Real Characters Episode 40 Covering up Skolkovo

                It is 2009 and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is meeting with one of her largest donors Viktor Vekselberg.  Vekselberg starts, “I have a plan to set up a technology hub in Russia.  It would be similar to your Silicon Valley in California.”

                “Like a place where cutting edge highly technologically based companies are in the same area sharing intellectual property to aid them in growing and advancing?”

                “Precisely”

                “I think it’s a great idea.  I’ll make some phone calls to try to garner support for this and get other companies to sign on.”

                “Excellent, with America’s backing, this will go a long way to get Russia back on the map.”

                With that, Hillary Clinton met with various Russian leaders including President Medvedev.  In all, 27 companies would be opened in the Skolkova area and, coincidentally, 18 of them were big donors to the Clinton foundation.  While this was being organized, Russian officials reached out to Hillary Clinton’s husband, former-President Bill Clinton and asked him to give a speech.  This is nothing out of the ordinary for Bill as he has a reputation of being a great orator and is very adept at giving speeches.  Despite the usualness of the request, the amount they were going to pay him for the speech was quite unusual.  They offered Bill Clinton $500,000 to give the speech, which was an amount too large for Bill Clinton to turn down. 

                Later, Bill Clinton found himself very ingratiated with Russia but since he still had American secret service members following him around, he couldn’t move secretly so he sought permission from the State Department to meet with Vekselberg and a man named Arkady Dvorkovich who owned a Russian nuclear company named ‘Rosatom.’  The State department official asked, “Why do you want to meet with them?”

                “Arkady wants to buy a Canadian company and I just want to make sure that America isn’t going to make a scene about it.”

                “Which company?”

                “Uranium One.”

                “A Russian nuclear company wants to buy a company with one of the largest uranium reserves?  Isn’t Russia heavily involved in the Middle East?  Most specifically, Iran?”

                “Yes”

                “I can see how people may have a problem with this.”

                “Well, my wife is Secretary of State and it is blessed by the president so this is more of a courtesy.”

                “I guess you answered your own question then.”

                Two years after Vekselberg proposed Skolkovo, the army would call it an overt clandestine espionage to steal military technology from the United States.  They claim it was along the lines of spying in that they already do except on a much larger scale and much more efficient.  A concrete result of it was now Russia has a hypersonic missile that could reach the United States bypassing the missile defense systems.  It turned out that not everyone in Russia was on board with Skolkovo either as law enforcement raided the offices to investigate embezzlement of state funds to Skolkovo.  This investigation would catch the ire of a longtime Russian official intensely loyal to Vladimir Putin named Surkov.

                Four years later, Kathleen Kavalec of the State department is meeting with Christopher Steele to hear his allegation that President Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.  Steele is talking about Trump’s campaign member Carter Page and his Russian contacts.  As she is handwriting notes during the conversation, she pens two Russian names that Christopher Steele informed her were her sources for the information.  Their names were Trubnikov and Surkov.  Kavalec inquires, “Are you aware that Surkov is extremely loyal to Vladimir Putin and has already scammed us with Skolkovo?”

                “That was a long time ago. He’s flipped now.”

                “I wouldn’t be so sure.  Hillary Clinton was heavily involved in Skolkovo and she paid your employer to dig up dirt on Donald Trump so it appears he has a motive to lie because Hillary no longer being in power hurts his Skolkovo goals; among others.”

                Kavelec will document multiple holes in Steele’s story, which presumably was ignored because 10 days later, they used the information to get a FISA warrant on Carter Page.  The information was so disregarded that some believe the notes weren’t to alert the FBI that Steele isn’t credible, but was given to Steele to help him get his story straight and not make such easily disproven assertions.  Either way, he didn’t get the message because he kept espousing the lies. 

                Three years later, in 2019, Hillary Clinton is frustrated.  She has had her tentacles in the FBI, CIA, DOJ and all aspects of government trying desperately to destroy Donald Trump but he keeps coming out the other side of scandal after scandal smelling better and better.  Even after the Democrats took control of the house in 2018, they couldn’t pressure him to destroy him as his favorability kept rising.  Finally, Hillary and the Democrats got desperate when the Mueller probe was an epic failure.  Their last stand was to call Mueller himself to testify and he came across as a bumbling idiot.  The very next day they made up a story in which Donald Trump talked to the President of Ukraine Zelensky and threatened to withhold military aid in exchange for an investigation into Joe Biden.  This is very similar to DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa meeting with, then Ukrainian President, Porochenko to find dirt on Donald Trump.  It is Chalupa that found out about Paul Manafort and his shady dealings in Ukraine politics.  Ukraine did produce a fake document called the ‘black ledger’ but the damage was done and Manafort was fired as Trump’s campaign manager and then charged and convicted for crimes that had nothing to do with Donald Trump.  Although no Republican voted to impeach Donald Trump and three Democrats voted against, Donald Trump was impeached.  This prompted Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to hold the articles as Hillary used her tentacles and influence to try to find more information knowing that the House hearings were a sham and support for impeachment plummeted despite Republicans being denied the right to call witnessed.  In a trial with only Democrat witnesses, support among independents for Impeachment dropped 20 points. 

                It took three weeks, but finally Nancy Pelosi got what she was looking for.  The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a statement that Trump broke the law withholding military aid to Ukraine.  They also indicted a man named Lev Parnas for campaign finance violations in order to coerce him to cooperate against Giuliani and President Trump.  Parnas agreed and Hillary Clinton called her media boot lickers to have him on so he could sing the story fed to him by Clinton and the Democrats. 

                Before that, Pelosi presents the GOA findings to the Republican Senate leaders as they are in charge of the Impeachment trial.  A GOP representative squints her eyes, “You do realize that the GAO has claimed that every president was guilty of illegality?  Nobody ever takes them seriously because it’s an unconstitutional organization.”

                “This time they’re right though”

                “Were they right in 2014 when they ruled that President Obama broke the law by swapping 5 detainees of Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Bowe Beghdahl?”

                “No, that was just partisan politics by the Republican congress against a Democrat president.”

                “You do realize that we can make the same claim about you now?”

                “Look, it’s my job to tell you the facts so I did.”

                “It’s extremely weak.”

                “Don’t lose the forest for the trees.  This ruling proves that we should impeach.”

                “How do you figure when the ruling was 1/16/20 so you impeached him before the ruling?”

                “Donald Trump withheld military aid.  Congress set aside that money specifically to give to Ukraine and he didn’t.  That’s a violation.”

                “Congress gave President Trump the deadline of 9/30/19 and he did end up giving them the aid.”

                “That’s irrelevant.”

                “It is very relevant.  Their deadline was on September 30 and we transferred the money on 9/12/19 so how did he violate the GOA ruling?”

                Pelosi shakes her head and storms out of the office.  It appears the GAO isn’t going to be the ace up their sleeve that they thought.  When she reports this to Hillary, Hillary shrugs it off, “That’s okay, Lev Parnas is really our star.”

                Parnas tells everyone that will listen that he personally relayed the message to the Ukrainians that if they don’t investigate Biden, they aren’t going to get the aid.  When asked who he spoke to, he gives a name but when they asked the Ukrainian if this was true, the Ukrainian denied ever talking about the aid with Parnas.  According to the Ukrainians, they only spoke about arranging a meeting with Giuliani.  

                Upon Hillary’s urging, Parnas has a meeting with the New York Times.  The times reporter poses, “I understand that you have information about the quid pro quo with President Trump and Ukraine.”

                “Yes, I personally delivered the threat.”

                “Did the President ask you to do this?”

                “No, I worked with Giuliani but I’m sure Trump knew.”

                “Have you ever spoken to President Trump directly?”

                “No, I have not.”

                As Parnas makes his media rounds, his life becomes a whirlwind.  He lands on CNN and they ask him the question that everyone else has.  They all want to know what he knows about Ukraine.  Parnas responds, “President Trump called me in for a secret meeting.  I was tasked with a James Bond like mission to Ukraine.”

                “A secret mission?”

                “Yes”

                In order to pile on, CNN calls NY Times reporter Maggie Haberman on to the show to talk about Parnas and this bombshell moment.  Haberman is very familiar with Parnas’ contradiction with what he told her employer the Times and what he told CNN.  She already feels embarrassed because she went hard on the Russian collusion hoax only for the rug to be pulled under her.  She shakes her head and decides that she’s not going to toe the line.  They’ll find someone else to parrot the narrative but she knows someone who can’t keep their story straight when she sees one.  She tells the panel that after being burned by Avenatti and Cohen, perhaps they should be nervous about Parnas.  When asked about how the Republicans are worried if he becomes a witness, Haberman dismisses it saying that the Republicans want him because she doesn’t believe it will work out as well as he hopes it will.  This was a nice way to say that the Republicans would expose him for a liar and expose his contradictions.  As she is already started down the path, she lets out what she’s been holding on to for so long.  She warns the panel to stop giving instant credibility to anyone that is against President Trump.  If Hillary wants media personnel to gaslight, they’re going to have to pick someone besides Haberman.

                As Hillary watches Haberman’s performance on CNN, she is frustrated but concludes it’s not too devastating.  As Democrats are want to do, when America fails, go abroad for what you need.  Keeping it in the CNN family, they go to the foreign office with the always reliable and one of the few people at CNN with a shred of credibility, Christiane Amanpour.  She calls the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs on her show to ask about Parnas threatening to withhold military aid.  Hillary, believing Amanpour had a soft interview before going on air so is aware what the minister will say, breathes a sigh of relief as she finally thinks a Ukrainian is going to back up her story.  The Foreign Affairs minister rejoins that he had never spoke to Lev Parnas and if he was going to make that threat, he should’ve made it to him.  He goes on to talk about how he has a very close relationship with President Zelensky and the Ukrainian president never mentioned Parnas.  As if these statements weren’t clear enough, he flat out tells Amanpour not to trust a word that Parnas is saying.  He finally addresses the withholding of the aid by telling her that it is standard procedure to have the assistance reviewed twice a year to make sure that Ukraine is living up to their end of the bargain so it wasn’t a big deal if the aid was being held up.  He again asserts neither he nor President Zelensky were aware that the aid was being held up but adds that it doesn’t surprise him that there were questioning it since that was standard.  Hilary bows her head as she watches yet another narrative fall apart.

                Hillary takes out her phone and thinks to dial James Comey as he can at least stick to a story even if it is fabricated and an outright lie.  Before she clicks the green button to call, she remembers that Comey is under investigation for leaking classified information to the media.  She clicks off the phone realizing it’s a bad idea.  Finally, something happens to brighten her day.  Former congressman, Trey Gawdy is on the news and being asked about Comey.  Gawdy clarifies his statement that he doesn’t like Comey but admits that since Comey didn’t want to tell Senate Intelligence officials the classified information even though it was the committee’s job to be briefed on classified information, he found it hard to believe he leaked it to the media. 

                Hillary isn’t the only one watching as Jim Comey is also tuned in at his home.  A confidante of Comey taps him on the shoulder, “See, you’re getting defended by people who hate you.  This charge won’t stick.”

                “Yea, I’m just so pissed at how often I was lied to.”

                “With Brennan and the Steele information?”

                “Well that but no that’s not what I’m talking about now.  The thing that I leaked was Russian intelligence that they intercepted e-mails between Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Loretta Lynch.”

                “Saying what?”

                “That after Hillary wins the election, she’ll be exonerated.”

                “So what?”

                “It was a hoax.  There were no e-mails.  The Russians were lying to me.”

                “We all make mistakes.  The Russians are very good bullshit artists.”

                “Yea, but few of us make public statements trying to get ahead of the story.”

                “I don’t recall this.”

                “Remember on July 5, 2016, when I told everyone that Hillary was reckless with her e-mails and I laid out the case but then I told the world that no respectable prosecutor would prosecute this case?”

                “Yes, I do recall that”

                “That was because of this information.  I wanted to clear the deck for the future president and do a favor for Loretta Lynch.  As an FBI commissioner, I don’t prosecute, the DOJ does but I gave her a reason not to.  She took it too because Lynch released a statement later that she was taking my advice and not prosecuting Hillary Clinton.  That should have handed Hillary the election but it didn’t.  With Trump winning, I was exposed and now I’m in the center of this mess with conservative media constantly dragging my name through the mud.  Meanwhile, Loretta Lynch is hardly ever mentioned and given a pass.  Even Hillary and Obama who coordinated this whole thing are above scrutiny.  It’s all on me and Brennan.”

                “Shit rolls downhill I’m afraid”

                “I always thought I was enough uphill that it would flow passed me.”

                “You still kind of are.  They may investigate you but they’re not going to convict.  You’re too connected and too important.  You’ve survived everything else; you’re going to survive this. 

                “I hope you’re right.”

                “I am.  Look around, the only Democrat to be charged was Michael Avanatti and he went after Nike so he’s just an idiot.”

                “Yea, and his clients are porn stars.”

                “Right, so that’s really downhill and he’s the one that got shit on.  It’s over.  He’s the only Democrat going down.”

                “We shall see.  The spring will be very telling.”

                “Durham is going to be just like both Horowitz reports.  It’ll give the conservative media something to talk about and get them all in a hissy and then nothing will come of it and no charges will be made.”

                “Yea, you’re right.  I don’t know why I’m so upset.  Thanks.”

                “No problem”

                The Senate now has a decision if they’re going to allow witnesses.  2020 is going to be very ugly and very partisan.  The interesting thing is the focus is all on Trump that nobody really is paying attention to the Democrat field of candidates.  Three of them are going to have to sit in on impeachment hearings so won’t be able to campaign. 

Larry the Billionaire Episode 32: All Whistleblowers aren't treated equally

Larry the Billionaire: All Whistleblowers aren’t treated equally

 

                Ashley was a Peruvian immigrant and currently lived in Rockville, Maryland.  Since she had emigrated from Peru at a young age, she did grow up in America.  Standing at 5’3,” her development had taken a late change.  She always had great legs but in her late 20s her breasts had gotten larger.  It is true she was much skinnier in college than she was now but the weight gain had been unproportionally   concentrated on her breasts.  She had short black hair and tanned skin with a round face. 

                Ashley was kind of an outcast.  In college, people had called her a space cadet, which can be charming and endearing in small doses but Ashley took it to an extreme.  Although people are often encouraged to ask questions, Ashley obsessively asked questions and when she didn’t understand, she continued to inquire until she understood.  This made it difficult for her to keep a job as she harassed co-workers and supervisors who soon tired of having to constantly explain things to her repeatedly.  Her social life also took a turn for the worse as she was quick to criticize and since she didn’t have a job, she incessantly texted people that called her a friend.  One female actually threatened to contact the cops if she ever texted her again.  What Ashley never understood was that she had always been raised that if a woman cooked, cleaned and loved sex, men would excuse any other behavior.  She did all three of those things so boyfriends were common but never lasted long due to her obsessive and stalkerish nature.

One day, one of her few friends was coming to Rockville, which is located outside of Washington D.C.  He wanted to see the new World War II memorial and Ashley said she’d take him.  She knew that her friend was very bad with women and had only had sex once.  He also loved travelling so Ashley, who lived with her dad, said that he could stay with her.  Ashley’s dad was happy because Phanes was white and he believed that if his daughter married a white man, he would take care of her financially so he would no longer have to.  It’s because of this, he allowed Phanes to stay at his house.  Phanes came to visit and Ashley took him to the World War II memorial.

                On the train to D.C., Ashley inquired, “Are you following this Ukraine thing?”

                “I am. The longer it goes on, the more information comes out.”

                “Yea, I know that Joe Biden got his son a job that was high paying even though he’s a college drop out.”

                “According to a Ukrainian newspaper, it was worse than that.”

                “You read Ukrainian news?”

                “Yea, American news is normally biased for the Democrats so if things happen concerning other countries I get their take.”

                “That’s really smart.  What do the Ukrainians say?”

                That Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that named Hunter Biden to their board, paid Joe Biden $900,000 to lobby on behalf of them.”

                “Whoa, that’s a lot of money”

                “Yea and then you couple that with, simultaneously, Joe Biden is the White House point man to Ukraine.  He is also on tape bragging about get the prosecutor general Shokin fired.  He claims it was because Shokin was corrupt but Shokin was investigating Burisma.”

                “Wait, Biden wanted to get the prosecutor general fired when he was investigating Burisma and Burisma was paying Biden to lobby for them?  How has nobody figured out that Biden obviously wanted to get the guy fired on behalf of the people who were paying him?”

                “The media knows; they’re just covering it up.”

                They arrive at the World War II memorial and Phanes takes pictures. While walking around D.C., Ashley posed, “So you know how you like to travel?”

                “Yes”

                “I want to go back to Peru”

                “Alright”

                ‘But I don’t have any money”

                “Yea, that’s always the rub”

                “If I have sex with you, will you take me to Peru?”

                Phanes contemplated this and nodded, “Yea, should I get a hotel?”

                “No, I want to do it in my dad’s bed when he’s not home.”

                “Do you get off that we may be caught?”

                “Why does it matter?”

                “I just think it’s weird.  I mean we’re not in high school anymore.  I make a decent enough living to just get a hotel.  We don’t have to go skulking off and doing it in your dad’s bed wondering if he’s going to come home.”

                Ashley snapped back, “So, you’re not going to do it?”

                “No, not in your dad’s bad.  Let’s just be normal and go to a hotel.  You still get to go to Peru so why do you care?”

                Ashley started yelling, “You fucking said you’d do it!  You’re a fucking liar.  I hate liars.  Why do people lie! I don’t get it.”

                “It’s not a lie, you changed the terms.  Based on the information I had, I agreed.  You then added more stipulation that made it less appealing”

                “You’re not a real friend!  Real friends don’t lie.  You lied!”

                Phanes tried to assuage the situation but Ashley was inconsolable and wouldn’t budge on her stipulation.  Phanes stormed out and declared, “I’m going home.”

                “You live in New York”

                “Yea, I’m’ going to the train station.  I saw what I wanted to see.”

                On his way to the train station, he called his cousin Larry, “Hey Larry, I got someone for you”

                “Who?”

                Phanes’ phone kept pinging that he had a new text message.  Ashley was barraging him.  Phanes remarked, “I need to call you back” and hung up

                Phanes’ phone was slow due to trying to process all the text messages coming in rapid succession as Ashley only texted a couple lines at a time because she didn’t like writing long texts but preferred a bunch of short ones.  Finally, Phanes clicked the ‘block this caller’ feature in his contacts and he took a deep breath as he finally had silence.  He called Larry back and explained to him his time in D.C. 

 

                Larry was doing his daily routine of hanging out on the beach.  He alternated between San Marco Island and Sanibel Island and sat on the beach swimming and lying on the beach.  He was a billionaire and could afford these luxuries as well as work remotely.  While decompressing on the beach, his phone rang.  He answered it and it was his cousin Phanes.  Larry was not very good with women so he bribed girls into sleeping with him by paying a big ticket item as handing out pure cash was something he was against.  He never enjoyed professionals who do this type of things and, instead, enjoyed the corrupting of women who don’t normally do this.  After his cousin laid out a prospective girl who made an indecent proposal from him, Larry smiled.  He joked, “So, you want me to do something that you absolutely refused to do?”

                “Yes, just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean you don’t.”

                “Yea, that’s true.  I don’t really care where we do it but based on her obsessive tendencies, I think I’m going to get a burner phone.”

                “Don’t you do that anyway?”

                “Most of the time but I’ll be sure to this time.  You’d be surprised how many women never want to speak to me again after the transaction is done.”

                “Oh no, that doesn’t surprise me at all”

                Larry laughed.  “Did you hear about batman?”

                Phanes called former mayor Rudy Giuliani ‘batman’ because when he was mayor he cleaned up a city that most people felt was beyond savings.  Pre-Giuliani, New York was run by the mob with corrupt cops and drug needles in every park and prostitutes consumed Times Square.  Giuliani took over and established his ‘broken windows law and order’ policy and the needles disappeared, the NYPD became highly efficient and a model of integrity and the mob was reduced to the shadows.  It was almost the story line for batman.  He replied, “Yea, apparently two people he worked with were arrested on campaign violations.”

                “What do you think of it?”

                “Well, Dinesh D’Souza was jailed for that.  I think when Democrats hate you and can’t find anything to charge you with, that’s what they go with.”

                “Yea, it’s a little suspicious that the two people were working on the Ukrainian hoax and were set to take a trip abroad.  All of a sudden, before they leave, they get arrested.”

                “Where were they going?”

                “I’m still trying to figure that out.”

                “I’d ask ‘why’ they would do this, but I already know.  They wanted to shut them up.  Just like how they arrested Mike Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, and got a FISA on Carter Page. “

                “That’s what I’m thinking too.”

                “Crazy world we live in”

                “Speaking of crazy, are you going to proposition her?”

                “Yea, why not?”

                “Good luck and make sure you use a burner phone on this one.”

                Larry flew to D.C. and called Ashley, whose number he got from Phanes.  He introduced himself as Phanes’ cousin and Ashley had a very negative reaction.  He decided that he’d still invite her to dinner and was surprised that Ashley readily agreed despite the obvious animosity she felt for his cousin.  Ashley showed up and queried, “Where’s Phanes?”

                “He blocked you.  You were a little too intense for him.”

                “And I’m not for you?”

                “No, I can handle intensity better than he can.  I understand that you want to go to Peru.”

                “That’s why you’re here!” Ashley exclaimed, “He thinks he can just pimp me out to his friends!  He’s not my fucking pimp.  We’re not even friends anymore.  I don’t want to go to Peru with you.”

                Larry remained calm, “Do you want me to just send you to Peru?  You don’t have to go with me”

                “No, I don’t want to go alone.”

                “Oh, you don’t still have family there?”

                “No, I do but family doesn’t count”

                Larry was confused but didn’t want to press it so he merely replied, “Oh, I see”

                “Do you follow politics?”

                “Yes I do”

                “What do you think of this Ukraine thing?”

                “Well, I think the former ambassador Yovanovitch is at the center of this whole thing.”

                “I don’t know who that is”

                “She was the US Ambassador to Ukraine.  It turns out she had made a list of journalists to monitor and use databases to spy on.”

                “Holy shit.  Did you get this from the Ukrainian sources that Phanes reads?”

                “No, this is just conservative media, who is on the list by the way.  One was John Solomon of the Hill”

                “You said ‘former.’ Did she resign?”

                “No, President Trump recalled her.”

                “Oh, for the list?”

                “No, she constantly bad mouthed him to foreign allies and she obstructed Ukrainian investigations into Democrat corruption.”

                “Isn’t that what they want to impeach Trump for?”

                “Yes, Democrats are good at blaming Republicans for shit they did.  Every accusation they make is a confession of something they are guilty of.”
                “You sound like a conspiracist”

                “Yea, I get that a lot.  If that were true though and we’re wrong about Hunter Biden collusion with Burisma and fake information with the black ledger to take down Manafort then why would we be being monitored?”

                “That makes sense”

                “Why would the Ukrainians be worried if there was nothing to it?”

                “Right, if they had nothing to hide, they wouldn’t care about people looking into it.”

                “I don’t like that logic because it justifies violating the constitution in protecting us from unlawful search and seizures.  With that said, actively arresting people for made up things and entrapping them does tend to lead to corruption and abuse of power.”

                “Wow, you’re really smart”

                “Thank You”

                “How about instead of a trip to Peru, you get me a chanel purse?”

                “In exchange for sex?”

                “Yes”

                “You’d rather have the purse than go to Peru all of a sudden?”

                “Well it matters who’s asking.  With your cousin, I’ve known him since college.  He was a friend so I wanted to travel with my friend.  You’re just a guy with money so I want a material thing that I would never be able to afford on my own.”

                “Well, ‘yes’ is the answer.”

                “Alright, so do you want to go back to your hotel?”

                Larry was confused. Before, the hotel was a deal breaker for the Peru trip now she was volunteering it.  He decided not to question it and just rejoined, “First, we have to get tested for STD’s and you have to get an IUD inserted.”

                “I just had testing and I’ve had an IUD in for years.”

                “I would need proof of that.”

                Ashley reached into her purse and gave him a medical report dated two days ago.  His eyes narrowed in confusion, “Why did you do this?”

                “I find sex clubs interesting so I go to them.  I’m a little nervous after I go though, so I always test myself regularly to make sure I’m clean.  We use protection but still, better safe than sorry.”

                “And the IUD?”

                “I don’t keep those medical records with me but I promise you that I have one.  I don’t have a job and I still live with my parents.  Trust me, a kid is not something I could handle right now.”

                Larry thought that she may think a kid was the only way she could trap a man.  For some reason, though, he believed her.  He decided he would just use a condom.  Also, doing it this way, he didn’t have to give Ashley his phone number.  Sure he was going to discard the phone after he was done but from what he’s heard, the texts come immediately.  Life was about taking risks so he shrugged his shoulders and decided, “Okay”

                Ashley went onto her phone and picked out the Chanel purse she wanted.  Larry purchased it and showed her the confirmation.  He was always surprised at how much handbags cost but women loved them.  Ashley and Larry went back to Larry’s hotel room.  When inside, Ashley posed, “What about this whole laptop thing with Hillary Clinton?  That was old news I thought.”

                “There have been new developments.  Remember, Obama was president during this and his DOJ covered up for Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.  Now that he’s out of office, the extent of the corruption is massive and difficult to uncover as the DOJ is still not cooperating.  In fact, they’re working against him.”

                “What do you know then?”

                “Lower level FBI is still good.  One agent has came forward to reveal that while we originally thought there were 30,000 e-mails on Weiner’s computer from Hillary Clinton, there were really 340,000.  That is 10 times more than what former FBI director Comey said.”

                “That’s a lot of e-mails!”

                Larry pondered that Ashley may beat the number in a day with the way she texted but left that alone.  He told himself that this was normal.  Girls normally wanted to talk before they did it to make them not feel as dirty.  He proceeded to answer the question, “There was a whistleblower in this case.  A guy named Erik Prince.  He says the e-mails had to do with money laundering and Hillary going to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex island six times.  Bill went there 20 times.  The NYPD further revealed through Prince that many Democrat members of congress were involved too.  The NYPD was so disturbed by this that they told the FBI that if they didn’t reopen the investigation into Hillary, they would go public with this information.”

                “That’s why they re-opened the investigation.  Wait, that means that when the news keeps talking about how there can’t be a deep state because the FBI helped Trump by opening the investigation into Clinton; they’re kind of lying because they were forced to re-open it.  Democrats have been complaining ever since that the FBI cost her the election”

                “Exactly but Hillary would have lost anyway.  She stopped campaigning in July thinking she could just cruise to victory.  You can’t let your foot off the gas in an election.”

                “Who knows?”

                “Yea, anyway since Hillary and Obama still own the DOJ, the DOJ didn’t take too kindly to being threatened by the NYPD.  That’s when they threatened that if the NYPD went public, then they would blame Eric Garner’s death on them.”

                “Who’s Eric Garner?”

                “He was a high profile guy that died accidentally.”

                “So, the DOJ was going to say it wasn’t an accident?”

                “Yes”

                “What happened with Erik Prince?”

                “Just to give you some background on him; He owned a financial company named Blackwater.  He was Betsy Devoss’ brother.  Devoss is Trump’s secretary of education.  Since he’s got ties to Trump, rather than listening to him and investigating his claim, Bob Mueller and the house intel committee investigated him for criminal charges.”

                “Wait, the last two weeks all we’ve been hearing is how whistleblowers need to be protected from retaliation”

                “Only when the Whistleblower is attacking a Republican.  When the whistleblower is attacking a Democrat, then they belittle and try to destroy him or her.”

                “And, what they said to Prince was an obvious quid pro quo.  I thought that was bad.  Don’t they want to impeach Trump for that?  Why didn’t anyone care about this quid pro quo?”

                “Yes, once again the DOJ has a double standard for Democrats and Republicans.”

                “I heard that Giuliani’s sources were arrested to discredit them and shut them up.  What were they going to say?”

                “They were going to describe a quid pro quo by Obama.”

Before Larry knew what was happening, Ashley kissed him passionately.  She backed him up to the bed and shoved him onto his back.  She stood over him and said, “I like it rough”

                Larry’s legs were sprawled out and Ashley jumped onto him with her legs together protruding straight back.  She rotated her hips rubbing her groin against Larry’s till he was erect.  Once erect, Ashley grabbed a condom and put it on his penis before lowering herself on top of it.  She grinded her hips as Larry reached around and grabbed her butt squeezing and pulling her on top of him.  They oscillated kissing each other’s neck and mouth.  After a little, Ashley shifted her body up and rubbed her breasts against Larry’s face.  Larry sucked on her breasts and then sat up.  Ashley rose to a bended knee as did Larry.  They leaned in so Larry could penetrate her once again as they embraced and kissed.  Ashley said, “See, this is what I want, someone to propose to me.”

                Larry responded, “Well, you’re not going to get that from me” as he lowered his hand and smacked her butt with his right hand squeezing it.  Ashley barely flinched.  Larry hoisted her up and drove her to the wall aggressively humping her as Ashley moaned.  Larry caressed her legs and butt and then backed from the wall.  Ashley leaned back and Larry ran his right hand over her breasts squeezing each one before Ashley sat up again and Larry went back to squishing her against the wall.  After Ashley climaxed, Larry backed from the wall and lowered her back to her feet.  He shoved her in the back onto the bed and Ashley sprawled eagle in front of him.  Larry said, “Well this looks familiar” as he grabbed the salt.

                Larry leaned over her and licked her right butt cheek.  He dabbed salt on the moistened area.

                Larry placed the shot glass in her butt.  He took the bottle of tequila and poured it into the shot glass purposefully spilling some on Ashley’s butt.  He licked the salt off her butt and put the shot glass in his mouth before snapping his head back downing its contents.  He repeated it with the second butt cheek in the same manner.  He took both his hands and smacked her butt and said, “Now it’s time for my lap dance.”

                Ashley got up and Larry sat on the bed.  Ashley straddled him and twisted and swung her hips against him while his penis was inside of her.  Larry caressed her legs, sucked on her breasts and kissed her.  When Ashley slowed, Larry said, “Turn around.”

                Ashley got up and turned her back to Larry and sat back on his lap letting Larry reenter from behind.  Larry reached around and dangled Ashley’s legs over him.  Ashley bounced up and down on Larry as Larry grabbed her breasts caressing and squeezing them.  He let his hands grope the front of Ashley’s body including her clitoris and double penetrated from the front with his fingers.  Ashley moaned and screamed indicating an orgasm and said, “How have you not cum yet?”

                Larry kissed her neck and whispered in her ear, ”Stop asking questions.”

                Larry stood up and Ashley wrapped her legs back around Larry’s waist as she reached her arms up and over her shoulders gripping the back of Larry’s head.  Larry used one hand to caress her breasts and the other hand to stimulate her groin.  After a little while, he switched hands.  He let her down and bent her over the bed.  He grabbed the lubrication and generously applied it to her butt realizing how her muscles were tensing.  He jerked his penis back into her rectum and hoisted her up as before. His hands touched Ashley in the same manner.  He dropped her to her feet and turned her around.  Ashley jumped and wrapped her limbs around him.  Larry hopped onto the bed and elevated his lower body up lifting Ashley with him and slamming her body back down onto the bed repeatedly.

                Ashley let go and Larry stood up.  Ashley dropped to her knees and took the condom off Larry’s penis before putting it in her mouth. She alternated stroking and sucking on it.  When he still hadn’t finished, she squeezed her breasts against his member.  She oscillated between the three techniques before Larry said, “Get up”

                Ashley stood and Larry said, “Turn around”

                As she did so, Larry put another condom on and then wrapped his right hand around her neck and his left crossing over the back of her head resting on her temple.  His right hand gripped his right bicep blocking air.  He bent her over the bed and jammed his penis into her as before humping her.  Ashley struggled which only made it more enjoyable for Larry.  Larry ejaculated into the condom but continued humping then pulled out

                Ashley panted and gave him a disappointed look.  She opined, “Man, and it was just getting good.”

                Larry was expecting her to be angry with the chokehold he put her in but she seemed to enjoy it.  Not knowing what to say, he just stared at her.  Ashley broke the silence, “What about Mueller?”

                “Besides him being a bumbling idiot and he wasted tax payer money to perpetuate something he knew was a hoax before he even was appointed special counsel?”

                “Is there more?”

                “Yes, he lied to congress”

                “I don’t know.  I saw his testimony; he kind of just kept saying he didn’t know anything.”

                “He did do that a lot but some things he did answer.”

                “Obviously you mean something specific”

                “He said that he didn’t meet with Trump the day before he was named special counsel because he wanted the FBI director position.”

                “How is that a lie?”

                “The day before Mueller was appointed, Mueller and Rosenstein went to the White House.  Despite what they say, White House witnesses claim that that was the purpose of the meeting.  Mueller wanted to be FBI director, which was vacant since Comey was fired.”

                “But Trump said ‘no’”

                “Right”

                “Why does ‘Rod Rosenstein’ sound familiar?”

                “He wrote a memo to President Trump to fire Comey.  He’s also the guy that said he wanted to invoke the 25^th amendment and claim Trump was unfit mentally for office.”

                “Oh yea, he said that was a joke”

                “People debate that but it isn’t something to joke about.”

                “Yea, well he did help get Comey fired.”

                “Think about what I just told you.  He personally went with Mueller to the White House to, according to multiple sources, lobby for Mueller to be the new FBI director.  With the heat on Comey, Rosenstein wanted to replace him with one of his friends; someone that would cover this whole Russian collusion thing up.  Then, if it failed, he’d just appoint him as special counsel.”

                “Why would he want to cover Russian collusion up?  What did he do?”

                “He signed the last FISA after the FBI knew that the document they based it on was a hoax.  They based the FISA on a document written by Christopher Steele known as the dossier.”

                “Oh yea, I heard about that.”

                “At the time of the last FISA on Carter Page, the FBI had fired Steele for being unreliable and leaking to the media.  They knew it was a scam but he signed it and claimed it ‘verified’ anyway.”

                “This is very interesting.  I should go home now though.”

                “Okay”

                Ashley gave Larry a hug and walked out of the hotel room.  A couple days later her purse arrived in the mail and she was ecstatic. 

                After Ashley left, Larry went to sleep.  The next day he flew back to Naples.  While on the plane, the people next to him were talking about the Whistleblower in regards to President Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian president Zelensky.  Larry rolled his eyes as the people believed it.  He fired back, “If the call was so bad, why has the Ukrainian president repeatedly confirmed that he wasn’t pressured or blackmailed by Trump.”

                “He wants his military aid”

                “He already got it!”

                “Oh, I didn’t know that”

                “I know because you believe the fake news.  You also don’t know that the whistleblower had contact with Democrat candidates for president.”

                “No, we know that but it was done in the capacity of their being elected officials”

                “Did you accept that answer when Al Franken accused Sessions that his contacts with Russia was inappropriate to decide on whether or not the Russian probe should go forward?  Session told Franken that it was only in his capacity as Senator that he did it and he wasn’t representing his campaign.”

                “I don’t know much about Sessions”

                “He had to recues himself because Democrats didn’t accept that answer as sufficient enough to ease their concerns.”

                “This is starting to ring a bell now.”

                The outburst had the desired effect.  The two people sitting next to him stopped talking about politics and there was silence for the remainder of the flight.  When Larry returned to Naples, he called his cousin, “Well, she didn’t want to go to Peru.  She wanted a purse.”

                “Figures she wouldn’t be consistent”

                “I got to say, I didn’t think she was that bad.”

                “I didn’t think so either.  In fact for over a decade I was friends with her.  Then, she snapped.”

                “I guess you’re right.  I got rid of the phone anyway so I’ll never find out if she would have snapped on me.”  Larry uttered not realizing that he never actually gave Ashley his number.

                “Consider yourself lucky”

                “What have you been up to?”

                “Reading about one of the dumbest business decisions of all time.”

                “What would that be?”

                “The CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ed Stack has finally admitted that he lost $250 Million due to his anti-gun policy and destroyed $ 5 Million worth of rifles.”

                “This was right after a school shooting right?”

                “Yea, Parkland”

                “This is what happens when you’re like Elizabeth Warren and care about stakeholders rather than shareholders.  You start making horrible business decisions.”

                “Well, Stack’s money wasn’t in Dick’s.  He made his money elsewhere. “

                “That’s why they can base their decision on shitty research”

                “Or didn’t bother to do the research at all.  They just let activist tell them made up shit.  Nobody at Parkland bought their gun from Dick’s.  I will admit there have been way too many mass shootings lately.”

                “Nah, it’s just reported more.  Overall firearm homicides fell 7% from 2017 to 2018”

                “Really?”

                “Yea, and rifle homicides fell 26%.  It started at 403 and now is down to 297”

                “Both numbers seem low.  I mean I think more people die in a month in Chicago.”

                “All this and gun ownership went up from 2017 – 2018 as people think there’s only a limited time to buy guns so they should buy now.”

                “I feel like I’ve seen that line in a commercial”

                “Yea, pretty much every commercial for any product.”

                “Right, I knew it was familiar” Phanes commented with a smile and sarcasm in his voice. 

                “To your point though, when you compare it to other things, rifle homicides are very low.  Five times more people are killed by knives.  Blunt objects like hammers killed 443 and fists were even worse than blunt objects as they killed 668.”

                “England has banned guns and now knives since knife violence went up.  I guess blunt objects and fists are next”

                “Seriously.  We live in a world obsessed with data yet nobody bothers to look into the data before making decisions.”

                “They’re not interested in the data. They just want the power so they make up their own narrative and statistics”

                “I know, it’s sad”

                “Yea, I fear for the country.”

                “Me too, we need Trump to get re-elected.  Then, I’m not sure what we’re going to do.”

                They made small talk and then got off the phone. The next day, Larry returned to the beach not giving Ashley a second thought.  Ashley’s parents would just have to keep waiting for someone else to take their daughter off their hands.