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May 2018
FIRST EDITION
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CONTENTS
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More Than Two-Thirds Of Americans Credit President
Trump With Record Economy – Employment
Optimism At 17 Year High
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 2:16 Pm
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FEC Records Show DNC Issued Checks TO
Crowdstrike Day After Murder OF
Seth Rich, Shawn Lucas
BY Alicia Powe
May 21, 2018, 2:25 PM
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According to Heavy, the Office of Chief Medical CrowdStrike was the only one to access the DNC’s
Examiner of Washington, D.C., said in November 2016 computer systems. DNC officials refused to avail to the
that Lucas’ Aug. 2 death was accidental and was caused by FBI.
the “combined adverse effects of fentanyl [a synthetic
opioid pain medication], cyclobenzaprine [a muscle Google, which gave millions of dollars to the Clinton
relaxant], and mitragynine [better known as kraton].” campaign and was under fire during the election for
manipulating and suppressing negative search results for
CrowdStrike’s computer software customers include Clinton, is one of CrowdStrike’s primary investors.
Congress, the White House, the State Department,
Democratic National Committee, SONY, and Google. Rich and Lucas are among 33 people associated with the
Clintons who have died mysterious and often violent
deaths.
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Jon Meacham Predicts A Democrat House
Will Impeach Trump As 'Season Finale'
By P.J. Gladnick
May 21, 2018 2:36 PM EDT
Psst! Hey Jon Meacham! Haven't you gotten the liberal one Nixonian element here that hasn't
message that you are not supposed to mention gotten a whole lot of attention actually at
impeachment (for now) in case the Democrats win back least explicitly is both Nixon and Trump
the House this November? have an ongoing obsession with their
former opponents in a way that [inaudible]
Perhaps historian and failed Newsweek editor Meacham is what they do in deleterious ways to say the
so eager for that impeachment that he just couldn't hold least. Remember Nixon was always
back on Monday's Morning Joe. They were discussing the thinking about... One of the reasons he
horror of President Donald Trump wanting the DOJ to justified the taping is FDR had done it, LBJ
investigate intelligence agencies spying on his 2016 had done it, he was always obsessed with
presidential campaign which led to Meacham eagerly what President Kennedy had gotten away
invoking the I-word that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer with in his view and remember of course
prefer to not be mentioned (for now). that's clearly true with with President Trump
with an obsession with both Obama and
with Secretary Clinton.
If you earn a dollar for every time host Joe Scarborough
and Meacham say "Nixon" or "Nixonian" in the following
video culminating in Meacham's impeachment fantasy, Did Nixon tape his opponents via a FISA warrant based on
you will end up with a nice bit of spending money. Here's opposition research paid for by a political party? Here's
the exchange: more from Meacham:
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Eric Holder Lashes Out At Trump For
Calling On DOJ To Investigate FBI Campaign Spies
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 2:51 Pm
Trump tweeted Sunday: I hereby demand, and will do so Perhaps Eric Holder should take his
officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look own advice because in 2011, on
into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled Obama’s orders the DOJ stopped
the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any defending the Defense of Marriage Act
such demands or requests were made by people within the (DOMA):
Obama Administration!
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On Sunday evening, hours after Trump’s tweet, the Justice
Department asked Inspector General Horowitz to
investigate whether there was “impropriety or political
motivation” into the FBI’s infiltration of Trump’s
campaign.
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Chris Wray And Rod Rosenstein Look Somber As They
Arrive At White House For Trump Meeting On Deep
State Spies In Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 3:15 Pm
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Keith Ellison: Republicans Doing
Bible Studies In Jails Are Making It Harder
For Dems To Win
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
4:31 PM 05/21/2018
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JUST IN: DOJ Agrees To Allow Congress To Review
Requested Classified Docs After Trump Meets With
Rosenstein, Wray
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 4:20 Pm
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DOJ Agrees To Allow
Congress To Review Requested Documents
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
4:47 PM 05/21/2018
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‘SCUSE US? Donna Brazile Must Have ‘A HUGE Set Of
Balls’ If She Thinks She Can Get Away With THIS
By Sarah D.
Posted At 4:58 Pm On May 21, 2018
Donna. Donna.
No kidding!
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FBI ‘Informant’ Stefan Halper Pitched Himself For Senior
Position In Trump White House
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 5:21 Pm
Via Axios:
It has been widely reported that the Obama
administration had a spy working inside the President Trump’s top trade adviser, Peter
Trump campaign. Navarro, recommended appointing Stefan
Halper, an academic and suspected FBI
The informant, Stefan Halper, was paid a informant on the Trump campaign, to a senior
total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for work role in the Trump administration, Axios has
with the US government that included learned.
spying on the Trump campaign.
Behind the scenes: During the presidential transition
It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper. Navarro recommended Halper, among other people, for
ambassador roles in Asia. A White House official said
A new report on Monday revealed Halper Halper visited the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
pitched himself for a senior Trump admin last August for a meeting about China.
position.
Context: During the transition everyone involved in
Trump’s presidential campaign were asked to submit
resumes for administration positions.
According to a new scoop from Jonathan Swan at far left Also, as previously reported, it looks like
Axios, Stefan Halper was pushed for a senior position in Halper was still working for the Deep State
the Trump administration by Trump’s top trade advisor, well into 2017 after President Trump was in
Peter Navarro. office.
In December of 2016, President-elect Trump tapped Peter Carter Page, who was spied on by the
Navarro, an economic adviser to his campaign, to lead a Obama DOJ and FBI, published an email he
newly formed White House National Trade Council. received from Stefan Halper in July 2017.
Peter Navarro is a staunch Trump supporter so certainly Halper was still reaching out to Carter Page
there has to be more to this story. well into 2017.
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Chris Bedford Rips Apart DOJ,
FBI For Spying On Trump Campaign [VIDEO]
Henry Rodgers - Political Reporter
6:14 PM 05/21/2018
WATCH:
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Byron York: When Did Trump-Russia Probe Begin?
Investigators Focus On Mystery Months
By Byron York
May 21, 2018 06:30 PM
Revelations that an FBI informant insinuated himself into The question has pointed investigators back to the issue of
the Trump campaign have led some congressional when the probe began — not when a piece of paper was
investigators to rethink their theories on how and why formally signed but when the FBI, and perhaps other U.S.
former President Barack Obama's Justice Department intelligence agencies, began investigating the Trump
began investigating the 2016 Trump presidential effort. campaign.
Most reporting has focused on the July 31, 2016, creation And that has taken them back to March 21, 2016, when
of a document formally marking the beginning of the FBI candidate Donald Trump met with the editorial board of
counterintelligence probe targeting the Trump campaign. the Washington Post.
The document, known as the electronic communication, or
EC, is said to have focused on the case of George At the time of that meeting, Trump had been under
Papadopoulos, the peripheral Trump adviser who has criticism for not having the sort of lists of distinguished
pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller advisers that most top-level campaigns routinely assemble.
about his contacts with people connected to Russia. That was particularly true in the area of foreign policy. A
frustrated Trump ordered his team to compile a list of
foreign-affairs advisers.
So the nation's top political appointees, law enforcement, Somewhere around the time all that was happening,
and intelligence agencies were watching Trump campaign according to the latest reporting, the FBI informant began
figures in the spring and early summer of 2016. his work.
In early July, Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, the And that was all before what is called the formal beginning
former British spy, approached the FBI with the first of the Trump-Russia investigation. It is in those mystery
installment of the dossier. (It was the part that alleged months — late March, April, May, June, and early July of
Trump took part in a kinky sex scene with prostitutes in a 2016 — with the presidential campaign going at full force,
Moscow hotel in 2013.) Also in early July — just a few that the Obama administration's surveillance of the
days later — Page made a much-watched trip to deliver a Republican candidate geared up.
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Grassley Turns Up The Heat – Sends Letter To DOJ
Demanding Communications Between Bruce Ohr And
Dossier Author Christopher Steele
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 6:44 Pm
Accordingly,
please provide all records related to Mr. Ohr’s
communications about these matters, including:
Bruce Ohr Also, Nellie Ohr is listed as working for the CIA’s Open
Source Works department in a 2010 DOJ report.
Grassley asked for the following communications:
On Friday, Grassley sent a scathing letter to the
Department of Justice demanding Rosenstein’s unredacted
The documents previously reviewed by the memo detailing Mueller’s scope and other pertinent
Committee raised a number of important classified documents.
questions. One set of those questions concern
the role played by Associate Deputy Attorney
General Bruce Ohr in communicating with Screenshot of Grassley’s letter:
dossier author Christopher Steele and
continuing to funnel information from Steele to
the FBI after the FBI had terminated Steele as a
source for his failure to abide by FBI
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Senator Wants Bruce Ohr Records, Interview
Chuck Ross - Reporter
7:05 PM 05/21/2018
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Chuck Schumer Blasts Trump For
‘Autocratic Behavior We’d Expect In
A Banana Republic’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
7:11 PM 05/21/2018
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Watchdog Report Blames Comey
And FBI For Slow-Walking Clinton Probe
Before Election
Chris White - Energy Reporter
7:48 PM 05/21/2018
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Rep. Meadows SLAMS Rosenstein’s Referral To Inspector
General ‘He Knows Exactly What The FBI Did,
This Is A Ruse’
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 8:44 Pm
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows Rosenstein knows what’s in these documents, says
(R-NC) ripped Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein on Meadows.
Monday for requesting the Inspector
General investigate irregularities with the Meadows tweeted: Rod Rosenstein knows exactly what
FBI’s and DOJ’s tactics concerning Trump’s happened and what is in the documents requested by
campaign. Congress. Either the matter warranted investigation long
ago and he did nothing, or he’s seen the facts and believes
It’s a “ruse”, says Chairman Meadows. nothing is wrong.
Rosenstein has known all along what is in
these documents so his belated referral to His belated referral to the IG is not news… it is a ruse
the Inspector General is not news.
After the meeting, Rosenstein bent the knee and asked the
Inspector General to investigate any irregularities with the
FBI’s or DOJ’s tactics concerning Trump’s campaign.
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Of course Rosenstein knows what is in It’s also important to note the Inspector General has no
these documents. He signed off on the subpoena power.
fourth FISA application renewal to spy on
Carter Page and penned the memo detailing Former US Attorney Joe DiGenova: Here’s the problem
Mueller’s scope. with Mr. Horowitz. He cannot interview any of the people
who have left the Department of Justice or FBI. He has no
Concealed FISA docs may hold the key to Trump’s subpoena authority. So all of the people who were part of
surveillance, says investigative reporter, Sara Carter: the plot and were in DOJ and FBI are gone. He can’t talk
to them.
The most crucial aspect of the meeting will be the
House Intelligence Committee’s request for classified Any criminal findings from the Inspector General are sent
documents connected to the FISA application to spy on to the Obama-appointed special prosecutor John Huber.
Carter Page and whether the President will demand the
DOJ turn them over AG Sessions is AWOL; we need a real Attorney General
Rosenstein signed off on the fourth FISA warrant, he who is ready and willing to go to battle.
should know what evidence they used to continue the
surveillance on Page
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Witness Said Awan Wiretapped Her,
Then Bank Account She Controlled Was Drained
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
8:56 Pm 05/21/2018
After former Democratic IT aide Imran Awan allegedly Though Abid played a prominent role in the late-2016 IG
threatened his stepmother not to talk to police, her email report, he has not been arrested, with congressmen saying
account was accessed in suspicious ways and a lawyer for a criminal investigation is ongoing.
one of Awan’s brothers found out she emailed the FBI on
specific dates and lashed out at her:
In January 2017, in the days around his father’s death,
Abid removed Gilani as the beneficiary of his father’s life
“You’re a liar, aren’t you?” insurance and replaced her with himself, which led to a
lawsuit, TheDCNF previously reported.
Days after that, a bank account the stepmother controlled
was almost completely drained through a payment to Abid’s attorney, Jim Bacon, used the life insurance lawsuit
Imran’s brother, Abid Awan, bank records show — but she to force Gilani to sit for a sworn deposition Oct. 4, 2017 in
said she is too afraid to press criminal charges because she which he told her to reveal what she told the FBI about the
claims he has threatened her. The stepmother, Samina congressional criminal probe and tried to get her to find
Gilani, also previously said Imran stole two laptops from out details from investigators.
her.
In one exchange, Bacon knew that she had emailed with
Imran, Abid and Jamal Awan — along with Imran’s wife, the FBI.
Hina Alvi, and a friend — worked as IT administrators for
1 out of every 5 House Democrats and could read all their
BACON Q: [redacted] is your email
emails and files until police banned them from the network
address, isn’t it? And you send emails from
in February 2017 for
that address including two emails to the
FBI, didn’t you?
“numerous violations of House security
policies.” GILANI A: Yes, a long time ago.
Q: No, not a long time ago. March 5th,
Months later, none of the family is in jail, and the 2017. March 6th, 2017. Ma’am, you lied to
stepmother and other witnesses have said Imran and Abid me, didn’t you? You lied to me, didn’t you?
have used their freedom to try to steer the outcome of the You’re a liar, aren’t you?
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A: I forgot about that. It was not in my mind. Gilani’s attorney, Michael Hadeed, said that was because
the bank recognized that Abid had taken the money
BACON: Ah. I think we need to take a
without authorization.
break before I explode.
Bacon did not respond to questions from the TheDCNF Gilani told TheDCNF that Abid used a computer to make
about how he knew Gilani had emailed the FBI on those the transfer.
dates.
“He used the online method and the PIN,”
Gilani previously said in court documents that she said. “It is another fraud of Abid Awan.”
“Abid Awan is threatening me,” Gilani
“Imran Awan threatened that he is very continued, noting that she was too afraid to
powerful and if I ever call the police again press criminal charges. “They can hurt my
[he] will do harm to me and my family relatives in Pakistan.”
members back in Pakistan.”
The account is registered to a nonprofit, the International
Gilani testified in the deposition for that lawsuit that Imran Sufi Educational Organization, and only Gilani and her
wiretapped her. deceased husband were authorized to make withdrawals,
according to bank account documents. The transaction
occurred after Abid’s lawyer forced Gilani to disclose
“He has connected my phone, my house
personal details, including her Social Security number, in
phone, with his own phone,” Gilani testified.
the deposition.
“Whenever I talked to someone in
Pakistan, he told me later on that ‘you told
this, you said this.'” Bacon did not respond to questions about the email usage
or the funds drained from the bank account.
Those allegations underscored fellow House IT aides’
concerns that the Awans could have used House members’ Imran was arrested at Dulles airport in July 2017 and he
emails for blackmail. and Alvi — who both worked for Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz — were indicted for bank fraud for money moves
Gilani said in court documents that Imran acknowledged that allegedly occurred six months earlier. Prosecutors said
surveilling her, that she saw him remove a device from they believe the dual Pakistani-American citizens had
behind her printer and that Imran took two laptops from learned of the House investigation shortly before they
her. made the money transfers and that given Imran’s
To test whether surveillance might also extend to her “attempt to depart to Pakistan while
email, TheDCNF sent emails to Gilani with a tracker that knowing he was under investigation, the
reported where the messages were opened. The emails government asserts that Awan is a flight
were opened in London, Pakistan and Texas. risk.”
Gilani’s sister, who lives in Pakistan, said she manages Imran’s attorney said at the time that he thought the bank
Gilani’s email since Gilani does not speak English. fraud charges were a “placeholder.” But no additional
Gilani’s sister also said there is no reason the emails charges have been brought.
should have been opened in the other locations.
Even as Democrats have frequently talked about the
TheDCNF later emailed Gilani to ask for comment on this important of enforcing cybersecurity and dedicated
story, but she did not respond. The email was opened in significant monies for that purpose, prosecutors said this
month that they are negotiating a possible “resolution”
London and Independence, Kansas, but never in Virginia
with Awan and for months have said they are turning over
or Lahore, Pakistan.
“voluminous discovery” to Imran’s attorney, despite his
not having been charged with anything related to the
Two weeks after the deposition, on Oct. 19, 2017, an House investigation.
account Gilani controlled was drained of $5,952 — nearly
its entire balance — via a transfer to Abid Awan, bank
Meanwhile, House IT aides have told TheDCNF they have
statements obtained by TheDCNF show. On Feb. 21, 2018,
Bank of America credited the amount back to the account knowledge of misconduct but fear retaliation from
as a “claims processing transaction” — phrasing banks Democrats if they come forward to law enforcement, and
typically use when returning fraudulent transfers. tenants of a rental property Alvi owns who were
mentioned in an FBI affidavit told TheDCNF Imran
ordered them not to cooperate with police.
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Another witness who turned over hard drives to the FBI, In April 2017, police found a laptop with the
Andre Taggart, received a letter from Imran’s username RepDWS that Imran left in a phone
attorney demanding money, and Alvi filed a lawsuit in booth. Wasserman Schultz subsequently threatened the
Pakistan saying her husband threatened her with violence, Capitol Police chief with “consequences” if he didn’t
TheDCNF previously reported. relinquish the evidence. Imran is in possession of a copy of
the laptop’s hard drive.
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HUGE!! IG Has NO POWER TO SUBPOENA Former
Obama Employees — That’s Why Rosenstein Asked Him
To Investigate Spying On Trump
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 8:56 Pm
On Sunday evening, Justice Department Deputy Attorney Here’s the problem with Mr. Horowitz. He
General Rod Rosenstein asked Inspector General Horowitz cannot interview any of the people who have
to investigate whether there was “impropriety or political left the Department of Justice or FBI. He has no
motivation” into the FBI’s infiltration of Trump’s subpoena authority. So all of the people who
campaign. were part of the plot and were in DOJ and FBI
are gone. He can’t talk to them.
This came just hours after President Trump demanded a
review of whether Obama’s Deep State FBI did indeed spy Via Hannity:
on his campaign.
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The Pentagon Is About To Do Something Stupid
Derek Hunter - Contributor
9:12 PM 05/21/2018
By now, there’s a fairly good chance your personal And which company? Amazon. It’s not yet official, but the
information has been exposed, to one degree or another, to Pentagon has a “winner-takes-all” bidding process they’re
hackers. Personally, I’ve received notifications from advancing that even the other competitors for the contract
several companies and my college about hacking attempts admit Amazon will win.
they’ve suffered that made my personal information
vulnerable to identity thieves, and you or someone know
This decision is, quite simply, crazy. Why would the
likely has, too. It’s the reality of living in the 21st century
government award a contract, this contract, to a company
— hackers are constantly attempting to access our
the president routinely puts in his crosshairs? As it turns
information, which requires us to take extra precautions to
out, you can thank President Barack Obama for that.
protect our important information. If only government
were so concerned.
“To reward tech companies that supported
his campaign, Obama populated the
In 2013, 40 million customers of Target stores had their
government’s digital services with their
credit and debit card information stolen. The Equifax hack
flunkies,” the Weekly Standard reported,
exposed nearly half the country, almost 150 million
including the fact that the Defense
people’s personal information to hackers. Even the federal
Innovation Board is “chaired by Bezos’s
government suffered a breach when, in 2015, it was
partner and fellow Clinton supporter Eric
announced that the records of 21.5 million government
Schmidt.”
employees and others who had gone through background
checks for security clearances for the Office of Personnel
Management had been stolen, likely by Chinese hackers. The swamp didn’t become so swampy by itself. As the
Standard put it, this situation
If it’s digital, it vulnerable.
“created an environment where political
enemies of President Donald Trump can
That truth presents the federal government with a special
continue to give kickbacks to the groups
problem. The feds amass more data than just about anyone.
and individuals who opposed him,
And, more importantly, more sensitive data than anyone.
undermining his ability to lead our national
And that sensitive data is a prime target for hackers, both
security efforts.”
from hostile states and anyone willing to sell to them. The
potential rewards for bad actors are limitless, which makes
the danger limitless as well. So, we have a national security system on the verge of
consolidating all of its intelligence in one place, making it
a prime target for hacking. And the company set to get the
The federal government is left scrambling to stay one step
multi-billion-dollar, multi-year contract to house all of
ahead of the hoard seeking to breach those secrets. This
those secrets is owned by the richest man in the world,
race had led to some necessary innovations and strategic
who just happens to be one of President Trump’s targets
thinking, like a decentralized system so no one can access
for criticism. Add to that the fact that the government
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bureaucracy that set this in motion is populated with all under one umbrella while trusting Amazon with them
people loyal to the previous administration and you begin makes even less sense.
to see the scope of this mess.
This is the swamp President Trump promised to drain.
With all that has come to light about the intelligence
community in the past month, the exposure of the Obama The president, at a minimum, needs to stop the centralizing
administration’s spying on the Trump campaign, the idea of our national security data. Unless and until we can
of trusting his appointees with protecting our nation’s protect our personal data and our credit card transactions,
secrets seems, at a minimum, ill-advised. And putting them we should not put the biggest prize in international
intelligence in one place. That would just be stupid.
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CNN’s Van Jones Praises Trump’s
Prison Reform Plans, Takes Jab At Obama
Scott Morefield - Reporter
9:33 PM 05/21/2018
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‘I Hate To Inject Common Sense Into This…’
— Tucker Embarrasses Dem Who Claims
To Have Evidence Of Collusion
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
9:37 PM 05/21/2018
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson got into it with Democratic “Well, let’s let the Mueller investigation
California Rep. Eric Swalwell Monday night over Russian continue,” Swalwell said.
collusion.
“Okay, maybe Mueller’s in contact with the
Russians, but Trump didn’t come up with
WATCH: those from the Russians, so that didn’t
happen,” Carlson said.
“There is still an attempt there, right? You
can attempt to do something and fail, and it
can still be a crime,” Swalwell said.
“I hate to inject common sense into this…”
Tucker joked. “If you’re trying to make
secret contact with Russia, your handlers
back in Moscow, wouldn’t you dial them up
on the short wave in the basement? Would
you really sent a coded message in the
middle of a joke at a press conference?”
“I’m not saying he’s the smartest guy in the
Tucker played a clip from July 2016 where Trump joked world, Tucker. Never accused him of
about Russia finding Hillary Clinton’s emails that she that,” Swalwell said.
deleted. “So that’s — that’s the smoking gun right
there?” Carlson said.
“Do we have the 30,000 emails, did Russia “No, it’s part of the evidence. An invitation
ever come up with those? Oh, no they, they
made by the candidate, telling them it’s
didn’t actually,” The Daily Caller co-founder okay. He’s not the smartest guy in the
said. world,” Swalwell replied
“Do you know that for a fact?” Swalwell “Okay so, he’s both a secret agent for
said.
Putin but he’s so dumb he spills his secrets
“Well, we haven’t seen them,” Carlson said. at a press conference on TV.”
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Alan Dershowitz Asks The Key Question:
What If This Had Happened To Hillary?
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
10:27 PM 05/21/2018
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and Harvard professor “I have to tell you, if this had happened to
emeritus Alan Dershowitz went head to head over the FBI Hillary Clinton, the ACLU would be jumping
allegedly spying on the Trump campaign on “Anderson up and down the way they did when I was
Cooper 360” Monday. on the board of the ACLU, when
undercover agents were put into the anti-
WATCH: war movement, into Civil Rights
movement,” Dershowitz said.
“All they were there was to listen–into
Muslim churches. Civil libertarians are
generally a little bit suspicious when
undercover agents go ‘just to ask
questions.’ And I think we as civil
libertarians ought to be suspicious of this.
Allay our suspicions, and then we’ll be
fine,” Dershowitz said.
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Carter Page Says Obama Spy Stefan Halper Didn’t Groom
Him But He Doesn’t Remember How They Met (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 21, 2018, 10:40 Pm
Laura Ingraham:
Carter Page:
Laura Ingraham:
Carter Page:
On July 11-12, 2016 Carter Page was invited to the Carter Page then said he did not remember who mentioned
conference: the Russia issue first.
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BREAKING=> Former Trump Aide Michael Caputo
Drops Bombshell: ‘I Was Approached By SECOND
Informant’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 21, 2018, 10:41 Pm
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Many questions about the informant’s role of luring him into a London meeting); another involved
in the Russia investigation remain sex (Halper’s assistant, with a name out of a bad spy novel,
unanswered. It is unclear how he first Azra Turk, tried to coax information from Papadopoulos at
became involved in the case, the extent of flirty bar outings, according to the Daily Caller’s Chuck
the information he provided and the actions Ross).
he took to obtain intelligence for the FBI. It
is also unknown whether his July 2016 Like Brennan, Halper didn’t bother to hide his support for
interaction with [Carter] Page was brokered Hillary even as he conducted this infiltration. He told the
by the FBI or another intelligence agency press that he feared a Trump presidency, as it could harm
[italics added]. the “special relationship” between the United States and
The FBI commonly uses sources and Great Britain. That rationale must have figured into
informants to gather evidence and its Alexander Downer’s motivation for working with
regulations allow for use of informants even Brennan’s Langley group too. Downer traveled in the same
before a formal investigation has been elitist circles as Christopher Steele, Halper, and John
opened. In many law enforcement Kerry. It appears he sent word of his boozy evening with
investigations, the use of sources and Papadopoulos back to Brennan’s group through these
informants precedes more invasive circles — either through Hillary partisans at the State
techniques such as electronic surveillance. Department or through Clinton Foundation channels, for
whom he had worked as a kind of bag man.
A veteran of the intelligence community tells TAS that
Brennan’s CIA was full of Hillary supporters, some of Halper had come up empty, so Brennan’s group at Langley
whom decorated their desks with her campaign went with Downer’s tale, as feeble as it was. But it at least
paraphernalia. Brennan, whom the press noted would walk had the advantage of coming from a “diplomat.” Yet if
the halls of the CIA in an LGBT rainbow lanyard, Congressman Nunes is right and the originating document
encouraged this open political atmosphere. While Brennan for the FBI probe doesn’t even contain a reference to an
knew his spying operation on the Trump campaign was an official intelligence product passed to Brennan from the
“exceptionally, exceptionally sensitive” matter (as reported Australian government, Downer’s hearsay must have been
by journalists David Corn and Michael Isikoff), he exceedingly flaky, so flaky no one would want to be on the
assumed its machinations would never come to light. record treating it as “evidence” for something as
momentous as a probe into a presidential campaign.
The members of Brennan’s working group at Langley
“were just a bunch of out-of-control idiots,” says a former According to press accounts, Downer’s bumptiousness
high-ranking CIA official to TAS. He finds it caused a diplomatic row of sorts between the two
flabbergasting that Brennan would bring CIA officials and countries. Who resolved it? John Kerry? Susan Rice? Or
FBI officials into the same room to cook up schemes to was this another case of Obama leading from behind —
send a spy into the Trump campaign’s ranks. One of those behind a CIA director briefing him daily on “Russian
schemes involved money (Halper paid George interference” while running an anti-Trump spy ring out of
Papadopoulos $3,000 for a phony research paper as a way Langley.
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UNETHICAL LEADERSHIP: How James Comey’s
Disloyal Subversion Has Severely Damaged
Our Justice System
John D. O'Connor - The Attorney Who Revealed Mark Felt As Watergate's Deep Throat
12:06 AM 05/22/2018
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Trump Economy Sets More Records: 1st Quarter Profits,
Earnings Reach All-Time Highs – Largest Monthly Surplus
In History – Far Left Media Silent
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 7:22 Am
The 1st Quarter results for the companies in the S&P 500
increased more than 25% over the same period in the prior
year. S&P 500 Aggregate Estimates and Revisions are
reported as follows –
The President has many success stories under his belt The Q1 2018 blended revenue growth estimate is
already in less than a year and a half in office, but probably 8.4%. Excluding the energy sector, the revenue growth
no story is as important and stunning as the Trump estimate declines to 8.0%.
Economy.
75.9% of companies have reported Q1 2018
Under President Trump the economy is revenue above analyst expectations. This is
on fire and set for more record earnings above the long-term average of 60% and above the
and results. prior four quarter average of 69%.
Yesterday, on May 21, 2018, the Russell 2000 hit a new These numbers are even understated.
all-time high – 500 of the largest US Companies’ profits
are 25% greater than prior year in the 1st
Quarter. This is unheard of in US
The Russell 2000 index of small-
capitalization stocks rose on Monday, history! When, if ever, have the 500
advancing to its latest in a series of records largest companies in the US increased
their ‘bottom line’ earnings by 25%.
as investors cheered an easing of U.S.-
China trade tensions. While smaller This is simply record breaking!
companies are seen as having less
exposure to trade issues, due to their Even before the 2016 Presidential election, the MSM
higher concentration of U.S. revenue claimed that if Trump were to be elected President, the
exposure, the market segment has rallied markets would collapse as a result of trade wars instigated
consistently for weeks, easily by President Trump who was running on free trade but
outperforming its larger-cap peers. fair trade. This too turned out to be a farce.
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According to reports today, the President has renegotiated
trade deals with China that will result in a reduction of the
trade deficit with China by $380 Billion.
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Manafort’s Lawyers Suggest
Key Mueller Deputy Is Leaking To Media
Richard Pollock - Reporter
7:27 Am 05/22/2018
Paul Manafort’s defense attorney Kevin Downing Weissmann’s political loyalty has been scrutinized. He
officially leveled the leaking allegation against key “attended Hillary Clinton’s election-night party at the
Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann as part of a new legal Jacob K. Javits Center in New York,” according to The
offensive against Mueller’s indictment of Manafort, who Wall Street Journal, for example.
served briefly as Trump’s campaign manager. Downing
charges that a flood of media leaks has prevented his client The lawyer also supported acting Attorney General Sally
from getting a fair trial. Downing asked presiding federal Yates’ opposition to Trump’s initial immigration ban.
Judge T.S. Ellis III on April 30 to convene a hearing on
media leaks. The judge has yet to rule on the request.
“I am so proud,” Weissmann wrote about
Yates in an email the conservative group
In the latest filing, Downing charged that a senior Justice Judicial Watch uncovered. “And in awe.
Department official — identified as Weissmann in exhibits Thank you so much.”
attached to the filing — briefed Associated Press reporters
in spring 2017, which led to four breaking stories about the
Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican and chairman
government’s investigation into alleged Trump-Russian
of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
collusion and Manafort.
has asked the Justice Department to provide information
on the claim Weissmann met with news reporters.
“There is strong evidence that the highest-
level FBI and intelligence officials
When he met with the reporters, Weissmann headed the
authorized leaks to the press and, in fact,
fraud section of the Justice Department’s Criminal
leaked themselves,” Manafort’s filing
Division. He was one of the first attorneys Mueller hand-
asserted.
picked to join the special counsel team in May 2017.
According to the filing, a
Weissmann has a reputation for pushing the boundaries on
prosecutions. The New York Times last October called him
“senior Justice Department prosecutor” met a “pit bull” who used “scorched-earth tactics” against
with the AP reporters “last spring to discuss opponents.
an investigation into Paul Manafort’s
financial records, a day before the wire
service published a major exposé
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Weissmann was also Mueller’s attorney on the ground Howell now oversees Mueller’s grand jury in Washington,
who oversaw the pre-dawn raid on Manafort’s home. D.C. It was Howell’s chambers that approved the raid on
the home and law office for Trump’s personal lawyer,
In the 1990’s, Chief Judge Charles P. Sifton Michael Cohen.
reprimanded Weissmann as “reprehensible” during a trial
regarding the Colombo crime family for withholding Manafort’s lawyers claim the multitude of leaks coming
evidence. from Mueller’s office
“The judge described then [Assistant U.S. “constitute outrageous government conduct
Attorney] Weissmann’s conduct as the intended to deprive Mr. Manafort of his
‘myopic withholding of information’ and Fifth and Sixth Amendment Constitutional
‘reprehensible and subject, perhaps, to rights to due process and a trial by an
appropriate disciplinary unbiased jury of his peers.”
measures,'” according to a February 2018
article by investigative reporter Sara Carter. They charge that Manafort could never get a fair trial due
to the leaks.
Weissmann also has allies within the Justice Department
and in the federal court system. Weissmann became “In light of the mass media coverage of
friends with Loretta Lynch who then headed the U.S. these leaks in print, on television, radio and
Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District for New York. the internet, it seems unlikely that there is a
jury questionnaire, instruction or change of
“He was very friendly with Loretta,” a venue that could cure the irreparable harm
former federal prosecutor who worked in to Mr. Manafort’s Constitutional rights
Brooklyn while Weissmann was there resulting from leaks by the highest-level
told the Daily Beast. “They were all part of government officials,” Downing wrote.
a little gang together – they would go out
for lunch, they would go out for dinner.” The FBI and the Special Counsel’s office both declined to
comment.
Weissmann also became friends with fellow attorney Beryl
Howell who later joined the federal bench as a judge.
.
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Sen. Ron Johnson Sends Letter To FBI –
Discovers Secret Deep State “Sensitive Matter Team”
Behind Phony Dossier
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 7:59 Am
Johnson wants to know the members of See complete letter on next page.
the “sensitive matter team” who were
.
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Trump, McConnell Conspired
To Force Blankenship Out In West Virginia
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
8:36 AM 05/22/2018
The play wasn’t necessarily a secret after Trump took an Blankenship is now running as a third-party candidate in
eleventh-hour swipe at Blankenship on Twitter the day the race, announcing Monday he will run as the
before West Virginia Republican voters headed to the representative of the Constitution Party. West Virginia
ballot box. He called out Blankenship for exactly what he laws have it that a candidate who failed to win the
reportedly told McConnell leading up to the election. nomination in one of the two major parties cannot enter the
race as a third-party candidate, but Blankenship claims he
“To the great people of West Virginia we is ready to challenge the court.
have, together, a really great chance to
keep making a big difference. Problem is, Trump and McConnell understand that maintaining the
Don Blankenship, currently running for majority, and potentially picking up more seats to add to
Senate, can’t win the General Election in their slim 51-seat majority, is key to pushing the
your State…No way! Remember Alabama. Republican agenda in Congress. While the House has been
Vote Rep. Jenkins or A.G. Morrisey!” able to pass nearly every facet of the president’s agenda
Trump tweeted the day before the primary, (tax reform, repealing and replacing Obamacare and
May 7. deregulation), the Senate has had a more difficult time
with little-to-no wiggle room for losing Republican votes.
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Deep State James Clapper: Embedding Spy Inside Trump
Campaign Is “Standard Investigative Practices –
Goes On All The Time”
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 8:38 Am
The Deep State got caught spying on On Monday Clapper doubled-down saying spying on the
Candidate Trump — Now they’re opposition candidate is “standard investigative practices.”
spinning this as a good thing and Via The New York Times:
normal procedure.
James R. Clapper Jr., who was the director
of national intelligence under President
Barack Obama, said that Mr. Trump is
trying to distort standard investigatory
practices to insinuate wrongdoing.
“I didn’t know about this informant,” said
Mr. Clapper, whose memoir, “Facts and
Fears: Hard Truths From a Life in
Intelligence,” will be published Tuesday.
“No one in the White House knew.
Certainly the president didn’t know. This is
a routine thing that goes on all the time.
We’re making a huge mountain out of a
molehill. The purpose was to understand
what the Russians were doing.”
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Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe Warns
Dems Pushing Trump Impeachment:
‘You Have To Shoot To Kill’
By Aidan Mclaughlin
9:00 Am, May 22nd, 2018
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EXCLUSIVE: Human Rights Activist
Files RICO Suit Against Fusion GPS Founders
Chuck Ross - Reporter
9:19 AM 05/22/2018
Human Rights Foundation president Thor Halvorssen. (YouTube Blakey, a Notre Dame law professor, said that the
screen capture/Fox Business) approach of Halvorssen’s lawyer to the RICO case is a
novel one that hasn’t been tested much in federal court.
President of the Human Rights Foundation is suing But he noted that the attorney, Howard Foster, is one of the
two founders of Fusion GPS under the RICO top-five RICO attorneys in the country.
statute.
Thor Halvorssen claims two reporters who founded “It’s a good case,” said Blakey.
Fusion GPS engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate
against him for blowing the whistle on one of Under a civil RICO cases, plaintiffs must show that
Fusion’s clients. defendants engaged in two incidents of racketeering within
The Fusion founders were hired to produce a 10 years of each other. To support that element of the case
dossier and a media campaign to depict Halvorrsen against Fusion, Halvorssen’s lawsuit cites the oppo firm’s
as a pedophile and addict, according to the lawsuit. work against himself and two other men, Alek Boyd and
Bill Browder.
A prominent human rights activist is suing two of the
founders of Fusion GPS and several Venezuelan Fusion went after Browder, the leading force behind the
businessmen under a statute usually associated with the Magnitsky Act, on behalf of a Russian businessman who
Mafia. faced penalties because of the sanctions law. Fusion GPS
technically worked BakerHostetler, a law firm that
Thor Halvorssen, the president of the Human Rights represented a Russian businessman named Denis Katsyv.
Foundation, claims that Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch,
two former Wall Street Journal reporters who founded As part of its work, Fusion produced research alleging that
Fusion, engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate against him for Browder laundered money out of Russia and evaded taxes.
blowing the whistle on one of Fusion’s clients, a
Venezuelan power plant company called Derwick In a bizarre twist, some of Fusion’s research was taken into
Associates. the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald
Trump Jr. and a group of Russians. Fusion was working at
The two Fusion founders were hired to produce a dossier the time with two of the Russian attendees, Natalia
and a media campaign “to depict Halvorrsen as a Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin.
pedophile, heroin addict, and embezzler of the
Foundation’s money,” reads Halvorssen’s lawsuit, which Halvorssen’s suit does not mention Fusion GPS’s most
he filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt infamous project:
Organizations Act (RICO) statute.
The Steele dossier. Working for the Clinton
Mostly linked to organized crime cases, RICO can also be campaign and DNC, Fusion hired former
used in civil cases against legitimate businesses. British spy Christopher Steele in June 2016
Halvorssen’s case rests on the theory that Derwick and to investigate Donald Trump and members
Fusion GPS engaged in a conspiracy to intimidate a of his campaign.
whistleblower, which Halvorssen considers himself to be
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The result is a 35-page report full of salacious allegations, The goal, according to Halvorssen, was to force his
the most serious of yet have yet to be proven. removal from the Human Rights Foundation. He claims
that he lost $5 million in business deals because of the
Boyd was allegedly targeted by Fusion GPS because of his allegations against him.
investigations against Derwick. A former Halvorssen “It’s time Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch and
associate, Boyd has claimed that Fusion passed around a the Venezuelans who own Derwick pay for
dossier that, similar to the one against Halvorssen, accused what they did to Thor Halvorssen. Fusion
him of rampant drug use and pedophilia. GPS is a smear operation which tried to
Both Browder and Boyd have publicly blasted Fusion GPS ruin his career,” Foster, the lead attorney
and Simpson. for Halvorssen, said in a statement.
Browder has called Simpson a “professional smear “It has consistently tried to destroy others
campaigner.” while it hides behind reporters and its
clients’ law firms. Our hope is that this
“Fusion is basically a pen-for-hire shop, litigation will bring it all to light.”
whose owners are prepared to concoct
completely spurious stories that are fed to Halvorssen says that Fusion GPS struggled to put together
media contacts developed over years of its dossier on him because
legitimate work in reputable outlets,” Boyd “nobody would provide such information for
told The Daily Caller last year. attribution because the allegations Fusion
Halvorssen claims that Fusion GPS targeted him on behalf GPS wanted to publicize were false.”
of Derwick because of an investigation he started in 2011 He alleges that sources were promised anonymity “and
into Derwick’s contracts with the Venezuelan government. encouraged to exaggerate and speculate.”
Halvorssen, who was born in Venezuela, says he
uncovered a multi-billion dollar kickback scheme “Fusion GPS either found someone who
involving Derwick executives and Venezuelan officials. invented a story that Halvorssen regularly
used heroin, had been in rehab, and was
He claims in the lawsuit that Francisco D’Agostino, a high at Foundation events, or it invented
Derwick executive, described the bribery operation to him the story out of whole cloth.”
in 2013.
The firm also fabricated allegations that Halvorssen
Halvorssen brought the alleged bribery operation to the embezzled money from the Human Rights Foundation and
attention of the U.S. government in 2013, leading to had sex with minors, he says.
several federal investigations, he says.
Halvorssen suggests in the lawsuit that he has evidence
As retaliation, Halvorssen says that Derwick tapped that Derwick’s D’Agostino made contact with Simpson
Fusion GPS to wage a smear campaign against him. and Fritsch to discuss the smear campaign against him.
“Simpson and Fritsch promised to pass The lawsuit refers to a “series of calls” that D’Agostino
along the dossier to friendly journalists who placed in Aug. 2015 to discuss the hit-job.
would use the negative information, even if
the information came from hostile sources Joshua A. Levy, a lawyer for Fusion GPS,
and not for attribution, into a profile of says that the lawsuit is “a farce.”
Halvorrsen for wide publication in the In a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation, Levy
media and particularly on the internet,” the claimed that the suit “repeats false allegations Mr.
lawsuit alleges. Halvorssen has peddled unsuccessfully for more than a
Halvorssen points to an article and social media postings year.”
written by independent journalist Ken Silverstein. “Mr. Halvorssen has well-documented ties
Silverstein wrote the Sept. 28, 2015 article for the website, to Peter Thiel, Erik Prince and Rebekah
Shadowproof.com. Mercer, three of Donald Trump’s biggest
Though Shadowproof is a small website, the article about supporters. This bogus lawsuit is yet
Halvorssen pops up on the first page of a Google search another desperate attempt by the
for his name. Halvorssen claims that Fusion GPS used President’s allies to retaliate against Fusion
search engine optimization, known as SEO, to ensure that GPS for exposing Trump’s ties to Russia,”
article’s prominent placement. he continued.
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FBI Not Only ‘Obama Agency’ Spying On Trump In 2016?
Former Campaign Aide Michael Caputo Told Laura Ingraham He Knows Others
Did — 'They Came At Me' — While Carter Page Wants DOJ 'To Own Up'
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 22 May 2018 At 9:20 AM
The DOJ swiftly responded by tasking DOJ Inspector "national security leadership that secretly
General (IG) Michael Horowitz with examining whether spies on the entire citizenry of Russia."
inappropriate political bias fueled the FBI’s "And here we are in the United States with
counterintelligence investigation. our own" government-sanctioned spying
"underneath President Obama," Caputo
Ingraham played clips showing Clapper and former lamented. "This is really sick and twisted
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates ripping Trump for stuff."
demanding a review of the FBI’s surveillance from the
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Ingraham and Caputo were joined by former Trump Page also claimed he
campaign adviser Carter Page (shown in the article image
above). The FBI used the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, "never knew anything about" the FBI
compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele and funded informant he spoke to, "who was a
by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on behalf university professor at Cambridge in the
of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's U.K. at the time," noting that "everything
campaign, to justify and renew surveillance warrants seemed totally normal."
against Page.
"Part of why I'm somewhat open about my
communications with [the FBI informant] is
"President Trump, during the campaign, that it will lead to some truth, finally, from
would often say, 'This is not about me. This the Department of Justice," Page said. "I've
is about us,'" Page said, predicting that "all been asking for, you know, DOJ to own up
of the terrible things that have happened to to these things."
so many" Trump campaign officials will
come to light.
.
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Trump Advisor Eric Bolling Attacks Jeff Sessions
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:39 AM 05/22/2018
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Freedom Caucus Chair Meadows SLAMS Rosenstein’s Doj
IG Referral; ‘He KNOWS What FBI Did; This Is A Ruse’
Posted On May 22, 2018
He tweeted:
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Exclusive — Roger Stone: ‘John Brennan
Should Pop The Glass Capsule And Take The Cyanide
Now; He’s Going To Die In A Federal Penitentiary’
Kristina Wong
22 May 2018
Roger Stone, veteran political strategist The former CIA director has since been active on Twitter
and longtime confidant of President attacking the president. Stone suggested he already knows
Trump, said in an exclusive interview much of what Mueller could find.
with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily on
Tuesday morning that former CIA
“He goes on Twitter and threatens the
Director John Brennan will “die in a
President of the United States. He’s
federal penitentiary.”
constantly foreshadowing what Robert
“John Brennan should pop the glass Mueller has,” Stone said.
capsule and take the cyanide now,” Stone
“Mr. Brennan, you’re out of government.
told host Amanda House, Breitbart News’s
How would you know? John Brennan is the
deputy political editor. “He’s the perp who
number one criminal perp in this entire
started the entire Russian dossier matter.
matter, and it’s only a matter of time before
He’s lied about it under oath. He’s going to
justice catches up with him,” he said.
die in a federal penitentiary.”
Brennan and the Obama intelligence community’s roles in
the investigation of the Trump campaign have come under
increasing scrutiny.
.
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Napolitano Says FBI Spying
On Trump Is An Unprecedented Crime Of
‘Enormous Magnitude’ [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
10:08 AM 05/22/2018
WATCH:
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Poll Shock: GOP Takes Lead In 2018
Generic Poll By 6 Points —
Nine Point Reversal In One Week!
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 10:12 Am
For all the media hype about the upcoming ‘Blue Wave’
sweeping Republicans from power in November, a
comprehensive Morning Consult poll last week showed a
Republican wave in the making in U.S. Senate elections
across the country with five Democrat incumbents
decisively losing by at least five percent and four other
Democrat incumbents in statistical ties.
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Major Paper: We’ve Got Proof Obama
Spying On Trump Began Months Before FBI Admits
By Ben Marquis
May 22, 2018 At 10:27am
For the past 18 months, the liberal media has dismissively It would appear that the list of names was then noticed by
mocked claims that then-candidate Donald Trump’s the FBI, Department of Justice and broader Obama
campaign was spied upon during the 2016 election for administration, as it is believed that then-Director James
alleged contacts and collusion with Russians, even as Comey and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe briefed
they’ve constantly hyped reports of alleged contacts and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch about that list shortly
collusion. thereafter.
That suddenly changed in recent weeks after it was York reported that Lynch informed the House Intelligence
revealed via FBI leaks that the bureau utilized an Committee that she had discussed with Comey and
“informant” to question a handful of marginal campaign McCabe holding a “defensive briefing” with the Trump
figures — George Papadopoulos and Carter Page — about campaign to “alert them” that the campaign may have been
their contacts with Russia during the 2016 campaign. compromised, but that briefing never took place.
That revelation initially seemed to align with evidence of Such a briefing was reportedly even discussed and
an “electronic communication” discovered by House dismissed again among broader company in the “late
Intelligence Committee investigators dated July 31, 2016, spring” of 2016 during a meeting of the Obama
which appeared to mark the official beginning of the FBI’s administration’s National Security principals committee,
counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. which included the likes of the attorney general and the
heads of the CIA, Defense Department, Homeland
But Byron York of the Washington Examiner conducted a Security, State Department, Treasury Department, U.N.
review of the timeline of all that has been made known ambassador, White House chief of staff and more.
about that investigation over the past year or so, and
reached the conclusion that the FBI’s investigation actually Thus, we can deduce that no later than the “late spring” of
appears to have begun, perhaps unofficially, several 2016 — which would essentially encompass the months of
months prior to that official communication in late July. March through the “official” opening of the investigation
in late July — the highest levels of the Obama
A recent story in The Washington Post asserted that the administration were already keeping a close eye on the
informant — a professor living in London named Stefan Trump campaign.
Halper — began to interact with Trump advisers “a few
weeks before the opening of the investigation, when Page It wasn’t until some point in July that the infamous anti-
met the professor at the British symposium.” Trump dossier complied by former British spy Christopher
Steele — on behalf of Democrat-funded opposition
If that meeting and intelligence gathering occurred prior to research firm Fusion GPS — was initially submitted to the
the official opening of the investigation, that would FBI.
indicate some sort of unofficial investigation was already
underway, in York’s assessment. It was also allegedly at some point in July that the FBI was
made aware of a drunken conversation Papadopoulos
York, following the work of Congressional investigators, allegedly had with an Australian diplomat in London in
traced steps back to March 21, 2016, when then-candidate late May with regard to Russia’s supposed possession of
Trump met with the editorial board of The Post and Hillary Clinton’s emails.
revealed to them a list of his foreign policy advisers — an
admittedly thin list, given how the Republican The dossier, the Papadopoulos conversation, as well as a
establishment collective of foreign policy experts had speech delivered in Moscow by Page in July, had all
largely shunned Trump’s campaign — which included the previously been pointed to as the foundational impetus for
names of Papadopoulos and Page. the investigation into the Trump campaign. But as York
pointed out, the investigation appears to have begun prior
to all of that.
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Given how much the timeline of when the investigation In other words, it wouldn’t be the least bit surprising —
into Trump started has already shifted so much over the though still quite shocking and scandalous — if we
past year, it would not be out of the question to wonder if eventually learn that Obama’s people were using the
it unofficially began even prior to the date pinpointed by powerful tools of the government to spy on Trump and his
York in March 2016. campaign from the get-go in 2015, if not earlier.
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DRAIN THE SWAMP=>
Sinkhole Appears In White House Lawn
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 11:47 Am
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Dem Lawmaker: We Will
Impeach Trump If We Retake The House
By Aris Folley
05/22/18 11:56 Am Edt
“This is not something the Constitution has “On the political side I think it’s a gift to the
bestowed upon leadership,” said Green, Republicans,” she added. “We want to talk
who previously introduced two articles of about what they’re doing to undermine
impeachment that failed on the House working families in our country and what
floor. “It’s something every member has the we are doing to increase their payrolls and
right and privilege of doing. I am not sure lower their costs.”
.
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Watch Alan Dershowitz Smackdown CNN Legal Analyst
Over FBI Spying On Trump Campaign
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 22, 2018, 11:59 Am
Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz defended “civil libertarians are generally a little bit
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice demand suspicious when undercover agents go
while appearing on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on ‘just to ask questions.’ And I think we as
Monday. civil libertarians ought to be suspicious of
this. Allay our suspicions, and then we’ll be
fine,.”
Dershowitz faced off against CNN legal analyst Jeffrey “Let’s find out,” Dershowitz fired back.
Toobin regarding the FBI spying on the Trump campaign.
Dershowitz went on to remind CNN that when agents were
sent in to spy on Martin Luther King Jr. they claimed that
“I have to tell you, if this had happened
it was to protect him.
to Hillary Clinton, the ACLU would be
jumping up and down the way they did
when I was on the board of the ACLU, “They always say they’re doing it to protect
when undercover agents were put into the good people from the bad
the anti-war movement, into Civil Rights people,” Dershowitz said.
movement,” Dershowitz said.
He added that
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MANAFORT FIGHTS BACK:
Drops “Strong Evidence” Exposing
FBI Leaker [Video]
May 22, 2018
According to a court filing, a key deputy in the Mueller investigation into Paul Manafort’s financial
investigation is facing allegations he leaked information to records, a day before the wire service
reporters concerning the Russian collusion investigation: published a major exposé disclosing
alleged money laundering made by the
Paul Manafort’s defense attorney Kevin Downing former and now-embattled Trump
officially leveled the leaking allegation against key campaign chairman.” Manafort’s attorneys
Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann (photo below) as part finger Weissmann as the leaker to the AP
of a new legal offensive against Mueller’s indictment of meeting.
Manafort, who served briefly as Trump’s campaign
manager. Downing reported in the filing that “the meeting did not go
over well with FBI officials, who issued a complaint to the
Justice Department suggesting that the attorney did not
follow normal procedures for dealing with journalists.”
Downing charges that a flood of media leaks has prevented POLITICAL LOYALTY…CLINTON CRONY:
his client from getting a fair trial.
Downing presiding federal Judge T.S. Ellis III on April 30
to convene a hearing on media leaks. The judge has yet to Weissmann’s political loyalty has been
rule on the request. scrutinized. He attended Hillary Clinton’s
election night party in New York City, for
example.
DC reports:
SUPPORTED ANTI-TRUMP AG SALLY YATES:
In the latest filing, Downing charged that a
senior Justice Department official —
identified as Weissmann in exhibits The lawyer also supported then-acting
attached to the filing — briefed Associated Attorney General Sally Yates’ opposition to
Press reporters in spring 2017, which led to Trump’s initial immigration ban.
four breaking stories about the “I am so proud,” Weissmann wrote about
government’s investigation into alleged Yates in an email the conservative group
Trump-Russian collusion and Manafort. Judicial Watch uncovered. “And in awe.
“There is strong evidence that the highest- Thank you so much.”
level FBI and intelligence officials
authorized leaks to the press and, in fact, Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican and chairman
leaked themselves,” Manafort’s filing of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
asserted. has asked the Justice Department to provide information
on the claim Weissmann met with news reporters.
According to the filing, a “senior Justice
Department prosecutor” met with the AP
reporters “last spring to discuss an When he met with the reporters, Weissmann headed the
fraud section of the Justice Department’s Criminal
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Division. He was one of the first attorneys Mueller hand- Just how rough special counsel Robert
picked to join the special counsel team in May 2017. Mueller is playing with Paul Manafort goes
back before this week’s indictment — to
Weissmann has a reputation for pushing the boundaries on the FBI’s no-knock raid in July.
prosecutions. The New York Times last October called him
a “pit bull” who used “scorched-earth tactics” against It has been reported that the agents checked Mr.
opponents. Manafort and wife Kathleen for guns as they broke into the
Alexandria condo pre-dawn by picking the lock.
Weissmann was also Mueller’s attorney on the ground
who oversaw the pre-dawn raid on Manafort’s home. A source familiar with the case told The Washington Times
the search was even more intrusive:
Weissmann also has allies within the Justice Department
and in the federal court system. Weissmann became An agent patted down Mrs. Manafort before she was
friends with Loretta Lynch who then headed the U.S. allowed to get out of bed.
Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District for New York.
“Agents felt up Mrs. Manafort lying in bed
DEEP STATE CRONYISM: to see if she had guns,” the source said of
the intimidation.
“He was very friendly with Loretta,” a
former federal prosecutor who worked
in Brooklyn while Weissmann was there
told the Daily Beast. “They were all part
of a little gang together – they would go
out for lunch, they would go out for
dinner.”
Manafort’s lawyers claim the multitude of leaks coming In all, 12 FBI agents entered the home, guns drawn, and
from Mueller’s office stayed for hours.
“constitute outrageous government conduct The aggressive search of a prone sleepy woman is, the
intended to deprive Mr. Manafort of his source said, a hallmark of Mr. Mueller’s top prosecutor,
Fifth and Sixth Amendment Constitutional Andrew Weissmann. A former mob prosecutor in New
rights to due process and a trial by an York, he specializes in turning witnesses against bigger
unbiased jury of his peers.” prey and is not afraid to make things rough for spouses,
too.
Weissman’s reputation precedes him…he’s known to be a
slippery lawyer. We have to agree! “Weissmann will want to maximize the
trauma to his family,” said Sidney Powell, a
THERE IS A QUESTION REGARDING Dallas appeals attorney critical of his
THE ROUGH TREATMENT OF THE tactics.
MANAFORTS – WAS THE INTIMIDATION
TACTIC TO SEND A MESSAGE TO A spokesman for the special counsel’s office declined to
PRESIDENT TRUMP? comment.
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Weiner Laptop Comes Back To
Haunt FBI Brass In IG Report On Hillary Case
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 12:20 Pm
The Inspector General is set to release As previously reported, then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew
his much-anticipated report on the FBI’s McCabe knew about Hillary’s emails on Weiner’s laptop
handling of Hillary Clinton’s email as early as September of 2016 and didn’t alert the bureau
investigation and Weiner’s laptop has for an entire MONTH.
come back to haunt the FBI brass.
The FBI waited over a month to obtain a warrant to review
emails on Weiner’s laptop.
FBI agents found a trove of emails on Anthony Weiner’s Inspector General Horowitz announced to lawmakers on
laptop as they were conducting an investigation into lewd Capitol Hill last week he completed a draft of his report on
text messages the disgraced politician exchanged with an the FBI’s handling of the Clinton investigation.
underage teenager.
The report was given to lawyers to prepare rebuttals;
Judicial Watch counted over a dozen classified emails on according to Sara Carter, the final IG report should be
Weiner’s laptop, including the name of a CIA official. released in the next two weeks.
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Democrats Yesterday:
Trump’s Claim Of Embedded Spy Is Nonsense…
Democrats Today:
The Use Of Embedded Spy Is A Vital Technique
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 12:54 Pm
Washington Post:
If the FBI was spying on Trump “It was to
protect him.”
Democrats Today–
Rep. Ted Lieu:
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It’s True, Democratic Midterm Advantage Nearly Gone
The Latest Polls Confirm Trend Indicating Earlier Advantage In 'Generic
Ballot' Has Shrunk, While Republicans Appear To
Be On The Upswing
By Brendan Kirby
22 May 2018 At 12:56 PM
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GOP Lawmakers Unveil Resolution Officially Calling For
Second Special Counsel To Investigate The Investigators
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 1:02 Pm
On Tuesday, House Republicans House Republicans also want a second special counsel to
unveiled a resolution officially calling investigate the FBI’s decision to end Hillary’s email
for a second special counsel to investigation and how and why the Trump-Russia probe
investigate misconduct at the highest began.
levels of the DOJ and FBI.
On Monday, President Trump met with Deputy AG Rod
Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray to discuss
the FBI’s infiltration of his campaign.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, Reps. Ron Read the 12-page resolution on next page.
DeSantis, Louie Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, Jody Hice, Jim
Jordan and others were present at the press conference.
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‘Bias’ Of NY Times Editors
Is So Obvious Even CBS Notices
By Scott Whitlock
May 22, 2018 1:09 PM EDT
The aggressive, biased coverage of The New York Times editor staring at the screen as if they're watching a funeral.
against Donald Trump is so obvious that even the liberal Won't people watching this think this confirms every
journalists at CBS noticed it. On Tuesday, CBS This feeling I have about The New York Times being biased
Morning hosts talked to Times Executive Editor Dean about this president?
Baquet and Washington Bureau Chief Elisabeth Bumiller
about their appearance in the new Showtime documentary Baquet casually replied that, of course, everyone was in a
series The Fourth Estate. bad mood:
Asked why the paper would allow cameras inside the “First off, it was a grim inaugural speech. It
Times’s operation, Baquet insisted the program will show: was meant to be grim. It's hard not to have
had a grim reaction.”
“...That we have a mission, that we make
mistakes. But that we work extremely
hard, that we're not biased.” This is the
same man who once insisted it was
important to call Trump a liar, but that
Hillary Clinton merely “exaggerates.”
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Question: Where was this investigative, curious zeal funeral. Won't people watching this think this confirms every
during the Obama administration? Why, only now, does feeling I have about The New York Times being biased about this
the Times want to hold truth to power? Could it be the president?
same reason that The Washington Post waited for the
Trump era to add “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to the BAQUET: Except right after that scene, as I recall — and it was
front page? unrehearsed — I sort of break into a grin and just acknowledge
how big a story it is. I mean, I really don't think so. I really don't
A partial transcript of the segment is below. think so. First off it was a grim inaugural speech. It was meant to
be grim. It's hard not to have had a grim reaction.
CBS This Morning
5/22/18 DICKERSON: The actual text of the speech and how it was
8:32AM ET delivered.
JOHN DICKERSON: The New York Times coverage of BAQUET: Yes. That's right. I mean, this was the “American
President Trump is the subject of a new documentary series. In Carnage” speech. But I also think people saw a newsroom
The Fourth Estate, viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at suddenly sort of turn up the volume and get ready to cover it and
Times journalists investigating and reporting the biggest see the joy in reporting.
headlines of the administration's first year. The preview features
Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller editing with a D.C..- GAYLE KING: And say we're going to get it right. The thing that
based correspondent as they face a changing news cycle and a struck me — to follow up on what you said, Dean. A, you show
tight deadline. how hard it is to work. And at one point, I think it was Mazetti who
said we want to be first, but more importantly, we want to be
[Clip from The Fourth Estate] right. And there were times a story was delayed while you were
working hard to make sure you get it right.
DICKERSON: A calling from New York with suggestions for
Washington. Familiar to anybody? Elisabeth Bumiller joins us
now along with executive director Dean Baquet, who is also ELISABETH BUMILLER (NYT Washington bureau chief): Right. I
featured in the series. The Fourth Estate airing will air on think that was one of the Michael Flynn stories. And we delayed,
Showtime, a division of CBS. Welcome to both of you. New York and the Post beat us on that story. And we — I think we came
and Washington, that great tension at the heart of any journalistic back really strongly the rest of the year and right after that. You
enterprise. Dean Baquet, why did you let cameras into The New see the tension that we have and the competition. There's just a
York Times? lot of stresses on us.
...
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Scrambling Holder Pushes DOJ
To Defy President’s Order To Investigate FBI
By Ben Marquis
May 22, 2018 At 1:15pm
As the Donald Trump-Russia collusion narrative designed Trump’s tweeted order on Sunday and subsequent White
to smear and stymie the Trump presidency continues to House meeting led to Holder’s Monday evening tweet.
unravel, some members of the previous administration
have become even more outspoken and shrill in their “More DOJ norms being eroded. Trump-a
condemnations of how things are being run than they SUBJECT of the investigation-wants
already were. access to material related to the inquiry,”
the former attorney general tweeted.
The latest to do so publicly is former Obama
administration Attorney General Eric Holder, who took to
Twitter to express his grave concern over Trump’s demand
that the Department of Justice look into whether former
President Barack Obama’s FBI/DOJ investigated his 2016
campaign for “political purposes.”
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officials and top members of Congress to “review” certain above board and beyond reproach, as has been insisted,
“highly classified materials” related to the FBI’s why are they protesting any inquiry into those actions so
investigation of the Trump campaign that have been much? Surely they have nothing to hide, right?
sought by lawmakers, Sanders said.
To paraphrase a line from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” that
The question that must be asked, given the shrill tweet by seems particularly relevant at this point, the former
Holder and others in recent days and weeks, is that if the attorney general doth protest too much, methinks.
actions of the DOJ and FBI under Obama were entirely
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Clapper Was ‘Thinking Of Something
Else’ When He Lied To Congress
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
1:19 PM 05/22/2018
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“Does the NSA collect any type of data at Clapper has this week defended an FBI informant nested in
all on millions or hundreds of millions of the Trump campaign. The former Director of National
Americans?” Intelligence said last week that the informant was “a good
thing.” During his interview with “The View” Tuesday, he
“No, sir,” Clapper responded at the time.
said Trump should be glad that an FBI informant was
“Not wittingly. There are cases where they
secretly observing his 2016 campaign for possible Russian
could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but
not wittingly.” interference.
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FBI’s Anti-Trump Spying Was ‘Running Out Of Gas’
Sam Clovis, Target Of Agency’s Attempt To Penetrate Campaign, Describes His
Four Interactions With The FBI's Mole, Said Talks Were Strictly Academic
By Brendan Kirby
22 May 2018 At 1:29 PM
The FBI hoped Halper’s interactions with the campaign Clovis said he believes Halper was trying to find a
would produce probable cause to keep surveillance “weakness or a soft spot” in the campaign in order to
operations going, Clovis said. create an “audit trail” back to the emails of Democratic
candidate Hillary Clinton that the Russians supposedly
had.
“They were running out of steam,” he said.
“September [2016] — if you remember,
September’s only six weeks or eight weeks Halper was the key to keeping a sputtering investigation
away from the election, and they were going, Clovis said.
running out of gas.”
“I think they were scrambling even at this
Clovis recalled that Halper, who had served in previous point in time, trying to find justification for
Republican administrations and had been a CIA source in furthering the investigation,” he said. “And I
the past, contacted him during the campaign. He said the really think this is the doing of a very small
two men set up a September 1 meeting over coffee. cabal of people at the FBI and the DOJ,
who isolated themselves, who created
circumstances to create this investigation.”
Clovis described the ensuring conversation as a high-
minded back and forth between two academics that had
little to do with the campaign. He said Halper talked about Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), in a separate appearance on
his academic research and offered it to the campaign. the radio show, said Halper’s role seems almost to cross
the line on entrapment. He said Congress needs to see
precisely how Department of Justice officials directed him.
Clovis said he thought little of the meeting at the time.
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“It seems to me that some of his Despite a string of indictments and guilty pleas racked up
interactions, it was almost as if he was by independent counsel Robert Mueller, DeSantis said the
trying to manufacture additional quote- probe has failed to produce evidence of collusion.
unquote ‘contacts’ between these kind of
tangential figures of the Trump campaign “He’s gotten convictions about things
and people who may be affiliated with having nothing to do with the underlying
Russia somehow,” he said. reason that he was appointed,” he said.
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Liberals Are Curiously Incurious
About This Part Of The Russia Investigation
Derek Hunter - Contributor
1:46 PM 05/22/2018
On today’s episode of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast… We tell you why.
Isn’t it odd how liberals have no desire to see any evidence What the hell is happening with people? A man was
as to why the entire Russian collusion investigation started arrested for urinating on the back of a seat on a flight from
in the first place? They simply don’t care to know what Colorado to South Carolina because, well, we don’t know
caused the Obama administration to launch a spying but have to assume (or hope) he was drunk out of his mind.
operation against the Trump campaign or use the system How does something like this come about? It’s because
created to spy on foreigners against American citizens. people have become selfish monsters in the age of social
They’re cool with all of it because it’s against their media. When you obliterate the line between being famous
political enemies. But what if it had been turned on Hillary and infamous the only thing that matters is getting
Clinton? That’s a question Alan Dershowitz had for CNN attention. And when that happens, social norms get
hack Jeffrey Toobin. To no one’s surprise, Toobin dodged destroyed. Maybe these jerks were always around and we
the question, preferring to toe the party line rather than be didn’t notice before, but it seems more likely society is
intellectually honest. changing for the worse. We explain.
During his one year leading the probe into the alleged "If there are Americans involved, whether
misdeeds of President Trump and his associates, Special or not they have anything to do with the
Counsel Robert Mueller has issued a number of campaign, then I would expect an
indictments, including against 13 Russian nationals who indictment," said Steven Cash, a lawyer at
will likely never find their way into US custody. But as the Day Pitney.
Hill pointed out Tuesday, there's one election-related crime
that Mueller has apparently been reluctant to pursue: That While leaks in recent months have suggested that Mueller
is, the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's does, in fact, have enough evidence to bring charges
emails by Guccifur 2.0, a hacker who has been tenuously related to the DNC hack, the DOJ hasn't produced
linked to the Russian GRU. anything conclusive to link Russia to the incident.
Furthermore, the sophisticated Russian "disinformation
Some legal experts say Mueller could be campaign" carried out through Facebook and other social
holding off on an indictment for the end media through the placement of "fraudulent" ads bearing
of the investigation because going controversial messages has also been exposed as a gross
public would be too damaging. It's exaggeration.
possible that it could reveal "the
information they might posses to prove Even if Mueller had an iron-clad case, pursuing charges
the case," said Mark Zaid, a Washington against a Russian national - Russia is not obligated to
attorney specializing in national security extradite its citizens - would be a futile exercise, since they
issues. would likely just modify their behavior to avoid traveling
to jurisdictions where they'd be vulnerable.
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"Flood Is Coming": New Comey-McCabe
Emails Suggest CNN And FBI Coordination
Over Steele Dossier
By Tyler Durden
Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:11
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email to Comey, Rybicki, and two others. "first learned that media outlets,
“The trigger for them is they know the including CNN, may have possessed the
material was discussed in the brief and Steele dossier. "
presented in an attachment.”
As The Federalist notes,
McCabe does not reveal how he knew CNN’s “trigger”
was Comey's briefing to Trump. "To date, there is no public evidence that
the FBI ever investigated the leaks to
McCabe shot off a second email shortly thereafter to media about the briefing between Trump
then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates along with her and Comey. When asked in a recent
deputy, Matthew Alexrod, with the subject line "News." interview by Fox News Channel’s Bret
Baier, Comey scoffed at the idea that the
“Just as an FYI, and as expected,” FBI would even need to investigate the
McCabe wrote, “it seems CNN is close to leak of a secret briefing with the incoming
running a story about the sensitive president."
reporting.” Again, how McCabe knew this “Did you or your subordinates leak that?”
is unclear and begs investigation. Baier asked.
“No,” Comey responded. “I don’t know who
In a Monday letter to FBI director Christopher Wray, Sen.
leaked it.”
Johnson, chair of the Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee, provides a timeline of “Did you ever try to find out?” Baier asked.
events which correspond to the newly obtained FBI emails, “Who leaked an unclassified public
and asks the agency to provide a list of all the members of document?” Comey said, even though
the "sensitive matter" team referenced in Rybicki's January Baier’s question was about leaking details
6 email. of a briefing of the incoming president, not
the dossier. “No,” Comey said.
Johnson also wants to know when FBI officials
Johnson's letter can be seen below. He has requested a
response by Wray no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 4.
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POTUS Trump Smacks Down Reporter Asking About Rod
Rosenstein “What’s Your Next Question, Please?”
(VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 3:07 Pm
VIDEO:
On Tuesday, President Trump hosted South
Korean President Moon Jae-In at the White
House and took questions from reporters.
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Sarah Sanders Nukes
The Press Over Reporting On Iran Deal
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
3:30 PM 05/22/2018
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‘The Last One We Would Call On To Make A Deal’ —
Sarah Sanders Blasts Chuck Schumer Into Orbit
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
3:59 PM 05/22/2018
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders slammed
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer during the Sanders’ response held nothing back.
briefing Tuesday.
“Like I said before, Senator Schumer is not
WATCH: somebody that this White House will ever
take advice from on how to negotiate or get
a good deal on anything based on his track
record and his weakness when it comes to
China.”
“We finally have a president that is actually
calling out China on their unfair trade
practices and not just calling them out but
actually doing something about it. And
aggressively pushing forward in
negotiations. Something we haven’t seen in
decades. Senator Schumer is probably the
last one we would call on to make a deal.”
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Rep. Matt Gaetz: There Was
No “Legal Or Factual Basis” For
Jeff Sessions Recusal (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 4:15 Pm
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Congressman Gaetz to elaborate “no DOJ employee may participate in a criminal
on his criticism of Jeff Sessions and his decision to recuse investigation or prosecution if he has a personal
himself from his duties as Attorney General. or political relationship with any person or
organization substantially involved in the
Gaetz slammed Jeff Sessions. conduct that is the subject of the investigation
or prosecution, or who would be directly
“I think Mr. Rosenstein is deeply conflicted. I affected by the outcome.”
think that in many cases he is playing Jeff
Sessions. I think Jeff Sessions has been VIDEO:
functionally set off into a corner of the Justice
Department on these critical issues. I don’t think
there was a legal or factual basis for his recusal
and I think that it has really hurt the country,”
Gaetz said.
In one of those tweets, Trump claimed that there are “13 As part of this analysis, TheDCNF also identified the voter
Angry and Heavily Conflicted Democrats” on special registration status of all 16 publicly-known lawyers, the
counsel Robert Mueller’s team of lawyers. first time the full composition of the team had been
reported. Thirteen were registered Democrats, three were
Cillizza disputed the tweet. registered as independents and zero were registered
Republicans.
“Trump’s claim that there are 13 Democrats
on Mueller’s team is also false,” he Trump began tweeting about “13 hardened Democrats”
asserted. weeks later, prompting The Washington Post, The New
York Times and others to fact check the claim.
Verdict: False
Cillizza relies on these outlets to dispute Trump, but he
cherry picks sentences from their articles that imply there
Cillizza cites incomplete and outdated findings. The Daily are fewer than 13 Democrats on the Russia probe.
Caller News Foundation first reported that there were 13
registered Democrats and zero Republicans known to work
for Mueller in February. The probe brought on a 14th He cites WaPo, for example, writing,
Democrat in May.
“According to The Washington Post’s Fact
Fact Check: Checker, five of the 16 known members of
Mueller’s team donated to Hillary Clinton’s
2016 campaign.”
Since the early days of the Russia probe, conservatives
have questioned whether members of the investigation
were politically conflicted. But this finding only deals with a small subset of the
lawyers – those who donated specifically to Clinton.
The Wall Street Journal reported in December that one of
the lawyers, Andrew Weissmann, attended the election More importantly, Cillizza overlooks a key sentence in the
night party for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. WaPo article that supports Trump’s claim:
Revelations that FBI agent Peter Strozk, a former member
of the team, exchanged anti-Trump text messages with “The Daily Caller said voter registration
another FBI employee fueled further speculation. records indicate that 13 of the attorneys are
Democrats and three have no party
affiliation.”
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A subsequent fact check by WaPo substantiates the “13 “the people that have been hired are all
Democrats” claim as well. Hillary Clinton supporters.”
Cillizza makes the same oversight with a fact check from And defenders of the special counsel investigation point
the Times. out that Mueller may not legally consider political
affiliation when making hiring decisions.
“The New York Times says that nine of the
17 known lawyers on Mueller’s team have But the basic claim that Mueller brought on 13 registered
donated to Democratic campaigns in the Democrats is not only true – Trump actually understates
past,” he writes. the number.
But the NYT goes on to say that an additional four lawyers Since TheDCNF first reported the registration status of the
are either registered Democrats or have identified as one lawyers, another attorney has been added:
online, for a total of 13 Democrats.
Uzo Asonye, a registered Democrat who donated to
Trump has at times exaggerated the political leanings of Hillary Clinton’s presidential election campaign.
the team; he once claimed that
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Secret FBI Team That Coordinated Set-Up Of Trump
Was Pressured By CNN – Guess Who Was
CNN DOJ Reporter At The Time?
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 4:28 Pm
On Monday Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) Then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe sent
sent a letter to the FBI Director regarding an email to senior FBI leadership with the
phony Steele Russia dossier. subject line “Flood is coming.” Mr. McCabe
wrote, “CNN is close to going forward with
Explosive new e-mails show FBI the sensitive story. … The trigger for them
brass discussed dossier briefing [CNN] is they know the material was discussed
details with CNN. in the brief and presented in an attachment.”
Senator Johnson accused the FBI of having a “sensitive 5. January 8, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
matter team” as reference by FBI Chief of Staff Jim
Rybicki in an January 6, 2017 email to unspecified Mr. McCabe emailed then-Deputy Attorney
recipients. General Sally Yates and then-Principal Deputy
Attorney General Matthew Axelrod with the
Senator Johnson outlined the time line of subject line “News.” Mr. McCabe wrote, “Just an
events and communications between FBI FYI, and as expected, it seems CNN is close to
officials, President-elect Trump and CNN. running a story about the sensitive reporting.”
1. January 6, 2017, 9:44 a.m. Two days later on January 10, 2017, CNN ran the story
about the unverified and salacious allegations made in the
FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki sent an email anti-Trump dossier with BuzzFeed publishing the dossier
to unspecified recipients stating, “the director is within a couple hours of CNN’s report.
coming into HQ briefly now for an update from
the sensitive matter team.” So how do you suppose James Comey knew
that CNN was about to run the salacious
2. January 6, 2017, afternoon. anti-Trump dossier back in January 2017?
Director Comey met with President-elect And who could have been pressuring leaker
Trump. James Comey with the discredited dossier?
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BREAKING: Michael Cohen’s Business Partner Flips –
Dirty Cop Mueller Hopes To Use Him
To Squeeze Trump Lawyer
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 4:52 Pm
Under the agreement, the partner, Evgeny A. Since Mueller has nothing on President Trump and his so-
Freidman, a Russian immigrant who is known called collusion with the Russians, his team of hack
as the Taxi King, will avoid jail time, and will lawyers have focused on anyone connected to Trump in an
assist government prosecutors in state or effort to destroy people’s lives.
federal investigations, according to a person
briefed on the matter.
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Rep. Gaetz Fact Checks
CNN’s Tapper On FISA Abuse
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
5:33 PM 05/22/2018
Republican congressman Matt Gaetz fact checked CNN “We have received briefings from the FBI
anchor Jake Tapper Tuesday over alleged FISA warrant regarding the elements of their application,”
abuses by the Department of Justice. Gaetz said. “We’ve also read the memo from
the House Intelligence Committee…and that
memo laid out pretty clearly that the principle
WATCH: piece of evidence, the first piece of evidence,
was this dossier that was paid for by the DNC.”
Gaetz is alleging that the DOJ improperly obtained a FISA “They gave no indication that the DNC was
warrant to spy on the Trump campaign using the involved in paying for [the Steele dossier], no
unverified Steele dossier. indication that Christopher Steele was involved,
there was only a vague reference to Glenn
Tapper asked how Gaetz knows that anything improper Simpson.”
occurred before the FISA court since he is not a member of
the House Intelligence Committee.
.
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Mike Flynn Jr. Lights Up Twitter With Cryptic Tweet
“You’re All Going Down”
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 5:34 Pm
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Clapper Goes After Ryan And McConnell In New Book,
Says They Didn’t Care About Russian Interference
Julia Cohen
5:42 PM 05/22/2018
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BOOM! Former Trump Campaign Aide Michael Caputo:
Federal Agency Attempted To GIVE ME
HILLARY EMAILS! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 6:00 Pm
Neil Cavuto: So when you say May of 2016 you have the
Former Trump campaign aide Michael discovery of somebody penetrating the campaign or what?
Caputo dropped a bomb on the Ingraham
Angle Monday night. Michael Caputo:
Caputo told Neil a SECOND FEDERAL This does not look good for the Obama
AGENCY offered to give him HILLARY Deep State hacks!
CLINTON EMAILS!
It’s time to drag out the paddy wagon.
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Bitter Scarborough: ‘Change The Channel’
If You Don't Want The Truth
By Randy Hall
May 22, 2018 6:07 PM EDT
“If you don’t want to hear the truth, you can If you’re thinking it’s just one note. Morning
change the channel!” Joe is just one note. Yeah! Yeah, guess
what? A fire department has one focus
Scarborough made the remark after fiancé and fellow co- when there’s a four-alarm fire, alright? So if
host Mika Brzezinski finished an interview with anti- you don’t want to hear the truth, you
can change the channel!
Trump Republican Max Boot, who noted in a Washington
Post opinion column “
It didn’t take long for former NewsBusters colleague Mark
Finkelstein to call the outburst an example of
the five political norms that President
Trump violated in just the past week.”
“One-Note Trump Hatred.”
Of course, the discussion centered around items boldly
displayed on the TV screen for all to see. The first one was Finkelstein also noted that the MSNBC co-host “surely had
in mind” columns like one from Republican strategist Alex
Castellanos entitled
“revealing intelligence sources,” which
Brzezinski stated “involves Congressman
Devin Nunes demanding the name of an “IT’S OFFICIAL: Morning Joe Is Dead.”
FBI informant.”
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which, as its name suggests, is a middle- “anything sharp because you will hurt
of-the-road outfit.” yourself because you are too incompetent
actually to use any basic household
NewsBusters has followed the MSNBC program since appliances.”
2007, when Scarborough said he wanted to “write a
campaign check” for former Senator Bob Kerrey because However, it’s still hard to top Scarborough when it comes
“we need” the Nebraska Democrat “in Washington very to slamming the President. On May 18, the MSNBC co-
badly.” host almost seemed happy that the President’s planned
summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un might not
Of course, it doesn’t take long to find examples of liberal pan out because Trump is “allergic to complexity” and
bias from the Morning Joe co-hosts. “contemptuous of history.”
In early April, Scarborough attempted to take President Perhaps the MSNBC co-host could have a part in a remake
Donald Trump to task by reciting a slew of negative words of A Few Good Men since Jack Nicholson’s character in
that had appeared in his Twitter posts over the previous 24 that movie was also fond of a similar phrase
hours, after which he suffered a full-scale meltdown over
Trump’s most recent tweet storm. “[y]ou can’t handle the truth!”
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Jack Posobiec At OANN: Second Deep State
Government “Informant” Claimed To Be With NSA
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 6:22 Pm
Caputo told Ingraham: “I was approached by Michael Caputo confirmed to One America
a SECOND government informant.” News reporter, Jack Posobiec the second
informant claimed to be from the NSA.
On Tuesday, Caputo revealed to Fox News’ Neil Cavuto a
second federal agency offered him Hillary’s emails. Posobiec tweeted: SCOOP: Fmr Trump Advisor Michael
Caputo confirms to @OANN that the second informant
The second informant claimed to be from the NSA, who reached out to him and offered Hillary’s missing
reported OANN’s Jack Posobiec. emails claimed to be from the NSA.
Deep breaths, people. Leading off Tuesday’s MTP Daily Department to Hillary Clinton. The Republican chairman
on MSNBC, moderator Chuck Todd let loose on some of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Ron
hyperbole and self-righteous speculation that America is Johnson, is trying to dig up more dirt about the FBI's
amidst a “constitutional crisis” and “fatal” attack on handling of the Steele dossier.
“the rule of law” caused by Republicans demanding an
investigation into alleged spying of the Trump campaign in As a reminder, the liberal media were hellbent on truly
the early stages of the Russia probe. undermining the Ken Starr investigation of then-President
Bill Clinton in the 1990s. It’s quite a change to 2017 and
“If it's Tuesday, the constitutional crisis 2018 where even asking for oversight is seen as a betrayal
alarm bells are ringing, but is anybody of American values.
listening? Tonight, fatal distraction. Are
the President's systemic attacks on the Following spin about an FBI informant working to
Justice Department undermining the infiltrate the Trump campaign, Todd unleashed a tangent
rule of law as we know it,” stated the about this
smug NBC political director at the top of the
show with the accompanying chyron “Fatal
“constitutional crisis”:
Distraction?”
Folks, if this was happening in another
country, what would we say? If a country's
ruling party was being investigated for
potential election corruption and responded
by attacking that investigation, launched its
own counter investigation into the Justice
Department itself, called for the
imprisonment of those in the minority party
and pressured leaders in law enforcement
to lock them up. If that were happening in
any other country, we'd probably call it a
constitutional crisis for said country. What
do we call it here, other than Tuesday?
He added that Not sure about any of you, but America seems to be
humming along just fine.
“[w]e begin tonight with a politically
motivated investigation, which is out to Of course, this is the person who’s wife made over a $1
prove that Bob Mueller's investigation is million off the Bernie Sanders campaign and donated to
politically motivated” and he implored Democratic Senator Tim Kaine (VA) but Todd has refused
viewers to “wrap your head around that to disclose that to viewers. Talk about a journalism ethics
for a moment.” problem!
Todd rhetorically wagging his finger at Republicans and Following all that, Todd showed where his true allegiances
dismissed the merit of their questions lie by bringing on former Obama administration counsel
Bob Bauer for a friendly interview. Thankfully, Louisiana
Folks, right now the President and his allies in Congress Republican Senator John Kennedy came next and talked
continue their campaign to distract from the Russia some sense into Todd.
investigation and they hope, discredit it. A group of House
Republicans today introduced legislation to appoint a Kennedy first explained that, contrary to what many
special counsel to investigate essentially any number of the (including the liberal media) are arguing,
president's political enemies, from leaders in the Justice
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“the President has the right to request Since Trump took office, NewsBusters has documented
an investigation” just as any of the many numerous instances where the word “constitutional crisis”
people who’ve “ask[ed] the FBI to look has appeared. Links to examples can be found here, here,
into the activities and behavior of the here, here, and here.
shooter in Parkland in Florida have the
right.” To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s MTP Daily
on May 22:
The Louisiana Senator then made the crucial distinction,
which is that MSNBC’s MTP Daily
July 22, 2018
“[n]one of us have the right, including 5:00 p.m. Eastern
the President, to influence an
investigation and try to tell the FBI and
the Justice Department how the results
should be of an investigation.”
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Congress would like to see REPUBLICAN SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY (LA): Well, you
documents opened up. A lot of people are saying they had spies either trust Rod Rosenstein and Chris Wray or you don't. What I
in my campaign. If they had spies in my campaign, that would be said on Scarborough's show this morning, and I'll say it again, the
a disgrace to this country. That would be one of the biggest President has the right to request an investigation. You have the
insults that anybody's ever seen and that would be very illegal, right to request an investigation. I have the right. The people who
aside from everything else. It would make every political event ask the FBI to look into the activities and behavior of the shooter
ever make look like small potatoes. in Parkland in Florida have the right. None of us have the right,
including the President, to influence an investigation and try to
TODD: We're scratching our head on the biggest insult comment. tell the FBI and the Justice Department how the results should be
Everything else sort of made sense there in Trumperbole. But of an investigation. I don't see any evidence that the President
there was no evidence that this was trying to spy on the has done that. He didn't try to hide his meeting. I think
campaign. But there is evidence that this alleged informant was Rosenstein and Wray were both there. If he does try to influence
part of an effort by the Justice Department's effort to spy on the it, I will speak out against it, but he has the right to ask for an
campaign and infiltrate. But there is evidence that this alleged investigation and I don't — honestly, Chris, I realize there are
informant who worked for Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush was always two sides to every story — or, Chuck —
part of the Justice Department’s effort to spy on what Russia was
doing to protect the Trump campaign from being infiltrated by TODD: That's alright.
Russians. Now, the White House yesterday brokered an
agreement through its Chief of Staff, John Kelly, which would KENNEDY: But that's his prerogative. Now, you may not like the
allow House Republicans, but not Democratic counterparts, mind way he does it, and you may not like the tweets that he uses,
you, to view highly classified information related to the Russia Chuck, about it, but that's a separate issue from whether he has
investigation. That meeting is now planned for Thursday. The the right to say, okay, the FBI or the Justice Department or
President's Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, has somebody sent an informant into my campaign and, hey, I would
resisted those efforts so far. By the way, in case you're like to know what's going on. I would kind of like to know myself.
wondering what the president's view of him is. By the way, in
case you're wondering what the President's view of him is. Take
(....)
a listen.
TODD: Fair enough. KENNEDY: — I do wish they would hurry up. I think all
Americans who are in good faith would like to see these
KENNEDY: But we don't have any facts yet. investigations concluded sooner rather than later. They're
important, but they do suck up a lot of oxygen. I mean, there are
TODD: But I think your warning about let the investigators finish times up here on the Hill that that's all folks want to talk about.
their investigation before we question their investigation. That's okay, except there are other important issues, too. I'm not
saying that the investigation is not important, but it is — it does
take up a lot of oxygen.
.
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Targeted Trump Aide Sam Clovis Speaks Out: Obama Spy
Stefan Halper Used Trump Camp To Build
Fraudulent Russia Case (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 8:19 Pm
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NYT Columnist Worries Mueller
Investigation Actually Helping Trump
Peter Hasson - Reporter
8:30 PM 05/22/2018
The Mueller investigation, Bruni argued, is dominating Trump “knows that if he sets the bar at
media coverage to the extent it’s crowding out coverage of incontrovertible evidence of him and Putin
what Trump and his administration are actually doing. huddled over a Hillary Clinton voodoo doll,
he just might clear it,” the columnist wrote.
“Maybe the just-published Politico report of “And he knows that if Americans are
Trump’s deliberate, cavalier use of a fixated on collusion, they aren’t
cellphone that doesn’t have strict security concentrating on much else. That’s good
safeguards would be getting extra for him and terrible for the country.”
attention” if not for the Mueller
investigation, Bruni pondered.
.
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Trump Goes Scorched Earth On FBI Spy Campaign:
‘Follow The Money, The Spy Was Only There To
Help Crooked Hillary Win’
By Cristina Laila
May 22, 2018, 8:36 Pm
President Trump, please never stop The informant, Stefan Halper, was paid a
tweeting! total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for work
with the US government that included
spying on the Trump campaign.
President Trump lit up Twitter Tuesday evening after he
tweeted what we are all thinking–the spies infiltrated his
campaign for political purposes to help Hillary Clinton win It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper.
the election.
Now the Democrats are in spin mode.
Trump tweeted:
They went from ‘there was no spy inside of Trump’s
If the person placed very early into my camp’ to ‘the informant was there to help protect Trump
campaign wasn’t a SPY put there by the against the Russians.’
previous Administration for political purposes,
how come such a seemingly massive amount of Former DNI Chief James Clapper is claiming
money was paid for services rendered – many embedding spies is “a standard
times higher than normal… investigative practice.”
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“If they had spies in my campaign, that would
be a disgrace to this country.”
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NBC’s Full-Blown Panic Over
IG Investigation Into DOJ Demanded By Trump
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 22, 2018 9:20 PM EDT
The Department of Justice's internal watchdog has opened For what it’s worth, NBC was the only network in the big
an investigation into the conduct of the FBI regarding their three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) to mention this latest move by
reported use of an “informant” or “spy” in the Trump congressional Republicans.
campaign after the President officially demanded the
matter be looked into on Monday. Come Tuesday evening,
NBC Nightly News was in a hysterical panic over the
development with claims President Trump was trying to
“insert himself” into Russia investigation.
The liberal media was desperately trying to paint Trump’s UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you have confidence in Rod
actions in calling for an IG investigation as somehow Rosenstein.
inappropriate even though within his purview as President.
There very well could be no “there” there and the TRUMP: What's your next question, please?
investigation will end with nothing happening. But again,
the last time the FBI was investigated for misconduct,
WELKER: And it's not just the president. His allies on Capitol Hill
there was a firing. Ironically, they’re behaving in the same
are also trying to discredit the investigation with a group of
Trumpian fashion they complain the President does. Republicans calling for a second special counsel to investigate
the Justice Department and FBI.
The transcript is below:
MARK MEADOWS: It is time for transparency, and it's time to
NBC Nightly News allow the American people to know the truth.
May 22, 2018
7:06:15 PM Eastern [1 minute 49 seconds] WELKER: Former Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper insisting there was no wrongdoing by the FBI.
LESTER HOLT: And while he was speaking in the Oval Office
today, President Trump also took new aim at the Russia probe JOY BEHAR: Was the FBI spying on Trump's campaign?
and raised new questions about whether he is inserting himself
into the investigation. We get more from NBC News White House
correspondent Kristen Welker. JAMES CLAPPER: No, they were not. They were spying on -- a
term I don't particularly like -- but on what the Russians were
doing.
[Cuts to video]
WELKER: Tonight law enforcement experts warn –
KRISTEN WELKER: Tonight President Trump is escalating his
assault on the investigators who are investigating him, prompting
a critical question, is the President threatening the long-standing FRANK FIGLIUZZI: If this continues, there will be more than a
independence of the Justice Department; amid revelations an standoff. There will be a constitutional crisis. I believe that's
FBI informant had contact with his campaign during the 2016 exactly what the President may want.
election.
WELKER: Kristen Welker, NBC News, the White House.
DONALD TRUMP: If they had spies in my campaign, that would
be a disgrace to this country. That would be one of the biggest
insults that anyone's ever seen. It would be very illegal.
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Trump: Spy Was Put In My
Campaign ‘To Help Crooked Hillary Win’
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
9:56 PM 05/22/2018
Trump said:
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Newt Gingrich: People Like Clapper,
Brennan… “Are In Danger Of Going To Jail” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 22, 2018, 9:57 Pm
Newt Gingrich:
This is unprecedented in the history of the United States. Via The Ingraham Angle:
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From Covering Up The Crimes Of Obama, Hillary, Comey
And Comrades To Hiding The Islamic Terror Network In
America, Robert Mueller And The Corrupt Faction Of The
Highly Politicized FBI Are Indeed The 'American Gestapo'
By William B Stoecker - All News Pipeline
May 22, 2018
The Special Counsel “investigation” of whatever they are Heinrich Muller, often called “Gestapo Muller.” Robert
pretending to investigate has gone on for over a year now, Mueller was Director of the FBI from 9/4/2001 to9/4/2013,
wasting tens of millions of our tax dollars, and finding no and the corrupt, murderous, and highly politicized FBI is,
evidence of collusion (which is not a crime) between the indeed, an American Gestapo.
Trump campaign and the Russians, who are only our
enemies if we make them so. If we accept the official story of his background, at first he
seems to be one of the “good guys.” He was born into a
When dear old Uncle Joe Stalin, torturer, tyrant, and mass well-to-do family in New York City. In 1968 he joined the
murderer, ruled the Soviet Union our leftists adored him US Marines and went through OCS and the Basic School,
and Russia. But now that Russia is ruled by a relatively and, allegedly, graduated from the US Army’s Airborne
benign nationalist, our leftists have become caricatures of School and the incredibly grueling Ranger School before
Joe McCarthy. The “investigators” are a band of partisan leading a USMC infantry platoon in Vietnam and being
Demoncraps and supporters of the Witch Hillary, wounded and decorated.
including Andrew Goldstein, a prosecutor with a long
record of overzealousness and misconduct, who has seen If any of this is true, he at one time was at least an
several of his convictions overturned by appeals courts. incredibly brave, tough, and determined young man. But,
since then, he has served the NWO (New World Order
But that didn’t stop him from ruining lives and destroying globalists) elites and has done evil and more evil. After his
jobs, and the current “investigation” has bankrupted at USMC service Mueller attended the University of Virginia
least two people (convicted of nothing) with legal fees. School of Law, and, in a typical pattern, has moved ever
Federal prosecutors usually secure convictions, whether since between jobs with the Department of “Justice” and
the accused are guilty or not, and even when their victims private sector law firms.
are not convicted, they are harassed and stressed out and
impoverished. The “investigation” seems intended In 1982 he became Assistant US Attorney in Boston, and
primarily to discredit and distract President Trump and was there during much of the time that the murderous
destroy his supporters. gangster Whitey Bulger was being protected as an
“informant” by local FBI official John Connolly. Connolly
eventually went to prison for this. Patriot writer Kelleigh
Nelson and US Representative Louis Gohmert, also a
noted patriot, believe that Mueller knew all along what
was going on, and helped to cover up the truth, going so
far as to railroad innocent men into prison as part of the
cover-up. And this, if true, is but a small part of the evil
this creature has done.
And Mueller, like so many of the Western elites, simply But Trump appointed Little Jeff to begin with, and he has
adores Muslims. On becoming Director of the FBI, he thus far refused to remove him and Rosenstein, contenting
stopped all training that correctly identified Islamic himself with tweets complaining about their inaction. Note
terrorism as the main threat, and even formed a partnership to President Trump: we elected a Commander in Chief, not
with CAIR (Committee for American/Islamic Relations), a a Tweeter in Chief. Take charge and do your duty.
US based Islamic organization that rails against
“Islamophobia” and is closely connected to the terrorist The views and opinions expressed in this article are those
Muslim Brotherhood. Mueller even went so far as to of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of ANP.
persecute “Islamophobic” FBI agents, ruining more than
one career…perhaps this behavior is only to be expected of
a creature who ignored the pre-9/11 warning signs.
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FBI Agents Want Congress To Issue
Them Subpoenas So They Can Reveal The Bureau’s Dirt
Kerry Picket - Reporter
10:08 PM 05/22/2018
Many agents in the FBI want Congress to subpoena them DiGenova — who along with his wife, Victoria Toensing,
so they can reveal problems caused by both former FBI has represented government whistleblowers in the past —
Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director agreed, telling TheDC,
Andrew McCabe, three people in direct contact with active
field agents tell TheDC. “It’s an intelligent approach to the situation
given the vindictive nature of the bureau under
“There are agents all over this country who love Comey and McCabe. I have no idea how to
the bureau and are sickened by [James] read Chris Wray, who is not a leader and who
Comey’s behavior and [Andrew] McCabe and has disappeared from the public eye during this
[Eric] Holder and [Loretta] Lynch and the thugs entire crisis. You know, he may be cleaning
like [John] Brennan–who despise the fact that house but if he’s doing so, he’s doing it very
the bureau was used as a tool of political quietly.”
intelligence by the Obama administration
thugs,” former federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova He added,
told The Daily Caller Tuesday. “They are just
waiting for a chance to come forward and “I don’t blame them. I don’t blame the agents
testify.”
one bit. I think that the FBI is in a freefall.
James Comey has destroyed the institution he
Ahead of the release of the Department of Justice (DOJ) claims to love. And it is beyond a doubt that it is
inspector general report on how the FBI handled the going to take a decade to restore public
Clinton email investigation, TheDC spoke with Digenova, confidence because of Comey and Clapper and
a former Trump official who maintained contact with rank Brennan and Obama and Lynch.”
and file FBI agents and a counter-intelligence consultant
who conducted an interview with an active special agent of The special agent out of WFO alleged that rank and file
the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO). FBI agents are fed up and desperately want action from the
DOJ, according to the transcripts.
TheDC independently confirmed the veracity of the
consultant’s position and access, and reviewed detailed
“Every special agent I have spoken to in the
transcripts of his Q&A with the special agent, who Washington Field Office wants to see McCabe
requested the arrangement due to internal dragnets and fear
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They
of vicious retribution. feel the same way about Comey,“ the special
agent said, according to transcripts provided
These agents prefer to be subpoenaed to becoming an TheDC.
official government whistleblower, since they fear political
and professional backlash, the former Trump “The administrations are so politicized that any
administration official explained to TheDC. time a Special Agent comes forward as a
whistleblower, they can expect to be thrown
The subpoena is preferred, he said, under the bus by leadership. Go against the
Muslim Brotherhood, you’re crushed. Go
“because when you are subpoenaed, Congress against the Clintons, you’re crushed. The FBI
then pays…for your legal counsel and the has long been politicized to the detriment of
subpoena protects [the agent] from any national security and law enforcement.”
organizational retaliation…. they are on their
own as whistleblowers, they get no legal The special agent added,
protection and there will be organizational
retaliation against them.” “Activity that Congress is investigating is being
stonewalled by leadership and rank-and-file FBI
employees in the periphery are just doing their
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jobs. All Congress needs to do is subpoena According to an analysis in Time Magazine earlier this
involved personnel and they will tell you what month, the FBI has struggled with conviction rates for
they know. These are honest people. several years now after they send cases to the DOJ for
Leadership cannot stop anyone from prosecution. In less than half the cases the FBI sent to the
responding to a subpoena. Those subpoenaed Justice Department, the conviction rate was only 47
also get legal counsel provided by the percent in 2017. This number is far below the mean of the
government to represent them.” 72 percent average for all other government agencies,
according to Time.
The former Trump administration official explained the
problems at the bureau go beyond just two people. In the meantime, DiGenova and the others who spoke to
TheDC believe it is time for Congress to issue subpoenas
“They know that it wasn’t just Comey and to FBI agents who are willing to talk. According to
McCabe in this case. That’s too narrow a net to DiGenova, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees
cast over these guys. There’s a much broader can issue these subpoenas.
corruption that seeped into the seventh floor at
the bureau.” “Either one of those [committees] would be fine.
I’m sure the committees could hold hearings in
“They ruined the credibility of the bureau and a New York minute,” he said.
the technical ability of the bureau, so
systemically, over the past several years, He added,
they’re worried about their organizational
reputation and their professional careers,” this “I can assure you I’ve been approached by
former Trump administration staffer said, noting agents who want to be subpoenaed for the
the bureau’s difficulty in prosecuting cases same reason the guys in the field,” adding, “All
these days. over this country there are agents but the big
ones the ones that matter New York–
“They go to court and they’re just laughed at.” Washington I can assure you I’ve spoken with
agents who want to come forward.”
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Democrats Steal Trump’s Message,
Now Claim They Will ‘Drain The Swamp’
Stephanie Hamill
10:57 PM 05/22/2018
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Robert Mueller IS The
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Bill Thomas - Writer Living In Washington, D.C.
2:35 AM 05/23/2018
It’s hard to believe no one has ever made a sequel. Maybe It would be hard to find better all-purpose bad guys. Of
the right lead actor could never be found. Until now. course, it helped that Russians (aka “Soviets”) were good
at causing trouble. They were also hard to catch and bring
to justice. Which made it easy to blame them for anything.
Half-man, half-freak of government, Mueller has shown he
will stop at nothing to get what he’s after. At least that’s
been the storyline so far. Obviously, it still is. And that’s where Robert Mueller
enters the picture.
His style is to scare victims into submission, particularly
when he starts squeezing them for information about Following in the muddy footsteps of Sen. Joseph
someone higher up the Washington food chain. That would McCarthy, he and his assistants, most of them donors to
be President Donald Trump, who promised to “drain the the losing side, have been trying for a year to prove that
swamp” only to be pursued by one of its most territorial candidate Trump was helped by Russians, with nothing to
defenders. show for the effort but swamp gas.
Earlier this month a federal judge unloaded on Mueller for Meanwhile, there’s plenty of evidence that the Obama
going after Paul Manafort, briefly Trump’s campaign administration used corrupted federal intelligence agencies
manager, to get to the president. That’s clearly the plan, to spy on Trump during the campaign, then to undermine
but it will take more than a courtroom lecture to end his presidency after he won.
Mueller’s free-range Russia probe.
Now one of the Russian companies indicted by Mueller for
When it premiered in 1954, at the height of the McCarthy interfering with the 2016 election has spoiled everything
era, “Creature from the Black Lagoon,” started a by actually appearing in court, where the prosecution will
nationwide fear of swamp monsters. Even though the one have to present proof it’s never had of a crime that never
in the film lived in the Amazon, kids everywhere were happened.
afraid it was under their beds.
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Mueller’s whole case, along with his reputation for upright from again, Mueller, who’s compromised up to his neck in
competence, is falling apart the way things often do at the dirty politics and conflicted interests, is sinking fast in the
end of monster movies. Like the defeated creature in the same swamp he came from.
film who vanishes into the Black Lagoon never to be heard
.
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Carter Throws Left For A Loop…
Trump Nobel Prize Makes Sense
By Cillian Zeal
May 23, 2018 At 6:38am
Imagine if you had gotten Vegas odds on President Donald “I think that the next mediator, next
Trump winning a Nobel Peace Prize back in January or so. negotiator — maybe President Trump, I
You could have had a shot at being rich — like, Steve Jobs hope — will reassure them that we’re
rich. willing to give up some of those things —
the threat of attack on them and to lift the
After all, nobody would have predicted Trump would have
embargo. That would be a cheap price, in
won the award, not even the most MAGA-cap wearing
my opinion, to pay for a cessation of their
Trump fan there is. Now, plenty of respectable people —
nuclear program.”
people far removed from the basket of deplorables — are
tipping Trump for the award due to his efforts to secure Carter’s praise for Trump was hardly unalloyed, as was to
peace with North Korea. be expected (I don’t think Trump would particularly want
it, either, given Carter’s record of success with anything
And one of them is one of America’s most famous (and
not involving Anwar Sadat and/or Menachem Begin.)
liberal) winners.
Carter said that Trump had dealt “a damaging blow to
In an interview with Politico’s “Off Message” podcast,
peace” by moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem,
former President Jimmy Carter — the 2002 winner of
as required by law; given that Carter is a Palestinian
the award — threw liberals for a loop when he said he
partisan this was hardly surprising.
believed Trump could be deserving of the Nobel for his
work with Kim Jong Un’s regime. He also said that
“If President Trump is successful in getting “(t)here’s a general feeling, on a global
a peace treaty that’s acceptable to both basis, that democracy has reached its peak
sides with North Korea, I think he certainly and is declining,” when asked about
ought to be considered for the Nobel Peace whether Trump’s election was “a challenge
Prize,” Carter told Politico. to democratic ideals.”
“I think it would be a worthy and a That’s right, the democratic will of the electorate as
momentous accomplishment that no spelled out in the Constitution has somehow weakened
previous president has been able to democracy.
realize.”
Like so many things that come out of the mouths of
The man who negotiated the peace between Egypt and Democrats, I shall just leave that nugget of smugness out
Israel also said Pyongyang’s threats were to be expected. there for summary judgment.
“If they’re under constant belief that the Nevertheless, you can almost see the suzerains of the
United States wants to attack them, even Democratic Party trying to surgically lift their jaws off the
using nuclear weapons — which many floor from this. Jimmy Carter, their malaise-tinged hero,
Democrats and Republican leaders in our thinks Donald Trump is Nobel material.
country have mentioned as a possibility —
You could almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
and that we are destroying their economy,
and they know that they’re starving to Facebook has greatly reduced the distribution of our
death primarily because the United States stories in our readers' newsfeeds and is instead promoting
withholds food aid, for instance, just giving mainstream media sources. When you share to your
them surplus food that we can’t ever use, friends, however, you greatly help distribute our content.
then I can understand how they feel,” Please take a moment and consider sharing this article with
Carter said. your friends and family. Thank you.
.
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LOL: Democrats Steal
New Campaign Message From Trump,
Want To “Drain The Swamp”
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 7:19 Am
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CNN Water Boy Don Lemon Calls BS On Trump’s Spying
‘Conspiracy’ – Then James Clapper Tells Him
Spying On Trump “A Good Thing”
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 7:40 Am
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‘SPYGATE:’ Trump Rails
Against FBI Informant In His Campaign
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:47 AM 05/23/2018
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Honest FBI Agents Step Forward:
Want To Testify Against Their Deep State Masters
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 9:19 Am
Via Kerry Picket at The Daily Caller: …These agents prefer to be subpoenaed
to becoming an official government
whistleblower, since they fear political and
Many agents in the FBI want Congress to
professional backlash, the former Trump
subpoena them so they can reveal
administration official explained to TheDC.
problems caused by former FBI Director
James Comey and former Deputy FBI
.
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Trump Hits Back At James Clapper:
‘I Am Not Happy’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:20 AM 05/23/2018
He then added,
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President Trump Slams Nancy Pelosi For Her Embrace Of
MS-13 Gang-Bangers: “We’re Not Going To Release
Violent Criminals Into Our Country”
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 9:38 Am
Pelosi’s pals.
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Trump Is Ready To 'Take Out The Trash' As He Green-
Lights Plan To Stop Leaks By FIRING Mid-Level
And Junior Communications Aides
Chief Of Staff John Kelly Has Plan In-Hand To Go On Firing Spree For Trump
President Is Impatient With Press Leaks And Angry Enough To Swing The Axe
Senior-Level People Like Sarah Sanders And Mercedes Schlapp Appear Safe
Stems From Controversy Over Mid-Level Aide's Insensitive Remark About John
McCain's Cancer Battle – Which Promptly Leaked
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:43 EDT, 23 May 2018 | Updated: 10:51 EDT, 23 May 2018
President Donald Trump has signaled to his top fire some of their underlings in a bid to stop leakers from
communications aides that he's ready to send some of their talking to reporters
less senior staffers packing – a move he hopes will cut
the White House's culture of leaking off at the knees.
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Leaker James Comey Speaks! Blasts President Trump,
DEFENDS SPIES Inside His Campaign
By Kristinn Taylor
May 23, 2018, 9:57 Am
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Fmr. Comey Aide Tries To Explain
Difference Between A Spy And Confidential Informant
Former FBI Official Josh Campbell Tried To Push Back On The President's
Criticism Of The Russia Investigation.
By NTK Staff
05.23.2018 @9:59am
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Rush Limbaugh Bombshell:
DNC Hack ‘Had To Be An Inside Job’
By Alicia Powe
May 23, 2018, 10:15 Am
The Awan family are likely the culprits behind the DNC
data breach, Limbaugh argued.
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‘Morning Joe’: You’re ‘Too Stupid To Handle Household
Appliances’ If You Think The FBI Was Against Trump
Justin Caruso - Media Reporter
10:23 AM 05/23/2018
WATCH:
He continued,
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Pres. Trump Slams Clapper, ‘Criminal Deep State’ In
Tweet Storm: ‘SPYGATE Could Be One Of The Biggest
Political Scandals In History!’
By Kristinn Taylor
May 23, 2018, 10:28 Am
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Scarborough Demands To Know
If Anti-Mueller Clinton Aide Works For Fox News
Amber Athey -
Media And Breaking News Editor
10:34 AM 05/23/2018
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough angrily demanded to know “What exactly is Mark Penn selling?”
Wednesday if a former Clinton aide is working for Fox Scarborough whined. “Here’s a guy who
News because the aide published an op-ed criticizing lost Hillary Clinton’s campaign. … He left
Special Counsel Robert Mueller. that campaign responsible for her loss to
Barack Obama. What is Mark Penn selling
WATCH: coming to the defense of Donald J.
Trump?”
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BREAKING=> FBI Agent At Mike Flynn Interrogation Is
Ready To Testify Against Mccabe, Strzok And Comey!
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 10:45 Am
Grassley also revealed Joe Pientka was neither Strzok or Pientka believed Flynn
the second FBI agent who joined Peter was lying during their interview with him, as
Strzok on January 24th, 2017 in an reported.
ambush style interview to take down Special Agent Joe Pientka and another
General Flynn. “non-partisan” law enforcement officer
were present in the Flynn interview per
Grassley demanded the FBI and DOJ produce the Sara Carter’s sources.
transcript of Flynn’s intercepted calls with Russian
Ambassador Kislyak and the related 302’s by May 25th. Legal expert, attorney and former special investigator, Joe
(302’s are reports FBI agents take to summarize an DiGenova, believes that Pientka may be a good cop based
interview with a subject.) on his actions related to the General Flynn case (see video
below at the 6:00 mark) –
The recently unredacted portion of the House Intel report
revealed Comey testified to House Intel members the FBI Chairman Grassley quite properly wants to see the
agents who ambushed Flynn did not detect any deception. underlying 302 forms of the FBI agents who did the
The report also revealed the illegal leak of Flynn’s phone interview,
call with Kislyak is what allowed the FBI/DOJ to keep a
counterintel operation open on General Flynn. the ambush interview of Flynn,
Chairman Grassley is demanding at the White House during the transition period rather
answers from the FBI and DOJ by this shortly after the inauguration.
Friday the 25th.
It’s pretty obvious that Comey and
In the last paragraph of Grassley’s letter, he requests McCabe got together and decided they
Special Agent Joe Pientka be available for a transcribed wanted to frame Flynn because they
interview with Committee staff: believed, they believed, believe it or not,
that he was a danger to the
Accordingly, no later than May 25, 2018, please provide: Constitution, not them.
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He was a danger, when all he was doing was
communicating with people that he had a legitimate right
to communicate with, both as a candidate Foreign Policy
Advisor, and as the National Security Advisor Designate,
and as a National Security Advisor.
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President Trump Slams 'Criminal Deep State' As Spy
Scandal Blows Up In The Faces Of The Vermin Who
Fabricated It And Former Trump Advisor Warns:
'This Is Just The Beginning'
- Will Obama Birth Certificate Fraud Come To Light?
President Trump Noted Mysterious Death 5 Years Ago
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
May 23, 2018
During Barack Obama's 'reign of terror' over America I From the deaths of Seal Team 6 to Andrew Breitbart to
was once asked by a friend who was a long-time US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia to former
government employee why I 'hated' the government so presidential and Pentagon aide John Wheeler to Donald
much and my answer to them was clearly unexpected. "I Young, an openly gay friend of Obama's who was
don't hate the government, I merely despise CORRUPT murdered at the Trinity Church in Chicago, the 'Obama
government" I replied though this person chose not to see body count' goes on and on and while not as huge yet as
the corruption that I spoke of. the trail of dead bodies that still follow around Bill and
Hillary Clinton everywhere they go, that 'body count'
But on December 12th of 2013, now President Trump saw began long before Obama was a presidential thought.
the corruption I saw clearly when he put out the tweet seen
below the day after a mysterious plane crash killed Loretta And while the mainstream media will surely continue to
Fuddy, the former Hawaii State Health Director who just call the 'Clinton body count' and all of the corruption
happened to have been the person who "verified" Barack within the Obama government a 'conspiracy theory' (as
Obama's "birth certificate". Trump also mentioned the they've been covering up Obama and Clinton corruption
mysteriousness of Fuddy being the only person killed in for decades!), as Susan Duclos reported on May 20th on
that crash after the pilot landed the plane on the water, ANP, still emerging information confirms that a major
getting everybody else out alive, except for the very person political and legal reckoning is on the horizon. And with
who had officially declared Obama to be a US citizen. even the Wall Street Journal recently putting out a story
asking where Barack Obama had been through this still
unfolding 'S' storm, one political insider has warned that
the 'S' is getting ready to 'HTF'.
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collusion narrative while warning them: treason listed as the very highest crime
"What goes around comes around". that can be committed in civil society,
yet they do it over and over again
For those who think that President Trump doesn't have a unpunished.
vicious but seemingly righteous revenge streak, we suggest
you watch the final video below, an audio book excerpt By Section 110 of Article III of the
from his books in which we hear about President Trump's Constitution of the United States, it is
penchant for carrying out revenge upon those who have declared that: "Treason against the
wronged him. As even CNN reported back in 2017, United States shall consist only in
levying war against them, or in
"President Trump's love of getting even has adhering to their enemies,
come to Washington DC". One such book giving them aid and comfort. No
excerpt: “Go for the jugular so that people person shall be convicted of treason
watching will not want to mess with you.” unless on the testimony of two
witnesses to the same overt act, or on
confession in open Court. The Congress
shall have power to declare the
punishment of treason."
And while the globalists were unable to complete their And while some still claim that President Trump hasn't
plans of destroying America during Obama's term in office done enough, would they prefer that Hillary have been
and clearly needed Hillary in office to complete the job, it's given 8 years to complete what Obama and the globalists
clear that there are still 'enemies of America within' in high before him here in America had started? Had Hillary been
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elected, many changes we've witnessed would have never All that was left for the globalists was the 'end game' for
happened. Certainly nobody would have ever found out America that would have been guaranteed with 8 years of
about her buddy Harvey Weinstein nor would have Back Hillary, an end game that would have led to the completed
Page been shut down, the US would have remained destruction of the US Constitution, the complete gutting of
cemented in the Paris climate change agreement and a both the 1st and 2nd Amendment's, and the total opening
world war 3 with Russia or North Korea would possibly of our borders to the 'MS-13 animals'.
have led to widespread destruction.
Also surrendering our national sovereignty to some global and as this recent story at Esquire reported, not just some
government totalitarians who care nothing about the rights guns but ALL guns, the danger that America faces in the
of human beings, we see in the numbers being forecast for days and weeks ahead should not be underestimated and
America by Deagel.com for 2025 a look at exactly what will likely continue to increase the more the 'deep state'
the globalists had envisioned America to resemble after tumbles.
Obama and Hillary were done with us, a once proud
country transformed into a 3rd world nation. And as we As Real Clear Politics recently reported, the
reported on ANP yesterday, despite the positive changes 'Constitutional crisis' long warned of is now here in
President Trump has brought in, we're still well on our America, a crisis that many have warned could lead to
ways there. civil war in America. With Harvard Law Professor
Laurence Tribe recently imploring the Democrats to
impeach President Trump with this statement: "You have
to shoot to kill", we'll continue to pray that 'the truth'
finally emerges and cooler heads prevail and that another
civil war will be forever avoided in America.
Yet should that very corrupt faction of the deep state that
sold out America in an attempt to get Hillary elected show
that they could care less about the 'rule of law' and are
more than happy to ignore the will of the American people
in the 2016 election and commit treason against our nation,
we pray that nothing will stop 'the pain' that should be
coming to them.
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Wikileaks To Trump:
Obama Already Did It To The French, Ordered CIA To
Hack Le Pen And Other Candidates
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 23, 2018, 11:17 Am
Responding to a tweet from President Donald Trump, (FN) and Union for a Popular Movement
WikiLeaks pointed out that the Obama administration (UMP) together with current President
ordered the CIA to hack Marine Le Pen and other Francois Hollande, then President
candidates during the French election in 2012. Nicolas Sarkozy, current round one
presidential front runner Marine Le Pen,
and former presidential candidates
Martine Aubry and Dominique Strauss-
Khan,” the WikiLeaks release explains.
The documents released by WikiLeaks are marked as
“NoForn” which means that they are to be viewed by
people within the US intelligence community only.
The spying order was justified by the agency because it
was to “prepare key US policymakers for the post-election
French political landscape.”
The tweet linked to a WikiLeaks release that revealed all “Significantly, two CIA opposition
major French political parties were targeted for infiltration espionage tasks, “What policies do they
by the CIA’s human and electronic spies. The CIA promote to help boost France’s economic
espionage operation was active for roughly 10 months, growth prospects?” and “What are their
from November 2011 to September 2012. opinions on the German model of export-
led growth?” resonate with a U.S.
“The revelations are contained within economic espionage order from the same
three CIA tasking orders published year. That order requires obtaining details
today by WikiLeaks as context for its of every prospective French export contract
forth coming CIA Vault 7 series. Named or deal valued at $200m or more,” the
specifically as targets are the French WikiLeaks statement adds.
Socialist Party (PS), the National Front
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‘NOT The Onion’: James Comey Frowns Upon Deplorable
Deep State Skeptics Living In A Bubble Of Delusion
By Doug P.
Posted At 11:41 Am On May 23, 2018
A tweet from James Comey this morning defending the Perhaps he’s a little nervous for some reason.
FBI’s use of “confidential human sources” while saying
critics of the FBI’s actions under Comey would do “lasting
damage” to the United States was dismantled by Byron
York. Not long after that, Comey published a follow-up
tweet that almost sounds like he’s taking a page from
Hillary Clinton’s notorious rhetoric about Trump
supporters:
Comey has always had a flair for the dramatic, and he also
dabbles in comedy too.
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Rep. Gaetz And Hallie Jackson
Spar Over Trump Spying Allegations
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:43 AM 05/23/2018
MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson and Republican “What evidence do you have that it was a
congressman Matt Gaetz sparred on Wednesday over political rivalry, congressman? I guess
allegations that the FBI planted a spy within the 2016 that’s what I’m getting at,” she added.
Trump campaign.
“The evidence I would have is are the text
messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa
Gaetz argued that, regardless of whether the FBI was Page saying the White House wants to be
spying on Trump or simply using an informant to gather involved, the White House is running
information about Russian meddling, using that type of everything,” Gaetz retorted. “If one of the
intelligence collection on a political campaign is a tools that was used was the collection of
“slippery slope.” intelligence … my concern is that that
crosses a red line.”
“The FBI should not be collecting
intelligence on a presidential campaign,” he WATCH:
said. “There’s a slippery slope there, Hallie.
Once you go down the road of allowing
political opponents to weaponize the
intelligence community against each other,
that’s bad for Republicans and Democrats.”
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President Trump: “I Think It’s Going To Be Pretty
Obvious” That Obama Likely Knew
About #Spygate (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 11:48 Am
President Trump spoke with the liberal White House Reporter: President Obama?
reporters this morning on his way to New York to discuss
President Trump: Would he know? I
MS-13 animals.
would certainly hope not. But I think it’s
going to be pretty obvious after awhile.
Earlier today Trump slammed the Deep State and their
“Spygate” scandal against his campaign. And that would make it the biggest
political scandal in US history.
Wow!
Reporter: (inaudible)
President Trump: Well I don’t want to get
into it yet but I will tell you after we look at
the proof…
.
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‘Obama White House Is Running This’ Exchange Between
FBI Lovebirds Prompts Grassley To Seek
Unredacted Strzok-Page Text Messages
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 12:18 Pm
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Irony: Brian Williams Worries
About Claims Trump Is Discrediting Journalism
By Scott Whitlock
May 23, 2018 12:20 PM EDT
Journalists are freaking out over an alleged admission by CBS This Morning's Norah O'Donnell on Wednesday
Donald Trump that he attacks the press simply to blandly recounted Stahl’s new claims and played the
“discredit” reporters and so that “no one will believe you.” video:
CBS This Morning, CNN, ABC’s The View and MSNBC
have all fretted over the quote. 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl
said President Trump told her that he
Appearing at an event in New York on Monday, journalist attacks the press to erode the public’s trust
Lesley Stahl recounted an alleged off-camera comment by in journalists. Stahl spoke at an awards
Trump from December of 2016. Trump told her: ceremony, Monday, about her conversation
with then-President-Elect Trump right after
“You know why I do it? I do it to discredit the 2016 election. She said he made the
you all and demean you all so when you comments during an off-camera exchange.
write negative stories about me, no one will
believe you.”
LESLEY STAHL: I said, you know, “That is getting tired. Why are
you doing this? You're doing this over and over. It's boring. It's [Clip]
time to end that. You've won the nomination. And why do you
keep hammering at this?” And he said, “You know why I do it? I STAHL: Lesley Stahl, as said to Judy Woodruff, two giants of the
do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write television news business. Jill, the question to you becomes,
negative stories about me, no one will believe you.” He said that. you're always appropriately talking about the focus of the feds.
How Mueller, while not a monastic environment totally,
O’DONNELL: The White House did not respond for our request something close, they all keep their head down and do their
for a comment. work. Are they likely to see, are they likely to react to a remark
like that?
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Rassley Calls For The Release Of All Strzok-Page Texts
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
12:23 PM 05/23/2018
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Wapo Columnist: Trump And Nunes Care More About
Themselves Than The American People [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
12:29 PM 05/23/2018
“As FBI director Chris Wray said, the day “This week Donald Trump is trodding out
that we can’t protect confidential sources is the tried-and-true authoritarian tactic of
the day that the American people start investigate the investigators. He is trying to
being less safe,” Boot said. “What you’re impede the investigation of his campaign
seeing is that people like Devin Nunes and by trying to launch a Department of Justice
Donald Trump care much more about the investigation of the FBI,” Boot concluded.
security of Donald Trump than they do “This is outrageous.”
about the security of the American
people.”
WATCH:
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Liberal Harvard Prof. Owns CNN
Hack Trying To Defend FBI’s Spying On Trump
By Ben Marquis
May 23, 2018 At 1:20pm
Dershowitz replied,
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“I want to apply the shoe on the other foot “And if your apartment has nothing to fear,
test, if this had been an intrusion into the it’s OK if the FBI searches the place.”
Hillary Clinton campaign, would people be
saying the same thing, or is this special Dershowitz flipped that right back on Toobin and
lack of concern because it is Donald insinuated that if the investigation was all above board,
Trump. I just want to be sure,” he added. then the FBI had nothing to fear from the additional
inquiry.
Toobin nevertheless reiterated his belief that Trump’s
directive to investigate the investigators was an effort to Alan Dershowitz is absolutely right to question the
destroy the initial investigation against him. Dershowitz methods used by the FBI to investigate the Trump
disagreed and said the move wouldn’t destroy the campaign, particularly given the fact there is still no
investigation but was merely meant obtain all of the facts. evidence of collusion to provide a legitimate basis for the
investigation in the first place.
Toobin snidely stated,
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Schumer Takes Out The Knife:
Trump Pressuring DOJ Is An ‘Unprecedented
Abuse Of Power’
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
1:30 PM 05/23/2018
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EXCLUSIVE: Proof That Twitter’s Bot-Catching
Algorithm Targets Trump Supporters — WITH VIDEO
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 23, 2018, 1:37 Pm
The Gateway Pundit has been provided with additional “So, I stumbled upon this by accident,
evidence that Twitter is specifically censoring supporters actually. I’m a fan of big data, analysis,
of President Donald Trump. all that sort of stuff. I wanted to run
some little ‘tests’ to try and understand
how the Zeitgeist of Twitter functions on
In a video provided to the Gateway
a deeper level,” the video creator told
Pundit, a Twitter user attempted to
The Gateway Pundit.
create two different accounts — one for
a Trump supporter and one for a “I made an anonymous pro-Trump
Democrat who is “resisting” the account and got immediately locked out
administration. of my account before I was able to tweet
anything or follow anyone. I got
interested in finding out what tripped
their systems, so I did the same thing
with a liberal account.”
One of the fake liberal accounts they created was the first
to publish the fake Starbucks reparations flyers that went
viral.
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REVEALED: Obama WH Emails
Plotting Strategy Two Days After Sandy Hook
Tim Pearce - Energy Reporter
2:10 PM 05/23/2018
Former President Barack Obama’s education secretary and Emanuel: “Go for a vote this week before it
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel were planning how to turn fades. Tap peoples’ emotion. Make it
a national tragedy into a legislative victory for the simple assault weapons.”
administration two days after the 2012 mass shooting in
Duncan: “Yup- thanks.”
Newtown, Conn.
Emanuel: “When I did Brady bill and
That’s according to emails obtained under a Freedom of assault weapons for Clinton, we always
Information request from a reporter from the Baltimore made it simple. Criminals or war weapons.”
Post. Duncan: “Gun show loophole? Database?
Cop-killer bullets? Too complicated?”
On the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, a 20-year-old man killed Emanuel: “Cop killer maybe. The other
his mother in their home then traveled to Sandy Hook no.”
Elementary School — a semi-automatic rifle and two
pistols in tow. He broke into the school and killed another Duncan: “Got it.”
26 people — 20 of them first-grade students. The gunman
committed suicide after authorities arrived on the scene. At the time of the shooting, Newtown was the second most
deadly mass shooting on a school campus after a 2007
Two days later, on the evening of Dec. 16, former- shooting at Virginia Tech where 32 students and teachers
Education Secretary Arne Duncan emailed Emanuel under were killed.
the subject line, “CT shootings,” seeking advice on
pushing gun reform legislation, according to The Emanuel served as an advisor to former-President Bill
Baltimore Post. Clinton from 1992 to 1998. Emanuel worked with Clinton
to push Congress to pass the 1993 Brady bill that imposed
The complete exchange took place between 6:57 p.m. to a five-day waiting period for purchasing a handgun.
7:08 p.m. It follows as first reported by The Baltimore Emanuel also worked in the White House when Congress
Post: passed the 1994 federal assault weapons ban that made
illegal 18 specific firearms along with some gun features
and modifications. The weapons ban timed out after 10
Duncan: “What are your thoughts?”
years.
.
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Huh? Bill Clinton Nominated Judge Rules
Donald Trump Cannot Ban Liberal Trolls From His
Personal Twitter Account
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 2:12 Pm
CNBC reported:
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JUST IN: Dirty Cop Robert Mueller
Moves Towards Sentencing George Papadopoulos
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 2:21 Pm
George Papadopoulos
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Pompeo Sidesteps Trump Comments
On Deep State In State Department
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
2:49 PM 05/23/2018
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FBI Agents Spill Beans On Comey & McCabe-Era Threats
Against The President: “Trump And Friends
Better Watch Their F*Cking L…”
By Investigative Bureau
Posted On May 23, 2018
Many agreed.
In March 2017, True Pundit detailed a meeting of FBI Both meetings were in early 2017.
Brass where then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
threatened President Trump and Gen. Mike Flynn, It’s little wonder that the Deep State are guarding
Trump’s national security adviser at the time. McCabe, the McCabe’s texts and emails. And where was Comey while
second highest ranking FBI official at the time, these threats were being waged by his deputy director?
emphatically declared at the invite-only gathering with Comey did not attend these meetings, sources said, but he
raised voice: was notified of McCabe’s threatening anti-Trump rhetoric.
“Fuck Flynn and then we Fuck Trump,” “He absolutely knew about what was being
said,” a FBI source said of Comey.
according to direct sources. Many of his top lieutenants
applauded and cheered such rhetoric. A scattered few did McCabe was never disciplined by Comey for threatening
not. Trump and White House personnel, sources confirm.
Flynn was ultimately indicted at McCabe’s request and Look at what has happened to Trump and his associates
now we know the FBI — at the time — was spying on since McCabe reportedly warned they
both Flynn and Trump. For months.
“better watch their fucking little asses:”
Now comes details of a subsequent FBI meeting where
McCabe threatened Trump and other White House
Flynn resigned and plead out to a felony charge.
officials.
Paul Manafort is under indictment
Michael Cohen is now the target of an FBI probe
“Trump and his friends better watch their
Donald Trump Jr. has been harassed by lawmakers
fucking little asses,” McCabe rhetorically
and media
warned, according to well-placed FBI
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Trump fired Comey intelligence apparatus and FBI are working
Mueller was appointed Special Counsel to investigate for or against Trump, this is the first
Trump definitive proof that the country’s once-
Anti-Trump FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page — premiere law enforcement agency has
McCabe disciples — worked for Mueller gone rogue.
And the list goes on and on of harassed ex-Trump
staffers who have departed the White House We were never more right.
In March 2017, True Pundit wrote in the original McCabe McCabe was fired and is the target of several ongoing
“Fuck Flynn” story: investigations.
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Clapper Said Two Different Things On Russian
Interference — One Of Them Has To Be A Lie
John Wellington - Digital Content Manager
3:14 PM 05/23/2018
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Giuliani Reverses: Trump Should
Interview With Mueller
By Jacqueline Thomsen
05/23/18 03:16 Pm Edt
President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani in a reversal on “Then he goes right back to, ‘why shouldn’t
Wednesday said that he now believes that Trump should I?’” he added.
interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.
Giuliani also said that he is concerned that a Trump
“I guess I’d rather do the interview. It gets it interview with Mueller could be set up to catch the
over with it, it makes my client happy,” president on a possible perjury charge because “truth is
Giuliani told The Washington Post. “The relative.”
safe course you hear every lawyer say is
'don’t do the interview,' and that’s easy to “They may have a different version of the
say in the abstract. That’s much harder truth than we do,” Giuliani said.
when you have a client who is the
president of the United States and wants to The lawyer also said that he believes Mueller's team
be interviewed.” wouldn't ask about any events that took place during
Trump's presidency. CNN reported Tuesday that the
Giuliani has cast doubt on Trump interviewing with president's lawyers are seeking to limit questions on
Mueller in the past. He told The Wall Street Journal in an Trump's conduct after his inauguration and on possible
interview published Tuesday that if he were to make a obstruction of justice.
decision on the interview at that time, he would decide
against it.
Trump has said in the past that he would be willing to sit
down with Mueller and reportedly believes doing so would
The former New York City mayor told the Post that Trump clear his name.
has vacillated over whether he wants to interview with
Mueller in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016
“I would love to speak, but I have to find
presidential election and possible collusion between
that we’re going to be treated fairly
Trump's campaign and Moscow.
because everybody sees it right now and it
is a pure witch hunt,” the president told
“There have been a few days where he reporters last month.
says, ‘maybe you guys are right,’” Giuliani
said, referring to members of Trump’s legal Mueller reportedly suggested to Trump's lawyers earlier
team who have warned him against talking
this year that he would subpoena Trump if he did not agree
with Mueller. to an interview.
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Gowdy Issues Warning To
Dems Who Want To Meet With Trump
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
3:19 PM 05/23/2018
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SEKULOW: We Have Uncovered Thousands Of Docs
Showing Pay-To-Play Between Hillary State Department
And Clinton Foundation
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 3:22 Pm
An attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow These documents, only now being
announced Wednesday the American uncovered through our FOIA request and
Center for Law and Justice uncovered subsequent litigation, show extensive
thousands of documents showing communications exchanged between
Clinton Foundation pay-to-play with Clinton or her senior staff at State
Hillary’s State Department through a Department and Doug Band – a senior aid
FOIA lawsuit. at the Clinton Foundation and creatorof the
Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).
In recent court filings, the State Department
has revealed that more than 8,700
documents exist in Cheryl Mills’ and/or
Huma Abedin’s files which contain the
single search term, “Doug Band.” It is
possible, and indeed likely, that each
document consists of several pages
placing the number closer to 18,000 pages
or more.
The ACLJ has also learned through our
litigation that another 22,000 documents
exist in Cheryl Mills’ and Huma Abedin’s
We have uncovered a ‘favor factory’ the files (not including attachments) mentioning
ACLJ reported on Wednesday. or referring to the Clinton Foundation or a
There was no firewall between the State related term referencing the foundation.
Department and the Clinton Foundation
as Hillary previously claimed to the Newly released documents show Doug Band served as a
public. liaison for Clinton Foundation donors looking for favors
and official acts from the Clinton-run State Department,
Via the ACLJ: the ACLJ reported.
As part of our Freedom of Information Doug Band was the ‘go-to’ guy for Clinton Foundation
Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Deep State donors. If they needed anything from Hillary Clinton, they
Department, we have been informed that would email Doug Band and within minutes he would
the State Department has located – and forward the message to Huma Abedin and or Cheryl Mills
will be forced to turn over to the ACLJ – to help expedite the favor.
literally thousands of documents to and
about the Clinton Foundation, its For example:
subsidiaries, and its senior operatives
during the duration of Hillary Clinton’s time An email dated December 6, 2010 (tucked
as Secretary of State. away at the very end of the State
The shear volume alone – some 30,000 Department’s most recent production)
emails – debunks the specious assertion reveals that Secretary Clinton, upon
that there was any kind of firewall receiving information that we now know to
whatsoever between Clinton’s State be classified from a State Department
Department and the Clinton Foundation. employee, forwarded the classified
information via her private email account
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([email protected]) on to various “You need to read this to believe it.”
individuals outside the State Department
including senior associates at the Clinton
Foundation – Justin Cooper and Doug
Band. She writes in her email to “print for
Bill.”
Of course most of the information
contained in the email has been redacted
(and won’t be unclassified until 2025) but it
appears that the classified communications
relate to the investigation into Nobel prize
winner Muhammad Yunus’s alleged
diversion of foreign aid from the non-profit
Bank he chaired (a bank specifically
fashioned to provide loans to the poorest of
people on easy terms). It is of no surprise –
given what we know about the former
Secretary’s abuse of her office to grant
favors to Foundation donors and
supporters – that Yunus was also
a donor to the Clinton Foundation.
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CNN And MSNBC Skip
Trump’s Roundtable On MS-13
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
3:38 PM 05/23/2018
The president met with acting ICE director Thomas MSNBC covered Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
Homan, Department of Homeland Security director defending the Department of Justice, Kushner’s security
Kristjen Nielsen, and other members of the administration clearance being restored, Michael Cohen’s business
to discuss the threat of the MS-13 gang. partner agreeing to cooperate with the government, the
Georgia gubernatorial race and Trump’s allegations that
Fox News carried Trump’s opening remarks at the event the government spied on him.
and then turned away to cover other stories about 15
minutes past the start of the roundtable. The entire roundtable lasted for just about an hour, but
apparently neither CNN or MSNBC could find time to
However, CNN and MSNBC chose not to show any of the give it some coverage.
roundtable. CNN didn’t even report on any of the remarks
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BREAKING: FBI Spy Stefan Halper
May Have Bled Info Into Hillary’s Phony Dossier
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 4:13 Pm
Trump tweeted:
The informant, Stefan Halper, was paid a
total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for work If the person placed very early into my
with the US government that included campaign wasn’t a SPY put there by the
spying on the Trump campaign. previous Administration for political purposes,
how come such a seemingly massive amount of
It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper. money was paid for services rendered – many
times higher than normal…
Now the Democrats are in spin mode.
NOW THIS…
Trump then slams Crooked Hillary: …Follow the money!
The spy was there early in the campaign and yet never
Paul Sperry tweeted: BREAKING: Hill sources say
reported Collusion with Russia, because there was no
Halper may have bled into dossier in a positive feedback
Collusion. He was only there to spy for political reasons
loop:
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and to help Crooked Hillary win – just like they did to If Stefan Halper bled info into Hillary’s
Bernie Sanders, who got duped! dossier as sources are claiming, it will
DESTROY the left’s claims the informant
was purely working to ‘protect Trump from
the Russians.’
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This Is Rich: Crooked Hillary Clinton Says If You Want To
‘Stand For Rule Of Law’ You Have To
Vote Democrat (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 4:27 Pm
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James Comey Lashes Out At Republicans:
‘Dangerous Time’ For America
Peter Hasson - Reporter
4:31 PM 05/23/2018
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Mueller Rejects Speedy Trial
Law To Delay Russian Collusion Trial
Richard Pollock - Reporter
5:20 PM 05/23/2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller requested his “Speedy trial rights belong to the
Russian collusion trial be delayed indefinitely defendant, and if the defendant pushes for
This is the second time Mueller has requested a a trial within the 70 days, the government
delay has little cause to complain,” McCarthy
Mueller previously flooded the court with two said. “If the case was too complex, the
terabytes of Russian social media government had the option of holding off on
seeking an indictment until it was ready to
Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal proceed to trial. When a prosecutor files an
judge Tuesday to reject the four-decade-old speedy trial indictment, it is tantamount to saying, ‘We
law in the case against 13 Russians and three Russian are ready to go.'”
companies and has asked for an indefinite delay to the
Russian collusion trial. Mueller originally filed the indictment against the Russians
on Feb. 16, charging that they “engaged in a multi-year
It is the second time Mueller tried to delay the trial. Judge conspiracy” to interfere with the 2016 presidential
Dabney L. Friedrich, a Trump appointee, rejected the election. Because none of the defendants were U.S.
earlier request without comment and ordered the case to go citizens, law experts said it appeared unlikely that the case
forward. would ever go to trial.
One of the Russian companies — Concord Management McCarthy called the indictment “more
and Consulting — entered the U.S., hired American theater than prosecution.”
lawyers, and demanded a speedy trial. The Speedy Trial
Act is a 44-year old federal law that dictates that a federal On May 9, Eric A. Dubelier, a partner with Reed Smith, a
criminal case must begin within 70 days from the date of prestigious American law firm that represents Concord,
the indictment. entered a not guilty plea in the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia. He also repeated his client’s interest
The “complexity” of the case warrants excluding the for a speedy trial.
speedy trial law and delaying the trial, Mueller argued in
Tuesday’s court filing. Dubelier has repeatedly notified the court he would insist
on using “discovery” to review the “evidence” the special
A “district court can, on its own motion or at the request of counsel had accumulated about their charge of Russian
a party, grant an excludable continuance if ‘the ends of
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collusion. His use of discovery would compel Mueller to mountains of foreign language materials
turn over the U.S. intelligence about Russian activities. without an understanding or explanation of
their relevance to the case, that is a
In response, Mueller informed the court on May 16 his delaying tactic and an attempt to chew up
office was prepared to enter two terabytes of Russian the defendant’s resources.”
social media into the record, thereby flooding the docket The tactic “is apt to make the presiding
with a huge amount of evidence, all of it in Russian. The judge very angry,” he added.
volume could fill 3,000 CD-ROM discs.
Dubelier contended the voluminous evidence against the
It’s “inappropriate for a prosecutor to 13 Russians did not apply to Concord.
manufacture complexity and then contend
that things are too complex,” McCarthy told Friedrich has yet to rule on Mueller’s request for a delay.
TheDCNF. “If a prosecutor is disclosing
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Smackdown: Jim Jordan Destroys Chris Cuomo Over
Claims There’s ‘Tons Of Proof’ Of ‘Potential Collusion’
By Curtis Houck
May 23, 2018 5:31 PM EDT
Wednesday saw the latest edition of CNN’s New Day co- But Chris, when you couple it with what we do know they
host Chris Cuomo throwing down with Ohio Republican did, five of the top people at the FBI have been fired, like
Congressman Jim Jordan as the topics du jour featured James Comey or Andrew McCabe. Andrew McCabe
calls for a second special counsel, Russian collusion, and a actually faces a criminal referral. Three, like Jim Baker,
Thursday meeting of congressional Republicans having Peter Strzok and Lisa Page has been demoted and
access to some of the most sensitive documents related to reassigned and two of the three retired in just the last three
the Trump-Russia probe. weeks. So, when you have five of the top people who oh
by the way, happen to be the same people who ran the
Cuomo kept trying to shout down Jordan, telling him that Clinton investigation and then launched the Trump-Russia
some of his points were “demonstrably false” and there’s investigation, that should be pause for concern[.]
“tons of proof of potential collusion” between Russia
and the Trump campaign but has been clouded by The first two of tense exchanges surfaced when Jordan
“partisans” (read: Republicans). Alas, Jordan reacted as included in his rationale for a second special counsel that
most viewers would at this lunacy. the intelligence community used
“there’s a nefarious group of officials “a year and a half later,” there’s “not one
that are out to spy on you and do you bit of evidence” of “any type of
harm” and pled with him for “help” collusion” or “any type of coordination
explaining why his position matters. between the Trump campaign and
Russia,”
Jordan asserted that, on the surveillance claim,
Cuomo lost it:
“if you read The New York Times piece
they talk about this individual, give all CUOMO: Jim, that is demonstrably false.
kinds of details about this individual” We have tons of proof.
JORDAN: What do you mean
and Thursday’s meeting involving House Intelligence demonstrably false? Even Democrats are
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) will hopefully saying —
provide more information on that subject. He continued
CUOMO: We have tons of proof.
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JORDAN: — even The New York Times CUOMO: But we know it wasn't an implant.
said that last week, Chris. You know that’s You know already. They told you it wasn't.
the case.
JORDAN: They told — the same
CUOMO: Listen, talking over me does not Department of Justice who — when they
silence the points. They have to come out. gave us documents, had redacted —
We have to have this conversation, so between Page and Strzok text messages
people who think independently can make had redacted the fact that Peter Strzok was
decisions. There is tons of proof of friends with one of the FISA court judges
potential collusion. who also happened to be the same judge
who heard Michael Flynn's case. We're
So, to be clear, Cuomo is parroting claims from CNN supposed to start trusting that Department
buddy and Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff (CA) of Justice who was trying to hide that —
that there’s evidence of collusion. And thus we’re in a trying to hide that information from us?
guilty until proven guilty scenario with the Trump
campaign. There is or there isn’t collusion, so anything in See the full transcript of the Cuomo vs. Jordan debate from
between is hyperbole. That, of course, is not how any of CNN’s New Day on May 23.
this works.
CNN’s New Day
Jordan responded that “potential May 23, 2018
collusion is not collusion” but Cuomo 7:19 a.m. Eastern
countered:
CHRIS CUOMO: Alright, got to keep checking Twitter. So far, no
“There are no conclusions of collusion. new tweet in the last seven minutes. But we do know this — the
The investigation is not over, but there’s context of why we’re seeing the president kind of gin up into high
plenty of proof of it. I see proof as gear this notion that there’s a nefarious group of officials that are
potential. I don't see dispositive out to spy on you and do you harm. The context is we have more
crimes.” than a dozen house Republicans calling for the appointment of a
second special counsel. Why? To take a closer look at alleged
Later, Cuomo flashed his partisan stripes when, first, he abuses carried out by the FBI into the Trump campaign and
told Jordan point blank that he doesn’t trust him or his Hillary Clinton's e-mail server, one of the people making the case
Republican colleagues to tell him the truth about is House Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio. Jim, always good to
documents related to the Russia investigation. Following see you and I need your help this morning.
that, he bemoaned the country’s partisanship while OHIO REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN: Alright. I’ll
knocking Jordan’s colleague Trey Gowdy as “Captain try to provide some help here this morning.
Benghazi.” Again, Jordan was ready:
CUOMO: Always a plus. So, let’s use the President’s tweets as a
CUOMO: We can’t have more partisanship spine for the discussion —
than we have right now. The chasm would JORDAN: Alright.
swallow us both up, and we're capable
guys. How do you go in there tomorrow CUOMO: — and you answer in context any way you want.
with just Nunes, who is so compromised JORDAN: Alright.
and Trey Gowdy who for, despite his recent
rhetoric of being fair and disgusted with CUOMO: The President is now calling the use of this confidential
everything, is known as Captain Benghazi source who apparently contacted people in the campaign or
to the Democrats and they don't have related to, as satellites of the campaign Spygate. Do you believe
anyone from the other side. How can this that we have any factual basis for saying there was a spy in the
help what happens tomorrow? How can it Trump campaign?
help. JORDAN: Well, if you read The New York Times piece they talk
JORDAN: The question, Chris, is real about this individual, give all kinds of details about this individual.
simple. We want to know if, in fact — and it That he —
sure looks like this was the case — if, in CUOMO: Not as a spy.
fact, there were informants around the
edges of the Trump campaign talking to JORDAN: — that, well, and he met with all kinds of folks on the
people loosely affiliated with the Trump kind of periphery of the trump campaign. But I think — so it sure
campaign, if it was some kind of spy, some looks like that was the case. But we're going to wait and see.
kind of informant, some kind of plant, we That's why Chairman Nunes has been requesting information to
want to know. actually show this took place and the Department of Justice has
been reluctant to give it to him. So, let's hope that actually
happens. But Chris, when you couple it with what we do know
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they did, five of the top people at the FBI have been fired, like CUOMO: So they can do the job. Why —
James Comey or Andrew McCabe. Andrew McCabe actually
JORDAN: But they can’t prosecute
faces a criminal referral. Three, like Jim Baker, Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page has been demoted and reassigned and two of the CUOMO: — try to create another politicized mess? Why?
three retired in just the last three weeks. So, when you have five
of the top people who oh by the way, happen to be the same JORDAN: Because — cause, according to the attorney general,
when you have extraordinary circumstances, that's when you
people who ran the Clinton investigation and then launched the
Trump-Russia investigation, that should be pause for concern name special counsel. If this is extraordinary circumstance where
and, again, when you couple it with what we know about the five people of the top people at the FBI, have been, as I said,
fired or demoted and many of them have retired. And when you
dossier and how that was used, I think all of this points to why we
need information and why, months ago, we called for a second have all of that going on and you have those people, the FBI take
special counsel to get to the bottom of all of this and why now we a disproven, salacious dossier to a secret court to get a secret
have 25 individuals in the House of Representatives who warrant to spy on a fellow American citizen and when they go to
supported Mr. Zeldin's resolution. the court, they don't tell them two important facts, namely who
paid for it? The Democratic National Committee. And the author
CUOMO: Alright. Now, I wanted you to be able to get out your full of the dossier, Christopher Steele, had been fired by the FBI
case there. Thank you for doing so. One, 25, not an impressive because he was out leaking information. They didn’t tell the court
number, especially with how many people you have who are those two important pieces of information.
trying to support the President's theories, no matter how wild they
are. It seems to me — Jim, if you were right about this — CUOMO: Alright.
JORDAN: Chris, the chairman of the Judiciary has called for it, JORDAN: Chris, you go to the court, I go to court —
the chair of the Oversight Committee. CUOMO: You’re flooding the zone.
CUOMO: — right but you only have 25 people. JORDAN: — we got to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth and the FBI should have to do the same darn thing.
JORDAN: We just introduced it yesterday. Majority Whip has
called for it. The Majority Leader has called for it. So, this is — CUOMO: Well, you’re flooding the zone and if you want to tell the
this is a number of people who have real influence in the House whole truth —
of Representatives are calling for a second special counsel to get
into this. JORDAN: I’m telling the truth.
CUOMO: But the rank and file is slow on it because they know it CUOMO: — then don't shade everything. They did trust Steele.
seems to be something that would take us down the road of more They didn’t like that he went out. That severed the relationship,
of the same in terms of politicized nonsense. But this is why I say but it wasn't that they didn't trust his sourcing or his work. They
that, Jim. Let me give you a chance to respond to this. If what did disclose where the dossier came from. It is not all false
you said was not true, that these people hadn't been removed, allegations in that dossier. You know this to be the case even
people who were identified as being in this way negative though you have never seen a FISA application yourself.
influences on the administration of justice, if they hadn’t been
dealed with — if they were still there, then you would have
something, my friend. You’d be able to say how is McCabe still
there? How are Strzok and Page and Brennan and these other
ones — how are they still in office? How can you say they're
there and this is fair? But none is there. They’ve all been moved
away and you have an inspector general who’s got way more
staff —
JORDAN: Chris —
CUOMO: — than you will ever be able to put together for a
special counsel —
JORDAN: Chris, here we are, a year and a half later —
JORDAN: But he didn’t have the —
CUOMO: Hold on.
CUOMO: who outed McCabe —
JORDAN: — not one bit of evidence —
JORDAN: — I understand.
CUOMO: FISA —
CUOMO: — who has done a review with what happened with the
Clinton e-mail schedule which you guys keep saying is damning JORDAN: — any type of collusion —
—
CUOMO: Hold on.
JORDAN: And he’s the guy who gave us the Strzok/Page text
JORDAN: — any type of coordination between the Trump
messages. You’re right. The Inspector General has done good
campaign and Russia, but we know that the Democratic National
work.
Committee —
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CUOMO: Jim, that is demonstrably false. We have tons of proof. to have them, but I see no other remedy here. Here's the reason.
Can Rod Rosenstein oversee an investigation of potential
JORDAN: What do you mean demonstrably false? Even
obstruction of justice in the firing of James Comey when he’s the
Democrats are saying —
one who wrote the memo for firing James Comey? I mean, that's
CUOMO: We have tons of proof. where we're at.
JORDAN: — even The New York Times said that last week, CUOMO: So you're bothered by the fact that he's on your side of
Chris. You know that’s the case. an argument —
CUOMO: Listen, talking over me does not silence the points. JORDAN: No.
They have to come out. We have to have this conversation, so
CUOMO: — so you don't want him to do the investigation?
people who think independently can make decisions. There is
tons of proof of potential collusion. We don’t know — JORDAN: I'm bothered by what I just stated. Can he really do
that? So, that’s just one of many reasons why you — I believe
JORDAN: Oh, I lost Chris. Oh, I lost you for a second. I got you
you need this remedy, a second special counsel. It’s why we
back.
called for it ten months ago. Chris, I’ve been on your show —
CUOMO: Sure you did. No.
CUOMO: But you're not asking for anybody to look into why
JORDAN: Yeah, I did. I did. Say it again? Trump fired Comey, are you?
CUOMO: No. I believe you, brother. I believe you. There’s tons of JORDAN: I’m looking into — I’m asking — no, no, no. But that's
proof of potential collusion. The things that were said, the things what the special — Mueller has said he's looking into potential
that were done were in bad discretion, bad choices and then you obstruction of justice in the firing of James Comey.
have to look at what the motivations are. We don't know the
CUOMO: So that’s why you have Mueller.
conclusions on those by this special counsel to get ahead of the
conclusions is misleading. JORDAN: Rosenstein oversees that investigation and he's the
one who wrote the memo
JORDAN: Chris —
CUOMO: But Mueller is the one who draw —
CUOMO: — but FISA, as a tool, was created by Congress to
make sure you don't have secret, that it must be vetted by a JORDAN — saying why it’s appropriate to fire James Comey.
judge. So that process in and of itself is a safeguard and what I
CUOMO: — Mueller is the one who draws the conclusions about
don't get about special counsel is what he said in the memo,
it. That's why Rosenstein is insulated. He oversees. He does not
Rosenstein. I read it five times last night to try to understand
conduct and Mueller will do the investigating, the man who was
where you guys were coming from. The extraordinary
celebrated by so many in your party.
circumstance was that the DOJ couldn't properly investigate this
President because of what was clear in the dynamic. He got rid JORDAN: Chris, think about this. Chris, think about this. If he’s
of Comey. He was asking questions about the investigation. so insulated, why did he write a second memo on August 2nd
Sessions had to recuse himself. That is what triggered changing the parameters, modifying the parameters of the
Rosenstein to bring in the Special Counsel. You don't have that investigation and why won't he show that memo to the American
here because you have all your own people in charge, Jim. people? May 17, one year ago, we had the memo outlining
here’s the framework work for Bob Mueller's investigation into the
JORDAN: Here’s — here’s — here’s —
President that the American people elected. That was the
CUOMO: The attorney general, the head of the FBI, all the framework and it was modified on August 2nd and — and Rod
people there are your people. Rosenstein won't show us that — that modification —
JORDAN: — a couple things. Now you're filibustering. A couple CUOMO: Modified how?
things.
JORDAN: — and a federal — we don't know. We haven't seen it.
CUOMO: Just respond. Go ahead.
CUOMO: But what do you want to assume about the
JORDAN: When you use the word collusion, you use potential in modification?
front of it. That — Potential collusion is not collusion. That’s
JORDAN: Because the American people have the right to know.
proving my point. There is no collusion. There’s been no
The parameters of any —
evidence of that.
CUOMO: — I agree. Look, I'm all about transparency.
CUOMO: There are no conclusions of collusion
JORDAN: I am too.
JORDAN: Second —
CUOMO: The American people show know everything because,
CUOMO: — because the investigation is not over, but there’s
clearly, the partisans can't be trusted to tell them the full truth
plenty of proof of it. I see proof as potential. I don't see
about this.
dispositive crimes.
JORDAN: We want transparency.
JORDAN: Chris, how about this fact. Here’s the reason you need
a second special counsel. I don’t like ‘em. I wish we didn’t have
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CUOMO: You can't have any political oversight right now. That’s known as Captain Benghazi to the Democrats and they don't
clear. have anyone from the other side. How can this help what
happens tomorrow? How can it help.
JORDAN: Tomorrow, Devin Nun — Chairman Nunes is to DOJ to
get transparency. JORDAN: The question, Chris, is real simple. We want to know if,
in fact — and it sure looks like this was the case — if, in fact,
CUOMO: With no Democrats.
there were informants around the edges of the Trump campaign
JORDAN: I want to see — well, you know what? I — if they want talking to people loosely affiliated with the Trump campaign, if it
to come, let them come. I’m all for transparency. was some kind of spy, some kind of informant, some kind of
plant, we want to know.
CUOMO: With Why weren't they invited?
JORDAN: I don't know. You’d have to ask them.
CUOMO: You don't know, Jim?
JORDAN: I don’t know if Adam Schiff goes. I’m not chairman of
the Intelligence Committee. But I do know is that — that Rod
Rosenstein wrote a memo August 2nd that a federal judge four
weeks ago said he wanted to see and he got to see it.
CUOMO: But you don’t even know what it says. You're
speculating on what it might mean, when it could just be a pro
forma procedural indication of expanding the probe as the facts
and issues arise.
CUOMO: But we know it wasn't an implant. You know already.
JORDAN: Why — come on, Chris. They told you it wasn't.
CUOMO: You don’t know what it means. JORDAN: They told — the same Department of Justice who —
JORDAN: You just — you just — you just said you want when they gave us documents, had redacted — between Page
transparency. I want transparency. and Strzok text messages had redacted the fact that Peter Strzok
was friends with one of the FISA court judges who also
CUOMO: I want to see it. Don't get me wrong. happened to be the same judge who heard Michael Flynn's case.
JORDAN: More importantly — We're supposed to start trusting that Department of Justice who
was trying to hide that — trying to hide that information from us?
CUOMO: I certainly don't want to hear from you guys what it
says. I certainly don’t want to have two of your guys go into a CUOMO: It’s run by your guy, Christopher Wray. It's overseen by
meeting — your guy, Jeff Sessions, and Rod Rosenstein. These are all your
people.
JORDAN: — I’m not — I’m not saying — Chris — I’m not saying
what it says. JORDAN: All I’m — Chris — all I’m saying, Chris, is the
Department of Justice — the credibility of the Department of
CUOMO: — with the feds and come out and tell me what it Justice, in light of that fact, the fact that they’re dragged their feet
means. I certainly don't want that. to get us the information we’re entitled to as a separate and
JORDAN: I'm not saying what it says. All I want — all I’m saying equal branch of government. They tried to hide the fact that Peter
is I want to see it. We’ve asked. I asked Rod Rosenstein in Strzok had a relationship with one of the FISA judges who was
person to see it. We’ve sent him a letter and they sent us a letter the same judge who heard Michael Flynn's case and recused
back saying, sorry we're not going to show to you, but a federal himself, by the way after — after —
judge wants to see it and he got to see it. CUOMO: But you only know that because of what the I.G. has
CUOMO: Alright, Jim, I hear you on that. I believe there should been figuring out. That's my point, Jim, is you have the inspector
be transparency. I’ve never argued differently to you. I’ve never general.
even asked you a question against those kinds of intentions in JORDAN: He figured it out —
encouraging transparency, assuming it doesn’t reveal sources
and methods or anything that compromise anybody’s life or the CUOMO: You know that they can do this job. They have a big,
integrity of the investigation. capable staff.
CUOMO: But this is the last point. I don't get what's going to CUOMO: Why politicize it? That was what my question was.
happen tomorrow. We can’t have more partisanship than we JORDAN: Of course, the I.G. — the I.G. found the text messages
have right now. The chasm would swallow us both up, and we're but when the Department of Justice gave us those copies of the
capable guys. How do you go in there tomorrow with just Nunes, text messages, they redacted what I just described as —
who is so compromised and Trey Gowdy who for, despite his
recent rhetoric of being fair and disgusted with everything, is CUOMO: That's not unusual and you know that.
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JORDAN: Well — CUOMO: We've had this struggle with them my entire career.
CUOMO: It's not true proof of perfidy. JORDAN: — no, it was embarrassing to them.
JORDAN: But why would you redact that? It had nothing to do CUOMO: It doesn't mean that it's necessarily —
with an ongoing investigation, it wasn't classified information.
JORDAN: Come on.
CUOMO: Because they have intelligence considerations.
CUOMO: — perfidious — that it's dishonest. Look, we'll have to
JORDAN: No, because it was — know more. It's just about the mechanism and you know we'll
keep talking about this with you. I'm anxious for you to make the
case and I don't know how tomorrow's going to make anything
better but let's see what happens. Let's be almost irrationally
optimistic about it and then let's come back together and figure
out what we know. Jim Jordan —
JORDAN: We'll do it.
CUOMO: — thank you for making the case.
JORDAN: You bet.
CUOMO: I appreciate it.
JORDAN: You bet, thanks.
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Trump: I Did A ‘Service’
To Country By Firing Comey
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
5:58 PM 05/23/2018
President Trump took questions on his way to Marine One “then let’s see what James Comey has to
Wednesday as he departed the White House for New York. say.”
A gaggle of reporters asked a number of questions about The president claimed that he
Trump’s recent revelations that there was a spy monitoring
his campaign for the FBI. “did a great service to this country by firing
James Comey.”
Trump was asked if the use of the word “spy” was
appropriate. At that point, a reporter attempted to interrupt Trump, who
was having none of it.
“Former FBI Director, James Comey, said
to use the word ‘spy’ is the wrong word,” a “Excuse me,” Trump said. “A lot of people
reporter shouted. have said it. And you go into the FBI, and a
lot of those great people working in the FBI,
Trump did not hesitate, saying they will tell you, I did a great service to our
country by firing James Comey.”
“I think James Comey has got a lot of
problems.” The president continued, “If you Trump went on to call the controversy “Spygate,” saying,
look at what at he did, if you look at all of
the lies — the tremendous lies — if you “We now call it ‘Spygate.’ You’re calling it
look at all that’s going on, I think James “Spygate.” A lot of bad things have
Comey has got a lot of problems.” happened.”
WATCH:
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Exclusive: Bannon Says
Rosenstein Could Be Fired 'Very Shortly'
By Niall Stanage
05/23/18 06:00 AM EDT
President Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen Bannon “Martin Luther King would be proud of him
predicts that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — what he’s done for the black and
could be fired “very shortly,” in an interview that will be Hispanic community for jobs.”
broadcast Wednesday evening in the United Kingdom.
And Bannon blamed the media for boosting the profile of
the kind of white nationalist figures with whom the former
strategist has sometimes — wrongly, he insisted — been
said to harbor sympathy.
“These guys don’t exist unless you make
them a big deal,” Bannon told Maitlis. “First
off, they’re all cranks … [Richard] Spencer
and [David] Duke — these guys are cranks.
The only reason they exist is because
MSNBC and BBC is down there with a
camera, giving them a platform. If you cut
them off, nobody would ever hear from
them.”
Bannon said that Rosenstein Bannon’s remarks on Rosenstein and the Mueller probe
will be closely parsed because he and other Trump
loyalists have been reported, by The Washington Post
“either … is going to take the direct order of among others, to be pressing the president to adopt a more
the president of the United States or I think aggressive strategy.
Rosenstein will be fired.”
One of the most combative defenders of Trump has been
Bannon also said that the president should give evidence in
his attorney Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York
writing — but not in person — to special counsel Robert
City. But Giuliani has also caused consternation, even
Mueller. Bannon praised Mueller as an “honorable guy.”
among White House staff, with some of his television
The comments, which come amid increasing pressure on interviews.
Rosenstein from Trump and his allies, were made in a
“Rudy’s had some media hits that are
wide-ranging interview with the BBC's "Newsnight,"
better than others, right?” Bannon said in
which was conducted on Tuesday in Prague.
his BBC interview.
The Hill obtained an audio recording of the unedited
But he went on to confirm long-standing rumors that
interview between Bannon and the BBC's Emily Maitlis.
Trump had once been interested in appointing Giuliani to
The hourlong conversation saw the strategist and former be attorney general.
Breitbart executive stepping back into the public spotlight
Bannon told Maitlis that Giuliani had declined the offer
— and stirring controversy again.
because he wanted to be secretary of State.
Bannon was exiled from Trump’s immediate orbit in
“Remember, Rudy was the guy that we first
January after he was quoted making several incendiary
went to to be attorney general before [Jeff]
comments in Michael Wolff’s best-selling book "Fire and
Sessions. … And Rudy turned us down,”
Fury: Inside the Trump White House." At the time,
Bannon said. "He says, ‘Hey it’s too much
Trump said that Bannon had "lost his mind."
for me, I don’t want to do it, I would want to
Bannon had departed from the White House before that. be Secretary of State.'”
He left the administration in August 2017, soon after John
But, Bannon added,
Kelly replaced Reince Priebus as chief of staff.
“Rudy is a wartime consigliere and I think
Pushing back on charges of racism leveled against Trump,
he’s exactly what the president needs.”
Bannon insisted that
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Bannon was in the Czech capital to engage in a public conservatives that the loss of control of the lower chamber
debate with Lanny Davis, who served as special counsel to is increasingly likely.
President Clinton.
Bannon has long been a difficult figure to characterize: a
During his BBC interview, he also relitigated some old wealthy former Goldman Sachs banker who often blasts
arguments, in part blaming Trump's son-in-law Jared the “global elite”; a fervent Trump loyalist who lost favor
Kushner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R- after criticizing Trump family members in Wolff’s book;
Ky.) for the loss of a Republican Senate seat in Alabama and someone who mixes hard-line stances on issues such
last year. as immigration with the kind of pro-working class
economic arguments heard more often on the left.
According to Bannon, Kushner and McConnell were
among those who “went to Trump and convinced Trump” To “Newsnight,” he contended that one reason why non-
to back then-Sen. Luther Strange in the GOP primary. white Americans were underrepresented in Silicon Valley
Despite Trump’s endorsement, Strange lost the primary to and in other high-paying industries was because of lax
former state Chief Justice Roy Moore. immigration policies.
McConnell, Bannon complained, “Why in the hell should some kid in
Baltimore have to compete against a guy in
“would rather see a Democrat in the United
India?” he asked rhetorically.
States Senate. He would rather have
control of his caucus and not have a Roy At another point, he contended:
Moore.”
“Mass illegal immigration is a scam of the
Moore, backed by Bannon, was dogged by allegations of globalists. … Because it is there to
sexual assault and inappropriate sexual behavior with suppress the wages of the black and
teenage girls and young women. Hispanic working class by giving unlimited
competition on labor.”
Asked by Maitlis if he now accepted he had
backed “the wrong horse,” Bannon replied, He went on to say that it was “not right” to allow “this
“Absolutely not." unlimited immigration, illegal immigration, that comes up
from the southern border, that’s low skill. It’s just not. It
Despite that setback, Bannon remained bullish about the
destroys the education system, it destroys the health-care
GOP’s chances in November’s midterm elections.
system.”
Even though Trump continues to struggle with mediocre
Even as he insisted that “identity politics is a dead end for
poll ratings, Bannon said that the best way for Republicans
the Democratic Party,” he made a qualified defense of
to counter an energized Democratic base was to cast the
Trump’s deeply controversial comments in the wake of
midterms as a referendum on the president — and on his
violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.,
possible impeachment.
last year in which one woman was killed.
“To bring the base out, to bring the
Bannon called the neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan supporters
‘deplorables' out, you’re going to have a
who descended on Charlottesville “thugs” who were
proposition: It’s a national election,”
“looking for trouble.”
Bannon said. "Donald Trump is on the
ballot in every congressional district. You’re “But, however, the antifa guys are just as
not voting for a congressman versus bad,” he said. “They come fully loaded,
another congressman. You’re voting for they’re looking for a fight.”
Donald Trump versus Nancy Pelosi.
Bannon insisted that he had no political ambitions of his
Because the first thing that she’s going to
own.
do is impeach him.”
“I am not a politician. I’m a street fighter …
Bannon predicted that Republicans would hold both the
I have no interest in being a politician,” he
Senate and the House, despite gathering gloom among
told Maitlis.
.
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Pathetic. Mueller Begs Trump-Appointed Judge For
Indefinite Delay In Junk Russian Bot Case
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 6:26 Pm
Judge Dabney L. Friedrich, a Trump-appointee smacked Former Federal Prosecutor, Andrew McCarthy told the
down Mueller the first time he requested a delay. Daily Caller that it’s too late for Mueller to claim that the
complexity of the case warrants a delay.
Former US Attorney, Joe DiGenova said it best,
The federal judge has not yet ruled on Mueller’s second
request for a delay.
“They did it for one reason only. Mueller
needed something Russian–like dressing on
a salad to make his investigation look good Mueller is a pathetic man and a disgrace to this country.
so he indicted 13 people and corporations in
another country that he thought would never Another embarrassing development was watching
show up and BINGO one shows up and says Mueller’s team offer to give Concord Management’s
‘PROVE IT MOTHER.’ lawyers a massive amount of social media data from those
dangerous trolls who sought to influence the US election
The Daily Caller reported: and the majority of it is in RUSSIAN.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal Mueller’s lawyers admitted that they don’t even have
judge Tuesday to reject the four-decade-old English translations for the Russian social media posts.
speedy trial law in the case against 13 Russians
and three Russian companies and has asked Concord Management’s lawyer’s previously said Mueller
for an indefinite delay to the Russian collusion indicted “the proverbial ham sandwich.”
trial.
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The reason the Concord Management Mueller begging the judge for an indefinite delay is more
attorneys called the case a ‘proverbial ham proof he rolled out this indictment of Russians as a PR
sandwich’ was because one of the stunt to justify his witch hunt; his team is not prepared to
entities indicted by the Mueller try this case and it’s hilarious to watch as they struggle.
team, Concord Catering, was not in
existence at the time the crimes
were alleged to have taken place.
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Kushner’s Lawyer: ‘There’s Nothing
That Merits Charges’ After Mueller Interview
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
6:27 PM 05/23/2018
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Mollie Hemingway: ‘Rarely
The Case’ When James Clapper Tells The Truth
By Randy Hall
May 23, 2018 6:55 PM EDT
While a guest during Wednesday morning's Fox & “He’s right,” the Fox & Friends co-host said
Friends, The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway slammed before asking Hemingway: “Where’s the
former Director of National Intelligence Director James coverage?”
Clapper by stating that it’s “rarely the case” when the
former director of national intelligence under Democratic Hemingway responded:
President Barack Obama tells the truth.
“We’re two years into a probe of
Hemingway made the comment when asked about supposedly treasonous collusion with
Clapper’s appearance on The View a day earlier, where he Russia. We have no evidence to support
said that President Donald Trump “should be happy” that that.”
the FBI was spying on his 2016 presidential campaign.
However, she added:
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Tom Fitton: Comey, Clapper, Brennan, The Rest Of Them
Face Civil And Criminal Liability For
Spying On Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 6:59 Pm
Democrats went from scoffing at the idea They’re going to have to account and there’s
that the Obama administration was spying got to be a process for getting them to account.
on the Trump campaign to praising the
spies inside the Trump Campaign in a two Via Lou Dobbs Tonight:
day period.
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Judge's Ruling That Trump Can't Block Twitter Trolls
Could Be A Huge Win For Right-Wingers
Chris Menahan - Informationliberation
May. 23, 2018
Reactions:
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BOOM! Former Trump Campaign Aide: I Told Mueller
Team About Informant Approaching Me And THEY
DIDN’T EVEN TAKE NOTES!
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 7:25 Pm
Now this…
Former Trump campaign aide Michael
aputo dropped a bomb on the Ingraham Wednesday night on Tucker Carlson Tonight
Angle Monday night. Michael Caputo told Tucker that he told the
Mueller Team about the informant who
Caputo told Ingraham: approached him during the 2016 election.
“I was approached by a SECOND government Michael Caputo says the Mueller team of 13
informant.” Angry Democrats didn’t even take notes!
Michael Caputo said he’s waiting for clearance from his They weren’t interested!
attorney before he offers more details.
Michael Caputo:
On Tuesday Michael Caputo joined Neil
Cavuto on FOX News. I gave the information to the House Intelligence
Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee
Caputo told Neil a SECOND FEDERAL and the Mueller invetigators, when I sat with
AGENCY offered to give him HILLARY them two weeks ago, three weeks ago, and
CLINTON EMAILS! they didn’t seem in the least bit interested…
The investigators weren’t interested. They
The informant was from the NSA. didn’t even take notes.
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Lying Left-Wing Media In Total PANIC As Deep State
Conspiracy Against Trump Unravels
By Mike Adams
05/23/2018
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FBI Source: Special Agent At Mike Flynn Interrogation Is
Ready To Testify — Says “It Was All Comey”
By Cristina Laila
May 23, 2018, 7:29 Pm
Posobiec tweeted:
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Joe Digenova: Comey, Clapper, And Brennan Are
Psychotics And Can’t Stop Lying (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 8:19 Pm
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FBI Informant Stefan Halper Accused Of Making ‘False’
And ‘Absurd’ Allegations About Russian
Infiltration At Cambridge
Chuck Ross - Reporter
8:53 PM 05/23/2018
The FBI informant who made contact with members of the It was revealed Friday that Halper, a veteran of three
Trump campaign has made allegations of Russian spy Republican administrations, was a longtime CIA and FBI
infiltration at the University of Cambridge that people source who provided information that has been used in the
involved in the matters have called “false” and “absurd.” FBI and special counsel’s investigation of possible
collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
A Russian academic who worked at Cambridge with the
informant, Stefan Halper, said he made “false allegations” It remains unclear what information Halper provided his
about her interactions with former national security adviser FBI and CIA handlers about the campaign. He met with
Michael Flynn at an event the Cambridge Intelligence Page numerous times over the course of 14 months
Seminar (CIS) hosted in February 2014. through September 2017. He and Papadopoulos met
several times in mid-September 2016. Halper and Clovis
Halper’s claim in December 2016 that Russians infiltrated met once on Sept. 1, 2016 to discuss their mutual interest
CIS has also been called “absurd” by Christopher Andrew, in foreign policy towards China.
the official historian for MI5 and head of CIS, the
Financial Times reported. Halper also asked Peter Navarro, the White House’s top
trade adviser, to submit his name for consideration for an
Halper told the Financial Times that he was resigning from ambassadorship in the Trump administration.
CIS because of “unacceptable Russian influence on the
group.” The evidence of Russian penetration was scant, “SPYGATE,” is what President Trump has
with news reports citing a nearly $2,700 contribution to called the FBI and CIA’s Halper operation.
CIS from a Russia-based company called Veruscript.
A historian and Russian intelligence researcher at
Cambridge, Svetlana Lokhova, told TheDCNF that Halper
is behind allegations made about her and Flynn during the
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retired general’s visit to Cambridge in 2014, when he Defense Intelligence Agency about his contacts with a
served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Russian national, according to The Journal’s news story.
“Stef Halper, who is currently under The agency’s liaison in London, Dan O’Brien, dismissed
[Department of Justice] investigation for his the idea that Flynn should have reported his contact with
activities, has been revealed by [The New Lokhova. O’Brien, who attended the February 2014
York Times] as the source of the false dinner, said “nothing rose to the level” of requiring such a
allegations about me and General Flynn,” disclosure.
said Lokhova, who was born in Russia and
has British citizenship. According to The Journal, Flynn sat next to Lokhova at the
CIS dinner. At one point, she showed Flynn an “erotic
Halper is not himself under a Justice Department postcard” from 1912 of a young woman with Joseph
investigation. Instead, the agency ordered the Office of the Stalin. Flynn also mentioned hiring Lokhova as his
Inspector General to investigate the FBI’s use of Halper as translator for a trip to Russia he planned to make. He and
a confidential informant to make contact with Trump Lokhova remained in email contact for a short time after
campaign advisers. the Cambridge event.
The New York Times reported Friday that Halper was the There was no evidence presented that Flynn or Lokhova
first to raise concerns about interactions Flynn had with did anything wrong other than arouse suspicions from a
Lokhova at a dinner for CIS, a forum for former dinner attendee now known to be Halper.
intelligence officials.
Lokhova declined Tuesday to comment about Halper
According to NYT, Halper, who was not beyond her short statement. But she referred back to an
identified by name in the report, “was interview she gave to the BBC on May 12, 2017 in which
alarmed by the general’s apparent she denied allegations that she was a Kremlin agent or a
closeness with a Russian woman who was “honey pot,” a spy term used to describe a woman used to
also in attendance.” Halper’s complaints seduce a target in order to gather intelligence.
prompted a person close to him “to pass on
a warning to the American authorities that “In Britain, I am now being accused of
Mr. Flynn could be compromised by being a Russian spy. In Russia, some think
Russian intelligence.” I am a British spy. And I am
neither,” Lokhova told BBC. “I am just a
But Lokhova said Halper’s assessment of her interaction historian who writes about an area that has
with Flynn was inaccurate. become incredibly politicized.”
“I felt betrayed that suddenly I had been
She also suggested on Twitter that Halper was a source for turned on in such a horrible way for …
journalists who investigated stories about her interactions attending a dinner to help Western
with Flynn. Her Twitter post linked to a March 18, 2017 intelligence services understand Russia
article published by The Wall Street Journal, which made better,” she continued.
the first allegations about Flynn’s encounter with Lokhova.
Other Cambridge academics appear not to have shared
TheDCNF has also confirmed that Washington Post Halper’s concerns about Lokhova.
columnist David Ignatius looked into the allegations but
did not run a story. On Wednesday, Ignatius published a
Lokhova, who is the author of the forthcoming book, “The
column defending Halper as a “middleman” in a justified
Spy Who Changed History,” presented research at CIS
investigation of the Trump campaign.
on Friday. Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6
and close colleague of Halper’s, is listed as a convener of
The Journal story touched off widespread speculation the event.
about Flynn and Lokhova. Lokhova has said that she was
widely accused of being a Russian agent and of attempting
Halper could not be reached for comment. The Cambridge
to trap Flynn in a “honey pot” scheme.
Security Initiative also did not respond to a request for
comment.
Flynn’s interactions with Lokhova were reported to
American authorities and Flynn should have notified the
.
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Democrats Attempt To Block Nunes And Gowdy From
Viewing Unredacted Documents On FBI
Spying On Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 8:56 Pm
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and Oversight The two GOP leaders will meet with FBI Director Chris
Chairman Trey Gowdy will meet with senior Justice Wray, National Intelligence Dan Coats and Principal
Department, FBI and intelligence officials on Thursday. Associate Deputy Attorney General Edward O’Callaghan.
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FINALLY! After Most Major Conservative Sites
Are Completely Throttled By Facebook —
GOP Leaders Speak Out (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 9:27 Am
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook Headquarters
1 Hacker Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025
McDaniel and Parscale joined FOX and Friends this morning. Jack Dorsey
Twitter, Inc.
RNC CHAIRWOMAN RONNA MCDANIEL: It’s a 1355 Market St.
legitimate fear. Brad and I hear it all the time as we’re San Francisco, CA 94103
traveling the country. People are very concerned that
conservative voices are going to be suppressed on social Dear Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Dorsey,
media. Of course, many of their users are conservatives
and so Brad and I feel preemptively, we have to get out We are writing on behalf of the Republican National
ahead of this, talk to Facebook, talk to Twitter, ask them Committee and President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-
for transparency, let us know what you’re going to do to election campaign to request information about efforts
make sure that every voice has a say on these social media by Facebook and Twitter to prevent political bias on
platforms especially before this critical midterm. the social media platforms.
BRAD PARSCALE: Well I mean, main thing about the Concerns have been raised in recent years about
letter is we’ve had so much incoming about Diamond and suppression of conservative speech on Facebook and
Silk being blocked, other conservative voices. Every day I Twitter, including censorship of conservative news
receive thousands of messages saying, “I’m being shadow- stories from news feeds and “trending” news sections.
banned.” And what we want to do in this letter is make We are alarmed by numerous allegations that
sure that we understand what’s happening. We want to ask Facebook has blocked content from conservative
them for transparency. I think the public deserves that journalists and groups, and Twitter has hidden such
transparency and we need to know that conservative voices content from conservative users’ followers.
have a chance to get their message out. This is a big
problem.
In 2016, former Facebook workers reported that they
manipulated the “trending” section to exclude news
tailored to conservative users, despite those topics
trending on their own. A former trending news curator
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admitted in an interview that nearly all members of the As you conduct reviews to assess bias against
trending news teams identified as liberal – and had the conservative content, we ask for your assurances that
authority to approve topics. Moreover, some Facebook transparency, neutrality, and protection of all speech
employees in 2016 reportedly pushed to ban then- will be core tenets of Facebook and Twitter operations,
candidate Donald Trump’s Facebook posts and label now and in the future.
them as hate speech.
We ask for your response by June 18, 2018, and look
During congressional testimony, Facebook apologized forward to hearing from you.
for suppression of content from conservative bloggers
and personalities, notably “Diamond & Silk,” Sincerely,
entertainers who were deemed “unsafe to the
community” for no reason. In response to these
Ronna McDaniel
revelations, Facebook said it will use a new system
Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee
that ranks news organizations by level of user trust,
promoting the highly scored outlets on users’ news
feeds while suppressing those with lower scores. We Brad Parscale
are concerned about potential misuse of this system. Campaign Manager for President Trump’s 2020
reelection
Meanwhile, conservative Twitter users have accused
the company of unfairly targeting them, purging Most top conservative publishers have
thousands of their followers in an attempt to stem already seen their traffic eliminated or
“fake news” content, and unnecessarily prompting severely diminished on Facebook and
them to confirm their identity. Twitter claims its tools Twitter.
are free from political bias, but has allegedly targeted
predominantly Republicans as part of a “shadow As our loyal readers know — The
banning” practice, which covertly limits those Gateway Pundit has been speaking
accounts’ visibility on the platform. about about the elimination of
conservative content on Facebook for
We recognize that Facebook and Twitter operate in over a year now.
liberal corporate cultures. However, rampant political
bias is inappropriate for a widely used public forum. In 2016 conservative Americans rejected
What’s more, the consequences to our democratic
the far left and corrupt mainstream
society are profound. This is why special attention is
necessary to address issues such as Facebook’s use media and fled to the internet for their
of liberal organizations to fact-check content, the information.
access to user profiles it gives to some employees, In 2016 The Gateway Pundit was one of
and Twitter’s manipulation of content that appears for the few conservative sites that
the site’s users. supported candidate Trump – along with
Breitbart, The Drudge Report, Infowars,
It has also come to our attention that Facebook is Zero Hedge and Conservative
working with a third party to encourage voter Treehouse.
registration. Though we agree that this is an admirable
task in theory, we ask for transparency over how We were and still are proud of our efforts to report the
Facebook determines who sees these advertisements truth that led to Trump’s historic win.
in their news feeds. This is to make sure that the new
feature does not become essentially an in-kind
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Review found that The Gateway Pundit
was the 4th most influential conservative
Since Facebook and Twitter are platforms used widely news source in the 2016 election among
by the majority of voters, we request an explanation conservative publishers.
about how you will ensure all content is managed
equally and fairly. How will you safeguard voters’
access to fair content on your platform? How will you
guarantee that conservative voices are no longer
censored, and conservative news no longer buried or
otherwise hidden?
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SarahPalin.com, Independent Journal
Review, Right Wing News, and several
others have seen dramatic loss in
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Facebook. content. You cannot even share a
Gateway Pundit story without getting a
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Facebook.
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North Korea Slams Pence,
Threatens To Scrap Trump-Kim Summit
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
9:32 PM 05/23/2018
President Barack Obama traveled to Stockholm, Sweden Via The Ingraham Angle:
before the G20 meeting in St. Petersburg back in
September 2013.
Barack Obama:
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'Outrageous Abuse Of Our Intelligence Agencies':
Ingraham Blasts Clapper For Trump Spy 'Lie'
As Seen On The Ingraham Angle
May 23, 2018 – 10:27pm
In her Angle commentary, Laura Ingraham ripped Obama- "No sir, not wittingly," Clapper said.
era Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for
purportedly lying about surveilling members of the Trump Ingraham said that exchange was contradicted by Clapper's
presidential campaign. interview on "The View" where he appeared to admit to
surveilling Trump associates.
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Sedition: Former Attorney General Eric Holder Urges DOJ
Employees To Defy Trump Administration
By Jim Hoft
May 23, 2018, 11:00 Pm
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After 17 Indictments And Five Guilty Pleas, We KNOW
The Kremlin Interfered With The 2016 Election
Jennifer Horn - Former Chairman, New Hampshire Republican Party
2:24 AM 05/24/2018
We recently marked the one-year anniversary of special Pro-Trump Republicans should be ashamed of themselves
counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged for slandering an honest man and smearing his
Russian collusion—an investigation that has yielded 17 investigation to score cheap political points. For decades,
indictments, five guilty pleas, and constant headaches for the Republican Party has stood for the rule of law,
Donald Trump’s presidential administration. cognizant of the need to hold our elected officials to a
higher standard of accountability. It is one of the reasons
President Trump commemorated the occasion as only he why I myself am a Republican.
could, with another angry, misleading tweet intended to
rile up his base, denouncing the Russia investigation as a Regardless of whether the Trump campaign actually
“witch hunt.” colluded with the Russian government, the investigation
must run its course. After 17 indictments and five guilty
In an attempt to delegitimize the Mueller probe, the pleas, we know that the Kremlin interfered with the 2016
president has tweeted about a “witch hunt” 39 times since election. The special counsel must be given as much time
it began. His supporters, meanwhile, continue to levy as necessary to determine if and to what degree the Trump
personal attacks against Mueller to erode the special campaign may have been involved.
counsel’s longstanding support among Republicans.
Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway recently Republicans have always pursued the truth. After the 2012
appeared on Fox and Friends with a clear threat: Benghazi attack that cost four American lives, Republicans
demanded an investigation into then-Secretary of State
“I think those who have been digging and Hillary Clinton’s role in our failure to defend the U.S.
conjecturing for over a year should be embassy. As Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) put it:
careful what they wish for.”
“I remain convinced our fellow citizens
Pro-Trump journalist Sara Carter made the ludicrous deserve all of the facts of what happened
accusation that Mueller protected Mafia informant Whitey before, during, and after the attacks in
Bulger while serving as a federal prosecutor in Boston Benghazi and they deserve an investigative
during the 1980s. She then shared the unfounded process worthy of the memory of those
allegations with Sean Hannity. Adam Gingrich, who who died and worthy of the trust of our
worked for the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania, fellow citizens.”
introduced the Twitter hashtags #RiseUp and
#FireMueller. And he got one:
The conservative media — a constant thorn in President The Benghazi investigation lasted two
Bill Clinton’s side during Ken Starr’s investigation in the years and cost more than $7 million.
1990s — has been all too willing to undermine the rule of
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When Clinton’s 2016 email scandal suggested gross The rule of law is the rule of law. It holds no blind
negligence on her part, Republicans again demanded the allegiance to party. Our public servants must uphold the
truth. At a rally in my home state, then-candidate Donald rule of law universally with an unyielding dedication to
Trump claimed Clinton’s “corruption is on a scale we have discovering the truth, not to protecting their fellow
never seen before,” describing her mishandling of 33,000 Republicans or Democrats.
emails as “bigger than Watergate.” Even now, House
Republicans continue to probe Clinton’s use of a private In fact, it is because a Republican is at the center of this
email server for State Department business years ago. probe that it is incumbent upon Republicans to protect the
integrity of the investigation.
Surely the integrity of American elections is worthy of a
tireless pursuit of the truth. Democrats abandoned the moral high ground long ago.
America cannot afford to have Republicans follow suit.
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FBI Had No ‘Clear Criminal
Predicate’ For Trump Campaign Snoops
Retired Special Agent James Wedick Warned That The Bureau's Placing An
Informant In The President's 2016 Staff Was A Blatant Violation
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 24 May 2018 At 6:22 AM
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before being removed after thousands of such biased texts accept transparency and accountability and the
became public. increasingly troubling revelations that have trickled out.
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THE LIST: At Least 6 And Potentially 7
Known And Suspected Intelligence Informants Now
Known To Have Spied On Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 7:51 Am
Christopher Steel
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Alexander Downer Halper met with Carter Page just days after
Page’s Moscow trip.
Although, not a Brit, Alexander Downer is the Australian
individual who apparently overheard Papadopoulos talk Other Internet sleuths tied Halper to the Obama team of
about Trump and Russia in a bar which alerted the FBI to crooks. Halper was paid more than $400,000 in 2016 for
the story and their eventual spy program on Trump. This his efforts to set Papadopulos up and get him to sing to the
story has been refuted for months. Australia diplomat about Hillary’s emails being held by
Russia. Halper and others planted this information on
The Papadopoulos/Downer meeting has been portrayed as Papadopulos before he shared this with the Aussie in a
a chance encounter in a bar. That does not appear to be the drunken London pub discussion.
case….
Additional research shows that Halper was a classmate of
Downer has direct ties to UK impeached President Bill Clinton. Halper apparently knew
Intelligence firm Hakluyt where he Bill Clinton well in their days at Oxford. He later worked
served on the Advisory Board from as an Advisor to the Clinton Administration.
2008-2014.
Glenn Simpson and Nellie Ohr
Shortly after the Papadopoulos and Downer chance
encounter, Peter Strzok was in London per texts released Nellie Ohr is in the middle of the FBI/CIA scandal –
by the FBI.
Nellie Ohr is the “dossier” spying scandal’s woman in the
“Strzok texts suggest he was in London on middle.
August 3, 2016.”
To one side of Ohr, there is the Fusion GPS team,
The corrupt FBI’s investigation into Trump officially including fellow contractor Christopher Steele. To the
started a few days earlier. other, there is husband Bruce Ohr, who, until his
“dossier”-related demotion, was No. 4 man at the
Stefan Halper Department of Justice, and a key contact there for Steele.
One individual all over the Internet and social media by Glenn Simpson is the co-founder of the
the name of Stefan Halper has been identified as a opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
potential FBI spy into the Trump campaign. (Note that His firm is at the center of the entire
some believe that Obama may have had more than one spy Trump-Russia fairy tale. According the
on the Trump campaign). The most intriguing individual failing liberal New York Times –
related to Papadopoulos is Halper.
From the start, he was a central casting misfire — the dark
According to Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork – artist slicing through the capital by electric scooter, a
cloak-and-dagger digger better known to former
colleagues for scratching his bare belly in plain office
My guess is Papadopoulos never knew what hit him. A
view.
young man, suddenly thrust into a position beyond his
experience, Papadopoulos made for an easy intelligence
target. In a past career, Glenn R. Simpson had been a reporter’s
reporter, tenacious through two decades in journalism,
often driving the Washington story of the day —
Carter Page almost certainly discussed the just completed
congressional corruption, fund-raising shenanigans, sundry
Moscow trip with his host, Stefan Halper, during the
misbehavior — but never becoming it himself.
London symposium.
It’s now being reported that Devin Nunes has learned the “It’s not news when things go right,” he told
identity of a “top secret intelligence source” that was part a group of students in 1991, describing his
of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation. craft. “When things go right, it’s boring.”
Mr. Simpson’s life has not been boring for some time now.
I think there’s a decent chance that source is Stefan Halper.
It has, perhaps inevitably, become news.
Halper had contact with both Papadopulos
As investigators circle President Trump’s administration
and Carter Page. Halper has connections
over ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign, Mr.
to UK Intelligence and US Intelligence.
Simpson, a 53-year-old Wall Street Journal veteran-
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turned-master of high-dollar research, has arrived at the According to the report, Jones, who runs an investigative
biggest story of either of his careers, lurching to the center outfit called the Penn Quarter Group (PQG), told the
of the Russia-tinged scandal that clouds the presidency. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in March of 2017
that he had retained the services of Fusion GPS and
Mr. Trump knows his work intimately. Mr. Simpson is the Christopher Steele to “continue exposing Russian
man behind an explosive dossier — produced at his firm, interference” in the 2016 election. Steele is the former
Fusion GPS, with a former British spy, Christopher Steele British spy who authored the infamous unverified dossier
— outlining possible connections between the president, of allegations against President Donald Trump.
his associates and Russian officials.
Although Jones’ name is redacted in the report, the
Mr. Simpson’s dossier has never been proven as true. No biographical details plus previous reporting on the matter
independent information to date supports the dossier and it make clear that he is the individual referenced. The report
is suspected to be pure fiction. Fusion is being sued for also revealed that Jones told federal investigators that he
libel related to the dossier. had raised $50 million from “7 to 10 wealthy donors
located primarily in New York and California.”
Daniel Jones
Sperry indicates that there may be a 7th individual who
spied or manipulated the Trump campaign as well.
Corrupt and sneeky Jones worked with Senate Democrat
Feinstein –
These people are crooks who along with
their corrupt liberal press and the
A declassified congressional report confirms prior Democrat party worked diligently to
reporting by The Federalist that Daniel Jones, a former overthrow the elected President of our
staffer for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), hired Fusion good nation. They are an outrage and
GPS and Christopher Steele after the 2016 election to push need to be prosecuted to the fullest
the anti-Trump Russian collusion narrative. extent of the law.
.
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Saboteur Bolton Succeeds:
Trump Cancels Nuclear Summit With Kim Jong-Un
Chris Menahan - Informationliberation
May. 24, 2018
"Whether the U.S. will meet us at a meeting The meeting, which would have marked the first face-to-
room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear face encounter between a sitting U.S. president and a
showdown is entirely dependent upon the North Korean leader, was set for June 12 in Singapore.
decision and behavior of the United
States," Choe said. "Sadly, based on the tremendous anger
and open hostility displayed in your most
"In case the U.S. offends against our recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate,
goodwill and clings to unlawful and at this time, to have this long-planned
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meeting," Trump wrote in a letter to Kim, That aged well!
which was released Thursday morning.
Neocon puppet Marco Rubio similarly celebrated the
Stocks fell and gold rose after news of the cancellation move:
broke.
Bolton is praying to a different god that they will be used. It's too bad Trump doesn't watch Tucker Carlson instead of
Sean Hannity or this whole debacle could have been
avoided.
Bolton's last tweet was an article from the War Street
Journal saying how Trump needs his great negotiating
skills on North Korea.
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Liar James Clapper: Russians Not Only
Affected Outcome Of Election –
They Decided It (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 8:34 Am
Clapper told the PBS host that Trump’s questioning of the What baloney.
Deep State spying on his campaign is dangerous.
This guy is lying every time he opens his mouth.
Pray for justice and pray that this crook sees his day in
court.
James Clapper:
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‘SPYGATE’: Trump Takes
More Shots At James Clapper
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:35 AM 05/24/2018
He then added,
President Donald Trump once again took aim at former “They were spying — a term I don’t
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper alleging particularly like — on what the Russians
that he confirmed a confidential informant who was used were doing, trying to understand, were the
to gather information on his 2016 campaign. Russians infiltrating?” When pressed by
ABC as to why Trump is not supporting the
FBI’s action, Clapper said, “Well, he should
be.”
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Pulls Out Of North
Korean Summit In June – Thanks Regime
For Releasing Hostages
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 8:49 Am
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Trump Praises Agents Speaking Out
Against ‘Terrible And Corrupt’ Comey
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:53 AM 05/24/2018
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Watch Live: Deep State On
The Run As Trump Unleashes The Hounds!
Lawmakers Begin Looking Into Intelligence Agencies Spying On Trump Campaign
Infowars.Com –
May 24, 2018
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‘It Certainly Bothers Me’ — Sarah Sanders
Hits Back At Critics Who Accuse Her Of Lying
Justin Caruso - Senior Media Reporter
9:06 AM 05/24/2018
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hit Donald Trump’s school safety proposal which includes ‘hardening’
back at those who accuse her of lying in a new report. schools, strengthening background checks for gun purchases and
mental health program reform but does not include raising the age
from 18 to 21 for gun purchases. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty
In a New York Times article published Wednesday, Images)
Sanders is quoted:
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TRUMP Calls Off North Korean Nuclear Summit —
HOURS AFTER North Korea Blows Up
Its Nuclear Testing Tunnels
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 10:02 Am
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SPYGATE: Trump Says Comey
Was “Terrible And Corrupt”; “Inflicted Great Pain”
“I’ve Done A Great Service For This Country By
Getting Rid Of Him, By Firing Him.”
Steve Watson | Infowars.Com
May 24, 2018
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“Spying on a campaign would be illegal,
and a scandal to boot!” he added.
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The Deep State
Gives Everyone ‘The Clapper’
Derek Hunter - Contributor
10:48 AM 05/24/2018
The idea that the FBI needed to spy on the On his book tour, The Clap is saying he believes the
Trump campaign in order to save it is like Russians not only tried to interfere with the election, but
Nicolas Cage in “National Treasure,” they actually flipped it and won it for Trump. Hillary
where he had to steal the Declaration of Clinton’s campaign spent nearly a billion and a half
Independence in order to save it from being dollars, more than 2 to 1 what Trump spent, and still lost.
stolen by a really bad guy. Unlike “National Was it because of the several thousands of dollars alleged
Treasure,” where Cage tried to warn the Russian agents spends on ridiculous Facebook memes, or
National Archives of the gathering threat, was it because she was an awful candidate the public had
Clappy and his fellow travelers didn’t gotten to know over 30 years and decided they wanted no
bother to inform anyone in the Trump part of? We answer that question on today’s show.
campaign that the Russians, allegedly,
were trying to infiltrate them. Why? If you’re
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is attempting to block the Listen to find out why.
trial of Concord Management and Consulting, one of the
companies charged by him as members of the conspiracy
to influence the election. By law, they are entitled to a
speedy trial. But Mueller is trying to deny them that
because he never expected any of the 13 defendants he
charged to actually want a trial, he expected them to hide
in Russia. But Concord called his bluff, and now Mueller
is in panic mode, saying he needs more time than the
legally required 70 days after filing charges. Either he has
the goods or he doesn’t, either the indictments were
legitimate and backed up by evidence, or they were for
show so his office could claim an accomplishment and
advance a narrative. What is Mueller afraid of? We
discuss.
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Rep. Louie Gohmert: The Fed Did All It Could To Help
Obama – Now Doing All It Can To Hurt Trump (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 10:58 Am
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On Thursday Rep. Louie Gohmert called
out the Federal Reserve for punishing
Trump and stifling the Trump economy.
Rep. Gohmert: The Fed loved the Obama administration,
loved Obama, they kept the rates just so low and lower
than that was appropriate for one reason, to keep Obama
from looking like the worst president in history. Trump
comes in, the economy turns around because of the things
that he’s doing and so what does the Fed do as Obama’s
best friend and not being a friend of Trump? They
immediately start raising rates as things start going well.
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POTUS Trump Takes A Blowtorch To Corrupt Liars
Comey And Clapper AGAIN Over #Spygate
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 11:21 Am
Comey is also sweating bullets. He lashed out at Trump Trump is correct. Large amounts of
from his Twitter account Wednesday and defended money were spent on Obama’s and
Obama’s Deep State spy campaign. Hillary’s Spygate.
The informant, Stefan Halper, was paid a
Trump slammed the liars in a pair of
total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for
tweets Thursday morning.
work with the US government that
included spying on the Trump
Trump tweeted: campaign.
It was a lucrative business for Stefan
Clapper has now admitted that there was
Halper.
Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were
paid to the Spy, far beyond normal. Starting
to look like one of the biggest political
.
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CNN’s Brian Stelter’s Hypocrisy
On Trump Spying
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:30 AM 05/24/2018
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Trump Jogs Over To Law
Enforcement, Shakes Officers’ Hands
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
11:37 AM 05/24/2018
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WATCH:
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Judge Napolitano: Both Democrats And Republicans Will
Spin Intel Findings To Their Advantage [VIDEO]
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
11:58 AM 05/24/2018
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Deep State Spy And Trump-Basher Stefan Halper Openly
Advocated For Hillary In 2016 While Spying On Trump
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 12:10 Pm
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Polling Proves That The Longer Michael Avenatti
Speaks, The More Popular Trump Gets
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
12:29 PM 05/24/2018
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Former WH Spox: Obama Knew About #Spygate – No FBI
Director Would Put Spies Inside Of A Campaign Without
President’s AUTHORIZATION
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 12:46 Pm
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DEVELOPING: Nunes Meets With Rosenstein,
Wray And Gang Of 8 To Discuss #Spygate
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 1:31 Pm
The two GOP leaders will meet with FBI Director Chris
Wray, National Intelligence Dan Coats and Principal
Associate Deputy Attorney General Edward O’Callaghan.
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Buzzfeed White House reporter, Emma
Loop caught Rod Rosenstein heading
into the briefing:
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Editor’s note: Gowdy only attended the first meeting with
the DOJ; he did not attend the second meeting with the
gang of 8.
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Pompeo Trashes Dem Senator
For Asking About Trump’s Tax Returns
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
3:24 PM 05/24/2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went off on Democratic “Given that the president refuses to
New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall on Thursday over what he disclose his tax returns, how can you
deemed to be an “outrageous” question about President assure the American people that American
Trump’s tax returns. foreign policy is free of his personal
conflicts of interest?” Udall asked.
WATCH: “Senator, I find that question bizarre,”
Pompeo responded.
“You don’t want to answer it then?” Udall
pressed. “You want to describe it as bizarre
and not give me an answer?”
“Yes I do,” Pompeo said angrily. “I think
that’s indicative of my answer, Senator. I’ve
been incredibly involved in this
administration’s policy now for some 16
months and I’ve seen literally no evidence
of what you are scurrilously suggesting.”
“It is an outrageous suggestion,” Pompeo
added.
Pompeo appeared in front of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee when Sen. Udall suggested Trump could have Udall argued that “many people” have raised questions
conflicts of interest between American foreign policy and about Trump’s business interests abroad and Pompeo shot
his own business dealings. back that such people are only doing so because they are
politically opposed to the president.
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Adam Schiff Releases Absurd Statement After Gang Of 8
Meeting With Nunes To Discuss #Spygate
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 3:47 Pm
At noon EST, Nunes and Gowdy met with DOJ and FBI
officials as well as Intel Chief Dan Coats.
Chairman Nunes then headed to a second meeting with the Schiff then claimed he has seen no
gang of 8 which began at 2 PM; Gowdy did not attend. evidence a spy was planted inside of
Trump’s camp.
The list of Democrat hacks in attendance Thursday
included: Minority ranking member of the House Intel Pergram tweeted: Schiff:
Committee, Adam Schiff, House Minority Leader, Nancy
Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer and vice Today’s Gang of 8 briefing was conducted
Chairman of the Senate Intel Committee, Mark Warner. to ensure protection of sources and
methods..Nothing we heard today has
changed our view that there is no evidence
to support any allegation that the FBI or
any intelligence agency placed a spy in the
Trump campaign
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Chad Pergram also reported it is “very Here is Shiff’s remarks to reporters after
murky” as to what was discussed in the Gang of 8 meeting today.
Thursday’s Gang of 8 and DOJ
meetings. Will there be leaks? It is
unclear whether lawmakers were briefed
on matters or were actually presented
with documents and or evidence.
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Former Trump Aide Opens Legal Fund
To Others Ensnared In Russia Probe
Chuck Ross - Reporter
3:47 PM 05/24/2018
“We’re looking for people who can’t afford Their main message will be that if Democrats gain control
their legal fees because we think that is in of Congress in November, they expect immediate
keeping with the wishes of the people who impeachment proceedings against Trump. Democrats such
donated in the first place,” Caputo, a as California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member on
Buffalo, N.Y., native who served on the House Intelligence Committee, have already signaled
President Donald Trump’s campaign until
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they plan to expand the Russia investigation if they take “I couldn’t afford the legal fees. Now that
control of Congress. people have got my back I’m able to go out
and speak freely because I don’t care if
Besides helping Trump associates avoid legal debt, Caputo they call me back in. I don’t care,” Caputo
said he hopes his legal fund will help witnesses come told TheDCNF.
forward to talk more openly about the Russia
investigations. The fund is controlled by three trustees, Caputo said and
that he is only able to access funds for his own legal fight.
Witnesses have been afraid of speaking out for fear of
being called back to testify before Congress or to meet the Caputo also revealed on Wednesday that he will offer
special prosecutor, he said. Each appearance can easily financial support to any FBI agents willing to speak to the
generate thousands of dollars in lawyers’ fees. Justice Department’s inspector general, which is
investigating the bureau’s handling of the Russia
The usually outspoken Caputo is a prime example of that investigation.
reticence to discuss his interactions with investigators,
especially those on the special counsel’s team. “We’ll pay their legal fees. If they go to
the inspector general, reveal
After his interview with Mueller’s prosecutors earlier this what happened, we’ll pay their legal fees,”
month, he was uncharacteristically reserved in his Caputo said on Fox News’ “Tucker
comments about what was discussed in his three-hour Carlson Tonight.”
meeting. He praised prosecutors for their professionalism
and issued vague warnings about the seriousness of the Caputo was responding to a report in The Daily Caller that
probe. He withheld his true thoughts about the lack of FBI agents are hoping for subpoenas from the inspector
evidence of collusion; that is, until he raised enough general in order to share what they know about how top
money to pay his attorney, a former Justice Department FBI officials handled the investigation.
prosecutor.
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Mueller Tries To Weasel Out Of Trying Russian
Companies And Russian TV Laughs At His Attempt To
Delay The Case Indefinitely
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
May 24, 2018
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time the alleged misconduct occurred," as "Another way to measure the quantity of
reported by Reuters. information is that Mueller’s social media
content could fill nearly 1,500 CD-ROMS."
The next hearing date was set for May 16th. During that
hearing Politico reported that Judge Friedrich scheduled the next hearing for June 15th.
Via Politico:
MUELLER TRIES TO WEASEL OUT OF TAKING
The fireworks at Wednesday’s hearing RUSSIAN COMPANIES TO COURT
came after one of those defense lawyers,
Eric Dubelier, complained to Friedrich that
Which brings us to the most recent attempt by Robert
the government hadn’t responded to or
Mueller to weasel out of having to actually argue the case
even acknowledged more than 70
in court, when he has filed yet another motion to delay the
discovery requests he made last month.
case indefinitely, asking the Judge to ignore the Speedy
Instead, prosecutors have offered a
Trial Act, in the name of "justice." Mueller claims the
massive quantity of social media data from
"complexity" of the case justifies excluding the speedy
accounts that were allegedly set up under
trial law.
fake identities for the purpose of influencing
American politics.
Via Daily Caller:
“We had a very brief call on Friday initiated
by the government,” Dubelier said. He said The “complexity” of the case warrants
prosecutors told him much of the excluding the speedy trial law and delaying
information was in Russian, but they had the trial, Mueller argued in Tuesday’s court
no translations. “I said, ‘How do you know filing.
what’s in it?’”
A “district court can, on its own motion or at
“I anticipate we are going to get this the request of a party, grant an excludable
massive dump of social media accounts in continuance if ‘the ends of justice served
Russian. This is an American court,” the by taking such action outweigh the best
defense attorney added. “That’s not what interest of the public and the defendant in a
we’ve asked for. What I’d like to get is speedy trial,'” Mueller wrote.
information that actually helps us defend
our client.” “This case also warrants a continuance and
exclusion of time to accommodate the
Prosecutor Jeannie Rhee disputed that voluminous discovery at issue and to allow
prosecutors were being recalcitrant. sufficient time for the Court to resolve
certain outstanding procedural issues
“We’ll get to what they asked for. … It is not unique to discovery in this case,” he
a ‘data dump,’ Your Honor,” Rhee said. continued.
She said the social media accounts in
Attorney Jonathan Turley, professor of law at the George
question were a key part of the effort to
interfere in the 2016 election. Washington University Law School, points out that
Mueller does not want to produce the discovery the
defense has demanded, as is their right under the law, so he
is attempting to delay the case, saying
The Daily Caller provides context of how much data Rhee
is attempting to flood the court with,
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"Thus far the defense is doing an excellent delay, why they would think the judge would grant this
job in setting Mueller’s team back on its one, but it is clear to the legal experts quoted above, that
heels." while Robert Mueller took a victory lap in February for
finally offering up indictments that had any relation to his
He continues on his website: original mandate of Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election, now that they are actually being
"As a general rule, the desire of the forced to argue the case in court, against defendants that
defense for a speedy trial should carry the are prepared to fight back, he is attempting to weasel out
day. The prosecutors control when to issue of it.
an indictment. That triggers the Act and the
clock ticking. The danger for Mueller is that, This gives Mueller's team the appearance of incompetence,
if he is unwilling to show the evidence or go and coming on the heels of being very publicly criticized
to trial, he could face the embarrassing by another Judge in the Paul Manafort case, accused by the
prospect of pulling the indictment. judge of lying, and not caring about Manafort, but really
Conversely, if he is not ready, his matinee only caring "about what information Mr. Manafort can
case could prove a flop in whole or in part give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or
with acquittals or hung juries." whatever," shows that while Mueller has had free reign in
his investigations, the courts are not prepared to let him
Andrew C. McCarthy is far more critical in a statement to walk all over them.
the Daily Caller, saying
To show Russia's response to having called Mueller's bluff
"Speedy trial rights belong to the by forcing him to argue in court with the defendants being
defendant, and if the defendant pushes for represented, here is a RT interview where they are literally
a trial within the 70 days, the government laughing at Mueller's latest attempt to desperately get out
has little cause to complain. If the case was of having to hand over discovery and argue the case in a
too complex, the government had the court of law.
option of holding off on seeking an
indictment until it was ready to proceed to
trial. When a prosecutor files an indictment,
it is tantamount to saying, ‘We are ready to
go.'”
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Grassley Defends Whistleblower Law,
But FBI Agents Want Assurances That Legal Fees
Are Covered If Dept. Retaliates
Kerry Picket - Reporter
4:05 PM 05/24/2018
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley The Iowa Republican added,
disputed claims Thursday that a congressional subpoena
would be necessary in certain cases for a government
employee to give lawmakers testimony about wrongdoing “FBI agents and all federal law
while being ensured appropriate legal protections from enforcement are protected for providing
their agency. information to Congress. That’s true
whether it is by a subpoena or not. If
that is news to you, I encourage you to
“I want to clear up a few things. I have research the law yourself. It is found at
been seeing reports that individuals within title 5, United States Code, section
our federal law enforcement agencies want 2303.”
to talk to Congress about problems they
have seen on the job. But, the reports say
these individuals want to be subpoenaed Chairman Grassley made no mention in his remarks,
by congressional committees, rather than however, about the issue about attorneys’ fees that official
coming forward voluntarily,” Chairman government whistleblowers must pay. The Daily Caller
Grassley said in a floor speech. contacted Sen. Grassley’s office about the issue related to
legal fees government workers, who step forward to reveal
wrongdoing, must pay and is waiting on a response.
He went on to say,
Sources explained that a subpoena can serve as financial
“There is a perception that without a protection for the agents, should their agency attempt to
subpoena, they have no legal protection retaliate against them and the agents require legal
against retaliation for cooperating with representation in court to defend themselves.
Congress. That is nonsense and a
misperception that has been fomented by
FBI and DOJ leadership for many years.” “It would force whatever agency the
[government worker] is from to pay for
attorney’s fees should they retaliate,” one
The Daily Caller first reported late Tuesday night that FBI congressional source said noting the
agents would be willing to testify before lawmakers on employee was called in before Congress in
Capitol Hill about the problems plaguing the bureau if they the line of duty.
receive a subpoena, arguing that Congress would have to
pay their legal fees if they are mandated to reveal what
they know.
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Hyperbolic Jiggery-Pokery: Lemon Warns
Trump Has Caused 'An Extreme Crisis' In America
By Curtis Houck
May 24, 2018 4:10 PM EDT
For some time, it’s been evident that much of the liberal Relying heavily on the incredibly dishonest-yet-heralded
media have come down with cases of Trump Derangement James Clapper to refute the President, Lemon cautioned
Syndrome. One sign that it’s grown is when someone his masses with rhetoric that could have sent people to
starts throwing out words like “crisis,” “impeachment,” their doomsday shelters (click “expand” to read more):
“constitutional crisis,” and “conspiracy theory” to either
describe our discourse or something the President or his This is not just an angry President popping
supporters may have said. off, this is a deliberate and coordinated
effort to save his presidency, to cast doubt
Wednesday’s CNN Tonight showcased how host Don on the Russian investigation by repeating a
Lemon has been grappling with it. Suffice to say, it’s not lie. Repeating it every chance he gets and
going well as he informed viewers that that repetition is a key part of the strategy
here because if you hear him say the same
“[o]ur country is in the middle of an thing over and over and over, it gets into
extreme crisis, a crisis that threatens your head. You may even start to wonder if
our foundation, a crises that threatens there's some truth to it and that's exactly
the values we all hold — hold dear, a what the President and his allies want, to
crisis created to blind us to the truth” put that question in the back of your mind.
caused by Trump. It is a strategy he's used since he first
stormed into the national political stage
with his utterly false and racist birther
claims that President Barack Obama was
not born in this country.
LEMON: It's not true. It's a lie. James Clapper, the former
Director of National Intelligence did not — did not in any way
admit to the false charges, spies in the Trump campaign. In fact,
he said the opposite. I want you to listen to what he told Jake
Tapper today.
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Arizona Senator Jeff Flake. In his Harvard Law School [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Don’s Take; The Truth Is Under Daily
commencement address today here is what he said. This is a Assault from the President and That Is a Crisis]
quote, “Our presidency has been debased by a figure who has a
seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division and Very strong words, but this is not just about talk, this is about
only a passing familiarity with how the Constitution works. I do facts. Facts do matter, the truth matters, and the truth is under
not think that the Founders could have anticipated that the daily assault from the President of the United States and that is a
beauty of their invention might someday founder on the rocks of crisis and that is the truth.
reality television and that the Congress would be such willing
accomplices to this calamity.”
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MORE DEEP STATE LIES! Lawmakers Nunes And
Gowdy DID NOT RECEIVE Unredacted Documents They
Sought From DOJ-FBI Today
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 4:13 Pm
House Intelligence Chairman Devin The second meeting was with the Gang of 8 bipartisan
Nunes and Oversight Chairman Trey leaders and the FBI and DOJ.
Gowdy headed into a meeting at 2 PM
EST with senior Justice Department, FBI According to Sarah Westwood, the CNN
and intelligence officials on Thursday to White House reporter, Representatives
view classified documents and discuss Nunes and Gowdy were not given the
Spygate. documents they were promised.
Devin Nunes was spotted earlier today
entering the meeting at the Department
of Justice.
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BREAKING: FBI Spy Stefan Halper And
Aussie Diplomat Alexander Downer Go Way Back
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 5:14 Pm
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Tom Fitton: “You Can Bet” Obama Knew
About FBI “Informant” Spying On Donald Trump
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 5:50 Pm
Judicial Watch founder and president Tom Fitton went on FBN reporter David Asman: Could the
FOX Business Network Thursday afternoon to discuss the FBI have implanted this person within a
Deep State spying on the Trump campaign and Transition presidential campaign without some kind of
Team. approval or at least knowledge by a sitting
president which was Obama?
Tom Fitton told FBN that Barack Obama knew about the Tom Fitton: The president was briefed on
“informants” (spies) inside the Trump campaign. And their the dossier. You can bet he was briefed on
justification is we did it by the book. We did it by the this operation against the campaign,
rules. And nobody buys this. especially given its sensitive nature. And
President Obama should disclose what he
knew about that.
Earlier today former White House
spokesman Ari Fleitcher said the same
thing – that Obama knew about the
spying on Trump.
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Once-Curious Media That Exposed
Watergate Now Playing Role Of Co-Conspirator In
Covering Up Obama Spying On Trump
By JD Heyes
05/24/2018
It’s not the only time the media has either lied about the
president or been in collusion with the Deep State to fool
the American people and help bring down a duly-elected
president, simply because they don’t like him.
It’s also worth noting that Comey knew the dossier was
bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign — that it was
opposition research — which the media also knew. But no
one reported that.
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the Trump campaign (ergo, spying, surveillance) many in But yet, for more than a year the Pravda media has pushed
the Pravda media began to backtrack and call the president the story, in one form or another, that Russia did just that
out (accused him of lying). — affected the outcome of the election against Hillary and
for Trump.
Then-White House spokesman Sean Spicer pointed out to
the media that they were the first to report it. For months after the 2016 election the story was pushed
daily — and by all the Pravda media outlets — though
The media even went so far as to report that Comey called always without evidence and frequently based on fake
Trump “crazy” for making the claim that he’d been information spoon-fed them by Obama Deep State
‘wiretapped’ by Obama. The New York Times reported: holdovers and operatives.
After President Trump accused his There’s never been any evidence to prove that Russia
predecessor in March of wiretapping him, “hacked” the election. There never was, because, as the
James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, was 44th president so vehemently stated, it’s simply impossible
flabbergasted. The president, Mr. Comey (though Hillary still believes it).
told associates, was “outside the realm of
normal,” even “crazy.” But you’d be hard-pressed not to find dyed-in-the-wool
Democratic voters to this day who won’t swear to you that
What a narrative. Remember that the Times was the paper it did happen, thanks to the big lie spread by the Pravda
that reported the “wiretapping” in the first place — and media.
even used that term in a headline in print editions.
The big spy lie
And of course, after all these months, we now know for
sure that Trump was right all along and that Comey, In recent days it has become clear that corrupt Democrats
Clapper, John Brennan, et. al. and the Pravda media lied and their equally corrupt Pravda media are changing their
about it every step of the way. stories and narratives so fast it’s like they’ve set a new
record for lying.
Obama: ‘No way’ Russians could hack/steal the election
Last week The New York Times and The Washington Post
In a snarky October 2016 press conference, Obama was published leaked information detailing how Trump’s
asked about Trump’s comments that an outsized number of campaign was not only under surveillance but that it had
illegal voters could shift the balance in Clinton’s favor in also been infiltrated by spies.
states like Florida, where there is a heavy immigrant
population. Naturally, the stories garnered much attention, and from
the president as well, as one can imagine.
Not only did Obama criticize Trump over those remarks,
he went on to claim that no election rigging was possible So incensed was Trump that he summoned Deputy
at all because of the vastly decentralized nature of the Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director
American electoral process. Christopher Wray to the White House on Monday and
ordered them to conduct an investigation into the extent of
That means if illegal aliens could not affect an outcome, the spying and the reason why the counterintelligence
neither could a few hundred Russian trolls. Or a few operation was begun in the first place (since, according to
thousand. Or Russia’s entire counterintelligence service. the head of the House Intelligence Committee, there was
no intelligence evidence whatsoever upon which to
launch a probe).
But some of the same media that had just reported all the
details about the spying operation then backtracked,
claiming that, no, there were no “spies” only “informants.”
As though the entire operation was legitimate in the first
place, which of course is false.
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And that’s precisely the term the Democrats and their that Team Trump was doing something
Pravda media would be using if, say, George W. Bush had nefarious with Russia.
devised a bogus “counterintelligence” operation for the
There is no evidence to support that claim
express purpose of keeping tabs on a rival (Obama)
because there was never any
campaign.
collusion. The entire investigation was part
of a scheme to keep Trump out of the
As The National Sentinel reported: White House or undermine him so badly if
he won he could be driven from office.
What’s even more grotesque about the
Times’ piece is it attempts to convince us The Pravda media has been in on these various Obama-era
that the underlying counterintelligence scandals involving Team Trump from the outside. What’s
investigation was some real thing — as sad — and dangerous — is that a large plurality of the
though there really was legitimate evidence country will never believe, or be convinced, that they’ve
been lied to.
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JUST IN=> North Korean Regime Still Open To Talks –
Willing To Talk To US “Anytime”
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 6:04 Pm
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PULLED This also comes HOURS AFTER North
OUT OF PLANNED JUNE 12TH SUMMIT Korea blew up its nuclear testing
WITH NORTH KOREA IN SINGAPORE tunnels.
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Trump, Sylvester Stallone Spar
At The White House
Benny Johnson - Reporter At Large
6:41 PM 05/24/2018
President Donald Trump sparred with longtime friend “Well, no pressure here, right?” Stallone
Sylvester Stallone at the White House Thursday. joked, to laughter.
Trump said,
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a fictional character like Rocky, and do
something in the world of reality.”
Stallone joked,
Trump said,
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SARA CARTER: FBI Agent At Mike Flynn Interrogation
Ready To Testify In Defense Of Flynn
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 6:49 Pm
Investigative reporter, Sara Carter says Pientka, if issued a Sara Carter says Special Agent Joe Pientka is ready to
subpoena, testify if issued a subpoena.
will discuss how forthcoming Flynn was Pientka is ready to discuss a very
about very specific sensitive information specific piece of sensitive information
that Flynn could not have possibly known Flynn provided during the interrogation
the investigators already knew, which may that will further prove Flynn is being
give additional insight into Flynn’s veracity truthful.
and willingness to tell the truth.
Sara Carter reported:
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough
Again Slams Opponents As ‘Too Stupid'
By Randy Hall
May 24, 2018 7:06 PM EDT
Put simply, MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe from the FBI 10 days beforehand that was
Scarborough has a very nasty habit. When someone absolutely devastating to her campaign.
disagrees with him, he often resorts to hammering that
person as being either “too stupid” or “too incompetent” to Everything the FBI did in the home stretch was to Donald
be taken seriously. Trump’s benefit and Hillary Clinton’s detriment.
That pattern of behavior continued on Wednesday, when “Now, for somebody not to understand that
the former Republican stated that -- I mean, seriously -- suggests only one
thing,” he told co-anchor Willie Geist, “and
“you’re too stupid to handle household that is they are either intentionally lying or
appliances” that you’re too stupid to handle
household appliances. I’ll leave it to you,
if you believe there was a conspiracy by the Justice Willie, to decide which it is.”
Department, the FBI and the administration of former “I can’t believe it’s the appliance part,”
President Barack Obama to rig the 2016 presidential Geist responded. “Toasters aren’t that
election. hard, so it has to be the willful thing.”
“I mean, these are the same people who
celebrated James Comey coming out with
that letter” stating Hillary Clinton was being
investigated over use of a private email
server while doing work for the federal
government, the co-anchor said.
“Remember, James Comey was the
boogeyman for the Clinton campaign and
the reason a lot of people around her and
supported her think she lost, and now that
narrative has been flipped on a total 180 by
the Trump White House.”
Scarborough laughed while making the accusation that the The Morning Joe staff was responding to a series of
concept of planting spies in Donald Trump’s campaign is Twitter posts made by President Trump earlier that day,
“absolutely ludicrous.” one of which read:
“If that were the case,” he noted, “and they “Look how things have turned around on
were all characters out of Mike Judge’s the Criminal Deep State.”
Idiocracy” -- a science-fiction comedy “They go after Phony Collusion with
about two people who hibernate for 500 Russia, a made up Scam, and end up
years and awake in a dystopian society -- getting caught in a major SPY scandal the
they “probably water their grass with likes of which this country may never have
Gatorade.” seen before!” the Republican official added
before noting: “What goes around, comes
The MSNBC co-host continued: around!”
[A]fter all, the investigation into Donald However, Trump is not the only GOP president
Trump’s possible contact with Russia was Scarborough has criticized. In August of 2006, the MSNBC
kept quiet while Hillary Clinton got a letter
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host called George W. Bush an “idiot” and went so far as At the end of that month, Scarborough asserted that only
to claim the Republican occupant of the White House “very, very stupid” people questioned the validity of
Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into
“is in a league by himself. I don't think he whether Trump colluded with the Russians during the
has the intellectual depth as ... other 2016 presidential campaign.
people."
“Anybody that writes an op-ed and
As NewsBusters previously reported, Scarborough lashed suggests that Donald Trump has not put
out at critics in June of 2010 for his coverage of a political himself directly in the target of an
angle regarding the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. obstruction charge is just fooling
themselves and some very, very stupid,
ill-informed readers,” he charged.
Referring specifically to Twitter users, the
MSNBC anchor called them “stupid” and
“dumb,” and instructed them to “shut up.” In mid-April, Scarborough argued that anyone who
subscribes to the idea that former FBI Director James
“The people on Twitter who are whining Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe
about us covering a very important part of have an animus against President Trump should not handle
this story are whiners and beyond that,
they’re just stupid,” he fumed.
“anything sharp because you will hurt
yourself because you are too
Things hadn’t improved by early January, incompetent actually to use any basic
household appliances.”
when Scarborough called Trump a
“bumpkin” and “some stupid old Whether the MSNBC host considers you to be
blubbery man” whom his staff treats “like
he’s just a fool,” making him “the weakest
leader on the planet.” “too stupid” or “too incompetent,” that’s
a badge of honor he only reserves for
“Well, you really can’t trust anything coming those who don’t agree with him while
out of Donald Trump’s mouth,” the MSNBC resorting to name-calling as his last line of
host said at the time. defense.
.
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Clapper Said Spying On Trump A “Good Thing”…
Now #Fakenews Media Says Clapper “Has
Not Admitted FBI Was Spying”
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 7:48 Pm
James Clapper also told Joy Behar on The View that the
FBI was spying on the Trump campaign.
Russians posed a threat to the very basis Of course this is a complete lie — as the
of our political system.” above video clearly shows.
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Intel expert Tony Shaffer took Maggie to The liberal mainstream media is so far
the woodshed. gone that they are now trying to refute a
man’s own words on video!
They are worse than Pravda.
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President Trump: How Will James Comey Explain ‘All Of
The Lies’ To His Grandchildren? (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 8:22 Pm
PRESIDENT TRUMP:
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SHUT IT DOWN=> Mueller Investigating Roger Stone’s
Finances – Including His Tax Returns
By Cristina Laila
May 24, 2018, 8:51 Pm
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Capitol Police Accidentally Gave Evidence
To House Hacking Suspect’s Defense Attorney
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
9:06 PM 05/24/201
The House IG said Democratic IT aides made copies,” the source, who’s familiar with The
unauthorized access to data, but prosecutors Awans, told TheDCNF.
haven’t charged them
Awan, three relatives and a friend ran IT for one in five
Democrats appear to want to keep the case out of House Democrats and could read all their emails and files
court; a trial could expose their reckless IT until they were banned on Feb. 2, 2017, for
practices “numerous violations of House security policies.” The
violations alleged by the House Office of Inspector
Capitol Police didn’t make arrests despite General include logging into the House Democratic
numerous red flags and then ‘inadvertently’ gave Caucus server thousands of times without authorization.
evidence to defense attorneys that was supposed This allegedly occurred during the same period in 2016 the
to go to prosecutors DNC was hacked.
Democrats, meanwhile, have publicly underscored the Numerous fellow IT aides in the House who say they have
importance of cybersecurity, expressing outrage at what knowledge of misconduct involving Awan — and in some
they say is President Donald Trump’s involvement with cases, his relationship with members — have expressed to
the 2016 hack on the DNC. TheDCNF reluctance to come forward, citing similar fears.
They said they perceive that prosecutors will not pursue
Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, have been charged with the leads vigorously and that the Awans and Democrats
bank fraud for gathering $300,000 and wiring it to will learn about their allegations and become angered.
Pakistan. Prosecutors said
“I’d do it if the right thing would happen,”
“based on the suspicious timing of that one said. “But it’s going to be all risk, no
transaction, Awan and Alvi likely knew they reward … If they actually wanted to pursue
were under investigation at” the time they this case, they would have approached
made that transfer. me.”
It could be an offense punishable by jail time for Awan if The director of investigations for conservative watchdog
he sought help from members. Any former senior group Judicial Watch, Chris Farrell, said the disclosures
congressional staffer, who “within 1 year after the are
termination of that employment,” communicates with his
former office to “seek[] action by a Member, officer, or “disgraceful and amateurish. What were
employee” can be jailed for a year. Awan and his brothers the consequences for this misconduct?
were among the highest-paid in Congress. Who was disciplined or fired?”
Gowen said the evidence inadvertently disclosed to his Capitol Police’s role appears to be “to bury, constrain and
office was a copy of a laptop Awan’s former tenant, Laurel minimize the Awan case” and points to the need for “a
Everly, turned in to the Capitol Police in hopes of seeing legitimate, full investigation by a competent law
whether Awan had hacked her. enforcement agency,” he continued.
Everly previously complained of her landlord’s allegedly The House’s Inspector General — an internationally
suspicious behavior and called him an “extortionist.” renowned cybersecurity expert — found that the Awans
made “unauthorized access” to House servers, were taking
“I was told there was nothing on it and was data off the House network and were covering their tracks.
a giant waste of time, and the laptop was
returned,” Gowen told TheDCNF. But the investigation now is under the purview of
prosecutors, the FBI and Capitol Police.
On Oct. 6, 2017, prosecutors wrote: “During the course of
this voluminous discovery, the Government might More than a year later, no one has been charged with
inadvertently produce material that is not subject to the anything in the IG reports.
Government’s discovery obligations or that was not
intended to be produced in a particular form. In such “The only reason you’re not seeing charges
circumstances, the Government requests that the Proposed is because the Democrats who employed
him are not cooperating,” a senior
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Republican congressional official with “shocking lack of IT and hardware security
direct knowledge of the probe told on Capitol Hill,”
TheDCNF.
while another lawyer for Imran alleged that congressmen
Farrell said wanted the Awans to falsify financial documents.
“This matter is too serious to be left to Gowen said prosecutors have repeatedly asked Imran’s
political operatives.” legal team to respond to TheDCNF’s reporting, according
to a May 4 Fox News article.
Prosecutors have said they have turned over “voluminous
discovery” to Awan and his lawyers. A court filing shows “We are trying to be as helpful as possible
that documents turned over include a copy of the hard to law enforcement to provide them any
drive of a government laptop with the username RepDWS information or access they need,” Gowen
— placing the contents of a government computer in told Fox.
Awan’s hands even though he was banned from the House
computer network as a security risk. After House officials flagged allegedly fraudulent financial
records and unauthorized server access, law enforcement
It is unclear why prosecutors would give over evidence in began monitoring the Awans in late 2016. During that
the House matter because Awan and Alvi have not been period, the following occurred, all without triggering
charged with any wrongdoing in the cyber probe. arrests or searches of their homes:
Defendants are entitled to evidence to defend themselves
against specific charges in court. A server containing evidence allegedly disappeared;
Awan and his wife both left the country without
Capitol Police declined to execute search warrants on the apprehension — his wife with $12,000 in cash and
Awans’ homes when the chief administrative officer after refusing to speak to FBI agents at the gate;
notified the Committee on House Administration in Awan left a congressional laptop with the
December 2016 that the House Democratic Caucus server username RepDWS in a phone booth two months after
— at the time a key piece of evidence in the cybersecurity he was banned from the House computer network,
probe — had disappeared. according to a Capitol Police report; and
The Awans’ stepmother called the police on the
Police told Capitol Hill staff in June 2017 that they had no Awans and said in court documents that Imran had
plans to conduct any more interviews – even though wiretapped her and was trying to use her to gain
many of Awan’s colleagues in House IT told TheDCNF access to money overseas.
that they believed they had knowledge of wrongdoing but
were never approached. Despite that, Administration Awan wasn’t arrested until July 2017 and was charged
Chairman Gregg Harper continued to defer to prosecutors, only with the alleged bank fraud, which occurred six
telling TheDCNF in April 2018 that “this is still in months prior.
the hands of the Department of Justice.”
Farrell said the repeated delays in the case indicate that
Republicans on Capitol Hill said, despite Democrats prosecutors may be looking to make it go away as quietly
publicly saying they abhor cyberbreaches such as the DNC as possible — even if it means accepting a plea deal to far
hack, prosecutors may be bowing to Democrats’ wishes to more minor or even unrelated crimes — in order to keep
avoid a trial at which members of Congress would be the case out of public court where Democratic
forced to testify about their relationship with the Awans congressmen might have to testify.
and the IG’s allegation many failed to take cybersecurity
seriously in their own offices. Kendra Arnold, a lawyer with the Foundation for
Accountability & Civic Trust, said:
An attorney for Imran’s brother, Abid Awan, previously
said there was a
“If he was Joe Smith from Idaho this is not
how the prosecution would be proceeding.”
.
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ABC Downplays North Korea’s Role
In Sabotaging The Nuke Summit With U.S.
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 24, 2018 9:39 PM EDT
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“blowing up a nuclear test site in the and effort." But he wrote, due to North Korea's "Tremendous
presence of western journalists.” anger and open hostility," "I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to
have this long-planned meeting." He also issued a dark warning -
But many experts suggested the gesture was hollow - "You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so
because the facility might have been too damaged to be massive and powerful that I pray to god they will never have to
used after their most recent nuclear test, which they be used."
claimed was a hydrogen bomb. He also omitted how the
North Koreans had failed to show up to a planning meeting DONALD TRUMP: I've spoken to General Mattis and the Joint
with the U.S. in Singapore with no notice. Chiefs of Staff, and our military, which is by far the most powerful
anywhere in the world, is ready, if necessary.
The ABC report also omitted China’s possible influence in
sinking the summit. Both CBS and NBC noted their KARL: I asked the president if that could mean war. Mr.
possible meddling via pressure on the North. President, does the breakdown of this summit raise the risk of
war with North Korea?
“They feel a break in the relationship
between themselves and North Korea if TRUMP: Well, we’ll see what happens.
this summit goes forward without
Chinese participation,” KARL: The breakdown comes after a mind-boggling thaw in
U.S./North Korean relations, including two meetings between
Adm. James Stavridis (Ret.) told NBC chief foreign affairs Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kim Jong-un. And the
correspondent Andrea Mitchell. release of three American prisoners. The President even relished
talk of a Nobel peace prize.
Back when the prospect of a Trump-Kim summit was in its
infancy, President Trump made it clear that the summit (…)
could be called off at any time if the North acted up in
anyway given their history. But now that Trump had made KARL: But North Korea expressed revulsion at demands by U.S.
good on the promise, many are trying to claim it was a officials that they give up their entire nuclear program before
failure on his part. getting anything in return. President Trump tried to show some
flexibility on that.
The transcript is below:
TRUMP: I don't think I want to totally commit myself. But all in
ABC's World News Tonight one would be a lot better.
May 24, 2018
6:31:47 PM Eastern [3 minutes 35 seconds] KARL: But after Vice President Pence suggested dire
consequences if Kim doesn't give up his nukes, North Korea
TOM LLAMAS: And we begin with those major developments on lashed out, calling pence a, quote, “political dummy.” But in his
North Korea and our new reporting. President Trump calling off letter, President Trump told Kim, quote, "I felt a wonderful
the summit on its nuclear program, citing North Korea's, quote, dialogue was building up between you and me."
“tremendous anger and open hostility.” It came just hours after
North Korea invited journalists to witness what they say was the (…)
planned destruction of their nuclear testing site. These images
just coming in. And on both sides, tough talk. President Trump KARL: Today, North Korea made another overture, blowing up a
reminding North Korea today of America's overwhelming nuclear nuclear test site in the presence of western journalists. And the
might. So tonight, the question of today’s developments, do they president is still holding out hope, writing to Kim, "If you change
increase the risk of war? ABC's Chief White House your mind, please do not hesitate to call me or write." Do you
correspondent Jonathan Karl with the President's answer. expect him to call you, Mr. President? Do you expect him to call
you?
[Curs to video]
[Cuts back to live]
JON KARL: President Trump warned ominously the collapse of
the summit is bad news for the entire world. LLAMAS: Jon Karl joins us from the White House. And Jon, you
were there in the room there when President Trump announced
(…) the June 12 summit was off. But he later told the world not to be
anxious, saying, it might happen on that date after all. Is that still
KARL: The President pulled out in a wistful letter to Kim Jong-un, realistic?
addressing the North Korean dictator as "His Excellency," writing,
"Dear Mr. Chairman. We greatly appreciate your time, patient
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KARL: No, that's not going to happen, Tom. White House officials the President would like to see this summit get back on track at
made that clear after the President spoke. But there is no doubt some point, but it won't be on June 12.
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Congress Must ‘Fight For Its
Rightful Role’ In Overseeing Spy Agencies
Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou Warned That The Deep State Will Always
Resist Transparency Following Bipartisan Congressional Briefing
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 25 May 2018 At 7:14 AM
Congress must “fight for its rightful role in oversight” of Among Russell's major concerns is whether or not the
the intelligence community and demand unredacted lawmakers present at the classified briefings Thursday
documents it is entitled to review, former CIA official were able "to look at the information without redactions."
John Kiriakou said Thursday night on Fox News’ “The
Ingraham Angle.” "We see these problems where they will
redact things, withholding it from
Top Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI officials held Congress," he warned.
classified briefings for both GOP and Democratic
lawmakers Thursday amid escalating tensions regarding
the bureau’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s
2016 presidential campaign. The briefings came after
Trump demanded Sunday that the DOJ investigate whether
the FBI planted a spy within the Trump campaign.
Driscoll said he finds it quite "interesting" that Trump "created a surveillance superstate in this
"could declassify all this stuff himself with the stroke of a country."
pen," but is instead choosing to show "a little bit of "People at the top also think they're beyond
deference to DOJ" amid heightened political tensions. reproach, and they're so confident that
they're right," Ingraham said. "They want to
do what they want to do with impunity."
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Campaign Aide
Apologizes To Papadopoulos For ‘Coffee Boy’ Jab
Chuck Ross - Reporter
9:42 AM 05/25/2018
“Calling George a ‘coffee boy’ on national Papadopoulos’s conversation with Australian diplomat
television was uncalled for and surely hurt Alexander Downer two weeks later is said to have been the
you both even more after our country failed catalyst for the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into
you,” Caputo wrote Friday in an open letter possible coordination between the Trump campaign and
to Papadopoulos and the former Trump Russian government.
campaign aide’s wife, Simona
Mangiante. “I hope history quotes my Mangiante, Papadopoulos’s wife, responded aggressively
heartfelt apology along with those two to Caputo’s remarks, suggesting in some interviews that
harsh words I regret today. I’m sorry for Papadopoulos had information that could undercut the
making this terrible chapter in our nation’s White House.
history even worse for you and your
family.” “He never took any initiative, as far as I
know, [that was] unauthorized. All the
Caputo, who served on President Donald Trump’s initiatives had [the] blessing of the
campaign until June 2016, made the “coffee boy” remark campaign,” Mangiante told ABC News on
in an interview on Oct. 31, just after Papadopoulos pleaded Dec. 8.
guilty to lying to the FBI about his interactions with a
Maltese professor and two Russian nationals. Mangiante said in a Jan. 22 interview:
“He was the coffee boy,” Caputo said in an “I believe history will remember
interview on CNN. “You might have called [Papadopoulos] like John Dean,” a
him a foreign policy analyst, but if he was reference to the Nixon White House
going to wear a wire, all we would have counsel who exposed part of the Watergate
known now is whether he prefers a caramel coverup.
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Sources familiar with Papadopoulos’s private remarks Read Caputo’s letter in full:
have told The Daily Caller News Foundation he has told
people close to him that he was not involved in any Dear George and Simona:
collusion and did not see, handle or disseminate emails
stolen by Russians.
Knowing much more today about how an FBI lied to you,
set you up and abused you, I know I owe you an apology.
Caputo said his assessment of Papadopoulos has changed Calling George a “coffee boy” on national television was
in the wake of revelations that an FBI informant spied on uncalled for and surely hurt you both even more after our
Papadopoulos during the campaign. country failed you.
“Knowing much more today about how an They wanted to stop President Trump at all costs, and
FBI informant lied to you, set you up and you were expendable. That’s sick.
abused you, I know I owe you an apology,”
Caputo wrote in his letter. We all make mistakes, and I guess you made a few. I’ve
made my own, including not waiting to hear the truth
The informant is Stefan Halper, a former Cambridge about what the spy Stefan Halper did to you before I
professor who lured Papadopoulos to London in opened my big mouth and insulted you to all the world.
September 2016 while serving as an informant for the FBI
and CIA. Halper also made contact with two other Trump I hope history quotes my heartfelt apology along with
advisers, Carter Page and Sam Clovis. those two harsh words I regret today. I’m sorry for making
this terrible chapter in our nation’s history even worse for
“We all make mistakes, and I guess you you and your family.
made a few. I’ve made my own, including
not waiting to hear the truth about what the Sincerely,
spy Stefan Halper did to you before I Michael R. Caputo
opened my big mouth and insulted you to East Aurora, NY
all the world,” wrote Caputo, who called the May 25, 2018
entire spy operation “sick.”
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Three FBI Agents Set To Testify:
Including Lead Investigator In Clinton Email Probe Who
Quit In Protest Over Sham Investigation
By Jim Hoft
May 24, 2018, 9:56 Pm
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Giuliani: Trump More Likely To Meet
With Kim Jong Un Than Robert Mueller
Scott Morefield - Reporter
10:14 PM 05/24/2018
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Columnist: ‘The DEMOCRATS
Now Have THEIR Own Watergate!’
Posted On May 25, 2018
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Playing Softball With Clapper
Is All The Rage On TV
By Tim Graham
May 25, 2018 6:40 Am Edt
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Obama Takes Jab At Trump:
“I Did Not Have Scandals As President”
…(Benghazi, IRS Targeting, Spygate, Fast And Furious…)
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 8:06 Am
Obama bragged to an audience that he 1. "I will have the most transparent administration."
“did not have scandals” as president. 2. "I have shovel ready jobs."
3. "The IRS is not targeting anyone."
4. "If four Americans get killed…uh…. it is not optimal."
Newsweek reported: (Benghazi)
5. "ObamaCare will be good for America."
President Barack Obama took a light swing 6. "If you like your doctor, you can keep him, period."
at his successor during a tech conference 7. "Premiums will be lowered by $2500"
in Las Vegas on Wednesday. His eight 8. If you like your health insurance, you can keep it,
years in office were scandal free, he told period.
the audience. 9. "I did not say you could keep your health care."
“I didn’t have scandals, which seems like it (Regardless that 29 recorded videos show I did)
shouldn’t be something you brag about,” 10. "No one making less than $250,000 will see their taxes
Obama joked. raised one dime."
11. "Benghazi was because of a youtubevideo."
President Donald Trump’s presidency has 12. "If I had a son…"
thus far been racked with scandalous 13. "I am not a dictator."
allegations, but Obama later hedged his 14. "I will put an end to the type of politics that “breeds
barb. “But actually,” he said, “if you look at division, conflict and cynicism".
the history of the modern presidency, 15. "You didn't build that."
coming out of the modern presidency 16. "I will restore trust in Government."
without anybody going to jail is really good. 17. "The Cambridge police acted stupidly."
It’s a big deal.” 18. "I am not after your guns."
The reason his presidency was relatively 19. "The fact that we are here today to debate raising
controversy free, he said, was because he America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure."
was accepting of bad news. “No one in my (Senator BO of 2006)
White House ever got in trouble for
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20. "I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it 61. Taking all credit for SEAL Team 6 success
was like Special Olympics." 62. Forcing businesses to violate their abortion religious
21. "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good beliefs with obamacare
for everybody." 63. Obamacare website no-bid contract website-cronyism
22. "The Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At Every Bill that cost $634Mto build (and the website NEVER
That Lands On My Desk" worked),amazon.com cost < $50M to build
23. "It's not my red line it is the worlds red line." 64. Supporting the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists with arms
24. "Whistleblowers will be protected." and money in Syria, on the taxpayer's dime
25. "We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks, 65. NSA acting as Obama Gestapo, spying in ALL
with interest." AMERICAN telephone calls.
26. "I will close Gitmo." (Guantanamo) 66. Proposed amnesty for illegal law breakers
27. "The point I was making was not that Grandmother 67. Spying on Americans, on American soil, with drones
harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't, -- but she is 68. NEVER having a balanced budget
a typical white person." 69. CONSTANTLY contracting economy under Obama
28. "I am not spying on American citizens." 70. The Russians invaded Ukraine, (and obama does
29. Nelson Mandela funeral smart-phone "selfies" NOTHING)
30. Govnt shutdown is allll the GOP's fault 71. 6 million people losing their healthcare thanks to
31. Still on vacation in Hawaii on the first day obamacare is obamacare.
supposed to begin 72. "The United States maintains a 'rock-solid' commitment
32. "ObamaCare will lower costs for everyone." to Israel"
33. "More Americans will be insured under obamacare" 73. Illegal fundraising for obamacare by Katherine Sebelius
34. "Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance….Muslims (solicitation of money from the companies she
are our friends" (then he bows to the muslim leaders) regulates) (and obama does NOTHING)
35. “That’s thegood thing about being President, I can do 74. Katherine Sebelius TOTAL incompetence in rolling out
whatever I want,” obamacare (and obama does NOTHING)
36. "my father served in WW2" 75. ex-IRS official Lerner takes 5th
37. 2011 Arab spring FAIL 76. Failed to fund our Nation’s military
38. America's 2010 Summer of recovery FAIL 77. Higher Spending and No Balanced Budget—EVER
39. Hiring a known palestinian terrorist to work on 78. $1.2 Trillion in Higher Taxes
Obamacare in Illinois. Didn'tbother to check her on e- 79. known obama supporter appointed to investigate IRS
verify targeting scandal
40. “I promise 100% transparency in my administration.” 80. Buying clothes at The Gap: "Oh wow; credit card
41. "Buying health care insurance will be like using machines had electronic signature pads"
Amazon." 81. former Soviet union laughs at Obama's ukraine
42. “I will end Income Tax for seniors making less than sanctions.
$50K a year.” 82. >70% of obamacare signups from people who LOST
43. "I will bring ALL of our troops home within ONE year." their insurance BECAUSE OF obamacare in the first
44. “I’ll put the Health Care negotiations on CSPAN so place!!
everyone can see who is at the table!” 83. In Maryland: Obama celebrates 60,000 obamacare
45. “I’ll have no lobbyists in my administration." signups…. BUT 73,000 lost insurance BECAUSE OF
46. DOJ spying on the free press telephone calls Obamacare!!
47. Blockingveterans from seeing their own WWII 84. Obama did NOTHING to prevent some 150,000 people
memorials during shutdown being killed in Syria, and he and the LIBERALS are
48. Allowing illegals to protest on mall during the same silent on the matter.
govt shutdown 85. On April 6th, 2014 obama gave a speech on the 20th
49. Shutting down white house (people's house)tours anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda lecturing about
50. Solyndra bankruptcy cost to taxpayer's “the world’s failure to respond more quickly” and that
51. "Obamacarewill not be used to fund abortions." “we always have a choice . . . we must never be
52. Eric Holder -- tooooo much to list with this liar- indifferent.”
incompetent 86. Obama demands "equality" but only pays women 88
53. Millions losing health care coverage percent of what it pays men
54. RECORD welfare rolls 87. "We're focused like lasers on job creation!!!"
55. RECORD hollywood parties on the taxpayer's dime 88. "Jobs are our number one priority!!!!"
56. RECORD campaign tours on the taxpayer's dime 89. 6 million full time US workers sustain 149 million
57. RECORD exorbitant vacations on the taxpayer's dime "benefit takers" in the USA under the "obama
58. RECORD number of golf games of any president, on recovery."
taxpayer's dime 90. "Republicans still can’t bring themselves to admit that
59. RECORD secret service agents compared to ANY the Affordable Care Act is working."
other president, on the taxpayer's dime
60. Unconstitutional obama recess appointment
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91. "If Republicans want to spend all their time talking at the hospital shredded documents and faked
about repealing a law that’s working, that’s their evidence to make it seem as if waiting times were
business." under control.
92. 169th round of golf on 4/19/14 while Putin re- 102. New Horizons in Presidential Dignity: President Obama
assembles the USSR and jews are being ordered to does the "Shake Shack Shimmy" during his visit to the
report in the Ukraine. sandwich joint in Washington Friday May 17th 2014.
93. Syria uses chemical weapons crossing obama's "red U6 unemployment rate: 17.8%
line" and Obama is SILENT on the matter. 103. May 17th 2014: Greater than Fifty million working-age
94. 04/21/2014 Obama delays the keystone pipeline for the Americans aren’t working, according to the labor
45th time. department, and Obama pushes immigration plan.
95. China has become the #1 economy with 104. "STINKBURGER"
"ObamaNomics." 105. King Barry's "executive actions"
96. Iran WILL have a nuclear bomb under Obama. 106. Russia signs a contract with Iran to build two more
97. there are 92 million unemployed (may 2014) THAT IS nuclear reactors at its Bushehr power plant as part of a
51% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, including retirees broader deal for up to eight reactors in the Islamic
98. in 2013, under the direction of Barack Obama, The state.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody 36,000 107. New Record: Price of Gas Above $3 Gallon for 1,245
illegal immigrants who had been convicted of murder, Days…
sexual assault, kidnapping, and aggravated assault, 108. Incomprehensible!! 5-30-14 ILLEGAL negotiation with
and drunk or drugged driving. terrorists: 5 gitmo Taliban terrorist leaders ILLEGALLY
99. incompetence at the Veterans Affairs Administration. released for one American ARMY DESERTER: BOWE
Our veterans died…..obama hires a "coverup" BERGDAHL
specialist Rob Nabors to assist in the White House’s 109. Obama negotiates with terrorists to release an army
reputation for deception. deserter because "we can't leave an American
100. Almost every photo of Obama at the White house Behind" but does nothing for the Marine being detained
shows obama with his feet on the historically significant illegally in Mexico, less than 1 mile away.
antique furniture….no respect for its historical
significance
101. >40 veteran patients die after being placed on a hidden
waiting list that could last for up to a year, while officials
.
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Obama Just Lied About His Scandal-Marred Presidency
But Here’s Why He Always Gets Away With It
Posted On May 25, 2018
Mind you, it’s not unusual for Obama to lie like this; he’s
very accomplished at that particular ‘skill.’
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Trump Slaps Dems For
‘Rooting Against’ North Korea Summit
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:37 AM 05/25/2018
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Deep State Bill Priestap Visited London During Same Time
Period As Downer’s Meeting With Papadopoulos
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 8:43 Am
Bill Priestap, the FBI Assistant Director On Thursday The Hill reported that Bill
for Counterintelligence, traveled to Priestap will testify in June in front of
London in May 2016. Congress.
This was around the same time as Aussie politico and Also set to testify is John Giacalone who preceded Michael
Clinton supporter Alexander Downer met with young Steinbach as the bureau’s top national security official and
George Papadopoulos for drinks. oversaw the first seven months of the Clinton probe.
Investigative journalist Undercover Huber put this Giacalone reportedly quit the FBI in protest over how the
together— higher ups were killing the Clinton email investigation.
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Undercover Huber ended with this:
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SUMMARY
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Dear New York Times:
Call A Spy A Spy [VIDEO]
Anders Hagstrom - Justice Reporter
8:47 AM 05/25/2018
Trump thinks so, and if he’s right, this could be one of the
biggest political scandals in American history.
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COLUMNIST: ‘A Democratic Watergate
Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes’
Mike LaChance
May 25, 2018, 9:06 Am
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Trump Points Out
Hypocrisy On ‘SPYGATE’
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
9:18 AM 05/25/2018
Meeting of the President of the United States Donald Trump with the
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in New York -- ShutterStock
Drop Of Light
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President Trump HAMMERS Democrats And Their Deep
State Partners On #Spygate Lies And Omissions
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 9:30 Am
President Trump:
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Nolte: ‘Trump Hate Has
Finally Killed Off The 1960s’
Posted On May 25, 2018
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Obama Admin Attorneys Team With Seth Rich’s Brother –
Sue Private Eye Team Investigating Seth Rich
By Alicia Powe
May 25, 2018, 9:43 Am
He served as Special Assistant to the President and It’s amazing, we haven’t seen anyone
Associate White House Counsel from 2009- 2010, where from the DNC – no one – has cried out
he focused on national security law and judicial for justice in this murder. Not one
nominations. Democratic politician has mentioned
Seth Rich, think about that,” he said.
In January 2010, he left the White House to serve as “Out of all the Democrats in Congress,
Senior Civilian and Deputy Director of Combined Joint Senate, the Department of Justice, not one
Interagency Task Force 435 in Kabul Afghanistan. Democrat has ever mentioned wanting to
Following his time in Afghanistan, Gottlieb returned to the see justice done the Seth Rich case.”
White House Counsel’s Office, where he served until the
end of February 2013. Couch’s investigative team is comprised of former veteran
law enforcement officers who have longstanding
A second attorney prosecuting Aaron Rich’s case is David background investigator credentials, including Frank
Boies, chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Whalen, former head of NYPD Homicide for 23 years, Bill
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Pierce, who has worked as a private investigator for 24 they have spent on the investigation has been devoted to
years in multiple states, Hannibal Moot, Investigative dismissing speculation surrounding Rich’s murder as
researcher and editor of Bull Truth Magazine and the “conspiracy.
current Metro SWAT Commander whose is name Couch
won’t disclose for safety. But it’s not a conspiracy theory that the DNC issued
checks to the cyber security CrowdStrike hours after Rich
“The DNC destroyed the servers,” he said. was fatally shot, Couch contends.
“If you really thought you were hacked by a
foreign entity, would you not go to the FBI? “We found the two large payments. One,
Why would you go to an outside firm?” the day after Seth Rich was murdered and
the other the day after Shawn Lucas was
Rich was murdered July 10, 2016, near his affluent found mysteriously dead, face down, in his
neighborhood in Washington, D.C. He was shot in the bathroom at 38 years old in DC. Both
back with a handgun at 4:18 a.m. while he walked home, connected to the DNC, Lucas with the
and nothing was taken from him. He was transported to a DNC lawsuit and Rich was a DNC
local hospital and was pronounced dead at 5:57 a.m. employee. You start putting all of this
together – how am I a “conspiracy theorist”
On July 22, just 12 days after Rich’s death and days before for presenting you with the facts?”
the Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia,
WikiLeaks began publishing 44,053 emails and 17,761 The “hurtful conspiracies” surrounding Rich breaching
attachments from top DNC officials, leading to speculation DNC data would end if law enforcement would release the
that Rich was the source of party emails turned over to autopsy, ballistics report and medical examiner report,
WikiLeaks. documents that are typically made public in homicide
investigations, Couch argued.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has not only repeatedly
denied that Russia or any “state party” was involved in the “The MPD insists that they have lost all
leaking of DNC emails, he has also appeared to hint that leads. If they have exhausted all leads, why
Rich might have been the source. don’t they hand investigators and
journalists he ballistics report, why don’t
The Rich family’s insistence that they give us the autopsy, why don’t they tell
investigating whether Rich leaked emails is us the caliber of weapon that was used,
“hurtful” and “defamatory,” is alarming, why don’t they give us the surveillance
video? If they really want to hush the
“conspiracy” stuff up, why are they hiding
Couch explained.
all of this information? Where is the body
cam footage of the 4 or 6 officers.”
“They don’t want this solved – I get in
trouble for saying that, but I am a father. If Couch is facing a second lawsuit that
something happened to one of my kids, I was filed Monday by Brad Bauman, a
would not rest until I find out who killed Democratic political crisis consultant
them, regardless of where it leads. Anyone with the Pastorum Group and former
who has kids, there’s no way you would roll spokesperson for the family of Seth Rich.
over and accept a scenario of ‘we’ll never
know what happened to him,’” he said. According to CNN, Bauman, filed the lawsuit in US
“They are not giving any information.” District Court for the District of Columbia seeking
monetary relief and court-ordered solutions, known as
“They wouldn’t give their [private
injunctive relief, asking for “false and defamatory
investigator] Rod Wheeler Seth’s phone,
materials to be removed from any websites over which
the phone records, the laptop.” he
defendants have control.”
continued. “I just don’t understand why they
don’t want to know who killed their son,
their brother? Whether or not you believe Couch has yet to be served, he first learned about
their botched robbery narrative – I don’t – Bauman’s lawsuit from CNN.
there is still a murderer on the loose.”
“How in the world does CNN have a 15 or
20 graph article up before I’ve even been
served papers?” he wondered. “Bauman is
upset that I called him a crisis management
The mainstream media networks have ignored recent
expert, according to the CNN article – it’s
revelations concerning Rich’s case. The little coverage
pretty remarkable. You are talking about a
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guy from the Pastorum Group, their own of the press. Everything that we have
website states that they are professional reported has been 100 percent from our
crisis management – that’s what they do. sources. Aaron claims that we doxed
where he worked – a complete fallacy. He
“The reason I called him a crisis expert is
had a professional LinkedIn profile and it
because on August 11, 2016, Julian
showed where he works, Northrop
Assange and WikiLeaks, guess what they
called him? A ‘professional crisis’ fixer. Our Grumman on a defense contract. It was on
Reddit, it was in the Jewish Free Press –
team is always used the same terminology
all of these different publications have all of
that WikiLeaks used and Julian Assange.
WikiLeaks put that out about Brad Bauman, this information out there. Yet, he is suing
us for reporting where he worked and they
that was the day after Assange first
all put the information out first.”
mentioned Seth Rich on that TV show.”
He continued:
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Richard Painter Desperately Trying
To Distance Himself From Bush, GOP
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
10:06 AM 05/25/2018
A longtime lawyer for former President George W. Bush “Took a leave of absence from teaching at
who is running for U.S. Senate in Minnesota as a the University of Illinois College of Law to
Democrat is really trying to distance himself from the serve as Associate Counsel to the
Republican party. President and chief White House ethics
lawyer. The White House ethics lawyer’s
Richard Painter, 56, is listed a Democratic candidate for job is not a policy or political job. The fact
U.S. Senate in the state of Minnesota on the that Mr. Painter often disagreed with the
FEC website and has raised nearly $15,000 as of March policy preferences of the contemporary
31. Republican Party was irrelevant. His
consistent theme for decades has been
that ethics is not political,” Painter’s website
states.
He labels his time serving in the Bush administration as “became Vice Chair of Citizens for
one of public service but without a political agenda. Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a
bipartisan government ethics watchdog
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group that later filed a lawsuit against “Without compensation, appears as an
President Donald Drumpf for his receipt of expert on hundreds of news shows for
profits and benefits from foreign CNN, MSNBC, BBC, PBS, NPR, I-24,
governments in violation of the WCCO and many other television and radio
constitution,” his website states. outlets to condemn ethics violations,
obstruction of justice and constitutional
Painter also wants voters to know that he selflessly violations by President Trump and his
contributes to major news networks, offering his best legal administration,” his website states.
takes on the current affairs of the Trump administration.
.
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President Trump Knocks Obama Repeatedly In Annapolis
Speech: “We Are Not Going To Apologize For America.
We Are Going To Stand Up… America Is Back!”
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 10:14 Am
President Trump:
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Wild ‘Hardball’ Panel Calls Trump Presidency ‘Fake’;
Supporters ‘Buying Into A Total Hallucination’
By Curtis Houck
May 25, 2018 10:20 AM EDT
For those keeping score at home, this is the third post on Just fake facts to get out there to distract
Thursday’s Hardball, so that should tell you plenty about from the core issue, Russia attacked this
the straight jacket-worthy craziness that unfolded on country and while Russia was attacking this
MSNBC from start to finish. country during the 2016 campaign, the
Trump campaign was sending out positive
It began at the top with ringleader/host Chris Matthews signals to Russia and denying to the public
setting a grim picture of the country’s future down to that this attack was under way and every
NBCNews.com’s Heidi Przybyla seeming to question the moment they throw up one of these, you
intelligence of those in flyover country for not know, confusing narratives, it distracts and
understanding the ramifications of the Russia probe. keeps us from talking about the real thing
itself and now it's degrading the Justice
Department.
This week, President Trump proved he's “they’re eating it up” and “buying into a
willing to destroy this country's law total hallucination and that scares me.”
enforcement institutions in order to protect
himself from justice. Using a conspiracy Well, when you put it that way, it sounds like it’s time to
theory to trash the Justice Department and run down to an old nuclear fallout shelter.
the FBI, he's attempting to extort
information about the investigation of him As for Corn, behold this incredible level of hypocrisy on
and his campaign. the issue of civil discourse:
Mother Jones’s David Corn was another character of note, How had do you break through that? How
first ranting about how supposedly fake every story from do you have a set of facts that you can talk
unmasking to Uranium One was and concocted by about and deal with them and have a true
national discourse? Trump is doing
“Donald Trump and all his minions, everything possible to make sure we can't
including people in Congress, have an honest debate because he can't
Republicans creating alternative survive one.
realities” that was all so reckless that “[t]o
just call it a conspiracy theory is to give If Corn wants to go down this road of incivility, let’s do
too much credit.” that. Here’s a sampling of NewsBusters headlines from
over the years with Corn playing a starring or supporting
Corn went on a tangent about how “Russia attacked this role in spewing venom:
country” and the Trump White House has, somehow, kept
American from getting to the bottom of what happened:
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April 6, 2017: Disgusting: MSNBC’s Corn, Matthews trash the Justice Department and the FBI, he's attempting to
Think Action in Syria Is Distraction from Russia extort information about the investigation of him and his
Probe campaign. Today, in an apparently effort to placate the President,
April 4, 2017: MSNBC’s Matthews, Corn Meltdown, the Department of Justice took some steps to yield to his
Claim Susan Rice ‘Unmasking’ Controversy Is demands. In two separate meetings, top Justice Department and
Racist and Sexist intelligence officials met with Trump's congressional allies and
May 4, 2014: David Corn: 'For Many Conservatives,' other lawmakers to go over confidential materials about the use
Benghazi Like a 'Candy Store,' But 'The Bins Are of an FBI informant in the Russia probe. Afterwards, speaking on
Empty' behalf of the Democrats, Congressman Adam Schiff said there
May 31, 2013: MSNBC's David Corn Sneers: I was nothing in the briefings to support the President's conspiracy
Thought 'Charlton Heston Wrote' Ricin Attack theory.
Letters
January 11, 2013: MSNBC's David Corn: Rush (....)
Limbaugh Is 'Calling For John Wilkes Booth'
7:03 p.m. Eastern
Finally, Przyzbyla took a page from Showtime’s Alex
Wagner by lashing out at Trump having “a far-right DAVID CORN: Well, it’s extraordinary but it's a continuation of
media echo chamber” unlike Richard Nixon with what we've seen for over a year now. First they said unmasking
supporters not sharing the same feelings as the liberal was the real scandal. It wasn't. Then they said Obama bugging
media about the Russia investigation affecting our daily Trump was the scandal. No, it wasn't. Then it was FISA warrant,
lives: Uranium One and now it's this phony baloney story about a spy
on the campaign. This is Donald Trump and all his minions,
Chris, I was in the heartland this past week including people in Congress, Republicans creating alternative
in Cadillac, Michigan, and every place that I realities. To just call it a conspiracy theory is to give too much
walked into had those chryons up at the credit. Just fake facts to get out there to distract from the core
bottom of Fox News talking about spies issue, Russia attacked this country and while Russia was
infiltrating the Trump campaign. No matter attacking this country during the 2016 campaign, the Trump
what they say, 30 percent of the people are campaign was sending out positive signals to Russia and
going to believe it and this is why it's denying to the public that this attack was under way and every
working, Chris, because at the end of the moment they throw up one of these, you know, confusing
day, no matter what Mueller's narratives, it distracts and keeps us from talking about the real
recommendations are, it's not up to him to thing itself and now it's degrading the Justice Department.
take action. Who is up to? It's up to
Congress. Congress will have to look at
those findings and decide whether or not to
impeach. You have that question out there
still about whether you can indict a sitting
president. That leaves it to Congress. So, if
they can throw up enough of a fog and just
exhaust people about what the truth is,
they've succeeded because when the
findings come out, 30 percent at least will
not believe them.
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
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Did Trump’s NAFTA Play Just Work Itself Out?
Vandana Rambaran
10:23 AM 05/25/2018
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is in talks with The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to get the ball was launching a national security investigation into car and
rolling again on North American Free Trade Agreement truck imports that may be “weakening our internal
negotiations that benefit Mexico, Canada and the U.S. economy” and “impair national security,” according to
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
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Comey On Trump Spy Claims:
‘I Know It Not To Be True’
Ian Hanchett
25 May 2018
360
Obama Brags At Tech Conference:
‘I Did Not Have Scandals As President’
Virginia Kruta
10:35 AM 05/25/2018
Have you noticed how frustrated much of the liberal media Wednesday in MSNBC's Washington, D.C.,
has become over the lack of any evidence of Trump-Russia greenroom. Rep. Adam Schiff, who just
collusion? Well, Thursday's Rolling Stone devoted a long wrapped up an appearance on The Beat
article by Tessa Stuart giving one excuse after another why With Ari Melber, is getting his TV makeup
no such collusion has been discovered, How the House wiped off, while Matthews offers some
Intelligence Committee Collapsed on Adam Schiff. political wisdom to Schiff's deputy
communications director. "You've got to
say something that leads to
impeachment," Matthews urges.
"Anything. That's the business we're
in."
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McCain Admits Iraq War Was A Mistake
Robert Donachie - Capitol Hill And Health Care Reporter
11:14 AM 05/25/2018
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Trump To Stick Around,
Shake Hands Of Every Naval Academy Grad
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
11:43 AM 05/25/2018
“America is back.”
.
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‘You’re Fired!’ — Trump Drops Classic Line,
Naval Academy Crowd Goes Wild
Justin Caruso - Senior Media Reporter
11:50 AM 05/25/2018
“We are taking care — finally, after “They all said you couldn’t get that. They
decades — we’re taking care of our tried to get it for 35 years. We just say, ‘Get
veterans. We passed V.A. Accountability. them out of here. He doesn’t take care of
Everybody said it couldn’t be done. That’s if our vets.'”
you don’t do a good job, you couldn’t get
fired.”
.
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Deep State Mueller’s FBI Gave Orgy Island Billionaire
Epstein Light Sentence – And Now Suspected
Of Using Him As Informant
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 12:41 Pm
That’s right, just like a scene out of the Hollywood Now we find out that corrupt Mueller
blockbuster film Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise, from the phony Russia – Trump hoax,
from wild parties to prostitution, orgies and even underage was the Head of the FBI at the time
sex, Little St. James reportedly has it all and is seemingly a Epstein’s case was prosecuted.
gathering point frequented by prominent jet-setters, and it
is all being exposed. The cat is out of the bag so to
speak… It looks like Mueller was even involved in the case.
Back in 2005 police conducted an 11-month-long The Epstein case was run out of DC:
undercover investigation on Jeffery Epstein and his estate
after the mother of a 14-year-old girl went to police after
suspecting her daughter was paid $300 for at least one
sexual act on the island in which she was ordered to strip,
leaving on just her panties while giving Epstein a massage.
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Five months after the plea deal was reached, FBI agents
still haven’t interviewed all the victims/witnesses. FBI
agents haven’t even seen all the physical evidence.
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Corrupt Mueller destroyed the FBI with
years of corruption. This man in no way
should be leading an investigation into
anything on behalf of this great country.
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CNN Touts HBO Doc On McCain,
Says Trump Calls Him 'Traitor' To GOP
On Obamacare
By Tim Graham
May 25, 2018 12:42 PM EDT
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ROGER STONE EXCLUSIVE: Mueller Can Indict A Ham
Sandwich But I’m Not Interested In Being His Lunch
By Assistant Editor
May 25, 2018, 1:08 Pm
Both The Hill and CNN are now reporting that Special I am mindful of the Alan Dershowitz claim that the
Counsel Robert Mueller is interrogating at least eight of average American inadvertently commits at least three
my current and former associates and is asking questions felonies a day and I am facing an ad hoc federal
about my personal life, my political activities, my pro- prosecutorial juggernaut, with an unlimited budget and
Trump activism, my book sales, my personal business and apparently no effective limitations on anything it does nor
even my family relationships. Wait! I thought this was any subject matter or area of inquiry that it has not been
about Russian Collusion, WikiLeaks and the bogus claim broadly-empowered to aggressively scrutinizing, picking
that I had advance notice of the content, source and exact and probing through every molecule of my personal and
release date of the DNC emails which so rocked the 2016 professional life, deploying federal agents to conduct fine
Presidential race? tooth microscopic review of my political and personal
activities. Including badgering at least eight of my current
or former associates.
That the Special Counsel is now examining the minute
details of my personal finances and taxes according to The
Hill and CNN proves precisely my point; this is not about I recognized Mr. Mueller could indict a
Russian Collusion or misdeeds in 2016, this is about ham sandwich but I’m not interested in
fabricating any infraction in order to indict, silence and being his lunch.
punish me for my support for Donald Trump.
I recognized that this partisan witch hunt is very much
This comes on the heels of a fake news assault in which driven by this fake news media outlets like MSNBC,
the Wall Street Journal’s Shelby Holliday took exculpatory CNBC, Huff Po, Slate, Salon, Vice, The Daily Beast and
e-mail I provided her that fell outside the precisely worded the despicable Raw Story engaged in a constant drum beat
scope of the House Intelligence Committee document of misinformation in a relentless attempt to contradict what
request which confirms my claim that I never dealt directly Anderson Cooper called “total consistency” in my claims
with WikiLeaks or Assange but had a back-channel. My about WikiLeaks and the 2016 election.
September request that this source find out if WikiLeaks
had any information on the murder of Qadaffi is a These people scream for my blood on a
legitimate journalist inquiry that the WSJ tries to make daily basis.
seem improper in some way.
Now I know how the Christians felt in the Roman
Adam Schiff’s claim that I was obligated to turn this e- Coliseum when the crowd called for them to be fed to the
mail exchange over to the House Intel Committee and did lions.
not is false and if he could take a five-minute break from
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In addition to badgering my associates about my finances efforts to bankrupt me and punish me solely for the act of
they also seem focused on the most intimate aspects of my being for Donald Trump. It is also to issue a report that
personal life, my business and personal relationships. will serve for the basis for an impeachment drive in the
increasingly unlikely event that the rabidly Democratic
Private detective services have captures control of The House. The President must wake
confirmed that my cell phone and text up to the true nature of the Mueller juggernaut which has
messages are under surveillance and been aided and abetted by the de facto Attorney General
access to my email was obtained Rod Rosenstein. The President’s enemies’ enmity towards
through an illegal FISA warrant that the him is rank and their resolve to remove him should not be
New York Times reported I was subject underestimated.
to on January 20th of 2017.
Politico has introduced a new potential goal of the Mueller
Surveillance without probable cause, hoping an offense team, which is to threaten to indict me unless I flip and
can be confected. testify against the President who has been my friend and
who I have wanted to run for President for nearly thirty
The agenda of the Mueller inquisition is clear. It is to years. Although the New York Times has reported that
silence me as a critic of the partisan nature of their inquiry President Trump is “afraid” of me, he has nothing to fear
and the Gestapo tactics that they employ as well as their as I am his most loyal and steadfast supporter.
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White House Lauds Three Big Wins On Capitol Hill
New Laws Will Make The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau More
Accountable, Help Veterans Get Better Care Faster And Open Access
To More Treatments For The Terminally Ill
By Connor Wolf
Updated 25 May 2018 At 3:22 PM
President Donald Trump entered office with an ambitious The Veteran’s Choice Accountability Act aims to help
policy agenda and fierce resistance from Democrats, the veterans to have private sector healthcare choices rather
liberal mainstream media, non-profit advocacy community than just the troubled U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
critics and others who back or benefit from activist The bill scraps the current choice program outright while
government. He has promised to help struggling workers, streaming the process and lowering barriers for veterans
clamp down on illegal immigration, reduce burdensome seeking outside medical help.
regulations, and make trade fairer, among much else.
The Right to Try Act was passed to help patients who have
Short singled out three bills passed this week that were been diagnosed with a terminal illness. The bill allows
designed to rollback some financial sector regulations, them to obtain unapproved drugs when they’ve exhausted
make available access to experimental drugs for terminally approved treatment options and are unable to participate in
ill patients and provide veterans with more healthcare a clinical trial. Critics say it undermines the Food and Drug
options. Administration (FDA) ability to protect against bad drugs.
“We want to take a few minutes at the end “I think these three big bills have given us
of a very productive work session here to the chance to reflect, not just on the last
highlight a couple of bills that passed both week, but what we view as a very
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productive Congress with historic tax Short added that lawmakers and the president have also
reform, the repeal of the individual been able to get some funding for the border wall, increase
mandate, the largest funding increase for the budget for border patrol agents, rollback regulations
the military since the Reagan years, the from the last administration, and confirm U.S. Supreme
first pay raise in 10 years for our troops.” Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
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Deep State Clapper’s Latest Line: We Weren’t Spying – It
Was “Benign Information Gathering”
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 3:57 Pm
James Clapper also told Joy Behar on The View that the
FBI was spying on the Trump campaign — but he didn’t
like to use “that word.”
Now this…
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Dissecting Lies From The Deep State Media
Derek Hunter - Contributor
4:12 PM 05/25/2018
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standard practice for judicial nominees to not comment on Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the
specific cases, already decided or not, because it could world, was pardoned Thursday by President Trump.
compromise their objectivity should a similar case come Convicted of violating the Mann Act, a racist law passed
before them. Democrats, knowing that, chose Vitter and by Democrats to target inter-racial couples, Johnson served
the landmark civil right case specifically to try to create 10 months in prison. He’s now been pardoned. Since
outrage over Vitter to claim a scalp. We tell you how it everything is political, some liberals tried to make this
happened, play you the clips from the hearing, and rip it pardon about Barack Obama, saying he didn’t pardon
apart. It’s pretty disgusting. Johnson because he was very worried about the pardon
process being seen as political. Of course, Obama
commuted the sentences of terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera
and traitor Bradley Manning for political purposes, but
why let the facts stand in the way of a good narrative?
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WAYNE ALLYN ROOT:
It’s Time To Impeach The President (Obama)
By Assistant Editor
May 25, 2018, 5:51 Pm
“I guarantee the answer is yes” But that was only one of many corrupt deals while Hillary
served as Obama’s Secretary of State. Jay Sekulow of the
as to whether Obama knew the FBI had planted spies into American Center for Law and Justice reported days ago his
the Trump campaign. He says no FBI Director would dare organization has uncovered THOUSANDS of docs
infiltrate a presidential campaign without the direct showing Pay-to-Play between Hillary’s State Dept and the
approval and authorization of the sitting president. Clinton Foundation. He called Hillary’s State Dept a
“favor factory.”
Welcome to my world. I’ve screamed about Obama’s
illegal actions for years. Starting of course with his attempt Sekulow found 30,000 emails between Hillary, her top
to use the IRS to destroy my life. But I’m just one of staff and the Clinton Foundation. This is crime on a
thousands of victims. I have always understood the lengths massive unprecedented scale. The State Dept became a
Obama would go to, to destroy his political opposition. division of a private company (a charity scam), using
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taxpayer money to dole out government contracts to Obama ordered the CIA to spy on all of France’s
Hillary’s donors. presidential candidates.
How much money changed hands? Billions? How many Who else did Obama spy on? What other world leaders did
crooked deals? Hundreds? How many other members of he try to frame just like Trump? How about American
Obama’s administration got cut in on the bribes? Could politicians, like his 2012 opponent Mitt Romney? Obama
President Obama have had a piece of the action? Obama and Hillary tried to fix the 2016 election. Is it possible
desperately needed Hillary to win, or he’d face criminal Obama fixed the 2012 election with spying and
prosecution. Remember what Truman said, “The buck surveillance vs. Romney?
stops here.”
Yes, the media is right. It’s time to start talking about
And then there was this news: WikiLeaks reports Obama impeachment and prosecution of a president…
was a veteran of illegal spying. They claim to have proof
Obama.
.
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Assange Reportedly Offered To Meet Adam Schiff,
Congressman Refuses ‘Unless He Is In US Custody’
By Cassandra Fairbanks
May 25, 2018, 6:59 Pm
However, in a response to Credico’s announcement, Assange has now been without phone, internet or visitors
Schiff’s office sent Ari Melber a cowardly statement other than his lawyers for nearly two months. This is
declaring that reportedly due to pressure from the US government to
drive him out of the embassy where he has political
asylum.
.
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BREAKING=> Presidential Attorney Rudy Giuliani:
Trump Legal Team Wants Briefing On FBI Spies In
Trump Campaign
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 7:49 Pm
The AP reported:
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Disgraceful. Mitch McConnell Tells
Reporters He Supports The Mueller Witch Hunt
By Jim Hoft
May 25, 2018, 8:40 Pm
Senate Majority leader is no friend of “The two investigations going on that I think will
President Trump or his supporters. give us the answers to the questions that you
raise — the [inspector general] investigation in
the Justice Department and the Mueller
The Kentucky Republican told the media he investigation,” McConnell told NPR.
supports the Mueller witch hunt on
Thursday.
Disgraceful.
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Tucker Battles Progressive On Gas Price Hikes
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
9:43 PM 05/25/2018
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson took a progressive radio host to Progressive radio host Chris Hahn argued,
task on Friday for Democratic hypocrisy on rising gas
prices. “Trump should be attacking himself…he said [in
2011] blame the party in power for high gas
WATCH: prices.”
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CNN Discovers Devin Nunes
Is Well-Liked Back Home
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
10:06 PM 05/25/2018
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Key Facts Of The Trump-Russia
Investigation That Shouldn’t Be Ignored
Stephanie Hamill
10:35 PM 05/25/2018
Did the Obama administration take more action to stop point. Here are just a few of the steps taken by members of
Donald Trump from winning the election than it did to the Obama administration to stop Trump:
stop Russia from interfering in it?
Susan Rice, then-National Security Advisor, unmasked
That’s what former White House press secretary Ari members of the Trump transition team.
Fleischer thinks. On Twitter he called out the Obama The FBI had an information source close to the Trump
administration for the events that took place in the summer campaign.
of 2016. John Brennan, then-CIA director, had information about
the dossier and allegedly funneled it through unofficial
WATCH: channels to help it get out.
James Comey, then-FBI director, may have “slow-
walked” the Clinton investigation — and was convinced
to publicly refer to it as a “matter” rather than an
investigation — for political reasons.
Then we have Vice President Joe Biden who admitted
that both he and President Obama were aware of
Russia’s attempts to influence the election, yet the
administration didn’t take bold action to prevent it.
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President Trump Stands And Shakes Over 1,000 Navy
Graduates’ Hands For Over An Hour – Hillary Sits And
Receives Harvard Attendance Prize
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 7:43 Am
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Hillary’s outfit is thought to cover the fact that she is The two events yesterday show the extreme
wearing a medical related back brace. Although the differences between President Trump and
temperatures were in the high 80’s, she wore the winter Presidential candidate Clinton. Healthy
coat. President Trump honors graduates for work
well done, while sickly Hillary is given an
There were no pictures of Hillary being carried up stairs at attendance prize from far left academics at
this event. Harvard for losing an election. And there it
is!
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Porn Star Lawyer Avenatti Accused By Courts Of Acting
“With Malice, Fraud And Oppression” – Suddenly
Disappears From CNN
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 8:14 Am
Maybe CNN found out that Avenatti didn’t pay taxes for
three years in spite of making $30 million. This was
uncovered by the courts who stated he acted with
There are many reasons why CNN would “malice, fraud and oppression”.
stop airing broadcasts with slimy porn star
lawyer Michael Avenatti – if CNN sincerely
wanted to set a standard for truth they never
would have had him on!
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fake case was over. The Swiss company never showed But perhaps the biggest reason CNN is not airing
for any court case after a year of Avenatti living in the creepy Avenatti is that he recently was tied to the FBI
property rent free.lived in a $12M home for free as a spies in the Spygate scandal. We reported over the
squatter while a mysterious Swiss company brought a weekend that there is evidence that Avenatti is
false claim against the owner of the home whom connected to the FBI spies in Spygate through a Saudi
#Avenatti welched on. While #Avenatti evaded taxes & Prince. Avenatti raced on a team with the Prince’s son
stiffed employees, lived in a $12M home for free as a and the Prince is connected to one of the suspected
squatter while a mysterious Swiss company brought a FBI spies. This may have been the relationship that
false claim against the owner of the home whom deep state most wanted to cover up about Avenatti.
#Avenatti welched on. While #Avenatti evaded taxes &
stiffed employees, CNN and the MSM never should have had
Avenatti on the air. He is creepy and has a
horrible record that includes not paying his
employees, his taxes, his childcare and his
ex-wife. But then again, maybe he is the
perfect creepy crook to represent the liberal
media and deep state.
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Trump Frees US Hostage
In Venezuela Without Exchanging Pallet Of Cash
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 9:29 Am
This was the same day the Iranian regime released four
American hostages held in Tehran.
Two days after Obama sent Iran the ransom cash the US
government wired 13 individual payments for
$99,999,999.99 , each with an independent MICR, totaling
L to R: Matt Trevithick (Photo Credit Robin Wright) Amir Hekmati, $1,299,999,999.87.
Jason Rezaian (Photo Credit AP), Saeed Abedini (News 4).
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Trump Just Made It Easier
To Fire Bad Federal Employees
Thomas Phippen - Reporter
10:07 AM 05/26/2018
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Cornyn: FBI’s Culture
Of Corruption Is COMEY’S Fault
Posted On May 26, 2018
Said Hewitt:
“Well, it’s, you really can’t,” Cornyn responded. Barack Obama once said he wanted to “fundamentally
transform” our country. In many ways, he did. And none
“I mean, a spy is typically, I think of in terms of of it for the better.
foreign powers. But here, the FBI was involved
.
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The Important Questions About ‘Spygate’
Chuck Ross - Reporter
10:38 AM 05/26/2018
“I’m not concerned about this other stuff,” Page “It seems attention has shifted a bit from the
told TheDCNF, referring to the Halper angle. ‘collusion’ investigation to the ‘contretempts’
[sic] within the White House,” Halper wrote on
Though Page says he never had conversations with Halper July 28, 2017.
in which he said anything that would support allegations in
the dossier, what Halper may have relayed to the FBI is “I must assume this gives you some relief,” he
another matter. And Halper’s track record as an continued, signing off with “be in touch when
intelligence gather has already been called into question. you have the time. Would be great to catch up.”
As TheDCNF reported, Halper has been accused in the Page has discussed another encounter with Halper in
past of making “absurd” and “false” claims about Russian which he says the professor seemed to dismiss the
infiltration at Cambridge, where he oversees the allegations of collusion.
Cambridge Security Initiative, a group that brings together
academics, businesses and former intelligence officials. It was Summer 2016 after then-Senate Minority Leader
Harry Reid sent a letter to then-FBI Director James Comey
As The New York Times reported on May 18, Halper was accusing Page of being a Russian agent. The letter, it is
who expressed concerns back in February 2014 about now known, relied heavily on allegations from the Steele
then-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael dossier.
Flynn’s interactions at a Cambridge event with a Russian
academic named Svetlana Lokhova. Page said that when he and Halper discussed the letter,
Halper “rolled his eyes” as if he disapproved of the Reid
Those concerns, which were that Flynn’s interactions with allegations.
Lokhova suggested that he could be compromised by
.
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Angry Joe Biden Trashes Trump And His Supporters:
Trump’s “Phony Populism And Fake Nationalism” Is
Hurting Us (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 11:11 Am
Former Vice President Joe Biden attacked So maybe Joe Biden is right. Trump is “hurting us”
President Trump and his supporters Friday especially if you’re an America-hating liberal.
during a speech in support of New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo. Joe Biden:
Biden claims President Trump’s policies This is not your father’s Republican Party that is
“are hurting us.” hurting us with this phony populism and this
fake nationalism.
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Clapper: ‘Obama Had No Knowledge’
Of FBI Informant In The Trump Campaign
Julia Nista - Associate Editor
11:27 AM 05/26/2018
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SHOCK REPORT=> MORE EVIDENCE Proves
Foreign Meddling In 2016 Election Was From
UK… NOT Russia
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 12:03 Pm
Christopher Steel
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Papadopoulos was in the news and indicted. His It’s now being reported that Devin Nunes has learned the
whereabouts are still unknown. identity of a “top secret intelligence source” that was part
of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation.
Although the common story is that Mifsud is
a Russian Agent, many ties seem to lead I think there’s a decent chance that source is Stefan Halper.
[him] back to UK Intelligence. Julian
Assange put out a Twitter Thread noting the Halper had contact with both Papadopulos and Carter
connection between Mifsud and UK Page.
Intelligence.
Halper has connections to UK Intelligence
Alexander Downer and US Intelligence.
Although, not a Brit, Alexander Downer is the Australian Halper met with Carter Page just days after Page’s
individual who apparently overheard Papadopoulos talk Moscow trip.
about Trump and Russia in a bar which alerted the FBI to
the story and their eventual spy program on Trump. This
Other Internet sleuths tied Halper to the Obama team of
story has been refuted for months.
crooks. Halper was paid more than $400,000 in 2016 for
his efforts to set Papadopulos up and get him to sing to the
The Papadopoulos/Downer meeting has been portrayed as Australia diplomat about Hillary’s emails being held by
a chance encounter in a bar. That does not appear to be the Russia. Halper and others planted this information on
case…. Papadopulos before he shared this with the Aussie in a
drunken London pub discussion.
Downer has direct ties to UK Intelligence
firm Hakluyt where he served on the Additional research shows that Halper was a classmate of
Advisory Board from 2008-2014. impeached President Bill Clinton. Halper apparently knew
Bill Clinton well in their days at Oxford. He later worked
Shortly after the Papadopoulos and Downer chance as an Advisor to the Clinton Administration.
encounter, Peter Strzok was in London per texts released
by the FBI. Robert Hannigan
“Strzok texts suggest he was in London on Hannigan had been Head of the GCHQ and he suddenly
August 3, 2016.” resigned in January of this year –
The corrupt FBI’s investigation into Trump officially Hannigan only took over at the UK’s surveillance agency
started a few days earlier. in November 2014 to oversee a more open approach after
revelations by the National Security Agency whistleblower
Stefan Halper Edward Snowden put GCHQ on the defensive in 2013.
One individual all over the Internet and social media by His sudden resignation – he informed staff
the name of Stefan Halper has been identified as a just hours before making this decision
potential FBI spy into the Trump campaign. (Note that public – prompted speculation that it might
some believe that Obama may have had more than one spy be related to British concerns over shared
on the Trump campaign). The most intriguing individual intelligence with the US in the wake of
related to Papadopoulos is Halper. Donald Trump becoming president.
According to Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork – But the GCHQ press release stressed his decision was
exclusively for family reasons. As well as his ill wife,
My guess is Papadopoulos never knew what hit Hannigan has two elderly parents to look after. He will
him. A young man, suddenly thrust into a remain in post until a successor is appointed.
position beyond his experience, Papadopoulos
made for an easy intelligence target. It’s still not known, what, if any connection
to the Trump – Russia collusion fantasy,
Carter Page almost certainly discussed the just completed Hannigan may have had.
Moscow trip with his host, Stefan Halper, during the
London symposium. On Friday reporter Paul Sperry posted more
evidence of the UK was meddling in the
2016 election.
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The British Deep State feared Donald Trump like they And all of the Deep State hacks took turns
feared Brexit. traveling to the UK during the election “for
business.”
In Summary
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Tucker Hammers Lindsey Graham For ‘Lying’ About
Confidential Informant Not Being A Spy
Scott Morefield - Reporter
12:39 PM 05/26/2018
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The Dummies Guide To The Russia Collusion Hoax:
Who, What, Where, When, & Why
Authored By Roger Kimball Via Spectator USA,
Sat, 05/26/2018 - 22:10
But we now know that the Trump-Russia investigation Is Stefan Halper, the “spy” on the Trump
began before Carter Page. In December 2017, The New campaign, at the origin of the Trump-Russia
York Times excitedly reported in an article called “How the meme?
Russia Inquiry Began” that, contrary to their reporting
during the previous year, it wasn’t Carter Page who Not really. The real fons et origo is John Brennan,
precipitated the inquiry. It was someone called George Director of the CIA under Obama. As Trump’s victories
Papadopoulous, an even more obscure and lower-level in the primaries piled up, Brennan convened a “working
factotum than Carter Page. Back in May 2016, the twenty- group” at CIA headquarters that included Peter Strzok, the
something Papadopoulous had gotten outside a number of disgraced FBI agent, and James Clapper, then Director of
drinks with one Alexander Downer, an Australian
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National Intelligence, in order to stymie Trump’s But Hillary did not win. For the last 16 months, we’ve
campaign. watched as that exiled cabal shifted its efforts from
stopping Trump from winning to a desperate effort to
So much of this story still dwells in the destroy his Presidency. Thanks to the patient work of
tenebrous realm of redaction. But little by Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence
little the truth is emerging, a mosaic whose Committee, and a handful of GOP Senators, that effort is
story is gradually taking shape as one piece now disintegrating.
after the next completes now this face, now
another. What is being exposed is the biggest
political scandal in the history of the United
There are details yet to come, but here is the States:
bottom line, the irreducible minimum...
the effort by highly placed - exactly how highly
A cabal of CIA and FBI operatives, including the placed we still do not know - members of one
Director of the CIA, John Brennan, along with other administration to mobilise the intelligence
members of the intelligence “community,” prominently services and police power of the state to spy
including James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, upon and destroy first the candidacy and then,
and various members of the Obama administration, when that didn’t work, the administration of a
colluded to undermine Donald Trump’s campaign. political rival.
Like almost everyone else, they assumed It is banana republic behaviour, but it looks
that Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in, so they now as if those responsible for this effort to
were careless about covering their tracks. undermine American democracy and repeal
the results of a free, open, and democratic
election will be exposed. Let’s hope that they
If Hillary had won, the department of Justice would have
are also held to account.
been her Department of Justice, John Brennan would still
be head of the CIA, and the public would never have
known about the spies, the set-ups, the skulduggery.
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POTUS Trump Unleashes On #Spygate ‘Why Didn’t The
FBI Contact Me About The Russia Problem?’
By Cristina Laila
May 26, 2018, 3:15 Pm
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I Spy: The Media And
President Lyndon Baines....Obama?
By Jeffrey Lord
May 26, 2018 5:06 PM EDT
But there was another story from that 1964 campaign - and
it comes to mind as the media goes crazy over the Trump
charge that the FBI and CIA were busy implanting spies in
his campaign - “Spygate” as the branding President has
named it. None other than the redoubtable Dr. Lee
Edwards, now of the Heritage Foundation but in 1964 a
Goldwater staffer and later the Senator’s biographer
Hmmm. President Lyndon Obama? (Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution) has
stepped forward to remind - not for the first time - that in
1964 America in fact had a president who was using both
So finally, someone stands up to remind the media that
the FBI and the CIA to spy on his opponent. Writing in the
when it comes to the FBI and CIA spying on a political
Wall Street Journal, Dr. Edwards dips back into his
opponent of a president - America has in fact been here
Goldwater biography to remind in his headline:
before.
The FBI Spied for LBJ’s Campaign
Admittedly, it helps to have been around at the time of the
Johnson-Goldwater election in 1964. Not to call attention
to age, but I was an eager-beaver eighth grader from a On the president’s orders, the bureau wiretapped Barry
Republican family who, wonderfully ignorant about the Goldwater’s plane and headquarters.
history of the American Left, crusaded in my own fashion
for LBJ. To my parents’ eye-rolling, head-shaking Writes Edwards:
resignation. The GOP nominee, the “Mr. Conservative,”
Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, was taking all kinds of In 1971 Robert Mardian, who had been a
flak of a type I would later come to understand in vivid regional director in the Goldwater campaign,
fashion. The media of the day was ripe with suggestions became (in the Nixon administration) assistant
that the libertarian Goldwater was a racist (horrifically attorney general for internal security. During a
untrue) and, but of course, had an affection for Nazis. two-hour briefing with Hoover, Mardian asked
about the procedures for electronic surveillance.
Indeed, the very week Goldwater was nominated in San To Mardian’s amazement, Hoover confessed
Francisco, CBS’s Daniel Schorr went on the air with a that in 1964 the FBI had wired the Goldwater
report that once the GOP Convention was over, Goldwater campaign plane, under orders from the White
will be House. When Mardian asked Hoover why he
had complied, the director answered,
“starting his campaign…in…..Bavaria, center of
Germany’s right wing.” Where specifically in “You do what the president tells you to do.”
Bavaria? Why, but of course, “Berchtesgaden,
Hitler’s onetime stamping ground.” In a later conversation with Mardian, William C. Sullivan,
the bureau’s No. 2 man, verified the FBI’s spying
The story was false from beginning to end. Goldwater operation against the Goldwater campaign. In a 1992
wasn’t going to Germany, much less to “Hitler’s onetime interview, Mardian told me that Sullivan was appalled at
stamping ground.” A particularly insulting attack on a man LBJ’s partisan use of the bureau.”
who was not simply a senator and presidential nominee but
had served as a U.S. Army Air Force pilot in World War And also:
II, later retiring with the rank of Major General. Be that as
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(President) Johnson also illegally ordered the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck
FBI to conduct security checks of Goldwater’s Grassley, R-Iowa, drew particular attention to
Senate staff. Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, the FBI’s one text that suggested the Obama ‘White
liaison with the White House and a top aide to House is running this,’ in reference to an
Director J. Edgar Hoover, denied at a 1975 unspecified investigation.
Congressional hearing that the bureau had
investigated Goldwater’s staff. But through the But, like in so many of the files, a name was
Freedom of Information Act, I obtained copies redacted and the context was unclear, though
of FBI memoranda detailing the results of the one report suggests that was related to the
bureau’s illegal file check of 15 Senate staffers. Russia probe.
“No derogatory information was located
concerning” any of the people in Goldwater’s
In a letter sent Wednesday to Deputy Attorney
Senate office, stated one memo that bore
General Rod Rosenstein, Grassley called for all
DeLoach’s initials.”
redactions to be removed.
A top Senate Republican is challenging the One can be justifiably suspicious that the reason for all the
Justice Department over extensive redactions bureaucratic foot-dragging by the Justice Department and
made in files showing text messages between the FBI today is nothing more than a stall, a slow-walking
anti-Trump FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa obstruction to get past a supposed “Blue Wave” election in
Page. which Democrats will supposedly take charge and remove
the power to investigate from the Devin Nunes’ and
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Charles Grassleys of the House and Senate, effectively the LBJ use of the FBI and CIA to spy on the 1964
shutting the investigation of “Spygate” down. Goldwater campaign.
With a compliant media cheering them on in a campaign President Lyndon Obama? One way or another, the
of silence surrounding any serious investigation into a American people have a right to know. And the media has
possible abuse of the FBI and CIA by the Obama White an obligation to report the truth.
House -not at all unlike the media silence that surrounded
.
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Fact-Checking The White House
‘Truth Seekers’ On North Korea, Mueller Probe
Stephanie Hamill
7:16 PM 05/26/2018
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ANOTHER HOSTAGE FREED!
Josh Holt Joins President Trump At White House –
Thank You President Trump!
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 8:11 Pm
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Lindsey Graham: We’re Calling On Comey, Mccabe,
Lynch And Ohr To Testify This Summer (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 26, 2018, 9:53 Pm
Lindsey Graham told Judge Jeanine Pirro on Judge Jeanine: When? When is this going to happen?
Saturday the Senate will be calling Comey,
McCabe, Lynch and Ohr to testify before Sen. Lindsey Graham: It will be happening this summer.
committee this summer. But the bottom line is we’re not prosecutors. Some people
need to be candidates for going to jail.
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Juan Williams Errs On Military Spending
As He Condemns Trump's 'Wrapped
In The Flag' Navy Speech
By Tom Blumer
May 26, 2018 10:53 PM EDT
On Friday's The Five on Fox, Juan Williams sharply What's interesting to me is to come and listen to
criticized President Donald Trump's speech that morning at you guys, and you know there were protesters
the Naval Academy's graduation ceremony. outside, a couple protesters, I don’t think a
whole lot. But people standing there —
Williams condemned Trump's speech as
JESSE WATTERS: Those are for you, Juan.
"wrapped in patriotism ... the flag, and ... the
military," and claimed that his appearance was WILLIAMS: Okay. And then inside the kids ("Kids?" —
really about co-opting the military's "high Ed.) were pretty respectful, but that was about it. But you
approval ratings among the American people to guys call it rousing. I’m interested.
transfer to him."
But let me just say,
Williams's attack, though predictable, was accompanied by
a significant distortion of U.S. military spending compared this speech was about America first. It was
to the rest of the world which the remaining show panelists wrapped in patriotism. He wrapped himself
did not challenge. in the flag. He wrapped himself in the
military.
Before getting into his rant, Williams thought it necessary
to mention protesters outside of Trump's speech. Even I think that’s, Jesse, why he spent time. He
Michael Shear at the New York Times, who wrote a 1,250- wants them and their stamp of approval and
word story on the event, saw no reason to mention them, their high approval ratings among the
likely because they numbered only "about" 10 to 20: American people to transfer to him.
WILLIAMS: Yes!
KENNEDY: (This speech was) somewhat refreshing. WILLIAMS: No, because let’s look at the, let's look at the
substance of it. When he talks about oh, we’re going to
make the military stronger and all that —
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE: You know, a lot of people
enjoyed this, Juan. I hope you did, too.
Wait a minute, our military is the strongest
in the world!
JUAN WILLIAMS: No. (panel laughs)
WATTERS: And we’re going to make it even stronger.
What’s wrong with that?
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WILLIAMS: When you suggest, when he suggests that — while the second is from the Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute (SIPRI):
GUILFOYLE: Rebuilding it.
U.S. military spending is greater than the total of the top 7 Obama left his presidency with U.S. military
or top 10 other nations, depending on the measuring source preparedness "at a dangerous low." Among the
referenced. The first source listed in the following table is many major shortcomings, in early 2017 "The
from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Navy’s fleet ... (was) the smallest it has been
in nearly 100 years."
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Sanctimonious 'Morning Joe'
Crew Goes Full Religion To Blast Trump
By P.J. Gladnick
May 27, 2018 6:18 AM EDT
Liberals love to lecture us about not mixing politics with willing that, well to paraphrase Jesus to be the salt and the
religion. Apparently this holds true for them except when light of this world.
they can use religion to blast conservatives and President
Donald Trump. Especially Trump. Such was the case on See, it's beyond political according to liberals now. It is
Thursday's Morning Joe, which sounded more like Holy actually heresy and many of them, including those on the
Joe, when they used heavy dollops of religious imagery to Morning Joe set, would love to play the part of latter day
slam Trump to the extent that it was suggested that you are Torquemadas to rid the world of what they consider to be
committing idolatry if you even dare to support him. political heresy.
Holy Joe Scarborough set the tone by reading from an E.J. EDDIE GLAUDE: Yeah Joe. They they are exemplifying
Dionne column which also shamelessly used religion as a what you've been talking about on this show for a while
basis to criticize Trump. He was followed by guest Eddie and those are those Matthew:25 Christians and so here we
Glaude, a professor of religion and African-American have Bishop Currie and Jim Wallace of sojourners
studies at Prince who -- as MRC's Nicholas Fondacaro organizing a candlelight vigil on the White House in order
pointed out on May 14 -- went on an extreme anti-Israel to suggest that the way in which Trump has and
tirade for that nation daring to defend itself against
violence organized by the Hamas terrorist organization.
some evangelicals who support Trump have
enlisted, drafted Jesus and his ministry to
support his policies to support his mean-
spiritedness actually represents in some
ways a kind of idolatry
Get it? The sore loser left is so upset that they lost the
election that they now mean-spiritedly brand Trump
supporters as committing idolatry. And now we have the
JOE SCARBOROUGH: You flagged a column by EJ economics-challenged former Newsweek editor Jon
Dionne in the Washington Post and it's about Christian Meacham who fully agrees that supporting Trump makes
leaders who are calling out what they're calling the you guilty of idolatry.
heresy of Trumpism and it's been led in large part by the
Reverend Michael Curry who we just heard there JON MEACHAM: Well, to me it's a fascinating moment.
preaching of course for the royal couple this past weekend. Brings up you know what what profited a man to gain the
Now today a group of Christians are going to be marching whole world if you if you lose your soul. The broad
on the White House for a candlelight vigil and they've evangelical movement as we're describing it basically has
released a joint joy declaration about the quote dangerous made a really shrewd political bet but it is a political bet.
crisis of moral and political leadership at the highest levels They are playing a 40-year strategy at the expense of their
of our government. The opening paragraph reads quote we integrity for four years. They're supporting President
believe the soul of the nation and the integrity of faith are Trump for the Supreme Court for the judiciary and they
now at stake. Let's bring in Pulitzer Prize-winning want to get these young appointees they want to get them
historian Jon Meacham. He's the author of the new best- for decades and they're willing to really put their otherwise
selling book The Soul of America the Battle for Our consistent views aside for that purpose and
Better Angels. And Jon, we'll get you in one moment but
Eddie there's a great find with EJ's column because it does
I think Eddie used exactly the right word. It's
appear that there are some evangelical leaders that are
idolatry. It's putting a temporal force, a
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temporal advantage ahead of spiritual The rest of the segment features Holy Joe and Glaude with
integrity. Mike Barnicle chiming in to join a hallelujah chorus in
their role as liberal dueling pastors to sanctimoniously
Sheesh! Get over it, Jon! Your side lost and now you can't condemn Trump and those idolaters who dare to support
accept the election results. So as whiny sore losers you him.
shamelessly use religion to attack Trump and lash out at
those who do support him as succumbing to idolatry.
.
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On NPR, NR's Reihan Salam Says Democrats
See Russia Obsession As Losing Political Steam
By Tim Graham
May 27, 2018 7:31 AM EDT
On Friday night's All Things Considered, NPR anchor Ari had been months earlier, it doesn't seem
Shapiro broke out the euphemisms for the FBI sending a ridiculous to me. So perhaps President Trump
spy (or an "informant") into the Trump campaign....just to is trying to bait his opponents into focusing on
spy on the Russians. He called it "an FBI source who met this story rather than on other stories that might
with Trump campaign officials early in the Russia prove more damaging for Republican political
investigation." Reihan Salam of National Review, not prospects. It's really hard to say.
exactly a Trump booster, said the ground is shifting under
the Democrats' feet on Russia-gate: SHAPIRO: Do you think he's that canny?
SHAPIRO: And, Reihan, this narrative is SALAM: Well, I think that he is very shrewd
interesting because a lot of Democrats see the about creating media firestorms and about
FBI as having thrown the campaign to President driving the news cycle. So in that sense, I
Trump...So, Reihan, how do you interpret think...
President Trump's attacks on the FBI that
Democrats had been attacking not long ago? SHAPIRO: Kimberly, you're nodding your head
yes.
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Corrupt Obama Appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson
Does It Again: Puts Politics Before Law In Manafort Case –
Should Be Removed
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 7:46 Am
Her actions with Paul Manafort alone are On January 3rdwe reported that Paul
cause for her to be removed or impeached. Manafort filed a suit against the “Deep
State” DOJ (Jeff Sessions), Assistant AG
Rod Rosenstein and Corrupt Investigator
We reported two months ago and again earlier this month,
Robert Mueller that would possibly shut
that Obama appointed liberal activist Judge, Amy Berman
down Mueller’s corrupt investigation!
Jackson, was assigned to the most important court case in
US history. Sadly, Judge Jackson has a horrible far left
record on the bench. In 2013 Judge Jackson rejected We reported for months on the many criminal and corrupt
arguments from the Catholic Church that Obamacare’s actions taken by numerous parties related to the Mueller
requirements that employers provide cost free coverage to investigation. Mueller never should have taken on the job
contraceptive services is contrary to their religious beliefs in the first place due to numerous conflicts. He is best
and violated their religious and free speech freedoms. This friends with fired leaker and former FBI Director James
was overturned by the Supreme Court. Comey. He met with Comey shortly before Comey
testified with Congress and stratigized with him. For this
alone he should have recused himself. The team Mueller
built to attack President Trump and have him removed is
all Deep State liberal attorneys and crooks. Mueller’s
record in the past is scattered with actions that let the
Clintons off scot-free on numerous occasions when they
should have been put in jail.
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Prior to the Obama administration approving the very true purpose of the money (52 USC 30121). This is what
controversial Uranium One deal in 2010 handing Russia Clinton and the DNC appear to have done.
20% of America’s Uranium, the FBI had evidence that
Russian nuclear industry officials were involved in Most often the penalty for violating this law is a fine, but
bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering in in egregious cases, like this one, criminal prosecutions
order to benefit Vladimir Putin. have been sought and convictions obtained. In this sense, it
could be said that Hillary Clinton is the one who was
The FBI approved the deal anyway. We also conspiring with the Russians by breaking campaign
know that Rosenstein and Mueller were the finance laws with impunity.
ones who allowed the Uranium One deal to
go forward. This was the real Russia But that’s not all.
collusion story involving the US
government.
Damning new evidence appears to show
that Clinton used her office as Secretary of
We know that Mueller’s team illegally obtained emails State to confer benefits to Russia in
related to the Trump transition team and these emails were exchange for millions of dollars in donations
protected under attorney-client privilege. Mueller and his to her foundation and cash to her husband.
entire team should have resigned after this.
Secret recordings, intercepted emails, financial records,
But perhaps one of the most damning and eyewitness accounts allegedly show that Russian
aspects of the Mueller investigation is that it nuclear officials enriched the Clintons at the very time
is not legal. The corrupt Mueller Hillary presided over a governing body which
investigation is tasked with finding a crime unanimously approved the sale of one-fifth of America’s
that does not exist in the law. It is a legal uranium supply to Russia.
impossibility. Mueller is being asked to do
something that is manifestly unattainable.
If this proves to be a corrupt “pay-to-play” scheme, it
would constitute a myriad of crimes, including bribery (18
FOX News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett explained this in USC 201-b), mail fraud (18 USC 1341), and wire fraud
an article last year that the entire Mueller investigation is (18 USC 1343). It might also qualify for racketeering
lawless. Jarrett argued that: charges (18 USC 1961-1968), if her foundation is
determined to have been used as a criminal enterprise.
… George Papadopoulos pled guilty to a single
charge of making a false statement to the FBI. The US statutory law is clear and Jarrett points it out. He
He was not charged with so-called “collusion” concluded with the following –
because no such crime exists in American
statutory law, except in anti-trust matters. It
Until now, no one had legal “standing” to argue
has no application to elections and political
in court that the appointment of Mueller was
campaigns.
illegal. The criminal charges [against Manafort
and Papadopoulos] change all that. The two
It is not a crime to talk to a Russian. Not that the media defendants will be able to argue before a judge
would ever understand that. They have never managed to that Mueller’s appointment by Acting Attorney
point to a single statute that makes “colluding” with a General Rod Rosenstein violated the special
foreign government in a political campaign a crime, likely counsel law.
because it does not exist in the criminal codes.
As I pointed out in a column last May, the law (28 CFR
Jarrett then turned his attention to Corrupt Hillary: 600) grants legal authority to appoint a special counsel to
investigate crimes. Only crimes. He has limited
It is against the law for the Clinton campaign jurisdiction. Yet, in his order appointing Mueller as special
and the Democratic National Committee to counsel (Order No. 3915-2017), Rosenstein directed him
funnel millions of dollars to a British spy to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the
and to Russian sources in order to obtain Russian government and individuals associated with the
the infamous and discredited Trump campaign of President Donald Trump.” It fails to identify
“dossier.” any specific crimes, likely because none are applicable.
The Federal Election Campaign Act (52 USC 30101) To put it plainly, Mueller is tasked with
prohibits foreign nationals and governments from giving or finding a crime that does not exist in the
receiving money in U.S. campaigns. It also prohibits the law. It is a legal impossibility. He is being
filing of false or misleading campaign reports to hide the
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asked to do something that is manifestly … the judge also expressed some concern
unattainable. about “overlap” between the Washington case
and the Virginia one, although she said
Manafort sued the DOJ, Mueller and ultimately the burden of two successive trials is
Rosenstein because what they are doing is likely to fall most heavily on the defense.
not supported by US Law.
“It seems the government is setting itself up to
Manafort’s case also argued in paragraph 33 of its filing put on the same evidence twice in different
that the special counsel put in place by crooked Rosenstein courtrooms,” Jackson said. “There’s a risk of
gave crooked and criminal Mueller powers that are not inconsistent [rulings] on the motions and
permitted by law. Mueller was given the latitude to evidentiary rulings and jury findings.”
investigate whatever he wanted to and that is not permitted
by the law. Manafort’s filing paragraph 33 stated – Ultimately, though, Jackson said she didn’t view the
parallel cases as a big problem.
But paragraph (b)(ii) of the Appointment Order purports to
grant Mr. Mueller further authority to investigate and “The burden is at its least on the courts. We can
prosecute “any matters that arose or may arise directly handle two trials,” she said.
from the investigation.” That grant of authority is not
authorized by DOJ’s special counsel regulations. It is not a Prosecutor Greg Andres stressed that Mueller’s team gave
“specific factual statement of the matter to be Manafort the option to face a single case in Washington on
investigated.” Nor is it an ancillary power to address all the charges, but Manafort declined to waive his right to
efforts to impede or obstruct investigation under 28 C.F.R. have the tax charges brought in Virginia, which is where
§ 600.4(a). he lived when he filed the tax returns at issue.
Manafort’s case was solid but the judge was Manafort was smart in moving his case out
Obama’s corrupt liberal Judge Jackson. On from under Judge Jackson to Virginia. It
April 27, 2018, Judge Jackson dismissed looks like this move and having his case in
Manafort’s plea. front of a judge not appointed by corrupt
Obama was a great move.
It is very clear that Manafort’s argument was valid. There
is no crime in US law for collusion and Rosenstein’s order Judge Jackson is not only wrong in her judgements, she is
allowing Mueller to look at whatever he wants was also overly abusive to Manafort. She scolded Manafort and
challenged in another Manafort case that Mueller filed his team for a statement his spokesman issued maintaining
against him in Virginia. his innocence and said the comments appeared to run afoul
of the order she issued in November limiting public
Judge T.S. Ellis blasted prosecutors, saying statements about the case by lawyers involved and by the
he believes Robert Mueller is effectively defendants. Of course she says nothing about the many
using the Paul Manafort case to provide leaks from the corrupt Mueller team.
material that would lead to Trump’s
“prosecution or impeachment”. He also Judge Jackson set the court date for Manafort’s case that
condemned the investigation for having no she oversees for mid-September, right before the mid-term
barriers. elections. Clearly she is trying to have this publicized and
negatively impact Republican chances in the election.
What a piece of rotten work!
Judge Jackson actually expressed concerns about Manafort A federal judge delivered a setback to President Trump’s
being indicted in two different courts. Far left liberal former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Friday by
Politico even reported in February – refusing to throw out some of the criminal charges against
him.
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Manafort’s legal team had argued in a Washington, D.C., The judge dismissed the motion from Manafort without
court that he was being charged twice for the same offense prejudice, meaning he can revisit it after his trial in the
of lying to federal officials. Manafort maintained that the case, which is scheduled for September, the AP noted.
stacking up charges could negatively influence a jury
against him, The Associated Press reported. Obama’s Liberal Judge Jackson is a real
piece of work. Let’s hope and pray for the
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, however, said sake of the Union that at some point soon,
in a ruling Friday that any harm or prejudice Manafort the Mueller investigation is called out for
could face would be handled by giving the jury “proper” what it is, a corrupt attempt by an elite few
instructions, according to the AP. to overthrow the government.
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President Trump Hurls A SECRET WARNING To
Corrupt Mueller Team In His Saturday Tweet
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 8:11 Am
“This whole Russia Probe is Rigged. Just an It’s been clear from the start that the Mueller
excuse as to why the Dems and Crooked Hillary team has numerous conflicts of interest
lost the Election and States that haven’t been starting with Mueller himself.
lost in decades. 13 Angry Democrats, and all
Dems if you include the people who worked for What is unclear is what “report” the President is referring
Obama for 8 years.” to. The IG report on the FBI’s actions related to the 2016
Clinton email scandal is in the final draft stages. So this
can’t be the report the President is referring to.
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Wonderful! Senator Orrin Hatch Heaps Praise On
President Trump After Release Of US
Hostage Josh Holt (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 8:43 Am
President Trump announced on Saturday During the remarks Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) heaped
morning that US hostage Josh Holt would praise on President Trump for his amazing leadership.
be released from prison in Venezuela.
Sen. Orrin Hatch: Mr. President I can’t tell you how
Josh Holt was in prison for two years since much I appreciate you. As you know I was the one guy
2016 in Venezuela. who didn’t support you 100%. But I do now. I think you’re
doing a terrific job. This shows why, basically you. You
actually, these folks did a great job. I was really thrilled the
way Bob handled himself. Caleb and others did such a
good job. We have good people working with us. And the
folks in this delegation all very sincerely wanted to get
Josh out of it. And the parents are just as good of people as
I’ve ever met in my life. And you better really live a good
life… But this wouldn’t have happened without you. We
just want you to know that when you look back over your
tenure and the presidency, this is just one of the many
Josh Holt joined President Trump on great things you’re doing. But it’s really a great thing. And
Saturday night in the White House along I know that we can rely on you and count on you and talk
with his family and Senators Orrin Hatch, to you and meet with you. These are all very important
Bob Corker and Steve Lee and things. We love you boy and just want to support you any
Representative Mia Love. way we can.
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Deep State Confession: 2017 UK Article Indicates
Obama’s Spygate Started In 2015 – Much
Earlier Than Currently Reported
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 9:11 Am
Another Internet sleuth (REX) put together [It’s unknown who in the Trump campaign was
some more pieces to Spygate over the even remotely linked to Russia in 2015.
weekend. The sleuth’s analysis shows that General Flynn visited Moscow in December
Obama’s Spygate scandal started much 2015 but this was no reason to spy on
earlier than expected and Deep State leaks President Trump.]
support this claim.
After noting that Germany, Poland, Estonia, Australia, the
On April 13, 2017, the far left Guardian posted an article Dutch and the French were all involved in the scandal and
about Trump and Russia collusion that began by making a passing information on to the [Obama Administration in
couple now key assertions, the] US, the Guardian article pointed out that the UK spy
agency was at no point carrying out a targeted operation
1) British spies played a crucial role in the against Trump or his team or proactively seeking
Trump – Russia conspiracy information. –
2) Trump – Russia scandal began in at
least 2015 It is understood that GCHQ was at no point carrying out a
3) The UK was involved targeted operation against Trump or his team or
4) The UK and US worked together for the proactively seeking information. The alleged conversations
were picked up by chance as part of routine surveillance of
next six months
Russian intelligence assets. Over several months, different
agencies targeting the same people began to see a pattern
Via The Guardian: of connections that were flagged to intelligence officials in
the US.
Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in
alerting their counterparts in Washington to This on face value is a lie. The investigation
contacts between members of Donald Trump’s was a targeted hit and not something
campaign team and Russian intelligence “picked up by chance.”
operatives, the Guardian has been told.
The article goes on to report that President Trump’s Press
GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of Secretary at the time, released information that Trump was
suspicious “interactions” between figures wired at Trump Tower and that it was the UK that wired
connected to Trump and known or suspected the future President –
Russian agents, a source close to UK
intelligence said. This intelligence was passed
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The issue of GCHQ’s role in the FBI’s ongoing
investigation into possible cooperation between
the Trump campaign and Moscow is highly
sensitive. In March Trump tweeted that Barack
Obama had illegally “wiretapped” him in Trump
Tower.
So according to the sources in the article It’s now very clear that the UK spied on the
the UK began spying on President Trump in Trump team starting at least as early as
late 2015 but Judge ‘Nap’ and Sean Spicer 2015.
were incorrect to say so because the UK spy
agency said this was ‘utterly ridiculous’.
They were sharing information with the US
from at least that time going forward.
We’ve been told by the MSM and even the
article above that the Trump – Russia story
Maybe this is why former British Spy Head
started in mid-2016. But this Guardian
Robert Hannigan resigned from the GCHQ in
article pushes the spying back into 2015:
January 2017. This was shortly before
Spicer’s comments about the British spying
on President Trump.
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Mark Penn: Deep State
Conducted A Sting Operation On Trump
By Trent Baker
27 May 2018
Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn examined the “out of Cats Roundtable” host John Catsimatidis
hand” Robert Mueller investigation into President Donald on his Sunday broadcast.
Trump, saying the
He continued,
“deep state is clearly in a deep state of
desperation.” ” And now, we’re finding out on top of that
“Every day we discover more and more … perhaps they were even setting up a
potential abuses — that the investigation sting operation even before the
didn’t have a foundation, that they used this investigation to try to entrap the Trump
flaky dossier, you know, that was never campaign, and you’re wondering, ‘Is that
substantiated as part of their investigation,” the American government?'”
Penn told New York AM 970 radio’s “The
.
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CHELSEA CLINTON Tells The Guardian: I’d Protest
Trump In Great Britain – He Has Mainstreamed
And Mainlined Hate
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 9:38 Am
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ABC Whines: Trump Getting A
‘Boost’ From Bringing Americans Home
By Nicholas Fondacaro
May 27, 2018 10:04 AM EDT
But her tone turned skeptical when talking about “So I would say it is pretty obvious it does
America’s reaction to the charges, saying, give him a boost,” Raddatz continued to
whine. “I'm not sure many Americans knew
“The U.S. government, however, contending about Joshua Holt and he was held in
these charges were inflated.” Venezuela…”
Using “inflated” instead of saying, “fabricated” or It’s interesting and tragic that she would surmise how
“trumped-up” gives a sense there was a grain of truth to many Americans knew about Holt because according to a
the socialist regime’s assertions. Nexis search of ABC broadcasts from 2016, they never
mentioned his capture.
When co-anchor Dan Harris brought on Foreign Affairs
correspondent Martha Raddatz to discuss the political Palmeri also seemed to suggest America was the one at
news, he prompted her to knock how Trump was getting fault of the U.S.’s combative relationship with Venezuela:
positive coverage for once.
The U.S. relationship with Venezuela has been poor, the
“This is the second time in a few weeks White House referred to Maduro’s last re-election as a
we’ve seen Donald Trump next to Americans sham. The people of Venezuela are living without food
and medicine. But the U.S. just imposed more sanctions
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this past week and the White House says they will stay in and grenades. The U.S. government, however, contending these
place. charges were inflated. Holt saying he endured inhumane
conditions without trial.
There was no mention of how most of the world
considered Maduro’s election as illegitimate as well or (…)
how the government there was the cause of its people’s
problems. [Cuts back to live]
Raddatz may say they're "all always happy PALMERI: The U.S. relationship with Venezuela has been poor,
when Americans prisoners are released," the White House referred to Maduro’s last re-election as a sham.
The people of Venezuela are living without food and medicine.
but they have a bizarre way of showing it. It’s truly But the U.S. just imposed more sanctions this past week and the
disgusting that ABC would use even a second of airtime to White House says they will stay in place. Dan, Paula?
cry about Trump getting positive coverage from the media
when they should be focused on Holt and his family. It just DAN HARRIS: It was amazing they were able to get him out in
goes to show just how petty the liberal media can be. this context. Tara, thank you so much.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below: So many political issues to talk about on this Sunday morning.
So, let's bring in ABC's Martha Raddatz in Washington, where
ABC she is going to be hosting This Week later this morning. Martha
Good Morning America good morning to you. This is the second time in a few weeks
May 27, 2018 we’ve seen Donald Trump next to Americans who have just been
8:08:24 AM Eastern released from captivity overseas. Before this, it was the
Americans who were freed from North Korea. How much of a
PAULA FARIS: In those comments from President Trump boost do these stories give to the president?
overnight about the negotiations for the North Korean summit you
may have noticed he was sitting next to someone. That man right MARTHA RADDATZ: I think you just saw there in Tara's report,
there, his name is Josh Holt. And he was at the White House late extraordinary, they're very thankful to the President, they say it
on a Saturday night under some dramatic circumstances. again and again. Donald Trump, trumpets all of these releases.
It’s very unusual, of course, for someone to be released and go
(…) straight to the White House for a photo opportunity.
TARA PALMERI: The 26-year-old Mormon imprisoned shortly So I would say it is pretty obvious it does give him a boost. I'm
after marrying a Venezuelan woman he met online. Venezuelan not sure many Americans knew about Joshua Holt and he was
police arresting him on charges of terrorism. U.S. linked held in Venezuela but we're all always happy when American
espionage, and illegal possession of weapons including a rifle prisoners are released, all of us are.
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Giuliani: ‘I Don’t’ Believe
Mueller Probe Is Legitimate
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
10:04 AM 05/27/2018
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the made him believe that the impetus for the investigation
Union” Sunday that he no longer believes Special Counsel was illegitimate.
Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion is
legitimate. “You get the Comey thing, which is a leak of a
confidential memo, which is illegal for an FBI
WATCH: official to do, and that becomes the basis for
appointing Mueller,” Giuliani explained. “I’m not
saying Mueller is illegitimate, I’m saying the
basis on which he was appointed was
illegitimate.”
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Oops!… Hillary Campaign Official Accuses Trump Of
Offering Children To Human Traffickers …
But It Was An Obama Policy!
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 10:24 Am
Zac Petkanas
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But then this happened… Jack Posobiec unearthed a Washington
Post article from 2016 that put the blame on
Obama.
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Flake: ‘Constitutional Crisis’
If Trump Fires Rosenstein
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
10:27 AM 05/27/2018
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Law Professor Insists Mueller ‘Has No Clothes’
Federalist Society Co-Founder Steven Calabresi Argues That Everything
The Special Counsel Has Done Is 'Null And Void'
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 27 May 2018 At 10:28 AM
The consequences of that conclusion, should it prove And there is a Supreme Court precedent upholding the
accurate, could be sweeping for Mueller’s open-ended constitutionality of the law allowing for the appointment of
investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the a special prosecutor by a three-judge panel. That law,
2016 presidential election and possible collusion with which eventually lapsed because Congress declined to
President Donald Trump’s campaign. renew it, was more suspect than the current statute because
it involved questions of separation of powers — could
“All actions taken by Mueller since his another branch appoint an official of the executive branch
appointment on May 17, 2017, are, who is completely independent of it?
therefore, null and void,” he said.
The Supreme Court answered that question in 1988, with a
That would include all the indictments Mueller has 7-1 ruling in a case involving a special prosecutor who
brought, the plea bargains he has negotiated, the investigated possible false statements to Congress by
controversial searches his team has conducted, and the Theodore Olson, who at the time was an official in the
referral he made of records seized from the home and Environmental Protection Agency. (Olson later went on to
offices of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. serve as solicitor general in the George W. Bush
administration, representing the federal government in
Calabresi predicted the courts would throw out any matters before the Supreme Court.)
evidence given to the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan
as the Calabresi sees six votes on high court. But Calabresi —
who clerked for Scalia when the late justice wrote the
“fruit of a poisonous tree.” dissent in that case — said he believes there are five, and
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possibly six, votes on the high court to strike down extremely broad scope with nationwide jurisdiction, a
Mueller's appointment. large staff and no genuine limits on his budget. He said
that in power and prestige, Mueller greatly exceeds the 93
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan, speaking at a Stanford U.S. attorneys. The special counsel functionally is much
University event in 2015, called Scalia's contrary opinion more like an assistant attorney general, a position that must
be nominated by the president and confirmed by the
Senate.
"one of the greatest dissents ever written,
and every year it gets better."
"It's just absolutely clear that
Calabresi pointed to a Supreme Court ruling in 1976 … Mueller is not an inferior
striking down a law that had allowed for the speaker of the officer," he said. "He is a
House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of principal officer, and since he
the Senate to make appointments to the Federal Election has not been nominated by the
Commission. Only the president could make those president and confirmed by the
appointments, the court ruled. Senate, everything he has done
since May 17, 2017, has been
Under interpretation of the appointments clause, a unconstitutional and has been
"principal officer" must be nominated by the president and illegal."
confirmed by the Senate. If he is an inferior officer, he can
be appointed by another government official without input
from the president or confirmation by the Senate. The constitutional solution for the problem of how to
investigate potential wrongdoing by a president is for
Congress to create a standing office of special counsel
headed by an official appointed by the president and
confirmed by the Senate, Calabresi said. He said the
approach has historical roots.
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Former CIA Dir. Hayden Calls Out Clapper
For ‘Unknowable’ Russia Claim
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
10:44 AM 05/27/2018
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US Officials Cross Into
North Korea For Summit Preparations
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
10:47 AM 05/27/2018
U.S. officials reportedly traveled to North Korea Sunday to “We are having very productive talks with North
prepare for a possible summit between President Donald Korea about reinstating the summit,” he
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. tweeted. The summit might still be held in
Singapore on June 12, he suggested.
The American delegation was led by Ambassador to the
Philippines Sung Kim, the former ambassador to South
Korea and an experienced nuclear negotiator, The
Washington Post reported Sunday. The U.S. team met with
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, a
senior North Korean official who recently criticized
Trump’s administration, causing the president to cancel his
summit with Kim.
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Clapper Answers Why Trump Campaign
Wasn’t Alerted To Russian Effort
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:11 AM 05/27/2018
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Giuliani: FBI, DOJ Are Being ‘Hypocritical’
Amber Athey - Media And Breaking News Editor
11:34 AM 05/27/2018
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday that he spying on the Russian end. But spying on the
believes the FBI and DOJ are being “hypocritical” in the Russian end if they thought there was collusion
way they are handling information about the Trump meant spying on the president’s campaign.”
campaign informant.
He also noted that the FBI and DOJ have claimed that
WATCH: releasing the identity of the informant would put him in
danger. Yet, Giuliani argued, the FBI and DOJ have failed
to provide the informant with protection even after his
identity was reported by the press.
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Alexander Downer Describes Barroom Meeting With
Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos
Chuck Ross - Reporter
11:59 AM 05/27/2018
In a little-noticed interview in April, former Australian Downer sent a cable back to Australian government
diplomat Alexander Downer spoke publicly for the first authorities within 48 hours of the Papadopoulos encounter.
time about his barroom conversation with President The information was not provided to the FBI until months
Donald Trump’s campaign adviser that would serve as a later when Joe Hockey, Australia’s ambassador to the
catalyst for the FBI’s collusion investigation. U.S., passed it to American authorities in late July 2016.
He was prompted to share the information by WikiLeaks’
Downer, the former high commissioner to the U.K., said release of hacked DNC emails.
he asked another Australian diplomat to contact the Trump
aide, George Papadopoulos, for the meeting, which “Crossfire Hurricane” was officially opened on July 31,
occurred around May 10, 2016, at London’s Kensington 2016. It has since folded into the investigation being
Wine Room. conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Over drinks, Papadopoulos mentioned Russians had “During that conversation, [Papadopoulos]
information on Hillary Clinton that could prove damaging, mentioned the Russians might use material that
Downer told The Australian in an April 28 interview. they have on Hillary Clinton in the lead-up to the
election, which may be damaging,” Downer told
There was no indication in the short exchange with The Australian.
Papadopoulos that Trump was aware of the damaging
information, Downer also said. Downer said he felt the information
“By the way, nothing [Papadopoulos] said in “seemed quite interesting” and “was worth
that conversation indicated Trump himself had reporting.”
been conspiring with the Russians to collect
information on Hillary Clinton. It was just that Papadopoulos, an energy consultant who joined the
this guy, [Papadopoulos], clearly knew that the campaign in March 2016, had other discussions about
Russians did have material on Hillary Clinton — Clinton information during the campaign.
but whether Trump knew or not?” Downer
explained. He told the FBI back on Jan. 26, 2017, about a
conversation he had on April 26, 2016, with Joseph
“He didn’t say Trump knew or that Trump was in Mifsud, a Maltese professor. Papadopoulos said Mifsud
any way involved in this. He said it was about claimed to have been in contact with Russian government
Russians and Hillary Clinton; it wasn’t about officials who said they had “dirt” on Clinton in the form of
Trump,” Downer told The Australian. “thousands” of her emails.
Papadopoulos’s reference to Clinton material was vague, Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to the special counsel’s
Downer suggested. office for lying during that FBI interview. While he told
the truth about Mifsud’s remarks about Clinton dirt,
“He didn’t say dirt; he said material that could Papadopoulos lied about the timing of his encounters with
be damaging to her. No, he said it would be Mifsud and two of the professor’s Russian associates.
damaging. He didn’t say what it was.”
It is still unknown whether Papadopoulos told anyone on
Downer’s encounter with Papadopoulos would later the Trump campaign about Mifsud’s remarks. But sources
prompt the FBI to open “Crossfire Hurricane” — the close to Papadopoulos have told The DCNF he believed
counterintelligence investigation into possible coordination Mifsud was referring to 30,000 emails Clinton had deleted
between members of Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin. from her private email server. The whereabouts of those
deleted documents was a hot topic of debate during the
campaign.
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Papadopoulos has also privately denied allegations he Papadopoulos to Thompson. The trio met several times in
colluded with Russia. He has told associates he did not see, London during April 2016.
handle or disseminate Clinton emails, according to the
source with information on the Downer meeting. Downer also suggested the meeting was brief and
Papadopoulos was not drunk, as has been widely reported.
In his interview, Downer confirmed several details According to the profile, Downer and Papadopoulos spoke
TheDCNF previously reported, including about how the over a “single short drink.”
Papadopoulos meeting came about and what else was
discussed. Downer also confirmed he confronted Papadopoulos over
his comments about then-British Prime Minister David
He said Erika Thompson, a counselor to the high Cameron. Papadopoulos was quoted in the British press a
commission, accompanied him. week before the Kensington Wine Room meeting, calling
on Cameron to apologize for making negative comments
“Downer, or Thompson at Downer’s request, about Trump.
made contact with Papadopoulos through an
Israeli contact in early May 2016.” Downer said he and Papadopoulos also discussed foreign
policy issues, including Trump’s position on the Trans-
That Israeli contact is Christian Cantor, an Israeli embassy Pacific Partnership and policy toward China.
official.
“We didn’t know anything about Trump and
Sources familiar with Papadopoulos’s activities in London Russia, and we had no particular focus on that,”
at that time have told TheDCNF that Cantor introduced Downer said in his interview with The
Australian.
.
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Here Are The 17 Prisoners
Trump Has Freed Since He Took Office
Ryan Pickrell - China/Asia Pacific Reporter
12:36 PM 05/27/2018
Since President Donald Trump took office, his intervened on her behalf, securing a pardon and De
administration has secured the release of 17 prisoners Sousa’s freedom in March of the same year.
foreign governments had detained.
Aya Hijazi and her husband Mohamed Hassanein:
“We’ve had 17 released, and we’re very proud
of that record. Very proud. And we have others
coming,” Trump said Saturday evening as he
welcomed home Joshua Holt, an American
citizen who had been detained in Venezuela for
two years without trial.
Sabrina De Sousa:
[Former CIA agent Sabrina De Sousa speaks during an interview Not long after Trump met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
with Reuters in downtown Lisbon, Portugal, March 8, 2017. el-Sisi in April 2017, an Egyptian court cleared all seven
REUTERS/Rafael Marchante]
detainees of all charges. The president personally sent a
Portuguese-American Sabrina De Sousa, a former CIA U.S. government plane to Cairo to retrieve Hijazi and her
agent, was arrested and detained in Portugal in 2015 after husband, and he greeted them both at the White House
being convicted in absentia in 2009 of kidnapping. De upon their long-awaited return to the U.S.
Sousa was sentenced to four years in prison for her alleged
involvement in the kidnapping of radical Muslim Sandy Phan-Gillis:
cleric Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu
Omar, in Milan, Italy, in 2003. Although De Sousa argued China arrested Texas businesswoman Sandy Phan-Gillis in
she played no part in the abduction, failed appeals had her 2015 on charges of espionage and held her for two years
on the fast track to becoming the first American without a public trial. Her husband, Jeff Gillis, insisted the
intelligence official to serve jail time for a role in former allegations were “absolutely false.” He pleaded with the
President George W. Bush’s administration’s “War on Obama administration to bring her home. While the
Terror.” administration pressed Beijing on the issue, it was
ultimately unable to secure her release.
But before she could be extradited to Italy in February
2017 to serve her sentence, Trump’s administration
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Following a meeting between former Secretary of State Coleman had three children during her and her husband’s
Rex Tillerson with Chinese leadership in March 2017 and time in captivity.
a summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi
Jinping in Mar-a-Lago in April 2018, Phan-Gillis was In October 2017, the U.S. pressured Pakistan into rescuing
finally freed from prison. the family after they were spotted near the border.
Pakistani authorities were able to recover the five captives,
China sentenced her to three and a half years in prison but and the family returned to North America last fall.
deported her before she could serve any additional jail
time. Numerous questions continue to surround the captives,
particularly Boyle.
Otto Warmbier:
UCLA basketball players LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley
and Jalen Hill:
Canadian-American couple Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Kim Dong-Chul, Kim Hak-Song and Kim Sang-Duk:
Coleman were kidnapped in 2012 while backpacking
through Afghanistan and held captive by the Haqqani
Kim Dong-Chul, a businessman and purported Christian
network for five years. The Haqqani network, an offshoot
missionary, was arrested in North Korea in 2015 on
of the Taliban, demanded the release of prisoners in
charges of espionage. He was sentenced to 10 years of
exchange for the hostages — a demand that was not met.
hard labor for his crimes. Kim Hak-Song and Kim Sang-
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Duk were professors at Pyongyang University of Science
and Technology before they were arrested in May and
April 2017 respectively for unspecified hostile acts.
[The three Americans formerly held hostage in North Korea gesture President Trump announced his administration had secured
next to U.S.President Donald Trump upon their arrival at Joint Base Holt’s release Saturday morning.
Andrews, Maryland, U.S., May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Jim Bourg]
***
Trump’s administration secured the release of these three
prisoners during Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s second
trip to North Korea in early May. The three men received a More On The Way…
heroes welcome when they returned home.
“We have others coming. We’re in the midst of some very
Joshua Holt: big negotiations to get others out. In most cases, they’re
Americans, but we can try and help other countries too,
where there’s injustice. So we’ve been working very hard
Joshua Holt, a 26-year-old Utah native, and his
on it,” Trump said Saturday evening, making references to
Venezuelan wife, Thamy, along with their
four Americans held captive in Iran and a North Carolina
daughter, returned to the U.S. Saturday evening for a
pastor held hostage in Turkey.
tearful reunion with Holt’s mother and father. Holt was
arrested on charges of espionage when he traveled to
Venezuela in June 2016 to marry Thamy.
.
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Rudy Giuliani: The Spying On Trump By The Obama
Administration “Completely Taints” The
Entire Mueller Probe (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 12:51 Pm
He’s right.
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Report: Top Iranian Official, John Kerry Meeting Partner,
Caught Chanting, ‘Death To America’
Peter Hasson - Reporter
2:19 PM 05/27/2018
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, a key architect of the “Death to America!”
2015 Iran nuclear deal, was caught on camera chanting
“Death to America,” “Death to Britain” and “Death to Kerry and Zarif were considered to be among the
Israel,” Israeli outlet Ynetnews reported on Saturday. frontrunners for 2017’s Nobel Peace Prize for their work
on the Iran deal.
Zarif participated in the violent chants on Thursday after
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered
a speech in Tehran, according to Ynetnews.
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Former CIA Director Hayden DESTROYS James
Clapper’s Claims That Russia Changed Election Outcome
Posted On May 27, 2018
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POTUS Trump: Mueller Phony Russia Witch Hunt Has
Devastated And Destroyed Many Lives
By Cristina Laila
May 27, 2018, 2:48 Pm
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Page tells The Post that during the media barrage he faced MICHAEL COHEN
in late 2016, he visited his girlfriend at her London flat,
where she was “freaking out with the fake news about me.” One of Trump’s personal lawyers was recently raided by
the FBI on Rosenstein’s orders with Mueller’s blessing.
MICHAEL CAPUTO
The only reason Cohen is being hunted down is because he
Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo says Mueller has is connected to President Trump.
made life hell for him and his family.
As a result his financial records have been leaked to the
Caputo went off on the Senate Intel panel recently. public.
“Forget about all the death threats against my family. I Cohen has also become of target of Mueller’s investigation.
want to know who cost us so much money, who crushed
our kids, who forced us out of our home, all because you ROGER STONE
lost an election,” Caputo said. “I want to know because
God damn you to hell.” Stone is one of Trump’s longtime friends and advisors and
also a target of Mueller’s witch hunt along with his aides.
GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS
The Special Counsel has recently probed Stone’s finances
Papadopoulos was a Trump campaign volunteer who was including his tax returns.
enticed by cash and a trip to London by FBI informant
Stefan Halper.
In a recent op-ed for The Gateway Pundit, Roger Stone
said,
As a result he plead guilty to making a false statement to
the FBI and will receive his sentence very soon.
“Mueller can indict a ham sandwich but I’m not
interested in being his lunch.”
PAUL MANAFORT
These are just a few people who are caught up in Mueller’s
Trump’s former campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort was political witch hunt.
raided by the FBI at gunpoint last summer and indicted on
charges that have nothing to do with Russian collusion.
Many other lives have been affected including members of
Trump’s family.
As a result, Manafort has lost his freedom and is fighting
Mueller in two different cases which of course is costing Just as Tom Fitton always says, “SHUT IT DOWN!”
him a lot of money.
.
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Rudy Fears Trump/Mueller
Interview Is A Trap [VIDEO]
Kevin Daley - Supreme Court Reporter
3:01 PM 05/27/2018
WATCH:
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who now
leads President Donald Trump’s defense team, told Fox
News Sunday Trump will not interview with special
counsel Robert Mueller if he believes the meeting is a trap
for perjury.
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POTUS Trump Rips Obama For Doing Nothing About So-
Called Russian Meddling ‘He Thought Crooked Hillary
Was Going To Win’
By Cristina Laila
May 27, 2018, 4:49 Pm
448
Marco Rubio Defends Deep State: I Have Seen ‘No
Evidence’ FBI Spied On Trump Campaign (Video)
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 4:50 Pm
449
DEMOCRAT Calls For Stopping Robert Mueller And
Draining The Swamp, Or Public Faith In Government
“Justice” Will Be Shattered Forever
By JD Heyes
05/27/2018
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“The president’s lawyers need to extend their Penn also believes Trump himself could prove to be the
new aggressiveness from words to action, filing “final stopper” — agreeing to a televised two-hour session
complaints with Justice Department’s Office of whereby he provides Mueller with testimony.
Professional Responsibility on the failure of
Mueller and Rosenstein to recuse themselves, Stopping the probe “isn’t about one president or one
and going into court to question the tactics of party,” it’s about “cleaning out and reforming the deep
the special counsel” for a variety of reasons he state so that our intelligence operations are never used
adds. against opposing campaigns without the firmest of
evidence,” Penn notes.
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Poll: Despite Conspiracy Media’s Best Efforts – 59% Of
Americans Know Mueller Probe Is A Far Left Witch Hunt
By Jim Hoft
May 27, 2018, 6:11 Pm
There is no collusion with Russia. And yet the Democrats and their media have made the
country suffer through their mental breakdown for a year-
There never was any collusion with Russia by and-a-half now since Hillary got shellacked in the election.
the Trump campaign.
A new poll finds 59% of Americans
The only collusion with Russia was the the understand the crimes uncovered by Mueller
Clinton campaign, Fusion GPS, and Russian are political hit jobs and meaningless
operatives. indictments.
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Rudy Hits Another Home Run:
Mueller’s Team Is Rigged So Bad Some Of His Team
Were “At Hillary Clinton’s Funeral!”
By Jim Hoft
May 28, 2018, 9:13 Am
Rudy – Gee, maybe they should wake up
and realize that the President is innocent.
That’s why he wants to testify, and
because of them [the Mueller team] we
don’t want him to testify because they’re
not fair.
They have rigged this
investigation against him, 13
Democrats, angry as heck, and
some of them there at Hillary
Clinton’s funeral. I mean
terrible. Wait, when she was
Former Federal Prosecutor and New
supposed to have a victory
York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was on
party!
FOX News Sunday with Bill Hammer
yesterday. He again hit another home Hammer – We are a long way from an
run. No wonder the MSM is terrified of interview, aren’t we?
Rudy.
Rudy – Well, maybe we’re not a long way
from deciding we won’t have one. And then
Rudy and all of America know there is no collusion they’re going to have to go on what they
between President Trump and Russia and so Rudy again have and everybody’s going to find out
encouraged the corrupt Mueller team to wrap it up. they don’t have anything.
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Clapper Weaves Tangled New Web On Spygate
If The FBI's Trump Campaign Informant Found Real Evidence, Shouldn't It Have
Been Used In The Bureau's FISA Warrant Applications?
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 27 May 2018 At 9:38 PM
“Well, I think the first thing is [to] determine
just what was going on.”
Clapper replied,
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The FBI relied heavily upon the infamous anti-Trump
dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele
alleging collusion with Russia to renew surveillance
warrants against Page. The dossier was funded by the
Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee
(DNC) she controlled.
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When Do Americans Say It
Isn’t Right To ‘Spy On A Campaign’?
Rep. Mark Meadows Said Dept. Of Justice Lacks The Transparency Required
To Respect Lawmakers' Constitutional Oversight Prerogatives
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 27 May 2018 At 10:37 PM
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REVEALED: Joseph Mifsud – The Man Who Set Up
Papadopoulos – Is Member Of Soros-Funded European
Council On Foreign Relations
By Jim Hoft
May 28, 2018, 10:15 Am
Joseph Mifsud is a Maltese academic, with high level His whereabouts are still unknown.
connections to the Russian state and UK politicians.
Mifsud is a former employee of the Ministry of Foreign Although the common story is that Mifsud is a Russian
Affairs of Malta, a former principal in the London Centre Agent, many ties seem to lead [him] back to UK
of International Law Practice, a professorial teaching Intelligence. Julian Assange put out a Twitter thread noting
fellow at the University of Stirling in Scotland, and the connection between Mifsud and UK Intelligence.
director of the Diplomatic Academy of London.
Mifsud went missing after his Mifsud has many suspect relationships with British and
connections to George Papadopoulos Russian operatives. Mifsud is a member of the European
went public. Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
George Papadopoulos, the lower level campaign worker The ECFR’s top donor is the Soros Open Society
for the Trump campaign, appears to have been targeted by Foundation.
three individuals with ties to British and/or U.S.
Intelligence:
Again, Mifsud went missing in 2017 after This Mifsud character is very
his relationship with George interesting. Too bad he went missing.
Papadopoulos was exposed.
Mifsud also has connections to Saudi Brian Whitaker at Medium.com put together this map of
operatives. Mifsud’s connections and organizations.
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Salient Facts: The Tangled Web
Around Joseph Mifsud
2 January 2018
“Professor” Joseph Mifsud was a key figure in the ● Mifsud attended the Moscow-based Valdai Discussion Club in
Trump/Russia affair—a middleman who provided George 2016; on his return, he informed Papadopoulos that he had met
Papadopoulos, one of Trump’s foreign policy advisers, high-level Russian officials and said the Russians had “dirt” on
with Russian contacts and told him the Russians had “dirt” Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails”.
on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails”.
● Mifsud is a “good old friend” of Prasenjit Kumar (aka Prasenjit
Maltese-born Mifsud,who has since disappeared, is a Kumar Singh), owner of the London School of Executive
puzzling figure — an active networker who had multiple Training. It appears to be through the Kumar connection that
links to universities and other “educational” bodies but Mifsud became acquainted with Alok Sharma MP and later met
appears to have done little academic work himself. Britain’s foreign secretary, Boris Johnson.
Mifsud obtained a PhD from Queens University, Belfast, London Centre of International Law Practice (LCILP)
in 1995 with a thesis on “Managing educational reform”.
Although he has often been referred to as “Professor ● Mifsud was described by LCILP as its “board adviser” and
Mifsud” it is doubtful whether he has ever held the formal “Director of International Strategic Development”. After his
title of “Professor”. During his brief spell at Stirling involvement in Trump/Russia became known, LCILP removed
University he was described as a “professorial teaching the names and details of all staff from its website.
fellow” — which, according to the university, meant he was
employed full-time in a “teaching and advisory” capacity.
● Papadopoulos was head of the “Centre for International
Energy and Natural Resources Law & Security” at LCILP from
This is a compilation of established facts about Mifsud and February to April 2016.
his connections …
● Nagi Idris, who founded LCILP in 2014, claims to be a visiting
Joseph Mifsud professor at Link Campus University in Rome.
Mifsud’s multiple roles: ● The first conference organised by LCILP after its formation
was held at the London Academy of Diplomacy where Mifsud
● Director of London Academy of Diplomacy from 2014 until its was director.
closure in 2016; previously described as an “external adviser”.
Other interesting facts:
● “Board adviser” and “Director of International Strategic
Development” at London Centre of International Law Practice ● When LCILP came under media scrutiny the “our team” page
(LCILP). giving details of its staff disappeared from its website.
● “Professorial teaching fellow” at University of Stirling and a full- London Academy of Diplomacy (LAD)
time employee.
● Mifsud was the academy’s director from 2014 until its closure
● “Consultant” for INTO University Partnerships, a private in 2016; he was previously described as its “external adviser”.
company. A list of INTO’s shareholders shows “J Mifsud” owning
37,000 shares .
● Its most recent owner was INTO University Partnerships.
● Frequent visitor to Link Campus University in Italy. Link’s
● From 2010 onwards, the academy was housed at a campus in
website describes him as “Dean of the Bachelor of Arts degree
central London which had been jointly developed by the
program in political sciences and international relations”, though
University of East Anglia and INTO University Partnerships.
his exact role is unclear.
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● From 2010 to 2014 the academy’s courses were validated by Thursday and Norwich on the Friday. There was none of
the University of East Anglia and subsequently by the University the stress that is usually created by travelling. We could go
of Stirling. at any time we needed to, and as the aircraft can land on
short grass runways if required we often can use smaller
Other interesting connections: airfields to get closer to our destination.”
● In 2014 the academy hosted the first conference organised by Link Campus University
LCILP.
Link Campus University in Rome began in 1999 as a
● In 2015 the academy hosted a lecture by Alok Sharma MP. subsidiary of the University of Malta but is now an
independent (for-profit) institution accredited by the Italian
● The academy often received foreign visitors but one visit that education ministry.
has attracted notice was by a delegation from the Lomonosov
Moscow State University, accompanied by counsellor Ernest Its president is 84-year-old Vincenzo Scotti, a former
Chernukhin from the Russian embassy. government minister and a member of the Christian
Democracy party. Another of its directors is Italian
● Another Russian visitor to the academy was Alexey Klishin politician Gianni Pittella.
from the International Law Faculty at Moscow State Institute of
International Relations (MGIMO) — an academic institution run by Its website lists 25 partner universities, of which seven are
the Russian foreign ministry. Klishin, who had been invited by Russian:
Mifsud, gave a lecture on 25 January 2016 about the relationship
between national and international law. In 2011, while head of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Emuni, Mifsud had given a presentation at MGIMO and signed a Kuban State University of Physical Education, Sport
“memorandum of understanding”. and Tourism
Kaliningrad State Technical University
INTO University Partnerships Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities
Ural State University of Economics
INTO University Partnerships is a company that makes its Baikal State University of Economics and Law
money from establishing partnerships with universities — Saint Petersburg State University of Services and
helping them to “attract lucrative students from new Economics
markets” and jointly investing in the construction of new
campus facilities. In 2013 a private equity deal valued the The three British institutions listed are London Academy
business at more than £200 million. of Diplomacy, the University of East Anglia and LSE
Enterprise (the “business and consultancy arm” of the
● INTO’s first partner, in 2005, was the University of East London School of Economics).
Anglia and together they developed a satellite campus in
central London which later housed the London Academy Interesting connections:
of Diplomacy.
● Joseph Mifsud was described on Link’s website as “Dean of
● Stirling University became a partner of INTO in 2014 the Bachelor of Arts degree program in political sciences and
and validated course at the London Academy of international relations”. After his involvement in Trump/Russia
Diplomacy after the University of East Anglia pulled out. became known, references to his connection with Link were
removed from the website.
● In February 2013, Mifsud visited Malta acting as a
consultant for INTO. ● George Papadopoulos is known to have visited Link at least
once while working for Trump’s election campaign. A photograph
● A list of INTO’s shareholders filed at Companies House posted on Twitter by Nagi Idris (of LCILP) on 25 May 2016 shows
in July 2017 shows “J Mifsud” owning 37,000 shares. him among a LCILP delegation visiting the campus.
University of East Anglia (UEA) ● On a visit to Link Campus University (date unkown), Kumar
met Olga Polonskaya, the Russian woman who posed as
President Putin’s niece during one of Mifsud’s meetings with
● UEA was the first university to establish a partnership with Papadopoulos.
INTO, in 2005.
● Around August/September 2017, met Polonskaya again, at the
● From 2010 to 2014 UEA housed the London Academy of Westfield shopping centre in London.
Diplomacy and validated its courses.
● Kumar has been involved in a succession of failed education
● UEA is a partner of Link Campus University in Rome. businesses. In 2009 one of these companies, Halifax College
(UK) Limited, made donations to the Conservative party in
University of Stirling Reading West amounting to £5,000. At the time, Reading West
was a marginal constituency held by Labour. The following year,
● Joseph Mifsud was a “professorial teaching fellow” at Stirling. Alok Sharma captured it for the Conservatives.
The university initially said he had been a full-time employee
since May 2017 but later said he had resigned on 23 November ● On 19 October 2017 Kumar and Mifsud attended a
2017. Conservative party fundraising dinner in Sharma’s constituency
where they were photographed side by side with Boris Johnson,
● Stirling validated courses at the London Academy of the British foreign secretary. Johnson had previously denied
Diplomacy from 2014 until its closure in 2016. “knowingly” meeting Mifsud.
Interesting fact:
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After attracting media attention, Kumar deleted all relevant the British foreign secretary. Johnson had previously denied
posts from his Facebook page. “knowingly” meeting Mifsud.
Alok Sharma, MP ● Sharma admits to having met Mifsud “a couple of times” and to
having “briefly greeted” Mifsud at the fundraising dinner on 19
Alok Sharma has been Conservative MP for Reading West October 2017 but says he did not introduce Mifsud to Johnson.
since 2010 and briefly served as a junior minister in the
Foreign Office. Nagi Idris
● A few months before Sharma was elected, a company in which ● Nagi Idris founded the London Centre of International Law
Kumar was involved — Halifax College (UK) Limited — made Practice (LCILP) where Mifsud and Papadopoulos were both
donations to the Conservative party in Reading West amounting working between February and April 2016.
to £5,000.
● Idris claims to be a visiting professor at Link Campus
● In 2015 Sharma gave a public lecture at the London Academy University in Rome.
of Diplomacy where Mifsud was director.
● On 25 May 2016 Idris posted a photo on Twitter showing
● Alok Sharma’s father, Prem Sharma, is a governor of Kumar’s Papadopoulos among a delegation from LCILP visiting Link
London School of Executive Training. Campus University.
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Film Director: ‘Buffoon’ Trump
Becoming President Is Proof ‘Deep State’
Doesn’t Exist
By Geoffrey Dickens
May 28, 2018 10:42 AM EDT
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Jonathan Turley Slams Crooked Cop Sally Yates –
President Trump Piles On (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 28, 2018, 2:41 Pm
On Memorial Day Monday attorney Jonathan Turley President Trump piled on Sally Yates
joined FOX and Friends to discuss the ongoing Mueller before his visit to Arlington Cemetery.
witch hunt and Obama spygate scandal.
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Judge Janine Unleashed: Comey, Clapper, Obama Are ‘All
Liars’ Trying To Ruin POTUS Trump
Posted On May 29, 2018
Those leakers and liars include former Director of National This is all so obviously true it’s comical to see these Left-
Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John wing losers deny it at this point, using Orwellian language
Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and others. to distort what happened.
In particular, Pirro noted that Comey, Pirro goes on to note that we’ve not seen the limits of this
Clapper, and Brennan are three “liars who massive Spygate scandal yet. The FBI and Justice
can’t get their stories straight.” Department continue to fight Congress over the release of
She went on to play video of Comey telling comedian information that would finally lay out all the details and,
Conan O’Brien that he for some reason, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is
allowing the stonewalling of information that would not
“doesn’t find it possible and know[s] it not only clear his boss, but name those responsible for this
outrage.
to be true” that a spy…or ‘informant,’ as the
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Hopefully, in the coming months POTUS Trump fixed the Watch the Judge:
one mistake in judgment he’s had so far: Appointing
Sessions.
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CNN’s April Ryan DRAGGED For Tweeting Conspiracy
Theory Claiming President Trump Runs A
Child Sex-Trafficking Ring
By Lucian Wintrich
May 28, 2018, 3:28 Pm
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“So apparently fox just wants to slam me
for clicks. and never read the article I
retweeted either. Lol! So sad! Hello it said
the conspiracies were unfounded. You just
need me to hate. Thank you!!”
https://twitter.com/AprilDRyan/status/1000840416533544
960
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Why Did Michael Flynn Plead Guilty? Sara Carter Says
FBI Agent Pientka Wants A Chance To ‘State The Truth’
About Fateful Interview
Posted On May 28, 2018
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Viral “First Look” Photo Of Caged
Children At ICE Detention Center Sets Off Liberal Fire-
Storm… Only It Happened Under Obama
By Lucian Wintrich
May 28, 2018, 5:38 Pm
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Hadas Gold deleted her previous tweet where she used the
photo against the Trump administration before being
corrected, pretending that she merely “gave the
impression” the photos were recent:
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Hate-Filled Liberals Attack
Ivanka Trump For Posting Picture With Her Son
By Cristina Laila
May 28, 2018, 5:57 Pm
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.
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Trump Mocks Dem Lawmaker
For Introducing Bill To Repeal GOP Tax Cuts
By Morgan Gstalter
05/28/18 06:02 PM EDT
President Trump took to Twitter on Monday to mock a Polis hit back at the president on Twitter, accusing the
Democratic lawmaker for introducing a bill to repeal the president and Republicans of standing up for "corporate
GOP tax cuts, writing the move was special interests" with their legislation.
His bill is the first that would move to entirely reverse the
GOP tax cuts and is unlikely to receive serious
consideration while Republicans control both chambers of
Congress.
Trump was responding to Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) who House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and
introduced a bill Wednesday that would undo the tax cuts Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
passed by Republicans last year. unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would eliminate a tax cut
for the top 1 percent of earners.
Polis’s legislation, titled the Students Over Special
Interests Act, would repeal the GOP tax law and redirect That money would be used to invest in pay raises for
the additional taxpayer money toward erasing student loan teachers.
debt and making college more affordable.
—Updated at 6:36 p.m.
.
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Former CIA Chief Michael Hayden: Russian Impact
'Unknowable,' 'Trump Is The President'
By Tom Blumer
May 28, 2018 6:42 PM EDT
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden appeared on Hayden's argument comes across as,
ABC's This Week on Sunday. Hayden criticized President
Donald Trump's behavior during the on-off-on North "The intelligence community didn't do any
Korean negotiations, and claimed Trump is of things Trump described" (despite
substantial contrary evidence), "but even if
"trying to delegitimize the Mueller they did, it's all perfectly normal."
investigation, the FBI, (and) the
Department of Justice." Raddatz might have believed that Hayden's North Korea
and Trump-Spygate comments meant that he would agree
Host Martha Raddatz then asked about statements made in with Clapper on Russian election influence. It didn't
a new book and on TV this past week by former Director happen. Hayden effectively said that what Clapper should
of National Intelligence James Clapper, who wants the not have said what he said, and then uttered five words
public to believe that Russian influence swung the 2016 which seemed to catch the host off-guard:
presidential election to Trump.
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GROSS. CNN Pours On The Hate – Blames Lovely Ivanka
Trump For Obama Migrant Scandal
By Jim Hoft
May 28, 2018, 6:54 Pm
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So, Who Hired Stefan Halper,
Alleged Trump Campaign ‘Informant?’
Posted On May 29, 2018
(National Sentinel) Mystery: By now, everyone who is officials later alleged that Halper had used
paying any attention at all to the Trump-Russia collusion former CIA agents to run an operation
witch hunt and resulting “Spygate” revelations knows the against Carter. Halper called the reports at
name Stefan Halper. the time “absolutely false” and has long
denied the accusations.
He’s been identified by The Washington Post as the
‘informant’ who contacted three Trump campaign officials According to the Post’s reporting, Halper as an FBI asset
in 2016 before would have been under very deep cover; the only ones
who would know he was on assignment were the few FBI
“he began providing information to the FBI.” agents actually working the case — and the brass at the
time (that would very likely have included Obama).
The Post noted as well that Halper is a
So we know four things:
“retired American professor and foreign
policy expert for Republican presidents.” 1) Halper is a Republican operative;
2) He’s likely experienced in spying on political
The paper also reported, as have others, that Trump’s campaigns;
National Trade Council adviser Peter Navarro 3) He’s worked for the FBI; and
4) He’s a CIA asset.
recommended Halper for a senior administration position
such as U.S. ambassador to China (which would have been
a big deal). What we don’t know at this juncture is:
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And from our vantage point, the operation to infiltrate If we knew who tapped Halper to reprise his role as
Trump’s campaign, to launch Spygate, features a whole campaign spy, that would tell us a great deal about how
bunch of establishment Republicans who got involved at this phony operation began in the first place.
various points along the way.
We’re betting you all would recognize many of those
And that may be the biggest scandal of all: That Trump’s names.
own party functionaries were working with Obama to
conspire against him as well.
.
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With The DOJ IG’s Report Forthcoming – We’ll Soon
Know If IG Horowitz Is Honest Man Or Deep State
By Jim Hoft
May 29, 2018, 8:32 Am
As we noted in January, there are a few Mueller hired both Strzok and Page on his team of corrupt
heroes to date in the Obamagate and conflicted Trump-Russia investigators. They were part
scandal – the Republicans in the House of the biased group of far left Obama and Clinton
including Devin Nunez, Jim Jordan, Matt supporters hired by Mueller. Strzok and Page were
Gaetz, and others; Senator Charles removed from the team after his text messages were
Grassley from Iowa and his Senate selected in an investigation carried out by the IG. When
Judiciary Committee; patriots in the identified, the IG notified Mueller who then removed
media like Sean Hannity and others at Strzok and Page from his team. The claim was that they
FOX News; and, the growing were biased against President Trump and therefore
conservative websites on the Internet removed, however, this didn’t hold water because
like this one. Mueller’s whole team is that way.
We will soon know whether the DOJ IG Horowitz is credited with pushing for more transparency in
is a hero as well. Let’s hope this guy is the government and assisted in setting up a website to
good. provide up to date IG report releases to the public.
In January we said that many in the media were getting Horowitz also released a report related to the 2016 election
excited about the upcoming release of the IG’s report into and this was in relation to Andrew McCabe. The IG’s
his investigation of abuses at the DOJ. But if it turns out report appeared fair and well written. He subsequently
that Horowitz is part of the deep state, the report may be recommended charges against McCabe. (But in the report
disappointing. itself, the IG reported that Obama’s DOJ tried to throw
McCabe under the bus in the months leading up to the
It’s now been another five months since the above election. So if no other corrupt government individuals are
comments were first posted and we have yet to see the outed for their obvious crimes in the upcoming report,
IG’s report. Some expect that the report may finally come Horowitz would appear to be just another member of Deep
State.)
out this week. Once it’s released we should finally know
for sure if IG Horowitz is a good guy or just another Deep
State slug. Is IG Horowitz a Card Carrying Member of Deep
State?
Is IG Horowitz a Good Guy?
Horowitz was nominated by President Obama in July 2011
There’s reason to believe that Horowitz is a good guy. In to be Inspector General of the DOJ. Before this he was at
January Horowitz announced that he located the corrupt
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Harvard where he was groomed by the likes of individuals Rosenstein acted as if he knew that IG Horowitz was going
like former corrupt US Representative Barney Frank. to give him and the DOJ a pass.
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Trump Didn’t Lose 1,500 Immigrant Kids,
But Obama ‘Lost’ 4,159
By Joe Saunders
May 29, 2018 At 8:33am
Second, they haven’t even been “lost” in the sense the As reported by The Washington Post (another mainstream
media is implying. media enemy of the Trump administration):
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“As mentioned before, the 1,475 children Well, there are a couple of things more shameful than that.
were not separated from their parents at
the border. However, many who have Lying to the American public, like Bahara is
expressed outrage online about family doing, is one of them. (For a layman to
separations have been appending their confuse immigration policies is one thing.
tweets with the hashtags For a former federal prosecutor to get a key
#WhereAreTheChildren or element of an accusation wrong almost
#MissingChildren, intentionally or requires deliberate malice.)
unintentionally linking the two issues.
“Some who should have been better For liberals in the media to denounce a sitting president for
informed also conflated the two, implying alleged inhumanity toward illegal immigrants for one
that federal officials had lost 1,500 problem, while ignoring a problem three times as big when
immigrant children who had been taken his predecessor was in office is another.
from their parents, when this was not the
case.” The reality is, Trump and his
administration haven’t “lost” 1,475
Preet Bahara, the former United States attorney for the children in the way the media
Southern District of New York — a liberal hero who was desperately wants Americans to believe.
fired by Trump in 2017 — was among those who, as The
The other reality is that Obama officials
Post delicately put it, “should have known better.”
really did lose 4,159 children by the
current standards of the media /
Democrat industrial complex. And the
currently outraged liberals never
breathed a word about it.
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Trump Worries Mueller Team
May ‘Meddle’ In Midterm Elections
Saagar Enjeti - White House Correspondent
8:59 AM 05/29/2018
U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office of the White
House in Washington, U.S., May 26, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas Trump referenced the number of registered Democrats and
former operatives on Mueller’s investigatory team and
President Donald Trump accused special counsel Robert singled out Andrew Weissmann in particular. Weissman is
Mueller and his team of investigators of attempting to a Mueller team investigator who attended Hillary Clinton’s
meddle in the 2018 midterm elections. election night party at the Jacob Javits center in November
2016.
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Kellyanne Conway On Michelle Wolf’s Sarah Sanders
Jokes: I Remember ‘When Comedians Were Funny’
Justin Caruso - Senior Media Reporter
10:19 AM 05/29/2018
WATCH:
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CNN Really Soiled Their Sheets
This Weekend – The Daily Daily Caller Podcast
Derek Hunter - Contributor
11:17 AM 05/29/2018
On today’s episode of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast … weekend … until someone realized the pictures they were
upset about were taken during the Obama administration.
It was not a good weekend for CNN. Not ratings-wise, Suddenly, tweets by liberal activists decrying the practice
they don’t make good ratings ever, but from a journalistic started disappearing. Even former Obama administration
standpoint. officials were pretending the “outrage” they were blaming
on Trump didn’t happen at a time when they were
responsible and could have done something to stop it. You
On Sunday, James “the clap” Clapper was on State of the
can’t make this stuff up, and we mock them roundly for it.
Union with host Dana Bash and she asked the former
Director of National Intelligence a basic question – if the
intelligence community was so concerned that Russians
were attempting to infiltrate the Trump campaign, why
didn’t you warn them? Clapper was completely unprepared
for this basic question because he’d been living in a world
where even mildly challenging questions are not asked of
him.
Former DNI James Clapper gives his excuse as to why he lied to the
Senate Intelligence Committee. ABC/ Screenshot | James Clapper:
Kim Jong Un Met His Match
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MITT ROMNEY Goes On NBC To Slam Trump:
He Is Not A Role Model – President Departs
“From The Truth” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
May 29, 2018, 11:47 Am
Mr. Romney said there are policy points he and Mr. Trump
agree on such as tax policy and regulatory policy, but said
he would have liked to see more effort on the Trans-
Pacific Partnership. He said some of the policies are “a
good deal better” than he expected.
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POTUS Trump HAMMERS Mueller
And His Team Of “13 Angry Democrats”
In Epic Tweetstorm
By Cristina Laila
May 29, 2018, 11:55 Am
Round two:
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cronies. As we reported over the past year Mueller’s team
consists of the following:
Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page were thrown off of
the investigation after Trump-hating text messages
between the two FBI agents were discovered by the IG.
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State Dept. Asks Judge For 45 Years
To Review Fake Dossier Docs
By Ben Marquis
May 29, 2018 At 12:40pm
The Washington Times reported in March on a book The State Department’s attorneys complained that the
written by two liberal authors — Yahoo News reporter department “has faced a heavy FOIA workload for some
Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones magazine founder David time” and stated that they could only produce about 300
Corn, who have themselves been implicated in the documents per month in this case, due to several other
formation of the dossier — titled “Russian Roulette,” FOIA requests they also were court-ordered to comply
which delved deep into the Trump/Russia collusion with.
conspiracy theory.
As an aside, maybe if the previous heads of that
That book alleged that a former top State department hadn’t engaged in so many shady activities —
Department official at the time, Victoria such as using unauthorized and unsecured email servers —
Nuland, granted clearance and gave the they wouldn’t have such a large FOIA workload.
green light for an FBI agent to meet with
dossier author Christopher Steele in Rome But attorneys for Citizens United noted in their portion of
in July 2016. This is believed to have been the filed report the urgent nature of their request. It relates
the start of the FBI/Steele relationship in not only to the prior 2016 election, but also the upcoming
terms of the collection of unverified anti- 2018 and 2020 federal elections, as well as the right of the
Trump memos. public to know about the alleged political activities of
State Department officials.
That book seemed to confirm suspicions that Nuland, and
other State Department officials in her orbit as well, were As such, they pointed out that the department’s requested
involved in the effort to prevent then-candidate Trump minimum production level would essentially require 45 to
from winning the 2016 election, or hamstring his 66 years for them to produce less than one year’s worth of
administration and lead to his impeachment if he documents from one individual at the department, an
succeeded in taking office. unjustifiable request in their view.
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Warren Says Trump Invented
‘Spygate’ Because He’s Afraid Of Mueller
Virginia Kruta
1:15 PM 05/29/2018
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts “You know, look, Trump is figuring out what
claimed that “Spygate” was an fantasy of President works, and that is the more he is afraid of
Donald Trump’s invention, used to distract people from what the special prosecutor, Mueller, is
the Mueller investigation that might be getting a little too doing, the more Trump is worried about
close for comfort. where that investigation is going. And
remember, that investigation has already
She said he has figured out what “works” to distract the produced 16 indictments or guilty pleas, so
American people, and “he’s throwing everything he can in this is a serious — A serious criminal
the road” investigation. As Trump hears the hoof
beats that that’s getting closer to him, he’s
throwing everything he can in the road
including, oh, let’s undermine the FBI.”
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Is This The Biggest 'Criminal Deep State' Cover-Up In
History? Long List Of Dead Bodies And Circumstantial
Evidence Tell A Tale The 'Elite' Will Never Tell
And Harvey Weinstein And NXIVM Are
Just TheTip Of The Iceberg
By William B Stoecker - All News Pipeline
May 29, 2018
Recently a rumor has been floating on the internet that, on sixties, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, the first WTC
the dark web, there is a snuff video of the Witch Hillary bombing, 9/11, and Benghazi were deliberately
and her longtime aide Huma Abedin torturing a little girl orchestrated by our would-be masters, along with any
to death. Bear in mind that this video may not even exist, number of school shootings and other atrocities.
and, if it does, could easily be faked. There is not one atom
of proof that the Witch has ever directly harmed a child. I and others, including patriots who write for ANP, have
But, on the other hand, it is a virtual certainty that the written about these events numerous times and supported
Witch is a lesbian, and that Huma Abedin is her girlfriend. our conclusions with hard facts. Anyone who wishes can
And it is a fact that Huma’s mother is tied to the terrorist read of the terrible suffering of the victims of the OKC
Muslim Brotherhood…Huma and the Witch are certainly bombing, and the row of dead babies lying on broken
very, very unpleasant people. glass. Either of the two WTC bombings could have killed
up to ten or even twenty thousand people; as it was, 9/11
I have always said that skeptics may dismiss this or that killed nearly 3,000. Our elites are most certainly evil
piece of evidence as a hoax, mistake, or coincidence, but enough to rape and even torture and murder small children.
when you look at the overall pattern surrounding an event
like Dallas or the OKC bombing, the truth becomes Many of the “movers and shakers” in the
painfully obvious. Remember that people can be convicted US and Europe belong to obviously cult-
in court with a pattern of circumstantial evidence. And like organizations: the Masons, the Lucis
there is a pattern indicating that many of the NWO Trust, Skull and Bones, and the
globalist elites, probably including the Clintons, are, Bohemian Club, among others. The
indeed, involved in child sex and in Satanic human Bohemians, at their annual event at the
sacrifice. Bohemian Grove in Northern California,
conduct a “mock” child sacrifice…or is it?
And these are the elites who have legalized the abortion of
nearly sixty million unborn children and forced us peasants
to help pay for it by sending our tax dollars to Planned
“Parenthood.” If this is not child sacrifice on a
monumental scale, what is? These same elites are forcing
the insane Glibbet (GLBT) agenda on us, and, especially,
on our children in the indoc centers formerly known as
schools.
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own) the DC police and DA refused to charge them with
any crime.
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Loyal Trump Supporters Wait In Line
For EIGHT HOURS Before Rally [VIDEO]
Tim Pearce - Energy Reporter
2:15 PM 05/29/2018
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Tom Steyer: Dems Who Don’t Back
Impeachment Crusade Are On The
Wrong Side Of History
Chris White - Energy Reporter
2:20 PM 05/29/2018
His tour to boot Trump kicked off less than a week after
his political group, NextGen America, announced a $30
million campaign structured around pushing young people
into voting. Steyer is forging ahead with his effort despite
lacking evidence of the president’s wrong-doing.
“The Founders gave us impeachment to
answer a reckless, lawless, and dangerous
president; and every day that his behavior
Tom Steyer, a hedge fund manager and a prominent Democratic is accepted, every day that you don’t
fundraiser who has mounted a high-profile advertising campaign oppose it, it becomes enshrined as the way
advocating the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, holds things are done. You have normalized this
a news conference to announce plans for his political future, in
Washington, U.S., January 8, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts | presidency; you have normalized his
Steyer Doesnt Know Why Dems Ignore Him behavior,” Steyer explained.
Billionaire Tom Steyer suggested Tuesday Democrats who Democratic leaders worry whispering “impeachment”
are hesitant to jump aboard his impeachment campaign are threatens to make swing House districts unwinnable while
at risk of normalizing what he believes is President Donald all-but erasing their opportunity to retake control of the
Trump’s bad behavior. House. Republicans, meanwhile, appear overjoyed with
Steyer’s push. The National Republican Campaign
Democrats who maintain a wide berth from campaigns to Committee is licking its chops at the prospect of accusing
impeach Trump are alienating a large swath of liberal Democrats of overreaching ahead of the mid-term
voters, Steyer told Politico on Tuesday. Rebuking the elections in November.
campaign also places vulnerable Democrats on the wrong
side of history, Steyer said, responding to his crusade to “Tom Steyer is stoking the flames of this
oust the president. ludicrous progressive pipe dream, further
complicating Nancy Pelosi’s plan to regain
“If you look at the civil rights movement, the the majority,” NRCC press secretary Jesse
pushback was not, ‘You’re not telling the Hunt said.
truth;’ the pushback was, ‘We’re dealing
with it in time. Stand down so we can deal Hunt and his fellow Republicans might have a reason to
with it in tie [sic],” said Steyer, a former celebrate if Steyer keeps beating his drum, recent polls
hedge fund manager who poured tens of indicate.
millions of dollars into Democratic coffers Nearly 47 percent of registered voters say they would
over the past six years. definitely oppose a candidate who promised
Steyer, who often suggests without evidence Trump impeachment, while 42 percent would definitely vote for
conspired with Russia to win the election, used various one, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll
social media platforms in October 2017 to launch a “need conducted in April. Calls for impeachment track at higher
to impeach” Trump movement. More than 5 million people levels among the younger voters whom Steyer has courted
have signed his petition so far, but House Democrats think over the past year, the polls showed. Young people are not
the wealthy activist is wearing out his welcome. traditionally reliable voters.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, for instance, called Young adult voters between the ages of 18 through 24
an impeachment campaign impractical in March and consistently voted at lower rates than all other age groups
suggested it distracts from special counsel Robert in every presidential election since 1962, according to a
Mueller’s investigation and could jeopardize Democratic 2014 report from the U.S. Census Bureau. On average, less
efforts to take back Congress in 2018. than half of young voters actually make it to the polls for a
national presidential election, the bureau’s voting data also
shows.
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Trump Asked Sessions To Retain
Control Of Russia Inquiry After His Recusal
By Michael S. Schmidt And Julie Hirschfeld Davis
May 29, 2018
When they met, Mr. Trump was ready to talk — but not
about the travel ban. His grievance was with Mr. Sessions:
The president objected to his decision to recuse himself
from the Russia investigation. Mr. Trump, who had told
aides that he needed a loyalist overseeing the inquiry,
berated Mr. Sessions and told him he should reverse his
decision, an unusual and potentially inappropriate request.
The confrontation, which has not been previously reported, Mr. Trump had dinner with Mr. Sessions at his Mar-a-Lago estate in
is being investigated by the special counsel, Robert S. Palm Beach, Fla., days after the recusal was
Mueller III, as are the president’s public and private announced.CreditStephen Crowley/The New York Times
attacks on Mr. Sessions and efforts to get him to resign.
Mr. Trump dwelled on the recusal for months, according to Mr. Giuliani said that he had not discussed Mr. Sessions’s
confidants and current and former administration officials recusal with Mr. Trump but that a request that Mr.
who described his behavior toward the attorney general. Sessions reassert control over the Russia investigation
would be within the bounds of the president’s authority.
The special counsel’s interest demonstrates Mr. Sessions’s
overlooked role as a key witness in the investigation into “‘Unrecuse’ doesn’t say, ‘Bury the
whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct the inquiry itself. It investigation.’ It says on the face of it: Take
also suggests that the obstruction investigation is broader responsibility for it and handle it correctly,”
than it is widely understood to be — encompassing not Mr. Giuliani said on Tuesday evening.
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A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.
To the president, no decision has proved more devastating To Justice Department officials close to Mr. Sessions, the
during his time in office than Mr. Sessions’s recusal. In request by the president made through Mr. McGahn was
Mr. Trump’s view, Mr. Sessions, who had been one of his inappropriate, particularly because it was clear to them that
closest political allies and earliest prominent supporter in Mr. Sessions had to step aside. After Mr. Sessions told Mr.
Washington, never would have appointed a special McGahn that he would follow the Justice Department
counsel, as the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, lawyers’ advice to recuse himself from all matters related
did last May after the president abruptly fired Mr. Comey. to the election, Mr. McGahn backed down. Mr. Sessions
recused himself on March 2.
Before the recusal, the president and his attorney general
were friends, often sharing meals and talking on the phone. When Mr. Trump learned of the recusal, he asked advisers
Today, they rarely speak outside of cabinet meetings, whether the decision could be reversed, according to
current and former White House officials and others people briefed on the matter. Told no, Mr. Trump argued
briefed on their relationship said. They even flew that Eric H. Holder Jr., President Barack Obama’s first
separately in March from Washington to the same event in attorney general, would never have recused himself from a
New Hampshire. Mr. Trump complains to friends about case that threatened to tarnish Mr. Obama. The president
how much he would like to get rid of Mr. Sessions but has said he expected the same loyalty from Mr. Sessions.
demurred under pressure from Senate Republicans who
have indicated they would not confirm a new attorney
Some people close to the president have said privately that
general.
they believed the recusal was overly broad and done too
hastily in the middle of public scrutiny over Mr. Sessions’s
Because of his recusal, Mr. Sessions has been mostly congressional testimony.
absent from the president’s ire toward the investigation
and the Justice Department. He has enforced Mr. Trump’s
The day after the recusal, as the president prepared to
agenda more successfully than perhaps any cabinet
travel to Florida, Mr. Trump was seen through the
member, imposing conservative policies on immigration
windows of the Oval Office by news cameras,
and violent crime that are popular with Mr. Trump’s core
gesticulating angrily as he argued with top advisers who
supporters.
had gathered to determine how to go forward with the
travel ban, which had been blocked by a federal judge.
Pressure on Mr. Sessions to step aside from the Russia Justice Department officials had concluded the policy must
investigation began building almost as soon as he took be withdrawn and revised, a move that Mr. Trump was
office, culminating in a Washington Post report on March resisting because he thought it was watered down.
1 that he had not been forthcoming during his Senate
confirmation hearing about his contacts with Russian
But, preoccupied with Mr. Sessions’s decision and
officials during the campaign. Career lawyers at the Justice
determined to find a way forward, he spent the first 10
Department had advised Mr. Sessions to step aside, citing
minutes of the meeting venting about it, a former White
ethics guidelines about impartiality and his role as a
House official said.
prominent supporter of the Trump campaign.
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The meeting ended without a resolution about the travel days later, a Washington Post report about Mr. Sessions’s
ban. And after Mr. Trump flew to Florida, his advisers campaign discussions with Russia’s ambassador sent Mr.
decided that the only way to get the president’s signoff to Trump into another rage. Aboard Marine One that
revise the immigration order — a time-sensitive matter Saturday, the president told his chief of staff, Reince
because of pending litigation — would be to dispatch the Priebus, to get Mr. Sessions to resign by the end of the
attorney general to Mr. Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., retreat, weekend, according to a person briefed on the
to implore him in person, the current and former conversation.
administration officials said.
Unnerved and convinced the president wanted to install a
Comments new attorney general who could oversee the Russia
investigation, Mr. Priebus called Mr. Sessions’s chief of
The Times needs your voice. We welcome your on-topic staff at the time, Jody Hunt, who said that the president
commentary, criticism and expertise. would have to ask Mr. Sessions himself to resign. Unsure
how to proceed, Mr. Priebus simply waited out the
president, who never called Mr. Sessions but did attack
It was at Mar-a-Lago the next evening that Mr. Trump him that week on Twitter.
brought up the Russia investigation with Mr. Sessions and
asked him to change his mind about stepping aside, the
people said.
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