Obama Tries to Shore Up Black Vote as Hillary's Poll Lead Collapses

ELECTION DAY MINUS 4. What you need to know now about the corrupt Hillary campaign team and their Obama administration cronies. • • • PODESTA : "DUMP ALL THOSE EMAILS." Zero Hedge reported on Tuesday that in the 25th Wikileaks release of hacked Podesta emails, one of the "notable highlights" is a March 2, 2015 chain between John Podesta and Clinton aide, lawyer Cheryl Mills, in which Podesta, the Clinton Campaign Chair, says : "On another matter....and not to sound like Lanny, but we are going to have to dump all those emails." This email may actually indicate intent because it was sent at the same time the New York Times published its story, "Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules" -- which for the first time revealed the existence of Hillary's email server -- just days before Hillary's press conference addressing what was, at the time, the stunning revelation that she had a personal email account, and server, in her home. The proposed "dumping" advice by Podesta on March 2 occurred two days before the House Select Committee on Benghazi sent Hillary Clinton a document retention subpoena on March 4, 2015. Some suggest that the NYT story may have served to tip off the Clinton campaign about the upcoming subpoena. Mills' response to Podesta : "Think you just got your new nick name." Zero Hedge says the "Lanny" referred to is likely Lanny Davis, special counsel to President Bill Clinton, and spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues. It is unclear -- for now -- which emails Podesta is referring to in the thread, but Podesta adds : "better to do so sooner than later." • Dare we hope that a subsequent response, yet to be leaked by Wikileaks, will provide more detail on this Podesta bombshell -- because if the email chain is shown to disclose intent to mislead, it will destroy the entire cover-up explanation by Clinton that she merely deleted "personal" emails and will reveal a "plan" to hinder the State Department and FBI "investigation." • Finally, in a separate email sent out in the first week of March 2015, by Clinton campaign communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, there is yet another confirmation that the President actively misled the public when he said he didn't know Hillary was using a private email address. Palmieri wrote : "Suggest Philippe talk to Josh or Eric. They know POTUS and HRC emailed. Josh [Josh Earnest, White House press secretary] has been asked about that. Standard practice is not to confirm anything about his email, so his answer to press was that he would not comment/confirm. I recollect that Josh was also asked if POTUS ever noticed her personal email account and he said something like POTUS likely had better things to do than focus on his Cabinet's email addresses." • And, may we also dare to hope that while the DOJ/FBI is taking a second look into Huma Abedin's emails, it can also take a second look at some of these Podesta email chains, especially the ones involving POTUS -- President Obama. • • • ATTORNEY GENERAL BECOMES TARGET IN LAWSUIT OVER HER PHOENIX MEETING WITH BILL. The American Center for Law and Justice sued the Justice Department on Wednesday to obtain more information about Attorney General Loretta Lynch's June meeting with former President Bill Clinton on the tarmac at an Arizona airport days before her agency dropped its investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email use. Jay Sekulow, ACLJ chief counsel said when announcing the lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act : "This Administration has gone out of its way to hide information from the American public -- information that is extremely troubling. The stakes are high. The American people deserve a Justice Department with integrity." Lynch and Bill Clinton met June 27 aboard Lynch's private jet at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Clinton delayed the departure of his flight in order to meet with Lynch. Shortly afterward, on July 7, Lynch accepted the July 5 findings of FBI Director James Comey, in which he said Clinton and her aides were "extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” but he was not recommending charges in the case. Lynch's acceptance of Comey's findings effectively closed the investigation. The Attorney General had insisted her meeting with Bill Clinton was social, but Republicans have long charged the session led to Lynch's decision to drop the probe. Sekulow said : "She has no business having any involvement in an FBI investigation of this magnitude." In its FOIA lawsuit, the ACLJ is seeking all messages Lynch or her subordinates might have reviewed mentioning the tarmac meeting, names of Justice Department workers who might have discussed the meeting -- as well as documents detailing conversations about news organizations regarding the fallout. • Are we beginning to see the truth of that old adage that the wheels of justice grind slowly but exceedingly fine??? • • • HUMA ABEDIN REAPPEARS ON HILLARY'S CAMPAIGN TRAIL. After 'lying low' for almost a week after the Comey letter to Congress about her newly discovered Hillary-related emails on the laptop of her husband, disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin hosted a fashion fundraiser for Hillary on Thursday. According to the invitation, first obtained by Independent Journal Review, the event featured Abedin, Vogue magazine Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg. This was the first public appearances for Abedin, who has stayed off the campaign trail after the FBI found her new emails. The fundraiser was hosted at the Georgetown mansion home of Constance Milstein, according to the report. • There is really no shame in the Hillary & Hacks world of money, lies and corruption. • • • CLINTON FOUNDATION SAID TO FACE INDICTMENT. Two sources within the FBI told Fox News on Wednesday said that the investigation of the Clinton Foundation is likely to lead to an indictment. Fox News' Bret Baier said Wednesday the FBI probe into a possible pay-to-play scheme between Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation has been going on for over a year, and that sources familiar with -- perhaps inside -- the investigation being conducted by the White Collar Crime division of the FBI, told him it is a "very high priority." One source further stated that the FBI has collected "a lot of" evidence, adding that "there is an avalanche of new information coming every day." Baier also said the Clinton Foundation probe is more expansive than previously thought, and that many individuals have been interviewed several times throughout the course of the investigation. Baier's sources also said the FBI is "actively and aggressively pursuing this case" and that investigations are likely to continue and are likely to lead to an indictment. • And, Baier reported that according to Fox News' sources, Clinton's private email server was breached by at least five foreign intelligence hackers. This contradicts Hillary's often-repeated statement that there is no evidence that her secret email server was ever breached. Even more worrisome is the fact that FBI Director James Comey told America and Congress in July that he could not say definitively whether her server had been breached. • No wonder Bill Clinton was at first publicly ambivalent about Hillary running for the presidency. If she had just gone home to Chappaqua and spent her ill-gotten millions in private, all of this would likely never have come to light. • • • EVERY DAY, TRUMP'S CHARGE OF A RIGGED SYSTEM IS PROVEN TRUE. At a Miami campaign rally on Wednesday, Trump reminded America again that "political agendas" are infiltrating the Department of Justice. Trump pointed to the WikiLeaks-released email showing a DOJ official with ties to Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta, tipping Podesta off about the investigation into her use of a private email server. Trump pointed to the fact that : "One of the top Department of Justice officials involved in the email investigation, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik, an associate of John Podesta...was feeding information about the investigation into the Clinton campaign." Kadzik wrote in an email to Podesta that it would "be a while before the State posts the emails," Trump said. "Podesta forwarded the emails to Clinton's top staff and said, 'additional chances for mischief.' " Trump finished by saying : "These are the people that want to run our country, folks." • According to the leaked emails, Kadzik wrote an email to Podesta on May 19, 2015 with the subject line "heads up," saying : "there is a HJC [House Judiciary Committee] oversight hearing today where the head of our Civil Division will testify. Likely to get questions on State Department emails." Podesta forwarded the information to several other top campaign aides, including Jennifer Palmieri, Brian Fallon, Cheryl Mills, and Heather Samuelson, among others, and gave them the "additional chances for mischief" warning. • NOW, Kadzik is helping lead the Justice Department's renewed probe on Hillary Clinton's email server. Trump called the spread of such political agendas "unprecedented...one of the saddest things that has happened to our country." • • • RIGGED STATE DEPARTMENT HILLARY CAMPAIGN EVIDENCE. Fox News reported on Thursday that WikiLeaks-released emails show the Clinton campaign coordinated with a State Department official before her use of a private email to conduct government business was revealed. Fox cites emails from campaign chairman John Podesta, showing that the State Department official provided Clinton aides with the agency’s official response to a New York Times reporter in advance of the paper’s March 2015 report that Clinton had used a private email account to conduct business while serving as Secretary of State. In a March 1, 2015 email, State Department press aide Lauren Hickey told Clinton's spokesman Nick Merrill and two other advisors that then-State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki had "just cleared" a reply to the NYT. Hickey provided State's response to the Clinton aides and also appeared to agree to a change requested by the Hillary campaign, saying : "Yes on your point re records - done below." Fox said it is not clear what specific change was requested and made. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday that the Department would not comment on "alleged leaked documents." But Kirby said State's effort to "provide accurate information to the media" about Clinton's tenure at the agency has "at times required communicating with her representatives to ensure accuracy." • And, while the State Department is trying to paint over its corrupt coordination with the Hillary campaign team, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied the often-repeated Hillary campaign claims that the emails being released by WikiLeaks come from Russia. In an interview with Russia Today on Wednesday, Assange said : “The Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything. Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That’s false -- we can say that the Russian government is not the source.” • • • TRUMP URGES SUPPORTERS TO VOTE. At the Miami rally Wednesday, Donald Trump urged supporters to show up at the polls early and vote, even if the lines are "incredible" : "The polls are all saying we are going to win Florida, don't believe it, don't believe it. Get out there and vote. Pretend we are slightly behind. You have to get out. We don't want to blow this. This is the one chance we have. It'll never happen again. It's not going to happen in four years; it's not going to happen. It can't happen again." • • • THE FINAL SENIOR GOP LEADER COMES HOME TO TRUMP. Mitch McConnell must have got Trump's message, because on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader McConnell expressed strong support for Trump, according to the Associated Press. After being introduced at a campaign event in his home state Kentucky as "most powerful Republican in the world," McConnell said : "We need a new President, Donald Trump, to be the most powerful Republican in America. If America votes like Kentucky, we'll be fine." McConnell had endorsed Trump earlier this year. But McConnell has been largely quiet about Trump throughout his campaign, often sidestepping or ignoring questions about Trump from reporters. • Welcome home, Mitch! • • • WATERGATE? TREASON? Donald Trump told his Miami audience on Wednesday : "This is the biggest scandal since Watergate. Now it's been reported that there are FBI inquiries probing virtually all of Hillary Clinton's inner circle and many of the things she's done over the years. It's about time...she wants to blame everyone else for her mounting legal troubles, but she really has no one to blame but herself. Hillary is the one who set up the illegal private email server to shield her criminal activity." Trump warned that a Clinton election would create an "unprecedented and protracted constitutional crisis," asking : "Haven't we just been through a lot with the Clintons? Remember when he was impeached for lying? He can't practice law; he doesn't have the right to practice law. Didn't we just go through this?" • It's true. If Hillary Clinton ends up in the White House, she could face impeachment proceedings. The investigation will continue whether she wins or not," says Texas Republican Michael McCaul , who heads the House Homeland Security Committee, told Fox News : "But assuming she wins and the investigation goes forward and it looks like an indictment is pending, at that point in time, under the Constitution, the House representatives would engage in an impeachment trial. If that happens, the House would 'go to the Senate and impeachment proceedings and removal would take place.'" McCaul said Clinton has been : "running around saying she has been cleared, when that's not a correct statement. There is new evidence reopening the case, and evidence that can be quite damaging. To get a search warrant you have to have probable cause. They had probable cause to get a search warrant on Huma Abedin's laptop." If there are any new emails discovered, and if they show intent to hide information, that could lead to further legal woes, McCaul said : "That would be the smoking gun the FBI would be looking for. I said all along this should have gone before a grand jury to take the politics out of this...for whatever reason, they chose not to do that. There is probable cause to get a search warrant now and go before a grand jury and present this." • McCaul also said Hillary Clinton’s exposing sensitive information to potentially multiple hacks from foreign actors amounts to treason : “This is why you have security protocols -- to protect classified information. She exposed it to our enemies, and now...our adversaries have this very sensitive information that not only jeopardizes her and national security at home, but the men and women serving overseas.” Citing sources familiar with the FBI’s investigations, Fox News reported Wednesday that there is about a “99% accuracy” that at least five foreign intelligence agencies successfully hacked Hillary Clinton’s private email server she set up to use as Secretary of State. McCaul said Mrs. Clinton “absolutely” would be exposed to potential blackmail from such countries if elected President : "The concern I’ve had all along is she has had seven special access programs on these devices. Those are the most classified, sensitive secrets in the federal government -- many of them covert operations. In my opinion, quite frankly, it’s treason.” • • • BLACK AMERICANS ARE NOT VOTING AS EXPECTED. Despite all the Hillary Clinton negative news breaking tumbling around us like Super Bowl confetti, President Obama defended Hillary on Wednesday and said investigations should not allow suggestions or innuendo to influence public opinion. Obama said in a radio interview he did not want to meddle in the process, but : "I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations we don't operate on innuendo and we don't operate on incomplete information and we don't operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made." Obama noted that the FBI already has determined that Clinton had not intentionally transmitted classified information over her private email server but had been "extremely careless." But, Obama added : "When this was investigated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion of the FBI the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was that she had made some mistakes but that there wasn't anything there that was prosecutable." Obama defended Clinton, whose increasingly confident campaign was blindsided by the FBI announcement, as someone who has always put the American people first : "When she makes a mistake, an honest mistake, it ends up being blown up as if it's some crazy thing. I wouldn't be supporting her if I didn't have absolute confidence in her integrity and her interest in making sure that young people have a better future." • "An honest mistake" that social media and the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee have called "treason." Perhaps that is one reason African-Americans are failing to vote at the high levels they did four years ago in several states that could help decide the presidential election. It is a catastrophic situation for Hillary Clinton as she clings to a deteriorating lead over Trump with election day just a few days away. Experts in vote pattern analysis say the reasons for the decline appear to be both political and logistical. In North Carolina, Black turnout is down 16% and white turnout is up 15%. But in Florida, which extended early voting after long lines left some voters waiting for hours in 2012, African-American share of the electorate that has gone to the polls in person so far has decreased, to 15% today from 25% four years ago. In Ohio, voter participation in the heavily Democratic areas near Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo has been down, though the Clinton campaign said it was encouraged by a busy day on Sunday when African-American churches led voter drives across the state. African-Americans in Florida have decreased as a share of the electorate that has gone to the polls in person so far compared with 2012. The disappointing Black turnout so far could foreshadow a larger and more intractable problem for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party as they try to find their place in a post-Obama era. This election could determine if the Obama-era level of participation among Blacks is sustainable. It could also show that the Democratic Party, which has benefited enormously from population shifts that have left the country more diverse, is facing a demographic problem of its own. Some Black voters in North Carolina, like Ronald Brooks, said they simply needed more time to make a decision this year. It was just easier, Brooks said, in 2008 and 2012, when he had voted for Obama. Brooks, 31, a mental health worker, was still weighing his options on Tuesday morning. He said he was worried about Clinton’s trustworthiness, given that she had set up a private email server as Secretary of State. “What were you trying to hide?” he said. His hesitation reflects a generational divide among African-Americans -- older voters have an affection for Hillary and Bill Clinton, and a fear of Trump, that many younger voters do not share. Evidence of the divide is offered by Michael Bitzer, a professor of political science at Catawba College, who says the racial composition of the early-voting electorate in North Carolina so far is off from 2012. White voters make up 72% of those who have cast ballots; black voters are 22%. In 2012, early voters were 67% white and 27% black. Florida, another potential soft spot of Black support despite efforts by the state to make it easier for more people to vote early, added five more days of early voting, plus a sixth on the final Sunday before the election in many of the largest urban areas like Miami. Still, African-Americans are underperforming their participation rates from 2012. Daniel A. Smith, a professor of political science at the University of Florida, compared the early voting so far in minority-heavy Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Broward Counties with that in 2012. He found that of those who have cast ballots this year, 22% were black, 40% were white and 31% were Hispanic. In 2012, the breakdown was 36% black, 35% white and 23% Hispanic. “If the Clinton campaign doesn’t ramp it up,” Professor Smith said, “Florida will be in doubt.” • • • Dear readers, Barack Obama got one thing right in his stump speeches for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina and Florida this week. He said that if Black Americans do not vote for Hillary, his "legacy" will be overturned. That is so right -- no more Obamacare, no more weak 'strategies' in Syria and Iraq, no more open borders inviting criminal and islamic terrorist illegals into the US, no more lies about the Iran deal and his payments to the Ayatollahs, no more destruction of the US military, no more forgetting America's veterans, no more forgetting America's Black citizens. To be rid of the 'Obama Legacy" is just about the best future for America that one can imagine. Vote Trump-Pence to make it happen.