12 days after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that he will retire at the end of this session of Congress and not run for reelection, he is still wearing very dark glasses to conceal his bruises from an exercise injury on New Year’s Day more than three months ago.
That led Fusion newscaster Jorge Ramos to exclaim in a recent interview with Reid on April 6, 2015:
“It looked like somebody had hit you.”
Ramos then asks Reid, “Are you afraid that you might not regain your eyesight?”
Reid replies, “No, I’m over that, ‘cause I can’t see out of my eye, and that’s the way it’s going to be until something comes along that’ll change it. Right now, I’ve had 11 hours of surgery. They’ve tried. I can’t see out of my right eye. And that’s okay, I can live with that.”
On Jan. 2, 2015, reporters were told by Reid’s office that he had broken some ribs and facial bones while exercising the day before in his home in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nevada.
Seriously, who exercises on New Year’s Day?
“A piece of equipment Senator Reid was using to exercise broke, causing him to fall and break a number of ribs and bones in his face,” read a statement from his office. Subsequent to the initial announcement, Reid’s office further explained that the senator had been working out with an elastic exercise band, which snapped, sending him crashing into some cabinets.
The New Year’s Day injuries are not Harry Reid’s first sports injuries.
In May 2011, Reid dislocated his shoulder, bumped his forehead, and sustained a contusion just below his left eye when he slipped and fell during a morning jog in the rain. Reid said he was leaning on a wet car near his home in Washington, D.C.’s Ritz-Carlton hotel when he tumbled to the ground.
John Hinderaker of PowerLine enumerates Reid’s 2015 “exercise” injuries:
- multiple broken bones around his right eye
- damage (and now, blindness) to the right eye
- severe facial bruising
- broken ribs
- a concussion.
Was all of this really the result of losing his balance because an elastic exercise band broke? That seems unlikely, to say the least.
Anyone who saw Reid would say that he looked like he had been beaten up by a guy with a hard left, maybe using brass knuckles….
When a guy shows up at a Las Vegas emergency room on New Year’s Day with severe facial injuries and broken ribs, and gives as an explanation the functional equivalent of “I walked into a doorknob,” it isn’t hard to guess that he ran afoul of mobsters. Yet the national press has studiously averted its eyes from Reid’s condition, and has refused to investigate the cause of his injuries. To my knowledge, every Washington reporter has at least pretended to believe Reid’s story, and none, as far as I can tell, has inquired further….
A friend of mine was in Las Vegas a week or two ago. He talked to a number of people there about Reid’s accident, and didn’t find anyone who believed the elastic exercise band story. The common assumption was that the incident resulted, in some fashion, from Reid’s relationship with organized crime. The principal rumor my friend heard was that Reid had promised to obtain some benefit for a group of mobsters. He met with them on New Year’s Day, and broke the bad news that he hadn’t been able to deliver what he promised. When the mobsters complained, Reid (according to the rumor) made a comment that they considered disrespectful, and one of them beat him up.
Is that what really happened? I have no idea, but it is a more likely story than the elastic exercise band yarn.
What happened to Reid is not just a matter of curiosity. Everyone knows that the Reid family has gotten rich, even though Reid has spent his entire career as a public employee. It is known that a considerable part of his fortune came from being cut in on sweetheart Las Vegas land deals that included at least one person associated with organized crime as a principal. Was the Senate Majority Leader in the pocket of the Mafia? That seems like a question worth exploring, and yet, to my knowledge, not a single investigative reporter has chosen to look into the matter, even with the obvious clue of Reid’s face in front of them.
The deliberate blindness of Democratic Party reporters hasn’t stopped people from speculating about what really happened to Harry Reid, but so far, at least, it has prevented the story from exploding into a major scandal.
Alternately, the Chinese may be “the mafia” who taught Reid a lesson on New Year’s Day.
Remember the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) war on Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy?
Rory Reid
Reid has own reasons for driving Bundy from his ranch. Reportedly, Reid and his son, 51-year-old Rory Reid, had made a deal with a Chinese company to build a multimillion-dollar solar energy farm on that land.
Kit Daniels reports for Infowars, April 11, 2014, that the BLM’s director, who was Harry Reid’s former senior adviser, had purged documents from the BLM’s web site stating that the agency wanted Bundy’s cattle off of the land his family has worked for over 140 years in order to make way for solar panel power stations.
The BLM’s official reason for forcing the Bundy family off their land was to protect the endangered desert tortoise, which the agency has previously been killing in mass due to “budget constraints.”
But the Free Republic managed to repost the BLM document “Cattle Trespass Impacts” before it was expunged from the BLM website. The document states that Bundy’s cattle “impacts” solar development, more specifically the construction of “utility-scale solar power generation facilities” on “public lands.”
Another BLM report entitled “Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone” (BLM Technical Note 444) reveals that Bundy’s land in question is within the “Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone and surrounding area” which is part of a broad U.S. Department of Energy program for “Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States” on land “managed” by BLM.
Back in 2012, the New American reported that Harry Reid’s son, Rory Reid, was the chief representative for a Chinese energy firm planning to build a $5-billion solar plant on public land in Laughlin, Nevada. Journalist Marcus Stern with Reuters also reported that Harry Reid was heavily involved in the deal as well:
[Reid] and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert. Reid has been one of the project’s most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.
We all know how the BLM’s war on Bundy turned out.
Bundy militia vs. the federal government’s BLM
The Chinese can’t be happy with Reid and Son . . . .
As with Harry Reid’s “exercise” injuries, the MSM are also incurious about Reid and Son’s business interests in the BLM-Bundy dispute.
It isn’t just Harry Reid who is blind in one eye. The MSM are not just blind, but also deaf and dumb.
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