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COINCIDENCE? Months Of Texts Between Anti-Trump FBI Agents Staffed On Collusion Case Lost In 'Technical Glitch'
Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe coincidences just keep piling up.
By BEN SHAPIRO @benshapiro
By BEN SHAPIRO @benshapiro
Back in December, we learned that the Robert Mueller special investigation into supposed Russian election collusion with the Trump campaign had relied on the tender ministrations of FBI agent Peter Strzok. Then we learned that Strzok was involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, had been involved in launching the Trump investigation, and was staffed on it. Then he was fired after text messages emerged between himself and mistress and co-worker Lisa Page, who was also part of the Trump-Russia probe.
Next, we learned that Strozk texted Page on August 15, 2016 regarding Trump: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in [deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe’s] office that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40…”
That message clearly made it sound like the Trump collusion investigation could be a way of stopping Trump’s candidacy.
Now, we’ve learned that Strzok and Page sent each other messages suggesting they knew before the FBI had even reported to then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch about Clinton that Clinton would be exonerated. On July 1, 2016, Lynch announced that she would do whatever then-FBI Director James Comey wanted her to do; that announcement followed a tarmac meeting in Arizona between Lynch and Bill Clinton. Strzok texted Page, “Timing looks like hell.”
Page responded, “It’s a real profile in couragw [sic], since she knows no charges will be brought.”
That sounds an awful lot like the DOJ and the FBI working hand-in-glove to protect Clinton.
And the coincidences don’t stop there. In the most insane coincidence of all, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) announced on Monday that the FBI had somehow failed to deliver months of texts between Strzok and Page— texts beginning December 14, 2016 and ending May 17, 2017, the exact date Mueller was appointed to head the investigation. The DOJ says the texts were lost due to a “technical glitch.” How odd.
This led Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to call again for a second special counsel to investigate the first special counsel investigation:
Rep. Jim Jordan ✔@Jim_JordanFirst the IRS destroyed emails pivotal to our investigation of their political targeting. Now the FBI "failed to preserve" texts between Peter Strzok & Lisa Page following the '16 election.The time for a second special counsel is now.http://ift.tt/2n0GEfI anti-trump-texts/ …
6:04 PM - Jan 21, 2018
FBI ‘Failed To Preserve’ Five Months Of Text Messages Between Anti-Trump FBI Agents Via @dailycaller The FBI "failed to preserve" five months worth of text messages exchanged between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the two FBI employees who made pro-Clinton…
The coincidences here are too significant to be ignored. Jordan’s call for a second special counsel is looking better and better.
Elizabeth Warren’s Native American problem goes beyond politics
Senator Elizabeth Warren says now, as she has from the first days of her public life, that she based her assertions about her heritage on her reasonable trust in what she was told about her ancestry as a child.
By Annie Linskey GLOBE STAFF
WASHINGTON — There’s a ghost haunting Elizabeth Warren as she ramps up for a possible 2020 presidential bid and a reelection campaign in Massachusetts this year: her enduring and undocumented claims of Native American ancestry.
Warren says now, as she has from the first days of her public life, that she based her assertions on family lore, on her reasonable trust in what she was told about her ancestry as a child.
“I know who I am,” she said in a recent interview with the Globe.
Both Mass. senators voted ‘no’ on deal to reopen the government
Neither is a Native American
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey.
Both of Massachusetts’ US senators, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, voted against a deal to end the government shutdown Monday.
The pair were among 18 “no” votes on a procedural vote to advance a short term funding bill that was passed in the Senate with support from Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer struck a deal with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to fund the government until Feb. 8 in exchange for assurances that the Senate would begin debating immigration.
In a tweet, Warren slammed Republicans for what she said was inaction on a fix for “Dreamers,” funding for community health centers, and hurricane relief.
It’s been over 100 days since protection for 800k Dreamers ended, since community health centers were funded, since hurricanes ravaged TX, FL & PR. The Republicans refused to fix any of these issues– and they still haven't fixed them. We don't need new promises. We need new laws.
1:20 PM - Jan 22, 2018
In a statement, Markey said the deal struck Monday was a “hallucination.”
“Without guaranteed long-term funding for community health centers, the opioid crisis, disaster aid, and protections for our DREAMers, I cannot support this legislation,” he said.
Many Democrats wanted legal status for “Dreamers,” a group of young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children and whose temporary legal status in the US was revoked by President Trump.
A number of other liberal Democrats, including some who are expected to run for the Democratic nomination in 2020, joined Markey and Warren in voting no.
Senator Dianne Feinstein said she wasn’t persuaded by McConnell’s assurances and did not know how a proposal to protect the more than 700,000 younger immigrants would fare in the House.
Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, and Kamala Harris also voted no.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
RIP John Coleman – Weather Channel Founder Who Called Climate Change ‘Baloney’
by JAMES DELINGPOLE
John Coleman, the cheerful, politically incorrect and fearless co-founder of the Weather Channel, has died at 83, surrounded by family at his Las Vegas home.
The bad news is that he lived long enough to see his creation turn into yet another propaganda arm of the Climate Industrial Complex churning out #fakenews stories like this one.
The good news is that he just didn’t give a damn.
Here, as Watts Up With That? reports, is what he had to say last year when the Guardian ran a piece blaming climate change on ‘elderly white male climate deniers’.
I am old
I am white
I am a denier
Guess they are correct. I will die. So will the others. Then things will be settled.
Got it.
Coleman had a career of two distinguished halves.
In this July 30, 1981 photo, John Coleman, weather channel founder, right, and Frank Batten, publisher of the Norfolk, Va., Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star, and chairman and chief executive of Landmark Communications, Inc., are seen during a news conference in New York. (AP/Marty Lederhandler)
He made gigantic contributions to television, to weather forecasting, and even to the National Weather Service who changed and upgraded many of their methods to accommodate the visionary ideas he had in founding the Weather Channel.
In 1983, Coleman won the American Meteorological Society award for Outstanding Service by a Broadcast Meteorologist. The organization credited Coleman for “his pioneering efforts in establishing a national cable weather channel,” according to the AMS website.
The second was as one of the U.S.’s most cheerfully outspoken critics of the “global warming” scare – which he used his veteran weatherman status to deride at every opportunity.
Calls Bill Nye a “pretend scientist in a bow tie.”
Says: “I’m just a dumb old skeptic — a denier as they call me — who ought to be jailed or put to death. I understand how they feel. But you know something? I know I’m right. So I don’t care.”
Trashes Obama-era Federal Climate Report: A ‘total distortion of the data and agenda driven, destructive episode of bad science gone berserk’.
Rips his old network for using kids on a scaremongering propaganda video about climate change: “I know without a doubt that there is no significant threat to the future climate of Earth from the industrialized civilization we have created and the drastic climate changes predicted by the Al Gore clan and the UN’s IPCC are not occurring and are based on an invalid theory. But I will not stoop to the use children to promote my position.”
What a guy! He will be much missed.
Whoops! FBI ‘Loses’ Five Months of Texts Between FBI Agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
by KRISTINA WONG
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has lost about five months of text messages between two top officials, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who openly disparaged then-candidate Donald Trump while working on the Clinton email investigation and the Russia probe investigation, according to a top Republican senator.
The officials in question are Peter Strzok and Lisa Page — the two senior FBI officials who had texted each other hundreds of text messages in which they shared how much they loathed Trump and spoke of an “insurance policy” in the case of Trump’s election.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) revealed in a January 20, 2018, letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray that the FBI said their technical system failed to preserve texts exchanged between Strzok and Page between December 14, 2016, through May 17, 2017.
“The loss of records from this period is concerning because it is apparent from other records that Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page communicated frequently about the investigation,” Johnson said in his letter.
Michael Doran, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, astutely noted that May 17, 2017, was the date that the Special Counsel was convened.
What a weird coincidence! “Misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades” destroyed the Strzok-Page text messages during a period that ended on May 17, the very day Mueller started. How bizarre is that? It's almost as if it was planned that way.
The inspector general first found the texts between Strzok and Page while investigating whether political bias played a role either in the Clinton email investigation or the investigation into the Trump campaign.
Strzok was deputy chief of counterintelligence, played a leading role on the Clinton investigation, and reportedly is the one who watered down language that could have held criminal implications for Clinton. He oversaw the Trump investigation when it was opened in July 2016.
Strzok and Page were assigned to the special counsel investigation, but after the Justice Department inspector general found the texts, Strzok was promptly removed. Page had left weeks earlier, reportedly because her assignment to the special counsel had ended. Strzok was engaged in an extramarital affair with Page.
Johnson said in the letter that he learned of the missing texts on January 19 after the FBI handed over an additional 384 texts to the committee.
According to Johnson, Strzok and Page discussed speeding up the investigation into Clinton once it became clear that Trump would be the Republican presidential nominee.
“Now the pressure really starts to finish [midyear exam],” Strzok wrote, using the secret name for the Clinton email investigation. “It sure does,” Page replied.
Johnson also revealed texts between Strzok and Page that showed they discussed efforts to water down then-FBI Director James Comey’s statement on the Clinton email investigation.
An original statement was going to reveal that Clinton wrongly used her personal email in an exchange with “the president while Secretary Clinton was on the territory of such an adversary.”
“Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email,” it said.
However, on June 30, 2016, “the president” was replaced with “another senior government official,” Strzok notified Page. The final statement scrubbed the whole reference.
Strzok and Page suggested that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew that there would be no charges against Clinton even before they interviewed her and other key witnesses.
After Lynch announced that she would rely on the recommendation of Comey’s determination in the Clinton email investigation, due to the impropriety of her meeting with Bill Clinton on a tarmac, Strzok texted Page that her statement “looks like hell.”
Page responded: “And yeah, it’s a real profile in couragw [sic], since she knows no charges will be brought.”
At that time, Clinton, along with other key witnesses, had not yet been interviewed by the FBI.
Johnson is now asking the FBI to follow up with more details about the lost records and about whether it has conducted searches of non-government issued devices.
Other lawmakers are demanding answers.
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said in a tweet Sunday: “FBI Director Wray needs to provide an explanation for why the FBI deleted six months’ worth of Strozk-Page text messages sent during the Trump transition and early months of the Trump presidency. Was evidence about the anti-Trump ‘insurance policy’ deleted?”
Doran tweeted: “People must go to jail. It’s critical. Our gov will not regain legitimacy unless the public believes that elite crimes get punished. And by ‘jail’ I do not mean a fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Being surrounded by academics can feel like incarceration, but it’s not jail.”
House intelligence committee staffers have put together a four-page classified memo that reportedly explains how the FBI relied upon the salacious and unverified Trump dossier to investigate the Trump campaign. That is expected to be released in the upcoming weeks.
Donald Trump Rips Shutdown Democrats for Siding with Illegal Immigrants over American Citizens
by CHARLIE SPIERING
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President Donald Trump continued to challenge Democrats for shutting down the government over amnesty demands for illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children.
“The Democrats are turning down services and security for citizens in favor of services and security for non-citizens,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Monday. “Not good!”
Since the Government shutdown began on Saturday, the White House has repeatedly challenged Democrats for failing American citizens in favor of illegal immigrants.
Trump added that Democrats were “powerless” to resist left-wing activists in their party.
“Democrats have shut down our government in the interests of their far left base,” he wrote. “They don’t want to do it but are powerless!”
On Sunday, Trump suggested that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should end the 60 vote threshold in order to pass a budget and keep the government open.
“If stalemate continues, Republicans should go to 51% (Nuclear Option) and vote on real, long term budget, no C.R.’s!” he wrote on Twitter.
Great to see how hard Republicans are fighting for our Military and Safety at the Border. The Dems just want illegal immigrants to pour into our nation unchecked. If stalemate continues, Republicans should go to 51% (Nuclear Option) and vote on real, long term budget, no C.R.’s!
7:35 AM - Jan 21, 2018
McConnell has consistently opposed using the “nuclear option” on the budget.
The Democrats are turning down services and security for citizens in favor of services and security for non-citizens. Not good!
Democrats have shut down our government in the interests of their far left base. They don’t want to do it but are powerless!
8:15 AM - Jan 22, 2018
Trump Just Gave The Democrats A Big Ultimatum On Any New Budget Deal…
Congressional Democrats need to go back to the drawing board if they want to the Trump administration to budge on the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals program, according to recently surfaced information regarding the recent government shutdown provided by the White House Sunday.
A White House aide told Breitbart News that Democrats proposed a federal budget measure, however, attached was a clause regarding DACA.
The move didn’t impress the Trump administration, as it doesn’t want the DACA budget attached to government funding.
“We will not negotiate over the status of people here unlawfully while Democrats shut down the government of the millions who are here lawfully,” the White House aide said Saturday.
During a media briefing, Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short and White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney confirmed this information.
“(W)e’re not going to be held hostage and let our troops be held hostage over this,” Short said. “When they reopen the government, we will continue the discussions.”
As noted by Breitbart News, Short accused congressional Democrats of causing the government shutdown in an attempt to impress leftist activists partially due to the success that President Donald Trump has had during his first year in office.
“They look at the accomplishments of the last year and all this administration has accomplished, and their reaction is, ‘Because we can’t beat them, what we’re going to do is we’re going to shut down the government,’” he added.
Mulvaney assured those at the briefing that the Trump administration would do everything in its power to minimize the impact left by the shutdown, an effort not taken by the Obama administration during the 2013 government shutdown that lasted 16 days, and cost the U.S. an estimated $1.5 billion per day.
Employees from national parks, trade negotiations, cybersecurity agencies and the Environmental Protection Agency are continuing to work during the shutdown, while President Donald Trump canceled his trip to Florida and is keeping his trip to Davos, Switzerland, “on a day-by-day basis,” according to The Blaze.
Mulvaney then took a shot at a Senate Democrats, stating that they are handling the budget situation like “a two-year-old.”
“It is like a two-year-old temper tantrum to say, ‘I will take my toys and go home because I am upset about something else,’” Mulvaney said. “It has nothing to do with this bill, and the Democrats are conducting a two-year-old temper tantrum in front of the American people.”
Mulvaney’s comments came just one day after he embarrassed CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta who asked him why the shutdown was dubbed the “Schumer Shutdown” when Republicans control the Senate.
“Come on, you know the answer to that as well as anybody,” Mulvaney said in response to Acosta’s question, adding that he has to “laugh” when others try to bring up this topic.
“You know as well as anybody that it takes 60 votes in the Senate to pass an appropriations bill, right, you know that?” Mulvaney asked.
“I know that,” Acosta replied.
“Okay, so when you only have 51 votes in the Senate, then you have to have Democrat support in order to fund the government,” Mulvaney said. “So that’s the answer to your question.”
“This is purely an attempt by the Senate Democrats, led by Mr. Schumer, that’s why we call it the ‘Schumer shutdown,’ in order to try and get a shutdown that they think this president gets blamed for,” he added.
Dick Morris: Mueller Hid Uranium Scandal to Help Hillary
By Dick Morris
In the spring of 2016, as the election approached, attention was increasingly focused on Russia’s ambition to control America’s uranium supply. Peter Schweizer’s book “Clinton Cash” exposed the fact that, as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton had voted to allow Moscow to buy a company that controlled one-fifth of our uranium. When Schweizer coupled his revelation with the fact that Vladimir Putin had paid a $500,000 speaking fee Putin to Bill Clinton a few weeks before the vote, the deal started to attract attention.
The New York Times, given an advance copy of Schweitzer’s book, ran the uranium story as its lead article, front page, above the fold. Hillary could not afford to have the media publicize the Russian spy plot to bribe their way into control of uranium. It would have cast Hillary’s vote in a very bad light. Yet the fact is that right around the time that Hillary voted to sell our uranium, the FBI closed in on a spy ring of up to a dozen Russian agents who had been bribing uranium and transportation companies to aid in giving Moscow leverage.
(The operations of these spies formed the factual basis for the TV series “The Amerikans,” about Russian spies planted for years and even decades in the U.S. and trained to act like ordinary Americans).
Led by Vadim Mikerin, a former nuclear official of Russia’s state-run enterprise Rosatom, the spies sought to worm their way into positions of power to influence US officials — particularly Hillary — to OK the sale of uranium mines to Russia. An FBI informant who infiltrated the plot alerted the Bureau in 2010. National Review reports that Justice “had a prosecutable case against Mikerin by early 2010 (for) the extortion racket against American energy companies.”
But the FBI and the Justice Department dared not indict the spies. As National Review wrote: “clearly, in this atmosphere, disclosure of the racketeering enterprise that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was, at that very moment, carrying out would have been the death knell of the (uranium) asset transfer to Russia.” It would also have put Hillary’s approval of the uranium scale — and the speaking fee to to Bill — into a sharply negative perspective.
So nobody told the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States on which Hillary sat of the Russian spy ring. And, in ignorance, in October, 2010, CIFUS approved the sale.
Robert Mueller, the head of the FBI, and Eric Holder, the attorney general the Justice Department, sat on the case and permitted no publicity. Where normally, breaking such a spy ring would have called for victory laps, perp walks and congratulatory media events, there was no public disclosure coming from Holder, Clinton or then-President Barack Obama.
It was not until the summer of 2014 — when the statute of limitations was about to lapse — that the spies were even arrested.
Meanwhile, in 2014, Russia had invaded Ukraine, making a mockery of the “reset” with Russia that Obama and Hillary had been trumpeting. To have a revelation at this point of the administration’s failure to arrest Russian spies, identified four years earlier and scheming to take over our uranium supply, all hell would have broken loose. With Hillary’s vote on CIFUS in the background, the publicity would have been a disaster.
So Mikerin and his cronies were arrested quietly without fanfare and pleaded guilty just before Labor Day, 2014. They were sentenced, again without publicity, right before Christmas.
The spies were originally charged with extortion, fraud and money laundering, but Justice Department prosecutor Rod Rosenstein (the same man who appointed Bob Mueller to be special prosecutor) let Mikrin plead guilty to a single count of “an agreement to commit a crime against the U.S.” that carried a sentence of zero to five years, a fraction of what a money laundering charge would have brought. And the plea deal avoided any mention of any crimes dating back to 2009 or 2010, the period before the CIFUS decision came down. Mikron got a sentence of four years.
In addition to Rosenstein, the deal was negotiated by Andrew Weissmann, now one of Mueller’s top prosecutors in his office (back then he ran the Justice Department’s Fraud Bureau).
So the unholy trio — Mueller, Rosenstein and Weissmann — that now prosecutes President Donald Trump was back then shielding Hillary Clinton from a massive national backlash over her and Bill’s sellout to Moscow.
To be sure no word leaked out, the informant who uncovered the spy ring was ordered to remain silent by the higher-ups at Justice. Now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has released William Campbell from this order and we await his testimony before Congress.
Very bad news for Hillary.
Very bad news for Hillary.
Dick Morris is a former adviser to President Bill Clinton as well as a political author, pollster and consultant. His most recent book, Rogue Spooks, was written with his wife, Eileen McGann.
FBI 'LOSES' Key Evidence Related To Anti-Trump Agents
The Daily Caller reports that the FBI “failed to preserve five months of text messages" exchanged between two anti-Trump FBI employees who may have compromised on going investigations such as the Clinton e-mail scandal and the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reports that “The disclosure was made Friday in a letter sent by the Justice Department to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC).
'The Department wants to bring to your attention that the FBI’s technical system for retaining text messages sent and received on FBI mobile devices failed to preserve text messages for Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page,' Stephen Boyd, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the Justice Department, wrote to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of HSGAC
As this author previously noted, according to the Washington Post, Strzok's actions may have influenced other investigations, such as the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's illegal e-mail use. The "text messages with a colleague" the Times refers to is regarding messages critical of President Trump exchanged with FBI attorney Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was having an affair.
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reports that “The disclosure was made Friday in a letter sent by the Justice Department to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC).
'The Department wants to bring to your attention that the FBI’s technical system for retaining text messages sent and received on FBI mobile devices failed to preserve text messages for Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page,' Stephen Boyd, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the Justice Department, wrote to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of HSGAC
As this author previously noted, according to the Washington Post, Strzok's actions may have influenced other investigations, such as the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's illegal e-mail use. The "text messages with a colleague" the Times refers to is regarding messages critical of President Trump exchanged with FBI attorney Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was having an affair.
Trump ad: Democrats ‘complicit’ in murders by illegal aliens
Washington Times
The Trump campaign released a tough ad Saturday saying that Democrats who oppose the president’s border security policies will be “complicit for every murder committed by illegal immigrants.”
“Build the wall. Deport criminals. Stop illegal immigration now. Democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants,” says the ad by Donald J. Trump for President.
Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent, called the ad “really unbelievable,” arguing that polls show most Americans support allowing those who came to the country as children, known as the “Dreamers,” to remain.
“Build the wall. Deport criminals. Stop illegal immigration now. Democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants,” says the ad by Donald J. Trump for President.
Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent, called the ad “really unbelievable,” arguing that polls show most Americans support allowing those who came to the country as children, known as the “Dreamers,” to remain.
“It is really unbelievable and so sad for our country that we have a president of the United States who says such nonsense and such outrageous statements,” Mr. Sanders said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The ad is expected to turn up the heat on Democrats during the partial government shutdown, which kicked in at 12:01 a.m. Saturday after Senate Democrats tied the continuing budget resolution to a permanent fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
The ad features Luis Bracamontes, an illegal immigrant who has admitted to killing two Sacramento-area deputies in 2014.
During his trial last week in Sacramento Superior Court, Bracamontes heckled witnesses and hurled racial epithets, declaring in court that “the only thing that I f***ing regret is that I f***ing just killed two,” as shown video posted by the Sacramento Bee.
“I wish I f***ing killed more of those motherf***ers,” said Mr. Bracamontes during Tuesday’s proceedings.
His defense attorneys have attempted without success to allow him to plead not guilty by reason of insanity.
“It’s pure evil,” the ad says over a shot of Bracamontes smiling in court.
The ad also shows photos of several top Democrats: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, and Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois.
Pictures: Globalist Davos Summit Buried in Snow as Elites Gather to Discuss Global Warming
by OLIVER JJ LANE
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The annual meeting of globalist elites at the Swiss ski resort Davos got off to an unintentionally ironic start this week as delegates including 60 heads of state and hundreds of top business leaders found themselves severely delayed by snow storms.
Not even the favoured elite means of transport to avoid traffic problems that beset ordinary people was available as the World Economic Forum summit opened, as the severe snow storm closed even the town’s helicopter pads.
The New York Times reports speakers were late to their own sessions and press conferences in Davos Monday as the roads had become impassable and clogged with traffic — even including the “luxury” black minivans brought to the town to ferry top Davos guests quickly and anonymously.
A soldier stands guard with rifle ready as he protects the delegates to the World Economic Forum’s Davos summit Monday / Getty Images
Roads became gridlocked and difficult to navigate as huge amounts of snow landed on Davos / AP Images
One who missed their speech because of the snow was academic Linda P. Fried, who “bristled” at the suggestion that a summit that was to devote a large part of its time to discussing global warming was being severely affected by snow, telling the NYT that “It isn’t accurate, people just don’t understand, that’s not the metric.”
Although Davos is known as a meeting place of keen globalists championing progressive causes, it is also anticipated that the key herald of anti-globalism is to attend this week and speak Friday — President Donald J. Trump. The anti-Globalist President is expected to close Davos Friday, giving a speech that is anticipated to touch his electoral keystones of economic protectionism and the America First doctrine — themes that the rest of the summit attendees are expected to spend their week working against.
Swiss police officers walk the snow / AP Images
Despite that, Britain’s left-wing globalist Guardian newspaper reports that proceedings Tuesday kicked off with positive words spoken about President Trump at Davos by Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Markit, who told the assembled delegates before the opening speech by India’s President Modi that business confidence has increased because of Trump, and that corporate America had not liked President Obama as much.
The mayor of Davos said he hoped the snow would slow on Tuesday / AP Images
Noting that the United States is now at a state of full employment, Behravesh remarked of Trump: “Business finally got a president it thought was business friendly and the reduction in regulation has been received well,” but warned against the global economy overheating.
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