent to his trading arm, Alameda Research.
This is fucking disgusting and proves outright corruption. White House met with bankman-fried (SBF) before the FTX collapse. https://t.co/9s8FhKU24M
— Scrubby Trader (@ScrubbyTrader) December 29, 2022
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Harvard Poll: Six In Ten Have Doubts Over Biden’s Mental Fitness
A quarter of Democrats say he’s too old to be President
Published
2 days agoon
27 January, 2023Steve Watson

A new Harvard/ Harris survey has revealed that six in ten Americans have reservations over Joe Biden’s mentally capacity to run again in 2024, with 65 percent agreeing that at 80-years-old, Biden is “too old” to continue as President.
Over a third of that 65 percent are Democrats, with almost a quarter of Democrats also saying they have doubts about Biden’s mental fitness.
The poll found that a whopping 90 percent of Republicans and 73 percent of Independents agree Biden is now showing he is too old and it should preclude him from running again in 2024.

Eighty seven percent of GOP voters say Biden doesn’t have the mental fitness to run again, while 67 percent of independents agree.
The poll also found that 61 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, with a majority, 56 percent, expressing an unfavorable view of Biden.

The survey also notes that just 37 percent approve of how Biden has handled the border crisis, while 62 percent highly disapprove of his handling of the economy.

According to the survey, if an election were held today between Trump and Biden, the former would win by 5 points.

Biden’s mental decline was on display again Thursday, when during an event in Springfield, Virginia, he joked about people thinking he was “stupid” before making yet another embarrassing verbal gaffe, referring to Rep. Don Beyer as “Doug”.
Where's Doug? pic.twitter.com/zbyL4Ct3wy
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 26, 2023
He stammered his way through the appearance:
BIDEN: "You know what percentage of AA… NIH…muh…" pic.twitter.com/mj1K4DLnOM
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 26, 2023
Biden also managed to get lost on stage again:
A very confused Joe Biden: "I guess I gotta step down here" pic.twitter.com/14nrkmDOY8
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 26, 2023
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Video: Rand Paul Warns Overclassification Being Used To Cover Up COVID Lab Leak
“The intelligence community does this so they have more power and we have less power”
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26 January, 2023Steve Watson

Senator Rand Paul warned Wednesday that over classification of information is being used to avoid oversight and institute cover ups, such as regarding the origins of COVID.
Appearing on Newsmax TV’s “Eric Bolling The Balance,” Paul explained “I think there’s an overclassification problem here. Everything’s classified. And in all likelihood, what we’ll find is this is not some sort of organized scheme to have the secrets to the nuclear weapon in [Biden’s] Corvette. I think it’s more likely than not that we’ve classified so many documents that it’s hard to find documents that are not classified.”
He continued, “The one problem with classifying so much is that there is, right now, to my knowledge, pretty good information out there in the intelligence community about the virus originating from the lab in China, and yet they classify it to try to prohibit people [like] me giving you the information that we already know that this came from a lab. And so this is a real problem.”
“We need to allow less classification so the American people can understand more about what’s going on with their government,” Paul urged.
He added, “I go to classified hearings, and I haven’t actually been to a classified hearing where I actually thought I heard a secret, to tell you the truth.”
Paul further noted that when President Trump was found to have some documents, “the left-wing media acted as if oh, these are the Manhattan Project. This is the secrets to the nuclear weapon… Really, most of the stuff we see is not really that secret. But it’s all stamped that way.”
“The intelligence community does this so they have more power and we have less power,” the Senator continued, adding “I have long argued that Congress needs to know more and the American people need to know more about what the CIA does, what the FBI does. Because we can’t oversee them, we can’t have oversight and reform if we don’t know what they’re doing.”
“They avoid oversight by classifying things, and often there’s a policy decision like, for example, with COVID, we need to know if COVID came from a lab so we can prevent this from happening again. Some of this is being stymied by the intelligence agencies classifying things that need to be declassified,” Paul further asserted.
Paul has previously labeled the subterfuge over the coronavirus lab leak as “the biggest coverup in the history of science,” and has vowed to continue to expose the origins of the pandemic and uncover a paper trail that he is positive will lead back to the Wuhan lab research funded by Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health.
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Non-Violent J6 Protester Who Put Feet Up On Pelosi’s Desk Found Guilty On All Charges, Faces Life in Prison
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24 January, 2023Chris Menahan | Information Liberation

Richard “Bigo” Barnett, 62, is facing a potential life sentence for peacefully entering the Capitol on January 6th and putting his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk.
Barnett was wildly overcharged by vindictive prosecutors and denied a change of venue out of Washington, DC.
Our team fought like hell. We were relentless, creative, & left no stone unturned in Mr. Barnett's defense.
— Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC) January 23, 2023
We have multiple appellate issues that we preserved & will litigate.@BigoBarnett could spend the rest of his life in prison—for a trespass. Pray for him & his family. pic.twitter.com/jpLcn5YbEI
We filed motions asking for a change of venue months ago and were denied even though 96% of the DC Jury Pool voted for Joe Biden.
— Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC) January 23, 2023
We cited the purposeful poisoning of the jury pool by the @January6thCmte and @POTUS's multiple public condemnations of MAGA Republicans as well.
Outside courthouse Bigo Barnett says he didn’t get a fair trial .. claiming he didn’t get a jury of his “peers”… I asked what that meant. And his attorney Joe McBride responded for Barnett pic.twitter.com/2b4NSeUkt9
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) January 23, 2023
Prosecutors seized on the fact his cane doubled as a stun gun and could have been used as a weapon even thought it wasn’t.
.@BigoBarnett was convicted today after a two-week trial in DC, Dist. Court.
— Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC) January 23, 2023
An issue at trial was the fact that he legally purchased a self-defense device before traveling to DC in anticipation of a conflict with Antifa.
Antifa is an irrelevant fairytale according to the Gov. https://t.co/GlnTWXVxJG
From The Washington Post, “Man photographed in Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 convicted of 8 counts”:
An Arkansas man who entered the U.S. Capitol with rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, and was photographed lounging at a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite was convicted Monday of eight federal crimes related to the incursion.
Richard “Bigo” Barnett, now 62, who left a crude written message for Pelosi before departing the office suite with a purloined envelope bearing the California Democrat’s digital signature, sat impassively as a jury in U.S. District Court in Washington delivered its decisions.
After nine days of testimony and legal arguments in the trial, the panel began deliberating Monday morning and reached guilty verdicts on all eight counts against Barnett, including four felonies, in less than two hours.
The most serious charge he faced, obstructing an official government proceeding, carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. But advisory sentencing guidelines used by the court are likely to recommend a much shorter term in his case.
[…] Barnett, an ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump, was carrying a walking stick equipped with a high-voltage stun device when he entered the Capitol. […]
Besides obstructing an official proceeding, Barnett was convicted of two felonies related to carrying a dangerous weapon in the Capitol and a felony charge of civil disorder. The four misdemeanors he was convicted of included theft of government property, meaning the envelope.
DC is currently working to lower penalties for carjackers, robbers and armed felons in the name of fighting “systemic racism” but Bigo and other J6 protesters are getting the book thrown at them.
Carjacking thugs need “restorative justice” but J6 protesters must face retribution.
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