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Mueller’s Sinister Coup Attempt
The Special Counsel Threatens The Rule Of Law By
Stealing Trump Transition Documents.
Matthew Vadum
December 20, 2017
The unprecedented theft of thousands of likely privileged “I can’t imagine there’s anything on them,
Trump transition emails by Special Counsel Robert S. because as we said there’s no collusion,”
Mueller’s investigators is yet more proof that the open- he added. “There was no collusion
ended fishing expedition is continuing to move forward whatsoever.”
with its effort to reverse the results of the 2016 election.
Until somebody delivers a coup de grâce to this
News of the misappropriation of the email tranches comes disgraceful coup attempt, the push could last the entirety of
weeks after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) urged that Mueller Donald Trump’s presidency. The end of the investigation
quit or be fired, saying the independent prosecutor has is nowhere in sight. Although White House lawyers had
“indisputable” conflicts of interest. said Mueller’s probe would conclude by year’s end,
members of the independent prosecutor’s team reportedly
said recently that the investigation will spill over into 2018
“We are at risk of a coup d’état in this – at least.
country if we allow an unaccountable
person with no oversight to undermine the
duly-elected president of the United Commissioned to investigate the Left’s ridiculous Trump-
States,” Gaetz said, echoing earlier Russia electoral collusion conspiracy theory, Mueller, with
remarks by writer Michael Walsh who his scorched-earth, shock-and-awe tactics, remains the
asserts the Left is engaged in a “rolling Left’s best hope to drive the 45th president of the United
coup attempt” against President Trump. States from the White House. Democrats still refuse to
accept that the irretrievably corrupt Democrat Hillary
Clinton was flattened by Republican Trump in the election
Monday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” author Mark
13 months ago. Working with the Deep State, former
Steyn said,
President Obama launched his own insurrection against the
Trump administration even before it came into being.
“I see no reason at all why a guy who is
supposed to be investigating Russian
Although there is still no evidence of wrongdoing by
interference in an election that took place Trump or of an underlying crime, Obama loyalists like
on November the 8th should be able to former attorney general, Eric Holder, are threatening to
seize, effectively, an incoming
lead potentially violent large-scale protests if President
government’s entire confidential
Trump fires the out-of-control special counsel. This is not,
communications between each other in the
as the leftist chant goes, what democracy looks like. These
period after the election took place. That
people are in effect screaming at their own straw man after
seems to be entirely unwarranted by
Democrats spent the last few days whipping up hysteria
Mueller.”
that Trump was on the verge of firing Mueller, something
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he steadfastly insists he has no intention of doing – even warns that it may be impossible to prosecute any crimes
though he has every reason and every right to give the that may be discovered because the evidence would be
swamp-dweller the boot. tainted.
The president’s lawyers reportedly realized Mueller had “The move was legally unprecedented and
obtained transition team emails from the General Services strategically reckless,” Turley writes. “In a
Administration (GSA), which hosted the 73-day-long gratuitous muscle play, Mueller may have
transition's "ptt.gov" emails, when prosecutors started added a potential complication to the use of
using them as the basis for questions posed to witnesses. evidence that could contaminate much of
According to Axios, “the fight” between Mueller’s office his investigation in any later trial.”
and the White House
All Mueller needed to do was follow the proper protocol
“involves emails from the accounts of 12 and request access to the transition emails through
officials, including members of the political channels and he would likely have gotten much of what he
leadership and foreign-policy team. One of wanted.
the accounts alone includes 7,000 emails.”
“But that is not the Mueller way,” writes
The GSA, among other things, helps to facilitate the former federal prosecutor Andrew C.
peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the McCarthy, “as we saw with the utterly
next. The Presidential Transition Acts of 1963 and 2015 unnecessary pre-dawn raid on the home of
“authorize the Administrator of GSA to provide the [former Trump campaign manager] Paul
President-elect and the Vice-President-elect the services Manafort — busting in with a search
and facilities needed to assume their official duties.” warrant and guns drawn, at the very time
Manafort was cooperating with
Mueller bypassed Trump transition officials and lawyers congressional committees, and when he
by taking it upon himself to seize thousands of emails was represented by well-respected lawyers
owned by the transition authority but held by the GSA. through whom Mueller could have
According to the National Archives “materials that requested production of whatever materials
[presidential transition team] members create or receive he was seeking.”
are not federal or presidential records, but are considered
private materials.” The GSA signs agreements with Mueller’s investigators must have known that Trump’s
transition teams, agreeing to delete “all data on transition entity, Trump for America (TFA), asserted
[computing] devices” used by transition officials. ownership and control of the presidential transition team
(PTT) records, McCarthy suggests.
“When Mueller’s people found out that the transition
records were not yet deleted,” left-wing public interest law The main issue here is not whether Mueller had the legal
professor Jonathan Turley writes, “they demanded their power to request that GSA, the third-party custodian,
surrender despite the fact that Trump officials claimed that voluntarily turn over all the PTT records to the special-
the material held privileged information that belonged to counsel investigation. It is also not whether GSA had the
the transition team and is subject to protection from authority to comply with the request. The real question is
discovery.” why did Mueller choose to proceed in this sneaky manner?
Trump transition lawyers say Richard Beckler, at the time This sneakiness was wholly unnecessary.
GSA general counsel, agreed that the transition records
were the property of the transition and that his agency had By following the correct procedures, McCarthy notes, in
no right to access or control the records. They also say the end “Mueller would have gotten whatever files he was
Beckler assured them that any demands for records from entitled to review, and Trump’s counsel would have been
Mueller’s people would be forwarded to transition permitted to withhold anything that was truly privileged.”
lawyers. GSA now denies Beckler made any such
declaration. He was hospitalized in August and has since But why follow the rules when the mainstream media
died. Trump’s attorneys claim that Mueller’s investigators treats you like a rock star?
took advantage of Beckler’s illness and seized the emails
while he was in the hospital. Mueller’s people say they
followed the rules. Mueller thinks he is above the law. And so far no one has
held him accountable.
But Turley does not seem convinced the GSA had the
authority to hand over the records to a third party and
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Witch-Hunt Russiagate
Investigation To Continue Throughout Next Year
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
12-20-17
On May 17, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein He’s accused of improperly, perhaps illegally, obtaining
appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special thousands of Trump transition team emails.
DOJ council in charge of investigating “any links and/or
coordination between” Russia and Trump’s campaign According to counsel for Trump for America (TFA)
team. attorney Kory Langhofer, “career staff at the General
Services Administration (GSA)…unlawfully produced
In over seven months, the probe cost taxpayers over $5 TFA’s private materials, including privileged
million, revealing no improper or illegal connection communications, to the special counsel’s office,” adding:
between Trump, his campaign team and the Kremlin -
because there’s nothing to find, no matter how long the His office “was aware that the GSA did not own or control
witch-hunt scam continues. the records in question,” and had no right to produce them
without TFA’s permission.
There’s plenty to hold Trump accountable for, nothing
about any disturbing relations with Russia. Its communications are private and privileged, Langhofer
maintained. It’s not a federal agency.
Yet according to individuals close to the investigation, it’ll
likely last at least through next year, maybe throughout Yet they’ve been “extensively used” by Mueller, learning
Trump’s entire term. nothing related to his probe.
How many more millions of dollars will Mueller waste on “This morning, we sent a letter to Congress
a probe going nowhere? concerning the unauthorized sharing of
private and transition emails with the
It’s part of the plot to denigrate Trump for the wrong Mueller team,” Langhofer said last
reasons, along with endless Russia bashing - sustaining Saturday.
Russophobic hysteria, duping an uninformed public to
believe most anything they’re told, as long as it’s repeated It states in part that transferring documents is “unlawful
endlessly on television and through print media. conduct that undermines the Presidential Transition Act of
1963, and will impair the ability of future presidential
Mueller represents anti-Trump/anti-Russia dark forces, a transition teams to candidly discuss policy and internal
reliable spear-carrier for deep state interests. matters that benefit the country as a whole.”
As FBI director from September 2001 - September 2013, Trump’s lawyers will meet with Mueller’s team later this
he was part of the 9/11 coverup, a cheerleader for naked week to discuss the status of its probe.
aggression on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
According to Trump’s legal team, Mueller found no
He enforced post-9/11 police state harshness, presiding evidence of collusion, obstruction or other wrongdoing in
over persecution of Muslims for their faith and ethnicity, TFA or White House documents.
the 2001 anthrax deception, and other disturbing activities
demanding condemnation and accountability not Yet the endless witch-hunt continues. A better use of time
forthcoming. and money would be to investigate the investigator’s
ulterior motives along with Hillary’s wrongdoing.
As special council, his job is denigrating Trump’s
campaign team and the president, along with providing A mountain of damning evidence exists to indict and
ammunition for endless Russia bashing - based on nothing prosecute her for high crimes. Yet no one dares lay a glove
credible. on her.
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“Rigged System”: Donald Trump Jr. Exposes The High-
Level Deep State Operation To Take Out His Father
Alex Thomas
December 20th, 2017
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Trump The Neo-Con
Dean Henderson
12/20/2017
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Why Is Eric Holder So Desperate To Prevent Mueller From
Being Fired? Because Holder Is Among Those Who Will Go
To JAIL If The Truth Comes Out
By Ethan Huff
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
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UN General Assembly To Vote On Rescinding
Trump's Jerusalem Declaration
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
12-20-2017
On Thursday, General Assembly members will meet in a GA Res. 377 was adopted by a 52 - 5 majority - “no” votes
rare emergency special session (ESS) in the wake of from Soviet Russia and four other Eastern bloc countries.
America’s veto of a SC resolution opposing Trump’s
recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. On December 19, neocon US UN envoy Nikki Haley
outrageously warned its member states, saying:
A draft resolution is expected to be adopted
overwhelmingly - America, Israel, and perhaps a few US Trump “will be watching this vote carefully and has
dominated Pacific island states alone voting against it. requested I report back on those countries who voted
against us.”
Security Council resolutions alone (with 15 members, 5
permanent, 10 rotating) are binding, not GA ones, the body “We will take note of each and every vote on this issue.”
comprised of all UN members states, so resolutions Separately, she tweeted: “The US will be taking names”
adopted represent the majority view of all nations, making during Thursday’s vote.
them significant statements carrying political weight.
Turkey and Yemen requested the ESS on behalf of the
GA Resolution 377, Uniting for Peace (1950) states in Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
cases where Security Council members fail to act as
required to maintain international peace and security, the The draft resolution mirrors the Security Council one
General Assembly shall consider the matter immediately, Washington vetoed - reaffirming the illegality of actions
and may issue recommendations it deems necessary. “alter(ing) the character, status or demographic
composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem” - by Trump’s
The GA may meet in emergency special session if it’s not recognition of the city as Israel’s capital.
convened at the time. SC veto power can’t block it. ESS
resolutions can be adopted without consent of any or all of Palestinian ambassador Riyad Mansour said he expected
the five permanent SC members. “overwhelming support” for the measure, adding:
These sessions have been convened 10 times since the UN “The General Assembly will say, without the fear of the
was established, mostly recently in 1997. veto, that the international community is refusing to accept
the unilateral position of the United States.”
The 10th ESS was adjourned and resumed numerous times
since 2000. They differ from special sessions, able to be In the wake of Washington’s SC veto, igniting a firestorm
called within 15 days of a request received by the in Occupied Palestine, Mike Pence postponed his
secretary-general. December 19 visit to Israel until mid-January.
America initiated the Uniting for Peace Resolution in He’s persona non grata in the Occupied Territories,
October 1950 to circumvent Soviet Russia vetoes during America no longer recognized by Palestinian leadership as
US aggression on North Korea, begun in June that year an honest peace broker.
when the USSR was boycotting the Security Council (from
January to August that year), unable to use its veto power It never was before and isn’t now, one-sidedly supporting
in absentia. Israel, partnering in its high crimes.
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Natural News Calls For The Arrest And Criminal
Indictment Of Rosie O’Donnell For Attempted
BRIBERY Of U.S. Senators
By JD Heyes
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
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201(b), whoever directly or indirectly, So in other words, in her lunacy, O’Donnell
corruptly gives, offers or promises anything stepped in it big time when she very
of value to any public official with intent to publicly offered to bribe two sitting U.S.
influence that person’s official act will be senators. And as such, we are now calling
fined for the offense of bribery.” on the Trump Justice Department to do
its job and prosecute this very obvious
That’s pretty much what O’Donnell did with her stupid, attempt to unduly influence the
ridiculous, ham-handed attempt to “influence” the votes of constitutional processes of our
two sitting U.S. senators. I mean, if I were a prosecutor government.
who was handed this case, the only negotiating I would be
doing with O’Donnell’s lawyers is over the amount of time There should be no excuses. Frankly, I’m surprised the
in prison she’d be spending. president hasn’t picked up the phone to Attorney General
Jeff Sessions yet and ‘requested’ this case be pursued,
Which, according to the statute, can be “a fine of an because if what O’Donnell just did doesn’t qualify as
amount not more than three times the monetary equivalent attempted bribery, then nothing does.
of the thing of value, or imprisonment for not more than
fifteen years, or both,” according to USLegal.com.
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Jordan: We Know Clinton Campaign
Paid Russia To Influence Election, ‘Most
Of Mueller’s Team Is Anti-Trump’
By Breitbart TV
20 Dec 2017
Jordan said,
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‘We'll Save A Lot’: Trump Threatens
To Stop Aid To UN Members Over Jerusalem Vote
Published Time: 20 Dec, 2017 18:23 Edited Time: 21 Dec, 2017 05:46
President Donald Trump has threatened to cut aid to UN “We don't expect those we've helped to
member states who vote against US at the upcoming UN target us,” she stated, threatening that the
General Assembly on the issue of Washington’s Jerusalem US “will be taking names” of those
move. He said the US will save “billions” in the process. “criticizing” Trump's Jerusalem decision
His threats come ahead of the rare emergency special during Thursday's vote.
session of the UNGA scheduled for Thursday. Arab and
Muslim countries requested the meeting after the US The unanimous support for the resolution in the UN
vetoed a UN Security Council resolution to rescind Security Council was an “insult” for the US, Haley said
Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Trump after vetoing the resolution. It “won’t be forgotten,” she
went ahead with his controversial declaration earlier this added. The US was the only state of the 15-member
month despite multiple warnings against doing so, drawing council to oppose the resolution.
international condemnation and stirring protests from
Muslims worldwide. “It’s one more example of the UN doing
more harm than good in addressing the
“They take hundreds of millions of dollars Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Haley claimed.
and even billions of dollars, and then they
vote against us. Well, we're watching those Trump’s Jerusalem move, however, has already drawn
votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save criticism from a host of countries which said the
a lot. We don't care,” Trump told reporters declaration itself was destructive to the Israeli-Palestinian
at the White House. peace process. Two days after the US decision, Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas refused to meet US Vice
President Mike Pence, stating Palestine will seek a new
mediator for the conflict.
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COURT DOCUMENTS: Ex-British Spy Behind Fusion
GPS Dossier Admits It Contains “Limited Intelligence”
By Joshua Caplan
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Former British spy Christopher Steele, not purport to represent) verified facts, but
who was tasked with compiling the were raw intelligence which had identified a
‘Trump dossier’ for opposition research range of allegations that warranted
firm Fusion GPS, admitted in court that investigation given their potential national
the discredited document contains security implications,” Steele wrote.
“limited intelligence.”
“Such intelligence was not actively sought;
it was merely received.”
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Trump’s Labor Board Devastated
Obama’s Pro-Union Legacy In 2017
Tim Pearce - Energy Reporter
4:35 PM 12/21/2017
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under “The idea that you cannot look at the
President Donald Trump has overturned nearly every developments in the workplace and how it
major pro-union ruling it made under former-President has changed over the past 80 years when
Barack Obama, The Washington Free Beacon reports. it comes to interpreting the law is absurd,”
New York labor rights attorney Joshua
The NLRB was able to reverse many Obama-era rulings Parkhurst told The Washington Examiner.
and restore longstanding precedents with a 3-2 Republican
majority before Chairman Philip Miscimarra’s term ended Trump had asked Miscimarra to agree to serve on the
Friday. The board is now deadlocked at 2-2 until Trump NLRB for another five-year term. Miscimarra turned the
names a new nominee. offer down to spend more time with his family.
“What the board has now done is restore In the days before Miscimarra left, the board reversed two
some of the norms [of labor law]. The decisions that departed from years of precedent. In 2011,
radical changes all occurred over the the NLRB gave unions the authority to organize “micro-
previous eight years,” Rick Grimaldi, a unions” within a company that could hold elections not
member of the Labor Relations Practice open to rest of a companies unionized employees. In 2015,
Group at Fisher Phillips, told The the NLRB voted to hold employers liable for labor
Washington Free Beacon. violations committed by franchisees or subcontractors that
don’t work directly for the company.
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GOP Member Of House Judiciary Committee
To Robert Mueller: ‘Put Up Or Shut’ About
Trump-Russia ‘Collusion’ (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 21, 2017
“If there’s not, let’s move on as a country” Moreover, Gaetz and other Republicans have voiced
concerns about the content of those texts, which appeared
to suggest a plot or scheme to keep Trump out of the
White House.
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Can The FBI Get Away With
Getting Trump Team Emails?
By Andrew P. Napolitano, Lew Rockwell
December 21, 2017
Within hours of his victory in last year’s presidential Anyone who has ever used a GSA computer is familiar
election, Donald Trump dispatched his lawyers to establish with the warning that appears on the screen at the time of
a nonprofit corporation to manage his transition from each use. It says that there is no right to privacy in the
private life to the presidency. This was done pursuant to a communications sent or received, as the electronic
federal statute that provides for taxpayer-funded assistance versions of those communications are the property of the
to the newly elected — but not yet inaugurated — federal government. This, no doubt, is the reason Hillary
president. The statutory term for the corporation is the Clinton infamously used her husband’s computer servers
presidential transition team, or PTT. during her four years at the State Department rather than
the government’s.
In addition to paying the PTT’s bills, the General Services We do not know whether Mueller’s FBI agents merely
Administration, which manages all nonmilitary federal requested the electronic data from the GSA or his
property, provided the PTT with government computers, prosecutors obtained a grand jury subpoena. If it was a
software and a computer service provider. During the simple FBI request and if the GSA simply complied, that
course of the PTT’s existence, the folks who worked for it was a lawful acquisition by the FBI of the PTT emails, yet
sent or received tens of thousands of emails. The PTT in that case, the GSA violated its fiduciary duty to inform
ceased to exist upon Trump’s inauguration, and a receiver the PTT of the request before it complied with it.
was hired to wind it down.
If the FBI came calling on the GSA with a grand jury
Last weekend, a lawyer for the receiver revealed a letter he subpoena, that means Mueller’s team must have presented
sent to Congress complaining that special counsel Robert evidence under oath to a grand jury and demonstrated that
Mueller — who is investigating whether there was any the sought-after items would more likely than not be
agreement between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin helpful to the investigation. When a grand jury issues a
that resulted in the now-well-known efforts by Russian subpoena to a custodian of records — no matter who the
intelligence to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential custodian is — it is the moral and fiduciary duty of the
election — dispatched FBI agents to the GSA looking for custodian, not the government, to inform the owner of the
copies of all the PTT’s emails and that the GSA subpoenaed items that a subpoena has been received.
surrendered them. In some cases, it is also the legal duty of the custodian to
How did this happen? inform the owner, but it apparently was not in this case. As
far as we can tell, there was no written agreement between
When the FBI is looking for documents or tangible things, the GSA and the PTT requiring the GSA to inform the
it has several legal tools available. They range in their PTT of any document requests or subpoenas. Had such a
disruptive nature from a simple request to a grand jury request been revealed, the lawyer for the receiver of the
subpoena to a judicially authorized search warrant. PTT would have had an opportunity to challenge the
government before a judge. Without that notice, there is no
The FBI request is the easiest for the government, and if
FBI agents ask you for something and you give it to them, time for the challenge.
you cannot later be heard to complain that your privacy Until 1986, it was the duty of the government when
rights regarding the things you surrendered were violated. seeking documents or tangible things from a custodian to
If they seize your documents pursuant to a subpoena or a inform the owner, as well as the custodian, of its intent.
warrant, they normally get to use what they have seized. That fair procedure gave the owner of the records time to
challenge the government before a judge. But the
The issue becomes more complex when the FBI comes
calling for documents of yours that are legally in the hands Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (which
of a custodian — such as your physician, lawyer, banker or has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting privacy),
enacted at the dawn of the digital age, did away with that
accountant. In the case of Trump’s PTT and Mueller’s
requirement.
wish for all PTT emails, the sought-after data — the
electronic copies of all the PTT’s emails — were in
custody of the GSA.
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House GOP Holding ‘SECRET TALKS’ As They
Build Criminal Case Against Senior FBI, DoJ Officials
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 21, 2017
A group of Republican House members have gathered in about their plans, but they have consulted
secret for weeks with the House’s general counsel.
The site noted further: Others believe Mueller is now conducting an impeachment
probe.
A subset of the Republican members of the
House intelligence committee, led by “I hate to use the word corrupt, but they’ve
Chairman Devin Nunes of California, has become at least so dirty that who’s
been quietly working parallel to the watching the watchmen? Who’s
committee’s high-profile inquiry into investigating these people?” Nunes said in
Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential a Fox News interview earlier this month.
election. They haven’t informed Democrats “There is no one.”
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FINALLY: AG Sessions Orders
FRESH Probe Into Uranium One Deal
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 21, 2017
According to multiple law enforcement sources, interviews Republicans in the Senate are probing the Uranium One
with FBI agents are part of the Justice Department’s efforts deal. President Donald J. Trump has also called the deal
to fulfill a pledge that an assistant attorney general gave to corrupt and pushed for an investigation.
Congress in November.
Earlier, The Hill‘s John Solomon and Circa News‘ Sara
The assistant AG promised that the department would Carter noted that Campbell had been deeply embedded in
determine whether a special counsel is warranted to look the Russian nuclear industry. While there he was able to
into the Uranium One deal, according to a senior Justice gather incriminating evidence of bribery and kickbacks to
Department official and by U.S. and Russian actors involved in getting the
Uranium One deal approved by the Obama administration.
NBC News noted further:
NBC Nes noted further that in a letter to Rep. Bob
At issue is a 2010 transaction in which the Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary
Obama Administration allowed the sale of Committee, Assistant Attorney General for Legislative
U.S. uranium mining facilities to Russia’s Affairs Stephen Boyd “said Justice Department lawyers
state atomic energy company. Hillary would make recommendations to Sessions about whether
Clinton was secretary of state at the time, an investigation should be opened or expanded, or whether
and the State Department was one of nine a special counsel should be appointed to probe a number of
agencies that agreed to approve the deal issues of concern to Republicans.”
after finding no threat to U.S. national
security. FBI agents who investigated the case have been asked in
recent weeks by Justice Department prosecutors to
describe the results of their efforts. Agents have also been
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asked if there was any improper effort to quash In October, The Hill reported further that the FBI turned up
prosecutions of the Clintons or others involved in the evidence of collusion, racketeering, bribery and payoffs
transaction. between Russian nuclear company interests tied to
President Vladimir Putin and the Clinton Foundation back
Bill and Hillary Clinton hid donations from a firm tied to in 2010.
the controversial Uranium One, as indicated in documents
obtained by The Hill. However, the paper noted, the Justice Department under
Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch sat on
the information and did not act on it.
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Prosecutors Ask FBI Agents
For Info On Uranium One Deal
By Tom Winter, Pete Williams And Ken Dilanian
December 21, 2017
On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice Hillary Clinton has denied playing any role in the decision
Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to by the State Department to approve the sale, and the State
explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal Department official who approved it has said Clinton did
investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics not intervene in the matter. That hasn't stopped some
have linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, multiple law Republicans, including President Trump, from calling the
enforcement officials told NBC News. arrangement corrupt — and urging that Clinton be
investigated.
The interviews with FBI agents are part of the Justice
Department's effort to fulfill a promise an assistant In a letter to Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the
attorney general made to Congress last month to examine House Judiciary Committee, Assistant Attorney General
whether a special counsel was warranted to look into what for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd said Justice
has become known as the Uranium One deal, a senior Department lawyers would make recommendations to
Justice Department official said. Sessions about whether an investigation should be opened
or expanded, or whether a special counsel should be
At issue is a 2010 transaction in which the Obama appointed to probe a number of issues of concern to
Administration allowed the sale of U.S. uranium mining Republicans.
facilities to Russia's state atomic energy company. Hillary
Clinton was secretary of state at the time, and the State
Department was one of nine agencies that agreed to
approve the deal after finding no threat to U.S. national
security.
As the New York Times reported in April 2015, some of On June 8, 2010, Uranium One announced it had signed an
the people associated with the deal contributed millions of agreement to sell a majority stake to the mining arm of
dollars to the Clinton Foundation. And Bill Clinton was Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy agency.
paid $500,000 for a Moscow speech by a Russian
investment bank with links to the transaction.
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At the time, Uranium One's two licensed mining On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice
operations in Wyoming amounted to about 20 percent of Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to
all uranium mining production capacity in the U.S, explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal
according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (That investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics
figure has since decreased.) have linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, multiple law
enforcement officials told NBC News.
Congressman questions reviving of Uranium One 6:21 "At every turn this storyline has been
debunked on the merits," said the
spokesman, Nick Merrill. "This latest
iteration is simply more of the right doing
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Trump's bidding for him to distract from his
own Russia problems, which are real and a
grave threat to our national security."
Baker said it was disquieting that the Sessions Justice UrAsia had soon closed deals for uranium mining rights in
Department was re-examining a case that career officials Kazakhstan. In 2006, Giustra donated $31.3 million to the
already concluded warranted no charges. Clinton Foundation.
"You'd like to think that that wouldn't The value of UrAsia shares increased seventyfold between
happen often in a mature democracy," he 2005 and 2007. Uranium One merged with UrAsia in
said. 2007, after which, says Giustra, he sold his shares and left
the company — three years before the controversial sale of
However, he pointed out that Eric Holder, President U.S. uranium mining facilities.
Obama's attorney general, ordered a new investigation into
brutal CIA interrogations after career prosecutors had Giustra has donated more than $100 million to the Clinton
looked but filed no charges in the Bush administration. In Foundation and currently sits on the foundation's board.
the end, Holder's department didn't file charges, either.
In a statement, Giustra said that he had been working on
Frank Giustra and Uranium One the purchase of mining stakes from a private Kazakh
company in early 2005, and the purchase was concluded in
late 2005.
Uranium One became a much bigger player in the uranium
market after it absorbed a company run and co-owned by
Frank Giustra, a Canadian businessman and Bill Clinton "In late 2005, I went to Kazakhstan to finish
associate, in February 2007. the negotiations of the sale," said Giustra.
"Bill Clinton flew to Almaty a few days after
I arrived in the country on another person's
Giustra was the chairman of UrAsia, a company bidding
plane … Bill Clinton had nothing to do with
for uranium rights in Kazakhstan. In 2005, after he had
the purchase of private mining stakes by a
begun negotiating for the rights, he and Bill Clinton
Canadian company."
traveled to Kazakhstan on separate planes and attended a
dinner with the country's president.
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WOW! Wife Of Fusion GPS Founder
Glenn Simpson Bragged On Facebook Her Husband
Was Behind ‘Russiagate’
By Joshua Caplan
Thursday, December 21, 2017
The wife of Fusion GPS founder Glenn deserves the lion’s share of credit for Russiagate. (She has
Simpson, Mary Jacoby, is proud of her not replied to repeated requests for comment.)
husband’s work that led to mass Trump-
Russia hysteria. Jacoby is so proud that “It’s come to my attention that some people
she felt the need to boast on Facebook still don’t realize what Glenn’s role was in
about how ‘Russiagate,’ would not exist exposing Putin’s control of Donald Trump,”
if it weren’t for her husband. Jacoby wrote. “Let’s be clear. Glenn
conducted the investigation. Glenn hired
Chris Steele. Chris Steele worked for
Glenn.”
In a Facebook post from June 24, 2017, that Tablet has Fox News reports:
seen in screenshots, Jacoby claimed that her husband
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Contacted by Fox News, investigators for In a statement to Fox News, a Justice Department
the House Permanent Select Committee on spokesperson said,
Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie
H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce “It is unusual for anyone to wear two hats
G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research as he has done recently. This person is
firm last year. The precise nature of Mrs. going to go back to a single focus—director
Ohr’s duties – including whether she of our organized crime and drug
worked on the dossier – remains unclear enforcement unit. As you know, combatting
but a review of her published works transnational criminal organizations and
available online reveals Mrs. Ohr has drug trafficking is a top priority for the
written extensively on Russia-related Attorney General.”
subjects. HPSCI staff confirmed to Fox
News that she was paid by Fusion GPS
through the summer and fall of 2016.
.
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Report: DOJ Prosecutors Probe FBI Agents About
Uranium One Deal, Clinton Connections
By Tyler O'Neil
December 21, 2017
In 2010, the Obama administration approved a A key Clinton Foundation player also helped Uranium
controversial deal giving Russian company Rosatom One grow in the years before the 2010 deal. Frank Giustra,
partial control of Canadian mining company Uranium One who has donated more than $100 million to the Clinton
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Foundation and now sits on the foundation's board, served "Is it possible that the Russians thought
as chairman of UrAsia, a company bidding for uranium they needed to do this and that it would
rights in Kazakhstan. help them? Yeah, but that doesn't mean
that it actually did," Baker said. He noted
In 2005, Giustra and Bill Clinton attended a dinner with that Eric Holder, attorney general under
the country's president. UrAsia closed deals for uranium President Obama, ordered a new
mining rights in Kazakhstan later that year, and Giustra investigation into CIA interrogations carried
donated $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation in 2006. out under President Bush after prosecutors
had filed no charges against the Bush
administration.
UrAsia shares skyrocketed seventyfold between 2005 and
2007, and merged with Uranium One in 2007. Giustra said
he sold his shares and left UrAsia shortly after it merged Interestingly, the FBI rushed to arrest a Russian spy ring
with Uranium One. getting close to Hillary Clinton at the time of the Uranium
One deal.
"In late 2005, I went to Kazakhstan to finish
the negotiations of the sale," Giustra said. The Mueller investigation is arguably a case of "lawfare"
"Bill Clinton flew to Almaty a few days later against the Trump administration, similar to the Obama
I arrived in the country on another person's investigation into the Bush CIA and similar to the pending
plane ... Bill Clinton had nothing to do with Uranium One investigation into Hillary Clinton. Political
the purchase of private mining stakes by a opponents often engage in legal investigations as an
Canadian company." attempt to discredit their political enemies.
Defenders of the Uranium One deal argue that the The Clinton camp's response to Uranium One
Russians don't have a license to export the uranium out of investigations — that this is a "debunked" story distracting
the U.S., and that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from real matters of national security — mimics the Trump
found no risk to national security. Clinton herself said she deflections on the Mueller investigation well.
was not involved in the deliberations and played no role in
the decision. It may be that analysts on the Right rush to connect the
breadcrumbs in Uranium One in much the same way as
"Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on analysts on the Left rush to connect the breadcrumbs in
any C.F.I.U.S. matter," Jose Fernandez, a Trump-Russia. The evidence for bribery in the case of
former assistant secretary of state, told the Uranium One seems much more firmly established than
Times in 2015. the evidence for treason in Trump-Russia, however.
Hillary Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill insisted that any Interestingly, Mueller was at the helm of the FBI during
corruption associated with the Uranium One deal is a the Uranium One deal, and may have been involved in
"debunked" story. hiding and downplaying the Russia uranium scandals at
the time. PJ Media's Roger Simon has called for Mueller to
recuse himself from the Trump-Russia investigation for
"At every turn this storyline has been
this reason.
debunked on the merits," Merrill told NB
News. "This latest iteration is simply more
of the right doing Trump's bidding for him to In any case, if Mueller is going to drag out the Trump-
distract from his own Russia problems, Russia investigation, why should Sessions' DOJ not
which are real and a grave threat to our investigate Uranium One? Clinton's Russia connections
national security." are at least as bad as Trump's alleged collusion. Shouldn't
the public be allowed to learn more?
Stewart Baker, a former lawyer in the George W. Bush
administration and a CFIUS expert, said he doubted that
the Uranium One deal ever reached Clinton's desk.
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After Calling Tax Plan ‘Fantasy,’
NBC Dismisses Proof It Was Wrong
By Kyle Drennen
December 21, 2017 1:00 PM EST
After NBC’s Today co-host Savannah Guthrie accused bill was already having the positive economic impact that
House Speaker Paul Ryan of “living in a fantasy world” on Republicans promised:
Wednesday for predicting that tax reform legislation would
encourage businesses to raise wages for their employees, Listen, they’re doing something, but
on Thursday, the network morning show tried its best to they’re literally doing the least they can
deny the reality that several major companies announced do....But we have to take a step back,
that they would be doing exactly that. this is day one. And from a PR
perspective, you’re darn right those
During a report on reaction to the major Republican companies should have done
legislative accomplishment, correspondent Kristen Welker something. They, without a doubt, have
noted: a relationship with the White House.
They know that there were protesters in
“Republicans are betting the benefits to Washington, that people are going, “Hold
business will trickle down and boost on a second, my taxes are gonna go up
individuals and the economy.” and corporations are gonna get billions of
dollars less they have to pay? What are
you going to do for me?” So this is a great
She then acknowledged:
gesture on the part of these companies,
but thus far, it’s a gesture.
“AT&T and NBC’s parent company,
Comcast, announcing employee bonuses,
After Ruhle dismissed the significant business moves as
something the legislation doesn’t require.”
merely “PR,” Guthrie chimed in with her own conspiracy
theory about why at least one of the companies was really
being so generous:
Ruhle agreed:
it’s kind of some gimmicks here. I mean, Perhaps AT&T was simply following through on
I don’t think we should overstate the something that it had already promised to do if tax reform
significance. passed.
It’s good, it’s positive. But we shouldn’t overstate the ABC’s Good Morning America was the only network
significance. morning show to unequivocally report the business
bonuses as good news.
At the top of the 8 a.m. ET hour, Fortune magazine’s
Senior Editor at Large Leigh Gallagher joined the program “President Trump praising AT&T for
and advanced the narrative that the employee bonuses promising to share the wealth from the
were just PR: corporate tax cut with their workers, and
other companies are doing the same,” fill-in
So I think this really speaks to – you know, co-host Amy Robach announced.
there’s been an enormous amount of public
disaffection with this bill. Correspondent Rebecca Jarvis explained:
There’s an incredible feeling that it favors
businesses and it favors the wealthy, which “Yes, a number of companies have rushed
it does....you can almost see that these to announce special bonuses and wage
companies are sort of writing the tweets hikes in the aftermath of the tax bill...”
for the President because this is sort of a
line straight to his heart. They are showing Robach wrapped up the segment by emphasizing:
right away that, look, this is for – you
know, the tax cut is passed on one day, “Alright, this all sounds like very good
day two it rains money for American news.”
workers.
Jarvis added:
Fill-in co-host Anthony Mason fretted:
“For a lot of people.”
“What’s the likelihood then, that once you
get past this initial PR phase that this will
be a pattern of behavior?” Gallagher
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Apparently, simply admitting that the Republican tax plan in charge. This is a relationship. It’s a very positive move, it’s a
was having a positive impact was far too difficult for NBC great PR move. It’s not long term, yet.
and CBS to handle.
(...)
Here are excerpts of the December 21 coverage from both
networks:
CBS This Morning
Today 7:07 AM ET
7:10 AM ET
RUHLE: That’s not being cynical. They’ve got a merger. We LEIGH GALLAGHER [FORTUNE SENIOR EDITOR AT LARGE]:
know that the President has an issue with CNN. The Department Well, it’s interesting. So I think this really speaks to – you know,
of Justice has gotten in the mix. Comcast has benefitted. Just there’s been an enormous amount of public disaffection with this
last week, you asked me, who benefits from the net neutrality? bill. There’s an incredible feeling that it favors businesses and it
Big media companies. So Comcast is doing something. Boeing, favors the wealthy, which it does. But you know, AT&T is an
huge contracts with the government. And Wells Fargo, Fifth Third interesting example. It’s locked in a fight over whether it will be
Bank, they certainly like that the CFPB now has Mick Mulvaney allowed to acquire Time Warner. So this – look, this is a big deal
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and AT&T also said it’s gonna invest a billion dollars here in the GALLAGHER: They’re not. No, no, no, they’re not. And –
U.S. next year, in addition to the bonuses.
MASON: What’s the likelihood then, that once you get past this
O’DONNELL: And in fairness to Randall Stephenson, the CEO of initial PR phase that this will be a pattern of behavior?
AT&T, I was with him before they tried to block that deal and he
was already talking about reinvesting in workers before that. GALLAGHER: Well, that – there’s a lot of skepticism around that.
But I will say also those companies, it’s not just bonuses, some of
GALLAGHER: Exactly. But you know, you can almost see that them are raising the minimum wage. So that is a significant –
these companies are sort of writing the tweets for the President
because this is sort of a line straight to his heart. They are KING: Wells Fargo.
showing right away that, look, this is for – you know, the tax cut is
passed on one day, day two it rains money for American workers.
GALLAGHER: Yeah. And so – but the big criticism is that
companies will use this money to reinvest by buying back their
GAYLE KING: But companies are under no obligation to do that, stock and by paying dividends. And we’re sort of in an era of
though. financial engineering and capital finds the way that it’s – you
know, flows to the way it’s most useful.
MASON: Correct.
(...)
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James Woods SLAMS “Pompous Blowhard”
#Nevertrumper Bill Kristol For Attacking
Trump’s Tax Bill
By Cristina Laila
Thursday, December 21, 2017
#NeverTrumper elitist blowhards like “Only an elitist cupcake like you would think
Bill Kristol are miserable over Trump’s having a bonus is “creepy.” Try actually
successful tax bill. It only further proves working for a living, you pompous
they are on the wrong side of history. blowhard. It would amaze you how
important a salary and bonus can be.”
Bill Kristol’s “inner Socialist” slipped out again. He
attacked the positive response many corporations had
yesterday announcing bonuses to employees and increases
in capital spending.
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According to Bill Kristol, innovation, increases in capital to $15, and distribute one-time bonus of
spending and giving bonuses to hard working employees $1,000 to more than 13,500 employees.”
when a corporation has access to more money is “creepy”.
More winning! Comcast announced it
Let that sink in.
will invest a whopping $50 billion into
infrastructure projects over the next five
A quick recap of just a few of the corporations positively years due to the Republicans’ tax plan.
responding to Trump’s tax bill: The media giant will also give $1000
bonuses to more than 100,000
AT&T quickly responded to this employees.
historical tax cut and announced
Wednesday it will be issuing over A $1,000 bonus can be life-changing for many people who
200,000 U.S. employees a special $1,000 live on tight budgets. Only an elitist far removed from the
bonus and will also increase US capital reality of many struggling Americans would act like Bill
spending by $1 billion. Kristol.
Also, thanks to Republicans passing
historic tax reform, Boeing has Strange, Bill Kristol has never said it’s
announced a new $300 million “creepy” that the U.S. government
investment initiative. rewards illegal aliens by giving them
free everything, yet hard working,
There’s more… Fifth Third
employed Americans receiving a bonus
Bancorp announced it will “raise its
from their employer is “creepy”. That’s
minimum hourly wage for all employees
all you need to know about the mindset
of a #NeverTrumper.
.
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'My God, Is That SNL?' CNN's Lemon Laughs At
Supposedly Extreme GOP Praise For Trump
By Tim Graham
December 21, 2017 4:25 PM EST
Republicans celebrated a big win on Wednesday, and CNN (Laughs) -- what is going on here?! By the
Tonight anchor Don Lemon responded by mocking it as a way, you gentlemen look so handsome.
“festival of flattery” for an egotistical president. Lemon You're such fantastic historians. I am just
pretended that this kind of gushing over a president has honored to be on television with you.
never been done in modern times, as if Lemon’s never
watched network TV coverage of the Obamas, or the Isn't that fairly typical praise when major legislation
Clintons, or the Kennedys. passes? Did Lemon forget Joe Biden saying Obamacare
was a "big f---ing deal"? The Democrats had T-shirts
made.
This is the same Don Lemon who at this time three years
ago proclaimed of the Obamas, "They are America's first
couple, the closest thing that we have to royalty." New
York Times columnist Charles Blow shot back, "You're
going to get in so much trouble for calling the Obamas
royals." At the time, our Scott Whitlock pointed out that
when Chelsea Clinton had a baby earlier in 2014, they
gushed about the Clintons as royalty and a dynasty.
DON LEMON: There was a festival of Lemon could just focus on his own network. CNN's David
flattery on the White House lawn today to Gergen oozed over Obama's 2008 convention speech:
celebrate the passage of the Republican
tax cut bill. “In many ways, it was less a speech than a
symphony....It was a masterpiece." In
HOUSE SPEAKER PAUL RYAN:
2011, CNN's Piers Morgan told Obama
Something this big, something this
aide David Axelrod, "I always feel he's got
generational, something this profound
so many pluses, doesn't he? In a sense,
could not have been done without exquisite
he's personable, he's handsome, he can be
presidential leadership. Mr. President,
funny. You know, abroad he has this great
thank you for getting us over the finish line.
image for America. A lot of things are just
REP. DIANE BLACK: Thank you, President perfect about Barack Obama." Four years
Trump, for allowing us to have you as our ago, CNN's Piers Morgan pondered a
president and to make America great presidential run by lumpy Chris Christie
again. "after the perfect Barack Obama -- who’s a
SEN. ORRIN HATCH: You're one heck of a perfect physical specimen to many people's
leader, and we're all benefiting from it. This eyes."
bill could not have passed without you.
Brinkley said Trump has a 35 percent approval rating and
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE:
hasn’t done anything notable this year, “But it's worth
President Donald Trump delivered a great
high-fiving. It is an historic victory. But I think the
victory for the American people.
exaggeration of having to kiss the ring of Donald Trump,
LEMON: My God. Is that SNL? Is that real?
Complimenting President Trump has it almost seems like a scene out of The
become something of a ritual at the White Godfather we just saw, not what you
House, but have other presidents expected would expect from the president of a
such praise? Let's discuss now with CNN democracy.”
presidential historians Timothy Naftali and
Douglas Brinkley. I mean, listen, you
Timothy Naftali compared it to Nixon, not the Democrats:
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“I haven't heard this kind of sycophancy MARGARET HOOVER: No, exactly. Look, this is sad.
since I listened to the Nixon tapes, This is really, really sad.
where Henry Kissinger is telling the
president what a remarkable human being LEMON: It is embarrassing, isn't it?
he is.”
HOOVER: It’s really sad. And, you know there was a time
Naftali added Trump was insecure: where conservatives like me who really supported people
like Paul Ryan and the center-right and believed that they
“I think one of the lessons that Congress were getting, they were supporting President Trump in
learned was that this president is insecure, order to deliver on their principles, right? And so in order
and that if you want to work with this to get the kind of tax reform done that we talked about for
president, you have to make him feel great 30 years, you know, they had to cooperate with the
about himself. And they didn't do it in the Republican President in order to be -- so it was actually
health care debate. And they decided to do harder for them to be with Trump in order to deliver. And
it over tax cuts.” then they didn’t!
Lemon was so amazed by these pretty standard clips of So this just undermines [underlines?]
praise at a victory celebration that he reprised his the fact that they totally sold out their
amazement in the 11 pm hour with the husband-and-wife principles.
CNN analysts John Avlon and Margaret Hoover. He
laughed out loud when the clip package ended. LEMON: Why would they do that?
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"A Stunning Rebuke":
128 Nations Support UN Call For Trump To Withdraw
Jerusalem Decision
By Tyler Durden
Dec 21, 2017 12:57 PM
One day after Trump escalated his war of words with the
UN, threatening to cut off foreign financial aid over As reported yesterday, in the runup to the General
today's UN vote on the president's decision to recognize Assembly vote, Trump and US Ambassador to the UN,
Jerusalem the capital of Israel, the United Nations on Nikki Haley, warned countries against opposing the Trump
Thursday delivered what has been dubbed a "stunning administration's Jerusalem decision.
rebuke" of the US President's Jerusalem decision, voting
overwhelmingly to condemn the move and calling on the
Haley went so far as sending a letter to
U.S. to withdraw the decision.
members of the international body this
week, warning that Trump had
instructed her to take names, i.e., list
the countries that voted in favor of the
resolution. The president followed up on
that warning on Wednesday, suggesting at
a Cabinet meeting that the U.S. could cut
off foreign aid for countries that
opposed the U.S. in the vote.
"They take hundreds of millions of dollars
and even billions of dollars, and then they
vote against us," Trump said. "Well, we're
watching those votes. Let them vote
The final vote was a landslide against Israel, with some against us, we’ll save a lot. We don't care."
128 nations voting in favor of the resolution. Nine
countries opposed the resolution while 35 abstained. The threat did little to stop the countries
from voting to blast Trump's decision.
Only Israel, Honduras, Togo, U.S., Palau, Marshall
Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Guatemala voted against
Jerusalem resolution. Two-thirds of UN member states
including Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium,
Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Spain and Greece
voted in favor of the resolution. Canada abstained.
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In a defiant speech ahead of the General Assembly vote on Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move
Thursday, Riyad Al Maliki, the Palestinian foreign affairs its embassy there.
minister, cast the Trump administration’s Jerusalem
“America will put our embassy in
decision as an affront on regional peace and security that
Jerusalem. That is what the American
has isolated the U.S. from the international community.
people want us to do, and it is the right
thing to do,” she said ahead of the vote.
“Does the United States not wonder “No vote in the United Nations will make
why it stands isolated in this any difference on that. But this vote will
position?” he asked. make a difference in how Americans view
the U.N.”
Turkey, which has led the Muslim opposition to the US
Jerusalem declaration, was among the first to speak at the Haley reminded UN members of the US’ generous
meeting. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu contributions to the organization and said that the United
stressed that only a two-state solution and sticking to the States expects its will to be respected in return.
1967 borders can be a foundation for a lasting peace
between Israel and Palestine. The minister said that since “When we make a generous contributions
Jerusalem is the cradle for the “three monotheistic to the UN, we also have a legitimate
religions,” all of humanity should come together to expectation that our goodwill is recognized
preserve the status quo. and respected,” Haley said, adding that the
vote will be “remembered” by the US and
“The recent decision of a UN member “make a difference on how the Americans
state to recognize Jerusalem as the look at the UN.”
capital of Israel violates the
international law, including all relevant Ahead of the vote, Israeli PM Netanyahu called the UN a
UN resolutions. This decision is an
outrageous assault on all universal
values,” Cavusoglu said. "house of lies."
"The State of Israel rejects outright this
The US threats were also condemned by Turkey, with the vote, even before it passes," he said at a
country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stating that ceremony in southern Israel. "The attitude
Trump “cannot buy Turkey's democratic will.” to Israel of many nations in the world, in
all the continents, is changing outside
“I hope and expect the United States won't of the UN walls, and will eventually filter
get the result it expects from there (the UN into the UN as well -- the house of lies,"
General Assembly) and the world will give he said.
a very good lesson to the United States,” "Jerusalem is our capital, we will continue
Erdogan said during a speech in Ankara on to build in it and embassies of countries,
Thursday ahead of the meeting. led by the US, will move to Jerusalem,"
Netanyahu said, thanking Trump and US
A spokesman for Palestine president Mahmud Abbas ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley for
triumphantly declared that the "standing by Israel and the truth."
"UN Vote is a victory for Palestine." Israeli envoy to the UN Danny Danon stated that Israel
considers Jerusalem its capital, dating back to Biblical
*** times, and the US decision only outlines the obvious.
Danon went further and accused the UN of “double
standards” and an “unbreakable bond of hypocrisy” with
Despite being isolated by virtually the entire international Palestine and prejudice against Israel.
community, in her blunt response,
“Those who support today’s resolution are
Haley warned the international body that like puppets. You’re puppets pulled by the
the U.S. would remember the vote as a strings of your Palestinian puppet masters.
betrayal by the U.N., and that the vote You’re like marionettes forced to dance,
would do nothing to affect the Trump while the Palestinian leadership looks on
administration’s decision to recognize with glee,” Danon told the gathering.
.
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“WORSE Than Watergate!”: Rand Paul Calls For “High
Ranking” Obama Officials To Be Investigated For
“Colluding” Against Trump
By Joshua Caplan
Thursday, December 21, 2017
With tax reform a done-deal and the wind “You know, we’ve had this investigation
at his back, Senator Rand Paul came out about Russian collusion, maybe we need
swinging against the Obama an investigation about high-ranking Obama
administration. officials colluding to try to prevent Trump
from being president,” Paul added.
Paul said he wants answers as to why
Mueller’s investigation into alleged Trump- “That’s more serious than even Watergate.”
Russia collusion appears so obviously
partisan […]
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Tom Brokaw: Conservative Media
On A ‘Jihad’ Against FBI, Mueller
By Chris Reeves
December 21, 2017 4:38 PM EST
On Thursday’s Morning Joe, the show’s liberal pundits very long time and your president with a 33% approval
continued their smear campaign targeting congressional rating. Uh, but Michael Schmidt, I'm a little confused. I'm
lawmakers and journalists who have been trying to reveal just a dumb country lawyer, but I thought this FBI, uh, was
the full extent of political bias within the FBI that may the same FBI we heard last week had warned Donald
have adversely affected its investigations of Hillary Trump during the campaign about the Russians trying to
Clinton and Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential interfere with this campaign.
campaign. Working with the knowledge that there is now
an official congressional investigation into the FBI and MICHAEL SCHMIDT: Yeah. I think that you
DOJ’s conduct last year, co-host Joe Scarborough and his can’t underestimate the impact that these
guest panelists went into overdrive to paint any disclosures about Pete Strzok, the top
questioning of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his counterintelligence agent at the FBI with
investigative team’s professionalism as an illegitimate, these text messages he was exchanging, it
desperate, and futile attempt to save Trump’s presidency. has really given the Republicans a
Former veteran NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw had talking point to attack the FBI in a way
some especially harsh words for Fox News’s recent that they didn't have before. And it has
coverage of FBI corruption, really become the rallying cry and I think
has encouraged them, enthused them, that
claiming that the network “is on a jihad maybe there is a way that they can
right now” against Mueller and his undercut Mueller by continuing to attack
agents. this.
SCARBOROUGH: But, but, but Michael,
For his part, Scarborough was satisfied with a slightly less help me out here. Help me out here. It
theological analogy to attack congressional Republicans, seems to me that they're just throwing
who he compared to “monkeys throwing poo against the whatever they can like monkeys
wall” for openly doubting Mueller’s handling of his throwing poo against the wall. Last
investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion: week, it was Textgate scandal. And then
we found out actually that those texts were
improperly released. And actually, they
were attacking Bernie Sanders and
Hillary Clinton as well. That's okay, so
they move on to something else. Like,
what exactly is the scandal? They're,
they’re just making things up every
week.
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however, that its agents dragged their feet outright disinformation about criticisms of Mueller and the
on reviewing Weiner’s laptop in order to FBI:
force Comey to act—or of its bias toward
either of the 2016 presidential 7:16 AM
candidates. The New York field office
held Clinton and Trump in nearly equal
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, Jeremy Peters, talk about the
disdain. “In 2016, the New York agents
discomfort on the Hill that some senior Republicans have
thought Hillary is corrupt and Trump is
at some of the more junior members attacking the men and
crazy—he’s in New York and they know
women at the FBI and going after an American war hero,
him well,” a top veteran of the city’s office
um, Bob Mueller. Um, talk about the discomfort that some
said. “So in the primary there was a
Republicans are feeling.
majority of agents for Bernie Sanders.”
PETERS: Well, what they'll say to you
Given the fact that Peter Strzok, the lead investigator of
privately, Joe, is the same thing they said
Hillary Clinton’s alleged mishandling of classified
after Trump's attacks on Judge Curiel, that
information as Secretary of State, hated Trump, hated
this is an unwarranted and, really,
Sanders, and wanted Clinton to win the election, it stands
constitutionally dangerous attack by
to reason that this political bias could have tainted Strzok’s
somebody on an independent branch of
judgement. According to reporting by CNN, there is
government, an independent entity in
already concrete evidence to suggest that Strzok’s feelings
the government. It’s, and it’s -- and it
were not properly kept separate from his investigation
violates the separations that are
[emphasis mine]:
supposed to exist. You know, to Susan’s
point about Mueller and how he doesn't
A former top counterintelligence expert at the FBI, now at care, that may be true, but you know who
the center of a political uproar for exchanging private else doesn't care? Donald Trump. And
messages that appeared to mock President Donald Trump, Donald Trump is living in a world right
changed a key phrase in former FBI Director James now that is fed by the conservative
Comey's description of how former secretary of state media hysteria over Bob Mueller and his
Hillary Clinton handled classified information, according alleged ties to Democrats, the attorneys
to US officials familiar with the matter. who work for him who donated to
Democrats. This has been a narrative
Electronic records show Peter Strzok, who led the that has built up on a single cable news
investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server as network and in the conservative radio
the No. 2 official in the counterintelligence division, sphere over the last several months, that
is: This man cannot be trusted. He is
changed Comey's earlier draft language politically tainted and therefore unable to
describing Clinton's actions as "grossly objectively investigate the President, that
negligent" to "extremely careless," the this is a witch hunt. And that -- and Donald
sources said. Trump marinates in that all day long. He
hears it on Hannity. He hears it on Laura
Ingraham. He -- in, in, in Breitbart. I mean,
(...)
it is, it -- inescapable for him. And it's hard
for me to imagine that eventually that
The shift from "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless," doesn't affect his thinking and his
which may appear pedestrian at first glance, reflected a judgment.
decision by the FBI that could have had potentially
significant legal implications,
Peters committed at least three major errors of fact that I
can pick out.
as the federal law governing the
mishandling of classified material
First, neither the FBI nor the Justice Department are
establishes criminal penalties for "gross
independent branches or entities within the federal
negligence."
government. Both the FBI and the Justice Department are
constitutionally subordinate to the President because they
Hey Joe, if you’re curious about what exactly the scandal fall under his executive authority to oversee federal law
is, you don’t have to tune in to watch monkeys flinging enforcement. Because of the President’s decision to fire
poop at anybody. You can just watch CNN. James Comey earlier this year, some legal commentators
have suggested changing this aspect of the structure of the
Thursday’s Morning Joe did not get any better when New executive branch.
York Times reporter Jeremy Peters came on to spread
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Second, “conservative media” have not been the only ones Mueller's reputation across the board
to scrutinize Mueller and the FBI’s conduct. Fox News and has [sic] enormous amount of integrity.
Breitbart have certainly focused on stories about FBI
corruption more than other news establishments, but the BRZEZINSKI: The President just tweeted, Tom – I just want your
L.A. Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, reaction here – “Was @foxandfriends just named the most
Business Insider, and many more politically diverse outlets influential show in news? You deserve it - three great people!
have contributed important reporting as well. The many Fake News Hate Shows” could “study your formula for
success!” Tom?
Third, Mueller’s ties to Democrats are not “alleged.” The
Special Counsel’s own office has provided information to BROKAW: Well, he watches Fox News
reporters confirming that most of Mueller’s legal team because it reinforces what he believes.
have made political contributions to Democratic And, Fox News, after Shepard Smith in
candidates, including “three [who] gave a total of $18,100 the late afternoon, is on a jihad right
to either [Hillary Clinton’s] 2016 campaign or her 2008 now on the whole question about
run for the presidential nomination.” whether there's a fairness about this or
not,
If there is really nothing to be worried about regarding
allegations of political bias at the FBI or among Mueller’s the transfer of uranium, for example, to, um, Ira-, to Iran. Shep
legal team, why did Peters have to repeatedly lie about Smith has gone in some detail to say: It did not happen. She
easily verifiable facts? didn't have the authority to do that. That ends at 4:30 or 5:00 or
whenever he gets off the air, and then from then on,-
Near the end of the second hour of Joe’s broadcast,
Brokaw finally came on to discuss the issues of the day BRZEZINSKI: What happens?
with Mika Brzezinski, which included his designation of
Fox News as a jihadi network: BROKAW: -the whole assault is on the
institutions. I mean, Newt Gingrich,
looking into the,-
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Trump Threatens Aid Cuts To UN
Members Who Vote Against Him On Jerusalem
Written By Jason Ditz
December 21, 2017 At 5:37 Am
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FBI Fires Suspected Leaker
And Comey Ally James Baker
By Tyler Durden
Dec 22, 2017 9:31 AM
James Baker
told Circa that Baker is the top suspect Strzok played important roles with both
in an ongoing leak investigation, investigations. Later, it was revealed
that his edits to Clinton’s exoneration
but Circa has not been able to confirm the details of what letter went further than had been
national security information or material was allegedly previously disclosed.
leaked.
According to WaPo,
A federal law enforcement official with
knowledge of ongoing internal Baker told colleagues he will be taking
investigations in the bureau told Circa, on other duties at the FBI.
"the bureau is scouring for leakers and Unsurprisingly, the Jeff Bezos-owned
there's been a lot of investigations."
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paper describes Baker as “one of the It's notable that Baker’s departure comes six months after
most trusted, longest-serving national the leaking scandal, and just days after AG Jeff Sessions
security officials in the US. He has reportedly asked DOJ prosecutors to begin asking FBI
served as the head of the FBI’s Office of agents about the details of the Uranium One investigation.
General Counsel for several years." A sign that the bureau is finally moving to address
concerns expressed by Republican lawmakers about bias
Of course, WaPo says Baker’s reassignment has nothing to that may have favored Clinton.
do with the leak investigation, which ended without any
publicly disclosed findings. It’s also unclear what, exactly, Baker’s head is the third to roll in the “housecleaning” that
Baker was suspected of leaking. saw the FBI sanction Strzok and Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ
official who reportedly concealed his wife’s ties to
Baker is reportedly a very close to opposition research firm Fusion GPS – the firm that
former FBI director James B. Comey, supervised the creation of the infamous “Trump dossier."
who asked Baker to be his general
counsel. The two men were colleagues at It was also revealed recently that Baker’s name is on a list
the Justice Department and when they of DOJ officials who are expected to receive a subpoena to
were out of government at Bridgewater testify before the House Intelligence Committee. Strzok
Associates, an investment management and Ohr’s names are also on that list.
firm.
If that’s any indication of what’s to come, we doubt this
will be the last time we hear Baker’s name.
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GOP Lawmaker: No Question There Was “An
Orchestrated Plan” Hatched By FBI, Doj To Keep Trump
OUT Of Oval Office
By JD Heyes
Saturday, December 23, 2017
As time goes on and we learn ever more about the Russia collusion,” Jordan, along with Rep. Trey Gowdy,
shenanigans that took place during last year’s presidential R-S.C.,
election cycle, it’s becoming clear to thinking people
everywhere: There definitely was “collusion” but none of “presented scores of examples where bias
it was conducted by the Trump campaign. against President Donald J. Trump obviously
exists within the group of investigators and
In fact, the most damning evidence of collusion can be prosecutors Mueller has assembled for his
found not with Russia per se, but within our own probe, but well before it began, extending into
government, or, more specifically, within the confines of last year’s high-profile criminal investigation of
Barack Obama’s government. Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified
information and surveillance of the Trump
That’s the conclusion of Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who has campaign,” Trump.news reported.
been hot on the trails of DC Swamp creatures whom he
believes actively plotted against President Donald J. “The reason we have special counsel is
Trump and in favor of the most despicable criminal never because of a conflict of interest,” Gowdy said.
to be charged, Hillary “Rotten” Clinton. “We don’t like conflicts of interest because it
undermines people’s confidence in both the
During an appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends process and the result.
morning show earlier this week, Jordan said that he
believes there were ranking figures within the FBI and “And then, lo and behold, those that are
Department of Justice who “were putting together a plan to supposed to make sure there are no conflicts of
stop Donald Trump from being the next president of the interest seem to have a bit of their own,” Gowdy
United States.” noted further.
“I think it’s amazing in spite of the fact that the In his Fox & Friends interview, Jordan discussed other
Democrats were against him, the Republican evidence of a conspiracy, especially surrounding the FBI’s
establishment was against him, the mainstream use of the never-confirmed but widely-debunked “Trump
press was against him. and now I believe the dossier.” (Related: Expert: Bogus Trump ‘dossier’ was
FBI and the Justice Department were against NOT ‘just opposition research’ but used by FBI to launch
him, the American people still said that’s the ‘collusion’ probes)
guy we want to be the next president,” he said,
as reported by Breitbart News. “…[E]verything points to — from what we
learned several weeks ago that they paid to the
As reported by Trump.news, Jordan and other GOP dossier to the fact that I believe that fake
lawmakers are starting to put together the extent of dossier was used as the basis to get Warren to
outright, blatant corruption within Obama’s highly now what we learn about Peter Strzok and
politicized FBI and Justice Department following months’ Bruce Ohr and the FBI and the Justice
worth of damning reports. Department, respectively,” he said, continuing,
“Everything points to the fact that there was an
During a recent appearance by Deputy Attorney General orchestrated plan to try to prevent Donald
Rod Rosenstein before the House Judiciary Committee to Trump from becoming the President of the
answer questions regarding special counsel Robert United States.”
Mueller’s ongoing (and bogus) investigation into “Trump-
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Then Jordan noted something that should be obvious to for a fact the Clinton campaign paid Russians.
everyone with the exception of Left-wing Democrats and They paid Christopher Steele through the law
hacks: No evidence whatsoever of Trump-Russia firm, though Fusion GPS they paid Christopher
“collusion” has yet to be found, and it would have been by Steele who actually paid Russians for this false,
now, given all the leaking by the Deep State to harm fake dossier information.”
Trump.
Jordan added that he wants key figures in this scandal
“To date, there’s not one bit of evidence that subpoenaed so that they are forced to explain, under oath,
Donald Trump worked with the Russians to what they did last year.
influence the election,” he said. “But we know
.
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Sen. Rand Paul Declares Obama Officials’ Effort To Derail
Trump Campaign “WORSE Than Watergate”
By JD Heyes
Sunday, December 24, 2017
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Trump Slams FBI,
Clinton For 'Garbage' Dossier
By Josh Delk
12/26/17 09:01 AM EST
President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the FBI and the it alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow
Clinton campaign on the Russia dossier compiled against that eventually became the focus of the project.
him and his 2016 campaign.
Some Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee,
"WOW, @foxandfriends 'Dossier is bogus. Clinton which has investigated witnesses in connection with the
dossier, have begun to probe into the FBI's and Justice
Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all
Department's handling of the look into the claims included
of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF in the document.
RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.' And
they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis BuzzFeed News published the controversial dossier in
for going after the Trump Campaign!" Trump tweeted, the January, which includes many salacious claims that have
latest in his ongoing smear on the FBI. not been verified.
Trump has also targeted the FBI in recent weeks for what
many Republican lawmakers believe was a biased and
politically motivated approach to its investigation of
collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
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Trump Slams "Crooked Hillary
Pile Of Garbage"-Funded "Bogus" Dossier
By Tyler Durden
Dec 26, 2017 6:59 PM
Having taken a shot at The FBI on Christmas Eve Eve... (2) In June of this year, former FBI director James Comey
testified that the dossier was “salacious and unverified.”
While still director, Comey had described the dossier the
same way when he briefed President-elect Trump on it in
January 2017. If the dossier was still unverified as late as
mid 2017, its allegations could not possibly have been
verified months earlier, in the late summer or early
autumn of 2016, when it appears that the FBI and DOJ
used them in an application to the FISA court.
As a reminder, we know three things for sure: But that is just the beginning of the bias story.
(1) The Steele dossier was a Clinton campaign product. At a high level, the DOJ and FBI were in the tank for
If it was used by the FBI and the Obama Justice Hillary Clinton. In July 2016, shortly before Steele’s
Department to obtain a FISA warrant, that would mean reports started floating in, the FBI and DOJ announced that
law-enforcement agencies controlled by a Democratic no charges would be brought against Mrs. Clinton despite
president fed the FISA court political campaign material damning evidence that she mishandled classified
produced by the Democratic candidate whom the president information, destroyed government files, obstructed
had endorsed to succeed him. Partisan claims of egregious congressional investigations, and lied to investigators. The
scheming with an adversarial foreign power would have irregularities in the Clinton-emails investigation are legion:
been presented to the court with the FBI’s imprimatur, as if President Obama making it clear in public statements that
they were drawn from refined U.S. intelligence reporting. he did not want Clinton charged; the FBI, shortly
The objective would have been to spy on the opposition afterwards, drafting an exoneration of Clinton months
Republican campaign. before the investigation ended and central witnesses,
including Clinton herself, were interviewed; investigators
failing to use the grand jury to compel the production of
key evidence; the DOJ restricting FBI agents in their lines
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of inquiry and examination of evidence; the granting of sheer contempt for Trump. This concatenation led the FBI
immunity to suspects who in any other case would be and DOJ to believe Steele — to want to believe his
pressured to plead guilty and cooperate against more- melodramatic account of Trump-Russia corruption. For the
culpable suspects; the distorting of criminal statutes to faithful, it was a story too good to check.
avoid applying them to Clinton; the sulfurous tarmac
meeting between Attorney General Lynch and former The DOJ and FBI, having dropped a criminal
President Clinton shortly before Mrs. Clinton was given a investigation that undeniably established Hillary
peremptory interview — right before then–FBI director Clinton’s national-security recklessness, managed
Comey announced that she would not be charged. simultaneously to convince themselves that Donald
Trump was too much of a national-security risk to be
The blatant preference for Clinton over Trump president.
smacked of politics and self-interest. Deputy FBI
director McCabe’s wife had run for the Virginia state * * *
legislature as a Democrat, and her (unsuccessful)
campaign was lavishly funded by groups tied to Clinton
As we previously concluded, while there is a dearth of
insider Terry McAuliffe. Agent Strzok told FBI lawyer
evidence to date that the Trump campaign colluded in
Page that Trump was an “idiot” and that “Hillary should
Russia’s cyberespionage attack on the 2016 election,
win 100 million to 0.” Page agreed that Trump was “a
there is abundant evidence that the Obama
loathsome human.” A Clinton win would likely mean
administration colluded with the Clinton campaign to
Lynch — originally raised to prominence when President
use the Steele dossier as a vehicle for court-authorized
Bill Clinton appointed her to a coveted U.S. attorney slot
monitoring of the Trump campaign — and to fuel a pre-
— would remain attorney general. Yates would be waiting
election media narrative that U.S. intelligence agencies
in the wings.
believed Trump was scheming with Russia to lift sanctions
if he were elected president. Congress should continue
The prior relationships of trust with the source; the pressing for answers, and President Trump should order
investment in Clinton; the certitude that Clinton would win the Justice Department and FBI to cooperate rather than —
and deserved to win, signified by the mulish determination what’s the word? — resist.
that she not be charged in the emails investigation; the
.
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DEEP STATE: Rep. Matt Gaetz Says Email Evidence
PROVES Hillary Got “Special” Treatment From
The FBI To Avoid Prosecution
By JD Heyes
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
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“[O]ur view is we need to find out if whether or Wouldn’t that be a major departure from the lopsided, one-
not the procedures were departed from,” he sided “justice” meted out (or not) during the corrupt
noted. “And we have email evidence from Clinton and Obama years?
Andrew McCabe indicating that Hillary Clinton
was going to get an ‘HQ Special,’ a Watch McCabe’s interview here:
headquarters special.
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A 25 Point Blueprint
For A Pro-Trump Congress
By Michael Snyder
December 26, 2017
In 2016 the Trump movement took the White House, and hold them accountable, and that means every
now in 2018 we can take control of Congress. The ‘Republican in name only’ needs to go.
mainstream media and the Democrats are eagerly
#4 100% Pro-Life – No money for Planned
anticipating a massive anti-Trump backlash in November
Parenthood ever. Nearly 60 million babies have
2018, but I say that the mid-term elections will be a golden
been murdered since 1973, and I am making an
opportunity to give President Trump dozens of new allies
unbreakable pledge to vote against any bill that
in Congress. The Make America Great Again agenda is a
funds Planned Parenthood 100% of the time.
winning agenda, and if we are able to mobilize pro-Trump
forces all over the nation we can pull off another miracle #5 100% Pro-Gun – The Constitution says that
next November. But first, we have got to win the the right of the people to keep and bear arms
Republican primaries that will start happening early next shall not be infringed. I believe that every
year, because otherwise we won’t even have any pro- American has a constitutional right to carry a
Trump candidates to vote for in the mid-term elections. gun, and I will never back down from defending
the Second Amendment even a single inch.
We have identified several dozen major pro-Trump
candidates all over the nation, and you can find that list on #6 Abolish The IRS & The Income Tax – We
Facebook right here. If you know of another pro-Trump didn’t have an income tax from 1872 to 1913,
candidate that should be added to that list, please let me and that was the greatest period of economic
know. growth in U.S. history. As we fight a long-term
battle to abolish the income tax, in the short-
The mainstream media would like us to believe that
term we can at least go to a flat tax or a fair tax,
Trump’s support is falling, but the truth is that he has very
both of which would be far superior to what we
high approval ratings among Republicans from coast to
have now.
coast. If we can get the voters to understand who the pro-
Trump candidates are, we should be able to win primary #7 Abolish The Federal Reserve – Since the
after primary all over the nation. Fed was created in 1913, we have had 18
recessions, the value of the U.S. dollar has
In the end, it isn’t that complicated. We just need to take
fallen by about 98 percent, and the U.S.
our pro-Trump message and share it everywhere that we
national debt has gotten more than 6000 times
possibly can. The following are 25 basic pro-Trump
larger. Abolishing this debt-based system is one
principles that I am running on, and I believe that they
of the keys to a bright economic future for
could be used as a blueprint for pro-Trump candidates
America.
across the country…
#8 Cut Red Tape – As President Trump has
#1 A Pro-Trump Conservative – Donald
proposed, two existing government regulations
Trump helped restore my faith in America by
should be eliminated for every new regulation
winning the 2016 election, and I will fight like
that is enacted.
mad to implement his agenda if I am elected to
Congress. #9 Getting Federal Bureaucrats Off Our
Backs – I will work very hard to get federal
#2 It’s Time To Drain The Swamp – The same
control freaks off of the backs of our farmers,
rules that apply to the rest of us should also
our loggers, our miners, our ranchers and our
apply to Congress, and all federal officials
small business owners.
should be banned from working as lobbyists for
at least ten years after they leave government #10 Local Control Of Education – It is time to
service. get the federal government out of the education
business. I want to abolish Common Core and
#3 Every RINO Must Go – Way too many
the Department of Education, and I want control
Republicans have been fighting Trump’s
over education to be as close to the local level
agenda and acting like Democrats. It is time to
as possible.
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#11 Shut Down Big Brother Spying – #20 Energy Independence – The United
Government agencies have been conducting States has abundant reserves of oil, natural gas
unconstitutional surveillance of American and clean coal, and we need to take the
citizens for decades, and that needs to stop regulatory shackles off of the energy industry so
now. that we can start moving toward energy
independence.
#12 True Limited Government – President
Trump has proposed shutting down more than #21 Resisting The Globalists – We must
60 different government programs and reduce the power and influence of the United
agencies. That would be a good start. Instead Nations, and we must strongly fight all attempts
of asking which government agencies we by the globalists to erode American sovereignty.
should close, we should be asking which
#22 Supporting States Rights – It is almost as
government agencies really need to remain
if the 10th Amendment doesn’t even exist
open.
today. If I am elected, this is what his message
#13 100% Repeal Of Obamacare – Rapidly to the feds will be: ‘Hand over the keys and get
rising health insurance premiums are financially out of Idaho’.
crippling Idaho families. Republicans in
#23 Removing The Wolves – Under Bill
Congress have fumbled the ball, and we must
Clinton, Canadian gray wolves were brought to
repeal Obamacare immediately.
Idaho. These wolves travel in packs and are
#14 Build The Wall – We need to make sure killing machines. I am 100% committed to
that everyone comes into this country through removing these wolves from our state.
the front door. We must end illegal immigration,
#24 Holding Judges Accountable – Federal
and so I support President Trump’s call to build
judges that disregard the U.S. Constitution and
a wall on the southern border.
that choose to legislate from the bench should
#15 End Sanctuary Cities – President Trump be subject to impeachment.
has proposed cutting off all federal funding for
#25 An Unashamed Christian – Like President
so-called “sanctuary cities”, and I will fight very
Trump, I am not ashamed to say that I am a
hard to get this done.
Bible-believing Christian, and if we truly want to
#16 Supporting Our Veterans – My father is a make America great again we need to return to
vet, and I will work passionately to make sure the values and principles that this nation was
that our veterans receive the respect, care and founded upon.
support that they deserve.
If you believe in what we are trying to do, we would love
#17 Fighting Islamic Terror – I fully support to get you involved in our campaign. We need many more
President Trump’s fight against ISIS, and I will volunteers, many more contributors and many more people
push for legislation that would give local sharing the material that we post on our official campaign
communities all over America the option to say Facebook page.
no to refugees from terrorist hotbeds.
We are just a small part of a national movement that is
#18 Stopping Reckless Government beginning to emerge. It began with Donald Trump’s
Spending – We are 20 trillion dollars in debt victory back in November, and it has continued in races all
and we continue to steal more than 100 million over the nation.
dollars from future generations every single
I believe that we truly can take our government back, but it
hour of every single day.
is going to take a total team effort, and we need your help.
#19 Bringing Jobs Back To America – The
In 2016 we witnessed the biggest political miracle in
U.S. has lost more than 70,000 factories since
American history, and some would say that taking control
China joined the WTO in 2001. Our formerly
of Congress would be an even bigger miracle, but if we all
great manufacturing cities now look like war
work together I believe that anything is possible.
zones, and we desperately need to start making
things in this country once again. We shocked the world in 2016, and I encourage you to
come join us as we shock it again in 2018.
.
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Did the FBI Conspire to Stop Trump?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Tuesday - December 26, 2017 at 11:20 pm
The original question the FBI investigation of the Trump His preemption of Justice Department authority was
campaign was to answer was a simple one: Did he do it? astonishing.
Did Trump, or officials with his knowledge, collude with Second, while Comey said in his statement that Hillary had
Vladimir Putin’s Russia to hack the emails of John Podesta been “extremely careless” with security secrets, in his first
and the DNC, and leak the contents to damage Hillary draft, Clinton was declared guilty of “gross negligence” —
Clinton and elect Donald Trump? the precise language in the statute to justify indictment.
A year and a half into the investigation, and, still, no Who talked Comey into softening the language to look less
“collusion” has been found. Yet the investigation goes on, than criminal? One man was FBI Deputy Director Andrew
at the demand of the never-Trump media and Beltway McCabe, whose wife, Jill, a Virginia state senate
establishment. candidate, received a munificent PAC contribution of
$474,000 from Clinton family friend and big bundler Terry
Hence, and understandably, suspicions have arisen. McAuliffe.
Are the investigators after the truth, or are they after Also urging Comey to soften the fatal phrase “gross
Trump? negligence” was key FBI agent Peter Strzok. In text
messages to his FBI lover Lisa Page, Strzok repeatedly
vented his detestation of the “idiot” Trump.
Set aside the Trump-Putin conspiracy theory momentarily,
and consider a rival explanation for what is going down
here: After one meeting with “Andy” (McCabe), Strzok told
Page an “insurance policy” was needed to keep Trump out
of the White House.
That, from the outset, Director James Comey and an FBI
camarilla were determined to stop Trump and elect Hillary
Clinton. Having failed, they conspired to break Trump’s Also, it appears Comey began drafting his exoneration
presidency, overturn his mandate and bring him down. statement of Hillary before the FBI had even interviewed
her. And when the FBI did, Hillary was permitted to have
her lawyers present.
Essential to any such project was first to block any
indictment of Hillary for transmitting national security
secrets over her private email server. That first objective One need not be a conspiracy nut to conclude the fix was
was achieved 18 months ago. in, and a pass for Hillary wired from the get-go. Comey,
McCabe, Strzok were not going to recommend an
indictment that would blow Hillary out of the water and let
On July 5, 2016, Comey stepped before a stunned press
the Trump Tower crowd waltz into the White House.
corps to declare that, given the evidence gathered by the
FBI, “no reasonable prosecutor” would indict Clinton.
Therefore, that was the course he, Comey, was Yet, if Special Counsel Robert Mueller cannot find any
recommending. Trump collusion with the Kremlin to tilt the outcome of
the 2016 election, his investigators might have another
look at the Clinton campaign.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, compromised by her
infamous 35-minute tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton —
to discuss golf and grandkids — seconded Comey’s For there a Russian connection has been established.
decision.
Kremlin agents fabricated, faked, forged, or found the dirt
And so Hillary walked. Why is this suspicious? on Trump that was passed to ex-British MI6 spy
Christopher Steele, and wound up in his “dirty dossier”
First, whether or not to indict was a decision that belonged that was distributed to the mainstream media and the FBI
to torpedo Trump.
to the Department of Justice, not Jim Comey or the FBI.
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The UN Tried To Mess With Trump,
But They Ended Up With A $285 Million
Budget Reduction Instead
By Michael Snyder
December 26, 2017
What makes this deal even more interesting is the fact that
it came just after the UN General Assembly voted 128 to 9
against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel.
Even if they aren’t, the fact that the budget reduction deal
happened so quickly after the anti-Israel vote sends a very
When are people going to learn that you don’t mess with strong message.
Trump? Over the past several decades, the United Nations
has grown into a vast bureaucratic monstrosity that is Meanwhile, what we do know is that President Trump has
completely out of control, but previous administrations publicly warned the nations that voted against his
have just kept feeding the beast. Thankfully, we now have recognition of Jerusalem that they could see their financial
a president that is not afraid to stand up to the globalists, aid reduced…
and the $285 million budget reduction that Trump and his
team just negotiated is the largest budget reduction in UN U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to
history. Those that have not read “The Art of the Deal” cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a
yet may want to do so, because this is Trump at his best. draft United Nations resolution calling for the United
The following is the statement that UN Ambassador Nikki States to withdraw its decision to recognize Jerusalem as
Haley put out about this stunning budget reduction… Israel’s capital.
Today, the United Nations agreed on a budget for the “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and
2018-2019 fiscal year. Among a host of other successes, even billions of dollars, and then they vote
the United States negotiated a reduction of over $285 against us. Well, we’re watching those votes.
million off the 2016-2017 final budget. In addition to these Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We
significant cost savings, we reduced the UN’s bloated don’t care,” Trump told reporters at the White
management and support functions, bolstered support for House.
key U.S. priorities throughout the world, and instilled more
discipline and accountability throughout the UN system.
Considering the fact that we are 20 trillion dollars in debt,
we could definitely cut back on financial aid to countries
“The inefficiency and overspending of the that want to go against us.
United Nations are well known. We will no
longer let the generosity of the American people
And personally, I would very much be in favor of reducing
be taken advantage of or remain unchecked.
funding to the United Nations a whole lot more. The UN
This historic reduction in spending – in addition
is an anti-American institution that has been promoting the
to many other moves toward a more efficient
agenda of the globalists for as long as it has existed, and
and accountable UN – is a big step in the right
once I get to Washington I am going to do all that I can to
direction. While we are pleased with the results
help Trump put America first.
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The UN needs to be defanged, declawed and made as definitely a good first step in the right direction.
powerless as possible, and this huge budget reduction is
.
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ISIS Supporters Publish Image
Depicting Beheaded Barron Trump
By Bridget Johnson
December 26, 2017
"Soon we will cut the head of america's mule The "hints" list, posted on Telegram, shows the Eiffel
son," says the text on the Barron image. Tower and Big Ben in the background, with blood
dripping from the top of the image. It was distributed in
Arabic, French and English, with the English translation
A message posted last month on a pro-ISIS Telegram
not clean.
channel by an ISIS supporter called on fellow followers
to "handle the son of the mule of America" and included a
photo of the president's son and a snapshot of a Google Lone jihadists were urged to have "total emmersion [sp] in
map showing the location of Barron's school. the community," while "choosing easy targets to deal with"
in an operation that "must be secret & unseen."
ISIS supporters have been on a holiday threat spree, taking
the terror group's PR into their own hands with a flurry of The list suggests "attacking an isolated victim and make it
propaganda posters encouraging lone jihadists to attack, look like a Homiside [sp]." This method was mentioned in
including a new one reiterating previous calls to "put terror the October 2016 issue of ISIS' Rumiyah magazine
in their hearts by running them over or stabbing them or focusing on knife attacks, when terrorists were advised to
burning structures and forests." target someone walking home from a night out or working
the night shift, "or someone walking alone in a public park
or rural forested area, or someone by himself in an alley
A Modesto, Calif., tow-truck driver arrested and charged
close to a night club or another place of debauchery, or
last week with hatching a holiday plot to attack San
even someone out for a walk in a quiet neighborhood."
Francisco's Pier 39 apparently paid attention to ISIS
supporters' propaganda posters. Everitt Aaron
Jameson loved with a heart, said the criminal complaint, a Also suggested was "burning markets, churches &
recent poster from ISIS supporters showing Santa factories at night time." In the January issue of Rumiyah,
ISIS claimed a November 2016 fire at a furniture factory
in Losino-Petrovsky, Russia. That article included a large
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photo of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, along with its poisons from the available materials." An official
address and the caption, "A popular Crusader gathering ISIS guide distributed in November 2016 advised jihadists
place waiting to be burned down." Jihadists were advised to explore the wide range of toxic plants that are
to time their arson "preferably in the later part of night to "accessible to everyone."
the early hours of morning when people are generally
asleep." While most attack threats or encouragement over the
holiday season has come from ISIS supporters, the Islamic
The "hints" list continues to suggest "putting iron pieces in State's official al-Naba newsletter notably highlighted an
the railroads to take the train off course" (a train Australian New Year's Eve terror plot, saying that the
derailment tool that's essentially a concrete and rebar track would-be attacker would have caused "catastrophic"
clamp was detailed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula casualties in "one of the most important centers where
in the August issueof Inspire magazine) or "making lethal Christians meet" to ring in the holiday.
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Trump RIPS ‘Garbage’ Golden Showers ‘Dossier,’
Says Its ‘FBI Tainted’ And ‘Hillary’ Product
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 26, 2017
While the FBI won’t repudiate the dossier, it also won’t CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY
substantiate the salacious claims it makes CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP
COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED,” he tweeted.
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Robert Mueller May Indict Paul Manafort Again
The Charges Against The Former Trump Campaign Boss Appear To
Have Been Only An Opening Salvo In A Legal Barrage On The
President’s Confidants, Informed Observers Say.
Betsy Woodruff
12.26.17 7:58 PM ET
From its inception, two things about special counsel A superseding indictment would essentially replace the
Robert Mueller’s investigation were clear: first, the White
current indictment of Manafort. And in that current
House’s biggest concern was that Mueller would follow
indictment, Mueller’s team hinted there was more to come.
the money; and second, Mueller is following the money.
In particular, they hinted at potential tax charges for
Manafort’s foreign financial transactions. Federal
It’s been seven months since Deputy Attorney General prosecutors can bring charges against any American who
Rod Rosenstein ordered Bob Mueller to take over the has money in a foreign bank account and doesn’t check a
FBI’s counterintelligence probe into possible links box on their tax forms disclosing it. The Manafort/Gates
between the Kremlin and people associated with the indictment describes financial behavior that may be liable
Trump campaign. Trump’s lawyers have long said they for that kind of prosecution. And that’s an indicator that
expected the probe to stay focused and end quickly. Mueller’s team may be preparing to formally charge both
Instead, Mueller has assembled a team of prosecutors with men with violating tax laws.
expertise in handling financial investigations and white-
collar crime, and obtained guilty pleas for crimes that
A former prosecutor from the Justice Department’s tax
weren’t committed during the election year.
division said Mueller handed down what’s known as a
“speaking indictment”—in other words, an indictment that
And, most importantly, he’s sent a thinly veiled warning to contains more information than necessary.
the White House: No one’s finances are off limits. If 2017
had the president’s inner circle sweating, 2018 could feel
“It’s a way of dirtying up a defendant without
like a sauna.
having to actually prove the conduct,” he said. “I
think, in fairness to them, they probably rushed
And no one may feel more heat than Paul Manafort. In it because they didn’t want to wait for the tax
Washington legal circles, there’s a broad expectation that division approval on those tax counts. That, I
Mueller will file what’s called a superseding indictment of assume, would be working its way through the
Manafort and Rick Gates, his erstwhile business partner— system.”
and alleged partner in crime. Gates and Manafort both
pleaded not guilty when Mueller’s team filed their Anytime federal prosecutors want to charge someone with
indictment on Oct. 30. Legal experts say there may be breaking tax law, they must get approval from the Justice
more charges to come. Department’s Tax Division. That approval process can be
time-consuming, and the would-be defendant’s attorneys
“I would expect a superseding indictment to often can petition Tax Division lawyers against authorizing
come down relatively soon,” said Jonathan the charges. Following the money, it turns out, can be
circuitous.
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(PDF)—while the multibillion-dollar scheme was
unfolding. In fact, those lawyers admitted their traders in
Moscow went “to significant lengths” to make the scheme
work. They even admitted that one of their Moscow
supervisors appeared to have taken bribes related to the
scheme that were worth up to $2.3 million. It was
“Superseding indictments are frequently underway from 2011 to early 2015.
brought in financial investigations due to
defendant recalcitrance to cooperate and also Jared Kushner and Trump himself have had significant
because they take so long to be put together,” dealings with the bank, which also helped the hedge fund
said Martin Sheil, a retired supervisory special of billionaire Trump patron Robert Mercer trim billions
agent for the IRS’ criminal investigations unit. from its tax bill. The bank has long interested
congressional investigators looking into potential
Mueller has been working with IRS criminal investigators, connections between Trump World and the Kremlin. And
as The Daily Beast first reported in August. Those agents if reports about Mueller’s subpoena of the bank are
specialize solely in financial crimes with a tax nexus; their correct—and the White House says emphatically that they
cooperation was an early indicator that money mattered to are not—then Mueller’s money trail may be making a pit
Mueller. stop in Germany.
The German mega-bank is likely accustomed to hot water. The only person in a position to constrain Mueller and his
In January of 2017, they agreed to pay $425 million to the deputies is Rosenstein, who has been overseeing all
New York Department of Financial Services to settle Trump/Russia matters since Attorney General Jeff
allegations that they let Russian traders engage in what Sessions’ recusal. A former Justice Department official
those regulators called “a money-laundering scheme.” In who worked under now-Deputy Attorney General Rod
that particular scheme, Russians moved $10 billion to the Rosenstein told The Daily Beast that he’s unlikely to rein
United States. in Mueller at all.
It’s an eye-popping concession, but one that largely got “As long as Rod is supervising, he is never
lost in the noise of Trump’s inauguration and the political going to put Mueller under any kind of pinch,”
implications of Russian efforts to intervene in the 2016 he said. “That’s just the way Rod operates.”
elections. But it points to close ties between the bank and
Kremlin elites. The bank’s lawyers signed court It means that as long as Rosenstein stays in place, Mueller
documents admitting they were “on clear notice” about will likely be able to follow that money trail wherever it
their insufficient safeguards against unlawful activity leads.
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.
Analysis: The Quiet Probe Into Clinton Email Investigation
Could Be A Landmine For Robert Mueller
Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY
Published 5:00 A.M. ET Dec. 26, 2017 | Updated 5:32 A.M. ET Dec. 26, 2017
A new report says the investigation into Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., told
Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. Rosenstein at a Dec. 13 hearing. The deputy
presidential election has cost millions. attorney general cited the probe multiple times
Video provided by Newsy Newslook as the reason for declining to respond to
lawmakers' questions about how the texts might
WASHINGTON — In early January, news that the Justice
affect Mueller's probe.
Department’s inspector general launched an investigation
into the government's disputed handling of the Hillary "It is very encouraging to us that (Horowitz) is
Clinton email inquiry was quickly overtaken by the chaotic doing what I think is good, unbiased work," the
run-up to President Trump’s inauguration. chairman said.
Nearly a year later, Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s Once it's completed, the inspector general’s review also
wide-ranging review of the FBI and Justice’s work in the threatens to give opponents fodder to unleash fresh
politically-charged Clinton case now looms as a potential criticism of the FBI – which Trump has singled out in
landmine for Russia special counsel Robert Mueller. scathing rebukes since Mueller's indictment of former
national security adviser Michael Flynn earlier this
For months, Horowitz’s investigation — which has
month. Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and
amassed interviews with former Attorney General Loretta
pledged to cooperate with the special counsel, was the
Lynch, former FBI Director James Comey and other key
fourth Trump campaign official to be charged in the
officials — had been grinding on in near anonymity. That
investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016
is, until earlier this month when the inspector general
election.
acknowledged that Mueller was alerted to a cache of text
messages exchanged between two FBI officials on his staff Chris Swecker, a former FBI assistant director, said the
that disparaged Trump. text communications unearthed by Horowitz have handed
leverage to attorneys representing current and possible
The communications, involving senior counter-intelligence
future defendants in the Mueller investigation, either in
agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page, were
possible plea negotiations or at trial.
gathered in the course of Horowitz’s internal review of the
Clinton case, which Strzok also helped oversee. "Two star witnesses have been created for the
Horowitz’s investigation is not examining Mueller’s defense," Swecker said, referring to Strzok and
operation. But the disclosures already have provided a Page whose communications could be
hammer to Trump loyalists who are escalating their introduced as evidence of an investigation
criticisms of the legitimacy of the special counsel’s biased against Trump.
inquiry.
Strzok was removed from the Russia investigation this
Earlier this month, FBI Director Christopher Wray and summer immediately after Mueller was informed of the
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein only highlighted communications in which the agent described Trump as an
the potential gravity of the inspector general's work when "idiot" while expressing a clear preference for
they repeatedly urged Republican House committee Clinton. Page, meanwhile, had completed her temporary
members during separate hearings to withhold judgment assignment to the Russia inquiry and had returned to
about allegations of bias within the FBI until the internal bureau headquarters when the texts were discovered.
Justice probe is completed.
Swecker said Mueller acted appropriately in dismissing
Justice officials have indicated that a report is likely in the Strzok, but fears that the damage has already been done.
next few months.
"I never heard anything related to politics come
"The inspector general's investigation is very out of (Mueller's) mouth," Swecker said,
important," House Judiciary Committee referring to his experience working closely with
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the special counsel when he served as FBI at the scene of the 2010 slaying of border patrol agent
director. Brian Terry.
"But none of this is good for Mueller or his A separate 2015 report authored by Horowitz's staff found
reputation for fairness," Swecker said. "Who that U.S. Drug Enforcement Agents posted in Colombia
knows what else the IG (inspector general) had engaged in sex parties involving prostitutes who were
has." supplied by local drug cartels. The review concluded that
some of the 10 agents involved admitted attending the
Mounting questions about the FBI's continuing credibility
parties where a local Colombian police offer often stood
– including Trump's jab that the bureau's reputation was in
guard, protecting the agents' firearms and other property.
"tatters" – have landed hard at the agency. The FBI was
sent reeling in May when Trump abruptly Less than a month after Horowitz's report, then-DEA chief
dismissed Comey for his handling of the Russia inquiry. Michele Leonhart announced her retirement from the
agency.
Wray, who took over in September, has publicly defended
the bureau's reputation in the wake of Trump's attacks. He In the review of the Clinton email investigation, authorities
was joined late Tuesday by the FBI Agents Association, are examining whether the Justice Department and FBI
whose members issued a rare, collective defense of their followed established "policies and procedures'' when then-
own. FBI Director Comey publicly announced that the bureau
would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton
"Attacks on our character and demeaning
related to her use of a private email server while she was
comments about the FBI will not deter agents
secretary of State.
from continuing to do what we have always
done – dedicate our lives to protecting the The inspector general is not evaluating the merits of the
American people," the group said in a written now-closed criminal inquiry or challenge the conclusions
statement. not to prosecute Clinton. Rather, it will focus on Justice
and FBI policies that guided the probe.
Pat Cotter, a former federal prosecutor, said the specter of
Horowitz's inquiry should have "zero effect on how Former Justice inspector general Michael Bromwich said
Mueller and his team do their jobs." that the office has a long established record as "a reliable
and independent voice" that has held some of the most
"But this is a political event, too," Cotter added.
powerful institutions to account.
"To the extent that this (agents' conduct) will
be used to discredit, distract or obfuscate the The disclosures of the agents' text messages, he said,
Mueller investigation, maybe it will work.''
"has certainly re-focused the spotlight on
For Horowitz, the Clinton email inquiry may be the most investigation that many people may have
consequential investigation he has launched since his forgotten about but remains an important piece
installment as Justice's watchdog in 2012. But the former of work that needs to be completed."
public corruption unit chief in the Manhattan U.S.
More than once, Bromwich found himself at the center of a
attorney's office has not shied from controversy in the past
firestorm while inspector general. In 1997, Bromwich
five years.
authored a damning review of the FBI's crime laboratory
Months after taking office, Horowitz issued a scathing on the eve of the federal trial of Oklahoma City bomber
account of a botched gun-trafficking operation that Timothy McVeigh. While McVeigh was ultimately
allowed an estimated 2,000 firearms to fall into the hands convicted and executed, the lab had been heavily involved
of Mexican drug cartel enforcers. in examining evidence in that case.
The inspector general's review of the so-called "Fast and "Michael (Horowitz) is a very solid guy with
Furious" operation managed by the Bureau of Alcohol exactly the right background for the job. It's a
Tobacco Firearms and Explosives recommended 14 job that doesn't make you many friends,"
federal law enforcement officials for discipline, resulting Bromwich said. "And I don't think a lot of people
in a dramatic shakeup in leadership at the ATF. The will be happy when it's over. But I think he is
operation was halted when two of the weapons were found going to call it as he sees it."
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Carl Bernstein: FBI Isn't Tainted,
Trump's Presidency Is
By John Bowden
12/26/17 10:04 PM EST
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Director Ridley Scott Offers
Strong Defense Of Trump Tax Reform
He Proved That He Is Not At All Interested In Conforming To
Hollywood’s Obnoxious Politics
John Nolte
December 27, 2017
Well, let’s take the tax bill. People say (Republicans) are
doing it for the wealthy class. What they forget is if you
get a clever, un-selfish business person — I don’t care if
it’s a corner store or a big business — who’s suddenly
saving 15 percent, they’ll put it back in this business. Then
you’re going to get growth and therefore (people) will get
employed.
While out doing publicity for his latest movie, All the
Money in the World, the 80-year-old behind such iconic
films as Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator, The Martian,
Anthony Hopkins and Ridley Scott in Hannibal (2001)
Thelma and Louise, and Black Rain, was not even asked
about President Trump or taxes. Answering a question
about the “value of human life, class struggles and the role The reporter then seemed eager to challenge Scott’s belief
of wealth in society” and how it pertains to the “this that after you are given equal opportunity, it is all up to
moment in America,” Scott volunteered this defense: you. “I’m sure you benefited from some help early on in
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your career,” the reporter assumes. Scott is having none of is, after all, the director who stood up today’s Social
it: Justice Warrior mob when complaints arose about a lack of
racial diversity in his biblical epic Exodus: Gods and
I’m a natural-born hunter because that’s who I am. No one Kings.
taught me that. I started from scratch. I arrived in
Hollywood with a wristwatch and stayed at the YMCA. “I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely
You have to learn the curve. But don’t (expletive) moan on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is
about it. It’s about doing. There’s always a way in. I used Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such,” Scott said.
to lay concrete on runways for an Irish company when I “I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question
was a student. I packed drywall. My parents didn’t have doesn’t even come up.”
the money to help me out. But they were very supportive
of anything I wanted to do. “The question never came up” is my favorite part. Scott
was not even interested in paying lip service to the mob.
Over at his HiT site, film writer and critic Christian Toto
says we should not be surprised by Scott’s answer. Scott
.
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CNN ‘Legal’ Correspondent Tells Viewers
A Huge LIE About Republicans And The ‘Trump Dossier’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 27, 2017
CNN has repeatedly misinformed its viewers GPS, the firm behind the dossier, which CNN failed to
disclose, The Daily Caller reported.
The legal analyst was responding to a tweet from Trump Perez’s error on Tuesday is at least the third time that the
earlier in which he called the dossier a “pile of network has falselytold its audience that Republicans
garbage.” Perez has close ties to the cofounders of Fusion originally funded the dossier, The Daily Caller noted.
.
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Report: Mueller May Indict Paul Manafort AGAIN
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 27, 2017
“I would expect a superseding indictment to reason for this, that superseding indictments
come down relatively soon” tend to grind defendants a bit more over time.”
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until anti-Trump texts and details of an “insurance policy” This would come as Republican supporters of President
to prevent Trump from taking office were discovered. Donald J. Trump in Congress have stepped up efforts to
discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s “collusion”
As noted by Newsmax, the report would highlight the probe amid allegations of anti-Trump bias on his
conduct of some FBI officials into last year’s investigation prosecutorial and investigative team.
of suspected Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential
election, people familiar with the plans have said. Trump’s lawyers have doubled down on an earlier
prediction that the portion of Mueller’s investigation
having to do with their client will soon come to an end.
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Mueller Witch Hunt Sets Sights On New Target:
The Republican National Committee
By Joshua Caplan
December 27, 2017
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s ever- The left claimed that 3,000 ads costing $100,000 that were
expanding Russia probe is now neither favorable or unfavorable for either candidate
investigating the Republican National flipped the 2016 election.
Committee’s joint data sharing agreement
with the Trump campaign. We know for certain that this was all another fake news
story.
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New Jerusalem Train Station
To Be Named After President Trump
By Joshua Caplan
December 27, 2017
Israel will name a new train station after Trump told reporters,
President Trump announced the U.S.
embassy in Tel Aviv will move “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and
to Jerusalem. even billions of dollars, and then they vote
against us. Well, we’re watching those votes.
Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot.”
Israel’s transportation minister is planning to In addition to these significant cost savings, we reduced
name a train station in Jerusalem after the UN’s bloated management and support functions,
President Donald Trump as a gesture for bolstered support for key U.S. priorities throughout the
recognizing the holy city as the capital of Israel. world, and instilled more discipline and accountability
throughout the UN system.
The nation’s transportation minister Israel
Katz said Wednesday that the station, if “The inefficiency and overspending of the
approved and built, will be a thank you to Trump United Nations are well known. We will no
for his “courageous and historic decision to longer let the generosity of the American people
recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state be taken advantage of or remain unchecked.
of Israel.” This historic reduction in spending – in addition
to many other moves toward a more efficient
and accountable UN – is a big step in the right
The train station would sit in close proximity to the
direction. While we are pleased with the results
Western Wall, a holy site for worshipers of Judaism and a
of this year’s budget negotiations, you can be
tourist attraction that brings in roughly 11 million visitors a
sure we’ll continue to look at ways to increase
year.
the UN’s efficiency while protecting our
interests,” wrote Ambassador Nikki Haley.
The announcement comes after the United Nations defied
President Trump, voting 128 to 9 against his decision to
Meanwhile, “God Bless Trump” signs are posted on street
declare Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the US
corners and billboards in Israel.
embassy to the Holy City.
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REPORT: MORE Top FBI Agents Who Worked On
Clinton Email Probe Rumored To Be Leaving
By Joshua Caplan
December 27, 2017
The reporter did not elaborate on the rumbling, but with all
As of late, we have watched Republican lawmakers point a
that has occurred, it would not be surprising to see more
lot of fingers and toss out a bunch of theories as to who
top FBI officials leave.
should be held responsible for sourcing, procuring and
disseminating the discredited ‘Trump dossier.’ A new
The timing of Attkisson’s tweet is interesting for two report reveals lawmakers are secretly building a criminal
reasons. First, McCabe is set to retire early next year after case against top Justice Department and FBI officials for
a barrage of attacks for his corruption. mishandling “the contents of a dossier that describes
alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia.”
McCabe’s retirement announcement comes on the heels of
a major shake up at the FBI; Wray just removed Comey
“confidant” and suspected leaker James Baker from his top
post as general counsel.
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New Trump Executive Order Targets Clinton-Linked
Individuals, Lobbyists And Perhaps Uranium One
By Tyler Durden
Dec 27, 2017 7:41 AM
The Trump Administration quietly issued an Executive Moreover, the Treasury Department sanctioned an
Order (EO) last Thursday which allows for the freezing of additional 39 people, for a total of 52 under the new order
US-housed assets belonging to foreign individuals or - including the son of Russia's prosecutor general.
entities deemed "serious human rights abusers," along
with government officials and executives of foreign The Order reads:
corporations (current or former) found to have engaged in
corruption - which includes the misappropriation of state
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United
assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain,
States of America, find that the prevalence and
and corruption related to government contracts or the
severity of human rights abuse and
extraction of natural resources.
corruption that have their source, in whole or
in substantial part, outside the United States,
Furthermore, anyone in the United States such as those committed or directed by
who aids or participates in said corruption persons listed in the Annex to this
or human rights abuses by foreign parties is order, have reached such scope and gravity
subject to frozen assets - along with any that they threaten the stability of
U.S. corporation who employs foreigners international political and economic
deemed to have engaged in corruption on systems.
behalf of the company.
Last Week's Executive Order could have
serious implications for D.C. lobbyists who
provide "goods and services" (e.g. lobbying
services) to despots, corrupt foreign politicians
or foreign organizations engaging in the crimes
described in the EO. "Virtually every lobbyist
in DC has got to be in a cold sweat over the
scope of this EO," said an attorney consulted
in the matter who wishes to remain
anonymous.
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In a report by Tucker Carlson, a former long-time
executive of now-defunct D.C. lobbying firm, The Podesta
Group - who has been interviewed extensively by FBI
special counsel Robert Mueller,
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Section 1. (a)(iii) defines U.S. Citizens who have assisted foreigners in any of the crimes described above:
Note: The above section (iii)(A)(3) means any expropriate businesses, monopolize markets, solicit bribes,
foreign person engaging in "serious human and administer extortion rackets.
rights abuses" or listed forms of corruption
In early 2016, Amsterdam-based telecom giant
on behalf of a U.S. entity. Also of note -
VimpelCom (now VEON) admitted to a conspiracy in
Attorney General Jeff Sessions rolled back a
which they paid millions in bribes to Karimova for entry
series of Obama-era curbs on civil-asset
into the Uzbek telecom market. In a series of related cases,
forfeiture over the summer, strengthening the
the U.S. Justice Department has sought the forfeiture of
federal government's ability to seize cash
$850 million in bribe money from various bank accounts
and property from Americans without
across Europe. In July, Uzbek officials arrested Karimova
criminal charges. That said, this Executive
for fraud, money laundering, bribery, and embezzlement
Order only freezes assets, it does not allow the
and a variety of other claims.
government to take custody of them.
In 2009, a WikiLeaks cable notes that
In regards to the 13 listed individuals targeted Karimova set her sights on Bill Clinton to
by this order - several of whom have ties to gain access to then-Secretary of State,
the Clintons, the Clinton Foundation or Hillary Clinton.
Clinton associates - we find the following:
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Yahya and Zeinab Jammeh with Barack and Michelle Obama, 2014
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Benjamin Bol Mel; Sudan - Financial Advisor to South
Sudanese President Salva Kiir and president of ABMC
construction company accused of corruption. Hillary The rest of the 13 individuals have engaged in a variety
Clinton pushed for a waiver from the Obama Admin on the of corruption and human rights abuses ranging from a
prohibition of military aid due to the use of child soldiers Serbian arms dealer believed to be linked to a $95 million
in South Sudan. deal with Yemen, to government officials who ordered
journalists murdered, to several instances of serious human
rights violations. (h/t @HNIJohnMiller)
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Artem Yuryevich Chayka; Russia - Son of Russia's One wonders if perhaps the purpose of this Executive
Order addressing serious human rights abusers and
Prosecutor General, Yuri Chayka (Chaika) - used father's
corruption - a national emergency, was intended to ensure
connections to win state owned contracts.
the much talked about swamp renovation comes in ahead
of schedule and under budget. We'll know for sure if
Curiously, Russian Attorney Natalia Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin starts freezing bank
Veselnitskaya met with Yuri Chayka before accounts after the holidays.
her involvement in the infamous Trump Tower
meeting arranged by Fusion
GPS associate Rob Goldstone
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Dennis Kucinich To Dems:
Focus On Jobs Not ‘Process Of Impeachment’ [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media Reporter
11:59 AM 12/27/2017
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Trump Executive Order Targets
Deep State & Opens Door To Full Disclosure
Written By Dr. Michael Salla
December 27, 2017
While the mainstream media has largely ignored Trump’s This linkage can easily lead readers into falsely believing
Executive Order, the alternative media has been paying that the Executive Order is solely intended to target corrupt
close attention. Many have noted the Executive Order is Russian officials, and corruption and human rights abuses
far more significant than what it appears to be on the by countries in Russia’s sphere of influence.
surface. Rather than just freezing the financial resources of
foreign citizens linked to the Russian sphere of influence,
Yet, as a number of alternative media sources point out,
as it superficially appears to do, it is really targeted at
Trump’s Executive Order goes well beyond the Russian
members of the “Deep State” (aka Cabal or Illuminati)
sphere of influence. It is really targeting the Deep State,
that have been involved in human trafficking, pedophilia
and fulfilling his 2016 campaign pledge to “drain the
and systemic corruption all over the planet.
swamp” .
The language of the Executive Order is very open ended in
For example, Jim Stone, a freelance journalist, writes:
terms of how international corruption and human rights
abuses threaten US national security:
The executive order is presented as a national
emergency up front, right in the beginning. At
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United
first it reads like he’s going after foreigners
States of America, find that the prevalence and
which are named directly in an annex at the
severity of human rights abuse and corruption
end. That’s not what this is. The first part of the
that have their source, in whole or in substantial
order only cements the second part of the
part, outside the United States, such as those
order, to prevent American criminals from
committed or directed by persons listed in the
running away to foreign countries and being
Annex to this order, have reached such scope
supported by foreigners.
and gravity that they threaten the stability of
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To sum this up:
An anonymous whistleblower using the pseudonym The next day, the Washington Post reported on a
MegaAnon says that the Executive Order has led to many recommendation by the Intelligence Community and
powerful members of the Deep State waking up with no Pentagon in October 2016 to sack Rogers. President
financial resources. Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper,
and the Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, reportedly
were dissatisfied with Rogers performance, including his
Guess what? The Swamp’s financials FROZE visit to Trump:
OVER while they all slept last night, y’all.
It’s gonna be a LOOOOOONG Christmas break
for them… they were all broke before sunrise … In a move apparently unprecedented for a
military officer, Rogers, without notifying
superiors, traveled to New York to meet with
This covers kids/humans, drugs, arms/guns,
Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower.
WMD’s/chemicals/Uranium, organs, etc.
That caused consternation at senior levels of the
Now if you want to know who in our swamp woke up with
administration, according to the officials, who spoke on
frozen accounts, foundations, “charities”, side businesses
the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel
and shell orgs/LLC’s, etc. dig into the annex list…
matters.
The role of Admiral Mike Rogers is particularly significant In particular, the CIA’s Clandestine Services and
since he broke ranks with the US intelligence community Counterintelligence divisions were instrumental in creating
back in late 2016 to warn Trump about a Deep State effort an unofficial “black budget” for funding highly classified
to undermine and even prevent him from coming into projects and operations ever since the CIA’s creation in
power by spying on his transition team. While Trump was 1947.
President-elect, Rogers traveled to Trump Tower on
November 17, 2016 to warn him of the Deep State plans. These two branches of the CIA have long been the secret
enforcers of Deep State as best illustrated in the Kennedy
Assassination. James Jesus Angleton, chief of the CIA’s
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Counterintelligence office, played a direct role, while and other public places in the city. The information
Richard Helms (Deputy Director of Plans) provided covert received from the CIA was enough to locate and detain
support for the operation. the criminals.
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the public radar. The primary reason for doing so is clearly disclosures that will occur throughout the remainder of the
to minimize disruption to the U.S. political system while Trump administration will promote US national security
the transfer of power takes place. interests largely defined through a military mindset.
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Proof: The Entire Trump-Russia Probe
Is A Complete SHAM, Robert Mueller Isn’t Even
Investigating Ties To Russia!
Alex Thomas
December 27, 2017
Woodruff reports:
That’s right, the supposedly extremely important probe So there you have it. This is not about Russia hacking the
into Russian attempts at fixing the U.S. election isn’t US election but rather about attempting to tie up former
actually looking into connections between Trump Trump associates with charges that have nothing to do
campaign officials and Russia (because there are none) but with the election or even Trump in general with the hope
rather they are using a form of financial terrorism to that they will eventually turn on the president.
bankrupt Trump associates with white-collar crime
investigations that have absolutely no connection to the Woodruff also noted in her report that Mueller is
2016 election, much less Russia. attempting to “grind” Manafort down in order to turn him.
This is clear cut corruption at its finest folks.
This is not up for debate as this shocking fact has now
been openly admitted in the mainstream media through an And no one may feel more heat than Paul
article by The Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff, a reporter Manafort. In Washington legal circles, there’s a
who in the past has had key information leaked to her with broad expectation that Mueller will file what’s
the specific aim of taking out a democratically elected called a superseding indictment of Manafort and
president. Rick Gates, his erstwhile business partner—and
alleged partner in crime. Gates and Manafort
The article details the fact that Mueller is likely to indict both pleaded not guilty when Mueller’s team
short-lived Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort once filed their indictment on Oct. 30. Legal experts
again and of course his supposed crimes have literally say there may be more charges to come.
nothing to do with Russia.
“I would expect a superseding indictment to
In other words, this is a clear cut operation to take out come down relatively soon,” said Jonathan
President Trump by any means necessary.
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Turley, a professor at George Washington Federal prosecutors can bring charges against
University’s law school. any American who has money in a foreign bank
account and doesn’t check a box on their tax
“There was much in the narrative of the forms disclosing it. The Manafort/Gates
indictment that referenced crimes not charged,” indictment describes financial behavior that may
he added. “Prosecutors will often issue a be liable for that kind of prosecution. And that’s
superseding indictment as the grand jury an indicator that Mueller’s team may be
continues its work. There’s also a tactical preparing to formally charge both men with
reason for this, that superseding indictments violating tax laws.
tend to grind defendants a bit more over time.”
The proof is in the pudding and the mainstream has now
A superseding indictment would essentially openly admitted that the Mueller probe isn’t even looking
replace the current indictment of Manafort. And into connections between Trump and Russia.
in that current indictment, Mueller’s team hinted
there was more to come. In particular, they At this point it would be the height of insanity for Trump
hinted at potential tax charges for Manafort’s to allow Robert Mueller to continue this deep state
foreign financial transactions. operation against him.
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WATCH: CNN Legal Analyst Slams Mueller's
Investigation, Backs Trump Criticisms
Of Embattled Agency
Byryan Saavedra
@Realsaavedra
December 28, 2017
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James Woods DEMOLISHES Elizabeth Warren’s
‘Science’ Soapbox With HEAP BIG Mic Drop
By Doug P.
Posted At 11:11 Pm On December 29, 2017
OUCH!
Big time.
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“Classified, Confidential, And Heavily Redacted”:
2,800 Huma Abedin Emails Found On Anthony Weiner’s
Laptop Have Been Released
Alex Thomas
December 29th, 2017
[…]
A CNN report on the emails attempted to downplay The Daily Mail noted:
Abedin’s knowledge of the classified material but
nonetheless confirmed that certain emails should not have Huma Abedin was spotted heading into
been on the laptop in the first place. the Hillary Clinton offices in midtown Manhattan
on Friday just a few hours before the release of
The emails weren’t marked as classified, 2,800 of her emails.
though the FBI later found classified information
contained in some emails recovered from The longtime aide to Hillary Clinton was joined
Weiner’s laptop. by her son Jordan, who she has been raising as
a single mother ever since her husband
CNN has previously reported it was likely that Anthony Wiener entered a correctional facility in
some of the emails stored on Weiner’s laptop Pennsylvania earlier this year.
contained classified information, and fired FBI
Director Comey testified that there is no Abedin submitted her divorce papers on the
indication Abedin “had a sense that what she same day Weiner appeared in court to enter his
was doing was in violation of the law.” guilty plea back in May.
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Weiner was sentenced to 21 months behind The charges against Weiner arose after
bars and ordered to pay $10,000 after entering DailyMail.com revealed in September of last
a guilty plea to a single charge of transferring year that he had been sexting a 15-year-old
obscene material to a minor. high school student from North Carolina for
months.
The emails contained on Weiner’s laptop included national
security discussions, with classified information, that In the wake of that revelation he had his laptop
would have gotten any other person arrested and charged seized, and emails found on the device led to a
by the FBI immediately. second FBI probe into Clinton’s email server,
which she later claimed cost her the election.
The Daily Mail report continued:
It is those emails that have now been released
The emails date from 2010, 2011 and 2012 and by the State Department.
concern discussions with Middle East leaders
including some from Israel, the United Arab All in all this is simply more proof that high-level Clinton
Emirates, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. operatives within the FBI not only allowed Clinton to get
away with the email scandal, they also let Abedin off the
Large portions, including entire pages, were hook as well.
redacted before the documents’ release.
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Deep State Takedown In Progress:
Is Trump About To Start Arresting Top Democrats And
Bringing Them To Justice?
Michael Snyder
December 29, 2017
There are persistent rumors that the really juicy stuff on his
laptop contains evidence of sexual misconduct by top
Democrats that would far surpass anything that has come
out about members of Congress so far.
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The Trump Administration quietly issued an Executive benefit former President Bill Clinton’s
Order (EO) last Thursday which allows for the freezing of charitable foundation during the time
US-housed assets belonging to foreign individuals or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on
entities deemed “serious human rights abusers,” along a government body that provided a
with government officials and executives of foreign favorable decision to Moscow (the Uranium
corporations (current or former) found to have engaged in One approval)”
corruption – which includes the misappropriation of state
assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, – a deal which would eventually grant the Kremlin control
and corruption related to government contracts or the over 20 percent of America’s uranium supply right around
extraction of natural resources. the time Bill Clinton also collected $500,000 for a
Moscow speech, as detailed by author Peter Schweitzer’s
Furthermore, anyone in the United States book Clinton Cash and the New York Times in 2015.
who aids or participates in said corruption
or human rights abuses by foreign parties is A very dangerous game is being played behind the scenes,
subject to frozen assets – along with any and I believe that Trump is going to come out the big
U.S. corporation who employs foreigners winner in the end.
deemed to have engaged in corruption on
behalf of the company. Many on the left had been anticipating that 2018 would be
the year when Donald Trump is finally taken down, but
Many believe that this executive order is directly related to they will be bitterly disappointed when some of their most
ongoing investigations into corruption within the cherished heroes end up in shackles instead.
Democratic Party.
If the elite had not gone after Trump so brutally earlier this
More specifically, the wording of this executive order year, perhaps he would have been willing to let some
definitely sounds like it could have been written with Bill things slide. But once Robert Mueller was appointed as
Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Tony Podesta and Uranium One special counsel and given an unlimited amount of time,
in mind. Here is more from Zero Hedge… money and resources to dig up dirt on Trump, it was
inevitable that Trump would try to find a way to strike
Now consider that if reports from The Hill are accurate – back even harder.
an FBI mole deep within the Russian uranium industry
uncovered evidence that We have never seen anything quite like this in the history
of American politics, and I have a feeling that 2018 is
“Russian nuclear officials had routed going to be one of the most “interesting” years ever.
millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to
.
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Fake News: Mainstream Media Claims That White House
Intern Is Racist For Using ‘OK’ Hand Gesture
Alex Thomas
December 29th, 2017
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Despite the fact that the claims in the Daily Mail article
have been fully debunked, the news outlet has so far
refused to correct or take down the fake news report,
instead spreading it to tens of thousands of readers, many
who are only too happy to believe literally anything
negative about the Trump White House.
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GOP Lawmaker Finally Says What Needed To Be Said:
Purge Fed Agencies Of “Deep State” BIAS
By JD Heyes
Friday, December 29, 2017
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CNN’s ‘Media’ Guy Brian Stelter
Is Angry At Fox News For Reporting…The Truth
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 29, 2017
“This is a prime example of how ‘Fox & Friends’ But according to Stelter, it was a “disservice” to viewers of
does a disservice to viewers” Fox & Friends for the show to share that information.
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“The Most Polite Obliteration Of A Man
That I Have Ever Witnessed” – Watch As Russian
Collusion Narrative Is Absolutely Pummeled
Mac Slavo
December 29th, 2017
If you’ve attempted to have any meaningful conversation The entire interview followed this basic script. Harding
with a liberal Hillary Clinton supporter in recent months, makes an unfounded claim, Maté holds him to the fact that
there’s a near 100% chance that they’ve channeled the it’s unfounded, Harding sputters a bit and tries to zoom
Trump-Russia-Collusion narrative as the reason behind the things out and point to a bigger-picture analysis of broader
President’s 2016 sweeping victory. That and accusations trends to distract from the fact that he’d just made an
of racism have been the only argument that they really individual claim that was baseless, then winds up implying
have against the President. that Maté is only skeptical of the claims because he hasn’t
lived in Russia as Harding has.
Most have already dismissed the accusations of racism –
arguments like only white racists go to farmer’s markets – Source: Caitlin Johnstone via ZeroHedge.com
as nothing more than ad hominem attacks in lieu of any
fact-based evidence to support their arguments. You just have to see it to really appreciate it:
A bunch of individually weak arguments, the fact that he Call it racism, collusion or just plain crazy.
speaks Russian and has lived in Moscow, and the We’re fine with that. The more you squirm,
occasional straw man where he tries to imply that Maté is the more you’re triggered, the more you
claiming that Vladimir Putin is an innocent girl scout. scream in pain, the more we know we’re
Meanwhile Maté just kept patiently dragging the debate doing something right.
back on track over and over again in the most polite
obliteration of a man that I have ever witnessed.
.
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Nevertrumper Bret Stephens Whines: Trump’s Policy
Victories Don’t Matter Because He’s A Bully
By Breitbart News
30 Dec 2017
Tax cuts. Deregulation. More for the military; less for the
United Nations. The Islamic State crushed in its heartland.
Assad hit with cruise missiles. Troops to Afghanistan.
Arms for Ukraine. A tougher approach to North Korea.
Jerusalem recognized as Israel’s capital. The Iran deal
decertified. Title IX kangaroo courts on campus
condemned. Yes to Keystone. No to Paris. Wall Street
roaring and consumer confidence high.
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New Lawsuit Seeks To Force
Disclosure Of Trump’s Secret Kill List
Written By Derrick Broze
December 30, 2017 At 11:38 Am
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Top 10 Stories Of 2017 Showing America's Winning As
Liberals, Media And NeverTrumpers Lose Their Minds
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
December 30, 2017
We're heading into the end of 2017 and we have seen some To me watching the fall of Kathy Griffin, after acting like
incredible things happen over the course of the year, so some ISIS wannabe, holding a mock head of a bloody
many that a dozen or more "Top Ten" lists could be President Trump, makes the list because she is
created, and are being created, but most of what I am representative of the far left progressive liberals.
seeing in those lists does not delve into how it benefits the Everything offends them, yet they believe they can be as
country. offensive as they want with no ramifications. They do
something stupid, suffer for it, then scream about how they
For example, Time Magazine has a list of the top ten viral are the victim when public backlash hits them. They
moments in 2017, highlighting everything from Beyonce's apologize and then take their apology back, proving they
pregnancy to the NFL Kneelers, one of which never even never meant it in the first place.
made my radar and the other is number 10 on my list, but
for a whole different reason, one TIME doesn't even bother
to enlighten their readers about.
What TIME ignored completely in order to attack Months later and she is still whining that she can't get a gig
President Trump's statements showing his disdain for in the U.S.
players that chose to protest during the national anthem, is
how many around the nation agreed with the President. Kathy Griffin is on this list as the poster child for liberal
Americans from all over the country started burning their stupidity throughout 2017.
NFL jerseys and other merchandise, video after video of
them doing so was uploaded and shared, many going viral. 8. SUPREME COURT BACKS TRUMP AGAINST
NFL television ratings hit new lows each and every week LOWER COURTS' ACTIVISM
of the season. Images were shared of stadiums across the
country with more empty seats than people attending. From President Trump's initial travel pause EO to his
Video and audio of those attending booing the NFL rescinding DACA, lower courts have attempted judicial
kneelers. activism rather than following the law and over the course
of the last year, the Supreme Court has sided with the
Absolutely no mention at all from TIME about the true President in a manner consistent with the law, especially
"viral" events surrounding the issue, which was that noting at times when the lower courts decisions were
patriots all across America united to protest the NFL "seriously flawed."
kneelers.
In June the Supreme Court allowed the majority of
9. KATHY GRIFFIN'S FALL President Trump's travel ban to go into effect after lower
courts blocked it. Lower courts attempted again to
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intercede, and by December the Supreme Court allowed Reagan’s,” Hayward wrote in a column for the Los
full enforcement of the travel ban in a 7-2 decision. In Angeles Times last month.
early December the Supreme Court also blocked a
California courts attempt at overreach with document “While the Congress controlled by his adopted party
demands regarding DACA. remains gridlocked, Trump is rolling back regulations and
a number of the Obama administration’s most
There are other examples but the point here is that the controversial achievements, including the internal
Supreme Court is rebuking and appears to be reprimanding structure of Obamacare and the Clean Power Plan. His
lower courts in their attempt to usurp the legal rights of a foreign policy resets look increasingly sure-footed. His
president, especially in regards to national security issues. judicial nominees are uniformly conservative,” Hayward
continued.
Related: SCOTUS Keeps Rebuking Lower Courts That
Rule Against Trump “It is inconceivable that any of the other leading
Republican candidates from the 2016 cycle would have
governed as boldly as Trump has.”
NeverTrumpers and the media are being forced to admit he Even among Trump haters, we are now seeing RINOs
is 1) Keeping his promises and 2) Winning - The bonus being called out for becoming "Trump-obsessed zealots
here is that during this last year we have seen RINOs who add nothing to our discourse." That is what Charles
(Republicans In Name Only) expose themselves for what Cooke over at National Review said about the so-called
they truly are. "conservative" Jennifer Rubin from Washington Post.
National Review became known before the 2016 Cooke highlights multiple instances where President
presidential election as virulently anti-Trump, yet by the Trump has done something that aligned 100 percent with
years end, we now see that same publication, while still what Rubin had previously been in support of, to her now
snarky about the president, admit that "he is compiling a opposing it for no other reason that it was Trump that did
solid record of accomplishment." While naming just a it, his examples show the overwhelming hatred being
handful of those accomplishments, the writer, Rich Lowry, spewed from Rubin with no thought to her previous
also admits "It’s hard to see how a conventional positions.
Republican president would have done much better, except
if he had managed to get Obamacare repealed, which was The illustrations are endless. In two years, Rubin has gone
always going to be a dicey proposition given the narrow from arguing that the “ludicrous,” “absurd” Iran deal
Republican majority in the Senate." “has to go” — and, indeed, that John Kasich was a fool
for contending otherwise – to praising those who believe it
High praise from a publication that "synonymous with the must remain in place as “reasonable” “experts,” and
Never Trump movement," as The Daily Caller states. predicting that even to decertify would put “American
credibility” at “risk.” In 2015, she wrote that “if you
UC Berkeley professor Steven F. Hayward was among the examine the Iran deal in any detail, you will be horrified
conservatives featured in National Review’s “Against as to what is in there.” In 2017, she characterizes this
Trump” issue. But his stance on Trump appears to have position as the “emotional” “temper tantrum” of an
softened since then. “unhinged president.” A similar metamorphosis has
sullied her views on tax cuts, welfare, energy, and gun
“In assessing Trump’s accomplishments, let’s not get too control (before, after), as well as her attitude toward Jews
distracted by his unconventional conduct. This hitherto and anti-intellectuals, which once led her to defend Sarah
ideologically unmoored man has set in motion an Palin, but which now leads her to condemn Trump on
administration arguably more conservative than Ronald almost all of the grounds she once dismissed.
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That brutal takedown of Rubin was headlined "Jennifer The media who openly admits they think they have the
Rubin Is Everything She Hates about Trump right to "control exactly what the public thinks," to
Worshippers." politicians that once elected do not even attempt to keep
their campaign promises, thinking they somehow know
While this may seem just to be a difference between two what is best for their voters instead of listening to said
"conservative" Never Trumpers, in the world of political voters, to celebrities that can no longer even attempt to
writers, this most definitely started an internal war between claim a moral high ground, have all seen their influence
Trump enemies. David Frum from the Atlantic decided to greatly diminished in 2017.
stand up for Rubin, other National Review writers weighed
Related: After Weinstein: More than 100 high-powered
in, other sites like MediaIte reported on this internal battle
men accused of sexual misconduct
of the NeverTrumpers. PowerLine, known for excellent
political analysis also noted it. 4. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TWITTER HABIT
As the Never Trumpers "crash and burn," while liberals I know, right about now many ANP readers are face-
attempt to spin it as a GOP "civil war," we note that they palming me over this making the list, and everyone is
were a small segment of the GOP party, with some willing entitled to their own opinion... including me!
to look at presidential actions and be objective in their
Many see President Trump's Twitter activity as a fault or
analysis even while disliking the "man" behind the
in a negative light, but I look at how one tweet from the
presidency, while others have totally exposed themselves
president can send liberals and the media into complete
as nothing more than hacks, willing to betray their own
meltdown mode, dominating headlines for a day,
principles just so they can oppose anything president
sometimes two and in some cases a whole week, as a great
Trump does.
thing. As liberals "scream at the sky" over something the
Weeding out people like Rubin, Bill Kristol, David Frum, president said, and as the media goes on all day rampages
and others who are blinded to everything but their own over white box trucks, President Trump is busy
hatred, is a major win for conservatives across the board. accomplishing many of the things he said he would, and
the media's slight mention of them before going off on
5. #METOO MOVEMENT KNOCKS CELEBRITIES,
their unhinged tangents over his tweets, is why so much
MEDIA OFF THEIR HIGH HORSE
has been done without major opposition.
The #MeToo movement is also listed on the TIME's list of
Politico highlights "138 things Trump did this year while
viral things in 2017, but it makes my list for a very
you weren't looking," which is a tad misleading since the
different reason.
things listed are not things done while "we" weren't
Celebrities that attempt to use their "fame" to control the looking, they were done while the media was distracted by
public, thinking because people like their acting, or other things President Trump said, did or, yes... tweeted.
singing, and are entertained by them, they somehow have
The Washington Examiner has compiled a list of 81 major
the right to tell others what to do, who to vote for, push
achievements, and 11 Obama legacy items that have been
gun control (while they act in some of the most violent
repealed.
movies), and generally act like they are morally superior to
everyone else just because they get huge paychecks, have Real Clear Politics highlights Trump's 2017 Top 10
literally been roiled by the fall of Harvey Weinstein for Achievements, compiled by Steve Cortes, a contributor to
sexually assaulting women for decades, and the subsequent RealClearPolitics and Fox News, is the national
#MeToo movement. spokesman for the Hispanic 100, an organization that
promotes Latino leadership by advancing free enterprise
Not only have dozens of actors been embroiled in sex
principles.
scandals, but the women who have been in the
entertainment industry for decades are being called out for Some of the items were highly publicized, others I would
being silent about it for so many years. On one hand actors bet not many people even knew of because the media,
and actresses, one after another, claim that "everybody meant to inform them, was too busy chasing their tails
knew," yet the main chorus is "but not me, 'I' didn't every time President Trump says "Boo" or better yet,
personally know." Right everyone "else" knew. Ok, "covfefe" on Twitter.
gotcha!
As a side bonus, President Trump often gives us hints of
Media personalities and politicians have all become something big that is coming, as he did before the Uranium
engulfed in the #MeToo movement, and while I am on One story broke, as he did months before it became
record as thinking the movement has dishonestly and national news that Trump Tower was under surveillance
destructively conflated typical flirting behaviors with by the Obama administration, and a number of other
actual rape and assault, the benefit to the country in the things.
movement, aside from removing those that actually
Best for me....... is watching how easy it is to troll the
committed crimes from the public sphere, is has knocked
media. He says jump and all of a sudden they race to see
them all off their high horses.
who can jump the highest.
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3. MAINSTREAM MEDIA IMPLODES ANP readers have seen us document every one of CNN's
lies, rants, manufactured outrages, and fake news stories
Much like the NeverTrumpers, the mainstream media is in
during 2017, so 'nuff said.
the midst of totally imploding. The MSM has abandoned
even the pretense of objectivity, and all regard for facts 1. LIBERAL MELTDOWNS
and truth during the Trump presidency, going as far as
The very short video below from January 20, 2016 takes
blatantly becoming part of the opposition party. The sheer
the top spot, because it was 100 predictive of the year-
number of actual "fake news," mistakes,
long constant meltdown of liberals with Trump
misrepresentations, and outright lies that have later had to
Derangement Syndrome. Throughout the year, what you
be corrected, edited, while changing entire articles and
see below is what the country and the world has witnessed
headlines, in some cases leading to forced resignations and
liberals doing in 2017.
suspensions, has been overwhelming.
This article would be multiple pages long if I tried to list
each example, but in June 2017, the Intercept did compile
a good list which provides ample evidence that the media
has become completely reckless in their mindless Trump
hatred and rage. Since June, things have only gotten worse.
While conservatives have long said the mainstream media
has a liberal bias, news outlets claimed that was some type
of "conspiracy" theory, yet now, even the majority of the
public sees it, with many even now saying the MSM has
become the "enemy of the people," in polling conducted.
Interesting, while 60 percent of "Trump Approvers" think
the media is the enemy of the people, even 15 percent of
"Trump Disapprovers" agree with that statement.
Seeing the media expose themselves to the general public
most definitely has been one of the best things to happen to For anybody that thinks I am exaggerating in any way,
America in 2017. please remember that in November 2017, liberals planned
a "scream helplessly at the sky" event to protest an election
Related: that was held a whole year before.
Media Rages In 2017 - MSM Suffers Humiliating Year Of
Manufactured Outrage, Fake News And Mortifying
Moments
In 2017, the media flunked the Trump challenge
MRC’s Tim Graham Slams Liberal Media’s Anger With
Trump Supporters
The Year of Media Freakouts
2. THE FALL OF CNN
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Nunes Bombshell—Closing In On
The Beast, Establishment Screams Like Stuck Pigs
By Harley Schlanger, Larouche PAC
December 30, 2017
The House Intelligence Committee has given the FBI and DOJ flatly denied that any basic FBI
Department of Justice until January 3, 2018 to produce investigatory documents, such as FD-302
their files on Christopher Steele and the use of his dirty interview summaries regarding the Steele
British intelligence authored dossier in the Russiagate hoax dossier existed.
against President Trump. It is believed that these
documents will not only implicate top officials of the FBI Then, in early December, shortly before Nunes was to
and DOJ in a British instigated conspiracy against Donald meet with Rosenstein, numerous FD-302s were discovered
Trump. They will lead to full exposure of Barack Obama to exist. According to Nunes’ letter,
and all of his intelligence chiefs as part of this conspiracy.
“As it turns out, not only did documents exist
As the House Intelligence Committee closes in, the that were directly responsive to the Committee’s
screams and whines of the U.S. political establishment subpoenas, but they involved senior DOJ and
have reached a fevered pitch. Saying that Robert Mueller FBI officials who were swiftly reassigned when
and the FBI are corrupt is obstruction of justice! They rant. their roles in matters under the Committee’s
The last few days news feeds from the Resist! Insurrection investigation were brought to light.”
crowd included Clinton and Washington D.C. superlawyer
David Kendall imploring, “Leave Robert Mueller alone” In addition, the Justice Department has refused to produce
and Obama CIA chief John Brennan and fired FBI any FBI documents concerning meetings between FBI
Director James Comey tweeting in support of officials and FBI confidential human sources concerning
compromised “friends’ at the FBI and Department of the Steele dossier. The House Committee is now
Justice. Both Brennan and Obama’s former DNI James challenging that refusal.
Clapper have been wildly claiming and waving their hands
to anyone who will pay attention that Vladimir Putin is
somehow “playing” Donald Trump. Nunes also demands interview dates for former DOJ
Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr (who held
unauthorized meetings with Christopher Steele and whose
In his December 28th letter to Deputy Attorney General wife worked for Steele’s U.S. business partner, Fusion
Rod Rosenstein, House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes GPS, on the Steele Trump/Russia project), FBI lovebirds,
revealed who is actually obstructing justice. According to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page (both deeply involved in the
Nunes, the FBI and Justice Department played a three card dodgy dossier as resistance fighters against Trump),
monte game with documents concerning the use and former FBI attorney and James Comey confidante James
payment for the dodgy British Intelligence dossier Baker, and FBI attorney Sally Moyer and Director for
requested by subpoena from the FBI by the House last Congressional Affairs Greg Brewer. It would seem that all
August. In response to the August subpoena, of these people are deeply implicated in the documents
which the FBI explicitly denied even existed.
.
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PATHETIC: Even After Deadly Train Crash In
Washington, Chuck Schumer HOLDS UP
Trump’s Railroad Admin Pick (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 30, 2017
“The time for playing political games with this He also took to the floor of the Senate to denounce the
agency should be over” New York Democrat.
(National Sentinel) Hold-up: Democrats in the Senate “[Schumer] said that the Department of
have been using the arcane confirmation process to hold up Transportation is not pushing federal PTC hard
a number of President Donald J. Trump’s nominations for enough,” Thune said. “Well, if you truly believe
federal posts, including his pick to head up the Federal that DOT needs to do more, why is he, along
Railroad Administration, Ronald Batory. with a few of his colleagues, standing in the way
of Mr. Batory’s nomination?”
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is blocking Batory’s
confirmation over his demand that Trump and Republicans “When finally confirmed [Batory] will play a
agree to spend billions of federal dollars for a major tunnel significant role in successful Positive Train
project between New York and New Jersey. Control implementation,” he said.
Schumer’s action comes despite a major “The time for playing political games with this
Amtrak derailment in Washington state earlier agency should be over,” Thune said just before
this month in which three people were killed. Schumer blocked the nomination.
In 2015, an Amtrak derailment near “I’m beyond words to explain why we are
Philadelphia in 2015 killed seven and injured objecting to someone who is unanimously
several hundred people. approved out of the committee to run an
incredibly important safety agency,” Thune said
Batory is an experienced and respected former railroad
after the objection. “I hope this is the last time.”
executive, having spent four decades in the industry.
The Trump administration was equally dismissive of
He was unanimously approved by members of the Senate
Schumer.
Commerce Committee in early August, however, Schumer
has been blocking the process of bringing Batory to the “Sadly, just days after a deadly derailment Sen.
full Senate for confirmation vote. Schumer has yet again chosen to prioritize
politics over safety,” one unnamed staffer told
The latest action by Schumer came late Thursday
the Free Beacon.
afternoon, when he objected to a motion by Sen. John
Thune (R., S.D.) for unanimous consent to have a vote on
Batory’s nomination, the Washington Free Beacon
reported.
There was some speculation that Schumer would drop his
objections following the derailment in Washington state,
but the senior New York senator has continued his
obstruction.
Thune told reporters he was “deeply frustrated”
that a “non-controversial, highly qualified
nominee has been languishing in the Senate for
over four months due to objections by a handful
of Democrats over a parochial issue entirely
unrelated to the qualifications.”
.
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Barbra Streisand Has Found A Reason
To Impeach Trump! (Who Wants To Tell Her?)
By Doug P.
Posted At 1:11 Pm On December 30, 2017
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Expert: James Comey LIED To Congress,
As Weiner-Abedin CLASSIFIED Emails Prove
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 30, 2017
“This is a major victory” Watch’s litigation and so this really cries out for
a legitimate investigation being done,” he told
Dobbs.
During an appearance on Fox Business‘ “Lou Dobbs Earlier in the day, Bernard Kerik, New York City’s former
Tonight,” Farrell noted that at least five of the emails police commissioner, tweeted essentially the same thing.
turned over to his organization on Friday by the State
Department in response to a FOIA lawsuit contained
“The possession, transmission, and failing to
classified information. At the time they were discovered,
secure these documents are all federal crimes
Weiner was married to Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary
that do not require intent. Why hasn’t someone
Clinton when she served as President Obama’s secretary of
been prosecuted? Any member of the @FBI,
state.
@TheJusticeDept or #DOD would’ve been
prosecuted in a second for a violation that
At the time of the emails, Abedin was married to Weiner, a substantial,” he wrote.
onetime Democratic congressman who began a 21-month
prison sentence last month after being convicted of sexting
a 15-year-old girl.
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THUD: Eric Holder Saws Off Same Branch
He’s Sitting On During ‘Rule Of Law’ Lecture To Trump
By Doug P.
Posted At 2:06 Pm On December 30, 2017
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What Special Counsel Has Offered
Publicly Signals Long Year Ahead In Russia Probe
By Mike Levine
Dec 30, 2017, 7:02 AM ET
One thing is clear: Their work is far from finished, and it's
going to stretch well into the new year.
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According to the plea agreement filed with prosecutors Another Trump associate, former campaign adviser
four weeks ago, Flynn has agreed to "cooperate fully" with George Papadopoulos, has also pleaded guilty to lying to
Mueller’s investigation – the FBI about his own contacts with Russians, and he has
been working with Mueller's team for months.
– and that cooperation could include "answering
questions; providing sworn written statements; In Trump's interview with The New York Times, the
taking government-administered polygraph president said he thinks Mueller is "going to be fair" to
examination(s); and participating in covert law him.
enforcement activities."
Carlos Barria/Retuers
White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
speaks at the White House in Washington, Feb. 1, 2017. A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment for this
article.
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How The Russia Inquiry Began:
A Campaign Aide, Drinks And Talk Of Political Dirt
By SHARON Lafraniere, MARK MAZZETTI And MATT APUZZO
DEC. 30, 2017
George Papadopoulos was working as an energy consultant in The information that Mr. Papadopoulos gave to the
London when the Trump campaign named him a foreign policy
adviser in early March 2016. Credit via Agence France-Presse —
Australians answers one of the lingering mysteries of the
Getty Images past year: What so alarmed American officials to provoke
the F.B.I. to open a counterintelligence investigation into
WASHINGTON — During a night of heavy drinking at an the Trump campaign months before the presidential
upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a election?
young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign,
made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in It was not, as Mr. Trump and other politicians have
Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton. alleged, a dossier compiled by a former British spy hired
by a rival campaign. Instead, it was firsthand information
About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been from one of America’s closest intelligence allies.
told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would
embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to Interviews and previously undisclosed documents show
try to damage her campaign. that Mr. Papadopoulos played a critical role in this drama
and reveal a Russian operation that was more aggressive
Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the and widespread than previously known. They add to an
Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander emerging portrait, gradually filled in over the past year in
Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked revelations by federal investigators, journalists and
Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian lawmakers, of Russians with government contacts trying to
officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to establish secret channels at various levels of the Trump
their American counterparts, according to four current and campaign.
former American and foreign officials with direct
knowledge of the Australians’ role. The F.B.I. investigation, which was taken over seven
months ago by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III,
The hacking and the revelation that a member of the has cast a shadow over Mr. Trump’s first year in office —
Trump campaign may have had inside information about it even as he and his aides repeatedly played down the
were driving factors that led the F.B.I. to open an Russian efforts and falsely denied campaign contacts with
investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s attempts to disrupt Russians.
the election and whether any of President Trump’s
associates conspired. They have also insisted that Mr. Papadopoulos was a low-
level figure. But spies frequently target peripheral players
If Mr. Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the as a way to gain insight and leverage.
F.B.I. and is now a cooperating witness, was the
improbable match that set off a blaze that has consumed F.B.I. officials disagreed in 2016 about how aggressively
the first year of the Trump administration, his saga is also and publicly to pursue the Russia inquiry before the
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election. But there was little debate about what seemed to In response to questions, Mr. Papadopoulos’s lawyers
be afoot. John O. Brennan, who retired this year after four declined to provide a statement.
years as C.I.A. director, told Congress in May that he had
been concerned about multiple contacts between Russian Before the end of the month, Mr. Mifsud had arranged a
officials and Trump advisers. meeting at a London cafe between Mr. Papadopoulos and
Olga Polonskaya, a young woman from St. Petersburg
Russia, he said, had tried to “suborn” members of the whom he falsely described as Mr. Putin’s niece. Although
Trump campaign. Ms. Polonskaya told The Times in a text message that her
English skills are poor, her emails to Mr. Papadopoulos
‘The Signal to Meet’ were largely fluent. “We are all very excited by the
possibility of a good relationship with Mr. Trump,” Ms.
Polonskaya wrote in one message.
Mr. Papadopoulos, then an ambitious 28-year-old from
Chicago, was working as an energy consultant in London
More important, Mr. Mifsud connected Mr. Papadopoulos
when the Trump campaign, desperate to create a foreign
to Ivan Timofeev, a program director for the prestigious
policy team, named him as an adviser in early March 2016.
Valdai Discussion Club, a gathering of academics that
His political experience was limited to two months on Ben
meets annually with Mr. Putin. The two men corresponded
Carson’s presidential campaign before it collapsed.
for months about how to connect the Russian government
and the campaign. Records suggest that Mr. Timofeev,
Mr. Papadopoulos had no experience on Russia issues. But who has been described by Mr. Mueller’s team as an
during his job interview with Sam Clovis, a top early intermediary for the Russian Foreign Ministry, discussed
campaign aide, he saw an opening. He was told that the matter with the ministry’s former leader, Igor S.
improving relations with Russia was one of Mr. Trump’s Ivanov, who is widely viewed in the United States as one
top foreign policy goals, according to court papers, an of Russia’s elder statesmen.
account Mr. Clovis has denied.
When Mr. Trump’s foreign policy team gathered for the
Traveling in Italy that March, Mr. Papadopoulos met first time at the end of March in Washington, Mr.
Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor at a now-defunct Papadopoulos said he had the contacts to set up a meeting
London academy who had valuable contacts with the between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin. Mr. Trump listened
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Mifsud showed intently but apparently deferred to Jeff Sessions, then a
little interest in Mr. Papadopoulos at first. senator from Alabama and head of the campaign’s foreign
policy team, according to participants in the meeting.
But when he found out he was a Trump campaign adviser,
he latched onto him, according to court records and emails Mr. Sessions, now the attorney general, initially did not
obtained by The New York Times. Their joint goal was to reveal that discussion to Congress, because, he has said, he
arrange a meeting between Mr. Trump and President did not recall it. More recently, he said he pushed back
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow, or between their against Mr. Papadopoulos’s proposal, at least partly
respective aides. because he did not want someone so unqualified to
represent the campaign on such a sensitive matter.
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“That is a statesman speech,” Mr. Mifsud with an Israeli Embassy official who introduced Mr.
agreed. Ms. Polonskaya wrote that she was Papadopoulos to another Australian diplomat in London.
pleased that Mr. Trump’s “position toward
Russia is much softer” than that of other It is also not clear why, after getting the information in
candidates. May, the Australian government waited two months to
pass it to the F.B.I. In a statement, the Australian Embassy
Stephen Miller, then a senior policy adviser to the in Washington declined to provide details about the
campaign and now a top White House aide, was eager for meeting or confirm that it occurred.
Mr. Papadopoulos to serve as a surrogate, someone who
could publicize Mr. Trump’s foreign policy views without “As a matter of principle and practice, the
officially speaking for the campaign. But Mr. Australian government does not comment on
Papadopoulos’s first public attempt to do so was a disaster. matters relevant to active investigations,” the
statement said. The F.B.I. declined to comment.
In a May 4, 2016, interview with The Times of London,
Mr. Papadopoulos called on Prime Minister David
Cameron to apologize to Mr. Trump for criticizing his
remarks on Muslims as “stupid” and divisive. “Say sorry
to Trump or risk special relationship, Cameron told,” the
headline read. Mr. Clovis, the national campaign co-
chairman, severely reprimanded Mr. Papadopoulos for
failing to clear his explosive comments with the campaign
in advance.
Mr. Mifsud proposed to Mr. Papadopoulos that he, too, A House Judiciary Committee session last month at which Attorney
General Jeff Sessions testified. Mr. Sessions was head of the Trump
serve as a campaign surrogate. He could write op-eds campaign’s foreign policy team. Credit Al Drago for The New York
under the guise of a “neutral” observer, he wrote in a Times
previously undisclosed email, and follow Mr. Trump to his
rallies as an accredited journalist while receiving briefings A Secretive Investigation
from the inside the campaign.
Once the information Mr. Papadopoulos had disclosed to
In late April, at a London hotel, Mr. Mifsud told Mr. the Australian diplomat reached the F.B.I., the bureau
Papadopoulos that he had just learned from high-level opened an investigation that became one of its most
Russian officials in Moscow that the Russians had “dirt” closely guarded secrets. Senior agents did not discuss it at
on Mrs. Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails,” the daily morning briefing, a classified setting where
according to court documents. Although Russian hackers officials normally speak freely about highly sensitive
had been mining data from the Democratic National operations.
Committee’s computers for months, that information was
not yet public. Even the committee itself did not know.
Besides the information from the Australians, the
investigation was also propelled by intelligence from other
Whether Mr. Papadopoulos shared that information with friendly governments, including the British and Dutch. A
anyone else in the campaign is one of many unanswered trip to Moscow by another adviser, Carter Page, also raised
questions. He was mostly in contact with the campaign concerns at the F.B.I.
over emails. The day after Mr. Mifsud’s revelation about
the hacked emails, he told Mr. Miller in an email only that
With so many strands coming in — about Mr.
he had “interesting messages coming in from Moscow”
Papadopoulos, Mr. Page, the hackers and more — F.B.I.
about a possible trip. The emails obtained by The Times
agents debated how aggressively to investigate the
show no evidence that Mr. Papadopoulos discussed the
campaign’s Russia ties, according to current and former
stolen messages with the campaign.
officials familiar with the debate. Issuing subpoenas or
questioning people, for example, could cause the
Not long after, however, he opened up to Mr. Downer, the investigation to burst into public view in the final months
Australian diplomat, about his contacts with the Russians. of a presidential campaign.
It is unclear whether Mr. Downer was fishing for that
information that night in May 2016. The meeting at the bar
It could also tip off the Russian government, which might
came about because of a series of connections, beginning
try to cover its tracks. Some officials argued against taking
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such disruptive steps, especially since the F.B.I. would not Papadopoulos out of the blue over LinkedIn during the
be able to unravel the case before the election. summer of 2016, the two met repeatedly in Manhattan.
Others believed that the possibility of a compromised Mr. Millian has bragged of his ties to Mr. Trump — boasts
presidential campaign was so serious that it warranted the that the president’s advisers have said are overstated. He
most thorough, aggressive tactics. Even if the odds against headed an obscure organization called the Russian-
a Trump presidency were long, these agents argued, it was American Chamber of Commerce, some of whose board
prudent to take every precaution. members and clients are difficult to confirm. Congress is
investigating where he fits into the swirl of contacts with
That included questioning Christopher Steele, the former the Trump campaign, although he has said he is unfairly
British spy who was compiling the dossier alleging a far- being scrutinized only because of his support for Mr.
ranging Russian conspiracy to elect Mr. Trump. A team of Trump.
F.B.I. agents traveled to Europe to interview Mr. Steele in
early October 2016. Mr. Steele had shown some of his Mr. Millian proposed that he and Mr. Papadopoulos form
findings to an F.B.I. agent in Rome three months earlier, an energy-related business that would be financed by
but that information was not part of the justification to start Russian billionaires “who are not under sanctions” and
an counterintelligence inquiry, American officials said. would “open all doors for us” at “any level all the way to
the top.”
Ultimately, the F.B.I. and Justice Department decided to
keep the investigation quiet, a decision that Democrats in One billionaire, he said, wanted to explore the idea of
particular have criticized. And agents did not interview opening a Trump-branded hotel in Moscow.
Mr. Papadopoulos until late January.
“I know the president will distance himself from
Opening Doors, to the Top business, but his children might be interested,”
he wrote.
He was hardly central to the daily running of the Trump
campaign, yet Mr. Papadopoulos continuously found ways Nothing came of his proposals, partly because Mr.
to make himself useful to senior Trump advisers. In Papadopoulos was hoping that Michael T. Flynn, then Mr.
September 2016, with the United Nations General Trump’s pick to be national security adviser, might give
Assembly approaching and stories circulating that Mrs. him the energy portfolio at the National Security Council.
Clinton was going to meet with Mr. Sisi, the Egyptian
president, Mr. Papadopoulos sent a message to Stephen K. The pair exchanged New Year’s greetings in the final
Bannon, the campaign’s chief executive, offering to broker hours of 2016.
a similar meeting for Mr. Trump.
“Happy New Year, sir,” Mr. Papadopoulos
After days of scheduling discussions, the meeting was set wrote.
and Mr. Papadopoulos sent a list of talking points to Mr.
Bannon, according to people familiar with those “Thank you and same to you, George. Happy
interactions. Asked about his contacts with Mr. New Year!” Mr. Flynn responded, ahead of a
Papadopoulos, Mr. Bannon declined to comment. year that seemed to hold great promise.
Mr. Trump’s improbable victory raised Mr. But 2017 did not unfold that way. Within months, Mr.
Papadopoulos’s hopes that he might ascend to a top White Flynn was fired, and both men were charged with lying to
House job. The election win also prompted a business the F.B.I. And both became important witnesses in the
proposal from Sergei Millian, a naturalized American investigation Mr. Papadopoulos had played a critical role
citizen born in Belarus. After he had contacted Mr. in starting.
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Midas Touch: Trump’s DC Hotel
Was Supposed To LOSE Money, But…
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 31, 2017
“Even the critics of the Washington property As reported by The Daily Caller, there have been frequent
acknowledged that it actually turned out better protests at the hotel as well, which should have further
than maybe expected” dampened profits.
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The Probe With NO END: Mueller’s ‘Collusion’
Investigation Will Last WELL INTO 2018
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On December 31, 2017
“It’s time for Bob Mueller to put up or shut up” But, as critics of the probe note, none of the indictments
have had anything at all to do with alleged collusion
between the president’s campaign and the Russian
government, which was the original mandate of the special
counsel.
As reported by ABC News, despite predictions by lawyers “If there’s not, let’s move on as a country and
for President Donald J. Trump that Mueller’s probe will let’s institute reforms at the FBI so that an
wrap up sooner rather than later, sources believe that isn’t egomaniac FBI director like James Comey
the case at all. cannot depart from the normal standard
procedures that guarantees all Americans equal
“Most notably, the federal grand jury in treatment under the law,” he continued.
Washington that has already indicted two key
Trump associates is continuing to meet and Trump and others have complained that the ongoing
hear more evidence from prosecutors,” the Russia collusion probe is harming the administration’s
network reported. ability to improve relations with a strategic, nuclear-armed
great power.
“The grand jurors’ identities are unknown, but
their faces are recognizable to the reporters and
producers who have been standing inside the
courthouse each week. Just a week ago, one of
Mueller’s top prosecutors, Jeannie Rhee, was
spotted at the courthouse by ABC News,” the
report continued.
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Cops LOVE Trump: Law Enforcement Leaders Say Prez’s
Support For Thin Blue Line Is SAVING Police Lives
By JD Heyes
Sunday, December 31, 2017
For eight long years, police officers around the country As reported by the Washington Times:
suffered through one indignity after another under
President Obama and his cop-hating Justice Department. Top law enforcement leaders say they have had
no bigger advocate this year than President
The disrespect began within weeks of Obama taking Trump, and they are hopeful he has set the
office, when he took the side of a black friend and stage for fewer dangerous confrontations
colleague, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, over the between officers and the public, better-
word of a white police sergeant. It was the first time, as equipped departments and, ultimately,
president, that Obama played the race card. reductions in crime.
“I don’t know – not having been there and not Indeed, the paper noted, “early signs” are very positive.
seeing all the facts – what role race played in For one, officer deaths are down this year, which includes
that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any fatal shootings of cops. Also, early reports from major
of us would be pretty angry; number two that cities point to reductions in crime increases that have been
the Cambridge police acted stupidly in reported in the past two years.
arresting somebody when there was already
proof that they were in their own home,” Obama While police officials say they are still concerned about
pontificated. how to handle the ongoing opioid epidemic and how to
balance the administration’s policies of universal
As if that weren’t bad enough, Obama added this enforcement of federal immigration statutes without
unsubstantiated claim: alienating immigrant communities, they are hopeful that a
Trump presidency overall will be good for local law
enforcement.
“Separate and apart from this incident is that
there’s a long history in this country of African-
American and Latinos being stopped by law Even as he has offered some criticism for federal law
enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a enforcement and some within the intelligence community,
fact.” Trump has generally praised the work of local police, and
they have noticed. The morale boost was much needed and
appreciated.
From there it only got worse. By the time Obama left
office, he had — through his attorneys general Eric Holder
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“Arguably the most significant thing a president “We were frustrated toward the end of the
can do is use the bully pulpit to reflect his Obama administration with the Justice
support for law enforcement,” National Fraternal Department and some of their decisions with
Order of Police Executive Director Jim Pasco regard to consent decrees and how they were
told the Times. dealing with individual police departments they
are reviewing or investigating,” Chief Tom
“To this point in his presidency, he has certainly Manger, head of the Montgomery County Police
gone out of his way to do that. That resonates Department in Maryland and president of the
within the profession, and it’s received very Major Cities Chiefs Association, told the Times.
favorably,” he added.
He added there was still some federal oversight, but it is
Police officials say one of the biggest positives so far is far less combative.
Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ ending of the
Obama-era policy of federalizing local police through There are many things that Trump still must address as he
court-approved consent decrees, which were used to continues to undo the damage Barack Hussein Obama did
politicize local police policies and bring them more in line to our country. But as his improved relationship with
with Obama’s Left-wing views. America’s police officers demonstrates, he is making good
progress already.
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Dem Rep Cohen: ‘Trump Is The Most Despicable Human
Being To Ever Reside At 1600 Pennsylvania Ave’
By Pam Key
31 Dec 2017
He continued,
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Ouch! James Comey Gets ZINGED After Ringing In New
Year With Not-So-Veiled Swipe At Trump
By Doug P.
Posted At 10:01 Pm On December 31, 2017
As you’re well aware, since he joined Twitter, former FBI LOL. Comey’s tweet had a distinct BACKFIRE feel to it.
Director James Comey has demonstrated an affinity for
subtweeting President Trump, and this New Year’s Eve is
no exception:
Ouch!
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Bernstein: Trump Trying To
Undermine Media's Credibility
Says Broad Attacks On Press Are To Detriment Of Country
By Pam Key
31 Dec 2017
attempting to “undermine the credibility of the press as a
national institution.”
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House Permanent Select Committee Intel Chair Devin
Nunes Goes After DOJ And FBI For Not Producing
Subpoenaed Documents Or Witnesses
By Shepard Ambellas -
December 31, 2017
135
Tissue? President Trump’s New Years Wishes For ‘Even
The Fake Media’ Triggers Whiners GALORE
By Sam J.
Posted At 6:13 Pm On December 31, 2017
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For goodness sake. Wow, things just got real up in here.
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Tissue?
Objectively.
That’s hilarious.
Who is this guy again?
Say what you will about the president, but the man
KNOWS how to get a reaction.
Happy New Year, Mr. President.
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Former Joint Chiefs Chair Says He Hopes TRUMP Backs
Iranian Protestors More Than OBAMA Did
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 1, 2018
“We chose to not be as supportive as we could “We chose to not be as supportive as we could
have been then” have been then,” Mullen said. “And I hope we
can be right now so that Iran can continue to
evolve. They have an incredibly young
population. They look to a future that they
cannot see. They’ve been promised change
and a healthier economy.
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David Brock And Clinton Pal Funneled
$700K To Fund Trump Sexual Harassment Accusers
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/01/2018 - 17:50
Weeks after The Hill revealed a $750,000 scheme by groups, gave $500,000 to Ms. Bloom’s firm for
California woman's rights attorney Lisa Bloom to the last-ditch effort.
compensate women accusing Donald Trump of sexual
misconduct - one of whom had her mortgage paid off after Democrats familiar with the financial arrangements told
Trump ignored her pleas to become his makeup-artist the NYT that Bloom's firm kept the money from
during the campaign - the New York Times claims in a Brock's American Bridge, while refunding the money from
bombshell report that DNC operative and Media Matters Buell - a longtime friend
founder David Brock, along with major Hillary Clinton
friend and donor, Susie Tompkins Buell,
and financial supporter of Hillary Clinton.
steered $700,000 towards Bloom's efforts to Of note, Brock previously sat on the board of Hillary
smear Trump with sexual misconduct claims Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action, and his group
right before the 2016 election. "Correct the Record" sunk over $1 million into a digital
task force called "Barrier Breakers 2016," which had a
mandate to
Brock is no stranger to meddling in Trump's affairs to try Ironically, Brock used to be a GOP political operative -
and influence the 2016 election - having spearheaded an having spearheaded 1993 sexual harassment allegations
army of Correct the Record "nerd virgins" who were against President Bill Clinton by former Arkansas
"crammed into a newsroom-style bullpen in the back employee,
corner of the offices of American Bridge 21st Century" to
attack then-candidate Donald Trump while vehemently Paula Jones - who was paid $850,000 by the
defending Hillary Clinton. Various Brock-linked anti- Clintons to drop her lawsuit.
Trump groups Media Matters, ShareBlue, American
Bridge and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in So just to be clear, Clinton operative David Brock and
Washington (CREW)
Hillary Clinton pal Susie Tompkins Buell steered
$700,000 into a scheme to compensate Trump accusers
set a $40 million budget to fight Trump at right before the 2016 election. Which is yet another answer
the beginning of 2017. to the recurring question of just who tried to influence the
election.
Brock is also no stranger to funneling money to
people - once having paid $850,000 to a
former domestic partner of over 10 years
after he began dating D.C. pizza restaurant
impresario James Alefantis.
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As The Dossier Scandal Looms,
The New York Times Struggles To Save Its Collusion Tale
By Andrew C. McCarthy
January 1, 2018 5:28 PM
Well, it turns out the Page angle and thus the collusion
narrative itself is beset by an Obama-administration
scandal: Slowly but surely, it has emerged that the Justice
Department and FBI very likely targeted Page because of
the Steele dossier, a Clinton-campaign opposition-research
screed disguised as intelligence reporting. Increasingly, it
appears that the Bureau failed to verify Steele’s allegations
before the DOJ used some of them to bolster an
application for a spying warrant from the FISA court (i.e.,
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court).
A Secret Service agent stands nearby as Donald Trump speaks at a Thanks to the persistence of the House Intelligence
campaign stop in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., April 2016. (Reuters photo: Committee led by Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), the
Eduardo Munoz)
dossier story won’t go away. Thus, Democrats and their
media friends have been moving the goal posts in an effort
The totality of the evidence undermines the Times’
to save their collusion narrative. First, we were led to
collusion narrative. ‘ Trump Adviser’s Visit to Moscow
believe the dossier was no big deal because the FBI would
Got the F.B.I.’s Attention.” That was the page-one
surely have corroborated any information before the DOJ
headline the New York Times ran on April 20, 2017, above
fed it to a federal judge in a warrant application. Then,
its breathless report that “a catalyst for the F.B.I.
when the Clinton campaign’s role in commissioning the
investigation into connections between Russia and
dossier came to light, we were told it was impertinent to
President Trump’s campaign” was a June 2016 visit to
ask about what the FBI did, if anything, to corroborate it
Moscow by Carter Page.
since this could imperil intelligence methods and sources
— and, besides, such questions were just a distraction from
It was due to the Moscow trip by Page, dubbed a “foreign the all-important Mueller investigation (which the dossier
policy adviser” to the campaign, that “the F.B.I. obtained a had a hand in instigating and which, to date, has turned up
warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court” no evidence of a Trump-Russia conspiracy).
in September — i.e., during the stretch run of the
presidential campaign.
Lately, the story has morphed into this: Well, even if the
dossier was used, it was only used a little — there simply
You’re to be forgiven if you’re feeling dizzy. It may not be must have been lots of other evidence that Trump was in
too much New Year’s reverie; it may be that you’re reeling cahoots with Putin. But that’s not going to fly: Putting
over the Times’ holiday-weekend volte-face: “How the aside the dearth of collusion evidence after well over a
Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk year of aggressive investigation, the dossier is partisan
of Political Dirt.” propaganda. If it was not adequately corroborated by the
FBI, and if the Justice Department, without disclosing its
Seven months after throwing Carter Page as fuel on the provenance to the court, nevertheless relied on any part of
collusion fire lit by then-FBI director James Comey’s it in a FISA application, that is a major problem.
stunning public disclosure that the Bureau was
investigating possible Trump campaign “coordination” in So now, a new strategy to prop up the collusion tale: Never
Russia’s election meddling, the Gray Lady now says: mind Page — lookee over here at Papadopoulos!
Never mind. We’re onto Collusion 2.0, in which it is
George Papadopoulos — then a 28-year-old whose idea of
But that’s not what they were saying in April, when the
résumé enhancement was to feign participation in the
collusion narrative and Democratic calls for a special
Model U.N. — who triggered the FBI’s massive probe by .
prosecutor were in full bloom.
. . wait for it . . . a night of boozy blather in London.
Back then, no fewer than six of the Times’ top reporters,
What’s going on here?
along with a researcher, worked their anonymous “current
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and former law enforcement and intelligence officials” in Russia investigation, we learned that the dossier was
order to generate the Page blockbuster. With these leaks, actually an opposition-research project paid for by the
the paper confidently reported: “From the Russia trip of Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National
the once-obscure Mr. Page grew a wide-ranging Committee. We further learned that at Fusion GPS, the
investigation, now accompanied by two congressional research firm that retained Steele for the project, Steele
inquiries, that has cast a shadow over the early months of collaborated on it with Nellie Ohr, the wife of top Justice
the Trump administration” [emphasis added]. Department official Bruce Ohr — and that Bruce Ohr had
personally been briefed on the project by Steele and a
Oh sure, the Times acknowledged that there might have Fusion GPS executive.
been a couple of other factors involved. “Paul Manafort,
then [i.e., during Page’s trip] Mr. Trump’s campaign It is an explosive problem, this use of the dossier by the
manager, was already under criminal investigation in Obama Justice Department and the FBI in an application to
connection with payments from a pro-Russian political the FISA court for authority to spy on Trump’s associates.
party in Ukraine.” And “WikiLeaks and two websites later Politically, it suggests that the collusion narrative peddled
identified as Russian intelligence fronts had begun by Democrats and the media since Trump’s victory in the
releasing emails obtained when Democratic Party servers November election was substantially driven by partisan
were hacked.” propaganda. Legally, it raises the distinct possibilities that
(a) the FBI did not adequately verify the claims in the
But the trigger for the investigation — the “catalyst” — dossier before using them in an application to the secret
was Page. federal court; and (b) the Justice Department of the then-
incumbent Democratic administration did not disclose to
Somehow, despite all that journalistic leg-work and all the court that the dossier was produced by the Democratic
those insider sources, the name George Papadopoulos does presidential campaign for use against the rival Republican
not appear in the Times’ story. candidate.
Now, however, we’re supposed to forget about Page. When it emerged in October that the dossier was a
According to the new bombshell dropped on New Year’s Democratic-party campaign product, Representative Trey
Eve by six Times reporters, it was “the hacking” coupled Gowdy (R., S.C.) recounted that, for months, the Justice
with “the revelation that a member of the Trump Department and FBI had stonewalled House demands that
campaign” — Papadopoulos — “may have had inside they fess up about whether dossier allegations were used in
information about it” that were “driving factors that led the applying for the FISA-court warrant to surveil Page. But
F.B.I. to open an investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s though the DOJ and the Bureau have struggled to lock the
attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of barn, the horse left long ago. Shortly before the Times ran
President Trump’s associates conspired.” its Page extravaganza last April, CNN confirmed that the
dossier had indeed been used to obtain the FISA warrant
It seems like only yesterday — or, to be more precise, only — the network relying on unnamed “US officials briefed
late October, when he pled guilty to a count of lying to the on the [Russia] investigation.”
FBI in the Mueller probe — that Mr. Papadopoulos was
even more obscure than the “once-obscure Mr. Page.” I won’t hazard a guess on which of CNN’s anonymous
Now, though, he has been elevated to “the improbable sources are also the Times’ anonymous sources. But it is
match that set off a blaze that has consumed the first year safe to say the intelligence community, still suffused with
of the Trump administration.” Obama holdovers, has been undone by its own illegal
leaking. Back in April, they leaked because they figured it
But hey, if you’re willing to hang in there through the first would wound President Trump: After all, if the dossier had
36 paragraphs of the Times’ nearly 3,000-word been used to obtain a FISA warrant, that must mean that
Papadopoulos report, you’ll find the fleeting observation the dossier’s sensational allegations of a traitorous Trump-
that “A trip to Moscow by another adviser, Carter Page, Russia conspiracy were true. That is, the leakers assumed,
also raised concerns at the F.B.I.” just as many of us familiar with the FISA process assumed,
that the Justice Department would never put information in
You don’t say! a FISA warrant application unless the FBI had first
corroborated it.
Page and the Dossier Problem Again, until this weekend,
Page was the eye of the collusion storm. And as I outlined Subsequently, however, former FBI director James Comey
in a column last weekend, a significant part of what got the told a Senate committee that the dossier remained
FBI and the Obama Justice Department stirred up about “salacious and unverified.” Obviously, if the FBI had not
Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow was the Steele dossier — verified the dossier by the time Comey testified in June
the anti-Trump reports compiled by former British spy 2017, then the Bureau cannot possibly have verified the
Christopher Steele. Alas, six months after the Times’ dossier when DOJ sought the FISA warrant nine months
planted its feet on Page as the linchpin of the Trump- earlier, in September 2016.
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Then in October, it emerged that the Clinton campaign In the Times’ new version of events, it was not the dossier
paid for the dossier. More recently, we learned that anti- that “so alarmed American officials to provoke the F.B.I.
Trump bias ran rampant in the upper ranks of the Bureau to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump
and the Justice Department — to the point that a top FBI campaign months before the presidential election.” That,
counterintelligence agent spoke of the Bureau’s need for according to the Times, is a false claim that “Mr. Trump
an “insurance policy” against the risk of a Trump and other politicians have alleged.” Somehow, the paper
presidency. Right before Christmas, reporting from Fox omits the inconvenient details that it was the Times that
News strongly suggested that the FBI, though apparently led the charge in claiming that it was Page’s trip to
aware that the dossier was a partisan campaign project, had Moscow that provoked the investigation, and that it was
verified none of its sensational claims. Finally, in a Fox the dossier that so alarmed the FBI about that trip.
News interview on Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R.,
S.C.), who has inspected relevant classified documents, In what we might think of as the latest “Russian Reset,”
indicated that the Justice Department used the dossier in its the Times now says the investigation was instigated by
application without disclosing its partisan political genesis “firsthand information from one of America’s closest
to the FISA court (see Paul Mirengoff’s Powerline post intelligence allies” — Australia. Turns out Papadopoulos
with embedded video). was out drinking in London with Alexander Downer,
“Australia’s top diplomat in Britain.” Tongue loosened, the
All of this comes back to Carter Page, heretofore the “young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign”
anchor of the media’s collusion narrative. The link made a “startling revelation” to Downer: He had learned
between Page and the dossier is manifest. As I outlined in that “Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.”
last weekend’s column, the FBI began receiving the
dossier’s explosive reports shortly after Page’s Russia trip. Because of the “Statement of the Offense” that Special
Steele’s reports, based on anonymous Russian sources, Counsel Mueller filed with the court when Papadopoulos
alleged that (a) there was an explicit Trump-Russia pled guilty, the Times and the rest of us now know that a
conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 election, (b) the few weeks earlier (on April 26), Papadopoulos was told by
conspiracy included Russian hacking of Democratic email a Maltese academic who purported to have Kremlin ties
accounts in which Trump campaign officials, including that Russia had “thousands of emails” that could damage
Page, were complicit, and (c) Page met with two top Hillary Clinton. We also know that in July, hacked
Kremlin operatives on the Moscow trip — operatives who Democratic-party emails began being published.
discussed with him a quid pro quo arrangement to drop
sanctions against Russia, floated the possibility of With that established, we’re now told that when the emails
providing the Trump campaign with “kompromat” were leaked, Australian officials put two and two together,
(compromising information) on Hillary Clinton, and figuring these emails might be what Papadopoulos was
warned that Trump better be careful because the Putin talking about “that night at the Kensington Wine Room.”
regime had a kompromat file on him, too. The Aussies thus tipped off their American counterparts to
the barroom conversation between Papadopoulos and
It has become increasingly clear that Steele’s claims about Downer. That, not the dossier explicitly alleging a Trump-
Page are, at best, highly dubious; more likely, they are Russia conspiracy, is what provoked the investigation. You
untrue. Aside from the fact that Comey has been can take it to the bank. After all, the Times has gotten this
dismissive of the dossier as “unverified,” Page has revisionist history from “four American and foreign
vigorously and plausibly denied its allegations about him. officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role” —
The Annapolis grad and former naval-intelligence officer i.e., from the same sort of unidentified, unaccountable
insists he is not even acquainted with the Russian officials sources that brought you the Page-centric version of events
with whom he supposedly had traitorous meetings. that has now been discarded.
Moreover, if the Russian regime truly wanted to make
insidious proposals to Trump, it had emissaries far better To say this story has holes in it does not do justice to the
positioned to approach him; it strains credulity to believe craters on display. To begin with, the Times admits that
the Kremlin would turn to Page — barely known to Trump “exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said” to Downer “is
and, years earlier, derided as an “idiot” by a Russian unclear.” What we are dealing with here is sheer
intelligence operative who tried to recruit him. supposition. And, it appears, flawed supposition.
Papadopoulos and the New ‘Russian Reset’ As I pointed out after Papadopoulos pled guilty, he was
told that the Russians had “emails of Clinton.” But the
So now, with the Page foundation of the collusion hacked emails that were published were not Clinton’s
narrative collapsing, and with the heat on over the Obama emails; they were those of the DNC and John Podesta —
administration’s use of the dossier, it is apparently exceedingly few of which Clinton was even included on,
Papadopoulos to the rescue. much less participated in. Given the amount of
misinformation the credulous Papadopoulos was given
(one of his interlocutors falsely posed as Putin’s niece), the
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likelihood is that he was being toyed with: Remember, been integral to a Trump-Russia plot. Anonymous
there was much speculation at the time, including by intelligence and law-enforcement officials have been
Trump himself, that the Russians (and other foreign leaking collusion information to the Times and other
intelligence services) might have hacked former secretary media outlets since before Trump won the November 2016
Clinton’s unsecure private server and obtained the 30,000- election — that’s why we’ve spent the last year-plus
plus emails that she refused to surrender to the State hearing all about Page, Manafort, Flynn, et al. If
Department; it is probable that these were the emails Papadopoulos had really been the impetus for the
Papadopoulos’s dubious Russian connections purported to investigation way back in July 2016, what are the chances
be dangling. that we would never have heard his name mentioned until
after his guilty plea was announced 15 months later? What
There is no evidence that Papadopoulos or the Trump are the chances that we’d only now be learning that he was
campaign was ever shown or given any of the emails the the real stimulus for the investigation? I’d put it at less
Kremlin purportedly had. The evidence, in fact, than none.
undermines the collusion narrative: If the Trump campaign
had to learn, through Papadopoulos, that Russia There’s another interesting word that does not appear in
supposedly had thousands of emails damaging to Clinton, the Times’ extensive Papadopoulos report: surveillance.
that would necessarily mean the Trump campaign had Despite being “so alarmed” by young Papadopoulos’s
nothing to do with Russia’s acquisition of the emails. This, barroom braggadocio with the Australian diplomat, and his
no doubt, is why Mueller permitted Papadopoulos to plead claimed Russia connections, there is no indication that the
guilty to a mere process crime — lying in an FBI Obama Justice Department and FBI ever sought a FISA-
interview. If there were evidence of an actual collusion court warrant to spy on him.
conspiracy, Papadopoulos would have been pressured to
admit guilt to it. He wasn’t. No, the FISA warrant was sought for Carter Page, after his
trip to Moscow. The trip the Times used to say incited the
Even a cursory FBI investigation of Papadopoulos would Trump-Russia probe.
have illustrated how implausible it was that he could have
.
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Trump: ‘No More’ Aid To Pakistan,
‘They Have Given Us Nothing But Lies And Deceit’
By John Hayward
1 Jan 2018
If the complete termination of U.S. foreign aid does indeed On Thursday, Pakistani military spokesman
become official policy, it would be a far more dramatic Major-General Asif Ghafoor warned the United
step than withholding all or part of America’s $255 million States against taking “unilateral” military action
in military assistance to Pakistan, a measure reportedly on its soil and denied his country was not doing
under consideration by the administration over the past enough to fight the Taliban and its allies,
few days after Pakistan refused to allow U.S. interrogators promising that the results of Pakistan’s
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counterterrorism operations would be “seen in “If there are any facilitators and abetters inside
subsequent years and months.” Pakistan that can only be addressed if the 2.7
million Afghan refugees are sent back to
After making this declaration, Ghafoor implied Pakistan Afghanistan,” he said.
could actually do more, once its concerns about Afghan
refugees are addressed.
.
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Obama Elitist Hacks Get DESTROYED On Twitter After
Telling Trump To “Stay Quiet” On Iranian Protests
By Jim Hoft
January 1, 2018
As previously reported— After several days the protesters called out to President
Obama,
The Barack Obama administration actively
assisted the evil Khamenei Regime to crush “Obama, Obama, Are you with the regime or
the 2009 Green Rebellion with us?”
In 2009 tens of thousands of brave Iranian democracy But Obama did nothing — Instead he
protesters rose up against the brutal Khamenei regime after worked with the evil regime to quash the
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was announced the rebellion.
winner in a disputed national election.
This past week protesters took to the streets again in Iran
to protest the evil, corrupt regime.
Barack Obama, Ambassador Susan Rice and former
Secretary of State John Kerry are telling President Trump
to be quiet.
The Iranians are furious with these latest comments from
Obama and his lackeys.
Her name was Neda Soltani or Neda Agha Soltan — she was shot in the
neck during a protest in Tehran on June 20, 2009. (AFP)
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. More…
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The Iranians have heard enough from
Barack Obama and his lackeys.
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Dem: Trump ‘Most Despicable
Human Being’ To Serve As President
The Tennessee Democrat Had Sponsored Five Articles Of
Impeachment Against Trump In November, Which Failed Miserably
By Brandon Carter
January 1, 2018
“Donald Trump is the most despicable human “Given the magnitude of the constitutional crisis,
being to ever reside in 1600 Pennsylvania there’s no reason for delay,” Cohen said at the
Avenue,” Cohen said on MSNBC. time.
“A narcissistic sociopath doesn’t change,” he The majority of the Democratic caucus, including House
continued. “It endangers the country. And
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), have not supported
war…is something he could get into to improve
attempts to impeach Trump.
.
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Carl Bernstein: Trump’s Attorneys
Are Lying To Him So He Doesn’t Fire Mueller
By Colin Kalmbacher
11:55 Am, January 1st, 2018
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We've Been Fooled For 15 Years,
But No More: Donald Trump's Tweet To Pakistan
ET Online And Agencie
Updated: Jan 01, 2018, 08.20 PM IST
After recent reports that the Donald Trump administration "We make massive payments every year to
was considering cutting off aid to Pakistan, US President Pakistan. They have to help," he said in
Donald Trump slammed the country, saying that the US unveiling his national security strategy.
had "foolishly" given Pakistan $33 billion in aid in the last
15 years. And last week, Vice President Mike Pence told American
troops during a visit to Afghanistan:
Trump said that the US had only gotten lies and deceit in
return for the monetary aid it had provided. Trump also
"President Trump has put Pakistan on notice."
said that US operations in Afghanistan were being
hindered by the "safe haven" that Pakistan was providing
to terrorists. "For too long Pakistan has provided safe haven
to the Taliban and many terrorist organisations,
.. but those days are over," Pence told American
troops at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan
where he made an unannounced trip on
December 21.
.
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CRIMINAL: Top Hillary Aide Huma Abedin Forwarded
State Dept. Passwords To Yahoo Email Acct. Before It
Was HACKED By Russians And Others
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 2, 2018
CNN/Money reported in October that all Yahoo email Sushchin was also employed by Russian investment bank
accounts had been hacked in August 2013 Renaissance Capital, the institution that paid former
President Bill Clinton a half-million dollars for a single
speech in Moscow in June 2010, when his wife was
Obama’s secretary of state.
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“Justice” For Trump? DoJ, FBI Staffers
And Agents Gave Money To Hillary Clinton EVERY
DAY Of Her 2016 Campaign
By JD Heyes
Tuesday, January 02, 2018
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ABC Spends Last Day Of 2017 Wailing
About Trump’s Threat To First Amendment
By Scott Whitlock
January 2, 2018 1:27 PM EST
ABC on Sunday spent the final day of 2017 whining about authority. The First Amendment, that democracy rests on a
the term “fake news” and insisting that Donald Trump is a free press. And it is just — he’s just made it easy now to
threat to the First Amendment. With no mention of the damp down one of the pillars of democracy.
network’s demonstrably fake reporting, This Week guest
host Martha Raddatz complained, “There was an attack Over on CNN, Sunday, Brian Stelter wondered, “What is
on the media, on the First Amendment that we have not fake news?” Guest John Avlon, unsurprisingly, blamed
seen before, really, in this country... and the profound others for being partisan:
effect that can have. This is a President, as you know well,
who likes attention from the media. On the other hand, he
Hyper-partisan news sites that have explicit agendas that
calls us fake news.”
go well beyond The National Reviews and Weekly
Standards or Mother Jones that have a forthright
USA Today’s Susan Page responded by lamenting, “Well, philosophy. These are places that are viewing political
I’m very concerned as a citizen that a lot of Americans no debate as a form of war and sometimes they function as
longer trust the mainstream news media to be telling them propagandists and there are no rules in this. They are ugly
the truth.” Again, there was no mention of the fact that and they will unleash forces against critics in any way,
ABC had to suspend correspondent Brian Ross for shape or form.
incorrectly reporting that candidate Donald Trump
instructed Michael Flynn to make contact with Russian For more examples of fake news in 2017, go here.
officials.
A partial transcript of the ABC segment is below:
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PAGE: Well, I’m very concerned as a citizen that a lot of MARY JORDAN (national correspondent, Washington Post): I
Americans no longer trust the mainstream news media to be think the global effect of the president of the United States talking
telling them the truth. Because we can disagree on what policies about fake news of -- when stories that he doesn’t like is
make sense, but we need to agree on what we think is actually dangerous. There are 262 journalists in jail around the world now
happening. And I also think something to watch in 2018 are by despots and authoritarian figures. The crime, for some, fake
Justice Department investigations into leaks and whether that news. So when in Egypt and China and Myanmar and in other
goes further than just rhetoric in terms of having a chilling effect countries, leaders don’t like stories about corruption, about
on journalism’s ability to hold to accountable people in power. extrajudicial killings, what do they do? They jail them. We used to
be the moral authority. The First Amendment, that democracy
RADDATZ: And Mary, you’ve spent a good deal of time -- one rests on a free press. And it is just — he’s just made it easy now
second, Perry. You’ve spent a good deal of time traveling around to damp down one of the pillars of democracy.
the world, being based around the world. The rest of the world
viewing fake news.
.
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Wikileaks Smacks Down Former Hillary Clinton Advisor
‘Russia Was Not A Wikileaks Source’; ‘Deal With It’
By Cristina Laila
January 2, 2018
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When Hannity asked him if the Russian government was “Brazile writes that she was haunted by the still-
the source of the hack, Assange said the following: unsolved murder of DNC data staffer Seth Rich
and feared for her own life, shutting the blinds
Julian Assange: “Our source is not the to her office window so snipers could not see
Russian government.“ her and installing surveillance cameras at her
home,” writes Philip Rucker of the Washington
Post.
Sean Hannity: “So in other words, let me be
clear, Russia did not give you the Podesta
documents or anything from the DNC?” If Seth Rich’s murder was just a random
mugging in the middle of the nightas the
Democrats and media suggest — Why was
Julian Assange: “That’s correct.”
Donna Brazile in fear for her life?
WikiLeaks has an 11 year flawless history of
releasing authentic information.
On July 10, 2016, 27 year-old DNC staffer Seth Conrad The Russian collusion hoax was completely fabricated by
Rich was murdered in Washington DC about a block from Hillary Clinton and her cronies. Her dirtiest political trick
his apartment. The killer or killers took nothing from their to date is the multi-million garbage dossier which was used
victim, leaving behind his wallet, watch and phone. by the FBI and most likely prompted a FISA warrant to
spy on her political opponent.
Shortly after Rich’s murder, Hillary’s campaign chairman
John Podesta’s DNC emails were scattered throughout the Since she lost the presidential election, the dossier was
internet via WikiLeaks. then used to prompt a Special Counsel to investigate
Donald Trump for a crime that has yet to be named.
Eyebrows were raised once again when former interim
Chairwoman of the DNC Donna Brazile said Seth Rich’s
murder haunted her.
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Wikileaks Denies Russia As Source
In Response To Head Of John Podesta Think Tank
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/02/2018 - 17:40
While Julian Assange has previously denied Russia as While the US intelligence community is apparently
their source, sticking to the Russia narrative, President Trump
definitively hedged his opinion on WikiLeaks' source. At a
this is the first explicit admission by the July 2017 press conference before a scheduled meeting
organization in print regarding Kremlin with Vladimir Putin, President Trump fielded questions
involvement in leaked emails published about whether he accepts the U.S. intelligence
during the 2016 US presidential election. community’s verdict that Russia interfered in the 2016
election in a bid to help him defeat Democratic rival
Hillary Clinton.
HANNITY: Can you say to the American
people, unequivocally, that you did not get this
information about the DNC, John Podesta's Trump responded that others might have been culpable, in
emails, can you tell the American people 1,000 addition from Russia.
percent that you did not get it from Russia or
anybody associated with Russia? "I think it was Russia and I think it could
have been other people and other
JULIAN ASSANGE: Yes. We can say, we have countries,” Mr. Trump said. “A lot of people
said, repeatedly that over the last two months interfered. I think it’s been happening for a
that our source is not the Russian government long time.”
and it is not a state party.
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Trump also said the U.S. intelligence community has made Her application to renew an expired visa has
mistakes in the past and its judgment is open to question. been stuck in mysterious bureaucratic limbo
As he has done in the past when discussing Russian since 2014.
hacking,
In an age when British popstars with any sort of US
he mentioned the U.S. invasion of Iraq in fanbase are routinely granted permission to work in
2003. America, her two-year hobbling seems unconventional.
Intelligence assessments claiming that Iraq possessed “Obviously what’s happening to me is very
weapons of mass destruction turned out to be inaccurate. deliberate,” she says. “I don’t know who’s
doing it, it’s like fucking playing Cluedo.”
“I remember listening about Iraq,” Trump
said. He added: “Nobody really knows. In general, though, she does not pitch her suspicions
Nobody really knows for sure.” small.
The WikiLeaks Task Force tweet comes on the heels of a “On paper I’ve supported WikiLeaks and
cryptic 3AM (London time) tweet by Julian Assange stuff. And now Hillary Clinton is running for
containing a 60-character code and an embedded link to president. And until that’s solved I might
the MIA music video "Paper Planes." have a problem, because anyone who ever
associated with that website is going to get
fucked up. Even if you delivered [WikiLeaks]
their takeaway, you are going to be on a list.
Do you know what I mean?”
I ask her if she ever worries she’s paranoid and she replies,
smartly, that in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s
revelations about the NSA it’s wrong “to even use the
word ‘paranoia’ as if it’s a weird condition. Because it’s
common as a fucking cold now. Everyone has to have an
element of paranoia"
There is a song on the new album called “Visa” that takes Hours after the break-in, Julian Assange
aim at American immigration policy, something tweeted a Jimmy Dore video which contains a
Arulpragasam unwillingly knows a lot about. clip of Assange strongly hinting that
murdered DNC IT staffer Seth Rich was their
source.
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two weeks after the US Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden
sent a cable detailing their concerns.
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Wikileaks Tweets PROOF The NY TIMES COLLUDED
With Hillary Clinton While She Was At State Dept.
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 2, 2018
“The players in the WikiLeaks email are The link in the tweet goes to a State Department site that
interesting” includes a full PDF file of the cable, which is here.
(National Sentinel) Deep State: Whistleblower web site Political observers said that the tip-off was meant to give
WikiLeaks overnight tweeted what appears to be Clinton and the State Department time to come up with
irrefutable proof that at least one correspondent at The responses to stories that put her and the agency in a bad
New York Times was colluding with then-Secretary of light.
State Hillary Clinton to update her in advance about stories
the paper was preparing to run.
“Or, in another possible scenario, the
heads up could give the State Department
The tweet comes after the Times on Monday published time to create a diversion for the same day,
what critics say was another “hit piece” on Republicans thus overriding a damaging story with other
headlined, “Republican Attacks on Mueller and F.B.I. news its friends in the mainstream media
Open New Rift in GOP.” would happily cover instead,” The Daily
Wire noted further.
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‘This Is Your Brain On Drugs.’ Chelsea Handler’s Dig At
Trump’s Brain Mind-Blowingly BACKFIRES
By Sam J.
Posted At 12:23 Pm On January 2, 2018
Figures.
She seriously set herself up for this.
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Suggesting she read a book?! Oppressor!
Maybe that will be her next show, “Crazy old woman yells
at a wall.
Would look a lot like her Twitter feed.
.
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Trump To DOJ: ‘JAIL!’ To Abedin, Comey;
Calls On ‘DEEP STATE’ Justice Dept. To ACT
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 2, 2018
Trump appeared to be suggesting that a double standard Fox News reported further:
was being employed against the sailor and Hillary Clinton,
Abedin and others The president’s tweet comes after the State
Department, in a Friday news dump,
released a batch of emails from Abedin’s
account that were discovered by the FBI on
a laptop belonging to her estranged
husband, Anthony Weiner. At least four of
the documents were marked “classified.”
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NY Times In Full COVER-UP Mode To Help DEMS Save
Their ‘Trump-Russia Collusion’ Narrative As House Closes
In On FBI’s Improper Use Of ‘Dossier’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 2, 2018
“[N]ow, with the Page foundation of the campaign of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National
collusion narrative collapsing, and with the Committee.
heat on over the Obama administration’s
use of the dossier, it is apparently Republicans in Congress, and in particular House
Papadopoulos to the rescue” Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes of
California, increasing believe that the FBI used the dossier
as a quasi-intelligence document to obtain the FISA
warrant without ever the dossier’s salacious claims of
espionage.
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WOW! Devin Nunes May Interview
Robert Mueller Over Clinton-Uranium One Scandal
By Joshua Caplan
January 2, 2018
During his remarks at David Horowitz’s month later, on May 17th, Rosenstein appointed a special
Restoration Weekend 2017 back in counsel and appointed his old friend from the Federal
November, Intelligence Chairman Devin Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Robert Mueller.
Nunes dropped a bomb that few, if any,
Prior to the Obama administration approving the very
caught in the media.
controversial deal in 2010 giving Russia 20% of America’s
The California Congressman told the audience that he Uranium, the FBI had evidence that Russian nuclear
will interview Robert Mueller if the special counsel was industry officials were involved in bribery, kickbacks,
involved in the Clinton-Uranium One deal. extortion and money laundering in order to benefit
Vladimir Putin.
The FBI approved the deal anyway.
And previously Rep. Louie Gohmert dropped the bomb
that Rosenstein and Mueller were the ones who allowed
the Uranium One deal to go forward.
Here is Louie from After the Bell.
Rep. Gohmert: One of the things that was most shocking
was that a guy named Rosenstein, if that name sounds
familiar, since he appointed Mueller (to lead Special
Counsel on Trump) he was the guy that actually helped
When asked by an audience member what his thoughts sign documents that got the whole thing, the original
were on Mueller’s alleged role in the Clinton-Uranium cover-up done by sealing documents back early in the
One deal, Nunes had this to say: Obama administration so that Hillary could go through and
NUNES: Trey Gowdy, rightfully so, wants to methodically make mega-millions…
go through this, so the answer to Mueller, if he has …The blockbuster line now here is that he (Mueller) and
involvement in it, we’re going to interview him. I mean, Rosenstein had to be involved in him being the Special
that’s the bottom line. Counsel now because now we know he needed to cover
up the fact that him and Rosenstein covered up the first
investigation!
Via After the Bell:
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After 'Taking Jerusalem Off The Table'
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‘Constitutional Crisis’: Deep State Versus Donald Trump,
Administration Over Transgender Individuals In Military
By Matthew Boyle
2 Jan 2018
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conceded that federal judges can make In other words:
military policy and establish medical
standards for enlistments. According to DOJ lawyers are just like the lawyers for
Reuters, a Justice Department official who their clients, trying to formulate a legal
requested anonymity noted that the strategy that they think will win their clients’
Defense Department has set up a ‘study’ to case. But, by no means has the DOJ
review the issue. Rather than litigate this abandoned the case—and it is still fighting
interim appeal before that occurs, the to defend the legality of the president’s
administration has decided to wait for the directive.
DoD’s study and continue to defend the
president’s lawful authority in district court
Sources close to the matter and with direct knowledge tell
in the meantime. This is a lame excuse, Breitbart News that the issue came up at a National
making as much sense as the 2016 Trump
Security Council principals meeting on Tuesday—and the
Campaign allowing the Federal Election
senior-most officials in the Trump administration are
Commission to declare Hillary Clinton the
seeking a pathway forward to dealing with this matter.
winner of the presidential race early on
Sources close to the process have told Breitbart News that
Election Night, relying on vote counts
there may be a better option on the table for the president
coming in later to undo that result. The
if he wants to succeed here, and it involves a strategy laid
DoJ’s reported strategy might be plausible
out for him by several top conservative leaders.
IF the Defense Department ‘study’ in
question were truly fact-based and
objective, and IF the DoD had taken steps A letter sent to President Trump signed by various military
to provide conditional enlistment contracts and law enforcement conservative leaders, including
with transgender personnel who are President Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General Ed Meese,
recruited under the force of federal court lays out a new pathway forward for President Trump to
orders. Neither expectation has been met. block transgender individuals from serving in the military.
Chris Hull, an executive vice president of the Center for Meese and the other conservative leaders wrote to
Security Policy who previously served as chief of staff to President Trump before the New Year:
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), is similarly upset.
As you know, several district judges have
“These individuals suffer from a serious recently ordered the Department of
mental illness with suicide rates of up to Defense to begin enlisting individuals who
40%, which is eight times as high as the identify as transgender into the military on
rate among schizophrenics, who are barred January 2, 2018. These orders are not only
from military service,” Hull told Breitbart at odds with your directive of August 25,
News. “We already have a problem with 2017 to the Secretary of Defense and, with
suicide in the military without actively respect to the Coast Guard, to the
recruiting those among the most likely to Secretary of Homeland Security precluding
die at their own hands.” such a change in policy. It is also a judicial
intrusion upon your exclusive authority as
Commander-in-Chief pursuant to Article II
But, per the Department of Justice, they are following the
of the Constitution and a dangerous affront
instructions of the Department of Defense and the White
to your responsibility to determine the
House. The Pentagon is, per the DOJ, working on a new
make-up and disposition of the nation’s
study on the matter—and things are on hold until then and
armed forces. Unfortunately, this is not the
until the next stages of litigation.
only example of unacceptable
infringements on your presidential powers.
“The Department of Defense has Courts have been eager to strike down
announced that it will be releasing an your immigration-related executive orders
independent study of these issues in the with politically-motivated rulings. Moreover,
coming weeks,” DOJ spokeswoman Sarah as Bloomberg reported yesterday in a news
Isgur Flores told Breitbart News. “So rather report headlined, ‘Washington Bureaucrats
than litigate this interim appeal before that Are Quietly Working to Undermine Trump’s
occurs, the administration has decided to Agenda,’ others in the government have
wait for DOD’s study and will continue to been emboldened to subvert your
defend the President’s and Secretary of administration and policies. We believe
Defense’s lawful authority in district court in strongly that your decision to prevent
the meantime.” additional enlistments of individuals who
identify as transgender in the U.S. armed
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forces is fully justified in light of the grave will make its way through the court system—from the
harm such a policy change would portend district court level all the way up through the appeals court
for the readiness, morale, unit cohesion to the Supreme Court if necessary. Their enlistment
and funding challenges facing our military. contracts would include specific provisions that they may
In addition, it would be a most dangerous not avail themselves of sex-change surgeries or other
precedent to have the judiciary interjecting expensive medical options at taxpayer expense during this
itself into your exclusive, constitutional time, and that they will immediately be discharged from
command authority and responsibility to the military if and when the administration prevails in
create a right to serve where there is none court. Doing it this way, as well, allows time for the
– let alone extending that right to people Department of Justice to build its case out with evidence at
whose medical condition and requirements the district court level—evidence that will eventually be
are, as a practical matter, incompatible with considered in the very likely event that the U.S. Supreme
military service and a burden on an already Court eventually considers this case.
stressed military budget.
This order will likely be challenged as well. But by
They continued in the letter to President Trump by noting resetting the clock this way, a Supreme Court decision on
that there is a different pathway forward for him that the president’s policy would likely not come down before
would take the power away from activist judges attempting 2019, when it is very possible that the court will have one
to nullify his presidency, and allow him to move forward or two more conservative Justices in place of the
with implementation of his ban on transgender individuals potentially retiring Anthony Kennedy and the aging Ruth
enlisting in the U.S. military. The conservative leaders Bader Ginsburg.
wrote to President Trump:
In other words, Trump could sign a new order immediately
To allow this court order to stand, moreover, would be to with language close to what Meese and company are
invite the judiciary to trespass further on your executive suggesting very soon. Then, the same judges at both the
authority and the chain of command. Predictably, it would district court and appeals courts levels that blocked
also empower government employees to ignore Trump’s directive from implementation would predictably
presidential direction – with profound and adverse block this one. The new order would replace the old one—
implications for the Republic. In the interest of avoiding and this new one would become the focus of the court
such intolerable consequences and preventing avoidable case.
harm from being inflicted on the armed forces with the
initiation of enlistments of individuals who identify as Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the Justice Department
transgender, we recommend that you immediately issue a official responsible for preparing the DOJ’s legal strategy
new directive to the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland here, would then ask the Supreme Court for a stay on the
Security along the lines of the attached. It simply preserves lower court order blocking implementation—and by the
your authority and responsibility to establish accession time those actions have passed, no transgender individuals
standards for military service, pending the outcome of or at least very few would have gotten into the military and
ongoing litigation. the case would not be on the Supreme Court docket until
2019 rather than this year, in 2018.
In addition to Meese, the other signers of the letter include
retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, Center for Again, it all remains to be seen what President Trump, the
Security Policy President Frank Gaffney, Retired U.S. Air DOJ, and the Department of Defense do here in the end.
Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, Retired U.S. Navy The DOJ and White House have not responded to specific
Admiral James Lyons, and Elaine Donnelly from the requests for comment about this letter and plan. But the
Center for Military Readiness. fact that Meese, a former U.S. Attorney General for
President Reagan, is signed onto this letter lends
Taking this new action would supersede the old executive significant credibility to the idea that President Trump—
action. The draft text, also obtained by Breitbart News, who sources say has read their letter and is considering
would allow transgender individuals to serve in the their ideas—may move forward with such a strategy.
military only during the timeframe in which this court case
.
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Witness: Russia Probe Grand Jury Looks Like ‘Bernie
Sanders Rally’ – Or A ‘Black Lives Matter Rally’
By Cristina Laila
January 2, 2018
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Jeannie Rhee, a former partner at WilmerHale who served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern
has served in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ and District of Virginia. — Worked with Robert Mueller at
as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of the WilmerHale firm.
Columbia. — Rhee is a Clinton Foundation Aaron Zelinsky, an attorney on detail from the U.S.
Lawyer and former Deputy Assistant Attorney Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland. —
General in the Office of Legal Counsel under Worked under Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein in
Barack Obama. Maryland.
Brandon Van Grack, an attorney on detail from the Zainab Ahmad, a top national security prosecutor on
Justice Department’s National Security Division. detail from U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District
— Led a grand jury inquiry in Northern Virginia of New York.
scrutinizing former Trump associate Michael Michael Dreeben, an appellate attorney on detail from
Flynn’s foreign lobbying. the Office of the Solicitor General, described by former
Andrew Weissmann, who is on detail from the colleagues as one of the brightest criminal law experts
Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and who has served of the past two generations.
as general counsel at the FBI and as an assistant U.S.
attorney for the Eastern District of New York. — SHUT IT DOWN.
Weissmann donated $2,300 to the Obama Victory
Fund in 2008, $2,000 to the DNC in 2006 and at
least $2,300 to the Clinton campaign in 2007. The Mueller ‘Russia’ investigation was built
on a foundation of lies and cost taxpayers
Aaron Zebley, a former partner at WilmerHale who
$6.7 million within the first 5 months!
has previously served with Mueller at the FBI and has
.
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President Donald Trump Recognized
As ‘Pro-Life Person Of The Year’ For 2017
By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
3 Jan 2018
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POTUS Trump’s Assistant Trolls CNN’s Brian Stelter For
Reporting Trump’s ‘Nuclear Button’ Tweet
For ‘Twitter Violation’
By Cristina Laila
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
On Monday North Korean communist
tyrant Kim Jong Un declared North
Korea a “nuclear power”.
Little Rocket Man added that he has a
“nuclear button on his desk.”
On Tuesday President Donald Trump
responded to little rocket man.
CNN’s Brian Stelter got triggered over President Trump’s “Carry on w/your night @BrianStelter.
tweet. While you would love nothing more than to
see a Twitter ToS Violation for handle:
@realDonaldTrump, you and all of your
liberal friends have NOTHING. Keep calling
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Twitter�Stop trying to be the NEWS. Just And another one from Scavino…BOOM!
report the NEWS & try keeping it REAL!”
Stelter responded,
CNN, where lighting bongs, pushing botched Trump-
Russia collusion stories and tattling on the president for his
“Thanks Dan. I reached out to a Twitter
tweets is considered news.
spokesman, and he had no immediate
comment. More TK.”
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‘This Is FAKE NEWS’: CNN Runs Globalist Sponsored
Propaganda Piece That Claims That The Deep State Is
NOT Real, No Conspiracy Against Trump
Alex Thomas
January 3rd, 2018
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garbage, this time by their publicly anti-Trump Editor Let’s be clear about all of this: The
Chris Cillizza in which he also laughably implies that the President of the United States is saying
deep state simply cannot be real. that the former FBI director, who he fired
and who could, as we speak, potentially be
“Deep State Justice Dept must finally act,” playing a central role in the special counsel
Trump tweets, suggesting that Abedin investigation into Russia’s attempted
belongs in jail and former FBI Director interference in the 2016 presidential
James Comey and “others” might too. election, is being protected by a secret
quasi-government that really controls
The idea of the “deep state” has long been things.
central to the beliefs of people like Breitbart
executive Steve Bannon and others in the
Cillizza also whines about the fact that the deep state and
conservative media.
elements of the FBI are finally being publicly exposed as if
Its basic tenet is that there is a sort of this is somehow a bad thing for the American people when
extra-judicial government being run in the in reality it actually only hurts the very people that Cillizza
shadows of the public-facing government serves.
— a so-called “deep state” that has as its
prime objective to maintain the status quo. What’s even more frightening than the
The “deep state” isn’t really partisan, it’s assumptions made in those presidential
more an agreement by the establishment to tweets is that plenty of people are changing
keep its hold on power for as long as their views of the FBI due to Trump’s
humanly possible. assault on the bureau and its one-time
head.
CNN’s editor then goes on to list Trump’s supposed
crimes in which he literally lays out exactly what we In 2014, Gallup polling showed that 62% of
KNOW to be happening in reality and then claims that Republicans thought the FBI was doing an
only your crazy uncle at Thanksgiving would believe it. “excellent” or “good” job. In new Gallup
polling, that number among Republicans
has dipped to 49% — even as
Make no mistake, this is purposeful propaganda at its Republicans’ trust in other government
finest and is designed to LIE directly to the American agencies has soared since 2014.
people while covering up for those that truly run the world.
It’s almost impossible to accurately
describe how abnormal this sort of
Consider what’s being alleged here: That
behavior is from a president. In the past,
the Justice Department is refusing to
presidents went out of their way to build up
prosecute criminals — including the former
trust in the agencies and departments of
director of the FBI! — because the deep
the federal government, believing that
state is protecting those people.
strength in institutions — particularly those
That sounds a little off, right? Like, if your tasked with law enforcement — was
uncle spent 15 minutes at Christmas dinner critically important to a functioning and
bending your ear with that exact theory, healthy democracy.
you would ask your mom afterward: “What
is the deal with Uncle Harold?” Consider this. Elements of the intelligence community,
Now, consider the source: This is the with the help of news outlets like CNN, are actively trying
President of the United States we are to take out their political opponent in Donald Trump while
talking about. The most powerful person in at the same time attacking him for publicly fighting back.
the country — and maybe the world. The
person who chose the man — Jeff Truly unbelievable!
Sessions — who runs the Justice
Department.
.
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Trump Homeland Chief Pushes For Border Wall: ‘First
And Foremost’ Before Any DACA Amnesty
By Matthew Boyle
2 Jan 2018
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Trump Versus The FBI
By Binoy Kampmark
January 2, 2018
The attempt to tease, weave and develop a narrative Australian ex-officials were by no means the only ones
against President Donald J. Trump over a Russian involved in providing succour to the anti-Trump effort. A
connection began almost immediately after his victory in picture was being painted by other sources – British and
November last year. This was meant to be institutional Dutch, for instance – pointing to the Kremlin as central to
oversight and probing, but in another sense, it was also the Democratic email hacks. The FBI probe, in time,
intended to be an establishment’s cry of hope to haul the would become the full-fledged investigation led by a
untenable and inconceivable before some process. No one former director of the organisation, Robert Mueller.
could still fathom that Trump had actually won on his
merits (or demerits). There had to be some other reason. This provides the broader context for the Trump assault on
all manner of instruments in the Republic. Earlier in
Central to the Trump-Bannon approach to US politics has December, Twitter was again ablaze with the president’s
been the fist of defiance against those entities of fury. The blasts centred on the guilty plea by former
establishment fame. There is the Central Intelligence national security advisor Michael Flynn. He had, in fact,
Agency, which Trump scorned; there is the FBI, which had conversations with the former Russian ambassador.
Trump is at war with. Then there is the Department of
Justice, which he regards as singularly unjust. Trump’s approach was two-fold: claim that Flynn’s actions
had been initially, at least, lawful, while the conduct of the
The FBI investigation into Trumpland and its reputed FBI and Department of Justice had been uneven and
nexus with Russia remains both bane and opportunity for arbitrary. “So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is
Trump. As long as it continues, it affords Trump destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton, on that now
ammunition for populist broadsides and claims that such infamous FBI holiday ‘interrogation’ with no swearing in
entities are sworn to destroy him. and no recording, lies many times… and nothing happens
to her?”
To watch this story unfold is to remember how a soap
opera can best anything done in celluloid. The New York He then reserved a salvo for the DOJ. “Many people in our
Times has given us a New Year’s Eve treat, claiming that Country are asking what the ‘Justice’ Department is going
former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos spilt to do about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER
the beans to former Australian foreign minister Alexander receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress,
Downer at London’s Kensington Wine Rooms in May deleted and ‘acid washed’ 33,000 Emails? No justice!”
2016.
The persistent inability to understand Trumpland as a
The two men had, apparently, been doing what any decent series of bullying an exploitative transactions blunts the
being does at such a London venue: drink. Papadopoulos’ value of the FBI investigation. Whatever it purports to be,
tongue started to wag as the imbibing continued. There it smacks of desperation, an effort in search of an
was a Russian connection. There was dirt to be had, explanation rather than a resolution. The Trump Teflon
featuring Hillary Clinton. remains in place, immoveable.
Downer, however hazed, archived the discussion. He More to the point, Trump is certainly right in questioning
could make a name for himself with this decent brown the historic inability of the FBI to be a credible instrument
nosing opportunity. Australia, Washington’s ally with an of justice, even if history is not his strong suit. The Bureau
enthusiastic puppy dog manner, wanted to help, to tip off under J. Edgar Hoover was a monster of surveillance, its
US authorities that a great Satan, Russia, might be reputation, despite being in deserved tatters, defended by
involved. So commenced the long road to the fall of one president after the other.
Trump’s former aide, who conceded, in time, to have lied
to the FBI. Trump’s response was to degrade As for bias, Trump is certainly right on the score that
Papadopoulos as a “low-level volunteer” and “liar”, giving certain FBI officials, foremost amongst them lawyer Lisa
him the kiss of unimportance.
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Page and FBI special agent Peter Strzok, were hewn from. That it stemmed from Russian sources gave
demonstrably favourable to Clinton over him. fever to those still gripped by Cold War nostalgia.
The Trump campaign, keen to find chinks in the Clinton In the new year, the antics will continue and Trump will,
camp, was always going to be indiscriminate and as he has all year, continue to receive blows with a certain
characterised by ruthlessness: the provenance of the nonchalance. He will also retaliate in kind. The
information was hardly going to matter. Be it a hack, a establishment forces have been busy on various fronts, but
disclosure; be it legitimately or illegitimately obtained, the Trump machine, authoritarian, unreflective, but
information in this context proved to be advertising power. resolute, continues to function with indignant disdain. As
long as that lasts, he will thrive.
To that end, anything against Hillary would have been
treated as rich mineral, whatever quarry it might have been
.
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Trump's 'Lock Her Up' For Huma Called 'Political'
Activists Overlook Alleged Illegalities In Their Opposition To President
January 3, 2018
The claim comes from an official with the Council on Saucier himself noted Hillary Clinton stored information
American-Islamic Relations, which calls itself a Muslim of a far more classified status on an unsecure server, and
civil-rights organization. yet she was not charged for her negligence.
The move was prompted by President Trump’s call for the Saucier claimed this is evidence of how powerful people
law to be enforced regarding Huma Abedin, a Muslim who are exempt from the same laws which were used against
was a top aide to Hillary Clinton while she was U.S. him.
secretary of state.
Trump’s use of the term “Deep State” reflects an
Trump’s social-media statement, noting Abedin allegedly awareness of this network of mutual protection which
jeopardized classified information by putting it on a laptop seemingly covers government insiders.
belonging to her now-ex-husband Anthony Weiner,
suggests that the law be followed for all. His suggestion to the Justice Department to investigate and
possibly jail Abedin is also a way for the president to take
Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid, Huma the offensive in some of the legal battles which have been
Abedin, has been accused of disregarding hampering his presidency, and strike back against
basic security protocols. She put Classified adversaries such as former FBI Director James Comey.
Passwords into the hands of foreign
agents. Remember sailors pictures on Comey testified in a May Senate hearing Abedin had
submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept forwarded hundreds of thousands of emails to her husband
must finally act? Also on Comey & others Anthony Weiner so they could be printed out. Some of the
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) emails, recently released thanks to a lawsuit filed by
January 2, 2018 Judicial Watch, were marked classified.
Trump’s statement Tuesday morning to call for Hillary President Trump’s action shows the commander-in-chief
Clinton’s close aide Huma Abedin to be jailed. evidently agrees with Judicial Watch president Tom
Fitton’s recent plea for a “serious investigation of Hillary
Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious violations of law.”
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As WND recently reported, the politics have permeated the in which donations to the Clinton Foundation led to
case. influence over policy.
For example, the decision by former director James Comey Abedin did not only enable foreign adversaries to obtain
not to charge Abedin or Hillary Clinton with a crime was American secrets but could possibly pose a security threat
heavily influenced by FBI agent Peter Strzok, a vocal herself, reports suggest.
opponent of President Trump who until recently was
serving as part of Robert Mueller’s team in the “Russian For several years, Abedin edited the journal for the
collusion” investigation. Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), an
organization established by the government of Saudi
Abedin also made misleading statements about the Arabia. Abedin’s mother, an Islamist activist and
mishandling of national secrets, but unlike former National academic, was even permitted to edit the content of a
Security Adviser Michael Flynn, faced no consequences. speech which was to be given in Saudi Arabia by then-
secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
The Daily Caller reported Tuesday Huma Abedin sent
sensitive State Department emails, including the passwords Other members of Abedin’s family have also been
to government systems and the PIN number to access a prosecuted by the Justice Department for conspiracy, wire
secure State Department website, to her personal Yahoo fraud and securities fraud.
account.
However, President Trump evidently believes the Justice
In 2013, Yahoo was hacked, and the Department, or at least a significant part of it, has allowed
company stated “all Yahoo user accounts Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin to escape any
were affected.” consequences for their crimes.
Among the information sent to an unsecured account was White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
the name and email address of the person who obtains the stated Tuesday President Trump “obviously” does not
classified Presidential Daily Brief. Other emails contained believe the “entire” Justice Department is part of the
classified information regarding American counter-drug “Deep State,” but that there are fundamental issues about
operations in Mexico, notes about a possible confrontation the rule of law involved.
between the Obama administration and Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and correspondence related “The facts of the case are very disturbing
to the peace process in Northern Ireland. and I think the president wants to make
clear that he doesn’t feel that anyone
Besides possibly criminal conduct in mishandling should be above the law,” Sanders told
classified information, new records obtained by Judicial reporters.
Watch show Abedin removed five boxes of “physical
Sign the precedent-setting petition
files” out of the State Department, including records
supporting Trump’s call for an
described as “Muslim Engagement Documents.”
independent prosecutor to investigate
Hillary Clinton!
Hillary Clinton was also allowed to remove personal
correspondence and certain binders which may contain
evidence related to accusations of a a pay-to-play scheme
.
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Bannon: Trump Tower Meeting
With Russians Was ‘Treasonous’
Jack Crowe - Political Reporter
9:44 AM 01/03/2018
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Probe Uncovers "Laws Broken,
False Statements" In FBI Handling Of Clinton Emails
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 01/03/2018 - 08:32
In what could be a major black eye for the deep state and key witness in the case, the investigators
yet another nail in the Clinton legacy coffin, said.
The Hill's John Solomon reports that The name of the witness is redacted from the FBI
Republicans on key congressional documents but lawmakers said he was an employee of a
committees say they have uncovered computer firm that helped maintain her personal server
new irregularities and contradictions after she left office as America’s top diplomat and who
inside the FBI’s probe of Hillary belatedly admitted he had permanently erased an archive
Clinton’s email server. of her messages in 2015 after they had been subpoenaed
"This was an effort to pre-bake the cake, by Congress.
pre-bake the outcome,” said Rep. Matt
Gaetz (R-Fla.), a House Judiciary The investigators also confirmed that the
Committee member who attended the FBI began drafting a statement
McCabe briefing before the holidays. exonerating Clinton of any crimes while
evidence responsive to subpoenas was
“Hillary Clinton obviously benefited still outstanding and before agents had
from people taking actions to ensure interviewed more than a dozen key
she wasn’t held accountable.” witnesses.
Those witnesses included Clinton and the
computer firm employee who permanently
erased her email archives just days after
the emails were subpoenaed by
Congress, the investigators said.
Notably, lawmakers on the House Judiciary
Committee who attended a Dec. 21 closed-
door briefing by FBI Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe say the bureau official
confirmed that the investigation and
charging decisions were controlled by a
In what appears to be clear evidence confirming previous small group in Washington
fears of favoritism and prejudice within the FBI, headquarters rather the normal process
lawmakers and investigators told Solomon at The Hill that, of allowing field offices to investigate
for the first time, possible criminality in their localities.
The top Democrat on the panel even
investigators say they have secured acknowledged the FBI’s handling of the
written evidence that the FBI believed case was unique, but, of course, Rep.
there was evidence that some laws were Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y) argued Republicans
broken when the former secretary of State are politicizing their own panel’s work.
and her top aides transmitted classified
information through her insecure private Rep. Gaetz said he has growing questions about the role
email server. the Obama Justice Department played in the case.
That evidence includes passages in FBI
documents stating the “sheer volume” “I think we have more questions than
of classified information that flowed answers based on what we’ve learned,”
through Clinton’s insecure emails was Gaetz said.
proof of criminality as well as an
admission of false statements by one
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A House GOP lawmaker told The Hill his The deletion occurred on the same day Clinton’s former
staff also has identified at least a dozen chief of staff and her lawyer had a call with the computer
interviews that were conducted after the firm that handled the erasure using an anti-recovery
drafting effort began, including of some software called BleachBit, Grassley said.
figures who would have key information
about intent or possible destruction of “You have a conference call with
evidence. Secretary Clinton’s attorneys on March
31, 2015, and on that very same day her
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley's emails are deleted by someone who was
(R-Iowa) staff has a higher number: 17 witnesses including on that conference call using special
Clinton were interviewed after the decision was already BleachBit software,” Grassley said. “The
made. emails were State Department records
under subpoena by Congress.
“Making a conclusion before you “What did the FBI do to investigate this
interview key fact witnesses and the apparent obstruction?” Grassley asked.
subject herself violates the very premise “According to affidavits filed in federal court
of good investigation. — absolutely nothing. The FBI focused
only on the handling of classified
You don't lock into a theory until you have the facts. Here information.”
the evidence that isn't public yet shows they locked into
As The Hill notes, both parties are likely
the theory and then edited out the facts that contradicted
to learn more in the first quarter of 2018
it,” the GOP lawmaker said, speaking only on condition of when the Justice Department inspector
anonymity because the documents are not yet authorized
general is expected to release initial
for release. findings in what has become a wide-
ranging probe into the FBI’s handling of the
The longtime Senate chairman went to Clinton email case as well as whether
the Senate floor before the holidays to agents and supervisors had political
raise another concern: connections, ethical conflicts or biases that
The FBI did not pursue criminal charges affected their work.
when Clinton’s email archives were
permanently deleted from her private While the resistance tries to switch the narrative to
server days after a subpoena for them was Papadopoulos, and away from Page and the Trump
issued by a congressional committee Dossier,
investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S.
diplomatic compound in Benghazi. it is becoming clearer and clearer where
the real corruption was all the time.
.
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NUNES: House Intel Chair Says He’ll Pull MUELLER
In For Interview Over Uranium One SCANDAL (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 3, 2018
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explain evidence they discovered into a currently dormant to fulfill a pledge that an assistant attorney general gave to
criminal probe into the controversial Uranium One deal Congress in November.
that has been tied to Bill and Hillary Clinton and the
Clinton Foundation. The assistant AG promised that the department would
determine whether a special counsel is warranted to look
According to multiple law enforcement sources, interviews into the Uranium One deal, according to a senior Justice
with FBI agents are part of the Justice Department’s efforts Department official.
.
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FINALLY: House Will Expand Its Russia Probe
To Include Improper Use Of BOGUS
“Trump Dossier” By FBI
By JD Heyes
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
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“The Democratic National Committee and document — that it became the basis for a
the Clinton campaign, which we now know warrant to spy on Americans.”
were one and the same, paid the law firm
who paid Fusion GPS who paid He added:
Christopher Steele who then paid Russians
to put together a report that we call a
“The easiest way to clear it up is tell us
dossier full of all kinds of fake news,
what’s in that application and who took it
National Enquirer garbage and it’s been
there.”
reported that this dossier was all dressed
up by the FBI, taken to the FISA court and
presented as a legitimate intelligence That appears to be on Nunes’ radar now. It’s about time.
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Trump Irritates Leftists With Twitter (Again)
Mac Slavo
January 3rd, 2018
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Report: Bannon Says Mueller Investigation Will Target
Kushner, Manafort’s ‘Greasy’ Money Laundering Deals
BY Breitbart News
3 Jan 2018
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The Deep State’s Plan ‘C’:
Murder Donald Trump
Mac Slavo
January 3rd, 2018
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establishment has Plan A, Plan B, and Plan learn is that she was in the country thanks
C,” he said. “Plan A is very clearly a take- to the Obama FBI, without a visa, and she
down by the illegitimate Special Counsel was popping up and being photographed at
Robert Mueller, who was appointed not by Hillary rallies and in John McCain’s office.
Jeff Sessions, not at the direction of the She’s a Quisling! It’s a setup! She’s a spy.
president, but by this fellow Rosenstein, She delivered nothing. It’s an attempt to
who is a close associate of Mueller and entrap Donny Jr. in a meeting that’s
[disgraced former FBI boss James] Comey, perfectly innocuous and perfectly legal.”
and who is a globalist Bush insider, a
liberal Republican, who somehow got the But the deep state’s Plan B is to invoke the 25th
number two position in the Trump Justice Amendment.
Department,” Stone warned, saying the
establishment was now hoping Trump
“So we’ll see an uptick in all of this ‘Trump
would fire Mueller to regain the upper hand.
is mentally imbalanced, Trump is insane,
Trump must be removed,’” Stone warned.
The other thing that is becoming more and more apparent, “Now you have to examine the extent to
Stone said, is that which they can whip up that hysteria as a
backdrop because, without that hysteria,
“neither Mr. Mueller nor the House nor the such a political move on the president will
Senate Intelligence committees nor the fail.” And once Plan B fails, the globalists
Judiciary committees in those bodies have will move on to Plan C, which is simply an
been able to find any evidence of Russian assassination.
collusion.”
“We know Plan C. We saw it in the case
“Sorry, but Don Jr.’s meeting with a of President John F. Kennedy, who had
Russian lawyer that provided nothing is crossed the Central Intelligence Agency
perfectly legal and proper,” Stone said. and the Deep State over both the Cuban
“There’s nothing wrong with it. She Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs, both,
produced no evidence, but what we did I think, central,” he said.
.
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Hannity Sez ‘People Like Hillary Clinton Should Be
Nervous – People Will Be Going To Jail’ As GOP
Lawmakers Find NEW ‘Irregularities’ And
‘Contradictions’ In FBI’s EMAIL Investigation (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 3, 2018
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James Comey Calls For Leaders
To Protect Justice Department, FBI (From Trump)
© AFP 2017/ Nicholas Kamm - US
22:01 03.01.2018(Updated 22:12 03.01.2018)
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Trump UNLOADS On Former
Advisor Steve Bannon: ‘He LOST His Mind’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 3, 2018
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Breitbart Readers Side With Trump
Over War Of Words With Bannon
“I Voted For Trump…I Didn’t Vote For Bannon”
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.Com
January 3, 2018
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“Andrew Breitbart would be ashamed of the “Wow, Just looked at the comments section
division and lies Steve Bannon is on Breitbart. Wow. When Bannon has lost
spreading!” Breitbart, he’s left with . . . umm, nothing.”
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‘View’ Hosts Mock ‘Insane’ ‘Paranoid’ Trump For
Tweeting Liberals In DoL May Be 'Deep State'
By Kristine Marsh
January 3, 2018 2:24 Pm Est
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Hostin picked up on that theme, calling Trump “paranoid” to Speaking of conspiracy theories, the hosts at The View have
believe anyone within the government could be trying to expressed their own over the years.
sabotage his presidency:
Longtime former host Rosie O’Donnell repeatedly suggested on
I wonder if the president really believes this. I've been joking the show that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were staged by the U.S.
about it. This is the first I'm hearing about this deep state. If Whoopi Goldberg herself has espoused her own conspiracy
you're playing to the conspiracy theorists in your base or 46% of theories. In the last year alone, she suggested that the Taliban
Americans, that makes sense. “started” like Trump, and that “antifa” was a fake group “made
up” by the right.
If you're the President of the United States
and you are paranoid enough to believe
there's some conspiracy against your
presidency and you have nuclear warheads
at your disposal, shouldn't we all be a little
bit concerned about this?
“This is no joke. People getting hurt,” Whoopi
shook her head before cutting to commercial
break.
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BUSTED: Billionaire Trump Ally Says
Quotes Bashing Prez Attributed To Him Are FALSE
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 3, 2018
But the Times’ Maggie Habberman reported that Barrack Barrack reportedly turned down a high-level position in
told her the quote is “totally false.” the Trump administration, telling the President he could
help him from outside Washington with “no skin in the
“Barrack said he spoke to Wolffe once, game.”
says he never said the quote attributed to
him to Wolffe or anyone. ‘Totally false,’ Upon publication of this story, Wolff had not yet
Barrack said by phone just now. Tom responded to Barrack’s statements.
Barrack adds, ‘It’s clear to anyone who
knows me that those aren’t my words and
In October, the Washington Post reported that Barrack has
inconsistent with anything I’ve ever said.’
“remained unfailingly loyal” to Trump, and sees him as a
He says Wolffe never ran that quote by him
“shrewd politician.”
to ask if it was accurate,” tweeted
Haberman.
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Atlantic Magazine Editor Wants
Trump's Brain Examined By Committee
By P.J. Gladnick
January 3, 2018 2:36 PM EST
Because President Donald Trump has been spotted holding D.C., Trump reached under his podium
water bottles a few times with both hands, a committee and grabbed a glass with both hands.
should be formed to examine his brain in order to make This time he kept them on the glass the
recommendations about his removal from office via the entire time he drank, and as he put the
25th Amendment. Such is the fantasy of one James glass down. This drew even more
Hamblin, a senior editor at Atlantic magazine who, attention. The gesture was like that of an
perhaps, should have his brain examined for proposing extremely cold person cradling a mug of
such a nutty idea. cocoa. Some viewers likened him to a child
just learning to handle a cup.
Hamblin even analyzed Trump's speech patterns when he
was interviewed years ago by Larry King and Oprah to Aha! Solid evidence for his removal from office in contrast
make the determination for brain analysis by committee. to the fact-free Russia collusion theory.
This bizarre proposal comes as no real surprise since
several months ago Hamblin proposed that we give up beef Then there was an incident of slurred speech. Announcing
for beans in order to reduce climate change. Hamblin's the relocation of the American embassy in Israel from Tel
latest idea is equally as full of flatulence as we shall see in Aviv to Jerusalem—a dramatic foreign-policy move—
Is Something Neurologically Wrong With Donald Trump? Trump became difficult to understand at a phonetic level,
which did little to reassure many observers of the
Trump’s grandiosity and impulsivity has made him a soundness of his decision.
constant subject of speculation among those concerned
with his mental health. But after more than a year of Just one incident of slurred speech is enough to go through
talking to doctors and researchers about whether and how the emotions of examining his brain before 25
the cognitive sciences could offer a lens to explain Amendmenting him out of office.
Trump’s behavior,
Though these moments could be inconsequential, they call
I’ve come to believe there should be a attention to the alarming absence of a system to evaluate
role for professional evaluation beyond elected officials’ fitness for office—to reassure concerned
speculating from afar. citizens that the “leader of the free world” is not
cognitively impaired, and on a path of continuous decline.
I’m not alone. Viewers of Trump’s recent speeches have
begun noticing minor abnormalities in his movements. Especially if such a leader is a Republican.
In November, he used his free hand to After age 40, the brain decreases in volume by about 5
steady a small Fiji bottle as he brought percent every decade.
it to his mouth. Onlookers described the
movement as “awkward” and made The most noticeable loss is in the
jokes about hand size. frontal lobes. These control motor
functioning of the sort that would direct
Some called out Trump for doing the exact thing he had a hand to a cup and a cup to the mouth
mocked Senator Marco Rubio for during the presidential in one fluid motion—in most cases
primary—conspicuously drinking water during a speech. without even looking at the cup.
Case closed! Immediate removal from office via 25th You cannot be president if you are unable to take a drink
Amendment due to awkward water bottle handling. from a water bottle in one fuid motion. Oh, and also if you
are a Republican.
Then in December, speaking about his
national-security plan in Washington,
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Hamblin then analyzes Trump's speech patterns from thirty consisting of nonpartisan medical and
years ago during interviews with Larry King and Oprah in psychological experts—could exist in a
comparison with today and concludes possible capacity similar to the Congressional
dementia...or even Alzheimer's: Budget Office. It could regularly assess
the president’s neurologic status and give a
Though it is not possible to diagnose a battery of cognitive tests to assess
person with dementia based on speech judgment, recall, decision-making,
patterns alone, these are the sorts of attention—the sorts of tests that might help
changes that appear in early stages of a school system assess whether a child is
Alzheimer’s. Trump has likened himself to suited to a particular grade level or
Ronald Reagan, and the changes in classroom—and make the results
Trump’s speech evoke those seen in the available.
late president. Reagan announced his
Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 1994, but there Such a panel need not have the power to unseat a
was evidence of linguistic change over the president, to undo a democratic election, no matter the
course of his presidency that experts have severity of illness. Even if every member deemed a
argued was indicative of early decline. His president so impaired as to be unfit to execute the duties of
grammar worsened, and his sentences the office, the role of the committee would end with the
were more often incomplete. He came to issuing of that statement. Acting on that information—or
rely ever more on vague and simple words: ignoring or disparaging it—would be up to the people and
indefinite nouns and “low imageability” their elected officials.
verbs like have, go, and get.
And we pretty much already know how such a committee
Finally, Hamblin's solution to the water bottle handling loaded with Trump deranged loons would rule.
and linguistic change problem--- A presidential fitness
committee run like the Congressional Budget Office: Much more interesting than examining Trump's brain
would be to place electrodes all over the head of one James
A presidential-fitness committee—of the Hamblin and analyze the jump in brain waves whenever
sort that Carter and others propose, the name of Trump is mentioned.
.
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Was Huma Abedin The Ultimate Spy, One Of The Greatest
Traitors To America In US History? It's Time To Take
Down 'The Enemies Of America Within', President Trump!
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
January 3, 2018
both of her parents were educators. Her Back on October 25th of 2016 we published a story on
father, born in New Delhi (India) on April 2, ANP titled "Anonymous Exposes 'The Grand Jihad To
1928, was an Islamic and Middle Eastern Overthrow America' - Calls Hillary Clinton 'The Root Of
scholar of Indian descent, who received his All Evil' And Uncovers 'The Sleeper' Within" and as we
PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, reported in that story, we were likely watching the
and then in 1978 founded the Institute of 'ultimate infiltration' of a US presidential candidate, and
Muslim Minority Affairs, an organization therefore America, with the infiltration of Hillary by Huma
devoted to the study of Muslim Abedin.
communities in non-Muslim societies
around the world. In 1979, he founded the We have decided to republish an extended excerpt of that
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, which story as part of the next few sections of this story to help
his wife took over after his death; his tell this tale that must be told. Please keep in mind that
daughter Huma was listed as an associate while the source story was written prior to the election, the
editor from 1996–2008. truth within it remains the same.:
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We've all seen the scenario played out to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them. Once
in Hollywood movies and real-world again, from that October of 2016 story referencing the
leaders of nations going back millenia final video below.:
know the dangers all too well. A
mysterious woman or man suddenly We have proof that her mother supports
captures the attention of a country's both the death penalty for those who
leader or other high-placed insider - choose to leave Islam as well as the
covertly to gather top secret subordination of women. Huma and her
information, assassinate the target or mother both worked for the same
completely infiltrate their regime. As radical Islamic journal.
many know, the Russians are famous
for their notorious female spies Proving to us beyond any doubt the
throughout history. strong ties between Abedin, Hillary
Clinton and 'the grand jihad' to
As we enter the stretch run of the 2016 overthrow America, we see the ties
election, we are once again witnessing exposed before our very eyes of a long-
such an 'infiltration' of a political figure held plan to replace our political system
though as it's not the Russians who are here in America with a repressive form
doing the infiltrating this time. As we of Sharia law with Hillary Clinton and
also learn, this 'infiltration' has grave her top aide Abedin leading the way.
consequences for Christians and every
person across America and those who Also showing to us the undeniable ties
love freedom across the world. between Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin,
Abdullah Omar Naseef and the nation of
Who is Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's Saudi Arabia as the main players in this
#1 aide and sidekick for the past 20 drama that the MSM is hoping you never
years and why should we as American find out about, we also see the proof of
citizens even care? As we learn in the ties between these main players and
final video below from Anonymous, numerous organizations that all share
Huma Abedin has absolutely undeniable the same goals and have told us
ties to both terrorists and those who repeatedly in plain English they want to
funded the 9/11 attacks upon destroy Western civilization and replace
America. (ANP: We have again it with repressive Sharia law.
embedded that video as the final one
below)
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Hillary Clinton AND those funding the terrorists
responsible for attacking America.
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“Deep State” DoJ, FBI, Won’t Answer Congress’ Questions
But Will LEAK To The Traitorous “Mainstream” Media
By JD Heyes
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Republicans in Congress have had it with senior staffers But I digress. The Times’ claims unraveled within hours of
and officials at the Department of Justice and the FBI, and publication. And besides, the paper reported in April that
are preparing to lower the boom on them as investigations former Trump campaign aide Carter Page was the one who
are set to refocus on how they sought to undermine really triggered the collusion investigation (though he
President Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign. wasn’t, either). (Related: PROOF that Hillary Clinton
got special treatment by the FBI, which exonerated her
even though she committed serious crimes.)
But in the meantime, GOP members of Congress are
taking both agencies to task in public, questioning not only
their loyalty to the country but also whether or not they are How do we know? Because the Deep State
violating laws through continuous leaking to ‘friendly’ let it slip months ago in a leak to CNN that
mainstream media outlets. the Feds used the dossier to get the FISA
warrant. Oops.
On Tuesday, Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., a frequent critic
of senior FBI and DoJ officials who have been As for what specific role the dossier played in getting the
stonewalling congressional committees seeking FISA warrant, DeSantis told Fox News,
information about their anti-Trump efforts, appeared on
Fox News to decry their refusal to answer questions about “I asked Deputy Attorney General Rod
the famed “Trump dossier,” but have no problem leaking Rosenstein that very question under oath in
select details to outlets like The New York Times. front of the Judiciary Committee and he
hemmed and hawed and would not answer
DeSantis, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, the question. So it’s a little odd to me when
along with GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Trey the DOJ will not answer that but yet there
Gowdy, has been attempting to get to the bottom of are some people either in the FBI and DOJ
whether or not the FBI used the bogus dossier as a who has no problem leaking that to The
legitimate “intelligence” document it then took to the New York Times.”
secretive FISA court in order to get a warrant to spy on the “That attempt strikes me as an attempt on
Trump campaign. some people in the agency to deflect from
the dossier,” he added, as reported by The
The Florida lawmaker tore into a New York Times piece Gateway Pundit.
published earlier this week claiming that Trump campaign
volunteer George Papadopoulos is the one who sparked the Rosenstein was appointed to his post by Obama.
Russian collusion investigation. Rosenstein also happens to be the DoJ official who
authorized a special counsel to investigate alleged Trump-
Russia collusion, then named Deep State operative Robert
Mueller to head it up.
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In December, under questioning from DeSantis and other initiation of the investigation,” the deputy
GOP lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee, Rosenstein AG responded.
smugly refused to answer direct questions regarding the
dossier. When DeSantis pressed, Rosenstein suggested that only
the House Intelligence Committee has oversight in the
“The Russia investigation. Who started it? matter. That set the congressman off.
Who was the agent? Was it [anti-Trump
FBI counterintelligence agent Peter] Strzok “That’s not true! We have oversight over
who started it? Who opened the case?” your department and the FBI and whether
“That matter is under review by the public funds were spent on a dossier —
Intelligence Committee and there is nothing that’s not something that is classified! We
that I can talk about publicly regarding the have every right to that information. You
should provide it,” he said.
.
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Where Are George Soros, Hillary Clinton And Tony
Podesta? Also, Surge Of Politicians Now
Wearing 'Medical Boots'
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
January 3, 2018
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BOTTOM LINE actions during the Clinton investigation, and the DOJ now
ordering their prosecutors to also review the Clinton
There is a lot going on in January, with the president evidence and the reasons former FBI director James
highlighting Huma Abedin's crimes, and others, while Comey let Hillary Clinton off regarding her emails and
calling out the "Deep State Justice Department," and private server usage....... so it appears Corsi may be
investigations ongoing in both houses of Congress correct, it does seem as if the stage is being set to see
regarding Uranium One, the FBI and DOJ under Obama, another shoe, or perhaps a closet full of them, drop.
along with the ongoing OIG review of the FBI and DOJ
.
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“The 25th Amendment Needs To Be Enforced”: Green Day
Frontman Billy Joe Armstrong Tells His Fans That Support
Trump To “F**K OFF” While Calling For
His Impeachment
Alex Thomas
January 3rd, 2018
“Armstrong’s response to Trump’s tweet Another day, another rich liberal melting down over
mirrored the hysterical reaction of the Donald Trump.
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Trump Follows Infowars’ Lead
With ‘Fake News Awards’ Ceremony
Infowars Had Held A Fake News Awards Ceremony In November
Infowars.Com - January 3, 2018
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If The Trump Administration DOESN’T Indict Hillary
Clinton, James Comey, Then The Rule Of Law
In America Is DEAD
By JD Heyes
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Just days before he won his first presidential election, “That evidence includes passages in FBI
then-Sen. Barack Obama said he was just “days away” documents stating the ‘sheer volume’ of
from fundamentally transforming America. classified information that flowed through
Clinton’s insecure emails was proof of
Talking heads, politicos and pundits on the Right parsed criminality as well as an admission of false
his words in an attempt to figure out just what he meant. statements by one key witness in the case,
Eight years later, his meaning became clear: Obama sought the investigators said,” as quoted by The
to fundamentally transform America’s institutions, culture, Hill.
and justice system, and many believe he succeeded beyond
even his wildest dreams. Then, of course, there is former FBI Director Comey,
whom we now know planned to exonerate Clinton from
Particularly hard hit was the American justice system. those crimes long before he announced that he would
Obama, we now know, politicized every aspect of it by during a highly irregular July 2016 press conference.
putting in place rank partisans who, in carrying out the
former president’s political objectives, ignored and buried In making that statement to the press, Comey laid out the
substantial violations of law that undoubtedly harmed U.S. bureau’s case against Clinton:
national security in ways we may never be able to fully
gauge. From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned
to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52
The best walking, talking examples of this are Hillary e-mail chains have been determined by the
Clinton and James Comey. owning agency to contain classified
information at the time they were sent or
Clinton, during her tenure as Obama’s first secretary of received. Eight of those chains contained
state, not only used her position to pad her and her information that was Top Secret at the time
husband’s pocketbooks through their financial vehicle, the they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret
Clinton Foundation, but in her quest for secrecy, she information at the time; and eight contained
installed a private, unsecured email server in her New Confidential information, which is the
York home and used it to conduct official business. lowest level of classification.
In the course of conducting that business, she handled The former FBI director would then go to make some
scores of classified and confidential information that she incredible claims:
was never held accountable for, despite the fact that the
FBI had discovered evidence she violated several statutes That Clinton and her aides were not guilty of “gross
pertaining to the handling of classified information. negligence” in mishandling the sensitive information,
only of being “extremely careless.” We now know that
As reported by The Hill, for the first time congressional initially, Comey wrote “gross negligence” in an early
investigators say they have obtained written evidence that draft, but that it was changed to “extremely careless” by
the FBI believed there were indications and additional FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok. This is
evidence some laws were violated when the former important because “gross negligence” is language
secretary of state for President Obama and her top aides taken directly from the statutes governing the handling
sent classified information through her unsecured private of classified documents and therefore is legally
email server. (Related: Hannity sez ‘People like Hillary actionable.
Clinton should be nervous – People will be going to jail’ Comey said “no reasonable prosecutor” would elect to
as GOP lawmakers find NEW ‘irregularities’ and prosecute Clinton. That’s not his decision to make, it’s
‘contradictions’ in FBI’s EMAIL investigation (Video))
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the attorney general’s decision (in this case another Barack Obama’s corruption of the Justice Department and
Obama sycophant, Loretta Lynch). FBI couldn’t be plainer. Now just imagine how much he’s
He also said the FBI did not find “evidence” that Clinton “fundamentally transformed” other institutions of
“intended” to mishandle classified information. Intent government.
doesn’t matter, and in fact, the statutes state clearly
that intent makes no difference (hence the “gross If the Trump administration doesn’t act
negligence” language). against Clinton, Comey, and anyone else
responsible for serial violations of U.S. law,
After admitting that Clinton did indeed then we are no longer a nation of laws and
mishandle dozens of pieces of classified therefore no one should be prosecuted
information, he still didn’t recommend she for anything.
be charged.
.
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Grassley: James Comey May Have
LEAKED CLASSIFED Memo To Friend
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 4, 2018
Grassley asked Rosenstein to clarify whether the DOJ or ignored the same security protocol that he
FBI have determined whether any of the memos that publicly criticized Hillary Clinton for in the
Comey sent to Richman contained classified information waning days of the 2016 presidential
election,” The Hill reported.
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Donald Trump Jr.: Bannon
‘Nightmare Of Backstabbing, Leaking, Lying,
Undermining’
By John Nolte
4 Jan 2018
Using his Twitter account Wednesday, After Breitbart News published a series of stories covering
the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., the reports of Bannon’s comments, Don Jr. said that the
personally responded to reports of reader comments on those stories showed that “Bannon
comments made by Breitbart News has lost Breitbart[.]”
Executive Chairman Steve Bannon
about the Trump family. The younger Wow, Just looked at the comments section
Trump’s comments echoed those made on Breitbart. Wow. When Bannon has lost
by the president himself in a White Breitbart, he’s left with . . . umm, nothing.
House statement filled with accusations
against his former chief strategist. — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr)
January 3, 2018
Among other things, the president claimed Bannon had
been “fired,” was guilty of spreading “false information to A few hours later, he blasted Bannon as a “nightmare of
the media to make himself seem far more important than backstabbing, harassing, leaking, lying & undermining the
he was,” and that Bannon had “little to do with our historic President.”
victory[.]”
Steve had the honor of working in the
Trump, however, did give Bannon full credit for “the loss White House & serving the country.
of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years Unfortunately, he squandered that privilege
by Republicans.” & turned that opportunity into a nightmare
of backstabbing, harassing, leaking, lying &
undermining the President. Steve is not a
Donald Trump Jr. also mocked Bannon over the Alabama
strategist, he is an opportunist
Senate loss. “Thanks Steve. Keep up the great work,” he
wrote in response to a tweet about a Democrat capturing — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr)
that seat. January 3, 2018
Thanks Steve. Keep up the great work. Retweets also signaled Trump’s thoughts on Bannon. This
https://t.co/J9O8CUfJAD included an accusation from the Daily Mail’s David
Martosko that Bannon “was the single biggest leaker in the
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) West Wing (until his departure).”
January 3, 2018
In case it's not clear to everyone by now,
A second tweet pressed this same point:
Steve Bannon was the single biggest
leaker in the West Wing (until his
It would be amazing if there would have departure).
been a nice simple path to keeping this
seat with a nice 30 point margin… — David Martosko (@dmartosko) January
#thankssteve https://t.co/uB7DXMZjiH 4, 2018
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BOGUS: NYTimes’ Papadopoulos ‘Bombshell’ Continues
To Unravel After Former DNI Clapper Says He Knew
NOTHING About Him
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 4, 2018
“There were other factors that I think were President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James
the stimulus for the investigation” Clapper told CNN Tuesday evening that Papadopoulos was
not on his “radar scope” when he left.
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Bannon Praises Trump: POTUS ‘Is A Great Man…
I Support Him Day In And Day Out’
By Robert Kraychik
4 Jan 2018
232
Scaramucci: Steve Bannon Should Apologize – “Even
Breitbart Will Break From Bannon If He Doesn’t Drop
The Nonsense” (Video)
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 4, 2018
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Counterattack: Paul Manafort Files SUIT Against Mueller,
DoJ, Charging Massive OVERREACH
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 4, 2018
“The principle that government must be Also, the lawsuit suggests that the court stop him from
both limited in power and accountable to investigating any matters beyond the scope of the original
the people lies at the core of our appointment, or
constitutional traditions”
“any other relief as may be just and
proper.”
“The principle that government must be
both limited in power and accountable to
the people lies at the core of our
constitutional traditions. That principle must
be zealously guarded against creeping
incursions,” Manafort attorneys Kevin
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort talks Downing and Thomas Zehnle wrote in the
with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos at the GOP lawsuit.
convention in August 2016.
The case was was filed in the same venue — the U.S.
(National Sentinel) Legal Defense: Lawyers for former District Court for the District of Columbia — that oversees
Donald J. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort have Mueller’s criminal case against both Manafort and former
filed suit against special counsel Robert Mueller and the Trump 2016 campaign aide Rick Gates.
Department of Justice, alleging both overreached with
criminal charges brought against their client last fall that The suit names DOJ, Mueller and Deputy Attorney
included tax evasion and money laundering. General Rod Rosenstein as co-defendants.
As reported by Politico, the lawsuit also strikes at Manafort’s attorneys also note a 1999 decision by
Mueller’s legitimacy and credibility as special counsel. In Congress to allow for the lapse of the law establishing the
a 17-page complaint, Manafort’s attorney argue that independent counsel office, following a years-long
Mueller exceeded authority given him by the Justice investigation of President Bill Clinton by Kenneth Starr.
Department in May to investigate any links or coordination
between the Russian government and Trump’s campaign. While noting that Rosenstein appointed Mueller under DoJ
regulations, the suit argues the special counsel has been
Also, the complaint argues that DoJ gave Mueller too given
much power initially when it approved him to pursue “any
matters that arose or may arise directly from the “carte blanche to investigate and pursue
investigation.” criminal charges in connection with
anything he stumbles across while
Manafort has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. investigating, no matter how remote from
the specific matter identified as the subject
If the court refuses to strike down Mueller’s appointment, of the Appointment Order.”
the lawsuit makes several other suggestions, such as
setting aside Mueller’s indictments and declaring he does Legal experts note that under current rules, Mueller is not
not have the authority to investigate business dealings that “independent” but rather essentially a Justice Department
are not part of his original mandate. employee, meaning he works for Trump, ultimately.
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Senate Judiciary BOSS SAYS Comey LIKELY LEAKED
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times –
Updated: 10:27 A.M. ON Thursday, January 4, 2018
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Breaking: FBI And DOJ Announce They Will FINALLY
Deliver Subpoenaed Docs On Phony Dossier To Congress
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Now this…
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“Legal Action Is Imminent”:
Trump Slaps Bannon With Cease-And-Desist
Zero Hedge
January 4, 2018
As ABC reports, in the letter to Bannon, Harder, writes, from any disparaging comments against the Trump family,
campaign, or organization;
“You [Bannon] have breached the
Agreement by, among other things, “Consent to Injunction. A breach of any of
communicating with author Michael Wolff your promises or agreements under this
about Mr. Trump, his family members, and agreement will cause the Company, Mr.
the Company, disclosing Confidential Trump and each other Trump Person
Information to Mr. Wolff, and making irreparable harm. Accordingly, to the extent
disparaging statements and in some cases permitted by law, and without waiving any
outright defamatory statements to Mr. Wolff other rights or remedies against you at law
about Mr. Trump, his family members, and or in equity, you hereby consent to the
the Company, knowing that they would be entry of any order, without prior notice to
included in Mr. Wolff’s book and publicity you, temporarily or permanently enjoining
surrounding the marketing and sale of his you from violating any of the terms,
book.” covenants, agreements or provisions of this
agreement on your part to be performed or
Trump’s legal team is threatening monetary damages, observed. Such consent is intended to
injunctive relief, and “all other remedies available at law apply to an injunction of any breach or
and equity,” although no monetary figure is given. threatened breach.”
The letter goes on to cite Paragraph 8 of a non-disclosure Under the “Damages and Other Remedies” section of the
agreement Trump required all of his staff to sign to refrain agreement Trump’s attorneys cite a section which reads
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“Notwithstanding anything to the statement from the President has left Steve
contrary, each Trump Person will be will little choice though. Expect to see
entitled to all remedies available at law and Breitbart bigging up Pence in the months to
equity, including but not limited to monetary come.”
damages, in the event of your breach of
this agreement. Nothing contained in this Excerpts from Wolffs book were published Wednesday in
agreement will constitute a waiver of any New York Magazine, in which Bannon described a July
Trump Persons remedies at law or in 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that included Donald
equity, all of which are expressly reserved.” Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer
as treasonous and unpatriotic.
Never-Trump neocon Bill Kristol suggested the cease and
desist letter is an intimidation tactic to dissuade others Bannon also said he believed there was zero chance that
from “telling the truth about what happened during the the president was not aware of the meeting, which
campaign.” contradicts previous White House statements.
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IT BEGINS=> DOJ Reopens
Hillary Clinton Email Investigation
By Cristina Laila
Thursday, January 4, 2018
The Department of Justice has Hillary Clinton has put our national security at risk time
reopened the investigation into Hillary and time again with her mishandling of classified
Clinton’s use of a private server information, pay-to-play and Uranium One scandal.
following the release of new evidence
Congressional Republicans on key
Huma Abedin mishandled classified
committees say they have found new
information.
contradictions and irregularities inside
of the FBI’s investigation of Hillary’s
emails server, John Solomon reported.
Fired FBI Director James Comey drafted Hillary Clinton’s
exoneration letter before interviewing 17 witnesses,
including Hillary Clinton.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe didn’t recuse
The Daily Beast reported there is a renewed effort in the himself from Hillary’s email investigation despite many
Justice Department to get new details on how Hillary conflicts of interest until one week before the presidential
Clinton, Huma Abedin and other aides handled classified election.
information. The DOJ wants to know just how much
classified information was on Hillary’s private email Comey and McCabe are dirty cops who destroyed the
server and how it got there. FBI’s reputation trying to protect Hillary Clinton. The
entire ‘criminal investigation’ the FBI was conducting was
More evidence is surfacing that on Hillary’s orders, Huma a sham. Hillary was given special treatment by the FBI.
Abedin directed Hillary’s immigrant D.C. maid, Marina Everyone complicit must be jailed.
Santos to print out classified “call sheets” and access other
sensitive Clinton emails, Paul Sperry of the New York LOCK HER UP!
Post reported. President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton was pleased with
Marina Santos, an immigrant from the Philippines does not the new development.
have the security clearance required to access such
sensitive information.
Santos had access to everything while Hillary Clinton was
Secretary of State including top secret, CIA-prepared daily
presidential briefings. Unbelievable.
Thanks to Judicial Watch, all eyes are on Huma Abedin
after the State Department released a portion of the
documents found on pervert Anthony Weiner’s laptop
Friday. At least 5 emails contain classified information.
It gets worse for Huma…
Twitter erupted after a report surfaced that Hillary
Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin forwarded State Department
passwords and sensitive information to her Yahoo email
accounts.
The President hammered Crooked Hillary and Comey and
called for Huma Abedin to be jailed. He also asked the
Justice Department to “finally act” on Comey.
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Bannon BUST: Billionaire Backer BAILS As Trump
Lawyer Threatens LAWSUIT Over Disparaging Comments
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 4, 2018
But after several revelations that Moore may have sexually “You [Bannon] have breached the
harassed or abused teenage girls as an adult, his candidacy Agreement by, among other things,
flagged and he was eventually defeated by Democrat Doug communicating with author Michael Wolff
Jones, who was sworn into the U.S. Senate earlier this about Mr. Trump, his family members, and
week. the Company, disclosing Confidential
Information to Mr. Wolff, and making
disparaging statements and in some cases
“The core constituency for Breitbart is what outright defamatory statements to Mr. Wolff
you would call the Trump Deplorables.
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about Mr. Trump, his family members, and him to Wolffe or anyone. ‘Totally false,’
the Company, knowing that they would be Barrack said by phone just now. Tom
included in Mr. Wolff’s book and publicity Barrack adds, ‘It’s clear to anyone who
surrounding the marketing and sale of his knows me that those aren’t my words and
book.” inconsistent with anything I’ve ever said.’
He says Wolffe never ran that quote by him
During his campaign, then-candidate Trump had all to ask if it was accurate,” tweeted
campaign staff sign non-disclosure agreements which Haberman.
disallowed them from making any disparaging comments
about him or his family, or the Trump organization, among
other things.
The news site noted that in Wolf’s book, “Fire and Fury:
Inside the Trump White House,” Bannon slams Trump’s
son, Don Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner as behaving in
a “treasonous” manner, among other things, for taking a
meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June
2016.
Manafort has filed a lawsuit against Mueller and the Trump responded to Bannon’s criticisms in a statement
Justice Department, accusing both of overreaching with Wednesday, claiming he got to the campaign late and was
criminal charges brought last fall that included money not responsible in any way for his victory.
laundering and tax evasion.
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me
“Trump is not spared” either, The Guardian or my Presidency,” Trump said in a
reported. “Wolff writes that Thomas statement Wednesday.
Barrack Jr, a billionaire who is one of the “When he was fired, he not only lost his
president’s oldest associates, allegedly told job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer
a friend: ‘He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid.’” who worked for me after I had already won
the nomination by defeating seventeen
Barrack immediately denied making those statements candidates, often described as the most
to The New York Times‘ Maggie Habberman. talented field ever assembled in the
Republican party,” he added.
“Barrack said he spoke to Wolffe once,
says he never said the quote attributed to
.
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Reps. Mark Meadows And Jim Jordan: ‘After Latest FBI
Leak To Press, It’s Time For AG Sessions To Go’
By Cristina Laila
Thursday, January 4, 2018
The Reps, argued the alarming number of Meadows and Jordan conclude that now is the time for
FBI agents and DOJ officials sharing Sessions to be replaced.
information with reporters is in clear
violation of the investigative standards.
.
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“That Room Isn’t A Room Where POTUS Gets A Fair
Shake”: Russian Probe Grand Jury Exposed As
Group Of Trump Hating Liberals
Alex Thomas
January 3, 2018
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Justice Department ‘Looking
Into’ Hillary Clinton’s Emails— Again
It’s The Most Scrutinized Email Server Of All Time.
But The President Is Demanding It Get Scrutinized Again.
And DOJ Is Taking A Fresh Look.
Betsy Woodruff
01.04.18 10:00 AM ET
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FINALLY: DoJ RE-Opens Probe Into Hillary EMAIL
Scandal After MORE Classified Data
Found On Huma Laptop
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 4, 2018
Word of the new probe comes after President Donald J. and access other sensitive Clinton emails, Paul Sperry of
Trump tweeted Dec. 2. the New York Post reported, as cited by The Gateway
Pundit.
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Washpost Media Reporter: Trump-Book
Author Accused Of Inventing Quotes
By Tim Graham
January 4, 2018 12:07 PM EST
On the front of Thursday's Style section, Washington Post Bannon. He didn’t respond to multiple requests for
media reporter Paul Farhi wrote a piece on blazing-hot comment.
author Michael Wolff and his Trump book Fire and Fury.
The headline was "A whale of a Trump tale, but is it We should expect that NBC's exclusive interview with
fishy?" Inside, the headline is "Wolff Made Up Quotes, Wolff on Friday's Today will focus on the fake-news
Some Of His Sources Say." question. Farhi also found this pattern in Wolff's media
columns for New York magazine:
After recounting all the hot stories about Trump and his
former aide Steve Bannon, that revelation is tucked inside Judith Regan, then a hotshot book editor
on page C-4: who had been a classmate of Wolff’s at
Vassar, vigorously disputed almost every
paragraph of Wolff’s column about her. She
said she hadn’t had a personal
conversation with Wolff in 30 years.
Wolff’s response:
Katie Walsh, a former White House adviser, has also “believes that he is the most significant gay
disputed a comment attributed to her by Wolff, that public intellectual in America today.”
dealing with Trump was Sullivan said he never made any such
claim.
“like trying to figure out what a child wants.”
Farhi also thought it was fishy for Wolff to claim Trump
didn't know who John Boehner was when Fox News boss
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Roger Ailes recommended him as a chief-of-staff pick.
added her own skepticism during her daily briefing on This is how the story ended:
Wednesday.
Even Wolff’s anecdote about Trump being unaware of
“We know the book has a lot of things, so who Boehner was last year seems a bit suspect. The
far that we’ve seen, that are completely reason? Trump had tweeted about Boehner multiple times
untrue,” she said. since 2011. In September 2015, for example, Trump
tweeted this:
She was not specific, but Sanders added that Wolff’s
characterizations of White House operations were “Wacky @glennbeck who always seems to
be crying (worse than Boehner) speaks
“the opposite of what I saw.” badly of me only because I refuse to do his
show — a real nut job!”
Wolff, 64, has said his book was based on 200 interviews
with White House and campaign staffers, including
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Trump-bashers on MSNBC are already making excuses. “Even if not all of it is true, the spirit of the
Host Stephanie Ruhle championed the view that book is."
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Alt-Left Insanity: ‘Trump Trauma’
Is Making Liberals Freak Out
By Dan Gainor
January 4, 2018 9:23 AM EST
Note: Normal people might find some of elected, wildly supports free speech, and mocks the press
this offensive. (We hope. Dear Lord, but hasn’t arrested anyone in the media. In other words,
please!) none of our democratic norms has been demolished or
even challenged.
The alt-left is completely nuts. If reading more than a year
of this column hasn’t proven that to you, please get help. Then Capehart turned to writer and commentator Anushay
You might have contracted something. Hossain who said she was “pessimistic, but trying to be
optimistic.” Hossain admitted one of the ways she handled
Trump trauma is by following “emergency kittens on
Twitter.”
Still, that lead up launched the panel into a frenzy. Let’s recap, shall we? One guest thinks libs have PTSD.
Attorney Raul Reyes went to Crazy Land, literally. “You Another relies on pictures of kittens and hid in her bed for
know that psychologists and therapists and that three days. And the last one thought the world was going
community, they have a term for it, PTSD. President to end. I think the business opportunity for 2018 is to open
Trump Stress Syndrome … Disorder.” Don’t blame me a mental health clinic for the alt-left.
that he can’t spell. At least he fixed it.
That naturally takes us to the rest of this week’s column on
Reyes called the Trump era “scary” and claimed, “all of the blame game:
our democratic norms being challenged if not
demolished.” Forgetting, of course, that Trump was
If Trump Is Making Liberals Crazy:
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The natural extension of “Trump trauma” is a “detached” president when they started
to claim that Trump himself is nuts. After running their own agendas—like, say,
all, he beat 16 GOP contenders, defied the selling missiles to mullahs.”
media narrative time and time again and
defeated Hillary Clinton for president in an That should be a hint of how the media will continue to
upset that made the Patriots Super Bowl target Trump in 2018 and beyond. Remember, the alt-left
comeback look easy. Someone that and media always think people on the right are: crazy,
accomplished must be … “crazy?” stupid, racist and evil or maybe some combination of those
four. They are hitting Trump with all four.
Esquire’s Charles Pierce tried that line of attack. Here’s
the allegedly intelligent assessment of:
“To my ears, anyway, this is more than the If Trump has made the alt-left crazy and
president*’s well-known allergy to the truth. they can’t get away with claiming he’s
This is a classic coping mechanism crazy, what next? Let’s blame the
employed when language skills are coming Constitution. This article begins with a
apart.” Pierce has an admittedly sad celebration of the play “Hamilton,” where
personal tale, watching his “father and all of the way they make the Founders cool is to
his siblings slide into the shadows and fog make them people of color.
of Alzheimer’s Disease.”
You know, instead of rebelling and creating the best, most-
That doesn’t make him an expert on the president. powerful nation in human history. Most people would
think that’s cool. But then again, I’m not liberal like those
involved.
Pierce later adds a strange criticism.
That takes us overseas to the article itself, The Guardian
“In addition, the president* exhibits the kind UK’s
of stubbornness you see in patients when
you try to relieve them of their car keys—
or, as one social worker in rural North “The year of Trump has laid bare the US
Carolina told me, their shotguns.” Constitution’s serious flaws.”
That used to be known as standing by principle, but this is Because we always care about what the British think of
2018 and it’s the alt-left. our Constitution after we rebelled from them to create it.
(The image is from Mel Gibson's The Patriot, when
relations between Americans and their mother country
He followed with the discredited claims about Ronald were less ideal.)
Reagan having been senile during his presidency.
Author Jonathan Freedland actually argues in support of
“In Ronald Reagan’s second term, we the revolution and said it was Britain’s “inheritance” -- “a
ducked a bullet. I’ve always suspected he part of our patrimony mislaid across the Atlantic.” Starts
was propped up by a lot of people who a) out well, then we get to the Trump bashing.
didn’t trust vice-president George H.W.
Bush, b) found it convenient to have a
forgetful president when the subpoenas “For this first year of the Donald Trump
began to fly, and c) found it helpful to have presidency has exposed two flaws in the
model that I cannot brush aside so easily.”
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The big bad? Trump disregarded track of how many candidates for that role have surfaced --
Hillary Clinton (she blames literally everyone else), the
“norms. – that are essential to civic media, the electoral college, racist people, white people,
wellbeing.” Oh horrors! “Trump trampled all white women, Fox News, James Comey, President Putin,
over those as a candidate” Obama, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, sexism … well, you get
the idea.
and did so even more after getting elected. The alt-left
solution? Impeachment. Naturally, Trump supporters who a) backed him in the
election and, shockingly, b) back him now are the worst.
The Daily Beast’s pretentiously named Jared Yates Sexton
“Of course, there is a remedy, and its name
tells the liberal view of events leading up to now. (Of
is impeachment. Scholars are clear that
course, he’s an associate professor of Creative Writing at
Trump has already provided sufficient legal
grounds for such a move – the case Georgia Southern University. There are probably alt-lefty
against him is far more compelling than the authors who aren’t in academia. Maybe.) It’s filled with
one against Bill Clinton. But impeachment personal anecdotes that are completely unprovable but
proceedings are triggered by the House of claim Trumpeters said nasty things. (One wonders if said
Representatives, followed by a trial in the professor has ever been to a football game and if he thinks
Senate, and nothing will happen so long as fans genuinely want to “kill” bad referees.)
Republicans control both houses of
Congress.” After regaling his readers with that awful description of
events, he tells of the awful Trump supporters.
Great. Even the foreign press is playing games trying to
manipulate our elections. I guess it’s only bad when Russia “In order to maintain that devotion they
does it. had to accept a toxic worldview—a
worldview that made them susceptible to
But of course, let’s blame Republicans. hate groups that had grown large and
powerful with Trump’s ascent to power.”
“And today’s Republicans refuse to fulfil
that obligation. They, like Trump, are He just kept piling it on, astonished that Trump supporters
without shame.” still back the president. Then he waved the They Are Scary
Flag, claiming:
In other words, they won’t do what he demands.
“It is, after all, bad enough that his base
might support Trump firing a man charged
That wasn’t enough. He then went after the 2nd with investigating him, but the talk among
Amendment, as well. His whine was the fringe right, where many of his
supporters can be found, is trending more
“the fact that the argument hinges on and more toward armed insurgency.”
interpretations of a text written more than
two centuries ago is itself a problem.” Ah rebels. You’d think conservatives had run around the
If We Can’t Blame The Constitution, country chanting “Revolution.” But no, that was lefties
Then Let’s Blame Trump Supporters!: from Occupy Wall Street. He continued his screed and
asked
This week in alt-left media was like a game of hot potato.
Nearly a year after Trump took office, liberals are still “the troubling question:
trying to find someone or something to blame. I’ve lost Just how far will they go?”
.
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TOP STORY OF THE DAY: Manafort Lawsuit Will
Likely Shut Down Deep State Mueller Investigation!
By Jim Hoft
Thursday, January 4, 2018
No wonder the MSM came out with the Bannon – Trump We know that Mueller’s team illegally obtained emails
story today. Whenever a huge story comes out about related to the Trump transition team and these emails were
Criminal and Corrupt Mueller and Rosenstein and the protected under attorney-client privilege. Mueller and his
Deep State led DOJ, another story is released by the MSM entire team should have resigned after this.
to change the subject in the media. Today the MSM talked
about Breitbart’s Steve Bannon’s remarks about members But the perhaps one of the most
of President Trump’s family. These remarks have not yet damning aspects of the Mueller
been substantiated. However, the much bigger story in the investigation is that it was not legal.
news is that former Trump campaign manager Paul The corrupt Mueller investigation is
Manafort sued the DOJ, Robert Mueller and Rod tasked with finding a crime that does
Rosenstein and is demanding the Mueller investigation be not exist in the law. It is a legal
shut down! impossibility. Mueller is being asked to
do something that is manifestly
We have reported for months on the many criminal and unattainable.
corrupt actions taken by numerous parties related to
the Mueller investigation. Mueller never should have FOX News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett stated in an article
taken on the job in the first place due to numerous a couple of months ago the fact that the entire Mueller
conflicts. He is best friends with fired leaker and former investigation is lawless. Jarrett argued that –
FBI Director James Comey. He met with Comey shortly
before Comey testified with Congress and for this alone he Shortly after the indictments[against Papadopoulos and
should have recused himself. The team Mueller built to Manafort] were unsealed, the media’s spirits were
attack President Trump and have him removed is all Deep suddenly boosted when the special counsel revealed that a
State attorneys and crooks. Mueller’s record in the past is former adviser to Trump pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
scattered with actions that let the Clintons off Scott free on about his contacts with a Russian national during his time
numerous occasions when they should have been put in on the Trump campaign. Surely this was evidence of
jail. illegal “collusion,” right?
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Wrong. George Papadopoulos pled guilty to a single charges (18 USC 1961-1968), if her foundation is
charge of making a false statement to the FBI. He was not determined to have been used as a criminal enterprise.
charged with so-called “collusion” because no such crime
exists in American statutory law, except in anti-trust The US statutory law is clear and Jarrett points it out. He
matters. It has no application to elections and political concluded with the following –
campaigns.
Until now, no one had legal “standing” to argue in court
It is not a crime to talk to a Russian. Not that the media that the appointment of Mueller was illegal. The criminal
would ever understand that. They have never managed to charges [against Manafort and Papadopoulos] change all
point to a single statute that makes “colluding” with a that. The two defendants will be able to argue before a
foreign government in a political campaign a crime, likely judge that Mueller’s appointment by Acting Attorney
because it does not exist in the criminal codes. General Rod Rosenstein violated the special counsel law.
Jarrett then turned his attention to Corrupt Hillary – As I pointed out in a column last May, the law (28 CFR
600) grants legal authority to appoint a special counsel to
It is against the law for the Clinton investigate crimes. Only crimes. He has limited
campaign and the Democratic National jurisdiction. Yet, in his order appointing Mueller as special
Committee to funnel millions of dollars counsel (Order No. 3915-2017), Rosenstein directed him
to a British spy and to Russian sources to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the
in order to obtain the infamous and Russian government and individuals associated with the
discredited Trump “dossier.” campaign of President Donald Trump.” It fails to identify
any specific crimes, likely because none are applicable.
The Federal Election Campaign Act (52 USC 30101)
prohibits foreign nationals and governments from giving or To put it plainly, Mueller is tasked with
receiving money in U.S. campaigns. It also prohibits the finding a crime that does not exist in the
filing of false or misleading campaign reports to hide the law. It is a legal impossibility. He is
true purpose of the money (52 USC 30121). This is what being asked to do something that is
Clinton and the DNC appear to have done. manifestly unattainable. Today as
reported by Cristina Laila at TGP,
Most often the penalty for violating this law is a fine, but Manafort sued the DOJ, Mueller and
in egregious cases, like this one, criminal prosecutions Rosenstein because what they are
have been sought and convictions obtained. In this sense, it doing is not supported by US Law. This
could be said that Hillary Clinton is the one who was is the biggest story of the day! Manafort
conspiring with the Russians by breaking campaign is suing to have the Mueller
finance laws with impunity. investigation shut down!
But that’s not all. Manafort’s case argues in paragraph 33 that the special
counsel put in place by crooked Rosenstein gave crooked
and criminal Mueller powers that are not permitted by law
Damning new evidence appears to show
–
that Clinton used her office as Secretary
of State to confer benefits to Russia in
exchange for millions of dollars in 33. But paragraph (b)(ii) of the Appointment Order purports
donations to her foundation and cash to to grant Mr. Mueller further authority to investigate and
her husband. prosecute “any matters that arose or may arise
directly from the investigation.” That grant of authority
Secret recordings, intercepted emails, financial records, is not authorized by DOJ’s special counsel regulations.
and eyewitness accounts allegedly show that Russian It is not a “specific factual statement of the matter to be
investigated.” Nor is it an ancillary power to address
nuclear officials enriched the Clintons at the very time
efforts to impede or obstruct investigation under 28
Hillary presided over a governing body which
C.F.R. § 600.4(a).
unanimously approved the sale of one-fifth of America’s
uranium supply to Russia.
If Manafort wins this case – which it
If this proves to be a corrupt “pay-to-play” scheme, it appears according to the law he will –
would constitute a myriad of crimes, including bribery (18 the entire investigation would be
USC 201-b), mail fraud (18 USC 1341), and wire fraud deemed illegal – which it is – and
(18 USC 1343). It might also qualify for racketeering therefore legally would have to be shut
down – which it should be.
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Trump Clears Path for Assange to Leave London
Wikileaks Acknowledge Trump Admin Ended Grand Jury Proceedings
Jerome Corsi | Infowars.com
January 4, 2018
On Tuesday, WikiLeaks posted a tweet announcing the In a motion filed with the U.S. District Court for the
U.S. government had ended its eight-year-long grand jury District of Columbia on Dec. 29, 2017, in the case Roy
proceedings against WikiLeaks that was expanded in 2017 Cockrum vs. Donald J. Trump for President, Trump’s
to cover the WikiLeaks various “Vault” releases on CIA attorneys argued that Julian Assange had a right under the
spy technology. First Amendment to publish the DNC and John Podesta
emails, even if the emails were stolen.
In May 2017, the government in Sweden dropped the rape Using gematria, the numbers 10, [10-9] are translated
case against Assange, ending the four-year long attempt by into the letters JA, the initials of Julian Assange with “J”
the Swedish government to arrest Assange via a European being the 10th letter of the alphabet and “A” being the
Arrest Warrant. first. The operational window for Assange’s extraction
from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London is signaled to
A recent decision by a United Kingdom tribunal also be later this week, Jan. 5-6, 2018.
appears to have vitiated the arrest warrant issued by a That Assange will be extracted with the blessings of the
British court in 2012, after Assange violated his bail Trump administration is suggested by the designation
conditions to take refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy. FDeltaC, referencing a Federal Detention Center of
undetermined location. That the location is outside the
United States is suggested by the “Delta” designation.
On Dec. 29, 2017, Assange posted a tweet that referenced
Dec. 25-26 references Emanuel Leutze’s famous
an article published by the Guardian on Dec. 14, 2017,
painting depicting George Washington’s historic
citing a United Kingdom tribunal that declared WikiLeaks
crossing the Delaware River on Christmas night in
to be a media organization and a free speech advocate –
1776, with painting posted in synch on the Internet
designations that could carry a legal importance in placing
bulletin board 8chan by both QAnon and by the U.S.
Assange under “free speech” protections both in the UK
Department of Defense on Dec. 25, 2017.
and in the United States.
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With the possibility Assange might return to the United
States, the “storm” QAnon has been predicting appears
ready to begin.
QAnon’s reference to “Secured” suggests the path for
Assange to return to the United States has been
secured at the highest level of the U.S. government,
with the knowledge and approval of President Trump.
QAnon’s reference to “Floor is yours” suggests this is
Assange’s opportunity to drop key files on Hillary
Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the hoax of
“Russia collusion” developed by CIA Director John
Brennan and propagated to the mainstream media with
the assistance of Google’s Eric Schmidt.
The comment “Twitter FW” suggests Twitter will be
used by Assange to communicate with the public as
the extraction mission goes forward. The additional
comment “Twitter [kill_rogue] suggests Assange will
post key information on the Twitter account
@kill_rogue.
Finally, the notation “CONF_WHITE_WHITE” suggests Assange’s New Year’s Eve post also embedded a video of
Assange’s initial destination of Switzerland has been the song “Paper Planes” by singer M.I.A. that linked to
confirmed. Switzerland’s national flag is a white cross YouTube.
(WHITE_WHITE) against a red background.
Again, in what appears to have been a synchronized post,
On New Year’s Eve, Julian Assange posted on Twitter a @kill_rogue retweeted Assange’s New Year’s Day post
cryptic string of numbers that appear to be a “Dead Man’s and asked,
Switch,” linking possibly to a new cache of WikiLeaks
documents Assange’s associates would post should
Assange be arrested. “What words do you hear in the song?”
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Trump Tweet Attacks Wolff Book, ‘Sloppy Steve’
By Breitbart News
4 Jan 2018
I authorized Zero access to White House
(actually turned him down many times) for
author of phony book! I never spoke to him
for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations
and sources that don’t exist. Look at this
guy’s past and watch what happens to him
and Sloppy Steve!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 5, 2018
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Deep State Coup Underway! Lawmakers
Discussed Trump’s ‘Mental Health’ With Psychiatrist
Mac Slavo
January 4th, 2018
“So we’ll see an uptick in all of this “From a medical perspective, when we see
‘Trump is mentally imbalanced, Trump someone unraveling like this, it’s an
is insane, Trump must be removed,’” emergency,” Lee said. “We’ve never come
Stone warned. “Now you have to examine so close in my career to this level of
the extent to which they can whip up that catastrophic violence that could be the end
hysteria as a backdrop because, without of humankind.”
that hysteria, such a political move on the
president will fail.” While Lee made it clear that psychiatrists are prohibited
from diagnosing from afar, she pointed out that President
And once Plan B fails, the globalists will Trump’s pattern of behavior was a worrying sign.
move on to Plan C, which is simply an
assassination. -SHTFPlan.
Plan B could very well be in full swing as another example
of manufactured outrage made headlines. Take into
According to Axios, one Republican Senator was present at account yesterday’s article by SHTFPlan in which Green
the meetings, along with a dozen or so Democrats. Dr. Day’s Billy Joe demands the 25th amendment “be
Bandy X. Lee, said Trump is “going to unravel,” and that enforced.”
“the rush of tweeting is an indication of his The latest example comes in the form of an Instagram
falling apart under stress. Trump is going to rant in which Green Day frontman Billy Joe Armstrong
get worse and will become uncontainable had a mini meltdown over the presidents latest tweet about
with the pressures of the presidency.” North Korea, eventually going on to attack his own fans
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who support the president while joining with the deep state if your liberal or conservative.. this has to
echo chamber in calling for the use of the 25th stop . Please share #impeachtrump.” -
Amendment to remove him from office. SHTFPlan
“This isn’t funny. This is our president For the deep state’s plan B to work, a hysteria must be
acting like a madman drunk on power whipped up to convince the easily manipulated that their
THREATENING to kill innocent starving very lives are in danger. And as we can plainly see, that’s
people by way of nuclear war. The 25th exactly what’s happening. However, when Plan B fails, the
amendment needs to be enforced. This deep state’s Plan C is to assassinate the president.
man is sick and unfit for office. I don’t care
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Media Matters Funding Sexual
Assault Witch Hunt on Republicans
By D. C. McAllister
January 4, 2018
President-elect Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a news At that point, several donors came forward with offers of
conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, financial help to ensure the safety of the women who
Jan. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) would come forward. I was happy to relay those offers of
funds for relocation to a safer community and round the
Before the presidential election, one of Media Matters’ clock security.”
attack dogs spent $200,000 funding an effort to bring
down Donald Trump with sexual assault charges. It failed, The "Time's Up" Campaign Is Mostly Repackaged
but if the progressive political and media watchdog keeps Feminist Garbage
to its game plan to impeach the president, this won’t be the
end of such efforts. Bloom also said that donors helped her clients with basic
compensation.
As reported by Kenneth Vogel in The New York Times,
political partisans are Most people do not get paid for interviews. But some
shows will offer a few thousand dollars to license photos,
“raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to or for an appearance fee. When my client is a single
support abusers who come forward with mother, unemployed, in dire need of therapy, on the verge
charges against President Trump and of bankruptcy or all of the above, she may choose to do an
members of Congress.” interview with the outlet that will compensate her. A few
thousand dollars hardly levels the playing field against a
One of those partisans is American Bridge 21st Century billionaire like Donald Trump, but it helps a little, and I
Foundation, which gave Lisa Bloom, attorney and leave that decision to my client, after she’s been fully
daughter of activist lawyer Gloria Allred, $200,000 to fund vetted for veracity. Due to an unexpected turn of events,
Trump’s accusers. The organization was founded by donors also reached out to help some of my clients last
Media Matters’ David Brock and says it will possibly year.
create an ongoing fund “to encourage victims to bring
forward similar claims against Republican politicians,” Bloom’s efforts failed, but as Brock has indicated, this
Vogel reported. won’t be the end of the witch-hunt, which fits into the
overall strategy Brock developed after the election to
“California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering undermine Trump and all who support him.
to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a
commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Last year, he wrote a confidential memo in which he
Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six- explained the role American Bridge would play in putting
figure payment for another woman who ultimately progressives back in power.
declined to come forward after being offered as much as
$750,000,” clients told The Hill. “We are going to resist the normalization of
Donald Trump,” Brock wrote. “Trump has
Bloom claims that donors like American Bridge were only the legal authority, but we have the moral
offering money “to ensure the safety” of the accusers.
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authority—and the moral responsibility to when Republican candidates are
oppose him.” pretending to be something they’re not.”
No other issue reinforces the notion that Media Matters The problem with funding sexual assault abusers by any
and Republican opposition have “moral authority” more partisan group is that it corrupts the system and removes
than bringing down their political enemies with all credibility of accusers, which is harmful to the women
accusations of sexual harassment and assault. American themselves if they are, indeed, telling the truth.
Bridge has and will play a role in that effort.
As journalism professor at the University of Southern
As stated in Brock’s plan of action, California Vince Gonzales told Snopes, political partisans
who insert themselves into cases take the focus off the
American Bridge will cement itself as the victims and puts it onto themselves and political game-
standard-bearer of opposition research, playing.
build on its role as a progressive
clearinghouse for information that drives “It’s a zero-sum game, but it’s a very short
the narrative on Republican officeholders term gain,” he said. “If you’re a political
and candidates, and be at the epicenter of donor who gets involved and if the story is
Democrats’ work to regain power—starting true, you become the story. You become
in 2017 and building to 2020. Here’s what the political motivation behind the story and
success will look like: then people no longer have to focus on the
allegations. That’s the danger.”
1. Trump will be defeated either through impeachment or
at the ballot box in 2020. Ron Rotunda, professor at Chapman University School of
Law, agreed.
2. The balance of power will shift back to Democrats. We
will measurably impact US Senate, gubernatorial, and “These victims have serious stories to tell
state legislative races. and we have to get justice for them,” he
said. “But we undercut that when people
3. We will free ourselves from solely relying on the press. are paid money for their testimony. It taints
Our robust digital program will reach voters directly it. If this were a jury trial, you’d have to ask
online. [a witness], ‘You got x-thousand dollars to
say this?’ and from there it’s not hard to
The goal of American Bridge 21st Century, connect the dots when there are only two
as stated on their website, is “holding dots. The problem is, if a real victim
Republicans accountable for their words accepts a payoff it undercuts their story.
and actions and helping you to ascertain That’s just a fact of life.”
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MSNBC: ‘Isn’t It Remarkable That
We’re’ Discussing Trump’s ‘Mental State?’
By Scott Whitlock
January 4, 2018 3:43 PM EST
Though MSNBC journalists have admitted that much of a Tur keeps promoting this wrong information. On
new anti-Donald Trump book by Michael Wolff may not December 22, she insisted, “He hasn’t had a press
be true, it’s still enough to spark a new conversation over conference since what, February?... That is laughable.”
whether the President is mentally ill. On Thursday, Katy The statement may be laughable because it’s false.
Tur pivoted to the crazy Trump theme: “Isn't it remarkable
that we're talking about the President's mental state and Later in the day, reporter Hallie Jackson conceded that the
asking honest questions about his mental state? You also new book may not be that reliable.
have members in Congress meeting with psychiatrists to
talk about the 25th Amendment.”
NBC News has not confirmed everything in this Wolff
book, and there are pieces, center anecdotes and moments
MSNBC analyst Richard Painter fretted about a deranged on their face appear to be factually not true. You heard
Trump: “We are all at great risk, and this is a situation that Sanders reference one of them. The fact Wolff says the
needs to be addressed by the cabinet and Congress as set President not know who John Boehner was. Look at
forth in the 25th Amendment.” He added, “We cannot risk Twitter, it's not the case.
having a president who is mentally unstable and
controlling nuclear weapons.” For MSNBC, however, it’s reliable enough to push the
idea that the President is crazy.
MSNBC Live
1/4/18
2:41pm ET
TUR: Yeah.
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While Media Goes Into Rabid, Foam At The Mouth Frenzy
Over Trump-Bannon Theater, They Ignore That Manafort
Lawsuit Could Deem Entire Mueller Investigation Illegal
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
January 4, 2018
Emphasis mine. The two points in bold above are critical Starting on page #14, Manafort's counsel lists two counts.
and in my opinion, the main point of the lawsuit. First In the first they are asking the entire "Appointment Order"
Manafort's counsel is arguing that under the DOJ's own be set aside, meaning declaring Mueller's entire
regulation regarding jurisdiction, Rosenstein violated the investigation illegal and given to him Ultra Vires (beyond
law by giving Mueller carte blanche. the powers) of what Rosenstein was allowed to do by law.
In the second, they are asking the judge to declare
The second point caught my attention because during Mueller's conduct
Rosenstein's December 2017 testimony in front of
the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Lamar "beyond his jurisdiction under the
Smith attempted to get Rosenstein to answer whether he Appointment Order."
had been asked by Mueller at any point for more authority
to "expand" his investigation to include additional In their Prayer for Relief, they ask the court to grant the
jurisdiction, meaning issues unrelated to "coordination following items:
between the Russian government and individuals
associated with the Campaign of President Donald a. an order and judgment setting aside the Appointment
Trump," or "any matters that arose or may arise directly Order and declaring it invalid, arbitrary and capricious,
from the investigation," and Rosenstein wouldn't answer an abuse of discretion, and otherwise not in
accordance with law;
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indictments he has gotten to date, has been two people for
b. an order and judgment declaring ultra vires and setting lying to the FBI, (yet Clinton, Huma Abedin and other
aside all actions taken against Mr. Manafort pursuant to Clinton campaign members were never charged when they
the Appointment Order; were proven to have lied to the FBI) and two people for
actions taken long before Donald Trump even started
c. an order and judgment declaring that Mr. Mueller lacks running for President.
authority to investigate business dealings not arising
The argument by Manafort's lawyer is creative and by
from the original jurisdiction set out in the Appointment
filing this lawsuit, in conjunction with the multiple
Order;
investigations by congress, the DOJ and a nearly yearlong
investigation by the Office of Inspector General into
d. an order and judgment enjoining Mr. Mueller from
misconduct by FBI and DOJ officials, even if this suit is
investigating matters beyond the scope of the grant of
unsuccessful, it brings more scrutiny onto the intelligence
jurisdiction in the Appointment Order; and e. any other
agencies that became highly politicized under the Obama
relief as may be just and proper.
regime. Plus, by going after the entire investigation now in
court, after multiple members of Mueller's team have been
The entire 17 page Manafort complaint, filed on January 3,
publicly exposed as anti-Trump partisans, some having
2018, is embedded at the bottom of this article.
been reassigned, others demoted, Manafort is keeping the
spotlight on the actions of Rosenstein, Mueller and the
BOTTOM LINE
DOJ.
While the MSM is downplaying this lawsuit and those that No wonder the media is hyperventilating so badly on the
bothering to report it are mis-characterizing the extent of Trump-Bannon issue, they want the Manafort lawsuit to be
what Manafort is asking for, such as NYT that headlines mentioned, then forgotten about as fast as possible, and
claiming Manafort is simply asking for a judge to "narrow creating a media circus over some claims in a book is
the Russia investigation," when multiple times within the typical of the type of reporting we have come to expect out
complaint we see he is first asking the judge to declare the of the MSM.
entire "Appointment Order" set aside, which would
completely shut down Mueller's investigation. 1-3-18 Manafort V DOJ Complaint
By Susan Duclos On Scribd
The fact is, after all this time and all the millions spent by
Mueller on supposedly investigating "Russian collusion"
with the Trump campaign, the only four charges and
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‘Fire And Fury’ Author Michael Wolff Has Serious
Credibility Issues, History Of Questionable Quotes
Chris Menahan
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Wolff claims in his book that billionaire Thomas Barrack
Jr. once said of Trump, “He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid.”
Barrack told New York Times’ Maggie Haberman he only
spoke with Wolff one time and the quote was, “Totally
false.”
“It’s clear to anyone who knows me that those aren’t my
words and inconsistent with anything I’ve ever said,”
Barrack said.
“He says Wolffe never ran that quote by him to ask if it
was accurate,” Haberman said.
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The New Republic’s Michelle Cottle said in a 2004 cover
story that Wolff’s columns
“aren’t recreated so much as created”
from Wolff’s “imagination.”
“Much to the annoyance of Wolff’s critics,
the scenes in his columns aren’t recreated
so much as created–springing from Wolff’s
imagination rather than from actual
knowledge of events,” Cottle said.
“Even Wolff acknowledges that
conventional reporting isn’t his bag. Rather, The salacious and highly questionably nature of his writing
he absorbs the atmosphere and gossip suggests that was all a con-job.
swirling around him at cocktail parties, on
the street, and especially during those long Nonetheless, he’s cashing in.
lunches at Michael’s.” “Fire and Fury is #1 on Amazon,” Wolff
Wolff got access to the White House by posing as an tweeted Wednesday afternoon.
impartial reporter who wanted to let Trump’s team get
their message out without the smarmy undertones which
characterize the rest of the media.
In February 2017, he chastised CNN’s Brian Stelter for
being a “ridiculous figure” because he would constantly
make himself the story and frame the media as victims of
Donald Trump.
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Laura Ingraham: Trump Will Not Be
Re-Elected If He Sells Out On Immigration (Video)
By Cassandra Fairbanks
Friday, January 5, 2018
As the senate works on a framework for immigration United States. I can tell you that right
legislation that they hope to release next week, Fox News now, and I come as someone who is a
host Laura Ingraham has asserted in no uncertain terms great supporter of his,” she added.
that President Donald Trump will not be re-elected if he
sells out his voters on the issue. On Thursday, Republican senators met with the president
to discuss a plan that would tighten border security — but
also create a “solution” for illegal immigrants who are
currently protected from deportation under the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Discussing the issue on her show The Ingraham Angle on Trump tweeted thanking the senators after Thursday’s
Thursday evening, the popular Trump-supporter did not meeting, and listed his top priorities for immigration
hold back on how important it is that the president get this reform — which included ending chain migration,
right. cancelling the visa lottery and building the wall.
There are few things that would be absolute deal breakers “We must BUILD THE WALL, stop illegal
for President Donald Trump’s base — and immigration is immigration, end chain migration & cancel
probably one of the biggest. the visa lottery. The current system is
unsafe & unfair to the great people of our
country – time for change!” Trump wrote.
“So — He is going to be done. If he sells
us out on immigration, Donald Trump
will not be re-elected president of the
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TICK-TOCK: Trump DoJ Opens Probe
Into Clinton Foundation ‘PAY FOR PLAY’ Allegations
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
FBI and Justice Department officials have already The Clintons have faced “pay-to-play” allegations for
interviewed one witness months, but they and Foundation officials have denied
there were any exchanges of political favors for donations.
Donations to the foundation plunged following Clinton’s
November 2016 election loss to President Donald J.
Trump, falling 42 percent in 2016 from $108 million to
$63 million.
The New York Post reported in November that the Justice
Department, in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee,
said it was looking at appointing prosecutors to examine
allegations that millions of dollars in donations to the
(National Sentinel) Buying Influence: The Justice foundation were tied to the Obama administration’s
Department has launched a new investigation into the Uranium One deal.
Clinton Foundation over allegations of “pay for play”
while Hillary Clinton was President Obama’s first In November, reports noted that the Clintons hid donations
secretary of state. from a firm tied to the controversial Uranium One.
Fox News reported Friday that a source familiar with the Reporters John Solomon and Alisan Spann reported that
new probe told the network on Thursday that the the Clintons understated donations they received in 2008
investigation is being led by the U.S. attorney and the FBI and 2016 from a firm hired by a Russian nuclear company
in Little Rock, Ark., where the foundation began. involved in the deal.
The network reported that it had confirmed the existence “As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
of the probe. greenlighted the Russian purchase of
Uranium One, a Canadian company with
“Fox News also has learned investigators uranium assets in the US, at a time when
are looking into whether the Clinton many of the company’s owners had given a
Foundation violated tax law,” the network combined total of $145 million to the
reported online. Clinton family charity,” the New York Post
reported.
“Accusers of ‘pay to play’ have claimed the
foundation promised favors in exchange for The Hill added:
donations or pledges of cash or gifts,” it
said. “The probe may also examine whether any
tax-exempt assets were converted for
The Hill‘s John Solomon broke the story on Thursday. He personal or political use and whether the
noted that FBI and Justice Department officials have Foundation complied with applicable tax
already interviewed one witness, and that more activity is laws, the officials said.”
scheduled for later this month.
One witness recently interviewed in the newly launched
“The officials, who spoke only on condition probe described the experience as “very professional and
of anonymity, said the probe is thorough,” The Hill reported. The news site added that the
examining whether the Clintons promised witness said questions were focused on “whether donors to
or performed any policy favors in return for Clinton charitable efforts received any favorable treatment
largesse to their charitable efforts or from the Obama administration on a policy decision
whether donors made commitments of previously highlighted in media reports.”
donations in hopes of securing government
outcomes,” Solomon reported. Spokespersons for the Clintons and the Foundation called
the probe politically motivated.
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Mueller’s Investigation Is Unconstitutional – While
Crooked Hillary And Dirty Cop Comey Walk Free…
AG Sessions Needs To Go!
By Jim Hoft
Friday, January 5, 2018
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Judicial Watch: At Least 18
‘Classified Emails’ On Convicted Felon Weiner’s Laptop
“The Weiner Emails Emphasize The Need For The Justice Department To
Conduct A Fresh, Serious Investigation Of Hillary Clinton’s
And Huma Abedin’s Obvious Violations Of Law.”
By Michael W. Chapman
January 4, 2018 | 5:20 PM
(YouTube)
Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, and Hillary Clinton. (YouTube) There were 13 classified emails on Weiner's laptop that
“Judicial Watch’s work in federal court had been previously released to the public. In this new
holding the government accountable to the batch, Judicial Watch uncovered five more classified
rule of law has forced the State Department emails.
to finally release these documents,” said
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The
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The earlier material included discussions "On November 25, 2011, classified
"about Saudi Arabia, The Hague, Egypt, information was sent regarding [State's
South Africa, Zimbabwe, the identity of a Jeffrey] Feltman’s notes on the Egyptian
CIA official, Malawi, the war in Syria, Ministry of Foreign Affairs impression of the
Lebanon, Hamas, and the PLO," reported Hamas-Palestine Liberation Organization
Judicial Watch. talks. On May 4, 2012, additional classified
material from the BlackBerry backup was
In the newly discovered emails there are discussions sent."
among Clinton, Abedin and State's Jacob Sullivan about
Israel's Gaza policy, an update on the United Nations, The watchdog group further reported that it
talking points on Haiti, the "Anthony Campaign" from
[email protected], Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, "previously released 20 productions of
Saud al faisal, Wikileaks, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas and documents in this case that show examples
PLO talks. Much material in the emails is also redacted. of mishandling of classified information and
instances of pay to play between the
Judicial Watch further explained, Clinton State Department and the Clinton
Foundation. Also, at least 627 emails were
"The Weiner laptop also contains classified not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that
material from Abedin’s Blackberry. A July Clinton turned over, and further contradict a
9, 2011, email contained classified statement by Clinton that, 'as far as she
information regarding a then-upcoming call knew,' all of her government emails had
between Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister been turned over to department."
Netanyahu.
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CNN Tries, Fails To Get
Donald Trump Kicked Off Twitter
By Chriss W. Street
5 Jan 2018
Stelter and other Trump-haters cited Twitter’s rule against Wall Street stock analyst James Cakmak at Monness
violent threats: Crespi Hardt told Fortune in August,
“You may not make specific threats of “There is no better free advertising in the
violence or wish for the serious physical world than the president of the United
harm, death, or disease of an individual or States.” He estimates that Trump’s use
group of people.” pumps up Twitter’s stock market value by
about $3.5 billion, to $17.8 billion,
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Twitter cannot afford to lose Trump. The site claims to “North Korea is a case study in how a
have 330 million registered users, but has only added a geographically weak country can turn
lackluster 25 million users in the last 2 years, according weakness into strength.” GPF views Kim
to Statista. Twitter’s daily user numbers are even worse, at Jong Un’s “bellicose threats and strange
only 125 million, 30 percent less than Snapchat. diplomatic overtures” as an effort to build
distrust between the United States and
The highly influential ARS Technica website put Twitter South Korea.
on its Deathwatch List last year, and renewed the ranking
this year. They compare Facebook, which reports $27 Since South Korea fears being a nuclear battleground, GPF
billion in revenue and $10 billion in profit, to Twitter, sees China as potentially the biggest winner and Japan as
which at best brings in “a tenth of that revenue and loses the biggest loser if North Korea can humiliate America and
hundreds of millions of dollars every year.” its allies in Asia.
According to Geopolitical Futures (GPF) senior analyst But Twitter gives President Trump a no-cost vehicle to
Jacob L. Shapiro, strike back at so-called Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un —
without having to start a nuclear war.
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Roger Stone: Bannon’s Money Man Is
A Chinese Soros Operative And Double Agent (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Friday, January 5, 2018
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DEAL With DoJ Gives House Intel Chair Nunes Access
To ALL Documents, Witnesses, In Russia
Witch-Hunt Collusion Probe
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
“It is my hope that this agreement will provide the Nunes’ letter outlines the terms of the deal reached, as he
Committee with all outstanding documents and witnesses” continues looking for information that helps prove or
disprove whether the controversial anti-Trump “dossier”
was used as justification to open the Russia probe and
conduct surveillance on Trump campaign officials.
After more than a year-and-a-half, no one in the media, in
government or in Congress has been able to verify the
dossier’s most explosive and salacious claims about
President Donald J. Trump and his campaign team.
Republicans on the committee have also expressed
concerns that the dossier was paid for by the Hillary
(National Sentinel) Winning: A deal between House Clinton campaign and the Democratic National
Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., Committee.
and the Trump Justice Department struck on Thursday will In his letter, the Intelligence Committee chairman said that
give investigators access to “all remaining investigative the panel is “extremely concerned by indications that top
documents” in an unredacted form that the panel has been U.S. Government officials who were investigating a
seeking as part of its Russia probe. presidential campaign relied on unverified information that
was funded by the opposing political campaign and was
The deal was revealed in a letter between Nunes and based on Russian sources.”
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that was
obtained by Fox News. Initially, Nunes issued subpoenas for all related records on
Aug. 24, and they remain in effect.
The letter was sent by Nunes to Rosenstein and it However, the committee has been stonewalled by the
summarizes an “agreement” that had been reached during Justice Department and FBI for months.
a phone call Wednesday evening. The letter also notes that
According to the agreement between Nunes and
key FBI and Justice Department witnesses will now be
Rosenstein, the House panel will also get access to eight
provided to the Intelligence Committee later in January.
key witnesses, Fox News reported, “including FBI agent
Peter Strzok, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who exchanged anti-
“It is my hope that this agreement will provide the Trump text messages during an affair and previously
Committee with all outstanding documents and witnesses worked on the special counsel’s Russia probe; FBI general
necessary to complete its investigations,” Nunes wrote. counsel James Baker, who was reassigned; FBI head of
counterintelligence Bill Priestap, whom ex-FBI boss James
Fox News reported further: Comey testified made the decision not to brief Congress
about the Russia case during last year’s election; and
The agreement comes after the DOJ and FBI faced a Bruce Ohr, a DOJ official reassigned after concealing
Wednesday deadline to comply, under the threat of new meetings with figures involved in the dossier.”
subpoenas and even contempt citations. Under deadline All witnesses are tied directly to allegations of political
pressure, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Rosenstein bias against the president.
met Wednesday with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to
discuss the demands from the intelligence committee.
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Trump Fires Off Late Night Tweet Torching Author
Michael Wolff And “Sloppy Steve” Bannon
By Cristina Laila
Friday, January 5, 2018
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It’s BOGUS! ‘Bombshell’ Trump Tell-All Author
Michael Wolff ADMITS He Can’t Verify EVERYTHING
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
More than one alleged source has already Many of those were nonetheless included in his book.
refuted a quote attributed to them in the Wolff said in his author’s note that he and the publisher are
book including them, “allowing the reader to judge” whether the
sources’ claims are true.
“Trump is not spared,” the news site The book makes a number of significant, yet
reported. “Wolff writes that Thomas unsubstantiated, claims, including that Trump never
Barrack Jr, a billionaire who is one of the wanted to be president, that all of his senior staff
president’s oldest associates, allegedly told considered him an idiot, that he tried to lock the Secret
a friend: ‘He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid.’” Service out of his room, and that he ate at McDonald’s to
avoid being poisoned.
But in an author’s note included in the book, Wolff said he
was not certain that all the allegations, accusations and For his part, the president tweeted that he never spoke once
statements in the book were true, casting significant doubt to Wolff.
on all of its contents, critics charged on Friday.
“I authorized Zero access to White House
He said several of his sources were flatly lying to him, (actually turned him down many times) for
while others said things that were contradictory in nature. author of phony book! I never spoke to him
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for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations “I’m not going to waste my time or the
and sources that don’t exist. Look at this country’s time going page by page and
guy’s past and watch what happens to him talking about a book that is complete
and Sloppy Steve!” he wrote, the last part fantasy and just full of tabloid gossip,” she
being a jab at Bannon. said Friday.
More than one alleged source has already refuted a quote In an interview with Today show co-host Savannah
attributed to them in the book. Wolff claimed that longtime Guthrie, Wolff defended his book and his journalistic
friend and confidante of Trump’s, billionaire real estate chops.
developer Thomas Barrack Jr., had some hard words for
the president. “My credibility is being questioned by a
man who has less credibility than perhaps
“Trump is not spared,” the news site anyone who has ever walked on Earth at
reported. “Wolff writes that Thomas this point,” he said, in an apparent
Barrack Jr, a billionaire who is one of the reference to Trump.
president’s oldest associates, allegedly told
a friend: ‘He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid.’” However, as The Washington Post reported, Wolff has a
lengthy history of getting facts wrong or inventing them
out of thin air.
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President Trump’s Poll
Numbers Boom With The Economy
By John Nolte
5 Jan 2018
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Paging Jeff Sessions! Turns Out ALL
Of Comey’s LEAKED Memos Were CLASSIFIED (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
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Trump Legal Action Against Publisher
Backfires, Tell-All Book Gets Early Release
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COLD STEELE: GOP Senators Want
CRIMINAL Probe Of Bogus ‘Trump Dossier’ Author
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
The letter is the first criminal referral from any of the “I don’t take lightly making a referral for criminal
congressional investigations into Russia’s election investigation. But, as I would with any credible evidence
interference of a crime unearthed in the course of our investigations, I
feel obliged to pass that information along to the Justice
Department for appropriate review,” Grassley said in a
statement.
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“An Idiot Surrounded By Clowns”:
Why Trump (Still) Sits In The White House
By Paul Street
January 5, 2018
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rural electorate relative to more liberal, progressive, politics in ways that Trump was able to exploit with his
multiracial, and urban voters faux “populism” last year.
The Founders’ system of checks and balances between the The dismal Dems want you to blame it all on Russia and
legislature, executive, and judicial branches creates James Comey when he was a bad guy (he became a good
remarkable capacity for gridlock when the branches are guy for the Democrats when he got fired by Trump for
held by different and intensely partisan political parties. refusing to squash the FBI’s Russiagate investigation). The
(The Founders’ it should be recalled, believed that they truth of the matter is that Russian “interference” was a
had created a political system that would prevent the rise very minor matter in relation to the forces and factor
of “factions” and parties and thus did not anticipate the discussed above – forces and factors in which the
kind of partisan checkmate that Trump was able to exploit Inauthentic Opposition Party (the late Sheldon Wolin’s
last year.) incisive description of the Democrats) are deeply complicit
and involved – in explaining the ascendancy of a
Along the way, the nation’s constitutional federalism gives dangerous “fucking moron” to the White House.
its fifty states great leeway in crafting election laws as well
as electoral districts. Right-wing Republican state-level Now the U.S. and the world are saddled with a juvenile,
restrictions on Black, Latino, and “felon” voting rights stupid, pathologically narcissist POTUS who poses grave
played a key role in Trump’s victory. environmental and thermonuclear dangers to humanity.
Thanks to the absurdly deified Constitution bequeathed to
And the Supreme Court’s repeated constitutionally super- us by wealthy and anti-democratic aristo-republican
empowered “wealth primary” rulings on behalf of abject slaveowners and merchant capitalists 228 years ago, it is
campaign finance plutocracy (here progressives need to hard to imagine him being removed from office except by
interrogate the 1976 Buckley-Valeo decision as well as the death or (further) disability prior to January 20 th, 2021.
2010 Citizens United judgment) have functioned to squash We continue to be screwed by the Founding Fathers. Hold
progressive alternatives to corporate control of U.S. on to your powdered wig.
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Obstruction Evidence Mounts As Critics Say
Trump Move To Stop Sessions Recusal 'Screams Of Guilt'
Though Obstruction Of Justice Difficult To Prove, Trump "Doing
Everything He Can To Help Mueller Do It,"
Argued Former White House Ethics Chief
By Jake Johnson, Staff Writer
Friday, January 05, 2018
President Donald Trump put his hand on the shoulder of Sen. Jeff
Sessions after introducing him before Sessions's swearing in
ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House February 9, 2017 in
Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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As the Times reports, Mueller has learned about Trump's As Common Dreams reported last October, an in-depth
push to stop Sessions from recusing himself and is analysis of Trump's actions during the first months of his
investigating the effort as part of his Russia probe, which presidency by CREW concluded it is "likely" that Trump
the White House has attempted to discredit as a "hoax." obstructed justice by interfering with
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), a former prosecutor, took to "the investigations into Michael Flynn and
Twitter following the Times revelations to argue that Russia's interference in the 2016
presidential election through various
"the repeated attempts by the president of actions, including the termination of James
the United States to influence the criminal Comey."
investigation against him, such as this
attempt to order AG Jeff Sessions to not Following the Times report, Eisen concluded that it "seems
recuse, screams consciousness of guilt." like a good morning to circulate" the paper once more.
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Another One! Former HILLARY Senior Advisor FRETS
Millennials Will Vote For GOP After Tax Cut Leaves
THEM With More Of Their Own Money
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 5, 2018
“I hope millennials don’t fall into a lull of Philippe Reines served as a senior adviser to Hillary
accepting, this is what it is” Clinton for more than a decade in multiple roles in both
her Senate and state department offices. He also advised
Clinton in the lead up to her presidential campaign.
(National Sentinel) Taxes & Votes: A long-serving, “Donald Trump and his people
trusted political advisor to Hillary Clinton says he’s want everyone to shut up, get over the
becoming concerned that Millennials, which Democrats election, Hillary Clinton go away, that’s in
see as a key voting bloc, will begin supporting their best interest, but that’s not how
Republicans after the recently-passed tax cut leaves them it works,” he said.
with more money every payday.
“We are supposed to oppose what we
disagree with. And I hope millennials
As reported by The Daily Caller, Phillippe Reines served don’t fall into a lull of accepting, this is what
as a senior advisor to Clinton for more than 10 years in a it is,” he continued. “God knows how many
number of roles during her U.S. Senate and State of them will see their taxes go down and
Department tenure. base it just on that.
“But yeah, they are a key demographic that
He also advised her in the lead-up to her second failed bid
voted oddly in 2016, and I am not sure
for the presidency during the 2016 election cycle.
people understand how to get them to vote
productively in 2020,” he said.
Reines recently sat down with Washington interns to give
his view of the political landscape following Clinton’s loss
The president and some Republicans have also speculated
and Donald J. Trump’s unexpected victory. they will win more support from a wider range of voters in
the 2018 and 2020 elections and beyond after improving
He was asked by a young woman about the future of their economic conditions.
younger voters in American politics. In response, Reines
said he did not know “how Millennials think,” and that it’s Reines isn’t the only Democrat worried about voters
“unclear what will get them going.”
flocking to support the GOP following the tax cuts.
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Utah Man Arrested After
Threatening To Kill Trump, Shoot Up Movie Theater
By Tyler Durden
Fri, 01/05/2018 - 14:25
A Utah man is facing criminal charges The charges say Dominguez also threatened to carry out a
after allegedly threatening to kill mass shooting or use explosives at a movie theater,
President Donald Trump, according to the New York Post.
according to an indictment filed Wednesday. A grand jury Melodie Rydalch, a spokeswoman for US Attorney John
in central Utah returned the indictment showing multiple Huber, issued a statement outlining the indictment and the
charges against Travis Luke Dominguez of threatening the timeline of the actions it alleges.
President, the police, a bank, another business and a movie
theater. "Local and federal law enforcement
agencies treat all threats seriously. They
"I'm a Navy SEAL," the indictment quoted expend time and resources responding
Dominguez, 33, as saying. "I woke up and to and investigating them - as our
decided I’m going to kill the president agencies did in this case. That said,
Donald Trump today. Please forgive me there isn't any evidence that Mr.
and then I will die by suicide by cop." Dominguez traveled to carry out his
threats against the President," she said.
The indictment went on to quote Dominguez as saying,
Dominguez made the threat on Trump's life on Dec. 4,
"I'm going to kill the sexist racist 2017, the US attorney's office said. Trump visited Utah
homophobic President Trump today. that day to announce his decision to shrink a pair of
Nothing you can do to save President national monuments.
Trump nor stop me pigs."
The DOJ statement alleges that later in December,
CNN, which first reported the news, was
unable to independently confirm Dominguez used an internet tip line to send more threats,
including the threat to hurt people at a movie complex with
whether Dominguez's claim that he is a
firearms or explosives and then to harm police officers
SEAL is accurate.
responding to the scene.
A motion filed Wednesday said Dominguez was being
held in Utah state prison and was due to appear in court on After a threat on New Year's Eve, the statement said,
Thursday afternoon. Dominguez "was observed in the area of the theater" and
police officers then executed a vehicle stop and he was
taken into custody.
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Robert Mueller Sued Over
Fake Russian Collusion Investigation
By Infowars War Room -
January 5, 2018
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Networks Refuse To Cover FBI
Opening New Clinton Foundation Investigation
By Curtis Houck
January 5, 2018 12:37 PM EST
To the shock of no one (at least in the NewsBusters unquestionably thorough” and focused on questions about
newsroom), the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and whether donors to Clinton charitable efforts received any
NBC ignored on Friday morning the stunning revelation favorable treatment from the Obama administration on a
that the Clinton Foundation is under FBI investigation for policy decision previously highlighted in media reports.
possible crimes while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of
State. In an update Friday morning, Clinton spokesman Nick
Merrill blasted the move as “disgraceful” and suggested
FNC’s Fox & Friends was the only cable or network that it was ordered without merit by the Trump
morning show (ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS This administration to distract from the Russia investigation and
Morning, CNN’s New Day, FNC’s Fox & Friends, Michael Wolff’s stunning new book.
MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and NBC’s Today) to confirm
and cover the story, spending eight minutes and 50 After the morning shows, both CNN and The Washington
seconds (minus teasers) on the Clinton Foundation. Post confirmed Solomon's scoop. CNN Newsroom with
John Berman and Poppy Harlow went live in the 10:00
The Hill’s John Solomon broke the story a.m. hour to Justice correspondent Laura Jarrett following
just after 8:30 p.m. Eastern, explaining right the publication of a CNN.com story by Jarrett and
off the top that “[t]he Justice Department colleague Evan Perez.
has launched a new inquiry into whether
the Clinton Foundation engaged in any In part, Jarrett told Berman and Harlow:
pay-to-play politics or other illegal
activities while Hillary Clinton served as
A significant legal development here as
Secretary of State.”
CNN has now learned that federal
authorities down in Arkansas are actively
Solomon revealed that FBI agents in Little Rock, Arkansas investigating the Clinton Family Foundation
“have taken the lead in the investigation,” including the for corruption. A U.S. official tells me that
process of interviewing possible witnesses. He cited a the FBI and federal prosecutors there are
source has having told him that the focus is whether digging into specifically whether foundation
Clinton sought to curry favor with possible donors in donors were improperly promised policy
exchange for access to Clinton or favorable treatment by favors or some type of special access to
the government. Clinton while she was secretary of state in
exchange for donations to the charity's
Here’s more from Solomon: coffers and coming whether tax laws were
followed here.
The probe may also examine whether any
tax-exempt assets were converted for The major broadcast networks had plenty of time for
personal or political use and whether the Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury book of Trump White
foundation complied with applicable tax House gossip, but no time for this bomshell. If any
laws, the officials said. significant time is devoted to it, watch for the liberal media
and friends like Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff
One witness recently interviewed by the FBI described the (Calif.) to slam the FBI before going back to suggesting
session to The Hill as “extremely professional and any criticism of the FBI is un-American.
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GOP Senators Ask For Criminal Probe
Of British Spy Who Wrote "Trump Dossier"
By Tyler Durden
Fri, 01/05/2018 - 14:32
Many details surrounding the now-infamous "Trump themselves. I hope the Department of
Dossier," from who funded it to how exactly it made it's Justice will carefully review our letter and
way into the hands of the FBI and whether or not it was take appropriate action,” Graham said.
relied upon to secure FISA warrants to spy on members of
Trump's campaign, are critical to determining whether
partisan politics, or fact-based investigative work, drove
the DOJ's initial efforts in its Russia probe.
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Wray. If and when that process can be punishment as that bestowed upon Michael Flynn or
lawfully and appropriately completed in whether there is an exemption for false statements
consultation with the Justice provided they were intended to harm the current
Department, an unclassified version of administration.
the memorandum will be released.
Here is the full statement by Grassley and Graham:
Of course, the only question is whether the alleged false
statements made by Steele will result in the same
And here is the referral to the Deputy AG Rosenstein and FBI Director Wray:
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How The System Got Trumped:
Cambridge Analytica’s Electoral Psyops Campaign
By Louis Proyect
January 5, 2018
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Postman, who died in 2003, never updated it to take the much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
Internet into account. He was troubled by how television Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us.
presidential debates had begun to become not much more Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of
edifying than those ridiculous five-minute food fights irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive
between Tucker Carlson and some leftist foolish enough to culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture,
accept an invitation to “debate” him. preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy
porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley
While most people nowadays are worried that Trump will remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil
impose a totalitarian regime of the type that Orwell warned libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to
about in “1984”, we should not rule out the possibility—or oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost
even the probability—that we are facing much more of a infinite appetite for distractions”. In 1984, Huxley added,
dystopia that resembles Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New
World”, where everybody had the freedom to do what they World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short,
wanted except the right to change the system. Here’s how Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley
Postman contrasted the two British authors in the forward feared that what we love will ruin us.
to his classic:
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell,
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. was right.
What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to
ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read It is also about the possibility that Donald Trump’s
one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of presidency is the realization of Huxley’s dystopian vision.
information. Huxley feared those who would give us so
.
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Meghan McCain: ‘Never Felt More Conservative,
Defensive Of Trump Base’ Than Before ‘View’
By Kristine Marsh
January 5, 2018 4:34 PM EST
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Alzheimer’s if your father has it,” she Behar charged McCain, to audience applause.
stated.
“I'm trying to constantly explain it,” McCain answered with
After commercial break, the panel kept discussing the frustration. “I think when you say things like, oh, I give the
book and its impact. McCain downplayed its effect on American people more credit.
anyone who supported Trump:
That means that everyone who voted for
MCCAIN: The question is does his base Trump, you're basically saying, oh, I
care? give them no credit. These people who
voted for Trump, because your values
Does his base care about all of us getting up in a tizzy. are not my values.
Rightfully so. This is a very salacious, juicy book. Do his
supporters care? I was at home in Arizona, I know you You're not in the majority or whatever and--” she ranted before
don't like to hear this and be reminded that he has a Hostin interrupted.
dedicated base--
“If you voted for Trump and you're not
BEHAR: Why do you say we don’t want to hear it? I’d love to concerned, I am concerned about that!” the
hear it. liberal host gushed.
McCain explained she was a “Never
MCCAIN: Ok great. I was in Cottonwood, Trumper” but after the election, she “chose”
Arizona, going to Walmart. Stopped at to try to understand Trump’s base:
the gas station. There was a guy in a
Make America Great Again hat. Go to “I choose to try to understand his base
that Walmart, Make America Great Again and why they're so angry. And why
hats. A year out and his supporters-- they're still sticking with him. He has the
same approval rate on election day that he
BEHAR: That's 30% of the population does now,” she replied.
HOSTIN: I give Americans more credit than that, Meghan. I think But Behar put up a figurative middle finger to Trump supporters,
people are watching. I think people are reading. I think people gushing that Democrats should “forget those people:”
are very concerned that he's playing chicken with Kim Jong-Un. I
think people are concerned about their children. “The note for the Democrats is forget
those people. You're never going to get
MCCAIN: We're talking about his base, aren't we? them. Just concentrate on the 70% and
get those people to the polls and save
HOSTIN: His base is only 30% of the population. What about the the country,” she stated bluntly.
other 70% of the population that are watching and listening?
They do care about that. Navarro then urged minorities and women to get out in vote in
local elections and “make a difference,” by rejecting candidates
Behar added to Hostin’s argument that the country shouldn’t care like Roy Moore. McCain confronted the self-described
what Trump’s base thinks. Republican, saying she didn’t exactly sound like a Republican
anymore. Navarro admitted she didn’t mind voting for Democrats:
“Why do you feel comfortable with the
minority dictating to the majority about MCCAIN to NAVARRO: Does that mean
what should happen in the country?” you prefer democratic candidates now?
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Just because I’m not a Trumper, doesn't defensive of the middle of the country
mean I'm a Democrat. than I have started working on this
show.
NAVARRO: To Donald Trump? I would
prefer a potted plant to Donald Trump. I
would prefer a mannequin. Surprisingly Behar didn’t deny the show had an overwhelming
liberal bias.
MCCAIN: I am talking about Senate
elections
“Of course. We're on the other side. Of
NAVARRO: Well yes. If I have to choose course you're going to react to that,
between a pedophile or Doug Jones right?” she quipped.
whose a Democrat, I'll take the
Democrat. Those are the choices we “I don't mean that in negative way. I have a
had. whole new understanding of what it
feels like to sort of be lectured to about
our values,” McCain added.
After Behar accused McCain’s party of “no longer the party of
Ronald Reagan and Eisenhower,” McCain gushed that working
on The View made her more sympathetic to middle America and Co-host Paula Faris added that McCain was voicing the part of
Trump’s base: America that “feels marginalized,” before the conversation trailed
off to another segment.
I have never felt more defensive of
Trump's base. I have never felt more
conservative. And I’ve never felt more
.
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The Wolff Book Proves It:
Our Journalists Stink
By Andrew Klavan
January 5, 2018
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1980s. Why should Wolff's assertion get any sort of one. The White House is running more smoothly? Well,
attention at all? that's John Kelly's doing, not Trump's. ISIS is defeated?
Well, that's Matthis's work, not Trump's. Great judicial
The nation's journalists cover this obvious nonsense appointments? Well, that's the Federalist Society. Tax
because otherwise, they'd have to enter what to them is cuts? That's Ryan and McConnell. Regulatory rollbacks?
uncharted territory: the truth. Well, that's all those guys running the agencies. Trump is
so busy tweeting and watching the Gorilla Channel, he just
If there's anything substantial in Wolff's tales of chaos in hasn't had time to get in the way, that's all.
the early Trump White House, it shows nothing more than
this: Those of us who thought the political neophyte We are watching our mainstream news media implode.
Trump was unprepared to take office in January were They don't just jump on any fake news that might make
correct, and Trump's response — that he would learn in Trump look bad for the few moments before they're forced
office and appoint the "best people" to help him — was to retract it. They're now actually reporting their fantasies
equally correct. — fantasies in which Trump doesn't keep making them
look like the idiots they are.
But that would mean that Trump is practically smarter and
more adept than the journalists who hate him and those
journalists will accept any narrative other than that
.
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Establishment Media Now Laughably Claiming That
Trump Cannot READ In Latest Pathetic
Attack On The President
Alex Thomas
January 5th, 2018
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‘World Wide Leader In Leftist Disinformation’:
ESPN Now Pushing Discredited Russian Collusion Story
In Attack On Houston Astros For Accepting
White House Invitation
Alex Thomas
January 5th, 2018
Now, in a new low for the network, ESPN has aired a rant
by commentator Max Kellerman that specifically brought Kellerman then specifically brought up the Russian
up the widely discredited Russian collusion probe while collusion probe while noting that Trump’s former national
pretending that it didn’t have anything to do with being a security had already been arrested for lying to the FBI.
liberal or conservative. Kellerman seemingly purposefully left out key facts
surrounding the Flynn investigation while totally ignoring
the high-level Clinton supporters in the FBI who targeted
In other words, according to the obvious implications put
him in the first place.
forth by Kellerman, good people are against Donald
Trump and bad people support him.
“There is an investigation on-going into the
Trump administration, and collusion with a
Kellerman’s leftist talking points came in response to a
hostile foreign power that involves our national
decision by the Houston Astros to accept an invitation to
election,” Kellerman continued, again sounding
the White House after the team won their first ever World
almost exactly like a Democrat in Congress or
Series in late 2017.
any one of the various cable news anchors who
attack Trump on a daily basis.
Asked what it means that the Astos had accepted the
invitation, Kellerman claimed that the team would be on
“It has never happened in my lifetime. All the
the wrong side of history before spewing the same leftist
President’s men seem to be implicated.”
disinformation about the president that is heard throughout
the liberal mainstream media.
Kellerman concluded,
“It says they are making a grave error and are
on the wrong side of history,” he noted. “I want “It has to do with equal protection under the law,
to be very clear about this: This has nothing to and constitutionality, and being a patriotic
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American citizen. You do not normalize this ignoring key facts about the deep states ongoing war
behavior with White House visits.” against Donald Trump.
So there you have it. ESPN has officially stopped being a Its no wonder that the network is bleeding subscribers at a
sports network and is now nothing more than another startling rate with new competitor FS1 seemingly in line to
leftist propaganda outlet pushing discredited lies while take over as the actual leader of TV sports coverage.
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It’s A CULT! Vanity Fair Forced To Apologize For
Mocking Hillary Clinton, Demonstrating Yet
Again How Obedience Is Mandatory
By Ethan Huff
Saturday, January 06, 2018
Classy.
The “controversial” video, entitled, “6 New Year’s In typical liberal media form, the editors of Vanity Fair
Resolutions for Hillary Clinton,” suggested that Clinton were quick to cave to this onslaught of toxic feminism.
get over the election already and take up some new Rather than issue a message of “suck it up, buttercup” – or
hobbies. Some of the video’s recommendations include better yet, no response at all to the mindless insanity – the
working on a sequel to her book, for instance, as well as magazine issued an apology.
knitting and getting outside and hiking more.
“It was an attempt at humor and we regret that it
The video further joked about how Clinton should stop her missed the mark,” reads the official statement
phone from automatically stating that she was forming an issued by Vanity Fair.
exploratory committee, as well as consider teaching a
course on how to alternate nostril breathing.
As he’s notorious for doing, President Trump was also
quick to take on the bullies who so easily whined and cried
Compared to the oftentimes R-rated attacks of the their way into the obviously coerced apology. He tweeted
mainstream media against President Trump, Vanity Fair‘s his own message to the magazine stating:
treatment of Clinton was barely G-rated, and would
probably work well in a Disney film. But because she’s a
woman and a liberal, hordes of entitled, thin-skinned “Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs,
snowflakes were quick to condemn the magazine. is bending over backwards in apologizing for
the minor hit they took at Crooked H. Anna
Wintour, who was all set to be Amb to Court of
Some of these snowflakes were celebrities, including St James’s & a big fundraiser for CH, is beside
mouthy feminist actress Patricia Arquette. In a furious herself in grief & begging for forgiveness!”
response relayed by CBS News, Arquette screeched the
social media equivalent of a wild banshee:
While Anna Wintour is actually the editor of Vogue, she
does run Conde Nast, which is the parent company of
Vanity Fair. In essence, the President made it clear that the
magazine and its editors were foolish to cave on such a
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pathetic attack by leftist snowflakes still desperately trying against President Trump and his administration,
to push political correctness in the post-Trump era. without apology.
Newsflash:
“See if you can train the muscles in your mouth
Your days are over. to say, ‘The President was lying, Jim. He’s a
liar!” one of the editors of that video is heard
“… it’s obvious that no such apology would quipping.
have been forthcoming regarding any material
directed at Trump,” commented conservative Another makes the suggesting that Huckabee Sanders take
pundit Ben Shapiro about the whole thing, up instragamming baked goods instead of being the White
noting that the magazine has published similar House Press Secretary.
mocking videos of a much more biting tone
Did Vanity Fair apologize for this? Not a chance.
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The Leftist Mainstream Media Is Now DEFENDING North
Korea, Calling For The President Of The United States
To Be BANNED From Twitter
Alex Thomas
January 6th, 2018
In yet another example of the insanity that is the new Given Friday’s announcement, it seems highly
liberal orthodoxy in the age of Trump, multiple unlikely that President Trump will ever lose
mainstream news outlets, as well as numerous left-wing access to his account while he still holds office.
activists, are now publicly calling for Twitter to ban
President Trump from their platform for threatening North
In the past, Twitter has insisted that there are
Korea.
no exceptions to its rules and that all individuals
using the platform must adhere to them, or risk
You read that correctly. American media outlets are not disciplinary action or permanent suspension.
only defending North Korea, they are actually claiming
that threatening the rogue nuclear nation constitutes
But the company refused to entertain
“hateful speech” that must be censored.
hypothetical scenarios about suspending high-
profile accounts, including that of Mr. Trump.
Articles in the Washington Post, the New York Times,
Slate Magazine, and the Globe and Mail have all called for
Make no mistake, the legacy media simply cannot stand
censoring the president in the last week, ostensibly because
that their enemy (Trump) can speak to their other enemy
of his threats against North Korea but in reality because
(the American people) without his words being filtered
the legacy media absolutely despises the fact that the
through them.
president can speak to the American people without going
through the establishment gatekeepers first.
Canada’s second largest newspaper, The Globe and
Mail, also called for the president to be banned:
The Washington Posts article isn’t even labeled an opinion
piece, instead the paper called their public call for
censoring the democratically elected president an The menacing presence of U.S. President
‘Analysis”: Donald Trump has once again darkened our
doorways, creating even graver concern that
the fate of the world lay in the hands of an
Why has Twitter not taken action against
unbalanced, paranoid control freak. On
Trump’s tweets — or banned his account for
Tuesday, the President took to his favourite
violating its policies on hateful content and/or
social media platform, Twitter, to taunt North
violent threats?
Korean leader Kim Jong Un, over whose
nuclear arsenal was the biggest and most
In September, you might remember, Twitter effective.
defended its decision to keep Trump’s account
intact when the president tweeted something
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This was in response to Kim Jong’s statement
on Monday that the U.S. was within range of a
strike and that a nuclear button was always on
his desk.
[…]
As Slate reported,
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The Big REVEAL: House Panel
FINALLY Gets Fusion GPS’s Financial Records
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 6, 2018
Fusion GPS, which commissioned the dossier, had been financial institution, TD Bank, from being forced to hand
fighting in court to stop the House Intelligence Committee over dozens of documents.
from getting ahold of the records
Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, rejected the request
and ordered the records turned over.
(National Sentinel) Trump Dossier: The opposition The court fight appeared to have ended in late
research firm that produced the infamous “dossier” on October after Perkins Coie, the law firm that
President Donald J. Trump during his campaign has been represented the Clinton campaign and DNC,
forced to turn over bank records to a House panel outed itself as the client that hired Fusion GPS
investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 to produce the dossier.
election.
Fusion hired former British spy Christopher Steele to
Fusion GPS, which commissioned the dossier, had been author the dossier, which claimed that Russia was
fighting in court to stop the House Intelligence Committee colluding with the Trump campaign against Democrat
from getting ahold of the records. The House panel Hillary Clinton. It also made a number of salacious claims
subpoenaed them months ago. about Trump as well.
But on Friday a U.S. district judge ordered the documents None of the dossier’s most important claims have been
delivered to the Intelligence Committee, ending a dramatic verified.
court battle that began after the panel began seeking them
in October. Republicans have also been attempting to find out if the
dossier was used by the Obama-era FBI to launched a
Judge Richard Leon on Thursday ruled against Fusion counterintelligence investigation against Trump and his
GPS, which had asked for a restraining order preventing its campaign, which included electronic surveillance.
.
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Why Bill And Hillary Clinton’s LONG History Of Escaping
Justice Is About To Come To An END
By JD Heyes
Saturday, January 06, 2018
Now,
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Despite what Ortel cites as obvious violations of various return for largesse to their charitable efforts or
tax and other related laws, nothing was ever ‘found’ and, whether donors made commitments of
thus, no charges ever filed. And what’s more, Ortel notes, donations in hopes of securing government
relevant documentation that is supposed to be publicly outcomes.”
available on the website of the foundation — isn’t.
Long-time Clinton watchers like Ortel see one domino
As for the ‘pay-for-play’ probe, The Hill reported, after another falling, as longstanding Clinton corruption is
further — and finally — exposed.
“the probe is examining whether the Clintons
promised or performed any policy favors in
.
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Scott Adams: Trump's 'Very Stable Genius'
Tweet Was 'Absolutely Genius'
By Debra Heine
January 6, 2018
Dilbert creator Scott Adams explained in a Periscope video He noted that people were going to call the president a
Saturday that President Trump's latest string of tweets was "dangerous narcissist" for calling himself a genius in a
an example of his absolute genius. He said the president tweet -- and that was okay because the tweets are "just
had been backed into a corner by the left's framing of him wonderful."
as "crazy and stupid." The least persuasive thing a person
can do to fight such attacks, according to Adams, is to Adams acknowledged that he is not an expert in most
protest that he's not crazy and stupid -- because the only fields, but as the creator of a successful comic strip, he said
words people will remember are "crazy and stupid." he does know a little something about "writing short,
funny sentences that get their point across."
So what does the president do to avoid being branded by
the left as crazy and stupid? In addition to "throwing out a lot of chum" into
the news cycle, which Adams says the
president does quite well, his tweet makes you
"think past the sale of genius by saying he's a
very stable one."
Adams said,
"he tricks out his tweets with these little tics that
are actually really good. Because it's hard to
look at this and think that he's an elite."
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Getting PAID: White House Says More Than 1 MILLION
Americans Got Bonuses Following Passage
Of HISTORIC Trump/GOP Tax Cut
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 6, 2018
The number of American companies that have paid out remains focused on empowering Americans to
bonuses to employees has topped 100 build more prosperous lives for themselves and
brighter futures for their children.”
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DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison Advocates Left-Wing
Terrorism To Stop Trump, Touts Antifa Handbook That
Promotes Extremist Tactics
By JD Heyes
Saturday, January 06, 2018
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their violence against them is justified. How’s that for a Adolph Hitler turned the Jews into ‘boogymen’
built-in excuse for being, well, a terrorist? then used the made-up ‘threat’ to murder six
million of them.
And isn’t that the same logic that actual
terrorists use? Why yes…yes it is. Soviet Premier Josef Stalin created all kinds
of boogymen he claimed were out to topple his
(Related: CHAOS ALERT: Dem leader calls for regime; he killed 20 million of his own people.
deploying UN troops on the streets of America.)
In all, Soviet communism, which idiots like Bray
What’s more, the threat is real, as The Gateway Pundit and Ellison idolize, killed upwards of 62
reports: million people, 55 million of which were
citizens.
“From rioting and causing over $500,000 in
property damage to the area surrounding Bray also went on to defend the violence, arson, looting,
University of California at Berkeley to prevent and generalized chaos and destruction members of the
Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking to bashing a domestic terror group have caused as they attacked Trump
stranger over the head with a bike lock for the supporters last year and have attempted to shut down all
crime of supporting our president, members of Right-leaning, conservative speakers on college campuses,
Antifa have become increasingly willing to use mainly.
violence for political aims since the election.”
Bray said,
As for Bray, he’s spreading his ‘revolutionary message’ to
American youth, via pop culture. In an interview with Teen “these kinds of events often serve as points of
Vogue in October, Bray said, recruitment for far-right groups and help to
embolden and mobilize students and
“Antifa grows out of a larger revolutionary community members who carry out their
politics that aspires toward creating a better violence later on.”
world.”
How anyone like Bray can say something like that with a
Creating a better world? How? By inventing boogymen straight face is beyond me;
and then violently suppressing them?
using and justifying violence to shut down
Bray is allegedly a historian, so he should know that very political speech and debate is the very
tactic has been used before, during the 20th century, to definition of a fascist/Nazi movement.
deadly effect.
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The Left Wants To Talk About
Mental Health. Let's Start With Theirs
By Megan Fox
January 6, 2018
The new mantra against Donald Trump is that he's And don't forget screaming at robots on vacation.
"mentally unstable!" "unfit!" "like a child" and "losing his
mind." That's rich coming from the community that
brought us giant vagina costumes as a form of protest.
These are the people who are so sane they want us to These very same people also believed that President
believe they can declare other people insane without Trump watches a cobbled-together TV station called the
medical degrees or any kind of expertise. Not only do they Gorilla Channel for 17 hours a day.
think dressing up as genitalia is a delightful and totally
normal thing to do on a Saturday, they also think beating
up statues is a worthwhile endeavor.
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But if you were concerned about their mental capacity
after that, wait until you see this! There's an entire
movement dedicated to shunning feminine hygiene and
bio-hazard protocols. This is the "party of science,"
remember.
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If you haven't seen Dilbert creator Scott Adams' Periscope
broadcast about Trump's trap (that everyone fell for), don't
miss it. It's mighty comical that the people who declare the
president is a mental midget can't even refrain from taking
obvious troll bait. Are these really the people we are
supposed to think are sane and fully functioning? Really?
Try harder.
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Pompeo Battles Wallace Over ‘Fire And Fury’
— I Will Not ‘Dignify’ The Question, ‘Trump
Is Completely Capable’
By Pam Key
7 Jan 2018
On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” CIA made about how we all think about the
Director Mike Pompeo battled host Chris Wallace over president are just ridiculous. They are frankly
allegations in Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury.” beneath the conversation this morning.”
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Suspected Leaker Adam Schiff Calls POTUS
Trump A “Seriously Flawed Human Being” (VIDEO)
January 7, 2018 By Cristina Laila
Sunday, January 7, 2018
VIDEO:
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Dershowitz: Dems’ Attempts To Have Trump Removed
Over ‘Mental Unfitness’ Like SOVIETS,
CHICOMS (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 7, 2018
Critics of the Democrat-led effort claim it is just the latest “He’s going to unravel, and we are seeing the
attempt to negate the November 2016 election results signs.”
As reported by The Gateway Pundit, Critics of the Democrat-led effort claim it is just the latest
attempt to negate the November 2016 election results after
“Democrat members of Congress are plotting failing to do so with allegations of Russian collusion and
with a group of psychiatrists led by Dr. Bandy X. election fraud.
Lee to conduct a medical coup to
remove…Trump from office, according to
interviews given this week by Lee.”
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Trump Announces He Will Be Presenting “Fake News
Awards” To The Most “Corrupt & Biased”
Mainstream Media Losers
By Cristina Laila
January 7, 2018
There is a huge college national championship football
President Trump will be presenting ‘Fake News game airing Monday evening so President Trump decided
Awards’ to the most corrupt and biased to push the ‘Fake News Awards’ back to Wednesday,
mainstream media losers on Wednesday. January 17th instead.
“I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST We can’t wait for the ‘Fake News Awards’!
& CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR
on Monday at 5:00 o’clock. Subjects will cover
Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various
categories from the Fake News Media. Stay
tuned!”
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Michael Wolff Claims His ‘Fire and Fury’
Will ‘End This Presidency’
By Joel B. Pollak
7 Jan 2018
Wolff added:
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Fake Non-Fiction Writer Michael Wolff Howls:
New Book Will ‘Finally Bring Down’ Trump Presidency
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 7, 2018
“It’s clear to anyone who knows me that those seems to present this presidency in such a way
aren’t my words” that it says he can’t do his job,” he said.
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Nancy Pelosi Comes Unglued After Stephen Miller Crushes
Jake Tapper – Calls Miller a “White Supremacist”
Who “Must Be Removed”
By Cristina Laila
January 7, 2018
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Steve Bannon Issues Statement: My Support Is
‘Unwavering’ For Trump And His Agenda
By Kristina Wong
7 Jan 2018
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CNN Crank Jake Tapper Gets ROASTED On Twitter
After Stephen Miller Takes Him To School
By Cristina Laila
January 7, 2018
President Trump tweeted, “Jake Tapper of Fake News The rest of Twitter piled on Jake Tapper and it was
CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen glorious.
Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and
unfairness of this CNN flunky!”
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Wikileaks Publishes Michael Wolff's
Entire Sold Out Trump Book As A PDF
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/07/2018 - 15:31
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BUSTED! Liberal CNN Hack
Ana Navarro Caught Editing Photo To
Trash POTUS Trump
By Jim Hoft
January 7, 2018
The original photo was discovered and
contains a woman.
Navarro edited out the woman in the photo to
attack Trump.
WOW!
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NBC Claims New FBI Probe Into Clinton
Foundation Is ‘Fake News,’ A ‘Political Sideshow’
By Nicholas Fondacaro
January 7, 2018 9:57 AM EST
“I mean, here you have Republican “For years, news media from The New
senators, including one, Lindsey York Times to The Daily Caller have
Graham, who's been a big critic of this reported countless stories on donations to
president when it comes to Russia, the Clinton Foundation or speech fees that
closely fell around the time of favorable
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decisions by Clinton's State Department,” NBC
they recalled. Sunday Today
January 7, 2018
So, clearly, the investigation into the Clinton Foundation 8:09:20 AM Eastern
was anything but “fake news” as NBC would have their
viewers believe. As for the senators requesting for the FBI (…)
to investigate Steele, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley
(Iowa) told the press that he wouldn’t have backed the MORGAN RADFORD: So, break something else down for us,
referral unless there was “credible evidence.” this real versus fake news. We've learned this week about
developing investigations into the Clinton Foundation and the
Transcript below: author of that controversial dossier, but is this a real investigation
or is that just a political sideshow?
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Upcoming OIG Report Likely To Trigger Second Special
Counsel; Comey, Lynch And Clinton In Crosshairs
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/07/2018 - 15:22
While most of the MSM fixated last week on whether or Moreover, the man heading up the OIG
not President Trump eats McDonald's in bed while investigation, Michael Horowitz, fought the
watching Gorilla TV, a flurry of investigative bombshells Obama Administration to regain
involving Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and investigative powers which were restricted
conduct by the FBI's top brass during the 2016 election by former Attorney General Eric Holder
splashed across the headlines. As a quick review: during the Fast and Furious scandal.
The DOJ is "taking a fresh look" into the Hillary As you will read below,
Clinton email 'matter'
The FBI has launched a new investigation into this highly anticipated report is likely to be
the Clinton Foundation the day after the Clinton's the legal impetus behind a second Special
Chappaqua property catches fire Counsel –
Former FBI Director James Comey's full Clinton memo
was released, revealing felony evidence of changes as detailed by an independent researcher from New York
which "decriminalized" Hillary Clinton's behavior. Oh, who goes by the Twitter
and every one of the memos he leaked to his handle "TrumpSoldier" (@DaveNYviii). His reporting,
Cornell professor buddy was classified, per a sworn conveyed below, is a deep dig into the
statement by the FBI's "chief FOIA officer" in a sworn OIG's ongoing investigation, how Congress and the OIG
declaration obtained by Judicial Watch. have worked in tandem to pave the way for a Special
The House Intelligence Committee will be granted Counsel, and how Michael Horowitz went to war with
access to "all remaining investigative documents," the Obama Administration to restore the OIG's
unredacted, along with all witnesses sought per powers.
a deal reached between Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein and Nunes Who is Michael Horowitz?
Opposition research firm Fusion GPS was forced to
hand over banking records detailing various clients
and their intermediary law firms, including the Clinton
Campaign and a Russian money launderer whose
lawyer was none other than Natalia Veselnitskaya of
Trump Tower meeting fame
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Courtesy @DaveNYviii
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And now, the OIG report can tie all of this
together –
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Meanwhile, recent events appear to
Once congress has reviewed the OIG report, correspond with bullet points in both the
the House and Senate Judiciary Committees original OIG investigation letter and the
will use it to supplement their 7/27/2017 letter forwarded to the Inspector
investigations, General:
And while the DOJ could act on the OIG report and
investigate / prosecute themselves without a Special
Counsel, it is highly unlikely that Congress would stand
for that given the subjects of the investigation.
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With the wheels set in motion last week seemingly
align with Congressional requests and the OIG mandate,
and the upcoming OIG report likely to serve as a
foundational opinion, the DOJ will finally be empowered
to move forward with an impartially appointed Special
Counsel with a mandate to investigate whether or not we
should "lock her up" (along with members of her motley
crew). Maybe that's why Sessions has been sitting on his
hands?
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Trump Aide Stephen Miller Rips Wolff Book As
‘Grotesque Work Of Fiction’
By Pam Key
7 Jan 2018
Miller said,
Miller said,
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WH Press Sec: Dems Warned Of
Economic ‘Armageddon,’ ‘Total Opposite’ Happened
Dems Still Won’t Acknowledge Economic Boom Under Trump
Infowars.Com - January 7, 2018
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Democrats’ Desperate Ploy To Unseat President Trump
Over “Mental Health” False Diagnosis Will Push
America To Bloody Civil War
By: Mike Adams
Sunday, January 07, 2018
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Left’s radicalized definitions of “equality” and “social This demented, deranged hatred, racism and intolerance is
justice” and “fairness.” not practiced by President Trump; it’s practiced daily by
the insane Left in America, which has already crossed the
Yes, to the Left, murder of Whites is now fully justified. tipping point of unbridled delusion.
Even farmers’ markets are now being attacked and derided
by the Left as racist activities attended by too many To Leftists, you see, all conservatives are, by
Whites. Demonstrating the height of insanity that now definition, mentally ill, which means no
seems commonplace among deranged Leftists, a Drexel conservative is ever fit for office.
University professor openly espoused “white genocide” for
Christmas, effectively urging his readers to consider the These same Leftists can never recognize their own mass
mass murder of White people solely based on the color of mental illness for the simple reason that it’s shared by all
their skin. the people around them. So their insanity seems
“normalized” as long as they’re at a radicalized California
university campus, for example, or being spoon-fed a daily
dose of lies and delusions by Rachel Maddow or Steven
Colbert.
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Imagine a million armed patriots marching on Washington
D.C. and finally arresting half the U.S. Senate, Robert
Mueller, James Comey, Loretta Lynch and anyone else
they can locate. Imagine real justice (via public trials)
finally being served in this nation as members of the deep
state are held to account for their treason and criminal acts
which have repeatedly sought to overthrow the rule of law.
Also imagine every communist, terrorist or Antifa
sympathizer (such as DNC deputy chair Keith Ellison)
currently serving in the U.S. Senate and House being
arrested, outed and held for public trial. That’s one
scenario that could unfold if the Left tries to depose
President Trump via its insane “mental health” tactic. There is an actual left-wing communist plot
in Washington D.C. to overthrow America
Such a move would, of course, set off a nationwide civil and install a totalitarian left-wing regime
war. Imagine the chaos in the streets if the Left succeeds in
their demented political coup in Washington, stripping The Left is lawless.
Trump of his power while simultaneously giving the finger
It is deranged.
to the tens of millions of voters who put Trump into office.
The Left now believes that “the ends justify the means,”
If the violent Left were to succeed in removing a sitting
which is why they have sacrificed all credibility in
President from office due to a fictitious, bogus reason
mainstream journalism in a desperate attempt to
rooted in the quack science of “psychiatry,” the tens of
unseat Trump and seize control of the White House.
millions of Second Amendment followers across America
— whom this country’s Founding Fathers directed to act as The Left will try anything — including junk science
the nation’s “immune system” against tyranny — will psychiatry — to unseat the President who was elected
realize there is no option remaining other than to fight by the American people.
to defend America. Elections, you see, are the non-violent
way to decide who runs a nation. But the Left, we now As the editor of this website, I am not yet calling for a
know, despises election outcomes they don’t win. And Second Amendment activation across America. But should
they attempt to de-legitimize them in every way the Left kidnap President Trump and lock him in a mental
imaginable, effectively nullifying the very idea that they institution as part of an illegal attempt to overthrow this
respect elections at all. The only elections the Left nation,
respects, it turns out, are the elections they win. All other
elections must be overthrown, according to Leftist I would at that point issue an urgent call for
ideology. all citizens to immediately defend this nation
against the attempted communist coup
Should the Left succeed in throwing out the results of the under way.
2016 presidential election, all the restraint currently
practiced by armed Americans will likely be lifted. Let us hope it doesn’t come to that, but if the deranged
Left keeps pushing us toward civil war, that’s exactly what
It will become apparent to gun-owning patriots they will eventually get for the simple reason that there is
that their country is now being stolen from no circumstance under which mainstream America is
them, and they must take up arms to defend going to allow their President to be deposed by a band of
America, its Constitution and the rule of law. insane, deranged, left-wing lunatics who despise
everything America stands for.
That’s my prediction of what may happen, although I hope
it never comes to that. Here are some websites we publish that can help you
prepare for this possibility, should the deranged Left
continue to push for civil war:
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gun rights and the Second Amendment.
You can also watch this lecture by the film creator Trevor
Get informed now, and be ready to join the Loudon:
defend of your nation as the enemies within
attempt to overthrow this nation and
exterminate Whites, Christians and
conservatives at gunpoint.
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Official US Army Account
"Likes" Trump-Mocking Tweet
By Tyler Durden
Sun, 01/07/2018 - 14:55
Following President Trump's tirade yesterday, the "As soon as it was brought to our attention,
twitterati took to their smartphones to mock the man in it was immediately corrected."
The Oval Office. One such 'celebrity' was actress Mindy
Kaling who laughed "hahahahahaha" adding a meme of Additionally, as The Hill notes,
her apparent "smartness."
controversial tweets from companies,
lawmakers and even branches of the
government have gained viral attention over
the last year.
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Van Jones: It Would Be ‘Global Emergency’ If
50% Of People Around Any Other President
Thought He Was Unstable [VIDEO]
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
8:29 PM 01/07/2018
CNN commentator Van Jones said Sunday that it would be Jones, appearing on, “State of the Union With Jake
a “global emergency” if 50 percent of people around any Tapper” said,
other president thought he was unstable, alluding to
questions about President Trump’s mental health. “Can I say something about the unfitness
question though? Because, listen, it’s not 100%.
WATCH: But in any other situation, if 50 percent of the
people around a president were concerned that
he was not fit to do the job, that would be a
global emergency. I think sometimes we just
adapt to the absurdity here.”
He added,
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White House Aide Miller
Booted From CNN Tapper Interview
By Rick Moran
January 7, 2018
For 12 1/2 minutes, Tapper and Miller engaged in single “Not only do I think they help it, but I think in the
combat with Tapper trying to get Miller to answer toxic environment you’ve created here in CNN
questions about the book Fire and Fury while Miller and cable news, which is a crisis of legitimacy
excoriated CNN for its hateful, biased coverage of the for your network, and we saw it, of course, with
president. the extremely fake news that you reported
about the Don Jr. and Wikileaks story. That was
The Daily Caller: a huge embarrassment for your network. Just
like the huge embarrassment you had when you
got the Comey testimony wrong.”
After Tapper asked about Steve Bannon’s
involvement in the Trump campaign and
Ouch.
presidency, Miller said,
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Pompeo Rejects Notion
Of ‘Deep State’ At CIA
By Olivia Beavers
01/07/18 12:44 Pm Est
"Has there ever been one?" Dickerson asked. Trump has repeatedly claimed that there is a "deep state"
throughout the government working against him.
"Sir, I've only been there for a little while. I can’t
believe that it's ever been there. These are
professionals who sacrifice so much to serve
.
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Conservative Demolishes Former Hillary Clinton Staffer
On CNN Over Clinton Foundation [VIDEO]
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
7:43 PM 01/06/2018
Conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings brought the and I believe that Jeff Sessions, in an effort to
facts to CNN commentator and former Clinton campaign save his own job has now complied with the
staffer Patti Solis Doyle over an investigation into the President’s wishes. We have been through a
Clinton Foundation Saturday. vigorous FBI investigation of Secretary Clinton’s
e-mails. The FBI also looked into the Clinton
WATCH: Foundation and found that there was not
enough ‘there there’ to pursue any kind of
investigation. And now, lo and behold, because
the president has been tweeting about it, they
are now taking it up.”
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Washington Post Reporter Slaps
Down Wolff's False Claim About Him
By P.J. Gladnick
January 7, 2018 3:23 PM EST
Even many reporters from liberal publications are And I was confused because as I told my
questioning the veracity of Michael Wolff's book of colleague not only was I not at this
gossip, Fire and Fury. The latest such person who reveals breakfast but I was never at the Four
just how laughable the vetting process of Wolff's book was Seasons in DC.
is Mark Berman, a reporter at the Washington Post. Wolff
placed Berman among others attending a breakfast at the WHITFIELD: Okay and then you read the excerpt or it
Four Seasons restaurant with Ivanka Trump. It turns out was brought to your attention. What was your initial
that Berman was most definitely not there and he had a reaction?
very good reason for not attending as he revealed to anchor
Fredricka Whitfield on CNN Newsroom on Saturday. BERMAN: I was a little befuddled, I'm not going to lie.
We spent a few minutes in the newsroom trying to figure
out who it could have been. We debated well it could have
been another reporter named Mark from the Post, we have
another one. We weren't sure for a little while. After I
tweeted a screen shot of this section of the book listing me,
Alex Burns from the New York Times, he suggested that
maybe it was Mike Berman, a lobbyist, a very well-known
lobbyist in D.C. And I e-mailed him and he confirmed he
was there that day.
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Now back to Berman's interview revealing yet more errors what is about to be printed is right. You
in Wollf's book. have editors and everybody else who look
at the copy, too. So what is your instinct tell
WHITFIELD: Interesting, and then one of you about this kind of error in a book that’s
the other things you knew kind of getting this kind of attention and how that
eliminated the possibility that it was you potentially impacts everything else that you
was because do I understand that you might read in the book?
had someone who was born that day, BERMAN: Well, I mean, obviously it
like your child, so maybe you couldn’t speaks to the fact that at least some
have been there? things apparently got through this
process without being vetted fully. You
BERMAN: That also came to my attention. There was a know, once I tweeted a screen shot of this
Politico story that was actually written about that breakfast one paragraph of the book, other people
a few days later and the Politico story mentioned a number pointed out there were two other errors in
of the people who were there. It mentioned Ivanka, it the same paragraph. Wilbur Ross is
mentioned representative Pelosi and so I looked at the date mentioned as being the nominee to lead
of that and I thought that’s weird, the Labor Department. He was actually
nominated and is now the head of the
the Friday before that would have been Commerce Department. And Hilary Rosen
the very same morning that my second is mentioned and her name is misspelled.
daughter was born. So I don’t think I A couple of these little errors, they raise
was at the Four Seasons that day. questions about the level of fact checking
and editing. At the same time, I have not
read the full book and I do not cover the
Yeah, so Mark Berman had a pretty good reason to
white House but a number of political
remember the day Wolff incorrectly placed him at a Four
reporters and people who do and who have
Seasons breakfast.
said there are parts of the book that ring
and parts that ring false.
Finally some commentary from Berman on Wolff's
horrible vetting process: So three errors just in one of the Wolff's
analyzed paragraphs. How many more
must there be? Mix a few facts with a lot of
WHITFIELD: We’re laughing about it now
fiction and you have a book designed to
but it is kind of serious because particularly
temporarily fulfill the desperate cravings of
in our business of journalism and Michael
anti-Trump liberals resulting in high sales to
Wolff also professes to be a journalist and
those emotionally needy folks. In such a
writer and author of a book, accuracy and
business plan facts are just a sideshow so
detail is so important. You double, triple,
why bother with the effort of intensive
quadruple check things. And when you’re
vetting since it might remove the juiciest
talking about quoting somebody or placing
gossip from the book and hurt sales.
someone in a place, we all as journalists go
through great lengths to make sure that Ka-CHING!
.
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Nikki Haley Defends Trump's
Mental Stability By Pointing To First Year
Accomplishments
By Kyle Feldscher
Jan 7, 2018, 10:53 AM
Haley said on ABC’s “This Week” those critics who say On CNN, White House aide Stephen Miller said Trump is
Trump is mentally unstable, such as those who spoke with
actually a genius, just as he tweeted on Saturday.
the author of the White House tell-all book Fire and Fury:
Inside the Trump White House, by pointing to their
silence when Trump made progress on some goals during “It reads like an angry, vindictive person
the first year of his presidency. spouting off to a highly discredible author. The
book is best understood as a work of very
poorly written fiction. And I also will say that the
“As much as everyone wants to talk about author is a garbage author of a garbage book,”
stability, was he unstable when he passed tax Miller said.
reform? Was he unstable when we finally hit
back at Syria and said no more chemical
weapons?” she said.
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Tapper Cuts Off Bizarre Shouting
Match Interview With Trump Adviser:
‘I’ve Wasted Enough Of My Viewers’ Time’
Trump Tweets Approval: Tapper 'Got Destroyed'
BY: David Rutz
January 7, 2018 9:42 Am
CNN host Jake Tapper cut off a bizarre and fiery interview
Sunday with White House adviser Stephen Miller about
President Donald Trump's mental acuity, CNN's coverage
of the administration and the truthfulness of Michael
Wolff's explosive new book.
Tapper replied he had no idea why Miller was going hard
It was clear from the outset Miller was there to do battle after CNN, and the two men repeatedly spoke over one
for the president. another.
Miller quickly lit into Fire and Fury: Inside Trump's White Miller said CNN did "24 hours of negative anti-
House and blasted former White House strategist Steve Trump hysterical coverage" that led to false
Bannon, saying his critical comments about the reporting.
administration in Wolff's book were "grotesque."
"I think the viewers right now can ascertain who
"The book is best understood as a work of very is being hysterical," Tapper said.
poorly written fiction," Miller said, going on to
call Wolff a "garbage author."
At one point, Tapper told Miller to "settle down."
The book's characterization of Trump as a petulant child,
Miller said, was false and vindictive, and he made a point The host tried to shift the conversation back to Bannon and
of calling Trump a "political genius." Trump's recent claim that his role in the campaign and
administration had been overstated. Tapper pointed to his
influence on various key issues like immigration, but
Miller also blasted CNN's coverage of the book, saying it Miller stood firm.
gave the network "joy to stick the knife in."
Once Tapper asked Miller about Trump's recent tweets
When Miller again lavishly praised Trump as a genius and calling himself a "very stable genius," Miller again pivoted
successful businessman, Tapper quipped that to blasting CNN and the "toxic environment" it had created
with its hostile coverage.
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Tapper seemed to lose patience as Miller blasted the "Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN
"extremely fake news" put out by CNN. flunky!" he wrote.
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Bannon Apologizes
For Anti-Trump Comments In Wolff Book
‘Fire And Fury’ Book Had Prompted President Trump
To Denounce Bannon
Axios
January 7, 2018
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CNN’s Stelter Glorifies Media For Finally Drawing
Attention Trump’s Mental Problems
By Nicholas Fondacaro
January 7, 2018 4:57 PM EST
Bernstein was perplexed by the mystery of how BRIAN STELTER: But let's begin with the top story this weekend.
“journalists” like himself should go about reporting on the
President’s insanity. The CNN analyst had a sudden and The tip-toeing is over. The whispers are
miraculous respect for the reporters at Fox News and turning into shouts. President Trump's
claimed they were the only ones who really had a chance fitness for office is now the top story in the
to get the truth out. What made their praise even more country. Reporters and some lawmakers are
vexing was that Stelter and Bernstein have spent a lot of openly talking about the President's mental
airtime denouncing Fox News reporters for being stability, his health, his competency.
propagandists for Trump.
Now partly, that is because of this new Michael Wolff book.
[Holds up book] You know, Wolff claims that White House aides
are united in the belief that Trump is incapable of being
president. He backs this up several different ways. Including by
quoting Steve Bannon, saying things like: "Trump has lost it" and
"He's lost his stuff."
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Voters Drafted A Reluctant Trump
Because They Hated Hillary That Much
By Ted Rall
January 8, 2018
I’ve been saying, for over a year, that Donald Trump is a If Wolff and Bannon are to be believed — and so far, there
dog who caught a car: he wanted to run for president, not is no reason not to — Trump didn’t want the job. His team
be president. wanted him to lose. “Once he lost, Trump would be both
insanely famous and a martyr to Crooked Hillary,” Wolff
Looks like my theory is confirmed. writes. “His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared would
be international celebrities. Steve Bannon would become
the de facto head of the tea-party movement. Kellyanne
“Shortly after 8 p.m. on Election Night,
Conway would be a cable-news star. Melania Trump, who
when the unexpected trend — Trump might
had been assured by her husband that he wouldn’t become
actually win — seemed confirmed, Don Jr.
president, could return to inconspicuously lunching.
told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he
Losing would work out for everybody. Losing was
calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost.
Melania was in tears — and not of joy,” winning.”
writes Michael Wolff in an excerpt from his
book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump Wanting to lose explains Trump’s refusal to contribute to
White House. There was, in the space of his own run. It explains his barebones campaign, with its
little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon’s weird lack of field offices, his sleepy national HQ and his
not unamused observation, a befuddled cheapskate approach to TV ads. The dude ran for president
Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump yet refused to spend the night in a hotel room.
and then into a horrified Trump.”
As Hillary Clinton might ask: What happened?
Clearly, Trump has pivoted.
The voters insisted upon Trump.
The celebrity real estate magnate has stopped worrying.
Long forgotten are his reluctant move to D.C., his fantasies It’s difficult for Democrats to hear, but it’s true.
of governing from his brass-trimmed Manhattan aerie. He
has learned to love love love the bully pulpit. The Republicans voted for Trump because Republican voters
presidency even comes with the ultimate Christmas gift for always vote Republican. But it was the swing voters who
the megalomaniacal narcissist in your life: the power of put him over the top. They voted for Trump despite his
life and death over humans, animals and plants! crazy rhetoric, his violent rallies and his incoherent
promises. They were determined to howl their ballotbox
Wolff’s revelation by way of Steve Bannon is worth cris de coeur. After decades of NAFTA and outsourcing
reflecting upon for two reasons. and Rust Beltification and H1-B visas for foreigners while
American tech workers can’t find work, they demanded to
First is another first. be heard. They did that by voting for Trump.
Trump may be America’s first certifiably insane president. Trump isn’t merely devoted to his base. He is beholden to
He is probably the most ignorant — and we’ve had some them. They put him in the White House even though he
doozies. He is certainly the first without any political or didn’t want to go.
high-level military experience whatsoever. What we now
know is at least as remarkable as those bulletpoints: Trump The second takeaway here is that Hillary was an even
is effectively the first president drafted into the position. worse candidate than her biggest detractors (cough cough)
believed. Ruminate on this: she lost to a man who tried to
Vice presidents have been elevated to the Oval Office lose.
unexpectedly. But the possibility of winding up behind the
big desk was always on their minds. They were political A man with no experience.
creatures.
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With no campaign. neoliberal BS was discredited at the polls yet the party
bosses and Dem-aligned media outlets keep shoving it
A nut. down voters’ throats. Because progressivism and socialism
are more popular but can’t get any air until a big sharp
stake is driven through the undead heart of soulless
You may be asking yourself here, why keep bashing
centrism once and for all (I’m looking at you, Tim Kaine
Hillary? Why not leave her alone and move on?
and Kamala Harris.)
Because Clinton won’t leave us alone. Because
So think on that a while. Hillary Clinton was so sucky that
Clintonism, centrism, Third Wayism, DLCism are still
she lost to the suckiest, stupidest, losingest candidate
running the Democratic Party. Because her corporate
anyone ever dreamed of.
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Bannon Releases FULL STATEMENT After ‘Fire And
Fury’ Debacle: Defends DON Jr.; FULLY Backs Trump
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 8, 2018
Bannon had come under fire from the president and his son
over comments he allegedly made to Wolff for his new
book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”
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involving former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Don everyone knows Donald Trump Jr. is a
Jr., and Kushner. patriot.
“The statement was clear, not too soft and
“This was a smart move for Steve keeps Steve Bannon in place as a top
Bannon,” The Gateway Pundit noted. voice for the #MAGA movement,” the site
“Everyone knew the comments in ‘Fire and noted further.
Fury’ were taken out of context. And
.
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Rush Limbaugh's Memo To The Media:
Trump Is Not The Dangerous Nut
By Tim Graham
January 8, 2018 6:37 AM EST
On his Friday show, Rush Limbaugh responded to the And if they’re not smart in the way these people think
brouhaha over Michael Wolff’s over-the-top book they’re smart, then of course we get what we’re getting
claiming everyone who works for President Trump knows today. This is absurd, folks! Michael Wolff’s book:
he’s mentally unfit for office. Limbaugh said the American Everybody who knows Donald Trump thinks that he is
people ought to compare Trump to Barack Obama and ask unfit, 100 percent think Donald Trump is a moron and
which president truly seemed insane in what he was doing describe him as a child, 100 percent of the people around
in office. Trump say he’s lost his mind?
Limbaugh suggested the Washington-New York And this from an author who admits he’s not sure
intelligentsia just cannot grasp someone who doesn’t everything in his book is true and who admits that he said
observe their norms, can’t imagine that Trump is whatever he had to say to get his story, which he admits is
demonstrating any smarts: not all true.
Is what Barack Hussein Obama did [HT: Tim Hains, Real Clear Politics]
smart? No! It’s stupid! It’s dangerous,
and it’s idiotic.
..
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Trey Gowdy RIPS Suspected LEAKER Adam Schiff Over
Outrageous Claim Of Trump-Russia Collusion (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 8, 2018
“You can’t have confidence” in the findings “The ranking Democrat on the House Intel
of the ongoing House Intelligence Committee (Schiff) had evidence of
Committee “investigation when the ranking collusion before we interviewed our very
Democrat prejudges it” first witness!” Gowdy continued.
“Almost 60 Democrats voted to move
forward with impeachment. Already!”
Gowdy said incredulously.
“Before Bob Mueller’s released a single
finding, before the House Intelligence or
Senate Intelligence Committees have
released a single, solitary finding, almost
60 House Democrats think the president
ought to be removed from office and Adam
(National Sentinel) Hot Under The Collar: On Sunday, Schiff says he has evidence of collusion,”
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., tore into House Intelligence Gowdy said as Maria Bartiromo shook her
Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., head.
during an appearance on Fox News, heavily criticizing the
process of the committee’s ongoing probe into suspected Gowdy went on, pointing out that there are still several
“collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russia. witnesses who need to be interviewed to which Bartiromo
replied,
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo, Gowdy said that
Schiff, who is also under suspicion for leaking details of “That is infuriating”.
the committee’s proceedings, has made several “Well, it’s only infuriating if you have high
unsubstantiated claims regarding the collusion narrative in expectations,” Gowdy replied.
order to help his bid for the U.S. Senate.
The South Carolina Republican then hit Schiff for
“How long is this going to go on? Because grandstanding ahead of an expected bid for Sen. Dianne
we still haven’t had any evidence of any Feinstein amid rumors she may not run for reelection.
collusion,” Bartiromo said.
“When is it appropriate for [special counsel] Schiff has continued to claim that there is evidence of
Bob Mueller to come out and say, yes, collusion between President Donald J. Trump’s 2016
definitively there’s no collusion here, but campaign and the Russian government, but so far no
what I have uncovered is collusion at the evidence has been produced to support the allegation
top of the FBI between FBI leadership and despite more than a year’s worth of investigating by the
Hillary Clinton?” she pressed. FBI, Justice Department, and several congressional
committees.
At that, Gowdy ripped Schiff.
When he has been pressured to cite the evidence, Schiff
“Well Maria some of my Democratic falls back on allegations that have already been vetted
colleagues, namely Adam Schiff, said he publicly, critics note.
had evidence, more than circumstantial
evidence of collusion, before the “You can’t have confidence” in the findings
investigation even began so keep that in of the ongoing House Intelligence
mind,” Gowdy said. Committee “investigation when the ranking
Democrat prejudges it before we’ve
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interviewed your very first witness,” an
exasperated Gowdy said, in reference to
Schiff.
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Nolte: Jake Tapper’s Mask Slips
As He Hurls Childish Insults At Stephen Miller
By John Nolte
8 Jan 2018
“For those angry at @JakeTapper for Nevertheless, Tapper does press Schiff on a couple of
cutting off Stephen Miller … watch his awkward questions. It must also be acknowledged that
aggressive interview today of the always Schiff is not at all combative — but has no real need to be
slippery @RepAdamSchiff,” Greenwald when interview by someone on the same side — whereas
said, adding, “He treats everyone Miller swung into the studio on a vine gripping a knife
equally[.]” between his teeth — God bless him.
For those angry at @JakeTapper for
cutting off Stephen Miller (who was But even if you grant Greenwald all of his points, there is
incredibly obnoxious & refused to abide by one very clear difference between Tapper’s Schiff
basic protocol of letting others talk), watch interview and the Miller interview, and that is Tapper’s
his aggressive interview today of the relentless stream of hostile, deeply personal, objectively
always slippery @RepAdamSchiff. He unprofessional insults — behavior that would not only
treats everyone equally result in a third-grader banging erasers after school (is my
https://t.co/nf4ZfKiY1N age showing?), but is way outside the norms of what we
expect from those who pose as objective journalists.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)
January 7, 2018
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Here is a sampling of Tapper’s unrelenting cheap shots Obviously angry and over-matched, even as Miller was
against Miller: talking, Tapper abruptly ended the interview with…
…”I’m sure [Trump’s] watching and he’s “I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’
happy that you said that.” time.”
…”I think the viewers right now can
ascertain who’s hysterical.” While Ann Coulter is correct that it was actually Tapper
who was playing to an audience of one — his Svengali Jeff
…”because it’s my show and I don’t want to Zucker — hats off to Miller, who brilliantly pressured
do that.” Tapper to a point where the mask slipped more than just a
…”Stephen, Stephen, Stephen, settle little.
down, settle down, settle down.”
As we saw on Election Night, when the pressure is on,
As Miller continued to get the best of him, Tapper Tapper reveals his true left-wing self, and it is never pretty:
retreated to where he frequently retreats when rattled:
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The Russia Thing
By Andrew Day
January 8, 2018
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levels of politics, but in many ways it is weak. If the resistance need not make its political fortunes dependent
Democratic Party is remotely competent, it should be able on the findings of an unpredictable investigation, nor on
to take power easily in this environment. But competence the claims of hyperventilating reporters.
requires keeping it together under pressure.
We must wait to see what Mueller’s team comes up with.
In 2016, the Democrats lost to the guy from The In the meantime, Democrats should present a bold,
Apprentice. To the extent that the collusion narrative progressive vision to the American people that addresses
displaces blame for that embarrassment to a foreign the working class’s material concerns and offers an
adversary, it also inhibits the left’s ability to correct past optimistic alternative to the GOP’s dark politics.
mistakes and seize present opportunities. Fortunately, the
.
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Trump: ‘I Hope’ Gary Cohn Will Stay In My
Administration ‘For A Long Time’
By Charlie Spiering
8 Jan 2018
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ABC Legal Analyst: Ousting Trump
Through 25th Amendment A ‘Liberal Pipe Dream’
By Kristine Marsh
January 8, 2018 12:14 PM EST
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Sorry Democrats=> At Least 18 Presidents Suffered From
Mental Disorders And Were Not Removed From Office
By Jim Hoft
Monday, January 8, 2018
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Sorry Democrats.
You can’t impeach President Trump for
mean tweets or a dishonest book by a
liberal author.
Isn’t it time to join the #MAGA
movement?
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Wolff: 100% Of The People Closest To Trump
Think There’s ‘Something Fundamentally Wrong’
With Him That ‘Scares Them’
By Ian Hanchett
8 Jan 2018
Wolff said,
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Former Secret Service Agent: Trump Dossier
May Be The ‘Insurance Policy’ To Cover Up Illegal Spying
On Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
Monday, January 8, 2018
Bonjino stated –
Fox News asked in a report “Why did I think America needs to prepare itself for
Strzok need an insurance policy against the idea that this entire thing was a sting
Trump?” According to one expert we against the Trump team the entire time and
may soon find out that the insurance that the dossier was just cover for it.”
policy was the dossier that was needed
to cover up illegally spying on Trump
should Hillary not win the election.
“In case Trump wins, we need an The DNC, Obama, the Clintons, Obama’s
insurance policy against him”. FBI and DOJ, the Mueller Investigation
are all corrupt and criminal
Reportedly because of his bias, Mueller removed Strzok organizations.
from the investigation.
Let’s hope that good people in our
But Mueller never reported this to government stand up and bring these
Congress for months, and his entire criminals to justice.
.
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Fire And Fury Is A Last Gasp
Of The Dying Anti-Trump Movement
Latest Attack From The Left Is Another Failure
Jon Bowne | Infowars.Com
January 8, 2018
Alex delves into the latest fraud to come from the left, Michael Wolff’s attempt to pull the wool over the public’s eyes
with questionable source material and a character assassination of President Trump.
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Insanity! Michael Wolff Claims
I 'Have No Political Agenda’
By Scott Whitlock
January 8, 2018 8:30 AM EST
Liberal journalist Michael Wolff, the man who has “will finally end this – that will end this
bragged that his new book will “finally bring down” the presidency” and that, “It’s not ideal that
Trump presidency, on Monday absurdly insisted that he [Trump] is in the White House.” This is in
has “no political agenda.” To which CBS This Morning addition to touting calls that the President is
co-host Norah O’Donnell responded, “a moron.”
This came seconds after Wolff mocked Trump as stupid: A transcript is below:
1/8/18
7:10am ET
“But you have written it's worse than MICHAEL WOLFF: Good morning. Thank you for having me.
anybody thought, that he's mentally
unstable, that he's an idiot.”
O’DONNELL: A lot has happened since details of your book
came out.
Wolff disassembled and spun, saying:
WOLFF: To say the least.
I didn't say -- I did not say he's mentally
unstable. I would not be qualified to do this.
I would say I have merely described and O’DONNELL: The President came out ---
mostly not my impressions, the To say the least. The President in
impressions of other people of the people response has felt the need to describe
he deals with on a daily basis. himself as a stable genius. Based on
your reporting, are there people in the
White House talking about trying to
Wolff really just needs to pick a narrative and stick with it. remove him from office?
He bragged to NPR that his book would
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WOLFF: They are not talking about trying to remove him from WOLFF: Right. She was a fashion P.R. person and then she was
office. They are wondering what’s going to --- The people in the second to the campaign and she became very close to the
White House are like everyone else in the country. What’s going candidate and then very close to the President of the United
to happen here? We don’t know from day to day. This is for them, States. And now for all intent and purposes, she is the
as for everyone, an extraordinary experience, and I think that President's most senior adviser.
they certainly question what's going to happen here, like
everybody else. There are many moments in which the 25th O’DONNELL: Did you speak with any members of the
Amendment has come up, the 25th Amendment which gives the President's cabinet about this book?
cabinet the ability to remove the President. And they don't say ---
they don’t say the cabinet is going to remove the president, but
WOLFF: Did not.
they do say things like, “This is a little 25th Amendment-y here.”
O’DONNELL: You did not.
O’DONNELL: Well, it's interesting.
Because you say that Bannon was
going around the White House saying WOLFF: I did not.
there was a 33 percent chance the
President would be impeached, a 33% O’DONNELL: And did you speak with the vice president?
chance that he would resign under
threat of the 25th Amendment. Correct? WOLFF: I did not.
WOLFF: Correct. And a 33 and a third
chance he would limp to the finish line, O’DONNELL: When was the last time you spoke with the
but a zero percent chance he would President about this book.
have another term.
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Democrats Respond To Trump Tower Fire
– Disappointed President Trump Wasn’t Killed (Tweets)
By Cassandra Fairbanks
Monday, January 8, 2018
Following a fire on the roof of Trump Tower in New York Many stated that they hoped people would get out, but that
City on Monday morning, Democrats responded exactly as their homes and belongings would burn to the ground —
you would expect them to — by expressing essentially because they don’t like their landlord.
disappointment that our president isn’t dead.
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The fire was contained by 7:30 a.m. and did not enter the
interior of the building — thanks to the quick response
from over 126 firefighters who arrived at the scene.
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Trump To Counterattack Deep State In 2018
Infowars.Com’s Dr. Corsi Is Working With
8chan Moderators On Qanon Posts
Infowars.Com
January 8, 2018
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Harvard Professor Compares Trump Mental Fitness
Questions To Communist Russia Tactics [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media Reporter
12:16 PM 01/08/2018
WATCH:
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NBC's Chuck Todd: Wolff’s Book
‘Reinforces’ Anti-Trump Narrative From ‘Entire Media’
By Nicholas Fondacaro
January 8, 2018 11:30 PM EST
“You thought that the media was too Despite his loaded comments, Wolff continued to maintain
one-sided or that was the impression that he
you were giving. I have to say, when you
read this book, you almost seem to “went into this with absolutely no
reinforce the entire media narrative you agenda whatsoever. I have no particular
were criticizing,” Todd said after reading politics when it comes to Donald Trump.
something Wolff wrote in 2017 that was This is really all about human nature.”
critical of the media’s unfair coverage of
Trump.
During his interview, Todd neglected to grill Wolff about
“You know, I think that in the beginning, the an inflammatory comment he made on BBC Radio on
media took this point of view without having Saturday where Wolff claimed his book would
had this experience,” Wolff explained. “You
know, I went into this, a decent part of the “finally end … this presidency.”
country went into this, his entire staff went
into this thinking maybe this can work.” But
according to him, their wishful thinking was Yet Todd did go to that BBC interview for inspiration for
for naught. “Okay, that’s not the story. He another question regarding when Trump’s administration
is not going to succeed. This is worse would inevitably fall apart.
than everybody thought,” he declared in
a serious tone. “One final question. You said something
in a BBC interview: that you thought
“It’s that bad. I mean, it's an this presidency was going to hit a wall.
extraordinary moment in time. And the What did that mean? Hit a wall by 2020
last several days focused on my book I or before then,” Todd wondered.
think are proof of this,” Wolff claimed. “I
think not an exaggeration and not
unreasonable. It's not unreasonable to Wolff didn’t know when the administration would hit the
say this is 25th Amendment kind of wall but he asserted that it was the ultimate train wreck
everyone was looking out for:
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Um, I think - I don’t know when the train is going to Here’s something you wrote in 2017, in January, so: "To the
finally hit the wall. I think the entire narrative of this media, it is a given that Trump is largely out of control and that
presidency and this candidacy and then presidency has the people around him are struggling at all times to save him
been it’s going to hit a wall. And the thing that keeps from himself--and largely failing. This view persists … despite
everybody’s attention absolutely riveted - this global Trump's victory flattening almost every media assumption about
attention - is that the train keeps going, but the wall is still his supposed haplessness and lack of strategy."
there. I mean one of the things, I think, about this book and
why it’s hit such a chord and become this cultural moment And you were just- you thought that the
is it’s given everybody this focused opportunity to say, media was too one-sided or that was the
“Holy crap.” impression you were giving. I have to
say, when you read this book, you
And Wolff claims he doesn’t have a political agenda. almost seem to reinforce the entire
Yeah, sure. media narrative you were criticizing.
WOLFF: You know, I think that in the
Relevant portions of the transcript below: beginning, the media took this point of
view without having had this
experience. You know, I went into this, a
decent part of the country went into
this, his entire staff went into this
thinking maybe this can work.
It’s different, even peculiar, but who knows what can happen
here. And that was exactly my, my frame of reference. I would
have been delighted to have written a contrarian account here.
Donald Trump, this unexpected president, is actually going to
succeed.
(…)
CHUCK TODD: All right. Let me just start with this. You talk
about “fly on the wall” access. Explain to me what that was like.
Walk me through how you were a fly on the wall in the West
Wing.
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WOLFF: All the time. TODD: One final question. You said
something in a BBC interview: that you
TODD: 25th Amendment? They would bring up the 25th thought this presidency was going to hit
Amendment? a wall. What did that mean? Hit a wall by
2020 or before then?
WOLFF: Yes, actually, they would say, WOLFF: Um, I think - I don’t know when
sort of in the mid-period, “We’re not at a the train is going to finally hit the wall. I
25th Amendment level yet.” Or they think the entire narrative of this
would- presidency and this candidacy and then
presidency has been it’s going to hit a
TODD: That’s alarming. wall. And the thing that keeps
everybody’s attention absolutely riveted
- this global attention - is that the train
WOLFF: This is alarming in every way.
keeps going, but the wall is still there. I
And then this went on, “Okay, this is a
mean one of the things, I think, about
little 25th Amendment.” So the 25th
this book and why it’s hit such a chord
Amendment is a concept that is alive
and become this cultural moment is it’s
every day in the White House.
given everybody this focused
opportunity to say, “Holy crap.”
(…)
(…)
.
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How Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Became The US
Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist
Eric Zuesse
January 8, 2018
That’s a rare example of an anti-MIC (military-sales- “Trump Is Right, This Time, About Iran.”
suppressing) opinion-piece in a major American ‘news’
medium. Its conclusion is the opposite of its title, but the main part
of the article’s text is irrelevant to both the title and the
Less ‘controversial’ (more clearly mainstream) than that conclusion. People such as this become columnists at top
has been another NYT opinion-piece, “The Worst Thing ‘news’ media.
for Iran’s Protesters? US Silence.” It’s by “a former
Iranian-targets officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, Those are the relevant opinions selected by the owner of
… a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of the NYT for publication. They’re pro-MIC, but not
Democracies.” The FDD is an Israeli front US think-tank, fanatically so.
funded by many MIC-invested billionaires in both
countries. The author concludes: The WP published on January 1st their editorial on the
subject,
“The Trump administration can do better
[than did the Obama Administration]. The “The Post’s View: The West should
president’s tweets in support of the support the protesters in Iran.”
protesters were a good start. Washington
should also let loose a tsunami of sanctions It’s like Roger Cohen’s column in the NYT. It closes:
against the Revolutionary Guards, the
linchpin of Iran’s dictatorship. Policy-wise,
“Mr. Trump should avoid acts that would
that would be a good place to start.
undercut the protests and empower the
Contrary to received wisdom, the absolute
regime’s hard-liners. Foremost among
worst thing that the United States can do
these would be a renunciation of the 2015
for the Iranian people is to stay silent and
nuclear accord. That would divide the
do nothing.”
United States from European governments
when they should be coordinating their
Another NYT op-ed is “Why Iran Is Protesting” and it’s response to the uprising, and it would give
by “an Iranian novelist and journalist.” the regime an external threat against which
to rally. Reform of the nuclear accord can
He concludes that in Iran, “something has wait. Now is the time for Mr. Trump to focus
fundamentally changed: The unquestioning on supporting the people of Iran.”
support of the rural people they relied on
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Both Roger Cohen and the WP favor “supporting the else to depart from the deal; because Iran won’t leave it
people of Iran” while opposing and hoping for an unless the US does, but it might leave it if the US does.
overthrow of the President who was chosen by those And then, everything would be worse than it was
people in the 2017 Iranian Presidential election, which was previously. For the US to leave it while some of its allies
at least as democratic as was America’s 2016 US don’t, would turn those allies to opposing the US
Presidential election. The Iranian polls right before the 19 Government and supporting Iran’s Government. And for
May 2017 Presidential election showed the top three the US to ‘renegotiate’ it would be impossible. Any
candidates as being Rouhani 35%, Raisi 18%, and European Government that would join with the US in
Ghalibaf 2%. (20% “Won’t say.”) Ghalibaf and some of order to attempt to force Iran to renegotiate it, would
the other and even smaller candidates withdrew just days become embarrassed amongst its EU colleagues, and
before the election. The final election result was Rouhani amongst its public. And yet, still, Iran would promptly
57.14%, Raisi 38.28%. Raisi campaigned on a platform resume its prior nuclear program, not renegotiate. To force
emphasizing that “Preventing the mixing of men and Iran isn’t going to be so easy as such commentators
women in the office environment means that men and presume it will. The article didn’t say how anything that it
women can serve the people better” and proposed to be achieved, could be achieved. It was simply
advocating “Islamization of universities, revision of the trash.
Internet and censorship of Western culture.” Probably
many of the recent protesters had voted for him. Perhaps if Another WP opinion-piece was “The protesters in Iran
Iran becomes ruled by a “regime” instead of by an at least need real help from Washington” and it was written by a
marginally democratic Government, then they’ll get a top official of a think thank, WINEP, about which, as one
President like Raisi, after the US coup — which would be knowledgeable person has said, “WINEP was to be
America’s second one in Iran. But, instead, Iranians chose AIPAC’s cutout. It was funded by AIPAC donors, staffed
Rouhani — and the U.S Government and its media call it a by AIPAC employees, and located one door away, down
“regime” and say that the US Government wants to the hall, from AIPAC Headquarters (no more. It has its
“support the people of Iran” by overthrowing the own digs). It would also hire all kinds of people not
Government that Iranians voted for and support — support identified with Israel as a cover.” None of this information
more than Americans support ours. (But whereas was revealed by WP about the piece’s author. It can only
America’s CIA stirs protest-groups to overthrow Iran’s be called blatant Israeli propaganda, surreptitiously fed to
leaders, Iran has no equivalent operating in America, to readers as if it weren’t.
overthrow our aristocracy’s choice of our leader.)
The WP columnist David Ignatius bannered “Trump is
On January 3rd, the WP issued an opinion-piece by US right to tell Iran the world is watching.” He closed by
V.P. Mike Pence, whose views are much closer to Raisi’s saying, about the “surprise explosion” of these protests:
than to Rouhani’s. It was titled, “This Time, We Will Not “Khamenei will want to crush it. The best gift the United
Be Silent On Iran.” States can give the Iranian people is a digital lifeline, so
humanity can witness their brave struggle and encourage
Another opinion-piece from the WP was the far-right them to prevail.” The US regime already gave the Iranian
Israeli Natan Sharansky’s “The West Should Stop people its ‘best gift’ in 1953 when it destroyed their
Dithering And Show Its Support For The Protesters In democracy and instituted a 26-year-long dictatorship —
Iran”, which attacked the Times’s “How Can Trump and, Iranians can see through the US propaganda-media’s
Help Iran’s Protesters? Be Quiet.” Sharansky said: hypocrisies, even if the US public have been too deceived
by those media, for too long, to be able to see through
“As an opinion piece in the New York those lies.
Times recently put it, the best way for the
US government to help the Iranian So, the WP has become even more neoconservative (i.e,
protesters is to ‘Keep quiet and do nothing.’ more in favor of invading countries that haven’t invaded
Fortunately, President Trump and Israeli us) now than it was back in 2002 when it cheered on
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have George W. Bush’s lies about Iraq, after 9/11. How did this
already shown themselves unwilling to change happen?
follow this advice.”
In 2013, Jeff Bezos and Donald Graham met at the
Yet another opinion-piece that the WP’s editors selected Bilderberg conference, and two months later, Bezos
for publication on this topic was “Europe’s best chance on agreed to buy the Washington Post from Graham. Less
Iran could soon evaporate.” It criticized the Iran nuclear than a year after that, Bezos’s Amazon won the CIA-NSA
deal, and urged the Trump Administration to work with the cloud computing contract, vital to the US military. Bezos’s
EU “to sculpt a bipartisan policy that can save us from the most profitable operation has been that military contract —
next crisis, which is quickly coming our way.” This string it is allegedly responsible for changing Amazon from a
of clichés ignored the fact that the only two actual money-losing to a profit-making corporation. The money-
available options for the US are to commit to the deal or losing Washington Post already had been, under Graham
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and before, a longstanding supporter of US armed exceptionally helped to promote in her ‘news’-stories.
invasions, which now require lots of cloud computing (and Probably, Sulzberger’s successor, Arthur G. Sulzberger, is
not only of the types of weaponry that Lockheed Martin, happy that when on 14 December 2017 his father handed
Boeing, Raytheon, etc., supply). For example: the WP was the corporation’s controls over to him (effective on
gung-ho for regime-change in Iraq in 2002, as well as, January 1st), the NYT’s position as the nation’s #1 PR-
more recently, for bombing Libya, Syria, and the bombing agent for US invasions has now been taken over by Jeff
in Ukraine’s civil war after the coup. The main topic at the Bezos’s WP. But, of course, Sulzberger’s profits don’t
next year’s, 2014, meeting of the Bilderberg group was the depend nearly as much on America’s MIC as Bezos’s do.
war in Ukraine, but other wars were also on the agenda, The WP’s business plan is even more dependent upon war-
such as Syria, and so were President Obama’s ’trade’ promotion than the rest of America’s major ‘news’media’s
treaties: TPP, TTIP, and TISA. Luminaries present at that are. However, if, say, a firm such as General Dynamics
year’s secret discussions were Timothy Geithner, Eric were to buy out the Sulzbergers, then perhaps
Schmidt, Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Charles the NYT would become #1 in the neoconservative league,
Murray, etc., and Europeans such as Christine Lagarde and once again. But, even when a major ‘news’medium, such
Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Perhaps some sales were made as Mother Jones, isn’t owned (like the WP now is) by
there, too. someone who also largely owns (via Amazon) a major
military contractor, it still promotes invasions, and
Meanwhile, the NYT became the most-frequently-cited has deep connections to America’s Deep State. You can
mis-reporter of such things as “Saddam’s WMD” during count on the fingers of a fingerless hand the number of
the years after the 2003 invasion on the basis of lies; and major American newsmedia — online, print, or broadcast
its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., was forced — that are not neoconservative. There are none — right,
quietly to fire his close friend and star White House left, or center. Today’s ‘respectable’ American purveyors
stenographer (oops, ‘reporter’ — and she was even a of alleged news have some ideological diversity, but all
Pulitzer-winning one!), Judith Miller, on account of the exist within the framework of being neoliberal and
fraud-based Iraq War that she had so prominently and neoconservative.
.
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Brent Bozell: Media Spin
Trump As Crazy ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Figure
By NB Staff
January 8, 2018 2:02 PM EST
Brent Bozell appeared of Fox Business, Monday, to slam important office in the land, neglecting to mention he was also a
journalists who are fawning over the new Michael Wolff two-term governor of California. We, I even went back in time.
book. The Media Research Center President accused The only one here who probably was there to report on it, was
reporters of totally ignoring the books’s blatant falsehoods, you, Abraham Lincoln. Ill will expressed toward him he wasn't up
saying, to the job. Now I'm not comparing either of these gentlemen to
the present occupant of Oval Office, with the one big difference
“They hate Donald Trump so much that being they were dismissed out the gate. What do you think?
they're even saying, ‘Well, if it is only 50
percent true that is good enough for us.’” BRENT BOZELL: Yeah. You might not want to compare the two
but you can compare the media coverage of the two.
Host Neil Cavuto asked Bozell about similarities between
how the media covered Ronald Reagan and how they are CAVUTO: Right.
handling Donald Trump. The MRC President responded:
BOZELL: It is pretty much the same thing. You know, Ronald
“Ronald Reagan was Dr. Strangelove with Reagan was Dr. Strangelove with his foreign policy. They're
his foreign policy. They're seeing Donald seeing Donald Trump as Dr. Strangelove. That Ronald Reagan
Trump as Dr. Strangelove. That Ronald was idiot. Donald Trump was an idiot. Interesting thing here —
Reagan was idiot. Donald Trump was an Bill Buckley once called Ronald Reagan the smartest president
idiot.” in history because Ronald Reagan knew how to go over the head
of the media and communicate directly with the public. Donald
A transcript of Bozell’s appearance can be found below: Trump has done that. Nobody can argue that. Donald Trump has
done that as well. Third one is well then he has got to be senile.
Both have been attacked this way. So yeah, similarities really are
there. And President Trump was right to bring it up.
...
CAVUTO: Brent, the fact of the matter, is, the left is seizing on
this as maybe the latest ammunition it needs to get rid of him. I
don't know if it will get any better than some other attempts to
seize on every development, every Russian potential tie to say,
“This is is it. This is it. This is it.” And it’s never it. What do you
think?
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Matters: ‘Thanks For Selling Our Book For Us!’
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Excited Katy Tur To Wolff:
‘Congratulations On The President Hating' The Book!
By Scott Whitlock
January 8, 2018 4:13 PM EST
MSNBC’s Katy Tur on Monday cheered left-wing author I don't know. I think that he — he thinks
Michael Wolff and his new book. In a chummy, one- about — I think he's aware of who is
liberal-to-another sort of way, Tur gushed, Jewish in a way that might give — that
feels creepy.
“Michael Wolff, it is a fascinating book.
Fire and Fury.... Congratulations on the Now, keep those answers in mind as you remember that
book, and congratulations on the Wolff is telling other outlets that he has “no political
President hating it.” agenda.” In another interview, the author patted himself on
the back for a book that “will finally end... this
In a lighting round of questions, the MSNBC host asked if presidency.” Make up your mind, Mr. Wolff.
Donald Trump is a racist, sexist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic
bigot. Tur got affirmative answers for all but one of the A partial transcript is below:
questions. (The answer on hating Jews amounted to what
could be called close enough:
WOLFF: No, I'm going to do — you know, I have what every WOLFF: As I say, the so-called errors that you're talking about
journalist has. I work like every journalist. I have tapes. I have are the kind of minuscule errors you're going to find in any book,
notes. even yours. I'm up to a particular kind of scrutiny because I’m
threatening the president of the United States. And, you know,
TUR: But if people are questioning it, why not produce the bring it on is what I say.
evidence? And here’s what it is —
TUR: I understand that, and I appreciate that, and this book is
WOLF: Because — because that's not what — what — journ — very compelling, and there's a lot of it that reads true, that feels
I'm not in your business. My evidence is the book. Read the true. But we are living in a time right now, where everyone is so
book. If it makes sense to you, if it strikes a cord, if it rings true, it anxious about this president, about what he's going to do next.
is true. Why not make it abundantly clear where you heard stories,
where your attribution is in order to people to feel some comfort?
TUR: Here's the thing about the book and I read it, I —, a lot of
the stuff did read as — felt — did feel true, there were a lot of WOLFF: Because, first thing, if you read the book, I think it is
factual errors as well. We're living in a time with this President abundantly clear. And you just have to --
where everybody's very —
TUR: Well, there are —
WOLFF: But, let’s go. Factual errors, I — you know, you get
pinned on this, because everybody’s looking to — WOLFF: You just have to read the book, when an author writes a
book, that's a very —
TUR: But here's the thing about factual errors and I wrote a book
about Donald Trump -- TUR: It's a huge thing.
WOLFF: Mark Berman mixed up with Mark Berman. WOLFF: It's a significant thing. Here’s the evidence. It's the book,
read the book.
TUR: CNN was not the one that released the dossier.
TUR: I agree, and you should read the book. 100 percent.
WOLFF: That is absolutely, completely untrue.
WOLFF: This idea that, so -- let's go, and address the idea of
TUR: Buzzfeed released it. tapes. I have everything that I do has been — has been — has
been specifically closely sourced. That's what we do, we take
WOLFF: No, no! notes. Would you show — you're a reporter, would you open
your notes to the world? That’s — It's called work product. And
TUR: CNN reported on it, but did no release it. that turns into a book. If I were in the television business — and
that's what we do, cameras, audio. That's one thing, I'm a writer.
I'm literally a writer. This is an incredibly — this is a written story.
WOLFF: CNN — CNN — was first on that story.
I've told a story. And it just read it. If you think it's — if you don't
think it's true, which 35 percent of the country is not going to think
TUR: They reported on it. They didn’t release it. it's true. Donald Trump 35 percent, they're not going to buy this.
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2:38:26 p.m. TUR: Afraid of the other.
1 minute and 24 seconds
WOLFF: Yeah.
TUR: What is this relationship with women?
TUR: Anti-Semitic?
WOLFF: It’s — Donald Trump's relationship with women?
WOLFF: You know, I had this specific discussion with Steve
TUR: How does he feel about women? Bannon, who thought not. — yes, maybe he's a racist. Maybe
he’s a —
WOLFF: You know, I mean, I think we — I mean, I from the
evidence, we can probably deduce how he feels about women — TUR: A lot of people accuse Bannon --
he feels probably — treats them and thinks of them as
transactional a way as he thinks about everything. WOLFF: — maybe he’s a racist. He didn't think he was an anti-
Semite, but, you know, I don't know. I think that he — he thinks
TUR: Do you think — ‘cause I want to get through a couple other about — I think he's aware of who is Jewish in a way that might
ones — I want to get through a couple other ones, do you think give — that feels creepy.
he's sexist?
(....)
WOLFF: I mean, I — that's — yes.
2:40:55 p.m.
TUR: Do you think he's racist? 14 seconds
WOLFF: Yes. Um, Yes. TUR: Michael Wolff, it is a fascinating book. Fire and Fury. As
you can see. I did read it. Congratulations on the book, and
TUR: Xenophobic? congratulations on the president hating it.
WOLFF: I do. Xenophobic — what does that mean? He’s — WOLFF: Thank you.
yeah.
TUR: Appreciate your time, sir.
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Chris Christie Says He 'Absolutely'
Would Be President if Trump Hadn't Run
By Tyler O'Neil
January 8, 2018
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Wikileaks: John Podesta Was Briefed On "Gross
Negligence" Before FBI Removed Phrase
From Clinton Exoneration
By Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/08/2018 - 18:55
Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, John Podesta, received an "Whoever, being entrusted with or having
email from an advisor which brought up the phrase "gross lawful possession or control of any
negligence" in regards to the FBI's email investigation document. . .relating to the national
before the FBI agent in charge of the probe removed the defense, (1) through gross negligence
phrase from her exoneration statement, according to permits the same to be removed from its
WikiLeaks. proper place of custody or delivered to
anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost,
stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2)
having knowledge that the same has been
illegally removed from its proper place of
custody or delivered to anyone in violation
of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or
destroyed, and fails to make prompt report
of such loss, theft, abstraction, or
destruction to his superior officer, Shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than ten years, or both."
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not agree - citing the Washington Post article minimizing To summarize, former Bill Clinton Chief of
Clinton's actions: Staff Tina Flournoy sent John Podesta an
email to his Gmail account on March 9,
"The argument here would be that 2016 - with a Washington Post article
Clinton engaged in such “gross containing a link to an opinion by a retired
negligence” by transferring information D.C. attorney who thinks Clinton committed
she knew or should have known was Gross Negligence. Former FBI Director
classified from its “proper place” onto her James Comey's original draft from May
private server, or by sharing it with 2, contained the phrase, and at some
someone not authorized to receive it. Yet, point over the next eight weeks, Peter
as the Supreme Court has said, “gross Strzok - the man who headed up the
negligence” is a “nebulous” term. investigation, removed it - materially
Especially in the criminal context, it would changing the legal significance of
seem to require conduct more like Clinton's actions, effectively
throwing classified materials into a "decriminalizing" her behavior when Comey
Dumpster than putting them on a private gave his speech on July 5, 2016.
server that presumably had security
protections." -Tina Flournoy to John
Podesta (WikiLeaks)
Perhaps Podesta decided to run this past
Hillary Clinton's friends at the
FBI, as counterintelligence agent Peter
Strzok - who headed up the Clinton
email investigation - then removed the
phrase "gross negligence"
from Clinton's exoneration statement.
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Wolff Admits Trump Book Was Rushed,
Blames Any ‘Inaccuracies’ On Sources
By Chris Reeves
January 8, 2018 4:25 PM EST
On Monday’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and “So, we were talking before the break
Mika Brzezinski were both back in-studio to talk to about, um, some inaccuracies in the
Michael Wolff about his new anti-Trump book Fire and book, like -- but not comple-, like -- were
Fury. In a wide-ranging 25-minute interview, Wolff went you, first of all, in a rush to get this to
after his critics at the New York Times and Washington print for a lot of reasons?”
Post,
Wolff replied in the affirmative:
repeatedly called the President’s mental
health into question, and even insisted that “Well, yeah. I mean, this book was
“100%” of Trump’s “closest” advisors in reported and written in less than a year.
the White House think that there is
“something fundamentally wrong, So, you know, this is -- remember, this history is moving
something that scares them” about the pretty fast.”
President.
Brzezinski then went on to detail one incident from the
Instead of actively challenging Wolff to provide answers
book that she believed Wolff had described incorrectly, but
about problems with his reporting (both past and present),
before Wolff could directly respond to Mika’s point,
Scarborough and Brzezinski acted as Wolff’s biggest
Scarborough jumped in to defend Wolff’s honor and
apologists, constantly defending his book and making integrity:
arguments on its behalf.
BRZEZINSKI: So your, um, your, uh, kind
of, critics here will, will have some
material to work with. There's
misspellings.
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WOLFF: At, at, at the lunch. WOLFF: You know, you have to -- you're,
you’re, you’re dependent on, on the
SCARBOROUGH: But, but, you know, the, people who were there, on their
the, but, but, the bigger point is, those-. memories. You have to sort their
agenda. Um, it's a, it’s a fairly
BRZEZINSKI: Your critics run with that. complicated undertaking, which, you
SCARBOROUGH: The, to the critics, yeah. know, I mean, that’s the job, and-.
They run with these little specific things,
but getting, getting a part of a story BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
wrong here or getting something else
[unintelligible]. SCARBOROUGH: And by the way, and, and again, just
again, to explain this sort of book and then let's, let’s move
Before Scarborough could finish his thought, Wolff forward. But, Bob Woodward's been doing it for years
jumped in and started to distance himself from his book’s where you talk to, you know, 200 people that work in a
claims by pushing more responsibility towards his sources: White House or around a White House, and everybody’s
trying to spin Woodward and everybody’s trying to spin
WOLFF: [interrupting] And some-, and the version of events.
sometimes, you know, you know, you're
dependent on your sources there,- And you do get though a bigger picture
of what's going on there.
BRZEZINSKI: Right. “This is the Trump I know,”
WOLFF: -and sometimes your sources,- Brzezinski emphatically added, once again repeating
Morning Joe’s message that Wolff’s book simply “rings
SCARBOROUGH: Right. true” and thus should be believed in spite of committing
basic factual errors.
WOLFF: -now, I don't wanna say who my source was in
that particular- And Scarborough did want to know what the larger truth
of Wolff’s book was, asking him:
BRZEZINSKI: Okay.
“And what is the big picture that comes
SCARBOROUGH: Right. out of Fire and Fury? What's, what’s the
big idea?”
WOLFF: -thing, except that [trails off].
Wolff replied:
SCARBOROUGH: But sometimes the
sources get it, yeah,- I mean, I think, I think the big idea is that,
that these people -- you know, all White
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. Houses are, are fraught places, um, but,
but they're, they’re a, they’re a, they’re a
whole. People who work for presidents,
SCARBOROUGH: -a little off.
support a president, um, they're on his
side. They're on his team. Um, they may
BRZEZINSKI: Okay. not like the other people in the White
House, but it's a, it’s a relatively coherent
SCARBOROUGH: And by the way, it's, uh, yeah, um. view at the end of the day.
(...)
BRZEZINSKI: But the spirit of it is
completely true. Everybody in this White House, and I
keep saying this, 100%, because it is
WOLFF: [interrupting] You know, you 100%, of the people closest to the
know, there’s a lot -- so, so a lot of this president, to, to the, to Donald Trump,
stuff, I was not -- and I don't represent believe that there is something wrong
myself as, as being there. here, something, something
fundamentally wrong, something that
SCARBOROUGH: Right. scares them. As a matter of fact, they
went from -- if, if there was, if there was
any reason they stay in the White House
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now, it's because they are scared. They MIKE BARNICLE: And listen-.
believe they have a responsibility to the
American people. WOLFF: -and, and listen, I was just the black hole, just listening
No wonder people are having trouble to everything.
believing Wolff’s claim today from CBS
This Morning that he has “no political SCARBOROUGH: Right.
agenda.”
WOLFF: And then I could say it ‘cause I'm not going back.
To learn more about the interview, consult the following
transcripts of selected segments from it: SCARBOROUGH: B-, b-, by the way, i-, i-, which, which is
important to say. If you're Maggie Haberman at the Times, who
7:36 AM EST has a,-
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well so, we've been s-, we’ve been BRZEZINSKI: [softly] Not too bad.
saying on the show daily, and it's not just about Donald Trump.
As I said earlier, the, the morning, um, we'd always have the SCARBOROUGH: -who,-
most senior Democratic senators say of Barack Obama in 2009,
2010—he doesn't know what he's doing. But of course, they’d
WOLFF: Who does a great job,-
never say that on the record. Well, he -- for the past year, we've
had people around Donald Trump, even during the campaign,
saying he's not mentally fit to be president. Now that, I mean -- SCARBOROUGH: -who does a great job,-
and there is such a reluctance, and I'm not, certainly not
knocking The Washington Post. They're actually being WOLFF: -an absolutely great job, but she has to go back.
conservative, with a small “c.” I've written twice in my column a, a
quote about one of people [sic] closest to Donald Trump during SCARBOROUGH: -but her life, like, what makes her a great
the campaign saying he's got early stage of dementia. He reporter is—she’s got to balance two competing interests. She's
repeats the same stories over and over again. His father had it. gotta tell the truth about the Trump White House, but she's gotta
And it's getting worse. And not a single person who works for him go back the next day. Bob Costa—the same thing at The
doesn't know he has early signs of dementia. Now, of course, Washington Post. He’s gotta tell the truth about the White House,
they didn't think he was gonna win. But twice, The Washington but he’s gotta go back the next day.
Post hasn’t -- would not let me put that in my column, which
again, I salute them for having a high bar. But we are at this WOLFF: No, and that’s, this -- you know, I'm getting some
moment, and it's-. incoming from the daily journalists who, who, who cover this,-
SCARBOROUGH: And, and until your book came out, this was SCARBOROUGH: Right.
something we were not allowed to speak about.
WOLFF: -because they see this in a daily journalism context
MICHAEL WOLFF: Now, it is, it’s, the, o-, okay. So the we, it's instead of seeing this as a, as, as a book. A book is an entirely
understanding the we. We're still in the s-, in the same structure. different thing. I am telling a story. I am pulling this together. I’m
Remember, we began this whole, uh, this -- when, when Trump trying to,-
was elected president, what the media say: We don't wanna
normalize this guy. Well, in fact, they did normalize him, and they
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
normalized these, this, um, you know, this, uh, this, these hand
grenade stories every day so you forgot what happened the next
day. And they also normalized the entire structure of, of, of, of WOLFF: -I’m trying to put,-
how you report on the president, which is that you can't say, you
can’t say what you know or all that you know, because you have BRZEZINSKI: [unintelligible] a little more.
to go back the next day. So I'm the only one—not the only one—I
am in the position of being the guy who didn't have to say, didn’t WOLFF: -put the reader right where I was on the couch in the
say anything. West Wing.
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SCARBOROUGH: The, the, the, the, the crit-, the, the criticism of SCARBOROUGH: But, but, you know, the, the, but, but, the
Michael's book, though, is that he doesn't get everything exactly bigger point is, those-.
right. That's what happens when you’re interview [sic] a thousand
different people and everybody comes from their own version. BRZEZINSKI: Your critics run with that.
There are things that people said to you about us and our
show—not accurate! But, I certainly know when I read it, read it, I
SCARBOROUGH: The, to the critics, yeah. They run with these
know which person you were talking to in the White House. So, it
little specific things, but getting, getting a part of a story wrong
is, it’s a completely -- it’s, it’s not a front page story for The New
here or getting something else [unintelligible].
York Times-
[Mika and Wolff jump in at same time]
BRZEZINSKI: We’ll talk-.
BRZEZINSKI: But saying it’s important.
SCARBOROUGH: -or The Washington Post. It's a, a, a much
bigger picture.
WOLFF: [interrupting] And some-, and sometimes, you know,
you know, you're dependent on your sources there,-
BRZEZINSKI: We'll talk about whether that will arm his critics,
uh, in Michael Wolff's, uh, to Mich-, Michael Wolff’s book when
we come back. BRZEZINSKI: Right.
BRZEZINSKI: No, I have a question. Now you stand by. You just, WOLFF: -now, I don't wanna say who my source was in that
you just back off, okay? So, we were talking before the break particular-
about, [laughing] um, some inaccuracies in the book, like -- but
not comple-, like -- were you, first of all, in a rush to get this to BRZEZINSKI: Okay.
print for a lot of reasons?
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
WOLFF: Well, yeah. I mean, this book was reported and written
in less than a year. WOLFF: -thing, except that [trails off].
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, okay. So-. SCARBOROUGH: But sometimes the sources get it, yeah,-
WOLFF: So, you know, this is -- remember, this history is moving BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
pretty fast.
SCARBOROUGH: -a little off.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: Okay.
BRZEZINSKI: So your, um, your, uh, kind of, critics here will, will
have some material to work with. There's misspellings. I know, SCARBOROUGH: And by the way, it's, uh, yeah, um.
for example—I'll just speak to the part where we are
characterized in it—and, um, there was a scene where Ivanka
BRZEZINSKI: But the spirit of it is completely true.
wanted to talk to Donald about women. And he kept saying:
What? What? What? And then you say in the book that Ivanka
shouted at him. It was actually me. I said: Donald, women! And I WOLFF: [interrupting] You know, you know, there’s a lot -- so, so
had to make an hourglass to show him women. That was the a lot of this stuff, I was not -- and I don't represent myself as, as
only way he could understand the word “woman.” And -- so, th-, being there.
there's inaccuracies like that, that I, I guess: Do you worry that
your critics-? SCARBOROUGH: Right.
WOLFF: [interrupting] Whi-, which point? I'm not, not even sure. WOLFF: You know, you have to -- you're, you’re, you’re
Which, which, which point was that? dependent on, on the people who were there, on their memories.
You have to sort their agenda. Um, it's a, it’s a fairly complicated
BRZEZINSKI: That was in the, at the lunch at the White House. undertaking, which, you know, I mean, that’s the job, and-.
SCARBOROUGH: And what is the big picture that comes out of (...)
Fire and Fury? What's, what’s the big idea?
7:50 AM
WOLFF: I mean, I think, I think the big idea is that, that these
people -- you know, all White Houses are, are fraught places, MIKE BARNICLE: So, you use the word, uh, a few moments ago,
um, but, but they're, they’re a, they’re a, they’re a whole. People few minutes ago, “unnerving” in terms of the composition of the
who work for presidents, support a president, um, they're on his White House and what's going on. And, if you read the book, the
side. They're on his team. Um, they may not like the other people narrative within the book, there are many things that, I think we
in the White House, but it's a, it’s a relatively coherent view at the can agree, a lot of people have heard anecdotally prior to the
end of the day. publication. Uh, there's a lot of stuff in there that’s brand new and
highly troubling to read. The White House staff itself, the support
SCARBOROUGH: For the most part, people that worked for staff, important people in terms of who they support, the
Barack Obama loved Barack Obama. President of the United States. I came away with the impression
that a number of them, maybe all of them, behave, in an odd
way, like hostages, like inmates, like people, you know, trying to
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, there is that.
be released, trying to get away, but they can't get away.
SCARBOROUGH: People that worked for George W. Bush, you
WOLFF: You know, one of the, the, the eerie things -- so, I'm
can still talk to them today-
sitting on that, on that couch, and, you know, there's sort of, you
know, them -- the appointments come up, and somebody's
BRZEZINSKI: Yes. assistant will come out and, and, and get you to bring you back,
and you're, you know, you’re -- I mean, I know all of these
SCARBOROUGH: -and at times, they will start tearing up talking assistants at this point, and the-, and you would say: How’s it
about what a good man he was. 41—the same thing. going? And they would never, ever respond. It was kind of like—
oh, okay.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh my gosh.
BRZEZINSKI: Ugh! That’s awful.
SCARBOROUGH: Bill Clinton—the same thing.
SCARBOROUGH: I’ll tell ya, I’ll tell ya, it's, it’s that-
WOLFF: Totally.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh my god!
BRZEZINSKI: Carter.
SCARBOROUGH: -Mika and I both, when we were reading the
SCARBOROUGH: Completely opposite here -- to Carter of book for the first time, and we saw that it was poor Hope Hicks’s
course. job to go in and summarize what we said for three hours. And we
both just sat there, s-, and it was just, we’re like: Oh my god.
Poor, poor woman. The worst job in the world.
WOLFF: And she was always in this kind of frenzy of, you know,
what do I say? How do I do this?
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SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. SCARBOROUGH: Why not?
WOLFF: -‘cause, you know, remember, her job is to stand be-, y- [long pause]
, you know -- I mean, this, this book -- Donald Trump, as we've
seen, is not happy with this book. But he doesn't know the, the, WOLFF: You can’t-.
the -- most of what's in it, he doesn't know, because it hasn't
been on television yet. And-.
BARNICLE: Read the book.
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
WOLFF: Yeah, I mean, it's, the, it’s essentially what the s-, the
story of the book is. But, but in, in, in brief, because -- you wanna
BRZEZINSKI: He doesn't read. know? Because he's only interested in -- not only is he only
interested in just himself, he's just interested in his immediate
WOLFF: And he doesn't read- gratification in this moment. There is nothing beyond that.
SCARBOROUGH: The post [unintelligible]. SCARBOROUGH: So, temperamentally aside, is he mentally fit
to be President of the United States-
WOLFF: -and nobody has told him because nobody wants to tell
him. WOLFF: You know, I-.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, the post-literate, uh, president. SCARBOROUGH: -based on everything that you've heard from
people who work with him day in and day out?
(...)
BRZEZINSKI: [starts talking over Joe] So, you feel like -- you
7:55 AM know when you’re talking to someone, and you’re like: I’m
concerned about this person. I think this person is mentally ill. Do
you have concerns?
SCARBOROUGH: Last question: Is Donald Trump fit to be
president-
WOLFF: I -- every time you speak to him, you think: This is a
wingnut. I mean, this is -- there is something really a-, a-,
WOLFF: No.
alarming in ways that you cannot even begin to describe. It's like
you’re riveted to the seat.
SCARBOROUGH: -from everything you've seen?
(...)
WOLFF: No.
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Liberals 'Red Pilled' By President Trump Blaming Their
Own Descent Into Madness Upon Him As Massive 'Soft
Coup' Effort Picks Up With Talk Of Using 25th
Amendment To Remove Him From Office
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
January 8, 2018
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With huge changes still ahead in 2018, the first 'full year'
of Trump, as he continues to unveil his 'America 1st
Agenda', likely triggering countless more liberal heads into
exploding in a mass, vacuous sucking sound as he
becomes more and more comfortable in the role of being
president, we expect 2018 to bring even more liberals
falling off the deep end with more failed attempts to bring
down President Trump and America.
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Is Trump Crazy, or Just a Jerk?
By Jim Treacher
January 8, 2018
All around the world in 2018, people of all races, creeds, Then there are those who find this appallingly undignified.
and gender identities are asking one burning question: Is If you believe that the president of the United States is a
President Donald Trump crazy or what? man* whose job is to solve all your problems, to be
America's Dad**, this is terrifying. You're mortified, just
Is he out of his ever-lovin' mind? He's gotta be insane in as all children are mortified by their embarrassing parents.
the membrane, right? Loco in the coconut? A few floors Trump isn't behaving the way other presidents have
short of a tower? behaved, he isn't behaving the way you would behave if
you were in the Oval Office, so he must be nuts.
For some, the answer is a resounding “No.” Trump is
crazy like a fox, his biggest fans will tell you. Everything Then there's Door Number 3:
he does is part of his master plan. He keeps owning the libs
by telling them how great he is and how stupid his haters Trump isn't crazy, he's just a jerk. Jerks say
are, and in response, those liars in the fake news media a lot of crazy things, because they're jerks.
keep making fools of themselves as they try to prove him They call people rude names, and say
wrong. He loves to tweak the elites, the ones who think of things that are provably untrue, and
themselves as our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters. complain about anything and everything
They were shattered by Hillary Clinton's loss, and they'll that bruises their egos. They do these
grasp at any straw they think will hurt the guy who beat things not because they're out of touch with
her. reality, but because they just don't care
about it. Reality is boring. Who needs it?
So Trump just keeps throwing out straws. For example,
early Saturday morning he tweeted the following in Trump's behavior is beneath the dignity of the office, but
reaction to Michael Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury (all maybe that's not such a bad thing. Maybe the office
capitalization and punctuation in the original): shouldn't have been so dignified for all these centuries.
Maybe we've exalted the presidency too highly. Maybe
Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense this Trump/media knife-fight is a good thing, in the long
study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American run.
public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News
Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan Maybe!
playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence.
Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have
Trump proves that winning an election doesn't make
been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked
anybody a better person, and the media's reaction proves
Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as
that losing an election doesn't erase our memory of how
everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY
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they behaved when they were the ones in power. As the “I'm a very stable genius,” I would've
two sides try to destroy each other, they remind the rest of mocked the hell out of him. I would've
us just how small and flawed they really are. marveled at his narcissistic delusions, and
listed all the empirical evidence proving him
I'm not a fan of either tribe in this war. They both need to wrong. Now it's supposed to be different
be taken down a peg or two or 200. Let them fight. because the Republicans have their own
version of Obama? Nope. Sorry I'm not
more sorry, folks.)
None of it will matter anyway, once this reality-TV
nightmare is replaced by The President Oprah Show. *Or, one day, a woman.
**Or, one day, America's Mom.
(And if anything I've just said made you
angry, please consider this: If Barack
Obama had ever come right out and said,
.
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The Same Communist “Mainstream Media”
Now Pushing “Trump Is Crazy” Lie HID For A
Year The Fact That Hillary Paid For
Bogus “Russia Dossier”
By JD Heyes
Monday, January 08, 2018
If you needed yet another reason to Ace investigative journalist and Hoover Institute media
despise the so-called “mainstream fellow Paul Sperry tweeted the truth over the weekend,
media,” this story should qualify. outing the “mainstream” media as the frauds they are.
For more than a year, the insane Left — led by the “BREAKING NEWS: DC press corps
Democratic Party, which is fundamentally no different suppressed for full year the fact that Clinton
than the communist parties of China and the former Soviet campaign paid for the anti-Trump Russia
Union — have pushed the never-proven, widely debunked dossier.
narrative that the campaign of President Donald J. Trump
“Journalists knew Clinton behind dossier as
“colluded” with the Russians to “steal the election” from
early as September 2016 & kept mum,
Hillary Clinton.
reporting dossier’s allegations as if they
were legitimate intelligence!”
The media gleefully picked up this fake allegation and in
fact, allowed themselves to be used as patsies, breathlessly
publishing no shortage of fake news stories based on
“unnamed sources” that were lying all along.
Even today in some media circles you can still hear Alt-
Left pundits claim that the collusion ‘is there’ — the
evidence just hasn’t been found yet.
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Immediately after the Post published its story, other
mainstream media journalists piped up and claimed that
yes, they knew all about Clinton’s involvement,
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Joe Scarborough Complains Washington Post
Won't Publish His Trump Dementia Claim
By Tim Graham
January 9, 2018 6:15 AM EST
The standards of evidence at liberal cable-news channels came out, this was something we were not
are not high. With Donald Trump, gossip and unproven allowed to speak about.”
rumors from anonymous sources will suffice. During an
interview with anti-Trump author Michael Wolff on Note the clumsy Morning Joe dance:
Monday, MSNBC morning host Joe Scarborough
complained that he has twice tried to include unproven
I think the Post is way too cautious, but I
references to President Trump being in an early stage of
salute them! Thank you for publishing my
dementia in his columns for the Washington Post, but both
Trump rants, you cautious cowards!
times the editors told him to remove those references.
MSNBC doesn't have any of that caution. On November
30, Joe "reported" just like Wolff to his morning audience
that
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They ADMIT It! Leaked Memo Shows DEMS Want DACA
‘Dreamers’ For ‘Future Electoral Success’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 9, 2018
“If Democrats don’t try to do everything in said was unconstitutionally implemented. After Trump
their power to defend Dreamers, that will rescinded Obama’s order in September, several Democrat-
jeopardize Democrats’ electoral chances in run states filed suit against the administration, demanding
2018 and beyond” DACA be replaced.
The memo, co-written by former Clinton communications “If Democrats don’t try to do everything in
director Jennifer Palmieri, was distributed to allies who are their power to defend Dreamers, that will
calling on congressional Democrats to jeopardize Democrats’ electoral chances in
2018 and beyond,” the memo continues.
“In short, the next few weeks will tell us a
“refuse to offer any votes for Republican
lot about the Democratic Party and its long-
spending bills that do not offer a fix for
term electoral prospects.”
Dreamers and instead appropriate funds to
deport them.”
Several conservative pundits and lawmakers have warned
that if Republicans cave on the DACA issue and vote for
Last fall President Donald J. Trump moved to end the
amnesty, it will put their congressional majority in danger
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy
and could also lead to Trump’s defeat in 2020.
which was implemented by President Obama via executive
order, to prevent illegals brought to the U.S. as children by
their parents from being deported. They have also warned that Democrats want to save
DACA for the very reason the memo states: Future voters.
A number of states threatened to sue the Trump
administration if it did not end the program, which they
.
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REVEALED: Newly Revealed Texts From FBI Agent
Strzok, Lawyer Page, Show MORE Anti-Trump Bias;
Congress Probes Pair For Possible News LEAKS
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 9, 2018
Republican investigators say the messages suggest that the GOP-led committees in the House and Senate are poring
pair had media contacts over messages that appear to indicate Strzok and Page had
advance knowledge of a Wall Street Journal report close to
election day and plotted how they would feign stumbling
upon it so they could share it with colleagues.
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Republican investigators say the messages suggest that the Weissman, had contact with the news
pair had media contacts but they don’t necessarily prove media last April, shortly before Mueller was
they leaked information. named special prosecutor, according to a
letter the committee has sent the
Also, Solomon reported: department.
In a deal with current FBI Director
Separately, the House Intelligence Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney
Committee says it has obtained information General Rod Rosenstein, Justice officials
that Mueller’s current deputy in the Russia have promised to provide the Intelligence
probe, respected Justice Department Committee with information on the
financial fraud prosecutor Andrew Weismann contacts later this week.
.
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Investigators Examining Whether FBI Officials Peter
Strzok And Lisa Page Improperly Leaked To Media
By Kristina Wong
9 Jan 2018
The Hill also reviewed nearly three dozen texts where the
two discussed articles, tried to track down information
about a specific New York Times reporter, or opined about
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FNC
leaked information in stories they fretted were “super
House and Senate committees are specific.”
investigating whether FBI agents who
led the Russia investigation improperly It’s not clear whether then-FBI Director James Comey
leaked to news media, according to a authorized the leaks, although he arranged some of his
report. own, by creating memos of his conversations with
President Trump and leaking them to a friend to give to the
In text messages reviewed by The Hill, FBI news media after he left the FBI for the purpose of
counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa prompting a special counsel.
Page exchanged a series of texts shortly before Election
Day 2016, that suggests they knew in advance about a House intelligence committee investigators are also
Wall Street Journal article, and discussed how to pretend looking into a contact with news media by DOJ senior
finding it and sharing with colleagues. official Andrew Weissman in April, shortly before the
special counsel was convened. Weissman is currently
“Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so Mueller’s deputy, and had attended Hillary Clinton’s
can’t read it,” Page texted Strzok on Oct. election party, and praised former acting Attorney General
24, 2016, according to the report. Sally Yates for refusing to implement Trump’s travel ban.
“Wsj? Boy that was fast,” Strzok texted
In another string of text messages five days before the
back. “Should I ‘find’ it and tell the team?”
election, Page alerted Strzok to a Washington Post story
“I can get it like I do every other article that about a timeline in the Clinton email investigation, and
hits any Google News alerts, seriously,” references a conversation she had with FBI chief of staff
Strzok texted, adding he did not want his James Rybicki about the article.
team hearing about the article “from
someone else.” “Sorry, Rybicki called. Time line article in
the post (sic) is super specific and not
The text messages were first uncovered by the Justice good. Doesn’t make sense because I didn’t
Department inspector general, who is investigating have specific information to give.”
whether the FBI handled the Clinton email investigation
and the bureau’s counterintelligence probe into the Trump A few days earlier, Strzok had texted Page about another
campaign with political bias. article, suggesting it was anti-FBI.
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“Yep, the whole tone is anti-Bu. Just a tiny Page texted she found information on Apuzzo’s wife:
bit from us,” he texted.
“Found address looking for her. Lawyer.”
Page texted she had seen the article, and that it
Strzok also warned Page against using the work phone to
“makes me feel WAY less bad about track down information on the reporter.
throwing him under the bus to the
forthcoming CF article.” “I wouldn’t search on your work phone …
no idea what that might trigger.”
They also discussed tracking down New York Times
“Oops. Too late,” she responded.
reporter Matt Apuzzo’s address and spouse’s job. Apuzzo
had reported on numerous developments in the Russia
case. They also texted about the opening of Trump’s new hotel
in Washington.
“We got a list of kids with their parents’
names. How many Matt Apuzzo’s (sic) “That’s one place I hope I never stay in,”
could there be in DC,” Page texted Strzok. Page texted.
“Showed J a picture, he said he thinks he
has seen a guy who kinda looks like that, Strzok texted back:
but always really schlubby. I said that
sounds like every reporter I have ever “Agreed. I hope it fails horribly.”
seen.”
They also said an article about FBI agents unhappy about
It’s not clear who “J” is. the outcome of the Clinton case was “stupid,” called Fox
anchor Chris Wallace a “turd,” and talked about then-FOX
A minute later, Page added: News anchor Megyn Kelly after one of the presidential
debates.
“Found what I think might be their address,
too.” “Vaguely satisfying to see Megyn Kelly
(who had Botox and looks HORRIBLE)
Strzok responded, utterly going after Trump,” he said.
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CLASSLESS: Georgia Dems Promote ‘F**K Trump’
Projection On Atlanta Stadium As Prez Attends College
Football National Championship
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 9, 2018
Another day, another example of why Democrats are in the Critics of the projection pointed out on Twitter that the
minority display was another example of why Democrats are in the
minority in Congress and throughout most state
legislatures and governorships.
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Guess Who CNN Just Promoted To
‘Chief White House Correspondent’
By Greg P.
Posted At 9:33 Am On January 9, 2018
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Trump Attends College Football Championship; Crowd
ROARS When Prez STANDS For National Anthem (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 9, 2018
Trump waved to the crowd a number of times before Reports noted that some of the 71,000 fans jeered at the
taking his place near the middle of the field president, but those were drowned out by the cheers.
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Author Michael Wolff NOW SAYS
He Didn’t Interview ANY TRUMP CABINET MEMBERS
For Trump-Bashing Book (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
WOW!
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ANOTHER Admission: Anti-Trump Author Michael Wolff
Says He Didn’t Interview ANY Cabinet Officials For His
Scandal-Ridden Tome (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 9, 2018
Several people quoted by Wolff have already denied White House we would chat as though we
making the comments were friends.”
“But that’s not an interview, to greet
someone and say, ‘Hello,’” O’Donnell
pointed out. “That’s not a journalistic
exercise.”
(National Sentinel) Unsubstantiated: The author of an In his book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White
anti-Trump book set for release said during an interview House,” Wolff includes several quotes from multiple
Tuesday he did not interview any members of the Cabinet secretaries, including National Security Adviser
president’s Cabinet, casting fresh doubts about the book’s H.R. McMaster and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
overall truthfulness.
“For (Treasury Secretary) Steve Mnuchin
In an interview with CBS‘ “This Morning” program, and (former Trump White House chief of
Wolff was asked by host Norah O’Donnell, staff) Reince Priebus, the president was an
‘idiot.’ For (former Goldman Sachs exec)
“Did you speak to any members of the Gary Cohn, he was ‘dumb as sh-t.’ For
president’s Cabinet for this book?” (National Security Adviser) H.R. McMaster
he was a ‘dope.’ The list went on,” Wolff
“I did not,” Wolff responded.
wrote.
“You did not?” O’Donnell repeated.
“I did not,” Wolff confirmed. Last week, reports said that in an author’s note included in
the book, Wolff admitted there was much he could not
She then asked Wolff if he ever spoke to Vice President verify, which initially cast suspicion and doubt on the
Mike Pence for his tome. book’s veracity.
Again, he responded, “I did not.” He said several of his sources were flatly lying to him,
while others said things that were contradictory in nature.
O’Donnell then noted that President Trump has also
publicly tweeted that he never granted “access” to Wolff or Many of those were nonetheless included in his book.
spoke to him during his time researching the book. Wolff said in his author’s note that he and the publisher are
including them, “allowing the reader to judge” whether the
sources’ claims are true.
“The president denies he ever spoke to you
for the book, at all,” O’Donnell said.
In other instances, Wolff said he used his instincts as a
“I probably think he had no idea he was journalist to relay
speaking to me for this book,” Wolff said.
“When I would meet the president in the
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“a version of events I believe to be Several people quoted by Wolff have already denied
true.” making the comments.
“Many of the accounts of what has
happened in the Trump White House are in Watch:
conflict with one another; many, in
Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. These
conflicts, and that looseness with the truth,
if not with reality itself, are an elemental
thread of the book,” he wrote.
“Sometimes I have let the players offer
their versions, in turn allowing the reader to
judge them. In other instances I have,
through a consistency in the accounts and
through sources I have come to trust,
settled on a version of events I believe to
be true,” he continued.
.
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Former FBI Asst. Director: No Question Clinton
Foundation Is “Criminal Conspiracy” – “It’s Just A Giant
Slush Fund” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Former FBI assistant Director James K. to shame from the standpoint it operated. I
Kallstrom went on Varney and Co. to mean, its just a giant slushfund. You
discuss the continued witch hunt know…get a bunch of Gulfstream fives, fly
against President Donald Trump. around the world, and buy wedding gowns,
pay for weddings. I mean the tiny little
Kallstrom also went on to call the amount of money that goes to charity, and I
Clinton Foundation a “criminal even question if those are charities. It’s
conspiracy” and “giant slush fund.” preposterous why the IRS has not come
down upon them earlier is beyond me. But
there’s no question that it is beyond a
criminal conspiracy and all those other
things… the uncovering of names, the
Uranium One thing, and all this other stuff.
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BOOM! Hillary Campaign Chair Podesta
Was Tipped Off On “Gross Negligence” Phrase BEFORE
IT WAS REMOVED From Comey Statement!
By Jim Hoft
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
This was before the FBI agent in charge Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-
of the probe removed the phrase from Mail System
her exoneration statement, according to
WikiLeaks.
Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing.
FBI Director James Comey released his statement on the
Good morning. I’m here to give you an update on the
Clinton email investigation on July 5, 2016, four months
FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a
later.
personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary
of State.
Washington, D.C.
FBI National Press Office After a tremendous amount of work over the last year,
(202) 324-3691 the FBI is completing its investigation and referring the
July 5, 2016 case to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive
decision. What I would like to do today is tell you three
things: what we did; what we found; and what we are
Statement by FBI Director James B.
recommending to the Department of Justice.
Comey on the Investigation of Secretary
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This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple unused—or “slack”—space. We searched through all
ways. First, I am going to include more detail about of it to see what was there, and what parts of the
our process than I ordinarily would, because I think puzzle could be put back together.
the American people deserve those details in a case
FBI investigators have also read all of the
of intense public interest. Second, I have not
approximately 30,000 e-mails provided by Secretary
coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way
Clinton to the State Department in December 2014.
with the Department of Justice or any other part of the Where an e-mail was assessed as possibly containing
government. They do not know what I am about to
classified information, the FBI referred the e-mail to
say.
any U.S. government agency that was a likely “owner”
I want to start by thanking the FBI employees who did of information in the e-mail, so that agency could
remarkable work in this case. Once you have a better make a determination as to whether the e-mail
sense of how much we have done, you will contained classified information at the time it was sent
understand why I am so grateful and proud of their or received, or whether there was reason to classify
efforts. the e-mail now, even if its content was not classified at
the time it was sent (that is the process sometimes
So, first, what we have done:
referred to as “up-classifying”).
The investigation began as a referral from the
From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the
Intelligence Community Inspector General in
State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains
connection with Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal
e-mail server during her time as Secretary of State. have been determined by the owning agency to
contain classified information at the time they were
The referral focused on whether classified information
was transmitted on that personal system. sent or received. Eight of those chains contained
information that was Top Secret at the time they were
Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the
classified information was improperly stored or time; and eight contained Confidential information,
transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a which is the lowest level of classification. Separate
federal statute making it a felony to mishandle from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-
classified information either intentionally or in a classified” to make them Confidential; the information
grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails
misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified were sent.
information from appropriate systems or storage
The FBI also discovered several thousand work-
facilities.
related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000
Consistent with our counterintelligence that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in
responsibilities, we have also investigated to 2014. We found those additional e-mails in a variety of
determine whether there is evidence of computer ways. Some had been deleted over the years and we
intrusion in connection with the personal e-mail server found traces of them on devices that supported or
by any foreign power, or other hostile actors. were connected to the private e-mail domain. Others
I have so far used the singular term, “e-mail server,” in we found by reviewing the archived government e-
describing the referral that began our investigation. It mail accounts of people who had been government
turns out to have been more complicated than that. employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton,
Secretary Clinton used several different servers and including high-ranking officials at other agencies,
administrators of those servers during her four years people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally
at the State Department, and used numerous mobile correspond.
devices to view and send e-mail on that personal This helped us recover work-related e-mails that were
domain. As new servers and equipment were not among the 30,000 produced to State. Still others
employed, older servers were taken out of service, we recovered from the laborious review of the millions
stored, and decommissioned in various ways. Piecing of e-mail fragments dumped into the slack space of
all of that back together—to gain as full an the server decommissioned in 2013.
understanding as possible of the ways in which
personal e-mail was used for government work—has With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that
were not among those produced to State, agencies
been a painstaking undertaking, requiring thousands
of hours of effort. have concluded that three of those were classified at
the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret
For example, when one of Secretary Clinton’s original level and two at the Confidential level. There were no
personal servers was decommissioned in 2013, the e- additional Top Secret e-mails found. Finally, none of
mail software was removed. Doing that didn’t remove those we found have since been “up-classified.”
the e-mail content, but it was like removing the frame
from a huge finished jigsaw puzzle and dumping the I should add here that we found no evidence that any
of the additional work-related e-mails were
pieces on the floor. The effect was that millions of e-
mail fragments end up unsorted in the server’s intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them. Our
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assessment is that, like many e-mail users, Secretary handling of very sensitive, highly classified
Clinton periodically deleted e-mails or e-mails were information.
purged from the system when devices were changed.
For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters
Because she was not using a government account—
that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access
or even a commercial account like Gmail—there was
Program level when they were sent and received.
no archiving at all of her e-mails, so it is not surprising
These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending
that we discovered e-mails that were not on Secretary e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails
Clinton’s system in 2014, when she produced the
from others about the same matters. There is
30,000 e-mails to the State Department.
evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable
It could also be that some of the additional work- person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the
related e-mails we recovered were among those position of those government employees with whom
deleted as “personal” by Secretary Clinton’s lawyers she was corresponding about these matters, should
when they reviewed and sorted her e-mails for have known that an unclassified system was no place
production in 2014. for that conversation. In addition to this highly
sensitive information, we also found information that
The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in
was properly classified as Secret by the U.S.
2014 did not individually read the content of all of her
e-mails, as we did for those available to us; instead, Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed
on e-mail (that is, excluding the later “up-classified” e-
they relied on header information and used search
mails).
terms to try to find all work-related e-mails among the
reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails remaining None of these e-mails should have been on any kind
on Secretary Clinton’s personal system in 2014. It is of unclassified system, but their presence is especially
highly likely their search terms missed some work- concerning because all of these e-mails were housed
related e-mails, and that we later found them, for on unclassified personal servers not even supported
example, in the mailboxes of other officials or in the by full-time security staff, like those found at
slack space of a server. Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—
or even with a commercial service like Gmail.
It is also likely that there are other work-related e-
mails that they did not produce to State and that we Separately, it is important to say something about the
did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone marking of classified information. Only a very small
because they deleted all e-mails they did not return to number of the e-mails containing classified information
State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in such a bore markings indicating the presence of classified
way as to preclude complete forensic recovery. information. But even if information is not marked
“classified” in an e-mail, participants who know or
We have conducted interviews and done technical
should know that the subject matter is classified are
examination to attempt to understand how that sorting
was done by her attorneys. Although we do not have still obligated to protect it.
complete visibility because we are not able to fully While not the focus of our investigation, we also
reconstruct the electronic record of that sorting, we developed evidence that the security culture of the
believe our investigation has been sufficient to give us State Department in general, and with respect to use
reasonable confidence there was no intentional of unclassified e-mail systems in particular, was
misconduct in connection with that sorting effort. generally lacking in the kind of care for classified
information found elsewhere in the government.
And, of course, in addition to our technical work, we
interviewed many people, from those involved in With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile
setting up and maintaining the various iterations of actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary
Secretary Clinton’s personal server, to staff members Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various
with whom she corresponded on e-mail, to those configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked.
involved in the e-mail production to State, and finally, But, given the nature of the system and of the actors
Secretary Clinton herself. potentially involved, we assess that we would be
unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess
Last, we have done extensive work to understand
what indications there might be of compromise by that hostile actors gained access to the private
commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom
hostile actors in connection with the personal e-mail
operation. Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her
personal account. We also assess that Secretary
That’s what we have done. Now let me tell you what Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail domain was both
we found: known by a large number of people and readily
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary apparent. She also used her personal e-mail
Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws extensively while outside the United States, including
governing the handling of classified information, there sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the
is evidence that they were extremely careless in their territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that
combination of factors, we assess it is possible that
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hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts
personal e-mail account. to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.
So that’s what we found. Finally, with respect to our To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar
recommendation to the Department of Justice: circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity
would face no consequences. To the contrary, those
In our system, the prosecutors make the decisions
about whether charges are appropriate based on individuals are often subject to security or
administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are
evidence the FBI has helped collect. Although we
deciding now.
don’t normally make public our recommendations to
the prosecutors, we frequently make As a result, although the Department of Justice makes
recommendations and engage in productive final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing
conversations with prosecutors about what resolution to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in
may be appropriate, given the evidence. In this case, this case.
given the importance of the matter, I think unusual I know there will be intense public debate in the wake
transparency is in order.
of this recommendation, as there was throughout this
Although there is evidence of potential violations of investigation. What I can assure the American people
the statutes regarding the handling of classified is that this investigation was done competently,
information, our judgment is that no reasonable honestly, and independently. No outside influence of
prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors any kind was brought to bear.
necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing
I know there were many opinions expressed by people
charges. There are obvious considerations, like the who were not part of the investigation—including
strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.
people in government—but none of that mattered to
Responsible decisions also consider the context of a
us. Opinions are irrelevant, and they were all
person’s actions, and how similar situations have uninformed by insight into our investigation, because
been handled in the past.
we did the investigation the right way. Only facts
In looking back at our investigations into mishandling matter, and the FBI found them here in an entirely
or removal of classified information, we cannot find a apolitical and professional way. I couldn’t be prouder
case that would support bringing criminal charges on to be part of this organization.
these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some
combination of: clearly intentional and willful James Comey changed the wording from “grossly
mishandling of classified information; or vast negligent” to “extremely careless” in his final
quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to statement.
support an inference of intentional misconduct; or
.
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David Brooks: Anti-Trump Movement Is Getting
'Dumber,' Becoming A 'Smug Fairy Tale'
By Tyler O'Neil
January 9, 2018
"The anti-Trump movement, of which I'm a In any case, Brooks admitted that anti-Trump lowbrowism
proud member, seems to be getting dominates "late-night TV," and "burst into full bloom with
dumber," Brooks confessed. "It seems to the Wolff book."
be settling into a smug, fairy tale version of
reality that filters out discordant "Wolff doesn’t pretend to adhere to normal
information." journalistic standards. He happily admits
that he’s just tossing out rumors that are
The Times columnist explained that too good to check. As Charlie Warzel wrote
on BuzzFeed, 'For Wolff’s book, the truth
seems almost a secondary concern to what
"more anti-Trumpers seem to be telling
really matters: engagement,'" Brooks
themselves a 'Madness of King George'
wrote.
narrative: Trump is a semiliterate madman
surrounded by sycophants who are
morally, intellectually and psychologically He argued that opposing lowbrowism may be more
inferior to people like us." important than opposing Trump.
To his credit, Brooks attacked this smug mentality. "This isn’t just a struggle over a president.
It’s a struggle over what rules we’re going
to play by after Trump. Are we all going to
"I’d like to think it’s possible to be fervently
descend permanently into the Trump
anti-Trump while also not reducing
standard of acceptable behavior?" Brooks
everything to a fairy tale," he wrote.
asked.
The columnist lamented the anti-Trump
movement's "insularity" — few of them He wondered whether Americans can
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"restore the distinction between excellence press operation. Then there is the Invisible
and mediocrity, truth and a lie." White House that you never hear about,
which is getting more effective at managing
The descent into unthinking partisanship did not begin around the distracted boss."
with Donald Trump, however. Brooks —
Self-described anti-Trump writers like Brooks seem unable
who wrote an "I Miss Obama" puff piece to realize that many of Trump's policy victories likely did
during the 2016 election — seems to have come from the president (SHOCKER!).
forgotten just how easily the Obama
scandals were dismissed by the press Brooks did admit that "people who go into
when the Ideologue in Chief declared, the White House to have a meeting with
"Nothing to see here." Obama may not President Trump usually leave pleasantly
have been "lowbrow," but he certainly was surprised. They find that Trump is not the
no perfect truth-teller. raving madman they expected from his
tweetstorms or the media coverage."
Also, is Brooks about to admit that the Russia
investigation might not end with a Trump treason Hmmmm. It's almost as if Donald Trump is not crazy.
impeachment? That might be the most fanciful fairy tale The Times columnist admitted
the Left is telling itself right now, and they seem utterly
convinced. "this is not an administration full of people
itching to invoke the 25th Amendment."
Even so, this op-ed is a step in the right direction.
Brooks remains anti-Trump, and it seems he may still be
Brooks noted that "there are two White biased in favor of Barack Obama. Even so, this op-ed is an
Houses. There’s the Potemkin White important wake-up call to the Left. Trump opponents need
House, which we tend to focus on: Trump to dial back the rhetoric, understand what the president's
berserk in front of the TV, the lawyers supporters think, and re-examine their premises. Brooks
working the Russian investigation and the has begun this journey, and he should not stop there.
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Will The 'Impossible' Soon Come True? While Upcoming
OIG Report Shows Comey, Lynch And Clinton In
Crosshairs, A Nuclear Holocaust In America Would
Quickly End All Investigations
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
January 9, 2018
While much of America was talking about Michael Wolff's long been concerned that if close to being indicted for
new (and largely 'fake') book 'Fire and Fury', the 25th treason, 'enemies of America within' would attempt to pull
Amendment and a desperate attempt at removing President off the 'false flag of all false flags' to complete their long-
Trump from office and NBC's tweet Sunday showing worked-for goals of taking down America. From Din.:
they'll be supporting Oprah Winfrey for president in 2020,
a new story over at Zero Hedge might help to explain why A nuclear holocaust would put an end to
the likes of Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and George many things.... The on-going
Soros haven't been recently heard from on Twitter with investigations into the treasonous acts
'medical boots' seemingly now all the rage with the committed by the enemies of humanity,
globalists. discovery of the 21 trillion dollars no
one can account for, the Pedophile
Quite appropriately titled "Upcoming Oig Report Likely investigations, etc, and the resurgence
To Trigger Second Special Counsel; Comey, Lynch of the once great U.S.A.
And Clinton In Crosshairs", their story helps to explain
why Americans fed up with government and 'deep state If we get nuked, EMPed, or have a
corruption' in Washington DC and America might one day massive biological or chemical attack
see what many of us have long believed impossible on U.S. soil it will be the creatures that
coming true. are so often in the news for their
criminal activities that will be
And while we still won't be holding our breaths waiting for responsible. And it will be our fault for
the traitors within the deep state or the Clinton crime not taking out these traitors years
family to fall, an already raucous start to to 2018 will sooner.
likely see more fireworks ahead, and possibly soon after
the January 15th release of a report by the DOJ's Inspector
General as Susan Duclos reported back on December 18th
of 2017 in this ANP story, "Explosive Revelations' By
DOJ Inspector General May Force A FBI Hillary
Clinton Investigation Reboot".
In this January 7th story written by 'Trump Soldier' over at Both paths go through the DoJ. They
American Digital News he reports that a war that began can appoint one on their own or be
long before President Trump got into office that pitted the forced to by Congress. The evidence
DOJ's Inspector General Michael Horowitz and a few will simply be too overwhelming to do
members of Congress against the Barack Obama otherwise. It will look like the IG and
administration. While Eric Holder had effectively neutered Congress vs. the DoJ but make no
the Office of the Internal General's investigative powers mistake about it the DoJ/FBI good guys
soon after the fast and furious gun running scandal broke, are in on it. The Initial Scope Bullet
things have changed. From Trump Soldier.: Points Comey, Kadzik, FOIA, and the
Hillary Clinton email investigation.
In Horowitz War vs. The Obama Admin
he allied himself with Congress. This is This report will be the highlight of
the continuation of that war. This is the Horowitz career as well as that of
mop up operation and he is once again everyone in his organization. It will be
working with Congress towards that the most significant report to ever come
end. That end is reached by a special out of the Inspectors General. He will
counsel and there are two paths to get give the HJC and the DoJ what they
there. need to appoint a Special Counsel. It is
inevitable. What was Michael Horowitz
doing prior to January 2017? From
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2011-2016 he was engaged in a (which they are not) they are between a
protracted war with the Holder DoJ and rock (IG) and a hard place (Congress)
Obama Admin. A war he finally won in and will comply. Lastly, for amusement
November 2016. pay attention to the targets of the
investigations and their surrogates in
For those that are paranoid about the both the media and Congress. They will
DoJ/FBI leadership and want to view attack, distort, distract, and flail about in
them as an adversary that is fine. IT panic. Do not worry about them. They
WILL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE. Even if are powerless and along for the ride.
they were opposed to cleaning up ALL OF THEM.
With that last paragraph being music to our ears, and ranking of the US press freedom index dropped to 41st in
before anyone goes and screams a new investigation into the world in 2016 - as we've reported before on ANP,
Hillary emails or corruption proves we're witnessing anything less than #1 and we're moving towards tyranny.
'partisan politics' once again, we'd be wise to remember
that Horowitz was appointed by Barack Obama back on While John Podesta hasn't been seen on twitter since
April 16th of 2012. And where has the 'Democrative deep December 17th, he generally only tweeted about once
state' elite suddenly gone on twitter? every few weeks anyways though George Soros absence
since November 26th is strange because he used to tweet
Let's take a look at what's happening there. quite regularly.
As Susan Duclos pointed out in this ANP story back on And while none of these absences are proof that something
January 3rd, for some reason, the likes of Bill and Hillary, huge is going down, the 'rules of the game' may finally be
James Comey, John Podesta and George Soros have been enforced with President Trump in office, IG Horowitz
strangely quiet on twitter recently. As of the writing of this unchained and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton now on
story, Hillary Clinton's last tweets were on January 2nd, a the sideline, watching events unfolding like the rest of us
week ago now, her account used to tweet nearly every day. rather than pulling the most crucial strings as we hear in
each of the videos below.
While James Comey's last tweet came on January 3rd, he
too used to tweet once every few days and while Bill
Clinton finally issued another tweet on Monday after more
than a week of absence, he hinted at journalists being
imprisoned and a free press being critical to a free society
in this tweet: A free press is critical to a free society—the
detention of journalists anywhere is unacceptable. The
Reuters journalists being held in Myanmar should be
released immediately. What about Julian Assange, Bill?
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Russiagate Turns On Its Originators
By Paul Craig Roberts,
January 09, 2018
Russiagate originated in a conspiracy between the What we do know is that the FBI used what it knew to be a
military/security complex, the Clinton-controlled fake dossier to go to the FISA court for a warrant to spy on
Democratic National Committee, and the Trump.
liberal/progressive/left. The goal of the military/security
complex is to protect its out-sized budget and power by As a consequence both Comey and the FBI, special
preventing President Trump from normalizing relations prosecutor Mueller, and Christopher Steele are in hot
with Russia. Hillary and the DNC want to explain away water. The Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary
their election loss by blaming a Trump/Putin conspiracy to Committee, Senator Grassley, has instructed the US
steal the election. The liberal/progressive/left want Trump Attorney General to launch a criminal investigation of
driven from office. Steele for false statements to FBI counterintelligence
officials.
As the presstitutes are aligned with the
military/security complex, Hillary and the https://www.rt.com/usa/415105-senate-doj-steele-criminal/
DNC, and the liberal/progressive/left, the
Russiagate orchestration is a powerful
You can see where this leads as former FBI director
conspiracy against the president of the
Comey is a participant in the Russiagate attack on
United States and the “deplorables” who President Trump. To protect himself Steele will have to rat
elected him. Nevertheless, the Russiagate
on who put him up to it. If President Trump had any sense,
Conspiracy has fallen apart and has now
he would put Steele under protective custody, as his life is
been turned against its originators.
clearly in danger. If the CIA and the FBI don’t get him, the
Clintons surely will.
Despite the determination of the CIA and FBI to get
Trump, these powerful and unaccountable police state
Trump’s easy election shook the Republican Establishment
agencies have been unable to present any evidence of the
as well as it upset the Democrats and the military/security
Trump/Putin conspiracy against Hillary. As William
complex. The Republican Establishment hates losing
Binney, the former high level National Security Agency
control. Initially the Republican Establishment aligned
official who devised the spy program has stated, if there
with Trump’s enemies, but now understands that Trump’s
was any evidence of a Trump/Putin conspiracy to steal the
demise means their demise.
US presidential election, the NSA would most certainly
have it.
Consequently, all of a sudden in Washington facts count.
Not all facts, just those relating to the Steele dossier. Be
So where is the evidence? Why after one
sure you listen closely and carefully to these two videos of
year and a half and a special prosecutor
US Representative Jim Jordan’s destruction of US Deputy
whose assignment is to get Trump has no
Attorney General Rosenstein for sitting on his ass while a
evidence whatsoever been found of the
totally corrupt FBI attempted to destroy the elected
Trump/Putin conspiracy? The obvious
president of the United States. Keep in mind that
answer is that no such conspiracy ever
Rosenstein is a member of the Trump administration. Why
existed. The only conspiracy is the one
does the President of the United States employ people out
against Trump.
to destroy him?
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Here are 18 questions asked by US Rep. Jim Jordan: 15) Why did Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson meet
with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya before and
1) Did the FBI pay Christopher Steele, author of the after her meeting with Donald Trump Jr.?
dossier? 16) Why was FBI General Counsel Jim Baker reassigned
2) Was the dossier the basis for securing FISA warrants two weeks ago? Was he the source for the first story
to spy on Americans? And why won’t the FBI show on the dossier by David Corn on October 31, 2016? Or
Congress the FISA application? was it someone else at the FBI?
3) When did the FBI get the complete dossier and who 17) Why won’t the FBI give Congress the documents it’s
gave it to them? Dossier author Christopher Steele? requesting?
Fusion GPS? Clinton campaign/DNC? Sen. McCain’s 18) And why would Senator Schumer, leader of the
staffer? Democrat party, publicly warn President-elect Trump
4) Did the FBI validate and corroborate the dossier? on Jan. 3, 2017 that when you mess with the
5) Did Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, or Bruce Orr work on the “intelligence community, they have six ways from
FISA application? Sunday at getting back at you?”
6) Why and how often did DOJ lawyer Bruce Orr meet
with dossier author Christopher Steele during the 2016 Insouciant trusting gullible Americans who “believe in our
campaign? government” have no comprehension how totally corrupt
7) Why did DOJ lawyer Bruce Orr meet with Fusion GPS “their” government is. It is the most corrupt in the world.
founder Glenn Simpson after the election? To get their The corruption in Washington is really unbelievable. You
story straight after their candidate Clinton lost? Or to have to experience it to know it, and those who experience
double down and plan how they were going to go after it are part of it and will not tell.
President-elect Trump?
8) When and how did the FBI learn that DOJ lawyer Bruce The orchestration “Russiagate” proves
Orr’s wife, Nellie Orr, worked for Fusion GPS? And that the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI are so
what exactly was Nellie Orr’s role in putting together corrupt and unaccountable that they
the dossier? comprise the greatest threat to the
9) Why did the FBI release text messages between Peter American people in the entire history of
Strzok and Lisa Page? Normally, ongoing investigation America.
is reason not to make such information public.
10) And why did FBI release only 375/10,000+ texts? Were
The only solution is to break these agencies into a
they the best? Worst? Or part of a broader strategy to
thousand splinters, as President John F. Kennedy intended,
focus attention away from something else? And when
and rebuild them from scratch with total transparency. No
can Americans see the other 96% of texts
more protecting their vast crimes under the cloak of
11) Why did Lisa Page leave Mueller probe two weeks
“national security.” No classification of any so-called
before Peter Strzok? This was two weeks before FBI
intelligence unless it can pass a unanimous vote of
and Special Counsel even knew about the texts.
Congress and the ACLU.
12) Why did the intelligence community wait two months
after the election to brief President-elect Trump on the
dossier (January 6, 2017)? Why was James Comey The orchestration of Russiagate is proof
selected to do the briefing? that the alleged “national security
13) Was the briefing done to “legitimize” the dossier? And agencies” are an anti-American force
who leaked the fact that the briefing was about the detrimental to our survival as a free
dossier? people. The criminals in the FBI, CIA,
14) The New York Times reported last week that George and DNC must be investigated, indicted,
Papadopoulos’ loose lips were a catalyst for launching prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned
the Russia investigation. Was President-elect Trump or freedom in America is forever dead.
briefed on this?
If President Trump fails in this task, he will have failed
America. Everyone of us will be the victims.
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Feinstein Unilaterally Posts Full Testimony
Of Fusion GPS Founder, Grassley Furious
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/09/2018 - 14:31
Just four days after two GOP Senators asked the DOJ to Curiously, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat
launch a criminal probe of Christopher Steele, the ex-MI6 on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has also
British spy who was the author of the Trump dossier, and interviewed members of Fusion GPS, also appeared to
which according to many served as the basis for the back Grassley’s rationale last week. He said that he would
Russian collusion probe, on Tuesday afternoon Senator like Fusion partners to appear for public testimony.
Dianne Feinstein circumvented her Republican colleagues
on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday and In a statement, Feinstein said that she released Simpson’s
unilaterally released the full 312-page transcript of the testimony after conferring with her fellow committee
committee's closed-door interview with Glenn Simpson, a Democrats.
former journalist and co-founder of Fusion GPS, which
commissioned the controversial Donald Trump's dossier
“The American people deserve the
about alleged connections with Russians.
opportunity to see what he said and judge
for themselves. The innuendo and
misinformation circulating about the
transcript are part of a deeply troubling
effort to undermine the investigation into
potential collusion and obstruction of
justice. The only way to set the record
straight is to make the transcript public.”
The unexpected release, which came after a tense back- and that
and-forth between Republicans and Democrats over what
to do with the transcript of Simpson’s interview, follows "Her action undermines the integrity of the
Fusion GPS' demand last week that the full transcript be committee’s oversight work and
released, sparking a fight with Judiciary Chairman Chuck jeopardizes its ability to secure candid
Grassley (R-Iowa) over who was standing in the way of voluntary testimony relating to the
the document being released. The Senate Judiciary independent recollections of future
Committee interviewed Simpson on August 22, 2017 as witnesses."
part of its investigation into Russia's election interference.
Taylor Foy, a spokesman for Judiciary Chairman Chuck
That confrontation heated up last week after Simpson and Grassley, blasted Feinstein’s decision to release the
his Fusion GPS co-founder Peter Fritsch penned an op-ed transcript unilaterally, saying it could reduce the prospects
in The New York Times calling on the three congressional for other witnesses, such as Trump’s son-in-law, Jared
committees who have interviewed Fusion GPS employees Kushner, to agree to meet with the panel.
to release transcripts of the interviews. Grassley, the
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, balked at the
“Her action undermines the integrity of the
idea, saying that the transcript needed to remain
committee’s oversight work and
confidential while the panel is interviewing other
jeopardizes its ability to secure candid
witnesses.
voluntary testimony relating to the
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independent recollections of future
witnesses,” Foy said in an emailed
statement.
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helped assemble a controversial dossier tying President happen and you call 911, right,” Simpson
Trump to Russia. Former British spy Christopher Steele said.
compiled the document, which includes unverified
allegations against Trump and his links to Moscow. Over that period, he said,
As Bloomberg adds, Republicans and Democrats tangled “the situation with the hacking of the
in recent weeks over the origins of the dossier, which was Democrats and the efforts by the Russians
funded in part by Trump’s political opponents, to influence the election and the possibility
the Trump Organization was, in fact, doing
and how the FBI and other agencies things to curry favor with the Russians
may have used the dossier in their became more and more serious, as
investigations. external developments occurred.”
“The innuendo and misinformation
circulating about the transcript are part of a Asked what he meant, Simpson pointed to Carter Page, a
deeply troubling effort to undermine the Trump campaign foreign policy adviser who showed up in
investigation into potential collusion and Moscow to give a speech; unexplained changes to the
obstruction of justice," Feinstein said in a Republican Party platform ahead of the GOP convention;
statement. “The only way to set the record and that Trump
straight is to make the transcript public.”
“continues to say mysterious things about
The full transcript details Glenn Simpson's August 22 what a great guy Putin is.”
interview. It shows that Simpson told the Senate Judiciary
Committee that the author of the dossier, Simpson said he had asked Steele at one point during the
summer of 2016 if he’d ever heard back from the FBI
former British spy Christopher Steele, following that initial July meeting
decided to approach the FBI in July
2016 to brief the bureau on his findings “because it was obvious there was a crime
about Trump. in progress.” Simpson said the crime he
"He thought from his perspective there was was referring to was “espionage -- they
were hacking into the computers of
an issue -- a security issue about whether a
presidential candidate was being Democrats and think tanks.”
blackmailed,” Simpson said. He added that
when Steele met with an FBI official in ***
September, the official told Steele the
bureau "had other intelligence about this As is widely known, Fusion was initially hired by
matter from an internal Trump campaign conservative website, Washington Free Beacon, during the
source." Republican primaries to dig up dirt on Trump.
The marathon conversation between Simpson and Later in the 2016 presidential campaign,
lawmakers touched on delicate territory while leaving Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton and
tantalizing details hanging, including the identity of a the Democratic National Committee paid
person inside the Trump circle who Simpson says provided Fusion GPS through a law firm for some
information to U.S. investigators. Simpson, a former of the research that resulted in the
journalist who co-founded Fusion GPS, denied strongly in dossier.
the interview that the dossier was phony.
But as Bloomberg notes, in the August interview,
“We can argue about what’s prudent
and what’s not, but it’s not a Simpson and his lawyer, asked
fabrication,” he said. repeatedly who commissioned research
into the presidential candidate, declined
Simpson also told the committee that he became to name them.
increasingly concerned about potential Trump connections
to Russia during the summer of 2016. Simpson also demurred when asked to provide specifics
about people who provided information to Steele. The ex-
“To me this was like, you know, you’re intelligence official was adept at gleaning information
driving to work and you see something about Russia, where disinformation is a known pitfall,
Simpson said.
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When Simpson was asked to detail
steps Steele took to verify his sources’
credibility, his lawyer cut in to stop the
line of questioning.
***
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As noted above, according to the transcript, Steele said that
he approached the FBI because he believed there were
issue involving national security:
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... With Steele later suggesting that the FBI had a source
inside the Trump organization.
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Steve Bannon Is
Stepping Down From Breitbart
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/09/2018 - 16:14
Just days after President Trump snubbed an olive branch “I’m proud of what the Breitbart team has
offered by his former chief strategist and putative "alter- accomplished in so short a period of time in
ego", the New York Times is reporting that Steve Bannon - building out a world-class news platform.”
the "alt-right" icon and former Trump campaign manager -
is stepping down from his position as executive chairman According to Breitbart CEO Larry Solov,
of Breitbart News.
“Steve is a valued part of our legacy, and
Trump blasted Bannon in a public statement last week, we will always be grateful for his
saying the former senior White House official and - briefly contributions, and what he has helped us to
- member of the National Security Council - "lost his accomplish.”
mind" after Trump fired him. Bannon and the president
had an abrupt falling out last week after excerpts from Incidentally, the top-rated comment under that article is:
Michael Wolff's controversial book "Fire And Fury" - his
account of the first year of the Trump administration -
revealed Bannon making several embarrassing on-the- Steve is a great guy but he dug his own
record statements. In one, he said Don. Jr.'s decision to grave ....what else can I say.
organize the Russia meeting was "treasonous", and that
President Trump definitely knew about the meeting. In According to the Times, Bannon's departure was forced by
another, he reportedly told Wolff that the possibility of Robert Mercer, a one-time patron who distanced himself
removing Trump via the 25th amendment is discussed from Bannon and abruptly retracted his financial backing
daily in the West Wing. (including dropping payment for Bannon's security detail)
because of a detail in Wolff's book whereby Bannon told
Breitbart published a terse statement about Bannon's friends that the Mercers would back him if he decided to
departure on its website. It was stocked with several challenge President Trump in 2020.
wooden platitudes from CEO Larry Solov:
Trump has reportedly been making calls, asking all of his
Stephen K. Bannon has stepped down from Breitbart News friends and political allies to turn their backs on Bannon.
Network, where he served as Executive Chairman since For his part, Bannon took to Breitbart radio earlier this
2012. week to publicly affirm his support for the president. Even
though the two men publicly feuded this year following his
firing - most notably over Bannon's early support for
former Republican senate candidate Roy Moore - Bannon
Bannon and Breitbart will work together on a smooth and has persistently proclaimed in public that Americans
orderly transition. should "thank God" that Trump is president.
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Tucker Carlson To Trump On DACA Remarks:
‘What Was The Point Of Running For President?’
By Jeff Poor
9 Jan 2018
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Twenty-Year-Old Video Shows How Bill Clinton LIED
About North Korea, But Donald Trump Was Right
By Jayson Veley
Tuesday, January 09, 2018
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Matthews Touts Wolff’s ‘Blocks Of Reality’;
Falsely Claims Bannon ‘Created’ Breitbart
By Curtis Houck
January 9, 2018 8:31 PM EST
Right off the bat, Matthews pushed some fake news in “love[s] the facts in your book because
wondering what Wolff made about the Bannon news, it is a non-fiction book with a lot of
asserting that facts.”
“We can argue around the edges, but
“Bannon is gone from Breitbart,” which the facts are like giant blocks of reality,”
is a “thing he created.” Matthews foolishly claimed.
Also during the segment, the MSNBC host
blasted Trump for “trying to create a
Potemkin village” in the form of the
bipartisan immigration meeting “to offset
the portrait” spun in Wolff’s book. Wolff
agreed, stating that it was “the weirdest
thing I've ever seen.”
A basic Google search would tell you that, Matthews wondered if Trump was able to
but perhaps we should cut Chris some
slack since he might have something else “show reasonable judgment, coolness
on his mind. under pressure, and recognition of
consequences by the people around
Wolff rolled with the question anyway, responding that him,” to which Wolff not surprisingly
replied was not possible.
“I'm thinking that the — that the real
villain of the book who is Donald Trump To cap off the lovefest, Matthews responded to Wolff’s
is still ensconced in the White House. point about how Bannon and Reince Priebus became
So it's a — it’s a little bit of a tragedy surprising allies in the White House by resurrecting his
here.” quip about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump being the
U.S. equivalent of Saddam Hussein’s murderous sons:
Matthews asked “for whom” this is “a
tragedy” and Wolff responded that it’s “a
tragedy” “for the American people” that “I guess when you're dealing with Uday
Bannon is gone while Trump stays in office. and Qusay every day, you do find
Again, this is a guy who claimed that common purposes.”
he “has no political agenda.”
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Here’s the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on Ferocious kid with no mental or emotional development, who can
January 9: kill anybody he wanted to, destroy their lives terrifically, and
everybody just pandered to him, pacified him. It’s like there’s an
MSNBC’s Hardball eight-year-old in that West Wing, and everybody around him is
January 9, 2018 scared to death he’ll do something really destructive if they don’t
7:02 p.m. Eastern please him that moment. Did you see that Twilight episode back
then? Cause that’s what it reminds me of.
(....)
MICHAEL WOLFF: I'm thinking that the — that the real villain of
the book who is Donald Trump is still ensconced in the White
House. So it's a — it’s a little bit of a tragedy here. MATTHEWS: And now we come to the cold, scary part of your
book. The fitness question. It seems to me, and I thought about
MATTHEWS: For whom? this no — just a couple of moments, I think it's what most people
would come to mind if they're thinking about, what does a
president have to be....Does Trump have the ability to show
WOLF: For —
reasonable judgment, coolness under pressure, and recognition
of consequences by the people around him?
MATTHEWS: For the country?
WOLFF: He — I think that's a — that's a — a fine and perfect list
WOLFF: For the American people, yes. and on each point, he does not have that attribute.
(....) (....)
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about the President's performance MATTHEWS: Let's talk about the thing that — I love the facts in
today. Out of nowhere, a press spray that usually lasts in the your book because it is a non-fiction book with a lot of facts. We
seconds, where they let the cameras in, he makes some burping can argue around the edges, but the facts are like giant blocks of
sounds to the press, and they're gone. This time, I thought, to reality.
make up for the portrayal you have given of him — given of him
in the book, and maybe a very accurate one, he tried to show a
(....)
very different picture of an equanimity — of a calm, collected,
reasonable, open to the negotiations, perfect being out there, just
for the cameras. Do you think he's trying to create a Potemkin MATTHEWS: By the way, you remind me of the great reporter,
village to offset the portrait you wrote in the book? Joe McGinniss, who really started this behind-the-lines kind of
reporting with Jeffrey MacDonald, before that with the Nixon
people and selling of the press, where he went in there and had
WOLFF: Yeah. Absolutely. I mean — there could — what else
an indefinite role, nobody knew who he was, but somehow he got
could there be here? I mean, remember, just the other day, he
clearance, and somehow, thanks to Roger Ailes and other
was just assuring us that he was — he was sane and stable, so
people, he told the whole story of how Nixon put together that
this is — this is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
phoney baloney campaign in '68.
(....)
(....)
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Fusion GPS Lawyer :
"Somebody's Already Been Killed"
Because Of Trump Dossier
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/09/2018 - 15:51
A lawyer for Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion As the Hill further adds, some of the allegations in the
dossier have been shown to be false, while others have
GPS, told congressional investigators that “somebody’s
already been killed” as a result of the publication of the either been supported by public evidence or remain
controversial dossier tying President Trump to Russia. unproven. It’s widely believed that the document was
central to the FBI’s decision to launch what eventually
morphed into the probe being led by Special Counsel
In closed-door testimony with the Senate Judiciary Robert Mueller.
Committee last year, Simpson was asked by investigators
if Fusion GPS took steps to “assess the credibility” of
sources used by former British intelligence officer Earlier on Tuesday, in an unexpectedly move, California
Christopher Steele, who compiled the dossier. Sen. Dianne Feinstein unilaterally published the full 312-
page transcript of Simpson’s testimony to the fury of
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley,
“Yes, but I’m not going to get into
sourcing information,” Simpson replied.
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who accused her of interfering with the committee’s hired by Fusion to compile the dossier
investigation. But the timing is also curious: after Fusion GPS was retained.
Four days ago, two Republican senators Perhaps that request should be widened to include the
asked the DOJ to open a criminal editors at Buzzfeed and CNN who were responsible for the
investigation into former MI6 agent document’s publication?
Christopher Steele. Steele was famously
.
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Scarborough Admits: No 'Objective
Evidence' That Trump Mentally Unfit
By Chris Reeves
January 9, 2018 4:27 PM EST
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and this was the rub–but when I decide I am
Mika Brzezinski once again tried to peddle the notion that back in form, I'll take it back. That's the
President Trump is mentally ill and thus unfit to be question. What if a president shouldn't
President of the United States. be the judge of that case?
[Trump speech from October 1, 2016] [clip from CNN, February 2016]
TRUMP: Give me a break. TRUMP: Kentucky Fried Chicken–not the worst thing in the
world.
[transition]
[transition]
BRZEZINSKI: Amid new concern over the President's
stability. BRZEZINSKI: And besides some additional details, the candidate
only provided a letter with his doctor's bizarre claims.
[Trump speech from October 1, 2016]
[clip from Morning Joe’s December 15, 2015 broadcast]
TRUMP: She could be crazy. She could actually be crazy.
BRZEZINSKI: [...] unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual
[transition] ever elected [...]
KATTY KAY: Comparing the size of his nuclear button with the [clip from NBC News August 26, 2016 report]
dictator of North Korea.
NBC: Is that the way that you write most of your medical letters?
[transition]
DR. HAROLD BORNSTEIN: No, but for Mr. Trump, I wrote that
BRZEZINSKI: His mental abilities. letter that one [...]
BRZEZINSKI: Genius, a very stable genius at that. BRZEZINSKI: Recent presidents and candidates have released
certain health records, but, like tax returns, there is no law
formally mandating disclosure. Presidents from FDR to JFK
[transition]
to Reagan have told the public only what they wanted them
to know about their health. And with Democrats who will be in
BRZEZINSKI: And devastating claims denied by the White their early to late 70s if they run in three years...
House.
[clip from MTP Daily’s December 27, 2016 broadcast]
[clip from Morning Joe’s January 4, 2018 broadcast]
PETER ALEXANDER: Harry Reid referred to [...] the potential
KASIE HUNT: Trump failed to recognize a succession of old Democratic 2020 presidential field as an old folk's home.
friends.
[transition]
[transition]
BRZEZINSKI: Now may be the time to formally establish what
BRZEZINSKI: President Trump's age. we should know about the health of our president and
presidential candidates.
[clip from Dr. Oz Show’s September 15, 2016 broadcast]
[repeating Trump speech from October 1, 2016]
MEHMET OZ: At age 70, you will be the oldest person to ever
enter the Oval Office. TRUMP: She could be crazy. She could actually be crazy.
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Scarborough then introduced Greenfield and USA Today GREENFIELD: Right.
Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page onto the show, and
Greenfield made his argument for being more judicious about SCARBOROUGH: -and as you go to mental with Donald Trump,-
applying mental illness labels to the President. Scarborough
appeared to concede most of Greenfield’s points as the
GREENFIELD: But-.
segment progressed:
SCARBOROUGH: -this is something, as somebody said
SCARBOROUGH: So, we didn't know so much about John
yesterday: You better have national consensus,-
Kennedy's health when Kennedy was president. We didn't know
Ronald Reagan's battles, uh, in the later, latter part of his
presidency. Should we? Should we have a, a, a yearly GREENFIELD: And you-.
checkup,-
SCARBOROUGH: -an overwhelming majority of Americans.
BRZEZINSKI: [sarcasm] That’s very tough.
GREENFIELD: And at some -- one psychologist wrote that he's
SCARBOROUGH: -medical checkup? perfectly prepared, from a distance, to look at Trump and say:
This guy is a narcissist times a hundred. That doesn't necessarily
mean mental illness. Uh, and I'm, I’m one of those people
JEFF GREENFIELD: You get into a real problem when you
who’s very reluctant as a, you know, non-practi-, liberal arts
distinguish between physical and mental problems.
major-
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
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On Friday, Scarborough used his show to promote Michael Last November, in a widely reported episode, Scarborough
Wolff’s book Fire and Fury as one where “every page really claimed that he had sources “close to” the President who said
rings true.” Yesterday, Joe and Mika interviewed Wolff and once that candidate Trump showed symptoms of the “early stages of
again promoted his book as one whose “spirit” was dementia.” The next day, Scarborough used his claim of Trump
“completely true.” During their interview, Wolff said that the “big having predementia to promote military insubordination towards
picture” of his book was the notion that “[e]verybody in this the President among the leadership of U.S. nuclear defense
White House, and I keep saying this, 100% [...] of the people forces.
closest [...] to Donald Trump, believe that there is [...]
something fundamentally wrong [with him], something that If Scarborough does not believe that he has objective evidence to
scares them.” back up these kinds of assertions, why have he and his show’s
other co-hosts and guests repeatedly called Trump’s sanity into
question?
.
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Tucker Carlson To Trump: ‘Not Allowed
To Blow’ DACA, Overhaul Of ENTIRE
Immigration System
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 10, 2018
Continuing, the Fox News host noted, “Being a Trump voter isn’t always easy, it’s
like rooting for the underdog in baseball,
“You will remember the president also ran the old Chicago Cubs. On one level there is
on his skills as a negotiator, and he clearly pride, the pride that comes from doing
has skills as a negotiator. But where were something that fashionable people consider
they today? insane, and that’s a good feeling.
“The president signaled he’d be happy to “But there’s also some disappointment
legalize hundreds of thousands of illegal along the way and honestly, there is
immigrants now and that at some point in some embarrassment,” he continued. “But
the future tackle all that other stuff like you silently bear it because you know that
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when they finally win the World Series it will
be worth everything you went through.
Every sarcastic dig from your brother-in-law
at Thanksgiving will seem small by
comparison. In the Trump presidency, the
World Series is this immigration bill.
“It’s the big payoff, the whole point of
the exercise, and they’re not allowed
to blow it,” he concluded.
Watch:
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Fusion GPS Admits They Used John McCain
To Pass Anti-Trump Dossier To Obama-Era Intel Agencies
By Aaron Klein
10 Jan 2018
Last December, it was revealed that it was McCain who On January 10, CNN was first to report, based on leaked
notoriously passed the controversial dossier documents information, that the contents of the dossier were presented
produced by the Washington opposition research firm during classified briefings one week earlier to then-
Fusion GPS to then FBI Director James Comey, whose president Obama and president-elect Trump.
agency reportedly utilized the dossier as a basis for its
probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election.
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Just after CNN’s January 10 report on the classified directly from Steele. The issue was also raised in a lawsuit
briefings about the dossier, BuzzFeed published its full filed against Steele by one of the individuals named in the
unverified contents. dossier.
In October, McCain denied providing the dossier to The dossier contains wild and unproven claims that the
BuzzFeed and said that he only gave the material to the Russians had information regarding Trump and sordid
FBI. sexual acts, including the widely mocked claim that Trump
hired prostitutes and had them urinate on a hotel room
“I gave it to no one except for the director bed. It also claimed there was an exchange of information
of the FBI. I don’t know why you’re digging between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the
this up now,” McCain told the Daily Caller Russian government.
during what the news website described as
a testy exchange. Those allegations remain unsubstantiated following
numerous public hearings. Indeed, former CIA Director
While the Fusion GPS oped sheds some light on the John Brennan made clear in testimony last May that after
manner in which McCain obtained the dossier, the Fusion viewing all of the evidence that was available to him on
founders did not name the “emissary” who delivered the the Russia probe he is not aware of any collusion between
document to McCain. Russia and members of Trump’s 2016 presidential
campaign.
A January 11 statement from McCain attempted to explain
why he provided the documents to the FBI but did not Dossier was reportedly basis for Obama administration
mention how he came to possess the dossier or whether he moves
knew who funded it.
According to the BBC, the dossier served as a “roadmap”
“Upon examination of the contents, and for the FBI’s investigation into claims of coordination
unable to make a judgment about their between Moscow and members of Trump’s presidential
accuracy, I delivered the information to the campaign during the Obama administration.
director of the FBI,” McCain said at the
time. “That has been the extent of my In April, CNN reported that the dossier served as part of
contact with the FBI or any other the FBI’s justification for seeking the FISA court’s
government agency regarding this issue.” reported approval to clandestinely monitor the
communications of Carter Page, the American oil industry
Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to investor who was tangentially and briefly associated with
Moscow, said McCain first consulted him about the claims Trump’s presidential campaign.
inside the dossier at a security conference in Canada
shortly after last November’s presidential election. Senior Republican members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee have reportedly requested that the FBI and
Wood stated that McCain had obtained the documents Department of Justice turn over applications for any
from the senator’s own sources. warrants to monitor the communications of U.S. citizens
associated with the investigation into alleged Russia
“I told him I was aware of what was in the interference in the 2016 presidential election.
report but I had not read it myself, that it
might be true, it might be untrue. I had no In testimony last May, former FBI Director James
means of judging really,” Wood further told Comey repeatedly refused to answer questions about his
BBC Radio 4 in January. agency’s ties to the dossier.
Last Month, Wood related that he served as a “go- In further testimony to the U.S. Senate Select Committee
between” to inform McCain about the dossier contents. on Intelligence, Comey admitted he pushed back against a
request from President Donald Trump to possibly
“My mission was essentially to be a go- investigate the origins of “salacious material” that the
between and a messenger, to tell the agency possessed in the course of its investigation into
senator and assistants that such a dossier alleged Russian interference.
existed,” Wood told Fox News.
Dossier discredited
In March, Vanity Fair raised questions about the alleged
involvement of David J. Kramer, a former State Major questions have been raised as to the veracity of the
Department official, in helping to obtain the dossier dossier, large sections of which have been discredited.
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Citing a “Kremlin insider,” the dossier, which misspelled cooperated with Russians. He also raised
the name of a Russian diplomat, claimed that Trump questions about the dossier written by a
lawyer Michael Cohen held “secret meetings” with former British intelligence officer, which
Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016. alleged a conspiracy between the Trump
campaign and Russia. …
That charge unraveled after Cohen revealed he had never
traveled to Prague, calling the story “totally fake, totally Morell pointed out that former Director of National
inaccurate.” The Atlantic confirmed Cohen’s whereabouts Intelligence James Clapper said on Meet the Press on
in New York and California during the period the dossier March 5 that he had seen no evidence of a conspiracy
claimed that Cohen was in Prague. Cohen reportedly when he left office January 20.
produced his passport showing he had not traveled to
Prague. “That’s a pretty strong statement by
General Clapper,” Morell said.
In testimony in May, the FBI’s Comey confirmed that the
basis for the intelligence community’s assessment that Regarding Steele’s dossier, Morell stated,
Russia allegedly wanted Trump in office was not because
the billionaire was, as Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) claimed “Unless you know the sources, and unless
during a hearing, “ensnared in” Russia’s “web of you know how a particular source acquired
patronage” – just as the dossier alleged. Instead, the FBI a particular piece of information, you can’t
chief provided two primary reasons for Russia’s alleged judge the information — you just can’t.”
favoring of Trump over Clinton during the 2016
presidential race.
Morell charged the dossier
One reason, according to Comey, was that Putin “hated”
Clinton and would have favored any Republican opponent. “doesn’t take you anywhere, I don’t think.”
The second reason, Comey explained, was that Putin made “I had two questions when I first read it.
an assessment that it would be easier to make a deal with a One was, how did Chris talk to these
businessman than someone from the political class. sources? I have subsequently learned that
he used intermediaries.”
Comey’s statements are a far cry from the
conspiracies fueled by the dossier alleging Putin held Morell continued:
blackmail information on Trump.
And then I asked myself, why did these
Citing current and former government officials, the New guys provide this information, what was
Yorker reported the dossier prompted skepticism among their motivation? And I subsequently
intelligence community members, with the publication learned that he paid them. That the
quoting one member saying it was a “nutty” piece of intermediaries paid the sources and the
evidence to submit to a U.S. president. intermediaries got the money from Chris.
And that kind of worries me a little bit
Steele’s work has been questioned by former acting CIA because if you’re paying somebody,
Director Michael Morell, who currently works at the particularly former FSB [Russian
Hillary Clinton-tied Beacon Global Strategies LLC. intelligence] officers, they are going to tell
you truth and innuendo and rumor, and
NBC News reported on Morell’s questions about Steele’s they’re going to call you up and say, “Hey,
credibility: let’s have another meeting, I have more
information for you,” because they want to
get paid some more.
Morell, who was in line to become CIA
director if Clinton won, said he had seen no
evidence that Trump associates I think you’ve got to take all that into consideration when
you consider the dossier.
.
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Desantis Demands:
Declassify ALL Docs Related To
The BOGUS Trump-Russia ‘Dossier’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 10, 2018
(National Sentinel) Full Disclosure: A leading Republican “The American people deserve answers.
has sent a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., I’m requesting Speaker Ryan ask, pursuant
demanding that all documents the House Intelligence to House rules, Chairman Nunes to
Committee has related to the discredited “Trump-Russia declassify any documents his committee
dossier” be declassified and released to the public. may have related to the Steele dossier.”
“The American people deserve answers; Rep. Devin Nunes is chairman of the House Intelligence
the American people have the right to Committee, which has been investigating the origins of the
know,” Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida wrote. dossier and whether it was improperly used to justify a
counterintelligence surveillance warrant from the FISA
Previously, DeSantis, who has been demanding more court to spy on the Trump campaign.
disclosure over regarding the dossier, also wants the House
to release all documents related to Obama-era FISA court “The American people have the right to
requests related to spying on the Trump campaign. know whether government agents such as
Peter Strzok inappropriately intervened in
DeSantis’ request is pursuant to Rule X of the House rules. the 2016 presidential election against then-
candidate Donald J. Trump,” he wrote.
“The bureaucracies at FBI and DOJ have “On January 3, 2018, House Permanent
refused to answer basic questions about Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman
the origins of the Russian Devin Nunes announced that his
counterintelligence investigation or provide committee will receive all documents it
a full accounting of how the government sought from the Department of Justice
utilized the Steele dossier,” the lawmaker related to the FBI’s counterintelligence
tweeted. investigation.
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“The American people have a right to know to what extent the federal government made use of the dossier,” DeSantis
wrote.
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White House "Outraged" After
Judge Blocks Trump's DACA Decision
By Tyler Durden
Wed, 01/10/2018 - 08:46
Update 2: Trump lashed out at the ninth circuit Wednesday The Trump administration announced in September it
morning after yet another judge temporarily blocked his would rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or
decision to throw out DACA protections for some 690,000 DACA, a decision that was challenged in multiple federal
people who were brought to the US as children. courts by a variety of Democratic state attorneys general,
organizations and individuals, as Reuters reported.
It just shows everyone how broken and
unfair our Court System is when the This time, the administration's antagonist is US District
opposing side in a case (such as DACA) Judge William Alsup, who ruled the program must remain
always runs to the 9th Circuit and almost in place while the litigation is resolved. The ruling could
always wins before being reversed by complicate negotiations between Trump and congressional
higher courts. leaders over immigration reform.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 10, 2018 The White House responded Thursday morning, saying the
ruling was "outrageous."
Judges from the ninth circuit - most notably a set of federal
“We find this decision to be outrageous,
judges from Hawaii - have issued injunctions blocking
especially in light of the President’s
every iteration of Trump's travel ban.
successful bipartisan meeting with House
and Senate members at the White House
*** on the same day. An issue of this
magnitude must go through the normal
Update: White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders has legislative process."
responded:
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A spokesman for the Department of Justice “DACA gave them a more tolerable set of
said the ruling "doesn't change...its choices, including joining the mainstream
position". workforce,” Alsup wrote. “Now, absent an
injunction, they will slide back to the pre-
"Today’s order doesn’t change the
DACA era and associated hardship.”
Department of Justice’s position on the
facts," said the department’s spokesman
Devin M. O’Malley. The department "will And as the Wall Street Journal reminds us, a different
continue to vigorously defend this position," federal judge in San Francisco in November issued a
he said. permanent, nationwide injection barring the administration
from withholding some federal grant money from so-called
However, so-called Dreamers who haven't already sanctuary cites, which don’t cooperate with immigration
registered for protected status no longer can: Alsup ruled authorities.
that the federal government did not need to process new
applications from people who had never before received Democrats are pushing to enshrine DACA protections into
protection under the program. However, the judge ordered law as part of an immigration deal with the White House.
the government to continue processing renewal This ruling presumably gives them more time to reach
applications from people who had previously been such a deal.
covered.
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Sued AGAIN! Trump Attorney Files Defamation Claim
Against Alt-Left Buzzfeed For Publishing
BOGUS Anti-Trump Dossier
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 10, 2018
The dossier has become the subject of congressional Cohen was in the United States at the time he was alleged
scrutiny as well to have been in Prague. In fact, Cohen says has never been
to the Czech Republic.
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published by any news outlets because the claims made in County Circuit Court in Fort Lauderdale,
the 35-page document could not be substantiated. Florida, where XBT’s subsidiary Webzilla is
headquartered,” McClatchy Papers
In January, shortly before Trump was inaugurated, reported at the time.
Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith decided to publish the entire
document anyway, with the caveat that none of it had been The dossier has become the subject of congressional
substantiated. At the time, he said Americans could decide scrutiny as well. Some Republicans believe it was used
for themselves if its contents were true. improperly to obtain a FISA court warrant so that the
Obama administration could justify spying on the Trump
Many people named in the dossier had no idea they were campaign.
being accused of anything until it was published, the
Times noted. Three Russians who were named in the dossier have also
filed suit against Fusion GPS.
Buzzfeed was sued in February 2017 by a Russian-owned
firm named in the dossier. Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan filed suit in
October in U.S. District Court in Washington, claiming
The lawsuits were brought by XBT Holdings, a Cyprus- that their reputations were unfairly sullied by claims made
based company owned by Russian tech magnate Aleksej in the dossier.
Gubarev.
“The plaintiffs are among the backers of
“Lawyers for his firm filed complaints Friday Alfa Bank, a financial institution that the
in London against the former spy and his dossier accuses of involvement in Russian
company, and against BuzzFeed and its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S.
editor in chief, Ben Smith, in Broward presidential election,” noted Politico.
.
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OUTRAGE: Federal Judge Claims
The RIGHT To Block Trump From Ending DACA
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On January 10, 2018
Opponents of the ruling disagreed, saying that regardless Justice Department officials vowed to appeal.
of how DACA recipients got into the country they are still
here illegally “Today’s order doesn’t change the
Department of Justice’s position on the
facts,” said the department’s spokesman
Devin M. O’Malley. The department “will
continue to vigorously defend this position,”
he said, as reported by Reuters.
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Project Veritas Video Claims Twitter
Would Give Trump’s Private Messages To DOJ
By Allum Bokhari
10 Jan 2018
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Deep State’s ‘Plan B’ To Remove Trump
In Full Force: Lawmaker Introduces ‘Stable Genius Act’
Mac Slavo
January 10th, 2018
The deep state is not going to give up easily and all signs
are pointing to Roger Stone being correct. Roger Stone
isn’t the first person to see Trump as a target of the deep
state. Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has said he feels
that the deep state isn’t afraid to nuke a city in the United
States in order to kill Trump and blame North Korea for
the result.
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