Steampipe wrote on Apr 24^th, 2022 at 10:34am:


You need to try harder, old boy.

In a masterpiece of reporting, Dan Alexander systemically demonstrates how Eric Trump, at the direction of his father, the future president, shifted money that was supposed to go to help kids with cancer to the Trump Organization. Following this story, New York’s attorney general announced an investigation, and Alexander’s work won a Deadline Club award for best business feature.

Donald Trump fined $2m for misusing charity for political ends

Donald Trump has been ordered by a judge to pay $2m in damages for illegally using funds intended for charity to boost his 2016 presidential election campaign.

The US president admitted to personally misusing the money, according to New York’s attorney general.

"The Trump family was disallowed from operating any charity in the State of New York because they stole from a kids cancer charity. A kids cancer charity. A kids cancer charity," said the Oct. 8 Facebook post that’s been shared more than 43,000 times.

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

Steampipe wrote on Apr 24^th, 2022 at 11:00am:


Nothing to do with Facebook.

He admitted to the crime and was ordered to pay two million dollars.

Donald J. Trump Pays Court-Ordered $2 Million For Illegally Using Trump Foundation Funds

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement after Donald J. Trump was forced to pay more than $2 million in court-ordered damages to eight different charities for illegally misusing charitable funds at the Trump Foundation for political purposes:

“Not only has the Trump Foundation shut down for its misconduct, but the president has been forced to pay $2 million for misusing charitable funds for his own political gain. Charities are not a means to an end, which is why these damages speak to the president’s abuse of power and represent a victory for not-for-profits that follow the law. Funds have finally gone where they deserve — to eight credible charities. My office will continue to fight for accountability because no one is above the law — not a businessman, not a candidate for office, and not even the president of the United States.”

This family of lowlife scum stole from charities, and you continue to defend them.

Disgusting.

Mattyfisk wrote on Apr 24^th, 2022 at 3:10pm:


The office is correct, and that someone even admitted to the crime.

Moreover, there are seven other charities he stole the money from.

Hard to understand how someone could support a monster like that.

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 24^th, 2022 at 3:32pm:


Greggory they will not get it, they just refuse.

These are the same people who heard Donald bragging about sexually assaulting women a few weeks before the 2016 election and still voted for him or continued to support him.

Sorry but they are beyond help.

Apr 11

Ever since Jack Maxey revealed that he and his technical team had succeeded in recovering large numbers of deleted files from Hunter Biden’s laptop a chorus of voices have piped up to suggest the claim is bogus. The intent of this criticism is obvious. The individuals behind the claims are very worried about what will be revealed and they want to get a running start on discrediting what could be very damaging information. We assume the words “Russian disinformation” might reappear at any moment.

Still, we thought it might be worthwhile talking to an actual technical expert on the subject and getting his take. Here are the comments of Harry Haury – who has actually seen the hard drive in question. We have quoted them verbatim.

“Let’s talk a little bit about disk drives, data capacity, and recovery of data in a forensic investigation. Many people that have worked with computers, even as technicians, understand little about how they actually work. Hard disk drives store information as individual bits across the drive using what is called a File System, Disk Operating System or is sometimes referred to as part of the Operating System. Since the early days of computing these terms have evolved and can be a bit ambiguous, but the issue has come up about how Jack Maxey and his team might have found a lot more data on Hunter Biden’s laptop than previously found and why the size of these files might appear much larger than the size of the original disk. There are many reasons that this occurs and without an exhaustive discussion I will cover the primary reasons we see this:

1) Header and descriptive information added by the extraction software:
This is a small but noticeable expansion, but almost all forensic recovery tools write out a lot of information about the drive, the files encountered and other various information that might be relevant to examining a drive.

2) Erased or deleted files:
Except for Hillary Clinton or her Tech, most people do not realize that when you erase a troublesome file it does not actually disappear. The File System usually just deletes the reference to it. The original data remains. People expert in hiding inconvenient data not only erase a file but over-right it multiple times with a Wipe Utility like BleachBit to make it impossible to recover any data. With NSA-level tools, it is possible to read down a number of layers into the disk to see what was written and overwritten, so a system has to write and rewrite over deleted data several times. Otherwise, it is possible, often to pull data from a hard drive that no one knows is there. Why is this important? It speaks to the travesty of the FBI and NSA never fully investigating the original laptop and its contents, at least not publicly. But it is completely plausible that the copy of the hard drive Jack Maxey has contains numerous deleted files that could be recovered.

3) Compressed and archived files are smaller than they would be in their native format.
Archived and compressed files can often reduce the file size by as much as 90%. What this means is that after extraction a 50-gigabyte compressed file might take up as much as 500 gigabytes. While not familiar with Maxey’s extraction, the claim that he has a tremendously expanded number of emails and text messages is completely believable if his copy was a bit-by-bit sector-by-sector copy or disk image.

4) Corrupt or fractured file recovery
When doing disk recovery work you often encounter places where the original file information cannot be fully recovered. Pointer table and file entries that have been erased or damaged may overlap. When the extraction and recovery software runs, it will copy and attempt to resurrect each file independently. This can expand file sizes tremendously because large parts of the original files are being copied into multiple attempts to recover damaged or corrupt file structures.

I am an expert in cyber security and forensics and worked on and off for the Intelligence Community, Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, FEMA, Treasury, and others for decades. The current attacks on what Jack Maxey has found regarding the size of the extracted files are irrelevant.

The important issue is that no one took the laptop seriously with the now-famous false defamation of the Hunter Biden laptop by 51 former leaders of the Military and Intelligence Community trying to make sure the Joe Biden was elected President. These people had bad advisors, were ignorant of the issues, or, worse, are potentially corrupt. This matter should have been deeply investigated years ago, and need to be now. If the FBI has the original in their possession, a thorough and professional cyber forensic investigation should be done by the NSA immediately.”

One wishes that the individuals who devote so much time to telling us not to pay any attention to Hunter’s laptop spent half as much time examining it and following up on serious issues it raises. Ultimately, this is not about Hunter, hookers, or cocaine. It is about Joe Biden and the very real possibility that we have a man in the White House who is compromised by hostile powers including Communist China.

https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/hunters-hard-drive-lets-talk-about?r=19iqgx&s...

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 25^th, 2022 at 11:13pm:



Why did you have to bring up that Ukrainian Nazi?

Zelenskyy asked about the Azov Battalion being nazis and committing atrocities. He doesn’t deny it, says “they are what they are”. Describes them as “many”. Says they’re now incorporated in the Ukraine military. Fact check, confirmed, the Ukraine military is infested with nazis.

https://twitter.com/PeterWallaceAU/status/1511499692504653826?cxt=HHwWhIDRncm99v...