Matt Whitaker's History Of Time-Travel, Toilets & Bigfoot

[Lakhota]

Acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker is facing scrutiny over his involvement in alleged scams at a patent company, including claims of time travel, proof of Bigfoot, and a "masculine toilet" invention.

Acting AG Matt Whitaker under fire for alleged Bigfoot, toilet, time travel scams

Hilarious and true. Unbelievable that this nut is the acting Attorney General. What do you think?

 

[Doc1]

That you need a life

 

[EasyPeasy]

Hilarious and true. Unbelievable that this nut is the acting Attorney General. What do you think?

It's Stephen Colbert... Jesus.

 

[Lakhota]

Hilarious and true. Unbelievable that this nut is the acting Attorney General. What do you think?

It's Stephen Colbert... Jesus.

What isn't true about it? It's being discussed on national news today.

 

[g5000]

Acting AG Matt Whitaker under fire for alleged Bigfoot, toilet, time travel scams

Acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker is facing scrutiny over his involvement in alleged scams at a patent company, including claims of time travel, proof of Bigfoot, and a "masculine toilet" invention.

 

[Lakhota]

The OP is both factual and political.

 

[g5000]

Sounds like Matt Whitaker is a perfect candidate to work at Trump's fake university defrauding old people.

 

[g5000]

For example, a promotional video from the company claimed "DNA evidence collected in 2013 proves that Bigfoot does exist" to help sell Sasquatch dolls and a celebrity event called "You Have Been Squatched!"

World Patent Marketing also said "time travel" could be "possible, perhaps within the next decade" to raise money for a "theoretical time travel commodity tied directly to price of Bitcoin." Time Travel X was branded as "an investment vehicle" that could help users "relive moments from your past" or "visit your future."

Acting AG Matt Whitaker under fire for alleged Bigfoot, toilet, time travel scams

 

[g5000]

Like Trump's fake university, Whitaker's fraudulent company was forced to shut down. Whitaker's company also had to pay a hefty fine to the FTC.


And this is the guy Trump named as our top law enforcement officer.


The Swamp just gets bigger and bigger every day!

 

[Valerie]

how is it possible that we can have an AG who never had to be vetted thru a congressional confirmation process??

 

[Valerie]

The problem with Whitaker is that, as Sessions’ chief of staff, he wasn’t Senate-confirmed. (He was confirmed by the Senate to be a federal prosecutor in Iowa, but that was 14 years ago.)


“Constitutionally, Matthew Whitaker is a nobody.”


In other words, under this line of legal reasoning, Trump could have appointed the deputy attorney general or the solicitor general to fill the post, because both are Senate-confirmed positions. Or he could have appointed Whitaker to fill a lower vacant position in the Justice Department that isn’t considered to be a “principal officer.”


“For the president to install Mr. Whitaker as our chief law enforcement officer is to betray the entire structure of our charter document,” they write.


In response, a Justice Department spokesman tells TIME, “The VRA was passed in 1998 and Acting Attorney General Whitaker’s appointment was made pursuant to the procedures approved by Congress.”


“The VRA” refers to the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. In this case, Trump has relied on a provision of that act that says the president can choose any senior Justice Department official to serve as acting attorney general as long as that person has served in a high-level position for 90 days. Under this rule, Whitaker qualifies for the temporary position.

It’s an unresolved question about which argument would prevail in court in a situation like this.

Can He Fire Mueller? Trump's Appointment of Acting Attorney General Raises Important Questions

 

[gipper]

how is it possible that we can have an AG who never had to be vetted thru a congressional confirmation process??

I doubt he could be as bad as Eric Holder, but maybe.

 

[g5000]

How typical of the pseudocon moderators to move a topic about the Attorney General to Media.

 

[Valerie]

in a Supreme Court decision last year, Justice Clarence Thomas, arguably the most conservative justice on the court, wrote a concurring opinion that suggests he wouldn’t be inclined to accept the Justice Department’s reading of the VRA in this case.

In a 2017 case, the Supreme Court found on statutory grounds that the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board had been unlawfully appointed to his job without Senate confirmation. Thomas wrote a concurrence arguing that it was also unconstitutional under the Appointments Clause, because he found the role to be a principal position.


“Granting the President unilateral power to fill vacancies in high offices might contribute to more efficient Government,” Thomas wrote. “But the Appointments Clause is not an empty formality. … [The Framers] recognized the serious risk for abuse and corruption posed by permitting one person to fill every office in the Government.”

 

[Valerie]

when asked whether he wants Whitaker to rein in the investigation, the president snapped, “What a stupid question.”

In fact, it’s one of the most critical questions now facing the Justice Department and the country.




Can He Fire Mueller? Trump's Appointment of Acting Attorney General Raises Important Questions

 

[Valerie]

Whitaker can limit the scope of Mueller’s investigation if he chooses to through funding decisions, by not allowing Mueller to pursue certain topics, or by declining requests on whether or not to prosecute someone, among other tactics. He could also fire Mueller, though he is bound by Justice Department regulations...

Whitaker was named to the advisory board of World Patent Marketing in Nov. 2014, the same month the Miami Beach-based firm announced the launch of an extra-deep toilet designed to help "well-endowed men" go to the bathroom without their genitalia making contact with the porcelain or water.

"The average male genitalia is between 5 inches and 6 inches," the invention-marketing company said. "However, this invention is designed for those of us who measure longer than that."

Whitaker appeared in some promotional videos for World Patent Marketing...


The Washington Post reports World Patent Marketing was forced to shut down in May, agreeing to pay a settlement of nearly $26 million to resolve wide-ranging Federal Trade Commission complaints about defrauding investors.

"The defendants promised to promote people's inventions and took thousands of dollars, but provided almost no service in return," acting FTC Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen stated in a news release. "Then they added insult to injury by threatening people who complained."

According to the Post, Whitaker claimed he was unaware of the company's allegedly fraudulent activities, despite remaining on its board until joining the Justice Department last year. Two people familiar with the FTC investigation said Whitaker had been told of the complaints and failed to act or respond.



President Donald Trump appointed Matthew G. Whitaker, 49, as acting attorney general last week after forcing Jeff Sessions to resign as AG.

 

[Doc1]

how is it possible that we can have an AG who never had to be vetted thru a congressional confirmation process??

Interim aptt* dont go through the process unless would become candidate for it permanently

 

[Valerie]

Democrats have already begun calling for Whitaker to recuse himself like Sessions did and leave the investigation in Rosenstein’s hands.

In a letter to Trump, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer wrote that his concerns about Whitaker’s appointment “are heightened by specific expressions of bias against the Special Counsel investigation that Mr. Whitaker made just last year.” New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that it would be “wholly inappropriate for Mr. Whitaker to supervise the Special Counsel investigation given his documented history of opposition to it.”

In May 2017, before he worked for Sessions and before a special counsel was appointed, Whitaker wrote an op-ed in The Hill opposing the idea of appointing a special counsel or independent prosecutor. “Serious, bipartisan congressional investigations into the Russian allegations have been under way for weeks and they have made progress,” Whitaker wrote. “Hollow calls for independent prosecutors are just craven attempts to score cheap political points and serve the public in no measurable way.”

In a CNN op-ed published later that year, Whitaker wrote that, based on reports that Mueller’s team was looking into Trump Organization finances, “Mueller has come up to a red line in the Russia 2016 election-meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing.”

“If he were to continue to investigate the financial relationships without a broadened scope in his appointment, then this would raise serious concerns that the special counsel’s investigation was a mere witch hunt,” Whitaker wrote. “If Mueller is indeed going down this path, Rosenstein should act to ensure the investigation is within its jurisdiction and within the authority of the original directive.”

In August 2017, he tweeted an article was “worth a read” that referred to Mueller’s team as a “lynch mob.” And last year he also told CNN that he could envision Sessions being replaced with an attorney general who “reduces (Mueller’s) budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt.”

In addition, in 2014, Whitaker helped run a campaign for Sam Clovis, who is now a witness in the Mueller investigation.

When asked Friday if he expects Whitaker to be involved in the Russia probe, Trump said, “That’s up to him.”

 

[Valerie]

“If he were to continue to investigate the financial relationships............"


^ THIS is what baby donny is peeing his pants over, because he is GUILTY...

 

[Lakhota]

Rachel Maddow just did a segment on the OP. It's even worse than we thought.