Friday, May 3, 2019

BOMBSHELL: Ukraine Embassy Says DNC Operative Reached Out For Dirt On Trump In 2016, Report Says

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By RYAN SAAVEDRA
A new bombshell report released on Thursday evening alleges that an operative for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reached out during the 2016 presidential election and asked for dirt on Donald Trump.
 
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The Hill reports that Ukrainian Ambassador Valeriy Chaly's office said in written answers to questions that DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa​ sought information on Paul Manafort because Chalupa wanted to force Manafort's business dealings in front Congress:
The Embassy got to know Ms. Chalupa because of her engagement with Ukrainian and other diasporas in Washington D.C., and not in her DNC capacity. We’ve learned about her DNC involvement later. We were surprised to see Alexandra’s interest in Mr. Paul Manafort’s case. It was her own cause. The Embassy representatives unambiguously refused to get involved in any way, as we were convinced that this is a strictly U.S. domestic matter.
All ideas floated by Alexandra were related to approaching a Member of Congress with a purpose to initiate hearings on Paul Manafort or letting an investigative journalist ask President Poroshenko a question about Mr. Manafort during his public talk in Washington, D.C.
"Reached by phone last week, Chalupa said she was too busy to talk," The Hill reported. "She did not respond to email and phone messages seeking subsequent comment."
A 2017 report from Politico noted: "Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office."
 
"They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election," Politico added. "And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found."
Politico's report added that the effort directly impacted the 2016 race as it helped force Manafort's resignation as Chairman of the Trump campaign and advanced "the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia."
 
The Hill further notes that the new statement from the Ukrainian embassy comes after a Ukrainian court ruled that the country’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) "wrongly interfered in the 2016 American election by releasing documents related to Manafort."
A separate report from The Hill in April noted that the Obama White House invited top Ukrainian authorities to Washington to discuss "two politically hot investigations: one that touched Vice President Joe Biden’s family and one that involved a lobbying firm linked closely to then-candidate Trump."
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San Francisco Will Spend More Than $70 Million This Year Just To Clean Up Poop

Makeshift tents house the homeless on a street, November 10, 2017 in Los Angeles, California, home to one of the nation's largest homeless populations.
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By EMILY ZANOTTI
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the city has spent more than $70 million cleaning feces and drug paraphernalia from streets and sidewalks this fiscal year, but it's nowhere near what is needed to make San Francisco's streets safe for pedestrians.
 
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The city says crews are operating constantly, trying to get the "poop problem" that plagues San Francisco's streets under control, but even as the city finds new and innovative ways for residents to report and avoid piles of feces on public sidewalks, the poop problem, they say, keeps growing.
The Daily Wire's Hank Berrien reported recently that a "poop map" of San Francisco's dirty deposits shows a city under siege from feces. The interactive map of the San Francisco area shows all 118,352 incidents of public poop since 2011 and demonstrates the sharp increase in poop-related incidents that San Francisco has suffered over the last eight years.
No neighborhood is spared; although the "Tenderloin" district is the worst for sidewalk feces, posh areas like Nob Hill had their fare share of reports as well.
Now, the Chronicle reports, San Francisco is facing a unique development in the feces problem: homelessness appears to be abating and the tent cities responsible for most of the filth seem to be thinning out, thanks to new city efforts at housing at-risk populations in public buildings. "Tent camps" have shrunk by at least 10%.
 
The change has had some effect on how much drug paraphernalia — especially used and discarded needles — can be found on San Francisco's sidewalks, but it's has had no effect whatsoever on the feces problem. In fact, the Chronicle says, the poop issue has only gotten worse.
"The city’s 311 call center clocked 5,874 calls reporting waste on the streets and sidewalks in the first three months of the year — about 65 calls a day — a 7% increase over the same time period last year," the Chronicle reported.
 
San Francisco's official "Poop Patrol" puts in a lot of work trying to keep the streets and sidewalks feces-free. Seven days a week, crews are on site, cleaning up around tent cities, identifying and neutralizing potential biohazards, and then manually sweeping streets and alleyways. In the Tenderloin alone, crews sweep twice per day manually, sweep once per day with a street sweeper, empty garbage cans three times per day, and staff clean "Pit Stop" public toilet facilities "daily until 8pm."
'The dawn-to-dusk work represents a $32 million increase in street-cleaning spending since fiscal 2013-2014, an increase of over $6 million a year. And the city expects to spend at least $72 million next year," the Chronicle says.
That's not enough. At least one city supervisor says San Francisco needs to spend at least $12 million more on trash cans and cleaning crews before he believes the city will make a dent in the poop problem. But even that's not a guarantee. San Francisco rarely cites people for urinating and defecating on public streets and sidewalks, and the mayor's office is far more focused on lecturing tech companies for raising rents than it is on cracking down on its homeless population.


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