lady who won't sign off on the Biden transition lied to congress a while back and needs a pardon fro

[soothsayer]

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Allison Gill
@allisongill
A reminder that the lady who won’t sign off on the Biden transition lied to congress a while back and needs a pardon from trump.

GSA chief may have misled Congress about White House involvement in FBI headquarters, according to draft of inspector general report
https://t.co/nl0r9G5Ciq?amp=1

[Blue Owl]

1. parDONald tRump

[sheshe2]

2. So.

Let me get this straight.

Allison lied to congress to protect trump. Needs a pardon that trump is holding over her head for her to deny a transition, one that is required by our laws. This denial is a constitutional crisis and a national security crisis. Oh my fucking gawd. The President on down needs to be jailed.

[Grasswire2]

12. this is the pattern of a MOB enterprise.

Hire flawed and crooked people and they will do your bidding, no questions asked.

[Cha]

21. Actually.. Allison just tweeted it.. It's Emily

Murphy who "lied to Congress".

GSA head Emily Murphy's name should ring a bell.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100214520149

[fierywoman]

3. Yup: JAILED.. Behind bars. Wifi access denied. etc, etc.

[vapor2]

4. Every.single.one.of. them.

[William769]

5. And the plot thickens.

Not really, we know they are all criminals.

[fierywoman]

6. I feel good remembering Mme Veep Kamala Harris staring into the camera and

calmly, in a measured way, saying, "I know a predator when I see one."

[William769]

7. That was a great moment.

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Compromised people are controllable.

That’s why Trump hires the absolute worst: so he can manipulate them.

[scarletwoman]

9. Why would she need a pardon? There's been no indictment, no charges.

The WaPo article is from 2018 and is about a pending IG report - we don't even know how the IG report turned out.

[Lucinda]

18. +1

[Celerity]

26. Here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_W._Murphy

The FBI had long-scheduled a move out of its D.C. headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, as the aging building was falling apart and not secure.[2] The bureau's headquarters were planned to move to a suburban location.[2] Although the project had been in the works for more than a decade, Trump personally intervened in 2017 (during the first year of Trump's term and Murphy's tenure) to kill the plan.[2] Democrats said that Trump canceled the move to prevent the Hoover Building site from being redeveloped into a hotel that could compete with Trump's hotel across the street; the Trump White House denied that Trump's business played into the decision.[2][14] House Democrats investigated the episode.[14] In April 2018, Murphy told a congressional oversight hearing that the decision to stop the FBI from moving its headquarters came solely from the bureau without the involvement of Trump.[14]

However, three months later, the GSA inspector general (IG) released a report finding that Murphy's statement to Congress was "incomplete and may have left the misleading impression that she had no discussions with White House officials in the decision-making."[14][15] The report revealed that Murphy and other GSA officials had multiple meetings with Trump about the FBI headquarters, specifically a two-day meeting in January 2018 between Murphy, Trump, White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, and budget director Mick Mulvaney.[16] The IG report also found that GSA officials misrepresented the costs of an alternative plan to build a new FBI headquarters in downtown D.C., portraying the replacement plan as cheaper than the original plan when it would actually be more expensive.[16] In October 2018, internal GSA emails disclosed by House Democrats showing that GSA discussed "the President's instructions", "direction from WH" and "what was decided in the meeting with POTUS" in January 2018.[14]

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. That fits the profile.

They’re revealing themselves.

[lindysalsagal]

11. Wonder how long the news has been sitting on this little tidbit?

Hmmmm?????

[lindysalsagal]

13. Collusion! Lock them all up!

Gottem!

[dchill]

14. Seems that I should be more shocked and enraged.

[ffr]

15. Offer her more money and power than tRump. When she accepts, arrest her.

Kill two birds with one stone.

[AmericanCanuck]

16. Trump's pardons will number in thousands

and most of them will be useless if challenged by prosecutors as being bestowed with a "corrupt intent."

[BarbD]

17. "Corrupt intent" -- would that be blackmail?

[AmericanCanuck]

27. It can be any number of things

The main corrupt intent would be when Trump pardons someone to keep them from incriminating Trump.

[progressoid]

19. GSA chief *may* have misled Congress

The administrator of the General Services Administration, which manages the FBI headquarters project, may have misled Congress about White House involvement in the project, according to a portion of a soon-to-be published report from the agency’s inspector general that was obtained by The Washington Post.

Last year the GSA and the FBI scrapped a long-delayed plan to build an FBI headquarters campus in the Washington suburbs in favor of a proposal to build a smaller headquarters in downtown D.C. and relocate some staff to Alabama, Idaho and West Virginia.

President Trump has said he supported the new plan. Although GSA Administrator Emily Murphy, speaking to the House Appropriations Committee in April, mentioned discussions of funding with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, she downplayed the role of the White House in the decision-making process.

The conclusions section of the inspector general’s report, which is expected to be released publicly in the coming weeks, states Murphy’s testimony “was incomplete and may have left the misleading impression that she had no discussions with the President or senior White House officials about the project.”

While discussing the project at the hearing, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) asked Murphy: “To your knowledge, was the president or anyone else at the White House involved in those discussions, either with your predecessors, people you’re working with now, or yourself?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/07/gsa-chief-may-have-misled-congress-about-white-house-involvement-fbi-headquarters-inspector-general-finds/

[orleans]

22. please.... what is the next paragraph??? n/t

[progressoid]

24. Murphy responded by saying:

“The direction that we got came from the FBI. It was the FBI that directed to GSA as to what its requirements would be. We obviously did coordinate, given that it is a substantial budget request, we coordinated that request with OMB to provide for funding but the requirements were generated by the FBI.”

The inspector general’s report is not final and portions of it could be removed or edited based on the agency’s response. The GSA issued a statement saying it was premature to comment publicly on a draft report. Murphy, through the agency’s spokeswoman, stood by her comments to Congress. “Administrator Murphy’s testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations was accurate and truthful,” said press secretary Pamela A. Dixon, in a statement.

[elleng]

25. 'Murphy responded by saying:

“The direction that we got came from the FBI. It was the FBI that directed to GSA as to what its requirements would be. We obviously did coordinate, given that it is a substantial budget request, we coordinated that request with OMB to provide for funding but the requirements were generated by the FBI.”

The inspector general’s report is not final and portions of it could be removed or edited based on the agency’s response.'>>>

[Cha]

20. JHC!! Rt.. TY!

[elleng]

23. That ain't no lady.

[lindysalsagal]

28. Keep kicked